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1400 | word:
cod
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cod (plural cods)
forms:
form:
cods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cod
etymology_text:
Origin unknown. Attested in reference to a person (though not always a stupid or foolish person) from the end of the 17th century. The Oxford English Dictionary (1891) notes that a suggested link to codger is unlikely, as cod appears much earlier.
senses_examples:
text:
I assume it all could just be a cod.
type:
example
text:
He's making a right cod of himself.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A joke or an imitation.
A stupid or foolish person.
senses_topics:
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1401 | word:
cod
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cod (comparative more cod, superlative most cod)
forms:
form:
more cod
tags:
comparative
form:
most cod
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
cod
etymology_text:
Origin unknown. Attested in reference to a person (though not always a stupid or foolish person) from the end of the 17th century. The Oxford English Dictionary (1891) notes that a suggested link to codger is unlikely, as cod appears much earlier.
senses_examples:
text:
cod psychology
type:
example
text:
“Illegitimi non carborundum” is a well-known example of cod Latin.
type:
example
text:
Dalton categorises Muse's latest composition as “cod-classical bombast”.
type:
example
text:
[…] the director's vision has devolved from cod Orwell to riffing off bad girl art comic books and generally feeble posing.
ref:
2006 July, Kim Newman, “Ultraviolet”, in Sight and Sound, volume 16, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
READERS of The Economist may not necessarily be familiar with the “World of Warcraft”. For those who are not, it is a cod-medieval online game in which goblins and trolls, warriors and wizards, and so on act out the fantasies of some 9m players who spend the rest of their lives in the alternative world of paper and pay-packets.
ref:
2007 August 23, “Viral and virtual: A plague in a computer game may have lessons for the real world”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
Hynkel's anti-Semitic rants (consisting of cod-German punctuated by shouts of "Juden") are terrifying, but there is no conviction behind them, just a desperate need to distract the Tomainians from his economic failures.
ref:
2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
Sandy: Right, right, well I'll just open the wardrobe. Oh, here, look—his wardrobe. Ha!
Julian: Ha! Oh what a naff lot!
Sandy: It is a bit cod isn't it.
ref:
1968 March 17, Kenneth Horne, Bona Rags (Round the Horne), season 4, spoken by Julian and Sandy (Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams)
type:
quotation
text:
Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.
ref:
1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137
type:
quotation
text:
Hahahahaha! @AnnaJaneCasey Vada the homi ajax, with the naff riah and the cod lally drags. Ooooo she's camp...
ref:
2016 September 18, Antony Cotton, Twitter
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the character of imitation; jocular.
Bad.
senses_topics:
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1402 | word:
cod
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cod (third-person singular simple present cods, present participle codding, simple past and past participle codded)
forms:
form:
cods
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
codding
tags:
participle
present
form:
codded
tags:
participle
past
form:
codded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
cod
etymology_text:
Origin unknown. Attested in reference to a person (though not always a stupid or foolish person) from the end of the 17th century. The Oxford English Dictionary (1891) notes that a suggested link to codger is unlikely, as cod appears much earlier.
senses_examples:
text:
"How are you, Mary?"
"I thought your friend Mac was codding me that you would come."
ref:
1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, published 1955 (France), page 339
type:
quotation
text:
I'm only codding!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To attempt to deceive or confuse; to kid.
To joke; to kid
senses_topics:
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1403 | word:
treaty
word_type:
noun
expansion:
treaty (countable and uncountable, plural treaties)
forms:
form:
treaties
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Treaty of Waitangi
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English trete, trety (“bargaining, negotiation; discussion; conference, meeting; entreaty, persuasion; agreement, contract, covenant; arrangement, settlement; agreement between two rulers, states, etc.; written work on a particular subject, treatise; subdivision of a written work, section”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman treté, traité, treaté, and Old French traité, traitié [and other forms] (modern French traité (“agreement between two rulers, states, etc.; treatise”)); traité or traitié is:
* a noun use of the past participle of traiter (“to treat; to deal with, handle”), from Latin tractāre, the present active infinitive of tractō (“to drag, haul, tug; to handle, manage; to debate, discuss; to exercise, practise; to perform, transact”), from trahō (“to drag, pull”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to drag, pull (?)”), a variant of *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”)) + -tō (frequentative suffix); and
* also from Latin tractātum (“written work on a particular subject, treatise”), from Latin tractātus (“dragged, hauled, tugged; handled, managed; exercised, practised; performed, transacted”), the perfect passive participle of tractō (see above).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
to sign a peace treaty
type:
example
text:
to write up a treaty touching climate change
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A formal binding agreement concluded by subjects of international law, namely, states and international organizations; a convention, a pact.
Chiefly in in treaty: discussions or negotiations in order to reach an agreement.
Chiefly in private treaty: an agreement or settlement reached following negotiations; a compact, a contract, a covenant.
The manner or process of treating someone or something; treatment; also, the manner in which someone or something acts or behaves; behaviour.
The addressing or consideration of a subject; discussion, treatment.
A formal, systematic discourse on some subject; a treatise.
An act of beseeeching or entreating; an entreaty, a plea, a request.
senses_topics:
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1404 | word:
treaty
word_type:
verb
expansion:
treaty (third-person singular simple present treaties, present participle treatying, simple past and past participle treatied)
forms:
form:
treaties
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
treatying
tags:
participle
present
form:
treatied
tags:
participle
past
form:
treatied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Treaty of Waitangi
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English trete, trety (“bargaining, negotiation; discussion; conference, meeting; entreaty, persuasion; agreement, contract, covenant; arrangement, settlement; agreement between two rulers, states, etc.; written work on a particular subject, treatise; subdivision of a written work, section”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman treté, traité, treaté, and Old French traité, traitié [and other forms] (modern French traité (“agreement between two rulers, states, etc.; treatise”)); traité or traitié is:
* a noun use of the past participle of traiter (“to treat; to deal with, handle”), from Latin tractāre, the present active infinitive of tractō (“to drag, haul, tug; to handle, manage; to debate, discuss; to exercise, practise; to perform, transact”), from trahō (“to drag, pull”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to drag, pull (?)”), a variant of *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”)) + -tō (frequentative suffix); and
* also from Latin tractātum (“written work on a particular subject, treatise”), from Latin tractātus (“dragged, hauled, tugged; handled, managed; exercised, practised; performed, transacted”), the perfect passive participle of tractō (see above).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To get into (a specific situation) through a treaty.
To enter into a treaty.
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1405 | word:
Belize
word_type:
name
expansion:
Belize
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish Belice (attested since 1677) as the name of the Belize River, sometimes said to be from Mayan/Mopan Maya beliz (“muddy water(s)”), although there is no evidence for such a word. The old suggestion that it could be from a corrupted Spanish pronunciation of the surname of Scottish buccaneer Peter Wallace (via pronunciation as *Valis, then *Balise), is now generally considered to be folk etymology; the popularity of the legend persists.
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senses_glosses:
An English-speaking country in Central America, formerly called British Honduras.
senses_topics:
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1406 | word:
pseudonym
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pseudonym (plural pseudonyms)
forms:
form:
pseudonyms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from pseudonymous, from French pseudonyme (“pseudonymous”, adjective), from Ancient Greek ψευδώνυμος (pseudṓnumos), from ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false”) and ὄνυμα (ónuma), a dialectal form of ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”). By surface analysis, pseudo- + -onym.
senses_examples:
text:
The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
type:
example
text:
I doubt, indeed, whether I should not abandon the struggle altogether—leave this sad world of ordinary life for which I am so ill fitted, abandon the name of Cummins for some professional pseudonym, complete my self-effacement, and—a thing of tricks and tatters, of posing and pretence—go upon the stage.
ref:
c. 1911, H. G. Wells, The Obliterated Man
type:
quotation
text:
The best example of its literary use so far are the German novel The Golem, by Gustav Meyrink, and the drama The Dybbuk, by the jewish writer using the pseudonym "Ansky".
ref:
1928, H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fictitious name (more literally, a false name), as those used by writers and movie stars.
senses_topics:
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1407 | word:
mardo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mardo (plural mardos)
forms:
form:
mardos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Nyunga mardu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small, mouselike, marsupial, Antechinus flavipes, of Australia.
senses_topics:
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1408 | word:
Algeria
word_type:
name
expansion:
Algeria
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Alger + -ia, modified based on French Algérie, from the French Alger (“Algiers”) + -ie, from Algerian Arabic الدزَاير (al-dzayir), from Arabic اَلْجَزَائِر (al-jazāʔir, “the islands”) (with elision of the first vowel), plural of جَزِيرَة (jazīra, “island”), referring to the several small islands that once existed in the Bay of Algiers. Doublet of Algiers and Algeciras.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in North Africa. Official name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Capital and largest city: Algiers.
Ottoman Algeria, also the regency of Algiers or al-Jazā’ir in Arabic, from 1515 to 1830
A country in North Africa. Official name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Capital and largest city: Algiers.
French or Colonial Algeria, from 1830 to 1962
A country in North Africa. Official name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Capital and largest city: Algiers.
The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, since 1962
senses_topics:
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1409 | word:
Chile
word_type:
name
expansion:
Chile
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish Chile, probably from Quechua chiri (“cold”).
senses_examples:
text:
While I come from Chile, my husband is from England.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Chile. Capital and largest city: Santiago.
senses_topics:
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1410 | word:
Ecuador
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ecuador
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish Ecuador, itself from ecuador (“equator”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Ecuador. Capital: Quito.
senses_topics:
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1411 | word:
Ecuador
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
senses_topics:
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1412 | word:
Monday
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Monday (plural Mondays)
forms:
form:
Mondays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Monday, Monenday, from Old English mōnandæġ (“day of the moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānini dag, a translation (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Lūnae, equivalent to Moon + day. Compare Saterland Frisian Moundai (“Monday”), West Frisian moandei (“Monday”), German Low German Maandag, Moondag, Maondag (“Monday”), Dutch maandag (“Monday”), German Montag (“Monday”), Pennsylvania German Mundaag (“Monday”), Danish mandag (“Monday”), Swedish måndag (“Monday”), Norwegian Bokmål mandag (“Monday”), Norwegian Nynorsk måndag (“Monday”), Icelandic mánudagur (“Monday”), Finnish maanantai (“Monday”).
