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11500 | word:
daffynition
word_type:
noun
expansion:
daffynition (plural daffynitions)
forms:
form:
daffynitions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of daffy (“mad; eccentric”) + definition
senses_examples:
text:
Daffynitions appear in fictionaries, not dictionaries, and they add hidden dimensions to the words they describe.
ref:
1980, Gyles Daubeney Brandreth, The Joy of Lex: How to Have Fun with 860,341,500 Words, New York: Morrow, page 269
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A form of pun involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word or phrase.
senses_topics:
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11501 | word:
actinium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
actinium (usually uncountable, plural actiniums)
forms:
form:
actiniums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French actinium. actin- + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A radioactive, metallic chemical element (symbol: Ac) with an atomic number of 89; found in uranium ores.
senses_topics:
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11502 | word:
salty
word_type:
adj
expansion:
salty (comparative saltier, superlative saltiest)
forms:
form:
saltier
tags:
comparative
form:
saltiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*séh₂ls
From Middle English salti, equivalent to salt + -y.
Compare Saterland Frisian soaltig (“salty”), West Frisian sâltich (“salty”), Dutch zoutig (“salty”), German Low German soltig (“salty”), German salzig (“salty”).
(coarse; irritated, annoyed): Referencing the sharp, 'spicy' flavor of salt.
(indignant): Perhaps implying the person is a crybaby, shedding salty tears, or derived from the preceding.
senses_examples:
text:
A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.
ref:
2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, “The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel”, in Wired
type:
quotation
text:
At Zipaquirá, the salty ore is taken from the mine in chunks, then thrown into large tanks of water, where the salt is dissolved out. The resulting brine is drawn off into pipelines, containers, or tank trucks and sold […]
ref:
1957, Americas (English Ed.)
type:
quotation
text:
My job was to couple the dumpers, full or empty, then uncouple them at the main shaft, and to open and close the weather door on the trip to the roof galleries, where the salty ore was dynamited and broken down.
ref:
2008, Günter Grass, translated by Michael Henry Heim, Peeling the Onion, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 223
type:
quotation
text:
In the following piece she has some characteristically salty things to say about what happens when law and medicine meet.
ref:
1962, William Henry Davenport, The Good Physician: A Treasury of Medicine
type:
quotation
text:
(In characteristically salty fashion, Sara admits: “I was no doubt a horrible little bitch" at this age.)
ref:
2010, R. Tripp Evans, Grant Wood: A Life, Knopf, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
The court might have been tempted to construe the First Amendment as too momentous — too consequential — to vindicate a disappointed teenager’s salty outburst after being cut from the varsity cheer squad.
ref:
2021 June 24, Justin Driver, “A Cheerleader Lands an F on Snapchat, but a B+ in Court”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Sometimes hosts are a little saltier when the cameras aren’t rolling, but I don’t recall ever hearing any daylight between the views they express on-air and off.
ref:
2023 February 17, Michelle Goldberg, “What Fox News Says When You’re Not Listening”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Plus bits of business involving a salty Russian seafarer and overflying warplanes.
ref:
2015 March 12, Bill Mann, “The film that makes me cry: Local Hero”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I want to beg your pardon for making you salty that night.
ref:
1969, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, Holloway House Publishing, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
Misery can make you blame everybody else for your salty attitude. You think people just don't get where you're coming from. How can so many people be so stupid, you think. Well, your misery is very likely self-inflicted.
ref:
2004, J. Ransom, Colla'd Greens Fuh-ya Soul, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
"I regret being salty and bitchy towards you most of the time. Yesterday's offence is unforgivable, but can you forgive me for the day-to-day bickering in the past?” “Would you even care? Especially if you had not been caught outright[…]"
ref:
2021, SB Akshobhya, The Panipuri Crimes, Sristhi Publishers & Distributors
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tasting of salt.
Containing salt.
Coarse; provocative; earthy.
Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy.
Pertaining to the Sardinian language and those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin ipse (“self”) instead of the Latin ille (“that”).
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
11503 | word:
accentor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accentor (plural accentors)
forms:
form:
accentors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
accentor
etymology_text:
From Latin accentor (“one who sings with another”), from ad + cantor (“singer”), from canō (“sing”). Superficially accent + -or.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any bird of the Eurasian genus Prunella, such as the dunnock.
The ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapilla.
One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
11504 | word:
mendelevium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mendelevium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mendeleev + -ium; named after the scientist Dmitri Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table. The same name was proposed, but rejected, for the earlier-discovered elements berkelium and erbium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Md, formerly Mv) with atomic number 101.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
11505 | word:
caesium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
caesium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin caesius (“sky-blue”), in reference to the radiation spectra, + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol Cs) with an atomic number of 55. It is a soft, gold-colored, highly reactive alkali metal.
senses_topics:
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11506 | word:
carbon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
carbon (countable and uncountable, plural carbons)
forms:
form:
carbons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Antoine Lavoisier
Carbonari
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”).
senses_examples:
text:
Carbon is the most common element in our bodies—indeed, in all living things on earth.
ref:
2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
A methane molecule is made up of a single carbon with four hydrogens.
type:
example
text:
He stepped back and opened his bag and took out a printed pad of D.O.A. forms and began to write over a carbon.
ref:
1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
carbon neutral
type:
example
text:
If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.
ref:
2014 April 25, Martin Lukacs, “Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 190, number 20, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
To trim an arc lamp, first remove the old carbons and carefully and thoroughly wipe the carbon rods, holders, &c. with a clean, dry rag.
ref:
1892, English Mechanic and World of Science, page 444
type:
quotation
text:
carbon bike frame
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material.
An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it.
A sheet of carbon paper.
A carbon copy.
A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
carbon dioxide, in the context of climate change.
A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp.
A plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery.
Ellipsis of carbon fiber (reinforced polymer).
senses_topics:
biology
ecology
natural-sciences
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11507 | word:
carbon
word_type:
verb
expansion:
carbon (third-person singular simple present carbons, present participle carboning, simple past and past participle carboned)
forms:
form:
carbons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
carboning
tags:
participle
present
form:
carboned
tags:
participle
past
form:
carboned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Antoine Lavoisier
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”).
senses_examples:
text:
When I send it, I'll carbon Julia so she's aware.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause (someone) to receive a carbon copy of an email message.
senses_topics:
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11508 | word:
mu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mu (countable and uncountable, plural mus)
forms:
form:
mus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mu
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek μῦ (mû), derived from Phoenician 𐤌𐤌 (mm /mem/, “water”). Doublet of mem.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The 12th letter of the Modern Greek alphabet.
senses_topics:
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11509 | word:
mu
word_type:
intj
expansion:
mu
forms:
wikipedia:
mu
etymology_text:
From Japanese 無 (mu, “nothing, neither yes nor no”).
senses_examples:
text:
Achilles: Oh, but MU is Jōshū’s answer. By saying MU, Jōshū let the other monk know that only by not asking such questions can one know the answer to them.
Tortoise: Jōshū “unasked” the question. […]
Achilles: […] And the answer of “MU” here rejects the premises of the question, which are that one or the other must be chosen.
ref:
1979, Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
type:
quotation
text:
"Mu," said Kelly Dahl.
On one level mu means only yes, but on a deeper level of Zen it was often used by the master when the acolyte asked a stupid, unanswerable or wrongheaded question such as "Does a dog have the Buddha-nature?" The Master would answer only, "Mu," meaning—I say "yes" but mean "no," but the actual answer is: Unask the question.
ref:
1996, Dan Simmons, “Looking for Kelly Dahl”, in The Year's Best Science Fiction, page 424
type:
quotation
text:
The Fifth Patriarch's utterance You say mu [Buddha-nature] because Buddha-nature is emptiness articulates clearly and distinctly the truth that emptiness is not "no". In uttering Buddha-nature-emptiness one does not say "half a pound." One does not say "eight ounces." One says "mu."
ref:
2002, Norman Waddell, Masao Abe, The Heart of Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
A monk once asked Master Joshu, 'Has a dog the Buddha Nature or not?' Joshu said, 'Mu!'
ref:
2010, Joan Price, Sacred Scriptures of the World Religions, page 70
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Neither yes nor no.
senses_topics:
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11510 | word:
mu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mu (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
mu
etymology_text:
From Japanese 無 (mu, “nothing, neither yes nor no”).
senses_examples:
text:
That being the case, we should naturally choose to contemplate mu from morning to night, forgetting everything.
ref:
2012, Omori, Introduction To Zen Training, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
Consequently, though mu is mindlike, the likeness to individual consciousness cannot be pushed very far.
ref:
2012, Dr Robert Wilkinson, Nishida and Western Philosophy
type:
quotation
text:
The monk posed to Chaoi-chou a question: Does a dog have a buddha nature or not?" Chao-chou, without a moment's hesitation, answered, “Mu." (Translated as "No.")
ref:
2013, Sean Murphy, Natalie Goldberg, One Bird, One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories, page xvii
type:
quotation
text:
If mu is mind, consciousness, it is nothing.
ref:
2013, Maura O'Halloran, Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nothingness; nonexistence; the illusory nature of reality.
senses_topics:
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11511 | word:
mu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mu (plural mu)
forms:
form:
mu
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mu
etymology_text:
From Mandarin 畝／亩 (mǔ).
