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11200 | word:
prom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prom (plural proms)
forms:
form:
proms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
prom
etymology_text:
Clipping of promenade.
senses_examples:
text:
Would you like to be my prom date?
type:
example
text:
The greatest moment in my life was the junior/senior prom that we had back in April 2009.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A promenade concert.
A promenade.
A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions; e.g,. near the end of the academic year.
senses_topics:
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11201 | word:
steen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
steen (plural steens)
forms:
form:
steens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of stean
senses_topics:
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11202 | word:
steen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
steen (third-person singular simple present steens, present participle steening, simple past and past participle steened)
forms:
form:
steens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
steening
tags:
participle
present
form:
steened
tags:
participle
past
form:
steened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
1723, Richard Froſt, James Young, et al., An Account of a Well near Queenborough in Kent, John Eames, John Martyn, The Philosophical Transactions 1719—1733, Abridged, Volume 6, Part 2, Royal Society (Great Britain), page 244,
We then meaſured the Depth of it, and found it 200 Foot, and artificially ſteened the whole Depth with circular Portland Stone, which is all entire, and ſtands fair, the mean Diameter is four Foot eight Inches; […] .
text:
The compaſs bricks are of a circular form, their uſe is for ſteening of walls;[…].
ref:
1764, John Muller, A Treatise Containing the Practical Part of Fortification, 2nd edition, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
1802, A Society of Practical Gardeners, Rural Recreations; Or The Gardener's Instructor, London, page 182,
The sides and dome of the cone should be nine inches thick, and the sides ought to be constructed of steened brick-work, that is without mortar, and wrought at right angles to the face of the work: the vacancies behind may be filled with brick-bats, gravel, or loose stones, so that the water which escapes through the sides, may the more readily find its way into the reservoir.
text:
They were regularly steened with flint to the depth of ten feet; they measured about four feet in diameter at the mouth: no ancient objects were found in them.
ref:
1849, Richard C. Neville, Remains of the Anglo-Roman Age: The Archaeological Journal, volume 6, London, page 121
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of stean
senses_topics:
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11203 | word:
dancer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dancer (plural dancers)
forms:
form:
dancers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:dancer
etymology_text:
From Middle English dauncer, dawncere, dancere, equivalent to dance + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
I'm a terrible dancer.
type:
example
text:
[A]bout 40 were burglars, "dancers," "garreters," and other adepts with the skeleton keys.
ref:
1889, Charles Tempest Clarkson, J. Hall Richardson, Police!, page 260
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who dances, usually as a hobby, an occupation, or a profession.
A stripper.
Synonym of garreter (“a thief who used housetops to enter by garret windows”)
senses_topics:
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11204 | word:
cor
word_type:
intj
expansion:
cor
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A minced oath or dialectal variant of God.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expression of surprise.
senses_topics:
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11205 | word:
cor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cor (plural cors)
forms:
form:
cors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Various former units of volume
A Hebrew unit of liquid volume, about equal to 230 L or 60 gallons.
Various former units of volume
Synonym of homer: approximately the same volume as a dry measure.
Various former units of volume
A roughly equivalent Phoenician unit of volume.
senses_topics:
units-of-measure
units-of-measure
units-of-measure |
11206 | word:
motorcycle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
motorcycle (plural motorcycles)
forms:
form:
motorcycles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
motorcycle
etymology_text:
From motor + cycle, from the Motorcyclette produced in 1897 by the French Werner Frères et Cie.
senses_examples:
text:
Vern rubbed her hands along the motorcycles, admiring their size and power, their silver and black sleekness.
ref:
2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel, and having two (or sometimes three) wheels.
senses_topics:
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11207 | word:
motorcycle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
motorcycle (third-person singular simple present motorcycles, present participle motorcycling, simple past and past participle motorcycled)
forms:
form:
motorcycles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
motorcycling
tags:
participle
present
form:
motorcycled
tags:
participle
past
form:
motorcycled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
motorcycle
etymology_text:
From motor + cycle, from the Motorcyclette produced in 1897 by the French Werner Frères et Cie.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ride a motorcycle.
senses_topics:
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11208 | word:
hectometer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hectometer (plural hectometers)
forms:
form:
hectometers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
US spelling of hectometre
senses_topics:
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11209 | word:
semicolon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
semicolon (plural semicolons or semicola)
forms:
form:
semicolons
tags:
plural
form:
semicola
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From semi- + colon.
senses_examples:
text:
The use of the semicolon has remained contentious and subject to fashion.
ref:
2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The punctuation mark ;.
senses_topics:
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11210 | word:
Stockholm
word_type:
name
expansion:
Stockholm
forms:
wikipedia:
Stockholm
etymology_text:
From Swedish Stockholm, compound of stock (“log”) + holme (“islet”), due to the logs which were put outside of the Stockholm shores to prevent ships from invading.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the capital and largest city of Sweden; county seat of Stockholm County, Sweden.
The Swedish government.
A county of Sweden.
senses_topics:
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11211 | word:
Stockholm
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Stockholm (third-person singular simple present Stockholms, present participle Stockholming, simple past and past participle Stockholmed)
forms:
form:
Stockholms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Stockholming
tags:
participle
present
form:
Stockholmed
tags:
participle
past
form:
Stockholmed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Stockholm
etymology_text:
From Swedish Stockholm, compound of stock (“log”) + holme (“islet”), due to the logs which were put outside of the Stockholm shores to prevent ships from invading.
senses_examples:
text:
A negotiator must never Stockholm with hostages.
ref:
1996, Jeffery Deaver, A Maiden's Grave
type:
quotation
text:
Police say Stockholming is good, because the offender also identifies with the hostage, and it's much easier to hurt someone you don't know than someone you do.
ref:
2006, Tom Philbin, Cop Speak: The Lingo of Law Enforcement and Crime, page 208
type:
quotation
text:
There's no need for any kind of racist opposition because we are now Stockholmed to the point where we will begin to oppress ourselves if we're not careful ” ( “ The Past is Prologue , ” 25 ) .
ref:
2009, Amy Cynthia Tang, Rethinking Repetition, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
Then the pair were jointly “Stockholmed”, as Bristol Professor Sir Michael Berry, described it.
ref:
2011 October, K Novoselov, “Interview with Konstantin Novoselov: 2010 Nobel Prize winner for Physics”, in Engineering & Technology, volume 6, number 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To suffer from Stockholm syndrome; to form an emotional bond or identification with one's captor or oppressor, also, to form such a bond with one's victim.
senses_topics:
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11212 | word:
decimeter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
decimeter (plural decimeters)
forms:
form:
decimeters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French décimètre. Equivalent to deci- + meter.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
US spelling of decimetre
senses_topics:
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11213 | word:
tank
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tank (plural tanks)
forms:
form:
tanks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), originally from Indian vernacular for a large artificial water reservoir, cistern, pool, etc., for example, Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī) or Marathi टाकी (ṭākī). Compare the Arabic verb اِسْتَنْقَعَ (istanqaʕa, “to become stagnant, to stagnate”).
In the sense of armoured vehicle, first attested in 1915, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water to disguise their nature as well as due to physical resemblance.
senses_examples:
text:
The propane is stored in these tanks.
type:
example
text:
The tank contains unfiltered water. You really shouldn't drink from that.
type:
example
text:
The contractors installed a new tank with gorgeous fish and corals.
type:
example
text:
The ore slurries are directed into an open tank outside the excavation site.
type:
example
text:
The tanks are full and the grass is high.
ref:
1896, Henry Lawson, Out Back
type:
quotation
text:
We have brought the van to a garage after we found a leak in the tank.
type:
example
text:
I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York.
type:
example
text:
The journalist mistook the self-propelled artillery vehicle for a tank.
type:
example
text:
Few remember the female tanks that were produced between the World Wars.
type:
example
text:
Tank beats everything! Oh, man! I could do this all day!
ref:
2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark
type:
quotation
text:
The paladin can make for a decent tank, but I recommend that you get a class with better taunting skills.
type:
example
text:
drunk tank
type:
example
text:
The sheriff threw us in the tank without charges!
type:
example
text:
By the nature of imprisonment, one is perceived by free society as something subhuman. By the nature of being on a protective custody tank, a "gay tank", everyone there is seen as members of the lowest caste in the system.
ref:
1985 April 13, Philip Brasfield, “Echoes Inside of What's Outside”, in Gay Community News, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank / An old man said to me, “Won't see another one”
ref:
1987, Shane MacGowan, Jem Finer (lyrics and music), “Fairytale of New York”, in If I Should Fall from Grace with God, performed by The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl
type:
quotation
text:
Before their conversion to 4-6-0 tender locomotives, the L.B. & S.C.R. Baltic tank engines Nos. 330 to 334 measured 50 ft. 5 in. over buffers; the nearest present approach to this figure is the 49 ft. 10½ in. of the remaining ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire Hughes type 4-cylinder 4-6-4 tanks of the L.M.S.R. The Furness and G. & S.W.R. 4-6-4 tanks of the same company, all now scrapped, were, respectively, 49 ft. 1½ in. and 47 ft. 8 in. long.
ref:
1941 September, “The Why and the Wherefore: The Longest Tank Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, pages 431–432
type:
quotation
text:
Representing the older types now are some Stroudley 0-6-0 tanks, while a Drummond "C14" 0-4-0 tank might still be pottering about on the Town Quays as of yore.
ref:
1952 February, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Wessex”, in Railway Magazine, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
It pleased her more than she could say to know she walked on her own land, over dewed grass, wearing a tank and cotton pajama pants.
ref:
2008, Nora Roberts, Tribute, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 206
type:
quotation
text:
I was wearing a tank and some cotton pants.
ref:
2022, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation, Minneapolis, Minn.: Broadleaf Books, 1517 Media
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A closed container for liquids or gases.
An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
A pond, pool, or small lake (either natural or artificial).
The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
The amount held by a container; a tankful.
An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun designed for direct fire, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
A reservoir or dam.
A structure of tightly overlapping leaves used by some bromeliads to retain water.
A very muscular and physically imposing person; somebody who is built like a tank.
A bouncer or doorman.
a unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).
A prison cell, or prison generally.
A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
Short for tank engine and tank locomotive.
Short for tank top.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
video-games
card-games
poker
rail-transport
railways
transport
business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles |
11214 | word:
tank
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tank (third-person singular simple present tanks, present participle tanking, simple past and past participle tanked)
forms:
form:
tanks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tanking
tags:
participle
present
form:
tanked
tags:
participle
past
form:
tanked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), originally from Indian vernacular for a large artificial water reservoir, cistern, pool, etc., for example, Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī) or Marathi टाकी (ṭākī). Compare the Arabic verb اِسْتَنْقَعَ (istanqaʕa, “to become stagnant, to stagnate”).