Compare Japanese 月曜日.
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senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The second day of the week in many religious traditions, and the first day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm. It follows Sunday and precedes Tuesday.
senses_topics:
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1413 | word:
Monday
word_type:
adv
expansion:
Monday (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Monday, Monenday, from Old English mōnandæġ (“day of the moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānini dag, a translation (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Lūnae, equivalent to Moon + day. Compare Saterland Frisian Moundai (“Monday”), West Frisian moandei (“Monday”), German Low German Maandag, Moondag, Maondag (“Monday”), Dutch maandag (“Monday”), German Montag (“Monday”), Pennsylvania German Mundaag (“Monday”), Danish mandag (“Monday”), Swedish måndag (“Monday”), Norwegian Bokmål mandag (“Monday”), Norwegian Nynorsk måndag (“Monday”), Icelandic mánudagur (“Monday”), Finnish maanantai (“Monday”).
Compare Japanese 月曜日.
senses_examples:
text:
We've worked out the schedule for Easter week: We'll be shopping Monday […]
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On Monday.
senses_topics:
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1414 | word:
Bangladesh
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bangladesh
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Bengali বাংলাদেশ (baṅladeś), from বাংলা (baṅla, “Bengali”) + দেশ (deś, “country”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in South Asia. Official name: People's Republic of Bangladesh. Capital: Dhaka.
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1415 | word:
Cambodia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cambodia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French Cambodge and Portuguese Camboja. Both words are derived from Middle Khmer Kambuja (Modern Khmer កម្ពុជា (kampuciə)). Ultimately from Sanskrit काम्बोज (kāmboja, the name of a tribe mentioned in Hindu scripture). Doublet of Kampuchea and gamboge.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Kingdom of Cambodia. Capital: Phnom Penh. Former name: Kampuchea.
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1416 | word:
cum
word_type:
prep
expansion:
cum
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin cum (“with”).
senses_examples:
text:
He built a bus-cum-greenhouse that made a bold statement, but the plants in it didn't live very long.
type:
example
text:
But instead of being a salesperson cum barista cum waitress merely serving the wordsmiths, I'm one of them, reading her latest baby out loud.
type:
example
text:
He is too good an actor to need that sort of tomfoolery: the effect will be far better if he is a credible mining camp elder-cum-publican.
ref:
1926-1950, George Bernard Shaw, Collected Letters: 1926-1950, University of California/Viking, published 1985, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
One driver-cum-fireman-cum-fitter looks after the three locomotives, [...].
ref:
1944 May and June, “Notes and News: The Snailbeach District Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 183
type:
quotation
text:
The banner shows a yellowed silhouette of a boy (possibly Calvin, of Calvin & Hobbes) urinating on an EU flag. Sites such as this show the full power of the Internet as a propaganda medium cum travel service cum organizing tool. Oh, and nightlife directory.
ref:
2001 Nov/Dec, David Sachs, “LET THEM EAT BITS”, in American Spectator, volume 34, number 8, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
Coffee shops-cum-meeting-spots dotted across the city are teeming (Equator, Blue Bottle and Saint Frank). Caffeine-fuelled, lactose-intolerant, macadamia milk latte-drinking young folk are journalling, manifesting, coding, ChatGPT-ing and pitching their ideas.
ref:
2023 February 5, Kathryn Parsons, “Boom times are back in San Francisco’s tech mecca”, in The Sunday Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used in indicating a thing or person which has two or more roles, functions, or natures, or a which has changed from one to another.
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1417 | word:
cum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cum (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant of come, attested (in the basic sense "come, move from further to nearer, arrive") since Old English. The sexual sense of come is attested since the 1650s. In this sense and spelling, attested from 1970s.
senses_examples:
text:
Jim descends into the murky tunnel; the faint odor of cum permeates the air.
ref:
1977, John Rechy, The Sexual Outlaw, New York: Dell, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
This week I learned that cum tastes like nickels.
ref:
2014, Norm Macdonald Live, season 2, episode 3, Norm Macdonald (actor)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Semen.
Female ejaculatory discharge.
An ejaculation.
senses_topics:
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1418 | word:
cum
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cum (third-person singular simple present cums, present participle cumming, simple past came or (nonstandard) cummed, past participle come or cum or (nonstandard) cummed)
forms:
form:
cums
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cumming
tags:
participle
present
form:
came
tags:
past
form:
cummed
tags:
nonstandard
past
form:
come
tags:
participle
past
form:
cum
tags:
participle
past
form:
cummed
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant of come, attested (in the basic sense "come, move from further to nearer, arrive") since Old English. The sexual sense of come is attested since the 1650s. In this sense and spelling, attested from 1970s.
senses_examples:
text:
I got no sensation down there, so I don't know when I'm hard, I don't know when I cum. My wife's gotta tell me.
ref:
1997 July 14, “Visits, Conjugal, and Otherwise”, in Oz, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau)
type:
quotation
text:
Sucking on pork ribs and summoning pornography / So that we can cum when we fuck / Our partners don’t know us / Our families are strangers
ref:
2019, “All Humans Too Late”, in The Book of Traps and Lessons, performed by Kae Tempest
type:
quotation
text:
“Where'd he cum from?” the bowman inquired. “That's what we'd like ter know, yer see; where he cum from, and how he happen'd to cum,” responded the steersman. “But he's a jolly good feller, strong as a lion, […]”
ref:
1882, William Makepeace Thayer, From Log-Cabin to White House, page 162
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.
To ejaculate.
Eye dialect spelling of come (“move from further to nearer; arrive”).
senses_topics:
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1419 | word:
cum
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cum (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of cumulative.
senses_topics:
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1420 | word:
cum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cum (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The density of cement is 1440 kg/cum.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of cubic metre.
senses_topics:
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1421 | word:
Hungary
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hungary
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Hungary, Hungrye, Hungry, from Old English Hungerie from Medieval Latin Hungaria. Doublet of Hungaria.
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
A country in Central Europe. Capital and largest city: Budapest.
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1422 | word:
Burundi
word_type:
name
expansion:
Burundi
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Former name: Urundi
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Burundi.
senses_topics:
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1423 | word:
Ghana
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ghana
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after the Ghana Empire by J. B. Danquah, from Soninke gajanŋa.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Ghana.
senses_topics:
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1424 | word:
Mexican
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Mexican (plural Mexicans)
forms:
form:
Mexicans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish mexicano, from Nahuatl mēxihcah plural of mēxihcatl (“a Mexica”) + -ano (“-an”).
senses_examples:
text:
Surely, nature it ſelf calls to us for this reſpect to a deity, even the very ſavage Indians may teach us this point of religion; amongſt whom we find the Mexicans, a people that had never had any intercourſe with the other three parts of the World, Eminent in this kinde; what ſumptuous, and ſtately Temples had they erected to their Devils: How did they enrich their miſ-called Gods with Magazins of their treaſure?
ref:
1660, Joseph Hall, The Shaking of the Olive-Tree, page 260
type:
quotation
text:
Not unlike to this were thoſe morſels of Paſte, which the Mexicans uſed in their Religious Feaſts, which they laid at their Idols Feet, conſecrating them by Singing and other Ceremonies, and then they called them the Fleſh and Bones of their God Vitziliputzli
ref:
1677, Richard Gilpin, Daemonologia Sacra, or, a Treatise of Satans Temptations, pages 255–256
type:
quotation
text:
The Aztecheſe, or Mexicans, were the laſt who arrived in Anahuac.
ref:
1782, review of Storia antica del Messico, in The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, vol. 54, p. 144
text:
Painala was in the Mexican province of Coatzacualco: she was accordingly able to speak Mexican.
ref:
1856, Arthur Helps, The Spanish Conquest in America, volume 2, page 239
type:
quotation
text:
The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.
ref:
2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
"You see, I never learned to speak Spanish, but speak Mexican fluently," he says disarmingly.
ref:
1970, Stan Steiner, La raza: the Mexican Americans, page 224
type:
quotation
text:
You really scare me when you speak Mexican.
ref:
1998, Richard Montoya, Ricardo Salinas, Herbert Siguenza, Culture Clash: Life, Death, and Revolutionary Comedy, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
I didn't speak much Mexican, but I savvied a lot more than I could speak and picked the word banditos out of their conversation.
ref:
2000, Ben K. Green, The Village Horse Doctor: West of the Pecos, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
DON COLLIER: Hey, you want to talk Mexican, join another tank, a Mexican tank.
ref:
2014, David Ayer, Fury, Columbia Pictures
type:
quotation
text:
Fox News issued an apology on Sunday for an on-screen graphic that mistakenly indicated President Donald Trump was reducing aid to "three Mexican countries."
ref:
2019, Claire Atkinson, “Fox News apologizes for graphic about '3 Mexican countries'”, in NBC News
type:
quotation
text:
What kind of Mexican are you?
type:
example
text:
I'm hungry, want to go out for Mexican?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Mexica; an Aztec.
The Nahuatl language.
A person from the country of Mexico or of Mexican descent.
The Mexican dialect of Spanish.
A person from, or of descent from, any Spanish-speaking country.
A Victorian (a person from the state of Victoria).
A person from either of the southern states of New South Wales and Victoria.
