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12000 | word:
blade of grass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blade of grass (plural blades of grass)
forms:
form:
blades of grass
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"By the time I had walked much of the route of the Dartmoor Line with Christian, Matt and other Devon council staff, we knew what we wanted to achieve and the date we wanted to reopen the railway. There was not a blade of grass between us," says Davis.
ref:
2022 April 6, Anthony Lambert, “Industry is getting with the programme”, in RAIL, number 954, page 49
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A single long, narrow leaf of a plant described by the mass noun grass.
A very small amount of something.
senses_topics:
|
12001 | word:
Orne
word_type:
name
expansion:
Orne (countable and uncountable, plural Ornes)
forms:
form:
Ornes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Orne
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French Orne.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A department of Normandy, France.
A river in France.
A surname from French.
senses_topics:
|
12002 | word:
generatrix
word_type:
noun
expansion:
generatrix (plural generatrices or generatrixes)
forms:
form:
generatrices
tags:
plural
form:
generatrixes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin generātrīx.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A curve that, when rotated about an axis, produces a solid figure.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
12003 | word:
Floridian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Floridian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Florida + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, or pertaining to, Florida or its culture.
senses_topics:
|
12004 | word:
Floridian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Floridian (plural Floridians)
forms:
form:
Floridians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Florida + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or resident of the state of Florida in the United States of America.
senses_topics:
|
12005 | word:
Th
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Th
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Thursday.
senses_topics:
|
12006 | word:
Th
word_type:
name
expansion:
Th
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Thessalonians.
senses_topics:
|
12007 | word:
-sson
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-sson
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of -son
senses_topics:
|
12008 | word:
Angelopoulou
word_type:
name
expansion:
Angelopoulou
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Greek Αγγελόπουλου (Angelópoulou).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transliteration of the Greek surname Αγγελόπουλου (Angelópoulou).
senses_topics:
|
12009 | word:
Virginian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Virginian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Virginia + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
His polite demeanor instantly gave him away as being a Virginian and not a Marylander.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, or pertaining to, Virginia or its culture.
senses_topics:
|
12010 | word:
Virginian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Virginian (plural Virginians)
forms:
form:
Virginians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Virginia + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
She was a Virginian of South American descent and had lived in Richmond for most of her life.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or resident of the state of Virginia in the United States of America.
senses_topics:
|
12011 | word:
bach
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bach (plural baches)
forms:
form:
baches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
The New York Times
The New York Times Company
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of bachelor pad.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A holiday home, usually small and near the beach, often with only one or two rooms and of simple construction.
senses_topics:
|
12012 | word:
bach
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bach (third-person singular simple present baches, present participle baching, simple past and past participle bached)
forms:
form:
baches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
baching
tags:
participle
present
form:
bached
tags:
participle
past
form:
bached
tags:
past
wikipedia:
The New York Times
The New York Times Company
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of bachelor pad.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To live apart from women, as during the period when a divorce is in progress.
senses_topics:
|
12013 | word:
bach
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bach (plural baches)
forms:
form:
baches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
When I ask people how spending money makes them feel, so many of them respond, "Guilty." ¶ They'll give an example of how a rough day at the office led to buying a pair of shoes online or how they got a little carried away at their friend's bach party in Vegas.
ref:
2018 April 30, Dani Pascarella, “Why You Feel Guilty When You Spend Money And How To Stop”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-24
type:
quotation
text:
Bachelorette party captions for Instagram […] Babes, baches, bikinis, and boats.
ref:
2020 August 14, Pippa Raga, “50 of the Best IG Captions for Your Bestie's Bachelorette or Hen Party”, in Distractify, archived from the original on 2023-02-02
type:
quotation
text:
While everyone else is flocking down South for a bach bash, you'll be singing "Oh, Canada," as you spend a weekend immersed in the city's uniquely hip take on old-world European culture.
ref:
2021 November 12, Erin Celletti, “Montreal Bachelorette Party Guide and Itinerary Ideas”, in Brides, archived from the original on 2023-05-31
type:
quotation
text:
There are literally thousands of places you could go during a bach weekend in NYC, but take a tip from this New Yorker: Head to Beauty Bar as at least one of your bar-hopping spots.
ref:
2023 May 19, Samantha Grindell, Hannah Chubb, “Only the 21 Best Bachelorette Party Destinations for You and Your "I Do" Crew, Bb”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-19
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of bachelorette.
senses_topics:
|
12014 | word:
augmentation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
augmentation (countable and uncountable, plural augmentations)
forms:
form:
augmentations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English augmentation, augmentacion, augmentacioun, from Old French augmentacion, from Latin augmentātiō, verbal noun from augmentō (“increase”, verb).
senses_examples:
text:
A small tablet is fixt near the Altar, upon wᶜʰ the friends of yᵉ defunct lay their offerings in mony according to their own ability and the quality of the person deceased. This custom proves a very happy augmentation to some of the very poor vicars, and is often the best part of their maintenance.
ref:
1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or process of augmenting.
