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13400 | word:
Milan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Milan
forms:
wikipedia:
Milan (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Slavic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from the Slavic languages.
senses_topics:
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13401 | word:
Christ
word_type:
name
expansion:
Christ
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Crist, from Old English Crist, from Latin Christus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστός (Khrīstós), proper noun use of χρῑστός (khrīstós, “[the] anointed [one]”), a semantic loan of Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšīaḥ, “anointed”) or the Aramaic equivalent (whence ultimately also English messiah, also via Latin, Greek). Compare grime for the Proto-Indo-European root, *gʰr-ey- (“to rub, smear; to anoint”); further related to ghee.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The anointed one, the Messiah predicted by the Old Testament.
A title given to Jesus of Nazareth, seen as the fulfiller of the messianic prophecy.
A surname.
senses_topics:
Christianity
Christianity
|
13402 | word:
Christ
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Christ (plural Christs)
forms:
form:
Christs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Crist, from Old English Crist, from Latin Christus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστός (Khrīstós), proper noun use of χρῑστός (khrīstós, “[the] anointed [one]”), a semantic loan of Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšīaḥ, “anointed”) or the Aramaic equivalent (whence ultimately also English messiah, also via Latin, Greek). Compare grime for the Proto-Indo-European root, *gʰr-ey- (“to rub, smear; to anoint”); further related to ghee.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A figure or other artistic depiction of Jesus Christ.
senses_topics:
art
arts |
13403 | word:
Christ
word_type:
intj
expansion:
Christ
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Crist, from Old English Crist, from Latin Christus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστός (Khrīstós), proper noun use of χρῑστός (khrīstós, “[the] anointed [one]”), a semantic loan of Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšīaḥ, “anointed”) or the Aramaic equivalent (whence ultimately also English messiah, also via Latin, Greek). Compare grime for the Proto-Indo-European root, *gʰr-ey- (“to rub, smear; to anoint”); further related to ghee.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expletive.
senses_topics:
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13404 | word:
publish
word_type:
verb
expansion:
publish (third-person singular simple present publishes, present participle publishing, simple past and past participle published)
forms:
form:
publishes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
publishing
tags:
participle
present
form:
published
tags:
participle
past
form:
published
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
publish
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
publish
etymology_text:
From Middle English publicen (by analogy with banish, finish), from Old French publier, from Latin publicare (“to make public, show or tell to the people, make known, declare, also (and earlier) confiscate for public use”), from publicus (“pertaining to the people, public”); see public.
senses_examples:
text:
The Times published the investigative piece about the governor both in print and online.
type:
example
text:
Most of the sketches Faulkner published in 1925 appeared in the Sunday magazine section of the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
type:
example
text:
The State combined public information strategies and published billboards, pamphlets, and newsletter articles under the campaign theme, Give 'Em the Boot.
type:
example
text:
In an article published in 2008 [Gérard] Mourou proposed an alternative means of achieving atomic fusion. He now believes that fibre lasers could be used to transmute elements, as a way of disposing of highly radioactive waste from nuclear power stations.
ref:
2013 August 16, David Larousserie, “Super-lasers blaze knowledge frontier”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
The Secretary of Health and Human Services published a press release on May 22, 2013.
type:
example
text:
The Bolshevik government published an announcement of the tsar's death.
type:
example
text:
No newspaper published the victim's name.
type:
example
text:
Grove Press published many avant-garde authors.
type:
example
text:
Major city papers still publish daily.
type:
example
text:
She needs to publish in order to get tenure.
type:
example
text:
The article first published online, then in print the next day.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To issue (something, such as printed work) for distribution and/or sale.
To announce to the public.
To issue the work of (an author).
To disseminate (a message) publicly via a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
To issue a medium (e.g. publication).
To have one's work accepted for a publication.
To be made available in a printed publication or other medium.
To make (information such as an event) available to components that wish to be notified (subscribers).
To preach (as a Jehovah's Witness).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Christianity |
13405 | word:
boomerang child
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boomerang child (plural boomerang children)
forms:
form:
boomerang children
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From boomerang + child, a reference to the ability of a boomerang to return to the thrower after being thrown.
senses_examples:
text:
It has been said that "when the going gets tough, the tough get going." But that saying doesn't set too well with today's generation of so-called "boomerang children." Chicago Sun-Times writer Ellen James Martin describes "boomerang children" as "grown offspring who move away from home for college, a job or marriage. Then something goes amiss and they're back home. Times are harsh. It's very expensive to live." [...] Not all "boomerang children" are young. The U.S. Census Bureau's study of Living Arrangements of Never-Married Adults In 1990 reports that 23 per cent of the 35–39 age group lived with their parents.
ref:
1991 December 2, “Sidney Poitier Blames Parents for Children who Don’t Know how to Survive Tough Times”, in Robert E[dward] Johnson, editor, Jet, volume 81, number 7, Chicago, Ill.: Johnson Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
Of course, in some homes there are, as my grandmother would say, "good and grown" children still living at home, and other children, now called "boomerang children," coming back home with their children.
ref:
2010, Barbara A. Moody-Hamilton, “Introduction”, in From the Cradle to the Crypt, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Red Lead Press, page xiii
type:
quotation
text:
Although Christina's stepsister, Ashley, was successfully launched to college, the fact that she was then living at home with Shoshana made her launching incomplete and therefore she was a boomerang child. Liz's brother, David, could also have been considered a boomerang child. Although he still lived in his own apartment, he was dependent on his parents for financial support and therefore affected their plans as a couple.
ref:
2015, Judy Esposito, Abbi Hattem, “Families and the Family Life Cycle”, in Introduction to Family Counseling: A Case Study Approach, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
[W]e see the increase of the phenomenon of the "boomerang child," where young adults return to the parental home at least once after the initial departure. Returning to the parental home could have a variety of consequences for both the "boomerang child" and the family. Despite the fact that there have been numerous media and academic descriptions and depictions of these boomerang children, it could well be that these children feel to some extent disenfranchised, alone, and alienated from the rest of the world.
ref:
2016, D. Nicole Farris, “Introduction to Boomerang Children: Prevalence and Potential Questions”, in Boomerang Kids: The Demography of Previously Launched Adults (Springer Briefs in Population Studies), Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISSN, section 1.1. (More about Boomerang Children), pages 3–4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of boomerang kid (“a young adult who has moved back into the parental home after a period of independence”)
senses_topics:
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13406 | word:
Florida
word_type:
name
expansion:
Florida
forms:
wikipedia:
Florida (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Spanish florida (“flowery”), often referring to a place's abundance of flowers.
The state's name specifically is a shortening of la Florida (“the flowery one”) or Pascua Florida (“flowery Easter”). It is the oldest surviving European-given place-name in the US.
The village in Orange County, New York was named in the 1760s from Latin flōrida (“flowery”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state of the United States. Capital: Tallahassee. Largest city: Jacksonville.
The peninsula which makes up most of the state of Florida, United States.
Several places in South and Central America:
Two adjacent cities in Vicente López department, Buenos Aires province, Argentina: Florida Este and Florida Oeste.
Several places in South and Central America:
A province of the Santa Cruz department, Bolivia.
Several places in South and Central America:
A municipality of Paraná, Brazil.
Several places in South and Central America:
A town and commune of the Biobío region, Chile.
Several places in South and Central America:
A town in the Valle del Cauca department, Colombia.
Several places in South and Central America:
A municipality of the Copán department, Honduras.
Several places in South and Central America:
A district of the Amazonas region, Peru.
Several places in South and Central America:
A department of Uruguay.
Several places in South and Central America:
A city, the capital of the Florida department, Uruguay.
Several places in the Caribbean:
A municipality and city in Camagüey province, Cuba
Several places in the Caribbean:
A town and municipality of Puerto Rico.
Several places in the Caribbean:
A barrio of the municipality of San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico.
Several places in the Caribbean:
A barrio in the municipality and island of Vieques, Puerto Rico.
Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in La Plata County, Colorado, named for the river.
Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Madison County, Indiana, named for the state.
Several places in the United States:
A township in Parke County, Indiana, named after a place in New York.
Several places in the United States:
A town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, perhaps named for Spanish Florida.
Several places in the United States:
A township in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, named after Florida Creek.
Several places in the United States:
A ghost town and former village in Monroe County, Missouri, named for the state.
Several places in the United States:
A town in Montgomery County, New York, named for the state.
Several places in the United States:
A village in Orange County, New York.