In the sense of armoured vehicle, first attested in 1915, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water to disguise their nature as well as due to physical resemblance.
senses_examples:
text:
He told me about all the odd jobs he'd taken after I was born, when Michigan's economy was tanking. For one, he crisscrossed the Midwest buying old carpets from dentists' offices.
ref:
2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
"[...] If the economy has tanked... then we don't want to over-promise and under-deliver."
ref:
2022 October 5, “Network News: Private sector's role in a publicly-owned railway”, in RAIL, number 967, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
Sometimes oils are tanked for months or years at a time (e.g., linseed oil).
ref:
1913, Geoffrey Martin, Industrial and manufacturing chemistry
type:
quotation
text:
Beforehand, Swedish [national ice hockey team] coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson had ruminated about tanking against Slovakia to avoid powerful Canada or the Czechs in the quarters [i.e., quarterfinals of the 2006 Winter Olympic tournament], telling Swedish television, "One is cholera, the other the plague."
ref:
2006 March 6, Michael Farber, “Swede Success”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Sports Illustrated, archived from the original on 2012-11-04
type:
quotation
text:
Unless Bane can tank Helicarrier-busting explosions I'm not sure how he stands a chance.
ref:
2015 March 1, DudeFuckMath, “Bane [DC] vs Iron Fist [Marvel]”, in Reddit (r/whowouldwin), retrieved 2017-06-19
type:
quotation
text:
A weakened Superman tanked an explosion 50 times larger than the Kepler's Supernova and the electromagnetic shock wave hit him.
ref:
2016 June 2, MercinWithAMouth, “Superman Stongest Feat Ever”, in Comic Vine Forums, retrieved 2017-06-19
type:
quotation
text:
Barda could BFR and I doubt She hulk is tanking a blow from her rod, so she takes.
ref:
2016 July 22, Si-Phon Dom, “Big Barda Vs She Hulk”, in Comics Amino, retrieved 2017-06-19
type:
quotation
text:
Concrete below ground must be fully tanked to prevent water uptake.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
To put or keep in a tank.
senses_topics:
video-games
lifestyle
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11215 | word:
tank
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tank (plural tanks)
forms:
form:
tanks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
senses_topics:
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11216 | word:
tank
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tank (third-person singular simple present tanks, present participle tanking, simple past and past participle tanked)
forms:
form:
tanks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tanking
tags:
participle
present
form:
tanked
tags:
participle
past
form:
tanked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To stand; to tolerate.
senses_topics:
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11217 | word:
millimeter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
millimeter (plural millimeters)
forms:
form:
millimeters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French millimètre, as if milli- + meter.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
US spelling of millimetre
senses_topics:
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11218 | word:
centimeter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
centimeter (plural centimeters)
forms:
form:
centimeters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
(Canadian spelling, alternative) Alternative form of centimetre
senses_topics:
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11219 | word:
appel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
appel (plural appels)
forms:
form:
appels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French appel. Doublet of appeal.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten, distract, or mislead one's opponent.
senses_topics:
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war |
11220 | word:
appel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
appel (third-person singular simple present appels, present participle appelling, simple past and past participle appelled)
forms:
form:
appels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
appelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
appelled
tags:
participle
past
form:
appelled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French appel. Doublet of appeal.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of appeal.
senses_topics:
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11221 | word:
appel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
appel (plural appels)
forms:
form:
appels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of apple.
senses_topics:
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11222 | word:
without
word_type:
adv
expansion:
without (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English withoute, withouten, from Old English wiþūtan (literally “against the outside of”). Compare Dutch buiten (“outside of, without”), Danish uden (“without”), Swedish utan (“without”), Norwegian uten (“without”). By surface analysis, with- + out.
senses_examples:
text:
And as each and all of them were warmed without by the sun, so each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, at least some remote and distant hope which, though perhaps starving to nothing, still lived on, as hopes will.
ref:
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Strange silence here: without, the sounding street
Heralds the world's swift passage to the fire
ref:
1900, Ernest Dowson, Benedictio Domini, lines 13–14
type:
quotation
text:
I knew that someone had entered the house cautiously from without.
ref:
1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, Norton, published 2005, page 1100
type:
quotation
text:
The feeling seemed to come not from without, but from within each body, as though every person had become a vibrating string.
ref:
2016, Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu, Death's End, Tor, translation of 死神永生, page 236
type:
quotation
text:
Brainiac: This earthquake is quite literally worldwide.
Alex Danvers: But the seismic activity [isn't] coming from within the planet, it's coming from without.
ref:
2019 December 8, Supergirl (TV series), season 5, episode 8, "Crisis on Infinite Earths"
text:
Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without.
type:
example
text:
“What's within reason?” “Hand-job, blow-job, full sex — straight, full service. Greek, maybe, if you're not too big. Golden shower, if you like, but not reverse. No hardsports. And absolutely nothing without.”
ref:
2012, Maxim Jakubowski, The Best British Crime Omnibus
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Outside, externally.
Lacking something.
Without a condom being worn.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
prostitution
sexuality |
11223 | word:
without
word_type:
prep
expansion:
without
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English withoute, withouten, from Old English wiþūtan (literally “against the outside of”). Compare Dutch buiten (“outside of, without”), Danish uden (“without”), Swedish utan (“without”), Norwegian uten (“without”). By surface analysis, with- + out.
senses_examples:
text:
From thence we came without the Eaſtern gate, (ſtanding on a low Banke, called the daughter of Syon, that over-toppeth the valley of Iehoſaphat,) unto an immoveable ſtone, upon the which they ſaid St. Stephen was ſtoned to death, the firſt Martyr of the Chriſtian faith; and the faithfull fore-runner of many noble followers.
ref:
1640, William Lithgow, “The Sixt Part”, in The Totall Diſcourſe, Of the rare Adventures, and painefull Peregrinations of long nineteene yeares Travailes from Scotland, to the moſt famous Kingdomes in Europe, Aſia, and Affrica […], London: I. Okes, page 249
type:
quotation
text:
Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach.
ref:
c. 1689, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth
type:
quotation
text:
[…] though it was pitch-dark, and we were obliged to be escorted by grooms and groomlings with candles and lanterns; a very necessary precaution, as the winds blew not more violently without the house than within.
ref:
1835, William Beckford, Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal, volume 1, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
It was a mistake to leave my house without a coat.
type:
example
text:
1967, Paul McCartney (writer), The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Life goes on within you and without you.
text:
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema.
ref:
2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
"Read lips: Without gas or without you? Without you. Without light or without you? Without you. Without water or without you? Without you. Without food or without you? Without you.
"Cold, hunger, darkness and thirst are not as terrible and deadly for us as your "friendship and brotherhood."
ref:
2022 September 11, Scott McDonald, quoting President Volodymyr Zelensky, “Cold, Hunger and Darkness in Ukraine 'Not as Terrible' as Russia: Zelensky”, in Newsweek, archived from the original on 2022-09-12
type:
quotation
text:
He likes to eat everything without sharing.
type:
example
text:
He shot without warning anyone.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Outside of, beyond.
Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.
Not doing or not having done something.
senses_topics:
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11224 | word:
without
word_type:
conj
expansion:
without
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English withoute, withouten, from Old English wiþūtan (literally “against the outside of”). Compare Dutch buiten (“outside of, without”), Danish uden (“without”), Swedish utan (“without”), Norwegian uten (“without”). By surface analysis, with- + out.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unless, except (introducing a clause).
senses_topics:
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11225 | word:
thrice
word_type:
adv
expansion:
thrice (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*tréyes
From Middle English thrice, thries (“three times, thrice; a third time; repeated three times”), from earlier thrī, thrīe (“three times, thrice; a third time”) (from Old English þriwa, þreowa) + -es (“suffix forming adverbs of time, place, and manner”) (from Old English -es (“suffix forming adverbs”)). The word is cognate with Old Frisian thria ("thrice"; > Saterland Frisian träie (“thrice”)), Middle Low German drîes (“thrice”), Middle High German drīes, drīs (“thrice”).
senses_examples:
text:
Thrice ore the caddow I mine armes outſpred: / Thrice did I fall, before I once could riſe: / Leaning vpon mine elbow for a reſt, / Nodding, I knockt my chin againſt my breſt. // Then ſigh’d, ſlipt downe, and twixt the ſheete and pillow / I nuzled in, joyn’d knees and chin together: / I dream’d I wore a garland of greene willow. / But ſnuffling low, I prickt me with a fether; / So wakt, the bolſter for my backe I choſe, / And yawning thrice, I rub’d mine eyes and roſe.
ref:
1601, Io[hn] Weeuer [i.e., John Weever], The Mirror of Martyrs, or The Life and Death of that Thrice Valiant Captaine, and Most Godly Martyre Sir Iohn Old-castle Knight Lord Cobham, [London]: Printed by V[alentine] S[immes] for William Wood, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Once, twice, thrice, I met Young Lubin on the Green, / once, twice, thrice, Young Lubin he met me, / the firſt time I beheld the Lad he made a humble bow, / I bluſh'd and hung my ſilly head and felt I don't know how, […]
ref:
[1805?], [James] Hook, Once, Twice, Thrice, Sung with Great Applause by Mrs. Bland at Vauxhall Gardens, London: Printed for J. Dale, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, pages 4–5
type:
quotation
text:
And then he [Bedivere] threw the sword into the water as far as he might, and there came an arm and a hand above the water, and met it and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished. And then the hand vanished away with the sword in the water.
ref:
1918, Thomas Malory, “The Sword Excalibur”, in William Patten, compiler, Heroes and Heroines of Chivalry (The Junior Classics; IV), New York, N.Y.: P[eter] F[enelon] Collier & Son Corporation, →OCLC, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
Seven hours after giving birth […] Kate [Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge] gave the world a first glimpse of their third child, a new Prince of Cambridge. […] Minutes after the brief photocall, the couple headed home with William [the Duke of Cambridge] emerging with his son in a car seat and holding Kate’s hand. “Thrice the worry now,” a smiling William said, holding up three fingers.
ref:
2018 April 24, Richard Palmer, “Royal baby: ‘Thrice the worry now!’: Prince William captures the reality of parenthood”, in The Sunday Express, London, archived from the original on 2018-06-15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Three times.
senses_topics:
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11226 | word:
stud
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stud (plural studs)
forms:
form:
studs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stood, stod, from Old English stōd, from Proto-West Germanic *stōd, from Proto-Germanic *stōdą. Cognate with Middle Low German stōt, German Stute, Dutch stoet and Old Norse stóð.
senses_examples:
text:
In freight working a considerable stud of ex-N.E.R. 3-cylinder 4-6-0s of Class "B16" is used, some of which include the Thompson modifications to the front end.
ref:
1949 November and December, O. S. Nock, “Twenty-Four Hours at York—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 358
type:
quotation
text:
At that time, therefore, L.M.S. motive power for the increased loads of the Birmingham trains was less than adequate, whereas the G.W.R. route had an ample stud of Churchward and Collett 4-6-0s, and timekeeping was good.
ref:
1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
In the studs of persons of quality in Ireland, where care is taken, […]we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigour, and size.
ref:
1673, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland
type:
quotation
text:
Well, I'll tell you the truth now. I ain't a for-real cowboy, but I am one hell of a stud!
ref:
1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Joe Buck (Jon Voight)
type:
quotation
text:
Maverick, you big stud… Take me to bed or lose me forever.
ref:
1986, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun (motion picture), spoken by Charlie (Kelly McGillis)
type:
quotation
text:
Wow, Julia! Sounds like to me like you got your pick of any man in this room to dance with so I want you to take your time and find amongst all these young studs here tonight the coolest, most un-losery guy in the bunch
ref:
1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler)
type:
quotation
text:
Those soap-opera studs and studettes sliding between satin sheets in the afternoon?
ref:
1999 December 16, Mark Wolf, “The V-chip has arrived with little fanfare”, in The Coshocton Tribune
type:
quotation
text:
Down and lonely stud, 23 years old, wants comfort from sweet-hearted fem.
ref:
1983 August 13, Lisa Smith, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
A group of such animals, also of locomotives.
An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
A sexually attractive male.
A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.
senses_topics:
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality |
11227 | word:
stud
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stud (plural studs)
forms:
form:
studs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English studu.
senses_examples:
text:
a collar with studs
type:
example
text:
She's wearing studs in her ears.
type:
example
text:
At an old saloon on a street of mud / There at a table, dealing stud / Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me "Sue"
ref:
1969, Shel Silverstein (lyrics and music), “A Boy Named Sue”, performed by Johnny Cash
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
A style of earring where the decorative element is mounted on a straight post.
A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
A stem; a trunk.
A type of poker in which the player cannot discard, and some of the cards are exposed.
A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
A stud bolt.
