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12900 | word:
splinter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
splinter (plural splinters)
forms:
form:
splinters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
splinter
etymology_text:
From Middle English splinter, from Middle Dutch splinter, equivalent to splint + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
A small such fragment that gets embedded in the flesh.
A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.
A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.
A fragment of a component word in a blend.
senses_topics:
bridge
games
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
12901 | word:
splinter
word_type:
verb
expansion:
splinter (third-person singular simple present splinters, present participle splintering, simple past and past participle splintered)
forms:
form:
splinters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
splintering
tags:
participle
present
form:
splintered
tags:
participle
past
form:
splintered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
splinter
etymology_text:
From the noun splinter.
senses_examples:
text:
The tall tree splintered during the storm.
type:
example
text:
His third kick splintered the door.
type:
example
text:
The government splintered when the coalition members could not agree.
type:
example
text:
The unpopular new policies splintered the company.
type:
example
text:
it will be very hard for Me to Splinter up the broken confuséd Pieces of it.
ref:
1659, Matthew Wren, Monarchy Asserted Or The State of Monarchicall & Popular Government
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To come apart into long sharp fragments.
To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
To break, or cause to break, into factions.
To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
senses_topics:
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12902 | word:
epiphany
word_type:
noun
expansion:
epiphany (plural epiphanies)
forms:
form:
epiphanies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English epiphanie, from Old French epyphanie, from Late Latin epiphania, from Ancient Greek ἐπιφάνεια (epipháneia, “manifestation, striking appearance”), from ἐπιφαίνω (epiphaínō, “I appear, display”), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I shine, appear”). English Epiphany (of Christ) since the 14th century, generic use since the 17th century.
senses_examples:
text:
It came to her in an epiphany what her life's work was to be.
type:
example
text:
Instead of examining institutions and classes, structures of economic production and social control, one had to think about “moments”—moments of love, hate, poetry, frustration, action, surrender, delight, humiliation, justice, cruelty, resignation, surprise, disgust, resentment, self-loathing, pity, fury, peace of mind—those tiny epiphanies, Lefebvre said, in which the absolute possibilities and temporal limits of anyone's existence were revealed.
ref:
1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009
type:
quotation
text:
But after spending most of my pocket money to get those developed, I had an epiphany: I was never going to be a professional photographer. My pictures were god-awful. I put the camera away.
ref:
2013, Chris Hadfield, chapter 11, in An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Pan Macmillan
type:
quotation
text:
The logic of the standard biography—a formative event leads to an epiphany that creates the great man—doesn’t quite work when the greatness doesn’t have much to do with the man at all.
ref:
2023 May 9, Jay Caspian Kang, “Tony Hsieh and the Emptiness of the Tech-Mogul Myth”, in The New Yorker
type:
quotation
text:
The ithyphallic bird-man is the climactic, ecstatic, instantaneous male principle confronting the enormous, slow, bovine, and enduring principle of the eternal feminine in her epiphany as the bison.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 129
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An illuminating realization or discovery, often resulting in a personal feeling of elation, awe, or wonder.
A manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being.
Alternative letter-case form of Epiphany.
senses_topics:
Christianity |
12903 | word:
gamble
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gamble (plural gambles)
forms:
form:
gambles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Gamble (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From earlier gamel, from Middle English *gamlen, *gamelen, variant of Middle English gamenen, from Old English gæmnian, gamnian, gamenian (“to joke; play”), related to Old English gamen (“joy; mirth; pleasure; entertainment; pastime; sport; game”), equivalent to game + -le. Compare Old Danish gammel, Middle High German gamel (“pleasure; fun”). More at game.
senses_examples:
text:
I had a gamble on the horses last weekend.
type:
example
text:
The sailors had taken many gambles with the sea and always won.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bet or wager.
A significant risk, undertaken with a potential gain.
A risky venture.
senses_topics:
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12904 | word:
gamble
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gamble (third-person singular simple present gambles, present participle gambling, simple past and past participle gambled)
forms:
form:
gambles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gambling
tags:
participle
present
form:
gambled
tags:
participle
past
form:
gambled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Gamble (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From earlier gamel, from Middle English *gamlen, *gamelen, variant of Middle English gamenen, from Old English gæmnian, gamnian, gamenian (“to joke; play”), related to Old English gamen (“joy; mirth; pleasure; entertainment; pastime; sport; game”), equivalent to game + -le. Compare Old Danish gammel, Middle High German gamel (“pleasure; fun”). More at game.
senses_examples:
text:
Mark won half a million dollars gambling on horses.
type:
example
text:
He gambled his reputation on the outcome.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take a risk, with the potential of a positive outcome.
To play risky games, especially casino games, for monetary gain.
To risk (something) for potential gain.
To interact with equipment at a casino.
senses_topics:
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12905 | word:
Addis Ababa
word_type:
name
expansion:
Addis Ababa
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Amharic አዲስ አበባ (ʾädis ʾäbäba, “new flower”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Ethiopia.
senses_topics:
|
12906 | word:
error
word_type:
noun
expansion:
error (countable and uncountable, plural errors)
forms:
form:
errors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English errour, from Anglo-Norman errour, borrowed from Old French error, from Latin error (“wandering about”), infinitive of errō (“to wander, to err”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹 (airzei, “error”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (airzjan, “to lead astray”). More at err.
senses_examples:
text:
Am I in error in marking out the s in the word assistants used in the following manner? [...]
ref:
1913, The Inland printer
type:
quotation
text:
Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner.
ref:
2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
"Well over 400 trains and thousands of passengers from across the South were disrupted by this single error of judgement," said Network Rail's Route Director for Sussex, Katie Frost.
ref:
2022 December 14, “Network News: HGV driver banned after Coulsdon bridge crash”, in RAIL, number 972, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
Sin; transgression.
A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
mathematics
sciences
statistics
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
12907 | word:
error
word_type:
verb
expansion:
error (third-person singular simple present errors, present participle erroring, simple past and past participle errored)
forms:
form:
errors
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
erroring
tags:
participle
present
form:
errored
tags:
participle
past
form:
errored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English errour, from Anglo-Norman errour, borrowed from Old French error, from Latin error (“wandering about”), infinitive of errō (“to wander, to err”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹 (airzei, “error”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (airzjan, “to lead astray”). More at err.
senses_examples:
text:
The web-page took a long time to load and errored out.
type:
example
text:
Remove that line of code and the script should stop erroring there.
type:
example
text:
This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.
type:
example
text:
The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.
type:
example
text:
Pixels which are mathematically outside of a triangle, but which are included for anti-aliasing purposes can be generated with colour and depth information outside of the valid range. The ADE should identify these cases and clamp the output to the minimum or maximum value depending on the direction it has errored in.
ref:
1993 December, Arie Kaufman, editor, Rendering, Visualization, and Rasterization Hardware, Springer-Verlag New York LLC
type:
quotation
text:
By doing so examiners are erroring in the direction of drawing hypotheses based on greater evidence of reliability and validity.
ref:
2000 December, Randy W. Kamphaus, Clinical Assessment of Child And Adolescent Intelligence, Allyn & Bacon
type:
quotation
text:
Error is not just permitted by diversity; it is what permits diversity.... The beetle had “errored” beautifully
ref:
2001 November, Daniel D. Dancer, Shards and Circles: Artistic Adventures in Spirit and Ecology, Trafford Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
Many other celebrities errored in the political comments area...
ref:
2002 May, Sylvain Beauregard, Passion Celine Dion the Book: The Ultimate Guide for the Fan!, Trafford Publishing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
To show or contain an error or fault.
To err.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
|
12908 | word:
hallowed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hallowed (comparative more hallowed, superlative most hallowed)
forms:
form:
more hallowed
tags:
comparative
form:
most hallowed
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English halwed (“hallowed, sacred, sanctified”), from Old English ġehālgod (“hallowed, sacred, sanctified”), past participle of hālgian (“to hallow, make holy”). Equivalent to hallow + -ed. More at hallow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Consecrated or sanctified; sacred, holy.
senses_topics:
|
12909 | word:
hallowed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hallowed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English halwed (“hallowed, sacred, sanctified”), from Old English ġehālgod (“hallowed, sacred, sanctified”), past participle of hālgian (“to hallow, make holy”). Equivalent to hallow + -ed. More at hallow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of hallow
senses_topics:
|
12910 | word:
NGO
word_type:
noun
expansion:
NGO (plural NGOs)
forms:
form:
NGOs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative forms: N.G.O., N. G. O.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of non-governmental organization.
senses_topics:
|
12911 | word:
individual
word_type:
noun
expansion:
individual (plural individuals)
forms:
form:
individuals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Individual (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Medieval Latin indīviduālis, from Latin indīviduum (“an indivisible thing”), neuter of indīviduus (“indivisible, undivided”), from in + dīviduus (“divisible”), from dīvidō (“divide”).
senses_examples:
text:
He is an unusual individual.
type:
example
text:
Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination […].
ref:
1982, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
type:
quotation
text:
It is typically held that chairs, trees, rocks, people and many of the so-called ‘everyday’ objects we encounter can be regarded as individuals.
ref:
2006, Steven French, “Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
type:
quotation
text:
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
An element belonging to a population.
senses_topics:
law
mathematics
sciences
statistics |
12912 | word:
individual
word_type:
adj
expansion:
individual (comparative more individual, superlative most individual)
forms:
form:
more individual
tags:
comparative
form:
most individual
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Individual (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Medieval Latin indīviduālis, from Latin indīviduum (“an indivisible thing”), neuter of indīviduus (“indivisible, undivided”), from in + dīviduus (“divisible”), from dīvidō (“divide”).
senses_examples:
text:
As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one.
type:
example
text:
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
ref:
2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
individual personal pension; individual cream cakes
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.
Not divisible without losing its identity.
senses_topics:
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12913 | word:
US dollar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
US dollar (plural US dollars)
forms:
form:
US dollars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The official currency of the United States.
senses_topics:
|
12914 | word:
Honolulu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Honolulu
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hawaiian Honolulu, from hono (“bay, harbor”), cognate with Maori whanga, + lulu (“shelter”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duŋduŋ (“sheltered”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A port on Oahu Island, the capital city of the state of Hawaii in the United States of America.
senses_topics:
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12915 | word:
lemonade
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lemonade (countable and uncountable, plural lemonades)
forms:
form:
lemonades
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lemonade
etymology_text:
From French limonade, equivalent to lemon + -ade.
senses_examples:
text:
In fact, a recent report from Denver shows it [street heroin] was about 1 to 2 percent and the addicts that are receiving this in many cases refer to it as lemonade, because it is so weak.
ref:
1965, United States Congress, Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee of Appropriations, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
Lemonade — heroin; poor quality drugs
ref:
1996, Karen Bellenir, Substance Abuse Sourcebook
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flavoured beverage consisting of water, lemon, and sweetener, sometimes ice, served mainly as a refreshment.
A clear, usually carbonated, beverage made from lemon or artificial lemon flavouring, water, and sugar.
Recreational drugs of poor or weak quality, especially heroin.
senses_topics:
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12916 | word:
North Pole
word_type:
name
expansion:
the North Pole
forms:
form:
the North Pole
head_nr:
1
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
North Pole
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole; the point which north is oriented towards, and therefore the northernmost point on Earth (having a latitude of 90°).
The Magnetic North Pole of Earth.
The Geomagnetic North Pole of Earth.
