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13100 | word:
school
word_type:
verb
expansion:
school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)
forms:
form:
schools
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
schooling
tags:
participle
present
form:
schooled
tags:
participle
past
form:
schooled
tags:
past
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:
Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.
type:
example
text:
A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.
ref:
1998 April 13, Leigh Jones, “National Bar Exam Methods Win in ADA Regulation Test”, in The Journal Record
type:
quotation
text:
Two weeks later, the Cornhuskers put on their road whites again and promptly got schooled by miserable Iowa State in Ames. After the shocking loss […]
ref:
2006, Steve Smith, Forever Red: Confessions of a Cornhusker Football Fan, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
"You again?" Sandman demanded. "I guess you didn't learn your lesson."
"This time I'm gonna school you."
ref:
2007, Peter David, Alvin Sargent, Spider-Man 3, Simon and Schuster, page 216
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Harris said he was confident he could go toe to toe with any skeptic; he bragged that he’d recently schooled some crypto haters from Vice News.
ref:
2022 March 31, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Ben McKenzie Would Like a Word With the Crypto Bros”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
To control, or compose, one’s expression.
senses_topics:
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13101 | word:
school
word_type:
noun
expansion:
school (plural schools)
forms:
form:
schools
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English scole, schole (“group of persons, multitude, host, school of fish”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals”), from Old Dutch *scola, *skola (“troop, multitude”), from Frankish *skolu, from Proto-Germanic *skulō (“crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷel- (“crowd, people”).
Cognate with Middle Low German schōle (“multitude, troop”), Old English scolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, school of fish”). Doublet of shoal.
senses_examples:
text:
The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
A multitude.
senses_topics:
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13102 | word:
school
word_type:
verb
expansion:
school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)
forms:
form:
schools
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
schooling
tags:
participle
present
form:
schooled
tags:
participle
past
form:
schooled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English scole, schole (“group of persons, multitude, host, school of fish”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals”), from Old Dutch *scola, *skola (“troop, multitude”), from Frankish *skolu, from Proto-Germanic *skulō (“crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷel- (“crowd, people”).
Cognate with Middle Low German schōle (“multitude, troop”), Old English scolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, school of fish”). Doublet of shoal.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form into, or travel in, a school.
senses_topics:
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13103 | word:
Algiers
word_type:
name
expansion:
Algiers
forms:
wikipedia:
Algiers
etymology_text:
From French Algiers, from Arabic اَلْجَزَائِر (al-jazāʔir, “the islands”), plural of جَزِيرَة (jazīra, “island”), referring to the several small islands that once existed in the Bay of Algiers. Doublet of Algeria and Algeciras.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital and largest city of Algeria.
A province of Algeria.
senses_topics:
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13104 | word:
onomatopoeia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
onomatopoeia (countable and uncountable, plural onomatopoeias or onomatopoeiae)
forms:
form:
onomatopoeias
tags:
plural
form:
onomatopoeiae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιία (onomatopoiía, “the coining of a word in imitation of a sound”), from ὀνοματοποιέω (onomatopoiéō, “to coin names”), from ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”) + ποιέω (poiéō, “to make, to do, to produce”).
senses_examples:
text:
A woorde making called of the Grecians Onomatapoia, is when wee make wordes of our owne minde, such as bee derived from the nature of things.
ref:
1553, Thomas Wilson, Desiderius Erasmus, Arte of Rhetorique, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1909
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The property of a word that sounds like what it represents.
A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle", "stutter", or "hiss".
A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle", "stutter", or "hiss".
A word that appropriates a sound for another sensation or a perceived nature, such as "thud", "beep", or "meow"; an ideophone, phenomime.
The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.
senses_topics:
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13105 | word:
testa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
testa (plural testas or testae or testæ)
forms:
form:
testas
tags:
plural
form:
testae
tags:
plural
form:
testæ
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin testa.
senses_examples:
text:
The testa develops from the tissue, the integument, originally surrounding the ovule.
text:
The seeds are furnished with a reticulated testa, very much in appearance like that of the seeds of two closely-allied pericarps in the cabinet of my friend Mr. Ward, of Wellclose-square, the names of which I have been unable to obtain, but which present strong evidence of belonging to the Malvaceæ.
ref:
1840, James Scott Bowerbank, A History of the Fossil Fruits and Seeds of the London Clay, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
1969, C. W. Bennett, Seed Transmission of Plant Viruses, Alison Smith, Advances in Virus Research, Volume 14, page 224,
In tests with the Lincoln and Virginia varieties of cowpea, Crowley (1959) found that, in plants infected with bean southern mosaic virus before blossoming, the virus was present in nearly 100% of the testae and endosperms of seeds of both varieties, but could not be detected in the embryos.
text:
Thus, two conditions must be satisfied for the testas to have this effect: contact between the testas and the radicle, and the presence of at least half of the testas.
ref:
1977, Commonwealth Scientific, Industrial Research Organization, Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, page 354
type:
quotation
text:
2005, D. W. Dickson, D. De Waele, Nematode Parasites of Peanut, Michel Luc, Richard A. Sikora, John Bridge, Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Subtropical and Tropical Agriculture, page 419,
A. arachidis is a parasite of pods, testae, roots and hypocotyls, but not the cotyledons, embryos or other parts of the plant (Bos, 1977a; Bridge et al., 1977).
text:
One of the most remarkable features of cultivated beans is the enormous range of testa colours and patterns which can be found.
ref:
2007, J. Smartt, “Evolution of American Phaseolus beans under domestication”, in Peter John Ucko, G. W. Dimbleby, editors, The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals, page 458
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A seed coat.
The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm; the test.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
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13106 | word:
crackdown
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crackdown (countable and uncountable, plural crackdowns)
forms:
form:
crackdowns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Deverbal from crack down.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: clampdown
text:
After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.
ref:
2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-21
type:
quotation
text:
In the last two years crackdowns on various sectors of the economy, as well as prominent Chinese businessmen, have caused uncertainty. These have recently widened to include foreign nationals and firms, heightening worries in the international business community.
ref:
2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement.
senses_topics:
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13107 | word:
gone to the dogs
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gone to the dogs
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of go to the dogs
senses_topics:
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13108 | word:
waist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
waist (plural waists)
forms:
form:
waists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English wast (“waist”), probably from Old English *wæst, *wǣst, *weaxt, *wæhst, from Proto-West Germanic *wahstu, from Proto-Germanic *wahstuz (“growth, development, stature, build”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg-s- (“to multiply, increase”). Cognate with Middle English wacste (“growth, increase, might, power”), Middle High German wahst (“growth”), Danish vækst (“growth”), Swedish växt (“growth, development, size”), Icelandic vöxtur (“growth”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (wahstus, “growth”). Related to Old English weaxan (“to grow, increase”). More at wax.
senses_examples:
text:
The waist of a bell widens into the lip.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.
A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist.
The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps).
The middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft.
That part of the upper deck of a ship between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.
The middle part of anything.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
nautical
transport
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13109 | word:
solstice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
solstice (plural solstices)
forms:
form:
solstices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥
Latin sōl
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Italic *sistō
Latin sistō
Proto-Italic *-jōs
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin sōlstitiumlbor.
Old French solsticebor.
Middle English solstice
English solstice
From Middle English solstice, from Old French solstice, from Latin sōlstitium.
senses_examples:
text:
The point at which the sun is nearest to the south pole we call the winter solstice, and the opposite point, the summer solstice.
ref:
2010, Capt Sp Meek, The Solar Magnet
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the two points in the ecliptic at which the sun is furthest from the celestial equator. This corresponds to one of two days in the year when the day is either longest or shortest.
senses_topics:
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13110 | word:
consanguinity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
consanguinity (countable and uncountable, plural consanguinities)
forms:
form:
consanguinities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
consanguinity
etymology_text:
From Middle English consanguinytee, consanguinite, consanguinyte, from Old French consanguinité and Latin cōnsanguinitātem, accusative of Latin cōnsanguinitās, from cōnsanguineus, from Latin com- (“together”) + sanguineus (“of or pertaining to blood”), from Latin sanguis (“blood”).
senses_examples:
text:
1776, United States Declaration of Independence
They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.
text:
The Mongrel Virginians was similar to other eugenic family studies in its method and mode of argumentation, but its intensive focus on "race mixing," rather than consanguinity, represents a marked departure from the previous studies.
ref:
2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 81
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A consanguineous or family relationship through parentage or descent. A blood relationship.
Inbreeding
senses_topics:
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13111 | word:
Abu Dhabi
word_type:
name
expansion:
Abu Dhabi
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic أَبُو ظَبْي (ʔabū ẓaby, “father of the gazelle”).
senses_examples:
text:
Holonym: United Arab Emirates
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of the United Arab Emirates; capital of Abu Dhabi emirate.
An emirate of the United Arab Emirates, on the southern Persian Gulf.
senses_topics:
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13112 | word:
kefalotyri
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kefalotyri (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Greek κεφαλοτύρι (kefalotýri), from the Greek words for "head" and "cheese" : κεφαλο- (kefalo-) + τυρί (tyrí); see cephalo-.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Greek cheese similar to parmesan.
senses_topics:
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13113 | word:
Lagos
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lagos
forms:
wikipedia:
Lagos
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Lagos (literally “lakes”).
senses_examples:
text:
‘Lagos is just a noise-making place with too much light and glass.’
ref:
2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 120
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The largest city and former capital of Nigeria, in Lagos State.
A state of Nigeria in the South West geopolitical zone. Capital: Ikeja. Largest city: Lagos City.
A city and municipality of Faro district, Portugal.
senses_topics:
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13114 | word:
attribute
word_type:
noun
expansion:
attribute (plural attributes)
forms:
form:
attributes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
attribute
etymology_text:
From Latin attributus past participle of attribuere.
senses_examples:
text:
His finest attribute is his kindness.
type:
example
text:
The eagle and the bolt of lightning are attributes of Jove.
type:
example
text:
This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.
type:
example
text:
A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.
type:
example
text:
Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.
type:
example
text:
This attribute is used to declare in metadata that the attributed method or class requires SocketPermission of the declared form.
ref:
2003, Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward, C# in a Nutshell, page 536
type:
quotation
text:
[…] you can only carry two objects, your attributes clash when you walk past multi-coloured objects and your enemies fly up and down from the ceiling.
ref:
1987, Marcus Berkmann, Sceptre Of Bagdad (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 17
text:
If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).
ref:
1989, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A characteristic or quality of a thing.
An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.
A word that qualifies a noun.
That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
An option or setting belonging to some object.
