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14100 | word:
birthday
word_type:
verb
expansion:
birthday (third-person singular simple present birthdays, present participle birthdaying, simple past and past participle birthdayed)
forms:
form:
birthdays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
birthdaying
tags:
participle
present
form:
birthdayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
birthdayed
tags:
past
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.
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To celebrate one's birthday.
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14101 | word:
becquerel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
becquerel (plural becquerels)
forms:
form:
becquerels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French becquerel. Named after the French physicist Henri Becquerel.
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In the International System of Units, the derived unit of radioactive activity; the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second. Symbol: Bq
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14102 | word:
Taranto
word_type:
name
expansion:
Taranto
forms:
wikipedia:
Taranto
etymology_text:
From Italian Taranto, from Latin Tarentum, from Ancient Greek Τάρᾱς (Tárās), probably from Illyrian *darandos (“oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”), which also yields Albanian dru (“wood, tree”). Doublet of Taras and Tarentum.
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A port city in Apulia, in southeastern Italy.
A province of Apulia, Italy, around the city.
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14103 | word:
pianist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pianist (plural pianists)
forms:
form:
pianists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French pianiste, from Italian pianista. Analyzable as piano + -ist.
senses_examples:
text:
By the time she became the world's greatest pianist, she had already practised for thousands of hours on her prized piano.
type:
example
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A person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as part of an orchestra.
A spy using radio or wireless telegraphy to keep in touch with headquarters during the Second World War.
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14104 | word:
Montserratian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Montserratian (plural Montserratians)
forms:
form:
Montserratians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Montserrat + -ian.
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senses_glosses:
A person from Montserrat or of Montserratian descent.
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14105 | word:
Montserratian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Montserratian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Montserrat + -ian.
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senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Montserrat, the Montserratian people or language.
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14106 | word:
Trinidadian and Tobagonian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Trinidadian and Tobagonian (plural Trinidadians and Tobagonians or Trinidadians)
forms:
form:
Trinidadians and Tobagonians
tags:
plural
form:
Trinidadians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
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senses_glosses:
A person from Trinidad and Tobago or of descent of Trinidad and Tobago. A Trinidadian.
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14107 | word:
Trinidadian and Tobagonian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Trinidadian and Tobagonian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
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senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Trinidad and Tobago or to the people or language of that country. Trinidadian.
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14108 | word:
popcorn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
popcorn (countable and uncountable, plural popcorns)
forms:
form:
popcorns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
popcorn
etymology_text:
Short for popped + corn. By surface analysis, pop + corn.
senses_examples:
text:
From the top the sample shows four stitch popcorns, five stitch bobbles, two rows of bells and a central leaf with leaves sloping to the left and right each side.
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2008, Claire Compton, Sue Whiting, The Knitting and Crochet Bible, page 45
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quotation
text:
With the "popcorn" method, all team members in the session spontaneously call out ideas and a facilitator writes them on a flip chart.
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2002, Betsi Harris Ehrlich, Transactional Six Sigma and Lean Servicing, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
As a way to begin the discussion about God's will, you might want to ask the group to do some "popcorn" brainstorming about the pros and cons of believing that everything that happens is God's will.
ref:
2011, Carolyn Jane Bohler, God the What?
type:
quotation
text:
Ask: What Twitter-style hashtag characterizes our community? (Use popcorn brainstorming to elicit responses.)
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2022, Jill Harrison Berg, Uprooting Instructional Inequity, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
And not at all about how a state picks which group of electors to send, which is the whole basis of the NaPoVoInterCo plan, and will yield plenty more Supreme Court popcorn if it ever gets enacted.
ref:
2020 July 10, CGP Grey, 3:55 from the start, in Supreme Court Rules on Faithless Electors in the Electoral College
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating.
A type of corn or maize with a hard outer hull that, along with the type of starch it contains, makes it suitable for popping.
A kind of stitch similar to a bobble.
A form of brainstorming in which participants call out their ideas immediately, instead of waiting for an assigned turn to speak.
Entertainment for observers.
senses_topics:
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
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14109 | word:
popcorn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
popcorn (third-person singular simple present popcorns, present participle popcorning, simple past and past participle popcorned)
forms:
form:
popcorns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
popcorning
tags:
participle
present
form:
popcorned
tags:
participle
past
form:
popcorned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
popcorn
etymology_text:
Short for popped + corn. By surface analysis, pop + corn.
senses_examples:
text:
Popcorning behavior is a fun sight—as long as you know what it is. Otherwise, it can scare you. During this action a pig runs around very fast and suddenly leaps straight up in the air, twitching and squeaking. It then lands and takes off again, often in another direction. This activity shows pure joy. Babies start to popcorn when they are about two weeks old or so—they may try it earlier, but they usually fall down instead.
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2000, Dale L. Sigler, A Grown-up's Guide to Guinea Pigs, iUniverse, page 58
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quotation
text:
You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard.
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2008, Leisure Arts, I Can't Believe I'm Knitting Cables, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To stand or jump up quickly.
To pop repeatedly, like popcorn cooking.
To use the popcorn stitch.
senses_topics:
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles |
14110 | word:
prescribe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
prescribe (third-person singular simple present prescribes, present participle prescribing, simple past and past participle prescribed)
forms:
form:
prescribes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
prescribing
tags:
participle
present
form:
prescribed
tags:
participle
past
form:
prescribed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin praescrībere, from prae- (“before, in front”) and scrībere (“to write”).
senses_examples:
text:
The doctor prescribed aspirin.
type:
example
text:
The property meets the criteria prescribed by the regulations.
type:
example
text:
Most probable that one presentation and 40 years possession thereafter, is sufficient to prescribe a right of patronage.
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1753, Andrew McDouall, An Institute of the Laws of Scotland in Civil Rights […], volume 3, Table of Contents, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
[…] held, in a question with a party who had acquired right from the commissioners of the forfeited estates to the estate of the forfeited superior, as it stood in his person, that the crown charter of the vassal was a valid title on which to prescribe a right to the coal […]
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1834, Patrick Shaw, Digest of Cases Decided in the Courts of Session, Teinds, and Justiciary in the House of Lords, 1821–1833 […], page 135
type:
quotation
text:
Because of the juristic difficulties associated with the Donation of Constantine, the question of whether the papacy had in any case prescribed its jurisdiction in the patrimony had become a common topic amongst jurists […]
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1987, Joseph Canning, The Political Thought of Baldus de Ubaldis, page 53
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).
To specify by writing as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.
To develop or assert a right; to make a claim (by prescription).
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
law |
14111 | word:
farad
word_type:
noun
expansion:
farad (plural farads)
forms:
form:
farads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after the English physicist Michael Faraday.
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senses_glosses:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical capacitance; the capacitance of a capacitor in which one coulomb of charge causes a potential difference of one volt across the capacitor. Symbol: F
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14112 | word:
radian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
radian (plural radians)
forms:
form:
radians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From radius + -an.
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senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of plane angular measure of angle equal to the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc of its circumference equal in length to the radius of the circle. Symbol: rad.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
14113 | word:
guitarist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
guitarist (plural guitarists)
forms:
form:
guitarists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From guitar + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who plays a guitar.
