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12500 | word:
accumber
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accumber (third-person singular simple present accumbers, present participle accumbering, simple past and past participle accumbered)
forms:
form:
accumbers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accumbering
tags:
participle
present
form:
accumbered
tags:
participle
past
form:
accumbered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variation of encumber.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To encumber; to crush; to overwhelm.
senses_topics:
|
12501 | word:
supernatural
word_type:
adj
expansion:
supernatural (comparative more supernatural, superlative most supernatural)
forms:
form:
more supernatural
tags:
comparative
form:
most supernatural
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
supernatural
etymology_text:
From Middle English supernatural, supernaturel, from Middle French supernaturel, from Latin supernātūrālis, from super (“above”) + nātūra (“nature; that which we are born with”), from nātus (“born”), perfect passive participle of nāscī (“to be born”) + adjective suffix -ālis. By surface analysis, super- + natural.
senses_examples:
text:
In Roman Catholic theology, sanctifying grace is considered to be a supernatural addition to human nature.
text:
Stephen King's first novel is about a girl named Carrie dealing with supernatural powers.
text:
March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary
As with the Delphic oracle of ancient Greece, physical impairment seemed compensated by almost supernatural gifts, which allowed his mind to roam the universe freely, upon occasion enigmatically revealing some of its secrets hidden from ordinary mortal view.
text:
The house is haunted by supernatural forces.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Above nature; beyond or added to nature, often so considered because it is given by a deity or some force beyond that which humans are born with.
Not of the usual; not natural; altered by forces that are not understood fully, if at all.
senses_topics:
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12502 | word:
supernatural
word_type:
noun
expansion:
supernatural (plural supernaturals)
forms:
form:
supernaturals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
supernatural
etymology_text:
From Middle English supernatural, supernaturel, from Middle French supernaturel, from Latin supernātūrālis, from super (“above”) + nātūra (“nature; that which we are born with”), from nātus (“born”), perfect passive participle of nāscī (“to be born”) + adjective suffix -ālis. By surface analysis, super- + natural.
senses_examples:
text:
Dr Johnson defended Shakespeare's use of the supernatural from the charge of implausibility on the grounds that, "The reality of witchcraft … has in all ages and countries been credited by the common people, and in most by the learned."
ref:
2012, Blake Morrison, The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A supernatural being
Supernatural beings and events collectively (when used with definite article: "the supernatural")
senses_topics:
|
12503 | word:
accumbency
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accumbency (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accumb + -ency.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being accumbent or reclining.
senses_topics:
|
12504 | word:
gnash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gnash (third-person singular simple present gnashes, present participle gnashing, simple past and past participle gnashed)
forms:
form:
gnashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gnashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
gnashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
gnashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gnasten. Origin unknown; the word is probably either Germanic or onomatopoeic. Compare Old Norse gnastan, Danish gnaske ("munch", "crunch"), German knirschen, German Low German gnirschen, gnörschen (“gnash”), Swedish gnissla (“squeak; gnash”).
senses_examples:
text:
gnashing your teeth
type:
example
text:
to gnash the air in fury
type:
example
text:
The dog was gnashing a carpet
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger.
To grind between the teeth.
To clash together violently.
To run away.
senses_topics:
|
12505 | word:
gnash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gnash (plural gnashes)
forms:
form:
gnashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gnasten. Origin unknown; the word is probably either Germanic or onomatopoeic. Compare Old Norse gnastan, Danish gnaske ("munch", "crunch"), German knirschen, German Low German gnirschen, gnörschen (“gnash”), Swedish gnissla (“squeak; gnash”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sudden snapping of the teeth.
senses_topics:
|
12506 | word:
acescent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acescent (comparative more acescent, superlative most acescent)
forms:
form:
more acescent
tags:
comparative
form:
most acescent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin acēscēns, acēscentis, present participle of acēscēre (“to turn sour”), inchoative of acēre (“to be sour”): compare French acescent.
senses_examples:
text:
The fluid was a pale yellow , thick , creamy - looking substance , of uniform consistency . It had a disagreeable acescent odour, something resembling that of putrecsent milk.
ref:
1826, Michael Faraday, “On Pure Caoutchouc, and the Substance by which it is accompanied in the State of Sap or Juice”, in Quarterly Journal of Science
type:
quotation
text:
All kinds of malt liquor contain […] alcohol or spirit. They are of course weaker than wines, and in general more liable to become flat and acescent from this circumstance […]
ref:
1821, Friedrich Accum, A Treatise on the Art of Brewing, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, page 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.
senses_topics:
|
12507 | word:
acescent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acescent (plural acescents)
forms:
form:
acescents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin acēscēns, acēscentis, present participle of acēscēre (“to turn sour”), inchoative of acēre (“to be sour”): compare French acescent.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A substance liable to become sour.
senses_topics:
|
12508 | word:
extraordinary
word_type:
adj
expansion:
extraordinary (comparative more extraordinary, superlative most extraordinary)
forms:
form:
more extraordinary
tags:
comparative
form:
most extraordinary
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin extrāōrdinārius, from extrā ōrdinem (“outside the order”); equivalent to extra- + ordinary. Doublet of extraordinaire.
senses_examples:
text:
Everybody knew I was an extraordinary person. When I was born my beard was three feet long.
ref:
1921, G. B. Shaw, Back to Methuselah
type:
quotation
text:
The Houses may meet in extraordinary sessions at the request of the Government, of the Permanent Deputation or of the overall majority of members of either of the two Houses. Extraordinary sessions must be convened with a specific agenda and shall be adjourned once this has been dealt with.
ref:
1978, Spanish Constitution of 1978
type:
quotation
text:
Tony Woodcock's early try and a penalty from fourth-choice fly-half Stephen Donald were enough to see the All Blacks home in an extraordinary match that defied all pre-match predictions.
ref:
2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. […] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
an extraordinary poet
type:
example
text:
the physician extraordinary in a royal household
type:
example
text:
an extraordinary professor in a German university
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual.
Remarkably good.
Special or supernumerary.
senses_topics:
|
12509 | word:
extraordinary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
extraordinary (plural extraordinaries)
forms:
form:
extraordinaries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin extrāōrdinārius, from extrā ōrdinem (“outside the order”); equivalent to extra- + ordinary. Doublet of extraordinaire.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] the sum that will probably be wanted for each head of service during the year: it is divided into the ordinary, and the extraordinaries.
ref:
1787, The New Annual Register
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Anything that goes beyond what is ordinary.
senses_topics:
|
12510 | word:
jip
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jip (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ejaculated semen.
senses_topics:
|
12511 | word:
jip
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jip (third-person singular simple present jips, present participle jipping, simple past and past participle jipped)
forms:
form:
jips
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jipping
tags:
participle
present
form:
jipped
tags:
participle
past
form:
jipped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of gyp
senses_topics:
|
12512 | word:
accumb
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accumb (third-person singular simple present accumbs, present participle accumbing, simple past and past participle accumbed)
forms:
form:
accumbs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accumbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
accumbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
accumbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin accumbō (“recline (at a table)”), from ad- + *cumbō (“lie down”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To recline, as at table.
senses_topics:
|
12513 | word:
tile
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tile (plural tiles)
forms:
form:
tiles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tile
tile (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English tile, tyle, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tieġle, tiġle, tiġele (“tile; brick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tigulā, from Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ (“tile”), from Latin tēgula. Doublet of tegula.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tichel (“tile”), West Frisian teil, tegel, tichel (“tile”), Dutch tichel, tegel (“tile”), German Ziegel (“brick; tile”), Danish tegl (“brick”), Swedish tegel (“brick; tile”), Icelandic tigl (“tile; brick”).
senses_examples:
text:
Each tile within the map consists of 256 × 256 pixels.
type:
example
text:
Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.
type:
example
text:
One hot summer day in the Chinese city of Nan-ning, I wandered through a park of lotus leaves and exotic flowers to a pagoda where ancient women sat, drowsily, happily playing mahjongg amidst the scent of flowers, and that excellent sound of clicking tiles enchanted me; I was far from home, but that long slow summer afternoon with the mah-jongg sounds brought me back to my own continent and specifically to Mexicali, whose summer tranquillity never ends.
ref:
2005, William T. Vollmann, “They Came Out Like Ants!”, in Dave Eggers, editor, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 (Literature), Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 298
type:
quotation
text:
Tile - Tile, a Hat.
ref:
1865, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions
type:
quotation
text:
1911, Charles Collins, Fred E. Terry and E.A. Sheppard, "Any Old Iron", British Music Hall song
Dressed in style, brand-new tile, And your father's old green tie on.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile, etc.
A rectangular graphic.
Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
A stiff hat.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
12514 | word:
tile
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)
forms:
form:
tiles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tiling
tags:
participle
present
form:
tiled
tags:
participle
past
form:
tiled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tile
tile (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English tile, tyle, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tieġle, tiġle, tiġele (“tile; brick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tigulā, from Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ (“tile”), from Latin tēgula. Doublet of tegula.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tichel (“tile”), West Frisian teil, tegel, tichel (“tile”), Dutch tichel, tegel (“tile”), German Ziegel (“brick; tile”), Danish tegl (“brick”), Swedish tegel (“brick; tile”), Icelandic tigl (“tile; brick”).
senses_examples:
text:
The handyman tiled the kitchen.
type:
example
text:
White marble tiled the bathroom.
type:
example
text:
Some professionals begin tiling a wall by setting a full tile in the most visually prominent corner […]
ref:
1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, page 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover with tiles.
