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11600 | word:
magnesium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
magnesium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin magnēsium, from Ancient Greek μαγνησία (magnēsía), after Μαγνησία (Magnēsía, “Magnesia”), a region in Thessaly. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy, as a modification of his original suggestion, magnium.
senses_examples:
text:
1999, Chapter 1 "Barrens" Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
The building looked only like a wall glowing in the firelight, but sometimes a barrage of magnesium blue light made its windowframes jump out of the darkness.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol Mg) with an atomic number of 12. It is a light, easily flammable, silvery-white alkaline earth metal.
senses_topics:
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11601 | word:
barium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
barium (usually uncountable, plural bariums)
forms:
form:
bariums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from baryta + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol Ba) with an atomic number of 56. It is a soft, reactive, silvery alkaline earth metal.
A single atom of this element.
barium sulfate suspension.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
11602 | word:
lithium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lithium (countable and uncountable, plural lithiums)
forms:
form:
lithiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lithium
lithium (medication)
etymology_text:
From New Latin lithium, from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + -ium.
senses_examples:
text:
Already, beautiful places are being wrecked by an electric vehicle resource rush. Lithium mining, for example, is now poisoning rivers and depleting groundwater from Tibet to Bolivia.
ref:
2019, George Monbiot, “Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out”, in Guardian.
type:
quotation
text:
There's more: Part of the reason I am so meek is that I stopped taking my lithium a few weeks before. It's not that I have a death wish, and it's not that I'm like Axl Rose and think that lithium makes me less manly (he supposedly stopped taking it after his first wife told him that his dick wasn't as hard as it used to be and that sex with him was lousy;[…]).
ref:
1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Lithium has been used as a mood stabiliser for 50 years but its action mechanism is still unclear.
ref:
2008, Barbara Kozier, Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process and Practice, Pearson Education, page 191
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The simplest alkali metal, the lightest solid element, and the third lightest chemical element (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3. It is a soft, silvery metal.
A single atom of this element.
Lithium carbonate or other preparations of lithium metal used as a mood stabiliser to treat manic depression and bipolar disorders.
A lithium battery.
senses_topics:
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
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11603 | word:
bellboy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bellboy (plural bellboys)
forms:
form:
bellboys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From bell + boy.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male worker, usually at a hotel, who carries luggage and runs errands.
senses_topics:
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11604 | word:
ta
word_type:
intj
expansion:
ta
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain, but possibly young child's pronunciation of thanks or an acronym for 'thanks a lot'.
Alternatively, derived from Danish tak, from Old Norse þǫkk, from Proto-Germanic *þankō, *þankaz.
senses_examples:
text:
Ta for the cup of tea.
type:
example
text:
Mommy needs the bottle back. Ta!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Thanks.
give (imperative)
senses_topics:
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11605 | word:
ta
word_type:
prep
expansion:
ta
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of to, representing the standard unstressed pronunciation before consonants.
senses_topics:
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11606 | word:
ta
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ta (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter, to become ti. vowel changed to 'a' to signify a flattened note.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): te.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
11607 | word:
nucleus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nucleus (plural nuclei or nucleuses)
forms:
form:
nuclei
tags:
plural
form:
nucleuses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Lexicon Technicum
nucleus
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin nucleus (“kernel, core”). The earliest uses refer to the head of a comet and the kernel of a seed, both recorded in Lexicon Technicum in 1704. The sense in atomic physics was coined by Scientist Michael Faraday in 1844 in a theoretical meaning.
senses_examples:
text:
Situated in the centre of the largest agricultural basin in northern Formosa, T’ai-pei (population in 1964 was estimated to be 1,117,000) forms the nucleus of a major industrial area. The T’ai-pei industrial complex includes light and heavy industies within the urbanized area and also in several industrial suburbs, including Pan-ch’iao and Nan-chiang.
ref:
1968, Norton S. Ginsburg, “T’AI-PEI”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 21, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 627, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
This collection will form the nucleus of a new library.
type:
example
text:
This publishing project and the experience Power gained from wartime activities formed the nucleus for the development of the giant enterprise that today is University Microfilms, subsidiary of the Xerox Education Group, Xerox Corporation.
ref:
1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., page 49
type:
quotation
text:
Meronyms: proton, neutron, electron
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The core, central part of something, around which other elements are assembled.
An initial part or version that will receive additions.
The massive, positively charged central part of an atom, made up of protons and neutrons.
A large membrane-enclosed organelle found in eukaryotic cells which contains genetic material.
A ganglion, cluster of many neuronal bodies where synapsing occurs.
The central part of a syllable, most commonly a vowel.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences |
11608 | word:
Pb
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
Pb
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Pbit.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
11609 | word:
un-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
un-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
PIE word
*ne
From Middle English un-, from Old English un-, from Proto-West Germanic *un-, from Proto-Germanic *un-, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-. Cognate with Scots un-, on- (“un-”), North Frisian ün-, Saterland Frisian uun-, West Frisian ûn-, on-, Dutch on-, Low German un-, on-, German un-, Danish u-, Swedish o-, Norwegian u-, Icelandic ó-. More distant cognate with Latin in-, Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) (whence English a-, modern Greek α- (a-)) and Sanskrit अ- (a-).
Doublet of in- and a-.
senses_examples:
text:
un- + educated → uneducated (“not educated”)
text:
un- + conformity → unconformity (“lack of conformity”)
text:
un- + conference → unconference
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
not
lack of
contrary to traditional norms; unconventional
senses_topics:
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11610 | word:
un-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
un-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
PIE word
*h₂énti
From Middle English on-, from Old English on-, ond-, and- (“against, facing, toward; in return, back, without”), from Proto-West Germanic *anda-, from Proto-Germanic *anda-, *andi- (“against”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti (“across, forth, forward, ahead”), from *h₂énts (“end, limit, forehead”). More at and-.
senses_examples:
text:
un- + dress → undress (“to take one's clothes off”)
text:
un- + lock → unlock (“to undo the locking of”)
text:
Un-cry these tears I cried so many nights
Un-break my heart
ref:
1996, “Un-Break My Heart”, in Secrets, performed by Toni Braxton
type:
quotation
text:
un- + cage → uncage (“to release from a cage”)
text:
un- + tangle → untangle (“to remove the tangling of”)
text:
un- + decipher → undecipher
text:
un- + thaw → unthaw
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the inverse of a specified action
deprive of, release from, free from, remove from, extract from
intensifying a verb that already suggests opposition or removal
senses_topics:
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11611 | word:
un-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
un-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Latin ūnus.
senses_examples:
text:
un- (“1”) + bi- (“2”) + un- (“1”) + -ium (element suffix) → unbiunium (“element 121”)
type:
example
text:
un- + decillion (“10³³”) → undecillion (“10³⁶”)
text:
un- + vigintillion (“10⁶³”) → unvigintillion (“10⁶⁶”)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used for the digit one to form temporary names of elements whose existence has been predicted, and which have not yet been given a trivial name.
Used to form large numbers as the first in the sequence.
senses_topics:
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11612 | word:
cigarette
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cigarette (plural cigarettes)
forms:
form:
cigarettes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette.
senses_examples:
text:
He rose to light my cigarette, then sank back into his wicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate.
ref:
1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind
type:
quotation
text:
Tobacconist: Right. I want to try you on a course of these: one twenty times a day. Have you taken them before?
Patient: Um, what is it?
Tobacconist: It's a simple nicotinal arsenous monoxid preparation taken bronchially as an infumation.
Patient: Infumation?
Tobacconist: Yes, you just light the end and breathe it.
Patient: What, like cigarettes?
Tobacconist: You know them then. Actually, it's a bit hard to admit but they're basically an herbal remedy... A leaf originally from the Americas, I believe, called tobacco.
Patient: But medicated?
Tobacconist: Medicated? No.
Patient: These are ordinary cigarettes?
Tobacconist: That's right.
Patient: But they're terribly bad for you, aren't they?
Tobacconist: I hardly think I would be prescribing them if they were bad for you.
Patient: Twenty a day?
Tobacconist: Yes, ideally moving on to about thirty or forty.
ref:
1989 January 27, Stephen Fry et al., “Doctor Tobacco”, in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Season 1, Episode 3
type:
quotation
text:
Grandma has an occasional cigarette, as well as Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Julie, and our kids give them crap about it.
ref:
2008, Thomas A. Liuzzo, One Last Cigarette: Memoirs of a 5-pack-a-day Smoker!, AuthorHouse, page 20
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.
senses_topics:
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11613 | word:
cigarette
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cigarette (third-person singular simple present cigarettes, present participle cigaretting, simple past and past participle cigaretted)
forms:
form:
cigarettes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cigaretting
tags:
participle
present
form:
cigaretted
tags:
participle
past
form:
cigaretted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette.
senses_examples:
text:
Could someone cigarette me?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give someone a cigarette, or to light one for them.
senses_topics:
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11614 | word:
palladium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
palladium (plural palladia)
forms:
form:
palladia
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The sense of "safeguard" comes from Latin Palladium (the image of Pallas that protected Troy), from Ancient Greek Παλλάδιον (Palládion), from Παλλάς (Pallás), an epiteth used before Athena.
senses_examples:
text:
The presupposition of the Prometheus myth is to be found in the extravagant value which a naive humanity attached to fire as the true palladium of every ascending culture.
ref:
1967, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufman, The Birth of Tragedy, published 1872, in 1967
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A safeguard.
senses_topics:
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11615 | word:
palladium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
palladium (countable and uncountable, plural palladiums)
forms:
form:
palladiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The element was named after Pallas, an asteroid that had been discovered two years before the element.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
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11616 | word:
beryllium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beryllium (countable and uncountable, plural berylliums)
forms:
form:
berylliums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
beryllium
etymology_text:
From beryl + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol Be) with an atomic number of 4; a soft silvery-white low density alkaline earth metal with specialist industrial applications.
