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12100 | word:
Boolean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Boolean (plural Booleans)
forms:
form:
Booleans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Boolean
etymology_text:
From Boole + -ean, named after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole (1815–1864).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences |
12101 | word:
laughworthy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
laughworthy (comparative more laughworthy, superlative most laughworthy)
forms:
form:
more laughworthy
tags:
comparative
form:
most laughworthy
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From laugh + -worthy.
senses_examples:
text:
They laugh't, at his laugh-worthy fate.
ref:
1616, Ben Jonson, Epigrams
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Deserving to be laughed at.
senses_topics:
|
12102 | word:
universal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
universal (comparative more universal, superlative most universal)
forms:
form:
more universal
tags:
comparative
form:
most universal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
universal
etymology_text:
From Middle English universal, from Old French universal (modern French universel), from Latin ūniversālis.
senses_examples:
text:
In Logic, the letter A is used as a symbol for the universal affirmative proposition in the general form "all x is y."
ref:
1911, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
type:
quotation
text:
She achieved universal fame.
type:
example
text:
universal wrench
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the universe.
Common to all members of a group or class.
Common to all society; worldwide.
Unlimited; vast; infinite.
Useful for many purposes; all-purpose.
senses_topics:
|
12103 | word:
universal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
universal (plural universals)
forms:
form:
universals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
universal
etymology_text:
From Middle English universal, from Old French universal (modern French universel), from Latin ūniversālis.
senses_examples:
text:
When we examine common words, we find that, broadly speaking, proper names stand for particulars, while other substantives, adjectives, prepositions, and verbs stand for universals.
ref:
1912, Bertrand Russel, The Problems of Philosophy, Chapter 9
type:
quotation
text:
We might also distinguish those expressions which are used to refer to individuals or particulars from those which are used to refer to what philosophers have called universals: e.g., to distinguish such expressions as "Everest" and "this chair" from "the number three", "the color red" and "drunkenness".
ref:
1970, John R. Searle, Speech acts
type:
quotation
text:
Empiricism was similarly a response to this loss of universals—a radically contingent world with no underlying order must constantly be studied and tested—and made God himself unnecessary: divine spirit and human spirit were alien enough to each other that they could function without taking each other into account.
ref:
2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 11, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […]
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A characteristic or property that particular things have in common.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences |
12104 | word:
laudably
word_type:
adv
expansion:
laudably (comparative more laudably, superlative most laudably)
forms:
form:
more laudably
tags:
comparative
form:
most laudably
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From laudable + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a laudable manner.
senses_topics:
|
12105 | word:
laudatory
word_type:
adj
expansion:
laudatory (comparative more laudatory, superlative most laudatory)
forms:
form:
more laudatory
tags:
comparative
form:
most laudatory
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin laudatōrius: compare Old French laudatoire.
senses_examples:
text:
laudatory verses
type:
example
text:
The comparison of these two passages will probably have suggested to you the fact of the immense superiority of the satirical over the laudatory powers of Dryden.
ref:
1853, Sir James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to praise, or the expression of praise.
senses_topics:
|
12106 | word:
laudableness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laudableness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From laudable + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.
senses_topics:
|
12107 | word:
laugher
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laugher (plural laughers)
forms:
form:
laughers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lawȝar, lawher(e); equivalent to laugh + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
These are the people whose laughter you hear after the boffolas on shows that have been filmed without audiences. I don't suppose all these laughers are dead, but a lot of them must be by this time.
ref:
1992, Jib Fowles, Why Viewers Watch: A Reappraisal of Television's Effects, page 119
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who laughs.
A game in which an opponent is defeated by a sizable margin; a blowout.
A variety of the domestic pigeon.
senses_topics:
|
12108 | word:
onus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
onus (countable and uncountable, plural onuses or onera)
forms:
form:
onuses
tags:
plural
form:
onera
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin onus (literally “burden”).
senses_examples:
text:
The onus is on the landlord to make sure the walls are protected from mildew.
type:
example
text:
The argument is founded on a principle which is now acknowledged to be universal; and the onus of disproof must lie with those who may be bold enough to take up the position that a region exists where at last the Principle of Continuity fails.
ref:
1883, Henry Drummond, Natural Law in the Spiritual World
type:
quotation
text:
Geraldine evades the onus of ambition by subordinating it to the service of her family, and escapes the onus of sexuality by bodily mutilation
ref:
1993, Dorothy Mermin, Godiva's Ride: Women of Letters in England, 1830-1880, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
... what might be called "onus-shifting" — each side trying to make a record and place blame on the other for the division of Europe and the Cold War itself.
ref:
1977, Daniel Yergin, Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
The onus is on those who disagree with my proposal to explain why.
type:
example
text:
The onus isn't on us to produce something great every time. The onus is on the public to decide whether they like it or not.
ref:
2000, Beatles with Brian Roylance, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, The Beatles Anthology, page 174
type:
quotation
text:
This throws the onus on freight operators' train planners to devise ingenious solutions to finding new paths.
ref:
2023 September 6, Anthony Lambert, “Train paths: more space for freight?”, in RAIL, number 991, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A legal obligation.
Burden of proof, onus probandi.
Stigma.
Blame.
Responsibility; burden.
senses_topics:
law
|
12109 | word:
laughing falcon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laughing falcon (plural laughing falcons)
forms:
form:
laughing falcons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A South American hawk (Herpetotheres cachinnans), so called from its notes, which resemble a shrill laughing.
senses_topics:
|
12110 | word:
laughing hyena
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laughing hyena (plural laughing hyenas)
forms:
form:
laughing hyenas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta); so called because of the resemblance of its call to human laughter.
senses_topics:
|
12111 | word:
laughing jackass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laughing jackass (plural laughing jackasses)
forms:
form:
laughing jackasses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The laughing kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae.
senses_topics:
|
12112 | word:
eukaryote
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eukaryote (plural eukaryotes or eukarya)
forms:
form:
eukaryotes
tags:
plural
form:
eukarya
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French eucaryote; equivalent to eu- + karyon + -ote.
