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12700 | word:
safety
word_type:
verb
expansion:
safety (third-person singular simple present safeties, present participle safetying, simple past and past participle safetied)
forms:
form:
safeties
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
safetying
tags:
participle
present
form:
safetied
tags:
participle
past
form:
safetied
tags:
past
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:
Time went back to normal for him; he safetied his own weapon and dropped it, jumping forward.
ref:
2011, Time Crime, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
Osborne lay propped up on one elbow, his pistol cocked, his aim wavering in the general direction the man had gone. Finally he safetied it, stuffed it in the holster on his right hip, and reached for his cell phone in his jacket pocket. But it was gone.
ref:
2012, Blowout, page 343
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To secure (a mechanical component, as in aviation) to keep it from becoming detached even under vibration.
to secure a firing pin, as in guns, to keep the gun from firing
senses_topics:
|
12701 | word:
BDA
word_type:
name
expansion:
BDA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of British Dental Association.
Abbreviation of Bermuda.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
12702 | word:
BDA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
BDA (plural BDAs)
forms:
form:
BDAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of bomb damage assessment.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
12703 | word:
jib
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jib (plural jibs)
forms:
form:
jibs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jib (disambiguation)
jib
etymology_text:
Attested since the 1660s, of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to jib (“shift or swing around”) (see below).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast.
Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport |
12704 | word:
jib
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jib (third-person singular simple present jibs, present participle jibbing, simple past and past participle jibbed)
forms:
form:
jibs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jibbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
jibbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
jibbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Jib (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Attested since the 1680s (also spelled jibe and gybe), perhaps from Dutch gijben (a variant of gijpen (“to turn sails suddenly”), whence certainly the form jibe) or else from Danish gibbe (“jib, jibe”), related to Swedish gippa (“jib, jibe, jerk, make jump”). Compare also Middle High German gempeln (“to spring”), Swedish guppa (“to move up and down”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump, spring”). See jump.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To shift, or swing around, as a sail, boom, yard, etc., as in tacking.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
12705 | word:
jib
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jib (plural jibs)
forms:
form:
jibs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jib (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Attested since the 1660s, of uncertain origin, perhaps a shortening of gibbet.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The projecting arm of a crane.
A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.
An object that is used for performing tricks while skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, in-line skating, or biking. These objects are usually found in a terrain park or skate park.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
|
12706 | word:
jib
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jib (third-person singular simple present jibs, present participle jibbing, simple past and past participle jibbed)
forms:
form:
jibs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jibbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
jibbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
jibbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Jib (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Uncertain, perhaps related to jib (“shift or swing around”) (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
“Who calls, who calls?” cried Essper; a shout was the only answer. There was no path, but the underwood was low, and Vivian took his horse, an old forester, across it with ease. Essper’s jibbed.
ref:
1826, Benjamin Disraeli, Vivian Grey, London: Henry Colburn, published 1827, Volume 4, Book 6, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
The lama jibbed at the open door of a crowded third-class carriage. ‘Were it not better to walk?’ said he weakly.
ref:
1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 2, in Kim
type:
quotation
text:
Juno has a kindly gait. She neither jibs nor shies, though she will take a fence no more. […]
ref:
1989, Jack Vance, chapter 8, in Madouc
type:
quotation
text:
“What say you to the young lady herself?” said Craigengelt; “the finest young woman in all Scotland, one that you used to be so fond of when she was cross, and now she consents to have you, and gives up her engagement with Ravenswood, you are for jibbing. I must say, the devil’s in ye, when ye neither know what you would have nor what you would want.”
ref:
1819, Walter Scott, chapter 28, in The Bride of Lammermoor
type:
quotation
text:
Some of us began to jib when the family began to collect portraits of their new son to decorate their walls [...].
ref:
1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, pages 401–2
type:
quotation
text:
The Parlement scarcely jibbed.
ref:
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 318
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To stop and refuse to go forward (usually of a horse).
To stop doing something, to become reluctant to proceed with an activity.
senses_topics:
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12707 | word:
jib
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jib (plural jibs)
forms:
form:
jibs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jib (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Uncertain, perhaps related to jib (“shift or swing around”) (see above).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who jibs or balks, refusing to continue forward.
A stationary condition; a standstill.
senses_topics:
|
12708 | word:
jib
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jib (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Jib (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Crystal meth.
senses_topics:
|
12709 | word:
jib
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jib (plural jibs)
forms:
form:
jibs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jib (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English gibbe (“a swelling or protrusion in the body”), from Old French gibbe and/or Medieval Latin gibba (“hump”).
senses_examples:
text:
They needa’ watch they jibs.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The mouth, sometimes particularly the tongue, underlip, or tooth.
senses_topics:
|
12710 | word:
jib
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jib (plural jibs)
forms:
form:
jibs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jib (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Forgetting that the jibs, whom they insulted, were afterwards to grow into the influential men […]
ref:
1840, The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
[I]n a healthy environment, young Mahoney might have taken the risk, both with University and, in part, with entering the Aula for the jibs dance.
ref:
2014, Peter Guy, As Mirrors Are Lonely, page 115
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A first-year student at the University of Dublin.
senses_topics:
|
12711 | word:
9
word_type:
noun
expansion:
9 (plural 9s)
forms:
form:
9s
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of 900. (900° spin)
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
snowboarding
sports |
12712 | word:
accouplement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accouplement (countable and uncountable, plural accouplements)
forms:
form:
accouplements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French accouplement.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union
That which couples, as a tie or brace
senses_topics:
|
12713 | word:
equidistant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
equidistant (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French équidistant, from Late Latin aequidistantem, from aequī (“equal”) + distantem (“distant”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Occupying a position midway between two ends or sides.
Occupying a position that is an equal distance between several points. Note that in a one-dimensional space this position can be identified with two points, in a two-dimensional space with three points (not on the same straight line), and in a three-dimensional space with four points (not in the same plane).
Describing a map projection that preserves scale. No map can show scale correctly throughout the entire map but some can show true scale between one or two points and every point or along every meridian and these are referred to as equidistant.
senses_topics:
cartography
geography
natural-sciences |
12714 | word:
Michael
word_type:
name
expansion:
Michael (countable and uncountable, plural Michaels)
forms:
form:
Michaels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Michael, from Old French Michel, Old English Michahel, and directly from their source Latin Michaēl, from Ancient Greek Μῐχᾱήλ (Mikhāḗl), from Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mîḵāʾēl, literally “who is like God?”). Doublet of Mikhail.
senses_examples:
text:
Yea, it seems to me not fit for Christian humility to call a man Gabriel or Michael, giving the names of angels to the sons of mortality.
ref:
1629, Thomas Adams, Meditations upon Creed: The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 212
type:
quotation
text:
He works in the steelworks, the boyfriend, on the factory floor. I'd say that was quite unusual, he's called Michael. Insists on that, he does, not being called Mike or Micky or Mick, pretends not to hear you, then, "No, my name's actually Michael."
ref:
2008, Philip Hensher, The Northern Clemency, HarperCollins, page 498
type:
quotation
text:
He looked more like a Michael; big guy, dark-haired, good posture, his back ramrod straight.
ref:
2015 August 25, Sue Grafton, X, Penguin, page 277
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from Hebrew.
An archangel associated with defending the faithful in the tribulation.
A surname transferred from the given name.
senses_topics:
Christianity
Islam
lifestyle
religion
|
12715 | word:
jibe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jibe (plural jibes)
forms:
form:
jibes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain; possibly from Old French giber (“to engage in horseplay; to play roughly in sport”). Compare English jib (“usually of a horse: to stop and refuse to go forward”), Old Norse geipa (“to talk nonsense”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
He flung subtle jibes at her until she couldn’t bear to work with him any longer.
type:
example
text:
Come, come, we / All are Friends, nor have we Time for Jibe, / Or Anger now, but 'gainſt our common Foes, / The French and Scot; there let your Pray'rs, and Jeſts, / And Blows, be levell’d.
ref:
1746, [Charles Macklin], King Henry the VII: Or the Popish Impostor. A Tragedy. […], London: Printed for R. Francklin, […]; R[obert] Dodsley, […]; and J. Brotherton, […], →OCLC, act II, scene i, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
[George] Carlin's opening-night monologue included some blunt gibes at organized religion which would almost certainly have been cut out of any other network show.
ref:
1975 October 27, Jeff Greenfield, “Ragged but Funny”, in New York, volume 8, number 43, New York, N.Y.: New York Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 65, column 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt.
senses_topics:
|
12716 | word:
jibe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jibe (third-person singular simple present jibes, present participle jibing, simple past and past participle jibed)
forms:
form:
jibes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jibing
tags:
participle
present
form:
jibed
tags:
participle
past
form:
jibed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain; possibly from Old French giber (“to engage in horseplay; to play roughly in sport”). Compare English jib (“usually of a horse: to stop and refuse to go forward”), Old Norse geipa (“to talk nonsense”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
We could hardly speak before for fear of our Taskmasters; but we dare now Nose those Villains that used to gibe us.
ref:
1714, John Arbuthnot, A Farther Continuation of the History of the Crown-Inn: Part III. Containing the Present State of the Inn, and Other Particulars, 2nd edition, London: Printed for J. Moor, […], →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-03-10, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
How I want thee, hum'rous Hogarth! / Thou, I hear, a pleaſant Rogue art; / […] / Draw the Beaſts as I deſcribe them, / From their Features, while I gibe them.
ref:
a. 1746, [Jonathan] Swift, “A Character, Panegyrick, and Description of the Legion Club”, in Miscellanies, 5th edition, volume X, London: Printed for T. Woodward, C. Davis, C. Bathurst, and W[illiam] Bowyer, published 1751, →OCLC, pages 227–228
type:
quotation
text:
Thus with talents well endu'd / To be ſcurrilous and rude; / When you pertly raiſe your ſnout, / Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout; […]
ref:
1730, Jonathan Swift, “To Betty the Grizete”, in The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. […], Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell and Son, […], published 1794, →OCLC; republished in Robert Anderson, editor, The Works of the British Poets. […], volume IX, London: Printed for John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Co. Edinburgh, 1795, →OCLC, page 128, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
But now her mother was speaking again: 'And this – read this and tell me if you wrote it, or if that man's lying.' And Stephen must read her own misery jibing at her from those pages in Ralph Crossby's stiff and clerical handwriting.
ref:
1928, Radclyffe Hall, chapter 27, in The Well of Loneliness, London: Jonathan Cape, →OCLC; republished Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 2005, book 2, section I, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
"What's the matter with you?" the woman jibed. She called after him as he walked away: "Nuts, that's what you are!"
ref:
1953, James Hilton, “Paris III”, in Time and Time Again (An Atlantic Monthly Press Book), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 216
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt.
To say in a mocking or taunting manner.
To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer.
senses_topics:
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12717 | word:
jibe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jibe (third-person singular simple present jibes, present participle jibing, simple past and past participle jibed)
forms:
form:
jibes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jibing
tags:
participle
present
form:
jibed
tags:
participle
past
form:
jibed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Origin unknown; perhaps related to chime (“to cause to sound in harmony”).
senses_examples:
text:
That explanation doesn’t jibe with the facts.
type:
example
text:
[T]here is something wrong with your figures. They do not jibe with experience. They do not jibe with prices. They do not jibe with what we know.
ref:
1926 May 13, Henry H. Glassie (witness), “Statement of Henry H. Glassie, Member of United States Tariff Commission”, in Investigation of the Tariff Commission: Hearings before the Select Committee on Investigation of the Tariff Commission, United States Senate, Sixty-ninth Congress, First Session […] Part 1 […], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 529
type:
quotation
text:
This did not jibe with the objectivist view that metaphor is of only peripheral interest in an account of meaning and truth and that it plays at best a marginal role in understanding.
ref:
1980, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, chapter 27, in Metaphors We Live By
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To accord or agree.
senses_topics:
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12718 | word:
jibe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jibe (plural jibes)
forms:
form:
jibes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See gybe.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of gybe
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
12719 | word:
jibe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jibe (third-person singular simple present jibes, present participle jibing, simple past and past participle jibed)
forms:
form:
jibes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jibing
tags:
participle
present
form:
jibed
tags:
participle
past
form:
jibed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See gybe.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of gybe
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
12720 | word:
vulpine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
vulpine (comparative more vulpine, superlative most vulpine)
forms:
form:
more vulpine
tags:
comparative
form:
most vulpine
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin vulpīnus (“foxy, fox-like”), from vulpēs, earlier volpēs (“fox”), from Proto-Indo-European *wl(o)p- (“fox”). Cognate with Welsh llywarn (“fox”), Ancient Greek ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx), Armenian աղուէս (aġuēs), Albanian dhelpër, Lithuanian vilpišỹs (“wildcat”), Sanskrit लोपाश (lopāśa, “jackal, fox”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to a fox.
