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11000 | word:
UPN
word_type:
name
expansion:
UPN
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of United Paramount Network.
Initialism of User Principal Name.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
television
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
11001 | word:
TSN
word_type:
name
expansion:
TSN
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of The Sports Network.
senses_topics:
|
11002 | word:
locust
word_type:
noun
expansion:
locust (plural locusts)
forms:
form:
locusts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
locust
etymology_text:
From Middle English locuste, locust, from Anglo-Norman locuste, Middle French locuste, and their source, Latin locusta (“locust, crustacean, lobster”). Doublet of langouste.
The tree sense, originally referring to the carob (compare locust bean), is based on the resemblance of the trees' beanlike seed pods to the insect and is likely a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἀκρίς (akrís).
The sense in "Mainlander" is a semantic loan from Cantonese 蝗蟲／蝗虫 (wong4 cung4), also meaning "locust".
senses_examples:
text:
Among other articles, they brought with them a great quantity of locusts, which are a kind of pulse, sweet and pleasant to the palate, and in shape resembling French beans, but longer.
ref:
1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 9, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, (especially) migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria).
A fruit or pod of a carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua).
Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree.
A cicada.
A Mainlander.
senses_topics:
|
11003 | word:
locust
word_type:
verb
expansion:
locust (third-person singular simple present locusts, present participle locusting, simple past and past participle locusted)
forms:
form:
locusts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
locusting
tags:
participle
present
form:
locusted
tags:
participle
past
form:
locusted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
locust
etymology_text:
From Middle English locuste, locust, from Anglo-Norman locuste, Middle French locuste, and their source, Latin locusta (“locust, crustacean, lobster”). Doublet of langouste.
The tree sense, originally referring to the carob (compare locust bean), is based on the resemblance of the trees' beanlike seed pods to the insect and is likely a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἀκρίς (akrís).
The sense in "Mainlander" is a semantic loan from Cantonese 蝗蟲／蝗虫 (wong4 cung4), also meaning "locust".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To come in a swarm.
senses_topics:
|
11004 | word:
CBS
word_type:
name
expansion:
CBS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Columbia Broadcasting System: U.S. television and radio network.
Initialism of Christian Brothers School.
Initialism of Component-Based Servicing.
senses_topics:
education
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software |
11005 | word:
CBS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CBS (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Charles Bonnet syndrome.
Initialism of combined braking system.
Initialism of corticobasal syndrome.
senses_topics:
|
11006 | word:
ERT
word_type:
name
expansion:
ERT
forms:
wikipedia:
ERT
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellenikí/Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi (Hellenic (Greek) Broadcasting television), Greece
senses_topics:
|
11007 | word:
ERT
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ERT (plural ERTs)
forms:
form:
ERTs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ERT
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of emergency response team.
Initialism of enzyme replacement therapy.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
11008 | word:
inc.
word_type:
adj
expansion:
inc. (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Inc
senses_topics:
|
11009 | word:
assoc.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
assoc.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of associate.
Abbreviation of association.
senses_topics:
law
|
11010 | word:
CTV
word_type:
name
expansion:
CTV
forms:
wikipedia:
CTV
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Canadian Television, a Canadian national television network
Initialism of Canterbury Television, a Canterbury Region television station located in Christchurch, New Zealand
Initialism of China Television, a television network in Taiwan
senses_topics:
|
11011 | word:
CTV
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CTV (plural CTVs)
forms:
form:
CTVs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
CTV
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of clinical target volume, a part of the human body with malignant tumour and some volume surrounding it
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
11012 | word:
MTV
word_type:
name
expansion:
MTV
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Originally an initialism of Music Television, incorporating the earlier abbreviation TV for television.
senses_examples:
text:
I want my, I want my MTV / Now look at them yo-yo's, that's the way you do it / You play the guitar on the MTV / That ain't workin', that's the way you do it / Money for nothin', and chicks for free
ref:
1985, Sting, Mark Knopfler (lyrics and music), “Money for Nothing”, in Brothers in Arms, performed by Dire Straits
type:
quotation
text:
We won the race, got out of the place / Went back home, got a brand new face for the boys on MTV
ref:
1990, “Freedom! ’90”, in Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1, performed by George Michael
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A television channel that originally showed mostly music videos but now shows a wide variety of content.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
television |
11013 | word:
HBO
word_type:
name
expansion:
HBO
forms:
wikipedia:
HBO
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Home Box Office., a premium movie and entertainment channel
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
television |
11014 | word:
HBO
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
HBO
forms:
wikipedia:
HBO
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of hand baggage only. (fare type)
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel |
11015 | word:
disemploy
word_type:
verb
expansion:
disemploy (third-person singular simple present disemploys, present participle disemploying, simple past and past participle disemployed)
forms:
form:
disemploys
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
disemploying
tags:
participle
present
form:
disemployed
tags:
participle
past
form:
disemployed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dis- + employ.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To deprive of employment.
senses_topics:
|
11016 | word:
NZ
word_type:
noun
expansion:
NZ (plural NZ)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of new zaïre.
senses_topics:
|
11017 | word:
NZ
word_type:
name
expansion:
NZ
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of New Zealand.
senses_topics:
|
11018 | word:
lavatory
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lavatory (plural lavatories)
forms:
form:
lavatories
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lavatorie, from Late Latin lavātōrium, from Latin lavāre (“to wash”) + -ium (forming places related to an activity). Doublet of lavatorium. As a place to pan gold, via Spanish lavadero. See also lave.
senses_examples:
text:
Their 'bathroom' included a toilet and a lavatory but no bath.
type:
example
text:
Lavatories (bathroom sinks) are available in a blizzard of colors, materials, and styles.
ref:
2005, Michael W. Litchfield, Renovation, page 325
type:
quotation
text:
Anywhere a water closet is used, a lavatory (ie, hand-washing sink) must also be installed.
ref:
2011, Sharon Koomen Harmon et al., The Codes Guidebook for Interiors, page 288：
type:
quotation
text:
Whon he haþ vsed he walkeþ riht
To Lauatorie þer hit is diht
ref:
a. 1375, Lay Folks Mass Book, Appendix iv, p. 606
type:
quotation
roman:
For to wassche his hende.
text:
And thow shalt make a brasun lauatory with his foot to wasshe with.
ref:
1382, Bible (Wycliffe), Exod. 30:18
text:
Wᵗ condicion that at the tyme of the Lavatory eueryche of theym turne theym to the people, and exorte theym to pray for ye soules following...
ref:
1513, Robert Fabyan, last will and testament
text:
They must be wasshed wyth wyne or wyth some other lauatorye.
