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1300 | word:
Dominican Republic
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Dominican Republic
forms:
form:
the Dominican Republic
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Spanish República Dominicana, in honor of santo (“holy; saint”) Domingo, which could refer to a Sunday, Jesus, or St Dominic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in the Caribbean. Capital: Santo Domingo
senses_topics:
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1301 | word:
urban
word_type:
adj
expansion:
urban (comparative more urban, superlative most urban)
forms:
form:
more urban
tags:
comparative
form:
most urban
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French urbain (“belonging to a city, urban; courteous, refined, urbane”) (modern French urbain), or from its etymon Latin urbānus (“of or belonging to a city, urban; of manners or style: like those of city dwellers: cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated”) + English -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Urbānus is derived from urbs (“city; walled town; Rome”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to encircle, enclose; a belt; an enclosure, fence”) or *werbʰ- (“to enclose”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).
senses_examples:
text:
urban life urban traffic
type:
example
text:
As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field. In Paris 22 hectares of roof have been planted, out of a potential total of 80 hectares.
ref:
2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or happening or located in, a city or town; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of life in such a place, especially when contrasted with the countryside.
Living in a city or town.
Having authority or jurisdiction over a city or town.
Relating to contemporary African American culture, especially in music.
(of inhabitants or residents) Black; African American.
senses_topics:
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1302 | word:
alphabet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alphabet (plural alphabets)
forms:
form:
alphabets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English alphabete, borrowed from Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from ἄλφα (álpha) and βῆτα (bêta), the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, Α (A) and Β (B), lowercase forms α and β. The Greek names derived from aleph, the name of the Phoenician letter 𐤀 (ʾ, “ox”) and beth, the name of the letter 𐤁 (b, “house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphs F1 (𓃾) and pr (𓉐).
Doublet of alfabeto.
senses_examples:
text:
The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.
type:
example
text:
In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet.
type:
example
text:
Let L be a regular language over the alphabet #x5C;Sigma.
type:
example
text:
We realize the fact that the alphabet A has been used in many world scripts as a vowel with the others AEIOU.
ref:
2002, Eugene E. Dike, African myth of creation in African form of writing, Monsenstein und Vannerdat, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
There are 26 alphabets in English.
ref:
2005, Satinder Bal Gupta, Comprehensive Discrete Mathematics & Structures, Laxmi Publications, page 237
type:
quotation
text:
The very alphabet of our law.
ref:
1828, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “The Constitutional History of England: From the Accession of Henry VII, to the Death of George II, by Henry Hallam”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The set of letters used when writing in a language.
A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)
A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
The simplest rudiments; elements.
An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.
senses_topics:
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
government
politics |
1303 | word:
alphabet
word_type:
verb
expansion:
alphabet (third-person singular simple present alphabets, present participle alphabeting, simple past and past participle alphabeted)
forms:
form:
alphabets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
alphabeting
tags:
participle
present
form:
alphabeted
tags:
participle
past
form:
alphabeted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English alphabete, borrowed from Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from ἄλφα (álpha) and βῆτα (bêta), the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, Α (A) and Β (B), lowercase forms α and β. The Greek names derived from aleph, the name of the Phoenician letter 𐤀 (ʾ, “ox”) and beth, the name of the letter 𐤁 (b, “house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphs F1 (𓃾) and pr (𓉐).
Doublet of alfabeto.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
senses_topics:
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1304 | word:
Iraq
word_type:
name
expansion:
Iraq (plural Iraqs)
forms:
form:
Iraqs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Iraq
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Arabic الْعِرَاق (al-ʕirāq, “Iraq”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East. Official name: Republic of Iraq. Capital and largest city: Baghdad.
An expansive medieval region of Western Asia, including not only the modern territories of Iraq but also large parts of western Iran (the so-called Persian Iraq).
senses_topics:
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1305 | word:
accommodation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accommodation (countable and uncountable, plural accommodations)
forms:
form:
accommodations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
accommodation
etymology_text:
From French accommodation, from Latin accommodātiō (“adjustment, accommodation, compliance”), from accommodō (“adapt, put in order”). Superficially accommodate + -ion. The sense of "lodging" was first attested in 1600.
senses_examples:
text:
The accommodations at that hotel were quite luxurious.
type:
example
text:
It is true, the organization of the humane and animal Body, with accommodation to their several functions and offices, is certainly fitted with the most curious and exact Mechanism imaginable
ref:
1677, Sir Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind: Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, →OCLC, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
Some of the recent literature on the Germanic settlements reads like an account of a tea party at the Roman vicarage. A shy newcomer to the village, who is a useful prospect for the cricket team, is invited in. There is a brief moment of awkwardness, while the host finds an empty chair and pours a fresh cup of tea; but the conversation, and village life, soon flow on. The accommodation that was reached between invaders and invaded in the fifth- and sixth-century West was very much more difficult, and more interesting, than this.
ref:
2005, Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
It is probable to my apprehension, that many of those quotations were intended by the writers of the New Testament as nothing more than accommodations.
ref:
1794, William Paley, A View of the Evidences of Christianity, reprinted in 1818 by James Robertson, page 283
text:
Pilots […] use the word fuselage whereas laypeople would more likely call the same "thing" the body of an aircraft. […] We have said above that speakers often signal that they belong to a certain group by making their language more similar to that of the other group members […] we thus adapt our language, dialect, accent, style and/or register to that of our addressee or addressees. This process is called speech accommodation. Among the reasons for accommodation may be our desire to identify more closely with the addressee(s), […]
ref:
2017 February 13, Annette Becker, Markus Bieswanger, Introduction to English Linguistics, UTB, page 178
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
Adaptation or adjustment.
The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
Adaptation or adjustment.
A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
Adaptation or adjustment.
The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
Adaptation or adjustment.
The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
Adaptation or adjustment.
Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
Adaptation or adjustment.
Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
Adaptation or adjustment.
The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
Adaptation or adjustment.
A loan of money.
Adaptation or adjustment.
An accommodation bill or note.
Adaptation or adjustment.
An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
Adaptation or adjustment.
An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.
The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
senses_topics:
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
physiology
sciences
medicine
sciences
business
commerce
business
commerce
law
lifestyle
religion
theology
geography
geology
natural-sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology |
1306 | word:
railway
word_type:
noun
expansion:
railway (plural railways)
forms:
form:
railways
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
railway
etymology_text:
From rail + way.
senses_examples:
text:
His interest in railways is not the quality that marks Pearson out. Everyone was interested in railways. Over a thousand miles of them opened between 1837 and 1845, most of what would become the national network. [...] You needed an Act of Parliament to build a railway; but that wasn't very hard to obtain if you could give the appearance of adequately funded competence.
ref:
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, pages 14–15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods.
A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel.
senses_topics:
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1307 | word:
acacia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acacia (countable and uncountable, plural acacias or acaciae)
forms:
form:
acacias
tags:
plural
form:
acaciae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
acacia
etymology_text:
From Latin acacia, from Ancient Greek ἀκακία (akakía, “shittah tree”), either from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”) (compare ἀκή (akḗ, “point”)) or more likely a Pre-Greek word. First attested before 1398. Doublet of cassie.
senses_examples:
text:
1997, Kenneth M. Old, Ian A. Hood, Zi Qing Yuan, Diseases of Tropical Acacias in Northern Queensland, K. M. Old, Su Lee See, J. K. Sharma (editors), Diseases of Tropical Acacias: Proceedings of an International Workshop held at Subanjeriji (South Sumatra) 28 April - 2 May 1996, page 1,
The latter species was collected only once in this survey on A. flavescens but is widespread on both tropical and temperate acacias in Australia.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A shrub or tree of the tribe Acacieae.
The thickened or dried juice of several species in Acacieae, in particular Vachellia nilotica (syn. Acacia nilotica, Egyptian acacia).
A false acacia; robinia tree (Robinia pseudoacacia).
Gum arabic; gum acacia.
Any of several related trees, such as a locust tree.
A light to moderate greenish yellow with a hint of red.
A light to moderate greenish yellow with a hint of red.
acacia:
acacia
senses_topics:
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1308 | word:
acacia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acacia (plural acacias)
forms:
form:
acacias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
acacia
etymology_text:
Unknown.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.
senses_topics:
classical-studies
history
human-sciences
sciences |
1309 | word:
tao
word_type:
name
expansion:
tao
forms:
wikipedia:
Daoism–Taoism romanization issue
Encyclopædia Britannica
Tao
circuit (administrative division)
etymology_text:
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 道 (tao⁴).
senses_examples:
text:
The tao of Lao Tzu was a cosmic tao, inner and unwritten, a tao of Nature, while the tao of Confucius was moral and written.
ref:
2021, Olof G. Lidin, From Taoism to Einstein, page 196
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Tao: the way of nature or way to live one's life.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences |
1310 | word:
tao
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tao (usually uncountable, plural taos)
forms:
form:
taos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Daoism–Taoism romanization issue
Encyclopædia Britannica
Tao
circuit (administrative division)
etymology_text:
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 道 (tao⁴).
senses_examples:
text:
the tao of sex... the tao of the heart... the tao of integuments...
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The art or skill of doing something in harmony with the essential nature of the thing.
Synonym of circuit: various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China.
senses_topics:
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1311 | word:
Sweden
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sweden
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Scots Swethin, Swadne (also Swaden), from Middle Dutch Sweden, dative of Swede. Originally used to refer to the people before the late 1600s, later displaced native Old English Swēoland (literally “Swede land”), Swēoþēod (literally “Swede nation”), and Swēorīċe (literally “Swede kingdom”) to refer to the country.
senses_examples:
text:
People often mix up Sweden and Switzerland
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Scandinavia in Europe. Official name: Kingdom of Sweden
senses_topics:
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1312 | word:
Morocco
word_type:
name
expansion:
Morocco
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Earlier spelling Marocco, from Portuguese Marrocos and/or Spanish Marruecos, from Arabic مُرَّاكُش (murrākuš), from Berber ⴰⵎⵓⵔ ⵏ ⴰⴽⵓⵛ (amur n akuc, literally “Land of God”). The word originally referred to the capital city of Marrakech (founded late 11th c.), but came to be used as a pars pro toto for the westernmost region of the Islamic world. Compare older Arabic مُرَّاكُش (murrākuš) (now اَلْمَغْرِب (al-maḡrib)), Persian مراکش (marâkeš), Medieval Latin Marrochium. Turkish refers to the country as Fas from Fez, another former capital. Doublet of Marrakech.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Morocco (a country in North Africa; official name: Kingdom of Morocco; capital: Rabat).
senses_topics:
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1313 | word:
Morocco
word_type:
name
expansion:
Morocco (plural Moroccos)
forms:
form:
Moroccos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably a surname of Italian origin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname from Italian.
senses_topics:
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1314 | word:
peso
word_type:
noun
expansion:
peso (plural pesos)
forms:
form:
pesos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish peso.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar.
The circulating currency of various Spanish-speaking American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Uruguay) and the Philippines.
senses_topics:
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1315 | word:
Cape Verde
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cape Verde
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Partial calque of Portuguese Cabo Verde, from cabo (“cape”) + verde (“green”).
senses_examples:
text:
In the Cape Verde Islands, the electoral victory of Movement for Democracy ushered out sixteen years of one-party rule.
ref:
1992, Richard Nixon, “The Southern Hemisphere”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 250
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago and country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Cabo Verde.
senses_topics:
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1316 | word:
birth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
birth (countable and uncountable, plural births)
forms:
form:
births
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Birth (disambiguation)
en:birth
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *bʰértisder.
Proto-Germanic *burþiz
Old Norse burðrbor.
Middle English birthe
English birth
From Middle English birthe (1250), from earlier burthe, burde, from Old Norse burðr, byrd (Old Swedish byrth, Swedish börd), replacing Old English ġebyrd (rare variant byrþ), equivalent to bear + -th (thus a piecewise doublet of berth). The Old Norse is from Proto-Germanic *burdiz (compare Old Frisian berde, berd); Old English ġebyrd is from prefixed *gaburþiz (compare Dutch geboorte, German Geburt), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥tis (compare Latin fors (“luck”), Old Irish brith), from *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). More at bear.
senses_examples:
text:
Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births.
type:
example
text:
the birth of an empire
type:
example
text:
He was of noble birth, but fortune had not favored him.
type:
example
text:
without reference to birth, but solely for their qualifications
ref:
1843, William H. Prescott, History Of The Conquest Of Mexico And History Of The Conquest Of Peru, The Modern Library, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
Lucy […] had no fortune, which, though a minor evil, was an evil; and she had no birth, in the high-life sense of the word, which was a greater evil.
ref:
1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
type:
quotation
text:
That poets are far rarer births than kings.
ref:
1692, Ben Jonson, “Epigrams”, in The Works of Ben Jonson, page 288
type:
quotation
text:
Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself.
ref:
1761, Joseph Addison, The Works of Joseph Addison, volume 3, John Baskerville, page 49
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of childbearing; the beginning of life; the emergence of a human baby or other viviparous animal offspring from the mother's body into the environment.
An instance of childbirth.
A beginning or start; a point of origin.
The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
That which is born.
senses_topics:
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1317 | word:
birth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
birth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Birth (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *bʰértisder.
Proto-Germanic *burþiz
Old Norse burðrbor.