An atom of this element.
senses_topics:
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11617 | word:
betrayal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
betrayal (countable and uncountable, plural betrayals)
forms:
form:
betrayals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From betray + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
The betrayal of our friends in Taiwan began with President Carter’s decision to terminate the mutual defense treaty with Taiwan that Congress had ratified in 1954.
ref:
2005, Jesse Helms, Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir, New York: Random House, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
One of our own has joined with the alien. If you see him, do not hesitate to let him know what the Roekaar think of this betrayal.
ref:
2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Received message: A Traitor
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the act of betraying
senses_topics:
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11618 | word:
foreplay
word_type:
noun
expansion:
foreplay (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From fore- + play.
senses_examples:
text:
Actually in quick undressing or actual lovemaking modern nylons usually get ruined, but if you keep your nails and fingers smooth taking them off gently makes good foreplay, along with mutual undressing generally.
ref:
1972, Alex Comfort, The Joy of Sex, Crown, pages 215–216
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In human sexual behavior, the acts at the beginning of a sexual encounter that serve to build up sexual arousal.
senses_topics:
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11619 | word:
foreplay
word_type:
verb
expansion:
foreplay (third-person singular simple present foreplays, present participle foreplaying, simple past and past participle foreplayed)
forms:
form:
foreplays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
foreplaying
tags:
participle
present
form:
foreplayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
foreplayed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From fore- + play.
senses_examples:
text:
I decided, while we were foreplaying, that I must get a supply, just in case.
ref:
2002, M. D. Bifford Debs, The Writer - Page 102
type:
quotation
text:
We grabbed each other, roughly kissing and tossing covers and pillows about in our frantic lovemaking. We foreplayed and foreplayed, teased and teased again.
ref:
2005, Charles E. Schwarz, The Lonely Detective Gets Nasty and Other Murder Mysteries - Page 65
type:
quotation
text:
While they were making love? It was true they weren't actually engaged in intercourse, but this certainly counted as foreplay. Iakovos stared down at her in complete disbelief. He'd never, ever had a woman fall asleep while he was foreplaying.
ref:
2011, Katie MacAlister, It's All Greek to Me
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To engage in foreplay.
senses_topics:
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11620 | word:
zinc
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zinc (countable and uncountable, plural zincs)
forms:
form:
zincs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
zinc
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Zink, related to Zinke (“point, prong”), from Middle High German zinke, from Old High German zinko (“prong, tine”), allied to zint (“a jag, point”), from Proto-Germanic *tindaz (“prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth, projection”). Cognate with Old English tind (“tine, prong”), Middle Low German tinde, Icelandic tindur (“spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement”). See also Dutch tinne (“battlement”), German Zinne (“pinnacle, battlement”), Danish tinde (“pinnacle, battlement”), Swedish tinne (“tooth of a rake”), More at tine. Doublet of zincum.
senses_examples:
text:
Then, three workmen throwing dice for drinks. And their heads come sharply together as they count the scores. And so violently do they throw the dice that they shoot off "the zinc" on to the floor.
ref:
1904, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
type:
quotation
text:
Even if there were a Chef and Brewer near Marble Arch, the name suggests a pint and pie, not a prawn and tomato sandwich and “a dock glass of white port off the zinc”; i.e., a small glass of a fine aperitif, at the counter […]
ref:
2010, Chris Ackerley, Demented Particulars, page 44
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical element (symbol Zn) with an atomic number of 30, a blue-silvery metal that is slightly brittle at room temperature and tarnishes slightly in moist air.
A single atom of this element.
A corrugated iron roof.
A zinc countertop.
senses_topics:
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11621 | word:
zinc
word_type:
verb
expansion:
zinc (third-person singular simple present zincs, present participle zincing or zinking or zincking, simple past and past participle zinced or zinked or zincked)
forms:
form:
zincs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
zincing
tags:
participle
present
form:
zinking
tags:
participle
present
form:
zincking
tags:
participle
present
form:
zinced
tags:
participle
past
form:
zinced
tags:
past
form:
zinked
tags:
participle
past
form:
zinked
tags:
past
form:
zincked
tags:
participle
past
form:
zincked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
zinc
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Zink, related to Zinke (“point, prong”), from Middle High German zinke, from Old High German zinko (“prong, tine”), allied to zint (“a jag, point”), from Proto-Germanic *tindaz (“prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth, projection”). Cognate with Old English tind (“tine, prong”), Middle Low German tinde, Icelandic tindur (“spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement”). See also Dutch tinne (“battlement”), German Zinne (“pinnacle, battlement”), Danish tinde (“pinnacle, battlement”), Swedish tinne (“tooth of a rake”), More at tine. Doublet of zincum.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To electroplate with zinc.
To coat with sunblock incorporating zinc oxide.
senses_topics:
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11622 | word:
dag
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dag (plural dags)
forms:
form:
dags
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dagge, of uncertain (probably Germanic) origin, cognate with (Middle) Dutch dag, dagge, dagh. The sense "dangling lock of wool, matted with dung" (originally from the dialect of Kent) is also termed "daglock" (derived from the "hanging end" sense of "dag") or "daggle-lock" and some sources consider the sense a shortening of that longer word rather than a mere evolution of the "hanging end" sense.
senses_examples:
text:
To see the dunged folds of dag-tayled sheepe.
ref:
1597-98 1597–8, Joseph_Hall_(bishop) Joseph Hall Satires, Book 5, number 1
text:
1859-1865, Hensleigh Wedgwood, A Dictionary of English Etymology
Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail.
text:
He was one of the first significant private buyers of wool in New Zealand, playing a major part in bringing respectability to what at first was a very diverse group. He pioneered the pelletising of dag waste.
ref:
1998, Wool: Volume 8, Issue 10, as published by the Massey Wool Association
text:
The development of dags first requires some faeces to adhere to wool, but this is only the initial step in accumulation.
ref:
1999, G. C. Waghorn, N. G. Gregory, S. E. Todd, and R. Wesselink, Dags in sheep; a look at faeces and reasons for dag formation, published in the Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association 61, on pages 43–49
text:
[...] and the use of tanniferous forages may affect faecal consistency, reducing the formation of dag (faeces-coated wool).
ref:
2004, Mette Vaarst, Animal health and welfare in organic agriculture, page 323
type:
quotation
text:
[Researchers] note that free pellets are characteristic of healthy sheep and that if sheep consistently produced free pellets, wool staining and dag formation would not occur.
ref:
2006, in the compilation of the Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, volume 46, issues 1-5, published by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia), on page 7
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
senses_topics:
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11623 | word:
dag
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dag (third-person singular simple present dags, present participle dagging, simple past and past participle dagged)
forms:
form:
dags
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dagging
tags:
participle
present
form:
dagged
tags:
participle
past
form:
dagged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dagge, of uncertain (probably Germanic) origin, cognate with (Middle) Dutch dag, dagge, dagh. The sense "dangling lock of wool, matted with dung" (originally from the dialect of Kent) is also termed "daglock" (derived from the "hanging end" sense of "dag") or "daggle-lock" and some sources consider the sense a shortening of that longer word rather than a mere evolution of the "hanging end" sense.
senses_examples:
text:
Blade shearers could shear, crutch, mules or dag sheep anywhere they were needed.
ref:
2007, Graeme R. Quick, Remarkable Australian Farm Machines: Ingenuity on the Land
type:
quotation
text:
After learning how to crutch at 13, he could dag 400 sheep in a day by the spring of 1965 and earned himself more than just a bit of pocket money.
ref:
2010 January 29, Emma Partridge, “Richie Foster a cut above the rest”, in Stock Journal
type:
quotation
text:
Vexing the baths with his dagg'd rout.
ref:
a. 1661, B. Holyday, Juvenal's Satires
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.
senses_topics:
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11624 | word:
dag
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dag (plural dags)
forms:
form:
dags
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French dague (from Old Occitan dague, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *daca (“Dacian knife”), from the Roman province Dacia (roughly modern Romania); the ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix, as in poignard (“dagger”)); cognate with dagger.
senses_examples:
text:
Even when my dag was levelled at his heart
ref:
1515, Thomas Kyd, Arden of Feversham
type:
quotation
text:
Soon after this, however, there were brought into the country these old-time dags, useful weapons which rendered far easier the labors of men and of women. These were employed for many years, but later the company sent in an improved knife, more useful for skinning and for the other purposes of camp life, but not nearly so good for war.
ref:
1899 May 6, “Old Hudson's Bay Dag”, in Forest and Stream, volume 52, number 18, page 347
type:
quotation
text:
When we reached the poop-stairs an officer in a blue coat came forward jabbering some jargon; but the captain would have no parley with him, but flung his dag clean into the man's face, and over he went backwards— with his damned high heels in the air.
ref:
1904, Robert Hugh Benson, By what Authority?, page 400
type:
quotation
text:
Powder! No, Sir; my dag shall be my dagger.
ref:
1630, Thomas Dekker, The Whore of Babylon
type:
quotation
text:
A sort of pistol, called a dag, was used about the same time as hand guns and harquebuts.
ref:
1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A skewer.
A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
A dagger; a poniard.
A kind of large pistol.
