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12600 | word:
accrescent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accrescent (comparative more accrescent, superlative most accrescent)
forms:
form:
more accrescent
tags:
comparative
form:
most accrescent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin accrescens, accrescentis, present participle of accrescere, from ad + crescere (“to grow”).
senses_examples:
text:
whose living growth is more and more conspicuous , and daily ornamented with new appearances of accrescent variety and alteration
ref:
1728, Samuel Shuckford, The Sacred and Profane History of the World
type:
quotation
text:
The fruiting calyx is accrescent, covering all or most of the fruit.
ref:
2012, Bean, "A taxonomic revision of the Solanum echinatum group (Solanaceae)", Phytotaxa 57:33–50, doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.57.1.6
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Growing; increasing.
Which keeps growing past the point it normally would stop and begin wilting.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
12601 | word:
shit on a shingle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shit on a shingle
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Creamed chipped beef on toast.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
12602 | word:
jambe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jambe (plural jambes)
forms:
form:
jambes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English jambe, jaumbe, French jambe. Doublet of gam, gamb, gamba, and jamb.
senses_examples:
text:
Lion's jambe, erased, grasping a laurel branch.
ref:
1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry: Dictionary of Heraldry
type:
quotation
text:
[Image of a human leg in armor.] Crest - A jambe, unarmed, excepting the spur, quarterly, or and sa.
ref:
1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry: Or General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Comprising a Registry of All Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, Including the Late Grants by the College of Arms
type:
quotation
text:
If couped or erased at the middle joint, it is not a jambe but a paw, as in the example given under Seal, q.v. Or, a lion's jambe inverted and erased in bend gules—Powis. Gules, three lion's jambes erased and inverted argent—Newdigate, Surrey.
ref:
1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 171
type:
quotation
roman:
Or, a lion's jambe inverted and erased in bend gules. Powis. Gules, three lion's jambes erased and inverted argent.
text:
... by the side of which is a pheasant, and at his feet there is a lion's jambe with the claws retracted.
ref:
1889, Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain), Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
“Over all, on an escutcheon of the first, a jambe gules.” “A jambe gules erased,” said Sir Nigel, shaking his head solemnly. “Yet it is not amiss for a monkbred man. I trust that you are lowly and serviceable?”
ref:
1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Works of A. Conan Doyle: The white company, page 167
type:
quotation
text:
Alternative form: jamb
text:
[…] cuissarts or cuisses were used to shield the thigh, and boots of steel called greaves or jambes were worn upon the leg between the ancle and the knee. We have no doubt that the jambes were found to act well as preserves, but we think at times the shin must have been sadly jammed in them.
ref:
1860 August 18, Punch, Or, The London Charivari, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
The spurs are of the goad-form, and the spur-straps are partially covered by the greaves or jambes, which are so formed as to protect the instep and ankle-joints, and are ornamented round the lower edges with a row of studs.
ref:
1893, Archaeologia Cambrensis: The Journal of the Cambrian Archoeological Association, page 272
type:
quotation
text:
Bainbergs were the precursors of the steel greaves or jambes of the fourteenth century.
ref:
1910, George Clinch, English Costume from Prehistoric Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century, page 189
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A leg, of an animal or person.
Synonym of jambeau (“a greave”).
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
|
12603 | word:
pinny
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pinny (plural pinnies)
forms:
form:
pinnies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of pinafore + -y.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sleeveless dress, often similar to an apron, generally worn over other clothes.
A colourful polyester or plastic vest worn over one's clothes, usually to mark one's team during group activities.
senses_topics:
|
12604 | word:
bless
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bless (third-person singular simple present blesses, present participle blessing, simple past and past participle blest or blessed)
forms:
form:
blesses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
blessing
tags:
participle
present
form:
blest
tags:
participle
past
form:
blest
tags:
past
form:
blessed
tags:
participle
past
form:
blessed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English blessen, from Old English bletsian (“to consecrate (with blood)”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdisōn (“to sprinkle, mark or hallow with blood”), from Proto-Germanic *blōþą (“blood”), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom”). Cognate with Old Norse bleza (“to bless”) (whence Icelandic blessa), Old English blēdan (“to bleed”). More at bleed. Equivalent to blood + -se.
senses_examples:
text:
Could you bless me the link for the original post?
type:
example
text:
I'm actually marved right now, can you bless me some cash?
type:
example
text:
Ahlie fam ¶ Do u have grabba? ¶ Bless me a change for the ttc
ref:
2021 April 13, u/saltymotherfker, “Popular male in a Toronto high school starterpack”, in Reddit, r/starterpacks, archived from the original on 2023-12-03
type:
quotation
text:
How in the hell did you find that out LOL😂. Are you a working man there? If so, bless me a discount bro. If not yeah Pickering is the way to go. Went to Whitby and Toronto wasn't that good
ref:
2022 July 28, u/RedditUser19070203, “First ever car at 19! Tried my best to negotiate how did I do? That stupid 1 year anti theft was forced and I couldn't remove it. Did get a 650 rebate on a Jetta which is pretty tough tbh”, in Reddit, r/jetta, archived from the original on 2023-12-03
type:
quotation
text:
Lmao can you bless me a Foam runner w retail price man🙃. I wear size 9 lol. Huge fan of your channel.
ref:
2022 August 7, u/introverted_logician, “Anyone know any Canadian sneaker YouTubers?”, in Reddit, r/SneakersCanada, archived from the original on 2023-12-03
type:
quotation
text:
Someone bless me a code
ref:
2022 September 28, u/MyTorontoAccount, “Did anyone get presale code yet”, in Reddit, r/torontoraptors, archived from the original on 2023-12-03
type:
quotation
text:
After those modifications, the Board blessed the reorganization plan.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify.
To make the sign of the cross upon, so as to sanctify.
To invoke divine favor upon.
To honor as holy, glorify; to extol for excellence.
To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
To wave; to brandish.
To turn (a reference) into an object.
To secure, defend, or prevent from.
To give or send.
To approve of or assent to.
senses_topics:
|
12605 | word:
bless
word_type:
intj
expansion:
bless
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
An ellipsis for an expression such as bless your heart.
senses_examples:
text:
Ah bless! You must be the welcoming committee for anyone who dares express ignorance.
ref:
1998, Peter Coffey, “New Alternative View Of Atomic Structure”, in sci.chem (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
oh bless. *hug* that is not true. nobody here bears a grudge against 13 year old dear or against you.
ref:
2000, Hellraiser, uk.people.teens (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Aw bless... have white chocolate fudge muffin....a new batch.... made them last night after Nigella....
ref:
2001, Will, “Am I still here?”, in uk.religion.pagan (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used as an expression of endearment, gratitude, or (ironically) belittlement.
senses_topics:
|
12606 | word:
acetamide
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetamide (plural acetamides)
forms:
form:
acetamides
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of acetyl + amide
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The amide of acetic acid, CH₃CONH₂.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
12607 | word:
cluster fuck
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cluster fuck (plural cluster fucks)
forms:
form:
cluster fucks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
'Jesus,' Luke said. They'd given up on the famous victory long ago and now they gave a toss for nothing but the regiment. To everybody it was a cluster fuck where nobody wins.
ref:
2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, page 33
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of clusterfuck
senses_topics:
|
12608 | word:
obtrusive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
obtrusive (comparative more obtrusive, superlative most obtrusive)
forms:
form:
more obtrusive
tags:
comparative
form:
most obtrusive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₁epi
From Latin obtrūsus + English -ive (suffix meaning ‘of the nature of’, forming adjectives). Obtrūsus is the perfect passive participle of obtrūdō, a variant of obstrūdō (“to push, shove, or thrust against or into”), from ob- (prefix meaning ‘against; towards’) + trūdō (“to push, shove, or thrust”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to push; to thrust”)).
senses_examples:
text:
The office manager is an unpleasantly obtrusive individual.
type:
example
text:
He has an obtrusive forehead.
type:
example
text:
The facade of the building was ornamented with obtrusive sculpted designs.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a person: overly assertive, bold, or domineering; pushy; also, ostentatious.
Of a thing: noticeable or prominent, especially in a displeasing way.
Protruding or sticking out, especially in a way that obstructs.
senses_topics:
|
12609 | word:
acetum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetum (plural acetums or aceta)
forms:
form:
acetums
tags:
plural
form:
aceta
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin acētum.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Vinegar, sometimes medicated.
senses_topics:
|
12610 | word:
American English
word_type:
name
expansion:
American English
forms:
wikipedia:
Noah Webster
etymology_text:
Compound of American + English. First use appears c. 1806, in a dictionary by Noah Webster; as an adjective, c. 1892.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The form of the English language that is chiefly used in the United States, contrasted with British English or Canadian English and that of other places.