Mexican or Mexican-derived cuisine; whether traditional Mexican food or Tex-Mex, etc.
senses_topics:
|
1425 | word:
Mexican
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Mexican (comparative more Mexican, superlative most Mexican)
forms:
form:
more Mexican
tags:
comparative
form:
most Mexican
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish mexicano, from Nahuatl mēxihcah plural of mēxihcatl (“a Mexica”) + -ano (“-an”).
senses_examples:
text:
The principal grain of Mexico, before the introduction of thoſe from Europe, was maize, in the Mexican language called tluolli, of which there were ſeveral kinds, different in ſize, weight, colour, and taſte.
ref:
1795, W. Winterbotham, An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, volume 4, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
1810, review of "Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain", in The Eclectic Review
The language most universally diffused over the new continent, is the Aztec or Mexican.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the Mexica people.
Of or pertaining to the Nahuatl language.
Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Mexico.
senses_topics:
|
1426 | word:
euro
word_type:
noun
expansion:
euro (plural euros or euro)
forms:
form:
euros
tags:
plural
form:
euro
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jacques Santer
etymology_text:
The name euro was the winner of a contest open to the general public to propose names for the new European currency, and as such is technically a neologism, although it obviously alludes to the common root of geographical names for the continent Europe, derived from Latin Europa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē), the name in Greek mythology of a princess, abducted by Zeus as a bull across the Bosporus. According to the official story, the term was coined by Belgian teacher and esperantist Germain Pirlot in 1995, who suggested it in a letter to Jacques Santer, then President of the European Commission.
senses_examples:
text:
euro size
type:
example
text:
euro style pad
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: €
A coin with a face value of one euro.
Abbreviation of European in any sense.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
|
1427 | word:
euro
word_type:
noun
expansion:
euro (plural euros)
forms:
form:
euros
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Adnyamathanha yuru, thuru.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Macropus robustus, a wallaroo (macropod species).
senses_topics:
|
1428 | word:
quarter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quarter (countable and uncountable, plural quarters)
forms:
form:
quarters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quarter, from Anglo-Norman quarter, from Latin quartarius, from quartus. Compare Spanish cuarto (“room, quarters; quarter”). Doublet of quartier.
senses_examples:
text:
I ate a quarter of the pizza.
type:
example
text:
For companies such as Trans Pennine Express, it will be even harder. It has the unwelcome claim to being Britain's worst train operator, with recent statistics from the Office of Rail and Road showing it cancelled nearly a quarter of its services in February, with lack of available train crew a real problem.
ref:
2023 April 5, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Pay deal a positive result”, in RAIL, number 980, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
One of these is 1 Hen. V, cap. 10, defining the quarter of corn to be eight struck bushels, and putting fines on purveyors who take more.
ref:
1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 204
type:
quotation
text:
“I'll tell you something, too,” retorted the captain, duskily flushing. “I wouldn't sail this ship for the man you are, if you went upon your knees. I've dealt with gentlemen up to now.”
“I can tell you the names of a number of gentlemen you'll never deal with any more, and that's the whole of Longhurst's gang,” said Jim. “I'll put your pipe out in that quarter, my friend. Here, rout out your traps as quick as look at it, and take your vermin along with you. I'll have a captain in, this very night, that's a sailor, and some sailors to work for him.”
ref:
1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 10, in The Wrecker
type:
quotation
text:
I was one morning walking the deck, when Rogers, whose watch it was, sitting upon the quarter, called to me in his usual style, ‘Come here, Bill.’
ref:
1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 80
text:
My men, the schooner coming up on our weather quarter is a Portuguese pirate.
ref:
1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash
type:
quotation
text:
opposition to the policy came from an unexpected quarter, as well as from certain quarters which had historically opposed it
text:
all quarters of the socialist movement; praise from Conservative quarters
text:
It is something to have that sacerdotal position so frankly recognized; but, I repeat, the ground of objection is an extraordinary one, coming as it does from a Liberal quarter in politics.
ref:
1897, National and English Review, page 499
type:
quotation
text:
V. Gene Robinson's installation as an Episcopal bishop was greeted largely by silence from gay quarters.
ref:
2003, The Advocate, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
[…] and principled criticism of Obama from black quarters.
ref:
2016, Michael Eric Dyson, The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
type:
quotation
text:
Hard fighting and long labour they had still; for the Southrons were bold men and grim, and fierce in despair, and the Easterlings were strong and war-hardened and asked for no quarter.
ref:
1955, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, page 1110
type:
quotation
text:
Tietjens said: ‘Send the Canadian sergeant-major to me at the double….’ to the quarter.
ref:
1925, Ford Madox Ford, “Parade's End”, in No More Parades, Penguin, published 2012, page 360
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fourth part of something.
Each of four equal parts into which something can be divided; a fourth part.
A fourth part of something.
A measure of capacity used chiefly for grain or coal, varying greatly in quantity by time and location.
A fourth part of something.
A fourth part of a pound; approximately 113 grams.
A fourth part of something.
A measure of length; originally a fourth part of an ell, now chiefly a fourth part of a yard.
A fourth part of something.
A fourth part of the night; one of the watches or divisions of the night.
A fourth part of something.
A fourth part of the year; 3 months; a term or season.
A fourth part of something.
A fourth part of an hour; a period of fifteen minutes, especially with reference to the quarter before or after the hour.
A fourth part of something.
A fourth part of a hundredweight.
A fourth part of something.
A fourth part of a coat of arms, or the charge on it, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
A fourth part of something.
A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada.
A fourth part of something.
One of four equal periods into which a game is divided.
A fourth part of something.
A quarter of an acre or 40 roods.
Place or position.
A region or place.
Place or position.
Each of four parts into which the earth or sky is divided, corresponding to the four cardinal points of the compass.
Place or position.
A division or section of a town or city, especially having a particular character of its own, or associated with a particular group etc.
Place or position.
One's residence or dwelling-place; (in plural) rooms, lodgings, especially as allocated to soldiers or domestic staff.
Place or position.
A topic or area of endeavour.
Place or position.
The aftmost part of a vessel's side, roughly from the last mast to the stern.
Place or position.
The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.
A section (of a population), especially one having a particular set of values or interests.
Relations between people.
Accommodation given to a defeated opponent; mercy; exemption from being killed.
A quarterback.
A quartermaster; a quartermaster sergeant.
A quarterfinal.
senses_topics:
business
finance
financial
time
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
nautical
transport
farriery
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
government
military
politics
war
|
1429 | word:
quarter
word_type:
adj
expansion:
quarter (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quarter, from Anglo-Norman quarter, from Latin quartarius, from quartus. Compare Spanish cuarto (“room, quarters; quarter”). Doublet of quartier.
senses_examples:
text:
a quarter hour; a quarter century; a quarter note; a quarter pound
type:
example
text:
A quarter day is one terminating a quarter of the year.
type:
example
text:
A quarter session is one held quarterly at the end of a quarter.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (¹⁄₄, 25%).
Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.
senses_topics:
|
1430 | word:
quarter
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quarter (third-person singular simple present quarters, present participle quartering, simple past and past participle quartered)
forms:
form:
quarters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quartering
tags:
participle
present
form:
quartered
tags:
participle
past
form:
quartered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quarter, from Anglo-Norman quarter, from Latin quartarius, from quartus. Compare Spanish cuarto (“room, quarters; quarter”). Doublet of quartier.
senses_examples:
text:
Quarter the horses in the third stable.
type:
example
text:
But there is, as in other woods, a great deal of difference between this and the quartered timber.
ref:
1758, Thomas Hale, A Compleat Body Of Husbandry, page 333
type:
quotation
text:
It [the Central London Railway] assumed a modest and entirely heraldic device, quartering the arms of the City of London, the parishes of St. George's, Holborn (St. George and the dragon) and St. Marylebone (the Virgin and Child between two lilies […]), and the county of Middlesex, surmounted by the dragon's wing from the City's crest.
ref:
1950 June, Michael Robbins, “Heraldry of London Underground Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 382
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
To quartersaw.
To execute (someone) by tying each limb to a different animal (such as a horse) and driving them in different directions.
To display different coats of arms in the quarters of a shield.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
1431 | word:
quarter
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quarter (third-person singular simple present quarters, present participle quartering, simple past and past participle quartered)
forms:
form:
quarters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quartering
tags:
participle
present
form:
quartered
tags:
participle
past
form:
quartered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French cartayer.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.
senses_topics:
|
1432 | word:
Comoros
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Comoros
forms:
form:
the Comoros
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Likely borrowed via French Comores. Ultimately from Arabic جَزِيرَة القَمَر (jazīrat al-qamar, “island of the moon”); for more see the etymology of Madagascar.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country and group of islands in the Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa. Official name: Union of the Comoros.