Several places in the United States:
A village in Henry County, Ohio, named for the state.
Several places in the United States:
A river in Colorado, flowing from Lillie Lake in the Weminuche Wilderness into the Animas near Durango.
A suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng province, South Africa, perhaps named for the state.
An unincorporated community in Ontario, Canada.
University of Florida.
senses_topics:
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13407 | word:
five-hundredth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
five-hundredth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number five hundred.
senses_topics:
|
13408 | word:
five-hundredth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
five-hundredth (plural five-hundredths)
forms:
form:
five-hundredths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the five-hundredth position.
One of five hundred equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
|
13409 | word:
eighty-first
word_type:
adj
expansion:
eighty-first
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The answer appears on the eighty-first page of the book.
type:
example
text:
She finished eighty-first in the race.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number eighty-one, describing a person or thing in position number 81 of a sequence.
senses_topics:
|
13410 | word:
eighty-first
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eighty-first (plural eighty-firsts)
forms:
form:
eighty-firsts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
An eighty-first of 1620 is 20.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of eighty-one equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
|
13411 | word:
nasheed
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nasheed (plural nasheeds or anasheed)
forms:
form:
nasheeds
tags:
plural
form:
anasheed
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Arabic نَشِيد (našīd, “chant”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A song, often Islamic, consisting of vocals either sung a cappella or accompanied by percussion instruments.
senses_topics:
|
13412 | word:
measurement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
measurement (plural measurements)
forms:
form:
measurements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Measurement
etymology_text:
From measure + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
Risk is everywhere.[…]For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.
ref:
2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of measuring.
Value (quantity, magnitude, extent or amount) determined by an act of measuring.
senses_topics:
|
13413 | word:
twenty-fourth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
twenty-fourth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number twenty-four.
senses_topics:
|
13414 | word:
twenty-fourth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twenty-fourth (plural twenty-fourths)
forms:
form:
twenty-fourths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the twenty-fourth position.
One of twenty-four equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
|
13415 | word:
San Francisco
word_type:
name
expansion:
San Francisco
forms:
wikipedia:
San Francisco
San Francisco (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Spanish San Francisco (“Saint Francis”). Doublet of São Francisco.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A major coastal city and county in California, United States, of over 800,000, widely known for its unique culture, architecture, and LGBT population; formerly Yerba Buena (pre-1847).
The extinct culture of the city of the same name also known as the Ramaytush.
Any place or institution named after St. Francis.
senses_topics:
|
13416 | word:
field trip
word_type:
noun
expansion:
field trip (plural field trips)
forms:
form:
field trips
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
As I wrote we have a field trip scheduled (starting in about 1 hour to be exact since it's now 6 AM). We will take 72 of the second years to the coal mines, asbestos factory, steel mills in Enugu then up to Nnsuka.
ref:
2013, Eileen M. Jones, Letters From Nigeria: Experiences of a Peace Corps Volunteer, page 94
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A trip, usually in a group and especially by students, to a place of special interest for education, research or exploration; a trip into the field.
senses_topics:
|
13417 | word:
laddie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laddie (plural laddies)
forms:
form:
laddies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From lad + -ie.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small boy.
senses_topics:
|
13418 | word:
twenty-ninth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
twenty-ninth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number twenty-nine.
senses_topics:
|
13419 | word:
twenty-ninth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twenty-ninth (plural twenty-ninths)
forms:
form:
twenty-ninths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the twenty-ninth position.
Any of twenty-nine equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
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13420 | word:
Frankfurt
word_type:
name
expansion:
Frankfurt
forms:
wikipedia:
Frankfurt
etymology_text:
From German Frankfurt.
senses_examples:
text:
The poor third-quarter results from Frankfurt had the broadest impact because they spotlighted the vulnerability of the listed German universal banks to the financial crisis spreading from Asia.
ref:
1998, Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH Information Services, German Brief, volume 10
type:
quotation
text:
Despite this risk, little has happened in the six months since Frankfurt cut interest rates causing one to wonder how different Draghi is from his predecessor.
ref:
2014 May 9, Dan O'Brien, “Trichet like a broken record when what we need is fresh thinking”, in Irish Independent
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Frankfurt am Main, the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany.
The German financial industry.
Frankfurt am Main, the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany.
The European Central Bank.
Frankfurt an der Oder, a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany.
senses_topics:
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13421 | word:
last night
word_type:
noun
expansion:
last night (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
He said he didn't get any sleep last night and I know he hadn't gotten much the previous night.
type:
example
text:
Last night was wonderful. Can I see you again?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The evening or night immediately before the present. (This entry is a translation hub.)
senses_topics:
|
13422 | word:
last night
word_type:
adv
expansion:
last night (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
We partied last night.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
during the previous day’s nighttime; during the night before today (This entry is a translation hub.)
senses_topics:
|
13423 | word:
Atlantis
word_type:
name
expansion:
Atlantis
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Ἀτλαντίς (Atlantís), from Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Atlas”), either from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“bear, undergo, endure”) or of Pre-Greek origin.
senses_examples:
text:
How far, since then, the ocean streams / Have swept us from that land of dreams, / That land of fiction and of truth, / The lost Atlantis of our youth!
ref:
1880, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Dedication to G. W. G.”, in Ultima Thule
type:
quotation
text:
I might have drifted on for my whole life as a psychical Researcher, showing a sympathetic, but more or less dilettante attitude towards the whole subject, as if we were arguing about some impersonal thing such as the existence of Atlantis or the Baconian controversy.
ref:
1918, Arthur Conan Doyle, The New Revelation
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mythical country said to have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean.
senses_topics:
|
13424 | word:
Saint Petersburg
word_type:
name
expansion:
Saint Petersburg
forms:
wikipedia:
Peter the Great
Saint Peter
Saint Petersburg
etymology_text:
English translation of Russian Санкт-Петербу́рг (Sankt-Peterbúrg), from German Sankt Petersburg (“Saint Peter's City”), referring to Saint Peter the Apostle and alluding to its founder Tsar Peter the Great. Doublet of Peterborough.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A federal city of Russia, known between 1914 and 1924 as Petrograd and between 1924 and 1991 as Leningrad, and former capital of Russia (1713–1728, 1732–1918).
Alternative form of St. Petersburg
Alternative form of St. Petersburg
a city in Florida, United States.
An unincorporated community in Logan County, Colorado, United States.
senses_topics:
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13425 | word:
nemo
word_type:
adj
expansion:
nemo (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
In New York City alone, there are nearly three dozen of these "nemo" points from which speeches, music, and entertainment are broadcast regularly.
ref:
1929, Popular Science, volume 115, number 4, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
All "nemo" broadcasting, except entirely musical, would be abandoned. Stations would not risk broadcasting anything arising outside the studio, as there would be no editorial or censorship power.
ref:
1935, Alison Reppy, Air Law Review, volume 6, page 86
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of not emanating from main office, i.e. broadcast from some remote location instead.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media |
13426 | word:
gear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gear (countable and uncountable, plural gears)
forms:
form:
gears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
gear
gear (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English gere, a borrowing from Old Norse gervi, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”). See also adjective yare, yar from the same root via Old English.
senses_examples:
text:
Those Eastern winters, I can't endure 'em / So every year I pack my gear and come out here till Purim / Rosh Hashanah, I spend in Arizona
ref:
2000, “s:(I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica”, in Tom Lehrer (music), The Remains of Tom Lehrer, performed by Tom Lehrer
type:
quotation
text:
gear-up landing
type:
example
text:
Get the gear down quick!
type:
example
text:
getting on gear
type:
example
text:
"Have you got any gear? Dominic, have you got any acid?" Emma kept running her hands nervously through her hair. "Not LSD, man; that last trip freaked me out."
ref:
2003, Marianne Hancock, Looking for Oliver, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
When he was digged up, which was in the presence of the Magistracy of the Town, his body was found entire, not at all putrid, no ill smell about him, saving the mustiness of the grave-Clothes, his joynts limber and flexible, as in those that are alive, his skin only flaccid, but a more fresh grown in the room of it, the wound of his throat gaping, but no gear nor corruption in it; there was also observed a Magical mark in the great toe of his right foot, viz. an Excrescency in the form of a Rose.
ref:
1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113
type:
quotation
text:
March 29, 1549, Hugh Latimer, the fourth sermon preached before King Edward
That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
Clothing; garments.
Goods; property; household items.
A wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other; a gear wheel.