ref:
1490, Publius Vergilius Maro, chapter XXVIII, in William Caxton, transl., The Boke yf Eneydos, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
Even the lavatory, a vestibule to the refectory through which the novices would pass on their way to the recreation room, boasted a painting cycle.
ref:
2003, Gauvin A. Bailey, Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
Americans don't know 'WC' and Brits mock 'bathroom' but everyone usually understands 'toilet' or 'lavatory'.
type:
example
text:
People needing to use the lavatory often ask to use the baño in a restaurant; toilet paper is rarely available, so the experienced traveler always carries a personal supply.
ref:
2003, Rob Rachowiecki et al., Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
THE RESTROOM ON THE OLDER TRAINS ARE TOO SMALL FOR AN ADULT. ONE CAN'T USE THE TOILET WITHOUT CONSTANTLY ELBOWING THE WALL. AIRPLANES HAVE LARGER LAVATORIES AND A BETTER USEABLE FAUCET.
ref:
2014, “Verbatim Comments”, in Corey, Canapary & Galanis, editor, Caltrain 2014 On-Board Survey, Caltrain, retrieved 2023-07-30, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
In a traditional German lavatory, the hole in which shit disappears after we flush water is way in front, so that the shit is first laid out for us to sniff at and inspect for traces of some illness; in the typical French lavatory, on the contrary, the hole is in the back - that is, the shit is supposed to disappear as soon as possible; finally, the Anglo-Saxon (English or American) lavatory presents a kind of synthesis, a mediation between these two opposed poles - the basin is full of water so that the shit floats in it - visible, but not to be inspected.
ref:
1997, Slavoj Žižek, The Plague of Fantasies, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vessel or fixture for washing
A laver: a washbasin.
A vessel or fixture for washing
A bathtub.
A vessel or fixture for washing
A piscina: the basin used for washing communion vessels.
A vessel or fixture for washing
A lavabo: the basin used for washing one's hands before handling the Eucharist.
A vessel or fixture for washing
A baptismal font: the basin used for baptism, used figuratively for the washing away of sins.
A vessel or fixture for washing
A plumbing fixture used for washing: a sink.
A vessel or fixture for washing, particularly
Handwashing as an act, particularly
The lavabo: the ritual washing of hands before handling the eucharist.
Handwashing as an act, particularly
The ritual washing of hands after using the piscina to clean the communion vessels.
Handwashing as an act, particularly
A liquid used in washing; a lotion; a wash; a rinse.
A washroom: a room used for washing the face and hands.
A room containing a toilet: a bathroom (US) or WC (UK).
A plumbing fixture for urination and defecation: a toilet.
A place to wash clothes: a laundry.
A place where gold is panned.
A paved room in a mortuary where corpses are kept under a shower of disinfecting fluid.
senses_topics:
Christianity
Christianity
Christianity
business
construction
manufacturing
Christianity
Christianity
|
11019 | word:
lavatory
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lavatory (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin lavātōrius.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Washing, or cleansing by washing.
senses_topics:
|
11020 | word:
PPV
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PPV (countable and uncountable, plural PPVs)
forms:
form:
PPVs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:PPV
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of pay-per-view.
Initialism of purchase price variance.
Porcine parvovirus, a virus causing reproductive failure of swine.
Initialism of polyphenylene vinylene.
Abbreviation of positive pressure ventilation.
Abbreviation of positive pressure ventilation.
A positive pressure ventilation machine, a PPV device
Abbreviation of police pursuit vehicle.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
television
biology
natural-sciences
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
government
law-enforcement |
11021 | word:
NHL
word_type:
noun
expansion:
NHL (plural NHLs)
forms:
form:
NHLs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Initialism of National Historic Landmark.
Initialism of Nenets Herding Laika.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
11022 | word:
NHL
word_type:
name
expansion:
NHL
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of National Hockey League.
senses_topics:
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports |
11023 | word:
CBC
word_type:
name
expansion:
CBC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Initialism of Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Company.
Initialism of Congressional Black Caucus.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
radio
television
broadcasting
media
radio
television
|
11024 | word:
CBC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CBC (plural CBCs)
forms:
form:
CBCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Like many Canadian-born Chinese (CBCs), Yao's parents are from Hong Kong. Brought up in multicultural Toronto, she, like other young CBCs, is stuck between two cultures.
ref:
1996 September 8, Kenny Yum, “Bridging the cultural divide”, in South China Sunday Morning Post
type:
quotation
text:
According to most CBC students, Hong Kong Chinese were considered to be FOBs because they continued to partake in Hong Kong popular culture, and they were physically distinctive in terms of their Hong Kong styles of fashion.
ref:
1999, Cam Hue Lau, Role of Chinese Social Clubs in Chinese Identity: An Exploration of a Group of University Students (MA thesis), Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
ESLs felt that they were better than CBCs because of their perceived cultural "authenticity," their loyalty to the home country, and their detailed knowledge of a language and culture that was not Canadian. And CBCs felt that they were better than ESLs because they had adapted to Canadian culture, were more interested in the present as opposed to the perceived obsession that ESLs had with the past, and were more aware of North American popular culture, such as style and music.
ref:
2008, Shauna Pomerantz, Girls, Style, and School Identities: Dressing the Part, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, pages 80–81
type:
quotation
text:
This survey has successfully identified some causative patterns and risk factors for CBCs leaving bicultural Chinese churches, which indicate where preventative kinds of leadership measures can be taken. For example, the research revealed that the life stage when the majority leave is young adulthood; that most CBCs deliberated for a lengthy period of time, assessing their options, before exiting; and that follow-up with them appears to have been minimal or nonexistent.
ref:
2015, Matthew Richard Sheldon Todd, English Ministry Crisis in Chinese Canadian Churches: Towards the Retention of English-Speaking Adults from Chinese Canadian Churches through Associated Parallel Independent English Congregational Models, Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, page 115
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Canadian-born Chinese.
Initialism of complete blood count.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
11025 | word:
homologous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
homologous (comparative more homologous, superlative most homologous)
forms:
form:
more homologous
tags:
comparative
form:
most homologous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
homology (biology)
etymology_text:
From Late Latin homologus, from Ancient Greek ὁμόλογος (homólogos, “agreeing, of one mind”), from ὁμός (homós, “same”) + λόγος (lógos, “reason, reckoning”). Compare homo- (“same”) and -ous (adjectival suffix). From 1655, in the mathematical sense. See also homolog, homologue.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: homomorphic
text:
Coordinate term: homomorphic
text:
Flippers and hands are homologous structures.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Showing a degree of correspondence or similarity.
In corresponding proportion.
Showing a degree of correspondence or similarity.
Corresponding to a similar structure in another life form with a common evolutionary origin.
Showing a degree of correspondence or similarity.
Belonging to a series of aliphatic organic compounds that differ only by the addition of a CH₂ group.
