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13200 | word:
Havana
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Havana (plural Havanas)
forms:
form:
Havanas
tags:
plural
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:
A type of large cigar produced in Cuba.
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13201 | word:
Stuttgart
word_type:
name
expansion:
Stuttgart
forms:
wikipedia:
Stuttgart
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The largest city and state capital of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
A few places in the United States:
A city in Arkansas County, Arkansas; it is the county seat of Arkansas County's northern district.
A few places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Phillips County, Kansas, located in the north of the state off U.S. Route 36 7.6 mi west-northwest of Phillipsburg and 6.6 mi east-southeast of Prairie View.
senses_topics:
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13202 | word:
Stuttgart
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Stuttgart (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Stuttgart
etymology_text:
Named for the city of Stuttgart, Arkansas (the seat of Arkansas County's northern district), around which the soil is commonly used.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A soil series formed in alluvium and primarily used for crops, most notably rice and also soybeans, small grains and corn, all of which ducks and geese feed on in the colder months; they are classified as alfisols but their high content of montmorillonite puts them close to the vertisol class; the series is the state soil of Arkansas.
senses_topics:
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13203 | word:
Tobago
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tobago
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from Spanish tabaco (“tobacco”), thus a doublet of tobacco.
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senses_glosses:
An island and ward of the Caribbean, part of Trinidad and Tobago.
senses_topics:
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13204 | word:
Hanover
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hanover
forms:
wikipedia:
Hanover (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From German Hanover, meaning "on the higher ridge", from Middle Low German hoch (“high”) (from Old Saxon hōh) + over (“edge, shore”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
British family that ruled from 1714 to 1901, more commonly known as the Georgian, Regency and Victorian periods.
The capital city of Lower Saxony, Germany.
The former Kingdom of Hanover, now part of Lower Saxony, Germany.
A parish of Jamaica.
A township in New Jersey.
A census-designated place, the county seat of Hanover County, Virginia, United States, also known as Hanover Courthouse.
A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Hanover Township.
senses_topics:
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13205 | word:
past tense
word_type:
noun
expansion:
past tense (plural past tenses)
forms:
form:
past tenses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
This is a report on a study of the use of the past tense forms in the 53 Japanese samples compiled for the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI) project.
ref:
2004, Tomoko Koneko, “The Use of Past Tense Forms by Japanese Learners of English”, in Junsaku Nakamura, Nagayuki Inoue, Tomoji Tabata, editors, English Corpora under Japanese Eyes, Rodopi, page 215
type:
quotation
text:
As you have studied Spanish, you have probably had the feeling that there are just too many past tenses.
ref:
2009, Eric W. Vogt, Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Past-Tense Verbs Up Close, McGraw Hill, page v
type:
quotation
text:
Some members of the [Mongolic language] family have three or more different affixes which seem to be markers of the past tense, so that in Khalkha, for example, irev, irjee, irlee, and irsen all can translate, and be translated by, the English past tense verb came.
ref:
2012, Robert I. Binnick, The Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb, BRILL, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A grammatical form (often a verb form) that refers to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that happened (or had happened), or existed, at some time before now (the applicable reference time).
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
13206 | word:
New England
word_type:
name
expansion:
New England
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The name of the American region was coined by English explorer John Smith in 1616.
senses_examples:
text:
[page 3] New England is that part of America in the Ocean Sea opposite to Noua Albyon in the South Sea; discouered by the most memorable Sir Francis Drake in his voyage about the worlde. In regarde whereto this is stiled New England, beeing in the same latitude. New France, off it, is Northward: Southwardes is Virginia, and all the adioyning Continent, with New Granado, New Spain, New Andolosia and the West Indies.
[page 7] That part wee call New England is betwixt the degrees of 41. and 45: but that parte this discourse speaketh of, stretcheth but from Pennobscot to Cape Cod, some 75 leagues by a right line distant each from other […]
ref:
1616, John Smith, A Description of New England, London: Humfrey Lownes, →OCLC, pages 3, 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Collectively, six states of the United States, namely Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Other places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Dade County, Georgia.
Other places in the United States:
A minor city in Hettinger County, North Dakota.
Other places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Rome Township, Athens County, Ohio.
Other places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia.
A suburb of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF1801).
A settlement in Croft parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England, next to Wainfleet All Saints (OS grid ref TF5059).
A loosely defined region in the north of New South Wales, Australia.
An electoral division in New South Wales, Australia
senses_topics:
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13207 | word:
Oran
word_type:
name
expansion:
Oran
forms:
wikipedia:
Oran
etymology_text:
Ultimately Borrowed from Arabic وَهْرَان (wahrān), from a Berber term meaning "lion".
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senses_glosses:
A city, port, and province of Algeria.
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13208 | word:
Oran
word_type:
name
expansion:
Oran
forms:
wikipedia:
Oran
etymology_text:
Anglicized from Old Irish saints' name Odrán, diminutive of odhar (“dun, sallow”) (compare Irish Odhrán).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from Irish.
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13209 | word:
dash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dash (plural dashes)
forms:
form:
dashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dash
etymology_text:
From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (“to slap, strike”), related to Swedish daska (“to smack, slap, spank”), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (“to grope, paw”), Old English dwǣsċan (“to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish”). See also dush.
senses_examples:
text:
When the feds came they did the dash.
type:
example
text:
The oar squeaks,
a dash sound like
moon-hustle on the river:
ref:
1987, Archie Randolph Ammons, “Coming Round”, in Robert Pack, Jay Parini, editors, Introspections: American poets on one of their own poems, Hanover and London: University Press of New England for Middlebury College Press, published 1997, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
They say that I’m way too cold, I never get tired of rappin
My word is bang where I come from
Watch be one work is magicDo it and dash it
Smile on MATNo way this peng one acting
Who got whacked and who got slapped
And who got spared by dashes
ref:
2018 January 24, “Irrelevant Things”, performed by C1 from LTH
type:
quotation
text:
Add a dash of vinegar.
type:
example
text:
There is a dash of craziness in his personality.
type:
example
text:
Aren't we full of dash this morning?
type:
example
text:
The traditional practice of offering gifts or "dash" to chiefs has often been misinterpreted by scholars to provide a cultural explanation for the pervasive incidence of bribery and corruption in modern Africa.
ref:
1992, George Billy Nii Ayittey, Africa Betrayed, →OCLC, →OL, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
Writing in 1924 on a similar situation in Ugep, the political officer, Mr. S. T. Harvey noted: "In the old days there was no specified dowry but merely dashes given to the father-in-law, from 8 to 20 rods according to the status of the man[…]The dowry is made small because whatsoever a woman farms or reaps during her life time is by native custom the property of her parents."
ref:
2006, Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo, The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885–1950 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; 25), University of Rochester Press, →ISSN, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
The only other times you'll be asked for a dash is from beggars.
ref:
2008, Lizzie Williams, updated by Mark Shenley, Nigeria: The Bradt Travel Guide, published 2012, →OCLC, →OL, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
Sir Thomas looks as if to ask what the dash is that to you! but wanting still to go to India again, and knowing how strong the Newcomes are in Leadenhall Street, he thinks it necessary to be civil to the young cub, and swallows his pride once more into his waistband.
Comment: Some editions leave this passage out. Of those that include it, some change the 'you!' to 'you?'.
ref:
1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Chapter VI, serialized in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, (VIII, no. 43, Dec 1853) p. 118
text:
Who the dash is this person whom none of us know? and what the dash does he do here?
ref:
1884, Lord Robert Gower, My Reminiscences, reprinted in "The Evening Lamp", The Christian Union, (29) 22, (May 29, 1884) p. 524
text:
The dash clock said 2:38 when[…] I turned off a dirt road[…].
ref:
1955 October 19, Rex Stout, The Next Witness, Three Witnesses, 94 Bantam, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
-i hope you find at least one thing on your dash that will make you laugh today.
ref:
2018, anonymous, quoted in Mélanie Bourdaa, "'May We Meet Again': Social Bonds, Activities, and Identities in the #Clexa Fandom", in A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (ed. Paul Booth), page 392
text:
i cannot tell you how happy it makes me when i see my dash filled with selfies from other folks who look like me.
ref:
2018, "notthesameknowledge", quoted in Randall Lake, Recovering Argument, unnumbered page
text:
You wanna know what else is all over my dash? Gifs of you and your boyfriend.
ref:
2018, Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie, Alphas Like Us, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
A hyphen or minus sign.
The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
A short run, flight.
A rushing or violent onset.
Violent strike; a whack.
A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
A slight admixture.
Ostentatious vigor.
A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)
A dashboard.
A dashboard.
The dashboard of a social media user.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography
computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
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13210 | word:
dash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dash (third-person singular simple present dashes, present participle dashing, simple past and past participle dashed)
forms:
form:
dashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
dashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
dashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
dash
etymology_text:
From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (“to slap, strike”), related to Swedish daska (“to smack, slap, spank”), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (“to grope, paw”), Old English dwǣsċan (“to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish”). See also dush.
senses_examples:
text:
He dashed across the field.
type:
example
text:
As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained.
ref:
1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 670
type:
quotation
text:
I have to dash now. See you soon.
type:
example
text:
He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.
type:
example
text:
The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.
type:
example
text:
They say that I’m way too cold, I never get tired of rappin / My word is bang where I come from / Watch be one work is magic / Do it and dash it / Smile on MAT / No way this peng one acting / Who got whacked and who got slapped / And who got spared by dashes
ref:
2018 January 24, “Irrelevant Things”, performed by C1 from LTH
type:
quotation
text:
to dash wine with water
type:
example
text:
Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
type:
example
text:
Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund.
ref:
2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 – 1 Arsenal”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.
type:
example
text:
He dashed down his eggs.
type:
example
text:
She dashed off her homework.
type:
example
text:
Going out the door, he grabbed a windbreaker and dashed a note to his father and left it on the entry table.
ref:
2002, Robert Andrews, “Twenty”, in A Murder of Promise, 1st edition, New York City: Putnam's, published 2002, →OCLC, →OL, page 181
type:
quotation
text:
Dash his impudence! Who is that scoundrel?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To run quickly or for a short distance.
To leave or depart.
To destroy by striking (against).
To throw violently.
To sprinkle; to splatter.
To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.
To ruin; to destroy.
To dishearten; to sadden.
To complete hastily.
To draw or write quickly; jot.
Damn (in forming oaths).
senses_topics:
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13211 | word:
dash
word_type:
intj
expansion:
dash
forms:
wikipedia:
dash
etymology_text:
From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (“to slap, strike”), related to Swedish daska (“to smack, slap, spank”), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (“to grope, paw”), Old English dwǣsċan (“to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish”). See also dush.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Damn!
senses_topics:
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13212 | word:
romanization
word_type:
noun
expansion:
romanization (countable and uncountable, plural romanizations)
forms:
form:
romanizations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Romanization.
senses_topics:
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13213 | word:
Philadelphia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Philadelphia
forms:
wikipedia:
Attalus II Philadelphus
Kingdom of Pergamon
Philadelphia (disambiguation)
Ptolemaid Egypt
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
William Penn
etymology_text:
From Latin Philadelphia, from Ancient Greek Φιλαδέλφεια (Philadélpheia), from φιλάδελφος (philádelphos, “brother/sibling-loving”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming placenames”), from the combining form of φῐλέειν (philéein, “to love”) + ἀδελφός (adelphós, “brother, sibling”). In reference to the city in Turkey, named for the loyal Attalus II Philadelphus of Pergamon. In reference to the city in Jordan, named for the incestuous Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt. In reference to the American city, named for the ancient towns as well as the Quaker William Penn's aim of fostering religious tolerance. Doublet of Filadelfia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The largest city in Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of coterminous Philadelphia County; former capital of the United States.
Former name of Amman, the capital of Jordan.
Former name of Alasehir, a city in Turkey.
A locale in the United States; named for the city in Pennsylvania.
An unincorporated community in Cass County, Illinois.
A locale in the United States; named for the city in Pennsylvania.
An unincorporated community in Sugar Creek Township, Hancock County, Indiana.
A locale in the United States; named for the city in Pennsylvania.
A city, the county seat of Neshoba County, Mississippi.
A locale in the United States; named for the city in Pennsylvania.
A town and village in Jefferson County, New York.
A locale in the United States; named for the city in Pennsylvania.
A small city in Loudon County, Tennessee.
A village in Brandenburg, Germany; named for the city in Pennsylvania.
A village in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England; named for the city in Pennsylvania (OS grid ref NZ3352).
A suburb of Cape Town, South Africa.
senses_topics:
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13214 | word:
Christianity
word_type:
name
expansion:
Christianity (usually uncountable, plural Christianities)
forms:
form:
Christianities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Cristiente, Cristente, borrowed from Old French crestienté, from Medieval Latin stem of Chrīstiānitās, from Latin christianus, Christianus, from Ancient Greek Χριστιανός (Khristianós), from Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ, anointed one”) + Latin -anus (“suffix for of, related to”) + one more suffix borrowed from Latin "ity" makes the final Christian + -ity. The term was respelled in the early modern English period to more closely reflect its Latin etymon.
senses_examples:
text:
As a result, Christianity developed as a separate religion from Judaism.
ref:
2002, The Atlas of Great Jewish Communities: A Voyage Through History, page 27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Abrahamic religion originating from the community of the followers of Jesus Christ.