An addition or extra, something that is added to something else.
A particular mark of honour, granted by the sovereign in consideration of some noble action, or by favour; and either quartered with the family arms, or on an escutcheon or canton.
A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.
The stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue.
A compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by lengthening its note values.
An increase of stipend obtained by a parish minister by an action raised in the Court of Teinds against the titular and heritors.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
12015 | word:
New Mexican
word_type:
adj
expansion:
New Mexican (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Mexico + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, or pertaining to, New Mexico or its culture.
senses_topics:
|
12016 | word:
New Mexican
word_type:
noun
expansion:
New Mexican (plural New Mexicans)
forms:
form:
New Mexicans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Mexico + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or resident of the state of New Mexico in the United States of America.
senses_topics:
|
12017 | word:
Angelopoulos
word_type:
name
expansion:
Angelopoulos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Greek Αγγελόπουλος (Angelópoulos).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transliteration of the Greek surname Αγγελόπουλος (Angelópoulos).
senses_topics:
|
12018 | word:
eponym
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eponym (plural eponyms)
forms:
form:
eponyms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Alois Alzheimer
Charles Boycott
Christopher Columbus
Earl of Sandwich
Victoria
eponym
etymology_text:
From Latin eponymus, from Ancient Greek ἐπώνῠμος (epṓnumos), from ἐπί (epí, “upon, epi-”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”) + -ος (-os, “forming adjectives and nouns”). Equivalent to epi- + -nym.
senses_examples:
text:
The Greeks and Romans tended to credit nearly every location and ethnicity to a legendary eponym, Hellas to Hellen, Rome to Romulus, Egypt to Aegyptus, etc.
type:
example
text:
Similar to the Greek eponymous archons and Roman consuls, the names of the annually appointed Assyrian limus were used for their years in office and they are accordingly also known as eponyms.
type:
example
text:
Rockefeller became the very eponym of wealth.
type:
example
text:
It was only posthumously that Julian was distinguished with the eponym "Apostate".
type:
example
text:
Alexandria is an eponym, taken from its founder Alexander the Great.
type:
example
text:
[Mesmer] lives on today as the root of the eponym mesmerize.
ref:
2004, Bill Sherk, 500 Years of New Words
type:
quotation
text:
For their dubious contribution to literature, Doctor Bowdler and Henrietta were recognized with the eponym bowdlerize[.]
ref:
2015, Robert B. Taylor, What Every Medical Writer Needs to Know
type:
quotation
text:
An eponym was once considered medicine’s highest honor. Like monuments to great generals, they paid tribute to medicine’s most brilliant minds, ensuring their names would live on in perpetuity.
ref:
2023 June 19, Rachel E. Gross, “Should Medicine Still Bother With Eponyms?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
"Tangerine" is an eponym in reference to Tangier... The unflattering eponym "shanghai" derived from the behavior of American shippers, not the Chinese themselves...
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who gave or supposedly gave their name to a people, place, institution, etc.
A noun for something named after a person.
Synonym of epitome, a person taken as a symbol or quintessential representative of some trait, school, etc.
Synonym of epithet, a distinguishing title.
A name taken from a person, a namesake toponym, term, etc.
A name or term derived from any proper noun, inclusive of places, brands, etc.
senses_topics:
|
12019 | word:
Bonnie
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bonnie
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Originally an American nickname from Scottish bonnie (“fine, beautiful”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female given name from English.
senses_topics:
|
12020 | word:
Achaean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Achaean (plural Achaeans)
forms:
form:
Achaeans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin Achaeus or Achaius, from Ancient Greek Ἀχαιός (Akhaiós), + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or resident of Achaea, especially a member of an ancient Hellenic tribe that inhabited the region of Achaea.
In Homeric usage, a Greek person, especially of the Mycenaean era.
senses_topics:
|
12021 | word:
Achaean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Achaean (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin Achaeus or Achaius, from Ancient Greek Ἀχαιός (Akhaiós), + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Achaea or the Achaeans.
In Homeric usage, of or relating to Greece, especially of the Mycenaean era.
senses_topics:
|
12022 | word:
crosswalk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crosswalk (plural crosswalks)
forms:
form:
crosswalks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
crosswalk
etymology_text:
From cross + walk.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A point designated for pedestrians to cross a street.
