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13300 | word:
regional lockout
word_type:
noun
expansion:
regional lockout (countable and uncountable, plural regional lockouts)
forms:
form:
regional lockouts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined by the video game community and opponents of the lockout practice. The practice originated with and was devised by the video game industry and was later adopted by the film industry with the advent of DVDs.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The programming practice, code, or chip used to prevent the playing of imported media on a domestically marketed device.
senses_topics:
DVD
media
video-games |
13301 | word:
warehouse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
warehouse (plural warehouses)
forms:
form:
warehouses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
warehouse
etymology_text:
From ware + house.
senses_examples:
text:
Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.
senses_topics:
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13302 | word:
warehouse
word_type:
verb
expansion:
warehouse (third-person singular simple present warehouses, present participle warehousing, simple past and past participle warehoused)
forms:
form:
warehouses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
warehousing
tags:
participle
present
form:
warehoused
tags:
participle
past
form:
warehoused
tags:
past
wikipedia:
warehouse
etymology_text:
From ware + house.
senses_examples:
text:
Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives.
ref:
1894, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, Opinions of Collectors of Customs Concerning Ad Valorem and Specific Rates of Duty on Imports
type:
quotation
text:
When our elders presented school to us, they did not present it as a place of high learning, but as a means of escape from death and penal warehousing.
ref:
2015, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
We nevertheless pay hundreds of thousands of pounds to process many of these children through the criminal justice system, and to warehouse them for years – and even more if they end up graduating to adult prisons, as most of them do.
ref:
2020 July 23, Chris Daw, “'A stain on national life': why are we locking up so many children?'”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
the warehousing of syndicated TV shows
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To store in a warehouse or similar.
To confine (a person) to an institution for a long period.
To acquire and then shelve, simply to prevent competitors from acquiring it.
senses_topics:
business |
13303 | word:
Hannover
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hannover
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Hanover
senses_topics:
|
13304 | word:
parachute
word_type:
noun
expansion:
parachute (plural parachutes)
forms:
form:
parachutes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
parachute
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French parachute, from para- (“protection against”) (as in parasol) and chute (“fall”).
senses_examples:
text:
Under that there are dildos and butt-plugs arranged by size on two shelves: two fat butt-plugs and four small ones, four two-headed dildos, eight ordinary dildos. Under that, the little material hanging on nails: five different pairs of nipple clamps, some clothespins, a parachute for the balls, a dog collar, two hoods, one in leather, one in latex, six cockrings, in steel or leather, regular or with built-in ball-squeezers, two dick sheaths […]
ref:
1998, Guillaume Dustan, translated by Brad Rumph, In My Room, London: Serpent’s Tail, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
Parachutes are usually made of leather and can be purchased through most fetish catalogs or stores catering to the BDSM scene.
ref:
2012, Peggy Sue, Guide to Female Supremacy, London: Gynarchy International Editions / Lulu Press, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
She came near and grabbed his balls tightly with her left hand, tugging them downward while applying a parachute harness with her right hand. […] His balls stretched downward under the delicious weight.
ref:
2016, John Caesar, Wife Scorned!, Lulu.com
type:
quotation
text:
A parachute is a small collar, usually made from leather, which fastens around the scrotum, and from which weights can be hung.
ref:
2022, Mohamed A. Baky Fahmy, “Scrotum in Human Conscience”, in Mohamed A. Baky Fahmy, editor, Normal and Abnormal Scrotum, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, →DOI, page 22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object or person, causing them to float instead of falling.
A web or fold of skin extending between the legs of gliding mammals, such as the flying squirrel and colugo.
A small collar which fastens around the scrotum and from which weights can be hung.
A large sheet of fabric used in children's physical education, often colorful, with handles allowing many people to control its motion.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
|
13305 | word:
parachute
word_type:
verb
expansion:
parachute (third-person singular simple present parachutes, present participle parachuting, simple past and past participle parachuted)
forms:
form:
parachutes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
parachuting
tags:
participle
present
form:
parachuted
tags:
participle
past
form:
parachuted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
parachute
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French parachute, from para- (“protection against”) (as in parasol) and chute (“fall”).
senses_examples:
text:
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref:
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
The soldiers were parachuted behind enemy lines.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To jump, fall, descend, etc. using such a device.
To introduce into a place using such a device.
To place (somebody) in an organisation in a position of authority without their having previous experience there; used with in or into.
To wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them, so that they will be released for absorption when the covering dissolves within the body.
senses_topics:
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13306 | word:
Kabul
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kabul
forms:
wikipedia:
Kabul
etymology_text:
From Classical Persian کابل (kābul).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.
A province of Afghanistan.
A river rising in the Hindu Kush of northeastern Maidan Wardak, Afghanistan and flowing roughly 700 kilometers before merging into the Indus river at Attock, Pakistan.
senses_topics:
|
13307 | word:
Jakarta
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jakarta
forms:
wikipedia:
Jakarta
etymology_text:
From Indonesian Jakarta, which derives from Sanskrit जयकर्ता (jayakartā, “that which causes victory”).
senses_examples:
text:
And in fact, forgetting the past was easy to do in Indonesia. Jakarta was still a sleepy backwater in those days, with few buildings over four or five stories high, cycle rickshaws outnumbering cars, the city center and wealthier sections of town—with their colonial elegance and lush, well-tended lawns—quickly giving way to clots of small villages with unpaved roads and open sewers, dusty markets, and shanties of mud and brick and plywood and corrugated iron that tumbled down gentle banks to murky rivers where families bathed and washed laundry like pilgrims in the Ganges.
ref:
2006, Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, page 273
type:
quotation
text:
In an effort to make sure the referendum would not take place or that the Timorese would at least approve the outcome desired by Jakarta, the Indonesians launched yet another campaign of terror and killings, the violence dramatically increasing in the months before the UN agreement and culminating in the weeks after the vote on August 30.
ref:
2010, Edward Herman, David Peterson, The Politics of Genocide, New York: Monthly Review Press, page 90
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province and capital city of Indonesia.
The Indonesian government.
senses_topics:
|
13308 | word:
Yoshi
word_type:
name
expansion:
Yoshi
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Japanese ヨッシー (Yosshī, “Yoshi, the Super Mario Bros. dinosaur character”), 義 (Yoshi, common Japanese male given name), and many other spellings. See よし.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from Japanese.
A fictional dinosaur character from the Mario franchise.
senses_topics:
|
13309 | word:
Trinidad
word_type:
name
expansion:
Trinidad
forms:
wikipedia:
Trinidad
Trinidad (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish trinidad (“trinity”), named after the Holy Trinity by Columbus to fulfill a religious vow.
senses_examples:
text:
‘Some trouble on the road up north around Trinidad.’
ref:
1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 159
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island in the Caribbean, part of Trinidad and Tobago.
A place in the United States:
A home rule municipality, the county seat of Las Animas County, Colorado.
A place in the United States:
A city in Humboldt County, California.
A place in the United States:
A minor city in Henderson County, Texas.
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community and ghost town in Grant County, Washington.
A place in the United States:
A neighbourhood in north-east Washington, D.C.
A number of places in other countries:
A city, the capital of the Beni department, Bolivia.
A number of places in other countries:
A town and municipality in Casanare department, Colombia.
A number of places in other countries:
A town in Sancti Spíritus province, Cuba.
A number of places in other countries:
A district in Itapúa department, Paraguay.
A number of places in other countries:
A municipality in Bohol province, Philippines.
A number of places in other countries:
A city, the capital of the Flores department, Uruguay.
senses_topics:
|
13310 | word:
madeleine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
madeleine (plural madeleines)
forms:
form:
madeleines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
fr:Madeleine Paulmier
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from French madeleine, from earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, after the given name Madeleine (“Magdalene”), of uncertain reference: attributed in some sources to a 19th-century pastry cook Madeleine Paulmier, whose existence is now considered dubious.
In sense 2, used with reference to the cake's function in the extract below, taken from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
senses_examples:
text:
And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray […] my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane.
ref:
1981, Marcel Proust, CK Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin (translators), Swann's Way, Folio Society, published 2005, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
Madeleine batter can be made in advance and refrigerated.
ref:
2003, Emily Luchetti, A Passion for Desserts, Chronicle Books, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
The Robe was thus fixed in my mind as a symbol, and in my memory as a madeleine, of Jewish evil.
ref:
2001, James Carroll, Constantine's Sword, Houghton-Mifflin, page 223
type:
quotation
text:
Every five years or so, in the middle of another task, I'll look at them and a particular cover will bring memory flooding back like a madeleine.
ref:
2005, Roger Ebert, Rogert Ebert's Movie Yearbook, page 784
type:
quotation
text:
My madeleine moment happened early on Friday, while pot smoke drifted in the air as I waited for a shuttle to the polo fields where Coachella takes place.
ref:
2022 April 27, Spencer Kornhaber, “Coachella Defeated My Cynicism About Music Festivals”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A French type of small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell.
Something which brings back a memory; a source of nostalgia or evocative memories.
senses_topics:
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13311 | word:
Riyadh
word_type:
name
expansion:
Riyadh
forms:
wikipedia:
Riyadh
Riyadh Province
etymology_text:
From Arabic الرِّيَاض (ar-riyāḍ, literally “the meadows”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Saudi Arabia. Capital: Riyadh.
The capital city of Saudi Arabia.
the government of Saudi Arabia
senses_topics:
|
13312 | word:
slavery
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slavery (usually uncountable, plural slaveries)
forms:
form:
slaveries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
slavery
etymology_text:
From slave + -ery.
senses_examples:
text:
THAT the Constitution does not confer upon Congress power to interfere with slavery in the States, has been admitted by all parties and confirmed by all judicial decisions ever since the origin of the Federal Government. This doctrine was emphatically recognized by the House of Representatives in the days of Washington, during the first session of the first Congress,* and has never since been seriously called in question. Hence, it became necessary for the abolitionists, in order to furnish a pretext for their assaults on Southern slavery, to appeal to a law higher than the Constitution.
