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11300 | word:
eta
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eta (plural etas)
forms:
form:
etas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἦτα (êta).
senses_examples:
text:
Greek was an exercise in making the familiar strange. Its alphabet mapped onto the Roman alphabet, but only partly so, and often letters did not sound how they looked — a rho (Ρ) was not a P, and an eta (Η) was not an H.
ref:
2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 25
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.
A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
11301 | word:
eta
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eta (plural etas or eta)
forms:
form:
etas
tags:
plural
form:
eta
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Japanese 穢多 (“full of filth”) (literal translation, now considered derogatory in Japan).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people.
senses_topics:
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11302 | word:
eta
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eta (plural etas)
forms:
form:
etas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of ita (“kind of palm tree”)
senses_topics:
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11303 | word:
Madrid
word_type:
name
expansion:
Madrid
forms:
wikipedia:
Madrid
etymology_text:
From Spanish Madrid.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Spain.
An autonomous community of Spain, the Community of Madrid.
A province of the Community of Madrid, Spain. Capital: Madrid.
The Spanish government.
A town and municipality of Western Savanna Province, Cundinamarca department, Colombia.
A town in Tecomán Municipality, Colima, Mexico.
A municipality of Surigao del Sur, Philippines.
Several places in the United States:
A small town in Houston County, Alabama.
Several places in the United States:
A ghost town in Las Animas County, Colorado.
Several places in the United States:
A small city in Douglas Township, Boone County, Iowa.
Several places in the United States:
A former town in Franklin County, Maine, now unorganized territory.
Several places in the United States:
A village in Perkins County, Nebraska.
Several places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Santa Fe County, New Mexico.
Several places in the United States:
A town in St. Lawrence County, New York.
A surname from Spanish.
senses_topics:
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11304 | word:
hm
word_type:
intj
expansion:
hm
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A shorter variant of hmm.
senses_topics:
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11305 | word:
hm
word_type:
det
expansion:
hm
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I am selling this shirt.
Hm?
₱50 only.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of how much.
senses_topics:
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11306 | word:
AAA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
AAA (countable and uncountable, plural AAAs)
forms:
form:
AAAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
AAA
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Additionally, the IT staff must implement an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server. The AAA server (commonly pronounced "tripple A" server) will keep the usernames and passwords, and when the user supplies that information, it is the AAA server that determines if what the user typed was correct or not.
ref:
2016, Wendell Odom, CCNA Routing and Switching ICND2 200-105
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Initialism of aromatic amino acid.
Initialism of anti-aircraft artillery.
Initialism of animal-assisted activity.
Initialism of advanced acoustic array.
Initialism of Access Approval Authority.
Initialism of accumulated adjustments account, in US Federal Income Tax
Initialism of adaptive array antenna.
Initialism of airborne assault area.
Initialism of aircraft alert area.
Initialism of airport airspace analysis.
Initialism of angle angle angle, a geometric proof
Initialism of arrival and assembly area.
Initialism of astronaut-actuated abort.
Initialism of attitude, awareness and accountability, a ski safety program
Initialism of authentication, authorization and accounting.
Initialism of automated airlift analysis.
Initialism of administration, authorization, and authentication, in software security
Initialism of AEGIS acquisition agent.
Initialism of aerospace engineering, applied mechanics, and aviation.
Initialism of air avenue of approach.
Initialism of airborne array aperture.
Initialism of allocations, assessments, and analysis.
Initialism of alternate assembly area.
Initialism of authorization accounting activity; authorized accounting activity.
Initialism of Acquisition Approval Authority.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
government
military
politics
war
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
|
11307 | word:
AAA
word_type:
name
expansion:
AAA
forms:
wikipedia:
AAA
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Black's ideas were first implemented when Congress passed the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933,* which became the heart and soul of New Deal* agricultural policy. The legislation created the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) to implement Black's ideas. […] Under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the AAA would negotiate “marketing agreements” in which individual farmers agreed to reduce production.
ref:
2001, James S. Olson, “Agricultural Adjustment Administration”, in Historical Dictionary of the Great Depression, 1929–1940, Greenwood Press, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Through its major professional organization, the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the discipline hoped to find a solution to its crisis through reorganization. Completed in 1984, nine affiliated societies signed a merger agreement with the AAA.
ref:
2003, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, “Introduction”, in Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, editor, Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology: Dialogue for Ethically Conscious Practice, 2nd edition, AltaMira Press, page xii
type:
quotation
text:
Ahead of one of the busiest travel periods of the year, the American Automobile Association (AAA) said more than 112 million people planned to travel 50 miles (80 km) or more from home between 23 December and 2 January.
ref:
2022 December 23, Jon Henley, Edward Helmore, Maya Yang, “Gigantic US winter storm leaves millions without power and cancels holiday plans”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Agricultural Adjustment Act.
Initialism of Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
Initialism of American Anthropological Association.
Initialism of Abortion Assistance Association.
Initialism of All American Aviation.
Initialism of Allegheny Airlines.
Initialism of Allied Artists Association.
Initialism of Allied Artists of America.
Initialism of American Abstract Artists.
Initialism of American Academy of Allergy; now the AAAAI.
Initialism of American Academy of Actuaries.
Initialism of American Academy of Advertising.
Initialism of American Accordionists' Association.
Initialism of American Accounting Association.
Initialism of American Airship Association.
Initialism of American Ambulance Association.
Initialism of American Antarctic Association.
Initialism of American Arbitration Association.
Initialism of American Association for Anatomy.
Initialism of American Astronomers Association.
Initialism of American Australian Association.
Initialism of American Automobile Association.
Initialism of Access All Areas, Sony music project.
Initialism of Actors and Artistes of America; now the AAAA or 4As.
Initialism of Agricultural Aviation Association.
Initialism of Agricultural Adjustment Association.
Initialism of Amateur Athletic Association of England.
Initialism of Antique Airplane Association.
Initialism of Appraisers Association of America.
Initialism of Archives of American Art.
Initialism of Association of Accounting Administrators.
Initialism of Association of Average Adjusters.
Initialism of Armenian Assembly of America.
Initialism of Argentine Anticommunist Alliance.
Initialism of ANSI Artists of America.
Initialism of Area-Agency on Aging.
Initialism of Army Athletic Association.
Initialism of Army Audit Agency; more commonly the USAAA.
Initialism of Associated Agents of America.
Initialism of Australian Association of Accountants.
Initialism of Australian Automobile Association.
senses_topics:
law
law
art
arts
automotive
transport
vehicles
automotive
transport
vehicles |
11308 | word:
AAA
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
AAA
forms:
wikipedia:
AAA
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The highest level of minor league baseball, often used by extension in other sports to indicate the highest level of minor league play in that sport as well.
A very narrow shoe size.
The highest credit rating given by debt analysis agencies such as Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and A.M. Best.
A high-quality video game expected to sell well, typically with a large development budget.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
finance
video-games |
11309 | word:
AAA
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
AAA
forms:
wikipedia:
AAA
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of awaiting aircraft availability.
senses_topics:
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11310 | word:
sphere
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sphere (plural spheres)
forms:
form:
spheres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sphere
etymology_text:
From Middle English spere, from Old French sphere, from Late Latin sphēra, earlier Latin sphaera (“ball, globe, celestial sphere”), from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”), of unknown origin. Not related to superficially similar Persian سپهر (sepehr, “sky”) .
senses_examples:
text:
So your orientation changes a little bit but it sinks in that the world is a sphere, and you're going around it, sometimes under it, sideways, or over it.
ref:
2011 July 6, Piers Sellers, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Though cold and darkness longer hang somewhere, / Yet Phoebus equally lights all the Sphere.
ref:
1635, John Donne, His parting form her
type:
quotation
text:
Resistless rolls the illimitable sphere, / And one great circle forms the unmeasured year.
ref:
1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 190
type:
quotation
text:
They understood not the motion of the eighth sphear from West to East, and so conceived the longitude of the Stars invariable.
ref:
1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6
type:
quotation
text:
sphere of influence
type:
example
text:
They thought – originally on grounds derived from religion – that each thing or person had its or his proper sphere, to overstep which is ‘unjust’.
ref:
1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.20
type:
quotation
text:
in one's sphere
type:
example
text:
In point of fact, so often as we think a subject as partially included within the sphere of a predicate, eo ipso we think it as partially, that is, particularly, excluded therefrom.
ref:
a. 1856, William Hamilton, “Appendix III: Quantification of Predicate,—Immediate Inference,—Conversion,—Opposition”, in Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, volume 2, published 1860, page 526
type:
quotation
text:
All categorical propositions necessarily imply the existence of their subjects in the appropriate sphere; in affirmative propositions this involves the existence of the predicate in the same sphere; but in negative propositions the predicate does not necessarily exist in that particular sphere, though it does in some sphere.
ref:
1896, James Welton, A Manual of Logic, 2nd edition, volume 1, page 213
type:
quotation
text:
Finally, the disjunctive judgment contains a relation of two or more propositions to each other—a relation not of consequence, but of logical opposition, in so far as the sphere of the one proposition excludes that of the other.
ref:
1900 [1781], Immanuel Kant, translated by J. M. D. Meiklejohn, Critique of Pure Reason, page 58
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surface in three dimensions consisting of all points equidistant from a center. .
An object which appears to be bounded by a sphere; a round object, a ball.
The celestial sphere: the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow globe within which celestial bodies appear to be embedded.
Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth, and which carried the heavenly bodies; there were originally believed to be eight, and later nine and ten; friction between them was thought to cause a harmonious sound (the music of the spheres).
An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.
The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain.
The natural, normal, or proper place (of something).
The set of all points in three-dimensional Euclidean space (or n-dimensional space, in topology) that are a fixed distance from a fixed point .
The domain of reference of a proposition, subject, or predicate, or the totality of the particular subjects to which it applies.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
astronomy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences |
11311 | word:
sphere
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sphere (third-person singular simple present spheres, present participle sphering, simple past and past participle sphered)
forms:
form:
spheres
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sphering
tags:
participle
present
form:
sphered
tags:
participle
past
form:
sphered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
sphere
etymology_text:
From Middle English spere, from Old French sphere, from Late Latin sphēra, earlier Latin sphaera (“ball, globe, celestial sphere”), from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”), of unknown origin. Not related to superficially similar Persian سپهر (sepehr, “sky”) .
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.
To make round or spherical; to perfect.
senses_topics:
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11312 | word:
chaos
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chaos (usually uncountable, plural chaoses)
forms:
form:
chaoses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Chaos (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “vast chasm, void”). Doublet of gas, which was borrowed through Dutch.
In Early Modern English, used in the sense of the original Greek word. In the meaning "primordial matter" from the 16th century. Figurative usage in the sense "confusion, disorder" from the 17th century. The technical sense in mathematics and science dates from the 1960s.
senses_examples:
text:
to descend into chaos
type:
example
text:
After the earthquake, the local hospital was in chaos
type:
example
text:
or out of these chaoses order may be made, out of this ferment a clear wine of life. There are chaoses that have gone too far for retrieval
ref:
1977, Irwin Edman, Adam, the Baby, and the Man from Mars, page 54
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
A vast chasm or abyss.