senses_examples:
text:
The Lucky Star Co-operative in Chuwo County on the plains of southern Shansi had, before the anti-Japanese war, 26 wells, 4 water-wheels and 166.1 mou of irrigated fields, 4.82 per cent of its total arable land.]
ref:
[1959 September, Tung Ta-lin [董大林], “The Inevitability of Quick Transition from Lower to Higher Stage of Agricultural Co-operation”, in Agricultural Co-operation in China [中国农业合作化的道路] (China Knowledge Series), 2nd edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
Good news on the summer harvest prevailed in the countryside of Chienchiang County, Hupeh. The county reported remarkable increased in its 600,000 mou of summer food crops this year, surpassing the yield in 1962 which was considered as the best year.]
ref:
[1965 July 9 [1965 June 7], “Chienchiang County Reports Increase in Crops”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 131, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Domestic Service, →OCLC, page DDD 2
type:
quotation
text:
Pengyang county was administered by Guyuan before 1988. In contrast to Guyuan, Pengyang is relatively wealthy. Farmers earn a considerable income through tobacco cultivation, which can yield an annual gross income of Rmb 1,500-2,000 per mu. In 1996, the cultivated area of tobacco in Pengyang was 11,000 mu.⁷
ref:
2004, Peter Ho, “The Wasteland Auction Policy in Northwest China: Solving Environmental Degradation and Rural Poverty?”, in Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 125
type:
quotation
text:
Of 114 village farming families, only ten had more than 30 mu of land and only five had more than 60 mu.
ref:
2007, Chang Liu, Peasants and Revolution in Rural China: Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949, page 87
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit of surface area, currently equivalent to two-thirtieths of a hectare.
senses_topics:
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11512 | word:
dysprosium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dysprosium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek δυσπρόσιτος (dusprósitos, “hard to get”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metallic chemical element (symbol Dy) with atomic number 66: a rare earth element with a metallic silver lustre.
senses_topics:
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11513 | word:
yttrium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yttrium (usually uncountable, plural yttriums)
forms:
form:
yttriums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ytterby + -ium, named after Ytterby, Sweden, the same etymological source as terbium, erbium, and ytterbium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A silvery metallic chemical element (symbol Y) with an atomic number of 39, mainly found in combination with lanthanide elements in rare-earth minerals.
senses_topics:
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11514 | word:
antimony
word_type:
noun
expansion:
antimony (countable and uncountable, plural antimonies)
forms:
form:
antimonies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin antimonium attested in the 11th century; see also the Wikipedia section.
senses_examples:
text:
Deep in the Salmon River Mountains, an Idaho mining company, Perpetua Resources, is proposing a vast open-pit gold mine that would also produce 115 million pounds of antimony — an element that may be critical to manufacturing the high-capacity liquid-metal batteries of the future.
ref:
2021 December 27, Jack Healy, Mike Baker, “As Miners Chase Clean-Energy Minerals, Tribes Fear a Repeat of the Past”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
In quality synergistic additives in a composition use oxide antimonies.
ref:
2005, Al Berlin, Chemical Physics of Pyrolysis, Combustion, and Oxidation, page 21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Sb, from Latin stibium) with an atomic number of 51: in its stable allotrope, a lustrous gray and very brittle metal.
The alloy stibnite.
senses_topics:
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11515 | word:
nobelium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nobelium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Nobel + -ium, after Alfred Nobel.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a transuranic chemical element (symbol No) with an atomic number of 102.
senses_topics:
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11516 | word:
tungsten
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tungsten (countable and uncountable, plural tungstens)
forms:
form:
tungstens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Swedish tungsten (“scheelite”), from tung (“heavy”) + sten (“stone”).
senses_examples:
text:
So far they have built and used a prototype robot to make millionth-of-a-meter scratches in aluminum with a fine tungsten needle.
ref:
1990 April 7, Ivan Amato, “Getting a feel for atoms: 'magic wrist' takes scientists into a new sensory realm”, in Science News
type:
quotation
text:
We have several business houses where tungstens are used as window lights only, and find that in nearly every one the wiring was arranged to get more light, leaving the consumption about the same.
ref:
1909, E. A. Baily, “The Tungsten Lamp Situation in Various Cities”, in Electrical Age, volume XL, number 10, page 262
type:
quotation
text:
Lighting was unimaginative for the standard stock with naked tungsten filament bulbs and metal reflectors. However, all compartments had individual reading lights above the seats with attractive glass shades.
ref:
1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 398
type:
quotation
text:
We apprehend that this is not the acid of a calx ponderoſa, but rather a diſtinct acid conjoined to common calcareous earth, ſince, in fact, in another place, § 97, the tungſten is mentioned as a calx ſaturated with a peculiar acid, perhaps of a metallic nature, for which the author himſelf refers us to the above § 33, and ſeems to think it the ſame as the acid there mentioned.
ref:
1783, “[Review of] Outlines of Mineralogy”, in Monthly Review, volume LXX, number VII, page 47
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rare metallic chemical element (symbol W, from Latin wolframium) with an atomic number of 74.
A light bulb containing tungsten.
scheelite, calcium tungstate
senses_topics:
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
11517 | word:
lawrencium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lawrencium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Lawrence + -ium; named for Ernest Lawrence.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Lr, formerly Lw) with atomic number 103.
senses_topics:
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11518 | word:
hassium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hassium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Hassia (“Hesse”), the location of the institute where the element was first synthesized, + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An artificially-produced transuranic chemical element (symbol Hs) with atomic number 108.
senses_topics:
|
11519 | word:
tellurium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tellurium (countable and uncountable, plural telluriums)
forms:
form:
telluriums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tellurium
etymology_text:
Latin tellūs (“earth”) + -ium
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element with atomic number 52. Symbol: Te. A rare, brittle, mildly toxic, silver-white metalloid.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
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11520 | word:
tellurium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tellurium
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin tellus (“earth”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A variant spelling of tellurion.
senses_topics:
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11521 | word:
phosphorus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
phosphorus (countable and uncountable, plural phosphoruses or phosphori)
forms:
form:
phosphoruses
tags:
plural
form:
phosphori
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
phosphorus
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin phōsphorus, from Ancient Greek φωσφόρος (phōsphóros, “the bearer of light”), from φῶς (phôs, “light”) + φέρω (phérō, “to bear, carry”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a chemical element (symbol P) with an atomic number of 15, that exists in several allotropic forms.
any substance exhibiting phosphorescence; a phosphor
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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11522 | word:
thallium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thallium (countable and uncountable, plural thalliums)
forms:
form:
thalliums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined based on Ancient Greek θαλλός (thallós, “green branch”) (after the color of the radiation spectra), + -ium.
senses_examples:
text:
Environmental authorities in Lüeyang County, Shaanxi province, discovered excessive levels of thallium in two of the Jialing River’s upstream tributaries on Jan. 20, according to a statement Monday. The concentration of thallium that day was 170% higher than the standard for Qingni River, one of the upstream tributaries bordering Gansu province.
ref:
2021 January 27, Li You, “Northwest China Reports Thallium Pollution in Yangtze Tributary”, in Bibek Bhandari, editor, Sixth Tone, archived from the original on 2021-01-27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metallic chemical element (symbol Tl) with atomic number 81: a gray post-transition metal that discolors when exposed to air.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
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11523 | word:
titanium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
titanium (countable and uncountable, plural titaniums)
forms:
form:
titaniums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
titanium
etymology_text:
From Titan + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element, atomic number 22; it is a strong, corrosion-resistant transition metal, used to make light alloys for aircraft etc.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
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11524 | word:
europium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
europium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French europium, from Europe + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metallic chemical element (symbol Eu) with an atomic number of 63.
senses_topics:
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11525 | word:
kappa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kappa (countable and uncountable, plural kappas)
forms:
form:
kappas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κάππα (káppa), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *kapp- (“palm, hand”). Doublet of kaph.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet.
A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
11526 | word:
kappa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kappa (plural kappas)
forms:
form:
kappas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Kappa (folklore)
etymology_text:
From Japanese 河童 (kappa, “water imp”).
senses_examples:
text:
It was not quite possible for a kappa to go pale, but this one managed, shrinking partly into its shell.
ref:
2013, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, Kitsune-Mochi: Kitsune Tales #2, page 94
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tortoise-like demon or imp.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences |
11527 | word:
idea
word_type:
noun
expansion:
idea (plural ideas or (philosophy, rare) ideæ)
forms:
form:
ideas
tags:
plural
form:
ideæ
topics:
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
tags:
plural
rare
wikipedia:
idea
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know; see”). Cognate with French idée. Doublet of idée. Related to idol, idolum, and eidolon.
senses_examples:
text:
The idea that the same experiments always get the same results, no matter who performs them, is one of the cornerstones of science’s claim to objective truth. If a systematic campaign of replication does not lead to the same results, then either the original research is flawed (as the replicators claim) or the replications are (as many of the original researchers on priming contend). Either way, something is awry.
ref:
2013 October 19, “Trouble at the lab”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8858
type:
quotation
text:
The mere idea of you is enough to excite me.
type:
example
text:
Ideas won't go to jail.
ref:
1952, Alfred Whitney Griswold, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
I have an idea of how we might escape.
type:
example
text:
Yeah, that's the idea.
type:
example
text:
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
ref:
2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
He had the wild idea that if he leant forward a little, he might be able to touch the mountain-top.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.
