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14000 | word:
what's your name
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
what's your name
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of what is your name
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14001 | word:
86
word_type:
verb
expansion:
86 (third-person singular simple present 86s, present participle 86ing, simple past and past participle 86ed)
forms:
form:
86s
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
86ing
tags:
participle
present
form:
86ed
tags:
participle
past
form:
86ed
tags:
past
form:
restaurants
tags:
US
wikipedia:
86 (term)
Delmonico's
etymology_text:
Unknown. The OED suggests possible rhyming slang for nix.
Other, more elaborate theories include Delmonico's Restaurant in New York City, as item #86 on their menu, their house steak, the famous Delmonico steak, is supposed to have run out often in the 19th century. Another theory is that this term came from the New York speakeasy Chumley’s, which was a hotspot in the 1920s. Chumley’s is hidden inside a West Village building which has two entrances: a well-set-back main entrance on Barrow Street and an obscure back-door exit on 86 Bedford Street. When police were sighted approaching the main entrance, the barkeeps yelled ‘86 it!’ to signal the patrons to hide the liquor and exit quickly through the back door.
senses_examples:
text:
86 the ham and eggs for table two!
type:
example
text:
86 the lobster bisque – we won’t have the lobster delivery until tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
We finally had to 86 that old printer after it jammed one too many times.
type:
example
text:
The restaurant 86ed us because we didn't fit the dress code.
type:
example
text:
(Ben Sanderson, speaking to a bartender) -- "Please, serve me today, and I'll never come in here again. If I do, you can 86 me."
ref:
1995, Leaving Las Vegas, 00:10:40
text:
He stole from me and snitched on me, so I 86ed him.
type:
example
text:
RONALD:”They tried to ghost your girl Isabel right here”. WES CHANDLER(played by Ron Perlman):”Tried to ‘ghost’ her?” RONALD:”Merk. 86. Put her down in the dirt. You feel me?”
ref:
2017 September 28, Josh Corbin, 37:03 from the start, in Start Up, season 2, episode 6, spoken by Ronald Dacey (Edi Gathegi)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cancel an order for food.
To temporarily remove an item from the menu.
To throw out; discard.
To deny service to.
To kill.
senses_topics:
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14002 | word:
Belizian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Belizian (plural Belizians)
forms:
form:
Belizians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Belize + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belizean
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14003 | word:
Belizian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Belizian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Belize + -ian.
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senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belizean
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14004 | word:
Rimini
word_type:
name
expansion:
Rimini
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian Rimini, from Latin Arīminium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
A resort city, the capital of the province of Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
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14005 | word:
Dane
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Dane (plural Danes)
forms:
form:
Danes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Dane, from Old Norse danir. Displaced native Old English Dene. Both forms ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic *daniz.
senses_examples:
text:
Kenett states that the military works still known by the name of Tadmarten Camp and Hook-Norton Barrow were cast up at this time ; the former, large and round, is judged to be a fortification of the Danes, and the latter, being smaller and rather a quinquangle than a square, of the Saxons.
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1881, John Kirby Hedges, The history of Wallingford, volume 1, page 170
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person of Danish descent.
A person from Denmark.
A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe inhabiting the Danish islands and parts of southern Sweden.
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14006 | word:
Dane
word_type:
name
expansion:
Dane
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Dane, from Old Norse danir. Displaced native Old English Dene. Both forms ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic *daniz.
senses_examples:
text:
Often he wrote good ones on casual slips and fancied them his; names like Trevellyan or Montressor or Delancey, with musical prefixes; or a good, short, beautiful, but dignified name like "Gordon Dane". He liked that one. It suggested something.
ref:
1913, Harry Leon Wilson, Bunker Bean, BiblioBazaar, LLC, published 2008, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
"I'm going to call him Dane."
"What a queer name! Why? Is it an O'Neill family name? I thought you were finished with the O'Neills."
"It's got nothing to do with Luke. This is his name, no one else's. - - - I called Justine Justine simply because I liked the name, and I'm calling Dane Dane for the same reason."
"Well, it does have a nice ring to it," Fee admitted.
ref:
1977, Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds, Gramercy Books, published 1998, pages 432–433
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname transferred from the nickname for someone who came from Denmark, also a variant of Dean.
A male given name transferred from the surname, or from the ethnic term Dane (like Scott or Norman).
A river, the River Dane, in Cheshire, England, which joins the River Weaver at Northwich.
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14007 | word:
Ventimiglia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ventimiglia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
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A city in Liguria, Italy.
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14008 | word:
ampère
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ampère (plural ampères)
forms:
form:
ampères
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French ampère. Named after the French physicist André-Marie Ampère.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of ampere
senses_topics:
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14009 | word:
saxophonist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
saxophonist (plural saxophonists)
forms:
form:
saxophonists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From saxophone + -ist.
senses_examples:
text:
They enjoyed music from a live saxophonist during the journey before visiting Braintree Town Hall for refreshments and Christmas cake.
ref:
2021 December 29, “Network News: Music train for dementia sufferers”, in RAIL, number 947, page 19
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who owns, plays or practices with the saxophone.
senses_topics:
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14010 | word:
Guyanese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Guyanese (plural Guyanese)
forms:
form:
Guyanese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Guyana + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Guyana or of Guyanese descent.
Guyanese Creole
senses_topics:
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14011 | word:
Guyanese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Guyanese (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Guyana + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Guyana, the Guyanese people or the Guyanese language.
senses_topics:
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14012 | word:
Bruneian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Bruneian (plural Bruneians)
forms:
form:
Bruneians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Brunei + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Brunei or of Bruneian descent.
senses_topics:
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14013 | word:
Bruneian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Bruneian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Brunei + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Brunei, the Bruneian people.
senses_topics:
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14014 | word:
import
word_type:
noun
expansion:
import (countable and uncountable, plural imports)
forms:
form:
imports
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Import (disambiguation)
import
etymology_text:
From Middle English importen, from Old French emporter, importer, from Latin importō (“bring in from abroad, import”, verb), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + portō (“I carry, bear; convey”).
senses_examples:
text:
It was a matter of great import.
type:
example
text:
There is, too, a little mentioned aspect of the tunnel which contributes to its failings. You never see the sea while approaching it from either the British or French side. That takes away from the import of the journey - a historic link between Britain and the continent. Instead, it is just a tunnel.
ref:
2023 December 27, Christian Wolmar, “Hope springs eternal for greater use of the Channel Tunnel”, in RAIL, number 999, page 26
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
The practice of importing.
Significance, importance.
A foreigner playing in a sports league.
senses_topics:
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14015 | word:
import
word_type:
verb
expansion:
import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)
forms:
form:
imports
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
importing
tags:
participle
present
form:
imported
tags:
participle
past
form:
imported
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Import (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English importen, from Old French emporter, importer, from Latin importō (“bring in from abroad, import”, verb), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + portō (“I carry, bear; convey”).
senses_examples:
text:
Nauru imports foods from Australia because phosphate mining destroyed land for farming.
type:
example
text:
How can I import files from older versions of this application?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
14016 | word:
import
word_type:
verb
expansion:
import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)
forms:
form:
imports
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
importing
tags:
participle
present
form:
imported
tags:
participle
past
form:
imported
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Import (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Italian importare, and French importer, from Latin importō.
senses_examples:
text:
See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.
ref:
1661, Thomas Salusbury, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
This Letter is mistooke: it importeth none here: It is writ to laquenetta.
ref:
1593, Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
type:
quotation
text:
It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.
ref:
1762, David Hume, The History of England
type:
quotation
text:
It much imports your house That all should be made clear.
ref:
1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
To be of importance to (someone or something).
To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
To mean, signify.