An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
senses_topics:
jewelry
lifestyle
business
construction
manufacturing
card-games
poker
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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11228 | word:
stud
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stud (third-person singular simple present studs, present participle studding, simple past and past participle studded)
forms:
form:
studs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
studding
tags:
participle
present
form:
studded
tags:
participle
past
form:
studded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English studu.
senses_examples:
text:
The fruit [of Loranthus vestitus] is yellowish and fleshy, and is almost sessile on the stem, which it thickly studs.
ref:
1910, E. B. Stebbing, “The Loranthus Parasite of the Moru and Ban Oaks”, in Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, page 192
type:
quotation
text:
[S]eemingly countless young hot stars stud the entire huge central region[.]
ref:
2012, Antony Cooke, Dark Nebulae, Dark Lanes, and Dust Belts, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
Stud the cake all over with chocolate chips, pointed ends in.
ref:
2010, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Rose's Heavenly Cakes
type:
quotation
text:
Stud the onion with cloves and add to the pan.
ref:
2016, Mary Price, Vincent Price, Mary and Vincent Price's Come Into the Kitchen Cook Book, page 70
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To set with studs; to furnish with studs.
To decorate as a stud does.
To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.
To set (something) over a surface at intervals.
senses_topics:
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11229 | word:
stud
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stud (plural studs)
forms:
form:
studs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of student.
senses_topics:
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11230 | word:
order
word_type:
noun
expansion:
order (countable and uncountable, plural orders)
forms:
form:
orders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-.
Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo.
senses_examples:
text:
put the children in age order
type:
example
text:
It's arranged in order of frequency
type:
example
text:
In these situations we find the Genesee slate, the Tully limestone and the upper part of the Hamilton group, each one in its order disappearing beneath the lake level as we proceed southward.
ref:
1843, New York (State). Natural History Survey, Geology of New-York: Comprising the survey of the fourth geological ...
type:
quotation
text:
In the latter portion of this period, the country was assailed by famine and pestilence - — a fearful visitation which will be noticed hereafter in its order of date, and of which it would be out of place to say more at present.
ref:
1856, George Nicholls, A History of the Irish Poor Law: In Connexion with the Condition of the People
type:
quotation
text:
1897, T. L. Heath (translator), Eutocius of Ascalon, Extract from a commentary by Eutocius, quoted in 1897 [CUP], T. L. Heath (editor), The Works of Archimedes, 2002, Dover, unnumbered page,
His attempt I shall also give in its order.
text:
This narrative must be discussed later on, in its order.
ref:
1915, Edwin Abbott Abbott, the fourfold gospel the proclamation of the new kingdom, page 298
type:
quotation
text:
The latter comes into play only as we examine each word in its order in the line.
ref:
1996, John Clare, Eric Robinson, David Powell, John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837, page xxxi
type:
quotation
text:
Hasn't it been shown that the Hebrew letter “w” is equivalent to the number 6, due to its order in the alphabet, he asked?
ref:
2013, Leah Sarat, Fire in the Canyon: Religion, Migration, and the Mexican Dream
type:
quotation
text:
Because Professor Soler told me that you had to investigate things step by step, that you had to find a thread to follow and follow it, and find everything out in its order.
ref:
2014, Julia Navarro, Tell Me Who I Am
type:
quotation
text:
The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
type:
example
text:
to preserve order in a community or an assembly
type:
example
text:
Order in the court!
type:
example
text:
give an order
type:
example
text:
his inability to follow orders
type:
example
text:
John Hedley was Locomotive Foreman at Beattock. He was in bed, but they roused him, and he gave orders for one of his pilot engines to go up to the summit, get Mitchell's train, and take it to Carlisle.
ref:
1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
make an order
type:
example
text:
receive an online order for the new range of sunglasses
type:
example
text:
A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer.
ref:
2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly)
type:
quotation
text:
St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.
type:
example
text:
the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
type:
example
text:
The Order of Propitious Clouds is a civilian order that can be awarded to Taiwan citizens or foreign nationals. It is divided into a total of nine "classes" or grades, of which the Special Grand Cordon is the highest.
Pelosi said she was particularly honored to receive the award from Tsai -- "a woman president in one of the freest societies in the world."
ref:
2022 August 3, Matthew Mazzetta, “President Tsai awards state honor to visiting U.S. House speaker”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2022-08-03
type:
quotation
text:
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193
type:
quotation
text:
The magnolia and nutmeg families belong to the order Magnoliales.
type:
example
text:
the higher or lower orders of society
type:
example
text:
talent of a high order
type:
example
text:
Various orders various ensigns bear.
ref:
1726, George Granville, The British Enchanters
type:
quotation
text:
There have been many major and minor orders in the history of Christianity: the order of virgins, of deacons, priests, lectors, acolytes, porters, catechists, widows, etc.
type:
example
text:
to take orders or holy orders means to be ordained a deacon or priest
type:
example
text:
a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter
type:
example
text:
1911 [Cambridge University Press], William Burnside, Theory of Groups of Finite Order, 2nd Edition, Reprint, Dover (Dover Phoenix), 2004, page 222,
In this case, the conjugate set contains n(n − 1)/x(x − 1) distinct sub-groups of order m, and H is therefore self-conjugate in a group K of order x(x − l)m.
text:
For various reasons it turns out to be better to enlarge this set of invariants to include suitable normalizers of subgroups of odd prime order.
ref:
2000, Michael Aschbacher, Finite Group Theory, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 260
type:
quotation
text:
The object of this note is to observe that it is possible to calculate the order of an element A of G#x3D;#x5C;mathit#x7B;GL#x7D;(d,q) on average using O(d³#x5C;mathsf#x7B;log#x7D;#x5C;q) field operations, assuming that qⁱ-1 has been factorised for i#x5C;led.
ref:
1997, Frank Celler, C. R. Leedham-Green, “Calculating the Order of an Invertible Matrix”, in Larry Finkelstein, William M. Kantor, editors, Groups and Computation II, American Mathematical Society, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
1999, A. Ehrenfeucht, T. Harju, G. Rozenberg, The Theory of 2-structures, World Scientific, page 15,
If Δ is a finite group, its cardinality is called the order of Δ. The order of an element a∈Δ is defined as the smallest nonnegative integer n such that aⁿ=1_Δ. The second case of the following result is known as Cauchy's theorem.
Theorem 1.10 Let Δ be a finite group.
(i) The order of an element a∈Δ divides the order |Δ| of the group.
(ii) If a prime number p divides |Δ|, then there exists an element a∈Δ of order p.
text:
2010, A. R. Vasishta, A. K. Vasishta, Modern Algebra, Krishna Prakashan Media, 60th Edition, page 180,
Since in a finite group the order of an element must be a divisor of the order of the group, therefore o (a) cannot be 3 and so we must have o (a)=4=the order of the group G.
text:
The monomial x²ʸ³ᶻ is of order 2#x2B;3#x2B;1#x3D;6.
type:
example
text:
The quadratic polynomial ax²#x2B;bx#x2B;c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2 when a is nonzero.
type:
example
text:
I then walked to Cochrane's & got an order on Sir Charles Asgill for my money.
ref:
1763, James Boswell, edited by Gordon Turnbull, London Journal 1762-1763, Penguin, published 2014, page 233
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
The state of being well arranged.
Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
A command.
A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.
An association of knights.
Any group of people with common interests.
A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.
The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design.
The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object).
The smallest positive natural number n such that (denoting the group operation multiplicatively) gⁿ is the identity element of G, if such an n exists; if no such n exists the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).
The number of vertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph).
A partially ordered set.
The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.
The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression.
The order of the leading monomial; (equivalently) the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression.
A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Christianity
architecture
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
group-theory
mathematics
sciences
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
order-theory
sciences
mathematics
order-theory
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences
business
finance |
11231 | word:
order
word_type:
verb
expansion:
order (third-person singular simple present orders, present participle ordering, simple past and past participle ordered)
forms:
form:
orders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ordering
tags:
participle
present
form:
ordered
tags:
participle
past
form:
ordered
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
order
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-.
Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo.
senses_examples:
text:
We need to order them alphabetically.
type:
example
text:
The books in the shelf need ordering.
type:
example
text:
to order troops to advance
type:
example
text:
He ordered me to leave.
type:
example
text:
I hate being ordered around by my co-workers.
type:
example
text:
You can now order most products to be delivered to your home.
type:
example
text:
to order groceries
type:
example
text:
to order food from a restaurant
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To set in some sort of order.
To arrange, set in proper order.
To issue a command to.
To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
senses_topics:
|
11232 | word:
lunar
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lunar (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Apollo 11
Buzz Aldrin
Neil Armstrong
etymology_text:
From Middle English lunar (“shaped like the crescent moon”), from Latin lūnāris (“of or pertaining to the moon, lunar”) (possibly through Middle French lunaire (modern French lunaire (“lunar”)), from lūna (“the Moon; crescent shape”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine”)) + -is (suffix forming adjectives).
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: Lunar
text:
lunar observations a lunar eclipse
type:
example
text:
By two lunar obſervations the long[itude] was 9° 57′ 30″ E. agreeing within 37′ by the watch, though the day before the long. by moon and watch differed 2° 35′.
ref:
1774 September, “A Voyage towards the North Pole, Undertaken by His Majesty’s Command in 1773. By Constantine John Phipps. 4to. Nourse.”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XLIV, London: Printed […], for D[avid] Henry, and sold by F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, paragraph 25, page 421, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Lunar eclipſes are not quite ſo complicated in theory, nor near ſo tedious and difficult in calculation, as ſolar ones. The latter are only apparent, the former really ſuch; that is, the Moon is really deprived of its light, and therefore muſt appear obſcured to all the inhabitants of the earth equally, by whom ſhe can be ſeen; whereas the Sun, not being deficient in light, will ever appear reſplendent to thoſe who do not happen to live on that part of the earth where the lunar ſhadows pass.
ref:
1782, Blith Hancock, “Section I. Of the Doctrine of Eclipses.”, in The Doctrine of Eclipses, both Solar and Lunar; Containing Short and Easy Precepts for Computing Solar and Lunar Eclipses. […], Norwich, Norfolk: Printed by J. Crouse, for the author, and sold by M. Booth, […], →OCLC, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
You know nothing about fixing the lunar rays into a ſolid ſubſtance, but you muſt not therefore ſay that this is impoſſible. It can be done, and I can do it. Theſe rays, reduced to a ſubtle powder, and blown on the ſurface of the infant brain, ſtimulate it in future life, by their quality of pricking.
ref:
1783, “the Man of the People” [pseudonym; William Thomson], “I Leave the Service of the Apothecary, and Enter into that of the Lunar Sovereign”, in The Man in the Moon; or, Travels into the Lunar Regions, volume I, London: Printed for J[ohn] Murray, […], →OCLC, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
The transformation of primitive lunar deities into solar or heavenly gods are often associated with the transfer of magical and priestly functions to the men and the development of male priesthoods. [...] Or again, in Peru, the official cult of the lunar deity at Cuzco was served by colleges of priestesses, while the service of the Sun-god was performed by male priests.
ref:
1927, Robert Briffault, “The Magical Origin of Queens”, in The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions, volume III, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape.
ref:
1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
Beyond Earth, the Moon is the only body in space that has been systematically sampled. [...] These samples were collected by the six U.S. Apollo and three U.S.S.R. Luna missions from known locations on the lunar surface. [...] Each Apollo landing increased in exploration complexity and returned even greater amounts of lunar samples.
ref:
1991, David Vaniman, John Dietrich, G. Jeffrey Taylor, Grant Heiken, “Exploration, Samples, and Recent Concepts of the Moon”, in Grant Heiken, David Vaniman, Bevan M. French, editors, Lunar Sourcebook: A User’s Guide to the Moon, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, section 2.1 (Lunar Exploration), page 5
type:
quotation
text:
The images therefore which Laban worſhipped were probably lunar amulets, or types of the ark in the form of a creſcent.
