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11400 | word:
bicycle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bicycle (plural bicycles)
forms:
form:
bicycles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bicycle
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French bicycle (modern bicyclette), from bi- (“bi-”) + cycle (“cycle”). First attested in English in 1868, and in French in 1847.
(promiscuous woman): From double meaning of ride ("to transport oneself upon" vs. "to mount someone to have sex with them"). A communal bicycle would have many riders.
senses_examples:
text:
In most English villages, as we are informed, bicycles are not allowed on the sidewalks; and the hand-books issued by English manufacturers of bicycles caution their customers that it is a forbidden practice, while in many places bells have to be attached to the bicycles even when ridden in the streets.
ref:
1882, “Principle in Small Things”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 22, page 274
type:
quotation
text:
‘What sort of bullying does this sergeant go in for?’ ‘Character assassination,’ she said in a matter-of-fact tone that belied the very real difficulties it was causing her. ‘There’s a lot of whispering about slags and tarts behind my back and sniggers whenever I appear. Half of the men seem to think I’m a dyke who needs curing, the other half think I’m the platoon bicycle. [...]’
ref:
2002, Minette Walters, Fox Evil, Macmillan, pages 162–3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vehicle that has two wheels, one behind the other, a steering handle, and a saddle seat or seats and is usually propelled by the action of a rider’s feet upon pedals.
A traveling block used on a cable in skidding logs.
The best possible hand in lowball.
A motorbike.
A slut; a promiscuous woman.
A stabilizing technique in which one foot is pushed down while the other is pulled up.
The wheel: either the lowest straight (A-2-3-4-5) or the best low hand in Lowball or High-low poker.
senses_topics:
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
card-games
poker |
11401 | word:
bicycle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bicycle (third-person singular simple present bicycles, present participle bicycling, simple past and past participle bicycled)
forms:
form:
bicycles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bicycling
tags:
participle
present
form:
bicycled
tags:
participle
past
form:
bicycled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bicycle
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French bicycle (modern bicyclette), from bi- (“bi-”) + cycle (“cycle”). First attested in English in 1868, and in French in 1847.
(promiscuous woman): From double meaning of ride ("to transport oneself upon" vs. "to mount someone to have sex with them"). A communal bicycle would have many riders.
senses_examples:
text:
“Bicycling” defeated the possibility of topicality, a prime production habit of the network-trained production executives staffing the new entity.
ref:
2002, Roger Phillips Smith, The Other Face of Public Television, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
In turn, two-inch tapes of these could be “bicycled” from one place to another across the country, thereby altering and improving production economies.
ref:
2014, Horace Newcomb, Encyclopedia of Television, page 177
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To travel or exercise using a bicycle.
To physically ship (a recorded programme) to another broadcasting entity.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
television |
11402 | word:
corrupt
word_type:
adj
expansion:
corrupt (comparative more corrupt, superlative most corrupt)
forms:
form:
more corrupt
tags:
comparative
form:
most corrupt
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
corrupt
etymology_text:
From Middle English corrupten, derived from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpō (“to destroy, ruin, injure, spoil, corrupt, bribe”), from com- (“together”) + rumpō (“to break in pieces”).
senses_examples:
text:
The government here is corrupt, so we'll emigrate to escape them.
type:
example
text:
The text of the manuscript is corrupt.
type:
example
text:
It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
senses_topics:
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11403 | word:
corrupt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
corrupt (third-person singular simple present corrupts, present participle corrupting, simple past and past participle corrupted)
forms:
form:
corrupts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
corrupting
tags:
participle
present
form:
corrupted
tags:
participle
past
form:
corrupted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
corrupt
etymology_text:
From Middle English corrupten, derived from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpō (“to destroy, ruin, injure, spoil, corrupt, bribe”), from com- (“together”) + rumpō (“to break in pieces”).
senses_examples:
text:
Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!
type:
example
text:
I think that there is a bad idea around in our world, and that idea is that 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'. I think what really happens is that power attracts the corruptible.
ref:
1985 April 17, Frank Herbert, 34:18 from the start, in Frank Herbert speaking at UCLA 4/17/1985, UCLACommStudies, archived from the original on 2017-02-10
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd."
ref:
1732, George Smith, Institutiones Chirurgicæ: or, Principles of Surgery, … To which is Annexed, a Chirurgical Dispensatory, …, London: Printed [by William Bowyer] for Henry Lintot, at the Cross-Keys against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, →OCLC, page 254
type:
quotation
text:
Unplugging a flash drive without dismounting it first can corrupt the data stored on the drive.
type:
example
text:
to corrupt language, or a holy text
type:
example
text:
to corrupt a book
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
To become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot.
To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.
To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
senses_topics:
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11404 | word:
millilitre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
millilitre (plural millilitres)
forms:
form:
millilitres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From milli- + litre, from French.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit of measure of capacity, being one thousandth of a litre. Symbol: ml
senses_topics:
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11405 | word:
decibel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
decibel (plural decibels)
forms:
form:
decibels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From deci- + bel.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A common measure of sound intensity ratio that is one tenth of a bel on the logarithmic intensity scale. It is defined as dB = ⅒log₁₀(P₁ / P₂), where P₁ and P₂ are the relative powers of the sound.
senses_topics:
|
11406 | word:
mint
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mint (plural mints)
forms:
form:
mints
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Juno Moneta
mint (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English mynt, münet (“money, coin”), from Old English mynet (“coin”), from late Proto-West Germanic *munit, from Latin monēta (“place for making coins, coined money”), from the temple of Juno Moneta (named for Monēta mother of the Muses), where coins were made. Doublet of money and manat.
The verb is from the noun; Old English mynetian (“to mint”) is a parallel formation.
senses_examples:
text:
That house is worth a mint.
type:
example
text:
It must have cost a mint to produce!
type:
example
text:
to make a mint
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
A vast sum of money; (by extension) a large amount of something.
Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
senses_topics:
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11407 | word:
mint
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mint (third-person singular simple present mints, present participle minting, simple past and past participle minted)
forms:
form:
mints
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
minting
tags:
participle
present
form:
minted
tags:
participle
past
form:
minted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Juno Moneta
mint (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English mynt, münet (“money, coin”), from Old English mynet (“coin”), from late Proto-West Germanic *munit, from Latin monēta (“place for making coins, coined money”), from the temple of Juno Moneta (named for Monēta mother of the Muses), where coins were made. Doublet of money and manat.