A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
fantasy
|
11313 | word:
mela
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mela (plural melas)
forms:
form:
melas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Urdu میلہ (mela)/Hindi मेला (melā), from Sanskrit मेलक (melaka).
senses_examples:
text:
Kalua was a man of unusual height and powerful build: in any fair, festival or mela, he could always be spotted towering above the crowd—even the jugglers on stilts were usually not so tall as he.
ref:
2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
Every year there was a mela in the small village where Jutimala lived and Khitish would send three workers to set up a stall there.
ref:
2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Hindu religious festival.
A South Asian fair.
senses_topics:
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11314 | word:
SM
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
SM
forms:
wikipedia:
SM
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
service mark
senses_topics:
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11315 | word:
SM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SM (plural SMs)
forms:
form:
SMs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
SM
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Obtain contact information for the people you will be working with directly: director, production manager, stage manager (SM), soundboard operator (SO), and dance and fight choreographers. […] Early in the process is the time to ask the stage manager their preference for labeling music cues (numerically or alphabetically). The SM will have a system for calling cues: […].
ref:
2022 December 24, Richard Jennings, “Music for Plays, a Step-by-Step Guide”, in American Theatre
type:
quotation
text:
Transmission of HPV between female partners is possible and has been documented. There exists a higher proportion of current or former smokers among sexual minority (SM) women, a known risk factor for cervical cancer.
ref:
2016, Kristen Eckstrand, Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Healthcare: A Clinical Guide to Preventive, Primary, and Specialist Care, Springer, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
SM is not the sharing of power, it is merely a depressing replay of the old and destructive dominant/subordinate mode of human relating and one-sided power.
ref:
1980 April 12, Audre Lorde, “On The Erotic”, in Gay Community News, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of service module.
Initialism of short meter.
Initialism of space marine.
Initialism of stage manager.
Initialism of sexual minority (“non-heterosexual”). (Also used attributively.)
Alternative form of S&M (“sadomasochism”)
Abbreviation of standard missile.
Initialism of standoff missile.
senses_topics:
aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
entertainment
lifestyle
theater
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war |
11316 | word:
SM
word_type:
name
expansion:
SM
forms:
wikipedia:
SM
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Standard Model.
Initialism of Pokémon Sun and Moon.
SM Supermalls (a chain of shopping malls)
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
lifestyle
|
11317 | word:
paragraph
word_type:
noun
expansion:
paragraph (plural paragraphs)
forms:
form:
paragraphs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
paragraph
etymology_text:
From Middle English paragraf, from Middle French paragraphe from Latin paragraphus (“sign for start of a new section of discourse”), from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos), from παρά (pará, “beside”) and γράφω (gráphō, “I write”). Doublet of paragraphos.
senses_examples:
text:
opening paragraph
type:
example
text:
final paragraph
type:
example
text:
paragraph heading
type:
example
text:
Divide the writing into paragraphs.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.
A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.
A brief article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper.
An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
11318 | word:
paragraph
word_type:
verb
expansion:
paragraph (third-person singular simple present paragraphs, present participle paragraphing, simple past and past participle paragraphed)
forms:
form:
paragraphs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
paragraphing
tags:
participle
present
form:
paragraphed
tags:
participle
past
form:
paragraphed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English paragraf, from Middle French paragraphe from Latin paragraphus (“sign for start of a new section of discourse”), from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos), from παρά (pará, “beside”) and γράφω (gráphō, “I write”). Doublet of paragraphos.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sort text into paragraphs.
To publish a brief article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper.
senses_topics:
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11319 | word:
gr
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gr
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of grain, a unit of mass.
Abbreviation of gram; the standard symbol for gram since the International System of Units was introduced in 1960 is g.
senses_topics:
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11320 | word:
hyphen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hyphen (plural hyphens)
forms:
form:
hyphens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hyphen
etymology_text:
From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek ὑφέν (huphén, “together”), contracted from ὑφ’ ἕν (huph’ hén, “under one”), from ὑπό (hupó, “under”) + ἕν (hén, “one”), neuter of εἷς (heîs, “one”).
senses_examples:
text:
As the proud owner of my very own hyphen in a lovingly crafted surname, I have an especial soft spot for this most confusing of punctuation marks.
ref:
2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
Cunliffe and Karunanayake (2013) developed Fine's notion to introduce potential hyphen spaces that are deeply implicated and reciprocally influential in relationships between researchers and the researched.
ref:
2019 June 20, Noof Aldaheri, Gustavo Guzman, and Heather Stewart, “Tales of the Unknown and Entanglement”, in Prof. Anthony Stacey, editor, ECRM 2019 18th European Conference on Research Methods in Business and Management, Academic Conferences and publishing limited, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
The hyphens were added, joining the structures into one building, which now measures just over two hundred feet long.
ref:
1997, Peter Beney, The Majesty of Colonial Williamsburg, page 156
type:
quotation
text:
Construction details for the hyphens, or "connecting wings" as they were called by the contractors, were included in the contractors' specifications, as follows:
ref:
2010, Mary L. Kwas, A Pictorial History of Arkansas's Old State House
type:
quotation
text:
Those were the “hyphens,” the passageways that connected the wings of the mansion to its center.
ref:
2012, James M Cain, The Cocktail Waitress
type:
quotation
text:
Tab has been kept on quite a number of members who rapturously applauded when that part of the message in which the hyphens were attacked was read by the President.
ref:
1916, The American Monthly - Volume 3, page 221
type:
quotation
text:
Sign language interpreters fascinate me because their cultural space, "working the hyphens" as Michelle Fine (1994) would call it, and performing in the kind of hybrid third space that Homi Bhabha (1994) has written about resonates often with my own "hard-of-hearing" doubly hyphenated existence in both deaf and hearing worlds.
ref:
2004, Bonnie G. Smith, Beth Hutchison, Gendering Disability, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
A leading Republican paper also had, on the eve of the convention, focused attention on this issue by remarking that Hughes was “designated by the Hyphens as their agent to punish Mr. Wilson for his partial refusal to comply with Potsdam orders.
ref:
2013, Kevin O’Keefe, A Thousand Deadlines
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.
Something which links two things of greater significance than itself.
Something which links two things of greater significance than itself.
An enclosed walkway or passage that connects two buildings.
Someone who belongs to a marginalized subgroup, and can therefore described by a hyphenated term, such as "German-American", "female-academic", etc.
senses_topics:
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11321 | word:
hyphen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hyphen (third-person singular simple present hyphens, present participle hyphening, simple past and past participle hyphened)
forms:
form:
hyphens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hyphening
tags:
participle
present
form:
hyphened
tags:
participle
past
form:
hyphened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
hyphen
etymology_text:
From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek ὑφέν (huphén, “together”), contracted from ὑφ’ ἕν (huph’ hén, “under one”), from ὑπό (hupó, “under”) + ἕν (hén, “one”), neuter of εἷς (heîs, “one”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To separate or punctuate with a hyphen; to hyphenate.
senses_topics:
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11322 | word:
hyphen
word_type:
conj
expansion:
hyphen
forms:
wikipedia:
hyphen
etymology_text:
From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek ὑφέν (huphén, “together”), contracted from ὑφ’ ἕν (huph’ hén, “under one”), from ὑπό (hupó, “under”) + ἕν (hén, “one”), neuter of εἷς (heîs, “one”).
senses_examples:
text:
You are sitting at the wrong table, if I may be so bold, among the misguided who believe in the mass murder of mentalities, otherwise known as the liberal arts hyphen vocational training hyphen education.
ref:
1945, Robert Gessner, Youth is the time
type:
quotation
text:
Ax was now a Hollywood hyphenated man. An actor hyphen director hyphen writer.
ref:
1950, Cleveland Amory, Home town
type:
quotation
text:
He described himself as a poet-composer and actually said the word hyphen when he did so: "I'm a poet hyphen composer.
ref:
1983, Linda Crawford, Vanishing acts
type:
quotation
text:
He is an actor (hyphen) writer (hyphen) director. In the fifth year of the series Alan Alda added another title to his growing list — that of creative consultant.
ref:
1983, David S. Reiss, M*A*S*H: the exclusive, inside story of TV's most popular show
type:
quotation
text:
One reason he has avoided reading legal thrillers is that “they seem really to have been written by lawyer-hyphen-authors.”
ref:
2007, Stephen M. Murphy, What If Holden Caulfield Went to Law School?, page 65
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to emphasize the coordinating function usually indicated by the punctuation "-".
senses_topics:
|
11323 | word:
beta
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beta (countable and uncountable, plural betas)
forms:
form:
betas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Doublet of beth.
senses_examples:
text:
But let me tell you happy extroverts that only Vera Telfer and H. A. C. Evans got even an alpha minus; only T. E. Hendrie got a beta plus […]
ref:
1957, R. Avery, “This Week’s Competition”, in Time & Tide, volume 38, number 1, page 184
type:
quotation
text:
Mr Taylor would hardly give a beta minus to one of his history students […]
ref:
1964, Randolph Churchill, The Fight for the Tory Leadership: A Contemporary Chronicle, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
The English class was for me delightful. My essays, still written under the influence of Kubla Khan, nearly always got a beta plus.
ref:
1979, Angus MacVicar, Silver in My Sporran: Confessions of a Writing Man, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
An inspection of the results indicate that Property Trusts is the lowest risk industry with a long-run beta of 0.4520 while Gold is the highest risk industry with a long-run beta of 1.5229.
ref:
2001, Cheng-Few Lee, editor, Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, volume 8, Elsevier, page 143
type:
quotation
text:
The company is offering a public beta program to test the software.
type:
example
text:
He quickly deduced our goal—ship a quality beta—but he also quickly discerned that we had no idea about the quality of the product because of our pile of untriaged bugs.
ref:
2007, Michael Lopp, Managing Humans, page 107
type:
quotation
text:
We will assume you got the .tgz version—later 2.x series versions such as 2.5.2 or 2.6.0 should be okay, provided they are production releases (not alphas, betas, or release candidates).
ref:
2007, Mark Summerfield, Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming, Pearson Education
type:
quotation
text:
Before Evolve had even seen its first beta, the game's publisher dipped its toe into presenting it as an eSport.
ref:
2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica
type:
quotation
text:
beta levels; beta characters; beta items in a video game
type:
example
text:
“I guess in your psychological language of alpha males and beta males, I would be firmly in the camp that prefers the more laid-back betas,” she took a deep breath, “like your father.”
ref:
2006, Catherine Mann, Blaze of Glory, Harlequin, published 2006
type:
quotation
text:
“They want sexy, virile alpha males, yes? But that doesn't come with sensitive and loyal and all of that. That's a beta. A frickin' collie, Lola. […]
ref:
2010, L. A. Banks, “Dog Tired (of the Drama!)”, in Kevin J. Anderson, editor, Blood Lite II: Overbite, Gallery Books, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
She'd always had a thing for alpha males. Not that she had any intention of being bossed around, even if one had her best interests at heart. Her fascination with alphas was that they were a challenge. Betas didn't hold much of an appeal.
ref:
2010, Terry Spear, Wolf Fever, Sourcebooks Casablanca, published 2010, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
When they ride the cock carousel in preference to the responsible betas that they find so boring, well, we guess that they pay.
ref:
2015, Stephen Jarosek, Tyrants of Matriarchy
type:
quotation
text:
News of Harper-Mercer's murder spree, which killed ten, prompted speculation on neoreactionary forums that the long-awaited “beta uprising” of virginal shut-ins had begun. Not quite. But in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, a large audience of Americans finally saw the real beta uprising in the violent Nazi rally that shut the city down
ref:
2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die
type:
quotation
text:
Many A/B/O stories posit societies where biological imperatives divide people based on wolf pack hierarchies into sexual dominants (alphas), sexual submissives (omegas), and everyone else (betas).
ref:
2013, Kristina Busse, “Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 317
type:
quotation
text:
In ASD, the beta also functions as a contrast, as Yuri is assumed to be a beta before his first heat reveals his omega status.
ref:
2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 99
text:
Betas are usually second in command to the reigning alpha, and omegas belong to the lowest caste of the social hierarchy.
ref:
2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, “When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom”, in Ashton Spacey, editor, The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction, page 119
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
An academic grade better than a gamma and worse than an alpha.
Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.
Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.
Any kind of content from early development that was not used in the final product.
Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.
A beta particle or beta ray.
Sideslip angle.
The range of engine power settings in which the blade pitch angle of a constant-speed propeller is controlled directly by the angle of the engine's throttle lever (rather than varying with engine torque and airspeed to maintain a constant propeller RPM), allowing the propeller to be disked to generate high drag and slow the aircraft quickly.
Alternative spelling of betta (“fish in the genus Betta”)
Ellipsis of beta male, a man who is less competent or desirable than an alpha male.
In omegaverse fiction, a person of a secondary sex similar to normal humans, lacking the biological drives of alphas and omegas but generally capable of bonding and mating with either.
senses_topics:
education
business
finance
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
government
human-sciences
ideology
manosphere
philosophy
politics
sciences
lifestyle |
11324 | word:
beta
word_type:
adj
expansion:
beta (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Doublet of beth.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Identifying a molecular position in an organic chemical compound.
Designates the second in an order of precedence.
Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.
Associated with the beta male/female archetype.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
11325 | word:
beta
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beta (third-person singular simple present betas, present participle betaing, simple past and past participle betaed)
forms:
form:
betas
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
betaing
tags:
participle
present
form:
betaed
tags:
participle
past
form:
betaed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Doublet of beth.
senses_examples:
text:
1999, sqira a., in alt.tv.x-files.creative http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.x-files.creative/msg/29d32d27e61755f2?dmode=source
My thanks to Heather; who read it and betaed it. Thank you.
text:
2000, Elizabeth Durack, quoted in Angelina I. Karpovich, “The Audience as Editor: The Role of Beta Readers in Online Fan Fiction Communities” (essay), in Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (editors), Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, McFarland (2006), →ISBN, page 180,
Beta’ing is time-consuming, so asking a lot of people to give you a detailed analysis isn’t the most polite thing to do.
text:
2002, Jane Davitt, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative/msg/9301606b391212c0?dmode=source
The next part is written and beta'd (thanks, Jen!), ready to go but <shuffles feet> I haven't even started what should be the final part yet.
text:
2002, Karmen Ghia, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated http://groups.google.com/group/alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated/msg/8405f53e8acbb0c1?dmode=source
I had the honor of betaing this story and as I was doing the first read through I had the odd, but lovely, experience when a story suspends the reader in its own rhythm and flow, its own reality.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To preliminarily release computer software for initial testing prior to final release.
To beta-read a text.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
11326 | word:
dl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dl (plural dls)
forms:
form:
dls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Download; Alternative form of DL.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
11327 | word:
dl
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dl (third-person singular simple present dls, present participle dling, simple past and past participle dled)
forms:
form:
dls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dling
tags:
participle
present
form:
dled
tags:
participle
past
form:
dled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Download; Alternative form of DL.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
11328 | word:
mm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mm
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of month (in two-digit numeric format, as in: dd/mm/yyyy)
senses_topics:
|
11329 | word:
mm
word_type:
intj
expansion:
mm
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of mmm
senses_topics:
|
11330 | word:
nerven
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nerven (third-person singular simple present nervens, present participle nervening, simple past and past participle nervened)
forms:
form:
nervens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nervening
tags:
participle
present
form:
nervened
tags:
participle
past
form:
nervened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From nerve + -en.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] if I give them such serving as I can as to money it is impossible for me to raise it as this alarm has stopt all my channels and if I can't get matters on such a footing as to raise my credit again which is entirely knocked down, I must and am nervened to give up.
ref:
1944, Magazine Antiques, volume 45, page 261
type:
quotation
text:
Grover was a pilot of nervened skill and the Mustang was an airplane of precise machinery. He always missed the running figures in rubber suits by fifty feet, placing his .50 caliber machine gun bullets harmlessly in rubble and dust.
ref:
1964, Explorations in Education, volumes 1-12, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Circling like cats
around a possibility that might,
nervened, we touch together almost quite.
ref:
1987, Jane Sillars, Kasia Boddy, Original prints: new writing from Scottish women, page 39
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To innerve.
senses_topics:
|
11331 | word:
rd
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rd
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of road.
Abbreviation of rad (“unit of measure”).
Abbreviation of round.
senses_topics:
business
engineering
firearms
government
knitting
manufacturing
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
textiles
tools
war
weaponry |
11332 | word:
rook
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rook (countable and uncountable, plural rooks)
forms:
form:
rooks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* Inherited from Middle English rok, roke, from Old English hrōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hrōk, from Proto-Germanic *hrōkaz (compare Old Norse hrókr, Saterland Frisian Rouk, Dutch roek, obsolete German Ruch), from Proto-Indo-European *kerk- (“crow, raven”) (compare Old Irish cerc (“hen”), Old Prussian kerko (“loon, diver”), dialectal Bulgarian кро́кон (krókon, “raven”), Ancient Greek κόραξ (kórax, “crow”), Old Armenian ագռաւ (agṙaw), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬵𐬭𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀𐬝 (kahrkatat̰, “rooster”), Sanskrit कृकर (kṛkara, “rooster”)), Ukrainian крук (kruk, “raven”).
* (parson): Probably from the resemblance in plumage to a parson's garments.
senses_examples:
text:
But what distinguishes the rook from the crow is the bill; the nostrils, chin, and sides of that and the mouth being in old birds white and bared of feathers, by often thrusting the bill into the ground in search of the erucæ of the Dor-beetle*; the rook then, instead of being proscribed, should be treated as the farmer's friend; as it clears his ground from caterpillars, that do incredible damage by eating the roots of the corn.
ref:
1768, Thomas Pennant, British Zoology, page 168
type:
quotation
text:
So I am (like an old rook, who is ruined by gaming) forced to live on the good fortune of the pushing young men, whose fancies are so vigorous that they ensure their success in their adventures with Muses, by their strength and imagination.
ref:
7 April 1705, William Wycherley, Letter to Alexander Pope in The Works of Alexander Pope 36
text:
Adventists still do not really know how to play cards, apart from the sanitized version of bridge, Rook.
ref:
2007, Malcolm Bull, Keith Lockhart, Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream, page 174
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
A bad deal; a rip-off.
A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
A parson.
senses_topics:
|
11333 | word:
rook
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rook (third-person singular simple present rooks, present participle rooking, simple past and past participle rooked)
forms:
form:
rooks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rooking
tags:
participle
present
form:
rooked
tags:
participle
past
form:
rooked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* Inherited from Middle English rok, roke, from Old English hrōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hrōk, from Proto-Germanic *hrōkaz (compare Old Norse hrókr, Saterland Frisian Rouk, Dutch roek, obsolete German Ruch), from Proto-Indo-European *kerk- (“crow, raven”) (compare Old Irish cerc (“hen”), Old Prussian kerko (“loon, diver”), dialectal Bulgarian кро́кон (krókon, “raven”), Ancient Greek κόραξ (kórax, “crow”), Old Armenian ագռաւ (agṙaw), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬵𐬭𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀𐬝 (kahrkatat̰, “rooster”), Sanskrit कृकर (kṛkara, “rooster”)), Ukrainian крук (kruk, “raven”).
* (parson): Probably from the resemblance in plumage to a parson's garments.
senses_examples:
text:
Some had spent a week in Jersey before coming to Guernsey; and, from what Paddy had heard, they really do know how to rook the visitors over there.
ref:
1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 311
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cheat or swindle.
senses_topics:
|
11334 | word:
rook
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rook (plural rooks)
forms:
form:
rooks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English rook, rooke, roke, rok, from Old French roc, ultimately from Persian رخ (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, “rook, castle (chess)”). Compare roc.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
A castle or other fortification.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games
|
11335 | word:
rook
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rook (plural rooks)
forms:
form:
rooks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From rookie.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rookie.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
11336 | word:
rook
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rook (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English roke, rock, rok (“mist; vapour; drizzle; smoke; fumes”), from Old Norse *rauk, related to Icelandic rok, roka (“whirlwind; seafoam; seaspray”), Middle Dutch rooc, rok, Modern Dutch rook (“smoke; fog”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
mist; fog; roke
senses_topics:
|
11337 | word:
rook
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rook (third-person singular simple present rooks, present participle rooking, simple past and past participle rooked)
forms:
form:
rooks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rooking
tags:
participle
present
form:
rooked
tags:
participle
past
form:
rooked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To squat; to ruck.
senses_topics:
|
11338 | word:
rook
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rook (third-person singular simple present rooks, present participle rooking, simple past and past participle rooked)
forms:
form:
rooks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rooking
tags:
participle
present
form:
rooked
tags:
participle
past
form:
rooked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of look. (mimicking Asian speech)
senses_topics:
|
11339 | word:
helium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
helium (countable and uncountable, plural heliums)
forms:
form:
heliums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
helium
etymology_text:
From New Latin helium, from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”) (because its presence was first theorised in the Sun's atmosphere) with the suffix + -ium. Probably coined by Norman Lockyer. This suffix is unusual, because it is usually used only for metallic elements. It is likely that Lockyer, being an astronomer, was unaware of the usual chemical conventions.
senses_examples:
text:
It was an enormous balloon filled with helium, that elemental gas forged from hydrogen in the nuclear furnace of the stars.
ref:
1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The second lightest chemical element (symbol He) with an atomic number of 2 and atomic weight of 4.002602, a colorless, odorless and inert noble gas.
A form or sample of the element.
senses_topics:
|
11340 | word:
prune
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prune (plural prunes)
forms:
form:
prunes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
prune
etymology_text:
From Middle English prune, from Old French prune, from Vulgar Latin *prūna, feminine singular formed from the neutral plural of Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦνον (proûnon), variant of προῦμνον (proûmnon, “plum”), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor. Doublet of plum.
senses_examples:
text:
We are not free when we are in the grip of the false conditioning that decrees that we need sex. We are not free if we believe the culture's ominous warnings that we will become "horny" (what a callous, offensive word) and frustrated and neurotic and finally shrivel up into prunes and have to abandon hope of being good, creative, effective people.
ref:
1970, Dana Densmore, “Without You And Within You”, in No More Fun & Games, volume 4, page 55
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A plum.
The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
Something wrinkly like a prune.
