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11900 | word:
dreame
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dreame (plural dreames)
forms:
form:
dreames
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of dream.
senses_topics:
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11901 | word:
bonne
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bonne (plural bonnes)
forms:
form:
bonnes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French bonne.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A French nursemaid.
senses_topics:
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11902 | word:
generically
word_type:
adv
expansion:
generically (comparative more generically, superlative most generically)
forms:
form:
more generically
tags:
comparative
form:
most generically
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From generic + -ally.
senses_examples:
text:
an animal generically distinct from another
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a generic manner.
With regard to a genus.
senses_topics:
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11903 | word:
acclimatable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acclimatable
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acclimate + -able.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of being acclimated.
senses_topics:
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11904 | word:
French letter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
French letter (plural French letters)
forms:
form:
French letters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French + letter. Compare earlier French pox, French-sick (“syphilis”), or later French safe, French tickler (“condom”), or French kiss. Attested from the 19th century.
senses_examples:
text:
‘So you’re fifteen – and you know the function of a “French letter”? You are familiar with its use?’
‘I know what it’s for, sir, yes.’
ref:
1984, Leslie Thomas, In my Wildest Dreams, page 289
type:
quotation
text:
“I suppose it’s too much to hope that you have a question about gonorrhea. Those questions are so much easier to answer.”[…]
“I was going to ask about what you said earlier. That you’d... that you’d... not used a French letter in eighteen months.”
ref:
2012, Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter, page 80
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A condom.
senses_topics:
|
11905 | word:
stink bomb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stink bomb (plural stink bombs)
forms:
form:
stink bombs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of stinkbomb
senses_topics:
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11906 | word:
cast pearls before swine
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cast pearls before swine (third-person singular simple present casts pearls before swine, present participle casting pearls before swine, simple past and past participle cast pearls before swine)
forms:
form:
casts pearls before swine
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
casting pearls before swine
tags:
participle
present
form:
cast pearls before swine
tags:
participle
past
form:
cast pearls before swine
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the Bible "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." – KJV, Matthew 7:6.
senses_examples:
text:
Blanche: ...Physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit and tenderness of the heart—and I have all of those things—aren't taken away, but grow! Increase with the years! How strange that I should be called a destitute woman! When I have all of these treasures locked in my heart. [A choked sob comes from her] I think of myself as a very, very rich woman! But I have been foolish—casting my pearls before swine!
ref:
1947, Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give things of value to those who will not understand or appreciate them.
senses_topics:
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11907 | word:
acclimatizable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acclimatizable
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acclimatize + -able.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of being acclimatized
senses_topics:
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11908 | word:
regime change
word_type:
noun
expansion:
regime change (countable and uncountable, plural regime changes)
forms:
form:
regime changes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Widely believed to have been coined by U.S. President Bill Clinton and popularized by his Presidential successor George W. Bush in reference to the regime of Saddam Hussein. Use of the term dates back to 1925.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The overthrow of a government that is considered an illegitimate regime by means of external force (especially military might), and its replacement with a new government according to the concept of political legitimacy promoted by that force.
senses_topics:
government
politics |
11909 | word:
acclaimer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acclaimer (plural acclaimers)
forms:
form:
acclaimers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acclaim + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] the voices of thousands of spectators pealing in thunder from the rocks on which their dark and crowded masses rested […] sent forth a shout of mingled triumph on their appearance and approbation of their cause; and its echoes continued to roll round the hills long after the lips of the acclaimers were closed […]
ref:
1824, Charles Maturin, chapter 3, in The Albigenses, volume 2, London: Hurst, Robinson, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
1912, Henry James, letter to William Dean Howells to be read at a dinner in celebration of Howells’ seventy-fifth birthday, in The North American Review, Volume 195, No. 677, April 1912, p. 558,
For I doubt, you see, whether any of your toasters and acclaimers have anything like my ground and title for being with you at such an hour.
text:
All our Dispute, is, what Companie, of so manie Acclaimers, is the true Church of CHRIST.
ref:
1627, Patrick Forbes, Eubulus, or A Dialogue, Aberdene, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
And we wish heartily, that leaving these weak nots of Trueth, to the Papists, chief acclaimers of them, amongst christians, (that we speak nothing of aliens from christianity) ye would be pleased to adhere, with us into the holy Scriptures […]
ref:
p. 1638, “The XIV. Duply”, in Generall Demands Concerning the Late Covenant […], published 1662, page 168
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who acclaims.
One who salutes or praises with great approval.
One who acclaims.
One who claims something.
senses_topics:
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11910 | word:
VI
word_type:
noun
expansion:
VI (plural VIs)
forms:
form:
VIs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of verb, intransitive.
Initialism of viscosity index.
senses_topics:
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11911 | word:
VI
word_type:
name
expansion:
VI
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Virgin Islands.
VI (“U.S. Virgin Islands”)
Abbreviation of Victoria Imperatrix.; the royal cypher of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, queen regnant and empress of the British Empire, Empire of India
senses_topics:
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11912 | word:
engine trouble
word_type:
noun
expansion:
engine trouble (countable and uncountable, plural engine troubles)
forms:
form:
engine troubles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
problems occurring with an engine or motor, especially with that of a motor car
senses_topics:
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11913 | word:
IV
word_type:
adj
expansion:
IV (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: i.v.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of intravenous.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
11914 | word:
IV
word_type:
noun
expansion:
IV (plural IVs)
forms:
form:
IVs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of intravenous injection.
Initialism of initialization vector.
Initialism of instrumental variable.