To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Freemasonry
freemasonry
lifestyle |
12515 | word:
tile
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)
forms:
form:
tiles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tiling
tags:
participle
present
form:
tiled
tags:
participle
past
form:
tiled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tile
tile (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
See tiler (“doorkeeper at a Masonic lodge”).
senses_examples:
text:
to tile a Masonic lodge
type:
example
text:
tile the door
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
senses_topics:
|
12516 | word:
accomplisher
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accomplisher (plural accomplishers)
forms:
form:
accomplishers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accomplish + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who accomplishes.
senses_topics:
|
12517 | word:
acetification
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetification (usually uncountable, plural acetifications)
forms:
form:
acetifications
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Circa 1733. Directly or via French acétification, from New Latin acētificātiō, from acētum (“vinegar”) + -ficātiō, from faciō (“to make”).
senses_examples:
text:
There is a great Secret in Acetification known perhaps but to very few: those who have it, may, with Dr. Stahl, convert perfectly rectified Spirit of Wine into Vinegar, and produce strong and noble Vinegar, from exceedingly cheap Commodities in the space of a very few days, even in the Winter.
ref:
1733, Peter Shaw, M. D., Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon […] with Occasional Notes, to Explain what is Obscure and shew how far the several Plans of the Author, for the Advancement of all the Parts of Knowledge, have been executed to the present Time., volume III
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.
senses_topics:
|
12518 | word:
acetaldehyde
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetaldehyde (countable and uncountable, plural acetaldehydes)
forms:
form:
acetaldehydes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acet- + aldehyde.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A colourless organic compound, CH₃CHO, occurring widely in nature and being produced on a large scale in industry.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
12519 | word:
pricing
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pricing
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of price
senses_topics:
|
12520 | word:
pricing
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pricing (countable and uncountable, plural pricings)
forms:
form:
pricings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pricing
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of setting a price.
The level at which a price is set.
senses_topics:
|
12521 | word:
proctor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
proctor (plural proctors)
forms:
form:
proctors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
proctor
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English procatour, contraction of procuratour; compare proxy. Doublet of procurator.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student; an invigilator.
An official at any of several older universities.
A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts.
One appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, such as lepers and the bedridden.
A procurator or manager for another.
A representative of the clergy in convocation.
senses_topics:
law
|
12522 | word:
proctor
word_type:
verb
expansion:
proctor (third-person singular simple present proctors, present participle proctoring, simple past and past participle proctored)
forms:
form:
proctors
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
proctoring
tags:
participle
present
form:
proctored
tags:
participle
past
form:
proctored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
proctor
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English procatour, contraction of procuratour; compare proxy. Doublet of procurator.
senses_examples:
text:
All examinations , including self - study examinations and retake examinations , shall be proctored by a representative of the approved sponsor
ref:
1817, Illinois Administrative Code
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to function as a proctor
to manage as an attorney or agent
senses_topics:
|
12523 | word:
accubation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accubation (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin accubatiō, accubitiō, from accubō (“to recline”), from ad- + cubō (“to lie down”).
senses_examples:
text:
Accubation was introduced in Rome after the first Punic War (264-241 BC). In Greece accubation was unknown at the time of the Homeric poems (cf. Od. i. 145 ἑξείης ἕζοντο κατὰ κλισμούς τε θρόνους τε, XV. 134 ἑζέσθην δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔπειτα κατὰ κλισμούς τε θρόνους τε), but afterwards the Greeks and Romans adopted this Oriental fashion and lay very nearly flat on their breasts while taking their meals, or in a semi-sitting posture supported on the left elbow.
ref:
1902, Journal of Biblical literature, volumes 21-22, page 64
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.
senses_topics:
|
12524 | word:
countdown
word_type:
noun
expansion:
countdown (plural countdowns)
forms:
form:
countdowns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
countdown
etymology_text:
From count + down.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A count backward in fixed units to the time of some event, especially the launch of a space vehicle.
The acts of preparation carried out during this period.
A radio or television program counting down the top songs of a given week, usually in reverse order ending with the No. 1.
senses_topics:
|
12525 | word:
countdown
word_type:
verb
expansion:
countdown (third-person singular simple present countdowns, present participle countdowning, simple past and past participle countdowned)
forms:
form:
countdowns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
countdowning
tags:
participle
present
form:
countdowned
tags:
participle
past
form:
countdowned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
countdown
etymology_text:
From count + down.
senses_examples:
text:
This was accomplished in the old system by polling a software variable representing the number of prebleach bin and issuing a software command to trigger the AOM once the variable has countdowned to zero.
ref:
1994, Yifeng Yuan, Polarized fluorescence photobleaching for measuring fast rotational motion of cell surface receptors
type:
quotation
text:
Time measures itself out in a series of diminishing peristaltic ticks, countdowning slowly towards the miracle of Ignition.
ref:
2000, Stephen Mark Cox, Cluck
type:
quotation
text:
Whole families stood gawking at the massive statue, countdowning the five remaining minutes to the big one.
ref:
2003, Edward Stone Cohen, Firewater, page 129
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To count down.
senses_topics:
|
12526 | word:
limited liability company
word_type:
noun
expansion:
limited liability company (plural limited liability companies)
forms:
form:
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, and where the governing rules are set forth in a contract entered into by all of the initial shareholders. The name derives from the fact that regardless of potential losses or even bankruptcy of the corporation, individual shareholders will bear a maximum liability of the price they paid for their shares.
senses_topics:
law |
12527 | word:
acetometer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetometer (plural acetometers)
forms:
form:
acetometers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From aceto- + -meter.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of acetimeter
senses_topics:
|
12528 | word:
Venetian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Venetian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Venetianus (“Venetic; Venetian”), from Venetia (“lands of the Veneti; Venice, Veneto; Armorica”) + -anus (“-ian”), from Veneti + -ia. In the case of the Veneti of northern Brittany, derived from Gaulish Uenetoi (“the friendly ones, the kinsmen”), from Proto-Celtic *wenet, a derivation from *wenyā (“kindred”). In the case of the Veneti of northeastern Italy, of uncertain origin but presumably taken from a Venetic endonym, possibly Illyrian or Celtic. Equivalent to Veneto or Venetia + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or related to Venice, an Italian city and (historical) its former republic and colonial empire around the Adriatic and eastern Mediterranean Seas.
Of or related to Venetian, the local language or Italian dialect spoken in the city.
Synonym of Venetic, of or related to Veneto, the Italian region around the city.
Synonym of Venetic, of or related to the Veneti, either of two unrelated tribes of ancient Europe.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
12529 | word:
Venetian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Venetian (plural Venetians)
forms:
form:
Venetians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Venetianus (“Venetic; Venetian”), from Venetia (“lands of the Veneti; Venice, Veneto; Armorica”) + -anus (“-ian”), from Veneti + -ia. In the case of the Veneti of northern Brittany, derived from Gaulish Uenetoi (“the friendly ones, the kinsmen”), from Proto-Celtic *wenet, a derivation from *wenyā (“kindred”). In the case of the Veneti of northeastern Italy, of uncertain origin but presumably taken from a Venetic endonym, possibly Illyrian or Celtic. Equivalent to Veneto or Venetia + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
We never saw her ladyship, but the attendants told us, that the Venetians of her apartments were not impenetrably opaque from within, and that the old lady had seen us, and was concerned for our welfare.
ref:
1859, Mowbray Thomson, The Story of Cawnpore
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or a resident of Venice, the city.
An inhabitant or a resident of Veneto, the surrounding region.
A Venetian blind.
Galligaskins.
senses_topics:
|
12530 | word:
Venetian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Venetian
forms:
wikipedia:
Venetian language
etymology_text:
From Latin Venetianus (“Venetic; Venetian”), from Venetia (“lands of the Veneti; Venice, Veneto; Armorica”) + -anus (“-ian”), from Veneti + -ia. In the case of the Veneti of northern Brittany, derived from Gaulish Uenetoi (“the friendly ones, the kinsmen”), from Proto-Celtic *wenet, a derivation from *wenyā (“kindred”). In the case of the Veneti of northeastern Italy, of uncertain origin but presumably taken from a Venetic endonym, possibly Illyrian or Celtic. Equivalent to Veneto or Venetia + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Romance language spoken mostly in the Veneto region of Italy.
The form of this language spoken in Venice.
senses_topics:
|
12531 | word:
snowball
word_type:
noun
expansion:
snowball (plural snowballs)
forms:
form:
snowballs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
snowball
etymology_text:
From Middle English snoweball, snoweballe, snaweballe, snayballe, equivalent to snow + ball. Cognate with Scots snawbaw, German Schneeball, Luxembourgish Schnéiball, Dutch sneeuwbal, Afrikaans sneeubal, Limburgish snieëbal, West Frisian sniebal, Saterland Frisian Sneebaal, Sneebal, Swedish snöboll, Elfdalian sniųoboll, Danish snebold, Norwegian Bokmål snøball, Norwegian Nynorsk snøball and Icelandic snjóbolti.
senses_examples:
text:
Representatives of the small airlines that felt betrayed by Brown's policy started a political snowball rolling, resulting in the Airmail Act of 1934...
ref:
2005, Eldad Ben-Yosef, The Evolution of the US Airline Industry
type:
quotation
text:
It didn't take long to eat a packetful of snowballs - they are simply delicious.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ball of snow, usually one made in the hand and thrown for amusement in a snowball fight; also a larger ball of snow made by rolling a snowball around in snow that sticks to it and increases its diameter.
A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat.
Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control).
A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.
A type of ice dessert.
