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13800 | word:
rust
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rust (countable and uncountable, plural rusts)
forms:
form:
rusts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rust
etymology_text:
From Middle English rust, rost, roust, from Old English rust, rūst (“rust”), from Proto-West Germanic *rust, from Proto-Germanic *rustaz (“rust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rudʰso- (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”).
Cognate with Scots roust (“rust”), Saterland Frisian rust (“rust”), West Frisian roast (“rust”), Dutch roest (“rust”), German Rost (“rust”), Danish rust (“rust”), Swedish rost (“rust”), Norwegian rust, ryst (“rust”), Finnish ruoste, Estonian rooste. Related to red.
senses_examples:
text:
The rust on my bicycle chain made cycling to work very dangerous.
type:
example
text:
copper rust
type:
example
text:
rust:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation.
A similar substance based on another metal.
A reddish-brown color.
A disease of plants caused by a reddish-brown fungus.
Damage caused to stamps and album pages by a fungal infection.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
philately |
13801 | word:
rust
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rust (third-person singular simple present rusts, present participle rusting, simple past and past participle rusted)
forms:
form:
rusts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rusting
tags:
participle
present
form:
rusted
tags:
participle
past
form:
rusted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rust
etymology_text:
From Middle English rusten, from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
The patio furniture had rusted in the wind-driven spray.
text:
Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire.
ref:
1946, International Council of Religious Education, The New Covenant, Commonly Called the New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: Revised Standard Version, James 5:3, page 490
text:
The wind-driven spray had thoroughly rusted the patio furniture.
type:
example
text:
I am sorry to say that, contrary to the majority, I have to report that the forage rusted rather badly.
ref:
1902 January 3, “Mapstone Oats: Further Experiences”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 22, page 688
type:
quotation
text:
Must I rust in Egypt? never more / Appear in arms, and be the chief of Greece?
ref:
1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
type:
quotation
text:
It's very common for black cats to rust during the summer.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To oxidize, especially of iron or steel.
To cause to oxidize.
To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust.
To (cause to) degenerate in idleness; to make or become dull or impaired by inaction.
Of a black cat or its fur, to turn rust-coloured following long periods of exposure to sunlight.
senses_topics:
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13802 | word:
Guamanian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Guamanian (plural Guamanians)
forms:
form:
Guamanians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Guam or of Guamanian descent.
senses_topics:
|
13803 | word:
Guamanian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Guamanian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Guam, the Guamanian people or the Guamanian language.
senses_topics:
|
13804 | word:
Reggio nell'Emilia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Reggio nell'Emilia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Reggio Emilia (“city and province in Italy”)
senses_topics:
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13805 | word:
tapas
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tapas pl (normally plural, singular tapa)
forms:
form:
tapa
tags:
singular
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish tapas, the plural of tapa (“appetizer, tapa; cap, lid (cover of a container)”) (from the fact that plates of tapas were originally placed on the tops of glasses of alcoholic beverages as lids), from Gothic *𐍄𐌰𐍀𐍀𐌰 (*tappa), from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug; tap”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂p- (“to lose; to sacrifice”). Doublet of tap.
senses_examples:
text:
The snacks are called tapas because in the old days a piece of toast was served, too, so that you might have a "top" on your glass of sherry, a lid that would prevent the flies from getting into the glass.
ref:
1986, Jeff Smith, “The Tapas Buffet (Spain)”, in The Frugal Gourmet Cooks with Wine, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
Most food scholars agree that the tapas tradition originated in the wine-growing regions of Andalusia, eventually spreading throughout the country. The Moors (Muslim Arabs), who dominated Spain from the beginning of the eighth century until the end of the fifteenth century, settled in the same area, and their meze tradition undoubtedly had an influence on the rise of the tapa.
ref:
2013, Joyce Goldstein, “Introduction”, in Tapas: Sensational Small Plates from Spain, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A variety of Spanish small savoury food items or snacks such as croquettes, cured meat, potato salad, and seafood, originally served with sherry and now often with other alcoholic beverages as well.
senses_topics:
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13806 | word:
tapas
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tapas (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Sanskrit तप् (tap, “heat; to be hot”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tep- (“to be warm or hot”). Related to tepid.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
(The practice of) asceticism and self-discipline.
senses_topics:
|
13807 | word:
tapas
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tapas
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of tapa
senses_topics:
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13808 | word:
botanist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
botanist (plural botanists)
forms:
form:
botanists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From botany + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person engaged in botany, the scientific study of plants.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
13809 | word:
Pesaro e Urbino
word_type:
name
expansion:
Pesaro e Urbino
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Province of Marche, Italy.
senses_topics:
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13810 | word:
Nigerien
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Nigerien (plural Nigeriens)
forms:
form:
Nigeriens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French nigérien, from Niger + -ien.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Niger or of Nigerien descent.
senses_topics:
|
13811 | word:
Nigerien
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Nigerien (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French nigérien, from Niger + -ien.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Niger or the Nigerien people.
senses_topics:
|
13812 | word:
sixtieth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sixtieth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier sixteth, from Middle English sixtithe; equivalent to sixty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number sixty.
senses_topics:
|
13813 | word:
sixtieth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sixtieth (countable and uncountable, plural sixtieths)
forms:
form:
sixtieths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier sixteth, from Middle English sixtithe; equivalent to sixty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the sixtieth position.
One of sixty equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
|
13814 | word:
Gambian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Gambian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Gambia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Gambia or the Gambian people.
senses_topics:
|
13815 | word:
Gambian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Gambian (plural Gambians)
forms:
form:
Gambians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Gambia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Gambia or of Gambian descent.
senses_topics:
|
13816 | word:
Mauritanian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Mauritanian (plural Mauritanians)
forms:
form:
Mauritanians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mauritania + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Mauritania or of Mauritanian descent.
senses_topics:
|
13817 | word:
Mauritanian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Mauritanian (comparative more Mauritanian, superlative most Mauritanian)
forms:
form:
more Mauritanian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Mauritanian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mauritania + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Mauritania, the Mauritanian people or the Mauritanian language.
senses_topics:
|
13818 | word:
Perugia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Perugia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian Perugia, from Latin Perusia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city and associated province of Umbria, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13819 | word:
Costa Rican
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Costa Rican (plural Costa Ricans)
forms:
form:
Costa Ricans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Costa Rica + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Costa Rica or of Costa Rican descent.
senses_topics:
|
13820 | word:
Costa Rican
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Costa Rican (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Costa Rica + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
He has a home in the Costa Rican hills.
type:
example
text:
His dialect was distinctly Costa Rican.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Costa Rica.