To express, to imply.
senses_topics:
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14017 | word:
screed
word_type:
noun
expansion:
screed (plural screeds)
forms:
form:
screeds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English screde [and other forms], a variant of shrede (“fragment, scrap; strip of cloth; strip cut off from a larger piece; band or thread woven into fabric; element, streak”) (whence shred (noun)), from Old English sċrēad, sċrēade (“a piece cut off; paring, shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō (“a piece, shred; a cut, crack”), from *skraudaną (“to cut up, shred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”). The English word is cognate with Old Frisian skrēd. Doublet of escrow, scroll, and shred.
senses_examples:
text:
"Weel done!" cried Mrs. Smith. "I trow ye gae her a screed o' your mind!"
ref:
1813, William David Evans, “Letter I”, in Letters on the Legal Disabilities of Roman Catholics and Dissenters; and on the Dangers Apprehended from Their Removal, London: […] J. Ridgeway, […], →OCLC, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
The housewife hastens in the gleaming sun, / With watering-pan to sprinkle when it needs / The bleaching cloth which her own fingers spun, / Stretch'd on the orchard sward in whitening screeds; [...]
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1824, “A Summer Morning”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, volume XI, number XLVII, London: […] Henry Colburn […], →OCLC, page 472
type:
quotation
text:
No sooner had we clapped eyes on the Leading Article, than, as usual, we recognized an old acquaintance. It is made up of alternate scraps and screeds from old numbers of the Review—the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica, and the Scotsman newspaper!
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1826, Mordecai Mullion [pseudonym; John Wilson], Some Illustrations of Mr [John Ramsay] M‘Culloch’s Principles of Political Economy, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, →OCLC, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
And it be further Enacted, That in all Caſes where any of the Lands and Grounds by this Act intended to be divided and incloſed ſhall adjoin on any Freeboard, Screed, or Parcel of Land left on the Outſide of the Fences of any adjoining Pariſh, Townſhip, or Place, which ſhall run into any of the Lands intended to be incloſed by virtue of this Act, ſuch Freeboard, Screed, or Parcel of Land ſhall be deemed and taken to be Parcel of the Lands hereby directed to be divided and incloſed, [...]
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[1795], An Act for Dividing, Allotting, Inclosing, Draining, and Improving the Commons and Waste Grounds, within the Several Parishes of Epworth, Haxey, Belton, and Owston, in the Isle of Axholme, in the County of Lincoln; […] (35 George III, chapter 107), [London]: [Parliament of Great Britain], →OCLC, pages 25–26
type:
quotation
text:
I see it's three o'clock in the morning and I've written whole screeds when I only intended to write a short note!
ref:
1995, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, “The Marquise de Merteuil to the Vicomte de Valmont: 12 August 17——”, in Douglas Parmée, transl., Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World’s Classics), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, part I, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
When he [Herman Melville] had finished the first part of his novel [Pierre; or, The Ambiguities], and printed it, the publishers would have nothing to do with it. They claimed they had been deluded into accepting a villainous and blasphemous screed against religion and morality and all right living.
ref:
1939, Patrick Francis Quinn, “Pierre”, in The Fatalism of Herman Melville (unpublished B.A. and M.A. dissertation), Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin, →OCLC, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
One of our primary tasks is to replace racist screeds like The Bell Curve and The End of Racism with sound economic arguments that are relatively simple to understand and yet serious enough to encompass divergent points of view.
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1999, Marcellus Andrews, “A Preface in Three Parts: Economics as a Razor”, in The Political Economy of Hope and Fear: Capitalism and the Black Condition in America, New York, N.Y., London: New York University Press, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
One of the more regular correspondents to the club was an Everton fan, who'd send in an abusive screed each time Albion were due to play on Merseyside. He directed this at [Ron] Atkinson, urging him not to select his "monkeys" for the game.
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2014 July 25, Paul Rees, “‘We got off the coach and the National Front was there … People spat at us’”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-02-17
type:
quotation
text:
It uses a lot of footage of Japanese actors, and screeds of character text, making it unlikely to see a European release.
ref:
1995 April, Mean Machines Sega, number 30, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Compared to LOB [the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus], the BNC [British National Corpus] is an anarchic object, containing 'texts' from 25 to 250,000 words long, screeds of painfully formulaic entries from the Dictionary of National Biography, conversations monosyllabic and incoherent, sermons, pornography, and the electronic discourse of the Leeds United Football Club Fan Club.
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2001, Adam Kilgarriff, “Web as Corpus”, in Geoffrey Sampson, Diana McCarthy, editors, Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a Widening Discipline, London, New York, N.Y.: Continuum, published 2005, page 471
type:
quotation
text:
When applied to large surfaces, strips or screeds of wood should be fixed to float from; and when the plain surface is formed, it is finished with the handfloat.
ref:
1833, James Gallier, “Of Oil Mastic”, in The American Builder’s General Price Book and Estimator, […], New York, N.Y.: […] [Minard] Lafever and [James] Gallier, […] Stanley & Co., […], →OCLC, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
The term Screed, in plastering, is a stile formed of lime and hair, about seven or eight inches wide, gauged exactly true. In floated-work these screed are made at every three or four feet distance, vertically round a room, and are prepared perfectly straight by applying the straight-edge to them to make them so; and when all the screeds are formed, the parts between them are filled up flush with lime and hair, or stuff, and made even with the face of the screeds. The straight-edge is then worked horizontally upon the screeds, to take off all superfluous stuff.
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1841, Minard Lafever, “Plastering”, in The Modern Builders’ Guide, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: William D. Smith, →OCLC, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
The use of timber battens as screeds makes it easy to get the floating coat flat. Getting a blemish-free skim coat is more difficult.
ref:
1991, Robert Matthews, “Plastering”, in Practical House Building: A Manual for the Selfbuilder, Leicester, Leicestershire: Blackberry Books, published 1998, page 77, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The screeds and vibrator on the machine finisher are set to give the proper surface elevation and produce a dense concrete. In most cases, there should be a sufficiently thick layer of mortar ahead of the screed to insure that all low spots will be filled. The vibrator follows the front screed and the rear screed is last. The rear screed should be adjusted to carry enough grout ahead of it to insure continuous contact between screed and pavement.
ref:
1973, T. W. Love, “Finishing Concrete”, in Construction Manual: Concrete & Formwork, Carlsbag, Calif.: Craftsman Book Company, published 2001, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
[T]wo workmen, provided with a tub of putty and a quantity of plaster of Paris, proceed to run the cornice. Before using the mould, they gauge a screed of putty and plaster upon the wall and ceiling, covering so much of each as will correspond with the top and bottom of the intended cornice. On this screed one or two slight deal straight-edges, adapted to as many notches or chases made in the mould for it to work upon, are nailed.
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1830, John Nicholson, “Plastering”, in The Builder’s Practical Guide: Containing a Complete Explanation of the Principles of Science, as Applied to Every Branch of Building: […], London: […] Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, […], →OCLC, page 615
type:
quotation
text:
A few early churches were floored with a screed of weak concrete, after the Roman fashion, the ingredients being lime mortar and crushed brick (opus signinum).
ref:
1998, Warwick Rodwell, “The Archaeology of Church and Cathedral Floors”, in Jane Fawcett, editor, Historic Floors: Their Care and Conservation (Butterworth-Heinemann Series in Conservation and Museology), paperback edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Woburn, Mass.: Butterworth-Heinemann, published 2001, section 2.1.1 (Materials and Laying Techniques), page 41, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Nowadays they [PVC tiles] are manufactured with a backing that is coated with an adhesive (peel and stick) so that they may be laid straight onto a slurry-finished granolithic screed.
ref:
1999, Chris de Jager, “Finishing”, in Building and Civil Technology N3, Cape Town, South Africa: Maskew Miller Longman, published 2007, section 10.1 (Floors), page 196
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A piece or narrow strip cut or torn off from a larger whole; a shred.
