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13900 | word:
nice
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nice (third-person singular simple present nices, present participle nicing, simple past and past participle niced)
forms:
form:
nices
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nicing
tags:
participle
present
form:
niced
tags:
participle
past
form:
niced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
nice (Unix)
etymology_text:
Name of a Unix program used to invoke a script or program with a specified priority, with the implication that running at a lower priority is "nice" (kind, etc.) because it leaves more resources for others.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
13901 | word:
Prato
word_type:
name
expansion:
Prato
forms:
wikipedia:
Prato
etymology_text:
From Italian Prato.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Tuscany, Italy.
The capital city of the province of Prato, Tuscany, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13902 | word:
share
word_type:
noun
expansion:
share (plural shares)
forms:
form:
shares
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
share
etymology_text:
From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English sċearu (“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a division, detachment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian skar, sker (“a share in a communal pasture”), Dutch schare (“share in property”), German Schar (“band, troop, party, company”), Icelandic skor (“department”). Compare shard, shear. Doublet of eschel.
senses_examples:
text:
Each of the robbers took a share of the loot.
type:
example
text:
The TV programme was cancelled because it only gained a 10% share of that night's viewing audience.
type:
example
text:
SWR has more than its fair share of major national events. As well as the [Queen's] funeral and the coronation in the past 12 months, annual events include racing at Ascot, grand slam tennis at Wimbledon, and rugby internationals at Twickenham.
ref:
2023 July 26, Paul Clifton, “A (safe and secure) Day at the Races...”, in RAIL, number 988, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.
type:
example
text:
Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.
ref:
2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book
type:
quotation
text:
[…] [H]ee stabbed him beneth in the very share neere unto his privie parts. [Dom.17]
ref:
1606, Suetonius, translated by Philemon Holland, De Vita Cæsarum
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
The sharebone or pubis.
senses_topics:
business
finance
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
13903 | word:
share
word_type:
verb
expansion:
share (third-person singular simple present shares, present participle sharing, simple past and past participle shared)
forms:
form:
shares
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sharing
tags:
participle
present
form:
shared
tags:
participle
past
form:
shared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
share
etymology_text:
From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English sċearu (“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a division, detachment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian skar, sker (“a share in a communal pasture”), Dutch schare (“share in property”), German Schar (“band, troop, party, company”), Icelandic skor (“department”). Compare shard, shear. Doublet of eschel.
senses_examples:
text:
to share a shelter with another
type:
example
text:
They share a language.
type:
example
text:
The Kleine Scheidegg is quite a colony, with its railway station, shared by the Wengernalp and Jungfrau Railways, its commodious station buffet and two large hotels.
ref:
1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752
type:
quotation
text:
He shared his story with the press.
type:
example
text:
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […] offering services that let you[…]“share the things you love with the world” and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref:
2013 May 10, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
To have or use in common.
To divide and distribute.
To tell to another.
To allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
13904 | word:
share
word_type:
noun
expansion:
share (plural shares)
forms:
form:
shares
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
share
etymology_text:
From Middle English share, schare, shaar, from Old English sċear, sċær (“ploughshare”), from Proto-Germanic *skaraz (“ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate with Dutch schaar (“ploughshare”), dialectal German Schar (“ploughshare”), Danish (plov)skær (“ploughshare”). More at shear.
senses_examples:
text:
The golden harvest, of a mellow brown,
Upturn'd so lately by the fearful share.
ref:
1785, William Cowper, The Task, Book IV
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
lifestyle |
13905 | word:
share
word_type:
verb
expansion:
share (third-person singular simple present shares, present participle sharing, simple past and past participle shared)
forms:
form:
shares
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sharing
tags:
participle
present
form:
shared
tags:
participle
past
form:
shared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
share
etymology_text:
From Middle English share, schare, shaar, from Old English sċear, sċær (“ploughshare”), from Proto-Germanic *skaraz (“ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate with Dutch schaar (“ploughshare”), dialectal German Schar (“ploughshare”), Danish (plov)skær (“ploughshare”). More at shear.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
senses_topics:
|
13906 | word:
Chilean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Chilean (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Chile + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to the nation or culture of Chile or its people.
senses_topics:
|
13907 | word:
Chilean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Chilean (plural Chileans)
forms:
form:
Chileans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Chile + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Chile or of Chilean descent.
senses_topics:
|
13908 | word:
indulge
word_type:
verb
expansion:
indulge (third-person singular simple present indulges, present participle indulging, simple past and past participle indulged)
forms:
form:
indulges
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
indulging
tags:
participle
present
form:
indulged
tags:
participle
past
form:
indulged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin indulgeō (“I indulge”).
senses_examples:
text:
He looked at the chocolate but didn't indulge.
type:
example
text:
I indulged in drinking on the weekend.
type:
example
text:
Richardson took over, and Mitchell proceeded to the refreshment room in his turn, but when he came back some ten minutes later, it was evident that he had been indulging in something more potent than coffee, and he was in a very muddled state.
ref:
1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
How can the unions - or more specifically the RMT - possibly think this is a good time to exert a bit of industrial muscle and indulge in strikes both on the national railway and the London Underground?
ref:
2022 January 12, Christian Wolmar, “A new year... but the same old mistakes are being made”, in RAIL, number 948, pages 40–41
type:
quotation
text:
Grandma indulges the kids with sweets.
type:
example
text:
I love to indulge myself with beautiful clothes.
type:
example
text:
August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet
Hope in another life implies that we indulge ourselves in the gratifications of this very sparingly.
text:
"She constantly faked being sick, and perhaps mistakenly, I indulged her more than I should have, pretending I couldn't tell. But I AM a teacher myself, so it's kind of hard to just let this slide."
ref:
2013, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain, volume 1, page 193
type:
quotation
text:
It’s the kind of scenario Peter Sellers might have dreamt up while brushing his teeth, and some of the comic set-pieces – including Nobby’s seduction of a fabulously overweight maid (Gabourey Sidibe) at a luxurious South African hotel – allow Baron Cohen to indulge his Sellersian fantasies to a previously unprecedented degree.
ref:
2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London)
type:
quotation
text:
Internet shopping invites you to gaze out upon the entire bazaar all at once and to indulge the merest whim
ref:
2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To yield to a temptation or desire.
To satisfy the wishes or whims of.
To give way to (a habit or temptation); to not oppose or restrain.
To grant an extension to the deadline of a payment.
To grant as by favour; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.
senses_topics:
|
13909 | word:
Oristano
word_type:
name
expansion:
Oristano
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian Oristano.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Sardinia, Italy.