A mapping between equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.
senses_topics:
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12023 | word:
crosswalk
word_type:
verb
expansion:
crosswalk (third-person singular simple present crosswalks, present participle crosswalking, simple past and past participle crosswalked)
forms:
form:
crosswalks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
crosswalking
tags:
participle
present
form:
crosswalked
tags:
participle
past
form:
crosswalked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From cross + walk.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To map equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.
senses_topics:
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12024 | word:
slope field
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slope field (plural slope fields)
forms:
form:
slope fields
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A field of plotted slopes of a differentiable function.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
12025 | word:
verifiable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
verifiable (comparative more verifiable, superlative most verifiable)
forms:
form:
more verifiable
tags:
comparative
form:
most verifiable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From verify + -able.
senses_examples:
text:
Do you have verifiable evidence to support that claim?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Able to be verified or confirmed.
Able to be qualified by a Boolean expression.
senses_topics:
|
12026 | word:
verifiable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
verifiable (plural verifiables)
forms:
form:
verifiables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From verify + -able.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A statement or observation that can be verified.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences |
12027 | word:
accomodator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accomodator
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of accommodator.
senses_topics:
|
12028 | word:
mech.
word_type:
adj
expansion:
mech. (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of mechanical.
Abbreviation of mechanized.
senses_topics:
|
12029 | word:
mech.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mech. (plural mechs.)
forms:
form:
mechs.
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of mechanic.
Abbreviation of mechanics.
senses_topics:
|
12030 | word:
rho
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rho (plural rhos)
forms:
form:
rhos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the name of the Ancient Greek letter ῥῶ (rhô).
senses_examples:
text:
Greek was an exercise in making the familiar strange. Its alphabet mapped onto the Roman alphabet, but only partly so, and often letters did not sound how they looked – a rho (Ρ) was not a P, and an eta (Η) was not an H.
ref:
2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 25
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
The sensitivity of the option value to the risk-free interest rate.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
12031 | word:
ac
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ac (plural acs)
forms:
form:
acs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
account; money of account
alicyclic
Abbreviation of acre.
Alternative letter-case form of AC (“air conditioning”)
Alternative letter-case form of AC (“alternating current”)
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
12032 | word:
ac
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ac (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
ante cibum, before meals
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
12033 | word:
igneous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
igneous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin igneus (“fiery”).
senses_examples:
text:
The stone had an igneous appearance.
type:
example
text:
Granite and basalt are igneous rocks.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to or having the nature of fire; containing fire; resembling fire.
Resulting from, or produced by, great heat. With rocks, it could also mean formed from lava or magma.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
12034 | word:
accompletive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accompletive (comparative more accompletive, superlative most accompletive)
forms:
form:
more accompletive
tags:
comparative
form:
most accompletive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin accompletivus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tending to accomplish.
senses_topics:
|
12035 | word:
accompanable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accompanable (comparative more accompanable, superlative most accompanable)
forms:
form:
more accompanable
tags:
comparative
form:
most accompanable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accompany + -able.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
sociable
senses_topics:
|
12036 | word:
accompanier
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accompanier (plural accompaniers)
forms:
form:
accompaniers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accompany + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone or something that accompanies.
senses_topics:
|
12037 | word:
steam engine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
steam engine (plural steam engines)
forms:
form:
steam engines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A piston engine driven by steam (as contrasted, for example, with a steam turbine).
Any heat engine that uses steam as its primary working fluid to do mechanical work.
A steam locomotive.
senses_topics:
|
12038 | word:
laurone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laurone
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From lauric + -one.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ketone of lauric acid.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
12039 | word:
info
word_type:
noun
expansion:
info (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of information.
senses_examples:
text:
I need all the info about the case by 6, sharpish.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
information.
senses_topics:
|
12040 | word:
accompliceship
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accompliceship (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accomplice + -ship.
senses_examples:
text:
How say'st thou that he lied? Sirs, it is true
I with this craven beggarly companion —
Of whose accompliceship to do the deed,
And not the deed itself, I speak with shame —
I with this caitiff truly did conspire,
For good and ample reasons, to remove
Sir Walter D'Arlon from this troublesome world.
ref:
1863, Sir Henry Taylor, Philip van Artevelde
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being an accomplice.
senses_topics:
|
12041 | word:
ejector
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ejector (plural ejectors)
forms:
form:
ejectors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From eject + -or.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.
ejector seat: a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute.
That part of the mechanism of a breech-loading firearm which ejects the empty shell.