Middle English birthe
English birth
From Middle English birthe (1250), from earlier burthe, burde, from Old Norse burðr, byrd (Old Swedish byrth, Swedish börd), replacing Old English ġebyrd (rare variant byrþ), equivalent to bear + -th (thus a piecewise doublet of berth). The Old Norse is from Proto-Germanic *burdiz (compare Old Frisian berde, berd); Old English ġebyrd is from prefixed *gaburþiz (compare Dutch geboorte, German Geburt), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥tis (compare Latin fors (“luck”), Old Irish brith), from *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). More at bear.
senses_examples:
text:
Her birth father left when she was a baby; she was raised by her mother and stepfather.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A familial relationship established by childbirth.
senses_topics:
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1318 | word:
birth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
birth (third-person singular simple present births, present participle birthing, simple past and past participle birthed)
forms:
form:
births
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
birthing
tags:
participle
present
form:
birthed
tags:
participle
past
form:
birthed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Birth (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English birthen, birðen, from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!
ref:
1939, Sidney Howard, Ben Hecht, Jo Swerling, John Van Druten, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Gone with the Wind (film)
type:
quotation
text:
Kelly: Is it true we have a pod containing a baby krogan down in the cargo hold?
Shepard: Not a baby. He's a full-grown super soldier ready for combat.
Kelly: Please be careful if you decide to... err... birth him? His personality is completely unknown.
ref:
2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2
type:
quotation
text:
She cites some recent examples from the papers: “I birthed two babies in rapid succession”; Beyoncé “birthed her twins”; while somewhere else in the same paper a woman proudly proclaimed: “I birthed a calf!”. She ends: “My objection to the American usage is that it seems to stress rather crudely the muscular process of bringing forth a baby, whereas the graceful British English term ‘to give birth to’ is much more dignified!”
ref:
2023 March 5, Jonathan Bouquet, “May I have a word about… being stuck in a permacrisis”, in The Observer, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Biological evolution created a human mind that enabled cultural evolution, which now outpaces and outclasses the force that birthed it.
ref:
2006, R. Bruce Hull, Infinite Nature, University of Chicago Press, page 156
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bear or give birth to (a child).
To produce, give rise to.
senses_topics:
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1319 | word:
birth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
birth (plural births)
forms:
form:
births
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Birth (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
See berth.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of berth.
senses_topics:
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1320 | word:
crap
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crap (usually uncountable, plural craps)
forms:
form:
craps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English crappe, also in plural: crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), from Middle French crape, from Old French crappe, crapin (“chaff”) (compare Medieval Latin crappa pl, also crapinum), from Old Dutch krappen (“to cut off, pluck off”) (whence Middle Dutch crappe, crap (“a chop, cutlet”), whence Dutch krip (“a steak”)). Related to crop.
senses_examples:
text:
The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.
type:
example
text:
The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap.
type:
example
text:
I stepped in some dog crap that was on the sidewalk.
type:
example
text:
I have to take a crap.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The husk of grain; chaff.
Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.
Nonsense; something untrue.
Faeces/feces.
An act of defecation.
senses_topics:
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1321 | word:
crap
word_type:
verb
expansion:
crap (third-person singular simple present craps, present participle crapping, simple past and past participle crapped)
forms:
form:
craps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
crapping
tags:
participle
present
form:
crapped
tags:
participle
past
form:
crapped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English crappe, also in plural: crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), from Middle French crape, from Old French crappe, crapin (“chaff”) (compare Medieval Latin crappa pl, also crapinum), from Old Dutch krappen (“to cut off, pluck off”) (whence Middle Dutch crappe, crap (“a chop, cutlet”), whence Dutch krip (“a steak”)). Related to crop.
senses_examples:
text:
That soup tasted funny, and now I need to crap.
type:
example
text:
He almost crapped his pants from fright.
type:
example
text:
Don't try to crap me: I know you're lying.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To defecate.
To defecate in or on (clothing etc.).
To bullshit.
senses_topics:
|
1322 | word:
crap
word_type:
adj
expansion:
crap (comparative crapper, superlative crappest)
forms:
form:
crapper
tags:
comparative
form:
crappest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English crappe, also in plural: crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), from Middle French crape, from Old French crappe, crapin (“chaff”) (compare Medieval Latin crappa pl, also crapinum), from Old Dutch krappen (“to cut off, pluck off”) (whence Middle Dutch crappe, crap (“a chop, cutlet”), whence Dutch krip (“a steak”)). Related to crop.
senses_examples:
text:
I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of poor quality.
senses_topics:
|
1323 | word:
crap
word_type:
intj
expansion:
crap
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English crappe, also in plural: crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), from Middle French crape, from Old French crappe, crapin (“chaff”) (compare Medieval Latin crappa pl, also crapinum), from Old Dutch krappen (“to cut off, pluck off”) (whence Middle Dutch crappe, crap (“a chop, cutlet”), whence Dutch krip (“a steak”)). Related to crop.
senses_examples:
text:
Oh crap! The other driver's going to hit my car!
type:
example
text:
Crap! I lost the game.
type:
example
text:
What the crap?!
type:
example
text:
Aw, crap, I have to start over again from the beginning of the level.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance, or dismay.
senses_topics:
|
1324 | word:
crap
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crap (plural craps)
forms:
form:
craps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From crab's eyes.
senses_examples:
text:
To test the possibility that her husband’s luck was indestructible, Mary went to the crap tables and made a small bet.
ref:
1974, John Savage, The Winner’s Guide to Dice, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
I step up to the least-crowded crap table, taking my place to the right of a country-and-western-type stickwoman with tightly permed blond hair who looks as if she would be more comfortable dressed in the square-dance outfit of the Frontier than wearing the chinoiserie, or maybe the japonaiserie, of her purple kimono uniform.
ref:
1992, Edward Allen, Mustang Sally, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
Separately, you are playing in a crap game. The crap bets earn you $20,000 a year so long as rates stay put but could cost you a $100,000 or $200,000 loss if rates go up.
ref:
2014 December 29, William Baldwin, “Yield Games”, in Forbes, page 103
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.
Attributive form of craps.
senses_topics:
dice
gambling
games
|
1325 | word:
mobile phone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mobile phone (plural mobile phones)
forms:
form:
mobile phones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mobile + phone.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A portable telephone that connects with the telephone network over radio wave transmission.
senses_topics:
|
1326 | word:
Friday
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Friday (plural Fridays)
forms:
form:
Fridays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Friday, from Old English frīġedæġ. Compound of frīġe and dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Frījā dag, a calque of Latin diēs Veneris, via an association (interpretātiō germānica) of the goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess of love Venus.
Compare West Frisian freed, German Low German Freedag, Friedag, Dutch vrijdag, German Freitag, Danish fredag.
Old Norse Frigg (genitive Friggjar), Old Saxon Fri, and Old English Frīġ are derived from Proto-Germanic *Frijjō. Frigg is cognate with Sanskrit प्रिया (priyā́, “wife”). The root also appears in Old Saxon fri (“beloved lady”); in Swedish fria, in Danish and Norwegian as fri (“to propose for marriage”); a related meaning exists in Icelandic as frjá (“to love”) and similarly in Dutch vrijen (“to make love (to have sex)”).
Compare Japanese 金曜日.
senses_examples:
text:
Tomorrow's Thursday, but I have Friday and Saturday off, so really it's my Friday.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sixth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fifth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Muslim “Sabbath”; it follows Thursday and precedes Saturday.
The last workday in a work schedule that is not Monday through Friday.
senses_topics:
|
1327 | word:
Friday
word_type:
adv
expansion:
Friday (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Friday, from Old English frīġedæġ. Compound of frīġe and dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Frījā dag, a calque of Latin diēs Veneris, via an association (interpretātiō germānica) of the goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess of love Venus.
Compare West Frisian freed, German Low German Freedag, Friedag, Dutch vrijdag, German Freitag, Danish fredag.
Old Norse Frigg (genitive Friggjar), Old Saxon Fri, and Old English Frīġ are derived from Proto-Germanic *Frijjō. Frigg is cognate with Sanskrit प्रिया (priyā́, “wife”). The root also appears in Old Saxon fri (“beloved lady”); in Swedish fria, in Danish and Norwegian as fri (“to propose for marriage”); a related meaning exists in Icelandic as frjá (“to love”) and similarly in Dutch vrijen (“to make love (to have sex)”).
Compare Japanese 金曜日.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On Friday.
senses_topics:
|
1328 | word:
Malaysia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Malaysia
forms:
wikipedia:
Federation of Malaysia
Malaysia
etymology_text:
From Malays + -ia, amended from the previous form, Malaya. The ⟨-s⟩ was added to honour the inclusion of Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo (Sabah) with Malaya in the formation of The Federation of Malaysia.
senses_examples:
text:
For the purpose of topographical description, Malaysia may be divided into six groups of islands, namely — 1. Sumatra, and the smaller islands adjacent ; 2. The long chain of islands which extends east and west from the Strait of Sunda to New Guinea, including Java, Madura, Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Comobo, Flares, Jindana or Sandelwood, Adenar, Solor, Lomblem, Pantar, Ombay, Timor, Semao, Rotte, Savu, Cambi, Wetter, Serwatty, Babba, Timorlaut, &c. ; 3. The Banda and Molucca Islands ; 4. Celebes and the smaller adjacent islands; 5. Borneo and adjacent islands; 6. The Philippine Islands.
ref:
1842, System of Descriptive Geography, Founded on the Works of Malte-Burn and Balbi, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, page 974
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southeast Asia. Capital: Kuala Lumpur.
The Malay Archipelago.
senses_topics:
|
1329 | word:
consensus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
consensus (countable and uncountable, plural consensuses or consensus)
forms:
form:
consensuses
tags:
plural
form:
consensus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
consensus
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin cōnsēnsus (“agreement, accordance, unanimity”), from cōnsentiō (“feel together; agree”); see consent.
senses_examples:
text:
reach consensus
type:
example
text:
After years of debate over the best wine to serve at Thanksgiving, no real consensus has emerged.
type:
example
text:
a financial consensus forecast
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members.
General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action.
An agreement on some data value that is needed during computation.
Average projected value.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
1330 | word:
consensus
word_type:
verb
expansion:
consensus (third-person singular simple present consensuses, present participle consensusing, simple past and past participle consensused)
forms:
form:
consensuses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
consensusing
tags:
participle
present
form:
consensused
tags:
participle
past
form:
consensused
tags:
past
wikipedia:
consensus
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin cōnsēnsus (“agreement, accordance, unanimity”), from cōnsentiō (“feel together; agree”); see consent.
senses_examples:
text:
I think we are a strongly consensused society. There was a consensus during the 1950's, the Eisenhower years, in our society. Then in the 1960's came a period of division.
ref:
1975, United States Bureau of the Census, The Census Bureau, page 168
type:
quotation
text:
None of this consensusing was done with the Manual. There were no national workshops, forums, etc.
ref:
1992, United States House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Environment, The Science of Wetland Definition and Delineation: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Environment of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, November 12, 1991, page 185
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To seek consensus; to hold discussions with the aim of reaching mutual agreement.
senses_topics:
|
1331 | word:
Tunisia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tunisia
forms:
wikipedia:
Tunisia
etymology_text:
From Tunis + -ia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in North Africa. Capital: Tunis.
Ottoman Tunisia; the Eyalet of Tunis, from 1534 to 1881
A country in North Africa. Capital: Tunis.
French protectorate of Tunisia, from 1881 to 1956
A country in North Africa. Capital: Tunis.
The Republic of Tunisia, since 1956
senses_topics:
|
1332 | word:
nu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nu (countable and uncountable, plural nus)
forms:
form:
nus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek νῦ (nû), name for the letter of the Greek alphabet Ν (N) and ν (n).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The letter of the Greek alphabet Ν (N) and ν (n).
A measure of constringence in lenses or prisms.
senses_topics:
|
1333 | word:
nu
word_type:
intj
expansion:
nu
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Yiddish נו (nu).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exclamation of surprise, emphasis, doubt, etc.
Well? (Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.)
senses_topics:
|
1334 | word:
nu
word_type:
adj
expansion:
nu (comparative more nu, superlative most nu)
forms:
form:
more nu
tags:
comparative
form:
most nu
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Phonetic respelling of new.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
new
senses_topics:
|
1335 | word:
careful
word_type:
adj
expansion:
careful (comparative more careful, superlative most careful)
forms:
form:
more careful
tags:
comparative
form:
most careful
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English careful, from Old English carful; equivalent to care + -ful.
senses_examples:
text:
He was a slow and careful driver.
type:
example
text:
Be very careful while trekking through the jungle.
type:
example
text:
They made a careful search of the crime scene.
type:
example
text:
At the same time, we were cognisant that careful scholars should never solely rely on their own impressionistic observations, and, that our own impressions were inexact and not capable of being quantified.
ref:
2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.
Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
senses_topics:
|
1336 | word:
Bahrain
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bahrain
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Arabic الْبَحْرَيْن (al-baḥrayn, literally “the two seas”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago, island, and country in Western Asia, in the Persian Gulf. Official name: Kingdom of Bahrain. Capital: Manama.
senses_topics:
|
1337 | word:
United States of America
word_type:
name
expansion:
the United States of America
forms:
form:
the United States of America
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1776, see Names of the United States.
senses_examples:
text:
Mexico and Canada border the United States of America.
type:
example
text:
Whereas the Delegates of the United States of America in Congreſs assembled did on the 15th day of November in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy seven, and in the Second Year of the Independence of America agree to certain articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the states of Newhampſhire, Maſsachusetts-bay, Rhodeiſland and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia in the Words following, viz.[…]
ARTICLE I. The Stile of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America."
ref:
1777 November 15 [1776], Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, Philadelphia: Second Continental Congress, →OCLC, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
As we here at home contemplate our own duties, our own responsibilities, let us think and think hard of the example which is being set for us by our fighting men. Our soldiers and sailors are members of well disciplined units. But they are still and forever individuals -- free individuals. They are farmers, and workers, businessmen, professional men, artists, clerks. They are the United States of America. That is why they fight. We too are the United States of America. That is why we must work and sacrifice. It is for them. It is for us. It is for victory.
ref:
1942 April 28, Franklin Roosevelt, 30:57 from the start, in Fireside Chat 21: On Sacrifice, Miller Center
type:
quotation
text:
“The structure is deteriorating. The roof was leaking. The floor is sinking,” Mr. Biden said in a speech in front of the tunnel, the oldest in the Northeast, where the crowd included dozens of union workers. “This is the United States of America, for God’s sake. We know better than that.”
ref:
2023 January 30, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Mark Walker, quoting Joe Biden, “Biden Visits Decrepit Rail Tunnel to Promote $1 Trillion Infrastructure Law”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-30, Politics
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in North America, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and including Alaska, Hawaii, and several territories.
senses_topics:
|
1338 | word:
are
word_type:
verb
expansion:
are
forms:
wikipedia:
ARE
etymology_text:
From Middle English aren, from Old English earun, earon (“are”), reinforced by Old Norse plural forms in er- (displacing alternative Old English sind and bēoþ), from Proto-Germanic *arun (“(they) are”), from Proto-Germanic *esi/*izi (a form of Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (“is”).
Cognate with Old Norse eru (“(they) are”) (> Icelandic eru (“(they) are”), Swedish äro (“(they) are”), Danish er (“(they) are”)), Old English eart (“(thou) art”). More at art.
senses_examples:
text:
Mary, where are you going?
type:
example
text:
We are not coming.
type:
example
text:
Here we are!
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
type:
quotation
text:
Mary and John, are you listening?
type:
example
text:
They are here somewhere.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
second-person singular simple present of be
first-person plural simple present of be
second-person plural simple present of be
third-person plural simple present of be
present of be
senses_topics:
|
1339 | word:
are
word_type:
noun
expansion:
are (plural ares)
forms:
form:
ares
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ARE
etymology_text:
From French are.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) metric unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a.
senses_topics:
|
1340 | word:
are
word_type:
det
expansion:
are
forms:
wikipedia:
ARE
etymology_text:
From the phonetic similarity between our and are in many English dialects (both /ɑː(ɹ)/).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of our.
senses_topics:
|
1341 | word:
robot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
robot (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German Robot, from a West Slavonic language, ultimately related to Etymology 2, below.
senses_examples:
text:
I say again, down with the robot!—he is a dog who yields it!
ref:
1849, Littell's Living Age, volume 23, page 309
type:
quotation
text:
Although the robot varied from region to region, it was rarely less than burdensome.
ref:
2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 159
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A system of serfdom used in Central Europe, under which a tenant's rent was paid in forced labour.
senses_topics:
|
1342 | word:
robot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
robot (plural robots)
forms:
form:
robots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Internet Archive
Josef Čapek
Karel Čapek
R.U.R.
etymology_text:
table
Borrowed from Czech robot, from robota (“drudgery, servitude”). Coined in the 1920 science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek after having been suggested to him by his brother Josef, and taken into English without change.
senses_examples:
text:
The robots in Dick's novel, loosely adapted by Ridley Scott into the film Blade Runner, were so similar to humans that when they went rogue, trained bounty hunters were called in to perform psychological tests to see whether suspected androids lacked human empathy.
ref:
2010 January 26, Tom Chivers, Iain McDiarmid, The Telegraph
type:
quotation
text:
We have a robot in the house that does the vacuuming.
type:
example
text:
It's painfully slow and complex work which has never been attempted before in these conditions: the small box-shaped robots, equipped with two claws, are operating in almost freezing water 5,000ft below the surface, in pitch black and strong currents.
ref:
2010 May 16, Tim Webb, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Straight society tries to change us by several means. Most of the time, it is mental torture, though physical abuse is not uncommon. We are programmed to be straight starting from the day we are born, and every action, word, and feeling must conform to the straight image. If we DO decide to be free rather than to be robots, here are some of the consequences.
ref:
1973 December 22, Satya, “It Is Not We Who Must Change”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 27, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Yet surely he was a humorless robot of a man, spewing forth lonely and bitter critiques of all those lesser mortals with whom he could not identify.
ref:
2006, Murray N. Rothbard, Making Economic Sense, page xiv
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.
A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed.
A person who does not seem to have any emotions or individuality.
A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman).
A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.
A style of dance popular in disco in which the dancer imitates the stiff movements of a stereotypical android robot.
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
geography
natural-sciences
surveying
dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
1343 | word:
robot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
robot (plural robots)
forms:
form:
robots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
/r9k/
4chan
High-functioning autism
ROBOT9000
Randall Munroe
etymology_text:
Referencing the origin of the name of the 4chan imageboard /r9k/ (created in 2008), so-called because it implements the ROBOT9000 algorithm by Randall Munroe to prevent the reposting of content.
Possibly overlapping with the sense of robot (“a person who does not seem to have any emotions”), alluding to autism, due to the prevalence of personal stories describing awkward or embarrassing situations on the board.
senses_examples:
text:
One anonymous message addressed to "fellow robots" hoped readers would have "an enjoyable Elliot Rodger day"—a reference to the shooter who killed six near a Santa Barbara university last year.
ref:
2015 October 1, David Kravets, “Ominous messages left on 4chan day before Oregon college killings [Updated]”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 2022-12-06
type:
quotation
text:
Posters on the board are locked in an ongoing debate about who can be one of them— a "robot." Can white guys be robots, despite their privilege? Can black guys? Women love them! It goes on and on. Only one rule really seems to be agreed upon: "If you have no friends and no gf you are a robot."
ref:
2015 October 3, Jay Hathaway, “How 4chan Trolled Two of Its Friends by Framing Them for the Oregon Mass Shooting”, in Gawker, archived from the original on 2022-11-20
type:
quotation
text:
As /r9k/ robots posted and reposted Pepes to playfully mock their status as grotesque outsiders whose very visage was disturbing to "normies," they ushered in a renaissance of frogs that soon appealed to all the netizens who every year had a little more in common with withdrawn, internet-soaked hikikomori.
ref:
2019, Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office, New York, N.Y.: All Points Books
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A habitual poster on the /r9k/ board on 4chan; a member of the /r9k/ community.
senses_topics:
|
1344 | word:
United Kingdom
word_type:
name
expansion:
the United Kingdom
forms:
form:
the United Kingdom
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
United Kingdom
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *éy?
Proto-Indo-European *-nós?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Italic *oinos
Old Latin oinos
Latin ūnus
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Latin -iō
Latin ūniō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin ūnītuslbor.
Middle English uniten
English unite
Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz
Old English -od
Middle English -ed
English -ed
English united
Old English cyningdōm
Middle English kingdom
English kingdom
English United Kingdom
From united + kingdom, first attested from 1706.
senses_examples:
text:
the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves
type:
example
text:
the United Kingdom of Sweden and Norway
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kingdom and sovereign state in Western Europe comprising the four countries of England, Scotland and Wales on the island of Great Britain, and Northern Ireland on the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland since 1922.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922).
The Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1801).
A kingdom consisting of several constituencies, either actual, historical, or hypothetical.
senses_topics:
|
1345 | word:
frequency
word_type:
noun
expansion:
frequency (countable and uncountable, plural frequencies)
forms:
form:
frequencies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin frequentia, from frequens. English equivalent frequent + -cy.
senses_examples:
text:
With growing confidence, the Viking’s raids increased in frequency.
type:
example
text:
The frequency of bus service has been improved from one every 15 to one every 12 minutes.
type:
example
text:
The FAQ addresses questions that come up with some frequency.
type:
example
text:
The frequency of the visits was what annoyed him.
type:
example
text:
The frequency of the musical note A above middle C is 440 oscillations per second.
type:
example
text:
The frequency of a wave is its velocity v divided by its wavelength #x5C;lambda: f#x3D;v#x2F;#x5C;lambda.
type:
example
text:
Broadcasting live at a frequency of 98.3 megahertz, we’re your rock alternative!
type:
example
text:
The frequency for electric power in the Americas is generally 60 Hz rather than 50.
type:
example
text:
And if you haven’t picked up on the gay frequencies in her lyrics, her wig choices, and her possible lesbian salutes? Maybe that’s because they weren’t meant for you. IYKYK.
ref:
2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.
The property of occurring often rather than infrequently.
The quotient of the number of times n a periodic phenomenon occurs over the time t in which it occurs: f=n/t.
A tone, character, mood, or vibe
number of times an event occurred in an experiment (absolute frequency)
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
statistics |
1346 | word:
South Africa
word_type:
name
expansion:
South Africa
forms:
wikipedia:
South Africa
South Africa (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Union of South Africa, the country's former official name, referring to its origin from the unification of four formerly separate British colonies.
senses_examples:
text:
With the exception of the Portuguese Colonies, the Journal is franked to all parts of South Africa.
ref:
1901 March 15, The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 1, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of South Africa. Capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein.
Southern Africa (a region of Africa).
senses_topics:
|
1347 | word:
AA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
AA (countable and uncountable, plural AAs)
forms:
form:
AAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
text:
In a letter to Cohen, written between 1956 and 1961, he reported hearing gossip about his LSD use in AA circles. He reminded Cohen about "the desirability" of omitting his name "when discussing LSD with AAs". Cohen reassured Wilson that his LSD trials did not include other active AA members.
ref:
2012 August 23, Amelia Hill, “LSD could help alcoholics stop drinking, AA founder believed”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Whether your camera takes AAs or a unique, proprietary battery, you should always have a spare. […] You will not be able to walk into a local supermarket and buy a new one as you can with AAs.
ref:
2005, Rob Sheppard, Digital Photography 1, 2, 3: Taking and Printing Great Pictures, New York: Lark Books, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
It’s also tough to keep on top of charging all the batteries needed. The remote takes standard AAs, but the drone has a huge lithium battery that charges with a special wall unit.
ref:
2014 January 1, Kit Eaton, “Civilian Photography, Now Rising to New Level”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Some of the rules guiding these nominations are affirmative action (AA)¹ policies intended to increase the influence of and to encourage nomination of women and minorities. […] A review of the extant literature on AA and its effect on decision-makers produces competing hypotheses about the potential impact on female candidates seeking party nomination.
ref:
2016, Angela L. Bos, “The unintended effects of political party affirmative action policies on female candidates’ nomination chances”, in Zoe M. Oxley, editor, Gender and Political Psychology, Routledge, pages 73–74
type:
quotation
text:
They're setting up an AA battery. That thing'll tear the Dawn apart... We'll wait for you to take the shot.
ref:
2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark
type:
quotation
text:
All proteinogenic amino acids (AAs) are claimed to be levorotatory (L-configured). Nevertheless, dextrorotatory AAs (D-configured) are also found in nature (Gao et al., 2015; Ollivaux et al., 2014), for example, in the organic material of extraterrestrial comets (Cronin and Pizzarello, 1983), or, formed by slow racemization, in all dead biological material.
ref:
2011, Alexander Cartus, “D-Amino Acids and Cross-Linked Amino Acids in Food”, in Dieter Schrenk, Alexander Cartus, editors, Chemical Contaminants and Residues in Food, Woodhead Publishing, page 251
type:
quotation
text:
For copolymers of ethylene, the other comonomer can be an alkene such as propene, butene, hexene or octene, or a compound having a polar functional group such as vinyl acetate (VA), acrylic acid (AA), ethyl acetate (EA), methyl acrylate (MA) or vinyl alcohol (VOH).
ref:
2006, Gordon L. Robertson, “Structure and Related Properties of Plastic Polymers”, in Food Packaging: Principles and Practice, 2nd edition, CRC Press, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
Arachidonic acid (AA) is present at unusually high levels in the phospholipids of inflammatory cells. […] IgG-mediated phagocytosis results in the preferential release of AA over other fatty acids²³ via activation of cPLA₂ and iPLA₂.
ref:
2005, Michelle R. Lennartz, “Phospholipases and Phagocytosis”, in Carlos Rosales, editor, Molecular Mechanisms of Phagocytosis, Landes Bioscience / Eurekah.com; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., page 106
type:
quotation
text:
The two tests presently in this category are the blood tests carbohydrate deficient transferrin (CDT) and hemoglobin or whole blood acetaldehyde adducts (AA). […] Measurement of AA in the blood has also generated a great deal of recent research interest.
ref:
1995, Raymond F. Anton, Raye Z. Litten, John P. Allen, “Biological Assessment of Alcohol Consumption”, in John P. Allen, Megan Columbus, editors, Assessing Alcohol Problems: A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
Although the ovaries are the main source of androgen excess in PCOS, excess adrenal androgen (AA) levels (e.g., dehydroepiandrosterone [DHEA] and adrenal-secreted androsteredione [A4]) and adrenocortical dysfunction have also been observed in many patients with PCOS (2–6). Proof of the role of AA excess in the development of PCOS is circumstantial at best.