A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.
A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.
Ellipsis of landing gear.
Recreational drugs, including steroids.
Stuff.
Business matters; affairs; concern.
Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
senses_topics:
automotive
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
transport
vehicles
automotive
transport
vehicles
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
13427 | word:
gear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gear (third-person singular simple present gears, present participle gearing, simple past and past participle geared)
forms:
form:
gears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gearing
tags:
participle
present
form:
geared
tags:
participle
past
form:
geared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
gear (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English gere, a borrowing from Old Norse gervi, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”). See also adjective yare, yar from the same root via Old English.
senses_examples:
text:
This shop is not really geared towards people of our age.
type:
example
text:
They have geared the hotel mainly at tourists.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
To be in gear, come into gear.
To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
To design or devise (something) so as to be suitable (for a particular type of person or a particular purpose).
To borrow money in order to invest it in assets.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
finance |
13428 | word:
gear
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gear (comparative more gear, superlative most gear)
forms:
form:
more gear
tags:
comparative
form:
most gear
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
gear (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English gere, a borrowing from Old Norse gervi, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”). See also adjective yare, yar from the same root via Old English.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
great or fantastic
senses_topics:
|
13429 | word:
Maine
word_type:
name
expansion:
Maine
forms:
wikipedia:
Gallia Celtica
Maine (disambiguation)
Maine (province)
Maine (state)
etymology_text:
From French Maine, named by its French explorers after the province in France with the same name, in turn named after the river with the same name that runs through it. From Old French Cemaine, from Latin *Cenomania, from the name of the Gaulish Cenomani tribe of Gallia Celtica. The word was rebracketed as ce (“this”) + Maine, and the ce- was lost by the 12th century.
senses_examples:
text:
Holonym: New England
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A former province of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: Le Mans.
A river in Maine-et-Loire department, Pays de la Loire, France, a tributary of the Loire.
A state of the United States; probably named for the province in France. Capital: Augusta. Largest city: Portland.
A town in New York.
A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin; named for the state.
A river in Maine, United States, flowing 5.5 miles from Pocomoonshine Lake in Princeton into Crawford Lake in Crawford.
University of Maine.
senses_topics:
|
13430 | word:
Maine
word_type:
name
expansion:
Maine
forms:
wikipedia:
Maine (disambiguation)
Maine (province)
Maine (river)
Maine (state)
etymology_text:
From French Maine.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A river in France, flowing 12 km through the city of Angers from the confluence of the Mayenne and Sarthe into the Loire.
senses_topics:
|
13431 | word:
Maine
word_type:
name
expansion:
Maine
forms:
wikipedia:
Maine (disambiguation)
Maine (province)
Maine (state)
Maine (surname)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Scottish and English surname from Old French, a variant of Main.
A village in Marathon County, Wisconsin; named for county sheriff Uriah E. Maine.
senses_topics:
|
13432 | word:
Maine
word_type:
name
expansion:
Maine
forms:
wikipedia:
Maine (disambiguation)
Maine (province)
Maine (state)
River Maine (County Kerry)
etymology_text:
From Irish An Mhaing
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A river in County Kerry, Ireland, flowing 43 km from Tobermaing into the Atlantic at Castlemaine.
senses_topics:
|
13433 | word:
Maine
word_type:
name
expansion:
Maine
forms:
wikipedia:
Maine (disambiguation)
Maine (given name)
Maine (province)
Maine (state)
etymology_text:
From Old Irish Maine.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Irish kings Maine mac Cerbaill and Maine mac Néill.
senses_topics:
|
13434 | word:
Maine
word_type:
name
expansion:
Maine
forms:
wikipedia:
Maine (disambiguation)
Maine (province)
Maine (state)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Main: A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
senses_topics:
|
13435 | word:
exponentiation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
exponentiation (countable and uncountable, plural exponentiations)
forms:
form:
exponentiations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
In 5⁴ the base is 5 and the power is 4, so there are 4 identical factors of 5, and exponentiation gives 625 as the result.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors, where the exponent specifies the number of factors to multiply.
A mathematical problem involving exponentiation.
senses_topics:
arithmetic
mathematics
sciences
arithmetic
mathematics
sciences |
13436 | word:
holy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
holy (comparative holier, superlative holiest)
forms:
form:
holier
tags:
comparative
form:
holiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English holi, hali, from Old English hāliġ, hāleġ (“holy, consecrated, sacred, venerated, godly, saintly, ecclesiastical, pacific, tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *hailag, from Proto-Germanic *hailagaz (“holy, bringing health”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“healthy, whole”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”), equivalent to whole + -y and a doublet of later wholly.
Cognate with Scots haly (“holy”), West Frisian hillich (“holy”), Low German hillig (“holy”), Dutch heilig (“holy”), German heilig (“holy”), Danish hellig (“holy”), Swedish helig (“holy”). More at whole.
senses_examples:
text:
I'm planning to visit the holy city of Jerusalem this Christmas.
type:
example
text:
This tree is considered holy in my culture.
type:
example
text:
My grandmother is a very holy woman.
type:
example
text:
Holy cow, I can’t believe he actually lost the race!
type:
example
text:
Those children next door are holy terrors!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dedicated to a religious purpose or a god.
Revered in a religion.
Morally perfect or flawless, or nearly so.
Separated or set apart from (something unto something or someone else).
Set apart or dedicated for a specific purpose, or for use by a single entity or person.
Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
senses_topics:
|
13437 | word:
holy
word_type:
intj
expansion:
holy
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English holi, hali, from Old English hāliġ, hāleġ (“holy, consecrated, sacred, venerated, godly, saintly, ecclesiastical, pacific, tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *hailag, from Proto-Germanic *hailagaz (“holy, bringing health”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“healthy, whole”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”), equivalent to whole + -y and a doublet of later wholly.
Cognate with Scots haly (“holy”), West Frisian hillich (“holy”), Low German hillig (“holy”), Dutch heilig (“holy”), German heilig (“holy”), Danish hellig (“holy”), Swedish helig (“holy”). More at whole.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression of astonishment and awe.
senses_topics:
|
13438 | word:
holy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
holy (plural holies)
forms:
form:
holies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English holi, hali, from Old English hāliġ, hāleġ (“holy, consecrated, sacred, venerated, godly, saintly, ecclesiastical, pacific, tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *hailag, from Proto-Germanic *hailagaz (“holy, bringing health”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“healthy, whole”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”), equivalent to whole + -y and a doublet of later wholly.
Cognate with Scots haly (“holy”), West Frisian hillich (“holy”), Low German hillig (“holy”), Dutch heilig (“holy”), German heilig (“holy”), Danish hellig (“holy”), Swedish helig (“holy”). More at whole.
senses_examples:
text:
The holy of holies, a cubical space of ten cubits on the side, was separated from the larger antechamber by four columns, which were also covered with gold and stood upon silver sockets; they bore a second curtain of four colors.
ref:
1882, Franz von Reber, Joseph Thacher Clarke, History of Ancient Art, page 146
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thing that is extremely holy; used almost exclusively in Holy of Holies.
senses_topics:
|
13439 | word:
upsilon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
upsilon (plural upsilons or upsila)
forms:
form:
upsilons
tags:
plural
form:
upsila
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ὖ ψιλόν (û psilón, “simple Υ”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The twentieth letter of Classical and Modern Greek; the twenty-second letter of Old and Ancient Greek.
An upsilon meson, or bottomonium.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
13440 | word:
businesswoman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
businesswoman (plural businesswomen)
forms:
form:
businesswomen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From business + -woman.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A woman involved in business.
senses_topics:
|
13441 | word:
Barcelona
word_type:
name
expansion:
Barcelona
forms:
wikipedia:
Barcelona
etymology_text:
From Catalan Barcelona.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Catalonia, Spain.
A province of Catalonia, Spain.
A municipality of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
A hamlet in Pelynt parish, Cornwall, England.
A municipality of Sorsogon, Philippines.
An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Arkansas, United States.
The capital city of the state of Anzoátegui, Venezuela.
senses_topics:
|
13442 | word:
Zagreb
word_type:
name
expansion:
Zagreb
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital and largest city of Croatia.
