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12400 | word:
das
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noun
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das
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plural of da (“father”)
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12401 | word:
das
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
das
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
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senses_glosses:
That is; that's
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12402 | word:
trumpetress
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trumpetress (plural trumpetresses)
forms:
form:
trumpetresses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From trumpeter + -ess.
senses_examples:
text:
Fame has for once at least been not a false trumpetress, Miss FANNY KEMBLE's Tragedy of "Francis the First" has proved eminently successful.
ref:
1832, Day: A Journal of Literature, Fine Arts, Fashions, Etc, page 276
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quotation
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senses_glosses:
A woman who plays the trumpet; a female trumpeter.
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12403 | word:
omnibus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
omnibus (plural omnibuses or omnibusses or (nonstandard) omnibi)
forms:
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omnibuses
tags:
plural
form:
omnibusses
tags:
plural
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omnibi
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nonstandard
plural
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etymology_text:
Borrowed from French (voiture) omnibus (“(carriage) for all”), from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).
senses_examples:
text:
In front of the latter [coach-houses for railway carriages] is a handsome building, intended as offices for the clerks of the Company, coach-offices, and apartments for the reception and accommodation of passengers, who will be conveyed thither in omnibusses from Liverpool, and taking their respective places in the travelling carriages, will be let off down the inclined plane of the little Tunnel, to be hooked to the locomotives in the area, on the other side of the hill.
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1830, James Scott Walker, “The Small Tunnel”, in An Accurate Description of the Liverpool and Manchester Rail-way, the Tunnel, the Bridges, and Other Works throughout the Line; an Account of the Opening of the Rail-way, and the Melancholy Incident which Occurred; a Short Memoir of the Late Right Hon. W[illia]m Huskisson, and Particulars of the Funeral Procession, &c. With a Map of the Line, and a View of the Bridge over Water Street, Manchester, 2nd edition, Liverpool: Printed & published by J. F. Cannell, 81, Lord-Street, →OCLC, page 20
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"Please," his voice quavered through the foul brown air, "Please, is that an omnibus?" / "Omnibus est," said the driver, without turning round.
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1911, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, “The Celestial Omnibus. [Chapter II.]”, in The Celestial Omnibus: And Other Stories, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, →OCLC; republished London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. Adam Street, Adelphi, W.C., 1912, →OCLC, page 61
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When he came back to his work after lunch he carried in his head a picture of the Strand, scatted with omnibuses, and of the purple shapes of leaves pressed flat upon the gravel, as if his eyes had always been bent upon the ground.
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1919 October 20, Virginia Woolf, chapter XIII, in Night and Day, London: Duckworth and Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1920, →OCLC, page 160
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quotation
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Omnibuses were advertised to run in connection with the trains to and from points in the City and West End; fare to the former 3d., to the latter 6d. from Bricklayers Arms.
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1944 July and August, Reginald B. Fellows, “The Failure of Bricklayers Arms as a Passenger Station—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 212
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quotation
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Omnibus, my friend Mr. [Donald] Swann informs me, comes from the Latin omnibus, meaning to or for by with or from everybody, which is a very good description. Well, this song is about a bus, it's wittily subtitled—I thought of this—'A Transport of Delight'.]
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[1959 May 2, Michael Flanders, “A Transport of Delight”, in At the Drop of a Hat, [New York, N.Y.?]: Parlophone, →OCLC, PCSO 3001, audio recording of a musical revue
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quotation
text:
Baldrick, I want you to take this [money] and go out, and buy a turkey so large you'd think its mother had been rogered by an omnibus.
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1988 December 23, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Blackadder's Christmas Carol, spoken by Ebenezer Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson), London: BBC, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Orb published an omnibus by Hal Clement, Heavy Planet, containing his novels Mission of Gravity and Star Light, plus other related material, and an omnibus of three of James White's "Sector General" novels, Alien Emergencies, as well as a reissue of A[lfred] E[lton] [v]an Vogt's The World of Null-A.
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2003, “Summation: 2002”, in Gardner Dozois, editor, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Griffin, page xxvi
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quotation
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The omnibus edition of The Archers is broadcast every Sunday morning at 11.00.
type:
example
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In late 1959, well before he was required to adapt his six-part Quatermass and the Pit teleplay into a ninety-seven-minute film script, [Nigel] Kneale supervised the editing of the BBC version into two feature-length episodes for a repeat broadcast. In 1989, he had another go at it, trimming the 207-minute serial into a 178-minute omnibus for release on video cassette, mostly losing comic relief.
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2014, Kim Newman, “Introduction”, in Quatermass and the Pit, London: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, page 7
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quotation
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[M]any of the African nations issuing the World Cup stamps have pandered to international collectors, with some stamps not even sold in the country of issue. These ‘omnibus’ stamps featured topics and individuals with no links to the issuing country. African stamps displaying Disney themes, Princess Diana, Michael Jackson and Sylvester Stallone all belong to this category.
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2013, Agbenyega Adedze, “Visualizing the Game: The Iconography of Football on African Postage Stamps”, in Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher, Ciraj Rassool, editors, Global Perspectives on Football in Africa: Visualising the Game (Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives), Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 163
type:
quotation
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senses_glosses:
A bus (vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads).
An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.
A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week.
A stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as a joint issue.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
philately |
12404 | word:
omnibus
word_type:
adj
expansion:
omnibus (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French (voiture) omnibus (“(carriage) for all”), from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).
senses_examples:
text:
The legislature enacted an omnibus appropriations bill.
type:
example
text:
The inventors face a similar uphill battle in their fight against the omnibus bill.
ref:
1996 June 3, Sabra Chartrand, “Patents; Some independent inventors cry foul about an omnibus bill to reshape the patent system”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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quotation
text:
[…] I guess it's good theatrics to hold up all the pages of the appropriations bills that are gathered there, but I should point out to my colleague that the Republican omnibus appropriations acts were longer in length than the one he has there. So what? I mean, has this debate become so shallow that it's all about the number of pages of the bill?
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2009 December 10, Mr. McGovern, “Providing for Consideration of Conference Report on H[ouse] R[esolution] 3288, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 111th Congress, First Session, volume 155, part 23, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 31014, column 3
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quotation
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In 1852, G[eorge] H[enry] Lewes published an omnibus review of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, George Sand's oeuvre, and the work of other nineteenth-century "lady novelists" in the Westminster Review.
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2015, Linda H. Peterson, “Introduction: Victorian Women’s Writing and Modern Literary Criticism”, in Linda H. Peterson, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Writing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 1
type:
quotation
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senses_glosses:
Containing multiple items.
Of a transportation service, calling at every station, as opposed to express; local.
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12405 | word:
omnibus
word_type:
verb
expansion:
omnibus (third-person singular simple present omnibuses or omnibusses, present participle omnibusing or omnibussing, simple past and past participle omnibused or omnibussed)
forms:
form:
omnibuses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
omnibusses
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present
singular
third-person
form:
omnibusing
tags:
participle
present
form:
omnibussing
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participle
present
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omnibused
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participle
past
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omnibused
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past
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omnibussed
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participle
past
form:
omnibussed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French (voiture) omnibus (“(carriage) for all”), from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).
senses_examples:
text:
In the tax levy measure were omnibused all appropriations for the maintenance of government for the fiscal year.
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1927, Denis Tilden Lynch, chapter XXIII, in “Boss” Tweed: The Story of a Grim Generation, New York, N.Y.: Boni & Liveright, →OCLC; reprinted New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2002, page 283
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quotation
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I'm two shillings short of usual rainy-day fares, and not a passenger is out, I'm certain—least ways can I see him, if there was. It's nice business, omnibusing is—in summer time!
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1857, A[braham] Oakey Hall, “Trot the Seventh.—A New York Omnibus has a Singular Fare on a Stormy Night, and what Came of It”, in Old Whitey’s Christmas Trot. A Story for the Holidays, New York, N.Y.: Published by Harper & Brothers, Pearl Street, Franklin Square, →OCLC, page 93
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quotation
text:
[W]hat would not be the effect on the goods, and even on the passenger traffic, of the Grand Junction and London and Birmingham lines, if two miles of the rails were to-morrow taken up through the town of Birmingham, so that the first (good) had all to be carted, and the second (passengers) had all to be omnibused, over the breach! Yet, such is the present state of the communication at Manchester!
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1842 February 12, “Observator” [pseudonym], “Liverpool and Manchester and Manchester and Leeds Railways [letter]”, in Supplement to The Railway Times, volume V, number 7, part II (number 215 from the start), London: Printed by John Thomas Norris, 137 and 138, Aldersgate street, in the Parish of St. Botolph Without, Aldersgate, in the City of London, and published by him at the Railway Times Office, No. 122, Fleet-street, (facing Saint Bride's Church), in the Parish of Saint Bride's, Fleet-street, Middlesex, →OCLC, page 178
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quotation
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[…] Sharon Springs are five hours from Albany, three by railroad, and two by stage-coach. Passengers arrive in time to dress comfortably for dinner. The drive up is not particularly picturesque, but it is through woods and fields, and this, as a change from omnibusing between sidewalks and brick walls, is, at least, refreshing.
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1848 June 15, N[athaniel] Parker Willis, “[Letters from Watering-places.] Letter I.”, in Rural Letters and Other Records of Thought at Leisure, Written in the Intervals of More Hurried Literary Labor, Detroit, Mich.: Kerr, Doughty & Lapham, published 1853, →OCLC, page 309
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Two days I hired a carriage and showed them all distant places, such as Bois de Boulogne, Longchamps, Champ de Mars, Invalides, and some of the outer boulevards, Gobelins, Père La Chaise, Jardin de Plantes; but generally we omnibussed it, and for a few sous each you can get any distance along and athwart the city.
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1871, W. Justin O'Driscoll, chapter VI, in A Memoir of Daniel Maclise, R.A., London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 68
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quotation
text:
[John] Virtue has often sung his ode to pollution; the artist's friend. Whether to embrace or reject the begrimed air, the half-choked light has historically sorted out the men from the boys in London painters. […] Claude Monet was in two minds about it, cursing it from his room in the Savoy in 1899 for blotting out the fugitive sun. Yet by far the strongest of his paintings – completed in a studio a long, long way from the Thames – were the greeny-grey early-morning images of crowds tramping and omnibussing their way to work over hostile bridges, unblessed by even a hint of watery sunshine.
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2005, Simon Schama, in Simon Schama; Paul Moorhouse; Colin Wiggins, John Virtue: London Paintings, London: National Gallery Company, page 23
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senses_glosses:
To combine (legislative bills, etc.) into a single package.
To drive an omnibus.
