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1200 | word:
EU
word_type:
noun
expansion:
EU (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of expanded universe.
senses_topics:
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1201 | word:
hiding
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hiding
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See hide (Etymology 1)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of hide
senses_topics:
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1202 | word:
hiding
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hiding (usually uncountable, plural hidings)
forms:
form:
hidings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See hide (Etymology 1)
senses_examples:
text:
After the leaked scandalous stories about his personal life, the celebrity remained in hiding for a few weeks.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state of concealment.
A place of concealment.
senses_topics:
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1203 | word:
hiding
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hiding (countable and uncountable, plural hidings)
forms:
form:
hidings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See hide (Etymology 2)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Skinning (of an animal) to yield a hide (for human use).
A beating or spanking.
senses_topics:
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1204 | word:
UPC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
UPC (plural UPCs)
forms:
form:
UPCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Unified Patent Court.
Initialism of Universal Product Code.
senses_topics:
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1205 | word:
GSM
word_type:
name
expansion:
GSM
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Global System for Mobile communications.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony |
1206 | word:
GSM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
GSM
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of gender or sexual minority. (Compare GSRM.)
Initialism of grenache, Shiraz (Syrah), Mourvèdre: a kind of blended red wine.
senses_topics:
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality
|
1207 | word:
metadata
word_type:
noun
expansion:
metadata (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
metadata
etymology_text:
From meta- + data.
senses_examples:
text:
Most websites contain metadata to tell the computer how to lay out the content on the screen.
type:
example
text:
That photo's metadata suggests it was edited using Photoshop.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.
Structured information about a file (date created, creator, software used to create, last modified, file format, file fingerprint, etc).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
1208 | word:
DVD
word_type:
noun
expansion:
DVD (countable and uncountable, plural DVDs)
forms:
form:
DVDs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
We’ve lived it. We’ll never give up our collection. Ever. And maybe, one day, you’ll be the one to come and barter a loaf of bread for our DVD of Casino.
ref:
2024 March 27, J. Oliver Conroy, quoting Christina, “The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: ‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
However, if postoperative anatomic intorsion is present, the patient may have DVD that was incorrectly diagnosed as IOOA and treated by IO muscle recessions.
ref:
1999, Arthur L. Rosenbaum, Alvina Pauline Santiago, Clinical Strabismus Management, page 68
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of digital video/versatile disc; an optical disc on which video is recorded in digital format, such as commercially-released movies and other video media.
Initialism of dissociated vertical deviation.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
1209 | word:
week
word_type:
noun
expansion:
week (plural weeks)
forms:
form:
weeks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
week
etymology_text:
From Middle English weke, from Old English wiċe, wucu (“week”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“turn, succession, change, week”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg-, *weyk- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”). Related to Proto-Germanic *wīkaną (“to bend, yield, cease”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wiek, West Frisian wike, Dutch week, German Woche, Danish uge, Norwegian Nynorsk veke, Swedish vecka, Icelandic vika, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō, “turn for temple service”), Latin vicis, Finnish viikko. Related also to Old English wīcan (“to yield, give way”), English weak and wick.
senses_examples:
text:
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref:
2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
A 4-day week consists of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
type:
example
text:
I'll see you Thursday week. [a week on Thursday, i.e. Thursday after next]
type:
example
text:
The wedding is tomorrow week. [a week tomorrow, i.e. in eight days' time]
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any period of seven consecutive days.
A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
A period of five days beginning with Monday.
A subdivision of the month into longer periods of work days punctuated by shorter weekend periods of days for markets, rest, or religious observation such as a sabbath.
A date seven days after (sometimes before) the specified day.
senses_topics:
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1210 | word:
gleaming
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gleaming (comparative more gleaming, superlative most gleaming)
forms:
form:
more gleaming
tags:
comparative
form:
most gleaming
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a bright sheen.
senses_topics:
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1211 | word:
gleaming
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gleaming (plural gleamings)
forms:
form:
gleamings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flash of reflected light.
senses_topics:
|
1212 | word:
gleaming
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gleaming
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of gleam
senses_topics:
|
1213 | word:
legal entity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
legal entity (plural legal entities)
forms:
form:
legal entities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An organization such as a company or trust fund that the law treats as if it were a person, capable of entering into contracts and of being sued.
senses_topics:
law |
1214 | word:
BSS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
BSS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of base station subsystem.
Initialism of business support system.
senses_topics:
|
1215 | word:
sole trader
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sole trader (plural sole traders)
forms:
form:
sole traders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of enterprise or proprietorship which is owned by one person who is fully liable for the company's debts and fulfilment of contracts using their personal wealth unless incorporated.
senses_topics:
business |
1216 | word:
mobile station
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mobile station (plural mobile stations)
forms:
form:
mobile stations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: base station
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
All the user equipment (mobile phone, SIM card etc) and software needed for communication with a GSM network.
A radio transceiver installed in a vehicle.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
broadcasting
media
radio |
1217 | word:
few
word_type:
det
expansion:
few (comparative fewer or less, superlative fewest or least)
forms:
form:
fewer
tags:
comparative
form:
less
tags:
comparative
form:
fewest
tags:
superlative
form:
least
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fewe, from Old English fēaw (“few”), from Proto-West Germanic *fau, from Proto-Germanic *fawaz (“few”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”).
Cognate with Old Saxon fā (“few”), Old High German fao, fō (“few, little”), Old Norse fár (“few”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍃 (faus, “few”). Also related with Latin paucus (“little, few”) and pauper (“poor”), from which latter English poor and pauper; see these.
senses_examples:
text:
No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
ref:
2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
There are a few cars (=some, but a relatively small number) in the street.
text:
Quite a few people (=a significant number) were pleasantly surprised.
text:
I think he's had a few drinks. [This usage is likely ironic.]
text:
There are very few people who understand quantum theory.
type:
example
text:
I was expecting a big crowd at the party, but very few people (=almost none) turned up.
text:
Tonight: A few clouds. Increasing cloudiness overnight.
type:
example
text:
NOAA definition of the term "few clouds": An official sky cover classification for aviation weather observations, descriptive of a sky cover of 1/8 to 2/8. This is applied only when obscuring phenomena aloft are present--that is, not when obscuring phenomena are surface-based, such as fog.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An indefinite, but usually small, number of.
Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.
Obscuring one to two oktas (eighths) of the sky.
(US?) Having a 10 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch); used interchangeably with isolated.
senses_topics:
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences |
1218 | word:
few
word_type:
pron
expansion:
few
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fewe, from Old English fēaw (“few”), from Proto-West Germanic *fau, from Proto-Germanic *fawaz (“few”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”).
Cognate with Old Saxon fā (“few”), Old High German fao, fō (“few, little”), Old Norse fár (“few”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍃 (faus, “few”). Also related with Latin paucus (“little, few”) and pauper (“poor”), from which latter English poor and pauper; see these.
senses_examples:
text:
Many are called, but few are chosen.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Few people, few things.
senses_topics:
|
1219 | word:
base station subsystem
word_type:
noun
expansion:
base station subsystem (plural base station subsystems)
forms:
form:
base station subsystems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
that section of a GSM network which is responsible for transmitting radio signals to and receiving radio signals from a mobile phone
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications |
1220 | word:
SIM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SIM
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
acronym of simulation.
acronym of social influence marketing.
acronym of Subscriber Identity Module.
acronym of scanning ion microscope.
acronym of search of the index map.
Initialism of security information management.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
business
marketing
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
law
|
1221 | word:
nanosecond
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nanosecond (plural nanoseconds)
forms:
form:
nanoseconds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From nano- + second.
senses_examples:
text:
“We were heavily involved in also trading: people on Wall Street were buying our stuff to save a few nanoseconds on the wire, the banks were doing crazy things like pulling the fibres under the Hudson taut to make them a little big shorter, to save a few nanoseconds between their datacentre and the stock exchange,” he said.
ref:
2023 March 26, Alex Hern, quoting Michael Kagan, “Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip-maker Nvidia”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻⁹ seconds. Symbol: ns
senses_topics:
metrology |
1222 | word:
RPE-LPC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
RPE-LPC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of regular pulse excited-linear predictive coder.
senses_topics:
|
1223 | word:
statutory rape
word_type:
noun
expansion:
statutory rape (countable and uncountable, plural statutory rapes)
forms:
form:
statutory rapes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Historically, statutory rape laws were enacted to protect the chastity and morality of young women. These statutes made it a crime for a man to have sexual intercourse with a young woman under a certain age (usually eighteen), even if the young woman consented to the act. (Today of, course, statuory rape provisions protect minors of both genders.)
ref:
1999, Raneta Lawson Mack, A Layperson's Guide to Criminal Law, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 72
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An illegal act of sexual intercourse by an adult with a person under the legal age of consent for sex, or with another adult who is not able to consent because of intellectual disability.
senses_topics:
law |
1224 | word:
network subsystem
word_type:
noun
expansion:
network subsystem (plural network subsystems)
forms:
form:
network subsystems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The central subsystem of a particular mobile phone operating company in a GSM network.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications |
1225 | word:
FDMA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
FDMA (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of frequency division multiple access.
senses_topics:
|
1226 | word:
FSK
word_type:
noun
expansion:
FSK (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of frequency-shift keying.
senses_topics:
|
1227 | word:
YHA
word_type:
name
expansion:
YHA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Youth Hostels Association.
senses_topics:
|
1228 | word:
CLL
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CLL (countable and uncountable, plural CLLs)
forms:
form:
CLLs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of command line language.
Initialism of chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
medicine
sciences |
1229 | word:
Czech Republic
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Czech Republic
forms:
form:
the Czech Republic
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Czech Česká republika
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central Europe. Capital and largest city: Prague. Until 1993, part of Czechoslovakia.
senses_topics:
|
1230 | word:
age of consent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
age of consent (plural ages of consent)
forms:
form:
ages of consent
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
In France the age of consent is 15 years of age.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The age at which a person is legally considered to be mature enough to engage willingly in sexual intercourse, so that it is not a crime for someone else to have sex with the person.
senses_topics:
law |
1231 | word:
Belgium
word_type:
name
expansion:
Belgium (usually uncountable, plural Belgiums)
forms:
form:
Belgiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin Belgium, from the name of the tribe of Belgae.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France. Official name: Kingdom of Belgium. Capital and largest city: Brussels.
senses_topics:
|
1232 | word:
PCS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PCS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of personal communication system.
Initialism of permanent change of station.