An archipelago consisting of the Union of the Comoros and the French overseas department of Mayotte.
senses_topics:
|
1433 | word:
cunt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cunt (countable and uncountable, plural cunts)
forms:
form:
cunts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Eric Partridge
cunt
etymology_text:
From Middle English cunte, queynt, queynte, from Old English *cunte, from Proto-Germanic *kuntǭ. Cognate with West Frisian kunte, Middle Dutch conte (Dutch kont (“butt”)), dialectal Swedish kunta, dialectal Danish kunte, and Icelandic kunta. A relationship to Latin cunnus has not been conclusively shown. Lexicographer Partridge suggests cuneus (“a wedge”).
senses_examples:
text:
Ah! This power-house of human misery and ecstasy, the cunt!
ref:
1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1138
type:
quotation
text:
I can smell your cunt.
ref:
1991, Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs (motion picture), spoken by Miggs (Stuart Rudin)
type:
quotation
text:
Then there is a drum roll, and I watch open-mouthed as she bends over and produces a string of red cloths from her femininity. "What better way to celebrate 10 years of Camberwell Arts Week than pulling 10 red handkerchiefs out of my cunt?" she asks.
ref:
2004 June 23, Leo Benedictus, “A bit of hanky-panky”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I saw the Virgin's cunt spawning forth the snake
ref:
2014, Behemoth, Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel
type:
quotation
text:
Anne says that the only way she can rebel against her longsuffering hippie parents is by being a homeless, hatemongering, drug-addicted asshole cunt.
ref:
2002, Jim Goad, Shit Magnet - One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt, page 196
type:
quotation
text:
Vinokur pulled the trigger a second and third time. "You're lying, you Polish cunt!" he screamed.
ref:
2007, Elazar Barkan, Elizabeth A. Cole, Kai Struve, Shared History, Divided Memory, page 287
type:
quotation
text:
He rails against political correctness and health and safety regulations, and earlier this summer was accused of calling Gordon Brown "a cunt" in unbroadcast comments to his Top Gear audience, whom he has also referred to as "oafs".
ref:
2009 November 12, Patrick Barkham, “Top Gear: Why We're Mad About the Boys”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Fix the car? I’ll sort the cunt out at the weekend.
type:
example
text:
Certain situations just cry out for it – keys breaking in the lock, not being able to find the starting point in a roll of sticky-tape, running out of bin-bags. The kind of everyday annoyances that Alanis Morissette would define as irony are actually cunts as far as I’m concerned.
ref:
2016 July 11, Rachel Braier, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I'm going to hit the clubs and see if I can get me some cunt.
type:
example
text:
Yes, I do remember Dave; he was one funny cunt.
type:
example
text:
Tom's a good cunt: he fixed my car and didn't even charge me for it!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The female genitalia, especially the vulva.
An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US, especially a woman; in Commonwealth more usually a man).
An objectionable object or item.
An unpleasant or difficult experience or incident.
A woman or any receptive sexual partner, as a source of potential or actual sexual gratification.
A person (mostly between male friends); compare bastard.
The anus of a trans woman.
The inguinal canals of a trans woman.
senses_topics:
|
1434 | word:
cunt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cunt (third-person singular simple present cunts, present participle cunting, simple past and past participle cunted)
forms:
form:
cunts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cunting
tags:
participle
present
form:
cunted
tags:
participle
past
form:
cunted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Eric Partridge
cunt
etymology_text:
From Middle English cunte, queynt, queynte, from Old English *cunte, from Proto-Germanic *kuntǭ. Cognate with West Frisian kunte, Middle Dutch conte (Dutch kont (“butt”)), dialectal Swedish kunta, dialectal Danish kunte, and Icelandic kunta. A relationship to Latin cunnus has not been conclusively shown. Lexicographer Partridge suggests cuneus (“a wedge”).
senses_examples:
text:
[...] and boy I can hear every word from behind my tree because that plot of hers is close to the road and she's fucking it and she's cunting it and you never heard a woman talking like that, not sober anyway[...]
ref:
2007, Robert Minhinnick, Sea Holly, Seren Books
type:
quotation
text:
Anyone whom he told to piss off was grateful not to have been cunted instead.
ref:
2016 September 27, Peter Stothard, The Senecans: Four Men and Margaret Thatcher, Abrams
type:
quotation
text:
I wanted to provoke something in him so that he would hit me first, so I went over and cunted him off left , right and centre . He was a Scouser - I called him a Scouse cunt.
ref:
2017 September 21, Chris Heath, quoting Robbie Williams, Reveal: Robbie Williams - As close as you can get to the man behind the Netflix Documentary, Bonnier Publishing Ltd.
type:
quotation
text:
Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry was indeed described as "fascist", notably by Pauline Kael, although there is no real evidence that Scorsese's Taxi Driver was "cunted" on first release – on the contrary, despite continuing misgivings about violence, that film was surely widely praised from the very first, getting the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
ref:
2009 September 23, Peter Bradshaw, “The irony about Nick Love's Outlaw DVD commentary”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
“I wanted him to leave me alone,” Baby said. “I wasn't actually going to, you know.”“Cunt him?” Theo said. Baby flinched.
ref:
2022 October 28, Gregory Ashe, A Fault against the Dead, Hodgkin and Blount
type:
quotation
text:
... 'We were going to. Duke gave you the ticket, it was all set. And then you cunted the whole plan, didn't you? You killed the bastard.'
ref:
2015 September 17, Charles Higson, King Of The Ants, Hachette UK
type:
quotation
text:
“If I'd said things in Russia were cunted, that would mean bad.”
ref:
2018 July 10, Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country: A Novel, Penguin
type:
quotation
text:
JOE : You cunted me.
ROBERT : Language . Not in here .
JOE : You lied .
ref:
2005, Darren Murphy, Tabloid Caligula, Oberon Books
type:
quotation
text:
You cunted us, and I'm gonna make you pay, cos you shit on us Pete.
ref:
2010 April 3, Richard Perilly, Villains, Lulu.com, page 189
type:
quotation
text:
One of my favourite ever instances of its deployment was at a particularly troublesome roundabout, when a driver of my acquaintance uttered the deathless phrase: “Right: it’s cunt or be cunted.”
ref:
2017 February 4, Alex Clark, “I'm no pussy when it comes to swearing”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
How she cunts his finger as if it were a close friend
ref:
1977, John Harris, Against the Day of the Dead
type:
quotation
text:
I am pushing towards him, against him, yearning to open up against his entire face, to cunt him entirely, to feel the full warm liquid merging
ref:
1998, Evan Dara, The Lost Scrapbook, University of Alabama Press, page 230
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use the word "cunt".
To attack someone.
To ruin something; to fuck up.
To betray someone.
To take something into one's vulva or vagina.
senses_topics:
|
1435 | word:
cunt
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cunt (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Eric Partridge
cunt
etymology_text:
From Middle English cunte, queynt, queynte, from Old English *cunte, from Proto-Germanic *kuntǭ. Cognate with West Frisian kunte, Middle Dutch conte (Dutch kont (“butt”)), dialectal Swedish kunta, dialectal Danish kunte, and Icelandic kunta. A relationship to Latin cunnus has not been conclusively shown. Lexicographer Partridge suggests cuneus (“a wedge”).
senses_examples:
text:
As noted above, "cunt" or "cunty" has evolved in Ballroom parlance to mean exactly what Banks defines it as: feminine and strong.]
ref:
[2022, Lauron J. Kehrer, Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
Look at her like how can you not say cunt[,] she's cunt
ref:
2022 December 29, PeachyPlumz (on reddit), in "Symmetra is a ‘gay icon’?", Reddit
text:
she's so CUNT ... like... how can i not say cunt???
ref:
2023 May 24, cutehammie (on reddit), in "Trans ally Azealia", r/popheadscirclejerk, Reddit
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Amazing or very good.
senses_topics:
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality |
1436 | word:
Guyana
word_type:
name
expansion:
Guyana
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From an indigenous native American language, probably Cariban or Lokono, said to be a word referring to the land's waters.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in South America. Official name: Co-operative Republic of Guyana. Capital and largest city: Georgetown.
senses_topics:
|
1437 | word:
French Polynesia
word_type:
name
expansion:
French Polynesia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago and overseas territory of France in Oceania. Official name: Territory of French Polynesia.
senses_topics:
|
1438 | word:
Maldives
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Maldives
forms:
form:
the Maldives
tags:
canonical
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Based on Malé Islands; from Malé, the name of the main island (from Dhivehi މާލެ (māle)) + Prakrit 𑀤𑀻𑀯 (dīva, “island”), from Sanskrit द्वीप (dvīpá).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago and country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean off the coast of India. Official name: Republic of Maldives. Capital: Malé.
senses_topics:
|
1439 | word:
Gabon
word_type:
name
expansion:
Gabon
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese gabão (“cloak”), referring to the Komo estuary.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central Africa. Official name: Gabonese Republic. Capital: Libreville.
senses_topics:
|
1440 | word:
government
word_type:
noun
expansion:
government (countable and uncountable, plural governments)
forms:
form:
governments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
government
etymology_text:
From Middle English governement, from Old French governement (modern French gouvernement), from governer (see govern) + -ment.
Morphologically govern + -ment
Displaced native Old English gerec, leodweard, ræden, rǣding and Old English ealdordōm.
senses_examples:
text:
British government has historically centred exclusively on London.
type:
example
text:
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref:
2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
If the citizens must follow the law, then the government must follow the constitution.
type:
example
text:
Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.
ref:
2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
The government of the Church is maintained without material alteration in a settled hierarchical form.
ref:
1908, Walter Frederic Adeney, The Greek and Eastern churches, page 275
type:
quotation
text:
Whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to the government of Her Majesty's Navy, whereon, under the good Providence of God, the wealth, safety and strength of the Kingdom so much depend:
ref:
1957, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Preamble”, in Naval Discipline Act 1957, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
The Sunak government announced plans to stem the flow of migrants coming into Great Britain.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
The relationship between a word and its dependents.
The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
The management or control of a system.
The tenure of a head of government; the ministry or administration led by a specified individual.
In a parliamentary system, the political party or coalition in power, as opposed to the opposition; the state of being in power.
The team tasked with presenting and speaking in favour of a resolution, as opposed to the opposition.
Ellipsis of government name, one's legal name according to a government.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
1441 | word:
Honduras
word_type:
name
expansion:
Honduras
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish honduras (“depths”, referring to the deep waters off the northern coast).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Honduras.
senses_topics:
|
1442 | word:
Kenya
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kenya
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Kikuyu kĩrĩma (“mountain”) and Kikuyu nyaga (“ostrich”), from the name of Mount Kenya. See Kirinyaga County.
senses_examples:
text:
The object of the builders was to push on to Uganda as quickly as possible; one result was that Kenya was "discovered" on the way.
ref:
1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.
senses_topics:
|
1443 | word:
mobile
word_type:
adj
expansion:
mobile (comparative more mobile, superlative most mobile)
forms:
form:
more mobile
tags:
comparative
form:
most mobile
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”).
senses_examples:
text:
a mobile home
type:
example
text:
mobile number
type:
example
text:
mobile internet
type:
example
text:
A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
ref:
2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly)
type:
quotation
text:
Mercury is a mobile liquid.
type:
example
text:
mobile features
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.
Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.
Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
1444 | word:
mobile
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mobile (plural mobiles)
forms:
form:
mobiles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”).
senses_examples:
text:
Mobiles squerking, mobiles chirping / Take the money and run
ref:
2000, “Idioteque”, in Kid A, performed by Radiohead
type:
quotation
text:
there are many business opportunities in mobile
type:
example
text:
[…] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles". […] We concentrated on a mobile teenager population that had good public transportation or automobile access and a[…]
ref:
1963, Highway Research Record
type:
quotation
text:
Table 6.5 does indeed show that non-changers were more contented […] For Table 6.7 shows that even when we take account of the initial differences between the mobiles and immobiles, the mobiles' ratings of job characteristics move strongly in a positive direction while all the immobiles' record negative shifts. So the pattern is clear and consistent: jobs get better for movers and worse for non-movers.
ref:
1988 February 25, Nigel Nicholson, Michael West, Managerial Job Change: Men and Women in Transition, Cambridge University Press, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
One ex-airwoman recalls meal times for both 'mobiles' and 'immobiles', when they sat on backless benches at long bare tables. The 'immobiles' brought in their own food, crockery and cutlery. A free-standing iron range was used[…]
ref:
2005 July 19, Ian M. Philpott, The Royal Air Force: The Trenchard Years, 1918–1929, Casemate Publishers
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
Ellipsis of mobile phone.
The internet accessed via mobile devices.
One who moves or can move (e.g. to travel).
senses_topics:
art
arts
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
|
1445 | word:
wage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wage (plural wages)
forms:
form:
wages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wage
etymology_text:
From Middle English wage, from Anglo-Norman wage, from Old Northern French wage, a northern variant of Old French gauge, guage (whence modern French gage), Medieval Latin wadium, from Frankish *waddī (cognate with Old English wedd), from Proto-Germanic *wadją (“pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge”). Akin to Old Norse veðja (“to pledge”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌹 (wadi), Dutch wedde. Compare also the doublet gage. More at wed.
senses_examples:
text:
Before her promotion, her wages were 20% less.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
senses_topics:
|
1446 | word:
wage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wage (third-person singular simple present wages, present participle waging, simple past and past participle waged)
forms:
form:
wages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
waging
tags:
participle
present
form:
waged
tags:
participle
past
form:
waged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
wage
etymology_text:
From Middle English wagen (“to pledge”), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wagier, a northern variant of Old French guagier (whence modern French gager), itself either from guage or from a derivative of Frankish *waddī, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *wadiō from *wadium.
senses_examples:
text:
Setting our sights back on King’s Landing, where the Last War will be waged, makes a lot of sense, even if it does feel a bit anticlimactic after last week’s deadly, blustery maelstrom.
ref:
2019 May 5, Danette Chavez, “Campaigns are Waged On and Off the Game Of Thrones Battlefield (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-01-28
type:
quotation
text:
pond'ring which of all his Sons was fit / To Reign, and wage immortal War with Wit
ref:
1709, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wager, bet.
To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
To employ for wages; to hire.
To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
To give security for the performance of
senses_topics:
law |
1447 | word:
Cameroon
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cameroon
forms:
wikipedia:
Wouri river
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Rio dos Camarões (“river of prawns”), in reference to the Wouri river.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Cameroon. Capital: Yaoundé. It also claims Ambazonia.
senses_topics:
|
1448 | word:
Cameroon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Cameroon (plural Cameroons)
forms:
form:
Cameroons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Wouri river
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Rio dos Camarões (“river of prawns”), in reference to the Wouri river.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sheep of a domesticated breed from West Africa.
senses_topics:
|
1449 | word:
Cameroon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Cameroon (plural Cameroons)
forms:
form:
Cameroons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of Cameron, influenced by -oon.
senses_examples:
text:
He fears that in downplaying traditional Conservative causes, in changing the party to be more in tune with modern Britain, the Cameroons have in effect accepted that they won't change the country much in office.
ref:
2007 March 21, Andy Beckett, “The Cameroons”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Today, I spy a coalition outrider: Nick Boles, MP for Grantham, founder of Policy Exchange and the archetypal Cameroon ultra-modernizer. I don’t think Boles even owned a tie until he was elected to the House of Commons. That’s how much of a Cameroon the man is.
ref:
2010 September 13, Iain Martin, “Nick Boles: The Coalition’s Cameroon Outrider”, in Wall Street Journal
type:
quotation
text:
Maude was a moderniser before modernity dawned in the Tory ranks, a Cameroon before David Cameron.
ref:
2012 March 30, James Chapman, “Gorgeous George and why Ed Miliband must now pray Ken Livingstone wins London”, in Daily Mail
type:
quotation
text:
Mr Cameron won significantly smaller vote shares than either Theresa May or Boris Johnson. There are not many Cameroons in Britain. Outside some newspaper op-ed pages, there never were.
ref:
2023 November 13, Bagehot, “What David Cameron's return says about British politics”, in Economist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Conservative Party member with green or social liberal leanings, supporting the policies of David Cameron.
senses_topics:
government
politics |
1450 | word:
Bolivia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bolivia
forms:
wikipedia:
Bolivia
Bolivia, North Carolina
Simón Bolívar
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish and New Latin Bolivia (“land of Bolivar”), from the South American revolutionary leader Simón Bolívar + -ia (“forming placenames”), from the Spanish surname Bolívar, from Basque Bolibar, a village in Álava, Basque Country, Spain, from Basque bolu (“windmill”) + ibar (“valley”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in South America. Official name: Plurinational State of Bolivia. Capitals: La Paz and Sucre.
A small town, the county seat of Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.
Former name of Santa Cruz, an island in Galapagos, Ecuador.
senses_topics:
|
1451 | word:
shrink
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shrink (third-person singular simple present shrinks, present participle shrinking, simple past shrank or shrunk, past participle shrunk or shrunken)
forms:
form:
shrinks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shrinking
tags:
participle
present
form:
shrank
tags:
past
form:
shrunk
tags:
past
form:
shrunk
tags:
participle
past
form:
shrunken
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English schrynken, from Old English sċrincan, from Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną. Cognate with Dutch schrinken (“to shrink”).
The sense “psychologist, psychotherapist” is a clipping of head-shrinker.
senses_examples:
text:
The dryer shrank my sweater.
type:
example
text:
The bottom line is this: To shrink your gut, you need to start listening to it.
ref:
2008 October, David Schipper, “Outsmart your stomach: Seven ways to fill your gut—and lose it, too”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
This garment will shrink when wet.
type:
example
text:
Since 1982, it has shrunk by 250 meters.
ref:
2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
type:
quotation
text:
When they took over the 1000 'Flying Scotsman' from May 1979, the journey from London to Edinburgh shrank to just 4hrs 37mins - including a stop at Newcastle.
ref:
2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip.
type:
example
text:
They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task.
ref:
1881, Benjamin Jowett, transl., Thucydides
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause to become smaller.
To become smaller; to contract.
To cower or flinch.
To draw back; to withdraw.
To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.
senses_topics:
|
1452 | word:
shrink
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shrink (plural shrinks)
forms:
form:
shrinks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English schrynken, from Old English sċrincan, from Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną. Cognate with Dutch schrinken (“to shrink”).
The sense “psychologist, psychotherapist” is a clipping of head-shrinker.
senses_examples:
text:
Yet almost with, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise.
ref:
1818, Leigh Hunt, “To T** L** H**, Six Years Old, During a Sickness.”, in Foliage; […], London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier, Welbeck Street, page xlvii
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: shrinkette
text:
You need to see a shrink, you crazy fool.
type:
example
text:
My shrink said that he was an enabler, bad for me.
type:
example
text:
I went to a shrink to analyze my dreams / She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down
ref:
1994 August, Green Day (lyrics and music), “Basket Case” (track 7), in Dookie, Reprise Records
type:
quotation
text:
"From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].
ref:
2021 March 10, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 926, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
Assuming the retailer's shrink is average or below, and the owner is comfortable with the level of shrink, perhaps nothing more need be done except to maintain vigilance and to monitor the shrink for signs of emerging problems.
ref:
2011, Charles Sennewald, John Christman, Retail Crime, Security, and Loss Prevention: An Encyclopedic Reference, page 227
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.
A psychiatrist or psychotherapist.
Loss of inventory, for example due to shoplifting or not selling items before their expiration date.
senses_topics:
business |
1453 | word:
global
word_type:
adj
expansion:
global (comparative more global, superlative most global)
forms:
form:
more global
tags:
comparative
form:
most global
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From globe + -al; compare French global.
senses_examples:
text:
Some rights are more global than others; social rights in particular do not seem to globalise easily.
ref:
2003, Catherine Dupré, Importing the law in post-communist transitions, page 169
type:
quotation
text:
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
ref:
2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Pollution is a global problem.
type:
example
text:
Global variables keep support engineers employed.
type:
example
text:
The first account that is created when you sign up is the global Administrator.
ref:
2013 December 30, Matthew Katze, Don Crawford, Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud, page 366
type:
quotation
text:
In the center was a small, global mass.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Concerning all parts of the world.
Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal:
Of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program.
Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal:
Which has to be considered in its entirety.
Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal
Spherical, ball-shaped.