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14114 | word:
caveat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
caveat (plural caveats)
forms:
form:
caveats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin caveat (“may he beware of”), third-person singular present active subjunctive of caveō (“I beware of”). Doublet of show.
senses_examples:
text:
There is at least one caveat in cultivation: you’ll have to stick to only one discipline, such as that according to Bhaiṣajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha.
type:
example
text:
Two young Harvard M.B.A.'s worked up some highly optimistic projections—with the caveat that these were speculative and should of course be tested.
ref:
1986 March 9, Roy Blount Jr., “Able were they ere they saw cable”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
He gave his daughter some hyacinth bulbs with the caveat that she plant them in the shade.
type:
example
text:
If a midfielder and a defender are acquired by 1 September then Louis van Gaal will consider United's summer in the market almost a success. The one caveat is that the Dutchman wished to have finished strengthening the squad before the start of the season.
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2014 August 26, Jamie Jackson, “Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2017-07-08
type:
quotation
text:
If I adhered to the system of caveats, which would throw it upon an individual to be cautious, and to look out lest he should not have notice, if he did not enter a caveat I would require him to specify in respect of what he entered his caveat. General caveats, I think, should not be allowed against all the world and against general inventions, for the same reasons that I would not allow a person to have a patent for a general title without specifying upon what improvements he applied for a patent.
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1849 August 25, Thomas Webster, “Law of Patents.—Report of the Committee on the Signet and Privy Seal Offices. Extracts from Minutes of Evidence.”, in J[oseph] C[linton] Robertson, editor, Mechanics’ Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, volume LI, number 1359, London: Robertson and Co., Mechanics' Magazine Offices, No. 166, Fleet-street, London; and No. 99B, New-Street, Birmingham, →OCLC, pages 185–186
type:
quotation
text:
The necessity for caveats arise in two cases: one class of caveats is prohibitory as regards some contemplated dealing or transaction affecting the property described in the caveat; while another class of caveats arises out of adverse claims to the land itself, or to some estate or interest in the land.
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1861 May 29, William Charles Belt, “Minutes of Evidence”, in Real Property Law Commission, South Australia (chairman: Chief Justice Charles Cooper), Report of the Real Property Law Commission, with Minutes of Evidence and Appendix. Ordered by the Parliament to be Prited ([Parliamentary Paper, 1861]; no. 192), Adelaide, S.A.: Printed by authority, by W. C. Cox, Government Printer, Victoria-Square, published November 1861, →OCLC, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
The purpose of a caveat is to give a person who has an unregistered interest in a property the ability to protect that interest from the harshness of indefeasibility of title, which is enjoyed by a later interest which is registered, assuming there is no exception to indefeasibility available to the holder of the earlier unregistered interest. Section 74H of the Real Property Act provides that a caveat operates to prevent dealings that are subsequently lodged from obtaining registration. In the absence of a caveat precluding the later interest from becoming registered, the later interest would be registerd and upon registration would enjoy the benefit of immediate indefeasibility of title.
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2005, Geoffrey Moore, “Torrens Title: Priorities between Unregistered Interests”, in David Barker, editor, Essential Real Property (Cavendish Essential Series), Coogee, N.S.W.: Cavendish Publishing (Australia), page 76
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A warning.
A qualification or exemption.
A formal objection.
A formal objection.
A formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.
A notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding.
senses_topics:
law
law
law |
14115 | word:
caveat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
caveat (third-person singular simple present caveats, present participle caveating or caveatting, simple past and past participle caveated or caveatted)
forms:
form:
caveats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
caveating
tags:
participle
present
form:
caveatting
tags:
participle
present
form:
caveated
tags:
participle
past
form:
caveated
tags:
past
form:
caveatted
tags:
participle
past
form:
caveatted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Stackpole Books
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin caveat (“may he beware of”), third-person singular present active subjunctive of caveō (“I beware of”). Doublet of show.
senses_examples:
text:
The Emperor smiled more than a half smile. / "I am not sure," he said, "that any harm was done, anyhow." / "What!" cried Brinnaria. "You excuse me? You defend me?" / "Softly! Softly!" the Emperor caveatted, raising his hand. "I do not acquit you nor exonerate you. But I do make allowances.[…]"
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1918, Edward Lucas White, “Conference”, in The Unwilling Vestal: A Tale of Rome under the Cæsars, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, 681 Fifth Avenue, →OCLC, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
Some years ago, General Alexander Haig […] was widely criticized (and parodied) for using nouns as verbs in a highly idiosyncratic way, known as Haigspeak: phrases like "I'll have to caveat my response, Senator, and I'll caveat that", […] From one point of view, however, Haig was merely displaying the virtuosity of English, if not its grace.]
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[1992, Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil, The Story of English, new and revised edition, London, Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber; London: BBC Books, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
I want to caveat everything I say with the disclaimer that I was working from photos.
ref:
1996, Ray[mond M.] Saunders, Blood Tells: A Thriller, Novato, Calif.: Lyford Books, page 217
type:
quotation
text:
Here, by clarifying and caveatting assumptions, and revealing hidden assumption, we reduce the number of worlds in which the prediction is valid. This means that the prediction puts fewer constraints on our expectations. In counterpart, of course, the caveatted prediction is likely to be true.
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2015, Stuart Armstrong, Kaj Sotala, “How We’re Predicting AI – or Failing to”, in Jan Romportl, Eva Zakova, Jozef Kelemen, editors, Beyond Artificial Intelligence: The Disappearing Human–Machine Divide (Topics in Intelligent Engineering and Informatics; 9), Cham, Switzerland: Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Ukrainian Ground Forces spokesperson Dmytro Lykhovii told Ukrainian media Tuesday that “some Russian military units” were moved to Kursk from occupied southern Ukraine. Lykhovii caveated, however, that Russia had already amassed “a large number of personnel” in the southern Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia region.
ref:
2024 August 14, Maria Kostenko and Sugam Pokharel, “Lithuanian defense minister claims Russia is moving its troops from Kaliningrad to Kursk”, in CNN World
type:
quotation
text:
But of all the Strategems to prevent the obtaining of Licences, commend me to that of entring Caveats againſt one another's Curates; a Project of vaſt Contrivance, and worthy the renowned Head that firſt invented it. By this means, 'tis eaſy to ſee, that if there be but Confederacy enough among the Incumbents, and Corruption enough in the Officer that receives them, the whole Body of Curates may be demoliſhed at once. "Tis but changing Hands, my caveating yours, and your caveating my Curate, and then a Fig for the Canons, that require them to be licenc'd Preachers."