A piece of land, especially one that is narrow.
A rent, a tear.
A piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long.
A speech or piece of writing which contains angry and extended criticism.
Chiefly in the plural form screeds: a large quantity.
Senses relating to building construction and masonry.
A tool, usually a long strip of wood or other material, placed on a floor to be covered with concrete, a wall to be plastered, etc., as a guide for producing a smooth, flat surface.
Senses relating to building construction and masonry.
A tool such as a long strip of wood or other material which is drawn over a wet layer of concrete, plaster, etc., to make it smooth and flat; also, a machine that achieves this effect; a screeder.
Senses relating to building construction and masonry.
A smooth, flat layer of concrete, plaster, or similar material, especially if acting as a base for paving stones, tiles, wooden planks, etc.
senses_topics:
business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
business
construction
manufacturing
masonry |
14018 | word:
screed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
screed (third-person singular simple present screeds, present participle screeding, simple past and past participle screeded)
forms:
form:
screeds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
screeding
tags:
participle
present
form:
screeded
tags:
participle
past
form:
screeded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English screde, Early Middle English screda, a variant of shreden, shrede (“to chop, cut up, hack; to cut to shape; to maim, wound; to prune, trim”) [and other forms] (whence shred (verb)), from Old English scrēadian (“to cut up, shred; to cut off, prune”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudaną (“to cut up, shred”), see further at etymology 1; later uses are derived from the noun screed.
senses_examples:
text:
It's no very like the land o' the leal here—d'ye think it is?—wi' this cauld soakit sand anaith ye, and you in thae screeded duds, and us twa in our sark sleeves. [Footnote: Land o' the leal, land of the faithful—heaven. Screeded duds, torn rags. Sark sleeves, shirt sleeves.]
A use of the word as an adjective.
ref:
1869 October, “Beyond Breakers”, in Lippincott’s Magazine of Literature, Science and Education, volume IV, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott and Co., →OCLC, chapter XXXIV (For Life), page 413, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
He'll ſcreed you aff Effectual Calling, / As faſt as ony in the dwalling.— [...]
ref:
1801, Robert Burns, “The Inventory. In Answer to a Mandate by the Surveyor of the Taxes.”, in Poems Ascribed to Robert Burns, the Ayrshire Bard, […], Glasgow: […] Chapman & Lang, for Thomas Stewart, […], →OCLC, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
For this surfacing, the concrete is screeded and then covered with crushed red granite of 2- to 2½-in. size which is spread with shovels on the wet concrete, the quantity averaging about 55 lb. of stone per square yard.
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1924 February 21, “Rebuilding a Section of Street Railway at Milwaukee”, in Frank C. Wright, editor, Engineering News-Record, volume 92, number 8, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 310
type:
quotation
text:
Pouring of the slab was then started and, as the concrete was brought to full height it was screeded off to the proper level, employing screed guides which had been set previously to true elevation, with support on the slab reinforcing.
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1939 July 15, “C.N.R. Build More Long-span Concrete Bridges”, in Samuel O. Dunn, editor, Railway Age, volume 107, number 3, Philadelphia, Pa.: Simmons-Boardman Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 107, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
To screed and finish street and airfield pavements, you need power screeds and finishers. [...] Figure 3-22 shows a power screed as it screeds concrete over 1/2-inch steel reinforcing.
ref:
1984, Peter J. Breed, “Constructing Concrete Pavements”, in Pavements Maintenance Specialist (AFSC 55150) (55150 02 7905; CDC 55150), volume 2 (Concrete Pavements), Gunter Air Force Station, Ala.: Extension Course Institute, Air University, →OCLC, page 37, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Immediately after shotcreting, the repair surfaces should be screeded to remove high areas and to expose low areas. Low areas should be filled with a subsequent spray to ensure a true flat surface. After screeding, the entire surface should be given a flashcoat finish, unless a finish coat is specified.
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1993, Farzin Lackpour, “Concrete Superstructures”, in Parsons Brinckerhoff (company), edited by Louis G. Silano and Arnold C. Henderson, Bridge Inspection and Rehabilitation: A Practical Guide, New York, N.Y., Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, page 38, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Generally, a sufficiently thick layer of concrete should build up ahead of the screed to fill all low spots completely. The sequence of the operation is: screed, vibrate, then screed again.
ref:
1998, U.S. Department of the Army, “Construction Procedures”, in Concrete, Masonry, and Brickwork: A Practical Handbook for the Home Owner and Small Builder, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, published 1999, paragraph 5-63, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
Once a sufficient area of bricks has been removed, dry sand can be placed and screeded out before compacting, re-sanding and screeding to the correct level. The bricks are then re-laid and tapped into place to provide a seamless repair.
ref:
2006, Toby Buckland et al., “Outside”, in Ariana Klepac, editor, The House Book, Sydney, N.S.W., London: Murdoch Books, page 12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rend, to shred, to tear.
To read or repeat from memory fluently or glibly; to reel off.
To use a screed to produce a smooth, flat surface of concrete, plaster, or similar material; also (generally) to put down a layer of concrete, plaster, etc.
To become rent or torn.
senses_topics:
business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
|
14019 | word:
screed
word_type:
noun
expansion:
screed (plural screeds)
forms:
form:
screeds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably imitative; compare screech, skreigh.
senses_examples:
text:
"Wi' hat in hand," sweet lass, quo I, / "Wer't in my power to sooth thy sigh, / My hame-bor'd whistle I wad try, / An' gie't a screed, / Atween whar Tiviot murmurs by, / An' bonny Tweed."
ref:
1811, Andrew Scott, “Answer to Mr. J. M.’s Epistle”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kelso, Roxburghshire: […] Alexander Leadbetter, for the author; and sold by W[illiam] Creech, […], →OCLC, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
Right o'er the ſteep he leans, / When his well-pleniſh'd king-hood voiding needs; / And, ſploiting, ſtrikes the ſtane his grany hit, / Wi' piſtol ſcreed, ſhot frae his gorlin doup.— [...]
ref:
1789, David Davidson, “Spring”, in Thoughts on the Seasons, &c. Partly in the Scottish Dialect, London: […] the author; and sold by J[ohn] Murray, […]; and W[illiam] Creech, […], →OCLC, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A (discordant) sound or tune played on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
The sound of something scratching or tearing.
senses_topics:
|
14020 | word:
screed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
screed (third-person singular simple present screeds, present participle screeding, simple past and past participle screeded)
forms:
form:
screeds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
screeding
tags:
participle
present
form:
screeded
tags:
participle
past
form:
screeded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably imitative; compare screech, skreigh.
senses_examples:
text:
[T]wa Cheels we White Sarks, and a wee Wean with a white Sark got aboon whar the Whiſtle-Pipes war, the yen lilted, and the other Skirled and Screeded till them, and ſtill I ſweeted, I thought they never wad hea done.
ref:
1731 May 17, “The North-Country-Man’s Description of Christ-Church; in a Letter to a Friend. Portferry, May 6th. 1731. [Julian calendar]”, in James Row, The Wounds o’ the Kirk o’ Scotland: In a Sermon Preech’d in St. Geil’s, the Great Kirk in Edinbrough, in the Year of Our Lord 1638. […], Dublin: […] J. Carson […], published 1732, →OCLC, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
In life's gay morn, or youthfu' prime, / Ere fancy droops her wing, / Screed up your reed, for that's the time / For bards to rant and sing; [...]
ref:
1811, Andrew Scott, “Epistle to a Brother Poet”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kelso, Roxburghshire: […] Alexander Leadbetter, for the author; and sold by W[illiam] Creech, […], →OCLC, page 29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To play bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
To make a discordant or harsh scratching or tearing sound.