The form of the English language that is chiefly used in North America, contrasted with Commonwealth English (British English and that of other places).
senses_topics:
|
12611 | word:
American English
word_type:
adj
expansion:
American English (comparative more American English, superlative most American English)
forms:
form:
more American English
tags:
comparative
form:
most American English
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Noah Webster
etymology_text:
Compound of American + English. First use appears c. 1806, in a dictionary by Noah Webster; as an adjective, c. 1892.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to, or spoken or written in American English.
senses_topics:
|
12612 | word:
surname
word_type:
noun
expansion:
surname (plural surnames)
forms:
form:
surnames
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
surname
etymology_text:
From Middle English surname, a partial calque of Old French surnum, surnoun (“surname; nickname”) (whence Middle English surnoun), from Late Latin supernōmen, suprānōmen (“surname”), from super- (“over, above, beyond”) and nōmen (“name”), equivalent to sur- + name.
senses_examples:
text:
James is my first name, and Smith is my surname.
type:
example
text:
In late yeeres Surnames have beene given for Christian names among vs, and no where else in Christendom.
ref:
1605, William Camden, Remaines, I 32
type:
quotation
text:
The Norman Conquest...brought with it the novelty of family nomenclature, that is to say, the use of hereditary surnames.
ref:
1876, E. A. Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest, V xxv 563
type:
quotation
text:
My sirname is Peace-Maker, one that is but poorely regarded in England.
ref:
1590, Richard Harvey, Plaine Percevall the peace-maker of England, Sweetly indeuoring with his blunt persuasions to botch vp a reconciliation between Mar-ton and Mar-tother, B3
type:
quotation
text:
I have before declared that Baal was the Sun, and Baal Peor, a sirname, from a particular place of his worship.
ref:
1638, Abraham Cowley, Davideis, section IV
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The portion of a person's name that is generally hereditary or treated as an indicator of a person's family, which may be shared with other members of the family, or otherwise derived from their names in some fashion; distinguished from that person's given name(s).
Synonym of epithet, an additional name, particularly those derived from a birthplace, quality, or achievement.
Synonym of nickname, an additional name given to a person, place, or thing, a byname.
The cognomen of Roman names.
A clan.
senses_topics:
|
12613 | word:
surname
word_type:
verb
expansion:
surname (third-person singular simple present surnames, present participle surnaming, simple past and past participle surnamed)
forms:
form:
surnames
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
surnaming
tags:
participle
present
form:
surnamed
tags:
participle
past
form:
surnamed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
2010 United States census
surname
etymology_text:
From Middle English surname, a partial calque of Old French surnum, surnoun (“surname; nickname”) (whence Middle English surnoun), from Late Latin supernōmen, suprānōmen (“surname”), from super- (“over, above, beyond”) and nōmen (“name”), equivalent to sur- + name.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give a surname to.
To call by a surname.
senses_topics:
|
12614 | word:
acetal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetal (plural acetals)
forms:
form:
acetals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acet(ic) + al(cohol).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any diether of a geminal diol, R₂C(OR')₂ (where R' is not H).
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
12615 | word:
Aachen
word_type:
name
expansion:
Aachen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German Aachen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
senses_topics:
|
12616 | word:
apothecary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
apothecary (plural apothecaries)
forms:
form:
apothecaries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
apothecary
etymology_text:
From Old French apotecaire, from Medieval Latin apothecarius (“storekeeper”), from apotheca (“shop, store”), earlier Latin apotheca (“repository, storehouse, warehouse”), from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “a repository, storehouse”), from ἀπό (apó, “away”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put”) literally "a place where things are put away". Doublet of boutique and bodega.
senses_examples:
text:
It amused me to see the bustle and the life in the apothecary's shop across the street.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
The Russian people as a whole almost revered the apothecary, and they entered it as they would enter a sanctum.
ref:
1919, S.A., “Pharmacy in Russia”, in Soviet Russia, volume 1, number 27, page 6
text:
He was befriended by a local druggist, Jay Miller, who worked at the apothecary at the corner of Sixth and Harrison Street.
ref:
1998, Karen Holliday Tanner, Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, University of Oklahoma Press, published 2001, pages 205–206
type:
quotation
text:
Seeds found in a 1630s refuse-filled clay borrow pit, located near an apothecary, illustrate colonists intense interest in experimenting with the medicinal qualities of New World plants.
ref:
2001, Audrey Horning, “Archeology and the Science of Discovery”, in Barbara Heath et al., Jamestown Archeological Assessment, U.S. National Parks Service, page 31
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.
Synonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore.
A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine.
senses_topics:
|
12617 | word:
Englishwoman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Englishwoman (plural Englishwomen)
forms:
form:
Englishwomen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Englishwoman, equivalent to English + -woman. Compare Englishman.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female native or inhabitant of England; a woman who is English by birth, descent or naturalisation.
senses_topics:
|
12618 | word:
Michelle
word_type:
name
expansion:
Michelle
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French Michelle, feminine form of French Michel (“Michael”), Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mikhaél, “who is like God?”). Doublet of Michaela.
senses_examples:
text:
Michelle ma belle
These are words that go together well
ref:
1965, John Lennon-Paul McCartney: Michelle ( a Beatles song)
roman:
My Michelle.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female given name from Hebrew, popular from the 1960s to the 1990s.
senses_topics:
|
12619 | word:
acetous acid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetous acid (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A name formerly given to vinegar.
senses_topics:
|
12620 | word:
acetonic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acetonic (comparative more acetonic, superlative most acetonic)
forms:
form:
more acetonic
tags:
comparative
form:
most acetonic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acetone + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, pertaining to, or producing acetone
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
12621 | word:
acetosity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetosity (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
acetous + -ity as -osity; from Late Latin acetositas.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being acetous; sourness.
senses_topics:
|
12622 | word:
muse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
muse (plural muses)
forms:
form:
muses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
muse (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle French muse, from Latin Mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa).
senses_examples:
text:
Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife, lover, and muse.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A source of inspiration.
A poet; a bard.
senses_topics:
|
12623 | word:
muse
word_type:
verb
expansion:
muse (third-person singular simple present muses, present participle musing, simple past and past participle mused)
forms:
form:
muses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
musing
tags:
participle
present
form:
mused
tags:
participle
past
form:
mused
tags:
past
wikipedia:
muse (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English musen, from Old French muser.
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:muse.
text:
Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.
ref:
c. 1726, James Thomson, Hymn
type:
quotation
text:
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
ref:
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become lost in thought, to ponder.
To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
To think on; to meditate on.
To wonder at.
senses_topics:
|
12624 | word:
muse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
muse (plural muses)
forms:
form:
muses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
muse (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English musen, from Old French muser.
senses_examples:
text:
He fell into a muse and pulled his upper lip.
ref:
1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 416
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.
senses_topics:
|
12625 | word:
muse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
muse (plural muses)
forms:
form:
muses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
muse (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From French musse. See muset.
senses_examples:
text:
Find a hare without a muse. (old proverb)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
senses_topics:
|
12626 | word:
respective
word_type:
adj
expansion:
respective (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Medieval Latin respectivus, from Latin respectus. Equivalent to respect + -ive.
senses_examples:
text:
They returned to their respective places of abode.
type:
example
text:
Adam and Novikovas swapped long-range efforts, neither of which troubled the respective keepers.
ref:
2012 August 23, Alasdair Lamont, “Hearts 0-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Hitachi and CAF have begun a staged return to work at their respective Newton Aycliffe and Newport factories, having reduced output following the COVID-19 outbreak.
ref:
2020 April 22, “Network News: Staged return to work at Hitachi and CAF factories”, in Rail, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
c. 1559-1570, Edwin Sandys, letter to Bernard Gilpin
But if you looke upon the estate of the church of England with a respective eye , you cannot with a good conscience refuse this charge imposed upon you
text:
the respective connections of society
type:
example
text:
a. 1598, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, instructions to his son Robert Cecil, when young
With thy equals familiar, yet respective.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own.
Noticing with attention; careful; wary.
Looking toward; having reference to; relative, not absolute.
Fitted to awaken respect.
Rendering respect; respectful; regardful.
senses_topics:
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12627 | word:
clairvoyance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
clairvoyance (usually uncountable, plural clairvoyances)
forms:
form:
clairvoyances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
clairvoyance
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French clairvoyance.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The power to see or perceive things objects or events beyond the natural range of the senses, such as the past or the future.
Acute intuitive insight or perceptiveness; sagacity.
senses_topics:
parapsychology
pseudoscience
|
12628 | word:
acetose
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acetose (comparative more acetose, superlative most acetose)
forms:
form:
more acetose
tags:
comparative
form:
most acetose
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See acetous.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sour like vinegar; acetous.
senses_topics:
|
12629 | word:
hedonistic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hedonistic (comparative more hedonistic, superlative most hedonistic)
forms:
form:
more hedonistic
tags:
comparative
form:
most hedonistic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hedonist + -ic.
senses_examples:
text:
Among philosophers, attention to suffering has been a casualty of a long series of attacks on hedonistic utilitarianism—the doctrine that people are morally required to maximize the total surplus of happiness over suffering.
ref:
1999, Jamie Mayerfeld, Suffering and Moral Responsibility, Oxford University Press, USA, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
He refers to the danger of leading our lives on a hedonistic treadmill, seeking more accomplishments and trying to get more things and more money, leading eventually to ever increasing expectations.
ref:
2003, Paul Pearsall, The Beethoven Factor, Hampton Roads Publishing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Devoted to pleasure
senses_topics:
|
12630 | word:
grove
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grove (plural groves)
forms:
form:
groves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Grove
etymology_text:
From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove; copse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graib, *graibō (“branch, group of branches, thicket”), from Proto-Germanic *graibaz, *graibô (“branch, fork”).