Initialism of project control system.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
government
military
politics
war
|
1233 | word:
incorporated
word_type:
adj
expansion:
incorporated (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Being a type of company, a legal entity where the ownership has been arranged into shares. A shareholder has no responsibilities to the company and the potential losses of the shareholder are limited to the value of the stock turning to zero in the case of a bankruptcy.
senses_topics:
|
1234 | word:
incorporated
word_type:
verb
expansion:
incorporated
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of incorporate
senses_topics:
|
1235 | word:
accept
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accept (third-person singular simple present accepts, present participle accepting, simple past and past participle accepted)
forms:
form:
accepts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accepting
tags:
participle
present
form:
accepted
tags:
participle
past
form:
accepted
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
accept
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin acceptō, acceptāre (“receive”), frequentative of accipiō, formed from ad- + capiō (“to take”). Displaced native Old English onfōn.
senses_examples:
text:
The Chinese say, that a little time afterwards she accepted of a treat in one of the neighbouring hills to which Shalum had invited her.
ref:
1714 August 25, Joseph Addison, “The Sequel of the Story of Shalum and Hilpa”, in The Spectator, number 585; republished in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq, volume 4, London: Jacob Tonson, 1721, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
type:
example
text:
I accept the notion that Christ lived.
type:
example
text:
I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
type:
example
text:
I accept my punishment.
type:
example
text:
We need to accept the fact that restaurants are closed due to COVID-19 and that no amount of wishing or screaming will make them reopen any sooner.
type:
example
text:
to accept the report of a committee
type:
example
text:
We accept repairs.
type:
example
text:
We accept bookbinding.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
To admit to a place or a group.
To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
To endure patiently.
To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
To agree to pay.
To receive officially.
To receive something willingly.
To do a service done by an establishment.
senses_topics:
business
law
|
1236 | word:
accept
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accept (comparative more accept, superlative most accept)
forms:
form:
more accept
tags:
comparative
form:
most accept
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin acceptō, acceptāre (“receive”), frequentative of accipiō, formed from ad- + capiō (“to take”). Displaced native Old English onfōn.
senses_examples:
text:
Pass our accept and peremptory answer.
ref:
1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, V-ii
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Accepted.
senses_topics:
|
1237 | word:
Solomon Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Solomon Islands
forms:
form:
the Solomon Islands
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
King Solomon
Solomon Islands
Álvaro de Mendaña y Neira
etymology_text:
After King Solomon, whose mines of immense wealth Álvaro de Mendaña y Neira hoped to find when he named it in 1567 or 1568.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country consisting of the majority of the Solomon Islands archipelago in Melanesia, in Oceania, as well as the Santa Cruz Islands. Official name: Solomon Islands. Capital and largest city: Honiara.
An archipelago in Melanesia, split between the countries of the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.
senses_topics:
|
1238 | word:
may
word_type:
verb
expansion:
may (third-person singular simple present may, no present participle, simple past might, no past participle)
forms:
form:
may
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
might
tags:
past
wikipedia:
May (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English mowen, mayen, moȝen, maȝen, from Old English magan, from Proto-West Germanic *magan, from Proto-Germanic *maganą, from Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-.
Cognate with Dutch mag (“may”, first and third-person singular of mogen (“to be able to, be allowed to, may”)), Low German mögen, German mag (“like”, first and third-person singular of mögen (“to like, want, require”)), Swedish må, Icelandic mega, megum. See also might.
senses_examples:
text:
O weary night, O long and tedious night,
Abate thy houres, shine comforts from the East,
That I may backe to Athens by day-light […].
ref:
1600, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, III.3
type:
quotation
text:
you may smoke outside; may I sit there?
type:
example
text:
he may be lying; Schrödinger's cat may or may not be in the box
type:
example
text:
The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble, but it does at least demonstrate that their spirit remains strong in the face of adversity.
ref:
2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2-2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref:
2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
may you win; may the weather be sunny
type:
example
text:
May God bless and keep you always / May your wishes all come true / May you always do for others / And let others do for you / May you build a ladder to the stars / And climb on every rung / May you stay forever young
ref:
1974, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Forever Young”, in Planet Waves
type:
quotation
text:
May I never miss the thrill of being near you
ref:
1984, “No More Lonely Nights”, performed by Paul McCartney
type:
quotation
text:
How old may Phillis be, you ask, / Whose Beauty thus all Hearts engages.
ref:
1744 [1720], Matthew Prior, “Phillis's age”, in Joe Miller's Jests, 7th edition
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be strong; to have power (over).
To be able; can.
To be able to go.
To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests.
Expressing a present possibility; possibly.
Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect).
Used in modesty, courtesy, or concession, or to soften a question or remark.
senses_topics:
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1239 | word:
may
word_type:
noun
expansion:
may (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
May (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From French mai, so called because it blossoms in the month of May.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The hawthorn bush or its blossoms.
senses_topics:
|
1240 | word:
may
word_type:
verb
expansion:
may (third-person singular simple present mays, present participle maying, simple past and past participle mayed)
forms:
form:
mays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
maying
tags:
participle
present
form:
mayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
mayed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
May (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From French mai, so called because it blossoms in the month of May.
senses_examples:
text:
Soo it befelle in the moneth of May / quene Gueneuer called vnto her knyȝtes of the table round / and she gafe them warnynge that erly vpon the morowe she wold ryde on mayeng in to woodes & feldes besyde westmynstre.
"So it befell in the month of May, Queen Guenever called unto her knights of the Table Round; and she gave them warning that early upon the morrow she would ride a-Maying into woods and fields beside Westminster."
ref:
1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XIX, Chapter i leaf 386v
type:
quotation
text:
In valleys green and still / Where lovers wander maying
ref:
1922, A. E. Housman, Last Poems, VII, lines 1-2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To gather may, or flowers in general.
To celebrate May Day.
senses_topics:
|
1241 | word:
may
word_type:
noun
expansion:
may (plural mays)
forms:
form:
mays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
May (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English may, maye (“woman, maid, girl, virgin”), from Old English mǣġ (“kinswoman”), from Proto-West Germanic *māg, from Proto-Germanic *mēgaz (“kinsman”). Related to Old English māge, mǣġe (“kinswoman”) and Old English mǣġ (“kinsman”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A maiden.
senses_topics:
|
1242 | word:
economics
word_type:
noun
expansion:
economics (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From economy + -ics, from Latin oeconomia, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomía, “the management of a household”).
senses_examples:
text:
Mary studied economics for 5 years before going into banking.
type:
example
text:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences |
1243 | word:
Lithuania
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lithuania
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin Līthuānia f, from Proto-Slavic *Litъva f, from Old Lithuanian Lietuva f.
It has been speculated that the name comes from the rivulet Lietauka, although archeological evidence does not corroborate this hypothesis.
senses_examples:
text:
Taiwan's Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned the sanctions, saying they amounted to "irrational retaliation" by China.
"Taiwan vows to continue to do its best to assist Lithuania to counter the unreasonable and arbitrary suppression of the Chinese government," the ministry said in a statement.
ref:
2022 August 13, Yew Lun Tian, Augustas Stankevicius, Ben Blanchard, “China sanctions Lithuanian deputy minister for Taiwan visit”, in Mark Heinrich, Paul Simao, William Mallard, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-13, World
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in northeastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika).
senses_topics:
|
1244 | word:
lens
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lens (plural lenses or (obsolete) lens or (rare) lentes)
forms:
form:
lenses
tags:
plural
form:
lens
tags:
obsolete
plural
form:
lentes
tags:
plural
rare
wikipedia:
Medieval Latin
lens
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin lēns (“lentil”), with Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of “lens”, a semantic loan from Arabic عَدْسَة (ʕadsa, “lentil; optic lens”).
senses_examples:
text:
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field.
ref:
2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
ref:
2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
If "the public looks at the condition of America's children largely through a negative lens," worries Child Trends[…], "it may be more difficult to […] promote child well-being."
ref:
2004 April 11, Ann Hulbert, “Are the Kids All Right?”, in The New York Times Magazine, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer through.
ref:
2023 April 26, Benjamin Lee, quoting Steven Spielberg, “Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
A genus of the legume family; its bean.
The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.
A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
|
1245 | word:
lens
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lens (third-person singular simple present lenses, present participle lensing, simple past and past participle lensed)
forms:
form:
lenses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lensing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lensed
tags:
participle
past
form:
lensed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Medieval Latin
lens
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin lēns (“lentil”), with Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of “lens”, a semantic loan from Arabic عَدْسَة (ʕadsa, “lentil; optic lens”).
senses_examples:
text:
It’s set in an anonymous, upper-middle-class suburb, lensed in the generic gunmetal gray that will one day appear as dated as the fuzzy outlines of ’80s direct-to-video horror movies.
ref:
2020 May 7, Katie Rife, “If you’re looking to jump in your seat, make a playdate with Z”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 2020-05-16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To film, shoot.
To become thinner towards the edges.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
1246 | word:
ROI
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ROI (plural ROIs)
forms:
form:
ROIs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of return on investment.
Initialism of region of interest (in digital images, microscopy: in 3-dim-specimen reconstructions by consecutive sectioning).
Initialism of region of interest.
Initialism of radius of influence.
Initialism of release of information.
senses_topics:
accounting
business
finance
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
espionage
government
military
politics
war
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
1247 | word:
ROI
word_type:
name
expansion:
ROI
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Republic of Ireland.
senses_topics:
|
1248 | word:
nigger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nigger (plural niggers, feminine niggeress)
forms:
form:
niggers
tags:
plural
form:
niggeress
tags:
feminine
wikipedia:
nigger
etymology_text:
Probably immediately from French nègre or Spanish and Portuguese negro (“a black African”); ultimately from Latin niger (“black”), thus a doublet of negro and noir. Compare Danish nigger, Swedish nigger, German Nigger, Dutch nikker. First use appears c. 1577, in the writings of Edward Hellowes (fl. 1574–1601). The expected Modern English pronunciation would be with /iː/; compare neger. The modern pronunciation with /ɪ/ may be due to influence from the Latin etymon (compare the older Southern US pronunciation of negro with /ɪ/), but compare the dialectal American pronunciations of eagle and eager as /ˈɪɡəl/ and /ˈɪɡɚ/.
senses_examples:
text:
“Othello with his occupation gone,” she teased. “Othello was a nigger,” I said.
ref:
1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 274
type:
quotation
text:
You are not even a nigger, you are an African.
ref:
2004, Hotel Rwanda, spoken by Colonel Oliver (Nick Nolte)
type:
quotation
text:
There's black people, and there's niggers. And niggers have got to go. Every time black people wanna have a good time, ign'ant-ass niggers fuck it up.
ref:
1996, Chris Rock: Bring the Pain, Chris Rock (actor)
type:
quotation
text:
See, niggers are followers, blacks normally lead.