Of or pertaining to the people, language, or culture of Costa Rica.
senses_topics:
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13821 | word:
violinist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
violinist (plural violinists)
forms:
form:
violinists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From violin + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who plays the violin.
senses_topics:
|
13822 | word:
probity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
probity (countable and uncountable, plural probities)
forms:
form:
probities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French probité, from Latin probitās (“uprightness, honesty”), from probus (“good, excellent, honest”); see probe, prove.
senses_examples:
text:
Distilled to its essence, it is by no means clear that the ‘Cablegate’ disclosures were intended to support freedom of information, transparency, probity in government, or defence of the public interest.
ref:
2013, Andrew F. Cooper, Jorge Heine, Ramesh Thakur, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, OUP Oxford, page 464
type:
quotation
text:
The veterans add in their letter, which was partly coordinated by the campaign group Republic: “Officers of the British armed forces must adhere to the very highest standards of probity, honesty and honourable conduct. […]
ref:
2022 January 13, Ben Quinn, “Queen strips Prince Andrew of military roles and royal patronages”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Integrity, especially of the quality of having strong moral principles; decency and honesty.
senses_topics:
|
13823 | word:
Nuoro
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nuoro
forms:
wikipedia:
Nuoro
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian Nuoro, related to Nuragic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Sardinia, Italy.
A town and capital of Nuoro, Italy.
senses_topics:
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13824 | word:
Nigerian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Nigerian (plural Nigerians)
forms:
form:
Nigerians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Nigeria + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Nigeria or of Nigerian descent.
senses_topics:
|
13825 | word:
Nigerian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Nigerian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Nigeria + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Nigeria, the Nigerian people or culture.
senses_topics:
|
13826 | word:
Ferrara
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Ferrara (plural Ferraras)
forms:
form:
Ferraras
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Andrew Ferrara
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Andrea Ferrara sword; (generally) a broadsword.
senses_topics:
|
13827 | word:
Ferrara
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ferrara
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
City, archbishopric and capital of Ferrara.
senses_topics:
|
13828 | word:
Sahrawi
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Sahrawi (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic صَحْرَاوِيّ (ṣaḥrāwiyy, “of the desert”), from صَحْرَاء (ṣaḥrāʔ, “desert”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Western Sahara, the Sahrawi people or their language Hassaniya Arabic.
senses_topics:
|
13829 | word:
Sahrawi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Sahrawi (plural Sahrawis)
forms:
form:
Sahrawis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic صَحْرَاوِيّ (ṣaḥrāwiyy, “of the desert”), from صَحْرَاء (ṣaḥrāʔ, “desert”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Western Sahara (formerly Spanish Sahara).
senses_topics:
|
13830 | word:
Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
word_type:
name
expansion:
Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Piedmont, Italy.
senses_topics:
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13831 | word:
Kenyan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Kenyan (plural Kenyans)
forms:
form:
Kenyans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Kenya + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Kenya or of Kenyan descent.
senses_topics:
|
13832 | word:
Kenyan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Kenyan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Kenya + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Kenya or the Kenyan people.
senses_topics:
|
13833 | word:
bill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bill (plural bills)
forms:
form:
bills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:bill
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English bille, from Anglo-Norman bille, from Old French bulle, from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal", "sealed document”). Compare bull.
senses_examples:
text:
Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the Prime Minister, I beg to introduce a bill entitled[…]
type:
example
text:
David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.
ref:
2012 December 14, Simon Jenkins, “We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
He gave the change for a three dollar bill. Upon examination, the bill proved to be counterfeit.
ref:
1830, anonymous author, The Galaxy of Wit: Or, Laughing Philosopher, Being a Collection of Choice Anecdotes, Many of Which Originated in or about "The Literary Emporium"
type:
quotation
text:
[…]So I wropped 'em up in a five dollar bill and tied 'em up and sent 'em, and they ain't back yet.”
ref:
1935, Cabins in the Laurel, University of North Carolina Press, published 19 March 2014, page 231
type:
quotation
text:
I ran into the Devil, babe, he loaned me 20 bills.
ref:
1970, “Friend of the Devil”, performed by Grateful Dead
type:
quotation
text:
There was no excuse, simply no excuse for not making four or five bills a week. A little initiative, that's all.
ref:
1954, Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront, Random House, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
All we got from her was Stranahan's location, and barely that. A house in the bay, she said. A house with a windmill. Easiest five bills that woman ever made.
ref:
1989, Carl Hiaasen, Skin Tight, Penguin Group, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
In the conversation Henshall says he "struggling to find people to go up the roads" explaining how it would be "no good for black people" and how they need a "young white boy to go up there".
Stock agrees, saying how he knows "this kid" who "owes me 12 bills".
ref:
2023, BBC News: "Newport: Drugs gang jailed for exploiting vulnerable child" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66570256
text:
Meanwhile, the bills on the main stages skewed towards mainstream pop, with mixed results. Lorde’s Friday evening Other stage appearance was one of the weekend’s highlights. The staging and choreography were fantastic – a giant glass tank on a hydraulic platform, in and around which a troupe of dancers acted out the highs and lows of a teenage party
ref:
2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
A piece of paper money; a banknote.
A piece of paper money; a banknote.
One hundred dollars.
One hundred pounds sterling.