A county of Croatia.
senses_topics:
|
13443 | word:
problem
word_type:
noun
expansion:
problem (plural problems)
forms:
form:
problems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
problem
etymology_text:
From Middle English probleme, from Middle French probleme, from Latin problema, from Ancient Greek πρόβλημα (próblēma, “anything thrown forward, hindrance, obstacle, anything projecting, a headland, promontory”), from προβάλλω (probállō, “to throw or lay something in front of someone, to put forward”), from προ- (pro-, “in front of”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw, to cast, to hurl”).
senses_examples:
text:
She's leaving because she faced numerous problems to do with racism.
type:
example
text:
The perfume industry is facing a major problem: maintaining constant levels of quality is crucial, but it is increasingly difficult to obtain a regular supply of all the necessary natural ingredients.
ref:
2014 March 7, Nicole Vulser, “Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 190, number 13, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
Study hard, but don't overdo it. The problems in the exam won't be difficult to solve.
type:
example
text:
You got a problem with that?
type:
example
text:
You made your best honest effort; if they judge you harshly, that’s their problem, not yours.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
A puzzling circumstance.
Objection.
Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand.
A set of moves required to complete a climb.
senses_topics:
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
13444 | word:
problem
word_type:
adj
expansion:
problem (comparative more problem, superlative most problem)
forms:
form:
more problem
tags:
comparative
form:
most problem
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
problem
etymology_text:
From Middle English probleme, from Middle French probleme, from Latin problema, from Ancient Greek πρόβλημα (próblēma, “anything thrown forward, hindrance, obstacle, anything projecting, a headland, promontory”), from προβάλλω (probállō, “to throw or lay something in front of someone, to put forward”), from προ- (pro-, “in front of”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw, to cast, to hurl”).
senses_examples:
text:
It is more problem to my family than to me.
ref:
2010, A. M. Aleksander, The Pride of the King
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Difficult to train or guide; unruly.
Causing a problem; problematic; troublesome.
senses_topics:
|
13445 | word:
strange
word_type:
adj
expansion:
strange (comparative stranger, superlative strangest)
forms:
form:
stranger
tags:
comparative
form:
strangest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English straunge, strange, stronge, from Old French estrange, from Latin extrāneus (“that which is on the outside”). Doublet of extraneous and estrange. Cognate with French étrange (“strange, foreign”) and Spanish extraño (“strange, foreign”). Displaced native Middle English selcouth and uncouth, from Old English seldcūþ and uncūþ.
senses_examples:
text:
He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
type:
example
text:
When you're strange / Faces come out of the rain / When you're strange / No one remembers your name
ref:
1967, Robby Krieger, Jim Morrison (lyrics and music), “People Are Strange”, performed by The Doors
type:
quotation
text:
I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
type:
example
text:
'I'm sure I should have never mentioned anything of the kind to three strange gentlemen if you hadn't dragged it out of me.'
ref:
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
She's probably sitting there hoping a couple of strange detectives will drop in.
ref:
1955 October, Rex Stout, “The Next Witness”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam, published 1994, pages 48–49
type:
quotation
text:
When AIDS and Herpes hit the street Talib stopped fucking with strange pussy and stray pussy. Bitches had a ways to go to match Malikah in bed anyway. With her there was that extra element of real love that heightened sex […]
ref:
2006, Black Butch Malone, Streetwise: N.Y. YO, AuthorHouse, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
Arnett might have come to Boston to eat baked beans, get some strange ass, or stick up the First New England Trust, the motive mattered little to him—whatever the boss wanted to do was jake-okay by him. Besides, being on overtime for ...
ref:
2009, David Karcher, Winter Kill, Xlibris Corporation, page 239
type:
quotation
text:
"You just need some strange dick, that's all.” Maureen rolled her eyes and gave her friend an exasperated look. “I'm a married woman, Catty.” “Uh-huh! I knew somethin' like this was goin' to happen after you married Mel."
ref:
2014, Mary Monroe, Lost Daughters, Kensington Books
type:
quotation
text:
The future mother of his child was not going out and getting laid by some strange dick. He'd tie her to his bed before he let that happen.
ref:
2021, Ellis O. Day, The Billionaire's Baby, LSODea
type:
quotation
text:
A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.
ref:
2004, Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 93
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, especially if slightly uncomfortable.
Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
Belonging to another country; foreign.
Reserved; distant in deportment.
Backward; slow.
Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
Not belonging to one.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
mathematics
sciences
law |
13446 | word:
strange
word_type:
verb
expansion:
strange (third-person singular simple present stranges, present participle stranging, simple past and past participle stranged)
forms:
form:
stranges
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stranging
tags:
participle
present
form:
stranged
tags:
participle
past
form:
stranged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English straunge, strange, stronge, from Old French estrange, from Latin extrāneus (“that which is on the outside”). Doublet of extraneous and estrange. Cognate with French étrange (“strange, foreign”) and Spanish extraño (“strange, foreign”). Displaced native Middle English selcouth and uncouth, from Old English seldcūþ and uncūþ.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To alienate; to estrange.
To be estranged or alienated.
To wonder; to be astonished at (something).
senses_topics:
|
13447 | word:
strange
word_type:
noun
expansion:
strange (countable and uncountable, plural stranges)
forms:
form:
stranges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English straunge, strange, stronge, from Old French estrange, from Latin extrāneus (“that which is on the outside”). Doublet of extraneous and estrange. Cognate with French étrange (“strange, foreign”) and Spanish extraño (“strange, foreign”). Displaced native Middle English selcouth and uncouth, from Old English seldcūþ and uncūþ.
senses_examples:
text:
It was a bar by license, but in hiring practice it became an intergalactic smorgasbord of xenosexual delights, females of fancy species serving drinks and offering cultural exchange to human males seeking some strange.
ref:
2010, Larry Doyle, “Back Seat Dating”, in Go, Mutants!: A Novel, 1st edition (Fiction), HarperCollinsPublishers, →OCLC, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
All he has to do is walk into a bar, and he can get some Strange.'” “Oh yeah, Tom,” I mutter, “that's exactly how it was, every Saturday night. Nothing but Strange. Up here too.”
ref:
2017, J.D. Kleinke, Dudeville
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sex outside of one's current relationship.
A strange quark.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
13448 | word:
twenty-eighth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
twenty-eighth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number twenty-eight.
senses_topics:
|
13449 | word:
twenty-eighth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twenty-eighth (plural twenty-eighths)
forms:
form:
twenty-eighths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the twenty-eighth position.
One of twenty-eight equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
|
13450 | word:
dumbass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dumbass (plural dumbasses)
forms:
form:
dumbasses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dumb + ass. It is likely that ¹ass (= donkey), not ²ass (= buttocks), was the original sense within this compound noun (solid compound or open compound), but neither sense is precluded, and many people today may uncritically parse the term in the latter way, even if it is misapprehensive. Apparent analogy with forms such as hard-ass and big-ass would naturally lend support to the second parsing. A similar synergy can be seen in the fact that the terms buttload and assload originated as literally meaning a cartload and the load transportable by a single donkey (respectively), but probably most English speakers today would assume that their derivation involves the buttocks.
senses_examples:
text:
The dumbass walked off with my car keys and left me hers.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A stupid or foolish person.
senses_topics:
|
13451 | word:
dumbass
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dumbass (comparative more dumbass or dumberass, superlative most dumbass or dumbestass)
forms:
form:
more dumbass
tags:
comparative
form:
dumberass
tags:
comparative
form:
most dumbass
tags:
superlative
form:
dumbestass
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dumb + ass. It is likely that ¹ass (= donkey), not ²ass (= buttocks), was the original sense within this compound noun (solid compound or open compound), but neither sense is precluded, and many people today may uncritically parse the term in the latter way, even if it is misapprehensive. Apparent analogy with forms such as hard-ass and big-ass would naturally lend support to the second parsing. A similar synergy can be seen in the fact that the terms buttload and assload originated as literally meaning a cartload and the load transportable by a single donkey (respectively), but probably most English speakers today would assume that their derivation involves the buttocks.
senses_examples:
text:
That dumbass driver ruined my car!
type:
example
text:
I zipped my coat up to the neck, worried now that going to the march was more dumbass than I'd thought. It got closer—the only frigging thing in the road!—and I realized I was shaking. I couldn't move.
ref:
2015, Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely, All American Boys, Simon and Schuster
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Stupid, foolish.
senses_topics:
|
13452 | word:
twenty-fifth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
twenty-fifth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number twenty-five.
senses_topics:
|
13453 | word:
twenty-fifth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twenty-fifth (plural twenty-fifths)
forms:
form:
twenty-fifths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the twenty-fifth position.
