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12300 | word:
dice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dice
forms:
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:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of die
senses_topics:
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12301 | word:
dice
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dice (third-person singular simple present dices, present participle dicing, simple past and past participle diced)
forms:
form:
dices
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dicing
tags:
participle
present
form:
diced
tags:
participle
past
form:
diced
tags:
past
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:
Tyrion found Timmett dicing with his Burned Men in the barracks.
ref:
1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 407
type:
quotation
text:
And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan....
ref:
1898, Thomas Hardy, Hap
type:
quotation
text:
Dice the vegetables and heat in the double boiler with butter, pepper and salt.
ref:
1928, “Carrots and Beets in Turnip Border”, in The Ladies' Home Journal, volume 45, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
But as our urban lives have grown more pressed for time, we have diced our opportunity costs finer and finer; from budgeting days or slabs of hours, we have come to rationing minutes.
ref:
2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To play dice.
To cut into small cubes.
To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
senses_topics:
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12302 | word:
googolplex
word_type:
num
expansion:
googolplex (plural googolplexes)
forms:
form:
googolplexes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Columbia University
Edward Kasner
Mathematics and the Imagination
etymology_text:
From googol + -plex, coined by American mathematician Milton Sirotta in 1920 who was then the young nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner. First published and defined in the book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).
senses_examples:
text:
The name "googol" was invented by a child (Dr. Kasner's nine-year-old nephew) who was asked to think up a name for a very big number, namely, 1 with a hundred zeros after it. He was very certain that this number was not infinite, and therefore equally certain that it had to have a name. At the same time that he suggested "googol" he gave a name for a still larger number: "Googolplex." A googolplex is much larger than a googol, but is still finite, as the inventor of the name was quick to point out. It was first suggested that a googolplex should be 1, followed by writing zeros until you got tired. This is a description of what would happen if one actually tried to write a googolplex, but different people get tired at different times and it would never do to have [Primo] Carnera a better mathematician than Dr. [Albert] Einstein, simply because he had more endurance. The googolplex then, is a specific finite number, with so many zeros after the 1 that the number of zeros is a googol. A googolplex is much bigger than a googol, much bigger than a googol times a googol. A googol times a googol would be 1 with 200 zeros, whereas a googolplex is one with a googol of zeros. You will get some idea of the size of this very large but finite number from the fact that there would not be enough room to write it, if you went to the farthest star, touring all the nebulae and putting down zeros every inch of the way.
ref:
1940, Edward Kasner, James [Roy] Newman, “New Names for Old”, in Mathematics and the Imagination, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →OCLC, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Consider that we can start with one googolplex and count: two googolplexes, three googolplexes and so on up to a googolplex googolplexes and beyond—and still not have reached infinity.
ref:
1952, John Wood Campbell Jr., editor, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →OCLC, page 164
type:
quotation
text:
If the universe were packed solid with neutrons, say, so there was no empty space anywhere, there would still only be about 10¹²⁸ particles in it, quite a bit more than a googol but trivially small compared to a googolplex.
ref:
1980, Carl Sagan, “chapter IX”, in Cosmos, New York, N.Y.: Random House
type:
quotation
text:
The theoretical number of nucleic acids in DNA, Jack had heard centuries ago, was ten to the power of one hundred and twenty thousand. He couldn't even imagine a number that would hold the set of possible universes, meaning every possible state and position for every particle in every Planck time. Googolplex, he thought, 1 followed by a googol of zeroes: googolplex raised to the power of googolplex.
ref:
2015, K. G. Johansson, Googolplex, [Sweden?]: Affront
type:
quotation
text:
Inflationary theory suggests that the entirety of space is vastly larger. Quantum theory suggests that there are many different copies of space of the same basic kind as ours (same laws of physics). String theory further suggests that there may be many different kinds of space. This whole collection of googolplexes of galaxies within each of googolplexes of different spaces within each of googols of kinds of space makes up an enormously vast universe or multiverse.
ref:
2010, Don N[elson] Page, “Our Place in the Vast Universe”, in Melville Y. Stewart, editor, Science and Religion in Dialogue, volume I, Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, page 371
type:
quotation
text:
In some unimaginable future, the universe will stretch so thin that the light from one galaxy would be unable to reach any other galaxy. Eventually, all the stars would burn out, and the universe would consist of the dead cinders of stars, black holes, and uncountable googolplexes of cubic light-years of cold, empty space.
ref:
2014, John [Herbert] Varley, Dark Lightning, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books
type:
quotation
text:
To a mathematician, a googolplex is the figure 1 followed by a googol of zeroes (a googol being the figure 1 followed by a mere 100 zeroes). To a real-estate man, it's one infinitesimal parcel of a plot of land.
ref:
1962, Newsweek: The International Newsmagazine, volume 60, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
Competition among bidders eventually resulted in the discovery of the "Googolplex," a quantity supposedly as near to nothing as possible—one over one with countless zeros [as the size of the portion of land the bidder would accept as security for a tax lien]. This, however, was not the limit of minuteness. The "Googolplex of a Googolplex," or "Gee Gee" for short, became the common bid in the sale of City of Miami tax certificates. There has apparently been no authoritative determination of the effect of an outstanding Miami tax certificate […]
ref:
1976, Ralph E. Boyer, Florida Real Estate Transactions, New York, N.Y.: Matthew Bender & Co., →OCLC, pages 930–931
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The number 10^(10¹⁰⁰) or 10^( text )googol, ten to the power of a googol.
A countable number.
An infinitesimally small portion of land, defined for legal purposes.
senses_topics:
business
real-estate |
12303 | word:
impure
word_type:
adj
expansion:
impure (comparative more impure, superlative most impure)
forms:
form:
more impure
tags:
comparative
form:
most impure
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French impur, from Latin impūrus.
senses_examples:
text:
The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.
type:
example
text:
He was thinking impure thoughts involving a girl from school.
type:
example
text:
“No one would marry her if she was impure, don't you see?” “Impure? Surely if a woman is forcibly deprived of her virginity, she can't be thought of as impure.”
ref:
2012, Frederick Ramsay, The Eighth Veil: A Jerusalem Mystery
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not pure
Containing undesired intermixtures
Not pure
Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin
Not pure
Unchaste; obscene (not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality)
senses_topics:
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12304 | word:
impure
word_type:
verb
expansion:
impure (third-person singular simple present impures, present participle impuring, simple past and past participle impured)
forms:
form:
impures
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
impuring
tags:
participle
present
form:
impured
tags:
participle
past
form:
impured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French impur, from Latin impūrus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to defile; to pollute
senses_topics:
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12305 | word:
multibillion
word_type:
adj
expansion:
multibillion (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From multi- + billion.
senses_examples:
text:
According to a study by me, this generates a multibillion facepalm for the UK economy, making everyone who considers it at least eleventy hundred pounds unhappier.
ref:
2012 July 3, Marina Hyde, “A lesson in Olymp-o-nomics”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
having a value of several billion (in general, at least two billion)
senses_topics:
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12306 | word:
accusingly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
accusingly (comparative more accusingly, superlative most accusingly)
forms:
form:
more accusingly
tags:
comparative
form:
most accusingly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accusing + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an accusing manner.
senses_topics:
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12307 | word:
accusement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accusement (plural accusements)
forms:
form:
accusements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French acusement; later uses reformed from accuse + -ment.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An accusation.
senses_topics:
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12308 | word:
Neapolitan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Neapolitan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Neapolitan ice cream
etymology_text:
From Latin neāpolītānus, from Neāpolis, from Ancient Greek Νεάπολις (Neápolis, literally “new city”), a Greek city in modern Naples. Doublet of naporitan.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to Naples, a city in southern Italy.
Designating an ice cream combination of the flavours chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry in order. (Until the mid-20th century the flavours were pistachio, vanilla, and strawberry, giving the colours of the Italian flag.)
Describing a variety of ice cream made with eggs as well as cream.
senses_topics:
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12309 | word:
Neapolitan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Neapolitan (plural Neapolitans)
forms:
form:
Neapolitans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Neapolitan ice cream
etymology_text:
From Latin neāpolītānus, from Neāpolis, from Ancient Greek Νεάπολις (Neápolis, literally “new city”), a Greek city in modern Naples. Doublet of naporitan.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or resident of Naples.