senses_examples:
text:
It is now clear that among organisms there are two different organizational patterns of cells, which Chatton (1937) called, with singuar prescience, the eucaryotic and procaryotic type.
ref:
1962 March, Roger Stanier, “The concept of a bacterium”, in Archiv für Mikrobiologie, volume 42, number 1, page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of the single-celled or multicellular organisms of the taxonomic domain Eukaryota, whose cells contain at least one distinct nucleus.
senses_topics:
biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences |
12113 | word:
prescience
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prescience (usually uncountable, plural presciences)
forms:
form:
presciences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French prescience, from Latin praescientia.
senses_examples:
text:
God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents
ref:
1754, Jonathan Edwards, An Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting that Freedom of the Will which is supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency
type:
quotation
text:
O thou, who thus the eye hast veil'd,
The book of fate so slowly given,
I thank thee, that thou hast conceal'd
From man the prescience of heaven.
ref:
1815, Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, On a Sleeping Infant, page 198
type:
quotation
text:
With prescience, the Barlows designed them to withstand a third more weight than they would be expected to bear in normal conditions - future proofing the bridge for the weight of trains we see using it today.
ref:
2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, in Rail, page 83
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.
senses_topics:
|
12114 | word:
accusal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accusal (countable and uncountable, plural accusals)
forms:
form:
accusals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accuse + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An accusation
senses_topics:
|
12115 | word:
alb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alb (plural albs)
forms:
form:
albs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English aube, awbe, albe, abbe, from Late Old English albe (but later reinforced by Old French aube, Medieval Latin alba), borrowed from Latin alba (as in tunica alba (“white tunic”), vestis alba (“white garment”)), feminine of albus (“white”).
senses_examples:
text:
‘The confidence of the very rich,’ thought Father Carter watching Binkie shaking out albs and cottas and calling rather loudly to the organist.
ref:
1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 131
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most of the other vestments.
senses_topics:
Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism |
12116 | word:
Vulcan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Vulcan
forms:
form:
Vulcan Common symbol for the hypothetical planet. Typographic substitute: √.
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
Vulcan
etymology_text:
From Latin Vulcānus, probably from Etruscan although very unclear, but unknown meaning and further origin (see more in Latin entry). Doublet of bolcane and volcano.
senses_examples:
text:
The goddess Venus was the wife of Vulcan.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The god of volcanoes and fire, especially the forge, also the patron of all craftsmen, especially blacksmiths. The Roman counterpart of Hephaestus.
A placename.
A town in Vulcan County, southern Alberta, Canada.
A placename.
A volcano in Papua New Guinea.
A placename.
A place in Romania
A commune of Brașov County, Romania.
A placename.
A place in Romania
A city in Hunedoara County, Romania.
A placename.
A place in Romania
A village in the commune of Apold, Mureș County, Romania.
A placename.
A place in Romania
A village in the commune of Ciuruleasa, Alba County, Romania.
A placename.
A place in the United States
A ghost town in Gunnison County, Colorado.
A placename.
A place in the United States
An unincorporated community in Norway Township, Dickinson County, Michigan.
A placename.
A place in the United States
An unincorporated community in Iron County, Missouri.
A placename.
A place in the United States
An inactive volcano in New Mexico, United States.
A placename.
A hypothetical planet proposed in the 19th century to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun. Coined by Jacques Bobinet
A placename.
Ellipsis of Vulcan County.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
|
12117 | word:
Vulcan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Vulcan
forms:
wikipedia:
Star Trek
Vulcan
etymology_text:
From Vulcan (etymology 1), from the Star Trek TV series of the 1960s.
senses_examples:
text:
Steve and I explained the new program to our children, who looked at us as if we had just announced that we were from the planet Vulcan.
ref:
1998, Harriet Goldhor Lerner, The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life, London, page 159
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabited planet, the homeworld of the Vulcan species.
A language constructed for the Star Trek franchise, spoken by the fictional Vulcan species.
senses_topics:
|
12118 | word:
Vulcan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Vulcan (plural Vulcans)
forms:
form:
Vulcans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Star Trek
Vulcan
etymology_text:
From Vulcan (etymology 1), from the Star Trek TV series of the 1960s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant of the planet Vulcan; a species that values a personal emphasis on logic and strict personal emotional control.
A person who, like the fictional Vulcans, seems to lack emotion or is overly analytical and boring.
senses_topics:
|
12119 | word:
Vulcan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Vulcan (plural Vulcans)
forms:
form:
Vulcans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Vulcan
etymology_text:
From Vulcan (etymology 1).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Avro Vulcan, a type of jet-powered British bomber aircraft built by Avro during the Cold War.
senses_topics:
|
12120 | word:
laudation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laudation (countable and uncountable, plural laudations)
forms:
form:
laudations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin laudatio; compare Old English taudation. See laud.
senses_examples:
text:
Thus, the myths of cinema and syndicated cartoon have served to unite the diverse races far more than the clump of the cricket-ball and the clipped rebukes and laudations of their masters.
ref:
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of lauding; high praise or commendation.
senses_topics:
|
12121 | word:
Texan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Texan (comparative more Texan, superlative most Texan)
forms:
form:
more Texan
tags:
comparative
form:
most Texan
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Texas + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of the U.S. state of Texas.
Of or pertaining to the U.S. state of Texas in general.
senses_topics:
|
12122 | word:
Texan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Texan (plural Texans)
forms:
form:
Texans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Texas + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
In 2012, over three million Texans voted Democrat.
ref:
2015 November 9, “Why The Electoral College Ruins Democracy” (00:02:08 from the start), in Adam Ruins Everything (television production), spoken by himself (Adam Conover), truTV, via truTV
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or resident of the state of Texas in the United States of America.
senses_topics:
|
12123 | word:
Berlinese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Berlinese (plural Berlinese)
forms:
form:
Berlinese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Berlin + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or a resident of the city of Berlin, Germany.
senses_topics:
|
12124 | word:
launce
word_type:
noun
expansion:
launce (plural launces)
forms:
form:
launces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See lance.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of lance.