Having the characteristics of a fox; foxlike; cunning.
senses_topics:
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12721 | word:
vulpine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vulpine (plural vulpines)
forms:
form:
vulpines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin vulpīnus (“foxy, fox-like”), from vulpēs, earlier volpēs (“fox”), from Proto-Indo-European *wl(o)p- (“fox”). Cognate with Welsh llywarn (“fox”), Ancient Greek ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx), Armenian աղուէս (aġuēs), Albanian dhelpër, Lithuanian vilpišỹs (“wildcat”), Sanskrit लोपाश (lopāśa, “jackal, fox”).
senses_examples:
text:
The family Canidae consists of two main subgroups, the vulpines (foxes) and the canines (wolves, coyotes, jackals, and dogs), and some intermediate “fox-dog” forms from South America.
ref:
1980, Michael Wilson Fox, The Soul of the Wolf, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of certain canids called foxes (including true foxes, arctic foxes and grey foxes), distinguished from canines, which are regarded as similar to dogs and wolves.
A person considered cunning.
senses_topics:
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12722 | word:
accouple
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accouple (third-person singular simple present accouples, present participle accoupling, simple past and past participle accoupled)
forms:
form:
accouples
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accoupling
tags:
participle
present
form:
accoupled
tags:
participle
past
form:
accoupled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French acopler, French accoupler. See couple. Equivalent to ad- + couple.
senses_examples:
text:
The Englishmen accoupled themselves with the Frenchmen.
ref:
1548, Edward Hall, Hall's Chronicle
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To join; to couple.
senses_topics:
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12723 | word:
smegma
word_type:
noun
expansion:
smegma (plural smegmata or smegmas)
forms:
form:
smegmata
tags:
plural
form:
smegmas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin, borrowed from Ancient Greek σμῆγμα (smêgma), alternative form of σμῆμα (smêma, “soap, detergent”), from σμάω (smáō, “I wipe, clean”).
senses_examples:
text:
I saw Mrs St Cloud wander happily through the flower-filled streets, her belly smeared with smegma, breasts bruised by the hands of boys.
ref:
1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A whitish sebaceous secretion that collects between the glans penis and foreskin or in the vulva.
senses_topics:
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12724 | word:
marathon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
marathon (plural marathons)
forms:
form:
marathons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Battle of Marathon
Michel Bréal
marathon
etymology_text:
From French marathon, coined in 1894 by linguist Michel Bréal for the first modern time Olympic Games after Ancient Greek Μαραθών (Marathṓn), a town northeast of Athens. Phidippides the Greek ran the distance from Marathon to Athens to deliver a message regarding the Battle of Marathon. The modern sport of marathon running is based on a run approximately the same distance. The toponym itself comes from μάραθον (márathon, “fennel”) and refers to the prevalence of the plant in the area.
senses_examples:
text:
He had a cleaning marathon the night before his girlfriend came over.
type:
example
text:
After a marathon session that included more than 14 hours of mostly negative public comment, the council agreed 11 to 4 to fund the center, and then gaveled out just before 6 a.m.
ref:
2023 June 10, Patricia Murphy, “OPINION: ‘Atlanta way’ long gone as city leaders face death threats over training center”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A 42.195-kilometre (26-mile-385-yard) road race.
Any extended or sustained activity.
senses_topics:
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12725 | word:
marathon
word_type:
verb
expansion:
marathon (third-person singular simple present marathons, present participle marathoning, simple past and past participle marathoned)
forms:
form:
marathons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
marathoning
tags:
participle
present
form:
marathoned
tags:
participle
past
form:
marathoned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Battle of Marathon
Michel Bréal
marathon
etymology_text:
From French marathon, coined in 1894 by linguist Michel Bréal for the first modern time Olympic Games after Ancient Greek Μαραθών (Marathṓn), a town northeast of Athens. Phidippides the Greek ran the distance from Marathon to Athens to deliver a message regarding the Battle of Marathon. The modern sport of marathon running is based on a run approximately the same distance. The toponym itself comes from μάραθον (márathon, “fennel”) and refers to the prevalence of the plant in the area.
senses_examples:
text:
In less than two years, they and their family and friends have skydived, marathoned, tray-baked and dinner-danced their way to £130,000 for Duchenne research through their help4harry campaign.
ref:
2015 August 1, “‘I was cross that my child had to beg the prime minister for a drug’”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
We're going to marathon Star Trek next weekend.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To run a marathon.
To watch or read a large number of instalments of (a film, book, TV series, etc.) in one sitting.
senses_topics:
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12726 | word:
accouter
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accouter (third-person singular simple present accouters, present participle accoutering, simple past and past participle accoutered)
forms:
form:
accouters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accoutering
tags:
participle
present
form:
accoutered
tags:
participle
past
form:
accoutered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French accoutrer, from Old French acoustrer, from Vulgar Latin acconsūtūrāre (“to equip with clothes”), from Latin ad (“to”) + consūtūra (“sewing, clothes”), from Latin cōnsuō (“to sew together”), from Latin con- (“together”) + suō (“to sew”), first attested in the 1590s.
senses_examples:
text:
For this, in rags accoutered, are they seen, / And made the may-game of the public spleen?
ref:
1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Perseus”, in Walter Scott, editor, The works of John Dryden, volume 13, published 1808, page 235
type:
quotation
text:
Both while he trod the earth in humblest guise / Accoutred with his burthen and his staff;
ref:
1814, William Wordsworth, “The Solitary”, in The Excursion
type:
quotation
text:
There is a leader—there is usually a leader when men leave their established perimeters—and today it is Quinn Davies, a tanned, open-faced man accoutered with artifacts of a Native American ancestry he wishes he possessed.
ref:
2022, Jennifer Egan, “What the Forest Remembers”, in The Candy House
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service
senses_topics:
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12727 | word:
regret
word_type:
verb
expansion:
regret (third-person singular simple present regrets, present participle regretting, simple past and past participle regretted)
forms:
form:
regrets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
regretting
tags:
participle
present
form:
regretted
tags:
participle
past
form:
regretted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
regret
etymology_text:
From Middle English regretten, regreten, from Old French regreter, regrater (“to lament”), from re- (intensive prefix) + *greter, *grater (“to weep”), from Frankish *grātan (“to weep, mourn, lament”), from Proto-Germanic *grētaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁d- (“to sound”); and Frankish *greutan (“to cry, weep”), from Proto-Germanic *greutaną (“to weep, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd- (“to weep, be sad”), equivalent to re- + greet. Cognate with Old High German grāzan (“to cry”), Old English grǣtan (“to weep, greet”), Old English grēotan (“to weep, lament”), Old Norse gráta (“to weep, groan”), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐍄𐌰𐌽 (grētan, “to weep”). More at greet.
senses_examples:
text:
He regretted his words.
type:
example
text:
Dear humanity, we regret bein' alien bastards, we regret comin' to Earth, and we most definitely regret the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!
ref:
2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: Outskirts
type:
quotation
text:
I regret that I have to do this, but I don't have a choice.
type:
example
text:
He more than ever regretted his home, and with increased desire longed to see his family.
ref:
1845, The Church of England Magazine, volume 19, page 301
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
To feel sorry about (any thing).
To miss; to feel the loss or absence of; to mourn.
senses_topics:
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12728 | word:
regret
word_type:
noun
expansion:
regret (countable and uncountable, plural regrets)
forms:
form:
regrets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
regret
etymology_text:
From Middle English regretten, regreten, from Old French regreter, regrater (“to lament”), from re- (intensive prefix) + *greter, *grater (“to weep”), from Frankish *grātan (“to weep, mourn, lament”), from Proto-Germanic *grētaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁d- (“to sound”); and Frankish *greutan (“to cry, weep”), from Proto-Germanic *greutaną (“to weep, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd- (“to weep, be sad”), equivalent to re- + greet. Cognate with Old High German grāzan (“to cry”), Old English grǣtan (“to weep, greet”), Old English grēotan (“to weep, lament”), Old Norse gráta (“to weep, groan”), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐍄𐌰𐌽 (grētan, “to weep”). More at greet.
senses_examples:
text:
What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe?
ref:
1828, Thomas Macaulay, John Dryden
type:
quotation
text:
Is it a vertue to have some ineffective regrets to damnation, and such a Vertue too, as shall serve to ballance all our vices?
ref:
1667, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety
type:
quotation
text:
Under squared errorloss we show that there exists unique minimax regret solution for the problem of selecting the threshold.
ref:
2002, Bernd Droge, On the Minimax Regret Estimation of a Restricted Normal Mean, and Implications
type:
quotation
text:
Each loss then represents this unavoidable loss plus a regret (loss due to ignorance of Ө). Subtracting these unavoidable losses, we obtain the regret table, Table 1.7, and the average regret table, Table 1.8.
ref:
2012, Herman Chernoff, Lincoln E. Moses, Elementary Decision Theory, page 12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.
Dislike; aversion.
The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action.
senses_topics:
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12729 | word:
should
word_type:
verb
expansion:
should
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English scholde, from Old English sċolde, first and third person preterite form of sċulan (“should,” “have to,” “to owe”), the ancestor of English shall. By surface analysis, shall + -ed. Cognate with German sollte, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 (skulda). Related to Middle English shild and shildy.
senses_examples:
text:
You should never drink and drive.
type:
example
text:
The law is clear that you should always wear a seat belt.
type:
example
text:
The manual says that this switch should be in the 'off' position.
type:
example
text:
You should go and see that film. I think you'll enjoy it.
type:
example
text:
I should exercise more often, but I’m too lazy.
type:
example
text:
She should not have been so rude.
type:
example
text:
You should see his new apartment. It's like a palace!
text:
If you think her piano playing is bad, you should hear her sing!
text:
What do you think? What should I do?
type:
example
text:
Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
ref:
2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
They should have finished by now; I'll call them to check.
type:
example
text:
My fruit trees should be in flower, but the cold spring has set them back.
type:
example
text:
They should have it finished by Friday.
type:
example
text:
When you press this button, the pilot flame should ignite.
type:
example
text:
You should be warm enough with that coat.
type:
example
text:
If I should be late, go without me.
type:
example
text:
Should you need extra blankets, you will find them in the closet.
type:
example
text:
The man demanded that he should be allowed entry.
type:
example
text:
I'm surprised that he should say that.
type:
example
text:
He is noted for coming up with his 'wager', in which he argued that he was prepared to believe in God on the grounds that he had nothing to lose if he was wrong, and everything to gain should he be right.
ref:
2008, Peter Michael Higgins, Number Story: From Counting to Cryptography, page 141 (Google Books view)
text:
I told him that I should be busy tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
If I had not been so tired, I should have laughed heartily.
type:
example
text:
I should imagine that they have arrived by now.
type:
example
text:
I should think you would apologize.
type:
example
text:
I should be very grateful to receive your prompt reply. (formal or old-fashioned)
type:
example
text:
We should very much like to meet her. (formal or old-fashioned)
type:
example
text:
I should like to dine with him. I dare say he gives famous dinners.
ref:
1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
type:
quotation
text:
It's disgraceful the way that they've treated you. I should write and complain.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ought to; indicating opinion, advice, or instruction, about what is required or desirable.
Used to issue an instruction (traditionally seen as carrying less force of authority than alternatives such as 'shall' or 'must').
Ought to; indicating opinion, advice, or instruction, about what is required or desirable.
Used to give advice or opinion that an action is, or would have been, beneficial or desirable.
Ought to; indicating opinion, advice, or instruction, about what is required or desirable.
With verbs such as 'see' or 'hear', usually in the second person, used to point out something remarkable in either a good or bad way.
Ought to; indicating opinion, advice, or instruction, about what is required or desirable.
In questions, asks what is correct, proper, desirable, etc.
Ought to; expressing expectation.
Indicates that something is expected to have happened or to be the case now.
Ought to; expressing expectation.
Will be likely to (become or do something); indicates a degree of possibility or probability that the stated thing will happen or be true in the future.
Used to form a variant of the present subjunctive, expressing a state or action that is hypothetical, potential, mandated, etc.
simple past of shall
An alternative to would with first person subjects.
Used to express a conditional outcome.
An alternative to would with first person subjects.
Used to impart a tentative, conjectural or polite nuance.
An alternative to would with first person subjects.
Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
senses_topics:
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12730 | word:
should
word_type:
noun
expansion:
should (plural shoulds)
forms:
form:
shoulds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English scholde, from Old English sċolde, first and third person preterite form of sċulan (“should,” “have to,” “to owe”), the ancestor of English shall. By surface analysis, shall + -ed. Cognate with German sollte, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 (skulda). Related to Middle English shild and shildy.
senses_examples:
text:
When the golf ball is there, the whole self-interference package — the hopes, worries, and fears; the thoughts on how-to and how-not-to; the woulds, the coulds, and the shoulds — is there too.
ref:
1996, Fred Shoemaker, Extraordinary Golf: The Art of the Possible, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
However, we can address maladaptive shoulds by examining the differences between prior events, causes, proximate causes, and moral responsibility.
ref:
2003, Robert L. Leahy, Overcoming Resistance in Cognitive Therapy
type:
quotation
text:
Being a list-o-maniac, I suggested we make a list of the "shoulds" and "shouldn'ts." So in the darkness of hazy sleep, I began to mentally prepare mine. The first item on the "should" side was easy: a sibling for our 3-year-old daughter.
ref:
2008, Working Mother, volume 31, number 8, page 20
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that ought to be the case as opposed to already being the case.
senses_topics:
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12731 | word:
should
word_type:
verb
expansion:
should (third-person singular simple present shoulds, present participle shoulding, simple past and past participle shoulded)
forms:
form:
shoulds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shoulding
tags:
participle
present
form:
shoulded
tags:
participle
past
form:
shoulded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English scholde, from Old English sċolde, first and third person preterite form of sċulan (“should,” “have to,” “to owe”), the ancestor of English shall. By surface analysis, shall + -ed. Cognate with German sollte, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 (skulda). Related to Middle English shild and shildy.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a statement of what ought to be true, as opposed to reality.
senses_topics:
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12732 | word:
homogeneous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
homogeneous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin homogeneus, from Ancient Greek ὁμογενής (homogenḗs, “of the same race, family or kind”), from ὁμός (homós, “same”) + γένος (génos, “kind”). Compare homo- (“same”) and -ous (adjectival suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
Their citizens were not of homogeneous origin, but were from all parts of Greece.
ref:
1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.25
type:
quotation
text:
The polynomial x²+5xy+y² is homogeneous of degree 2, because x², xy, and y² are all degree 2 monomials
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of the same kind; alike, similar.
Having the same composition throughout; of uniform make-up.
In the same state of matter.
In any of several technical senses uniform; scalable; having its behavior or form determined by, or the same as, its behavior on or form at a smaller component (of its domain of definition, of itself, etc.).
In any of several technical senses uniform; scalable; having its behavior or form determined by, or the same as, its behavior on or form at a smaller component (of its domain of definition, of itself, etc.).
Of polynomials, functions, equations, systems of equations, or linear maps:
Such that all its nonzero terms have the same degree.
In any of several technical senses uniform; scalable; having its behavior or form determined by, or the same as, its behavior on or form at a smaller component (of its domain of definition, of itself, etc.).
Of polynomials, functions, equations, systems of equations, or linear maps:
Such that all the constant terms are zero.
In any of several technical senses uniform; scalable; having its behavior or form determined by, or the same as, its behavior on or form at a smaller component (of its domain of definition, of itself, etc.).
Of polynomials, functions, equations, systems of equations, or linear maps:
Such that if each of f 's inputs are multiplied by the same scalar, f 's output is multiplied by the same scalar to some fixed power (called the degree of homogeneity or degree of f). (Formally and more generally, of a partial function f between vector spaces whose domain is a linear cone) Satisfying the equality f(s mathbf x)=sᵏᶠ(
The function f(x,y)#x3D;x²#x2B;x²ʸ#x2B;y² is not homogeneous on all of #x5C;mathbb#x7B;R#x7D;² because f(2,2)#x3D;16#x5C;neq 2ᵏ#x2A;3#x3D;2ᵏf(1,1) for any k, but f is homogeneous on the subspace of #x5C;mathbb#x7B;R#x7D;² spanned by (1,0) because f(#x5C;alphax,#x5C;alphay)#x3D;#x5C;alphax²#x3D;#x5C;alpha²f(x,y) for all (x,y)#x5C;in#x5C;operatorname#x7B;Span#x7D;#x5C;#x7B;(1,0)#x5C;#x7D;.
In ordinary differential equations (by analogy with the case for polynomial and functional homogeneity):
Capable of being written in the form f(x,y) mathop dy=g(x,y) mathop dx where f and g are homogeneous functions of the same degree as each other.
In ordinary differential equations (by analogy with the case for polynomial and functional homogeneity):
Having its degree-zero term equal to zero; admitting the trivial solution.
In ordinary differential equations (by analogy with the case for polynomial and functional homogeneity):
Homogeneous as a function of the dependent variable and its derivatives.
In abstract algebra and geometry:
Belonging to one of the summands of the grading (if the ring is graded over the natural numbers and the element is in the kth summand, it is said to be homogeneous of degree k; if the ring is graded over a commutative monoid I, and the element is an element of the ith summand, it is said to be of grade i)
In abstract algebra and geometry:
Which respects the grading of its domain and codomain. Formally: Satisfying f(V_j)⊆W_i+j for fixed i (called the degree or grade of f), V_j the jth component of the grading of f 's domain, W_k the kth component of the grading of f 's codomain, and + representing the monoid operation in I.
In abstract algebra and geometry:
Informally: Everywhere the same, uniform, in the sense that any point can be moved to any other (via the group action) while respecting the structure of the space. Formally: Such that the group action is transitively and acts by automorphisms on the space (some authors also require that the action be faithful).
In abstract algebra and geometry:
Of or relating to homogeneous coordinates.
In miscellaneous other senses:
Informally: Determined by its restriction to the unit sphere. Formally: Such that, for all real t>0 and test functions ϕ( mathbf x), the equality S[t⁻ⁿϕ( mathbf x/t)]=t^(mS)[ϕ( mathbf x)] holds for some fixed real or complex m.
In miscellaneous other senses:
Holding between a set and itself; being an endorelation.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences
linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
mathematics
order-theory
sciences
set-theory |
12733 | word:
7
word_type:
noun
expansion:
7 (plural 7s)
forms:
form:
7s
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of 720. (720° spin)
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
skiing
snowboarding
sports |
12734 | word:
monolith
word_type:
noun
expansion:
monolith (plural monoliths)
forms:
form:
monoliths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Stone of the Pregnant Woman
etymology_text:
The noun is borrowed from French monolithe (“object made from a single block of stone”), from Middle French monolythe (“made from a single block of stone”) (rare), and from their etymon Latin monolithus (“made from a single block of stone”), from Ancient Greek μονόλιθος (monólithos, “made from a single block of stone”), from μονο- (mono-, prefix meaning ‘alone; single’) (from μόνος (mónos, “alone; only, unique”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“little, small”)) + λίθος (líthos, “a stone; stone as a substance”); analysable as mono- + -lith. The English word is cognate with German monolith (“made from a single block of stone”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
Tomb of Napoleon I. [...] Twelve colossal statues, by [James] Pradier, representing as many victories, stand against the pilasters, facing the tomb, consisting of an immense monolith of porphyry, weighing 135,000 lbs., and brought from Lake Onega in Finland at a cost of 140,000fr.
ref:
1856, “Tenth Arrondissement. Western Portion.”, in Galignani’s New Paris Guide, for 1856. […], Paris: A[nthony] and W[illiam] Galignani & Co. […], →OCLC, page 355
type:
quotation
text:
Rumour, with her thousand tongues, affirms that the "Prince Albert Memorial" will not take the form of a monolith; we shall not be sorry to learn the fact of some more suitable monument having been decided upon.
ref:
1862, “The Monthly Mirror of Fact and Rumour”, in The National Magazine, volume XII, London: W. Tweedie […], →OCLC, page 48, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
[...] I do not think that the idea of a serpent with a ball at its mouth is so very palpable a religious symbol, and one so innate, that it should be the very first thing which would occur as an emblem of the great deity of the waters, to aboriginal Egyptians, to monolith-setters in Brittany, to mound-builders in Ohio, to Peruvians and Mexicans.
ref:
1875, Charles G[odfrey] Leland, “Remarks on Colonel [Bardey] Kennon’s Letter”, in Fusang or The Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century, London: Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
The practice of using large blocks of stone, either as monoliths or as forming parts of structures, has existed from the earliest times in all parts of the world.
ref:
1875 August 27, John Hawkshaw, “British Association for the Advancement of Science. Bristol Meeting, August 25, 1875. Inaugural Address of the President, Sir John Hawkshaw, F.R.S.”, in William Crookes, editor, The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science. […], volume XXXII, number 822, London: […] William Crookes, […], →OCLC, page 88, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Similar engines are erected in Yorkshire on concrete foundations, with a top layer of monolith or Bramley Fall stone, costing from £800 to £1000.
ref:
1889, Daniel Kinnear Clark, “Pair of Horizontal Compound Reversing Rail-mill Engines. […]”, in The Steam Engine: A Treatise on Steam Engines and Boilers. […], half-volume III, London, Glasgow: Blackie & Son, →OCLC, page 357
type:
quotation
text:
On 2 April 1901 Doyle wrote to his mother from Rowe's Duchy Hotel at Princetown: [...] We did fourteen miles over the moor to-day and are now pleasantly weary. It is a great place, very sad and wild, dotted with the dwellings of prehistoric man, strange monoliths and huts and graves.
ref:
1901 April 2, W. W. Robson, quoting Arthur Conan Doyle, “Introduction”, in Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World’s Classics; The Oxford Sherlock Holmes), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 1993 (1998 reissue), page xii
type:
quotation
text:
Foothold Ruin sits on an isolated sandstone monolith with additional rooms at the base. Access up the monolith is by a set of footholds in the rockface.
ref:
1987 March, Draft Farmington Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement, Farmington, N.M.: Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, →OCLC, page B-34, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The width of a monolith is the distance between monolith joints as measured along the axis of the dam. [...] In recent construction, monolith widths have been commonly set at approximately 50 feet but with some structures having monoliths ranging from 30 to 80 feet.
ref:
2012, “Arch Dams”, in J. Paul Guyer, editor, An Introduction to Design and Construction of Dams, El Macero, Calif.: The Clubhouse Press, section 1.2.6.1 (Spacing of Monolith Joints), page 32
type:
quotation
text:
The Washington Monument is often described as an obelisk, and sometimes even as a "true obelisk," even though it is not. A true obelisk is a monolith, a pylon formed out of a single piece of stone.
ref:
2012 January, Henry Petroski, “The Washington Monument”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, New Haven, Conn.: Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-29, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
[...] Chimney Rock State Park is one of North Carolina's newest state parks. Its most famous landmark is the park's namesake, a spectacular granite monolith known as Chimney Rock, providing panoramic views of Lake Lure, the surrounding mountains, and nearby Piedmont.
ref:
2015, Timothy P. Spira, “Hickory Nut Falls, Chimney Rock State Park”, in Waterfalls & Wildflowers in the Southern Appalachians: Thirty Great Hikes (A Southern Gateways Guide), Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, part III (Hike Narratives), page 100
type:
quotation
text:
It was the setting up of generalizations of the first kind in [Charles J.] Fillmore (1966a, b) and (1968a) that awarded case grammar the role of being, besides abstract syntax, the second crack in the transformational monolith of the late sixties.
ref:
1980, Hans-Ulrich Boas, “Some Remarks on Case Grammars as Bases for Contrastive Studies”, in Jacek Fisiak, editor, Theoretical Issues in Contrastive Linguistics (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series IV, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; 12), Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISSN, part II (Linguistic Models and Contrastive Studies of Language), page 71
type:
quotation
text:
But English society is no monolith, and it is a gross simplification to force it into one mould.
ref:
1984, Joan Thirsk, “Preface”, in The Rural Economy of England (History Series; 25), London: The Hambledon Press, page vi
type:
quotation
text:
Recent scholarship on colonial history has demonstrated that British America was not simply an English but rather a multicultural society. Far from being a homogeneous monolith, colonial society comprised many divergent races and ethnic groups.
ref:
1996, Charles Patrick Neimeyer, “A True Pell-mell of Human Souls: The Germans in the Continental Army”, in America at War: A Social History of the Continental Army (The American Social Experience Series; 33), New York, N.Y., London: New York University Press, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
For whatever reason, one knows that the Senegalese poet-president [Léopold Sédar Senghor] became the Father of the ideology, cleverly weaving a network of cultural contributions and atavistic, essential, and behavioral components into a kind of black monolith hardly acceptable to anyone.
ref:
1996, Femi Ojo-Ade, “Nicolas Guillén: Negritude and Nationalism”, in Being Black, Being Human: More Essays on Black Culture, Trenton, N.J., Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, published 2004, page 157
type:
quotation
text:
Southern Democratic plantation masters' prestige and dominance were equivalent to monolith monarchs. They had influence around the world, especially within the political arena.
ref:
2012 May 14, Ernest Lawson Jr., Political Bias Distortion, Based on Philosophical Agendas, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Trafford Publishing, page 168
type:
quotation
text:
Intentionally or not, the movie [Ralph Breaks the Internet] makes Disney feel as enormous as the internet itself, containing a series of micro-targeted idiosyncrasies and in-jokes that are nonetheless controlled by a cultural monolith (whether that's Disney or whatever massive corporation owns your local ISP).
ref:
2018 November 14, Jesse Hassenger, “Disney Goes Viral with an Ambitious, Overstuffed Wreck-It Ralph Sequel”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-11-21
type:
quotation
text:
The conference chairman, Alois Jungbauer, Ph.D., professor at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna, defined a monolith as a continuous stationary-phase cast as a homogeneous column in a single piece. Monoliths are further characterized by a highly interconnected network of channels, most with sizes ranging from 1 to 5 µm. The adsorptive surface is directly accessible to solutes as they pass through the column.