Slavery, according to them, was a grievous sin against God, and therefore no human Constitution could rightfully shield it from destruction. It was sinful to live in a political confederacy which tolerated slavery in any of the States composing it;[...]
ref:
1866, James Buchanan, Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion, New York: D. Appleton and Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.
ref:
2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema, Bloomsbury, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
Our victories on Voeld are only the beginning of what we can achieve, but we can't defeat the enemy without your help. If you're tired of living in fear, if you believe we were meant for something greater than slavery, if you're willing to stand up and fight: you'll find a new family in the Resistance.
ref:
2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: The Resistance Needs Volunteers
type:
quotation
text:
Man seeks for gold in mines that he may weave / A lasting chain for his own slavery.
ref:
1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, canto 8, stanza 16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
Forced labor in general, regardless of legality.
A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
senses_topics:
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13313 | word:
slavery
word_type:
adj
expansion:
slavery (comparative more slavery, superlative most slavery)
forms:
form:
more slavery
tags:
comparative
form:
most slavery
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
slavery
etymology_text:
From slaver + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
The giant snow bear, the wolf with slavery jaws or the claws of the silent great cats were all a part. Creatures of man's oldest nightmares were the other side of that face.
ref:
2014, Lisa Williamson, Echoes of Elder Times Collection
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Covered in slaver; slobbery.
senses_topics:
|
13314 | word:
payroll
word_type:
noun
expansion:
payroll (plural payrolls)
forms:
form:
payrolls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
payroll
etymology_text:
From pay + roll.
senses_examples:
text:
I know that the deal started with the boys in Santiago, because they’ve been on the d’Anconia pay roll for centuries — well, no, ‘pay roll’ is an honorable word, it would be more exact to say that d’Anconia Copper has been paying them protection money for centuries — isn't that what your gangsters call it?
ref:
1957, Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
type:
quotation
text:
We can spread a rumor this cop was dirty. Look, Tom, we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we?
ref:
1972, The Godfather, spoken by Michael Corleone
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
The total sum of money paid to employees.
The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.
Bribes paid to people.
senses_topics:
accounting
business
finance
|
13315 | word:
payroll
word_type:
verb
expansion:
payroll (third-person singular simple present payrolls, present participle payrolling, simple past and past participle payrolled)
forms:
form:
payrolls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
payrolling
tags:
participle
present
form:
payrolled
tags:
participle
past
form:
payrolled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
payroll
etymology_text:
From pay + roll.
senses_examples:
text:
Grantees may elect to payroll the enrollees through their own payroll system if the payroll system is consistent with regulations contained herein.
ref:
1985, The Code of Federal regulations of the United States of America, page 37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place on a payroll.
senses_topics:
|
13316 | word:
yellowish
word_type:
adj
expansion:
yellowish (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ȝelowisch; equivalent to yellow + -ish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Somewhat yellow (in colour).
senses_topics:
|
13317 | word:
Gerard
word_type:
name
expansion:
Gerard
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Gerard, from Old French Gerart, from Frankish *Gaiʀahard, from *gaiʀ (“spear”) + *hard(ī) (“hard, brave”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
A surname originating as a patronymic.
senses_topics:
|
13318 | word:
glossary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
glossary (plural glossaries)
forms:
form:
glossaries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English glosarie, from Latin glossārium, from Ancient Greek γλῶσσα (glôssa, “tongue”). Doublet of glossarium.
senses_examples:
text:
At the back of the book you can find the glossary.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A list of difficult words or specialized terms used in a particular book or document, or in a particular domain of knowledge, with their definitions; a list of glosses (explanatory annotations).
senses_topics:
|
13319 | word:
verisimilitude
word_type:
noun
expansion:
verisimilitude (countable and uncountable, plural verisimilitudes)
forms:
form:
verisimilitudes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
verisimilitude
etymology_text:
From Middle French vérisimilitude, from Latin vērīsimilitūdō (“likeness to truth”), more correctly written separately as vērī similitūdō; from vērī, genitive singular of vērus (“true, real”), + similitūdō (“likeness, resemblance”).
senses_examples:
text:
On July 12, Madame filed suit for divorce, naming one Jane McManus as his principal mistress. Other adulteries were noted in the interest of verisimilitude.
ref:
1973, Gore Vidal, chapter 16, in Burr
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality.
A statement which merely appears to be true.
Faithfulness to its own rules; internal cohesion.
senses_topics:
|
13320 | word:
rectangle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rectangle (plural rectangles)
forms:
form:
rectangles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rectangle
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum (“right angle”), from Latin rectus (“right”) + angulus (“an angle”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.
Such a quadrilateral that is oblong (longer than it is wide): one that is not regular (equilateral), that is, any except a square.
A right angle.
The product of two quantities.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
|
13321 | word:
rectangle
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rectangle (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
rectangle
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum (“right angle”), from Latin rectus (“right”) + angulus (“an angle”).
senses_examples:
text:
a rectangle triangle
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Right-angled.
senses_topics:
|
13322 | word:
Rhodes
word_type:
name
expansion:
Rhodes (countable and uncountable, plural Rhodeses)
forms:
form:
Rhodeses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French Rhodes, from Latin Rhodus, from Ancient Greek Ῥόδος (Rhódos), of uncertain etymology. Possibilities include a pre-Greek name (cf. Phoenician 𐤄𐤓𐤏𐤃 (hrʿd), "snake"), ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), and ῥοία (rhoía, “pomegranate”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island in the Dodecanese, Greece, in the Aegean Sea.
A city on the island of Rhodes, Greece, and the capital of the Dodecanese.
senses_topics:
|
13323 | word:
Rhodes
word_type:
name
expansion:
Rhodes (countable and uncountable, plural Rhodeses)
forms:
form:
Rhodeses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From rodes, the plural form of Middle English rode, from Old English rod, rodu.
The Rh- form—a 16th century spelling modification— was created by analogy with the unrelated Rhodes, Greece.
senses_examples:
text:
Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902), English mining magnate and politician.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A topographic surname for a person who lived near woodland clearings, or a habitational one for someone from a place so named.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A village in northern Eastern Cape province, South Africa; named for Cecil Rhodes
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clinton Township, Vermillion County, Indiana.
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Marshall County, Iowa; named for Conway B. Rhodes.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bentley Township, Gladwin County, Michigan; named for Murry Bentley Rhodes.
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Flathead County, Montana.
A village near Middleton, Rochdale borough, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8505).
A small commune in Moselle department, Lorraine, Grand Est, France.
A suburb of Sydney, in the City of Canada Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
An electric piano which produces soft, harmonic-like sounds; a Rhodes piano; named for inventor Harold Rhodes.
senses_topics:
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13324 | word:
Bavaria
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bavaria
forms:
wikipedia:
Bavaria
Julius Pokorny
etymology_text:
From New Latin Bavaria, from Medieval Latin Baioarii (“Bavarians”), from Latin Boiuvarii (literally “Boii settlers”), a compound of a Gaulish word meaning “cattle owner” (from Proto-Celtic *bāus (“cow”)) + Proto-Germanic *warjaz (“settler”). Alternatively, Pokorny proposes that the first element is a word meaning “warrior”, derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, beat”). This name was adopted by the Marcomanni after defeating the Boii and settling Bohemia and parts of Bavaria.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A historical region in Central Europe.
The kingdom of Bavaria.
One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation, which includes the historical Bavaria and parts of Swabia and Franconia.
senses_topics:
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13325 | word:
Turkia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Turkia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Turk + -ia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of Turkiye (“Turkey”); A country located in Thrace in southeastern Europe and Anatolia in southwestern Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara.
senses_topics:
|
13326 | word:
Turkia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Turkia (plural Turkias)
forms:
form:
Turkias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname
senses_topics:
|
13327 | word:
destiny
word_type:
noun
expansion:
destiny (plural destinies)
forms:
form:
destinies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
destiny
etymology_text:
From Middle English destine et al., from Old French destinee, from Latin dēstinō (English destine). Displaced native Old English wyrd.
senses_examples:
text:
Death is the destiny of all mortal men.
type:
example
text:
Her death (April 18, 1881) left the Empress Ts‘ŭ Hsi, the playmate of her youth, the sole Regent of China, with the destiny of four hundred millions of human beings in her hands.
ref:
1914, Li Ung Bing, “The Second Joint Regency of the Empress”, in Joseph Whiteside, editor, Outlines of Chinese History, Shanghai: The Commercial Press, →OCLC, page 565
type:
quotation
text:
Everywhere the atom bombs are dropping / It's the end of all humanity / No more time for last-minute shopping / It's time to face your final destiny
ref:
1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!
type:
quotation
text:
Dara doesn't believe in using dating apps - she insists that destiny will find her other half.
type:
example
text:
But it was much more than a mere ship. Its systems, processes, and technology were so advanced that they dwarfed every accomplishment of the Citadel species. Its grandeur and complexity rivaled the greatest creations of the Protheans—the mass relays and the Citadel. It may have even surpassed them. And if Saren could learn and understand how it worked, he could seize all that power for himself.
He’d spent his entire life preparing for a moment like this. Everything he’d ever done—his military service, his career with the Spectres—was only a prelude to this revelation. Now he had found his true purpose; destiny had led him here.
ref:
2007, Drew Karpyshyn, Mass Effect: Revelation (Science Fiction), Del Rey Books, →OCLC, pages 320–321
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will.
That which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
One's eventual fate (not necessarily inevitable or predestined).
The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.
senses_topics:
|
13328 | word:
college
word_type:
noun
expansion:
college (plural colleges)
forms:
form:
colleges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Old Latin com
Latin cum
Latin con-
Latin lēx
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin lēgō
Latin collēga
Proto-Italic *-jōs
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin collēgiumbor.
Old French college
Middle French collegebor.
Middle English college
English college
From Middle English college, from Middle French college, from Old French college, from Latin collēgium.
senses_examples:
text:
College of Cardinals, College of Surgeons
type:
example
text:
The Salii were not limited to Rome; similar colleges of dancing priests are known to have existed in many towns of ancient Italy.
ref:
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 232
type:
quotation
text:
College of Engineering
type:
example
text:
She's still in college
type:
example
text:
These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.
type:
example
text:
Pembroke College, Cambridge
type:
example
text:
Balliol College, Oxford
type:
example
text:
University College, London
type:
example
text:
Eton College
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A corporate group; a group of colleagues.