A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
A set of items presented together.
senses_topics:
law
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13834 | word:
bill
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bill (third-person singular simple present bills, present participle billing, simple past and past participle billed)
forms:
form:
bills
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
billing
tags:
participle
present
form:
billed
tags:
participle
past
form:
billed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:bill
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English bille, from Anglo-Norman bille, from Old French bulle, from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal", "sealed document”). Compare bull.
senses_examples:
text:
[...] it will be recalled that in 1960 they were billed as the long-distance express multiple-units of the future, [...].
ref:
1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “First impressions of the Clacton electric multiple-units”, in Modern Railways, page 260
type:
quotation
text:
The physician explains that this is an option for her and that she can sign the facility's ABN so that if Medicare denies the claim, the facility can bill her for the scan.
ref:
1989, Michelle Green, Understanding Health Insurance: A Guide to Billing and Reimbursement
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To advertise by a bill or public notice.
To charge; to send a bill to.
senses_topics:
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13835 | word:
bill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bill (plural bills)
forms:
form:
bills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:bill
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English bill, bil, bille, bile, from Old English bile (“beak (of a bird); trunk (of an elephant)”), of unknown origin. Perhaps from a special use of Old English bil, bill (“hook; sword”) (see below).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] The flesh [of the mistletoe berry] is sticky, and forms strings and ribbons between my thumb and forefinger. For the mistletoe, this viscous goop – and by the way, viscous comes to English from viscum – is crucial. The stickiness means that, after eating the berries, birds often regurgitate the seeds and then wipe their bills on twigs – leading to the seeds' getting glued to the tree, where they can germinate and begin the cycle anew.
ref:
2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: Under the hemiparasite, International New York Times, 24–25 December 2014, page 7]”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2014-12-23
type:
quotation
text:
There is a lighthouse on Portland Bill.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
senses_topics:
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13836 | word:
bill
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bill (third-person singular simple present bills, present participle billing, simple past and past participle billed)
forms:
form:
bills
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
billing
tags:
participle
present
form:
billed
tags:
participle
past
form:
billed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:bill
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English bill, bil, bille, bile, from Old English bile (“beak (of a bird); trunk (of an elephant)”), of unknown origin. Perhaps from a special use of Old English bil, bill (“hook; sword”) (see below).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to peck
to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
senses_topics:
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13837 | word:
bill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bill (plural bills)
forms:
form:
bills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:bill
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English bill, bille, bil, from Old English bil, bill (“a hooked point; curved weapon; two-edged sword”), from Proto-Germanic *bilją (“axe; sword; blade”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyH- (“to strike; beat”). Cognate with West Frisian bile (“axe”), Dutch bijl (“axe”), German Bille (“axe”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
A pickaxe or mattock.
The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
13838 | word:
bill
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bill (third-person singular simple present bills, present participle billing, simple past and past participle billed)
forms:
form:
bills
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
billing
tags:
participle
present
form:
billed
tags:
participle
past
form:
billed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:bill
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English bill, bille, bil, from Old English bil, bill (“a hooked point; curved weapon; two-edged sword”), from Proto-Germanic *bilją (“axe; sword; blade”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyH- (“to strike; beat”). Cognate with West Frisian bile (“axe”), Dutch bijl (“axe”), German Bille (“axe”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
senses_topics:
|
13839 | word:
bill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bill (plural bills)
forms:
form:
bills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:bill
etymology_text:
table
senses_examples:
text:
The bittern's hollow bill was heard.
ref:
1793, William Wordsworth, An Evening Walk
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
senses_topics:
|
13840 | word:
bill
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bill (third-person singular simple present bills, present participle billing, simple past and past participle billed)
forms:
form:
bills
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
billing
tags:
participle
present
form:
billed
tags:
participle
past
form:
billed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:bill
etymology_text:
table
From a pronunciation spelling of build.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To roll up a marijuana cigarette.
senses_topics:
|
13841 | word:
Nikos
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nikos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transliteration of the Greek male given name Νίκος (Níkos) used in Greece. It is the most common form of the name Nikolaos, the Greek cognate of Nicholas.
senses_topics:
|
13842 | word:
Java
word_type:
name
expansion:
Java
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Javanese ꦗꦮ (jawa), possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”), used in reference to coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially called Oak) is a reference to java, the blend of coffee from the island.
senses_examples:
text:
1996 October 6, Timothy Litwiller, “HOW TO MAKE A JAVA ALERT POP UP ON LOAD”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet):
type:
quotation
text:
In the input tag I include the onBlur="myfunction()" which checks if the field is filled (displays an alert if necessary and resets the focus). If I leave the first field I get an java alert which says that field two should have a value and then a java alert which says that field one should have a value and then a java... get the picture ?
ref:
1996 December 10, Cédric Bouckaert, “onBlur event handler with input fields”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
1997 January 7, Kenneth Roddy, “Java Alert Messages When Netscape Home Page Loads”, in comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows (Usenet):
type:
quotation
text:
I created an alert window using java script, but I found the fonts too small. Is there a way of controling font size and style when java alert window opens.
ref:
1997 February 18, AG, “alert...is there a way of controling font size and style when java alert window opens”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
2003 April 8, mpaulopes, “Passing values to a Java popup windows”, in macromedia.coldfusion.cfml_general_discussion (Usenet):
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.
An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.
JavaScript, when no distinction is made between it and Java.
senses_topics:
computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
13843 | word:
Java
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Java (plural Javas)
forms:
form:
Javas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Javanese ꦗꦮ (jawa), possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”), used in reference to coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially called Oak) is a reference to java, the blend of coffee from the island.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.
senses_topics:
|
13844 | word:
Vercelli
word_type:
name
expansion:
Vercelli
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town, and associated province in Piedmont, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13845 | word:
Nikolis
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nikolis
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transliteration of the Greek male given name Νικολής (Nikolís) used in Greece.
senses_topics:
|
13846 | word:
Nikoleta
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nikoleta
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Transliteration of Greek Νικολέτα (Nikoléta), a female given name used in (modern) Greece.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transliteration of the Greek female given name Νικολέτα (Nikoléta).
senses_topics:
|
13847 | word:
fortieth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fortieth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier fourteth, from Middle English fourtithe, fourtiþe; equivalent to forty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number forty.
senses_topics:
|
13848 | word:
fortieth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fortieth (plural fortieths)
forms:
form:
fortieths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier fourteth, from Middle English fourtithe, fourtiþe; equivalent to forty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the fortieth position.