The unbranched antler of a young deer.
senses_topics:
|
11625 | word:
dag
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dag (third-person singular simple present dags, present participle dagging, simple past and past participle dagged)
forms:
form:
dags
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dagging
tags:
participle
present
form:
dagged
tags:
participle
past
form:
dagged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French dague (from Old Occitan dague, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *daca (“Dacian knife”), from the Roman province Dacia (roughly modern Romania); the ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix, as in poignard (“dagger”)); cognate with dagger.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
senses_topics:
|
11626 | word:
dag
word_type:
intj
expansion:
dag
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variation of dang.
senses_examples:
text:
Dag, yo.
ref:
2002 December 2, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Teen Girl Squad Issue #1”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad as What's Her Face (Matthew Chapman)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.
senses_topics:
|
11627 | word:
dag
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dag (plural dags)
forms:
form:
dags
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Perhaps a back-formation from daggy, or, a specialised sense of British dialect dag, a daring feat amongst boys.
senses_examples:
text:
2004 July 25, Debbie Kruger, Melbourne Weekly Magazine, All the World's a Stage,
Now, wide-eyed and unfashionably excited ("I’m such a dag!" she remarks several times), she has the leading role of Viola in the Bell Shakespeare Company’s production of Twelfth Night, opening on August 10 at the Victorian Arts Centre Playhouse.
text:
What did you think about Mark calling you a dag?
To me a dag is a person who doesn't have a lot of pride in their appearance or the way they present themselves — the way they sing and how they hold themselves basically. But it didn't really bother me. He said, "You're such a dag, you're cool." I took it as "you're a laidback person". The way they cut it and edited it made it sound on TV like I was grumpy about it, but I wasn't. It was pretty funny how it came across.
ref:
2006 September 26, “Klancie Keough eliminated”, in TV Week
type:
quotation
text:
SHE is one of Hollywood's most beautiful leading ladies and has access to any fashion designers, so then why is Catherine Zeta-Jones dressing like a bag lady?
ref:
2009 November 14, “Catherine Zeta - Hollywood's biggest dag?”, in Daily Telegraph
type:
quotation
text:
A graduate of film studies in New York, May has had a hand in editing two of his three videos. Each casts him as a bespectacled dag in a world of glamour.
ref:
2010 January 15, Michael Dwyer, “Talented dag plucks up the cool”, in The Age
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
An odd or eccentric person; someone who is a bit strange but amusingly so.
senses_topics:
|
11628 | word:
dag
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dag (plural dags)
forms:
form:
dags
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Initialism for directed acyclic graph.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
senses_topics:
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences |
11629 | word:
dag
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dag (plural dags)
forms:
form:
dags
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Of North Germanic origin; compare Swedish dagg. Doublet of dew.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A misty shower; dew.
senses_topics:
|
11630 | word:
dag
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dag (third-person singular simple present dags, present participle dagging, simple past and past participle dagged)
forms:
form:
dags
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dagging
tags:
participle
present
form:
dagged
tags:
participle
past
form:
dagged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Of North Germanic origin; compare Swedish dagg. Doublet of dew.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be misty; to drizzle.
senses_topics:
|
11631 | word:
dag
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dag (plural dags)
forms:
form:
dags
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Mickey: Dags! D' ya like dags?
ref:
2000, Guy Ritchie, Snatch, quoted in, Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino, Translation and Localisation in Video Games: Making Entertainment Software Global, Routledge →ISBN, page 68
text:
There it was again, that old Gaelic verb pronounced 'scriss,' that those involved in fighting talk apparently exuded on occasion. It could have been 'D'ya wanna buy a dag?' it was all the same.
ref:
2014, John P Brady, Back to the Gaff, Roadside Fiction, page 131
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of dog.
senses_topics:
|
11632 | word:
arsenic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
arsenic (countable and uncountable, plural arsenics)
forms:
form:
arsenics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
arsenic
etymology_text:
From Middle English arsenik, borrowed from Middle French arsenic, from Latin arsenicum, from Ancient Greek ἀρσενικόν (arsenikón, “yellow arsenic”) (influenced by ἀρσενικός (arsenikós, “potent, virile”)), from Semitic (compare Classical Syriac ܙܪܢܝܟܐ (zarnīḵā), Aramaic 𐡆𐡓𐡍𐡉𐡊𐡀 (zrnykʾ /zarnīḵā/)), from Middle Iranian *zarnīk (compare Persian زرنی (zarni, “arsenic”)), from Old Iranian *zarniya-ka- (compare Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬥𐬌𐬌𐬀 (zaraniia, “golden”), Old Persian 𐎭𐎼𐎴𐎡𐎹 (d-r-n-i-y /daraniya-/, “gold”), Sanskrit हिरण्य (híraṇya, “gold”), Persian زر (zar, “gold”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-. More at yellow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A toxic grey brittle nonmetallic chemical element (symbol As) with an atomic number of 33.
A single atom of this element.
Arsenic trioxide.
senses_topics:
|
11633 | word:
arsenic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
arsenic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
arsenic
etymology_text:
From Middle English arsenik, borrowed from Middle French arsenic, from Latin arsenicum, from Ancient Greek ἀρσενικόν (arsenikón, “yellow arsenic”) (influenced by ἀρσενικός (arsenikós, “potent, virile”)), from Semitic (compare Classical Syriac ܙܪܢܝܟܐ (zarnīḵā), Aramaic 𐡆𐡓𐡍𐡉𐡊𐡀 (zrnykʾ /zarnīḵā/)), from Middle Iranian *zarnīk (compare Persian زرنی (zarni, “arsenic”)), from Old Iranian *zarniya-ka- (compare Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬥𐬌𐬌𐬀 (zaraniia, “golden”), Old Persian 𐎭𐎼𐎴𐎡𐎹 (d-r-n-i-y /daraniya-/, “gold”), Sanskrit हिरण्य (híraṇya, “gold”), Persian زر (zar, “gold”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-. More at yellow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or containing arsenic with a valence of 5.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
11634 | word:
heatwave
word_type:
noun
expansion:
heatwave (plural heatwaves)
forms:
form:
heatwaves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
heatwave
etymology_text:
From heat + wave.
senses_examples:
text:
On a hot summer's day, one can literally see heatwaves shimmering off the surfaces of inanimate objects.
ref:
2021, Murray du Plessis, Modern Meditations: 101 Ways to Slow Down & Connect to Spirit
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A period of very hot weather.
A heat haze.
senses_topics:
|
11635 | word:
acceleratory
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acceleratory
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
accelerative
senses_topics:
|
11636 | word:
radon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
radon (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
radon
etymology_text:
Contraction of radium emanation, since the element appears in the radioactive decay of radium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol Rn, formerly Ro) with atomic number 86. It is an odorless, colorless, chemically inert but radioactive noble gas.
Radon-222 (²²²₈₆Rn), the most stable isotope of said element.
senses_topics:
|
11637 | word:
accelerograph
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accelerograph (plural accelerographs)
forms:
form:
accelerographs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accelero- + -graph.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.
An instrument used to record the acceleration of the ground during an earthquake.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
11638 | word:
accelerative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accelerative (comparative more accelerative, superlative most accelerative)
forms:
form:
more accelerative
tags:
comparative
form:
most accelerative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accelerate + -ive.
senses_examples:
text:
The accelerative powers of a diesel unit like this are such that allowances for delays must be less than those with steam power: [...]
ref:
1960 April, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 210–211
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.
senses_topics:
|
11639 | word:
radium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
radium (countable and uncountable, plural radiums)
forms:
form:
radiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
André Castaigne
Marie Curie
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French radium, from rad(ioactif) (“radioactive”) + -ium (suffix used to form the names of metallic elements).
senses_examples:
text:
Madame [Marie] Curie, working with her distinguished husband, isolated and first traced to its true origin the source of the marvellous power which has thus commenced to revolutionise our philosophy of physics. This new element has appropriately been named "Radium;" but it has also been shown that there are many other, though less powerful, radio-active elements, details of which are recorded in the sequel. To be precise, radium, per se, has not yet been isolated as a metal, but only in the form of salts,—chlorides and bromides. [...] It is supposed that the molecules of radium (composed of similar atoms) during their decomposition into those of the gas helium, are also frittered down into heat and, in part, are liberated as radio-activity.
ref:
1902, Ernest Howard Adye, “Radio-active Elements”, in Frank Rutley, Mineralogy (Murby’s “Science and Art Department” Series of Text-books), 15th revised and corrected edition, London: Thomas Murby & Co., […], →OCLC, page 234
type:
quotation
text:
The persistence of radio-activity on glass vessels which have contained radium is remarkable. Filters, beakers, and dishes used in the laboratory for operations with radium, after having been washed in the usual way, remain radio-active: a piece of blende screen held inside the beaker or other vessel immediately glowing with the presence of radium.
ref:
1903 April 2, William Crookes, “The Emanations of Radium”, in Nature: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, volume 67, number 1744, London: Macmillan and Co.; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, pages 522–523
type:
quotation
text:
The object of this work is to determine how the radiums D, E, and F are separated from the substance known as radio-lead by certain chemical reactions. Recrystallisation of the nitrate from a neutral solution gradually removes the radium-F (polonium), which remains in the mother liquor, but does not appreciably influence the amounts of radiums D and E in the crystals.
ref:
1908, E. H[orton], “General and Physical Chemistry. [Radio-lead. Belá Szilard.]”, in J. C. Cain, editor, Journal of the Chemical Society. Abstracts of Papers on Physical, Inorganic, Mineralogical, Physiological, Agricultural, and Analytical Chemistry, volume XCIV, part II, London: Gurney & Jackson, […], →OCLC, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
Radium is formed by the breaking up of atoms of another element called uranium, but radium shows this breaking up process in its own atoms more distinctly than does uranium or any other element we know, and it is this breaking up that gives radium its astonishing properties such as the production of heat, electricity, and wave motions in the ether which are similar to the wave motions which produce the sensation of light to our eyes.