To travel or be transported by omnibus.
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12406 | word:
sash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sash (plural sashes)
forms:
form:
sashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic شَاش (šāš, “muslin cloth”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.
Alternative spelling of shash (“the scarf of a turban”)
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12407 | word:
sash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sash (third-person singular simple present sashes, present participle sashing, simple past and past participle sashed)
forms:
form:
sashes
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present
singular
third-person
form:
sashing
tags:
participle
present
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sashed
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participle
past
form:
sashed
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past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic شَاش (šāš, “muslin cloth”).
senses_examples:
text:
1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace, Letter IV to the Earl Fitzwilliam, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: C. and J. Rivington, 1826, Volume 9, p. 46,
[…] the Costume of the Sans-culotte Constitution of 1793 was absolutely insufferable […] but now they are so powdered and perfumed, and ribanded, and sashed and plumed, that […] there is something in it more grand and noble, something more suitable to an awful Roman Senate, receiving the homage of dependant Tetrarchs.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To adorn with a sash.
senses_topics:
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12408 | word:
sash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sash (plural sashes)
forms:
form:
sashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Aphra Behn
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
etymology_text:
From sashes, from French châssis (“frame (of a window or door)”), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis.
senses_examples:
text:
1823, Clement Clarke Moore, “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” (“The Night before Christmas”),
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.
text:
She chiefly recalled the Square under snow; cold mornings, and the coldness of the oil-cloth at the window, and the draught of cold air through the ill-fitting sash (it was put right now)!
ref:
1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, Book 4, Chapter 2
type:
quotation
text:
Each hood is equipped with two sliding sashes, glazed with polished plate wire-glass; […]
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1915 April, W. A. Hamor, “Description of the New Building of the Mellon Institute”, in The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, page 334
type:
quotation
text:
[…] it [fume hood] also affords an excellent physical barrier on all four sides of a reacting system when the sash is pulled down.
ref:
2008, Kenneth L. Williamson, Katherine M. Masters, Macroscale and Microscale Organic Experiments, published 2015, page 35
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The opening part (casement) of a window usually containing the glass panes, hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window.
A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
The rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; the gate.
A window-like part of a fume hood which can be moved up and down in order to create a barrier between chemicals and people.
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computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
12409 | word:
sash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sash (third-person singular simple present sashes, present participle sashing, simple past and past participle sashed)
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sashes
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sashing
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present
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sashed
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past
form:
sashed
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past
wikipedia:
Aphra Behn
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
etymology_text:
From sashes, from French châssis (“frame (of a window or door)”), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis.
senses_examples:
text:
The old Bow-windows he will have preserv'd, but will not have them sash’d,
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1741, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London, Volume 3, Letter 1, p. 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To furnish with a sash.
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12410 | word:
luff
word_type:
noun
expansion:
luff (plural luffs)
forms:
form:
luffs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French lof. Collins English Dictionary states that this word is ultimately derived from Middle Dutch loef. Ellert Ekwall's Shakspere's Vocabulary: its etymological elements (1903) related this verb and loof instead to the East Frisian verb lofen, lufen, which would make it cognate to the French term lover.
senses_examples:
text:
By easing the halyard, the luff of the sail was made to sag to leeward.
type:
example
text:
The man at the helm was watching the luff of the sail and whistling away gently to himself.
ref:
1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The vertical edge of a sail that is closest to the direction of the wind.
The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
The roundest part of a ship's bow.
The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport |
12411 | word:
luff
word_type:
verb
expansion:
luff (third-person singular simple present luffs, present participle luffing, simple past and past participle luffed)
forms:
form:
luffs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
luffing
tags:
participle
present
form:
luffed
tags:
participle
past
form:
luffed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French lof. Collins English Dictionary states that this word is ultimately derived from Middle Dutch loef. Ellert Ekwall's Shakspere's Vocabulary: its etymological elements (1903) related this verb and loof instead to the East Frisian verb lofen, lufen, which would make it cognate to the French term lover.
senses_examples:
text:
I thought how my life is like a little boat and I must hold the tiller steady against the buffeting of wind and waves, and how sometimes, like this morning, I lose my hold somehow and the sail luffs helplessly and the little vessel wallows, turning this way and that in the swell.
ref:
1993, John Banville, Ghosts
type:
quotation
text:
Helm there! Luff, luff a point! So; steady, man, steady!
ref:
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick
type:
quotation
text:
The tower is mounted on a slewing platform, which also carries the power plant and the counterweights, while the jib is supported and luffed by fixed pendant ropes.
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1999, Howard I. Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, Lawrence K. Shapiro, Cranes and Derricks, page 95
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To shake due to being trimmed improperly.
To bring the ship's head up closer to the wind. (Alternatively luff up)
to let out (a sail) so that it luffs.
To alter the vertical angle of the jib of a crane so as to bring it level with the load.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
12412 | word:
public limited liability company
word_type:
noun
expansion:
public limited liability company (plural public limited liability companies)
forms:
form:
public limited liability companies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type or form of for-profit incorporated company where ownership is divided into shares that are publicly tradeable usually in a stock exchange.
senses_topics:
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12413 | word:
fireball
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fireball (plural fireballs)
forms:
form:
fireballs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Chelyabinsk meteor
Nevada Test Site
Operation Upshot–Knothole
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from fire (noun) + ball (noun). The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
He placed his arms in a blocking position, but even so, the fireball threw all three of them, Kylie, Percival, and Kelly, onto the wall.
ref:
2008, Franklin Newman, “Sleeping with the Enemy”, in The Princess of Flourae (The Knights of Callistor; 2), [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
At 7:45 p.m. there was a sudden “whooshing” noise, and a mercilessly intense fireball exploded from under the escalator, ballooned up into the ticket hall and ignited all combustible material in the area. As a result of the flashover of the fireball, the temperature rose by several hundred degrees in a matter of seconds, and it was believed that it reached 600°C with zero visibility.
ref:
2011, Nick Bracken, Sue Black, “King’s Cross Underground Fire, November 18, 1987”, in Sue Black, G. Sunderland, Lucina Hackman, Xanthé Mallet, editors, Disaster Victim Identification: Experience and Practice (Global Perspectives on Disaster Victim Identification Series), Boca Raton, Fla.; London: CRC Press, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
In a moment, he was caught by the blast. He threw up his arms to cover his head as the surge of energy created by the fireball threw him aside.
ref:
2014 October, Don Pendleton [pseudonym], chapter 14, in Maximum Chaos (A Gold Eagle Book; The Executioner; 431), Don Mills, Ont.: Worldwide Library, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
At the time of this photo, Royal Marine Gunner Bryan Gasson is pretty much dead centre in this photo, and yes, that means he is literally inside that socking great fireball as the magazines detonate.
ref:
2021 March 14, Drachinifel [pseudonym], 1:05:17 from the start, in The Drydock – Episode 137, archived from the original on 2022-11-08
type:
quotation
text:
Her folks have a lot of money. I've never seen her, but she must be quite a fireball.
ref:
1954 October 3, Dorothy Cooper, “Bud Takes Up the Dance”, in Father Knows Best, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Betty (Rhoda Williams), New York, N.Y.: CBS, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
And Lydia's a sassy little fireball. Today's her first day of first grade, and I'm just glad her teacher hasn't had to call.
ref:
2022 February 23, Jocelyn Samara D., “Tie the Knot”, in Rain (webcomic), archived from the original on 2024-05-08
type:
quotation
text:
In December 1997, a fireball passed eastward before dawn over the southwestern corner of Greenland, and then blew up into at least four fragments. Just five days later, according to reports from Colombia, three fireballs struck Bogotá, one of them causing the death of four children by setting their home ablaze.
ref:
2003, Trevor Palmer, “Catastrophes on Earth”, in Perilous Planet Earth: Catastrophes and Catastrophism through the Ages, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, section C (From 1980 to the Present Day: Catastrophism Strikes Back), page 201
type:
quotation
text:
Ninety-four years after the Tunguska fireball. […] A US Air Force spots an object as it enters the atmosphere, but loses track of it as it falls below 30 kilometres. Moments later a second satellite records a fireball exploding in the clouded sky.
ref:
2005, Surendra Verma, “A Fireball in the Dinosaurs’ Sky”, in The Mystery of the Tunguska Fireball, Thriplow, Cambridgeshire: Icon Books, published 2006, page 234
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ball of fire, especially one associated with an explosion, or (fiction, mythology) thrown as a weapon.
A feisty, strong-willed person.
Synonym of fastball (“a high-speed pitch of a baseball”).
A bright glow caused by a spacecraft re-entering an atmosphere.
A meteor bright enough to cast shadows; a bolide.
A class of sailing dinghy with a single trapeze and a symmetrical spinnaker, sailed by a crew of two.
A bag or ball filled with combustible material which is thrown as a weapon or to set something alight.
A bag or ball filled with combustible material which is thrown as a weapon or to set something alight.
A charge depicting a disc-shaped bombshell with flames emitted from the top, or sometimes from the top, bottom, and on either side.
An emanation of St. Elmo's fire; also (later), of ball lightning.
A ball-shaped firelighter (“small block of a flammable substance, typically a combination of sawdust and wax, used to light fires”).
A ball of heat-resistant material placed in a fire to slow down the burning of the fuel.
A statement intended to cause dissension or as a provocation.
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ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
astronomy
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politics
tools
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engineering
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
military
monarchy
natural-sciences
nobility
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
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12414 | word:
fireball
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fireball (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Chelyabinsk meteor
Nevada Test Site
Operation Upshot–Knothole
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from fire (noun) + ball (noun). The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Excellent, terrific.
senses_topics:
|
12415 | word:
fireball
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fireball (third-person singular simple present fireballs, present participle fireballing, simple past and past participle fireballed)
forms:
form:
fireballs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fireballing
tags:
participle
present
form:
fireballed
tags:
participle
past
form:
fireballed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Chelyabinsk meteor
Nevada Test Site
Operation Upshot–Knothole
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from fire (noun) + ball (noun). The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
The car swerved off a road, hit a wall, and fireballed as the petrol tank exploded.
type:
example
text:
But the swoon was only brief. [Klay] Thompson scorched his way to 27 first-half points, the Warriors fireballed back into a 17-point lead and a statement half was sealed from the deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep left corner, early in the clock and without a dribble – vintage Klay, vintage Warriors.
ref:
2019 March 9, Anthony Slater, “Five Observations from the Warriors’ 122–105 Win over the Nuggets”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, archived from the original on 2024-08-13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To attack (someone or something) with balls of fire.
To explode in a ball of fire or flame.
To emerge suddenly; to explode.