Protestantism.
senses_topics:
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13215 | word:
Christianity
word_type:
name
expansion:
Christianity
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Cristiente, Cristente, borrowed from Old French crestienté, from Medieval Latin stem of Chrīstiānitās, from Latin christianus, Christianus, from Ancient Greek Χριστιανός (Khristianós), from Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ, anointed one”) + Latin -anus (“suffix for of, related to”) + one more suffix borrowed from Latin "ity" makes the final Christian + -ity. The term was respelled in the early modern English period to more closely reflect its Latin etymon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Christendom, the Christian world
senses_topics:
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13216 | word:
cauliflower
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cauliflower (countable and uncountable, plural cauliflowers)
forms:
form:
cauliflowers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From 16th century cole-florye, equivalent to cole (from Latin caulis) + flower, reformed to more closely match the Latin etymon. Cognate with French chou-fleur, Italian cavolfiore.
senses_examples:
text:
ASPARAGUS, cauliflowers, imperial Sileſia, royal and cabbage lettuces, burnet, purſlain, cucumbers, naſturtian flowers, peaſe and beans ſown in October, artichokes, ſcarlet ſtrawberries, and kidney beans.
ref:
1767, A Lady [Hannah Glasse], The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Eaſy […], page 326
type:
quotation
text:
His ears were small (fortunately so, given his dramatic hairstyle) and bore no traditional cauliflowers.
ref:
2018, John Harding, The Whitechapel Whirlwind: The Jack Kid Berg Story
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, an annual variety of cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.
The edible head or curd of a cauliflower plant.
The swelling of a cauliflower ear.
senses_topics:
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13217 | word:
cauliflower
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cauliflower (third-person singular simple present cauliflowers, present participle cauliflowering, simple past and past participle cauliflowered)
forms:
form:
cauliflowers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cauliflowering
tags:
participle
present
form:
cauliflowered
tags:
participle
past
form:
cauliflowered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From 16th century cole-florye, equivalent to cole (from Latin caulis) + flower, reformed to more closely match the Latin etymon. Cognate with French chou-fleur, Italian cavolfiore.
senses_examples:
text:
I noticed his right ear was badly cauliflowered and that explained a number of things. It wasn't a new job of cauliflowering.
ref:
1947, Elliott Chaze, The Stainless Steel Kimono, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
Returning to your first point, the cauliflowering of magnesite bricks — we presume that this is due to your using high concentrations of oxygen for blowing the furnace, giving high checker-temperatures.
ref:
1960, Transactions of the British Ceramic Society, page 281
type:
quotation
text:
The soft steel of the back edge by now has cauliflowered over from hammering on it.
ref:
1974, Alexander G. Weygers, The Modern Blacksmith, page 39
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To (cause to) swell up like a cauliflower ear.
senses_topics:
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13218 | word:
cohort
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cohort (plural cohorts)
forms:
form:
cohorts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cohort
etymology_text:
From Latin cohors (stem cohort-); borrowed into Old English as coorta, but reintroduced into Middle English as cōhort and chōors via Old French cohorte. Doublet of court.
senses_examples:
text:
Coyness and caprice have in consequence become a heritage of the sex, together with a cohort of allied weaknesses and petty deceits, that men have come to think venial, and even amiable, in women, but which they would not tolerate among themselves.
ref:
1887 July, George John Romanes, “Mental Differences of Men and Women”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 31
type:
quotation
text:
A sin, an instant of rebellious pride of the intellect, made Lucifer and a third part of the cohort of angels fall from their glory.
ref:
1916, James Joyce, chapter III, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
type:
quotation
text:
A lost dog? — Yes. No succoring cohort surges to the relief. A gang of boys, perhaps, may give chase, but assuredly not in kindness.
ref:
1919, Albert Payson Terhune, chapter VI, in Lad: A Dog, Lost!
type:
quotation
text:
The 18-24 cohort shows a sharp increase in automobile fatalities over the proximate age groupings.
type:
example
text:
Three cohorts of men were assigned to the region.
text:
Holonym: legion
text:
Meronyms: maniple, century
text:
But he lost the whole of his first cohort and the centurion of the first line, a man of high rank in his own class, Asinius Dento, and the other centurions of the same cohort, as well as a military tribune, Sext. Lucilius, son of T. Gavius Caepio, a man of wealth, and high position.
ref:
1900, Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by Evelyn Shuckburgh, Letters to Atticus, section 5.20
type:
quotation
text:
But here it is as clear as words can make it: 'Bring every man of the Legions by forced marches to the help of the Empire. Leave not a cohort in Britain.' These are my orders.
ref:
1910, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Last of the Legions
type:
quotation
text:
The cohort in which he was centurion was probably the Cohors II Italica civium Romanorum, which a recently discovered inscription proves to have been stationed in Syria before A.D. 69.
ref:
1913, “Cornelius”, in Catholic Encyclopedia
type:
quotation
text:
He was able to plea down his sentence by revealing the names of three of his cohorts, as well as the source of the information.
type:
example
text:
The students in my cohort for my organic chemistry class this year are not up to snuff. Last year's cohort scored much higher averages on the mid-term.
type:
example
text:
Apprenticeship programmes supply the industry with an ongoing cohort of qualified talent. It is much cheaper to train new people than to pay inflated wages to attract existing talent. Apprenticeships are also a useful way of teaching the practical, hands-on skills that the modern railway needs.
ref:
2023 March 8, Neil Robertson, “Tackling the skills shortage”, in RAIL, number 978, page 33
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.
Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 or 600 men (equalling about six centuries).
An accomplice; abettor; associate.
Any band or body of warriors.
A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.
A colleague.
A set of individuals in a program, especially when compared to previous sets of individuals within the same program.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
statistics
government
military
politics
war
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
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13219 | word:
cohort
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cohort (third-person singular simple present cohorts, present participle cohorting, simple past and past participle cohorted)
forms:
form:
cohorts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cohorting
tags:
participle
present
form:
cohorted
tags:
participle
past
form:
cohorted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
cohort
etymology_text:
From Latin cohors (stem cohort-); borrowed into Old English as coorta, but reintroduced into Middle English as cōhort and chōors via Old French cohorte. Doublet of court.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To associate with such a group
senses_topics:
|
13220 | word:
Johannesburg
word_type:
name
expansion:
Johannesburg
forms:
wikipedia:
en:Johannesburg
etymology_text:
From Dutch Johannesburg.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The largest city in South Africa.
A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
An unincorporated community in Otsego County, Michigan, United States.
senses_topics:
|
13221 | word:
Transylvania
word_type:
name
expansion:
Transylvania
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Medieval Latin Trānsylvānia, alternative spelling of Trānssilvānia, from trāns (“across”) + silvānus (“forest”, relational adjective) + -ia (abstract noun suffix), i.e. “region across the forest”, a calque of Hungarian Erdély, from erdő (“forest”) + elü (“region beyond”). By surface analysis, trans- + sylvan + -ia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A region in western Romania.
senses_topics:
|
13222 | word:
Orleans
word_type:
name
expansion:
Orleans
forms:
wikipedia:
Aurelian
Orleans
etymology_text:
From French Orléans, ultimately from Latin Aurelianum, from the name of the Roman emperor Aurelian, who rebuilt the city. More at Aurelius.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city, the capital of the Loiret department, France; regional capital of Centre-Val de Loire.
A surname from French [in turn transferred from the place name].
senses_topics:
|
13223 | word:
Orleans
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Orleans (countable and uncountable, plural Orleans or Orleanses)
forms:
form:
Orleans
tags:
plural
form:
Orleanses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Aurelian
Orleans
etymology_text:
From French Orléans, ultimately from Latin Aurelianum, from the name of the Roman emperor Aurelian, who rebuilt the city. More at Aurelius.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cloth made of worsted and cotton, used for making clothes.
A variety of plum.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
textiles
|
13224 | word:
Edinburgh
word_type:
name
expansion:
Edinburgh
forms:
wikipedia:
Edinburgh
Edinburgh (disambiguation)
Etymology of Edinburgh
etymology_text:
From Middle English Edynburgh, from Old Welsh Eidyn, a Celtic/Brythonic region of uncertain origin (possibly a personal name; compare Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold”)) + Old English burg (“castle, stronghold”). More at Eidyn and Etymology of Edinburgh.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Scotland.
A council area of Scotland including the city, one of 32 created in 1996.
A town in Bartholomew County, Johnson County and Shelby County, Indiana, United States.
A ghost town in Scioto Township, Delaware County, Ohio, United States.
A town in Mpumalanga province, South Africa.
An outer northern suburb of Adelaide, in the City of Salisbury, South Australia.
A royal dukedom.
senses_topics:
|
13225 | word:
fulminate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fulminate (third-person singular simple present fulminates, present participle fulminating, simple past and past participle fulminated)
forms:
form:
fulminates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fulminating
tags:
participle
present
form:
fulminated
tags:
participle
past
form:
fulminated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
fulminate
etymology_text:
From Latin fulminātus, past participle of fulminō (“lighten, hurl or strike with lightning”), from fulmen (“lightning which strikes and sets on fire, thunderbolt”), from earlier *fulgmen, *fulgimen, from fulgeō, fulgō (“flash, lighten”). Doublet of fulmine. More at fulgent.
senses_examples:
text:
While they were the opposition, Democrats fulminated that the Republicans were so deep in the pockets of Big Pharma that they wouldn’t even let the government negotiate lower drug prices.
ref:
2007 January 21, David Brooks, “Mr. Chips Goes to Congress”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
To be sure, Trump has fulminated on Twitter against the judges who rebuffed him. But his tirades have earned him a reprimand––if a brief, vague one––from his own Supreme Court nominee.
ref:
2017 February 15, Peter Beinart, “American Institutions Are Fighting Back Against Trump”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.
ref:
1842, Thomas De Quincey, “Cicero”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
In short, the criticism which the great lexicographer fulminated against an unfortunate author, seems to have been adopted by the profession as applicable to everything under the sun […]
ref:
1855, William Neilson, Mesmerism in its relation to health and disease, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
the present owners couldn't afford the electric bills anymore, several amateur gaffers, sad to say, having already been fulminated trying to bootleg power in off the municipal lines.
ref:
2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 235
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a verbal attack.
To issue as a denunciation.
To thunder or make a loud noise.
To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
senses_topics:
|
13226 | word:
fulminate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fulminate (plural fulminates)
forms:
form:
fulminates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fulminate
etymology_text:
From Latin fulminātus, past participle of fulminō (“lighten, hurl or strike with lightning”), from fulmen (“lightning which strikes and sets on fire, thunderbolt”), from earlier *fulgmen, *fulgimen, from fulgeō, fulgō (“flash, lighten”). Doublet of fulmine. More at fulgent.
senses_examples:
text:
On 19 February a jubilant Bigeard announced that his 3rd R.P.C. had seized eighty-seven bombs, seventy kilos of explosive, 5,120 fulminate of mercury detonators, 309 electric detonators, etc.
ref:
1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 193
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
13227 | word:
wholesale
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wholesale (countable and uncountable, plural wholesales)
forms:
form:
wholesales
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From whole + sale.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.
senses_topics:
business |
13228 | word:
wholesale
word_type:
adj
expansion:
wholesale (comparative more wholesale, superlative most wholesale)
forms:
form:
more wholesale
tags:
comparative
form:
most wholesale
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From whole + sale.
senses_examples:
text:
The bombing resulted in wholesale destruction.
type:
example
text:
But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts have remained unaltered.
ref:
1946 July and August, “Mileposts and their Peculiarities”, in Railway Magazine, page 217
type:
quotation
text:
By wholesale omission of connections and by the use of a microscopic scale of photographic reproduction which makes some of the most important tables difficult to read, the size has been cut down from last winter's 580 to 520 pages only.
ref:
1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: London Midland Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593
type:
quotation
text:
With financial losses emerging in 1957, the BTC abandoned the diesel pilot scheme in favour of wholesale orders for untried designs.
ref:
2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.
Extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing; blanket.
senses_topics:
|
13229 | word:
wholesale
word_type:
adv
expansion:
wholesale (comparative more wholesale, superlative most wholesale)
forms:
form:
more wholesale
tags:
comparative
form:
most wholesale
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From whole + sale.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In bulk or large quantity.
Indiscriminately.
senses_topics:
|
13230 | word:
wholesale
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wholesale (third-person singular simple present wholesales, present participle wholesaling, simple past and past participle wholesaled)
forms:
form:
wholesales
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wholesaling
tags:
participle
present
form:
wholesaled
tags:
participle
past
form:
wholesaled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From whole + sale.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sell at wholesale.
senses_topics:
|
13231 | word:
Bangkok
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bangkok
forms:
wikipedia:
Bangkok
etymology_text:
From Thai บางกอก (baang-gɔ̀ɔk).
senses_examples:
text:
The Bangkok government indicated real concern over the developments in Communist China’s Yunnan province. Thai officials were afraid that Sibsongpanna would be a center where pro-Communist Thai in Southeast Asia would go and where subversive agitation could be directed against outside legitimate governments.
ref:
1958, Russell H. Fifield, The Diplomacy of Southeast Asia: 1945-1958, New York: Harper & Brothers, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 263
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Thailand.