The capital city of the province of Oristano, Sardinia, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13910 | word:
Udine
word_type:
name
expansion:
Udine
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian Udine.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city and comune in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13911 | word:
kilogramme
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kilogramme (plural kilogrammes)
forms:
form:
kilogrammes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dated spelling of kilogram.
senses_topics:
|
13912 | word:
Grenadian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Grenadian (plural Grenadians)
forms:
form:
Grenadians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Grenada + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Grenada or of Grenadian descent.
senses_topics:
|
13913 | word:
Grenadian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Grenadian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Grenada + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
We agreed that the operation would have to be mounted under conditions of the strictest secrecy, so that the Grenadian forces and Cubans on Grenada would not have time to bring in reinforcements or to make a run for the American students at St. George's University Medical School.
ref:
1990, Ronald Reagan, An American Life, Pocket Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 450
type:
quotation
text:
They invited him to Grenadian feasts in their house near the Oval.
ref:
2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 225
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Grenada, the Grenadian people or the Grenadian language.
senses_topics:
|
13914 | word:
firefighter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
firefighter (plural firefighters)
forms:
form:
firefighters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From fire + fighter. Created as a gender-neutral term for fireman and firewoman.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who has been trained to put out fires.
senses_topics:
|
13915 | word:
Argolis
word_type:
name
expansion:
Argolis
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Ἀργολίς (Argolís).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A regional unit in eastern Peloponnese, Greece, which has its modern capital at Nafplio. Its original capital was at Argos.
senses_topics:
|
13916 | word:
Sassari
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sassari
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian Sassari.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city and associated province of Sardinia, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13917 | word:
cola
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cola (countable and uncountable, plural colas)
forms:
form:
colas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Cola (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From a Niger-Congo language, compare Temne kola, Mandinka kola. The beverage "Coca-Cola" was what made the term widely known, and popularized the spelling with c instead of k.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.
senses_topics:
|
13918 | word:
cola
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cola
forms:
wikipedia:
en:Cola (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
See colon.
senses_examples:
text:
In this part, the author presents a prosodic hierarchy describing syllables, moras, feet, cola and a typology for words and stress.
ref:
2008, Alexandre Allauzen, Review of “Mathematical Linguistics” by Andras Kornai
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of colon
senses_topics:
|
13919 | word:
cola
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cola (plural colas)
forms:
form:
colas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Cola (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant.
senses_topics:
|
13920 | word:
Malawian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Malawian (plural Malawians)
forms:
form:
Malawians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malawi + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Malawi or of Malawian descent.
senses_topics:
|
13921 | word:
Malawian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Malawian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malawi + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Malawi or the Malawian people.
senses_topics:
|
13922 | word:
bang
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bang (plural bangs)
forms:
form:
bangs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Boston left
bang
etymology_text:
From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bangōną (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Scots bang, bung (“to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend”), Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga ("to hammer"; whence modern Swedish banka (“to knock, pound, bang”)), Danish banke (“to beat”), bengel (“club”), Low German bangen, bangeln (“to strike, beat”), West Frisian bingel, bongel, Dutch bengel (“bell; rascal”), German Bengel (“club”), bungen (“to throb, pulsate”).
In the sense of a fringe of hair, from bang off.
In the sense of abrupt left turn, from Boston left and associated risk of a crash.
senses_examples:
text:
When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang.
type:
example
text:
A fiendish yell then followed / Ev'ry salvo's 'bang' and 'bloop'.
ref:
1992, Bob Magor, Blood on the Board, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
Tiffany has long hair and bangs.
type:
example
text:
his hair cut in front like a young lady's bang
ref:
1880, William Dean Howells, The Undiscovered Country
type:
quotation
text:
She was not much to look at. Her red hair hung in an uncurled bang over her forehead
ref:
1902, Barbara Baynton, Squeaker's Mate; reprinted in Carmel Bird, editor, The Penguin Century of Australian Stories, 2000
type:
quotation
text:
An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path.
type:
example
text:
Incidentally, a useful abbreviation for "Exclamation point" is "Bang."
ref:
1980, C.W. Wilkinson, Peter H. Clarke, Dorothy C.M. Wilkinson, Communicating through Letters and Reports, 7th edition, page 651
type:
quotation
text:
Load the bang into the hole.
type:
example
text:
There was a bang of onions off his breath.
type:
example
text:
"We all know you give great parties, Mr. Lippincott."
"It gives me a bang, even a bigger bang than this," Mr. Lippincott said, indicating his drink and then finishing it.
ref:
1993, Douglas Woolf, Sandra Braman, Hypocritic Days & Other Tales, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
Yes, he got a bang out of cheating Rollo.
ref:
2000, James Hadley Chase, Make the Corpse Walk, page 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sudden percussive noise.
A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
An explosion.
Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across.
The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
An act of sexual intercourse.
An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
An explosive product.
An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).
An abrupt left turn.
strong smell (of)
A thrill.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
business
mining
|
13923 | word:
bang
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bang (third-person singular simple present bangs, present participle banging, simple past and past participle banged)
forms:
form:
bangs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
banging
tags:
participle
present
form:
banged
tags:
participle
past
form:
banged
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
bang
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Boston left
bang
etymology_text:
From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bangōną (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Scots bang, bung (“to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend”), Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga ("to hammer"; whence modern Swedish banka (“to knock, pound, bang”)), Danish banke (“to beat”), bengel (“club”), Low German bangen, bangeln (“to strike, beat”), West Frisian bingel, bongel, Dutch bengel (“bell; rascal”), German Bengel (“club”), bungen (“to throb, pulsate”).
In the sense of a fringe of hair, from bang off.
In the sense of abrupt left turn, from Boston left and associated risk of a crash.
senses_examples:
text:
The fireworks banged away all through the night.
type:
example
text:
Stop banging on the door. I heard you the first time!
type:
example
text:
My head was banging after drinking all night at the concert.
type:
example
text:
He banged the door shut.
type:
example
text:
David and Mary banged into each other.
type:
example
text:
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
We can hear the couple banging upstairs.
type:
example
text:
It's also my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
ref:
1996, Cameron Crowe, Jerry Maguire, spoken by Bob Sugar (Jay Mohr), Culver City, Calif.: TriStar Pictures; distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Video, published 1997
type:
quotation
text:
Moe Greene: He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time!
ref:
1972, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather
type:
quotation
text:
Hold the picture while I bang in this nail.
type:
example
text:
His hair banged even with his eyebrows.
ref:
c. 1883, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Becomin a Zuni
type:
quotation
text:
Do you smoke meth? No, I bang it.
type:
example
text:
This accompt has been made to appear a bull accompt, i.e. that the bulls cannot take their stock. The fact is the reverse; it is a bear accompt, but the bears, unable to deliver their stock, have conjointly banged the market, and pocketed the tickets, to defeat the rise and loss that would have ensued to them by their buying on a rising price on the accompt day […]
ref:
1821, Bank of England, The Bank - The Stock Exchange - The Bankers ..., page 64
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the London "Bears" have promptly banged the market again […]
ref:
1902, Truth, volume 50, page 1138
type:
quotation
text:
This song bangs!
type:
example
text:
Bang a right at the next stoplight.
type:
example
text:
You know I still bang.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
To hit hard.
