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13000 | word:
rectangular
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rectangular (not generally comparable, comparative more rectangular, superlative most rectangular)
forms:
form:
more rectangular
tags:
comparative
form:
most rectangular
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
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Having a shape like a rectangle.
Having axes that meet each other with right angles.
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13001 | word:
gnu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gnu (plural gnus or gnu)
forms:
form:
gnus
tags:
plural
form:
gnu
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Khoekhoe ǃnu:, likely onomatopoeic of the grunt-type noise of the gnu.
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A large antelope of the genus Connochaetes, native to Africa, having curved horns.
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13002 | word:
esoteric
word_type:
adj
expansion:
esoteric (comparative more esoteric, superlative most esoteric)
forms:
form:
more esoteric
tags:
comparative
form:
most esoteric
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἐσωτερικός (esōterikós, “belonging to an inner circle”), from ἐσωτέρω (esōtérō, “further inside”), comparative of ἔσω (ésō, “within”), from ἐς (es), εἰς (eis, “into”) (the term esoteric referred originally to the secret teachings of Greek philosophers, versus public or exoteric ones).
senses_examples:
text:
The writing in this manual is very esoteric; I’d need a degree in engineering just to understand it!
type:
example
text:
an esoteric purpose
type:
example
text:
an esoteric meeting
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest, or an enlightened inner circle.
Having to do with concepts that are highly theoretical and without obvious practical application; often with mystical or religious connotations.
Confidential; private.
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13003 | word:
esoteric
word_type:
noun
expansion:
esoteric (plural esoterics)
forms:
form:
esoterics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἐσωτερικός (esōterikós, “belonging to an inner circle”), from ἐσωτέρω (esōtérō, “further inside”), comparative of ἔσω (ésō, “within”), from ἐς (es), εἰς (eis, “into”) (the term esoteric referred originally to the secret teachings of Greek philosophers, versus public or exoteric ones).
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senses_glosses:
An esoteric doctrine or treatise; esoteric philosophy.
One who believes, or is an initiate, in esoteric doctrines or rites.
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13004 | word:
Cologne
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cologne
forms:
wikipedia:
Cologne
Nero
etymology_text:
From Middle English Coloyne, from Old French Cologne, from Latin Colōnia Agrippīna (“Agrippine Colony”), a settlement named after Agrippina, the mother of Roman Emperor Nero; colōnia (“colony”) comes from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”). Doublet of Köln, from German.
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The largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in northwestern Germany, on the Rhine River.
A city and town in Minnesota, United States.
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13005 | word:
execrable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
execrable (comparative more execrable, superlative most execrable)
forms:
form:
more execrable
tags:
comparative
form:
most execrable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French execrable, from Latin execrabilis.
senses_examples:
text:
As execrable as the Supreme Court’s decisions have been, they are of a piece with the conservative rulings from lower court judges who see no issue with laundering a revanchist policy agenda through contorted rulings.
ref:
2024, G. S. Hans, Law Professors Can’t Keep Carrying Water For the Supreme Court, in: Balls and Strikes, August 5 2024
text:
But is an enemy so execrable, that, though in captivity, his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I think not. It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
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1779, Jefferson, letter to Patrick Henry written on March 27
text:
The arcanely evil words of that despicable, loathsome, suppressed, vile, pululating , odious, nictating, repellent, repugnant, noxious, abhorrent, abominable, tory, execrable, nauseous work, Ye Boke of Guts, moved as if on a conveyor belt before his eyes.
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2001 June 1, David Langford with John Grant, Guts: A Comedy of Manners, Wildside Press, page 72
type:
quotation
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senses_glosses:
Of the poorest quality.
Hateful.
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13006 | word:
own
word_type:
adj
expansion:
own (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English owen, aȝen, from Old English āgen (“own, proper, peculiar”), originally the past participle of āgan; from Proto-West Germanic *aigan (“own”), from Proto-Germanic *aiganaz (“own”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to have, possess”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots ain (“own”), Saterland Frisian oain (“own”), Dutch, German and Norwegian Nynorsk eigen (“own”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish egen (“own”), Icelandic eigin (“own”). Originally past participle of the verb at hand in English owe.
Also cognate with Sanskrit ईश्वर (īśvará, “able to do, capable of; owner, master”).
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text:
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref:
2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
When we move into the new house, the kids will each have their own bedroom.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
Not shared.
Peculiar, domestic.
Not foreign.
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13007 | word:
own
word_type:
verb
expansion:
own (third-person singular simple present owns, present participle owning, simple past and past participle owned)
forms:
form:
owns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
owning
tags:
participle
present
form:
owned
tags:
participle
past
form:
owned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
own
etymology_text:
A back-formation from owner, owning and own (adjective). Compare Old English āgnian, Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna.
senses_examples:
text:
I own this car.
type:
example
text:
The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon.
type:
example
text:
I will own my enemies.
type:
example
text:
If he wins, he will own you.
type:
example
text:
TH15 5Y5T3M 15 0WN3D
ref:
1996 June 21, The Happiest Dragon Alive!!, “Re: An unusual situation”, in (Usenet), retrieved 2016-09-24, message-ID <4qe8pc$8ti@nerd.apk.net>
type:
quotation
text:
I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.
ref:
1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
type:
quotation
text:
For instance, when I flung the cat out of an upper window (though I did it from no ill-feeling, and it didn't hurt the cat), I was ready, after a moment's reflection, to own I was wrong, as a gentleman should.
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1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
"Well, I'm not hiding anymore! I'm owning my girly looks with cute short pink hair!"
ref:
2014 April 17, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Thursday, Apr 17, 2014
type:
quotation
text:
to own one as a son
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
To virtually or figuratively enslave.
To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
To be very good.
To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
To admit; concede; acknowledge.
To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
To take responsibility for.
To recognise; acknowledge.
To claim as one's own.
To confess.
senses_topics:
games
gaming
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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13008 | word:
own
word_type:
noun
expansion:
own (plural owns)
forms:
form:
owns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
own
etymology_text:
A back-formation from owner, owning and own (adjective). Compare Old English āgnian, Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna.
senses_examples:
text:
the amount of bigots that just screenshot my profile thinking it's the biggest own is insane.
ref:
2023 June 10, @__Happyface, Twitter
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A crushing insult.
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13009 | word:
nostrum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nostrum (plural nostrums or nostra)
forms:
form:
nostrums
tags:
plural
form:
nostra
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin nostrum (“ours”), nominative neuter of noster (“our, ours”).
senses_examples:
text:
In precisely the same way does a quack doctor prescribe his infallible nostrum to every patient, without taking into account differences of constitution, or [...]
ref:
1833, James Rennie, “The Word Gardening”, in Alphabet of Scientific Gardening for the Use of Beginners, London: William Orr, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
reformers of church charities [...made] known […] their different nostrums for setting Hiram's Hospital on its feet again.
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1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers
type:
quotation
text:
And not because some clatch of bureaucrats in Strasbourg or Luxembourg have issued yet another directive, but because Europeans are recognising that 19th century nostrums are not solutions to 21st century problems—on the contrary, they are the problem—and it's time to encourage competition, risk taking, democracy and meritocracy, and, dare I say it, dreaming about a different, better future.
ref:
1996, Louis Rossetto, “19th Century Nostrums are not Solutions to 21st Century Problems”, in Mute, volume 1, number 4, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
In a paper being published today, he writes: "The traditional Conservative vision of welfare as a safety net encompasses another outdated Tory nostrum - that poverty is absolute, not relative. […]
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2006 November 22, Tania Branigan, quoting Greg Clark, “Cameron told: it's time to ditch Churchill”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Neocons have far more interest in foreign policy than domestic policy. As regards the latter the reflex nostrums of right-wing attitudes apply: less tax, less government, libertarianism about matters such as gun control, encouragement of individual responsibility in health care and education, 'faith-based solutions' to social and welfare problems, and so forth.
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2009, A.C. Grayling, Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide for the 21st Century
type:
quotation
text:
With the glaring failure to predict even the possibility—much less circumstance—of the recent Crash and with the even more foreseeable failure of its tired old, rehashed nostrums of ending the slump by means of an inequitable programme of corporate welfare, inflationary "unorthodoxy", and the unleashing of the debt-spewing monster of the state to gorge itself upon such things as individuals and private concerns no longer care to consumer, it should hardly be controversial to asset that mainstream macroeconomics—and the reputations of the many panderers to power who practice it—are equally broken.
ref:
2011, Sean Corrigan, The Wasteland
type:
quotation
text:
This is not least because a permeable membrane exists between the questioning of certain nostrums of the system, and questioning that system in its entirety.
ref:
2022, China Miéville, chapter 4, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A medicine or remedy in conventional use which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects.
An ineffective but favorite remedy for a problem, usually involving political action.
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13010 | word:
vegan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
vegan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Donald Watson
The Vegan Society
etymology_text:
Clipping of vegetarian or vegetable, 1944. Coined by English vegan activist Donald Watson of the Vegan Society and first appeared in The Vegan News.
senses_examples:
text:
He eats a completely vegan diet.
type:
example
text:
This chocolate cake is vegan.
type:
example
text:
Is their way of eating healthy and safe? Doctors and nutritionists generally give an almost unqualified “yes” to lacto‐ovo vegetarianism, but express some doubts about vegan diets.
ref:
1975 March 21, Judy Klemesrud, “Vegetarianism: Growing Way of Life, Especially Among the Young”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
The interest of heavyweight investors is confirmation that vegan food has gone mainstream, but it could also make it harder for Oatly to maintain its anti-establishment image.
ref:
2021 May 18, Jack Ewing, Lauren Hirsch, “The Big Money Is Going Vegan”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
She is not vegan as she eats eggs and wears leather.
type:
example
text:
Yesterday I went to a vegan party.
type:
example
text:
She is interested in vegan philosophy.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not containing animal products (meat, eggs, milk, leather, etc) or inherently involving animal use.
Committed to avoiding any product or practice that inherently involves animal use.
Relating to vegans or veganism.
senses_topics:
food
lifestyle
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13011 | word:
vegan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vegan (plural vegans)
forms:
form:
vegans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Donald Watson
The Vegan Society
etymology_text:
Clipping of vegetarian or vegetable, 1944. Coined by English vegan activist Donald Watson of the Vegan Society and first appeared in The Vegan News.
senses_examples:
text:
Our vegan-friendly shaving brush is made with synthetic bristles instead of badger hair.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who does not eat, drink or otherwise consume any animal products
A person committed to avoiding products and practices that inherently involve animal use, including all foods containing animal products, and to abstaining from direct and intentional harm to animals as far as possible; an adherent to veganism.
senses_topics:
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13012 | word:
New Ireland
word_type:
name
expansion:
New Ireland
forms:
wikipedia:
New Ireland
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island of the Bismarck Archipelago, a German colony from 1884 to 1921; governed by Australia from 1921 and then by Papua New Guinea from 1975 to the present day.
A Crown colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain established in what is now the state of Maine, U.S., after British forces captured the area during the American Revolutionary War and again during the War of 1812.
A proposed renaming of Prince Edward Island, led by then lieutenant governor Walter Patterson in 1770.