The verb is from the noun; Old English mynetian (“to mint”) is a parallel formation.
senses_examples:
text:
For some time past the legal currency in the various Provinces has been insufficient for use. Formerly the two Provinces of Fuchien and Kuangtung minted some large, round copper coins of excellent workmanship that were said, by the people after they were put into circulation, to be convenient.
ref:
1914, Wen Pin Wei, chapter IV, in The Currency Problem in China, Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
China’s newly minted national parks don’t just safeguard famous keystone species such as Siberian tigers, giant pandas and Hainan gibbons. They are also designed to preserve the shrinking ecosystems that support such iconic wildlife, ranging from sweltering (tropical jungles in the southern province of Hainan to the chilly maple forests of northern Heilongjiang and Jilin Provinces bordering Siberia.
ref:
2022 November 17, Paul Salopek, “A ‘Slow Storytelling’ Writing and Photography Workshop Boosts Conservation in China”, in National Geographic
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: mine
text:
Beeple’s collaged JPG was made, or “minted,” in February as a “nonfungible token,” or NFT.
ref:
2021 March 11, Scott Reyburn, “JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
To create a crypto token.
senses_topics:
business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance |
11408 | word:
mint
word_type:
adj
expansion:
mint (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Juno Moneta
mint (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English mynt, münet (“money, coin”), from Old English mynet (“coin”), from late Proto-West Germanic *munit, from Latin monēta (“place for making coins, coined money”), from the temple of Juno Moneta (named for Monēta mother of the Muses), where coins were made. Doublet of money and manat.
The verb is from the noun; Old English mynetian (“to mint”) is a parallel formation.
senses_examples:
text:
in mint condition
type:
example
text:
Trading card sales have taken off, too. The price of mint condition cards on StockX jumped to an average $775 in January from $280 a year ago.
ref:
2021 March 13, Erin Griffith, “From Crypto Art to Trading Cards, Investment Manias Abound”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
And my God, what a house it was – it was mint! In all my life I had never set foot in such a beautiful place.
ref:
2014, Holly Hagan, Not Quite a Geordie
type:
quotation
text:
Everyone was having a beano, everyone was partying, the music was going, it was mint – as soon as England won we booked it.
ref:
2024 July 14, Rachel Hall, quoting Ashley Cullen, “‘I’ve never seen owt like it’: England fans in Benidorm in high spirits before Euro final”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Like new.
In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
Unused with original gum; as issued originally.
Very good, excellent.
Attractive; beautiful; handsome.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
hobbies
lifestyle
philately
|
11409 | word:
mint
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mint (countable and uncountable, plural mints)
forms:
form:
mints
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mint (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English mynte, from Old English minte (“mint plant”), from Proto-West Germanic *mintā (“mint”), from Latin menta, probably from a lost Mediterranean language either through Ancient Greek μίνθη (mínthē), μίνθα (míntha) or directly. Akin to Old Norse minta (“mint”). Doublet of mentha.
senses_examples:
text:
mint:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
A green colour, like that of mint.
A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.
senses_topics:
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11410 | word:
mint
word_type:
adj
expansion:
mint (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
mint (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English mynte, from Old English minte (“mint plant”), from Proto-West Germanic *mintā (“mint”), from Latin menta, probably from a lost Mediterranean language either through Ancient Greek μίνθη (mínthē), μίνθα (míntha) or directly. Akin to Old Norse minta (“mint”). Doublet of mentha.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a green colour, like that of the mint plant.
senses_topics:
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11411 | word:
mint
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mint (third-person singular simple present mints, present participle minting, simple past and past participle minted)
forms:
form:
mints
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
minting
tags:
participle
present
form:
minted
tags:
participle
past
form:
minted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
mint (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English minten, from Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *muntijan (“to think, consider”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *mnā- (“to think”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian mintsje, muntsje (“to aim, target”), Dutch munten (“to aim at, target”), German Low German münten (“to aim at”), German münzen (“to aim at”), Dutch monter (“cheerful, gladsome, spry”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐍃 (muns, “thought, opinion”), Old English munan (“to be mindful of, consider, intend”). More at mind.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To try, attempt; take aim.
To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try to hit; to purpose.
To hint; suggest; insinuate.
senses_topics:
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11412 | word:
mint
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mint (plural mints)
forms:
form:
mints
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mint (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English minten, from Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *muntijan (“to think, consider”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *mnā- (“to think”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian mintsje, muntsje (“to aim, target”), Dutch munten (“to aim at, target”), German Low German münten (“to aim at”), German münzen (“to aim at”), Dutch monter (“cheerful, gladsome, spry”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐍃 (muns, “thought, opinion”), Old English munan (“to be mindful of, consider, intend”). More at mind.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor.
senses_topics:
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11413 | word:
milliliter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
milliliter (plural milliliters)
forms:
form:
milliliters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of millilitre
senses_topics:
|
11414 | word:
Tok Pisin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Tok Pisin (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Tok Pisin Tok Pisin, from English talk + pidgin or business.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A creole of Indo-European, Malayo-Polynesian and Trans-New Guinean languages (principally English and Kuanua); one of the official languages of Papua New Guinea.
senses_topics:
|
11415 | word:
aluminum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aluminum (countable and uncountable, plural aluminums)
forms:
form:
aluminums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1812, after the earlier 1807 New Latin form alumium. By surface analysis, Latin alumen + -um
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
US, Canadian, and Philippines standard spelling of aluminium.
senses_topics:
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11416 | word:
daily
word_type:
adj
expansion:
daily (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *dagalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dagalīkaz (“daily”), equivalent to day + -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).
senses_examples:
text:
Bunyan has told us […] that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands.
ref:
1831, Thomas Babington Macaulay, John Bunyan
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That occurs every day, or at least every working day
diurnal, by daylight, as opposed to nightly
senses_topics:
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11417 | word:
daily
word_type:
noun
expansion:
daily (plural dailies)
forms:
form:
dailies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *dagalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dagalīkaz (“daily”), equivalent to day + -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).
senses_examples:
text:
In the home office these dailies may be filed under one of two methods. Geographically by the territory controlled by an Agency, filing the dailies by their numbers back of the guide indicating the locality. Geographically as above, but filing the dailies by expiration date instead of by their numbers.
ref:
1920, James Newton McCord, A Textbook of Filing, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
The dailies, or abstracts of the dailies, of the other companies and other departments are also checked, as has been said, in the Impaired Record department. For these coverages it is necessary to check for honesty or undesirable reputation of any kind. These dailies, and abstracts, are also taken by the "impaired record girls" when they have completed their checking, to the various departments.
ref:
1946, The American Archivist, volumes 9-10, page 341
type:
quotation
text:
The popular "dailies" format builds a broad range of knowledge by covering Tennessee Basics, Geography, History, People, and Government essential facts through interesting texts and visuals + reading comprehension activities, skill activities, map activities, and more.
ref:
2011, Carole Marsh, Tennessee Dailies: 180 Daily Activities for Kids, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
I do not let these experiences disrupt my focus in my daily or my responsibility for my family.
ref:
2013, Charles Steinbach, Schizophrenia's Gift
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
A newspaper that is published every day.
Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
A cleaner who comes in daily.
Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
A daily disposable.
Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.
Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
A daily driver.
Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
Raw, unedited footage traditionally developed overnight and viewed by the cast and crew the next day.
Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
senses_topics:
video-games
automotive
transport
vehicles
broadcasting
film
media
television
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11418 | word:
daily
word_type:
verb
expansion:
daily
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *dagalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dagalīkaz (“daily”), equivalent to day + -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To drive an automobile frequently, on a daily basis, for regular and mundane tasks.
senses_topics:
automotive
transport
vehicles |
11419 | word:
daily
word_type:
adv
expansion:
daily (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dayly, from Old English *dæġlīċe (found only as dæġhwāmlīċe), equivalent to day + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
quotidianly, every day
diurnally, by daylight
senses_topics:
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11420 | word:
kilometre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kilometre (plural kilometres)
forms:
form:
kilometres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French kilomètre, from Ancient Greek χίλιοι (khílioi, “thousand”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”); equivalent to kilo- + metre.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An SI unit of length equal to 10³ metres. Symbol: km
senses_topics:
metrology |
11421 | word:
California
word_type:
name
expansion:
California (countable and uncountable, plural Californias)
forms:
form:
Californias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Etymology of California
Las sergas de Esplandián
etymology_text:
Probably Spanish after California, a Utopian island of the Amazons described in Las sergas de Esplandián, a 16th-century Spanish novel. The name comes from the fictional island's Muslim-allied queen, Calafia, whose name is a play on Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”).
For more information see: Etymology of California.
senses_examples:
text:
But my heart cried out for you, California / Oh, California, I'm coming home
ref:
1971, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “California”, in Blue
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The most populous state of the United States. Capital: Sacramento. Largest city: Los Angeles.
A region on the west coast of North America comprising the US state of California and the Baja California peninsula in Mexico; historically also including other areas in Alta California and Baja California.
Several places in the United States.
A census-designated place in Maryland.
Several places in the United States.
A borough of Pennsylvania.
Several places in the United States.
A city, the county seat of Moniteau County, Missouri.
Several places in the United States.
A neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Several places in the United States.
A city in Campbell County, Kentucky.
Several places in the United States.
A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
Several places in the United States.
A village in Maine.
Several places in the United States.
A ghost town in West Virginia.
Several places in England:
A village in Berkshire.
Several places in England:
A neighbourhood of Birmingham, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP0182).
Several places in England:
An area in Derby, Derbyshire.
Several places in England:
A district of Ipswich, Suffolk.
Several places in England:
A hamlet in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
Several places in England:
An outer suburb of Dunstable, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref TL0120).
Several places in England:
A coastal resort in Ormesby St Margaret with Scratby, Norfolk.
A community of Ontario, Canada.
A town in the Santander department, Colombia.
A town in the Usulután department, El Salvador.
A neighborhood of Casablanca, Morocco.
A village in Bohol, Philippines.
A village in Stirlingshire, Scotland.
A town in Trinidad and Tobago.
University of California, Berkeley.
senses_topics:
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11422 | word:
ununquadium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ununquadium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The systematic element name for flerovium, the chemical element with atomic number 114 (symbol Uuq).
senses_topics:
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11423 | word:
proto
word_type:
adj
expansion:
proto (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the prefix proto-.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] he photographed his tenant, the proto male supermodel Matt Collins, for Italian Harper’s Bazaar.
ref:
2007 March 11, Horacio Silva, “Muscle Man”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Prototypical; preceding the proper beginning of something.
senses_topics:
|
11424 | word:
proto
word_type:
noun
expansion:
proto (plural protos)
forms:
form:
protos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the prefix proto-.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] attending various fabric trade shows across the country and internationally; reviewing protos (prototypes) and strike-offs; approving final designs; and communicating with overseas mills.
ref:
2013, Lisa Springsteel, Becoming a Fashion Designer
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A prototype of a design.
senses_topics:
fashion
lifestyle |
11425 | word:
yumi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yumi (plural yumis or yumi)
forms:
form:
yumis
tags:
plural
form:
yumi
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Japanese 弓 (“yumi”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of archery bow from Japan.
senses_topics:
|
11426 | word:
ununoctium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ununoctium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Systematic element name
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The systematic element name for the chemical element with atomic number 118 (symbol Uuo); now named oganesson.
senses_topics:
|
11427 | word:
ununhexium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ununhexium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The previous systematic element name for livermorium, the chemical element with atomic number 116 (symbol Uuh).
senses_topics:
|
11428 | word:
praseodymium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
praseodymium (usually uncountable, plural praseodymiums)
forms:
form:
praseodymiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek πράσιος (prásios, “leek-green”) + didymium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Pr) with an atomic number of 59, a soft, silvery, malleable and ductile metal, valued for its magnetic, electrical, chemical, and optical properties.
senses_topics:
|
11429 | word:
wok
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wok (plural woks)
forms:
form:
woks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Cantonese 鑊／镬 (wok6).
senses_examples:
text:
The 'wok' is an efficient, all-purpose metal cooking vessel used by every housewife in China. It has two handles and is shaped like a shallow cone.
ref:
1977, Marguerite Fawdry, Chinese Childhood, page 86
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking.
Any dish prepared using such a pan.
senses_topics:
|
11430 | word:
wok
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wok (third-person singular simple present woks, present participle wokking or woking, simple past and past participle wokked or woked)
forms:
form:
woks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wokking
tags:
participle
present
form:
woking
tags:
participle
present
form:
wokked
tags:
participle
past
form:
wokked
tags:
past
form:
woked
tags:
participle
past
form:
woked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Cantonese 鑊／镬 (wok6).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To prepare oriental cuisine using a wok.
senses_topics:
|
11431 | word:
ununbium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ununbium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The former systematic element name for the chemical element with atomic number 112 (symbol Uub), which has been officially changed to copernicium.
senses_topics:
|
11432 | word:
universe
word_type:
name
expansion:
universe
forms:
wikipedia:
universe (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English universe, from Old French univers, from Latin universum (“all things, as a whole, the universe”), neuter of universus (“all together, whole, entire, collective, general, literally turned or combined into one”), from uni-, combining form of unus (“one”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of vertō (“to turn”). Analyzable as uni- + -verse through backformation of -verse.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Universe; Our universe.