sand eel, sand lance, fish of the family Ammodytidae
senses_topics:
|
12125 | word:
launce
word_type:
verb
expansion:
launce (third-person singular simple present launces, present participle launcing, simple past and past participle launced)
forms:
form:
launces
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
launcing
tags:
participle
present
form:
launced
tags:
participle
past
form:
launced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See lance.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of lance.
senses_topics:
|
12126 | word:
launce
word_type:
noun
expansion:
launce (plural launces)
forms:
form:
launces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian lance, Latin lanx, lancis (“plate, scale of a balance”); compare balance.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A balance.
senses_topics:
|
12127 | word:
endogamy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
endogamy (usually uncountable, plural endogamies)
forms:
form:
endogamies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
endogamy
etymology_text:
From endo- + -gamy; compare inmarriage.
senses_examples:
text:
Far from suggesting a demoralized culture, endogamy here seemed the mark of a buoyantly confident group, settled in their skin and not needing outsiders.
ref:
1995, Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing, Vintage, published 2007, page 24
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The practice of marrying or requiring to marry within one's own ethnic, religious, or social group.
The fusion of two related gametes.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
12128 | word:
laudative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
laudative (comparative more laudative, superlative most laudative)
forms:
form:
more laudative
tags:
comparative
form:
most laudative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin laudativus (“laudatory”): compare French laudatif.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
laudatory
senses_topics:
|
12129 | word:
laudative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laudative (plural laudatives)
forms:
form:
laudatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin laudativus (“laudatory”): compare French laudatif.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A panegyric; a eulogy.
senses_topics:
|
12130 | word:
accurst
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accurst (comparative more accurst, superlative most accurst)
forms:
form:
more accurst
tags:
comparative
form:
most accurst
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic spelling of accursed.
senses_topics:
|
12131 | word:
accurst
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accurst
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of accurse
senses_topics:
|
12132 | word:
accusable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accusable (comparative more accusable, superlative most accusable)
forms:
form:
more accusable
tags:
comparative
form:
most accusable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin accūsābilis (“accusable”), corresponding to accuse + -able; compare French accusable.
senses_examples:
text:
If you publish that article, you are accusable of libel.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or breach; blamable
senses_topics:
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12133 | word:
lief
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lief (comparative liefer or liever, superlative liefest or lievest)
forms:
form:
liefer
tags:
comparative
form:
liever
tags:
comparative
form:
liefest
tags:
superlative
form:
lievest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lef, leve, leef, from Old English lēof, from Proto-West Germanic *leub, from Proto-Germanic *leubaz.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian ljo, ljoo, West Frisian leaf, Dutch lief, German Low German leev, German lieb, Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk ljuv, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍆𐍃 (liufs), Russian любо́вь (ljubóvʹ), Polish luby.
For the adverb, compare German lieber, Dutch liever (“preferably, rather”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Beloved, dear, agreeable.
Ready, willing.
senses_topics:
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12134 | word:
lief
word_type:
adv
expansion:
lief (comparative liefer or liever, superlative liefest)
forms:
form:
liefer
tags:
comparative
form:
liever
tags:
comparative
form:
liefest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lef, leve, leef, from Old English lēof, from Proto-West Germanic *leub, from Proto-Germanic *leubaz.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian ljo, ljoo, West Frisian leaf, Dutch lief, German Low German leev, German lieb, Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk ljuv, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍆𐍃 (liufs), Russian любо́вь (ljubóvʹ), Polish luby.
For the adverb, compare German lieber, Dutch liever (“preferably, rather”).
senses_examples:
text:
As far as physiognomy goes, the winners protest that they would as lief have foregone the double points, and the money.
ref:
1826, Thomas Byerly, John Timbs, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
type:
quotation
text:
these great masters of the art, who would far liefer see us little ones practice it, than themselves engage [...].
ref:
1869, RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone, section II
type:
quotation
text:
Since sware the Parcæ unto me, their friend, / they shall adore my name, my favour prize; / and, as their feats of armèd prowess shend / all feats of rival Rome, I lief devise / some mode of aidance in what things I may, / far as our force o'er man extendeth sway.
ref:
1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 339
type:
quotation
text:
I'd as lief put on my hat and cane and help you if you think they'll be too heavy.
ref:
1902, Josephine Spenser, Corner in Chrysanthemums
type:
quotation
text:
I'd as lief have one as t'other.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Readily, willingly, rather.
senses_topics:
|
12135 | word:
laughing gull
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laughing gull (plural laughing gulls)
forms:
form:
laughing gulls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A common European gull (Xema ridibundus).
An American gull (Leucophaeus atricilla); in summer the head is nearly black, the back slate color, and the five outer primaries black.
senses_topics:
|
12136 | word:
accurse
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accurse (third-person singular simple present accurses, present participle accursing, simple past accursed, past participle accursed or (archaic) accurst)
forms:
form:
accurses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accursing
tags:
participle
present
form:
accursed
tags:
past
form:
accursed
tags:
participle
past
form:
accurst
tags:
archaic
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English acursen, acoursen, acorsen, equivalent to a- + curse.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To damn; to wish misery or evil upon
senses_topics:
|
12137 | word:
laughing owl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laughing owl (plural laughing owls)
forms:
form:
laughing owls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An owl (Sceloglaux albifacies) of New Zealand, now probably extinct, named for its cry.
senses_topics:
|
12138 | word:
depose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
depose (third-person singular simple present deposes, present participle deposing, simple past and past participle deposed)
forms:
form:
deposes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
deposing
tags:
participle
present
form:
deposed
tags:
participle
past
form:
deposed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Recorded since c.1300, from Middle English, from Old French deposer, from de- (“down”) + poser (“to put, place”). Deposition (1494 in the legal sense) belongs to deposit, but that related word and depose became thoroughly confused.
senses_examples:
text:
A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.
type:
example
text:
After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.
type:
example
text:
to depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands
ref:
c. 1598, Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent.
To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition
To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition; typically done by a lawyer.
To take or swear an oath.
To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
senses_topics:
law
law
|
12139 | word:
Laurentian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Laurentian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Saint Lawrence River
etymology_text:
From Latin Laurentius (“Laurence”) + -ian, after the Saint Lawrence River. Piecewise doublet of Laurencian and Lawrentian; compare also lawrencium.
senses_examples:
text:
In the Laurentian hills.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to a Precambrian geological region in eastern Canada, or the period of its formation.
