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14300 | word:
Messina
word_type:
name
expansion:
Messina (plural Messinas)
forms:
form:
Messinas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Messina
etymology_text:
From Italian Messina. Doublet of Messene.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname from Italian.
senses_topics:
|
14301 | word:
Singaporean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Singaporean (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Singapore + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Singapore or its people or language.
senses_topics:
|
14302 | word:
Singaporean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Singaporean (plural Singaporeans)
forms:
form:
Singaporeans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Singapore + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Singapore or of Singaporean descent.
senses_topics:
|
14303 | word:
Ghanaian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Ghanaian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ghana + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
She had a little southern accent that tinted her Ghanaian one.
ref:
2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Ghana or the Ghanaian people.
senses_topics:
|
14304 | word:
Ghanaian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Ghanaian (plural Ghanaians)
forms:
form:
Ghanaians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ghana + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
The locals did this, waiting for tourists to disembark so that they could con them into paying for things Ghanaians knew were free.
ref:
2016, Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, Penguin Books (2017), page 264
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Ghana or of Ghanaian descent.
senses_topics:
|
14305 | word:
Boeotian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Boeotian (comparative more Boeotian, superlative most Boeotian)
forms:
form:
more Boeotian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Boeotian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Boeotia.
senses_examples:
text:
The only Boeotian troops that did continue to fight — the light infantry attached to the victorious cavalry — worked their way over to the Athenians on the right, where most of them were killed. The collapse of Boeotian morale at the death of Epaminondas and the abrupt cessation of fighting remain something of an enigma, especially since Pelopidas' men at Cynoscephalae fought even more vigorously to preserve the victory after he fell there.
ref:
2002, Robert E. Gaebel, Cavalry Operations in the Ancient Greek World, University of Oklahoma Press, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
we will leave to thy sagacity to apply all this to the Boeotian writers, and to those authors who are their opposites.
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 418
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to Boeotia.
Stupid, foolish, dull-witted.
senses_topics:
|
14306 | word:
Boeotian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Boeotian (plural Boeotians)
forms:
form:
Boeotians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Boeotia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or a resident of Boeotia.
A dull or ignorant person.
senses_topics:
|
14307 | word:
Boeotian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Boeotian
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Boeotia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Boeotia.
senses_topics:
|
14308 | word:
nuclear
word_type:
adj
expansion:
nuclear (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin nū̆cleus, a contraction of the adjective nuculeus, masculine of feminine nuculea (“pertaining to a small nut”) from nucula + adjectival suffix -eus, -ea, -eum. The Latin nucula + -āris adds up to nuculāris, a term that in English becomes nucular; the Latin nuculea + -āris, becomes Latin nuculeāris (“relative to what pertains to small nut”), later contracted into nuclear. By surface analysis, nucle(us) + -ar = nucle- + -ar. Compare muscle and Latin mūsculus; muscular and mūsculāris.
senses_examples:
text:
a nuclear reactor
type:
example
text:
nuclear technology
type:
example
text:
a nuclear explosion
type:
example
text:
a nuclear power
type:
example
text:
nuclear option, nuclear solution
type:
example
text:
The states begging for aid get turned away; and sharp cuts in government employment, spending, and, eventually, pension payments are the only alternative future, beyond the nuclear solution of defaulting on our debt.
ref:
2011, Todd Lipscomb, Re-Made in the USA
type:
quotation
text:
The nuclear approach is the simpler of the two. When two constraints conflict, you can kill one of them.
ref:
2013, Erica Sadun, iOS Auto Layout Demystified, page 150
type:
quotation
text:
We’ve now had 20 years of cautionary tales about replyallpocalypses. For the sake of workplace harmony: keep your pointer off the nuclear button.
ref:
2017 February 3, Elle Hunt, “When is it appropriate to reply all? Mostly never”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Republicans have taken the historic step of triggering the so-called "nuclear option" to change the rules of the Senate and push through Donald Trump's pick for the Supreme Court, after Democrats blocked the nomination.
ref:
2017 April 6, Mythili Sampathkumar, “Democrats filibuster forces Republicans to use 'nuclear option to confirm Trump's Supreme Court pick”, in The Independent
type:
quotation
text:
However, the DNA in a bacterial cell is a single circular molecule and there is no separate nuclear compartment.
ref:
2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
Nuclear Polynesian languages include Hawaiian and Samoan.
type:
example
text:
Somehow it is much easier to convey the emotions of gayness — the feelings of outsideness —through anthropomorphism. Gay poet and limerist Edward lear uses animals and creatures perfectly this way […] Even the Muppets — as mainstream and heterosexual as some of them may be — are favorites among many gay men […] Look at Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows, such a silly, pompous queen, and even Randall Jarrell's The Animal Family has a lot to say about non-human and non-nuclear arrangements.
ref:
1986 December 7, Michael Bronsky, “Gay Man's Dream Realized in Benefit Production of archy and mehitabel"”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 21, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to the nucleus of an atom.
