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11100 | word:
epsilon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
epsilon (countable and uncountable, plural epsilons or epsila)
forms:
form:
epsilons
tags:
plural
form:
epsila
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
epsilon
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἒ ψιλόν (è psilón, “simple Ε”).
senses_examples:
text:
All right, okay. My interest is epsilon.
ref:
2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
Yes, we have to convert all the symbol names to upper case at startup, but that’s epsilon.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or Ε, preceded by delta (Δ, δ) and followed by zeta (Ζ, ζ).
In IPA, the phonetic symbol ɛ that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel.
An arbitrarily small quantity.
An arbitrarily small quantity.
A small child.
Something negligible or insignificant.
The percentage change in an option value with respect to the underlying dividend yield.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
business
finance |
11101 | word:
call
word_type:
verb
expansion:
call (third-person singular simple present calls, present participle calling, simple past and past participle called or (archaic) call'd)
forms:
form:
calls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
calling
tags:
participle
present
form:
called
tags:
participle
past
form:
called
tags:
past
form:
call'd
tags:
archaic
participle
past
form:
call'd
tags:
archaic
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
call
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
call
etymology_text:
From Middle English callen, from Old English ceallian (“to call, shout”) and Old Norse kalla (“to call; shout; refer to as; name”); both from Proto-Germanic *kalzōną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *golH-so- (“voice, cry”), from *gel(H)- (“to vocalize, call, shout”).
cognates
* Scots call
* caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”)
* Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”),
* German kallen (“to call”) obsolete
* Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”)
* Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”)
* Danish kalde (“to call, name”)
* Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”)
* Welsh galw (“to call, demand”)
* Polish głos (“voice”)
* Lithuanian gal̃sas (“echo”)
* Russian голос (golos, “voice”)
* Albanian gjuhë (“language, tongue”).
senses_examples:
text:
That person is hurt; call for help!
type:
example
text:
to call the roll of a military company
type:
example
text:
Why don’t you call me in the morning?
type:
example
text:
Why don’t you call tomorrow?
type:
example
text:
The captains call the coin toss.
type:
example
text:
After the third massive failure, John called the whole initiative.
type:
example
text:
They called I Got Rhythm, and turned to me again for a solo, and I said what?
ref:
1997, Saxophone Journal
type:
quotation
text:
Jeff Castleman and Rufus Jones were in position when they went out, and he immediately called Satin Doll.
ref:
2002, Ken Vail, Duke's Diary
type:
quotation
text:
I thought he forgot all about it, but late in the set he called St. Louis Blues.
ref:
2015, Clyde E. B. Bernhardt, I Remember: Eighty Years of Black Entertainment, Big Bands, and the Blues, University of Pennsylvania Press, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
We could always call on a friend.
type:
example
text:
The engineer called round whilst you were away.
type:
example
text:
This train calls at Reading, Slough and London Paddington.
type:
example
text:
Our cruise ship called at Bristol Harbour.
type:
example
text:
Why don’t we dispense with the formalities. Please call me Al.
type:
example
text:
But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three–what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
ref:
2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
I’m called John.
type:
example
text:
A very tall building is called a skyscraper.
type:
example
text:
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
ref:
2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
He called twelve of the last three recessions.
type:
example
text:
They call the distance ten miles.
type:
example
text:
That's enough work. Let's call it a day and go home.
type:
example
text:
The whole army is called 700,000 men
ref:
1842, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy
type:
quotation
text:
“Let’s call it. Time of death, 08:45.” The respiratory therapist stopped bagging. The doctor stopped CPR. There was no heartbeat on the monitor. Michael was dead.
2012, Marcy O. Diehl, Medical Transcription: Techniques and Procedures (Seventh Edition), page 127:
EXAMPLES: Time of death was called at 16:34(Incorrect). Time of death was called at 1634 p.m.(Incorrect). Time of death was called at 1634 hours(Correct). NOTE: Military (or 24-hour) time is not used with a.m, p.m, or o’clock. It is frequently used to state birth and death times, as well as time of day in autopsy protocols. It is customary to write the word hours after the figures.
ref:
1997, Joanni Nelson Horchler, Robin Rice Morris, The SIDS Survival Guide: Information and Comfort for Grieving Family and Friends and Professionals who Seek to Help Them, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
If you are staring your dream in the face and seeing that it is time to quit, I urge you to call the time of death right now. You can sit here with this book in your hand and do it, or climb to a mountaintop and shout it, or write it on a message in a bottle and throw it out to sea. However you do it, do it. I can guarantee that there is life on the other side of the impossible. And naming the time of death is an important process in moving on, letting go, and getting to the other side.
ref:
2015, Tracey Cleantis, The Next Happy: Let Go of the Life You Planned and Find a New Way Forward
type:
quotation
text:
I call bullshit.
type:
example
text:
She called foul on their scheme.
type:
example
text:
Having been around the block a few times, I immediately called "shenanigans” on it, but even so, I was taken aback.
ref:
2008, PC Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
I bet $800 and Jane raised to $1600. My options: call (match her $1600 bet), reraise or fold.
type:
example
text:
I’ll call your 300, and raise to 600!
type:
example
text:
My partner called two spades.
type:
example
text:
He felt called to help the old man.
type:
example
text:
The basis for his conclusion was called into doubt
type:
example
text:
I call the comfy chair!
type:
example
text:
Mr. Burns: Any of these islands would make a fine new country. / Homer: I call president! / Mr. Burns: Vice president! / Smithers: [groans]
ref:
1998, “The Trouble with Trillions”, in The Simpsons, season 9
type:
quotation
text:
A recursive function is one that calls itself.
type:
example
text:
CALL 1 scold"
ref:
1865, William Stott Banks, Wakefield Words, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
The goal was called offside.
type:
example
text:
Every shot must be called.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use one's voice.
To request, summon, or beckon.
To use one's voice.
To cry or shout.
To use one's voice.
To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
To use one's voice.
To contact by telephone.
To use one's voice.
To declare in advance.
To use one's voice.
To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
To use one's voice.
To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
To use one's voice.
To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
To visit.
To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
To visit.
To stop at a station or port.
To visit.
To come to pass; to afflict.
To name, identify or describe.
To name or refer to.
To name, identify or describe.
Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
To name, identify or describe.
To predict.
To name, identify or describe.
To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
To name, identify or describe.
To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
To name, identify or describe.
To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
To name, identify or describe.
To disclose the class or character of; to identify.
Direct or indirect use of the voice.
(of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
Direct or indirect use of the voice.
(of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
Direct or indirect use of the voice.
To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
Direct or indirect use of the voice.
To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
Direct or indirect use of the voice.
To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
To require, demand.
To cause to be verbally subjected to.
To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
To demand repayment of a loan.
To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
To scold.
To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
senses_topics:
heading
heading
heading
ball-games
cricket
games
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
card-games
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
poker
sports
card-games
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
poker
sports
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
finance
banking
business
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
11102 | word:
call
word_type:
noun
expansion:
call (countable and uncountable, plural calls)
forms:
form:
calls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
call
etymology_text:
From Middle English callen, from Old English ceallian (“to call, shout”) and Old Norse kalla (“to call; shout; refer to as; name”); both from Proto-Germanic *kalzōną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *golH-so- (“voice, cry”), from *gel(H)- (“to vocalize, call, shout”).
cognates
* Scots call
* caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”)
* Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”),
* German kallen (“to call”) obsolete
* Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”)
* Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”)
* Danish kalde (“to call, name”)
* Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”)
* Welsh galw (“to call, demand”)
* Polish głos (“voice”)
* Lithuanian gal̃sas (“echo”)
* Russian голос (golos, “voice”)
* Albanian gjuhë (“language, tongue”).
senses_examples:
text:
I received several phone calls today.
type:
example
text:
I received several calls today.
type:
example
text:
I made a call to Jim, but he didn't answer.
type:
example
text:
I paid a call to a dear friend of mine.
type:
example
text:
The ship made a call at Southampton.
type:
example
text:
He heard a call from the other side of the room.
type:
example
text:
That was a good call.
type:
example
text:
That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.
type:
example
text:
I had to yield to the call of the wild.
type:
example
text:
We actually have a call tomorrow, which is a Sunday, right after my bridal shower. I have to make enchiladas for 10 people!
ref:
2007, Latina, volume 11, page 101
type:
quotation
text:
The Prime Minister has the call.
type:
example
text:
I give the call to the Manager of Opposition Business.
type:
example
text:
page 48: “Mondays would be great, especially after a weekend of call.”
page 56: “[…] I’ve got call tonight, and all weekend, but I’ll be off tomorrow to help you some.”
ref:
1978, Alan E. Nourse, The Practice, Harper & Row
type:
quotation
text:
page 29: I took general-surgery call at Bossier Medical Center and asked special permission to take general-medical call, which was gladly given away by the older staff members: […]. You would be surprised at how many surgical cases came out of medical call.
page 206: My first night of primary medical call was greeted about midnight with a very ill 30-year-old lady who had a temperature of 103 degrees.
ref:
2007, William D. Bailey, You Will Never Run out of Jesus, CrossHouse Publishing,
type:
quotation
text:
We attempted to include all topics that we ourselves have faced while taking plastic surgery call at the affiliated hospitals in the Texas Medical Center, one of the largest medical centers in the world, which sees over 100,000 patients per day.
ref:
2008, Jamal M. Bullocks et al., Plastic Surgery Emergencies: Principles and Techniques, Thieme, page ix
type:
quotation
text:
The columns in the second rectangle show fewer hours, but part of that is due to the fact that there's a division between a work call and a show call.
ref:
2009, Steven Louis Shelley, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, page 171
type:
quotation
text:
There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9.
type:
example
text:
"They have a little network of women that watch out for each other," Morford said. That means that if one prostitute doesn't come back after going out on a call – whether it's an Internet prostitute or a streetwalker – and the other women can't get hold of her, they get scared, close up shop and won't work, Morford said.
ref:
2015 March 3, Lyda Longa, “Internet hookups mean fewer prostitutes on Daytona’s streets, police say”, in The Daytona Beach News-Journal, Daytona Beach, Fla.
type:
quotation
text:
The work was done by two lawyers, one a 1983 call and the other a 2010 call.
ref:
2020 October 28, Master K.E. Jolley, “Korlyakov v. Riesz, 2020 ONSC 6622”, in CanLII, retrieved 2021-06-19
type:
quotation
text:
There's no call for that kind of bad language!
type:
example
text:
CALL 2 need for. "There worn't noa call for nowt o't'soart."
ref:
1865, William Stott Banks, Wakefield Words, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A telephone conversation; a phone call.