ref:
2007, Bulent O. Yildiz, Enrico Carmina, Ricardo Azziz, “Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Dysfunction in the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome”, in Ricardo Azziz, John E. Nestler, Didier Dewailly, editors, Androgen Excess Disorders in Women: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Other Disorders, 2nd edition, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, page 213
type:
quotation
text:
Antioxidant activity (AA) is one of the main and most acclaimed properties of edible oil, and the antioxidant properties of EVOO have been extensively highlighted (Tuck and Hayball, 2002; Vissers et al., 2004). AA is usually estimated by monitoring the scavenging of a free radical by antioxidants that lead to either the inhibition of a chemical reaction or the changes of reaction rate constants in an ongoing radical reaction.
ref:
2017, Xiuzhu Yu, “Spectroscopic Methods for Analysis of Edible Oils”, in Adriana S. Franca, Leo Nollet, editors, Spectroscopic Methods in Food Analysis, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, page 528
type:
quotation
text:
Activated alumina (AA, or γ-Al₂O₃) is an amorphous aluminium oxide prepared by dehydrating Al(OH)₃ at high temperature, […] Arsenic removal on AA is strongly pH-dependent, and is optimal between pH 5.5 and 6.0, which often requires acidification, and subsequent neutralisation to prevent corrosion.
ref:
2009, Peter Ravenscroft, Hugh Brammer, Keith Richards, “Removing Arsenic from Drinking Water”, in Arsenic Pollution: A Global Synthesis, John Wiley & Sons, page 272
type:
quotation
text:
Alternative form: AAo
text:
The existence of many autoimmune concurrent diseases supports that AA is an autoimmune disease. […] The incidence of type I diabetes in AA is intriguing; it is decreased in AA patients and increased in their relatives.
ref:
2012, Yoshihiro Kuwano, Manabu Fujimoto, “Alopecia areata and chemokine”, in Victor R. Preedy, editor, Handbook of Hair in Health and Disease, Wageningen Academic Publishers, page 203
type:
quotation
text:
An anastomotic aneurysm (AA) is an aneurysm that occurs at an anastomotic interface between a graft and an artery. […] Recently, it has been recognized that an increasing number of AAs may in fact be true aneurysms occurring at the junction of a prosthetic graft and an artery.
ref:
2004, Alexander D. Shepard, Gary M. Jacobson, “Anastomotic Aneurysms”, in Jonathan B. Towne, Larry H. Hollier, editors, Complications in Vascular Surgery, 2nd edition, New York: Marcel Dekker, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
This issue of Circulation has an interesting contribution from Reed et al,¹ who advance the point of view that aortic aneurysms (AAs) are “caused” by atherosclerosis. […] The authors propose two arguments in support of a “causal” relation between atherosclerotic risk factors and the development of AAs.
ref:
1992 January 1, M. David Tilson, “Aortic Aneurysms and Atherosclerosis”, in Circulation, volume 85, number 1, →DOI, page 378
type:
quotation
text:
Aplastic anemia (AA) secondary to radiotherapy presents a difficult situation in the treatment of both the malignant tumor and AA itself. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of avatrombopag (AVA), a thrombopoietin receptor agonist, in patients with AA secondary to chemoradiotherapy.
ref:
2023 January, Yarong Chi, Qinglin Hu, Chen Yang, Miao Chen, Bing Han, “Avatrombopag is effective in patients with chemoradiotherapy-induced aplastic anemia: a single-center, retrospective study”, in Experimental Hematology, volume 117, →DOI, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
Arterial aneurysms (AA) are local out-pouching of a blood vessel wall. […] According to the statistics, 90% of all AA are located in the anterior segments of the circle of Willis and only 10% in the posterior segments (Dandy 1944; Zlotnik 1967).
ref:
2009, Valery N. Kornienko, Igor Nicolaevich Pronin, “Cerebrovascular Diseases and Malformations of the Brain”, in Diagnostic Neuroradiology, Springer, page 199
type:
quotation
text:
If the paralysis is unilateral, arytenoid adduction (AA) procedures can be done to medialize the complex and arguably improve the results of an implant medialization.⁷⁹ An AA arytenopexy can reconfigure the ipsilateral arytenoid for improved glottic closure, if needed.
ref:
2017, Mausumi N Syamal, Michael S Benninger, “Vocal Fold Immobility”, in KK Handa, editor, Textbook of Voice and Laryngology, New Delhi: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
For example, among AAs “spell” refers to a trance state in which individuals can communicate with deceased relatives and which is associated with brief periods of personality change (American Psychiatric Association 1994).
ref:
2015, Davor Zink, Bern Lee, Daniel Allen, “Structured and Semistructured Clinical Interviews Available for Use Among African American Clients: Cultural Considerations in the Diagnostic Interview Process”, in Lorraine T. Benuto, Brian D. Leany, editors, Guide to Psychological Assessment with African Americans, Springer, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Asian Americans (AAs) constitute the fastest growing group in the United States, yet health promotion in this population is severely hampered by its invisibility in the U.S. population. […] This chapter will address each of the four factors that contribute to the lack of knowledge and health information about AAs.
ref:
2007, Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Jung Hee Han, “Asian American Health and Disease: An Overview”, in Michael V. Kline, Robert M. Huff, editors, Health Promotion in Multicultural Populations: A Handbook for Practitioners and Students, 2nd edition, SAGE Publications, page 414
type:
quotation
text:
But Wilson's loyal administrative assistant, Charlie Simpson, felt that he couldn't put up with it anymore. […] “I have to learn how to be a congressman and you need to learn how to be an AA [administrative assistant],” Wilson had told Simpson. “And this is the first thing we have to do.” […] The experience left the AA believing that perhaps the two of them shared a special destiny.
ref:
2003, George Crile, Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times, New York: Grove Press, page 186
type:
quotation
text:
I've worked at NASA as a graduate student working as a summer intern, and as an AA. Those are two of the most valuable experiences in my life.
ref:
2011, “S. Alan Stern”, in Rebecca Wright, Sandra Johnson, Steven J. Dick, editors, NASA at 50: Interviews with NASA's Senior Leadership, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
The AA said that given my background in English studies and applied linguistics, my introductory course in phonetics would be waved. Three of the four courses the AA prescribed included computer assisted instruction, which I eventually dropped due to overload, English language teaching methodology and psychology of second language learning.
ref:
2013, Yeno M Matuka Pierre, Through the Eye of the Needle, Xlibris, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
“I’m still figuring out my plans, but going back for another year is in my plans. I would be going back and getting my AA [degree], while playing another year of softball,” Enright said.
ref:
2020 March 20, Colin Peters, “Coaches, athletes react to sports being put on pause”, in Daily Iowegian, archived from the original on 2020-04-01
type:
quotation
text:
He returned to community college and earned an A.A. while working as an E.M.T. and plans to become a paramedic or a nurse. He attributes much of this to his faith.
ref:
2022 March 15, Ilana M. Horwitz, “I Followed the Lives of 3,290 Teenagers. This Is What I Learned About Religion and Education.”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
An AA, who was a trained social worker, also felt that the volunteer AAs should be shown greater respect by the police (GMS14). At the same time, there was some awareness that AAs were unpaid among the private police staff, as one commented that she tried to be particularly nice to the AAs because of their volunteer status (e.g. SNS7).
ref:
2011, Layla Skinns, Police Custody: Governance, Legitimacy and Reform in the Criminal Justice Process, Routledge, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
The initiative will draw on some 200 existing volunteers under the Appropriate Adult (AA) scheme, run by the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (Minds), from Jan 30. […] "These AAs are trained by Minds, and we believe they will enable our investigation officers to better communicate with drug offenders with intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder or mental health issues," he said.
ref:
2017 January 18, Ng Huiwen, “Drug offenders with special needs to get support”, in The Straits Times
type:
quotation
text:
The RBI had in 2016 approved a new class of NBFCs to act as account aggregators (AA). These AAs will play the role of providing services based on the explicit consent of individual clients.
ref:
2019 July 29, Neha Alawadhi, Karan Choudhury, “Account aggregator to make applying for loan less cumbersome for users”, in Business Standard
type:
quotation
text:
Appointed Actuaries (AAs) are entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining solvency position of the Company. […] However, the existing arrangements of AAs and Mentors not complying with these guidelines may continue till June 30.
ref:
2016 March 22, “Insurer can't transact new biz sans Appointed Actuaries: Irdai”, in Business Standard
type:
quotation
text:
Following the AA's enactment in June 2004, some institutional reform took place with the aim of enhancing the competitiveness of Egyptian products. […] The AA reflected a long-term and a rather broadly defined consideration of economic and social development and the process of market transformation in Egypt.
ref:
2013, Amr Adly, “External factors and state reform”, in State Reform and Development in the Middle East: Turkey and Egypt in the Post-Liberalization Era, Routledge, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
In addition, bilateral relations with the diverse countries of the South, which were “divided in their unity,” were also given a boost, as negotiations on new EU Association Agreements (AAs) got underway, as AAs were signed with all EMP countries except Syria by the early 2000’s.
ref:
2018 November 14, James Moran, “What Future for the EU’s Southern Neighbourhood Policy?”, in The Cairo Review of Global Affairs
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of Alcoholics Anonymous.
An AA battery (energy-storage device).
Initialism of affirmative action.
Initialism of air armament.
Initialism of air attaché.
Initialism of aircraft apprentice.
Initialism of aircraft artificer.
Initialism of absolute altitude.
Initialism of anti-aircraft.
Initialism of avenue of approach.
Initialism of assembly area.
Initialism of airman apprentice.
Initialism of absolute alcohol.
Initialism of achievement age.
Initialism of acting appointment.
Initialism of adoption agency.
Initialism of armament artificer.
Initialism of athletic association.
Initialism of author's alteration.
Initialism of aviation annex.
Initialism of angular aperture.
Initialism of amino acid.
Initialism of aminoacyl.
Initialism of acetic acid.
Initialism of acrylic acid.
Initialism of amyloid A.
Initialism of arachidonic acid.
Initialism of ascorbic acid.
Initialism of asymmetric aminohydroxylation.
Initialism of acetaldehyde adduct.
Initialism of adrenal androgen.
Initialism of antiandrogen.
Initialism of antioxidant activity.
Initialism of atomic absorption.
Initialism of activated alumina.
Initialism of anti-antibody.
Initialism of ascending aorta.
Initialism of abdominal aorta.
Initialism of aortic arch.
Initialism of acute appendicitis.
Initialism of allergic asthma.
Initialism of alopecia areata.
Initialism of anaplastic astrocytoma.
Initialism of anastomotic aneurysm.
Initialism of aortic aneurysm.
Initialism of aplastic anemia.
Initialism of arterial aneurysm.
Initialism of arytenoid adduction.
Initialism of anesthesiologist assistant.
Initialism of antialiasing.
Initialism of African-American.
Initialism of Asian-African.
Initialism of Asian American.
Initialism of administrative assistant.
Initialism of associate administrator.
Initialism of assistant adjutant.
Initialism of academic adviser.
Initialism of Associate in Arts or Associate of Arts.
Initialism of appropriate authority.
Initialism of appropriate adult.
Initialism of account aggregator.
Initialism of appointed actuary.
Initialism of approximate absolute.
Initialism of arithmetic average.
Initialism of Association Agreement: a treaty between the European Union, its member states and a non-EU country that creates a framework for cooperation between them.
Initialism of against actual.
Initialism of approach anxiety.
Initialism of agent assistant; an assistant of a real estate agent.
Initialism of annual allowance.
Abbreviation of all-around.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
optics
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chemistry
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chemistry
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organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
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physical-sciences
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
immunology
medicine
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
medicine
pathology
sciences
medicine
pathology
sciences
medicine
pathology
sciences
medicine
pathology
sciences
medicine
sciences
medicine
pathology
sciences
medicine
pathology
sciences
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
government
healthcare
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
government
politics
education
law
business
finance
business
insurance
mathematics
sciences
statistics
government
politics
business
finance
lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
1348 | word:
AA
word_type:
name
expansion:
AA
forms:
wikipedia:
en:Alcoholics Anonymous
en:Anna's Archive
en:The AA
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
text:
She said, “I'm an alcoholic, just like my mother was. It's a struggle, but I haven't had a drink in a while.” That was something she hadn't meant to say, something she had never said outside of an AA meeting. But, after it had been said, it felt like as good a way to start as any.
ref:
2013, Edward Kelsey Moore, The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, Alfred A. Knopf, page 284
type:
quotation
text:
Like a true AA follower (as in Academy Awards, not 12 steps), I never cared for Oscar parties. Somebody always talked through the songs or Vanessa Redgrave's speech or the costume parade, in which elegant runway models were forced to dress up as the farmers in Places in the Heart.
ref:
1995 April 4, Bruce Vilanch, “Working the AA program”, in The Advocate, number 678, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
Alas, I fear, Netflix will soon break my heart. And it's an American icon that is warning me: American Airlines (AA). ¶ You see, middlemen are dying. Sabre, the former AA subsidiary that is now an independent global distribution system (GDS) supplying travel agencies and online travel agencies with ticket and pricing information, recently announced it was raising the rates it charges on AA tickets.
ref:
2012, Kaihan Krippendorff, “Today's Business Revolution”, in Outthink the Competition: How a New Generation of Strategists Sees Options Others Ignore, John Wiley & Sons, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
As we have said before, never accept an AA increase – if you phone up and threaten to leave they will, in our experience, drop it back to the previous price. Or better still, just keep switching provider each year. LV’s cover is a good alternative.
ref:
2020 January 1, Miles Brignall, “Sit back, do nothing and the AA will double your bill”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Alternative form: A.A.
text:
In the American steel industry, only two labor organizations were of any great significance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These were the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (The A.A.), and the Knights of Labor. The A.A. was formed in 1876 when the United Sons of Vulcan, composed of iron puddlers and boilers, joined forces with several smaller unions of rolling mill hands and other skilled iron workers.
ref:
1985, James Holt, “Trade Unionism in the British and U.S. Steel Industries, 1888-1914: A Comparative Study”, in Daniel J. Leab, editor, The Labor History Reader, University of Illinois Press, pages 170–171
type:
quotation
text:
• APO/FPO AE ZIPs 094-098 — Space Available Mail, Nov. 26; Parcel Airlift Mail, Dec. 3; Priority Mail, Dec. 10; First Class Mail Letters and Cards, Dec.10 and Express Mail Military Service, Dec. 18.