To pitch a baseball very fast.
senses_topics:
fantasy
fiction
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
12416 | word:
alter
word_type:
verb
expansion:
alter (third-person singular simple present alters, present participle altering, simple past and past participle altered)
forms:
form:
alters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
altering
tags:
participle
present
form:
altered
tags:
participle
past
form:
altered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French alterer (French altérer), from Medieval Latin alterāre (“to make other”), from Latin alter (“the other”), from al- (seen in alius (“other”), alienus (“of another”), etc.; see alias, alien, etc.) + compar. suffix -ter.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] Passing the song of the hermit bird and the tallying song of my soul, / Victorious song, death’s outlet song, yet varying ever-altering song, […]
ref:
1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems
type:
quotation
text:
We don't know if he was altered on alcohol or drugs or anything […]
ref:
2016 February 10, Sydney Pruitt and Claire Ricke (quoting Jeff Barrick), "Police: Man lying in street hit, killed by Capital Metro bus", KXAN
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To change the form or structure of.
To become different.
To tailor clothes to make them fit.
To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness.
senses_topics:
|
12417 | word:
alter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alter (plural alters)
forms:
form:
alters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from alter ego.
senses_examples:
text:
While the second goal would be best met if each alter were coconscious, the defendant should be satisfied if at least one competent alter is present to hear what transpires.
ref:
2000, Elyn R. Saks, Stephen H. Behnke, Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law, page 147
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An identity, part or personality state of a person with dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder).
senses_topics:
|
12418 | word:
alter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alter
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
As an alter boy he remembered that walking between the alter and the gates was prohibited for everyone except the priest.
ref:
2002, Nicholas Smeed, Resurrections: Vignettes About Discovery, Relationships, Personal Empowerment, And Preternatural Experiences, Xlibris Corporation, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
The hardest part of being an alter boy was learning Latin. The mass was conducted in Latin and we had to learn to pray in Latin.
ref:
2007, Jerry P. Martinez, Leche De Coyote, Xlibris Corporation, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
On the alter, several candles sat unlit. An open bible rested among the candles. Behind the alter, hanging high, a huge cross was affixed to the wall, with a replica of Jesus in rags nailed to it. A simple wooden door stood closed behind the alter […]
ref:
2009, Todd Sprague, Survive, Todd Sprague, page 142
type:
quotation
text:
Truth motioned to Alexandra, “There; the key is kept on the alter.” She spotted it easily, for it was now well lighted by an amber colored presence light. She and the others moved quickly toward the alter.
ref:
2011, Suzanne Dekeyzer James, The Stone Harp, Xlibris Corporation, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
Third-rate alter boy. Skinny, lousy face, brown hair with a cowlick as big as Sputtnik. So as not to go on about it, I can put it in one word: Butt-ugly.
ref:
2018, William Francis Jack, Alter Boy Rules, Lulu Press, Inc
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of altar.
senses_topics:
|
12419 | word:
circuit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
circuit (plural circuits)
forms:
form:
circuits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
circuit (administrative division)
etymology_text:
From Middle English circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus (“a going round”), from circuire (“go round”), from circum (“around”) + ire. As a Chinese administrative division, a calque of Chinese 道 (dào) or 路 (lù).
senses_examples:
text:
After 27 days the moon has made one circuit among the stars, moving from west to east. But in those 27 days the sun has likewise moved eastwardly, about 27 degrees. The moon, then, has to make one circuit and a little more in order to be again in the line joining the earth and sun, in order to be again 'new.'
ref:
1904, Popular Science Monthly Volume 64, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
Circuit of the wall from the east to the West
ref:
1598, John Stow, A Survay of London
type:
quotation
text:
And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage Until the golden circuit on my head, Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams, Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw.
ref:
1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act III, Scene I, line 351
type:
quotation
text:
"Fondling," she saith, "since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer: Feed where thou wilt, on mountain, or in dale; Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie."
ref:
1592, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, Stanza 39, line 229
type:
quotation
text:
A circuit wide enclosed with goodliest trees.
ref:
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
type:
quotation
text:
November 25 2016, Jane Cornwell in The Age, Bill Bailey: bird loving joker at the peak of his career
Having cut his teeth on London's take-no-prisoners comedy circuit he can handle hecklers too, sometimes with musical accompaniment; recent shows see him armed with a veritable chamber orchestra's worth of instruments, all of which he plays.
text:
Interlagos is the 24th track Hamilton has won at in F1, which is more than any other driver in history. The only circuit on the current calendar that Hamilton hasn’t won at is Baku, which only joined the schedule this year.
ref:
November 13 2016, Formula 1
text:
circuite of words.
ref:
1572, Richard Huloet, Huloets Dictionarie
type:
quotation
text:
Mike Patrick commented on a theater chain he was considering buying and converting to 99 ¢ theaters with multiplex screens: I'm looking at a circuit of theaters in a major metropolitan area. Now the owner hasn't told me that it is for sale yet.
ref:
1990, Arthur A. Thompson, Alonzo J. Strickland, Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases, page 341
type:
quotation
text:
It again featured Edgar Simmons (the architect and chairman), John Ray (the builder), L. E. Agar (managing director) and J. G. Wainwright (head of a separate circuit of cinemas).
ref:
2002, Allen Eyles, Keith Skone, Cinemas of Hertfordshire, page 61
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job
The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.
Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.
Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.
Abbreviation of circuit court.
The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.
By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
A track on which a race in held; a racetrack
circumlocution
A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
A closed path, without repeated vertices allowed.
A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
law
law
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
Scientology
lifestyle
religion
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
|
12420 | word:
circuit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
circuit (third-person singular simple present circuits, present participle circuiting, simple past and past participle circuited)
forms:
form:
circuits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
circuiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
circuited
tags:
participle
past
form:
circuited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
circuit (administrative division)
etymology_text:
From Middle English circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus (“a going round”), from circuire (“go round”), from circum (“around”) + ire. As a Chinese administrative division, a calque of Chinese 道 (dào) or 路 (lù).
senses_examples:
text:
Having circuited the air.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
To travel around.
senses_topics:
|
12421 | word:
electronic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
electronic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From electron + -ic.
senses_examples:
text:
electronic music
type:
example
text:
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
ref:
2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
Operating on the physical behavior of electrons, especially in semiconductors.
Generated by an electronic device.
Of or pertaining to the Internet.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
12422 | word:
vier
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vier (plural viers)
forms:
form:
viers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From vie + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
Evidently, there were two children vying for a third's attention. The two attention viers were engaged in a series of gymnastic feats on a small portable trampoline. Two girls were trying to outdo each other to impress the third child, a boy.
ref:
1991, Diane Lynch Fraser, Playdancing, page 90
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who vies for something.
senses_topics:
|
12423 | word:
flea
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flea (plural fleas or (archaic or UK dialectal) fleen)
forms:
form:
fleas
tags:
plural
form:
fleen
tags:
UK
dialectal
error-unknown-tag
plural
wikipedia:
flea
etymology_text:
From Middle English fle, from Old English flēah, flēa, from Proto-West Germanic *flauh, from Proto-Germanic *flauhaz (compare West Frisian flie, Low German Flo, Flö, Dutch vlo, German Floh, Icelandic fló), from pre-Germanic *plóukos, *plówkos, from or akin to Proto-Indo-European *plúsis (compare Latin pulex, Sanskrit प्लुषि (plúṣi)).
The archaic plural fleen is from Middle English fleen, flen, from Old English flēan (“fleas”).
senses_examples:
text:
The nation of beggars on horseback which first colonized California has left behind it many traditions unworthy of conservation, and multitudinous fleas not at all traditional, but even less keepworthy […]
ref:
1871, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, The Heart of the Continent, page 414
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities.
A thing of no significance.
senses_topics:
|
12424 | word:
flea
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flea (third-person singular simple present fleas, present participle fleaing, simple past and past participle fleaed)
forms:
form:
fleas
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fleaing
tags:
participle
present
form:
fleaed
tags:
participle
past
form:
fleaed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
flea
etymology_text:
From Middle English fle, from Old English flēah, flēa, from Proto-West Germanic *flauh, from Proto-Germanic *flauhaz (compare West Frisian flie, Low German Flo, Flö, Dutch vlo, German Floh, Icelandic fló), from pre-Germanic *plóukos, *plówkos, from or akin to Proto-Indo-European *plúsis (compare Latin pulex, Sanskrit प्लुषि (plúṣi)).
The archaic plural fleen is from Middle English fleen, flen, from Old English flēan (“fleas”).
senses_examples:
text:
I have seen a Lubra, or native woman, suckling two puppies; and, like monkeys, these ladies have a particular fancy for fleaing their dogs.
ref:
1861, Horace William Wheelwright, Bush Wanderings of a Naturalist, page 192
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove fleas from (an animal).
senses_topics:
|
12425 | word:
flea
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flea (third-person singular simple present fleas, present participle fleaing, simple past and past participle flead)
forms:
form:
fleas
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fleaing
tags:
participle
present
form:
flead
tags:
participle
past
form:
flead
tags:
past
wikipedia:
flea
etymology_text:
Alternative forms.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] he'd flea me alive like another St Bartholomew.
ref:
1605, Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Everyman's Library, published 1991, page 36
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of flay.
senses_topics:
|
12426 | word:
multicolor
word_type:
adj
expansion:
multicolor
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin multicolor; see below.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having, resembling, or pertaining to many colors.
senses_topics:
|
12427 | word:
multicolor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
multicolor (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin multicolor; see below.
senses_examples:
text:
a stamp printed in multicolor
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A display of many colors.
senses_topics:
|
12428 | word:
ne
word_type:
adv
expansion:
ne (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ne, from Old English ne, from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.