A small cake, typically cream-filled and covered in chocolate icing and desiccated coconut.
senses_topics:
|
12532 | word:
snowball
word_type:
adj
expansion:
snowball (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
snowball
etymology_text:
From Middle English snoweball, snoweballe, snaweballe, snayballe, equivalent to snow + ball. Cognate with Scots snawbaw, German Schneeball, Luxembourgish Schnéiball, Dutch sneeuwbal, Afrikaans sneeubal, Limburgish snieëbal, West Frisian sniebal, Saterland Frisian Sneebaal, Sneebal, Swedish snöboll, Elfdalian sniųoboll, Danish snebold, Norwegian Bokmål snøball, Norwegian Nynorsk snøball and Icelandic snjóbolti.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of something with rapid growth, often uncontrolled. Compare snowball effect.
senses_topics:
|
12533 | word:
snowball
word_type:
verb
expansion:
snowball (third-person singular simple present snowballs, present participle snowballing, simple past and past participle snowballed)
forms:
form:
snowballs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
snowballing
tags:
participle
present
form:
snowballed
tags:
participle
past
form:
snowballed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
snowball
etymology_text:
From Middle English snoweball, snoweballe, snaweballe, snayballe, equivalent to snow + ball. Cognate with Scots snawbaw, German Schneeball, Luxembourgish Schnéiball, Dutch sneeuwbal, Afrikaans sneeubal, Limburgish snieëbal, West Frisian sniebal, Saterland Frisian Sneebaal, Sneebal, Swedish snöboll, Elfdalian sniųoboll, Danish snebold, Norwegian Bokmål snøball, Norwegian Nynorsk snøball and Icelandic snjóbolti.
senses_examples:
text:
The high unemployment rates quickly snowballed into a major budget problem for the government.
type:
example
text:
There's a further knock-on effect from cancelling trains. It's not unusual for train crew diagrams to include a period 'on the cushions', travelling as a passenger to get staff from one train to the next. Cancel this train and it's likely the crew won't reach their next train, so this too is cancelled. Disruption snowballs and diagrams become harder to deliver.
ref:
2023 January 11, Philip Haigh, “Comment: The worst chaos for 40 years”, in RAIL, number 974, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rapidly grow out of proportion or control.
To play at throwing snowballs.
To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
To receive ejaculated semen in one's mouth, and to then pass it back and forth between one’s mouth and another person’s mouth.
senses_topics:
|
12534 | word:
acetimetry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetimetry (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From aceti(c) + -metry.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ascertaining of the strength of vinegar by measurement of the proportion of acetic acid in it
senses_topics:
|
12535 | word:
acetize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
acetize (third-person singular simple present acetizes, present participle acetizing, simple past and past participle acetized)
forms:
form:
acetizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
acetizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
acetized
tags:
participle
past
form:
acetized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To acetify.
senses_topics:
|
12536 | word:
acervate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acervate (comparative more acervate, superlative most acervate)
forms:
form:
more acervate
tags:
comparative
form:
most acervate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acervātus, perfect passive participle of acervō (“heap or pile up”), from acervus (“heap”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
12537 | word:
acervate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
acervate (third-person singular simple present acervates, present participle acervating, simple past and past participle acervated)
forms:
form:
acervates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
acervating
tags:
participle
present
form:
acervated
tags:
participle
past
form:
acervated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acervātus, perfect passive participle of acervō (“heap or pile up”), from acervus (“heap”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To heap up.
senses_topics:
|
12538 | word:
rubescent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rubescent (comparative more rubescent, superlative most rubescent)
forms:
form:
more rubescent
tags:
comparative
form:
most rubescent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Attested since at least 1730, from Latin rubescens, present participle of rubescere.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
turning red; reddening
senses_topics:
|
12539 | word:
punishment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
punishment (countable and uncountable, plural punishments)
forms:
form:
punishments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English punishement, from Old French punissement, from punir (“to punish”). Equivalent to punish + -ment. Displaced native Old English wīte.
senses_examples:
text:
The naughty children were given a punishment by their teachers.
type:
example
text:
a light punishment
type:
example
text:
a harsh punishment
type:
example
text:
a vehicle that can take a lot of punishment
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act (action) or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.
A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution.
Any harsh treatment or experience; rough handling.
senses_topics:
|
12540 | word:
kana
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kana (plural kana or kanas)
forms:
form:
kana
tags:
plural
form:
kanas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
kana
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 仮名(かな) (kana, “phonetic character”, literally “borrowed character”, from the way that kana were originally Chinese characters "borrowed" for their phonetic values).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji.
A hiragana or katakana character.
senses_topics:
|
12541 | word:
kana
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kana (indeclinable)
forms:
wikipedia:
kana
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of kena
senses_topics:
|
12542 | word:
sloop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sloop (plural sloops)
forms:
form:
sloops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sloop
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dutch sloep. Doublet of chalupa and shallop.
senses_examples:
text:
1789, Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,
I stayed in this island for a few days; I believe it could not be above a fortnight; when I and some few more slaves, that were not saleable amongst the rest, from very much fretting, were shipped off in a sloop for North America.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war |
12543 | word:
who's
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
who's
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Contractions; who + 's.
senses_examples:
text:
Who’s that in my bed?
type:
example
text:
Who’s been sleeping in my bed?
type:
example
text:
“Who’s he want to fight?” Martin asked, and the man said: “I’ve heard him twice. He wants to kick the Indians out of Texas. He wants to fight Santy Anny and whip him proper. And he wants us to take Santy Fay”.
ref:
2014, James A. Michener, Texas, page 572
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Who is.
Who has.
Whom is.
Who (whom) does
senses_topics:
|
12544 | word:
who's
word_type:
det
expansion:
who's
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From who + -'s (possessive marker).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of whose.
senses_topics:
|
12545 | word:
canescent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
canescent (comparative more canescent, superlative most canescent)
forms:
form:
more canescent
tags:
comparative
form:
most canescent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin canescens, present participle of canescere (“to become gray or white”).
senses_examples:
text:
An aureole of canescent hair fanned out round his head, and his jaws collapsed on toothless gums […].
ref:
1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 434
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Turning white or gray.
Covered with short white or gray hairs; hoary.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
12546 | word:
Amharic
word_type:
name
expansion:
Amharic
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Amhara + -ic.
senses_examples:
text:
Fifi smiles and nods, then says “yes” in Amharic with that typical Ethiopian inflection that makes it sound less like a word and more like a sharp intake of air.
ref:
2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books, published 2020, pages 218–219
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia.
senses_topics:
|
12547 | word:
accomptant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accomptant (plural accomptants)
forms:
form:
accomptants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An accountant.
senses_topics:
|
12548 | word:
jambon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jambon (plural jambons)
forms:
form:
jambons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French jambon (“ham”). Doublet of gammon and jamon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A square puff pastry containing ham and cheese.
senses_topics:
|
12549 | word:
accriminate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accriminate (third-person singular simple present accriminates, present participle accriminating, simple past and past participle accriminated)
forms:
form:
accriminates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accriminating
tags:
participle
present
form:
accriminated
tags:
participle
past
form:
accriminated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ac- (“to”) + criminate (“accuse”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To accuse of a crime.
senses_topics:
|
12550 | word:
acetic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acetic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French acétique, from Latin acētum (“vinegar”), from acēre (“to be sour”). By surface analysis, acet- + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, pertaining to, or producing vinegar.
Of or pertaining to acetic acid or its derivatives.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
12551 | word:
cryptology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cryptology (usually uncountable, plural cryptologies)
forms:
form:
cryptologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From crypto- + -logy, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”).
senses_examples:
text:
But the question of speech-play causes confusion to the slang researcher because this subject borders on family slang, private lingo, secret language, cryptologies, disguised language of children and grown-ups
ref:
1991, English Studies
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The science or study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and histories.
The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.
Secret or enigmatical language.
senses_topics:
|
12552 | word:
acetin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetin (countable and uncountable, plural acetins)
forms:
form:
acetins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the triglyceride of acetic acid
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
12553 | word:
laughter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laughter (usually uncountable, plural laughters)
forms:
form:
laughter a person's laughter
tags:
canonical
form:
laughters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
laughter
etymology_text:
From Middle English laughter, laghter, laȝter, from Old English hleahtor (“laughter, jubilation, derision”), from Proto-Germanic *hlahtraz (“laughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *klek-, *kleg- (“to shout”). Cognate with German Gelächter (“laughter, hilarity, merriment”), Danish and Norwegian latter (“laughter”), Icelandic hlátur (“laughter”). More at laugh.
senses_examples:
text:
Their loud laughter betrayed their presence.
type:
example
text:
There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town.
ref:
1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
A reason for merriment.
senses_topics:
|
12554 | word:
acetimeter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetimeter (plural acetimeters)
forms:
form:
acetimeters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acetum (“vinegar”) + -meter.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar
senses_topics:
|
12555 | word:
Th.D.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Th.D.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Doctor of Theology.
senses_topics:
|
12556 | word:
Doctor of Musical Arts
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Doctor of Musical Arts (plural Doctors of Musical Arts)
forms:
form:
Doctors of Musical Arts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A terminal degree intended for musicians who wish to combine the highest attainments in their major area with proven accomplishment in theoretical studies and musicology.
senses_topics:
|
12557 | word:
accomptable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accomptable
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
They are […] to stand accomptable to their Maᵗˢ [Majesties] as well as for the provideing of good, sound, and wholesome Provicons for the health and sattisfaction of the seamen serving in their Maᵗˢ shipps and fleete as that the whole service shall be managed with all possible frugallity, and good husbandry on their Maᵗˢ behalfes.
ref:
1848 September, John Barrow, “Ancient Naval Records”, in The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, [...] A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, volume XVII, number 9, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. […], →OCLC, paragraph 17, page 482
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Accountable.
senses_topics:
|
12558 | word:
wan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
wan (comparative wanner, superlative wannest)
forms:
form:
wanner
tags:
comparative
form:
wannest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wan, wanne (“grey, leaden; pale grey, ashen; blue-black (like a bruise); dim, faint; dark, gloomy”), from Old English wann (“dark, dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *wannaz (“dark, swart”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Frisian wann, wonn (“dark”).
senses_examples:
text:
BEHIND him lay the gray Azores, / Behind the Gates of Hercules; / Before him not the ghost of shores, / Before him only shoreless seas. // The good mate said: “Now must we pray, / For lo! the very stars are gone. / Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?” / “Why, say, ‘Sail on! sail on! and on!’”