Initialism of immigrant visa.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
mathematics
sciences
statistics
|
11915 | word:
acclimatement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acclimatement (plural acclimatements)
forms:
form:
acclimatements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
acclimation
senses_topics:
|
11916 | word:
co
word_type:
noun
expansion:
co (plural cos)
forms:
form:
cos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
co
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of company.
senses_topics:
|
11917 | word:
co
word_type:
pron
expansion:
co (third-person singular, gender-neutral, reflexive coself)
forms:
form:
coself
tags:
reflexive
wikipedia:
co
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Co consistently does less than cos share of the Community work. 4. Co absents coself from the Community for more than three weeks [...]
ref:
1983, Ingrid Komar, Living the Dream: A Documentary Study of Twin Oaks Community
type:
quotation
text:
At the very least, an individual might have to use different terms to describe coself in a heterosexual context than co uses in a sexual minority context [...]
ref:
1996, Brett Beemyn, Mickey Elianon, Queer studies: a lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender anthology, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
A youngster of my own introduction had been rejected by an object of preadolescent craving and had killed coself by leaping at the ceiling of co's quarters. Co was a rising Large Game star, her spring was powerful, our gravity flux was low - co's head struck the surface with enough force to kill on impact.
ref:
2004 April 1, Pieira dos Lobos, “Fern's Story two”, in alt.magick.serious (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
they (singular). Gender-neutral subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
them (singular). Gender-neutral object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns him and her.
senses_topics:
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11918 | word:
acclamatory
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acclamatory
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acclaim + -atory.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation.
senses_topics:
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11919 | word:
Pennsylvania Dutch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Pennsylvania Dutch (countable and uncountable, plural Pennsylvania Dutch)
forms:
form:
Pennsylvania Dutch
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Pennsylvania Dutch
etymology_text:
From their primary residence in Pennsylvania and from Palatine German Deitsch (“German”), their own endonym, gradually modified under influence from Dutch.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Those people of German origin who settled in the Pennsylvania area prior to 1800, and their descendants.
Their language, Pennsylvania German, a High German language descended from Palatine German.
The Old Order Amish.
senses_topics:
|
11920 | word:
Pennsylvania Dutch
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Pennsylvania Dutch (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Pennsylvania Dutch
etymology_text:
From their primary residence in Pennsylvania and from Palatine German Deitsch (“German”), their own endonym, gradually modified under influence from Dutch.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Related to the Pennsylvania German people or their language.
senses_topics:
|
11921 | word:
acclimation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acclimation (countable and uncountable, plural acclimations)
forms:
form:
acclimations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in 1826.
* acclimate + -ion
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate, surroundings, or situation; especially, acclimatization.
The adaptation of an organism to its natural climatic environment.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
11922 | word:
igniferous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
igniferous (comparative more igniferous, superlative most igniferous)
forms:
form:
more igniferous
tags:
comparative
form:
most igniferous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin ignifer.
senses_examples:
text:
Near-synonyms: fire-breathing, flammivomous
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Producing fire
senses_topics:
|
11923 | word:
ignicolist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ignicolist (plural ignicolists)
forms:
form:
ignicolists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin ignis (“fire”) + colere (“to worship”) + -ist.
senses_examples:
text:
Van was delighted and shocked to distinguish, right there in the inky shrubbery, Ada in her long nightgown passing by with a lighted candle in one hand and a shoe in the other as if stealing after the belated ignicolists.
ref:
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 88
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A worshiper of fire.
senses_topics:
|
11924 | word:
coala
word_type:
noun
expansion:
coala (plural coalas)
forms:
form:
coalas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The funniest sound I ever heard uttered by an animal was by a "native bear," as they call the coala in Australia.
ref:
1894, The English Illustrated Magazine, volume 11, page 985
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of koala.
senses_topics:
|
11925 | word:
maternal death
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maternal death (countable and uncountable, plural maternal deaths)
forms:
form:
maternal deaths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The death of a woman that occurs directly related to the procreative process; obstetric death.
senses_topics:
|
11926 | word:
jaundiced
word_type:
adj
expansion:
jaundiced (comparative more jaundiced, superlative most jaundiced)
forms:
form:
more jaundiced
tags:
comparative
form:
most jaundiced
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From jaundice + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
Jaundiced eyes seem to see all objects yellow.
ref:
1640, Joseph Hall, Episcopacy by Divine Right
type:
quotation
text:
Overhanging her precarious body was a jaundiced face whose skin resembled a sheet of parchment paper punctured by two emotionless eyes.
ref:
2001, Dan Brown, Deception Point, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
a jaundiced judgment
type:
example
text:
Although Professor Davidson took a very jaundiced view of the Neptune probe, it had already been approved and he saw no point in sending more good money after bad.
ref:
1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
type:
quotation
text:
If we have experienced a hostile world in childhood, we will continue to view almost everyone with a jaundiced eye and react to them according to our perception.
ref:
2003, Simon S. Godfrey, The Nature of Man and God: A New Look, Trafford Publishing, page 186
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Affected with jaundice.
Prejudiced; envious.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences
|
11927 | word:
jaundiced
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jaundiced
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From jaundice + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of jaundice
senses_topics:
|
11928 | word:
ignifluous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ignifluous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin ignifluus, from ignis (“fire”) + fluere (“to flow”).
senses_examples:
text:
This process of filling up continued till the latter part of May 1840, when, as many natives testify, the whole area of the crater became one entire sea of ignifluous matter
ref:
1840, William T. Brigham, Notes on the Volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Flowing with fire.
senses_topics:
|
11929 | word:
oar blade
word_type:
noun
expansion:
oar blade (plural oar blades)
forms:
form:
oar blades
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From oar + blade.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The flanged portion of an oar; not the handle nor the shaft.
senses_topics:
|
11930 | word:
stinkbomb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stinkbomb (plural stinkbombs)
forms:
form:
stinkbombs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From stink + bomb.
senses_examples:
text:
"There's a huge stinkbomb in that trashbin."
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device that produces a burst of unpleasant odors.
An explosion of unpleasant odors, such as rotten eggs or garbage.
senses_topics:
|
11931 | word:
decigram
word_type:
noun
expansion:
decigram (plural decigrams)
forms:
form:
decigrams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From deci- + gram.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻¹ grams. Symbol: dg
senses_topics:
metrology |
11932 | word:
decagram
word_type:
noun
expansion:
decagram (plural decagrams)
forms:
form:
decagrams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
decagram
etymology_text:
From deca- + gram.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An SI unit of mass equal to 10¹ grams. Symbol: dag
A regular ten-pointed star shape.
senses_topics:
metrology
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
11933 | word:
engine driver
word_type:
noun
expansion:
engine driver (plural engine drivers)
forms:
form:
engine drivers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Queen Mary of the Iron Road. By Fred C. Bishop. […] This is the life-story of a boy who was determined to become an engine driver, and who lost no time in realising his ambition. A bold plunge from a clerkship in a coal merchant's office carried Fred Bishop, at the age of 14, into the locomotive department of the London & North Western Railway.
ref:
1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
In 1914, the Hendon and Finchley Times published a piece titled 'People who have no Christmas'. An engine-driver's comment was this: "For many years now I have never enjoyed a real Christmas. My engine has claimed me on this day, and my only regret is that I am not attached to a slow goods train, so that I could snatch time to eat some plum-pudding."