• APO/FPO AA ZIP 340 — Space Available Mail, Nov. 26; Parcel Airlift Mail, Dec. 3; Priority Mail, Dec. 10; First Class Mail Letters and Cards, Dec. 10 and Express Mail Military Service, Dec. 18.
• APO/FPO AP ZIPs 962-966 — Space Available Mail, Nov. 26; Parcel Airlift Mail, Dec. 3; Priority Mail, Dec. 10; First Class Mail Letters and Cards, Dec. 10 and Express Mail Military Service, Dec. 18.
ref:
2010 October 29, Bill Shrum, “Shipping to soldiers for the holidays”, in Stuttgart (Arkansas) Daily Leader
type:
quotation
text:
In Magic in Theory and Practice, Crowley explains his other Order, the Silver Star (Argentinum Astrum), which certainly does have such a degree. The AA is a totally secret occult organization in which any member should know only the person who initiated him or her and those whom he or she has initiated.
ref:
1999, James R. Lewis, Witchcraft Today: An Encyclopedia of Wiccan and Neopagan Traditions, ABC-CLIO, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
With regards to mobile browsers, this can be mitigated with charitable practices similar to paywall avoidance, where a considerate user could reply with the direct link to the PDF. This is not necessarily easy on sci-hub (you have to do some poking around with your browser's dev tools), but can be useful if the DOI is queried in Anna's Archive.
This specific paper is[...] available on AA, [...] to whom it may intrigue [...] this works:
→DOI
ref:
2023 July 7, the-printer, “Tea as Hepatoprotective Agent: A Revisit”, in Hacker News, archived from the original on 2024-07-21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Alcoholics Anonymous: a self-supporting organization of alcoholic people.
Initialism of Academy Awards: a recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Initialism of Addicts Anonymous.
Initialism of Al Ain.
Initialism of American Airlines: a major American airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.
Initialism of Aerolíneas Argentinas.
Initialism of Ansett Australia or Ansett Airways.
Initialism of Air Almanac, a publication.
Initialism of American Anthropologist: the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association, founded in 1888.
Initialism of Acta Astronautica: a scientific journal founded in 1955, covering fields related to the peaceful scientific exploration of space.
Initialism of Aluminum America, a corporation.
Initialism of The Aluminum Association: a trade association for the aluminum production, fabrication and recycling industries.
Double-A: the second-highest level of play in Minor League Baseball after Triple-A (AAA).
Initialism of American Association: an American minor league baseball league from 1902 to 1962 and 1969 to 1997.
Initialism of The Automobile Association: a British motoring association founded in 1905.
Initialism of Alzheimer's Association: an American volunteer health organization focusing on care, support and research for Alzheimer's disease.
Initialism of Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.
Initialism of Ann Arbor Railroad.
Initialism of Arlington Annex.
USPS military code of Armed Forces – Americas.
Initialism of Army Act.
Initialism of aviatsionnaya Armiya.
Initialism of Antiproton Accumulator: an infrastructure connected to the Proton–Antiproton Collider at CERN.
Alternative form of A∴A∴.
Initialism of Anna's Archive.
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aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
automotive
transport
vehicles
rail-transport
railways
transport
government
military
politics
war
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
human-sciences
mysticism
occult
philosophy
sciences
|
1349 | word:
AA
word_type:
adj
expansion:
AA (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative forms: a/a, A-A, A/A
text:
AA joint; AA instability
type:
example
text:
AA anastomosis
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of anti-aircraft or anti-air.
Initialism of air-to-air.
Initialism of atlantoaxial.
Initialism of arterioarterial.
Initialism of Afro-Asiatic.
Initialism of Austroasiatic.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
1350 | word:
AA
word_type:
verb
expansion:
AA (third-person singular simple present AAs, present participle AAing, simple past and past participle AAed)
forms:
form:
AAs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
AAing
tags:
participle
present
form:
AAed
tags:
participle
past
form:
AAed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
text:
On the other hand, edge AA in EF2000 didn't make much difference because only the objects were AAed and they made up only a very small percentage of the screen area.
ref:
1999 September 12, Darin Genereux, “Re: "Anti-Aliasing vs. More Polygons" teapot page has been UPDATED”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Vector images can be considered to have extremely high resolution, so it is possible to AA them.
ref:
2003 June 25, Ilari Liusvaara, “Re: I have a Linux Desktop dream, desktoplinux.com”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of antialias.
senses_topics:
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
1351 | word:
fiscal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fiscal (comparative more fiscal, superlative most fiscal)
forms:
form:
more fiscal
tags:
comparative
form:
most fiscal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
fiscal
fiscus
etymology_text:
From Middle French fiscal, from Latin fiscus (“treasury”) – see fiscus and fisc.
senses_examples:
text:
fiscal matters
type:
example
text:
fiscal lawyer
type:
example
text:
fiscal system
type:
example
text:
The allotment is $22 million less than the Pentagon spent on military bands in fiscal 1990.
ref:
1990 August 31, John Zeh, “NEA Session Disrupted”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 7, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.
Pertaining to finance and money in general; financial.
Being a fiscal year.
senses_topics:
|
1352 | word:
fiscal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fiscal (plural fiscals)
forms:
form:
fiscals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fiscal
fiscus
etymology_text:
From Middle French fiscal, from Latin fiscus (“treasury”) – see fiscus and fisc.
senses_examples:
text:
‘There I was interrogated by the Fiscal, who was making out a proces verbal […].’
ref:
1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 149
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue.
Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor.
In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general.
senses_topics:
law |
1353 | word:
fiscal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fiscal (plural fiscals)
forms:
form:
fiscals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fiscal
etymology_text:
From Spanish fiscal, ultimately from Latin fiscus (“treasury”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A public prosecutor (UK) or a district attorney (US).
senses_topics:
law |
1354 | word:
fiscal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fiscal (plural fiscals)
forms:
form:
fiscals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fiscal
etymology_text:
After Afrikaans fiskaal (“public official, hangman”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various African shrikes of the genus Lanius.
senses_topics:
|
1355 | word:
Philippines
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Philippines
forms:
form:
the Philippines
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
Name of the Philippines
Philippines
etymology_text:
See Name of the Philippines in Wikipedia for a complete etymology.
Borrowed from French Philippines, originally from Spanish Filipinas, which was from Felipe (the name of a king of Spain).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago in Southeast Asia.
A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of the Philippines. Capital: Manila.
A dependency of the United States (1898–1946).
senses_topics:
|
1356 | word:
quality
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quality (countable and uncountable, plural qualities)
forms:
form:
qualities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Quality (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English qualite, from Old French qualité, from Latin quālitās, quālitātem, from quālis (“of what kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (“who, how”). Cicero coined qualitas as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ποιότης (poiótēs, “quality”), coined by Plato from ποῖος (poîos, “of what nature, of what kind”).
senses_examples:
text:
This school is well-known for having teachers of high quality.
type:
example
text:
Quality of life is usually determined by health, education, and income.
type:
example
text:
He called for China’s cooperation in efforts to improve air quality.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
One of the qualities of pure iron is that it does not rust easily.
type:
example
text:
While being impulsive can be great for artists, it is not a desirable quality for engineers.
type:
example
text:
Security, stability, and efficiency are good qualities of an operating system.
type:
example
text:
Something about his bearing was uncommitted, as though he were checking not for some bad quality he knew Feldman had, but for some good quality he was afraid he might have.
ref:
2010, Stanley Elkin, A Bad Man
type:
quotation
text:
The firſt Solemn Embaſſy that the French King ſent to the late King of SIAM, was in the Year 1685, by Monſieur de Chaumont, who went in Quality of Ambaſſador Extraordinary […]
ref:
1690, “The Preface to the Reader”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page i
type:
quotation
text:
A peasant is not allowed to fall in love with a lady of quality.
type:
example
text:
Membership of this golf club is limited to those of quality and wealth.
type:
example
text:
To identify quality try asking, "what does it feel like?".
type:
example
text:
It is argued that in the last ten years or so, quality broadsheet newspapers have become more like the tabloids. Anthony Sampson has argued that 'the frontier between the qualities and popular papers has virtually disappeared'.
ref:
1998, Bill Coxall, Lynton Robins, Robert Leach, Contemporary British Politics, page 164
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Level of excellence.
Something that differentiates a thing or person.
Position; status; rank.
High social position. (See also the quality.)
The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.
In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.
A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
journalism
media |
1357 | word:
quality
word_type:
adj
expansion:
quality (comparative more quality, superlative most quality)
forms:
form:
more quality
tags:
comparative
form:
most quality
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Quality (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English qualite, from Old French qualité, from Latin quālitās, quālitātem, from quālis (“of what kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (“who, how”). Cicero coined qualitas as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ποιότης (poiótēs, “quality”), coined by Plato from ποῖος (poîos, “of what nature, of what kind”).
senses_examples:
text:
We only sell quality products.
type:
example
text:
That was a quality game by Jim Smith.
type:
example
text:
A quality system ensures products meet customer requirements.
type:
example
text:
A model for discriminating women! A "quality" coat in every sense!
ref:
1930, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published 1986, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
I mean a lot of the money that obviously goes into universities and their libraries and their facilities and their academics and stuff but I mean I haven’t had a very quality degree to be honest. I think the quality of my education has been crap . . .
ref:
a. 2003, John Ahier, John Beck, Rob Moore, quoting Harriet (a Cambridge University student), Graduate Citizens?: Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education, Routledge, published 2003, page 114
type:
quotation
text:
For one I wanted to have what I considered a very quality tracking device.
ref:
2004, Vance M. Thompson, MD, edited by J. Kevin Belville and Ronald J. Smith, LASIK Techniques: Pearls and Pitfalls, SLACK Incorporated, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
A very quality ball club; that was the Braves.
ref:
2008, Fay Vincent, quoting Carl Erskine, We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved, Simon and Schuster, page 144
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose; of high quality.
senses_topics:
|
1358 | word:
Libya
word_type:
name
expansion:
Libya
forms:
wikipedia:
Libya
etymology_text:
Via Latin Libya, from Ancient Greek Λιβύη (Libúē). English since the 16th century.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in North Africa. Capital: Tripoli.
Africa; that is, the part of North Africa known in classical antiquity.
senses_topics:
|
1359 | word:
Bahamas
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Bahamas
forms:
form:
the Bahamas
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Disputed; probably from Spanish baja mar (“shallow sea”) or Taíno ba ha ma (“big upper middle land”), via Spanish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago and country in the Caribbean. Official name: Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
senses_topics:
|
1360 | word:
Colombia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Colombia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish Colombia, from Italian Colombo (“Cristoforo Colombo”); named after Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Colombia. Capital: Bogotá.
senses_topics:
|
1361 | word:
Estonia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Estonia (plural Estonias)
forms:
form:
Estonias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Medieval Latin Estonia. Other early Latin forms were Estia and Hestia, possibly derived from the tribal name Aestiī described by the Roman historian Tacitus in his Germania (ca. 98 AD). Displaced Middle English Ēstland, from Old English Ēstland. Compare also Old Norse Æistland, Icelandic Eistland, German Estland (“Estonia”).
senses_examples:
text:
“In the late 1930s, the Western democracies hesitated in the face of danger,” Prime Minister Siim Kallas of Estonia, a former Soviet republic, told me. “As a consequence, we fell under dictatorships and many people lost their lives. Action is sometimes necessary.”
ref:
2010, George W. Bush, Decision Points, New York: Crown Publishers, →OCLC, →OL, page 233
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Official name: Republic of Estonia.
senses_topics:
|
1362 | word:
Equatorial Guinea
word_type:
name
expansion:
Equatorial Guinea
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Equatorial Guinea. Capital: Malabo.
senses_topics:
|
1363 | word:
deal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
deal (plural deals)
forms:
form:
deals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English del, dele, from Old English dǣl (“part, share, portion”), from Proto-West Germanic *daili, from Proto-Germanic *dailiz (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰail- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Scots dele (“part, portion”), West Frisian diel (“part, share”), Dutch deel (“part, share, portion”), German Teil (“part, portion, section”), Danish del (“part”), Swedish del ("part, portion, piece") Icelandic deila (“division, contention”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 (dails, “portion”), Slovene del (“part”). Related to Old English dāl (“portion”). More at dole.
senses_examples:
text:
We gave three deals of grain in tribute to the king.
type:
example
text:
“They know our boats will stand up to their work,” said Willison, “and that counts for a good deal. A low estimate from us doesn't mean scamped work, but just that we want to keep the yard busy over a slack time.”
ref:
1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 3, in Well Tackled!
type:
quotation
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, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece.