ref:
1774 August, “38. [Jacob] Bryant’s Ancient Mythology, [Vol. II, [...].]”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XLIV, London: Printed […], for D[avid] Henry, and sold by F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 367, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Julian wolfed down the rest of his dinner and when he accompanied Michelle back to her apartment his spirits were positively lunar.
ref:
1901, Chris Shepherdson, Another New York Murder
type:
quotation
text:
Although Little Chandler hungers to “express the melancholy of his soul in verse,” to ascend out of the depths of his solitary confinement to the lunar heights of the poet, he can do no more than expand into a garrulous bully or shrink into an infant, always remaining his own inadequate self, like an inflatable ball that changes in size but never in substance.
ref:
1956, Research Studies of the State College of Washington, page 270
type:
quotation
text:
House prices were in freefall, if you owned one. They remained laughably lunar to the rent-bound.
ref:
2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
On the Poison of Serpents. By W. Boag, Esq. [...] Supposing the fatal effect [of a snakebite] to be produced by the sudden subtraction of oxygen from the blood, this gentleman recommends, by way of antidote, the employment of those substances which contain oxygen in its greatest abundance, and part with it with the greatest facility; and, as lunar caustic [silver nitrate] possesses these properties in a singular degree, he concludes that no medicine is better calculated to resist the effects of the poison of serpents.
ref:
1805 April, “Art. V. Asiatic Researches, Vols. VI. and VII. …”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume XLVI, London: Printed by Strahan and Preston, […]; and sold by T[homas] Becket, […], published 1794, →OCLC, page 379
type:
quotation
text:
Several initial experimental firings of the various stages of Saturn V into earth orbit will precede the planned lunar flight. The astronauts will practice rendezvous techniques in the earth's orbit. [...] Before they reach the moon the astronauts will have another difficult maneuver to perform—turning their command module around so that its nose is attached to the top of the lunar excursion module. Two of the crew members will transfer from the command module to the lunar excursion module.
ref:
1963, L. L. Waite, “How We will Get to the Moon: Excerpt from a Speech by L. L. Waite, Senior Vice President, North American Aviation, Inc., before the Electronic Analysts of Boston”, in Skyline, volume 21, number 2, Pittsburgh, Pa.: North American Aviation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon).
Shaped like a crescent moon; lunate.
Extremely high.
(Believed to be) influenced by the Moon, as in character, growth, or properties.
Of or pertaining to silver (which was symbolically associated with the Moon by alchemists).
Of or pertaining to travel through space between the Earth and the Moon, or exploration and scientific investigation of the Moon.
senses_topics:
alchemy
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
pseudoscience
astronomy
natural-sciences |
11233 | word:
lunar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lunar (plural lunars)
forms:
form:
lunars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Apollo 11
Buzz Aldrin
Neil Armstrong
etymology_text:
From Middle English lunar (“shaped like the crescent moon”), from Latin lūnāris (“of or pertaining to the moon, lunar”) (possibly through Middle French lunaire (modern French lunaire (“lunar”)), from lūna (“the Moon; crescent shape”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine”)) + -is (suffix forming adjectives).
senses_examples:
text:
The carpal bones are usually described as being capable of being luxated from the lower end of the radius forwards or backwards, inwards or outwards. The case backwards, which has been stated to be the most frequent, is facilitated by the direction of the convex articular surfaces of the scaphoid, lunar, and cuneiform bones, which slope more backwards than forwards.]
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[1838, Samuel Cooper, “DISLOCATION”, in A Dictionary of Practical Surgery: Comprehending All the Most Interesting Improvements, from the Earliest Times down to the Present Period; […], 7th edition, London: Printed for Longman, Orme, & Co.; […], →OCLC, page 451, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
There are two larger bones of the wrist called the scaphoid and lunar; these form a large ball, and this is received into the lower end of the radius.
ref:
1888, John C[harles] L[ewis] Sparkes, “The Bones”, in A Manual of Artistic Anatomy for the Use of Students in Art. Being a Description of the Bones and Muscles that Influence the External Form of Man, London: Baillière, Tindall, and Cox, […], →OCLC, page 16, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The scaphoid and lunar (wrist bones) are separate, whereas in Carnivores they are united perhaps to give greater strength to the wrist.
ref:
1946, Evelyn Feiring, Rainbow of Being, Pasadena, Calif.: Holly, →OCLC, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
[Y]oung beginners cannot be too often cautioned that a single lunar is of little or no value until the observer knows the usual difference between his lunars taken on opposite sides of the moon; and these should be taken with the same instrument, using the same screens and telescope, for he must remember that they may be expected to differ. My star lunars differ from three to four minutes, or say fifty miles of longitude; my sun lunars from one to two minutes, or say twenty minutes of longitude.
ref:
1859 October, Henry Toynbee, “A Few More Words on Lunars”, in The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, volume XXVIII, number 10, London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co. […]; and J. D. Potter, […], →OCLC, page 511
type:
quotation
text:
With cheap quartz watches (several, for reliability) we can do all the modern celestial navigation we could want. But learning and practicing lunars gives us deeper insight into celestial navigation; an appreciation for their historical importance and difficulty; and perhaps most significant of all, after conquering lunars we can appreciate the great convenience of St. Hilaire sights and modern quartz watches. Moreover, in the rare event of losing UT, with lunars and only a poor watch we can still be confident of finding our longitude at sea (well, OK, to within 30′).
ref:
2007, John Karl, “Lunar Distance Sights”, in Celestial Navigation in the GPS Age, Arcata, Calif.: Paradise Cay Publications; Wichita, Kan.: Celestaire, pages 96–97
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus in the wrist, which is shaped like a half-moon.
An observation of a lunar distance (“the angle between the Moon and another celestial body”), especially for establishing the longitude of a ship at sea.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
nautical
transport |
11234 | word:
ave.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ave. (plural aves.)
forms:
form:
aves.
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of ave: avenue
senses_topics:
|
11235 | word:
mt.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mt. (plural mts. or mt's)
forms:
form:
mts.
tags:
plural
form:
mt's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of mount.
senses_topics:
|
11236 | word:
casa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
casa (plural casas)
forms:
form:
casas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish casa. Doublet of chez.
senses_examples:
text:
Get out of my casa!
type:
example
text:
I saw that Enriquez had made no attempt to modernize the old casa, and that even the garden was left in its lawless native luxuriance.
ref:
1896, Bret Harte, Stories in Light and Shadow
type:
quotation
text:
Chuffy: WHAT? No, no, no, no, no. My casa is your casa, what?
ref:
1991 May 12, “Kidnapped!”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
house
senses_topics:
|
11237 | word:
twice
word_type:
adv
expansion:
twice (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier twise, from Middle English twies, twiȝes, from Old English twīġes (“twice”), from twīwa, twīġa ("twice"; whence Middle English twie (“twice”)) + -es (adverbial genitive ending). Related to Saterland Frisian twäie (“twice”), Middle Low German twiges, twies (“twice”), Middle High German zwies (“twice”). Compare also twi- meaning two or both.
senses_examples:
text:
You should brush your teeth twice a day.
type:
example
text:
I've done with my tirade. The world was gone; / The twice two thousand, for whom earth was made, / Were vanish'd to be what they call alone
ref:
1824, Lord Byron, “Canto the Thirteenth”, in Don Juan
type:
quotation
text:
Santa Claus is coming to town / He’s making a list, / And checking it twice, / He’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice / Santa Claus is coming to town
ref:
1934, J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie (lyrics and music), “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
type:
quotation
text:
Thus it appears that if the machine is turning twice as slow as before, there is more than twice the former quantity in the rising buckets; and more will be raised in a minute by the same expenditure of power.
ref:
1826, John Nicholson, The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of the Manufactories and Mechanical Arts of the United Kingdom, volume 1, H.C. Carey & I. Lea, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
You can't get anything thinner than a spring shad, unless you take a couple of them, when, of course, they will be twice as thin.
ref:
1896, Livingston Stone, Domesticated Trout: How to Breed and Grow Them, 4th edition, page 304
type:
quotation
text:
MARY: As you go from left to right, each example has twice as many twos; from right to left, twice as few.
ref:
1952, Peter Lincoln Spencer, Building mathematical concepts in the elementary school, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
Both men and women with higher qualifications were twice as less likely to be unemployed than their less qualified counterparts.
ref:
1995, Louise Corti, Heather Laurie, Shirley Dex, Highly Qualified Women, Great Britain. Dept. of Employment, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Two times.
Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree.
senses_topics:
|
11238 | word:
stein
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stein (plural steins)
forms:
form:
steins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a regional use of German Stein (“stone”). Probably a clipping of Steingut (“stoneware”) or Steinkrug (“stone pitcher”). Compare Old English stǣna (“stone jug, a pot of stone or earth”). Doublet of stone. More at stean.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A beer mug, usually made of ceramic or glass.
senses_topics:
|
11239 | word:
hwy.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hwy.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of highway.
senses_topics:
|
11240 | word:
nick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nick (plural nicks)
forms:
form:
nicks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Germanic languages
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Late Middle English nik (“notch, tally; nock of an arrow”). Its further etymology is unknown; a connection with nock (“notch in a bow to hold the bowstring; notch at the rear of an arrow that fits the bowstring; cleft in the buttocks”) has not been clearly established.
The verb appears to be derived from the noun, though the available evidence shows that some of the verb senses predate the noun senses. No connection with words in Germanic languages such as Danish nikke (“to nod”), Middle Dutch nicken (“to bend; to bow”) (modern Dutch knikken (“to nod”)), Middle Low German nicken (“to bend over; to sink”), Middle High German nicken (“to bend; to depress”) (modern German nicken (“to nod”)), Middle Low German knicken (“to bend; to snap”) (modern German knicken (“to bend; to break”), Old Frisian hnekka (“to nod”), and Swedish nicka (“to nod”), has been clearly established.
senses_examples:
text:
in the nick of time
type:
example
text:
A nick is a hollow cast crossways in the shanks of types, to make a distinction readily between differnt sorts and sizes; and to enable the compositor to perceive quickly the bottom of the letter as it lies in the case, when composing; as nicks are always cast on that side of the shank on which the bottom of the face of the letter is placed. A great deal of inconvenience frequently arises, owing to the founders casting different founts of types with a similar nick in each.
ref:
1841, William Savage, “NICK”, in A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 543
type:
quotation
text:
The types are of the usual thickness and height. In the centre of each type, in the front, is a deep nick of a dovetail shape, which fits upon a metal edge, so that the type cannot be displaced. But of 111 letters which are required in the fount, each letter has two, three, or four other nicks cut at right angles, the nicks of no one letter being the same as another.
ref:
1862, International Exhibition, 1862. Jurors’ Reports, London: Bell and Daldy, […], →OCLC, class XXVIII, section C (Plate, Letterpress, and Other Modes of Printing), page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Just as a judge may mistakenly believe in the credibility of a clever liar, thereby reaching an 'incorrect decision', an umpire dealing with the blur of a fast bowler and listening for a nick of the bat, or lifting his eyes quickly from the bowler's front foot to follow the flight and pitch of the ball to determine if the batter is out LBW [leg before wicket], can easily be mistaken.
ref:
2005, David Fraser, “The Man in White is Always Right (but He is Not Always Neutral)”, in Cricket and the Law: The Man in White is Always Right, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 107
type:
quotation
text:
Analysis of the effect of temperature on the polymerization reaction with nicked and gapped DNA substrates in Mn²⁺ (8) [...] reveals identical values of activation energy (Eₐ) and Q₁₀, indicating that the frequency of productive interactions of polymerase β with 3′-hydroxyl termini at nicks and gaps is indistinguishable and suggesting that localized destabilization of the 5′-terminated DNA strand at the nick site does not contribute significantly to the rate-determining step(s) of the synthetic reaction.