ref:
2008 August 1, Pete Gagnon, “Monoliths Emerge as Key Purification Methodology”, in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, volume 28, number 14, Mary Ann Liebert, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2008-12-11, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
[W]ork performed by Gough et al. looked at the long-term culture (28 days) of craniofacial fibroblasts seeded on to monolith calcium/sodium phosphate glass surfaces.
ref:
2011, E. A. Abou Neel, V. Salih, J. C. Knowles, “Phosphate-based Glasses”, in Paul Ducheyne, editor, Comprehensive Biomaterials, volumes 1 (Metallic, Ceramic and Polymeric Biomaterials), Amsterdam, Kidlington, Oxfordshire: Elsevier, page 291, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
[page 98] If a stub is to be retained, either for the reasons stated above, or when a tree is to be reduced to a "monolith" [...], unconventional methods of cutting or fracturing (not recommended in BS 3998) may be employed, [...] [page 147] Even dead standing or fallen trees are important, and so owners should be encouraged to be untidy-minded and to leave monoliths or fallen dead wood in situ.
ref:
2013 February, “Tree Work: Assessment of Requirements” and “Ancient Trees in the Landscape: Advocacy for Holistic and Landscape-scale Management”, in David Lonsdale, editor, Ancient and Other Veteran Trees: Further Guidance on Management, London: The Tree Council, archived from the original on 2020-02-05, pages 98 and 147
type:
quotation
text:
Stumps of older fallen trees, known as upright monoliths, have incredible environmental value and can provide a home and food source for insects for decades.
ref:
2020 August 15, Jess Warren, “New home for remains of oak tree that fell into Earley road”, in The Wokingham Paper, Wokingham, Berkshire: Xn Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-09-10
type:
quotation
text:
Unexpectedly, even some of the monoliths are throwing out new shoots. This is great news, as these trees contain ancient woodland DNA, so are a very valuable seedbank. Further along the site, Penny shows me a famous translocated stump... the Cubbington pear tree. [...] The stump was translocated, and the trunk used as a monolith - but not before dozens of cuttings had been taken, some of which are growing nearby. And the stump? It's already throwing out dozens of new shoots as it's become re-established.
ref:
2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 44
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large, single block of stone which is a natural feature; or a block of stone or other similar material used in architecture and sculpture, especially one carved into a monument in ancient times.
Anything massive, uniform, and unmovable, especially a towering and impersonal cultural, political, or social organization or structure.
A substrate having many tiny channels that is cast as a single piece, which is used as a stationary phase for chromatography, as a catalytic surface, etc.
A dead tree whose height and size have been reduced by breaking off or cutting its branches.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle |
12735 | word:
monolith
word_type:
verb
expansion:
monolith (third-person singular simple present monoliths, present participle monolithing, simple past and past participle monolithed)
forms:
form:
monoliths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
monolithing
tags:
participle
present
form:
monolithed
tags:
participle
past
form:
monolithed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Stone of the Pregnant Woman
etymology_text:
The noun is borrowed from French monolithe (“object made from a single block of stone”), from Middle French monolythe (“made from a single block of stone”) (rare), and from their etymon Latin monolithus (“made from a single block of stone”), from Ancient Greek μονόλιθος (monólithos, “made from a single block of stone”), from μονο- (mono-, prefix meaning ‘alone; single’) (from μόνος (mónos, “alone; only, unique”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“little, small”)) + λίθος (líthos, “a stone; stone as a substance”); analysable as mono- + -lith. The English word is cognate with German monolith (“made from a single block of stone”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
It should be noted that the parapets, also monolithing with the decking slab, contribute an important share to the effective resistance of the work.
ref:
1927, Ferro-concrete: The Monthly Review of Reinforced Concrete, volume 19, London: London & Norwich Press, →OCLC, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
The main construction operations are the following: [...] 101,000 cu m of pre-fabricated concrete and 89,000 cu m for monolithing pre-fabricated structures.
ref:
1963, New Horizons: Topmost Dams of the World, Tokyo: Nihon Damu Kyōkai [Japan Dam Association], →OCLC, page 229, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
The idea of joint action of carrying constructions for the seismic load by monolithing horizontal and vertical joints is [the] basis of designing frameless large panel buildings for earthquake resistance [...]
ref:
1965, Proceedings of the World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, volume 3, Berkeley, Calif.: University Extension, Department of Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 614
type:
quotation
text:
Foundations were tied and monolithed, ductility was added to the structures [...] and specific measures were prescribed for each building, designed to prevent the entry of water into the ground; prohibiting wells, and channeling surface runoff.
ref:
2016, J. A. Martin-Caro, I. Paniagua, “Erbil Citadel Restoration: Some Thoughts on Earth-built Constructions Exposed to Seismic Action”, in C[arlos] A. Brebbia, editor, Sustainable Development (WIT Transactions on the Built Environment; 168), volume 1, Ashurst, Hampshire: WIT Press; Billerica, Mass.: Computational Mechanics International, →ISSN, section 9 (Architectural Heritage), page 588
type:
quotation
text:
Residents who use the park regularly for sports say they are gobsmacked that the council consider cutting the tree down as the only option. But the council have said that public safety is paramount when assessing damaged trees, a branch crashing down could kill someone, and that the tree is not being cut down but just monolithed.
ref:
2018 December 5, Daniel Clark, “Campaigners Tie Themselves to Historic Cowick Barton Oak Tree that Council Says is Dangerous”, in Devon Live, archived from the original on 2018-12-06
type:
quotation
text:
The go-ahead has been given to fell 23 Lawson cypress and ‘monolith’ (reduce to their main stems, without branches) four dead alder, which made up part of the woodland off Bickland Water Road.
ref:
2020 February 19, Emma Ferguson, The Falmouth Packet, Falmouth, Cornwall: Packet Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-02-19
type:
quotation
text:
[Fatema] Mernissi constructs a single dominant view of sexuality among Muslims while she purports to be doing sociology or anthropology. [...] [I]s it Mernissi's contention that only Islam is monolithed in stone by an overarching patriarchy?
ref:
2005, Daniel Martin Varisco, “Beyond the Veil: At Play in the Bed of the Prophet”, in Islam Obscured: The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion), New York, N.Y., Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
Secondary waste solids such as fines from high-temperature filters and the bag house can be mixed with the bed product and monolithed for disposal.
ref:
2011, Committee on Waste Forms Technology and Performance, Division of Earth and Life Studies, Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, National Research Council, “Waste Processing and Waste Form Production”, in Waste Forms Technology and Performance: Final Report, Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, page 101
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To create (something) as, or convert (one or more things) into, a monolith.
To cast (one or more concrete components) in a single piece with no joints.
To create (something) as, or convert (one or more things) into, a monolith.
To reduce the height and size of (a dead tree) by breaking off or cutting its branches.
To create (something) as, or convert (one or more things) into, a monolith.
senses_topics:
business
construction
manufacturing
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
|
12736 | word:
accrete
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accrete (third-person singular simple present accretes, present participle accreting, simple past and past participle accreted)
forms:
form:
accretes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accreting
tags:
participle
present
form:
accreted
tags:
participle
past
form:
accreted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from accretion.
senses_examples:
text:
Astronomers believe the Earth began to accrete more than 4.6 billion years ago.
type:
example
text:
According to the reigning hypothesis, about 4.5 billion years ago, shortly after Earth had accreted down into a sphere from its little slub of circumsolar material, another newborn planet [Theia], still shaky on its feet, slammed obliquely into Earth with terrifying force.
ref:
2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Chris Ormel, an astronomer at the University of Amsterdam, and his colleagues recently calculated that protoplanets began to form at the snow line around the star, then grew quickly by accreting pebbles.
ref:
2018 April 26, Alexandra Witze, “Earth May Have Been Formed by a Bunch of Tiny Space Pebbles”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
the reader has not only mastered this distinction , but that he has so thoroughly accreted it and assimilated it to his habits of mind
ref:
1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To grow together, combine; to fuse.
To adhere; to grow or to be added to gradually.
To make adhere; to add; to make larger or more, as by growing.
senses_topics:
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12737 | word:
accrete
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accrete (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from accretion.
senses_examples:
text:
accrete matter
type:
example
text:
Fruit coriaceous, crowned with accrete calyx
ref:
1881, Henry Baillon, “Jackia”, in The Natural History of Plants, volume 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Characterized by accretion; made up
Grown together
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
12738 | word:
aphasia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aphasia (countable and uncountable, plural aphasias)
forms:
form:
aphasias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French aphasie, from Ancient Greek ἀφασία (aphasía), from ἄφατος (áphatos, “speechless”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + φάσις (phásis, “speech”). Equivalent to a- + -phasia.
senses_examples:
text:
The very disease aphasia is to most of us a new one; and we venture to say that even yet no one can give a satisfactory definition of Trousseau's new term.
ref:
1865, “Discussions upon Aphasia”, in Medical and Surgical Reporter, volume 8, page 197
type:
quotation
text:
Of one form of aphasia we have an accurate description by Van Swieten, in his chapter on apoplexia:―"Vidi plures, qui ab apoplexiâ curati omnibus functionibus cerebri recte valebant, nisi quod deesset, hoc unicum, quod non possent vera rebus designandis vocabula invenire."
ref:
1865, J. T. Banks, “On the Loss of Language in Cerebral Disease”, in Dublin quarterly journal of medical science, volume 39, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
The Doctor came over in three minutes, and heard the story. ‘It's aphasia,’ he said.
ref:
1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
Bruce Willis, the prolific action-movie star, has been diagnosed with aphasia — a disorder that affects the brain’s language center and a person’s ability to understand or express speech — and will step away from acting, his ex-wife, Demi Moore, announced in an Instagram post on Wednesday.
ref:
2022 March 30, Maya Salam, “Bruce Willis Has Aphasia and Is ‘Stepping Away’ From His Career”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A partial or total loss of language skills due to brain damage. Usually, damage to the left perisylvian region, including Broca's area and Wernicke's area, causes aphasia.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences |
12739 | word:
transcendent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
transcendent (comparative more transcendent, superlative most transcendent)
forms:
form:
more transcendent
tags:
comparative
form:
most transcendent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From transcend + -ent, or borrowed from Latin trānscendēns.
senses_examples:
text:
"One shot. Wars can't be won with just one... oh. Oh my. You utterly transcendent idiots should not have put a transponder there."
ref:
2020 June 13, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 2024-01-27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Surpassing usual limits.
Supreme in excellence.
Beyond the range of usual perception.
Free from constraints of the material world.
senses_topics:
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12740 | word:
transcendent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
transcendent (plural transcendents)
forms:
form:
transcendents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From transcend + -ent, or borrowed from Latin trānscendēns.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which surpasses or is supereminent; something excellent.
senses_topics:
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12741 | word:
ignominy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ignominy (countable and uncountable, plural ignominies)
forms:
form:
ignominies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French ignominie, from Latin ignōminia, from ig- (“not”) + nomen (“name”) (prefix assimilated form of in-).
senses_examples:
text:
Calvin: Our great plan backfired and I'm the one who got soaked! Oh, the shame! The ignominy!
ref:
a. 1994, Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, Andrews McMeel, page 168
text:
It was tribal, almost relentless and, in the case of the official England band, there was a degree of ignominy, too, for repeatedly playing a tune for which the words go “Fuck the IRA”, something that could lead to a full breakdown of their relationship with the FA.
ref:
2014 November 18, Daniel Taylor, “England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The lawyer who shot to ignominy last week with a racist rant at a Manhattan lunch spot apologized Tuesday on social media, where a video of his threat to call immigration agents on Spanish-speaking workers had first gone viral.
ref:
2018 May 22, Liz Robbins, Maya Salam, “‘I Am Not Racist’: Lawyer Issues Apology One Week After Rant”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
"I studied to be a diplomat and have been a diplomat for twenty years," Bondarev wrote. "The (Russian foreign) ministry has become my home and family. But I simply cannot any longer share in this bloody, witless and absolutely needless ignominy."
ref:
2022 May 23, “Russian diplomat in Switzerland says he resigns over Ukraine invasion”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-26, Europe
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.
senses_topics:
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12742 | word:
maximum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maximum (plural maxima or maximums)
forms:
form:
maxima
tags:
plural
form:
maximums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
maximum
etymology_text:
Via French from Latin maximum.
senses_examples:
text:
This is the fundamental principle of good legislation. It is the art of conducting a nation to the maximum of happiness and the minimum of misery
ref:
1806, P. Colquhoun, A Treatise on Indigence
type:
quotation
text:
I just got out of maximum where I did 4 months for an arguent I had in the serving area.
ref:
1983 April 23, Alice Thompson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The highest limit.
The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function.
An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
The largest value of a batch or sample or the upper bound of a probability distribution.
A 147 break; the highest possible break.
A score of 180 with three darts.