A lever for removing circuit boards from an electronic chassis.
senses_topics:
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
12042 | word:
accomplicity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accomplicity (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accomplice + -ity.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or state of being an accomplice.
senses_topics:
|
12043 | word:
laurinol
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laurinol (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From laurin + -ol; so called in allusion to the family name Lauraceae of the camphor trees.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ordinary camphor.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
12044 | word:
laurite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laurite (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
After Laura R. Joy, wife of American chemist C. A. Joy. Named in 1866.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rare sulphide of osmium and ruthenium found with platinum in Borneo and Oregon, with the chemical formula RuS₂.
senses_topics:
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
12045 | word:
laurustine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laurustine
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of laurestine
senses_topics:
|
12046 | word:
kerosine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kerosine (countable and uncountable, plural kerosines)
forms:
form:
kerosines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of kerosene
senses_topics:
|
12047 | word:
laurin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laurin
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare French laurine.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A white crystalline substance extracted from the fruit of the bay (Laurus nobilis), and consisting of a complex mixture of glycerin ethers of several organic acids.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
12048 | word:
razor blade
word_type:
noun
expansion:
razor blade (plural razor blades)
forms:
form:
razor blades
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thin piece of steel with a sharp edge that can be fitted into a razor.
A replaceable cartridge in which razor blades are set, fitted into a razor.
senses_topics:
|
12049 | word:
laurestina
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laurestina (plural laurestinas)
forms:
form:
laurestinas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of laurestine
senses_topics:
|
12050 | word:
lauric
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lauric (comparative more lauric, superlative most lauric)
forms:
form:
more lauric
tags:
comparative
form:
most lauric
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin laurus (“laurel”) + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to, or derived from, the European bay or laurel (Laurus nobilis)
senses_topics:
|
12051 | word:
biofuel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
biofuel (plural biofuels)
forms:
form:
biofuels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From bio- + fuel.
senses_examples:
text:
Even second-generation biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and nutrients in the ground.
ref:
2012 August 24, George Monbiot, Guardian Weekly, page 20
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any fuel that is obtained from a renewable biological resource, especially from biomass.
senses_topics:
|
12052 | word:
laureation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laureation (plural laureations)
forms:
form:
laureations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare French lauréation
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.
senses_topics:
|
12053 | word:
laureateship
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laureateship (usually uncountable, plural laureateships)
forms:
form:
laureateships
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From laureate + -ship.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state, or office, of a laureate.
senses_topics:
|
12054 | word:
laurate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laurate (usually uncountable, plural laurates)
forms:
form:
laurates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From lauric + -ate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any salt or ester of lauric acid
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
12055 | word:
MM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MM (plural MMs)
forms:
form:
MMs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I have 5 rolls of Conn. and 2 rolls of Md Quarters, unc. and in tubes. Both states are Philadelphia and I would like to trade for Denver coins. I would like to trade both states even up, but would consider other states with a Denver MM. If you have any to trade please email me.
ref:
2001 August 24, Don, “WTT Conn. and MD Quarters”, in rec.collecting.coins (Usenet), retrieved 2023-01-04
type:
quotation
text:
2001 PROOF west point MM
ref:
2004 May 20, Tom, “5/20 update*TRADE ONLY* 3,000 to 4,000 coins CIRCULATED COINS to trade for CIRCULATED coins”, in rec.collecting.coins (Usenet), retrieved 2023-01-04
type:
quotation
text:
I know. We should include whatever pleases us. But I cringe at the thought of having to budget for a nice BU 1917 WL with the obverse MM if most type set collectors don't consider it a variety to include.
ref:
2009 September 1, Bruce Remick, “WL 50¢ 1917 obverse MM in Type Set?”, in rec.collecting.coins (Usenet), retrieved 2023-01-03
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: MC
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Master of Music.
Initialism of Master of Management.
Initialism of Master Mason.
Initialism of maritime mobile.
Initialism of middle marker.
Initialism of mile marker.
Initialism of man-month.
Initialism of mounted mint.
Abbreviation of million.
Initialism of market maker.
Initialism of mathematical morphology.
Initialism of mintmark.
Initialism of moving magnet, a type of phono cartridge.
senses_topics:
education
education
Freemasonry
freemasonry
lifestyle
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
philately
business
finance
business
finance
mathematics
sciences
audio
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
12056 | word:
MM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MM
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of M (“Monsieur”)
senses_topics:
|
12057 | word:
MM
word_type:
name
expansion:
MM
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The station code of Mahim Junction railway station in India.
Initialism of Majora's Mask.