One of twenty-five equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
|
13454 | word:
White Russia
word_type:
name
expansion:
White Russia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Russian Бе́лая Русь (Bélaja Rusʹ). Cognate with German Weißrussland, German Low German Wittrussland, Dutch Wit-Rusland, Afrikaans Wit-Rusland, Danish Hviderusland, Faroese Hvítarussland, Swedish Vitryssland, Norwegian Bokmål Hviterussland, Norwegian Nynorsk Kviterussland, Icelandic Hvíta-Rússland, Limburgish Wit-Rusland, Alemannic German Wiissrussland, among others.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A historical East Slavic region.
An archaic literal translation for Belarus, a country in Eastern Europe.
The Russian state, as opposed to Soviet ("Red") Russia, one of the sides in the Russian Civil War.
senses_topics:
|
13455 | word:
Sardinia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sardinia
forms:
wikipedia:
Nora, Italy
Sea People
Sherden
en:Sardinia
etymology_text:
Borrowing from Latin Sardinia and Ancient Greek Σαρδώ (Sardṓ), which in turn derive from a pre-Roman substrate language, *sard, *shard. It is connected by some scholars to the name of the Sherden or Shardana, an ethnic group amongst the Sea Peoples. A Phoenician inscription found in Nora and dated to the 9th century B.C.E. identifies the island as Shardan.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island and autonomous region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea.
A town in New York.
A village in Washington Township, Brown County and Clay Township, Highland County, Ohio.
An unincorporated community in Indiana.
senses_topics:
|
13456 | word:
twenty-second
word_type:
adj
expansion:
twenty-second (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number twenty-two.
Lasting twenty seconds.
senses_topics:
|
13457 | word:
twenty-second
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twenty-second (plural twenty-seconds)
forms:
form:
twenty-seconds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the twenty-second position.
One of twenty-two equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
|
13458 | word:
Copenhagen
word_type:
name
expansion:
Copenhagen
forms:
wikipedia:
Copenhagen
Copenhagen (disambiguation)
Copenhagen County
Copenhagen, Louisiana
etymology_text:
From Low German Kopenhagen, a calque (perhaps modified by folk etymology) of Danish København.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Denmark.
The Danish government.
A municipality (Copenhagen Municipality) in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark.
One of the former counties of Denmark.
An unincorporated community in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, United States.
A village in the town of Denmark, Lewis County, New York, United States.
A community of Malahide township, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada.
A children's game in which one player is enclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.
senses_topics:
|
13459 | word:
Copenhagen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Copenhagen (plural Copenhagens)
forms:
form:
Copenhagens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Copenhagen
Copenhagen (disambiguation)
Copenhagen County
Copenhagen, Louisiana
etymology_text:
From Low German Kopenhagen, a calque (perhaps modified by folk etymology) of Danish København.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.
senses_topics:
|
13460 | word:
twenty-sixth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
twenty-sixth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Occurring in position twenty-six; the ordinal form of the number twenty-six.
senses_topics:
|
13461 | word:
twenty-sixth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twenty-sixth (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the twenty-sixth position.
One of twenty-six equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
|
13462 | word:
vocalist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vocalist (plural vocalists)
forms:
form:
vocalists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From vocal + -ist.
senses_examples:
text:
lead vocalist
type:
example
text:
amateur vocalist
type:
example
text:
talented vocalist
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A singer; a person who likes to sing.
senses_topics:
|
13463 | word:
Syracuse
word_type:
name
expansion:
Syracuse (countable and uncountable, plural Syracuses)
forms:
form:
Syracuses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Syracuse
etymology_text:
From French Syracuse, from Latin Syrācūsae, from Ancient Greek Συρᾱ́κουσαι (Surā́kousai) attested from 8th century BC, from a Pre-Greek name, possibly Phoenician 𐤔𐤄𐤓𐤀𐤇 (šhrʾḥ, “to feel ill”) in reference to the ancient port's proximity to a swamp. As a surname, an anglicized form of Italian Siracusa. Compare Sicilian Saragusa.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A placename:
A former province of Sicily, Italy.
A placename:
A city in Sicily, Italy; the former capital of the province.
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Indiana.
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Hamilton County, Kansas.
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Missouri.
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Nebraska.
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Onondaga County, New York.
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Onondaga County, New York.
Syracuse University (in New York)
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Ohio.
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Utah.
A habitational surname from Italian.
senses_topics:
|
13464 | word:
Syracuse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Syracuse (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Syracuse
etymology_text:
From French Syracuse, from Latin Syrācūsae, from Ancient Greek Συρᾱ́κουσαι (Surā́kousai) attested from 8th century BC, from a Pre-Greek name, possibly Phoenician 𐤔𐤄𐤓𐤀𐤇 (šhrʾḥ, “to feel ill”) in reference to the ancient port's proximity to a swamp. As a surname, an anglicized form of Italian Siracusa. Compare Sicilian Saragusa.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of red wine.
senses_topics:
|
13465 | word:
blackboard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blackboard (plural blackboards)
forms:
form:
blackboards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
blackboard
etymology_text:
From black + board, because such surfaces were once typically made of black slate.
senses_examples:
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
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard.
senses_topics:
|
13466 | word:
blackboard
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blackboard (third-person singular simple present blackboards, present participle blackboarding, simple past and past participle blackboarded)
forms:
form:
blackboards
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
blackboarding
tags:
participle
present
form:
blackboarded
tags:
participle
past
form:
blackboarded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
blackboard
etymology_text:
From black + board, because such surfaces were once typically made of black slate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use a blackboard to assist in an informal discussion.
senses_topics:
|
13467 | word:
phrase book
word_type:
noun
expansion:
phrase book (plural phrase books)
forms:
form:
phrase books
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A usually pocket-sized book consisting of everyday expressions and vocabulary in two languages and intended for travellers who wish to communicate with locals while in other countries.
senses_topics:
|
13468 | word:
Vancouver
word_type:
name
expansion:
Vancouver (countable and uncountable, plural Vancouvers)
forms:
form:
Vancouvers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
George Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver Expedition
Vancouver, Washington
etymology_text:
The family name is from the Dutch place name Coevorden (“the place where cows ford the river”) via the Dutch family name van Coevorden (“a person from Coevorden”). The place names are derived from the family name, being named after George Vancouver, an English explorer who charted the northwestern Pacific coast of North America in a 1791–1794 expedition.
senses_examples:
text:
The different fields in the 'style' file include the format of the in-text citations (Vancouver or Harvard style) […]
ref:
2019, G. Jagadeesh, Biomedical Research, page 485
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname.
A seaport, the largest city in British Columbia, Canada.
A large island in British Columbia, Canada.
A river in southern British Columbia, Canada.
A mountain between Alaska, United States and Yukon, Canada in the Saint Elias Mountains.
A mountain in the Southern Alps, on the South Island, New Zealand.
A city, the county seat of Clark County, Washington, United States.
A lake in Clark County, Washington, United States.
The Vancouver system of reference citation.
senses_topics:
|
13469 | word:
pyramid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pyramid (countable and uncountable, plural pyramids)
forms:
form:
pyramids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pyramid
etymology_text:
From French pyramide, from Old French piramide, from Latin pȳramis, pȳramidis, from Ancient Greek πῡραμίς (pūramís), possibly from πῡρός (pūrós, “wheat”) + ἀμάω (amáō, “reap”) or from Egyptian pr-m-ws (“height of a pyramid”), from pr (“(one that) comes forth”) + m (“from”) + ws (“height”). Schenkel and K. Lang proposed hypothetical Coptic *ⲡⲓⲣⲁⲙ (*piram) or *ⲫⲣⲁⲙ (*phram) derived from Egyptian mr via metathesis as a source of πῡραμίς (pūramís) while Schenkel also suggested it being the source of Arabic هرم although the latter is considered far-fetched by Takacs.
senses_examples:
text:
[T]he owners of Doddington Hall, in Lincolnshire, have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid in the grounds of the Elizabethan manor.
ref:
2014 September 7, “Doddington's garden pyramid is a folly good show: The owners of a Lincolnshire stately home have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid [print edition: Great pyramid of Lincolnshire, 6 September 2014, p. G2]”, in The Daily Telegraph, London
type:
quotation
text:
The company was organized as a pyramid, with a CEO in charge of four directors, each heading up a department.
type:
example
text:
They sit looking at the empty plate that had held a pyramid of sesame cakes. They have eaten them all.
ref:
1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 63
type:
quotation
text:
A telephone pyramid is now being formed to fill this need. Once a representative group of community people decide a crisis exists […] a list of people will be called, who in turn will call a small number of others from a list already in their possession. This process continues untill as much of the community as possible has been notified. The numbers will be kept in strict confidence, with no one other than the organizers having the entire list. Individual callers will only have a few names and numbers.
ref:
1973 August 18, “Gay [drawing of a pyramid (sense 1)]”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 9, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Build your pyramid with all cards face down, except the cards in the bottom row.
type:
example
text:
[…] with a cross-line banner, a set of two-column pyramids beneath it in the middle, and on each side of these exactly the same thing,—something between a headline and a story—"$50,000 Reward for—" etc.
ref:
1924, Helen Ogden Mahin, The Development and Significance of the Newspaper Headline
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ancient massive construction with a square or rectangular base and four triangular sides meeting in an apex, such as those built as tombs in Egypt or as bases for temples in Mesoamerica.