senses_topics:
|
11433 | word:
universe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
universe (plural universes)
forms:
form:
universes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
universe (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English universe, from Old French univers, from Latin universum (“all things, as a whole, the universe”), neuter of universus (“all together, whole, entire, collective, general, literally turned or combined into one”), from uni-, combining form of unus (“one”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of vertō (“to turn”). Analyzable as uni- + -verse through backformation of -verse.
senses_examples:
text:
I think that the universe was created by a life force rather than a deity.
text:
In general content-related evidence demonstrates the degree to which the sample of items, tasks or questions on a test is representative of some defined universe or domain of content.
ref:
2005, Dato de Gruijter, Leo van der Kamp, Statistical Test Theory for Education and psychology, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
In all this universe of possibilities, there is only one feasible option.
text:
The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.
text:
Annabelle Comes Home (the 7th and most recent movie in the Conjuring universe, and the 3rd to focus on Annabelle) is a direct sequel to both previous Annabelle movies, which occurred before the events of The Conjuring – but take place after the events of the 2013 franchise-starter.
ref:
2019, June 26, Daniel Menegaz, "Tracking Annabelle's confusing journey through the Conjuring universe", Entertainment Weekly
text:
That didn’t just rock my world, it rocked my universe.
type:
example
text:
The universe wants you to succeed.
type:
example
text:
Under our new World may alſo be compriſed thoſe vaſt Southern Coaſts and Streights of Magelan, firſt lighted on by Ferdinandus Magelanus in the year 1520, in his Circumnavigation of the Univerſe ; which forty five years after Sir Francis Drake, and next Sir Thomas Bendiſh, Engliſhmen, made a furhter inſpection into ; and in the Year 1600 Oliver van Noord a Hollander paſt, but of later years a Spaniard, Fedinand de Quier, out-ſhot them all by a more ample Diſcovery then all the former.
ref:
1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, pages 3–4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
An entity similar to our universe; one component of a larger entity known as the multiverse.
Everything under consideration.
The set of all things considered.
Everything under consideration.
The set of all admissible observations.
Everything under consideration.
A sample taken from the population.
Everything under consideration.
An imaginary collection of worlds.
An imaginary collection of worlds.
A collection of stories with characters and settings that are less interrelated than those of sequels or prequels.
A whole world, in the sense of perspective or social setting.
A deity who is equivalent to the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
The Earth, the sphere of the world.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
statistics
business
economics
marketing
sciences
literature
media
publishing
|
11434 | word:
un
word_type:
noun
expansion:
un (plural uns)
forms:
form:
uns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of 'un
senses_topics:
|
11435 | word:
Paris
word_type:
name
expansion:
Paris
forms:
wikipedia:
Lutetia Parisiorum
Paris
etymology_text:
From Middle English Parys, Paris, from Old French Paris, from the Late Latin name of an earlier settlement, Lutetia Parisiorum (“Lutetia of the Parisii”), from Latin Parīsiī, a Gaulish tribe, from Transalpine Gaulish *parios (“cauldron”), from Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-. Doublet of Parizh.
senses_examples:
text:
And of course, in July 1967 De Gaulle did come to Canada. He made his speeches in Quebec, was enthusiastically received on the Chemin du Roy, shouted “Vive le Quebec libre” in Montreal and, on learning of the reaction of the Canadian government, returned to Paris without going to Ottawa.
ref:
1996, Eldon Black, “Prologue: 1960-1967”, in Direct Intervention: Canada-France Relations, 1967-1974, Carleton University Press, →OCLC, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital and largest city of France.
A department of Île-de-France, France.
The government of France.
A locale named after the French city.
A hamlet in Jutland, Denmark.
A locale named after the French city.
A hamlet in El Wadi El Gedid governorate, Egypt.
A locale named after the French city.
A former settlement in Yukon, Canada.
A locale named after the French city.
A former settlement in Kiritimati, Kiribati.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
A city in Arkansas, United States and one of the two county seats of Logan County.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
A city, the county seat of Bear Lake County, Idaho.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
A city, the county seat of Edgar County, Illinois.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County and Jennings County, Indiana.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Linn County, Iowa.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
A city, the county seat of Bourbon County, Kentucky.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
A town, the county seat of Oxford County, Maine.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Green Charter Township, Mecosta County, Michigan.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
A census-designated place in Lafayette County, Mississippi.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
A city, the county seat of Monroe County, Missouri; named for the city in Kentucky.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in the towns of Dummer and Stark, Coos County, New Hampshire.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
A town in Oneida County, New York; named for early benefactor Col. Isaac Paris.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Stark County, Ohio.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon; named for postmaster G. E. Parris.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
A census-designated place in Hanover Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
A city, the county seat of Lamar County, Texas.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
A city, the county seat of Henry County, Tennessee.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Fauquier County, Virginia.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
A town in Grant County, Wisconsin.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
A town and unincorporated community therein, in Kenosha County, Wisconsin; named for the town in New York.
A locale named after the French city.
A locale in the United States.
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Paris Township.
A community of Ontario; named for nearby gypsum deposits, used to make plaster of Paris (itself named for the city).
An English habitational surname from Old French for someone from Paris.
A male given name from place name.
A female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage, usually from the French city.
senses_topics:
|
11436 | word:
Paris
word_type:
name
expansion:
Paris
forms:
wikipedia:
Paris
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πάρις (Páris).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Trojan prince who eloped with Helen.
A male given name from Ancient Greek, from the Trojan hero.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
|
11437 | word:
Paris
word_type:
name
expansion:
Paris
forms:
wikipedia:
Paris
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A French surname originating as a patronymic, ultimately from Latin Patricius.
senses_topics:
|
11438 | word:
Paris
word_type:
name
expansion:
Paris
forms:
wikipedia:
Paris
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An English surname of Celtic origin, a variant of Parris.
senses_topics:
|
11439 | word:
Paris
word_type:
name
expansion:
Paris
forms:
wikipedia:
Paris
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Belgian surname, a variant of Parys.
senses_topics:
|
11440 | word:
Paris
word_type:
name
expansion:
Paris
forms:
wikipedia:
Paris
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Sicilian surname, a variant of Parigi.
senses_topics:
|
11441 | word:
Paris
word_type:
name
expansion:
Paris
forms:
wikipedia:
Paris
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Spanish surname, a variant of Aparicio.
senses_topics:
|
11442 | word:
chromium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chromium (countable and uncountable, plural chromiums)
forms:
form:
chromiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin, from French chrome (from Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”)) + -ium. So called because of the striking colors of its compounds.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Cr) with an atomic number of 24: a steely-grey, lustrous, hard and brittle transition metal.