ref:
2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person who drives the engine of a train.
senses_topics:
|
11934 | word:
currency code
word_type:
noun
expansion:
currency code (plural currency codes)
forms:
form:
currency codes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
My foreign exchange applet knows the currency codes for all officially recognized currencies, not just USD and GBP.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A three-letter designation assigned by ISO standard 4217 denoting a given currency.
senses_topics:
|
11935 | word:
mysophobe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mysophobe (plural mysophobes)
forms:
form:
mysophobes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From myso- + -phobe.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person with an abnormal fear of filth or dirt.
senses_topics:
|
11936 | word:
foetus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
foetus (plural foetuses or foetus or (hypercorrect) foeti)
forms:
form:
foetuses
tags:
plural
form:
foetus
tags:
plural
form:
foeti
tags:
hypercorrect
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Amongst professional men, who have examined this singular foetus, a variety of opinions and conjectures have been formed, some of which it maybe well to notice.
ref:
1815, Nathaniel Highmore, Case of a Foetus Found in the Abdomen of a Young Man
type:
quotation
text:
During the last 10 weeks in utero the foetus stores very considerable amounts of energy in the form of fat.
ref:
1990, James M. Tanner, Foetus Into Man: Physical Growth from Conception to Maturity, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
The foetus gains all its food and oxygen from the mother during pregnancy.
ref:
2006, Denise Walker, Reproduction, Breathing and Health, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
But there were clues in their reproduction: all afrotherians have unusual placentas and produce more foetuses than can be nurtured in the womb.
ref:
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 59
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of fetus
senses_topics:
|
11937 | word:
cannelle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cannelle (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French cannelle.
senses_examples:
text:
The thing that the adepts seemed to enjoy most was the drink of Petro. That is a mixture of pig blood, fresh from the wound, white wine, red wine, a pinch of flour, cannelle and nutmeg. All of this is put in a bowl and whipped well.
ref:
1938, Zora Hurston, Tell My Horse
type:
quotation
text:
Hypocras, a very sweet wine infused with cannelle.
ref:
1979, Patrick Turnbull, Dordogne
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
cinnamon
senses_topics:
|
11938 | word:
FX
word_type:
noun
expansion:
FX (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of factor X (clotting factor X)
foreign exchange
Alternative form of F/X (“special effects”)
a Tamaraw FX vehicle
a public transport service typically using a Tamaraw FX vehicle
Abbreviation of floor.
senses_topics:
business
finance
broadcasting
film
media
television
video-games
road
transport
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
11939 | word:
roadster
word_type:
noun
expansion:
roadster (plural roadsters)
forms:
form:
roadsters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:roadster
etymology_text:
Derived from road + -ster.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A horse for riding or driving on the road.
A bicycle, or tricycle, adapted for common roads, rather than for the racing track, usually of classic style and steel-framed construction.
One who drives much; a coach driver.
A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country.
An open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat.
A person who lives along the road.
a sea-going vessel riding at anchor in a road or bay.
A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
11940 | word:
cigar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cigar (plural cigars)
forms:
form:
cigars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish cigarro, of uncertain origin; see that entry for more.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.
The penis.
senses_topics:
|
11941 | word:
jaunt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jaunt (plural jaunts)
forms:
form:
jaunts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Origin uncertain. Perhaps a palatalised alteration of daunt (“to discourage”). Compare Scots jaunder (“to ramble, jaunt to taunt, jeer”), dialectal Swedish ganta (“to play the buffoon, romp, jest”); perhaps akin to English jump. Compare jaunce. Modern usage likely influenced by jaunty.
senses_examples:
text:
Fie, what a jaunt have I had.
ref:
1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
type:
quotation
text:
Some days later it happened that young Heriotside was stepping home over the Lang Muir about ten at night, it being his first jaunt from home since his arm had mended.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wearisome journey.
A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.
senses_topics:
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11942 | word:
jaunt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jaunt (third-person singular simple present jaunts, present participle jaunting, simple past and past participle jaunted)
forms:
form:
jaunts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jaunting
tags:
participle
present
form:
jaunted
tags:
participle
past
form:
jaunted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Origin uncertain. Perhaps a palatalised alteration of daunt (“to discourage”). Compare Scots jaunder (“to ramble, jaunt to taunt, jeer”), dialectal Swedish ganta (“to play the buffoon, romp, jest”); perhaps akin to English jump. Compare jaunce. Modern usage likely influenced by jaunty.
senses_examples:
text:
To get into a Grecian car, and to be drawn, with Minerva at his back[…]four or five miles through the streets of London‥after having quietly suffered himself to be jaunted about in this manner
ref:
1818, Cobbett's Weekly Political Register
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
To ride on a jaunting car.
To jolt; to jounce.
To tire a horse by riding it hard or back and forth.
senses_topics:
|
11943 | word:
II
word_type:
noun
expansion:
II (plural IIs)
forms:
form:
IIs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
“When I came here eight years ago, it was easy to spot an II (illegal immigrant),” one British official here said. “They came across in dark navy clothes. Now, they come in designer T-shirts and Levis, and it’s hard to tell them from residents of Hong Kong.”
ref:
1987 April 11, Jim Mann, “Border Net Porous : Hong Kong: Old Magnet for Chinese”, in Los Angeles Times
type:
quotation
text:
Hong Kong can also follow the international trend of phasing out the rule that a child born by an II will automatically be granted citizenship of the place where he or she is born, in order to eradicate the problems of stowaways and II children.
ref:
1995 February 22, parliamentary debates (Hong Kong Legislative Council), page 2228
type:
quotation
text:
The spokesman urged the Mainlanders not to put their lives at risk because hiding underneath a goods vehicle is very dangerous. He also reiterated that all IIs caught will be repatriated immediately, and their aidors and abettors prosecuted accordingly.
ref:
1999 March 2, “Truck Driver Arrested for Arranging IIs to Hong Kong”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
Conveying a wrong message that an II could not be repatriated once he succeeded in seeking legal aid for court proceedings on his ROA claim might result in a massive influx of IIs and large number of overstayers.
ref:
2000 January 18, parliamentary debates (Hong Kong Legislative Council), page 5
type:
quotation
text:
When there is sudden rustling of grasses and the weather is calm, you may guess that there must be something moving in the grass patch but ...What is it? A bird? A dog? An II (Illegal Immigrant)? Or a porcupine?