To engage in sexual intercourse.
To hammer or to hit anything hard.
To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
To inject intravenously.
To depress the prices in (a market).
To excel or surpass.
To be excellent; to be banging
To fail, especially an exam; to flunk.
To make a turn in a vehicle; to hang a right, left, or uey.
Shortened form of gangbang, to participate in street gang criminal activity.
senses_topics:
drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
business
finance
|
13924 | word:
bang
word_type:
adv
expansion:
bang (comparative more bang, superlative most bang)
forms:
form:
more bang
tags:
comparative
form:
most bang
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Boston left
bang
etymology_text:
From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bangōną (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Scots bang, bung (“to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend”), Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga ("to hammer"; whence modern Swedish banka (“to knock, pound, bang”)), Danish banke (“to beat”), bengel (“club”), Low German bangen, bangeln (“to strike, beat”), West Frisian bingel, bongel, Dutch bengel (“bell; rascal”), German Bengel (“club”), bungen (“to throb, pulsate”).
In the sense of a fringe of hair, from bang off.
In the sense of abrupt left turn, from Boston left and associated risk of a crash.
senses_examples:
text:
The passenger door was bang against the garage wall.
type:
example
text:
After yet another missed penalty by Kvirikashvili from bang in front of the posts, England scored again, centre Tuilagi flying into the line and touching down under the bar.
ref:
2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
He arrived bang on time.
type:
example
text:
Distracted, he ran bang into the opening door.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Right, directly.
Precisely.
With a sudden impact.
senses_topics:
|
13925 | word:
bang
word_type:
intj
expansion:
bang
forms:
wikipedia:
Boston left
bang
etymology_text:
From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bangōną (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Scots bang, bung (“to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend”), Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga ("to hammer"; whence modern Swedish banka (“to knock, pound, bang”)), Danish banke (“to beat”), bengel (“club”), Low German bangen, bangeln (“to strike, beat”), West Frisian bingel, bongel, Dutch bengel (“bell; rascal”), German Bengel (“club”), bungen (“to throb, pulsate”).
In the sense of a fringe of hair, from bang off.
In the sense of abrupt left turn, from Boston left and associated risk of a crash.
senses_examples:
text:
He pointed his finger at her like a gun and said, “Bang!”
type:
example
text:
“Just like parade it had been a minute before then stumble, bang, swish! Wiped out!” he said.
ref:
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
We help to kill the bloody bandits. Bang, bang, bang.
ref:
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.
senses_topics:
|
13926 | word:
bang
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bang (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
bang
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of bhang (“cannabis”)
senses_topics:
|
13927 | word:
Pordenone
word_type:
name
expansion:
Pordenone
forms:
wikipedia:
Pordenone
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian Pordenone.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.
The capital city of the province of Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13928 | word:
Thessaly
word_type:
name
expansion:
Thessaly
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Θεσσαλία (Thessalía).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A region in north-central Greece; one of its 13 peripheries. It contains the prefectures of Karditsa, Larissa, Magnesia and Trikala.
senses_topics:
|
13929 | word:
Messenia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Messenia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A regional unit in the south-western Peloponnese, Greece, which has its modern capital at Kalamata. The original capital was at Messene.
senses_topics:
|
13930 | word:
Nikolas
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nikolas
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transliteration of the Greek male given name Νικόλας (Nikólas) used in Greece.
senses_topics:
|
13931 | word:
Colombian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Colombian (plural Colombians)
forms:
form:
Colombians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Colombian
etymology_text:
From Colombia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Colombia.
A native or inhabitant of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
senses_topics:
|
13932 | word:
Colombian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Colombian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Colombian
etymology_text:
From Colombia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from or relating to Colombia.
senses_topics:
|
13933 | word:
Libyan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Libyan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Libya + -an. English since the 16th century.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Libya.
senses_topics:
|
13934 | word:
Libyan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Libyan (plural Libyans)
forms:
form:
Libyans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Libya + -an. English since the 16th century.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Libya or of Libyan descent.
senses_topics:
|
13935 | word:
Libyan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Libyan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Libya + -an. English since the 16th century.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Libyan Arabic language.
senses_topics:
|
13936 | word:
Terni
word_type:
name
expansion:
Terni
forms:
wikipedia:
Terni
etymology_text:
From Italian Terni.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Umbria, Italy.
The capital city of the province of Terni, Umbria, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13937 | word:
Bangladeshi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Bangladeshi (plural Bangladeshis)
forms:
form:
Bangladeshis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Bangladesh + -i. Borrowed from Bengali বাংলাদেশী (baṅladeśi).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Bangladesh or person of Bangladeshi descent.
senses_topics:
|
13938 | word:
Bangladeshi
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Bangladeshi (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Bangladesh + -i. Borrowed from Bengali বাংলাদেশী (baṅladeśi).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Bangladesh.
senses_topics:
|
13939 | word:
Latina
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Latina (plural Latinas)
forms:
form:
Latinas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish latina; see Latino for more.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Latin American woman. (Compare Latino.)
senses_topics:
|
13940 | word:
Latina
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Latina (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish latina; see Latino for more.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of Latin American descent and female.
senses_topics:
|
13941 | word:
Latina
word_type:
name
expansion:
Latina
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian Latina.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Lazio, Italy.
A town, the provincial capital of Latina, Lazio, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13942 | word:
belt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
belt (plural belts)
forms:
form:
belts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
belt
etymology_text:
From Middle English belt, from Old English belt (“belt, girdle”), from Proto-West Germanic *baltī̆, from Proto-Germanic *baltijaz (“girdle, belt”), from Latin balteus (“belt, sword-belt”), of Etruscan origin. Cognate with Scots belt (“belt”), Dutch belt, German Balz (“belt”), Danish bælte (“belt”), Swedish bälte (“belt, cincture, girdle, zone”) and Icelandic belti (“belt”).
senses_examples:
text:
As part of the act, the fat clown's belt broke, causing his pants to fall down.
type:
example
text:
Keep your belt fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride.
type:
example
text:
The motor had a single belt that snaked its way back and forth around a variety of wheels.
type:
example
text:
a belt of trees; a belt of sand
type:
example
text:
the heavyweight belt
type:
example
text:
The battleship was protected by a twelve-inch belt just above the waterline.