One of forty equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
|
13849 | word:
Nikolaos
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nikolaos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos), from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos), from νικάω (nikáō, “I conquer”) + λαός (laós, “people”). Doublet of Nicholas.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transliteration of the Greek male given name Νικόλαος (Nikólaos) used in Greece. The equivalent female name is Nikoleta.
senses_topics:
|
13850 | word:
Potenza
word_type:
name
expansion:
Potenza
forms:
wikipedia:
Potenza
etymology_text:
From Italian Potenza. Doublet of potency.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Basilicata, Italy.
A city, the provincial capital of Potenza, Basilicata, Italy
senses_topics:
|
13851 | word:
heat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
heat (countable and uncountable, plural heats)
forms:
form:
heats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
heat (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English hete, from Old English hǣtu, from Proto-West Germanic *haitī, from Proto-Germanic *haitį̄ (“heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“heat; hot”). Cognate with Scots hete (“heat”), North Frisian hiet (“heat”), Old High German heizī (“heat”). Related also to Dutch hitte (“heat”), German Hitze (“heat”), Swedish hetta (“heat”), Icelandic hiti (“heat”).
senses_examples:
text:
Heat and temperature, although different, are intimately related. [...] For example, suppose you added equal amounts of heat to equal masses of iron and aluminum. How do you think their temperatures would change?[…]if the temperature of the iron increased by 100 C°, the corresponding temperature change in the aluminum would be only 48 C°.
ref:
2007, James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition, pages 106–108
type:
quotation
text:
Heat limits the length and intensity of ship-to-ship combat. Starships generate enormous s'heat' when they fire high-energy weapons, perform maneuvering burns, and run on-board combat electronics.
In combat, warships produce heat more quickly than they can disperse it. As heat builds within a vessel, the crewed spaces become increasingly uncomfortable. Before the heat reaches lethal levels, a ship must win or retreat by entering FTL. After an FTL run, the ships halts, shuts down non-essential systems, and activates the heat radiation gear.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Space Combat: Combat Endurance Codex entry
type:
quotation
text:
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
ref:
2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
This furnace puts out 5000 BTUs of heat. That engine is really throwing off some heat. Removal of heat from the liquid caused it to turn into a solid.
type:
example
text:
Stay out of the heat of the sun!
type:
example
text:
The chili sauce gave the dish heat.
type:
example
text:
It's easy to make bad decisions in the heat of the moment.
type:
example
text:
The heat from her family after her DUI arrest was unbearable.
type:
example
text:
The catcher called for the heat, high and tight.
type:
example
text:
The male canines were attracted by the female in heat.
type:
example
text:
Some stories engage in dub-con scenarios where one or both partners are out of their minds with heat lust and lose all reasoning and inhibitions.
ref:
2013, Kristina Busse, “Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 321
type:
quotation
text:
When Yuri goes into his first heat, it is not only an uncomfortable and traumatic physical experience, it is also an identity crisis: this is the moment realizes that he is an omega, and not a beta as he had previously assumed.
ref:
2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 40
text:
Hannibal's first kiss and his alpha saliva trigger Will's heat, […]
ref:
2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, “When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom”, in Ashton Spacey, editor, The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction, page 127
type:
quotation
text:
The runner had high hopes, but was out of contention after the first heat.
type:
example
text:
The first heat of the Rotary Young Chef Competition went underway on Monday 16th December…
ref:
2019 December 20, Becca, lakedistricthotels.net
type:
quotation
text:
I can make a scroll like that in a single heat.
type:
example
text:
The smiths themselves were a grand lot of fellows, full of a robust, and sometimes Rabelaisian sense of humour, and between "heats," they could be most entertaining.
ref:
1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
The children stayed indoors during this year's summer heat.
type:
example
text:
I'm freezing; could you turn on the heat?
type:
example
text:
During the power outage we had no heat because the controls are electric. Older folks like more heat than the young.
type:
example
text:
…many pauses are required for refreshment betwixt the heats….
ref:
1767, John Dryden, THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN,Esq; Containing all his ORIGINAL POEMS, TITLES, AND TRANSLATIONS, IN FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME THE THIRD, page xxvii
type:
quotation
text:
The heat! Scram!
type:
example
text:
What a field day for the heat / A thousand people in the street
ref:
1966 December, Stephen Stills, “For What It's Worth”performed by Buffalo Springfield
type:
quotation
text:
If you’re black / You might as well not show up on the street / Unless you want to draw the heat
ref:
1976, Jacques Levy, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Hurricane”, in Desire, performed by Bob Dylan
type:
quotation
text:
You carrying heat?" "You saw me unload the pistol," Hugo said. "It's in the waistband. And the kitchen knife. I need that for eating.
ref:
1983, Larry Niven with Jerry Pournelle, Lucifer's hammer, page 508
type:
quotation
text:
Evidently, he wasn't carrying heat with him at the time." "Civilized place like Rome, why bother?" Granger observed.
ref:
2004, Tom Clancy, The Teeth of the Tiger, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
Pogo Burns is not a guy who likes to be threatened with a rifle. Especially when it's for no good reason. You never show heat unless you plan to use it.
ref:
2005, John Sayles, Pride of the Bimbos, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
"I should have brought some heat for you." "Heat?" "A burner, man, a gun."
ref:
2007, Brian Groh, Summer People, page 234
type:
quotation
text:
Both were carrying heat, and I slipped their pieces into my pants pockets.
ref:
2008, James Swain, The Night Stalker, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
Whoa, that guy is rocking some serious heat.
type:
example
text:
Even the boy bands had heat.
ref:
2011 September 26, Nick Restivo, “Choreographed Kicks: A History of Boy Bands in Sneaker Heat”, in Complex, New York, N.Y.: Complex Networks, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-29
type:
quotation
text:
The sneaker release calendar is unpredictable like the weather. Some kicks are pure heat, while others deserve to be left out in the cold. Sifting through the mass isn't easy.
ref:
2020 July 2, Fabian Gorsler, “This Week's Sneaker Weather Forecast Gets Hot & Sweaty”, in Highsnobiety, archived from the original on 2023-08-29
type:
quotation
text:
So from a working standpoint, does everyone wear heat in the kitchen? I heard you and your chefs talking about it before the interview.
ref:
2021 September 4, Ross Dwyer, “Sole Mates: Chef James Kent and the Union x Air Jordan 1”, in Hypebeast, archived from the original on 2022-12-25
type:
quotation
text:
February is always a great month for sneakers. Thanks to the NBA All-Star Game, all of the league's brightest stars use the platform as an opportunity to debut some new heat.
ref:
2023 May 1, Pat Benson, “The NBA's Top Ten Sneakers of February”, in Sports Illustrated, New York, N.Y.: Arena Group Holdings, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Thermal energy.