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1722, “a clergyman of the Church of England” [pseudonym; Thomas Stackhouse], The Miseries and Great Hardships of the Inferiour Clergy, in and about London. And a Modest Plea for Their Rights, and Better Usage; in a Letter to the Right Reverend Father in God, John Lord Bishop of London, London: Printed for T[homas] Payne, at the Crown in Pater-Noster-Row, →OCLC, paragraph 3, page 175
type:
quotation
text:
With the facts that may thus be brought distinctly before the public, it may soon become generally understood whether Professor [Royal Earl] House's Letter Printing telegraph (the only American telegraph patented in Great Britain and other European kingdoms as well as in the United States) is any infringement of Prof. [Samuel] Morse's patent, or of anything which Prof. Morse has a right to claim; and it will also be seen whether the telegraph system caveatted in the United States Patent office by Col. Charles B. Moss, of Virginia, under claim for a patent, (in the same way that Prof. Morse caveatted his "vital" "principle" as late as 1845–6) is or is not at least as original and effective as any telegraph that makes arbitrary signs like the dots and lines first used by [Carl August von] Steinheil and by Davey in 1837 and 1838, and afterwards combined by Prof. Morse in his first patent of 1840.
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1847 October 16, “Magnetic Telegraph”, in American Railroad Journal and General Advertiser for Railroads, Canals, Steamboats, Machinery and Mines, volume III, number 42 (Second Quarto Series; volume XX, number 591 overall), Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by D. K. Minor, editor and proprietor, No. 105 Chestnut Street, →OCLC, page 659, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Hurst in right of his wife, by counsel, on the 21st June, 1855, entered his caveat against the foregoing return and vouchers, and objected. […] 3d. He caveats the charge of fifty dollars paid McIntyre & Young, for making returns, as illegal and not a proper charge against ward. 4th. He also caveats the two expenditures to McIntyre & Ward and C. B. Cole, each for $150 00, as illegal, being for professional services rendered in defending himself in a suit against for mal-administration as guardian.
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1857, B. Y. Martin (reporter), “No. 7.—William H. Hendry, guardian, plaintiff in error, vs. James M. Hurst and wife, defendants in error.”, in Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, …, volume XXII, Columbus, Ga.: Times and Sentinel Steam Press, published 1858, →OCLC, page 314
type:
quotation
text:
It is unclear whether or not a purchaser upon exchange of contracts will be regarded as guilty of postponing conduct if failing to caveat.
ref:
2005, Geoffrey Moore, “Torrens Title: Priorities between Unregistered Interests”, in David Barker, editor, Essential Real Property (Cavendish Essential Series), Coogee, N.S.W.: Cavendish Publishing (Australia), page 93
type:
quotation
text:
The answer further alleged that the intestate, in right of his wife, caveated the probate in Virginia of the will of one William Hill, her relation; […]
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1838 June, Judge William Gaston, “Hannah Gee v. Henry Gee and Peyton R. Tunstall”, in Thomas P. Devereux, William H[orn] Battle, editors, Reports of Cases in Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina. From June Term, 1838, to December Term, 1839, both Inclusive, volume II, Raleigh, N.C.: Published by Turner and Hughes; Thos. J. Lemay, printer, published 1840, →OCLC, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
The defendant, father of the testator, had caveated against granting of probate on the ground that the will was not duly executed, and that deceased did not know or approve of its contents.
ref:
1913 December 6, Justice Street, “Probate Court. (Before Mr. Justice Street.) Disputed Will. Wills v. Craven.”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
[…] I beseach you to caveat any addresse being fully heard until some person commissioned from this Countrey be their to confront the sayd Dutch or their complices.
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1663 December 14, Jo[hn] Scott, John Romeyn Brodhead, comp., “Captain John Scott to Under Secrᵗʸ [Joseph] Williamson. [Plant. Genl. Miscell. Bundle. State Paper Office.]”, in Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York; Procured in Holland, England and France, by John Romeyn Broadhead, Esq., Agent, under and by virtue of an Act of the Legislature Entitled “An Act to Appoint an Agent to Procure and Transcribe Documents in Europe, Relative to the Colonial History of the State,” Passed May 2, 1839, volume III, Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons and Company, printers, published 1853, →OCLC, page 48
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To qualify a statement with a caveat or proviso.
To formally object to something.
To formally object to something.
To lodge a formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.
To issue a notice requesting that proceedings be suspended.
To warn or caution against some event.
senses_topics:
law
law
law
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14116 | word:
Ethiopian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Ethiopian (plural Ethiopians)
forms:
form:
Ethiopians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ethiopia + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
The Ethiopian eunuch.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Ethiopia or of Ethiopian descent.
A black-skinned person, especially one from Africa.
A very skinny person, referencing the historic malnutrition and poverty in Ethiopia.
senses_topics:
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14117 | word:
Ethiopian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Ethiopian (comparative more Ethiopian, superlative most Ethiopian)
forms:
form:
more Ethiopian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Ethiopian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ethiopia + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
Any person of color recognized his Ethiopian heritage immediately. That nose, those lips, good hair or no.
ref:
2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 314
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Ethiopia, the Ethiopian people or the Ethiopian culture.
Of, from, or pertaining to Africa and the African diaspora.
senses_topics:
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14118 | word:
Rome
word_type:
name
expansion:
Rome
forms:
wikipedia:
Rome
Rome (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English Rome, from Old English Rōm, Rūm, from Proto-West Germanic *Rūmu, from Proto-Germanic *Rūmō and influenced by Late Latin Rōma (“Rome, Constantinople”), from Classical Latin Rōma (“Rome”). In Roman mythology, the name was said to derive from Romulus, one of the founders of the city and its first king.
The name appears in a wide range of forms in Middle English, including Rom, Room, Roome, and Rombe as well as Rome; by early modern English, it appeared as Rome, Room, and Roome, with the spelling Rome occurring in Shakespeare and common from the early 18th century on. The final spelling was influenced by Norman, Middle French, Anglo-Norman, and Old French Rome. Doublet of Rum.
senses_examples:
text:
Within the last thirty weeks I have heard the word Rome pronounced Room by several old-fashioned people in the north of Ireland, some of my own relations among the number. On remonstrating with one of these, she said, "It was always Room when I was at school (say about 1830), and I am too old to change it now."
ref:
1866 December 8, 'Filius Ecclesiæ', Notes & Queries, "Rome:Room", 456 1
text:
At first, Berlin tried to amend the agreement to restore a German trade surplus, but Rome refused.
ref:
2016, Per Tiedtke, chapter 2, in Germany, Italy and the International Economy 1929–1936: Co-operation or Rivalries at Times of Crisis?, Europe: Tectum Verlag, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
The wych you perauenture wyl impute to thys defectyon from Rome.
ref:
1537 January 26, T. Starkey, letter
text:
(the name of the post office)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city on the Tiber River on the Italian peninsula; ancient capital of the Roman Empire; capital city of Italy; capital city of the region of Lazio.
A metropolitan city of Lazio, Italy.
The Italian government.
Ancient Rome; the former Roman Empire; Roman civilization.
The Holy See, the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church, particularly prior to the establishment of the Vatican City in the 19th century.
The Church of Rome, the Roman Catholic Church generally.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama.
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Floyd County, Georgia.
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Peoria County, Illinois.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Perry County, Indiana.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Henry County, Iowa.
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Ellis County, Kansas.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sumner County, Kansas.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Daviess County, Kentucky.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Kennebec County, Maine.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sunflower County, Mississippi.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Missouri.