A short-lived territory proclaimed by the Castle Hill convict rebellion in Australia.
senses_topics:
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13013 | word:
rigmarole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rigmarole (countable and uncountable, plural rigmaroles)
forms:
form:
rigmaroles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ragman roll (“long list; catalogue”).
senses_examples:
text:
Have you seen all the rigmarole you have to go through at airport security these days?
type:
example
text:
Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.
ref:
1847, Thomas De Quincey, “Secret Societies”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
While you are planting the seed, he cries -- "Drop it, drop it -- cover it up, cover it up -- pull it up, pull it up, pull it up." But this was not corn, and so it was safe from such enemies as he. You may wonder what his rigmarole, his amateur Paganini performances on one string or on twenty, have to do with your planting, and yet prefer it to leached ashes or plaster.
ref:
1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter VII, in Walden
type:
quotation
text:
His reply did not even allude to the subject, but was a rigmarole about the weather; as if he had been writing to an idiot, who did not require a rational answer to any question they had asked.
ref:
1880, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, A Blighted Life, sxn 4
text:
"Stuff and nonsense, and lying rigmaroles!" he growled, as I vanished through the door[.]
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 250
type:
quotation
text:
In comes Mitaiele to Lloyd, and told some rigmarole about Paatalise (the steward's name) wanting to go and see his family in the bush.
ref:
1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter XIX, in The Valima Letters
type:
quotation
text:
"Quite so," said Adèle comfortably. "Now let us be sensible and dine. We can amuse ourselves with mademoiselle's rigmaroles afterwards."
ref:
1910, A. E. W. Mason, chapter XVII, in At the Villa Rose
type:
quotation
text:
He seemed to brace himself for a great effort, and then started on the queerest rigmarole.
ref:
1915, John Buchan, chapter 1, in The Thirty-Nine Steps
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long and complicated procedure that seems tiresome or pointless; seemingly unnecessary hoops.
Nonsense; confused and incoherent talk.
senses_topics:
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13014 | word:
rigmarole
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rigmarole
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ragman roll (“long list; catalogue”).
senses_examples:
text:
This is a most rigmarole letter, for after each sentence, I take breath[…]
ref:
1838 September 14, Charles Darwin, To Charles Lyell; republished as “Letter no. 428”, in Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge, 2023, retrieved 2024-05-23
type:
quotation
text:
"This officer has ended at last," said the Prime Minister. "Another story of calamity, and told in a very rigmarole way, I must confess; but he never can shorten his reports by only inserting the weighty matter. 'Reports annexed,' indeed!—yes, six of them; and underneath sixteen other reports—all, no doubt, much in the same strain."
ref:
1886, “The Nation's Progress”, in Albion and Ierne, London: Marcus Ward & Company, page 133
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Prolix; tedious.
senses_topics:
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13015 | word:
slash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slash (plural slashes)
forms:
form:
slashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Wycliffe Bible
etymology_text:
Originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Possibly from French esclachier (“to break”). Used in the Wycliffe Bible as slascht (see 1 Kings 5:18) but otherwise unattested until 16th century. Conjunctive use from various applications of the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. See also slash fiction.
senses_examples:
text:
A slash of his blade just missed my ear.
type:
example
text:
He took a wild slash at the ball but the captain saved the team's skin by hacking it clear and setting up the team for a strike on the goal.
type:
example
text:
After the war ended, the army saw a 50% slash in their operating budget.
type:
example
text:
He was bleeding from a slash across his cheek.
type:
example
text:
We passed over the shoulder of a ridge and around the edge of a fire slash, and then we had the mountain fairly before us.
ref:
1895, Henry Van Dyke, Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness
type:
quotation
text:
Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.
ref:
1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240
type:
quotation
text:
Slash generated during logging may constitute a fire hazard.
type:
example
text:
Comments merely allow readers to proclaim themselves mortally offended by the content of a story, despite having been warned in large block letters of INCEST or SLASH (any kind of sex between two men or two women: the term originated with the Kirk/Spock pairing – it described the literal slash between their names).
ref:
2013, Katherine Arcement, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A slashing action or motion:
A swift, broad, cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.
A slashing action or motion:
A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick.
A slashing action or motion:
A sharp reduction in resources allotted.
A mark made by slashing:
A deep cut or laceration, as made by an edged weapon or whip.
A mark made by slashing:
A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
Something resembling such a mark:
A slit in an outer garment, usually exposing a lining or inner garment of a contrasting color or design.
Something resembling such a mark:
A clearing in a forest, particularly one made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
Something resembling such a mark:
The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.
Something resembling such a mark:
The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.
Any similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
Something resembling such a mark:
The vulva.
The loose woody debris remaining from a slash; the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
biology
botany
natural-sciences
fashion
lifestyle
media
publishing
typography
media
publishing
typography
lifestyle |
13016 | word:
slash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slash (third-person singular simple present slashes, present participle slashing, simple past and past participle slashed)
forms:
form:
slashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
slashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
slashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
slashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Wycliffe Bible
etymology_text:
Originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Possibly from French esclachier (“to break”). Used in the Wycliffe Bible as slascht (see 1 Kings 5:18) but otherwise unattested until 16th century. Conjunctive use from various applications of the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. See also slash fiction.
senses_examples:
text:
They slashed at him with their swords, but only managed to nick one of his fingers.
type:
example
text:
She hacked and slashed her way across the jungle.
type:
example
text:
Competition forced them to slash prices.
type:
example
text:
Profits are only up right now because they slashed overhead, but employee morale and product quality have collapsed too.
type:
example
text:
The province's traditional slash-and-burn agriculture was only sustainable with a much smaller population.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut or attempt to cut
To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
To cut or attempt to cut
To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
To cut or attempt to cut
To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
To cut or attempt to cut
To reduce sharply.
To cut or attempt to cut
To create slashes in a garment.
To cut or attempt to cut
To criticize cuttingly.
To strike violently and randomly, particularly
To strike violently and randomly
To swing wildly at the ball.
To move quickly and violently.
To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
To write slash fiction.
senses_topics:
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
fashion
lifestyle
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
lifestyle |
13017 | word:
slash
word_type:
adv
expansion:
slash (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Wycliffe Bible
etymology_text:
Originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Possibly from French esclachier (“to break”). Used in the Wycliffe Bible as slascht (see 1 Kings 5:18) but otherwise unattested until 16th century. Conjunctive use from various applications of the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. See also slash fiction.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to note the sound or action of a slash.
senses_topics:
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13018 | word:
slash
word_type:
conj
expansion:
slash
forms:
wikipedia:
Wycliffe Bible
etymology_text:
Originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Possibly from French esclachier (“to break”). Used in the Wycliffe Bible as slascht (see 1 Kings 5:18) but otherwise unattested until 16th century. Conjunctive use from various applications of the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. See also slash fiction.
senses_examples:
text:
Saul Hudson is a famous musician/songwriter.
type:
example
text:
What this, the Slashie, means is that you consider me the best actor slash model and not the other way around.
ref:
2001, Drake Sather, Ben Stiller, John Hamburg, Zoolander, spoken by Fabio Lanzoni
type:
quotation
text:
“It’s been a joke-slash-tragedy,” the restaurant host, 29, said of the president’s tumultuous far-right administration as she cast her vote against him in her country’s most important election in decades.
ref:
2022 October 2, Tom Phillips, “‘A day of hope’: Lula fans eager to see Bolsonaro defeated”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Alternatives can be marked by the slash/stroke/solidus punctuation mark, a tall, right-slanting oblique line.
Read: Alternatives can be marked by the slash-slash-stroke-slash-solidus punctuation mark, a tall, right-slanting oblique line.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to connect two or more identities in a list.
Used to list alternatives.
senses_topics:
|
13019 | word:
slash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slash (plural slashes)
forms:
form:
slashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Compare Scots slash (“large splash”), possibly from Old French esclache. Slang use for urination attested from the 1950s.
senses_examples:
text:
Where's the gents? I need to take a slash.
text:
That bus shelter smells of slash.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A drink of something; a draft.
A piss: an act of urination.
Urine.
senses_topics:
|
13020 | word:
slash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slash (third-person singular simple present slashes, present participle slashing, simple past and past participle slashed)
forms:
form:
slashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
slashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
slashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
slashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Compare Scots slash (“large splash”), possibly from Old French esclache. Slang use for urination attested from the 1950s.
senses_examples:
text:
If you can slash in my bed (I thought) don't tell me you can't suck my cock.
ref:
1973, Martin Amis, The Rachel Papers,, page 189
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To piss, to urinate.
senses_topics:
|
13021 | word:
slash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slash (plural slashes)
forms:
form:
slashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Compare flash (“a marsh; a pool of water”) and British dialectal slashy (“wet and dirty, miry”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A swampy area; a swamp.
A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
senses_topics:
|
13022 | word:
slash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slash (third-person singular simple present slashes, present participle slashing, simple past and past participle slashed)
forms:
form:
slashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
slashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
slashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
slashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Compare flash (“a marsh; a pool of water”) and British dialectal slashy (“wet and dirty, miry”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To work in wet conditions.
senses_topics:
|
13023 | word:
slash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slash (plural slashes)
forms:
form:
slashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See slatch
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.
senses_topics:
|
13024 | word:
feckless
word_type:
adj
expansion:
feckless (comparative more feckless, superlative most feckless)
forms:
form:
more feckless
tags:
comparative
form:
most feckless
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Scots feckless, variant of Scots fectless (“ineffectual”) (an aphetic variant of effectless), equivalent to effect + -less.
senses_examples:
text:
It is the beauty of great games when they are played at their highest level and the extraordinary thing now is that we do not have to trawl back through all the years of your inexorable progress from feckless beach boy to master sportsman.
ref:
September 10 2005, Canberra Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lacking purpose.
Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.
Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.
Lacking vitality.
senses_topics:
|
13025 | word:
Lusaka
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lusaka
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
A Lusaka evening: a purpling sky, woodsmoke from supper fires, mosquitoes singing delirious rounds, the clapping and chanting of a church meeting, the bitter smell of car exhaust.
ref:
2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 238
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Zambia.
senses_topics:
|
13026 | word:
Juneau
word_type:
name
expansion:
Juneau (countable and uncountable, plural Juneaus)
forms:
form:
Juneaus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Juneau
en:Joe Juneau (prospector)
etymology_text:
From French Juneau.
The Alaskan city was named after Joe Juneau, whose French surname derives from jeune (“young”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname from French.
A placename
The capital city of Alaska, United States.
A placename
A city, the county seat of Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States.
senses_topics:
|
13027 | word:
kinswoman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kinswoman (plural kinswomen)
forms:
form:
kinswomen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English kinswoman; equivalent to kin + -s- + -woman.
senses_examples:
text:
Don Huberto actually fell in love with his kinswoman, and had presumption enough to declare his passion […]
ref:
1822, Alain René Le Sage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female relative.
senses_topics:
|
13028 | word:
torus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
torus (plural tori or toruses)
forms:
form:
tori
tags:
plural
form:
toruses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
torus (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin torus (“a round, swelling, elevation, protuberance”).
senses_examples:
text:
A 4-variable Karnaugh map can be thought of, topologically, as being a torus.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a surface or solid formed by rotating a closed curve, especially a circle, about a line which lies in the same plane but does not intersect it (e.g. like a ring doughnut).
A topological space which is a product of two circles.
The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a surface or solid formed by rotating a closed curve, especially a circle, about a line which lies in the same plane but does not intersect it (e.g. like a ring doughnut).
A topological space which is a product of two circles.