ref:
1919 December, Henriette Boeckmann, “Bringing the Stars to the People: It’s Easy to Get on Familiar Terms with Other Worlds at Clark Observatory”, in Waldemar Kaempffert, editor, Popular Science Monthly, volume 95, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Modern Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, page 206, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
As for myself, I had to devote again a great deal of time to the preparation of several decigrammes of very pure radium chloride. With this I achieved, in 1907, a new determination of the atomic weight of radium, and in 1910 I was able to isolate the metal.
ref:
1923, Marie Curie, “Autobiographical Notes: Marie Curie”, in Charlotte Kellogg, Vernon Kellogg, transl., Pierre Curie, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, chapter II, page 197
type:
quotation
text:
Of the total, fifteen cases were treated surgically, seventeen by radium, one by a combination of the two methods, three by radium and X-ray, one by the Percy cautery, two by the cautery, and two by the cautery preceding the application of radium.
ref:
1923 September, Dewell Gann, “The Review of Forty Consecutive Cases of Carcinoma of the Cervix”, in The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, volume XXVII, number 9, St. Louis, Mo.: Urologic and Cutaneous Press, →OCLC, page 564, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
As soon as it had been shown that skin burns could be caused by radium, medical men began to experiment in order to find out if malignant growths of the skin could be destroyed by the same agency. [...] Immense strides have been made in the technique of applying the radium to kill cancers.
ref:
1936, Wyndham E. B. Lloyd, “Radium”, in A Hundred Years of Medicine, London: Duckworth […], published 1939, part II (Scientific Discovery in the Last Hundred Years), page 208
type:
quotation
text:
Well, remember how the children of the State Orphanage became mysteriously ill? The doctors diagnosed it as radium poisoning, but how it happened was a first class mystery to them. There's no radium factory within miles of the orphanage.
ref:
1940 May–June, Charles Nicholas [pseudonym; Charles Nicholas Cuidera], “Mass Murder by Radioactive Salt”, in The Blue Beetle, number 2, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: Fox Feature Syndicate, →OCLC, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The U.S. radium dial painters of the 1920s comprised an early cohort of several thousand workers at increased risk of developing radiation induced cancers.
ref:
2010, Charles L. Sanders, “Accidents, Tests, and Incidents”, in Radiation Hormesis and the Linear-No-Threshold Assumption, Heidelberg, Dordrecht: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
Even as X-rays vied with radium as the preferred tool for biological experimentation in later decades, [Hermann Joseph] Muller continued to rely on radium not only as a mutagen, but also as an important conceptual tool, seeing radium and life as somehow intimately connected analogically, discursively, evolutionarily, mechanistically, and metaphysically.
ref:
2015, Luis A. Campos, “Transmutations and Disintegrations”, in Radium and the Secret of Life, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, page 247
type:
quotation
text:
City retailers are doing well with high-class radiums printed in bright greens, brilliant purples and strong yellows. Such are the high novelties.
ref:
1913 January 11, “[Dress Fabrics […]] Silks Moving Well: An Excellent Business Assured for the Coming Spring Season”, in Dry Goods Economist, volume 67, number 3575, New York, N.Y.: The Textile Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 33, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
In printed silks for outer garments and linings there are crêpe de chines, silk and cotton crêpes, georgettes, radiums and mousselines de soie. [...] [O]n radiums; Japanese print designs, silhouetted with parasols or flowers and shrubs, treated in Japanese style, on dark grounds, are employed. There are also a number of futuristic figures printed on radiums.
ref:
1920 June, “Many Novelties in French Silks”, in C. R. Clifford, editor, The American Silk Journal, volume XXXIX, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Clifford & Lawton, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 57, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Radium satins will also be used extensively in the spring season.
ref:
1922 November 18, “[Silk Goods Markets] Printed Crepes to be Leader for Spring: Radium Satins and Taffetas Will also Show Their Vantage Points”, in Textile World, volume LXII, number 21, New York, N.Y.: Bragdon, Lord & Nagle Co., →OCLC, page 73 (page 2927 overall), column 3
type:
quotation
text:
Radium, a term rather loosely applied to the bulk of domestic cloths of this class, includes goods of two fairly distinct types. [...] It is often tightly woven under high tension and so finished as to produce a highly lustrous appearance. But high luster is not essential, for many high-grade radiums are given a more or less dull finish. Of whatever finish, various cloths of this type are manufactured sometimes under the designation radium and sometimes under special copyrighted names.
ref:
1926, United States Tariff Commission, “Classification of Broad Silks—Character of Domestic Production”, in Broad-silk Manufacture and the Tariff, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, section I (Classification of Broad Silks), page 114
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol Ra) with an atomic number of 88. It is a soft, shiny and silvery radioactive alkaline earth metal.
A type of cloth woven from silk or synthetic yarn, often with a shiny appearance.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
textiles |
11640 | word:
radium
word_type:
verb
expansion:
radium (third-person singular simple present radiums, present participle radiuming, simple past and past participle radiumed)
forms:
form:
radiums
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
radiuming
tags:
participle
present
form:
radiumed
tags:
participle
past
form:
radiumed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
André Castaigne
Marie Curie
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French radium, from rad(ioactif) (“radioactive”) + -ium (suffix used to form the names of metallic elements).
senses_examples:
text:
We want popular verbs for several operations introduced by modern science. The X-rays, the Finsen treatment for lupus, the operation of radium for cancer, and what not—what are the words for these? A man is guillotined or hanged; his leg is amputated; he is trepanned. What is it when he is rayed, Finsened, radiumed? [From the St. James's Gazette.]
ref:
1904 June, “Verbs Needed”, in A. H. McQuilkin, editor, The Inland Printer: The Leading Trade Journal of the World in the Printing and Allied Industries, volume XXXIII, number 3, Chicago, Ill.: The Inland Printer Company, →OCLC, page 359, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
The victims thereof [i.e., of rheumatism] are drenched with salicylates and iodides; they are sent to spas to be bombarded by the doucheur and spanked by the masseur; they are subjected to electrical ecstasies and suffer Zander contortions; they are cataphoresed, vaccinated, serummed, radiumed and dieted, with results which vary from the sublime to the pathetic.
ref:
1914 April, Leonard Williams, “The Byways of Thyroid Deficiency”, in H. Edwin Lewis, Charles E. Woodruff, editors, American Medicine, volume IX (New Series; volume XX overall), number 4, Burlington, Vt., New York, N.Y.: American Medical Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 272
type:
quotation
text:
The problem that we have to face in radiuming tumors is very complicated. [...] [T]he problem of distribution is to distribute throughout the territory irradiated an even dose, and we have found that that is a very difficult thing.
ref:
1915 April 13–15, Curtis F. Burnam, “Discussion of Symposium on Treatment of Bladder Tumors”, in Transactions of the American Urological Association […], Brookline, Mass.: Printed for the [American Urological] Association at the Riverdale Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 229
type:
quotation
text:
Towards the end he was attended by Dr. Hymie Rubin. The great specialists with their fabulous bills had cut and radiumed to the tune of tumbling doubloons. [...] But the priceless surgeons said—too late: they could not repair the digestive engine after it had been knocked to pieces by years of neglect and abuse …
ref:
1923 August, [Samuel Ornitz], “[Seventh Period] Chapter I”, in Haunch, Paunch and Jowl: An Anonymous Autobiography, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright Publishers, published July 1924, →OCLC, page 289
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To treat (a tumour, etc.) with radium.
senses_topics:
|
11641 | word:
mercury
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mercury (countable and uncountable, plural mercuries)
forms:
form:
mercuries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mercurie.
senses_examples:
text:
The mercury there has averaged 37.6°C, 2.3°C above the February norm.
type:
example
text:
As the mercury climbed in recent days – hovering at about 42C in both Seville and Córdoba – volunteers in both cities started to assemble around swift colonies, gathering up as many of the dehydrated and undernourished chicks they could find.
ref:
2022 June 16, Ashifa Kassam, “‘They’re being cooked’: baby swifts die leaving nests as heatwave hits Spain”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Rail temperatures are checked at Manchester Piccadilly on July 18 - the first of two consecutive days in which the mercury rose above 38°C across large parts of England.
ref:
2022 August 10, “How can we run trains when the heat is on?”, in RAIL, number 963, page 45, photo caption
type:
quotation
text:
Towards the tops of the stalks and branches come forth at every joint in the male Mercury two small round green heads, standing together upon a short footstalk, which growing ripe are the seeds, not having any flower.
ref:
1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 188
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metal.
A silvery-colored, toxic, metallic chemical element, liquid at room temperature, with atomic number 80 and symbol Hg.
A metal.
One of the elemental principles formerly thought to be present in all metals.
A metal.
Ambient pressure or temperature (from the use of mercury in barometers and thermometers).
A metal.
Liveliness, volatility.
Any of several types of plant.
An annual plant, annual mercury (Mercurialis annua), formerly grown for its medicinal properties; French mercury, herb mercury.
Any of several types of plant.
Any plant of any species of the genus and the genus Mercurialis.
Any of several types of plant.
A similar edible plant (Blitum bonus-henricus), otherwise known as English mercury or allgood.
Any of several types of plant.
The poison oak or poison ivy.
senses_topics:
sciences
|
11642 | word:
petting
word_type:
verb
expansion:
petting
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I am petting my rabbit.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of pet
senses_topics:
|
11643 | word:
petting
word_type:
noun
expansion:
petting (countable and uncountable, plural pettings)
forms:
form:
pettings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
'Come, Jo, don't be thorny. After studying himself to a skeleton all the week, a fellow deserves petting, and ought to get it.'
ref:
1869, Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of stroking or gently patting an animal.
The act of kissing, stroking, etc., a person in a sexual manner.