type:
example
text:
After the bouncer gave him a solid belt to the gut, Simon had suddenly had enough of bar fights.
type:
example
text:
Care to join me in a belt of scotch?
type:
example
text:
That umpire called that pitch a strike at the belt.
type:
example
text:
Both auditionees had great ranges but Diamond had the strong belt we really need for the finale.
type:
example
text:
As previously mentioned, there was unexpected behavior in laryngeal lowering for belt in several singers and unchanged laryngeal height for two, as well as stable opening or widening of the pharyngeal walls, which must be investigated further.
ref:
1999, Jeannette Lovetri, Susan Lesh, Peak Woo, “Preliminary Study on the Ability of Trained Singers to Control the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Laryngeal Musculature”, in Journal of Voice, volume 13, number 2, →DOI, page 226
type:
quotation
text:
In Clara's furious rant in Act II, Allsun broke out of her soprano into a belt, which made perfect sense in the moment.
ref:
2018, Norman Spivey, Mary Saunder Barton, Cross-Training in the Voice Studio: A Balancing Act, Plural Publishing, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
This belt of deformed platform sediments parallels the suture running east-to-west across the north of the region, which was left when the ocean basin that originally separated the two ancient continents on either side of it was consumed by subduction.
type:
example
text:
Most foreland fold and thrust belts are linear or arcuate belts of folds and thrust faults that form a marginal part of an orogenic belt between an undeformed craton and a more intensely deformed inner zone.
ref:
1980, B. C. Burchfiel, “Foreland Fold and Thrust Belts—Review”, in AAPG Bulletin, volume 64, number 5, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, →DOI, page 684
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
A quick drink of liquor.
A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
A mostly-continuous, often curvilinear structure expressed on the surface and/or in the subsurface of a terrestrial planet or other solid planemo, such as a mountain belt, a fold and thrust belt, or an ore belt.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
entertainment
lifestyle
music
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
13943 | word:
belt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
belt (third-person singular simple present belts, present participle belting, simple past and past participle belted)
forms:
form:
belts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
belting
tags:
participle
present
form:
belted
tags:
participle
past
form:
belted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
belt
etymology_text:
From Middle English belt, from Old English belt (“belt, girdle”), from Proto-West Germanic *baltī̆, from Proto-Germanic *baltijaz (“girdle, belt”), from Latin balteus (“belt, sword-belt”), of Etruscan origin. Cognate with Scots belt (“belt”), Dutch belt, German Balz (“belt”), Danish bælte (“belt”), Swedish bälte (“belt, cincture, girdle, zone”) and Icelandic belti (“belt”).
senses_examples:
text:
The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.
type:
example
text:
Edgar belted himself in and turned the car's ignition.
type:
example
text:
The rotund man had difficulty belting his pants, and generally wore suspenders to avoid the issue.
type:
example
text:
The child was misbehaving so he was belted as punishment.
type:
example
text:
He belted out the national anthem.
(Perhaps a derivative or cognate of English bellow, West Frisian balte (“to howl, shriek”).)
type:
example
text:
Céline Dion belted her iconic song "My Heart Will Go On" in a show-stopping performance at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards on May 21. The legendary singer gave the throwback performance in honor of the 20th anniversary of the hit song from the Titanic soundtrack.
ref:
2017 May 22, Mallory Carra, “Celine Dion Is Making Everyone Cry”, in Bustle, BDG Media, retrieved 2022-01-01
type:
quotation
text:
He belted down a shot of whisky.
type:
example
text:
The angry player belted the official across the face, and as a result was ejected from the game.
type:
example
text:
Bobby belting the ball
ref:
1996, “Three Lions”, performed by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner
type:
quotation
text:
He belted that pitch over the grandstand.
type:
example
text:
He was really belting along.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To encircle.
To fasten a belt on.
To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
To hit with a belt.
To scream or sing in a loud manner.
To drink quickly, often in gulps.
To hit someone or something.
To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
To move very fast.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
13944 | word:
Bologna
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bologna (countable and uncountable, plural Bolognas)
forms:
form:
Bolognas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bologna
etymology_text:
From Italian Bologna, from Latin Bonōnia, ultimately from Celtic. Doublet of Boleyn and Boulogne.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
A city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, the capital of Bologna and also of Emilia-Romagna.
A habitational surname from Italian.
senses_topics:
|
13945 | word:
Varese
word_type:
name
expansion:
Varese
forms:
wikipedia:
Varese
etymology_text:
From Italian Varese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Lombardy, Italy.
The capital city of the province of Varese, Lombardy, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13946 | word:
Savona
word_type:
name
expansion:
Savona (countable and uncountable, plural Savonas)
forms:
form:
Savonas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Savona
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian Savona.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Liguria, Italy.
The capital city of the province of Savona, Liguria, Italy.
A community on Kamloops Lake, British Columbia, Canada.
A village in Bath, Steuben County, New York, United States, named after Savona, Italy.
An unincorporated community in Darke County, Ohio, United States.
A surname from Italian.
senses_topics:
|
13947 | word:
Rieti
word_type:
name
expansion:
Rieti
forms:
wikipedia:
Rieti
etymology_text:
From Italian Rieti.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Lazio, Italy.
The capital city of the province of Rieti, Lazio, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13948 | word:
pop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pop (countable and uncountable, plural pops)
forms:
form:
pops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:pop
etymology_text:
From Middle English pop, poppe (“a blow; strike; buffet”) (> Middle English poppen (“to strike; thrust”, verb)), of onomatopoeic origin – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions. The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.
senses_examples:
text:
Listen to the pop of a champagne cork.
type:
example
text:
Lunch was sandwiches and a bottle of pop.
type:
example
text:
The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon pop.
ref:
1941 September 8, LIFE, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
Go in the store and buy us three pops.
type:
example
text:
The man with the gun took a pop at the rabbit.
type:
example
text:
They cost 50 pence a pop.
type:
example
text:
British rockers Radiohead solved the "music is dead" dispute last year by allowing fans to name a price for the group's new album, In Rainbows. (More than a million albums sold in the first week alone, at an average $8 a pop).
ref:
2008 January–February, Matt Bean, “Your cultural calendar: 7 things to look forward to this year”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
a white dress with a pop of red
type:
example
text:
a pop of vanilla flavour
type:
example
text:
Nothing screams fall like corduroy! I'm loving this deep seafoam green shacket—made of the thick, ribbed material—that'll give a fab pop of color to a muted ensemble.
ref:
2023 November 4, Kim Duong, Megan Uy, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “22 Best Shackets to Get You Through the Chilly Fall Weather”, in Cosmopolitan
type:
quotation
text:
Pushes and pops change the stack; indexing just accesses it.