ref:
2002 December 24, David Poon, “Ting Kok: a conservation issue”, in Porcupine, page 19
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of illegal immigrant.
senses_topics:
|
11944 | word:
pint
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pint (plural pints)
forms:
form:
pints
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pint
etymology_text:
From Middle English pinte, from Old French pinte, assumed from Vulgar Latin *pincta (“a mark used to indicate a level of quantity against a larger measure”), from Latin picta (“painted”), from Latin pingō (“paint”, verb). Doublet of pinto and Pinto.
senses_examples:
text:
The prices of the second class are given by the ounce; thus […] for a pint, of 12 ounces;
ref:
1822, The Monthly Gazette of Health, page 832
type:
quotation
text:
As a good illustration, this work shows that it is possible to fill 12-ounce pints for carry-out trade. This leads the ice cream manufacturers to feel that a large part of the trouble encountered comes from merchandising.
ref:
1928, Ice Cream Trade Journal, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
[…] a 12-ounce pint of laudanum every five days, or about 1,000 drops a day. The story of Coleridge's opium addiction is further confused by his habit of referring to laudanum as a stimulant.
ref:
1968, Alethea Hayter, Opium and the Romantic Imagination, Univ of California Press, page 194
type:
quotation
text:
... 12 - ounce pints of beer or ale may be substituted . Visitors under 16 cannot legally bring in tobacco . The liquor allowance does not apply to minors below the age limit prevailing in the province you are entering . Apart from these[…]
ref:
1973, Ted Kosoy, A Guide for Travellers in Canada
type:
quotation
text:
Forget quarts and 12-ounce "pints". Given the amounts of Pepsi and 7-up , 3.2 beer and California wine, tequila and sour mash we consume, it won't be long before we learn our capacities in this new language.
ref:
1975, American Metric Journal, numbers 3-4, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
4 medium scoops coffee ice cream (about 1 pint/12 ounces/340 grams), softened until just melty at the edges
ref:
2012 June 25, Adam Ried, Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes: 100 Thick and Creamy Shakes You Can Make At Home: 100 Classic and Contemporary Recipes, W. W. Norton & Company
type:
quotation
text:
Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.
type:
example
text:
A couple of pints please, barman.
type:
example
text:
Finn: You must have a terrible thirst on you tonight. I've never seen a man drink two pints at the same time.
ref:
1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit of volume, equivalent to:
one eighth of a gallon, specifically:
20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint).
A unit of volume, equivalent to:
one eighth of a gallon, specifically:
one half quart.
16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
A unit of volume, equivalent to:
one eighth of a gallon, specifically:
one half quart.
approximately 33.6 cubic inches [550.6 cubic centimeters] for dry goods (a US dry pint).
A unit of volume, equivalent to:
1.696 liters.
A unit of volume, equivalent to:
12 fluid ounces.
A pint of milk.
A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
senses_topics:
|
11945 | word:
meri
word_type:
noun
expansion:
meri
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of merus
senses_topics:
|
11946 | word:
argentine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
argentine (comparative more argentine, superlative most argentine)
forms:
form:
more argentine
tags:
comparative
form:
most argentine
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English argentyne, borrowed from Old French argentin (“silvery”), from Latin argentum (“silver”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Containing or resembling silver.
senses_topics:
|
11947 | word:
argentine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
argentine (countable and uncountable, plural argentines)
forms:
form:
argentines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Herring smelt
etymology_text:
From Middle English argentyne, borrowed from Old French argentin (“silvery”), from Latin argentum (“silver”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any osmeriform fish of the genus Argentina, especially a European argentine (Argentina sphyraena).
A siliceous variety of calcite, or lime carbonate, having a silvery-white, pearly lustre, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.
White metal coated with silver.
senses_topics:
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
11948 | word:
ignescent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ignescent (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin ignescens, present participle of ignescere (“to become inflamed”), from ignis (“fire”): compare French ignescent.
senses_examples:
text:
ignescent stones
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Emitting sparks of fire when struck with steel; scintillating.
senses_topics:
|
11949 | word:
ignescent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ignescent (plural ignescents)
forms:
form:
ignescents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin ignescens, present participle of ignescere (“to become inflamed”), from ignis (“fire”): compare French ignescent.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A stone that emits sparks of fire when struck with steel.
senses_topics:
|
11950 | word:
centigram
word_type:
noun
expansion:
centigram (plural centigrams)
forms:
form:
centigrams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French centigramme; equivalent to centi- + gram.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻² grams. Symbol: cg
senses_topics:
metrology |
11951 | word:
jaunty
word_type:
adj
expansion:
jaunty (comparative jauntier, superlative jauntiest)
forms:
form:
jauntier
tags:
comparative
form:
jauntiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Formerly spelt janty, from French gentil. See gentle, and compare genty. Doublet of genteel, gentile, and gentle.
senses_examples:
text:
He wore a jaunty outfit that was all the rage.
type:
example
text:
He walked down the street with a jaunty swaggering step, as if daring others less perfectly satisfied to intrude upon his good mood.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Airy; showy; finical.
Characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.
Dapper or stylish.
Ostentatiously self-confident.
senses_topics:
|
11952 | word:
jaunty
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jaunty (plural jaunties)
forms:
form:
jaunties
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Formerly spelt janty, from French gentil. See gentle, and compare genty. Doublet of genteel, gentile, and gentle.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A master-at-arms onboard a Royal Navy ship.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
11953 | word:
SO
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SO (plural SOs)
forms:
form:
SOs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative forms: S.O., s.o., s/o
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of significant other.
Initialism of shut out.
Initialism of shootout.
Initialism of strike out.
Initialism of second-order logic.
Initialism of symphony orchestra.
Abbreviation of singlet oxygen.
Abbreviation of standing order.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computer
computing
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
science
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
government
politics |
11954 | word:
SO
word_type:
pron
expansion:
SO
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of someone.
senses_topics:
|
11955 | word:
drie
word_type:
adj
expansion:
drie
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic spelling of dry.
senses_topics:
|
11956 | word:
line
word_type:
noun
expansion:
line (plural lines)
forms:
form:
lines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Line (unit)
line
etymology_text:
From Middle English line, lyne, from Old English līne (“line, cable, rope, hawser, series, row, rule, direction”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnā, from Proto-Germanic *līnǭ (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”).