Cognates include Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni), Latin nē, Sanskrit न (na), Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Russian не (ne), Lithuanian ne, Irish ní.
senses_examples:
text:
For she ne dare doo, but to commande.
ref:
c1500, Melusine (translation)
text:
And whan the good quene herde these pyteous tydynges lytel lacked that the ne dyed for sorowe / wherfore all lamentably the began to complayne her sayenge.
ref:
1512, Robert Copland, The History of Helyas, Knight of The Swan
type:
quotation
text:
This shold haue bene his skuce at the lest / And it ne had bene but good & honest.
ref:
c1520, Andria by Terence (translation)
text:
O so incessaunt thow ad in thy desyre / For so that thow thy mynde now mayst haue / Thow ne caryst what thow dost requyre.
ref:
c1520, Andria by Terence (translation)
text:
For he ne had, nor could increase his line.
ref:
1550, The Mirror for Magistrates
type:
quotation
text:
In geving me to him whom I ne can, ne may, ne ought to love.
ref:
1562, Arthur Brooke, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet
type:
quotation
text:
Mary (quoth the king) so might me mine, ne haddest thou been Earle Godwine: casting in his dish the murder of his brother Alfred, which was done to death at Elie by the Counsell of Godwine.
ref:
1576, William Lambarde, A perambulation of Kent
type:
quotation
text:
Ioc: How can that be and thou my ioy in warre? Po: Henceforth n'am I your ioy ne yet your sonne.
ref:
1587, George Gascoigne, Francis Kinwelmershe, Jocasta
type:
quotation
text:
What happs might chance me I ne knewe.
ref:
c. 1590, William Fowler, The Works of William Fowler
type:
quotation
text:
And now sweete death most welcome vnto mee, thy stroakes ne can, ne shall me once dismay.
ref:
1591, John Phillip, A Commemoration on the Life and Death of the Right Honourable, Sir Christopher Hatton
type:
quotation
text:
And twenty thousand infants that ne wot the right hand from the left.
ref:
1592, Robert Greene, A Looking Glass for London
type:
quotation
text:
But when he spoke, his plenteous words did flow / Like to thick-falling flakes of winter snow, / Ne any couth his wit so hiely straine.
ref:
1607, Thomas Walkington, The Optick Glasse of Humors
type:
quotation
text:
Now, siker ( Wernocke ) thou hast split the marke / Albe that I ne wot I han mis-song: / But, for I am so yong, I dread my warke / Woll be misualued both of old and yong.
ref:
1614, John Davies of Hereford, Eclogue Between Young Willy the SInger of His Native Pastorals, and Old Wernocke His Friend
type:
quotation
text:
Whilom in Albion's isle there dwelt a youth, / Who ne in virtue's ways did take delight [...].
ref:
1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I, 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not.
senses_topics:
|
12429 | word:
ne
word_type:
conj
expansion:
ne
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ne, from Old English ne, from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.
Cognates include Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni), Latin nē, Sanskrit न (na), Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Russian не (ne), Lithuanian ne, Irish ní.
senses_examples:
text:
That than I shall not geve therunto faith ne credence, nor therfore put them to any maner ponyssement, before that they or any of them so accused may be at their lawful defence and answer.
ref:
1484, Original Letters, King Edward the Fifth, under the direction of his Uncle, to Otes Gilbert, Esq., commanding him to receive Knighthood at the expected Coronation
type:
quotation
text:
And therin is no drede nor bytternes ne expences, but therin is pure recreacyon of body and of soule soo it be donn in clene places.
ref:
1489, The gouernayle of helthe
type:
quotation
text:
Be not to hasty ne sodenly vengeable, to poure folke doo no vyolence.
ref:
1489, The gouernayle of helthe
type:
quotation
text:
Moreouer no man be so hardy to drynk fastyng cold water, ne after that he hath accompanyed wyth a woman, ne after gret trauayle, ne after exersice tyll he haue fyrst rested hym, ne by nyght namely yf he haue do gloue tofore.
ref:
1489, The gouernayle of helthe
type:
quotation
text:
A false tonge wyll euer Imagyne and saye / That neuer by creature was sayd ne thought.
ref:
1500, The Example of Euyll Tongues
type:
quotation
text:
For chastyce can he not by daye ne nyght his wyfe but by his betynge maketh lyght and hote the loue bytwene her and her frende.
ref:
1509, Wynkyn de Worde, The fyftene joyes of maryage
type:
quotation
text:
Item, that noo woman nor maide weyve any worsted stamynges ne sayes for that that thei be nott of sufficient powre to werke the said worsteddes as thei owte to be wrought, upon payne of iij s iiij d as often as thei be founde wevyng to be devyded and leuyed in maner and forme aboue expressed.
ref:
1511, The Records of the City of Norwich
type:
quotation
text:
That they shulde no lenger kepe ne susteyne Thomas the archebysshope.
ref:
1520, Richard Pynson, The Lyfe of The Blessed Martyr Saynte Thomas
type:
quotation
text:
The rote ought to be gadered in the begynnynge of somer and dryed in the sonne bycause [tha]¬t it corrupt ne rotte bycause of the moystnesse[,] & it may be kept two yeres;
ref:
1526, The Grete Herball
type:
quotation
text:
For lyinge is a detestable vice, and to be hated of all men, ne to be suffred amonge seruantis ne other persones[,] howe poure estate so euer they be of.
ref:
1535, Thomas Elyot, The Education or Bringing up of Children
type:
quotation
text:
Thus some persones beeyng inuited and exhorted to falle to the studie of lettres, make their excuse that thei bee sickely, that thei can not slepe ne take their naturall reste in the nightes.
ref:
1542, Nicholas Udall, Apophthegms (translation)
type:
quotation
text:
We Moores be not so base of wit, ne yet so blunt of mynd.
ref:
1558, Thomas Phaer, The Aeneid (translation)
type:
quotation
text:
The deuyll gossyp, ought me a shame / And prayde I am nowe, euerye penye I wolde god he had, be blinde and lame / The daye and houre, he fyrste woed me / Ware not gossyp, these chyldren thre I wolde not tary, ye may be sure / Longer with hym, daye ne houre.
ref:
c. 1560, Edward Gosynhill, The Schoolhouse of Women
type:
quotation
text:
Neither extremitie, ne gentle meanes could boote; she hydeth close within her brest, her secret sorowes roote.
ref:
1562, Arthur Brooke, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet
type:
quotation
text:
Ne on her teares or plaint, at all to have remorse, but (if they can not with her will,) to bring the mayde perforce.
ref:
1562, Arthur Brooke, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet
type:
quotation
text:
His hart encreaseth not thereby ne lesseth as edoon these fooles.
ref:
1570, John Thynne, The Debate betweene Pride and Lowlines
type:
quotation
text:
And that no victualer ne other person or persons forestall any kynde of victualls cominge to the said Cyty or within the precyncte of the same before the same victualls be come to the place.
ref:
1577, The Hereford Municipal Manuscript
type:
quotation
text:
Ioc: How can that be and thou my ioy in warre? Po: Henceforth n'am I your ioy ne yet your sonne.
ref:
1587, George Gascoigne, Francis Kinwelmershe, Jocasta
type:
quotation
text:
Whose worth all outward is in shew alone / But inward sent hath not, ne vertue none.
ref:
1634, W. Lathum, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
The pang, the curse, with which they died, / Had never pass'd away; / I could not draw my een from theirs / Ne turn them up to pray.
ref:
1798, Samuel Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, ll. 443-6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nor.
senses_topics:
|
12430 | word:
ne
word_type:
adv
expansion:
ne
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of any.
senses_topics:
|
12431 | word:
micro
word_type:
adj
expansion:
micro (comparative more micro, superlative most micro)
forms:
form:
more micro
tags:
comparative
form:
most micro
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”), or shortened form for modern words formed from its derivative micro-.
senses_examples:
text:
At the micro level he was a good manager. At the macro level he failed.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified.
senses_topics:
|
12432 | word:
micro
word_type:
noun
expansion:
micro (countable and uncountable, plural micros)
forms:
form:
micros
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”), or shortened form for modern words formed from its derivative micro-.
senses_examples:
text:
Just put it in the micro for 30 seconds and it's ready to eat.
type:
example
text:
If you can possibly afford to spend a few more pounds then you should move up into the next price bracket, where the potential of the home micro starts to be realised.
ref:
1984, Mike Gerrard, Bryan Skinner, Mr Chips comes home: micros and home education, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
So what sort of hero is this bounding, bomb collecting midget? The answer is an arcade hero - and now he's let loose in your micro courtesy of conversion kings, Elite.
ref:
1986, Rachael Smith, Bomb Jack (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 5, May 1986
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of microwave oven.
Clipping of microeconomics.
short form of microcomputer
micromanagement
a very small person
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
games
gaming
|
12433 | word:
micro
word_type:
verb
expansion:
micro (third-person singular simple present micros or microes, present participle microing, simple past and past participle microed)
forms:
form:
micros
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
microes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
microing
tags:
participle
present
form:
microed
tags:
participle
past
form:
microed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”), or shortened form for modern words formed from its derivative micro-.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to micromanage
senses_topics:
games
gaming |
12434 | word:
aceric
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aceric (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin ācer (“maple”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple.
senses_topics:
|
12435 | word:
LGk
word_type:
name
expansion:
LGk
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Late Greek.
senses_topics:
|
12436 | word:
acervative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acervative
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Heaped up; tending to heap up.
senses_topics:
|
12437 | word:
acerval
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acerval
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acervalis, from acervus (“heap”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to a heap.
senses_topics:
|
12438 | word:
promontorium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
promontorium (plural promontoriums or promontoria)
forms:
form:
promontoriums
tags:
plural
form:
promontoria
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A borrowing of Latin promontorium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of promontory.
senses_topics:
|
12439 | word:
acephalous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acephalous (comparative more acephalous, superlative most acephalous)
forms:
form:
more acephalous
tags:
comparative
form:
most acephalous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French acéphale, from Ancient Greek ἀκέφαλος (aképhalos, “headless”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”). By surface analysis, a- + -cephalous.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] Mr. Cruickshank saw a Monster nine Months old, which lived thirty-six Hours after it was born, though it had no Cranium: […] But is this a Reason that we should believe the vital Functions and the Increase of the Body have no dependence on the Brain? I think not: for such acephalous Subjects never live long […]
ref:
1792, Walter Vaughan, An Essay, Philosophical and Medical, Concerning Modern Clothing, Rochester, pages 58–59
type:
quotation
text:
“But tell me, my Dea—my Psyche!—
(With your wings outspread as to race
With that swift and acephalous Nike
Who lost her bean somewhere in Thrace)
ref:
1916, Don Marquis, “The Little Group Gives a Pagan Masque”, in Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers, New York: Appleton, page 164
type:
quotation
text:
an acephalous society / community
type:
example
text:
[…] an Oecumenical Council is a whole, and a Body whereof the Pope, or he that presides in it in his place, is the Head[.] For there is no Acephalous Council, as M. Schelstrate speaks, that is to say, without a Head, calling that of Constance so in the Absence of the Pope.
ref:
1685, Louis Maimbourg, chapter 25, in Archibald Lovell, transl., An Historical Treatise of the Foundation and Prerogatives of the Church of Rome and of Her Bishops, London: Jos. Hindmarsh, pages 318–319
type:
quotation
text:
A very brief acephalous interim followed the death of the dark Dictator.
ref:
1870, Richard Francis Burton, Letters from the Battle-Fields of Paraguay, London: Tinsley Brothers, Introductory Essay, p. 54
type:
quotation
text:
They have acephalous or headless Verses, which commence with a short Syllable instead of a long one:
ref:
1746, Claude Lancelot, translated by T. Nugent, A New Method of Learning with Greater Facility the Greek Tongue, London: J. Nourse and G. Hawkins, Volume 2, Book 9, p. 348
type:
quotation
text:
Sometimes verse lines “jump” the first syllable (in anapaestic and dactylic measures the first two syllables) of a regular metre. Such lines are said to be acephalous (headless) or, as acrostic writers would put it, “beheaded.”
ref:
1934, Robert Swann, Frank Sidgwick, chapter 2, in The Making of Verse: A Guide to English Metres, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
1828, Thomas de Quincey, review of Elements of Rhetoric by Richard Whately, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 24, No. 147, December 1828, p. 905,
Men wrote eloquently, because they wrote feelingly: they wrote idiomatically, because they wrote naturally, and without affectation: but if a false or acephalous structure of sentence,—if a barbarous idiom—or an exotic word happened to present itself, no writer of the 17th century seems to have had any such scrupulous sense of the dignity belonging to his own language, as should make it a duty to reject it, or worth his while to re-model a line.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having no head.