The product of the specified number of circles.
The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a surface or solid formed by rotating a closed curve, especially a circle, about a line which lies in the same plane but does not intersect it (e.g. like a ring doughnut).
A ring-shaped object, especially a large ring-shaped chamber used in physical research.
A large convex molding, typically semicircular in cross section, which commonly projects at the base of a column and above the plinth.
A rounded ridge of bone or muscle, especially one on the occipital bone.
The end of the peduncle or flower stalk to which the floral parts (or in the Asteraceae, the florets of a flower head) are attached.
The thickening of a membrane closing a wood-cell pit (as of gymnosperm tracheids) having the secondary cell wall arched over the pit cavity.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
topology
geometry
mathematics
sciences
topology
geometry
mathematics
sciences
architecture
anatomy
medicine
sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
13029 | word:
calculus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
calculus (countable and uncountable, plural calculi or calculuses)
forms:
form:
calculi
tags:
plural
form:
calculuses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Roman abacus
calculus (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
* Borrowed from Latin calculus (“a pebble or stone used as reckoning counters in abacus”), diminutive of calx (“limestone”) + -ulus.
* Mathematical topic is from differential calculus.
senses_examples:
text:
lambda calculus
type:
example
text:
predicate calculus
type:
example
text:
Commonly indicated for treatment of sour crop (Fig. 11-11, A), an ingluviotomy is done to retrieve crop calculi, ingluvioliths, or foreign bodies (which are not accessible per os) or to retrieve proventricular or ventricular foreign bodies (using micromagnets [glued in place within plastic tubes], lavage, or endoscopy) and for the placement of an ingluviotomy or proventriculotomy tube or the collection of crop wall biopsies.
ref:
2015, Jaime Samour, Avian Medicine, page 297
type:
quotation
text:
The Tory leader refused to state how many financiers he thought should end up in jail, saying: “There is not some simple calculus."
ref:
2008 December 16, “Cameron calls for bankers’ ‘day of reckoning’”, in Financial Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Calculation; computation.
Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.
Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject; analysis.
A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.
Deposits of calcium phosphate salts on teeth.
A decision-making method, especially one appropriate for a specialised realm.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
medicine
sciences
dentistry
medicine
sciences
|
13030 | word:
friendly
word_type:
adj
expansion:
friendly (comparative friendlier or more friendly, superlative friendliest or most friendly)
forms:
form:
friendlier
tags:
comparative
form:
more friendly
tags:
comparative
form:
friendliest
tags:
superlative
form:
most friendly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English frendly, freendly, frendely, frendlich, from Old English frēondlīċ, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndlīkaz, equivalent to friend + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian früntelk, fjuntelk (“friendly”), West Frisian freonlik (“friendly”), Dutch vriendelijk (“friendly”), German Low German fründelk, frünnelk (“friendly”), German freundlich (“friendly”).
senses_examples:
text:
Your cat seems very friendly.
type:
example
text:
He gave a friendly smile.
type:
example
text:
a user-friendly software program
type:
example
text:
a dog-friendly café
type:
example
text:
the use of environmentally friendly packaging
type:
example
text:
Hariri even nominated Hezbollah-friendly Sleiman Frangieh for the presidency, which by tradition is held by a Maronite Christian; but Hezbollah and Aoun held out, insisting that Aoun would be president or there would be no president at all.
ref:
2016 October 22, Rami G Khouri, “Lebanese oligarchy preserves its interests once again”, in Aljazeera
type:
quotation
text:
The cobbled streets aren't very bike-friendly.
type:
example
text:
Organic farms only use soil-friendly fertilisers.
type:
example
text:
Our sandwiches are made with dolphin-friendly tuna.
type:
example
text:
An offbeat pizza restaurant, which also serves pasta and salads, and bills itself as low-fat and heart-friendly. Has over forty different designer pizza toppings, such as smoked salmon, sour cream and caviar.
ref:
2010, Tony Pinchuck, Barbara McCrea, Donald Reid, Ross Velton, The Rough Guide to South Africa, 6th edition, London: Rough Guides, pages 147–148
type:
quotation
text:
a friendly competition
type:
example
text:
a friendly power or state
type:
example
text:
a friendly breeze or gale
type:
example
text:
The soldier was killed by friendly fire.
type:
example
text:
It is clear that the firing of very heavy guns, or the enemy's fire in return, would very seriously interfere with an abbatis, or anything of that kind, and it will only be something of the lightest character, or something that is placed at a considerable distance from the friendly fire, the fire of the gun itself, that would remain.
ref:
1867 June 3, Jasper Selwyn, “Further Particulars Regarding Moncrieff's Protected Barbette System”, in Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, volume XI, number XLIV, page 256
type:
quotation
text:
The slaughter of one's own troops by being fired into by their friends in rear. We are very much concerned over the question of avoiding loss from the enemy's bullets while passing through the danger zone, but what have we done to avoid our bravest fellows, the survival of the fittest, those who have gotten to the front and have held on to hard-won positions—what have we done to avoid their being shot to pieces by friendly fire? Absolutely nothing that we have ever heard of—and yet this is one of the most serious problems that confronts the leader of troops. Courage before the enemy will quail before a fire from the rear.
ref:
1910, P.E.T., “The Franco-German War”, in Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States, volume XLVI, number CLXV, page 552
type:
quotation
text:
friendly
type:
example
text:
friendly pairs
type:
example
text:
friendly n-tuples
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.
Inviting, characteristic of friendliness.
Having an easy or accepting relationship with something.
Compatible with, or not damaging to (the compounded noun).
Without any hostility.
Promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious.
Of or pertaining to friendlies (friendly noun sense 2, below). Also applied to other bipolar confrontations, such as team sports.
Being or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
mathematics
number-theory
sciences |
13031 | word:
friendly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
friendly (plural friendlies)
forms:
form:
friendlies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English frendly, freendly, frendely, frendlich, from Old English frēondlīċ, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndlīkaz, equivalent to friend + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian früntelk, fjuntelk (“friendly”), West Frisian freonlik (“friendly”), Dutch vriendelijk (“friendly”), German Low German fründelk, frünnelk (“friendly”), German freundlich (“friendly”).
senses_examples:
text:
This match is merely a friendly, so don't worry too much about it.
type:
example
text:
Brazil provided a different test from Germany and gave England lessons Southgate will store before he gets his squad together again for friendlies against the Netherlands in Amsterdam and at home to Italy in March.
ref:
2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-0 Brazil”, in BBC News
type:
quotation
text:
These were speedily routed by the friendlies, who attacked the small force before them in fine style.
ref:
1898, Ernest Bennett, The Downfall of the Dervishes
type:
quotation
text:
You see, the mission of almost every teenage girl on the loose is to first identify the targets, just like a war. These include the primary objective (the boy), the enemy (other girls), the friendlies (sympathetic girl friends and the boy's family), and unfriendlies (other boys).
ref:
2008, Dennis Wengert, A Very Healthy Insanity, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
"What's coming?" "Dunno yet. Cindy! Active scanning! Pulse hard, but don't cook any friendlies."
ref:
2017 July 6, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 2024-01-20
type:
quotation
text:
Reports from SMS Kaiser indicate scouting destroyers attacked and destroyed a large submarine to the north. Hipper orders the destroyers to be more careful; the High Seas Fleet is approaching the U-boat patrol line, and he has a feeling they've just sunk a friendly.
ref:
2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 19:47 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-04
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting, etc.
A person or entity on the same side as one's own in a conflict.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
13032 | word:
friendly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
friendly (comparative more friendly, superlative most friendly)
forms:
form:
more friendly
tags:
comparative
form:
most friendly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English frendly, frendliche, from Old English frēondlīċe (“in a friendly manner”), equivalent to friend + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
And we cannot doubt, our Brothers in Physick [...] will friendly accept, if not countenance our endeavours.
ref:
1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a friendly manner; like a friend.
senses_topics:
|
13033 | word:
kinsman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kinsman (plural kinsmen)
forms:
form:
kinsmen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English kynnesman, equivalent to kin + -s- + -man.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male relative.
senses_topics:
|
13034 | word:
secrete
word_type:
adj
expansion:
secrete (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1678: from Latin sēcrētus (“[having been] separated”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] they ſuppoſing Two other Divine Hypoſtaſes Superiour thereunto, which were perfectly Secrete from Matter.
[…]
This ſo containeth all things, as not being yet ſecrete and diſtinct; whereas in the Second they are diſcerned and diſtinguiſhed by Reaſon; that is, they are Actually diſtinguiſhed in their Ideas; whereas the Firſt is the Simple and Fecund Power of all things.
ref:
1678: Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, book 1, chapter 4, pages 307 and 582
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Separated.
senses_topics:
|
13035 | word:
secrete
word_type:
verb
expansion:
secrete (third-person singular simple present secretes, present participle secreting, simple past and past participle secreted)
forms:
form:
secretes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
secreting
tags:
participle
present
form:
secreted
tags:
participle
past
form:
secreted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First directly attested in 1728; attested as the past-participial adjective secreted in 1707: from Latin sēcrētus, perfect passive participle of sēcernō (“I separate”); reinforced by back-formation from secretion; compare secern; cognate with French sécréter and the Spanish secretar.
senses_examples:
text:
Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not know.
ref:
1842, William Benjamin Carpenter, Principles of Human Physiology
type:
quotation
text:
Many tumors secrete two or more different hormones.
ref:
2008, Stephen J. McPheeMaxine A. Papadakiset al., Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, McGraw-Hill Medical, page 1202
type:
quotation
text:
If you won’t believe my great new doctrine (which, by the bye, is as old as the Greeks), that souls secrete their bodies, as snails do shells, you will remain in outer darkness.
ref:
1863: Charles Kingsley (author), Frances Elizabeth Kingsley (editor), Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life (first published posthumously in 1877), page 156 (8th edition: 1880)
text:
Let me not be misunderstood. I see as clearly as any man possibly can, and rate as highly, the value of wealth, and of hereditary wealth, as the security of refinement, the feeder of all those arts that ennoble and beautify life, and as making a country worth living in. Many an ancestral hall here in England has been a nursery of that culture which has been of example and benefit to all. Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
ref:
1887, James Russell Lowell, Democracy and Other Addresses, published 1892, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.
