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12800 | word:
mating
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mating
forms:
wikipedia:
mating
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of mate
senses_topics:
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12801 | word:
ironwood
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ironwood (countable and uncountable, plural ironwoods)
forms:
form:
ironwoods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ironwood
etymology_text:
From iron + wood, because of its toughness.
senses_examples:
text:
Lydia and the boys lived in a shabby, prefabricated house of three rooms, which had been set down in the shade of an ironwood.
ref:
1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 139
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Acacia esthrophiolata, Acacia excelsa, Acacia melanoxylon, Acacia stenophylla, or Erythrophleum chlorostachys.
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Aegiphilia martinicensis
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Afzelia africana
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Astronium spp.
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Backhousia myrtifolia
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Carpinus caroliniana
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Casuarina cristata
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Chionanthus caymanensis
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Cliftonia monophylla
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Colubrina elliptica
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Combretum imberbe
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Cordia subcordata
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Cyrilla racemiflora
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Dialium guianense
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Exothea paniculata
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Foresteria pubescens
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Gordonia haematoxylon
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Gymnostoma sumatranum
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Heritiera spp.
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Jacquinia keyensis
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Metrosideros spp.
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Myracrodruon urundeuva
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Paubrasilia echinata
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Prunus africana
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Schinopsis spp.
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Schleichera oleosa
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Senegalia muricata
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Sideroxylon spp.
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Sloania spp.
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Swartzia spp.
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Terminalia canescens
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Thouina striata
Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.
Vachellia farnesiana
senses_topics:
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12802 | word:
voltage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
voltage (countable and uncountable, plural voltages)
forms:
form:
voltages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From volt + -age, ultimately derived from the name of Alessandro Volta, inventor of the modern battery.
senses_examples:
text:
The voltage between the wires is too low to produce a spark.
type:
example
text:
Be careful when opening high-voltage equipment.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The difference in electrostatic potential between two points in space, especially between live and neutral conductors or the earth.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
12803 | word:
hash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hash (plural hashes)
forms:
form:
hashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hash
etymology_text:
From French hacher (“to chop”), from Old French hache (“axe”).
senses_examples:
text:
I had for them, after oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef.
ref:
1633, Samuel Pepys, Diary
type:
quotation
text:
Oh! no, not Naylor's--the girls have made a hash there, as they do everything else; but we will settle her before they come out again.
ref:
1847, Charlotte Yonge, Scenes and Characters
type:
quotation
text:
October 28, 1752, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann
I cannot bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.
text:
Most hashes are planned as family affairs, with a shorter "puppy" trail laid for the children.
ref:
1987, Susan Scott-Stevens, Foreign Consultants and Counterparts, page 81
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
A confused mess.
The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
The result generated by a hash function.
One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.
A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
A hash run.
A stupid fellow.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
business
computing
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
12804 | word:
hash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hash (third-person singular simple present hashes, present participle hashing, simple past and past participle hashed)
forms:
form:
hashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
hashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
hashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
hash
etymology_text:
From French hacher (“to chop”), from Old French hache (“axe”).
senses_examples:
text:
In like manner, we shall represent human nature at first to the keen appetite of our reader, in that more plain and simple manner in which it is found in the country, and shall hereafter hash and ragoo it with all the high French and Italian seasoning of affectation and vice which courts and cities afford.
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
type:
quotation
text:
I never did care for Sunday joint that was served up cold on Monday, hashed on Tuesday, rissoled on Wednesday, and re-hashed on Thursday[.]
ref:
1942 July 1, The Newcastle and Maitland Catholic Sentinel, Newcastle, NSW, page 224, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
We need to quickly hash up some plans.
type:
example
text:
[Julie Jacquette]: "All right, you've hashed it. I knew damn well you should have stayed in the other room. Now he knows he'll have to kill you too."
ref:
1966, Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
To make a quick, rough version.
To transform according to a hash function.
To make a mess of (something); to ruin.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
12805 | word:
hash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hash (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
hash
etymology_text:
Clipping of hashish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.
senses_topics:
|
12806 | word:
real estate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
real estate (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
real estate
etymology_text:
Estate that is real, in the legal sense of "relating to immovable tangible property". This sense of the word ultimately goes back to Latin, where reālis could be used similarly.
senses_examples:
text:
They failed to find any investors for the construction of new real estate on the north side.
type:
example
text:
The "Golden Horseshoe", the commercial and industrial end of Lake Ontario, is the most crowded real estate in Canada.
ref:
1982, J. A. Kraulis, Ontario, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Virtual desktops allow you to stretch your screen real estate well beyond its normal size.
ref:
2007, Preston Gralla, Big Book of Windows Hacks
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Property that cannot easily be moved, usually buildings and the ground they are built on.
Space used for a particular purpose.
senses_topics:
|
12807 | word:
relate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
relate (third-person singular simple present relates, present participle relating, simple past and past participle related)
forms:
form:
relates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
relating
tags:
participle
present
form:
related
tags:
participle
past
form:
related
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin relātus, perfect passive participle of referō (“carry back; report”).
senses_examples:
text:
The captain related an old yarn.
type:
example
text:
Please relate the circumstances of your journey here today.
type:
example
text:
The use of video made it possible to relate the talk to the answers given to particular problems in the test. With this research design it was possible to relate changes in test score measures to changes in linguistic features[…]
ref:
2002, Paul Light, Karen Littleton, Learning with Computers: Analysing Productive Interactions, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
The patterns on the screen relate to the pitch and volume of the music being played.
type:
example
text:
I find it difficult to relate to others because I'm extremely introverted.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To tell in a descriptive way.
To bring into a relation, association, or connection (between one thing and another).
To have a connection.
To interact.
To respond through reaction.
To identify with; to understand.
To bring back; to restore.
senses_topics:
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12808 | word:
slogan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slogan (plural slogans)
forms:
form:
slogans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Audi
British Airways
KFC
Samsung
etymology_text:
From earlier sloggorne, slughorne, slughorn (“battle cry”), borrowed from Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm (“battle cry”), from Old Irish slúag, slóg (“army; (by extension) assembly, crowd”) + gairm (“a call, cry”). Slóg is derived from Proto-Celtic *slougos (“army, troop”), from Proto-Indo-European *slowgʰos, *slowgos (“entourage”); and gairm from Proto-Celtic *garsman (“a call, shout”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r- (“to call, shout”). The English word is cognate with Latin garriō (“to chatter, prattle”), Old English caru (“anxiety, care, worry; grief, sorrow”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A distinctive phrase of a person or group of people (such as a movement or political party); a motto.
A catchphrase associated with a product or service being advertised.
A battle cry among the ancient Irish or highlanders of Scotland.
senses_topics:
advertising
business
marketing
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12809 | word:
dodecahedron
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dodecahedron (plural dodecahedra or dodecahedrons)
forms:
form:
dodecahedra
tags:
plural
form:
dodecahedrons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek δωδεκάεδρον (dōdekáedron). Equivalent to dodeca- + -hedron.
senses_examples:
text:
1707, Thomas Blount, Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words, D. Brown, heading DO–DO,
Dodecahedron, (Gr.) in Geometry, is a solid Figure of 12 Sides or Faces that are regular Pentagons, it is one of the Platonick or Regular Bodies.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A polyhedron with twelve faces; the regular dodecahedron has regular pentagons as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
12810 | word:
toro
word_type:
noun
expansion:
toro (plural toros or toro)
forms:
form:
toros
tags:
plural
form:
toro
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 灯籠.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A traditional Japanese lantern.
senses_topics:
|
12811 | word:
toro
word_type:
noun
expansion:
toro
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Maori.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rapanea salicina, a species of shrub or small tree native to New Zealand.
senses_topics:
|
12812 | word:
dot product
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dot product (plural dot products)
forms:
form:
dot products
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
In reference to the symbol · used to denote the operation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A scalar product.
senses_topics:
linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences |
12813 | word:
commutative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
commutative (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French commuter (“to substitute or switch”) + -ative (“tending to”). See commute.
senses_examples:
text:
Addition on the real numbers is commutative because for any real numbers s,t, it is true that s#x2B;t#x3D;t#x2B;s.
type:
example
text:
Addition and multiplication are commutative operations but subtraction and division are not.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Such that the order in which the operands are taken does not affect their image under the operation.
Having a commutative operation.
Such that any two sequences of morphisms with the same initial and final positions compose to the same morphism.
Relating to exchange; interchangeable.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
|
12814 | word:
MEP
word_type:
name
expansion:
MEP
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Mars Exploration Program.
Initialism of Music Elective Programme.
Initialism of Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing.
senses_topics:
NASA
aerospace
astronomy
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
education
|
12815 | word:
MEP
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MEP (plural MEPs)
forms:
form:
MEPs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Eva Kaili, the Greek MEP at the centre of a cash for influence scandal implicating Qatar, will remain in jail pending trial, a Belgian court has decided.
ref:
2022 December 22, Jennifer Rankin, “Greek MEP Eva Kaili to stay in custody after corruption charges, says court”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
A French train carrying hundreds of MEPs and their teams from Brussels ended up by accident at Marne-la-Vallée, the stop for Disneyland Paris.
ref:
2023 October 16, Lisa O'Carroll, “Rail signalling error diverts Strasbourg-bound MEPs to Disneyland”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Member of the European Parliament.
Acronym of mean effective pressure.
senses_topics:
government
politics
|
12816 | word:
!
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
!
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
manĝi, manĝu, manĝis "eat, eat!, ate"
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In glosses, marks a word as imperative.
senses_topics:
|
12817 | word:
contain
word_type:
verb
expansion:
contain (third-person singular simple present contains, present participle containing, simple past and past participle contained)
forms:
form:
contains
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
containing
tags:
participle
present
form:
contained
tags:
participle
past
form:
contained
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French contenir, from Latin continēre (“to hold or keep together, comprise, contain”), combined form of con- (“together”) + teneō (“to hold”).
senses_examples:
text:
The brown box contains three stacks of books.
type:
example
text:
[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria,[…].
ref:
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
Most of the meals they offer contain meat.
type:
example
text:
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
ref:
2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884
type:
quotation
text:
I'm so excited, I can hardly contain myself!
type:
example
text:
There she goes / There she goes again / Racing through my brain / And I just can't contain / This feeling that remains
ref:
1988, Lee Mavers, “There She Goes”, in Sixpence None the Richer, performed by Sixpence None the Richer, published 1997
type:
quotation
text:
A group contains a unique inverse for each of its elements.
type:
example
text:
If that subgraph contains the vertex in question then it must be spanning.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hold inside.