ref:
1981, David Korn, Paul A. Fisher, Teresa S.-F. Wang, “Mechanisms of Catalysis of Human DNA Polymerases α and β”, in Waldo E. Cohn, editor, Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology, volume 26 (DNA: Multiprotein Interactions), New York, N.Y.: Academic Press, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
The double-stranded insert and linearized vector are denatured, and the resulting single strands of DNA anneal with their overlapping ends and extend using each other as a template to form double-stranded circular plasmids with only two nicks, one on each single strand. [...] Lastly, the nicks are covalently closed upon transformation into E. coli using its natural repair processes.
ref:
2015, Lesley-Ann Giddings, David J. Newman, “Activating the Expression of Natural Product Biosynthetic Gene Clusters”, in Bioactive Compounds from Extremophiles: Genomic Studies, Biosynthetic Gene Clusters, and New Dereplication Methods (SpringerBriefs in Microbiology), Cham, Switzerland, Heidelberg: Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, section 2.2 (Heterologous Expression), page 13
type:
quotation
text:
The nick translation process is simply a replication of DNA in vitro with DNA polymerase I (Klenow fragment) and radioactive nucleotide, which becomes incorporated into the duplicated DNA at a nick (break).
ref:
2015, Byong H. Lee, “Concepts and Tools for Recombinant DNA Technology”, in Fundamentals of Food Biotechnology, 2nd edition, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, John Wiley & Sons, section 2.2.3 (Purpose of Gene Cloning), pages 172–173
type:
quotation
text:
Spin is a major feature of real tennis – because of it, some of the slowest shots can be the hardest to return. [...] Strokes played into the "nick" (the corner of the floor and the wall) and aggressive drives into the dedans, the winning gallery, or the grille are unreturnable.
ref:
2013 September, “Racket Sports”, in Ray Stubbs (editorial consultant), Ed Wilson, editors, The Sports Book: The Sports, the Rules, the Tactics, the Techniques, 4th edition, London: Dorling Kindersley, page 189
type:
quotation
text:
The car I bought was cheap and in good nick.
type:
example
text:
[F]urther south in Kent, there was St. Mildred, whose mother [Domne Eafe], in 670, founded the minster that still stands there in good nick, with nine nuns who are an ever-present help in trouble to all religions and none.
ref:
2014 July 20, Jane Gardam, “Give us a bishop in high heels [print version: ‘Give us a high-heeled bishop’, International New York Times, 22 July 2014, page 11]”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2015-11-07
type:
quotation
text:
[…]considering they've abused their bodies with everything from M and G to crystal meth over the course of the last day or so, some longer, they look in pretty good nick.
ref:
2017, James Wharton, Something for the Weekend, Biteback Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
More unexpectedly, older tech and hardware stocks seem in decent nick, Mr Ives notes.
ref:
2022 May 14, “Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place”, in The Economist, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
He was arrested and taken down to Sun Hill nick [police station] to be charged.
type:
example
text:
He’s just been released from Shadwell nick [prison] after doing ten years for attempted murder.
type:
example
text:
I recall too that the chats in the back of the [police] van weren't too bad as they dispatched me to the nick.
ref:
2014, Russell Brand, “I am an Anarchist-a”, in Revolution, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
Poor Billy, he got seven years and he died in the nick in Liverpool in January 1958. Tragedy, he was such a good man, the best. He had a big funeral back in Clerkenwell. Eva went to it. I was in the nick down south at the time.
ref:
2019 June 6, Frankie Fraser, James Morton, Mad Frank's Diary: The Confessions of Britain’s Most Notorious Villain, Random House
type:
quotation
text:
“They say he's a friend of Stuart's who he met in the nick down south. No one in Brisbane knows him.” “Not that anyone would admit to it anyway.”
ref:
2021 March 23, William Stokes, The Riddle Exposed:: The Whiskey Firebombing's Link to the McCulkin Family Murders, Interactive Publications, page 80
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small cut in a surface.
A particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
A small cut in a surface.
A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
Senses connoting something small.
A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
Senses connoting something small.
One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
Senses connoting something small.
The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
A police station or prison.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
squash
government
law-enforcement |
11241 | word:
nick
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nick (third-person singular simple present nicks, present participle nicking, simple past and past participle nicked)
forms:
form:
nicks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nicking
tags:
participle
present
form:
nicked
tags:
participle
past
form:
nicked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Germanic languages
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Late Middle English nik (“notch, tally; nock of an arrow”). Its further etymology is unknown; a connection with nock (“notch in a bow to hold the bowstring; notch at the rear of an arrow that fits the bowstring; cleft in the buttocks”) has not been clearly established.
The verb appears to be derived from the noun, though the available evidence shows that some of the verb senses predate the noun senses. No connection with words in Germanic languages such as Danish nikke (“to nod”), Middle Dutch nicken (“to bend; to bow”) (modern Dutch knikken (“to nod”)), Middle Low German nicken (“to bend over; to sink”), Middle High German nicken (“to bend; to depress”) (modern German nicken (“to nod”)), Middle Low German knicken (“to bend; to snap”) (modern German knicken (“to bend; to break”), Old Frisian hnekka (“to nod”), and Swedish nicka (“to nod”), has been clearly established.
senses_examples:
text:
But, give him port and potent ſack, / From milkſop he ſtarts up Mohack; / Holds that the happy know no hours; / So through the ſtreets at midnight ſcowers, / Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glaſſes, / And thence proceeds to nicking ſaſhes; […]
ref:
c. 1715–1717, Matthew Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior, Esq. […], Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell and Son, […], published 1793, →OCLC; republished in Robert Anderson, editor, The Works of the British Poets. […], volume VII, London: Printed for John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Co. Edinburgh, 1795, →OCLC, canto III, page 466, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
The barbarous custom of docking and nicking the tail, and cutting the ears of horses, is too prevalent. [...] [I]n the loss of their tail, they find even a still greater inconvenience. During summer they are perpetually teazed with swarms of insects that either attempt to suck their blood or deposit their eggs in the rectum, which they have no means of lashing off; and in winter they are deprived of a necessary defence against the cold. [From the Boston Yankee.]
ref:
1815, Henry Bracken, “Receipts. To Cure the Grease, Surfeits, Loss of Appetite, Cough, Shortness of Breath; to Purify the Blood, and to Fatten Tired and Wasted Horses. [Additional Information.]”, in Taplin Improved; or A Complete Treatise on the Art of Farriery, […], Troy, N.Y.: Printed and sold by Francis Adancourt, […], →OCLC, pages 117–118
type:
quotation
text:
Nicking a horse has been generally believed to be attended with much difficulty, and to require great ingenuity and art to perform the operation. The nicking alone, is by far the easiest part, as the curing and pullying requires considerable attention and trouble. Nicking is an operation performed for the purpose of making a horse carry an elegant artificial tail, which adds much to his beauty and value.
ref:
1830, Richard Mason, “Nicking”, in The Gentleman’s New Pocket Farrier, Comprising a General Description of the Noble and Useful Animal the Horse; […], 5th edition, Richmond, Va.: Printed by Peter Cottom, […], page 48
type:
quotation
text:
I nicked myself while I was shaving.
type:
example
text:
This man pauses in his shaving to squint at the piece of paper again, razor hesitant, eye returning anxious but reluctant to the blurred letters. [...] He nicks himself and the tired blood trickles a moment, stops easily these days almost before the cotton-wool sticks.
ref:
1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Melbourne, Vic.: Thomas Nelson Australia; republished Sydney, N.S.W., Melbourne, Vic.: Allen & Unwin House of Books, 2012, pages 1–2
type:
quotation
text:
Two balls later, I nick one and it carries beautifully to Peter Bowler at first slip, a complete dolly catch, and he drops it.
ref:
2013, Ian Botham, with Dean Wilson, “Steve James – Fine Dining”, in Beefy’s Cricket Tales: My Favourite Stories from On and Off the Field, London: Simon & Schuster, page 145
type:
quotation
text:
The points to nick each main have been mentioned before, and the table on dice will show how many chances there are to throw each of these points with 2 dice, which together form the numerator, and 36 (being all the chances on 2 dice) the denominator of the fraction that expresses the probability. If 5 is the main, 5 will be the only nick, and the chances to throw 5 being 4, ⁴⁄₃₆ is the probability, which is 8 to 1 against nicking 5, and the same against nicking 9.
ref:
[1814], William Rouse, “Problem XXX. What are the Probabilities of Nicking each Main?”, in The Doctrine of Chances, or The Theory of Gaming, Made Easy to Every Person Acquainted with Common Arithmetic, […], London: Printed by Gye & Balne, […], for the author, published by Lackington, Allen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 150
type:
quotation
text:
A practice then prevailed of blasting without nicking the side of the place which still continues and of conducting the current of air too far by means of brattice, to both of which practices I raised a strong objection. They admitted their inability to make the men nick the coal as they formerly did and thought the application of brattice could not be properly defined, but that it should be left to the discretion of the manager of each particular mine as to the distance openings should be made apart between the intake and return air courses.
ref:
1872 February 28, Peter Higson, “[Mines. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines, to Her Majesty’s Secretary of State, for the Year 1871. Chapter 653.] Report of the Working of the Mines Inspection Act (23 & 24 Vict. c. 151.) in the West Lancashire and North Wales District, during the Year ended 31st December 1871.”, in Reports from Commissioners: Twenty-two Volumes. […], volume XVI, London: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswode, […], for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, →OCLC, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
Someone’s nicked my bike!
type:
example
text:
As I'm on the ground, my bat and one of the stumps are grabbed out of my hands. [...] At that point, I look up and see Adrian [Dale] – with two stumps in his hands! Hugh [Morris] has given him one and his brother Gary, who is a policeman, has seen the bloke who nicked it off me and wrestled it off him and given [it] to Adrian. He didn't get my bat back, though.
ref:
2013, Ian Botham, with Dean Wilson, “Steve James – Fine Dining”, in Beefy’s Cricket Tales: My Favourite Stories from On and Off the Field, London: Simon & Schuster, pages 145–146
type:
quotation
text:
The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he’d broken into.
type:
example
text:
Flick knives were pulled on us, and the group demanded we give them all our money, and passports and everything else we had. [...] They [the police] had nicked the knife gang, (who had stayed there, beating the shit out of Nick), and found our passports.
ref:
2012, T. Appleby, “Die in Dunkirk or Somewhere in France”, in Life in the Harsh Lane: The Nine Lives, Mishaps, and Adventures of a No-body, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
[...] I was always getting nicked when I was a junkie, so I've had my fair share of skirmishes with the law.
ref:
2014, Russell Brand, “I am an Anarchist-a”, in Revolution, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, page 81
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
To hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection.
To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.
To make a cut at the side of the face.
To steal.