Relating to the Laurentian Mountains.
Pertaining to, or near, the Saint Lawrence River.
Of or pertaining to Canada as a whole.
senses_topics:
|
12140 | word:
Laurentian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Laurentian (plural Laurentians)
forms:
form:
Laurentians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Saint Lawrence River
etymology_text:
From Latin Laurentius (“Laurence”) + -ian, after the Saint Lawrence River. Piecewise doublet of Laurencian and Lawrentian; compare also lawrencium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A resident of Saint Laurent.
A resident of the Saint Lawrence Valley.
A resident of the Laurentian Mountains.
senses_topics:
|
12141 | word:
Laurentian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Laurentian
forms:
wikipedia:
Laurentian language
Saint Lawrence River
etymology_text:
From Latin Laurentius (“Laurence”) + -ian, after the Saint Lawrence River. Piecewise doublet of Laurencian and Lawrentian; compare also lawrencium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An extinct Iroquoian language of Canada.
The Laurentian period.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
12142 | word:
Laurentian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Laurentian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Lorenzo de' Medici
etymology_text:
From Latin Laurentius (“Laurence”) + -ian, after the Latinized name of Lorenzo de' Medici.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to Lorenzo de' Medici, or to the Laurentian Library in Florence named after him.
senses_topics:
|
12143 | word:
1st
word_type:
adj
expansion:
1st (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of first.
senses_topics:
|
12144 | word:
accusant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accusant (plural accusants)
forms:
form:
accusants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin accusans, present participle of accusare. Compare French accusant.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An accuser.
senses_topics:
|
12145 | word:
laughing
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laughing (countable and uncountable, plural laughings)
forms:
form:
laughings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lawghynge; equivalent to laugh + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The action of the verb to laugh.
senses_topics:
|
12146 | word:
laughing
word_type:
verb
expansion:
laughing
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lawghynge; equivalent to laugh + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of laugh
senses_topics:
|
12147 | word:
republican
word_type:
adj
expansion:
republican (comparative more republican, superlative most republican)
forms:
form:
more republican
tags:
comparative
form:
most republican
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From republic + -an, partly after French républicain.
senses_examples:
text:
Republican ideology had no obvious institutional focus and ideological carrier as was the case with the discourse of reason (the monarchy) and the discourse of law (the parlements).
ref:
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 222
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government, advocating or supporting republicanism.
Of or belonging to a republic.
Alternative letter-case form of Republican.
senses_topics:
|
12148 | word:
republican
word_type:
noun
expansion:
republican (plural republicans)
forms:
form:
republicans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From republic + -an, partly after French républicain.
senses_examples:
text:
I guess I am a bit of a republican at heart but I would love to be introduced to the Prince just to be able to grip him off about seeing the Noisy Scrub-bird.
ref:
2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 247
type:
quotation
text:
Nationalists and republicans need to adopt a new approach to convince unionists of the merits of uniting Ireland, Gerry Adams has said.
ref:
2017 June 24, David Young, “New approach needed to convince unionists about United Ireland, Adams tell conference”, in Independent.ie
type:
quotation
text:
A son of slain republicans Dominic and Mary McGlinchey has brought High Court actions claiming the State has failed to properly investigate his parents' murders.
ref:
2023 August 1, “Son of slain republicans brings actions”, in Irish Times, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who favors a republic as a form of government.
A bird of a kind that builds many nests together: the American cliff swallow, or the South African weaver bird.
senses_topics:
|
12149 | word:
pied
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pied (comparative more pied, superlative most pied)
forms:
form:
more pied
tags:
comparative
form:
most pied
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From archaic pie (“magpie”), from Old French pie, from Latin pica.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having two or more colors, especially black and white.
Decorated or colored in blotches.
senses_topics:
|
12150 | word:
pied
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pied
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of pi
senses_topics:
|
12151 | word:
pied
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pied
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of pie
senses_topics:
|
12152 | word:
segue
word_type:
verb
expansion:
segue (third-person singular simple present segues, present participle segueing, simple past and past participle segued)
forms:
form:
segues
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
segueing
tags:
participle
present
form:
segued
tags:
participle
past
form:
segued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian segue (“it follows”), from seguire (“to follow”), from Latin sequor; originally a term used in a musical score to indicate that the next movement or passage is to follow without a break. Cognate with Spanish seguir. Doublet of sue. Related to suit and sequence.
senses_examples:
text:
I can tell she’s going to segue from our conversation about school to the topic of marriage.
type:
example
text:
Beethoven’s symphonies effortlessly segue from one theme to the next.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move smoothly from one state or subject to another.
To make a smooth transition from one theme to another.
To play a sequence of records with no talk between them.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
12153 | word:
segue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
segue (plural segues)
forms:
form:
segues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian segue (“it follows”), from seguire (“to follow”), from Latin sequor; originally a term used in a musical score to indicate that the next movement or passage is to follow without a break. Cognate with Spanish seguir. Doublet of sue. Related to suit and sequence.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instance of segueing, a transition.
senses_topics:
|
12154 | word:
cognitive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cognitive (comparative more cognitive, superlative most cognitive)
forms:
form:
more cognitive
tags:
comparative
form:
most cognitive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin cognitīvus, from Latin cognitus, perfect passive participle of cognōscō (“I get to know”) + -īvus (adjective suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
Recent findings in cognitive neuroscience are also beginning to unravel how the body perceives magnitudes through sensory-motor systems. Variations in size, speed, quantity and duration, are registered in the brain by electro-chemical changes in neurons. The neurons that respond to these different magnitudes share a common neural network. In a survey of this research, cognitive neuroscientists Domenica Bueti and Vincent Walsh tell us that the brain does not treat temporal perception, spatial perception and perceived quantity as different.
ref:
2013 July 9, Joselle DiNunzio Kehoe, “Cognition, brains and Riemann”, in plus.maths.org, retrieved 2013-09-08
type:
quotation
text:
Wanux "white man," cognitive with Aben. awanoch, now used for "Canadian Frenchman";
ref:
1903, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.