The act of indulging or treating as a favourite.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
sex
sexuality
|
11644 | word:
platinum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
platinum (countable and uncountable, plural platinums)
forms:
form:
platinums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
platinum
etymology_text:
From Spanish platina (“little silver”) del Pinto ("of the Pinto") + -um. It was called "little" (or "lesser") silver because the metal was found as an impurity in gold, and del Pinto for the Pinto River in Grand Columbia where Europeans discovered it being mined by Native Americans.
senses_examples:
text:
platinum:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element with atomic number 78 and symbol Pt; a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, silverish-white transition metal of great value.
A whitish grey colour, like that of the metal.
A single or album that has achieved platinum sales, i.e. over 1 million or 2 million.
A platinum-based drug: a platin.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
medicine
sciences |
11645 | word:
platinum
word_type:
adj
expansion:
platinum (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
platinum
etymology_text:
From Spanish platina (“little silver”) del Pinto ("of the Pinto") + -um. It was called "little" (or "lesser") silver because the metal was found as an impurity in gold, and del Pinto for the Pinto River in Grand Columbia where Europeans discovered it being mined by Native Americans.
senses_examples:
text:
We can offer the platinum service for fifty dollars extra.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a whitish grey colour, like that of the metal.
Of a musical recording that has sold over one million copies (for singles), or two million (for albums).
Very expensive, or of very high quality
senses_topics:
|
11646 | word:
platinum
word_type:
verb
expansion:
platinum (third-person singular simple present platinums, present participle platinuming, simple past and past participle platinumed)
forms:
form:
platinums
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
platinuming
tags:
participle
present
form:
platinumed
tags:
participle
past
form:
platinumed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
platinum
etymology_text:
From Spanish platina (“little silver”) del Pinto ("of the Pinto") + -um. It was called "little" (or "lesser") silver because the metal was found as an impurity in gold, and del Pinto for the Pinto River in Grand Columbia where Europeans discovered it being mined by Native Americans.
senses_examples:
text:
I platinumed in Clash of Clans yesterday.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to reach platinum level in a game
senses_topics:
computer-games
games |
11647 | word:
class
word_type:
noun
expansion:
class (countable and uncountable, plural classes)
forms:
form:
classes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Class
etymology_text:
From Middle French classe, from Latin classis (“a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, the army, the fleet, later a class or division in general”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). Doublet of clas and classis.
senses_examples:
text:
The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
type:
example
text:
That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
type:
example
text:
Often used to imply membership of a large class.
type:
example
text:
This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.
type:
example
text:
The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.
ref:
2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1-2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
ref:
2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
type:
example
text:
Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
type:
example
text:
The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
type:
example
text:
I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
type:
example
text:
The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
type:
example
text:
I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.
type:
example
text:
The City & South London was also the first British passenger railway to offer only one class.
ref:
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 101
type:
quotation
text:
Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
type:
example
text:
It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
type:
example
text:
The mark made by Cory a new Central A. U. mark and he appears to be the class of the field in this event.
ref:
1913 June 27, “The Crime Is Not in Making a Mistake, but in Repeating It.”, in Chicago Tribune
type:
quotation
text:
University of Southern California's 7 to 0 defeat of the mighty Cardinal team ranked the victors the class of the far west
ref:
1929 October 27, “89,000 Watch So. California Defeat Stanford, 7 to 0”, in Chicago Tribune
type:
quotation
text:
Roosevelt (14-1) looked very much like the class of the OIA.
ref:
2009 May 8, “Waianae forces OIA rematch”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin
type:
quotation
text:
The class of all sets is not a set.
type:
example
text:
Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.
type:
example
text:
In the present section we shall discuss the various systems of set theory which admit, beside sets, also classes. Classes are like sets, except that they can be very comprehensive; an extreme example of a class is the class which contains all sets.[…]The main point which will, in our opinion, emerge from this analysis is that set theory with classes and set theory with sets only are not two separate theories; they are, essentially, different formulations of the same underlying theory.
ref:
1973, Abraham Fraenkel, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, Azriel Lévy, Foundations of Set Theory, 2nd edition, Elsevier, page 119
type:
quotation
text:
an abstract base class
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class.
The division of society into classes.
Admirable behavior; elegance.
A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
A series of lessons covering a single subject.
A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
Best of its kind.
A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
A collection of sets definable by a shared property, especially one which is not itself a set (in which case the class is called proper).
A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.
One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
education
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
mathematics
sciences
statistics
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
government
military
politics
war
|
11648 | word:
class
word_type:
verb
expansion:
class (third-person singular simple present classes, present participle classing, simple past and past participle classed)
forms:
form:
classes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
classing
tags:
participle
present
form:
classed
tags:
participle
past
form:
classed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Class
etymology_text:
From Middle French classe, from Latin classis (“a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, the army, the fleet, later a class or division in general”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). Doublet of clas and classis.
senses_examples:
text:
I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
type:
example
text:
the genus or family under which it classes
ref:
1790, Edward Tatham, The Chart and Scale of Truth
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To assign to a class; to classify.
To be grouped or classed.
To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
senses_topics:
|
11649 | word:
class
word_type:
adj
expansion:
class (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Class
etymology_text:
From Middle French classe, from Latin classis (“a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, the army, the fleet, later a class or division in general”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). Doublet of clas and classis.
senses_examples:
text:
To talented authors Tim Ash and Brian Reich for introducing me to John Wiley & Sons—a truly class outfit.
ref:
2009, Erik Qualman, Socialnomics
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
great; fabulous
senses_topics:
|
11650 | word:
esteem
word_type:
noun
expansion:
esteem (usually uncountable, plural esteems)
forms:
form:
esteems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First at end of 16th century; borrowed from Middle French estimer, from Latin aestimō (“to value, rate, weigh, estimate”); see estimate and aim, an older word, partly a doublet of esteem.
senses_examples:
text:
We hold her in high esteem.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Assessment, estimation, or regard; especially; favourable estimation or regard.
senses_topics:
|
11651 | word:
esteem
word_type:
verb
expansion:
esteem (third-person singular simple present esteems, present participle esteeming, simple past and past participle esteemed)
forms:
form:
esteems
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
esteeming
tags:
participle
present
form:
esteemed
tags:
participle
past
form:
esteemed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First at end of 16th century; borrowed from Middle French estimer, from Latin aestimō (“to value, rate, weigh, estimate”); see estimate and aim, an older word, partly a doublet of esteem.
senses_examples:
text:
Thou shouldest (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence.
ref:
1535, Edmund Bonner, De vera obedientia by Stephen Gardiner (Preface)
text:
The Earth, which I esteem unable to reflect the rays of the Sun.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.
To regard something as valuable; to prize.
To look upon something in a particular way.
To judge; to estimate; to appraise
senses_topics:
|
11652 | word:
kilo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kilo (plural kilos)
forms:
form:
kilos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […]. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.
ref:
2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of kilogram.
Alternative letter-case form of Kilo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
senses_topics:
|
11653 | word:
test
word_type:
noun
expansion:
test (plural tests)
forms:
form:
tests
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste (“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa (“dry land”). See terra, thirst. The examination sense came via metaphor of the metallurgical sense - the way a metallurgist puts to the test their gold, a teacher may put to the test their students' knowledge.
senses_examples:
text:
Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.
ref:
2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2012-04-26, page 168
type:
quotation
text:
It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test
ref:
1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A challenge, trial.
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
An examination, given often during the academic term.
A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
A Test match.
The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
Testa; seed coat.
Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
senses_topics:
academia
scholarly
sciences
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
biology
botany
natural-sciences
|
11654 | word:
test
word_type:
verb
expansion:
test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)
forms:
form:
tests
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
testing
tags:
participle
present
form:
tested
tags:
participle
past
form:
tested
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
test
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste (“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa (“dry land”). See terra, thirst. The examination sense came via metaphor of the metallurgical sense - the way a metallurgist puts to the test their gold, a teacher may put to the test their students' knowledge.
senses_examples:
text:
Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
type:
example
text:
to test the soundness of a principle
type:
example
text:
to test the validity of an argument
type:
example
text:
September 17, 1796, George Washington, Farewell Address
Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
text:
Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems–[…]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
ref:
2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 2013-04-24, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
He tested positive for cancer.
type:
example
text:
It is probable that children who test above 180 IQ are actually present in our juvenile population in greater frequency than at the rate of one in a million.
ref:
2015, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Harry Levi Hollingworth, Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development
type:
quotation
text:
to test a solution by litmus paper
type:
example
text:
Back then, you couldn't rock any type of jewelry just like that, because someone was going to test you or rob you. If you were wearing a chain, you had to be someone who was known for shooting or cutting or knocking dudes the fuck out. And someone who didn’t know you may still try and test, so you couldn't really rely on your rep to save you every time.
ref:
2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
I'm feelin' special, I might fly her out to LA, yeah / I got my weapon, it turn violent if you test me, yeah
ref:
2023 November 6, “Guapi” (1:44 from the start)performed by YoungBoy Never Broke Again
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To challenge, to put a strain on (something).
To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
To be shown to be by test.
To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
To challenge (someone) to a fight.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
11655 | word:
test
word_type:
noun
expansion:
test (plural tests)
forms:
form:
tests
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis (“one who attests, a witness”).
senses_examples:
text:
1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A witness.
senses_topics:
|
11656 | word:
test
word_type:
verb
expansion:
test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)
forms:
form:
tests
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
testing
tags:
participle
present
form:
tested
tags:
participle
past
form:
tested
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis (“one who attests, a witness”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
To make a testament, or will.
senses_topics:
|
11657 | word:
test
word_type:
noun
expansion:
test (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of testosterone.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
testosterone
senses_topics:
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
11658 | word:
accelerometer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accelerometer (plural accelerometers)
forms:
form:
accelerometers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
accelerometer
etymology_text:
From accelerate + -o- + -meter.
senses_examples:
text:
Working with NR, ScotRail and Porterbrook, Perpetuum has fitted sensors with gyroscopes and accelerometers to trains that are already in passenger service.
ref:
2022 March 23, “Network News: Hitachi on-train track monitoring trial expands to Scottish routes”, in RAIL, number 953, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instrument for measuring acceleration.