To include as a part.
To put constraints upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
To have as an element or subset.
To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
|
12818 | word:
Arabic numeral
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Arabic numeral (plural Arabic numerals)
forms:
form:
Arabic numerals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Arabic numeral
etymology_text:
A calque of Medieval Latin numerus Arabicus, from its gradual adoption in Europe from Arabic sources.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A number represented using an Indian and Arabic system involving the symbols 1, 2, 3, etc.
The system using such numerals, now employed throughout the world.
senses_topics:
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12819 | word:
nonflammable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
nonflammable (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From non- + flammable.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not combustible.
Not easily set on fire.
senses_topics:
|
12820 | word:
nonflammable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nonflammable (plural nonflammables)
forms:
form:
nonflammables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From non- + flammable.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any nonflammable substance.
senses_topics:
|
12821 | word:
wind instrument
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wind instrument (plural wind instruments)
forms:
form:
wind instruments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: stringed instrument
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any musical instrument that produces sound when air flows through it.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
12822 | word:
android
word_type:
noun
expansion:
android (plural androids)
forms:
form:
androids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
android
etymology_text:
From New Latin androides, from Ancient Greek ἀνδρός (andrós, genitive of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man, human”)) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, itself from εἶδος (eîdos, “form, image, shape, appearance, look”)). Note the form ἀνδρώδης (andrṓdēs, “manly”) already existed in Ancient Greek. By surface analysis, andr- + -oid.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A robot that is designed to look and act like a human being (not necessarily a male one).
An artificial human.
senses_topics:
|
12823 | word:
android
word_type:
adj
expansion:
android (comparative more android, superlative most android)
forms:
form:
more android
tags:
comparative
form:
most android
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
android
etymology_text:
From New Latin androides, from Ancient Greek ἀνδρός (andrós, genitive of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man, human”)) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, itself from εἶδος (eîdos, “form, image, shape, appearance, look”)). Note the form ἀνδρώδης (andrṓdēs, “manly”) already existed in Ancient Greek. By surface analysis, andr- + -oid.
senses_examples:
text:
an android fat distribution
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Possessing human qualities.
Of the pelvis, having a narrow anterior segment and a heart-shaped brim, typically found in the male.
Characteristic of men.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
|
12824 | word:
associative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
associative (comparative more associative, superlative most associative)
forms:
form:
more associative
tags:
comparative
form:
most associative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From associate + -ive.
senses_examples:
text:
At present conditioning is viewed as a special case of associative learning which provides an animal (and human being alike) with die ability to discover, memorize, retrieve, and use relationships between signals and reinforcers and also to control rewards and aversive events.
ref:
1998, Kazimierz Zieliński, “Pairing, Continuity, Contingency - What's the Difference”, in Anna Neugebauer, editor, Macromolecular Interplay in Brain Associative Mechanisms: Proceedings of the International School of Biocybernetics, World Scientific, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
Sometimes the attempt was made to reduce the inner to the outer world (Condillac, Mach, Avenarius, materialism); sometimes the outer to the inner world (Descartes, Berkeley, Fichte); sometimes the sphere of the absolute to the others (e.g., by trying to infer causally the essence and existence of something divine in general); […]; sometimes one's own body to a merely associative coordination of the self-perception of the own self and organ sensations with the own body as perceived from outside.
ref:
2014, Volker Meja, Nico Stehr, Knowledge and Politics
type:
quotation
text:
Perhaps it is an advantage of the "associative algebraic geometry" we have tried to develop in foregoing chapters that it is independent of braidings and further generalizations because it will remain valid as long as the corresponding "function"-rings constructed in these theories are associative algebras.
ref:
2000, Freddy Van Oystaeyen, Algebraic Geometry for Associative Algebras, Marcel Dekker, page 235
type:
quotation
text:
It is now generally accepted that the representation theory of associative algebras traces its origin to Hamilton's description of the complex numbers by pairs of real numbers.
ref:
2006, Ibrahim Assem, Daniel Simson, Andrzej Skowroński, Elements of the Representation Theory of Associative Algebras, 1: Techniques of Representation Theory, Cambridge University Press, page vii
type:
quotation
text:
In this section we develop the basic theory of normed algebras, putting special emphasis on the case of complete normed unital associative complex algebras.
ref:
2014, Miguel Cabrera García, Ángel Rodríguez Palacios, Non-Associative Normed Algebras, Volume 1: The Vidav–Palmer and Gelfand-Naimark Theorems, Cambridge University Press, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
AWK's associative arrays may be indexed by strings.
type:
example
text:
Associative memories were once given considerable attention.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite.
Such that, for any operands a,b and c, (a*b)*c=a*(b*c); (of a ring, etc.) whose multiplication operation is associative.
Addressable by a key more complex than an integer index.
senses_topics:
algebra
mathematics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12825 | word:
armor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
armor (countable and uncountable, plural armors)
forms:
form:
armors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
armour
etymology_text:
From Middle English armure, armour, armor, armeure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman armure and Old French armeüre, from Latin armātūra. Doublet of armature and armure.
senses_examples:
text:
Good work, Chief. Link up with our armor on the far side of the wall.
ref:
2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Miranda Keyes (Justis Bolding), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body.
Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.
A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.
A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.
The naturally occurring surface of pebbles, rocks or boulders that line the bed of a waterway or beach and provide protection against erosion.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
geography
hydrology
natural-sciences |
12826 | word:
armor
word_type:
verb
expansion:
armor (third-person singular simple present armors, present participle armoring, simple past and past participle armored)
forms:
form:
armors
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
armoring
tags:
participle
present
form:
armored
tags:
participle
past
form:
armored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
armour
etymology_text:
From Middle English armure, armour, armor, armeure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman armure and Old French armeüre, from Latin armātūra. Doublet of armature and armure.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening.
To provide something with an analogous form of protection.
senses_topics:
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12827 | word:
operand
word_type:
noun
expansion:
operand (plural operands)
forms:
form:
operands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin operandum.
senses_examples:
text:
When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.
ref:
1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A quantity to which an operator is applied (in 3-x, the operands of the subtraction operator are 3 and x).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12828 | word:
po
word_type:
noun
expansion:
po (plural pos)
forms:
form:
pos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
po (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English po (found also in pocock), from Old English pāwa, pēa (“peacock”), from Proto-Germanic *pāwô (“peacock”), from Latin pāvō. Cognate with Dutch pauw, German Pfau. See also peacock.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A peacock.
senses_topics:
|
12829 | word:
po
word_type:
noun
expansion:
po (plural pos)
forms:
form:
pos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A diminutive of pot.
senses_examples:
text:
‘Pos’ or ‘chamber pots’ were provided under the beds.
ref:
1988, Richard Hoggart, A Local Habitation, 1918-40, Chatto & Windus, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
There are always several spitoons & pos [chamber pots] about the room & a loathesome smell of consumption, which I expect I shall catch.
ref:
1989, Leonard Woolf, edited by Frederic Spotts, Letters of Leonard Woolf, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
Shaking the last few drops from off the end he looked down in surprise at the great head of steam that brimmed above the po, belatedly apprised of just how icy the October garret was.
ref:
2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 44
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chamberpot.
senses_topics:
|
12830 | word:
po
word_type:
noun
expansion:
po pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of police.
senses_examples:
text:
"Basically it's a celebration of all the gearheads in the area," Rob told him. "Sometimes we get busted by the po, but we always find a new place to show off our rides. Enjoy this lot while we have it."
ref:
2008, Megan T. White, Rounding the Finish Line, Baltimore, M.D.: PublishAmerica, page 209
type:
quotation
text:
"'Bout time the po' got here," someone said loud enough for Bree to hear.
ref:
2009, Debra Webb, Secrets in Four Corners, Toronto, Ont. […]: Harlequin, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
Now, one of the rules I had—this is another reason why certain police probably respected us dudes—when it was hot, when I saw certain po, we would shut it down. We left. I would just leave. I would give them they space and let them go.
ref:
2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, page 89
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The police.
senses_topics:
|
12831 | word:
cherub
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cherub (plural cherubs or cherubim or cherubims)
forms:
form:
cherubs
tags:
plural
form:
cherubim
tags:
plural
form:
cherubims
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
James Tissot
Museum Catharijneconvent
Pieter de Grebber
etymology_text:
From Middle English cherub, cherube, cherubin, cherubine, cherubym, cherubyn, cherybin, gerubin, jerubin (“angel of the second highest order; depiction of such an angel”), from Old English cerubin, cerubim, ceruphin, cherubin, from Latin cherūbīn, cherūbīm, from Ancient Greek χερουβίν (kheroubín), χερουβείν (kheroubeín), χερουβίμ (kheroubím), from Hebrew כְּרוּבִים (k'ruvím); further etymology uncertain.
The English and Middle English word cherub(e) is derived from Latin cherub (“cherub”) (the singular form of cherūbīm, cherūbīn), from Ancient Greek χερούβ (kheroúb), ultimately from Hebrew כְּרוּב (kerúv). Because it was not always clear from Bible passages whether a single being or group of beings was being referred to, cherubin was used both as a singular word (plural cherubins) and plural word up to the 18th century. However, in Bible translations particularly from the 16th century onward cherub began to be favoured as the singular form, and from the 17th century cherubim as the plural form (influenced by Hebrew כְּרוּבִים (k'ruvím)).