A construction in the shape of a pyramid, usually with a square or rectangular base.
A solid with triangular lateral faces and a polygonal (often square or rectangular) base.
Any structure or diagram with many members at the bottom and progressively fewer towards the top.
A medullary pyramid, the medial-most bumps on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata
The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot.
A pyramid scheme.
Alternative letter-case form of Pyramid. (a solitaire card game)
The triangular layout of cards in the game of Pyramid.
An approximately triangular headline consisting of several centered lines of text of increasing length.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
card-games
games
card-games
games
journalism
media |
13470 | word:
pyramid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pyramid (third-person singular simple present pyramids, present participle pyramiding, simple past and past participle pyramided)
forms:
form:
pyramids
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pyramiding
tags:
participle
present
form:
pyramided
tags:
participle
past
form:
pyramided
tags:
past
wikipedia:
pyramid
etymology_text:
From French pyramide, from Old French piramide, from Latin pȳramis, pȳramidis, from Ancient Greek πῡραμίς (pūramís), possibly from πῡρός (pūrós, “wheat”) + ἀμάω (amáō, “reap”) or from Egyptian pr-m-ws (“height of a pyramid”), from pr (“(one that) comes forth”) + m (“from”) + ws (“height”). Schenkel and K. Lang proposed hypothetical Coptic *ⲡⲓⲣⲁⲙ (*piram) or *ⲫⲣⲁⲙ (*phram) derived from Egyptian mr via metathesis as a source of πῡραμίς (pūramís) while Schenkel also suggested it being the source of Arabic هرم although the latter is considered far-fetched by Takacs.
senses_examples:
text:
The paint was stacked in neatly pyramided lots along the concrete floor.
ref:
1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 198
type:
quotation
text:
Once there was an enormous jukebox; the then-Harlettes (her three-woman back-up vocalists/dancers/mimes) pyramided to drop a huge coin, and around the bend of the big record would spin the diva.
ref:
1983 April 9, Walta Borawski, “Midler in Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
Multiply this by the number of shares you traded, and add other positions if you pyramided.
ref:
2002, Alexander Elder, Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading, page 152
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To build up or be arranged in the form of a pyramid.
To combine (a series of genes) into a single genotype.
To employ, or take part in, a pyramid scheme.
To engage in pyramid trading.
To increase to or towards a peak.
senses_topics:
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
business
finance
|
13471 | word:
must
word_type:
verb
expansion:
must (third-person singular simple present must, no present participle, simple past must, no past participle)
forms:
form:
must
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
must
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
-
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English moste ("must", literally, "had to", the past tense of Middle English moten (“to have to”)), from Old English mōste (“had to”), 1st & 3rd person singular past tense of mōtan (“to be allowed, be able to, have the opportunity to, be compelled to, must, may”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtaną. Cognate with Dutch moest (“had to”), German musste (“had to”), Swedish måste (“must, have to, be obliged to”). More at mote.
senses_examples:
text:
You must arrive in class on time. (the requirement is an imperative)
type:
example
text:
This door handle must be rotated fully. (the requirement is a directive, necessary to operate the handle)
type:
example
text:
If it has rained all day, it must be very wet outside.
type:
example
text:
You picked one of two, and it wasn't the first: it must have been the second.
type:
example
text:
The children must be asleep by now.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence.
To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.
Used to indicate that something is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.
senses_topics:
|
13472 | word:
must
word_type:
noun
expansion:
must (plural musts)
forms:
form:
musts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English moste ("must", literally, "had to", the past tense of Middle English moten (“to have to”)), from Old English mōste (“had to”), 1st & 3rd person singular past tense of mōtan (“to be allowed, be able to, have the opportunity to, be compelled to, must, may”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtaną. Cognate with Dutch moest (“had to”), German musste (“had to”), Swedish måste (“must, have to, be obliged to”). More at mote.
senses_examples:
text:
If you're trekking all day, a map is a must.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that is mandatory or required.
senses_topics:
|
13473 | word:
must
word_type:
noun
expansion:
must (countable and uncountable, plural musts)
forms:
form:
musts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English must, from Old English must and Old French must, most, both from Latin mustum.
senses_examples:
text:
No sweet grape lies hidden here in the shade of its vine-leaves,
No fermenting must fills and o'erflows the deep vats.
ref:
c. 1874, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ovid in Exile
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The property of being stale or musty.
Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.
senses_topics:
|
13474 | word:
must
word_type:
verb
expansion:
must (third-person singular simple present musts, present participle musting, simple past and past participle musted)
forms:
form:
musts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
musting
tags:
participle
present
form:
musted
tags:
participle
past
form:
musted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English must, from Old English must and Old French must, most, both from Latin mustum.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make musty.
To become musty.
senses_topics:
|
13475 | word:
must
word_type:
noun
expansion:
must (countable and uncountable, plural musts)
forms:
form:
musts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Persian مست (mast, “drunk, inebriated”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭮𐭲 (mast).
senses_examples:
text:
It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one which had gone ‘must’.
ref:
1936, George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant, an essay in the magazine New Writing
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of musth
senses_topics:
|
13476 | word:
louse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
louse (plural lice or louses)
forms:
form:
lice
tags:
plural
form:
louses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
louse
etymology_text:
From Middle English lous, lows, lowse, from Old English lūs, from Proto-West Germanic *lūs, from Proto-Germanic *lūs, from Proto-Indo-European *lewH-.
See also West Frisian lûs, Dutch luis, German Low German Luus, German Laus; also Welsh llau (“lice”), Tocharian B luwo, maybe Sanskrit यूका (yūkā).
senses_examples:
text:
He said: "Thanks, friend; but you're wasting your time. You better warn Crocker. If that louse makes a play for me, he'll get hit with Chicago lightning!"
ref:
1946, Joseph Thompson Shaw, The hard-boiled omnibus: early stories from Black Mask, page 388
type:
quotation
text:
It's then that those louses go back to their spouses. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
ref:
1949, Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend (song)
text:
[…] as she raised her guitar for the last loud chord, an unseen louse let loose a rubber-tipped arrow that landed right on her dark-skinned forehead.
ref:
1965 December, Phil Ochs, “That Was The Year That Weren't”, in Cavalier
type:
quotation
text:
After you get finished betraying all your friends, how long do you think it will be before you're all alone? You will age and die all alone. You are attractive but unloving and unlovable. You're the worst louse I have met in a long time. I hope you get what you deserve.
ref:
1983 December 17, “GDMFSOB (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 22, page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Psocodea.
A contemptible person; one who is deceitful or causes harm.
senses_topics:
|
13477 | word:
louse
word_type:
verb
expansion:
louse (third-person singular simple present louses, present participle lousing, simple past and past participle loused)
forms:
form:
louses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lousing
tags:
participle
present
form:
loused
tags:
participle
past
form:
loused
tags:
past
wikipedia:
louse
etymology_text:
From Middle English lous, lows, lowse, from Old English lūs, from Proto-West Germanic *lūs, from Proto-Germanic *lūs, from Proto-Indo-European *lewH-.
See also West Frisian lûs, Dutch luis, German Low German Luus, German Laus; also Welsh llau (“lice”), Tocharian B luwo, maybe Sanskrit यूका (yūkā).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove lice from; to delouse.
senses_topics:
|
13478 | word:
twenty-third
word_type:
adj
expansion:
twenty-third (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number twenty-three.
senses_topics:
|
13479 | word:
twenty-third
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twenty-third (plural twenty-thirds)
forms:
form:
twenty-thirds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the twenty-third position.