To exude or yield.
senses_topics:
medicine
physiology
sciences
|
13036 | word:
secrete
word_type:
verb
expansion:
secrete (third-person singular simple present secretes, present participle secreting, simple past and past participle secreted)
forms:
form:
secretes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
secreting
tags:
participle
present
form:
secreted
tags:
participle
past
form:
secreted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of secret.
senses_examples:
text:
Plaintiffs filed an affidavit for an attachment, alleging that defendant was about to assign, secrete, and dispose of his property with intent to delay and defraud his creditors, and was about to convert his property into money to place it beyond the reach of his creditors.
ref:
1914, The Pacific Reporter, volume 142, West Publishing Company, page 450
type:
quotation
text:
Whereas the Renaissance had allowed madness into the light, the classical age saw it as scandal or shame. Families secreted mad uncles and strange cousins in asylums.
ref:
1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books, Icon Books, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
Under s. 98 of the Customs Act, a customs officer may search a traveller provided the officer suspects on reasonable grounds that contraband has been "secreted on or about his person...".
ref:
1999, “R. v. Monney”, in Supreme Court Judgments, Supreme Court of Canada
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To conceal.
senses_topics:
|
13037 | word:
secrete
word_type:
adj
expansion:
secrete (comparative more secrete, superlative most secrete)
forms:
form:
more secrete
tags:
comparative
form:
most secrete
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of secret.
senses_examples:
text:
a secrete breach, a secrete bed (Spenser)
text:
[…] is GOD euerlasting, is this a secrete and hidden thing manifested in the fleshe?
ref:
1579, Jean Calvin, Sermons ... on the Epistles of S. Paule to Timothie, page 323
type:
quotation
text:
Ambitian [...] is a secrete poyson, a hidden sinne […]
ref:
1595, Jean Taffin, The Amendment of Life, Comprised in Fower Bookes, page 171
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic form of secret.
senses_topics:
|
13038 | word:
Marseilles
word_type:
name
expansion:
Marseilles
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French Marseilles (nominative of Marseille), from Latin Massilia, Marsilia, from Ancient Greek Μασσαλία (Massalía), probably from a pre-Latin language of Italy, perhaps Ancient Ligurian mas (“spring”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Marseille, the capital city of the Bouches-du-Rhône department, France; capital city of the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
senses_topics:
|
13039 | word:
Marseilles
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Marseilles (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French Marseilles (nominative of Marseille), from Latin Massilia, Marsilia, from Ancient Greek Μασσαλία (Massalía), probably from a pre-Latin language of Italy, perhaps Ancient Ligurian mas (“spring”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kind of fabric made from two series of threads interlacing each other, thus forming a double cloth, quilted in the loom.
senses_topics:
|
13040 | word:
vegetarian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vegetarian (plural vegetarians)
forms:
form:
vegetarians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Vegetarian Society
etymology_text:
From vegetable + -arian; popularized following 1847 foundation of British Vegetarian Society.
senses_examples:
text:
The sight and smell of raw meat are especially odious to me, and I have often thought that if I had had to be my own cook, I should inevitably become a vegetarian, probably, indeed, return entirely to my green and salad days.
ref:
1839, Fanny Kemble, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, New York: Harper and Brothers, published 1863, pp. 197-198
type:
quotation
text:
Vegetarian Society […] A society […] formed at Manchester in 1847, to promote the use of cereals, pulse, and fruit, as articles of diet; and to induce habits of abstinence from fish, flesh, and fowl, as food.
ref:
1897, Robert Hunter, Charles Morris, Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 4, page 5045
type:
quotation
text:
vegetarian […] One who abstains from animal food, living exclusively on vegetables, milk, eggs, and the like. The more strict vegetarians eat vegetables and farinaceous food only, abstaining from eggs, butter, milk, and in some cases, honey.
ref:
1897, Robert Hunter, Charles Morris, Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 4, page 5045
type:
quotation
text:
I went in for all books available on vegetarianism and read them. One of these, Howard Williams' The Ethics of Diet, was a 'biographical history of the literature of humane dietetics from the earliest period to the present day'. It tried to make out, that all philosophers and prophets from Pythagoras and Jesus down to those of the present age were vegetarians.
ref:
1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xv
text:
Heh heh. You hit like a vegetarian!
ref:
2013, Miles Chapman, Arnell Jesko, Escape Plan, spoken by Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products.
An animal that eats only plants; a herbivore.
senses_topics:
|
13041 | word:
vegetarian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
vegetarian (comparative more vegetarian, superlative most vegetarian)
forms:
form:
more vegetarian
tags:
comparative
form:
most vegetarian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Vegetarian Society
etymology_text:
From vegetable + -arian; popularized following 1847 foundation of British Vegetarian Society.
senses_examples:
text:
Must we not put to death blackbirds and thrushes because they feed on worms, or (if capital punishment offends our humanitarianism) starve them slowly by permanent captivity and vegetarian diet?
ref:
1893, David George Ritchie, Natural Rights: A Criticism of Some Political and Ethical Conceptions
type:
quotation
text:
Is there such a thing as a good tasting vegetarian hot dog? Cuz every one I've tried tasted like smelted tire.
ref:
2008, Wil Forbis, Acid Logic: A Decade of Humorous Writing on Pop Culture, Trash Cinema, and Rebel Music, page 208
type:
quotation
text:
I have a vegetarian brother
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the type of diet eaten by vegetarians (in all senses).
Without meat.
Of a product normally made with meat, having non-meat substitutes in place of meat.
That does not eat meat.
senses_topics:
|
13042 | word:
detriment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
detriment (countable and uncountable, plural detriments)
forms:
form:
detriments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
detriment (astrology)
etymology_text:
From Old French detriement, from Latin detrimentum (“loss, damage, literally a rubbing off”), from dēterere (“to rub off, wear”), from dē- (“down, away”) + terere (“to rub”).
Detriment is based off the word deter, and built on similar foundations to the word impediment.
senses_examples:
text:
“But marriage in secret, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch — a fatal secret. I receive money from you, and I'm suddenly asked the question, 'What's that money for?' My hands are tied; I cannot answer to the detriment of my sister, to the detriment of the family honour.”
ref:
1872, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter 7, in The Possessed, archived from the original on 2012-03-31
type:
quotation
text:
"Would it be fair to say that when it came to making trouble, you'd make up for what you didn't absolutely know . . . and to our detriment?"
ref:
2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 775
type:
quotation
text:
“There’s far more evidence for coffee’s benefits than harms,” Dr. Cryer said — which is something worth keeping in mind, he added, while you scroll through social media stories that profess the brew’s detriments.
ref:
2023 January 17, Trisha Pasricha, “Is It Bad to Drink Coffee on an Empty Stomach?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Saturn, Jupiter and Mars from their conjunction to their opposition with the Sun are Oriental, and gain two fortitudes; but from their Opposition to their Conjunction are occidental, and incur two detriments.
ref:
1660, Henry More, An Explanation of the grand Mystery of Godliness, page 342
type:
quotation
text:
DEJECTION [with Astrol.] said of the planets, when in their detriment, i.e. when they have lost their force or influence by reason of being in opposition to some other, which check and contract them.
ref:
1730, NathanBailey, Dictionarium Britannicum,
type:
quotation
text:
This is infallible : Saturn out of all Dignities in his Detriment and Fall, combust : and Venus in the South-angle elevated above him, Lady of both their Nativities, in her essential and accidental Dignities; occidental from the[…]
ref:
1761, Philip Massinger, The Dramatic Works of Philip Massinger ... Revised ... by T. Coxeter. With Notes Critical and Explanatory, of Various Authors. To which are Prefixed, Critical Reflections on the Old English Dramatic Writers [by G. Colman]., page 302
type:
quotation
text:
Mercury peregrine, and in detriment or fall, retrograde or combust, in quartile or opposition of Luna from angles, Now in motion, cadent, or in via combusta, or afflicted by Saturn or Mars, shows[…]
ref:
1826, Ebenezer Sibly, A New and Complete Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology; Or, The Art of Foretelling Future Events and Contingencies, page 257
type:
quotation
text:
The dignity or debility of the planet the eclipse falls on must be noted. Eclipses that fall on a planet in detriment or fall seem to have more of an adverse effect. Eclipses that fall on a planet in its rulership or exaltation seem[…]
ref:
2004 January 1, Carol Rushman, Forecasting Your Life Events: An Art of Predictive Astrology, Motilal Banarsidass, page 212
type:
quotation
text:
The Moon is in her detriment in Capricorn, which is opposite Cancer. Those with the Moon in Capricorn may be afraid of their feelings, keeping them locked away. The Moon is in her fall in Scorpio, which is opposite Taurus.
ref:
2004 08, Teresa Moorey, The Little Book of Moon Magic, Andrews McMeel Publishing, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
Planets in their detriment do not operate well with their basic natural energies because they are not in a comfortable environment within which to do so. Planets in detriment are disorganized. The easy, peace-loving energy of Venus is[…]
ref:
2012, B. D. Salerno, Forensics by the Stars: Astrology Investigates, iUniverse, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
The Moon is in detriment and doesn't aspect the ascendant. Mercury applies to an opposition with Jupiter without reception. Judgement: The Mercury/Jupiter opposition is not fortunate, but there are two very fortunate testimonies,[…]
ref:
2019 March 20, Petros Eleftheriadis, Horary Astrology: The Practical Way to Learn Your Fate, The Wessex Astrologer
type:
quotation
text:
Argent, a Moon in her detriment or Eclipse Sable[…]
ref:
1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry … second edition, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
Moon in its Detriment, or Wane
ref:
1729, Abel Boyer, Le Grand théâtre de l'honneur et de noblesse (overall work in French and English), page 105
type:
quotation
text:
Argent; a Moon in her detriment, Sable. This word is used in heraldry to denote her being eclipsed.
ref:
1797, Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 457
type:
quotation
text:
When sable, the moon is said to be in her detriment.
ref:
1845, Edward Smedley, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, page 610
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Harm, hurt, damage.
A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
The position or state of a planet when it is in the sign opposite its house, considered to weaken it.
The position or state of being eclipsed, entirely dark (sable).
senses_topics:
astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
13043 | word:
detriment
word_type:
verb
expansion:
detriment (third-person singular simple present detriments, present participle detrimenting, simple past and past participle detrimented)
forms:
form:
detriments
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
detrimenting
tags:
participle
present
form:
detrimented
tags:
participle
past
form:
detrimented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
detriment (astrology)
etymology_text:
From Old French detriement, from Latin detrimentum (“loss, damage, literally a rubbing off”), from dēterere (“to rub off, wear”), from dē- (“down, away”) + terere (“to rub”).
Detriment is based off the word deter, and built on similar foundations to the word impediment.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be detrimental to; to harm or mar.
senses_topics:
|
13044 | word:
whiteboard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
whiteboard (plural whiteboards)
forms:
form:
whiteboards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
whiteboard
etymology_text:
From white + board, modelled on blackboard.
senses_examples:
text:
1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine
Mark Miller gave himself up to Xanadu's pull and rejoined the project full time. The new Xanadu site on Palo Alto's California Avenue was remodeled to resemble the environment at Xerox PARC. The programmers' offices opened onto a large common space, and the walls were covered with white board, which quickly became a tangle of multicolored lines, words, circles, and squiggles.
text:
Discussion turns to the station whiteboard, which even has its own Twitter page. It's been in place for a number of years and is located right in the middle of the concourse. It's used to provide service information, upcoming alterations and event advice. There is also a 'Chuckle of the Day'.
ref:
2020 December 30, Richard Clinnick, “Greater Anglia strikes again...”, in Rail, page 43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A writing board finished with a hard white material, which can be written upon using special non-permanent markers and subsequently wiped clean.