A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
13115 | word:
attribute
word_type:
verb
expansion:
attribute (third-person singular simple present attributes, present participle attributing, simple past and past participle attributed)
forms:
form:
attributes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
attributing
tags:
participle
present
form:
attributed
tags:
participle
past
form:
attributed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
attribute
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
attribute
etymology_text:
From Latin attributus past participle of attribuere.
senses_examples:
text:
This poem is attributed to Browning.
type:
example
text:
Hākim's atypical actions should not be attributed to Islam as much as to insanity, which eventually led him to proclaim himself as Allah, whereupon he was murdered by outraged fellow Muslims.
ref:
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 278
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.
senses_topics:
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13116 | word:
Glasgow
word_type:
name
expansion:
Glasgow
forms:
wikipedia:
Glasgow
etymology_text:
From Proto-Brythonic *glas cu (“green hollow”), from *glas (“green”) + *cöü (“hollow”) (for this element see Irish cuas (“hollow”), Welsh cau (“hollow”)); usually romantically translated as "the dear green place." Compare modern Scottish Gaelic Glaschu.
senses_examples:
text:
Central Glasgow is beautiful. Glasgow Central is also beautiful. Opened by the Caledonian Railway in 1879, it was rebuilt in the Edwardian era to a design by Robert Rowand Anderson.
ref:
2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 40
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A major city and council area of Scotland, largest city in Scotland.
A community of the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada.
A community of the town of Caledon, Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario, Canada.
A settlement in Nickerie district, Suriname.
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in San Bernardino County, California.
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in New Castle County, Delaware.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Thomas County, Georgia.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Scott County, Illinois.
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Black Hawk County, Iowa.
A number of places in the United States:
A home rule city, the county seat of Barren County, Kentucky.
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Wabasha County, Minnesota.
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Howard County and Chariton County, Missouri.
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city, the county seat of Valley County, Montana.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Columbiana County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Coos County, Oregon.
A number of places in the United States:
A tiny borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
senses_topics:
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13117 | word:
asiago
word_type:
noun
expansion:
asiago (countable and uncountable, plural asiagos)
forms:
form:
asiagos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named for the northern Italian town of Asiago.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hard Italian cheese similar to parmesan.
senses_topics:
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13118 | word:
hook
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hook (plural hooks)
forms:
form:
hooks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hook
etymology_text:
From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian heak, Dutch haak (“hook”)) (compare West Frisian/Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk); also related to hake.
senses_examples:
text:
“What makes you so sure that nobody knows you've got a hook into him?” Ward asked.
ref:
2020, Joel W. Barrows, Deep Red Cover
type:
quotation
text:
He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook.
type:
example
text:
The hook of Good Boys, Hollywood's latest odyssey of comic adolescent mischief, is that the kids behaving badly are, for once, truly kids.
ref:
2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-03-04
type:
quotation
text:
The song's hook snared me.
type:
example
text:
Guitarist Jade Puget and vocalist Davey Havok have distilled AFI’s strengths (a ferocious, post-hardcore rhythmic backbone; goth-tinctured, post-punky guitars; and Havok’s desperate, dramatic croon) into 14 taut, hook-driven songs.
ref:
2017 January 20, Annie Zaleski, “AFI sounds refreshed and rejuvenated on its 10th album, AFI (The Blood Album)”, in The A.V. Club
type:
quotation
text:
We've added hooks to allow undefined message types to be handled with custom code.
type:
example
text:
In lieu of those unneeded hooks, write code to fail fast and prevent gaps from becoming a problem.
ref:
2015, Rachel Alt-Simmons, Agile by Design, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
Setup plays can also be made when you do not have the needed letter but believe your opponent doesn't know the hook owing to its obscurity.
ref:
2003, Andrew Fisher, David Webb, The Art of Scrabble, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
Common diacritics in Slavonic language are the hook ˇ (as in haček – Czech for ‘hook’) and the stroke ´ (robić – Polish for ‘do/make’).
ref:
2003, Language Issues, XV-XVIII, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
In Czech, palatalization is normally indicated by the symbol ˇ, called haček or “hook.”
ref:
2003, David Adams, The Song and Duet Texts of Antonín Dvořák, page 168
type:
quotation
text:
2004, Keesing’s Record of World Events L:i–xii, page unknown
In detailing the proposed shortening of the Czech Republic to Česko…the hook (hacek) erroneously appeared over the letter “e” instead of the “C”.
text:
He threw a hook in the dirt.
type:
example
text:
However, for pins on the bowler's right, such as the 3, 6, 9, or 10, move more toward the center of the foul line if you bowl a straight ball or slightly to the left of the center of the foul line if you bowl a hook.
ref:
1969, Harold Keith, Sports and Games, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent.
type:
example
text:
American Ward was too quick and too slick for his British rival, landing at will with razor sharp jabs and hooks and even bullying Froch at times.
ref:
2011 December 18, Ben Dirs, “Carl Froch outclassed by dazzling Andre Ward”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
I was talkin' to a couple of the 'hooks' (female prostitutes) I know.
ref:
1983, G. W. Levi Kamel, Downtown Street Hustlers, page 160
type:
quotation
text:
He preceded me to Dartmoor, where I found his fame even more loudly trumpeted than ever, especially by Manchester “hooks” (pickpockets), who boast of being the rivals of the “Cocks,” or Londoners, in the art of obtaining other people's property without paying for it.
ref:
1885, Michael Davitt, Leaves from a Prison Diary, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
"Everybody's a tool over there. Everybody's a hook, except them four guys on the points of the compass. They are eight or ten strong over there." But all professional pickpockets, however expert or however clumsy, operate on the basis of the situation just outlined.
ref:
2003, David W. Maurer, Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
This maneuver involves a sharp turn, back into the hook of the wave.
ref:
1963, Grant W. Kuhns, On Surfing, page 67
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
A snare; a trap.
An advantageous hold.
The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
A field sown two years in succession.
A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
A finesse.
A jack (the playing card).
A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
A ship's anchor.
Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
A háček.
Senses relating to sports.
A curveball.
Senses relating to sports.
a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
Senses relating to sports.
A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
Senses relating to sports.
a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
Senses relating to sports.
A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
Senses relating to sports.
A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
Senses relating to sports.
The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
A prostitute.
A pickpocket.
Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”)
A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
lifestyle
authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
bridge
games
card-games
games
geography
natural-sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
nautical
transport
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Scrabble
board-games
games
media
publishing
typography
media
publishing
typography
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
military
politics
war
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
nautical
transport |
13119 | word:
hook
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hook (third-person singular simple present hooks, present participle hooking, simple past and past participle hooked)
forms:
form:
hooks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hooking
tags:
participle
present
form:
hooked
tags:
participle
past
form:
hooked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
hook
etymology_text:
From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian heak, Dutch haak (“hook”)) (compare West Frisian/Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk); also related to hake.
senses_examples:
text:
Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.
type:
example
text:
The utensil holder hooks onto the side of the dishrack.
type:
example
text:
He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.
type:
example
text:
No one seems to want anything but hooked mats now.
ref:
1917, L M Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams
type:
quotation
text:
He hooked his fingers through his belt loops.
type:
example
text:
She's only here to try to hook a husband.
type:
example
text:
A free trial is a good way to hook customers.
type:
example
text:
If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network.
type:
example
text:
He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth.
type:
example
text:
I watched one episode of that TV series and now I'm hooked.
type:
example
text:
"Hey, Sara! Watch this hook shot!" he shouted as he hooked the ball right through the net—swish!
ref:
2012, Roland Johnson, Jeremya Jones: A King's Kid, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty.
type:
example
text:
The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.
ref:
2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window.
type:
example
text:
10 mins later, at the point where the road hooks sharp to the left, continue straight on through the wood along a mule track […]
ref:
2020, Roman Martin, Azores: The finest coastal and mountain walks, page 229
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To attach a hook to.
To become attached, as by a hook.
To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
To steal.
To connect (hook into, hook together).
To make addicted; to captivate.
To play a hook shot.
To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
To engage in prostitution.
To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
To finesse.
To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
To bend; to be curved.
To move or go with a sudden turn.
senses_topics:
ball-games
basketball
cricket
games
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
ball-games
bowling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Scrabble
board-games
games
bridge
games
|
13120 | word:
phone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
phone (plural phones)
forms:
form:
phones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
phone
etymology_text:
Clipping of telephone; attested by 1884.
senses_examples:
text:
Daragh's on the phone at the moment. He'll call you when he's finished.
type:
example
text:
My phone ran out of battery.
type:
example
text:
There's an old-fashioned phone in the doctor's waiting room - it doesn't work anymore, of course.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.
senses_topics:
|
13121 | word:
phone
word_type:
verb
expansion:
phone (third-person singular simple present phones, present participle phoning, simple past and past participle phoned)
forms:
form:
phones
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
phoning
tags:
participle
present
form:
phoned
tags:
participle
past
form:
phoned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
phone
etymology_text:
Clipping of telephone; attested by 1884.
senses_examples:
text:
Phone me as soon as you land at the airport.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To call (someone) using a telephone.
senses_topics:
|
13122 | word:
phone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
phone (plural phones)
forms:
form:
phones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
phone
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences |
13123 | word:
Nairobi
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nairobi
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Maasai enkare nyrobi (“cold water, cold river”), the name of the Nairobi river.
senses_examples:
text:
By 1899 the railhead had reached the further edge of the Athi Plain at mile 315, and halted while the survey parties went ahead, and a supply base was established at the foot of the hills. This spot has become Nairobi.
ref:
1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Kenya.
senses_topics:
|
13124 | word:
Helsinki
word_type:
name
expansion:
Helsinki
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.
senses_examples:
text:
My doctors didn't want me to go to Helsinki, but staying home wasn't an option. Yeltsin had been reelected and NATO was about to vote to admit Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic; we had to have an agreement on how to proceed.
ref:
2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →OCLC, pages 376–377
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Finland
senses_topics:
|
13125 | word:
insolent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
insolent (comparative more insolent, superlative most insolent)
forms:
form:
more insolent
tags:
comparative
form:
most insolent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*swé
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin īnsolēns (“unaccustomed, unwanted, unusual, immoderate, excessive, arrogant, insolent”), from in- (privative prefix) + solēns, present participle of solēre (“to be accustomed, to be wont”).
senses_examples:
text:
Near-synonyms: arrogant, bold, cocky
text:
Near-synonyms: insubordinate, offensive
text:
insolent behaviour
type:
example
text:
insolent child
type:
example
text:
insolent remark
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Insulting in manner or words, particularly in an arrogant or insubordinate manner.