One of twenty-three equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
|
13480 | word:
lever
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lever (plural levers)
forms:
form:
levers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lever
etymology_text:
From Middle English lever, levore, levour, from Old French leveor, leveur (“a lifter, lever (also Old French and French levier)”), from Latin levātor (“a lifter”), from levō (“to raise”). Doublet of levator.
senses_examples:
text:
Retractable steps and handrails are provided on each side of the cars. The steps, which are under the control of the guard, are operated by hand levers in the entrance vestibule.
ref:
1952 September, “Modernised Pull-and-Push Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 617
type:
quotation
text:
A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
ref:
2012 March 24, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3
type:
quotation
text:
My lord, I brained him with a lever my neighbour lent me, and he stood by and cried, ‘Strike home, old boy!’
ref:
1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, IV.1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.
A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a switch or a button).
A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
A crowbar.
senses_topics:
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
13481 | word:
lever
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lever (third-person singular simple present levers, present participle levering, simple past and past participle levered)
forms:
form:
levers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
levering
tags:
participle
present
form:
levered
tags:
participle
past
form:
levered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
lever
etymology_text:
From Middle English lever, levore, levour, from Old French leveor, leveur (“a lifter, lever (also Old French and French levier)”), from Latin levātor (“a lifter”), from levō (“to raise”). Doublet of levator.
senses_examples:
text:
With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.
type:
example
text:
Suddenly he had levered himself up from the sofa, rocking the lame man violently, and was walking towards the receptionist.
ref:
1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 1
type:
quotation
text:
The guard at the door coughed up blood, and died instantly. Fina was carrying an empty rifle with a sharpened bayonet, and she'd thrust it straight up through his neck, severing the spinal cord. She levered him off the front stoop and into the bushes, then stood up on the tips of her toes to peer through the window in the door.
ref:
2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-22
type:
quotation
text:
He was a man who levered his way from small-time communist hack to political power by tapping into the most potent vein of historical juice in the Balkans: nationalism.
ref:
2001 April 9, Joshua Cooper Ramo, “Bagging the Butcher”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
Credited with pioneering the detective novel, Collins has attracted many biographers over the years, drawn to his extraordinary life and work in the hope of levering open a new understanding of the Victorian psyche.
ref:
2013 December 8, Robert McCrum, “Biographies of the year — review”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
"The equity holders want you to 'lever up,' use as much debt as you can," said David Stanley, chairman of Kansas City-based Payless Cashways,
ref:
1989 June 26, “Corporate America wants its privacy”, in Minneapolis Star-Tribune
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move with a lever.
To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically).
To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense).
To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
13482 | word:
lever
word_type:
adv
expansion:
lever (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
lever
etymology_text:
From Middle English lever, comparative of leve, leef (“dear, beloved, lief”), equivalent to lief + -er. Related to German lieber (“rather”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rather.
senses_topics:
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13483 | word:
lever
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lever (plural levers)
forms:
form:
levers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lever
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French lever.
senses_examples:
text:
We do not appear at Phœbus's Levér.
ref:
1742, Miss Robinson, Mrs. Delany's Letters, II.191
type:
quotation
text:
Louis XIV’s day began with a lever at 9 and ended (officially) at around midnight.
ref:
2011 September 21, Tim Blanning, “The reinvention of the night”, in Times Literary Supplement
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A levee.
senses_topics:
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13484 | word:
province
word_type:
noun
expansion:
province (plural provinces)
forms:
form:
provinces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
geologic province
province
etymology_text:
From Middle English provynce, from Anglo-Norman province, Old French province, from Latin prōvincia, seemingly corresponding to prō- and vinciō. Replaced Old English boldġetæl.
senses_examples:
text:
Chowta-Zhin, who is ſaid to be a man of buſineſs and preciſion, and cautious of advancing facts, at the requeſt of Earl Macartney, delivered to him a ſtatement taken from one of the public officers in the capitol, of the inhabitants of the fifteen ancient provinces of China, or China proper, within the great wall ; according to which the number of inhabitants, taken by a regular enumeration, amounts to 333,000,000!
ref:
1798 October 20 [1797], “CALCULATIONS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE GLOBE.”, in The Rural Magazine, volume I, number 36, Newark, →OCLC, page 2, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The telegraph administration refuses to transmit messages either to or from the Provinces of Hu-Peh, Hu-Nan, Kiang-Si, Sze-Chuan, Kwei-Chow, and Yu-Nan.
ref:
1911 October 16 [1911 October 15], “CENSOR STOPS REVOLT NEWS.; Troops Moving South, but Number Concealed -- Train Service Reduced.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-12, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
After the Hsuchow-Pengpu Battle,* with the exception of the battles fought on Tengpu Island and Kinmen Island,** Government troops put up no determined fight, and, as a result, province after province on the mainland fell into Communist hands.
ref:
1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, “China's Struggle Against Communism: Gains and Losses”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 236
type:
quotation
text:
All of Fort McMurray, with the exception of Parson’s Creek, was under a mandatory evacuation order on Tuesday, said Robin Smith, press secretary for the regional municipality of Wood Buffalo in the Canadian province [of Alberta].
ref:
2016 May 4, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
He reminded his audience of events in 88BC, when the same Mithridates invaded the Roman province of Asia, on the western coast of Turkey.
ref:
2008 November 28, Mark Brown, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
In 1309, neither the Archbishop of Canterbury nor his suffragans would attend in Parliament while the Archbishop of York had the cross borne erect before him in the province of Canterbury.
ref:
1838, The Churchman, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
To-day the first part of the new Indian Constitution comes into force with the granting of a large measure of autonomy to the provinces.
ref:
1937 April 1, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
"What are the Russian provinces?" he said. "Dirt, ruins, poverty, drunkenness. That is what we need to be working on, rather than expanding our prison to include Georgia, Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Belarus. That is the kind of Russian nationalist that I am…. There is no sense in using force to hold people that don’t want to be with you."
ref:
2023 February 7, Yauhen Lehalau, “'I Couldn't Just Stand By': Russian Fighters Explain Why They Took Up Arms Against The Kremlin”, in Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
type:
quotation
text:
More than half a million women are now employed on the railways of the Soviet Union, and some of them perform such duties as those of engine drivers and stationmasters, formerly considered the sole province of men.
ref:
1941 February, “Notes and News: Women on Soviet Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
Just as money is the province of the economy and truth the province of science and scholarship, so love is the province of the family (Niklas Luhmann).
ref:
1984, Dorothee Sölle, The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity, page 37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country.
An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China.
An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor or prefect.
An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses.
An area under the jurisdiction of a provincial within a monastic order.
The parts of a country outside its capital city.
A major region defined by common geologic attributes and history.
An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept.
senses_topics:
Christianity
Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
geography
geology
natural-sciences
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13485 | word:
twenty-seventh
word_type:
adj
expansion:
twenty-seventh (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From twenty-seven + -th.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number twenty-seven.
senses_topics:
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13486 | word:
twenty-seventh
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twenty-seventh (plural twenty-sevenths)
forms:
form:
twenty-sevenths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From twenty-seven + -th.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the twenty-seventh position.
One of twenty-seven equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
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13487 | word:
lava
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lava (countable and uncountable, plural lavas)
forms:
form:
lavas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lava
etymology_text:
From Italian, from Neapolitan lava (“lava”, but also “downpour overflowing the streets”). Likely in the sense of “landslide, torrent” from Latin labes (“fall”), compare labina (“avalanche, landslide”). A supposed relation with lavare (“to wash”) is now widely discredited. Neither is there probably any relation with Arabic لابة (lāba, “black volcanic rock”).
senses_examples:
text:
lava:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides; magma that has breached the surface of the earth.
Magma.
A shade of red, named after the volcanic lava.
senses_topics:
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13488 | word:
seventy-first
word_type:
adj
expansion:
seventy-first
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The answer appears on the seventy-first page of the book.
type:
example
text:
She finished seventy-first in the race.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number seventy-one, describing a person or thing in position number 71 of a sequence.
senses_topics:
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13489 | word:
seventy-first
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seventy-first (plural seventy-firsts)
forms:
form:
seventy-firsts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
A seventy-first of 1420 is 20.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of seventy-one equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
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13490 | word:
alchemist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alchemist (plural alchemists)
forms:
form:
alchemists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French alquemiste (French alchimiste), from Medieval Latin alchemista. Equivalent to alchemy + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who practices alchemy.