Influenced in Middle English by Middle French ligne (“line”), from Latin linea. More at linen.
The oldest sense of the word is “rope, cord, thread”; from this the senses “path”, “continuous mark” were derived.
senses_examples:
text:
St Johnstone's Liam Craig had to clear off the line before Steven Anderson sent a looping header into his own net for the equaliser on 36 minutes.
ref:
2011 October 1, Clive Lindsay, “Kilmarnock 1-2 St Johnstone”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
"I guess it's like race cars - if you get the right line you can come out at top speed."
ref:
2021 February 24, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 10, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
The arrow descended in a curved line.
type:
example
text:
a brake line
type:
example
text:
the main water line to the house
type:
example
text:
the line of sight
type:
example
text:
the line of vision
type:
example
text:
In order to maintain a consistency in the defense, I will follow the line established by attorney Jacobs of allowing the prosecution to suggest motives, and then refuting them.
type:
example
text:
I tried to make a call, but the line was dead.
type:
example
text:
a dedicated line; a shared line
type:
example
text:
Please speak up, the line is very faint.
type:
example
text:
We need to take the clothes off the line. The news reported a front is coming in from the east, and we can expect heavy rain and maybe hail.
type:
example
text:
She feels guilty for pampering him, and salves her conscience by bossily ordering him to go and fetch the clothes from the line[.]
ref:
1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
Drop me a line.
type:
example
text:
a line of stages
type:
example
text:
an express line
type:
example
text:
Eden stretch'd her Line / From Auran Eastward to the Royal Towrs / Of great Seleucia,
ref:
1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, volume IV
type:
quotation
text:
get in line
type:
example
text:
The line forms on the right.
type:
example
text:
There is a line of houses.
type:
example
text:
A band of brothers gathering round me, made, / Although unarmed, a steadfast front[…]now the line / Of war extended, to our rallying cry / As myriads flocked in love and brotherhood to die.
ref:
1817, Percy Shelley, The Revolt of Islam
type:
quotation
text:
Students and the instructor sing the harmony line while the instructor plays the melody line on the piano.
ref:
2015, Mícheál Houlahan, Philip Tacka, Kodály in the Third Grade Classroom
type:
quotation
text:
The answer to the comprehension question can be found in the third line of the accompanying text.
type:
example
text:
Nay if you read this line, remember not, / The hand that writ it.
ref:
1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 71
type:
quotation
text:
He was perfecting his pickup lines for use at the bar.
type:
example
text:
"It is what it is" was one of his more annoying lines.
type:
example
text:
Anyone who has worked with Littlewood will wince at the memory of going over single lines time and time again, each actor in turn speaking the line until the valid intonation, phasing and emphasis emerged.
ref:
2010, Alison Hodge, Actor training, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
Don't feed me a line!
type:
example
text:
Remember, your answers must match the party line.
type:
example
text:
Judy gave me a line on a lawyer who's supposed to be the best in the business.
type:
example
text:
She's got the best line on Hickey. Maybe she knows a way to put the heart back into him.
ref:
1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post
type:
quotation
text:
line of business, product line
type:
example
text:
How many buses does the line have?
type:
example
text:
The airline is in danger of bankruptcy.
type:
example
text:
Have nothing to do with snide goods; let it be known throughout the world that the farmers and dairymen, yea, and those engaged in other industries in the great State of Illinois, produce only the best of everything in their lines, and we will be the last to feel the effects of over-production.
ref:
1890, Illinois State Dairymen's Association, Annual Report (volume 16, page 21)
text:
The cut is measured in thickness from a quarter of a line to a line and a half (a line is one-twelfth of an inch).
ref:
1883, Alfred Swaine Taylor, Thomas Stevenson, The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence
type:
quotation
text:
In case any of the committee do not understand what is meant by a rate per line, I may say that buttons, being very small, are not measured by the foot or inch, but by the line, a line being one-fortieth of an inch. For example, that is a 27-line button[…].
ref:
1922, “Statement of James Turner, Representing Universal Button Fastening Co., Detriot, Mich.”, in Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, page 5337
type:
quotation
text:
Withof estimates that the hair of the beard grows one line (French) in the course of a week, let us call it one line and a half (Engish); this would amount to six inches and a half yearly...
ref:
1847, Sir Erasmus Wilson, On Diseases of the Skin. Second edition
type:
quotation
text:
Advertising rates, line contract, less than 500 agate lines, 12 cents per line; 1,000 to 2,000 lines, 7 cents; 5,000 to 10,000 lines, 5 cents.
ref:
1912, Miscellaneous Series, numbers 7-11, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
Thus, for example, in the line of Quarte, the direct thrust is parried by dropping the point under the adversary's blade and circling upwards, throwing off the attack in the opposite line (that of Tierce), and upon the direct thrust in the line of Tierce, by a similar action throwing off the attack in the opposite line (that of Quarte).
ref:
1861, George Chapman, Foil Practice, with a Review of the Art of Fencing, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
the engine is in line / out of line
type:
example
text:
patient had a line inserted
type:
example
text:
line sepsis
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
An edge of a graph.
A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
The equator.
A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
The goal line.
A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
A hose or pipe, of any size.
Direction, path.
A procession, either physical or conceptual, which results from the application or effect of a given rationale or other controlling principles of belief, opinion, practice, or phenomenon.
The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
A clothesline.
A letter, a written form of communication.
A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.
A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
A measuring line or cord.
That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
Ellipsis of line of battle.
The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
A small amount of text. Specifically:
A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
A small amount of text. Specifically:
A verse (in poetry).
A small amount of text. Specifically:
A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
A small amount of text. Specifically:
A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
A number of shares taken by a jobber.
Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude:
A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude:
One twelfth of an inch.
Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude:
One sixteenth of an inch.
Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude:
One fortieth of an inch.
Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude
Short for agate line.
A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
The batter's box.
The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine.
Instruction; doctrine.
A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
A group of forwards that play together.
A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
A vascular catheter.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
geography
natural-sciences
geography
natural-sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
automotive
transport
vehicles
government
military
politics
war
government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
government
military
politics
war
entertainment
lifestyle
music
business
finance
stock-exchange
advertising
business
marketing
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
medicine
sciences |
11957 | word:
line
word_type:
verb
expansion:
line (third-person singular simple present lines, present participle lining, simple past and past participle lined)
forms:
form:
lines
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lining
tags:
participle
present
form:
lined
tags:
participle
past
form:
lined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Line (unit)
line
etymology_text:
From Middle English line, lyne, from Old English līne (“line, cable, rope, hawser, series, row, rule, direction”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnā, from Proto-Germanic *līnǭ (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”).