“My men grow mutinous day by day; / My men grow ghastly wan and weak.” / The stout mate thought of home; a spray / Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. // “What shall I say, brave Admiral, say, / If we sight naught but seas at dawn?” / “Why, you shall say at break of day, / ‘Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!’”
They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow, / Until at last the blanched mate said: / “Why, now not even God would know / Should I and all my men fall dead. // These very winds forget their way, / For God from these dread seas is gone. / Now speak, brave Admiral, speak and say”— / He said: “Sail on! sail on! and on!”
They sailed. They sailed. Then spake the mate: / “This mad sea shows his teeth to-night. / He curls his lip, he lies in wait, / With lifted teeth, as if to bite! // Brave Admiral, say but one good word: / What shall we do when hope is gone?” / The words leapt like a leaping sword: / “Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!”
Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, / And peered through darkness. Ah, that night / Of all dark nights! And then a speck— / A light! A light! A light! A light! // It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! / It grew to be Time’s burst of dawn. / He gained a world; he gave that world / Its grandest lesson: “On! sail on!”
ref:
1892, Joaquin Miller, Columbus
text:
She looked wan and worried, and then finally she was not in court one day, and later [...] he learned that she was confined to her room with a bad cold.
ref:
1921 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Efficiency Expert”, in All-Story Weekly, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “The Trial”, in The Efficiency Expert, [Auckland]: The Floating Press, 2011, page 188
type:
quotation
text:
Instead, you wiped off the red lipstick with wadded-up toilet paper and forced a smile, leaving the locker room with a pale, cotton candy-colored lipstick that made you look wan and parched instead.
ref:
2020, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments, Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
A wan expression
type:
example
text:
My position in the midst of the general indifference was hard to bear ; my silence weighed upon me like remorse. The sight of Lieutenant Castagnac filled me with indignation, — a sort of insurmountable repulsion: the wan look, the ironical smile of the man, froze my blood.
ref:
1867 July 13, “Lieutenant Castagnac”, in Every Saturday: A Journal of Choice Reading, Selected from Foreign Current Literature, volume IV, number 80, Cambridge, Mass.: Printed at the University Press, Cambridge, by Welch, Bigelow, & Co., for Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, chapter II, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
Checking out her brother’s khakis, the gun propped in the corner, Olivia’s hiking boots and her wan expression, she wants to laugh. “Been hunting, I see.” Olivia’s face falls, as expected. Her brother’s obsession with guns and gross little expeditions appall her.
ref:
2013, Carter Dreyfuss, chapter 1, in The Prince of Temple Square: A Murder Mystery, Tucson, Ariz.: Wheatmark, pages 8–9
type:
quotation
text:
“I have to admit, I’ve been tempted a time or two to chuck everything to go live in a place like this [Bogda Peak, China],” he replied. / “What stopped you?” / He gave her a wan look. “Celibacy.”
ref:
2014, Chris Angus, chapter 12, in Flypaper: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Yucca Publishing, Skyhorse Publishing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pale, sickly-looking.
Dim, faint.
Bland, uninterested.
senses_topics:
|
12559 | word:
wan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wan (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wan, wanne (“grey, leaden; pale grey, ashen; blue-black (like a bruise); dim, faint; dark, gloomy”), from Old English wann (“dark, dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *wannaz (“dark, swart”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Frisian wann, wonn (“dark”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being wan; wanness.
senses_topics:
|
12560 | word:
wan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wan (plural wans)
forms:
form:
wans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Eye dialect spelling of one. Sense 2 (“girl or woman”) possibly as a result of the phrase your wan as a counterpart to your man.
senses_examples:
text:
Then I’d tell myself there were plenty of oul wans and oul fellas in work who never got it and that I’d be lucky like them and escape. Only I didn’t. I don’t want to die.
ref:
1993, Elaine Crowley, The Ways Of Women, London: Orion
type:
quotation
text:
Growing up in Dún Laoghaire in the 1980s, I remember all the hard men were sinewy, scrawny lads, hence the local description ‘more meat on a seagull’. The reason was simple: they were undernourished. [...] The young wans, despite a couple of babies, were more or less the same, pinched, flat-chested and drawn.
ref:
2005, David McWilliams, The Pope’s Children: Ireland’s New Elite, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan; republished as The Pope’s Children: The Irish Economic Triumph and the Rise of Ireland’s New Elite, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2008, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
He comes streaming out from under the stage, this time a feckin show-stopper, almost literally, because there’s eighty different acrobats above him, [...] for this mad New Year’s show that has no story at all, other than this wan in silky robes who goes out with this fella in silky robes, and they’re from different enemy tribes of lads and wans in silky robes, and when they find out, they have this huge, aerial, acrobatic donnybrook that ends when everyone wraps their silk around each other up in the air, and then lets it all fall down to the ground, where the audience are, to show them how we're all part of one big silky family, and not to be fighting in the future.
ref:
2015, Kevin Maher, “A Yuletide Bender”, in Last Night on Earth, London: Little, Brown and Company
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of one, representing Ireland English.
A girl or woman.
senses_topics:
|
12561 | word:
wan
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
An inflected form.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of win.
senses_topics:
|
12562 | word:
longbow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
longbow (plural longbows)
forms:
form:
longbows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From long + bow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large bow that has a strong tension, and is usually more than 3 feet tall. The most famous longbows in history were the English longbows, which were crafted of yew.
senses_topics:
|
12563 | word:
D.B.A.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
D.B.A. (plural D.B.A.s)
forms:
form:
D.B.A.s
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of database analyst.
Initialism of database administrator.
Initialism of Doctor of Business Administration (“a terminal degree”).
senses_topics:
|
12564 | word:
accustomed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accustomed (comparative more accustomed, superlative most accustomed)
forms:
form:
more accustomed
tags:
comparative
form:
most accustomed
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accustom + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
I am not accustomed to walking long distances.
type:
example
text:
She is getting more and more accustomed to the cold.
type:
example
text:
1484, William Caxton (translator), The Book of the Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope, “The v fable is of the Foxe and of the busshe,”
And ther fore men ought not to helpe them whiche ben acustomed to doo euylle
text:
1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, Partition 1, Section 2, Member 2, Subsection 3, p. 99,
Such things as we haue beene long accustomed to, though they be evill in their owne nature; yet they are lesse offensiue.
text:
Young Overton’s face assumed the bothered look of the man who is more accustomed to using his muscles than his wits […]
ref:
1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Missing Three-Quarter”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., published 1905, page 294
type:
quotation
text:
1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 2, Stanza 72, in The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Boston: Cummings & Hilliard, 1814, Volume I, p. 249,
Who now shall lead thy scatter’d children forth,
And long-accustom’d bondage uncreate?
text:
1912, Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, London: The India Society, Section 63, p. 37,
I am uneasy at heart when I have to leave my accustomed shelter; I forget that there abides the old in the new, and that there also thou abidest.
text:
The raid, directed as usual by vice squad Sgt. Edward McNelley and featuring the accustomed assortment of vice officers, […]
ref:
1983 April 30, Larry Goldsmith, “Yes, Loft Raided Again, Club Officers Charged”, in Gay Community News, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
1778, Tobias Smollett (translator), The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane by Alain-René Lesage, London: S. Crowder et al., Volume I, Chapter 7, p. 148,
There I got a place on the same terms as at Segovia, in a well accustomed shop, much frequented on account of the neighbourhood of the church of Santa Cruz, and the Prince’s theatre […]
text:
1817, Seth William Stevenson), Journal of a Tour through Part of France, Flanders, and Holland, Norwich: for the author, Chapter 21, p. 283,
The pompous hotel is a lone cottage of very mean appearance, on the road side, and I will be sworn, was but an ill-accustomed Inn, until those renowned Generals justly gave it a licence.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Familiar with something through repeated experience; adapted to existing conditions. (of a person)
Familiar through use; usual; customary. (of a thing, condition, activity, etc.)
