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13500 | word:
explosion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
explosion (countable and uncountable, plural explosions)
forms:
form:
explosions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French explosion, from Latin explōsiōnis, genitive form of explōsio, from explōdo (“I drive out by clapping”), from ex- and plōdo (“I clap or strike”). For more information see explode.
senses_examples:
text:
A man was injured by an explosion caused by drilling into a missed shot at the Mendota mine above Silver Plume, Colo.
ref:
1913, Mining and Engineering World, page 171
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quotation
text:
Her image is supposedly rebellious, but she looks scrubbed and healthy, with an explosion of blonde hair and generous curves shoved into too-tight clothing.
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2005 June 3, Mark Tungate, Media Monoliths: How Great Media Brands Thrive and Survive, Kogan Page Publishers, page 38
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quotation
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All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism. That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition. It is therefore dealing with pollution in two ways—suppression and mitigation.
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2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical); an act or instance of exploding.
The sound of an explosion.
A sudden, uncontrolled or rapid increase, expansion, or bursting out.
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13501 | word:
songstress
word_type:
noun
expansion:
songstress (plural songstresses)
forms:
form:
songstresses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From songster + -ess. Compare West Frisian sjongeres (“songstress”), Dutch zangeres (“songstress”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female singer.
A female songbird.
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13502 | word:
zoo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zoo (plural zoos)
forms:
form:
zoos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
zoo
etymology_text:
Clipping of zoological garden or zoological park, now the usual form. See zoology. Senses 5 and 6: clipping of zoophile or zoophilia.
senses_examples:
text:
The London Zoo was built in 1828.
type:
example
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The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.
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2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32
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quotation
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The shopping center was a zoo the week before Christmas.
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example
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After his insightful book The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Spoto published The Dark Side of Genius, a portrayal of the elderly director as a lonely man who was a veritable zoo of desires, suspicions, fears, and addictions (food, drink, romantic infatuation, and filmmaking).
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1993, Neil P. Hurley, Soul in Suspense: Hitchcock's Fright and Delight, page xii
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quotation
text:
From this point on, an entire zoo of possibilities arose: strange stars, different families of neutron stars, hybrid stars, etc.
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2001, Antonino Zichichi, Theory and Experiment Heading for New Physics
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quotation
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But powerful as the quark model and the electroweak theory were in describing the zoo of subatomic particles, this still left a huge gap.
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2021, Michio Kaku, The God Equation
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quotation
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I'm not all that unhappy about being out on an actual patrol, but there's a worried feeling wandering around the back of my mind, not exactly fear, more like a sort of lurking anxiety at being out in the dreaded jungle, the zoo, where the enemy hides.
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2013, E. E. "Doc" Murdock, My Vietnam War (page 152)
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Zoophiles, or 'zoos,' are sexually and emotionally attracted to animals, as in a sexual orientation.
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2013, Mark Hawthorne, Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering
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quotation
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Bestiality or zoophilia—whatever we decide to call it—is one of the most pressing issues for all domesticated animals, […] From the scanty research available, the following picture emerges: the majority of zoos are male, though certainly not all; […]
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2016, Jessica Pierce, Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets, page 129
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A park where live animals are exhibited.
Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.
A large and varied collection of something.
The jungle.
Clipping of zoophile.
Pornographic material depicting actual animals or bestiality.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
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13503 | word:
Florence
word_type:
name
expansion:
Florence
forms:
wikipedia:
Florence (disambiguation)
Florence Nightingale
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French Florence, from Latin Flōrentia (as a given name, a feminine form of Flōrentius), from flōrens (“flowering, flourishing”), from flōs (“flower”), connected with English bloom and blossom.
The female given name gained popularity from Florence Nightingale who was born in the Tuscan city.
senses_examples:
text:
It is a sweet name, Florence, but not as sweet as herself. But you shall see her with you own eyes.
ref:
1840, William Gilmore Simms, Border Beagles: A Tale of Mississippi, Donohue, Henneberry, published 1890, page 398
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quotation
text:
I am glad that I chose the name Florence for my daughter, a real name with a history, rather than something that sounds as if it has been made up by a fifteen-year-old pop star's marketing team.
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2006, Sophie Hannah, Little Face, Soho, published 2007, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Tuscany, Italy, and capital city of the Metropolitan City of Florence.
A metropolitan city of Tuscany, Italy.
A female given name from Latin.
A male given name from Latin
A community of Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
A suburb of the city of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Lauderdale County, Alabama.
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A town, the county seat of Pinal County, Arizona.
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An unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California.
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A statutory city in Fremont County, Colorado.
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A village in Pike County, Illinois.
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An unincorporated community in Stephenson County, Illinois.
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A census-designated place in York Township, Switzerland County, Indiana.
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A minor city in Marion County, Kansas, named after daughter of Samuel J. Crawford.
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A home rule city in Boone County, Kentucky.
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An unincorporated community in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana.
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A village in the city of Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
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A tiny city in Lyon County, Minnesota.
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A town in Rankin County, Mississippi.
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An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Missouri.
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A census-designated place in Ravalli County, Montana.
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A neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska.
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A township in New Jersey.
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A town in Oneida County, New York.
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An unincorporated community in Paint Township, Madison County, Ohio.
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A coastal city in Lane County, Oregon.
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An unincorporated community in Hanover Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.
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A city, the county seat of Florence County, South Carolina.
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A town in Codington County, South Dakota.
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An unincorporated community in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
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A city in Williamson County, Texas.
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An unincorporated community in the town of Pittsford, Rutland County, Vermont.
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An unincorporated community in Snohomish County, Washington.
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An unincorporated census-designated place, the county seat of Florence County, Wisconsin.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Florence County, Wisconsin, surrounding the census-designated place of the same name.
A number of places in the United States:
A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Florence Township.
a medieval and early modern republic centered on the city of Florence in Italy that existed from 1115 to 1185 and from 1197 to 1569 when the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was formed.
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13504 | word:
Florence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Florence (plural Florences)
forms:
form:
Florences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Florence (disambiguation)
Florence Nightingale
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French Florence, from Latin Flōrentia (as a given name, a feminine form of Flōrentius), from flōrens (“flowering, flourishing”), from flōs (“flower”), connected with English bloom and blossom.
The female given name gained popularity from Florence Nightingale who was born in the Tuscan city.
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senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III, coined by Florentines and worth six shillings sterling.
A kind of silk fabric; florentine.
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13505 | word:
songster
word_type:
noun
expansion:
songster (plural songsters)
forms:
form:
songsters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English songster, sangester, sangstere, from Old English sangestre (“a female singer; songstress”), equivalent to song + -ster. Cognate with Scots sangstar (“singer; songster”). Compare also West Frisian sjongster (“singer; female singer; vocalist”).
senses_examples:
text:
A member of a Salvation Army family, she had been a songster accompanying the band around the streets of Chelmsford where she lived with her parents.
ref:
2012, Kevin Turton, Northamptonshire Murders, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
On a later occasion he returned to the theme of keeping the individuality of Salvation Army music, and resisting the temptation for songster brigades to imitate chapel and mission choirs.
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2011, Gordon Cox, The Musical Salvationist, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
The woodcock, the snipe, and other nocturnal birds were all gone to rest; but the merry songsters of the wood now filled the air with their jubilee; the nutcracker began his monotonous clattering, the chaffinches and the wrens sang high in the sky, the blackcock scolded and blustered loudly, the thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.
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1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
Because the Jew was often compelled to sing and dance to a fixed Mah Yafit melody at the wild orgies of the paritzim (wealthy Polish landowners), many deliberately discontinued singing Mah Yafit, thus causing the text to be removed from numerous Siddurim and songsters in the early 1900s.
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1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 234
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A man who sings songs, especially as a profession; a male singer.
An adult chorister in the Salvation Army.
A male songbird.
One who writes songs.
A book of songs; songbook.
senses_topics:
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13506 | word:
Sicily
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sicily (plural Sicilies)
forms:
form:
Sicilies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Sicel
Sicily
etymology_text:
From Middle English Sicilie, Sicilye, from Old English Sicilia, from Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily.
Synonym of Kingdom of Sicily, a former kingdom controlling the island and some of southern Italy in the medieval and early modern period
Synonym of Kingdom of Naples, a former kingdom controlling southern Italy and claiming sovereignty over the island in the early modern period
Synonym of Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, a former kingdom controlling the island and most of southern Italy in the 19th century
senses_topics:
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13507 | word:
Vientiane
word_type:
name
expansion:
Vientiane
forms:
wikipedia:
Vientiane
etymology_text:
From French Vientiane, from Lao ວຽງຈັນ (wīang chan).
senses_examples:
text:
From Saigon we flew to Vientiane, the capital of Laos, where I had a long meeting with Prince Souvanna Phouma, a young, Paris-educated member of the Laotian ruling family, who was then Prime Minister.
ref:
1978, Richard Nixon, “Vice President 1953-1960”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 122
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Laos.
A prefecture of Laos. Capital: Vientiane (city).
A province of Laos. Capital: Phonhong.
senses_topics:
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13508 | word:
Abruzzo
word_type:
name
expansion:
Abruzzo
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian Abruzzo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An administrative region in central Italy.
senses_topics:
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13509 | word:
Zurich
word_type:
name
expansion:
Zurich
forms:
wikipedia:
Zurich
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Zürich.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Zurich canton, Switzerland, on Lake Zurich.
A canton of Switzerland.
senses_topics:
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13510 | word:
Emilia-Romagna
word_type:
name
expansion:
Emilia-Romagna
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian Emilia-Romagna, from the former regions Emilia and Romagna.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An administrative region of northern Italy. Capital: Bologna.
senses_topics:
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13511 | word:
Trentino-Alto Adige
word_type:
name
expansion:
Trentino-Alto Adige
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An autonomous region of northern Italy.
senses_topics:
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13512 | word:
acute
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acute (comparative acuter or more acute, superlative acutest or most acute)
forms:
form:
acuter
tags:
comparative
form:
more acute
tags:
comparative
form:
acutest
tags:
superlative
form:
most acute
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English acute (“of a disease or fever: starting suddenly and lasting for a short time; of a humour: irritating, sharp”), from Latin acūta, from acūtus (“sharp, sharpened”), perfect passive participle of acuō (“to make pointed, sharpen, whet”), from acus (“needle, pin”). The word is cognate to ague (“acute, intermittent fever”).
As regards the noun, which is derived from the verb, compare Middle English acūte (“severe but short-lived fever; of blood: corrosiveness, sharpness; musical note of high pitch”).
senses_examples:
text:
It was an acute event.
type:
example
text:
Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
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2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance: How Risky is Inhalation of Organic Solvents?”, in American Scientist, Research Triangle Park, N.C.: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-06-19
type:
quotation
text:
an acute accent or tone
type:
example
text:
The nimble Fly's Wings quicker were / Than those of her Competitor [a bee], / As may by this appear; / For an acuter Tone they made, / And in a ſharper Key they play'd, / (Which made the matter clear.)