Involving energy released by nuclear reactions (fission, fusion, radioactive decay).
Relating to a weapon that derives its force from rapid release of energy through nuclear reactions.
Involving an extreme course of action, or one with severe consequences.
Pertaining to the nucleus of a cell.
Pertaining to a centre around which something is developed or organised; central, pivotal.
Relating to, being of, or comprising the nuclear family.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
|
14309 | word:
nuclear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nuclear (countable and uncountable, plural nuclears)
forms:
form:
nuclears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin nū̆cleus, a contraction of the adjective nuculeus, masculine of feminine nuculea (“pertaining to a small nut”) from nucula + adjectival suffix -eus, -ea, -eum. The Latin nucula + -āris adds up to nuculāris, a term that in English becomes nucular; the Latin nuculea + -āris, becomes Latin nuculeāris (“relative to what pertains to small nut”), later contracted into nuclear. By surface analysis, nucle(us) + -ar = nucle- + -ar. Compare muscle and Latin mūsculus; muscular and mūsculāris.
senses_examples:
text:
The growth in wind capacity at first lagged behind the expansion of nuclear installations, but then it started to grow faster and is now outpacing nuclear.
ref:
2015, Vital Signs Volume 22: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future, The Worldwatch Institute
type:
quotation
text:
Admiral Burke believed that we would be able to beat off an amphibious attack, even if staged in conjunction with heavy aerial bombing, long enough to refer back to Washington and obtain authorization to use nuclears.
ref:
1958, Foreign Relations of the United States (page 118)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nuclear power.
Nuclear weapon
senses_topics:
|
14310 | word:
candela
word_type:
noun
expansion:
candela (plural candelas or (rare) candelae)
forms:
form:
candelas
tags:
plural
form:
candelae
tags:
plural
rare
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin candēla (“candle”). Doublet of candle and chandelle.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the International System of Units, the base unit of luminous intensity; the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 × 10¹² hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian. Symbol: cd
senses_topics:
|
14311 | word:
Egyptologist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Egyptologist (plural Egyptologists)
forms:
form:
Egyptologists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Egyptology + -ist.
senses_examples:
text:
An Egyptologist's mind immediately turns to the ancient Egyptian counterpart to such an imagined protosactuary: a reed hut that all late Egyptian temples, in their archaizing longing to return to the origins, sought to emulate in stone through the typically Egyptian temple features of inward-sloping walls, torus and corvetto cornice.
ref:
2018, Jan Assmann, The Invention of Religion
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person; one who is skilled in or professes or practices Egyptology.
senses_topics:
|
14312 | word:
Tongan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Tongan (countable and uncountable, plural Tongans)
forms:
form:
Tongans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tongan language
Tongan people
etymology_text:
From Tonga + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Austronesian language of the Polynesian branch spoken in Tonga.
A person from Tonga or of Tongan descent.
senses_topics:
|
14313 | word:
Tongan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Tongan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Tongan language
Tongan people
etymology_text:
From Tonga + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Tonga, the Tongan people or the Tongan language.
senses_topics:
|
14314 | word:
Omani
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Omani (plural Omanis)
forms:
form:
Omanis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Oman + -i.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Oman or of Omani descent.
senses_topics:
|
14315 | word:
Omani
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Omani (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Oman + -i.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Oman or the Omani people.
senses_topics:
|
14316 | word:
tricyclist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tricyclist (plural tricyclists)
forms:
form:
tricyclists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From tricycle + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who rides a tricycle.