The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.
The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.
An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.
More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.
A purposeful aim or goal; intent
A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.
A musical theme or melodic subject.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
11528 | word:
ruthenium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ruthenium (countable and uncountable, plural rutheniums)
forms:
form:
rutheniums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ruthenium
etymology_text:
Ruthenia + -ium
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metallic chemical element (symbol Ru) with an atomic number of 44.
An atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11529 | word:
bohrium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bohrium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Bohr + -ium, named after Niels Bohr.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Bh) with an atomic number of 107.
senses_topics:
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11530 | word:
polonium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polonium (usually uncountable, plural poloniums)
forms:
form:
poloniums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin polonium, from Medieval Latin Polonia (“Poland”), named after Marie Curie's homeland.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rare, highly radioactive chemical element (symbol Po) with atomic number 84.
senses_topics:
|
11531 | word:
dawn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dawn (third-person singular simple present dawns, present participle dawning, simple past and past participle dawned)
forms:
form:
dawns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dawning
tags:
participle
present
form:
dawned
tags:
participle
past
form:
dawned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
dawn
etymology_text:
Back-formation from dawning. (If the noun rather than the verb is primary, the noun could directly continue dawing.) Compare daw (“to dawn”).
senses_examples:
text:
A new day dawns.
type:
example
text:
I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To begin to brighten with daylight.
To start to appear or be realized.
To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
senses_topics:
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11532 | word:
dawn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dawn (countable and uncountable, plural dawns)
forms:
form:
dawns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dawn
etymology_text:
Back-formation from dawning. (If the noun rather than the verb is primary, the noun could directly continue dawing.) Compare daw (“to dawn”).
senses_examples:
text:
She rose before dawn to meet the train.
type:
example
text:
the dawn of civilization
type:
example
text:
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
ref:
2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
The rising of the sun.
The time when the sun rises.
The earliest phase of something.
senses_topics:
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11533 | word:
uranium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
uranium (countable and uncountable, plural uraniums)
forms:
form:
uraniums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
After Uranus (the planet), + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The element with atomic number 92 and symbol U: a radioactive silvery-grey metal in the actinide series.
senses_topics:
|
11534 | word:
accelerando
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accelerando (plural accelerandos or accelerandoes)
forms:
form:
accelerandos
tags:
plural
form:
accelerandoes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelero.
senses_examples:
text:
The accelerando of the sciences and of technology, their mathematization have beggared both the reach and the veracity of natural language.
ref:
2012, George Steiner, The Poetry of Thought, p. 195
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed.
A passage having this mark.
Accelerating or exponential advancement or development (of a thing).
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
11535 | word:
accelerando
word_type:
adv
expansion:
accelerando (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelero.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
With a gradual increase in speed.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
11536 | word:
delta
word_type:
noun
expansion:
delta (plural deltas)
forms:
form:
deltas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Lena River
delta
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek δέλτα (délta), borrowed from a Phoenician word for "door", ultimately from Proto-Semitic *dalt-. Doublet of dalet.
* (river): from the triangular shape of the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ
* (USSF): from the delta wing, symbol of the USSF, a triangular wing, shaped like the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ
senses_examples:
text:
Nile Delta
type:
example
text:
ΔV - "delta vee"(change in velocity, used in rocketry and orbital mechanics)
type:
example
text:
When you update the file, the system will only save the deltas.
type:
example
text:
This will slow the main code path down, but only by delta.
type:
example
text:
delta winding; delta connection; delta current
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ.
A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.
Alternative letter-case form of Delta from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
The symbol Δ; A change in a quantity, likely from "d" for "difference".
The rate of change in an option value with respect to the underlying asset's price.
A value in delta notation indicating the relative abundances of isotopes.
The set of differences between two versions of a file.
A small but noticeable effect. Compare epsilon.
The angle subtended at the center of a circular arc.
A type of cargo bike that has one wheel in front and two in back.
The closed figure produced by connecting three coils or circuits successively, end for end, especially in a three-phase system.
A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF operations wing, or an army regiment.
a star that is usually the fourth brightest of a constellation.
one of four baryons consisting of up and down quarks with a combined spin of 3/2: Δ⁺⁺ (uuu), Δ⁺ (uud), Δ⁰ (udd), or Δ⁻ (ddd)
Short for delta variant. (variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus)
senses_topics:
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
business
finance
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
geography
natural-sciences
surveying
business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
government
military
politics
war
astronomy
natural-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
medicine
sciences |
11537 | word:
delta
word_type:
verb
expansion:
delta (third-person singular simple present deltas, present participle deltaing, simple past and past participle deltaed)
forms:
form:
deltas
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
deltaing
tags:
participle
present
form:
deltaed
tags:
participle
past
form:
deltaed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Lena River
delta
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek δέλτα (délta), borrowed from a Phoenician word for "door", ultimately from Proto-Semitic *dalt-. Doublet of dalet.
* (river): from the triangular shape of the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ
* (USSF): from the delta wing, symbol of the USSF, a triangular wing, shaped like the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ
senses_examples:
text:
Turingery worked on deltaed key to produce the deltaed contribution of the chi-wheels. Turing's discovery that delta-ing would reveal information otherwise hidden was essential to the developments that followed.
ref:
2007, B. J. Copeland, “Tunny and Colossus: Breaking the Lorenz Schlüsselzusatz traffic”, in Karl de Leeuw, Jan Bergstra, editors, The History of Information Security: A Comprehensive Handbook, Amsterdam: Elsevier, page 458
type:
quotation
text:
The primary function of this command is to delta the product version file (if it has been retrieved for edit). However, prior to deltaing the product version file, the work source tree is searched to verify that no other source files are still waiting to be deltaed.
ref:
1992, Israel Silverberg, Source File Management With SCCS, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, page 166
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To calculate the differences between the characters in an enciphered text and the characters a fixed number of positions previous.
To compare two versions of the same file in order to determine where they differ (where a programmer has made edits).
senses_topics:
computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
11538 | word:
cadmium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cadmium (countable and uncountable, plural cadmiums)
forms:
form:
cadmiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cadmium
etymology_text:
1817, from Ancient Greek Καδμεία (Kadmeía, “calamine”), a cadmium-bearing mixture of minerals, which was named after the king Κάδμος (Kádmos, “Cadmus”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Cd) with an atomic number of 48: a soft, silvery-white metal.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
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11539 | word:
niobium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
niobium (countable and uncountable, plural niobiums)
forms:
form:
niobiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
niobium
etymology_text:
From Niobe + -ium, because of the element's affinity with tantalum.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Nb) with an atomic number of 41: a light grey, crystalline, ductile transition metal used in superconducting materials.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
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11540 | word:
vanadium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vanadium (countable and uncountable, plural vanadiums)
forms:
form:
vanadiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
vanadium
etymology_text:
Vanadis, a name of the goddess Freyja, + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol V) with atomic number 23; it is a transition metal, used in the production of special steels.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
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11541 | word:
feather
word_type:
noun
expansion:
feather (plural feathers)
forms:
form:
feathers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English feþer, from Old English feþer, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”).
See also West Frisian fear, German Low German Fedder, Dutch veder, veer, German Feder, Yiddish פֿעדער (feder), Danish fjer, Swedish fjäder, Icelandic fjöður, Faroese fjøður, Norwegian Bokmål fjær, fjør, Norwegian Nynorsk fjør. Also Ancient Greek πέτομαι (pétomai), Albanian shpend (“bird”), Latin penna, Old Armenian թիռ (tʻiṙ).
senses_examples:
text:
Notice, too, that the shaft is not straight, but bent so that the upper surface of the feather is convex, and the lower concave.
ref:
1873, W. K. Brooks, “A Feather”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume IV, page 687
type:
quotation
text:
Big fellows they were, all of them, their barbaric headdresses and grotesquely painted faces, together with their many metal ornaments and gorgeously coloured feathers, adding to their wild, fierce appearance.
ref:
1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter V, in The Beasts of Tarzan
type:
quotation
text:
Nesting birds pluck some of their own feathers to line the nest, but feather plucking in pet birds is entirely different.
ref:
2000, C. J. Puotinen, The Encyclopedia of Natural Pet Care, page 362
type:
quotation
text:
To some pew purchasers he gave deeds, to others he gave, none, but both were promised security, and both it seems were equally secure, for the pew deed as Mr. Melledge declared to Mr. G. was not worth a feather.
ref:
1823, An Ecclesiastical Memoir of Essex Street Religious Society
type:
quotation
text:
Signal M123 is a conventional 3-aspect colour light with three Junction Indicators - commonly known as 'feathers'.
ref:
2020 December 30, David Allen, “Unusual signals...: Morpeth Signal M123”, in Rail, page 64
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
senses_topics:
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
rail-transport
railways
transport |
11542 | word:
feather
word_type:
verb
expansion:
feather (third-person singular simple present feathers, present participle feathering, simple past and past participle feathered)
forms:
form:
feathers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
feathering
tags:
participle
present
form:
feathered
tags:
participle
past
form:
feathered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English feþer, from Old English feþer, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”).