ref:
2011, Mark Lutz, Programming Python, page 1371
type:
quotation
text:
And then I got a shock, for a couple of ragged patriots standing close by, leaned over as Elliot moved, their eyes shining viciously, and quick as winking out came their pops, and I saw them ready and willing, yes, darned anxious to shoot.
ref:
1916, Adventure, volume 13, numbers 1-3, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
Immature peanuts, called "pops," are often included when the peanuts are boiled at home […]
ref:
1986, Mid-America Folklore, volume 14, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
If the peanuts weren't yet mature, boiling them would make the tiny nuts—or “pops,” as they're called at that immature stage—swell up and become more filling.
ref:
2013, Becky Billingsley, A Culinary History of Myrtle Beach & the Grand Strand
type:
quotation
text:
Although they go by many names across the world freezer pop, ice-pole, pop stick icy-pole ice pop, tip top and ice candy but in the hoods of America they are known and respected as Freeze Pops. The pops are made by freezing flavored liquid such as sugar water, Kool-Aid or some form of fruit juice or purée inside a plastic tube - at least the kinds we ate.
ref:
2017, Kenny Attaway, Black Cream: A Handful of Sky & a Pocketful of Confetti
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; a soda pop.
A pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm.
A quantity dispensed; a portion; apiece.
Something that stands out or is distinctive to the mind or senses.
The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.
A bird, the European redwing.
The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce, crackle), i.e. the rate of change of crackle.
A pistol.
A small, immature peanut, boiled as a snack.
Clipping of freeze pop.
A lollipop.
A (usually very) loud audience reaction.
The pulling of a string away from the fretboard and releasing it so that it snaps back.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
13949 | word:
pop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pop (third-person singular simple present pops, present participle popping, simple past and past participle popped)
forms:
form:
pops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
popping
tags:
participle
present
form:
popped
tags:
participle
past
form:
popped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:pop
etymology_text:
From Middle English pop, poppe (“a blow; strike; buffet”) (> Middle English poppen (“to strike; thrust”, verb)), of onomatopoeic origin – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions. The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.
senses_examples:
text:
The muskets popped away on all sides.
type:
example
text:
The boy with the pin popped the balloon.
type:
example
text:
This corn pops well.
type:
example
text:
To torture another metaphor, it would be the difference between slowly letting the air out of a balloon, and popping it. Though the dam metaphor is more apt, what with the excess magic flooding outward.
ref:
2016 October 10, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Oct 10, 2016
type:
quotation
text:
A rabbit popped out of the hole.
type:
example
text:
So, diving in a bottomless sea, they [the Roman Church] pop sometimes above water to take breath.
ref:
1626, John Donne, “On the Nativity”, in Sermons, section IV
type:
quotation
text:
others again have a trick of popping up and down every moment from their paper, to the audience, like an idle schoolboy
ref:
1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman
type:
quotation
text:
When company comes, you are not to pop out and stare, and then run in again, like frightened rabbits in a warren.
ref:
1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, section II
type:
quotation
text:
Lee Cheng popped on the phone line. "Right. I'm tracing it." More keytaps, this time with a few beeps thrown in.
ref:
1989, Clifford Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
type:
quotation
text:
Just pop it in the fridge for now.
type:
example
text:
He popped his head around the door.
type:
example
text:
Mix a pancake,
Stir a pancake,
Pop it in the pan;[…]
ref:
1986, Christina Rossetti, edited by Alfred Knopf, Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young, Mix a Pancake, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
I'm just popping round to the newsagent.
type:
example
text:
I'll pop by your place later today.
type:
example
text:
You wait in the car, I'm just gonna pop in the store.
type:
example
text:
This colour really pops.
type:
example
text:
She also looked like a star - and not the Beltway type. On a stage full of stiff suits, she popped.
ref:
2011 July 18, Robert Costa, “The Battle from Waterloo: Representative Bachmann runs for president”, in National Review
type:
quotation
text:
He popped me on the nose.
type:
example
text:
Once the callee (the called function) terminates, it cleans the stack that it has been locally using and pops the next value stored on top of the stack.
ref:
2010, Enrico Perla, Massimiliano Oldani, A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
ref:
2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed
type:
quotation
text:
Well, dear. You're ready to pop, aren't you? Little one's on its way.
ref:
2011 May 28, Matthew Graham, “The Almost People”, in Julian Simpson, director, Doctor Who, season 6/32, episode 6, spoken by Madame Kovarian (Frances Barber)
type:
quotation
text:
Gavin told me one of his friends was pregnant, but my goodness, she looks ready to pop.
ref:
2021 April 12, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 1362 - Prophecy
type:
quotation
text:
I had to pop my watch to see me through until pay-day.
type:
example
text:
I often used to smile at a young Ensign of the Guards, who always popped his sword and watch when he wanted cash for an intrigue; […]
ref:
1773, The Westminster Magazine, Or, The Pantheon of Taste
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Attenborough is naturally indignant at the accusation of Lord Truro that every pawnbroker keeps a smelting apparatus on the premises. He says the practice has been discontinued for many years, and our esteemed relative — the Universal Uncle — objects to the insinuation that when a thing is popped it goes to pot.
ref:
1878, Fun, volumes 27-28, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
We were drinking beer and popping pills — some really strong downers. I could hardly walk and I had no idea what I was saying.
ref:
1994, Ruth Garner, Patricia A. Alexander, Beliefs about text and instruction with text
type:
quotation
text:
31 pop some chocolate You'll stay sharp and focused for that final lunge toward the weekend. Milk chocolate has been shown to boost verbal and visual memory, impulse control, and reaction time.
ref:
2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
Pop a U-turn. You missed the turnoff.
type:
example
text:
Huck spun along the beams and joists, making me gulp when she popped a wheelie or swerved past a gaping hole...
ref:
1995, David Brin, Startide Rising
type:
quotation
text:
The tail is the back of the deck; this is the part that enables skaters to pop ollies...
ref:
2009, Ben Wixon, Skateboarding: Instruction, Programming, and Park Design
type:
quotation
text:
My ears popped as the aeroplane began to ascend.
type:
example
text:
With its airtight seals, the pressure change as trains entered the black, dust-covered station areas caused our ears to pop and doors to flap and bang every time.
ref:
2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
Let the poppers pop and the breakers break / We're cool, cool cats, it's like that
ref:
1985, “King of Rock”, performed by Run-DMC
type:
quotation
text:
He's on probation. We can pop him right now for gang association.
type:
example
text:
On the night Nolan got popped, the same cop delivered Milton home in the back of the cruiser, but didn’t turn the lights on.
ref:
2021, Brandon Taylor, “Filthy Animals”, in Filthy Animals, Daunt Books Originals, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
What's popping?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.
To burst (something) with a popping sound.
To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart.