An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
A short visit, usually for social purposes.
A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
A cry or shout.
A decision or judgement.
The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
A beckoning or summoning.
The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
Short for call option.
The act of calling to the other batsman.
The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
Vocation; employment; calling.
A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
Need; necessity.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
business
finance
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
card-games
poker
nautical
transport
law
lifestyle
prostitution
sexuality
law
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11103 | word:
ham
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ham (countable and uncountable, plural hams)
forms:
form:
hams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ham
etymology_text:
From Middle English hamme, from Old English hamm (“inner or hind part of the knee, ham”), from Proto-Germanic *hamō, *hammō, *hanmō, from Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂m (“leg”).
Cognate with Dutch ham (“ham”), dialectal German Hamme (“hind part of the knee, ham”), dialectal Swedish ham (“the hind part of the knee”), Icelandic höm (“the ham or haunch of a horse”), Old Irish cnáim (“bone”), Ancient Greek κνήμη (knḗmē, “shinbone”). Compare gammon.
senses_examples:
text:
a little piece of ham for the cat
type:
example
text:
She put some ham in the beans and cut up some sweet potatoes to boil.
ref:
2012, Audra Lilly Griffeth, A King's Daughter
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
A thigh and buttock of an animal slaughtered for meat.
Meat from the thigh of a hog cured for food.
The back of the thigh.
Electronic mail that is wanted; mail that is not spam or junk mail.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
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11104 | word:
ham
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ham (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
ham
etymology_text:
From Old English hām.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of home.
senses_topics:
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11105 | word:
ham
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ham (plural hams)
forms:
form:
hams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ham
etymology_text:
Uncertain, though it is generally agreed upon that it first appeared in print around the 1880s. At least four theories persist:
* It came naturally from the word amateur. Deemed likely by Hendrickson (1997), but then the question would be why it took so long to pop up. He rejects the folk etymology of Cockney slang hamateur because it originated in American English.
* From the play Hamlet, where the title character was often played poorly and/or in an exaggerated manner. Also deemed likely by Hendrickson, though he raises the issue that the term would have likely been around earlier if this were case.
* From the minstrel's practice of using ham fat to remove heavy black makeup used during performances.
* Shortened from hamfatter (“inferior actor”), said to derive from the 1863 minstrel show song The Ham-fat Man. William and Mary Morris (1988) argue that it's not known whether the song inspired the term or the term inspired the song, but that they believe the latter is the case.
senses_examples:
text:
Writing in The New Yorker in 2005, James Wood praised Mr. McCarthy as “a colossally gifted writer” and “one of the great hams of American prose, who delights in producing a histrionic rhetoric that brilliantly ventriloquizes the King James Bible, Shakespearean and Jacobean tragedy, Melville, Conrad, and Faulkner.”
ref:
2023 June 13, Dwight Garner, quoting James Wood, “Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
An amateur radio operator.
senses_topics:
acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
broadcasting
media
radio |
11106 | word:
ham
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ham (third-person singular simple present hams, present participle hamming, simple past and past participle hammed)
forms:
form:
hams
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hamming
tags:
participle
present
form:
hammed
tags:
participle
past
form:
hammed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ham
etymology_text:
Uncertain, though it is generally agreed upon that it first appeared in print around the 1880s. At least four theories persist:
* It came naturally from the word amateur. Deemed likely by Hendrickson (1997), but then the question would be why it took so long to pop up. He rejects the folk etymology of Cockney slang hamateur because it originated in American English.
* From the play Hamlet, where the title character was often played poorly and/or in an exaggerated manner. Also deemed likely by Hendrickson, though he raises the issue that the term would have likely been around earlier if this were case.
* From the minstrel's practice of using ham fat to remove heavy black makeup used during performances.
* Shortened from hamfatter (“inferior actor”), said to derive from the 1863 minstrel show song The Ham-fat Man. William and Mary Morris (1988) argue that it's not known whether the song inspired the term or the term inspired the song, but that they believe the latter is the case.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.
senses_topics:
acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater |
11107 | word:
trigonometry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trigonometry (countable and uncountable, plural trigonometries)
forms:
form:
trigonometries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*tréyes
From 1610s, from New Latin trigōnometria, from Ancient Greek τρίγωνον (trígōnon, “triangle”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”), equivalent to trigono- + -metry.
senses_examples:
text:
Trigonometry emerged in the Hellenistic world during the 3rd century BCE from applications of geometry to astronomy; the Greeks focused on the calculation of chords, while mathematicians in India created the earliest known tables of values for trigonometric functions such as sine.
type:
example
text:
Historically, trigonometry has been applied in areas such as geodesy, surveying, celestial mechanics and navigation.
type:
example
text:
Trigonometry was originally the science which treated only of the sides and angles of plane and spherical triangles; but it has been recently extended so as to include the analytic treatment of all theorems involving the consideration of angular magnitudes.
ref:
1892, Edward Albert Bowser, A Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, D. C. Heath & Co., page 1
type:
quotation
text:
In fact, the earliest practical uses of trigonometry were in the fields of astronomy and hence navigation.
ref:
2013, Paul Abbott, Hugh Neill, Trigonometry: A Complete Introduction, Hachette, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
The properties of these new trigonometries and identities flowing from the definitions are then developed.
The trigonometries derived from these generalizations will be jointly termed "The Fractional Trigonometry."
ref:
2016, Carl F. Lorenzo, Tom T. Hartley, The Fractional Trigonometry, Wiley, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The branch of mathematics that deals with the relationships between the sides and angles of (in particular) right-angled triangles, as represented by the trigonometric functions, and with calculations based on said relationships.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences |
11108 | word:
elf
word_type:
noun
expansion:
elf (plural elves or (now nonstandard) elfs)
forms:
form:
elves
tags:
plural
form:
elfs
tags:
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
A Dictionary of the English Language
Andrew Brice
Edmund Spenser
John Dryden
Laurence Eusden
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oliver and Boyd
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Peter Heylyn
Sabine Baring-Gould
Sidney Lanier
Thomas Nashe
elf
etymology_text:
From Middle English elf, from Old English ielf, ælf, from Proto-West Germanic *albi, from Proto-Germanic *albiz. Ultimately probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós (“white”). Doublet of alf and oaf.
senses_examples:
text:
Their Robbin-good-fellowes, Elfes, Fairies, Hobgoblins of our latter age, which idolatrous former daies and the fantasticall world of Greece ycleaped Fawnes, Satyres, Dryades & Hamadryades, did most of their merry prankes in the Night.
ref:
1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Terrors of the Night or, A Discourse of Apparitions, London: […] Iohn Danter for William Iones, […]
type:
quotation
text:
[…] I had rather have a Child which my Wife ſhould bring me, though by another man, then to have a Changeling brought me by a company of Fairies, Elfs and Goblins: […]
ref:
1649, ΕΙΚΩΝ Ἡ ΠΙΣΤΗ. Or, The Faithfull Pourtraicture of a Loyall Subject, in Vindication of ΕΙΚΏΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΉ. […], page 16
type:
quotation
text:
The quarrel ſpreading into parties, called the Guelfs and the Gibellines, became at laſt the wonder and amazement of all good people: inſomuch as ſome are of opinion, that the fiction of the Elfs and Goblins, wherewith we uſe to fright young children, was derived from hence.
ref:
1657, Peter Heylyn, Cosmographie in Four Books. Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, and All the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles Thereof., 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Seile, […], page 131
type:
quotation
text:
The opinion of Fairies and Elfs is very old, and yet ſticketh very religiously in the minds of ſome. But to root that rank opinion of Elfs out of mens hearts, the truth is, that there be no ſuch things, nor yet the ſhadows of the things, but only by a ſort of bald Friers and knaviſh ſhavelings ſo faigned; […]
ref:
1678, The Shepherds Calendar: Containing Twelve Æglogues, Proportionable to the Twelve Months. […], London: […] Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, […], page 26
type:
quotation
text:
For there and ſeveral other places / About mill dams and green brae faces, / Both Elrich, Elfs and Brownies ſtayed, / And Green gown’d Farries daunc’d and played; […]
ref:
a. 1690, William Cleland, A Collection of Several Poems and Verses, Composed upon Various Occasions, published 1697, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
[…]the Devaſtations under the Goths, Guelphs, and Gibelines [whence ſome would derive the Terms of Elfs (or Elves) or Fairies, and Goblins (or Hobgoblins) or Spectres, &c.] […]
ref:
1760, Andrew Brice, “TUSCANY”, in The Grand Gazetteer; or, Topographic Dictionary, &c., page 1322, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Farefolkis, fairies, elfs, or elves; […]
ref:
1802, J[ames] Sibbald, “Glossary; or An Explanation of Ancient Scottish Words”, in Chronicle of Scottish Poetry; from the Thirteenth Century, to the Union of the Crowns: To Which Is Added a Glossary, volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [F]or J. Sibbald, […], [b]y C. Stewart & Co. […]
type:
quotation
text:
These Picts are the Clan Alpin, the Alps, or Elfs or Elves,—[…]
ref:
1850, Matthew Stewart, Remarks on the Subject of Language, with Some Observations in the Form of Notes, Illustrative of the Information Which Language May Afford of the History and Opinions of Mankind, London: […] Richard and John Edward Taylor, […], for, […] the Author, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
The next species of these airy nothings are the elfs, or elves; […]
ref:
1852, William Bell, Shakespeare’s Puck, and His Folkslore, Illustrated from the Superstitions of All Nations, but More Especially from the Earliest Religion and Rites of Northern Europe and the Wends, London, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
The Arbhus became in Teutonic mythology the Alben, Elben or Elfen, our Elfs, and in Scandinavian the Alfar.