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1751, “a Lover of the Mathematicks” [pseudonym; Nathaniel Whittemore?], “Part II. New Paradoxes Solved.”, in A Mathematical Miscellany, in Four Parts., London: Printed for M. Cooper, […], →OCLC, paradox 61, stanza III, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
The acuteness of sound in stringed instruments depends on three circumstances—length, thickness, and tension. The shorter, smaller, and tighter a string, the more acute the sound. […] In the violin, when you desire an acute sound, you tighten the string. When you wish a loud sound, you draw the bow over the strings heavily.
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1851, William C. Larrabee, “Lecture X. Evidences of Design from the Structure and Adaptations of the External Senses.”, in B[enjamin] F[ranklin] Tefft, editor, Lectures on the Scientific Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, Cincinnati, Oh.: Published by L. Swormstedt & J. H. Power, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, […]; R. P. Thompson, printer, →OCLC, paragraph 233, page 177
type:
quotation
text:
She had an acute sense of honour
type:
example
text:
Eagles have very acute vision.
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example
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It was at this time that the discord between Dmitri and his father seemed at its acutest stage and their relations had become insufferably strained.
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1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Elders”, in Constance Garnett, transl., The Brothers Karamazov (Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky; 1), London: W[illiam] Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as The Brothers Karamazov, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, [1943], →OCLC, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
Then, at three, for Neville's sake and for the sake of her marriage as undernourished and spectral as it had been rendered by absence, its substance being all in the future, and an honest hope of hearing some news or of extending solace to other women, not least those with children, who seemed each to have an acuter sense of the man she was missing than Alice had of Neville, she attended the Friday meeting for wives and mothers of prisoners of war at the School of the Arts.
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2013, Thomas Keneally, Shame and the Captives, North Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House Australia; 1st Atria Books hardcover edition, New York, N.Y.: Atria, 2015, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
His need for medical attention was acute.
type:
example
text:
204. Eremophila abietina […] Corolla 23–35 mm long, cream or very pale lilac, lobes faintly metallic bluish green or lilac, tube occasionally brownish, prominently purple spotted; outer and inner surfaces glandular-pubescent; lobes acute, lobe of lower lip strongly reflexed.
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2007 April 24, R[obert] J[ames] Chinnock, “Taxonomic Treatment of the Family Myoporaceae R. Br.”, in Eremophila and Allied Genera: A Monograph of the Plant Family Myoporaceae, Dural Delivery Centre, N.S.W.: Rosenberg Publishing, section XXV (Eremophila sec. Pulchrisepalae (12 spp.)), page 622
type:
quotation
text:
The teacher pointed out the acute angle.
type:
example
text:
Chlorophosphuret of nitrogen (at ordinary temperatures) is a solid crystalline body. […] The form of the crystals, as obtained by sublimation, is that of a rhomboid, of which the obtuse angle measures 131° or 132°, the acute 48° or 49°: the acute angle of this rhomboid, either at one or both ends, is often truncated, when of course the angle formed is about 114°: the hexagonal prism is also found.
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1850 March 30, J[ohn] H[all] Gladstone, “On Chlorophosphuret of Nitrogen and Its Products of Decomposition”, in Henry Watts, editor, The Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of London, volume III, number X, London: Hippolyte Bailliere, […], published 1851, →OCLC, part I, page 138
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quotation
text:
an acute triangle
type:
example
text:
In order to be an acute triangle, all three angles of a triangle must be less than 90°. These triangles can have very prickly personalities. So, if you want to create images of porcupines, rugged mountains, or narrow pine trees in your geometric design, you may best do it by using acute triangles[…]. The most commonly used acute triangle in quiltmaking is the equilateral triangle[…]. All three of its angles are 60°.
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1997, Joen Wolfrom, “The Fascination of Shapes”, in The Visual Dance: Creating Spectacular Quilts, Lafayette, Calif.: C&T Publishing; republished Lafayette, Calif.: C&T Publishing, 2009, page 39
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quotation
text:
Let this [the word alalal] be ſpoken as an Engliſh word, with the ſtrong accent on either ſyllable, or, on each, in repeating the word; and, no change of articulation diſturbing the ear, it will be abundantly evident that, with ordinary Engliſh pronunciation, the strengthened syllable has always the acuter tone, or, in muſical phraſe, the higher note.
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1804, William Mitford, “Section IV. Of Tones or Accents, and Emphasis in English Speech, and of Their Connection with the Time or Quantity of Syllables.”, in An Inquiry into the Principles of Harmony in Language, and of the Mechanism of Verse, Modern and Antient, 2nd edition, London: Printed by Luke Hansard, […], for T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, […], →OCLC, pages 57–58
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quotation
text:
He dropped dead of an acute illness.
type:
example
text:
Of particular relevance to the ICU [intensive care unit] setting is ketorolac, a NSAID [non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug] that is being increasingly used for pain control in order to avoid problems of respiratory depression, sedation, and addiction associated with narcotics. […] ICU patients, who typically are under great stress from an acute illness that is often accompanied by multiorgan dysfunction including renal insufficiency, are especially prone to develop renal complications from ketorolac[…].
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1995, G. J. Kaloyanides, “Drug-induced Acute Renal Failure”, in Rinaldo Bellomo, Claudio Ronco, editors, Acute Renal Failure in the Critically Ill (Update in Intensitve Care and Emergency Medicine; 20), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, page 204
type:
quotation
text:
The acute symptoms resolved promptly.
type:
example
text:
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
ref:
2013 May–June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News: Bat News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, Research Triangle Park, N.C.: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-06-05, page 193
type:
quotation
text:
The last letter of ‘café’ is ‘e’ acute.
type:
example
text:
A more conservative approach, particularly if your author is a skilled computer user, would be to replace the problem characters with simple words or codes that are guaranteed to transfer successfully between computers. For example, you could replace é with e-acute if that particular character is causing problems. […] The author could then do a search and replace to change all instances of e-acute back to é before publication.
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2007, Geoff[rey J. S.] Hart, “Editing in Special Situations”, in Effective Onsceen Editing: New Tools for an Old Profession, Pointe-Claire, Que.: Diaskeuasis Publishing, page 404
type:
quotation
text:
Commonly used European accents are available as below: / á Á a acute / […] / é É e acute / […] / í Í i acute / […] / ó Ó o acute / […] / ú Ú u acute
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2017, [Michael] Mitchell, [Susan] Wightman, “Foreign Languages”, in Typographic Style Handbook, London: MacLehose Press, section 10.2.1 (Commonly Used Accents), page 143
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Brief, quick, short.
High or shrill.
Intense; sensitive; sharp.
Urgent.
With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
Less than 90 degrees.
Having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
Sharp, produced in the front of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
After a letter of the alphabet: having an acute accent.
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biology
botany
natural-sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
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13513 | word:
acute
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acute (plural acutes)
forms:
form:
acutes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English acute (“of a disease or fever: starting suddenly and lasting for a short time; of a humour: irritating, sharp”), from Latin acūta, from acūtus (“sharp, sharpened”), perfect passive participle of acuō (“to make pointed, sharpen, whet”), from acus (“needle, pin”). The word is cognate to ague (“acute, intermittent fever”).
As regards the noun, which is derived from the verb, compare Middle English acūte (“severe but short-lived fever; of blood: corrosiveness, sharpness; musical note of high pitch”).
senses_examples:
text:
Anne Marie had been assigned a ‘constant supervision’ status. […] Always avoiding the unrest of the television lounge, she would sometimes join some of the older ‘acutes’ who sat isolated in metal chairs at the end of the hallway and gaze out of the window with them.
ref:
1990, Gerry Fewster, “Down to Business”, in Being in Child Care: A Journey into Self, Binghamton, N.Y., London: The Haworth Press; republished New York, N.Y., Hove, East Sussex: Routledge, 2012, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
[I]t would be strange if we wer to recite Homer, raising our voices on the acutes, lowering them on the graves, and managing the circumflexes as well as we could, yet to recite Virgil without any of these regular elevations, depressions, and circumbendibus.
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1827, Uvedale Price, “Restoration of Ancient Accent Impossible”, in An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages, Oxford: Printed by W. Baxter, →OCLC, page 206
type:
quotation
text:
There would be no sense in our assuming that even an independent circumflex after an acute might be raised in pitch for the sake of clearer distinction from that acute; for it is sufficiently distinguished by its sliding tone; and, if it had any right to be further distinguished, an acute following an acute would have much more right; while, nevertheless, any number of acutes are allowed to succeed one another, without modification of their natural character.
ref:
1869–1870, William D[wight] Whitney, “II.—On the Nature and Designation of the Accent in Sanskrit.”, in Transactions of the American Philological Association, Hartford, Conn.: Published by the [American Philological] Association; printed by Case, Lockwood & Brainard, published 1871, →OCLC, pages 40–41
type:
quotation
text:
The word ‘cafe’ often has an acute over the ‘e’.
type:
example
text:
The number of Notes in this Table, without either acute or grave marks (´ or `), is 75. Of those bearing one acute mark (´) it is 74, of those with two acutes (´´) 70, with three acutes (´´´ or ´³) 51, […]
ref:
1817 June, John Farey, Sen., “CI. On Mr. Listons, or the Euharmonic Scale of Musical Intervals, […]”, in Alexander Tilloch, editor, The Philosophical Magazine and Journal: […], volume XLIX, number 230, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor. […], →OCLC, page 445
type:
quotation
text:
The five vowels marked with acutes over them, it is probable, were first contrived to assist the ignorant monks in reading the church service, that by this means they might arrive to a proper and settled pronunciation in the discharge of their sacerdotal duties; […]
ref:
1824, J[ohn] Johnson, “A Fount of Letter, as Considered by Letter Founders”, in Typographia, or The Printers’ Instructor: […], volume II, London: Published by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, […], →OCLC, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.
An accent or tone higher than others.
An acute accent (´).
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
writing |
13514 | word:
acute
word_type:
verb
expansion:
acute (third-person singular simple present acutes, present participle acuting, simple past and past participle acuted)
forms:
form:
acutes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
acuting
tags:
participle
present
form:
acuted
tags:
participle
past
form:
acuted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English acute (“of a disease or fever: starting suddenly and lasting for a short time; of a humour: irritating, sharp”), from Latin acūta, from acūtus (“sharp, sharpened”), perfect passive participle of acuō (“to make pointed, sharpen, whet”), from acus (“needle, pin”). The word is cognate to ague (“acute, intermittent fever”).