A city in Alaska.
A hamlet in New York.
senses_topics:
geography
natural-sciences
geography
natural-sciences
geography
natural-sciences
|
12917 | word:
mercurial
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mercurial (plural mercurials)
forms:
form:
mercurials
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Wellcome Library
etymology_text:
Noun sense 1 (“(obsolete) plant known as mercury”) is from Middle English mercurial, from Anglo-Norman mercurial and Old French mercurial, or directly from their etymon, from Mercurius (“the Roman god Mercury”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns).
Later adjective and noun uses may have been directly derived from Latin mercuriālis, whence Middle English mercurial (“under the astrological influence of the planet Mercury”).
senses_examples:
text:
She had paſſed through the milder Remedies frequently without ſucceſs: upon which account I deſigned Mercurialls; and beginning with Venæſection, afterwards purged her with decoct. epithymi, as it is preſcribed in the method of Cure. [...] After I had thus evacuated the Plethora, and diſpoſed her body for Mercurialls more operative, I gave her each morning and evening a few grains of Mercur. diaphoret. in a bolus with conſ. lujule and Mithridate, [...]
ref:
1676, Richard Wiseman, “Of Lepra, or Elephantiasis”, in Several Chirurgicall Treatises, London: Printed by E. Flesher and J[ohn] Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took […], →OCLC, 1st book (A Treatise of Tumours), page 139
type:
quotation
text:
[A] small dose of the mercurial may cause excessive salivation; and, if this discharge be attended by much soreness of throat, it is most difficult to determine whether the salivation is actually the result of the mercurial, or merely symptomatic of the sore throat and cold. If it proceed from the mercurial, there will generally be some tenderness of the gums, a soft and flabby state of the sides of the tongue, and it will generally be more obstinate.
ref:
1858, James Copland, “POISONS—Poisoning—Poisoned—Symptoms and Treatment of”, in A Dictionary of Practical Medicine. […] In Three Volumes, volume III, part I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, →OCLC, paragraph 580, pages 413–414
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of the plants known as mercury, especially the annual mercury or French mercury (Mercurialis annua).
A person born under the influence of the planet Mercury; hence, a person having an animated, lively, quick-witted or volatile character.
A chemical compound containing mercury.
A preparation of mercury, especially as a treatment for syphilis.
senses_topics:
astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
medicine
pharmacology
sciences |
12918 | word:
mercurial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
mercurial (comparative more mercurial, superlative most mercurial)
forms:
form:
more mercurial
tags:
comparative
form:
most mercurial
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Jorgen Dreyer
Wellcome Library
etymology_text:
Noun sense 1 (“(obsolete) plant known as mercury”) is from Middle English mercurial, from Anglo-Norman mercurial and Old French mercurial, or directly from their etymon, from Mercurius (“the Roman god Mercury”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns).
Later adjective and noun uses may have been directly derived from Latin mercuriālis, whence Middle English mercurial (“under the astrological influence of the planet Mercury”).
senses_examples:
text:
his mercurial temperament
type:
example
text:
[Y]our Mercuriall wit hath mangonized a Gigantean fury with an humble hue.
ref:
1642, Thomas Barton, “Section II”, in ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΝΤΙΤΕΙΧΙΣΜΑΤΟΣ. [APODEIXIS TOU ANTITEICHISMATOS.] Or, A Tryall of the Covnter-scarfe, Made 1642. […], London: Printed by Thomas Purslow, for Andrew Crooke, […], published 1643, →OCLC, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
When the ſoule bringeth its fire deſire out of its owne ſelfe-will into the Love-deſire of God; and goeth out of its owne ſelfneſſe, and ſinketh into the mercy and compaſſion of God, and caſteth it ſelfe into the death of Chriſt; and willeth no longer the fire-ſource, but deſireth in its fire-life to be dead in the death of Chriſt; then the poyſon of the Mercuriall life dyeth in the will of iniquity, and there ariſeth a new twigge, and budding of love-deſire.
ref:
1649, Jacob Behmen [i.e., Jakob Böhme], “The Nineteenth Epistle”, in J[ohn] E[llistone], transl., The Epistles of Jacob Behmen: Aliter, Tevtonicvs Philosophvs. […] Translated out of the German Language, London: Printed by Matthew Simmons […], →OCLC, paragraph 24, page 149
type:
quotation
text:
From the natural Mercurial Briskneſs of her [Sally Salisbury's] Temper, a ſedentary Life had ever been her Averſion, wherefore ſhe rather choſe to follow the Fortunes of a Wheel-Barrow, than thoſe of a Diſtaff; [...]
ref:
1723, Charles Walker, “Of Her Birth, Education, and First Setting Out in the World”, in Authentick Memoirs of the Life Intrigues and Adventures of the Celebrated Sally Salisbury. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, pages 11–12
type:
quotation
text:
Lebanon has shown once again that it is a land of dazzling deals and mercurial personalities, including in the realm of the national presidency itself.
ref:
2016 October 22, Rami G[eorge] Khouri, “Lebanese Oligarchy Preserves Its Interests Once Again”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 2018-08-01
type:
quotation
text:
The Sun to the Terms of Mercury. It inclineth the native to be Mercurial, given to ſtudy Arts and Sciences, and to delight in reading, and to follow his Calling with chearfulneſs.
ref:
1682, Joseph Blagrave, “[The Effects of Directions.] The Sun Directed unto Promittors.”, in Obadiah Blagrave, editor, Blagrave’s Introduction to Astrology. In Three Parts. […], London: Printed by E. Tyler, and R. Holt, for Obadiah Blagrave, […], →OCLC, part III, page 254
type:
quotation
text:
6thly, The ☽ separates from a △ of ♂︎, and applies to ☍ of ☿, lord of the 3d; which intimated that some neighbour of the querent, either with a letter, words, or cross information, would wholly destroy the querent's hopes; and that mercurial men, viz. scholars or divines, would be his enemies: [...]
ref:
1852, William Lilly, Zadkiel [pseudonym; Richard James Morrison], “Of the Ninth House and Its Questions. Long Journeys, Voyages, Arts, Science, Church Preferment, Law, &c.”, in An Introduction to Astrology […]: A Grammar of Astrology, and Tables for Calculating Nativities. […], London: H[enry] G[eorge] Bohn, […], →OCLC, page 268
type:
quotation
text:
Beware alſo of Mercuriall lotions, I meane any which haue Mercurie Sublimate Precipitat or otherwiſe prepared in them, for though they haue good qualities, yet they are vpon my knowledge and experience dangerous, [...]
ref:
1617, John Woodall, “Of the Small Siringe”, in The Svrgions Mate, or A Treatise Discouering Faithfully and Plainely the due Contents of the Svrgions Chest, the Uses of the Instruments, the Vertues and Operations of the Medicines, the Cures of the Most Frequent Diseases at Sea: […], London: Printed by Edward Griffin for Laurence Lisle, […], →OCLC, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
[...] Dr. Francis Fuller, [...] upon wearing a Quick-ſilver Girdle, for the Cure of the Itch, (and that after an inconſiderate and raſh manner) was brought under a violent Spaſmodick Diſtemper, which was ſupposed by himſelf and others to be owing to ſome Mercurial Particles lodg'd in ſome excretory Ducts of the Brain.
ref:
1734, T[homas] K[night], A Critical Dissertation upon the Manner of the Preparation of Mercurial Medicines, and Their Operation on Human Bodies; particularly Those Most in Fashion: […], London: Printed for Harmen Noorthouck […], →OCLC, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
If to theſe we add the inconveniences inſeparable from mercurial preparations, and which are always the conſequences of their uſe; if we conſider the ſmall number of patients to whom mercury may be exhibited with ſafety, [...] the uſe of mercurial medicines will be confined within very narrow limits.
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1773, Henry Saffory, The Inefficacy of All Mercurial Preparations in the Cure of Venereal and Scorbutic Disorders, Proved from Reason and Experience, […], London: Printed for the author; and sold by T. Evans, […], and Mr. Southern, […], →OCLC, pages 31–32
type:
quotation
text:
[I]n the month of May, a mercurial thermometer, having its bulb covered with paper, and blackened in a similar manner to the spirit one, was inclosed in a square bottle of thin glass, four inches wide, to protect it from the wind.
ref:
1828, John Richardson, “[Appendix.] No. III. Observations on Solar Radiation”, in John Franklin, Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages cix–cx
type:
quotation
text:
I ſaw in the Year 1709. a notable inſtance, where a Phyſician order'd the Patient to be Bled five times in a Mercurial Salivation in a Caſe not Venereal; when he did ſpit at the rate of ℔ iv. per diem, and it was at the height, and yet notwithſtanding it did continue for all this, and the Patient eſcap'd with his Life.
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1712, J. White, “Farther Indications of Right Blood-letting in Fevers, […]”, in De Recta Sanguinis Missione: Or, New and Exact Observations of Fevers. […], London: Printed by D[aniel] Brown[e] […], A[ndrew] Bell […], and W[illiam] Innys […], →OCLC, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
The last exciting cause of the mercurial ulcer, which I shall now mention, is the use of the knife or of the caustic, during a mercurial course, to wounds made or enlarged at this time; for the great additional irritation, which the operation must produce, disposes such wounds to take on easily the mercurial disease.
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1810, Andrew Mathias, “Section II. The Exciting Causes of the Mercurial Disease.”, in The Mercurial Disease. An Inquiry into the History and Nature of the Disease Produced in the Human Constitution by the Use of Mercury, with Observations on Its Connexion with the Lues Venerea, London: Printed for Becket and Porter, […]; John Murray, […]; and J[oseph] Johnson and Co., […], →OCLC, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
[Benjamin] Franklin, the mechanic of his own fortune, [...] tendering, from the self-created nation, to the mightiest monarchs of Europe, the olive-branch of peace, the mercurial wand of commerce, and the amulet of protection and safety to the man of peace on the pathless ocean from the inexorable cruelty and merciless rapacity of war; [...]
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1843 February 8, John Quincey Adams, “Presentation of Washington’s Sword and Franklin’s Staff”, in [Francis Preston] Blair, [John C.] Rives, editors, The Congressional Globe: […] (United States House of Representatives, 27th Congress, 3rd session), volume XII, number 16, Washington, D.C.: Published by Blair and Rives; […], published 10 February 1843, →OCLC, pages 254–255
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a lively or volatile character; animated, changeable, quick-witted.
Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mercury; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see adjective sense 1).
Pertaining to the planet Mercury.
Of or pertaining to the element mercury or quicksilver; containing mercury.
Caused by the action of mercury or a mercury compound.