ref:
1868, S[abine] Baring-Gould, “The Piper of Hameln”, in Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, second series, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co.; London: Rivingtons, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
The elfs or elves were inhabitants of the fields and groves, the progenitors of the fairies of the middle ages; […]
ref:
1868, David Hume, William Cooke Stafford, The History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time; Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources, volume I, London, New York, N.Y.: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, page 53, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Since you’ve been out, the news arrives / The Elfs’ Insurance Company’s gone.
ref:
1877, Sidney Lanier, “The Hard Times in Elfland. A Story of Christmas Eve.”, in [Mary Lanier], editor, Poems of Sidney Lanier, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1884, page 159
type:
quotation
text:
Eve, Danish legend of her concealing her unwashed children, from whom come elfs, trolls, &c.
ref:
1879, William Henderson, “Index”, in Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders. […], London: […] [F]or the Folk-Lore Society by W. Satchell, Peyton and Co., […], page 364
type:
quotation
text:
Much of fairy lore clusters around the so-called fairy rings, that is, the green circles in old pastures within which the elfs were supposed to dance at night by the light of the moon.
ref:
1889 May, “[Literary Notices.] The Folk-Lore of Plants. By T. F. Thiselton Dyer. […]”, in Popular Science, page 128, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
NAT,[…]; a term applied to all spiritual beings, angels, elfs, demons, or what not, including the gods of the Hindus.
ref:
1903, Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell, “NAT, s.”, in edited by William Crooke, Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive, London: John Murray, […], page 619, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Elfs and fays, from their haunts in the mountains, whistle their eerie ballads above the gray roof of “Dove Cottage,” and dance their ghostly jigs on the huge hearthstone, among whose blazing logs the Fire God paints his immortal canvases, with colorings splendid beyond the dream of man.
ref:
1917 November, Elizabeth Clendenning Ring, “Florence Earle Coates: Some Phases of Her Life and Poetry”, in The Book News Monthly, volume 36, page 109, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Alfs [elfs]: Another name for the elfs or elves.
ref:
2010, Heilan Yvette Grimes, The Norse Myths, Hollow Earth Publishing, page 254
type:
quotation
text:
We may add, and our author has knowledge of the fact, that not even the Germans, those masterly delineators and imaginators of fairy-land, have shown greater or more exquisite insight into the lives and ways of elfs and fays than that which was shown by George Cruikshank.
ref:
1882 October 7, “The Life of George Cruikshank: in Two Epochs. By Blanchard Jerrold. […]”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama, number 2867, London: […] John C. Francis, […], page 471, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
All the fairy tales of my childhood were conjured up before my startled imagination, and appeared to be realised in the forms which surrounded me; I saw the whole forest filled with trolls, elves, and sporting dwarfs.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 281
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy.
Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. They are usually delicate-featured and skilled in magic or spellcrafting; sometimes depicted as clashing with dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature.
Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar).
A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
fantasy
|
11109 | word:
elf
word_type:
verb
expansion:
elf (third-person singular simple present elfs, present participle elfing, simple past and past participle elfed)
forms:
form:
elfs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
elfing
tags:
participle
present
form:
elfed
tags:
participle
past
form:
elfed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
elf
etymology_text:
From Middle English elf, from Old English ielf, ælf, from Proto-West Germanic *albi, from Proto-Germanic *albiz. Ultimately probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós (“white”). Doublet of alf and oaf.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To twist into elflocks (of hair); to mat.
senses_topics:
|
11110 | word:
moth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
moth (plural moths)
forms:
form:
moths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English moth, moththe, motthe, moght, mohþe, mouȝte, from Old English moþþe, mohþe, mohþa (“moth”), from Proto-West Germanic *moþþō, *mottō, from Proto-Germanic *muþþô, *muttô (“moth, worm”), from Proto-Indo-European *mutn-, *mut- (“worm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Motte (“moth”), West Frisian mot (“moth”), Dutch mot (“moth”), German Low German Motte, Mott (“moth”), German Motte (“moth”), Swedish mott (“moth”).
senses_examples:
text:
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
ref:
2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
senses_topics:
|
11111 | word:
moth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
moth (third-person singular simple present moths, present participle mothing, simple past and past participle mothed)
forms:
form:
moths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mothing
tags:
participle
present
form:
mothed
tags:
participle
past
form:
mothed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English moth, moththe, motthe, moght, mohþe, mouȝte, from Old English moþþe, mohþe, mohþa (“moth”), from Proto-West Germanic *moþþō, *mottō, from Proto-Germanic *muþþô, *muttô (“moth, worm”), from Proto-Indo-European *mutn-, *mut- (“worm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Motte (“moth”), West Frisian mot (“moth”), Dutch mot (“moth”), German Low German Motte, Mott (“moth”), German Motte (“moth”), Swedish mott (“moth”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hunt for moths.
senses_topics:
|
11112 | word:
moth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
moth (countable and uncountable, plural moths)
forms:
form:
moths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hindi मोठ (moṭh); see moth bean.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The plant Vigna aconitifolia, moth bean.
senses_topics:
|
11113 | word:
moth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
moth (plural moths)
forms:
form:
moths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alternative form of mot (“woman; wife”), likely under influence from Irish maith (“goodness”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A girlfriend.
senses_topics:
|
11114 | word:
moth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
moth (plural moths)
forms:
form:
moths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
To remove moth patches, wash the spots with a solution of common bicarbonate of soda and water several times a day, until the patches are removed, which will usually be in forty-eight hours.
ref:
1895, Good Housekeeping, page 196, ISSN: 0731-3462
text:
Craves for sour things, chalks and eggs, fatty people with light brown spots on the face or liver spots, moth patches on forehead and cheek.
ref:
1999, R. L. Gupta, Directory of Diseases & Cures: In Homoeopathy, page 254
type:
quotation
text:
There are signs of liver affections as weakness, yellow complexion, liver spots, and moth spot like a saddle over the nose.
ref:
2005, J. D. Patil, Textbook of Applied Materia Medica, page 108
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of mote.
A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one.
senses_topics:
|
11115 | word:
Peruvian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Peruvian (plural Peruvians)
forms:
form:
Peruvians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Peru + -v- + -ian, or from Latin Peruvia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Peru or of Peruvian descent.
senses_topics:
|
11116 | word:
Peruvian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Peruvian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Peru + -v- + -ian, or from Latin Peruvia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Peru or the Peruvian people.
senses_topics:
|
11117 | word:
upstairs
word_type:
adj
expansion:
upstairs (comparative further upstairs, superlative furthest upstairs)
forms:
form:
further upstairs
tags:
comparative
form:
furthest upstairs
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + stair + -s.
senses_examples:
text:
They can sleep in the upstairs bedroom.
type:
example
text:
That fastball was upstairs for a ball.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Located on a higher floor or level of a building.
Pertaining to a pitched ball that is high, and usually outside the strike zone.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
11118 | word:
upstairs
word_type:
adv
expansion:
upstairs (comparative further upstairs, superlative furthest upstairs)
forms:
form:
further upstairs
tags:
comparative
form:
furthest upstairs
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + stair + -s.
senses_examples:
text:
I’ll take my shoes and put them away the next time I go upstairs.
type:
example
text:
I hate the people who live upstairs, and I especially hate their piano.
type:
example
text:
Marsha, let’s go upstairs!
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game.
ref:
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
After Joe did a hula dance on the kitchen table, his friends wondered if he didn’t have a lot going on upstairs.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Up the stairs; on a higher floor or level.
In the brain or mind.
In heaven, especially with regard to where a deity might be found.
senses_topics:
|
11119 | word:
upstairs
word_type:
noun
expansion:
upstairs (plural upstairs)
forms:
form:
upstairs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + stair + -s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An upper storey.
A woman's breasts.
senses_topics:
|
11120 | word:
rot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rot (third-person singular simple present rots, present participle rotting, simple past and past participle rotted)
forms:
form:
rots
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rotting
tags:
participle
present
form:
rotted
tags:
participle
past
form:
rotted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English roten, rotten, from Old English rotian (“to rot, become corrupted, ulcerate, putrefy”), from Proto-West Germanic *rotēn, from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”).
senses_examples:
text:
The apple left in the cupboard all that time had started to rot.
type:
example
text:
Your brain will rot if you spend so much time on the computer, Tony!
type:
example
text:
to rot vegetable fiber
type:
example
text:
to rot in prison
type:
example
text:
to rot in Hell
type:
example
text:
Rot, poor bachelor, in your club.
ref:
1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Book of Snobs
type:
quotation
text:
“Did they hang you well?” said Porson.
“Don’t rot,” said Mr Watkins; “I don’t like it.”
ref:
1894, H. G. Wells, The Hammerpond Park Burglary
type:
quotation
text:
Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang. ‘I say, you fellows, here's a rum go. Old Biffo was jolly odd this morning. He gave me a lot of pi-jaw about slacking and then invited me to tea. No rotting! He did really.’
ref:
1991, Stephen Fry, chapter III, in The Liar, London: William Heinemann, page 26
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
To decline in function or utility.
To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place).