The English word is cognate with French chérubin, Italian cherubino, Old Spanish cherubin (modern Spanish querubín), Galician querubín, Portuguese querubim.
senses_examples:
text:
[B]y cherubs is signified guard and providence lest the Lord should be come at except by the good of love, thus to prevent any entering into heaven except they who are in good, also to prevent those who are in heaven, from being approached and hurt by those who are in hell. From these things it may be manifest what was signified by the propitiatory being over the ark, and by the cherubs being over the propitiatory and by the propitiatory and the cherubs being of pure gold; for gold signifies the good of love, and the ark heaven where the Lord is. [Interpreting Exodus 25:17–22 of the Bible.]
ref:
1846, Emanuel Swedenborg, “[Exodus.] Chapter XXV.”, in Heavenly Arcana, which are in the Sacred Scripture or Word of the Lord, Laid Open. […] Exodus. […], volume XI, Boston, Mass.: Published for the proprietors [New Church Printing Society], by Otis Clapp, […], →OCLC, note 9506, page 345
type:
quotation
text:
Angels and Archangels / May have gathered there, / Cherubim and Seraphim / Thronged the air; / But only His Mother / In her maiden bliss / Worshiped the Beloved / With a kiss.
ref:
1872 January, [Christina Rossetti], “A Christmas Carol [In the Bleak Midwinter]”, in J[osiah] G[ilbert] Holland, editor, Scribner’s Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People, volume III, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Scribner & Co., […], →OCLC, stanza IV, page 278
type:
quotation
text:
For ſome colour of ſetting vp their idols in Churches to bee worſhiped, they full ſimply alledge the Cherubins that were ſet vp in the temple which Solomon built, which M. [William] Bishop ſaith were the images of Angels, and that they did repreſent the Angels wee will not deny, but of what ſhape they were, no man ſaith Joſephus, can cõiecture or affirme any thing.
ref:
1611, Robert Abbot, “Of Images”, in The Second Part of the Defence of the Reformed Catholicke. […], London: Impensis Thomæ Adams, →OCLC, page 1164
type:
quotation
text:
Finally I must have drifted off, because I dreamt we were in a terrible frightening place – there was a giant, standing on a hill, looking down at us. But then a cherub came to rescue me – it must have been that cherub in stone that Papa promised to carve for me. I remember feeling safe then, and after that I slept soundly all night.
ref:
1995, Catherine Gonzalez, Cherub in Stone (Chaparral Book for Young Readers), Fort Worth, Tex.: Texas Christian University Press, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
The kennels occupied a long brick building designed to resemble the palace in miniature. Inside, the walls were painted with murals of dogs frolicking in the woods and giving chase to a frightened fox while chubby canine cherubim smiled down at them.
ref:
2010, Pseudonymous Bosch [pseudonym; Raphael Simon], “The Royal Kennels”, in This Isn’t What It Looks Like (The Secret Series; 4), New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company; republished London: Usborne, 2014
type:
quotation
text:
[T]he zippy musical numbers in which Mary Poppins (a stiff-lipped Emily Blunt) whisks cherubs Annabel, John, and Georgie (Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, and Joel Dawson, respectively) away into colorful hyperreal fantasias impress.
ref:
2018 December 12, Charles Bramesco, “A Spoonful of Nostalgia Helps the Calculated Mary Poppins Returns Go Down”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-05-24
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in Ezekiel chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 10; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.
A winged angel, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim.
In later texts changed to a winged baby; in artistic depictions sometimes a baby's head with wings but no body.
A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly angelic or innocent.
senses_topics:
biblical
lifestyle
religion
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12832 | word:
cross product
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cross product (plural cross products)
forms:
form:
cross products
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined by American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs in 1881.
senses_examples:
text:
The cross product can be derived like so: given a pair of vectors #x5C;xi and #x5C;eta, solve for a vector #x5C;zeta which is perpendicular to both #x5C;xi and #x5C;eta, i.e., whose dot product with both #x5C;xi and #x5C;eta is zero.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vector product.
senses_topics:
linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences |
12833 | word:
merry Christmas
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
merry Christmas
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Merry Christmas, Jack. / Same to you. And a happy New Year.
text:
Have a merry Christmas, Jack. / Merry Christmas to you and your family.
text:
I am aſhamed to talk of theſe Trifles, but to make you ſenſible by the Way, that the Spaniards are not ſo ungrateful as you repreſent them, I ſhall tell you, that the Money ariſing out of the Sale that was made of the Wine and Chocolate belonging to the Cardinal at his Departure, was more than ſufficient to defray the Expences of his Journey, and had he continued fifteen Days longer at Madrid, he would have received by the Poſt a Bill of 1000 Piſtoles, with which a Friend wiſhed him a merry Chriſtmas, which Sum was paid by the King’s Orders to the Government of Madrid to be employed for the Benefit of the Publick.
ref:
1722, The Hiſtorical Regiſter, volume VII, № XXVIII, “An Anſwer from the Marqueſs of ———— to the Letter of a Prelate, concerning Cardinal Alberoni”, pages 291–292
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to express good wishes on or before Christmas Day.
senses_topics:
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12834 | word:
ons
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ons
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of on
senses_topics:
|
12835 | word:
effigy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
effigy (plural effigies)
forms:
form:
effigies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French effigie, from Latin effigiēs (“likeness, effigy”), from effingō (“represent, portray”).
senses_examples:
text:
In England on Bonfire Night, an effigy is often burned.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated.
A likeness of a person.
senses_topics:
|
12836 | word:
vector product
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vector product (plural vector products)
forms:
form:
vector products
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined by William Kingdon Clifford in 1877 in his book Elements of Dynamic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a vector with the size given by the product of two vectors computed as the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the sine of the angle between their directions, and directed perpendicular to the given two vectors, with positive orientation.
senses_topics:
linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences |
12837 | word:
education
word_type:
noun
expansion:
education (countable and uncountable, plural educations)
forms:
form:
educations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
education
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French éducation, from Latin ēducātiō (“a breeding, bringing up, rearing”), from ēducō (“I educate, train”), from ēdūcō (“I lead forth, I take out; I raise up, I erect”). See educate.
Morphologically educate + -ion
senses_examples:
text:
One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
ref:
2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Good education is essential for a well-run society.
type:
example
text:
Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... We don't need no education...
Yes, you do. You've just used a double negative.
ref:
2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4
text:
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.
ref:
2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
He has had a classical education.
type:
example
text:
The educations our children receive depend on their economic status.
type:
example
text:
I found them [my children] all I could wish and progressing rapidly under the truly maternal care of the kind Sisters who cared for their education.
ref:
1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction.
Upbringing, rearing.
senses_topics:
|
12838 | word:
French Guyana
word_type:
name
expansion:
French Guyana
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of French Guiana
senses_topics:
|
12839 | word:
mega
word_type:
adj
expansion:
mega (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
en:mega
etymology_text:
From the prefix mega-, from Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “great, large, mighty”).
senses_examples:
text:
Follow those in the know to the fifth floor of Sega's Joy Polis, a mega indoor amusement park that's part of the Odaiba Decks Tokyo Bay entertainment complex near Tange's Fuji Television building.
ref:
2004, Nigel Coates, Collidoscope: new interior design, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
We had a mega time until Peter fell in the fish pond and cut his leg.
ref:
1998, John Barwick, Targeting Text, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
It was totally mega. The audience clapped and cheered when Teasel had finally finished. So did I.
ref:
2011, Anna Wilson, Pup Idol: Top of the Pups
type:
quotation
text:
July 15, 2011, Liam Gallagher, quoted at the launch of the new Manchester City F.C. kit
I've been a City fan since I was a kid, so to be involved with the launch of a new kit is colossal. Manchester City fans are known for having a lot of style and the new shirt looks mega.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very large.
Great; excellent.
senses_topics:
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12840 | word:
mega
word_type:
adv
expansion:
mega (comparative more mega, superlative most mega)
forms:
form:
more mega
tags:
comparative
form:
most mega
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
en:mega
etymology_text:
From the prefix mega-, from Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “great, large, mighty”).
senses_examples:
text:
mega-fun; mega rich
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
extremely
senses_topics:
|
12841 | word:
mega
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mega (plural megas)
forms:
form:
megas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:mega
en:mega (number)
etymology_text:
From the prefix mega-, from Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “great, large, mighty”).
senses_examples:
text:
And, speaking of relative banalities, the recurring Semipalmated Plover at the Broom Sewage Works may have inured us slightly to the status of the species as a rare vagrant, but it was an undeniable "mega" when one was discovered on Lord Howe Island on 23 March.
ref:
2017 June 24, Australian Birdlife, Carlton, Victoria, page 76, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A megararity (extremely rare bird for a certain region).
The Steinhaus-Moser number ②
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
12842 | word:
scalar product
word_type:
noun
expansion:
scalar product (plural scalar products)
forms:
form:
scalar products
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined by William Kingdon Clifford in 1877 in his book Elements of Dynamic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The product of two vectors computed as the sum of the corresponding elements of the vectors, or, equivalently, as the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between their directions.
senses_topics:
linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences |
12843 | word:
privacy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
privacy (countable and uncountable, plural privacies)
forms:
form:
privacies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Privacy (disambiguation)
privacy
etymology_text:
From private + -cy.
senses_examples:
text:
I need my privacy, so please stay out of my room.
type:
example
text:
It is realised that the old Pullman standard sleeper, with its convertible "sections", each containing upper and lower berths, and with no greater privacy at night than the curtains drawn along both sides of a middle aisle, has had its day.
ref:
1944 November and December, “"Duplex Roomette" Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 324
type:
quotation
text:
It takes a village to rob one of a sense of privacy.
type:
example
text:
Privacy is assumed by many to be among common-law rights.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others.
Freedom from unwanted or undue disturbance of one's private life.
Freedom from damaging publicity, public scrutiny, surveillance, and disclosure of personal information, usually by a government or a private organization.
A place of seclusion.
A relationship between parties seen as being a result of their mutual interest or participation in a given transaction, contract etc.
Secrecy.
A private matter.
senses_topics:
law
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12844 | word:
acetyl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetyl (plural acetyls)
forms:
form:
acetyls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acētum (“vinegar”) + Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “substance”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The univalent radical CH₃CO- derived from acetic acid.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
12845 | word:
flue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flue (plural flues)
forms:
form:
flues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English flue, flewe (“mouthpiece of a hunting horn”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a back-formation from Middle English *flews (mistaken as a plural), from Old English flēwsa (“a flow, flowing, flux”). Alternatively, perhaps an alteration of Middle English floute, fleute, flote (“a pipe”), see English flute. Compare also Middle Dutch vloegh (“groove, channel, flute of a fluted column”).
senses_examples:
text:
It has frequently been a subject of inquiry, whether the ancients were acquainted with chimneys, or open fire-places. In the houses discovered at Herculaneum and Pompeii, there are no chimneys; they all appear to have been warmed by furnaces and flues.
ref:
1815, Robertson Buchanan, A Treatise on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat, Especially as it Relates to Heating and Drying by Means of Steam, Appendix, p. 307.
type:
quotation
text:
Besides the usual run of machines, planers, millers, automatics, centre lathes, cranes, etc., there were several power stations, the rolling mills for strip material and for 60 ft. rails, and all the steel furnaces with their complicated systems of flues. If variety is the spice of life, then there was plenty here.
ref:
1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
An enclosed passageway in which to direct a current of air or other gases along.