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport
video-games |
12058 | word:
MM
word_type:
num
expansion:
MM
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Two thousand (2000) in Roman numerals.
senses_topics:
|
12059 | word:
lauriferous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lauriferous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin laurifer; laurus (“laurel”) + ferō (“to bear”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Producing, or bringing, laurel
senses_topics:
|
12060 | word:
launcegaye
word_type:
noun
expansion:
launcegaye (plural launcegayes)
forms:
form:
launcegayes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of lancegay.
senses_topics:
|
12061 | word:
neurotic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
neurotic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Formed of neuro- (“of nerves or the nervous system”) + -otic (“having abnormal condition”). The initial element, in turn, is from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”). Attested from the 17th century. Compare French névrotique.
senses_examples:
text:
He is getting neurotic about time-keeping.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Affected with a neurosis.
Overly anxious.
Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
12062 | word:
neurotic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
neurotic (plural neurotics)
forms:
form:
neurotics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Formed of neuro- (“of nerves or the nervous system”) + -otic (“having abnormal condition”). The initial element, in turn, is from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”). Attested from the 17th century. Compare French névrotique.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who has a neurosis
senses_topics:
|
12063 | word:
accommodableness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accommodableness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accommodable + -ness.
senses_examples:
text:
a poor Idiot, […][who]had so little of this Accommodableness, as to be quite outrageous
ref:
1773, Catherine Talbot, Essays on Various Subjects in Prose and Verse
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality or condition of being accommodable
senses_topics:
|
12064 | word:
lauraceous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lauraceous (comparative more lauraceous, superlative most lauraceous)
forms:
form:
more lauraceous
tags:
comparative
form:
most lauraceous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Lauraceae, from Latin laurus (“laurel”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to, or resembling, a natural order (Lauraceae) of trees and shrubs having aromatic bark and foliage, and including laurel, sassafras, cinnamon, true camphor, etc.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
12065 | word:
democrat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
democrat (plural democrats)
forms:
form:
democrats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
democrat
etymology_text:
From French démocrate, from démocratie (modelled on aristocrate (“aristocrat”)), equivalent to demo- + -crat.
senses_examples:
text:
The democrats now have majority control in almost all areas except the Islands District Council, where they won seven seats, and the pro-Beijing camp obtained 11 seats.
ref:
2019 November 25, Kris Cheng, “Hong Kong District Council election: Democrats take control of 17 out of 18 councils in landslide victory”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2020-07-31
type:
quotation
text:
Democrats have to please a large segment of the voting public and will be punished if they fail to provide public goods […] . In the case of autocrats, however, they have to please a small minority of the governing power elite […] who will punish them if they fail to dedicate the public purse to their private enrichment.
ref:
2011, Wesley Yang, "Death, Dictators, and Democracy", NYU Alumni Magazine, ISSN 1938-4823, issue 16, Spring 2011, page 10
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A supporter of democracy; an advocate of democratic politics (originally (historical) as opposed to the aristocrats in Revolutionary France).
Someone who rules a representative democracy.
A large light uncovered wagon with two or more seats.
senses_topics:
|
12066 | word:
laurestine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laurestine (plural laurestines)
forms:
form:
laurestines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin laurustinus, Latin laurus (“laurel”) + tinus (“Viburnum tinus”). See laurel.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Viburnum tinus, an evergreen shrub or tree of the south of Europe, which flowers during the winter months.
senses_topics:
|
12067 | word:
laumonite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laumonite (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of laumontite
senses_topics:
|
12068 | word:
co-operative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
co-operative (comparative more co-operative, superlative most co-operative)
forms:
form:
more co-operative
tags:
comparative
form:
most co-operative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The "Liberation" Locomotive. Reprinted from The Railway Gazette, June 28, 1946. […] This detailed description of the 2-8-0 locomotives built by the Vulcan Foundry Limited for service in the war-ravaged countries of Europe is a record of one of the most remarkable examples of determined co-operative effort in the field of locomotive construction.
ref:
1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
At Futsing, in 1915, a school for boys was established which, because of its co-operative basis, was unique.
ref:
1948, Walter N. Lacy, A Hundred Years of China Methodism, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, →OCLC, page 159
type:
quotation
text:
The solution to coach riding defects, at least, seems to require much more co-operative practical experiment by all engineering departments to achieve better sympathy between the vehicle body, its undercarriage and the track on which it rides.
ref:
1960 December, “The riding of B.R. coaches”, in Trains Illustrated, page 706
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of cooperative
senses_topics:
|
12069 | word:
co-operative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
co-operative (plural co-operatives)
forms:
form:
co-operatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
In Tz’u-hsi county of Chekiang Province 19.9 per cent of 640 co-operatives were reported to have committed serious waste.