senses_topics:
|
11443 | word:
thulium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thulium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Thule (a poetic name for Scandinavia) + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metallic chemical element (symbol Tm) with atomic number 69: a fairly soft, easily workable metal with a bright silvery-gray lustre.
senses_topics:
|
11444 | word:
technetium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
technetium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek τεχνητός (tekhnētós, “artificial, manmade”) + -ium, because it was the first manmade element synthesized.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metallic chemical element (symbol Tc) with an atomic number of 43.
senses_topics:
|
11445 | word:
mollusk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mollusk (plural mollusks)
forms:
form:
mollusks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of mollusc.
senses_topics:
|
11446 | word:
once
word_type:
adv
expansion:
once (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
once
etymology_text:
From Middle English ones, from Old English ānes, a remodelling (after ān (“one”)) of ǣnes, itself an extension of ǣne (“once”) with the genitival suffix -es. Compare Old Saxon ēnes (“once”), Old High German eines, einēst (“once”), modern German einst (“once”). More at one (including regarding the development of the pronunciation) and -s.
senses_examples:
text:
I have only once eaten pizza.
type:
example
text:
He was once the most handsome man around.
type:
example
text:
I once had a bicycle just like that one.
type:
example
text:
Wang notes that flowers have rooted and grow in the area once covered with ice.
type:
example
text:
The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
ref:
1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick
type:
quotation
text:
Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
ref:
2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
If the facts once became known, we'd be in trouble.
type:
example
text:
Once three is three.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One and only one time.
Formerly; during some period in the past.
At any time; ever.
One day, someday.
Multiplied by one: indicating that a number is multiplied by one.
senses_topics:
temporal-location
time
mathematics
sciences |
11447 | word:
once
word_type:
conj
expansion:
once
forms:
wikipedia:
once
etymology_text:
From Middle English ones, from Old English ānes, a remodelling (after ān (“one”)) of ǣnes, itself an extension of ǣne (“once”) with the genitival suffix -es. Compare Old Saxon ēnes (“once”), Old High German eines, einēst (“once”), modern German einst (“once”). More at one (including regarding the development of the pronunciation) and -s.
senses_examples:
text:
We'll get a move on once we find the damn car keys!
type:
example
text:
Once you have obtained the elven bow, return to the troll bridge and trade it for the sleeping potion.
type:
example
text:
Once he is married, he will be able to claim the inheritance.
type:
example
text:
Not only were Jupp Heynckes' team pacey in attack but they were relentless in their pursuit of the ball once they had lost it, and as the game wore on they merely increased their dominance as City wilted in the Allianz Arena.
ref:
2011 September 27, Alistair Magowan, “Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
ref:
2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
As soon as; when; after.
senses_topics:
|
11448 | word:
once
word_type:
noun
expansion:
once (plural onces)
forms:
form:
onces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
once
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of ounce.
senses_topics:
|
11449 | word:
protactinium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
protactinium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From proto- + actinium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Pa) with atomic number 91: a dense, silvery-gray actinide metal.
senses_topics:
|
11450 | word:
bromine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bromine (countable and uncountable, plural bromines)
forms:
form:
bromines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bromine
etymology_text:
From French brome, from Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos, “stink”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Br) with an atomic number of 35; one of the halogens, it is a fuming red-brown liquid at room temperature.
A bromine atom
senses_topics:
|
11451 | word:
scandium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
scandium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Scandia + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metallic chemical element, atomic number 21, obtained from some uranium ores; it is a transition element.
senses_topics:
|
11452 | word:
cesium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cesium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of caesium
senses_topics:
|
11453 | word:
promethium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
promethium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1945. From the name of the Greek god Prometheus, who stole the fire from Mount Olympus and brought it down to mankind + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metallic chemical element (symbol Pm) with an atomic number of 61.
senses_topics:
|
11454 | word:
ununtrium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ununtrium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The systematic element name for the chemical element with atomic number 113 (symbol Uut). The element is now named nihonium.
senses_topics:
|
11455 | word:
fuel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fuel (countable and uncountable, plural fuels)
forms:
form:
fuels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fuel
etymology_text:
From Middle English fewell, from Old French fouaille, feuaille (“firewood, kindling”), from feu (“fire”), from Late Latin focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”). Cognate with Spanish fuego (“fire”), and Portuguese fogo (“fire”). Doublet of focus.
senses_examples:
text:
More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
ref:
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
type:
quotation
text:
A little fuel to get down the mountain.
ref:
2021 February 16, Charlie Berens and DudeDad, The 5 People on the Ski Slopes
type:
quotation
text:
His books were fuel for the revolution.
type:
example
text:
Money is the fuel for economy.
type:
example
text:
That film was nightmare fuel!
type:
example
text:
Small arms ammunition is the fuel that keeps many of the world’s conflicts raging.
ref:
2006 June 15, “Ammunition: the fuel of conflict”, in Oxfam International
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
senses_topics:
|
11456 | word:
fuel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fuel (third-person singular simple present fuels, present participle (US) fueling or fuelling, simple past and past participle (US) fueled or fuelled)
forms:
form:
fuels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fueling
tags:
US
participle
present
form:
fuelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
fueled
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
fueled
tags:
US
past
form:
fuelled
tags:
participle
past
form:
fuelled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
fuel
etymology_text:
From Middle English fewell, from Old French fouaille, feuaille (“firewood, kindling”), from feu (“fire”), from Late Latin focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”). Cognate with Spanish fuego (“fire”), and Portuguese fogo (“fire”). Doublet of focus.
senses_examples:
text:
The workings now employ ten twin-units, which are fuelled at Hornsey but return to Cambridge diesel depot for their weekly maintenance; [...].
ref:
1959 May, “Talking of Trains: By diesel m.u. to Moorgate”, in Trains Illustrated, page 235
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To provide with fuel.