An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.
senses_topics:
|
11341 | word:
prune
word_type:
verb
expansion:
prune (third-person singular simple present prunes, present participle pruning, simple past and past participle pruned)
forms:
form:
prunes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pruning
tags:
participle
present
form:
pruned
tags:
participle
past
form:
pruned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
prune
etymology_text:
From Middle English prune, from Old French prune, from Vulgar Latin *prūna, feminine singular formed from the neutral plural of Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦνον (proûnon), variant of προῦμνον (proûmnon, “plum”), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor. Doublet of plum.
senses_examples:
text:
I hardly left that spot in my pool that month even when my fingers pruned and chlorine dried out my skin.
ref:
2005, Alycia Ripley, Traveling with an Eggplant, page 111
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
senses_topics:
|
11342 | word:
prune
word_type:
verb
expansion:
prune (third-person singular simple present prunes, present participle pruning, simple past and past participle pruned)
forms:
form:
prunes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pruning
tags:
participle
present
form:
pruned
tags:
participle
past
form:
pruned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
prune
etymology_text:
From Middle English prunen, prounen, proinen, from Old French proignier (“to trim the feathers with the beak”), earlier prooignier, ultimately from Latin pro- ("front") + rotundus (“round”) 'to round-off the front'.
senses_examples:
text:
A good grape grower will prune the vines once a year.
type:
example
text:
to prune a budget, or an essay
type:
example
text:
When internal dissension and a decline in popularity set in, Johnny was pruned from the Crests.
ref:
1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 229
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
To remove (something unnecessary) for the sake of cutting down or shortening that which it was previously part of.
To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
To preen; to prepare; to dress.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
|
11343 | word:
Ashkenazi
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Ashkenazi (comparative more Ashkenazi, superlative most Ashkenazi)
forms:
form:
more Ashkenazi
tags:
comparative
form:
most Ashkenazi
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Ashkenaz
Ashkenazi
etymology_text:
From Hebrew אַשְׁכְּנַזִּי ('ashk'nazí), from Biblical Hebrew אַשְׁכְּנַז (ʾaškənaz). Biblical Ashkenaz was the son of Gomer, grandson of Japheth, and great-grandson of Noah. Ashkenaz's descendants were identified with Germans by medieval Jewish tradition. Ashkenaz was the name used for the Rhine river, which was the starting point of central and eastern European settlement by Jews, who are thought to have arrived in the region from Italy, and then spread east as they fled violent oppression and followed more favorable ownership laws.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Jews of Central European, particularly of German and Polish origin, and their traditions, customs, and rituals.
senses_topics:
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11344 | word:
Ashkenazi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Ashkenazi (plural Ashkenazim or Ashkenazis)
forms:
form:
Ashkenazim
tags:
plural
form:
Ashkenazis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Ashkenaz
Ashkenazi
etymology_text:
From Hebrew אַשְׁכְּנַזִּי ('ashk'nazí), from Biblical Hebrew אַשְׁכְּנַז (ʾaškənaz). Biblical Ashkenaz was the son of Gomer, grandson of Japheth, and great-grandson of Noah. Ashkenaz's descendants were identified with Germans by medieval Jewish tradition. Ashkenaz was the name used for the Rhine river, which was the starting point of central and eastern European settlement by Jews, who are thought to have arrived in the region from Italy, and then spread east as they fled violent oppression and followed more favorable ownership laws.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Ashkenazi Jew.
senses_topics:
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11345 | word:
Ashkenazi
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ashkenazi (plural Ashkenazis)
forms:
form:
Ashkenazis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Ashkenaz
Ashkenazi
etymology_text:
From Hebrew אַשְׁכְּנַזִּי ('ashk'nazí), from Biblical Hebrew אַשְׁכְּנַז (ʾaškənaz). Biblical Ashkenaz was the son of Gomer, grandson of Japheth, and great-grandson of Noah. Ashkenaz's descendants were identified with Germans by medieval Jewish tradition. Ashkenaz was the name used for the Rhine river, which was the starting point of central and eastern European settlement by Jews, who are thought to have arrived in the region from Italy, and then spread east as they fled violent oppression and followed more favorable ownership laws.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname from Hebrew.
senses_topics:
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11346 | word:
decametre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
decametre (plural decametres)
forms:
form:
decametres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French décamètre. Equivalent to deca- + metre.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An SI unit of length equal to 10¹ metres. Symbol: dam
A line in a poem having ten metrical feet.
A poetic metre in which each line has ten feet.
senses_topics:
metrology
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences |
11347 | word:
tort
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tort (plural torts)
forms:
form:
torts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tort (“(uncountable) wrong; (countable) an injury, a wrong”), from Old French tort (“misdeed, wrong”) (modern French tort (“an error, wrong; a fault”)), from Medieval Latin tortum (“injustice, wrong”), a noun use of a neuter singular participle form of Latin tortus (“crooked; twisted”), the perfect passive participle of torqueō (“to bend or twist awry, distort”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”).
cognates
* Galician torto (“(adjective) bent; crooked; twisted; (noun, archaic) harm, offence; injustice, wrong, tort”)
* Italian torto (“(adjective) bent; crooked; twisted; (noun, archaic) injustice, wrong”)
* Norwegian Bokmål tort (dated, now only in fixed expressions)
* Norwegian Nynorsk tort (dated, now only in fixed expressions)
* Occitan tort
* Old French tort (modern French tort)
* Portuguese torto (“(adjective) bent; crooked; twisted; (noun, archaic) harm, offence; injustice, wrong”)
* Spanish tuerto (“injury, offence”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages.
An injury or wrong.
senses_topics:
law
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11348 | word:
tort
word_type:
adj
expansion:
tort
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tort, torte (“contorted, crooked; twisted”), from Old French tort, torte (“crooked; twisted”), or from its etymon Latin tortus (“crooked; twisted”): see further at etymology 1.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Twisted.
senses_topics:
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11349 | word:
tort
word_type:
adj
expansion:
tort (comparative more tort, superlative most tort)
forms:
form:
more tort
tags:
comparative
form:
most tort
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A variant of tart.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of tart (“sharp- or sour-tasting; (figuratively) keen, severe, sharp”)
senses_topics:
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11350 | word:
tort
word_type:
adj
expansion:
tort (comparative torter, superlative tortest)
forms:
form:
torter
tags:
comparative
form:
tortest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A variant of taut.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of taut (“stretched tight; under tension”)
Of a boat: watertight.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
11351 | word:
tort
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tort (plural torts)
forms:
form:
torts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of tortoise.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of tortoise.
senses_topics:
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11352 | word:
tort
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tort (plural torts)
forms:
form:
torts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of tortoiseshell.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of tortoiseshell (“a domestic cat, guinea pig, rabbit, or other animal whose fur has black, brown, and yellow markings”); a tortie.
senses_topics:
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11353 | word:
grue
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grue (third-person singular simple present grues, present participle gruing, simple past and past participle grued)
forms:
form:
grues
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gruing
tags:
participle
present
form:
grued
tags:
participle
past
form:
grued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Nicoline van der Sijs
etymology_text:
From Middle English gruen, probably from Middle Low German gruwen or Middle Dutch gruwen (compare Dutch gruwen), both from Proto-Germanic *grūwijaną, perhaps ultimately an imitative derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”), or instead from *gʰer- (“to rub, stroke, grind”).
senses_examples:
text:
“It is seenteen hundred linen,” said the pedlar, giving a tweak to one of the shirts, in that knowing manner with which matrons and judges ascertain the texture of the loom ; “it’s seenteen hundred linen, and as strong as an it were dowlas. Nevertheless, mother, your bidding is to be done ; and I would have done Mr. Mordaunt’s bidding too,” he added, relaxing from his note of defiance, into the deferential whining tone with which he cajoled his customers, “if he hadna made use of profane oaths which made my very flesh grue, and caused me, in some sort, to forget myself.”
ref:
1822, Sir Walter Scott, The Pirate, volume I, Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea, pages 111–112
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be frightened; to shudder with fear.
senses_topics:
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11354 | word:
grue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grue (plural grues)
forms:
form:
grues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Nicoline van der Sijs
etymology_text:
From Middle English gruen, probably from Middle Low German gruwen or Middle Dutch gruwen (compare Dutch gruwen), both from Proto-Germanic *grūwijaną, perhaps ultimately an imitative derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”), or instead from *gʰer- (“to rub, stroke, grind”).
senses_examples:
text:
Upon all others the sight of Alison, were it but for a moment, cast a cold grue, not to be remembered without terror.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
text:
A Grue of Ice
ref:
1964, Geoffrey Jenkins, (title)
text:
A cold grue went through me—I was unable to touch such a hand.
ref:
1992, Alasdair Gray, Poor Things, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 25
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A shiver, a shudder.
senses_topics:
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11355 | word:
grue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grue (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from gruesome.
senses_examples:
text:
The butcher was covered in the accumulated grue of a hard day's work
text:
There was grue everywhere after the accident
text:
'I've told you - it wasn't much. He tried to kiss me.' She smiled slightly. 'Just after he had shown me the family skeletons.' / 'What a lovely bit of grue!'
ref:
1958, Samuel Youd, writing as John Christopher, The Caves of Night
type:
quotation
text:
Carrie is Cinderella in the body language of menstrual blood and raging hormones. King’s adolescent joy in grimaces and groans, the Mad magazine humor, and the staple of “grue” hardly need mentioning.
ref:
1996, Linda Badley, Writing Horror and the Body http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=iaHQorgoqd4C&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&sig=0unz5oiZA5IURViNe75MsU7vHG4
text:
2002, Carole Nelson Douglas, Chapel Noir http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=ZZu4sl0P1EAC&pg=PA336&lpg=PA336&sig=dPR0ntE54xw-h3m6fByM0fgJiuc
“… She is quite agreeable to gruesome ghost stories, but appalled by the lust for life.” / “I admit that I am surprised by how well she handles sheer grue, better than I.”
text:
2004, Talbot Mundy, Guns of the Gods http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=PUCcyz2L1iwC&pg=PA244&lpg=PA244&sig=REDDP_txW9FrUWEogxny6lZ4wUo
“This is the grue,” said Dick, holding his lantern high. / Its light fell on a circle of skeletons, all perfect, each with its head toward a brass bowl in the center.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any byproduct of a gruesome event, such as gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts.
senses_topics:
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11356 | word:
grue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grue (plural grues)
forms:
form:
grues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jack Vance
etymology_text:
Probably from gruesome; first used in Jack Vance's Dying Earth universe in the 1940s, but popularized by the text-based computer game Zork in 1980.
senses_examples:
text:
I managed to get into the house through the front once, but I was plunged into darkness and eaten by a monster called a grue.
ref:
1981, Byte, volume 6
type:
quotation
text:
To find a grue, turn off the light at night, or go for a walk in a dark place (but carry a flashlight with you).
ref:
2009, Jas, “Hazadous Australian animals the GRUE.... your guide”, in rec.travel.australia+nz (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Incidentally, the best official text description I know of is in Sorcerer, when you actually become a grue and visit a grue colony. IIRC, even that description is vague, but does cannonize that they are large four-legged reptiles.
ref:
2004, M.D. Dollahite, “How would you imagine a grue?”, in rec.games.int-fiction (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fictional man-eating predator that dwells in the dark.
senses_topics:
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11357 | word:
grue
word_type:
adj
expansion:
grue (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Blue–green distinction in language
etymology_text:
Blend of green + blue. The philosophy sense was coined by American philosopher Nelson Goodman in 1955 to illustrate concepts in the philosophy of science. The linguistic sense was coined by American linguist Paul Kay in 1975 as a translation from languages such as Welsh that have a basic cover term that covers both the hues called "green" and "blue" in English.
senses_examples:
text:
The grue property is defined as: x is grue if and only if x is green and is observed before the year 2000, or x is blue and is not observed before the year 2000.
ref:
1965, Nelson Goodman, Fact, Fiction and Forecast
type:
quotation
text:
The unexamined emeralds cannot be both green and grue, since if they are grue and unexamined they are blue.
ref:
2007, Michael Clark, Paradoxes from A to Z
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.