Intellectual.
Cognate; to be recognized as cognate.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
12155 | word:
cognitive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cognitive (plural cognitives)
forms:
form:
cognitives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin cognitīvus, from Latin cognitus, perfect passive participle of cognōscō (“I get to know”) + -īvus (adjective suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
Abenaki awanoch, the cognitive of Penobscot awenoch, means Frenchman,
ref:
1902, American Anthropologist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cognate.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
12156 | word:
culdesac
word_type:
noun
expansion:
culdesac (plural culdesacs or culsdesac)
forms:
form:
culdesacs
tags:
plural
form:
culsdesac
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of cul-de-sac
senses_topics:
|
12157 | word:
simulacra
word_type:
noun
expansion:
simulacra
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin simulācra.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of simulacrum
senses_topics:
|
12158 | word:
pop culture
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pop culture (usually uncountable, plural pop cultures)
forms:
form:
pop cultures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
popular culture
senses_topics:
|
12159 | word:
loggets
word_type:
noun
expansion:
loggets
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of logget
senses_topics:
|
12160 | word:
loggets
word_type:
noun
expansion:
loggets (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A game involving throwing pieces of wood at a stake.
senses_topics:
|
12161 | word:
laudator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laudator (plural laudators)
forms:
form:
laudators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin laudator.
senses_examples:
text:
As in most speeches, exaggeration and embellishment were standard devices by which the laudator amplified his subject's virtues or vices.
ref:
1992, Historia, page 293
type:
quotation
text:
To the extent that he is visible at all, the poet fulfils the role of laudator, not commentator on or representative of a world view.
ref:
2007, Hanna Boeke, The Value of Victory in Pindar's Odes, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
When he made all those wrong decisions in his business and private life, he expected me to be a sycophant, a laudator,or a yes-man.
ref:
2012, Tuana Dowan, Thena: Fight for the Future, page 377
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who lauds.
senses_topics:
|
12162 | word:
quintillion
word_type:
num
expansion:
quintillion (plural quintillions)
forms:
form:
quintillions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From quint- (“five”) + -illion.
senses_examples:
text:
Last week, we used[…]the BBC News website's biggest number: 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, that's 9.2 quintillion[…][the maximum video viewer count on YouTube's] updated counter software.
ref:
2014, “Small Data: Those big numbers keep on coming”, in BBC News Magazine Monitor, BBC
type:
quotation
text:
“I’m not sure I understand why we have to send a quadrillion-credit mission to another galaxy.”
He looked fleetingly amused. “Quintillion... and we don’t have a choice, Harper. Any of us, really, but humanity especially.”
ref:
2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 1, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →OCLC, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
You are currently logged on to the largest version of the internet that has ever existed. By clicking and scrolling, you’re one of the 5 billion–plus people contributing to an unfathomable array of networked information—quintillions of bytes produced each day.
ref:
2023 December 18, Charlie Warzel, “Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸.
A million quadrillion: 1 followed by 30 zeros, 10³⁰.
senses_topics:
|
12163 | word:
quintillion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quintillion (plural quintillions)
forms:
form:
quintillions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From quint- (“five”) + -illion.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any very large number, exceeding normal description.
senses_topics:
|
12164 | word:
telluric current
word_type:
noun
expansion:
telluric current (plural telluric currents)
forms:
form:
telluric currents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An extremely low frequency electrical current that occurs naturally over large underground areas at or near the surface of the Earth
senses_topics:
|
12165 | word:
cowardice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cowardice (countable and uncountable, plural cowardices)
forms:
form:
cowardices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cowardise, borrowed from Anglo-Norman cuardise (modern French couardise).
senses_examples:
text:
[Ilhan] Omar was left twisting in the wind earlier this year after facing spurious charges of antisemitism, a display of Democratic cowardice co-signed by Chelsea Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and most every other Democrat with a congressional leadership position.
ref:
2019 July 19, Noah Kulwin, “Democrats Fail the Left, Once Again”, in Jewish Currents
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lack of courage.
senses_topics:
|
12166 | word:
jaundice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jaundice (countable and uncountable, plural jaundices)
forms:
form:
jaundices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English jaundis, jaunis, from Middle French jaunisse, from jaune (“yellow”) + -isse (“-ness”). Jaune, from Old French jalne, from Latin galbinus (“yellowish”), from galbus (“yellow”).
senses_examples:
text:
But look in this new mirror, lovely friend. / Both gods and fairies wait on lovers' wills. / That jaundices be changed to daffodils!
ref:
1920, Natalie Clifford Barney, “A Sonnet to My Lady with the Jaundice”, in Poems & poèmes
type:
quotation
text:
In British folk medicine there are some unusual remedies for jaundice. A bizarre superstition from Staffordshire is that if a bladder is filled with the patient's urine and placed near the fire, as it dries out, the patient will recover (Black 1883: 56).
ref:
2004, Gabrielle Hatfield, Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions, ABC-CLIO, page 215
type:
quotation
text:
Just ask the doctors how many cases of infantile jaundice in newborn babies have this scene that particular week?
ref:
2016, Dueep Jyot Singh, John Davidson, Knowing More About Jaundice - Prevention and Natural Cure Remedies of Jaundice, Mendon Cottage Books, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine.
A feeling of bitterness, resentment or jealousy.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences
|
12167 | word:
jaundice
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jaundice (third-person singular simple present jaundices, present participle jaundicing, simple past and past participle jaundiced)
forms:
form:
jaundices
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jaundicing
tags:
participle
present
form:
jaundiced
tags:
participle
past
form:
jaundiced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English jaundis, jaunis, from Middle French jaunisse, from jaune (“yellow”) + -isse (“-ness”). Jaune, from Old French jalne, from Latin galbinus (“yellowish”), from galbus (“yellow”).
senses_examples:
text:
The envy of wealth jaundiced his soul.
ref:
1850, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, My Novel
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice.
senses_topics:
|
12168 | word:
laughing gas
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laughing gas (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From its euphoric effects. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1799.
senses_examples:
text:
ETSC’s Belgian member VIAS institute is calling for the development of a breath test to detect when a driver has consumed nitrous oxide, known as ‘laughing gas’.
