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12200 | word:
lu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lu (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic form of loo (“card game”).
senses_topics:
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12201 | word:
lu
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lu (third-person singular simple present lus, present participle luing, simple past and past participle lued)
forms:
form:
lus
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
luing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lued
tags:
participle
past
form:
lued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic form of loo (“beat at card game”).
senses_topics:
|
12202 | word:
lu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lu (usually uncountable, plural lus)
forms:
form:
lus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A romanization of Chinese 路 (lù, “route”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of route or circuit: an administrative division of imperial China.
senses_topics:
|
12203 | word:
accounting
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accounting
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in the late 14th century.
* account + -ing
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of account
senses_topics:
|
12204 | word:
accounting
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accounting (usually uncountable, plural accountings)
forms:
form:
accountings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
accounting
etymology_text:
* First attested in the late 14th century.
* account + -ing
senses_examples:
text:
He was required to give a thorough accounting of his time.
type:
example
text:
In contrast, an accounting for profits, or accounting— a distinct form of relief that the majority groups with disgorgement — has a well-accepted definition: It compels a defendant to account for, and repay to a plaintiff, those profits that belong to the plaintiff in equity.
ref:
2020, Liu v. SEC (U.S. Supreme Court No. 18-1501), Justice Thomas dissenting
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of an individual or a business.
A relaying of events; justification of actions.
An equitable remedy requiring wrongfully obtained profits to be distributed to those who deserve them.
senses_topics:
business
law |
12205 | word:
fire engine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fire engine (plural fire engines)
forms:
form:
fire engines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
A fire aboard TfW 175007, working a Holyhead-Cardiff Central service on February 8, closed the A483 road while five fire engines from Wrexham, Deeside, and Cheshire attended the scene.
ref:
2023 March 22, “Network News: Class 175s withdrawn for safety checks after fires”, in RAIL, number 979, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
A plan somewhat similar to this was adopted by Smeaton in the boiler of his portable fire engine.
ref:
1844, William Pole, A Treatise on the Cornish Pumping Engine - Parts 1-3, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
In the same year a very compact arrangement for a stationary fire engine was described by Mr. Wm. Baddeley, in which he proposed it should be worked like a capstan by means of handspikes, and it could be bolted down to a ship's deck, or fastened wherever wanted.
ref:
1866, Charles Frederick T. Young, Fires, Fire Engines, and Fire Brigades: With a History of Manual and Steam Fire Engines, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
This discovery gave a great impulse to mechanical ingenuity, and many schemes were contrived to make this new agent available as a motive power; but the first of these projects that appears to have been of any avail was the fire engine of Captain Tomas Savery, who produced a vacuum by condensing steam in close vessels, and then applied the vacuum so obtained to the elevation of water.
ref:
1868, John Bourne, A Treatise on the Steam-engine in Its Various Applications to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, Railways, and Agriculture, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vehicle used by firefighters to pump water to fight a fire. Typically, a fire engine carries a supply of water and has the ability to connect to an external water supply.
A steam engine.
senses_topics:
firefighting
government
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12206 | word:
POP
word_type:
noun
expansion:
POP (plural POPs)
forms:
form:
POPs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
One commonly used POP (persistent organic pollutant), organochlorine, may be responsible for contaminating the world's seafood supply, since pesticides can run off the land into streams, lakes, and reservoirs.
ref:
2009, Edward Group, Complete Colon Cleanse: The At-Home Detox Program to Restore Good Health, Boost Vitality, and Ensure Longevity, Ulysses Press, page 91
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of point of presence.
Acronym of Point of Purchase.
Acronym of probability of precipitation.
Acronym of picture outside of picture.
Acronym of persistent organic pollutant.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
weather
broadcasting
media
television
|
12207 | word:
POP
word_type:
name
expansion:
POP
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The parachutes at Riverview Park will shake us up all day / And Disneyland and P.O.P. is worth a trip to L.A
ref:
1965, Mike Love, Brian Wilson (lyrics and music), “Amusement Parks U.S.A.”, performed by The Beach Boys
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of Post Office Protocol.
Initialism of Pacific Ocean Park.
senses_topics:
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12208 | word:
POP
word_type:
adj
expansion:
POP (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of post office preferred. (denoting a standard envelope size)
senses_topics:
|
12209 | word:
arachnophobia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
arachnophobia (usually uncountable, plural arachnophobias)
forms:
form:
arachnophobias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From arachno- + -phobia, from Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē, “spider”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An abnormal or irrational fear of arachnids, especially spiders.
senses_topics:
|
12210 | word:
laudanum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laudanum (usually uncountable, plural laudanums)
forms:
form:
laudanums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
laudanum
etymology_text:
From New Latin, from ladanum (“a gum resin”), from Ancient Greek λάδανον (ládanon). Originally the same word as ladanum, labdanum, compare French laudanum, Italian laudano, ladano. Perhaps influenced by Latin laudō (“I praise”). See ladanum.
Used by Paracelsus to refer to ladanum gum, and to a compound recipe containing pearls, but apparently not to any preparation of opium; this modern sense was introduced by his followers (Sigerist 1941:540–1).
senses_examples:
text:
At the time, Wilson writes, England was “marinated in opium, which was taken for everything from upset stomachs to sore heads.” It was swallowed in the form of pills or dissolved in alcohol to make laudanum, the tincture preferred by De Quincey.
ref:
2016 October 16, Dan Chiasson, “The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir”, in The New Yorker
type:
quotation
text:
In Sydenham’s 1683 treatise on the disease, for the sudden onset of violent symptoms he recommended laudanum — a tincture of opium and alcohol — to take the edge off the pain; […]
ref:
2020 November 13, Ligaya Mishan, “Once the Disease of Gluttonous Aristocrats, Gout Is Now Tormenting the Masses”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tincture of opium, once widely used for various medical purposes and as a recreational drug.
senses_topics:
medicine
pharmacology
sciences |
12211 | word:
laudanum
word_type:
verb
expansion:
laudanum (third-person singular simple present laudanums, present participle laudanuming, simple past and past participle laudanumed)
forms:
form:
laudanums
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
laudanuming
tags:
participle
present
form:
laudanumed
tags:
participle
past
form:
laudanumed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
laudanum
etymology_text:
From New Latin, from ladanum (“a gum resin”), from Ancient Greek λάδανον (ládanon). Originally the same word as ladanum, labdanum, compare French laudanum, Italian laudano, ladano. Perhaps influenced by Latin laudō (“I praise”). See ladanum.
Used by Paracelsus to refer to ladanum gum, and to a compound recipe containing pearls, but apparently not to any preparation of opium; this modern sense was introduced by his followers (Sigerist 1941:540–1).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To add laudanum to (a drink or the like).
To cause (a person) to be high on laudanum.
senses_topics:
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12212 | word:
Thracian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Thracian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Thracians
etymology_text:
From Thrace + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
of or pertaining to Thrace or the Thracians or the extinct Thracian language.
senses_topics:
|
12213 | word:
Thracian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Thracian (plural Thracians)
forms:
form:
Thracians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Thracians
etymology_text:
From Thrace + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant of Thrace, regardless of ethnicity.
A member of a group of tribes who spoke the language Thracian. (See Wikipedia's article on the Thracians.)
senses_topics:
|
12214 | word:
Thracian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Thracian
forms:
wikipedia:
Thracians
etymology_text:
From Thrace + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the extinct language formerly spoken in Thrace.
senses_topics:
|
12215 | word:
accursed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accursed (comparative more accursed, superlative most accursed)
forms:
form:
more accursed
tags:
comparative
form:
most accursed
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in the early 13th century.
* From Middle English acursed, from acursen (“to curse”), from Old English ācursian, from ā + cursen, from curs (“curse”).
senses_examples:
text:
Accursed race of Tiriel. behold your father // Come forth & look on her that bore you. come you accursed sons.
ref:
c. 1789, William Blake, Tiriel
type:
quotation
text:
Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Saracens.
ref:
1819, Ivanhoe, Walter Scott, Chapter 35
type:
quotation
text:
[…]Alaeddin ate and drank and was cheered and after he had rested and had recovered spirits he cried, "Ah, O my mother, I have a sore grievance against thee for leaving me to that accursed wight who strave to compass my destruction and designed to take my life. Know that I beheld Death with mine own eyes at the hand of this damned wretch, whom thou didst certify to be my uncle;[…]
ref:
1885, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 532
type:
quotation
text:
[…]—if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed.
ref:
1885, Charles Abel Heurtley, transl., The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, Chapter 8
type:
quotation
text:
1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, Book III, Chapter 7,
For at the very moment I become accursed, at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen […]
text:
We did not come here to waste words in treating with Sauron, faithless and accursed; still less with one of his slaves. Begone!
ref:
1955, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, The Return of the King/Book V, Chapter 10
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hateful; detestable, loathsome.
Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
theology |
12216 | word:
accursed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accursed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in the early 13th century.