To play (a sound or tune) on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
senses_topics:
|
14021 | word:
screed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
screed (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From scree (“loose, stony debris”) + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
We clambered up a screed slope.
type:
example
text:
A safety fence edged the curve of the road and beyond this the screed slope increased in grade to a precipitous cliff.
ref:
1986, D[orothy] Michell, Australian Tales of Ghost and Fantasy, Sydney, N.S.W.: Management Developments Publishers, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
Son and father reached the mouth of the canyon and were leading their mounts on foot up a screed hill face that looked down on the tracks.
ref:
2009, Boston Teran [pseudonym], The Creed of Violence, Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint, page 172
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Strewn with scree.
senses_topics:
|
14022 | word:
Djiboutian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Djiboutian (plural Djiboutians)
forms:
form:
Djiboutians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Djibouti + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Djibouti or of Djiboutian descent.
senses_topics:
|
14023 | word:
Djiboutian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Djiboutian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Djibouti + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Djibouti or its people or culture.
senses_topics:
|
14024 | word:
Siena
word_type:
name
expansion:
Siena
forms:
wikipedia:
Siena
etymology_text:
From Italian Siena.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Tuscany, Italy.
The capital city of Siena.
senses_topics:
|
14025 | word:
trombonist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trombonist (plural trombonists)
forms:
form:
trombonists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From trombone + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who plays the trombone.
senses_topics:
|
14026 | word:
Ugandan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Ugandan (plural Ugandans)
forms:
form:
Ugandans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Uganda + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Uganda or of Ugandan descent.
senses_topics:
|
14027 | word:
Ugandan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Ugandan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Uganda + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Uganda, the Ugandan people or the Ugandan language.
senses_topics:
|
14028 | word:
Ugandan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Ugandan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from Ugandan discussions.
senses_examples:
text:
Margaret, Duchess of Argyll...depicts this charming old gentleman, who often kisses young girls outside Annabel's, as a narrow-minded, boring Ugandan expert.
ref:
1975, Private Eye, numbers 340–366, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
Eight ladies with Ugandan associations had ascended the fire escape and were making their way through his room.
ref:
1975, Private Eye, numbers 340–366, page 198
type:
quotation
text:
They have a bit of a 'how was it for you' session referring to the night and/or evening before, and we are left not knowing whether they enjoyed Ugandan Relations between the sheets or not.
ref:
1998 August 19, Peter Dewhirst, “Dewey's Monday update for 3rd August.”, in rec.arts.tv.uk.coronation-st (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
I'm in serious need of some ugandan activities. Any of you birds out there at a loose end and want to get the dirty water off your chest?
ref:
2000 January 25, Baz, “Any birds want a good seeing to?”, in uk.local.birmingham (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Serif's question: where is Mister? The Eagle's answer: engaged in Ugandan practices.
ref:
2001, Gerald Seymour, The Untouchables, page 345
type:
quotation
text:
I recall her once snatching a copy of the hated Private Eye, in which I'd been reading about the Ugandan activities of a prominent member of her party.
ref:
2013 April 8, Lord Powell, “The Margaret Thatcher I knew”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Jones denied last week that he was in a Ugandan situation with Morris, but did say "I am very fond of anyone who helps me lose six and a half stone..."
ref:
2015, Rotten Boroughs, “Going for the Burn”, in Private Eye, number 1407
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sexual, highlights a double entendre.
senses_topics:
|
14029 | word:
Reggio
word_type:
name
expansion:
Reggio
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Either of Reggio Emilia or Reggio Calabria in Italy.
senses_topics:
|
14030 | word:
Ostia Antica
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ostia Antica
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ostia.
senses_topics:
|
14031 | word:
pat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pat (plural pats)
forms:
form:
pats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”), German platzen (“to split, burst, break up”), Bavarian patzen (“to pat”), Swedish plätta, pjätta (“to pat, tap”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat.
senses_examples:
text:
We heard a pat on the door.
type:
example
text:
Give Mary a pat on the shoulder to get her attention.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep
A light tap or slap, especially with the hands
A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung.
senses_topics:
|
14032 | word:
pat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pat (third-person singular simple present pats, present participle patting, simple past and past participle patted)
forms:
form:
pats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
patting
tags:
participle
present
form:
patted
tags:
participle
past
form:
patted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”), German platzen (“to split, burst, break up”), Bavarian patzen (“to pat”), Swedish plätta, pjätta (“to pat, tap”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat.
senses_examples:
text:
To show affection, he decided he would pat the boy on the head.
type:
example
text:
I patted the cookie dough into shape.
type:
example
text:
Do you want to pat the cat?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.
To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat
To stroke or fondle (an animal). Compare pet.
To gently rain.
senses_topics:
|
14033 | word:
pat
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pat (comparative more pat, superlative most pat)
forms:
form:
more pat
tags:
comparative
form:
most pat
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”), German platzen (“to split, burst, break up”), Bavarian patzen (“to pat”), Swedish plätta, pjätta (“to pat, tap”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat.
senses_examples:
text:
a pat expression
type:
example
text:
Your scruples and arguments bring to my mind a story so pat, you may think it is coin’d, on purpose to answer you, out of my mint; but, I can assure you, I saw it in print.
ref:
1788, William Cowper, Pity For Poor Africans 17–20
text:
Come, stack arms, Men! Pile on the rails; stir up the campfire bright; no matter if the canteen fails, we'll make a roaring night. Here Shenandoah brawls along, there burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, to swell the Brigade's rousing song, of “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
We see him now — the old slouched hat cocked o’er his eye askew, the shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, so calm, so blunt, so true.
ref:
1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way
text:
While most AIDS activists and researchers I spoke with agreed I shouldn't offer pat safe/unsafe categories, let me share some pretty widely accepted information.
ref:
1987 August 15, Laurie Sherman, “What's A Dyke To Do? A Lesbian Reluctantly Enters The Age Of Safe Sex”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
The pat answer is that college students should consider graduate school as a way to delay a job search until things turn around, and that more high school students should go to college to improve their prospects.
ref:
2010 May 22, “Jobs and the Class of 2010”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Space Jam: A New Legacy takes almost nothing but wrong turns, all leading to a glittering CGI trash heap of cameos, pat life lessons, and stale internet catchphrases.
ref:
2021 July 14, A. A. Dowd, “Space Jam: A New Legacy is one big, witless commercial for Warner Bros properties”, in The A.V. Club
type:
quotation
text:
Pat responses from management seemed to be multiple variations on the theme of “We value your feedback.”
ref:
2021, Kate Crawford, chapter 2, in Atlas of AI […]
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Exactly suitable, fitting, apt; timely, convenient, opportune, ready for the occasion; especially of things spoken.
Trite, being superficially complete, lacking originality.
senses_topics:
|
14034 | word:
pat
word_type:
adv
expansion:
pat (comparative more pat, superlative most pat)
forms:
form:
more pat
tags:
comparative
form:
most pat
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”), German platzen (“to split, burst, break up”), Bavarian patzen (“to pat”), Swedish plätta, pjätta (“to pat, tap”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat.
senses_examples:
text:
He has the routine down pat.
type:
example
text:
Wauwa Pease says of the strategic position of the Pirates in the dining room: “They have taken the table near the upper doorway so they can make a speedy exit in case their lair is raided.” Of course, the Wauwas stand pat in the middle of the dining room, having nothing to fear.
ref:
1922 September 22, “At the Wauwatosa Table”, in City Club News, volume viii, number 2, Milwaukee, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Candidates in gubernatorial campaigns must stand pat in the middle, trying to push their rivals off the center line, charging the opponent with either left or right extremism.
ref:
1962, Newsweek
type:
quotation
text:
In Ogoni[land], Shell locations lie pat in the middle of villages, in front and back gardens – and that should lay a particular responsibility on Shell to be absolutely cautious in its operations.
ref:
1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa, A Month and a Day, page 112
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Opportunely, in a timely or suitable way.