A scoring shot for 6 runs.
maximum security
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
statistics
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
darts
games
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
12743 | word:
maximum
word_type:
adj
expansion:
maximum (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
maximum
etymology_text:
Via French from Latin maximum.
senses_examples:
text:
Use the proper dose for the maximum effect.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To the highest degree.
senses_topics:
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12744 | word:
gunshot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gunshot (countable and uncountable, plural gunshots)
forms:
form:
gunshots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From gun + shot.
senses_examples:
text:
For those, who are come over to the royal party, are consequently supposed to be out of gunshot.
ref:
(Can we date this quote?), John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of discharging a firearm.
The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun; the reach or range of a gun.
A bullet, projectile, or other shot fired from a gun.
senses_topics:
|
12745 | word:
account book
word_type:
noun
expansion:
account book (plural account books)
forms:
form:
account books
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A book in which accounts are kept; ledger.
senses_topics:
accounting
business
finance |
12746 | word:
ply
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ply (countable and uncountable, plural ply or plies or plys)
forms:
form:
ply
tags:
plural
form:
plies
tags:
plural
form:
plys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pleit, plit, plite (“a fold, pleat, wrinkle; braid, strand in a braided cord, ply”), from Anglo-Norman pli, plei, pleit, and Middle French pli, ploy, ply (“a fold, pleat; joint in armour; situation, state”) (modern French pli (“a fold, pleat”)), from plier, ployer (“to bend, fold”), from Latin plicāre, present active infinitive of plicō (“to bend, fold, roll up”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to fold, plait, weave”).
senses_examples:
text:
two-ply toilet paper
type:
example
text:
It is possible to have a very well load balanced partition but with such a high ply that its slowest piece is slower than a not-so-well balanced partition with less ply.
ref:
1999, Twelfth International Conference on VLSI Design: Proceedings: January 7–10, 1999, Goa, India, Los Alamitos, Calif.: IEEE Computer Society Press, page 313
type:
quotation
text:
The designer critic's staff would come in with, for example, loads of three-ply cashmere. The students weren't even selecting their own fabrics.
ref:
2015 October, Tim Gunn, with Ada Calhoun, “Repositioning the Parsons Fashion Design Program”, in Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor: A Master Class on Mentoring, Motivating, and Making it Work!, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, part I (Truth Telling), page 49
type:
quotation
text:
To make the hail rod a rope of straw is the first thing necessary; it must be made of ripe wheat straw, soaked and twisted, plaited with three strand and then with four ply, making twelve strand to the rope.
ref:
1837 August, “Art I. Protection against Hail Storms. Notice and Description of the Paragrèle, or Hail Rod. By A. J. Downing, Botanic Garden and Nurseries, Newbergh, N.Y.”, in C. M. Hovey, editor, The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, volume III, number VIII (number XXXII overall), Boston, Mass.: Published by Hovey & Co., […]; New York, N.Y.: Israel Post, […], →OCLC, page 281
type:
quotation
text:
The compartment ceiling panels are of plastic material backed with ply or hardboard panels.
ref:
1951 May, “British Railway Standard Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 328
type:
quotation
text:
The Standards describe the quality of timber or ply, moisture content, amount of acceptable sapwood, freedom from decay and insect attack, limitation of checks and splits and treatment of resin staining, and the way plugging may be employed to mask defects in ply faces.
ref:
1994, Alan Blanc, “Doors”, in Mitchell’s Internal Components (Mitchell’s Building Series), Essex: Longman Scientific & Technical; republished London: Routledge, 2014, section 6.5 (Flush Doors)
type:
quotation
text:
Teak-faced ply is about three times the price of any other, so if you need to economise, anything other than teak would be a good choice! Similarly, marine ply is substantially more expensive than exterior ply, so it may be preferable to go with the latter option.
ref:
2015, “Hull and Deck”, in Judith Chamberlain-Webber, editor, The Boat Improvement Bible: Practical Projects to Customise and Upgrade Your Boat, London: Adlard Coles Nautical, page 39, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
He proposed to build Deep Purple, a super-computer capable of 24-ply look-ahead for chess.
type:
example
text:
Chinook uses an iterative, alpha-beta search with transposition tables and the history heuristic[…]. Under tournament conditions (thirty moves an hour), the program searches to an average minimum depth of nineteen ply (one ply is one move by one player). The search uses selective deepening to extend lines that are tactically or positionally interesting. Consequently, major lines of play are often searched many plies deeper. It is not uncommon for the program to produce analyses that are thirty-ply deep or more.
ref:
1996, Jonathan Schaeffer, Robert Lake, “Solving the Game of Checkers”, in Richard J. Nowakowski, editor, Games of No Chance: Combinatorial Games at MSRI, 1994 (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications; 29), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
Two principal search strategies were (correctly) predicted: Type-A programs that apply "brute force" inspection of every possible position over a fixed number of plys; and Type-B programs that prune potential moves according to some selection function and then examine the significant sets over as many plys as practical and only at those positions reflecting a degree of stability.
ref:
2009, Richard A. Epstein, “Games of Pure Skill and Competitive Computers”, in The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, 2nd edition, Burlington, Mass.: Academic Press; special edition, Waltham, Mass., Kidlington, Oxfordshire: Academic Press, 2013, page 380
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A layer of material.
A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
Short for plywood.
In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
A condition, a state.
senses_topics:
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12747 | word:
ply
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ply (third-person singular simple present plies, present participle plying, simple past and past participle plied)
forms:
form:
plies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
plying
tags:
participle
present
form:
plied
tags:
participle
past
form:
plied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English plīen, pli, plie (“to bend, fold, mould, shape; to be flexible; to be submissive, humble oneself; to compel someone to submit”), from Anglo-Norman plier, plaier, pleier, ploier, and Middle French plier, ployer (“to bend, fold; to be submissive; to compel someone to submit”) (modern French plier, ployer), from Old French ploiier, pleier (“to fold”), from Latin plicāre (“to fold”); see further at etymology 1. The word is cognate with Catalan plegar (“to bend, fold”), Italian piegare (“to bend, fold, fold up”), Old Occitan plegar, plejar, pleyar (“to fold”) (modern Occitan plegar), Spanish plegar (“to fold”).
senses_examples:
text:
And now when at length the Vineyard has ſhed its late Leaves, and the cold Northwind ſhook from the Groves their Honours; even then the active Swain extends his Cares to the enſuing Year, and cloſe plys the deſolate forſaken Vine, cutting off the ſuperfluous Roots with Saturn's crooked Hook, and forms it by pruning.
ref:
1743, Virgil, “The Georgics of Virgil. Book II.”, in [Joseph Davidson], transl., The Works of Virgil Translated into English Prose, […] In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for Joseph Davidson, […], →OCLC, page 135
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bend; to fold; to mould; (figuratively) to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit.
To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
senses_topics:
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12748 | word:
ply
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ply (third-person singular simple present plies, present participle plying, simple past and past participle plied)
forms:
form:
plies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
plying
tags:
participle
present
form:
plied
tags:
participle
past
form:
plied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From apply; compare Middle English plīen, pli, plie, pleie (“to place (something) around, on, or over, to cover; to apply, use; to strive”), short for aplīen, applīen (“to combine, join; to attach; to assemble; to use, be of use; to allot; to apply; to inflict; to go; to ply, steer; to comply, submit”), from Old French applier, aplier, aploier (“to bend; to apply”), from Latin applicāre, present active infinitive of applicō (“to apply; to attach, join; to add”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to, towards’”) + plicō (“to bend, fold, roll up”); see further at etymology 1.
senses_examples:
text:
He plied his trade as carpenter for forty-three years.
type:
example
text:
Ply you your work or elſe you are like to ſmart.
ref:
1595, G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], printed at London: By Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, →OCLC; reprinted as The Old Wives Tale, 1595 (The Malone Society Reprints; 7), Oxford: Printed for the Malone Society by Horace Hart M.A., at the Oxford University Press, 1908 (February 1909 reprint), →OCLC, line 720
type:
quotation
text:
But English Courage growing as they fight, / In danger, noise, and slaughter takes delight, / Their bloody Task, unwearied, still they ply, / Only restrain’d by Death, or Victory: […]
ref:
1666, Edm[und] Waller, Instructions to a Painter, for the Drawing of the Posture & Progress of His Ma[jes]ᵗⁱᵉˢ Forces at Sea, under the Command of His Highness Royal. […], London: Printed for Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
He plied his ax with bloody results.
type:
example
text:
He [a carpenter] feels an additional particle of new life coursing through his veins, and he plys the plane on the following day with additional energy to his own and to his master's satisfaction.
ref:
1854, “St. Valentine’s Day”, in The Favorite, volume I, London: Partridge, Oakey, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 114
type:
quotation
text:
Drink had dispelled all common prudence, and chuckling at the idea of finding treasures unknown to their comrades, they plied the crowbar to the door, which was locked, but it soon yielded.
ref:
1863, [James Pascoe], “Death in the Vaults”, in The Brigantine. A Story of the Sea. In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 299
type:
quotation
text:
[T]his abuse is as outrageous as are the acts of any Ku-Klux that ever plied the lash or sounded a whistle, […]
ref:
1871 February 24, B. F. Sawyer, “The Ku-Klux—The Atlanta Sun and Bullock’s Proclamation”, in Rome Courier; quoted in Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States. Georgia, volume II, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1 November 1871, published 1872, →OCLC, page 883
type:
quotation
text:
to ply someone with questions or solicitations
type:
example
text:
to ply someone with drink
type:
example
text:
Esther began […] to cry. But when the fire had been lit specially to warm her chilled limbs and Adela had plied her with hot negus she began to feel rather a heroine.
ref:
1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw [pseudonym; Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw], chapter VII, in A House is Built, London: George G. Harrap and Co., →OCLC, section VI
type:
quotation
text:
to ply the seven seas
type:
example
text:
The steamer plies between several ports on the coast.
type:
example
text:
[T]he ſaid corporation ſhall and may be authorized and required to licenſe all ſuch perſon or perſons as ſhall keep or drive any cars, drays or carts, plying for hire within the ſaid town of Wexford,
ref:
1794, “Chap. XXVI. An Act for the Improvement of the Town and Harbour of Wexford, and for Building a Bridge or Bridges over the River Slaney, at or near said Town.”, in Statutes Passed in the Parliaments Held in Ireland, volume X, Dublin: Printed by George Grierson, […], published 1799, →OCLC, section LXXIII, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
An act of parliament, empowering the plaintiffs, a company, to ply on Sundays from certain points on the south bank of the Thames, but imposing no obligation to provide means of transport or to maintain their plying-places, does not confer an exclusive right against the rest of the world, such as the Court of Chancery will interfere to protect; […]
ref:
1866 March 21, “Letton v. Goodden”, in Montagu Chambers, Francis Towers Streeten, Frederick Hoare Colt, editors, The Law Journal Reports for the Year 1866: […], volumes XXXV (New Series; volume XLIV overall), part I (Chancery and Bankruptcy), London: Printed by James Holmes, […]; [p]ublished by Edward Bret Ince, […], →OCLC, headnote, page 427, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Steam navigation is in its infancy: four small 600-ton steamers ply between Hankow, Changsha, and Siangtan; and there are also perhaps a score of launches plying in and out of the province.
ref:
1907, Mark Tennien, edited by Marshall Broomhall, The Chinese Empire: A General & Missionary Survey, London: Morgan & Scott, page 169
type:
quotation
text:
Before the bridging of the Forth, the train ferry which plied across the estuary from Granton to Burntisland was inconvenient, slow, and uncomfortable, and although an alternative route was available, it meant a detour by rail of 70 miles via Stirling [...].
ref:
1941 January, the late John Phillimore, “The Forth Bridge 1890-1940”, in Railway Magazine, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Weighed anchor about five morn, and plied till about noon, and then anchored. This day, at morn, went about the general to council: the result was, the fleet should ply near, as with convenience, to the Texel, to prevent a conjunction of those ships there with Admiral [Maarten] Tromp; […]
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1653 July 21, William Penn, Granville Penn, “A Journal on the Vanguard”, in Memorial of the Professional Life and Times of Sir William Penn, Knt. Admiral and General of the Fleet, during the Interregnum; Admiral and Commissioner of the Admiralty and Navy, after the Restoration. From 1644 to 1670. … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: James Duncan, […], published 1833, →OCLC, page 535
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To work at (something) diligently.
To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
To press upon; to urge persistently.
To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
To travel over (a route) regularly.
To work diligently.
To manoeuvre a sailing vessel so that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to work to windward, to beat, to tack.
senses_topics:
transport
nautical
transport |
12749 | word:
ply
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ply
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From apply; compare Middle English plīen, pli, plie, pleie (“to place (something) around, on, or over, to cover; to apply, use; to strive”), short for aplīen, applīen (“to combine, join; to attach; to assemble; to use, be of use; to allot; to apply; to inflict; to go; to ply, steer; to comply, submit”), from Old French applier, aplier, aploier (“to bend; to apply”), from Latin applicāre, present active infinitive of applicō (“to apply; to attach, join; to add”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to, towards’”) + plicō (“to bend, fold, roll up”); see further at etymology 1.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bent; a direction.
senses_topics:
|
12750 | word:
-um
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-um (plural -a)
forms:
form:
-a
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the homographic case endings of the nominative, accusative, and vocative forms of numerous neuter Latin second declension nouns.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Denotes singular grammatical number.