A collaborative tool allowing several users to write and draw on the same shared display.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
13045 | word:
whiteboard
word_type:
verb
expansion:
whiteboard (third-person singular simple present whiteboards, present participle whiteboarding, simple past and past participle whiteboarded)
forms:
form:
whiteboards
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
whiteboarding
tags:
participle
present
form:
whiteboarded
tags:
participle
past
form:
whiteboarded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
whiteboard
etymology_text:
From white + board, modelled on blackboard.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use a whiteboard, to write on a writeboard
senses_topics:
|
13046 | word:
genetic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
genetic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined from genesis, similarly to antithesis, antithetic. Ultimately from Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I come into being”). By surface analysis, gene + -tic or genesis + -etic.
senses_examples:
text:
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
ref:
2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
text:
All evidence tends to this conclusion, that the sun is the prime genetic agent of earthquakes and of every other pluto-dynamic impulse which acts against the crust of the planet, and breaks or elevates any of its parts.
ref:
1858, Year-Book Of Facts In Science And Art For 1858
type:
quotation
text:
Chinese has borrowed several words from English, but it does not have a genetic relationship to English.
type:
example
text:
Guy Stroumsa (2011) proposes the use of the alternative term Abrahamic religions, emphasizing the genetic relationship between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and their branches, for which the idea of monotheism is not always central.
ref:
2016 September 15, Koji Yamashiro, edited by Yochai Ataria, David Gurevitz, Haviva Pedaya, and Yuval Neria, Trauma and Monotheism: Sugmund Freud’s Moses and Monotheism and the Possibility of Writing a Traumatic History of Religion, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, →DOI, page 251
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to genetics or genes.
Caused by genes.
Of or relating to origin (genesis).
Based on shared membership in a linguistic family.
Based on a shared membership in a religious family.
senses_topics:
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
lifestyle
religion
theology |
13047 | word:
Majorca
word_type:
name
expansion:
Majorca
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin īnsula maior (“larger island”); the intermediate form was *Maiōrica.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island in the Mediterranean; largest of the Balearic Islands.
senses_topics:
|
13048 | word:
intersection
word_type:
noun
expansion:
intersection (plural intersections)
forms:
form:
intersections
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
intersection
etymology_text:
From Middle French intersection, from Latin intersectiō.
senses_examples:
text:
Within this melee of intersections between English and Cantonese, the students, being themselves bilingually fluent, were able to navigate with perfect ease in communicative contexts where the provenance of a certain term or expression matters little.
ref:
2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 147
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
Any overlap, confluence, or crossover.
The point or set of points common to two geometrical objects (such as the point where two lines meet or the line where two planes intersect).
The set containing all the elements that are common to two or more sets.
The element where two or more straight lines of synchronized skaters pass through each other.http://www.isu.org/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,4844-128590-19728-18885-295370-3787-4771-layout160-129898-news-item,00.html
The pullback of a corner of monics.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
13049 | word:
investor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
investor (plural investors)
forms:
form:
investors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From invest + -or.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”
ref:
1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock
type:
quotation
text:
Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
ref:
2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “After Fukushima, Japan beginning to see the light in solar energy”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who invests money in order to make a profit.
senses_topics:
|
13050 | word:
Khartoum
word_type:
name
expansion:
Khartoum
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly from Arabic خُرْطُوم (ḵurṭūm, “elephant trunk”), but more likely from Arabic قُرْطُم (qurṭum, “safflower”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Sudan.
senses_topics:
|
13051 | word:
brain drain
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brain drain (plural brain drains)
forms:
form:
brain drains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Royal Society of London
brain drain
etymology_text:
Spokesmen for the Royal Society of London first coined this expression to describe the outflow of scientists and technologists to the United States and Canada in the early 1950s.
senses_examples:
text:
Former HS2 Ltd chairman Sir David Higgins provided a timely reminder of why Britain needs HS2 in a letter to The Times on September 25, in which he asked: "Why are so few FTSE 100 companies based outside the South East? Why is there such a brain drain of graduates from the North? Why do northern cities underperform compared with their European counterparts?
ref:
2023 October 4, Philip Haigh, “HS2's rising costs: government only has itself to blame”, in RAIL, number 993, page 53
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The migration of educated or talented people from less economically advanced areas to more economically advanced areas, especially to large cities or richer countries.
A Jackson-Pratt drain.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
13052 | word:
vodka
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vodka (countable and uncountable, plural vodkas)
forms:
form:
vodkas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Russian во́дка (vódka), from вода́ (vodá, “water”) + -ка (-ka, “-let: forming diminutives”). The archaic Russian name for vodka was хле́бное вино́ (xlébnoje vinó, “grain wine”); V. Pokhlyobkin's research suggests the present name derived from expressions concerning the dilution of the initial pure distilled spirit such as "vodka of grain wine".
Cognates include Sanskrit उदक (udaka), Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr) → English hydro-, English whisky and English water.
senses_examples:
text:
Eurydice pointed to the cupboard, and sat down on the low divan with folded hands, and looked at the floor. She was quite white. Elsa made her drink a glass of vodka.
ref:
1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 20, in Friday's Business
type:
quotation
text:
You should mutter sullenly into your glass, cursing the serving woman (Witch! Hag! Poison!) or the vodka (Poison! Bitch!), as the one pours you another glass of the other.
ref:
1986, Marc Polonsky, Russell Taylor, USSR, From an Original Idea by Karl Marx, Faber and Faber
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A clear distilled alcoholic liquor made from grain mash.
A serving of the above beverage.
Neutral spirits distilled (or treated after distillation) so as to have no distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color.
A Russian.
Russian language.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war |
13053 | word:
Mantua
word_type:
name
expansion:
Mantua
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Mantua.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Province of Lombardy, Italy.
City and capital of Mantua.
A town in Pinar del Río, Cuba.
A village in Ohio.
senses_topics:
|
13054 | word:
Kathmandu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kathmandu
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Nepali काठमाडौं (kāṭhmāḍa͠u), from Sanskrit काष्ठमण्डप (kāṣṭhamaṇḍapa), from काष्ठ (kāṣṭha, “wood”) + मण्डप (maṇḍapa, “pavilion”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Nepal.
senses_topics:
|
13055 | word:
der
word_type:
intj
expansion:
der
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Imitative.
senses_examples:
text:
`Sprung!' cried Jeff Basin, the local dubbo. 'Oh, der,' moaned Boardie sarcastically.
ref:
1979, Gabrielle Carey, Kathy Lette, Puberty Blues, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Disdainful indication that something is obvious.
Indication of stupidity.
senses_topics:
|
13056 | word:
der
word_type:
adv
expansion:
der (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nonstandard spelling of there.
senses_topics:
|
13057 | word:
der
word_type:
intj
expansion:
der
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nonstandard spelling of there.
senses_topics:
|
13058 | word:
der
word_type:
noun
expansion:
der (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nonstandard spelling of there.
senses_topics:
|
13059 | word:
der
word_type:
pron
expansion:
der
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nonstandard spelling of there.
senses_topics:
|
13060 | word:
Orange Free State
word_type:
name
expansion:
Orange Free State
forms:
wikipedia:
Orange Free State
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A former province of South Africa (1910–1994), now the province of Free State.
A former independent Boer republic in southern Africa (1854–1902).
senses_topics:
|
13061 | word:
Liguria
word_type:
name
expansion:
Liguria
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Occitan Ligúria, from Latin Liguria, from Ancient Greek Λίγυς (Lígus).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An administrative region of northwest Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13062 | word:
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
word_type:
name
expansion:
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
senses_topics:
|
13063 | word:
disincarcerate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
disincarcerate (third-person singular simple present disincarcerates, present participle disincarcerating, simple past and past participle disincarcerated)
forms:
form:
disincarcerates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
disincarcerating
tags:
participle
present
form:
disincarcerated
tags:
participle
past
form:
disincarcerated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dis- + incarcerate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To liberate from prison.
senses_topics:
|
13064 | word:
closed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
closed (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
closed
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
A closed and locked door prevented my escape.
type:
example
text:
When the top sheet, blanket, and bedspread of a closed bed are turned back, or fanfolded, the closed bed becomes an open bed, or a bed ready to receive a patient or resident.
ref:
2005, Pamela J. Carter, Susan Lewsen, Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, page 277
type:
quotation
text:
closed source a closed committee The bill is being considered by the committee in closed session.
type:
example
text:
The set of integers is closed under addition: #x5C;forallx,y#x5C;in#x5C;mathbb#x7B;Z#x7D;#x5C;,x#x2B;y#x5C;in#x5C;mathbb#x7B;Z#x7D;.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open.
To be in a position preventing fluid from flowing.
To be in a position allowing electricity to flow.
Not operating or conducting trade.
Not public.
Having an open complement.
Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it.
Lacking a free variable.
Whose first and last vertices are the same, forming a closed loop.
Formed by closing the mouth and nose passages completely, like the consonants /t/, /d/, and /p/.
Having the sound cut off sharply by a following consonant, like the /ɪ/ in pin.
Having component words joined together without spaces or hyphens; for example, timeslot as opposed to time slot or time-slot.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
mathematics
sciences
topology
mathematics
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
|
13065 | word:
closed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
closed
forms:
wikipedia:
closed
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of close
senses_topics:
|
13066 | word:
Guernsey
word_type:
name
expansion:
Guernsey
forms:
wikipedia:
Guernsey
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman, from Old Norse, compound of Grani (“Grani's”) and ey (“island”). Folk etymology points to a dialectal root for green.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island, the second-largest of the Channel Islands
An unincorporated community in California
A city in Iowa
A hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada
A town in Wyoming
senses_topics:
|
13067 | word:
Guernsey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Guernsey (plural Guernseys)
forms:
form:
Guernseys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Guernsey
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman, from Old Norse, compound of Grani (“Grani's”) and ey (“island”). Folk etymology points to a dialectal root for green.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cow of a breed of dairy cattle originally bred in Guernsey.
A knitted fisherman’s sweater of a type made on the island.
A long-sleeved shirt worn by sportsmen, especially in rugby codes (historically).
A team-liveried shirt; a jersey.
Selection or election to a position.
senses_topics:
|
13068 | word:
flotsam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flotsam (countable and uncountable, plural flotsams)
forms:
form:
flotsams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman floteson, from Old French flotaison (“a floating”), from floter (“to float”), of Germanic origin (See float.), + -aison, from Latin -atio.
senses_examples:
text:
WORF: Sensors beginning to pick up small objects, sir.
PICARD: On screen.
RIKER: Doesn't look natural.
PICARD: Agreed. Enlarge and identify.
WORF: It looks like debris from a space vessel of some kind.
RIKER: It could be one of those ships that was orbiting Dytallix.
LA FORGE: We are in close proximity to that planet.
PICARD: Identify marks Mr. Worf.
WORF: Nothing so far. Sensors not detecting any bodies in the flotsam. But from the amount of the wreckage, I'm sorry sir, it can only be the Horatio. From the looks of it she's been totally destroyed.
ref:
1988 May 9, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Conspiracy (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.
senses_topics:
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13069 | word:
step-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
step-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English step-, from Old English stēop- (“deprived of a relative, step-”, prefix), from Proto-West Germanic *steupa-, from Proto-Germanic *steupa- (“orphaned, step-”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push, strike”).