The condition or quality of being hot.
An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
An undesirable amount of attention.
A fastball.
A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus.
A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus.
In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
A hot spell.
Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
The output of a heating system.
A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
The police.
One or more firearms.
Stylish and valuable sneakers.
A negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character), or in general.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
lifestyle
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling |
13852 | word:
heat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
heat (third-person singular simple present heats, present participle heating, simple past and past participle heated or (dialectal) het)
forms:
form:
heats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
heating
tags:
participle
present
form:
heated
tags:
participle
past
form:
heated
tags:
past
form:
het
tags:
dialectal
participle
past
form:
het
tags:
dialectal
past
wikipedia:
heat (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English heten, from Old English hǣtan (“to heat; become hot”), from Proto-Germanic *haitijaną (“to heat, make hot”).
senses_examples:
text:
I'll heat up the water.
type:
example
text:
There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.
type:
example
text:
The massage heated her up.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
To become hotter.
To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
To arouse, to excite (sexually).
senses_topics:
|
13853 | word:
Senegalese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Senegalese (comparative more Senegalese, superlative most Senegalese)
forms:
form:
more Senegalese
tags:
comparative
form:
most Senegalese
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Senegal + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Senegal or the Senegalese people.
senses_topics:
|
13854 | word:
Senegalese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Senegalese (plural Senegalese)
forms:
form:
Senegalese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Senegal + -ese.
senses_examples:
text:
Foreigner who marries a Senegalese is granted permanent residency and can apply for citizenship by naturalization.
ref:
2001, Citizenship Laws of the World, Amer Immigration Lawyers Assn, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
In times of need, it is the mother's brother whom a Senegalese is most likely to approach for aid. The matrilineage is dominated by the tokor ("tuh-CORE"), the oldest man. The tokor holds all the family money.
ref:
2010, Elizabeth Berg, Ruth Wan, Ruth Lau, Senegal, Marshall Cavendish, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
Senghor writes that these texts were collected “by the Abbé Boilat, a Senegalese” in his Grammar of the Wolof Language. Identifying Boilat as “a Senegalese” conflicts with the more ambiguous ways that Boilat actually presents himself[…]
ref:
2019 March 5, Tobias Warner, The Tongue-Tied Imagination: Decolonizing Literary Modernity in Senegal, Fordham Univ Press, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Senegal or of Senegalese descent.
senses_topics:
|
13855 | word:
Sondrio
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sondrio
forms:
wikipedia:
Sondrio
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Lombardy, Italy.
The capital of the province of Sondrio.
senses_topics:
|
13856 | word:
Macerata
word_type:
name
expansion:
Macerata
forms:
wikipedia:
Macerata
etymology_text:
From Italian Macerata.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Marche, Italy.
A town, the capital of Macerata.
senses_topics:
|
13857 | word:
Cameroonian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Cameroonian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Cameroon + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Cameroon, the Cameroonian people or the Cameroonian language.
senses_topics:
|
13858 | word:
Cameroonian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Cameroonian (plural Cameroonians)
forms:
form:
Cameroonians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Cameroon + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Cameroon or of Cameroonian descent.
senses_topics:
|
13859 | word:
Vicenza
word_type:
name
expansion:
Vicenza
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city and associated province of Veneto, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13860 | word:
thirtieth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
thirtieth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier thirteth, from Middle English thrittithe, threttiþe, thrittyde; equivalent to thirty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number thirty.
senses_topics:
|
13861 | word:
thirtieth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thirtieth (plural thirtieths)
forms:
form:
thirtieths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier thirteth, from Middle English thrittithe, threttiþe, thrittyde; equivalent to thirty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the thirtieth position.
One of thirty equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
|
13862 | word:
Viterbo
word_type:
name
expansion:
Viterbo
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Lazio, Italy.
A town, the provincial capital of Viterbo, Lazio, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13863 | word:
Greeklish
word_type:
name
expansion:
Greeklish
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of Greek + English?
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A system for transliterating Greek into the Latin alphabet, either phonetically (for example, transliterating Νίκη as Niki) or orthographically (for example, transliterating Νίκη as Nikh).
senses_topics:
|
13864 | word:
arrow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
arrow (plural arrows)
forms:
form:
arrows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English arwe, from Old English earh (oblique form ēarw-), from Proto-West Germanic *arhu, from Proto-Germanic *arhwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érkʷo- (“bow, arrow”). Cognate with Faroese ørv (“arrow”), Icelandic ör (“arrow”), örvar (“arrows”), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐍈𐌰𐌶𐌽𐌰 (arƕazna, “dart”), Latin arcus (“bow”).
senses_examples:
text:
Consider now the arrow with initial point A and terminal point B; this arrow we shall designate by #x5C;overrightarrow#x7B;AB#x7D;. If a#x5F;1,a#x5F;2,a#x5F;3, and b#x5F;1,b#x5F;2,b#x5F;3 are the coordinates of A and B, respectively, then #x5C;overrightarrow#x7B;AB#x7D; is equal to the arrow #x5C;overrightarrow#x7B;OP#x7D;, where O is the origin of the coordinate system and P has coordinates b#x5F;1-a#x5F;1,b#x5F;2-a#x5F;2,b#x5F;3-a#x5F;3. Thus each arrow is equal to one having the origin as its initial point.
ref:
1968, Robert R. Stoll, Edward T. Wong, Linear Algebra, London: Academic Press, →LCCN, pages 2–3
type:
quotation
text:
The second arrow flew through the air in a drunken parabolic curve and nestled just below the previous dart. Twenty!