An individually wrapped piece of chocolate, sold in assortments of various flavours such as coffee and orange.
senses_topics:
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12310 | word:
Neapolitan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Neapolitan (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Neapolitan ice cream
etymology_text:
From Latin neāpolītānus, from Neāpolis, from Ancient Greek Νεάπολις (Neápolis, literally “new city”), a Greek city in modern Naples. Doublet of naporitan.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A language spoken in South Italy, approximately in the area of the former Kingdom of Naples.
senses_topics:
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12311 | word:
psycho
word_type:
adj
expansion:
psycho (comparative more psycho, superlative most psycho)
forms:
form:
more psycho
tags:
comparative
form:
most psycho
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of psychotic and psychopath + -o (“person with characteristic”).
senses_examples:
text:
Oh, she's sweet but a psycho / A little bit psycho / At night she's screamin' / "I'm-ma-ma-ma out my mind"
ref:
2018, Ava Max, Madison Love, Tix, Cook Classics, Cirkut (lyrics and music), “Sweet but Psycho”, in Heaven & Hell, performed by Ava Max
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Psychotic, psychopathic, or (broadly) otherwise insane.
senses_topics:
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12312 | word:
psycho
word_type:
noun
expansion:
psycho (plural psychos)
forms:
form:
psychos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of psychotic and psychopath + -o (“person with characteristic”).
senses_examples:
text:
The loony bin up on the hill is full of psychos.
type:
example
text:
Oh, she's hot but a psycho / So left but she's right, though / At night she's screamin' / "I'm-ma-ma-ma out my mind"
ref:
2018, Ava Max, Madison Love, Tix, Cook Classics, Cirkut (lyrics and music), “Sweet but Psycho”, in Heaven & Hell, performed by Ava Max
type:
quotation
text:
She complained that he was a psycho for driving at such a high speed in heavy traffic.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is psychotic, psychopathic, or (broadly) otherwise insane.
A person who acts in a bizarre or dangerous manner.
senses_topics:
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12313 | word:
psycho
word_type:
noun
expansion:
psycho (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of psychology.
senses_examples:
text:
I've got anthro, socio, lunch, and psycho.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A class, at a college or university, in which psychology is taught.
senses_topics:
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12314 | word:
multicolour
word_type:
adj
expansion:
multicolour
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From multi- + colour.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of multicolor
senses_topics:
|
12315 | word:
multicolour
word_type:
noun
expansion:
multicolour (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From multi- + colour.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of multicolor
senses_topics:
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12316 | word:
laureate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
laureate (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
laureate
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin laureatus, from laurea (“laurel tree”), from laureus (“of laurel”), from laurus (“laurel”). Compare French lauréat.
senses_examples:
text:
Although the post of poet laureate as we know it was not established until John Dryden's appointment in 1668,
ref:
2007, Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
senses_topics:
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12317 | word:
laureate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laureate (plural laureates)
forms:
form:
laureates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
laureate
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin laureatus, from laurea (“laurel tree”), from laureus (“of laurel”), from laurus (“laurel”). Compare French lauréat.
senses_examples:
text:
a learn'd laureate
ref:
a. 1658, John Cleveland, An Elegy to Ben Johnson
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.
A graduate of a university.
senses_topics:
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12318 | word:
laureate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
laureate (third-person singular simple present laureates, present participle laureating, simple past and past participle laureated)
forms:
form:
laureates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
laureating
tags:
participle
present
form:
laureated
tags:
participle
past
form:
laureated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
laureate
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin laureatus, from laurea (“laurel tree”), from laureus (“of laurel”), from laurus (“laurel”). Compare French lauréat.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.
senses_topics:
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12319 | word:
Albert
word_type:
name
expansion:
Albert (countable and uncountable, plural Alberts)
forms:
form:
Alberts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English Æþelbeorht, from Proto-West Germanic *Aþalberht, a compound of *aþalaz (“noble”) + *berhtaz (“bright, famous”), or from Old French Albert, from Latin Albertus, itself from the Germanic name. Regardless of the exact route, it is a doublet of Ethelbert. It became popular in 19th-century England due to Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
senses_examples:
text:
Thou noble Father of her Kings to be - - - / Dear to thy land and ours, a Prince indeed, / Beyond all titles, and a household name, / Hereafter, thro' all times, Albert the Good.
ref:
1862, Alfred Tennyson, The Idylls of the King: Dedication:
type:
quotation
text:
Helena was not flattered. "Albert just doesn't appreciate music," she said. They all called me Albert then. I thought it was a fine name; I like elegance.
ref:
1956, Eddie Condon, Thomas Sugrue, We Called it Music: A Generation of Jazz., Peter Davies, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
Hogan, Byrne, O'Brien. She stopped at one name. Albert Delahunty — what Catholic in their right mind would call a child Albert?
ref:
2000, Anne Enright, What Are You Like?, Random House, published 2001, page 85
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
A surname originating as a patronymic.
A commune in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France.
A constituency in Belize
A city in Kansas
A former rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada, now part of the Municipality of Two Borders.
A town in New South Wales
A ghost town in Texas
A crater on the Moon
senses_topics:
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12320 | word:
Albert
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Albert (plural Alberts)
forms:
form:
Alberts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English Æþelbeorht, from Proto-West Germanic *Aþalberht, a compound of *aþalaz (“noble”) + *berhtaz (“bright, famous”), or from Old French Albert, from Latin Albertus, itself from the Germanic name. Regardless of the exact route, it is a doublet of Ethelbert. It became popular in 19th-century England due to Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of Albert chain
senses_topics:
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12321 | word:
shall
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shall (third-person singular simple present shall, no present participle, simple past (archaic) should, no past participle)
forms:
form:
shall
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
should
tags:
archaic
past
wikipedia:
Shall and will
shall
etymology_text:
From Middle English schal (infinitive schulen), from Old English sċeal (infinitive sċulan (“should, must”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skulan, from Proto-Germanic *skal (infinitive *skulaną), from Proto-Indo-European *skel- (“to owe, be under obligation”).
Cognate with Scots sall, sal (“shall”), West Frisian sil (infinitive sille (“shall”)), Dutch zal (infinitive zullen (“shall”)), Low German schall (infinitive schölen (“shall”)), German soll (infinitive sollen (“ought to”)), Danish skal (infinitive skulle (“shall”)), Icelandic skal (infinitive skulu (“shall”)), Afrikaans sal, Swedish skall (“shall”) (infinitive skola).
senses_examples:
text:
I shall sing in the choir tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
I hope that we shall win the game.
type:
example
text:
(determination): You shall go to the ball!
text:
(obligation): Citizens shall provide proof of identity.
text:
A woman shall not be disqualified by sex or marriage for being elected to or sitting or voting as a Member of the Commons House of Parliament.
ref:
1918, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 1”, in Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918ᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Shall I help you with that?
type:
example
text:
Shall we go out later?
type:
example
text:
Let us examine that, shall we?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural.
Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation in the second and third persons singular or plural.
Used in questions with the first person singular or plural to suggest a possible future action.
To owe.
senses_topics:
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12322 | word:
thank
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thank (plural thanks)
forms:
form:
thanks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thank, from Old English þanc (“thought, favour, grace, pleasure, satisfaction, thanks”), from Proto-Germanic *þankaz (“thought, remembrance, gratitude”), from Proto-Indo-European *tong-, *teng- (“to think”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tonk, West Frisian tank, Dutch dank, Low German Dank, German Dank, Danish tak, Swedish tack, Faroese tøkk, Icelandic þökk. Related to thought.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression of appreciation; a thought.
senses_topics:
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12323 | word:
thank
word_type:
verb
expansion:
thank (third-person singular simple present thanks, present participle thanking, simple past and past participle thanked)
forms:
form:
thanks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
thanking
tags:
participle
present
form:
thanked
tags:
participle
past
form:
thanked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thanken, thankien, from Old English þancian, þoncian (“to thank, give thanks”), from Proto-Germanic *þankōną (“to thank”), from Proto-Germanic *þankaz (“thought, gratitude”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian tonkje (“to thank”), West Frisian tanke (“to thank”), Dutch danken (“to thank”), Low German danken (“to thank”), German danken (“to thank”), Danish takke (“to thank”), Swedish tacka (“to thank”), Icelandic þakka (“to thank”). Of the same root as the above etymology. Related to thought.
senses_examples:
text:
She thanked him for the lift.
type:
example
text:
We were able to transport goods and critical workers all the way through the pandemic, and at the time we had the Prime Minister thanking everyone for what was achieved.
ref:
2023 November 15, Ian Prosser talks to Stefanie Foster, “A healthy person is a more productive person”, in RAIL, number 996, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
I'll thank you not to smoke in my house!
type:
example
text:
Our readers would not thank us for going into the badgerings which had for some time annoyed the chancellor on the subject of arrears in his court.
ref:
1844, The Quarterly Review, volume 74, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
We can thank global warming for this weather.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To express gratitude or appreciation toward.
To feel gratitude or appreciation toward.