See also West Frisian fear, German Low German Fedder, Dutch veder, veer, German Feder, Yiddish פֿעדער (feder), Danish fjer, Swedish fjäder, Icelandic fjöður, Faroese fjøður, Norwegian Bokmål fjær, fjør, Norwegian Nynorsk fjør. Also Ancient Greek πέτομαι (pétomai), Albanian shpend (“bird”), Latin penna, Old Armenian թիռ (tʻiṙ).
senses_examples:
text:
Olondaw had taught Hazeleye how to use her bow and arrows, and that each might know the result of his or her own shooting, he had feathered her arrow with white and his own with red. How strange are the events of this life, […]
ref:
1912, Frances, Object-lessons on Temperance, Or, The Indian Maiden and Her White Deer, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
She feathered her arrows in the Seneca fashion, two lengths of feather tied on with a spiral twist, so they would spin in flight. The trick was to glue both sides in place with a little sticky pine sap so they would stay put while she tied them […]
ref:
2007, Thomas Perry, Vanishing Act, Ballantine Books, page 302
type:
quotation
text:
The stylist feathered my hair.
type:
example
text:
After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the damaged left engine’s propeller.
type:
example
text:
Whether or not the ink feathers depends upon the paper or card, and also upon the nature of the dye in the ink.
ref:
1940, Circular of the Bureau of Standards, numbers 426-451, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
c. 1650, Robert Loveday, letter to Mr. C.
The Polonian story, which perhaps may feather some tedious hours.
text:
His breath feathered her lips; her spine, her legs weakened, went soft at the wafting warmth.
ref:
2001, Joan Hohl, Maybe Tomorrow, Zebra Books, page 186
type:
quotation
text:
A soft breeze feathered her face and hair. The smell of honeysuckle blanketed the air. She concentrated on shutting out every sound except the whisper of her heart. Gradually the inner distractions became fewer.
ref:
2006, Gary Parker, Her Daddy's Eyes, Baker Books, page 143
type:
quotation
text:
She feathered her fingers through Mitchell's hair. “Besides, I like you a whole lot better than Frye.”
ref:
2005, Radclyffe, Justice Served, Bold Strokes Books Inc
text:
“Asking me not to breathe would be simpler,” Drake said. “If I could spare you what's coming—” “No.” Drake feathered her fingers through Sylvan's hair. “We fight together.” Sylvan nodded and relaxed in her embrace. Drake didn't fear death.
ref:
2011, L.L. Raand, Blood Hunt, Bold Strokes Books Inc
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
To finely shave or bevel an edge.
To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
To tread, as a cockerel.
To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
To move softly, like a feather.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
carpentry
construction
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
|
11543 | word:
manganese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
manganese (countable and uncountable, plural manganeses)
forms:
form:
manganeses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
manganese
etymology_text:
From French manganèse, from Italian manganese, by alteration from Latin magnesia (“magnesia”), from Ancient Greek μαγνησία (magnēsía), after Μαγνησία (Magnēsía, “Magnesia”). Doublet of Magnesia, magnesia, and magnesium; more at magnet.
senses_examples:
text:
Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.
ref:
2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metallic chemical element (symbol Mn) with an atomic number of 25, not a free element in nature but often found in minerals in combination with iron, and useful in industrial alloy production.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
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11544 | word:
chlorine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chlorine (usually uncountable, plural chlorines)
forms:
form:
chlorines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chlorine
etymology_text:
Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1810 from Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “pale green”) + -ine.
senses_examples:
text:
The mechanism involved in the explosive reaction between swimming pool chlorine (calcium hypochlorite) and brake fluid (polyethylene glycol), a possible improvised explosive mixture, has been studied by means of the gaseous products produced.
ref:
1982, Richard Saferstein, editor, Forensic Science Handbook, volume III, Regents/Prentice Hall, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
Chlorines are useful for disinfecting water and for housekeeping disinfectants.
ref:
1989, Carol Taylor, Carol Lillis, Priscilla LeMone, Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Nursing Care, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 513
type:
quotation
text:
Of the chemical solutions, chlorine tablets will kill many pathogens, but not some parasites like giardia and amoebic cysts.
ref:
2000, Frances Linzee Gordon, Ethiopia, Eritrea & Djibouti, Lonely Planet Publications, page 85
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A toxic, green, gaseous chemical element (symbol Cl) with an atomic number of 17.
A single atom of this element.
A chlorine-based bleach or disinfectant.
senses_topics:
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11545 | word:
acceder
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acceder (plural acceders)
forms:
form:
acceders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accede + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] lawful covenants, made by the greater part of a society bind the whole, and every future acceder to it,—at least, unless the minority o[f] acceders have, by a proper dissent, diverted the obligation from themselves […]
ref:
1780, John Brown, The Absurdity and Perfidy of All Authoritative Toleration of Gross Heresy, Glasgow, Letter 2, p. 128
type:
quotation
text:
He mentions this, not, of course, for readers in general, but for the sake of those daily acceders to the list of the reading public, whose knowledge of books is not yet equal to their love of them.
ref:
1835, Leigh Hunt, Captain Sword and Captain Pen, London: Charles Knight, Advertisement, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who accedes.
senses_topics:
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11546 | word:
cerium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cerium (usually uncountable, plural ceriums)
forms:
form:
ceriums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ceres (“a recently discovered asteroid”) + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Ce) with an atomic number of 58, a very soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes when exposed to air.
senses_topics:
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11547 | word:
xenon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
xenon (usually uncountable, plural xenons)
forms:
form:
xenons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ξένον (xénon), neuter of ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol Xe) with an atomic number of 54. It is a colorless, odorless, unreactive noble gas, used notably in camera flash technology.
senses_topics:
|
11548 | word:
hafnium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hafnium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Hafnia (“Copenhagen”) + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Hf) with an atomic number of 72: a lustrous, silvery-grey tetravalent transition metal.
senses_topics:
|
11549 | word:
bleeding edge
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bleeding edge (plural bleeding edges)
forms:
form:
bleeding edges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of bleed + leading edge, and metaphorically alluding to the cutting edge (“forefront or position of greatest advancement in some field”) as a double-edged sword.
senses_examples:
text:
on the bleeding edge of drone technology
type:
example
text:
They would be the creators of strategy, generators of action and the bleeding edge of the church, ever pushing toward the front lines of conflict.
ref:
1968, Scott Francis Brenner, Ways of Worship for New Forms of Mission, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
A few leading edge (some say "bleeding" edge) users have stepped into the arena and their experiences have helped sharpen our perception of what the electronic office can be.
ref:
1977, Infosystems, volume 24, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
The motion-captured ape characters are the bleeding edge of digital effects, rarely short of impressive.
ref:
2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The Ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes Ends Up Surrendering to Formula”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2017-11-27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The situation produced when the image extends beyond the nominal margin.
Something too new and untested to be reliable or to have any assurance of safety; the figurative place where such things exist.
senses_topics:
cartography
geography
media
natural-sciences
printing
publishing
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology |
11550 | word:
Scandinavian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Scandinavian (plural Scandinavians)
forms:
form:
Scandinavians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Scandinavian
etymology_text:
From Scandinavia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone from Scandinavia.
senses_topics:
|
11551 | word:
Scandinavian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Scandinavian (comparative more Scandinavian, superlative most Scandinavian)
forms:
form:
more Scandinavian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Scandinavian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Scandinavian
etymology_text:
From Scandinavia + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
ref:
2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Scandinavia.
Of or relating to the North Germanic family of languages to which Swedish, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Danish, Icelandic, and Faeroese belong.
senses_topics:
|
11552 | word:
gadolinium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gadolinium (countable and uncountable, plural gadoliniums)
forms:
form:
gadoliniums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after chemist Johan Gadolin, a Swedish-speaking Finn, + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Gd) with atomic number 64: a ductile silvery-white metal.
senses_topics:
|
11553 | word:
rubidium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rubidium (usually uncountable, plural rubidiums)
forms:
form:
rubidiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rubidium
etymology_text:
A New Latin word derived by German chemist R. W. Bunsen in 1861, from Latin rūbidus (“red”) because its spectrum has two red lines.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol Rb) with an atomic number of 37. It is a soft, highly reactive alkali metal.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11554 | word:
cobalt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cobalt (usually uncountable, plural cobalts)
forms:
form:
cobalts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cobalt
etymology_text:
From German Kobalt, formerly also Kobald, ‑olt, ‑old, ‑elt, ‑el, apparently the same word as Kobold (“goblin”), from Middle High German (see Kobold for more).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.
Cobalt blue.
senses_topics:
|
11555 | word:
café
word_type:
noun
expansion:
café (plural cafés)
forms:
form:
cafés
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
café
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from French café (“coffee; coffee shop”). Doublet of caffè and coffee.
senses_examples:
text:
1982, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Chinese Café / Unchained Melody”:
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises.