A group sharing common purposes or goals.
An electoral college.
An academic institution.
A specialized division of a university.
An academic institution.
An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
An academic institution.
A university.
An academic institution.
A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
An academic institution.
A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.
An academic institution.
An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.
An academic institution.
An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).
An academic institution.
A high school or secondary school.
An academic institution.
A private (non-government) primary or high school.
An academic institution.
A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.
An academic institution.
A government high school, short for junior college.
An academic institution.
A bilingual school.
senses_topics:
government
politics
|
13329 | word:
chop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chop (plural chops)
forms:
form:
chops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chop
etymology_text:
From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin, possibly onomatopoeic, or a variant of chap (“to become cracked”).
Cognate with Scots chap (“to chop”). Compare Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen, kchapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *ċippian (in forċippian (“to cut off”)). Perhaps related to chip.
senses_examples:
text:
I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.
type:
example
text:
I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut.
ref:
1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961
type:
quotation
text:
It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.
type:
example
text:
A karate chop.
type:
example
text:
With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop.
type:
example
text:
E, C. McsEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds[.]
ref:
1924 October 6, The Examiner, Launceston, page 2, column 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
A woodchopping competition.
A crack or cleft; a chap.
Aircraft turbulence, "light chop".
senses_topics:
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
card-games
poker
|
13330 | word:
chop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
chop (third-person singular simple present chops, present participle chopping, simple past and past participle chopped)
forms:
form:
chops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
chopping
tags:
participle
present
form:
chopped
tags:
participle
past
form:
chopped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
chop
etymology_text:
From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin, possibly onomatopoeic, or a variant of chap (“to become cracked”).
Cognate with Scots chap (“to chop”). Compare Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen, kchapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *ċippian (in forċippian (“to cut off”)). Perhaps related to chip.
senses_examples:
text:
chop wood; chop an onion
text:
Chop off his head.
type:
example
text:
We should chop off some of that department's budget.
type:
example
text:
This fellow […]interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in.
ref:
1550, Hugh Latimer, Sermon Preached before King Edward
type:
quotation
text:
A man had chopped a Sanitary Department coolie to death after an argument about money, Supreme Court was told today.
ref:
1959 June 8, China Mail, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: chomp
text:
He chopped out a fat line.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
To sever with an axe or similar implement.
To separate or divide.
to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
To interrupt; with in or out.
To stab.
To remove the final character from (a text string).
To manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
card-games
poker
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
13331 | word:
chop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
chop (third-person singular simple present chops, present participle chopping, simple past and past participle chopped)
forms:
form:
chops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
chopping
tags:
participle
present
form:
chopped
tags:
participle
past
form:
chopped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
chop
etymology_text:
Uncertain, perhaps a variant of chap (“cheap”). Compare Middle English copen (“to buy”), Dutch kopen (“to buy”).
senses_examples:
text:
this is not to put down Prelaty, this is but to chop an Episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan from one kind of dominion into another, this is but an old canonicall sleight of commuting our penance.
ref:
1644, John Milton, Areopagitica
type:
quotation
text:
The wind chops about.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To exchange, to barter; to swap.
To chap or crack.
To vary or shift suddenly.
To twist words.
To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
|
13332 | word:
chop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chop (plural chops)
forms:
form:
chops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chop
etymology_text:
Uncertain, perhaps a variant of chap (“cheap”). Compare Middle English copen (“to buy”), Dutch kopen (“to buy”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
senses_topics:
|
13333 | word:
chop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chop (plural chops)
forms:
form:
chops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chop
etymology_text:
From Middle English choppe (“jaw, jawbone”), related to Middle English cheppe (“one side of the jaw, chap”). Perhaps ultimately related to Etymology 1 above.
senses_examples:
text:
East Chop
type:
example
text:
West Chop
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A jaw of an animal.
A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
senses_topics:
|
13334 | word:
chop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chop (plural chops)
forms:
form:
chops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chop
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Hindi छाप (chāp, “stamp”). Closely related to the similarly descended Malay word cap, which likely reinforced the English usage within the Malay world.
senses_examples:
text:
silk of the first chop
text:
a chop of tea
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
A license or passport that has been sealed.
A complete shipment.
senses_topics:
|
13335 | word:
chop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
chop (third-person singular simple present chops, present participle chopping, simple past and past participle chopped)
forms:
form:
chops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
chopping
tags:
participle
present
form:
chopped
tags:
participle
past
form:
chopped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
chop
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Hindi छाप (chāp, “stamp”). Closely related to the similarly descended Malay word cap, which likely reinforced the English usage within the Malay world.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
To seal a license or passport.
senses_topics:
|
13336 | word:
chop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chop (plural chops)
forms:
form:
chops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chop
etymology_text:
Shortening.
senses_examples:
text:
IRC supports mechanisms for the enforcement of acceptable behaviour on IRC. Channel operators — "chanops" or "chops" — have access to the /kick command, which throws a specified user out of the given channel.
ref:
1996, Peter Ludlow, High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, page 404
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An IRC channel operator.
senses_topics:
|
13337 | word:
chop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chop (plural chops)
forms:
form:
chops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chop
etymology_text:
Shortening of chopper.
senses_examples:
text:
We chopped back to the base.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fly a helicopter or be flown in a helicopter.
senses_topics:
|
13338 | word:
tool
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tool (plural tools)
forms:
form:
tools
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English tōl (“tool, implement, instrument”, literally “that with which one prepares something”), perhaps borrowed from Old Norse tól, but at any rate ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tōlą (“that which is used in preparation, tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”), equivalent to taw (“to prepare”) + -le (agent suffix). Cognate with Scots tuil (“tool, implement, instrument, device”), Icelandic tól (“tool”), Faroese tól (“tool, instrument”). Related to Old English tāwian (“to make, prepare, or cultivate”); see taw, and tow ("fibres used for spinning").
senses_examples:
text:
Hand me that tool, would you?
type:
example
text:
I don't have the right tools to start fiddling around with the engine.
type:
example
text:
These are the tools of the trade.
type:
example
text:
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref:
2012 March 24, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2013-02-19, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
What was the need of a man to do that? "One stick at a time;" if Ned could not do that, he was a poor tool. Ah, a poor tool he proved to be.
ref:
1867, The Masonic Trowel, volume 6, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
ref:
2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 2017-05-11
type:
quotation
text:
The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools.
type:
example
text:
a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk
type:
example
text:
He was a tool, no more than a pawn to her.
type:
example
text:
a five-tool player
type:
example
text:
When asked what he liked about Youk [Kevin Youkilis], former Boston scout Matt Haas says, "At first glance, not a lot." (Mind you, this is one of the few scouts who actually wanted the kid.) "He was unorthodox," says Haas, who now scouts for the Arizona Diamondbacks. "He had an extreme crouch—his thighs were almost parallel to the ground. And he was heavier than he is now. But the more I watched him, the more I just thought, Throw the tools out the window. This guy can play baseball."
ref:
2007 November 7, Mark Bechtel, “"there's Something Fun About Yooouuuk"”, in Sports Illustrated, archived from the original on 2008-10-14
type:
quotation
text:
She wanna hang with the goons
She wanna party midnight till noon
She wanna play with my tool
ref:
2019 January 2, Burna Bandz (lyrics and music), “Goons” (track 13), in Compact Burna
type:
quotation
text:
He won't sell us tickets because it's 3:01, and they went off sale at 3. That guy's such a tool.
type:
example
text:
In my city keep a tool
Lil nigga you know the rules
ref:
2019 January 2, Burna Bandz (lyrics and music), “Goons” (track 13), in Compact Burna
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any mechanical device meant to ease or do a task.
Any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools.
Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
A particular skill pertaining to baseball (such as hitting, running, etc.).
A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
An obnoxious or uptight person.
A gun.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
13339 | word:
tool
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tool (third-person singular simple present tools, present participle tooling, simple past and past participle tooled)
forms:
form:
tools
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tooling
tags:
participle
present
form:
tooled
tags:
participle
past
form:
tooled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English tōl (“tool, implement, instrument”, literally “that with which one prepares something”), perhaps borrowed from Old Norse tól, but at any rate ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tōlą (“that which is used in preparation, tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”), equivalent to taw (“to prepare”) + -le (agent suffix). Cognate with Scots tuil (“tool, implement, instrument, device”), Icelandic tól (“tool”), Faroese tól (“tool, instrument”). Related to Old English tāwian (“to make, prepare, or cultivate”); see taw, and tow ("fibres used for spinning").
senses_examples:
text:
Do this lab and read this book, now tool, one and all,
And be sure and pass that final quiz or be screwed right to the wall.
ref:
1965, Matt Fichtenbaum, Dan Murphy, “The Institute Screw”, in The Broadside of Boston, volume III, number 22
type:
quotation
text:
Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.
type:
example
text:
1850s, Cuthbert M. Bede, The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
Among those who seemed disposed to join in this opinion was the Jehu of the Warwickshire coach, who expressed his conviction to our hero, that "he wos a young gent as had much himproved hisself since he tooled him up to the Warsity with his guvnor."
text:
March 8, 1890, Byron P. Stephenson, "My Trip to Brazil", in Illustrated American
boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept roads
text:
These are the guys that tool around in Mercedes Sprinter vans with equipment lockers stuffed with everything from riot helmets to tasers.
ref:
2011, Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London, Gollancz, published 2011, page 324
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
To equip with tools.
To work very hard.
To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
To drive (a coach or other vehicle).
To carry or convey in a coach or other vehicle.