ref:
1965 [1959], C. K. Yang, “Organizational Problems of the Agricultural Producers' Co-operatives”, in A Chinese Village in Early Communist Transition, The M.I.T. Press, →OCLC, page 242
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of cooperative
senses_topics:
|
12070 | word:
lavaret
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lavaret (countable and uncountable, plural lavarets)
forms:
form:
lavarets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French lavaret, from Late Latin levaricinus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A European whitefish Coregonus lavaretus, found in the mountain lakes of Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland, and in the archipelago in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
12071 | word:
laumontite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laumontite (usually uncountable, plural laumontites)
forms:
form:
laumontites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after the discoverer François Pierre Nicholas Gillet de Laumont (1747–1834) as lomonite, renamed as laumonite in 1809 and as laumontite in 1821. + -ite
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mineral, of a white color and vitreous luster, with the chemical formula CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Exposed to the air, it loses water, becomes opaque, and crumbles.
senses_topics:
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
12072 | word:
laughsome
word_type:
adj
expansion:
laughsome (comparative more laughsome, superlative most laughsome)
forms:
form:
more laughsome
tags:
comparative
form:
most laughsome
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From laugh + -some.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Marked by or arousing laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry
senses_topics:
|
12073 | word:
Tasmanian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Tasmanian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Tasmania + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Tasmania.
senses_topics:
|
12074 | word:
Tasmanian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Tasmanian (plural Tasmanians)
forms:
form:
Tasmanians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Tasmania + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
The engineer of the line, a young Tasmanian named Sharland, decided the best course would be to take the new railway along a chain of four deep valleys. [...].
ref:
1939 July, John D. Hewitt, “Some Notable British Main Lines: 1. Settle and Carlisle, L.M.S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or a resident of the state of Tasmania.
senses_topics:
|
12075 | word:
laureled
word_type:
verb
expansion:
laureled
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From laurel + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of laurel
senses_topics:
|
12076 | word:
laureled
word_type:
adj
expansion:
laureled (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From laurel + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
Where the widow wails, in her nameless woe, And the soldiers pace, with the sword and gun, Where the comrade sleeps, with the laureled brow.
ref:
1993, James Whitcomb Riley, The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley, page 396
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of laurelled
senses_topics:
|
12077 | word:
laughterless
word_type:
adj
expansion:
laughterless
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From laughter + -less.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not laughing; without laughter.
senses_topics:
|
12078 | word:
laughingstock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laughingstock (plural laughingstocks)
forms:
form:
laughingstocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From laughing + stock.
senses_examples:
text:
Nothing had worked the way sheʼd wanted, and now she was the laughingstock of the family.
ref:
2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, pages 295–296
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of laughing stock.
senses_topics:
|
12079 | word:
laughingly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
laughingly (comparative more laughingly, superlative most laughingly)
forms:
form:
more laughingly
tags:
comparative
form:
most laughingly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English laughynglie, leiȝingly, equivalent to laughing + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
With laughter or merriment.
With derision.
senses_topics:
|
12080 | word:
arthropod
word_type:
noun
expansion:
arthropod (plural arthropods or arthropodae)
forms:
form:
arthropods
tags:
plural
form:
arthropodae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin Arthropoda, from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron, “joint”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An invertebrate animal of the phylum Arthropoda, characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and multiple jointed appendages.
senses_topics:
|
12081 | word:
Rhine
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Rhine
forms:
form:
the Rhine
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Rine, Ryne, from Old English Rīn (“the Rhine”), from Middle High German and Old High German Rīn, from Proto-West Germanic *Rīn, from Proto-Germanic *Rīnaz, from Gaulish Rēnos, from a Pre-Celtic or Proto-Celtic *rēnos; one of a class of river names built from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to move, flow, run”).
Cognate with Old High German Rīn ("the Rhine"; > German Rhein), Old Norse Rín (“the Rhine”), Dutch Rijn (“the Rhine”). Related also to Latin rivus ("river"), in Celtic with an -n- suffix as in Old Irish rīan (“run”) (more at run).