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
To talk nonsense.
senses_topics:
|
11121 | word:
rot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rot (countable and uncountable, plural rots)
forms:
form:
rots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English roten, rotten, from Old English rotian (“to rot, become corrupted, ulcerate, putrefy”), from Proto-West Germanic *rotēn, from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”).
senses_examples:
text:
When a turkey vulture detects the scent of rot, it circles down, tracing the plume of chemicals to its source.
ref:
2016, Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
His cattle must of rot and murrain die.
ref:
1658–1663, John Milton, Paradise Lost
type:
quotation
text:
You're talking rot! I don't believe a word.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
Decaying matter.
Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
Verbal nonsense.
senses_topics:
|
11122 | word:
civil law
word_type:
noun
expansion:
civil law (countable and uncountable, plural civil laws)
forms:
form:
civil laws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
civil law
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The body of law dealing with the private relations between members of a community; it contrasts with criminal law, military law and ecclesiastical law.
Legal system based on the Corpus Juris Civilis; it contrasts with common law.
senses_topics:
law
law |
11123 | word:
mollusc
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mollusc (plural molluscs)
forms:
form:
molluscs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French mollusque, from New Latin Mollusca (phylum name), from Latin molluscus (“thin-shelled”), from mollis (“soft”).
senses_examples:
text:
bivalve molluscs
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces.
A weak-willed person.
senses_topics:
|
11124 | word:
negligence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
negligence (usually uncountable, plural negligences)
forms:
form:
negligences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English necligence, negligence, from Old French negligence, from Latin neglegentia.
senses_examples:
text:
negligence while driving
type:
example
text:
The Woodwalton signalman, Rose, who was severely censured in Captain Tyler's report, behaved with great negligence.
ref:
1946 January and February, T. S. Lascelles, “A Series of False Signals”, in Railway Magazine, page 43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being negligent.
The tort whereby a duty of reasonable care was breached, causing damage: any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury.
The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation.
senses_topics:
law
law |
11125 | word:
burden of proof
word_type:
noun
expansion:
burden of proof (plural burdens of proof)
forms:
form:
burdens of proof
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
burden of proof
etymology_text:
Calque of Latin onus probandi.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The duty of a party in a legal proceeding to prove an assertion of fact; it includes both the burden of production and the burden of persuasion; the onus probandi.
The obligation of the person making a claim in a dispute to provide sufficient evidence for their position.
senses_topics:
law
epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences |
11126 | word:
giraffe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
giraffe (plural giraffes or giraffe)
forms:
form:
giraffes
tags:
plural
form:
giraffe
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Classical Persian زُرْنَا (zurnā)
Classical Persian پَا (pā)
Classical Persian زُرْنَاپَا (zurnāpā)bor.
Classical Syriac ܙܪܝܦܐbor.
Arabic زُرَافَة (zurāfa)bor.
Italian giraffabor.
Middle French giraffebor.
English giraffe
Borrowed from Middle French giraffe, from Italian giraffa. Displaced camelopard.
senses_examples:
text:
Are you having a giraffe?!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ruminant, of the genus Giraffa, of the African savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest living animal; yellow fur patterned with dark spots, often in the form of a network; and two or more short, skin-covered horns, so-called; strictly speaking the horn-like projections are ossicones.
A giraffe unicycle.
A laugh.
A very tall individual.
senses_topics:
|
11127 | word:
commercial at
word_type:
noun
expansion:
commercial at (plural commercial ats)
forms:
form:
commercial ats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of at sign
senses_topics:
|
11128 | word:
munt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
munt (plural munts)
forms:
form:
munts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably derived from Northern Ndebele umuntu, with stress on the first syllable, which is uncommon for Nguni languages.
senses_examples:
text:
Munt was a derogatory term used by the [Rhodesian] security forces to refer to blacks.
ref:
2006, Geoffrey Nyarota, Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman, Zebra Press, page 63
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A black person, usually a man.
senses_topics:
|
11129 | word:
munt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
munt (third-person singular simple present munts, present participle munting, simple past and past participle munted)
forms:
form:
munts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
munting
tags:
participle
present
form:
munted
tags:
participle
past
form:
munted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Related to munted; see there for more.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To vomit (usually while drunk).
the act of munting.
senses_topics:
|
11130 | word:
munt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
munt (plural munts)
forms:
form:
munts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of man + cunt
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
mangina
senses_topics:
|
11131 | word:
munt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
munt (plural munts)
forms:
form:
munts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of man + cunt
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something or someone dumb or annoying.
senses_topics:
|
11132 | word:
phylum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
phylum (plural phyla or phylums)
forms:
form:
phyla
tags:
plural
form:
phylums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:phylum
etymology_text:
From Latin phylum, from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “tribe, race”).
senses_examples:
text:
Mammals belong to the phylum Chordata.
type:
example
text:
While biologists are perpetually finding new species, they can almost always fit the organism into one of the existing taxonomic pigeonholes by which scientists classify life forms. The discovery of an organism so unusual that it needs its own phylum is an extremely rare event.
ref:
1995 December 14, Natalie Angier, “Flyspeck on a Lobster Lip Turns Biology on Its Ear”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a divisio or a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank
A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
11133 | word:
melody
word_type:
noun
expansion:
melody (plural melodies)
forms:
form:
melodies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English melodie, melodye, from Old French melodie, from Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (melōidíā, “singing, chanting”), from μέλος (mélos, “musical phrase”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “song”), contracted form ᾠδή (ōidḗ).
senses_examples:
text:
Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.
ref:
1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase
senses_topics:
|
11134 | word:
orthodontist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
orthodontist (plural orthodontists)
forms:
form:
orthodontists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From orthodontic + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An orthodontic dentist.
senses_topics:
|
11135 | word:
CYBC
word_type:
name
expansion:
CYBC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Cypriot Broadcasting Corporation. (RIK)
senses_topics:
|
11136 | word:
iota
word_type:
noun
expansion:
iota (plural iotas)
forms:
form:
iotas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *yad- (“hand”). Doublet of yodh.
* (jot): In reference to a phrase in the New Testament: "until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law" (Mt 5:18), iota being the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet.
senses_examples:
text:
As a Greek numeral, iota represents ten.
type:
example
text:
There are twelve iotas on that page.
type:
example
text:
His expression had not changed one iota except perhaps for an additional tightening of his lips.
ref:
1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
[E]very iota of its gravitic power.
ref:
1982, John Cleve, Spaceways #7: The Manhuntress, page xviii. 194
type:
quotation
text:
Around dawn, Eastern Standard Time, Sanchez announced that it was no longer possible for ω-0 to stay together as a single entity. He split the remains of the Task Force into three. Ulrich and the malformed memory of Wheeler were assigned to the same subteam. Sanchez gave final instructions to continue to search for Bart Hughes, or any kind of ally among the living, be they Foundation or GOI or civilian. But the instructions were confusing and incomplete. It was because Sanchez didn't have an iota of faith in what he was saying. He couldn't see a way to the far side of this. It was about little more than survival now. It was about figuring out terms on which to face death.
ref:
2019 August 26, qntm, “Unthreaded”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-01-02
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.
A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity.
senses_topics:
|
11137 | word:
criminal law
word_type:
noun
expansion:
criminal law (countable and uncountable, plural criminal laws)
forms:
form:
criminal laws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
criminal law
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The area of law pertaining to crime and punishment.
A specific statute, ordinance, regulation, or other source of law that deems an action to be a crime.
senses_topics:
law
law |
11138 | word:
TVO
word_type:
noun
expansion:
TVO (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of tractor vaporising oil.
senses_topics:
|
11139 | word:
TVO
word_type:
name
expansion:
TVO
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of TV Ontario.
senses_topics:
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11140 | word:
SABC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SABC (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Self-Aid Buddy Care.
senses_topics:
|
11141 | word:
SABC
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
SABC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of stand and be counted.
senses_topics:
|
11142 | word:
SABC
word_type:
name
expansion:
SABC (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of South African Broadcasting Company.
senses_topics:
|
11143 | word:
chaos theory
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chaos theory (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The study of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
11144 | word:
NPR
word_type:
name
expansion:
NPR
forms:
wikipedia:
NPR (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of National Public Radio.
Initialism of National Population Register.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
radio
|
11145 | word:
NPR
word_type:
noun
expansion:
NPR (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
NPR (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of natural pressure release.
senses_topics:
|
11146 | word:
gross national product
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gross national product (usually uncountable, plural gross national products)
forms:
form:
gross national products
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: gross domestic product
text:
Within the two years from 1956 to 1958 the increase of expenditures was 34 per cent in terms of dollar outlays and 28 per cent in terms of the portion of gross national product spent on higher education.
ref:
1962, Fritz Machlup, The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States, Princeton University Press, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
Gross domestic product refers to the value of all goods and services produced within the country's boundaries, gross national product also includes net income from investments abroad.
ref:
2001, John Beardshaw, Economics: A Student's Guide, Pearson Education
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The total market value of all the goods and services produced by a nation (citizens of a country, whether living at home or abroad) during a specified period.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences |
11147 | word:
plaintiff
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plaintiff (plural plaintiffs)
forms:
form:
plaintiffs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English plaintif, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French plaintif (“complaining”; as a noun, “one who complains, a plaintiff”) from the verb plaindre. Doublet of plaintive.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant; accuser.
senses_topics:
law |
11148 | word:
Jehovah's Witnesses
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jehovah's Witnesses
forms:
wikipedia:
Isaiah 43#Verse 10
etymology_text:
From Jehovah, the personal name of God in the Hebrew Scriptures; name adopted in 1931 and inspired by the Bible verse of Isaiah 43:10 "You are my witnesses."