Without a distinct head.
Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries
A system of society without centralised state authority, where power is welded amongst groups of community entities e.g. clans. Without a leader or chief.
Deficient in the beginning, as a line of poetry that is missing its expected opening syllable.
Lacking the first portion of the text. (of a manuscript)
Without a beginning.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
botany
natural-sciences
human-sciences
political-science
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
sociology
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
|
12440 | word:
prorate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
prorate (third-person singular simple present prorates, present participle prorating, simple past and past participle prorated)
forms:
form:
prorates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
prorating
tags:
participle
present
form:
prorated
tags:
participle
past
form:
prorated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
American English derivation from pro rata, from Latin pro (“according to”) + ratus (“calculated”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To divide proportionately, especially by day; to divide pro rata.
senses_topics:
|
12441 | word:
multi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
multi (plural multis)
forms:
form:
multis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortening of multituberculate.
senses_examples:
text:
Our Mesozoic antecedents are typified by small size; even the largest of the multis are not larger than a groundhog.
ref:
1996, Michael Novacek, Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs, page 316
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A multituberculate.
senses_topics:
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences |
12442 | word:
multi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
multi (plural multies)
forms:
form:
multies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
< multifasciatus
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Neolamprologus multifasciatus (small shell-dwelling cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika, popular as aquarium fish)
senses_topics:
|
12443 | word:
multi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
multi (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Short for "multi two diamonds".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A contract bridge convention whereby the opening bid of 2♦ shows several possible types of hands.
senses_topics:
bridge
games |
12444 | word:
insect
word_type:
noun
expansion:
insect (plural insects)
forms:
form:
insects
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French insecte, from Latin īnsectum, from īnsectus (“cut into, cut up, with a notched or divided body”), from perfect passive participle of īnsecō (“I cut into, I cut up”), from in- + secō (“I cut”), from the notion that the insect's body is "cut into" three sections (head, thorax, abdomen). Calque of Ancient Greek ἔντομον (éntomon, “insect”), from ἔντομος (éntomos, “cut into pieces”).
senses_examples:
text:
Our shed has several insect infestions, including ants, yellowjackets, and wasps.
type:
example
text:
Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
ref:
2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7
type:
quotation
text:
The swamp is swarming with every sort of insect.
type:
example
text:
The manager’s assistant was the worst sort of insect.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An arthropod (in the Insecta class) characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.
Any small arthropod similar to an insect, including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc.
A contemptible or powerless person.
senses_topics:
|
12445 | word:
acerb
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acerb (comparative acerber or more acerb, superlative acerbest or most acerb)
forms:
form:
acerber
tags:
comparative
form:
more acerb
tags:
comparative
form:
acerbest
tags:
superlative
form:
most acerb
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acerbus, from Latin ācer (“sharp”): compare French acerbe. See acrid.
senses_examples:
text:
If you put Spirit of Sulphur to the Peruvian Bark, it then becomes very acerb. If you mix Mercury with Spirit of Nitre or Oil of Vitriol whilst it boils, it then is very acerb.
ref:
1732, Edward Strother, Prælectiones Pharmaco-mathicæ & medico-practicæ
type:
quotation
text:
As to the somewhat acerb remarks of the member for Jacques Cartier, I may pass them over […]
ref:
1909, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, Debates: Official Report, volume 1, page 1970
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, such as unripe fruit.
Sharp and harsh in expressing oneself.
senses_topics:
|
12446 | word:
Muscovite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Muscovite (plural Muscovites)
forms:
form:
Muscovites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1535. From Latin Moscovita (“resident of Moscow or Muscovy, Russian”), also Muscovita, Moschovita, from Moscovia or Muscovia (“Muscovy”) + -ita.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or native of Muscovy or Moscow.
A Russian.
senses_topics:
|
12447 | word:
Muscovite
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Muscovite (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1535. From Latin Moscovita (“resident of Moscow or Muscovy, Russian”), also Muscovita, Moschovita, from Moscovia or Muscovia (“Muscovy”) + -ita.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Muscovy or Moscow, or the people of these places.
Russian.
senses_topics:
|
12448 | word:
acervation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acervation (plural acervations)
forms:
form:
acervations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acervatio. Doublet of acervatio.
senses_examples:
text:
Is it to be doubted that amongst these bodies which both we see and handle, which are either felt or feele, but that there are some compound? These are such by connexion or aceruation, as for example, a rope, corne, or a ship.
ref:
1620, Thomas Lodge (tr.), chapter 2, in Works, both Moral and Natural, Of Naturall Questions, London, translation of original by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Philosophus), page 782
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A heaping up; accumulation
senses_topics:
|
12449 | word:
worldly
word_type:
adj
expansion:
worldly (comparative worldlier or more worldly, superlative worldliest or most worldly)
forms:
form:
worldlier
tags:
comparative
form:
more worldly
tags:
comparative
form:
worldliest
tags:
superlative
form:
most worldly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English worldly, worldlich, wordly (adjective), from Old English woruldlīċ, worldlīċ, weoroldlīċ (“worldly; earthly; temporal; mundane; secular”), from Proto-Germanic *weraldilīkaz, equivalent to world + -ly. Cognate with Dutch wereldlijk (“worldly; secular”), German Low German weltlik (“worldly”), German weltlich (“worldly”), Danish verdslig (“worldly”), Swedish världslig (“worldly”), Icelandic veraldlegur (“worldly; secular”).
senses_examples:
text:
1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Part Two, Chapter Twenty-four: Gossip,
These attributes, in spite of poverty and the strict integrity which shut him out from the more worldly successes, attracted to him many admirable persons, as naturally as sweet herbs draw bees, and as naturally he gave them the honey into which fifty years of hard experience had distilled no bitter drop.
text:
c. 1883-1896, Vyasa, Kisari Mohan Ganguli (translator), The Mahabharata, Book 1: Adi Parva, Section LXXXV,
Thirst of enjoyment, therefore, should be given up. Indeed, true happiness belongeth to them that have cast off their thirst for worldly objects--a thirst which is difficult to be thrown off by the wicked and the sinful, which faileth not with the failing life, and which is truly the fatal disease of man.
text:
The conviction that my personal, worldly life was something real and good constituted the misunderstanding, the obstacle, that prevented me from comprehending Jesus doctrine.
ref:
1889, Leo Tolstoy, chapter VIII, in Huntington Smith, transl., My Religion
type:
quotation
text:
We have actually contrived to invent a new kind of hypocrite. The old hypocrite, Tartuffe or Pecksniff, was a man whose aims were really worldly and practical, while he pretended that they were religious. The new hypocrite is one whose aims are really religious, while he pretends that they are worldly and practical.
ref:
1910, G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, Chapter 1, part 3
type:
quotation
text:
Homer and Marge have to try to explain things to children who are too worldly to fall for most excuses, the explanation trails off, and what could be a pleasant family outing to solve it all turns out to be yet another excuse for self-involvement when one public humiliation doesn’t outweigh the joys of getting busy in a windmill.
ref:
2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.
Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.
Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.
senses_topics:
|
12450 | word:
worldly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
worldly (comparative more worldly, superlative most worldly)
forms:
form:
more worldly
tags:
comparative
form:
most worldly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English worldly, worldliche, wordly (adverb), from Old English woroldlīċe, weoroldlīċe; equivalent to world + -ly (adverbial suffix).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a worldly manner.
senses_topics:
|
12451 | word:
octillion
word_type:
num
expansion:
octillion (plural octillions)
forms:
form:
octillions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From oct- (“eight”) + -illion.
senses_examples:
text:
Altogether it takes seven billion billion billion (that’s 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or seven octillion) atoms to make you.
ref:
2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), pages 5–6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thousand trillion trillion, a billion billion billion: 1 followed by 27 zeros, 10²⁷.
A trillion quintillion: 1 followed by 48 zeros, 10⁴⁸.
senses_topics:
|
12452 | word:
simultaneity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
simultaneity (countable and uncountable, plural simultaneities)
forms:
form:
simultaneities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French simultanéité.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.
More than one complete musical texture occurring at the same time. This first appeared in the music of Charles Ives, and is common in the music of Conlon Nancarrow, and others.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
12453 | word:
acetable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetable (plural acetables)
forms:
form:
acetables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
An Anglicisation of the Latin acetabulum.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ancient Roman measure, equivalent to about one eighth of a pint.
An acetabulum.
senses_topics:
|
12454 | word:
acervuline
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acervuline (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acervus (“heap”) + Latin -ulus (diminutive suffix) + -ine.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Resembling little heaps; pertaining to the specific epithet acervulinus
senses_topics:
|
12455 | word:
boulder
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boulder (plural boulders)
forms:
form:
boulders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From late Middle English bulder, short for Middle English bulder ston (“a stone that's been worn into a round shape, boulder, cobblestone”), possibly from Old Swedish *buldersten, itself possibly from Old Swedish bulder (“rumble, noise”) + sten (“stone”); whence dialectal Swedish bullersten (“large stone in a stream, causing water to roar around it”). The first element may alternatively be allied to Old Swedish bulle, bolle (“round drinking vessel, tumbler”), from Old Norse bolli, related to Old English bolla (“round object, bowl”), see English bowl.
senses_examples:
text:
There were four sizes of marbles and we called them boulders, biggies, regulars, and teenies.
ref:
2006, Carol Benson, The Old Lonesome, page 84
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large mass of stone detached from the surrounding land.