As regards the noun, which is derived from the verb, compare Middle English acūte (“severe but short-lived fever; of blood: corrosiveness, sharpness; musical note of high pitch”).
senses_examples:
text:
He acutes his rising inflection too much.
type:
example
text:
Polyſyllables having their Penultima long by poſition are acuted; as Camíllus: but having it long by nature and the last ſhort, they are circumflected; as, Românus, amâre: except the Compounds of ſit, whose Ultima is acuted; as Malefít, calefít, benefít, ſatisfít.
ref:
1696, [William] Lily, W. T., “Prosodia Examin’d and Explain’d by Question and Answer”, in Lily, Improved, Corrected, and Explained; with the Etymological Part of the Common Accidence, London: Printed for R. Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 151
type:
quotation
text:
This word ωροπαροξύνον has been generally underſtood, before Dr. G[ally] undertook to explain it otherwiſe, to ſignify "acuting the antepenultima."
ref:
1762, John Foster, “On the Accent of the Old Greeks. […]”, in An Essay on the Different Nature of Accent and Quantity, with Their Use and Application in the Pronunciation of the English, Latin, and Greek Languages; […], Eton, Berkshire: Printed by J. Pote; […], →OCLC, pages 103–104
type:
quotation
text:
O is a broad vowel. When acuted, it is pronounced as o in gone; thus, cron, son; when circumflexed, as o in bone; thus, ôney. And thus it answers to the Greek Omicron and Omega.
ref:
1859, John Kelly, “On the Pronunciation of the Manks Letters”, in A Practical Grammar of the Antient Gaelic, or Language of the Isle of Man, usually Called Manks. […] (Manx Society series; 2), Douglas, Isle of Man: Printed for the Manx Society, →OCLC; reprinted London: Bernard Quaritch, […], 1870, →OCLC, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
That the acute accent meant stress is plain from the inherited intonation of the modern Greeks; […] and, if any person objects that the modern Greek not only acutes the last syllables of these words, but makes their quantity long, this is all in favour of my argument; […]
ref:
1874, John Stuart Blackie, “On the Place and Power of Accent in Language”, in Horæ Hellenicæ: Essays and Discussions on Some Important Points of Greek Philology and Antiquity, London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, paragraph 4, page 347
type:
quotation
text:
[A]n old Farmer […] uſed, when fuddled over Night, to walk naked, or only in his Shirt, until he had cooled himſelf throughly, […] This Courſe may not be improperly call'd a Balenum Aerium, and may be of great Uſe to ſober People, as well as the Fuddlers; for running empty, after Sleep and Concoction, warms the Blood and Spirits, acutes the Circulations, fans and cools the Lungs, helps both Excretion and Secretion; […]
ref:
1732, John Floyer, Edward Baynard, “[The Appendix.] The Other Cure Wrought by the Cold Bath, was upon Mrs. Taylor, a Young Gentlewoman that Boarded at My Father’s”, in ΨΥΧΡΟΛΟΥΣΙ´Α [PSYCHROLOUSIA]: Or, The History of Cold-bathing, both Ancient and Modern. In Two Parts. […], 6th edition, London: Printed for W[illiam] Innys and R. Manby, […], →OCLC, part II (Of Cold Baths), pages 476–477
type:
quotation
text:
It had been over a week that I had not been over to visit my most favorable place. Since I was allowed a rare opening that jaggled an intense curiosity, it acuted my senses with great anticipation that a living current was felt in my center, brought on by something truly new.
ref:
2010, R. J. Cyle, The Verticord: Turner of Hearts, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, page 36
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give an acute sound to.
To make acute; to sharpen, to whet.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
|
13515 | word:
curse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
curse (plural curses)
forms:
form:
curses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
curse
etymology_text:
From Middle English curse, kors, cors, curs, from Old English cors, curs (“curse”), of unknown origin.
senses_examples:
text:
Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
ref:
2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
A vulgar epithet.
A woman's menses.
senses_topics:
|
13516 | word:
curse
word_type:
verb
expansion:
curse (third-person singular simple present curses, present participle cursing, simple past and past participle cursed or (archaic) curst)
forms:
form:
curses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cursing
tags:
participle
present
form:
cursed
tags:
participle
past
form:
cursed
tags:
past
form:
curst
tags:
archaic
participle
past
form:
curst
tags:
archaic
past
wikipedia:
curse
etymology_text:
From Middle English cursen, corsen, coursen, from Old English corsian, cursian (“to curse”), from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place a curse upon (a person or object).
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
senses_topics:
|
13517 | word:
Molise
word_type:
name
expansion:
Molise
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An administrative region of southern Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13518 | word:
lunch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lunch (countable and uncountable, plural lunches)
forms:
form:
lunches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Recorded since 1580; presumably short for luncheon, but earliest found also as lunshin, lunching, equivalent to lunch + -ing, with the suffix -ing later modified to simulate a French origin. Lunch is possibly a derivative of lump (as hunch is from hump. See hunch for more), or represents an alteration of nuncheon, from Middle English nonechenche (“light midday meal”) (see nuncheon) and altered by northern English dialect lunch (“hunk of bread or cheese”) (1590), which perhaps is from lump or from Spanish lonja (“a slice”, literally “loin”).
senses_examples:
text:
After the funeral there was a lunch for those who didn't go to the cemetery.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
A break in play between the first and second sessions.
Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
13519 | word:
lunch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lunch (third-person singular simple present lunches, present participle lunching, simple past and past participle lunched)
forms:
form:
lunches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lunching
tags:
participle
present
form:
lunched
tags:
participle
past
form:
lunched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Recorded since 1580; presumably short for luncheon, but earliest found also as lunshin, lunching, equivalent to lunch + -ing, with the suffix -ing later modified to simulate a French origin. Lunch is possibly a derivative of lump (as hunch is from hump. See hunch for more), or represents an alteration of nuncheon, from Middle English nonechenche (“light midday meal”) (see nuncheon) and altered by northern English dialect lunch (“hunk of bread or cheese”) (1590), which perhaps is from lump or from Spanish lonja (“a slice”, literally “loin”).
senses_examples:
text:
I like to lunch in Italian restaurants.
type:
example
text:
Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today.
ref:
1934, Cole Porter, Miss Otis Regrets
type:
quotation
text:
The gentleman had left for London after lunch. Yes, alone; but he had lunched in the hotel with a lady.
ref:
1909, Frank Sidgwick, Love and battles, page 291
type:
quotation
text:
We dined him, we lunched him, we were photographed in his company by flashlight.
ref:
1906, H. G. Wells, The Future in America: A Search After Realities
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To eat lunch.
To treat to lunch.
senses_topics:
|
13520 | word:
pair
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pair (plural pairs or (archaic or dialectal) pair)
forms:
form:
pairs
tags:
plural
form:
pair
tags:
archaic
dialectal
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English paire, from Old French paire, from Latin paria (“equals”), neuter plural of par (“pair”). Related to pār (“equal”, adj). Compare Saterland Frisian Poor (“pair”), West Frisian pear (“pair”), Dutch paar (“pair”), German Paar (“pair”).
senses_examples:
text:
Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
ref:
2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
I couldn't decide which of the pair of designer shirts I preferred, so I bought the pair.
type:
example
text:
[S]he had finished the second sock, and pulled its pair out of the bag before handing them to her husband.
ref:
1992, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Marking Time: Volume 2 of The Cazalet Chronicle, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
Must be good at athletics, home repairs, making mince interesting and finding the pair to the other glove.
ref:
1996, Kathy Lette, Mad Cows, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
Spouses should make a great pair.
type:
example
text:
a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans
type:
example
text:
A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.
type:
example
text:
They turned a pair to end the fifth.
type:
example
text:
The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies.
type:
example
text:
She's got a gorgeous pair.
type:
example
text:
Grow a pair, mate.
type:
example
text:
There were two pairs on the final vote.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
One of the constituent items that make up a pair.
Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)
A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
A boat for two sweep rowers.
A pair of breasts
A pair of testicles
The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
government
politics
|
13521 | word:
pair
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pair (third-person singular simple present pairs, present participle pairing, simple past and past participle paired)
forms:
form:
pairs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pairing
tags:
participle
present
form:
paired
tags:
participle
past
form:
paired
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English paire, from Old French paire, from Latin paria (“equals”), neuter plural of par (“pair”). Related to pār (“equal”, adj). Compare Saterland Frisian Poor (“pair”), West Frisian pear (“pair”), Dutch paar (“pair”), German Paar (“pair”).
senses_examples:
text:
The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party.
type:
example
text:
Brown as I am, an Ethiopian dame / Inspired young Perseus with a gen’rous flame; / Turtles and doves of diff’ring hues unite, / And glossy jet is paired with shining white.
ref:
a. 1744, Alexander Pope, “Sappho to Phaon”, in John Wilson Croker, editor, The Works of Alexander Pope, new edition, volume I, J. Murray, published 1871, pages 94–95
type:
quotation
text:
It was not possible to pair my smartphone with an incompatible smartwatch.
type:
example
text:
If your computer has a built-in, non-Microsoft transceiver, you can pair the device directly to the computer by using your computer’s Bluetooth software configuration program but without using the Microsoft Bluetooth transceiver.
ref:
2015, Microsoft, “How-to: Keyboards”, in http://www.microsoft.com, retrieved 2015-02-21
type:
quotation
text:
The raven, in short, when he pairs, which he does at the earliest moment permitted by the laws of ravendom, pairs for life […]
ref:
1883, Alexander Stewart, Nether Lochaber, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
My Heart was made to fit and pair with thine, / Simple and plain, and fraught with artleſs Tenderneſs; / Form’d to receive one Love, and only one, / But pleas’d and proud, and dearly fond of that, / It knows not what there can be in Variety, / And would not if it could.
ref:
1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert, 2nd edition, Jacob Tonson, published 1714, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To group into one or more sets of two.
to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth
To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
To come together for mating.
To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
government
politics
|
13522 | word:
pair
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pair (third-person singular simple present pairs, present participle pairing, simple past and past participle paired)
forms:
form:
pairs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pairing
tags:
participle
present
form:
paired
tags:
participle
past
form:
paired
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pairen, peiren, shortened form of apeiren, empeiren, from Old French empeirier, empoirier, from Late Latin peiōrō.
senses_examples:
text:
Why dreghis þou þis dole, & deris þi seluyn? / Lefe of þis Langore, as my lefe brother, / Þat puttes þe to payne and peires þi sight.