Call for breath tests to detect drivers under the influence of nitrous oxide, ETSC, 20 February 2024
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nitrous oxide, especially when used as an anaesthetic.
senses_topics:
|
12169 | word:
feasible
word_type:
adj
expansion:
feasible (comparative more feasible, superlative most feasible)
forms:
form:
more feasible
tags:
comparative
form:
most feasible
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman fesable, from Latin facere, Old French fesable, faisable (“doable”), from fere, faire (“to do”) + -able.
senses_examples:
text:
His plan to rid Trafalgar Square of pigeons by bringing in peregrine falcons to eat them was dismissed as not feasible.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Able to be done in practice.
senses_topics:
|
12170 | word:
shoulder blade
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shoulder blade (plural shoulder blades)
forms:
form:
shoulder blades
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English schulder-blade.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Either of the large flat bones at the back of the shoulder.
senses_topics:
|
12171 | word:
insulator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
insulator (plural insulators)
forms:
form:
insulators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
insulator
etymology_text:
From insulate + -or.
senses_examples:
text:
To isolate electrical wires from the pylons supporting them, one often uses glass insulators.
type:
example
text:
Alan Vasen worked as an insulator at this site from September 1968 through mid-April 1969. Mr. Vasen installed thousands of lineal feet of asbestos pipe covering and thousands of square feet of asbestos block insulation throughout the operating units of the Benicia refinery.
ref:
2007, Kenneth S. Cohen, Expert Witnessing and Scientific Testimony: Surviving in the Courtroom
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A substance that does not transmit heat (thermal insulator), sound (acoustic insulator) or electricity (electrical insulator).
A non-conductive structure, coating or device that does not transmit sound, heat or electricity (see image)
A person who installs insulation.
senses_topics:
|
12172 | word:
mazard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mazard (plural mazards)
forms:
form:
mazards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from mazer, the head being compared to a large goblet.
senses_examples:
text:
This roused the tinker's choler, already provoked at Tugwell's amorous freedom with his doxy, and he gave him a click in the mazard. Tugwell had not been used tamely to receive a kick or a cuff; he, therefore, gave the tinker a rejoinder, […]
ref:
1808, Richard Graves, The Spiritual Quixote, page 127
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Head; skull.
senses_topics:
|
12173 | word:
mazard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mazard (plural mazards)
forms:
form:
mazards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare French merise (“wild cherry”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kind of small black cherry.
senses_topics:
|
12174 | word:
New Yorker
word_type:
noun
expansion:
New Yorker (plural New Yorkers)
forms:
form:
New Yorkers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New York + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner.
ref:
1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or resident of the state of New York in the United States of America.
A native or resident of New York City.
A New York-style pizza, a type of large pizza originally eaten in New York City.
senses_topics:
|
12175 | word:
googol
word_type:
num
expansion:
googol (plural googols)
forms:
form:
googols
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1920, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, who had asked Milton to think of a name for the 100th power of ten. The word was first published in the book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).
senses_examples:
text:
Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as by scientists. The name "googol" was invented by a child (Dr. Kasner's nine-year-old nephew) who was asked to think up a name for a very big number, namely, 1 with a hundred zeros after it. He was very certain that this number was not infinite, and therefore equally certain that it had to have a name. […] A googolplex is much bigger than a googol, much bigger than a googol times a googol. A googol times a googol would be 1 with 200 zeros, whereas a googolplex is one with a googol of zeros. You will get some idea of the size of this very large but finite number from the fact that there would not be enough room to write it, if you went to the farthest star, touring all the nebulae and putting down zeros every inch of the way.
ref:
1940, Edward Kasner, James [Roy] Newman, “New Names for Old”, in Mathematics and the Imagination, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →OCLC, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
For example, in considering all the finite state grammars that use seven terminal symbols and seven auxiliary symbols (states), [...] he must test over a googol (10^100) candidates.
ref:
1979, Steven Pinker, “Formal models of language learning”, in Language, Cognition, and Human Nature
type:
quotation
text:
If the universe were packed solid with neutrons, say, so there was no empty space anywhere, there would still only be about 10¹²⁸ particles in it, quite a bit more than a googol but trivially small compared to a googolplex.
ref:
1980, Carl Sagan, chapter IX, in Cosmos
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The number 10¹⁰⁰, or ten to the power of a hundred. Equivalent to ten duotrigintillion (short scale), or ten sexdecilliard (long scale).
senses_topics:
|
12176 | word:
buffle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
buffle (plural buffles)
forms:
form:
buffles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French buffle. Doublet of bubale and buffalo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A buffalo.
senses_topics:
|
12177 | word:
buffle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
buffle (third-person singular simple present buffles, present participle buffling, simple past and past participle buffled)
forms:
form:
buffles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
buffling
tags:
participle
present
form:
buffled
tags:
participle
past
form:
buffled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To puzzle; to baffle.
senses_topics:
|
12178 | word:
pis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pis
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of pi
senses_topics:
|
12179 | word:
sonne
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sonne (plural sonnes)
forms:
form:
sonnes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
19th century, Jean Ingelow - The Brides of Enderby
She moved where Lindis wandereth,
My sonne's faire wife, Elizabeth.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of son.