To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball
|
13340 | word:
Vladivostok
word_type:
name
expansion:
Vladivostok
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Russian Владивосток (Vladivostok).
senses_examples:
text:
Only after it was all over did I learn of their plan to seize me on board the Chungshan when I was to take it to go back to the Military Academy at Whampoa from Canton. They would then send me as a prisoner to Russia via Vladivostok, thereby removing the major obstacle to their scheme of using the National Revolution as a medium for setting up a "dictatorship of the proletariat."
ref:
1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, “Beginnings”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
Brezhnev shared my enthusiasm. Impulsively, after a late lunch, he invited me to accompany him on a tour of Vladivostok. We climbed into the back seat of a long black limousine and headed toward the city, thirteen miles away. The local commissar, a large, dark-complexioned man wearing a thick wool coat, sat in the jump seat in front of Brezhnev, and the interpreter, Victor Sukhodrev, sat in front of me. Our conversation was natural and uninhibited. How many people lived in Vladivostok? What was the main industry? And was it always this cold? Twenty minutes later, we drove down a steep hill, entered the city and swung around the main square. A small crowd was there, and even though it was dusk, they recognized the car and applauded. The city itself reminded me of San Francisco, and I wished that I'd had more time to explore the place. But it was starting to get dark and we headed back toward Okeanskaya.
ref:
1980, Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →OCLC, →OL, page 213
type:
quotation
text:
Commenting acidly on the loss of Vladivostok 115 years later (and on President Ford’s summit with Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev in that city), Deng Xiaoping told me that the different names given to the city by the Chinese and the Russians reflected their respective purposes: the Chinese name translated roughly as “Sea Slug,” while the Russian name meant “Rule of the East.” “I don’t think it has any other meaning except what it means at face value,” he added.
ref:
2011, Henry Kissinger, quoting Deng Xiaoping, “Notes”, in On China, New York: Penguin Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 536
type:
quotation
text:
Li Zhanshu, the third-ranking member of the Communist Party of China, visited Moscow last week after attending an economic forum in the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, where he met with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
ref:
2022 September 11, Austin Ramzy, “Russia says that a senior Chinese official expressed support for the invasion of Ukraine.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-11, Russia-Ukraine War
type:
quotation
text:
The Chinese government has kept quiet about it, but Radio France International reported in March 2023 that China’s Ministry of Natural Resources had issued new guidelines for maps, requiring the addition of old Chinese names alongside Russian geographical names in eight places along the Russian-Chinese border, including Vladivostok, which should now be referred to as Haishenwai. As if bowing to Beijing, Moscow has said it will open the port of Vladivostok to Chinese transit trade for the first time in 163 years.
ref:
2023 June 20, Radek Sikorski, “Europe’s Real Test Is Yet to Come”, in Foreign Affairs, archived from the original on 2023-07-18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city and seaport in the Russian Far East, on the Sea of Japan, near North Korea; the administrative centre of Primorsky Krai.
senses_topics:
|
13341 | word:
gâteau
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gâteau (countable and uncountable, plural gâteaux or gâteaus)
forms:
form:
gâteaux
tags:
plural
form:
gâteaus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
We were served pancakes with smoked salmon, followed by thick slices of gâteau.
ref:
1993, Christopher Evans, Aztec Century, London: Gollancz, published 2013
type:
quotation
text:
Julie was a froster, the glamour job at the factory. She wore her cute white hat cocked at a jaunty angle while working a big white bag of frosting, twisting it rapidly in her hands to create the various designs on top of the gâteaux.
ref:
2016, Martha Grimes, Ken Grimes, Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism, page 88
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of gateau
senses_topics:
|
13342 | word:
The Hague
word_type:
name
expansion:
The Hague
forms:
wikipedia:
La Hague
The Hague
etymology_text:
From the French translation (confused with La Hague) of Dutch Den Haag, short form of 's-Gravenhage, from Middle Dutch des Graven hage (1400s), literally, "the Count's hedge[-enclosed hunting grounds]",
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city and capital of South Holland, Netherlands; administrative capital of the Netherlands.
A municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.
The International Criminal Court or International Court of Justice.
senses_topics:
|
13343 | word:
The Hague
word_type:
noun
expansion:
The Hague (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
La Hague
The Hague
etymology_text:
From the French translation (confused with La Hague) of Dutch Den Haag, short form of 's-Gravenhage, from Middle Dutch des Graven hage (1400s), literally, "the Count's hedge[-enclosed hunting grounds]",
senses_examples:
text:
Those men deserve The Hague for what they did.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A conviction and/or punishment for crimes against humanity or war crimes delivered by the International Criminal Court.
A conviction and/or punishment for a destructive, harmful or immoral act.
senses_topics:
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13344 | word:
eighty-one
word_type:
num
expansion:
eighty-one
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number following eighty and preceding eighty-two.
senses_topics:
|
13345 | word:
pure
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pure (comparative purer or more pure, superlative purest or most pure)
forms:
form:
purer
tags:
comparative
form:
more pure
tags:
comparative
form:
purest
tags:
superlative
form:
most pure
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pure, pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus (“clean, free from dirt or filth, unmixed, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Displaced native Middle English lutter (“pure, clear, sincere”) (from Old English hlūtor, hluttor), Middle English skere (“pure, sheer, clear”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr), Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr), Middle English smete, smeate (“pure, refined”) (from Old English smǣte; compare Old English mǣre (“pure”)).
senses_examples:
text:
That idea is pure madness!
type:
example
text:
The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
ref:
2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892
type:
quotation
text:
Well when ah's youngah, ah'd just light a candle rahn de dinna table play pure crazy 8s and spades vif my brotha til we lot dozed off...
ref:
2013 April 12, “Exclusive: Meet Derpuntae - Bermuda's first meme”, in The Bermuda Sun, archived from the original on 2022-12-12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
Free of foreign material or pollutants.
Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
Mere; that and that only.
Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
A lot of.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
|
13346 | word:
pure
word_type:
adv
expansion:
pure (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pure, pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus (“clean, free from dirt or filth, unmixed, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Displaced native Middle English lutter (“pure, clear, sincere”) (from Old English hlūtor, hluttor), Middle English skere (“pure, sheer, clear”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr), Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr), Middle English smete, smeate (“pure, refined”) (from Old English smǣte; compare Old English mǣre (“pure”)).
senses_examples:
text:
You’re pure busy.
text:
I just get pure shy with the interview cats.
ref:
1996, Trainspotting (film)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
senses_topics:
|
13347 | word:
pure
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pure (third-person singular simple present pures, present participle puring, simple past and past participle pured)
forms:
form:
pures
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
puring
tags:
participle
present
form:
pured
tags:
participle
past
form:
pured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pure, pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus (“clean, free from dirt or filth, unmixed, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Displaced native Middle English lutter (“pure, clear, sincere”) (from Old English hlūtor, hluttor), Middle English skere (“pure, sheer, clear”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr), Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr), Middle English smete, smeate (“pure, refined”) (from Old English smǣte; compare Old English mǣre (“pure”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately.
To cleanse; to refine.
senses_topics:
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
13348 | word:
pure
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pure (countable and uncountable, plural pures)
forms:
form:
pures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pure, pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus (“clean, free from dirt or filth, unmixed, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Displaced native Middle English lutter (“pure, clear, sincere”) (from Old English hlūtor, hluttor), Middle English skere (“pure, sheer, clear”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr), Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr), Middle English smete, smeate (“pure, refined”) (from Old English smǣte; compare Old English mǣre (“pure”)).
senses_examples:
text:
... the establishment of an inferior College, and the consequent connexion of the many thousands of British practitioners in medicine and surgery with a subordinate institution, and one that should be subservient to the government of the pures.
ref:
1845, The Lancet, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
Took a drop of the pure, to keep my spirits from sinking, […]
ref:
c. 1870, D. K. Gavan, Rocky Road to Dublin
type:
quotation
text:
All interpretive frames will impose their categories on the object of historical analysis, and I am not proposing that this narrative of the "pures"; be rejected in favor of some phantasmatic framework that claims to derive more purely from the sources themselves. I will show in chapter 3 that, since the "pures" possibly did not even exist […]
ref:
1998, Christopher Leigh Connery, The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China, Rowman & Littlefield, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who, or that which, is pure.
senses_topics:
|
13349 | word:
pure
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pure (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[…] Dogs'-dung is called ‘Pure’, from its cleansing and purifying properties.
ref:
1851, H. Mayhew, London Labour and the London poor, vII. 142/1
type:
quotation
text:
Mary smelled the rancid odor of the tannery on the right side of the road.[…]
"What is that, Mary?" Jake asked.
"'Tis a bag for collecting pure. That is going to be your job, Jake. You are to collect pure."
"Pure? What is pure?"
"Pure is another word for dung," Mary answered.
ref:
2001, Wendy Lawton, chapter 8, in The Tinker's Daughter
type:
quotation
text:
[…] surely there was something better for him than chasing the pure (footnote: A term, technically speaking, for dog muck, much prized by the tanneries.) […]
ref:
2013, Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of puer (“dung (e.g. of dogs)”)
senses_topics:
|
13350 | word:
sole
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sole (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
sole
etymology_text:
From Middle English sole, soule, from Old French sol, soul (“alone”), from Latin sōlus (“alone, single, solitary, lonely”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (reflexive pronoun). Perhaps related to Old Latin sollus (“whole, complete”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“safe, healthy”). More at save.
senses_examples:
text:
He saw now clearly that the sole crew of the vessel was these two dead men, and though he could not see their faces, he saw by their outstretched hands, which were all of ragged flesh, that they had been subjected to some strange exceptional process of decay.
ref:
1905, H. G. Wells, The Empire of the Ants
type:
quotation
text:
The sole brilliance of this gem.
type:
example
text:
A sole authority.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Only.
Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
Unique; unsurpassed.
With independent power; unfettered.
senses_topics:
law
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13351 | word:
sole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sole (plural soles)
forms:
form:
soles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sole
etymology_text:
From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sole, solu. Reinforced by Anglo-Norman sole, Old French sole, from Vulgar Latin *sola (“bottom of the shoe”, also “flatfish”), from Latin solea (“sandal, bottom of the shoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *swol- (“sole”). Cognate with Dutch zool (“sole, tread”), German Sohle (“sole, insole, bottom, floor”), Danish sål (“sole”), Icelandic sóli (“sole, outsole”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰 (sulja, “sandal”). Related to Latin solum (“bottom, ground, soil”). More at soil.
senses_examples:
text:
The fishermen crowding in the cafés were also waiting for the end of the storm, when the fish, reassured, would rise to the surface after the bait. Soles, hog fish and skate were returning from their nocturnal expeditions. Day was now breaking.
ref:
1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: frog
text:
The rudder remains to be repaired, and is unshipped for the purpose; the sole of it is entirely gone
ref:
1842, The Nautical Magazine
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
The bottom of a shoe or boot.