An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
senses_topics:
|
1364 | word:
deal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
deal (third-person singular simple present deals, present participle dealing, simple past and past participle dealt or (nonstandard) dealed)
forms:
form:
deals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dealing
tags:
participle
present
form:
dealt
tags:
participle
past
form:
dealt
tags:
past
form:
dealed
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
dealed
tags:
nonstandard
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”), from Proto-West Germanic *dailijan, from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną (“to divide, part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰail- (“part, watershed”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian diele (“to divide, separate”), Dutch delen, German teilen, Swedish dela; and with Lithuanian dalinti (“divide”), Russian дели́ть (delítʹ).
senses_examples:
text:
The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory.
type:
example
text:
Rome deals out her blessings and her gold.
ref:
a. 1740, Thomas Tickell, “An Epistle from a lady in England to a gentleman at Avignon”, in Charles Churchil, editor, The Poetical Works of Churchill, Parnell, and Tickell: With a Life of Each, published 1880, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
Norwich returned to second in the Championship with victory over Nottingham Forest, whose promotion hopes were dealt another blow.
ref:
2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
I was dealt four aces.
type:
example
text:
The cards were shuffled, and the croupier dealt.
type:
example
text:
The boxer was dealt a blow to the head.
text:
This is a heavy-handed weapon attack that can be made with a two-handed weapon, that will deal damage equal to 4 times your size category
ref:
2009, Jake Conner, Maverick, Strategy RPG: Core Rulebook, page 99
text:
The whole crowd waited for him to deal a real humdinger.
type:
example
text:
When the spice flow stops, all eyes will turn to Arrakis. The Baron and the Emperor himself will be forced to deal with us.
ref:
1984, 1:45:55 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Paul Atreides, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
She deals in gold.
type:
example
text:
This club takes a dim view of members who deal drugs.
type:
example
text:
I can't deal with this.
type:
example
text:
I don't think he wants to go. — Yeah, well, we're going anyway, and he can deal.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
To administer or give out, as in small portions.
To distribute cards to the players in a game.
deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
To pitch.
To have dealings or business.
To conduct oneself, to behave.
To take action; to act.
To trade professionally (followed by in).
To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
To be concerned with.
To handle, to manage, to cope.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
1365 | word:
deal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
deal (plural deals)
forms:
form:
deals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”), from Proto-West Germanic *dailijan, from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną (“to divide, part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰail- (“part, watershed”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian diele (“to divide, separate”), Dutch delen, German teilen, Swedish dela; and with Lithuanian dalinti (“divide”), Russian дели́ть (delítʹ).
senses_examples:
text:
I didn’t have a good deal all evening.
type:
example
text:
I believe it's your deal.
type:
example
text:
We need to finalise the deal with Henderson by midnight.
type:
example
text:
recognizing the societal deal between capital and labor regarding retirement savings
type:
example
text:
The deal, which overtakes the £50m paid to Liverpool by Chelsea for Fernando Torres in January 2011 as the highest paid by a British club, takes United’s summer spend to £130.7m, following the £27m spent on Luke Shaw, the £28m for Ander Herrera and £16m for Marcos Rojo.
ref:
2014 August 26, Jamie Jackson, “Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
You also have to look at the kind of mortgage deals available to you and whether you will be able to trade up to the kind of property you are looking for.
ref:
2009, The Guardian, Virginia Wallis, 22 Jul 2009
text:
California lawmakers, their state broke and its credit rating shot, finally sealed the deal with the governor Monday night on a plan to close a $26 billion budget gap.
ref:
2009 July 20, Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
He made a deal with the devil.
type:
example
text:
I didn't deserve it, but he cut me a deal.
type:
example
text:
to cut a deal, to cut deals
type:
example
text:
to cut a fantastic deal, to cut a raw deal
type:
example
text:
What's the deal here?
type:
example
text:
Their new movie is the biggest deal of the year.
type:
example
text:
I don't think that's such a big deal.
type:
example
text:
The deal with four tines is called a pitchfork.
type:
example
text:
I've never killed anybody before. I don't see what's the big deal.
ref:
1996, Graham Yost, Broken Arrow, spoken by Major Vic "Deak" Deakins (John Travolta)
type:
quotation
text:
What's her deal?
type:
example
text:
His whole deal is, you've got to be for it or against it, and you can't make it better.
ref:
1990, National Archives and Records Administration, quoting Bill Clinton, George Bush: 1992-1993, page 1861
type:
quotation
text:
My boyfriend hates it when I wear makeup or put on a short skirt, but then he points out how hot girls like the Pussycat Dolls are. What's his deal? —Jill, 16, Fresno, CA
ref:
2006 February 6, “Dr. Boy”, in ELLEgirl
type:
quotation
text:
I don't know what her deal was. I think she just cared about the MTV stuff and wanted to be around us, maybe hoping a camera would show up and she'd get her face on the color TV or something.
ref:
2017 April 11, Amber Portwood, Never Too Late, Simon and Schuster, page 90
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of dealing or sharing out.
The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
A situation, occasion, or event.
A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
A personality trait, especially a negative one, and the underlying cause of it.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
|
1366 | word:
deal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
deal (countable and uncountable, plural deals)
forms:
form:
deals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dele (“plank”), from Middle Low German dele, from Old Saxon thili, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þiljǭ (“plank, board”); cognate with Old English þille. Doublet of thill.
senses_examples:
text:
1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 86,
Some Houses were […] entirely lock’d up, the Doors padlockt, the Windows and Doors having Deal Boards nail’d over them,
text:
It shall not be lawful for any person to land any timber, planks or board, deals, staves, tar, pitch, turpentine, rozin or other the commodities aforesaid, on any part of the present quays within the city of Bristol, from any vessel coming into the said port...
ref:
1819, Charles Pope, Practical abridgement of the laws of customs and excise, 5th edition, page CCXLIII
type:
quotation
text:
Swedish deals from ports in the Baltic
ref:
1840, John Ramsey McCulloch, “Docks on the Thames (London)”, in A Dictionary Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, volume 1, Thomas Wardle, page 590
type:
quotation
text:
1 deal (US) = 12 ft x 11 in. x 3/2 in. (E)
ref:
2003, François Cardarelli, Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights, and Measures, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.
senses_topics:
|
1367 | word:
deal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
deal (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dele (“plank”), from Middle Low German dele, from Old Saxon thili, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þiljǭ (“plank, board”); cognate with Old English þille. Doublet of thill.
senses_examples:
text:
A plain deal table
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of deal.
senses_topics:
|
1368 | word:
natural gas
word_type:
noun
expansion:
natural gas (countable and uncountable, plural natural gases)
forms:
form:
natural gases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
formed from natural + gas, as opposed to coal gas (19th Century).
senses_examples:
text:
For a good many years, beginning in London, Brighton & South Coast days, the station at Heathfield, between Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne, was lighted by natural gas. The use of this illuminant was discontinued about 1934.
ref:
1946 July and August, “The Why and The Wherefore: Natural Gas at Heathfield”, in Railway Magazine, page 263
type:
quotation
text:
Natural gas is an odorless, colorless gas from inside the Earth. When burned, it provides abundant heat to homes and businesses around the United States and the world.
ref:
2010, Kelly Swanson, Human Geography, page 169
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons associated with petroleum deposits; mostly methane with smaller amounts of ethane, propane and butane; principally used as a fuel.
senses_topics:
|
1369 | word:
Austria
word_type:
name
expansion:
Austria
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Austria, a Latinization of Old High German Ōstarrīhhi (the first element of which means "east" and stems from Proto-Germanic *austraz (“eastern”), and the second element of which is rīhhi (“realm”). See east, eastern for more.
Distantly cognate to Australia: it derives from the same Proto-Indo-European root, but via Latin, where it came to mean “south” rather than “east”. Compare also Austrasia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Austria. Capital and largest city: Vienna.
senses_topics:
|
1370 | word:
fa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fa (plural fas)
forms:
form:
fas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Glover's solmization, from Middle English fa (“fourth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian fa in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin famulī (“servants”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
1371 | word:
Tuesday
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Tuesday (plural Tuesdays)
forms:
form:
Tuesdays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
interpretatio romana
etymology_text:
From Middle English Tewesday, from Old English tīwesdæġ (“Tuesday”), from Proto-West Germanic *Tīwas dag (“Tuesday”, literally “Tiw's Day”).
This was a Germanic interpretation of Latin diēs Mārtis, itself a translation of Ancient Greek Ἄρεως ἡμέρα (Áreōs hēméra) (interpretatio romana). Cognate with Scots Tysday (“Tuesday”), Saterland Frisian Täisdai (“Tuesday”), West Frisian tiisdei (“Tuesday”), dialectal German Ziestag (“Tuesday”), Danish tirsdag (“Tuesday”), Swedish tisdag (“Tuesday”), Finnish tiistai (“Tuesday”). More at Tyr, day.
senses_examples:
text:
Street Fighter
Chun-Li: My father saved his village at the cost of his own life. You had him shot as you ran away. A hero at a thousand paces.
M. Bison: ...I'm sorry. I don't remember any of it.
Chun-Li: You don't remember?!
Bison: For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The third day of the week in many religious traditions, and the second day of the week in systems that use the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Monday and precedes Wednesday.
An ordinary, unmemorable day.
senses_topics:
|
1372 | word:
Tuesday
word_type:
adv
expansion:
Tuesday (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
interpretatio romana
etymology_text:
From Middle English Tewesday, from Old English tīwesdæġ (“Tuesday”), from Proto-West Germanic *Tīwas dag (“Tuesday”, literally “Tiw's Day”).
This was a Germanic interpretation of Latin diēs Mārtis, itself a translation of Ancient Greek Ἄρεως ἡμέρα (Áreōs hēméra) (interpretatio romana). Cognate with Scots Tysday (“Tuesday”), Saterland Frisian Täisdai (“Tuesday”), West Frisian tiisdei (“Tuesday”), dialectal German Ziestag (“Tuesday”), Danish tirsdag (“Tuesday”), Swedish tisdag (“Tuesday”), Finnish tiistai (“Tuesday”). More at Tyr, day.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On Tuesday.
senses_topics:
|
1373 | word:
SMS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SMS (plural SMSes)
forms:
form:
SMSes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
SMS (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Abbreviation
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Short Message Service. A service to send text messages on a cell phone.
Initialism of special mint set.
Initialism of salesman sample.
Initialism of short man syndrome.
Initialism of stiff man syndrome.
Abbreviation of Safety Management System., a system for identifying and managing risk used in the aviation industry.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
|
1374 | word:
SMS
word_type:
verb
expansion:
SMS (third-person singular simple present SMSes, present participle SMSing, simple past and past participle SMSed)
forms:
form:
SMSes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
SMSing
tags:
participle
present
form:
SMSed
tags:
participle
past
form:
SMSed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
SMS (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Abbreviation
senses_examples:
text:
I SMSed him and asked why he was late.
type:
example
text:
I can't talk to her: she is too busy SMSing her friends.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To send a message on a cell phone.
senses_topics:
|
1375 | word:
SMS
word_type:
name
expansion:
SMS
forms:
wikipedia:
SMS (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Abbreviation
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Sega Master System.
senses_topics:
video-games |
1376 | word:
SMS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SMS (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
SMS (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From German SMS.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff – literally, "His Majesty's Ship" in German;
SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff – literally, "His Majesty's Ship" in German;
A ship prefix for a ship in the navy of the Empire of Germany (usually for the period leading to WWI and WWI)
senses_topics:
government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war |
1377 | word:
Bhutan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bhutan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French Bhoutan, from Nepali भुटान (bhuṭān), from Prakrit 𑀪𑁄𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀁𑀢 (bhŏṭṭaṃta, “Tibet”, literally “end of Tibet”); probably ultimately from Tibetan བོད (bod, “Tibet”) + Sanskrit अन्त (anta, “end”). Traditionally considered to be derived via Sanskrit भोटान्त (bhoṭānta), but that word is probably a Prakritism.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in South Asia, in the Himalayas. Official name: Kingdom of Bhutan. Capital: Thimphu.
senses_topics:
|
1378 | word:
adverb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
adverb (plural adverbs)
forms:
form:
adverbs
head_nr:
1
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Adverb
etymology_text:
From French adverbe, from Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”), so called because it is used to supplement other words.
senses_examples:
text:
‘Fortunately your papa appreciates it; he appreciates it immensely’—that was one of the things Miss Overmore also said, with a striking insistence on the adverb.
ref:
1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew
type:
quotation
text:
(modifying a verb) I often went outside hiking during my stay in Japan.
type:
example
text:
(modifying an adjective) It was often cold outside.
type:
example
text:
(modifying another adverb) Not often.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.