Obsolete spelling of sun.
senses_topics:
|
12180 | word:
twee
word_type:
adj
expansion:
twee (comparative more twee or tweer, superlative most twee or tweest)
forms:
form:
more twee
tags:
comparative
form:
tweer
tags:
comparative
form:
most twee
tags:
superlative
form:
tweest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Oxford English Dictionary
etymology_text:
From a childish pronunciation of sweet. The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use in 1905 in Punch.
senses_examples:
text:
Those Beatrix Potter animals are a little twee for my taste.
type:
example
text:
Despite the fact that the designs were all a bit twee […] they stood out a mile in the market place at that time.
ref:
1999, Janet Foster, Docklands: Urban Change and Conflict in a Community in Transition, London, Philadelphia, Pa.: UCL Press, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
Forget the clichéd image of Brigadoon and shortbread tins, the dreadfully twee tartan tat and Celtic kitsch that, sadly, still exists in the 21st century, and is too often passed off as a genuine Highland experience.
ref:
2001, Alan Murphy, Scotland Highlands & Islands Handbook: The Travel Guide, Bath, Somerset: Footprint Handbooks, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
As always with Disney, there are moments when it all seems a bit twee, others when it is excessively PC.
ref:
2002, Peter Ellison, Essential Non-fiction, Dublin: Folens Publishers, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
I just wouldn’t have felt comfortable saying, "I am a duckbilled platypus, and this is how I find my shrimps." I think it would have been twee.
ref:
2005 September 8, Stephen S. Hall, quoting Richard Dawkins, “Darwin's Rottweiler: Sir Richard Dawkins: Evolution's fiercest champion, far too fierce”, in Discover, archived from the original on 2016-01-01
type:
quotation
text:
[Neil] Tennant's accent obviously has a lot to do with that, but the fact he's rapping is further masked by his twee, effeminate delivery.
ref:
2015 June 2, Kenneth Partridge, “With ‘West End Girls,’ Pet Shop Boys set a high standard for U.K. hip-hop”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2015-09-06
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Overly quaint, dainty, cute or nice.
senses_topics:
|
12181 | word:
twee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twee (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Oxford English Dictionary
etymology_text:
From a childish pronunciation of sweet. The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use in 1905 in Punch.
senses_examples:
text:
Even the wider world got its doses of twee sound, from the fluffy pop of Aztec Camera to the stylish bounce of the Railway Children.
ref:
2005 October 24, Nitsuh Abebe, “Twee as Fuck”, in Pitchfork
type:
quotation
text:
Wang points out the very clear links between twee and queer culture, as many 90s twee bands “played alongside queercore bands like Team Dresch.[…]”
ref:
2022 January 25, katie tobin, quoting Ian Wang, “Clutch Your Pearls, the Indie Twee Aesthetic is Back”, in Vice
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of twee pop.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
12182 | word:
buss
word_type:
noun
expansion:
buss (plural busses)
forms:
form:
busses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. First attested in the 1560s. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰus- (“lip, to kiss”) via Proto-Germanic *busaną (compare German bussen), but in any case imitative of kissing. Compare Welsh bus (“kiss, lip”) and Irish bus (“lips, mouth”) (both may have influenced English), Persian بوس (bus, “kiss”), Latvian buča (“kiss”), Latin basium (“kiss”).
Mainstream proposals like in The Free Dictionary have suggested it is a blend of old English dialect words bass (related to French baiser) and cuss (akin to kissen); perhaps compare puss.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kiss.
senses_topics:
|
12183 | word:
buss
word_type:
verb
expansion:
buss (third-person singular simple present busses, present participle bussing, simple past and past participle bussed)
forms:
form:
busses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bussing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bussed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bussed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. First attested in the 1560s. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰus- (“lip, to kiss”) via Proto-Germanic *busaną (compare German bussen), but in any case imitative of kissing. Compare Welsh bus (“kiss, lip”) and Irish bus (“lips, mouth”) (both may have influenced English), Persian بوس (bus, “kiss”), Latvian buča (“kiss”), Latin basium (“kiss”).
Mainstream proposals like in The Free Dictionary have suggested it is a blend of old English dialect words bass (related to French baiser) and cuss (akin to kissen); perhaps compare puss.
senses_examples:
text:
'I take the privilege, Mistress Ruth, of saluting you.' ...And therewith I bussed her well.
ref:
1869, Richard Blackmore, Lorna Doone, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
As the repatriated explorer dodges down to buss the earth […] he is so thoroughly caught up in the rhapsody of the moment that he fails to take into account the traffic behind him.
ref:
1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 189
type:
quotation
text:
Sam...really was six-ten and his head bussed the ceiling.
ref:
2007, Winter 61, Fiddlehead
type:
quotation
text:
In the faint glow of a single blue bulb hanging from a clothesline they bussed and fondled.
ref:
2007, James Isaiah Gabbe, LaRue's Maneuvers, Chapter 10, LaRue, The Blue Light, p259-60
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To kiss (either literally or figuratively).
To kiss.
senses_topics:
|
12184 | word:
buss
word_type:
noun
expansion:
buss (plural busses)
forms:
form:
busses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Dutch buis.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing.
senses_topics:
|
12185 | word:
buss
word_type:
noun
expansion:
buss (plural busses)
forms:
form:
busses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
1838, Charles Dickens, "Omnibuses", Sketches by Boz
We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its exterior, the perfect simplicity of its interior, or the native coolness of its cad.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic form of bus (“passenger vehicle”).
senses_topics:
|
12186 | word:
accusatio
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accusatio (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin. Doublet of accusation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Categoria.
senses_topics:
|
12187 | word:
thence
word_type:
adv
expansion:
thence (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English þennes, from þenne + -es (“adverbial ending”), the former from þanan, þanona, from Proto-West Germanic *þananā. Cognate with Westphalian Low German diëne.
senses_examples:
text:
I came thence.
type:
example
text:
Cross fix at 6000 feet, thence descend to 3000 feet and fly direct to MAP (missed approach point).
type:
example
text:
From this we can find the characteristic roots b_1 and b_2 and thence proceed to the remaining steps of the solution process.
ref:
2005, Alpha Chiang and Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics (4th ed.), McGraw-Hill International, p. 605
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
From there, from that place or from that time.
Deriving from this fact or circumstance; therefore, therefrom.
From that time; thenceforth; thereafter
senses_topics:
|
12188 | word:
Genoese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Genoese (plural Genoese)
forms:
form:
Genoese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Genoa + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or resident of Genoa.
senses_topics:
|
12189 | word:
Genoese
word_type:
name
expansion:
Genoese
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Genoa + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The inhabitants of Genoa, collectively.