Influenced in Middle English by Middle French ligne (“line”), from Latin linea. More at linen.
The oldest sense of the word is “rope, cord, thread”; from this the senses “path”, “continuous mark” were derived.
senses_examples:
text:
to line troops
type:
example
text:
They lined up the books against the wall.
type:
example
text:
to line works with soldiers
type:
example
text:
Line and new repair our towns of war With men of courage and with means defendant.
ref:
1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, ii 4
type:
quotation
text:
to line a copy book
type:
example
text:
The dispatcher lined the switches at Pickle interlocking for the freight turnout to clear the train into the passing track before the express arrived.
type:
example
text:
All the pictures fairest lined Are but black to Rosalind.
ref:
1598, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, iii 2
type:
quotation
text:
to line out a hymn
type:
example
text:
Jones lined to left in his last at-bat.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
To form a line along.
To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
To read or repeat line by line.
To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
To measure.
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
11958 | word:
line
word_type:
noun
expansion:
line (plural lines)
forms:
form:
lines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Line (unit)
line
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Korean 라인 (rain, “members with a shared characteristic”), itself from English line. Likely generalized via hyung line, maknae line, etc.
senses_examples:
text:
maknae line; hyung line; 97 line
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
senses_topics:
|
11959 | word:
line
word_type:
noun
expansion:
line (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Line (unit)
line
etymology_text:
From Old English līn (“flax, linen, cloth”). For more information, see the entry linen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
senses_topics:
|
11960 | word:
line
word_type:
verb
expansion:
line (third-person singular simple present lines, present participle lining, simple past and past participle lined)
forms:
form:
lines
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lining
tags:
participle
present
form:
lined
tags:
participle
past
form:
lined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Line (unit)
line
etymology_text:
From Old English līn (“flax, linen, cloth”). For more information, see the entry linen.
senses_examples:
text:
The bird lines its nest with soft grass.
type:
example
text:
to line a cloak with silk or fur
type:
example
text:
to line a box with paper or tin
type:
example
text:
paintings lined the walls of the cavernous dining room
type:
example
text:
to line the shelves
type:
example
text:
because the charge amounteth mostly very high for any one man's purse, except lined beyond ordinary, to reach unto
ref:
1602, Richard Carew, edited by Thomas Tonkin, Carew's Survey of Cornwall, published 1811, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
senses_topics:
|
11961 | word:
line
word_type:
verb
expansion:
line (third-person singular simple present lines, present participle lining, simple past and past participle lined)
forms:
form:
lines
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lining
tags:
participle
present
form:
lined
tags:
participle
past
form:
lined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Line (unit)
line
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French ligner.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To copulate with, to impregnate.
senses_topics:
|
11962 | word:
possiblities
word_type:
noun
expansion:
possiblities
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of possibilities.
senses_topics:
|
11963 | word:
Buffalonian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Buffalonian (plural Buffalonians)
forms:
form:
Buffalonians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Buffalo + -n- + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or a resident of Buffalo, NY.
senses_topics:
|
11964 | word:
LCD
word_type:
noun
expansion:
LCD (plural LCDs)
forms:
form:
LCDs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
LCD (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
LCD monitors offer higher resolution and take up far less space than traditional PC displays.
ref:
2001 May 23, James Connell, “Apple to Drop CRT Monitors”, in International Herald Tribune, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of liquid crystal display.
Initialism of lowest common denominator / least common denominator.
senses_topics:
business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
mathematics
number-theory
sciences |
11965 | word:
vici
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vici
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of vicus
senses_topics:
|
11966 | word:
strafe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
strafe (third-person singular simple present strafes, present participle strafing, simple past and past participle strafed)
forms:
form:
strafes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
strafing
tags:
participle
present
form:
strafed
tags:
participle
past
form:
strafed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German strafe (“punish”) (a conjugated form of strafen), from phrases like "Gott strafe England" ("God punish England") which the British saw during the First World War.
senses_examples:
text:
Laffey, fresh off from strafing Hiei, ran straight into a quarter of the Japanese navy's remaining destroyers, and, along with Kirishima, between gunfire and another successful Type 93 torpedo strike that tore off the ship's stern, the hapless destroyer was left drifting, ablaze, and would eventually sink.
ref:
2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 20:16 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-10-17
type:
quotation
text:
Strafe — Press the Alt key and the left or right Arrow key to slide side to side instead of turning left or right.
ref:
1992, id Software, Wolfenstein 3D (game manual), page 4
text:
If the NPC is close to the player, he may also try using the tried-and-true Quake circle-strafing technique.
ref:
2001, Jana Hallford, Swords and circuitry: a designer's guide to computer role playing games
type:
quotation
text:
A strafe is a side-to-side camera movement. If you're a fan of first-person shooter games, you know how fundamental strafing can be to a game.
ref:
2007, Stephen Cawood, Pat McGee, Microsoft XNA Game Studio Creator's Guide
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft.
To rake (a target) with rapid or automatic gunfire.
To sidestep; to move sideways without turning (a core mechanic of most first-person shooters).
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
video-games |
11967 | word:
strafe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
strafe (plural strafes)
forms:
form:
strafes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German strafe (“punish”) (a conjugated form of strafen), from phrases like "Gott strafe England" ("God punish England") which the British saw during the First World War.
senses_examples:
text:
We also have added a new game control called the "defensive strafe," in which the user can press a button and stay facing forward.
ref:
2004, Marc Saltzman, Game Creation and Careers: Insider Secrets from Industry Experts
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An attack of machine-gun or cannon fire from a low-flying aircraft.