Cognate with Scots step- (“step-”), West Frisian stiep- (“step-”), Dutch stief- (“step-”), Low German steef- (“step-”), German stief- (“step-”), Swedish styv- (“step-”), Icelandic stjúp- (“step-”). Related to Old English stīepan (“to deprive, bereave”). Not, however, related to the familiar English noun or verb step.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, and so forth, to indicate that the person being identified is not a blood relative but is related through the marriage of a parent.
senses_topics:
|
13070 | word:
harp
word_type:
noun
expansion:
harp (plural harps)
forms:
form:
harps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
harp
etymology_text:
From Middle English harpe, from Old English hearpe (“harp”), from Proto-West Germanic *harpā, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ (“harp”). Cognate with Scots hairp (“harp”), West Frisian harpe, harp (“harp”), Low German Harp (“harp”), Dutch harp (“harp”), German Harfe (“harp”), Danish harpe (“harp”), Swedish harpa (“harp”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge
ref:
1568, William Cornishe [i.e., William Cornysh], “In the Fleete Made by Me William Cornishe otherwise Called Nyshwhete Chapelman with the Most Famose and Noble Kyng Henry the VII. His Reygne the XIX. Yere the Moneth of July. A Treatise betwene Trouth, and Information.”, in John Skelton, edited by J[ohn] S[tow], Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, Imprinted at London: In Fletestreate, neare vnto Saint Dunstones Churche by Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished as Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, 1736, →OCLC, page 290
type:
quotation
text:
Contains charts and instructions for wiring. Shows sockets, wire, harps, glass chimneys and globes, shade holders, bases, finials, and hundreds of items necessary in the building of lamps.
ref:
1960, School Shop, volume 20, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
Both types of harp have a swiveling shade holder at the top. The threaded stud on the swivel accepts the finial.
ref:
1991, Kalton C. Lahue, Cheryl Smith, Interior Lighting, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
More likely, it was the prospect of meat. Curwen was by now craving a juicy roast – 'even seal chop' – and was always loosing off at tickleasses and harps.
ref:
2006, John Gimlette, Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador, page 225
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
Any instrument of the same musicological type.
Any musical instrument.
A harmonica.
Any musical instrument.
A struck tuned percussion instrument of metal or wooden bars, especially as a function of a theatre organ.
A grain sieve.
The component of a lamp to which one attaches the lampshade, consisting of a lightweight frame that usually surrounds the bulb with an attachment at the top for the finial.
Short for harp seal.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
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13071 | word:
harp
word_type:
verb
expansion:
harp (third-person singular simple present harps, present participle harping, simple past and past participle harped)
forms:
form:
harps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
harping
tags:
participle
present
form:
harped
tags:
participle
past
form:
harped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
harp
etymology_text:
From Middle English harpe, from Old English hearpe (“harp”), from Proto-West Germanic *harpā, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ (“harp”). Cognate with Scots hairp (“harp”), West Frisian harpe, harp (“harp”), Low German Harp (“harp”), Dutch harp (“harp”), German Harfe (“harp”), Danish harpe (“harp”), Swedish harpa (“harp”).
senses_examples:
text:
Why do you harp on a single small mistake?
(US)
type:
example
text:
Why do you harp on about a single small mistake?
(UK)
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To repeatedly mention a subject, especially so as to nag or complain.
To play on (a harp or similar instrument).
To play (a tune) on the harp.
To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
senses_topics:
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13072 | word:
Lhasa
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lhasa
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa), from Old Tibetan ར་ས (ra sa).
senses_examples:
text:
The earliest historical relic of the Tibetans—like that of many, perhaps of most, other races—is a weather-beaten stone, the Do-ring. It stands in the center of Lhasa, across the courtyard in front of the western doors of the Cathedral or Jokang, beneath the famous willow-tree.
ref:
1905, Perceval Landon, The Opening of Tibet: An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year 1903-4, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 3
type:
quotation
text:
The 37bn-yuan ($5.7bn) track extends from the region’s capital Lhasa eastward to the city of Nyingchi, which is Tibetan for “Throne of the Sun”.
ref:
2021 June 5, “Fast track to the throne”, in The Economist, volume 439, number 9248, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
The most notable stop on the president's itinerary was the Lhasa, the Tibetan city that was once home of the Dalai Lama.
Xi visited the public square in front of the Potala Palace, the traditional seat of the Dalai Lama's power. Tibet's religious leader has been living in exile since 1959 following a failed uprising against the Chinese rule. While in Lhasa, Xi visited a monastery and "inspected ethnic religion" and Tibetan cultural heritage protection,[…]
ref:
2021 July 23, “China: Xi visits Tibet for the first time as president”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2021-07-23, News
type:
quotation
text:
There has been a widespread outcry from the residents of Lhasa, the capital of the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet, about how local authorities are managing a Covid-19 lockdown, instated on August 9.
ref:
2022 September 30, “How China uses zero-Covid policy to crack down on Tibetans”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2022-09-30
type:
quotation
text:
Prayers are a part of daily life in Tibet, and in counties such as Nyemo, on the outskirts of Lhasa, its inhabitants try to make a living by making incense to be used in temples.
ref:
2023 August 4, Jesus Centeno, “Tibet prays under the Chinese flag”, in EFE, archived from the original on 2023-08-06
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
senses_topics:
|
13073 | word:
Panama City
word_type:
name
expansion:
Panama City
forms:
wikipedia:
Panama City
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Panama.
A city, the county seat of Bay County, Florida, United States.
senses_topics:
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13074 | word:
draconian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
draconian (comparative more draconian, superlative most draconian)
forms:
form:
more draconian
tags:
comparative
form:
most draconian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Draco (lawgiver)
etymology_text:
From the Athenian lawmaker Draco, from Latin Dracō, from Ancient Greek Δράκων (Drákōn), known for making harsh laws. See δράκων (drákōn, “dragon”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Soviet regime was draconian.
type:
example
text:
The mayor announced draconian budget cuts today.
type:
example
text:
The conflict in the countryside resulted in a far more draconian punishment. The Southern Cross flag flew over the camps of striking shearers, who in revenge for their victimisation burned grass, fences, buildings and even riverboats[…]
ref:
2009, Stuart Macintyre, A Concise History of Australia, page 125
type:
quotation
text:
Perhaps lessons had already been learned from the Draconian infrastructure cuts on the Waterloo-Exeter route.
ref:
2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
And that movement, while it was eventually crushed through the extensive use of the draconian lese majeste law, shattered the taboo, by calling openly, for the first time, for the powers and financing of the monarchy to be accountable.
ref:
2023 May 8, Jonathan Head, “Thailand election: The young radicals shaking up politics”, in BBC News (World)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very severe, cruel, or harsh.
senses_topics:
|
13075 | word:
draconian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
draconian (comparative more draconian, superlative most draconian)
forms:
form:
more draconian
tags:
comparative
form:
most draconian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin dracō (“dragon”).
senses_examples:
text:
The dragon came low to the earth. It defied every image of a draconian being Kulp had ever seen.
ref:
2006, Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates, Book Two, page 384
type:
quotation
text:
A large sandwyrm (which isn't to be confused with a sandworm) popped its draconian head from the earth.
ref:
2009, Jacob Silvia, Qhoenix, page 73
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or resembling a dragon.
senses_topics:
|
13076 | word:
spade
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spade (plural spades)
forms:
form:
spades
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
spade
etymology_text:
From Middle English spade, from Old English spada, spade, spadu (“spade”), from Proto-Germanic *spadǭ, *spadô, *spadō (“spade”). Cognate with Dutch spade, Old Frisian spada, Old Saxon spado, German Spaten, Hunsrik Spaad. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-, whence also Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”), Hittite 𒅖𒉺𒀀𒋻 (išpatar, “spear”), Persian سپار (sopâr, “plow”), Northern Luri ئەسپار (aspār, “digging”) and Central Kurdish ئەسپەر (esper), ئەسپەرە (espere, “cross-piece on shaft of spade to take pressure of foot”). Distant doublet of spatha, spathe, and épée.
senses_examples:
text:
[...] And not a single spade has gone in the ground - not a single mile of track built.
ref:
2021 October 6, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Labour: build HS2 and NPR and end "paper promises"”, in RAIL, number 941, page 25
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
senses_topics:
|
13077 | word:
spade
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spade (third-person singular simple present spades, present participle spading, simple past and past participle spaded)
forms:
form:
spades
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
spading
tags:
participle
present
form:
spaded
tags:
participle
past
form:
spaded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
spade
etymology_text:
From Middle English spade, from Old English spada, spade, spadu (“spade”), from Proto-Germanic *spadǭ, *spadô, *spadō (“spade”). Cognate with Dutch spade, Old Frisian spada, Old Saxon spado, German Spaten, Hunsrik Spaad. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-, whence also Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”), Hittite 𒅖𒉺𒀀𒋻 (išpatar, “spear”), Persian سپار (sopâr, “plow”), Northern Luri ئەسپار (aspār, “digging”) and Central Kurdish ئەسپەر (esper), ئەسپەرە (espere, “cross-piece on shaft of spade to take pressure of foot”). Distant doublet of spatha, spathe, and épée.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.
senses_topics:
|
13078 | word:
spade
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spade (plural spades)
forms:
form:
spades
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
spade
etymology_text:
Probably from Italian spade, plural of spada (“the ace of spades”, literally “sword, spade”), from earlier *spata, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπᾰ́θη (spáthē). Cognate with Etymology 1. So called for the shape, though what the shape was exactly meant to represent has been debated.
senses_examples:
text:
I've got only one spade in my hand.
type:
example
text:
And as for a divorce, I know plenty spades right here in Harlem get married any time they want to.
ref:
1929, Wallace Thurman, The Blacker the Berry, New York: Collier Books, published 1970, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
Example: Max was in a hospital in New York and "the night nurse was a groovy spade, and in the afternoon for therapy there was a chick from Israel who was interesting, but there was nothing much to do in the morning, so I left".
ref:
1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem
type:
quotation
text:
It had even gotten to the point that Negroes were no longer in the hip scene, not even as totem figures. It was unbelievable. Spades, the very soul figures of Hip, of jazz, of the hip vocabulary itself, man and like dig and baby and scarf and split and later and so fine, of civil rights and graduating from Reed College and living on North Beach, down Mason, and balling spade cats—all that good elaborate petting and patting and pouring soul all over the spades—all over, finished, incredibly.
ref:
1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
A black person.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
|
13079 | word:
spade
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spade (plural spades)
forms:
form:
spades
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
spade
etymology_text:
Compare spay, noun, and spado.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hart or stag three years old.
A castrated man or animal.
senses_topics:
|
13080 | word:
venal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
venal (comparative more venal, superlative most venal)
forms:
form:
more venal
tags:
comparative
form:
most venal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin vēna (“vein”) + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Venous; pertaining to veins.
senses_topics:
|
13081 | word:
venal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
venal (comparative more venal, superlative most venal)
forms:
form:
more venal
tags:
comparative
form:
most venal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French vénal, from Old French venel, from Latin vēnālis (“for sale”), from vēnum (“something for sale”); compare vend.
senses_examples:
text:
Thus, regimental commands in the army were – as with the judiciary or the financial bureaucracy – venal posts, which were purchased, bequeathed and sold among the nobility.
ref:
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
Though there is a disposition in mankind, to declaim against the corruption and peculation of the present times, as being more venal than formerly; yet, if we look back to different periods, we shall find statesmen and politicians, as selfish and corrupt, […] as those who have lately figured on the political stage.
ref:
1785, The Times, 9 Feb 1785, page 1, column C
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
For sale; available for purchase.
Of a position, privilege etc.: available for purchase rather than assigned on merit.
Capable of being bought (of a person); willing to take bribes.