Showing a degree of correspondence or similarity.
Having the same morphology as another chromosome or locus; relating to a homologue.
Showing a degree of correspondence or similarity.
Playing the same role as seen in another culture, whether by historical connection, psychological archetype, convergent cultural evolution, or otherwise (as may be hypothesized but not known with certainty by current science), as for example with the cryptozoologic concepts of yeti and sasquatch, the use of polite and familiar pronouns, or other similarities.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
|
11026 | word:
FF
word_type:
name
expansion:
FF
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Fianna Fáil, an Irish political party.
Initialism of Final Fantasy.
The Ferrari FF (Ferrari Four), an all-wheel drive grand tourer by Ferrari.
Initialism of Family First, an Australian political party.
Initialism of Firefox.
senses_topics:
video-games
automotive
transport
vehicles
|
11027 | word:
FF
word_type:
noun
expansion:
FF
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
This submiss heavy GF sks F dom for leather scenes, SM, humil, FF.
ref:
1983 April 30, “By My Mistress' Permission (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of frigate, a type of warship
Initialism of false flag.
Initialism of form feed.
Initialism of fill factor.
Initialism of fist-fucking.
Initialism of fair face.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
11028 | word:
FF
word_type:
verb
expansion:
FF
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of fast forward.
Abbreviation of forfeit.
senses_topics:
|
11029 | word:
FF
word_type:
adj
expansion:
FF (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of fully finished.
senses_topics:
|
11030 | word:
NBC
word_type:
name
expansion:
NBC
forms:
wikipedia:
en:NBC (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of National Broadcasting Company: U.S. television and radio network.
Abbreviation of National Biscuit Company: U.S. food company, now Nabisco.
senses_topics:
|
11031 | word:
NBC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
NBC (plural NBCs)
forms:
form:
NBCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:NBC (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of nuclear weapon, biological weapon and chemical weapon.
senses_topics:
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry |
11032 | word:
NBC
word_type:
adj
expansion:
NBC (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
en:NBC (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of nuclear, biological, chemical.
senses_topics:
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry |
11033 | word:
CFL
word_type:
name
expansion:
CFL
forms:
wikipedia:
en:CFL
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Canadian Football League.
senses_topics:
|
11034 | word:
CFL
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CFL (plural CFLs)
forms:
form:
CFLs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:CFL
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of compact fluorescent lamp.
Initialism of context-free language.
Initialism of color–flavor locking.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
11035 | word:
Christianize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Christianize (third-person singular simple present Christianizes, present participle Christianizing, simple past and past participle Christianized)
forms:
form:
Christianizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Christianizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
Christianized
tags:
participle
past
form:
Christianized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Christian + -ize.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make Christian.
To cause to convert to Christianity.
senses_topics:
|
11036 | word:
arity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
arity (countable and uncountable, plural arities)
forms:
form:
arities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
arity
etymology_text:
From -ary (taken from unary/binary/ternary [function/operator]) + -ity. Compare adicity and adinity.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes. For a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding Cartesian product.
The maximum number of child nodes that any node in a given tree (data structure) may have.
the number of arguments (in Lojban grammar called sumti) specified in the definition of a selbri. (the selbri combined with the sumti make up a bridi).
senses_topics:
computer
computing
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
science
sciences
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
11037 | word:
laryngitis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laryngitis (usually uncountable, plural laryngites or laryngitides)
forms:
form:
laryngites
tags:
plural
form:
laryngitides
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Attested since 1822 C.E.. Learned borrowing from New Latin laryngitis, from larynx + -itis. By surface analysis, laryng- + -itis.
senses_examples:
text:
The moment had come for the honeyed word. I lowered my voice to a confidential murmur, but on her inquiring if I had laryngitis raised it again.
ref:
1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inflammation of the larynx, typically resulting in hoarseness.
senses_topics:
|
11038 | word:
kilometer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kilometer (plural kilometers)
forms:
form:
kilometers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
US spelling of kilometre
senses_topics:
|
11039 | word:
arbor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
arbor (plural arbors or arbores)
forms:
form:
arbors
tags:
plural
form:
arbores
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English arbour, erbour, from Old French erbier (“field, meadow, kitchen garden”), from erbe (“grass, herb”), from Latin herba (“grass, herb”) (English herb). (Compare Late Latin herbārium, although erbier is possibly an independent formation.) The spelling was influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).
senses_examples:
text:
Children swung from the branches of the banyan tree, teenagers climbed into the arbours of orchids and gourds into which the abandoned cars had been transformed.
ref:
1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 24
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
A grove of trees.
senses_topics:
|
11040 | word:
arbor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
arbor (plural arbors or arbores)
forms:
form:
arbors
tags:
plural
form:
arbores
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French arbre (“tree, axis”), spelling influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
A bar for supporting cutting tools.
A spindle of a wheel.
senses_topics:
|
11041 | word:
res ipsa loquitur
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
res ipsa loquitur
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Latin rēs ipsa loquitur (“the thing speaks for itself”, literally “the thing itself speaks”).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: prima facie
text:
The court in that case established three criteria that must be shown for res ipsa loquitur to apply: The injury must be the kind that ordinarily doesn't occur in the absence of some type of negligence.
ref:
2004, Nurse's Legal Handbook, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, page 160
type:
quotation
text:
Res ipsa loquitur was frequently applied in cases involving foreign bodies in foodstuffs.
ref:
2005, Vivienne Harpwood, Modern Tort Law, 6th edition, Psychology Press, page 153
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The import of a thing or situation is obvious.
A maxim where the very improbable facts of an accident imply the negligence of the defendant. It effectively shifts the burden of proof to the defendant.
senses_topics:
|
11042 | word:
polygyny
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polygyny (countable and uncountable, plural polygynies)
forms:
form:
polygynies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek πολύ (polú, “many”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman, wife”). By surface analysis, poly- + -gyny.
senses_examples:
text:
We may infer that in most cases where polygyny exists, monogamy co-exists to a greater extent, and in all other cases to a considerable extent.
ref:
1883, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Sociology, page 685
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; plurality of wives; marriage to several wives.