The spelling with Rh- is due to the influence of Ancient Greek Ῥῆνος (Rhênos) (via French Rhin).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A river in western Europe, that flows through Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Germany, France and the Netherlands, before emptying into the North Sea.
senses_topics:
|
12082 | word:
laurelled
word_type:
verb
expansion:
laurelled
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From laurel + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of laurel
senses_topics:
|
12083 | word:
laurelled
word_type:
adj
expansion:
laurelled
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From laurel + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
The laurelled head of Macrious, with the usual peculiarities, and the lorica strapped over his shoulders.
ref:
1834, William Henry Smyth, Descriptive catalogue of a cabinet of Roman imperial large-brass medals
type:
quotation
text:
A heavily laurelled Irish bard – no, not the one you're thinking of: another one, with less talent – was reading a purportedly humorous poem to the usual sporadic titters, and I heard a recognizable Scots voice in the crowd near me growl, 'I don't think that's funny. Why does anyone think that's funny. I don't think that's funny.'
ref:
2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs
type:
quotation
text:
Her most laurelled novels, which make up The Wonderland Quartet, include the National Book Award–winning Them, and charts the decline of working-class America in the 1960s.
ref:
2012, John Freeman, How to Read a Novelist, page 209
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.
Highly honored
senses_topics:
|
12084 | word:
cognition
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cognition (countable and uncountable, plural cognitions)
forms:
form:
cognitions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cognition
etymology_text:
From Middle English cognicion, from Latin cognitio (“knowledge, perception, a judicial examination, trial”), from cognitus, past participle of cognoscere (“to know”), from co- (“together”) + *gnoscere, older form of noscere (“to know”); see know, and compare cognize, cognizance, cognizor, cognosce, connoisseur.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.
A result of a cognitive process.
senses_topics:
|
12085 | word:
launderer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
launderer (plural launderers)
forms:
form:
launderers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From launder + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
[...] the Westminster City Council has arranged with a large firm of launderers to wash blankets, sheets, pillow cases, and counterpanes, at low standard prices, and to return them the same day.
ref:
1941 September, Charles E. Lee, “Sheltering in London Tube Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 389
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who engages in the business of laundering.
senses_topics:
|
12086 | word:
hallo
word_type:
intj
expansion:
hallo
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English halou, halow, halloo (interjection used to call attention), representing Old English hēlā, ǣlā, ēalā (“O!, alas!, oh!, lo!”), equivalent to hey + lo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of hello
A cry of surprise.
senses_topics:
|
12087 | word:
hallo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hallo (plural hallos or halloes)
forms:
form:
hallos
tags:
plural
form:
halloes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English halou, halow, halloo (interjection used to call attention), representing Old English hēlā, ǣlā, ēalā (“O!, alas!, oh!, lo!”), equivalent to hey + lo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cry "hallo!"
A shout of exultation.
senses_topics:
|
12088 | word:
hallo
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hallo (third-person singular simple present hallos or halloes, present participle halloing, simple past and past participle halloed)
forms:
form:
hallos
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
halloes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
halloing
tags:
participle
present
form:
halloed
tags:
participle
past
form:
halloed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
hallo
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English halou, halow, halloo (interjection used to call attention), representing Old English hēlā, ǣlā, ēalā (“O!, alas!, oh!, lo!”), equivalent to hey + lo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To shout, or to call with a loud voice.
To chase while shouting "hallo!"
To cry "hallo" (to someone).
To shout (something).
senses_topics:
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12089 | word:
croissant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
croissant (plural croissants)
forms:
form:
croissants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from French croissant (“crescent”), present participle of croître (“to grow”). Doublet of crescent, creature, crew, recreation, and recruit.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent.
senses_topics:
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12090 | word:
Nike
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nike
forms:
wikipedia:
Nike (mythology)
Nike Inc.
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Νίκη (Níkē), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The goddess of victory and triumph; Athena's companion.
An American brand of sports shoes, equipment and clothing.
307 Nike, a main belt asteroid.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences |
12091 | word:
Nike
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Nike
forms:
wikipedia:
Nike (mythology)
Nike Inc.
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Νίκη (Níkē), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”).
senses_examples:
text:
One day Billy Madlock wore two different spikes, a Nike on his left foot for something like fifteen thousand dollars and an Adidas on his right foot for ten thousand.
ref:
1986, Ron Luciano, David Fisher, The Fall of the Roman Umpire, Bantam Books, published 1987, page 211
type:
quotation
text:
In fact, a whole cottage industry seems to have developed around the world’s floating debris, so if you should find a Nike on the beach, check the serial number on the insole then contact the nearest oceanographic institute.
ref:
2003, E&P, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
“Your shoes don’t match,” I say. “I know,” Mickey says, and as he answers he keeps jogging forward, but stops throwing punches. “The Nikes give me shin splints and the Asics hurt my knees, so I wear a Nike on my left foot where I have the bad knee and I wear the Asics on my right foot where the shin splints are worse.”