The government of Thailand.
senses_topics:
|
13232 | word:
veep
word_type:
noun
expansion:
veep (plural veeps)
forms:
form:
veeps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a colloquial or humorous pronunciation of the abbreviation VP.
senses_examples:
text:
She’s running for veep.
type:
example
text:
So the veep becomes the peep [president] and picks a new veep who must be confirmed by a majority vote of both houses of Congress.
ref:
2020 October 12, CGP Grey, 1:01 from the start, in Being President: Most Deadly Job in America, archived from the original on 2024-07-26
type:
quotation
text:
I have a meeting this afternoon at Citibank with some veeps.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Vice President of the United States; the office of Vice President of the United States, especially during an election cycle where several are in the running for the nomination.
Any vice president (in a corporation, organization, etc.)
senses_topics:
government
politics
|
13233 | word:
vilify
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vilify (third-person singular simple present vilifies, present participle vilifying, simple past and past participle vilified)
forms:
form:
vilifies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
vilifying
tags:
participle
present
form:
vilified
tags:
participle
past
form:
vilified
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin vīlificāre, present active infinitive of vīlificō (“vilify”).
senses_examples:
text:
"Those who deliberately vilify China and sabotage the friendship between our two countries and do damage to our long-term friendship and benefits out of their sectoral or selfish interest will be cast aside in history,” he said. “Their children will be ashamed of mentioning their names."
ref:
2021 March 2, Jason Scott, 王晰宁 [Wang Xining], “China Rips Murdoch’s News Corp. for Reports on Pandemic Origins”, in Bloomberg News, archived from the original on 2021-03-03
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To say defamatory things about someone or something; to speak ill of.
To belittle through speech; to put down.
senses_topics:
|
13234 | word:
detonate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
detonate (third-person singular simple present detonates, present participle detonating, simple past and past participle detonated)
forms:
form:
detonates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
detonating
tags:
participle
present
form:
detonated
tags:
participle
past
form:
detonated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin dētonō, dētonātus, which meant "to stop thundering", e.g. as in weather (dē- (“from”) + tonāre (“thunder”)). The current English meaning seems to be a new formation in postclassical times.
senses_examples:
text:
The engineers detonated the dynamite and watched the old building collapse.
type:
example
text:
As Oscar turned to greet Yvonne, she could see every muscle in his body contract in anger. Then he detonated. “What the hell are you doing here without an appointment? […]
ref:
2013, Michael J. Restrepo, The Custody Officer, page 116
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To explode; to blow up. Specifically, to combust or decompose supersonically via shock compression.
To cause to explode.
To express sudden anger.
senses_topics:
|
13235 | word:
blizzard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blizzard (plural blizzards)
forms:
form:
blizzards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Estherville, Iowa
Midlands English
blizzard
etymology_text:
Unknown, with various theories as below. Compare English blizz (“violent rainstorm”), dialectal English bliz (“violent blow”); one etymology, from Midlands English dialect, seems to be ultimately from Old English blysa (“blaze”).
Etymology theories
* The earliest written use of blizzard as a term to describe a severe snowstorm, spelled blizard, was in the Estherville, Iowa's Northern Vindicator on 23 April 1870. O.C. Bates, neologistic editor of the Northern Vindicator, used it for the terrific snowstorms in the state that spring. He claimed he had picked up the term from locals characterizing a "Lightning Ellis", on account of his violent outbursts. One week later it appeared again in the same newspaper, only with the now-common double-z spelling.
* Blizzard possibly comes from the surname "Blizzard" dating back to 1700s(?). Blizzard surname possibly comes from the blizzard one, dating back to the 1500s(?).
* The word blizzard was used (not in relation to the weather) in America prior to 1870. It had various, roughly associated, now obsolete meanings:
: Blast with a firearm or cannon (whether one or multiple bullets or pellets uncertain)
: Verbal blast
: Blast with a firearm or cannon (single ball or bullet):
: Blazing fire
: Heavy or painful physical blow (not involving a firearm)
: Literal or figurative attack
: Exclamation (like “the blazes” or “blue blazes")
: Blast with multiple firearms or with a firearm loaded with multiple pellets
: Shot of liquor
* Probably from the German blitzartig (“very fast, like lightning”)
* Another version suggests French blesser (to wound), but neither this nor the German can be substantiated. Yet another claims that blizzard derives from English dialect blizzer, meaning "a blaze" or "flash" ("Put towthry sticks on th' fire, an' let's have a blizzer," - The English Dialect Dictionary) or from blazer (something that blazes or blasts), which gave the early sense "a volley of firing guns," that is, a general "blazing away."
* Thomas Ratcliffe of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, in the March 17, 1888, edition
BLIZZARD (7th S. v. 106).—The word blizzard is well known through the Midlands, and its cognates are fairly numerous. I have known the word and its kin fully thirty years. Country folk use the word to denote blazing, blasting, blinding, dazzling, or stifling. One who has had to face a severe storm of snow, hail, rain, dust, or wind, would say on reaching shelter that he has "faced a blizzer," or that the storm was "a regular blizzard." A blinding flash of lightning would call forth the exclamation, "My! that wor a blizzomer!" or "That wor a blizzer!" "Put towthry sticks on th' fire, an let's have a blizzer"—a blaze. "A good blizzom" = a good blaze. "That tree is blizzared" = blasted, withered. As an oath the word is often used, and "May I be blizzerded" will be readily understood.
* A check of some of the Midlands regional glossaries printed in the 1800s finds several entries for blizzy. First, from Anne Baker, Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases (1854):
BLIZZY. A blaze. "Blow the fire, and let's have a nice blizzy." This, though now considered a vulgarism, is a retention of the original A.-Sax. blysa, a blaze.
And Angelina Parker, A Glossary of Words Used in Oxfordshire (1876):
Blizzy, a flaring fire produced by putting on small sticks. Ex. 'Let's 'a a bit of a blizzy afore us goes to bed.'
And from Barzillai Lowsley, A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases (1888):
BLIZZY.— A blaze. The fire is said to be all of a "blizzy" when pieces of wood have been inserted amongst the coal to make it burn cheerfully.
And from G. F. Northall, A Warwickshire Word-book (1896):
Blizzy, sb. A blaze, a blast, a flare of fire. A.-Sax. blysa, a blaze. Common.
They suggest that blizzy survived from the ancient word blysa in numerous localities and might well share a root with the U.S. blizzard.
senses_examples:
text:
a blizzard of political ads
type:
example
text:
Risk is everywhere.[…]For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.
ref:
2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large snowstorm accompanied by strong winds and greatly reduced visibility caused by blowing snow.
A large amount of paperwork.
A large number of similar things.
senses_topics:
|
13236 | word:
blizzard
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blizzard (third-person singular simple present blizzards, present participle blizzarding, simple past and past participle blizzarded)
forms:
form:
blizzards
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
blizzarding
tags:
participle
present
form:
blizzarded
tags:
participle
past
form:
blizzarded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Estherville, Iowa
Midlands English
blizzard
etymology_text:
Unknown, with various theories as below. Compare English blizz (“violent rainstorm”), dialectal English bliz (“violent blow”); one etymology, from Midlands English dialect, seems to be ultimately from Old English blysa (“blaze”).
Etymology theories
* The earliest written use of blizzard as a term to describe a severe snowstorm, spelled blizard, was in the Estherville, Iowa's Northern Vindicator on 23 April 1870. O.C. Bates, neologistic editor of the Northern Vindicator, used it for the terrific snowstorms in the state that spring. He claimed he had picked up the term from locals characterizing a "Lightning Ellis", on account of his violent outbursts. One week later it appeared again in the same newspaper, only with the now-common double-z spelling.
* Blizzard possibly comes from the surname "Blizzard" dating back to 1700s(?). Blizzard surname possibly comes from the blizzard one, dating back to the 1500s(?).
* The word blizzard was used (not in relation to the weather) in America prior to 1870. It had various, roughly associated, now obsolete meanings:
: Blast with a firearm or cannon (whether one or multiple bullets or pellets uncertain)
: Verbal blast
: Blast with a firearm or cannon (single ball or bullet):
: Blazing fire
: Heavy or painful physical blow (not involving a firearm)
: Literal or figurative attack
: Exclamation (like “the blazes” or “blue blazes")
: Blast with multiple firearms or with a firearm loaded with multiple pellets
: Shot of liquor
* Probably from the German blitzartig (“very fast, like lightning”)
* Another version suggests French blesser (to wound), but neither this nor the German can be substantiated. Yet another claims that blizzard derives from English dialect blizzer, meaning "a blaze" or "flash" ("Put towthry sticks on th' fire, an' let's have a blizzer," - The English Dialect Dictionary) or from blazer (something that blazes or blasts), which gave the early sense "a volley of firing guns," that is, a general "blazing away."
* Thomas Ratcliffe of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, in the March 17, 1888, edition
BLIZZARD (7th S. v. 106).—The word blizzard is well known through the Midlands, and its cognates are fairly numerous. I have known the word and its kin fully thirty years. Country folk use the word to denote blazing, blasting, blinding, dazzling, or stifling. One who has had to face a severe storm of snow, hail, rain, dust, or wind, would say on reaching shelter that he has "faced a blizzer," or that the storm was "a regular blizzard." A blinding flash of lightning would call forth the exclamation, "My! that wor a blizzomer!" or "That wor a blizzer!" "Put towthry sticks on th' fire, an let's have a blizzer"—a blaze. "A good blizzom" = a good blaze. "That tree is blizzared" = blasted, withered. As an oath the word is often used, and "May I be blizzerded" will be readily understood.
* A check of some of the Midlands regional glossaries printed in the 1800s finds several entries for blizzy. First, from Anne Baker, Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases (1854):
BLIZZY. A blaze. "Blow the fire, and let's have a nice blizzy." This, though now considered a vulgarism, is a retention of the original A.-Sax. blysa, a blaze.
And Angelina Parker, A Glossary of Words Used in Oxfordshire (1876):
Blizzy, a flaring fire produced by putting on small sticks. Ex. 'Let's 'a a bit of a blizzy afore us goes to bed.'
And from Barzillai Lowsley, A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases (1888):
BLIZZY.— A blaze. The fire is said to be all of a "blizzy" when pieces of wood have been inserted amongst the coal to make it burn cheerfully.
And from G. F. Northall, A Warwickshire Word-book (1896):
Blizzy, sb. A blaze, a blast, a flare of fire. A.-Sax. blysa, a blaze. Common.
They suggest that blizzy survived from the ancient word blysa in numerous localities and might well share a root with the U.S. blizzard.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fall in windy conditions.
senses_topics:
|
13237 | word:
Cairo
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cairo
forms:
wikipedia:
Cairo
Cairo (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian Il Cairo, from Arabic الْقَاهِرَة (al-qāhira)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Egypt.
A governorate of Egypt, containing the capital city.
Several places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Grady County, Georgia.
Several places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Alexander County, Illinois.
Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tippecanoe Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pratt County, Kansas.
Several places in the United States:
A village in Randolph County, Missouri.
Several places in the United States:
A village in Hall County, Nebraska.
Several places in the United States:
A town, hamlet, and census-designated place in Greene County, New York.
Several places in the United States:
A village in Allen County, Ohio.
Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Stark County, Ohio.
Several places in the United States:
A small unincorporated community in Coal County, Oklahoma.
Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Malheur County, Oregon.
Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Crockett County, Tennessee.
Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sumner County, Tennessee.
Several places in the United States:
A town in Ritchie County, West Virginia.
A community of the township of Dawn-Euphemia, Ontario, Canada.
senses_topics:
|
13238 | word:
Palermo
word_type:
name
expansion:
Palermo
forms:
wikipedia:
Palermo
etymology_text:
From Italian Palermo, from Sicilian Palermu, from Arabic بَلَرْم (Balarm), from Latin Panormus, from Ancient Greek Πάνορμος (Pánormos), from πᾰν- (pan-, “all”) + ὅρμος (hórmos, “port”) for its natural harbor.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in Italy, capital of the Metropolitan City of Palermo, and of Sicily.
A metropolitan city in Sicily established in 2015.
A former province of Sicily, Italy.
A district (barrio) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A census-designated place in Butte County, California, United States.
A habitational surname
senses_topics:
|
13239 | word:
will
word_type:
verb
expansion:
will (third-person singular simple present will, present participle willing, simple past would, no past participle)
forms:
form:
will
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
willing
tags:
participle
present
form:
would
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Will
etymology_text:
From Middle English willen, wullen, wollen, from Old English willan (“to want”), from Proto-West Germanic *willjan, from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”).