A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this.
In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
senses_topics:
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12846 | word:
flue
word_type:
adj
expansion:
flue (comparative more flue, superlative most flue)
forms:
form:
more flue
tags:
comparative
form:
most flue
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of flew (“shallow, flat”)
senses_topics:
|
12847 | word:
after dark
word_type:
prep_phrase
expansion:
after dark
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
After nightfall; at night.
senses_topics:
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12848 | word:
after dark
word_type:
noun
expansion:
after dark (plural after darks)
forms:
form:
after darks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bookmaker's clerk.
A shark.
senses_topics:
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12849 | word:
blessing
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blessing (plural blessings)
forms:
form:
blessings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English blessinge, blessynge, from Old English blētsung, blēdsung (“a blessing”), equivalent to bless + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
We will not proceed without the executive director's blessing.
type:
example
text:
After two weeks of sun, last night's rainfall was a blessing.
type:
example
text:
And since we’re laying out our wishes, we’d also like a blessing of unicorns and one million dollars.
ref:
2008 September 11, Betsy Schiffman, “Time To Trash the Intellectual Property System, Says Report”, in Wired
type:
quotation
text:
Then a blessing of unicorns charged into the studio, and I was carried away to be re-educated.
ref:
2009, Andrew Orlowski, "Facebook music dashboard: Revenue at last?", The Register, 13 September 2011
text:
She just wants to talk to her friends on www.unicornwillsaveus.com or write in her journal or flump on her bedroom floor with her blessing of unicorns: her posters, figurines, stickers, temporary tattoos of anatomically correct unicorns.
ref:
2011, Suzette Mayr, Monoceros, Coach House Books, published 2011, page 94
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.
A pronouncement invoking divine aid.
Good fortune.
A modern pagan ceremony.
The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval.
Something someone is glad of.
A prayer before a meal; grace.
A group of unicorns.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
paganism
religion
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12850 | word:
blessing
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blessing
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English blessinge, blessynge, from Old English blētsung, blēdsung (“a blessing”), equivalent to bless + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of bless
senses_topics:
|
12851 | word:
libertarian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
libertarian (plural libertarians)
forms:
form:
libertarians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Foundation for Economic Education
Joseph Déjacque
Leonard Read
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
William Belsham
lois scélérates
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from liber(ty) + -arian (suffix denoting an advocate of or believer in something). The adjective is derived from the noun.
sense development
The word was first attested in English in 1789 in William Belsham’s Essays: see the quotation. This was contrasted with necessitarian, in the context of free will, and was not used in the more frequently encountered modern sense.
Compare French libertaire (“person with extreme left-wing beliefs, anarchist”), from liberté (“freedom”) + -aire (suffix forming nouns). Libertaire is derived from Latin libertas. The French word was first attested in a May 1857 letter by the French anarcho-communist Joseph Déjacque (1821–1865) to the anarchist philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), reading: “Anarchiste juste-milieu, libéral et non LIBERTAIRE [A centrist anarchist, liberal and not LIBERTARIAN] […]”. It was popularized as a euphemism for anarchiste in the 1890s, following the French lois scélérates (literally “villainous laws”) under which anarchist publications were banned.
Sense 3.2 (“believer in right-libertarianism”) developed in the United States in the 1940s and was popularized in the 1950s. In the 1940s, Leonard Read (1898–1983), the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, a free-market think tank, began calling himself “libertarian” in contrast with a “classical liberal”. In 1955, Dean Russell also promoted the use of the word, writing: “Let those of us who love liberty trade-mark and reserve for our own use the good and honorable word ‘libertarian’.”
senses_examples:
text:
civil libertarian ― one who favours civil liberties
type:
example
text:
cultural libertarian ― one who favours cultural freedom
type:
example
text:
[W]here is the difference betvveen the Libertarian, vvho ſays that the mind chuſes the motive; and the Neceſſarian, vvho aſſerts that the motive determines the mind; if the volition be the neceſſary reſult of all the previous circumſtances?
ref:
1789, [William Belsham], “Essay I. On Liberty and Necessity.”, in Essays, Philosophical, Historical, and Literary, London: […] C[harles] Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
[Gustav] Landauer's reorientation of anarchist theory and practice in the direction of idealist and völkisch thought was often incomprehensible to the more traditional libertarians, and in the period of the second Sozialist Landauer no longer felt entirely comfortable with the simple "anarchist" label. For Landauer anarchism and socialism had always been different expressions of the same view; now he regarded anarchism as "merely the negative side of what is positively called socialism."
ref:
1973, Eugene Lunn, “The Romantic as Socialist”, in Prophet of Community: The Romantic Socialism of Gustav Landauer, Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.; London: University of California Press, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
While anarchism and socialist libertarians have a rich history of revolutionary thinkers ranging from Emma Goldman to George Orwell, the best-known socialist libertarian thinker of today is probably Noam Chomsky.
ref:
2012, Jennifer D. Carlson, “Libertarianism”, in edited by Wilbur R. Miller, The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encyclopedia, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, page 1008, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who advocates liberty, either generally or in relation to a specific issue.
A believer in the freedom of thinking beings to choose their own destiny (the doctrine of free will) as opposed to those who believe the future is predetermined (the doctrine of necessity).
One who advocates libertarianism (“a political philosophy maintaining that all persons are the absolute owners of their own lives, and should be free to do whatever they wish with their persons or property, provided they allow others that same liberty”); also, a member of a political party supporting libertarianism.
An antiauthoritarian believer in left-libertarianism, a political doctrine that stresses both individual freedom and social equality, and advocates shared ownership of natural resources.
One who advocates libertarianism (“a political philosophy maintaining that all persons are the absolute owners of their own lives, and should be free to do whatever they wish with their persons or property, provided they allow others that same liberty”); also, a member of a political party supporting libertarianism.
A believer in right-libertarianism, a political doctrine that emphasizes individual liberty and a lack of governmental intervention, oversight, and regulation, both in economic matters (that is, a belief in the free market) and in personal behaviour provided that no one's rights are threatened or violated.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
government
politics
government
politics |
12852 | word:
libertarian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
libertarian (comparative more libertarian, superlative most libertarian)
forms:
form:
more libertarian
tags:
comparative
form:
most libertarian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Foundation for Economic Education
Joseph Déjacque
Leonard Read
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
William Belsham
lois scélérates
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from liber(ty) + -arian (suffix denoting an advocate of or believer in something). The adjective is derived from the noun.
sense development
The word was first attested in English in 1789 in William Belsham’s Essays: see the quotation. This was contrasted with necessitarian, in the context of free will, and was not used in the more frequently encountered modern sense.
Compare French libertaire (“person with extreme left-wing beliefs, anarchist”), from liberté (“freedom”) + -aire (suffix forming nouns). Libertaire is derived from Latin libertas. The French word was first attested in a May 1857 letter by the French anarcho-communist Joseph Déjacque (1821–1865) to the anarchist philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), reading: “Anarchiste juste-milieu, libéral et non LIBERTAIRE [A centrist anarchist, liberal and not LIBERTARIAN] […]”. It was popularized as a euphemism for anarchiste in the 1890s, following the French lois scélérates (literally “villainous laws”) under which anarchist publications were banned.
Sense 3.2 (“believer in right-libertarianism”) developed in the United States in the 1940s and was popularized in the 1950s. In the 1940s, Leonard Read (1898–1983), the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, a free-market think tank, began calling himself “libertarian” in contrast with a “classical liberal”. In 1955, Dean Russell also promoted the use of the word, writing: “Let those of us who love liberty trade-mark and reserve for our own use the good and honorable word ‘libertarian’.”
senses_examples:
text:
He has libertarian views.
type:
example
text:
Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that "nudges" our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
ref:
2012 January, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation [review of Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) by Daniel Kahneman]”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, New Haven, Conn.: Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-06-12, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
a libertarian capitalist
type:
example
text:
For a long time, libertarian was interchangeable in France with anarchist but in recent years, its meaning has become more ambivalent. Some anarchists like David Guérin will call themselves ‘libertarian socialists’, partly to avoid the negative overtones still associated with anarchism, and partly to stress the place of anarchism with the socialist tradition. Even Marxists of the New Left like E[dward] P[almer] Thompson call themselves ‘libertarian’ to distinguish themselves from those authoritarian socialists and communists who believe in revolutionary dictatorship and vanguard parties.
ref:
1991, Peter H[ugh] Marshall, “The Relevance of Anarchism”, in Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism, London: Harper Perennial, published 2008, part 7 (The Legacy of Anarchism), page 641
type:
quotation
text:
Anonymous activities have over the years leaned incoherently to the libertarian left and right, and everything in between, singling out everyone from Justin Bieber fans to feminists, fascists, cybersecurity specialists, and engaged in the kind of pervert-exposing vigilantism that blue-collar tabloid readers have long been mocked for.
ref:
2017, Angela Nagle, “The Leaderless Digital Counter-revolution”, in Kill All Normies: The Online Culture Wars from Tumblr and 4chan to the Alt-right and Trump, Alresford, Hampshire: Zero Books, John Hunt Publishing, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Advocating liberty; also, having a relative tendency towards liberty.
Relating to the doctrine of free will as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.
Relating to, or advocating, libertarianism; also, relating to a political party supporting libertarianism.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
government
politics |
12853 | word:
machine translation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
machine translation (countable and uncountable, plural machine translations)
forms:
form:
machine translations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
machine translation
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of translating something from one language to another by means of a machine, especially a computer.
The production of instructions in a computer language that are equal in meaning to that in another language.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
12854 | word:
desiccate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
desiccate (third-person singular simple present desiccates, present participle desiccating, simple past and past participle desiccated)
forms:
form:
desiccates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
desiccating
tags:
participle
present
form:
desiccated
tags:
participle
past
form:
desiccated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin dēsiccāre (“to dry completely, dry up”) + -ate (verb suffix indicating acting in the specified manner). Dēsiccāre is the infinitive of dēsiccō (“to desiccate, dry up; to drain dry”) (from dē- (“completely, to exhaustion”, a prefix) + siccō (“to dry; to drain, exhaust”), from siccus (“dry”, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-) + -āre.