A person who drives or rides an autorickshaw.
senses_topics:
|
14317 | word:
red-hot
word_type:
adj
expansion:
red-hot (comparative more red-hot, superlative most red-hot)
forms:
form:
more red-hot
tags:
comparative
form:
most red-hot
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The smith's apprentice was still wary of manipulating the red-hot metal.
type:
example
text:
Among this nation of necromancers there was also one who had in his veins the blood of the salamanders; for he made no scruple of sitting down to smoke his chibouc in a red-hot oven until his dinner was thoroughly roasted upon its floor.
ref:
1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
type:
quotation
text:
That curry was red-hot.
type:
example
text:
He really delivered a red-hot speech today.
type:
example
text:
Did you see that red-hot picture of Liv Tyler in today's paper?
type:
example
text:
Tune in at ten to catch this red-hot story!
type:
example
text:
She sits at the intersection of start-up investing and the fast-growing ecosystem of online creators, both of which are red hot.
ref:
2021 September 1, Taylor Lorenz, “She’s the Investor Guru for Online Creators”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color.
Very hot.
Emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm.
Having a very strong sexual appeal.
Very fresh, exciting, and up-to-date.
senses_topics:
|
14318 | word:
red-hot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
red-hot (plural red-hots)
forms:
form:
red-hots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of red hot
senses_topics:
|
14319 | word:
Cape Verdean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Cape Verdean (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Cape Verde + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
I hear [...] the surf on the Cape Verdean beaches is incredible.
ref:
2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 219
type:
quotation
text:
He was a Cape Verdean boy who identified as Portuguese to differentiate himself from African Americans, despite being nearly the same shade as Davis.
ref:
2022 April 12, Jazmine Hughes, “Viola Davis, Inside Out”, in The New York Times Magazine
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Cape Verde, the Cape Verdean people or the Cape Verdean language.
senses_topics:
|
14320 | word:
Cape Verdean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Cape Verdean (plural Cape Verdeans)
forms:
form:
Cape Verdeans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Cape Verde + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
For Helio Batalha, a 27-year-old hip-hop artist who performed at the music expo, that blending of cultures and history has led to a form of identity crisis for young Cape Verdeans.
ref:
2016 May 4, Saskia de Rothschild, “An Atlantic Archipelago’s Main Export: Music”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Cape Verde or of Cape Verdean descent.
senses_topics:
|
14321 | word:
Cape Verdean
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cape Verdean
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Cape Verde + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A creole language spoken in Cape Verde.
senses_topics:
|
14322 | word:
turn over a new leaf
word_type:
verb
expansion:
turn over a new leaf (third-person singular simple present turns over a new leaf, present participle turning over a new leaf, simple past and past participle turned over a new leaf)
forms:
form:
turns over a new leaf
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
turning over a new leaf
tags:
participle
present
form:
turned over a new leaf
tags:
participle
past
form:
turned over a new leaf
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Figurative by the same metaphor as with turn the page.
senses_examples:
text:
Every year he resolves to turn over a new leaf and start exercising.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To engage in self-improvement; to begin a good habit or shed a bad habit.
senses_topics:
|
14323 | word:
banjoes
word_type:
noun
expansion:
banjoes
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of banjo
senses_topics:
|
14324 | word:
Nicholas
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nicholas (countable and uncountable, plural Nicholases)
forms:
form:
Nicholases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Nicholas, from Old French Nicholas, from Latin Nīcolāus, from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”) + λαός (laós, “people”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from Ancient Greek. Best known for St. Nicholas of Myre, on whom Father Christmas is based.
A surname originating as a patronymic.
An unincorporated community in Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States.
A settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
senses_topics:
|
14325 | word:
kelvin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kelvin (plural kelvins or kelvin)
forms:
form:
kelvins
tags:
plural
form:
kelvin
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after Irish-born Scottish physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin. For the surname, see Kelvin.
senses_examples:
text:
The interval between the freezing and boiling points of water is 100 kelvins.
type:
example
text:
Ice melts above 273.15 kelvins.
type:
example
text:
Water boils above 373.15 kelvins.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the International System of Units, the base unit of thermodynamic temperature; ¹⁄_(273.16) of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water. Shown as "K".
A unit interval on the Kelvin scale.