To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.
senses_topics:
|
11457 | word:
ununennium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ununennium
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Systematic element name.
senses_examples:
text:
Element 119: Ununennium (Uue) This has yet to be reported. From its position in the periodic table, in group 1 below francium, this element should have the physical properties of an alkali metal and, were it long-lived enough, the element should display the singly-charged ion M⁺ as its most favoured chemical state.
ref:
2001, John Emsley, “The Elements (A–Z)”, in Nature’s Building Blocks: An A–Z Guide to the Elements, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 2002 printing, page 468
type:
quotation
text:
"[…] Clemson had element 119 and somehow it attached itself to the oxygen atoms on Earth. The commission wants this element 119 to be called Ununennium based on the element number, one, one, and nine." / Sandi speaks into the telephone, "That is ridiculous! Can't you change the name of the element to the person that found the gas cloud back at SETI, Rich Tolt?" / "I can make a recommendation to the rest of the commission, but rarely do they change names. The names for the next ten elements have been chosen based on the element number and the Latin names of that number to make it easier for the world."
ref:
2007, Steven Comas, chapter 10, in The Trojan Horse Cloud, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
Our question at the beginning of this essay was "are there more elements to be discovered?" The next elements would be ununennium (atomic number 119) and unbinilium (atomic number 120). The problems in trying to produce these elements by accelerating an ion beam into a target are the short half-lives of possible target elements and the extended times required for a successful observation of a new element. So far, elements 119 and 120 have eluded discovery. But you can expect that scientists will continue to search for new elements.
ref:
2017, Darrell D. Ebbing, Steven D. Gammon, “Atoms, Molecules, and Ions”, in General Chemistry, 11th edition, Boston, Mass.: Cengage Learning, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 119 (symbol Uue).
senses_topics:
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11458 | word:
acaulose
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acaulose (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
acaulous
senses_topics:
|
11459 | word:
samarium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
samarium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
After samarskite, in turn honoring Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Sm) with an atomic number of 62, a moderately hard silvery metal that slowly oxidizes in air.
senses_topics:
|
11460 | word:
accentuality
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accentuality
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accentual + -ity.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being accentual.
senses_topics:
|
11461 | word:
accentuable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accentuable
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accentuate + -able.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of being accentuated
senses_topics:
|
11462 | word:
ununseptium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ununseptium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The systematic element name for the chemical element with atomic number 117 (symbol Uus). The element is now named tennessine.
senses_topics:
|
11463 | word:
mer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mer (plural mers)
forms:
form:
mers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
A polymer is a compound formed of repeating structural units called mers, whose atoms share electrons to form very large molecules.
ref:
2010, Mikell P. Groover, Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing (4th Edition), page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A repeat unit: a structural unit which through repetition forms a polymer.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
11464 | word:
mer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mer pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
There are mermaids and mermen everywhere. They swim above us and linger in nooks and arched doorways. It's impossible not to stare. The mer are as diverse as humans—all ages, size, shape, and color.
ref:
2013, Missy Fleming, Into the Deep, page 65
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
merpeople
senses_topics:
fantasy |
11465 | word:
mer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mer (plural mers)
forms:
form:
mers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See mayor.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of mayor and mair.
senses_topics:
|
11466 | word:
accedence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accedence (countable and uncountable, plural accedences)
forms:
form:
accedences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accede + -ence.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of acceding
senses_topics:
|
11467 | word:
accentually
word_type:
adv
expansion:
accentually (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accentual + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.
senses_topics:
|
11468 | word:
tantalum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tantalum (countable and uncountable, plural tantalums)
forms:
form:
tantalums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A New Latin word derived by Swedish chemist Anders Gustaf Ekeberg in 1802, from Latin Tantalus, named after Tantalus, alluding to the element's incapacity to absorb acid. See -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Ta) with atomic number 73: a rare, hard, blue-gray, lustrous transition metal that is highly corrosion-resistant.
senses_topics:
|
11469 | word:
molybdenum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
molybdenum (countable and uncountable, plural molybdenums)
forms:
form:
molybdenums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:molybdenum
etymology_text:
From New Latin molybdaenum, from molybdaena (“any of various substances resembling lead”), from Ancient Greek μολύβδαινα (molúbdaina, “a plummet, piece of lead”), from μόλυβδος (mólubdos, “lead; graphite”), from an Anatolian word cognate with Lydian 𐤪𐤠𐤭𐤦𐤥𐤣𐤠 (mariwda, “dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *morkʷ-iyo-, from a root *morkʷ- (“dark”), cognate with English murk. Cf. Latin plumbum nigrum, lead. The suffix is + -um (“a chemical element”).
Attested since the last quarter of 18th century.
senses_examples:
text:
The metals at preſent amount to 21 ; only 11 of which were known before the year 1730. Their names are gold, ſilver, platinum, mercury, copper, iron, tin, lead, zinc, antimony, biſmuth, arſenic, cobalt, nickel, manganeſe, tungſten, molybdenum, uranium, tellurium, titanium, chromum.
ref:
1803, “Of Metals”, in George Gleig, editor, Supplement to the Third Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 2nd edition, volume I, page 225
type:
quotation
text:
Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder, […]
ref:
1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 4, in Well Tackled!
type:
quotation
text:
At pH levels below 5, wheat yields may be low, molybdenum may become unavailable to plants, and other trace elements may be concentrated to toxic levels.
ref:
1990, Arthur J. Conacher, “Salt of the Earth”, in Environment, volume 32, number 6, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
a quadruple bond between molybdenums
type:
example
text:
Thus in M₄O₁₁, for example, ¾ of the molybdenums are octahedrally connected and ¼ are tetrahedrally coordinated and, furthermore, the formula is compatible with the existence of one Mo(IV) for every three Mo(VI), so at first glance the compound might appear to be a class I mixed valence system.
ref:
2007, Peter Day, Molecules into Materials: Case Studies in Materials Chemistry—Mixed Valency, Magnetism and Superconductivity, page 233
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Mo) with an atomic number of 42: a silvery metal, not found as a free element, used in steel alloys.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11470 | word:
astatine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
astatine (countable and uncountable, plural astatines)
forms:
form:
astatines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἄστατος (ástatos, “unstable”) + -ine.
senses_examples:
text:
Astatine, for instance, is practically unstudied. It has a name and a place on the periodic table (next to Marie Curie's polonium), but almost nothing else.
ref:
2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 221
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A highly radioactive chemical element (symbol At), one of the halogens, with atomic number 85.
senses_topics:
|
11471 | word:
accentual
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accentual
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accent + -ual.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.
Designating verse rhythms based on stress accents.
senses_topics:
|
11472 | word:
thorium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thorium (usually uncountable, plural thoriums)
forms:
form:
thoriums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Thor + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Th) with atomic number 90: a weakly radioactive, malleable, moderately hard silvery metal that tarnishes black when exposed to air.
senses_topics:
|
11473 | word:
roentgenium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
roentgenium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Roentgen + -ium. Named after Wilhelm Roentgen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Rg) with atomic number 111.
senses_topics:
|
11474 | word:
neodymium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
neodymium (countable and uncountable, plural neodymiums)
forms:
form:
neodymiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
neodymium
etymology_text:
From neo- + (di)dymium.
senses_examples:
text:
Other rare elements, like neodymium, exist in more than one isotopic form, the ratios of which can provide a measure of the depth from which the flow material may ultimately have been derived.
ref:
2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 63
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Nd) with an atomic number of 60: a hard, slightly malleable silvery metal that quickly tarnishes in air and moisture.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11475 | word:
selenium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
selenium (usually uncountable, plural seleniums)
forms:
form:
seleniums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
selenium
etymology_text:
From French sélénium, the name coined by Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius in 1818 from Ancient Greek σελήνη (selḗnē, “moon”) in reference to original confusion with the similar element tellurium.
senses_examples:
text:
Pluck almost any cell from your body and it will have a million or more selenium atoms in it.
ref:
2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Se) with an atomic number of 34, used mainly in glassmaking and pigments and as a semiconductor.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11476 | word:
density
word_type:
noun
expansion:
density (countable and uncountable, plural densities)
forms:
form:
densities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
density
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French densité or Latin densitas.