In the Raku programming language, a named parameter that modifies the behavior of a routine.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
1379 | word:
adverb
word_type:
verb
expansion:
adverb (third-person singular simple present adverbs, present participle adverbing, simple past and past participle adverbed)
forms:
form:
adverbs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
adverbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
adverbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
adverbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French adverbe, from Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”), so called because it is used to supplement other words.
senses_examples:
text:
Considering these postpositional phrases to be adverbed phrases would be an insufficient analysis, since the postpositions are determined by the verb.
ref:
1973, Indian Linguistics, volume 34, page 241
type:
quotation
text:
Even if, in the case of native speakers of English in particular, bonded adverbed verbs are always understood and used as entities, the different stages of théir formation are probably those I have just described.
ref:
1998, English linguistics
type:
quotation
text:
Then, post-adverbially, they start over again from Square One, explaining that queer name of hers and who and where she is and what's going on here besides adverbing.
ref:
2005, John Barth, The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make into or become an adverb.
senses_topics:
|
1380 | word:
pound
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pound (plural pounds or (UK colloquial) pound)
forms:
form:
pounds
tags:
plural
form:
pound
tags:
UK
colloquial
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pondō (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull, stretch”). Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Danish pund and Swedish pund. Doublet of pood and punt.
senses_examples:
text:
Research shows that retaining even one or two pounds after giving birth can make problems more likely in a subsequent pregnancy, experts said, with women who have several children facing a "slippery slope" if they continue to gain weight each time.
ref:
2010 July 28, Rachel Williams, “Mothers who lose weight before further pregnancy ‘reduce risks’”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
"Only a hundred and ninety-three pound," said Mr. Tulliver. "You've brought less o' late; but young fellows like to have their own way with their money. Though I didn't do as I liked before I was of age." He spoke with rather timid discontent.
ref:
1860, George Eliot, chapter 6, in The Mill on the Floss, book 5
type:
quotation
text:
For students in developing countries who can't get it any other way, or for students in the first world, who can but may choose not to. Pay thousands of pounds a year for your education? Or get it free online?
ref:
2012 November 11, Carole Cadwalladr, “Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university?”, in Observer
type:
quotation
text:
the Rhode Island pound; the New Hampshire pound
type:
example
text:
He knocked out cans of warm cola at two pound fifty a time.
ref:
2010, Steven Field, Dusty's Fort, page 33
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit of weight in various measurement systems
Ellipsis of pound weight.
A unit of weight in various measurement systems
Various non-English units of measure
A unit of mass in various measurement systems
Ellipsis of pound mass.
A unit of mass in various measurement systems
Various non-English units of measure
A unit of mass in various measurement systems
A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
A unit of mass in various measurement systems
A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
A unit of force in various measurement systems
Ellipsis of pound force.
A unit of force in various measurement systems
Various non-English units of measure
A unit of force in various measurement systems
Short for pound-force.
A unit of currency in various currency systems
Various non-English units of currency
A unit of currency in various currency systems
The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence. Symbol £.
A unit of currency in various currency systems
Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Israel and South Africa.
A unit of currency in various currency systems
Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
The symbol # (octothorpe, hash, number sign)
senses_topics:
|
1381 | word:
pound
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pound (third-person singular simple present pounds, present participle pounding, simple past and past participle pounded)
forms:
form:
pounds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pounding
tags:
participle
present
form:
pounded
tags:
participle
past
form:
pounded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pondō (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull, stretch”). Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Danish pund and Swedish pund. Doublet of pood and punt.
senses_examples:
text:
‘Good-bye, my dear!' said Sleary. 'You'll make your fortun, I hope, and none of our poor folkth will ever trouble you, I'll pound it.’
ref:
1854, Dickens, chapter 4, in Hard Times
type:
quotation
text:
“He's done,” said the Moocher brutally. “He didn't hear nuffin, I'll pound it.”
ref:
1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 70
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wager a pound on.
senses_topics:
|
1382 | word:
pound
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pound (plural pounds)
forms:
form:
pounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pounde, ponde, pund, from Old English pund (“an enclosure”), related to Old English pyndan (“to enclose, shut up, dam, impound”). Compare also Old English pynd (“a cistern, lake”).
senses_examples:
text:
Mr. Sarnoff also sent to the pound one of the best-known dogs in the world. Nipper, the black-and-white terrier usually depicted peering with head cocked into the horn of a Victrola, listening for “His Master's Voice,” was de-emphasized as a corporate symbol.
ref:
1997 February 24, N. R. Kleinfield, “Robert Sarnoff, 78, RCA Chairman, Dies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
(Police officer to a dog owner) "He'd better stay calm or I'll have the pound come and get him."
ref:
2002, 00:27:30 from the start, in 25th Hour
type:
quotation
text:
Inspector Douglas Todd: Where did you get a truckload of cigarettes from anyway? / Detective Axel Foley: From the Dearborn Hijacking. / Todd: The Dearborn Hijacking? That bust went down weeks ago. That load's supposed to be in the damn pound!
ref:
1984, Beverly Hills Cop, Paramount Pictures
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
The people who work for the pound.
A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
senses_topics:
|
1383 | word:
pound
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pound (third-person singular simple present pounds, present participle pounding, simple past and past participle pounded)
forms:
form:
pounds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pounding
tags:
participle
present
form:
pounded
tags:
participle
past
form:
pounded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pounde, ponde, pund, from Old English pund (“an enclosure”), related to Old English pyndan (“to enclose, shut up, dam, impound”). Compare also Old English pynd (“a cistern, lake”).
senses_examples:
text:
When I short haue shorne my sowce face
& swigg’d my horny barrell,
In an oaken Inne I pound my skin
as a suite of guilt apparrell
ref:
c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
text:
And he who were pleasantly disposed, could not well avoid to liken it to the exploit of that gallant man, who thought to pound up the crows by shutting his park gate.
ref:
1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
senses_topics:
|
1384 | word:
pound
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pound (third-person singular simple present pounds, present participle pounding, simple past and past participle pounded)
forms:
form:
pounds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pounding
tags:
participle
present
form:
pounded
tags:
participle
past
form:
pounded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From an alteration of earlier poun, pown, from Middle English pounen, from Old English pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūn- (“broken pieces, rubble”). Related to Saterland Frisian Pün (“debris, fragments”), West Frisian pún (“debris, rubble”), Dutch puin (“debris, fragments, rubbish”), Low German pun (“fragments”).
senses_examples:
text:
[...] and on the Saturday heavy seas pounded the W.R. on its exposed coastal stretch between Dawlish and Teignmouth, loosening the ballast and forcing trains to proceed with extreme caution.
ref:
1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The railways and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709
type:
quotation
text:
I pounded on a farmhouse / Lookin' for a place to stay / I was mighty, mighty tired / I had come a long, long way
ref:
1964, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Motorpsycho Nitemare”
type:
quotation
text:
Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […]
ref:
1887, Indian Cookery "Local" for Young Housekeepers: Second Edition, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
It was the hour before the first crowing of the cocks, and along with Nyo Boto and Grandma Yaisa's clattering, the first sound the child heard was the muted, rhythmic bombpabombpabomp of wooden pestles as the other women of the village pounded couscous grain in their mortars, preparing the traditional breakfast of porridge that was cooked in earthen pots over a fire built among three rocks.
ref:
1976, Alex Haley, chapter 1, in Roots: The Saga of an American Family
type:
quotation
text:
You really pounded that beer!
type:
example
text:
The sounds of a house-party rolled down the street / So we pounded our Pilsner and leapt to our feet
ref:
2007, “Fire Marshall Willy”, performed by The Dreadnoughts
type:
quotation
text:
The pitcher has been pounding the outside corner all night.
type:
example
text:
As I tiptoed past the sleeping dog, my heart was pounding but I remained silent.
type:
example
text:
My head was pounding.
type:
example
text:
It was now about three o’clock in the morning and Francis Macomber, who had been asleep a little while after he had stopped thinking about the lion, wakened and then slept again, woke suddenly, frightened in a dream of the bloody-headed lion standing over him, and listening while his heart pounded, he realized that his wife was not in the other cot in the tent.
ref:
1936, Ernest Hemingway, The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber
type:
quotation
text:
I was pounding her all night!
type:
example
text:
She acting, so I'm attacking, try break the mattress / Sexy, so I suggested to switch to sideways / Pounded for 'bout a hour she said she tired
ref:
2008, Gucci Mane (lyrics and music), “Bachelor Pad”, in The Movie
type:
quotation
text:
The engine pounds.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
To eat or drink very quickly.
To pitch consistently to a certain location.
To beat strongly or throb.
To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
To advance heavily with measured steps.
To make a jarring noise, as when running.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
1385 | word:
pound
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pound (plural pounds)
forms:
form:
pounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From an alteration of earlier poun, pown, from Middle English pounen, from Old English pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūn- (“broken pieces, rubble”). Related to Saterland Frisian Pün (“debris, fragments”), West Frisian pún (“debris, rubble”), Dutch puin (“debris, fragments, rubbish”), Low German pun (“fragments”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hard blow.
senses_topics:
|
1386 | word:
flute
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flute (plural flutes)
forms:
form:
flutes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fleute, floute, flote, from Old French flaute, fleüte, from Old Provençal flaüt, of uncertain origin. Perhaps ultimately from three possibilities:
* Blend of Provencal flaujol (“flageolet”) + laüt (“lute”)
* From Latin flātus (“blowing”), from flāre (“to blow”)
* Imitative.
Doublet of flauta and fluyt.
senses_examples:
text:
These are champagne glasses, says Peggy.
No, I mean the tall ones, Jamie says.
You're thinking of flutes, says Peggy. These are coupes.
ref:
2018, Sally Rooney, “Six Months Later (July 2013)”, in Normal People
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape
A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
A long French bread roll, baguette.
An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
senses_topics:
architecture
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
|
1387 | word:
flute
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flute (third-person singular simple present flutes, present participle fluting, simple past and past participle fluted)
forms:
form:
flutes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fluting
tags:
participle
present
form:
fluted
tags:
participle
past
form:
fluted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fleute, floute, flote, from Old French flaute, fleüte, from Old Provençal flaüt, of uncertain origin. Perhaps ultimately from three possibilities:
* Blend of Provencal flaujol (“flageolet”) + laüt (“lute”)
* From Latin flātus (“blowing”), from flāre (“to blow”)
* Imitative.
Doublet of flauta and fluyt.
senses_examples:
text:
The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.
ref:
1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To play on a flute.
To make a flutelike sound.
To utter with a flutelike sound.
To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).
senses_topics:
|
1388 | word:
flute
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flute (plural flutes)
forms:
form:
flutes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare French flûte (“a transport”)?, Dutch fluit.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
senses_topics:
|
1389 | word:
sect
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sect (plural sects)
forms:
form:
sects
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Sect
etymology_text:
From Middle English secte, from Old French secte (“a sect in philosophy or religion”), from Late Latin secta (“a sect in philosophy or religion, a school, party, faction, class, gild, band, particularly a heretical doctrine or sect, etc.”), possibly, from Latin sequi (“to follow”). Alternatively linked to sectus (“cut off, divided”), past participle of secō.
senses_examples:
text:
a religious sect
type:
example
text:
Zen Center welcomes visitors, guests, and prospective students, but it does not engage in systematic institutional or network recruiting of new members, unlike the Christian sect and Erhard Seminars Training.
ref:
1984, Steven M. Tipton, Getting Saved from the Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and Cultural Change, University of California Press, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
Every person who is not a fellow member, and every social, religious and political institution that lies outside the sect's domain, is portrayed as a representative of Satan's world. In our research, we found that Moonies and members of many Christian sects with similar religious and political doctrines often focus on such beliefs to the exclusion of all other thought.
ref:
1995, Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman, Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change, Stillpoint Press, Inc., page 161
type:
quotation
text:
Peoples Temple and the Branch Davidians both approximated the 'apocalyptic sect' as an ideal type. In such sects the end of the world is taken as a central tenet.
ref:
1995, Stuart A. Wright, Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict, University Of Chicago Press, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
There are scores of modern religious cults and sects that have been influenced by Hinduism to varying degrees. Werner Erhard, founder of 'Landmark Education's 'The Forum',' and 'est' seminars, which have about 700,000 graduates, was influenced by Hinduism through Swami Muktananda, one of Erhard's principal gurus.
ref:
1996, John Ankerberg, John Weldon, Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs, Harvest House Publishers, page 216
type:
quotation
text:
The Indiana Peoples Temple was essentially a sect, which was joined by new religious movement members in California, which then recruited black church members as it focused its ministry on the residents of urban California.
ref:
1998, Mary McCormick Maaga, Hearing the Voices of Jonestown, Syracuse University Press, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
Branch Davidians are a modern religious sect that claims to be an offshoot of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The church renounced any connection with the sect in the 1930s.
ref:
1999, R. C. S. Trahair, Utopias and Utopians: An Historical Dictionary, Greenwood, page 47
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An offshoot of a larger religion or denomination.
A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
A cutting; a scion.
senses_topics:
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1390 | word:
Poland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Poland
forms:
wikipedia:
Poland (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
1560s. From Pole + land, a phono-semantic matching of German Polen (“Poland”), from Old Polish Polanie (“Poles”, literally “field dwellers”), from Proto-Slavic *poľane, plural of *poľaninъ (“field dweller”), from *poľe (“field”) + *-ěninъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, wide”).
senses_examples:
text:
After leaving the Soviet Union, we made a brief visit to one of the captive nations — Poland.[...]A quarter of a million people turned out that Sunday. Despite the presence of Soviet troops, and the fact that they share a common border with the Soviet Union, on that Sunday the people of Poland demonstrated dramatically not only their friendship for the United States but also their detestation of their Communist rulers and Soviet neighbors.
ref:
1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 213
type:
quotation
text:
The next stop was Warsaw, to meet with President Lech Walesa and emphasize my commitment to bringing Poland into NATO. Walesa had become a hero, and free Poland's natural choice for president, by leading the Gdansk-shipyard workers' revolt against communism more than a decade earlier. He was deeply suspicious of Russia and wanted Poland in NATO as soon as possible. He also wanted more American investment in Poland, saying the country's future required more American generals, "starting with General Motors and General Electric."
ref:
2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →OCLC, pages 185–186
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Poland. Capital and largest city: Warsaw.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cass Township, Clay County, Indiana.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Androscoggin County, Maine.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Chautauqua County, New York.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Herkimer County, New York.