Frequented by customers.
senses_topics:
|
12565 | word:
accustomed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accustomed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accustom + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of accustom
senses_topics:
|
12566 | word:
accumbent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accumbent (comparative more accumbent, superlative most accumbent)
forms:
form:
more accumbent
tags:
comparative
form:
most accumbent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin accumbō (“recline”), from ad- (“to”) + *cumbō (“recline”).
senses_examples:
text:
Together his accumbent pose and closed eyes denoted sleep, as an alternative to death, which the stiff, recumbent pose of previous effigies had embodied.
ref:
1998, Anne Markham Schulz, Giammaria Mosca called Padovano: a Renaissance sculptor in Italy and Poland, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
Distinguished from other genera, with accumbent cotyledons, in the same class and order, by the entire, nearly equal petals; and the dehiscent, nearly entirely pouch, of 2, 1- or many-seeded cells, a broad dissepiment (septum), and nearly flat valves.
ref:
1840, William Baxter, British phænogamous botany, volume 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
12567 | word:
accumbent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accumbent (plural accumbents)
forms:
form:
accumbents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin accumbō (“recline”), from ad- (“to”) + *cumbō (“recline”).
senses_examples:
text:
What a pennance must be done by every accumbent, in sitting out the passage through all these dishes; what a task the stomach must be put to in the concoction of so many mixtures.
ref:
1630, Bishop Joseph Hall, Occasional Meditations
type:
quotation
text:
Let us, indeed, see how the point of view has changed which was held in regard to those cultivated and glib accumbents who in former days were taken for real social workers.
ref:
1903, “What Is Oblomovisn”, in Leo Wiener, editor, Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to the, translation of original by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Dobrolyubov, page 275
type:
quotation
text:
Said also to be fond of playing practical jokes, he was apparently in the habit of placing his dinner guests on inflated cushions, which were contrived to deflate suddenly, sending their unsuspecting accumbents sprawling under the tables.
ref:
2014, Trevor R. Bryce, Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand Year History
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who rests in an accumbent position, especially at table.
senses_topics:
|
12568 | word:
launch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
launch (third-person singular simple present launches, present participle launching, simple past and past participle launched or (obsolete) launcht)
forms:
form:
launches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
launching
tags:
participle
present
form:
launched
tags:
participle
past
form:
launched
tags:
past
form:
launcht
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
launcht
tags:
obsolete
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English launchen (“to throw as a lance”), Old French lanchier, another form (Old Northern French/Norman variant, compare Jèrriais lanchi) of lancier, French lancer, from lance.
senses_examples:
text:
There they were met by four thousand Ha'apa'a warriors, who launched a volley of stones and spears[…]
ref:
2011, Stephen Budiansky, Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815, page 323
type:
quotation
text:
And launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.
ref:
1591, Edmund Spenser, The Teares of the Muses
type:
quotation
text:
1725–1726, Alexander Pope, Homer's Odyssey (translation), Book V
With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, / And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.
text:
The navy launched another ship.
type:
example
text:
A cheap rocket that could launch military reconnaisance satellites for developing countries has become involved in a tangled web of Nazi rocket scientists, Penthouse magazine, KGB disinformation, and a treaty reminiscent of the height of colonialism in Africa.
ref:
1978, Farooq Hussain, “Volksraketen for the Third World”, in New Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
NASA launched several unmanned rockets before launching any of the Mercury astronauts.
type:
example
text:
Our business launched a new project.
type:
example
text:
All art is uſed to ſink Epiſcopacy, & lanch Presbytery in England.
ref:
1649, Eikon Basilike
type:
quotation
text:
I have ordered House Atreides to occupy Arrakis to mine the spice, thus replacing their enemies the Harkonnens. House Atreides will not refuse because of the tremendous power they think they will gain. Then, at an appointed time, Baron Harkonnen will return to Arrakis and launch a sneak attack on House Atreides. I have promised the Baron five legions of my Sardaukar terror troops.
ref:
1984, 8:38 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Double-click an icon to launch the associated application.
type:
example
text:
On September 3rd Bionym, a Canadian firm, launched Nymi, a bracelet which detects the wearer’s heartbeat.
ref:
2013 September 7, “Kill or cure”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852
type:
quotation
text:
In our language, Spenſer has not contented himſelf with this ſubmiſſive manner of imitation : he launches out into very flowery paths[…]
ref:
1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon: On the Vanity of the World, Preface
type:
quotation
text:
My class was wearing butter-yellow pique dresses, and Momma launched out on mine. She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.
ref:
1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 23, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
type:
quotation
text:
to launch into an argument or discussion
type:
example
text:
to launch into lavish expenditures
type:
example
text:
After clicking the icon, the application will launch.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
To release; to put onto the market for sale
Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
To start to operate.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12569 | word:
launch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
launch (plural launches)
forms:
form:
launches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English launchen (“to throw as a lance”), Old French lanchier, another form (Old Northern French/Norman variant, compare Jèrriais lanchi) of lancier, French lancer, from lance.
senses_examples:
text:
Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
ref:
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
product launch
type:
example
text:
book launch
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
senses_topics:
|
12570 | word:
launch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
launch (plural launches)
forms:
form:
launches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese lancha (“barge, launch”), apparently from Malay lancar (“quick, agile”). Spelling influenced by the verb above.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport |
12571 | word:
accrimination
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accrimination (countable and uncountable, plural accriminations)
forms:
form:
accriminations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accriminate + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
Whereupon the Bishop of Mewes answered, / Sir, If this accrimination be levelled at me, let me, I beseech you, know my fault, while I am here to make defence.
ref:
1660, John Dauncey, The History of the Thrice Illustrious Princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon, Queen of England, page 37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Accusation, recrimination.
senses_topics:
|
12572 | word:
tri
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tri (plural tris)
forms:
form:
tris
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortening of words with the initial component derived from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”).
senses_examples:
text:
a tri bike
text:
a tri suit
text:
The most common poly budget in use for games at the time of this writing is between 5,000 and 10,000 tris. Anything within that range is sufficient to accommodate all superficial anatomical details without resort to optimization beyond normal model cleanup.
ref:
2009, Andrew Paquette, Computer Graphics for Artists II: Environments and Characters
type:
quotation
text:
Tris and quads have different areas of functionality. In real-time graphics, tris are the norm because they provide the most basic geometric representations of planes.
ref:
2010, Tony Mullen, Claudio Andaur, Blender Studio Projects: Digital Movie-Making, page 91
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
triathlon
triangle
triceps
senses_topics:
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
12573 | word:
secure
word_type:
adj
expansion:
secure (comparative securer or more secure, superlative securest or most secure)
forms:
form:
securer
tags:
comparative
form:
more secure
tags:
comparative
form:
securest
tags:
superlative
form:
most secure
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Secure
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin sēcūrus (“of persons, free from care, quiet, easy; in a bad sense, careless, reckless; of things, tranquil, also free from danger, safe, secure”), from sē- (“without”) + cūra (“care”); see cure. Doublet of sure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).
senses_examples:
text:
The vast majority of American Jews not only greatly dislike President Trump but also believe he has made them less safe: according to a May 2019 poll, nearly three-quarters of Jewish voters believe American Jews are less secure under Trump than they were before, 71 percent disapprove of Trump’s overall job performance, and nearly 60 percent believe that he bears at least some responsibility for the synagogue shootings carried out by white nationalists in Pittsburgh and Poway.
ref:
2020 March, Joshua Leifer, “Led Astray”, in The Baffler, number 50
type:
quotation
text:
No sooner were we up there, than the old woman dragged the ladder, by which we had ascended, away with a chuckle, as if she was now secure that we could do no mischief, and sat herself down again once more, to doze and await her master's return.
ref:
1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman
type:
quotation
text:
secure of a welcome
type:
example
text:
Just when victory seemed secure, they let it slip from their grasp.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Free from attack or danger; protected.
Free from the danger of theft; safe.
Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.
Overconfident; incautious; careless.
Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.
senses_topics:
|
12574 | word:
secure
word_type:
verb
expansion:
secure (third-person singular simple present secures, present participle securing, simple past and past participle secured)
forms:
form:
secures
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
securing
tags:
participle
present
form:
secured
tags:
participle
past
form:
secured
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
secure
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Secure
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin sēcūrus (“of persons, free from care, quiet, easy; in a bad sense, careless, reckless; of things, tranquil, also free from danger, safe, secure”), from sē- (“without”) + cūra (“care”); see cure. Doublet of sure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).
senses_examples:
text:
to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage
text:
It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
ref:
1831, Thomas Dick, The Philosophy of Religion
type:
quotation
text:
to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
text:
All springs for the engine and tender are of the laminated type with plates of carbon steel, which are secured in the spring buckles by a vertical centre rivet.
ref:
1951 March, “British Railways Standard "Britannia" Class 4-6-2 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 186
type:
quotation
text:
to secure an estate
text:
With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.
ref:
2014 August 26, Jamie Jackson, “Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
[Captain] was able to secure some good photographs of the fortress.
ref:
1911, Flight, page 766
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.
To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
To plight or pledge.
senses_topics:
|
12575 | word:
generator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
generator (plural generators)
forms:
form:
generators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin, from past participle of genero (“beget, father”).
senses_examples:
text:
When you come across something that looks like a listcomp but is surrounded by parentheses, you're looking at a generator: […]
ref:
2016, Paul Barry, Head First Python: A Brain-Friendly Guide, O'Reilly, page 508
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
An interval that is repeatedly stacked to obtain other pitches in tuning systems or scales.
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
An element of a group that is used in the presentation of the group: one of the elements from which the others can be inferred with the given relators.
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
One of the lines of a ruled surface; more generally, an element of some family of linear spaces.
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters, will generate multiple output values on request.
A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
|
12576 | word:
hilarity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hilarity (countable and uncountable, plural hilarities)
forms:
form:
hilarities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin hilaritas, "cheerfulness", from adjective hilaris, "cheerful", ultimately from Greek, + noun of state suffix -tas.
senses_examples:
text:
The duckling escaped into the birthday party; hilarity ensued.
type:
example
text:
Think it not curious if we don't seem to be as sidesplittingly impressed with the hilarities in this picture as its promotion might lead you to expect. Hilarity is in it—hilarity at its best—as would be almost mandatory in any film with Miss Holliday.
ref:
1999, Vincent Canby, Janet Maslin, Peter M. Nichols, The New York times guide to the best 1000 movies ever made
type:
quotation
text:
Many other Latin imports have become staples of our diet, like the burrito, which in Spanish means "little donkey." What other food-related hilarities are we missing out on?
ref:
2005, Library journal, volume 130, numbers 8-13, page 122
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A great amount of amusement, usually accompanied by laughter.