Perfectly.
senses_topics:
|
14035 | word:
pat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pat (plural pats)
forms:
form:
pats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Work in pat to next underarm marker, sm, place next st on holder[…]
ref:
2012, Kari Cornell, Knitting Sweaters from around the World, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of patent.
Clipping of pattern.
senses_topics:
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles |
14036 | word:
pat
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pat (comparative more pat, superlative most pat)
forms:
form:
more pat
tags:
comparative
form:
most pat
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of patrician.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Upper-class, nobby.
senses_topics:
|
14037 | word:
Myanmarese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Myanmarese
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Myanmar + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Myanmar (also known as Burma), or its people or language.
senses_topics:
|
14038 | word:
Myanmarese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Myanmarese (plural Myanmarese)
forms:
form:
Myanmarese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Myanmar + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Myanmar (Burma), or of Myanmarese descent.
senses_topics:
|
14039 | word:
Nepalese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Nepalese (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Nepal + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Nepal, the Nepalese people or the Nepalese language.
senses_topics:
|
14040 | word:
Nepalese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Nepalese (plural Nepalese)
forms:
form:
Nepalese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Nepal + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Nepal or of Nepalese descent.
senses_topics:
|
14041 | word:
Nepalese
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nepalese
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Nepal + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The national language of Nepal.
senses_topics:
|
14042 | word:
Ragusa
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ragusa (countable and uncountable, plural Ragusas)
forms:
form:
Ragusas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Ragusa
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian Ragusa, from Latin Ragusia. Probably from Proto-Albanian *rāguša (“grape”) (modern Albanian rrush)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Sicily, Italy.
The capital of Ragusa, Italy.
Former name of Dubrovnik (city in Croatia).
The Republic of Ragusa, a maritime republic centered in Dubrovnik.
A habitational surname from Italian.
senses_topics:
|
14043 | word:
Salvadorian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Salvadorian (plural Salvadorians)
forms:
form:
Salvadorians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Salvador + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from El Salvador or of Salvadorian descent.
senses_topics:
|
14044 | word:
Salvadorian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Salvadorian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Salvador + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to El Salvador or the Salvadorian people.
senses_topics:
|
14045 | word:
registered trademark
word_type:
noun
expansion:
registered trademark (plural registered trademarks)
forms:
form:
registered trademarks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A trademark that has been officially registered with the government by its owner. Indicated by the symbol ®.
senses_topics:
|
14046 | word:
Norfolk Islander
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Norfolk Islander (plural Norfolk Islanders)
forms:
form:
Norfolk Islanders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Norfolk Island + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Norfolk Island or of its descent.
senses_topics:
|
14047 | word:
Zimbabwean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Zimbabwean (plural Zimbabweans)
forms:
form:
Zimbabweans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Zimbabwe + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
We were, practically to a person, young Zimbabweans who had no parental backing but who had acquired the means through some sort of tenacity, however dubious, to lodge at the respectable hostel.
ref:
2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 269
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Zimbabwe or of Zimbabwean descent.
senses_topics:
|
14048 | word:
Zimbabwean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Zimbabwean (comparative more Zimbabwean, superlative most Zimbabwean)
forms:
form:
more Zimbabwean
tags:
comparative
form:
most Zimbabwean
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Zimbabwe + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
‘Oh Dick! You’re a poet, although you don’t know it!’ Belinda, with that annoying Zimbabwean habit of repeating clichés as though they were a novel observation, made her way towards Dick bearing a gin and tonic.
ref:
2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 288
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Zimbabwe or the Zimbabwean people.
senses_topics:
|
14049 | word:
Mahorais
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Mahorais (plural Mahorais)
forms:
form:
Mahorais
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French Mahorais.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Mayotte or of Mahoran descent.
senses_topics:
|
14050 | word:
Cocos Islander
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Cocos Islander (plural Cocos Islanders)
forms:
form:
Cocos Islanders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Cocos Islands + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from the Cocos Islands or of descent of the Cocos Islands.
senses_topics:
|
14051 | word:
Magnesian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Magnesian (plural Magnesians)
forms:
form:
Magnesians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Magnesia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or a resident of Magnesia.
senses_topics:
|
14052 | word:
Magnesian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Magnesian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Magnesia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Magnesia.
senses_topics:
|
14053 | word:
Modena
word_type:
name
expansion:
Modena
forms:
wikipedia:
en:Modena (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Italian Modena, from Latin Mutina, from Etruscan 𐌌𐌖𐌕𐌍𐌀 (mutna).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
The capital city of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
14054 | word:
Gabonese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Gabonese (plural Gabonese)
forms:
form:
Gabonese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Gabon + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Gabon or of Gabonese descent.
senses_topics:
|
14055 | word:
Gabonese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Gabonese (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Gabon + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Gabon or the Gabonese people
senses_topics:
|
14056 | word:
Cook Islander
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Cook Islander (plural Cook Islanders)
forms:
form:
Cook Islanders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Cook Islands + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from the Cook Islands or of descent of the Cook Islands.
senses_topics:
|
14057 | word:
Toki Pona
word_type:
name
expansion:
Toki Pona
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Toki Pona toki pona (literally “good language”), formed from toki (“language”) (from Tok Pisin tok, from English talk) + pona (“good”) (from Esperanto bona (“good”), ultimately from Latin bonus).
senses_examples:
text:
In contrast to the hundreds or thousands of study hours required to attain fluency in other languages, a general consensus among Toki Pona speakers is that it takes about 30 hours to master.
ref:
2015 July 15, Roc Morin, “How to Say Everything in a Hundred-Word Language”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A minimalist constructed language with creole-like elements designed by Sonja Lang.
senses_topics:
|
14058 | word:
steradian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
steradian (plural steradians)
forms:
form:
steradians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
ste(reo) + radian
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of solid angle; the solid angle subtended at the centre of a sphere of radius r by a portion of the surface of the sphere that has area r². Symbol: sr
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
14059 | word:
Mauritian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Mauritian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mauritius + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
One of the official languages of Mauritius is Mauritian Creole.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture.
senses_topics:
|
14060 | word:
Mauritian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Mauritian (plural Mauritians)
forms:
form:
Mauritians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mauritius + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
Like the Irish, the Mauritians were alien to the English in race, culture and religion.
ref:
1964, James Pope-Hennessy, Verandah: Some Episodes in the Crown Colonies: 1867-1889, G. Allen and Unwin, page 258
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent.
senses_topics:
|
14061 | word:
Mauritian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Mauritian
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mauritius + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
However, Baker (pc) notes that limero is also a common Mauritian pronunciation.
ref:
1989, John A. Holm, Pidgins and Creoles: Reference Survey, Cambridge University Press, page 401
type:
quotation
text:
The are two perspectives on the relationship between Réunionnais, a semicreole, and Mauritian, a typical plantation creole. Baker and Corne (1982) argue that […] Mauritian is the product of a break in the transmission of French, […]
ref:
2000, John H. McWhorter, The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages, University of California Press, pages 187–188
type:
quotation
text:
2001, Robert Chaudenson, Salikoko S. Mufwene, and Sheri Pargman, Creolization of Language and Culture (English edition of Robert Chaudenson, Des îles, des hommes, des langues), Routledge, →ISBN, page 47,
Much later, Richardson (1963) posits a theory very similar to Jespersen’s, claiming that the [grammatical] system of Mauritian has resulted from the contact of very different systems (French, Malagasy, and Bantu), which allegedly could not merge together because of excessive heterogeneity, but neutralized each other instead.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Mauritian Creole.
senses_topics:
|
14062 | word:
Berlin
word_type:
name
expansion:
Berlin (countable and uncountable, plural Berlins)
forms:
form:
Berlins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the German Berlin.
senses_examples:
text:
The practical implication of this decision in the world of 1948 is clear: The United States would indeed support the veterans of the Vlasov Army, the eastern SS collaborators, and other groups that had permitted themselves to become pawns of Berlin during the war.
ref:
2014, Christopher Simpson, “three”, in Mark Crispin Miller, editor, Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy, New York: Open Road Media, page 79
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital and largest city of Germany.