To arrest.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
games
gaming
business
mining
government
law-enforcement |
11242 | word:
nick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nick (plural nicks)
forms:
form:
nicks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From nick(name).
senses_examples:
text:
a user’s reserved nick on an IRC network
type:
example
text:
/nick Changes your nickname—the name by which other IRCers see and refer to you—to anything you'd like (but remember that nine characters is the maximum nick length).
ref:
1995, Donald Rose, Internet Chat Quick Tour: Real-time Conversations & Communications Online, Chapel Hill, N.C.: Ventana Press, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
Also, ERC, like Emacs, is extremely modular and flexible. It is, of course, a free software program, but there are also many existing modules from nick highlighting to autoaway that you can use.
ref:
2014, Josh Datko, “Chatting Off-the-record”, in BeagleBone for Secret Agents: Bbrowse Anonymously, Communicate Secretly, and Create Custom Security Solutions with Open Source Software, the BeagleBone Black, and Cryptographic Hardware (Community Experience Distilled), Birmingham, West Midlands: Packt Publishing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of nickname.
senses_topics:
|
11243 | word:
nick
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nick (third-person singular simple present nicks, present participle nicking, simple past and past participle nicked)
forms:
form:
nicks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nicking
tags:
participle
present
form:
nicked
tags:
participle
past
form:
nicked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From nick(name).
senses_examples:
text:
For Warbecke as you nicke him, came to me / Commended by the States of Chriſtendome.
ref:
1634, [John Ford], The Chronicle Historie of Perkin Warbeck. A Strange Truth. […], London: Printed by T[homas] P[urfoot, Jr.] for Hugh Beeston, […], →OCLC; republished as A Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck. A Tragedy. A Strange Truth, London: Printed for J. Roberts, […], 1714, →OCLC, act IV, scene i, page 72
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.
senses_topics:
|
11244 | word:
nick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nick (plural nicks)
forms:
form:
nicks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A variant of nix or nixie.
senses_examples:
text:
[A]midst Ahriman and his hosts who had now established themselves in the Occident, and as heirs to the horns and tails of Pans and fauns, a crowd of native spirits moved; imps, giants, trolls, forest-spirits, elves and hobgoblins in and on the earth; nicks, river-sprites in the water, fiends in the air, and salamanders in the fire.
ref:
1879, Viktor Rydberg, “The Magic of the People and the Struggle of the Church against It”, in August Hjalmar Edgren, transl., The Magic of the Middle Ages: Translated from the Swedish, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 201
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nix or nixie (“water spirit”).
senses_topics:
|
11245 | word:
gigameter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gigameter (plural gigameters)
forms:
form:
gigameters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From giga- + meter.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
US spelling of gigametre
senses_topics:
|
11246 | word:
NYC
word_type:
name
expansion:
NYC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of New York City.
Initialism of National Youth Commission (Philippines).
senses_topics:
|
11247 | word:
hecato-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
hecato-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἑκατόν (hekatón, “hundred”). Doublet of hecto- and centi-.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One hundred; one hundred times.
senses_topics:
|
11248 | word:
ln
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ln
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of lane.
senses_topics:
|
11249 | word:
STID
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
STID
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of still true if destroyed.
senses_topics:
|
11250 | word:
genus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
genus (plural genera or (both nonstandard) genuses or genusses)
forms:
form:
genera
tags:
plural
form:
genuses
tags:
nonstandard
plural
form:
genusses
tags:
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
en:Genus (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin genus (“birth, origin, a race, sort, kind”) from the root gen- in Latin gignō (“to beget, produce”). Doublet of gender, genre, and kin.
senses_examples:
text:
All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.
text:
Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle.
text:
There are only two genera and species of seadragons.
text:
Recollection is one of a whole genus of effects which are more or less peculiar to the phenomena that we naturally call "mental."
ref:
1945, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, page 655
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
A taxon at this rank.
A group with common attributes.
A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
algebraic-geometry
geometry
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
topology
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
11251 | word:
Modern French
word_type:
name
expansion:
Modern French
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
French spoken after the fifteenth century.
senses_topics:
|
11252 | word:
SWAK
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
SWAK
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Even after Bernard returned to school, Jessica's letters kept coming. The perfume and the "SWAK" inscription attracted a lot of attention, and a lot of teasing.
ref:
2008, George Graham, Girlie, Lulu.com, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sealed with a kiss.
senses_topics:
|
11253 | word:
CDA
word_type:
name
expansion:
CDA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Canadian Dental Association.
Initialism of Copper Development Association.
Initialism of Capital Development Authority.
senses_topics:
|
11254 | word:
CDA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CDA (countable and uncountable, plural CDAs)
forms:
form:
CDAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of clean, dry air.
Initialism of compact disk audio.
Initialism of criminal defense attorney.
Initialism of Continuous Descent Approach.
Initialism of critical discourse analysis.
senses_topics:
law
|
11255 | word:
gigametre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gigametre (plural gigametres)
forms:
form:
gigametres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From giga- + metre.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A distance of 1,000,000 kilometres.
senses_topics:
|
11256 | word:
zeta
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zeta (plural zetas)
forms:
form:
zetas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta). Doublet of zed.
senses_examples:
text:
Zeta of 3 is irrational
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet (Ζ (Z), ζ (z)) preceded by epsilon (Ε (E), ε (e)) and followed by eta, (Η (I), η (i)); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, in which it is preceded by digamma (Ϝ (W), ϝ (w))
A mathematical function formally known as the Riemann zeta function.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
11257 | word:
megametre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
megametre (plural megametres)
forms:
form:
megametres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mega- + metre.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A distance of 1,000 km. Symbol: Mm
senses_topics:
|
11258 | word:
pt.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pt.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of pt
senses_topics:
|
11259 | word:
pt.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pt.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of part.
senses_topics:
law |
11260 | word:
ft.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ft.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of ft (“foot (unit of length)”)
senses_topics:
|
11261 | word:
ft.
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ft.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Track 1: "A Song Title" by Johnny Vocalist ft. Rick Singer & the Other Performers
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of featuring (used to introduce guest performer(s) on a musical recording)
senses_topics:
|
11262 | word:
ft.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ft.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of fort.
senses_topics:
|
11263 | word:
megameter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
megameter (plural megameters)
forms:
form:
megameters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French mégamètre.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instrument for determining longitude by observation of the stars.
A micrometer.
senses_topics:
|
11264 | word:
megameter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
megameter (plural megameters)
forms:
form:
megameters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mega- (“one million”) + meter.
senses_examples:
text:
Common numbers like distances would never be expressed in megameters or nanomiles — it would bring us too close to the Dilbertian world of pocket protectors and calculator holsters.
ref:
2009, J. Scott Turner, The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
US spelling of megametre
senses_topics:
|
11265 | word:
ni
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ni
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of noun inanimate.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
11266 | word:
métro
word_type:
noun
expansion:
métro (plural métros)
forms:
form:
métros
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
“Where are we going, Jean-Michel?” He answered jokingly, “To the métro. It’s often much better to take the métro than it is to drive, but we need to hurry. After 7:00 p.m. there are fewer métros that come through the Pont Marie station.”
ref:
2005, Gini Anding, Witness on the Quay, iUniverse, Inc., page 45
type:
quotation
text:
On a crisp fall day, traveling by your lonesome during rush hour, the métro is surely your best option. Inflexibly refusing to take the métro because of social cachet or personal inconvenience is just bad policy, when you will have to spend ten times as much at triple the time to get to a specific destination in a taxi.
ref:
2008, Conrad Lucas II, William D. Norgard, “Upon Arrival: The Essentials”, in Europe Beyond Your Means: The Paris Edition, New York, N.Y., Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., page 45
type:
quotation
text:
On Day Five, take the métro to Opéra to visit the stunning Opéra Garnier with its mural by Marc Chagall.
ref:
2009, Cheryl A. Pientka, “Following an Itinerary”, in Paris for Dummies (Frommer’s), 5th edition, Wiley Publishing, Inc., part IV (Exploring Paris), page 275
type:
quotation
text:
And so we can conclude from all this that when Maigret does take the métro, it’s always for a practical purpose, never for the pleasure of the voyage, a pleasure he can find in slumping in the seat of a taxi, or in smoking his pipe on the platform of a bus, while regarding the spectacle of the teeming streets of “his” city[…].
ref:
2017, Murielle Wenger, Stephen Trussel, “Transportation”, in Maigret’s World: A Reader’s Companion to Simenon’s Famous Detective, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, part II (The Policeman at Work), page 153
type:
quotation
text:
Vary your strolling by taking the métro each day to a new neighborhood, even inauspiciously bourgeois ones like the 15th or the 16th arrondissements, and begin your wandering.
ref:
2019, Eric Maisel, “Pure Flâneur”, in A Writer’s Paris: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul, Mineola, N.Y.: Ixia Press, →LCCN, page 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of metro
senses_topics:
|
11267 | word:
ampersand
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ampersand (plural ampersands)
forms:
form:
ampersands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A mondegreen of and per se and, ⟨&⟩ being read as “and”. Letters used by themselves were formerly mentioned according to this pattern, as in “O per se O” for the particle O or “I per se I” for the pronoun I. “And per se and” thus meant ⟨&⟩ by itself, as opposed to forms such as &c. The specific form ampersand is first attested in 1796, originally as a mocking pronunciation spelling.
senses_examples:
text:
The ampersand character in many logics acts as an operator connecting two propositions.
type:
example
text:
Sir Pert. And therefore I left it to the prodigals and coxcombs, that could afford till pay for it, and its ſtead, Sir, mark–I luocked oot for an antient, well, jointered, ſuperanuated Dowager—a conſumptive, toothleſs, ptiſical, wealthy widow—or a ſhreeveled, cadaverous, neglected piece of deformity, i’ the ſhape of an eezard, or an apperſiand—or in ſhort, any thing—any thing that had the ſiller—the ſiller—for that was the North ſtar of my affection; do you take me, Sir, was nai that right?
ref:
1793, Charles Macklin, The Man of the World. A Comedy in Five Acts, as Performed at the Theatres-Royal of Covent-Garden, and Crow-Street, Dublin: W. Wilson, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
At length, having tried all the hiſtorians from great A to amperſand, he perceives there is no eſcaping from the puzzle but by ſelecting his own facts, forming his own concluſions, and putting a little truſt in his own reaſon and judgment.
ref:
1796, Samuel Jackson Pratt, “Letter XXI. To the same.”, in Gleanings through Wales, Holland, and Westphalia; with Views of Peace and War at Home and Abroad, London: T. N. Longman, page 317
type:
quotation
text:
Oh, some fine rich piece of antiquity, in the shape of an ezzard, or an am(-)perse-and, as sir Pertinax says.
ref:
1815, Lady Jane’s Pocket. A Novel, volume III, London: Minerva Press, page 221
type:
quotation
text:
AMPERSAND, s. the character &, representing the conjunction and. V. n. g.—A per se A. This is and per se and; by a little smoothing and elision in pronunciation, becoming Ampersand. “The expression,” says the learned author referred to, “is not yet forgotten in the nursery.” No; nor far beyond the nursery. It is remembered and used in the village-school, in the cottage, the shop, and the farm-house. This formula of spelling and putting together was applied to every syllable consisting of one letter only; as we all may remember who learned our first elements on the principles of the old school. Only, indeed, the dame was wont to express per se in her own English, and teach us to say “A by the self A.” The character & is, however, in fact, originally and properly Latin, and is a combination of the two letters e and t, which constitute the common conjunction copulative in that language. It has been adopted and transferred into other languages, for the same use, with or without the same propriety. It must be allowed to exhibit stronger traces of its two constituent letters than the majority of those Greek abbreviations, tables of which, more or less copious, are inserted in almost all grammars, and which are so very embarrassing in ancient MSS. and early printed editions. A curious and irrefragable proof of the Latinity of this character in the rich library at Holkham, Norfolk. In a Latin MS. of the Four Gospels, supposed to be of the tenth century, it is used as a part of many words, at the end, and even in the body of them. Instances are, posset and sciretis; written thus, poss& and scir&is. There is a multitude of others.
ref:
1830, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East Anglia, London: J. B. Nichols and Son, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
He agreed in the views expressed by Dr. Ely—he liked the course pursued by that venerable Father. For his part, he liked changes in some things. When he was a boy, and studied Dilworth, he was taught to say izzard and amperseand, but he was willing to adopt the improvements of the present day, and pronounce things differently. After all, it was a mere dispute about words, and if there was heresy, they were the greatest heretics that cried out heresy the loudest. He was for peace, and all we wanted was a revival spirit, to put an end to controversy.