A unit for a specific temperature on the Kelvin scale.
senses_topics:
|
14326 | word:
equal sign
word_type:
noun
expansion:
equal sign (plural equal signs)
forms:
form:
equal signs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A symbol (=) used in mathematics to indicate that two values are the same, and elsewhere in various other ways, such as (formerly) to separate the signature from the content of a telegram.
senses_topics:
|
14327 | word:
turn against
word_type:
verb
expansion:
turn against (third-person singular simple present turns against, present participle turning against, simple past and past participle turned against)
forms:
form:
turns against
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
turning against
tags:
participle
present
form:
turned against
tags:
participle
past
form:
turned against
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
They turned against their leader.
type:
example
text:
She turned her umbrella against the wind.
type:
example
text:
She turned against the wind.
type:
example
text:
She turned him against his friends.
type:
example
text:
His argument was turned against him.
type:
example
text:
They turned their arms against their former allies.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rebel or oppose to something formerly supported.
To set against or in opposition to something.
To use to the disadvantage or injury of.
senses_topics:
|
14328 | word:
Ibo
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ibo
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
He switched over to English for the benefit of Clarke’s steward who came in just then and who did not speak Ibo.
ref:
1965, Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God, Penguin Classics (2010), page 156
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Igbo.
senses_topics:
|
14329 | word:
Ibo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Ibo (plural Ibos)
forms:
form:
Ibos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Igbo
senses_topics:
|
14330 | word:
Viennese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Viennese (comparative more Viennese, superlative most Viennese)
forms:
form:
more Viennese
tags:
comparative
form:
most Viennese
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Vienna + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Vienna (the capital of Austria).
senses_topics:
|
14331 | word:
Viennese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Viennese (plural Viennese)
forms:
form:
Viennese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Vienna + -ese.
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Viennese.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or resident of Vienna.
senses_topics:
|
14332 | word:
asperity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
asperity (countable and uncountable, plural asperities)
forms:
form:
asperities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English asprete, asperite, from Old French aspreté, from Latin asperitās, from asper (“rough”). Doublet of asperitas.
senses_examples:
text:
1583, Christopher Rosdell (translator), A Commentarie upon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romanes by John Calvin, London: John Harrison and George Bishop, Chapter 7,
But least he shoulde offend the Iewes with the asperitie of the word, if hee had said that the lawe was dead, hee vsed a digression, or deflection, saying, we are dead to the law.
text:
Sir Richard’s asperity invariably made the young man more nervous.
ref:
1989, Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel, New York: Arcade, Book 1, Chapter 13, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
the asperity of Maine’s winter
type:
example
text:
[…] if the fayth were in our dayes as feruent as it hath been ere thys in tymes past, […] we should not much nede with wordes & reasonyng to extenuate and minishe the vigoure and asperitie of the paines, but the greater the more bytter that the passion were, the more ready was of old time, the feruour of faith to suffre it:
ref:
1534, Thomas More, chapter 3, in A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, London: Richard Tottel, published 1553
type:
quotation
text:
1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 32, Volume 1, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 278,
[…] if punishment fall upon innocence, […] patience […] is much easier, since our pain is then without aggravation, and we have not the bitterness of remorse to add to the asperity of misfortune.
text:
c. 1553, Humphrey Llwyd (translator), The Treasury of Healthe, London: William Coplande, “A Boke conteyning the names of compound medecines,”
Oyle of swete Almondes and of sisami taketh away the asperitie and roughenesse of the throte.
text:
This Island [Corsica] has ever been ill inhabited by reason of the Asperity of a great part of it, and the great difficulty of approaching it.
ref:
1693, Edmund Bohun, A Geographical Dictionary, London: Charles Brome, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
Dry, chaffy, or prickly plants, corresponding in their nature to the aridity and asperity of the land, were peculiarly at home upon the undulating stoniness.
ref:
1893, Edward Harrison Barker, Wanderings by Southern Waters: Eastern Aquitaine,, London: Richard Bentley, page 225
type:
quotation
text:
Whence comes it, that in Christendome there has been, almost from the time of the Apostles, such justling of one another out of their places, both by forraign, and Civill war? such stumbling at every little asperity of their own fortune, and every little eminence of that of other men?
ref:
1651, Thomas Hobbes, chapter 44, in Leviathan, London: Andrew Crooke, page 334
type:
quotation
text:
A match flickers, a lantern lights up the asperities of the mud wall;
ref:
1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan, Part 2, p. 56
type:
quotation
text:
A slip-line field analysis is given for the deformation of a soft asperity by a hard one and equations are derived for the corresponding coefficients of friction and wear rates.