Pertaining to Mercury, the Roman god of, among other things, commerce, financial gain, communication, and thieves and trickery; hence (comparable), money-making; crafty.
senses_topics:
astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
medicine
sciences
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences |
12919 | word:
produce
word_type:
verb
expansion:
produce (third-person singular simple present produces, present participle producing, simple past and past participle produced)
forms:
form:
produces
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
producing
tags:
participle
present
form:
produced
tags:
participle
past
form:
produced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English produce, from Latin prōdūcō (“to lead forth”), from prō- (“forth, forward”) + dūcō (“to lead, bring”). The noun is derived from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
Many of these caterpillars have special glands that produce secretions which are very attractive to these ants.
ref:
1999, Steven O. Shattuck, Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification, volume 3, CSIRO Publishing, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
For example, Mary Lou Morris, past president of the Environment Institute of Australia, has been her country′s delegate to a number of global environmental conferences and helped to produce the Australian National Heritage Charter.
ref:
2000, Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender, quoting Jane McGary, Environment: Australia and New Zealand, quoted in Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Education: Health to Hypertension, page 567
type:
quotation
text:
The Agreement criminalizes end-user piracy and requires Australia to authorize the seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of counterfeit and pirated goods and the equipment used to produce them.
ref:
2006, Office of the United States Trade Representative, National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers: 2006, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
We discovered that they produce more than 2,000 megawatts from wind energy.
ref:
2006 November 21, Kenya National Assembly, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard): Parliamentary Debates, page 3805
type:
quotation
text:
He had wanted to produce a wheat that was more suited to Australian conditions and was drought- and disease-resistant.
ref:
2008, Primary Australian History: Book F, R.I.C. Publications, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
Besides, some of the rejected dimuons were produced in collisions downstream of the target region (in the beam dump or in the hadron absorber, for instance).
ref:
2010, Carlos Laurenço, Hermine K. Wöhri, edited by Helmut Satz, Sourav Sarkar, and Bikash Sinha, The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Introductory Lectures, Springer, Lecture Notes in Physics 785, Measuring Dimuons Produced in Proton-Nucleus Collisions in the NA60 Experiment at the SPS, page 280
type:
quotation
text:
Now it is also my understanding, I believe I am correct in this, that either one or two other manufacturers did not produce this year, which also created a certain shortage.
ref:
1968, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business, Hearings, page 550
type:
quotation
text:
It was necessary for the prisoner to produce a witness to prove his innocency.
ref:
1810, Cobbett's complete collection of state trials and proceedings, volume 8
type:
quotation
text:
The bottom of the barrel was scraped on August 22 when Shrewsbury had to produce Taunton 2-6-0 No. 6312 to work the 8.10 p.m. from Paddington between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury; the stranger was in trouble in the early hours of the next morning at Hollinswood, but managed to reach Shrewsbury.
ref:
1961 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 635
type:
quotation
text:
LDS security produced identification information, photographs, and videotape of an anti-Mormon preacher who they said called himself Emmanuel and was often seen around Temple Square, especially at conference time.
ref:
2006, Tom Smart, Lee Benson, In Plain Sight: The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation, page 262
type:
quotation
text:
The plaintiff alleges that he was unlawfully detained at the airport by state troopers and threatened with arrest unless he produced identification and his travel documents.
ref:
2007, Transit Cooperative Research Program, TRCP Report 86: Public Transportation Passenger Security Inspections: A Guide for Policy Decision Makers, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
David Tickle flew in to Melbourne to produce the quad-platinum (in Australia) LP “True Colors” and the triple gold single “I Got You”— both of which shot the band to international prominence.
ref:
1982 January 30, “Imported Producers Spread Early Sound to Global Markets”, in Billboard, page M-16
type:
quotation
text:
In 1940, he co-wrote the script for Broken Strings, an independently produced film in which he starred as a concert violinist.
ref:
2001, Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
This beautifully produced film was introduced in 2003.
ref:
2011, Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge, Len Testa, The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012, page 570
type:
quotation
text:
to produce a side of a triangle
type:
example
text:
highly produced sound
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.
To make or yield something.
To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing.
senses_topics:
media
mathematics
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
12920 | word:
produce
word_type:
noun
expansion:
produce (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English produce, from Latin prōdūcō (“to lead forth”), from prō- (“forth, forward”) + dūcō (“to lead, bring”). The noun is derived from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
All fruits, vegetables, and dairy and poultry-yard produce are, in the Australian capitals, dear, and of very easy sale.
ref:
1852, F. Lancelott, Australia As It Is: Its Settlements, Farms and Gold Fields, page 151
type:
quotation
text:
Taking a retrospect, then, of fourteen years preceding 1860, and making two periods of seven years each, the value of the exports of the produce or manufactures of this country to Australia has been, for the annual average of the first seven years, 1846-52, 2½ millions sterling; while for the second period, 1856-59, the annual average has been 11 millions.
ref:
1861, William Westgarth, Australia: Its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
While it is true that New Zealand′s economic stake in the region [of Oceania] remained relatively small when compared with the major markets for New Zealand produce in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe, it nevertheless remained the region through which trade must pass on its way to these larger markets.
ref:
1999, Bruce Brown, Malcolm McKinnon, New Zealand in World Affairs, 1972-1990, page 291
type:
quotation
text:
A farm supervisor is employed to coordinate the planting and harvesting of produce by volunteers.
ref:
2008, Peter Newman, Isabella Jennings, Cities As Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices, page 230
type:
quotation
text:
With regard to the mare that has proved herself of the first class during her racing career, let us contrast the probable success of her produce […]
ref:
1865, The Turf and the Racehorse
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which is produced.
Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms.
Offspring.
Livestock and pet food supplies.
senses_topics:
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12921 | word:
amalgam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
amalgam (countable and uncountable, plural amalgams)
forms:
form:
amalgams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin amalgama (“mercury alloy”), from Arabic اَلْمَلْغَم (al-malḡam, “emollient poultice or unguent for sores”), from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma, “emollient; malleable material”), from μαλάσσω (malássō, “to soften”), from μαλακός (malakós, “soft”). Doublet of malagma. For the verb, compare French amalgamer.
senses_examples:
text:
This was the Ambergate, Nottingham & Boston & Eastern Junction Railway, an amalgam of a number of separate schemes put forward in 1845, which secured its Act on July 16, 1846.
ref:
1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 149
type:
quotation
text:
A church where spirit, pain, and joy formed a holy amalgam and were righteously acknowledged out loud.
ref:
1987 December 20, Barbara Smith, “We Must Always Bury Our Dead Twice”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 23, page 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An alloy containing mercury.
A combination of different things.
One of the ingredients in an alloy.
An alloy of mercury used to fill tooth cavities.
senses_topics:
engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
dentistry
medicine
sciences |
12922 | word:
amalgam
word_type:
verb
expansion:
amalgam (third-person singular simple present amalgams, present participle amalgaming, simple past and past participle amalgamed)
forms:
form:
amalgams
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
amalgaming
tags:
participle
present
form:
amalgamed
tags:
participle
past
form:
amalgamed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin amalgama (“mercury alloy”), from Arabic اَلْمَلْغَم (al-malḡam, “emollient poultice or unguent for sores”), from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma, “emollient; malleable material”), from μαλάσσω (malássō, “to soften”), from μαλακός (malakós, “soft”). Doublet of malagma. For the verb, compare French amalgamer.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To amalgamate (something) with a thing.
senses_topics:
|
12923 | word:
recording
word_type:
verb
expansion:
recording
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref:
2013 June 7, David Simpson, Issac Stone, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of record
senses_topics:
|
12924 | word:
recording
word_type:
noun
expansion:
recording (plural recordings)
forms:
form:
recordings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
recording
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The one-party consent law permits the recording of telephone calls with the consent of at least one of the parties.
type:
example
text:
I made a recording of the TV show so that I could watch it later.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of storing sound, video, etc., in a permanent medium.
A reproduction of sound, video, etc., stored in a permanent medium.
The act of registering for something; registration.
senses_topics:
|
12925 | word:
combustion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
combustion (countable and uncountable, plural combustions)
forms:
form:
combustions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
combustion
etymology_text:
From Old French combustion, from Latin combustio, from comburere (“to burn”), itself from the intensifying prefix com- + the root burere (a faulty sep. of amburere "to burn around", itself from ambi- + urere "to burn, singe"); equivalent to combust + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
From this ground, with a kind of loose scorn, he continues the French Correspondence, and secretly contriveth a continuance of the Scotish Rebellion. He omits no Act of Contempt against the antient Nobility, that they might in the sence of their disgrace be, or at least dayly threaten some new Combustion.
ref:
c. 1620s, Elizabeth Cary [misattributed to Henry Cary], The History Of the most unfortunate Prince King Edward II. […], London: A.G. and F. P., published 1680, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
There [were] great combustions and divisions among the heads of the university.
ref:
c. 1665, John Worthington, “The Works of the Pious and Profoundly-learned Joseph Mede”, in Life, The Author
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or process of burning.
A process whereby two chemicals are combined to produce heat.
A process wherein a fuel is combined with oxygen, usually at high temperature, releasing heat.
Violent agitation, tumult.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
12926 | word:
morose
word_type:
adj
expansion:
morose (comparative more morose or moroser, superlative most morose or morosest)
forms:
form:
more morose
tags:
comparative
form:
moroser
tags:
comparative
form:
most morose
tags:
superlative
form:
morosest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mōs (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral.
senses_examples:
text:
If there is any boy or man who loves to be melancholy and morose, and who cannot enter with kindly sympathy into the regions of fun, let me seriously advise him to shut my book and put it away. It is not meant for him.
ref:
1857, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
senses_topics:
|
12927 | word:
online
word_type:
adj
expansion:
online (comparative more online, superlative most online)
forms:
form:
more online
tags:
comparative
form:
most online
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
online
etymology_text:
1950, from on + line.
senses_examples:
text:
Is this modem online?
type:
example
text:
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
ref:
2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations.
ref:
2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I prefer to read online newspapers.
type:
example
text:
I'll be online tonight, so I'll be able to reply to your email.
type:
example
text:
Press the F1 key to access the online help.
type:
example
text:
The program comes with an online manual, supplied on compact disc.
type:
example
text:
The power is online.
type:
example
text:
Once this factory comes online, it will double car production in our country!
type:
example
text:
To borrow an idiom from the extremely online, late Godard is a mood.
ref:
2019, A.O. Scott, “'The Image Book' Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a system: connected (generally electrically) to a larger network.
Of a generator or power plant: connected to the grid.
Of a system: connected (generally electrically) to a larger network.
Of a computer: actively connected to the Internet or to some other communications service.
Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.
Connected to the Internet.
Available on a computer system, even if not networked.
Of a system: active, particularly building facilities (such as power) or a factory or power plant.
Immersed in Internet culture. (Usually modified by an intensifier such as extremely or terminally)
senses_topics:
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12928 | word:
online
word_type:
adv
expansion:
online (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
online
etymology_text:
1950, from on + line.
senses_examples:
text:
He works online.
type:
example
text:
Well, things are getting pretty serious right now. I mean, we chat online for, like, two hours every day so I guess you could say things are gettin' pretty serious.
ref:
2004, Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess, Napoleon Dynamite (motion picture), spoken by Kip (Aaron Ruell)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
While online; while in a running or active state, or connected to the Internet.
senses_topics:
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12929 | word:
online
word_type:
verb
expansion:
online (third-person singular simple present onlines, present participle onlining, simple past and past participle onlined)
forms:
form:
onlines
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
onlining
tags:
participle
present
form:
onlined
tags:
participle
past
form:
onlined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
online
etymology_text:
1950, from on + line.
senses_examples:
text:
The output in Listing 8-2 shows your disk group status prior to onlining the disks, the commands to online your disks, and the status after onlining.
ref:
2013, John Clarke, Oracle Exadata Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, page 219
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bring (a system, etc.) online; to promote to an active or running state.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12930 | word:
oligarchy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
oligarchy (countable and uncountable, plural oligarchies)
forms:
form:
oligarchies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
oligarchy
etymology_text:
From French oligarchie, from Latin oligarchia, from Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía), from ὀλίγος (olígos, “few”) + ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “rule”).