Related to Old English grǣf, grǣfe (“brushwood; thicket; copse”), Old English grǣfa (“thicket”), dialectal Norwegian greive (“ram with splayed horns”), dialectal Norwegian greivlar (“ramifications of an antler”), dialectal Norwegian grivla (“to branch, branch out”), Old Norse grein (“twig, branch, limb”). More at greave.
senses_examples:
text:
Religious sodomy was practised by male prostitutes in the Hebrew temple groves, which was one of the abominations of Israel that Josiah cleared away.
ref:
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 160
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small forest.
An orchard of fruit trees.
A place of worship.
A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.
senses_topics:
Wicca
lifestyle
religion
|
12631 | word:
grove
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grove (third-person singular simple present groves, present participle groving, simple past and past participle groved)
forms:
form:
groves
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
groving
tags:
participle
present
form:
groved
tags:
participle
past
form:
groved
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Grove
etymology_text:
From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove; copse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graib, *graibō (“branch, group of branches, thicket”), from Proto-Germanic *graibaz, *graibô (“branch, fork”).
Related to Old English grǣf, grǣfe (“brushwood; thicket; copse”), Old English grǣfa (“thicket”), dialectal Norwegian greive (“ram with splayed horns”), dialectal Norwegian greivlar (“ramifications of an antler”), dialectal Norwegian grivla (“to branch, branch out”), Old Norse grein (“twig, branch, limb”). More at greave.
senses_examples:
text:
It is called "Orchard Lake," from the fact, that near the centre is an island embracing an area of about fifty acres of land, well groved with different kinds of shrubbery; and near the centre of this island stand a number of aged apple-trees, planted, perhaps, a century since by the hand of some Indian.
ref:
1841, Sapp R, “Orchard Lake”, in L. L. Hamline, editor, The Ladies Repository, Volume 1, page 165
type:
quotation
text:
The trees and shrubs are not arranged after any particular system, but are scattered or groved together in various parts of the garden.
ref:
1822, Robert Chapman, The Topographical Picture of Glasgow in its Ancient and Modern State, 3rd edition, page 195
type:
quotation
text:
1984, Queensland Botany Bulletin, Issue 3, Department of Primary Industries, page 82,
Virtually recognizable groving occurs in some A. aneura associations in the west. Further east some diffuse groving may occur, but is difficult to recognize without the benefit of aerial photographs.
text:
In Herefordshire, especially on the northern and eastern sides, Oak timber abounds; and in many of the woods it is usual to have felling at periods varying from sixteen to twenty years; the straightest and handsomest are left for timber, or, as it is called, groved; and they are from time to time thinned, and a regular distance kept between them. The effect produced on these groved trees is, that from being exposed to air and sun, the rapidity of their growth is increased in bulk, height, and quality; and in sixty or eighty years they become valuable timber.
ref:
1842 February 5, The Gardeners Chronicle, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
1823, Instinct, in "Sholto and Reuben Percy" (Thomas Byerley), The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 9: Instinct—Ingenuity, page 138,
Very frequently, however, to shorten the distance to the upper nurseries, where they have to take the eggs, they project an arch of about ten inches in length, and half an inch in breadth, groved or worked into steps, on its upper surface, to allow of a more easy passage.
text:
The floor of first story and piazza to be laid with Georgia pine, in narrow courses planed, groved and tongued, and laid in the best manner.
ref:
1841, New York State Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, volume 2, page 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
To plough or gouge with lines.
senses_topics:
business
forestry
|
12632 | word:
esophagus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
esophagus (plural esophagi)
forms:
form:
esophagi
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Bad, the Warhol-produced film directed by Jed Johnson, playing at the Saxon in the esophagus of the Combat Zone, […]
ref:
1977 April 30, Steve Blevins, “A Sack-full of Films”, in Gay Community News, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
They call me the Hiphopopotamus / Flows that glow like phosphorous / Popping off the top of this esophagus / Rocking this metropolis
ref:
2008, “Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros”, performed by Flight of the Conchords
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of oesophagus
senses_topics:
|
12633 | word:
8
word_type:
verb
expansion:
8
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
i 8 it — I ate it.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of ate.
senses_topics:
|
12634 | word:
6
word_type:
noun
expansion:
6 (plural 6s)
forms:
form:
6s
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
MI6; the agency or a particular agent.
senses_topics:
|
12635 | word:
epicurean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
epicurean (comparative more epicurean, superlative most epicurean)
forms:
form:
more epicurean
tags:
comparative
form:
most epicurean
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Epicureanism
etymology_text:
From Epicurean (“follower of Epicureanism”).
senses_examples:
text:
The powers of the Canadian voyageurs and hunters in the consumption of meat strike the greenhorn with wonder and astonishment; and are only equalled by the gastronomical capabilities exhibited by Indian dogs, both following the same plan in their epicurean gorgings.
ref:
1847, George Frederick Augustus Ruxton, Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains, page 267
type:
quotation
text:
Though a list of the great writers contain all the constituents of an Epicurean feast, yet to most of us it resembles the menu of a Gargantuan banquet.
ref:
1922, P. B. M. Allan, The Book-Hunter at Home, 2nd edition, London: Philip Allan & Co., page 61
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pursuing pleasure, especially in reference to food or comfort.
Devoted to luxurious living.
senses_topics:
|
12636 | word:
epicurean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
epicurean (plural epicureans)
forms:
form:
epicureans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Epicureanism
etymology_text:
From Epicurean (“follower of Epicureanism”).
senses_examples:
text:
I keep but a man and a maid, ever ready to slander and steal ; / I know it, and smile a hard-set smile, like a stoic, or like / A wiser epicurean, and let the world have its way.
ref:
1855, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Maud”, in Maud, and Other Poems, page 22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who is devoted to pleasure.
senses_topics:
|
12637 | word:
acetous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acetous (comparative more acetous, superlative most acetous)
forms:
form:
more acetous
tags:
comparative
form:
most acetous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acētum (“vinegar”) + -ous, the former from aceō (“to be sour”).
senses_examples:
text:
an acetous spirit
ref:
1680, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chemical Principles
type:
quotation
text:
a liquid of an acetous kind
ref:
1778, Robert Lowth, “Notes on Isaiah”, in Isaiah, a New Translation
type:
quotation
text:
food unsalted, unsweetened, unpeppered, unspiced and unvinegared, and unspoiled by other acetous or alcoholic fermentations
ref:
1909, Silas Comfort Swallow, III Score & X, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
acetous fermentation
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a sour taste; sour; acid.
Causing, or connected with, acetification
senses_topics:
|
12638 | word:
might
word_type:
noun
expansion:
might (countable and uncountable, plural mights)
forms:
form:
mights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
might
etymology_text:
From Middle English myght, might (also maught, macht, maht), from Old English miht, mieht, meaht, mæht (“might, bodily strength, power, authority, ability, virtue, mighty work, miracle, angel”), from Proto-West Germanic *mahti, from Proto-Germanic *mahtiz, *mahtuz (“might, power”), from Proto-Indo-European *mógʰtis, *megʰ- (“to allow, be able, help”), corresponding to Germanic *maganą + *-þiz. Equivalent to may + -th.
Cognate with Scots micht, maucht (“might”), North Frisian macht (“might, ability”), West Frisian macht (“might, ability”), Dutch macht (“might, power”), German Macht (“power, might”), Swedish makt (“might”), Norwegian makt (“power”), Icelandic máttur (“might”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (mahts), and further to Russian мочь (močʹ, “power, might”) and мощь (moščʹ, “force, strength”), Ukrainian міч (mič) and міць (micʹ, “power”), Bulgarian мощ (mošt, “power, might”), Serbo-Croatian moć (“power”), Czech moc (“power”), Polish moc (“power”). See more at may.
senses_examples:
text:
This is the richest, the most powerful country which ever occupied this globe. The might of past empires is little compared to ours. But I do not want to be the president who built empires or sought grandeur or extended dominion. I want to be the president who educated young children to the wonders of their world.
ref:
1965 March 15, Lyndon B. Johnson, 43:30 from the start, in Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise [on the Voting Rights Act], 3/15/65. MP506., Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
type:
quotation
text:
Since every nation considers itself right, peace lies in balancing the military mights of the possible rivals.
ref:
1969, [unattributed], Journal of the United Service Institution of India, volume 99, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
He pushed with all his might, but still it would not move.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Power, strength, force or influence held by a person or group.
Physical strength or force.
The ability to do something.
senses_topics:
|
12639 | word:
might
word_type:
adj
expansion:
might (comparative mighter, superlative mightest)
forms:
form:
mighter
tags:
comparative
form:
mightest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
might
etymology_text:
From Middle English myght, might (also maught, macht, maht), from Old English miht, mieht, meaht, mæht (“might, bodily strength, power, authority, ability, virtue, mighty work, miracle, angel”), from Proto-West Germanic *mahti, from Proto-Germanic *mahtiz, *mahtuz (“might, power”), from Proto-Indo-European *mógʰtis, *megʰ- (“to allow, be able, help”), corresponding to Germanic *maganą + *-þiz. Equivalent to may + -th.