ref:
1979 April, J.M. Challen, P.L.B. Oxley, “An explanation of the different regimes of friction and wear using asperity deformation models”, in Wear, volume 53, number 2, →DOI, pages 229–243
type:
quotation
text:
We inferred that the locking of asperities did cause higher stresses associated with earthquake cycle itself to occur in areas adjacent to asperities, both updip and downdip from them, and that such stressing has been much less pronounced […]
ref:
1990, Geological Survey (U.S.), National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, Summaries of Technical Reports Volume XXXI, page 333
type:
quotation
text:
The most likely mechanism for the latter is the accumulation of elastic strain around isolated locked asperities of the fault […]
ref:
1995, Ren Wang, Keiiti Aki, Mechanics problems in geodynamics. 1 (1995), Springer Science & Business Media, page 537
type:
quotation
text:
These asperities are distributed in a fractal manner and each fault contains small and large asperities.
ref:
2014, Victor Gioncu, Federico Mazzolani, Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design, CRC Press, page 222
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being harsh or severe in the way one speaks or behaves toward people.
The quality of being difficult or unpleasant to experience.
The quality of having a rough or uneven surface.
Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
An area that protrudes from a surface.
A section of a fault line with high friction, such that there is no movement along this part of the fault except during an earthquake.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
14333 | word:
turnaround
word_type:
noun
expansion:
turnaround (countable and uncountable, plural turnarounds)
forms:
form:
turnarounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
turnaround
etymology_text:
Deverbal from turn around.
senses_examples:
text:
The basketball player made a turnaround jump shot.
type:
example
text:
They tried to reduce their turnaround on incoming paperwork.
type:
example
text:
They tried to reduce their turnaround time on incoming paperwork. [noun adjunct form]
type:
example
text:
Drogba's goal early in the second half - his fourth in this Wembley showpiece - proved decisive as the remarkable turnaround in Chelsea's fortunes under interim manager Roberto di Matteo was rewarded with silverware.
ref:
2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Many media arts companies use turnarounds to ensure that when you draw the character you know what it looks like from the front, the side and the back.
ref:
2012, Bryan Tillman, Creative Character Design, page 134
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of turning to face in the other direction.
A reversal of policy.
The carrying out of a task; the time required to carry it out.
A turnabout; a reversal of circumstances.
A series of sketches of a character as seen from different angles.
A cadence linking the end of a verse to the beginning of the next.
The notation for the addition of a grace note above then below a given note.
Synonym of goback
The scheduled shutdown of an industrial plant, such as an oil rig, for maintenance and testing.
A contractual provision by which, if the studio elects to abandon a film project, the producer has a limited period in which to sell it elsewhere.
Preparations for takeoff, such as loading and servicing.
senses_topics:
art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
broadcasting
film
media
television
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
14334 | word:
what time is it
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
what time is it
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
What is the time of day? (used to request for the current hour and approximate number of minutes after the hour)
senses_topics:
|
14335 | word:
Coventry
word_type:
name
expansion:
Coventry
forms:
wikipedia:
Coventry
Coventry (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Old English Cofentrēo, Cofantrēo, of obscure origin. Believed to be derived from an Anglo-Saxon named Cofa, hence Cofantrēo (literally “Cofa's tree”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An industrial city and metropolitan borough of the West Midlands, in central England, historically in Warwickshire.
A place in the United States:
A town in Tolland County, Connecticut.
A place in the United States:
A town in Chenango County, New York.
A place in the United States:
A township in Summit County, Ohio.
A place in the United States:
A town in Kent County, Rhode Island.
A place in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Orleans County, Vermont.
A surname.
senses_topics:
|
14336 | word:
banjos
word_type:
noun
expansion:
banjos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of banjo
senses_topics:
|
14337 | word:
Nicaraguan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Nicaraguan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Nicaragua + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Nicaragua or the people of Nicaragua.
senses_topics:
|
14338 | word:
Nicaraguan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Nicaraguan (plural Nicaraguans)
forms:
form:
Nicaraguans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Nicaragua + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Nicaragua or of Nicaraguan descent.
senses_topics:
|
14339 | word:
calendarist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
calendarist (plural calendarists)
forms:
form:
calendarists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From calendar + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who uses a particular form of calendar
A person who contrives and makes calendars
senses_topics:
|
14340 | word:
dermatologist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dermatologist (plural dermatologists)
forms:
form:
dermatologists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dermatology + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is skilled in, professes or practices dermatology.
senses_topics:
|
14341 | word:
drawers
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drawers
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See drawer.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of drawer
senses_topics:
|
14342 | word:
drawers
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drawers pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From draw (“to pull”), hence that which is pulled onto the body. Attested from the late 16th century. Compare drawer.
senses_examples:
text:
Question. Where did they strike you?