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A monotheistic and nontrinitarian Restoration Christian denomination founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1879 as a small Bible study group. Originally known as International Bible Students or Bible Students.
senses_topics:
|
11149 | word:
Jehovah's Witnesses
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Jehovah's Witnesses
forms:
wikipedia:
Isaiah 43#Verse 10
etymology_text:
From Jehovah, the personal name of God in the Hebrew Scriptures; name adopted in 1931 and inspired by the Bible verse of Isaiah 43:10 "You are my witnesses."
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of Jehovah's Witness
senses_topics:
|
11150 | word:
NFL
word_type:
name
expansion:
NFL
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of National Football League.
Initialism of National Felon League.
Initialism of Negro Felon League.
Initialism of Newfoundland and Labrador.
senses_topics:
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
11151 | word:
NFL
word_type:
noun
expansion:
NFL (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
First off, let us be clear that the No Free Lunch theorems that underwrite the displacement problem apply with perfect generality—NFL applies to any information that might supplement a blind search, and not just to fitness functions.
ref:
2002, William A. Dembski, No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot be Purchased Without Intelligence, Rowman & Littlefield, page 204
type:
quotation
text:
Soon after Boston and London were over, two other dramatic races were playing out in my head [...] just as we enjoy the long term implications of a match result in baseball, NFL or soccer.
ref:
2007 07, Running Times, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
In a neo-conservative era where parents have regressed by dressing their daughters as pink princesses, where toy stores segregate their merchandise according to ‘gender’, where women playing NFL in bikinis is ‘sport’, and where Miss Universe is every adolescent girl’s ambition, was I really that gullible to believe that Gen Y would radically commit engagement rings – and, hence, elaborate weddings – to the dumpster?
ref:
2017 March 16, Pearl Bullivant, “Shine Bright like a Diamond”, in The Beast
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of no free lunch: applied to various restricting theorems.
American football.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
|
11152 | word:
nymphomania
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nymphomania (countable and uncountable, plural nymphomanias)
forms:
form:
nymphomanias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin, from Latin nympha (“labia minora”) + -mania. By surface analysis, nympho- + mania.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: satyriasis
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Excess of sexual behaviour or desire in women.
senses_topics:
|
11153 | word:
labyrinth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
labyrinth (plural labyrinths)
forms:
form:
labyrinths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
labyrinth
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French labyrinthe or Latin labyrinthus, from Ancient Greek λᾰβύρῐνθος (labúrinthos, “a maze”).
senses_examples:
text:
Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.
ref:
2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: 'a necessary corrective' [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, p. R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur.
A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.
A maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur.
A maze formed by paths separated by high hedges.
A maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur.
Anything complicated and confusing in structure, arrangement, or character.
A tortuous anatomical structure:
A complex structure in the inner ear which contains the organs of hearing and balance. It consists of bony cavities (the bony labyrinth) filled with fluid and lined with sensitive membranes (the membranous labyrinth).
A tortuous anatomical structure:
An accessory respiratory organ of certain fish.
Any of various satyrine butterflies of the genus Neope.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
agriculture
business
horticulture
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
|
11154 | word:
labyrinth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
labyrinth (third-person singular simple present labyrinths, present participle labyrinthing, simple past and past participle labyrinthed)
forms:
form:
labyrinths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
labyrinthing
tags:
participle
present
form:
labyrinthed
tags:
participle
past
form:
labyrinthed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
labyrinth
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French labyrinthe or Latin labyrinthus, from Ancient Greek λᾰβύρῐνθος (labúrinthos, “a maze”).
senses_examples:
text:
It is said to have been labyrinthed by secret exits and cunning contrivances to facilitate the escape of fugitives from the law.
ref:
1898, Missionary Review of the World - Volume 21, page 178
type:
quotation
text:
By labyrinthing, close axial running clearances can be increased without reducing efficiency.
ref:
1963, Water & Sewage Works - Volume 110, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
In the ports the transmission path is often labyrinthed through shielding but the peculiar requirement of straight beams has been considered.
ref:
1998, Peter E. Stott, Giuseppe Gorini, Paolo Prandoni, Diagnostics for Experimental Thermonuclear Fusion Reactors
type:
quotation
text:
The element illustrated has been 'labyrinthed' to improve its performance.
ref:
2011, Peter Capper, James Garland, Mercury Cadmium Telluride: Growth, Properties and Applications
type:
quotation
text:
We labyrinthed through it, meeting scores of panty-clad and moccasined Indians and barefoot women and girls toiling marketward under atrocious burdens; for the day was Sunday.
ref:
1917, Harry Alverson Franck, Vagabonding Down the Andes, page 313
type:
quotation
text:
Hands clasped together, Linda and Ron walked through the huge doorway leading to the hall that would labyrinth it's way to the parking lot.
ref:
2000, James Cook, Counter-Clockwise, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
I'm far from home, labyrinthing through unfamiliar alleys, before I find the right house.
ref:
2017, Mahvesh Murad, Jared Shurin, Neil Gaiman, The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories
type:
quotation
text:
They arrive at their different destinations long before day, and make their attack about day-break, and seldom fail to kill or make prisoners of the whole family, as the people know nothing of the matter until they are thus labyrinthed.
ref:
1886, Pliny A. Durant, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
He favored, he said, "a kind of half-sleep where I labyrinthed myself."
ref:
1951, New Mexico Quarterly - Volumes 21-22
type:
quotation
text:
Above all, he flatters the men by emphasising their numerical victory: a British regiment may have turned into a troop, but it left behind it 'labyrinthed legions' of dead Russians.
ref:
1995, Patrick Waddington, Theirs but to do and die, page 148
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to enclose in a labyrinth, or as though in a labyrinth
to arrange in the form of a labyrinth
to twist and wind, following a labyrinthine path
to render lost and confused, as if in a labyrinth
senses_topics:
|
11155 | word:
seconde
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seconde (plural secondes)
forms:
form:
secondes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The second defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, with the hand held in a prone position and the tip of the sword below the level of the guard.
senses_topics:
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war |
11156 | word:
metric system
word_type:
noun
expansion:
metric system
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compound of metric + system, from French métrique. See also meter.
senses_examples:
text:
see Appendix on SI Units
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The system of units developed in France in the 1790s and now used worldwide.
The modern version of that system, Système International d'Unités (International System of Units), or SI that is based on the base units of the meter/metre, the kilogram, the second, the ampere, the kelvin, the mole, and the candela.
Any variant of that system that was not codified as SI, such as cgs.
senses_topics:
|
11157 | word:
Naples
word_type:
name
expansion:
Naples
forms:
wikipedia:
Naples (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From French Naples, from Latin Neāpolis, from Ancient Greek Νεᾱ́πολῐς (Neā́polis), from νέᾱ (néā, “new”) + πόλῐς (pólis, “city”) after the relocation of the original Greek settlement in the area. Doublet of Nabeul, Nablus, Neapoli, and Neapolis. Compare Newton.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in the region of Campania in Italy; capital of the surrounding province.
A province of Italy around the city.
Synonym of Kingdom of Naples, a former kingdom that controlled southern Italy in the early modern period.
Synonym of Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, a former kingdom that controlled southern Italy and Sicily in the 19th century.
A city in Collier County, Florida, United States.
An unincorporated community in Idaho, United States.
A town in Illinois, United States.
A town in Maine, United States.
A town and village in New York, United States.
A town in South Dakota, United States.
A city in Texas, United States.
A city in Utah, United States.
A town in Wisconsin, United States.
senses_topics:
|
11158 | word:
hectometre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hectometre (plural hectometres)
forms:
form:
hectometres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hecto- + metre.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An SI unit of length equal to 10² metres. Symbol: hm
senses_topics:
metrology |
11159 | word:
PBS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PBS (countable and uncountable, plural PBSs)
forms:
form:
PBSs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
PBS (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of phosphate-buffered saline: a buffer solution commonly used in biological research.
Initialism of product breakdown structure.
Initialism of positive behavior support.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
management
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
11160 | word:
PBS
word_type:
name
expansion:
PBS
forms:
wikipedia:
PBS (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
In Chapter 7, she has Victor Frankenstein describe his creation as “handsome”—PBS altered this to “beautiful”, which appears in the final text.
ref:
2024 February 17, Erica Wagner, “Kill your darlings”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Public Broadcasting Service.
Initialism of Public Broadcasting Services.
Initialism of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Initialism of Proto-Balto-Slavic.
Initialism of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
television
broadcasting
media
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
literature
media
publishing |
11161 | word:
taxonomy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)
forms:
form:
taxonomies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
taxonomy
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French taxonomie. By surface analysis, taxo- + -nomy.
senses_examples:
text:
Very little exists in the annals of the interwebs about Tostitos Hint of Lime. Many nights I’ve sucked down crusty mossed fingertips and typed away in a green-out (like a blackout, but from eating too much Tostitos Hint of Lime), searching for a like-minded fanclub, historical taxonomy, or even a press release.
ref:
2022 April 20, Mariella Rudi, “Tostitos Hint of Lime has zero lime – but it’s still the perfect chip”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy |
11162 | word:
Sardinian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sardinian
forms:
wikipedia:
Sardinian language
etymology_text:
From Latin Sardiniānus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Romance language spoken in the Italian region of Sardinia.
senses_topics:
|
11163 | word:
Sardinian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Sardinian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Sardinian language
etymology_text:
From Latin Sardiniānus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Sardinia or its people or culture.
senses_topics:
|
11164 | word:
Sardinian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Sardinian (plural Sardinians)
forms:
form:
Sardinians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Sardinian language
etymology_text:
From Latin Sardiniānus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Sardinia.
senses_topics:
|
11165 | word:
bicyclette
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bicyclette (plural bicyclettes)
forms:
form:
bicyclettes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cocktail made with Campari, white wine, classic bitters, citrus.
senses_topics:
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11166 | word:
okapi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
okapi (plural okapi or okapis)
forms:
form:
okapi
tags:
plural
form:
okapis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Mvuba okapi.