An instrument made for detecting and measuring vibrations.
senses_topics:
|
11659 | word:
buggy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
buggy (plural buggies)
forms:
form:
buggies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Origin unknown.
senses_examples:
text:
I casually let this information drop as our concierge drives us through the resort in a buggy, a frangipani flower tucked behind his ear. He promises to fix the bug problem and drops us off at the lobby.
ref:
2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
1920's arr: Jimmie Rogers Frankie and Johnnie
Bring out the rubber tired buggy/Bring out the rubber tired hack/I'm takin' my Johnny to the graveyard/But I ain't gonna bring him back
text:
The wider station upgrade has provided lifts to the Piccadilly and Victoria lines, as well as Network Rail platforms, to make it easier for passengers with mobility needs, buggies or heavy luggage to use London Underground.
ref:
2020 January 2, “New entrance at Finsbury Park”, in Rail, page 12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small horse-drawn cart.
A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
A hearse.
A pushchair; a stroller.
A shopping cart or trolley.
senses_topics:
|
11660 | word:
buggy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
buggy (comparative buggier, superlative buggiest)
forms:
form:
buggier
tags:
comparative
form:
buggiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From bug + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
This software is so buggy that I don't know how anyone can use it!
type:
example
text:
You have to help me get out of here. They want to keep me longer, but I can't stay. This place is driving me buggy.
ref:
2011, Beverley Armstrong-Rodman, Nightmare in the Everglades, page 106
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Infested with insects.
Containing programming errors.
Resembling an insect.
Crazy; bughouse.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
11661 | word:
shopping cart
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shopping cart (plural shopping carts)
forms:
form:
shopping carts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
shopping cart
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A conveyance used to carry groceries and other items while shopping in a store.
The stored list of items that a person has chosen to purchase during an online shopping session but has not yet confirmed.
senses_topics:
|
11662 | word:
canoe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
canoe (plural canoes)
forms:
form:
canoes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Adopted in 16th century from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa (“dugout canoe”) (compare Lokono kanoa (“canoe”), Wayuu anuwa, anua (“boat, canoe”)), from Proto-Arawak *kanawa.
senses_examples:
text:
The canoe is of pure black oak, and is in excellent preservation.
ref:
1886 January 24, The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past, volume XIII, number 73, page 135
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.
An oversize, usually older, luxury car.
Any of the deflectors positioned around a roulette wheel, shaped like upside-down boats.
senses_topics:
gambling
games |
11663 | word:
canoe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
canoe (third-person singular simple present canoes, present participle canoeing, simple past and past participle canoed)
forms:
form:
canoes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
canoeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
canoed
tags:
participle
past
form:
canoed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Adopted in 16th century from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa (“dugout canoe”) (compare Lokono kanoa (“canoe”), Wayuu anuwa, anua (“boat, canoe”)), from Proto-Arawak *kanawa.
senses_examples:
text:
Car drivers were helicoptered to safety from nearby roads. There were photographs of people canoeing down streets.
ref:
2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 40
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ride or paddle a canoe.
senses_topics:
|
11664 | word:
echo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
echo (countable and uncountable, plural echoes or echos)
forms:
form:
echoes
tags:
plural
form:
echos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eccho, ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough.
senses_examples:
text:
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
ref:
2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7
type:
quotation
text:
Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.
ref:
1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, Will o' the Mill
type:
quotation
text:
When someone asks an off-topic question […] they are usually quickly told to knock it off. You can't ask a question about modems in an echo devoted to local-area networks.
ref:
1992, Dial in, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
An utterance repeating what has just been said.
A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people.
Clipping of echocardiography.
Clipping of echocardiogram.
senses_topics:
communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
bridge
games
bridge
games
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences |
11665 | word:
echo
word_type:
verb
expansion:
echo (third-person singular simple present echoes, present participle echoing, simple past and past participle echoed)
forms:
form:
echoes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
echoing
tags:
participle
present
form:
echoed
tags:
participle
past
form:
echoed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eccho, ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough.
senses_examples:
text:
The sense that it takes outrageous fortune to get inoculated echoes here in the Bay Area, where pharmacies have canceled flu-shot clinics, doctors turn away pleading patients and health officials are reduced to telling panicked callers that they should practice good personal hygiene.
ref:
2004 October 29, Marco R. Della Cava, “Vaccine shortage pricks tempers”, in Statesman Journal, volume 152, number 214, Salem, OR, page 2A
type:
quotation
text:
The wondrous sound / Is echoed on forever.
ref:
1827, John Keble, The Christian Year: Christmas Day
type:
quotation
text:
Sid echoed his father’s point of view.
type:
example
text:
‘I want nothing.’
‘Nor I,’ echoed Sydney.
ref:
1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
type:
quotation
text:
Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
ref:
2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
His views were echoed by The Economist, which feared that the effects of modernisation would be no more than “chromium-plated” inefficiency caused by unimaginative railway management and adverse union reaction.
ref:
2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing.
ref:
1991, Martin D. Seyer, RS-232 made easy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
To reflect back (a sound).
To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
bridge
games |
11666 | word:
SIL
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SIL (plural SILs)
forms:
form:
SILs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of sibling-in-law.
Initialism of sister-in-law.
Initialism of safety integrity level.
senses_topics:
|
11667 | word:
Mn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Mn
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Monday.
senses_topics:
|
11668 | word:
accelerant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accelerant (plural accelerants)
forms:
form:
accelerants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accelerate + -ant (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs, or forming adjectives with senses of being prone or tending to do the actions of verbs).
senses_examples:
text:
Accelerant was poured across the beds where the two daughters of a family in Cheshire, Conn., had been tied before a fire during a home invasion in 2007, a fire investigator told jurors on Friday.
ref:
2010 September 25, William Glaberson, “Accelerant Was on Girls’ Beds, Witness Tells a Connecticut Jury”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Hello Neighbor’s experience reflects the rise of video sites like YouTube as an accelerant for the video game business.
ref:
2017 August 16, Laura Hudson, “Using YouTube as an Accelerant for Video Games”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
[Mike] Skinner can be credited with pouring lots of accelerant on pop in his time. In his absence, Caribbean-derived UK bass music became the de facto sound of British youth.
ref:
2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-08
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any substance that can bond or mix with, or disturb, another substance and cause an increase in the speed of a natural or artificial chemical process.
In the context of fire protection, a substance that accelerates the development of a fire, especially some hydrocarbon-based fuel used to spread a fire caused by arson.
Any substance that can bond or mix with, or disturb, another substance and cause an increase in the speed of a natural or artificial chemical process.
A substance used to catalyze the vulcanization of rubber.
Something that speeds up a process or the uptake of something else.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
11669 | word:
accelerant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accelerant (comparative more accelerant, superlative most accelerant)
forms:
form:
more accelerant
tags:
comparative
form:
most accelerant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accelerate + -ant (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs, or forming adjectives with senses of being prone or tending to do the actions of verbs).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Causing acceleration or speeding up; accelerating.
senses_topics:
|
11670 | word:
kayak
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kayak (plural kayaks)
forms:
form:
kayaks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
kayak
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “hunter's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ. Compare Greenlandic qajaq and Yup'ik qayaq.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position, from a hole in the surface deck
senses_topics:
|
11671 | word:
kayak
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kayak (third-person singular simple present kayaks, present participle kayaking, simple past and past participle kayaked)
forms:
form:
kayaks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kayaking
tags:
participle
present
form:
kayaked
tags:
participle
past
form:
kayaked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
kayak
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “hunter's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ. Compare Greenlandic qajaq and Yup'ik qayaq.
senses_examples:
text:
Kayaking is an Olympic sport.
type:
example
text:
On a dare, he kayaked the Harlem River in New York from Hell's Gate to Spyten Duyvil.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak.
To traverse (a body of water) by kayak.
senses_topics:
|
11672 | word:
Cr
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Cr
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of creatine.
Abbreviation of creatinine.
senses_topics:
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
11673 | word:
fag
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fag (plural fags)
forms:
form:
fags
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from fag end (“remnant”), from Middle English fagge (“flap”).
senses_examples:
text:
He′d Phase Out Fag Industry
Los Angeles (UPI) - A UCLA professor has called for the phasing out of the cigarette industry by converting tobacco acres to other crops.
ref:
1968 January 25, The Bulletin, Oregon
type:
quotation
text:
Oh, rent a flat above a shop / And cut your hair and get a job / And smoke some fags and play some pool / Pretend you never went to school
ref:
1995, Pulp (lyrics and music), “Common People”, in Different Class
type:
quotation
text:
All of them, like my mother, were heavy smokers, and after warming themselves by the fire, they would sit on the sofa and smoke, lobbing their wet fag ends into the fire.
ref:
2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf, section 15
type:
quotation
text:
So I started off by asking the shearers if they minded if I took a belly off while they were having a fag. Then after a while they were asking me. They′d say, ‘Do yer wanta take over fer a bit while I have a fag?’ And then I got better and I′d finish the sheep and they′d say ‘Christ, I haven′t finished me bloody fag yet, yer may as well shear anotherie.’
ref:
2011, Bill Marsh, Great Australian Shearing Stories, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
Fag, s. the worst part or end of anything.
ref:
1788, William Perry, editor, The Royal standard English dictionary
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
A cigarette.