By surface analysis, olig- (“few”) + -archy (“rule, command”).
senses_examples:
text:
It's an oligarchy because these families own and run almost everything that makes money in El Salvador. Coffee gave birth to the oligarchy in the late 19th century, and economic growth has revolved around them ever since.
ref:
1981 September 6, “The Eclipse of the Oligarchs”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
The Itasca Project is just one example of existing oligarchy, and a surprisingly open one at that.
ref:
2016 January 17, “Wealthy cabals run America”, in Al Jazeera America, retrieved 2016-01-18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A government run by only a few, often the wealthy.
Those who make up an oligarchic government.
A state ruled by such a government.
senses_topics:
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12931 | word:
Caracas
word_type:
name
expansion:
Caracas
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish Caracas. Named after the Caraca tribe.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Venezuela.
senses_topics:
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12932 | word:
phalanx
word_type:
noun
expansion:
phalanx (plural phalanxes or phalanges)
forms:
form:
phalanxes
tags:
plural
form:
phalanges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Phalanx bone
phalanx
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin phalanx or Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx, “battle order, array”). Doublet of phalange, planch, plancha, planche, and plank.
senses_examples:
text:
[Charles Fourier] calculated that if precisely 1,620 men, women and children were collected in a 6,000-acre phalanx, they would — all by merrily following their individual passions — end up satisfying all the phalanx’s essential needs.
ref:
2009 April 16, Jon Mooallem, “The End Is Near! (Yay!)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
The monarch hath gone, but his rocky throne
Still rests on its frowning base;
Its motionless guards rise in phalanx lone,
And nought save the winds through their helmets that moan,
And none but those bosoms and hearts of stone
Sigh o'er a fallen race.
ref:
1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, The Chair of the Indian KIng, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
From Courbevoie to the Hôtel des Invalides, one walked through a hedge of elaborate decorations—of bees, eagles, crowns, N’s; of bucklers, banners, and wreaths bearing the names of famous victories; of urns blazing with incense; of rostral columns; masts bearing trophies of arms and clusters of flags; flaming tripods; allegorical statues; triumphal arches; great banks of seats draped in imperial purple and packed with spectators, and phalanges of soldiers.
ref:
1895, Ida M[inerva] Tarbell, “The Second Funeral of Napoleon.—Removal of Napoleon’s Remains from St. Helena to the Banks of the Seine in 1840.”, in A Short Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, New York, N.Y.: S[amuel] S[idney] MᶜClure, Limited […], page 240, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Broad phalanx of cars across the bridge moving slowly through the streaming snow.
ref:
1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 331
type:
quotation
text:
The Guardian today listed a phalanx of ministers who back the bill, including Tessa Jowell, the culture secretary, Tony McNulty, the policing minister, Andy Burnham, the junior health minister, Ian Pearson, the climate change minister, John Healey, the financial secretary to the Treasury, and Keith Hill, parliamentary private secretary to Tony Blair.
ref:
2007 April 25, Hélène Mulholland, “Blair refuses to condemn FoI bill”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2014-10-03
type:
quotation
text:
There, the Paisleyites were being held back by another phalanx of soldiers and policemen.
ref:
2007 May 6, Sean O'Hagan, “The day I thought would never come: This week, Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness will astonish those who experienced the Troubles”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2014-10-03
type:
quotation
text:
For a short time the two phalanges of men faced each other at a distance apart.
ref:
2009, Maria Nugent, “[In between] The second day”, in Captain Cook Was Here, Cambridge University Press, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
The next day, phalanges of soldiers blocked all entrances to the city as rumours that Muslim workers from all around Calcutta would throng the venue of the meeting in protest reached the commissioner of the city Police.
ref:
2022, Sugata Nandi, “Insurrectionary city: Revolts in colonial Calcutta, 1918–1946”, in Urvi Mukhopadhyay, Suchandra Ghosh, editors, Exploring South Asian Urbanity, Routledge, →DOI, part V (Urban fringes and insurrections), chapter section “The mass and Gandhi Raj, 1918–1922”
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ancient Greek and Macedonian military unit that consisted of several ranks and files (lines) of soldiers in close array with joined shields and long spears.
A Fourierite utopian community; a phalanstery.
A large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose.
One of the bones of the finger or toe.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
12933 | word:
Basel
word_type:
name
expansion:
Basel
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Basel-Stadt canton, Switzerland.
A former canton in northwestern Switzerland.
senses_topics:
|
12934 | word:
Tagalog
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tagalog
forms:
wikipedia:
Tagalog
etymology_text:
From Tagalog Tagalog.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A language spoken in the Philippines, especially in areas of central to southern Luzon.
senses_topics:
|
12935 | word:
Tagalog
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Tagalog (plural Tagalogs or Tagalog)
forms:
form:
Tagalogs
tags:
plural
form:
Tagalog
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tagalog
etymology_text:
From Tagalog Tagalog.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group.
a speaker of the Tagalog language
senses_topics:
|
12936 | word:
Tagalog
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Tagalog (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Tagalog
etymology_text:
From Tagalog Tagalog.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the Tagalogs.
senses_topics:
|
12937 | word:
flammable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
flammable (comparative more flammable, superlative most flammable)
forms:
form:
more flammable
tags:
comparative
form:
most flammable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from inflammable, which is used to avoid confusion with non-flammable, as the prefix in- is often used to mean "un-; non-", although it was originally meant in a sense closely related to en-.
senses_examples:
text:
flammable liquid
type:
example
text:
In considering the possible commitment of U.S. forces to South Vietnam , the Joint Chiefs of Staff have reviewed the overall critical situation in Southeast Asia with particular emphasis upon the present highly flammable situation in South Vietnam.
ref:
1971, United States. Department of Defense, United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
They could stuff their ears with cotton, but they could not, after all, fight such flammable ideas ( at least not in the public squares where Attucks's war whoops could still be heard ).
ref:
2002, Gregory Toledo, The Hanging of Old Brown, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
With her play Diamond Lil, she discovered a way to sneak her flammable subject matter past the censors.
ref:
2004, Elizabeth Prioleau, Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love
type:
quotation
text:
King's words touch on a higher law of leadership, that the solution to a sensitive and highly contentious and even flammable situation often lies in doing the opposite of what is expected and even perceived as normal or 'natural'.
ref:
2015, Adriaan Groenewald, Seamless Leadership: A passion to perform in South Africa
type:
quotation
text:
Evelyn realized that Adam's flammable words and angry eyes were only the form of his untold pain, holding the strongest words of his heart, unspoken.
ref:
2021, Esra Gultakin, In the Shallows: Awaken Your Mind
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of burning, especially a liquid.
Easily set on fire.
Subject to easy ignition and rapid flaming combustion.
Very likely to cause fighting or controversy; extremely contentious.
senses_topics:
|
12938 | word:
flammable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flammable (plural flammables)
forms:
form:
flammables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from inflammable, which is used to avoid confusion with non-flammable, as the prefix in- is often used to mean "un-; non-", although it was originally meant in a sense closely related to en-.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any flammable substance.
senses_topics:
|
12939 | word:
inflammable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
inflammable (comparative more inflammable, superlative most inflammable)
forms:
form:
more inflammable
tags:
comparative
form:
most inflammable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French inflammable, from Medieval Latin īnflammābilis, from Latin īnflammāre (“to set on fire”), from in (“in, on”) + flamma (“flame”). Equivalent to inflame + -able.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of burning; easily set on fire.
Easily excited; set off by the slightest excuse; easily enraged or inflamed.
Incapable of burning; not easily set on fire.
senses_topics:
|
12940 | word:
inflammable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
inflammable (plural inflammables)
forms:
form:
inflammables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French inflammable, from Medieval Latin īnflammābilis, from Latin īnflammāre (“to set on fire”), from in (“in, on”) + flamma (“flame”). Equivalent to inflame + -able.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any inflammable substance.
senses_topics:
|
12941 | word:
mania
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mania (countable and uncountable, plural manias)
forms:
form:
manias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mania
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin mania, from Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”).
senses_examples:
text:
2004 March, G. E. Berrios, “Of Mania: introduction (Classic text no. 57)”, in History of Psychiatry, number 15, →DOI, →PMID, pages 105–124:
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences |
12942 | word:
universalism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
universalism (countable and uncountable, plural universalisms)
forms:
form:
universalisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
universalism
etymology_text:
From universal + -ism.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being universal; universality.
The belief that all souls can attain salvation.
Alternative form of Unitarian Universalism
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
theology
|
12943 | word:
fraction
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fraction (plural fractions)
forms:
form:
fractions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fraccioun (“a breaking”), from Anglo-Norman, Old French fraction, from Medieval Latin fractio (“a fragment, portion”), from earlier Latin fractio (“a breaking, a breaking into pieces”), from fractus, past participle of frangere (“to break”) (whence English frangible), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (English break). Doublet of frazione.
senses_examples:
text:
After kick-off was delayed because of crowd congestion, Torquay went closest to scoring in a cagey opening 30 minutes, when Danny Stevens saw a fierce shot from the edge of the area swerve a fraction wide.
ref:
2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Torquay 0-1 Crawley Town”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part.
A ratio of two numbers (numerator and denominator), usually written one above the other and separated by a horizontal bar called the vinculum or, alternatively, in sequence on the same line and separated by a solidus (diagonal bar).
A component of a mixture, separated by fractionation.
In a eucharistic service, the breaking of the host.
A small amount.
The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.
senses_topics:
arithmetic
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Christianity
|
12944 | word:
fraction
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fraction (third-person singular simple present fractions, present participle fractioning, simple past and past participle fractioned)
forms:
form:
fractions
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fractioning
tags:
participle
present
form:
fractioned
tags:
participle
past
form:
fractioned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fraccioun (“a breaking”), from Anglo-Norman, Old French fraction, from Medieval Latin fractio (“a fragment, portion”), from earlier Latin fractio (“a breaking, a breaking into pieces”), from fractus, past participle of frangere (“to break”) (whence English frangible), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (English break). Doublet of frazione.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To divide or break into fractions.
To fractionate.
senses_topics:
|
12945 | word:
Channel Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
Channel Islands
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of islands of the Duchy of Normandy in the English Channel: Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm, Brecqhou, Lihou, Jethou and Burhou.
A group of islands off the coast of California, United States: San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa, San Nicolas, Santa Barbara, Santa Catalina, San Clemente.
senses_topics:
|
12946 | word:
DML
word_type:
name
expansion:
DML
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
DML consists of four commonly used statements: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and MERGE.
ref:
2015, Miguel Cebollero, Michael Coles, Jay Natarajan, Pro T-SQL Programmer's Guide, Apress, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Dimensional Markup Language.