Niggers call blacks "whitewash" soon as they on the scene.
ref:
2008, “The N Word”, in Greydon Square (music), The CPT Theorem
type:
quotation
text:
Blacks stayed at home during the civil rights march. Niggers are the ones that marched.
ref:
2010 April 13, Kitty Kelley, quoting an unnamed town resident, Oprah: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Crown, →OL, page 193
type:
quotation
text:
...and as I was leaving it occurred to me. "Hey, hey, Renee, quick question[...] Why is it that I can say the word ‘nigger’ with impunity but I can't say the word ‘faggot’?" And she said, "Because, David, you are not gay." I said, "Well, Renee... I'm not a nigger either."
ref:
2021, Dave Chapelle, The Closer
type:
quotation
text:
He never lost his appetite -
He bigger grew and bigger;
And proved, with every inch of height,
A nigger is a nigger.
ref:
1880 June 19, Henry Kendall, “My Piccaninny”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 28, column 4
type:
quotation
text:
Many of the rank and file had no better conception of the proud and sensitive Maori than was implied in the degrading ‘nigger’ theory, invariably applied by the unthinking Briton to all coloured races.
ref:
1902, George Stoddart Whitmore, The Last Maori War in New Zealand..., page vi
type:
quotation
text:
[H]e commenced to kill Indians. We needed no second invitation. God it was a butchery. At the first fire we killed a round dozen and we did not let up. Before the last poor nigger reached the bottom of the slope there was fifty-eight of them lay slaughtered among the gravels. They just slid down the slope like chaff down a hopper, some turned this way, some that, and they made a chain about the base of the mountain
[This quote is spoken by a scalphunter in c. 1850.]
ref:
1985, Cormac McCarthy, “Chapter 10”, in blood Meridian, Random House, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
At Crescent Lake in Oneida County, Hubert Locke, who is black and serves as the Dean of the University of Washington's School of Public Affairs, was confronted with words to the effect of, "Now the Commission has a nigger working for them" and "I guess there are two kinds of niggers—red niggers and black niggers"[...] These blatant manifestations of racism directed toward Mr. Locke serve to illustrate the racist attitudes experienced daily by tribal members.
ref:
1988, James H. Schlender, quotee, “Written Testimony of James H. Schlender, Executive Administrator, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, May 18, 1988”, in Anti-Indian Violence: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, May 4 and 18, 1988, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, published 1989, →OCLC, page 197
type:
quotation
text:
“Snoop Dog!” one of them yelled. “That’s my nigga from Long Beach, man.”
ref:
1997, McKinley Lee, Chosen by Fate: My Life inside Death Row Records
type:
quotation
text:
I wonna say whassup to all my Niggers, you know, peace and one love.
ref:
2001 Autumn-Winter, Awad Ibrahim, quoting ‘Sam’, “Hey, whadap homeboy?”, in Taboo, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
I had overheard him greet a buddy who called him on the phone with "Yo, nigger, what's up?"
ref:
2002 January 13, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, “"Loaded Language", a review of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy”, in Washington Post, page BW06
type:
quotation
text:
People be surprised. I have friends who're all kinds a letters. Everybody loves me an' I love everybody. I got friends who are Ls, I got friends who are Bs, and I got friends who are Gs. But the Ts hate my fucking guts. And I don't blame 'em! It's not their fault. It's mine. I can't stop tellin' jokes about these niggas.
ref:
2021, Dave Chapelle, The Closer
type:
quotation
text:
The governor made it into office by campaigning against the niggers. And people should understand who the niggers are. It's the elderly one week. Then it's those on public assistance. Now he sees women as niggers, and he's trying to do them in.
ref:
1979 April 14, Jil Clark (quoting Mel King), "King Axes Women's Commission", in Gay Community News, page 1
text:
It's time for somebody to lead all of America's Niggers," he said at the Capitol Hill press conference when Shirley Chisholm announced she was running for president, "and by this I mean the Young, the Black, the Brown, the Women, the Poor—all the people who feel left out of the political process. If we can put the Nigger Vote together, we can bring about some real change in this country."
ref:
c. 1972 Ron Dellums, speech quoted in e.g. 2012, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (Simon and Schuster), page 58
type:
quotation
text:
1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, "Woman Is the Nigger of the World" (song)
text:
Nigger (Male) Orsotriaena medus moira Waterhouse and Lyell. 1914.
ref:
1932, Gustavus Athol Waterhouse, What Butterfly is That?: A Guide to the Butterflies of Australia, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
The Nigger is a common butterfly in Singapore and can be found in the company of bush browns.
ref:
2010, Khew Sin Khoon, A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Singapore, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
To this group belongs the nigger, or black caterpillar of the turnip, which is often in sufficient numbers to do much mischief.
ref:
1873, Nature, volume 7, page 448
type:
quotation
text:
Now to locate the portion of the machine which contains the "nigger."
ref:
1892, Western Electrician, volume 11, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
A sawyer will come along and be touted and recommended as the best in the country when his chief qualifications will be his ability to jerk the carriage back and forth in a hurry without striking the bumper or to turn the log with the nigger […]
ref:
1918, Leonard L. Shertzer, How to Build and Operate a Sawmill, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
Well, it's a big heavy line, and you operate the nigger — capstan it's also called — by steam. You wrap your line around that and keep taking in the slack, and that draws up them things.
ref:
1983, Goldenseal, volume 9, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
Care should be taken to check visually from the position occupied by the subject and from the camera also, to ascertain that the nigger is positioned correctly and does not obstruct the picture area.
ref:
1961, Peter Snow, Electronic Flashlight Photography, page 114
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A black person; a person of black African descent.
A black person; a person of black African descent.
A person of black African descent who behaves badly or unconventionally (whether the speaker approves or disapproves).
A member of any typically dark-skinned people (now especially in combinations like prairie nigger or sand nigger).
A friend, particularly a fellow black person (often as an informal term of address).
A person of any kind (particularly as a term of abuse).
A member of a group that is oppressed or marginalized in the manner of black people.
Any of various dark animals:
Any member of species Girella tricuspidata (luderick).
Any of various dark animals:
A dark brown nymphalid butterfly, Orsotriaena medus, of south Asia, southeast Asia, and Australia.
Any of various dark animals:
A kind of sea cucumber, Holothuria forskali, the cotton-spinner.
Any of various dark animals:
The larva of the turnip sawfly, an agricultural pest.
An impurity in the covering of an electrical conductor which serves to make a partial short circuit, and thus becomes sufficiently heated to burn and destroy the insulation.
A strong iron-bound timber with sharp teeth or spikes protruding from its front face, forming part of the machinery of a sawmill, and used in canting logs, etc.
A steam-capstan on some Mississippi river boats, used to haul the boat over bars and snags by a rope fastened to a tree on the bank.
A black screen used in conjunction with the camera to block light or produce special lighting effects.
senses_topics:
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
broadcasting
film
media
television |
1249 | word:
nigger
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nigger (third-person singular simple present niggers, present participle niggering, simple past and past participle niggered)
forms:
form:
niggers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
niggering
tags:
participle
present
form:
niggered
tags:
participle
past
form:
niggered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
nigger
etymology_text:
Probably immediately from French nègre or Spanish and Portuguese negro (“a black African”); ultimately from Latin niger (“black”), thus a doublet of negro and noir. Compare Danish nigger, Swedish nigger, German Nigger, Dutch nikker. First use appears c. 1577, in the writings of Edward Hellowes (fl. 1574–1601). The expected Modern English pronunciation would be with /iː/; compare neger. The modern pronunciation with /ɪ/ may be due to influence from the Latin etymon (compare the older Southern US pronunciation of negro with /ɪ/), but compare the dialectal American pronunciations of eagle and eager as /ˈɪɡəl/ and /ˈɪɡɚ/.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] he resorted to the practice of “niggering,” as it is called: which is simply laying light pieces of round timber across the trunks of the trees and setting fire to them at the point of contact; by which means the trees are slowly burned through.
ref:
1844, J. W. Dunbar Moodie, “The Ould Dhragoon; or, a visit to the beaver meadow”, in Literary garland, volume 2, Lovell & Gibson, page 360
type:
quotation
text:
The operation was this: they placed smaller logs and dry rubbish across the log and applied fire to them; this was called “niggering”.
ref:
1914, Indiana State Teachers Association, Readings in Indiana history, Indiana University, History Section, page 171
type:
quotation
text:
All day long his axe rang through the frosty air as he felled saplings for the fence and stripped them from fuel for the “niggering” fires.
ref:
1956, Joseph Kirkland, Zury: the meanest man in Spring County: a novel of western life, University of Illinois Press, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
This means subduing and taming the forest itself—the central drama of The Fields—performing the hard labor of hacking the trees and “niggering” and burning the butts in order to get to the rich black soil underneath.
ref:
1980, Elaine Hedges, William Hedges, Land and imagination: the rural dream in America, Hayden Book Co., page 69
type:
quotation
text:
There is a general agreement that niggering took over from mummering to keep up the old custom.
ref:
1976, Cake and Cockhorse, volume 7, page 220
type:
quotation
text:
His father said, “Niggering, I was niggering about. You knew that surely.”
ref:
1989, Reynolds Price, The surface of earth, Ballantine Books, page 120
type:
quotation
text:
Forrest’s rediscovery of his father coincides with his discovery that old Robinson’s “niggering around” produced at least one child of mixed race.
ref:
2007, George Hovis, Vale of Humility: Plain Folk in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction, Univ of South Carolina Press, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
I mean he was niggering. Niggering out, grabbing at my leg and microphone cord. I said, ‘Stop that you damn nigger!’ and that takes guts!
ref:
2008, Joe Ambrose, Gimme Danger: The Story Of Iggy Pop, Music Sales Group
type:
quotation
text:
The gated community is a powerful tool in the systematic and sustained niggering of local 3rd-world communities - namely, in the book, the Hispanic (mostly wetbacK) community
ref:
1997 January 18, Joe Frisch, “Anglo-US relations under a Blair Government”, in uk.org.mensa (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
> He is on TV saying that he was "abused" by the police and treated like a nigger.
ref:
1999 December 3, Jeff Welch, “Who is McGuyver and why was he "niggered?”, in seattle.general, December 3 (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Why would many Paletinians want to return to a land where they would be "niggered" for the benefit of the Israelis as the present Palestinian population is
ref:
2003 July 16, “Mob Attacks Palestinian Pollsters Who Told The Truth”, in soc.retirement (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To clear land by laying light pieces of round timber across the trunks of the trees and setting fire to them at the point of contact, by which means the trees are slowly burned through.
To exhaust (soil) by cropping it year by year without manure.
To perform in blackface.
To behave as a stereotypical black person.