To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement.
To make a short trip or visit.
To stand out; to be distinctive to the senses.
To hit (something or someone).
To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
To ejaculate; to orgasm.
To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
To give birth.
To pawn (something) (to raise money).
To swallow or consume (especially a tablet of a drug, sometimes extended to other small items such as sweets or candy).
To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.
To perform the popping style of dance.
To arrest.
To pull a string away from the fretboard and release it so that it snaps back.
To occur or happen.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
13950 | word:
pop
word_type:
intj
expansion:
pop
forms:
wikipedia:
en:pop
etymology_text:
From Middle English pop, poppe (“a blow; strike; buffet”) (> Middle English poppen (“to strike; thrust”, verb)), of onomatopoeic origin – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions. The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.
senses_examples:
text:
So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, 'Up we go! Up we go!' till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow.
ref:
1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
senses_topics:
|
13951 | word:
pop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pop (plural pops)
forms:
form:
pops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:pop
etymology_text:
From papa or poppa.
senses_examples:
text:
My pop used to tell me to do my homework every night.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One's father.
senses_topics:
|
13952 | word:
pop
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pop (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
en:pop
etymology_text:
Clipping of popular or population.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Popular.
senses_topics:
|
13953 | word:
pop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pop (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
en:pop
etymology_text:
Clipping of popular or population.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pop music.
Population.
senses_topics:
|
13954 | word:
pop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pop (plural pops)
forms:
form:
pops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:pop
etymology_text:
From colloquial Russian поп (pop) and Попъ (Pop), from Old Church Slavonic попъ (popŭ), from Byzantine Greek πάπας (pápas) (see pope). Doublet of pope.
senses_examples:
text:
There was at that time in the house of the Consul a Pop (or Russian Priest) named Iwan Afanassich.
ref:
1822, Mikhaïlov Vasiliï, Adventures of Michailow, section 4
type:
quotation
text:
The contemporary priest's... own children are ashamed and some abusers are openly "transmitting the pop" (a gesture of mocking the priest on the street, where a man would touch his private parts while smiling at other passers-by)
ref:
2001, Spas Raïkin, Rebel with a Just Cause, 292 n.28
type:
quotation
text:
By the end of 1809 she was declaring to all and sundry that she would sooner marry 'a pop than the sovereign of a country under the influence of France'. Since a pop was a Russian Orthodox parish priest, the reference was hardly likely to endear her family to the French.
ref:
2006, Peter Neville, A Traveller's History of Russia, section 123
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Russian Orthodox parish priest.
senses_topics:
|
13955 | word:
la
word_type:
noun
expansion:
la (plural las)
forms:
form:
las
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Ut queant laxis
etymology_text:
From Glover's solmization, from Middle English la (“sixth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian la in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin labiī (“lip's”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
13956 | word:
la
word_type:
intj
expansion:
la
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Sound used to form meaningless song refrains. Of imitative origin. Compare Old English lā (a common exclamation), Ancient Greek λαλαγε (lalage, “babble”), German lallen (“to babble”).
senses_examples:
text:
"La la la la, I can't hear you!" Jimmy said, sticking his fingers in his ears.
type:
example
text:
The only part Lucy had to sing was the interlude, which was a bunch of la la la's, and the last verse of the song, which was only four lines, and the chorus, which was just as short.
ref:
2019, Keira Brown, Between the Lines: Never in Plain Sight
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Represents the sound of music or singing.
senses_topics:
|
13957 | word:
la
word_type:
intj
expansion:
la
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English la, from Old English lā. More at lo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to introduce a statement with emphatic or intensive effect.
Expressing surprise, anger. etc.
senses_topics:
|
13958 | word:
la
word_type:
adj
expansion:
la (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French la, Italian la.
senses_examples:
text:
Following lukewarm on the heels of an article a few weeks ago, where (I paraphrase due to having filed the relevant copy in the recycling bin) Victoria Beckham made a "well-meaning" remark that the other Spice Girls might want to lose a few pounds, we now have a new incidence of La Beckham's scintillating and entirely well-meaning humour.
ref:
2007 November 22, Kate Carter, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
By judicious leaking, he also managed to make la Kirkpatrick and her associates look rather unsavory.
ref:
2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 232
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Prefixed to the name of a woman, with ironic effect (as though an opera prima donna).
senses_topics:
|
13959 | word:
la
word_type:
noun
expansion:
la (plural las)
forms:
form:
las
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly a shortened form of lad.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
lad, kid
senses_topics:
|
13960 | word:
la
word_type:
particle
expansion:
la
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Cantonese 啦 (laa¹). Doublet of lah.
senses_examples:
text:
Sleep la! ― [You should] go to bed.
type:
example
text:
Eat shit la you! ― You're going to hell! (calque of 食屎啦你！)
type:
example
text:
ok la ― not bad; good enough
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Placed at the end of a sentence in imperatives making it sound more like a request than an order.
Used to tone down comments.
senses_topics:
|
13961 | word:
la
word_type:
particle
expansion:
la
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of lah
senses_topics:
|
13962 | word:
Ravenna
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ravenna
forms:
wikipedia:
Ravenna
Ravenna, Ohio
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian Ravenna, from Latin Ravenna.
senses_examples:
text:
Ravenna served as the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 402 until the latter's collapse in 476; thereafter it was the capital of the Ostrogothic Kingdom and then of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna until the last exarch was executed by the Lombards in 751.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province in the region of Emilia-Romagna, in northern Italy.
A coastal city, the present-day capital of the province of Ravenna.
A city, the county seat of Portage County, Ohio, United States, named after the Italian city.
senses_topics:
|
13963 | word:
ford
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ford (plural fords)
forms:
form:
fords
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ford (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ford, from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).
Cognate with firth and fjord (via Old Norse), Low German Föörd, Dutch voord, German Furt, Norwegian and Danish fjord, and more distantly with English port (via Latin). See also forth and Persian پل.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
A stream; a current.
senses_topics:
|
13964 | word:
ford
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ford (third-person singular simple present fords, present participle fording, simple past and past participle forded)
forms:
form:
fords
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fording
tags:
participle
present
form:
forded
tags:
participle
past
form:
forded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ford (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ford, from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).