The adjective is derived from Latin dēsiccātus (“dried up”), the perfect passive participle of dēsiccō: see above. The noun is derived from the adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
Except on the borders of the ocean, and on the mountain sides where it deposits moisture in a visible form, the sea breeze has a drying effect. It desiccates the soil with rapidity.
ref:
1876 February, Henry Gibbons, “Notes on the Climate of San Francisco and of California, with Special Relation to Pulmonary Disorders”, in Henry Gibbons, Henry Gibbons, Jr., editors, Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal, volume XVIII, number 9, San Francisco, Calif.: Bonnard & Daly, printers, […], →OCLC, page 403
type:
quotation
text:
[George A.] Wyeth, who is also a first class surgeon, as well as urologist, has made use of the desiccation and endothermic method to destroy tumors in the bladder by making a suprapublic opening and then penetrating and desiccating the disease in an area all around the base of the tumor which is then undermined, desiccated, and removed.
ref:
1924 July, Howard A[twood] Kelly, William Neill, Jr., “The Treatment of Tumors of the Bladder”, in Charles Wood Fassett, editor, The Medical Herald and Physiotherapist, volume XLIII, number 7, Kansas City, Mo.: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 161, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
At the time of spring burning in 1968 the leaves and small stems of standing manzanita plants had been thoroughly desiccated by the spray treatment first applied in November, 1966.
ref:
1970, Stanley B. Carpenter, Jay R. Bentley, Charles A. Graham, “Results”, in Moisture Contents of Brushland Fuels Desiccated for Burning (U.S.D.A. Forest Service Research Note; PSW-202), Berkeley, Calif.: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 4, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Transfer the acetone washings to a tared beaker and evaporate to dryness at ambient temperature and pressure. Desiccate and dry to a constant weight.
ref:
1974 May, James O. Dealy, Arthur M. Killin, “Appendix B: Sampling and Analytical Techniques”, in Engineering and Cost Study of the Ferroalloy Industry (Publication; no. EPA-450/2-74-008), North Carolina: Office of Air and Waste Management, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Environmental Protection Agency, →OCLC, page B-7, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
The nuts are then passed into a double disc machine, and this travelling at a speed of 3,000 revolutions per minute desiccates the coconut.
ref:
1929 July, “Uncle Gib”, “Children’s Corner”, in Gibsonia Gazette, volume 3, number 8, Perth, W.A.: Issued by the House of Foy & Gibson, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-30, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
All equipment used for removing the meat from the shell and for grinding, shredding, drying, classifying, and desiccating the coconut should be clean and free from pathogens.
ref:
1975, Committee on Food Protection, Food and Nutrition Board, Division of Biological Sciences, Assembly of Life Sciences, National Research Council, “Nuts, Macaroni, and Noodle Products and Dry Blended Food”, in Prevention of Microbial and Parasitic Hazards Associated with Processed Foods: A Guide for the Food Processor, Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
Lately, in France, they stopped the boiling process in the preparation of brown sugar a few degrees before the point of crystallization, which is 243°, or 244°; and then spreading their syrup over their copper pans, placed round a stove or bake house, leave the syrup to desiccate slowly, and to crystallize in what they call the natural way; […]
ref:
1830 September 1, Thomas Spalding, “Sugar Cane, &c.: Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in Reply to a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 25th of January last, upon the Subject of the Cultivation of the Sugar Cane, and the Manufacture and Refinement of Sugar. [Doc. No. 62] [Letter from Thomas Spalding, Esq., dated Sapelo Island, near Darien, Containing Answers to Inquiries Respecting the Culture of the Sugar Cane, the Manufacture of Sugar, &c.]”, in Executive Documents of the House of Representatives, at the Second Session of the Twenty-first Congress, […], volume III, Washington, D.C.: Printed by Duff Green, published 1831, →OCLC, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
Favus is a chronic inflammation of the hair-follicles, associated with the production of a peculiar yellowish substance which surrounds the cylinder of the hair, and is seen through the epidermis as a minute circular spot, not raised above the level of the skin. The yellow substance, after a short period, escapes from the follicles upon the surface of the epidermis, and desiccates into yellowish friable crusts, forming a distinct cup with an inverted border, around the base of each hair.
ref:
1842, Erasmus Wilson, “Diseases of the Hairs and Hair-follicles”, in A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Diagnosis, Pathology, & Treatment of Diseases of the Skin: […], London: John Churchill, […], →OCLC, pages 345–346
type:
quotation
text:
A dry atmosphere also preserves organic bodies from decay. This is exemplified in some parts of Texas and South America, where meat is readily preserved, though the country is warm if not hot. The fluids simply evaporate, and leave the harder parts to dessicate.
ref:
1846 October, “Preservation of Fruits”, in E[benezer] Emmons, A. Osborn, O. C. Gardiner, editors, American Quarterly Journal of Agriculture and Science, volume IV, number VIII, New York, N.Y.: Huntington & Savage, […], →OCLC, pages 301–302
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove moisture from; to dry.
To preserve by drying.
To become dry; to dry up.
senses_topics:
|
12855 | word:
desiccate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
desiccate (comparative more desiccate, superlative most desiccate)
forms:
form:
more desiccate
tags:
comparative
form:
most desiccate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin dēsiccāre (“to dry completely, dry up”) + -ate (verb suffix indicating acting in the specified manner). Dēsiccāre is the infinitive of dēsiccō (“to desiccate, dry up; to drain dry”) (from dē- (“completely, to exhaustion”, a prefix) + siccō (“to dry; to drain, exhaust”), from siccus (“dry”, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-) + -āre.
The adjective is derived from Latin dēsiccātus (“dried up”), the perfect passive participle of dēsiccō: see above. The noun is derived from the adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
It [the byssus fungus] is not only capable of propagation by the most minute fragments, however rudely detached, but it also retains the principle of revivification for years together when in a desiccate state.
ref:
1824 May 21, “Liolett”, “On Vegetable Revivification”, in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, volume III, number LXXXVIII, London: Printed and published by J[ohn] Limbird, […], published 12 June 1824, →OCLC, page 388, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
How many years have you been here? / […] / Before a desiccate sky left rivers of cracks / in the belly of your red earth?
ref:
2016 August, Loretta Diane Walker, “Offsprings of Extremes [first published in Red River Review]”, in Barbara Blanks, editor, A Galaxy of Verse, volume 36, number 2, Garland, Tex.: A Galaxy of Verse Literary Foundation, published fall–winter 2016, page 89
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having had moisture removed; dehydrated, desiccated.
senses_topics:
|
12856 | word:
desiccate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
desiccate (plural desiccates)
forms:
form:
desiccates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin dēsiccāre (“to dry completely, dry up”) + -ate (verb suffix indicating acting in the specified manner). Dēsiccāre is the infinitive of dēsiccō (“to desiccate, dry up; to drain dry”) (from dē- (“completely, to exhaustion”, a prefix) + siccō (“to dry; to drain, exhaust”), from siccus (“dry”, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-) + -āre.
The adjective is derived from Latin dēsiccātus (“dried up”), the perfect passive participle of dēsiccō: see above. The noun is derived from the adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
The Cy dyes are shipped as a desiccate in sealed packs.
ref:
2011, Virgil A. Rhodius, Carol A. Gross, “Using DNA Microarrays to Assay Part Function”, in Christopher Voigt, editor, Methods in Enzymology, volumes 497 (Synthetic Biology, Part A; Methods for Part/Device Characterization and Chassis Engineering), San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, →ISSN, section 5.3 (Cy3/Cy5 Coupling), page 90
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A substance which has been desiccated, that is, had its moisture removed.
senses_topics:
|
12857 | word:
standoff
word_type:
noun
expansion:
standoff (plural standoffs)
forms:
form:
standoffs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Deverbal from stand off.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: holdoff
text:
Coordinate term: stalemate
text:
I don't want to get involved in the standoff between those two.
type:
example
text:
A tense standoff between demonstrators and police continued overnight.
type:
example
text:
In recent months, both Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice and Captain America: Civil War have offered up big, flashy superhero standoffs as feuds of ideology and stubborn will.
ref:
2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device which maintains a fixed distance between two objects, especially between a surface and a sign or electrical wiring.
A deadlocked confrontation between antagonists.
senses_topics:
|
12858 | word:
standoff
word_type:
adj
expansion:
standoff (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Deverbal from stand off.
senses_examples:
text:
a standoff bomb, missile, or weapon
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
For use at a distance sufficient from the target to allow defensive fire to be evaded.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
12859 | word:
standoff
word_type:
verb
expansion:
standoff
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Deverbal from stand off.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nonstandard spelling of stand off.
senses_topics:
|
12860 | word:
complementary angle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
complementary angle (plural complementary angles)
forms:
form:
complementary angles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Angle A is 40°, and its complementary angle, B, is 50°.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An angle that, when added to another referenced angle, produces a right angle.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
12861 | word:
requiem
word_type:
noun
expansion:
requiem (plural requiems)
forms:
form:
requiems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
requiem
etymology_text:
From Middle English requiem, from Latin requiem, the first word of the introit for the traditional requiem mass, an alternative accusative case of Latin requiēs (“rest, repose”), from re- (“again”) + quiēs (“rest, quiet”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person.
A musical composition for such a mass.
A piece of music composed to honor a dead person.
Rest; peace.
senses_topics:
|
12862 | word:
requiem
word_type:
noun
expansion:
requiem (plural requiems)
forms:
form:
requiems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
requiem
etymology_text:
From French requin, altered by association with Etymology 1, above.
senses_examples:
text:
Any man-eater is called a requiem.
ref:
1973, Patrick Buchanan, A Requiem of Sharks
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large or dangerous shark, specifically, (zoology) a member of the family Carcharhinidae.
senses_topics:
|
12863 | word:
teleology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
teleology (countable and uncountable, plural teleologies)
forms:
form:
teleologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
teleology
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “purpose”), genitive τέλεος (téleos), and λόγος (lógos, “word, speech, discourse”).
senses_examples:
text:
The received intellectual tradition has it that, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, revolutionary philosophers began to curtail and reject the teleology of the medieval and scholastic Aristotelians, abandoning final causes in favor of a purely mechanistic model of the Universe.
ref:
2008, Monte Ransom Johnson, Aristotle on Teleology
type:
quotation
text:
In short, what every student of biology knows – that within nature there is a teleology having to do with the survival of the species which underpins the distinction between the two sexes and produces between them a natural affinity for one another – no surgeon who knows what is good for him may now say.
ref:
2011, Paul A. Rahe, Truths You Cannot Utter
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The study of the purpose or design of natural occurrences.
An instance of such a design or purpose, usually in natural phenomena.