To treat as inferior.
senses_topics:
|
1250 | word:
Thursday
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Thursday (plural Thursdays)
forms:
form:
Thursdays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Week-day names
thursday (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English Thursday, Thuresday, from Old English þursdæġ, þurresdæġ (“Thursday”), possibly from a contraction of þunresdæġ (“Thursday”, literally “Thor's day”), but more likely of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse þórsdagr; all from Proto-West Germanic *Þunras dag (“day of the thunder god”). Compare West Frisian tongersdei, German Low German Dunnersdag, Dutch donderdag, German Donnerstag, Danish torsdag. More at thunder, day.
A calque of Latin diēs Iovis (diēs Jovis), via an association (interpretātiō germānica) of the god Thor with the Roman god of thunder Jove (Jupiter).
senses_examples:
text:
But for satisfaction pure and deep, for balance in pleasure and comfort, Thursday canʼt be beat.
ref:
1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 50
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fifth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fourth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Wednesday and precedes Friday.
senses_topics:
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1251 | word:
Thursday
word_type:
adv
expansion:
Thursday (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Week-day names
thursday (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English Thursday, Thuresday, from Old English þursdæġ, þurresdæġ (“Thursday”), possibly from a contraction of þunresdæġ (“Thursday”, literally “Thor's day”), but more likely of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse þórsdagr; all from Proto-West Germanic *Þunras dag (“day of the thunder god”). Compare West Frisian tongersdei, German Low German Dunnersdag, Dutch donderdag, German Donnerstag, Danish torsdag. More at thunder, day.
A calque of Latin diēs Iovis (diēs Jovis), via an association (interpretātiō germānica) of the god Thor with the Roman god of thunder Jove (Jupiter).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On Thursday.
senses_topics:
|
1252 | word:
Iceland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Iceland
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Iseland, Island, Islond, Yslond, a calque of Old Norse Ísland, equivalent to ice + land.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in the North Atlantic Ocean.
senses_topics:
|
1253 | word:
derecho
word_type:
noun
expansion:
derecho (plural derechos or derechoes)
forms:
form:
derechos
tags:
plural
form:
derechoes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Spanish derecho (“straight”). First used by Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs in 1888, apparently coined to distinguish the winds from tornadoes, which rotate; compare tornado. Doublet of direct.
senses_examples:
text:
Combining all of the above, the Arkansas Valley, Ouachita Mountains, Interior Plateau, and Southwest Appalachian ecoregions have the greatest risk of wind damage from tornadoes and derechos, whereas weakening hurricanes are an important disturbance, especially in the Piedmont ecoregion.
ref:
2015, Chris J. Peterson, Jeffery B. Cannon, Christopher M. Godfrey, “5: First Steps Toward Defining the Wind Disturbance Regime in Central Hardwoods Forests”, in Cathryn H. Greenberg, Beverly S. Collins, editors, Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation, Springer, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
Derechos have winds as powerful as those of some hurricanes and tornadoes. "Derecho" comes from the Spanish word meaning "straight."
ref:
2016, Bill Streever, And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind, Hachette, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
A derecho can be as destructive as a weak to moderate tornado, but the damage is mainly the result of straight-line rather than rotating winds.
However, tornadoes can also form along the bow of a derecho. Derechos can sometimes be recognized as a bank of ominous-looking "shelf" clouds that appear darker than normal clouds.
ref:
2022, Alexander Gates, Earth's Fury, Wiley, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A windstorm characterized by strong, straight-line winds.
senses_topics:
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences |
1254 | word:
abandon
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abandon (third-person singular simple present abandons, present participle abandoning, simple past and past participle abandoned)
forms:
form:
abandons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abandoning
tags:
participle
present
form:
abandoned
tags:
participle
past
form:
abandoned
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
abandon
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* From Middle English abandounen, from Old French abandoner, formed from a (“at, to”) + bandon (“jurisdiction, control”), from Late Latin bannum (“proclamation”), bannus, bandum, from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, command”) (compare English ban), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”). See also ban, banal.
* Displaced Middle English forleten (“to abandon”), from Old English forlǣtan, anforlǣtan; see forlet; and Middle English forleven (“to leave behind, abandon”), from Old English forlǣfan; see forleave.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] he abandoned himself […] to his favourite vice.
ref:
1856, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II. Volume 3, page 312
type:
quotation
text:
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
ref:
2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.
type:
example
text:
She abandoned her husband for a new man.
type:
example
text:
Hope was overthrown, and yet could not be abandoned.
ref:
1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Being all this time abandoned from your bed.
ref:
1594, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, act I, scene ii
type:
quotation
text:
I hereby abandon my position as manager.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.
To leave behind; to desert, as in a ship, a position, or a person, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.
To subdue; to take control of.
To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.
To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
senses_topics:
|
1255 | word:
abandon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abandon (countable and uncountable, plural abandons)
forms:
form:
abandons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abandoun, from Old French abandon, from Old French abondonner.
senses_examples:
text:
with gay abandon, with wild abandon
type:
example
text:
The Italian painters have an abandon in their chiar' oscuro which mellows up their flesh tints in a way that no other school can imitate : the frigidity of their outline is another remarkable feature, and the harmony of their impasto is unique.
ref:
1846, The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register, page 453
type:
quotation
text:
I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon: 'I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.'
ref:
1954, Gore Vidal, Messiah
type:
quotation
text:
They needed to have an abandon in their performance that you just can’t get out of people in the middle of the night when they’re barefoot.
ref:
2007 November 4, David M. Halbfinger, “The City That Never Sleeps, Comatose”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. (Now especially in the phrase with abandon.)
Abandonment; relinquishment.
senses_topics:
|
1256 | word:
unemployment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
unemployment (countable and uncountable, plural unemployments)
forms:
form:
unemployments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + employment.
senses_examples:
text:
Unemployment made Jack depressed.
type:
example
text:
In 1928, an arrangement was made between the Government of Northern Ireland and the N.C.C. for the construction of a loop line as an unemployment scheme.
ref:
1944 May and June, R. H. W. Bruce, “The L.M.S.R. in Northern Ireland—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 147
type:
quotation
text:
Unemployment has been considered a cause of crime.
type:
example
text:
Unemployment was reported at 5.2% in May, up from 4.9% in April.
type:
example
text:
All unemployments, seasonal, frictional, cyclical, classical, whatever, mean that you're out of work.
type:
example
text:
Until then his life had consisted of low-paying jobs, numerous unemployments, and drug use.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of having no job; joblessness.
The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy.
The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce.
A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism.
An instance or period of joblessness.
senses_topics:
|
1257 | word:
Latvia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Latvia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latvian Latvija.
senses_examples:
text:
In early July, I returned to Europe for the G-7 summit in Naples. On the way, I stopped in Riga, Latvia, to meet with the leaders of the Baltic states and celebrate the withdrawal of Russian troops from Lithuania and Latvia, a move we had helped to speed up by providing a large number of housing vouchers for Russian officers who wanted to go home.
ref:
2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →OCLC, page 185
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in North Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Latvia.
senses_topics:
|
1258 | word:
deceptive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
deceptive (comparative more deceptive, superlative most deceptive)
forms:
form:
more deceptive
tags:
comparative
form:
most deceptive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French déceptif, from Latin dēceptīvus, from dēcipiō (“I deceive”).
senses_examples:
text:
deceptive practices
type:
example
text:
Appearances can be deceptive.
type:
example
text:
[…] others declare that no Creature can be made or transmuted into a better or worse, or transformed into another species […] and Martinus Delrio the Jesuit accounts this degeneration of Man into a Beast to be an illusion, deceptive and repugnant to Nature;
ref:
1653, John Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis, London: William Hunt, Scene 24, page 521
type:
quotation
text:
[…] at the opening of the campaign, the French, after various deceptive attempts on different places, suddenly invested Tournay.
ref:
1789, Frederick the Great, translated by Thomas Holcroft, The History of My Own Times, London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Part 1, Chapter 12, p. 163
type:
quotation
text:
1846, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord, London: John W. Parker, 2nd ed., 1847, Preliminary Essay, Chapter 2, p. 10,
language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes
text:
[…] it is characteristic of TB that many of its symptoms are deceptive—liveliness that comes from enervation, rosy cheeks that look like a sign of health but come from fever—and an upsurge of vitality may be a sign of approaching death.
ref:
1978, Susan Sontag, chapter 2, in Illness as Metaphor, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Likely or attempting to deceive.
senses_topics:
|
1259 | word:
NATO
word_type:
name
expansion:
NATO
forms:
wikipedia:
en:North Atlantic Treaty Organization
en:nato (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
senses_examples:
text:
On the other hand, one still would have to note that relations between NATO in London and OSR in Paris were still not as closely integrated as might be desired, and that the power of decision, especially on industrial and financial matters, still was not centered in one place in the NATO.
ref:
1951 October 5, Activities in Europe Concerned with Material Support of NATO and MDAP, Office of the Secretary of Defense, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Yes, France is geographically situated in a key position so far as Western Europe is concerned. They are really the bridge between Germany, Spain and Italy. And it was necessary to have a NATO organization that was unified and France was a necessary member of that organization.
ref:
1964, Harry S. Truman, 0:18 from the start, in MP2002-479 Former President Truman Recalls Negotiating With DeGaulle and France after WWII, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162
type:
quotation
text:
What concerned me most about De Gaulle's decision was that it threatened the unity of NATO, which had been so carefully developed over two decades. NATO was essential to the security of Europe and the United States. I was convinced that the stronger and more unified we were, the more incentive the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies would have to work with us in solving outstanding problems and differences.
ref:
1971, Lyndon Johnson, “Strengthening the Atlantic Community”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 305–306
type:
quotation
text:
President Putin's KGB roots have sadly informed a style of governance that is neither reformist nor particularly democratic. The common thread throughout his domestic and foreign policies is his effort to trade on fear -- the fears of Russians that their country is under attack from hostile external forces (Chechens, NATO or free marketeers); and the fears of Westerners that if not for a strong, pragmatic leader, Russia will again become unruly, unstable and potentially aggressive.
ref:
2001 January 4, Garry Kasparov, “The Russian President Trades on Fear”, in The Wall Street Journal, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-01-09, International
type:
quotation
text:
In the week since I’d seen him in the Oval Office, Bush had done well in Europe.[...]He’d made a strong statement on the expansion of NATO. “I believe in membership,” the president had said, “for all of Europe’s democracies that seek it and are ready to share the responsibilities that NATO brings.”[…]The president had even gone out of his way to reassure Putin that he had nothing to fear from the enlargement of NATO, which would not include Russia.
ref:
2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep, New York: Random House, published 2008, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 297
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
senses_topics:
|
1260 | word:
NATO
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
NATO
forms:
wikipedia:
en:nato (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From no+action+talk+only, from talking without acting.
senses_examples:
text:
turn it off then. don't nato......pressure your government to do that.:)
ref:
1998 May 30, Kicker, “First on Everest are not Singaporeans - Sure or not?”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
haiya...i think, hah....our GOV also nowadays becoming NATO! (NATO = No Action Talk Only...!!!)