The foot itself.
Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.
A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.
The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
The bottom of a furrow.
The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
The bottom of an embrasure.
The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
government
military
politics
war
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
business
mining |
13352 | word:
sole
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sole (third-person singular simple present soles, present participle soling, simple past and past participle soled)
forms:
form:
soles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
soling
tags:
participle
present
form:
soled
tags:
participle
past
form:
soled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
sole
etymology_text:
From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sole, solu. Reinforced by Anglo-Norman sole, Old French sole, from Vulgar Latin *sola (“bottom of the shoe”, also “flatfish”), from Latin solea (“sandal, bottom of the shoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *swol- (“sole”). Cognate with Dutch zool (“sole, tread”), German Sohle (“sole, insole, bottom, floor”), Danish sål (“sole”), Icelandic sóli (“sole, outsole”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰 (sulja, “sandal”). Related to Latin solum (“bottom, ground, soil”). More at soil.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put a sole on a shoe or a boot.
senses_topics:
|
13353 | word:
sole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sole (plural soles)
forms:
form:
soles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sole
etymology_text:
From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sāl (“a rope, cord, line, bond, rein, door-hinge, necklace, collar”), from Proto-Germanic *sailą, *sailaz (“rope, cable”), *sailō (“noose, rein, bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *sey- (“to tie to, tie together”). Cognate with Scots sale, saile (“halter, collar”), Dutch zeel (“rope, cord, strap”), German Seil (“rope, cable, wire”), Icelandic seil (“a string, line”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dell (“sinew, vein”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.
senses_topics:
|
13354 | word:
sole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sole (plural soles)
forms:
form:
soles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sole
etymology_text:
From Middle English sol, from Old English sol (“mire, miry place”), from Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mire, wallow, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian soal (“ditch”), Dutch sol (“water and mud filled pit”), German Suhle (“mire, wallow”), Norwegian saula, søyla (“mud puddle”). More at soil.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
senses_topics:
|
13355 | word:
sole
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sole (third-person singular simple present soles, present participle soling, simple past and past participle soled)
forms:
form:
soles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
soling
tags:
participle
present
form:
soled
tags:
participle
past
form:
soled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
sole
etymology_text:
From earlier sowle (“to pull by the ear”). Origin unknown. Perhaps from sow (“female pig”) + -le, as in the phrase "take a sow by the wrong ear", or from Middle English sole (“rope”). See above.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.
senses_topics:
|
13356 | word:
think about
word_type:
verb
expansion:
think about (third-person singular simple present thinks about, present participle thinking about, simple past and past participle thought about)
forms:
form:
thinks about
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
thinking about
tags:
participle
present
form:
thought about
tags:
participle
past
form:
thought about
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I've been thinking about human rights since watching that documentary.
type:
example
text:
You should think about getting that leaky roof repaired.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ponder.
To consider as a course of action.
senses_topics:
|
13357 | word:
bolt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bolt (plural bolts)
forms:
form:
bolts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bolt
etymology_text:
From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeld- (“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Swedish bult, Icelandic bolti.
senses_examples:
text:
The problem's solution struck him like a bolt from the blue.
type:
example
text:
With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
ref:
1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Cole, Basket-maker...has lost near 300 boults of rods
ref:
1774 March 24, Stamford Mercury
type:
quotation
text:
The horse made a bolt.
type:
example
text:
This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America — or anywhere.
ref:
1887, Charles Reade, Compton Reade, Charles Reade, Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist: A Memoir
type:
quotation
text:
In the event they lacked a proper midfield bolt, with Toni Kroos and Sami Khedira huffing around in pursuit of the whizzing green machine. The centre-backs looked flustered, left to deal with three on two as Mexico broke. Löw’s 4-2-3-1 seemed antiquated and creaky, with the old World Cup shark Thomas Müller flat-footed in a wide position.
ref:
2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-05
type:
quotation
text:
All kinds of vegetables may be used as a topping, but the best are strongly flavoured ones without too much moisture, such as celery, garlic bolts, chives, scallions, or various beans (long beans, green beans etc.) ...
ref:
2013, Wong Yoon Wah, Durians Are Not the Only Fruit: Notes from the Tropics, Epigram Books
type:
quotation
text:
She ordered Cat's Ear Noodles heaped with garlic bolts and tomatoes, the broth thick with cumin, laced with black vinegar. The girl caught her accent, the sibilant sing-song of the south, and smiled, tilting her head questioningly.
ref:
2017, Adam Brookes, The Spy's Daughter, Redhook
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
A sudden event, action or emotion.
A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
A burst of speed or efficiency.
A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
senses_topics:
engineering
government
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
nautical
transport
government
politics
|
13358 | word:
bolt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bolt (third-person singular simple present bolts, present participle bolting, simple past and past participle bolted)
forms:
form:
bolts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bolting
tags:
participle
present
form:
bolted
tags:
participle
past
form:
bolted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bolt
etymology_text:
From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeld- (“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Swedish bult, Icelandic bolti.
senses_examples:
text:
Bolt the vice to the bench.
type:
example
text:
Most languages are *not* based on C++. C++ is a complicated mess. It's C with object oriented features bolted on as an afterthought and no-one in their right mind would want to base another language on it.
ref:
2000 September 14, Brennan Young, “to all of you pro programmers out there.”, in macromedia.flash (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Going through the motions with an empty smile bolted on my face
ref:
2013, Days N' Daze (lyrics and music), “Call in the Coroner”, in Rogue Taxidermy
type:
quotation
text:
Bolt the door.
type:
example
text:
Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.
type:
example
text:
The actor forgot his line and bolted from the stage.
type:
example
text:
to bolt a rabbit
type:
example
text:
Lettuce and spinach will bolt as the weather warms up.
type:
example
text:
When an onion bolts and forms a flower stalk, the stem grows right up through the neck, forming a tough, fibrous tube that pierces the center of the bulb. The plant channels all its energy into this flower stalk, so no more fleshy […]
ref:
1982, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, Diane E. Bilderback, Garden Secrets: A Guide to Understanding how Your Garden Grows and how You Can Help it Grow Even Better
type:
quotation
text:
To be honest, this hasn't been my Garden of Eden year. […] The lettuce turned bitter and bolted. The Green Comet broccoli was good, but my coveted Romanescos never headed up.
ref:
1995, Anne Raver, “Gandhi Gardening”, in Deep in the Green: An Exploration of Country Pleasures, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf
type:
quotation
text:
Hardneck garlic bolts, which means it produces a single flower stalk, also known as a scape. It is considered to be far tastier and “gourmet.” You can find hardneck garlic mainly at farmers' markets […]
ref:
2011, Trina Clickner, A Miscellany of Garlic: From Paying Off Pyramids and Scaring Away Tigers to Inspiring Courage and Curing Hiccups, the Unusual Power Behind the World's Most Humble Vegetable, Simon and Schuster
type:
quotation
text:
Come on, everyone, bolt your drinks; I want to go to the next pub!
type:
example
text:
John Silber charged that people who bolted the Democratic Party in this election are "Kamakaze liberals", beneath contempt and clearly too stupid to deserve to vote.
ref:
1990 December 9, Richard Braun, “A Whole New Day For The Party: Giving Us A Voice”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.
To secure a door by locking or barring it.
To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
To escape.
To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
To swallow food without chewing it.
To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
government
politics
|
13359 | word:
bolt
word_type:
adv
expansion:
bolt (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
bolt
etymology_text:
From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeld- (“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Swedish bult, Icelandic bolti.
senses_examples:
text:
The soldiers stood bolt upright for inspection.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
senses_topics:
|
13360 | word:
bolt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bolt (third-person singular simple present bolts, present participle bolting, simple past and past participle bolted)
forms:
form:
bolts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bolting
tags:
participle
present
form:
bolted
tags:
participle
past
form:
bolted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bolt
etymology_text:
From Middle English bulten, from Anglo-Norman buleter, Old French bulter (modern French bluter), from a Germanic source originally meaning "bag, pouch" cognate with Middle High German biuteln (“to sift”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūs- (“to move quickly”). Cognate with Dutch buidel.
senses_examples:
text:
Graham flour is unbolted flour; in contrast, some other flours have been bolted.
type:
example
text:
[…]the old habits of mooting or bolting caſes (i.e. of public disputations), might make the ſtudent more ſubtle and acute
ref:
1781, “The History and Antiquities of the Four Inns of Court”, in The Monthly Review
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sift, especially through a cloth.
To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
senses_topics:
law |
13361 | word:
bolt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bolt (plural bolts)
forms:
form:
bolts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bolt
etymology_text:
From Middle English bulten, from Anglo-Norman buleter, Old French bulter (modern French bluter), from a Germanic source originally meaning "bag, pouch" cognate with Middle High German biuteln (“to sift”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūs- (“to move quickly”). Cognate with Dutch buidel.
senses_examples:
text:
The combination, in a flour bolt, of a reel head having a throat near its outer edge for the passage of the tailings and a series of revolving adjustable beaters, substantially as set forth.
ref:
1885, Canada. Patent Office, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks, page 279
type:
quotation
text:
We have a number of these reels in different mills that are bolting the break flour direct from the scalping reels and scalped through No. 8 cloth. […] Now, gentlemen, they require a much less number to do a given amount of work than any other known machine or bolt, and require less space and power.
ref:
1886, The Mechanical News, page 120
type:
quotation
text:
As the material is agitated by the motion of the bolt, the flour falls through, while the smaller particles of bran are taken up by the current of air and carried off.
ref:
1896, United States. Patent Office, Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in Patent and Trade-mark and Copyright Cases., page 493
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
senses_topics:
|
13362 | word:
sulphur
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sulphur (countable and uncountable, plural sulphurs)
forms:
form:
sulphurs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of sulfur
senses_topics:
|
13363 | word:
sulphur
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sulphur (third-person singular simple present sulphurs, present participle sulphuring, simple past and past participle sulphured)
forms:
form:
sulphurs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sulphuring
tags:
participle
present
form:
sulphured
tags:
participle
past
form:
sulphured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of sulfur
senses_topics:
|
13364 | word:
phở
word_type:
noun
expansion:
phở (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The next two popular — or should I say available — jobs for Vietnamese people who just migrated to the US were to work at phở restaurants or food supermarkets, and that’s exactly what I did. I applied to be a chef at a phở restaurant.