Corrupt, mercenary.
senses_topics:
|
13082 | word:
degree
word_type:
noun
expansion:
degree (plural degrees)
forms:
form:
degrees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
degree
etymology_text:
From Middle English degre, borrowed from Old French degré (French: degré), itself from Latin gradus, with the prefix de-.
senses_examples:
text:
She has two bachelor's degrees and is studying towards a master's degree.
type:
example
text:
A right angle is a ninety-degree angle.
type:
example
text:
Most humans have a field of vision of almost 180 degrees.
type:
example
text:
212 degrees Fahrenheit is equivalent to 100 degrees Celsius.
type:
example
text:
Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
type:
example
text:
A quadratic polynomial is a polynomial of degree 2.
type:
example
text:
The set of complex numbers constitutes a field extension of degree 2 over the real numbers.
type:
example
text:
The Galois field #x5C;operatorname#x7B;GF#x7D;(125)#x3D;#x5C;operatorname#x7B;GF#x7D;(5³) has degree 3 over its subfield #x5C;operatorname#x7B;GF#x7D;(5).
type:
example
text:
Louis created the École militaire in Paris in 1751, in which 500 scholarships were designated for noblemen able to prove four degrees of noble status.
ref:
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
ref:
1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
type:
quotation
text:
To what degree do the two accounts of the accident concur?
type:
example
text:
Then there are the sums that Abramovich would be permitted to invest within the parameters of the profit and sustainability rules – £105m over a rolling three-year period. That, plainly, has stopped and so, to repeat, it is imperative that the transfer of ownership happens with a degree of speed.
ref:
March 11 2022, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)
A unit of measurement of angle equal to ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle's circumference.
A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
The dimensionality of a field extension.
The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
The number of logical connectives in a formula.
The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.
A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.
Any of the stages (like positive, comparative, superlative, elative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.
A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
One's relative state or experience; way, manner.
The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
algebra
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
geography
natural-sciences
surveying
geography
natural-sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
13083 | word:
prosaic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
prosaic (comparative more prosaic, superlative most prosaic)
forms:
form:
more prosaic
tags:
comparative
form:
most prosaic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French prosaïque, from Medieval Latin prosaicus (“in prose”), from Latin prosa (“prose”), from prorsus (“straightforward, in prose”), from Old Latin provorsus (“straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), from vertō (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to turn, to bend”).
senses_examples:
text:
The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry.
type:
example
text:
I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late.
type:
example
text:
His account of the incident was so prosaic that I nodded off while reading it.
type:
example
text:
She lived a prosaic life.
type:
example
text:
Their steepness and abruptness were even greater than I had imagined from hearsay, and suggested nothing in common with the prosaic objective world we know.
ref:
1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness
type:
quotation
text:
Ultimately, though, the more prosaic goals carried the greater significance in this contest. Madrid have managed only one clean sheet on their way to winning this competition.
ref:
2017 June 3, Daniel Taylor, “Real Madrid win Champions League as Cristiano Ronaldo double defeats Juv”, in The Guardian (London)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
senses_topics:
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13084 | word:
Wade-Giles
word_type:
name
expansion:
Wade-Giles
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1943, from the surnames of Thomas Wade and Herbert Giles, who developed the system in the 19th century.
senses_examples:
text:
The pronunciation aids to Chinese names are of doubtful value. They are not phonetic, being only a slight modification of the Wade-Giles system, and become really confusing when Mandarin pronunciations are given for Cantonese or historical spellings.
ref:
1947 May, Earl Swisher, “MacNair, China”, in Pacific Historical Review, volume XVI, number 2, University of California Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 214
type:
quotation
text:
The problem of romanizing Chinese place names is a difficult one. Solutions differ from language to language, and there are several so-called "systems" used even in the English-speaking world.
The system most widely accepted by professionals is the Wade-Giles system. One of its key advantages is that it permits the reader to check back to the original Chinese characters, since most dictionaries are arranged according to this romanization system.
ref:
1969, “A note on transliteration”, in Joseph Kitagawa, editor, Understanding Modern China, Quadrangle Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
In accordance with the LC manual of bibliographic style, the heading for each entry contains the essential bibliographic data taken from the corresponding LC catalog card. The Chinese titles are given in Wade-Giles romanization. If the English title and/or the title in Pinyin romanization appear in the original work, they are also provided.
ref:
1977, “Explanatory Notes”, in Robert Dunn, editor, Chinese-English and English-Chinese Dictionaries in the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, →LCCN, →OCLC, page vii
type:
quotation
text:
The old spelling system, named the Wade-Giles system after the two 19th century Britons who developed it, made correct pronunciation unnecessarily difficult. It used apostrophes to distinguish aspirated consonants, such as p'ai pronounced with a "p" sound, from unaspirated, such as pai pronounced with a "b" sound. The new Pinyin system eliminates this distinction, which most newspapers ignored anyway. "Beijing" is much closer to the Chinese pronunciation that "Peking", and Vice Premier "Deng" is better rendering than "Teng." But the new system uses some letters in ways that still confuse English speakers. Thers difficult letters are: "c" which should be prounced in this system like the "ts" in "its"; "q" which should be pronounced like the "ch" in "cheek"; "x" which should be pronounced like the "sh" in "she"; and "zh" which should be pronounced like the "j" in "jump".
The system invented by Sir Thomas Wade, diplomat and Cambridge University professor, about 1860 and developed by Herbert Giles, also a Cambridge professor, is only the best known of several in use over the past 100 years. Some of the most familiar Chinese place names, such as Peking and Canton, are derived only partially, or not at all, from Wade-Giles.
ref:
1979 March 5, Jay Mathews, “China Is China, But Hangchow Is Hangzhou”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-29
type:
quotation
text:
Most influential in further establishing the Romanization scheme first set down by Wade was Giles' 1,415-page A Chinese–English Dictionary, which became a standard reference work soon after its release in 1912. The orthography it employed came to be known as the Wade–Giles system of Romanization, and it was soon adopted by English-language academia, and then by the media and general public.
In fact Giles' Romanization was only very slightly modified from Wade's – the differences are miniscule. Tones continued to be marked in the Wade–Giles system with numeral superscripts, with the neutral tone either being unmarked, or occasionally given the number '0' or '5'.
ref:
2016, Karen Steffen Chung, “Wade–Giles Romanization System”, in The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language, Taylor & Francis, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
No longer does the ROC claim to be China and the writing systems that Taiwan uses for Chinese have changed to reflect this. Taiwan has held on to traditional characters and bopomofo, resolutely resisted simplified characters, mostly retained Wade-Giles and Yale for personal, political and geographical names in Taiwan, but grudgingly accepted the linguistic arguments for Hanyu pinyin signage in public spaces.
ref:
2017 January 22, Martin Boyle, “Pinyin and a Taiwanese identity”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-01-21, Editorials, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
The two most prominent systems of transliterations of Mandarin are Wade-Giles and Pinyin. Wade-Giles, established in the 19th century (Kaske,2008) is named after Herbert Allen Giles[...]
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2018 March 12, Sophie Zhou, “The T/Daos shall meet: The failure and success of English transliterations of Mandarin Chinese”, in English Today, volume 35, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Lee starts her memoir with a recollection of hiking with her mother shortly after Gong, the author’s grandfather, has passed away, and the narrative veers into a discussion of translation. Lee explains that she uses traditional Chinese characters, and both the Wade-Giles romanization system and Hanyu Pinyin to transliterate certain details from Mandarin. By extent, this exemplifies the language variations not only in Taiwan but also in her own family. Wade-Giles, she notes, is employed by her elders, though she has been taught Hanyu Pinyin. “The gaps that bind us span more than the distances between words,” she writes.
ref:
2020 April 24, Kristen Schott, “The Language of Self-Discovery: On Jessica J. Lee’s “Two Trees Make a Forest””, in Los Angeles Review of Books, archived from the original on 2020-07-07
type:
quotation
text:
Aside from some stylistic unevenness (Mr. Brookes uses both modern pinyin and older Wade-Giles transliterations, when lay readers probably would find it easier to read only the latter, given its continued familiarity for historic places and names) and a few lapses into therapeutic editorializing, “Fragile Cargo” is a fascinating and inspiring story of triumph and the tragedy of war.
ref:
2023 February 10, Michael Auslin, “‘Fragile Cargo’ Review: The Long Rescue of China’s Past”, in Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on 2023-03-05
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A system for transcribing the Beijing dialect of Mandarin Chinese into the Latin alphabet; formally uses hyphens and the spiritus asper apostrophe.
senses_topics:
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13085 | word:
Melanesia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Melanesia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French Mélanésie (coined by Jules Dumont d'Urville), from Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “dark”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”), referring to the skin color of the inhabitants.
senses_examples:
text:
My job, then, is that of a cultural and religious broker of sorts, co-opting Melanesia to serve as a stimulus to thought in Le Moyne classrooms.
ref:
2004, Mary N. MacDonald, “Thinking and teaching with the indigenous traditions of Melanesia”, in Beyond primitivism: indigenous religious traditions and modernity, Routledge, page 315
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A region of Oceania, made up of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji.
senses_topics:
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13086 | word:
scalar
word_type:
adj
expansion:
scalar (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
scalar
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin scālāris, adjectival form from scāla (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder, scale”), for *scadla, from scandere (“to climb”); compare scale. The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1846.
senses_examples:
text:
However, it can be expected that 'scale-similarity' models of this form will be inadequate for describing non-equilibrium scalar fields resulting, for example, from non-equilibrium inlet flow conditions.
ref:
2003, Rodney O. Fox, Computational Models for Turbulent Reacting Flows
type:
quotation
text:
Scalar thickening is useful for understanding the propensity of scales to coalesce in certain times and places, or even how a particular scale provides conditions for other forms of scalar production.
ref:
2015, Raymond L Bryant, The International Handbook of Political Ecology, page 504
type:
quotation
text:
Spector (2006, 2007) suggests to derive this inference as a scalar implicature.
ref:
2014, Salvatore Pistoia Reda, Pragmatics, Semantics and the Case of Scalar Implicatures
type:
quotation
text:
Also, the scalar meaning in both sentences is not sensitive to context, because the truth value of the sentences does not change depending on context.
ref:
2018, Osamu Sawada, Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
In Mandarin Chinese, the same sentence containing a numeral-classifier phrase as a negative polarity item can be employed for two types of scalar inferences based on either the numeral or the noun.
ref:
2019, Penka Stateva, Anne Reboul, Scalar Implicatures, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having magnitude but not direction.
Consisting of a single value (e.g. integer or string) rather than multiple values (e.g. array).
Of, or relating to scale.
Of or pertaining to a musical scale.
Relating to particles with a spin (quantum angular momentum) of 0 (known as spin 0).
Pertaining to the dimension on which something is measured.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
13087 | word:
scalar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
scalar (plural scalars)
forms:
form:
scalars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
scalar
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin scālāris, adjectival form from scāla (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder, scale”), for *scadla, from scandere (“to climb”); compare scale. The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1846.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A quantity that has magnitude but not direction; compare vector.
An amplifier whose output is a constant multiple of its input.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
13088 | word:
Kiev
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kiev
forms:
wikipedia:
en:Kiev (disambiguation)
en:Kyiv
etymology_text:
From Russian Ки́ев (Kíjev), from Old East Slavic Кꙑевъ (Kyjevŭ), which folk-etymology derives from the name of city's legendary founder Kyi. Other proposals derive it from Proto-Slavic *kyjь (“stick, club, hammer”) (compare to Russian кий (kij)). See also at the article about Old East Slavic Кꙑевъ (Kyjevŭ).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Kyiv:
The capital city of Ukraine and the administrative centre of Kyiv Oblast.
Alternative form of Kyiv:
An oblast of Ukraine. Seat: Kyiv.