senses_examples:
text:
[page 498, column 1] [I]n leading them [African Pygmies] back to the forests where they dwelt, I obtained much information from them on the subject of the horse-like animal which they called the "Okapi." […] [page 499, column 1] The coloration of the Okapi is quite extraordinary. […] The hind quarters, hind and fore legs are either snowy white or pale cream color, touched here and there with orange. They are boldly marked, however, with purple-black stripes and splodges, which give that zebra-like appearance to the limbs of the Okapi that caused the first imperfect account of it to indicate the discovery of a new striped horse.
ref:
1901 September, Harry [i.e., Henry] H[amilton] Johnston, “The Okapi: The Newly-discovered Beast Living in Central Africa”, in McClure’s Magazine, volume XVII, number 5, New York, N.Y., London: S[amuel] S[idney] McClure Co., →OCLC, pages 498 and 499
type:
quotation
text:
Personally I esteem it a more fascinating and a more important task to investigate the relations of the Okapi with the Giraffe on the one hand, and its fossil relatives on the other.
ref:
1902 November 18, C[harles] I[mmanuel] Forsyth Major, “On a Specimen of the Okapi Lately Received at Brussels”, in Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, volume I, London: […] [Zoological] Society [of London]; Messrs. Longmans, Green, and Co., […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 344
type:
quotation
text:
Dr. [Cuthbert] Christy adds his testimony to that of his predecessors in the same quest as to the "invisibility" of the okapi, whose markings and coloration—pace Colonel Theodore Roosevelt—so break up the surface of its large body and long legs as to cause it to fuse with the dark-brown, russet, while and yellow-white of the twigs and stems and leaf-stalks amongst which it moves. He also points out that the hoofs of the okapi are so closely pressed together that the footprint is almost like that of the single-toed donkey.
ref:
1915 August 26, H[enry] H[amilton] Johnston, “Life Habits of the Okapi”, in Nature: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, volume 95, number 2391, London: Macmillan and Co.; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 714, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
I also took out a licence to shoot small game, costing fifty francs, which can be obtained on the spot, and under which I was able to shoot all kinds of game, excepting elephants, chimpanzis, gorillas and okapis.
ref:
1922 May, T[homas] Alexander Barns, “To the Game-haunted Solitudes of Ruchuru and Ruindi Plains”, in The Wonderland of the Eastern Congo: The Region of the Snow-crowned Volcanoes, the Pygmies, the Giant Gorilla and the Okapi, London, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 99
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large ruminant mammal, of species Okapia johnstoni, found in the rainforests of the Congo, related to the giraffe but with a much shorter neck, a reddish-brown coat, and zebra-like stripes on its hindquarters.
senses_topics:
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11167 | word:
Athens
word_type:
name
expansion:
Athens
forms:
wikipedia:
Athens
etymology_text:
From Middle English Athens, from Old French Athenes, Atenes, from Latin Athēnae pl (acc. Athēnās), from Ancient Greek Ἀθῆναι pl (Athênai), the plural form of Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē, “Athena”) (q.v.), the goddess. More at Athena.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Greece.
The Greek government.
Several places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Limestone County, Alabama.
Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Howard County, Arkansas.
Several places in the United States:
A large unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California.
Several places in the United States:
A sizable city, the county seat of Clarke County, Georgia, consolidated with Clarke County as Athens-Clarke County.
Several places in the United States:
A city in Menard County, Illinois.
Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and hamlet in Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana.
Several places in the United States:
A small unincorporated village outside of Lexington, Kentucky.
Several places in the United States:
A village in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana.
Several places in the United States:
A town in Somerset County, Maine.
Several places in the United States:
A village in Calhoun County, Michigan.
Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Mississippi.
Several places in the United States:
A ghost town in Clark County, Missouri.
Several places in the United States:
A former mining settlement and ghost town in Nye County, Nevada.
Several places in the United States:
A town and village in Greene County, New York.
Several places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Athens County, Ohio.
Several places in the United States:
A borough of Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
Several places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of McMinn County, Tennessee.
Several places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Henderson County, Texas.
Several places in the United States:
A town in Windham County, Vermont.
Several places in the United States:
A town in Mercer County, West Virginia.
Several places in the United States:
A village in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
A township in Ontario, Canada.
senses_topics:
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11168 | word:
Athens
word_type:
name
expansion:
Athens (plural Athenses)
forms:
form:
Athenses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Athens
etymology_text:
Americanized form of Greek Αθηναίος (Athinaíos).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname from Greek.
senses_topics:
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11169 | word:
Modern English
word_type:
name
expansion:
Modern English
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift, completed in roughly 1550.
senses_topics:
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11170 | word:
carbon paper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
carbon paper (countable and uncountable, plural carbon papers)
forms:
form:
carbon papers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Paper with one of the faces impregnated with carbon, used to make carbon copies.
senses_topics:
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11171 | word:
beverage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beverage (countable and uncountable, plural beverages)
forms:
form:
beverages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bratislava
Slovakia
beverage
list of English words with dual French and Anglo-Saxon variations
etymology_text:
From Middle English beverage, from Old French beverage, variant of bevrage, from beivre (“to drink”), variant of boivre (“to drink”), from Latin bibō. Related to imbibe.
senses_examples:
text:
[W]here coffee is used as a constant beverage, the gravel and the gout are scarcely known.
ref:
1848, J. S. Skinner & Son, editor, The Plough, The Loom and the Anvil, volume I, Philadelphia: J. S. Skinner & Son, page 137
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or soft drinks, usually excluding water.
(A gift of) drink money.
senses_topics:
|
11172 | word:
Tibetan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Tibetan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Tibetan
etymology_text:
From Tibet + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
A fantastic legend was told about the first Gyalwai Odzer. This legend, believed to be authentic, had no fixed origin in time because the nomads of the region, the Tibetan province Tsinghai, could not, not even vaguely, indicate a date. The legend, however, was clear enough, so well known that it was no longer discussed, for everybody had been told the tale during childhood. It had become a dogma, to be believed passively without even trying to ascertain its probability or validity.
ref:
1982, Alexandra David-Neel, Aphur Yongden, translated by Janwillem van de Wetering, The Power of Nothingness, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
After many years, Buddhism touched every aspect of Tibetan life, including how to treat the earth and plants and animals.
ref:
2003, Patricia Kummer, Tibet, Children's Press, page 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to Tibet, the Tibetan people, culture, or language.
senses_topics:
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11173 | word:
Tibetan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Tibetan (countable and uncountable, plural Tibetans)
forms:
form:
Tibetans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tibetan
etymology_text:
From Tibet + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native of Tibet
A language of Tibet
senses_topics:
|
11174 | word:
huh
word_type:
intj
expansion:
huh
forms:
wikipedia:
Speech disfluency#"Huh" – the universal syllable
etymology_text:
Attested from circa 1600. Compare Dutch hè (“huh”).
senses_examples:
text:
Huh? Where did they go?
type:
example
text:
Huh! I'm sure I locked it when I left.
type:
example
text:
Where were you last night? Huh?
type:
example
text:
(belittlement) A: "We should go to an amusement park, it would be fun." B: "Huh."
type:
example
text:
(agreement) A: "Murder is bad." B: "Huh!"
type:
example
text:
Huh? Could you speak up?
type:
example
text:
It's getting kind of late, huh?
type:
example
text:
He broke into a dogtrot and ran by us. I don't think he saw us. His voice was coming in little puffs, huh, huh, huh, but he probably didn't notice that either.
ref:
1980, Donald McCaig, The Butte Polka: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Rawson, Wade Publishers, Inc., page 251
type:
quotation
text:
It was up so many flights of stairs that people would arrive for meetings drenched in sweat: "They were like huh huh huh [panting] - where the hell are you?!"
ref:
2019 May 15, Robert Purchese, quoting Marcin Iwiński, “Seeing Red: The story of CD Projekt”, in Eurogamer, archived from the original on 2023-09-15
type:
quotation
text:
Helen starts laughing, properly now. Huh-huh-huh.
ref:
2017, Meg Howrey, The Wanderers, London […]: Scribner, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
Shawn quickly turns around and punches the pale hand, yelling "Huh! Huh! Hi yah'! Huh! Get off me! Yeah!"
ref:
1993, Ashaki Boelter, The Nok, Bend, O.R.: Shakalot High Entertainment, published 2006, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
He gets out of the chair, whips off his jacket, and starts closing in on the camera, punching rapidly as he moves. A left hook, a right jab. "Hey, I'm a boxer and a marine! So don't mess with me, man! Semper fi! Marine Corps! They better not mess with me! My critics better not mess with me, man, 'cause I'm gonna beat you up. Huh, huh, huh, huh, huh. Hmm, hmmm, hmm, hmmmm, heeeyah, huh, huh. Hmmm, yeah!"
ref:
1995 October 5, Neal Pollack, quoting David Nelson, “King of the Creature Feature”, in Chicago Reader, Chicago, I.L.: Chicago Reader, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-15
type:
quotation
text:
Student A has both arms outstretched in a karate motion and shouts out "HUH". Student B receives the sound by putting both arms straight in the air and yelling "HUH". Students on either side of B give B a karate chop by miming a sideways karate chop — without any touching.
ref:
2014, Larry Swartz, Dramathemes: Classroom Literacy that Will Excite, Surprise, and Stimulate Learning, Markham, Ont.: Pembroke Publishers Limited, pages 130-131
type:
quotation
text:
HUH-HUH, HI-YAH!
ref:
2023, Dwayne Reed, Simon B. Rhymin' Gets in the Game, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to express doubt or confusion.
Used to express amusement or subtle surprise.
Used to reinforce a question.
Used either to belittle the issuer of a statement/question, or sarcastically to indicate utter agreement, and that the statement being responded to is an extreme understatement. The intonation is changed to distinguish between the two meanings - implied dullness for belittlement, and feigned surprise for utter agreement.