Cognate with Dutch willen, Low German willen, German wollen, Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk vilja, Norwegian Bokmål ville, Latin velle (“wish”, verb), Latin volo, French vouloir, Italian volere, and Albanian vel (“to satisfy, be stuffed”). The verb is not always distinguishable from Etymology 3, below.
senses_examples:
text:
One of our salesmen will visit you tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
I will pass this exam.
type:
example
text:
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.
type:
example
text:
He will be home by now. He always gets home before 6 o'clock.
type:
example
text:
I can't find my umbrella. I will have left it at home this morning.
type:
example
text:
“That will be five zloty.” I reached into my pocket and came up with some coins.
ref:
2007, Edward Jesko, The Polish
type:
quotation
text:
Unless she diverted on the ten minute walk home, she’ll have got home at about half past.
ref:
2012, Penny Freedman, All The Daughters
type:
quotation
text:
Boys will be boys.
type:
example
text:
How telling is it that many women will volunteer for temporary disablement by wearing high heeled shoes that hobble them?
ref:
2009, Stephen Bayley, The Telegraph, 24 Sep 09
type:
quotation
text:
So far neither side has scored a decisive victory, though each will occasionally claim one.
ref:
2011, “Connubial bliss in America”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
Will you marry me?
type:
example
text:
I’ve told him three times, but he won’t take his medicine.
type:
example
text:
Do what you will.
type:
example
text:
God willed it.
type:
example
text:
If thou wilt fare well at meat and meal, come and follow me.
ref:
c. 1450, The Macro Plays
type:
quotation
text:
Twelfe Night, Or what you will (original spelling)
ref:
1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or What You Will
type:
quotation
text:
Grant what Thou dost command, and command what Thou wilt.
ref:
1944, St. Augustine, translated by FJ Sheed, Confessions
type:
quotation
text:
Consider, if you will, the possibility that the sherry glasses were misplaced accidentally.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to express the future tense, sometimes with an implication of volition or determination when used in the first person. Compare shall.
To be able to, to have the capacity to.
Expressing a present tense or perfect tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".
To habitually do (a given action).
To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations, often in questions and negation.
To wish, desire (something).
To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
Implying will go.
senses_topics:
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13240 | word:
will
word_type:
noun
expansion:
will (plural wills)
forms:
form:
wills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Will
etymology_text:
From Middle English wille, from Old English willa (compare verb willian), from Proto-Germanic *wiljô (“desire, will”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”). Cognate with Dutch wil, German Wille, Swedish vilja, Norwegian vilje.
senses_examples:
text:
Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason.
type:
example
text:
Most creatures have a will to live.
type:
example
text:
The episode’s unwillingness to fully commit to the pathos of the Bart-and-Laura subplot is all the more frustrating considering its laugh quota is more than filled by a rollicking B-story that finds Homer, he of the iron stomach and insatiable appetite, filing a lawsuit against The Frying Dutchman when he’s hauled out of the eatery against his will after consuming all of the restaurant’s shrimp (plus two plastic lobsters).
ref:
2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will.
type:
example
text:
Thus Mill’s case for the claim that happiness is the sole human end, put more carefully, is this: ‘Whatever is desired otherwise than as a means to some end beyond itself, and ultimately to happiness, is desired as itself a part of happiness, and is not desired for itself until has become so’ (1861a: 237). Nothing here assumed Hume’s view that every action must ultimately flow from an underived desire. That is a quite separate issue, and Mill’s view of it is closer to that of Kant or Reid than to that of Hume. He insists ‘positively and emphatically’ that the will is a different thing from desire; that a person of confirmed virtue, or any other person whose purposes are fixed, carries out his purposes without any thought of the pleasure he has in contemplating them, or expects to derive from their fulfilment. (1861a: 238) This distinction between purpose and desire is central to Mill’s conception of the will. When we develop purposes we can will against mere likings or aversions: ‘In the case of an habitual purpose, instead of willing the thing because we desire it, we often desire it only because we will it’ (1861a: 238). Every action is caused by a motive, but not every motive is a liking or aversion: When the will is said to be determined by motives, a motive does not mean always, or solely, the anticipation of a pleasure or of a pain…. A habit of willing is commonly called a purpose; and among the causes of our volitions, and of the actions which flow from them, must be reckoned not only likings and aversions, but also purposes. (1843: 842) The formation of purposes from desires is the evolution of will; it is also the development of character. Mill quotes Novalis: ‘a character is a completely fashioned will’ (1843: 843).
ref:
1998, John Skorupski,, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Mill, John Stuart (1806–73)
text:
...surely the link could not have been with Churchill the brilliant, gallant and steadfast wartime leader who, by dint of character, will and language, turned near defeat into victory.
ref:
2015, Dr. Harlan K. Ullman, Huffington Post 31 May 2015., "Winston Spencer Ghani"
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:
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
Firmity of purpose, fixity of intent
A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
That which is desired; one's wish.
Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)
senses_topics:
law
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13241 | word:
will
word_type:
verb
expansion:
will (third-person singular simple present wills, present participle willing, simple past and past participle willed or (rare) would)
forms:
form:
wills
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
willing
tags:
participle
present
form:
willed
tags:
participle
past
form:
willed
tags:
past
form:
would
tags:
participle
past
rare
form:
would
tags:
past
rare
wikipedia:
Will
etymology_text:
From Middle English willen, from Old English willian (“to will”), from Proto-West Germanic *willjōn (“to will”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”). Cognate with German Low German willen, German willen. The verb is not always distinguishable from Etymology 1, above.
senses_examples:
text:
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.
type:
example
text:
All the fans were willing their team to win the game.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
To exert one's force of will (intention) in order to compel, or attempt to compel, something to happen or someone to do something.
senses_topics:
|
13242 | word:
present tense
word_type:
noun
expansion:
present tense (plural present tenses)
forms:
form:
present tenses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Animals—lions and zebras and beautiful snakes—live vividly in the present tense, in a bright unconsciousness of time. That is their innocence and their limitation. Humans carry with them their experiences, their pasts; men and women work with a knowledge of consequences and, doing so, impose order on the chaotic present and project consequences into the future.
ref:
1998 March 30, Lance Morrow, “The Trouble With The Present Tense”, in Time
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A grammatical tense whose principal function is to locate a situation or event in the present time.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
13243 | word:
Zeitgeist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Zeitgeist (plural Zeitgeists or Zeitgeister)
forms:
form:
Zeitgeists
tags:
plural
form:
Zeitgeister
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of zeitgeist
senses_topics:
|
13244 | word:
Savoy
word_type:
name
expansion:
Savoy
forms:
wikipedia:
Savoy
etymology_text:
From French Savoy, Savoie, from the Roman name, Late Latin Sapaudia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A historical region shared between the modern countries of France, Italy and Switzerland.
Alternative form of Savoie, a department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
senses_topics:
|
13245 | word:
Savoy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Savoy (countable and uncountable, plural Savoys)
forms:
form:
Savoys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Savoy
etymology_text:
From French Savoy, Savoie, from the Roman name, Late Latin Sapaudia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Savoy cabbage
A member of an Italian noble family which became the ruling (hereditary) dynasty of Sardinia and later of Italy
senses_topics:
|
13246 | word:
poppet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
poppet (plural poppets)
forms:
form:
poppets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A variant of puppet.
senses_examples:
text:
Come 'ere, poppet!
type:
example
text:
Y'll be fess enough, my poppet, when th'st know!"
ref:
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 32
type:
quotation
text:
After passing through the poppet valve, the impulse air and water flows through a poppet discharge stop valve and then through a discharge pipe to the poppet drain tank or bilge
ref:
1960, Submarine Torpedo Tubes
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An endearingly sweet or beautiful child.
A young woman or girl.
The stem and valve head in a poppet valve.
A doll (such as a voodoo doll) made in witchcraft to represent a person, used in casting spells on that person.
One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to support a vessel in launching.
An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
13247 | word:
madeira
word_type:
noun
expansion:
madeira (countable and uncountable, plural madeiras)
forms:
form:
madeiras
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Madeira (“fortified wine”)
senses_topics:
|
13248 | word:
future tense
word_type:
noun
expansion:
future tense (plural future tenses)
forms:
form:
future tenses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The tense or time form of a verb used to refer to an event or occurrence that has not yet happened or is expected to happen in the future.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
13249 | word:
movie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
movie (plural movies)
forms:
form:
movies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From moving (picture) + -ie. Attested since at least 1912 (if not 1908), originally in American English.
senses_examples:
text:
Let's go to the movies.
type:
example
text:
Don't worry; this isn't the first time I've been through this movie.
type:
example
text:
And then when the other five were in the Dance Hall up there on the river, steps away from the hot seat, Lehman let off an Italian dragged along on the lookout detail and a Hebrew who was supposed to have furnished the guns, although that had the smell of a frame because the cops didn't like him from another movie.
ref:
1981, Paul Sann, Trial in the Upper Room, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., page 166
type:
quotation
text:
I've been through this movie before, I thought.
ref:
1985, Charles Nicholl, The Fruit Palace, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, page 259
type:
quotation
text:
This is the world's final fate and ultimate horror and the evangelists' just reward for being right: a kingdom ruled by the preachers, complete with the inquisitions, the debasement of women, and the witch-hunting that always accompanies self-righteous followers and enforcers of a cruel god. We've been through this movie before.
ref:
2005, Dave Smith, To Be of Use: The Seven Seeds of Meaningful Work, Novato, C.A.: New World Library, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
CEO Tom Wilson said on a conference call today that Allstate hadn't seen a nationwide spike in claims costs like this "in a long time." ¶ "That said, we see this movie every year multiple times in individual states," he said. "So it's not like we haven't been through this movie multiple times before. We know how to manage it. . . .You should expect to continue to see some impact on growth."
ref:
2015 November 3, Steve Daniels, quoting Tom Wilson, “Allstate doubles pace of rate hikes as costs keep rising”, in Crain's Chicago Business, Chicago, I.L.: Crain Communications Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-18
type:
quotation
text:
Every night with you is a movie!
type:
example
text:
My life is a movie / Bull ridin' and boobies / Cowboy hat from Gucci / Wrangler on my booty
ref:
2018 December 3, “Old Town Road”performed by Lil Nas X
type:
quotation
text:
Gun range was a total movie. Had to make sure our shooting skills were on point (they were). Now drinking the most expensive bottle of wine I've ever have courtesy of Gunner opening a bottle he wasn't supposed to open
ref:
2023 February 4, @dougwithersMD, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-01-18
type:
quotation
text:
last night was amazing! more content coming. it was literally a movie lol best time with one of my besties @chloebailey love you siss ❤️❤️❤️
ref:
2023 April 4, skiwithaneye, Instagram, archived from the original on 2024-01-18
type:
quotation
text:
Mfs go to a party and stand by a wall all night then the next day post "last night was a movie"
ref:
2023 June 23, @Hoodville_, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-01-18
type:
quotation
text:
Thank Y'all 🔥.. 2024! I'm going to make it a movie 🎥
ref:
2023 December 2, @IMHIMZEL, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-01-18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion; a film.
A cinema; a movie theatre.
Any event, especially one that is unpleasant or tiresome.
An extremely fun and exciting experience.
senses_topics:
|
13250 | word:
screw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
screw (plural screws)
forms:
form:
screws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
screw
etymology_text:
From Middle English screw, scrue (“screw”); apparently, despite the difference in meaning, from Old French escroue (“nut, cylindrical socket, screwhole”), from Latin scrōfa (“female pig”) through comparison with the corkscrew shape of a pig's penis. There is also the Old French escruve (“screw”), from Old Dutch *scrūva ("screw"; whence Middle Dutch schruyve (“screw”)), which probably influenced or conflated with the aforementioned, resulting in the Middle English word.
more on the etymology of screw
Old French escroue (whence Medieval Latin scrofa (“nut, screwhole”)), is believed to be an adaptation of Latin scrōfa (“sow, female pig”); but this development is not found in other Romance languages. (For change in meaning, compare also Spanish puerca, Portuguese porca, both ‘sow; screw nut’, and is based on the fact that a boar's penis has a screw-like tip, making the sow's vulva equivalent to a screw nut by analogy).
Old Dutch *scrūva possibly derives from Proto-Germanic *skrūbō (“screw”), from *skru- (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keru-, *(s)ker- (“to cut”), and is related to German Schraube (“screw”), Low German schruve, schruwe (“screw”), Dutch schroef (“screw”), West Frisian skroef (“screw”), Danish skrue (“screw”), Swedish skruv (“screw, peg”), Icelandic skrúfa (“screw”).