A single color inclusive of both green and blue as different shades, used in translations from languages such as old Welsh and Chinese that lacked a distinction between green and blue.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
11358 | word:
grue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grue (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nutraloaf, a bland mixture of foods served in prisons.
senses_topics:
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11359 | word:
lambda
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lambda (plural lambdas)
forms:
form:
lambdas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek λάμβδα (lámbda). Doublet of lamed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The eleventh letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabet, the twelfth of the Old Greek alphabet.
Unit representation of wavelength.
The cosmological constant.
Short for lambda baryon.
Short for lambda expression.
Short for lambda function.
The junction of the lambdoid and sagittal sutures of the cranium.
The percentage change in an option value divided by the percentage change in the underlying asset's price.
senses_topics:
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
business
finance |
11360 | word:
archduchess
word_type:
noun
expansion:
archduchess (plural archduchesses)
forms:
form:
archduchesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French archiduchesse, feminine of archiduc, corresponding to archduke + -ess or arch- + duchess.
senses_examples:
text:
If that weren’t enough, in 1993 she married Karl von Habsburg, otherwise known as Archduke Karl of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, and the couple set up home in Salzburg, producing two archduchesses and an archduke.
ref:
2007 February 25, William Shaw, “We Are Not a Muse”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A daughter or granddaughter of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, or the wife of a son or grandson of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary
senses_topics:
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11361 | word:
echolocation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
echolocation (countable and uncountable, plural echolocations)
forms:
form:
echolocations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined by American zoologist Donald Griffin in 1944, from echo + location.
senses_examples:
text:
Since there is no convenient term available to describe this process of locating obstacles by means of echoes, I suggest the word echolocation[…]. The meaning of this word, and a corresponding verb to echolocate, are likely to be clear when first heard or read, since they are formed simply by joining echo and locate. It seems best to accent the first syllable in order to make clear that the word echo is employed.
ref:
1944 December 29, Donald Redfield Griffin, “Echolocation by Blind Men, Bats and Radar”, in Science, volume 100, number 2609, →DOI, page 598, columns 1–2
type:
quotation
text:
Now similarly with the aquatic mammals, we know that they can make sounds. We are beginning to get information—although no curves yet—on their sensitivity of hearing. These need to be followed up and we should look for this process of echo-ranging or echolocation.
ref:
1953 February 7, Donald Redfield Griffin, “Summary and Discussion of Section III”, in Proceedings of a Conference on Orientation in Animals, Washington, D.C.: Office of Naval Research, page 272
type:
quotation
text:
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
ref:
2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The use of echoes to detect objects as observed in bats and other natural creatures. Also known as biosonar.
senses_topics:
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11362 | word:
Ankara
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ankara
forms:
wikipedia:
Ankara
etymology_text:
From Turkish Ankara and Ottoman Turkish آنقره (Ankara), from Byzantine Greek and Ancient Greek Ἄγκυρα (Ánkura), from ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor, hook”) in reference to the bend in the Çölova River before it merges with the Cubuk to become the Ankara but probably also calquing a local name ultimately derived from Hittite [script needed] (Ankuwaš), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“elbow, bend, curve”). The river and province are named for the city. Doublet of Angora, angle, and anchor.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Turkey.
The Turkish government.
A province in Turkey around the city.
A river in Turkey near the city, a tributary of the Sakarya.
senses_topics:
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11363 | word:
Ankara
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Ankara (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Ankara
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A West African fabric.
senses_topics:
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11364 | word:
CC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CC (countable and uncountable, plural CCs)
forms:
form:
CCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:CC
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: cc
text:
Alternative form: cc
text:
Change to larger needles and knit 1 rnd in CC, inc 3 (4, 5) sts evenly[…]
ref:
2011, Barb Brown, Knitting Knee-Highs: Sock Styles from Classic to Contemporary, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
Alternative form: cc
text:
Community Colleges […] Four-year schools are losing ground to CCs.
ref:
2010, Peggy Whitley, Susan Williams Goodwin, Catherine Olson, 99 Jumpstarts to Research: Topic Guides for Finding Information on Current Issues, ABC-CLIO
type:
quotation
text:
[…] is transforming on a global scale, and U.S. community colleges (CCs) are an important part of that transformation.
ref:
2021 January 11, Meryl Siegal, Elizabeth Gilliland, Empowering the Community College First-Year Composition Teacher: Pedagogies and Policies, University of Michigan Press, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
At the helm of Company Eleven was Chief Quartermaster Pritchard. Officially he was known as the Company Commander (CC) and had been assigned to Camp Moffett for the purpose of being our CC. […] Successful CC's often had their detractors in the form ofjealous and less successful CC's.
ref:
2013, David Banagis, Twenty-Three Days at Sea: A Sailor's Story, Bloomington, IN: Abbott Press, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
This is my attempt at brightening a photo, CC welcome.
type:
example
text:
Constructive criticism (CC) consists of four steps that can be practiced: 1 Facts: what happened when? (Example: you did not look at me when we just discussed something); 2 Experience: what irritates me about it?
ref:
2017 September 19, Herman de Mönnink, The Social Workers' Toolbox: Sustainable Multimethod Social Work, Routledge
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of carbon copy.
Initialism of cricket club.
Initialism of cycling club.
Initialism of Circuit Court.
Initialism of community college.
Initialism of credit card.
Initialism of courtesy copy.
Initialism of cryptocurrency.
Initialism of cosmological constant.
Initialism of contrasting colour.
Initialism of cubic centimetre.
Initialism of closed caption.
Initialism of cirrocumulus.
Initialism of control change.
Initialism of chief complaint.
Initialism of cervical cancer.
companion of the Order of Canada
Initialism of City College.
Initialism of community college. (especially when abbreviating college's names)
Abbreviation of cruiser, a type of warship.
Initialism of company commander.
Initialism of crowd control.
Initialism of constructive criticism.
Initialism of cross country.
the US Navy hull classification symbol for a battlecruiser; the only such ships authorized by Congress were of the Lexington-class, which were cancelled under the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty with two being converted to aircraft carriers.
senses_topics:
astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
broadcasting
media
television
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
weather
MIDI
entertainment
lifestyle
music
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
video-games
|
11365 | word:
CC
word_type:
verb
expansion:
CC (third-person singular simple present CCs, present participle CCing, simple past and past participle CCed)
forms:
form:
CCs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
CCing
tags:
participle
present
form:
CCed
tags:
participle
past
form:
CCed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:CC
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: cc
text:
Please email the file to me and CC it to my manager.
type:
example
text:
Please email me a summary and CC my manager too.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of carbon copy.
senses_topics:
|
11366 | word:
CC
word_type:
adj
expansion:
CC (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
en:CC
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
EFT was found to be more effective in reducing interpersonal problems than either Client-Centered (CC) or Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), in promoting more change in symptoms than the CC treatment, and […]
ref:
2017 September 19, Herman de Mönnink, The Social Workers' Toolbox: Sustainable Multimethod Social Work, Routledge
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of cement-coated.
Initialism of client-centered.
senses_topics:
engineering
fasteners
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
11367 | word:
CC
word_type:
name
expansion:
CC
forms:
wikipedia:
en:CC
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Creative Commons.
senses_topics:
law |
11368 | word:
XXX
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
XXX
forms:
wikipedia:
Motion Picture Association of America
X rating
etymology_text:
1969 (see quotations). Reduplication of X (“an age rating denoting content suitable for adults”), in reference to the X rating introduced by the Motion Picture Association of America on 1 November 1968 for films containing extreme violence, heavily implied (originally softcore) sex and obscene language. Film posters began to include multiple exes (but skipping two) in order to imply even more extreme, hardcore content, particularly in relation to pornography (although many actually contained the same content as X-rated films). Compare XXXX. The original X rating was superseded by NC-17 in 1990; see also R18.
senses_examples:
text:
[bottom right] XXX
SO ADULT ONE 'X' ISN'T ENOUGH!
ref:
1969, Starlet! (film poster), Entertainment Ventures
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Denotes extreme or hardcore pornography.
senses_topics:
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11369 | word:
XXX
word_type:
adj
expansion:
XXX (comparative more XXX, superlative most XXX)
forms:
form:
more XXX
tags:
comparative
form:
most XXX
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Motion Picture Association of America
X rating
etymology_text:
1969 (see quotations). Reduplication of X (“an age rating denoting content suitable for adults”), in reference to the X rating introduced by the Motion Picture Association of America on 1 November 1968 for films containing extreme violence, heavily implied (originally softcore) sex and obscene language. Film posters began to include multiple exes (but skipping two) in order to imply even more extreme, hardcore content, particularly in relation to pornography (although many actually contained the same content as X-rated films). Compare XXXX. The original X rating was superseded by NC-17 in 1990; see also R18.
senses_examples:
text:
Pornography—or "porno," to use the hip term—is intended primarily to sexually arouse the viewer, or reader, or maybe listener. Porno films enjoy graphic realism. These are the XXX films.
ref:
1973, William Rotsler, Contemporary Erotic Cinema, Penthouse/Ballantine, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
The pornography industry, like all industries, is in the business of making money. Pornography makes a lot of money-from Playboy magazine to XXX videos. This industry would obviously produce, and capitalize upon, pornography for women as well, if a demand existed.
ref:
1995, Paul R. Abramson, Steven D. Pinkerton, With Pleasure: Thoughts on the Nature of Human Sexuality, Oxford University Press, pages 72–73
type:
quotation
text:
Other global taboos, such as sex and suicide, manifest themselves widely online, with websites offering suicide guides and Hot XXX Action seconds away at the click of a button. The UK government will come under pressure to block access to pornographic websites this year when a committee of MPs publishes its report on protecting children online.
ref:
2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Extreme or hardcore pornography; or, less strictly, any pornographic content.
senses_topics:
|
11370 | word:
XXX
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
XXX
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown. Possibly from X, a graphic derivative of the skull and crossbones (“indicator of death”). For other possible explanations, see Beer measurement § Saltire marks on WikipediaWikipedia.
senses_examples:
text:
"God bless you, madam!" he said, fervently, "and all like you that keep a bright face through the darkest day. But come, madam, step in a moment, and taste a glass of the XXX ale, and a slice of l'eg's cake; it's yet early."
ref:
1847, William Howitt, Mary Howitt, “The Flint and Hart Matronship”, in Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress, volume 1, published by William Lovett, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Squash almost without stint! What is squash? Why, squash is squash! Squash in "Poplar" language stood for beer. Not XXX. beer, or Burton beer, but beer for all that. Table beer—school beer—beer of which a great deal might be taken without producing intoxication.
ref:
1882, Frederick Sherlock, More Than Conquerors, Home Words Publishing Office, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
It is wonderful how quickly a beer drinker, if he was to get XXX. beer for XXXX. beer, would be able to tell you the difference. Some publicans go in for more profit than others, some will buy the XXX. beer, and perhaps his next neighbour will buy the XXXX. beer; but the man who sells the XXXX. beer gets the business.
ref:
1898 June 9, George Harston, Report and Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Departmental Comm. on Beer Materials, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, page 231
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Extra strong alcohol, particularly ale or (later) any beer.