One who blends material or substances in the nature or supposed nature of alchemy.
senses_topics:
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13491 | word:
Venice
word_type:
name
expansion:
Venice (countable and uncountable, plural Venices)
forms:
form:
Venices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Adriatic Veneti
Trojan War
Venice
Venice (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English Venyse, from Old French Venise or Old Italian, from Medieval Latin Venetia, from Latin Venetī + -ia (“forming place names”), a local tribe in antiquity whose own little-attested language is now known as Venetic. Initial scholarly agreement that they were Illyrian was based on arguments since refuted. They worshipped Belenus and were possibly Celtic or heavily influenced by Celtic culture, despite repeatedly supporting the Romans against the Gauls. Compare the identical ethnonym Venetī used for Celts of Armorica (ancient Britanny) from Gaulish Uenetoi (“friendly ones, kinsmen”), from Proto-Celtic *wenet, a modified form of *wenyā (“kindred”). Widely but mistakenly derived by the ancient Greeks and Romans from the Eneti of Pamphylia, supposed to have fled to the Adriatic and become the Veneti after supporting the losing side of the Trojan War. As American places, named after the Italian city. Doublet of Venetia.
senses_examples:
text:
An. The Duke cannot denie the courſe of law:
for the commoditie that ſtrangers haue
vvith vs in Venice, if it be denyed,
will much impeach the iuſtice of the ſtate,
ſince that the trade and profit of the citty
conſiſteth of all Nations.
ref:
1600, William Shakespeare, The Most Excellent Hiſtorie of the Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene iii
text:
As I indicated at the outset, for us Shakespeare's Venetian plays lie between the early modern republic described in Chapter 2, and all the subsequent Venices of our experience, education and imagination, […]
ref:
2010, Graham Holderness, Shakespeare and Venice, page 141
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the port city in Veneto, on the Adriatic, in northeastern Italy, former capital of an independent republic.
A province of Veneto, Italy, around the city.
A former polity in Europe, a republic and colonial empire around the Adriatic and eastern Mediterranean from AD 697 to 1797 with its capital at Venice.
A township in Illinois, United States.
A township in Michigan, United States.
A township in Ohio, United States.
A neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
senses_topics:
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13492 | word:
Basilicata
word_type:
name
expansion:
Basilicata
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An administrative region of southern Italy.
senses_topics:
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13493 | word:
campaign
word_type:
noun
expansion:
campaign (plural campaigns)
forms:
form:
campaigns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
campaign
etymology_text:
From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campania, campagna, and champagne.
senses_examples:
text:
an election campaign
type:
example
text:
a military campaign
type:
example
text:
The company is targeting children in its latest advertising campaign.
type:
example
text:
MILLER: Mr. President, I wonder if you could tell us about some of the audiences you talked to in the 1948 campaign? For instance, I think we'd all be curious about what was the smallest audience you had in the 1948 campaign?
TRUMAN: Well, I'll- it'll sound as if I'm bragging about the 1948 campaign, but I never had an audience under five or ten thousand people in the whole series of trips which we took- about 31,700 miles on the train.
ref:
1965, Harry S. Truman, Merle Miller, 0:12 from the start, in MP2002-300 Former President Truman Discusses 1948 Campaign and Other Presidents in History, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162
type:
quotation
text:
The Canaries went ahead when the home defence failed to clear their lines and Pilkington was on hand to slide in his eighth goal of the campaign.
ref:
2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
A player or team's efforts during a sporting season.
A series of play sessions using the same player characters, forming a continuous narrative.
The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
An excursion into the countryside.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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13494 | word:
campaign
word_type:
verb
expansion:
campaign (third-person singular simple present campaigns, present participle campaigning, simple past and past participle campaigned)
forms:
form:
campaigns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
campaigning
tags:
participle
present
form:
campaigned
tags:
participle
past
form:
campaigned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
campaign
etymology_text:
From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campania, campagna, and champagne.
senses_examples:
text:
She campaigned for better social security.
type:
example
text:
But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.
ref:
2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
After modifying her for ocean racing, he campaigned her for three years, and in 1975, donated her to the U.S. Naval Academy.
ref:
1983 May, “Jack King: Merrythought”, in Yachting, volume 153, number 5, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
The "more curious" were the affluent planters who bred and campaigned race horses in quarter races, the only form of racing practiced in the Virginia colony during the first 125 years of its existence.
ref:
1983, Alexander Mackay-Smith, The colonial quarter race horse, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Holman & Moody built more Mustangs than just the Mickey Thompson cars. One in that number was this red 302-powered 1969 Sportsroof. It was campaigned by David Pearson and Bobby Allison during the 1969 through 1972 seasons.
ref:
2002, John Albert Craft, Mustang Race Cars, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
Ron campaigned the car for a couple seasons before selling it to Mark Danekas (Danekas blowers), who ran the car himself briefly before putting it on the market once again.
ref:
2014, Doug Boyce, chapter 1, in Drag Racing's Quarter-Mile Warriors: Then & Now, page 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take part in a campaign.
Consistently ride in races for a racing season.
senses_topics:
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13495 | word:
twenty-first
word_type:
adj
expansion:
twenty-first (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number twenty-one.
senses_topics:
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13496 | word:
twenty-first
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twenty-first (plural twenty-firsts)
forms:
form:
twenty-firsts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the twenty-first position.
One of twenty-one equal parts of a whole, usually written ¹⁄₂₁.
A party to celebrate a twenty-first birthday.
senses_topics:
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13497 | word:
wealthy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
wealthy (comparative wealthier or more wealthy, superlative wealthiest or most wealthy)
forms:
form:
wealthier
tags:
comparative
form:
more wealthy
tags:
comparative
form:
wealthiest
tags:
superlative
form:
most wealthy
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
wealthy
etymology_text:
From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”).
senses_examples:
text:
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
ref:
2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Possessing financial wealth; rich.
Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.
senses_topics:
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13498 | word:
wealthy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wealthy (countable and uncountable, plural wealthies)
forms:
form:
wealthies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wealthy
etymology_text:
From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”).
senses_examples:
text:
... whether consumption patterns of the wealthy are more or less polluting than those of the poor depends on the contaminant in question.
ref:
2009 Oct., Rachel A. Bouvier, "Sulfur Dioxide Emissions and Per Capita Income", Environment & Development Economics, Vol. 14, No. 5
text:
The wealthy pay most of the taxes but the uberwealthy hardly pay any at all: they hold stock and property and live off debt borrowed against that collateral.
type:
example
text:
it was possible for a group like the Libertarians to hope that a couple of weakminded wealthies might donate the seed money to get a campaign rolling.
ref:
1975 December 6, “A Real Presidential Choice Is Being Ignored”, in Evening Independent
type:
quotation
text:
Bernice is a nice, sardonic tale of envy and young wealthies of the pre-flapper era, when a girl who bobbed her hair was thought loose by the flask-bearing blades who tried to get her tight.
ref:
1977 April 4, “Public TV Presents miracle Series”, in Argus-Press
type:
quotation
text:
Ending tax cuts to wealthies would only increase tax revenues by $40 - $60 billion a year - about 20% of current deficit - so it's a waste of time.
ref:
2006 November 16, “Can the Democrats Deliver?”, in Washington Post
type:
quotation
text:
F. Scott Fitzgerald never got over Ginevra King's dad reminding him he wasn't a wealthy and needed to aim lower.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively.
A rich person.
senses_topics:
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13499 | word:
silversmith
word_type:
noun
expansion:
silversmith (plural silversmiths)
forms:
form:
silversmiths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English silver smyth, from Old English seolforsmiþ (“silversmith”), from Proto-Germanic *silubrasmiþaz (“silversmith”), equivalent to silver + smith. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Säälwersmid (“silversmith”), West Frisian sulversmid (“silversmith”), Dutch zilversmid (“silversmith”), German Low German Sülversmitt (“silversmith”), German Silberschmied (“silversmith”), Danish sølvsmed (“silversmith”), Norwegian Bokmål sølvsmed (“silversmith”), Norwegian Nynorsk sølvsmed (“silversmith”), sylvsmed (“silversmith”), Swedish silversmed (“silversmith”), Icelandic silfursmiður (“silversmith”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English argentarie (“silversmith”) from Latin (faber) argentārius (“dealer in silver, silversmith”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who makes articles out of silver usually larger than jewellery.
senses_topics:
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