Why endure this misery, and hurt yourself? / End this disease, my dear brother, / That pains you and impairs your sight.
ref:
a. 1376?, Sir Hugh Eglintoun (uncertain), transl., edited by George Panton, The “Gest Hystoriale” of the Destruction of Troy, N. Trübner & Co., translation of Historia destructionis Troiae by Guido delle Colonne (in Medieval Latin), published 1869, page 117
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To impair, to make worse.
To become worse, to deteriorate.
senses_topics:
|
13523 | word:
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An autonomous region in northern Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13524 | word:
Tehran
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tehran
forms:
wikipedia:
Tehran
etymology_text:
Diacriticless transliteration of Iranian Persian تِهران (tehrân), from Classical Persian تَهران (tahrān). See there for more.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Iran.
Tehran Province, one of 31 provinces in Iran.
The Tehran Conference (1943).
the government of Iran
senses_topics:
|
13525 | word:
Bermudan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Bermudan (plural Bermudans)
forms:
form:
Bermudans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Bermuda + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.
senses_topics:
|
13526 | word:
Bermudan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Bermudan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Bermuda + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Bermuda, or the Bermudian peoples.
senses_topics:
|
13527 | word:
Bermudan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Bermudan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Bermuda
etymology_text:
Based on the geography of Bermuda, being somewhat European and somewhat American, but closer to American.
senses_examples:
text:
This chapter focuses on the pricing of various exotic interest rate derivatives including Bermudan swaptions, constant maturity swaps, trigger swaps, index amortizing swaps, and quantos.
ref:
2005, Justin London, Modeling Derivatives in C++, John Wiley & Sons, page 710
type:
quotation
text:
A Bermudan callable has several call dates, usually coinciding with coupon dates.
ref:
2006, Business Knowledge for IT in Investment Banking: A complete handbook for IT Professionals (UK Edition), Essvale Corporation Limited, page 13
text:
Multi-dimensional option pricing becomes an important topic in financial markets (Franker et al., 2008). Among which, the American-type derivative (e.g. the Bermudan option) pricing is a challenging problem.
ref:
2009, Shih-Feng Huang, Meihui Guo, Applied Quantitative Finance (Second Edition), Springer, page 295
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That can be exercised on specific dates between the issue date and the expiry date.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
13528 | word:
pun
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pun (third-person singular simple present puns, present participle punning, simple past and past participle punned)
forms:
form:
puns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
punning
tags:
participle
present
form:
punned
tags:
participle
past
form:
punned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
pun
etymology_text:
From Middle English ponnen, ponen, punen, from Old English punian, pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”), from Proto-Germanic *punōną (“to break to pieces, pulverize”). See pound. As a kind of word play, from the notion of "beating" the words into place.
senses_examples:
text:
We punned about the topic until all around us groaned.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.
senses_topics:
|
13529 | word:
pun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pun (plural puns)
forms:
form:
puns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pun
etymology_text:
From Middle English ponnen, ponen, punen, from Old English punian, pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”), from Proto-Germanic *punōną (“to break to pieces, pulverize”). See pound. As a kind of word play, from the notion of "beating" the words into place.
senses_examples:
text:
The pun is the lowest form of wit.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.
senses_topics:
|
13530 | word:
pun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pun (plural puns or pun)
forms:
form:
puns
tags:
plural
form:
pun
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pun
etymology_text:
From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 분 (bun), from Chinese 分 (“fen”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of bun (“Korean unit of measure”)
senses_topics:
|
13531 | word:
pun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pun (plural puns)
forms:
form:
puns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pun
etymology_text:
From Hindi [Term?].
senses_examples:
text:
Hackeries and carriages, loaded and empty, 8 annas. Sheep, goats, &c., 1 pun of cowries each.
ref:
1864, The Regulations of the Bengal Code in Force in September 1862, page 1019
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A certain number of cowries, generally 80.
senses_topics:
|
13532 | word:
Novara
word_type:
name
expansion:
Novara
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian Novara.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Piedmont, Italy.
A town, the capital of Novara, Piedmont, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13533 | word:
Warsaw
word_type:
name
expansion:
Warsaw (countable and uncountable, plural Warsaws)
forms:
form:
Warsaws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Warsaw
Warsaw (disambiguation)#Places
etymology_text:
From Polish Warszawa.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Poland; capital city of the Masovian Voivodeship.
The Polish government.
A city, the county seat of Kosciusko County, Indiana, United States.
A home rule city, the county seat of Gallatin County, Kentucky, United States.
A city, the county seat of Benton County, Missouri, United States.
A village, the county seat of Wyoming County, New York, United States.
A town, the county seat of Richmond County, Virginia, United States.
A habitational surname.
senses_topics:
|
13534 | word:
Tunis
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tunis
forms:
wikipedia:
Tanit
Tunis
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis). Further derivation uncertain, but some possibilities are:
* Derived from a Berber root ens "to lie down", tansawt "to pass the night", thus "encampment".
* Related to the Phoenician goddess Tanit.
senses_examples:
text:
Tunis, the capital of the above country, with a citadel of eminence, and the fortress of Goletta on the side of a canal, which is the greatest naval and military depot belonging to the bey.
ref:
1827, Richard Brookes, “Tunis”, in The General Gazetteer; or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary
type:
quotation
text:
Some of the citizens of Tunis have certaine fields in the suburbs walled round about, where they sowe some quantitie of barley and of other corne: howbeit the soyle is marveluellous dry, and standeth in need of much watring
ref:
1600, Joannes Leo Africanus, A Geographical Historie of Africa, page 248
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city on the northern coast of Africa:
A Berber settlement which fell under the rule of Carthage.
A city on the northern coast of Africa:
A city founded by Umayyad troops in the 7th century AD.
A city on the northern coast of Africa:
The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia.
A city on the northern coast of Africa:
Tunis Governorate, one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia, which includes the capital.
A city on the northern coast of Africa
A city-state centered on the city of Tunis.
senses_topics:
|
13535 | word:
Alessandria
word_type:
name
expansion:
Alessandria
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city and associated province of Piedmont, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13536 | word:
millionth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
millionth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From million + -th.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number one million.
senses_topics:
|
13537 | word:
millionth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
millionth (plural millionths)
forms:
form:
millionths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From million + -th.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the millionth position.
One of a million equal parts of a whole. Term ppm (parts per million) is also used.
senses_topics:
|
13538 | word:
not even
word_type:
adv
expansion:
not even (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Not even I knew that.
type:
example
text:
You didn't even look at me.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Introduces or constitutes a more emphatic negation or exclusion than "not".
senses_topics:
|
13539 | word:
not even
word_type:
intj
expansion:
not even
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I heard they wanted to cancel the show tonight. –Not even!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to express strong disappointment or disapproval.
senses_topics:
|
13540 | word:
Tripoli
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tripoli
forms:
wikipedia:
First Barbary War
Tripoli
etymology_text:
From Italian Tripoli, from Latin Tripolis, from Ancient Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis), from τρι- (tri-, “three”) + πολις (polis, “city, city-state”). In reference to American cities, after US actions off Tripoli in Libya during the First Barbary War. Doublet of Tripolis and Tirebolu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Libya, originally three separate settlements known as Oea, Sabratha, and Leptis Magna.
A city in Lebanon, originally jointly administered by the three cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Aradus.
A city in Iowa, United States.
An unincorporated community in Wisconsin, United States.
senses_topics:
|
13541 | word:
Tripoli
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tripoli
forms:
wikipedia:
Tripoli
etymology_text:
From modern Greek Τρίπολη (Trípoli) used from the 19th century in place of Byzantine Greek Τριπολιτσά (Tripolitsá), probably from Slavic Droboliza.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in Greece.
senses_topics:
|
13542 | word:
sundae
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sundae (plural sundaes)
forms:
form:
sundaes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Modification of Sunday.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dessert consisting of ice cream with various toppings.
senses_topics:
|
13543 | word:
sundae
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sundae (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of soondae (“Korean dish made with intestines”)
senses_topics:
|
13544 | word:
Umbria
word_type:
name
expansion:
Umbria
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Via Italian, from Umbri, ancient Italic tribe inhabiting the region.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An administrative region in central Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13545 | word:
Veneto
word_type:
name
expansion:
Veneto
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Italian Veneto.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An administrative region of northern Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13546 | word:
Aruban
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Aruban (plural Arubans)
forms:
form:
Arubans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Aruba + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Aruba or of Aruban descent.
senses_topics:
|
13547 | word:
Aruban
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Aruban (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Aruba + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Aruba, the Aruban people or the Aruban language.
senses_topics:
|
13548 | word:
coppersmith
word_type:
noun
expansion:
coppersmith (plural coppersmiths)
forms:
form:
coppersmiths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
coppersmith
etymology_text:
From copper + smith.
senses_examples:
text:
Eastleigh Locomotive Works: Layout and functions of shops [...] Coppersmiths: Preparation of boiler tubes and copper pipework.
ref:
1961 March, C.P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
More noises came from a dusty tree, where brown birds creaked and floundered about looking for insects; another bird, the invisible coppersmith, had started his ‘ponk ponk’.
ref:
1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 104
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who forges things out of copper.
A South Asian barbet, Psilopogon haemacephala, with crimson forehead and throat, best known for its metronomic call that has been likened to a coppersmith striking metal with a hammer.
senses_topics:
|
13549 | word:
Lisbon
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lisbon
forms:
wikipedia:
Lisbon
Lisbon (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
As the capital of Portugal, from French Lisbonne, from Arabic لِشْبُونَة (lišbūna), from Latin Olisīpō, the origin of which is uncertain. Older spellings include Ulixbona and Ulixbuna (in the Visigothic era); Ὀλισσιπών (Olissipṓn) or Ὀλισσιπόνα (Olissipóna) (by Greek writers), Olisippo (by Pliny the Elder), and Ulyssippo (by Pomponius Mela of Hispania), the last of which relates to the first-century Roman folk etymology that it was founded by and named after Ulysses; another common folk etymology is the Phoenician 𐤏𐤋𐤉𐤑 𐤏𐤁𐤀 (ʿlyṣ ʿbʾ /ʿaliṣ-ʿuboʾ/, “safe harbour”), but there is not much evidence for such words. Another possibility, based on hydronomy of the area, derives the name from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia's appellation for the Tagus, Lisso or Lucio.
In other senses, with reference to the Portuguese city.
More at Lisbon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A port city on the Iberian Peninsula, at the mouth of the Tagus River on the Atlantic Ocean; capital city of Portugal.
A district of Portugal around the capital.
The Portuguese government.
A city, the county seat of Ransom County, North Dakota, United States.