Extra strong alcohol, particularly ale or (later) any beer.
Alcohol.
senses_topics:
|
11371 | word:
XXX
word_type:
adj
expansion:
XXX (comparative more XXX, superlative most XXX)
forms:
form:
more XXX
tags:
comparative
form:
most XXX
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown. Possibly from X, a graphic derivative of the skull and crossbones (“indicator of death”). For other possible explanations, see Beer measurement § Saltire marks on WikipediaWikipedia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Extra strong; very high quality.
senses_topics:
|
11372 | word:
XXX
word_type:
verb
expansion:
XXX (third-person singular simple present XXXes, present participle XXXing, simple past and past participle XXXed)
forms:
form:
XXXes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
XXXing
tags:
participle
present
form:
XXXed
tags:
participle
past
form:
XXXed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown, but compare ex (“to delete; to cross out”, verb).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To delete; to cross out, especially to conceal or suggest vulgar language.
senses_topics:
|
11373 | word:
XXX
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
XXX
forms:
wikipedia:
Straight edge
etymology_text:
Perhaps from sXe.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Straight edge (lifestyle and subculture).
senses_topics:
|
11374 | word:
XXX
word_type:
noun
expansion:
XXX (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Triple X syndrome
etymology_text:
From having three X chromosomes (and no Y), or as a clipping of XXX syndrome.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Triple X syndrome.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
11375 | word:
XXX
word_type:
noun
expansion:
XXX (plural XXXs)
forms:
form:
XXXs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of xxx (“an abbreviation for kisses”).
senses_topics:
|
11376 | word:
XXX
word_type:
noun
expansion:
XXX (plural XXXs)
forms:
form:
XXXs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Adopted by the International Radiotelegraph Convention in 1927.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The conventional Morse code call made when in an urgent situation but not in immediate distress.
senses_topics:
|
11377 | word:
archduke
word_type:
noun
expansion:
archduke (plural archdukes)
forms:
form:
archdukes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
archduke
etymology_text:
From Middle French archeduc (modern French archiduc), from Latin archidux. Equivalent to arch- + duke.
senses_examples:
text:
World War I traditionally started with the assassination of Archduke Francis (Franz) Ferdinand.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The son or male-line grandson of an emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The ruler of an archduchy, in particular the Archduchy of Austria.
senses_topics:
|
11378 | word:
mayoress
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mayoress (plural mayoresses, masculine mayor)
forms:
form:
mayoresses
tags:
plural
form:
mayor
tags:
masculine
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English meyresse, mayresse, mairasse; equivalent to mayor + -ess.
senses_examples:
text:
The blonde mayoress was apparently a member of the MPLA and there were indications that spies in the town were sending radio messages to the enemy. Life was monotonous and the troops took to fishing to supplement their rations.
ref:
1993, Ian S. Uys, Bushman soldiers, their alpha and omega, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
With the Spanish port of Cadiz doubling for the Cuban capital Havana, its striking blonde Mayoress Teofila Martinez was offered a small role as a nurse, but she politely declined.
ref:
2002, Andy Lane, Paul Simpson, The Bond Files: An Unofficial Guide, page 276
type:
quotation
text:
To a Lady Majoress.
WHen I behold your head and limbs all shaking
Much like a Custard newly come from baking,
Your Velvet hood on tipto rais’d upright
As if your Hinch boy challenge would to fight.
Your pretty mouth, like Oyster gaping wide,
As if it did expect ere long the tyde;
Your Chin like Aple, both so red and shrivel’d,
ref:
1658, Iohn Eliot, Poems, or, Epigrams, Satyrs, Elegies, Songs and Sonnets, upon Several Persons and Occasions, London: […] Henry Brome, page 48
type:
quotation
roman:
So scalded by a hot rhume hourly drivel’d.
text:
Prophets wives were anciently called Prophetesses; like as Bishops wives (saith à Lapide the Jesuit) were also called Bishoppesses, Presbyters wives Presbyteresses, Deacons wives Deaconesses: Jesuits have still their Jesuitesses, as Majors their Majoresses, &c.
ref:
1660, John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon These Following Books of Holy Scripture Proverbs of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel & Daniel: Being a Third Volume of Annotations upon the Whole Bible, London: […] Robert White, for Nevil Simmons, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
No Roman-Empress ever did out-shine,
A Lady Majoress when she would be fine.
ref:
1681, The Glory of the English Nation, or An Essay on the Birth-Day of King Charles the Second, London: […] W. Bucknel
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female mayor.
The wife of a (male) mayor.
A daughter or female friend of a male mayor chosen by him to hold the title mayoress.
senses_topics:
|
11379 | word:
xi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
xi (plural xis)
forms:
form:
xis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ξεῖ (xeî), ξῖ (xî).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The 14th letter of Classical and Modern Greek. The 15th in Ancient and Old Greek.
Either of a pair of hyperons having spin 1/2, which decay into a lambda particle and a pion.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
11380 | word:
Muganda
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Muganda
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the Luganda language.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person of the Baganda people
senses_topics:
|
11381 | word:
milligram
word_type:
noun
expansion:
milligram (plural milligrams)
forms:
form:
milligrams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French milligramme.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻³ grams. Symbol: mg
senses_topics:
metrology |
11382 | word:
blvd.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blvd.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of boulevard.
senses_topics:
|
11383 | word:
Moscow
word_type:
name
expansion:
Moscow
forms:
wikipedia:
Moskva River
Oleg Trubachyov
etymology_text:
Ultimately from Old East Slavic Москов- (Moskov-), originally referring to the Moskva River, probably from Proto-Slavic *mosky (“swamp, dampness, moisture”). Perhaps related to Czech moskva (“raw bread”), Slovak mozga (“puddle”), Polish Mozgawa, and more distantly Latvian mazgāt (“to wash, rinse”), Sanskrit मज्जति (májjati, “to sink”), Latin mergō (“to dive”), all from Proto-Indo-European *mesg- (“to plunge, dip”). Cognate with Russian промозглый (promozglyj, “dank”).
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: Moskva
text:
The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.
ref:
1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
I was inclined to accept Yeltsin's invitation to go to Russia, but Tony Lake said Moscow shouldn't be my first foreign stop, and the rest of my team said it would divert attention from our domestic agenda.
ref:
2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →OCLC, →OL, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
Alternative form: Moskva
text:
Moscow doubtless wants to make trouble for the Western Powers so far as she can without losing their recognition or encouraging actual hostility. She wants peace and trade and an opportunity for internal economic reconstruction above everything just now. It seems doubtful whether she expects to Bolshevize China, though she wants China fully independent of Western imperialism and friendly to her.
ref:
1927 May, Quincy Wright, “Bolshevist Influences in China”, in Current History, volume XXVI, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 302, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
I could not agree with the tactics or approach of those who, like Chiang Kai-shek in a speech on July 3, 1950, wanted the U.N. to charge the Russians with the full responsibility for this Korean conflict and to demand that Moscow put an end to it. This kind of bluster is certain to lead into an impossible dilemma. If these suggestions had been followed and the Soviets had ignored the order, as in all likelihood they would have done, either the United Nations would have stood convicted of weakness or World War III would have been on.
ref:
1956, Harry S. Truman, Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope, volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, pages 345–346
type:
quotation
text:
The translation of Khrushchev's letter reached me later that day, and I read it with care and with growing disappointment. It seemed designed for propaganda purposes rather than serious diplomacy. Khrushchev roundly denounced "colonizers" and "imperialism" as the major causes of past wars. Of course, he did not mention the Soviet Union's attack on Finland, the obliteration of the Baltic states, or the "colonization" of Eastern Europe by Moscow after World War II.
ref:
1971, Lyndon Johnson, “Thawing the Cold War”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 464–465
type:
quotation
text:
Moscow said "Nyet!"
ref:
1987, Shelomoh Naḳdimon, First strike: the exclusive story of how Israel foiled Iraq's attempt to get the bomb, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
Yet, a few US newscasters will go on the air at 6 pm or later and say, "Moscow said tonight.["] ... A careful writer would make his script read, "Moscow said today. ..."
ref:
1997, Mervin Block, Writing Broadcast News: Shorter, Sharper, Stronger, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
In addition, Moscow argued that Georgia had violated international law by introducing its forces into South Ossetia, a move Moscow said Tbilisi had committed itself not to do under the earlier CIS-sponsored peacekeeping arrangements.
ref:
2009, Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Star, The Guns of August 2008: Russia's War in Georgia, page 184
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A federal city, the capital and largest city of Russia.
Moscow Oblast, an oblast of Russia, surrounding the city, which itself is not part of the oblast.
The government of Russia or the Soviet Union.
A large number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Latah County, Idaho; probably named after the Russian city.
A large number of places in the United States:
A borough of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
A large number of places in the United States:
A small town in Iowa County, Wisconsin; named after the Mascouten tribe.
A large number of places in the United States:
A small city in Fayette County, Tennessee; named after Mosgo, a Cherokee chief.
A large number of places in the United States:
A small town in Somerset County, Maine.
A large number of places in the United States:
A tiny city in Stevens County, Kansas; said to be named after Luis de Moscoso Alvarado, a Spanish explorer.
A large number of places in the United States:
A village in Clermont County, Ohio; said to be named by French veterans of Napoleon's siege of Moscow.
A large number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Allegany County, Maryland.
A large number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Alabama.
A large number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama.
A large number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Arkansas.
A large number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Rush County, Indiana.
A large number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Muscatine County, Iowa.
A large number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hickman County, Kentucky.
A large number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hillsdale County, Michigan
A large number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
A large number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Kemper County, Mississippi.
A large number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Polk County, Texas.
A large number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Stowe, Lamoille County, Vermont.
A large number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hancock County, West Virginia.
A large number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Licking County, Ohio.
A hamlet in East Ayrshire council area, Scotland; probably named or re-named in 1812 for Napoleon's retreat from Moscow (OS grid ref NS4840).
A village in Kottayam district, Kerala, India; named due to Soviet influence in Kerala during the Cold War.
A nickname for the Brandon Estate, a social housing estate in Southwark, Central London.
senses_topics:
government
politics
|
11384 | word:
frwy.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
frwy. (plural frwys.)
forms:
form:
frwys.
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of freeway.
senses_topics:
|
11385 | word:
TVNZ
word_type:
name
expansion:
TVNZ
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Television New Zealand: the national state-owned broadcaster of New Zealand.
senses_topics:
|
11386 | word:
PS2
word_type:
name
expansion:
PS2
forms:
wikipedia:
PS2 (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of PlayStation 2.
Misspelling of PS/2.