The dialect of Ligurian spoken in Genoa
senses_topics:
|
12190 | word:
Genoese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Genoese (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Genoa + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from or relating to Genoa.
senses_topics:
|
12191 | word:
awareness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
awareness (usually uncountable, plural awarenesses)
forms:
form:
awarenesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
awareness
etymology_text:
From aware + -ness.
senses_examples:
text:
I gradually passed from sleep to full awareness.
type:
example
text:
raise awareness of a topic
type:
example
text:
The awareness of one type of idea naturally fosters an awareness of another idea
type:
example
text:
Like a mind moving on a Möbius strip of events, one's consciousness goes over the same territory again and again without ever becoming aware of the nature of awareness.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer.
The state or quality of being aware of something.
senses_topics:
|
12192 | word:
launder
word_type:
noun
expansion:
launder (plural launders)
forms:
form:
launders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
launder
etymology_text:
Contracted from Middle English lavender, from Old French lavandiere, from Late Latin lavandena, from Latin lavō (“I wash”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A washerwoman or washerman.
A trough used by miners to receive powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus for comminuting (sorting) the ore.
A trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill.
A gutter (for rainwater).
senses_topics:
business
mining
|
12193 | word:
launder
word_type:
verb
expansion:
launder (third-person singular simple present launders, present participle laundering, simple past and past participle laundered)
forms:
form:
launders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
laundering
tags:
participle
present
form:
laundered
tags:
participle
past
form:
laundered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
launder
etymology_text:
Contracted from Middle English lavender, from Old French lavandiere, from Late Latin lavandena, from Latin lavō (“I wash”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
To lave; to wet.
To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
To obtain a pointer to an object created in storage occupied by an existing object of the same type, even if it has const or reference members.
senses_topics:
business
finance
money
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
12194 | word:
tepid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
tepid (comparative more tepid, superlative most tepid)
forms:
form:
more tepid
tags:
comparative
form:
most tepid
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin tepidus. Cognate with Sanskrit tap-, Proto-Slavic *teplъ.
senses_examples:
text:
I'm drinking a cup of tepid water.
type:
example
text:
He gave me a tepid response to the proposal.
type:
example
text:
The erratic behaviour of Hariri now is largely explained by the fact that his best days may be behind him, given his long absences from the country for security reasons, his declining Saudi business interests, some local challenges to his tepid leadership in recent municipal elections, and his decline in stature in the eyes of his Saudi backers.
ref:
2016 October 22, Rami G Khouri, “Lebanese oligarchy preserves its interests once again”, in Aljazeera
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.
Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness; lukewarm.
senses_topics:
|
12195 | word:
kosher
word_type:
adj
expansion:
kosher (comparative more kosher, superlative most kosher)
forms:
form:
more kosher
tags:
comparative
form:
most kosher
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Kashrut
etymology_text:
From Yiddish כּשר (kosher), from Hebrew כָּשֵׁר (kashér).
senses_examples:
text:
Only in New York can you find a good, kosher hamburger!
type:
example
text:
David's mother kept a kosher kitchen, with separate sets of dishes for meat and for dairy.
type:
example
text:
In order for a suit to be kosher, it cannot contain both wool and linen together.
type:
example
text:
Is what I have done kosher with Mr. Smith?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fit for use or consumption, in accordance with Jewish law (especially relating to food).
In accordance with standards or usual practice.
senses_topics:
|
12196 | word:
kosher
word_type:
adv
expansion:
kosher (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Kashrut
etymology_text:
From Yiddish כּשר (kosher), from Hebrew כָּשֵׁר (kashér).
senses_examples:
text:
Just like eating halal is not a choice for our Muslim brothers and sisters, for us, eating kosher is not voluntary; it’s who we are and as necessary as the oxygen we need for sustenance.
ref:
2020 August 20, Eliezer Brand, “ICE is forcing Muslims to eat pork. My fellow Orthodox Jews: This is our fight!”, in The Forward
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a kosher manner; in accordance with kashrut.
senses_topics:
|
12197 | word:
kosher
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kosher (third-person singular simple present koshers, present participle koshering, simple past and past participle koshered)
forms:
form:
koshers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
koshering
tags:
participle
present
form:
koshered
tags:
participle
past
form:
koshered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Kashrut
etymology_text:
From Yiddish כּשר (kosher), from Hebrew כָּשֵׁר (kashér).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To kasher; to prepare (for example, meat) in conformity with the requirements of the Jewish law.
senses_topics:
|
12198 | word:
expose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
expose (third-person singular simple present exposes, present participle exposing, simple past and past participle exposed)
forms:
form:
exposes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
exposing
tags:
participle
present
form:
exposed
tags:
participle
past
form:
exposed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French exposer (“to lay open, set forth”), from Latin expōnō (“set forth”), with contamination from poser (“to lay, place”). Doublet of expound, via Old French espondre (“to set forth, explain”), from the same Latin term.
senses_examples:
text:
The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
ref:
2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
You understand that by using the Services, you may be exposed to Content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or in some cases, postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive.
ref:
2021 August 19, “Twitter User Agreement”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-08-20, 3 Content on the Services
type:
quotation
text:
This they do, as a rule, by exposing the child or throwing it into the sea.
ref:
1893, Fridtjof Nansen, Eskimo Life, page 152
type:
quotation
text:
In the OO world, the word is to hide the structure of the data, and expose only functionality. OO designers expose an object to the world in terms of the services it provides.
ref:
2000, Robert C. Martin, More C++ Gems, page 266
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).
To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to any other stress, in order to test the reaction, resistance, etc.
To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12199 | word:
accusatory
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accusatory (comparative more accusatory, superlative most accusatory)
forms:
form:
more accusatory
tags:
comparative
form:
most accusatory
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accuse + -atory, or borrowed from Latin accūsātōrius.
senses_examples:
text:
This conclusion will certainly be strengthened by reading the accusatory speech composed by Deinarchus […]
ref:
1846-1856, George Grote, A History of Greece
type:
quotation
text:
Had she heard the same Bob Dylan singing “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” his accusatory song about the fatal caning of a 51-year-old black barmaid by a young white patrician, “The Help” might have ventured outside its harsh yet still comfortable, reader-friendly world.
ref:
2009 February 18, Janet Maslin, “Racial Insults and Quiet Bravery in 1960s Mississippi”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation.
senses_topics:
|
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