The use of a purpose or design rather than the laws of nature to explain an occurrence.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
|
12864 | word:
Cape of Good Hope
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Cape of Good Hope
forms:
form:
the Cape of Good Hope
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Portuguese Cabo da Boa Esperança.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A headland in southwestern South Africa, near Cape Town.
senses_topics:
|
12865 | word:
transparent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
transparent (comparative more transparent, superlative most transparent)
forms:
form:
more transparent
tags:
comparative
form:
most transparent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
transparent
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānspārēns, trānspārēntis (“transparent”), present participle of transpareō, from Latin trans + pareō. Displaced native Old English þurhsīene.
senses_examples:
text:
The waters of the lake were transparent until the factory dumped waste there.
type:
example
text:
His reasons for the decision were transparent.
type:
example
text:
I love playing poker with Steve, because he's so transparent.
type:
example
text:
In order to make that transparent to the user, browsers usually cache the usernames and passwords and retransmit them automatically each time they contact the server.
ref:
2003, Rolf Oppliger, Security Technologies for the World Wide Web, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly.
See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly.
Of a graphical image or animated GIF, having parts that allow the background to show through.
Open, public; having the property that theories and practices are publicly visible, thereby reducing the chance of corruption.
Obvious; readily apparent; easy to see or understand.
Having the property of transparency, i.e. sufficiently accurate that the compressed result is perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.
Not noticeable because it happens automatically or in the background; invisible.
senses_topics:
arts
graphic-design
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12866 | word:
fruitcake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fruitcake (countable and uncountable, plural fruitcakes)
forms:
form:
fruitcakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fruitcake
etymology_text:
From fruit + cake, first use appears c. 1687. Sense of a crazy person, c. 1952 (predated by nutty as a fruitcake, c. 1911-12).
senses_examples:
text:
Easy, feller, easy. She's a fruitcake.
ref:
1952, Mickey Spillane, Kiss me Deadl, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
One of the loafers kept calling down, "Hey you, Blondie, you like fruitcake kids like that?"
ref:
1962, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, New York: Signet, published 1963, page 205
type:
quotation
text:
"Ukip is sort of a bunch of … fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists mostly," Mr Cameron told LBC radio.
ref:
2006 April 4, Ros Taylor, quoting David Cameron, “Cameron refuses to apologise to Ukip”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
A crazy or eccentric person.
A homosexual male.
senses_topics:
|
12867 | word:
injure
word_type:
verb
expansion:
injure (third-person singular simple present injures, present participle injuring, simple past and past participle injured)
forms:
form:
injures
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
injuring
tags:
participle
present
form:
injured
tags:
participle
past
form:
injured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
injury
etymology_text:
A back-formation from injury, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”).
senses_examples:
text:
The rugby team's star player got injured in a violent collision.
type:
example
text:
I injured my ankle playing tennis.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
To damage or impair.
To do injustice to.
senses_topics:
|
12868 | word:
apostasy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
apostasy (countable and uncountable, plural apostasies)
forms:
form:
apostasies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin apostasia, from Ancient Greek ἀποστασία (apostasía, “defection, revolt”), from ἀφίστημι (aphístēmi, “I withdraw, revolt”), from ἀπό (apó, “from”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “I stand”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs.
Specifically, the renunciation of one's religion or faith.
senses_topics:
|
12869 | word:
furtive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
furtive (comparative more furtive, superlative most furtive)
forms:
form:
more furtive
tags:
comparative
form:
most furtive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *furtyve (implied in furtyvely (adverb)), from Middle French furtif, furtive (“furtive, stealthy”) (modern French furtif), from Latin fūrtīvus (“clandestine, furtive, secret; concealed, hidden; stolen”), from fūrtum (“theft; robbery”) (from fūr (“thief”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”)) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] The Defendant never vvas acknovvledged by the Sieur Harrouard’s Family, nor by that of his VVife. Thus, granting him to have been in Poſſeſſion of his Son’s Eſtate, it vvould only be a furtive and clandeſtine, not a public and avovved Poſſeſſion; and conſequently ſuch a Poſſeſſion as is incapable of founding a juſt and legal Title.
ref:
1744, [François Gayot de Pitaval], “The History of Charles-Francis Harrouard, whom His Father and Mother Disowned to be Their Son”, in [anonymous], transl., A Select Collection of Singular and Interesting Histories. […], volume II, London: […] [A]ndrew Millar, […], →OCLC, page 280
type:
quotation
text:
At the edge of my kingdom scurry / Creatures in feathers and furs— / Crows in a furtive hurry— / Hungry and cringing curs— […]
ref:
1902, [Alice Macdonald Fleming], “In Camp”, in [Alice Kipling; Alice Macdonald Fleming], Hand in Hand: Verses by a Mother and Daughter, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews […]; New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
Gluttonous, hoarding jay; he should have hedge-hopped and lurched from tree to tree in his usual furtive manner.
ref:
1967, J[ohn] A[lec] Baker, “[The Peregrine] The Hunting Life”, in John Fanshawe, editor, The Peregrine, The Hill of Summer & Diaries: The Complete Works of J. A. Baker, London: Collins, published 2011, page 48
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
Of a thing: that has been acquired by theft; stolen; also (generally) taken stealthily.
Of a person or an animal: sly, stealthy.
Of a person, etc.: inclined to steal; pilfering, thieving.
senses_topics:
|
12870 | word:
Cape Town
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cape Town
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The legislative capital of South Africa.
senses_topics:
|
12871 | word:
minimum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
minimum (plural minima or minimums)
forms:
form:
minima
tags:
plural
form:
minimums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin minimum, neuter form of minimus (“least, smallest”).
senses_examples:
text:
We prefer candidates with a minimum of 4 years experience in the field.
type:
example
text:
We need a minimum of three staff members on duty at all times.
type:
example
text:
He always tries to get away with doing the minimum.
type:
example
text:
Please keep noise to a minimum after 11 o'clock
type:
example
text:
Realism might be the hardest aesthetic to do well. The performances have to be genuinely moving and the setting vividly evoked; bonkers twists must be kept to a minimum.
ref:
2021 April 16, Judy Berman, “Kate Winslet's Mare of Easttown Is the Rare Crime Drama That Cares About Its Characters”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
The Maunder minimum of the Sun reportedly corresponded to a period of great cold on Earth.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The lowest limit.
The smallest amount.
A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
statistics |
12872 | word:
minimum
word_type:
adj
expansion:
minimum (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin minimum, neuter form of minimus (“least, smallest”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To the lowest degree.
senses_topics:
|
12873 | word:
accoutrements
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accoutrements
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of accoutrement
senses_topics:
|
12874 | word:
legerdemain
word_type:
noun
expansion:
legerdemain (usually uncountable, plural legerdemains)
forms:
form:
legerdemains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English legerdemeyn, lechardemane, from Old French léger de main (literally “light of hand”), a phrase that meant “dexterous, skillful at fooling others (especially through sleights of hand”), which was however treated as a noun when it was borrowed by late Middle English. The Modern French descendant léger de main of the Old French phrase is archaic but still sometimes found in older literature and simply means “skillful” without any connotation of sleight of hand.
senses_examples:
text:
Chief Justice Roberts does more or less the same thing in dissent: He practices intentions-and-expectations originalism while randomly sprinkling some public-meaning originalism fairy dust over his description of his enterprise, perhaps in the subconscious hope that no one will notice the legerdemain.
ref:
2021 March 8, Michael C. Dorf, “Old-School Intentions-and-Expectations Originalism in the Nominal Damages Case”, in Dorf on Law
type:
quotation
text:
Certainly, that they are to this day so rife in Italy and Spain, and so scant in Britain, is a shrewd ground to apprehend Legerdemain, and forgery, in the accounts we get of their later Saints.
ref:
1673, Gilbert Burnet, The mystery of iniquity unvailed, London, page 128
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sleight of hand; "magic" trickery.
A show of skill or deceitful ability.
senses_topics:
|
12875 | word:
sylvan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sylvan (comparative more sylvan, superlative most sylvan)
forms:
form:
more sylvan
tags:
comparative
form:
most sylvan
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Appalachian Mountains
Lehigh Gap
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Medieval Latin sylvanus, possibly via Middle French sylvain, from Latin silvanus, cognate with Latin Silvānus (“Roman god of the woods”), from silva (“forest”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). The ⟨y⟩ in sylvanus and its descendants is due to influence from Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “wood, matter”), transliterated in the Latin style as hyle. Analysable as sylva (“silva”) + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
[T]he traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region, such as Warwickshire at that time was, is usually exact as well as tenacious; and, with respect to [William] Shakespeare in particular, we may presume it to have been full and circumstantial through the generation succeeding to his own, not only from the curiosity, and perhaps something of a scandalous interest, which would pursue the motions of one living so large a part of his life at a distance from his wife, but also from the final reverence and honor which would settle upon the memory of a poet so preëminently successful; […]
ref:
1850, Thomas De Quincey, “Shakspeare”, in Biographical Essays, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
We were now within the boundaries of Minnesota, and this prairie was yet the habitation of Wapasha (Red Leaf) and his Sioux band. I never beheld a more charming silvan picture than this prairie presented; […]
ref:
1853 July, [Benson John Lossing], “Sketches on the Upper Mississippi”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume VII, number XXXVIII, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, 329 & 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square, →OCLC, page 182, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
The particular trees may have been cut down long ago and forgotten; but the name survives to perpetuate its sylvan history. There may be no more a wood of Limes at Lyndhurst, there may be no Oaks at Oakville, Elms at Elmley, or Ashes at Ashton; but still the names will always suggest—at least—a probability of sylvan origin.
ref:
1886, Francis George Heath, “Sylvan Nomenclature”, in Sylvan Winter, London: Kegan Paul Trench, & Co., 1, Paternoster Square, →OCLC, page 320
type:
quotation
text:
Over the course of the nineteenth century, an entity known as the 'German forest' arose out of Central Europe's sylvan diversity.
ref:
2002, Jeffrey K. Wilson, “Introduction”, in The German Forest: Nature, Identity, and the Contestation of a National Symbol, 1871–1914 (German and European Studies), Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, page 1; republished Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, 2012, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Now, my Sacontalá, you are becomingly decorated: put on this lower veſt, the gift of ſylvan goddeſſes.
ref:
1790, Cálidás [i.e., Kālidāsa], [William Jones, transl.], Sacontalá; or, The Fatal Ring: An Indian Drama. By Cálidás. Translated from the Original Sanscrit and Prácrit, London: Printed for Edwards, Pall Mall; by J. Cooper, No. 31, Bow Street, Covent Garden, with his new-invented ink, →OCLC, act IV, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
Nicolet Area Technical College, a Rhinelander green centerpiece, gets high marks not just for its management of more than two hundred acres of sylvan land and its thousand feet of frontage along the pristine shores of Lake Julia, but for being Wisconsin's college campus leader in renewable energy use.
ref:
2011, Pat[ricia J.] Dillon, Lynne [Smith] Diebel, “Enter, Northwoods: Rhinelander Area”, in Green Travel Guide to Northern Wisconsin: Environmentally and Socially Responsible Travel, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
This house in McLean, Va., has just about everything a nature lover desires: soothing sounds of the Potomac River, a sylvan setting with countless species of birds and other wildlife, access to hiking, fishing and canoeing — and all within a half-hour of downtown Washington and minutes from the Beltway and George Washington Parkway.
ref:
2021 November 12, Kathy Orton, “Nature lovers house in McLean, Va., for sale for $7 million”, in Washington Post
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to the forest, or woodlands.