Compare also Occitan escrofa (“screw nut”), Calabrese scrufina (“screw nut”), which may be borrowings of the Old French word, or parallel developments.
senses_examples:
text:
The screws moved her out of my cell because they could not stand the idea of a black and white white being together.
ref:
1984 April 21, Albert Jones, “White Lovers”, in Gay Community News, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison.
ref:
1994, Frank Darabont, The Shawshank Redemption (film)
text:
They both wedged up in his cell and refused to come out. They were hurling abuse at the screws on the other side of the door. As a result they were both shipped out to another jail the following day.
ref:
2000, Reginald Kray, A Way of Life
type:
quotation
text:
Why can't I get just one screw? / Believe me, I'd know what to do / But something won't let me make love to you
ref:
1983, Gordon Gano (lyrics and music), “Add It Up”, in Violent Femmes, performed by Violent Femmes
type:
quotation
text:
“Not for God's sake, for Papá's sake. He's the one who gave Mami a good screw, and then you popped out. Or did you think you were a child of the Immaculate Conception, like the Baby Jesus?
ref:
2001, Bárbara Mujica, Frida: A Novel of Frida Kahlo, Overlook Press, published 2012
type:
quotation
text:
A few couples would let selected doggers join in, with the lucky ones managing to get a screw.
ref:
2007, Barry Calvert, Swingers 1, Matador, published 2007, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
As she sucked the nicotine deeply into her lungs, she closed her eyes and leaned back against the headboard, enjoying the pleasurable buzz that the combination of a good screw—well, a decent screw—coupled with the nicotine gave.
ref:
2009, Kimberly Kaye Terry, The Sweet Spot, Aphrodisia Books, published 2009, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
"Swear it!" Kathleen screamed. "Let her know that she's just another screw. Because, darling, that's all you are. So go on, tell her!"
ref:
1990, Susan Lewis, Stolen Beginnings, HarperPaperbacks, published 1992, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
She was just a girl, like any of the girls he had had so easily, just another screw.
ref:
1993, William Gill, Fortune's Child, HarperCollins Canada, published 1994, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
Mary was Eli's favorite screw because she was clean, pretty, a good mother, funny, and alway was able to make herself available for their twice a week fucks as easily as he was.
ref:
2009, Sam Moffie, The Book of Eli, Mill City Press, published 2009, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
“I’ll speak to Mrs. Dorman when she comes back, and see if I can’t come to terms with her,” I said. “Perhaps she wants a rise in her screw. It will be all right. Let’s walk up to the church.”
ref:
1887, Edith Nesbit, Man-Size in Marble
type:
quotation
text:
A certain amount of "screw" is as necessary for a man as for a billiard-ball.
ref:
1888, Rudyard Kipling, In the Pride of His Youth
type:
quotation
text:
3 Screws and a Pipe
ref:
1847, Henry Mayhew, The Greatest Plague of Life
type:
quotation
text:
[…] a gentleman of leisure, who enjoyed himself on a couple of spavined screws […]; both of them, as Stephen said, looked lonely without a gig behind them.
ref:
1937, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, London: Faber and Faber, page 155 (Faber Paper 1972 edition)
type:
quotation
text:
the skeleton screw (Caprella)
type:
example
text:
the sand screw
type:
example
text:
She didn't like my mother, so she made a wax doll and stuck thorns into its legs, and my mother had the screws (rheumatism) in her legs ever since.
ref:
2000, Jacqueline Simpson, Stephen Roud, A Dictionary of English Folklore
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device that has a helical function.
A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
A device that has a helical function.
A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
A device that has a helical function.
A ship's propeller.
A device that has a helical function.
An Archimedes screw.
A device that has a helical function.
A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
A prison guard.
An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
A casual sexual partner.
Salary, wages.
Backspin.
A small packet of tobacco.
An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
An amphipod crustacean.
Rheumatism.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
mathematics
sciences
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13251 | word:
screw
word_type:
verb
expansion:
screw (third-person singular simple present screws, present participle screwing, simple past and past participle screwed)
forms:
form:
screws
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
screwing
tags:
participle
present
form:
screwed
tags:
participle
past
form:
screwed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
screw
etymology_text:
From Middle English screw, scrue (“screw”); apparently, despite the difference in meaning, from Old French escroue (“nut, cylindrical socket, screwhole”), from Latin scrōfa (“female pig”) through comparison with the corkscrew shape of a pig's penis. There is also the Old French escruve (“screw”), from Old Dutch *scrūva ("screw"; whence Middle Dutch schruyve (“screw”)), which probably influenced or conflated with the aforementioned, resulting in the Middle English word.
more on the etymology of screw
Old French escroue (whence Medieval Latin scrofa (“nut, screwhole”)), is believed to be an adaptation of Latin scrōfa (“sow, female pig”); but this development is not found in other Romance languages. (For change in meaning, compare also Spanish puerca, Portuguese porca, both ‘sow; screw nut’, and is based on the fact that a boar's penis has a screw-like tip, making the sow's vulva equivalent to a screw nut by analogy).
Old Dutch *scrūva possibly derives from Proto-Germanic *skrūbō (“screw”), from *skru- (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keru-, *(s)ker- (“to cut”), and is related to German Schraube (“screw”), Low German schruve, schruwe (“screw”), Dutch schroef (“screw”), West Frisian skroef (“screw”), Danish skrue (“screw”), Swedish skruv (“screw, peg”), Icelandic skrúfa (“screw”).
Compare also Occitan escrofa (“screw nut”), Calabrese scrufina (“screw nut”), which may be borrowings of the Old French word, or parallel developments.
senses_examples:
text:
Somebody told me [...] that she [...] acknowledged to him [...] that Nero [...] had screwed her (meaning had carnal intercourse with plaintiff) up stairs the night before.
ref:
1890, Albert G. Porter, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana
type:
quotation
roman:
From Rodebaugh v. Hollingsworth, May, 1855.
text:
He had contemplated Pym in all the stages he had grown up with him, drunk with him and worked with him, including a night in Berlin he had totally forgotten until now when they had ended up screwing a couple of army nurses in adjoining rooms.
ref:
1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy
type:
quotation
text:
"Maybe they weren't screwing, my dear. They were just hanging out, you know." "They were screwing, my dear."
ref:
2014, The Visitors
type:
quotation
text:
[…] our country landlords, by unmeasurable screwing and racking their tenants, have already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France, or the vassals in Germany and Poland […]
ref:
1720, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture
type:
quotation
text:
It is not surprising that the landowner strove to screw his tenants.
ref:
1884, Thorold Rogers, Six Centuries of Work and Wages
type:
quotation
text:
He screwed his face into a hardened smile.
ref:
1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, act 2, scene 1
type:
quotation
text:
I had been calling Nobs in the meantime and was about to set out in search of him, fearing, to tell the truth, to do so lest I find him mangled and dead among the trees of the acacia grove, when he suddenly emerged from among the boles, his ears flattened, his tail between his legs and his body screwed into a suppliant S. He was unharmed except for minor bruises; but he was the most chastened dog I have ever seen.
ref:
1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter V, in The Land That Time Forgot
type:
quotation
text:
The visitors could have added an instant second, but Rooney screwed an ugly attempt high into Hennessey's arms after Berbatov cleverly found the unmarked England striker.
ref:
2011 February 5, Chris Whyatt, “Wolverhampton 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
If you don't like it, fuckin' screw! It's Shit Ass Pet Fuckers. That's the way it's going to be.
ref:
c. 2009, Louis CK, Shit Ass Pet Fuckers
type:
quotation
text:
Screw those jerks, and screw their stupid rules!
type:
example
text:
Screw the homework for now.
type:
example
text:
Screw him, let's run.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
To have sexual intercourse with.
To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
To contort.
To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
To screw back.
To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.
To leave; to go away; to scram.
Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
|
13252 | word:
Bali
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bali
forms:
wikipedia:
Bali
etymology_text:
From Balinese ᬩᬮᬶ, possibly from Sanskrit बलि-द्वीप (bali-dvīpa, “island of offerings”) or Sanskrit वली-द्वीप (valī-dvīpa, “island of waves”). Or from Sanskrit वली (valī) or Sanskrit वलि (vali) and from Sanskrit द्वीप (dvīpa). Cf. Java.
senses_examples:
text:
Holonym: Lesser Sunda Islands
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Indonesia, primarily made up of the island of Bali.
An island in Indonesia, just east of Java.
senses_topics:
|
13253 | word:
Bali
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bali
forms:
wikipedia:
Bali
etymology_text:
From Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 八里 (Bālǐ).
senses_examples:
text:
Forty minutes later, we found ourselves seated on boulders on the side of Kuan Yin Shan with a lovely view of the river and the town of Tamsui to the east and the farms and field of Pali to the north.]
ref:
[1981 October 25, Robert Benjamin Kritzer, “This young American finds basic Chinese values still intact in old & new Taiwan”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 42, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
He roused Max from his Taipei hotel suite to tell him the change in plans and to meet the Oregon at the Bali District piers the following day.
ref:
2013, Clive Cussler, Mirage (The Oregon Files) (Fiction), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →OCLC, page 350
type:
quotation
text:
New Taipei City’s Bali District (八里, across the river from Tamsui) isn’t a place that immediately springs to mind for tourist attractions.
ref:
2017 December 15, Richard Saunders, “Off the Beaten Track: Best of Bali”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-12-18, Features, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A district of New Taipei, Taiwan.
senses_topics:
|
13254 | word:
Bali
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bali
forms:
wikipedia:
Bali
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Uneapa bali (“to not be”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island in Papua New Guinea.
The Uneapa language spoken on that island.
senses_topics:
|
13255 | word:
Bali
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bali
forms:
wikipedia:
Bali
etymology_text:
From Arabic بَلِي (balī).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Arab tribe of Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
senses_topics:
|
13256 | word:
Seville
word_type:
name
expansion:
Seville
forms:
wikipedia:
Seville
etymology_text:
From (possibly through a Middle French form) Spanish Sevilla, from Arabic إِشْبِيلِيَة (ʔišbīliya), from Latin Hispalis, ultimately from Phoenician 𐤔𐤐𐤋𐤄 (šplh /sefela/, “plain, valley”). Compare Hebrew שפלה (shfela, “lowland”), Arabic سافل (safil, “lowly”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Andalusia, Spain.
A province of Andalusia, Spain.
A surname.
A census-designated place in Tulare County, California, United States.
senses_topics:
|
13257 | word:
jackboot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jackboot (plural jackboots)
forms:
form:
jackboots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
jackboot
etymology_text:
From Old French jaque (“coat of mail”).
senses_examples:
text:
The coat itself, a long one of some fuzzy material, with huge side pockets into which the man's hands were plunged, reached to the cavernous tops of jackboots where the nether ends of his trousers were stowed away.
ref:
1914, Frank L. Packard, The Miracle Man, Chapter 3
type:
quotation
text:
That country has been under the jackboot of the military for years.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era.
The spirit that motivates a totalitarian or overly militaristic regime or policy.
senses_topics:
|
13258 | word:
jackboot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jackboot (third-person singular simple present jackboots, present participle jackbooting, simple past and past participle jackbooted)
forms:
form:
jackboots
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jackbooting
tags:
participle
present
form:
jackbooted
tags:
participle
past
form:
jackbooted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
jackboot
etymology_text:
From Old French jaque (“coat of mail”).
senses_examples:
text:
The two porters leapt into action, steamed up to the front of the room and started jackbooting the burning paper.
ref:
2000, Geoff Nicholson, Bedlam Burning
type:
quotation
text:
All his childhood they had stormed through the cinema newsreels, jackbooting triumphantly through Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Paris. Now they would jackboot through Garmouth. Followed by the Gestapo.
ref:
1990, Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners, page 152
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To stamp on with a jackboot.
To march in jackboots.
senses_topics:
|
13259 | word:
Nassau
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nassau
forms:
wikipedia:
Nassau
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Nassau, from German nass (“wet”). The Bahamian city is named after the German one.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The capital city of the Bahamas.
senses_topics:
|
13260 | word:
Nassau
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Nassau (plural Nassaus)
forms:
form:
Nassaus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Nassau
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Nassau, from German nass (“wet”). The Bahamian city is named after the German one.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wager consisting essentially of three separate bets, for the best score on each of the front nine (holes 1–9), back nine (holes 10–18), and total 18 holes.
senses_topics:
gambling
games
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
13261 | word:
shanghai
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shanghai (third-person singular simple present shanghais, present participle shanghaiing, simple past and past participle shanghaied or shanghai'd)
forms:
form:
shanghais
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shanghaiing
tags:
participle
present
form:
shanghaied
tags:
participle
past
form:
shanghaied
tags:
past
form:
shanghai'd
tags:
participle
past
form:
shanghai'd
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1871, from the important Chinese port Shanghai, as a verb with reference to the former practice by some shippers on the West Coast of the United States of press-ganging crews for fishing or shipping in the Pacific Ocean.
senses_examples:
text:
By this time I hadn't much doubt of the nature of the trap and the identity of the trapping vessel. The faint smell of alcohol in the forehold told the story. I had been sandbagged and taken aboard a bootlegging craft, shanghaied in good old-fashioned style; and the vessel was probably now on its way to the Bahamas for a cargo of spirits.
ref:
1923, Francis Lynde, chapter 2, in Somewhere in the Caribbean
type:
quotation
text:
“Why, if you so loved and cherished the armed guard,” Captain Banning continued, “did you arrange for transfer?”
“I never, sir! ... But he shanghaied me out of the armed guard pronto.”
ref:
Eugene Cunningham, "A One-Man Navy"
text:
There was a urologist for his urine, a lymphologist for his lymph, an endocrinologist for his endocrines, a psychologist for his psyche, a dermatologist for his derma; there was a pathologist for his pathos, a cystologist for his cysts, and a bald and pedantic cetologist from the zoology department at Harvard who had been shanghaied ruthlessly into the Medical Corps by a faulty anode in an I.B.M. machine and spent his sessions with the dying colonel trying to discuss Moby Dick with him.
ref:
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
text:
1974 September 30, ‘Final Report on the Activities of the Children of God',
Oftentimes the approach is to shanghai an unsuspecting victim.
text:
1999 June 24, ‘The Resurrection of Tom Waits’, in Rolling Stone, quoted in Innocent When You Dream, Orion (2006), page 256,
It was the strangest galley: the sounds, the steam, he's screaming at his coworkers. I felt like I'd been shanghaied.
text:
Petitioner strenuously objects to this free-rider label. He argues that he is not a free rider on a bus headed for a destination that he wishes to reach but is more like a person shanghaied for an unwanted voyage.
ref:
2018 Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448
text:
Let's see if we can shanghai a room for a couple of hours.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
To press-gang sailors, especially (historical) for shipping or fishing work.