Something that induces laughter.
senses_topics:
|
12577 | word:
Americanism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Americanism (countable and uncountable, plural Americanisms)
forms:
form:
Americanisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Americanism
etymology_text:
From American + -ism.
senses_examples:
text:
Mrs. Morton was well known for her Americanisms, her swagger dinner parties, and beautiful Paris gowns.
ref:
1908, Baroness Orczy, The Old Man in the Corner
type:
quotation
text:
A lot of other supposed Americanisms aren't Americanisms either. It's sometimes thought that "transportation" instead of the good old "transport" is an example of that annoying US habit of bolting on needless extra syllables to perfectly good words, but "transportation" is used in British English from 1540.
ref:
2013 May 13, Steven Poole, “Americanisms are often closer to home than we imagine”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
"The most important difference between our plan and that of our opponent is that our plan will put America first," Trump said. "Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."
ref:
2016 July 22, Aaron Blake, “Donald Trump’s strategy in three words: ‘Americanism, not globalism’”, in Washington Post
type:
quotation
text:
Moreover, the enthusiasm with which Hecker’s ideas had been received among Catholic liberals in France served to increase Leo XIII’s suspicion that Americanism was yet another attempt, not so very different from the Gallicanisms of the past, to assert the independence of a national church from Rome.
ref:
1999, Michael W. Cuneo, The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A custom peculiar to the United States or the Americans.
A word, phrase or linguistic feature originating from or specific to American English usage.
A preference for the United States and the ideas it represents.
A putative current of Catholicism in the United States identified and condemned as heretical by Rome in the late 19th century, chiefly characterized by support for secularism and American institutions above Catholic doctrine.
senses_topics:
Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism |
12578 | word:
sex
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sex (countable and uncountable, plural sexes)
forms:
form:
sexes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sexe (“gender”), from Old French sexe (“genitals; gender”), from Latin sexus (“gender; gender traits; males or females; genitals”), from Proto-Italic *seksus, from Proto-Indo-European *séksus, from *sek- (“to cut, cut off, sever”), thus meaning "section, division" (into male and female).
Usage for women influenced by Middle French le sexe (“women”) (attested in 1580). Usage for third and additional sexes calqued from French troisième sexe, referring to masculine women in 1817 and homosexuals in 1847. First used by Lord Byron and others in English in reference to Catholic clergy. Usage for sexual intercourse first attested in 1900 (in the writings of H.G. Wells).
senses_examples:
text:
The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, sex, and other factors.
type:
example
text:
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
ref:
1918, Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
type:
quotation
text:
I would never have guessed […] that slime molds can have thirteen sexes.
ref:
1994, Valerie Harms, Uc Rodale Nat Aud Enviro, page 268
type:
quotation
text:
But now another sex, in arms, is brought, / And, realms to guard, are eunuchs able thought!
ref:
1817, The works of Claudian, tr. into Engl. verse by A. Hawkins, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
I have encountered officers who believe a woman got a better assignment or somehow "got over" because of her sex.
ref:
1992, United States Naval Institute Proceedings, volume 118, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
It was a weakness / In me, but incident to all our sex.
ref:
1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, section 774
type:
quotation
text:
The sensibility of the female sex appears […] to be greater than that of the male.
ref:
1780, Jeremy Bentham, Introduction to the Principles of Morals & Legislation, vi, §35
type:
quotation
text:
A lot of women now like men to pay for them on dates... We've dealt with the outdated view of sex underpinning this.
ref:
2005 November 11, Guardian, section 18
type:
quotation
text:
The sex of Venice are undoubtedly of a distinguished beauty.
ref:
1789 November 3, Arthur Young, Travels... undertaken with a view of ascertaining the cultivation... of the kingdom of France, i, 220
type:
quotation
text:
I was not, however, better than my neighbors; the Sex had its charms for me as it had for others; But there always remained a sting, that time only wore away.
ref:
c. 1840, George Nelson, Reminiscenses
type:
quotation
text:
We marry in fear and trembling, sex for a home is the woman's traffic, and the man comes to his heart's desire when his heart's desire is dead.
ref:
1900, H. G. Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham, London: Harper, page 144
type:
quotation
text:
If you want to have sex, you've got to trust / At the core of your heart, the other creature.
ref:
1929, D.H. Lawrence, Pansies, section 57
type:
quotation
text:
1934, translation of the Qur'an (23:5) by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
(The believers ... those ... ) who abstain from sex
text:
Why wasn't Bond ‘more tender’ in his love-making? Why did he just ‘have sex’ and disappear?
ref:
1962 June 7, The Listener, 1006/2
text:
It wouldn't work with you... Sex, I mean. You're... easy to be with. You're... you're not dangerous. You're my best friend, John. I couldn't have it on with my best friend, John. It would be embarrassing. Sorry. Honest.
ref:
1990, House of Cards, season 1, episode 3
type:
quotation
text:
Another ha's gon through with the bargain... One that will find the way to her Sex, before you'le come to kissing her hand.
ref:
1664, Thomas Killigrew, Princess, ii, ii
type:
quotation
text:
And the black cypresses strained upwards like the sex of a hanged man.
ref:
1938, David Gascoyne, Hölderlin's Madness, section 18
type:
quotation
text:
She touched his sex with her hand.
ref:
1993, Catherine Coulter, The Heiress Bride, page 354
type:
quotation
text:
And he put in a fake sex (penis) because he wanted to make the scene more real, more rude.
ref:
2003 March 2, Daily News, New York, section 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A category into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species.
Another category, especially of humans and especially based on sexuality or gender roles.
The members of such a category, taken collectively.
The distinction and relation between these categories, especially in humans; gender.
Women; the human female gender and those who belong to it.
Sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse unless preceded by a modifier.
Genitalia: a penis or vagina/vulva.
senses_topics:
|
12579 | word:
sex
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sex (third-person singular simple present sexes, present participle sexing, simple past and past participle sexed)
forms:
form:
sexes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sexing
tags:
participle
present
form:
sexed
tags:
participle
past
form:
sexed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sexe (“gender”), from Old French sexe (“genitals; gender”), from Latin sexus (“gender; gender traits; males or females; genitals”), from Proto-Italic *seksus, from Proto-Indo-European *séksus, from *sek- (“to cut, cut off, sever”), thus meaning "section, division" (into male and female).
Usage for women influenced by Middle French le sexe (“women”) (attested in 1580). Usage for third and additional sexes calqued from French troisième sexe, referring to masculine women in 1817 and homosexuals in 1847. First used by Lord Byron and others in English in reference to Catholic clergy. Usage for sexual intercourse first attested in 1900 (in the writings of H.G. Wells).
senses_examples:
text:
If we sex the cattle, which is the only way to get at their value, we shall have... 400 cows, 200 yearling heifers.
ref:
1878 January 19, Spirit of the Times, 659/2
type:
quotation
text:
The ability to sex birds invasively through laparoscopy initially solved that problem, but now it is even easier and less stressful on the birds through testing the DNA of their feathers or blood.
ref:
2007, Clive Roots, Domestication, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
Semen usually is sexed at 90% accuracy, and the sexes of calves at birth almost always are in that statistical range if averaged over […]
ref:
2013, David J Patterson, Michael T. Smith, Beef Heifer Development, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics: Food Animal Practice,, Elsevier Health Sciences
type:
quotation
text:
He shows some glimpses, but most of the released singles are about flossing, partying, and sexing women.
ref:
2007, Mickey Hess, Icons of hip hop : an encyclopedia of the movement, music, and culture. 2, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 427
type:
quotation
text:
Sex with Ivory had gotten better than sexing his wife. Herschel laughed with Ivory, cried with Ivory. They dreamt aloud together. Unlike Nikki, Ivory believed in him. Every man needed a woman who believed in him.
ref:
2009, HoneyB, Single Husbands, Grand Central Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
"Do you ever think about how you're betraying your client while you're sexing his wife?"
ref:
2012, Janice Jones, His Woman, His Wife, His Widow, Urban Books
type:
quotation
text:
Wosick-Correa, K. R., 81 Joseph, L. J. Sexy ladies sexing ladies: Women as consumers in strip clubs. Journal of Sex Research, 45, 3 (July 2008), 201-216.
ref:
2014, Jerrold S. Greenberg, Clint E. Bruess, Sara B. Oswalt, Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, page 731
type:
quotation
text:
His body shook uncontrollably as he imagined another man sexing his wife.
ref:
2014, Anya Nicole, Judgment Day, Urban Books
type:
quotation
text:
The last thing a jealous husband wants to think about is another man sexing his wife when he's dead and gone.
ref:
2015, Pimpin' Ken, The Art of Human Chess: A Study Guide to Winning, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
Sexing his wife anally would remind him of having sex with Baron.
ref:
2016, Nisa Santiago, Killer Dolls - Part 3, Melodrama Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
The neighbor guy, I just came to understand, is sexing the lady across the street from him. He's got a girlfriend. She is married. While I don't think that is particularly cool, I also don't think it is any of my business either.
ref:
2019, Michael Jean Nystrom-Schut, Foundations of Philosophy: The Basics of the Balance (Volume Iil), AuthorHouse
type:
quotation
text:
Our baby is eighteen months old now, and cries when we sex
ref:
1921 August 20, Kenneth Burke, letter to Malcolm Cowley
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To determine the sex of (an animal).
To have sex with.