Initialism of Data Manipulation Language.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12947 | word:
DML
word_type:
noun
expansion:
DML
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Doctor of Modern Languages (a terminal degree similar to both the D.A. (Doctor of Arts) and Ph.D. in Foreign Languages. See also: doctor)
senses_topics:
|
12948 | word:
binomial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
binomial (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Binominal nomenclature
Gerard of Cremona
Trésor de la langue française informatisé
etymology_text:
Formed from Late Latin binōmium + -al. The derivation of binōmium is unclear. It was used by Gerard of Cremona in the 12th century. Suggested sources are the Latin nōmen (“name”), the Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “distribution, pasture”), or the Old French nom (“name”). Compare binomy and binominal, as well as the French binôme. By surface analysis, bi- + -nomial.
senses_examples:
text:
Finally, instead of returning to Chile’s traditional proportional representation system, the law adopted the “binomial” system, which gave strong incentives to the parties to form broad coalitions.
ref:
1992, Rhoda Rabkin, “The Aylwin Government and ‘Tutelary’ Democracy: A Concept in Search of a Case?”, in Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, volume 34, number 4, →JSTOR, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
Assuming a normal approximation to binomial probabilities the proportion of total complications reported for 1979–85 in the age class 0–14 years was significantly higher than the proportion in the same age class for the period 1962–69 (p < 0·0001)
ref:
1991 November 23, D. J. Nokes, R. M. Anderson, “Vaccine safety versus vaccine efficacy in mass immunisation programmes”, in The Lancet, volume 338, number 8778, →DOI, page 1309
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Consisting of two terms, or parts.
Of or relating to the binomial distribution.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
statistics |
12949 | word:
binomial
word_type:
noun
expansion:
binomial (plural binomials)
forms:
form:
binomials
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Binominal nomenclature
Gerard of Cremona
Trésor de la langue française informatisé
etymology_text:
Formed from Late Latin binōmium + -al. The derivation of binōmium is unclear. It was used by Gerard of Cremona in the 12th century. Suggested sources are the Latin nōmen (“name”), the Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “distribution, pasture”), or the Old French nom (“name”). Compare binomy and binominal, as well as the French binôme. By surface analysis, bi- + -nomial.
senses_examples:
text:
Common name followed by Latin binomial in parentheses.
ref:
1991, Daniel W. Gade, “Weeds in Vermont as Tokens of Socioeconomic Change”, in Geographical Review, volume 81, number 2, →JSTOR, page 169
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A polynomial with two terms.
A quantity expressed as the sum or difference of two terms.
A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: a generic name and a specific name.
senses_topics:
algebra
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy |
12950 | word:
illicit
word_type:
adj
expansion:
illicit (comparative more illicit, superlative most illicit)
forms:
form:
more illicit
tags:
comparative
form:
most illicit
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
illicit
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French illicite, from Latin illicitus, from in- (“not”) + licitus (“allowed, permitted”), from licet (“it is allowed”). By surface analysis, il- + licit.
senses_examples:
text:
The bigamous marriage, while illicit, was not invalid.
type:
example
text:
Such migrants may violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do then they are trespassers, not criminals.
ref:
2008 January 8, Madeleine Albright, Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership, New York: HarperCollins, →OL, page 225
type:
quotation
text:
I only can properly enjoy carol services if I am having an illicit affair with someone in the congregation.
ref:
1993, Alan Clark, Diaries: In Power 1983-1992, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →OL
type:
quotation
text:
Ayşe Erkoç learned long ago that the secret of doing anything illicit in Istanbul is to do it in full public gaze in the clear light of day. No one ever questions the legitimacy of the blatant.
ref:
2010 July 29, Ian McDonald, The Dervish House, →OL
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not approved by law, but not invalid.
Breaking social norms.
Unlawful.
senses_topics:
law
|
12951 | word:
illicit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
illicit (plural illicits)
forms:
form:
illicits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
illicit
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French illicite, from Latin illicitus, from in- (“not”) + licitus (“allowed, permitted”), from licet (“it is allowed”). By surface analysis, il- + licit.
senses_examples:
text:
A large number of studies, however, have reported that it is rare for the user of 'hard' drugs not to have initiated cannabis use prior to the other illicits.
ref:
2011, Shane Darke, The Life of the Heroin User: Typical Beginnings, Trajectories and Outcomes
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A banned or unlawful item.
senses_topics:
|
12952 | word:
armistice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
armistice (plural armistices)
forms:
form:
armistices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin armistitium, from Latin arma (“arms, weapons”) + sistēre (from sistō (“to halt, stand still”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand up”)) + -ium (“suffix forming abstract nouns”). The word is cognate with French armistice, Italian armistizio, Portuguese armistício, Spanish armisticio.
senses_examples:
text:
135. An armistice is the cessation of active hostilities for a period agreed upon between belligerents. It must be agreed upon in writing, and duly ratified by the highest authorities of the contending parties.
136. If an armistice be declared, without conditions, it extends no further than to require a total cessation of hostilities, along the front of both belligerents.
ref:
1863 April 24, Francis Lieber, “Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field [General Order No. 100]”, in General Orders Affecting the Volunteer Force (Adjutant General’s Office; 1863), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1864, →OCLC, section VIII (Armistice—Capitulation), page 83
type:
quotation
text:
It has also become routine to interrupt wars in more lasting fashion by imposing armistices. Again, unless directly followed by successful peace negotiations, armistices perpetuate the state of war indefinitely because they shield the weaker side from the consequences of refusing the concessions needed for peace. […] Armistices in themselves are not way stations to peace but rather frozen wars.
ref:
2002, Edward N[icolae] Luttwak, “The Coming Together of Opposites”, in Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, revised and enlarged edition, Cambridge, Mass., London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, published 2003 (2nd printing), part I (The Logic of Strategy), pages 59–60
type:
quotation
text:
The Fifth Volume of this Collection makes its appearance at the moſt eventful period of the war—it includes, therefore, matter of the higheſt importance, and contains all the official documents reſpecting the late Negotiation—the war between this country and Spain, the progreſs of the French arms in Italy and Germany—the armiſtices and treaties concluded with the German and Italian powers— […]
ref:
1797, “Preface”, in John Debrett, compiler, A Collection of State Papers, Relative to the War against France now Carrying on by Great Britain and the Several Other European Powers; […], volume V, London: Printed for J[ohn] Debrett, […], →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
The government of Great-Britain lost no time after the war was known, in making to our cabinet proposals for an armistice. Those proposals were like all propositions between equal states, perfectly reciprocal. They require of us to suspend hostilities only, in consideration of suspending hostilities on their part. They are silent as to impressments—and would any person inquire why? It may be answered, that impressments had never been presented to Great-Britain as in themselves the cause of war— […]
ref:
1813, [John Lowell Jr.], “No. IV. The Several Proposals for an Armistice Considered.”, in Perpetual War, the Policy of Mr. Madison. […], Boston, Mass.: Printed by C[hester] Stebbins, →OCLC, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
Twice during the last quarter of a century the same railway vehicle has provided the scene of the signature of an armistice between Germany and France, and this famous vehicle is at present in Berlin, where it was placed on public exhibition in the Lustgarten on March 23.
ref:
1941 July, “The Armistice Coach”, in Railway Magazine, page 316
type:
quotation
text:
The day armistice was signed [chapter title] […] At five o'clock on the morning of 11 November 1918, a group of high-ranking German politicians and military officers entered a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne. They were met by delegates from the countries with which they had been at war. Three days earlier the French, British and Americans had prepared an armistice document which they demanded the Germans accept within three days. Inside the carriage the Germans signed the surrender document put before them. The document signalled that the war would stop in six hours' time, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918.
ref:
2003, John Malam, “The Day Armistice was Signed”, in Mary-Jane Wilkins, editor, 11 November 1918: The World War I Armistice (Dates with History), London: CherrytreeBooks, Evans Brothers, pages 12–13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A (short) cessation of combat; a cease-fire, a truce.
A formal agreement, especially between nations, to end combat.
senses_topics:
|
12953 | word:
armistice
word_type:
name
expansion:
armistice
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin armistitium, from Latin arma (“arms, weapons”) + sistēre (from sistō (“to halt, stand still”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand up”)) + -ium (“suffix forming abstract nouns”). The word is cognate with French armistice, Italian armistizio, Portuguese armistício, Spanish armisticio.
senses_examples:
text:
The armistice of November 1918 could represent many things: the end of the war, the victory. But for the Carnard [the newspaper Le Canard enchaîné], first and foremost, it represented dissention among the French. […] After the armistice and the emergence of the first difficulties of the peace, many more both on the right and in the center argued that the armistice should have been signed in Berlin—in a word, the armistice of November 11 was premature.
ref:
2002, Allen Douglas, “Web of Memory”, in War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor: The Canard Enchaîné and World War I, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif., London: University of California Press, page 151
type:
quotation
text:
Later he [British Prime Minister David Lloyd George] meets with the House of Commons and, after an opening prayer is said, reviews the armistice terms, then moves for adjournment.
ref:
2018, Richard J. Connors, The Road to the Armistice 1918, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co., pages 66–67
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Armistice (“the armistice agreement signed between the Allies and Germany on 11 November 1918 to end World War I; (by extension) the end of World War I”)
senses_topics:
|
12954 | word:
querulous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
querulous (comparative more querulous, superlative most querulous)
forms:
form:
more querulous
tags:
comparative
form:
most querulous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French querelos, from Late Latin querulōsus, from Latin querulus, from queror (“I complain”).
senses_examples:
text:
The nights were now cold, gemmed with a multitude of bright stars, uncanny with the querulous wail of coyotes and the occasional deep voices of wolves.
ref:
1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
type:
quotation
text:
In contrast, the Westminster Gazette in 1912 was much more positive about railway staff, praising the "...army of porters hustling and bustling hither and thither with barrows groaning under the weight of bags and baggage and... the ever-patient and long-suffering guards, courteously giving information and advice to the querulous passengers... to the porter the Christmas season means a continuous round of heavy labour, extremely tiring to both nerves and temper, and this fact the public too often seem either to forget or ignore."
ref:
2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Often complaining; suggesting a complaint in expression; fretful, whining.
senses_topics:
|
12955 | word:
juggernaut
word_type:
noun
expansion:
juggernaut (plural juggernauts)
forms:
form:
juggernauts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jagannath
Rath Yatra
juggernaut
etymology_text:
17th century, from Hindustani جگنّاتھ / जगन्नाथ (jagannāth) or Odia ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ (jagannātha), from Sanskrit जगन्नाथ (jagannātha, “"Lord of the Universe”) (Jagannatha), a title for the Hindu deity Vishnu's avatar Krishna. English form influenced by suffix -naut (“sailor”). Doublet of Jagannath.
From British colonial era in India, witnessing the Rath Yatra (chariot parade) at Puri, Orissa. The festival features a huge annual procession, with a wagon of the idol of Jagannath. Pulled with ropes by hundreds of devotees, the wagon develops considerable momentum and becomes unstoppable.
senses_examples:
text:
McCarthy will point to their bad luck but the statistics now show that Wolves have lost four league matches and have claimed one point from a possible 15 - so it may prove to be another difficult season for the Midlands side.
In contrast, the Newcastle juggernaut rolls on.
ref:
2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The fact that the juggernaut of Indian English rolls inexorably on, largely unconcerned by the academic arguments taking place about it, is in itself an indicator of an endonormative force in the variety, and this can be traced historically.
ref:
2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 114
type:
quotation
text:
It’s always fun when something massive comes along and sweeps the board, giving everything else a thoroughly good kicking – think Titanic, The Silence of the Lambs, or Lord of the Rings. There’s a sort of deranged, gluttonous feeling, a perverse glee in seeing so many dreams trampled on by a massive cultural juggernaut.
ref:
2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London)
type:
quotation
text:
I know I swing me Volvo all around you market square. I know you think that lorry drivers, we just don't care. But the streets are so narrow, built so many years ago. They were built for horses' carts, not juggernauts you know.
ref:
2019, “I love my juggernaut”, in The Pothole Song Album, performed by Richie Kavanagh
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A literal or metaphorical force or object regarded as unstoppable, that will crush all in its path.