The German government.
A state of Germany containing the capital city.
A surname from German.
A female given name from German.
A civil parish of the municipality of Seedorf, Segeberg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
The former name of Kitchener, a city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
A village in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.
A small town in Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
A place in the United States
The former name of Genevra, an unincorporated community in Colusa County, California, United States.
A place in the United States
A town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.
A place in the United States
A small city in Colquitt County, Georgia, United States.
A place in the United States
A village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States.
A place in the United States
A ghost town in Johnson Township, Clinton County, Indiana, United States.
A place in the United States
An unincorporated community in Bourbon County, Kansas, United States.
A place in the United States
An unincorporated community in Bracken County, Kentucky, United States.
A place in the United States
A town in Worcester County, Maryland, United States.
A place in the United States
A town in Worcester County, Mississippi, United States.
A place in the United States
The former name of Marne, an unincorporated community in Ottawa County, Michigan, United States.
A place in the United States
The former name of Otoe, a village in Otoe County, Nebraska, United States.
A place in the United States
A ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, United States.
A place in the United States
A city in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States.
A place in the United States
A borough of Camden County, New Jersey, United States.
A place in the United States
A town in Rensselaer County, New York, United States.
A place in the United States
A tiny city in LaMoure County, North Dakota, United States.
A place in the United States
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Berlin Township, Holmes County, Ohio, United States.
A place in the United States
An unincorporated community in Florence Township, Williams County, Ohio, United States.
A place in the United States
A borough of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States.
A place in the United States
An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Tennessee, United States.
A place in the United States
An unincorporated community in Washington County, Texas, United States.
A place in the United States
A town in Washington County, Vermont, United States.
A place in the United States
An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States.
A place in the United States
A city in Green Lake County and Waushara County, Wisconsin, United States.
A place in the United States
A town in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, United States, mostly surrounding the city of the same name.
A place in the United States
A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States.
Ellipsis of Berlin Township.
senses_topics:
|
14063 | word:
Berlin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Berlin
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the German Berlin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted.
senses_topics:
|
14064 | word:
British Virgin Islander
word_type:
noun
expansion:
British Virgin Islander (plural British Virgin Islanders)
forms:
form:
British Virgin Islanders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From British Virgin Islands + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from the British Virgin Islands or of descent of the British Virgin Islands.
senses_topics:
|
14065 | word:
hole up
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hole up (third-person singular simple present holes up, present participle holing up, simple past and past participle holed up)
forms:
form:
holes up
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
holing up
tags:
participle
present
form:
holed up
tags:
participle
past
form:
holed up
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hole + up. Attested from the 19th century.
senses_examples:
text:
In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan bears enter winter dens in October; in the South, later; even in Florida bears “hole up” during the coldest weather.
ref:
1998, John Whitaker, William Hamilton, Mammals of the Eastern United States, page 424
type:
quotation
text:
The guerrillas holed up in a small cave.
text:
The battle ended a two-day siege of an apartment block, where the suspects were holed up.
ref:
2005, BBC News, Thursday, 27 January, 2005, 18:50 GMThttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4211625.stm
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To go into a hole, to shelter in a hole.
To hide.
senses_topics:
|
14066 | word:
Namibian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Namibian (comparative more Namibian, superlative most Namibian)
forms:
form:
more Namibian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Namibian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Namibia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Namibia, the Namibian people or the Namibian language.
senses_topics:
|
14067 | word:
Namibian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Namibian (plural Namibians)
forms:
form:
Namibians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Namibia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Namibia or of Namibian descent.
senses_topics:
|
14068 | word:
Nicopolitan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Nicopolitan (plural Nicopolitans)
forms:
form:
Nicopolitans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Nicopolis + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or a resident of Nicopolis.
senses_topics:
|
14069 | word:
Falkland Islander
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Falkland Islander (plural Falkland Islanders)
forms:
form:
Falkland Islanders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Falkland Islands + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from the Falkland Islands or of descent of the Falkland Islands.
senses_topics:
|
14070 | word:
Aragonese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Aragonese (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Aragonese language
etymology_text:
From Aragon + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Aragon, the Aragonese people or the Aragonese language.
senses_topics:
|
14071 | word:
Aragonese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Aragonese (plural Aragonese)
forms:
form:
Aragonese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Aragonese language
etymology_text:
From Aragon + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Aragon.
senses_topics:
|
14072 | word:
Aragonese
word_type:
name
expansion:
Aragonese
forms:
wikipedia:
Aragonese language
etymology_text:
From Aragon + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language of Aragon, nowadays only spoken as a mother tongue by a few thousand people in some valleys of the Pyrenees.
The Spanish language spoken in Aragon when influenced by Aragonese traits.
senses_topics:
|
14073 | word:
Christmas Islander
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Christmas Islander (plural Christmas Islanders)
forms:
form:
Christmas Islanders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Christmas Island + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Christmas Island, or having that ancestry.
senses_topics:
|
14074 | word:
Laconia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Laconia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Λακωνία (Lakōnía).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A region in the southern Peloponnese, Greece, which has had Sparta as its capital for over 3,000 years.
A city, the county seat of Belknap County, New Hampshire; named for the Laconia Car Company, a railroad car manufacturer.
A town in Indiana.
An unincorporated community in Tennessee.
senses_topics:
|
14075 | word:
katal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
katal (plural katals)
forms:
form:
katals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek κατάλυσις (katálusis, “dissolution”), from καταλύω (katalúō, “I dissolve”), from κατά (katá, “down”) + λύω (lúō, “I loose”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of catalytic activity; one mole per second. Symbol: kat.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
14076 | word:
interpreter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
interpreter (plural interpreters)
forms:
form:
interpreters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English interpreter, interpretour, from Latin interpretor (“to explain, expound, understand”), from interpres (“agent, translator”).