A small restaurant of any genre.
senses_topics:
|
11556 | word:
gallium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gallium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named by its discoverer Lecoq, after Latin Gallia (“Gaul”). It was claimed that Lecoq had named the element after himself, since gallus is the Latin translation of the French le coq, but Lecoq denied this in an article of 1877.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Ga) with an atomic number of 31; a soft bluish metal.
senses_topics:
|
11557 | word:
rutherfordium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rutherfordium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Ernest Rutherford
rutherfordium
etymology_text:
From Rutherford + -ium, named for Ernest Rutherford.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Rf) with an atomic number of 104.
A rejected name for seaborgium.
A rejected name for lawrencium.
senses_topics:
|
11558 | word:
neptunium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
neptunium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Neptune + -ium, after the planet. The previous element is uranium, named after the previous planet: Uranus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The transuranic chemical element with atomic number 93 and symbol Np.
senses_topics:
|
11559 | word:
krypton
word_type:
noun
expansion:
krypton (countable and uncountable, plural kryptons)
forms:
form:
kryptons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
krypton
etymology_text:
Neuter form of Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol Kr) with an atomic number of 36. It is a colourless, odourless noble gas that only reacts with fluorine. It is one of the rarest gases in the Earth's atmosphere.
An atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11560 | word:
strontium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
strontium (usually uncountable, plural strontiums)
forms:
form:
strontiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
strontium
etymology_text:
Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, after the earlier term strontianite, for the name of the Scottish town Strontian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The metallic chemical element (symbol Sr) with an atomic number of 38. It is a soft, reactive, silvery alkaline earth metal.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11561 | word:
mile
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mile (plural miles or (UK colloquial) mile)
forms:
form:
miles
tags:
plural
form:
mile
tags:
UK
colloquial
plural
wikipedia:
mile
etymology_text:
From Middle English myle, mile, from Old English mīl, from Proto-West Germanic *mīliju, a borrowing of Latin mīlia, mīllia, plural of mīle, mīlle (“mile”) (literally ‘thousand’ but used as a short form of mīlle passūs (“a thousand paces”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Turn left in 1.2 miles.
type:
example
text:
You need to go about three mile down the road. (UK colloquial plural)
type:
example
text:
Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
ref:
1892, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate: A Novel, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
The shot missed by a mile.
type:
example
text:
The runners competed in the mile.
type:
example
text:
five miles over the speed limit
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.
An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
Any similarly large distance.
A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
|
11562 | word:
bismuth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bismuth (countable and uncountable, plural bismuths)
forms:
form:
bismuths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Pepto-Bismol
etymology_text:
From German Wismuth, from Middle High German wismāt, from Latin bisemūtum, from Arabic بِسِيمُوتِيُّون (bisīmūtiyyūn), from Ancient Greek ψιμύθιον (psimúthion, “white lead”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Bi) with an atomic number of 83: a brittle silvery-white metal.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11563 | word:
yu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yu (countable and uncountable, plural yu)
forms:
form:
yu
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
yu
etymology_text:
From Chinese 玉 (yù).
senses_examples:
text:
A group of slenderer yu also survive from the Shang into the early Chou period, though they are rarer than the other design […] A yu with square body in the Hakuzuru Museum is the finest of these.
ref:
1962, William Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
The Yu, although of the hardness of rock crystal, is worked into an endless variety of forms […]
ref:
1818, Clarke Abel, Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
Another stone with which it would be interesting to compare it is the celebrated yu stone of the Chinese, which Dr. Abel, in his work on China, conjectured to be a species of nephrite […]
ref:
1826, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.
Jade, nephrite or jadeite.
senses_topics:
archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
|
11564 | word:
yu
word_type:
pron
expansion:
yu
forms:
wikipedia:
yu
etymology_text:
See you.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Eye dialect spelling of you.
senses_topics:
|
11565 | word:
yu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yu (plural yus)
forms:
form:
yus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
yu
etymology_text:
From Russian ю (ju).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The letter Ю, ю.
senses_topics:
|
11566 | word:
iodine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
iodine (usually uncountable, plural iodines)
forms:
form:
iodines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
iodine
etymology_text:
From French iode + -ine, from Ancient Greek ἰοειδής (ioeidḗs, “violet”). Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1814.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol: I) with an atomic number of 53; one of the halogens.
An antiseptic incorporating the element.
An iodide.
senses_topics:
|
11567 | word:
iodine
word_type:
verb
expansion:
iodine (third-person singular simple present iodines, present participle iodining, simple past and past participle iodined)
forms:
form:
iodines
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
iodining
tags:
participle
present
form:
iodined
tags:
participle
past
form:
iodined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
iodine
etymology_text:
From French iode + -ine, from Ancient Greek ἰοειδής (ioeidḗs, “violet”). Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1814.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to treat with iodine.
senses_topics:
|
11568 | word:
francium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
francium (usually uncountable, plural franciums)
forms:
form:
franciums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Marguerite Perey
francium
etymology_text:
From French francium, from France + -ium (after the native country of Marguerite Perey).
senses_examples:
text:
The most elusive element of all, however, appears to be francium, which is so rare that it is thought that our entire planet may contain, at any given moment, fewer than twenty francium atoms.
ref:
2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 221
type:
quotation
text:
Notice that franciums are balanced without even thinking in moles, atoms, or whatever.
ref:
1999, Peter J. Krieger, Understanding Chemical Principles: A Learning Companion, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
(a) Radons and poloniums are compared, (b) poloniums and astatines are compared and (c) radons and franciums are compared.
ref:
2007, Carl J. Gross, Witold Nazarewicz, Krzysztof P. Rykaczewski, The 4th International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses, page 180
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol Fr) with an atomic number of 87. It is an intensely radioactive alkali metal that is not found in nature.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11569 | word:
Scandinavia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Scandinavia
forms:
wikipedia:
Scandinavia
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin Scandināvia, from Proto-Germanic *Skadinawjō (“Scadia island”) (compare Old English Sċedeniġ, Old Norse Skáney > Swedish Skåne (“southern tip of Sweden, Scania”)), with the suffix *awjō (“island”) (compare Old English īġ, īeġ (“island”), whence dialectal modern English ey; Old Norse ey (“island”)). Doublet of Scania.
senses_examples:
text:
The Faroes are an obscure corner of Scandinavia and, apart from Lapland, Scandinavia is perhaps the most obscure corner of the world, ethnographically speaking.
ref:
1987, Jonathan Wylie, The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History
type:
quotation
text:
Internet banking has become popular in Finland and other parts of Scandinavia, for a variety of reasons.
ref:
2002, Kenneth R. Evans, Lisa K. Scheer, editors, 2002 AMA Winter Educators’ Conference: Marketing Theory and Applications, volume 13, page 423
type:
quotation
text:
And within Scandinavia, Iceland faces an epidemic of sexual violence, with twice as many reported rapes per capita as other Nordic countries.
ref:
2023, Matt Thornton, The Gift of Violence: Practical Knowledge for Surviving and Thriving in a Dangerous World, page 103
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Denmark, Norway, and Sweden collectively and sometimes Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands.
The Scandinavian Peninsula.
senses_topics:
|
11570 | word:
fermium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fermium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Fermi + -ium; named for Enrico Fermi.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Fm) with an atomic number of 100.
senses_topics:
|
11571 | word:
ytterbium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ytterbium (usually uncountable, plural ytterbiums)
forms:
form:
ytterbiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac
Ytterby
etymology_text:
From Ytterby + -ium, named after Ytterby, Sweden, the same etymological source as yttrium, terbium, and erbium.
senses_examples:
text:
At a meeting of the Russian Chemical Society held October 20, 1881 (and reported in the Bulletin de la Société Chimique de Paris, for August, 1882), Mendelejeff [Dmitri Mendeleev], the distinguished author of the periodic law, remarked that only two of the recently announced elements—scandium and ytterbium—had been satisfactorily confirmed. These have been obtained in a pure state by [Lars Fredrik] Nilson, and neither of them has absorption spectra.
ref:
1883, H[enry] Carrington Bolton, “List of New Elements Announced since 1877”, in An Account of the Progress in Chemistry in the Year 1882. … From the Smithsonian Report for 1882, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
The lanthanides samarium, europium and ytterbium possess relatively stable and long-known dispositive states.
ref:
1991, John D. Corbett, “Coproportionation Routes to Reduced Lanthanide Halides”, in G[erd] Meyer, L[ester] R. Morss, editors, Synthesis of Lanthanide and Actinide Compounds (Topics in F-element Chemistry; 2), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 160
type:
quotation
text:
Ytterbium is a silvery, soft, malleable, and ductile metal with a lustrous metallic shine. It is slightly reactive in air or water at room temperatures. Ytterbium is located next to last of the rare-earths in the lanthanide series.
ref:
2006, Robert E. Krebs, “Guide to the Elements”, in The History and Use of Our Earth's Chemical Elements: A Reference Guide, 2nd edition, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, page 301
type:
quotation
text:
Microstructural optical fibers have been developed that have utilized phosphate-based glasses due to their ability to solubilize rare earth components such as ytterbium, which give the fibers their high light absorption and amplification per unit length.
ref:
2015, E. A. Abou Neel, V. Salih, J. C. Knowles, “Phosphate-based Glasses”, in Paul Ducheyne, editor, Comprehensive Biomaterials, volumes I (Metallic, Ceramic and Polymeric Biomaterials), Amsterdam: Elsevier, page 289
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metallic chemical element (symbol Yb) with an atomic number of 70.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11572 | word:
plinth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plinth (plural plinths)
forms:
form:
plinths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
plinth
etymology_text:
From French plinthe, from Latin plinthus, from Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos, “brick”).
senses_examples:
text:
The queen placed the vase on the plinth so the cupbearer could fill it with flowers.
type:
example
text:
There appears to be no definite information about the origin of the two large boulders, mounted on plinths, on the platforms of St. Anne's Park Station, Bristol.
ref:
1948 July and August, “The Why and The Wherefore: Boulders at St Anne's Park Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 280
type:
quotation
text:
The station building forms a street-level portal and ticket hall, connected by staircases and escalators to the sub-surface platforms. The whole structure is designed as a plinth for a future block of buildings above.
ref:
1951 September, “Reconstruction of Sloane Square Station, London”, in Railway Magazine, page 634
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based.