Of or relating to a globe or sphere.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
1454 | word:
global
word_type:
noun
expansion:
global (plural globals)
forms:
form:
globals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From globe + -al; compare French global.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A globally scoped identifier.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
1455 | word:
global
word_type:
adv
expansion:
global (comparative more global, superlative most global)
forms:
form:
more global
tags:
comparative
form:
most global
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From globe + -al; compare French global.
senses_examples:
text:
Coca-Cola, for example, shifted its stance, unsuccessfully, between “think global, act global” and “think local, act local” during the tenures of three different CEOs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
ref:
2016, Vinod K. Jain, Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy, page 122
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the global manner; world-wide.
senses_topics:
|
1456 | word:
indice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
indice (plural indices)
forms:
form:
indices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French indice, from Latin indicium, from index.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
index
indication
senses_topics:
|
1457 | word:
meeting
word_type:
noun
expansion:
meeting (countable and uncountable, plural meetings)
forms:
form:
meetings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting (“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting (“meeting, encounter”), Middle Low German mö̂tinge (“meeting”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.
senses_examples:
text:
Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people.
type:
example
text:
We need to have a meeting about that soon.
type:
example
text:
In a meeting with government officials, Moon noted that China was “much more advanced” than South Korea in rain-making technologies, his spokesman said.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
What has the meeting decided.
type:
example
text:
They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
type:
example
text:
Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
type:
example
text:
You use ta give a good meetin'. I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.
ref:
1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of persons or things that meet.
A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
The people at such a gathering.
An encounter between people, even accidental.
A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
senses_topics:
|
1458 | word:
meeting
word_type:
verb
expansion:
meeting
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English metynge, metinde, metand, from Old English mētende, *ġemētende, from Proto-Germanic *mōtijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), equivalent to meet + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of meet
senses_topics:
|
1459 | word:
Botswana
word_type:
name
expansion:
Botswana
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Tswana Botswana, from bo- + Tswana,
of uncertain origin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southern Africa. Capital: Gaborone.
Bechuanaland, fully the Bechuanaland Protectorate, a colony of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1966
A country in Southern Africa. Capital: Gaborone.
The Republic of Botswana, since 1966
senses_topics:
|
1460 | word:
Brasil
word_type:
name
expansion:
Brasil
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic form of Brazil.
A mythical island, said to exist off the western coast of Ireland.
senses_topics:
|
1461 | word:
Djibouti
word_type:
name
expansion:
Djibouti
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown; the country of Djibouti was named after its capital city. Multiple theories exist as to the origin of the lemma, including derivation from Afar gabouti (“plate”) or gabood (“plateau”).
senses_examples:
text:
Holonym: Horn of Africa
text:
The French have been having a great deal of trouble at Djibouti with a tribe of the interior, the Issas, who are vehemently opposed to the progress of the railway through their country. Throughout the first half of March, raids were incessant on parties in and about the town itself. A detachment of marines was sent out and restored peace, at all events for the moment. In the meantime fifty Hausas from the Ivory Coast are on their way to form a nucleus of a permanent garrison at Djibouti, and their sergeant is no less a person than Koulery the brother of Behanzin late King of Dahomey.
ref:
1899 April 8, “Notes”, in Saturday Review, volume 87, number 2267, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 418, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Djibouti.
The capital city of Djibouti.
senses_topics:
|
1462 | word:
Papua New Guinea
word_type:
name
expansion:
Papua New Guinea
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly from Malay pepuah (“frizzy”, in reference to locals' hair) + New Guinea.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Oceania. Official name: Independent State of Papua New Guinea. Capital and largest city: Port Moresby.
senses_topics:
|
1463 | word:
consent
word_type:
verb
expansion:
consent (third-person singular simple present consents, present participle consenting, simple past and past participle consented)
forms:
form:
consents
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
consenting
tags:
participle
present
form:
consented
tags:
participle
past
form:
consented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
consent
etymology_text:
Recorded in Middle English since circa 1225, borrowed from Old French consentir, from Latin cōnsentīre, present active infinitive of cōnsentiō (“to agree; to assent, consent”), itself from com- (“with”) + sentiō (“to feel”)
senses_examples:
text:
After reflecting a little bit, I've decided to consent.
type:
example
text:
When the patient was consented to enter the study and registered, a telephone call was made to research assistant
ref:
2002, T Usmani with KD O'Brien, HV Worthington, S Derwent, et al., “A randomized clinical trial to compare the effectiveness of canine lacebacks with reference to canine tip”, in Journal of Orthodontics, volume 29, number 4, →DOI, →PMID
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To express willingness, to give permission.
To cause to sign a consent form.
To grant; to allow; to assent to.
To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
1464 | word:
consent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
consent (countable and uncountable, plural consents)
forms:
form:
consents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
consent
etymology_text:
Recorded in Middle English since circa 1225, borrowed from Old French consentir, from Latin cōnsentīre, present active infinitive of cōnsentiō (“to agree; to assent, consent”), itself from com- (“with”) + sentiō (“to feel”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Voluntary agreement or permission.
Unity or agreement of opinion, sentiment, or inclination.
Advice; counsel.
senses_topics:
|
1465 | word:
plural
word_type:
adj
expansion:
plural (comparative more plural, superlative most plural)
forms:
form:
more plural
tags:
comparative
form:
most plural
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
plural
etymology_text:
From Middle English plurelle, from Old French plurel (“plural”), Borrowed from Latin plūrālis (“of or belonging to more than one, belonging to many”, adjective), from plūs, plūris (“more”) + -ālis.
senses_examples:
text:
The notion of culture is one whose meanings are plural and shifting.
type:
example
text:
Than plural faith which is too much by one: Thou counterfeit to thy true friend!
ref:
1594, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona
type:
quotation
text:
English nouns usually have singular and plural forms.
type:
example
text:
Although the nation was far more plural than Canada in the number of its Christian groups
ref:
1987, Mircea Eliade, Charles J. Adams, editors, The Encyclopedia of religion, volume 3
type:
quotation
text:
The Hong Kong and Singapore markets are way more "plural" than most Western economies, but they have not led to pluralistic politics.
ref:
2006, Suisheng Zhao, Debating political reform in China: rule of law vs. democratization, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
History is perhaps more plural than traditionally imagined, leaving room for more groups to express their story.
ref:
2007, Lachelle Renee Hannickel, From cultural transgressions to literary transformations: ..., page 195
type:
quotation
text:
Generally the girls tend to perceive their social world as somewhat more plural than boys do. Several of these questions reveal that there are more boys (61%) than girls (39%) who 'do not know' about the religion of others
ref:
2009, Pille Valk, Teenagers' perspectives on the role of religion in their lives, ..., page 281
type:
quotation
text:
Yet More's conscience was responding to a world just a little more plural than the world he was born in
ref:
2011, Harald E. Braun with Edward Vallance, The Renaissance Conscience, page 50
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Consisting of or containing more than one of something.
In systems of number, not singular or not singular or dual.
Pluralistic.
Having some form of multiplicity, especially dissociative identity disorder.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
1466 | word:
plural
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plural (plural plurals)
forms:
form:
plurals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
plural
etymology_text:
From Middle English plurelle, from Old French plurel (“plural”), Borrowed from Latin plūrālis (“of or belonging to more than one, belonging to many”, adjective), from plūs, plūris (“more”) + -ālis.
senses_examples:
text:
There are three numbers; the singular, the dual, and the plural. [...] The dual is sometimes used to denote two objects, but even here the plural is more common.
ref:
1895, William W. Goodwin, A Greek Grammar. Revised and enlarged., page 34
type:
quotation
text:
The plural of 'cat' is 'cats', but the plural of 'child' is 'children'.
type:
example
text:
Singlet and monocultural identity is so normalized that many voice hearers and plurals don’t share their experiences with anyone, living in isolation (and sometimes in poverty) and spending considerable inner resources to manage postures and performances of ‘mental health’.
ref:
2016, Lori F. Clarke, “Embracing Polyphony: Voices, Improvisation, and the Hearing Voices Network”, in Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice, volume 5, number 2, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
More strongly, respect might require that singlets themselves accept, in the context of interacting with plurals, that people are truly distinct people.
ref:
2020, Elizabeth Schechter, “What we can learn about respect and identity from plurals”, in JPCA Mag, number 1, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
Autistics, plurals, and gender nonconforming individuals are all stigmatized as not being capable of understanding their own experiences and are repeatedly attacked with narratives intended to make them doubt their own emotions, memories, and sense of self.
ref:
2020, Tynan Drake, "Intersectional Representation: LGBTQ+ and neurodiverse voices in transmedia fiction", paper submitted to Ball State University, page 14
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something.
A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.
A person with some form of multiplicity, particularly dissociative identity disorder.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
1467 | word:
minute
word_type:
noun
expansion:
minute (plural minutes)
forms:
form:
minutes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
minute
etymology_text:
From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu and menudo.
senses_examples:
text:
You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
type:
example
text:
Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!
type:
example
text:
We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.
type:
example
text:
Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.
type:
example
text:
The Clerk or 'recording Clerk' drafts a minute and then, or at a later time, reads it to the Meeting. Subsequent contributions are on the wording of the minute only, until it can be accepted by the Meeting. Once the minute is accepted, the Meeting moves on to the next item on the agenda.
ref:
2008, Pink Dandelion, The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
If you buy this model, you’ll get 100 free minutes.
type:
example
text:
Tell her, that I some Certainty may bring; / I go this minute to attend the king.
ref:
1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe
type:
quotation
text:
[…]according to the Prophecies of him, which were so clear and descended to minutes and circumstances of his passion
ref:
1660, Jeremy Taylor, “Of the Probable or Thinking Conscience.”, in Ductor Dubitantium, or, The Rule of Conscience in all her Generall Measures Serving as a Great Instrument for the Determination of Cases of Conscience, volume 1
type:
quotation
text:
Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!
type:
example
text:
“Man, I haven’t seen you in a minute,” he says, smiling still. “Maybe like two, three years ago?”
ref:
2010, Kenneth Ring, Letters from Palestine, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
I seen Too$hort up there. Me and $hort ain't talked in a minute.
ref:
2010 June 10, Lil B, Complex.com
type:
quotation
text:
RON:I remember my first. I was a minute younger than you. […]I remember thinking, saying to myself..."This is the first time I'm eating as a person who killed someone."
ref:
2016 November 8, Ben Katai, Josh Corbin, Sharon Lennon, directed by Ben Katai, StartUp(Recapitalization) (StartUp (TV series)), season 1, episode 10 (TV), spoken by Ronald Dacey (Edi Gathegi)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
A short but unspecified time period.