ref:
1835, Jacob Chase, Jr., G. W. Montgomery, editors, Herald of Truth. Devoted to the Inculcation and Defence of Universal and Impartial Grace, volume II, Geneva, N. Y.: I. Prescott & Co., page 235
type:
quotation
text:
The “Turn Out” is excellent—a second edition of Miss Edgeworth’s “Barring Out,” and full of fine touches of the truest humor. The scene is laid in Georgia, and in the good old days of fescues, abbiselfas, and anpersants—terms in very common use, but whose derivation we have always been at a loss to understand. Our author thus learnedly explains the riddle. / “The fescue was a sharpened wire, or other instrument, used by the preceptor to point out the letters to the children. Abisselfa is a contraction of the words ‘a, by itself, a.’ It was usual, when either of the vowels constituted a syllable of a word, to pronounce it, and denote by its independent character, by the words just mentioned, thus: ‘a by itself, a, c-o-r-n corn, acorn’—e by itself e, v-i-l vil, evil. The character which stands for the word ‘and’ (&) was probably pronounced with the same accompaniment, but in terms borrowed from the Latin language, thus: ‘& per se (by itself) &.’ ‘Hence anpersant.’”
ref:
1835 December, The Southern Literary Messenger, volume II, Richmond: Thomas Willis White, page 289
type:
quotation
text:
AMPERSAND, s. [Corruption of semper and.] The sign &. E. [East] Sussex / AMPERZED, s. [Corruption of semper and.] Hants.
ref:
1838, William Holloway, A General Dictionary of Provincialisms, Written with a View to Rescue from Oblivion the Fast Fading Relics of By-Gone Days, Lewes: Sussex Press, Baxter and Son, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
He spells out of an English dictionary, and reads out of an English book. He has hardly learned what Ampersand means afore they give him a horse, such as it is, and he puts an English bridle into his mouth, and an English saddle on his back, and whips the nasty, spavin’d, broken-winded brute, with an English whip; and when he stumbles, and throws him off, he swears a bushel of horrid English oaths at him.
ref:
1839, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker; Or the Sayings and Doings of Sam. Slick, of Slickville. To Which Is Added, the Bubbles of Canada, by the Same Author, Paris: Baudry’s European Library, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
Up jumped Jonathan, his eyes wolfish and his lips white with rage. But ‘there was an oath in Heaven,’ and he did not forget it. So he proceeded to swallow his alphabetical pills—an antidote to wrath, not mentioned in the ‘Regimen Salernitanum,’ nor recognized by the British College. ‘A, B, C,—you’ve tored my jacket—D, E, F,—you’ve spilt my ’lasses—G, H, I, J, K—you’re a ’tarnal rascal—L, M, N, O, P, Q,—I’ll larn you better manners, you scamp, you!—R, S, T, U, V,—I’ll spile your picter, you old wall-eye!—W, X, Y, Z, ampersand—now I’ll pound your insides out o’ you, you darned nigger!’ And with that, Jonathan, whose passion had been mounting alphabetically throughout all his father’s prescription of vowels and consonants, caught the young scape-grace, and, throwing him down, was proceeding to work off each of the deacon’s twenty-six anti-irascible pills in the shape of a dozen hearty fisticuffs, which might, perhaps, have brought the poor fellow to the omega of his days had not the timely approach of a passenger interrupted the manipulations. So much for rules to control the passions.
ref:
1843, The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XXII, New-York: John Allen, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
Webster, moreover, advertises us that & is no letter—the goal of every breathless, whip-fearing, abcdarian’s valorous strife, the high-sounding Amperzand, no letter! Mehercule! You apocopate that from the alphabet, and Deacon Haddock will apocopate you from the School; yea, verily. It really signifies and per se, that for your private edification, Mistress Margaret. Moreover Perry makes twenty-six vowel sounds, Hale only sixteen; Webster enumerates nine vowels, Hale five; Hale preponderates in merit by reduction in number.
ref:
1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret. A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi., Boston: Jordan and Wiley, page 195
type:
quotation
text:
ABISSELFA. A, by itself, A. It will be recollected by many, that in the olden time, the first letter of the alphabet was denominated “abisselfa” when it formed a syllable by itself, as in the word able. The scholar, in spelling the word, was taught to say, “a, by itself, a, (rapidly, abisselfa,) b, l, e, able.” We derive this word and the use of it from England, where it is used in Suffolk County.—Moor’s Glossary. […] AMPERSAND. The character &, representing the conjunction and. It is a corruption of “and, per se, and” (and, by itself, and). This expression was formerly very common in this country, but seems now to have gone out of use. It may, however, be retained in the interior, where the modern system of education has not reached. Mr. Halliwell, who notices this word in his Archaic and Prov. Dict’y, says, that it is or was common in England. In Hampshire it is pronounced amperzed, and very often amperze-and. Strutt, in his Sports and Pastimes, mentions an ancient alphabet of the fourteenth century, now in the Harleian Library, at the end of which is “X Y wyth esed and per se—Amen.”
ref:
1848, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms. A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States, volume 1, New York: Bartlett and Welford, pages 1, 10
type:
quotation
text:
1. Ampersand.—This word was formerly much used in nursery books to express the character & placed at the end of the alphabet. Halliwell says “In Hampshire it is pronounced amperzed, and very often amperse’-and.” The word has been called a puzzling word. One writer says that as he heard it it never puzzled him because his venerable instructress taught him to say after z “and-pussy-and.” He considered that & was called pussy from its resemblance to a cat in a sitting posture. This is certainly a quaint conceit. Another writer’s recollection of the way he pronounced the word when a boy was ampuzzyam. Another still says his venerable instructress taught him to pronounce it ampseand. We now give the correct explanation of the word. A quarter of a century ago our maternal grandfather, a native of New Jersey, told us that he was taught to spell able abisselfa, b-l-e, bl, able, but he said he never knew what abisselfa meant. A few years after we found that abisselfa is a corruption of a by itself a, that is a standing by itself in a syllable is pronounced ā and not ă, or ä or a̤. In the same way idle would be spelled ibisselfi, d-l-,e dl, idle and ogle, obisselfo g-l-e gl, ogle. It seems that the Latin phrase per se was also used instead of by itself so that instead of abisselfa, ibisselfi, and obisselfo, the children were taught to say a per se a, i-per-se-i, and o-per-se-o. It is not strange that per se became in the mouths of children pussy or puzzy. The character & was in like manner taught as and per se and, which became by corruption and pussy se and, etc., and finally ampersand.
ref:
1875, W. D. Henkle, editor, Educational Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Teachers, volume I, Salem, Ohio: W. D. Henkle, pages 122–123
type:
quotation
text:
Two generations ago, when Irish schoolmasters were common at the South, this expression, equivalent to the & annexed to the alphabet (meaning “& per se, and,” to distinguish it from &c.) was in frequent use.
ref:
1877, John Russell Bartlett, “Andpersand.”, in Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
When we take the words which do appear, we notice the introduction of many which cannot fairly be described as Americanisms, but merely the momentary coinage which perhaps never goes beyond the occasion of its invention, it may even be a pun or half jest. Among these must be named “adulterer” for one who adulterates, the illustration being in a weak congressional joke; “Algic,” a word used by the late Mr. Schoolcraft for Algonquin and never used so far as we know by any one else, except when quoting the title of one of Mr. Schoolcraft’s books; “cawhalux,” an obviously individual expression; “forlornity,” which any one might have said, but no one would have thought worth repeating; “indicted” for “indited,”—a piece of ignorance in writer or printer upon a solitary occasion; “laurelistic,” “collapsity” and “appetitical,” words which could be made a great many times by feeble-minded writers or speakers trying to be forcible, without taking hold of the community; “oughtness,” which the Rev. Joseph Cook used and which may be a “Cook(-)ism,” but is not an Americanism; “sozodont,” which is a trade-mark with no national characteristic. Some words too are used that surely are strictly English. “Tile,” for a hat, “tramp,” “rink” and “andpersand”; and the confusion of “aught” and “naught,” a subject sufficiently treated in Miss Edgeworth’s “Frank”; “high-jinks” is by no means an Americanism nor indeed it is used here very much; a curious explanation of the phrase, properly spelled “hy-jinks,” will be found in the recent re-issue of Allan Ramsay’s works, vol. i, p. 162.
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1878 May–October, Scribner’s Monthly, An Illustrated Magazine For the People, volume XVI, New-York: Scribner & Co., pages 439–440
type:
quotation
text:
Ap per si-and (ap-pêr’si-ānd) n. A name sometimes given to the character &: ampersand. ‘Piece of deformity in the shape of an izzard or an appersiand.’
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1885, Samuel Fallows, The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language: A Supplementary Word-Book to All the Leading Dictionaries of the United States and Great Britain, Chicago: The Progressive Publishing Company, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
Look at them—scrutinise them, and see if every question of the day is not written there—written in indelible ink for future ages to read. They are “writ large” in the faces of half-a-dozen of the foremost men, and repeated in text in the host of lesser men. Take those three photographs that are “placed in the line,” as it were—Lord Salisbury, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. John Dillon. In that trio you have the whole of the Irish question, from A to Z, and, if you throw in Mr. Parnell, with his smooth, mild, and inscrutable countenance, you have the “amparzand.”
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1888, The Phrenological Magazine, volume 4, page 143
type:
quotation
text:
The ampersand in firm and corporate names serves an admirable purpose, for it at once informs the reader, through the eve, whether two or more parties are partners or not. Almost every week, in my proofreading on a financial paper. I find an instance or two where the ampersand denotes exactly what is meant in giving the names of eeftain[?] railroads, and without it the reader would be left in doubt, unless the editor followed the fashion of some publications and inserted “the” before every corporate name. […] some queer ampersands. / What is the legitimate form of the ampersand? Ringwalt’s American Encyclopædia of Printing says that it was not adopted in its present form until about 1750. It was originally the Latin et surmounted by a ligature, and the type founders give it to us in Roman in this form (&), and in old-style italic in this form (&). There is a wide difference between the two, and there exists a still wider difference in various display types, while the sign painter takes all sorts of liberties with the figure. The word is a contraction of “and per se and,” signifying “and by itself and.” It is occasionally spelled amparzand, and is found in old books in the form ampusand, amperse-and, ampassyand, amperzed, etc. Having for many years received recognition in primers as a tail-end to the alphabet, and being apparently of fixed use in the language, it becomes interesting to discover what forms it has taken on in arriving at its present shape, if indeed it have any present legitimate state.
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1897, American Printer and Lithographer, Moore Publishing Company, pages 52, 260
type:
quotation
text:
So you're brilliant, gorgeous, and / Ampersand after ampersand / You think I just don't understand
ref:
2004, “I Don't Believe You”, performed by The Magnetic Fields
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quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The symbol "&".
senses_topics:
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11268 | word:
ampersand
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ampersand (third-person singular simple present ampersands, present participle ampersanding, simple past and past participle ampersanded)
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form:
ampersands
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ampersanding
tags:
participle
present
form:
ampersanded
tags:
participle
past
form:
ampersanded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A mondegreen of and per se and, ⟨&⟩ being read as “and”. Letters used by themselves were formerly mentioned according to this pattern, as in “O per se O” for the particle O or “I per se I” for the pronoun I. “And per se and” thus meant ⟨&⟩ by itself, as opposed to forms such as &c. The specific form ampersand is first attested in 1796, originally as a mocking pronunciation spelling.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To add an ampersand to.
senses_topics:
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11269 | word:
WB
word_type:
name
expansion:
WB
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Warner Brothers: U.S. motion picture producer, television producer, and recording company.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle |
11270 | word:
WB
word_type:
noun
expansion:
WB (countable and uncountable, plural WBs)
forms:
form:
WBs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of whole blood.