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Oneida County, New York.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Green Township, Adams County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Delaware County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Morrow County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Richland County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Malheur County, Oregon.
A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Smith County, Tennessee.
A number of places in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community in Adams County, Wisconsin.
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Wisconsin.
A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships, including in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio (3) and Pennsylvania (2), listed under Rome Township.
A surname.
senses_topics:
|
14119 | word:
Ostia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ostia
forms:
wikipedia:
en:Ostia
etymology_text:
* (Roman Empire): Latin Ostia
* (Italy): Italian Ostia, from Latin Ostia
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A port and town on the Tiber in Italia, Roman Empire, the harbour of ancient Rome
A modern refounding of the ancient town at the mouth of the Tiber, now a neighbourhood of Rome, Italy
senses_topics:
|
14120 | word:
megalopolitan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
megalopolitan (plural megalopolitans)
forms:
form:
megalopolitans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or a resident of a megalopolis.
senses_topics:
|
14121 | word:
megalopolitan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
megalopolitan (comparative more megalopolitan, superlative most megalopolitan)
forms:
form:
more megalopolitan
tags:
comparative
form:
most megalopolitan
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
of, or relating to a megalopolis
senses_topics:
|
14122 | word:
Mozambican
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Mozambican (comparative more Mozambican, superlative most Mozambican)
forms:
form:
more Mozambican
tags:
comparative
form:
most Mozambican
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin Mozambica + -an (suffix forming adjectives).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, belonging to, or relating to Mozambique or its people.
senses_topics:
|
14123 | word:
Mozambican
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Mozambican (plural Mozambicans)
forms:
form:
Mozambicans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin Mozambica + -an (suffix forming adjectives).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Mozambique, or a descendant of such person.
senses_topics:
|
14124 | word:
trout
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trout (countable and uncountable, plural trout or trouts)
forms:
form:
trout
tags:
plural
form:
trouts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
trout
etymology_text:
From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trouȝt, trouhte, partly from Old English truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek τρώκτης (trṓktēs, “nibbler”), from τρώγω (trṓgō, “I gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn”). The Internet verb sense originated on BBSes of the 1980s, probably from Monty Python's The Fish-Slapping Dance (1972), though that sketch involved a halibut.
senses_examples:
text:
Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry.
type:
example
text:
“This morning,” he said, “We will fish, Turner. We will cast for trout so that we may catch grayling.”
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
Look, you silly old trout, you can't keep bringing home cats! You can't afford the ones you have!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
An objectionable elderly woman.
senses_topics:
|
14125 | word:
trout
word_type:
verb
expansion:
trout (third-person singular simple present trouts, present participle trouting, simple past and past participle trouted)
forms:
form:
trouts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
trouting
tags:
participle
present
form:
trouted
tags:
participle
past
form:
trouted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trouȝt, trouhte, partly from Old English truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek τρώκτης (trṓktēs, “nibbler”), from τρώγω (trṓgō, “I gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn”). The Internet verb sense originated on BBSes of the 1980s, probably from Monty Python's The Fish-Slapping Dance (1972), though that sketch involved a halibut.
senses_examples:
text:
God bless me! is it possible that you, a tall fellow with a black moustache, can be the curly fair-haired boy I have so often carried on my back and saddle-bow, and taught to make flies of red spinner and drakes’ wings, when we trouted together at Llyn Cwellyn among the hills yonder?
ref:
1871 October, James Grant, “Under the Red Dragon”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume IX, chapter III (By Express), pages 251–252
type:
quotation
text:
We found not more than three birds in any one place, and many times only one old bird, and this where we knew they had bred, for our pointer Rex found them while we were trouting.
ref:
1908 January 18, Ernest M. Gross, “The Ruffed Grouse Scarcity”, in Forest and Stream: A Journal of Outdoor Life, Travel, Nature Study, Shooting, Fishing, Yachting, volume LXX, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Forest and Stream Publishing Co., page 92, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
He didn’t want to go out on the water. I wouldn’t say he was afraid of it, because every time he was home he was always out in the boat trouting.
ref:
1987, Douglas House, edited by Cle Newhook, But Who Cares Now? The Tragedy of the Ocean Ranger, St. John’s, Nfld.: Breakwater Books, page 36
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fish for trout.
To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.
senses_topics:
|
14126 | word:
Mahoran
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Mahoran (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French mahorais / Mahorais (with the ending replaced with -an).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Mayotte or its people or language.
senses_topics:
|
14127 | word:
Mahoran
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Mahoran (plural Mahorans)
forms:
form:
Mahorans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French mahorais / Mahorais (with the ending replaced with -an).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Mayotte.
senses_topics:
|
14128 | word:
hold over someone's head
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hold over someone's head (third-person singular simple present holds over someone's head, present participle holding over someone's head, simple past and past participle held over someone's head)
forms:
form:
holds over someone's head
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
holding over someone's head
tags:
participle
present
form:
held over someone's head
tags:
participle
past
form:
held over someone's head
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I get one parking ticket and he holds it over my head for six months.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To harp on; to remind continuously (especially of a misstep or defeat).
senses_topics:
|
14129 | word:
Uruguayan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Uruguayan (plural Uruguayans)
forms:
form:
Uruguayans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Uruguay
etymology_text:
From Uruguay + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
Everton were, perhaps understandably, deflated at the setback and it was no surprise when Suarez added Liverpool's second after 82 minutes. Distin and Baines were involved in a mix-up as the Uruguayan advanced into the area, and he was not about to pass up the gift to shoot low past Howard.
ref:
2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Uruguay or of Uruguayan descent.
senses_topics:
|
14130 | word:
Uruguayan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Uruguayan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Uruguay
etymology_text:
From Uruguay + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Uruguay, the Uruguayan people or the Uruguayan language.
senses_topics:
|
14131 | word:
Surinamese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Surinamese (plural Surinamese)
forms:
form:
Surinamese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
from Suriname + -ese
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Suriname or of Surinamese descent.
senses_topics:
|
14132 | word:
Surinamese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Surinamese (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
from Suriname + -ese
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Suriname, the Surinamese people or the Surinamese language.
senses_topics:
|
14133 | word:
fugitive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fugitive (plural fugitives)
forms:
form:
fugitives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fugitive
etymology_text:
From Middle English fugitive, fugityve, fugityf, fugitife, fugytif, fugitif, from Latin fugitīvus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal his/her identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution; or to avoid some other unwanted situation.
senses_topics:
|
14134 | word:
fugitive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fugitive (comparative more fugitive, superlative most fugitive)
forms:
form:
more fugitive
tags:
comparative
form:
most fugitive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
fugitive
etymology_text:
From Middle English fugitive, fugityve, fugityf, fugitife, fugytif, fugitif, from Latin fugitīvus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fleeing or running away; escaping.
Transient, fleeting or ephemeral.