ref:
2013, “taco truck cook”, in Gerard Sasges, editor, It’s a Living: Work and Life in Vietnam Today, Ridge Books, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
Add the phở spice bags into the soup base.
ref:
2015, BenBella’s Best of Plant-Based Eating: Recipes & Expertise from Your Favorite Vegan Authors, Dallas, Tex.: Benbella Books, Inc.
type:
quotation
text:
In 1975 refugees fleeing Vietnam introduced phở to North America and made it so popular there that now there are more than 2,000 phở restaurants in the United States.
ref:
2016, Kantha Shelke, Pasta and Noodles: A Global History, Reaktion Books
type:
quotation
text:
Today, the website Phở Fever lists over 3,000 phở restaurants in the U.S.
ref:
2016, Michael D. Wise, Jennifer Jensen Wallach, editors, The Routledge History of American Foodways, Routledge
type:
quotation
text:
Though there is no downtown or central shopping district to mark the area’s distinctiveness, the abundant phở restaurants, taquerias, and ethnic supermarkets in the area’s strip malls hint that Berryessa does not conform to antiquated stereotypes about the “burbs.”
ref:
2017, Tomás R. Jiménez, “Introduction”, in The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants Are Changing American Life, University of California Press, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
They walked around for almost one hour before finally finding one phở-style deli.
ref:
2018, Rose Thu, Vietnam Paradox, Dog Ear Publishing, page 186
type:
quotation
text:
Guards brought him lukewarm phở, soup with stringy greens and various scraps of meat, fat, and vegetables.
ref:
2019, Alvin Townley, Captured: An American Prisoner of War in North Vietnam, Scholastic Focus
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of pho (“Vietnamese soup”).
senses_topics:
|
13365 | word:
constant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
constant (comparative more constant, superlative most constant)
forms:
form:
more constant
tags:
comparative
form:
most constant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English constant, from Old French constant, from Latin constantem, accusative of constans, from constare (“to stand firm”). Displaced native Old English singal.
senses_examples:
text:
The constant pinging of electronic devices is driving many people to the end of their tether. Electronic devices not only overload the senses and invade leisure time. They feed on themselves: the more people tweet the more they are rewarded with followers and retweets.
ref:
2013 November 16, Schumpeter, “The mindfulness business”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8862
type:
quotation
text:
constant time constant space
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unchanged through time or space; permanent.
Consistently recurring over time; persistent.
Steady in purpose, action, feeling, etc.
Firm; solid; not fluid.
Consistent; logical.
Bounded above by a constant.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
13366 | word:
constant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
constant (plural constants)
forms:
form:
constants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English constant, from Old French constant, from Latin constantem, accusative of constans, from constare (“to stand firm”). Displaced native Old English singal.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which is permanent or invariable.
A quantity that remains at a fixed value throughout a given discussion.
Any property of an experiment, determined numerically, that does not change under given circumstances.
An identifier that is bound to an invariant value; a fixed value given a name to aid in readability of source code.
senses_topics:
algebra
mathematics
sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
13367 | word:
Tarragona
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tarragona
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Catalan Tarragona, ultimately from Latin Tarracō.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city and port in Catalonia, Spain
A province of Catalonia, Spain.
senses_topics:
|
13368 | word:
Salzburg
word_type:
name
expansion:
Salzburg
forms:
wikipedia:
en:Salzburg
etymology_text:
From German Salzburg, from Salz (“salt”) + Burg (“castle, fort”), from its former importance protecting the salt trade on the Salzach, itself derived from Salz + Aach, from Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“waters, river”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city, the capital of the state of Salzburg, western Austria, famed for its baroque architecture and importance in musical history.
The present federal state of Austria surrounding the city.
The former sovereign archbishopric surrounding the city.
senses_topics:
|
13369 | word:
not even one
word_type:
det
expansion:
not even one
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
None at all.
senses_topics:
|
13370 | word:
Lemuria
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lemuria
forms:
wikipedia:
Lemuria (festival)
en:Lemuria (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Latin Lemuria.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A religious feast of Ancient Rome during which rites were performed to exorcise the malevolent ghosts of the dead from their homes.
senses_topics:
|
13371 | word:
Lemuria
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lemuria
forms:
wikipedia:
Lemuria (continent)
en:Lemuria (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From lemur + -ia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mythical lost country, continent, or island proposed to explain the existence of lemurs and their relatives on two continents.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences |
13372 | word:
Tel Aviv
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tel Aviv
forms:
wikipedia:
Tel Aviv
etymology_text:
From Hebrew תֵּל אָבִיב (tel 'avív), from the title of Nahum Sokolow's translation of Theodor Herzl's Altneuland (“The Old New Land”). From תֵּל (tél, “hill formed by ancient ruins”), symbolizing the Old, and אָבִיב ('avív, “Spring”), symbolizing the New.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in Israel that later merged with Jaffa to form Tel Aviv-Yafo.
A district in Israel.
The municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
The center of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
senses_topics:
|
13373 | word:
Verona
word_type:
name
expansion:
Verona
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the Italian Verona and the Latin Vērōna.
senses_examples:
text:
...it was nearly the middle of August before he went out to meet Harriet in the Tirol. He found his sister in a dense cloud five thousand feet above the sea, chilled to the bone, overfed, bored, and not at all unwilling to be fetched away. … They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful. And the train which had picked them at sunrise out of a waste of glaciers and hotels was waltzing at sunset round the walls of Verona.
ref:
1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 6
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city straddling the river Adige in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital city of the province of the same name.
A province of Veneto, in northern Italy.
A village in Illinois.
A census-designated place in Kentucky.
A city in Mississippi.
A city and town in Missouri.
A township in New Jersey.
A town in New York.
A city and village in North Dakota.
A village in Ohio.
A borough of Pennsylvania.
A city and town in Wisconsin.
A habitational surname from Italian.
A female given name.
senses_topics:
|
13374 | word:
ti
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ti (plural tis)
forms:
form:
tis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Ut queant laxis
ti
etymology_text:
Coined by English music educator Sarah Anna Glover in 1812 as an alteration of si for her solmization, made so that every note of solfège would begin with a different letter, from Middle English si (“seventh degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian si in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the initials of Latin Sāncte Iohannēs (“Saint John (the Baptist)”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
13375 | word:
ti
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ti (plural tis)
forms:
form:
tis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ti
etymology_text:
From a Polynesian language, related to Hawaiian kī.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The good luck plant (Cordyline fruticosa), an evergreen shrub.
senses_topics:
|
13376 | word:
thousand one
word_type:
num
expansion:
thousand one
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I have a thousand and one things to do today.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One thousand plus one.
The ordinality of an element whose predecessor is thousandth; usually called thousand-first (US) or thousand-and-first (UK) but sometimes number thousand one (US) or number thousand and one (UK).
A great number.
One thousand plus one hundred. (1100)
senses_topics:
|
13377 | word:
scarecrow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
scarecrow (plural scarecrows)
forms:
form:
scarecrows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from scare (“to frighten, startle, terrify”) + crow (“bird of the genus Corvus”). The word displaced other terms such as bogle (now dialectal, dated), sewel or shewel, and shoy-hoy (perhaps imitative of the cry of crows).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
(tall, thin person):
text:
The Canada West Foundation dismisses these concerns as "political scarecrows"; fearsome at first glance but irrelevant on closer examination. Unfortunately the problems of an elected Senate cannot be dismissed so easily.
ref:
1983, Saskatchewan Law Review, volume 48, Saskatoon, Sask.: College of Law, University of Saskatchewan, →OCLC, page 114
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there.
A person regarded as resembling a scarecrow (sense 1) in some way; especially, a tall, thin, awkward person; or a person wearing ragged and tattered clothes.
Synonym of crow scarer (“a farmhand employed to scare birds from the fields”)
Anything that appears terrifying but presents no danger; a paper tiger.
Military equipment or tactics used to scare and deter rather than cause actual damage.
The black tern (Chlidonias niger).
The hooded crow (Corvus cornix).
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
|
13378 | word:
scarecrow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
scarecrow (third-person singular simple present scarecrows, present participle scarecrowing, simple past and past participle scarecrowed)
forms:
form:
scarecrows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
scarecrowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
scarecrowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
scarecrowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from scare (“to frighten, startle, terrify”) + crow (“bird of the genus Corvus”). The word displaced other terms such as bogle (now dialectal, dated), sewel or shewel, and shoy-hoy (perhaps imitative of the cry of crows).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
It felt as though the house could keep disgorging debris forever, a tidal wave of unmatched slippers and dresses scarecrowed on hangers, and after sifting through it all we would still know nothing.
ref:
1993, Jeffrey Eugenides, chapter 5, in The Virgin Suicides, New York, N.Y.: Picador, page 224
type:
quotation
text:
[H]is small frame seeming scarecrowed in the over-large black coat.
ref:
2006, Ron S. King, Nowhere Street, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
Because it was the end of the dry season, the trees were Seussian, their branches scarecrowing over lawns of brown grass.
ref:
2007, Dave Bidini, “Freetown”, in Around the World in 57½ Gigs, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland & Stewart, page 266
type:
quotation
text:
In the mirror on the opposite wall he can see gray half-moons hanging under his eyes, his hair scarecrowing in tufts and waves.
ref:
2013, Patrick Flanery, “Part I: Shelter”, in Fallen Land, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, pages 244–245
type:
quotation
text:
With his stiff, awkward body, his knees bent, his arms scarecrowed far to either side, he had acted it all out, had been Adam trembling in the garden of his lost innocence, Moses on Sinai, Jahweh creating the heavens and the earth; […]
ref:
1958 February 17, Frederick Buechner, chapter I, in The Return of Ansel Gibbs, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, published April 1958, →OCLC, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
An arctic wind whooshes down Columbus Avenue like the IRT express, catching her bags, scarecrowing her arms, and threatening to take her broad-brimmed hat downtown.