Residing in a forest or wood.
Wooded, or covered in forest.
senses_topics:
|
12876 | word:
sylvan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sylvan (plural sylvans)
forms:
form:
sylvans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Appalachian Mountains
Lehigh Gap
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Medieval Latin sylvanus, possibly via Middle French sylvain, from Latin silvanus, cognate with Latin Silvānus (“Roman god of the woods”), from silva (“forest”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). The ⟨y⟩ in sylvanus and its descendants is due to influence from Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “wood, matter”), transliterated in the Latin style as hyle. Analysable as sylva (“silva”) + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
[H]e hurried to a masquerade-warehouse in Westminster, where he selected the garb of a sylvan, or a man of the woods, together with a guitar, which he entrusted to a porter, bidding him accompany then to St. James's Park. / "But what connexion is there between a sylvan and a French song accompanied by the guitar?" asked Jocelyn, as they paced rapidly along. / "None whatever," replied his companion, "and, therefore, the better for our purpose. The King has long lost taste for that which is appropriate: to be pleased he must be surprised, and this can only be effected by some absurdity; the more preposterous the more likely to succeed."
ref:
1826, [Horace Smith], chapter III, in Brambletye House; or, Cavaliers and Roundheads. A Novel. … In Three Volumes, volume II, Boston, Mass.: Wells and Lilly—State Street, →OCLC, pages 80–81
type:
quotation
text:
214. A Revel and Sacrifice to Pan. The frequent repetition of these subjects shows how deeply the artist's mind was imbued with the love of sylvan rites and ceremonies, characteristic of the fabled golden age, when "In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan." […] [N]ear to her are a nymph and a faun sitting together; the attention of the former is at the moment attracted by a sylvan, who is dragging a goat by the leg; […]
ref:
1837, John Smith, “The Works of Nicolas Poussin”, in A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters; in which is Included a Short Biographical Notice of the Artists, with a Copious Discussion of Their Principal Pictures; a Statement of the Prices at which such Pictures have been Sold at Public Sales on the Continent and in England; a Reference to the Galleries and Private Collections, in which a Large Portion are at Present; and the Names of the Artists by whom They have been Engraved: To which is Added, a Brief Notice of the Scholars & Imitators of the Great Masters of the above Schools, 8th part, London: Published by Smith & Son, 137, New Bond Street, →OCLC, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
Her private orchards, walled on every side, / To lawless sylvans all access denied. / How oft the satyrs and the wanton fawns, / Who haunt the forests, or frequent the lawns, / The god whose ensign scares the birds of prey, / And old Silenus, youthful in decay, / Employed their wiles and unavailing care / To pass the fences, and surprise the fair!
ref:
1847, Alexander Pope, “Vertuminus and Pomona. From the Fourteenth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.”, in The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, new edition, London: H[enry] G[eorge] Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, pages 277–278, lines 19–26
type:
quotation
text:
The sylvans who guarded the palace were bearded buffoons, lazy and stupid but fierce. Without the help of the Silenus, prefect of the satyrs, the cocky satyrs may have fought with the sylvans.
ref:
1976, Jane Krier, The English Masque: Vanished Court Drama (unpublished M.A. dissertation), Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin, →OCLC, page 64
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who resides in the woods.
A fabled deity of the wood; a faun, a satyr.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences |
12877 | word:
Central America
word_type:
name
expansion:
Central America
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The part of continental North America which lies between Mexico and South America.
senses_topics:
|
12878 | word:
Central America
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
senses_topics:
|
12879 | word:
Ponzi scheme
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Ponzi scheme (plural Ponzi schemes)
forms:
form:
Ponzi schemes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after con artist Charles Ponzi (1882–1949), who famously conducted a pyramid scheme in North America in the 1920s.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: pyramid scheme
text:
Bernard L. Madoff, the one-time senior statesman of Wall Street who in 2008 became the human face of an era of financial misdeeds and missteps for running the largest and possibly most devastating Ponzi scheme in financial history, died on Wednesday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C. He was 82.
ref:
2021 April 14, Diana B. Henriques, “Bernard Madoff, Architect of Largest Ponzi Scheme in History, Is Dead at 82”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Now, a long-running Ponzi scheme requires a narrative — and the narrative is where crypto really excels.
ref:
2021 May 20, Paul Krugman, “Technobabble, Libertarian Derp and Bitcoin”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fraudulent scheme where earlier investors are paid with the money taken from new investors, giving the impression that the scheme is a viable investment.
senses_topics:
|
12880 | word:
accoutre
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accoutre (third-person singular simple present accoutres, present participle accoutring or accoutreing, simple past and past participle accoutred)
forms:
form:
accoutres
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accoutring
tags:
participle
present
form:
accoutreing
tags:
participle
present
form:
accoutred
tags:
participle
past
form:
accoutred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of accouter
senses_topics:
|
12881 | word:
pyramid scheme
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pyramid scheme (plural pyramid schemes)
forms:
form:
pyramid schemes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An illicit money-making investment scheme whereby early investors are paid primarily or wholly by later investors. Eventually all such schemes fail to the detriment of recent (later) investors.
senses_topics:
|
12882 | word:
Persian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Persian (countable and uncountable, plural Persians)
forms:
form:
Persians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English percynne, from Middle French persien, from Italian persiano, from Medieval Latin Persiānus, from Latin Persia, from Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /Pārsa/, “Persia”) (compare modern Iranian Persian فارس (fârs) or Early Classical Persian پارس (pārs)).
senses_examples:
text:
There is of those Persians several lengths.
ref:
1696, J. F. Merchant?, The merchant's ware-house laid open
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Persian language, or a family of languages spoken primarily in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
A person from Persia.
A person of Persian descent.
An Iranian.
A Persian cat.
A pastry local to the Thunder Bay region in Canada often compared to either a cinnamon bun or a donut topped with pink icing.
A sheep of the Blackhead Persian breed.
A thin silk fabric, formerly used for linings.
Any of a set of male figures used instead of columns to support an entablature.
senses_topics:
architecture |
12883 | word:
Persian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Persian (comparative more Persian, superlative most Persian)
forms:
form:
more Persian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Persian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English percynne, from Middle French persien, from Italian persiano, from Medieval Latin Persiānus, from Latin Persia, from Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /Pārsa/, “Persia”) (compare modern Iranian Persian فارس (fârs) or Early Classical Persian پارس (pārs)).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Persia.
Of or pertaining to the Persian people.
Of or pertaining to the Persian language.
senses_topics:
|
12884 | word:
Persian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Persian (comparative more Persian, superlative most Persian)
forms:
form:
more Persian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Persian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Persius + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
...as it seems from an Ovidian or Persian standpoint and also, perhaps, from the comic standpoints of Plautus or Caecilius...
ref:
1998, Stephen Hinds, Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Persius (Roman writer)
senses_topics:
|
12885 | word:
aqua
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aqua (countable and uncountable, plural aquas or aquae)
forms:
form:
aquas
tags:
plural
form:
aquae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English aqua (“water”), borrowed from Latin aqua. Perhaps also a learned borrowing directly from Latin. Doublet of ea, Eau, eau, and yeo.
senses_examples:
text:
aqua:
text:
Ms. Rockburne, with help from a team of artists, is working on a gargantuan mural of deep blues, shimmering aquas and luminous gold leaf that is headed for the American Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica.
ref:
2009 June 27, Patricia Cohen, “Employing Art Along With Ambassadors”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The compound water.
A shade of colour, usually a mix of blue and green similar to the colour turquoise.
senses_topics:
chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
12886 | word:
aqua
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aqua (comparative more aqua, superlative most aqua)
forms:
form:
more aqua
tags:
comparative
form:
most aqua
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English aqua (“water”), borrowed from Latin aqua. Perhaps also a learned borrowing directly from Latin. Doublet of ea, Eau, eau, and yeo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a greenish-blue colour.
senses_topics:
|
12887 | word:
perdition
word_type:
noun
expansion:
perdition (countable and uncountable, plural perditions)
forms:
form:
perditions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English perdicioun, from Old French perdiciun, from Late Latin perditio, from Latin perdo (“I destroy, I lose”).
senses_examples:
text:
I son ov perdition / From sheer nothingness transgressed
ref:
2009, Behemoth, Ov Fire and the Void
type:
quotation
text:
Their decision to buy stocks just before the crisis led to their perdition.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Eternal damnation.
Hell.