A village, the county seat of Columbiana County, Ohio, United States.
senses_topics:
|
13550 | word:
Lisbon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Lisbon
forms:
wikipedia:
Lisbon
Lisbon (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
As the capital of Portugal, from French Lisbonne, from Arabic لِشْبُونَة (lišbūna), from Latin Olisīpō, the origin of which is uncertain. Older spellings include Ulixbona and Ulixbuna (in the Visigothic era); Ὀλισσιπών (Olissipṓn) or Ὀλισσιπόνα (Olissipóna) (by Greek writers), Olisippo (by Pliny the Elder), and Ulyssippo (by Pomponius Mela of Hispania), the last of which relates to the first-century Roman folk etymology that it was founded by and named after Ulysses; another common folk etymology is the Phoenician 𐤏𐤋𐤉𐤑 𐤏𐤁𐤀 (ʿlyṣ ʿbʾ /ʿaliṣ-ʿuboʾ/, “safe harbour”), but there is not much evidence for such words. Another possibility, based on hydronomy of the area, derives the name from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia's appellation for the Tagus, Lisso or Lucio.
In other senses, with reference to the Portuguese city.
More at Lisbon.
senses_examples:
text:
We had plenty of port wine and Lisbon, which, with uninterrupted good humour, made the hours glide rapidly away.
ref:
1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 165
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sweet, light-coloured wine from Portugal.
senses_topics:
|
13551 | word:
gasoline
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gasoline (usually uncountable, plural gasolines)
forms:
form:
gasolines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
John Cassell
gasoline
etymology_text:
From Cazeline (possibly influenced by Gazeline, the name of an Irish copy), a brand of petroleum-derived lighting oil, from the surname of the man who first marketed it in 1862, John Cassell, and the suffix –eline. The name Cassell is from Anglo-Norman castel (cognate of English castle), from Old French castel, from Latin castellum, diminutive of castrum. The suffix -eline is from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “oil, olive oil”), from ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”). Gasolene is found from 1863, and gasoline from 1864.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] naphtha of specific gravity exceeding eighty degrees […] and of the kind usually known as gasoline, shall be subject to a tax of five per centum ad valorem.
ref:
1864, Congress of the United States, Internal Revenue Act §94
type:
quotation
text:
So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
ref:
1991, Backdraft, Robert DeNiro (actor)
type:
quotation
text:
Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
ref:
2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, “New Jersey Continues to Cope with Hurricane Sandy”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-10-31
type:
quotation
text:
The refinery produces a wide range of gasolines.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flammable liquid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, mainly used as a motor fuel; petrol.
Any specific kind of gasoline.
Marijuana, especially very potent or high quality.
An alcoholic beverage made of vodka and energy drink.
senses_topics:
drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
|
13552 | word:
gasoline
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gasoline (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
John Cassell
gasoline
etymology_text:
From Cazeline (possibly influenced by Gazeline, the name of an Irish copy), a brand of petroleum-derived lighting oil, from the surname of the man who first marketed it in 1862, John Cassell, and the suffix –eline. The name Cassell is from Anglo-Norman castel (cognate of English castle), from Old French castel, from Latin castellum, diminutive of castrum. The suffix -eline is from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “oil, olive oil”), from ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”). Gasolene is found from 1863, and gasoline from 1864.
senses_examples:
text:
If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .
ref:
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made from or using gasoline.
senses_topics:
|
13553 | word:
infamous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
infamous (comparative more infamous, superlative most infamous)
forms:
form:
more infamous
tags:
comparative
form:
most infamous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English enfamouse, in-fames, infamous, from Medieval Latin īnfāmōsus, from Latin īnfāmis; by surface analysis, in- + famous. Displaced native Old English unhlīsful.
senses_examples:
text:
He was an infamous traitor.
type:
example
text:
She is infamous for perjury.
type:
example
text:
Soon we arrived at the Beijing Hotel—within shouting distance of the now infamous Tienanmen Square.
ref:
1995, Leonard Nimoy, I Am Spock, New York: Hyperion, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 188
type:
quotation
text:
These infamous little green men appeared during the decisive seizures or buildings and facilities, only to disappear when associated militias and local troops arrived to consolidate the gains. In this way they provided a measure of deniability—however superficial or implausible—for Moscow.⁴⁰
ref:
2014, “Little Green Men”: A Primer on Modern Russian Unconventional Warfare, Ukraine 2013–2014, Fort Bragg, North Carolina: The United States Army Special Operations Command, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
Despite the line proving to be a useful strategic route for men and supplies to the British naval fleets stationed at Scapa Flow in both world wars, the Duke's legacy looked to have passed into history when it was listed for closure in the infamous Beeching report.
ref:
2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
This infamous deed tarnishes all involved.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a bad reputation; disreputable; notorious; unpleasant or evil; widely known, especially for something scornful.
Causing infamy; disgraceful.
Subject to a judicial punishment that deprived the infamous person of certain rights; this included a prohibition against holding public office, exercising the franchise, receiving a public pension, serving on a jury, or giving testimony in a court of law.
senses_topics:
|
13554 | word:
user
word_type:
noun
expansion:
user (plural users)
forms:
form:
users
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
user
etymology_text:
From Middle English usere, equivalent to use + -er. Cognate with Scots usar, uiser (“user”).
senses_examples:
text:
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
2019, The Highway Code (United Kingdom) Road Users Requiring Extra Care
The most vulnerable road users are pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and horse riders. It is particularly important to be aware of children, older and disabled people, and learner and inexperienced drivers and riders. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/road-users-requiring-extra-care-204-to-225
text:
2012, R. (Stephen Malpass) v Durham County Council, [2012] EWHC 1934 (Admin) http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2012/1934.html
As to evidence of user...
As to quality of user (i.e. was use by the public "as of right"), the inspector found that the grass over the whole of the application land has been regularly cut...
...which the inspector did not find sufficient of itself to render user permissive. Moreover, the defendant could not, the inspector advised, rely on communication to users that access to the land was regulated. Deferment to users of the organised pitches...
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer/client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser.
A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.
A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.
An exploiter, an abuser (a person who "uses" people, that is treats and regards people unfairly, selfishly or unethically).
In land law, meaning either 1. or 2. above or use. Usually in singular form to mean use wherever there is assiduous re-use of precedents and aloof textbooks verbatim.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
law |
13555 | word:
Swati
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Swati (plural Swatis or Swati)
forms:
form:
Swatis
tags:
plural
form:
Swati
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Swazi language
etymology_text:
From Swazi liSwati.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Swazi
senses_topics:
|
13556 | word:
Swati
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Swati (plural Swatis)
forms:
form:
Swatis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Swati tribe
etymology_text:
From Urdu سواتی (svātī).
senses_examples:
text:
1911, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Hazara
The chief frontier tribes on the border are the cis-Indus Swatis, Hassanzais, Akazais, Chagarzais, Pariari Syads, Madda Khels, Amazais and Umarzais.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tribe in northern Pakistan cis-Indus region of Hazara, originally migrating from the Swat their ancestral homeland.
A person of that tribe.
senses_topics:
|
13557 | word:
Swati
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Swati (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Swati tribe
etymology_text:
From Urdu سواتی (svātī).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the Swati tribe.
senses_topics:
|
13558 | word:
Ascoli Piceno
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ascoli Piceno
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town and associated province of Marche, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13559 | word:
hamlet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hamlet (plural hamlets)
forms:
form:
hamlets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Hamlet (place)
etymology_text:
From Middle English hamlet, hamelet, a borrowing from Old French hamelet, diminutive of Old French hamel, in turn diminutive of Old French ham, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *haim, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (whence English home). Equivalent to Middle English ham (“home, village”) + -let (“small”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small village or a group of houses.
A village that does not have its own church.
Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.
senses_topics:
|
13560 | word:
sweat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sweat (usually uncountable, plural sweats)
forms:
form:
sweats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sweat
sweat (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English swete, swet, swate, swote, from Old English swāt, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitą, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), o-grade of *sweyd- (“to sweat”). Cognate with West Frisian swit, Dutch zweet, German Schweiß, Danish sved, Swedish svett, Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn) (English shvitz), Latin sudor, French sueur, Italian sudore, Spanish sudor, Persian خوی (xway, “sweat”), Sanskrit स्वेद (svéda), Lithuanian sviedri, Tocharian B syā-, Albanian djersë, and Welsh chwys.
senses_examples:
text:
Just thinking about the interview tomorrow puts me into a nervous sweat.
type:
example
text:
The Muses' friend (grey-eyed Aurora) yet
Held all the meadows in a cooling sweat,
The milk-white gossamers not upwards snow'd,
Nor was the sharp and useful-steering goad
ref:
1613, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals
type:
quotation
text:
A Horſe that gains Fleſh in hard Exerciſe, should be ſweated at leaſt twice in ten Days; and he ſhould run near five Miles in Puſhes, that the Sweat may have Time to diſcharge. Those Horſes which are ſweat without Covering, or with a very thin one, should run a long Sweat, as wel call it, and ſtand a conſiderable while afterwards with a thick Blanket or two over them, from Head to Tail; otherwiſe the Sweat will not come out well.
ref:
1740, Henry Bracken, Farriery improv'd
type:
quotation
text:
There are some horses so very delicate, and have to run such short lengths, that they may not require a sweat during the whole time of their being in training.
ref:
1840, Richard Darvill, A Treatise on the Care, Treatment, and Training of the English Race Horse
type:
quotation
text:
A sweat was, accordingly, a training run for a racehorse: a notice in The London Gazette in 1705 advertises a race for hunters that have not 'been kept in sweats above 12 weeks before the day of Running'.
ref:
2016, Gerald Hammond, The Language of Horse Racing
type:
quotation
text:
When the sweat comes back this summer, 1528, people say, as they did last year, that you won't get it if you don't think about it.
ref:
2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
Casuals believe that sweats are ruining Fortnite. Sweats think that casuals just need to get better at the game. It's a never-ending debate that will never end, despite what anyone tries to say, but it's worth taking a look at regardless.
ref:
2021 October 13, Zachary Roberts, “How exactly are 'sweats' ruining Fortnite? Addressing the never ending try-hards vs casual debate”, in Sportskeeda
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.
Hard work; toil.
Moisture issuing from any substance.
A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
The sweating sickness.