Cognate with Scots micht, maucht (“might”), North Frisian macht (“might, ability”), West Frisian macht (“might, ability”), Dutch macht (“might, power”), German Macht (“power, might”), Swedish makt (“might”), Norwegian makt (“power”), Icelandic máttur (“might”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (mahts), and further to Russian мочь (močʹ, “power, might”) and мощь (moščʹ, “force, strength”), Ukrainian міч (mič) and міць (micʹ, “power”), Bulgarian мощ (mošt, “power, might”), Serbo-Croatian moć (“power”), Czech moc (“power”), Polish moc (“power”). See more at may.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Mighty; powerful.
Possible.
senses_topics:
|
12640 | word:
might
word_type:
verb
expansion:
might (third-person singular simple present might, no present participle, simple past might, no past participle)
forms:
form:
might
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
might
tags:
past
wikipedia:
might
etymology_text:
From Old English meahte and mihte, inflections of magan, whence English may.
senses_examples:
text:
He asked me if he might go to the party, but I haven't decided yet.
type:
example
text:
I thought that I might go the next day.
type:
example
text:
The king and queen of Tahiti might not touch the ground anywhere but within their hereditary domains; for the ground on which they trod became sacred.
ref:
1922, James Frazer, chapter 60, in The Golden Bough
type:
quotation
text:
With 14 minutes gone Héctor Moreno might have scored, glancing a header too close to Neuer from a free-kick.
ref:
2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-05
type:
quotation
text:
You might have warned me about the thunderstorm.
type:
example
text:
I might go to the party, but I haven't decided yet.
type:
example
text:
The characterism of an honest man: He looks not to what he might do, but what he should.
ref:
1608, Joseph Hall, Characters of Virtues and Vices
type:
quotation
text:
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next;[…].
ref:
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
I might be in a wheelchair, but I still want to be treated as a lady.
type:
example
text:
I might play football, but I do know how to read.
ref:
2016, Candy Sloan, Wrong Bed Reunion
type:
quotation
text:
Might I take the last biscuit?
type:
example
text:
Yeah, I think we might need something a bit sturdier.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of may
simple past of may
Used to indicate a desired past action that was not done.
Used to indicate conditional or possible actions.
Used to admit something before making a more accurate or important statement.
Used in polite requests for permission.
Used to express certainty.
senses_topics:
|
12641 | word:
mission
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mission (countable and uncountable, plural missions)
forms:
form:
missions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mission
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin missiō, missiōnem (“a sending, sending away, dispatching, discharging, release, remission, cessation”).
senses_examples:
text:
Many cities across the Americas grew from Spanish missions.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.
Religious evangelism.
Third World charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide aid.
An infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part of a larger regional event with a central theme.
A number of people appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
Dismissal; discharge from service
A settlement or building serving as a base for missionary work.
An settlement predominantly inhabited by Indigenous Australians living in housing commission.
A drug run.
senses_topics:
Catholicism
Christianity
drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences |
12642 | word:
mission
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mission (third-person singular simple present missions, present participle missioning, simple past and past participle missioned)
forms:
form:
missions
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
missioning
tags:
participle
present
form:
missioned
tags:
participle
past
form:
missioned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
mission
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin missiō, missiōnem (“a sending, sending away, dispatching, discharging, release, remission, cessation”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To send on a mission.
To do missionary work, proselytize.
senses_topics:
|
12643 | word:
Saturnian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Saturnian (comparative more Saturnian, superlative most Saturnian)
forms:
form:
more Saturnian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Saturnian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Saturn + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Related to the planet Saturn.
Related to the Roman god Saturn.
Dour, baleful or sullen.
Resembling a golden age; distinguished for peacefulness, happiness, contentment.
Involving a meter consisting of three iambics and an extra syllable followed by three trochees, employed by satirists in Ancient Rome.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing |
12644 | word:
Saturnian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Saturnian (plural Saturnians)
forms:
form:
Saturnians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Saturn + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant of the planet Saturn.
A Saturnian poem
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
|
12645 | word:
barratry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
barratry (countable and uncountable, plural barratries)
forms:
form:
barratries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
barratry
etymology_text:
Early 15th century, in sense “sale of offices”, from Old French baraterie (“deceit, trickery”), from barat (“fraud, deceit, trickery”), of unknown origin, perhaps Celtic. In marine sense of “unlawful acts causing loss to owner”, 1620s.
senses_examples:
text:
[Deacon Mushrat to Pogo:] The Machiavellian barratry of a pettifogging public has maundered into do-nothingism.
ref:
1959 April 24, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, page 35
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of persistently instigating lawsuits, often groundless ones.
The sale or purchase of religious or political positions of power.
Unlawful or fraudulent acts by the crew of a vessel, harming the vessel's owner.
senses_topics:
|
12646 | word:
accouchement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accouchement (countable and uncountable, plural accouchements)
forms:
form:
accouchements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French accouchement, from French accoucher (“to be delivered of a child, to aid in delivery”), from Old French acouchier (“to lay down, put to bed, go to bed”), from Latin ad- + collocare (“to lay, put, place”). See collate.
senses_examples:
text:
Custom required that the royal family and the whole Court should be present at the accouchement of the Princesses.
type:
example
text:
The prevalence of the reports contradictory to this supposed legitimacy, rendered it necessary to be more minute, than might in common cases have been requisite, in proving the precise time and place of Lady Jane Douglas's alledged accouchement […]
ref:
1763 June, “An account of the law-suit concerning the succession to the late Duke of Douglas, continued”, in The Scots Magazine, volume 25, page 308
type:
quotation
text:
A physician was occupied in making an autopsia of a woman dead of puerperal fever, when some one came for him to terminate an accouchement in the town.
ref:
1856, St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 14, page 153
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Delivery in childbed; parturition
senses_topics:
|
12647 | word:
intelligent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
intelligent (comparative more intelligent or (rare, proscribed) intelligenter, superlative most intelligent or (rare, proscribed) intelligentest)
forms:
form:
more intelligent
tags:
comparative
form:
intelligenter
tags:
comparative
proscribed
rare
form:
most intelligent
tags:
superlative
form:
intelligentest
tags:
proscribed
rare
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French intelligent, from Latin intellegēns (“discerning”), present active participle of intellegō (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + legō (“choose, pick out, read”).
senses_examples:
text:
Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”
ref:
1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings
type:
quotation
text:
The engineer had a very intelligent design proposal for the new car.
type:
example
text:
The general devised an intelligent strategy for the southern campaign.
type:
example
text:
My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation.
type:
example
text:
The hunt for extraterrestrial intelligent life continues.
type:
example
text:
an intelligent network or keyboard
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
Well thought-out, well considered.
Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind.
Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
senses_topics:
|
12648 | word:
intelligent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
intelligent (plural intelligents)
forms:
form:
intelligents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Partly from Russian интеллиге́нт (intelligént) and partly from the adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
Now, as all intelligents are doomed to pass probationary states, it is highly probable that many intelligents, long antecedent to the foundation of our world, may have tarnished their innocence; or worse, many may have by disobedience fallen.
ref:
1832, The Comparative Coincidence of Reason and Scripture, volume II, London: J[ohn] Hatchard and Son, […], page 253
type:
quotation
text:
Like many Russian intelligents, the Merežkovskijs, together with Filosofov and the young student Vladimir Zlobin, fled from Russia in 1919.
ref:
1972, Olga Matich, Paradox in the Religious Poetry of Zinaida Gippius, Wilhelm Fink, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
But if you fall away from your faith, as many intelligents have fallen away, then you will no longer be Russia or Holy Rus’, but a rabble of all kinds of other faiths who wish to destroy one another.
ref:
2000, Nadieszda Kizenko, A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People, The Pennsylvania State University Press, published 2003, page 248
type:
quotation
text:
Many Russian intelligents, in particular scientists, that already in tsarist times were “infected” by liberal and even socialist ideas found in the revolution and the societal structure that followed, with all its horrible features, positive sides.
ref:
2011, Evgenii L’vovich Feinberg, translated by Andrei Vladimirovich Leonidov, Physicists: Epoch and Personalities (History of Modern Physical Sciences; 4), World Scientific, page 43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of the intelligentsia; an intelligent person.
senses_topics:
|
12649 | word:
clash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
clash (countable and uncountable, plural clashes)
forms:
form:
clashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
clash
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic origin. Compare Saterland Frisian klatskje (“to smack, slap”), West Frisian kletse, kletskje, Dutch kletsen (“to smack, slap, clash”), German Low German klattsen, klatsken (“to smack, splash”), German klatschen (“to clap, smack, slap”) and Klatsch (“a clapping sound; the din resulting from two or more things colliding”), Danish klaske (“to clash, splatter”).
senses_examples:
text:
I heard a clash from the kitchen, and rushed in to find the cat had knocked over some pots and pans.
type:
example
text:
In Anatolia tensions between state officials (ehl-i örf) and the peasants were strained to breaking point.