To credit or hold responsible.
senses_topics:
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12324 | word:
multimillion
word_type:
adj
expansion:
multimillion
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From multi- + million.
senses_examples:
text:
Edhi lived in a humble, ascetic way, even as his charity became a multimillion-pound enterprise.
ref:
2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having several millions; costing or worth many millions of dollars, pounds, euros or some other currency.
senses_topics:
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12325 | word:
recycle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
recycle (third-person singular simple present recycles, present participle recycling, simple past and past participle recycled)
forms:
form:
recycles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
recycling
tags:
participle
present
form:
recycled
tags:
participle
past
form:
recycled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From re- + cycle.
senses_examples:
text:
Both paper and plastic can be recycled.
type:
example
text:
Recycling and reusing the material eliminates the need to import aggregate, a strategy which has avoided over 50,000 lorry movements on local roads.
ref:
2024 May 29, “Network News: HS2's Bromford Tunnel portal complete ready for TBM breakthrough...”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
ref:
2012 July 12, Sam Adams, “Ice Age: Continental Drift”, in AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
He [Huw Jones] was hauled down in England’s 22 but, when the ball was quickly recycled, [Finn] Russell’s miss-pass gave Sean Maitland the room to score in the left corner.
ref:
2018 February 24, Paul Rees, “Finn Russell masterminds historic Scotland victory over England”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2018-04-22
type:
quotation
text:
Most cans, bottles, and jars need to be rinsed, so recycle while you are doing dishes.
ref:
1990, Laurence Sombke, The Solution to Pollution: 101 Things You Can Do to Clean Up Your Environment, Sandy, Oregon: MasterMedia, p 22
text:
Recycling is no longer a chore when this convenient recycling center is a fixture in your kitchen.
ref:
2003, The Complete Guide to Easy Woodworking Projects: 50 Projects You Can Build With Hand Power Tools, Minneapolis: Creative Publishing International, page 270
type:
quotation
text:
You'll find many configurations, including models that hide behind a single cabinet door and conceal from one to three bins, so you can recycle at the same spot where you dispose of trash.
ref:
2006, Elaine Martin Petrowski, Design Ideas for Home Storage, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Creative Homeowner, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
Sulfur recycles in the sulfur cycle.
type:
example
text:
Recruits cannot fail this portion of their training and become a Marine. Anyone who fails may be “recycled” through training up to three more times to try again, but will be sent home if success in this program is not achieved.
ref:
2006, Barbara Schading, Richard Schading, A Civilian's Guide to the U.S. Military, page 102
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To break down and reuse component materials.
To reuse as a whole.
To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
To be recycled.
To discard into a recycling bin.
To put (a person) through a course of training again.
To skate toward the rear of the engagement zone to maximize the time that an opposing jammer must spend before returning to the action.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
|
12326 | word:
recycle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
recycle (plural recycles)
forms:
form:
recycles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From re- + cycle.
senses_examples:
text:
First, there will be little reaction in the settler so that the concentrations of soluble constituents in the recycle stream are the same as those in the bioreactor. Because all soluble concentrations are the same, the recycle of soluble constituents around the system has no impact on system performance.
ref:
2011, C. P. Leslie Grady, Jr., Glen T. Daigger, Nancy G. Love, Biological Wastewater Treatment, Third Edition, page 189
type:
quotation
text:
If the agency does not approve recycle of the cadet who failed to qualify, the cadet is sent home and is not hired by the department who sponsored him or her in the academy.
ref:
2020, Gary Gray, MUD on MY BADGE
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of recycling.
senses_topics:
|
12327 | word:
envy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
envy (countable and uncountable, plural envies)
forms:
form:
envies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English envie, from Old French envie, from Latin invidia (“envy”), from invidere (“to look at with malice”), from in- (“on, upon”) + videre (“to look, see”). Doublet of envie. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *zavistь (“envy”).
Displaced native Old English æfest.
senses_examples:
text:
Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave,
Is emulation in the learned or brave.
ref:
1804, Alexander Pope, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
ref:
1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
Theodorus assures Socrates that no envy will prevent the Stranger from responding
ref:
1983, Stanley Rosen, Plato's Sophist: The Drama of Original and Image, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
This constitution in former days used to be the envy of the world[.]
ref:
1843, Thomas Macaulay, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Carey & Hart, page 277
type:
quotation
text:
Blacke Foryst of Despayr, taking photos of the band
Put 'em up on Myspace you're the envy of the land
ref:
2008, Lich King (band), “Black Metal Sucks”, in Toxic Zombie Onslaught
type:
quotation
text:
c. 1631-1636, John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
Such as cleanliness and decency
Prompt to a virtuous envy.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
An object of envious notice or feeling.
Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1:
But let me tell the World,
If he out-liue the enuie of this day,
England did neuer owe so sweet a hope,
So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.
But let me tell the World,
1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1:
But let me tell the World,
If he out-liue the enuie of this day,
England did neuer owe so sweet a hope,
So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.
If he out-liue the enuie of this day,
1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1:
But let me tell the World,
If he out-liue the enuie of this day,
England did neuer owe so sweet a hope,
So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.
England did neuer owe so sweet a hope,
1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1:
But let me tell the World,
If he out-liue the enuie of this day,
England did neuer owe so sweet a hope,
So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.
So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.
Emulation; rivalry.
Public odium; ill repute.
A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
senses_topics:
|
12328 | word:
envy
word_type:
verb
expansion:
envy (third-person singular simple present envies, present participle envying, simple past and past participle envied)
forms:
form:
envies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
envying
tags:
participle
present
form:
envied
tags:
participle
past
form:
envied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English envie, from Old French envie, from Latin invidia (“envy”), from invidere (“to look at with malice”), from in- (“on, upon”) + videre (“to look, see”). Doublet of envie. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *zavistь (“envy”).
Displaced native Old English æfest.
senses_examples:
text:
Moon and Kim took a cable car together to Heaven Lake, a caldera at the top of the mountain, and walked around the area with their wives and officials from both sides.
Pictures showed Moon and Kim smiling and posing with their wives, and Moon filling a bottle with water from the lake.
“The Chinese envy us because they can’t go down to the lake from their side but we can,” Kim said.
“We should write another chapter of history between the North and the South by reflecting our new history on this Heaven Lake.”
ref:
2018 September 20, Hyonhee Shin, Joyce Lee, Soyoung Kim, Haejin Choi, Pyongyang Press Corps., “Fulfilling a dream, South Korea's Moon visits sacred North Korean mountain with Kim”, in Lincoln Feast, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2018-11-13, World News
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.
To resentfully or discontentedly desire (something someone else has that one lacks).
To have envious feelings (at).
To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.
To show malice or ill will; to rail.
To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
To hate.
To emulate.
senses_topics:
|
12329 | word:
quash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quash (third-person singular simple present quashes, present participle quashing, simple past and past participle quashed)
forms:
form:
quashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
quashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
quashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quaschen, quasshen, cwessen, quassen, from Old French quasser, from Latin quassāre, present active infinitive of quassō, under the influence of cassō (“I annul”), from Latin quatiō (“I shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁t- (“to shake”) (same root for the English words: pasta, paste, pastiche, pastry). Cognate with Dutch kwetsen (“to hurt, injure”), German quetschen (“to crush, squash”), Spanish quejar (“to complain”).
senses_examples:
text:
The army quashed the rebellion.
type:
example
text:
the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there
ref:
2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
The whales / Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed, / Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed.
ref:
1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands
type:
quotation
text:
In the case of an appeal against conviction the Court shall, if they allow the appeal, quash the conviction.
ref:
1968, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 2(2)”, in Criminal Appeal Act 1968, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To defeat decisively, to suppress.
To crush or dash to pieces.
To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).
senses_topics:
law |
12330 | word:
telethon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
telethon (plural telethons)
forms:
form:
telethons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A blend of telephone + marathon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A televised fundraising event encouraging viewers to make donations via telephone.
senses_topics:
|
12331 | word:
accustomable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accustomable
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accustom + -able.
senses_examples:
text:
1538, Hugh Latimer, letter to Cromwell http://books.google.com/books?id=y5nVKvA2KoAC&pg=PA387&dq=accustomable+inauthor:Latimer&hl=en&ei=YvluTfjzN8iatwfw0pnFCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=accustomable%20inauthor%3ALatimer&f=false
and the rest I commit to your accustomable goodness
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Habitual; customary; wonted.
senses_topics:
|
12332 | word:
punish
word_type:
verb
expansion:
punish (third-person singular simple present punishes, present participle punishing, simple past and past participle punished)
forms:
form:
punishes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
punishing
tags:
participle
present
form:
punished
tags:
participle
past
form:
punished
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English punischen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French puniss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of punir, from Latin puniō (“I inflict punishment upon”), from poena (“punishment, penalty”); see pain. Displaced Old English wītnian and (mostly, in this sense) wrecan.
senses_examples:
text:
If a prince violates the law, then he must be punished like an ordinary person.
type:
example
text:
It was not from the want of proper laws that dangerous principles had been disseminated, and had assumed a threatening aspect, but because those laws had not been employed by the executive power to remedy the evil, and to punish the offenders.
ref:
1818, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, page 255
type:
quotation
text:
The law needs to punish this behaviour as a deterrent to others.
ref:
2007, Matthew Weait, Intimacy and Responsibility: The Criminalisation of HIV Transmission, Routledge, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
His mother had punished him when he'd deserved it. She'd loved him, he was “all she had,” but she'd punished him, too.
ref:
2017, Joyce Carol Oates, Double Delight, Open Road Media
type:
quotation
text:
But each effort that Anna makes —and she has attempted many— meets with obstacles from a welfare bureaucracy that punishes single mothers for initiative and partial economic self-sufficiency.
ref:
1994, Valerie Polakow, Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America, University of Chicago Press, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
Homer, moreover, gives the impression that the Sun punished Odysseus's men; but we are later told that the Sun cannot punish individual men […]
ref:
2008, Seth Benardete, The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
The rider who comes back on his horse in mid-air over a fence is punishing his horse severely.
ref:
2009, Gordon Wright, Learning to Ride, Hunt, and Show, Skyhorse Publishing Inc., page 44
type:
quotation
text:
A few moments later, we were all sitting around the veranda of the hunters' dining hall, punishing the gin, as usual.
ref:
1970, Doc Greene, The Memory Collector, page 49
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.