To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
To trick a suspect into entering a jurisdiction in which they can be lawfully arrested.
To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
To transfer a serviceman against their will.
To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
To commandeer, hijack, or otherwise (usually wrongfully) appropriate a place or thing.
senses_topics:
government
law-enforcement
government
military
politics
war
|
13262 | word:
shanghai
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shanghai (plural shanghais)
forms:
form:
shanghais
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1871, from the important Chinese port Shanghai, as a verb with reference to the former practice by some shippers on the West Coast of the United States of press-ganging crews for fishing or shipping in the Pacific Ocean.
senses_examples:
text:
Cochins or Shanghaes.
ref:
1853, W.B. Tegetmeier, Profitable Poultry, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
The ‘shanghai’ is the glaring daub required by some frame-makers for cheap auctions. They are turned out at so much by the day's labor, or at from $12 to $24 a dozen, by the piece.
ref:
1880 Jan., Scribner's Monthly, p. 365
text:
‘Shanghai’ may be played by teams of 8, in pairs, individually, or, in fact, any number.
ref:
1930, Anchor Magazine, page 196
type:
quotation
text:
The hot twenty—including local favourites George Simmons, Tony Brown, Mick Norris and Lew Walker—have to sweat through nineteen 501s, one 1,001, one 2,001, one round-the-board-on-doubles, one shanghai and one halve-it.
ref:
1977 May 10, Daily Mirror, p. 30
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A breed of chicken with large bodies, long legs, and feathered shanks.
A kind of daub.
A tall dandy.
A kind of dart game in which players are gradually eliminated ("shanghaied"), usually either by failing to reach a certain score in 3 quick throws or during a competition to hit a certain prechosen number and then be the first to hit the prechosen numbers of the other players.
senses_topics:
darts
games |
13263 | word:
shanghai
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shanghai (plural shanghais)
forms:
form:
shanghais
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Scottish shangan, from Scottish Gaelic seangan, influenced by the Chinese city.
senses_examples:
text:
Turn, turn thy shang~hay dread aside,
Nor touch that little bird
ref:
1863 Oct. 24, Leader, p. 17
text:
They scrounged around the camp […] and held out their filthy wings to the feeble sun, making themselves an easy target for Charles's shanghai.
ref:
1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 206
type:
quotation
text:
However, certain objects are excluded from being treated as a gun. These include a longbow, crossbow, slingshot or shanghai even though it is capable of propelling a projectile by means of an explosive force.
ref:
2020, Parliament of Singapore, “Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control Bill”, in Republic of Singapore Government Gazette, page 161
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of slingshot.
senses_topics:
|
13264 | word:
shanghai
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shanghai (third-person singular simple present shanghais, present participle shanghaiing, simple past and past participle shanghaied)
forms:
form:
shanghais
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shanghaiing
tags:
participle
present
form:
shanghaied
tags:
participle
past
form:
shanghaied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Scottish shangan, from Scottish Gaelic seangan, influenced by the Chinese city.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hit with a slingshot.
senses_topics:
|
13265 | word:
parmesan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
parmesan (usually uncountable, plural parmesans)
forms:
form:
parmesans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French parmesan, from an earlier Vulgar Latin *parmēsānus, restructuring of Latin parmēnsis (from Latin Parma).
Compare Italian parmigiano, Catalan parmesà, Portuguese parmesão, Sicilian parmisanu, Spanish parmesano
senses_examples:
text:
Finesse a nigga with some counterfeits, but now I'm countin' this / Parmesan where my accountant lives, in fact I'm downin' this
ref:
2017 March 30, Kendrick Duckworth, Michael Williams II, Asheton Hoga (lyrics and music), “Humble”, in Damn, performed by Kendrick Lamar
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hard, full-fat Italian cheese from Parma.
A similar cheese produced elsewhere.
Money.
senses_topics:
|
13266 | word:
Louisiana
word_type:
name
expansion:
Louisiana
forms:
wikipedia:
Louis XIV
etymology_text:
From French Louisiane, named for King Louis XIV of France.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. Capital: Baton Rouge. Largest city: New Orleans.
A vast territory in central North America:
An administrative district of New France. (1682–1769; 1801–1803)
A vast territory in central North America:
A governorate of New Spain. (1769–1801)
A vast territory in central North America:
A former territory of the United States. (1805–1812)
A city in Pike County, Missouri, named for the founder's daughter, Louisiana Bayse.
A ghost town in Douglas County, Kansas.
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and especially its athletic program, the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns.
A female given name.
senses_topics:
|
13267 | word:
Los Angeles
word_type:
name
expansion:
Los Angeles
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
An anglicized form of Spanish Pueblo de los Ángeles (City of the Angels), a clipping of Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (“Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola”), taken from the Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí's name for the nearby Los Angeles River, first sighted by the Portolá expedition on August 2, the feast day of the dedication of the chapel of Porziuncola (from Latin portiuncula, “little portion”) in Santa Maria degli Angeli (Italian for “Saint Mary of the Angels”) near Assisi, Italy, where St Francis began his order.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city and port, the county seat of Los Angeles County, the largest city in California, and the 2nd largest in the United States, famed for being the center of the American film industry.
Ellipsis of Los Angeles County.: A county of California, United States. County seat: Los Angeles
Ellipsis of Los Angeles River.: A river in Los Angeles, California, United States
A census-designated place in Willacy County, Texas, United States.
An unincorporated community in La Salle County, Texas, United States.
senses_topics:
|
13268 | word:
Dublin
word_type:
name
expansion:
Dublin
forms:
wikipedia:
Dublin
Dublin (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle Irish Dublind, from dub (“black”) + lind (“pond”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Ireland.
A traditional county of Ireland, now divided into the City of Dublin and three counties; Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin.
The government of the Republic of Ireland.
A small town in South Australia.
A village in the Gomel Region, Belarus.
A community of the municipality of West Perth, Perth County, Ontario, Canada.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Alabama.
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Alameda County, California.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lake County, Florida.
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Laurens County, Georgia.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Jackson Township, Wayne County, Indiana.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Graves County, Kentucky.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hartford County, Maryland.
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Swift County, Minnesota.
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Barton County, Missouri.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
A number of places in the United States:
A former neighborhood of the city of Paterson, New Jersey.
A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Bladen County, North Carolina.
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Franklin County, Delaware County and Union County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Mercer County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Fulton County, Pennsylvania.
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Erath County, Texas.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Pulaski County, Virginia.
A number of places in the United States:
The former name of Royal, an unincorporated community in Beaufort County, North Carolina.
senses_topics:
|
13269 | word:
cash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cash (usually uncountable, plural cashes)
forms:
form:
cashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).
senses_examples:
text:
After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.
type:
example
text:
When a man bargains for the price of maintaining such or such principles, or of endeavouring to make out such or such a case, without believing in the soundness of the principles or the truth of the case; such a man, whether he touch the cash (or paper-money) before or after the performance of his work, and whether he work with his tongue or his pen, may, I think be fairly charged with seeking after "base lucre;" […]
ref:
1810 July 13, William Cobbett, “To the Reader”, in Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, volume XVIII, number 1, London: Printed by T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street; and sold by Richard Bagshaw, Brydges Street, Covent-Garden, and John Budd, Pall-Mall, published 14 July 1810, →OCLC, columns 13–14
type:
quotation
text:
Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […].
ref:
2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
Paying yourself first also implies that you have some understanding of your cash flow, which means that, yes, you must set a budget.
ref:
2017, Erin Lowry, Broke Millennial, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
Let me just bring these to the cash for you.
type:
example
text:
Visit Apple’s jam-packed stores and you won’t see lines at the cash — because every sales clerk is also your cashier, using cellphone card-readers to zip you through.
ref:
2017 December 30, Josh Freed, “Just you wait — technology might be the end of the line”, in Montreal Gazette, page A4, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
In the WSOP, I have played around 150 tournaments with one final table, 11 cashes, and a -70 percent ROI.
ref:
2012, Jonathan Little, Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 2
type:
quotation
text:
This bank[…] is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money,
ref:
1787 [1764], Adam Anderson, quoting William Temple, An Historical And Chronological Deduction Of The Origin Of Commerce, From the Earliest Accounts, volume 1, page 236
type:
quotation
text:
She was said to have amassed a great sum of money for ill use ; 20,000l. are known to be in her cash ;
ref:
1852, Theresa Lewis, quoting a letter from John More to Ralph Winwood, Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon, volume 2, page 321
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
Money.
Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
An instance of winning a cash prize.
A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
senses_topics:
business
finance
gambling
games
|
13270 | word:
cash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)
forms:
form:
cashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
cashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
cashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
To obtain a payout from a tournament.
senses_topics:
card-games
poker |
13271 | word:
cash
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cash (comparative more cash, superlative most cash)
forms:
form:
more cash
tags:
comparative
form:
most cash
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Great; excellent; cool.
senses_topics:
|
13272 | word:
cash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cash (plural cashes or cash)
forms:
form:
cashes
tags:
plural
form:
cash
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Arthur Coke Burnell
Henry Yule
Hobson-Jobson
John Murray (publishing house)
William Crooke
etymology_text:
From Tamil காசு (kācu), via Portuguese caixa.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several low-denomination coins of India, China, or Vietnam, especially the Chinese copper coin.
senses_topics:
|
13273 | word:
cash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)
forms:
form:
cashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
cashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
cashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See cashier.
senses_examples:
text:
He cashed the old souldiers, and supplied their roumes with yong beginners.
ref:
1564, Arthur Golding, Abridgment of the histories of Trogus Pompeius
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To disband. To do away with, kill
senses_topics:
|
13274 | word:
mast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mast (plural masts)
forms:
form:
masts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Mast
etymology_text:
From Middle English mast, from Old English mæst (“mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz (“mast, sail-pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *mazdos (“pole, mast”). Cognate with Dutch mast, German Mast, and via Indo-European with Latin mālus, Russian мо́ст (móst, “bridge”), Irish adhmad.
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senses_glosses:
A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, sails or observation platforms on a ship, the main rotor of a helicopter, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments, or communications equipment, such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires (except in the case of a helicopter).
A non-judicial punishment ("NJP"); a disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command.
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aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
communication
communications
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
government
military
naval
navy
politics
war |
13275 | word:
mast
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mast (third-person singular simple present masts, present participle masting, simple past and past participle masted)
forms:
form:
masts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
masting
tags:
participle
present
form:
masted
tags:
participle
past
form:
masted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Mast
etymology_text:
From Middle English mast, from Old English mæst (“mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz (“mast, sail-pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *mazdos (“pole, mast”). Cognate with Dutch mast, German Mast, and via Indo-European with Latin mālus, Russian мо́ст (móst, “bridge”), Irish adhmad.
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
To supply and fit a mast to (a ship).
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13276 | word:
mast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mast (countable and uncountable, plural masts)
forms:
form:
masts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Mast
Mast (botany)
etymology_text:
From Old English mæst (“fallen nuts, food for swine”) and mæstan (“to fatten”), from West Germanic; probably related to meat.
senses_examples:
text:
She shut them straight in sties, and gave them meat: / Oak-mast, and beech, and cornel fruit, they eat,
ref:
c. 1609, George Chapman, Homer, Prince of Poets [translation of Odyssey]
text:
He […] would begin to pick up the seed-cases or mast, squeeze each one with his fingers to see if it were fertile, and drop it if it were not.
ref:
1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 162
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fruit of forest-trees (beech, oak, chestnut, pecan, etc.), especially if having fallen from the tree, used as fodder for pigs and other animals.
senses_topics:
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13277 | word:
mast
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mast (third-person singular simple present masts, present participle masting, simple past and past participle masted)
forms:
form:
masts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
masting
tags:
participle
present
form:
masted
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participle
past
form:
masted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Mast
Mast (botany)
etymology_text:
From Old English mæst (“fallen nuts, food for swine”) and mæstan (“to fatten”), from West Germanic; probably related to meat.
senses_examples:
text:
Any individual tree which masted in a generally non-mast year would be subjected to the exclusive attention of the seed predators and so would be selected against.
ref:
1985, Michael Fenner, Seed ecology, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
However, if this were true, all or most masting species (e.g., Fagus and Quercus) in a forest would have to mast in synchrony to be effective against generalist herbivores.
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2004, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Christian Körner, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Forest Diversity and Function: Temperate and Boreal Systems, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
Because dipterocarp seeds are winged and spin gracefully as they fall, the dispersal of millions of dipterocarp seeds during a masting event is one of the greatest spectacles that you can see on planet Earth.
ref:
2008, Chris Rowthorn, Muhammad Cohen, China Williams, Borneo, page 50
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To feed on forest seed or fruit.
To produce a very large quantity of fruit or seed in certain years but not others.
senses_topics:
agriculture
biology
business
ecology
forestry
lifestyle
natural-sciences |
13278 | word:
mast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mast (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Mast
etymology_text:
Clipping of Masteron.