A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
An extremely or excessively competitive player.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
video-games |
13561 | word:
sweat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sweat (third-person singular simple present sweats, present participle sweating, simple past sweated or sweat, past participle sweated or (archaic) sweaten)
forms:
form:
sweats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sweating
tags:
participle
present
form:
sweated
tags:
past
form:
sweat
tags:
past
form:
sweated
tags:
participle
past
form:
sweaten
tags:
archaic
participle
past
wikipedia:
sweat
sweat (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English sweten, from Old English swǣtan, from Proto-Germanic *swaitijaną (“to sweat”). Compare Dutch zweten, German schwitzen, Danish svede. Doublet of shvitz.
senses_examples:
text:
His physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
type:
example
text:
I've been sweating over my essay all day.
type:
example
text:
There's no way we can win. These guys are sweating so hard.
type:
example
text:
With skill-based matchmaking, he wrote, "you have to sweat 100 percent of the time." They contend their audiences want to see them pull off amazing victories, not struggle endlessly against other top players.
ref:
2022 May 27, Ethan Davison, “Video game developers want fair online games. Some players really don’t.”, in The Washington Post
type:
quotation
text:
to sweat a spendthrift
type:
example
text:
to sweat labourers
type:
example
text:
"I've predicted it will last 32 years. The last overhaul we will do on it is at 24 years, but we tend to sweat the asset at Network Rail and try and save a bit of money, so I've estimated 32 years."
ref:
2022 September 7, Tom Allett, “At the cutting edge of NR's track work”, in RAIL, number 965, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
Don't sweat it!
type:
example
text:
to sweat the small stuff
type:
example
text:
There are few matters studio executives sweat more than maintaining their franchises.
ref:
2010 December 5, Brooks Barnes, “Studios battle to save Narnia”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
to sweat blood
type:
example
text:
The cheese will start sweating if you don't refrigerate it.
type:
example
text:
Coasters are a good way to stop a sweating glass from damaging your table.
type:
example
text:
Stop sweatin' me!
type:
example
text:
But I'ma smoke 'em now and not next time / Smoke any motherfucker that sweats me
ref:
1988, “Fuck tha Police”, performed by N.W.A
type:
quotation
text:
Sweating is a generally a quiet operation; if the food is whispering, or worse, hissing, the moisture is probably evaporating too rapidly
ref:
2002, Judy Rodgers, The Zuni Cafe Cookbook
type:
quotation
text:
Sweat the carrots, onion, celery, leeks, and cabbage in the butter until translucent not allowing them to color in any way.
ref:
2007, Patty Elsberry, Matt Bolus, Simply Vanilla: Recipes for Everyday Use, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
Reduce heat to low, cover pan, and gently sweat the celery for ten minutes, taking care not to brown it
ref:
2009, Bill Neal, Bill Neal's Southern Cooking, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
Sweat the onions and garlic in the oil, stirring occasionally, until they are completely soft (no crunch) but not caramelized.
ref:
2011, The Bay Area Homegrown Cookbook
type:
quotation
text:
The only use of it [money] which is interdicted is to put it in circulation again after having diminished its weight by sweating, or otherwise, because the quantity of metal contains is no longer consistent with its impression.
ref:
1879, Richard Cobden, On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold (originally by Michel Chevalier)
type:
quotation
text:
A Horſe that gains Fleſh in hard Exerciſe, should be ſweated at leaſt twice in ten Days; and he ſhould run near five Miles in Puſhes, that the Sweat may have Time to diſcharge. Those Horſes which are ſweat without Covering, or with a very thin one, should run a long Sweat, as wel call it, and ſtand a conſiderable while afterwards with a thick Blanket or two over them, from Head to Tail; otherwiſe the Sweat will not come out well.
ref:
1740, Henry Bracken, Farriery improv'd
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To emit sweat.
To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
To cause to perspire.
To work hard.
To work hard.
To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively.
To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
To worry.
To worry about (something).
To emit, in the manner of sweat.
To emit moisture.
To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation.
To solder (a pipe joint) together.
To stress out, to put under pressure.
To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal.
To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
To take a racehorse for a short exercise run.
senses_topics:
video-games
business
construction
manufacturing
plumbing
cooking
food
lifestyle
|
13562 | word:
pilot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pilot (plural pilots)
forms:
form:
pilots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pilot
etymology_text:
From Middle French pilot, pillot, from Italian pilota, piloto, older also pedotta, pedot(t)o (the form in pil- is probably influenced by pileggiare (“to sail, navigate”)); ultimately from unattested Byzantine Greek *πηδώτης (*pēdṓtēs, “helmsman”), from Ancient Greek πηδόν (pēdón, “blade of an oar, oar”), hence also Ancient and Modern Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder”).
senses_examples:
text:
So we mounted our horses, and put out for that town, under the direction of two friendly Creeks we had taken for pilots.
ref:
1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, E. L. Cary and A. Hart, page 43
text:
I agreed with my husband when he said that to do the business properly we must do a pilot first.
ref:
2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 40
type:
quotation
text:
We would like to run a pilot in your facility before rolling out the program citywide.
type:
example
text:
I think her biggest deal was she starred in a pilot.[…]Well, the way they pick TV shows is they make one show. That show's called a pilot. Then they show that one show to the people who pick shows, and on the strength of that one show, they decide if they wanna make more shows.
ref:
1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules (Samuel L. Jackson)
type:
quotation
text:
Julia has become quite a good kite pilot. She has learned how to repeatedly buzz her father's head, coming within two feet, and not hitting him.
ref:
2003, John P. Glaser, A Father's Collage, page 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
A guide book for maritime navigation.
An instrument for detecting the compass error.
A pilot vehicle.
A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
Something serving as a test or trial.
Something serving as a test or trial.
The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.
A cowcatcher.
A racing driver.
A pilot light.
One who flies a kite.
A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
senses_topics:
road
transport
road
transport
business
mining
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
broadcasting
media
television
rail-transport
railways
transport
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
|
13563 | word:
pilot
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pilot (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
pilot
etymology_text:
From Middle French pilot, pillot, from Italian pilota, piloto, older also pedotta, pedot(t)o (the form in pil- is probably influenced by pileggiare (“to sail, navigate”)); ultimately from unattested Byzantine Greek *πηδώτης (*pēdṓtēs, “helmsman”), from Ancient Greek πηδόν (pēdón, “blade of an oar, oar”), hence also Ancient and Modern Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder”).
senses_examples:
text:
a pilot run of the new factory
text:
The pilot plant showed the need for major process changes.
text:
a pilot light
text:
a pilot vehicle
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made or used as a test or demonstration of capability.
Used to control or activate another device.
Being a vehicle to warn other road users of the presence of an oversize vehicle/combination.
senses_topics:
|
13564 | word:
pilot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pilot (third-person singular simple present pilots, present participle piloting, simple past and past participle piloted)
forms:
form:
pilots
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
piloting
tags:
participle
present
form:
piloted
tags:
participle
past
form:
piloted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
pilot
etymology_text:
From Middle French pilot, pillot, from Italian pilota, piloto, older also pedotta, pedot(t)o (the form in pil- is probably influenced by pileggiare (“to sail, navigate”)); ultimately from unattested Byzantine Greek *πηδώτης (*pēdṓtēs, “helmsman”), from Ancient Greek πηδόν (pēdón, “blade of an oar, oar”), hence also Ancient and Modern Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder”).
senses_examples:
text:
One of the Midland Lines' Birmingham R.C.W. Type 2 diesels, No. D5403, made the debut of its class in the Manchester area on July 28 when it appeared in the early hours on freight; after four days in the area it left for the south piloting B.R./Sulzer Type 4 diesel No. D88 on the 2.25 Manchester Central-St. Pancras.
ref:
1962 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region: Midland Lines”, in Modern Railways, page 279
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc.)
To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport |
13565 | word:
lemur
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lemur (plural lemurs)
forms:
form:
lemurs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
red slender loris
ring-tailed lemur
etymology_text:
From Latin lemurēs (“spirits of the dead”). The name was originally given to the red slender loris (then Lemur tardigradus) in 1754 by Carl Linnaeus. According to Linnaeus, the name was selected because of the nocturnal activity and slow movements of the red slender loris. In 1758, Linnaeus added, among others, the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) to the genus Lemur. All other species, including the red slender loris, were eventually moved to other genera. In time, the word became the colloquial name for all primates endemic to Madagascar.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.
Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).
A loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ.
senses_topics:
|
13566 | word:
Marche
word_type:
name
expansion:
Marche
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian Marche.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An administrative region in central Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13567 | word:
Marche
word_type:
name
expansion:
Marche
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See March.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of March.
senses_topics:
|
13568 | word:
Oslo
word_type:
name
expansion:
Oslo
forms:
wikipedia:
Oslo
etymology_text:
From Norwegian Oslo, from Old Norse Ósló, Ásló f or n. The first element is disputed, but is likely from ǫ́ss, áss (“god; one of the Æsir”), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz. Another theory is that it comes from áss (“hill, beam”), from Proto-Germanic *ansaz, but this is unlikely. The second element is ló f or n (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lauhō f, *lauhaz m (compare the suffix -ley in English place-names).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A county and municipality, the capital city of Norway. Formerly called Christiania and Kristiania.
A tiny city in Marshall County, in northwest Minnesota, United States.
An unincorporated community in Vernon Township, Dodge County, Minnesota, United States.
An unincorporated community in Indian River County, Florida, United States.
senses_topics:
|
13569 | word:
es
word_type:
noun
expansion:
es (plural esses)
forms:
form:
esses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of ess (the name of the Latin-script letter S/s) in compounds such as "es-hook".
senses_topics:
|
13570 | word:
es
word_type:
noun
expansion:
es
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From e + -s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of e's.
senses_topics:
|
13571 | word:
es
word_type:
verb
expansion:
es (be)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of is.
senses_topics:
|
13572 | word:
es
word_type:
noun
expansion:
es (plural eses)
forms:
form:
eses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Unspecified script letter С / с.
senses_topics:
|
13573 | word:
vanguard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vanguard (plural vanguards)
forms:
form:
vanguards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Earlier forms included vandgard and (a)vantgard, derived from Old French avan(t)garde (“before guard”). Doublet of avant-garde and vaward.
senses_examples:
text:
[O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.
ref:
2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, page 9]”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.