Forms the ends of the names of certain elements (such as molybdenum and platinum).
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
12751 | word:
-um
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-um
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly from 'em.
senses_examples:
text:
Having finished her return of deaths, she went on to say "Black fellow sick—white lady fowl sendum—white lady kangaroo sendum—master all self eatum—" but here she paused and made an exception in favour of the matron, expressed by the words " Missis not eatum—missis good fellow."
ref:
1871, Mrs. Edward Millett, An Australian parsonage; or, The settler and the savage in Western Australia, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
"Givum dinner; smokum pipe," was all that we could get out of Quatchett.
ref:
1896, F J Stimsom, King Noanett: A Story of Old Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay, page 254
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Denotes transitive verbs in the trade pidgins used between English-speakers and indigenous populations; used derogatorily by extension in English by addition to any verb, transitive or not.
senses_topics:
|
12752 | word:
nefarious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
nefarious (comparative more nefarious, superlative most nefarious)
forms:
form:
more nefarious
tags:
comparative
form:
most nefarious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin nefārius (“execrable, abominable”), from nefās (“something contrary to divine law, an impious deed, sin, crime”), from ne- (“not”) + fās (“the dictates of religion, divine law”), which is related to Latin for (“I speak, I say”) and cognate to Ancient Greek φημί (phēmí, “I say”).
senses_examples:
text:
Aliens have a nefarious connotation in many science fiction books.
type:
example
text:
"If the vessel be no fair-trading slaver, nor a common cruiser of his Majesty, it is as tangible as the best man's reasoning, that she may be neither more nor less than the ship of that nefarious pirate the Red Rover."
ref:
1828, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 2, in The Red Rover
type:
quotation
text:
Mommsen […]declares that Catiline in particular was "one of the most nefarious men in that nefarious age. His villanies belong to the criminal records, not to history."
ref:
1877, Anthony Trollope, chapter 9, in The Life of Cicero
type:
quotation
text:
The fact that the room was still in darkness made it obvious that something nefarious was afoot. Plainly there was dirty work in preparation at the cross-roads.
ref:
1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 26, in The Indiscretions of Archie
type:
quotation
text:
I try to let everyone back here in Minnesota know exactly the nefarious activities that are taking place in Washington.
ref:
2009 October 14, Monica Davey, “Fact Checker Finds Falsehoods in Remarks”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.
senses_topics:
|
12753 | word:
eternal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
eternal (comparative more eternal, superlative most eternal)
forms:
form:
more eternal
tags:
comparative
form:
most eternal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eternal, from Old French eternal, from Late Latin aeternālis, from Latin aeternus (“eternal”), from aevum (“age”). Displaced native Old English ēċe.
senses_examples:
text:
But here again it is another question, quite different from our having an idea of eternity, to know whether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal.
ref:
1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
type:
quotation
text:
Thy smoking altar shall be fat with food / Of incense and the grateful steam of blood; / Burnt-offerings morn and evening shall be thine, / And fires eternal in thy temple shine.
ref:
1700 [c. 1387–1400], John, transl. Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite”, in Fables, Ancient and Modern, translation of The Knight's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
type:
quotation
text:
Organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation, an accident. Your lives are measured in years and decades. You wither and die.
We are eternal. The pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Virmire
type:
quotation
text:
In a bid to understand the eternal mystery that is woman, Bart goes to the least qualified possible source for advice and counsel: his father, who remarkably seems to have made it to his mid-30s without quite figuring out much of anything.
ref:
2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
some eternal villain
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lasting forever; unending.
Existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly.
Constant; perpetual; ceaseless; ever-present.
Exceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
|
12754 | word:
eternal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eternal (plural eternals)
forms:
form:
eternals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eternal, from Old French eternal, from Late Latin aeternālis, from Latin aeternus (“eternal”), from aevum (“age”). Displaced native Old English ēċe.
senses_examples:
text:
Yes, I want that raw power that is only offered to the eternals or creators
ref:
2012, D. E. Phoenix, Revelations of the Fallen: The Blasphemy of Astrial Belthromoto
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who lives forever; an immortal.
senses_topics:
|
12755 | word:
kennel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kennel (plural kennels)
forms:
form:
kennels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English kenel, kenell, borrowed from Anglo-Norman *kenil, northern variant of Old French chenil, from Vulgar Latin *canīle, from Latin canis.
senses_examples:
text:
– We want to look at the dog kennels.
– That's the pet department, second floor.
type:
example
text:
A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell
Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel;
Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write,
ref:
c. 1515-1516, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c., published 1568
type:
quotation
roman:
Of fals double tunges in the diſpite.
text:
The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.
type:
example
text:
She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel.
type:
example
text:
A little herd of England's timorous deer, / Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!
ref:
1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, act 4, scene 2
type:
quotation
text:
A world of mere Patent-Digesters will soon have nothing to digest: such world ends, and by Law of Nature must end, in ‘over-population;’ in howling universal famine, ‘impossibility,’ and suicidal madness, as of endless dog-kennels run rabid.
ref:
1843, Thomas Carlyle, “IX: Working Aristocracy”, in Past and Present, book 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A house or shelter for a dog.
A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
The hole of a fox or other animal.
senses_topics:
|
12756 | word:
kennel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kennel (third-person singular simple present kennels, present participle kenneling or kennelling, simple past and past participle kenneled or kennelled)
forms:
form:
kennels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kenneling
tags:
participle
present
form:
kennelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
kenneled
tags:
participle
past
form:
kenneled
tags:
past
form:
kennelled
tags:
participle
past
form:
kennelled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English kenel, kenell, borrowed from Anglo-Norman *kenil, northern variant of Old French chenil, from Vulgar Latin *canīle, from Latin canis.
senses_examples:
text:
While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.
type:
example
text:
Truth's a dog must to kennel;
ref:
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 1, scene 4
type:
quotation
text:
The Dog Kennell'd in the Body of a Hollow Tree, and the Cock Roosted at night upon the Boughs.
ref:
1669, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, Fable CXLIII: A Dog and a Cock upon a Journey, page 130
type:
quotation
text:
This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set.
ref:
1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole.
senses_topics:
|
12757 | word:
kennel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kennel (plural kennels)
forms:
form:
kennels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English canel, from Old French canel, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”), from Latin canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Cognate with English channel, canal.
senses_examples:
text:
A biting wind whistled through the streets, the pavements were dotted with umbrella-laden figures, the kennels ran like mill-sluices, while the roads were only a succession of lamp-lit puddles through which the wheeled traffic splashed continuously.
ref:
1899, Guy Boothby, Pharos the Egyptian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The gutter at the edge of a street; a surface drain.
A puddle.
senses_topics:
|
12758 | word:
destructive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
destructive (comparative more destructive, superlative most destructive)
forms:
form:
more destructive
tags:
comparative
form:
most destructive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French destructif, from Latin destructivus, from past participle of destruere (“to tear down, destroy”) + -ivus.
senses_examples:
text:
The pastures are filled with gay political drop-outs, persons of reasonable intent who found the scene personally destructive.
ref:
1980 August 30, David Rothenberg, “A New York State of Confusion”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
After rescuing his estranged daughter in the last film, Live Free Or Die Hard, Willis heads to Russia to rescue his estranged son (Jai Courtney), a CIA agent on a mission to protect a whistleblower (Sebastian Koch) from a corrupt government official (Sergei Kolesnikov) with no shortage of destructive resources at his disposal.
ref:
2013 February 14, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: A Good Day To Die Hard”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
Catabolism is a destructive metabolism that involves the breakdown of molecules and release of energy.
type:
example
text:
Blurring an image is a destructive operation, but rotating an image is not.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Causing destruction; damaging.
Causing breakdown or disassembly.
Lossy; causing irreversible change.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12759 | word:
bicultural
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bicultural (comparative more bicultural, superlative most bicultural)
forms:
form:
more bicultural
tags:
comparative
form:
most bicultural
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
The adjective is derived from bi- (prefix meaning ‘two’) + cultural.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
[W]ithout English, I would not be how I am: a bilingual and bicultural person at home in both English and Japanese.
ref:
2003, Yasuko Kanno, “Preface”, in Negotiating Bilingual and Bicultural Identities: Japanese Returnees betwixt Two Worlds, Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, published 2009, →DOI
type:
quotation
text:
Also as unfortunate are the overt and covert deficit notions held by teachers and administrators towards bicultural students; deficit notions, extended, by assocation, to bicultural parents. These misguided notions are propagated, for the most part, devoid of any systematic analysis that directly implicates the oppressive social, economic, political, cultural and linguistic forces that structurally shape and perpetuate the exclusion, exploitation, and domination of bicultural communities.
ref:
2006, Antonia Darder, “Foreword”, in Edward M. Olivos, The Power of Parents: A Critical Perspective of Bicultural Parent Involvement in Public Schools (Counterpoints; 290), New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C.: Peter Lang, →ISSN, page xi
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Adapted to two separate cultures.
senses_topics:
|
12760 | word:
bicultural
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bicultural (plural biculturals)
forms:
form:
biculturals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
The adjective is derived from bi- (prefix meaning ‘two’) + cultural.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
Compared with ethnic affirmers, biculturals are better educated; have higher incomes, socioeconomic status, and self-esteem; and are more involved in local social networks.
ref:
2013 October, Nirmalya Kumar, Jan-Benedict Steenkamp, “Diaspora Marketing”, in Harvard Business Review, Brighton: Harvard Business Publishing, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2022-12-13
type:
quotation
text:
Persons without a migratory background may also have a transcultural identity—and not everybody who is confronted with at least two cultures is automatically supposed to have a transcultural identity[…]. Thus, biculturals do not necessarily have a transcultural identity.
ref:
2015 August 29, Miriam A. Knauss, Kristina Günther, Sophie Belardi, Pauline Morley, Ulrike von Lersner, “The Impact of Perceived Ethnic Discrimination on Mental Health Depends on Transcultural Identity: Evidence for a Moderator Effect”, in BMC Psychology, volume 3, number 1, London: BioMed Central, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, article no. 30, page 3, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
With every win, coach Regragui dreams louder and louder of actually becoming World Champion, and urges all Moroccans, biculturals and binationals across the world to openly do the same.
ref:
2022 December 12, Maïthé Chini, “Belgium in Brief: A reflection of raw Moroccan reality”, in The Brussels Times, Brussels: BXL Connect, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2022-12-21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person belonging to two cultures.
senses_topics:
|
12761 | word:
surreptitious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
surreptitious (comparative more surreptitious, superlative most surreptitious)
forms:
form:
more surreptitious
tags:
comparative
form:
most surreptitious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin surrēptīcius (“furtive, clandestine”), from surrēpō (“to creep along”).
senses_examples:
text:
It is also worth noting the case law on prisoners' correspondence which establishes that interception of a person's communications need not be surreptitious in order to amount to an interference with respect to Art 8 (1) [ECHR].
ref:
1998, Lee A. Bygrave, “Data Protection Pursuant to the Right to Privavy in Human Rights Treaties”, in International Journal of Law and Information Technology, volume 6, number 3, pages 260–261
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements).
senses_topics:
|
12762 | word:
acetone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetone (countable and uncountable, plural acetones)
forms:
form:
acetones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acet- from acētum (“vinegar”). The -one was taken from margarone but further etymology is unclear. Doublet of ketone.
senses_examples:
text:
You open the salon door and the acetone from yesterday’s manicures immediately stings my nostrils.
ref:
2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 81
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH₃)₂CO, used as a solvent.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
12763 | word:
halal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
halal (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
halal
etymology_text:
From Arabic حَلَال (ḥalāl).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] broadening the demand for halal across all product categories, not just in their consumption of meat products […]
ref:
2014, Professor Nilüfer Göle, Islam and Public Controversy in Europe, page 176
type:
quotation
text:
Is this kosher? I hear you ask. Is it halal? Can this really be viewed as strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the competition?
ref:
2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 120
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Permissible, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
Fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs.