The worst part or end of a thing.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
|
11674 | word:
fag
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fag (plural fags)
forms:
form:
fags
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Akin to flag (“droop, tire”). Compare Dutch vaak (“sleepiness”).
senses_examples:
text:
We are sadly off in the country; not but what we have very good shops in Salisbury, but it is so far to go—eight miles is a long way; Mr. Allen says it is nine, measured nine; but I am sure it cannot be more than eight; and it is such a fag—I come back tired to death.
ref:
1853, Sarah Josepha Hale, Woman's Record: or Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from Creation to A.D. 1854, page 188
type:
quotation
text:
I had the character at ſchool of being the very beſt fag that ever came into it.
ref:
1791, Richard Cumberland, The Observer, volume 4, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
A gang of fags was mobbing about by the notice-boards. They fell silent as he approached. He patted one of them on the head. ‘Pretty children,’ he sighed, digging into his waistcoat pocket and pulling out a handful of change. ‘Tonight you shall eat.’ Scattering the coins at their feet, he moved on.
ref:
1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chore: an arduous and tiresome task.
A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
senses_topics:
education |
11675 | word:
fag
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fag (third-person singular simple present fags, present participle fagging, simple past and past participle fagged)
forms:
form:
fags
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fagging
tags:
participle
present
form:
fagged
tags:
participle
past
form:
fagged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Akin to flag (“droop, tire”). Compare Dutch vaak (“sleepiness”).
senses_examples:
text:
a. 1829, G. Mackenzie, Lives, quoted in 1829, "Fag", entry in The London Encyclopaedia: Or, Universal Dictionary, Volume 9, page 12,
Creighton with-held his force 'till the Italian began to fag, and then brought him to the ground.
text:
It is everywhere observed that a liberated slave is apt to make a merciless master, and that boys who have been cruelly fagged at school are cruel faggers.
ref:
1887, Francis Bacon, Richard Whately, Essays, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
This state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace, accustomed as I was to a life of ceaseless reprimand and thankless fagging; but, in fact, my racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasure excite them agreeably.
ref:
1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 1, in Jane Eyre, HTML edition
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make exhausted, tired out.
To droop; to tire.
(of a younger student) To act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
To work hard, especially on menial chores.
senses_topics:
education
education
|
11676 | word:
fag
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fag (plural fags)
forms:
form:
fags
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of faggot.
senses_examples:
text:
1921 John Lind, The Female Impersonators (Historical Documentation of American Slang v. 1, A-G, edited by Jonathan E. Lighter (New York: Random House, 1994) page 716.
Androgynes known as “fairies,” “fags,” or “brownies.”
text:
In schizophrenics, however, the homosexual outlet is sooner or later ... ideas that strangers call them "cs," "fairy," "woman," "fag," " fruit," etc.). ...
ref:
1926, American Neurological Association with New York Neurological Association et al., Journal of nervous and mental disease, volume 94, page 467
type:
quotation
text:
When they pick out a set of clubs for him to rent, he is so indifferent and silent the freckled kid in charge stares at him as if he's a moron. The thought flits through his brain that Eccles is known as a fag and he has become the new pet.
ref:
1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 111
type:
quotation
text:
A couple of days later, Trisha tells Madelyn there is a rumor going around that she's a fag.
ref:
2006, Lynn Mickelsen, Confusion Turned to Chaos
type:
quotation
text:
... what appeared to be overt appeals to anti-gay sentiment. When House Majority Whip Dick Armey referred to fellow Congressman Barney Frank as "Barney Fag" in 1995, he suffered a barage of negative publicity that prompted him to explain his choice of words as a slip of the tongue.
ref:
2008, Paul Ryan Brewer, Value war: public opinion and the politics of gay rights, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
Why did you do that, you fag?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an effeminate or unusual one.
An annoying person.
senses_topics:
|
11677 | word:
country code
word_type:
noun
expansion:
country code (plural country codes)
forms:
form:
country codes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A short alphabetic or numeric geographical code representing a specific country or area.
senses_topics:
|
11678 | word:
Sc
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Sc
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Scott catalogue of stamp values.
Abbreviation of subcosta.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
philately
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences |
11679 | word:
language code
word_type:
noun
expansion:
language code (plural language codes)
forms:
form:
language codes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
af is the two-letter language code for Afrikaans.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
short alphabetic or numeric identifier assigned to a language.
senses_topics:
|
11680 | word:
Cu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Cu
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of cubitus.
senses_topics:
biology
entomology
natural-sciences |
11681 | word:
Br
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Br
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belarusian.
Alternative spelling of Br. (brother)
senses_topics:
|
11682 | word:
Br
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Br (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belarusian.
senses_topics:
|
11683 | word:
auspicious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
auspicious (comparative more auspicious, superlative most auspicious)
forms:
form:
more auspicious
tags:
comparative
form:
most auspicious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From auspice + -ious, from Latin auspicium (“augury”), from auspex (“augur”), possibly via French.
senses_examples:
text:
Backed by the Salsoul Orchestra, Carol's auspicious single debut, "More," was one of the very first commercially-available 12" singles and was a smash, reaching the upper regions of the disco charts in 1976.
ref:
2013, James Arena, First Ladies of Disco - 32 Stars Discuss the Era and Their Singing Careers, page 232
type:
quotation
text:
Losing nearly a third of the heavy cruisers, including Admiral Kurita's flagship, the Atago, was not an especially-auspicious start to the operation, especially with the admiral himself having to be fished out of the water by a destroyer.
ref:
2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 5:34 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03
type:
quotation
text:
This is an auspicious day.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of good omen; indicating future success.
Conducive to success.
Marked by success; prosperous.
senses_topics:
|
11684 | word:
aluminium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aluminium (countable and uncountable, plural aluminiums)
forms:
form:
aluminiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
aluminium
etymology_text:
First used in 1812 as an alternative form of aluminum which was coined in the same year. From Latin alūmen + -ium.
* For information on the origins of the two spellings, see the Wikipedia article.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A light, silvery metal extracted from bauxite, and a chemical element (symbol Al) with an atomic number of 13.
A single atom of this element.
Aircraft or other machinery made partially or wholly of aluminium.
senses_topics:
|
11685 | word:
exobiology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
exobiology (usually uncountable, plural exobiologies)
forms:
form:
exobiologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From exo- + biology, coined by American molecular biologist Joshua Lederberg.
senses_examples:
text:
Biology has lately given rise to a new discipline: exobiology, the study of extraterrestrial life. Ever since 1959, when analysis of a piece of meteor substance showed traces of organic compounds, a controversy has raged as to whether these compounds came into the atmosphere with the meteorite or whether they originate on earth.
ref:
1973, Lyall Watson, Supernature, page ix. 310
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The branch of biology dealing with lifeforms originating a different planet.
senses_topics:
biology
literature
media
natural-sciences
publishing
science-fiction |
11686 | word:
cassowary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cassowary (plural cassowaries)
forms:
form:
cassowaries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay kasuari.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius that is native to Australia and New Guinea, has a characteristic bony crest on its head, and can be very dangerous.
senses_topics:
|
11687 | word:
argon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
argon (countable and uncountable, plural argons)
forms:
form:
argons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
argon
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀργόν (argón), neuter of ἀργός (argós, “idle, lazy”), because of its inertness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol Ar) with an atomic number of 18. The third most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere, it is a colourless, odourless, inert noble gas.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
11688 | word:
rhea
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rhea (plural rheas)
forms:
form:
rheas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Rhea (“the mother of Zeus in Greek mythology”), from Ancient Greek Ῥέα (Rhéa).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large flightless bird of the genus Rhea, native to South America.
senses_topics:
|
11689 | word:
rhea
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rhea
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ramie (Boehmeria nivea), a fiber-yielding plant.
senses_topics:
|
11690 | word:
dord
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dord (plural dords)
forms:
form:
dords
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Irish dord (“buzz, drone; dord”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] there, after digging to a good depth, they find the Dord or great war-horn of Fionn, a blast on which brings “a flock of furious gigantic birds,” and a thigh of one of them is found to be as big as a sheep’s.
ref:
1869, “Folk-lore: Myths and Tales of Various Peoples”, in The London Quarterly & Holborn Review, volume 31, pages 62–63
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the first album on which the dord and the didgeridoo could be heard together was entitled: ‘Two stories in One: (Natural Symphonies)’.
ref:
1994, Dirk Schellberg, Didgeridoo: Ritual Origins and Playing Techniques, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
The dord, a form of horn with a sound like the Australian Aborigine’s didgeridoo, was clearly a sacred instrument of the Bronze Age […]
ref:
2002, Philip Carr-Gomm, Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century, page 64
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of ancient Irish war-horn.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
11691 | word:
solubility
word_type:
noun
expansion:
solubility (plural solubilities)
forms:
form:
solubilities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Solubility
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The condition of being soluble.
The amount of a substance that will dissolve in a given amount of a solvent, to give a saturated solution, under specified conditions.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
11692 | word:
crazy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
crazy (comparative crazier, superlative craziest)
forms:
form:
crazier
tags:
comparative
form:
craziest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From craze + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
His ideas were both frightening and crazy.
type:
example
text:
Those words appearing to be merely the ravings of superannuation, they were not regarded; but when no other traces of Mary could be found, old Andrew went up to consult this crazy dame once more, but he was not able to bring any such thing to her recollection.
ref:
1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet
type:
quotation
text:
Grab-a-cop-gun kinda crazy / She's poison but tasty / Yeah, people say "Run, don't walk, away"
ref:
2018, Ava Max, Madison Love, Tix, Cook Classics, Cirkut (lyrics and music), “Sweet but Psycho”, in Heaven & Hell, performed by Ava Max
type:
quotation
text:
When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy.
type:
example
text:
He went crazy when he won.
type:
example
text:
The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.
ref:
1864, R. B. Kimball, Was He Successful?
type:
quotation
text:
Why is she so crazy about him?
type:
example
text:
The game had a crazy ending.
type:
example
text:
Buchanan shewed her into a room adjoining to Mr. Steele's dressing-room, and separated from it by a very crazy partition.
ref:
1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 203
type:
quotation
text:
They […] got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.
ref:
1816, Francis Jeffrey, “Memoirs of Madame de Larochejaquelein”, in The Edinburgh Review February 1816
type:
quotation
text:
Casement windows opened, crazy doors were unbarred, and people came forth shivering—chilled, as yet, by the new sweet air.
ref:
1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
type:
quotation
text:
Over moist and crazy brains.
ref:
1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
type:
quotation
text:
My poor aunt has often told me […] how long she herself was apprehensive lest my crazy frame, which is now of common shape, should remain for ever crooked and deformed.
ref:
c. 1793, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs, Penguin, published 1990, page 61
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of unsound mind; insane; demented.