Cognate with firth and fjord (via Old Norse), Low German Föörd, Dutch voord, German Furt, Norwegian and Danish fjord, and more distantly with English port (via Latin). See also forth and Persian پل.
senses_examples:
text:
He named that place, for it was near her dwelling, and on the road between Balerynie and Heriotside, which fords the Sker Burn.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
text:
Since the time of Seyavi the deer have shifted their feeding ground across the valley at the beginning of deep snows, by way of the Black Rock, fording the river at Charley's Butte, and making straight for the mouth of the cañon that is the easiest going to the winter pastures on Waban.
ref:
1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land of Little Rain, Houghton Mifflin, pages 31–2
type:
quotation
text:
Ratau drove with reckless authority through the quiet morning fires of his father's and forefathers' town and forded a river of goats on the road leading out of it.
ref:
1982, Nadine Gordimer, “A Hunting Accident”, in A Soldier's Embrace, Penguin, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
2016, Bruce McClure and Deborah Byrd, "EarthSky's meteor shower guide for 2016" in earthsky.org, http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/earthskys-meteor-shower-guide
Some who witnessed the 1966 Leonid meteor storm said they felt as if they needed to grip the ground, so strong was the impression of Earth plowing along through space, fording the meteoroid stream.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cross a stream using a ford.
senses_topics:
|
13965 | word:
parma
word_type:
noun
expansion:
parma (plural parmas)
forms:
form:
parmas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From parmigiana.
senses_examples:
text:
The local pub was offering a chicken parma and a pot of beer for $8.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dish cooked in the parmigiana style.
senses_topics:
|
13966 | word:
parma
word_type:
noun
expansion:
parma (plural parmae)
forms:
form:
parmae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin parma.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small shield carried by the infantry and cavalry.
senses_topics:
|
13967 | word:
Northern State
word_type:
name
expansion:
Northern State (plural Northern States)
forms:
form:
Northern States
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A region in northern Israel containing Galilee, and Tiberias.
senses_topics:
|
13968 | word:
degree Celsius
word_type:
noun
expansion:
degree Celsius (plural degrees Celsius)
forms:
form:
degrees Celsius
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
degree and Celsius
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metric unit of temperature, a derived unit of the International System of Units. Symbol: °C
senses_topics:
|
13969 | word:
Maldivian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Maldivian (countable and uncountable, plural Maldivians)
forms:
form:
Maldivians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Maldives + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from the Maldives or of Maldivian descent.
The official language of the Maldives, also called Dhivehi or Divehi.
senses_topics:
|
13970 | word:
Maldivian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Maldivian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Maldives + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to the Maldives, the Maldivian people or the Maldivian language.
senses_topics:
|
13971 | word:
Bhutanese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Bhutanese (plural Bhutanese)
forms:
form:
Bhutanese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bhutanese
etymology_text:
From Bhutan + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Bhutan or of Bhutanese descent.
senses_topics:
|
13972 | word:
Bhutanese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Bhutanese (comparative more Bhutanese, superlative most Bhutanese)
forms:
form:
more Bhutanese
tags:
comparative
form:
most Bhutanese
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Bhutanese
etymology_text:
From Bhutan + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Bhutan, the Bhutanese people.
senses_topics:
|
13973 | word:
Bhutanese
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bhutanese
forms:
wikipedia:
Bhutanese
etymology_text:
From Bhutan + -ese.
senses_examples:
text:
Very conveniently for those of us who don't speak Bhutanese, nearly everybody in Bhutan speaks perfect British English since it is the language of instruction in their schools.
ref:
2020, Simon Anholt, The Good Country Equation, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan.
senses_topics:
|
13974 | word:
Pescara
word_type:
name
expansion:
Pescara
forms:
wikipedia:
Pescara
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian Pescara.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Abruzzo, Italy.
The capital city of the province of Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13975 | word:
Salerno
word_type:
name
expansion:
Salerno
forms:
wikipedia:
Salerno
etymology_text:
From Italian Salerno, from Latin Salernum.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Campania, Italy.
A city, the provincial capital of Salerno, Campania, Italy.
A surname.
senses_topics:
|
13976 | word:
Euboean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Euboean
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Euboea + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the island of Euboea.
senses_topics:
|
13977 | word:
Euboean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Euboean (plural Euboeans)
forms:
form:
Euboeans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Euboea + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant of Euboea in central Greece.
senses_topics:
|
13978 | word:
Pavia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Pavia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian Pavia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Lombardy, Italy.
The capital city of the province of Pavia, Lombardy, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13979 | word:
proscribe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
proscribe (third-person singular simple present proscribes, present participle proscribing, simple past and past participle proscribed)
forms:
form:
proscribes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
proscribing
tags:
participle
present
form:
proscribed
tags:
participle
past
form:
proscribed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English proscriben, from Latin prōscrībō (“to proclaim, forbid, banish”).
senses_examples:
text:
The law proscribes driving a car while intoxicated.
type:
example
text:
The word ‘ain’t’ is proscribed by many authorities.
type:
example
text:
Many Roman citizens were proscribed for taking part in rebellions.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To forbid or prohibit.
To denounce.
To banish or exclude.
senses_topics:
|
13980 | word:
East Timorese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
East Timorese (plural East Timorese)
forms:
form:
East Timorese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From East Timor + -ese.
senses_examples:
text:
According to press reports, on 1 January 1995, an ethnic riot took place at Baucau following an alleged killing of an East Timorese by an Indonesian immigrant. Some 200 youths reportedly burned a market, shops and houses[…]
ref:
1997, Heike Krieger, Dietrich Rauschning, East Timor and the International Community: Basic Documents, Cambridge University Press, page 216
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from East Timor or of East Timorese descent.
senses_topics:
|
13981 | word:
East Timorese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
East Timorese (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From East Timor + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to East Timor or the East Timorese people.
senses_topics:
|
13982 | word:
Pistoia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Pistoia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian Pistoia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province in Tuscany, Italy.
A comune, the capital city of the province of Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13983 | word:
bari
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bari (plural baris)
forms:
form:
baris
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Short for baritone.
senses_examples:
text:
A basic 17-piece jazz orchestra never uses more than one bari; to see four lined up in a row you'd usually have to go to an instrument repair shop.
ref:
2000 November 24, Neil Tesser, “Baritone Nation”, in Chicago Reader
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A baritone saxophone
A baritone (singer)
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
13984 | word:
Messenian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Messenian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Messenia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Messenia.
senses_topics:
|
13985 | word:
Messenian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Messenian (plural Messenians)
forms:
form:
Messenians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Messenia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or resident of Messenia.
senses_topics:
|
13986 | word:
Thrace
word_type:
name
expansion:
Thrace
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Thrācia, from Ancient Greek Θρᾴκη (Thrā́ikē), from Θρᾷξ (Thrâix, “Thracian”), from base of θράσσω (thrássō, “to trouble, stir”) and -ιξ (-ix) (compare Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix, “Phoenician”) and Κίλιξ (Kílix, “Cilician”)).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A historical and geographic area in southeast Europe, now divided between Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey.
senses_topics:
|
13987 | word:
Malian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Malian (plural Malians)
forms:
form:
Malians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mali + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Mali or of Malian descent.