The person(s) at the forefront of any group or movement.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
|
13574 | word:
bitch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bitch (countable and uncountable, plural bitches)
forms:
form:
bitches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English biche, bicche, from Old English biċċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjā, from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ (compare Norwegian bikkje (“dog”), Old Danish bikke), from *bikjaną (“to thrust, attack”) (compare Old Norse bikkja (“plunge into water”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”)). More at bicker.
senses_examples:
text:
My bitch just had puppies; they're so cute!
type:
example
text:
All members of one breed, both dog and bitch, champion and nonchampion, are judged in a series of competitions until only one animal remains.
ref:
1953, LIFE, volume 34, number 6, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
Ann spread rumors about me; she's such a bitch.
type:
example
text:
Biggie, remember when I used to let you sleep on the couch, and beg the bitch to let you sleep in the house?
ref:
1996, “Hit 'Em Up”, in Tupac Shakur and the Outlawz (lyrics), Johnny "J" (music), Hit 'Em Up, performed by 2Pac, California: Death Row Records
type:
quotation
text:
Niggas on my dick more than my bitches.
ref:
2003, “If I Can't”, in Curtis Jackson (lyrics), Dr. Dre and Mike Elizondo (music), Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent, New York City: Shady Records
type:
quotation
text:
Dude, don't be a bitch. Assert yourself.
type:
example
text:
You're so weak-willed with your girlfriend. You must be the real bitch in the relationship.
type:
example
text:
1999 September 23, Chris Sheridan, “This House Is Freakin’ Sweet”, “Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater”, Family Guy, season 2, episode 1, Fox Broadcasting Company
Now that you're stinking rich, we'd gladly be your bitch.
text:
What’s up, bitch?
type:
example
text:
How my bitches been doin'?
type:
example
text:
That level was a real bitch, don’t you think?
type:
example
text:
That's a bitch of a question.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: butcher
text:
Karma's a bitch.
type:
example
text:
I'm 'bout to get up outta this bitch.
type:
example
text:
[…] seldom gets "a little the worse for liquor," gives no swell parties, runs very little into debt, takes his cup of bitch at night, and goes quietly to bed, and thus he passes his time in a way a Varmint man would despise.
ref:
1824, Gradus Ad Cantabrigiam: Or, New University Guide to the Academical Customs, and Colloquial Or Cant Terms Peculiar to the University of Cambridge, Observing Wherein It Differs from Oxford, page 131
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
A woman.
A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
An obviously gay man.
A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
Friend.
A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
A difficult or confounding problem.
A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
Place; situation
Tea (the drink).
A queen.
senses_topics:
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality
card-games
games
board-games
chess
games |
13575 | word:
bitch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bitch (third-person singular simple present bitches, present participle bitching, simple past and past participle bitched)
forms:
form:
bitches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bitching
tags:
participle
present
form:
bitched
tags:
participle
past
form:
bitched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English biche, bicche, from Old English biċċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjā, from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ (compare Norwegian bikkje (“dog”), Old Danish bikke), from *bikjaną (“to thrust, attack”) (compare Old Norse bikkja (“plunge into water”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”)). More at bicker.
senses_examples:
text:
All you ever do is bitch about the food I cook for you!
type:
example
text:
I ain't bitching 'bout things that aren't in my grasp
Just trying to hold steady on the righteous path.
ref:
2008, Patterson Hood, The Righteous Path
type:
quotation
text:
'You're a Franco-maniac…You're thought to be a French agent…That's what's bitching your career!'
ref:
1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
"Shy Smile didn't pay off." "I know. The jockey bitched it. So what?"
ref:
1956, Ian Fleming, Diamonds are Forever, published 1965, page 100
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To behave or act as a bitch.
To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
To spoil, to ruin.
senses_topics:
|
13576 | word:
Calabria
word_type:
name
expansion:
Calabria
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Καλαβρία (Kalabría).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A peninsula and administrative region of southern Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13577 | word:
psi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
psi (countable and uncountable, plural psis)
forms:
form:
psis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ψεῖ (pseî), the name for the twenty-third letter of the alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
senses_examples:
text:
‘Come, lad,’ he said. ‘We will take tea together and speak of the noumenon, the psi and other more heterogenous phenomena.’
ref:
1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun
type:
quotation
text:
When an event is classified as a psi phenomenon, it is claimed that all known channels for the apparent interaction have been eliminated.
ref:
1996, Michael F. Stoeber, Hugo Anthony Meynell, Critical Reflections on the Paranormal (page 60)
text:
It traces the growth of homo gestalt with the uniting of six lovely outcasts of society who have psi powers and come together as a hive mind, thus creating a gestalt super-being.
ref:
2005, Michael Ashley, Transformations: The History of the Science Fiction Magazine 1950 to 1970, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, page 133
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The twenty-third letter of Classical and Modern Greek and the twenty-fifth letter of Old and Ancient Greek.
A form of psychic energy.
senses_topics:
literature
media
parapsychology
pseudoscience
publishing
science-fiction |
13578 | word:
psi
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
psi
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Initialism of pounds per square inch.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pounds per square inch (an imperial unit of pressure)
senses_topics:
|
13579 | word:
yearly
word_type:
adj
expansion:
yearly (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yeerly, yerely, from Old English ġēarlīċ, ġērlīċ (“yearly, of the year, annual”), equivalent to year + -ly. Cognate with Scots yerelie (“yearly”), Saterland Frisian jierelk (“yearly”), West Frisian jierliks (“yearly”), Dutch jaarlijks (“yearly”), Afrikaans jaarlijks (“yearly”), German jährlich (“yearly”), Danish årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Bokmål årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Nynorsk årleg (“yearly”), Swedish årlig (“yearly”), Icelandic árlegur (“yearly”).
senses_examples:
text:
Christmas is a yearly celebration.
type:
example
text:
We deep-clean the kitchen on a yearly basis.
type:
example
text:
a yearly income
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Happening once every year.
Over the course of one year
senses_topics:
|
13580 | word:
yearly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
yearly (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yeerly, yerely, from Old English ġēarlīċ, ġērlīċ (“yearly, of the year, annual”), equivalent to year + -ly. Cognate with Scots yerelie (“yearly”), Saterland Frisian jierelk (“yearly”), West Frisian jierliks (“yearly”), Dutch jaarlijks (“yearly”), Afrikaans jaarlijks (“yearly”), German jährlich (“yearly”), Danish årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Bokmål årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Nynorsk årleg (“yearly”), Swedish årlig (“yearly”), Icelandic árlegur (“yearly”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Once a year.
Every year.
senses_topics:
|
13581 | word:
yearly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yearly (plural yearlies)
forms:
form:
yearlies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yeerly, yerely, from Old English ġēarlīċ, ġērlīċ (“yearly, of the year, annual”), equivalent to year + -ly. Cognate with Scots yerelie (“yearly”), Saterland Frisian jierelk (“yearly”), West Frisian jierliks (“yearly”), Dutch jaarlijks (“yearly”), Afrikaans jaarlijks (“yearly”), German jährlich (“yearly”), Danish årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Bokmål årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Nynorsk årleg (“yearly”), Swedish årlig (“yearly”), Icelandic árlegur (“yearly”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that is published once a year.
senses_topics:
|
13582 | word:
fork
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fork (plural forks)
forms:
form:
forks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English forke (“digging fork”), from Old English force, forca (“forked instrument used to torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *furkō (“fork”), from Latin furca (“pitchfork, forked stake; gallows, beam, stake, support post, yoke”), of uncertain origin. The Middle English word was later reinforced by Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French forque (= Old French forche whence French fourche), also from the Latin. Cognate also with North Frisian forck (“fork”), Dutch vork (“fork”), Danish fork (“fork”), German Forke (“pitchfork”). Displaced native gafol, ġeafel, ġeafle (“fork”), from Old English.
In its primary sense of “fork”, Latin furca appears to be derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerk(ʷ)-, *ǵʰerg(ʷ)- (“fork”), although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In other senses this derivation is unlikely. For these, perhaps it is connected to Proto-Germanic *furkaz, *firkalaz (“stake, stick, pole, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *perg- (“pole, post”). If so, this would relate the word to Old English forclas pl (“bolt”), Old Saxon ferkal (“lock, bolt, bar”), Old Norse forkr (“pole, staff, stick”), Norwegian fork (“stick, bat”), Swedish fork (“pole”).
senses_examples:
text:
a thunderbolt with three forks
type:
example
text:
this fork of the river dries up during droughts
type:
example
text:
(but the word prong is usually reserved for the physical sense, and the word tine is always so)
text:
LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.
type:
example
text:
A content fork may be intentional (as from a schism about goals) or unintentional (merely from a lack of reorganizing, so far).
type:
example
text:
Known as a “fork”, the new version of bitcoin (dubbed Bitcoin XT) would support more transactions per hour, at the cost of increasing the amount of memory required to hold a full database of all the bitcoin transactions throughout history, known as the blockchain.
ref:
2015 August 17, Alex Hern, “Bitcoin's forked: chief scientist launches alternative proposal for the currency”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Are you qualified to drive a fork?
type:
example
text:
Get those forks tilted back more or you're gonna lose that pallet!
type:
example
text:
The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes.
type:
example
text:
They had run through all punishments, and just 'scaped the fork
ref:
a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Characters
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
A tuning fork.
A fork in the road, as follows:
An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
A fork in the road, as follows:
A decision point.
A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
(software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
(software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
(software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
(software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
The crotch.
A forklift.
Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
A gallows.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
board-games
chess
games
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
motorcycling
sports
|
13583 | word:
fork
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fork (third-person singular simple present forks, present participle forking, simple past and past participle forked)
forms:
form:
forks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
forking
tags:
participle
present
form:
forked
tags:
participle
past
form:
forked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English forke (“digging fork”), from Old English force, forca (“forked instrument used to torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *furkō (“fork”), from Latin furca (“pitchfork, forked stake; gallows, beam, stake, support post, yoke”), of uncertain origin. The Middle English word was later reinforced by Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French forque (= Old French forche whence French fourche), also from the Latin. Cognate also with North Frisian forck (“fork”), Dutch vork (“fork”), Danish fork (“fork”), German Forke (“pitchfork”). Displaced native gafol, ġeafel, ġeafle (“fork”), from Old English.
In its primary sense of “fork”, Latin furca appears to be derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerk(ʷ)-, *ǵʰerg(ʷ)- (“fork”), although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In other senses this derivation is unlikely. For these, perhaps it is connected to Proto-Germanic *furkaz, *firkalaz (“stake, stick, pole, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *perg- (“pole, post”). If so, this would relate the word to Old English forclas pl (“bolt”), Old Saxon ferkal (“lock, bolt, bar”), Old Norse forkr (“pole, staff, stick”), Norwegian fork (“stick, bat”), Swedish fork (“pole”).
senses_examples:
text:
A parent process forks a child process, which in turn can fork other processes.
ref:
2008, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Pearson Education
type:
quotation
text:
It appears that the shell forks a copy of itself and that this copy then forks to make each of the previous processes in the pipeline.
ref:
2013, W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley, page 304
type:
quotation
text:
For various reasons, McCool's server project subsequently forked, leading to the development of the Apache Web Server.
ref:
2007, Fadi P. Deek, James A. M. McHugh, Open Source: Technology and Policy, Cambridge University Press, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
Google forked WebKit to create the Blink project in April 2013 because they wanted to make larger-scale changes to WebKit to fit their own needs that did not align well with the WebKit project itself.
ref:
2015, Christian Bird et al., editors, The Art and Science of Analyzing Software Data, Elsevier, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
In this model, anyone can fork an existing repository and push changes to their personal fork.
ref:
2015, Sajal Debnath, Mastering PowerCLI, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
A road, a tree, or a stream forks.
type:
example
text:
Brianna curbed her pang of envy as she forked her plain, low-fat, crouton-free salad niçoise into her mouth and shook her head.
ref:
2018, Maya Blake, chapter 2, in What the Greek's Money Can't Buy (Greek Bachelors), HarperCollins UK
type:
quotation
text:
They were forking each other in the back room.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To divide into two or more branches or copies.