A particle greater than 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
A large marble, in children's games.
A session of bouldering; involvement in bouldering.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
12456 | word:
boulder
word_type:
verb
expansion:
boulder (third-person singular simple present boulders, present participle bouldering, simple past and past participle bouldered)
forms:
form:
boulders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bouldering
tags:
participle
present
form:
bouldered
tags:
participle
past
form:
bouldered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From late Middle English bulder, short for Middle English bulder ston (“a stone that's been worn into a round shape, boulder, cobblestone”), possibly from Old Swedish *buldersten, itself possibly from Old Swedish bulder (“rumble, noise”) + sten (“stone”); whence dialectal Swedish bullersten (“large stone in a stream, causing water to roar around it”). The first element may alternatively be allied to Old Swedish bulle, bolle (“round drinking vessel, tumbler”), from Old Norse bolli, related to Old English bolla (“round object, bowl”), see English bowl.
senses_examples:
text:
He bouldered a route in the same area with ease. Mitchell, 11, was hanging with the older kids in an area where bouldering nearly upside down seemed to be....
ref:
2005 November 18, “The ties that bind ..., ... and prevent falls have become family unifier in rock climbing”, in Salt Lake Tribune
type:
quotation
text:
As the week unfolded, we were taught about the equipment we needed, how to tie a rope and what to wear. We learnt to balance on our feet rather than cling on with our arms and to trust our rock shoes, the moulded rubber slippers that can grip the smoothest of surfaces. We abseiled, bouldered and belayed.
ref:
2006 July 18, Tony Durrant, “The steep learning curve”, in telegraph.co.uk
type:
quotation
text:
There's even old climbing hardware in it because people bouldered on it for years.
ref:
2007 February 15, “Homes blend eco-friendliness, unique design”, in Sierra Sun
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To engage in bouldering.
senses_topics:
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
12457 | word:
LLC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
LLC (plural LLCs)
forms:
form:
LLCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Limited Liability Company.
Initialism of Logical Link Control. (one of the two functions of a NIC.)
senses_topics:
business
law
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences |
12458 | word:
acetic aldehyde
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetic aldehyde (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
acetaldehyde.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
12459 | word:
acetabuliform
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acetabuliform (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin acetabuliformis, from acetabulum (“saucer”) + -form.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Shaped like a saucer or shallow cup.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
12460 | word:
antifebrine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
antifebrine (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare antifebrile.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain.
senses_topics:
medicine
pharmacology
sciences |
12461 | word:
acetabuliferous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acetabuliferous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin acetabuliferosa, from acetablum (“little cup”) + -ferous
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.
senses_topics:
|
12462 | word:
acetanilide
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetanilide (countable and uncountable, plural acetanilides)
forms:
form:
acetanilides
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acet- + anilide.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the amide derived from acetic acid and aniline; once used medicinally as an analgesic and antipyretic
senses_topics:
chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences |
12463 | word:
acetarious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acetarious (comparative more acetarious, superlative most acetarious)
forms:
form:
more acetarious
tags:
comparative
form:
most acetarious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acētāria (“salad”, plural noun) + -ous, the former from acētum (“vinegar”), from aceō (“to be sour”).
senses_examples:
text:
acetarious plants
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used in salads or as salad
senses_topics:
|
12464 | word:
acetated
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acetated (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acetate + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Combined with acetic acid.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
12465 | word:
PLC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PLC (countable and uncountable, plural PLCs)
forms:
form:
PLCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
PLC
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of public limited company.
Initialism of power line communication.
Initialism of programmable logic controller.
Initialism of packet loss concealment.
Initialism of phospholipase C.
Initialism of prefecture-level city.
senses_topics:
business
communication
communications
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
12466 | word:
PLC
word_type:
name
expansion:
PLC
forms:
wikipedia:
PLC
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Palestinian Legislative Council.
senses_topics:
government
politics |
12467 | word:
whither
word_type:
adv
expansion:
whither (not comparable)
forms:
form:
except literary
tags:
archaic
form:
poetic
tags:
archaic
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English whider (“to what place?; into or to which; to what place, where; no matter where, to wherever”), from Old English hwider, hwæder (“to what place, where”), from Proto-Germanic *hwadrê (“to what place, where”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos (“what; which”), from *kʷ- (the primary interrogative root).
senses_examples:
text:
Whither now the DUP [Democratic Unionist Party]? In Westminster, Theresa May's minority government continues to rely on the support of ten DUP members for its very survival. But last week may well have seen the consequences as well as the high point of thumbscrew politics.
ref:
2018 February 9, Tommie Gorman, “Whither now the DUP?”, in Raidió Teilifís Éireann, archived from the original on 2022-07-01
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Interrogative senses.
To what place; where.
Interrogative senses.
To what (future) cause, condition or state, reason, etc.; where, where next; also (obsolete) to what extent; how far.
Relative senses.
To which place; also (after a noun denoting a place) to which.
Relative senses.
To the place in or to which.
Relative senses.
In or to any place to which; to whatever place; wherever.
senses_topics:
|
12468 | word:
whither
word_type:
noun
expansion:
whither (plural whithers)
forms:
form:
whithers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English whider (“to what place?; into or to which; to what place, where; no matter where, to wherever”), from Old English hwider, hwæder (“to what place, where”), from Proto-Germanic *hwadrê (“to what place, where”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos (“what; which”), from *kʷ- (the primary interrogative root).
senses_examples:
text:
Mr. [Henry Charles] Carey usually gives his reader a bird's-eye retrospect, from his balloon at the end of each stage, of the where and whither or the zigzags and dark passages of the route gone over from the starting-point, where was the man upon a solitary island picking fruit, down to his present stopping-place.
ref:
1838 July, “Art. III.—Principles of Political Economy. Part the First. Of the Laws of the Production and the Distribution of Wealth. By Henry C. Carey, Author of an Essay on the Rate of Wages. Philadelphia: Cary, Lea, and Blanchard. 1837. 8vo. pp. xvi. 342. [book review]”, in The North American Review, volume XLVII, number C (New Series, volume, number ), Boston, Mass.: Otis, Broaders, & Co., […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
The whence and whither of their comings and goings made no impression on the community, and when they disappeared no one asked how or why.
ref:
1951 November 26, Robert Houghwout Jackson, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, “Gallegos v. Nebraska (No. 94)”, in Walter Wyatt, reporter, United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term, 1951 […], volume 342, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, published 1952, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A place to which someone or something goes; also, a condition to which someone or something moves.
senses_topics:
|
12469 | word:
whither
word_type:
verb
expansion:
whither (third-person singular simple present whithers, present participle whithering, simple past and past participle whithered)
forms:
form:
whithers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
whithering
tags:
participle
present
form:
whithered
tags:
participle
past
form:
whithered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is borrowed from Scots whidder, whither (“(of the wind) to bluster; to move quickly”), a frequentative form of whid (“(of wind) to gust; to move quickly”), of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hviða (“gust of wind”).
Related to Middle English hwiþa, whyȝt (“breeze; wind”), Old English hwiþa, hwiþu, hweoþu (“breeze”). The noun is derived from the verb.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause (someone) to hurry; to hasten, to hurry.
To throw (something) forcefully; to hurl; also, to beat, to thrash.
To shake (vigorously); to tremble.
To move quickly, to rush, to whiz; also, to make a rushing sound; to whizz.
Of the wind: to blow loudly and vigorously; to bluster; also, of an animal, etc.: to make a loud noise; to bellow, to roar.
senses_topics:
|
12470 | word:
whither
word_type:
noun
expansion:
whither (plural whithers)
forms:
form:
whithers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is borrowed from Scots whidder, whither (“(of the wind) to bluster; to move quickly”), a frequentative form of whid (“(of wind) to gust; to move quickly”), of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hviða (“gust of wind”).
Related to Middle English hwiþa, whyȝt (“breeze; wind”), Old English hwiþa, hwiþu, hweoþu (“breeze”). The noun is derived from the verb.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state of rushed action; a haste, a hurry; also, a state of anger or excitement.
A forceful blow or hit.
An act of shaking (vigorously); a shiver, a tremble; also, a slight bout of discomfort or illness.
The sound of something moving quickly; a rush, a whiz.
A gust of wind; a bluster.
senses_topics:
|
12471 | word:
acerose
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acerose (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acerosus (“chaffy”), from acus (“chaff”) (genitive aceris).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
12472 | word:
acerose
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acerose (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
As if from Latin acus (“needle”); compare French acéreux.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
12473 | word:
enumerate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
enumerate (third-person singular simple present enumerates, present participle enumerating, simple past and past participle enumerated)
forms:
form:
enumerates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
enumerating
tags:
participle
present
form:
enumerated
tags:
participle
past
form:
enumerated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin enumerātus, from enumerō.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To specify each member of a sequence individually in incrementing order.
To determine the amount of.
senses_topics:
|
12474 | word:
brash
word_type:
adj
expansion:
brash (comparative brasher or more brash, superlative brashest or most brash)
forms:
form:
brasher
tags:
comparative
form:
more brash
tags:
comparative
form:
brashest
tags:
superlative
form:
most brash
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Perhaps from Scots brash, brasch (“a violent onset; an attack or assault”). Perhaps also related to Dutch bars (“stern; strict”), German barsch (“harsh; unfriendly”), Danish barsk (“harsh; rough; tough”), Swedish barsk (“harsh; impetuous”).
senses_examples:
text:
a brash young businessman; a brash tabloid; a brash sense of humour
type:
example
text:
Mrs. Mayfield looked away, and the girl stricken with remorse, hastened to her and said: “There, I have been too brash, haven’t I? You must forgive me for I didn’t intend to be brash.”
“Brash, my dear? What do you mean by that?”