At several places—particularly in the frontier provinces—there were fierce clashes between the janissaries stationed there and the governors. In Aleppo and Damascus incidents were common after 1589: the kuls threw rocks at the beylerbeyi’s house, killed people, broke into the divan several times and took the money prepared by the council for remittance to the centre.
ref:
2018, Pál Fodor, The Business of State. Ottoman Finance Administration and Ruling Elites in Transition (1580s–1615) (Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker; 28), Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag × De Gruyter, published 2020, →DOI, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
But they ran out of time and inspiration as Les Bleus set up a deserved semi-final clash with Wales.
ref:
2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France
type:
quotation
text:
clash of beliefs
type:
example
text:
culture clash
type:
example
text:
She was wearing a horrible clash of red and orange.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A loud sound, like the crashing together of metal objects.
A skirmish, a hostile encounter.
match; a game between two sides.
An angry argument
Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc.
A combination of garments that do not look good together, especially because of conflicting colours.
An instance of restarting the game after a "dead ball", where it is dropped between two opposing players, who can fight for possession.
Chatter; gossip; idle talk.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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12650 | word:
clash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
clash (third-person singular simple present clashes, present participle clashing, simple past and past participle clashed)
forms:
form:
clashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
clashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
clashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
clashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
clash
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic origin. Compare Saterland Frisian klatskje (“to smack, slap”), West Frisian kletse, kletskje, Dutch kletsen (“to smack, slap, clash”), German Low German klattsen, klatsken (“to smack, splash”), German klatschen (“to clap, smack, slap”) and Klatsch (“a clapping sound; the din resulting from two or more things colliding”), Danish klaske (“to clash, splatter”).
senses_examples:
text:
The cymbals clashed.
type:
example
text:
Thorfinn clashed his shield against Vallon's and swung his axe to hook Vallon's ankle.
ref:
2012, Robert Lyndon, Hawk Quest
type:
quotation
text:
Fans from opposing teams clashed on the streets after the game.
type:
example
text:
My parents often clashed about minor things, such as the cleaning or shopping rota.
text:
The veteran American legend claims he and Welsh two-weight world champion Calzaghe will clash on 20 September, probably at The MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
ref:
2008 June 27, “Jones confirms Calzaghe showdown”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
You can't wear that shirt! It clashes with your trousers.
type:
example
text:
The hotel room was ugly, and the wallpaper clashed with the carpet.
type:
example
text:
I can't come to your wedding because it clashes with a friend's funeral.
type:
example
text:
I wanted to take German, but it clashed with art on the timetable.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a clashing sound.
To cause to make a clashing sound.
To come into violent conflict.
To argue angrily.
To face each other in an important game.
To fail to look good together; to contrast unattractively; to fail to harmonize.
To coincide, to happen at the same time, thereby rendering it impossible to attend all.
To chatter or gossip.
senses_topics:
|
12651 | word:
tailor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tailor (plural tailors)
forms:
form:
tailors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English taillour, from Anglo-Norman taillour, from Old French tailleor, from taillier, from Late Latin tāliō, from Latin tālea (“a cutting”). Doublet of tailleur.
senses_examples:
text:
He works as a tailor on Swanston Street.
type:
example
text:
The tailor — is that a sea fish — a line fish? It is a sea fish, but not a line fish. They will bite at a line, but they are not a fish you can depend on with the line.
ref:
1880, New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council, Journal (volume 30, part 3, page 460)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
senses_topics:
|
12652 | word:
tailor
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tailor (third-person singular simple present tailors, present participle tailoring, simple past and past participle tailored)
forms:
form:
tailors
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tailoring
tags:
participle
present
form:
tailored
tags:
participle
past
form:
tailored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English taillour, from Anglo-Norman taillour, from Old French tailleor, from taillier, from Late Latin tāliō, from Latin tālea (“a cutting”). Doublet of tailleur.
senses_examples:
text:
We can tailor that jacket for you if you like.
type:
example
text:
The website was tailored to the client's needs.
type:
example
text:
a narrowly tailored law
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make, repair, or alter clothes.
To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.
To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need.
senses_topics:
|
12653 | word:
accosted
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accosted (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Capadose (Amsterdam, The Hague): Divided, 1, sinople, two small angels proper, affronté in chief, holding together a mantle gules, lined ermine, in point a beehive or, put upon a terrace proper; the beehive accosted by four bees or, and accompanied by two other bees or, brochant upon the terrace underneath the beehive; [...]
ref:
1907, Cyrus Adler, Isidore Singer, The Jewish Encyclopedia, page 127
type:
quotation
text:
Barrett, impaling, A chevron between six rams accosted, counter-tripping, two, two, and two (Harman of Rendlesham and […]
ref:
1887, Edmund Farrer, The Church Heraldry of Norfolk: pt. I., page 253
type:
quotation
text:
(Gules, two ash trees accosted or, surmounted by a falcon of the same.)
ref:
1925, National Americana Society, Americana Illustrated, page 550
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Supported on both sides by other charges.
Side by side.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
12654 | word:
accosted
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accosted
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of accost
senses_topics:
|
12655 | word:
5
word_type:
noun
expansion:
5 (plural 5s)
forms:
form:
5s
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of 540. (540° spin)
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
skiing
snowboarding
sports |
12656 | word:
accoucheuse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accoucheuse (plural accoucheuses)
forms:
form:
accoucheuses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French accoucheuse, female of accoucheur.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A midwife.
senses_topics:
|
12657 | word:
restaurant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
restaurant (plural restaurants)
forms:
form:
restaurants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French restaurant, present participle of the verb restaurer, corresponding to Latin restaurans, restaurantis, present participle of restauro (“I restore”), from the name of the 'restorative' soup served in the first establishments.
senses_examples:
text:
That Italian restaurant serves some of the best food I've ever had in my life.
type:
example
text:
By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
ref:
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter.
senses_topics:
|
12658 | word:
mini
word_type:
adj
expansion:
mini (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the prefix mini-.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Miniature, tiny, small.
senses_topics:
|
12659 | word:
mini
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mini (plural minis)
forms:
form:
minis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbrevations.
senses_examples:
text:
All Normal Catholic Schoolgirls had creative ways of sluttifying our pure-as-the-driven-snow required attire. […] Most important is rolling your skirt so that it is a virtual mini […]
ref:
2010, Donna Freitas, The Possibilities of Sainthood
type:
quotation
text:
Micros will move upwards to where they have the same power and speed as today's minis.
ref:
1975 June 25, Computerworld, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
Time sharing will be done by the mini because time sharing (the bulk of which is simple text editing) is the wrong thing to do on a maxi and the right thing on a mini.
ref:
1976, E. Salkovitz, “Science, Technology, and the Modern Navy: Thirtieth Anniversary, 1946-1976”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), United States. Office of Naval Research, page 474
type:
quotation
text:
You can add to the realism by painting your minis accurately.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of miniskirt.
Abbreviation of minicomputer.
Abbreviation of miniature (“small figurine of a character”).
A very young dancer.
senses_topics:
|
12660 | word:
pe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pe
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hebrew פֵּא (pê), from Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”). Doublet of pi.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).
senses_topics:
|
12661 | word:
pe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pe (plural pes)
forms:
form:
pes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Cyrillic script letter П / п.
senses_topics:
|
12662 | word:
vague
word_type:
adj
expansion:
vague (comparative vaguer, superlative vaguest)
forms:
form:
vaguer
tags:
comparative
form:
vaguest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French vague, from Latin vagus (“uncertain, vague”, literally “wandering, rambling, strolling”).
senses_examples:
text:
It follows from what has been said that a vague thought has more likelihood of being true than a precise one. To try and hit an object with a vague thought is like trying to hit the bull's eye with a lump of putty: when the putty reaches the target, it flattens out all over it, and probably covers the bull's eye along with the rest. To try and hit an object with a precise thought is like trying to hit the bull's eye with a bullet. The advantage of the precise thought is that it distinguishes between the bull's eye and the rest of the target.
ref:
1921, Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind
type:
quotation
text:
Throughout the first week of his presidency, Dulles and Bissell continued to brief Kennedy on their strategy for Cuba, but the men were vague and their meetings offered little in the way of hard facts.
ref:
2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
type:
quotation
text:
a vague term of abuse
type:
example
text:
only a vague notion of what’s needed
type:
example
text:
a vague hint of a thickening waistline
type:
example
text:
I haven’t the vaguest idea.
type:
example
text:
a vague longing
type:
example
text:
Waxed-fleshed out-patients / Still vague from accidents, / And characters in long coats / Deep in the litter-baskets […]
ref:
1962, Philip Larkin, Toads Revisited
type:
quotation
text:
He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
The Lord Gray incourag'd his men to set sharply upon the vague villains
ref:
1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
Not having a precise meaning.
Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight.
Not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious.
Not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely.
Lacking expression; vacant.
Not sharply outlined; hazy.
Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
senses_topics:
|
12663 | word:
vague
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vague (plural vagues)
forms:
form:
vagues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French vague, from Latin vagus (“uncertain, vague”, literally “wandering, rambling, strolling”).
senses_examples:
text:
The gray vague of unsympathizing sea.
ref:
1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wandering; a vagary.