ref:
2004, Ronald K. Fried, My Father’s Fighter, The Permanent Press
type:
quotation
text:
Next came the shoes. One at a time. I peered out from beneath the tree. A skinny woman in a hot pink satin bra leaned out the window, holding a Nike in optimum pitching position. A grubby, shirtless guy in sweatpants and bare feet rushed out of the building. “Jenna!” he screamed. “You bitch! Don’t you dare!” “Bite me!” Jenna threw the Nike.
ref:
2015, Janey Mack, Time’s Up, Kensington Books, page 114
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
singular of Nikes
senses_topics:
|
12092 | word:
bus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bus (plural buses or busses)
forms:
form:
buses
tags:
plural
form:
busses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of omnibus. Formerly often spelt 'bus. The electrical sense is derived from figurative application of the automotive sense.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads; by extension, the driver of said vehicle
An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
Part of a MIRV missile, having on-board motors used to deliver the warhead to a target.
An ambulance.
An aeroplane.
A network topology with each computer connected to a single server. The security on a bus is terrible because every device connected sees every message, and a single point of failure will occur if the bus breaks.
senses_topics:
automotive
transport
vehicles
government
military
politics
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences |
12093 | word:
bus
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bus (third-person singular simple present busses or buses, present participle bussing or busing, simple past and past participle bussed or bused)
forms:
form:
busses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
buses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bussing
tags:
participle
present
form:
busing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bussed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bussed
tags:
past
form:
bused
tags:
participle
past
form:
bused
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of omnibus. Formerly often spelt 'bus. The electrical sense is derived from figurative application of the automotive sense.
senses_examples:
text:
Machine guns are the most effective form of ‘election campaigning’, but the occupiers appear to also be bussing in ‘voters’ from the Russian Federation, and ‘registering total strangers in the homes of people forced to flee after the Russian invasion.
ref:
2024 March 13, Halya Coynash, “Russians with machine guns ensure occupied Ukraine ‘votes’ for Putin”, in Human Rights in Ukraine. The Information Portal of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
type:
quotation
text:
The ANC has accused the IFP of bussing in voters from other wards to vote during the recent Newcastle Municipality by-election won by the IFP.
ref:
2024 March 14, Clive Ndou, “ANC set to open case against ‘ghost IFP voters’”, in The Witness
type:
quotation
text:
But if you ask me to bus my children / I hope the cops take down your name
ref:
1966, Phil Ochs, “Love Me, I'm a Liberal”, in Phils Ochs in Concert
type:
quotation
text:
...to strike down Detroit's federal court order to bus students across school district lines for the purpose of desegregation and therefore nullify many busing programs throughout the country.
ref:
2008, Ashley R. Holm, Racial Differences in Student Engagement and Attainment: A Study of Topeka High School, 1939--1984, ProQuest, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
He bussed tables as the restaurant emptied out.
type:
example
text:
He was hired to bus tables, but after a few incidents they moved him to the kitchen.
ref:
2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
He’s been bussing for minimum wage.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To transport via a motor bus.
To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
To travel by bus.
To clear meal remains from.
To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.
senses_topics:
automotive
transport
vehicles
automotive
transport
vehicles
automotive
transport
vehicles
|
12094 | word:
accompanist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accompanist (plural accompanists)
forms:
form:
accompanists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1833. From accompany + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
12095 | word:
lauder
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lauder (plural lauders)
forms:
form:
lauders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From laud + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who lauds (communicates high praises)
A follower of Archbishop William Laud
senses_topics:
|
12096 | word:
laund
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laund (plural launds)
forms:
form:
launds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English launde, from Old French launde (“wooded area”) (French lande), of Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Doublet of land.
senses_examples:
text:
About them lay long launds of green grass dappled with celandine and anemones,
ref:
1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
type:
quotation
text:
Odon was known to be resting, after completing his motion picture, at the villa of an old American friend, Joseph S. Lavender (the name hails from the laundry, not from the laund).
ref:
1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A grassy plain or pasture, especially surrounded by woodland; a glade.
senses_topics:
|
12097 | word:
laughing goose
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laughing goose (plural laughing geese)
forms:
form:
laughing geese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The European white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons).
senses_topics:
|
12098 | word:
laudanine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laudanine (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From laudanum + -ine.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A white organic base, resembling morphine, and obtained from certain varieties of opium
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
12099 | word:
Boolean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Boolean (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Boolean
etymology_text:
From Boole + -ean, named after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole (1815–1864).
senses_examples:
text:
Oh, Boolean operators! "Blue and ones"! Good idea!
ref:
2005 May 9, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Bug In Mouth Disease”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Sad (Matthew Chapman)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the work of George Boole.
Pertaining to data items that can have “true” and “false” (or, equivalently, 1 and 0 respectively) as their only possible values and to operations on such values.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences |
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