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
The anabolic steroid drostanolone propionate, also known as Masteron
senses_topics:
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
13279 | word:
mast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mast (plural masts)
forms:
form:
masts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Mast
etymology_text:
From French masse, with -t probably after Etymology 1, above.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of heavy cue, with the broad end of which one strikes the ball.
senses_topics:
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
13280 | word:
function
word_type:
noun
expansion:
function (plural functions)
forms:
form:
functions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Function (mathematics)
etymology_text:
From Middle French function, from Old French fonction, from Latin functiō (“performance, execution”), from functus, perfect participle of fungor (“to perform, execute, discharge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to enjoy”).
senses_examples:
text:
Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
text:
Our hotel is hosting a function for all the warehouse workers on the night of April 18.
type:
example
text:
Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
ref:
2008 June 1, A. Dirk Moses, “Preface”, in Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, Berghahn Books, page x
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
What something does or is used for.
A professional or official position.
An official or social occasion.
An official or social occasion.
A party.
Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.
A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.
A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
anthropology
human-sciences
sciences |
13281 | word:
function
word_type:
verb
expansion:
function (third-person singular simple present functions, present participle functioning, simple past and past participle functioned)
forms:
form:
functions
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
functioning
tags:
participle
present
form:
functioned
tags:
participle
past
form:
functioned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Function (mathematics)
etymology_text:
From Middle French function, from Old French fonction, from Latin functiō (“performance, execution”), from functus, perfect participle of fungor (“to perform, execute, discharge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to enjoy”).
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To have a function.
To carry out a function; to be in action.
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13282 | word:
apron
word_type:
noun
expansion:
apron (plural aprons)
forms:
form:
aprons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
apron
etymology_text:
Rebracketing of napron (a napron → an apron), from Middle English naperoun, napron, apron, from Old French napperon, diminutive of nappe (“tablecloth”), from Latin mappa (“napkin”). For other similar cases of rebracketing, see adder, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, trickle, umpire.
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
An article of clothing worn over the front of the torso and/or legs for protection from spills; also historically worn by Freemasons and as part of women's fashion.
The short cassock ordinarily worn by English bishops.
A hard surface bordering a structure or area.
The paved area of an airport, especially the area where aircraft park away from a terminal
A hard surface bordering a structure or area.
The spreading end of a driveway.
A hard surface bordering a structure or area.
The paved area below the yellow line on a race track.
A hard surface bordering a structure or area.
The loading, parking or roadway area immediately beside a railway station
A hard surface bordering a structure or area.
The portion of a stage extending towards the audience beyond the proscenium arch in a theatre.
A hard surface bordering a structure or area.
A large decal toward the bottom of a pinball table.
The sides of a tree's canopy.
The cap of a cannon; a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry.
A removable cover for the passengers' feet and legs in an open horse carriage.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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13283 | word:
apron
word_type:
verb
expansion:
apron (third-person singular simple present aprons, present participle aproning, simple past and past participle aproned)
forms:
form:
aprons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
aproning
tags:
participle
present
form:
aproned
tags:
participle
past
form:
aproned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Rebracketing of napron (a napron → an apron), from Middle English naperoun, napron, apron, from Old French napperon, diminutive of nappe (“tablecloth”), from Latin mappa (“napkin”). For other similar cases of rebracketing, see adder, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, trickle, umpire.
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
To cover with, or as if with, an apron.
senses_topics:
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13284 | word:
algebra
word_type:
noun
expansion:
algebra (countable and uncountable, plural algebras)
forms:
form:
algebras
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
al-Khwarizmi
algebra
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Medieval Latin algebra, from Arabic word الْجَبْر (al-jabr, “reunion, resetting of broken parts”) in the title of al-Khwarizmi's influential work الْكِتَاب الْمُخْتَصَر فِي حِسَاب الْجَبْر وَالْمُقَابَلَة (al-kitāb al-muḵtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa-l-muqābala, “The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing”).
senses_examples:
text:
Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not only vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.
ref:
1551, James A.H. Murray, editor, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society., volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1888, Part 1, page 217
type:
quotation
text:
Let us conceive, then, of an Algebra in which the symbols x, y, z, &c. admit indifferently of the values 0 and 1, and of these values alone.
ref:
1854, George Boole, “Signs and their Laws”, in An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, on which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities, London: Walton and Maberly, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
Fly ! Fly ! avaunt with that base cowardly gibbrish ; That Algebra of honour ; which had never Been nam'd, if all had equal courage—what?
ref:
1663, William Clark, edited by William Hugh Logan, Marciano; or, The discovery: A tragi-comedy, Edinburgh: Reprinted for Private Circulation, published 1871, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
ref:
a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
Algebra is used today by surgeons to mean bone-setting, i.e. the restoration of bones, and the idea of restoration is present in the mathematical context, too.
ref:
1987, John Newsome Crossley, “Latency”, in The emergence of number, Singapore: World Scientific, Al-Khwarizwi, page 65
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Elementary algebra: A system for representing and manipulating unknown quantities (variables) in equations.
Abstract algebra: A broad field of study in modern mathematics (often mentioned alongside analysis) loosely characterized by its concern for abstraction and symmetry, dealing with the behavior, classification, and application of a large class of objects (called algebraic structures) and the maps between them (called, most generally, morphisms).
Any of several objects of study in Algebra
A universal algebra.
Any of several objects of study in Algebra
An algebraic structure consisting of a module over a commutative ring (or a vector space over a field) along with an additional binary operation that is bilinear over module (or vector) addition and scalar multiplication.
A collection of subsets of a given set, such that this collection contains the empty set, and the collection is closed under unions and complements (and thereby also under intersections and differences).
A system or process (especially one that is complex or convoluted) that substitutes one thing for another, or uses signs or symbols to represent concepts or ideas.
The surgical treatment of a dislocated or fractured bone. Also (countable): a dislocation or fracture.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
medicine
sciences |
13285 | word:
console converter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
console converter (plural console converters)
forms:
form:
console converters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A peripheral used to bypass regional lockout on a video game console, allowing imported video games to be played on domestic video game consoles, but without circumventing copy protection.
senses_topics:
video-games |
13286 | word:
Tashkent
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tashkent
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Russian Ташкент (Taškent), from Uzbek Toshkent, from Chagatai تاشکند (taškänd), compound of tosh (“stone”) + Old Turkic [script needed] (kend, “city”) (compare Turkish kent), the latter borrowed from Sogdian [Term?] (/kand/, “city”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Uzbek opera house and the Uzbek dramatic theater, both in Tashkent, are of recent origin and arose under Soviet influence.
ref:
1948, Henry A. Wallace, Andrew Jacob Steiger, Soviet Asia Mission, →OCLC, →OL, page 103
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Uzbekistan.
senses_topics:
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13287 | word:
vector
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vector (plural vectors)
forms:
form:
vectors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin vector (“carrier, transporter”), from vehō (“I carry, I transport, I bear”), also ultimately the root of English vehicle.
The “person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme” sense derives from the disease sense.
The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1846.
senses_examples:
text:
Velocity is a vector defined by the speed of an object and its direction.
type:
example
text:
As examples of vector quantities may be mentioned the distance between any two given points, a velocity, a force, an acceleration, angular velocity, intensity of magnetization flux of heat.
ref:
1914, The New Student's Reference Work
type:
quotation
text:
Computers store many types of data as vectors for ease of processing.
type:
example
text:
A row vector is a matrix whose M dimension is 1. In fact, a row vector is a matrix consisting of a single row, and a column vector a matrix consisting of a single column.
ref:
2003 February 26, Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton, The PC Graphics Handbook, CRC Press, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
Color is stored as a vector attribute (R, G, B).
ref:
2011 March 8, Lee Lanier, Advanced Maya Texturing and Lighting, John Wiley & Sons, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
GPU cores are essentially vector-processing units, capable of applying the same instruction on a large collection of operands.
ref:
2022 February 9, Gerassimos Barlas, Multicore and GPU Programming: An Integrated Approach, Morgan Kaufmann, page 398
type:
quotation
text:
The vectors in #x7B;#x5C;mathbbQ#x7D;#x5B;X#x5D; are the single-variable polynomials with rational coefficients: one is #x5C;textstylex#x7B;42#x7D;#x2B;#x5C;frac1#x7B;137#x7D;x-1.
type:
example
text:
I was told to fly out on a vector of 100 degrees to meet a strong plot of aircraft 30 miles from the coast.
ref:
2017, Mark Chambers, Tony Holmes, Nakajima B5N ‘Kate’ and B6N ‘Jill’ Units, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
These days, their primary job is to insist that Facebook is a fun place to share baby photos and sell old couches, not a vector for hate speech, misinformation, and violent extremist propaganda.
ref:
2020 October 12, Andrew Marantz, “Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself”, in The New Yorker
type:
quotation
text:
To create a vector of students in a class, you will want the vector to be large enough […]
ref:
2004, Jesse Liberty, Bradley L. Jones, Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days, page 694
type:
quotation
text:
a vector image, vector graphics
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
An ordered tuple, originally one representing a directed quantity, but by extension any one-dimensional matrix.
Any member of a (generalized) vector space.
A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.
A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme.
A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality.
The way in which the eyes are drawn across the visual text. The trail that a book cover can encourage the eyes to follow from certain objects to others.
A memory address containing the address of a code entry point, usually one which is part of a table and often one that is dereferenced and jumped to during the execution of an interrupt.
A kind of dynamically resizable array.
A graphical representation using outlines; vector graphics.
A DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another.
Forces, developments, phenomena, processes, systems, etc. which influence the trajectory of history (e.g. imperialism)
senses_topics:
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
mathematics
sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
epidemiology
medicine
sciences
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
human-sciences
psychology
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
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13288 | word:
vector
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vector (third-person singular simple present vectors, present participle vectoring, simple past and past participle vectored)
forms:
form:
vectors
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
vectoring
tags:
participle
present
form:
vectored
tags:
participle
past
form:
vectored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin vector (“carrier, transporter”), from vehō (“I carry, I transport, I bear”), also ultimately the root of English vehicle.
The “person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme” sense derives from the disease sense.
The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1846.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] if love is vectored toward an object and Elinor's here flies toward Marianne, Marianne's in turn toward Willoughby.
ref:
1994, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Tendencies
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.
To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
13289 | word:
incarcerate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
incarcerate (third-person singular simple present incarcerates, present participle incarcerating, simple past and past participle incarcerated)
forms:
form:
incarcerates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
incarcerating
tags:
participle
present
form:
incarcerated
tags:
participle
past
form:
incarcerated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin incarcerātus, past participle of incarcerō (“to imprison”), from Latin in- (“in”) + carcer (“a prison”), meaning "put behind lines (bars)" – Latin root is of a lattice or grid. Related to cancel (“cross out with lines”) and chancel (“area behind a lattice”). See also carcerate and cancer.
senses_examples:
text:
Tolokonnikova has also been an effective public speaker even while incarcerated, but she has spoken out on politics and freedom in general rather than prisoners’ rights.
ref:
2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, “Life in a Russian Prison”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-09-24
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.
senses_topics:
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13290 | word:
incarcerate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
incarcerate (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin incarcerātus, past participle of incarcerō (“to imprison”), from Latin in- (“in”) + carcer (“a prison”), meaning "put behind lines (bars)" – Latin root is of a lattice or grid. Related to cancel (“cross out with lines”) and chancel (“area behind a lattice”). See also carcerate and cancer.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] Mr. Vanſe, Keeper of the Tolbooth, did give in a Bill, repreſenting, That there being ſo great a number of Priſoners, upon account of Conventicles, and for Criminal Cauſes, and the ſaid Captain being incarcerate, not for a Crime, but for not finding Caution, he was in bona fide not to look upon him as a Perſon that would eſcape: […]
ref:
1698, John Nisbet of Dirleton, Some Doubts & Questions, in the Law; Especially of Scotland. As Also, Some Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session: […], Edinburgh: […] George Mosman, […], page 146
type:
quotation
text:
Being Incarcerat he put forth a Blaſphemous Paper, not only condemning all the work of Reformation, but alſo the Engliſh Bible in the form as it is now extant; […]
ref:
1707, [James Renwick], An Informatory Vindication of a Poor, Wasted, Misrepresented, Remnant of the Suffering, Anti-Popish, Anti-Prelatick, Anti-Erastian, Anti-Sectarian, True Presbyterian Church of Christ in Scotland: […], page 14
type:
quotation
text:
THat where I being incarcerate within the ſaid Tolbooth, by Warrand of the Lord Juſtice Clerk, for the Crime of Murder alledged committed by me, […] humbly ſhewing, That where, he being incarcerate within the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, by Warrant of the Lord Juſtice Clerk, for the Crime of Muther committed by him, […]
ref:
1732, John Louthian, The Form of Process before the Court of Justiciary in Scotland; Containing the Constitution of the Sovereign Criminal Court, and the Way and Manner of Their Procedure: […], Edinburgh: […] Robert Fleming and Company, for William Hamilton, […], pages 71 and 73
type:
quotation
text:
While incarcerate below, / Prayer with every breath shall flow; / Praise, expiring on my tongue, / Live anew in holier song, / Where my soul, its trial past, / Perfect joy shall reap at last!
ref:
1833, Joseph P. Bartrum, The Psalms, Newly Paraphrased for the Service of the Sanctuary. […], Boston, Mass.: Russell, Odiorne, and Company, page 76
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Incarcerated.
senses_topics:
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13291 | word:
dinner
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dinner (countable and uncountable, plural dinners)
forms:
form:
dinners
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dinner
etymology_text:
From Middle English dyner, from Old French disner (“lunch”, but originally “breakfast”), (modern French dîner), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnō, *disiūnāre from Latin dis- + iēiūnō (“to break the fast”). Doublet of diner.
senses_examples:
text:
It was already late for school, so the boy took his time and only arrived in the village when Heidi came home for dinner. […] "Come to the table now and eat with us. Then you can go up with Heidi, and when you bring her back at night, you can get your supper here."
ref:
1919, Elisabeth P. Stork (translator), Heidi, Johanna Spyrihttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/20781/20781-h/20781-h.htm
text:
1993, Mark Berry as "King Harkinian", a character in Animation Magic, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, Philips Interactive Media (publ.).