A sideways movement without turning.
senses_topics:
video-games |
11968 | word:
li
word_type:
noun
expansion:
li (plural lis or li)
forms:
form:
lis
tags:
plural
form:
li
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
An early romanization of Chinese Mandarin 里 (lǐ). As a Korean unit, via the Yale romanization of Korean 리 (ri), from the Chinese distance.
senses_examples:
text:
It was a whole day's journey from I-ch'eng to Chü-wo which, in turn, is about 60 li east of Chiang Chou — one of the most important cities in southern Shansi and a center for curio-dealers.
ref:
1927, Chi Li, “Archaeological Survey of the Fêng River Valley, Southern Shansi, China”, in Explorations and Field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1926 (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections), volume 78, number 7, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, →OCLC, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
In 1979, while we were conducting our archaeological work in Yucheng and Quwo, Shanxi province, I noticed another historical record in the Kuodizhi (a comprehensive account of geography written in 641), which stated that "the ancient city of Tang was 20 li west of Yuchengxian in Jiangzhou."
ref:
1999 [1994], Heng (邹衡) Zou, “The Early Jin State Capital Discovered: a Personal Account”, in Roderick Whitfield, Wang Tao, transl., Exploring China's Past: New Discoveries and Studies in Archaeology and Art, Saffron Books, Eastern Art Publishing, →OCLC, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
The two gods who accompany Matsu, one with eyes that can see 1000 li⁶ and the other with ears that can hear far over the horizon, represent empathy, observation, and feeling. Government should be like Matsu, equipped with acute powers of observation; see clearly to the bottom of issues, and know how to respond.
ref:
2000, Shui-Bian Chen, “Learning and Transformation”, in David J. Toman, transl., The Son of Taiwan: The Life of Chen Shui-Bian and His Dreams for Taiwan, Taiwan Publishing Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
While scaling the Laoyeling Mountains, the Chinese Worker-Peasant Red Army, under the command of Mao Ze-dong and Zhu De, was successfully stepping up the historic 25 000-li Long March in China proper, breaking through the surrounding rings formed by Chiang Kai-shek’s army.
ref:
1980, Il-sung Kim, “Meeting with My Comrades-in-Arms in North Manchuria”, in Kim Il Sung Works, volume 48, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 144
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Chinese mile, a traditional unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).
The Korean mile, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 393 m.
senses_topics:
|
11969 | word:
li
word_type:
noun
expansion:
li (plural li)
forms:
form:
li
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mandarin 市厘 (lí).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A traditional Chinese unit of weight, equal to one-thousandth of a liang, or fifty milligrams.
senses_topics:
|
11970 | word:
li
word_type:
noun
expansion:
li (plural li)
forms:
form:
li
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mandarin 禮／礼 (lǐ).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A meaningful ceremony or ritual; etiquette, behaviour.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences |
11971 | word:
li
word_type:
noun
expansion:
li (plural li)
forms:
form:
li
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mandarin 鬲 (lì).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ancient Chinese cauldron having three hollow legs.
senses_topics:
|
11972 | word:
li
word_type:
noun
expansion:
li (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Altered from la, with the vowel changed to signify a raised note.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In solfège, the raised sixth note of a major scale (the note A-sharp in the fixed-do system).
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
11973 | word:
mt
word_type:
adj
expansion:
mt (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of mitochondrial.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
11974 | word:
mt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mt
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of mitochondrion or mitochondria.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
11975 | word:
MBA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MBA (plural MBAs)
forms:
form:
MBAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Master of Business Administration
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Master of Business Administration (a college degree).
Initialism of MacBook Air.
senses_topics:
|
11976 | word:
West Virginian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
West Virginian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From West Virginia + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
Karen Mackay's Annie Oakley Rides Again is another explicitly lesbian album. It's sprightly, low-key bluegrass in style, befitting Mackay's West Virginian roots, but has a strange, sad tone to it, perhaps because the album was inspired by the sudden death of Mackay's friend.
ref:
1985 December 14, Maida Tilchen, Gay Community News, volume 13, number 22, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, or pertaining to, West Virginia or its culture.
senses_topics:
|
11977 | word:
West Virginian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
West Virginian (plural West Virginians)
forms:
form:
West Virginians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From West Virginia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or resident of the state of West Virginia in the United States of America.
senses_topics:
|
11978 | word:
jet engine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jet engine (plural jet engines)
forms:
form:
jet engines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
jet engine
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An engine that obtains thrust by taking in air at the front, using it to burn fuel, then ejecting the hot combustion products at the rear through a propulsive nozzle.
Any engine propelled by expelling a high speed fluid jet (jet propulsion), such as a rocket, turbojet, turbofan, ramjet, etc.
senses_topics:
|
11979 | word:
Transylvanian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Transylvanian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Transylvania + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
From, or pertaining to, Transylvania or its people.
senses_topics:
|
11980 | word:
Transylvanian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Transylvanian (plural Transylvanians)
forms:
form:
Transylvanians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Transylvania + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or a resident of Transylvania.
senses_topics:
|
11981 | word:
simoom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
simoom (plural simooms)
forms:
form:
simooms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic سَمُوم (samūm, “hot wind”), from سَمَّ (samma, “to poison”).
senses_examples:
text:
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
ref:
1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid
type:
quotation
text:
Stephen's heart had withered up like a flower of the desert that feels the simoom coming from afar.
ref:
1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 101
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind of the desert, particularly of Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.
senses_topics:
|
11982 | word:
vat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vat (plural vats)
forms:
form:
vats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”).
Cognate with Scots fat, vat, vautt (“vat, cask, tub”), West Frisian fet, Dutch vat (“barrel, cask, vessel, vat”), German Fass (“barrel, keg, drum, cask, vat”), Danish fad (“saucer, dish”), Swedish fat (“dish, barrel, cask, vat”), Icelandic fat (“dish, saucer”). See fat.
senses_examples:
text:
a vat of liquid
type:
example
text:
a vat of acid
type:
example
text:
a vat of wine
type:
example
text:
a vat of olives
type:
example
text:
a vat of fat
type:
example
text:
a vat of glue
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
A vessel for holding holy water.
A liquid measure and dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectolitre of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.
senses_topics:
Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
|
11983 | word:
vat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vat (third-person singular simple present vats, present participle vatting, simple past and past participle vatted)
forms:
form:
vats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
vatting
tags:
participle
present
form:
vatted
tags:
participle
past
form:
vatted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”).
Cognate with Scots fat, vat, vautt (“vat, cask, tub”), West Frisian fet, Dutch vat (“barrel, cask, vessel, vat”), German Fass (“barrel, keg, drum, cask, vat”), Danish fad (“saucer, dish”), Swedish fat (“dish, barrel, cask, vat”), Icelandic fat (“dish, saucer”). See fat.
senses_examples:
text:
He was thinking of the grape arbor in Kingston, of summer twilight and the murmur of voices darkening into silence as he approached, who meant them, her, no harm; who meant her less than harm, good God; darkening into the pale whisper of her white dress, of the delicate and urgent mammalian whisper of that curious small flesh which he had not begot and in which appeared to be vatted delicately some seething sympathy with the blossoming grape.
ref:
1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 114
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put into a vat.