Rude.
senses_topics:
|
13126 | word:
insolent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
insolent (plural insolents)
forms:
form:
insolents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*swé
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin īnsolēns (“unaccustomed, unwanted, unusual, immoderate, excessive, arrogant, insolent”), from in- (privative prefix) + solēns, present participle of solēre (“to be accustomed, to be wont”).
senses_examples:
text:
Diogenes Laertius reports that Diogenes was apt to take the identification with the dog at face value, as when he lifted his leg and relieved himself on a group of young insolents who teased him with a dog's bone […]
ref:
2010, Louisa Shea, The Cynic Enlightenment: Diogenes in the Salon, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is insolent.
senses_topics:
|
13127 | word:
cruciform
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cruciform
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin crux (“cross”) + -iform.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the shape of a cross.
senses_topics:
|
13128 | word:
cruciform
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cruciform (plural cruciforms)
forms:
form:
cruciforms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin crux (“cross”) + -iform.
senses_examples:
text:
Michael Eaton has discovered that if you visit its websites you will be warned: "Royal Mail, the Royal Mail Cruciform and the colour red are registered trademarks of Royal Mail Group plc."
ref:
2005, New Scientist, volumes 187-188, page 72
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cross shape in DNA; a Holliday junction.
Any emblem in the shape of a cross.
senses_topics:
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
|
13129 | word:
flu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flu (usually uncountable, plural flus)
forms:
form:
flus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Influenza
etymology_text:
Clipping of influenza
senses_examples:
text:
catch flu
type:
example
text:
get over the flu
type:
example
text:
transmit flu
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Influenza.
Stomach flu.
senses_topics:
|
13130 | word:
Port Elizabeth
word_type:
name
expansion:
Port Elizabeth
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
In South Africa, named by Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin after his late wife, Elizabeth.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city and port in Eastern Cape province, South Africa, officially now named Gqeberha.
A town on Bequia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
A census-designated place in Maurice River Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States.
A port or bay on Gilford Island, British Columbia, Canada.
A resettled community in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
senses_topics:
|
13131 | word:
Saint-Pierre
word_type:
name
expansion:
Saint-Pierre
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital of the overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, France.
A town and commune of the overseas department of the Martinique, France.
A town and commune of the overseas department of the Réunion, France.
senses_topics:
|
13132 | word:
bagel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bagel (plural bagels)
forms:
form:
bagels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bagel
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Yiddish בייגל (beygl), ultimately from a diminutive of Middle High German bouc, boug- (“ring, bracelet”), from Old High German boug (“ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *baug, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”).
Compare obsolete English bee, Old English bēag, Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Middle Low German bōg, Old Norse baugr. Also compare dialectal Austrian German Beugel, Beigel. See also beag.
senses_examples:
text:
The Scot, who had been close to a two-set deficit in his semi-final against David Ferrer, avoided the dreaded bagel by seeing off a set point at 5-0 down before finally breaking the Djokovic serve to love as he began to go for his shots with the set seemingly gone.
ref:
2011 January 30, Piers Newbery, “Australian Open: Djokovic too good for Murray in final”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
|
13133 | word:
bagel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bagel (third-person singular simple present bagels, present participle bagelling or (US) bageling, simple past and past participle bagelled or (US) bageled)
forms:
form:
bagels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bagelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
bageling
tags:
US
participle
present
form:
bagelled
tags:
participle
past
form:
bagelled
tags:
past
form:
bageled
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
bageled
tags:
US
past
wikipedia:
bagel
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Yiddish בייגל (beygl), ultimately from a diminutive of Middle High German bouc, boug- (“ring, bracelet”), from Old High German boug (“ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *baug, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”).
Compare obsolete English bee, Old English bēag, Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Middle Low German bōg, Old Norse baugr. Also compare dialectal Austrian German Beugel, Beigel. See also beag.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To achieve a score of 6–0 in a tennis set.
To hold an opponent to a score of zero.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
13134 | word:
bagel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bagel (plural bagels)
forms:
form:
bagels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
“He’s so adorable, Aaron. Part beagle, part basset hound.” “A bagel. Very appropriate.”
ref:
2003, Jeffrey Cohen, A Farewell to Legs: An Aaron Tucker Mystery, Bancroft Press, page 211
type:
quotation
text:
In October, Allan and Rebecca began to care for Marty’s dog Phil more often and adopted the “bagel” (basset and beagle mix breed) when the time came.
ref:
2005, Christina Larson, Marty Is Dead, Protea Publishing, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
The Bagel isn’t necessarily a popular dog, but they seem to appear often enough to be worth mentioning.
ref:
2005, Margaret H. Bonham, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Designer Dogs, Alpha Books, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
The Bagel is a cross between the Beagle and the Basset Hound. Though not as popular as some of the more well-established mixes, the short-coated Bagel has the loving personality one would expect from two Hounds, plus the potential for some stubbornness.
ref:
2010, Dogs All-in-One For Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc., page 601
type:
quotation
text:
Linus was half basset and half beagle hound, thus a bagel.
ref:
2012, G. Terrell Cotter, The Arm of the Lord: End Times Mystery, WestBow Press, Thomas Nelson, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of bagle
senses_topics:
|
13135 | word:
Quito
word_type:
name
expansion:
Quito
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after the Quitu tribe. The name is a combination of two Tsafiki words: quitso (“center”) + to (“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Ecuador.
senses_topics:
|
13136 | word:
Tangiers
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tangiers
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Tangier.
senses_topics:
|
13137 | word:
Quezon City
word_type:
name
expansion:
Quezon City
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after Pres. Manuel Quezon, the 2nd president of the Philippines, whose surname is ultimately from Hokkien. See Quezon & city.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines.
senses_topics:
|
13138 | word:
rash
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rash (comparative rasher, superlative rashest)
forms:
form:
rasher
tags:
comparative
form:
rashest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The adjective is derived from Middle English rash, rasch (“hasty, headstrong, rash”) [and other forms], probably from Old English *ræsċ (“rash”) (found in derivatives such as ræsċan (“to move rapidly; to flicker; to flash; to glitter; to quiver”), ræsċettan (“to crackle, sparkle”), etc.), from Proto-West Germanic *rask, *raskī, *rasku, from Proto-Germanic *raskaz, *raskuz, *raþskaz, *raþskuz (“rash; rapid”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run, roll”). The Middle English word was probably influenced by the cognates listed below.
The adverb is derived from Middle English rashe (“quickly, rapidly”), from rash, rasch (adjective) (see above).
cognates
* Dutch ras, rasch (“rash”)
* Middle Low German rasch (“rash”)
* Old Danish rask (“agile, nimble; fast; healthy, vigorous”) (modern Danish rask (“agile, nimble; fast; healthy, vigorous; hasty, rash”))
* Old High German reski (“impetuous, rash”) (Middle High German rasch, resch (“agile, nimble; fast; lively; healthy, vigorous”), modern German rasch, räsch, resch (“agile, nimble; fast; hasty, rash; healthy, vigorous; of food: crisp, crusty”))
* Old Norse rǫskr (“brave; healthy, vigorous”) (Icelandic röskur (“strong; healthy, vigorous”))
* Old Swedish rasker (“agile, nimble; brave; fast; vigorous”) (modern Swedish rask (“agile, nimble; fast; healthy, vigorous”))
senses_examples:
text:
rash words spoken in the heat of debate
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acting too quickly without considering the consequences and risks; not careful; hasty.
Of corn or other grains: so dry as to fall out of the ear with handling.
Requiring swift action; pressing; urgent.
Taking effect quickly and strongly; fast-acting.
senses_topics:
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13139 | word:
rash
word_type:
adv
expansion:
rash (comparative more rash, superlative most rash)
forms:
form:
more rash
tags:
comparative
form:
most rash
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The adjective is derived from Middle English rash, rasch (“hasty, headstrong, rash”) [and other forms], probably from Old English *ræsċ (“rash”) (found in derivatives such as ræsċan (“to move rapidly; to flicker; to flash; to glitter; to quiver”), ræsċettan (“to crackle, sparkle”), etc.), from Proto-West Germanic *rask, *raskī, *rasku, from Proto-Germanic *raskaz, *raskuz, *raþskaz, *raþskuz (“rash; rapid”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run, roll”). The Middle English word was probably influenced by the cognates listed below.
The adverb is derived from Middle English rashe (“quickly, rapidly”), from rash, rasch (adjective) (see above).
cognates
* Dutch ras, rasch (“rash”)
* Middle Low German rasch (“rash”)
* Old Danish rask (“agile, nimble; fast; healthy, vigorous”) (modern Danish rask (“agile, nimble; fast; healthy, vigorous; hasty, rash”))
* Old High German reski (“impetuous, rash”) (Middle High German rasch, resch (“agile, nimble; fast; lively; healthy, vigorous”), modern German rasch, räsch, resch (“agile, nimble; fast; hasty, rash; healthy, vigorous; of food: crisp, crusty”))
* Old Norse rǫskr (“brave; healthy, vigorous”) (Icelandic röskur (“strong; healthy, vigorous”))
* Old Swedish rasker (“agile, nimble; brave; fast; vigorous”) (modern Swedish rask (“agile, nimble; fast; healthy, vigorous”))
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of rashly (“in a rash manner; hastily or without due consideration”)
senses_topics:
|
13140 | word:
rash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rash (plural rashes)
forms:
form:
rashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from Old French rasche, rache (“skin eruption, rash; (specifically) scabies, scurf”) (obsolete), from racher (“to scrape; to scratch”) (although this is only directly attested later than the noun), from Vulgar Latin *rāsicāre (“to scrape”), from Latin rāsus (“scraped, scratched; shaved”), the perfect passive participle of rādō (“to scrape, scratch; to shave; to rub, smooth; to brush along, graze”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁d- (“to scrape, scratch; to gnaw”). Doublet of rase and raze.
cognates
* French rash, rach (“skin eruption, rash”) (rare) (borrowed from English rash)
* Italian rasca, raschia (“skin eruption like scabies”) (obsolete) (both borrowed from Old Occitan)
* Old Occitan rasca (“skin eruption like scabies”)
senses_examples:
text:
He came out in a rash because of an allergy.
type:
example
text:
She applied rash cream on herself to reduce the irritation.
type:
example
text:
A wet cloth should help with the rash on your arm.
type:
example
text:
There has been a rash of vandalism lately.
type:
example
text:
Until the recent rash of North London line maps appeared on station billboards in the London area of BR, the service undoubtedly suffered from meagre and ineffectual publicity.
ref:
1964 July, “News and Comment: The Broad Street-Richmond line”, in Modern Railways, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
Science has tried and failed to come to a consensus about the hygienic superiority of one product over the other. Even so, the paper towel industry has funded or promoted a rash of studies claiming that hand dryers turn bathrooms into mosh pits of pathogens.
ref:
2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An area of inflamed and irritated skin characterized by reddened spots that may be filled with fluid or pus; also, preceded by a descriptive word (rare or obsolete), an illness characterized by a type of rash.
An irregular distribution or sprinkling of objects resembling a rash (sense 1).