“Good arrows!” came from all around the room. Total silence came from the opposition corner.
ref:
2014, John Eaton, It's Gonna Rain All Night, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
When the bulb of the “blowing ball” is operated, a gentle spray, much like what happens in Nature when a sugar cane arrow is shaken by the wind or gently tapped, is given out at the free end of the capsule and can be directed to any portion of the arrow as desired.
ref:
1921, The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, volume 67, page 187
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.
A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g. →).
A directed edge.
A dart.
The -> symbol, which has specific meanings in various programming languages.
The inflorescence or tassel of a mature sugar cane plant.
senses_topics:
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
darts
games
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
13865 | word:
arrow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
arrow (third-person singular simple present arrows, present participle arrowing, simple past and past participle arrowed)
forms:
form:
arrows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
arrowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
arrowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
arrowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English arwe, from Old English earh (oblique form ēarw-), from Proto-West Germanic *arhu, from Proto-Germanic *arhwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érkʷo- (“bow, arrow”). Cognate with Faroese ørv (“arrow”), Icelandic ör (“arrow”), örvar (“arrows”), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐍈𐌰𐌶𐌽𐌰 (arƕazna, “dart”), Latin arcus (“bow”).
senses_examples:
text:
Above his head, a startled bird arrows up, into the sun.
ref:
2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 279
type:
quotation
text:
Jermain Defoe dinked in an equaliser and Gareth Bale hit the crossbar for the hosts before Elliott Bennett arrowed in Norwich's winner.
ref:
2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The more vigorous and luxuriant the vegetation of a field of canes, the less will the tendency to flowering be shewn; whereas nearly all the canes will be found to arrow if the soil be poor and the vegetation meagre.
ref:
1848, Louis Antoine A.G. De Verteuil, Three essays on the cultivation of the sugar-cane in Trinidad, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
In some sugar cane countries efforts are made to harvest the cane crops before the period of arrowing, and in Barbados it is thought that a considerable loss occurs in the yield of sugar if the harvest be delayed and only completed through the arrowing season.
ref:
1903, Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, volume 30, page 374
type:
quotation
text:
It is easily grown and arrows freely. It appears to be of moderate merit only, but might be cautiously tried on a small scale.
ref:
1905, Sugar-Cane Experiments in the Leeward Islands
type:
quotation
text:
Arrow left until you reach the start of the text you want to delete.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow).
To let fly swiftly and directly.
To develop an inflorescence.
To navigate using the arrow keys.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
13866 | word:
arrow
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
arrow
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Representing pronunciation.
senses_examples:
text:
though he hath lived here this many years, I don't believe there is arrow a servant in the house ever saw the colour of his money.
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 153
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of ever a (sometimes used with a redundant a or an).
senses_topics:
|
13867 | word:
Matera
word_type:
name
expansion:
Matera
forms:
wikipedia:
Matera
etymology_text:
From Italian Matera.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Basilicata, Italy.
A city, the capital of Matera province, Basilicata.
senses_topics:
|
13868 | word:
Icelander
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Icelander (plural Icelanders)
forms:
form:
Icelanders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Iceland + -er. Displaced older Middle English Iselandman (“Icelander”, literally “Iceland man, Iceland person”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Iceland or of Icelandic descent.
senses_topics:
|
13869 | word:
Piacenza
word_type:
name
expansion:
Piacenza
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian Piacenza, from Latin Placentia. Doublet of pleasance.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province in Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
A city, the capital of the province of Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna.
senses_topics:
|
13870 | word:
Guatemalan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Guatemalan (plural Guatemalans)
forms:
form:
Guatemalans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Guatemala + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Guatemala or of Guatemalan descent.
senses_topics:
|
13871 | word:
Guatemalan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Guatemalan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Guatemala + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Guatemala or the Guatemalan people.
senses_topics:
|
13872 | word:
Rovigo
word_type:
name
expansion:
Rovigo
forms:
wikipedia:
Rovigo
etymology_text:
From Italian Rovigo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Veneto, Italy.
A commune and town, the capital of the province of Rovigo, Veneto, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13873 | word:
Burundian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Burundian (plural Burundians)
forms:
form:
Burundians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Burundi + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Burundi or of Burundian descent.
senses_topics:
|
13874 | word:
Burundian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Burundian (comparative more Burundian, superlative most Burundian)
forms:
form:
more Burundian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Burundian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Burundi + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Burundi, the Burundian people.
senses_topics:
|
13875 | word:
Acarnanian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Acarnanian (plural Acarnanians)
forms:
form:
Acarnanians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Acarnania + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Acarnania.
senses_topics:
|
13876 | word:
hundredth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hundredth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th. The Old English term was hundtēontigoþa.
senses_examples:
text:
This being Woodie Guthrie’s a hundredth birthday, in the centerpiece of this year’s South by Southwest Conference, I’m also gonna talk a little bit about my musical development and where it intersected with Woodie’s and why.
ref:
2012 March 15, Bruce Springsteen, keynote speech, South by Southwest Music Conference
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number one hundred.
senses_topics:
|
13877 | word:
hundredth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hundredth (plural hundredths)
forms:
form:
hundredths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th. The Old English term was hundtēontigoþa.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the hundredth position.