ref:
2010 May 3, Robert N. Chan, “If Pigs Flu”, in The Bad Samaritan, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse
type:
quotation
text:
He scarecrowed his arms. 'Disya belong to mi. Lang time mi wait fa dis. City nuh change.'
ref:
2013, Tom Benn, “Best Served Cold”, in Chamber Music, London: Jonathan Cape, page 231
type:
quotation
text:
It has been said of Mr. [Welby] Pugin that he patronises bad drawing, and now we perceive that he patronises very queer perspective, and very bad colouring also; […] Could we fancy that the mode of representation adopted by the latter [Pugin] were so with the intention of scarecrowing people away from those drawings, there might be some policy in it; […]
ref:
1849 June, “Architecture,—Royal Academy”, in The Civil Engineer and Architect’s Journal, Scientific and Railway Gazette, volume XII, number 141, London: R. Groombridge and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 164, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Who is this ugly young man with large feet, scarecrowing the pretty birds from my crops?
ref:
1858, Varium, London: L. Booth, […], →OCLC, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
[W]e weren't doing any harm, only going into the fields, and making ourselves scarecrows to the birds. […] Then when I went scarecrowing with the big ones, she'd [his mother would] lead me a terrible life when I got back, threatening to turn me out.
ref:
[1884], “Fiction and Fact”, in The Picture Reversed, London: The Religious Tract Society; […], →OCLC, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
she leapt at their battering wings and i swung the broom. around and around i whirled, scarecrowing the demon birds, scrubbing my grandmother's words off the walls.
The text of the work is not capitalized.
ref:
2016, Glenda Millard, “forgotten thing”, in The Stars at Oktober Bend, 1st UK edition, [Fittleworth, West Sussex]: Old Barn Books, pages 157–158
type:
quotation
text:
The herder, a seventeen-year-old boy named Hassan, the youngest son of a friend, scarecrowed madly in his blue robes to force the animals off the asphalt just in time for a silver SUV to whiz by toward Bamako.
ref:
2022, Anna Badkhen, “Once I Took a Weeklong Walk in the Sahara”, in Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays, New York, N.Y.: The New York Review of Books, pages 32–33
type:
quotation
text:
Fatigued and hungry as our party were after a long drive through the desolate region of malaria, wild buffaloes, wild birds, and yet wilder specimens of the human race, which here and there scare-crow the broad, sadly picturesque expanse between the last cork-trees near Salerno, and the treeless vicinage of the temple of Neptune, we dared not venture upon fish with green bones,—the only dish served up for our repast; […] we all preferred bearing our hunger, and traversing a second time the fiery plain unrefreshed, to breaking our fast upon such suspicious diet; […]
ref:
1853 October, “Pike, Salmon, Silurus, Herring, and Company. Esox or Pike.”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XLVIII, number CCLXXXVI, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC, footnote *, page 471
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause (a person, their body, etc.) to look awkward and stiff, like a scarecrow (noun sense 1).
To cause (a person, their body, etc.) to look awkward and stiff, like a scarecrow (noun sense 1).
To splay (one's arms) away from the body, like the arms of a scarecrow.
To frighten or terrify (someone or something), as if using a scarecrow.
To spoil the appearance of (something, such as the landscape or a view), as scarecrows may be regarded as doing.
senses_topics:
|
13379 | word:
Tanach
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Tanach
forms:
form:
the Tanach
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Tanakh
senses_topics:
|
13380 | word:
matrix
word_type:
noun
expansion:
matrix (plural matrices or matrixes)
forms:
form:
matrices
tags:
plural
form:
matrixes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
matrix
etymology_text:
From Middle English matris, matrice, matrix, from Old French matrice (“pregnant animal”), or from Latin mātrīx (“dam, womb”), both ultimately from māter (“mother”). Doublet of mother from Indo-European ancestor.
Slang usage coined with the 1999 sci-fi action film The Matrix.
senses_examples:
text:
When it is remembered that ritual dancing was the matrix out of which the Drama sprang, and further that the drama in its inception (as still to-day in India) was an affair of religion and was acted in, or in connection with, the Temples, it becomes easier to understand how all this mass of ceremonial sacrifices, expiations, initiations, Sun and Nature festivals, eucharistic and orgiastic communions and celebrations, mystery-plays, dramatic representations, myths and legends, etc. [...] have practically sprung from the same root: a root deep and necessary in the psychology of Man.
ref:
1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
Theorem (7.5.2) then says that every positive semidefinite matrix is a convex combination of matrices that lie on extreme rays.
ref:
1987, [1985], Roger A. Horn, Charles R. Johnson, Matrix Analysis, Paperback edition, Cambridge University Press, published 1990, page 464
type:
quotation
text:
Check that the #x5C;mathcal#x7B;A#x7D;(#x5C;mathcal#x7B;D#x7D;)² in the example is itself the adjacency matrix of the indicated digraph:
ref:
2003, Robert A. Liebler, Basic Matrix Algebra with Algorithms and Applications, CRC Press (Chapman & Hall/CRC), page 64
type:
quotation
text:
2007, Gerhard Kloos, Matrix Methods for Optical Layout, SPIE Press, page 25,
The matrix describing the reflection at a plane mirror can be obtained by taking the matrix for reflection at a spherical reflector and letting the radius of the spherical mirror tend to infinity.
text:
Mari Otsu, a 25-year-old Japanese-Hawaiian artist, tells me she was “desperately lonely” while she was studying at New York University, when she “realised that [she] was in the matrix”. I ask her what she means.
ref:
2023 October 28, Jemima Kelly, “Back to school”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
Any type of core or diode matrix used to derive the decoding of these codes would amount to a rather large volume of terminals for just the 17,500 terminals alone.
ref:
1949, Proceedings of the Association of American Railroads
type:
quotation
text:
The transistor matrix in the encoder supplies the sequential gates.
ref:
1959, John Millar Carroll, Modern Transistor Circuits
type:
quotation
text:
A transistor-diode matrix is composed of vertical and horizontal wires with a transistor at each intersection.
ref:
1962, Burroughs Corporation, Digital Computer Principles
type:
quotation
text:
Robot controllers range in complexity from simple stepping switches through pneumatic logic sequencers, diode matrix boards, electronic sequencers, and microprocessors to minicomputers.
ref:
1987, David Ardayfio, Fundamentals of Robotics
type:
quotation
text:
Diode matrix is the most fundamental of all ROM structure.
ref:
2002, B. Somantathan Nair, Digital Electronics and Logic Design
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cavity or mold in which anything is formed.
The womb.
The metaphorical place where something is made, formed, or given birth.
The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded.
An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants.
Part of the mitochondrion.
The medium in which bacteria are cultured.
A table of data.
A rectangular arrangement of numbers or terms having various uses such as transforming coordinates in geometry, solving systems of linear equations in linear algebra and representing graphs in graph theory.
A two-dimensional array.
Alternative letter-case form of Matrix; a controlled environment or situation in which people behave in ways that conform to pre-determined roles.
A grid-like arrangement of electronic components, especially one intended for information coding, decoding or storage.
A geological matrix.
The sediment surrounding and including the artifacts, features, and other materials at a site.
The environment from which a given sample is taken.
In hot metal typesetting, a mold for casting a letter.
In printmaking, the plate or block used, with ink, to hold the image that makes up the print.
The five simple colours (black, white, blue, red, and yellow) from which all the others are formed.
A binding agent of composite materials, e.g. resin in fibreglass.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
mathematics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
geography
geology
natural-sciences
archaeology
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
media
printing
publishing
media
printing
publishing
business
dyeing
manufacturing
textiles
science
sciences |
13381 | word:
Turin
word_type:
name
expansion:
Turin (countable and uncountable, plural Turins)
forms:
form:
Turins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Turin
etymology_text:
From Italian Torino, from the Roman name, Latin Augusta Taurinōrum, ultimately from the name of the Taurini tribe. Connections to Latin taurus (“bull”) are folk etymology. Doublet of Torino.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Piedmont, Italy.
A metropolitan city of Piedmont, Italy.
Other places
Other places:
A hamlet in Lethbridge County, Alberta, Canada.
A surname.
senses_topics:
|
13382 | word:
Zanzibar
word_type:
name
expansion:
Zanzibar
forms:
wikipedia:
Zanzibar
etymology_text:
Ultimately from Classical Persian زنگبار (zangibār), literally meaning “black-skinned coast”.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island region of Tanzania in the Indian Ocean.
A former sultanate in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean, which merged with Tanganyika in 1963 to form Tanzania.
senses_topics:
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13383 | word:
whitesmith
word_type:
noun
expansion:
whitesmith (plural whitesmiths)
forms:
form:
whitesmiths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From white + smith.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who forges things out of tin or pewter; a tinsmith.
A worker in iron who finishes or polishes the work, in distinction from one who forges it.
senses_topics:
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13384 | word:
toilet roll
word_type:
noun
expansion:
toilet roll (plural toilet rolls)
forms:
form:
toilet rolls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A roll of toilet paper.
senses_topics:
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13385 | word:
quick
word_type:
adj
expansion:
quick (comparative quicker or more quick, superlative quickest or most quick)
forms:
form:
quicker
tags:
comparative
form:
more quick
tags:
comparative
form:
quickest
tags:
superlative
form:
most quick
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
quick
etymology_text:
From Middle English quik, quic, from Old English cwic (“alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), *gʷeyh₃w- (“to live”).