ref:
2003 January 24, ALIEN, “Spying activities at Pedra Branca”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of No Action Talk Only.
senses_topics:
|
1261 | word:
NATO
word_type:
name
expansion:
NATO
forms:
wikipedia:
en:National Association of Theatre Owners
en:nato (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From National Association of Theatre Owners.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of National Association of Theatre Owners.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
film
media
television |
1262 | word:
deficit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
deficit (plural deficits)
forms:
form:
deficits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French déficit, from Latin dēficit.
senses_examples:
text:
The crop output this year has been comparatively small, owing to the deficit in rainfall.
type:
example
text:
Dr. Beeching's obvious intent is that if Scottish—and similarly unprofitable English and Welsh—railways are to be maintained, it must be done by an unconcealed subsidy; he is determined that the railways shall no longer be preoccupied with—and derided for—immense deficits which include the burden of social services the State must openly underwrite, if it wants them.
ref:
1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Passed to you, Mr. Macmillan”, in Modern Railways, page 220
type:
quotation
text:
But Wall Street, which has a case of deficit-attention disorder, is no longer focused on a balanced budget. "The bond market only worries about one thing at [a time.]
ref:
1996 August 4, “It's Time for a Reality Check on the Deficit”, in Contra Costa Times, Contra Costa, CA
type:
quotation
text:
Economically, too, London is startlingly different. The capital, unlike the country as a whole, has no budget deficit: London’s public spending matches the taxes paid in the city. The average Londoner contributes 70 percent more to Britain’s national income than people in the rest of the country.
ref:
2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-09-28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds (e.g. government) revenue.
senses_topics:
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1263 | word:
Greece
word_type:
name
expansion:
Greece
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Grece, from Old French Grece, from Latin Graecia, from Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graikós). Replaced Old English Grēcland, also from the same Latin source.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Hellenic Republic. Capital and largest city: Athens.
senses_topics:
|
1264 | word:
Trucial States
word_type:
name
expansion:
Trucial States
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From truce (notably the 1853 Perpetual Maritime Truce) + -ial + states (the plural of state).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Former name of Trucial Oman. A collection of former protectorates (since the 1820 General Maritime Treaty) of the United Kingdom, comprising most of the small Arab coastal states (then sheikhdoms) located along the Persian Gulf. The precursor of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
senses_topics:
|
1265 | word:
Trucial States
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Trucial States
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From truce (notably the 1853 Perpetual Maritime Truce) + -ial + states (the plural of state).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of Trucial State
senses_topics:
|
1266 | word:
January
word_type:
name
expansion:
January (plural Januaries or Januarys)
forms:
form:
Januaries
tags:
plural
form:
Januarys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
January
etymology_text:
From Middle English Januarie, januari, re-latinised forms of Middle English Janevere, Ieneuer, from Anglo-Norman genever, from Latin Iānuārius (“(month) of Janus”), a compound of Iānus ("Janus") + -ārius (adjectival suffix), with the first element perhaps from the Proto-Indo-European root *yeh₂- (“to go”). Doublet of Gennaro.
senses_examples:
text:
01/01/09 : Thursday, 1st January(,) 2009.
text:
American style: Thursday, January 1st, 2009.
text:
“Hi, January!” Lynn calls. “Happy birthday!”
ref:
2011, Michael Schofield, January First
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The first month of the Gregorian calendar, following the December of the previous year and preceding February. Abbreviation: Jan or Jan.
A female given name from English.
senses_topics:
|
1267 | word:
numeral
word_type:
noun
expansion:
numeral (plural numerals)
forms:
form:
numerals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
numeral
etymology_text:
As an adjective, from Middle English numeral, numerall, from Latin numerālis (“pertaining to a number”), from numerus (“a number”).
As a noun, via Middle French numeral.
senses_examples:
text:
Compare the numeral for the product with the original decimal numeral.
ref:
1966, Robert Lee Morton, Modern Mathematics Through Discovery, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
We use the term numeral for linguistic expressions and number for meanings. For example, five is a numeral expressing the number "5" - and fifteen hundred and one thousand five hundred are different numerals expressing the same number, "1,500".
ref:
2002, Laurie Bauer, Rodney Huddleston, “Lexical word-formation”, in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, page 1715
type:
quotation
text:
Jacks, queens, and kings are not numerals.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A symbol that is not a word and represents a number, such as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 and the Roman numerals I, V, X, L.
A representation of a number composed of such symbols.
A number word, a simple or compound word for a number often having particular grammatical attributes depending on the language.
A card whose rank is a number (usually including the ace as 1).
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
card-games
games |
1268 | word:
numeral
word_type:
adj
expansion:
numeral (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
numeral
etymology_text:
As an adjective, from Middle English numeral, numerall, from Latin numerālis (“pertaining to a number”), from numerus (“a number”).
As a noun, via Middle French numeral.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to numbers; numerical.
senses_topics:
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1269 | word:
shadowing
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shadowing
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of shadow
senses_topics:
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1270 | word:
shadowing
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shadowing (countable and uncountable, plural shadowings)
forms:
form:
shadowings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
There are […] in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity.
ref:
1871, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The effect of being shadowed (in the sense of blocked), as from a light source or radio transmission.
The situation where a person repeats speech immediately as they hear it (usually through earphones).
Secretly or discreetly tracking or following someone, keeping under surveillance.
A faint representation; an adumbration.
The technique of copying ROM contents to RAM to allow for shorter access times. The ROM chip is then disabled while the initialized memory locations are switched in on the same block of addresses.
A work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker.
senses_topics:
espionage
government
military
politics
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
education |
1271 | word:
medicine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
medicine (countable and uncountable, plural medicines)
forms:
form:
medicines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Algonquian languages
etymology_text:
From Middle English medicin, from Middle French medicine, from Old French medecine, from Latin medicīna (“the healing art, medicine, a physician's shop, a remedy, medicine”), feminine of medicīnus (“of or belonging to physic or surgery, or to a physician or surgeon”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”).
The extended sense of "Indigenous magic" is a calque of Ojibwe mashkiki (“medicine”) or mide (or cognates in related languages) when used in compounds such as Grand Medicine Society, medicine lodge, medicine dance, medicine bag, medicine wheel, medicine man, Medicine Line, and bad medicine or place names such as Medicine Hat, Medicine Creek, etc.
senses_examples:
text:
This medicine has fewer adverse effects than others in its drug class.
type:
example
text:
Using a weekly pill organizer is a good way to help remind yourself to take your medicine each day, and it also tells you whether you already took today's pills (it's not unusual to forget doing a habitual task)!
type:
example
text:
A legislative remedy might be some harsh medicine; is that cure worse than the ill?
type:
example
text:
Surely every medicine is an innovation; and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils […]
ref:
1625, Francis Bacon, Of Innovation
type:
quotation
text:
She's studying medicine at university because she wants to be a doctor in the future.
type:
example
text:
The history of medicine can be discretized into eras with differing relationships between physicians and surgeons
type:
example
text:
the evolving relationship of medicine to surgery in the nineteenth century
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: surgery
text:
The North American Indian boy usually took as his medicine the first animal of which he dreamed during the long and solitary fast that he observed at puberty.
ref:
1896, F. H. Giddings, The Principles of Sociology
type:
quotation
text:
If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. It could not be else. I have drunk medicines.
ref:
1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, II. ii. 18
type:
quotation
text:
I have seen a medicine / That's able to breathe life into a stone
ref:
1598, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, II. i. 72
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.
Any treatment or cure.
The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
The profession and practice of nonsurgical physicians as sometimes distinguished from that of surgeons.
Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, or warfare; traditional medicine.
Among the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing.
Black magic, superstition.
A philter or love potion.
A physician.
Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.
senses_topics:
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1272 | word:
medicine
word_type:
verb
expansion:
medicine (third-person singular simple present medicines, present participle medicining, simple past and past participle medicined)
forms:
form:
medicines
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
medicining
tags:
participle
present
form:
medicined
tags:
participle
past
form:
medicined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Algonquian languages
etymology_text:
From Middle English medicin, from Middle French medicine, from Old French medecine, from Latin medicīna (“the healing art, medicine, a physician's shop, a remedy, medicine”), feminine of medicīnus (“of or belonging to physic or surgery, or to a physician or surgeon”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”).
The extended sense of "Indigenous magic" is a calque of Ojibwe mashkiki (“medicine”) or mide (or cognates in related languages) when used in compounds such as Grand Medicine Society, medicine lodge, medicine dance, medicine bag, medicine wheel, medicine man, Medicine Line, and bad medicine or place names such as Medicine Hat, Medicine Creek, etc.
senses_examples:
text:
And we shall find, under the head of the medicining of the body, some things on the subject of medicine in general, which could be better said there than here, because of the wrath of professional dignitaries,- the eye of the 'basilisk,' was not perhaps quite so terrible in that quarter then, as it was in some others.
ref:
1857, Delia Bacon, The philosophy of the plays of Shakspere unfolded
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To treat with medicine.
senses_topics:
|
1273 | word:
globalisation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
globalisation (countable and uncountable, plural globalisations)
forms:
form:
globalisations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From global + -isation or globalise + -ation.
senses_examples:
text:
Sure, globalization as flows of trade will continue. But globalization as the driving logic of world affairs — that seems to be over.
ref:
2022 April 8, David Brooks, “Globalization Is Over. The Global Culture Wars Have Begun.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of becoming a more interconnected world.
The process of the world economy becoming dominated by capitalist models, according to the World System Theory.
senses_topics:
|
1274 | word:
mammal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mammal (plural mammals)
forms:
form:
mammals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Linnaeus
mammal
etymology_text:
From Modern Latin Mammalia, coined 1758 by Linnaeus for the class of mammals, from neuter plural of Late Latin mammalis (“of the breast”), from Latin mamma (“breast”), perhaps cognate with mamma (mother).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and producing milk with which to feed its young.