The bottom course of a wall.
A base or pedestal beneath a cabinet.
senses_topics:
|
11573 | word:
einsteinium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
einsteinium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Einstein + -ium. Named after Albert Einstein.
senses_examples:
text:
Einsteinium, the 99th element of the periodic table, was discovered in the fallout of the first hydrogen bomb, detonated by the United States in the Marshall Islands on November 1, 1952.
ref:
2021 February 3, Becky Ferreira, “Scientists Just Studied a Dangerous Element Discovered in a 50s Nuke Test”, in VICE
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Es) with atomic number 99: a soft, silvery, paramagnetic metal.
senses_topics:
|
11574 | word:
abbé
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abbé (plural abbés)
forms:
form:
abbés
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from French abbé (“abbot”), from Latin abbās (“abbot”). Doublet of abbot.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A French abbot, the (male) head of an abbey.
An honorific title for a member of the French clergy.
senses_topics:
|
11575 | word:
iridium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
iridium (countable and uncountable, plural iridiums)
forms:
form:
iridiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
international scientific vocabulary
etymology_text:
From international scientific vocabulary, from the New Latin.
senses_examples:
text:
Iridium is extremely rare on the surface of the earth but much more common in meteorites.
ref:
2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, page 75
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Ir) with an atomic number of 77: a very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum group.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11576 | word:
terbium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
terbium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ytterby + -ium, named after Ytterby, Sweden, the same etymological source as yttrium, erbium, and ytterbium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metallic chemical element (symbol Tb) with an atomic number of 65: a soft, silvery-white, rare earth metal that is malleable and ductile.
senses_topics:
|
11577 | word:
indium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
indium (usually uncountable, plural indiums)
forms:
form:
indiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
indium
etymology_text:
Coined as a New Latin term from German Indigo (“indigo”), based on the color of its spectral lines.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol In) with an atomic number of 49: a soft silvery-white metal.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11578 | word:
ol
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ol (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nonstandard form of old.
senses_topics:
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11579 | word:
plutonium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plutonium (usually uncountable, plural plutoniums)
forms:
form:
plutoniums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
plutonium
etymology_text:
After Pluto (the entity formerly considered to be a planet) + -ium.
senses_examples:
text:
For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the processing of lower grades of radioactive waste for off-site storage.
ref:
2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 20
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The transuranic chemical element with atomic number 94 and symbol Pu: a silvery-gray fissile radioactive actinide metal that tarnishes when exposed to air.
Alternative form of ploutonion
senses_topics:
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11580 | word:
osmium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
osmium (countable and uncountable, plural osmiums)
forms:
form:
osmiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ὀσμή (osmḗ, “smell”) (because of the strong smell of its oxide) + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Os) with atomic number 76: a hard, brittle, heavy, bluish-white transition metal found as a trace element in alloys, mostly in platinum ores.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11581 | word:
germanium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
germanium (countable and uncountable, plural germaniums)
forms:
form:
germaniums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
germanium
etymology_text:
From Latin Germānia (“Germany”) + -ium.
senses_examples:
text:
This equipment, which includes transformers, germanium rectifiers and smoothing apparatus, has been designed to allow the existing electric multiple-unit traction motors to operate on rectified alternating current.
ref:
1959 March, “Talking of Trains: New B.R. locomotive orders”, in Trains Illustrated, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
The isolated disordered regions and the amorphous layer have widely different anneal behavior. In the case of germanium and silicon, the isolated disordered regions anneal at moderate temperatures of approximately 200° and 300° C, respectively. The amorphous layers also anneal in a characteristic fashion, but at appreciably higher temperatures, i.e., at approximately 600° C in silicon and 400° C in germanium.
ref:
1970, James W[alter] Mayer, Lennart Eriksson, John A[rthur] Davies, “General Features of Ion Implantation”, in Ion Implantation in Semiconductors: Silicon and Germanium, New York, N.Y.: Academic Press, →OCLC, page 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Ge) with an atomic number of 32: a lustrous, hard-brittle, grayish-white metalloid in the carbon group.
An atom of this element.
senses_topics:
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11582 | word:
premier
word_type:
adj
expansion:
premier (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
premier (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French premier (adjective), from Latin prīmārius. Doublet of primary.
senses_examples:
text:
2004, Philip Moore, Scouting an Anthropology of Sport, Anthropologica, Volume 46, Number 1, Canadian Anthropology Society, page 40,
This failure, for a team associated with one of the premier Australian Rules Football teams with the longest of traditions, is truly enormous.
text:
2011, Kate Askew, Dot. Bomb Australia, Read How You Want, page 70,
If they′d followed the advice they had received more carefully, they would have paired up with John Fairfax Holdings, later Fairfax Media, Australia′s premier independent media company.
text:
South Africa′s golfing greats battle it out on one of the country′s premier courses.
ref:
2011, Pippa de Bruyn, Keith Bain, Frommer′s South Africa, 7th edition, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
PREMIER, a. This French word, which signifies first, is used by English Heralds to signify the most ancient Peer of any Degree by Creation; as Premier Baron, &c.]
ref:
[1777, Antoine Pyron du Marte, Mr. Porny, The Elements of Heraldry
type:
quotation
text:
[…]dau. of Lord Forbes, Premier Baron of Scotland (the Cumine family were of very ancient date[…])
ref:
1882, Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, page 1390
type:
quotation
text:
"THE PREMIER DUKES OF FRANCE. " It will be seen from the autograph appended [...] He was the first to arrive, but it was to his coachman that he owed it that he became the premier Duke of France.
ref:
1890, William Thomas Stead, The Review of Reviews, page 327
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Foremost; first or highest in quality or degree.
Most ancient; first to hold a specified status.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
11583 | word:
premier
word_type:
noun
expansion:
premier (plural premiers)
forms:
form:
premiers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
premier
premier (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French premier (adjective), from Latin prīmārius. Doublet of primary.
senses_examples:
text:
1871 July 29, “Our Tyrant”, The Spectator, Volume 303, Issues 9308-9315, page 910,
Mr. Gladstone had literally no option. Not to coerce the Lords was to coerce the Commons to continue purchase in spite of their repeated votes for its abolition, and this the Premier had as little the power as the will to do.
text:
More surprising than the company′s activities and interests were those of the premier of Ontario, Mitchell Hepburn.
ref:
1974, Irving M. Abella, On Strike; Six Key Labour Struggles in Canada, 1919-1949, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
The major concern of most of the premiers who attended the 1887 conference was, as Macdonald well understood, to put pressure upoon Ottawa to amend the B.N.A. Act to increase the subsidies paid to the provinces by tying them to current population levels rather than those of 1860.
ref:
1986, R. Kenneth Carty, National Politics and Community in Canada, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
John Forrest had dominated the fledgling state of Western Australia, serving as premier for the previous decade.
ref:
2007, Patrick Moray Weller, Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901-2006: Practice, Principles, Performance, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
In 1890 it was South Australian Premier Charles Cameron Kingston who first proposed a system of compulsory conciliation and arbitration to deal with industrial unrest.
ref:
2009, Andrew Stewart, edited by John Spoehr, Chapter 16: Industrial Relations: State of South Australia: From Crisis to Prosperity?, page 302
type:
quotation
text:
In 2009 Kristina Keneally became Labor premier in NSW in similar circumstances to her predecessors in Western Australia and Victoria - a Labor government that was in deep trouble because of mismanagement and corruption scandals.
ref:
2011, Jennifer Curtin, Marian Sawer, “4: Oceania”, in Gretchen Bauer, Manon Tremblay, editors, Women in Executive Power: A Global Overview, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
1983, Guo Zhou, China & the World, Volume 4, Beijing Review, page 13,
This shows that our policy of strengthening friendly ties with Africa as developed by Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai is a correct one and that it has won popular support in Africa.
text:
Actual decision-making power in China resides in the state′s executive organs and in the CCP. At the national level the top government executive organ is the State Council, which is led by the premier.
ref:
1998, The New Encyclopædia Britannica, volume 16, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
So, in the case of Russia and some other states, the head of state is the president (who is elected) and who then can name the premier and the cabinet ministers. The intent of this system is for the president to be popularly elected and to exercise political leadership, while the premier runs the everyday operations of government and leads the legislative power.
ref:
2008, Steffen W. Schmidt, Mack C. Shelley, Barbara A. Bardes, American Government & Politics Today, page 470
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.