To treat harshly and unfairly.
To handle or beat severely; to maul.
To consume a large quantity of.
senses_topics:
|
12333 | word:
psycho-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
psycho-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”).
senses_examples:
text:
This endeavour forms the core of Daniel Pick's fascinating study of the mobilisation of psychoanalysis not only for the Allied war effort, but for a postwar world momentarily seduced by the idea that war and violence might be eridicated by a bit of psycho-science.
ref:
2012, Richard Overy, “The Mind of Evil”, in Literary Review, number 399
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to the soul, the mind, or to psychology.
senses_topics:
|
12334 | word:
monopoly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
monopoly (plural monopolies)
forms:
form:
monopolies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
monopoly
etymology_text:
From Latin monopōlium, from Ancient Greek μονοπώλιον (monopṓlion, “a right of exclusive sale”), from μόνος (mónos, “sole”) + πωλέω (pōléō, “I barter, sell”). By surface analysis, mono- + -poly.
senses_examples:
text:
In 1918 a Chinese company was given a monopoly to run a service between Victoria and the districts of Mong Kok and Sham Shui Po. Five years later this monopoly was transferred to the Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Company, together with the right to run a service to Yau Ma Tei.
ref:
1962, G. B. Endacott, A. Hinton, “Public Works and Transport”, in Fragrant Harbour: A Short History of Hong Kong, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, published 1977, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
ref:
2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
Exactly! You can’t reduce the competition when nobody is competing! You could not be describing a monopoly more clearly if you were wearing a metal top hat while driving a metal car after winning second prize in a beauty contest!
ref:
2014 June 1, “Net Neutrality”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 5, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
A land monopoly renders its holder(s) nearly almighty in an agricultural society.
type:
example
text:
Granting monopolies in concession constitutes a market-conform alternative to taxation for the state, while the crown sometimes bestowed a monopoly as an outrageous gift.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (company, cartel etc.) exclusively provides a particular product or service, dominating that market and generally exerting powerful control over it.
An exclusive control over the trade or production of a commodity or service through exclusive possession.
The privilege granting the exclusive right to exert such control.
The market thus controlled.
The holder (person, company or other) of such market domination in one of the above manners.
senses_topics:
|
12335 | word:
accustomarily
word_type:
adv
expansion:
accustomarily (comparative more accustomarily, superlative most accustomarily)
forms:
form:
more accustomarily
tags:
comparative
form:
most accustomarily
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accustomary + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
customarily
senses_topics:
|
12336 | word:
gash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gash (countable and uncountable, plural gashes)
forms:
form:
gashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of older garsh, from Middle English garsen, from Old French garser, jarsier (Modern French gercer), from Vulgar Latin *charaxāre, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “engraver”).
senses_examples:
text:
Unwittingly I slashed a gushing gash in my hand with a switchblade.
text:
The victim of the attack, Russell Mills, suffered a head gash, a broken knee cap and a broken wrist.
ref:
1983 April 23, Sue Hyde, “Castro Bashers Jailed”, in Gay Community News, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
Vowing that he was “never going to forget the lessons of that day,” President Bush paid tribute last night to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, laying wreaths at ground zero, attending a prayer service at St. Paul’s Chapel and making a surprise stop at a firehouse and a memorial museum overlooking the vast gash in the ground where the twin towers once stood.
ref:
2006, New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial3/11bush.html?hp&ex=1158033600&en=e468f88da52557ed&ei=5094&partner=homepage
text:
"Will you bastards quit singing the blues? You're young, and there's plenty of gash in the world, and the supply of moon goes on forever," Simonsky said.
ref:
1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 19, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A deep cut.
A vulva.
A woman.
Rubbish, spare kit.
Rubbish on board an aircraft.
Unused film or sound during film editing.
Poor-quality beer, usually watered down.
senses_topics:
|
12337 | word:
gash
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)
forms:
form:
more gash
tags:
comparative
form:
most gash
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of older garsh, from Middle English garsen, from Old French garser, jarsier (Modern French gercer), from Vulgar Latin *charaxāre, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “engraver”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted.
senses_topics:
|
12338 | word:
gash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gash (third-person singular simple present gashes, present participle gashing, simple past and past participle gashed)
forms:
form:
gashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
gashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
gashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of older garsh, from Middle English garsen, from Old French garser, jarsier (Modern French gercer), from Vulgar Latin *charaxāre, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “engraver”).
senses_examples:
text:
My leg got gashed.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a deep, long cut; to slash.
senses_topics:
|
12339 | word:
gash
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)
forms:
form:
more gash
tags:
comparative
form:
most gash
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ghastful, by association with gash.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
ghastly; hideous
senses_topics:
|
12340 | word:
messiah
word_type:
noun
expansion:
messiah (plural messiahs)
forms:
form:
messiahs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Messyas, Messy, Messie, from Latin Messīās, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek Μεσσίας (Messías), from Aramaic ܡܫܺܝܚܳܐ (məšīḥā), from Biblical Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšîaḥ, “anointed”). Doublet of Masih and Moshiach.
senses_examples:
text:
The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe- a desolate, dry planet with vast deserts. Hidden away within the rocks of these deserts are a people known as the Fremen, who have long held a prophecy, that a man would come, a messiah, who would lead them to true freedom. The planet is Arrakis, also known as Dune.
ref:
1984, 1:50 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Princess Irulan, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
At its best, psychoanalysis is the classic therapeutic technique for exploring unconscious processes. At its less-than-best, it is a jargon-opacified oedipus-complicated, libido-theoretical, pseudo-scientific cult whose messiah is Sigmund Freud.
ref:
1979 August 11, Lawrence Mass, “Psychiatry on Trial”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Girlie, as far as you're concerned, I'm the messiah of the DMV. Now, get out of the car.
ref:
1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by DMV tester (Ron Orbach)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The one who is ordained by God to lead the people of Israel, believed by Christians and Muslims to be Jesus Christ.
A similar religious figure or awaited divine ruler, such as the Islamic Mahdi.
An extremely powerful or revered figure.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
|
12341 | word:
accustomance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accustomance (plural accustomances)
forms:
form:
accustomances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English acustumaunce, from Old French accoustumance (Modern French accoutumance). By surface analysis, accustom + -ance.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Custom; habitual use.
senses_topics:
|
12342 | word:
evangelist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
evangelist (plural evangelists)
forms:
form:
evangelists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French evangeliste, equivalent to evangel + -ist, from ecclesiastical Latin evangelista, from ecclesiastical Ancient Greek εὐαγγελιστής (euangelistḗs, “bringer of good news”), from εὐαγγελίζεσθαι (euangelízesthai, “to evangelize”), from εὐάγγελος (euángelos, “bringing good news”), from εὖ (eû, “well”) + ἀγγέλλειν (angéllein, “to announce”).
senses_examples:
text:
Booth, William (1829-1912) English evangelist; founder and first general of the Salvation Army ... his subordinates being expected to give him unquestioning obedience.
ref:
1992, J. D. Douglas, Who's Who in Christian History, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
Yet in the spreading consumer market of the mid-1700s, his renditions competed with others offering a far different account of the evangelist and his message. The famous artist William Hogarth mocked Whitefield in two engravings presenting the revivalist as a religious fanatic who held sway over the superstitious lower orders.
ref:
1994, Frank Lambert, "Pedlar in Divinity", page 10
type:
quotation
text:
The film implies that the evangelist, as a type, is a fanatic, a sanctimonious prig, and ultimately a hypocrite.
ref:
1996, Peter J. Conn, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography, page 149
type:
quotation
text:
developer evangelist
type:
example
text:
[…] and has worked in multiple roles, including as the C# Product Manager and as a Developer Evangelist in the Mid-Atlantic district.
ref:
2007, James Avery, Jim Holmes, Windows Developer Power Tools, page xxii
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.