An outbreak or surge in problems; a spate, string, or trend.
senses_topics:
dermatology
medicine
sciences
|
13141 | word:
rash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rash (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Oxford English Dictionary
etymology_text:
Uncertain; the word is similar to other words from Germanic or Romance languages listed in the table below, but the connection between the English word and those words is unclear. One suggestion is that they ultimately derive from the town of Arras in France, known for its cloth and wool industries (whence arras (“tapestry, wall hanging”)); compare German Rasch (“lightly woven silk or (usually) worsted fabric”) (said to be from Middle High German arrasch (“arras”), and ultimately from the name of the town), and the obsolete names for the fabric, Catalan drap de arraz, drap d'Arraç, Italian paño de ras (literally “cloth of Arras”). The Oxford English Dictionary states that even if rash did not originally derive from Arras, the name of the town could have influenced the English word.
possible cognates
* Catalan ras (“smooth fabric woven from silk”) (also raç (obsolete))
* Danish rask (“thin, coarse woollen cloth usually made from worsted”) (also rasch (obsolete), derived from German)
* Dutch ras (“woven silk or (usually) worsted fabric”) (also rasch (obsolete, rare), rass (obsolete))
* Middle French ras (modern French ras (“various types of short-nap cloth”))
* German Rasch, Low German Rasch (“lightly woven silk or (usually) worsted fabric”) (archaic or historical)
* Italian raso (“smooth fabric woven from silk”), rascia (“serge”)
* Late Latin rasum (“some form of fabric”), pannus rasus (“satin”)
* Old Occitan ras (modern Occitan ras (“smooth fabric woven from silk”); also rac (obsolete))
* Spanish raso (“smooth fabric woven from silk; other types of fabric”)
* Swedish rask (“thin woollen cloth usually made from worsted; similar cloth made from silk”) (also rasch (archaic), rass (obsolete))
senses_examples:
text:
cloth rash silk rash
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a fabric with a smooth texture woven from silk, worsted, or a mixture of the two, intended as an inferior substitute for silk.
senses_topics:
|
13142 | word:
rash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rash (plural rashes)
forms:
form:
rashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Imitative.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A soft crackling or rustling sound.
senses_topics:
|
13143 | word:
rash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rash (third-person singular simple present rashes, present participle rashing, simple past and past participle rashed)
forms:
form:
rashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
rashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
rashed
tags:
past
form:
or obsolete
tags:
Scotland
archaic
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English rashen, rassh (“to hasten, hurry, rush”) [and other forms], from Old English ræscan (“to move rapidly; to flicker; to flash; to glitter; to quiver”); see further at etymology 1.
probable cognates
* Dutch rasschen, rassen (“to hasten, hurry, rush”) (obsolete)
* Old Norse raska (“to dislodge, displace; to stir up”) (Swedish raska (“to hurry; to act carelessly or hastily”))
senses_examples:
text:
Fair lordes sayd syre Launcelot leue your noyse and your rassyng and I shalle sette open this dore and thenne may ye doo with me what it lyketh yow.
"Fair lords, said Sir Launcelot, leave your noise and your rashing, and I shall set open this door, and then may ye do with me what it liketh you."
ref:
1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XX, Chapter iv, leaf 401v
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To forcefully move or push (someone or something) in a certain direction.
To break (something) forcefully; to smash.
To emit or issue (something) hastily.
Usually followed by up: to prepare (something) with haste; to cobble together, to improvise.
To move forcefully, hastily, or suddenly; to dash, to rush.
Of rain: to fall heavily.
Chiefly followed by against, at, or upon: to collide or hit.
senses_topics:
|
13144 | word:
rash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rash (third-person singular simple present rashes, present participle rashing, simple past and past participle rashed)
forms:
form:
rashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
rashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
rashed
tags:
past
form:
or obsolete
tags:
archaic
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*wréh₂ds
Probably an aphetic form of arace (“to tear up by the roots; to draw away”) (obsolete), from Middle English aracen (“to remove (something) by force, pluck or pull out, tear out; to grab; to lacerate; to flay or skin (an animal); to erase, obliterate”) [and other forms], from Old French aracer, arachier (“to pull off (by physical force)”) [and other forms] (whence Anglo-Norman racher, aracher (“to pluck out, pull out”); modern French arracher (“to pull up, tear out, uproot; to extract, take out (a tooth); to peel, pull off, rip off; to buy, snap up; to fight over; to tear (oneself) away from”)), a variant of esrachier (“to eradicate, get rid of”), from Latin exrādīcāre, ērādīcāre, the present active infinitive of ērādīcō (“to root out; to annihilate, extirpate”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + rādīx (“root of a plant”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Chiefly followed by away, down, off, out, etc.: to pluck, pull, or rip (something) violently.
senses_topics:
|
13145 | word:
rash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rash (third-person singular simple present rashes, present participle rashing, simple past and past participle rashed)
forms:
form:
rashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
rashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
rashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably a variant of race, raze (“to demolish; to destroy, obliterate; to scrape as if with a razor”), possibly modelled after rash (etymology 5 or etymology 6). Raze is derived from Middle English rasen, racen, rase (“to scrape; to shave; to erase; to pull; to strip off; to pluck or tear out; to root out (a tree, etc.); to pull away, snatch; to pull down; to knock down; to rend, tear apart; to pick clean, strip; to cleave, slice; to sever; to lacerate; to pierce; to carve, engrave; to dig; (figuratively) to expunge, obliterate; to alter”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman raser, rasere, rasser, Middle French, Old French raser (“to shave; to touch lightly, graze; to level off (grain, etc.) in a measure; to demolish, tear down; to erase; to polish; to wear down”), from Vulgar Latin *raso (“to shave; to scrape; to scratch; to touch lightly, graze”), from Latin rāsus (“scraped; shaved”); see further at etymology 2.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hack, slash, or slice (something).
Chiefly followed by out: to scrape or scratch (something); to obliterate.
senses_topics:
|
13146 | word:
SNAFU
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
SNAFU
forms:
wikipedia:
SNAFU
etymology_text:
The term was born during the Second World War as an acronym of the initials of the words situation normal, all fucked up, which summed up the chaos and confusion of the war from an individual soldier’s point of view.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of status nominal all fucked up or situation normal all fucked up (fouled up)
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
13147 | word:
SNAFU
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SNAFU (plural SNAFUs)
forms:
form:
SNAFUs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
SNAFU
etymology_text:
The term was born during the Second World War as an acronym of the initials of the words situation normal, all fucked up, which summed up the chaos and confusion of the war from an individual soldier’s point of view.
senses_examples:
text:
2007, Susan Glairon, Paperwork SNAFU, The Daily Times-Call, LongmontFYI
Because of a paperwork snafu, he also hasn’t been able to get his Army discharge papers and is still listed as an active-duty soldier…
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ridiculously chaotic situation.
A major glitch or breakdown.
senses_topics:
|
13148 | word:
operation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
operation (countable and uncountable, plural operations)
forms:
form:
operations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French operation, from Old French operacion, from Latin operātiō, from the verb operor (“I work”), from opus, operis (“work”). Equivalent to operate + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation.
type:
example
text:
The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
text:
The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.
text:
We run our operation from a storefront.
type:
example
text:
They run a multinational produce-supply operation.
type:
example
text:
She had an operation to remove her appendix.
type:
example
text:
This done, ſhe performs the very ſame Operation on the other Side of the Cock's Body, and there takes out the other Stone; then ſhe ſtitches up the Wounds, and lets the Fowl go about as at other Times, till the Capon is fatted in a Coup, which is commonly done from Chriſtmas to Candlemas, and after.
ref:
1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion […], London: James Hodges; B. Collins, →OCLC, page 157
type:
quotation
text:
The number of operands associated with an operation is called its arity; an operation of arity 2 is called a binary operation.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The method by which a device performs its function.
The method or practice by which actions are done.
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
A planned undertaking.
A business or organization.
A surgical procedure.
A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands)
A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands)
a function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.
A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
Effect produced; influence.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
computing
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
government
military
politics
war
|
13149 | word:
profit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
profit (countable and uncountable, plural profits)
forms:
form:
profits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
profit
etymology_text:
From Middle English profit, from Old French profit (Modern French profit), from Latin prōfectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”), from proficiō (“to go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful”). Doublet of profect.
senses_examples:
text:
Let no man anticipate uncertain profits.
ref:
1750 Oct. 2, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
text:
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives... Of course, it isn't put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all put our shoulders to the wheel," but the profits jump and leap and skyrocket—and are safely pocketed.
ref:
1935, Smedley Butler, War Is a Racket, page 1 & 7
type:
quotation
text:
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
ref:
2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
Reading such an enlightening book on the subject was of much profit to his studies.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
Benefit, positive result obtained.
Ellipsis of profit à prendre.
senses_topics:
accounting
business
economics
finance
sciences
law
property |
13150 | word:
profit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
profit (third-person singular simple present profits, present participle profiting, simple past and past participle profited)
forms:
form:
profits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
profiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
profited
tags:
participle
past
form:
profited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
profit
etymology_text:
From Middle English profit, from Old French profit (Modern French profit), from Latin prōfectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”), from proficiō (“to go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful”). Doublet of profect.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).
To benefit, gain.
To take advantage of, exploit, use.
senses_topics:
|
13151 | word:
hallmark
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hallmark (plural hallmarks)
forms:
form:
hallmarks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Goldsmiths' Hall
hallmark
etymology_text:
1721. hall + mark, from Goldsmiths' Hall in London, the site of the assay office, official stamp of purity in gold and silver articles. The general sense of “mark of quality” first recorded 1864. Use as a verb from 1773.
senses_examples:
text:
In everything Brent said and did and wore, in all his movements, gestures, expressions, there was the unmistakable hallmark of the man worth while.
ref:
a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
type:
quotation
text:
Arsene Wenger's side showed little of the style and fluidity that is their hallmark but this was about digging deep and getting the job done, qualities they demonstrated and that will serve them well as the season reaches its climax.
ref:
2011 February 1, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Everton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
It can highlight our embodiment, a qualitative step away from the hallmark machines that work so resolutely to disembody us.
ref:
2007, John Zerzan John, Silence
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A distinguishing characteristic.
An official marking made by a trusted party, usually an assay office, on items made of precious metals.
senses_topics:
|
13152 | word:
hallmark
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hallmark (third-person singular simple present hallmarks, present participle hallmarking, simple past and past participle hallmarked)
forms:
form:
hallmarks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hallmarking
tags:
participle
present
form:
hallmarked
tags:
participle
past
form:
hallmarked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Goldsmiths' Hall
hallmark
etymology_text:
1721. hall + mark, from Goldsmiths' Hall in London, the site of the assay office, official stamp of purity in gold and silver articles. The general sense of “mark of quality” first recorded 1864. Use as a verb from 1773.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To provide or stamp with a hallmark.
senses_topics:
|
13153 | word:
nexus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nexus (countable and uncountable, plural nexuses or nexusses or (rare) nexus)
forms:
form:
nexuses
tags:
plural
form:
nexusses
tags:
plural
form:
nexus
tags:
plural
rare
wikipedia:
process philosophy
etymology_text:
From Latin nexus (“connection, nexus; act of binding, tying or fastening together; something which binds, binding, bond, fastening, joint; legal obligation”), from nectō (“to attach, bind, connect, fasten, tie; to interweave; to relate; to unite; to bind by obligation, make liable, oblige; to compose, contrive, devise, produce”) + -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns).
senses_examples:
text:
Sunday's election pits Move Forward and the billionaire Shinawatra family's Pheu Thai against ruling parties backed by a nexus of old money, conservatives and generals with influence over key institutions involved in two decades of upheaval in Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy.
ref:
2023 May 14, Panarat Thepgumpanat, Panu Wongcha-um, “Thailand's opposition opens up big election lead as army parties slide”, in Reuters
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A form or state of connection.