The prime minister.
The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.
The leader of a state or provincial government and cabinet.
The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government.
The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.
The champion team of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
senses_topics:
government
politics
government
politics
government
politics
nautical
transport
|
11584 | word:
premier
word_type:
verb
expansion:
premier (third-person singular simple present premiers, present participle premiering, simple past and past participle premiered)
forms:
form:
premiers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
premiering
tags:
participle
present
form:
premiered
tags:
participle
past
form:
premiered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
premier (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French premier (adjective), from Latin prīmārius. Doublet of primary.
senses_examples:
text:
The composer invited all his friends when they premiered the movie he orchestrated, we got to see it before anyone but the crew.
type:
example
text:
Beethoven at first promised Schuppanzigh the right to premier Opus 127, but Linke, cellist in Schuppanzigh′s Quartet, had also received Beethoven′s permission to premier the work at a special benefit concert for himself.
ref:
1998, John Herschel Baron, Intimate Music: A History of the Idea of Chamber Music, page 231
type:
quotation
text:
So what I want to do is try to premier the new piece with the other piece, and have just a big splash in the city.
ref:
2000, W. Royal Stokes, Living the Jazz Life: Conversations With Forty Musicians About Their Careers in Jazz, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
To premier the record and to show that they were still able to perform, the Stones made a surprise appearance at the New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert on May 12 in Wembley Stadium.
ref:
2010, Murry R. Nelson, The Rolling Stones: A Musical Biography, page 56
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perform, display or exhibit for the first time.
To govern in the role of premier.
senses_topics:
|
11585 | word:
calcium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
calcium (countable and uncountable, plural calciums)
forms:
form:
calciums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
calcium
etymology_text:
Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from Latin calx (“lime, limestone”) because it occurs in limestone.
senses_examples:
text:
Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.
ref:
2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (Symbol Ca), with an atomic number 20. It is a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks.
An atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11586 | word:
boron
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boron (usually uncountable, plural borons)
forms:
form:
borons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
boron
etymology_text:
From the stem of borax + -on (ending used to form names of substances). Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy as a modification of his earlier word boracium.
senses_examples:
text:
The B₆-type octahedral borons are each bonded to five other boron atoms; four are part of the same octahedron, and one is external to this octahedron.
ref:
1976, Allen M[yron] Alper, editor, Phase Diagrams: Materials Science and Technology (Refractory Materials; 6), New York, N.Y., London: Academic Press, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
For each X point, four borons in the same plane composing a B₆ cluster provide these orbitals.
ref:
2001 August 10, J. Akimitsu, K. Takenawa, K. Suzuki, H. Harima, Y. Kuramoto, “High-Temperature Ferromagnetism in CaB₂C₂”, in Science, volume 293, number 5532, →DOI, pages 1125–1127
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol B) with an atomic number of 5, which is a metalloid found in its pure form as a dark amorphous powder.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11587 | word:
natural
word_type:
adj
expansion:
natural (comparative more natural, superlative most natural)
forms:
form:
more natural
tags:
comparative
form:
most natural
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
natural
etymology_text:
From Middle English natural, borrowed from Old French natural, naturel, from Latin nātūrālis, from nātus, the perfect participle of nāscor (“be born”, verb). Displaced native Old English ġecynde.
senses_examples:
text:
With strong natural sense, and rare force of will, he found himself, when first his mind began to open, a fatherless and motherless child, the chief of a great but depressed and disheartened party, and the heir to vast and indefinite pretensions, which excited the dread and aversion of the oligarchy then supreme in the United Provinces.
ref:
1858, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume II, Longman et al., page 419
type:
quotation
text:
A South African Uber driver is causing excitement with his impressive operatic singing but, however much natural talent you have, it is a long road to La Scala.
ref:
2019 July 10, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The species will be under threat if its natural habitat is destroyed.
type:
example
text:
It's natural for business to be slow on Tuesdays.
type:
example
text:
His prison sentence was the natural consequence of a life of crime.
type:
example
text:
What can be more natural or more moving than the circumſtances in which he deſcribes the behaviour of thoſe women who had loſt their huſbands on this fatal day ?
ref:
1711 May 25, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Spectator, volume I, number 74, page 333
type:
quotation
text:
The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
ref:
2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
She died of natural causes.
type:
example
text:
Cancer patient David Paterson, 81, was close to a natural death when he was suffocated by Heather Davidson, 54, in the bedroom of his care home in North Yorkshire on 11 February.
ref:
2015 June 5, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
There's a wrong note here: it should be C natural instead of C sharp.
type:
example
text:
Natural food is healthier than processed food.
type:
example
text:
[M]y Mother was the natural Daughter of a Scotch Peer by an italian Opera-girl […].
ref:
1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia
type:
quotation
text:
Mrs Taft […] had got it into her head that Mr Lydgate was a natural son of Bulstrode's, a fact which seemed to justify her suspicions of evangelical laymen.
ref:
1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book III, chapter 26
type:
quotation
text:
Dr Erasmus Darwin set up his two illegitimate daughters as the governesses of a school, noting that natural children often had happier (because less pretentious) upbringings than legitimate.
ref:
1990, Roy Porter, English Society in the 18th Century, Penguin, published 1991, page 264
type:
quotation
text:
The first-born in every house, “from the first-born of the Pharaoh on the throne, to the first-born of the captive in the dungeon,” unaccountably found himself enlisted in the ranks of this new power, and estranged from his natural friends.
ref:
1843, John Henry Newman, “The Kingdom of the Saints”, in Parochial Sermons, 4th edition, volume II, J. G. F. & J. Rivington, pages 264–5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Existing in nature.
Existing in the nature of a person or thing; innate, not acquired or learned.
Existing in nature.
Normally associated with a particular person or thing; inherently related to the nature of a thing or creature.
Existing in nature.
As expected; reasonable, normal; naturally arising from the given circumstances.
Existing in nature.
Formed by nature; not manufactured or created by artificial processes.
Existing in nature.
Pertaining to death brought about by disease or old age, rather than by violence, accident etc.
Existing in nature.
Having an innate ability to fill a given role or profession, or display a specified character.
Existing in nature.
Designating a standard trigonometric function of an angle, as opposed to the logarithmic function.
Existing in nature.
Closed under submodules, direct sums, and injective hulls.
Existing in nature.
Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮.
Existing in nature.
Containing no artificial or man-made additives; especially (of food) containing no colourings, flavourings or preservatives.
Existing in nature.
Pertaining to a decoration that preserves or enhances the appearance of the original material; not stained or artificially coloured.
Existing in nature.
Pertaining to a fabric still in its undyed state, or to the colour of undyed fabric.
Existing in nature.
Pertaining to a dice roll before bonuses or penalties have been applied to the result.
Existing in nature.
Not having used anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.
Existing in nature.
Bidding in an intuitive way that reflects one's actual hand.
Pertaining to birth or descent; native.
Having a given status (especially of authority) by virtue of birth.
Pertaining to birth or descent; native.
Related genetically but not legally to one's father; born out of wedlock, illegitimate.
Pertaining to birth or descent; native.
Related by birth; genetically related.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
dice
games
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
bridge
games
|
11588 | word:
natural
word_type:
noun
expansion:
natural (plural naturals)
forms:
form:
naturals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
natural
etymology_text:
From Middle English natural, borrowed from Old French natural, naturel, from Latin nātūrālis, from nātus, the perfect participle of nāscor (“be born”, verb). Displaced native Old English ġecynde.
senses_examples:
text:
I coniecture and assure my selfe that yee cannot be ignorant by what meanes this peace hath bin thus happily both for our proceedings and the welfare of the Naturals concluded […]
ref:
1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond, published 1957, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
He's a natural on the saxophone.
type:
example
text:
natural:
text:
A Noble-man tooke a great liking to a naturall, and had covenanted with his parents to take him from them and to keepe him for his pleaſure, and demanding of the Ideot if he would ſerve him, he made him this anſwere, My Father ſaith he, got me to be his foole of my mother, now if you long to have a foole; go & without doubt you may get one of your owne wife.
ref:
1633, A Banqvet of Jests: or, Change of Cheare. Being a collection, of Moderne Ieſts. Witty Ieeres. Pleaſant Taunts. Merry Tales. The Second Part newly publiſhed, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
‘Sergeant-Major Robinson came in in the middle of it, and you've never seen a man look more surprised in your natural.’
ref:
1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
Chinosole, who stopped straightening her hair and cut it into a natural while at a predominantly white college, was quite uneasy with the style
ref:
2002, Maxine Leeds Craig, Ain't I a Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race, Oxford University Press
type:
quotation
text:
I wanted to do it for so long — throw out my chemically relaxed hair for a natural.
ref:
2012, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Chicken Soup for the African American Soul: Celebrating and Sharing Our Culture One Story at a Time, Simon and Schuster
type:
quotation
text:
Third, it insinuates that black afro hairstyles (e.g., naturals) relate to African cultural heritage, which is largely untrue.