A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), usually capitalized (Evangelist).
A person who first brought the gospel to a city or region.
A patriarch.
A person marked by extreme enthusiasm for or support of any cause, particularly with regard to religion.
A person hired to promote a particular technology.
senses_topics:
Christianity
biblical
lifestyle
religion
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology |
12343 | word:
accustomedness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accustomedness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accustomed + -ness.
senses_examples:
text:
if we caught the mystery of life and knew the origin of things , should we not have the same feeling of satiety from the accustomedness of knowledge as we have now from the accustomedness of emotion ?
ref:
1910, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, The Second Youth of Theodora Desanges
type:
quotation
text:
Those who do not depend upon reason must grow into feeling by accustomedness
ref:
1912, R. G. Badger et al., Psychotherapeutics
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Habituation; the quality of being used to something.
senses_topics:
|
12344 | word:
accustomably
word_type:
adv
expansion:
accustomably (comparative more accustomably, superlative most accustomably)
forms:
form:
more accustomably
tags:
comparative
form:
most accustomably
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accustomable + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
The third principal matter wherewith in his prayers he was occupied was, to pray for the preservation of the queen's Majesty that now is; whom in his prayer accustomably he was wont to name
ref:
1552, Hugh Latimer, Certain Sermons Made by the Right Reverend Father in God Master Doctor Latimer, before the Right Virtuous and Honourable Lady, Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk, in the Year of Our Lord 1552.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
According to custom; ordinarily; customarily.
senses_topics:
|
12345 | word:
public school
word_type:
noun
expansion:
public school (plural public schools)
forms:
form:
public schools
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From public (originally, "communal" and contrasted with personal tutors; later, "state-run" and contrasted with private schools) + school.
senses_examples:
text:
All such School-masters as have charge of Children and do instruct them either in Publick Schools, or Private Houses.
ref:
1580 June 18, Letters of the Privy Council in John Strype's History of Edmund Grindal (1710), ii.xi.254
text:
No person shall keepe any schoole... except it be in some publike or free Grammer Schoole, or in some such noblemans... or gentlemans... house as are not recusants.
ref:
1604, Acts of Parliament 1 under James I, c.4, §8
text:
Our Public Schools... (by which phrase we never mean real public schools like the Board schools at all, but merely schools for the upper and middle classes) are in their existing stage primarily great gymnasiums.
ref:
1893 February 4, Westminster Gazette, section 2
type:
quotation
text:
Who is there who has not jeered at the House of Lords, the military caste, the Royal Family, the public schools, the huntin′ and shootin′ people, the old ladies in Cheltenham boarding houses, the horrors of ‘county’ society and the social hierarchy generally?
ref:
1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, section 146
type:
quotation
text:
It turned out she was posh, or posh-ish, having been to a public school somewhere in Hampshire.
ref:
2005, Nick Laird, Utterly Monkey, section 223
type:
quotation
text:
Thither [to Douai] he went, where after a yeres great diligence and many excercises done booth in house and publike scholes, he proceded bachilier of diuinitie.
ref:
1582, W. Allen, Briefe Hist. Glorious Martyrdom, sig. d3
text:
ante''' 1593, Christopher Marlowe, Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604), sig. A3v
Ile haue them fill the publike schooles with skill. Wherewith the students shal be brauely clad.
text:
That which is now called an University, is a Joyning together, and an Incorporation under one Government of many Publique Schools, in one and the same Town or City.
ref:
1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, iv.xlvi.370
type:
quotation
text:
The Court voted for the erecting a Publick Schooll or Colledge in Cambridge.
ref:
1636, Harvard College Records, published 1925, I.171
type:
quotation
text:
The Governor and Provincial Council shall erect and order all public Schooles.
ref:
1683, Pennsylvania Frame of Government, §10
type:
quotation
text:
By Act of Parliament no school is to be kept within two miles of a publick school.
ref:
1702, Henry Paton, Minnigaff Parish Records: the Session Book of Minnigaff, 1694-1750, published 1939
type:
quotation
text:
A subscription... by a great part of the settlers and others to build a Public School at the Green Hills.
ref:
1804 August 12, Sydney Gazette, section 1
type:
quotation
text:
Hardly anywhere in France... can the private boys' schools, whether they be lay or congreganist, hold their own in the competition with the public schools.
ref:
1861, Matthew Arnold, The Popular Education of France, with Notices of that of Holland and Switzerland, x.105
type:
quotation
text:
Every school under the management of the school board of a parish shall be deemed a parish school, and every school under the management of the school board of a burgh shall be deemed a burgh school, and all such schools are hereby declared to be public schools within the meaning of this Act.
ref:
1872, Acts of Parliament 35 & 36 under Victoria (Scotland), c.62, §25
text:
Public Schools... are distinguished from those which until recently were entitled Grammar Schools.
ref:
1872 June, Canadian Monthly, 483/1
type:
quotation
text:
As to the two races involved in this question of public schools the difference is this: the negroes do not wish mixed schools; the white people will not have them.
ref:
1889 July, Harper's Magazine, 226/1
type:
quotation
text:
If our public schools fail to furnish an education fully as good as can be obtained in private schools, intelligent, conscientious, and well-to-do parents will withdraw their children.
ref:
1901 Apr, Atlantic Monthly, 434/1
type:
quotation
text:
Public Schools. Course of Instruction... Class III. To include at least reading, writing, arithmetic, outlines of history and geography, and lessons on natural objects.
ref:
1904, Cape of Good Hope C.S. List, section 267
type:
quotation
text:
The term ‘public school’ has a different connotation in New Zealand. It implies the Borough or County school; the school provided by the State.
ref:
1932, Nelle Scanlan, Pencarrow, section 256
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Certain private schools, particularly (initially) any grammar school operated apart from the personal lands of its students or (from the 19th century) the feepaying secondary schools which developed from or were modelled upon them; a British boarding school
A college or university
A publicly funded and administered school; (UK, Ireland) such schools in the context of other countries
senses_topics:
|
12346 | word:
gunport
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gunport (plural gunports)
forms:
form:
gunports
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From gun + port.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hatch in the hull of a ship through which a cannon is fired.
senses_topics:
|
12347 | word:
accuser
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accuser (plural accusers)
forms:
form:
accusers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English acuser, accusour, borrowed from Old French accusour, from Latin accūsātor, from accūsāre. Equivalent to accuse + -er. Doublet of accusator.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
senses_topics:
|
12348 | word:
aceldama
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aceldama (plural aceldamas)
forms:
form:
aceldamas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Aceldama
senses_topics:
|
12349 | word:
whence
word_type:
adv
expansion:
whence (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English whennes, from Old English hwanon (with adverbial genitive -s), related to hwonne (whence when). Analyzable as when + -s.
senses_examples:
text:
Whence came I?
type:
example
text:
"Pork" comes from French, whence we get most of our modern cooking terms.
type:
example
text:
Go to whence you came!
type:
example
text:
O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots
Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom
Whence by what way how purposed art thou come
To this well-nightingaled vicinity?
ref:
1883, A. E. Housman, Fragment of a Greek Tragedy
type:
quotation
text:
They swore all the gold should go back
Deep into the earth whence it came.
ref:
1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
From where; from which place or source.
senses_topics:
|
12350 | word:
whence
word_type:
conj
expansion:
whence
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English whennes, from Old English hwanon (with adverbial genitive -s), related to hwonne (whence when). Analyzable as when + -s.
senses_examples:
text:
The work is slow and dangerous, whence the high costs.
type:
example
text:
I scored more than you in the exam, whence we can conclude that I am better at the subject than you are.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used for introducing the result of a fact that has just been stated; thence
senses_topics:
|
12351 | word:
accustomary
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accustomary (comparative more accustomary, superlative most accustomary)
forms:
form:
more accustomary
tags:
comparative
form:
most accustomary
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accustom + -ary.
senses_examples:
text:
Chriſt in the fifth of Matthew forbiddeth not all kind of ſwearing, but the ordinary and accuſtomary ſwearing then in uſe among the Jewes, and allowed by the Scribes and Phariſees, who erroneouſly conceived, that ſwearing by heaven and earth, or Ieruſalem, or any creature, was no taking Gods name in vain, becauſe in ſuch oaths Gods name was not uſed.
ref:
1647, Daniel Featley, The dippers dipt. Or, The Anabaptiſts Duck’d and Plung’d over Head and Ears, at a Diſputation in Southwark […], 5th edition, London: […] N.B. and Richard Royſton […], page 134
type:
quotation
text:
Of every accomplishment accustomary to my sex, I was Mistress.