Abbreviation of PostScript Level 2.
senses_topics:
video-games
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
software
typography |
11387 | word:
event horizon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
event horizon (plural event horizons)
forms:
form:
event horizons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
event horizon
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The gravitational sphere of a black hole within which the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light.
A point of no return.
senses_topics:
astrophysics
|
11388 | word:
MSN
word_type:
name
expansion:
MSN
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: BBC
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Microsoft Network.
Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger), an instant messaging client from Microsoft.
Initialism of Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and Neymar, the forward of FC Barcelona between 2014 and 2017.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports |
11389 | word:
T. rex
word_type:
noun
expansion:
T. rex (plural T. rexes)
forms:
form:
T. rexes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Juvenile T. rexes were light and agile before they leveled up into the adults we’re more familiar with. (The physical discrepancies between younger and older T. rexes can be so vast that experts have argued over whether certain specimens are different species altogether, rather than different ages.)
ref:
2021 February 25, Cara Giaimo, “The Outsized Influence of Teen T. Rex and Other Young Dinosaurs”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Tyrannosaurus rex.
senses_topics:
|
11390 | word:
metre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
metre (plural metres)
forms:
form:
metres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
metre
etymology_text:
From French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”). Doublet of meter, metron, and mether.
senses_examples:
text:
The measures of length above the metre are ten times ... greater than the metre.
ref:
1797, The Monthly magazine and British register, number 3
type:
quotation
text:
A dress length of 8 metres of the best quality costs 58 francs.
ref:
1873 April, The Young Englishwoman
type:
quotation
text:
The 12-metre yachts ... can be sailed efficiently with four paid hands.
ref:
1928 April 15, The Observer
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to 39+⁴⁷⁄₁₂₇ (approximately 39.37) imperial inches.
senses_topics:
|
11391 | word:
metre
word_type:
verb
expansion:
metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)
forms:
form:
metres
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
metring
tags:
participle
present
form:
metred
tags:
participle
past
form:
metred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
metre
etymology_text:
From French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”). Doublet of meter, metron, and mether.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of meter
senses_topics:
|
11392 | word:
metre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
metre (countable and uncountable, plural metres)
forms:
form:
metres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
metre
etymology_text:
From Old English, from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The rhythm or measure in language (especially verse) and musical composition.
senses_topics:
|
11393 | word:
metre
word_type:
verb
expansion:
metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)
forms:
form:
metres
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
metring
tags:
participle
present
form:
metred
tags:
participle
past
form:
metred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
metre
etymology_text:
From Old English, from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put into metrical form.
senses_topics:
communications
entertainment
journalism
lifestyle
literature
media
music
poetry
publishing
writing |
11394 | word:
atomic number
word_type:
noun
expansion:
atomic number (plural atomic numbers)
forms:
form:
atomic numbers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The number of protons in an atom. Symbol: Z
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
11395 | word:
bishop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bishop (plural bishops, feminine bishopess)
forms:
form:
bishops
tags:
plural
form:
bishopess
tags:
feminine
wikipedia:
bishop
etymology_text:
From Middle English bischop, bishop, bisshop, biscop, from Old English bisċop (“bishop”), from British Latin *biscopo or Vulgar Latin (e)biscopus, from classical Latin episcopus (“overseer, supervisor”), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”), used in Greek and Latin both generally and as a title of civil officers. Cognate with all European terms for the position in various Christian churches; compare bisp.
senses_examples:
text:
King James of blessed memory said, no Bishop, no King: it was not he, but others that added, No Ceremony, no Bishop.
ref:
1641, “Smectymnuus”, in Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr., §16. 208
type:
quotation
text:
St. Ignatius... In his 'Epiſtle to the Magneſians,' he exhorts them to do all things in the love of God, telling them, the Biſhop preſides in the place of God...
ref:
1715, William Hendley, A Defence of the Church of England, section 16
type:
quotation
text:
These ministers were at first confined to the three orders of bishops, priests, and deacons.
ref:
1845, J. Lingard, Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church, 3rd edition, I. iv. 146
type:
quotation
text:
It is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the Church is called indifferently ‘bishop’ ἐπίσκοπος and ‘elder’ or ‘presbyter’ πρεσβύτερος.
ref:
1868, Joseph Barber Lightfoot, St. Paul's epistle to the Philippians, section 93
type:
quotation
text:
The Jubilee Mass had a special solemnity due to the presence of two exiled Chinese bishops—Thomas Cardinal Tien, Archbishop of Peking, and Bishop Joseph Yuen, of Chu-ma-tien, Honan—as well as the recently named bishop of Taichung, Formosa, Most Rev. William Kupfer, MM, who was in the United States to attend the Maryknoll General Chapter.
ref:
2013, Maureen Abbott, New Lights from Old Truths: Living the Signs of the Times, volume IV, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, →OCLC, page 375
type:
quotation
text:
The Caliphaes of the Sarasins were kings and chiefe bishops in their religion.
ref:
1586, Pierre de la Primaudaye, translated by Thomas Bowes, The French Academie, I. 633
type:
quotation
text:
The Byshop of Egypt is called the Souldan.
ref:
1615, William Bedwell, Arabian Trudgman in translating Mohammedis Imposturæ, sig. N4
text:
[…] which explains the beheading of the Muslim Bishop of Lisbon, soon after the Reconquista.
ref:
2001, José Carlos Valle Pérez, Jorge Rodrigues, El arte románico en Galicia y Portugal, page 254
type:
quotation
text:
The [holder of the office of] Imam [of Monrovia] is commonly referred to, both in conversation and in the press, as ‘the Muslim Bishop’.
ref:
2018, Merran Fraenkel, Tribe and Class in Monrovia, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
They gave away corn, not cash; and Cicero was made bishop, or overseer, of this public victualling.
ref:
1808, The Monthly Magazine and British Register, 26 109
type:
quotation
text:
The Bishoppes some name Alphins, some fooles, and some name them Princes; other some call them Archers.
ref:
1562, Rowbotham in Archaeologia, XXIV. 203
text:
A Bishop or Archer, who is commonly figured with his head cloven.
ref:
1656, Gioachino Greco, “The royall game of chesse-play, being the study of Biochimo”, in Francis Beale, transl., (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
‘Bishop, Bishop-Barnabee,
Tell me when my wedding shall be;
If it be to-morrow day,
Ope your wings and fly away.
ref:
1875, William Douglas Parish, A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect
type:
quotation
text:
Well roasted, with Sugar and Wine in a Cup,
They'll make a sweet Bishop.
ref:
ante''' 1745, Jonathan Swift, Women who cry Apples in Works (1746), VIII. 192
text:
A bowl of that liquor called Bishop, which Johnson had always liked.
ref:
1791, J. Boswell, Life of Johnson, anno 1752 I. 135
text:
Spicy bishop, drink divine.
ref:
1801, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems, II. 169
type:
quotation
text:
If, by her bishop, or her 'grace' alone,
A genuine lady, or a church, is known.
ref:
c. 1860, John Saxe, Progress
type:
quotation
text:
Here; tak him, an wesh him; an' put him a clen bishop on.
ref:
1874, Evelyn Waugh in Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
A bustle.
A children's smock or pinafore.
senses_topics:
Christianity
Christianity
lifestyle
religion
board-games
chess
games
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11396 | word:
bishop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bishop (third-person singular simple present bishops, present participle bishoping or bishopping, simple past and past participle bishoped or bishopped)
forms:
form:
bishops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bishoping
tags:
participle
present
form:
bishopping
tags:
participle
present
form:
bishoped
tags:
participle
past
form:
bishoped
tags:
past
form:
bishopped
tags:
participle
past
form:
bishopped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bishop
etymology_text:
From Middle English bischop, bishop, bisshop, biscop, from Old English bisċop (“bishop”), from British Latin *biscopo or Vulgar Latin (e)biscopus, from classical Latin episcopus (“overseer, supervisor”), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”), used in Greek and Latin both generally and as a title of civil officers. Cognate with all European terms for the position in various Christian churches; compare bisp.
senses_examples:
text:
Se bisceop biþ gesett... to bisceopgenne cild.
ref:
c. 1000, Thorpe's Laws, II. 348 (Bosw.)
text:
Wanne the bisschop, bisschopeth the
ref:
c. 1315, Shoreham, section 5
type:
quotation
roman:
Tokene of marke he set on the.
text:
The Marquis of Buckingham and his wife were both bishopped, or confirmed by the Bishop of London.
ref:
1622, W. Yonge, Diary, published 1848, section 50
type:
quotation
text:
Harding and Saunders Bishop it in England.
ref:
1655, T. Fuller, Church-hist. Brit., ix. 81
type:
quotation
text:
Here too physical effects were vulgarly attributed to the ceremony… as evidenced by the case of the old Norfolk woman who claimed to have been ‘bishopped’ seven times, because she found it helped her rheumatism.
ref:
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
Why sent they it by Felton to be bishoped at Paules?
ref:
1596, W. Warner, Albions Eng., x. liv. 243
type:
quotation
text:
He... chose to bear The Name of Fool confirm'd, and Bishop'd by the Fair.
ref:
1700, Boccaccio, “Cymon & Iphigenia”, in John Dryden, transl., Fables, section 550
type:
quotation
text:
1549, H. Latimer, 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie, 5th Serm. sig. Pviv
Thys hathe bene often tymes... sene in preachers before they were byshoppyd or benificed.
text:
There may be other... matters to occupy the thoughts of one about to be bishopped.
ref:
1861 November 23, Sat. Rev., 537
text:
Italy would be well bishoped if her episcopacy... did not exceed fifty-nine.
ref:
1865 December 6, Daily Telegraph, 5/3
text:
If the porage be burned to, or the meate ouer rosted, we say the bishop hath put his foote in the potte or the bishop hath played the cooke, because the bishops burn who they lust and whosoever displeaseth them.
ref:
ante''' 1536, Tyndale, Works, 166 (T.)
text:
It will be as bad as the Bishops foot in the broth.
ref:
1641, John Milton, Animadversions, section 9
type:
quotation
text:
The Cream is burnt to.
Betty. Why, Madam, the Bishop has set his Foot in it.
ref:
1738, Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat., Jonathan Swift, section 10
type:
quotation
text:
She canna stomach it if it's bishopped e'er so little.
ref:
1863, E. C. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, I. 64
type:
quotation
text:
Th' milk's bishopped again!
ref:
1875, Lanc. Gloss., section 40
type:
quotation
text:
1727, R. Bradley, Family Dict. at "Horse"
This way of making a Horse look young is... called Bishoping.
text:
Bishopped, or To bishop. A term among horſe dealers, for burning the mark into a horſe's tooth, after he has loſt it by age... It is a common ſaying of milk that is burnt to, that the biſhop has fet his foot in it. Formerly, when a biſhop paſſed through a village, all the inhabitants ran out of their houſes to ſolicit his bleſſing, even leaving their milk, &c. on the fire, to take its chance; which, when burnt to, was ſaid to be biſhopped.
ref:
1788, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, Francis Grose
type:
quotation
text:
I found his teeth had been filed down and bishoped with the greatest neatness and perfection.
ref:
1840, E. E. Napier, Scenes & Sports Foreign Lands, I. v. 138
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
To confirm (in its other senses).
To make a bishop.
To provide with bishops.