* From Middle English acursed, from acursen (“to curse”), from Old English ācursian, from ā + cursen, from curs (“curse”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of accurse
senses_topics:
|
12217 | word:
ceramic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ceramic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
ceramic
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek κεραμικός (keramikós, “potter's”), from κέραμος (kéramos, “potter's clay”), perhaps from a pre-Hellenic word or from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₂- (“to heat, burn, fire”).
senses_examples:
text:
A ceramic vase stood on the table.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of material produced by the high-temperature firing of inorganic, nonmetallic rocks and minerals.
senses_topics:
|
12218 | word:
ceramic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ceramic (countable and uncountable, plural ceramics)
forms:
form:
ceramics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ceramic
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek κεραμικός (keramikós, “potter's”), from κέραμος (kéramos, “potter's clay”), perhaps from a pre-Hellenic word or from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₂- (“to heat, burn, fire”).
senses_examples:
text:
Joan made the dish from ceramic.
type:
example
text:
Joe had dozens of ceramics in his apartment.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, usually made from a material, such as clay, then firing it at a high temperature.
An object made of this material
senses_topics:
|
12219 | word:
iceball
word_type:
noun
expansion:
iceball (plural iceballs)
forms:
form:
iceballs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ice + ball.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ball of ice.
senses_topics:
|
12220 | word:
evangelism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
evangelism (countable and uncountable, plural evangelisms)
forms:
form:
evangelisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From evangel + -ism.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of evangelizing.
senses_topics:
|
12221 | word:
maintenance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maintenance (usually uncountable, plural maintenances)
forms:
form:
maintenances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
maintenance
etymology_text:
From Middle English mayntenaunce, from Old French maintenance, from maintenir, from Latin manus tenēre (“to hold in the hand”). By surface analysis, maintain + -ance.
Note that maintain has undergone a sound and spelling change, hence is spelt with -tain-, rather than the -ten- still found in maintenance.
senses_examples:
text:
They are all preventable by proper maintenance, but non-safety critical maintenance has to be evaluated, so failures are an accepted penalty for keeping maintenance costs down.
ref:
2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
Child support.
Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
senses_topics:
law
law
law
biology
natural-sciences |
12222 | word:
generic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
generic (comparative more generic, superlative most generic)
forms:
form:
more generic
tags:
comparative
form:
most generic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
generic
etymology_text:
From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic; thus morphologically parallel with, and a doublet of, general.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] the essence is that such self-describing poets describe what is in them, but not peculiar to them, – what is generic, not what is special and individual.
ref:
1864, Walter Bagehot, “Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry”, in The National Review, volume 19
type:
quotation
text:
"Shrimp" is the generic name for a number of species of sea creature.
type:
example
text:
There are scores of generic names within the order Decapoda, which includes many sea creatures that are called shrimp.
type:
example
text:
Words like salesperson and firefighter are generic.
text:
Both [films] test formal and generic boundaries.
ref:
2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 47
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups (genera) as opposed to specific instances.
Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups (genera) as opposed to specific instances.
Pertaining to genera of life instead of particular species thereof.
lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise
not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.
Relating to gender.
specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene; unisex.
Written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
Having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
Relating to genre.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
|
12223 | word:
generic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
generic (plural generics)
forms:
form:
generics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
generic
etymology_text:
From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic; thus morphologically parallel with, and a doublet of, general.
senses_examples:
text:
[…]a male-centered perspective[…]has resulted in false generics in everyday life[…]
ref:
1998, Jacqueline A. Dienemann, Nursing administration: managing patient care
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A product sold under a generic name.
A wine that is a combination of several wines, or made from a combination of several grape varieties.
A term that specifies neither male nor female.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
12224 | word:
perception
word_type:
noun
expansion:
perception (countable and uncountable, plural perceptions)
forms:
form:
perceptions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
perception
etymology_text:
From Middle English percepcioun, from Middle French percepcion, from Latin perceptiō (“a receiving or collecting, perception, comprehension”), from perceptus (“perceived, observed”), perfect passive participle of percipiō (“I perceive, observe”); see perceive.
senses_examples:
text:
have perception of time
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
Conscious understanding of something.
Vision (ability)
Acuity
senses_topics:
|
12225 | word:
could
word_type:
verb
expansion:
could
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English coude, couthe, cuthe, from Old English cūþe, past indicative and past subjunctive form of cunnan (“to be able”) (compare related cūþ, whence English couth). The 'l' was added in the early 16th century by analogy with should and would; this was probably helped by the tendency for 'l' to be lost in those words (and so not written, leading to shudd, wode, etc).
senses_examples:
text:
Before I was blind, I could see very well.
type:
example
text:
I think he could do it if he really wanted to.
text:
I wish I could fly!
text:
Could I borrow your coat?
type:
example
text:
Could you proofread this email?
type:
example
text:
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
ref:
2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
We could rearrange the time if you like.
type:
example
text:
You could try adding more salt to the soup.
type:
example
text:
I haven't could sleep.
ref:
1981, Anthony Warner, English Auxiliaries: Structure and History, published 1993, page 222
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of can
conditional of can
Used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact).
conditional of can
Used to politely ask for permission to do something.
conditional of can
Used to politely ask for someone else to do something.
conditional of can
Used to show the possibility that something might happen.
conditional of can
Used to suggest something.
past participle of can
senses_topics:
|
12226 | word:
could
word_type:
noun
expansion:
could (plural coulds)
forms:
form:
coulds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English coude, couthe, cuthe, from Old English cūþe, past indicative and past subjunctive form of cunnan (“to be able”) (compare related cūþ, whence English couth). The 'l' was added in the early 16th century by analogy with should and would; this was probably helped by the tendency for 'l' to be lost in those words (and so not written, leading to shudd, wode, etc).
senses_examples:
text:
When the golf ball is there, the whole self-interference package — the hopes, worries, and fears; the thoughts on how-to and how-not-to; the woulds, the coulds, and the shoulds — is there too.
ref:
1996, Fred Shoemaker, Extraordinary Golf: The Art of the Possible, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
Shushona you must learn to rightfully prioritize all the woulds, shoulds and coulds of your life.
ref:
2010, Shushona Novos, The Personal Universal: A Guidebook for Spiritual Evolution, page 395
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
senses_topics:
|
12227 | word:
tainted
word_type:
adj
expansion:
tainted (comparative more tainted, superlative most tainted)
forms:
form:
more tainted
tags:
comparative
form:
most tainted
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Hey, get that away from me! It was bought with tainted money.
type:
example
text:
Do not use tainted values in SQL queries.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Corrupted or filled with imperfections.
Originating from an untrusted source.
senses_topics:
|
12228 | word:
tainted
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tainted
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of taint
senses_topics:
|
12229 | word:
semiconductor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
semiconductor (plural semiconductors)
forms:
form:
semiconductors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
semiconductor
etymology_text:
From semi- + conductor.
senses_examples:
text:
Holonyms: chip, microchip, integrated circuit
text:
Integrated circuits are made from semiconductors, especially silicon.
type:
example
text:
In this sense we are to understand the following table in which bodies are classed as conductors, semiconductors, and nonconductors; those bodies being conveniently designated as conductors which, when applied to an electroscope charged with either kind of electricity discharge it almost instantaneously; semiconductors being those which discharge it in a short but measurable time, a few seconds, for instance; while nonconductors effect no discharge even, in the course of a minute.
ref:
1876, Adolphe Ganot, Natural Philosophy for General Readers and Young Persons, page 422
type:
quotation
text:
The following table of conductors may therefore be used in inverse order as a table of resistances, the good conductors being bodies of slight resistance, the semiconductors being bodies of great resistance, and the insulators being bodies of so great resistance that they almost effectually oppose the passage of any current.
ref:
1901, George W. Jacoby, A System of Physiologic Therapeutics: Electrotherapy
type:
quotation
text:
Near-synonyms: chip, microchip, integrated circuit
text:
The company supplies semiconductors to laptop, server, and smartphone manufacturers.
type:
example
text:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Wednesday said its revenues increased more sharply in the first quarter of 2024 than in any previous quarter since 2022 following a surge in demand for microchips driven by the artificial-intelligence boom. TSMC, which supplies semiconductors to top companies including Apple and Nvidia, posted a 16.5% increase in its first-quarter sales to NT$592.64 billion ($18.54 billion), in a sign the global chip market has now started recovering from the major slump that hit sales in 2023.
ref:
2024 April 10, Louis Goss, “Chip maker TSMC posts sharpest increase in sales since 2022 following AI boom”, in MarketWatch, retrieved 2024-05-08
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A substance with electrical properties intermediate between a good conductor and a good insulator.
Ellipsis of semiconductor device.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business |
12230 | word:
Piedmontese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Piedmontese (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Piedmont + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or relating to Piedmont, a region in the northwest of Italy.
senses_topics:
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12231 | word:
Piedmontese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Piedmontese (plural Piedmonteses or Piedmontese)
forms:
form:
Piedmonteses
tags:
plural
form:
Piedmontese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Piedmont + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or a resident of Piedmont.