Morphologically dense + -ity
senses_examples:
text:
In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.
ref:
2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184
type:
quotation
text:
Aquafaba was recovered from 10 commercial canned chickpea products and correlations among aquafaba composition, density, viscosity and foaming properties were investigated. Proton NMR was used to characterize aquafaba composition before and after ultrafiltration through membranes with different molecular weight cut offs (MWCOs of 3, 10, or 50 kDa).
ref:
2018 October 3, Youn Young Shim, Rana Mustafa, Jianheng Shen, Kornsulee Ratanapariyanuch, Martin J. T. Reaney, “Composition and Properties of Aquafaba: Water Recovered from Commercially Canned Chickpeas”, in Journal of Visualized Experiments, volume 132, →DOI, →PMID
type:
quotation
text:
The number of particles per unit volume of a specified volume can be considered to be the particle density for the specified volume.
type:
example
text:
Density, which is genetically linked, deals with the number of strands per square inch on your scalp. Normal density can range from slight to substantial, varying from person to person.
ref:
2007, Lisa Akbari, Every Woman's Guide to Beautiful Hair at Any Age, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
It is vital to use proper keyword density because if your density is too low, your SERP's ranking decreases.
ref:
2010, Alyssa Ast, The Fundamentals of SEO for the Average Joe, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Let's say you get a new customer across town and you don't have any other customers over there. You still need to be competitive with price, but it costs too much money to send crews or a serviceman to one account across town. You need to get more customers over there for margins to exceed the costs of going over there. Once you hit a certain density, you're in the black.
ref:
2010, Neil Gillespie, Discover Your Core, Then Go for More, page 42
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume.
The ratio of one quantity, representing something of interest, to another quantity representing space, area, or extent in which the thing of interest is distributed.
The probability that an outcome will fall into a given range, per unit of that range; the relative likelihood of possible values of a continuous random variable.
Stupidity; denseness.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
mathematics
sciences
statistics
|
11477 | word:
accentless
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accentless (comparative more accentless, superlative most accentless)
forms:
form:
more accentless
tags:
comparative
form:
most accentless
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accent + -less.
senses_examples:
text:
“You were looking up my skirt,” she said flatly, in accentless English.
ref:
2009, Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal, Picador (2015), page 126
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Speaking without an accent.
Spoken without an accent.
Not having any stress (accent).
Having no accent marks.
Having no diacritical marks of any kind.
senses_topics:
|
11478 | word:
lanthanum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lanthanum (countable and uncountable, plural lanthanums)
forms:
form:
lanthanums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:lanthanum
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek λανθάνω (lanthánō, “to escape notice”) + -um (“a chemical element”), because it had gone long undetected in mineral ores.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol La) with an atomic number of 57: a soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes slowly when exposed to air.
An atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11479 | word:
meitnerium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
meitnerium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Meitner + -ium; named for Lise Meitner.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Mt) with atomic number 109.
senses_topics:
|
11480 | word:
subway
word_type:
noun
expansion:
subway (plural subways)
forms:
form:
subways
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
subway
etymology_text:
From sub- + way.
senses_examples:
text:
In 1884 Greathead was part of a syndicate that obtained powers for another subway – 'The City of London & Southwark Subway'. The term 'subway' sounded more sophisticated than 'underground railway', which was associated with the sulphurous Metropolitan, and it would be adopted by New York for its own electric metro when work started on that in 1904.
ref:
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
Just before you leave, the subway comes. You get on. It stops at the next station.
ref:
1981 April 29, Russel Baker, “And Only Sixty Cents”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
At Nairobi the mail waits an hour-and-a-half. The station has three long platforms, mostly covered in awnings, the island connected with the main platform (which is used by the mails in both directions) by a subway.
ref:
1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265
type:
quotation
text:
Heading beneath the tracks via the subway to the immediate north of the station takes us to the Didcot Railway Centre.
ref:
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas.
A train that runs on such an underground railway.
A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way; a metro system.
An underground walkway, tunnel for pedestrians (called pedestrian underpass in US).
An underground route for pipes, sewers, etc.
senses_topics:
|
11481 | word:
subway
word_type:
verb
expansion:
subway (third-person singular simple present subways, present participle subwaying, simple past and past participle subwayed)
forms:
form:
subways
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
subwaying
tags:
participle
present
form:
subwayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
subwayed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
subway
etymology_text:
From sub- + way.
senses_examples:
text:
I suppose I could have subwayed around town in search of froufrou French pastry shops.
ref:
2008 February 13, Melissa Clark, “From Paris, With Hustle”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To travel by underground railway.
senses_topics:
|
11482 | word:
rhenium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rhenium (countable and uncountable, plural rheniums)
forms:
form:
rheniums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Rhenus (“Rhine”), + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metallic chemical element (symbol Re) with an atomic number of 75: a heavy, silvery-gray transition metal.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11483 | word:
bus kanaka
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bus kanaka (plural bus kanakas)
forms:
form:
bus kanakas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Tok Pisin bus kanaka.
senses_examples:
text:
... for some more sophisticated coastal people there was merely the shame at being led by a bush kanaka, ...
ref:
1965, The Papua-New Guinea Elections 1964
text:
Fuyuge men recount with humor their initial encounters with life in Port Moresby during the 1950s. They speak of travelling to the coast in their bark-cloths and realising upon their arrival that they were inappropriately dressed: “We immediately felt bus kanaka [wild, uncivilized].”
ref:
1999, Eric Hirsh, Colonial Units and Ritual Units: Historical Transformations of Persons and Horizons in Highland Papua in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 41, No. 4
text:
2002, Terry O'Farrell, Behind Enemy Lines
Sam’s blues and boots disappeared into his small backpack, his beret was pushed back onto the head at a very jaunty angle and the .303 was slung carelessly over the shoulder. A torn pair of shorts completed the ensemble. In the twinkling of an eye, the immaculate policeman was transformed into a ragged bush kanaka...