A large, cumbersome truck or lorry, especially an artic.
An institution that incites destructive devotion or to which people are carelessly sacrificed.
senses_topics:
|
12956 | word:
South Pole
word_type:
name
expansion:
South Pole
forms:
wikipedia:
South Pole
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole; the point which south is oriented towards, and therefore the southernmost point on Earth (having a latitude of -90°).
The Magnetic South Pole of Earth.
The Geomagnetic South Pole of Earth.
senses_topics:
geography
natural-sciences
geography
natural-sciences
geography
natural-sciences |
12957 | word:
kleptomania
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kleptomania (countable and uncountable, plural kleptomanias)
forms:
form:
kleptomanias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek κλέπτω (kléptō, “I steal”) + -mania, analyzed as klepto- + -mania.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A psychological disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsession with stealing without economic or material need.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
12958 | word:
divine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
divine (comparative more divine, superlative most divine)
forms:
form:
more divine
tags:
comparative
form:
most divine
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
divine
etymology_text:
From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”). Displaced native Old English godcund.
senses_examples:
text:
(Of that at leaſure) but the bloody ſtage
On which to act, Generall this night is thine,
ref:
1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age, Part 2
type:
quotation
roman:
Thou lyeſt downe mortall, who muſt riſe diuine.
text:
Then rouſe up, my Divine Soul, who art ready for Eternal Glory, and bid the World a final A-dieu, with all its fond Deluſions and gilded Baits of Folly: For the time is now at hand, when thou my moſt precious Jewel, muſt launch out into the Deep of Everlaſting Bliſs
ref:
1703, Charles Povey, Meditations of a Divine Soul: Or, the Chriſtian’s Guide, Amidſt the Various Opinions of a vain World, page 594
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to a god.
Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
Beautiful, heavenly.
Foreboding; prescient.
immortal; elect or saved after death
Relating to divinity or theology.
senses_topics:
|
12959 | word:
divine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
divine (plural divines)
forms:
form:
divines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
divine
etymology_text:
From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”). Displaced native Old English godcund.
senses_examples:
text:
Poets were the first divines.
ref:
1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning
type:
quotation
text:
December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth
The first divines of New England […] were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.
senses_topics:
|
12960 | word:
divine
word_type:
verb
expansion:
divine (third-person singular simple present divines, present participle divining, simple past and past participle divined)
forms:
form:
divines
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
divining
tags:
participle
present
form:
divined
tags:
participle
past
form:
divined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
divine
etymology_text:
Replaced Middle English devine, devin from Middle French deviner, from Latin dīvīnō.
senses_examples:
text:
no secret can be told
To any who divined it not before
ref:
1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
type:
quotation
text:
I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.
ref:
2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, 250c
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
To render divine; to deify.
senses_topics:
|
12961 | word:
xenophobe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
xenophobe (plural xenophobes)
forms:
form:
xenophobes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From xeno- + -phobe. From Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”), + Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who hates or fears strangers or foreigners.
senses_topics:
|
12962 | word:
xenophobe
word_type:
adj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
senses_topics:
|
12963 | word:
Limassol
word_type:
name
expansion:
Limassol
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city and port in Cyprus.
senses_topics:
|
12964 | word:
somnambulate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
somnambulate (third-person singular simple present somnambulates, present participle somnambulating, simple past and past participle somnambulated)
forms:
form:
somnambulates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
somnambulating
tags:
participle
present
form:
somnambulated
tags:
participle
past
form:
somnambulated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably a back-formation from somnambulism.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To walk while sleeping.
senses_topics:
|
12965 | word:
jet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jet (plural jets)
forms:
form:
jets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French jet (“spurt”, literally “a throw”), from Old French get, giet, from Vulgar Latin *iectus, jectus, from Latin iactus (“a throwing, a throw”), from iacere (“to throw”). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut. Cognate with Spanish echar.
senses_examples:
text:
In the floor of the valley the line passes hills of fantastic shape, like sleeping camels and inverted washbasins, and you can see the beautiful lakes Naivasha and Elementeita; at Eburru jets of steam spurt out of the ground.
ref:
1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
A turbine.
An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
A rocket engine.
A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
media
printing
publishing |
12966 | word:
jet
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jet (third-person singular simple present jets, present participle jetting, simple past and past participle jetted)
forms:
form:
jets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jetting
tags:
participle
present
form:
jetted
tags:
participle
past
form:
jetted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French jet (“spurt”, literally “a throw”), from Old French get, giet, from Vulgar Latin *iectus, jectus, from Latin iactus (“a throwing, a throw”), from iacere (“to throw”). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut. Cognate with Spanish echar.
senses_examples:
text:
Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.
type:
example
text:
1719, Richard Wiseman, Serjeant-Chirurgeon to King Charles II, Eight Chirurgical Treatises, London: B. Tooke et al., 5th edition, Volume 2, Book 5, Chapter 4, p. 78,
A Lady was wounded down the whole Length of the Forehead to the Nose […] It happened to her travelling in a Hackney-Coach, upon the jetting whereof she was thrown out of the hinder Seat against a Bar of Iron in the forepart of the Coach.
text:
The cure is to jet the carburetor excessively rich so that the mixture will be correct at the top end, but this richens the curve throughout the RPM range.
ref:
1970, Bill Fisher, How to Hotrod Volkswagen Engines, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
Gotta jet. See you tomorrow.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To spray out of a container.
To spray with liquid from a container.
To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
To leave; depart.
senses_topics:
|
12967 | word:
jet
word_type:
adj
expansion:
jet (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French jet (“spurt”, literally “a throw”), from Old French get, giet, from Vulgar Latin *iectus, jectus, from Latin iactus (“a throwing, a throw”), from iacere (“to throw”). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut. Cognate with Spanish echar.
senses_examples:
text:
jet airplane
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Propelled by turbine engines.
senses_topics:
|
12968 | word:
jet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jet (countable and uncountable, plural jets)
forms:
form:
jets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English get, geet, gete, from a northern form of Old French jayet, jaiet, gaiet, from Latin gagātēs, from Ancient Greek Γαγάτης (Gagátēs), from Γάγας (Gágas, “a town and river in Lycia”). Doublet of gagate.
senses_examples:
text:
jet:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
senses_topics:
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
12969 | word:
jet
word_type:
adj
expansion:
jet (comparative jetter or more jet, superlative jettest or most jet)
forms:
form:
jetter
tags:
comparative
form:
more jet
tags:
comparative
form:
jettest
tags:
superlative
form:
most jet
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English get, geet, gete, from a northern form of Old French jayet, jaiet, gaiet, from Latin gagātēs, from Ancient Greek Γαγάτης (Gagátēs), from Γάγας (Gágas, “a town and river in Lycia”). Doublet of gagate.
senses_examples:
text:
All the direct blacks require working in strong baths to give anything like black shades; they all have, more or less, a bluish tone, which can be changed to a jetter shade by the addition of a yellow or green dye in small proportions, which has been done in one of the recipes given above.
ref:
1901, Franklin Beech, The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics: A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
type:
quotation
text:
She was an ash blonde with greenish eyes, beaded lashes, hair waved smoothly back from ears in which large jet buttons glittered.
ref:
1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very dark black in colour.
senses_topics:
|
12970 | word:
railroad
word_type:
noun
expansion:
railroad (plural railroads)
forms:
form:
railroads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
railroad
etymology_text:
From rail + road.
senses_examples:
text:
Many railroads roughly follow the trace of older land - and/or water roads
type:
example
text:
Railroads can only compete fully if their tracks are technically compatible with and linked to each-other
type:
example
text:
The lawyers made the procedure a railroad to get the signatures they needed.
type:
example
text:
Gregory Scroggins, a PWA [person with AIDS] in Georgia who was found guilty of assault with intent to commit murder for biting a cop during arrest. It took only three days in October of 1989 to charge, try, convict and sentence Scroggins, who is now serving a 10-year sentence and has been denied bail (and medical treatment) pending appeal. […] Judy Siff of ACT/UP/Atlanta told GCN that Scroggins' case was a "railroad" of unbelievable proportions.
ref:
1990 April 28, Jennie McKnight, “Is Saliva A Murder Weapon?”, in Gay Community News, page 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
The transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such tracks and usually associated assets
A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
senses_topics:
|
12971 | word:
railroad
word_type:
verb
expansion:
railroad (third-person singular simple present railroads, present participle railroading, simple past and past participle railroaded)
forms:
form:
railroads
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
railroading
tags:
participle
present
form:
railroaded
tags:
participle
past
form:
railroaded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
railroad
etymology_text:
From rail + road.
senses_examples:
text:
The Thatcherite experiment proved the private sector can railroad as inefficiently as a state monopoly
type:
example
text:
The majority railroaded the bill through parliament, without the customary expert studies which would delay it till after the elections.
type:
example
text:
Sebastian Riedel lodged a complaint with TPF board, which he says was railroaded by a board member—therefore, Riedel quit.
ref:
2021 August 14, Jim Salter, quoting Sebastian Riedel, “The Perl Foundation is fragmenting over Code of Conduct enforcement”, in Ars Technica
type:
quotation
text:
What appears suspect about the Beeching Report is how quickly it was railroaded through, with the answers manufactured before the questions were asked.
ref:
2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
They could only convict him by railroading him on suspect drug-possession charges.
type:
example
text:
My witnesses were not questioned to my advantage. Physical evidence in my attorney's possession was not presented to the jury. A promised expert witness was not called nor even sought. I knew that I was being railroaded but I was helpless.
ref:
1985 August 24, Robert Butler, “Sex More Punished Than Murder”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
"I'm going to the Hague to see Mr Milosevic at his request," he told CBC radio before leaving Canada. "All of us feel he's being railroaded and used as a scapegoat for Nato's attack on Yugoslavia.
ref:
2001 July 7, Ian Black, quoting André Tremblay, “Defenders emerge for Milosevic”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Stark reminder of how an innocent man can be railroaded into spending years in jail [title]
ref:
2006 November 11, Duncan Campbell, “Stark reminder of how an innocent man can be railroaded into spending years in jail”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
He was railroaded into signing a non-disclosure agreement at his exit interview.
type:
example
text:
Also on Friday, The Daily News published a column by Richard Azzopardi, a senior adviser to the governor, who wrote that Mr. Cuomo had been “railroaded” by Ms. James, a Democrat who is considered a possible candidate for governor next year but who has not said she plans to run.
ref:
2021 August 20, Luis Ferré-Sadurní, quoting Richard Azzopardi, “Cuomo Continues to Challenge His Accusers as Moving Trucks Are Loaded”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
If you are upholstering a larger item, such as a sofa, it's a good idea to see if the fabric you are buying can be railroaded. Railroading refers to being able to run the fabric from left to right, rather than the conventional top to bottom. […][W]hen a pattern is railroaded you can turn it on its side and roll it out to the width of the sofa without join lines.
ref:
2015, Vicky Grubb, The Beginner's Guide to Upholstery, David & Charles
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To transport via railroad.
To operate a railroad.
To work for a railroad.
To travel by railroad.
To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.
To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
To force characters to complete a task before allowing the plot to continue.