senses_topics:
|
13988 | word:
Malian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Malian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mali + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Mali or the Malian people.
senses_topics:
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13989 | word:
Malian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Malian (plural Malians)
forms:
form:
Malians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of an ancient tribe that resided at the mouth of the river Spercheios in Greece.
senses_topics:
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13990 | word:
damage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
damage (countable and uncountable, plural damages)
forms:
form:
damages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
damage
etymology_text:
From Middle English damage, from Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum from Classical Latin damnum. Compare modern French dommage. Displaced Middle English scath.
senses_examples:
text:
The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
type:
example
text:
"What's the damage?" he asked the waiter.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
Cost or expense.
senses_topics:
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13991 | word:
damage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
damage (third-person singular simple present damages, present participle damaging, simple past and past participle damaged)
forms:
form:
damages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
damaging
tags:
participle
present
form:
damaged
tags:
participle
past
form:
damaged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
damage
etymology_text:
From Middle English damage, from Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum from Classical Latin damnum. Compare modern French dommage. Displaced Middle English scath.
senses_examples:
text:
Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
text:
Cold temperatures, heavy rain, falling rocks, strong winds and glacier movement can damage the equipment.
text:
The building was erected in two years, at the parochial expence, on the foundation of the former one, which was irreparably damaged by the hurricane of Auguſt, 1712.
ref:
1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, volume 2, book 2, chapter 7, 5
type:
quotation
text:
Did you damage the items that the customer returned yet?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
To undergo damage.
To remove a damaged or unsalable item from the sales floor for processing.
senses_topics:
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13992 | word:
twentieth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
twentieth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier twenteth, twentith, from Middle English twentithe, twentiþe, from Old English twēntigoþa. Equivalent to twenty + -eth.
Etymological notes
twentith, twenteth is the expected development from Middle English twentithe, but in time, the opaque twent- was replaced by a more transparent twenty-, resulting in modern twentieth (in the speech varieties this occurred in, the weak vowel in the final syllable of twenteth, twentith was clearly distinct from that in twenty); similar processes explain the modern pronunciation of thirtieth, fourtieth, etc. This analogy was assisted by synizetic pronunciations of words such as carrying, which allowed twenteth, twentith to be interpreted as contractions of twentieth.
senses_examples:
text:
As with most twentieth-century Chinese writers, little is known of Ts’ao Yü’s life. Though his ancestral home was Ch’ien-chiang 潛江, Hupei province, he himself was probably born in Tientsin in either 1909 or 1910.
ref:
1980, Christopher C. Rand, “Introduction”, in The Wilderness (Yüan-yeh) 原野, →LCCN, →OCLC, page viii
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number twenty.
senses_topics:
|
13993 | word:
twentieth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twentieth (plural twentieths)
forms:
form:
twentieths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier twenteth, twentith, from Middle English twentithe, twentiþe, from Old English twēntigoþa. Equivalent to twenty + -eth.
Etymological notes
twentith, twenteth is the expected development from Middle English twentithe, but in time, the opaque twent- was replaced by a more transparent twenty-, resulting in modern twentieth (in the speech varieties this occurred in, the weak vowel in the final syllable of twenteth, twentith was clearly distinct from that in twenty); similar processes explain the modern pronunciation of thirtieth, fourtieth, etc. This analogy was assisted by synizetic pronunciations of words such as carrying, which allowed twenteth, twentith to be interpreted as contractions of twentieth.
senses_examples:
text:
There are some glittering stats out there regarding Brassey: namely that he'd built around one-third of Britain's railways by the time he was in his early 40s, and that by the time of his death (aged 65) he was responsible for around one-twentieth of the world's railways.
ref:
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in Rail, number 947, page 57
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person or thing in the twentieth position.
One of twenty equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
|
13994 | word:
sail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sail (countable and uncountable, plural sails)
forms:
form:
sails
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English saile, sayle, seil, seyl, from Old English seġl, from Proto-West Germanic *segl, from Proto-Germanic *seglą. Cognate with West Frisian seil, Low German Segel, Dutch zeil, German Segel, Danish sejl, Swedish segel.
senses_examples:
text:
Take in sail: a storm is coming.
type:
example
text:
Let's go for a sail.
type:
example
text:
Twenty sail were in sight.
type:
example
text:
[…] The quay is upwards of 1,000 feet in length, and capable of accommodating more than 100 sail of traders; and there are generally a considerable number of vessels of from 40 to 300 tons burden, from various parts of the world, waiting to receive their cargoes.
ref:
1945 May and June, Charles E. Lee, “The Penrhyn Railway and its Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 142, text published 1848
type:
quotation
text:
We caught three sails today.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.
The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.
The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.
A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
The conning tower of a submarine.
The blade of a windmill.
A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
A sailfish.
an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids
Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
|
13995 | word:
sail
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sail (third-person singular simple present sails, present participle sailing, simple past and past participle sailed)
forms:
form:
sails
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sailing
tags:
participle
present
form:
sailed
tags:
participle
past
form:
sailed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sailen, saylen, seilen, seilien, from Old English seġlan, siġlan (“to sail”), from Proto-West Germanic *siglijan, from *siglijaną. Cognate with West Frisian sile, Low German seilen, Dutch zeilen, German segeln, Danish sejle, Swedish segla, Icelandic sigla.
senses_examples:
text:
We sail for Australia tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
A hopeful ball from Forest right-back Brendan Moloney to the left edge of the area was met first by Ruddy but his attempted clearance rebounded off Tyson's leg and sailed in.
ref:
2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The duchess sailed haughtily out of the room.
type:
example
text:
He would sit his hat across the room, and we would sail cards into it.
ref:
2007, Johnny Hughes, Texas Poker Wisdom, page 22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.
To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
To set sail; to begin a voyage.
To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
To move briskly but sedately.
To deal out (cards) from a distance by impelling them across a surface.
senses_topics:
card-games
games |
13996 | word:
Teramo
word_type:
name
expansion:
Teramo
forms:
wikipedia:
Teramo
etymology_text:
From Italian Teramo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Abruzzo, Italy.
The capital city of the province of Teramo, Abruzzo, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
13997 | word:
Vanuatuan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Vanuatuan (plural Vanuatuans)
forms:
form:
Vanuatuans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Vanuatu + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Vanuatu or of Vanuatuan descent.
senses_topics:
|
13998 | word:
Vanuatuan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Vanuatuan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Vanuatu + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Vanuatu, the Vanuatuan people or the Vanuatuan language.
senses_topics:
|
13999 | word:
-ian
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-ian
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin -iānus, which forms adjectives of belonging or origin from a noun.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
From, related to, or like.
One from, belonging to, relating to, or like.
Having a certain profession.
senses_topics:
|
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