To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
To divide into two or more branches or copies.
To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
To divide into two or more branches or copies.
To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
To divide into two or more branches or copies.
To move with a fork (as hay or food).
To kick someone in the crotch.
To shoot into blades, as corn does.
Euphemistic form of fuck.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
|
13584 | word:
fork
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fork (plural forks)
forms:
form:
forks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
13585 | word:
fork
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fork (third-person singular simple present forks, present participle forking, simple past and past participle forked)
forms:
form:
forks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
forking
tags:
participle
present
form:
forked
tags:
participle
past
form:
forked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bale a shaft dry.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
13586 | word:
Seoul
word_type:
name
expansion:
Seoul
forms:
wikipedia:
Claude-Charles Dallet
Seoul
etymology_text:
From Korean 서울 (Seoul, literally “capital city”), originally from Claude-Charles Dallet's French-based romanization of Korean, reinforced by the 1959 South Korean Ministry of Education romanization of Korean, which transcribed the Korean vowel ㅓ (/ʌ/) with the digraph "eo" and which was official until 1984.
Note that English Seoul predates the Revised Romanization romanization of Seoul. The two romanization systems simply produce identical forms.
senses_examples:
text:
The Joint Commission provided for in the Moscow agreement began its work at Seoul, the ancient capital of Korea, on March 20, 1946. This Commission, which was, of course, the key element in the plan agreed upon at Moscow, was deadlocked almost from the start.
ref:
1956, Harry S. Truman, chapter 21, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope, volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 320
type:
quotation
text:
With almost 10 million people living in 25 different districts and the Han River through the middle, Seoul offers more than even most locals who spend a considerable amount of time have time to see for themselves.
ref:
2023 March 21, Dong-hwan Ko, “Possibly next SOHO, Seoul selects 5 neighborhoods for new signature 'K-alleys'”, in The Korea Times, archived from the original on 2023-05-13, National
type:
quotation
text:
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Sunday met with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul, reciprocating Yoon’s visit to Tokyo in March. In doing so, the two leaders marked the revival of their “shuttle diplomacy” to hold negotiations in each other’s countries and work through a series of thorny issues that have complicated their ties.
ref:
2023 May 7, Michelle Ye Hee Lee, “Japanese prime minister visits Seoul, resuming ‘shuttle diplomacy’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-07, Asia
type:
quotation
text:
To that end, Seoul and Taipei signed a reciprocal driver’s license agreement in February, with immediate effect, to make driving easier for visitors on each side, he said.
ref:
2022 June 21, “Seoul representative taking more ‘systematic’ approach”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-20, Taiwan News, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
After years of friction, Seoul and Tokyo are trying to collaborate more closely with each other and Washington to counter the looming geopolitical threats of China’s economic and military rise and North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. The Biden administration has welcomed their efforts.
ref:
2023 May 7, Michelle Ye Hee Lee, “Japanese prime minister visits Seoul, resuming ‘shuttle diplomacy’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-07, Asia
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of South Korea, also the historical capital of Korea from 1394 until the country was divided in 1945.
the South Korean government
senses_topics:
|
13587 | word:
Tirana
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tirana
forms:
wikipedia:
Tirana
etymology_text:
From Albanian Tiranë/Tirana.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the capital and largest city of Albania, located in the center of the country west of the mountain of Dajti on the plain of Tirana; it is the seat of its eponymous county and municipality.
A county of Albania.
senses_topics:
|
13588 | word:
sine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sine (plural sines)
forms:
form:
sines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin sinus (“curve, bend; bosom”), a translation of Arabic جَيْب (jayb, “bosom”), a misidentification of the notation جيب (j-y-b), written without vowel diacritics, standing for Arabic جِيبَ (jība, “sine”), in turn from Sanskrit ज्या (jyā, “sine, chord, bowstring”) through the similar Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “sine, chord, life, existence”). Doublet of sinus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
trigonometry |
13589 | word:
Belluno
word_type:
name
expansion:
Belluno
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Veneto, Italy.
A town, the capital of Belluno, Veneto.
senses_topics:
|
13590 | word:
Bolzano
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bolzano
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian Bolzano.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The provincial capital of South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13591 | word:
Campania
word_type:
name
expansion:
Campania
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian Campania, borrowed from Latin Campānia. Doublet of Champagne.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An administrative region of southern Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13592 | word:
Campobasso
word_type:
name
expansion:
Campobasso
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian Campobasso.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Province of Molise, Italy.
Town and capital of Campobasso and also the capital of Molise.
senses_topics:
|
13593 | word:
Biella
word_type:
name
expansion:
Biella
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian Biella.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Piedmont, Italy.
A city, the provincial capital of Biella, Piedmont, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13594 | word:
Virginia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Virginia (countable and uncountable, plural Virginias)
forms:
form:
Virginias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
50 Virginia
Elizabeth I
Virginia
Virginia (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Latin Virginia, feminine form of Virginius or Verginius, a Roman family name, possibly identical with Vergilius. The state/colony was named for Elizabeth I as the Virgin Queen, equivalent to virgin + -ia.
senses_examples:
text:
1380s-1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Physician's Tale
"Daughter," quoth he, "Virginia by thy name, / There be two wayes, either death or shame, / That thou must suffer, - alas that I was bore!
text:
Here, in due time, she was brought to bed of a daughter, whom she christened by the name of Virginia; not so much out of respect to her last mistress, who bore that name, as because she considered it peculiarly ladylike and genteel.
ref:
1840, Frederick Marryat, chapter III, in Poor Jack
type:
quotation
text:
O sweet Virginia Dare! / Thou art the lily of our love, / The forest's sylph-like queen, / The first-born bud from Saxon stem / That this New World hath seen!
ref:
1854, Lydia Howard Sigourney, The Western Home, and Other Poems, Parry & McMillan, published 1854, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
She said her name was Virginia Severson. It suited her. She looked very virginal, and clean, calm, cool in a Scandinavian sort of way.
ref:
1956, Charlotte Armstrong, A Dram of Poison, Coward-McCann, pages 164–165
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state of the United States. Official name: Commonwealth of Virginia.
1622 [1620], “Mayflower Compact”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes, page 313
1622 [1620], “Mayflower Compact”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes, page 313:
We, whose names are underwritten, the loyall Subjects of our dread Soveraigne Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the glorie of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and the honor of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colonie in the Northerne parts of Virginia; doe by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civill Body politike, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid:[...]
We, whose names are underwritten, the loyall Subjects of our dread Soveraigne Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the glorie of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and the honor of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colonie in the Northerne parts of Virginia; doe by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civill Body politike, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid:[...]
A former colony that was a part of the British Empire
50 Virginia, a main belt asteroid.
A female given name from Latin.
Any of several places, in the United States and elsewhere:
A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Any of several places, in the United States and elsewhere:
A town, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Any of several places, in the United States and elsewhere:
A community in the town of Georgina, Ontario, Canada.
Any of several places, in the United States and elsewhere:
A municipality of the Lempira department, Honduras.
Any of several places, in the United States and elsewhere:
A town in County Cavan, Ireland.
Any of several places, in the United States and elsewhere:
A suburb of Monrovia, Liberia.
Any of several places, in the United States and elsewhere:
A gold mining town in Free State, South Africa.
Any of several places, in the United States and elsewhere:
The former name of an unincorporated community in Placer County, California, now Virginiatown.
Any of several places, in the United States and elsewhere:
A city, the county seat of Cass County, Illinois, United States.
Any of several places, in the United States and elsewhere:
A city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States.
Any of several places, in the United States and elsewhere:
An unincorporated community in Bates County, Missouri, United States.
Any of several places, in the United States and elsewhere:
A village in Gage County, Nebraska, United States.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
|
13595 | word:
vid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vid (plural vids)
forms:
form:
vids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping.
senses_examples:
text:
Check out my cool new vids on YouTube!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of video.
Clipping of videotape.
senses_topics:
|
13596 | word:
vid
word_type:
prep
expansion:
vid
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Pronunciation spelling of with.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of with.
senses_topics:
|
13597 | word:
Latium
word_type:
name
expansion:
Latium
forms:
wikipedia:
Latium
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin Latium. Doublet of Lazio.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A historical region of central Italy, in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.
Lazio, the corresponding modern region.
senses_topics:
|
13598 | word:
pleasure
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pleasure (countable and uncountable, plural pleasures)
forms:
form:
pleasures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pleasure
etymology_text:
From Early Modern English pleasur, plesur, alteration (with ending accommodated to -ure) of Middle English plaisir (“pleasure”), from Old French plesir, plaisir (“to please”), infinitive used as a noun, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin placeō (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-k- (“wide and flat”). Related to Dutch plezier (“pleasure, fun”). More at please.
senses_examples:
text:
He remembered with pleasure his home and family.
type:
example
text:
I get a lot of pleasure from watching others work hard while I relax.
type:
example
text:
But the only statistic that will concern West Brom will be the scoreline, and their manager Roy Hodgson will take considerable pleasure from a victory over the club he managed for just 191 days.
ref:
2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Maximize all the pleasure / Even with all this weather / Nothing can make it better / Maximize all the pleasure
ref:
2019, Toro y Moi (lyrics and music), “Ordinary Pleasure”, in Outer Peace
type:
quotation
text:
It was a pleasure to meet you.
type:
example
text:
Having a good night's sleep is one of life's little pleasures.
type:
example
text:
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]
ref:
2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
What is your pleasure: coffee or tea?
type:
example
text:
to hold an office at pleasure: to hold it indefinitely until it is revoked
type:
example
text:
to be imprisoned at Her Majesty's pleasure: to be imprisoned indefinitely
type:
example
text:
at Congress's pleasure: whenever or as long as Congress desires
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state of being pleased or contented; gratification.
A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.
Sexual enjoyment.
One's preference.
The will or desire of someone or some agency in power.
senses_topics:
|
13599 | word:
pleasure
word_type:
intj
expansion:
pleasure
forms:
wikipedia:
pleasure
etymology_text:
From Early Modern English pleasur, plesur, alteration (with ending accommodated to -ure) of Middle English plaisir (“pleasure”), from Old French plesir, plaisir (“to please”), infinitive used as a noun, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin placeō (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-k- (“wide and flat”). Related to Dutch plezier (“pleasure, fun”). More at please.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
pleased to meet you, "It's my pleasure"
senses_topics:
|
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