Absolute ruin; downfall.
senses_topics:
|
12888 | word:
aspirin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aspirin (countable and uncountable, plural aspirins)
forms:
form:
aspirins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Genericized trademark of German Aspirin, from acetylierte Spirsäure (literally “acetylated spiraeic acid”). The trade name Aspirin is a registered trademark in some countries, but has entered the English language in generic usage, as various German trademarks were nullified in the United States after World War I (see also heroin).
senses_examples:
text:
It nearly drove me insane. I took heaven alone knows how many aspirins.
ref:
1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 107
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
an analgesic drug, acetylsalicylic acid
a tablet containing this substance
senses_topics:
chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
|
12889 | word:
polymath
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polymath (plural polymaths)
forms:
form:
polymaths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πολυμαθής (polumathḗs, “having learnt much”), first attested in 1624. From πολύς (polús, “much”) + μανθάνω (manthánō, “to learn”). Compare opsimath, philomath, polyhistor, polymathic, polymathist, and polymathy. By surface analysis, poly- + math.
senses_examples:
text:
To be thought and held Polumathes and Polihistors.
ref:
1624, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (2ⁿᵈ edn.), p.6
text:
A bit of a polymath, he was crucial in the early development of the railways in this country.
ref:
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.
senses_topics:
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12890 | word:
ordinary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ordinary (plural ordinaries)
forms:
form:
ordinaries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman ordenarie, ordenaire et al., Middle French ordinaire, and their source, Medieval Latin ordinarius, noun use of Latin ōrdinārius (“regular, orderly”), from ōrdō (“order”).
senses_examples:
text:
I […] will lay to till you come within hail […] but pray respond by the first ordinary.
ref:
1819, Lord Byron, Letter, 15 May
text:
Here he recommended me to fix my board, there being an excellent ordinary daily at two o'clock, at which I might dine or not as I pleased.
ref:
1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 169
text:
He enjoyed a perpetual port duty of fourteen pence a ton, on vessels not owned in the province, yielding not far from five thousand dollars a year; and he exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries.
ref:
1899, Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl, editors, The Universal Anthology, Bancroft, page 320
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.
A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
A courier; someone delivering mail or post.
A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
A judge with the authority to deal with cases himself or herself rather than by delegation.
A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
The chaplain of Newgate prison, who prepared condemned prisoners for death.
Something ordinary or regular.
Customary fare, one's regular daily allowance of food; (hence) a regular portion or allowance.
Something ordinary or regular.
A meal provided for a set price at an eating establishment.
Something ordinary or regular.
A place where such meals are served; a public tavern, inn.
Something ordinary or regular.
One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess.
Something ordinary or regular.
An ordinary person or thing; something commonplace.
Something ordinary or regular.
The usual course of things; normal condition or health; a standard way of behaviour or action.
Something ordinary or regular.
A penny farthing bicycle.
Something ordinary or regular.
A part of the Christian liturgy that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed.
Something ordinary or regular.
A part of the Christian liturgy that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed.
Alternative letter-case form of Ordinary (“those parts of the Mass which are consistent from day to day”)
A book setting out ordinary or regular conduct.
A devotional manual; a book setting our rules for proper conduct.
A book setting out ordinary or regular conduct.
A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of a liturgy, especially of Mass.
senses_topics:
ecclesiastical
law
lifestyle
religion
law
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Christianity
Catholicism
Christianity
Catholicism
Christianity |
12891 | word:
ordinary
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ordinary (comparative more ordinary, superlative most ordinary)
forms:
form:
more ordinary
tags:
comparative
form:
most ordinary
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman ordenarie, ordenaire et al., Middle French ordinaire, and their source, Medieval Latin ordinarius, noun use of Latin ōrdinārius (“regular, orderly”), from ōrdō (“order”).
senses_examples:
text:
On an ordinary day I wake up at nine o'clock, work for six hours, and then go to the gym.
type:
example
text:
Method is not leſs requiſite in ordinary converſation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himſelf underſtood.
ref:
a. 1719, Joseph Addison, The Works of the Late Honourable Joseph Addison, Eſq., volume 3, published 1741, page 545
type:
quotation
text:
I live a very ordinary life most of the time, but every year I spend a week in Antarctica.
type:
example
text:
He looked so ordinary, I never thought he'd be capable of murder.
type:
example
text:
a. 1859, Thomas Macaulay, "Samuel Johnson," in 1871, Lady Trevelyan (Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan, editor), The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 7, page 325,
An ordinary lad would have acquired little or no useful knowledge in such a way: but much that was dull to ordinary lads was interesting to Samuel.
text:
You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
ref:
2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, page 192
type:
quotation
text:
1983 September 20, Bruce Stannard, Australia II Joins Our Greats, The Age, republished 2003, David Headon (editor), The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection, page 480,
It was, in some ways a sad, almost pathetic sight to see this great American boat which had fought so hard throughout the cup summer, now looking very ordinary indeed.
text:
1961, Joanna White, quoted in 2005, A. James Hammerton, Alistair Thomson, Ten Pound Poms: Australia′s Invisible Migrants, page 80,
For myself, I loved adventure and travelling. I′d already done quite a bit of travelling in Europe and — couldn′t get enough of it and whilst my marriage, at that stage, was very happy, he was very entrenched as a Londoner, Cockney, absolutely Cockney Londoner, and I could see that our future was pretty ordinary and so my hidden agenda I suppose was to drag him out to Australia and hope that both our lifestyles would improve and there would be new opportunities.
text:
Everyone started making suggestions as to what to do but they were all pretty ordinary ideas such as lighting a fire and hope someone would see the smoke and come to rescue us and so on.
ref:
2007, Chris Viner-Smith, Australia′s Forgotten Frontier: The Unsung Police Who Held Our PNG Front Line, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
Since the general public gained access to the Internet in 1993-4, firstly by narrowband dial-up access and since 1998 by very ordinary, so-called broadband speeds (generally less than 1 Mbps), a social and cultural revolution has been underway.
ref:
2010, Mal Bryce, Australia's First Online Community Ipswich Queensland, page 125
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.
Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.
Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.
Bad or undesirable.
senses_topics:
law
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12892 | word:
Pennsylvania
word_type:
name
expansion:
Pennsylvania
forms:
wikipedia:
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (disambiguation)
en:William Penn
etymology_text:
From Penn (“William Penn”) + sylvan (“woods”) + -ia (“land”).
On March 4, 1681, Charles II of England granted a land tract to William Penn for the area that now includes Pennsylvania. Penn then founded a colony there as a place of religious freedom for Quakers, and named it for the Latin sylva, silva (“meaning "wood"”), thus "Pennsylvania" (Penn's woods).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state of the United States. Capital: Harrisburg; largest city: Philadelphia.
A former colony of England, from 1681 to 1707, and of Great Britain, from 1707 to 1776, which grew progressively larger before becoming the present state.
The first, and historically largest, now defunct US railroad, a hallmark of the industrial age.
An unincorporated community in Mobile County, Alabama, United States.
A suburb of Exeter, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9294).
A hamlet in Cold Ashton parish, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7473).
senses_topics:
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12893 | word:
am
word_type:
verb
expansion:
am
forms:
wikipedia:
AM
etymology_text:
From Middle English am, em, from Old English eam, eom (“am”), from Proto-West Germanic *im, from Proto-Germanic *immi, *izmi (“am”, form of the verb *wesaną (“to be; dwell”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“I am, I exist”).
Cognate with Old Norse em (Old Swedish æm (“am”)), Gothic 𐌹𐌼 (im, “am”), Ancient Greek εἰμῐ́ (eimí, “am”), Old Armenian եմ (em, “am”), Albanian jam (“am”).
senses_examples:
text:
Marsha, I am in the kitchen!
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
first-person singular present indicative of be
senses_topics:
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12894 | word:
am
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
am
forms:
wikipedia:
AM
etymology_text:
From Middle English am, em, from Old English eam, eom (“am”), from Proto-West Germanic *im, from Proto-Germanic *immi, *izmi (“am”, form of the verb *wesaną (“to be; dwell”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“I am, I exist”).
Cognate with Old Norse em (Old Swedish æm (“am”)), Gothic 𐌹𐌼 (im, “am”), Ancient Greek εἰμῐ́ (eimí, “am”), Old Armenian եմ (em, “am”), Albanian jam (“am”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of I am.
senses_topics:
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12895 | word:
am
word_type:
adv
expansion:
am (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
AM
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
On 1 August 2014 at approximately 12 am, in Lingya and Chienchen Districts of Kaohsiung City, a series of explosions from underground pipelines and sewer system occurred.
ref:
2017, Huei-Ru Hsieh et al., “Lessons Learned from the 0801 Petrochemical Pipeline Explosions in Kaohsiung City”, in Fire Science and Technology 2015: The Proceedings of 10th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology, →DOI, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 183
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of a.m.
senses_topics:
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12896 | word:
briskly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
briskly (comparative more briskly, superlative most briskly)
forms:
form:
more briskly
tags:
comparative
form:
most briskly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From brisk + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
`Now,' she said briksly, `you've heard all about the business. What type of personal service have you got in mind?'
ref:
1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
As Ferguson strode briskly towards the Stretford End at the final whistle, he will have been reflecting on the extent of the challenge now facing him from the club he once branded "noisy neighbours".
ref:
2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fast, quickly, swiftly.
senses_topics:
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12897 | word:
Accra
word_type:
name
expansion:
Accra
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Ghana.
senses_topics:
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12898 | word:
etc.
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
etc.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English et cetera, etc., from Latin etc., an abbreviation of et cetera (“and the rest [of the things]; and the other things”).
senses_examples:
text:
The grocery shop sells cucumbers, lettuce, radishes, etc.
type:
example
text:
The plagiarism was painfully obvious: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," etc.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
And so on: used to note that the rest of a list or piece of information has been left out on the assumption that it is similar or already known.
senses_topics:
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12899 | word:
epistemology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
epistemology (countable and uncountable, plural epistemologies)
forms:
form:
epistemologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἐπιστήμη (epistḗmē, “science, knowledge”), from ἐπίσταμαι (epístamai, “I know”) + -λογία (-logía, “discourse”), from λόγος (lógos, “Study, explanation”). The term was introduced into English by the Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864).
senses_examples:
text:
Some thinkers take the view that, beginning with the work of Descartes, epistemology began to replace metaphysics as the most important area of philosophy.
type:
example
text:
[P]hilosophers of the time [early 20th century] were primarily concerned with epistemology and the foundations of the sciences; they often spoke as if we were separated from the real world by a screen of "representations" or "sense-data"; they tended to regard our approach to the world as one of disinterested observation.
ref:
2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: The philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler’s philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review section), London, page R10
type:
quotation
text:
In his epistemology, Plato maintains that our knowledge of universal concepts is a kind of recollection.
type:
example
text:
I believe that 'intuitionism' is usually, and rightly, taken to mean Brouwer's epistemology of mathematics, which is unrelated to the origin or content of topos theory.
ref:
1995, Colin McLarty, “Preface”, in Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes, page vii
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge; the theory of knowledge, asking such questions as "What is knowledge?", "How is knowledge acquired?", "What do people know?", "How do we know what we know?", "How do we know it is true?", and so on.
A particular instance, version, or school thereof; a particular theory of knowledge.
senses_topics:
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