The condition of an ant colony that has multiple egg-laying queens.
senses_topics:
|
11043 | word:
hot chocolate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hot chocolate (countable and uncountable, plural hot chocolates)
forms:
form:
hot chocolates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hot chocolate
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A serving of a warm beverage made of cocoa and water or milk, often drunk during cold weather.
senses_topics:
|
11044 | word:
hot chocolate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hot chocolate (third-person singular simple present hot chocolates, present participle hot chocolating, simple past and past participle hot chocolated)
forms:
form:
hot chocolates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hot chocolating
tags:
participle
present
form:
hot chocolated
tags:
participle
past
form:
hot chocolated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
hot chocolate
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[…] butter & toast & warm towels after bath & lying in bed in laughter, snuggling & hot chocolating. love.
ref:
2006, Sean Burn, Edgecities, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
“Well, while you and Denise are hot chocolating, I shall be finalizing next week's arrangements,” said Svetlana haughtily.
ref:
2010, Robin Anderson, La Di Da Di Bloody Da!', page 195
type:
quotation
text:
They’d driven up while we’d been hot and stayed a bit longer up high.
ref:
2021 July 5, Heidi Steltzer, “Amid historic heat, a climate scientist’s mountain love story (commentary)”, in Mongabay
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To consume hot chocolate.
senses_topics:
|
11045 | word:
alpha
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alpha (countable and uncountable, plural alphas)
forms:
form:
alphas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha), the first letter of the Greek alphabet, from the Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, “aleph”). Doublet of alif and aleph.
senses_examples:
text:
I will attempt to make an alpha particle ("α-particle") with the Large Hadron Collider.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: beta
text:
Similarly, alphas are 2.33% larger than that of the equivalent monthly alphas using compounded returns while no changes can be found using arithmetic returns.
ref:
2001, Cheng-Few Lee, editor, Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, volume 8, Elsevier, page 174
type:
quotation
text:
To investment professionals, “alpha” is the return over and above the market return. If in a given year the S. & P. 500 returns fifteen per cent and an equity-fund manager generates a return of twenty per cent, his alpha is five per cent.
ref:
2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Being a beta male in a species with alphas doesn't mean you have to sit out the mating game.
ref:
2008, Faye Flam, The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man, Avery, published 2008
type:
quotation
text:
I'm still turned on by alpha males. I think there are only a couple of other men that turn me on . . . ones that are clearly not alphas.
ref:
2008, Mitzi Szereto, editor, The New Black Lace Book of Women's Sexual Fantasies, Black Lace, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
This book is primarily for alpha males, or “top dogs.” We'll talk more about that later; but let's just say that if you are a man and successful in the world of trade, business, or profession, most likely you are an alpha, or you have been trained to act like an alpha.
ref:
2009, Martin G. Groder, Pat Webster, Winning at Love: The Alpha Male's Guide to Relationship Success, Bascom Hill Books, page ix
type:
quotation
text:
We will assume you got the .tgz version—later 2.x series versions such as 2.5.2 or 2.6.0 should be okay, provided they are production releases (not alphas, betas, or release candidates).
ref:
2007, Mark Summerfield, Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming, Pearson Education
type:
quotation
text:
Sometimes the alphas and omegas are rare, sometimes they are only males, sometimes they have altered sex organs.
ref:
2013, Kristina Busse, “Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 317
type:
quotation
text:
Sherlock realizes that John, despite being an alpha, sees and loves Sherlock for who he is, "a brilliant, mad, nutter of a man," instead of only wanting him for his reproductive functions, his ability to become pregnant.
ref:
2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 11
text:
Contrary to the typical scenario expected in a dark A/B/O story, in this story both Hannibal and Will are alphas—but Hannibal wants Will to be his omega; subservient and submissive to him only.
ref:
2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, “When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom”, in Ashton Spacey, editor, The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction, page 130
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α, α), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it is the predecessor to A.
Latin alpha: the Latin letter Ɑ (minuscule: ɑ).
The name of the symbols Α and α used in science and mathematics, often interchangeable with the symbols when used as a prefix.
The return of a given asset or portfolio adjusted for systematic risk.
A person, especially a male, who is dominant, successful and attractive; (see alpha male).
Short for alphabet.
The first versions of a program, usually only available to the developer, and only tested by the developer.
Angle of attack.
The level of translucency of a color, as determined by the alpha channel.
Ellipsis of alpha layer.
The significance level of a statistical test; the alpha level.
In omegaverse fiction, a person of a dominant secondary sex driven by biology, magic, or other means to bond with an omega, with males of this type often having canine-like genitalia.
senses_topics:
sciences
business
finance
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
mathematics
sciences
statistics
lifestyle |
11046 | word:
alpha
word_type:
adj
expansion:
alpha (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha), the first letter of the Greek alphabet, from the Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, “aleph”). Doublet of alif and aleph.
senses_examples:
text:
I am the alpha male.
type:
example
text:
And thank you. Seriously. I'll call you later.
You better. I'm feeling pretty alpha now.
Yes, you are.
ref:
2015, Life Is Strange, Square Enix
type:
quotation
text:
When interstellar travel becomes feasible, I plan to visit Alpha Centauri.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Designates the first in an order of precedence.
Exhibiting characteristics of the alpha male/female archetype.
Designates some bright star, usually the brightest star, of a constellation.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences |
11047 | word:
division
word_type:
noun
expansion:
division (countable and uncountable, plural divisions)
forms:
form:
divisions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin dīvīsiō, dīvīsiōnem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle dīvīsus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”). Doublet of divisio.
senses_examples:
text:
I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
type:
example
text:
Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.
type:
example
text:
The House of Commons has voted to approve the third reading of the bill without a division. The bill will now progress to the House of Lords.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or process of dividing anything.
Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
The process of dividing a number by another.
A calculation that involves this process.
A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
A lesson; a class.
A parliamentary constituency.
senses_topics:
arithmetic
arithmetic
government
military
politics
war
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
government
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
law
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
11048 | word:
annex
word_type:
noun
expansion:
annex (plural annexes)
forms:
form:
annexes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French annexe, from Latin annexus. More at Etymology 2.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An addition, an extension.
An appendix to a book or document.
An addition or extension to a building.
An addition to the territory of a country or state, from a neighbouring country or state, normally by military force.
senses_topics:
|
11049 | word:
annex
word_type:
verb
expansion:
annex (third-person singular simple present annexes, present participle annexing, simple past and past participle annexed)
forms:
form:
annexes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
annexing
tags:
participle
present
form:
annexed
tags:
participle
past
form:
annexed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English annexen, anexen, from Old French annexer (“to join”), from Medieval Latin annexāre, infinitive of annexō, frequentative of Latin annectō (“bind to”), from ad (“to”) + nectō (“tie, bind”). Compare the rare annect. Doublet of adnex.
senses_examples:
text:
The ancient city of Petra was annexed by Rome.
type:
example
text:
In 1910, he returned to Korea, which had by this time been annexed by Japan.
ref:
2009, Wikipedia:Syngman Rhee
type:
quotation
text:
to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt
type:
example
text:
Under Edward the Second, the Commons began to annex petitions to the bills by which they granted subsidies
ref:
1793, John Horne Tooke, The Constitution of England
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate.
To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.