A form or state of connection.
The relationship between a vendor and a jurisdiction for the purpose of taxation, established for example by the vendor operating a physical store in that jurisdiction.
A connected group; a network, a web.
A centre or focus of something.
In the work of the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen (1860–1943): a group of words expressing two concepts in one unit (such as a clause or sentence).
A person who had contracted a nexum or obligation of such a kind that, if they failed to pay, their creditor could compel them to work as a servant until the debt was paid; an indentured servant.
senses_topics:
business
finance
law
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
law |
13154 | word:
staff
word_type:
noun
expansion:
staff (countable and uncountable, plural staffs or staves or staff)
forms:
form:
staffs
head_nr:
1
tags:
plural
form:
staves
head_nr:
1
tags:
plural
form:
staff
head_nr:
1
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Token (railway signalling)#Staff and ticket
staff
etymology_text:
From Middle English staf, from Old English stæf (“letter of the alphabet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stab, from Proto-Germanic *stabaz. Cognate with Dutch staf, German Stab, Swedish stav.
Sense of "group of military officers that assists a commander" and similar meanings, attested from 1702, is influenced by or is even from German Stab.
senses_examples:
text:
The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.
ref:
1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings
type:
quotation
text:
The company employed 10 new members of staff this month.
type:
example
text:
The company has taken on 1600 more highly-paid staff.
type:
example
text:
No department of the Southern Railway escaped some share of the work involved, and the outdoor traffic and locomotive staffs in particular were engaged literally night and day, snatching a few hours' sleep as opportunity offered, until the task was completed.
ref:
1940 July, “Notes and News: A Magnificent Transport Achievement”, in Railway Magazine, page 419
type:
quotation
text:
Most staff do not have the skills to cope with such challenging patients, who too often receive "impersonal" care and suffer from boredom, the first National Audit of Dementia found. It says hospitals should introduce "dementia champions".
ref:
2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
It turns out that, in journalistic terms, and especially at the FT, where many staff see out their entire careers, seven years is nothing.
ref:
2023 November 25, Rebecca Rose, “How old is too old for a profile pic?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
a constable's staff
type:
example
text:
I ascend at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves.
ref:
1739, John Campbell, The Travels and Adventures of Edward Bevan, Esq.
type:
quotation
text:
The train-staff and ticket system was used widely at one time, until superseded by electrical token systems, the first of which, the tablet system, appeared in 1878, […].
ref:
1946 July and August, “Wise's Train Staff”, in Railway Magazine, page 214
type:
quotation
text:
The first up train was the morning semi-fast ex Buncrana, which sped through with No. 8 at its head, adroitly exchanging staffs at about 15 m.p.h. […] The next train through Tooban was our opposite number, and we duly received the vital staff.
ref:
1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 355
type:
quotation
text:
The unusual rolling stock, the fare collection methods, and the exchange of train staffs make it quite clear that here is something out of the ordinary run of suburban electric lines.
ref:
1951 November, R. K. Kirkland, “The Wimbledon and West Croydon Line of the Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 726
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.
The employees of a business.
A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.ᵂ
A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
The rung of a ladder.
A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.
A form of token once used, in combination with a ticket, for safe train movements between two points on a single line.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
medicine
sciences
surgery
government
military
politics
war
rail-transport
railways
transport |
13155 | word:
staff
word_type:
verb
expansion:
staff (third-person singular simple present staffs, present participle staffing, simple past and past participle staffed)
forms:
form:
staffs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
staffing
tags:
participle
present
form:
staffed
tags:
participle
past
form:
staffed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
staff
etymology_text:
From Middle English staf, from Old English stæf (“letter of the alphabet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stab, from Proto-Germanic *stabaz. Cognate with Dutch staf, German Stab, Swedish stav.
Sense of "group of military officers that assists a commander" and similar meanings, attested from 1702, is influenced by or is even from German Stab.
senses_examples:
text:
Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed and staffed by the Bernese Oberland group.
ref:
1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 750
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members.
senses_topics:
|
13156 | word:
staff
word_type:
noun
expansion:
staff
forms:
wikipedia:
staff
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of staph.
senses_topics:
|
13157 | word:
Padua
word_type:
name
expansion:
Padua
forms:
wikipedia:
Padua
etymology_text:
From Italian Padova, from Latin Patavium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Veneto, Italy.
A city, the capital of Padua, Veneto.
senses_topics:
|
13158 | word:
Silesia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Silesia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Two theories are prominent: a relation to the Germanic Silingi tribe, whose name is attested in Ancient Greek Σιλίγγαι (Silíngai). Or, from Old Polish ślęg, śląg meaning "dampness, humidity, moisture." More at Ślęża and Silesia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A region in central Europe, now chiefly in Poland, with small portions in the Czech Republic and Germany, from early modernity until 1945 predominantly German-speaking with Slavic-speaking minorities (and local majorities).
senses_topics:
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13159 | word:
furnace
word_type:
noun
expansion:
furnace (plural furnaces)
forms:
form:
furnaces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English forneys, from Old French fornais (French fournaise), from Latin fornāx.
senses_examples:
text:
Plans for the next phase include furnaces capable of inert atmospheres and partial vacuums.
type:
example
text:
HVAC services include furnace maintenance.
type:
example
text:
The busy kitchen became a sweltering furnace.
type:
example
text:
forged in the furnace of fierce competition
type:
example
text:
For that heroic band—those children of the furnace who, in regions like Texas and Tennessee, maintained their fidelity through terrible trials—we of the North felt for them, and profoundly we honor them.
ref:
1866, Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Supplement
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An industrial heating device, such as for smelting metal or firing ceramics.
A device that provides heat for a building.
Any area that is excessively hot.
A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
senses_topics:
|
13160 | word:
furnace
word_type:
verb
expansion:
furnace (third-person singular simple present furnaces, present participle furnacing, simple past and past participle furnaced)
forms:
form:
furnaces
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
furnacing
tags:
participle
present
form:
furnaced
tags:
participle
past
form:
furnaced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English forneys, from Old French fornais (French fournaise), from Latin fornāx.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To heat in a furnace.
To exhale like a furnace.
senses_topics:
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13161 | word:
coefficient
word_type:
adj
expansion:
coefficient (comparative more coefficient, superlative most coefficient)
forms:
form:
more coefficient
tags:
comparative
form:
most coefficient
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
coefficient
etymology_text:
From French coefficient. Coined by French mathematician François Viète. Or influenced by (New) Latin coefficient-, which is the stem of coefficiens, which is a substantivation of the present active participle of coefficio, which comes from co- and efficio.
senses_examples:
text:
And so our own idea of Christ compels us to admit that two factors, the one natural, the other supernatural, were coefficient in his entrance into human life;
ref:
1850, August Neander, The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical ..., page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Nevertheless, there was some substance to the notion that acclaim and merit were coefficient.
ref:
2005, Mathew Callahan, Boff Whalley, The Trouble with Music, page 12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cooperating.
senses_topics:
|
13162 | word:
coefficient
word_type:
noun
expansion:
coefficient (plural coefficients)
forms:
form:
coefficients
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
coefficient
etymology_text:
From French coefficient. Coined by French mathematician François Viète. Or influenced by (New) Latin coefficient-, which is the stem of coefficiens, which is a substantivation of the present active participle of coefficio, which comes from co- and efficio.
senses_examples:
text:
Notice that many of the terms of the matrices [Sᵉ] (e = 1, 2, 3) vanish. We call the non-vanishing coefficients of the matrix [Sᵉ] the stiffness coefficients of element e and we denote them by Kᵣₛᵉ.
ref:
2016, Anthony E. Armenàkas, Advanced Mechanics of Materials and Applied Elasticity, CRC Press, page 681
type:
quotation
text:
Definition 3.7. A lattice Λ is called an integral lattice if its Gram matrix has coefficients in ℤ.
ref:
2004, Frédérique Oggier, Emanuele Viterbo, Algebraic Number Theory and Code Design for Rayleigh Fading Channels, Now Publishers Inc, page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A constant by which an algebraic term is multiplied.
An entry of a matrix.
A number, value, or item that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
|
13163 | word:
La Paz
word_type:
name
expansion:
La Paz
forms:
wikipedia:
La Paz
La Paz Department (Bolivia)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Bolivia.
A department in Bolivia. Capital: La Paz.
The capital of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur.
A ghost town in La Paz County, Arizona, United States.
A neighbourhood of Keene, Kern County, California, United States.
A town in North Township, Marshall County, Indiana, United States, named after the Bolivian city.
A department of El Salvador
senses_topics:
|
13164 | word:
Baghdad
word_type:
name
expansion:
Baghdad
forms:
wikipedia:
Baghdad
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Arabic بَغْدَاد (baḡdād), from Classical Persian بَغْدَاد (bağdād) (see there for more).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Iraq.
A governorate of Iraq.
senses_topics:
|
13165 | word:
per annum
word_type:
prep_phrase
expansion:
per annum
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Late Latin per annum, English from the 16th century.
senses_examples:
text:
Areas of no more than ten acres of crown land may be granted as bee-arms on annual licenses, the rent being one shilling an acre per annum.
ref:
1918, International Review of Agricultural Economics, volume 9, page 917
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a year.
For a year.
senses_topics:
|
13166 | word:
banal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
banal (comparative more banal or banaler, superlative most banal or banalest)
forms:
form:
more banal
tags:
comparative
form:
banaler
tags:
comparative
form:
most banal
tags:
superlative
form:
banalest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French banal (“held in common, relating to feudal service, by extension commonplace”), from Old French banel, related to Medieval Latin bannālis (“subject to feudal authority”), from Latin bannus (“jurisdiction”), both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to order, summon, forbid”). Equivalent to ban + -al. See also ban, abandon.
senses_examples:
text:
One of the most banal scenes is suddenly invested with so much meaning! All these banalities - They're suddenly turned into these… these beautiful, effervescent pearls. From Music.
ref:
2013, John Carney, Begin Again (motion picture), spoken by Dan (Mark Ruffalo)
type:
quotation
text:
They arrived in 1732, and were distributed gratis to the more important banal mills.
ref:
1926, Thomas Guérin, Feudal Canada: The Story of the Seigniories of New France, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
French historians have viewed these policies as efforts to replace the banal authority inherited from the Carolingians […]
ref:
1984, C. Warren Hollister, “War and Diplomacy in the Anglo-Norman world: the reign of Henry I”, in Anglo-Norman Studies VI: Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 1983, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
To what extent were banal lords accountable to a prince or a king for their unrestricted exercise of public authority?
ref:
2002, Wim Blockmans, Peter Hoppenbrouwers, Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500, page 138
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.