Elusive or difficult to retain.
senses_topics:
|
14135 | word:
Zambian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Zambian (plural Zambians)
forms:
form:
Zambians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Zambia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Zambia or of Zambian descent.
senses_topics:
|
14136 | word:
Zambian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Zambian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Zambia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Zambia or its people or language.
senses_topics:
|
14137 | word:
Guadeloupean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Guadeloupean (plural Guadeloupeans)
forms:
form:
Guadeloupeans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Guadeloupe + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Guadeloupe or of Guadeloupean descent.
senses_topics:
|
14138 | word:
Guadeloupean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Guadeloupean (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Guadeloupe + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Guadeloupe, the Guadeloupean people or the Guadeloupean language.
senses_topics:
|
14139 | word:
many thanks
word_type:
intj
expansion:
many thanks
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression of gratitude, expressing greater gratitude than thank you or thanks.
senses_topics:
|
14140 | word:
Lesbos
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lesbos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island in Greece, in the northeastern Aegean Sea.
senses_topics:
|
14141 | word:
&
word_type:
conj
expansion:
&
forms:
form:
siglum
tags:
romanization
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Orthographic borrowing from Latin &
senses_examples:
text:
“Welcum to McCaufreys, Billy Dean” he says. “Make yorself at home & hav a pie.”
ref:
2011, David Almond, The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean, Candlewick Press, published 2014, page 121
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of and.
Abbreviation of et in borrowed Latin phrases such as et cetera.
senses_topics:
|
14142 | word:
Togolese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Togolese (plural Togolese)
forms:
form:
Togolese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French togolais, equivalent to Togo + -ese. The -l-, also present in Congolese and its French etymon congolais, was added in French to break up the sequence of -o + -ais; it is not present in words formed from -o + -ese in English, e.g. Faroese or Chicagoese.
senses_examples:
text:
Grunitzky was educated locally and abroad (receiving one of the first scholarships ever granted to a Togolese), studying mathematics and obtaining an engineering degree (1937). Upon his return to Togo, Grunitzky joined the civil service[…]
ref:
2021 April 15, Jennifer C. Seely, Samuel Decalo, Historical Dictionary of Togo, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, page 202
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Togo or of Togolese descent.
senses_topics:
|
14143 | word:
Togolese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Togolese (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French togolais, equivalent to Togo + -ese. The -l-, also present in Congolese and its French etymon congolais, was added in French to break up the sequence of -o + -ais; it is not present in words formed from -o + -ese in English, e.g. Faroese or Chicagoese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Togo or its people.
senses_topics:
|
14144 | word:
Yemeni
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Yemeni (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Yemen + -i.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
of, from, or pertaining to Yemen, or the Yemeni people
senses_topics:
|
14145 | word:
Yemeni
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Yemeni (plural Yemenis)
forms:
form:
Yemenis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Yemen + -i.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a person from Yemen or of Yemeni descent
senses_topics:
|
14146 | word:
Somalian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Somalian (comparative more Somalian, superlative most Somalian)
forms:
form:
more Somalian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Somalian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Somalia + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
2007 April 22, “Somalian government tells Mogadishu residents to flee”, in The New York Times:
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of Somali
senses_topics:
|
14147 | word:
Somalian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Somalian (plural Somalians)
forms:
form:
Somalians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Somalia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of Somali
senses_topics:
|
14148 | word:
New Zealander
word_type:
noun
expansion:
New Zealander (plural New Zealanders)
forms:
form:
New Zealanders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Zealand + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from New Zealand or of New Zealand descent.
senses_topics:
|
14149 | word:
Sri Lankan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Sri Lankan (plural Sri Lankans)
forms:
form:
Sri Lankans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Sri Lanka + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Sri Lanka or of Sri Lankan descent.
senses_topics:
|
14150 | word:
Sri Lankan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Sri Lankan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Sri Lanka + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Sri Lanka or to the Sri Lankan people
senses_topics:
|
14151 | word:
Qatari
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Qatari (plural Qataris)
forms:
form:
Qataris
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Qatar + -i, from Arabic قَطَر (qaṭar)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Qatar or of Qatari descent.
senses_topics:
|
14152 | word:
Qatari
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Qatari (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Qatar + -i, from Arabic قَطَر (qaṭar)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Qatar or the Qatari people.
senses_topics:
|
14153 | word:
hold one's own
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hold one's own (third-person singular simple present holds one's own, present participle holding one's own, simple past and past participle held one's own)
forms:
form:
holds one's own
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
holding one's own
tags:
participle
present
form:
held one's own
tags:
participle
past
form:
held one's own
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
At any rate, he was like John Bull in one respect: he was sturdy and square, and fit to hold his own with any man.
ref:
1877, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 6, in Erema
type:
quotation
text:
If it came to blows, the younger man could not hope to hold his own with the huge policeman.
ref:
1909, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 19, in The Gem Collector
type:
quotation
text:
In his view, this eminent locomotive engineer had very decided opinions of his own, and was not afraid of putting them into practice; but a weakness lay in the fact that there was no one on his staff in a position sufficiently strong to hold his own with Stroudley in argument.
ref:
1941 May, “Notes and News: William Stroudley”, in Railway Magazine, page 234
type:
quotation
text:
Charlie: Are you a good pilot?
Maverick: I can hold my own.
ref:
1986, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun (motion picture)
type:
quotation
text:
But Ford, and Chrysler continued to hold their own against the latest competition from the Japanese.
ref:
2007 April 4, David Runk, “Competition Heats Up In Truck Market”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 2010-11-04, page E8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To demonstrate oneself to be capable; to provide a respectable performance or worthy competition; to stick up for oneself.
senses_topics:
|
14154 | word:
Ivorian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Ivorian (plural Ivorians)
forms:
form:
Ivorians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ivory (Coast) + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
Battling Bolton disputed the goal, claiming Drogba was offside, but the Ivorian appeared to have timed his angled run across the visitors back line to perfection to race onto a fine Michael Essien pass and ensure Chelsea moved back into fourth place in the Premier League.
ref:
2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Côte d'Ivoire or of Ivorian descent.
senses_topics:
|
14155 | word:
Ivorian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Ivorian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ivory (Coast) + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Côte d'Ivoire or the Ivorian people.
senses_topics:
|
14156 | word:
Jamaican
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Jamaican (plural Jamaicans)
forms:
form:
Jamaicans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Jamaica + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Jamaica or of Jamaican descent.
The Jamaican creole language.
Jamaican English.
senses_topics:
|
14157 | word:
Jamaican
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Jamaican (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Jamaica + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language.
senses_topics:
|
14158 | word:
Trieste
word_type:
name
expansion:
Trieste
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian Trieste.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.
A city in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, the capital of the province.
senses_topics:
|
14159 | word:
Rwandese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Rwandese (plural Rwandese)
forms:
form:
Rwandese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Rwanda + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Rwanda or of Rwandese descent.
senses_topics:
|
14160 | word:
Rwandese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Rwandese (comparative more Rwandese, superlative most Rwandese)
forms:
form:
more Rwandese
tags:
comparative
form:
most Rwandese
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Rwanda + -ese.
senses_examples:
text:
In 2003, Rwanda changed its official name from "Rwandese Republic" to "Republic of Rwanda".