A breed of double-muscled domestic cattle that originated in Piedmont, Italy.
senses_topics:
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12232 | word:
Piedmontese
word_type:
name
expansion:
Piedmontese
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Piedmont + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Gallo-Italic language spoken in Piedmont.
senses_topics:
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12233 | word:
liturgical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
liturgical (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Our almost liturgical repetition of the phrase "gay brothers and sisters" too often echoes with a hollow resonance.
ref:
1974 April 13, A. Nolder Gay, “The View from the Closet”, in Gay Community News, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to liturgy.
senses_topics:
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12234 | word:
assume
word_type:
verb
expansion:
assume (third-person singular simple present assumes, present participle assuming, simple past and past participle assumed)
forms:
form:
assumes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
assuming
tags:
participle
present
form:
assumed
tags:
participle
past
form:
assumed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin assūmō (“accept, take”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + sūmō (“take up, assume”).
senses_examples:
text:
We assume that, as her parents were dentists, she knows quite a bit about dentistry.
type:
example
text:
Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
ref:
2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Jones will assume the position of a lifeguard until a proper replacement is found.
type:
example
text:
His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.
ref:
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.
ref:
2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
He assumed an air of indifference.
type:
example
text:
ambition assuming the mask of religion.
ref:
a. 1809,Beilby Porteus, sermon
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof
To take on a position, duty or form
To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate
To receive, adopt (a person)
To adopt (an idea or cause)
senses_topics:
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12235 | word:
lexicon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lexicon (plural lexica or lexicons)
forms:
form:
lexica
tags:
plural
form:
lexicons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
William Fulke
lexicon
lexicon (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Through Middle French or directly from New Latin lexicon, from Byzantine Greek λεξικόν (lexikón, “a lexicon, a dictionary”), ellipsis from Ancient Greek λεξικὸν βιβλίον (lexikòn biblíon, literally “a book of words”), from λεξικός (lexikós, “of words”), from λέξις (léxis, “a saying, speech, word”), from λέγω (légō, “to speak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).
Attested at least since 1583 (in William Fulke's A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue) in the sense 'a dictionary of a classical language'.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: lexis
text:
Coordinate term: idiolect
text:
the baseball lexicon
type:
example
text:
a baseball lexicon
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The vocabulary of a language.
A dictionary that includes or focuses on lexemes.
A dictionary of Classical Greek, Hebrew, Latin, or Aramaic.
The lexicology of a programming language. (Usually called lexical structure.)
Any dictionary.
The vocabulary used by or known to an individual. (Also called lexical knowledge.)
A set of vocabulary specific to a certain subject.
A set of vocabulary specific to a certain subject.
A list thereof.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
|
12236 | word:
brook
word_type:
verb
expansion:
brook (third-person singular simple present brooks, present participle brooking, simple past and past participle brooked)
forms:
form:
brooks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
brooking
tags:
participle
present
form:
brooked
tags:
participle
past
form:
brooked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
brook
etymology_text:
From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English brūcan (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūkan, from Proto-Germanic *brūkaną (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to enjoy”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian bruke (“to need”), Dutch bruiken (“to use”), German Low German bruken (“to need”), German brauchen (“to need”), Swedish bruka (“to use”), Icelandic brúka (“to use”).
senses_examples:
text:
brook no refusal
type:
example
text:
I will not brook any disobedience.
type:
example
text:
I will brook no impertinence.
type:
example
text:
After delivering the reply he ordered the annalists, who have charge of the knots, to take note of it and include it in their tradition. By now the Spaniards, who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians
ref:
1966, Garcilaso de la Vega, H. V. Livermore, Karen Spalding, Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (Abridged), Hackett Publishing, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
The norm is submission to the supposed iron laws of technological inevitability that brook no impediment.
ref:
2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 13, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
type:
quotation
text:
The faith in destiny and moral certainty claimed by would-be liberators brooks no resistance, and to register objections to their devotion is to be seen as the enemy of rightness.
ref:
2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club
type:
quotation
text:
On just the first day of the war, more than 1,300 protesters across Russia, many of them chanting “No to war,” were detained, The Times reported, quoting a rights group. That’s no small number in a country where Putin brooks little dissent.
ref:
2022 February 25, Thomas L. Friedman, “We Have Never Been Here Before”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.
To enjoy the use of; make use of; profit by; to use, enjoy, possess, or hold.
To earn; deserve.
senses_topics:
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12237 | word:
brook
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brook (plural brooks)
forms:
form:
brooks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
brook
etymology_text:
From Middle English brook, from Old English brōc (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōk (“stream”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
A water meadow.
Low, marshy ground.
senses_topics:
|
12238 | word:
pager
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pager (plural pagers)
forms:
form:
pagers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From page + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).
senses_examples:
text:
Before he could bring it down, the pager clipped to his belt went off. Alan pushed the button that turned the hateful gadget off and stood indecisively in front of the shop door a moment longer […]
ref:
1991, Stephen King, Needful Things, page 355
type:
quotation
text:
more is a pager. The basic purpose of a pager is that it lets you view the contents of a file without actually having to open the file.
ref:
2006, James Duncan Davidson, Jason Deraleau, Running Mac OS X Tiger, O'Reilly, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
Sunday papers kept growing in bulk, however. The Boston Globes standard eight-page Sunday offering swelled to forty pages in 1895, and sixty pages soon after. The New York World issued a record-breaking hundred-pager' in 1893 to celebrate its tenth anniversary under Pulitzer's ownership.
ref:
2019, Vincent DiGirolamo, Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 309–310
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time.
Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
12239 | word:
angelology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
angelology (countable and uncountable, plural angelologies)
forms:
form:
angelologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From angel + -ology.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The study of angels. Angels have been grouped into nine categories or “choirs,” from lowest to highest: angel, virtue, archangel, power, principality, dominion, throne, cherub, and seraph.
senses_topics:
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12240 | word:
free time
word_type:
noun
expansion:
free time (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I love to play football in my free time.
type:
example
text:
If you have some free time tomorrow, let’s go and watch a film.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Time when one is not working.
senses_topics:
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12241 | word:
consciousness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
consciousness (countable and uncountable, plural consciousnesses)
forms:
form:
consciousnesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From conscious + -ness.
senses_examples:
text:
Consciousness is universal and precedes even the formation of our solar system.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 39
type:
quotation
text:
The pantheistic mainstream asari religion is siari, which translates roughly as "All is one." The faithful agree on certain core truths: the universe is a consciousness, every life within it is an aspect of the greater whole, and death is a merging of one's spiritual energy back into the greater universal consciousness. Siarists don't specifically believe in reincarnation; they believe that spiritual energy returned to the universal consciousness upon death will eventually be used to fill new mortal vessels.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Asari: Religion Codex entry
type:
quotation
text:
Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
ref:
2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
senses_topics:
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12242 | word:
deduce
word_type:
verb
expansion:
deduce (third-person singular simple present deduces, present participle deducing, simple past and past participle deduced)
forms:
form:
deduces
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
deducing
tags:
participle
present
form:
deduced
tags:
participle
past
form:
deduced
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
deduce
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English deducen (“to demonstrate, prove, show; to argue, infer; to bring, lead; to turn (something) to a use; to deduct”), borrowed from Latin dēdūcere, the present active infinitive of dēdūcō (“to lead or bring out or away; to accompany, conduct, escort; (figuratively) to derive, discover, deduce”); from dē- (prefix meaning ‘from, away from’) + dūcere (the present active infinitive of dūcō (“to conduct, guide, lead; to draw, pull; to consider, regard, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to lead; to draw, pull”)).
senses_examples:
text:
[T]he puritan buyldeth directly vpon the proteſtants firſt groundes in religion, & deduceth therof clearly and by ordinary conſequence al his concluſions, which the proteſtant cannot deny by divinity, but only by pollicy & humane ordination, or by turning to catholique anſwers contrary to ther owne principles: […]
ref:
1593 September 11, [Robert Persons?], “The Second Parte of This Letter Conteyning Certaine Considerations of State vppon the Former Relation”, in [Henry Walpole], transl., Nevves from Spayne and Holland Conteyning an Information of Inglish Affayres in Spayne vvith a Conferrence Made theruppon in Amsterdame of Holland. […], [Amsterdam]: [A. Conincx], →OCLC, folio [29], recto and verso
type:
quotation
text:
From the comparative weight or lightneſs of the Air at different times, he deduceth alſo the riſing and falling of Vapours in it.