A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.
senses_topics:
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences |
1275 | word:
reality
word_type:
noun
expansion:
reality (usually uncountable, plural realities)
forms:
form:
realities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French réalité (“quality of being real”), from Middle French realité (“property, possession”), from Medieval Latin reālitās, from Late Latin reālis (“real”), equivalent to real + -ity. Recorded since 1550 as a legal term in the sense of “fixed property” (compare real estate, realty); the sense “real existence” is attested from 1647. First attested in c. 1540.
senses_examples:
text:
The reality of the crash scene on TV dawned upon him only when he saw the victim was no actor but his friend.
type:
example
text:
While the SCP universe is, of course, filled with things that we would certainly not consider "real", most of the SCPs are tangible or perceivable in some way. There are those concepts, however, whose reality is debatable, even to the SCP Foundation, begging them to ask the question of what, exactly, is real.
ref:
2019 January 7, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: Pattern Screamers” (0:11 from the start), in The Exploring Series, archived from the original on 2023-01-11
type:
quotation
text:
The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death.
type:
example
text:
My neck, Sir, may be an idea to you, but to me it is a reality.
ref:
1770, James Beattie, Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth
type:
quotation
text:
Given the economic realities of contemporary Poland, a requirement to provide information on movable assets which exceed PLN 10,000 in value cannot be held to be excessive.
ref:
2005 October 25, European Court of Human Rights, Wypych v. Poland, number 2428/05
type:
quotation
text:
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today[…].
ref:
2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Across the entire Universe. Never stopping, never faltering, never fading. People and planets and stars will become dust. And the dust will become atoms and the atoms will become... nothing. And the wavelength will continue, breaking through the rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade into every dimension, every parallel, every single corner of creation. This is my ultimate victory, Doctor! The DESTRUCTION! Of REALITY! ITSELF!
ref:
2008 July 5, Russell T Davies, “Journey's End”, in Graeme Harper, director, Doctor Who, season 4 [30], episode 13, spoken by Davros (Julian Bleach)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being actual or real; realness.
The real world.
A real entity, event, or other fact.
The entirety of all that is real.
An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
Loyalty; devotion.
Realty; real estate.
senses_topics:
law |
1276 | word:
Antigua and Barbuda
word_type:
name
expansion:
Antigua and Barbuda
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Antigua + and + Barbuda.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in the Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Antigua and Barbuda.
senses_topics:
|
1277 | word:
whatever
word_type:
det
expansion:
whatever
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English whatever. By surface analysis, what + ever.
senses_examples:
text:
Good heavens! Whatever time is it?!
type:
example
text:
Whatever choice you make, there will be consequences.
type:
example
text:
I will stick with you, whatever fate befalls us.
type:
example
text:
Whatever doubts I had were quickly dispelled.
type:
example
text:
Write down whatever thoughts come into your mind.
type:
example
text:
In an expression that reflects the pathos of a person without memory of a recent past, Milner quotes H.M. as saying, "Every day is alone in itself, whatever enjoyment I've had, and whatever sorrow I've had Right now, I'm wondering. Have I done or said anything amiss? That's what worries me. It's like waking from a dream; I just don't remember."
ref:
1997, Warren S. Brown, Nancey C. Murphy, H. Newton Malony, Whatever Happened to the Soul?:, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
I must obtain it at whatever cost.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
What ever; emphatic form of 'what'.
Regardless of the ... that; for any ... that.
Any ... that; of no matter what type or kind that.
Any; of no matter what type or kind.
senses_topics:
|
1278 | word:
whatever
word_type:
pron
expansion:
whatever
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English whatever. By surface analysis, what + ever.
senses_examples:
text:
Whatever do you mean?
type:
example
text:
Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky?
He got an ice pick
That made his ears burn
ref:
1977, Hugh Cornwell, Jean-Jacques Burnel, Jet Black (lyrics and music), “No More Heroes”, in No More Heroes, performed by The Stranglers
type:
quotation
text:
Whatever he does, he will still lose the game.
type:
example
text:
Whatever happens, stay calm.
type:
example
text:
Do whatever works.
type:
example
text:
I’ll do whatever I can.
type:
example
text:
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
ref:
2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
I don't need any of this stuff, so take whatever.
type:
example
text:
There's a pile of stuff on that table; clippings, pamphlets, posters, whatever, that needs to be sorted and filed.
ref:
2021, Michael Kurland, Whatever the Cost
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
What ever; emphasised form of 'what', used to ask which thing, event, circumstance, etc.
Regardless of anything that.
Anything that; all that.
Anything; thing(s) of unspecified kind, or no matter what kind; sometimes used to indicate that the speaker does not care about options.
senses_topics:
|
1279 | word:
whatever
word_type:
adv
expansion:
whatever (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English whatever. By surface analysis, what + ever.
senses_examples:
text:
There is no point whatever in going on with this discussion.
type:
example
text:
He is quite unconscious; and, though your presence is a relief to me, you must remember that there is no hope - no hope whatever.
ref:
1874, Dorothy Henrietta Boulger, True to her trust; or, 'Womanly past question', page 236
type:
quotation
text:
So then arose the horrible confusion perpetuated ever since, of perversely different kinds of weights, jostling each other in Britain; Troy weight and Avoirdupois weight and Apothecaries' weight, wherein or whereamongst every one is at sea with regard to testing them, and no one whatever is satisfied.
ref:
1864, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
In the third place, the superelevation and alignment of the track, theoretically calculated for speeds of 70 to 75 m.p.h., was adequate for the 80 to 85 m.p.h. or so normally attained as maxima over the G.N. main line; but nothing whatever had been done to prepare it for the enormous increment over these figures that this run was to produce.
ref:
1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 263
type:
quotation
text:
His repetitive toil is his life and reality, and it goes on forever, and it is without any meaning whatever.
ref:
1999, Louis P. Pojman, Life and Death: A Reader in Moral Problems, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
Whatever does it matter now?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At all; in any way; whatsoever.
In what way; to what extent.
senses_topics:
|
1280 | word:
whatever
word_type:
intj
expansion:
whatever
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English whatever. By surface analysis, what + ever.
senses_examples:
text:
So you don't like Mrs Jones. Whatever. What's that got to do with my question?
type:
example
text:
Go brush your teeth. – Whatever!
type:
example
text:
"It's not silk, it's muslin." "Whatever."
ref:
1991 January 24, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
Yeah, whatever you old dried up fat hog.
ref:
1998 June 3, “Conjoined Fetus Lady”, in South Park, season 2, episode 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A holophrastic expression used to dismiss something that the speaker doesn't care about, doesn't think important, or doesn't want to consider or discuss any further.
senses_topics:
|
1281 | word:
whatever
word_type:
adj
expansion:
whatever (comparative more whatever, superlative most whatever)
forms:
form:
more whatever
tags:
comparative
form:
most whatever
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English whatever. By surface analysis, what + ever.
senses_examples:
text:
All in all, I guess I shouldn't be complaining, but the rest of the show, imho, was very whatever-ish.
ref:
1996, Mathias, “Lake Placid Comments”, in rec.music.phish (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
She's like so whatever / You can do so much better
ref:
2007, Avril Lavigne (lyrics and music), “Girlfriend”, in The Best Damn Thing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unexceptional or unimportant; blah.
senses_topics:
|
1282 | word:
whatever
word_type:
noun
expansion:
whatever (plural whatevers)
forms:
form:
whatevers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English whatever. By surface analysis, what + ever.
senses_examples:
text:
How would you feel if you're a plant elf, and your daily bonus is tied to the number of whatevers you produce, and then this big clumsy thing barges in and knocks your rate back for the whole week?
ref:
2003, David Soubly, Santa, CEO, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
I think it's the HYDRA, the group of whatevers that rule the world, those elitists that laugh at us, joke about their environmentalist sheeples doing their bidding while they sip the best wine on the planet, ride around in private jets, […]
ref:
2011, Carol Ann Lindsay, The Planet of Comet Sense, page 55
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something whose exact kind or nature is unimportant; a thingy.
senses_topics:
|
1283 | word:
billion
word_type:
num
expansion:
billion (plural billions)
forms:
form:
billions
head_nr:
1
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French billion, from bi- (“two”) + -illion.
senses_examples:
text:
At the last assessment it [the national debt] amounts to seven billion pounds (£7,000,000,000).
ref:
1921 January 24, “National Finances”, in Devon and Exeter Gazette, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
ref:
2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
However, despite the prospect of HS2 being curtailed and the revelation that the programme is late and billions over budget, for now, at least, work on the scheme appears to be business as usual
ref:
2019 October, Dan Harvey, “HS2 costs rise as schedule slips”, in Modern Railways, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
The ChatGPT service which serves as Web front-end to GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 was the fastest-growing service in history to break the 100 million user milestone in January and had 1 billion visits by February 2023.
ref:
2023 October 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays” (18617), in Scientific Reports, volume 13, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
n = 1,000,000,000,000, that is, = a billion, or the square of a million
ref:
1778, Francis Maseres, “A Method of Finding, by the Help of Sir Isaac Newton's Binomial Theorem, a Near Value of the very Slowly Converging Infinite Series …”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume lxviii, number xli
type:
quotation
text:
There is a bill to be picked up for cleaning the former Soviet countries of £1 billion. By that I mean a British billion, because when I was little I was told that a billion was a million million and then the Americans said that it was a thousand million. Well, I am talking about a million million pounds worth of clean-up to be done.
ref:
2000 November 8, Stephen Ladyman, “[Speech to the House of Commons]”, in Hansard
type:
quotation
text:
There were billions of people at the concert.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000²): 1 followed by nine zeros, 10⁹; a milliard
A million million (logic: 1,000,000²): a 1 followed by twelve zeros; 10¹²
An unspecified very large number.
senses_topics:
|
1284 | word:
quisling
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quisling (plural quislings)
forms:
form:
quislings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after Norwegian military officer Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), who ruled the Nazi collaborationist government of Norway during World War Two. From Quislinus, Latinization of Quislin, based on the Danish place name Kvislemark. This term first appeared in 1940.
The surname is seemingly supposed to mean "one who is from Kvislemark", and is equivalent to Kvisle(mark) + -ing (suffix designating a person of a certain origin or with certain qualities). However, the earlier form of the name, Quislinus/Quislin, appears to have been a fanciful coinage based upon Kvisle(mark) + Latin -inus (“suffix indicating a relationship of position, possession, or origin”), and only later on came to be reinterpreted as containing Norwegian -ing (“suffix designating a person of a certain origin or with certain qualities”). Kvislemark is composed of Danish kvissel (“cleft branch”) + mark (compare Danmark). kvissel itself is a derivative of Old Norse kvísl (“fork [as in a 'fork in the road']”), which ultimately comes (by dissimilation) from Proto-Germanic *twīsilō. Cognates include Old English twisla (“confluence, junction, fork of a river or road”) and Old High German zwisila (“forked implement, twig, branch”).