An indefinite expanse.
senses_topics:
|
12664 | word:
vague
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vague (third-person singular simple present vagues, present participle vaguing, simple past and past participle vagued)
forms:
form:
vagues
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
vaguing
tags:
participle
present
form:
vagued
tags:
participle
past
form:
vagued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French vague, from Latin vagus (“uncertain, vague”, literally “wandering, rambling, strolling”).
senses_examples:
text:
[The soul] doth vague and wander.
ref:
1603, Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, commonly called, the Morals
type:
quotation
text:
Vaguely, yes. I've vagued all my life; that's been my curse.
ref:
1894, Mrs. Campbell Praed, Christina Chard, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
A man's mind vagued up a little, for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion?
ref:
1939, John Steinbeck, East of Eden
type:
quotation
text:
What's with you? You're all vagued out.
ref:
2009, Zoe Foster Blake, Air Kisses
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to wander; to roam; to stray.
To become vague or act in a vague manner.
To make vague negative comments publicly; to make highly veiled complaints or insults.
senses_topics:
|
12665 | word:
trumpeter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trumpeter (plural trumpeters)
forms:
form:
trumpeters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Trumpeter (bird)
Trumpeter (pigeon)
etymology_text:
From trumpet + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
These men are good trumpeters.
ref:
1612, Francis Bacon, Of Vain Glory
type:
quotation
text:
The trumpeters' fate seems likely to get tangled with that of the mute swan. Currently there's enough habitat for both species, but that may change if trumpeters flourish and mutes aren't controlled.
ref:
1998, Bob Devine, National Geographic Society (U.S.), Alien invasion: America's battle with non-native animals and plants
type:
quotation
text:
Booster is not a loud trumpeter as elephants go.
ref:
1975, Private Eye, numbers 340-366, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who plays a trumpet.
Any of three species of bird in the family Psophiidae from South America named for the trumpeting threat call of the males.
Any of a number of breeds of fancy pigeon (variety of domestic pigeon (Columba livia), originally bred for their peculiar gurgling voice, a prolonged coo called "trumpeting" or "drumming").
One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.
An American swan (Cygnus buccinator) with a very loud honk.
A perciform fish of the family Latridae, native to Australia, New Zealand and Chile.
One who makes a trumpeting sound.
senses_topics:
|
12666 | word:
3
word_type:
noun
expansion:
3 (plural 3s)
forms:
form:
3s
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of 360. (360° spin)
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
skiing
snowboarding
sports |
12667 | word:
accountably
word_type:
adv
expansion:
accountably (comparative more accountably, superlative most accountably)
forms:
form:
more accountably
tags:
comparative
form:
most accountably
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accountable + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an accountable manner.
senses_topics:
|
12668 | word:
extemporaneous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
extemporaneous (comparative more extemporaneous, superlative most extemporaneous)
forms:
form:
more extemporaneous
tags:
comparative
form:
most extemporaneous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin extemporāneus, from Latin ex tempore (“impromptu”).
senses_examples:
text:
The lovely words of a prepared speech, however, cannot erase extemporaneous words and deeds, thousands of them, that have run contrary to those aspirations.
ref:
2017 March 1, The Lead with Jake Tapper, spoken by Jake Tapper, via CNN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
With inadequate preparation or without advance thought; offhand.
senses_topics:
|
12669 | word:
recycle bin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
recycle bin (plural recycle bins)
forms:
form:
recycle bins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Arizona Daily Sun
Windows 95
etymology_text:
First sense appears c. 1971, in the Arizona Daily Sun. Computing sense appears in 1995 with the Windows 95 operating system.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A container in which items to be recycled may be placed.
In Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files, from which they can be retrieved or permanently deleted.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12670 | word:
acetabulum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetabulum (plural acetabulums or acetabula)
forms:
form:
acetabulums
tags:
plural
form:
acetabula
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
acetabulum
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin acētābulum (“vinegar saucer, 1/48 congius”), from acētum (“vinegar”) + -bulum (“-bule: a vessel for”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The bony cup of the pelvis which receives the head of the femur.
The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
A vinegar saucer, especially (historical) in ancient Roman contexts.
A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 2½ Roman ounces of wine and equivalent to about 66 mL although differing slightly over time.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
|
12671 | word:
flea bag
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flea bag (plural flea bags)
forms:
form:
flea bags
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I stayed in this hotel last year, I hated it, it's a flea bag.
ref:
1993, Bill Murray, Groundhog Day
type:
quotation
text:
It's not a flea bag or one of those two hour hotels with the girls coming and going.
ref:
2010, Isaac Hallenberg, The Dwarf's Doubloons, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
I scooped this little flea bag up and headed to the bathroom.
ref:
2012, Chrystal Parker, Daily Dose of Dogs (Aka Cats with Your Coffee), page 379
type:
quotation
text:
The animal was far from being a 'mangy old flea-bag'; and in fact had a nice glossy coat and was a well built cart horse.
ref:
2012, Ewart R N Jowett, The Wizard of the Stove Pipe Mountains
type:
quotation
text:
I slept out in my flea-bag each night—the weather was almost too hot for long-disatnce cycling—and had unwound considerably by the time I reached Mainz.
ref:
1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels, page 223
type:
quotation
text:
I pulled myself out of my flea-bag and reached for my clothes.
ref:
1997, Wilfred R. Bion, War Memoirs 1917-1919, page 179
type:
quotation
text:
Consuelo was so taken by Freyberg that she presented him with a Jaeger sleeping bag. On their last night of leave at Seymour Street, Flora entertained Eddie Marsh and Rupert Brooke to dinner with Johnny and Freyberg. When they had returned to camp, Johnny wrote to his mother that Freyberg was so pleased with the 'flea bag' that he'd christened it 'Consuelo'.
ref:
2012, Tim Carroll, The Dodger
type:
quotation
text:
He clearly had some of the spunk from the war left in him, for Tim always found the man addressing him as “flea bag,” “scum” or “maggot.”
ref:
2003, Charles Merrill, The Hidden Gift, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
O'Kelly whispered hoarsely, “Speak, you wretched flea-bag.
ref:
2007, DJ Birmingham, The Queen's Tale: The Struggle for the Survival of Ireland, page 124
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A disreputable place of accommodation.
An unkempt mammal, especially a dog or cat.
A sleeping bag.
A poor and disreputable person.
senses_topics:
|
12672 | word:
4
word_type:
prep
expansion:
4
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
this is 4 U ― this is for you
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of for.
senses_topics:
|
12673 | word:
salary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
salary (plural salaries)
forms:
form:
salaries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English salarie, from Anglo-Norman salarie, from Old French salaire, from Latin salārium (“wages”), the neuter form of the adjective salārius (“related to salt”), from sal (“salt”). There have been various attempts to explain how the Latin term for “wages” came from the adjective “related to salt”. It is generally assumed that salārium was an abbreviation of salārium argentum (“salt money”), though that phrase is not attested. A commonly cited theory is that the phrase meant “money consisting of salt”, because Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, but there is no evidence for this from ancient sources. Another is that the phrase meant “money used to buy salt [and other miscellaneous items]”.
senses_examples:
text:
Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
ref:
1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
text:
I used to say to our audiences: “It is difficult to get a man understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
ref:
1935, Upton Sinclair, chapter XX, in I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked, page 109
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
senses_topics:
|
12674 | word:
salary
word_type:
verb
expansion:
salary (third-person singular simple present salaries, present participle salarying, simple past and past participle salaried)
forms:
form:
salaries
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
salarying
tags:
participle
present
form:
salaried
tags:
participle
past
form:
salaried
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English salarie, from Anglo-Norman salarie, from Old French salaire, from Latin salārium (“wages”), the neuter form of the adjective salārius (“related to salt”), from sal (“salt”). There have been various attempts to explain how the Latin term for “wages” came from the adjective “related to salt”. It is generally assumed that salārium was an abbreviation of salārium argentum (“salt money”), though that phrase is not attested. A commonly cited theory is that the phrase meant “money consisting of salt”, because Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, but there is no evidence for this from ancient sources. Another is that the phrase meant “money used to buy salt [and other miscellaneous items]”.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.
senses_topics:
|
12675 | word:
salary
word_type:
adj
expansion:
salary (comparative more salary, superlative most salary)
forms:
form:
more salary
tags:
comparative
form:
most salary
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English salarie, from Anglo-Norman salarie, from Old French salaire, from Latin salārium (“wages”), the neuter form of the adjective salārius (“related to salt”), from sal (“salt”). There have been various attempts to explain how the Latin term for “wages” came from the adjective “related to salt”. It is generally assumed that salārium was an abbreviation of salārium argentum (“salt money”), though that phrase is not attested. A commonly cited theory is that the phrase meant “money consisting of salt”, because Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, but there is no evidence for this from ancient sources. Another is that the phrase meant “money used to buy salt [and other miscellaneous items]”.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Saline.
senses_topics:
|
12676 | word:
logarithm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
logarithm (plural logarithms)
forms:
form:
logarithms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin logarithmus, term coined by Scottish mathematician John Napier from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word, reckoning”) and ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number”); compare rational number, from analogous Latin. The word λόγος had an original meaning of a word or a count, as in "recount a tale," or the idea of going over a list. The mathematical sense later expanded to include various specialized senses, including the notion of a ratio, proportion, or inverse proportion.
senses_examples:
text:
For a currency which uses denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, etc., each jump in the base-10 logarithm from one denomination to the next higher is either 0.3010 or 0.3979.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
For a number x, the power to which a given base number must be raised in order to obtain x. Written log _bx. For example, log ₁₀1000=3 because 10³=1000 and log ₂16=4 because 2⁴=16.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
12677 | word:
banging
word_type:
verb
expansion:
banging
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time!
ref:
1972, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, spoken by Moe Greene (Alex Rocco)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of bang
senses_topics:
|
12678 | word:
banging
word_type:
noun
expansion:
banging (countable and uncountable, plural bangings)
forms:
form:
bangings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The banging of the hammers could be heard from several streets away.
type:
example
text:
Strange bangings in the old house were ascribed to a poltergeist.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The action or sound of something that bangs.