ref:
1685 April 24, [John] Wallis, “A Discourse Concerning the Air’s Gravity, Observd in the Baroscope, Occasioned by that of Dr. [George] Garden; […]”, in Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume XV, number 171, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Sam[uel] Smith […]; and Hen[ry] Clements […], published 20 May 1685 [Julian calendar; 30 May 1685], →DOI, →OCLC, page 1007
type:
quotation
text:
Now Principles, when deduced by Diſcourſe of ſound Reaſon, may, from the Content of Mankind, take the Name and Force of a Law; but the Faculty which deduceth thoſe Principles, cannot with the leaſt Propriety be deemed a Law. This is confounding Cauſes with Effects, and attributing the Property to the Faculty creating, which only belongs to the Subject created.
ref:
1756, “An Abstract of the Reciprocal Duties of Representatives and Their Constituents, on Constitutional Principles”, in A New System of Patriot Policy. Containing the Genuine Recantation of the British Cicero. […], London: […] Jacob Robinson, […], →OCLC, section IV, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
The Spring whence thou [Hugh Myddelton] deduced'st the ample stream, / The Poet's and Historian's theme, / Trenching thy mighty aqueduct a way, / 'Till as the humble plains, the aspiring hills obey.
ref:
1821 July, A. Heraud [John Abraham Heraud?], “Apostrophe to the New River”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine: And Historical Chronicle, volume XCI, part 2 (New Series, volume XIV), London: […] John Nichols and Son, […]; and sold by John Harris and Son (successors to Mrs. [Elizabeth] Newbery), […]; and by Perthes and Besser, […], →OCLC, page 66, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Do not, my children, O do not accustom yourselves to such warfares, / Nor on your country's vitals thus turn your invincible valor: / Sooner refrain thou, thou who deducest thy race from Olympus!
ref:
1888, Virgil, “Book VI”, in Oliver Crane, transl., Virgil’s Æneid, […], New York, N.Y.: The Baker & Taylor Co., […], →OCLC, page 123, lines 832–834
type:
quotation
text:
to deduce a part from the whole
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.
To examine, explain, or record (something) in an orderly manner.
To obtain (something) from some source; to derive.
To be derived or obtained from some source.
To take away (something); to deduct, to subtract (something).
To lead (something) forth.
senses_topics:
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12243 | word:
simulacrum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
simulacrum (plural simulacra or simulacrums)
forms:
form:
simulacra
tags:
plural
form:
simulacrums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin simulācrum (“image, likeness”), from simulāre + -crum (a variant of -culum, from Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, a suffix forming instrument nouns). Simulāre is the present active infinitive of simulō (“to represent, simulate”) from similis (“similar (to)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; together”).
The plural form simulacra is a learned borrowing from Latin simulācra.
senses_examples:
text:
a simulacrum of a New York studio apartment
type:
example
text:
The future just wants more consumers. The future is more newly arrived college grads and tourists in some fruitless search for authenticity. The future is more overpriced Pabsts at dive-bar simulacrums.
ref:
2018, Ling Ma, chapter 1, in Severance, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing.
A thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities; a thing which simulates another thing; an imitation, a semblance.
senses_topics:
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12244 | word:
Philistine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Philistine (plural Philistines or (archaic) Philistim)
forms:
form:
Philistines
tags:
plural
form:
Philistim
tags:
archaic
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English Philistyne, Philisten [and other forms], from Old English Filistina, Fillestina (genitive plural), from Old French Philistin (modern French Philistin) and Late Latin Philistinus, from Koine Greek Φυλιστῖνοι (Phulistînoi), a variant of Φυλιστιίμ (Phulistiím), Φυλιστιείμ (Phulistieím) (compare Koine Greek Παλαιστῖνοι (Palaistînoi)), from Hebrew פְּלִשְׁתִּים (p'lishtím, plural noun), from פְּלִשְׁתִּי (p'lishtí, “Philistine”, adjective), from פְּלֶשֶׁת (p'léshet, “Philistia”). The English word is cognate with Akkadian 𒆳𒉿𒇺𒋫 (ᴷᵁᴿpi-lis-ta, “Pilistu”), 𒆳𒉺𒆷𒊍𒌓 (ᴷᵁᴿpa-la-as-tu₂ /Palastu/), 𒆳𒉿𒇺𒋫𒀀𒀀 (ᴷᵁᴿpi-liš-ta-a-a /Pilištayu/, “(people) of the Pilištu lands”), and is a doublet of Palestine.
The archaic noun plural form Philistim is from Middle English Philistiim [and other forms], from Late Latin Philisthiim, from Koine Greek Φυλιστιίμ (Phulistiím), Φυλιστιείμ (Phulistieím); see further above.
The adjective is derived from the noun. For the etymology of the "ignorant person" sense, see philistine.
senses_examples:
text:
It is Shakespearean, you Philistine!
type:
example
text:
[W]hen he [Christoph Friedrich Nicolai] wrote against [Immanuel] Kant's philosophy, without comprehending it; and judged of poetry as he judged of Brunswick mum, by its utility, many people thought him wrong. A man of such spiritual habilitudes is now by the Germans called a Philister, Philistine: Nicolai earned for himself the painful pre-eminence of being Erz-Philister, Arch-Philistine. [...] At present the literary Philistine seldom shows, never parades, himself in Germany; and when he does appear, he is in the last stage of emaciation.
ref:
1824, Thomas Carlyle, “Goethe”, in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, edited by H[enry] D[uff] Traill, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels: Translated from the German of Goethe […] (The Works of Thomas Carlyle; XXIII), centenary edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, footnote 1, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
If it were not for this purging effect wrought upon our minds by culture, the whole world, the future as well as the present, would inevitably belong to the Philistines.
ref:
1867 July, Matthew Arnold, “Culture and Its Enemies”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume XVI, number 91, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
Even the most pig-headed vestry-man feels that something unpleasant has been said about him when he has been called a Philistine, though he may have the vaguest possible conception of its precise meaning. [...] It is used so vaguely by people who are themselves Philistines of the deepest dye, that it is in danger of losing its meaning.
ref:
1868 July 18, “Nicknames”, in Every Saturday: A Journal of Choice Reading, Selected from Foreign Current Literature, volume VI, number 133, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., successors to Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 92, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. [Matthew] Arnold has no patience with the middle-class ‘Philistines’ the dullards and haters of light, who care only for what is material and practical.
ref:
1880, “MATTHEW ARNOLD”, in Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers, editors, Chambers’s Cyclopædia of English Literature […], 3rd edition, volume VII, New York, N.Y.: American Book Exchange, […], →OCLC, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
"Oh, the Philistine! The boorish Philistine!" he murmured; [...]
ref:
1905 July 1, F. H. Bolton, “That Poetic Johnny”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, volume XXVII, number 1381, London: “Boy’s Own Paper” Office, […], →OCLC, page 635, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Colored Pencils: 'I'm sick and tired of Philistines like you ERASING all of my hard work, man.'
ref:
2020 July 17, Intelligent Systems, Paper Mario: The Origami King, Nintendo, level/area: Overlook Tower
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A non-Semitic person from ancient Philistia, a region in the southwest Levant in the Middle East.
An opponent (of the speaker, writer, etc); an enemy, a foe.
In German universities: a person not associated with the university; a non-academic or non-student; a townsperson.
Alternative letter-case form of philistine (“a person who is ignorant or uneducated; specifically, a person who lacks appreciation of or is antagonistic towards art or culture, and who has pedestrian tastes”)
senses_topics:
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12245 | word:
Philistine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Philistine (comparative more Philistine, superlative most Philistine)
forms:
form:
more Philistine
tags:
comparative
form:
most Philistine
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English Philistyne, Philisten [and other forms], from Old English Filistina, Fillestina (genitive plural), from Old French Philistin (modern French Philistin) and Late Latin Philistinus, from Koine Greek Φυλιστῖνοι (Phulistînoi), a variant of Φυλιστιίμ (Phulistiím), Φυλιστιείμ (Phulistieím) (compare Koine Greek Παλαιστῖνοι (Palaistînoi)), from Hebrew פְּלִשְׁתִּים (p'lishtím, plural noun), from פְּלִשְׁתִּי (p'lishtí, “Philistine”, adjective), from פְּלֶשֶׁת (p'léshet, “Philistia”). The English word is cognate with Akkadian 𒆳𒉿𒇺𒋫 (ᴷᵁᴿpi-lis-ta, “Pilistu”), 𒆳𒉺𒆷𒊍𒌓 (ᴷᵁᴿpa-la-as-tu₂ /Palastu/), 𒆳𒉿𒇺𒋫𒀀𒀀 (ᴷᵁᴿpi-liš-ta-a-a /Pilištayu/, “(people) of the Pilištu lands”), and is a doublet of Palestine.
The archaic noun plural form Philistim is from Middle English Philistiim [and other forms], from Late Latin Philisthiim, from Koine Greek Φυλιστιίμ (Phulistiím), Φυλιστιείμ (Phulistieím); see further above.