Ultimately related to English twistle, twissel, and twizzle.
senses_examples:
text:
In many countries, including some where the Jews were neither numerically strong nor in possession of important posts, these envoys of the German Secret Service have been able, solely by the use of anti-Jewish slogans, to create those "national" Fascist movements from which Quislings are bred.
ref:
1940, Walter Tschuppik, The Quislings: Hitler's Trojan Horses, Hutchinson, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
If, in the nation about to be attacked, influential persons were discovered who could be bribed or corrupted, German agents made use of these quislings.
ref:
1944, Ralph D. Casey, EM 2: What Is Propaganda?/enemy-propaganda), War Department
type:
quotation
text:
It is time to clear out the quislings and paid flunkies of city hall and big business.
ref:
1983 December 17, Tom Reeves, “The Scondras Victory”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 22, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
The man she cherishes, the man she butterfly-kisses, the man she sleeps curved around like two spoons in a drawer. It is he who is evil, he who is sworn to destroy her, an emotional quisling of the first water.
ref:
1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A traitor who collaborates with the enemy.
senses_topics:
|
1285 | word:
quisling
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quisling
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after Norwegian military officer Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), who ruled the Nazi collaborationist government of Norway during World War Two. From Quislinus, Latinization of Quislin, based on the Danish place name Kvislemark. This term first appeared in 1940.
The surname is seemingly supposed to mean "one who is from Kvislemark", and is equivalent to Kvisle(mark) + -ing (suffix designating a person of a certain origin or with certain qualities). However, the earlier form of the name, Quislinus/Quislin, appears to have been a fanciful coinage based upon Kvisle(mark) + Latin -inus (“suffix indicating a relationship of position, possession, or origin”), and only later on came to be reinterpreted as containing Norwegian -ing (“suffix designating a person of a certain origin or with certain qualities”). Kvislemark is composed of Danish kvissel (“cleft branch”) + mark (compare Danmark). kvissel itself is a derivative of Old Norse kvísl (“fork [as in a 'fork in the road']”), which ultimately comes (by dissimilation) from Proto-Germanic *twīsilō. Cognates include Old English twisla (“confluence, junction, fork of a river or road”) and Old High German zwisila (“forked implement, twig, branch”).
Ultimately related to English twistle, twissel, and twizzle.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of quisle
senses_topics:
|
1286 | word:
take part
word_type:
verb
expansion:
take part (third-person singular simple present takes part, present participle taking part, simple past took part, past participle taken part)
forms:
form:
takes part
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
taking part
tags:
participle
present
form:
took part
tags:
past
form:
taken part
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Latin participō. Compare partake.
senses_examples:
text:
He declined to take part in the meeting because he did not feel he had anything to add.
type:
example
text:
I listened to a discussion in which she took part.
type:
example
text:
They are killed, tortured, made to take part in the fighting, banished from their homes.
ref:
2000, Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović, Women, Violence and War
type:
quotation
text:
Thus the revolution is that one can speak about an access to digital culture within the right to take part in cultural life.
ref:
2016, Anna Maria Andersen Nawrot, The Utopian Human Right to Science and Culture
type:
quotation
text:
So didst thou love man, that thou wouldest take part with him of his misery, that he might take part with thee of thy blessedness.
ref:
1829, Jabez Burns, The Christian's sketch book, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
We have two famous tribal drums called Ntiri and Abia which are so stimulating that everybody used to take part when they sounded, but Ndiuka were educated not to dance it because it is native.
ref:
2007, S. A. Nnolim, The History of Umuchu, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
Importantly now, all of the parishioners were expected to participate in singing God's praise and at communion received the bread and wine at tables set out for all to take part.
ref:
2012, Alastair Hendry, The Parish Churches of Loudoun and their Clergy up to 1845, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
Yet we take part, on the whole, with the author : — and heartily wish him success in the great object of vindicating his country from unmerited aspersions, and trying to make us, in England, ashamed of the vices and defects which he has taken the trouble to point out in our national character and institutions.
ref:
1820, Charles Kitchell Gardner, The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review
type:
quotation
text:
When the Spaniards were formerly contending against France, the noble earl said he felt for them, but he then recommended a cautious and prudent line of conduct to this country, and advised us not to take part with Spain.
ref:
1824, The Parliamentary Debates - Volume 9, page 195
type:
quotation
text:
At any time, if the French or any country Powers of Malabar shall design to come against the Honourable English Company, or the said Honourable English Company shall propose going against any of the above mentioned, I oblige myself, by this writing, to act entirely on the part of the Honourable English Company, and to assist them readily with 300 men armed with my fire arms, at all times that the Chief of Tellicherry shall advise or ask me, and in no respect will I take part with them, who may be the Honourable Company's enemies.
ref:
1891, William Logan, A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Other Papers of Importance, page 61
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To participate or join.
To share or partake.
To support or ally oneself (with).
senses_topics:
|
1287 | word:
barcode
word_type:
noun
expansion:
barcode (plural barcodes)
forms:
form:
barcodes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
barcode
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any set of machine-readable parallel bars or concentric circles, varying in width, spacing, or height, encoding information according to a symbology.
A portion of a gene that identifies a particular species.
senses_topics:
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences |
1288 | word:
conjunction
word_type:
noun
expansion:
conjunction (countable and uncountable, plural conjunctions)
forms:
form:
conjunctions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French conjonction, from Latin coniūnctiō (“joining”), from coniungere (“to join”).
senses_examples:
text:
About them all there is that sort of stiff quaint unreality, that conjunction of the grotesque, and even of a certain bourgeois snugness, with passionate contortion and horror, that is so characteristic of Gothic art.
ref:
1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books
type:
quotation
text:
A comma is placed between short members of compound sentences, connected by and, but, for, nor, or, because, whereas, that expressing purpose (so that, in order that), and other conjunctions.
ref:
1881, Alfred Ayres [pseudonym; Thomas Embly Osmun], The Verbalist
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the coexistence of one such phenomenon with another; or the succession of one such phenomenon to another: their conjunction, in short, so that where the one is found, we may calculate on finding both.
ref:
1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, volume 1
type:
quotation
text:
The spectacular conjunction of Venus and Mars gave rise to a myriad of mythical interpretations.
ref:
2011, Starf*cker […], Ev Cochrane, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
Meronyms: conjunct, logical connective
text:
Coordinate term: disjunction
text:
Today there is a mountain called Ararat near the conjunction of the Turkish, Armenian, and Iranian borders.
ref:
2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 47
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related.
Cooccurrence; coincidence.
The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ ( and ) operator.
A place where multiple things meet
Sexual intercourse.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
|
1289 | word:
Finland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Finland (usually uncountable, plural Finlands)
forms:
form:
Finlands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Ultimately, from Old Norse Finnland. Compare Old English Finna land (“Lapland”, literally “land of the Sami”).
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Finland.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Nordic country having borders with Sweden, Norway and Russia in Europe. Official name: Republic of Finland.
senses_topics:
|
1290 | word:
investment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
investment (countable and uncountable, plural investments)
forms:
form:
investments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
investment
etymology_text:
From invest + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
Giving your children a good education is a wise long-term investment.
type:
example
text:
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.[…]The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
ref:
2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
the investment of the fort
ref:
1875, John Howard Hinton, History of the United States of America, from the First Settlement
type:
quotation
text:
In 1858, the Governor of Kuangsi applied for his services, but the Viceroy Tsêng Kuo-fan, under whom he had served for a number of years and who recognised his value, declined to part with him. In 1860 he assisted in the defeat of the rebel reinforcements at the Hsiao-ch‘ih post station and took part in the capture of Taihu, investment of An-ch‘ing and destruction of the rebel camp at Linghu. For his services in the capture of Anch‘ing he was rewarded with the title of Baturu and placed on the list of Brigade Generals. He was next sent to Chihchow in Anhui to make reconnaissances of the country and occupy the commanding situations.
ref:
1890 May 16 [1890 April 17], “Honours to a Deceased Military Officer.”, in The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XLIV, number 1189, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 594, column 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of investing, or state of being invested.
A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.
A vestment.
The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
A mixture of silica sand and plaster which, by surrounding a wax pattern, creates a negative mold of the form used for casting, among other metals, bronze.
senses_topics:
business
finance
government
military
politics
war
|
1291 | word:
bollocks
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bollocks pl (normally plural, singular bollock)
forms:
form:
bollock
tags:
singular
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ballokes (plural of ballok), from Old English beallucas (nominative plural of bealluc). By surface analysis, bollock + -s. Compare cullion.
senses_examples:
text:
That's a load of bollocks, mate!
type:
example
text:
All the dealers would steam into his cabin for a few sherbets after work, and to listen to his bollocks.
ref:
2014, Peter Smith, Confessions of a Dice Dealer, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
Don't mind him; he's only an oul' bollocks!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The testicles (sometimes used in the singular)
Nonsense or information deliberately intended to mislead.
An idiot, an ignorant or disagreeable person.
Ellipsis of the dog's bollocks.
senses_topics:
|
1292 | word:
bollocks
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bollocks (third-person singular simple present bollockses, present participle bollocksing, simple past and past participle bollocksed)
forms:
form:
bollockses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bollocksing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bollocksed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bollocksed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ballokes (plural of ballok), from Old English beallucas (nominative plural of bealluc). By surface analysis, bollock + -s. Compare cullion.
senses_examples:
text:
The telly's bollocksed.
type:
example
text:
I bollocksed that exam.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To break.
(also bollocks up) To fail (a task); to make a mess of.
senses_topics:
|
1293 | word:
bollocks
word_type:
intj
expansion:
bollocks
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ballokes (plural of ballok), from Old English beallucas (nominative plural of bealluc). By surface analysis, bollock + -s. Compare cullion.
senses_examples:
text:
Oh bollocks, I'm late for work!
type:
example
text:
Bollocks! That never happened!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression of anger, frustration, etc.
An expression of incredulity.
senses_topics:
|
1294 | word:
bollocks
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bollocks
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See bollock
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of bollock
senses_topics:
|
1295 | word:
abate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abate (third-person singular simple present abates, present participle abating, simple past and past participle abated)
forms:
form:
abates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abating
tags:
participle
present
form:
abated
tags:
participle
past
form:
abated
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
abate
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abaten, from Anglo-Norman abatre, from Late Latin abbattere, from Latin battere.
detailed etymology, sense derivation, and cognates
The verb is derived from Middle English abaten (“to demolish, knock down; to defeat, strike down; to strike or take down (a sail); to throw down; to bow dejectedly or submissively; to be dejected; to stop; to defeat, humiliate; to repeal (a law); to dismiss or quash (a lawsuit); to lessen, reduce; to injure, impair; to appease; to decline, grow less; to deduct, subtract; to make one’s way; attack (an enemy); (law) to enter or intrude upon (someone’s property); of a hawk: to beat or flap the wings”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman abater, abatier, abatre, abbatre, Middle French abattre, abatre, abattre, Old French abatre, abattre (“to demolish, knock down; to bring down, cut down; to lessen, reduce; to suppress; to stop; to discourage; to impoverish, ruin; to conquer; to overthrow; to kill; to remove (money) from circulation; (law) to annul”), from Late Latin abbattere (“to bring down, take down; to suppress; to debase (currency)”), from Latin ab- (prefix meaning ‘away; from; away from’) + Latin battere, from older battuere (“to beat, hit; to beat up; to fight”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to dig; to stab”)).