A session of sexual intercourse.
senses_topics:
|
12679 | word:
banging
word_type:
adj
expansion:
banging
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Wow, what a banging haircut! It looks terrific!
type:
example
text:
I was thinking maybe there's this banging burrito place in Brixton we could go to.
ref:
2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Yas (Vivian Oparah)
type:
quotation
text:
I was always considered Homer's account of the Nepenthe as a Banging lie.
ref:
1871, Eliza Meteyard, A Group of Englishmen
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Excellent, brilliant, very exciting, top, great.
Attractive; sexually appealing.
Huge; great in size.
senses_topics:
|
12680 | word:
accouterments
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accouterments
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of accouterment
senses_topics:
|
12681 | word:
ho
word_type:
intj
expansion:
ho
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare Dutch ho, German ho, Old French ho! (“hold!, halt!”).
senses_examples:
text:
Sail ho! ― Another boat is visible!
type:
example
text:
Land ho! ― Land is visible!
type:
example
text:
Man ho! ― A town is visible!
type:
example
text:
"That was a shot! But the captain will be glad! Ho, ho, here we are!" he cried till it was re-echoed from all the hills around.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
So I catch you. You stealer! Ho! Ho!
ref:
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
"I'll hit you again, you thief !” he cried angrily, shaking “Ho-ho-ho!” he croaked.
ref:
1900, Ching Foo, the Yellow Dwarf; Or the Bradys and the Opium Smokers, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
It was quite an astonishing show. Colonel Paul Malone of the U.S. Army kept thwacking away with all his might and main, shouting "Ho!"
ref:
1955, John Sack, From Here to Shimbashi - Volume 637, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
Mona: Hee! Ha! Ho! Ha! The brain buffet is closed, buddy! Take that! And this!
ref:
1999, Mona the Vampire, "Attack of the Living Scarecrow" (season 1, episode 1a)
text:
Ho! Take that vile Foresythe!” He snapped his wrist, clicking the stick against the bowed sides of a barrel.
ref:
2008, Daniel Hellmund, The Answer for Laria, page 93
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.
halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
Said accompanying a vigorous attack.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
|
12682 | word:
ho
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ho
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare Dutch ho, German ho, Old French ho! (“hold!, halt!”).
senses_examples:
text:
There is no ho with them.
ref:
1604, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
senses_topics:
|
12683 | word:
ho
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ho (plural hos or hoes or heaux)
forms:
form:
hos
tags:
plural
form:
hoes
tags:
plural
form:
heaux
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dough-door merger
etymology_text:
Pronunciation spelling of whore in a non-rhotic accent with the dough-door merger, which is found in some varieties of African American Vernacular English. Compare mo (“more”), fo' (“for; four”). The noun first appears c. 1964, whereas the verb first appears c. 1972.
senses_examples:
text:
Bros before hoes!
type:
example
text:
So you want to see the show? You really don't have to be a ho.
ref:
2001, “Psycho”, in Toxicity, performed by Serj Tankian with System of a Down
type:
quotation
text:
"You looking for one of my ho's?" the diminutive man asked Sigmund.
"A hoe?" Sigmund asked, wondering why the little man wished to sell him farming equipment in the city.
"You know, a ho. A tute. A honey, A righteous bit of poontang, my brother," he said.
"I don't follow," Sigmund said.
"Indubitably, I means a ho, a whore. I can tell you is a player. You want a whore?" he asked.
ref:
2010, Dennis Shields, God Went Fishing, page 69
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive term of abuse for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.
A woman in general; a bitch.
senses_topics:
|
12684 | word:
ho
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ho (third-person singular simple present hoes, present participle hoeing, simple past and past participle hoed)
forms:
form:
hoes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hoeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
hoed
tags:
participle
past
form:
hoed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
dough-door merger
etymology_text:
Pronunciation spelling of whore in a non-rhotic accent with the dough-door merger, which is found in some varieties of African American Vernacular English. Compare mo (“more”), fo' (“for; four”). The noun first appears c. 1964, whereas the verb first appears c. 1972.
senses_examples:
text:
She holds down a decent job during the day, but is secretly hoeing around with at least 5 different trifling men.
ref:
2003 November 18, Greywolf Johnson, “Do you know any of these? ”, in alt.strange.days (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act as a ho, to prostitute.
senses_topics:
|
12685 | word:
ho
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ho (plural hos)
forms:
form:
hos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English howe, houwe, hoȝe, from Old English hogu and hoga, from Proto-Germanic *hugô, *hugiz, *huguz (“mind, thought, understanding”), akin to Old High German hugu, hugi (Middle High German hüge), Old Saxon hugi (Middle Dutch höghe, Dutch heug), Old Norse hugr, Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌲𐍃 (hugs).
senses_examples:
text:
Though there bee A thousand cares that heape my hoe.
ref:
1567, George Turberville, “A. Sani di Cure Aunsweres”, in Heroycall Epistles of Ovid, 155v
type:
quotation
text:
Him that..this gentlewoman is in such a hoe about.
ref:
1798, Charlotte Turner Smith, The Young Philosopher, I. 195
type:
quotation
text:
But by day to the zun they must rise
ref:
1869-70, William Barnes, “The Widow’s House”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
type:
quotation
roman:
To their true lives o' tweil an' ov ho.
text:
I doänt see as you've any call to putt yourself in no such terrible gurt hoe over it.
ref:
1875, William Douglas Parish, A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect (at cited word)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.
senses_topics:
|
12686 | word:
ho
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ho
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English howen, hoȝen, hogien, from Old English hogian, hugian, from Proto-Germanic *hugjaną. Cognate with Middle Scots huik, Old High German hucken, Old Saxon huggjan, Dutch heugen, Old Norse hyggja, Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hugjan).
senses_examples:
text:
To ho for anything, to long for any thing. Berks.
ref:
1787, F. Grose, Provinc. Gloss (at cited word)
text:
Ho...to long for anything; to be careful and anxious. West.
ref:
1847-78, J. O. Halliwell, Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words
text:
But still 'tis happiness to know That there's a God above us; An' he, by day an' night do ho Vor all ov us an' love us.
ref:
1869-70, William Barnes, The Bells of Alderburnham, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
text:
To ho and hanker after thik woman.
ref:
1874, T. Hardy, Far from Madding Crowd, II. xxiii. 289
type:
quotation
text:
Ho, to long for; to care greatly for.
ref:
1888, B. Lowsley, Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To care, be anxious, to long.
senses_topics:
|
12687 | word:
mus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mus
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of mu
senses_topics:
|
12688 | word:
multicultural
word_type:
adj
expansion:
multicultural (comparative more multicultural, superlative most multicultural)
forms:
form:
more multicultural
tags:
comparative
form:
most multicultural
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From multi- + cultural.
senses_examples:
text:
Viewed from the boardrooms of Britain, the market is becoming more multicultural than could have been imagined just five years ago.
ref:
31 October 2001, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The literary landscape of London is as varied as the city itself. According to the 2011 census, 40 percent of residents identified as “Asian, Black, Mixed or Other.” While this is no multi-culti utopia, it is undeniably an intensely multicultural metropolis where more than 300 languages are spoken.
ref:
2022 October 12, Bernardine Evaristo, “Read Your Way Through London”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Bedgood, whose father is African American and mother is Caucasian, says he's struggling to deal with such hatred. He grew up in Santa Clarita and says he could not have imagined something like this happening in a quiet community with many multicultural families.
ref:
2011, ABC13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating or pertaining to several different cultures.
Relating or pertaining to groups, households or families involving persons with different or mixed ethnicities or races.
senses_topics:
|
12689 | word:
ea
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ea (plural eas)
forms:
form:
eas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ee, ea, æ, from Old English ēa (“river”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahu (“waters, river”), from Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“waters, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”). Doublet of aqua.