Relating to a type of feudal jurisdiction or service.
senses_topics:
|
13167 | word:
newbie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
newbie (plural newbies)
forms:
form:
newbies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
newbie
etymology_text:
Uncertain: perhaps an alteration of newie with intrusive b (compare freebie), possibly a blend of newborn + baby, or perhaps a shortening of new boy or new beginner.
senses_examples:
text:
If you find that you would prefer using the new printer most of the time, while using the original only when needed, you can make the newbie the default printer for your system.
ref:
2005, Rickford Grant, Linux Made Easy: The Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users, San Francisco: No Starch Press, page 155
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A newcomer, someone new to something.
A new user or participant; someone who is extremely new and inexperienced (to a game or activity). A beginner.
Anything recently introduced into a setting, especially something that replaces an older version.
senses_topics:
|
13168 | word:
Polynesia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Polynesia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French Polynésie, coined by Charles de Brosses in 1756, from Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”). According to Moon Handbooks Tahiti, de Brosses first used the term to refer to all Pacific islands. The present restricted use was established by J. S. C. Dumont d'Urville in 1832.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A region of Oceania, including Easter Island, Hawaii, New Zealand, and most of the islands between them.
senses_topics:
|
13169 | word:
operator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
operator (countable and uncountable, plural operators)
forms:
form:
operators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin operatōr, from operor (“work, labour”). Equivalent to operate + -or.
senses_examples:
text:
Francis Urquhart: I think Lord Billsborough is starting to lose touch a bit.
Tim Stamper: Shame. Used to be a hell of an operator in his day.
ref:
1990, House of Cards, season 1, episode 1
type:
quotation
text:
In the sentence "What did Bill say he wants to buy?", "what" is an operator, binding a phonetically empty variable.
type:
example
text:
Sir Ol. Sirrah! I got many a round Sum by it, when my Father wou'd not give me a Groat—Then, Sir, I was in with all the Top Gameſters, and when there was a fat Squire to be fleec'd; I had my Office among them too, and tho' I ſay it, was one of the neateſt Operators about Town.
ref:
1709 January 11, Colley Cibber, “The Rival Fools: […]”, in Mr. Cibber's Plays, volume II, London: […] B. Lintot […], published 1721, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
Hank was saying, "Lyssa showed me the screenshots of Nate's accounts, so we know he's helping himself to Nate's money every month. The guy's a real operator."
ref:
2016, C. T. Collier, Planted, Scottsdale, A.Z.: Asdee Press, page 301
type:
quotation
text:
I give credit to men who are great operators, as we once called them, with the girls. Once I was interviewing one of the most beautiful girls in the world in her suite at the Hotel Plaza. While she was busily denying to me that there was anything serious in her relationship with Warren Beatty, who should be barging into the next room of the suite with a lot of clothes being removed from another suite, but Warren Beatty?
ref:
1974, Earl Wilson, Show Business Laid Bare, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 188
type:
quotation
text:
"Of course you're right, but the Baron is unfortunately a bit of an operator, if you know what I mean. He likes the ladies," said Salvatore with a wicked grin. "So he never gets in until two, sometimes even three in the morning, and that's because he goes dancing at the Mela; he's quite a playboy."
ref:
1988 [1977], Luciano De Crescenzo, translated by Avril Bardoni, Thus Spake Bellavista: Naples, Love, and Liberty, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, page 101
type:
quotation
text:
Anyway, there's gonna be plenty of girls. Plenty of girls for an operator like you.
ref:
1996, George P. Pelecanos, The Big Blowdown, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, page 298
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who operates.
A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections.
A member of a military special operations unit.
The game of Chinese whispers.
A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.
A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range.
The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.
A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.
A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.
A bus driver.
A thief or charlatan.
A major criminal.
Someone who is successful at pursuing women; a player.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
transport
|
13170 | word:
Durban
word_type:
name
expansion:
Durban (countable and uncountable, plural Durbans)
forms:
form:
Durbans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Benjamin D'Urban
en:Durban
en:Durban (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From D'Urban, from French d’Urbain, from Urbain, from Latin Urbanus, from urbanis, from urbs.
* The city in South Africa is named after Benjamin D'Urban.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city and seaport in KwaZulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa.
A surname.
senses_topics:
|
13171 | word:
antique white
word_type:
noun
expansion:
antique white (countable and uncountable, plural antique whites)
forms:
form:
antique whites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
antique white:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A creamy white colour.
senses_topics:
|
13172 | word:
antique white
word_type:
adj
expansion:
antique white (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a creamy white colour.
senses_topics:
|
13173 | word:
Montevideo
word_type:
name
expansion:
Montevideo
forms:
wikipedia:
Montevideo
etymology_text:
There is general agreement that the first two syllables come from Spanish or Portuguese monte (“hill”), in reference to the prominent hill to the west of the city. Beyond that, explanations differ. Two of the most popular stories are that the name comes from a reading of the abbreviated MONTE-VI-D-E-O ("sixth hill from east to west"), or that it comes from a Portuguese sailor's shout of "Monte vide eu".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Uruguay.
A city, the county seat of Chippewa County, Minnesota, United States.
senses_topics:
|
13174 | word:
york
word_type:
verb
expansion:
york (third-person singular simple present yorks, present participle yorking, simple past and past participle yorked)
forms:
form:
yorks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
yorking
tags:
participle
present
form:
yorked
tags:
participle
past
form:
yorked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from yorker.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to bowl a yorker at a batsman, especially to get a batsman out in this way.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
13175 | word:
york
word_type:
verb
expansion:
york (third-person singular simple present yorks, present participle yorking, simple past and past participle yorked)
forms:
form:
yorks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
yorking
tags:
participle
present
form:
yorked
tags:
participle
past
form:
yorked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Perhaps imitative.
senses_examples:
text:
BADGER: They're eating blueberry pies... […] Okay, finally, Kirk, he can't take it anymore. He yorks! Now it's just down to Chekov and Spock.
ref:
2013, Breaking Bad (TV series), "Blood Money" (episode)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To vomit.
senses_topics:
|
13176 | word:
Valparaiso
word_type:
name
expansion:
Valparaiso
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish Valparaíso, from val (short for valle (“valley”)) + paraíso (“paradise”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Valparaíso; a port city in Chile.
A city in Florida.
A city, the county seat of Porter County, Indiana.
A village in Nebraska.
A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
senses_topics:
|
13177 | word:
Crete
word_type:
name
expansion:
Crete
forms:
wikipedia:
Crete
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krḗtē).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island in the Mediterranean, and the largest in Greece.
One of the thirteen peripheries of Greece, consisting of Chania, Iraklion, Lasithi and Rethymno.
senses_topics:
|
13178 | word:
Crete
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Crete (plural Cretes)
forms:
form:
Cretes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krḗtē).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Cretan.
senses_topics:
|
13179 | word:
Nicosia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nicosia
forms:
wikipedia:
Nicosia
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin and Old French Nicosia, from Byzantine Greek Λευκωσία (Leukōsía), variant of Λευκουσία (Leukousía), equivalent to λευκός (leukós, “white”) or λεύκη (leúkē, “poplar”) + οὐσία (ousía, “property, estate”), but deriving from various Ancient Greek forms including Λευτεῶν (Leuteôn), Λευκοθέον (Leukothéon), and Λευκούπολις (Leukoúpolis) adapting an early or pre-Greek name variously recorded as Λέδραι (Lédrai), Λῆδρον (Lêdron), Λεδρῶν (Ledrôn), Λήδρα (Lḗdra), etc. Doublet of Lefkosia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus.
A district of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus around the city.
A comune in Enna province, Sicily, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13180 | word:
ecology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ecology (countable and uncountable, plural ecologies)
forms:
form:
ecologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Ernst Haeckel
ecology
etymology_text:
Calque of German Ökologie (coined in 1866 by Ernst Haeckel), from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”). By surface analysis, eco- + -logy.
senses_examples:
text:
As a graduate student, he was working on a thesis: The Ecology of the Black Creek Area. He had to investigate the relationships, past and present, of men and plants and animals in this region.
ref:
1949, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
type:
quotation
text:
As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
ref:
2012 January 24, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2013-10-03, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
social ecology
type:
example
text:
linguistic ecology
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
Any study of the relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.
The totality or pattern of relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
|
13181 | word:
Munich
word_type:
name
expansion:
Munich
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German München.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital and largest city of Bavaria, Germany.
senses_topics:
|
13182 | word:
tangent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tangent (plural tangents)
forms:
form:
tangents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tangent
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin tangentem, the accusative of tangēns (“touching”) (in the phrase līnea tangēns (“a touching line”)), the present participle of the verb tangō (“touch”, verb), from Proto-Italic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- (“to touch”).
Cognate with Old English þaccian (“to touch lightly, pat, stroke”). More at thack, thwack.
senses_examples:
text:
One feature of the body, which is constructed of pressed-steel members, is the contour of the sides. They are in the form of a continuous radius from the bottom side to the cant rail, and to enable flat glass windows to be fitted the side panels are pressed around the window opening, forming a tangent to the curved bodyside.
ref:
1951 May, “British Railways Standard Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 327
type:
quotation
text:
I believe we went off onto a tangent when we started talking about monkeys on unicycles at his retirement party.
text:
“Uncle Barnaby was always father and mother to me,” Benson broke in; then after a pause his mind flew off at a tangent. “Is old Hannah all right—in the will, I mean?”
ref:
1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 1, in Well Tackled!
type:
quotation
text:
2009: Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22ⁿᵈ of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”
Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a show based on two facts: (1) Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and (2) the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there.
A function of an angle that gives the ratio of the sine to the cosine, in either the real or complex numbers. Symbols: tan, tg.
A topic nearly unrelated to the main topic, but having a point in common with it.
A visual interaction between two or more lines or edges that creates a perceived relationship between them, often in a way that the artist did not intend.
A small metal blade in a clavichord that strikes the strings to produce sound.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
13183 | word:
tangent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
tangent (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
tangent
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin tangentem, the accusative of tangēns (“touching”) (in the phrase līnea tangēns (“a touching line”)), the present participle of the verb tangō (“touch”, verb), from Proto-Italic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- (“to touch”).
Cognate with Old English þaccian (“to touch lightly, pat, stroke”). More at thack, thwack.
senses_examples:
text:
The collision occurred on a two-mile stretch of tangent track.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Touching a curve at a single point but not crossing it at that point.