The adjective is derived from the noun. For the etymology of the "ignorant person" sense, see philistine.
senses_examples:
text:
[Robert] Walpole, moreover, left England not only more corrupt than he found it, but crasser and more Philistine.
ref:
1948 September 13, “18th Century England”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Life, volume 25, number 11, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
Visitors to the area are strongly recommended to have a look around the castle, for even the most Philistine of wild water canoeists cannot fail to be impressed by the enormous armoury, fine paintings and wonderful furnishings that seem to outclass all other museums and castles in the North East.
ref:
1991, Nick Doll, Canoeist’s Guide to the North East […], Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone Press, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
Miles was taken seriously by the great dames of Manhattan society and was not scorned by even the most Philistine of their husbands.
ref:
2002, Louis Auchincloss, “The Heiress”, in Manhattan Monologues, New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 33
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Originating from ancient Philistia; of or pertaining to the ancient Philistines.
Alternative letter-case form of philistine (“ignorant or uneducated; specifically, lacking appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture, and having pedestrian tastes”).
senses_topics:
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12246 | word:
laughable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
laughable (comparative more laughable, superlative most laughable)
forms:
form:
more laughable
tags:
comparative
form:
most laughable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From laugh + -able.
senses_examples:
text:
At this our first dinner at the Government House a very laughable incident occurred.
ref:
1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 91
text:
It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities, especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as the king of winking self-parody.
ref:
2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
“Maybe it made them feel better about their lives that a young prince’s life was laughable. Never mind that my mother didn’t meet Major Hewitt until long after I was born,” he wrote.
ref:
2023 January 6, “Prince Harry book Spare: King Charles made ‘sadistic’ joke about Prince Harry’s ‘real’ dad”, in NZ Herald
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fitted to excite laughter; humorous.
Worthless; worthy of contempt or derision.
senses_topics:
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12247 | word:
unnatural
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unnatural (comparative more unnatural, superlative most unnatural)
forms:
form:
more unnatural
tags:
comparative
form:
most unnatural
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English unnatural, unnaturel, equivalent to un- + natural.
senses_examples:
text:
Time wore heavily on with Winnie Santon, after Natalie had left them. Left as she was, much in her unnatural mother's society, who seemed to be never more pleased than when she might thwart her designs, or, in some manner act so as to make those about her uncomfortable, it was not to be wondered at, if she did sigh for other days, and a confidant, to whom she might unburden her heart.
ref:
1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not natural.
Not occurring in nature, the environment or atmosphere
Going against nature; perverse.
senses_topics:
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12248 | word:
hallucination
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hallucination (countable and uncountable, plural hallucinations)
forms:
form:
hallucinations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Sir Thomas Browne
hallucination
etymology_text:
Derives from the verb hallucinate, from Latin hallucinatus. Compare French hallucination. The first known usage in the English language is from Sir Thomas Browne.
senses_examples:
text:
Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity.
ref:
1871, William Alexander Hammond, A Treatise on the Diseases of the Nervous System
type:
quotation
text:
The authorities said that the spinach had caused “possible food-related toxic reactions” with those affected experiencing symptoms including delirium, hallucinations, blurred vision, rapid heartbeat and fever.
ref:
2022 December 18, Yan Zhuang, “How Can Tainted Spinach Cause Hallucinations?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Chatbots even forget that they are a bot and experience "hallucinations", Meta's description for when a bot confidently says something that is not true.
ref:
2022 August 8, Liam Tung, “Meta warns its new chatbot may forget that it's a bot”, in ZDNET
type:
quotation
text:
Hallucinations are about adhering to the truth; when A.I. systems get confused, they have a bad habit of making things up rather than admitting their difficulties.
ref:
2022 December 16, Farhad Manjoo, “ChatGPT Has a Devastating Sense of Humor”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
It may tell you that the official currency of Switzerland is the euro (it’s actually the Swiss franc) or that Mark Twain’s Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County could not only jump but talk. A.I. researchers call this generation of untruths “hallucination.”
ref:
2023 January 10, Cade Metz, “A.I. Is Becoming More Conversational. But Will It Get More Honest?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
The hallucinations common to AI also came under fire in the suit for potentially damaging the value of the Times' reputation, and possibly damaging human health as a side effect. “A GPT model completely fabricated that “The New York Times published an article on January 10, 2020, titled ‘Study Finds Possible Link between Orange Juice and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma,’” the suit alleges. “The Times never published such an article.”
ref:
2023 December 27, John Timmer, “NY Times sues Open AI, Microsoft over copyright infringement”, in Ars Technica
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens.
The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.
A confident but incorrect response given by an artificial intelligence; a confabulation.
senses_topics:
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12249 | word:
evangelize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
evangelize (third-person singular simple present evangelizes, present participle evangelizing, simple past and past participle evangelized)
forms:
form:
evangelizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
evangelizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
evangelized
tags:
participle
past
form:
evangelized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French évangéliser, equivalent to evangel + -ize, from Late Latin evangelizare, from Ancient Greek εὐαγγελίζω (euangelízō). Displaced native Old English godspellian (literally “to gospel”).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: proselytize
text:
[…] nor is it the task of the Muslim to "evangelize" the unbelieving world.
ref:
2002, Ergun Mehmet Caner, Emir Fethi Caner, Unveiling Islam: An Insider's Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To tell people about (a particular branch of) Christianity, especially in order to convert them; to preach the gospel to.
To preach any ideology to those who have not yet been converted to it.
To be enthusiastic about something, and to attempt to share that enthusiasm with others; to promote.
senses_topics:
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12250 | word:
septillion
word_type:
num
expansion:
septillion (plural septillions)
forms:
form:
septillions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French septillion, from sept- (“seven”) + -illion.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A trillion trillion: 1 followed by 24 zeros, 10²⁴.
A billion quintillion: 1 followed by 42 zeros, 10⁴².
senses_topics:
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12251 | word:
mechanics
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mechanics (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
mechanics
etymology_text:
From Latin mēchanicus, from Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós), from μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “machine, tool”).
senses_examples:
text:
the mechanics of a board game
text:
It was anticipated that children who encountered difficulty with the mechanics of word processing could turn to the coach for help rather than interrupt Margaret's work with a reading group.
ref:
1991, Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Cynthia L. Paris, Jessica L. Kahn, Learning to Write Differently, page 99
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The branch of physics that deals with the action of forces on material objects with mass
The design and construction of machines.
Spelling and punctuation.
Operation in general; workings.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
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12252 | word:
mechanics
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mechanics
forms:
wikipedia:
mechanics
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of mechanic
senses_topics:
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12253 | word:
ce
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ce (plural ces)
forms:
form:
ces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[T]hat spelling, but not the pronunciation, supplies our own name for the letter: “ce” or “cee.”
ref:
2003, David Sacks, The Alphabet: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z, page 89
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of cee (“the letter C”)
senses_topics:
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12254 | word:
omega
word_type:
noun
expansion:
omega (plural omegas or omegala)
forms:
form:
omegas
tags:
plural
form:
omegala
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga), meaning “great ω” (omega is a long vowel in Ancient Greek).
senses_examples:
text:
The fact that the letter was incised above the line indicates that it is probably an omega.
ref:
2013, Albert Schachter, Fabienne Marchand, “Fresh Light on the Institutions and Religious Life of Thespiai: Sixe New Inscriptions from the Thespiai Survey”, in Paraskevi Martzavou, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, editors, Epigraphical Approaches to the Post-Classical, Polis, page 284
type:
quotation
text:
alpha and omega
type:
example
text:
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
ref:
1978, New International Version, Revelation 22:13
type:
quotation
text:
And there is always the Omega Option. At any time you can go to Manhome, go down to the vaults, lift the black cover on your clone's stasis chamber, and push the black button.
ref:
2012, FX Moore, Confed: 2721: Xenocide War, page 383
type:
quotation
text:
The ratio between the rho and omega cross section is obtained.
ref:
2013, Issues in General Physics Research, page 1084
type:
quotation
text:
Often omegas go into heat and release pheromones that drive alphas wild.
ref:
2013, Kristina Busse, “Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 317
type:
quotation
text:
By writing a male character as an omega, experiences of being treated as other in female-coded ways are imagined to be experienced by a character who represents the male norm.
ref:
2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 5
text:
Sweet as Peaches on the Tongue can be defined as the typical dark A/B/O story, wherein a rich alpha gentleman (Dr. Hannibal Lecter) comes across a very young, virginal omega (Will Graham) by accident.
ref:
2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, “When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom”, in Ashton Spacey, editor, The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction, page 126
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω.
The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence.
Angular velocity; symbol: ω.
A transfinite ordinal number referring to the next position after ordering a countably infinite set.
An omega male.
The percentage change in an option value divided by the percentage change in the underlying asset's price.