ref:
1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Usual; customary.
senses_topics:
|
12352 | word:
utopia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
utopia (countable and uncountable, plural utopia or utopias or utopiae)
forms:
form:
utopia
tags:
plural
form:
utopias
tags:
plural
form:
utopiae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin Ūtopia, the name of a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. Coined from Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía). Compare English topos and -ia.
senses_examples:
text:
Errors in time must be kept in mind when analyzing myths and utopiae. Utopiae are merely projections, on a less personal and wider scale, of Cinderella’s longing for a happy future.
ref:
1945, Chimera: A Literary Quarterly, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
« Some peoples of Central or South Africa have conceived downright utopiae which enable them to build up a reality more tolerable than that in which they have to live daily ».
ref:
1959, Civilisations, page 426
type:
quotation
text:
As everyone knows, almost all booked passenger and freight trains are diagrammed into rosters for engines and men, and in an operating Utopia everything would work out daily according to plan.
ref:
1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
Efficiency for the sake of efficiency, unchallenged authority conferred upon those who know well a few things and ignore everything else, disdain for the ordinary and humble elements that introduce happiness in our lives, worship of unattainable utopiae, are some of the features of the scheme which leads inevitably to the suppression of the eternal gifts bestowed by God upon every human person and to the frightful prospect of being ruled by what he vividly names “the Empire of the Insect.”
ref:
1974, The Chesterton Review, page 262
type:
quotation
text:
Orwell had correctly seen that the achievement of Wells’s ideas would be far from the frivolity of “Utopiae full of nude women” and visions of “super garden cities.”
ref:
1979, Ian Scott-Kilvert, editor, British Writers, page 242
type:
quotation
text:
An interesting observation is that folk verses while talking of high standards of morality refer only to precedent generations and not to would-be utopiae, which in fact would rule out the possibility of evolution of a civilization absent before.
ref:
1979, Folk-lore, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
According to his model, palace and poetry function in tandem in order to communicate to an audience the ideas of utopiae of power, victory, eternity, and perfection. […] The ruins function, not as an evocation of past civilizations, but as the setting for the poet's dallying and revelry in youthful pleasures; his "noble companions" (probably Christians, given the reference to the length of their hair) are subjugated to the length of their pleasure, a reference to the "stopping of time", one of the utopiae out of which was constructed the licentious world of the khamriyya. […] I believe that these two utopiae are related to a profound consciousness, on the part of taifa royalty and courtiers, of the particular mutability of their reality: […]
ref:
1995, Cynthia Robinson, Palace Architecture and Ornament in the "Courtly" Discourse of the Muluk Al-tawaʻif: Metaphor and Utopia, pages 96, 326, and 582
type:
quotation
text:
So in order to conclude, how can we combine all these different aspects of the characteristic cross-relationship of negative and positive utopiae which are to be understood as counter projects to what there actually is?
ref:
2006, Können uns und euch und niemand helfen, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.
ref:
2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.
senses_topics:
|
12353 | word:
archangel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
archangel (plural archangels)
forms:
form:
archangels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:archangel
etymology_text:
From Middle English archangel, from Old French archangele, from Latin archangelus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχάγγελος (arkhángelos) from Ancient Greek prefix ἀρχι- (arkhi-) + ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”). By surface analysis, arch- + angel.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A powerful angel that leads many other angels, but is still loyal to a deity, and often seen as belonging to a particular archangelical rank or order within a greater hierarchy of angels. (Judeo-Christian examples: Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel).
Synonym of angelica (“the garden herb”)
senses_topics:
|
12354 | word:
inch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
inch (plural inches or (UK colloquial) inch)
forms:
form:
inches
tags:
plural
form:
inch
tags:
UK
colloquial
plural
form:
in.
tags:
abbreviation
form:
″
tags:
abbreviation
wikipedia:
Big Inch
Little Big Inch
etymology_text:
From Middle English ynche, enche, from Old English ynċe, borrowed from Latin uncia (“Roman inch, various similar units”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”). Cognate with Middle Dutch enke (“thumb, thumb's width, inch”). Doublet of ounce, uncia, onça, onza, oka, ouguiya, and awqiyyah.
senses_examples:
text:
The sledges of the Esquimaux are of large size, varying from six and a half to nine and even eleven feet in length, and from eighteen inches to two feet in breadth.
ref:
1873, Charles Tomlinson, chapter III, in Winter in the Arctic Regions and Summer in the Antarctic Regions, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
The term "precision measurement" […] refers to the art of reproducing and controlling dimensions expressed in thousandths of an inch or smaller.
ref:
1939, The Department of Education of International Business Machines Corporation, chapter I, in Precision Measurement in the Metal Working Industry, first paperback binding edition, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, published 1978, →OCLC, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."
ref:
1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, page 487
type:
quotation
text:
Don't move an inch!
type:
example
text:
[B]e the consequences what they may, they shall not move an inch, nor a hair's-breadth from the ground of their groundless spiritual independence, […]
ref:
1840, Lewis Rose, chapter III, in An Humble Attempt to Put an End to the Present Divisions in the Church of Scotland, and to Promote Her Usefulness. […], Glasgow: George Gallie, →OCLC, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
Let us consider what one inch of rain really means. If an acre of land were covered with water to the depth of only the tenth part of an inch, that layer of water would weigh more than 10 tons: thus 1 inch of rain is ten times that amount—in fact, very nearly 101 tons.
ref:
1880, Arthur Herbert Church, Food: Some Account of Its Sources, Constituents and Uses, London: Chapman and Hall, page 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, conceived as roughly the width of a thumb.
Any very short distance.
Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
senses_topics:
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
|
12355 | word:
inch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
inch (third-person singular simple present inches, present participle inching, simple past and past participle inched)
forms:
form:
inches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
inching
tags:
participle
present
form:
inched
tags:
participle
past
form:
inched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ynche, enche, from Old English ynċe, borrowed from Latin uncia (“Roman inch, various similar units”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”). Cognate with Middle Dutch enke (“thumb, thumb's width, inch”). Doublet of ounce, uncia, onça, onza, oka, ouguiya, and awqiyyah.
senses_examples:
text:
Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge.
type:
example
text:
On reaching the section under construction they must be capable of inching the train forward on rough track up gradients as steep as 1 in 30.
ref:
1951 October, “London Transport Battery Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 659
type:
quotation
text:
The window blind had been lowered — Zooey had done all his bathtub reading by the light from the three-bulb overhead fixture—but a fraction of morning light inched under the blind and onto the title page of the manuscript.
ref:
1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961
type:
quotation
text:
Already guarding a 1-0 lead from the first leg, Blackpool inched further ahead when Stephen Dobbie scored from an acute angle on the stroke of half-time. The game appeared to be completely beyond Birmingham’s reach three minutes into the second period when Matt Phillips reacted quickly to bundle the ball past Colin Doyle and off a post.
ref:
2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in the Telegraph
type:
quotation
text:
He gets too far into the soldier's grace / And inches out my master.
ref:
1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
To drive by inches, or small degrees.
To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
senses_topics:
|
12356 | word:
inch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
inch (plural inches)
forms:
form:
inches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Scottish Gaelic innis.
senses_examples:
text:
An ivy-clad farmhouse surrounded by trees, it stood on the sunny side of a sloping hill at the foot of which the Darigle river curved its way through gold-furzed inches to disappear under a stone bridge into the woods beyond.
ref:
1988, Alice Taylor, To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood, Brandon Ltd, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
As these calves grew older they did not need to return to the farmyard for feeding as they were able to eat sufficient grass for themselves. They were then kept in the fields, known as the inches, along by the river[,] where they grew strong[,] and during the winter cold when grass was scarce[,] hay was carried down to them.
ref:
1988, Alice Taylor, To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood, Brandon Ltd, page 22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small island; an islet.