Of a topic, only loosely related to a main topic.
Straight; not horizontally curved.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport |
13184 | word:
jest
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jest (plural jests)
forms:
form:
jests
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English geste (“idle tale”), from Old French geste (“acts, exploits”), from Latin gesta (“acts, deeds”). Doublet of gest.
senses_examples:
text:
I made that comment in jest; it wasn't serious.
type:
example
text:
Your majesty, stop him before he makes you the jest of the court.
type:
example
text:
the jests or actions of princes
ref:
1540, Thomas Elyot, Image of Governance
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act performed for amusement; a joke.
Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke.
A deed; an action; a gest.
A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
senses_topics:
|
13185 | word:
jest
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jest (third-person singular simple present jests, present participle jesting, simple past and past participle jested)
forms:
form:
jests
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jesting
tags:
participle
present
form:
jested
tags:
participle
past
form:
jested
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English geste (“idle tale”), from Old French geste (“acts, exploits”), from Latin gesta (“acts, deeds”). Doublet of gest.
senses_examples:
text:
Surely you jest!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone.
senses_topics:
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13186 | word:
jest
word_type:
adv
expansion:
jest (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Pronunciation spelling of just..
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of just
senses_topics:
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13187 | word:
navel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
navel (plural navels)
forms:
form:
navels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
navel
etymology_text:
From Middle English navel, navele, from Old English nafola, from Proto-West Germanic *nabulō, from Proto-Germanic *nabalô (compare West Frisian nâle, Dutch navel, German Nabel), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nóbʰōl (compare Old Irish imbliu, Latin umbilīcus, Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós), Persian ناف (nâf), Sanskrit नाभि (nābhi)), diminutive of *h₃nobʰ-, equivalent to nave + -el (diminutive suffix)). Doublet of omphalos. More at nave.
senses_examples:
text:
Within the navel of this hideous wood,
Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells,
Of Bacchus and Circe born, great Comus
ref:
1637, John Milton, A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634
type:
quotation
text:
Sweeter than the muſk of Tatar, the morning breeze from the navel of every flower raviſhed perfume.
ref:
1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv
type:
quotation
text:
This contributed to a rapid rise in planted acreage in northern California, especially in navels, which are more suited to growing conditions there.
ref:
1981, Peter K. Thor, Edward V. Jesse, Economic Effects of Terminating Federal Marketing Orders for California-Arizona Oranges
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.
The central part or point of anything; the middle.
A navel orange.
An eye on the underside of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
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13188 | word:
accordion pleat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accordion pleat (plural accordion pleats)
forms:
form:
accordion pleats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Paper fans generally use an accordion pleat.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A series of permanent folds of equal width in alternating opposite directions made in fabric, paper, or other material.
senses_topics:
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13189 | word:
meal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
meal (countable and uncountable, plural meals)
forms:
form:
meals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mel, from Old English mǣl (“measure, time, occasion, set time, time for eating, meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *māl, from Proto-Germanic *mēlą, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”).
Cognate with West Frisian miel, Dutch maal (“meal, time, occurrence”), German Mal (“time”), Mahl (“meal”), Norwegian Bokmål mål (“meal”), Swedish mål (“meal”); and (from Proto-Indo-European) with Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”), Latin mensus, Russian ме́ра (méra, “measure”), Lithuanian mẽtas. Related to Old English mǣþ (“measure, degree, proportion”).
senses_examples:
text:
Breakfast is the morning meal, lunch is the noon meal, and dinner, or supper, is the evening meal.
type:
example
text:
c1450, Secreta Secretorumː
He that will cast meal upon meal is not able to have (a) long life.
text:
c1500, The King and the Hermitː
I have been there and taken deal / And have had many (a) merry meal.
text:
1535?, Dyfference Astronː
But above all things beware that thou eat not till thou feel thy stomach empty and that it hath made good digestion of the first meal.
text:
1569, Fenton, Wondersː
Besides he was so fantastical and unruly in his appetites, that he used no common meats at his meals, but was fed with the combs of cocks, the tongues of peahens.
text:
SIR, I was thrice at Lamhith, to haue dined with the Archeb. sins your departure, and still he was to dine, at the Court or with some Bishop. But I must and will finde him assoone as I may: and rather at a meale, then otherwise, because I would haue meanes, to participat at large, about our Collation: […]
ref:
1606 February 25, Tho[mas] Bodley, “149”, in G[eorge] W[ilson] Wheeler, editor, Letters of Sir Thomas Bodley to Thomas James, First Keeper of the Bodleian Library […], Oxford, Oxon: At the Clarendon Press, published 1926, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
1640, Richard Brathwait, Ar't asleep Husband? A BOULSTER LECTURE, Stored with all variety of witty Jests, merry Tales, and other pleasant passages; extracted from the choycest Flowers of Phi∣losophy, Poesy, ancient and moderne Historyː
Give me but so many meals, and thou shalt find me one of the strongest Turkish males that ever English gennet bore.
text:
1796, Robert Bage, Hermsprong: or, Man As He Is Notː
This letter was written whilst my hostess of the George was preparing the last meal I ever was to eat.
text:
1835, Edgar Allan Poe, The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaallː
Puss, who seemed in a great measure recovered from her illness, now made a hearty meal of the dead bird, and then went to sleep with much apparent satisfaction.
text:
After the meal, he rinsed the cans they had eaten from (marveling again at his own water extravagance), and when he turned around, Jake was asleep again.
ref:
1981 February, Stephen King, “The Oracle and the Mountains”, in Edward L[ewis] Ferman, editor, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 60, number 2 (whole 329), Cornwall, Conn.: Mercury Press, Inc., →ISSN, page 21, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
ref:
2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
2016, Melissa Clark, Consider This Permission to Eat Burrata for Dinner in The New York Timesː
In this recipe, I go even further, adding a robust salad to turn a lone cheese into a satisfying summer meal.
text:
a1450, The Macro Playsː
If thou wilt fare well at meat and meal, come and follow me.
text:
Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
ref:
2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
They [tape recorders] can be turned off while officers are on meal or in the car to protect their private conversations […]
ref:
1994, Brooklyn Barrister, volume 46, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
I was on meal when I heard the call on the radio and recognized the address. What the hell?
ref:
2019, R. J. Noonan, In the Line of Fire
type:
quotation
text:
Ye wolde wepe at every mele;
But for my sone wepe ye never a dele.
You would weep at every meal, but for my son you never weep a deal.
ref:
The Lamentation of the Virgin Mary (MS. Cantab., Ff. ii., 38, fol. 47.), in: 1847, Thomas Wright (editor), The Chester Plays: A Collection of Mysteries founded upon scriptural Subjects, and formerly represented by the Trades of Chester at Whitsuntide, vol. II, p. 208f.
text:
[…] by occasion whereoff thai woll than at every mele groche with the kinge […]
[…] by occasion whereof they will, then at every meal, grouch with the king […]
ref:
a1400?-a1470?, in: 1999/2006, The Governance of England: Otherwise called The Difference between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy. By Sir John Fortescue. A Revised Text edited with Introduction, Notes, and Appendices by Charles Plummer, p. 132
text:
a1450, Henry Lovelich, The History of the Holy Grailː
Which was to them a sorry meal.
text:
a1450, Henry Lovelich, Merlinː
Also soon as the dragons together feal, betwixt them shall begin a sorry meal.
text:
a1450, The York Playsː
What mean ye.. to make mourning at ilk a meal?
text:
1481, William Caxton, Reynard the Foxː
I shall do late you have so much that ten of you should not eat it at one meal.
text:
a1500, Alexander-Cassamus Fragmentː
Of all the day throughout, keep I no better meal than on her to think.
text:
c1500, In A Chyrchː
Thou couth well weep at every meal.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).
Food served or eaten as a repast.
A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
A time or an occasion.
senses_topics:
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13190 | word:
meal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
meal (countable and uncountable, plural meals)
forms:
form:
meals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mele, from Old English melu (“meal, flour”), from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą (“meal, flour”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, mill”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian moal, Dutch meel, German Mehl, Albanian miell, Proto-Slavic *melvo (“grain to be ground”) (Bulgarian мливо (mlivo)), Dutch malen (“to grind”), German mahlen (“to grind”), Old Irish melim (“I grind”), Latin molō (“I grind”), Tocharian A/B malywët (“you press”)/melye (“they tread on”), Lithuanian málti, Old Church Slavonic млѣти (mlěti), Ancient Greek μύλη (múlē, “mill”). More at mill.
senses_examples:
text:
Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
ref:
2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.
senses_topics:
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13191 | word:
meal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
meal (third-person singular simple present meals, present participle mealing, simple past and past participle mealed)
forms:
form:
meals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mealing
tags:
participle
present
form:
mealed
tags:
participle
past
form:
mealed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mele, from Old English melu (“meal, flour”), from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą (“meal, flour”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, mill”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian moal, Dutch meel, German Mehl, Albanian miell, Proto-Slavic *melvo (“grain to be ground”) (Bulgarian мливо (mlivo)), Dutch malen (“to grind”), German mahlen (“to grind”), Old Irish melim (“I grind”), Latin molō (“I grind”), Tocharian A/B malywët (“you press”)/melye (“they tread on”), Lithuanian málti, Old Church Slavonic млѣти (mlěti), Ancient Greek μύλη (múlē, “mill”). More at mill.
senses_examples:
text:
Of course the yield of grain was small, but much greater than could have been expected; and, the ears being well filled, it mealed well. The pastures were burnt up, so that there was nothing left for the cattle to eat.
ref:
1876, Notes and Queries, page 73
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To yield or be plentiful in meal.
senses_topics:
|
13192 | word:
meal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
meal (plural meals)
forms:
form:
meals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variation of mole (compare Scots mail), from Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl, mǣl (“spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-Germanic *mailą (“wrinkle, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to soil”). More at mole.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A speck or spot.
A part; a fragment; a portion.
senses_topics:
|
13193 | word:
meal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
meal (third-person singular simple present meals, present participle mealing, simple past and past participle mealed)
forms:
form:
meals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mealing
tags:
participle
present
form:
mealed
tags:
participle
past
form:
mealed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variation of mole (compare Scots mail), from Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl, mǣl (“spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-Germanic *mailą (“wrinkle, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to soil”). More at mole.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To defile or taint.
senses_topics:
|
13194 | word:
Venetian blind
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Venetian blind (plural Venetian blinds)
forms:
form:
Venetian blinds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Every traveller on the demonstration runs was soon entranced with the most noticeable - the individual electric motors to raise, lower and adjust the venetian blinds in each double-glazed window, which are under the passenger's control in each seating bay by means of little thumb switches below the frames; […]
ref:
1961 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Switzerland's new four-voltage "Trans-Europe Express" units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 489
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A blind consisting of overlapping horizontal, flat slats, usually made of metal, vinyl or wood, that can be tilted so as to let in more or less light.
senses_topics:
|
13195 | word:
Piedmont
word_type:
name
expansion:
Piedmont
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Derived from Italian Piemonte (“mountain foot”), from Medieval Latin Pedemontium, Pedemontis, from Latin ad pedem montium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An administrative region in the north of Italy.