In omegaverse fiction, a person of a submissive secondary sex driven by biology, magic, or other means to bond with an alpha, with males of this type often being able to get pregnant.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
business
finance
lifestyle |
12255 | word:
omega
word_type:
adj
expansion:
omega (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga), meaning “great ω” (omega is a long vowel in Ancient Greek).
senses_examples:
text:
Omega props, dude.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ultimate; of the highest degree. Massive, ineffable.
senses_topics:
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12256 | word:
omega
word_type:
adv
expansion:
omega (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga), meaning “great ω” (omega is a long vowel in Ancient Greek).
senses_examples:
text:
Whatever your plan is, I just think this idea's omega stupid. Ain't you got something better?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ultimately, most, supremely.
senses_topics:
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12257 | word:
sextillion
word_type:
num
expansion:
sextillion (plural sextillions)
forms:
form:
sextillions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From sext- (“six”) + -illion; originally the sixth power of a million, 10³⁶.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 10²¹.
A million quintillion: 1 followed by 36 zeros, 10³⁶.
senses_topics:
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12258 | word:
pragmatic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pragmatic (comparative more pragmatic, superlative most pragmatic)
forms:
form:
more pragmatic
tags:
comparative
form:
most pragmatic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French pragmatique, from Late Latin pragmaticus (“relating to civil affair; in Latin, as a noun, a person versed in the law who furnished arguments and points to advocates and orators, a kind of attorney”), from Ancient Greek πραγματικός (pragmatikós, “active, versed in affairs”), from πρᾶγμα (prâgma, “a thing done, a fact”), in plural πράγματα (prágmata, “affairs, state affairs, public business, etc.”), from πράσσω (prássō, “to do”) (whence English practical).
senses_examples:
text:
The sturdy furniture in the student lounge was pragmatic, but unattractive.
type:
example
text:
Nor indeed are these restrictions pragmatic in nature: i.e. the ill-formedness of the heed-sentences in (60) is entirely different in kind from the oddity of sentences like:
(61) !That man will eat any car which thinks heʼs stupid
which is purely pragmatic (i.e. lies in the fact that (61) describes the kind of bizarre situation which just doesnʼt happen in the world we are familiar with, where cars donʼt think, and people donʼt eat cars).
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 8, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 423
type:
quotation
text:
Polybius’s pragmatic history is simply the history of affairs, as distinguished from the descriptive and often poetical character which much history before his time had.
ref:
1854 March, J. G., “On the Dating of Ancient History”, in Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology, volume 1, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
[…]such objects belonged to the domain of the comic poet, and of the lighter kinds of poetry. For the more serious kinds, for pragmatic poetry, to use an excellent expression of Polybius, they were more difficult and severe in the range of subjects which they permitted.
ref:
1856, Matthew Arnold, Poems, page 16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.
Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
Interfering in the affairs of others; officious; meddlesome.
senses_topics:
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12259 | word:
pragmatic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pragmatic (plural pragmatics)
forms:
form:
pragmatics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French pragmatique, from Late Latin pragmaticus (“relating to civil affair; in Latin, as a noun, a person versed in the law who furnished arguments and points to advocates and orators, a kind of attorney”), from Ancient Greek πραγματικός (pragmatikós, “active, versed in affairs”), from πρᾶγμα (prâgma, “a thing done, a fact”), in plural πράγματα (prágmata, “affairs, state affairs, public business, etc.”), from πράσσω (prássō, “to do”) (whence English practical).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A man of business.
A busybody.
A public decree.
senses_topics:
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12260 | word:
Brittany
word_type:
name
expansion:
Brittany
forms:
wikipedia:
Brittany (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English Bretany, Brytany, itself borrowed from Medieval Latin Britannia, applied to Brittany from at least the 6th century, and reinforced by Middle French Bretagne. See Britannia for more. Doublet of Britain and Britannia.
senses_examples:
text:
So Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther Pendragon fled away to that part of France called Brittany, where they remained in saftey for many years.
ref:
1905, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Our Island Story, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
- - - No one has family names. These girls with rooster hair I see on the streets. They pick the names. They're the mothers." "I have a granddaughter named Brittany," Hazel said. " And I have heard of a little girl called Cappuccino." "Cappuccino! Is that true? Why don't they call one Cassaulet? Fettuccini? Alsace-Lorraine?"
ref:
1990, Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
Names of the times. Borrowed from soap opera characters of prominence fifteen years ago, who have since been replaced by spiffy new models: the social-climbing Brittany now an unscrupulous Burke, the generous Pamela a refitted, urbanized Parker.
ref:
1999, Andrew Pyper, chapter 10, in Lost Girls
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An administrative region, historical province, and peninsula in northwest France.
The British Isles.
A female given name transferred from the place name, of 1980s and 1990s American usage.
senses_topics:
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12261 | word:
Brittany
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Brittany (plural Brittanies)
forms:
form:
Brittanies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Brittany (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English Bretany, Brytany, itself borrowed from Medieval Latin Britannia, applied to Brittany from at least the 6th century, and reinforced by Middle French Bretagne. See Britannia for more. Doublet of Britain and Britannia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A coward.
A gun dog of a particular breed.
senses_topics:
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12262 | word:
SVT
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SVT (countable and uncountable, plural SVTs)
forms:
form:
SVTs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of supraventricular tachycardia.
Initialism of standard variable tariff.
senses_topics:
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12263 | word:
communion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
communion (countable and uncountable, plural communions)
forms:
form:
communions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English communion, from Old French comunion, from Ecclesiastical Latin commūniō (“communion”), from Latin commūnis.
senses_examples:
text:
It would be uplifting to think that the ziggurat was the first expression of Near Eastern civilization, for then one could speak about humanity's fascination with the heavens, of the human quest for communion with the infinite.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 159
type:
quotation
text:
It is with the day of her first communion that this narrative of mine begins.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A joining together of minds or spirits; a mental connection.
Holy Communion.
A form of ecclesiastical unity between the Roman Church and another, so that the latter is considered part of the former.
senses_topics:
Christianity
Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism |
12264 | word:
funkadelic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
funkadelic (comparative more funkadelic, superlative most funkadelic)
forms:
form:
more funkadelic
tags:
comparative
form:
most funkadelic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From funk + -adelic.
senses_examples:
text:
It's more or less what we call funkadelic. It's a combination of R&B, psychedelic, and funky African-type beat.
ref:
1969, Steve Wonder (interview) in "Coming of Age at Motown" (2002)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, or relating to, funkadelia.
Having a funky beat.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
12265 | word:
unholy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unholy (comparative unholier or more unholy, superlative unholiest or most unholy)
forms:
form:
unholier
tags:
comparative
form:
more unholy
tags:
comparative
form:
unholiest
tags:
superlative
form:
most unholy
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English unholi, unhaliȝ, from Old English unhāliġ, from Proto-Germanic *unhailagaz, equivalent to un- + holy. Cognate with Scots unhaly, Dutch onheilig, German Low German unhillig, German unheilig, Danish uhellig, Swedish ohelig.
senses_examples:
text:
The priest's unholy behaviour brought the church into disrepute.
type:
example
text:
Essentially, the problem dates back to pre-privatisation, cost-driven British Rail practices which featured an unholy pact between management and unions, whereby management was able to employ fewer drivers and limited pension cost liabilities, while drivers were able to hoover up lots of lucrative Sunday overtime.
ref:
2022 November 16, Nigel Harris, “Endless news... little context”, in RAIL, number 970, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
What an unholy mess your room is in!
type:
example
text:
I've been spending an unholy amount of time trying to write a novel!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted.
Dreadful, terrible, excessive, or otherwise atrocious.
senses_topics:
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12266 | word:
seraph
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seraph (plural seraphs or seraphim or (nonstandard) seraphims)
forms:
form:
seraphs
tags:
plural
form:
seraphim
tags:
plural
form:
seraphims
tags:
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
seraph
etymology_text:
Back-formation of singular from plural seraphim, from Latin seraphim, from Biblical Hebrew שְׂרָפִים (sərāp̄īm), plural form of שָׂרָף (sārāp̄). The plural "seraphims" occurs in the King James Bible (Isaiah chapter 6).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the singular "seraph" may have originated with John Milton, who used it in Book I of Paradise Lost (1667).
senses_examples:
text:
From these uncordial reveries he is roused by a cordial slap on the shoulder, accompanied by a spicy volume of tobacco-smoke, out of which came a voice, sweet as a seraph's
ref:
1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXIII, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A burning serpent, often winged, with human hands and sometimes feet; one of God's entourage. On Earth, they strike with burning poison; in Heaven, with burning coal. A description can be found at the beginning of Isaiah chapter 6.
A six-winged angel; one of the highest choir or order of angels in Christian angelology, ranked above cherubim, and below God. They are the 5th-highest order of angels in Jewish angelology.
senses_topics:
biblical
lifestyle
religion
|
12267 | word:
paradigm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
paradigm (plural paradigms or paradigmata)
forms:
form:
paradigms
tags:
plural
form:
paradigmata
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Established 1475-85 from Late Latin paradīgma, from Ancient Greek παράδειγμα (parádeigma, “pattern”), from παραδείκνυμι (paradeíknumi, “I show [beside] or compare”) + -μα (-ma, “forming nouns concerning the results of actions”).
senses_examples:
text:
Thomas Kuhn's landmark “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” got people talking about paradigm shifts, to the point the word itself now suggests an incomplete or biased perspective.
type:
example
text:
According to the Fourth Circuit, “Coca-Cola” is “the paradigm of a descriptive mark that has acquired secondary meaning”.
ref:
2000, Estate of William F. Jenkins v. Paramount Pictures Corp.
type:
quotation
text:
DRT is a paradigm example of a dynamic semantic theory, […]
ref:
2003, Nicholas Asher, Alex Lascarides, Logics of Conversation, Cambridge University Press, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
The paradigm of "to sing" is "sing, sang, sung". The verb "to ring" follows the same paradigm.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pattern, a way of doing something, especially a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.