A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
A point in time; a moment.
A nautical or a geographic mile.
An old coin, a half farthing.
A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
A fixed part of a module.
A while or a long unspecified period of time
senses_topics:
architecture
|
1468 | word:
minute
word_type:
verb
expansion:
minute (third-person singular simple present minutes, present participle minuting, simple past and past participle minuted)
forms:
form:
minutes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
minuting
tags:
participle
present
form:
minuted
tags:
participle
past
form:
minuted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
minute
etymology_text:
From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu and menudo.
senses_examples:
text:
I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.
type:
example
text:
I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing, on this mighty subject.
ref:
1870 [1855 June 27], Charles Dickens, “Administrative Reform”, in Speeches Literary and Social, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
On 17 November 1949 Jay minuted Cripps, arguing that trade liberalization on inessentials was socially regressive.
ref:
1995, Edmund Dell, The Schuman Plan and the British Abdication of Leadership in Europe
type:
quotation
text:
The Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command, Sir Richard Peirse, was sceptical of its findings, minuting, ‘I don’t think at this rate we could have hoped to produce the damage which is known to have been achieved.’
ref:
1996, Peter Hinchliffe, The Other Battle
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Klingstadt, chief Auditor of the Admiralty of that city, sent for and examined them very particularly concerning the events which had befallen them; minuting down their answers in writing, with an intention of publishing himself an account of their extraordinary adventures.
ref:
2003, David Roberts, Four Against the Arctic
type:
quotation
text:
The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance.
ref:
1876 [1834], George Bancroft, History of the United States from the discovery of the American continent, volume VI, pages 28–29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
senses_topics:
|
1469 | word:
minute
word_type:
adj
expansion:
minute (comparative minuter or more minute, superlative minutest or most minute)
forms:
form:
minuter
tags:
comparative
form:
more minute
tags:
comparative
form:
minutest
tags:
superlative
form:
most minute
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
minute
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin minūtus (“small", "petty”), perfect passive participle of minuō (“make smaller”).
senses_examples:
text:
They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.
type:
example
text:
The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.
type:
example
text:
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
ref:
2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very small.
Very careful and exact, giving small details.
senses_topics:
|
1470 | word:
Brazil
word_type:
name
expansion:
Brazil
forms:
wikipedia:
Brasil (mythical island)
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Brasil, from brasil (“brazilwood”), originally ‘red like an ember’, from brasa (“ember”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brasō (“gleed, crackling coal”), and -il (“-ile, -like, -y”) from Latin -īlis (“adjective suffix”). Alternatively, this is a folk etymology for a word for the plant related to Arabic ورس.
A discredited alternative etymology relates it to the mythical Celtic island of Brasil (or "Hy-Brasil"), possibly from Irish Uí Breasail, meaning "clan of Bresail".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital: Brasília.
A city, the county seat of Clay County, Indiana, United States.
senses_topics:
|
1471 | word:
Brazil
word_type:
name
expansion:
Brazil (plural Brazils)
forms:
form:
Brazils
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Breasail (“descendant of Breasal”), a byname meaning "strife".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname from Irish.
senses_topics:
|
1472 | word:
Brazil
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
senses_topics:
|
1473 | word:
Bulgaria
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bulgaria
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin Bulgaria, equivalent to Bulgar + -ia, in English used from the 16th century.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Bulgaria. Capital and largest city: Sofia.
senses_topics:
|
1474 | word:
f
word_type:
character
expansion:
f (lower case, upper case F, plural fs or f's)
forms:
form:
F
tags:
uppercase
form:
fs
tags:
plural
form:
f's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Old English lower case letter f, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case f of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚠ (f, “fe”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sixth letter of the English alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
1475 | word:
f
word_type:
num
expansion:
f (lower case, upper case F)
forms:
form:
F
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Old English lower case letter f, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case f of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚠ (f, “fe”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number sixth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
1476 | word:
f
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
f
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
f
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of for.
# (stenoscript) prefix for-.
# (stenoscript) suffix/sequence for(e).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F♯) is a tone intermediate between F and G.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
1477 | word:
f
word_type:
noun
expansion:
f
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
f
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of for.
# (stenoscript) prefix for-.
# (stenoscript) suffix/sequence for(e).
senses_examples:
text:
What the f do you think you're doing?
type:
example
text:
Alternative form: f.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Folio, paper and book size (10"-12.5" x 15"-20")
Abbreviation of fuck.
Abbreviation of feminine.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
1478 | word:
Argentina
word_type:
name
expansion:
Argentina
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin argentum (“silver”) + the feminine of the adjectival suffix -īnus; in reference to the Río de la Plata ("silver river").
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in South America. Official name: Argentine Republic. Capital: Buenos Aires.
senses_topics:
|
1479 | word:
The Bahamas
word_type:
name
expansion:
The Bahamas
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Trust funds do not have to be remitted to The Bahamas and the settlor does not have to be resident or physically present in The Bahamas. However, the trustees (whether corporate or individual) should be located in The Bahamas.
ref:
1975, Doing Business in the Bahamas, Price, Waterhouse, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
From The Bahamas to the U.S. and Canada, postage rates are as follows: […]
ref:
1986, Bahamas 1987, Fodor’s Travel Guides, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
A local agent for the IBC must be appointed, but company meetings may be held anywhere, while migration of IBCs to and from The Bahamas is facilitated, allowing immediate transfer of financial assets.
ref:
1994, The Latin American Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of the Bahamas.
senses_topics:
|
1480 | word:
Afghanistan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Afghanistan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Classical Persian افغانستان (Afğānistān), from افغان (Afğân, “the Afghan, the Afghans”) + ـستان (-estân, “-istan: land of”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia. Official name: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Capital and largest city: Kabul.
senses_topics:
|
1481 | word:
wireless
word_type:
adj
expansion:
wireless (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From wire + -less.
senses_examples:
text:
Ozma, observing this action in her Magic Picture, at once caught up a similar instrument from a table beside her and held it to her own ear. The two instruments recorded the same delicate vibrations of sound and formed a wireless telephone, an invention of the Wizard. Those separated by any distance were thus enabled to converse together with perfect ease.
ref:
1914, L. Frank Baum, Tik-Tok of Oz
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not having any wires.
Of or relating to communication without a wired connection, such as by radio waves.
senses_topics:
|
1482 | word:
wireless
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wireless (usually uncountable, plural (dated) wirelesses)
forms:
form:
wirelesses
tags:
dated
plural
wikipedia:
wireless
etymology_text:
From wire + -less.
senses_examples:
text:
Only about a hundred years ago, wireless was a new technology.
type:
example
text:
It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”
ref:
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court
type:
quotation
text:
If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.
type:
example
text:
Let's switch on the wireless and listen to the news.
type:
example
text:
I heard you on my wireless back in '52
ref:
1979, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, Bruce Woolley, “Video Killed the Radio Star”
type:
quotation
text:
In the corner of that dark back room stood a black and white television—their one nod to modernity—and beside it, two old wirelesses and a headset that had not seen action since the TV arrived.
ref:
2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The medium of radio communication.
Wireless connectivity to a computer network.
A radio set.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
|
1483 | word:
wireless
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wireless (third-person singular simple present wirelesses, present participle wirelessing, simple past and past participle wirelessed)
forms:
form:
wirelesses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wirelessing
tags:
participle
present
form:
wirelessed
tags:
participle
past
form:
wirelessed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From wire + -less.
senses_examples:
text:
At 3:30 A.M. a huge Zeppelin flew across the British battle line, wirelessing down to any Germans still to the westward the best way to get home.
ref:
1919, William Charles Henry Wood, Flag and Fleet
type:
quotation
text:
Just outside Piraeus we circled low over a capsized fishing-boat, a grisly wreck in the crystal blue water, and wirelessed a description of it to the mainland.
ref:
1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part II, Chapter 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To send a message by wireless (by radio)
senses_topics:
|
1484 | word:
policy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
policy (countable and uncountable, plural policies)
forms:
form:
policies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English policie, from Old French policie, pollicie and police, from Late Latin politia (“citizenship; government”), classical Latin polītīa (in Cicero), from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía, “citizenship; polis, (city) state; government”), from πολίτης (polítēs, “citizen”). Compare police and polity.
senses_examples:
text:
The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers.
type:
example
text:
It's company policy that all mobile phones are forbidden in meetings.
type:
example
text:
Please print extra copies of this policy and post them where it will be easy for everyone to see.
type:
example
text:
Whether he believed himself a god, or only took on the attributes of divinity from motives of policy, is a question for the psychologist, since the historical evidence is indecisive.
ref:
1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.25
type:
quotation
text:
1775, Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland section on Aberbrothick
Now and then about a gentleman’s house stands a small plantation, which in Scotch is called a policy, but of these there are few, and those few all very young.
text:
Next morning was so splendid that as he walked through the policies towards the mansion house despair itself was lulled.
ref:
1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 36
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body.
A document describing such a policy.
Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
The grounds of a large country house.
The art of governance; political science.
A state; a polity.
A set political system; civil administration.
A trick; a stratagem.