To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits.
senses_topics:
|
11984 | word:
vat
word_type:
adj
expansion:
vat (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”).
Cognate with Scots fat, vat, vautt (“vat, cask, tub”), West Frisian fet, Dutch vat (“barrel, cask, vessel, vat”), German Fass (“barrel, keg, drum, cask, vat”), Danish fad (“saucer, dish”), Swedish fat (“dish, barrel, cask, vat”), Icelandic fat (“dish, saucer”). See fat.
senses_examples:
text:
vat red
type:
example
text:
vat jade green
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Designating a vat dye.
senses_topics:
|
11985 | word:
Maus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Maus
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of Mau
senses_topics:
|
11986 | word:
generative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
generative (comparative more generative, superlative most generative)
forms:
form:
more generative
tags:
comparative
form:
most generative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English generatyve, generatyf, generatif. Compare French génératif.
senses_examples:
text:
Of course, structures like those associated with (36) and (37) constitute only a tiny subset of the infinite set of well-formed sentence structures found in English. We can increase the Generative Capacity of our grammar ( = the set of structures which it generates) either by expanding the Lexicon on the one hand, or by expanding the Categorial Rules (i.e. Phrase Structure Rules) on the other.
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 127
type:
quotation
text:
This ceremony seals the covenant in the flesh of the male generative organ.
ref:
2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 91
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
reproductive
senses_topics:
|
11987 | word:
things
word_type:
noun
expansion:
things
forms:
wikipedia:
things
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of thing
senses_topics:
|
11988 | word:
things
word_type:
noun
expansion:
things pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
things
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Have you brought all your things with you?
text:
Get your hands off my things!
text:
Ole Golly just had indoor things and outdoor things.... She just had yards and yards of tweed which enveloped her like a lot of discarded blankets, which ballooned out when she walked, and which she referred to as her Things. —Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy (1964)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One's clothes, furniture, luggage, or possessions collectively; stuff
senses_topics:
|
11989 | word:
things
word_type:
verb
expansion:
things
forms:
wikipedia:
things
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of thing
senses_topics:
|
11990 | word:
zebra crossing
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zebra crossing (plural zebra crossings)
forms:
form:
zebra crossings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the similarity of the stripes to those of a zebra.
senses_examples:
text:
Do not ride across a pelican, puffin or zebra crossing. Dismount and wheel your cycle across.
ref:
2003, The Highway Code for Northern Ireland, The Stationery Office, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
They also believed that if they were killed on a zebra crossing, the Government would pay for their funerals. They had the definite impression that that was what zebra crossings were meant for. Free funerals.
ref:
2008 December 16, Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, Random House, →OL, Ch. 1
type:
quotation
text:
The Abbey Road zebra crossing in north London — made famous after appearing on a Beatles album cover — has been given Grade II listed status.
ref:
2010 December 22, “Beatles' Abbey Road zebra crossing given listed status”, in BBC News
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes painted parallel to the street.
senses_topics:
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11991 | word:
Christian name
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Christian name (plural Christian names)
forms:
form:
Christian names
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Christian + name.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A first name formally given to a child at a Christian baptism.
Any forename.
An English given name, particularly for ethnic Chinese who usually have a separate Chinese name.
senses_topics:
Christianity
|
11992 | word:
Pennsylvanian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Pennsylvanian (plural Pennsylvanians)
forms:
form:
Pennsylvanians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Pennsylvania + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or resident of the state of Pennsylvania in the United States of America.
Any of the three Pennsylvanian epochs.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
11993 | word:
Pennsylvanian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Pennsylvanian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Pennsylvania + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, or pertaining to the state of Pennsylvania.
Of any of the three geologic epochs (lower, middle and upper) within the Carboniferous period from 318 to 299 million years ago; marked by a high oxygen atmosphere and the rise of reptiles and winged insects.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
11994 | word:
extremes
word_type:
noun
expansion:
extremes
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of extreme
The opposite ends of a range or scale.
senses_topics:
|
11995 | word:
macrocosm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
macrocosm (plural macrocosms)
forms:
form:
macrocosms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
macrocosm
etymology_text:
From Middle French macrocosme (from Old French macrocosme) and Medieval Latin macrocosmus, formed from Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós, “great, long”) + κόσμος (kósmos, “universe, order”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A complex structure, such as a society, considered as a single entity that contains numerous similar, smaller-scale structures.
The universe.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
|
11996 | word:
BSA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
BSA (plural BSAs)
forms:
form:
BSAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of business system analyst.
Initialism of bovine serum albumin.
Initialism of body surface area.
senses_topics:
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
medicine
sciences |
11997 | word:
BSA
word_type:
name
expansion:
BSA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Boy Scouts of America.
Initialism of Birmingham Small Arms Company.
Initialism of Bharatiya Sakshya Act, the official evidence act of India.
senses_topics:
|
11998 | word:
profit margin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
profit margin (plural profit margins)
forms:
form:
profit margins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
If a company has $10,000 net income and $100,000 net sales, then the profit margin equals ($10,000 : $100,000) .10, or 10%.
type:
example
text:
A letter demanding payment costs her £75. A knock on the door from a company representative: another £235. Taking her car: an extra £110. Then there’s a daily storage charge, so that she pays £24 for every day she can’t drive. These were fees set by the government, using the industry’s sums. The result is that the firms chasing some of the poorest people in the country can rake in handsome profit margins.
ref:
2023 August 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Can’t pay and they really do take it away: what happens when the bailiffs come knocking”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ratio of net income to net sales of a company expressed as a percentage.
senses_topics:
|
11999 | word:
depreciate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
depreciate (third-person singular simple present depreciates, present participle depreciating, simple past and past participle depreciated)
forms:
form:
depreciates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
depreciating
tags:
participle
present
form:
depreciated
tags:
participle
past
form:
depreciated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin depretiare, depretiatus, from de- + pretium (“price”). More at appreciate and appretio.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] which […] some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate.
ref:
1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe
type:
quotation
text:
To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.
ref:
1 December, 1783, Edmund Burke, speech on Fox's East India Bill
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.
To decline in value over time.
To belittle or disparage.
senses_topics:
|
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