To join; to be united.
senses_topics:
|
11050 | word:
better
word_type:
adj
expansion:
better (positive good, adverb well, comparative (humorous) betterer, superlative (humorous) betterest, or (standard) best)
forms:
form:
good
tags:
positive
form:
well
tags:
adverb
form:
betterer
tags:
comparative
humorous
form:
betterest
tags:
humorous
superlative
form:
best
tags:
standard
wikipedia:
better
etymology_text:
From Middle English better, bettre, betre, from Old English betera (“better”), from Proto-West Germanic *batiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *batizô (“better”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰed-rós, from *bʰed- (“good”).
Cognate with Sanskrit भद्र (bhadrá, “blessed, fortunate, happy, good”) (from *bʰn̥d-ró-s). For Germanic cognates: see Proto-Germanic *batizô. Related to best and battle (“getting better, improving, fruitful, fertile”). Compare also Icelandic batna (“to improve”), bót (“improvement”), German besser. More at batten, boot.
Persian بهتر (behtar) is a false cognate.
senses_examples:
text:
Badger: You think you're better than other people.
Mal: Just the ones I'm better than.
ref:
2002 November 1, “Shindig”, in Firefly, episode 4
type:
quotation
text:
“The air was still with the lonely thrill of 'now the hour is near'
And the smell of sweat was better yet than the awful stench of fear.”
ref:
1972, Harvey Andrews, Hey Sandy
type:
quotation
text:
The top electric vehicles have a range of 300 kilometres or better. (better = greater)
type:
example
text:
Only one swimmer finished the race with a time better than two minutes. (better = lesser)
type:
example
text:
We can't go to the zoo today because you're sick; let's go when you're all better.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
comparative degree of good
comparative degree of well
Greater in amount or quantity
Greater or lesser (whichever is seen as more advantageous), in reference to value, distance, time, etc.
Healed or recovered from an injury or illness.
senses_topics:
|
11051 | word:
better
word_type:
adv
expansion:
better
forms:
wikipedia:
better
etymology_text:
From Middle English better, bettre, betre, from Old English betera (“better”), from Proto-West Germanic *batiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *batizô (“better”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰed-rós, from *bʰed- (“good”).
Cognate with Sanskrit भद्र (bhadrá, “blessed, fortunate, happy, good”) (from *bʰn̥d-ró-s). For Germanic cognates: see Proto-Germanic *batizô. Related to best and battle (“getting better, improving, fruitful, fertile”). Compare also Icelandic batna (“to improve”), bót (“improvement”), German besser. More at batten, boot.
Persian بهتر (behtar) is a false cognate.
senses_examples:
text:
The engine runs better now that I've given it some oil.
type:
example
text:
I’ve had enough of cycling with you chaps. I can spend my Sundays better than in tormenting cats and quarrelling and fighting.
ref:
1901, Louis Couperus, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, Small Souls
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
comparative degree of well
senses_topics:
|
11052 | word:
better
word_type:
noun
expansion:
better (plural betters)
forms:
form:
betters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
better
etymology_text:
From Middle English better, bettre, betre, from Old English betera (“better”), from Proto-West Germanic *batiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *batizô (“better”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰed-rós, from *bʰed- (“good”).
Cognate with Sanskrit भद्र (bhadrá, “blessed, fortunate, happy, good”) (from *bʰn̥d-ró-s). For Germanic cognates: see Proto-Germanic *batizô. Related to best and battle (“getting better, improving, fruitful, fertile”). Compare also Icelandic batna (“to improve”), bót (“improvement”), German besser. More at batten, boot.
Persian بهتر (behtar) is a false cognate.
senses_examples:
text:
He quickly found Ali his better in the ring.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior.
senses_topics:
|
11053 | word:
better
word_type:
verb
expansion:
better
forms:
wikipedia:
better
etymology_text:
Shortening of had better ('d better)
senses_examples:
text:
It's getting late. You better get on home.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Had better.
senses_topics:
|
11054 | word:
better
word_type:
verb
expansion:
better (third-person singular simple present betters, present participle bettering, simple past and past participle bettered)
forms:
form:
betters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bettering
tags:
participle
present
form:
bettered
tags:
participle
past
form:
bettered
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
better
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
better
etymology_text:
From Middle English beteren, from Old English beterian, betrian, from Proto-Germanic *batizōną. Cognate with West Frisian betterje (“to better”), Dutch beteren (“to better”), German bessern (“to better”), Danish bedre (“to better”), Swedish bättra (“to better”).
senses_examples:
text:
This government will better our society.
type:
example
text:
Love betters what is best.
ref:
1815, William Wordsworth, From the same (To the Supreme Being)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To improve.
To become better; to improve.
To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
senses_topics:
|
11055 | word:
better
word_type:
noun
expansion:
better (plural betters)
forms:
form:
betters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
better
etymology_text:
Alternative spelling of bettor or modern formation from the verb to bet + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of bettor
senses_topics:
|
11056 | word:
standard of care
word_type:
noun
expansion:
standard of care (plural standards of care)
forms:
form:
standards of care
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In tort law, the degree of caution that a reasonable person should exercise in a given situation so as to avoid causing injury.
senses_topics:
law |
11057 | word:
polyhedron
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polyhedron (plural polyhedra or polyhedrons)
forms:
form:
polyhedra
tags:
plural
form:
polyhedrons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
polyhedron
etymology_text:
From New Latin polyedron, from Ancient Greek πολύεδρος (polúedros, “having many seats”), from πολυ- (polu-, “many”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”); compare French polyèdre. By surface analysis, poly- + -hedron.
senses_examples:
text:
Of the convex polyhedra with regular faces, the only ones that have tetrahedral, octahedral, or icosahedral symmetry are the Platonic and Archimedean solids.
ref:
1966, Norman W. Johnson, “Convex Polyhedra with Regular Faces”, in Canadian Journal of Mathematics, volume XVIII, number I, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, page 181
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A solid figure with many flat faces and straight edges.
A polyscope, or multiplying glass.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics |
11058 | word:
quadratic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
quadratic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Trésor de la langue française informatisé
etymology_text:
From French quadratique (1765), from Latin quadrātus + -ique (English -ic), form of quadrō (“I make square”), from quādrus (“square”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”), whence also Latin quartus (“fourth”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Square-shaped.