Displaced native Old English wealhstod.
senses_examples:
text:
A Japanese man who is tried before a German court is assisted by an interpreter in making oral statements.
text:
When you sally upon him, speak what terrible language you will: though you understand it not yourselves, no matter; for we must not seem to understand him, unless some one among us whom we must produce for an interpreter.
ref:
c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act IV, Scene 1
type:
quotation
text:
I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.
ref:
1880, Mark Twain, chapter 14, in A Tramp Abroad, volume 1, London: Chatto & Windus, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
Once in the classroom the interpreter might inform the deaf person of various auditory information occurring in the environment such as: The teacher has a strong accent. Your hearing aid is making a noise. The fire alarm has gone off!
ref:
1991, Jerome Daniel Schein, Enid G. Wolf-Schein, University of Alberta. Western Canadian Centre for Studies in Deafness, Postsecondary Education for Deaf Students
text:
So began my career as our family’s official interpreter. From then on, I would fill in our blanks, our silences, stutters, whenever I could. I code switched. I took off our language and wore my English, like a mask, so that others would see my face, and therefore yours.
ref:
2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Penguin Random House, Part 1
type:
quotation
text:
At the historic site there are costumed interpreters demonstrating ancient crafts.
type:
example
text:
an interpreter of dreams
type:
example
text:
one of the foremost interpreters [i.e. performers] of Beethoven's piano works
type:
example
text:
the holy fathers interpretours of holy scrypture
ref:
1529, Thomas More, Dialogue of Diverse Matters, London: J. Rastell, Book 4, Chapter 6
type:
quotation
text:
A severe interpreter might say that the mere facts of their relation to each other, the melancholy position of this woman who depended on his will, made a standing banquet for his delight in dominating.
ref:
1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 30, p. 205
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the Priest or Medicine-man […] early appeared on the plantation and found his function as the healer of the sick, the interpreter of the Unknown […] and the one who rudely but picturesquely expressed the longing, disappointment, and resentment of a stolen and oppressed people.
ref:
1903, W.E.B. Du Bois, chapter 10, in The Souls of Black Folk, Chicago: McClurg, page 196
type:
quotation
text:
Flowers are the interpreters of love in India, painting in the most vivid but in the softest colours speaking in the sweetest sighs: while each blossom that fades is a mournful remembrancer either of blighted hopes or departed pleasures.
ref:
1823, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Forget Me Not 1824, The Indian Orphan, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
[…] these thy offices, / So rarely kind, are as interpreters / Of my behind-hand slackness.
ref:
c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act V, Scene 1
type:
quotation
text:
the modern drama—the strongest and most far-reaching interpreter of our deep-felt dissatisfaction
ref:
1910, Emma Goldman, “The Modern Drama”, in Anarchism and Other Essays, New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, page 247
type:
quotation
text:
Programs written in the BASIC language are usually run through an interpreter, though some can be compiled.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who interprets.
A person who converts spoken or signed language into a different language for the benefit of one or more others who do not understand the first language being used (especially if in real time or shortly after that person has finished communicating). (Contrasted with translator.)
A person who interprets.
A guide who helps people visiting an attraction such as an art exhibit, a nature reserve, etc., understand what they are seeing.
A person who interprets.
Something that reveals or clarifies.
A program that executes another program written in a high-level language by reading the instructions in real time rather than by compiling it in advance.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
14077 | word:
translator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
translator (plural translators)
forms:
form:
translators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English translatour, from Old French translator, translatour, translateur, from Latin trānslātor, agent noun from perfect passive participle trānslātus, from trānsferō (“carry across”), from trans (“across, beyond”) + ferō (“bear, carry”).
senses_examples:
text:
"You don't believe the Soviet Union is going to reduce its defense budget, do you?" Boggs asked.
Premier Chou didn't wait for the translator to finish. "Never, never, never," he replied in perfect English.
ref:
1980, Gerald Ford, “Boyhood—and Beyond”, in A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, page 95
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who converts speech, text, film, or other material into a different language. (Contrasted with interpreter.)
One that makes a new version of a source material in a different language or format.
A computer program that translates something from one language to another using machine translation.
senses_topics:
|
14078 | word:
typeface
word_type:
noun
expansion:
typeface (plural typefaces)
forms:
form:
typefaces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
typeface
etymology_text:
From type + face.
senses_examples:
text:
(Technically Aptos and Calibri are typefaces, while a “font” refers to a particular face or size, like italics or boldface. But in practice, “font” is often used as a synonym for “typeface,” including by Microsoft employees interviewed for this article.)
ref:
2024 February 28, Victor Mather, “Microsoft Word’s Subtle Typeface Change Affected Millions. Did You Notice?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The particular design of some type, font, or a font family.
The surface of type which inked, or the impression it makes.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography
media
printing
publishing |
14079 | word:
Northern Mariana Islander
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Northern Mariana Islander (plural Northern Mariana Islanders)
forms:
form:
Northern Mariana Islanders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Northern Mariana Islands + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from the Northern Marianas or of descent of the Northern Mariana Islands.
senses_topics:
|
14080 | word:
Cyclades
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cyclades
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Κυκλάδες (Kukládes), plural of Κυκλάς (Kuklás), from κύκλος (kúklos, “circle, ring”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Aegean island chain in southeast-central Greece, surrounding the main island Delos, further including the islands of Andros, Naxos, Paros, Santorini, Syra, Tinos and Zea.
senses_topics:
|
14081 | word:
Azeri
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Azeri (plural Azeris)
forms:
form:
Azeris
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Azeri
etymology_text:
From Turkish Azeri.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Azerbaijan or of Azerbaijani descent.
senses_topics:
|
14082 | word:
Azeri
word_type:
name
expansion:
Azeri
forms:
wikipedia:
Azeri
etymology_text:
From Turkish Azeri.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Turkic language of Azerbaijan.
senses_topics:
|
14083 | word:
complaisant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
complaisant (comparative more complaisant, superlative most complaisant)
forms:
form:
more complaisant
tags:
comparative
form:
most complaisant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French complaisant (“willing to please”), from complaire, from Latin complacēre, present active infinitive of complaceō (“please well”), from com- (“with”) + placeō (“please”).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: (stronger and more negative) obsequious
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Compliant.
Willing to do what pleases others; obliging; agreeable.
Polite; showing respect.
senses_topics:
|
14084 | word:
abacinating
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abacinating
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of abacinate
senses_topics:
|
14085 | word:
Equatorial Guinean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Equatorial Guinean (plural Equatorial Guineans)
forms:
form:
Equatorial Guineans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Equatorial Guinea or of Equatorial Guinean descent.
senses_topics:
|
14086 | word:
Equatorial Guinean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Equatorial Guinean (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Equatorial Guinea, the Equatorial Guinean people or the Equatorial Guinean culture.
senses_topics:
|
14087 | word:
ship
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ship (plural ships)
forms:
form:
ships
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ship, schip, from Old English sċip, from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą, from Proto-Indo-European *skēyb-, *skib-. More at shift.
cognates
Cognate with West Frisian skip, Dutch schip, German Schiff, Yiddish שיף (shif), Danish skib, Norwegian skip, Swedish skepp. Related also to Lithuanian skiẽbti (“to rip up”), Latvian škibît (“to cut, lop”), Ancient Greek σκάφη (skáphē, “light boat, skiff”).
senses_examples:
text:
I don't know if there is another standard method, but the following approach works: Consider the collision of gliders from three rakes that produces a medium spaceship in the _same_ direction as the rake. This ship will follow along to the next collision point, which will not produce a spaceship, but rather some stable garbage, consisting of a block and a beehive.
ref:
1991 January 10, Paul Callahan, “Questions and comments about Conway's Life (long)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Aside from the one ship in B3/S124 shown above, the only spaceships of this size (with period up to 20) in any of these rules are the Life glider and the three known from B2/ (each of which also is found in some variants of the Life or B2/ rules).
ref:
1995 November 12, Rich Holmes, “Totalistic spaceships”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
While constructing a butterfly double gun I put one cell at the wrong site and the result was highly surprising: my pattern turned to a big, beautiful ship, very similar to those found in Aqua25 from Al Hensel's collection!
ref:
1999 June 23, Mirek Wojtowicz, “What else has Brian in his Brain?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
But there are no ships, and no natural traffic lights or honey farms. The ship self destructs, and the predecessors to the traffic lights and honey farms self-destruct in spectacular manners.
ref:
1994 May 7, David Bell, “HighLife - An Interesting Variant of Life (part 1/3)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
In the case of these "ship" neighborhoods, birth will occur at the center cell, thus deviating from the "overcrowding" rule of Life (HighLife allows such a birth in all neighborhoods containing 6 cells).
ref:
1994 June 5, Paul Callahan, “Interesting life program”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
This means that the landing wheels are not so far forward of the ship's center of gravity ; and that means that ground contact is less likely to produce a bounce.
ref:
1944, Wolfgang Langewiesche, Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying
type:
quotation
text:
In addition to the four NAA pilots, three Air Force and one RAF pilot, all based at Edwards, flew the ship after first being checked out on the "tether rig."
ref:
1994, American Aviation Historical Society Journal, page 107
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
A spaceship.