Out of control.
Very excited or enthusiastic.
In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
Very unexpected; wildly surprising.
Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle.
Sickly, frail; diseased.
senses_topics:
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11693 | word:
crazy
word_type:
adv
expansion:
crazy (comparative more crazy, superlative most crazy)
forms:
form:
more crazy
tags:
comparative
form:
most crazy
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From craze + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
That trick was crazy good.
type:
example
text:
I'm flat out. It's crazy stupid here, Kim.
ref:
2002, Gina Riley, Jane Turner, That's Unusual: Scripts from Kath and Kim, Series 2, page 67
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very, extremely.
senses_topics:
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11694 | word:
crazy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crazy (countable and uncountable, plural crazies)
forms:
form:
crazies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From craze + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Now drink up, you knuckleheads! Have a blast! It's our night, you crazies! Chloe, where are you?
ref:
2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
text:
Then again, her whole evening was full of crazy, and she didn't know what else to do.
ref:
2013, Douglas Schwartz, Checkered Scissors, page 211
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
Eccentric behaviour; lunacy; craziness.
senses_topics:
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11695 | word:
area
word_type:
noun
expansion:
area (plural areas or areæ)
forms:
form:
areas
tags:
plural
form:
areæ
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
area
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin area.
senses_examples:
text:
It is about 4.5 million square kilometers in area and holds the world’s third largest collection of ice after Antarctica and Greenland.
ref:
2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
type:
quotation
text:
The photo is a little dark in that area.
type:
example
text:
The plans are a bit vague in that area.
type:
example
text:
Today, a new area of research that similarly aims to mimic a complex biological phenomenon—life itself—is taking off. Synthetic biology, a seductive experimental subfield in the life sciences, seems tantalizingly to promise custom-designed life created in the laboratory.
ref:
2013 September-October, Rob Dorit, “Making Life from Scratch”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
A boy seized it, whom she bribed with a shilling to relinquish his prize, which she was taking home, when it escaped from her hand, and fell down the area of a house.
ref:
1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge, published 2016, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
A minute later we were both in the area. Hardly had we reached the dark shadows before the step of the policeman was heard in the fog above. As its soft rhythm died away, Holmes set to work upon the lower door. I saw him stoop and strain until with a sharp crash it flew open. We sprang through into the dark passage, closing the area door behind us.
ref:
1908, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
type:
quotation
text:
Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner.
ref:
2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
But what do I do when the third one runs at me with his bike helmet on? I got no more hands to protect my area!
ref:
2003 October 2, “The One Where Ross Is Fine”, in Friends, season 10, episode 2, spoken by Frank Buffay Jr. (Giovanni Ribisi), via NBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
A particular geographic region.
Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
An open space, below ground level, giving access to the basement of a house, and typically separated from the pavement by railings.
Penalty box; penalty area.
Genitals.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
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11696 | word:
milk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
milk (countable and uncountable, plural milks)
forms:
form:
milks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
milk
etymology_text:
From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian molke, Dutch melk, Dutch Low Saxon melk, German Milch, German Low German Melk, Yiddish מילך (milkh), Danish mælk, Norwegian Bokmål mjølk, melk, Norwegian Nynorsk mjølk, Swedish mjölk, Icelandic mjólk, Faroese mjólk, Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Polish mleko, Russian молоко́ (molokó), Welsh blith, Tocharian A malke, Lithuanian malkas, Latvian malks, and possibly Ancient Greek μέλκιον (mélkion).
senses_examples:
text:
Skyr is a product made of curdled milk.
type:
example
text:
2007 September 24, Chris Horseman (interviewee), Emily Harris (reporter), “Global Dairy Demand Drives Up Prices”, Morning Edition, National Public Radio
[…] there's going to be that much less milk available to cover any other uses. Which means whether it's liquid milk or whether it's [milk that's been turned into] cheese or yogurt, the price gets pulled up right across the board.
text:
In the West it's' fairly normal to drink milk in various forms into adulthood.
ref:
2017, Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Experiment, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
Where it does fall down, however, is its nutritional value. While oats are largely a healthy grain to include in your diet, the milk is highly diluted with water, giving it little nutritional value.
ref:
2018 September 16, Alexandra Spring, “'Milk' mania: why most alternatives aren't great – but camel milk just might be”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
For environmentally minded consumers, the news is hard to swallow: almond milk is not healthy for the planet and the popular milk substitute is especially hard on bees.
ref:
2020 January 29, Annette McGivney, “Almonds are out. Dairy is a disaster. So what milk should we drink?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Table three ordered three milks.
type:
example
text:
I take my tea with two milks and two sugars.
type:
example
text:
I take my tea with two milk and two sugar.
type:
example
text:
She just sat there drinking cup after cup of strong coffee, with two milks and two sugars.
ref:
2014, Don Eggspuehler, Teachings From Pop, Author House, page 459
type:
quotation
text:
Five minutes later, he returned with Justin's large coffee with two milk and two sweeteners and a black coffee for himself.
ref:
2015, Carolyn Arnold, City of Gold: (Mathew Connor Adventure Series Book 1), Hibbert & Stiles Publishing Inc.
type:
quotation
text:
Mrs. Dale huffed up to the counter and fired her battle-axe stare at the attendant. “One medium tea. ... Two double-doubles, and one with two milk and two sweeteners.”
ref:
2019, Maggie Blackbird, Redeemed: The Matawapit Family Series, #1, eXtasy Books, page 349
type:
quotation
text:
She placed on her desk a brown paper bag; it held her breakfast, cream cheese on a toasted bagel and coffee with two milks and one sugar.
ref:
2020, John Mitton, Tedmund and the Murdered Heiress, Page Publishing, Inc
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans.
An individual serving of milk.
An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.
The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
Semen.
senses_topics:
|
11697 | word:
milk
word_type:
verb
expansion:
milk (third-person singular simple present milks, present participle milking, simple past and past participle milked)
forms:
form:
milks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
milking
tags:
participle
present
form:
milked
tags:
participle
past
form:
milked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
milk
etymology_text:
From Middle English milken, from Old English melcan, from Proto-Germanic *melkaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-, the same root as the noun. Compare Dutch and German melken, Danish malke, Norwegian mjølke, also Latin mulgeō (“I milk”), Ancient Greek ἀμέλγω (amélgō, “I milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Russian молоко́ (molokó), Lithuanian mélžti, Tocharian A mālk-.
senses_examples:
text:
The farmer milked his cows.
type:
example
text:
to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows
type:
example
text:
The black cow milking white milk, black hen on the nest laying white eggs.
ref:
1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
The Australian government has a team that regularly milks various snakes for venom to use creating serums and antivenoms.
type:
example
text:
When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.
type:
example
text:
July 21, 1877, "The Block in the Courts" in The Spectator
They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.
text:
If nothing else, José Mourinho can be grateful there was no mutiny. He still heard his name being sung and at the final whistle Old Trafford was not too unkind on the manager or his players. He milked it, too, marching over to the Stretford End to thank them for their generosity.
ref:
2018 August 27, Daniel Taylor, “Lucas Moura double for Spurs deepens gloom at Manchester United”, in The Guardian (London)
type:
quotation
text:
Controlled milking can actually establish and consolidate a mistress’s dominance over her sub rather than diminish it.
type:
example
text:
“No, no, no! When a male is in chas-ti-ty,” (Clive always drew out this word and also slavery, emphasizing every syllable to give it extra importance) “he should receive regular milking to maintain good hygiene.” (Yet more kinky behavior cloaked as healthy living.) “Milking helps flush out the toxins which accumulate within the prostate gland of a chaste male.”
ref:
2015, Joyce Snyder, Mistress Pussycat: Adventures with Submissive Men in the World of Femdom, Headpress
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.
To secrete (milk) from the breasts or udder.
To express a liquid from a creature.
To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).
To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.
To masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the masturbator rather than the person masturbated.
senses_topics:
BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality |
11698 | word:
intercourse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
intercourse (countable and uncountable, plural intercourses)
forms:
form:
intercourses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French entrecours, from Late Latin intercursus.
senses_examples:
text:
And indeed, what more reliable authority could Berlioz have found than Cavaillé-Coll, with whom he had frequent intercourse, and who would have been better qualified than any one else to give him correct information?
ref:
1906, Edward Suddard, chapter 4, in The Technique of the Modern Orchestra), translation of Technique de l'orchestre moderne by Charles-Marie Widor, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
It might seem that with age places gained upon persons in interest to my mind; and that my pleasure grew in intercourse with things rather than with ideas.
ref:
1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Communication, conversation.
Dealings between countries.
Dealings with people, including commerce and trade.
Sexual intercourse usually involving humans.
senses_topics:
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11699 | word:
intercourse
word_type:
verb
expansion:
intercourse (third-person singular simple present intercourses, present participle intercoursing, simple past and past participle intercoursed)
forms:
form:
intercourses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
intercoursing
tags:
participle
present
form:
intercoursed
tags:
participle
past
form:
intercoursed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French entrecours, from Late Latin intercursus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have sexual intercourse.
senses_topics:
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