Cognate with Dutch kwik, kwiek, German keck, Danish kvik (“quick, quick-witted”) and Danish kæk (“bold; spirited”), Swedish kvick; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”), Latin vivus, Lithuanian gývas (“alive”), Latvian dzīvs (“alive”), Russian живо́й (živój), Polish żywy (“alive”), Welsh byw (“alive”), Irish beo (“alive”), biathaigh (“feed”), Northern Kurdish jîn (“to live”), jiyan (“life”), giyan (“soul”), can (“soul”), Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “living”), Albanian nxit (“to urge, stimulate”). Doublet of jiva.
senses_examples:
text:
I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.
type:
example
text:
He's a quick runner.
type:
example
text:
That was a quick meal.
type:
example
text:
You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.
type:
example
text:
My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
type:
example
text:
She has a very quick temper.
type:
example
text:
He is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired.
type:
example
text:
The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended.
ref:
1549, Hugh Latimer, The Sixth Sermon Preached Before King Edward, April 6 1549
type:
quotation
text:
Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.
ref:
1633, George Herbert, The Temple
type:
quotation
text:
The inmost oratory of my soul,
Wherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead,
Is black with grief eternal for thy sake.
ref:
1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, section X
type:
quotation
text:
Whoever does any act under such circumstances that if he thereby caused death he would be guilty of culpable homicide, and does by such act cause the death of a quick unborn child, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine.
ref:
Section 316, Penal Code (Cap. 224, 2008 Ed.) (Singapore)
text:
When sentenced she sought to avoid hanging by declaring herself with child – ironically, given her favourite deception – but a ‘jury of Matrons’ found her not quick.
ref:
2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 385
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
Alive, living.
At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.
Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
Flowing, not stagnant.
Burning, flammable, fiery.
Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
productive; not "dead" or barren
senses_topics:
business
mining |
13386 | word:
quick
word_type:
adv
expansion:
quick (comparative quicker, superlative quickest)
forms:
form:
quicker
tags:
comparative
form:
quickest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
quick
etymology_text:
From Middle English quik, quic, from Old English cwic (“alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), *gʷeyh₃w- (“to live”).
Cognate with Dutch kwik, kwiek, German keck, Danish kvik (“quick, quick-witted”) and Danish kæk (“bold; spirited”), Swedish kvick; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”), Latin vivus, Lithuanian gývas (“alive”), Latvian dzīvs (“alive”), Russian живо́й (živój), Polish żywy (“alive”), Welsh byw (“alive”), Irish beo (“alive”), biathaigh (“feed”), Northern Kurdish jîn (“to live”), jiyan (“life”), giyan (“soul”), can (“soul”), Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “living”), Albanian nxit (“to urge, stimulate”). Doublet of jiva.
senses_examples:
text:
Get rich quick.
type:
example
text:
Come here, quick!
type:
example
text:
Quick, how do you spell 'Krabs'?
ref:
2006, SpongeBob SquarePants, Whale of a Birthday
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Quickly, in a quick manner.
Answer quickly.
senses_topics:
|
13387 | word:
quick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quick (plural quicks)
forms:
form:
quicks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
quick
etymology_text:
From Middle English quik, quic, from Old English cwic (“alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), *gʷeyh₃w- (“to live”).
Cognate with Dutch kwik, kwiek, German keck, Danish kvik (“quick, quick-witted”) and Danish kæk (“bold; spirited”), Swedish kvick; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”), Latin vivus, Lithuanian gývas (“alive”), Latvian dzīvs (“alive”), Russian живо́й (živój), Polish żywy (“alive”), Welsh byw (“alive”), Irish beo (“alive”), biathaigh (“feed”), Northern Kurdish jîn (“to live”), jiyan (“life”), giyan (“soul”), can (“soul”), Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “living”), Albanian nxit (“to urge, stimulate”). Doublet of jiva.
senses_examples:
text:
The works […] are curiously hedged with quick.
ref:
1641, John Evelyn, diary entry September 1641
type:
quotation
text:
This test nippeth, […] this toucheth the quick.
ref:
1550, Hugh Latimer, Sermon Preached at Stamford, 9 October 1550
type:
quotation
text:
the quick and the dead
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
Plants used in making a quickset hedge
The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).
Quitchgrass.
A fast bowler.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
13388 | word:
quick
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quick (third-person singular simple present quicks, present participle quicking, simple past and past participle quicked)
forms:
form:
quicks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quicking
tags:
participle
present
form:
quicked
tags:
participle
past
form:
quicked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
quick
etymology_text:
From Middle English quik, quic, from Old English cwic (“alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), *gʷeyh₃w- (“to live”).
Cognate with Dutch kwik, kwiek, German keck, Danish kvik (“quick, quick-witted”) and Danish kæk (“bold; spirited”), Swedish kvick; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”), Latin vivus, Lithuanian gývas (“alive”), Latvian dzīvs (“alive”), Russian живо́й (živój), Polish żywy (“alive”), Welsh byw (“alive”), Irish beo (“alive”), biathaigh (“feed”), Northern Kurdish jîn (“to live”), jiyan (“life”), giyan (“soul”), can (“soul”), Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “living”), Albanian nxit (“to urge, stimulate”). Doublet of jiva.
senses_examples:
text:
1917, Thomas Hardy, At the Word 'Farewell'
I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
To quicken.
senses_topics:
|
13389 | word:
saggar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
saggar (countable and uncountable, plural saggars)
forms:
form:
saggars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain; possibly a contracted form of safeguard.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ceramic container used inside a fuel-fired kiln to protect pots from the flame.
Fireclay used to make ceramic casings.
senses_topics:
|
13390 | word:
saggar
word_type:
verb
expansion:
saggar (third-person singular simple present saggars, present participle saggaring, simple past and past participle saggared)
forms:
form:
saggars
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
saggaring
tags:
participle
present
form:
saggared
tags:
participle
past
form:
saggared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain; possibly a contracted form of safeguard.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place in a saggar.
senses_topics:
|
13391 | word:
hundred-first
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hundred-first (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number hundred one.
senses_topics:
|
13392 | word:
hundred-first
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hundred-first (plural hundred-firsts)
forms:
form:
hundred-firsts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the hundred-first position.
One of a hundred one equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
|
13393 | word:
video game console
word_type:
noun
expansion:
video game console (plural video game consoles)
forms:
form:
video game consoles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dedicated electronic device that is designed to play video games, especially in accompaniment with a television.
senses_topics:
video-games |
13394 | word:
Liverpool
word_type:
name
expansion:
Liverpool
forms:
wikipedia:
Liverpool
Liverpool (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English Liverpul, from Old English lifer, læfer (“reed, rush”) + pōl (“pool”). Equivalent to laver + pool.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England; an important seaport in the United Kingdom, and once one of the biggest in the world.
A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The City of Liverpool, a local government area in New South Wales which includes the suburb.
A community of Nova Scotia, Canada.
A village in Fulton County, Illinois, United States
A neighbourhood of Lake Station, on the site of Liverpool, a former town in Lake County, Indiana.
A village in Onondaga County, New York, United States.
A borough of Perry County, Pennsylvania, United States.
A small city in Brazoria County, Texas, United States.
senses_topics:
|
13395 | word:
nihil
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nihil (countable and uncountable, plural nihils)
forms:
form:
nihils
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin nihil, nil.
senses_examples:
text:
I shall no longer believe all the visions of my youth:
They have dissolved into nihil.
ref:
1996, David Tibet, “The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home (Theinmostlightthirdandfinal)” (lyrics)
text:
All tales about the beginning are apt to eliminate the nothing and make being overall. […] Without Nihil the whirlpool of the beginning settles down and becomes a stagnant puddle of pure being. Nihil disappears.
ref:
2008, Arvydas Šliogeris, Names of Nihil, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
That is, in the sovereign act of creation, whereby YHWH orders chaos, YHWH provisionally defeated the power of the Nihil but did not destroy or eliminate the threat of chaos.
ref:
2009, Walter Brueggemann, An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible, page 143
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nihil dicit.
nothingness, nonbeing
senses_topics:
law
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences |
13396 | word:
common year
word_type:
noun
expansion:
common year (plural common years)
forms:
form:
common years
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A year that is not a leap year.
senses_topics:
|
13397 | word:
fishbait
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fishbait (plural fishbaits)
forms:
form:
fishbaits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From fish + bait.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
bait for fishing
senses_topics:
|
13398 | word:
Hanoi
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hanoi
forms:
wikipedia:
Hanoi
etymology_text:
From Vietnamese Hà Nội, which is a Sino-Vietnamese word, 河內.
senses_examples:
text:
If you have seventeen days and £168 to spare, can satisfy the Iron Curtain authorities of your bona fides and your taste runs to marathon rail travel, you can now board the "Night Ferry" at Victoria and ride across the whole of Europe and Asia to Hanoi, capital of North Viet-Nam, changing carriage only at Brussels, Berlin, Moscow and Pekin.
ref:
1959 December, “Talking of Trains: Five trains to Hanoi”, in Trains Illustrated, page 579
type:
quotation
text:
YOUR SON WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED WHEN SHOT DOWN IN HANOI BUT HAS MADE FINE RECOVERY AND NOW, ACCORDING THIS GROUP, LOOKS "QUITE WELL." HE HAS BEEN EVERYTHING YOU WANT YOUR SON TO BE AND HAS STOOD UP MANFULLY AGAINST ALL EFFORTS TO PERSUADE HIM TO UTTER TRAITOROUS STATEMENTS.
ref:
1999, John McCain, Faith of My Fathers, New York: Random House, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 285
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Vietnam.
the Vietnamese government.
senses_topics:
|
13399 | word:
Milan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Milan
forms:
wikipedia:
Milan (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English Milane, Melan, etc., from Old English Mæġelan, Megelan, Mediolanaburg, etc. under influence from early forms of French Milan, from Medieval Latin Mediolāna etc., from Latin Mediolānum, q.v. As American settlements, typically after the Italian city.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in northern Italy; capital of Lombardy.
A metropolitan city of Lombardy, Italy, the province surrounding the city.
Ellipsis of AC Milan, the Italian city's football club/soccer team.
A female given name.
A city in Dodge County and Telfair County, Georgia, United States.
A city in Sumner County, Kansas, United States.
A city in Monroe County and Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States.
A city in Chippewa County, Minnesota, United States.
A city, the county seat of Sullivan County, Missouri, United States.
A city in Gibson County, Tennessee, United States.
A town in Ripley County, Indiana, United States.
Former name of Old Milan, a town in Ripley County, Indiana, United States.
A town in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States
A town in Dutchess County, New York, United States.
A village in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.
A village in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States.
A village in Erie County and Huron County, Ohio, United States.
Former name of Mercer, an unincorporated community in Mercer County, Ohio, United States.
senses_topics:
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