One of a hundred equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
|
13878 | word:
Epirot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Epirot (plural Epirots)
forms:
form:
Epirots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἠπειρώτης (ēpeirṓtēs), from ἤπειρος (ḗpeiros, “mainland, inland country”).
senses_examples:
text:
he would cry out as Pyrrhus did, admiring the Roman docility and courage, if such were my Epirots, I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted to make a Church or Kingdom happy.
ref:
1644, John Milton, Areopagitica
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or a resident of ancient or modern Epirus, in northwest Greece and southern Albania.
senses_topics:
|
13879 | word:
Vibo Valentia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Vibo Valentia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Calabria, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13880 | word:
Thesprotian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Thesprotian (plural Thesprotians)
forms:
form:
Thesprotians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Thesprotia + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or a resident of Thesprotia in western Epirus, Greece.
senses_topics:
|
13881 | word:
lad
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lad (plural lads)
forms:
form:
lads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ladde (“foot soldier, servant; male commoner; boy”), from late Old English *ladda (attested in Old English personal byname Ladda), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Old Norse ladd (“hose, woolen stocking; sock”), which may have undergone semantic shift to mean a term of abuse (e.g. foolish youth, youngster of lower social status, etc.); thence by connotative amelioration coming to mean any young fellow. Compare Norwegian ladd (“rough sock, woolen or felt slipper”) and the -ladd in compounds Askeladd/Askeladden (a nickname in fairy tales, "Ash Lad") and tusseladd (“nincompoop”). See also Swedish ladder (“old shoes”), lodde (“Frisian shoe”), lädder (“socks”), all said to be related to Old Norse loðinn (“hairy, shaggy, woolly”), loddi (“shaggy dog”).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: lass
text:
How great is that danger, to which poor lads are now exposed, when placed on shipboard to learn the art of sailing! Five lads, training up for the seas, were now on board this ship; […]
ref:
1776, John Woolman, chapter XI, in A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman, […], Dublin: Printed by R. Jackson, page 209
type:
quotation
text:
The lad, his son, had obtained a Jew's-harp, and learned to play upon it the profane airs of "Yankee Doodle," "Hail Columbia," "St. Patrick's Day," and "Auld Lang Syne."
ref:
1850, T. S. Arthur, “Deacon Smith and his Violin”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: ladette
text:
I think he reckons he’s a bit of a lad.
type:
example
text:
Last night I was out drinking with the lads.
type:
example
text:
Come here, lad, and help me shift these boxes.
type:
example
text:
— The lad stood to attention anyhow, he said with a sigh. She's a gamey mare and no mistake.
ref:
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, page 225
type:
quotation
text:
Mrs Glynn: Oh but there's this great bit in it. You see, there was this girl, but then you find out it's not a girl but a man!
Mrs Sheridan: And he got his lad out.
ref:
1995 May 5, Graham Linehan, Arthur Matthews, “The Passion of St Tibulus”, in Father Ted
type:
quotation
text:
And he loaded the chariot with clods and boulders and cobbles that he fired at anyone who came to stare at him and jeer him, stark naked as he was, with his long lad and his acorns dangling down through the floor of the chariot.
ref:
2007, anonymous author, translated by Ciaran Carson, The Táin, page 175
type:
quotation
text:
Just thinking about how she would look without her clothes made his lad twitch with anticipation.
ref:
2010, Loucinda McGary, The Wild Irish Sea: A Windswept Tale of Love and Magic, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A boy or young man.
A hedonistic or irresponsible young man; A Jack the lad.
A familiar term of address for a young man.
A groom who works with horses.
The penis.
senses_topics:
|
13882 | word:
Livorno
word_type:
name
expansion:
Livorno
forms:
wikipedia:
Livorno
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian Livorno, from Old Italian Legorno, from Latin Liburnus, from Liburnī, name of the ancient population of Liburnians. Doublet of Leghorn.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Tuscany, Italy.
A city, the capital of Livorno, Italy; port on the Ligurian Sea.
senses_topics:
|
13883 | word:
goalie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
goalie (plural goalies)
forms:
form:
goalies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of goalkeeper, goaltender + -ie.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A goalkeeper or goaltender.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
13884 | word:
goalie
word_type:
verb
expansion:
goalie (third-person singular simple present goalies, present participle goalieing, simple past and past participle goalied)
forms:
form:
goalies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
goalieing
tags:
participle
present
form:
goalied
tags:
participle
past
form:
goalied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of goalkeeper, goaltender + -ie.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act as a goalie, to tend the goals, to mind the net.
senses_topics:
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports |
13885 | word:
good-for-nothing
word_type:
adj
expansion:
good-for-nothing (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Useless; worthless.
senses_topics:
|
13886 | word:
good-for-nothing
word_type:
noun
expansion:
good-for-nothing (plural good-for-nothings)
forms:
form:
good-for-nothings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Americans might have taken some comfort from the fact that these critics also expressed similar misgivings about Rhodes Scholars coming from elsewhere. Isis, a student publication, lampooned Australians as good-for-nothings who badly needed education.
ref:
2010, Thomas J. Schaeper, Kathleen Schaeper, “Yanks and Brits”, in Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite, New York, NY: Berghahn Books, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person of little worth or usefulness.
senses_topics:
|
13887 | word:
Treviso
word_type:
name
expansion:
Treviso
forms:
wikipedia:
Treviso
etymology_text:
From Italian Treviso.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Veneto, Italy.
A town, the capital of Treviso province, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13888 | word:
Honduran
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Honduran (plural Hondurans)
forms:
form:
Hondurans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Honduras or of Honduran descent.
senses_topics:
|
13889 | word:
Honduran
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Honduran (comparative more Honduran, superlative most Honduran)
forms:
form:
more Honduran
tags:
comparative
form:
most Honduran
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Honduras or the Honduran people.
senses_topics:
|
13890 | word:
arcadian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
arcadian (comparative more arcadian, superlative most arcadian)
forms:
form:
more arcadian
tags:
comparative
form:
most arcadian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From arcade + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to an arcade.
Furnished with arcades.
Ideally rustic or pastoral.
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing |
13891 | word:
New York
word_type:
name
expansion:
New York
forms:
wikipedia:
Charles II of England
James II of England
Province of New York
etymology_text:
From New + York. While sharing a name with the city in northern England, the American place name originated with the English colonial Province of New York (previously Dutch colony New Amsterdam), named in 1664 by King Charles II for his younger brother James, Duke of York, to whom the land was granted; New York's eponymous Duke of York himself was later crowned King James II.
senses_examples:
text:
New York is a former capital of the USA.
type:
example
text:
The capital of New York State is Albany, not New York City.
type:
example
text:
The New York County District Attorney only has jurisdiction in Manhattan; each of the five boroughs of New York City elects its own DA.
type:
example
text:
In my recent strategic update, I go into great detail about how Russians want to encircle New York, which is located right between Chasiv Yar and Avdiivka.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The largest city in the state of New York and the largest city in the United States, a metropolis extending into neighboring New Jersey.