She laughed. “Why, I thought everybody know’d what brash meant. Well, it’s er—too quick to say somethin’ you oughtn’t to say.”
ref:
1902, Opie Read, The Starbucks, Chicago: Laird & Lee, Chapter, page 210
type:
quotation
text:
Trouble with Silzer is, he’s too brash—shoots off his mouth too much—likes to hear himself talk.
ref:
1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 17, in Arrowsmith
type:
quotation
text:
The American’s brash unconcern for nuance indicates a young and vigorous country, the Briton’s clipped speech an ancient, proverbial reserve.
ref:
1958, Peter De Vries, chapter 14, in Mackerel Plaza, Penguin, published 1986, page 209
type:
quotation
text:
Edusco liked him, he could tell; he imagined Edusco talking about him in a gathering of other self-made Igbo men, men who were brash and striving, who juggled huge businesses and supported vast extended families.
ref:
2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, chapter 54, in Americanah, New York: Knopf
type:
quotation
text:
[…] just because you’re a little hot under the collar, don’t do anything brash, for fear you may regret it afterward.
ref:
1905, Andy Adams, chapter 2, in The Outlet, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
Now, Mr. Reed, you’ve committed nothing but a brash act of bad taste by bypassing the standard channels.
ref:
1960 April, George O. Smith, “The Troublemakers”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 18, number 4, page 156
type:
quotation
text:
brash colours
type:
example
text:
a brash perfume
type:
example
text:
1963, Ian Fleming, Thrilling Cities, London: Jonathan Cape, Chapter 1, “Hong Kong,”
There are scores of brash and noisy bars along Lockhart Street and in Wanchai and North Point (on the island) and throughout the back lanes of Kowloon […]
text:
The driveway is filled with vehicles parked bumper to bumper and the house is lit up like I’ve never seen it before, brash yellow light streaming from every window on every floor, and the tinny, nasal sound of gramophone jazz trumpeting inside.
ref:
1996, Guy Vanderhaeghe, chapter 24, in The Englishman’s Boy, New York: Picador, published 1998, page 243
type:
quotation
text:
2001, Walt Dohrn et al. “Artist Unknown”, SpongeBob SquarePants, season 2, episode 18b, Nickelodeon
Squidward: How about this one? I call it, Bold and Brash.
Art Curator: More like, belongs in the trash!
text:
Sadly, by the 1970s the arcade had gone downmarket with brash shop fronts and cheap shops, some of doubtful reputation.
ref:
2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Great Western Railway Craft Skills Award: Victoria Arcade”, in RAIL, number 946, page 59
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Overly bold or self-assertive to the point of being insensitive, tactless or impudent; shameless.
Overly bold, impetuous or rash.
Bold, bright or showy, often in a tasteless way.
senses_topics:
|
12475 | word:
brash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brash (countable and uncountable, plural brashes)
forms:
form:
brashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Perhaps from Scots brash, brasch (“a violent onset; an attack or assault”). Perhaps also related to Dutch bars (“stern; strict”), German barsch (“harsh; unfriendly”), Danish barsk (“harsh; rough; tough”), Swedish barsk (“harsh; impetuous”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
A sudden burst of rain.
An attack or assault.
senses_topics:
|
12476 | word:
brash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
brash (third-person singular simple present brashes, present participle brashing, simple past and past participle brashed)
forms:
form:
brashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
brashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
brashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
brashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Perhaps from Scots brash, brasch (“a violent onset; an attack or assault”). Perhaps also related to Dutch bars (“stern; strict”), German barsch (“harsh; unfriendly”), Danish barsk (“harsh; rough; tough”), Swedish barsk (“harsh; impetuous”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To disturb.
senses_topics:
|
12477 | word:
brash
word_type:
adj
expansion:
brash (comparative brasher or more brash, superlative brashest or most brash)
forms:
form:
brasher
tags:
comparative
form:
more brash
tags:
comparative
form:
brashest
tags:
superlative
form:
most brash
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare American English bresk, brusk (“fragile, brittle”).
senses_examples:
text:
Hickory axles […] all cut from tough butt logs. Brash timber is excluded.
ref:
1886, The Lumberman's Hand Book, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
Brash wood, when tested in bending, breaks with a short, sharp fracture instead of developing a splintering failure and absorbs a comparatively small amount of work between the elastic limit and final failure
ref:
1919, Forest Products Laboratory, Wood in Aircraft Construction
type:
quotation
text:
[…] brash timber, which is liable to snap; […]
ref:
2000, Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand, Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (page 94)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Brittle (said e.g. of wood or vegetables).
senses_topics:
|
12478 | word:
brash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brash (countable and uncountable, plural brashes)
forms:
form:
brashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare American English bresk, brusk (“fragile, brittle”).
senses_examples:
text:
Alluvium differs from the rubble or brash , just described , as being composed of sand and gravel , more or less rolled
ref:
1839, Sir Charles Lyell, Elements of Geology
type:
quotation
text:
The sea dashed in an angry surf over its inclined sides, rattling the icy fragments or “brash” against its irregular surface
ref:
1853, Elisha Kent Kane, The U. S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.
Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits.
Broken fragments of ice.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences
|
12479 | word:
acetifier
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetifier (plural acetifiers)
forms:
form:
acetifiers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acetify + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An apparatus for hastening acetification
senses_topics:
|
12480 | word:
acerous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acerous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See acerose.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of acerose
senses_topics:
|
12481 | word:
acerous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acerous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κέρας (kéras, “horn”).
senses_examples:
text:
an acerous mollusk
text:
an acerous insect
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Destitute of tentacles.
Without antennae.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
12482 | word:
condemn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
condemn (third-person singular simple present condemns, present participle condemning, simple past and past participle condemned)
forms:
form:
condemns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
condemning
tags:
participle
present
form:
condemned
tags:
participle
past
form:
condemned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English condempnen, from Old French condamner, from Latin condemnāre (“to sentence, condemn, blame”), from com- + damnāre (“to harm, condemn, damn”), from damnum (“damage, injury, loss”). Displaced native Middle English fordemen (from Old English fordeman (“condemn, sentence, doom”) > Modern English fordeem.
senses_examples:
text:
The president condemned the terrorists.
type:
example
text:
Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.
ref:
1722, William Wollaston, “Sect. V. Truths relating to the Deity. Of his exiſtence, perfection, providence, &c.”, in The Religion of Nature Delineated, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
The judge condemned him to death.
type:
example
text:
She was condemned to life in prison.
type:
example
text:
The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.
type:
example
text:
There was a massive slaughter of W.R. steam power at the conclusion of the summer timetable. In all, 169 locomotives were condemned.
ref:
1962 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Modern Railways, page 425
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence
To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.
To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.
senses_topics:
law |
12483 | word:
acescence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acescence (usually uncountable, plural acescences)
forms:
form:
acescences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare French acescence. See acescent.
senses_examples:
text:
I could find no Signs of Corruption in this Liquor, neither Tokens of Acescence, nor Alcalescence, nor a corrupt Smell
ref:
1747, John Fothergill, A New Method for the Improvement of the Manufacture of Drugs
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness.
senses_topics:
|
12484 | word:
laurel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laurel (countable and uncountable, plural laurels)
forms:
form:
laurels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
laurel
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English laurer, laurel, from Anglo-Norman lorer, from Old French lorier, from Vulgar Latin *laurārius, from Latin laurus (“laurel”).
senses_examples:
text:
Now large tracts of land are given over to the cultivation of the camphor laurel.
ref:
March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine, pages 265–6
type:
quotation
text:
to win laurels
type:
example
text:
to crown with laurels
type:
example
text:
I was semi-famous; I had been something, but as one worthy critic remarked: past laurels fade fast.
ref:
2017, Fiona Lewis, Mistakes Were Made (Some in French), Simon and Schuster, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Laurus nobilis, an evergreen shrub having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.
A crown of laurel.
Honor, distinction, fame.
Any plant of the family Lauraceae.
Any of various plants of other families that resemble laurels.
An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
|
12485 | word:
laurel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
laurel (third-person singular simple present laurels, present participle laureling or laurelling, simple past and past participle laureled or laurelled)
forms:
form:
laurels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
laureling
tags:
participle
present
form:
laurelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
laureled
tags:
participle
past
form:
laureled
tags:
past
form:
laurelled
tags:
participle
past
form:
laurelled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
laurel
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English laurer, laurel, from Anglo-Norman lorer, from Old French lorier, from Vulgar Latin *laurārius, from Latin laurus (“laurel”).
senses_examples:
text:
Windows peered from the spaces between the columns, which rose to hold up the large portico laureling the home with chiseled, decorative wreaths and curving spirals.
ref:
2014, Cayden Carrico, A Nocturne of Echoes, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
It wasn't hot this late in the year, and the sun was low in the southern sky, bracketed by pines and nearly hidden by a tree line laureling a trailer park.
ref:
2013, John Hornor Jacobs, The Twelve-Fingered Boy, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
In this regiment there was a young corporal, a native of Little K . He was laurelled and decorated more than many of his companions, for he excelled them all in courage, coolness, and daring. In one thing more he also excelled them — he was cruel, he was dissipated, and he was vicious in his tastes.
ref:
1866, Archibald Fergusson, The crusher' and the Cross, page 149
type:
quotation
text:
Not in any vision of that order did he figure for most of the admirers who laurelled him on his eightieth birthday and the few who go on laurelling him still.
ref:
1927, John Mackinnon Robertson, Modern humanists reconsidered, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
He was laurelled in admiring headlines from both left and right.
ref:
2010, Andrew Rawnsley, The End of the Party
type:
quotation
text:
In 1973, the modern papist missionary was laurelled an honorary Doctor of Divinity by the institution founded by a Congregationalist missionary to the Indians of the northern wilds.
ref:
2017, George William Rutler, Cloud of Witnesses: Dead People I Knew When They Were Alive
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath.
To enwreathe.
To award top honours to.
senses_topics:
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12486 | word:
ministry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ministry (plural ministries)
forms:
form:
ministries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ministry
etymology_text:
From Middle English mynisterie, borrowed from Old French menistere, in turn borrowed itself from Latin ministerium; equivalent to minister + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
She works for the ministry of finance.
type:
example
text:
He works for the ministry of defence.
type:
example
text:
I work for the ministry of education.
type:
example
text:
They work for the ministry of agriculture.
type:
example
text:
The premier offered his last ministry's resignation to the monarch, and is asked to form a new one in accordance with the election results.
type:
example
text:
the present ministry of the Holy Spirit
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister (or equivalent rank, e.g. secretary of state), who holds it as portfolio, especially in a constitutional monarchy, but also as a polity
The complete body of government ministers (whether or not they are in cabinet) under the leadership of a head of government (such as a prime minister)
A ministration
The active practice and education of the minister of a particular religion or faith.
The clergy of nonapostolic Protestant churches.