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Rwanda, the Rwandese people or language. See: Rwandan.
senses_topics:
|
14161 | word:
Kuwaiti
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Kuwaiti (plural Kuwaitis)
forms:
form:
Kuwaitis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Kuwait + -i.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Kuwait or of Kuwaiti descent.
senses_topics:
|
14162 | word:
Kuwaiti
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Kuwaiti (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Kuwait + -i.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Kuwait or the Kuwaiti people.
senses_topics:
|
14163 | word:
Saudi Arabian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Saudi Arabian (plural Saudi Arabians)
forms:
form:
Saudi Arabians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Saudi Arabia or of Saudi Arabian descent.
senses_topics:
|
14164 | word:
Saudi Arabian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Saudi Arabian (comparative more Saudi Arabian, superlative most Saudi Arabian)
forms:
form:
more Saudi Arabian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Saudi Arabian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Arabian people or language.
senses_topics:
|
14165 | word:
hold one's horses
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hold one's horses (third-person singular simple present holds one's horses, present participle holding one's horses, simple past and past participle held one's horses)
forms:
form:
holds one's horses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
holding one's horses
tags:
participle
present
form:
held one's horses
tags:
participle
past
form:
held one's horses
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"I'm going to tell you, ain't I?" he said, gruffly. "Just hold your horses a minute, please."
ref:
1921, Booth Tarkington, chapter 24, in Alice Adams
type:
quotation
text:
"I would ask everybody to hold their horses until we go through the process," ElBaradei said.
ref:
2007 September 17, “Force is last resort in Iranian crisis”, in forbes.com/Thomson Financial News, retrieved 2008-10-05
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be patient; to wait.
senses_topics:
|
14166 | word:
Reunionese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Reunionese (plural Reunioneses)
forms:
form:
Reunioneses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Réunion + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Réunion or of Reunionese descent.
senses_topics:
|
14167 | word:
Reunionese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Reunionese (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Réunion + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Réunion, the Reunionese people or language.
senses_topics:
|
14168 | word:
siemens
word_type:
noun
expansion:
siemens (plural siemens)
forms:
form:
siemens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after the German inventor Werner von Siemens.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical conductance; the electric conductance in a body that has a resistance of one ohm. Symbol: S
senses_topics:
|
14169 | word:
vent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vent (plural vents)
forms:
form:
vents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Partly from Middle French vent, from Latin ventus and partly from French éventer. Cognate with French vent and Spanish viento (“wind”) and ventana (“window”). Doublet of wind.
senses_examples:
text:
the vent of a cask; the vent of a mould
type:
example
text:
According to geologists who work in the area, the vents at Castello Aragonese have been spewing carbon dioxide for at least several hundred years, maybe longer.
ref:
2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, page 122
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
A small aperture.
An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.
A slit in the seam of a garment.
The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
senses_topics:
|
14170 | word:
vent
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)
forms:
form:
vents
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
venting
tags:
participle
present
form:
vented
tags:
participle
past
form:
vented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Partly from Middle French vent, from Latin ventus and partly from French éventer. Cognate with French vent and Spanish viento (“wind”) and ventana (“window”). Doublet of wind.
senses_examples:
text:
The stove vents to the outside.
type:
example
text:
Exhaust is vented to the outside.
type:
example
text:
He vents his anger violently.
type:
example
text:
Can we talk? I need to vent.
type:
example
text:
He inveighed against the folly of making oneself liable for the debts of others; vented many bitter execrations against the brother; and concluded with wishing something could be done for the unfortunate family.
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
type:
quotation
text:
But the demonstrators remained defiant, pouring into the streets by the thousands and venting their anger over political corruption, the high cost of living and huge public spending for the World Cup and the Olympics.
ref:
2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To allow gases to escape.
To allow to escape through a vent.
To express a strong emotion.
To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
senses_topics:
|
14171 | word:
vent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vent (plural vents)
forms:
form:
vents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of ventriloquism
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ventriloquism.
senses_topics:
|
14172 | word:
vent
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)
forms:
form:
vents
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
venting
tags:
participle
present
form:
vented
tags:
participle
past
form:
vented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French vente, from Latin vendere (“to sell”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sell; to vend.
senses_topics:
|
14173 | word:
vent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vent (plural vents)
forms:
form:
vents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish venta (“a poor inn, sale, market”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A baiting place; an inn.
senses_topics:
|
14174 | word:
vent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vent (plural vents)
forms:
form:
vents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping.
senses_examples:
text:
I have adjusted the vent settings.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of ventilation or ventilator.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
14175 | word:
vent
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)
forms:
form:
vents
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
venting
tags:
participle
present
form:
vented
tags:
participle
past
form:
vented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
14176 | word:
Tunisian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Tunisian (plural Tunisians)
forms:
form:
Tunisians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Tunisia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Tunisia or of Tunisian descent.
senses_topics:
|
14177 | word:
Tunisian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Tunisian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Tunisia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Tunisia, the Tunisian people or the Tunisian language.
senses_topics:
|
14178 | word:
Martinican
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Martinican (plural Martinicans)
forms:
form:
Martinicans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Martinique + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Martinique or of Martinican descent.
senses_topics:
|
14179 | word:
Martinican
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Martinican (comparative more Martinican, superlative most Martinican)
forms:
form:
more Martinican
tags:
comparative
form:
most Martinican
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Martinique + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Martinique, the Martinican people or the Martinican language.
senses_topics:
|
14180 | word:
hold back
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hold back (third-person singular simple present holds back, present participle holding back, simple past and past participle held back)
forms:
form:
holds back
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
holding back
tags:
participle
present
form:
held back
tags:
participle
past
form:
held back
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Don't hold back. Hit it as hard as you can.
type:
example
text:
The TSSA union, which along with the RMT represents many of the staff affected by the closures, hasn't held back on its criticism.
ref:
2023 October 4, Mel Holley, “Network News: Conservative MPs criticise ticket office closure plans”, in RAIL, number 993, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
The dam can't hold back that much water.
type:
example
text:
Fabregas coolly slotted home after Ben Parker held back Theo Walcott and only a super Kasper Schmeichel save stopped Denilson winning it for the Gunners.
ref:
2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: set back
text:
He's a year older than his classmates, because he was held back in second grade.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act with reserve; to contain one's full measure or power.
To contain; stop.
To delay the progress of, especially in school.
senses_topics:
|
14181 | word:
steam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
steam (usually uncountable, plural steams)
forms:
form:
steams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
steam
etymology_text:
From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English stēam (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”).
senses_examples:
text:
Give the carrots a ten-minute steam.
type:
example
text:
After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam.
type:
example
text:
Them that puts the most steam into it will get a finnuf slipped to 'em.
ref:
1927, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Ladies and Gentlemen, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The vapor formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase.
The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air
mist, fog
The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air
Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation
Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
The act of cooking by steaming.
Internal energy for progress or motive power.
Pent-up anger.
A steam-powered vehicle.
Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
Any exhalation.
Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
senses_topics:
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war |
14182 | word:
steam
word_type:
verb
expansion:
steam (third-person singular simple present steams, present participle steaming, simple past and past participle steamed)
forms:
form:
steams
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
steaming
tags:
participle
present
form:
steamed
tags:
participle
past
form:
steamed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
steam
etymology_text:
From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English stēam (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”).
senses_examples:
text:
The best way to cook artichokes is to steam them.
type:
example
text:
The artichokes are steaming in the pot.
type:
example
text:
I'm steaming in this coat.
type:
example
text:
to steam wood or cloth
type:
example
text:
"We will give 198 a full exam. Then steam her, and operate her for the rest of the season.
ref:
2023 July 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Saved: Trust protects Adrian Shooter's legacy”, in RAIL, number 987, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
I found that the Chapelon steamed almost too freely, because on a strange locomotive and road one usually tends to overfire a little through a natural lack of confidence.
ref:
1961 February, 'Balmore', “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
Our breath steamed in the cold winter air.
type:
example
text:
It really steams me to see her treat him like that.
type:
example
text:
With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car.
type:
example
text:
A strong sirocco was blowing the spray from the waves as far as the little café, whose glass doors were shut. The café reeked of brewing sage and human beings whose breath steamed the windows because of the cold outside.
ref:
1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], page 3
type:
quotation
text:
We steamed around the Mediterranean.
type:
example
text:
The ship steamed out of the harbour.
type:
example
text:
We steamed easily across the first part of the Tay Bridge, and then after passing over the long spans in mid-stream we coasted smoothly down the 1 in 114 gradient, and around the sweeping curve through Esplanade Station.
ref:
1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them.
type:
example
text:
The No on 35 drive garnered the support of Black, Asian, and progressive church communities, and steamed to victory with 58 percent of the vote on Nov. 6.
ref:
1990 December 16, Chris Nealon, “Washhington Paper Celebrates Les/Gay Unions”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
That was the hard work largely done as the Ivorian waited for Malouda to steam into the box before releasing a simple crossed pass which the Frenchman side-footed home with aplomb.
ref:
2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cook with steam.
To be cooked with steam.
To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
To produce or vent steam.
To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
To make angry.
To cover with condensed water vapor.
To travel by means of steam power.
To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
To exhale.
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle
|
14183 | word:
steam
word_type:
adj
expansion:
steam (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
steam
etymology_text:
From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English stēam (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”).
senses_examples:
text:
Tom Earle, a CBC radio veteran now compiling audio archives in Ottawa, used to refer to the medium in which he worked as "steam radio"
ref:
1989 December 30, “Despite the era's technological marvels, 'wireless' is still magic”, in Toronto Star
type:
quotation
text:
Unlike the Web, old-fashioned steam television must be viewed in sequence in order to pick out those rare bits of useful information.
ref:
2000 January 10, Bill Pannifer, “Sore eyes”, in The Independent
type:
quotation
text:
In the old days of steam journalism, after cleft sticks had been phased out but before the advent of e-mail, there used to be a fairly sure-fire way of getting your story to the news desk.
ref:
2002 September 5, Alex Kirby, “Summit diary: Aftermath”, in BBC News
type:
quotation
text:
Fox has been at Capital since 1988, where he lurks a little in the shadow of Chris Tarrant, the radio station's monolithic star who has helmed the plum breakfast show slot since the steam radio dawn of time.
ref:
2004 April 2, “'I'ma player. It's time to move on'”, in Telegraph.co.uk
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
senses_topics:
|
14184 | word:
Samoan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Samoan (countable and uncountable, plural Samoans)
forms:
form:
Samoans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Samoan language
etymology_text:
From Samoa + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Samoa or of Samoan descent.
The Samoan language.
senses_topics:
|
14185 | word:
Samoan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Samoan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Samoan language
etymology_text:
From Samoa + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Samoa, the Samoan people or the Samoan language.
senses_topics:
|
14186 | word:
believe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
believe (third-person singular simple present believes, present participle believing, simple past and past participle believed)
forms:
form:
believes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
believing
tags:
participle
present
form:
believed
tags:
participle
past
form:
believed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English beleven, bileven, from Old English belīefan (“to believe”), from Proto-West Germanic *bilaubijan (“to believe”), equivalent to be- + leave (“to give leave or permission to, permit, allow, grant”). Cognate with Scots beleve (“to believe”), Middle Low German belö̂ven (“to believe”), Middle High German belouben (“to believe”).
A related term in Old English was ġelīefan (“to be dear to; believe, trust”), from Proto-West Germanic *galaubijan (“to have faith, believe”), from Proto-Germanic *galaubijaną. Compare also Old English ġelēafa (“belief, faith, confidence, trust”), Old English lēof ("dear, valued, beloved, pleasant, agreeable" > English lief). Related also to North Frisian leauwjen (“to believe”), West Frisian leauwe (“to believe”), Dutch geloven (“to believe”), German glauben (“to believe”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌽 (galaubjan, “to hold dear, valuable, or satisfactory, approve of, believe”).
The prepositionally transitive senses with in are a semantic loan from Latin crēdō in aliquem / aliquid.
senses_examples:
text:
If you believe the numbers, you'll agree we need change.
type:
example
text:
I believe there are faeries.
type:
example
text:
Many persons believe that the so-called "dollar of the daddies," weighing 412½ grains (nine tenths fine), having a ratio to gold of "16 to 1" in value when first coined, was the original dollar of the Constitution.
ref:
1898 September 24, Alexander E. Outerbridge Jr., “Curiosities of American Coinage”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 53, D. Appleton & Company, page 601
type:
quotation
text:
[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.
ref:
2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892
type:
quotation
text:
Why did I ever believe you?
type:
example
text:
After that night in the church, I believed.
type:
example
text:
[N]ow ſuch a liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, […]
ref:
1604, Jeremy Corderoy, A Short Dialogve, wherein is Proved, that No Man can be Saved without Good VVorkes, 2nd edition, Oxford: Printed by Ioseph Barnes, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crowne, by Simon Waterson, →OCLC, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
Do you think this is good? —Hmm, I believe it's okay.
type:
example
text:
“Some people believe him charismatic,” Van Assen told me. “I am less sensitive to it.”
ref:
2017 February 1, Stephen Buranyi, quoting Marcel van Assen, “The high-tech war on science fraud”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Do you believe in God / the Easter Bunny / ghosts?
type:
example
text:
Since I don't believe in reincarnation, I believe that the only way to eliminate suffering is to die.
type:
example
text:
I don't believe in sex before marriage.
type:
example
text:
I don't believe in making my bed.
type:
example
text:
I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.
ref:
1997, George Carlin, “Preface”, in Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page xi
type:
quotation
text:
The couple is one of the celebrities who believed in open relationships.
ref:
2017 June 23, “Is spokes model Cindy Margolis married or single after her divorce with Guy Starkman, Know her current affairs”, in Hitberry.com
type:
quotation
text:
I believe in you, man! You can do it!
type:
example
text:
I believe in America. America has made my fortune and I raised my daughter in the American fashion.
ref:
1972 March 14, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, spoken by Bonasera (Salvatore Corsitto), Paramount Pictures
type:
quotation
text:
Ambassador Udina: The other species are scared. They've never faced anything like this before and they don't know what to do. They want us to step forward. They believe in humanity because of you.