I wonder what's for dinner.
type:
quotation
text:
I want to cook dinner.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
I had some friends to dinner two nights ago.
type:
example
text:
Give the dog its dinner.
type:
example
text:
Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
ref:
1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).
The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening.
An evening meal.
A meal given to an animal.
A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion.
The food provided or consumed at any such meal.
senses_topics:
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13292 | word:
dinner
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dinner (third-person singular simple present dinners, present participle dinnering, simple past and past participle dinnered)
forms:
form:
dinners
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dinnering
tags:
participle
present
form:
dinnered
tags:
participle
past
form:
dinnered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
dinner
etymology_text:
From Middle English dyner, from Old French disner (“lunch”, but originally “breakfast”), (modern French dîner), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnō, *disiūnāre from Latin dis- + iēiūnō (“to break the fast”). Doublet of diner.
senses_examples:
text:
Once I was geared up, I joined him on the wide, flat seat of the sled which was loaded up with hot food for the jacks who were dinnering out since they worked a forty far from the camp.
ref:
2014, Caroline Akervik, chapter 6, in White Pine, White Bear Lake, MN: Melange Books, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
1887, Caroline Emily Cameron, A Devout Lover, London: F.V. White & Co., Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 181,
She had taken her about to concerts and exhibitions—she had dinnered her at the Colonies, and suppered her at the New Club.
text:
‘The Irish were awful anyway,’ Lady Wolseley said, ‘and their not attending the season should be greeted with relief. The dreary matrons dragging their dreary daughters about the place and dinnering up every possible partner for them. The truth is that no one wants to marry their daughters, no one at all.’
ref:
2004, Colm Tóibín, chapter 2, in The Master, New York: Scribner, page 26
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To eat a dinner; to dine.
To provide (someone) with a dinner; to dine.
senses_topics:
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13293 | word:
discharge
word_type:
verb
expansion:
discharge (third-person singular simple present discharges, present participle discharging, simple past and past participle discharged)
forms:
form:
discharges
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
discharging
tags:
participle
present
form:
discharged
tags:
participle
past
form:
discharged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dischargen, from Old French deschargier (“to unload”), from Late Latin discarricāre (“unload”). By surface analysis, dis- + charge.
senses_examples:
text:
Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions.
ref:
January 1, 1878, Herbert Spencer, Ceremonial Government, published in The Fortnightly Review No. 132
text:
GWR plans to use it on the Greenford branch in west London, making use of a fast charger at West Ealing that will charge the batteries in just three and a half minutes. This fast charger is essentially a battery installed at the lineside which is trickle-charged from the electricity grid. It can then discharge quickly into the train's batteries through charging rails and then start recharging itself while the train is running in service.
ref:
2024 March 6, “Network News: GWR '230' sets UK battery record”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
to discharge a prisoner
type:
example
text:
to discharge a cargo
type:
example
text:
A pipe discharges water.
type:
example
text:
He discharged a horrible oath.
type:
example
text:
to discharge the colour from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark background
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
To expel or let go.
To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
To release (an accumulated charge).
To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
To unload a ship or another means of transport.
To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
To give forth; to emit or send out.
To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
To prohibit; to forbid.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
medicine
sciences
government
military
politics
war
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
business
manufacturing
textiles
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13294 | word:
discharge
word_type:
noun
expansion:
discharge (countable and uncountable, plural discharges)
forms:
form:
discharges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
discharge
etymology_text:
From Middle English dischargen, from Old French deschargier (“to unload”), from Late Latin discarricāre (“unload”). By surface analysis, dis- + charge.
senses_examples:
text:
care transition after discharge
type:
example
text:
career transition after discharge
type:
example
text:
a mucopurulent vaginal discharge
type:
example
text:
the cooling tower's discharge
type:
example
text:
negligent discharge
type:
example
text:
She [the Queen] was assisted in the discharge of her solemn functions by fourteen sacred women, one for each of the altars of Dionysus.
ref:
1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 137
type:
quotation
text:
After having granted discharge from liability, the general meeting of shareholders may not demand for the company compensation for matters which it had knowledge of when granting discharge.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of expelling or letting go.
The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
The act of expelling or letting go.
The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
The material thus released.
The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
The process of removing the load borne by something.
The process of flowing out.
The process of flowing out.
Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.
The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
Release from liability, as granted to someone having served in a position of trust, such as to the officers and governors of a corporate body.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
government
military
politics
war
medicine
sciences
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
law |
13295 | word:
crash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crash (plural crashes)
forms:
form:
crashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
crash
etymology_text:
From Middle English crasshen, crasschen, craschen (“to break into pieces”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of earlier *crasken, from crasen (“to break”) + -k (formative suffix); or from earlier *craskien, *craksien, a variant of craken (“to crack, break open”) (for form development compare break, brask, brash).
senses_examples:
text:
The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to a crash of cymbals.
type:
example
text:
After the lightning came the crash of thunder.
type:
example
text:
She broke two bones in her body in a car crash.
type:
example
text:
Nobody survived the plane crash.
type:
example
text:
My computer had a crash so I had to reboot it.
type:
example
text:
the stock market crash
type:
example
text:
One of my favorites among the terms of groups of creatures is a crash of rhinoceros. I can imagine an African guide saying to his client, “Shoot, dammit, shoot! Here comes the whole bloody crash of rhinoceros!”
[…] Personally, I think I’d just as soon come across a crash of rhinoceros as a knot of toad.
ref:
p. 1991, Patrick F. McManus, “Nincompoopery and Other Group Terms”, in The Grasshopper Trap, Henry Holt and Company, page 103
text:
The largest group of black rhinos reported was made up of 13 individuals. A group of rhinos is called a crash.
ref:
1998, E. Melanie Watt, Black Rhinos, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Out in the water a crash of rhinoceros-like animals browse belly deep through a bed of aquatic plants.
ref:
1999, Edward Osborne Wilson, The Diversity of Life, page 126
type:
quotation
text:
The crash of rhinoceros at Tsavo now numbers almost 200.
ref:
2003, Claude Herve-Bazin, Judith Farr, Kenya and Tanzania, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
A comedown from a drug.
A group of rhinoceroses.
A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
business
finance
biology
ecology
natural-sciences |
13296 | word:
crash
word_type:
adj
expansion:
crash (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
crash
etymology_text:
From Middle English crasshen, crasschen, craschen (“to break into pieces”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of earlier *crasken, from crasen (“to break”) + -k (formative suffix); or from earlier *craskien, *craksien, a variant of craken (“to crack, break open”) (for form development compare break, brask, brash).
senses_examples:
text:
crash course
type:
example
text:
crash diet
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.
senses_topics:
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13297 | word:
crash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
crash (third-person singular simple present crashes, present participle crashing, simple past and past participle crashed)
forms:
form:
crashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
crashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
crashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
crashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
crash
etymology_text:
From Middle English crasshen, crasschen, craschen (“to break into pieces”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of earlier *crasken, from crasen (“to break”) + -k (formative suffix); or from earlier *craskien, *craksien, a variant of craken (“to crack, break open”) (for form development compare break, brask, brash).
senses_examples:
text:
When the car crashed into a house, the driver was heavily injured.
type:
example
text:
I'm sorry for crashing the bike into a wall. I'll pay for repairs.
type:
example
text:
Roy Hodgson's side were dominant and fully merited the lead given to them when Eric Dier crashed a 20-yard free-kick high past keeper Igor Akinfeev with 17 minutes left.
ref:
2016 June 11, Phil McNulty, “England 1-1 Russia”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Even the staid New York Times was gushing: “Rising to the glorious heights of his heyday, Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat, crashed out three home runs against the Pittsburgh Pirates Saturday afternoon but it was not enough."
ref:
2022, John Nogowski, Last Time Out: Big-League Farewells of Baseball's Greats, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Thunder crashed directly overhead.
type:
example
text:
We weren't invited to the party so we decided to crash it.
type:
example
text:
"Anyway, sorry about crashing. I know you're doing a sort of 'talk freely about magic' thing, and I don't have any of my own, but..."
ref:
2019 November 8, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Nov 8, 2019
type:
quotation
text:
Using the project plan, the team started to work out different scenarios to crash the schedule and bring the date to the regulatory deadline.
ref:
2008, Rick A. Morris with Brette McWhorter Sember, Project management that works, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
Hey dude, can I crash at your pad?
type:
example
text:
'I been pissin' blood,' he said, grinning. Then frowning. 'Crash us a tenner, eh?'
ref:
2005, Charlie Williams, Fags and Lager, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
Crash us a cancer stick, Fitz: I could bloody murder a fag, as I delight in telling Americans
ref:
2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
'I'll show you what needs doing. But first..." She hesitated. 'I don't suppose you could crash me a ciggy, while you're here, could you?'
ref:
2015, Lucy Diamond, Summer at Shell Cottage
type:
quotation
text:
Falling from cloud nine / Crashing from the high / I'm letting go tonight / Yeah, I'm falling from cloud nine
ref:
2012, Katy Perry, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Dr. Luke, Cirkut (lyrics and music), “Wide Awake”, in Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, performed by Katy Perry
type:
quotation
text:
If the system crashes again, we'll have it fixed in the computer shop.
type:
example
text:
Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop.
type:
example
text:
And the unvarying lesson of history is that all such balance of power peaces have crashed into new conflicts, as soon as the unstable equilibrium was disturbed, witness the Peace of Westphalia, the Congress of Vienna, and, in our own time, Versailles.
ref:
1945, Mario Pei, The American Road to Peace: A Constitution for the World, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
In October 1929, the United States' stock market crashed, at the end of a buoyant decade in its domestic economy.
ref:
1994, National Economic Review - Volumes 28-30, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
Despite the quotas determined by fisheries scientists, the Atlantic cod population crashed in the mid-1980s leading to a complete moratorium for fishing the species within Canadian waters.
ref:
2003, W.M. Roth, Toward an Anthropology of Graphing, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
Nature, propelled by its unidirectional increasing entropic disorder, without the containing Schrodinger and de Broglie λ = h/p waves, would have probably crashed out of existence long ago!
ref:
2006, Ashok Sengupta, Chaos, Nonlinearity, Complexity, page 302
type:
quotation
text:
I told him that if his patients got in trouble and started to crash, there are several things that I could do for him.
ref:
2016, Thomas J. Cortez, It Happened on My Shift
type:
quotation
text:
The analysis presented in Figure 5.2 highlights the importance of technological shocks, which were for example vital in explaining the Information Technology driven bubble of the late 1990s that crashed in 2001.
ref:
2022, Ioanna T. Kokores, Monetary Policy and Financial Stability, page 147
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
To cause something to collide with something else, especially when this results in damage.
To hit or strike with force
To make a sudden loud noise.
Short for gatecrash.
To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
To give, as a favor.
To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
To terminate or halt execution due to an exception.
To cause an exception that terminates or halts execution.
To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly and catastrophically deteriorate.
senses_topics:
management
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
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13298 | word:
crash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crash (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
crash
etymology_text:
Uncertain; perhaps compare Russian крашени́на (krašenína, “coarse linen”).
senses_examples:
text:
Unlocking the door of her bath-room she went inside, and soon emerged, bringing a rug, which she spread upon the floor of the gallery, and two huge hair pillows covered with crash, which she placed against the front of the building.
ref:
1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of rough linen.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
textiles |
13299 | word:
Normandy
word_type:
name
expansion:
Normandy
forms:
wikipedia:
Normandy
Normandy (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English Normandie, Normandye, from Old English Normandiġ, from Old French Normendie, from normant + -ie. Compare Old Norse Norðmanndi (“Normandy”). Normant refers to the Germanic words for 'north' and 'man', as the original Normans were of Scandinavian origin. More at Norman.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An administrative region, historical province, and medieval kingdom in northwest France, on the English Channel. The modern region was created in 2016 with the merger of Upper Normandy and Lower Normandy.
A number of other places:
A village and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref SU9251).
A number of other places:
A small settlement on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SV9211)
A number of other places:
In the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bureau County, Illinois, named after the Norman family.
A number of other places:
In the United States:
A city in Saint Louis County, Missouri.
A number of other places:
In the United States:
A neighbourhood in north-east Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
A number of other places:
In the United States:
A town in Bedford County, Tennessee.
A number of other places:
In the United States:
A census-designated place in Maverick County, Texas.
Ellipsis of Duchy of Normandy.
senses_topics:
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