To have sex.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
|
12580 | word:
sex
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sex (plural sexes)
forms:
form:
sexes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From sect.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of sect.
senses_topics:
|
12581 | word:
creed
word_type:
noun
expansion:
creed (plural creeds)
forms:
form:
creeds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Constantine the Great
First Council of Nicaea
etymology_text:
From Middle English crede, from Old English crēda, crēdo, from Latin crēdō (“I believe”), from Proto-Italic *krezdō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱred dʰeh₁- (“to place one's heart, i.e., to trust, believe”), a compound phrase of the oblique case form of *ḱḗr (“heart”). Creed is cognate with Old Irish cretim (“to believe”), Sanskrit श्रद्दधाति (śráddadhāti, “to have faith or faithfulness, to have belief or confidence, believe”).
senses_examples:
text:
He killed our tribes he killed our creed. / He took our game for his own need
ref:
1982 February 12, Steve Harris (lyrics and music), “Run to the Hills”, performed by Iron Maiden
type:
quotation
text:
Pakistan is a conservative, religious state. The Edhi Foundation is unusual in its ignoring of caste, creed, religion and sect. This strict stance has led to some criticism from religious groups.
ref:
2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2017-06-29
type:
quotation
text:
A creed is a manifesto of religious or spiritual beliefs
type:
example
text:
[N]ow ſuch a liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, […]
ref:
1604, Jeremy Corderoy, A Short Dialogve, wherein is Proved, that No Man can be Saved without Good VVorkes, 2nd edition, Oxford: Printed by Ioseph Barnes, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crowne, by Simon Waterson, →OCLC, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
The Apostles' Creed was not the only creed to come into existence in the period of the early church. However, it is the oldest and simplest creed of the church. All Christian traditions recognize its authority and its importance as a standard of doctrine. To study the Apostles' Creed is to investigate a central element of our common Christian heritage.
ref:
2015, Alister [Edgar] McGrath, “Getting the Most out of Apostles’ Creed”, in Apostles’ Creed (LifeGuide Bible Studies), Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Oh love! how perfect is thy mystic art, / Strengthening the weak, and trampling on the strong, / How self-deceitful is the sagest part / Of mortals whom thy lure hath led along— / The precipice she stood on was immense, / So was her creed in her own innocence.
ref:
1819, [Lord Byron], “Canto I”, in Don Juan, London: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars, →OCLC, stanza CVI, page 56
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious doctrine; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
A reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents; a confession of faith for public use, especially one which is brief and comprehensive.
The fact of believing; belief, faith.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
|
12582 | word:
creed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
creed (third-person singular simple present creeds, present participle creeding, simple past and past participle creeded)
forms:
form:
creeds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
creeding
tags:
participle
present
form:
creeded
tags:
participle
past
form:
creeded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Constantine the Great
First Council of Nicaea
etymology_text:
From Middle English crede, from Old English crēda, crēdo, from Latin crēdō (“I believe”), from Proto-Italic *krezdō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱred dʰeh₁- (“to place one's heart, i.e., to trust, believe”), a compound phrase of the oblique case form of *ḱḗr (“heart”). Creed is cognate with Old Irish cretim (“to believe”), Sanskrit श्रद्दधाति (śráddadhāti, “to have faith or faithfulness, to have belief or confidence, believe”).
senses_examples:
text:
Only this I marvelled, and other men have since, whenas I, in a ſubject ſo new to this age, and ſo hazardous to pleaſe, concealed not my name, why this author, defending that part which is ſo creeded by the people, would conceal his.
ref:
1645 March 4, J[ohn] M[ilton], Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Ansvver against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. Wherein the Trivial Author of that Answer is Discover’d, the Licencer Conferr’d with, and the Opinion which They Traduce Defended, [London]: [Printed by Matthew Simmons?], →OCLC; republished in The Works of John Milton, Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous. Now More Correctly Printed from the Originals, than in Any Former Edition, and may Passages Restored, which have been hitherto Omitted. To which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings [by Thomas Birch]. In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar, in the Strand, 1753, →OCLC, page 326
type:
quotation
text:
And ſo, no doubt, were his other Preferments as acceptable, which did require ſuch Athanaſsian Subſcriptions, &c. and which he in an Athanaſian Form ſubſcrib'd, creeded, and worſhip'd for till his dying-day.
ref:
1731, Simon Scriblerus [pseudonym], Whistoneutes: Or, Remarks on Mr. Whiston’s Historical Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Samuel Clarke, &c., London: Printed for T. Warner, at th Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row, →OCLC, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
'I was n't for creeding me awn e'en,' believing my own eyes.]
ref:
[1873, John Harland, “Creed”, in A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire (Series C (Original Glossaries, and Glossaries with Fresh Editions); 4), London: Published for the English Dialect Society, by Trübner & Co., 57 & 59, Ludgate Hill, →OCLC, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
The poor like Priests—Priests utilise the poor; / High Church the common people feeding / Exclaims—"You Low Church indolents observe / How we go about leavening and creeding!"
ref:
1872, “The Survivor” [pseudonym; Walter Rowton], “Part the Fourth”, in Hal and I. In Four Parts, London: Elliot Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
Especially in the studies of religions less creeded than Christianity scholars have long insisted on the importance in religion of sacred stories.
ref:
1977, Peter Slater, “Religion as Story: The Biography of Norman Bethune”, in Peter Slater, editor, Religion and Culture in Canada = Religion et Culture au Canada, Toronto, Ont.: Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, page 290
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To believe; to credit.
To provide with a creed.
senses_topics:
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12583 | word:
accretive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accretive (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accrete + -ive.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] Vegetables spring up from their Mother Earth; and we can no more discern their accretive Motion, then we can their most hidden cause.
ref:
1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter 9, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing, London: Henry Eversden, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
There could be no rest-houses for revolt, no dividend of joy paid out. Its spirit was accretive, to endure as far as the senses would endure, and to use each advance as base for further adventure, deeper privation, sharper pain.
ref:
1927, T. E. Lawrence, chapter 19, in Revolt in the Desert, Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, pages 170–171
type:
quotation
text:
The deal, expected to be completed by the summer, would be immediately accretive to cashflow and earnings per share while giving BP an extra 500,000 barrels per day.
ref:
2003 February 12, Terry Macalister, “BP looks to volatile nations”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth.
senses_topics:
|
12584 | word:
consumption
word_type:
noun
expansion:
consumption (usually uncountable, plural consumptions)
forms:
form:
consumptions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
consumption
etymology_text:
From Middle English consumpcioun, from Old French consumpcion, from Latin cōnsūmptiō, from cōnsūmō + -tiō, from con- (“with, together”) + sūmō (“take; consume”). Equivalent to consume + -tion.
senses_examples:
text:
The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.
type:
example
text:
gross national consumption
type:
example
text:
The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
type:
example
text:
Driving methods have a direct bearing on fuel consumption with every type of motive power.
ref:
1963 February, “Diesel locomotive faults and their remedies”, in Modern Railways, page 99
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of eating, drinking or using.
The amount consumed.
The act of consuming or destroying.
The wasting away of the human body through disease.
Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences
medicine
pathology
sciences
|
12585 | word:
accrescence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accrescence (countable and uncountable, plural accrescences)
forms:
form:
accrescences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin accrescentia. Compare Italian accrescente.
senses_examples:
text:
the silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never-contradicted hearsay!
ref:
1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Statesman's Manual, page xli
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Continuous growth; an accretion.
senses_topics:
|
12586 | word:
peat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
peat (countable and uncountable, plural peats)
forms:
form:
peats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Late Middle English, from British Vulgar Latin peta, probably ultimately from a Celtic language such as an unattested Pictish or Brythonic source, in turn possibly from Proto-Brythonic *peθ (“portion, segment, piece”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.
senses_topics:
|
12587 | word:
peat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
peat (plural peats)
forms:
form:
peats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare pet (“a favourite”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pet, a darling; a woman.
senses_topics:
|
12588 | word:
acerbic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acerbic (comparative more acerbic, superlative most acerbic)
forms:
form:
more acerbic
tags:
comparative
form:
most acerbic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Attested since the 17th century, from Latin acerbus (“sour, bitter”).
senses_examples:
text:
Those consumers who object to the acerbic taste of garlic can purchase de-odorized garlic or allicin extract.
ref:
1998 August 5, Dr. Peter Gott, “Can inhaler cause addiction?”, in Catoosa County News, retrieved 2009-09-19
type:
quotation
text:
Supercompetent, superconfident and supercritical, Schmidt is a gifted orator whose acerbic wit earned him the nickname "Schmidt the Lip."
ref:
1986 September 22, “West Germany: Last Taunts From the Lip”, in Time, retrieved 2014-04-25
type:
quotation
text:
[H]e is one of the most acerbic people in his field, quick to take offense and not shy about telling people with whom he disagrees how much he thinks they have failed in thought and action.
ref:
2005 May 5, Jay Mathews, “Don't Fire This Professor”, in Washington Post, page T6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tasting sour or bitter.
Sharp, harsh, biting.
senses_topics:
|
12589 | word:
Americanize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Americanize (third-person singular simple present Americanizes, present participle Americanizing, simple past and past participle Americanized)
forms:
form:
Americanizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Americanizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
Americanized
tags:
participle
past
form:
Americanized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From American + -ize; first attested in 1797.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To render American; to adapt to the custom, culture, or style of the United States of America.
To localize a medium for sale or use in the United States.
senses_topics:
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12590 | word:
champion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
champion (plural champions)
forms:
form:
champions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
champion
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *kampos
Latin campusbor.
Proto-West Germanic *kamp
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-West Germanic *-jan
Proto-West Germanic *kampijan
Proto-Germanic *-jô
Proto-West Germanic *-jō
Frankish *kampijōbor.
Medieval Latin campiō
Old French champiunbor.