A number of places in the United States:
A village and township in Mahoning County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Eaton, Brown County, Wisconsin.
A village on Kiritimati, Kiribati, named after the home country of a plantation manager.
A surname.
senses_topics:
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1391 | word:
Marshall Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Marshall Islands
forms:
form:
the Marshall Islands
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Islands named after John Marshall.
senses_examples:
text:
There, in that emptiness, the typhoon is organising. For the last twenty-four hours it’s been shifting west, by now past the Marshall Islands, that fragile tracery of sinking lands so piecemeal and storm-worn.
ref:
2023, Samantha Harvey, Orbital, Jonathan Cape, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country consisting of two archipelagos in Micronesia, in Oceania. Official name: Republic of the Marshall Islands. Capital and largest city: Majuro.
senses_topics:
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1392 | word:
Greenland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Greenland
forms:
wikipedia:
Greenland
Name of Greenland
etymology_text:
From green + land, calque of Old Norse Grǿnland, from grǿnn (“green”) + land (“land”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large self-governing dependent territory of Denmark, in North America.
The ice-covered island on which it is located, the largest island in the world (not counting Australia).
Spitzbergen, another island in Europe formerly thought to have been part of Greenland.
A surname.
A city in Arkansas
A village in Barbados
A ghost town in California
An unincorporated community in Colorado
A town in New Hampshire
A community of Nova Scotia, Canada
An unincorporated community in West Virginia
senses_topics:
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1393 | word:
the
word_type:
article
expansion:
the
forms:
wikipedia:
Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme
The
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
etymology_text:
From Middle English þe, from Old English þē m (“the, that”, demonstrative pronoun), a late variant of sē, the s- (which occurred in the masculine and feminine nominative singular only) having been replaced by the þ- from the oblique stem.
replaced words, cognates
Originally neutral nominative, in Middle English it superseded all previous Old English nominative forms (sē m, sēo f, þæt n, þā pl); sē is from Proto-West Germanic *siz, from Proto-Germanic *sa, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *só.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian die (“the”), West Frisian de (“the”), Dutch de (“the”), German Low German de (“the”), German der (“the”), Danish de (“the”), Swedish de (“the”), Icelandic sá (“that”) within Germanic and with Sanskrit sá (“the, that”), Ancient Greek ὁ (ho, “the”), Tocharian B se (“this”) among other Indo-European languages.
senses_examples:
text:
I’m reading the book Mary reviewed. (Compare I’m reading a book Mary reviewed.)
text:
You live on Main Street, don't you? You know, you should tell the mayor the street needs cleaning.
text:
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
text:
The street that runs all the way through my hometown.
text:
I sleep in the bedroom!
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English, archived from the original on 2017-09-30
type:
quotation
text:
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
text:
God save the Queen!
text:
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
text:
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
text:
Take me to the airport/station/hospital/office/park/match/meeting.
text:
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
text:
How's the wife? (= "How is your wife?")
text:
How's the Sal today?
"How are you, Sal?"
type:
example
text:
square the circle; feel the pinch; beat around the bush; throw the baby out with the bathwater
text:
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
text:
“New Kid On The Block” doubles as a terrific showcase for the Sea Captain who, in the grand tradition of Simpsons supporting characters, quickly goes from being a stereotype to an archetype, from being a crusty sea-captain character to the crusty sea-captain character.
ref:
2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
That was the juiciest apple pie ever.
text:
May the better man win.
text:
The downy woodpecker can be found in the same environments as the hairy woodpecker.
text:
The Bushes have held political office for several decades and the Kennedys longer.
text:
That apple pie was the best.
text:
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
text:
One doesn't choose the color of one's chess pieces, the white are assigned to the player who moves first.
text:
the Chinese
text:
the Irish
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
The definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that the noun phrase it immediately precedes is definitely identifiable
because it has already been mentioned, is to be completely specified in the same sentence, or very shortly thereafter.
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
The definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that the noun phrase it immediately precedes is definitely identifiable
because it is presumed to be definitely known in context or from shared knowledge
Used before a noun designating something considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
The definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that the noun phrase it immediately precedes is definitely identifiable
because it is presumed to be definitely known in context or from shared knowledge
Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
The definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that the noun phrase it immediately precedes is definitely identifiable
because it is presumed to be definitely known in context or from shared knowledge
Used before a body part, a family member, a pet (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
The definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that the noun phrase it immediately precedes is definitely identifiable
because it is presumed to be definitely known in context or from shared knowledge
Precedes a familiar nickname or other term of address.
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
The definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that the noun phrase it immediately precedes is definitely identifiable
because it is presumed to be definitely known in context or from shared knowledge
Used in many idiomatic expressions and proverbs to refer to common objects, roles, or situations connected with something definite, as by analogy
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
When stressed, indicates that it describes something which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
Used before a noun phrase beginning with superlative or comparative adjective or an ordinal number, indicating that the noun refers to a single item.
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
Used with the plural of a surname to indicate the entire family.
Used with an adjective
Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
Used with an adjective
Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Used with an adjective
Used before an demonym to refer to people of a given country collectively.
senses_topics:
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1394 | word:
the
word_type:
adv
expansion:
the (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
The
etymology_text:
From Middle English the, thy, thi, from Old English þē̆, probably a neuter instrumental form ("by that, thereby")—alongside the more common þȳ and þon—of the demonstrative pronoun sē ("that"). Compare Dutch des te ("the, the more"), German desto ("the, all the more"), Norwegian fordi and Norwegian av di ("because"), Icelandic því (“the; because”), Faroese tí, Swedish ty.
senses_examples:
text:
The hotter(,) the better. (comma usually omitted in such very short expressions)
text:
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
text:
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
text:
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
text:
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
type:
example
text:
It was a difficult time, and I’m {none - not any} the wiser for it.
type:
example
text:
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
type:
example
text:
We went the furthest under her leadership.
type:
example
text:
They trusted him the most.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.
With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none.
Beyond all others.
senses_topics:
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1395 | word:
the
word_type:
prep
expansion:
the
forms:
wikipedia:
The
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
valued at half a pound the bushel; paying seven dollars the year interest
type:
example
text:
Next morning I was up at an early hour, to see the market held near the water gate. The beef was excellent: but at the high prices of ten-pence and one shilling the pound; mutton at the same price; fowls a dollar the couple, and showing “more feathers than flesh.”
ref:
1837, James Edward Alexander, Narrative of a Voyage of Observation Among the Colonies of Western Africa, in the Flag-ship Thalia; and of a Campaign in Kaffir-land, on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief, in 1835, volume 1, London: Henry Colburn, pages 251–2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
For each; per.
senses_topics:
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1396 | word:
the
word_type:
pron
expansion:
the
forms:
wikipedia:
The
etymology_text:
table
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of thee.
senses_topics:
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1397 | word:
the
word_type:
noun
expansion:
the (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
The
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A topology name.
senses_topics:
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1398 | word:
cod
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cod (plural cod or cods)
forms:
form:
cod
tags:
plural
form:
cods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Sacred Cod
cod
etymology_text:
From Middle English cod, codde, of uncertain origin:
* Oldest English form cotfich as a surname in the 13th century; for more see cot (“chamber, cottage”).
* A bag or pouch, related to its bloated shape; see Etymology 2 below.
* From Latin gadus, from Ancient Greek γάδος (gádos, “fish”) with a possible pre-Greek or Semitic origin; for more see Atargatis, Cetus, and κῆτος (kêtos).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua).
Sea fish of the genus Gadus generally, inclusive of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) and Greenland cod (Gadus ogac or Gadus macrocephalus ogac).
Sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and whiting (usually Merlangius merlangus).
Other not closely related fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries, as the hapuku and cultus cod.
Other not closely related fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, as the rock cod (Lotella rhacina) and blue cod (Parapercis colias).
The meat of any of the above fish.
senses_topics:
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1399 | word:
cod
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cod (plural cods)
forms:
form:
cods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cod
etymology_text:
From Middle English cod, codde, from Old English cod, codd (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *kuddô, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”). Cognate with Scots cod, codd, coad, kod (“pillow, cushion”), Low German Koden, Kon (“belly, paunch”), Middle Dutch codde (“scrotum”), Danish kodde (“testicle”), Swedish kudde (“cushion”), Faroese koddi (“pillow”), Icelandic koddi (“pillow”).
senses_examples:
text:
There is a Cod, or Bag, that groweth commonly in the Fields;
ref:
1626, Francis Bacon, Sylua syluarum: or A naturall historie In ten centuries
type:
quotation
text:
The Bunt is to a Sail,[The Bunt of a Sail.] as the Cod to a Net, being the very Pouch, or Bag of the Sail; and therefore all Sails have this Bunt,
ref:
1685, Nathaniel Boteler, Six dialogues about sea-services between an high-admiral and a captain at sea
type:
quotation
text:
Perspective view of the gear, showing important parts: b, beam; bl. belly; br, brail; bt, bating; c cod end, or bag;
ref:
1932, The Philippine Journal of Science - Volume 48, page 410
type:
quotation
text:
and I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of her, from whom I tooke two cods, and giuing her them againe, said with weeping teares, weare these for my sake: wee that are true Louers, runne into strange capers; but as all is mortall in nature, so is all nature in loue, mortall in folly.
ref:
1603, William Shakespeare, As You Like It
type:
quotation
text:
1. Colutæa vesicaria vulgaris sylvestris. Ordinary Bastard Sene with bladders.
This greater Bastard Sene groweth in time to be a tree of a reasonable greatnesse, the stem or trunck being of the bignesse of a mans arme or greater, covered with a blackish greene ragged barke, the wood whereof is harder then of an Elder, but with a pith in the middle of the branches which are divided many wayes, having divers winged leaves composed of many small round pointed or rather flat pointed leaves, set at severall distances, and somewhat like unto Licoris, or the Hatchet fitch, among which come forth yellow flowers like unto Broome flowers and as large; after which come thinne swelling cods, like unto thinne transparent bladders; wherein are conteined blacke seede set upon a middle ribbe within the bladders, which being alittle crushed betweene the fingers, will give a cracke like a bladder full of winde: the roote groweth great and wooddy, branching forth divers wayes.
ref:
1640, John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum, London: Thomas Cotes, page 226
type:
quotation
text:
As soon as it is arrived at the size and strength necessary for the beginning its cod, it makes its web; this is his first day's employment; on the second he forms his cod, and covers himself almost over with silk; the third day he is quite hid; and the following days employs himself in thickening and strengthening his cod; always working from one single end, which he never breaks himself; and which is so fine, and so long, that those who have nicely examin'd it affirm, that each cod contains silk enough to reach the length of six English miles.
ref:
1735, John Barrow, Dictionarium polygraphicum
type:
quotation
text:
In seven days, the cods being finished, they are gathered and laid inheaps till they have time to wind off the silk: But they first set apart the cods designed for propagation, upon a hurdle in a cool airy place.
ref:
1750 December, “Account of the Manner of breeding Silk-worms, and procuring Silk”, in The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
type:
quotation
text:
The whole moth kind, as well as the silkworm, immediately before their transformation into the chrysalis state, cover their bodies with a cod or clew of silk , though the nature of the silk , and their mode of spinning, are very different.
ref:
1846, William Smellie, The Philosophy of Natural History, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
that which we call castoreum […] are not the same to be termed testicles or stones; for these cods or follicles are found in both sexes, though somewhat more protuberant in the male.
ref:
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.4
type:
quotation
text:
Then let the cutter take and hold the tip of his cod in his left hand, and with a sharp knife cut the top thereof an inch long clean away.
ref:
1662, Leonard Mascall, The Government of Cattel. Divided Into Three Books, page 241
type:
quotation
text:
I went on one knee and thrust up and into his cod.
ref:
1953, Francis Leary, The Swan and the Rose, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
Starmara made a muffled sound that might have been a bleat of alarm or might have merely been an expression of disgust, but revealed to her from-the-floor gaze was a leather cod of weary age and condition, below a long, continuous coil of coarse rope that had been wound round and round the merchant's hips, adding noticeably to his impressive girth—which shrank rapidly as the merchant tugged, hauled on the rope, then began a ponderous imitation of a dancing-lass undulating on a pedestal at a revel, shedding coils around his feet with a clumsiness that made Surth sigh and Starmara suddenly want to laugh.
ref:
2011, Ed Greenwood, Elminster's Daughter
type:
quotation
text:
Provost Maccalzean, with the silver keys in his hand, and the eldest bailie with the crimson-velvet cod, whereon they were to be delivered to her Majesty, following as fast as any member of a city corporation could be reasonably be expected to do.
ref:
1823, John Galt, Ringan Gilhaize; or, The Covenanters, page 295
type:
quotation
text:
Item , ane long velvet cod or cusheon ;
ref:
1889, Sir William Fraser, Memorials of the Earls of Haddington - Volume 2, page 299
type:
quotation
text:
Elizabeth Pitt, wife of Thomas Pitt of Haldon, clothier, Elizabeth Clerke of the same, spinster, and Jane Topliffe, wife of James Topliffe of the same, laborer, for stealing there on 1ˢᵗ Nov., 1640, a petticoat (parvacidam) value 4s., two children's coats value 2s., a feather bed cod value 2s., the property of Richard Bradley.
ref:
1915 [1642 August 24], Yorkshire Archæological Society, edited by John Lister, West Riding Sessions Records, fol. 148
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small bag or pouch.
A husk or integument; a pod.
The cocoon of a silkworm.
The scrotum (also in plural).
A pillow or cushion.
senses_topics:
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