Ambassador Udina: Your ruthless pursuit of Saren and the geth, your defiance of the Council -- that's what humans are capable of! That's how we can defeat the Reapers!
Ambassador Udina: The others will follow us, Shepard. They know we're their only hope. We will have a human Council with a human Chairman.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
To accept that someone is telling the truth.
To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.
To opine, think, reckon.
[with in]
To ascribe existence to.
[with in]
To believe that (something) is right or desirable.
[with in]
To have confidence in the ability or power of.
senses_topics:
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14187 | word:
ohm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ohm (plural ohms)
forms:
form:
ohms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after Bavarian physicist Georg Ohm. A German surname, first recorded in the 12th century, from German Ohm (“uncle”), from a Proto-Germanic word. Compare Dutch oom (“uncle”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical resistance; the electrical resistance of a device across which a potential difference of one volt causes a current of one ampere. Symbol: Ω
senses_topics:
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14188 | word:
zepto-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
zepto-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Greek (h)epta- (seven), for the seventh order of 10⁻³. The final o conforms to the finals vowel of the SI series from micro- downwards; the letter z was added, as a start in a series of terms running backwards through the alphabet.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10⁻²¹ (short scale sextillionth or long scale trilliardth). Symbol: z
senses_topics:
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14189 | word:
Lebanese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Lebanese (plural Lebanese)
forms:
form:
Lebanese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Lebanon + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Lebanon or of Lebanese descent.
senses_topics:
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14190 | word:
Lebanese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Lebanese (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Lebanon + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Lebanon or the Lebanese people.
senses_topics:
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14191 | word:
unknown
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unknown (comparative more unknown, superlative most unknown)
forms:
form:
more unknown
tags:
comparative
form:
most unknown
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *unknowen, *uniknowen, uniknowe, from Old English unġecnāwen (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + known.
senses_examples:
text:
I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people.
ref:
2022 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not known; unidentified; not well known.
senses_topics:
|
14192 | word:
unknown
word_type:
noun
expansion:
unknown (plural unknowns)
forms:
form:
unknowns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *unknowen, *uniknowen, uniknowe, from Old English unġecnāwen (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + known.
senses_examples:
text:
Had God walked close beside her into the unknown?
ref:
1957, Ethel Erford Hewitt, Into the Unknown: An Historical Novel, page 351
type:
quotation
text:
As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know.
ref:
2003 [2002], Donald Rumsfeld, edited by Hart Seely, Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld
type:
quotation
text:
The other priority is getting people to respond well to interventions, especially changes to routine. This is one of the biggest unknowns in these scenarios, and yet compliance can be the most crucial factor in determining whether an intervention works.
ref:
2020 April 9, Ian Boyd, “We practised for a pandemic, but didn’t brace”, in Nature, volume 580, number 7802, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
ref:
1965, Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone
type:
quotation
text:
Khaleque, the landowner, who had contributed most of the money needed to transform the neglected burial-place of an unknown into a mazar, masked his pride and pleasure with difficulty. He solemnly declared: ‘Perhaps now we shall be forgiven for neglecting the saint all these years.’
ref:
1967 [1949], Syed Waliullah, chapter 3, in Tree Without Roots (Fiction), London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.
Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; an unknown fact or piece of information.
A person of no identity; a nonentity
senses_topics:
algebra
mathematics
sciences
|
14193 | word:
unknown
word_type:
verb
expansion:
unknown
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *unknowen, *uniknowen, uniknowe, from Old English unġecnāwen (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + known.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of unknow
senses_topics:
|
14194 | word:
builder
word_type:
noun
expansion:
builder (plural builders)
forms:
form:
builders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English byldere, buyldere, perhaps dissimilated (with change of suffix) from Old English bylda (“builder”), equivalent to build + -er. Compare also Old English bȳtla (“hammerer, builder”).
senses_examples:
text:
In the competitions, bodybuilders go through "mandatories"—a set of mandatory poses—in the morning, where the judges compare the body parts of the builders.
ref:
1991, Samuel Wilson Fussell, chapter 4, in Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder
type:
quotation
text:
To cut coding time and to insure maintainability of the algorithms, an "algorithm builder tool" was constructed.
ref:
1987, Proceedings, International Foundation for Telemetering Conference - Volume 23, page 287
type:
quotation
text:
A map builder uses map layers from several sources and adds data to make a custom map.
ref:
1999, Michael Zeiler, Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
Many users may find this easier to use as each field is clearly displayed and the user interface provides a formula builder and a Check formula function.
ref:
2013, David Feldman, Jason Himmelstein, Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint, page 217
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who builds or constructs things.
Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
A bodybuilder.
Software that allows the user to create a certain kind of automated output.
senses_topics:
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
14195 | word:
papyrus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
papyrus (usually uncountable, plural papyri or papyruses)
forms:
form:
papyri
tags:
plural
form:
papyruses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English papirus, borrowed from Latin papȳrus, from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros), of unknown origin. Doublet of papyros.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A plant (Cyperus papyrus) in the sedge family, native to the Nile river valley, paper reed.
A material similar to paper made from the papyrus plant.
A scroll or document written on papyrus.
senses_topics:
|
14196 | word:
Puerto Rican
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Puerto Rican (plural Puerto Ricans)
forms:
form:
Puerto Ricans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Puerto Rico + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
Today many of our newcomers are from Mexico and Puerto Rico. We sometimes forget that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens by birth and therefore cannot be considered immigrants. Nonetheless, they often receive the same discriminatory treatment and opprobrium that were faced by other waves of newcomers. The same things are said today of Puerto Ricans and Mexicans that were once said of Irish, Italians, Germans and Jews: “They’ll never adjust; they can’t learn the language; they won’t be absorbed.”
ref:
1964, John F. Kennedy, “Waves of Immigration-the Post-Revolutionary Forces”, in A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Puerto Rico.
senses_topics:
|
14197 | word:
Puerto Rican
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Puerto Rican (comparative more Puerto Rican, superlative most Puerto Rican)
forms:
form:
more Puerto Rican
tags:
comparative
form:
most Puerto Rican
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Puerto Rico + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from or relating to Puerto Rico or its people.
senses_topics:
|
14198 | word:
hold over
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hold over
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of holdover.
senses_topics:
|
14199 | word:
hold over
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hold over (third-person singular simple present holds over, present participle holding over, simple past and past participle held over)
forms:
form:
holds over
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
holding over
tags:
participle
present
form:
held over
tags:
participle
past
form:
held over
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
These crisps should hold me over until supper.
type:
example
text:
We will have to hold over these files until tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
We should hold over this report until the new department lead comes in.
type:
example
text:
He's holding those allegations over my head.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
(Of a resource) To support or sustain someone for a limited period.
To save, delay.
To remain in office, possession, etc., beyond a certain date.
To be in a position to harm (someone); to have damaging information on (someone).
senses_topics:
|
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