Middle English champioun
English champion
From Middle English champioun, from Old French champion, from Medieval Latin campio (“combatant in a duel, champion”), from Frankish *kampijō (“fighter”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampijō (“combat soldier”), a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *kampijan (“to battle, to campaign”), itself a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“battlefield, battle”), ultimately a borrowing in West-Germanic from Latin campus (“a field, a plain, a place of action”).
senses_examples:
text:
The defending champion is expected to defeat his challenger.
type:
example
text:
Barcelona is eligible to play in FIFA Club World Cup as the champion of Europe.
type:
example
text:
Emmeline Pankhurst was a champion of women's suffrage.
type:
example
text:
Specific outcomes from this policy included the appointment of a Digital Champion to drive forward the efforts to get more of the excluded to be included.
ref:
2012, Sue Watling, Jim Rogers, Social Work in a Digital Society, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
champion of the poor
type:
example
text:
Pictured above is an actual photograph of a Regal Lily that famed all over the world. It's a champion plant—because in one season it produced a total of 89 blooms from one bulb, an amazing record among lilies.
ref:
1938 November 5, Puritan Cordage Mills, “Take a Lesson from a Lily”, in Elmer C. Hole, editor, American Lumberman, volume 65, number 3138, Chicago, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
There was a news clipping there with a photo of a magnificent American elm, which had just been named the champion for its species, the largest of its kind.
ref:
2013, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1st edition, Milkweed Editions, →LCCN, pages 43–44
type:
quotation
text:
He [Matthew Olson] was searching for red maple trees to be tapped for syrup as part of the Stockton Maple Project when he came across the new champion tree.
ref:
2022 February 10, Christopher Doyle, “Stockton professor, students discover largest 'champion tree' in New Jersey”, in The Press of Alantic City, archived from the original on 2022-02-10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ongoing winner in a game or contest.
Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.
Someone who fights for a cause or status.
Someone who fights on another's behalf.
A particularly notable member of a plant species, such as one of great size.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
12591 | word:
champion
word_type:
adj
expansion:
champion (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
champion
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *kampos
Latin campusbor.
Proto-West Germanic *kamp
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-West Germanic *-jan
Proto-West Germanic *kampijan
Proto-Germanic *-jô
Proto-West Germanic *-jō
Frankish *kampijōbor.
Medieval Latin campiō
Old French champiunbor.
Middle English champioun
English champion
From Middle English champioun, from Old French champion, from Medieval Latin campio (“combatant in a duel, champion”), from Frankish *kampijō (“fighter”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampijō (“combat soldier”), a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *kampijan (“to battle, to campaign”), itself a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“battlefield, battle”), ultimately a borrowing in West-Germanic from Latin campus (“a field, a plain, a place of action”).
senses_examples:
text:
"That rollercoaster was champion," laughed Vinny.
type:
example
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senses_glosses:
Acting as a champion; having defeated all one's competitors.
Excellent; beyond compare.
Excellent; brilliant; superb; deserving of high praise.
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12592 | word:
champion
word_type:
verb
expansion:
champion (third-person singular simple present champions, present participle championing, simple past and past participle championed)
forms:
form:
champions
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
championing
tags:
participle
present
form:
championed
tags:
participle
past
form:
championed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
champion
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *kampos
Latin campusbor.
Proto-West Germanic *kamp
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-West Germanic *-jan
Proto-West Germanic *kampijan
Proto-Germanic *-jô
Proto-West Germanic *-jō
Frankish *kampijōbor.
Medieval Latin campiō
Old French champiunbor.
Middle English champioun
English champion
From Middle English champioun, from Old French champion, from Medieval Latin campio (“combatant in a duel, champion”), from Frankish *kampijō (“fighter”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampijō (“combat soldier”), a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *kampijan (“to battle, to campaign”), itself a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“battlefield, battle”), ultimately a borrowing in West-Germanic from Latin campus (“a field, a plain, a place of action”).
senses_examples:
text:
While obviously championing the Bluebell [Railway], Beardmore is keen for the 'big railway' to consider utilising what preserved railways can provide.
ref:
2024 April 3, Richard Foster, “Training the next generation of engineers”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 49
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To promote, advocate, or act as a champion for (a cause, etc.).
To challenge.
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12593 | word:
gut
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gut (countable and uncountable, plural guts)
forms:
form:
guts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
gut
etymology_text:
From Middle English gut, gutte, gotte, from Old English gutt (usually in plural guttas (“guts, entrails”)), from Proto-Germanic *gut-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Related to English gote (“drain”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour”). More at gote, yote.
The verb is from Middle English gutten, gotten (“to gut”).
senses_examples:
text:
You've developed quite a beer gut since I last met you.
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example
text:
I have a funny feeling in my gut.
type:
example
text:
You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut.
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example
text:
the Gut of Canso
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example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged.
The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
A person's emotional, visceral self.
A class that is not demanding or challenging.
A narrow passage of water.
The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.
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12594 | word:
gut
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gut (third-person singular simple present guts, present participle gutting, simple past and past participle gutted)
forms:
form:
guts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gutting
tags:
participle
present
form:
gutted
tags:
participle
past
form:
gutted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
gut
etymology_text:
From Middle English gut, gutte, gotte, from Old English gutt (usually in plural guttas (“guts, entrails”)), from Proto-Germanic *gut-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Related to English gote (“drain”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour”). More at gote, yote.
The verb is from Middle English gutten, gotten (“to gut”).
senses_examples:
text:
Holonym: field dress
text:
The fisherman guts the fish before cooking them.
type:
example
text:
The lioness gutted her prey.
type:
example
text:
Fire gutted the building.
type:
example
text:
Congress gutted the welfare bill.
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example
text:
The fuselage came to rest 522 feet from the initial impact point on a magnetic heading of 175 degrees. The complete fuselage from the nose section, including the nose gear section, aft to the empennage, was extensively burned and gutted by fire. The cabin area, which consisted of only the lower fuselage, was melted and the metal was visible in the ice.
ref:
1982 July 20, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12 Wreckage and Impact Information”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Pilgrim Airlines Flight 458, deHavilland DHC-6-100, N127PM, Near Providence, Rhode Island, February 21, 1982, archived from the original on 2024-04-03, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
They were gutted by the court's decision.
type:
example
text:
It's no worse than what he said in Miami, but hearing him repeat it, attribute it to my father...it guts me. “That's who your family is. Who you are. Stangers—Stanleys, whatever your fucking names are,” he spits.
ref:
2016 October 4, Danielle Pearl, In Ruins, Forever
type:
quotation
text:
What's bothering me is that I'd felt more for him than I realized, and it guts me that it's over before it can really get going.
ref:
2017 October 4, Angela Quarles, Earning It: A Romantic Comedy, Unsealed Room Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To eviscerate.
To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
To dishearten; to crush (the spirits of).
senses_topics:
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12595 | word:
gut
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gut (comparative more gut, superlative most gut)
forms:
form:
more gut
tags:
comparative
form:
most gut
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
gut
etymology_text:
From Middle English gut, gutte, gotte, from Old English gutt (usually in plural guttas (“guts, entrails”)), from Proto-Germanic *gut-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Related to English gote (“drain”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour”). More at gote, yote.
The verb is from Middle English gutten, gotten (“to gut”).
senses_examples:
text:
a violin with gut strings
type:
example
text:
gut reaction
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of gut.
Instinctive.
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12596 | word:
Ph.D.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Ph.D. (plural Ph.D's or Ph.D.'s or Ph.D.s)
forms:
form:
Ph.D's
tags:
plural
form:
Ph.D.'s
tags:
plural
form:
Ph.D.s
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from New Latin Ph.D., an abbreviation of Philosophiae Doctor (“Doctor of Philosophy”).
senses_examples:
text:
Ph.D’s will go to Kirk G. Rasmussen and Val Hicks.
ref:
1971 May 27, “24 Local Students Among ‘U’ Graduates”, in The Daily Herald, 98th year, number 214, Provo, Utah, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
The shortage of holders of Ph.D’s in business school subjects has grown so severe in recent years that a panel was set up in 1980 by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business to study the problem.[…]However, it has already led to modification of accrediting standards such as the suggested use of nonbusiness Ph.D’s with doctorates in psychology, mathematics and economics.[…]Still another question raised in the report centered on how to encourage more educational institutions to turn out more Ph.D.’s in business.[…]He suggests a national contest for undergraduates to encourage them to work for Ph.D.’s in accounting.
ref:
1982 August 20, “Business schools take action to alleviate teacher shortages”, in Southern Illinoisan, volume 90, number 195, Carbondale, Ill., page A-4
type:
quotation
text:
There are 12 Ph.D’s in the Concordia faculty of 62, according to Dr. P. A. Zimmerman, President, with others nearing the completion of doctorate requirements.
ref:
1961 February 26, “Doctorates Are Received by Six”, in Sunday Journal and Star, 94th year, number 9, Lincoln, Neb., page 3B
type:
quotation
text:
The uncertainty of the job market has a new meaning for Ph.D’s these days: Prospects Highly Depressing.
ref:
1971 January 14, “Ph.D’s Finding Job Prospects Depressing”, in The Pensacola News, Pensacola, Fla.
type:
quotation
text:
He also directs a post-doctoral program in behavioral medicine in which Ph.D’s receive training for very special kinds of treatment.
ref:
1988 September 1, Cecilia Bush, “Flying high, firmly grounded”, in The Catholic Advance, volume CXXII, number 34, Wichita, Kan., page 1, columns 1–2
type:
quotation
text:
Growing up the daughter of two Ph.D.s in geology, young Lucy Chronic was more likely to hear discussions of plate tectonics than the prospects of the local ball team's chance of winning the pennant.
ref:
2004, Lucy Chronic, Halka Chronic, Pages of Stone, 2nd edition, The Mountaineers Books, end material: About the Authors, page 174
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Doctor of Philosophy, a terminal research degree, the highest of academic degrees conferred by a college or university.
A person who holds a Ph.D. degree.
senses_topics:
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12597 | word:
acetabular
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acetabular (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped.
Related to the acetabulum.
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12598 | word:
pennies
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pennies pl
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
It costs only pennies per day.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of penny
An unspecified, but very small amount of money.
senses_topics:
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12599 | word:
pennies
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pennies
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of penny
senses_topics:
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