The noun is derived from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
[Jupiter] whiche by his goodnes as Marcianus ſaieth, abateth the malice of Saturne. Therfore the Poets faine, that he did put his father out of his kingdome, Iſidore writeth as he abateth the malice of the euill Planets, […]
ref:
1576, Gerard Legh, “Azure”, in The Accedens of Armory, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC, folios 6, verso – 7, recto
type:
quotation
text:
Abate thy rage ſweete knight,
Abate thy rage.
These lines do not appear in the version of the play published in the First Folio (1623).
ref:
1599, [William Shakespeare], The Cronicle History of Henry the Fift, […] (First Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Tho[mas] Millington, and Iohn Busby, […], published 1600, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
O, Blessed Bean! How often have I ate
Whole plates of Thee, my hunger to abate!
And thou abatedst it, Thou didst indeed,
Thou ever over-satisfying feed!
ref:
1937, J. C. Murray, “To the Lusty Legume”, in E[ugene] L[ouis] Chicanot, editor, Rhymes of the Miner: An Anthology of Canadian Mining Verse, Gardenvale, Que.: Federal Publications, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 181
type:
quotation
text:
Thou haſt dominion ouer their power, and when they be exalted & ſet aloft in their waies, thou abateſt their courage, and deſtroyeſt them with thy mighty arme.
ref:
1599, [George Flinton, compiler and transl.], “Praiers for Svnneday, Containing Laudes, Praises & Thanks-giuing, for the Benefits that God hath Bestowed vpon Vs. [A Psalme in which the Goodnesse of God is Praised.]”, in A Manvall of Praiers, Gathered Ovt of Many Famous & Good Authors, as well Auncient, as of the Time Present. […], Calicè [Calais; actually London: s.n.], →OCLC, pages 77–78
type:
quotation
text:
to abate a writ
type:
example
text:
She was ordered by the court to abate the nuisance.
type:
example
text:
To order restrictions to abate an emergency.
type:
example
text:
He is honoured amonge theym that be honoured, that fortune abateth without faute: and he is shamed amonge theym that be shamed, that fortune inhanceth without merite.
ref:
1534, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, The golden boke of Marcus Aurelius, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
Rules and axioms for preserving of a Kingdom.[…]If any great person to be abated, not to deal with him by calumniation or forged matter[…]
ref:
1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, “Maxims of State”, in Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh, published 1669, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
We will abate this price from the total.
type:
example
text:
But O Saint! be not thou an Epicure! If delight draw thy heart, thou loſeſt ſo much in delectation, as Religion; and abateſt thy Soul ſo much of Solace, as God of Service!
ref:
1659, Philo-Christianus [pseudonym; William Brough], “A Service of the Pleasures of Piety, for Sunday or Other Day. [A Meditation of the Pleasures of Piety.]”, in Sacred Principles, Services and Soliloquies: Or, A Manual of Devotions Made Up of Three Parts: […], 4th edition, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond] for John Clark, […], →OCLC, page 260
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Plini writeth, that the crueltie of the Ramme abateth, if he bee perced in the horne neare vnto the eare. For the chiefeſt parte of his ſtrength, is in his hedd, where he is well armed to fighte.
ref:
1576, Gerard Legh, The Accedens of Armory, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC, folio 53, verso
type:
quotation
text:
CODS, or Stones swelled; a malady in horſes that comes in many ways, […] For the cure, take bole armoniac reduced to a fine powder, vinegar and whites of eggs well beaten together, and anoint the part with it daily, till the ſwelling abates: […]
ref:
1785, “CODS”, in The Sportsman’s Dictionary; or, The Gentleman’s Companion: For Town and Country. […], 3rd edition, London: […] G. G[eorge] J[ohn] and J[ames] Robinson, […], →OCLC, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Counselors who support young job seekers have noticed their optimism abating. Rebecca Cassidy, who works at Georgetown University’s career center, was surprised by the relaxed attitude that students seemed to adopt toward their job searches last year.
ref:
2022 October 7, Emma Goldberg, “The Job Market Has Been Like Musical Chairs. Will the Music Stop?”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Bequests and legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
type:
example
text:
The writ has abated.
type:
example
text:
But where the Writ abateth for default of the Clerk, as where it abateth for falſe Latin, or variance, or want of form, there the defendant ſhall have the benefit of a new Writ by Journeys Accompts, becauſe it was the fault of the Clerk of the Chancery, and not the fault of the defendant himſelf, […]
ref:
1680, Edward Coke, “Where a Writ shall be Brought by Journeys Accompts. Hill. 45 Eliz. Rot. 36. in the Common Pleas. Spencer’s Case.”, in The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Kt. […], 2nd edition, London: […] H. Twyford, […], →OCLC, part VI, page 375
type:
quotation
text:
If a Writ of Error abates or diſcontinues by the Act and Default of the Party, a ſecond Writ of Error ſhall be no Superſedeas; otherwiſe if it abates or diſcontinues by the Act of God or the Law.
ref:
1778, Matthew Bacon [i.e., Mathew Bacon], “Error”, in A New Abridgement of the Law. […], 4th edition, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan and M. Woodfall, […]; for C. Bathurst, […], →OCLC, section G (Of the Proceedings after the Record Removed, and herein of the Abatement of the Writ of Error), page 209
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
To reduce (something) in amount or size.
To reduce (something) in amount or size.
To cut away or hammer down (material from metalwork, a sculpture, etc.) in such a way as to leave a figure in relief.
To lower (something) in price or value.
To demolish or level to the ground (a building or other structure).
To give no consideration to (something); to treat as an exception.
To dull (an edge, point, etc.); to blunt.
To make (a writ or other legal document) void; to nullify.
To put an end to (a nuisance).
To dismiss or otherwise bring to an end (legal proceedings) before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
To curtail or end (something); to cause to cease.
To give (someone) a discount or rebate; also, to relieve (someone) of a debt.
To bring down (someone) mentally or physically; to lower (someone) in status.
Chiefly followed by from, of, etc.: to omit or remove (a part from a whole); to deduct, to subtract.
Chiefly followed by of: to deprive (someone or something of another thing).
To decrease in force or intensity; to subside.
To decrease in amount or size.
To lower in price or value; (law) specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
Of an edge, point, etc.: to become blunt or dull.
Of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void; to cease to have effect.
Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
To give a discount or rebate; to discount, to rebate.
To bow down; hence, to be abased or humbled.
Chiefly followed by of: to deduct or subtract from.
senses_topics:
law
law
law
law
law
|
1296 | word:
abate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abate (countable and uncountable, plural abates)
forms:
form:
abates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abaten, from Anglo-Norman abatre, from Late Latin abbattere, from Latin battere.
detailed etymology, sense derivation, and cognates
The verb is derived from Middle English abaten (“to demolish, knock down; to defeat, strike down; to strike or take down (a sail); to throw down; to bow dejectedly or submissively; to be dejected; to stop; to defeat, humiliate; to repeal (a law); to dismiss or quash (a lawsuit); to lessen, reduce; to injure, impair; to appease; to decline, grow less; to deduct, subtract; to make one’s way; attack (an enemy); (law) to enter or intrude upon (someone’s property); of a hawk: to beat or flap the wings”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman abater, abatier, abatre, abbatre, Middle French abattre, abatre, abattre, Old French abatre, abattre (“to demolish, knock down; to bring down, cut down; to lessen, reduce; to suppress; to stop; to discourage; to impoverish, ruin; to conquer; to overthrow; to kill; to remove (money) from circulation; (law) to annul”), from Late Latin abbattere (“to bring down, take down; to suppress; to debase (currency)”), from Latin ab- (prefix meaning ‘away; from; away from’) + Latin battere, from older battuere (“to beat, hit; to beat up; to fight”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to dig; to stab”)).
The noun is derived from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
[Letter to Algernon Sidney dated 13 October 1681 (Julian calendar).] There are many things make a man's life uneasy in the world, which are great abates to the pleasure of living, but scarcely one equal to that of the unkindness or injustice of friends.
ref:
1681 October 23, William Penn, chapter XIV, in Samuel M[acpherson] Janney, The Life of William Penn: With Selections from His Correspondence and Autobiography, 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., published 1852, →OCLC, page 192
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abatement; reduction; (countable) an instance of this.
Deduction; subtraction; (countable) an instance of this.
senses_topics:
|
1297 | word:
abate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abate (third-person singular simple present abates, present participle abating, simple past and past participle abated)
forms:
form:
abates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abating
tags:
participle
present
form:
abated
tags:
participle
past
form:
abated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman abatre, probably an alteration of Anglo-Norman and Middle French embatre, enbatre (“to drive or rush into; to enter into a tenement without permission”) (compare Late Latin abatare), from Middle French, Old French em-, en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + Middle French, Old French batre (“to beat, hit, strike”) (from Latin battere, battuere, the present active infinitive of battuō (“to beat, hit; to beat up; to fight”); see further at etymology 1). The English word was probably also influenced by the verb abate.
senses_examples:
text:
So, if Lands be given to Father and Son, and to the heirs of their two bodies begotten, the remainder over in fee, and afterwards the Father dieth without any Iſſue but the Son, and afterwards the Son dieth without Iſſue, and a Stranger abateth, he in the remainder ſhall have one Formedon in the remainder, although the Eſtate tails were ſeveral, […]
ref:
1680, Edward Coke, “Mich. 7 Jacobi. In the Common Pleas. Buckmere’s Case.”, in The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Kt. […], 2nd edition, London: […] H. Twyford, […], →OCLC, part VI, pages 570–571
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To enter upon and unlawfully seize (land) after the owner has died, thus preventing an heir from taking possession of it.
senses_topics:
law |
1298 | word:
abate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abate (plural abates)
forms:
form:
abates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian abate (“abbot”), from Latin abbātem, the accusative singular of abbās (“abbot”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbâs), a variant of ἀββᾱ (abbā, “father; title of respect for an abbot”), from Aramaic אַבָּא (’abbā, “father; ancestor; teacher; chief, leader; author, originator”), from Proto-Semitic *ʔabw- (“father”), ultimately imitative of a child’s word for “father”. The English word is a doublet of abbot.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Italian abbot or other member of the clergy.
senses_topics:
|
1299 | word:
inflation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
inflation (countable and uncountable, plural inflations)
forms:
form:
inflations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
inflation
etymology_text:
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French inflation (“swelling”), from Latin īnflātiō (“expansion", "blowing up”), from īnflātus, the perfect passive participle of īnflō (“blow into, expand”), from in (“into”) + flō (“blow”). By surface analysis, inflate + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
type:
example
text:
Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
A decline in the value of money.
Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
economics
sciences
economics
sciences
astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences |
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