In accordance with standards or usual practice; acceptable.
senses_topics:
Islam
lifestyle
religion
|
12764 | word:
halal
word_type:
adv
expansion:
halal (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
halal
etymology_text:
From Arabic حَلَال (ḥalāl).
senses_examples:
text:
Just like eating halal is not a choice for our Muslim brothers and sisters, for us, eating kosher is not voluntary; it’s who we are and as necessary as the oxygen we need for sustenance.
ref:
2020 August 20, Eliezer Brand, “ICE is forcing Muslims to eat pork. My fellow Orthodox Jews: This is our fight!”, in The Forward
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a halal manner; in accordance with Muslim religious customs.
senses_topics:
|
12765 | word:
halal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
halal (third-person singular simple present halals, present participle halaling or halalling, simple past and past participle halaled or halalled)
forms:
form:
halals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
halaling
tags:
participle
present
form:
halalling
tags:
participle
present
form:
halaled
tags:
participle
past
form:
halaled
tags:
past
form:
halalled
tags:
participle
past
form:
halalled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
halal
etymology_text:
From Arabic حَلَال (ḥalāl).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make halal.
senses_topics:
|
12766 | word:
secular
word_type:
adj
expansion:
secular (comparative more secular, superlative most secular)
forms:
form:
more secular
tags:
comparative
form:
most secular
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saeculāris (“of the age”), from saeculum.
senses_examples:
text:
secular clergy in Catholicism
type:
example
text:
The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.
type:
example
text:
The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.
type:
example
text:
on a secular basis
type:
example
text:
In this event, the sϕ(k) curve in Fig. 15.5 will be subject to a secular upward shift, resulting in successively higher intersections with the λk ray and also in larger values of ̄k.
ref:
2005, Alpha Chiang and Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics (4th ed.), McGraw-Hill International, p. 501
text:
The skewed distribution of productivity gains is thus less a new phenomenon than a secular trend.
ref:
2006, “Economics focus: Dividing the pie”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
Laplace (1749–1827) "saved the world" by using probability theory to estimate the parameters accurately enough to show that the drift of Jupiter was not secular after all; the observations at hand had covered only a fraction of a cycle of an oscillation with a period of about 880 years.
ref:
2003, E. T. Jaynes, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, Cambridge University Press, pages 234–235
type:
quotation
text:
The secular A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies ν_α and ν_β are derived from eqn.(21) by ...
ref:
2000, S. A. Dikanov, Two-dimensional ESEEM Spectroscopy, in New Advances in Analytical Chemistry (Atta-ur-Rahman, ed.), page 539
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
Happening once in an age or century.
Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
Centuries-old, ancient.
Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
Unperturbed over time.
senses_topics:
Christianity
astrophysics
geography
geology
natural-sciences
|
12767 | word:
secular
word_type:
noun
expansion:
secular (plural seculars)
forms:
form:
seculars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saeculāris (“of the age”), from saeculum.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
senses_topics:
|
12768 | word:
protagonist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
protagonist (plural protagonists)
forms:
form:
protagonists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Penguin Books
The Independent
The Sense of Style
protagonist
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek πρωταγωνιστής (prōtagōnistḗs, “a chief actor”), from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “a combatant, pleader, actor”). By surface analysis, prot- (“first”) + agonist (“combatant, participant”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The main character, or one of the main characters, in any story, such as a literary work or drama.
A leading person in a contest; a principal performer.
An advocate or champion of a cause or course of action.
senses_topics:
authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
|
12769 | word:
at dark
word_type:
prep_phrase
expansion:
at dark
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
During nightfall.
senses_topics:
|
12770 | word:
cheesy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cheesy (comparative cheesier, superlative cheesiest)
forms:
form:
cheesier
tags:
comparative
form:
cheesiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English chesy, equivalent to cheese + -y. Doublet of caseic.
Compare German käsig (“cheesy”).
senses_examples:
text:
This sandwich is full of cheesy goodness.
type:
example
text:
a cheesy flavor; cheesy nachos
type:
example
text:
I like pizzas with a cheesy crust.
type:
example
text:
He pushed open the door, and a hideous cheesy smell of sour beer hit him in the face.
ref:
1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 8
type:
quotation
text:
He saw skin of every shade, from obsidian black through all the stages of brown and yellow to cheesy white, he even saw yellow hair and azure-colored eyes, faces and garments of every cut—he saw humanity.
ref:
2005, Thomas Mann, “Joseph in Egypt”, in John E. Woods, transl., Joseph and His Brothers, New York: Everyman's Library, Part 3, p. 633
type:
quotation
text:
a cheesy song; a cheesy movie
type:
example
text:
The cheesy antics had everyone giggling.
type:
example
text:
Another night, when the local entertainers had gone home, Gould went into the empty lounge to play piano with a cheesy string of colored lights overhead and bongo drums at his side.
ref:
2010, Michael Clarkson, chapter 4, in The Secret Life of Glenn Gould: A Genius in Love, Toronto: ECW Press, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
He would be apprenticed to some cheesy shop or become a clerk in an office and his entire life he would be one of the ordinary poor people, whom he despised and wanted to surpass.
ref:
1968, Hermann Hesse, chapter 1, in Michael Roloff, Bantam Books, transl., Beneath the Wheel, published 1970, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
I tagged along behind this culturally accomplished beast intelligence in my scuffed handmedown shoes, unpressed illfitting post adolescent suit, dirt ringed shirt and cheesy tie, hair askew and book underarm, perspiring perhaps.
ref:
1977, Allen Ginsberg, “June 17, 1952”, in Gordon Ball, editor, Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties, New York: Grove Press, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
I noticed […] that when a very cheesy synthesized violin sound plays in counterpoint with a real violin, it can quite convincingly seem as if two violins are playing.
ref:
2009, Roger T. Dean, The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music
type:
quotation
text:
Needless to say, toward the end of Martin's first term, the relationship he once enjoyed with President Waverly had evolved into a slapdash charade of cheap promises and cheesy smiles.
ref:
2008, Jeff Spanke, Second Hand Out, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
There is something about 5- and 6-year-olds that makes them ever-ready to pose with the big, cheesy grin with no provocation.
ref:
2012, Ginny Felch, Photographing Children Photo Workshop
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to cheese.
Resembling or containing cheese.
Overdramatic, excessively emotional or clichéd, trite, contrived.
Cheap, of poor quality.
Exaggerated and likely to be forced or insincere. (of a smile or grin)
senses_topics:
|
12771 | word:
textile
word_type:
noun
expansion:
textile (plural textiles)
forms:
form:
textiles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
textile (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin textile, substantive use of textilis (“woven”), from texō (“weave”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any material made of interlacing fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles.
A non-nudist.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
naturism |
12772 | word:
textile
word_type:
adj
expansion:
textile (comparative more textile, superlative most textile)
forms:
form:
more textile
tags:
comparative
form:
most textile
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
textile (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin textile, substantive use of textilis (“woven”), from texō (“weave”).
senses_examples:
text:
a textile beach
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clothing compulsive.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
naturism |
12773 | word:
orangeade
word_type:
noun
expansion:
orangeade (countable and uncountable, plural orangeades)
forms:
form:
orangeades
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From orange + -ade.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A soft drink or a soda with an orange flavor.
A mixture of soda water and orange juice.
senses_topics:
|
12774 | word:
Christmas lights
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Christmas lights
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of Christmas light
senses_topics:
|
12775 | word:
2
word_type:
prep
expansion:
2
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I have 2 go now. / Send files 2 him.
text:
pdf2txt, i.e. conversion from PDF to plain text
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of to.
Abbreviation of to; designating conversion from one format to another
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12776 | word:
2
word_type:
adv
expansion:
2 (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Can I come 2?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of too.
senses_topics:
|
12777 | word:
2
word_type:
adj
expansion:
2 (comparative more 2, superlative most 2)
forms:
form:
more 2
tags:
comparative
form:
most 2
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of 2S; Abbreviation of two-spirited.
senses_topics:
|
12778 | word:
2
word_type:
noun
expansion:
2 (plural 2s)
forms:
form:
2s
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of 2S; Abbreviation of two-spirit.
senses_topics:
|
12779 | word:
Christopher
word_type:
name
expansion:
Christopher
forms:
wikipedia:
Christopher
etymology_text:
From Late Latin Christophorus, from Koine Greek Χρῑστόφορος (Khrīstóphoros, “carrier of Christ”), from Ancient Greek Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ”) + φόρος (phóros, “carrier, bearer”), from φέρειν (phérein, “to carry, to bear”) + -ος (-os, “-er: forming agent nouns”), from the legend of Saint Christopher carrying the infant Jesus across a river.
senses_examples:
text:
- - - a baby, which also happened to fall due, was baptized "Paul" ( for the church ) "Christopher" ( because St. Christopher had to do with rivers and ferries ), the Rector strenuously resisting the parents' desire to call it "Van Weyden Flood".
ref:
1934, Dorothy Sayers, The Nine Tailors
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from Ancient Greek.
A surname originating as a patronymic.
senses_topics:
|
12780 | word:
alacrity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alacrity (countable and uncountable, plural alacrities)
forms:
form:
alacrities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Mid-15th century; from Middle English alacrite, from Latin alacritās, from alacer (“brisk”) + -itās (“-ity”).
senses_examples:
text:
Besides, a wealthy man, well at ease, may pray to God quietly and merrily with alacrity and great quietness of mind, whereas he who lieth groaning in his grief cannot endure to pray nor can he hardly think upon anything but his pain.
ref:
1553 (posth.), Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, Book I, Chapter 19
text:
You have an overgrown alacrity
For saying nothing much and hearing less […]
ref:
1920, Edward Arlington Robinson, “Tasker Norcross”, in The Three Taverns
type:
quotation
text:
This evening, however, he was struck by the beaming alacrity of the aide-de-camp's greeting.
ref:
1922, Edith Wharton, chapter 24, in The Glimpses of the Moon
type:
quotation
text:
Not just that, but if the inlet of a turbopump impeller runs dry, it would overspeed with blinding alacrity.
ref:
2019, Tristan, Stack Exchange
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.
Promptness; speed.
senses_topics:
|
12781 | word:
0
word_type:
noun
expansion:
0 (plural 0s)
forms:
form:
0s
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The 0 for the Celsius scale is 273.15 Kelvin.
type:
example
text:
If the NOT gate input is 1, the output is 0.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
0.
The origin, starting point, or fixed reference point, especially for a measurement.
The off or low bit state.
senses_topics:
business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
12782 | word:
before dark
word_type:
prep_phrase
expansion:
before dark
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I think you should finish mowing the lawn before dark.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Before night begins to fall.
senses_topics:
|
12783 | word:
consume
word_type:
verb
expansion:
consume (third-person singular simple present consumes, present participle consuming, simple past and past participle consumed)
forms:
form:
consumes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
consuming
tags:
participle
present
form:
consumed
tags:
participle
past
form:
consumed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English consumen, from Old French consumer, from Latin cōnsūmere, cōnsūmō, from con- (“with, together”) + sūmō (“take; consume”), from sub- + emō (“to buy, take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- (“to take, distribute”), possibly related to the root *nem- (“to take or give one's due”).
senses_examples:
text:
The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.
type:
example
text:
Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.
type:
example
text:
Concerns were raised around the ability of Milky Way species to consume proteins from Andromeda, so seed banks formed a significant part of the arks' cargo. We now know it is safe to consume food grown or hunted here, though enzyme supplements are recommended and have become a social norm at mealtimes.
ref:
2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Andromeda Wildlife: Overview Codex entry
type:
quotation
text:
Desire consumed him.
type:
example
text:
The building was consumed by fire.
type:
example
text:
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through to steal: […]
ref:
1900, The New Covenant Commonly Called the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (American Standard Version), New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, Matthew 6:19–20
type:
quotation
text:
He assured her the child was consuming at that moment in the next room.
ref:
1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening
type:
quotation
text:
In a materialistic society, individuals are taught to consume, consume, consume.
type:
example
text:
If you consume this product while in Japan, you may be subject to consumption tax.
type:
example
text:
The Internet has changed the way we consume news.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use up.
To eat.
To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
To destroy completely.
To waste away slowly.
To trade money for good or services as an individual.
To absorb information, especially through the mass media.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
|
12784 | word:
kaj
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kaj (plural kaj)
forms:
form:
kaj
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Armenian քաջ (kʻaǰ), քաջք (kʻaǰkʻ).
senses_examples:
text:
There existed destructive female demons called parik, whose husbands were known as kaj.
ref:
2006, The Cambridge History of Iran, volume 3, pt.1: Iran, Armenia and Georgia, page 611
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A spirit of storm and wind;
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences |
12785 | word:
toroidal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
toroidal (comparative more toroidal, superlative most toroidal)
forms:
form:
more toroidal
tags:
comparative
form:
most toroidal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* toroid + -al
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the shape of a torus or toroid
senses_topics:
|
12786 | word:
apotheosis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
apotheosis (countable and uncountable, plural apotheoses)
forms:
form:
apotheoses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin apotheōsis, from Ancient Greek ἀποθέωσις (apothéōsis), from verb ἀποθεόω (apotheóō, “deify”) (factitive verb formed from θεός (theós, “God”) with intensive prefix ἀπο- (apo-)) + -σις (-sis, “forms noun of action”). By surface analysis, apo- + theo- + -sis.
senses_examples:
text:
In Rome itself the official position was clear: the apotheosis of the emperor took place only after his death; this had to be officially recognized by the Senate, and only then did the emperor become a divus with an official cult.
ref:
1986, SRF Price, Rituals and Power, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
As a former mortal who underwent apotheosis, Hercules was important to the emperors.
ref:
2002, CE Newlands, Statius' Silvae and the Politics of Empire, page 176
type:
quotation
text:
The turn of the century saw the apotheosis of digital technology.
type:
example
text:
Thereafter, the caterpillar achieved a sort of posthumous apotheosis. From local authority to the Dorchester magistrates, from the Dorchester magistrates to a Divisional Court presided over by the Lord Chief Justice of England, from the Lord Chief Justice to the House of Lords, the immolated insect has at length plodded its methodical way to the highest tribunal in the land.
ref:
1974, Per Lord Hailsham, Smedleys Ltd v Breed [1974]2 All ER 21(HL) at 24
type:
quotation
text:
In his despair he had nowhere to turn. It is the very apotheosis of the place and the time.
ref:
1925, William Carlos Williams, 'Edgar Allan Poe', In The American Grain, published 1990, page 232
type:
quotation
text:
In 2009, in the course of It Felt Like A Kiss, the sublime theatre event Curtis put on with Punchdrunk about the birth of hyper-consumerism, I was separated from the audience and sent down a long, dark corridor, which I took to represent the apotheosis of individualism.
ref:
2011 May 6, Katharine Viner, “Adam Curtis: Have computers taken away our power?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The apotheosis of her career was her appointment as chairman.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.
Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone or something with extraordinary power or status.
A glorified example or ideal; the apex or pinnacle (of a concept or belief).
The best moment or highest point in the development of something, for example of a life or career; the apex, culmination, or climax (of a development).
Release from earthly life, ascension to heaven; death.
The latent entity that mediates between a person's psyche and their thoughts. The id, ego and superego in Freudian Psychology are examples of this.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
12787 | word:
cosine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cosine (plural cosines)
forms:
form:
cosines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From co- + sine, short for complementi sinus in Latin, meaning “sine of the complement”. Doublet of cosinus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side adjacent to an acute angle to the length of the hypotenuse. Symbol: cos
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
trigonometry |
12788 | word:
doom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
doom (countable and uncountable, plural dooms)
forms:
form:
dooms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English doom, dom, from Old English dōm (“judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos.
Compare West Frisian doem, Dutch doem, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish dom, Icelandic dómur. Doublet of duma. See also deem.
senses_examples:
text:
"When should I expect him?" Roy said, resigned to his doom.
ref:
2007, Billy Lee Brammer, “Fustian Days: Book One: Sonic Goddam Boom”, in Southwest Review, volume 92, number 4, page 495
type:
quotation
text:
We are legion. The time of our return is coming. Our numbers will darken the sky of every world. You cannot escape your doom.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Virmire
type:
quotation
text:
"After he takes the throne, you will be arrested." / "You lie like your master, Carfax. Your doom is sealed."
ref:
2009 December 11, Karen Gormandy, “Robin Hood”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 59, number 8, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
unlike Vincent, he wasn't quite taken in by the outbreak of hopefulness on all sides. After all, nothing about the tanks or the process had been resolved; an air of doom still hung undisturbed over the project.
ref:
2004, Arthur Miller, “The Turpentine Still”, in Southwest Review, volume 89, number 4, page 479
type:
quotation
text:
Such paintings are inherently moody, and Elliott likes that-even as he carefully avoids dictating a specific mood. "Yesterday I painted the last light of the day-the trees looked pink, and the mountain's shadow was coming over them. It created a feeling of nostalgia... or impending doom... or still, quiet, peacefulness. It depends on the viewer's feelings about the scene, not just mine."
ref:
2007 February, Bob Bahr, “Tapestries in Oil”, in American Artist, volume 71, number 773, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
Chung was the first of its four picks in Round 2. His arrival might spell doom for Rodney Harrison.
ref:
2009 April 27, Nate Davis, “After Lions^ gamble, lots of big men tapped”, in USA Today, Sports, page 7C
type:
quotation
text:
She halted her pacing steps as the ugly significance of Nicholas Caulfield's pending arrival washed over her. Ruin. Destitution. Doom settled like a heavy stone in her chest.
ref:
2006, Sophie Jordan, Once upon a wedding night
type:
quotation
text:
Feeling doom, as we learned in the beautiful folk language of blacks who knew the truth of it, began with a single unexpected oddity — a redbird out of season, hail out of cloudless skies, dogs cowering under the house
ref:
2007, Terry Kay with William J. Scheick, The Year the Lights Came on, page 204
type:
quotation
text:
I'm taking medications every day; never thinking I would be spiraling into nothing but a nightmare that made me feel doom.
ref:
2008, Beverly Fincham, Real Life Freedom, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
Then the smiling narrator filled me with doom: I was expected to pull my own rip cord. I nearly fainted.
ref:
2009 March, Deanna Roy, “Forget the rules and make the leap”, in Writer, volume 122, number 3, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
perhaps you do that most rare of things when reading the news: You grin, exhale, stop feeling doom in every crevasse and corner of your body.
ref:
2010 July 20, Mark Morford, “What to do when it all goes right”, in San Francisco Chronicle
type:
quotation
text:
"What ye will not that other men should do unto you, that do ye not unto other men." "From this one doom," comments Alfred, "a man may bethink him how he should judge every one rightly: he needs no other doombook."
ref:
1915, Beatrice Adelaide Lees, Alfred the Great: the truth teller, maker of England, 848-899, page 211
type:
quotation
text:
And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom.
ref:
1600, Edward Fairfax, transl., Jerusalem Delivered, translation of Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso
type:
quotation
text:
Kings are spoken of as if they had a store of "Themistes" ready to hand for use; but it must be distinctly understood that they are not laws, but judgments, or, to take the exact Teutonic equivalent, "dooms."
ref:
1861, Henry Sumner Maine, Ancient Law, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
when Alfred in turn set himself to the task of stating and interpreting the law of his kingdom, there were already precedents for him to follow, in the written "dooms" (domas) of his predecessors, — themselves but a small portion of the still unwritten custom
ref:
1915, Beatrice Adelaide Lees, Alfred the Great: the truth teller, maker of England, 848-899, page 208
type:
quotation
text:
Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.
ref:
1977, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
ref:
1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People
type:
quotation
text:
Appeals were by our ancient law styled falsing of dooms. They were to be entered immediately after doom or sentence was pronounced,
ref:
1828, John Erskine with Sir George Mackenzie and James Ivory, An institute of the law of Scotland, page 989
type:
quotation
text:
They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
type:
example
text:
This is the day of doom for Bassianus.
ref:
1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
type:
quotation
text:
Harley got devoured by the undead / Lurking down in some old wizard's tomb / You can say there's no such thing as zombies / But that's how Harley Warren met his doom
ref:
2006, The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, “Harley Got Devoured by the Undead”, in An Even Scarier Solstice
type:
quotation
text:
The engines were rumbling, missing every now and then, and Rachel leaned back in her seat, prepared to meet her doom somewhere over the Pacific. At least there was a priest at hand -- maybe she could entice him to hear a final confession.
ref:
2009, Anne Kristin Stuart, Tangled lies
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Destiny, especially terrible.
An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.
A law.
A judgment or decision.
A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
Death.
The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
senses_topics:
|
12789 | word:
doom
word_type:
verb
expansion:
doom (third-person singular simple present dooms, present participle dooming, simple past and past participle doomed)
forms:
form:
dooms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dooming
tags:
participle
present
form:
doomed
tags:
participle
past
form:
doomed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English doom, dom, from Old English dōm (“judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos.
Compare West Frisian doem, Dutch doem, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish dom, Icelandic dómur. Doublet of duma. See also deem.
senses_examples:
text:
a criminal doomed to death
type:
example
text:
There was certainly plenty of badass Arya before and after—more on that soon—but here was Arya the living, breathing human, outnumbered and petrified of making the one slight wrong move that would doom her.
ref:
2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-05-31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.
To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
senses_topics:
|
12790 | word:
doom
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
doom
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: DOOM
text:
I tried to organize my stuff but just ended up making a big doom pile.
type:
example
text:
The doom in 'doom pile' is actually an acronym. It stands for "Didn't Organize, Only Moved" – an experience many people with ADHD can apparently relate to when they try to organize their spaces, whether physical or virtual. Instead of sorting things in their rightful places, they end up stacking them along with other random, unsorted things to be organized later – or never. That's how people end up with doom piles, doom boxes, doom bags, doom folders and drives, doom rooms and closets, and other kinds of doom arrangements.
ref:
2023 April 28, Alexandrea Cantwell, “"My Doom Piles Screamed 'Undiagnosed ADHD'"”, in ADDitude, archived from the original on 2023-06-09
type:
quotation
text:
DOOM piles are a cleaning tactic and a way of reducing visual clutter. Essentially, it's stashing random items that need to be organized in one place, to be dealt with later. We all have DOOM piles — a junk drawer or a place where we put piles of clutter before guests visit. There can be DOOM piles, DOOM bags, DOOM boxes, or one of my son's favorites, a DOOM desk.
ref:
2023 June 20, Kristin Wilcox, “Is Your ADHD Making You a DOOM Piler?”, in Psychology Today, New York, N.Y.: Sussex Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-30
type:
quotation
text:
The term "doom pile" or "doom box" stands for "Didn't Organize, Only Moved" and is usually a failed attempt by adults with ADHD to organize paperwork.]
ref:
[2023 February 9, Allie Cantwell, CBC News, archived from the original on 2023-08-28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of didn't organize, only moved; used in compounds designating a miscellaneous collection of items which one has failed to properly organize.
senses_topics:
|
12791 | word:
computer architecture
word_type:
noun
expansion:
computer architecture (countable and uncountable, plural computer architectures)
forms:
form:
computer architectures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The conceptual structure around which a given computer is designed.
The science of computer design.
senses_topics:
computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12792 | word:
snowblower
word_type:
noun
expansion:
snowblower (plural snowblowers)
forms:
form:
snowblowers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From snow + blower.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A motorized vehicle that picks up snow off the ground and blows it to one side in order to clear a path.
senses_topics:
|
12793 | word:
icosahedron
word_type:
noun
expansion:
icosahedron (plural icosahedra or icosahedrons)
forms:
form:
icosahedra
tags:
plural
form:
icosahedrons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
icosahedron
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek εἰκοσάεδρον (eikosáedron), from εἴκοσι (eíkosi, “twenty”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “face of a geometrical solid”). Equivalent to icosa- + -hedron.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A polyhedron with twenty faces.
A regular icosahedron: one of the Platonic solids, all of whose faces are regular (equilateral) triangles
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
12794 | word:
1
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
1
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
A: someone hlep me pls im always losing!!!1!
text:
B: Thats bcuz ur st00pid!!!!!11!!oneone!!1!!eleven!1
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Deliberate misspelling of !, imitating someone who is too excited to consistently press the shift key while typing exclamation marks.
Abbreviation of one-shot or one-shotted.
senses_topics:
games
gaming |
12795 | word:
1
word_type:
noun
expansion:
1 (plural 1s)
forms:
form:
1s
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of 180. (180° spin)
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
skiing
snowboarding
sports |
12796 | word:
Charles
word_type:
name
expansion:
Charles (countable and uncountable, plural Charleses)
forms:
form:
Charleses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Charles
Charles II of England
etymology_text:
From French Charles, from Old French Charles, Carles, from Latin Carolus, from and also reinfluenced by Old High German Karl, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz (“free man”); compare the English word churl and the German Kerl. In reference to the Ecuadorian island, a clipping of the original name King Charles's Island, granted in honor of Charles II of England.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] there never was any person named Charles who was not an open, manly, honest, good-natured, and frank-hearted fellow, with a rich, clear, voice, that did you good to hear it, and an eye that looked at you always straight at the face, as much as to say: "I have a clear conscience myself, am afraid of no man, and am altogether above doing a mean action." And thus all the hearty, careless, 'walking gentlemen' of the stage are very certain to be called Charles.
ref:
1844, Edgar Allan Poe, Thou Art the Man
type:
quotation
text:
[…] spoke the way the English do, funny, you know? His name was Roger, I think. Or Nigel. Something like that." "How about Charles?" "Charles? Well, yes, it could have been.Charles does sound English, doesn't it? Their prince is named Charles, isn't he?"
ref:
1988, Ed McBain, The House That Jack Built, page 212
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
A surname originating as a patronymic.
A hamlet in East and West Buckland parish, North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6832).
A neighbourhood of Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
Synonym of Floreana, an island in Galapagos, Ecuador.
senses_topics:
|
12797 | word:
topsail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
topsail (plural topsails)
forms:
form:
topsails
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English topsail, topsayl, topseyle, topsaill, equivalent to top + sail.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sail or either of the two sails rigged just above the course sail and supported by the topmast on a square-rigged sailing ship.
In a fore-and-aft-rigged sailing boat, the sail that is set above the gaff at the top part of the mast.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport |
12798 | word:
mating
word_type:
adj
expansion:
mating (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
mating
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.
senses_topics:
|
12799 | word:
mating
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mating (plural matings)
forms:
form:
matings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mating
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The progeny of backcrosses and intercrosses will form some incrosses and some matings of other types.
ref:
1981, Henry Foster, The Mouse in Biomedical Research, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
ref:
2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pairing of organisms for copulation.
Sexual union; copulation.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
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