The region of the eastern US between the Appalachian mountains and the coastal plain, extending from eastern Alabama to northern New Jersey.
A city in Alameda County, California, United States.
senses_topics:
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13196 | word:
obtuse
word_type:
adj
expansion:
obtuse (comparative obtuser or more obtuse, superlative obtusest or most obtuse)
forms:
form:
obtuser
tags:
comparative
form:
more obtuse
tags:
comparative
form:
obtusest
tags:
superlative
form:
most obtuse
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French obtus (“obtuse (geometry); narrow-minded, obtuse; boring, dull, lifeless”), from Latin obtūsus (“blunt, dull; obtuse”), past participle of obtundere, from obtundō (“to batter, beat, strike; to blunt, dull”), from ob- (“prefix meaning against”) (see ob-) + tundō (“to beat, strike; to bruise, crush, pound”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to hit; to push”)). More at obtund.
senses_examples:
text:
The Herb Pantagruelion hath a little Root somewhat hard and ruff, roundish, terminating in an obtuse and very blunt Point, and having some of its Veins, Strings or Filaments coloured with some spots of white, […]
ref:
1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], [Peter Anthony Motteux, transl.], “How Pantagruel Did Put Himself in a Readiness to Go to Sea; and of the Herb Named Pantagruelion”, in The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel [...], volume II, London: Navarre Society, published 1921, →OCLC, book III, pages 57–58
type:
quotation
text:
If you put foure Spleets in a Hiue, then cut their backes, where they must leane one against another, to square angles, such as be foure in a circle: if but three, cut them to obtuse angles, such as are three in a circle: (you may readily try them, before you put them in, by Moulds made iust to those formes) and so will they stand close and firme together.
ref:
1623, Charles Butler, “Of the Hiues, and the Dressing of Them”, in The Feminine Monarchie: or, The Historie of Bees: Shewing Their Admirable Nature, and Properties, Their Generation, and Colonies, Their Gouernment, Loyaltie, Art, Industrie, Enemies, Warres, Magnanimitie, &c. […], London, →OCLC, chapter 3, section 11, footnote c; republished Mytholmroyd, U.K.: Northern Bee Books, 1985
type:
quotation
text:
More-over, as the Buildings Ambligon / May more receive then Mansions Oxigon / (Because th' acute, and the rect-Angles too, / Stride not so wide as obtuse Angles doe) / So doth the Circle in his Circuit span / More room then any other Figure can.
ref:
1641, “The Columnes. The Fourth Part of the Second Day of the II. Weeke”, in Alexander B. Grosart, editor, The Complete Works of Joshua Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited […], Edinburgh Univ. Press, published 1880, page 156, lines 198–203
type:
quotation
text:
Obtuse angles of the through crossing. — The system of the two obtuse-angled points is especially termed the dead-crossing. […] The point itself, less liable to damage than that of the crossing proper, on account of its obtuse form and its position relatively to the wheels, acts the same part towards the tapered portion of the cut rail, as the wing-rail does with respect to the acute-angle of the crossing.
ref:
1877, Ch[arles] Couche, “Special Points in the Permanent Way”, in James N. Shoolbred, transl., Permanent Way Rolling Stock and Technical Working of Railways. Followed by an Appendix on Works of Art, volume I, London: Dulau & Co., 37, Soho Square; Paris: Dunod, 49, Quai des Augustins, →OCLC, § XIV (Rail-crossings), paragraph 258, page 316
type:
quotation
text:
If he is standing close beside me I know that our separate axes of vision will meet at an acute angle in the centre of his object, and if we are further apart, at an obtuser angle.
ref:
1922, May Sinclair, “Space, Time and Other Consciousnesses”, in The New Idealism, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, section V, pages 255–256
type:
quotation
text:
Unless A lies in that part of a semi-infinite strip bounded by AB outside a semi-circle of diameter AB, the triangle is obtuse, so that the probability of getting an obtuse triangle is equal to 1.
ref:
2013, Edward J. Barbeau, “Probability and Statistics”, in More Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam (Spectrum Series), Washington, D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
For we see a Feather or a Rush drawn along the Lip or Cheek, doth tickle; whereas a thing more obtuse, or a touch more hard, doth not.
ref:
1670, Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [Francis Bacon], “Century VIII”, in Sylva Sylvarum, or, A Natural History, in Ten Centuries: Whereunto is Newly Added, the History Natural and Experimental of [Life] and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life. […], 9th and last edition, London: William Rawley, →OCLC, paragraph 766, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
See then the quiver broken and decay'd, / In which are kept our arrows! Rusting there / In wild disorder, and unfit for use, / […] Their points obtuse, and feathers drunk with wine!
ref:
1817, William Cowper, The Task, London: John Sharpe, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
Yet you do not brighten what would otherwise be dull, impart a keenness to the obtusest point, and diffuse a general lustre?
ref:
1932, Ernest Bramah, chapter XV, in The Moon of Much Gladness: Related by Kai Lung, London: Cassell and Co., →OCLC; republished [s.l.]: Read Books, 2013, section IV
type:
quotation
text:
It was a merry time with Carrmen, Watermen, & Porters: for in this Eclipſe, many of them did nothing but drinke, domineere, and ſwagger in Alehouſes; but the often going to and fro of the Pot, made them talke of that, which they had nothing to doe withall, and many times their obtuſe apprehenſions would be medling with the warres betwixt the great Turke and Preſter Iohn, how it was likely to end; […]
ref:
1613, [Robert Anton], Moriomachia, imprinted at London: By Simon Stafford, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-01-14
type:
quotation
text:
Be you a Remainer or a Leaver, you would have to be particularly obtuse not to see that [Theresa] May's hard Tory Brexit will cost this country and its families more than it can conceivably afford.
ref:
2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50: As Britain hurtles towards the precipice, truth and democracy are in short supply [editorial]”, in The Observer, London, archived from the original on 2017-08-30
type:
quotation
text:
Another addition in Mr. [Joseph Emerson] Worcester's key to the same letter [e] is what he calls the short and obtuse sound, as in her, herd, fern, fervid. Some of these, also, for the sake of indicating the true sound, [John] Walker was obliged to spell with a different vowel. Thus her is directed to be pronounced hur, like u in tub.
ref:
1847 January, “Art. VI.—A Universal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language; to which are added Walker’s Key to the Pronunciation of Classical and Scripture Proper Names, much enlarged and improved; and a Pronouncing Vocabulary of Modern Geographical Names. By Joseph E. Worcester. Boston: Wilkins, Carter, & Co. Imperial 8vo. pp. 955. [book review]”, in The North American Review, volume LXIV, number CXXXIV, Boston, Mass.: Published by Otis, Broaders, and Co., No. 154 Washington Street, →OCLC, page 198
type:
quotation
text:
[…] The Conchologist's First Book intends to do something different by describing both the shell and the soft parts of each creature together. The claim seems awfully trivial, I admit, and [Edgar Allan] Poe does press his point only by the obtuse route of stressing an expansion of terminology, from the traditional "conchology" (literally the study of shells, as retained in the title) to "malacology" (or the study of the entire organism—for the animals within the hard shells consist almost entirely of soft parts,[…]).
ref:
2003, Stephen Jay Gould, “The Fusions of Unum and the Benefits of Pluribus”, in The Hedghog, the Fox, and the Magister’s Pox: Mending the Gap between Science and the Humanities, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books; Harvard University Press edition, Cambridge, Mass., London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011, section III (A Saga of Pluribus and Unum: The Power and Meaning of True Consilience), page 185
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.
Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
Indirect or circuitous.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
botany
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
biology
botany
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
|
13197 | word:
obtuse
word_type:
verb
expansion:
obtuse (third-person singular simple present obtuses, present participle obtusing, simple past and past participle obtused)
forms:
form:
obtuses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
obtusing
tags:
participle
present
form:
obtused
tags:
participle
past
form:
obtused
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French obtus (“obtuse (geometry); narrow-minded, obtuse; boring, dull, lifeless”), from Latin obtūsus (“blunt, dull; obtuse”), past participle of obtundere, from obtundō (“to batter, beat, strike; to blunt, dull”), from ob- (“prefix meaning against”) (see ob-) + tundō (“to beat, strike; to bruise, crush, pound”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to hit; to push”)). More at obtund.
senses_examples:
text:
The general effect of even a weak infusion of coca leaves is a pleasant irritability and sleeplessness. A stronger infusion keeps hunger away, prevents loss of breath in ascending mountains, dilates the pupil, and obtuses the sensibility to the air.
ref:
1861 August, “[Miscellaneous.] Coca”, in The United States Journal of Homœopathy, volume II, New York, N.Y.: C. T. Hurlburt, No. 437 Broome Street, →OCLC, page 549
type:
quotation
text:
[Gustav von] Bunge […] claims that its [alcohol's] primary action is that of a depressant, and that its apparent good effects are simply due to the obtusing influence upon physical and mental suffering. But this is scarcely a correct assumption, as there are individuals in whom the smallest doses produce palpitation of the heart, throbbing of the carotids, and great mental activity. He also claims that alcohol does not produce renewed vigor in tired individuals, but simply obtuses this feeling of exhaustion.
ref:
1900 July 13, George M. Kober, “Shall Alcohol be Considered as a Food?”, in Landon B. Edwards, Charles M. Edwards, editors, Virginia Medical Semi-monthly (Richmond), volume V, number 7 (103 overall), Richmond, Va.: J. W. Fergusson & Son, printers [for the Medical Society of Virginia], published 1901, →OCLC, page 205, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The American avidity for "action" has evidently obtused the perceptions of habitual theatre-goers to all nuances of feeling, and therefore, the harmless romancings of the elderly estranged couple, Mr. and Mrs. Arvik, are interpreted as covering unspeakable iniquities that only exist in the minds of the critics.
ref:
1916, Henry Goddard Leach, editor, The American-Scandinavian Review, volume 4, New York, N.Y.: The American-Scandinavian Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 51
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state.
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13198 | word:
Surinam
word_type:
name
expansion:
Surinam
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Suriname: A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Suriname. Capital and largest city: Paramaribo
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13199 | word:
Havana
word_type:
name
expansion:
Havana
forms:
wikipedia:
Cacique
Habaguanex
Havana
Havana (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Spanish La Habana, from Habaguanex, the native American chief (Cacique) who controlled the area, from Taíno sabana ("savanna"), with the h perhaps being an anthroponymic inflection.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Cuba.
A city, the county seat of Mason County, Illinois, United States.
A minor city in Montgomery County, Kansas, United States.
senses_topics:
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