Of a polynomial, equation or function, second-degree: involving the second power (square) of a variable but no higher powers, as ax²+bx+c.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
11059 | word:
quadratic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quadratic (plural quadratics)
forms:
form:
quadratics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Trésor de la langue française informatisé
etymology_text:
From French quadratique (1765), from Latin quadrātus + -ique (English -ic), form of quadrō (“I make square”), from quādrus (“square”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”), whence also Latin quartus (“fourth”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A quadratic polynomial, function or equation.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
11060 | word:
gakuran
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gakuran (plural gakuran)
forms:
form:
gakuran
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 学ラン (gakuran).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The military-style school uniform for male students in most Japanese middle schools and high schools, usually in either black or navy. Also known as gakuseifuku (unisex term).
senses_topics:
|
11061 | word:
fact-finder
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fact-finder (plural fact-finders)
forms:
form:
fact-finders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of factfinder
senses_topics:
|
11062 | word:
burden of persuasion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
burden of persuasion (plural burdens of persuasion)
forms:
form:
burdens of persuasion
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The duty upon a party in a legal proceeding to persuade the fact-finder to decide for that party on an assertion of fact; part of the burden of proof, sometimes loosely used as synonym for that term.
senses_topics:
law |
11063 | word:
burden of production
word_type:
noun
expansion:
burden of production (plural burdens of production)
forms:
form:
burdens of production
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The duty upon a party in a legal proceeding to introduce enough evidence relating to an assertion of fact to have the issue be considered by the fact-finder rather than summarily dismissed or decided; part of the burden of proof.
senses_topics:
law |
11064 | word:
Ltd.
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Ltd. (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of limited.
senses_topics:
|
11065 | word:
Ltd.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Ltd.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of limited liability company.
senses_topics:
|
11066 | word:
discrete
word_type:
adj
expansion:
discrete (comparative more discrete, superlative most discrete)
forms:
form:
more discrete
tags:
comparative
form:
most discrete
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Discrete
etymology_text:
From Old French discret, from Latin discrētus, past participle of discernō (“divide”), from dis- + cernō (“sift”). Doublet of discreet.
senses_examples:
text:
a government with three discrete divisions
type:
example
text:
There are two laws discrete, / Not reconciled,— / Law for man, and law for thing; / The last builds town and fleet, / But it runs wild, / And doth the man unking.
ref:
a. 1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing”, in Poems, 5th edition, Boston: Pillips, Sampson & Co., published 1856, page 120
type:
quotation
text:
But analysis, penetrating beneath the fact of Sense in search of its ideal factors, declares that this mass of marble is something very different from what it appears : its seeming continuity is broken up into discrete molecules, separated from each other as the stars in the Milky Way are separated ; and its seeming homogeneity is resolved into heterogeneous substances, which are themselves in all probability composite.
ref:
1875, George Henry Lewes, “The Problem Stated”, in Problems of Life and Mind, volume II, London: Trübner & Co., page 33
type:
quotation
text:
It's not that there aren't measurable, quantifiable differences between all these categories we impose upon things, it's just that for the most part they fit not into discrete units, but into a continuum.
ref:
2017, Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Experiment, pages 254–255
type:
quotation
text:
a discrete sum
type:
example
text:
"I resign my life, but not my honour" is a discrete proposition.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Separate; distinct; individual; non-continuous.
That can be perceived individually, not as connected to, or part of, something else.
Consisting of or permitting only distinct values drawn from a finite, countable set.
Having separate electronic components, such as individual diodes, transistors and resistors, as opposed to integrated circuitry.
Having separate and independent channels of audio, as opposed to multiplexed stereo or quadraphonic, or other multi-channel sound.
Having each singleton subset open: said of a topological space or a topology.
Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
mathematics
sciences
topology
|
11067 | word:
discrete
word_type:
adj
expansion:
discrete (comparative discreter, superlative discretest)
forms:
form:
discreter
tags:
comparative
form:
discretest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Discrete
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of discreet.
senses_topics:
|
11068 | word:
fried egg
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fried egg (plural fried eggs)
forms:
form:
fried eggs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
It's difficult to have a perfectly cooked, cooked-through fried egg because, by the time the yolk has coagulated, or set, the white is overcooked. You'll usually have to settle for either a runny yolk or a tough white.
ref:
1997 March 20, Kristin Eddy, “EGGS a dozen ways”, in Atlanta Journal Constitution
type:
quotation
text:
Carefully break the egg into a bowl, […] Cook until the egg white is set, then turn and cook briefly. The yolk should still be runny. […] Top with the fried egg.
ref:
1997 April 16, JANET FLETCHER, “FLEETING PLEASURES; The first blush of spring's harvest”, in San Francisco Chronicle
type:
quotation
text:
"Your dad said you should have a fried egg. He's gone to work awhile back. You want one or two?" I hesitated, and she must have caught a look of distaste on my face, for she added amiably, "Or you like scrambled better?"
ref:
2004 Autumn, Julie Keith, “Pneumonia”, in The Hudson Review, volume 57, Iss. 3, page 440
type:
quotation
text:
Not only is she keeping Moyles out of the Breakfast slot. We now have to look at her Fried eggs in the newspaper (well The Sun!!!!).
ref:
1999 May 11, Sean Gallagher, “Zoe Ball's page 3”, in uk.media.radio.bbc-r1 (Usenet), message-ID <7ha8hh$5qo$1@news4.svr.pol.co.uk>
type:
quotation
text:
Placing his hands on her fried eggs he asked, “Any chance of some action?”
ref:
2006, Sinead Moriarty, The Right Fit, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
She pats her breast, not so much to draw attention to her fried eggs, but to force her breaths to become rhythmic.
ref:
2009, Fred Broussard, South Carolin: Island in the Sea of States, volume 2, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An egg that has been shallow-fried on one or both sides, without being beaten or stirred.
A golf ball half-buried in sand in a bunker.
A small female breast.
senses_topics:
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
11069 | word:
Aves
word_type:
name
expansion:
Aves
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname
senses_topics:
|
11070 | word:
Aves
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Aves
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of Ave
senses_topics:
|
11071 | word:
sir
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sir (plural sirs)
forms:
form:
sirs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sir
sir (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English sir, unstressed form of sire, borrowed from Old French sire (“master, sir, lord”), from Latin senior (“older, elder”), from senex (“old”). Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, signore, and sire.
senses_examples:
text:
Just be careful. He gets whingy now if you don't address him as Sir John.
type:
example
text:
Sir, yes sir.
type:
example
text:
Here's my report, sir.
type:
example
text:
Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir. The air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
B. Wooster: Hm? What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
Jeeves: I prefer not to dwell on it, if it's convenient to you, sir.
ref:
1991 May 12, “Kidnapped!”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5
type:
quotation
text:
Excuse me, sir, do you know the way to the art museum?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A man of a higher rank or position.
A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position
to a knight or other low member of the peerage.
A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position
to a superior military officer.
A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position
to a teacher.