A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
senses_topics:
|
12357 | word:
inch
word_type:
adj
expansion:
inch
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
Semantic loan from Cantonese 寸 (cyun³, “inch”), which is an alternative form of 串 (cyun³, “cocky; to provoke; etc.”).
senses_examples:
text:
I still remember Donald Duck sit next to him after NG dog being 'Done'd to F.2 building... he is still very Inch in Year 1983-4 teaching me RS
ref:
1994 May 29, Albert Ng, soc.culture.hongkong (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
The service was professional but very "inch". We were served by a Cantonese speaking local. The waiter asked if we wanted water without telling us it costs $75 for just water!!
ref:
2006 June 12, killgirl, OpenRice
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
cocky and cheeky
senses_topics:
|
12358 | word:
inch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
inch (third-person singular simple present inches, present participle inching, simple past and past participle inched)
forms:
form:
inches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
inching
tags:
participle
present
form:
inched
tags:
participle
past
form:
inched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
Semantic loan from Cantonese 寸 (cyun³, “inch”), which is an alternative form of 串 (cyun³, “cocky; to provoke; etc.”).
senses_examples:
text:
Sorry for changing the intention of the post last time; it was for nothing but the personal joy and satisfaction of "inch"-ing the person who criticized my writing while he/she can't even write. (no hard feelings, alright?!) I'd avoid that in the future. I'll try to make this a constructive discussion and be as objective as possible.
ref:
1994 March 4, tp...@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu, soc.culture.hongkong.entertainment (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to burn (to insult); to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
senses_topics:
|
12359 | word:
condom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
condom (plural condoms)
forms:
form:
condoms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown. Many speculations exist. Possibly derived from Italian guantone, from guanto (“a glove”).
senses_examples:
text:
buy a pack of condoms
type:
example
text:
flavoured condom
type:
example
text:
ribbed condoms
type:
example
text:
I remember that one time I went to the kiosk next door to buy condoms, it was raining, she appeared.
ref:
2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 143
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flexible sleeve made of latex or other impermeable material such as sheepskin, worn over an erect penis during sexual intercourse as a contraceptive or as a way to prevent the spread of STIs.
senses_topics:
|
12360 | word:
Breton
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Breton (countable and uncountable, plural Bretons)
forms:
form:
Bretons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Breton
etymology_text:
From French Breton. Doublet of Briton and Brython.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Brittany.
The Celtic language of Brittany.
senses_topics:
|
12361 | word:
Breton
word_type:
name
expansion:
Breton
forms:
wikipedia:
Breton
etymology_text:
From French Breton. Doublet of Briton and Brython.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A village in Alberta, Canada.
senses_topics:
|
12362 | word:
Breton
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Breton (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Breton
etymology_text:
From French Breton. Doublet of Briton and Brython.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Brittany.
senses_topics:
|
12363 | word:
hairnet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hairnet (plural hairnets)
forms:
form:
hairnets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hair + net. Compare Dutch haarnetje, German Haarnetz, Danish hårnet, Swedish hårnät.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A net designed to keep hair up and out of the way, e.g. while cooking.
senses_topics:
|
12364 | word:
Chichewa
word_type:
name
expansion:
Chichewa
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Chichewa Chicheŵa, from chi- (“language”) + Cheŵa.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Bantu language of the Chewa tribe belonging to the Bantu linguistic family and one of Malawi’s national tongues promoted as the country’s lingua franca.
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12365 | word:
acephalist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acephalist (plural acephalists)
forms:
form:
acephalists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acephal + -ist.
senses_examples:
text:
we must not therefore suffer these Acephalists, these circulators and beggars to perswade us[…]
ref:
1653, John Gauden, Hieraspistes
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who acknowledges no head or superior
senses_topics:
|
12366 | word:
acephal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acephal (plural acephals)
forms:
form:
acephals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀκέφαλος (aképhalos, “headless”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”). Compare French acéphale, Late Latin acephalus.
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
One of the Acephala.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
12367 | word:
acephalocystic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acephalocystic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acephalocyst + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts.
senses_topics:
|
12368 | word:
acephalan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acephalan (plural acephalans)
forms:
form:
acephalans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Acephala + -n
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acephal.
senses_topics:
|
12369 | word:
acephalan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acephalan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Acephala + -n
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to the Acephala.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
12370 | word:
sacrament
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sacrament (plural sacraments)
forms:
form:
sacraments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sacrament, from Old French sacrement, from Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentum (“sacrament”), from Latin sacrō (“hallow, consecrate”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”), originally sum deposited by parties to a suit.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: ordinance
text:
Priest: I'm sorry, it's Duncan Dirk Dick. I've just done it. / Father: Well, undo it. / Priest: Undo it? / Father: Yes. / Priest: This is a holy sacrament of the Church, not a bleeding hotel reservation. You can't just undo it.
ref:
1989 February 10, Stephen Fry et al., “Christening”, in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, season 1, episode 5
type:
quotation
text:
The dots are easy to connect, because they’re so close together, and because they’re the entry and exit wounds inflicted on US society by the subculture whose sacrament is the gun.
ref:
2022 May 30, Rebecca Solnit, “US mass shootings will continue until the majority can overrule the minority”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sacred act and the attendant ceremony, considered (theology) an outward sign of divine grace.
The Eucharist.
The consecrated Eucharist (especially the bread).
A thing which is regarded as possessing a sacred character or mysterious significance.
The oath of allegiance taken by soldiers in Ancient Rome; hence, any sacred ceremony used to impress an obligation; a solemn oath-taking; an oath.
senses_topics:
Christianity
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12371 | word:
sacrament
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sacrament (third-person singular simple present sacraments, present participle sacramenting, simple past and past participle sacramented)
forms:
form:
sacraments
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sacramenting
tags:
participle
present
form:
sacramented
tags:
participle
past
form:
sacramented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sacrament, from Old French sacrement, from Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentum (“sacrament”), from Latin sacrō (“hallow, consecrate”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”), originally sum deposited by parties to a suit.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bind by an oath.
senses_topics:
|
12372 | word:
acephalocyst
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acephalocyst (plural acephalocysts)
forms:
form:
acephalocysts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀκέφαλος (aképhalos, “headless”) + κύστις (kústis, “bladder”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A larval entozoön in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
12373 | word:
infinity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
infinity (countable and uncountable, plural infinities)
forms:
form:
infinities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English infinite, from Old French infinité, from Latin infinitas (“unlimitedness”), from negative prefix in- (“not”), + finis (“end”), + noun of state suffix -tas.
senses_examples:
text:
Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.
ref:
2012 January 24, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2013-04-30, page 86
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of a beginning, end or limits to size.
A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.
An idealised point which is said to be approached by sequences of values whose magnitudes increase without bound.
A number which is very large compared to some characteristic number. For example, in optics, an object which is much further away than the focal length of a lens is said to be "at infinity", as the distance of the image from the lens varies very little as the distance increases further.
The symbol ∞.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
topology
|
12374 | word:
acephali
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acephali
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin, plural of Latin acephalus. See acephal.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of acephalus
A people reported by Herodotus and Josephus to have no heads or removable heads.
The Eutychians, a Christian sect in the year 482 without a leader. See http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01100c.htm.
Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.
A class of levelers in the time of King Henry I.
senses_topics:
ecclesiastical
history
human-sciences
lifestyle
religion
sciences
ecclesiastical
history
human-sciences
lifestyle
religion
sciences
|
12375 | word:
simultaneousness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
simultaneousness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From simultaneous + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneity.
senses_topics:
|
12376 | word:
protestant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
protestant (comparative more protestant, superlative most protestant)
forms:
form:
more protestant
tags:
comparative
form:
most protestant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See Protestant. The legal sense either has the same source or is simply protest + -ant.
senses_examples:
text:
a protestant effort
type:
example
text:
protestant work ethic
type:
example
text:
Her sense of desolation, the knowledge that for some reason, God alone knew why, she loved him, made her for a moment protestant. Why not ? Why shouldn’t I write to him?
ref:
1932, Graham Greene, Stamboul Train, Penguin, published 1963, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 191
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Protestant
Protesting.
senses_topics:
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12377 | word:
protestant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
protestant (plural protestants)
forms:
form:
protestants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See Protestant. The legal sense either has the same source or is simply protest + -ant.
senses_examples:
text:
1915 November 3, decision in the case of the State of New Mexico v. Garrett, published in 1916 among the Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to Public Lands, volume 44 (edited by George J Hesselman), page 490: In the case of Hyacinthe Villeneuve a homestead entry had been allowed upon a tract of land that had been patented to the Santa Fe Railroad Company, whose grantees had expressed a willingness to reconvey in order that effect might be given to the equities of the homesteader, whereas in the present case the State stands in the position of a protestant.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who protests; a protester.
Alternative letter-case form of Protestant
senses_topics:
law
|
12378 | word:
mozzarella
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mozzarella (countable and uncountable, plural mozzarellas or mozzarelle)
forms:
form:
mozzarellas
tags:
plural
form:
mozzarelle
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bay Area
hip-hop
mozzarella
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian mozzarella, from mozzare (“to cut off”), from Latin mutilare.