An example serving as the model for such a pattern.
A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
12268 | word:
employee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
employee (plural employees)
forms:
form:
employees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From employ + -ee. First attested in the early 19th century, possibly modeled after French employé.
senses_examples:
text:
Holonyms: business, company
text:
One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who provides labor to a company or another person.
senses_topics:
|
12269 | word:
condemned
word_type:
adj
expansion:
condemned (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.
ref:
2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I have written 'was' because it seems that Great British Railways, which has already survived a near-death experience when Harper took over as Transport Secretary in the autumn, may well be back in the condemned cell.
ref:
2023 May 31, Christian Wolmar, “TPE taken back in-house... but don't expect major changes”, in RAIL, number 984, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
And she also faces the risk and the probability that her home will be condemned
ref:
2012 January 16, Mary/Annie (Hoarders), season 5, episode 3, archived from the original on 2022-06-14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.
Having been sharply scolded.
Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
Officially marked uninhabitable.
senses_topics:
|
12270 | word:
condemned
word_type:
noun
expansion:
condemned (plural condemned)
forms:
form:
condemned
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person sentenced to death.
senses_topics:
|
12271 | word:
condemned
word_type:
verb
expansion:
condemned
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of condemn
senses_topics:
|
12272 | word:
terminal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
terminal (plural terminals)
forms:
form:
terminals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
terminal
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”). See term, terminus.
senses_examples:
text:
Terminal 1 is for domestic flights, whereas Terminal 2 is for international flights.
type:
example
text:
A shuttle service runs free of charge between the three terminals.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
the end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals are made available to apparatus.
An electric contact on a battery.
The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
biology
natural-sciences |
12273 | word:
terminal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
terminal (comparative more terminal, superlative most terminal)
forms:
form:
more terminal
tags:
comparative
form:
most terminal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
terminal
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”). See term, terminus.
senses_examples:
text:
terminal cancer
text:
a student's terminal fees
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fatal; resulting in death.
Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
Occurring every term; termly.
senses_topics:
|
12274 | word:
terminal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
terminal (third-person singular simple present terminals, present participle terminaling or terminalling, simple past and past participle terminaled or terminalled)
forms:
form:
terminals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
terminaling
tags:
participle
present
form:
terminalling
tags:
participle
present
form:
terminaled
tags:
participle
past
form:
terminaled
tags:
past
form:
terminalled
tags:
participle
past
form:
terminalled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
terminal
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”). See term, terminus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To store bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) in storage tanks prior to further distribution.
senses_topics:
|
12275 | word:
consecrate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
consecrate (third-person singular simple present consecrates, present participle consecrating, simple past and past participle consecrated)
forms:
form:
consecrates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
consecrating
tags:
participle
present
form:
consecrated
tags:
participle
past
form:
consecrated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin cōnsecrāre, cōnsecrātus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To declare something holy, or make it holy by some procedure.
To ordain as a bishop.
To commit (oneself or one's time) solemnly to some aim or task.
senses_topics:
Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
|
12276 | word:
consecrate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
consecrate (comparative more consecrate, superlative most consecrate)
forms:
form:
more consecrate
tags:
comparative
form:
most consecrate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin cōnsecrāre, cōnsecrātus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.
senses_topics:
|
12277 | word:
echt
word_type:
adj
expansion:
echt (comparative more echt, superlative most echt)
forms:
form:
more echt
tags:
comparative
form:
most echt
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German echt (“real”). The German term originates from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”), contraction of ehacht, variant form of ehaft (“lawful, pertaining to the law”) from ê(e) (“law, marriage”). First use in English appears c. 1916.
senses_examples:
text:
I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.
ref:
1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
And yes, that's what it's about. Some punk writing about sleeping with Ginsberg, despite their fifty-year age difference and homogenous sexuality. What's echt heebish? There's your answer. A hack fag poet and the power to plant him on playlists nationwide.
ref:
2002 March 27, Buck Turgidson, “Heebetudinous”, in alt.california (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken[…].
ref:
2009 January 18, Ross Douthat, “When Buckley Met Reagan”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Proper, real, genuine, true to type.
senses_topics:
|
12278 | word:
currant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
currant (plural currants)
forms:
form:
currants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French raisin de Corinthe (literally “grapes of Corinth, the city in Greece”). Cognate with Dutch krent. Doublet of Corinth.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape, rarely more than 4 mm in diameter when dried.
The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, white, black or red.
A shrub bearing such fruit.
senses_topics:
|
12279 | word:
resistor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
resistor (plural resistors)
forms:
form:
resistors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From resist + -or.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who resists, especially a person who fights against an occupying army.
An electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
12280 | word:
fertilizer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fertilizer (countable and uncountable, plural fertilizers)
forms:
form:
fertilizers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fertilizer
etymology_text:
From fertilize + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants.
A chemical compound created to have the same effect.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
12281 | word:
accommodate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodating, simple past and past participle accommodated)
forms:
form:
accommodates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accommodating
tags:
participle
present
form:
accommodated
tags:
participle
past
form:
accommodated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1530s, from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō; ad + commodō (“make fit, help”); com- + modus (“measure, proportion”) (English mode).
senses_examples:
text:
to accommodate ourselves to circumstances
type:
example
text:
to accommodate differences
type:
example
text:
to accommodate an old friend for a week
type:
example
text:
My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned.
ref:
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68
type:
quotation
text:
to accommodate a friend with a loan
type:
example
text:
to accommodate prophecy to events
type:
example
text:
This venue accommodates three hundred people.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
To provide housing for.
To provide sufficient space for
To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.
To give consideration to; to allow for.
To contain comfortably; to have space for.
To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.
senses_topics:
|
12282 | word:
accommodate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accommodate (comparative more accommodate, superlative most accommodate)
forms:
form:
more accommodate
tags:
comparative
form:
most accommodate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1530s, from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō; ad + commodō (“make fit, help”); com- + modus (“measure, proportion”) (English mode).
senses_examples:
text:
God did not primarily intend to appoint this way of Worſhip, and to impoſe it upon them as that which was moſt proper and agreeable to him ; but that he condeſcended to it, as moſt accommodate to their preſent ſtate and inclination.
ref:
a. 1671, John Tillotson, Sermons Preach’d Upon Several Occaſions, London: A.M., page 181
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
senses_topics:
|
12283 | word:
labor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
labor (countable and uncountable, plural labors)
forms:
form:
labors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
labor
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of labour
senses_topics:
|
12284 | word:
labor
word_type:
verb
expansion:
labor (third-person singular simple present labors, present participle laboring, simple past and past participle labored)
forms:
form:
labors
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
laboring
tags:
participle
present
form:
labored
tags:
participle
past
form:
labored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
labor
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
US standard spelling of labour.
senses_topics:
|
12285 | word:
developer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
developer (plural developers)
forms:
form:
developers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
developer
etymology_text:
From develop + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
ref:
2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products.
A real estate developer; a person or company who prepares a parcel of land for sale, or creates structures on that land.
A film developer; a person who uses chemicals to create photographs from photograph negatives.
A liquid used in the chemical processing of traditional photos.
A reagent used to produce an ingrain color by its action upon some substance on the fiber.
A software developer; a person or company who creates or modifies computer software.
senses_topics:
business
dyeing
manufacturing
textiles
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12286 | word:
multi-million
word_type:
adj
expansion:
multi-million (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From multi- + million.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of multimillion
senses_topics:
|
12287 | word:
multi-billion
word_type:
adj
expansion:
multi-billion (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From multi- + billion.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having more than 1,000,000,000; in the billion range.
more than 1,000,000,000,000; in the old billion range.
senses_topics:
|
12288 | word:
milkshake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
milkshake (plural milkshakes)
forms:
form:
milkshakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
milkshake
etymology_text:
From milk + shake.
senses_examples:
text:
This milkshake under the oil cap, or on the dipstick, indicates a blown head gasket.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thick beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with fruit, chocolate, or other flavoring.
A thin beverage, similar to the above, but with no ice cream or significantly less of it.
A beverage consisting of fruit juice, water, and some milk, as served in Southeast Asia.
Accidental emulsion of oil and water in an engine.