Initialism of world's best.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
11271 | word:
WB
word_type:
adj
expansion:
WB (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of westbound.
senses_topics:
|
11272 | word:
WB
word_type:
adv
expansion:
WB (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of westbound.
senses_topics:
|
11273 | word:
WB
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
WB
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of welcome back.
senses_topics:
|
11274 | word:
uva
word_type:
noun
expansion:
uva (plural uvae or (obsolete) uvæ)
forms:
form:
uvae
tags:
plural
form:
uvæ
tags:
obsolete
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin ūva (“grape”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small pulpy or juicy fruit containing several seeds and having a thin skin, such as a grape.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
11275 | word:
micrometre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
micrometre (plural micrometres)
forms:
form:
micrometres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From micro- + metre.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An SI/MKS unit of measure, the length of one millionth of a metre. Symbol: µm, um, rm
senses_topics:
|
11276 | word:
Feder
word_type:
name
expansion:
Feder (plural Feders)
forms:
form:
Feders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Feder.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname from German, equivalent to English Feather.
senses_topics:
|
11277 | word:
st.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
st. (plural sts.)
forms:
form:
sts.
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
N. E. and N. W. cors. of Hinsdale and Newport sts.
ref:
1916, Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Office of Brooklyn Borough President, Report of the Hon. ..., President of the Borough of Brooklyn for the Year Ending ..., page 210
type:
quotation
roman:
Lawrence ave. from Gravesend ave. to 47th st.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of St., abbreviation of street.
senses_topics:
|
11278 | word:
con
word_type:
verb
expansion:
con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)
forms:
form:
cons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
conning
tags:
participle
present
form:
conned
tags:
participle
past
form:
conned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
con
etymology_text:
From Middle English connen, from Old English cunnan (“to know, know how”), from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence know). Doublet of can.
senses_examples:
text:
I did not come into parliament to con my lesson. I had earned my pension before I set my foot in St. Stephen's chapel.
ref:
1795, Edmund Burke, Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks Made upon him and his Pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, Early in the Present Session of Parliament
type:
quotation
text:
The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge and conned the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye.
ref:
1963, D'Arcy Niland, Dadda jumped over two elephants: short stories
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of; to learn, or learn by heart.
To know; understand; acknowledge.
senses_topics:
|
11279 | word:
con
word_type:
noun
expansion:
con (plural cons)
forms:
form:
cons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
con
etymology_text:
table
Abbreviation of Latin contra (“against”).
senses_examples:
text:
pros and cons
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
senses_topics:
|
11280 | word:
con
word_type:
noun
expansion:
con (plural cons)
forms:
form:
cons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
con
etymology_text:
Clipping of convict.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A convicted criminal, a convict.
senses_topics:
|
11281 | word:
con
word_type:
noun
expansion:
con (plural cons)
forms:
form:
cons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
con
etymology_text:
From con trick, shortened from confidence trick.
senses_examples:
text:
Leavers will be attracted to that story because it spares them the discomfort of admitting that they voted for a con, and then made a prime minister of the con artist.
ref:
2021 February 23, Rafael Behr, “Brexit is a machine to generate perpetual grievance. It's doing its job perfectly”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.
senses_topics:
|
11282 | word:
con
word_type:
verb
expansion:
con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)
forms:
form:
cons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
conning
tags:
participle
present
form:
conned
tags:
participle
past
form:
conned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
con
etymology_text:
From con trick, shortened from confidence trick.
senses_examples:
text:
Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals [title]
ref:
2017 July 17, Martin Lukacs, “Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To trick, lie or defraud, usually for personal gain.
senses_topics:
|
11283 | word:
con
word_type:
verb
expansion:
con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)
forms:
form:
cons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
conning
tags:
participle
present
form:
conned
tags:
participle
past
form:
conned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
con
etymology_text:
From earlier cond; see conn.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of conn (“direct a ship”)
senses_topics:
|
11284 | word:
con
word_type:
noun
expansion:
con (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
con
etymology_text:
From earlier cond; see conn.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of conn (“navigational direction of a ship”)
senses_topics:
|
11285 | word:
con
word_type:
noun
expansion:
con (plural cons)
forms:
form:
cons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
con
etymology_text:
Clipping of convention or conference.
senses_examples:
text:
I can't speak for Faye as ed of FHAPA, but it would be really swell of someone could send us a set of Intersection daily newszines, plus any con flyers or other fannish papers that were there to had for the picking up: fannish things, you know, not including media, gaming, filking or costuming, fine fun but not my cup of blog, thank you.
ref:
1995 September 4, Lindsay Crawford, “Re: Intersection”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <9509042250393785@emerald.com>
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An organized gathering, such as a convention, conference, or congress.
senses_topics:
|
11286 | word:
con
word_type:
noun
expansion:
con (plural cons)
forms:
form:
cons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
con
etymology_text:
Clipping of conversion.
senses_examples:
text:
We're getting a loft con done next year.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The conversion of part of a building.
senses_topics:
|
11287 | word:
con
word_type:
noun
expansion:
con (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
con
etymology_text:
Clipping of consumption.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Consumption; pulmonary tuberculosis.
senses_topics:
|
11288 | word:
con
word_type:
noun
expansion:
con (plural cons)
forms:
form:
cons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
con
etymology_text:
Origin uncertain. Perhaps a clipping of Middle English acquerne, aquerne, ocquerne, okerne (“squirrel”), from Old English ācweorna, āqueorna, āquorna, ācurna (“squirrel”), from Proto-West Germanic *aikwernō, from Proto-Germanic *aikwernô (“squirrel”); or from its Old Norse cognate íkorni (“squirrel”), from the same ultimate source. Cognate with West Frisian iikhoarn (“squirrel”), Dutch eekhoorn (“squirrel”), German Eichhorn (“squirrel”), Icelandic íkorni (“squirrel”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Squirrel, particularly the red squirrel.
A squirrel's nest.
senses_topics:
|
11289 | word:
con
word_type:
noun
expansion:
con (plural cons)
forms:
form:
cons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
con
etymology_text:
Clipping of conservative; compare lib.
senses_examples:
text:
own the cons
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A political conservative.
senses_topics:
|
11290 | word:
con
word_type:
noun
expansion:
con (plural not attested)
forms:
wikipedia:
con
etymology_text:
Clipping of consolidation or consolidated.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of consolidation.: Only used in naming
senses_topics:
business
marketing |
11291 | word:
con
word_type:
adj
expansion:
con (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
con
etymology_text:
Clipping of consolidation or consolidated.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of consolidated.: Only used in naming
senses_topics:
business
marketing |
11292 | word:
petroleum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
petroleum (countable and uncountable, plural petroleums or petrolea)
forms:
form:
petroleums
tags:
plural
form:
petrolea
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin petroleum, from petra (“rock”) + oleum (“oil”).
senses_examples:
text:
petroleum-based products
type:
example
text:
Coal and petroleum do not occur hap-hazard in nature, but the aggregate occurrence of each product in any region forms a definite, limited horizon, which, in its continuance, is independent of the bedding plane.
ref:
1940, William Plotts, Isogeotherm, Or Monist Theory of Stratified Mineral Occurrence and Origin, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flammable liquid ranging in color from clear to very dark brown and black, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons, occurring naturally in deposits under the Earth's surface.
senses_topics:
|
11293 | word:
ADA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ADA (countable and uncountable, plural ADAs)
forms:
form:
ADAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of adenosine deaminase, the enzyme that specifically affects RNA. See ADAR.
Initialism of assistant district attorney.
Acronym of anti-doping agency.
Abbreviation of azodicarbonamide.
Initialism of autodestructive art.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
art
arts |
11294 | word:
ADA
word_type:
name
expansion:
ADA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of American Dental Association.
Initialism of Americans for Democratic Action.
Initialism of Americans with Disabilities Act.
Initialism of American Diabetes Association.
Initialism of Air Defense Artillery.
Initialism of Association of Drainage Authorities.
senses_topics:
government
politics
government
politics
|
11295 | word:
London
word_type:
name
expansion:
London (countable and uncountable, plural Londons)
forms:
form:
Londons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
London
London (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English London, from Old English Lunden, from Proto-Celtic via Latin Londinium – see for details. Doublet of Londinium.
senses_examples:
text:
An eccentric city with a live-and-let-live vibe, London is a place where people can be free to be themselves, find the communities to which they belong and write whatever they want. There are, in a sense, many Londons for writers to explore.
ref:
2022 October 12, Bernardine Evaristo, “Read Your Way Through London”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Sonja made me promise I would go to college. She said she'd wanted her daughter, Murphy, to go. She'd named her baby Murphy because it could never be a stripper name. But her daughter had changed her name to London.
ref:
2012, Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Corsair, published 2013, page 178
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of the United Kingdom; capital city of England. Situated on the tidal River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 13,000,000.
A former administrative county in England, created in 1889 from parts of Kent, Middlesex and Surrey, and merged into Greater London in 1965.
The government of the United Kingdom.
A city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a population of approximately 300,000.
A small agricultural village in the commune of Savigny-sur-Seille, Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, France.
A village in Kiritimati atoll, Kiribati.
An urban neighborhood of the city of Belgrade, Serbia.
Several places in the United States:
A small city in Pope County, Arkansas, with a population of approximately 900.
Several places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Tulare County, California, with a population of approximately 1,800.
Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Moral Township, Shelby County, Indiana.
Several places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Laurel County, Kentucky, with a population of approximately 8,000.
Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
Several places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Madison County, Ohio, with a population of approximately 9,000.
Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Kimble County, Texas, with a population of approximately 180.
Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Dane County and Jefferson County, Wisconsin.
A habitational surname for someone from London.
A unisex given name transferred from the place name.
senses_topics:
|
11296 | word:
TM
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
TM
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
SuperAcme™ is a trademark of Acme Incorporated.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
trademark
senses_topics:
|
11297 | word:
TM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
TM (countable and uncountable, plural TMs)
forms:
form:
TMs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I communicate at MD-level these days. Prolonged sobriety and TM have given me a direct line to Pat.
ref:
1993, Tristan Hawkins, Pepper, London: Flamingo, page 226
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Turing machine.
Initialism of trans man.
Initialism of translation memory.
Initialism of transcendental meditation.
Initialism of telephone manager.
senses_topics:
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications |
11298 | word:
TM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
TM pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Their Majesties.
senses_topics:
|
11299 | word:
moral panic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
moral panic (plural moral panics)
forms:
form:
moral panics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Modern usage appears to originate with Jock Young in 1971 and Stanley Cohen in 1972. Cohen states that "[they] both probably picked it up from Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media".
senses_examples:
text:
The psychotherapist Marty Klein likens the current moral panic around online porn to the epidemics of fear and suspicion that sprung up around satanic cults in the 1980s, and even around comic books in the 1950s.
ref:
2016 July 2, Sophie Gilbert, “Is Moral Panic About Online Porn Misplaced?”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
But maybe the very obscurity of this genuine critical race theory is the point: before it became the object of the American right’s latest moral panic, few people had heard of critical race theory, and even fewer understood what it really was.
ref:
2021 June 17, Moira Donegan, “What the moral panic about ‘critical race theory’ is about”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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Moral panics have existed since well before the Salem witch trials — perhaps the paradigm case. But thanks in part to social media, they are increasing in number and changing in nature.
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2023 June 29, Pamela Paul, “Do Not Panic. It’s Just a Moral Panic.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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None of this is new. Moral panics, accompanied by calls for a return to a simpler age, once greeted the advent of frightening “new technologies” such as telephones and trains.
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2024 May 21, Matthew Reisz, “Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Foster review – the past isn’t a foreign place”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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A semi-spontaneous or media-generated mass movement based on the perception that an individual, group, community, or culture is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society; a public outcry.
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