A state of the United States.
New York County, a county of New York, coterminous with the Borough of Manhattan.
A former colony of England, from 1664 to 1707, and of Great Britain, from 1707 to 1776.
An urban-type settlement in Toretsk urban hromada, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine (co-ordinates: 48°19′55″N 37°50′11″E).
A few places in England:
A village in Wildmore parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire (OS grid ref TF2455).
A few places in England:
A settlement in Hartwith cum Winsley parish, Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE1962).
A few places in England:
A suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK4292).
A few places in England:
A suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear (OS grid ref NZ3270).
senses_topics:
|
13892 | word:
Sudanese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Sudanese (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Sudanese
etymology_text:
From Sudan + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Sudan, or the Sudanese people.
senses_topics:
|
13893 | word:
Sudanese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Sudanese (plural Sudanese)
forms:
form:
Sudanese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Sudanese
etymology_text:
From Sudan + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Sudan or of Sudanese descent.
senses_topics:
|
13894 | word:
fiftieth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fiftieth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier fifteth, from Middle English fiftithe, fyftith; equivalent to fifty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number fifty.
senses_topics:
|
13895 | word:
fiftieth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fiftieth (plural fiftieths)
forms:
form:
fiftieths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier fifteth, from Middle English fiftithe, fyftith; equivalent to fifty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the fiftieth position.
One of fifty equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
|
13896 | word:
nice
word_type:
adj
expansion:
nice (comparative nicer, superlative nicest)
forms:
form:
nicer
tags:
comparative
form:
nicest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nyce, nice, nys, from Old French nice, niche, nisce (“simple, foolish, ignorant”), from Latin nescius (“ignorant, not knowing”); compare nesciō (“to know not, be ignorant of”), from ne (“not”) + sciō (“to know”).
senses_examples:
text:
When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo)
ref:
1998, “Who Let the Dogs Out?”, performed by Baha Men
type:
quotation
text:
What's difficult is when you think someone is saying something nice about you, but you're not quite sure.
ref:
2008 April 19, Rachel Cooke, quoting David Lodge, “Nice work”, in The Observer, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
What is a nice person like you doing in a place like this?
type:
example
text:
The soup is nice and hot.
type:
example
text:
For Candy Crush Saga, the critics were far nicer than the audience (7.9/10 vs. 3.2/10). https://www.metacritic.com/game/candy-crush-saga/
text:
a nice way of putting it
type:
example
text:
Mr Blifil, I am confident, understands himself better than to think of seeing my niece any more this morning, after what hath happened. Women are of a nice contexture; and our spirits, when disordered, are not to be recomposed in a moment.
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
type:
quotation
text:
But if I dispense with the dreams of neurotics, my main material, I cannot be too nice [translating wählerisch] in my dealings with the remainder.
ref:
1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
Choice, nice in eating; fastidiosus in edendo.
ref:
1898, Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller, “cís”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 156
type:
quotation
text:
Good company requires only birth, education and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential.
ref:
1818, Jane Austen, chapter 16, in Persuasion
type:
quotation
text:
"It's her own funeral, you know," said Sir Lulworth; "it's a nice point in etiquette how far one ought to show respect to one's own mortal remains."
ref:
1914, Saki, Laura
type:
quotation
text:
It would be a nice theological point to try and establish whether Ophis is Moslem or gnostic.
ref:
1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
Why it should have attained such longevity is a nice question.
ref:
2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 242
type:
quotation
text:
It has been a damned nice thing - the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life.
ref:
1822 July 28, T. Creevey, Reminiscences
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pleasant, satisfactory.
Of a person: friendly, attractive.
Respectable; virtuous.
Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite.
Giving a favorable review or having a favorable impression.
Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemly
Silly, ignorant; foolish.
Particular in one's conduct; scrupulous, painstaking; choosy.
Having particular tastes; fussy, fastidious.
Particular as regards rules or qualities; strict.
Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.
Easily injured; delicate; dainty.
Doubtful, as to the outcome; risky.
senses_topics:
|
13897 | word:
nice
word_type:
adv
expansion:
nice (comparative nicer, superlative nicest)
forms:
form:
nicer
tags:
comparative
form:
nicest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nyce, nice, nys, from Old French nice, niche, nisce (“simple, foolish, ignorant”), from Latin nescius (“ignorant, not knowing”); compare nesciō (“to know not, be ignorant of”), from ne (“not”) + sciō (“to know”).
senses_examples:
text:
Children, play nice.
type:
example
text:
He dresses real nice.
type:
example
text:
This riesling's going down nice.
ref:
2002, Gina Riley, Jane Turner, That's Unusual: Scripts from Kath and Kim, Series 2, page 245
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nicely.
senses_topics:
|
13898 | word:
nice
word_type:
intj
expansion:
nice!
forms:
form:
nice!
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nyce, nice, nys, from Old French nice, niche, nisce (“simple, foolish, ignorant”), from Latin nescius (“ignorant, not knowing”); compare nesciō (“to know not, be ignorant of”), from ne (“not”) + sciō (“to know”).
senses_examples:
text:
Nice! I couldn't have done better.
type:
example
text:
Is that your new car? Nice!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to signify a job well done.
Used to signify approval.
senses_topics:
|
13899 | word:
nice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nice (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nyce, nice, nys, from Old French nice, niche, nisce (“simple, foolish, ignorant”), from Latin nescius (“ignorant, not knowing”); compare nesciō (“to know not, be ignorant of”), from ne (“not”) + sciō (“to know”).
senses_examples:
text:
She had refused as kindly as she know how, using up as much nice as she had energy for because she was glad of his company when three o'clock rolled around and she started thinking about September.
ref:
2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
We could debate forever about whether we have enough of one or too much of another. But I know one thing for sure: We never have too much nice.
ref:
2013, Todd Whitaker, What Great Teachers Do Differently: 17 Things That Matter Most
type:
quotation
text:
It is the absence of rules and too much nice that are more likely to produce terror.
ref:
2014, Jean Illsley Clarke, Connie Dawson, David Bredehoft, How Much Is Too Much?
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
niceness.
senses_topics:
|
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