An alkaline supplement administered to a horse to improve its racing performance.
senses_topics:
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports |
12289 | word:
milkshake
word_type:
verb
expansion:
milkshake (third-person singular simple present milkshakes, present participle milkshaking, simple past and past participle milkshaked)
forms:
form:
milkshakes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
milkshaking
tags:
participle
present
form:
milkshaked
tags:
participle
past
form:
milkshaked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
milkshake
etymology_text:
From milk + shake.
senses_examples:
text:
A politician was milkshaked during the protest.
type:
example
text:
Indeed, the day before Farage was milkshaked, Leave EU issued an unauthorised, and now withdrawn, re-edit of a Beastie Boys video, showing him and Ann Widdecombe pouring beer over their political opponents.
ref:
2019 May 26, Stewart Lee, “Are milkshakes the new politics of resistance?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To administer an alkaline supplement to (a horse) to improve its racing performance.
To throw a milkshake at (a person).
senses_topics:
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
|
12290 | word:
doomed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
doomed (comparative more doomed, superlative most doomed)
forms:
form:
more doomed
tags:
comparative
form:
most doomed
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction.
type:
example
text:
Moments later, Courageous sheers out of line, smoke and steam venting through a massive hole in her side, the shells having blasted right through whatever excuse for armor was present and detonated amidst the boiler rooms. She is doomed.
ref:
2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 15:10 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-04
type:
quotation
text:
Bonny Mary Burnet was lost. She left her father's house at nine o'clock on a Wednesday morning, 17th of September, neatly dressed in a white jerkin and green bonnet, with her hay-raik over her shoulder; and that was the last sight she was doomed ever to see of her native cottage.
ref:
1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
Assured of any outcome, whether positive or negative; fated.
senses_topics:
|
12291 | word:
doomed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
doomed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of doom
senses_topics:
|
12292 | word:
chassis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chassis (plural chassis)
forms:
form:
chassis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chassis
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French châssis, from châsse, from Latin capsa (“case”).
senses_examples:
text:
The door being open, Stranleigh walked in unannounced. A two-seated runabout[…]stood by the window, where it could be viewed by passers-by. Further down the room rested a chassis, … .
ref:
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 2, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a mounted gun moves backward and forward.
The base frame of a motor vehicle.
A frame or housing containing electrical or mechanical equipment, such as on a computer.
A woman's buttocks.
senses_topics:
|
12293 | word:
Eucharist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Eucharist (plural Eucharists)
forms:
form:
Eucharists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eukarist, from Old French, from Ecclesiastical Latin eucharistia, from Ancient Greek εὐχαριστία (eukharistía, “gratitude, giving of thanks”). Displaced native Old English hūsl.
senses_examples:
text:
, (informal) church
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Christian sacrament of Holy Communion.
A Christian religious service in which this sacrament is enacted.
The substances received during this sacrament, namely the bread and wine, seen as Christ’s body and blood.
senses_topics:
Christianity
|
12294 | word:
cursed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cursed (comparative curseder or more cursed, superlative cursedest or most cursed)
forms:
form:
curseder
tags:
comparative
form:
more cursed
tags:
comparative
form:
cursedest
tags:
superlative
form:
most cursed
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cursed, cursd, curst, corsed, curset, cursyd, equivalent to curse + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: blursed
text:
“Cursed images, to me, leave you with a general uneasy feeling,” the account’s [@cursedimages] anonymous author told Gizmodo. “There could be certain qualities, like someone looking directly at the camera or an orb floating in the background.”
ref:
2016 October 31, Brian Feldman, “What Makes a Cursed Image?”, in New York
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
hateful; damnable; accursed
Frightening or unsettling; humorously portrayed as such.
senses_topics:
behavior
communication
communications
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
12295 | word:
cursed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cursed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cursed, cursd, curst, corsed, curset, cursyd, equivalent to curse + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of curse
senses_topics:
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12296 | word:
ra
word_type:
intj
expansion:
ra
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"You guys are doing great. Ra ra ra! Go get 'em, guys."
ref:
1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
Ra-ra and all that. So cheerleaders have a harder time climbing flights of stairs?
ref:
2016, Angie Derek, Mafia Secret
type:
quotation
text:
Ra! Ra! You can do it! Ra! Ra! Just get to it!
ref:
2022, Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap, second edition, page 235
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of rah (“exclamation of encouragement”)
senses_topics:
|
12297 | word:
spectrum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spectrum (plural spectra or spectrums)
forms:
form:
spectra
tags:
plural
form:
spectrums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
spectrum
etymology_text:
From Latin spectrum (“appearance, image, apparition”), from speciō (“look at, view”). Doublet of specter. See also scope.
senses_examples:
text:
Near-synonym: sliding scale
text:
As Mr. Obama prepared to take the oath, his approval rating touched a remarkable 70 percent in some polling — a reflection of good will across the political spectrum.
ref:
2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Current 3G technologies can send roughly 1 bit of data - a one or a zero - per second over each 1 Hz of spectrum that the operator owns.
ref:
2010 October 30, Jim Giles, “Jammed!”, in New Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
He punctuated his words with a look into my eyes that might have been read as threatening or menacing by anyone who was not on the spectrum. But I am on the spectrum, and so I stared back at him.
ref:
2022, Percival Everett, Dr. No, Influx Press (2023), page 110
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A range; a continuous, infinite, one-dimensional set, possibly bounded by extremes.
Specifically, a range of colours representing light (electromagnetic radiation) of contiguous frequencies; hence electromagnetic spectrum, visible spectrum, ultraviolet spectrum, etc.
The autism spectrum.
The pattern of absorption or emission of radiation produced by a substance when subjected to energy (radiation, heat, electricity, etc.).
The set of eigenvalues of a matrix.
Of a bounded linear operator A, the set of scalar values λ such that the operator A—λI, where I denotes the identity operator, does not have a bounded inverse; intended as a generalisation of the linear algebra sense.
An abstract object in mathematics created from a commutative ring R and denoted operatorname Spec(R) or operatorname SpecR and said to be the spectrum of R; useful in the study of such rings for providing a geometric object which encodes many of the properties R, and in modern geometry for generalizing the notion of an algebraic variety to that of an affine scheme. Formally, the set of all prime ideals R equipped with the Zariski topology and augmented with a sheaf of rings called the structure sheaf, generated by the B-sheaf on the distinguished open sets D_f which assigns the localization of R at f to each set D_f, regarded as a ring of functions on D_f. See Spectrum of a ring on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Specter, apparition.
The image of something seen that persists after the eyes are closed.
senses_topics:
education
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
|
12298 | word:
liturgy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
liturgy (countable and uncountable, plural liturgies)
forms:
form:
liturgies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French liturgie, from Latin liturgia, from Ancient Greek λειτουργία (leitourgía), from λειτ- (leit-), from λαός (laós, “people”) + -ουργός (-ourgós), from ἔργον (érgon, “work”) (the public work of the people done on behalf of the people).
senses_examples:
text:
Near-synonyms: (book) breviary, missal, portal, portass, psalter
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A predetermined or prescribed set of rituals that are performed, usually by a religion; a book in which they are recorded.
An official worship service of the Christian church.
In Ancient Greece, a form of personal service to the state.
senses_topics:
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12299 | word:
dice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dice (countable and uncountable, plural dice or dices)
forms:
form:
dice
tags:
plural
form:
dices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dice
etymology_text:
From Middle English dys, plural of dy. See the etymology of die (etymology 2) for further information. The voiceless /s/ was most likely retained because the word felt like a collective term rather than a plural form (compare pence), and the spelling dice is a result of the pronunciation.
senses_examples:
text:
On the other hand, evolution is not a matter of chance, even in the sense in which a game of dice is a game of chance.
ref:
1964, Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky, Heredity and the nature of man
type:
quotation
text:
I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.
ref:
1971, Albert Einstein, Max Born, Hedwig Born. Irene Born (tr.), The Born-Einstein Letters, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
1980, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, “The Winner Takes It All”, Super Trouper, Polar Music
The gods may throw a dice / Their minds as cold as ice
text:
A white house set like a dice on a rock already venerable with the scars of wind and water.
ref:
1945, Lawrence Durrell, Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu
type:
quotation
text:
When we see a dice, we see an object which has six sides, some of which can be seen from where we are, others can be seen if we twist it or move around it.
ref:
2009, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Mark A. Wrathall, A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
Cut onions, carrots and celery into medium dice.
text:
If your worship is inclined to take a small draught of good wine, though not very cool, I have here a calabash full of the best, and some dices of Tronchon cheese
ref:
1782, Tobias George Smollett, The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote, 5th edition, volumes 3-4, translation of original by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Gaming with one or more dice.
1990, Ivar Ekeland, Mathematics and the Unexpected, page 67
1990, Ivar Ekeland, Mathematics and the Unexpected, page 67:
The problem is that no one can throw a die twice in precisely the same way, and this is why dice is a game of chance and not a skill.
The problem is that no one can throw a die twice in precisely the same way, and this is why dice is a game of chance and not a skill.
A die.
That which has been diced.
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle |
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