Work of a spiritual or charitable nature.
senses_topics:
Christianity
Christianity |
12487 | word:
Doctor of Arts
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Doctor of Arts (plural Doctors of Arts)
forms:
form:
Doctors of Arts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A terminal degree similar to an Ed.D. or a Ph.D., but with a focus on content speciality; it may be conferred as a prestigious honorary doctorate with the added designation of "honoris causa". Commonly abbreviated DA.
senses_topics:
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12488 | word:
minion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
minion (countable and uncountable, plural minions)
forms:
form:
minions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
minion
etymology_text:
1490, from Middle French mignon (“lover, royal favourite, darling”), from Old French mignon (“dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind”), from Frankish *minnju (“love, friendship, affection, memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minþijō, *mindijō (“affectionate thought, care”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Doublet of mignon.
senses_examples:
text:
The archvillain deployed his minions to simultaneously rob every bank in the city.
type:
example
text:
In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.
ref:
2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184
type:
quotation
text:
God's disciple and his dearest minion
ref:
1608, Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes
type:
quotation
text:
Gun. My Cannons rung like Bells. Here's to my Mistress, The dainty sweet brass Minion: split their Fore-mast, She never fail'd.
ref:
1647, Francis Beaumont, Philip Massinger, The Double Marriage (play), published 1717, page 19
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.
A sycophantic follower.
A loved one; one highly esteemed and favoured.
An ancient form of ordnance with a calibre of about three inches.
The size of type between nonpareil and brevier, standardized as 7-point.
Obsolete form of minium.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
typography
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12489 | word:
minion
word_type:
adj
expansion:
minion (comparative more minion, superlative most minion)
forms:
form:
more minion
tags:
comparative
form:
most minion
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
minion
etymology_text:
1490, from Middle French mignon (“lover, royal favourite, darling”), from Old French mignon (“dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind”), from Frankish *minnju (“love, friendship, affection, memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minþijō, *mindijō (“affectionate thought, care”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Doublet of mignon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Favoured, beloved; "pet".
senses_topics:
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12490 | word:
Ed.D.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Ed.D.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Doctor of Education, a terminal research doctorate with a focus on education.
senses_topics:
|
12491 | word:
grapeshot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grapeshot (usually uncountable, plural grapeshot or grapeshots)
forms:
form:
grapeshot
tags:
plural
form:
grapeshots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From grape + shot, named for the resemblance of the bag of shot to a bunch of grapes.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cluster of small iron balls, put together in a canvas bag in order to be used as a charge for a cannon.
senses_topics:
|
12492 | word:
simultaneously
word_type:
adv
expansion:
simultaneously (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From simultaneous + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
The cradle-rocking and the song would cease simultaneously for a moment, and an exclamation at highest vocal pitch would take the place of the melody.
ref:
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 29
type:
quotation
text:
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
ref:
2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Occurring at the same time.
senses_topics:
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12493 | word:
simultaneous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
simultaneous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin simultaneus, from simultim (“at the same time, extended”), from Latin simul (“together, at the same time”); compare similar.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Happening at the same moment.
To be solved for the same values of variables.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
12494 | word:
Budapest
word_type:
name
expansion:
Budapest
forms:
wikipedia:
Budapest
Hungarian Parliament Building
etymology_text:
From Hungarian Budapest, from Buda + Pest.
senses_examples:
text:
After information about the secret proceedings between Berlin and Budapest leaked, Rome approached Budapest to get details on the concessions granted with the envisaged German–Hungarian commercial contract.
ref:
2016, Per Tiedtke, chapter 8, in Germany, Italy and the International Economy 1929–1936: Co-operation or Rivalries at Times of Crisis?, Europe: Tectum Verlag, page 265
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital and the most populous city of Hungary.
The Hungarian government.
senses_topics:
|
12495 | word:
Lutheran
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Lutheran (comparative more Lutheran, superlative most Lutheran)
forms:
form:
more Lutheran
tags:
comparative
form:
most Lutheran
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Martin Luther
etymology_text:
From the surname of German theologian and ecclesiastical reformer Martin Luther (1483–1546) + -an. Probably immediately from Renaissance Latin Lutheranus, or German Lutheraner.
Luther is from an Old High German given name, from liut (“people”) + heri (“army”) (from Proto-Germanic *harjaz (“army; commander, warrior”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóryos (“war; troops”), from *ker- (“army”)).
senses_examples:
text:
A Lutheran understanding of the Lord’s Supper is not the same as that of other denominations.
type:
example
text:
[I]f when Luther firſt began to teach new doctrine, the catholiks at that time had not vouchſafed to giue him the hering, but had auoided his prechings & preuy couenticles, ther had not bin now in the worlde, either Lutheran, Swinglian, Calueniſt, Puritan, Anabaptiſt, Trinetarie, Family of loue, Adamite, or the lyke: whereof now there are ſo many thouſands abroad, al ſpringing of that firſt ſecte, and troubling at this day the whole worlde, […]
ref:
1581, D. Fulke [i.e., William Fulke], A Briefe Confutation, of a Popish Discourse: Lately Set Forth, and Presumptuously Dedicated to the Queenes Most Excellent Maiestie: By Iohn Howlet [pseudonym; Robert Persons], or Some Other Birde of the Night, vnder that Name. Contayning Certaine Reasons, why Papistes Refuse to Come to Church, which Reasons are here Inserted and Set Downe at Large, with Their Generall Answeres, London: Printed [by Thomas Dawson] for George Byshop, →OCLC, folio 12, recto and verso
type:
quotation
text:
On the borders of that river [the Volga] 104 colonies have ſettled, conſiſting of Germans, who emigrated to thoſe parts in the years of dearth and famine. Theſe colonies have already three Calviniſt, and four Lutheran ministers.
ref:
1798 August, “Extract of a Letter from the Rev. Mr. Gunther, Minister at Wodonoy Bujerack, in the Russian Government of Saratow, on the Wolga, in Asia, to the Rev. Dr. Burckhardt, London”, in The Evangelical Magazine, volume VI, London: Printed by and for T. Chapman, No. 151 Fleet-Street, →OCLC, page 309
type:
quotation
text:
[A] number of Lutheran priests were involved in the activities of the EHS [Estonian Heritage Society]. The EELC [Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church] identified itself again as 'the people's church' and stressed the connection between the Lutheran Church and Estonian national identity, although the alleged connection with radical nationalism is an exaggeration.
ref:
2015, Ringo Ringvee, “Religion and Nation-building in Estonia: Some Perspectives on Secular Society”, in Greg Simons, David Westerlund, editors, Religion, Politics and Nation-building in Post-Communist Countries (Post-Soviet Politics), Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, page 151
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the theology of Martin Luther (1483–1546) or his followers, or the Lutheran church.
senses_topics:
Christianity |
12496 | word:
Lutheran
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Lutheran (plural Lutherans)
forms:
form:
Lutherans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Martin Luther
etymology_text:
From the surname of German theologian and ecclesiastical reformer Martin Luther (1483–1546) + -an. Probably immediately from Renaissance Latin Lutheranus, or German Lutheraner.
Luther is from an Old High German given name, from liut (“people”) + heri (“army”) (from Proto-Germanic *harjaz (“army; commander, warrior”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóryos (“war; troops”), from *ker- (“army”)).
senses_examples:
text:
The split between the Lutherans and the Roman Catholics began with the Edict of Worms in 1521.
type:
example
text:
[I]f you had bene but ſo conuerſante in Caluine [John Calvin] as your profeſsion requireth, you could not ſo far haue bene ouerſeene in this eaſie diſtinction knowen to Catholike, Lutheran and Zuinglian, although when Caluine wrote thus, perhaps he was more then halfe a Lutheran, and not ſo far gone in Zuinglianiſme as after.
ref:
1583, William Rainolds [i.e., William Reynolds], “VVherein is Refelled M. VV. Ansvvere to Certaine Places of S[aint] Chrysostome Touching the Real Presence and Sacrifice”, in A Refvtation of Svndry Reprehensions, Cavils, and False Sleightes, by which M. [William] Whitaker Laboureth to Deface the Late English Translation and Catholike Annotations of the New Testament, and the Booke of Discouery of Heretical Corruptions, Paris: [s.n.], →OCLC, pages 222–223
type:
quotation
text:
[…] George of Mecklenburg, a younger brother of the reigning Duke, an active and ambitious Prince, collected a conſiderable number of thoſe ſoldiers of fortune who had accompanied Henry of Brunſwick in all his wild enterprizes; and though a zealous Lutheran himſelf, invaded the territories of the Magdeburgers, hoping that, by the merit of this ſervice, he might procure ſome part of their domains to be allotted to him as an eſtabliſhment.
ref:
1772, William Robertson, “The Siege of Magdeburg [marginal note]”, in The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V, new edition, volume IV, London: Printed for W[illiam] Strahan; T[homas] Cadell, in the Strand; Edinburgh: J. Balfour, →OCLC, book X, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
At this memorable Diet of Speyer (1529), a compact Roman Catholic majority faced a weak Lutheran minority. The Emperor, through his commissioners, declared at the outset that he abolished, "by his imperial and absolute authority (Machtvollkommenheit)," the clause in the ordinance of 1526 on which the Lutherans had relied when they founded their territorial Churches; it had been the cause, he said, "of much ill counsel and misundestanding." […] It was this ordinance which called forth the celebrated Protest, from which comes the name Protestant. The Protest was read in the Diet on the day (April 19th, 1529) when all concessions to the Lutherans had been refused.
ref:
1906, Thomas M[artin] Lindsay, “From the Diet of Speyer, 1526, to the Religious Peace of Augsburg, 1555”, in A History of the Reformation (International Theological Library), volume I (The Reformation in Germany from Its Beginning to the Religious Peace of Augsburg), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, pages 345–346
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of any of the Christian churches which identify with the theology of Martin Luther.
senses_topics:
Christianity |
12497 | word:
acetify
word_type:
verb
expansion:
acetify (third-person singular simple present acetifies, present participle acetifying, simple past and past participle acetified)
forms:
form:
acetifies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
acetifying
tags:
participle
present
form:
acetified
tags:
participle
past
form:
acetified
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acetum (“vinegar”) + -fy or back-formation from acetification.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To convert into acid or vinegar.
To turn acid
senses_topics:
|
12498 | word:
plywood
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plywood (usually uncountable, plural plywoods)
forms:
form:
plywoods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
plywood
etymology_text:
From ply (“sheet”) + wood.
senses_examples:
text:
After the hurricane there was a severe regional shortage of plywood, especially exterior plywood.
type:
example
text:
We stock exterior plywoods, interior plywoods, and furniture plywoods.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Construction material supplied in sheets, and made of three or more layers of wood veneer glued together, laid up with alternating layers having their grain perpendicular to each other.
A specific grade or type of this construction material.
senses_topics:
|
12499 | word:
plywood
word_type:
verb
expansion:
plywood (third-person singular simple present plywoods, present participle plywooding, simple past and past participle plywooded)
forms:
form:
plywoods
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
plywooding
tags:
participle
present
form:
plywooded
tags:
participle
past
form:
plywooded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
plywood
etymology_text:
From ply (“sheet”) + wood.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fit or block up with plywood.
senses_topics:
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