To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
senses_topics:
Christianity
Christianity
Christianity
Christianity
|
11397 | word:
bishop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bishop (third-person singular simple present bishops, present participle bishoping or bishopping, simple past and past participle bishoped or bishopped)
forms:
form:
bishops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bishoping
tags:
participle
present
form:
bishopping
tags:
participle
present
form:
bishoped
tags:
participle
past
form:
bishoped
tags:
past
form:
bishopped
tags:
participle
past
form:
bishopped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bishop
etymology_text:
Eponymous, from the surname Bishop.
senses_examples:
text:
I Burked the papa, now I'll Bishop the son.
ref:
1840, R.H. Barham, Some Account of a New Play in Ingoldsby Legends 1st series, 308
text:
There were no more Burking murders until 1831, when two men, named Bishop and Williams, drowned a poor [14-year-old] Italian boy in Bethnal Green, and sold his body to the surgeons.
ref:
1870, Walter Thornbury, Old Stories Re-told
type:
quotation
text:
John Bishop and another grave-robber called Thomas Williams had drowned the boy, a woman and another boy in a well in John Bishop's garden in Bethnal Green... Bishop and Williams were hanged outside Newgate Prison in December 1831 in front of an angry crowd of 30,000.
ref:
2002, Helen Smith, Grave-Robbers, Cut-throats, and Poisoners of London, section 66
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To murder by drowning.
senses_topics:
|
11398 | word:
asterisk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
asterisk (plural asterisks)
forms:
form:
asterisks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
The New York Times
The New York Times Company
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English asterisk [and other forms], from Late Latin asteriscus (“asterisk; small star”), from Ancient Greek ἀστερῐ́σκος (asterískos, “asterisk; small star”), from ᾰ̓στήρ (astḗr, “celestial body (star, planet, and other lights in the sky such as meteors)”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- (“to burn; to glow”)) + -ῐ́σκος (-ískos, diminutive suffix).
Sense 1.1.2 (“something which is of little importance or which is marginal”) refers to the use of an asterisk to denote a footnote or marginal note in a text; in other words, information that is not important enough to be incorporated into the main text. Sense 1.1.3 (“blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement”) refers to the use of an asterisk in a sporting record to indicate that the record is qualified in some manner (for example, that the sportsperson was found to have taken performance-enhancing drugs at the time).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
Using a crafting knife, cut a small asterisk shape in the center of each black circle. Gently pierce each asterisk with a wooden skewer to make a hole. Once done, simply insert your stove knobs, and you're almost ready!
ref:
2016, Courtney Sanchez, “Retro Stove”, in DIY Box Creations: Fun and Creative Projects to Make out of Really Big Boxes!, Lake Forest, Calif.: Walter Foster Jr., Quarto Publishing Group, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
I don't want to be an asterisk in my kids' lives. I don't want to be just some guy who sporadically appears and then disappears again.
ref:
2016, Charles [Wesley] Marshall, “More SkyMiles, Less Family”, in The Good Dad Guide, Eugene, Or.: Harvest House Publishers, part 6 (Prevent), page 142
type:
quotation
text:
The opposing view sees it as an abject failure and historically irrelevant. This verdict was neatly summed up by the New York Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin when he predicted, a year on from the event: "It will be an asterisk in the history books, if it gets a mention at all."
ref:
2021 September 12, Andrew Anthony, “‘We showed it was possible to create a movement from almost nothing’: Occupy Wall Street 10 years on”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-20
type:
quotation
text:
They came into the tournament highly ranked, but with a little bit of an asterisk as their last two wins had been unconvincing.
type:
example
text:
He is in the right to put the Aſteriſks, not the VVords into the text; becauſe They do indeed give us [notice, that there is in Them] as much additional meaning, as there vvould be in thoſe vvords vvhich they ſo properly repreſent.
ref:
1754, Thomas Edwards, “Canon XVIII. He may Explane His Author, or Any Former Editor of Him; by Supplying Such Words, or Pieces of Words, or Marks, as He Thinks Fit for that Purpose.”, in The Canons of Criticism, and Glossary; […], 6th edition, London: […] C. Bathurst, […], →OCLC, page 157
type:
quotation
text:
There is no punctuation, but three signs are used, namely, 1st, the asterisc (※); 2nd, the obelus (—:); and 3rd, the two dots (:). The asteriscs indicate the words of the Hebrew text, not admitted by the Seventy into their Greek version, which words are included between the asterisc and the two dots; […]
Used to refer to a different symbol.]
ref:
[1849, M. J. B. Silvestre, “Plate LXI. Square Uncial Greek Writing. IVth. or Vth. Century. Fragments of the Greek Pentateuch, in the Bibliothèque Royale.”, in Frederic Madden, transl., Universal Palæography: Or, Fac-similes of Writings of All Nations and Periods, […], volume I, London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, […], →OCLC, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
The Hôtels marked with one asterisc are Restaurants also. Those marked with two asteriscs have Table d'Hôte.
ref:
1869, “Notices Useful to the Foreigner”, in One Week at Venice: Illustrated Guide for Visiting Every Thing Worthy of Consideration, Venice: Colombo Coen’s New Library, […], →OCLC, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.
ref:
1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is Opened”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 714
type:
quotation
text:
On the other hand, The New York Times favors the 'it doesn't exist' formula. It has prudishly renamed the play Shopping and … [Mark Ravenhill's play Shopping and Fucking (1996)] Everyone does it, no one will name it! The Times doesn’t even give it an asterisk or two. Three little dots must suffice. "How was it for you, my darling?" "That was the greatest three little dots I ever had in my life!"
ref:
1998 February 16, John Heilpern, “Shopping and Fucking: Is that all there is?”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-05-17
type:
quotation
text:
Data were collected from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Nutrition Coordination Center (NCC) Carotenoid Database (Holden et al., 1999) and correspond to raw foods unless indicated with an asterisc (cooked) or two asteriscs (canned).
ref:
2012, Úrsula Flores-Perez, Manuel Rodriguez-Concepcion, “Carotenoids”, in Andrew Salter, Helen Wiseman, Gregory Tucker, editors, Phytonutrients, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, figure 3.2 caption, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
Then he [the deacon] reverently covereth the holy Cup with the veil. Likewise he placeth the Asterisk upon the holy Diskos, and the veil over it, and saith the following prayer with the Priest, silently, […]
ref:
1866, John Chrysostom, “Liturgy of the Catechumens”, in [anonymous], transl., Service of the Divine and Sacred Liturgy of Our Holy Father John Chrysostom. […], London: Joseph Masters, […], →OCLC, pages 69–70
type:
quotation
text:
The asterisk is one of the sacred objects used in the Byzantine rite. It is placed on the paten to protect the Eucharistic bread from contact with the special veil that covers it. The name derives from the shape of the object and symbolically recalls the Biblical words: "And the star came and stood above where the child was" […] [Matthew 2:9].
ref:
1962, Marvin C. Ross, “Copper”, in Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, volume 1 (Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, Glyptics, Painting), Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Trustees for Harvard University, published 1970, →OCLC, paragraph 89, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
The diskos, then, typifies the heavens, and for that reason, it is round, and holds the Master of heaven. What is called the ‘asterisk’ represents the stars, especially the one at the birth of Christ, just as the veils represent the firmament, the swaddling clothes, the shroud, and the burial cloths.
ref:
2013, Bryan D[ouglas] Spinks, quoting Symeon of Thessalonica (in translation), “The Eucharist and Anaphoras of the Byzantine Synthesis”, in Do This in Remembrance of Me: The Eucharist from the Early Church to the Present Day (SCM Studies in Worship and Liturgy), London: SCM Press, page 126
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
The star-shaped symbol *, which is used in printing and writing for various purposes, including to refer a reader to a note at the bottom of a page or in a margin, and to indicate the omission of letters or words; a star.
Something resembling or shaped like an asterisk symbol.
A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
The star-shaped symbol *, which is used in printing and writing for various purposes, including to refer a reader to a note at the bottom of a page or in a margin, and to indicate the omission of letters or words; a star.
Something which is of little importance or which is marginal; a footnote.
A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
The star-shaped symbol *, which is used in printing and writing for various purposes, including to refer a reader to a note at the bottom of a page or in a margin, and to indicate the omission of letters or words; a star.
A blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement.
A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
The star-shaped symbol *, which is used in printing and writing for various purposes, including to refer a reader to a note at the bottom of a page or in a margin, and to indicate the omission of letters or words; a star.
A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos (or paten) used during the Eucharist to prevent the veil covering the chalice and diskos from touching the host on the diskos.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism |
11399 | word:
asterisk
word_type:
verb
expansion:
asterisk (third-person singular simple present asterisks, present participle asterisking, simple past and past participle asterisked)
forms:
form:
asterisks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
asterisking
tags:
participle
present
form:
asterisked
tags:
participle
past
form:
asterisked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
The New York Times
The New York Times Company
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English asterisk [and other forms], from Late Latin asteriscus (“asterisk; small star”), from Ancient Greek ἀστερῐ́σκος (asterískos, “asterisk; small star”), from ᾰ̓στήρ (astḗr, “celestial body (star, planet, and other lights in the sky such as meteors)”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- (“to burn; to glow”)) + -ῐ́σκος (-ískos, diminutive suffix).
Sense 1.1.2 (“something which is of little importance or which is marginal”) refers to the use of an asterisk to denote a footnote or marginal note in a text; in other words, information that is not important enough to be incorporated into the main text. Sense 1.1.3 (“blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement”) refers to the use of an asterisk in a sporting record to indicate that the record is qualified in some manner (for example, that the sportsperson was found to have taken performance-enhancing drugs at the time).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
Bank of New Zealand Estates Company Share Account now stands, as we have already seen, at £1,089,722 17s. 7d., a reduction of £760,177 2s. 5d. having been effected by the writing off of share capital. But from the point of view of its intrinsic value, the item has still to be dealt with, being asterisked in the balance sheet as follows: […]
ref:
1896 August, The Australasian Insurance, Banking Record, quotees, “The Bank of New Zealand’s Balance Sheet”, in Clement H. Davis, editor, The Bankers’ Magazine of Australasia. An Illustrated Monthly, volume X, number 1, Melbourne, Vic.: Bankers’ Instituteo of Australasia, →OCLC, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
She was determined to make the most of the trip, extracting some cultural capital from the emotional waste, and so read carefully through the Venice guidebooks she had brought, underlining the must-dos and asterisking the should-dos.
ref:
2003, Rebecca Campbell, “Odette in Venice”, in Slave to Love […], New York, N.Y.: Villard Books, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
[Alain] Jaubert's preface is the longest and most detailed in our corpus; […] It covers both [Edgar Allan] Poe's work in general and the specific content of the volume (Jaubert, ingeniously, adopts an ad hoc typographical device, asterisking the references to the tales of his volume).
ref:
2020, Christopher Rollason, “Popular Poe Anthologies in the United Kingdom and France”, in Emron Esplin, Margarida Vale de Gato, editors, Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons, Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press; Lanham, Md.; London: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, part IV (Wor(l)ding Poe Abroad: Anthologizers, Editors, Illustrators, and Translators), page 289
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To mark or replace (text, etc.) with an asterisk symbol (*; noun sense 1.1); to star.
senses_topics:
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