The meaning of money derives from the early Bay Area hip-hop scene since early and is found for various food terms, including cheddar and cheese.
senses_examples:
text:
Ooh, yeah, stack that mozzarella, check a big bag / Smack it for an hour, off a thirty, let a bitch bad
ref:
2017 November 16, KirbLaGoop (lyrics and music), “I Can’t Feel My Face”, in Trapped in Da 100
type:
quotation
text:
Me no rat, I get hella cheddar, I get mozzarella / Take two hundred thousand out the bank ’cause I fucked the teller
ref:
2018 November 25, “Bank Teller”, Lil Uzi Vert (lyrics), Lil Uzi Vert, Smokepurpp, and Lil Pump (music)
type:
quotation
text:
Tell a bank teller / This Louis my sweater / Came through with a Baretta / Stack my cheese, that mozzarella
ref:
2018 November 25, “Bank Teller”, Smokepurpp (lyrics), Lil Uzi Vert, Smokepurpp, and Lil Pump (music)
type:
quotation
text:
I need the cheese, mozzarella / Rainin outside, I got a Louis umbrella / She ate up my dick like Nutella / I used to be four-fourin at the bank
ref:
2019 September 13, “Diamond Tester”, in ChaseTheMoney (lyrics), K$upreme & ChaseTheMoney (music), Caught Fire
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Soft Italian cheese made from cow's or buffalo's milk and commonly used as a pizza topping and in salads etc.
Money.
senses_topics:
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12379 | word:
missionary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
missionary (countable and uncountable, plural missionaries)
forms:
form:
missionaries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mission + -ary.
senses_examples:
text:
A missionary was just trying to convert me to his religion.
type:
example
text:
My boyfriend only cums during missionary.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who is sent on a mission.
A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or creed (Particularly used in context of Christianity).
A religious messenger.
The missionary position for sexual intercourse.
Sexual intercourse in the missionary position.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
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12380 | word:
missionary
word_type:
adj
expansion:
missionary (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mission + -ary.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to a (religious) mission.
senses_topics:
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12381 | word:
BBL
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
BBL
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of be back later; also bbl.
senses_topics:
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12382 | word:
BBL
word_type:
noun
expansion:
BBL (plural BBLs)
forms:
form:
BBLs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
At an average cost of £3,000 abroad and £8,000 in the UK, the BBL uses liposuction to extract fat from a patient’s thighs to then inject it into their buttocks, but less invasive treatments proliferate.
ref:
2018 November 18, Eva Wiseman, The Observer
type:
quotation
text:
Dream Body Recovery is just one of countless recovery houses that have cropped up in Miami, which has become the heartbeat of the B.B.L. boom in the United States. The average price of a B.B.L. nationwide is around $5,000, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
ref:
2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Brazilian butt lift.
senses_topics:
|
12383 | word:
BBL
word_type:
name
expansion:
BBL
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of British Basketball League.
Bank Brussel Lambert (Banque Bruxelles Lambert), now part of the ING Group
Initialism of Big Bash League.
senses_topics:
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12384 | word:
grapes
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grapes
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of grape
senses_topics:
|
12385 | word:
grapes
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grapes
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of grape
senses_topics:
|
12386 | word:
political consumerism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
political consumerism (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The standpoint that consumption decisions are also political or ethical statements and that consumers can collectively influence the world through their decisions.
senses_topics:
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12387 | word:
acentric
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acentric (comparative more acentric, superlative most acentric)
forms:
form:
more acentric
tags:
comparative
form:
most acentric
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”, privative prefix) + κέντρο (kéntro, “a point, a center”). By surface analysis, a- + centric.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not centered; without a centre
senses_topics:
|
12388 | word:
acentric
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acentric (plural acentrics)
forms:
form:
acentrics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”, privative prefix) + κέντρο (kéntro, “a point, a center”). By surface analysis, a- + centric.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A segment of a chromosome that lacks a centromere
senses_topics:
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12389 | word:
blessed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
blessed (comparative more blessed, superlative most blessed)
forms:
form:
more blessed
tags:
comparative
form:
most blessed
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
‘My blessed Public must have a pretty girl’s face. Romance isn’t romance, adventure is as dull as dishwater...to my Public...unless, every so often, a face to sink a thousand ships, or is it saps? shows up.’
ref:
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
I know—for Death, who comes for me
From regions of the blest afar,
Where there is nothing to deceive,
Hath left his iron gate ajar, […]
ref:
1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
type:
quotation
text:
Not one blessed person offered to help me out.
type:
example
text:
I'm blessed if I'm going to drive all that way at this time of night.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
A title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs.
Held in veneration; revered.
Worthy of worship; holy.
Elect or saved after death; hence (euphemistic) dead.
damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)
senses_topics:
Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
|
12390 | word:
blessed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blessed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of bless
senses_topics:
|
12391 | word:
porthole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
porthole (plural portholes)
forms:
form:
portholes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of portal, as is from port + hole.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gunport; an opening in the hull of a ship through which cannon are fired.
A circular window set in the hull of a ship.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
12392 | word:
address book
word_type:
noun
expansion:
address book (plural address books)
forms:
form:
address books
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
address book
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small book for keeping other people's addresses and phone numbers.
A computerized storage area for contact information such as e-mail addresses.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12393 | word:
acerbitude
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acerbitude (plural acerbitudes)
forms:
form:
acerbitudes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin acerbitudo, from acerbus (“bitter, severe”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sourness and harshness; acerbity.
senses_topics:
|
12394 | word:
ignore
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ignore (third-person singular simple present ignores, present participle ignoring, simple past and past participle ignored)
forms:
form:
ignores
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ignoring
tags:
participle
present
form:
ignored
tags:
participle
past
form:
ignored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French ignorer, from Latin ignōrō (“to have no knowledge of, mistake, take no notice of, ignore”), from ignārus (“not knowing”), from in + gnārus (“knowing”), from gnōscō, nōscō; see know.
senses_examples:
text:
A problem ignored is a problem doubled.
type:
example
text:
Ignore these four words.
ref:
2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →OCLC, →OL, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
ref:
2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic. In his 1986 book Forgotten Railways, he dismissed as smoke and mirrors the oft-used argument that 33% of rail routes carried only 1% of the traffic, as it ignores the fact that a third of the national road network also only carried 2% of cars and lorries. But unlike rail, road got away with it because no mention was made of how much it cost the taxpayer to keep them usable.
ref:
2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
To pretend to not notice someone or something.
Fail to notice.
Not to know.
senses_topics:
|
12395 | word:
bash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bash (third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)
forms:
form:
bashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *basshen, *basken, likely from Old Norse *baska (“to strike”), akin to Swedish basa (“to baste, whip, lash, flog”), Danish baske (“to beat, strike, cudgel”), German patschen (“to slap”)
senses_examples:
text:
The thugs kept bashing the cowering victim.
type:
example
text:
If the engine won't start, bash it with this hammer.
type:
example
text:
It isn't the creature's fault that it bashed its head against a tree outside our hole.
ref:
1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
type:
quotation
text:
Don't bash into me with that shopping trolley.
type:
example
text:
The bulls backed apart and ran together, tusks clashing — Ed held his trunk down while Conrad curled his high over his head, out of the way of Ed's tusks as the faces bashed together.
ref:
1998, Katharine Payne, Silent Thunder, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
He bashed my ideas.
type:
example
text:
The entertainment industry, the artistic community, and much of the educational establishment, which so profoundly influence American culture, relentlessly assault religion, promote promiscuity, encourage illegitimacy, and bash America.
ref:
1994, Richard Nixon, “America Beyond Peace”, in Beyond Peace, New York: Random House, page 236
type:
quotation
text:
This is consistent with new research about to be published by Tax Justice UK that found that, when making the case for a more progressive tax system, bashing the wealthy resonated far less well with voters than specific arguments about closing loopholes and increasing particular taxes.
ref:
2020 February 16, Sonia Sodha, “Politicians should stop bashing the rich… most of us just don’t agree”, in The Observer
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To strike heavily.
To collide; used with into or together.
To criticize harshly.
senses_topics:
|
12396 | word:
bash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bash (plural bashes)
forms:
form:
bashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *basshen, *basken, likely from Old Norse *baska (“to strike”), akin to Swedish basa (“to baste, whip, lash, flog”), Danish baske (“to beat, strike, cudgel”), German patschen (“to slap”)
senses_examples:
text:
He got a bash on the head.
type:
example
text:
They had a big bash to celebrate their tenth anniversary.
type:
example
text:
The party level ramps up at Thornaby, where a gaggle of women on a 50th birthday bash join us.
ref:
2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
give something a bash
type:
example
text:
I'm not sure I'll be any good at this, but let me have a bash.
type:
example
text:
This was my first bash at macramé, so I'm quite pleased with how it's turned out.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A forceful blow or impact.
A large party; a gala event.
An attempt at doing something.
senses_topics:
|
12397 | word:
bash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bash (third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)
forms:
form:
bashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English baschen, baissen. See abash.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To abash (make ashamed)
senses_topics:
|
12398 | word:
acerate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acerate (plural acerates)
forms:
form:
acerates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From aceric + -ate. See acetic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
12399 | word:
acerate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acerate (comparative more acerate, superlative most acerate)
forms:
form:
more acerate
tags:
comparative
form:
most acerate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From aceric + -ate. See acetic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acerose; needle-shaped; long and pointed
senses_topics:
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