Used to indicate that one did not hear what was said.
Used to create a tag question.
Representing the sound of heavy breathing.
Representing a chuckling sound.
A kiai, shouted as a limb is swung in attack.
senses_topics:
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war |
11175 | word:
decimetre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
decimetre (plural decimetres)
forms:
form:
decimetres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French décimètre. By surface analysis, deci- + metre.
senses_examples:
text:
If the aquarium is placed where it receives insufficient daylight, artificial lighting by means of ordinary incandescent lamps should be employed. For good plant growth 2 decalumens of luminous flux per square decimetre of water surface […]
ref:
1956, C. van Duijn, Diseases of Fishes, page 149
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An SI unit of length equal to 10⁻¹ metres. Symbol: dm
senses_topics:
metrology |
11176 | word:
mike
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mike (plural mikes)
forms:
form:
mikes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of mic, clipping of microphone. Attested since 1927.
senses_examples:
text:
1970, Theodore Sturgeon and Edward H. Waldo, "The Pod in the Barrier", in A Touch of Strange, Ayer Publishing, →ISBN, page 28,
"Then I say to the recording, for the record," I barked, right into the mike, […]
text:
1981, John Swaigen, How to Fight for What’s Right: The Guide to Public Interest Law, James Lorimer & Company, →ISBN, pages 118–119,
Obviously, one must watch what one says in the vicinity of a microphone. More than one person has made a “private” statement in the presence of an open mike.
text:
2007, John Sellers, Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 85,
When the haggard bartender informed us that there would be an open-mike event later in the evening, I got my first sense that not everyone in Manchester cared about the music the city has produced.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A microphone.
senses_topics:
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11177 | word:
mike
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mike (third-person singular simple present mikes, present participle miking, simple past and past participle miked)
forms:
form:
mikes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
miking
tags:
participle
present
form:
miked
tags:
participle
past
form:
miked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of mic, clipping of microphone. Attested since 1927.
senses_examples:
text:
1994 September, Jim Gaines, transcribed in Alan di Perna, "Step Lively: Recalling the recording process of SRV’s IN STEP with album producer Jim Gaines", in Guitar World Magazine, reprinted in Guitar World Presents Stevie Ray Vaughan: Stevie Ray In His Own Words, Hal Leonard (1997), →ISBN, page 81,
“And sometimes I’d just have to mike the room. You could run into some weird phasing problems with the individual mics because the speakers were all reacting differently.”
text:
1996, J.R. Robinson, quoted in Mark Huntly Parsons, The Drummer’s Studio Survival Guide: How to get the best possible drum tracks on any recording project, Hal Leonard, →ISBN, page 72,
He knows me, I know him, and I know how he’s going to mike the drums and what selection of mic’s he's going to use.
text:
2006, Glenn Haertlein, Project Vectus, Lulu, →ISBN, page 108,
“Zeb, is everything go on the AV equipment?” I heard Jim ask. ¶ “Yep,” Zeb replied. “I just need to mike him up.” […] “All set,” he said once he clipped the wireless microphone to my shirtfront.
text:
1983, Tom S. Wilson, How to Rebuild Your Big-block Chevy, HPBooks, →ISBN, page 98,
Measure Valve-Stem Diameter—To be positive about it you’ll have to mike the valve stem with a 1-in. micrometer as explained on pages 100 and 101.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on.
To measure using a micrometer.
senses_topics:
|
11178 | word:
mike
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mike (plural mikes)
forms:
form:
mikes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From translingual Mike, representing the letter m, from English Mike.
senses_examples:
text:
We'll be there in one zero mikes [i.e. ten minutes].
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Mike from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
A minute.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
11179 | word:
mike
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mike (plural mikes)
forms:
form:
mikes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The beginner's dose may be anywhere from 100 to 250 mikes — micrograms, or millionths of a gram. Most hardened heads need 600 to 800 mikes, and some as many as 1,400 mikes, before they experience any sensation of getting off.
ref:
1970, Milton Travers, Each Other's Victims, page 43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Short for microgram.
senses_topics:
|
11180 | word:
linear
word_type:
adj
expansion:
linear (comparative more linear, superlative most linear)
forms:
form:
more linear
tags:
comparative
form:
most linear
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
linear
etymology_text:
From Latin līneāris, from līnea (“line”) + -āris (adjectival suffix), equivalent to line + -ar. Doublet of lineal.
senses_examples:
text:
The route taken does not have to be a perfectly straight line, just so long as it is linear and is followed consistently for each transect taken.
ref:
2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
a linear medium
type:
example
text:
4x#x2B;5y#x2B;#x5C;frac#x7B;1#x7D;#x7B;2#x7D;z is a linear polynomial, but 4xy#x2B;#x5C;frac#x7B;1#x7D;#x7B;2#x7D;z and 4x#x2B;z² are not.
type:
example
text:
The graph of the linear equation y#x3D;ax#x2B;b is a straight line with slope a and y-intercept b
type:
example
text:
The map f#x3A;#x5C;mathbb#x7B;R#x7D;³#x5C;to#x5C;mathbb#x7B;R#x7D;² taking (x,y,z)#x5C;mapsto(x#x2B;y#x2B;z,x-y#x2B;3z) is a linear map.
type:
example
text:
a linear meter
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the form of a line; straight or roughly straight; following a direct course.
Of or relating to lines.
Made, or designed to be used, in a step-by-step, sequential manner.
Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides.
(of polynomials or polynomial equations)
Having degree less than one; that is, being of the form a_1x_1+a_2x_2+⋯+a_nx_n, where each x_i is a variable and each a_i is a coefficient. See also Linear polynomials on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
(of polynomials or polynomial equations)
Involving only linear polynomials. See also Linear equation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
(of functions or maps)
An additive, homogeneous mapping; that is, a function f:V→W is linear if it distributes over vector addition (f( mathbf v+ mathbf w)=f( mathbf v)+f( mathbf w)) and respects scalar multiplication (f(c mathbf v)=cf( mathbf v)). If V and W are vector spaces over a field K, f may also be called a K-linear map. See also linear map on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
(of functions or maps)
A module homomorphism; that is, a group homomorphism that commutes with scalar multiplication. See also Module homomorphism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
11181 | word:
linear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
linear (plural linears)
forms:
form:
linears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
linear
etymology_text:
From Latin līneāris, from līnea (“line”) + -āris (adjectival suffix), equivalent to line + -ar. Doublet of lineal.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of linear amplifier..
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
radio |
11182 | word:
at sign
word_type:
noun
expansion:
at sign (plural at signs)
forms:
form:
at signs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The symbol @, most commonly used in e-mail addresses.
senses_topics:
|
11183 | word:
carbon copy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
carbon copy (plural carbon copies)
forms:
form:
carbon copies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
carbon copy
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
In preparing the contract, we'll make a carbon copy for our records.
type:
example
text:
This new home is simply a carbon copy of the one down the street.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pressure applied on the top sheet (by a pen or typewriter) causes every carbon paper to release its carbon cover, thus reproducing the writing on the subjacent layers of paper.
Any duplicate.
A duplicate copy of an email.
senses_topics:
|
11184 | word:
carbon copy
word_type:
verb
expansion:
carbon copy (third-person singular simple present carbon copies, present participle carbon copying, simple past and past participle carbon copied)
forms:
form:
carbon copies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
carbon copying
tags:
participle
present
form:
carbon copied
tags:
participle
past
form:
carbon copied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
carbon copy
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Please carbon copy this contract for our records.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To create a carbon copy of.
To send a duplicate copy of an email to.
senses_topics:
|
11185 | word:
defendant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
defendant (comparative more defendant, superlative most defendant)
forms:
form:
more defendant
tags:
comparative
form:
most defendant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
defendant
etymology_text:
From Middle English defendaunt (“defending; defending in a suit”), borrowed from Old French defendant, present participle of defendre, from Latin dēfendere.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive, defending.
senses_topics:
|
11186 | word:
defendant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
defendant (plural defendants)
forms:
form:
defendants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
defendant
etymology_text:
From Middle English defendaunt (“defendant in a suit; defender”), borrowed from Old French defendant, nominalisation of defendant; see above.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In civil proceedings, the party responding to the complaint; one who is sued and called upon to make satisfaction for a wrong complained of by another.
In criminal proceedings, the accused.
senses_topics:
law
law |
11187 | word:
millimetre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
millimetre (plural millimetres)
forms:
form:
millimetres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French millimètre.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An SI/MKS unit of measure, the length of ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of a metre. Symbol: mm
senses_topics:
|
11188 | word:
graph
word_type:
noun
expansion:
graph (plural graphs)
forms:
form:
graphs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Graph
etymology_text:
Clipping of graphic formula. From 1878; verb from 1889.
senses_examples:
text:
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref:
2012 March 24, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2013-02-19, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
1969 [MIT Press], Thomas Walsh, Randell Magee (translators), I. M. Gelfand, E. G. Glagoleva, E. E. Shnol, Functions and Graphs, 2002, Dover, page 19,
Let us take any point of the first graph, for example, x=1/2,y=4/5, that is, the point M_1(1/2,4/5).
text:
1973, Edward Minieka (translator), Claude Berge, Graphs and Hypergraphs, Elsevier (North-Holland), [1970, Claude Berge, Graphes et Hypergraphes], page vii,
Problems involving graphs first appeared in the mathematical folklore as puzzles (e.g. Königsberg bridge problem). Later, graphs appeared in electrical engineering (Kirchhof's Law), chemistry, psychology and economics before becoming a unified field of study.
text:
Spectral graph theory has a long history. In the early days, matrix theory and linear algebra were used to analyze adjacency matrices of graphs. Algebraic methods are especially effective in treating graphs which are regular and symmetric.
ref:
1997, Fan R. K. Chung, Spectral Graph Theory, American Mathematical Society, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
2008, Unnamed translators (AMS), A. V. Alexeevski, S. M. Natanzon, Hurwitz Numbers for Regular Coverings of Surfaces by Seamed Surfaces and Cardy-Frobenius Algebras of Finite Groups, V. M. Buchstaber, I. M. Krichever (editors), Geometry, Topology, and Mathematical Physics: S.P. Novikov's Seminar, 2006-2007, American Mathematical Society, page 6,
First, let us define its 1-dimensional analog, that is, a topological graph. A graph Δ is a 1-dimensional stratified topological space with finitely many 0-strata (vertices) and finitely many 1-strata (edges). […] A graph such that any vertex belongs to at least two half-edges we call an s-graph. Clearly the boundary ∂Ω of a surface Ω with marked points is an s-graph.