Alternative form of Kyiv:
The government of Ukraine.
Synonym of Kievan Rus, a former principality in Europe centered on Kyiv.
senses_topics:
|
13089 | word:
Kiev
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Kiev (countable and uncountable, plural Kievs)
forms:
form:
Kievs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Kiev (disambiguation)
en:Kyiv
etymology_text:
From Russian Ки́ев (Kíjev), from Old East Slavic Кꙑевъ (Kyjevŭ), which folk-etymology derives from the name of city's legendary founder Kyi. Other proposals derive it from Proto-Slavic *kyjь (“stick, club, hammer”) (compare to Russian кий (kij)). See also at the article about Old East Slavic Кꙑевъ (Kyjevŭ).
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:chicken Kiev.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Short for chicken Kiev
senses_topics:
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13090 | word:
characteristic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
characteristic (comparative more characteristic, superlative most characteristic)
forms:
form:
more characteristic
tags:
comparative
form:
most characteristic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Characteristic
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek χαρακτηριστικός (kharaktēristikós), from χαρακτηρίζω (kharaktērízō, “to designate by a characteristic mark”), from χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “a mark, character”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
senses_topics:
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13091 | word:
characteristic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
characteristic (plural characteristics)
forms:
form:
characteristics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Characteristic
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek χαρακτηριστικός (kharaktēristikós), from χαρακτηρίζω (kharaktērízō, “to designate by a characteristic mark”), from χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “a mark, character”).
senses_examples:
text:
It is evident, moreover, that as the logarithms of numbers, which are tenfold, the one of the other, do not differ except in their characteristics, it is sufficient that the tables contain the fractional parts only of the logarithms.
ref:
1830, Solomon Pearson Miles, Thomas Sherwin, Mathematical Tables: Comprising Logarithms of Numbers, […], page 69
type:
quotation
text:
As the sine and cosine are always proper fractions their logarithms are negative, i.e. have negative characteristics. When we are given an angle, it is impossible to say, from inspection of the angle, what the characteristic of the logarithm of its sine, cosine or tangent may be; so the characteristics have to be printed with the mantissae.
ref:
1911, F. T. Swanwick, Elementary Trigonometry, Cambridge University Press, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
Similarly, the characteristic for .003 is −3, and the characteristic for .0003 is −4.
ref:
1961, “Principles and Applications of Mathematics for Communications-Electronics”, in U.S, Department of the Army, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
The characteristic of a field, if non-zero, must be a prime number.
type:
example
text:
1962 [John Wiley & Sons], Nathan Jacobson, Lie Algebras, 1979, Dover, page 289,
In this chapter we study the problem of classifying the finite-dimensional simple Lie algebras over an arbitrary field of characteristic 0.
text:
1992, Simeon Ivanov (translator), P. M. Gudivok, E. Ya. Pogorilyak, On Modular Representations of Finite Groups over Integral Domains, Simeon Ivanov (editor), Galois Theory, Rings, Algebraic Groups and Their Applications, American Mathematical Society, page 87,
Let R be a Noetherian factorial ring of characteristic p which is not a field.
text:
Traditionally, a complete, discretely valued field of characteristic zero, the maximal ideal of whose valuation ring is generated by the prime number p, has been called a p-adic field. In our terminology, the valuation ring of a p-adic field is a Cohen ring of characteristic zero whose residue field has characteristic p, and consequently a p-adic field is simply the quotient field of such a Cohen ring.
ref:
1993, S. Warner, Topological Rings, Elsevier (North-Holland), page 424
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior.
The integer part of a logarithm.
The distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc.).
For a given field or ring, a natural number that is either the smallest positive number n such that n instances of the multiplicative identity (1) summed together yield the additive identity (0) or, if no such number exists, the number 0.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
nautical
transport
algebra
mathematics
sciences |
13092 | word:
political party
word_type:
noun
expansion:
political party (plural political parties)
forms:
form:
political parties
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I told the Governors that I had never questioned the capacity or the sincerity or the ability of a man because he belonged to a different political party. No party had an overriding claim to patriotism. The times, I said, demanded that we put away our differences and close ranks in a determined effort to make our system of government function.
ref:
1971, Lyndon Johnson, “"I feel like I have already been here a year"”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power through representation in government.
senses_topics:
|
13093 | word:
polynomial
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polynomial (plural polynomials)
forms:
form:
polynomials
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
polynomial
etymology_text:
From poly- + -nomial, from νομός (nomós, “portion, part”), by analogy with binomial.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression consisting of a sum of a finite number of terms, each term being the product of a constant coefficient and one or more variables raised to a non-negative integer power, such as a_nxⁿ+a_n-1xⁿ⁻¹+...+a_0x⁰.
A taxonomic designation (such as of a subspecies) consisting of more than two terms.
senses_topics:
algebra
mathematics
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy |
13094 | word:
polynomial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
polynomial (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
polynomial
etymology_text:
From poly- + -nomial, from νομός (nomós, “portion, part”), by analogy with binomial.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Able to be described or limited by a polynomial.
Of a polynomial name or entity.
senses_topics:
algebra
mathematics
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy |
13095 | word:
manifest
word_type:
adj
expansion:
manifest (comparative more manifest, superlative most manifest)
forms:
form:
more manifest
tags:
comparative
form:
most manifest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English manifest, manifeste, from Latin manifestus, manufestus (“palpable, manifest”), from manus (“hand”) + *infestus, participle of *infendō (“strike”) (from the root of dēfendō, offendō, etc.), or from Proto-Indo-European *dʰers-. Doublet of manifesto.
senses_examples:
text:
It re-envisioned Freddy Krueger in the “real world,” where the nightmare-dwelling being is made manifest in our reality, one where Freddy actor Robert Englund and original Nightmare On Elm Street star Heather Langenkamp play themselves, as does [Wes] Craven himself.
ref:
2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-03-05
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Evident to the senses, especially to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived.
Obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.
Detected; convicted.
senses_topics:
|
13096 | word:
manifest
word_type:
noun
expansion:
manifest (plural manifests)
forms:
form:
manifests
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English manifest, manifeste, from Latin manifestus, manufestus (“palpable, manifest”), from manus (“hand”) + *infestus, participle of *infendō (“strike”) (from the root of dēfendō, offendō, etc.), or from Proto-Indo-European *dʰers-. Doublet of manifesto.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A list or invoice of the passengers or goods being carried by a commercial vehicle or ship.
A file containing metadata describing other files.
A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
13097 | word:
manifest
word_type:
verb
expansion:
manifest (third-person singular simple present manifests, present participle manifesting, simple past and past participle manifested)
forms:
form:
manifests
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
manifesting
tags:
participle
present
form:
manifested
tags:
participle
past
form:
manifested
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Manifestation (popular psychology)
etymology_text:
From Middle English manifest, manifeste, from Latin manifestus, manufestus (“palpable, manifest”), from manus (“hand”) + *infestus, participle of *infendō (“strike”) (from the root of dēfendō, offendō, etc.), or from Proto-Indo-European *dʰers-. Doublet of manifesto.
senses_examples:
text:
His courage manifested itself through the look on his face.
type:
example
text:
Other global taboos, such as sex and suicide, manifest themselves widely online, with websites offering suicide guides and Hot XXX Action seconds away at the click of a button. The UK government will come under pressure to block access to pornographic websites this year when a committee of MPs publishes its report on protecting children online.
ref:
2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
His osteoporosis first manifested as pain in his hips.
type:
example
text:
The process of creating your treasure map is a powerful step toward manifesting your goal. Now just spend a few minutes each day looking at it[…]
ref:
1982, Shakti Gawain, The Creative Visualization Workbook
type:
quotation
text:
Undaunted by poverty, I decided to manifest a new car.
ref:
2014, Adrian Calabrese, How to Get Everything You Ever Wanted: Complete Guide to Using Your Psychic Common Sense
type:
quotation
text:
To Fishback, the project is a perfect fit. “I’ve been manifesting a romance role for a really long time,” she said,
ref:
2021, Kyle Buchanan, “Dominique Fishback Gave Her Heart to ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit.
To become manifest; to be revealed.
To will something to exist.
To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.
senses_topics:
|
13098 | word:
tomato sauce
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tomato sauce (usually uncountable, plural tomato sauces)
forms:
form:
tomato sauces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tomato sauce
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Russian Tomato Sauce will keep, tightly covered, in the refrigerator for 10 days.
ref:
2002, Steve Brill, The Wild Vegetarian Cookbook, page 186
type:
quotation
text:
Classical tomato sauce, as explained by Escoffier, is made with a roux, but this is rarely done in modern kitchens.
ref:
2007, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Cooking, 6th edition, page 176
type:
quotation
text:
But in the summer, fresh tomato sauce should be a staple; peeling the tomatoes—which is optional—is undeniably a bit of work (seeding takes only a second), but the flavor of the sauce is much better than canned, thee texture is rich and silky, and the color much prettier.
ref:
2007, Mark Bittman, How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food, page 445
type:
quotation
text:
A plastic tomato sauce bottle, which could have been cut in half to make a flower pot, was quickly surveyed along with other trophies, and received the death sentence. “In the bin, Bob.”
ref:
1979 June, Peter C. Harper, Robert Alexander Falla K.B.E., C.M.G., M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.N.Z.: An Appreciation, page 356
type:
quotation
text:
1980 January-May, Laurence Le Guay, Cruising World, page 98,
I quickly learned that there is a hell of a difference between tomato sauce and ketchup and that there is an even greater difference when it comes to mayonnaise: real American or the pseudo Australian — and I had always believed this to be a French concoction.
text:
The event was a BBQ in the peaceful and picturesque System Garden at the University of Melbourne, Parkville campus. Food was plentifil and included a variety of sausages and veggie burgers, onions, bread and tomato sauce in addition to soft drinks.
ref:
2003 March, Microbiology Australia, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thick sauce made from tomatoes for pasta etc.
Tomato ketchup, used as a condiment.
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle
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13099 | word:
school
word_type:
noun
expansion:
school (countable and uncountable, plural schools)
forms:
form:
schools
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English scole, from Old English scōl (“place of education”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōlā, from Late Latin schola, scola (“learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure”), from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold, have, possess”). Doublet of schola and shul.
Compare Old Frisian skūle, schūle (“school”) (West Frisian skoalle, Saterland Frisian Skoule), Dutch school (“school”), German Low German School (“school”), Old High German scuola (“school”), German Schule (“school”), Bavarian Schui (“school”), Old Norse skóli (“school”).
Influenced in some senses by Middle English schole (“group of persons, host, company”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop, band”). See school (“group”). Related also to Old High German sigi (German Sieg, “victory”), Old English siġe, sigor (“victory”).
senses_examples:
text:
Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.
type:
example
text:
Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.
type:
example
text:
One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
ref:
2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.
type:
example
text:
We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.
type:
example
text:
The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic movement of the time.
type:
example
text:
These economists belong to the monetarist school.
type:
example
text:
Let no man be less confident in his faith […] by reason of any difference of judgment , which is in the several schools of Christians.
ref:
1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper
type:
quotation
text:
I’ll see you after school.
type:
example
text:
He was a gentleman of the old school.
type:
example
text:
His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools.
ref:
1883, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, But Yet a Woman
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
An art movement, a community of artists.
The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.
senses_topics:
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