text:
2004, K. O. L. Burridge, Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium
Manam islanders knew Mambu: but they could not admit to being led or influenced by a mere bush-Kanaka.
text:
2005, Nancy Sullivan,My Weblog: Stories about living in Papua New Guinea, November 5 http://nancysullivan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/11/11_win_nasin.html
Do you see development here? Are you living like white men? No! We’re still living like bus kanaka.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An uncivilized person; a person who follows a traditional rather than a modern lifestyle.
senses_topics:
|
11484 | word:
white guilt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
white guilt (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Is white guilt supposed to make me forget I'm running a business?
ref:
1997, Quentin Tarantino, Jackie Brown, spoken by Max Cherry (Robert Forster)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The individual or collective guilt felt by some white people for harm resulting from past or current racist treatment of other ethnicities by white people.
senses_topics:
|
11485 | word:
ununpentium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ununpentium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The systematic element name for the chemical element with atomic number 115 (symbol Uup). The element is now named moscovium.
senses_topics:
|
11486 | word:
zirconium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zirconium (countable and uncountable, plural zirconiums)
forms:
form:
zirconiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a New Latin coinage, from zircon. Doublet of jargonium.
senses_examples:
text:
Do you like how I dance? / I've got zirconium pants / Consequential enough / To slip you into a trance
ref:
2005, Tally Hall (lyrics and music), “Ruler of Everything”, in Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Zr) with an atomic number of 40, a strong, lustrous, grey-white transition metal mainly used as a refractory and opacifier.
senses_topics:
|
11487 | word:
rhodium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rhodium (usually uncountable, plural rhodiums)
forms:
form:
rhodiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rhodium
etymology_text:
Borrowed from New Latin rhodium, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), because of the colour of its salts' solutions.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rare, hard, silvery-white, inert metallic chemical element (symbol Rh) with an atomic number of 45.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11488 | word:
fluorine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fluorine (countable and uncountable, plural fluorines)
forms:
form:
fluorines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fluorine
etymology_text:
From Latin fluor (“flow”) + -ine. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1813.
senses_examples:
text:
an octahedron of fluorines
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol F) with an atomic number of 9. It is the lightest of the halogens, a pale yellow-green, highly reactive gas that attacks all metals.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
11489 | word:
flight
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flight (countable and uncountable, plural flights)
forms:
form:
flights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Flight (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English flight, from Old English flyht (“flight”), from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (“flight”), derived from *fleuganą (“to fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). Analyzable as fly + -t (variant of -th).
Cognate with West Frisian flecht (“flight”), Dutch vlucht (“flight”), German Flucht (“flight”) (etymology 2).
senses_examples:
text:
Most birds are capable of flight.
type:
example
text:
The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.
type:
example
text:
a flight of swallows
type:
example
text:
The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight.
type:
example
text:
Where is the departure gate for flight 747? / Go straight down and to the right.
type:
example
text:
She crept up the stairs [...] On she went, across the landing, from which sprang the tall window, and up the next flight until she reached the top.
ref:
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
How many flights is it up?
type:
example
text:
a flight of fancy; a flight of the imagination
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of flying.
An instance of flying.
A collective term for doves or swallows.
A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
A series of stairs between landings.
A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
A paper airplane.
The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
An air force unit.
A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.
Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.
The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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11490 | word:
flight
word_type:
adj
expansion:
flight (comparative more flight, superlative most flight)
forms:
form:
more flight
tags:
comparative
form:
most flight
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Flight (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English flight, from Old English flyht (“flight”), from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (“flight”), derived from *fleuganą (“to fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). Analyzable as fly + -t (variant of -th).
Cognate with West Frisian flecht (“flight”), Dutch vlucht (“flight”), German Flucht (“flight”) (etymology 2).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fast, swift, fleet.
senses_topics:
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11491 | word:
flight
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flight (third-person singular simple present flights, present participle flighting, simple past and past participle flighted)
forms:
form:
flights
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
flighting
tags:
participle
present
form:
flighted
tags:
participle
past
form:
flighted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Flight (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English flight, from Old English flyht (“flight”), from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (“flight”), derived from *fleuganą (“to fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). Analyzable as fly + -t (variant of -th).
Cognate with West Frisian flecht (“flight”), Dutch vlucht (“flight”), German Flucht (“flight”) (etymology 2).
senses_examples:
text:
Riyad Mahrez flighted the free-kick that followed to the far post and Morgan, with not much finesse but plenty of desire, bundled the ball over the line. Cue pandemonium in the stands.
ref:
2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
11492 | word:
flight
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flight (countable and uncountable, plural flights)
forms:
form:
flights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Flight (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Old English flyht, from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti, derived from *fleuhaną (“to flee”). Analyzable as flee + -t (variant of -th). Cognate with Dutch vlucht, German Flucht (etymology 1).
senses_examples:
text:
take flight
text:
the flight of a refugee
text:
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
ref:
1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1
type:
quotation
roman:
The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.
text:
But the sight of her eyes was not a thing to forget. John Dodds said they were the een of a deer with the Devil ahint them; and indeed, they would so appal an onlooker that a sudden unreasoning terror came into his heart, while his feet would impel him to flight.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of fleeing.
senses_topics:
|
11493 | word:
paddler
word_type:
noun
expansion:
paddler (plural paddlers)
forms:
form:
paddlers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From paddle + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who paddles; especially, a person who propels a canoe or kayak by the action of paddling.
senses_topics:
|
11494 | word:
seaborgium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seaborgium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Seaborg + -ium, named for Glenn T. Seaborg.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Sg) with atomic number 106
senses_topics:
|
11495 | word:
berkelium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
berkelium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
After Berkeley, California, because of discovery at UC Berkeley, + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Bk) with an atomic number of 97.
senses_topics:
|
11496 | word:
americium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
americium (usually uncountable, plural americiums)
forms:
form:
americiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Americ(as) + -ium, by analogy with europium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol Am) with an atomic number of 95.
senses_topics:
|
11497 | word:
lutetium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lutetium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Lutetia (“Paris, the capital of France”) + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Lu) with an atomic number of 71, a silvery-white metal which resists corrosion in dry air.
senses_topics:
|
11498 | word:
californium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
californium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From California + -ium. The element was first synthesized at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (then the University of California Radiation Laboratory), thus named after the university and the U.S. state of California.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A strongly radioactive and highly fissile transuranic chemical element (symbol Cf) with an atomic number of 98.
senses_topics:
|
11499 | word:
curium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
curium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Curie + -ium; named after Pierre and Marie Curie.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A highly fissile transuranic chemical element (symbol Cm) with an atomic number of 96.
senses_topics:
|
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