A morphism of graphs φ:Δ'→Δ is a continuous epimorphic map of graphs compatible with the stratification; i.e., the restriction of φ to any open 1-stratum (interior of an edge) of Δ' is a local (therefore, global) homeomorphism with appropriate open 1-stratum of Δ.
text:
A graph is a token-level nondistinctive representation of a grapheme. It can differ from the other variants of its grapheme with regard to upper case, lower case, script, print, typeface style, typeface size, etc.
ref:
2003, J. Richard Andrews, Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Revised Edition, University of Oklahoma Press, page 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities, measurements or indicative numbers) and a reference set, whose elements are indexed to those of the former set(s) and may or may not be numbers.
A set of points constituting a graphical representation of a real function; (formally) a set of tuples (x_1,x_2,…,x_m,y)∈ R ᵐ⁺¹, where y=f(x_1,x_2,…,x_m) for a given function f: R ᵐ→ R . See also Graph of a function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
A set of vertices (or nodes) connected together by edges; (formally) an ordered pair of sets (V,E), where the elements of V are called vertices or nodes and E is a set of pairs (called edges) of elements of V. See also Graph (discrete mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
A topological space which represents some graph (ordered pair of sets) and which is constructed by representing the vertices as points and the edges as copies of the real interval [0,1] (where, for any given edge, 0 and 1 are identified with the points representing the two vertices) and equipping the result with a particular topology called the graph topology.
A morphism Γ_f from the domain of f to the product of the domain and codomain of f, such that the first projection applied to Γ_f equals the identity of the domain, and the second projection applied to Γ_f is equal to f.
A graphical unit on the token-level, the abstracted fundamental shape of a character or letter as distinct from its ductus (realization in a particular typeface or handwriting on the instance-level) and as distinct by a grapheme on the type-level by not fundamentally distinguishing meaning.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
statistics
mathematics
sciences
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
topology
category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
media
publishing
sciences
typography |
11189 | word:
graph
word_type:
verb
expansion:
graph (third-person singular simple present graphs, present participle graphing, simple past and past participle graphed)
forms:
form:
graphs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
graphing
tags:
participle
present
form:
graphed
tags:
participle
past
form:
graphed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Graph
etymology_text:
Clipping of graphic formula. From 1878; verb from 1889.
senses_examples:
text:
When the doctor took the picture that was to be graphed onto Johnny’s balloon head, he suggested that Johnny make a normal face, without expressing any emotion. But Johnny didn’t like that idea. He’d rather look eternally cheerful than express nothing but apathy for the rest of his life.
ref:
2011, Carlton Mellick III, Crab Town, Portland: Eraserhead Press, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To draw a graph, to record graphically.
To draw a graph of a function.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
11190 | word:
Modern Greek
word_type:
name
expansion:
Modern Greek
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Greek language as spoken by the Greek people since the fall of Constantinople in 1453. It was written using polytonic script until 1982, when this was officially dropped in favour of monotonic.
senses_topics:
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11191 | word:
TV
word_type:
noun
expansion:
TV (countable and uncountable, plural TVs)
forms:
form:
TVs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
TV (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Abbreviation, from television.
senses_examples:
text:
I saw an ad for that on TV.
type:
example
text:
Believe me, the sun always shines on TV
ref:
1985, Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (lyrics and music), “The Sun Always Shines on T.V.”, in Hunting High and Low, performed by a-ha
type:
quotation
text:
1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
She spoke of her male side as her "brother" as do older, more conventional TVs.
text:
I am in isolation and am lonely and would like to correspond with TVs, TSs and queens.
ref:
1986 April 12, David Anderson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
TV's who dominate and TV's who are dominated! TV's who are hot, sexy and horny as hell!
ref:
1996, Forced Womanhood, number 20, page 32
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of television.
Abbreviation of transvestite.
Initialism of tidal volume.
Initialism of tax value.
Initialism of Taylor's Version.
senses_topics:
medicine
physiology
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
11192 | word:
bike
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bike (plural bikes)
forms:
form:
bikes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From bicycle, by shortening, and possibly alteration. Attested from 1882.
One explanation for the pronunciation is that bicycle is parsed to bi(cy)c(le). An alternative explanation is that bicycle is shortened to bic(ycle), and the terminal [s] is converted to a [k] because there is an underlying underspecified [k]/[s] sound, which is softened to [s] in bicycle but retained as [k] in bike; compare the letter ‘c’ (used for [k]/[s]).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of bicycle.
Clipping of motorbike.
Ellipsis of village bike.
senses_topics:
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11193 | word:
bike
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bike (third-person singular simple present bikes, present participle biking, simple past and past participle biked)
forms:
form:
bikes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
biking
tags:
participle
present
form:
biked
tags:
participle
past
form:
biked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From bicycle, by shortening, and possibly alteration. Attested from 1882.
One explanation for the pronunciation is that bicycle is parsed to bi(cy)c(le). An alternative explanation is that bicycle is shortened to bic(ycle), and the terminal [s] is converted to a [k] because there is an underlying underspecified [k]/[s] sound, which is softened to [s] in bicycle but retained as [k] in bike; compare the letter ‘c’ (used for [k]/[s]).
senses_examples:
text:
I biked so much yesterday that I'm very sore today.
type:
example
text:
It was such a nice day I decided to bike to the store, though it's far enough I usually take my car.
type:
example
text:
I biked them the letters.
type:
example
text:
Frank, a teenager, arrived at his grandfather’s shop to begin work as a butcher’s boy. The job would be to bike parcels of meat around Dronfield and the surrounding countryside between the cities of Sheffield and Chesterfield, right on the county border of Derbyshire and Yorkshire.
ref:
2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ride a bike.
To travel by bike.
To transport by bicycle.
senses_topics:
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11194 | word:
bike
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bike (plural bikes)
forms:
form:
bikes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bike, byke (“a nest of wild bees or wasps; also, honeycomb”), of unknown origin. Perhaps a back-formation of Middle English *bykere (“beekeeper”), from Old English bēocere (“beekeeper”); or from Old English *bȳc, a byform of Old English būc (“belly; vessel; container”). Compare also Scots byke (“beehive, anthill; home, dwelling”), Old Norse bý (“bee”).
senses_examples:
text:
he stood for a minute talking to them about their job of gathering cones, and telling them a story about a tree he’d once climbed which had a wasp’s byke in it unbeknown to him.
ref:
1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 107
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.
A crowd of people.
senses_topics:
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11195 | word:
Kurdish
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Kurdish (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Kurdish
etymology_text:
From Kurd + -ish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language family.
senses_topics:
|
11196 | word:
Kurdish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Kurdish (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Kurdish
etymology_text:
From Kurd + -ish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Family of Indo-Iranian languages of Kurdistan (in the Mesopotamia region, from the Zagros of mid-western Iran to the eastern extension of the chain of the Taurus Mountains).
senses_topics:
|
11197 | word:
download
word_type:
noun
expansion:
download (plural downloads)
forms:
form:
downloads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Download
Scientific American
Times Record News
etymology_text:
From down- + load. Verbal form first appears c. 1962 in the Wichita Falls (Texas) Times. Nominal form first appears c. 1977 in Scientific American.
senses_examples:
text:
The download took longer than I expected.
type:
example
text:
I got the download but it wouldn't work on my computer.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A file transfer to a given computer or device from a remote one through a network connection.
A file that has been or is intended to be transferred in this way.
senses_topics:
|
11198 | word:
download
word_type:
verb
expansion:
download (third-person singular simple present downloads, present participle downloading, simple past and past participle downloaded)
forms:
form:
downloads
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
downloading
tags:
participle
present
form:
downloaded
tags:
participle
past
form:
downloaded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Download
Scientific American
Times Record News
etymology_text:
From down- + load. Verbal form first appears c. 1962 in the Wichita Falls (Texas) Times. Nominal form first appears c. 1977 in Scientific American.
senses_examples:
text:
Voiceover: You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet and then send it to the policeman's grieving widow and then steal it again. Downloading films is stealing. If you do it you WILL face the consequences.
Roy: Man, these anti-piracy ads are getting really mean.
ref:
2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 3
text:
You can download a trial version of the program for thirty days to determine whether you want to purchase the full version.
type:
example
text:
When I was your age, there were no flash drives. I needed to download photos to a CD-ROM.
type:
example
text:
In 1997, The Harris government also downloaded a number of social services to municipal governments, including affordable housing.
ref:
2008, Allister Thompson, Mike Harris, The Canadian Encyclopedia
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network.
Synonym of upload: to send data from a given computer to a remote one.
Synonym of copy: to transfer data to or from removable media.
Synonym of install: to load software forced.
To load a gun (especially a muzzle-loader) with less propellant than its designed load.
To transfer jurisdiction and responsibility of a government asset or service to a lower level of government.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
|
11199 | word:
centimetre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
centimetre (plural centimetres)
forms:
form:
centimetres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French centimètre; equivalent to centi- + metre.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
(metrology) An SI unit of length equal to 10⁻² metres. Symbol: cm
senses_topics:
|
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