A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position, particularly
A respectful term of address to an adult male (often older), especially if his name or proper title is unknown.
senses_topics:
|
11072 | word:
sir
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sir (third-person singular simple present sirs, present participle sirring, simple past and past participle sirred)
forms:
form:
sirs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sirring
tags:
participle
present
form:
sirred
tags:
participle
past
form:
sirred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
sir (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English sir, unstressed form of sire, borrowed from Old French sire (“master, sir, lord”), from Latin senior (“older, elder”), from senex (“old”). Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, signore, and sire.
senses_examples:
text:
Sir, yes, sir! —Don't you sir me, private! I work for a living!
type:
example
text:
Don't "Sir" me, young man, you have no idea who you're dealing with!
ref:
1997, Ed Solomon, Men in Black, spoken by Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To address another individual using "sir".
senses_topics:
|
11073 | word:
phoneme
word_type:
noun
expansion:
phoneme (plural phonemes)
forms:
form:
phonemes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”). By surface analysis, phone (“speech sound”) + -eme (“unit”).
senses_examples:
text:
It is crucial for the phoneme structure of Finnish — traditionally /d/ has not been included in the Finnish phonotax, but it fulfils the criteria of a phoneme (Karlsson, 1983: 66-7).
ref:
1990, Jarmo Lainio, “Sweden Finnish — development or deterioration?”, in Durk Gorter, editor, Fourth International Conference on Minority Languages: Western and Eastern European papers, Multilingual Matters, page 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.
senses_topics:
|
11074 | word:
mot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mot (plural mots)
forms:
form:
mots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French mot. Doublet of motto.
senses_examples:
text:
Here and there turns up a […] savage mot.
ref:
1859, unknown author, “Literary Adventure. Life of Douglas Jerrold”, in North British Review
type:
quotation
text:
‘He comes from Montreal, in Canada.’ ‘Why?’ she said, repeating Dr Johnson's mot with a forced sneer.
ref:
1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
With his big title, an Italian mot
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
A word or a motto; a device.
A note or brief strain on a bugle.
senses_topics:
|
11075 | word:
mot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mot (plural mots)
forms:
form:
mots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from Dutch mot (“woman”). See also mort (“woman”) and moth (“girlfriend”).
senses_examples:
text:
Come wed, my dear, and let's agree, / Then of the booze-ken you'll be free; / No sneer from cully, mot, or froe / Dare then reproach my Bess for Joe; / For he's the kiddy rum and queer, / That all St. Giles's boys do fear.
ref:
1789, G. Parker, “The Sandman's Wedding”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896
type:
quotation
text:
And we shall caper a-heel-and-toeing, / A Newgate hornpipe some fine day; / With the mots, their ogles throwing, / Tol lol, &c. / And old Cotton humming his pray.
ref:
1829 July 24, Vidocq, Eugène François with Maginn, William, transl., “Noctes Ambrosiana [En roulant de vergne en vergne]”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, number 45, translation of En roulant de vergne en vergne, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
After some altercation with the "mot" of the "ken" (mistress of the lodging-house) about the cleanliness of a knife or fork, my new acquaintance began to arrange "ground," &c., for the night's work.
ref:
1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 217
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A woman; a wife.
A prostitute.
A landlady.
senses_topics:
|
11076 | word:
Hellas
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hellas
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”).
senses_examples:
text:
Modern Greece would not be Byzantium reborn. Rather, it was an imagined nation conjured up from ancient Hellas.
ref:
1999 March, Sean McMeekin, “The Place that Launched a Thousand Ships”, in Literary Review
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Greece; (specifically) Ancient Greece.
senses_topics:
|
11077 | word:
moo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
moo (plural moos)
forms:
form:
moos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
text:
You silly moo! What did you do that for?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle.
A foolish woman.
senses_topics:
|
11078 | word:
moo
word_type:
verb
expansion:
moo (third-person singular simple present moos, present participle mooing, simple past and past participle mooed)
forms:
form:
moos
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mooing
tags:
participle
present
form:
mooed
tags:
participle
past
form:
mooed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.
senses_topics:
|
11079 | word:
moo
word_type:
intj
expansion:
moo
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.
senses_topics:
|
11080 | word:
reasonable person
word_type:
noun
expansion:
reasonable person (plural reasonable persons or reasonable people)
forms:
form:
reasonable persons
tags:
plural
form:
reasonable people
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Reasonable man
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society and how he or she would behave or think, especially in determining negligence; sometimes formulated as "a person of ordinary prudence exercising due care in like circumstances."
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see reasonable, person.
senses_topics:
law
|
11081 | word:
quaternion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quaternion (plural quaternions)
forms:
form:
quaternions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
quaternion
etymology_text:
From Middle English quaternioun, from Late Latin quaterniō, from quaternī (“four each”) + -iō, from quater (“four times”). Doublet of kern.
The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1843.
senses_examples:
text:
This quaternion of revilers has traduced Origen, but not on the same grounds, one having found one cause of accusation against him, and another another; and thus each has demonstrated that what he has taken no objection to, he has fully accepted.
ref:
1885, Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Philip Schaff, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II, volume 2, book 6, chapter 13, translation of Historia Ecclesiastica by Socrates of Constantinople
type:
quotation
text:
We saw above that the fourth quire consists of ten folios, two of which (folios 29 and 31) Richer added to a quaternion (folios 23 to 28, 30, 32). Most of the folios Richer added to his manuscript supplement, elaborate, or amend text that he had already composed in the codex.
ref:
2004, Jason Glenn, Politics and History in the Tenth Century: The Work and World of Richer of Reims, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
In his general deportment he was pompous and important, affecting a species of florid elocution, which often became ridiculous from his misarranging the triads and quaternions with which he loaded his sentences.
ref:
1815, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 13, in Guy Mannering
type:
quotation
text:
The right-hand side of the quaternion equation requires scalar multiplication and quaternion addition.
ref:
2004, David H. Eberly, 3D Game Engine Architecture: Engineering Real-Time Applications with Wild Magic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group or set of four people or things.
A word of four syllables.
A type of four-dimensional hypercomplex number consisting of a real part and three imaginary parts (real multiples of distinct, independent square roots of −1 denoted by i, j and k); commonly used in vector mathematics and as an alternative to matrix algebra in calculating the rotation of three-dimensional objects.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
11082 | word:
MP3
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MP3 (plural MP3s)
forms:
form:
MP3s
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
An initialism of MPEG Audio Layer 3. First use appears c. 1994. See cite below.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A digital sound recording in MP3 format; a song file.
senses_topics:
|
11083 | word:
MP3
word_type:
name
expansion:
MP3
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
An initialism of MPEG Audio Layer 3. First use appears c. 1994. See cite below.
senses_examples:
text:
Also, mpeg audio streams are usually identified by mp1, mp2 and mp3 extensions, all from MPEG-1 (layer 1 , 2 or 3).
ref:
1994 November 6, Francois Dion, “Does anyone know of .mpa to .wav conversion software.”, in comp.multimedia (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, an audio data compression format.
senses_topics:
|
11084 | word:
gamma
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gamma (countable and uncountable, plural gammas)
forms:
form:
gammas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Ancient Greek γάμμα (gámma). Doublet of gimel.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).