Cognates:
Cognate with North Frisian ia (“river”), Saterland Frisian Äi (“river”), West Frisian ie (“water, stream”), Dutch a (“water, stream”), German Ache (“water, stream, river, flood”), Danish å (“stream, creek”), Swedish å (“stream, creek”), Icelandic á (“stream, river”), Latin aqua (“water”).
senses_examples:
text:
And they rowed away for Crowland, by many a mere and many an ea; through narrow reaches of clear brown glassy water; between the dark-green alders; between the pale-green reeds; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the song of all the birds around; and then out into the broad lagoons, where hung motionless, high overhead, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard beyond buzzard, kite beyond kite, as far as eye could see.
ref:
1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake: Last of the English
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A river or watercourse.
senses_topics:
|
12690 | word:
ea
word_type:
det
expansion:
ea
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of ea.
senses_topics:
|
12691 | word:
accourage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accourage (third-person singular simple present accourages, present participle accouraging, simple past and past participle accouraged)
forms:
form:
accourages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accouraging
tags:
participle
present
form:
accouraged
tags:
participle
past
form:
accouraged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French acoragier; à (from Latin ad) + corage. See courage.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] willing the comfort of al merchauntes in accouraging of them willing to make any ship or shippes, and also towardes the supportacion of the costes and charges of the said Nicholas, [I grant them money].
ref:
c. 1540, an act of Henry VIII, quoted in A Short History of the World's Shipping Industry →ISBN
text:
Aftir two yeres Philometor obtayned helpe of the Roma[n]s to reamer his lost cities, and thus accouraged of [=by] the Romans he expelled his auuncles syriake hoste […]
ref:
1545, George Joye, The exposicion of Daniel the Prophete gathered oute of Philip Melanchton/ Johan Ecolampadius/ Conrade Pellicane & out of Johan Draconite
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To encourage.
senses_topics:
|
12692 | word:
accourt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accourt (third-person singular simple present accourts, present participle accourting, simple past and past participle accourted)
forms:
form:
accourts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accourting
tags:
participle
present
form:
accourted
tags:
participle
past
form:
accourted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ac- (“to”) + court (“woo”).
senses_examples:
text:
Whilest she her selfe thus busily did frame Seemely to entertaine her new-come guest, Newes hereof to her other sisters came, Who all this while were at their wanton rest, Accourting each her frend with lavish fest
ref:
a. 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, page 71
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To treat courteously; to court.
senses_topics:
|
12693 | word:
large intestine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
large intestine (plural large intestines)
forms:
form:
large intestines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The second to last part of the digestive system, comprising the cecum, colon and rectum.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
12694 | word:
crook
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crook (plural crooks)
forms:
form:
crooks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English croke, crok, from Old English *crōc (“hook, bend, crook”), from Proto-West Germanic *krōk, from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“bend, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greg- (“tracery, basket, bend”).
Cognate with Dutch kreuk (“a bend, fold, wrinkle”), Middle Low German kroke, krake (“fold, wrinkle”), Danish krog (“crook, hook”), Swedish krok (“crook, hook”), Icelandic krókur (“hook”).
senses_examples:
text:
She held the baby in the crook of her arm.
type:
example
text:
he walks bye lanes, and crooks
ref:
1842, William Edward Hoskins, De Valencourt
type:
quotation
text:
the crook of a cane
type:
example
text:
Even though I walk through a / valley dark as death / I fear no evil, for thou art with me, / thy staff and thy crook are my / comfort.
ref:
1970, The New English Bible with the Apocrypha, Oxford Study Edition, published 1976, Oxford University Press, Psalms 23-4, p.583
text:
for all your brags, hooks, and crooks
ref:
c. 1547, Thomas Cranmer, Against Transubstantiation
type:
quotation
text:
1973 November 17, Richard Nixon, reported 1973 November 18, The Washington Post, Nixon Tells Editors, ‘I'm Not a Crook’,
"People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I′m not a crook. I′ve earned everything I′ve got."
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
A lock or curl of hair.
A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
A bishop's standard staff of office.
An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
A pothook.
A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
12695 | word:
crook
word_type:
verb
expansion:
crook (third-person singular simple present crooks, present participle crooking, simple past and past participle crooked)
forms:
form:
crooks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
crooking
tags:
participle
present
form:
crooked
tags:
participle
past
form:
crooked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English crooken, croken, crokien, from Old English *crōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *krōkōn (“to bend, wrinkle”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Dutch kreuken (“to crease, rumple”), German Low German kröken (“to bend, offend, suppress”).
senses_examples:
text:
He crooked his finger toward me.
type:
example
text:
For if a damsel's blind or lame, / Or nature's hand has crooked her frame, / Or if she's deaf or is wall-eyed; / Yet if her heart is well inclined, / Some tender lover she shall find / That panteth for a bride.
ref:
1784, William Blake, Songs from, “An Island in the Moon”, in W. H. Stevenson, editor, Blake: The Complete Poems, 3rd edition, Routledge, published 2007, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
“[…]In the following cases: physical defect in the married parties, desertion without communication for five years,” he said, crooking a short finger covered with hair[…].
ref:
1917, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Constance Garnett, Anna Karenina, Part 4, Chapter 5
type:
quotation
text:
The referring of all to a man's self, is more tolerable in a sovereign prince; because themselves are not only themselves, but their good and evil is at the peril of the public fortune. But it is a desperate evil, in a servant to a prince, or a citizen in a republic. For whatsoever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends; which must needs be often eccentric to the ends of his master, or state.
ref:
1597, Francis Bacon, “Of Wisdom For a Man's Self,”, in The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bend, or form into a hook.
To become bent or hooked.
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
senses_topics:
|
12696 | word:
crook
word_type:
adj
expansion:
crook (comparative crooker, superlative crookest)
forms:
form:
crooker
tags:
comparative
form:
crookest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From crooked (“dishonestly come by”).
senses_examples:
text:
That work you did on my car is crook, mate.
type:
example
text:
Not turning up for training was pretty crook.
type:
example
text:
The soup was crook. It was onkus. A yellow-bellied platypus couldn′t drink it […]
ref:
1981, Herman Charles Bosman, The Collected Works of Herman Charles Bosman, page 101
type:
quotation
text:
Things are crook at home at the moment.
“They′re always crook at my home.”
ref:
2004, Robert Barnard, A Cry from the Dark, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
I′m feeling a bit crook.
type:
example
text:
be crook at/about; go crook at
text:
Ann explained to the teacher what had happened and the nuns went crook at me too.
ref:
2006, Jimmy Butt, Felicity Dargan, I've Been Bloody Lucky: The Story of an Orphan Named Jimmy Butt, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
I went home on the tram, then Mum went crook at me because I was late getting home—I had tickets for Mum and her friend to go to the Regent that night and she was annoyed because I was late.
ref:
2007, Jo Wainer, Bess: Lost: Illegal Abortion Stories, page 159
type:
quotation
text:
I went crook at them for not telling me and as soon as she was well enough I took her home to the camping area and she soon picked up.
ref:
2007, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Don′t Take Your Love to Town, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
Mum went crook at me for wasting money, but when Don got a job and spent all his money on a racing bike, she didn′t say a thing to him.
ref:
2009, Carolyn Landon, Cups With No Handles, page 234
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
Ill, sick.
Annoyed, angry; upset.
senses_topics:
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12697 | word:
lupine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lupine (comparative more lupine, superlative most lupine)
forms:
form:
more lupine
tags:
comparative
form:
most lupine
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
lupine
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin lupīnus, from lupus (“wolf”). Doublet of lupin and piecewise doublet of wolven, Latin lupus being a cognate of wolf and -ine being a doublet of -en.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Wolfish (all senses); wolflike.
Ravenous.
senses_topics:
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12698 | word:
lupine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lupine (plural lupines)
forms:
form:
lupines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lupine
etymology_text:
See lupin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
North American English form of lupin (any plant of the genus Lupinus; an edible legume seed of one of these plants).
senses_topics:
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12699 | word:
safety
word_type:
noun
expansion:
safety (countable and uncountable, plural safeties)
forms:
form:
safeties
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
safety (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English savete, from Old French sauveté, from earlier salvetet, from Medieval Latin salvitās, salvitātem, from Latin salvus.
senses_examples:
text:
If you push it to the limit, safety is not guaranteed.
type:
example
text:
Oh, oh! “Go to safety”! Why didn’t I think of that⁉ Here I am in danger when, really, I could simply be going to safety! I shouldn’t have wasted your time by calling in the first place!
ref:
2016 May 15, chapter 911, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 12, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
Be sure that the safety is set before proceeding.
type:
example
text:
He sacked the quarterback in the end zone for a safety.
type:
example
text:
The free safety made a game-saving tackle on the runner who had broken past the linebackers.
type:
example
text:
Boy wondered about that bunt. He had a notion Fowler would commit himself soon because time was on the go. But Fowler didn’t, making it another sweep of three Pirates. He had thus far given up only two safeties.
ref:
1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Time Life Books, published 1966, page 225
type:
quotation
text:
Many wheelmen and wheelwomen, riding safeties, tandems and tricycles, stopped there during the evening and we had good opportunity for comparing American and English bicycles […]
ref:
1897, American Architect and Architecture, volumes 57-58, page 51
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
A mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing.
An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or stepping out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points to the opposite team.
Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage and whose responsibility is to defend against passes as well as to be the tacklers of last resort.
A safety squeeze.
Preservation from escape; close custody.
A safety bicycle.
senses_topics:
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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