ref:
2015, Carmen M. Cusack, HAIR AND JUSTICE: Sociolegal Significance of Hair in Criminal Justice, Constitutional Law, and Public Policy, Charles C Thomas Publisher, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
> Nina Hartley ¶ 2, unattractive, square "steriod jaw", nice ass, FAKE breasts or small naturals, great sexual presence […] > Marilyn Monroe ¶ 7, decent body, medium NATURALS, stereotypical "godess/playboy" blond/blue doesn't usually work for me, good sexual presence
ref:
1999 March 2, Mathew Alphonse Coppola, “Please rate these women...”, in rec.arts.movies.erotica (Usenet), retrieved 2021-10-18
type:
quotation
text:
She's [Eva/Mercedes] a brunette European with a curvy natural body with nice tits. For that matter, there are lots of women in Rocco [Siffredi]'s vids with nice naturals.
ref:
2002 August 19, Jon Eric, “Great Tit Debate.......”, in rec.arts.movies.erotica (Usenet), retrieved 2021-10-18
type:
quotation
text:
It isn't the big naturals on a little torso that do it for me, since that is not my thing.
ref:
2010 March 2, Miles Williams Mathis, “The Sexiest Women of the Screen: A Thinking Man's List”, in [personal website], archived from the original on 2010-09-23
type:
quotation
text:
I’m really a good person with a good heart and I believe there is someone out there who will love me. Hopefully a Mexican hottie with big naturals.
ref:
2016 October 26, Stephen Falk, “The Seventh Layer”, in Wendey Stanzler, director, You're the Worst, season 3, episode 9 (television production), spoken by Vernon Barbara (Todd Robert Anderson), via FXX
type:
quotation
text:
For so long I stayed natural because it was a sense of pride to me that as a natural I was still competing and beating guys who were juicing up.
ref:
2010, Gregg Valentino, Nathan Jendrick, Death, Drugs, and Muscle
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native inhabitant of a place, country etc.
A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental.
The symbol ♮ used to indicate such a natural note.
One with an innate talent at or for something.
An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric.
One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.
One's life.
A hairstyle for people with Afro-textured hair in which the hair is not straightened or otherwise treated.
A breast which has not been modified.
Someone who has not used anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.
A roll of two dice with a score of 7 or 11 on the comeout roll.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
11589 | word:
natural
word_type:
adv
expansion:
natural (comparative more natural, superlative most natural)
forms:
form:
more natural
tags:
comparative
form:
most natural
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
natural
etymology_text:
From Middle English natural, borrowed from Old French natural, naturel, from Latin nātūrālis, from nātus, the perfect participle of nāscor (“be born”, verb). Displaced native Old English ġecynde.
senses_examples:
text:
Dr. Watson, on the other hand, spoke natural.
ref:
2002, Daniel Shields, I Know Where the Horses Play, iUniverse, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
"If the doctor hadn't been sure she was strangled you'd have sworn she died natural."
ref:
2005, Leo Bruce, Jack on the Gallows Tree: A Carolus Deene Mystery, Chicago: Chicago Review Press, page 124
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Naturally; in a natural manner.
senses_topics:
|
11590 | word:
dubnium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dubnium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Dubna
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Moscow Oblast
dubnium
etymology_text:
From Dubna + -ium, named after Dubna, Moscow Oblast, Russia, the site of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, which discovered the element.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Db) with atomic number 105.
A rejected name for rutherfordium.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
11591 | word:
erbium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
erbium (countable and uncountable, plural erbiums)
forms:
form:
erbiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Ytterby
erbium
etymology_text:
From Ytterby + -ium, named after Ytterby, Sweden, the same etymological source as yttrium, terbium, and ytterbium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Er) with atomic number 68: a silvery-white metal, in nature always found in combination with other elements.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11592 | word:
fe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fe
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of pe (“Semitic letter”)
senses_topics:
|
11593 | word:
pressure
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pressure (countable and uncountable, plural pressures)
forms:
form:
pressures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French, from Latin pressūra.
senses_examples:
text:
Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.
type:
example
text:
the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.
text:
Hostile forces are putting pressure on our people. Take out their supply line to give our troops room to breathe.
ref:
2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Disrupt Enemy Supplies
type:
quotation
text:
She has felt pressure lately because her boss expects her to get the job done by the first.
type:
example
text:
My people's pressures are grievous.
ref:
1649, Eikon Basilike
type:
quotation
text:
October 31, 1708, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the Queen at St. James's
In the midst of his great troubles and pressures.
text:
Thirty-five years ago, many journeys around London meant having to pass through the centre of the capital. That's no longer the case, which takes real pressure off the city's termini as well as underground routes such as the Circle Line.
ref:
2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
the pressure of business
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
A contrasting force or impulse of any kind
Distress.
Urgency
Impression; stamp; character impressed.
The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
11594 | word:
pressure
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pressure (third-person singular simple present pressures, present participle pressuring, simple past and past participle pressured)
forms:
form:
pressures
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pressuring
tags:
participle
present
form:
pressured
tags:
participle
past
form:
pressured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French, from Latin pressūra.
senses_examples:
text:
Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.
senses_topics:
|
11595 | word:
holmium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
holmium (usually uncountable, plural holmiums)
forms:
form:
holmiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Per Teodor Cleve
holmium
etymology_text:
From Latin Holmia (“Stockholm”), the hometown of Per Teodor Cleve, one of the discoverers of holmium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Ho) with atomic number 67: a soft and malleable silvery-white metal, too reactive to be found uncombined in nature.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11596 | word:
accede
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accede (third-person singular simple present accedes, present participle acceding, simple past and past participle acceded)
forms:
form:
accedes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
acceding
tags:
participle
present
form:
acceded
tags:
participle
past
form:
acceded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in the early 15th century. From Middle English acceden, from Latin accēdō (“approach, accede”), formed from ad (“to, toward, at”) + cēdō (“move, yield”) (English cede). Compare French accéder. Unrelated to ascend, aside from the common ad prefix.
senses_examples:
text:
Some of the countries of Eastern Europe had already acceded to all the privatization and austerity measures drawn up by imperialist bankers. The Socialist Federation of Yugoslavia was the last of the Eastern European workers' states trying to hold on to what was left of its planned, socialized framework of production and its collective ownership.
ref:
2007 November 18, Leslie Feinberg, “'Big lie' and breakup of Yugoslavia”, in Workers World
type:
quotation
text:
Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours.
ref:
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 32
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.
To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.
senses_topics:
|
11597 | word:
respect
word_type:
noun
expansion:
respect (countable and uncountable, plural respects)
forms:
form:
respects
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Respect (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English respect, from Old French respect, also respit (“respect, regard, consideration”), from Latin respectus (“a looking at, regard, respect”), perfect passive participle of respiciō (“look at, look back upon, respect”), from re- (“back”) + speciō (“to see”). Doublet of respite.
senses_examples:
text:
He is an intellectual giant, and I have great respect for him.
type:
example
text:
A video of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon complaining to Russian President Vladimir Putin about his lack of respect for the countries of Central Asia that were once part of the Soviet Union has struck a nerve on social media, where it has been viewed millions of times.[…]
“We have always respected the interests of our main strategic partner,” Rahmon said, referring to Russia. “We want respect, too."
ref:
2022 October 15, “Tajik President's Demand For 'Respect' From Putin Viewed Millions Of Times On YouTube”, in Radio Free Europe, archived from the original on 2022-10-17
type:
quotation
text:
The mourners paid their last respects to the deceased poet.
type:
example
text:
This year's model is superior to last year's in several respects.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
an attitude of consideration or high regard
good opinion, honor, or admiration
Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death.
a particular aspect, feature or detail of something
Good will; favor
senses_topics:
|
11598 | word:
respect
word_type:
verb
expansion:
respect (third-person singular simple present respects, present participle respecting, simple past and past participle respected)
forms:
form:
respects
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
respecting
tags:
participle
present
form:
respected
tags:
participle
past
form:
respected
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Respect (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English respect, from Old French respect, also respit (“respect, regard, consideration”), from Latin respectus (“a looking at, regard, respect”), perfect passive participle of respiciō (“look at, look back upon, respect”), from re- (“back”) + speciō (“to see”). Doublet of respite.
senses_examples:
text:
She is an intellectual giant, and I respect her greatly.
type:
example
text:
I respect your right to hold that belief, although I think it is nonsense.
type:
example
text:
I respect your right to feel offended, even though most people, myself included, totally disagree and don’t find the comment offensive in the slightest.
type:
example
text:
They failed to respect the treaty they had signed, and invaded.
type:
example
text:
Whatever they are else, they are always chastisements; and correction respects faults.
ref:
1674, John Owen, Pneumatologia
type:
quotation
text:
Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles, or utricles.
ref:
1806, James Lee, An Introduction to Botany
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have respect for.
To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right.
To abide by an agreement.
To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed.
To relate to; to be concerned with.
To regard; to consider; to deem.
To look toward; to face.
senses_topics:
|
11599 | word:
respect
word_type:
intj
expansion:
respect
forms:
wikipedia:
Respect (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English respect, from Old French respect, also respit (“respect, regard, consideration”), from Latin respectus (“a looking at, regard, respect”), perfect passive participle of respiciō (“look at, look back upon, respect”), from re- (“back”) + speciō (“to see”). Doublet of respite.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
hello, hi
senses_topics:
|
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