A gamma ray or gamma-ray photon.
The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ.
A constant approximately equal to 0.57721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant).
A non-SI unit of measure of magnetic flux density, equal to 1 nT.
A non-SI unit of measure of mass, equal to 1 microgramme.
Slope of log-log plot of video input and luminance output.
Flight path angle; the angle by which an aircraft's flight path deviates from the horizontal plane.
A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change in delta with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
Synonym of gamma correction.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
finance
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
11085 | word:
flor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flor (countable and uncountable, plural flors)
forms:
form:
flors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish flor. Doublet of flour and flower.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A film of yeast that develops on the surface of some wines during fermentation, induced deliberately during the production of sherry.
senses_topics:
|
11086 | word:
cubic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cubic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French cubique, equivalent to cube + -ic.
senses_examples:
text:
On one recent day, officials said the fine dust concentration levels in Seoul rose above 130 micrograms per cubic meter.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
cubic foot
type:
example
text:
cubic cleavage
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used in the names of units of volume formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.
Of a class of polynomial of the form ax³+bx²+cx+d
Having three equal axes and all angles 90°.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
11087 | word:
cubic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cubic (plural cubics)
forms:
form:
cubics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French cubique, equivalent to cube + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cubic curve.
senses_topics:
algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
11088 | word:
astronomy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
astronomy (usually uncountable, plural astronomies)
forms:
form:
astronomies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
astronomy
etymology_text:
From Middle English astronomie, astronemy, from Old French astronomie, equivalent to astro- + -nomy. Displaced native Old English tungolcræft.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The study of the physical universe beyond the Earth's atmosphere, including the process of mapping locations and properties of the matter and radiation in the universe.
Astrology.
senses_topics:
|
11089 | word:
theta
word_type:
noun
expansion:
theta (plural thetas)
forms:
form:
thetas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Ancient Greek θῆτα (thêta).
senses_examples:
text:
The reader is less likely to throw the book down in a fit of disgust than she is to be lulled into a theta state, a highway hypnosis induced by page after page of incantatory prose.
ref:
2018 September 19, Meghan O'Gieblyn, “The Most Unread Book Ever Acclaimed”, in The Paris Review
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ.
The measure of an angle.
Pitch angle; the angle between an aircraft's longitudinal axis and the horizontal plane.
The sensitivity of the value of a derivative with respect to time; the "time decay".
Designating a level of brain activity as measured by electroencephalography having a frequency of between four and seven cycles per second (associated with drowsiness in adults).
The voiceless dental fricative represented by θ.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
finance
biology
natural-sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences |
11090 | word:
tentacle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tentacle (plural tentacles)
forms:
form:
tentacles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tentacle
etymology_text:
From New Latin tentāculum, from tentō. Doublet of tentaculum.
senses_examples:
text:
1897, H. G. Wells, The Crystal Egg
The body was small, but fitted with two bunches of prehensile organs, like long tentacles, immediately under the mouth.
text:
1936, H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time
Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles.
text:
the tentacles of the criminal underworld
type:
example
text:
New extensions into the outer London dormitory areas also have been constructed, and at the present moment the tentacles of London's Underground are slowly but surely extending eastwards into Essex to relieve congestion on the suburban lines of the former Great Eastern Railway.
ref:
1948 January and February, C. R. L. Coles, “The Grouping Era”, in Railway Magazine, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
A joint RAF/Army staffed Air Support Control (ASC) headquarters was established at each army corps and each armoured division, linked to the forward brigades by a 'tentacle' equipped with two-way wireless telegraphy.
ref:
2013, Dr Ian Gooderson, Air Power at the Battlefront, page 26
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
One of the glandular hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants.
An insidious reach or influence.
Something like a zoological limb.
An officer employed to drive out to troops and transmit back requests for support via a special radio link.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
botany
natural-sciences
government
military
politics
war |
11091 | word:
tentacle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tentacle (third-person singular simple present tentacles, present participle tentacling, simple past and past participle tentacled)
forms:
form:
tentacles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tentacling
tags:
participle
present
form:
tentacled
tags:
participle
past
form:
tentacled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tentacle
etymology_text:
From New Latin tentāculum, from tentō. Doublet of tentaculum.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to move like a tentacle
senses_topics:
|
11092 | word:
lune
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lune (plural lunes)
forms:
form:
lunes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin lūna (“moon”).
senses_examples:
text:
A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.
ref:
1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
senses_topics:
|
11093 | word:
lune
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lune (plural lunes)
forms:
form:
lunes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French lune, from Latin luna.
senses_examples:
text:
What he worried about was any eventual convexity, a shrinking, it might be, of the planet itself to some palpable curvature of whatever he would be standing on, so that he would be left sticking out like a projected radius, unsheltered and reeling across the empty lunes of his tiny sphere.
ref:
1984, Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles.
Anything crescent-shaped.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
|
11094 | word:
lune
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lune (plural lunes)
forms:
form:
lunes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of lyon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A leash for a hawk.
senses_topics:
falconry
hawking
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle |
11095 | word:
digamma
word_type:
noun
expansion:
digamma (plural digammas)
forms:
form:
digammas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From di- + gamma, from its shape resembling two stacked capital gammas (Γ).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet: Ϝ, ϝ
senses_topics:
|
11096 | word:
dino
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dino (plural dinos)
forms:
form:
dinos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of dinosaur.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
dinosaur.
senses_topics:
|
11097 | word:
downstairs
word_type:
adj
expansion:
downstairs (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From down- + stair + -s.
senses_examples:
text:
The kids sleep in the downstairs bedroom, we sleep in the upstairs one.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Located on a lower floor.
senses_topics:
|
11098 | word:
downstairs
word_type:
adv
expansion:
downstairs (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From down- + stair + -s.
senses_examples:
text:
I have to walk downstairs to leave the building.
type:
example
text:
The lodger lives downstairs.
type:
example
text:
something wrong downstairs
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Down the stairs.
In or to hell.
Regarding the genitalia.
senses_topics:
|
11099 | word:
downstairs
word_type:
noun
expansion:
downstairs (plural downstairs)
forms:
form:
downstairs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From down- + stair + -s.
senses_examples:
text:
Now the two of them rattled around in the old house, even with his office and small clinic sharing the downstairs with the kitchen, parlor, and dining room.
ref:
1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
type:
quotation
text:
The wind lifted up her skirt and I caught a glimpse of her downstairs.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The lower floor of a house, at ground level; especially the servants’ quarters.
The genitalia.
senses_topics:
|
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