To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.
senses_topics:
|
12972 | word:
Mountie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Mountie (plural Mounties)
forms:
form:
Mounties
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mounted + -ie.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
A member of the North West Mounted Police
A law officer, particularly one patrolling rural highways.
senses_topics:
government
law-enforcement
government
law-enforcement
government
law-enforcement |
12973 | word:
trash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trash (countable and uncountable, plural trashes)
forms:
form:
trashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”). Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).
senses_examples:
text:
When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.
type:
example
text:
(chiefly British)
text:
I am Harry Potter trash.
type:
example
text:
Drag the unwanted message to the trash.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
A container into which things are discarded.
Something worthless or of poor quality.
A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, sometimes mixed with weeds, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
lifestyle
agriculture
business
lifestyle
lifestyle
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12974 | word:
trash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
trash (third-person singular simple present trashes, present participle trashing, simple past and past participle trashed)
forms:
form:
trashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
trashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
trashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
trashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”). Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).
senses_examples:
text:
Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.
ref:
1989 December 18, InfoWorld, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
The burglars trashed the house.
type:
example
text:
20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?
It is a British tradition for the media to celebrate an upcoming royal wedding by trashing the incoming in-laws, from Diana’s stepmother, Raine Spencer, to Kate Middleton’s Uncle Gary and his memorably named Ibizan villa, Maison de Bang Bang.
text:
to trash the rattoons of sugar cane
type:
example
text:
the ancient practice of trashing ratoons i.e. stripping them of their outward leaves
ref:
1793, Bryan Edwards, History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To discard.
To make into a mess.
To beat soundly in a game.
To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
senses_topics:
|
12975 | word:
tar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tar (countable and uncountable, plural tars)
forms:
form:
tars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tar
tar (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ter, terr, tarr, from Old English teoru, from Proto-West Germanic *teru, from Proto-Germanic *terwą (compare Saterland Frisian Taar, West Frisian tarre, tar, Dutch teer, German Teer), from Proto-Indo-European *derwo- (compare Welsh derw (“oaks”), Lithuanian dervà (“pinewood, resin”), Russian де́рево (dérevo, “tree”), Bulgarian дърво́ (dǎrvó, “tree”)), from *dóru (“tree”). More at tree.
senses_examples:
text:
Shines in all climates like a star; In senates bold, and fierce in war; A land commander, and a tar.
ref:
1723, Jonathan Swift, To Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough
type:
quotation
text:
a ruminating tar was[…]adorning [the wooden settle] with his jack-knife,[…]trying his hand at a ship under full sail.
ref:
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick
type:
quotation
text:
If there's one man that I admire, that man's a British tar.
ref:
1915, W. McMann, “Our Picture Show”, in Western Evening Herald
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
Coal tar.
A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
A sailor, because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes.
Black tar, a form of heroin.
senses_topics:
|
12976 | word:
tar
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tar (third-person singular simple present tars, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)
forms:
form:
tars
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tarring
tags:
participle
present
form:
tarred
tags:
participle
past
form:
tarred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tar (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ter, terr, tarr, from Old English teoru, from Proto-West Germanic *teru, from Proto-Germanic *terwą (compare Saterland Frisian Taar, West Frisian tarre, tar, Dutch teer, German Teer), from Proto-Indo-European *derwo- (compare Welsh derw (“oaks”), Lithuanian dervà (“pinewood, resin”), Russian де́рево (dérevo, “tree”), Bulgarian дърво́ (dǎrvó, “tree”)), from *dóru (“tree”). More at tree.
senses_examples:
text:
The allegations tarred his name, even though he was found innocent.
type:
example
text:
Dr. Sign: In fact, maybe you think I should get credit, but if I do, Dr. Frendall will be scorned. You know why
Dr. Ellsworth: Yes, I know. Your critics will tar him with the same brush as you.
ref:
1995, Paul Robinson, The Gate Contracts
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To coat with tar.
To besmirch.
senses_topics:
|
12977 | word:
tar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tar (plural tars)
forms:
form:
tars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tar (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of tape archive.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
A file produced by such a program.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12978 | word:
tar
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tar (third-person singular simple present tars, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)
forms:
form:
tars
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tarring
tags:
participle
present
form:
tarred
tags:
participle
past
form:
tarred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tar (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of tape archive.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To create a tar archive.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
12979 | word:
tar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tar (plural tars)
forms:
form:
tars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tar (lute)
tar (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Persian تار (târ).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
senses_topics:
|
12980 | word:
tar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tar (plural tars)
forms:
form:
tars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tar (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Arabic طار (ṭār).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.
senses_topics:
|
12981 | word:
tar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tar (plural tars)
forms:
form:
tars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tar (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”)
senses_topics:
|
12982 | word:
Belfast
word_type:
name
expansion:
Belfast
forms:
wikipedia:
Belfast (disambiguation)
River Farset
etymology_text:
From Irish Béal Feirste (literally “mouth of the River Farset”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital and largest city of Northern Ireland.
A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
A suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.
A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
A town in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
A community and rural municipality of Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in California; named for the city in Maine.
A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Georgia.
A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
A locale in the United States.
A city, the county seat of Waldo County, Maine.
A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
A locale in the United States.
A township in Minnesota.
A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Missouri.
A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
A locale in the United States.
A ghost town in Nebraska.
A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
A locale in the United States.
A town in New York.
A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Clermont County, Ohio.
A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Highland County, Ohio.
A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
A locale in the United States.
A ghost town in Licking County, Ohio.
A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
A locale in the United States.
A township in Fulton County, Pennsylvania.
A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
A locale in the United States.
A census-designated place in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Tennessee.
senses_topics:
|
12983 | word:
weird
word_type:
adj
expansion:
weird (comparative weirder, superlative weirdest)
forms:
form:
weirder
tags:
comparative
form:
weirdest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Three Witches
etymology_text:
From Middle English werde, wierde, wirde, wyrede, wurde, from Old English wyrd (“fate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurdi, from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with Icelandic urður (“fate”). Related to Old English weorþan (“to become”). Doublet of wyrd. More at worth.
Obsolete by the 16th century in English, but reintroduced from Middle Scots weird, whence Shakespeare borrowed it in naming the Weird Sisters (originally Weyward Sisters, the Three Witches), reintroducing it to English. The senses “abnormal”, “strange” etc. arose via reinterpretation of Weird Sisters and date from after this reintroduction.
senses_examples:
text:
There are lots of weird people in this place.
type:
example
text:
It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.
type:
example
text:
a weird story
type:
example
text:
In his introduction to the 1955 volume, [Ray] Bradbury singles out these stories as oddities in his canon — he wrote this kind of tale before his twenty-sixth birthday (1946), and rarely since. They are pure fantasy of the "weird" sort and include some of Bradbury's most striking pieces: "The Scythe" (1943), "The Lake" (1944), "The Jar" (1944), "Skeleton" (1945), and "The Small Assassin" (1946)
ref:
1978, Jeffrey Helterman, Richard Layman, editors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 2: American Novelists Since World War II, Detroit, M.A.: Gale Research Company, page 62, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
It may be in that dark hour at the burn-foot, before the spate caught her, she had been given grace to resist her adversary and fling herself upon God's mercy. And it would seem that it had been granted; for when he came to the Skerburnfoot, there in the corner sat the weird wife Alison, dead as a stone.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
text:
Naphtha lamps shed a weird light over a busy scene, for the work was being continued night and day. A score or so of sturdy navvies were shovelling and picking along the track.
ref:
1912, Victor Whitechurch, Thrilling Stories of the Railway
type:
quotation
text:
There was a weird light shining above the hill.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").
Of or pertaining to the Fates.
Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.
Having supernatural or preternatural power.
senses_topics:
|
12984 | word:
weird
word_type:
noun
expansion:
weird (plural weirds)
forms:
form:
weirds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Three Witches
etymology_text:
From Middle English werde, wierde, wirde, wyrede, wurde, from Old English wyrd (“fate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurdi, from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with Icelandic urður (“fate”). Related to Old English weorþan (“to become”). Doublet of wyrd. More at worth.
Obsolete by the 16th century in English, but reintroduced from Middle Scots weird, whence Shakespeare borrowed it in naming the Weird Sisters (originally Weyward Sisters, the Three Witches), reintroducing it to English. The senses “abnormal”, “strange” etc. arose via reinterpretation of Weird Sisters and date from after this reintroduction.
senses_examples:
text:
Step by reluctant step, he had come to know his weird. The North must be saved from her.
ref:
1965, Poul Anderson, The Corridors of Time, page 226
type:
quotation
text:
In the weird of death shall the hapless be whelmed, and from Doom’s dark prison
Shall she steal forth never again.
ref:
1912, Arthur S. Way, transl., Medea, Heinemenn, translation of original by Euripides, published 1946, page 361
type:
quotation
text:
You know why it feels so good to be amongst real friends? They allow you to be your weird and love you for it. Imagine how it would feel to freely let your weird out and have the world love you for it.
ref:
2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 33
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fate; destiny; luck.
A prediction.
A spell or charm.
That which comes to pass; a fact.
The Fates.
Weirdness.
senses_topics:
|
12985 | word:
weird
word_type:
verb
expansion:
weird (third-person singular simple present weirds, present participle weirding, simple past and past participle weirded)
forms:
form:
weirds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
weirding
tags:
participle
present
form:
weirded
tags:
participle
past
form:
weirded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Three Witches
etymology_text:
From Middle English werde, wierde, wirde, wyrede, wurde, from Old English wyrd (“fate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurdi, from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with Icelandic urður (“fate”). Related to Old English weorþan (“to become”). Doublet of wyrd. More at worth.
Obsolete by the 16th century in English, but reintroduced from Middle Scots weird, whence Shakespeare borrowed it in naming the Weird Sisters (originally Weyward Sisters, the Three Witches), reintroducing it to English. The senses “abnormal”, “strange” etc. arose via reinterpretation of Weird Sisters and date from after this reintroduction.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
To warn solemnly; adjure.
senses_topics:
|
12986 | word:
weird
word_type:
adv
expansion:
weird (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Three Witches
etymology_text:
From Middle English werde, wierde, wirde, wyrede, wurde, from Old English wyrd (“fate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurdi, from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with Icelandic urður (“fate”). Related to Old English weorþan (“to become”). Doublet of wyrd. More at worth.
Obsolete by the 16th century in English, but reintroduced from Middle Scots weird, whence Shakespeare borrowed it in naming the Weird Sisters (originally Weyward Sisters, the Three Witches), reintroducing it to English. The senses “abnormal”, “strange” etc. arose via reinterpretation of Weird Sisters and date from after this reintroduction.
senses_examples:
text:
I waltzed into that club just as straight as a goose and I kept tripping over things and people were looking at me weird.
ref:
1972, Edwin Shrake, Strange Peaches: A Novel
type:
quotation
text:
Man, you're talking weird!
ref:
1974, Vernard Eller, The Most Revealing Book of the Bible: Making Sense Out of Revelation
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a strange manner.
senses_topics:
|
12987 | word:
sinecure
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sinecure (plural sinecures)
forms:
form:
sinecures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin sine (“without”) + cūrā (“care”) in beneficium sine cūrā (“benefice without care”).
senses_examples:
text:
In the ADF, while the numbers vary between the individual services and the reserves, employment is no comfortable sinecure for any personnel and thus does not appeal to many people, male or female, especially under current pay scales.
ref:
2009, Michael O'Connor, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 25
text:
However, by the time of World War II (if not before), politics, at least in the federal sphere, was no longer regarded as sinecure for well-intentioned part-timers.
ref:
2010, Mungo MacCallum, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 28
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A position that requires little to no work, or easy work, but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job.