Motive; object; inducement.
senses_topics:
|
1485 | word:
policy
word_type:
verb
expansion:
policy (third-person singular simple present policies, present participle policying, simple past and past participle policied)
forms:
form:
policies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
policying
tags:
participle
present
form:
policied
tags:
participle
past
form:
policied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English policie, from Old French policie, pollicie and police, from Late Latin politia (“citizenship; government”), classical Latin polītīa (in Cicero), from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía, “citizenship; polis, (city) state; government”), from πολίτης (polítēs, “citizen”). Compare police and polity.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
senses_topics:
|
1486 | word:
policy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
policy (plural policies)
forms:
form:
policies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French police, from Italian polizza, from Medieval Latin apodissa (“receipt for money”), from Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis, “proof, declaration”).
senses_examples:
text:
Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A contract of insurance.
A document containing or certifying this contract.
An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
A number pool lottery
senses_topics:
law
law
|
1487 | word:
Nicaragua
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nicaragua
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Native town name Nicarao + Spanish agua (“water”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Nicaragua.
senses_topics:
|
1488 | word:
MITI
word_type:
name
expansion:
MITI
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Ministry of International Trade and Industry (of Japan).
senses_topics:
|
1489 | word:
trade deficit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trade deficit (plural trade deficits)
forms:
form:
trade deficits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A negative balance of trade.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences |
1490 | word:
financial market
word_type:
noun
expansion:
financial market (plural financial markets)
forms:
form:
financial markets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A market where financial securities (such as stocks and bonds) and commodities are bought and sold.
senses_topics:
|
1491 | word:
proprietary
word_type:
adj
expansion:
proprietary (comparative more proprietary, superlative most proprietary)
forms:
form:
more proprietary
tags:
comparative
form:
most proprietary
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French propriétaire, from Latin proprietārius. By surface analysis, propriety + -ary. Compare with the Latin proprietas (“property”) and proprius (“ownership”).
senses_examples:
text:
proprietary rights
type:
example
text:
the proprietary class
type:
example
text:
The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products.
type:
example
text:
It was reported that the recipes for the secret sauce and grinder sandwiches were proprietary, known only to the current president of the corporation and the former owner of the restaurant.
ref:
1996, Michael Craig Budden, Protecting Trade Secrets under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act: Practical Advice for Executives, Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
a proprietary extension to the HTML standard for Web page structure
type:
example
text:
a proprietary lake; a proprietary chapel
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to property or ownership.
Owning something; having ownership.
Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.
Privately owned.
Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
senses_topics:
|
1492 | word:
proprietary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
proprietary (plural proprietaries)
forms:
form:
proprietaries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French propriétaire, from Latin proprietārius. By surface analysis, propriety + -ary. Compare with the Latin proprietas (“property”) and proprius (“ownership”).
senses_examples:
text:
Wherefore what issue soever shall result from my mind , by his means most happily married to a retired life , must , of due , redound to his honour , as the sole proprietary of my pains during my present condition
ref:
1647, Thomas Fuller, The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience
type:
quotation
text:
For all practical purposes, the proprietaries conduct their own financial affairs with a minimum of oversight from CIA headquarters.
ref:
1975, Victor Marchetti, John D. Marks, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, page 159
type:
quotation
text:
The “operating proprietaries” actually do business as private firms. They are incorporated where they are officed, they file the applicable state and federal tax returns, and they obtain the licenses necessary to a legitimate business operation.
ref:
2013, Joseph Goulden, The Dictionary of Espionage: Spyspeak into English, page 175
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A proprietor or owner.
A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
The rights of a proprietor.
A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
A company doing legitimate business while also serving as a front for espionage.
senses_topics:
espionage
government
military
politics
war |
1493 | word:
alien
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alien (plural aliens)
forms:
form:
aliens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Alien
etymology_text:
From Middle English alien, a borrowing from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus (“belonging to someone else”, later “exotic, foreign”), from Latin alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Related to English else.
senses_examples:
text:
An animated film intended to inform travellers about the dangers that alien species present to Arctic ecosystems is being released today. The message is that it is important to ensure that nobody accidentally brings alien species with them as stowaways in their clothing, baggage or equipment.
ref:
2023 March 21 (last accessed), NOBANIS: European Network on Invasive Species
type:
quotation
text:
An alien born may purchase lands, or other estates: but not for his own use; for the king is thereupon entitled to them.
ref:
1773, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, 5th edition, volume 1, page 372
type:
quotation
text:
The counsel have shown conclusively that they are not a state of the union, and have insisted that individually they are aliens, not owing allegiance to the United States.
ref:
1831, John Marshall, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, U.S. Government
type:
quotation
text:
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
ref:
1987, “Englishman in New York”, in …Nothing Like the Sun, performed by Sting
type:
quotation
text:
Aliens are aliens because of persecution or war or hardship or famine.
ref:
2004, Wesley Campbell, Stephen Court, Be a hero: the battle for mercy and social justice, Destiny Image Publishers, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
You might not have much use for me. You spend too much time with the damn aliens, pretending your time in the gangs back on Earth never happened. I know you weren't happy when I found you at the Citadel a couple years back.
But I'm glad you're on this. I hope you find whoever took my people on Freedom's Progress and kick their scaly asses. I'm glad it's a human finding these bastards.
ref:
2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Hello from the Reds
type:
quotation
text:
The One Who, in this marvellous utterance, brings those who were by nature aliens and enemies of God into intimate and holy relations with God the Father, is the very One Who had to come to offer that Sacrifice without which such relationship would have been forever an impossibility; without which there would have been nothing for the best of men but death and judgment and the lake of fire.
ref:
1928, Philip Mauro, “The Character of the Sermon on the Mount”, in The Gospel of the Kingdom, with an Examination of Modern Dispensationalism (Religion), Boston: Hamilton Brothers, →OCLC, page 182
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
A person in a country not their own.
Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
senses_topics:
|
1494 | word:
alien
word_type:
adj
expansion:
alien (comparative more alien, superlative most alien)
forms:
form:
more alien
tags:
comparative
form:
most alien
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Alien
etymology_text:
From Middle English alien, a borrowing from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus (“belonging to someone else”, later “exotic, foreign”), from Latin alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Related to English else.
senses_examples:
text:
alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores
type:
example
text:
principles alien to our religion
type:
example
text:
An alien sound of melancholy.
ref:
1850, William Wordsworth, The Prelude
type:
quotation
text:
It had a peculiar alien tallness, a peculiar alien flattened head, peculiar slitty little alien eyes[.]
ref:
1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
senses_topics:
|
1495 | word:
alien
word_type:
verb
expansion:
alien (third-person singular simple present aliens, present participle aliening, simple past and past participle aliened)
forms:
form:
aliens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
aliening
tags:
participle
present
form:
aliened
tags:
participle
past
form:
aliened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Alien
etymology_text:
From Middle English alien, a borrowing from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus (“belonging to someone else”, later “exotic, foreign”), from Latin alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Related to English else.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To estrange; to alienate.
To transfer the ownership of something.
senses_topics:
law |
1496 | word:
dick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dick (countable and uncountable, plural dicks)
forms:
form:
dicks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Dick (slang)
etymology_text:
Ultimately from Dick, pet form of the name Richard. The name Dick came to mean "everyman", whence the word acquired its other meanings.
senses_examples:
text:
THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: "Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police."
ref:
1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
That dude is such a dick.
type:
example
text:
She's being such a dick about all this.
type:
example
text:
Last weekend I did dick.
type:
example
text:
Cool, whatever you say, slick, but I need to tell you something about all your skills. As of right now, they mean precisely… dick.
ref:
1997, Ed Solomon, Men in Black, spoken by Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones)
type:
quotation
text:
You better try and get some dick and take your mind off this bullshit.
ref:
1991, quoted in Andrew Parker, Nationalisms & Sexualities, page 309
text:
Much like quicksand, dicksand is what girls get caught in when they're obsessed with their crush, boyfriend, husband, or anyone giving them dick.
ref:
2020, Keltie Knight, Becca Tobin, Jac Vanek, Act Like a Lady […], Rodale Books, page 284
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male person.
A detective, especially one working for the police; a police officer.
The penis.
A highly contemptible or obnoxious person; a jerk; traditionally, especially, a male jerk.
Absolutely nothing.
Sexual intercourse with a man.
senses_topics:
|
1497 | word:
dick
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dick (third-person singular simple present dicks, present participle dicking, simple past and past participle dicked)
forms:
form:
dicks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dicking
tags:
participle
present
form:
dicked
tags:
participle
past
form:
dicked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Dick (slang)
etymology_text:
Ultimately from Dick, pet form of the name Richard. The name Dick came to mean "everyman", whence the word acquired its other meanings.
senses_examples:
text:
Dude, don't let them dick you around like that!
type:
example
text:
Homeboy, throw in the towel / Your girl got dicked by Ricky Powell
ref:
1989, “Car Thief”, in Paul's Boutique, performed by Beastie Boys
type:
quotation
text:
Listen, this old gal we going to see probably don't like liquor and drinking, so be cool. I'm just gon borrow a few bucks off her. I ain't never dicked her or nothing.
ref:
1996, Clarence Major, Dirty bird blues
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To mistreat or take advantage of somebody (often with around or up).
To penetrate sexually.
senses_topics:
|
1498 | word:
dick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dick (plural dicks)
forms:
form:
dicks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A shortening and alteration of de(t)ec(tive).
senses_examples:
text:
private dick, railroad dick
type:
example
text:
“I am a detective,” said Hercule Poirot with the modest air of one who says “I am a king.”
“Good God!” The young man seemed seriously taken aback. “Do you mean that girl actually totes about a dumb dick?”
ref:
1937 November 1, Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A detective.
senses_topics:
|
1499 | word:
dick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dick (plural dicks)
forms:
form:
dicks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A shortening and alteration of dec(laration).
senses_examples:
text:
"He seems to set a deal of store by her, though. There's some young 'ooman at home, where she lives, I'd take my dying dick."
ref:
1875, Mrs. George Croft Huddleston, Bluebell
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A declaration.
senses_topics:
|
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