A particular still life consisting of an empty cell surrounded by six live cells.
A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
The third card of the Lenormand deck.
An aircraft.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
nautical
transport
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
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14088 | word:
ship
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ship (third-person singular simple present ships, present participle shipping, simple past and past participle shipped)
forms:
form:
ships
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shipping
tags:
participle
present
form:
shipped
tags:
participle
past
form:
shipped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English schippen, schipen, from Old English sċipian, from Proto-Germanic *skipōną, from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“ship”).
senses_examples:
text:
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
ref:
2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891
type:
quotation
text:
to ship freight by railroad
type:
example
text:
Our next issue ships early next year.
type:
example
text:
It compiles? Ship it!
type:
example
text:
to ship seamen
type:
example
text:
I shipped on a man-of-war.
type:
example
text:
to ship the tiller or rudder
type:
example
text:
We were shipping so much water I was sure we would capsize.
type:
example
text:
Douglas: Sorry girls, you better go. Girls! Ship it!
ref:
2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1
text:
Can you ship me the ketchup?
type:
example
text:
And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.
ref:
2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Twins ship Delmon Young to Tigers.
type:
example
text:
England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men.
ref:
2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
They shipped penalties, lost field position, and in the second-half, having retreated to the changing room buoyed by Dougie Fife’s well-worked try, found themselves ceding two-thirds of the territory and with it, the lion’s share of the ball.
ref:
2015 February 11, “Six Nations: Scotland raw but capable of improving”, in The Scotsman
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To send by water-borne transport.
To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
To release a product (not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.
To engage to serve on board a vessel.
To embark on a ship.
To put or secure in its place.
To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
Leave, depart, scram.
To pass (from one person to another).
To go all in.
To trade or send a player to another team.
To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
card-games
poker
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports |
14089 | word:
ship
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ship (plural ships)
forms:
form:
ships
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
Clipping of relationship.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, especially one explored in fan fiction.
senses_topics:
lifestyle |
14090 | word:
ship
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ship (third-person singular simple present ships, present participle shipping, simple past and past participle shipped)
forms:
form:
ships
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shipping
tags:
participle
present
form:
shipped
tags:
participle
past
form:
shipped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
Clipping of relationship.
senses_examples:
text:
I ship Kirk and Spock in “Star Trek”.
type:
example
text:
I ship Peggy and Angie in “Marvel's Agent Carter”.
type:
example
text:
I should warn you that I could not identify a ‘dank meme’ if the fate of the working class depended on it and that I shall not be ‘shipping’ Lenin and Trotsky.
ref:
2017, Helen Razer, Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young, Allen & Unwin
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts.
senses_topics:
lifestyle |
14091 | word:
Trapani
word_type:
name
expansion:
Trapani
forms:
wikipedia:
Trapani
etymology_text:
From Italian Trapani.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Sicily, Italy.
The capital city of the province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy.
senses_topics:
|
14092 | word:
I'm fine, thank you
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
I'm fine, thank you
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The expected, polite response to how are you?
senses_topics:
|
14093 | word:
Venezuelan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Venezuelan (plural Venezuelans)
forms:
form:
Venezuelans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Venezuela + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Venezuela or of Venezuelan descent.
senses_topics:
|
14094 | word:
Venezuelan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Venezuelan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Venezuela + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Venezuela or the Venezuelan people.
senses_topics:
|
14095 | word:
loquacious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
loquacious (comparative more loquacious, superlative most loquacious)
forms:
form:
more loquacious
tags:
comparative
form:
most loquacious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin loquāx, loquācis (“talkative”) + -ous.
senses_examples:
text:
On the other hand, Hetty was moody and silent. She was never loquacious, or if she occasionally became communicative, it was under the influence of some temporary excitement that served to arouse her unsophisticated mind; but, for hours at a time, in the course of this all-important day, she seemed to have absolutely lost the use of her tongue.
ref:
1841, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 8, in The Deerslayer
type:
quotation
text:
[…]and as Mr. H., with his long purse and his willingness to receive hints, is no bad card in the game, he has been brought up to Abbotsford for a week; his taciturnity has long ago fled, and he is one of the most loquacious Borderers going. […]
ref:
1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Talkative; chatty.
senses_topics:
|
14096 | word:
Serbian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Serbian (comparative more Serbian, superlative most Serbian)
forms:
form:
more Serbian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Serbian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Serbian
etymology_text:
From Serb + -ian or Serbia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
of or pertaining to Serbia, the Serbian people or their language
senses_topics:
|
14097 | word:
Serbian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Serbian (countable and uncountable, plural Serbians)
forms:
form:
Serbians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Serbian
etymology_text:
From Serb + -ian or Serbia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Serbia.
A Serb.
The standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs.
Serbo-Croatian in general, as spoken in Serbia.
senses_topics:
|
14098 | word:
Serbian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Serbian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Serbian
etymology_text:
From Serb + -ian or Serbia + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
In a raucous atmosphere, it was an unforgiving and physical contest from the start. Grant Hanley conceded the first free-kick within the opening 20 seconds, setting the tone for a busy and thankless evening for Serbian referee Milorad Mazic.
ref:
2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Serbia and Serbians.
Of or pertaining to Serbian language.
senses_topics:
|
14099 | word:
birthday
word_type:
noun
expansion:
birthday (plural birthdays)
forms:
form:
birthdays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
birthday
etymology_text:
From Middle English birthdai, birtheday, from Old English ġebyrddæġ (“birthday”), influenced by Old Norse burðr, equivalent to birth + day. Compare Saterland Frisian Gebuursdai (“birthday”), Dutch geboortedag (“birthday”), Low German Geboortsdag (“birthday”), German Geburtstag (“birthday”), Norwegian bursdag, gebursdag (“birthday”).
Eclipsed non-native Middle English nativitee (“birth, nativity, birthday”), from Old French nativité, nativited, from Latin nātīvitas.
senses_examples:
text:
When's your birthday? Mine's on April 1.
type:
example
text:
1903, L. Frank Baum, The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People, The Fifth Surprise: The Monarch Celebrates His Birthday,
One of the Wise Men said the King was born in February; another declared it was in May, and a third figured the great event happened in October. So the King issued a royal decree that he should have three birthdays every year, in order to be on the safe side; and whenever he happened to think of it he put in an odd birthday or two for luck.
text:
1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 9: The pride of Perks,
"And we thought we'd make a nice birthday for him. He's been so awfully jolly decent to us, you know, Mother," said Peter, "and we agreed that next bun-day we'd ask you if we could."
text:
c. 1911, Cotton Mather, Worthington Chauncey Ford (editor), Diary of Cotton Mather, Volume 1: 1681-1708, footnote, page 1,
It was his custom to begin a new year's record on February 12, his birthday.
text:
The King's Birthday, which occurred yesterday, will be officially observed to-day, and the customary list of honours conferred on the occasion is published.
ref:
1921 June 4, “Birthday Honours — Companions of Honour”, in The Times
type:
quotation
text:
I'd like to invite you all to my birthday.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The anniversary of the day on which someone is born.
The anniversary of the day on which something is created.
The date on which someone is born or something is created, more commonly called birthdate or date of birth.
A birthday party.
senses_topics:
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