An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
senses_topics:
|
12988 | word:
sinecure
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sinecure (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin sine (“without”) + cūrā (“care”) in beneficium sine cūrā (“benefice without care”).
senses_examples:
text:
By the act of union (1800), the offices of Irish secretary, a sinecure post, and lord lieutenant's secretary were combined.
ref:
2006, Desmond Keenan, Post-Famine Ireland: Social Structure: Ireland as It Really Was, page 184
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Requiring no work for an ample reward.
Having the appearance of functionality without being of any actual use or purpose.
senses_topics:
|
12989 | word:
sinecure
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sinecure (third-person singular simple present sinecures, present participle sinecuring, simple past and past participle sinecured)
forms:
form:
sinecures
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sinecuring
tags:
participle
present
form:
sinecured
tags:
participle
past
form:
sinecured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin sine (“without”) + cūrā (“care”) in beneficium sine cūrā (“benefice without care”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put or place in a sinecure.
senses_topics:
|
12990 | word:
transcendence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
transcendence (countable and uncountable, plural transcendences)
forms:
form:
transcendences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From transcend + -ence.
senses_examples:
text:
The Augustinian theology rests upon the transcendence of Deity as its controlling principle
ref:
1884, Alexander Viets Griswold Allen, The Continuity of Christian Thought
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of surpassing usual limits.
The state of being beyond the range of normal perception.
The state of being free from the constraints of the material world, as in the case of a deity.
Superior excellence; supereminence.
The property of being a transcendental number.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
12991 | word:
snowstorm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
snowstorm (plural snowstorms)
forms:
form:
snowstorms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From snow + storm. Compare Saterland Frisian Sneestoarm, West Frisian sniestoarm, German Schneesturm, Dutch sneeuwstorm, Swedish snöstorm, Icelandic snjóstormur.
senses_examples:
text:
As we made our way down, my eye was caught by a snowstorm—one of those little glass balls, with a baby cottage inside.
ref:
1947, Dornford Yates, The Berry Scene, Ward, Lock & Co., 273
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bad weather involving blowing winds and snow, or blowing winds and heavy snowfall amount.
A snow globe.
senses_topics:
|
12992 | word:
grandee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grandee (plural grandees)
forms:
form:
grandees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish grande (adjective), from Latin grandis (“large, great”). Doublet of grand and grande.
senses_examples:
text:
Grandees of Spain are of two sorts, this Honour being sometimes personal, sometimes hereditary. The first, the King bids be covered themselves; the second, themselves and Heirs for ever. This is all the Ceremony in making a Grandee, neither do any other priviledges belong to it; so that it is but a Chimerical and Airy Honour, without any profit; they which marry the Heiress of a Family of a Grandee of Spain, that is such hereditarily, become Grandees in right of their Wives.
ref:
1670, Antoine de Brunel, François van Aerssen, A Journey Into Spain, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
Whereupon most did desist; but some, secreting their cigars in the hollow of their hands, took whiffs by stealth, and blushed to find it fame; while others, who were such grandees and big pots that their own convenience was the first and foremost desideratum, continued to smoke with lordliness and indifference.
ref:
1897, Thomas Anstey Guthrie, “X”, in Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A., page 78
type:
quotation
text:
It is hard to see a good ending to the story of Peng Shuai, a Chinese tennis champion who on November 2nd accused a former Communist Party grandee more than twice her age of subjecting her to a coercive sexual relationship.
ref:
2021 November 27, “What Peng Shuai reveals about one-party rule”, in Economist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A high-ranking nobleman in Spain or Portugal.
A person of high rank.
senses_topics:
|
12993 | word:
equanimity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
equanimity (countable and uncountable, plural equanimities)
forms:
form:
equanimities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French équanimité, from Latin aequanimitās (“calmness, equanimity”), from aequus (“even; calm; fair”) + animus (“mind, soul”) + -itās. By surface analysis, equ- + animus + -ity.
senses_examples:
text:
No doubt you are right, my best of friends, there would be far less suffering amongst mankind, if men—and God knows why they are so fashioned—did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
ref:
1779, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
type:
quotation
text:
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.
ref:
1954, Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions
type:
quotation
text:
We find Hudson himself, a vision of unwavering equanimity, admitting that as a child he didn’t dare mention his acting dreams for fear they would be dismissed as “sissy stuff”.
ref:
2023 October 6, Ryan Gilbey, “The double life of Rock Hudson: ‘Let’s be frank, he was a horndog!’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being calm, stable and composed, especially under stress.
senses_topics:
|
12994 | word:
malfeasance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
malfeasance (countable and uncountable, plural malfeasances)
forms:
form:
malfeasances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
malfeasance
etymology_text:
From Old French malfaisance, derived from malfaire, maufaire (“to do evil”), from Latin malefaciō (“I do evil”), from male (“evilly”) + faciō (“do, make”).
senses_examples:
text:
For starters, back-burnering malfeasance, usually in the form of graft, risks repeating the kind of disastrous mistakes that the United States made in Afghanistan.
ref:
2024, Anna Mulrine Grobe, US weapons help Ukraine advance. Will concerns about corruption put that at risk?, in: The Christian Science Monitor, 2024-08-14
text:
By then, Mr. Altman had gathered more allies. Mr. Nadella, now confident that Mr. Altman was not guilty of malfeasance, threw Microsoft’s weight behind him.
ref:
2023 December 9, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, Karen Weise, “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Wrongdoing.
Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official and causing damage.
senses_topics:
law |
12995 | word:
power-up
word_type:
noun
expansion:
power-up (plural power-ups)
forms:
form:
power-ups
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Japanese パワーアップ (pawā-appu), equivalent to English power + up
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An item that alters the game in a positive way once that item is used.
senses_topics:
video-games |
12996 | word:
Christmas Eve
word_type:
name
expansion:
Christmas Eve (plural Christmas Eves)
forms:
form:
Christmas Eves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Cristemasse eve, from an assumed Old English *Cristes mæsseǣfen.
senses_examples:
text:
This Collect is to be repeated every day with the other Collects in Advent, until Christmas-Eve.
ref:
1681, Church of England, The book of common prayer
type:
quotation
text:
Why was the cock supposed to crow all Christmas Eve ("The bird of dawning singeth all night long")?
ref:
1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
The family celebrated Christmas Eves together in the military stockade, sleeping on mattresses on the floor of Ninoy’s cell.
ref:
1986, The Philippine Journal of Education, volume 65, page 38, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Brad led Matthew into the family room where they celebrated Christmas Eves and told Matthew, “Papa’s gone. He’s in heaven, and we’ll never see him again.”
ref:
2015, Rhoda G. Penny, chapter 7, in An Extra Ordinary Life, Mustang, Okla.: Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
And I was mourning the future, too. That Wally wouldn’t spend Christmas Eves with both of his parents, dressed up like a Santa or a Christmas pudding, overindulged in the morning.
ref:
2017, Gillian McAllister, Everything but the Truth, London: Penguin Books, page 294
type:
quotation
text:
In 1965, all Coventry's banks closed at noon on Christmas Eve for the first time, to "enable bank staff to get away at a reasonable time". […] On Christmas Day itself there will be no trains, for recent experience has shown that few wish to travel then, even on services which had been drastically reduced: earlier closing of shops and offices on Christmas Eve is the chief reason for this change in the pattern of travel.
ref:
2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The evening before Christmas Day.
The day before Christmas Day.
senses_topics:
|
12997 | word:
Christmas tree
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Christmas tree (plural Christmas trees)
forms:
form:
Christmas trees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
ref:
1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus
type:
quotation
text:
In 1958, it was reported that for "the fourth year in succession, staff of four South London stations have combined to decorate the booking hall at Peckham Rye station". They installed a nativity scene, models of Father Christmas, and a sleigh driven by huskies, and Christmas trees were placed around the station.
ref:
2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
The modern infantryman is a Christmas tree of weaponry, with grenades and extra ammunition hanging from all parts of his upper body.
ref:
1985, Forbes, volume 135
type:
quotation
text:
Then, after a smoky-burnout to warm up the tires, you're lined up next to another competitor and the Christmas tree lights blink down... yellow, yellow, yellow, green!
ref:
1990 January, Popular Mechanics, volume 167, number 1, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
Wellheads, which support downhole tubing, casing, and other components, are connected at the top of wells to Christmas trees, which control production rates and fluid flows out of the well and may also direct fluids and equipment into the well
ref:
2011, Robert Heidersbach, Metallurgy and Corrosion Control in Oil and Gas Production, page 232
type:
quotation
text:
These are great for really developing that Christmas tree in your lower back and the proper arch at the top is key in that regard.
ref:
2013, Cory Gregory, “Get Jacked! The 1,000 Rep Workout”, in Fitness Rx, 11(4): 56
type:
quotation
text:
One of the most important color discriminations involved in the operation of a submarine is that of reading the "Christmas tree," a panel of 30 to 60 small jewel-shaped lights, used to indicate whether hull openings, such as hatches and vents, are sealed or not.
ref:
1954, Medicine and Surgery Bureau, A Bibliographic Sourcebook of Compressed Air, Diving and Submarine Medicine, page 121
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A conifer used during the Christmas holiday season, typically decorated with lights and ornaments and often a star or angel at its tip.
Anything elaborately ornamented or decorated.
A pole with lights, similar to a traffic signal, used for signalling the start of an automobile race.
The collection of valves sometimes found at the top of a working oil well.
A pattern of muscles visible in the lower back, resembling in outline the shape of a conifer.
A type of alert area constructed by the Strategic Air Command of the United States Air Force during the Cold War.
A panel of indicator lights in an aircraft or a submarine.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
government
military
politics
war |
12998 | word:
stressor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stressor (plural stressors)
forms:
form:
stressors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From stress + -or.
senses_examples:
text:
These children are constitutionally sad. Other children, like Luke, develop depressive feelings out of the blue or in response to some mild stressor.
ref:
1997, Edward M. Hallowell, When You Worry About the Child You Love, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
These paradoxical pleasures […] are acquired by controlling one's exposure to the stressor in gradually increasing doses.
ref:
2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 670
type:
quotation
text:
Plenty of people see hosting a large group as a stressor.
ref:
2023 May 1, Reem Kassis, “What Home Cooking Does That Restaurants Can’t”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An environmental condition or influence that stresses (i.e. causes stress for) an organism.
senses_topics:
biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
psychology
sciences |
12999 | word:
hilarious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hilarious (comparative more hilarious, superlative most hilarious)
forms:
form:
more hilarious
tags:
comparative
form:
most hilarious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin hilaris (“cheerful”) + -ous, from Ancient Greek ἱλαρός (hilarós, “cheerful, merry”).
senses_examples:
text:
a hilarious joke
type:
example
text:
Rounding up the animals in the misty paddocks, with the blackbirds singing as the morning whitened, he felt hilarious, light-headed. He'd clap the cows on their rumps and shout "Come along, there! Come along there, me Irish darlint."
ref:
1944, Douglas Stewart, A Girl with Red Hair, and Other Stories, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
Cold Doctor Pell here refused a very considerable fee. He could on occasion behave handsomely; but I can't learn that blustering, hilarious Doctor Rogerson ever refused his.
ref:
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.
Full of hilarity; merry.
senses_topics:
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