Answer. Struck me in the face once, and struck four times across the legs.
Question.Was that after you had taken your drawers off, or before?
Answer. After I had taken my drawers off.
ref:
1871 October 21, [US] House of Representatives, quoting John Pool and Mary Neal, “Conditions of affairs in the southern states. Georgia sub-committee”, in Reports of Committees, page 386
type:
quotation
text:
They were armed and I was in my drawers still half asleep.
ref:
2016, John Avanzato, Claim Denied
type:
quotation
text:
Aside from ridiculing women for their relationships with "O-keys," standing for American and British soldiers, the poem humorously asked them to wash long johns for Polish men because otherwise "UNRA would laugh seeing them wash their drawers" and they would not be clean when they come to make advances.
ref:
2023, Katarzyna Nowak, Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria, page 192
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clothing worn on the legs, especially that worn next to the skin, such as hose or breeches.
Underpants, especially long underpants.
Any clothing covering the legs, such as shorts, trousers, or tights.
senses_topics:
|
14343 | word:
mycologist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mycologist (plural mycologists)
forms:
form:
mycologists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From myco- + -logist.
senses_examples:
text:
‘Iʼm not a mycologist but I believe you only get this formation when the fungus is forming reproductive organs.’
ref:
2019, Ben Aaronovitch, The October Man, Gollancz, pages 15–16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who studies, professes or practices mycology.
senses_topics:
|
14344 | word:
Constantinopolitan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Constantinopolitan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin cōnstantīnopolītānus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul).
senses_topics:
|
14345 | word:
Constantinopolitan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Constantinopolitan (plural Constantinopolitans)
forms:
form:
Constantinopolitans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin cōnstantīnopolītānus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul).
senses_topics:
|
14346 | word:
toilet paper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
toilet paper (usually uncountable, plural toilet papers)
forms:
form:
toilet papers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Paper, usually on a roll, to clean oneself after defecation, or to pat oneself dry after urination.
senses_topics:
|
14347 | word:
toilet paper
word_type:
verb
expansion:
toilet paper (third-person singular simple present toilet papers, present participle toilet papering, simple past and past participle toilet papered)
forms:
form:
toilet papers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
toilet papering
tags:
participle
present
form:
toilet papered
tags:
participle
past
form:
toilet papered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The football team toilet papered the Smith's house again...this time with paper towels in their trees.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover someone's house (and trees and shrubs) with toilet paper or other similar paper product, often as a celebratory event, without the "victim's" knowledge. Sometimes also performed as an act of hazing.
senses_topics:
|
14348 | word:
stand in for
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stand in for (third-person singular simple present stands in for, present participle standing in for, simple past and past participle stood in for)
forms:
form:
stands in for
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
standing in for
tags:
participle
present
form:
stood in for
tags:
participle
past
form:
stood in for
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I asked my colleague to stand in for me so I could take the day off.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To replace; to act as a double or substitute for.
senses_topics:
|
14349 | word:
sabella
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sabella (plural sabellas or sabellae)
forms:
form:
sabellas
tags:
plural
form:
sabellae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin sabulum (“sand”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A seaworm of the genus Sabella, around 25 cm long, which lives in tubes that it builds itself.
senses_topics:
|
14350 | word:
Pakistani
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Pakistani (plural Pakistanis)
forms:
form:
Pakistanis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Pakistan + -i.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Pakistan or of Pakistani descent.
senses_topics:
|
14351 | word:
Pakistani
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Pakistani (comparative more Pakistani, superlative most Pakistani)
forms:
form:
more Pakistani
tags:
comparative
form:
most Pakistani
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Pakistan + -i.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Pakistan, or its people.
senses_topics:
|
14352 | word:
turn over
word_type:
verb
expansion:
turn over (third-person singular simple present turns over, present participle turning over, simple past and past participle turned over)
forms:
form:
turns over
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
turning over
tags:
participle
present
form:
turned over
tags:
participle
past
form:
turned over
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
to turn + over
senses_examples:
text:
Turn over the box and look at the bottom.
type:
example
text:
The brakes were applied immediately, but the engine ran into a sand drag at approximately 20 m.p.h., plunged down the embankment, and turned over on its side at the bottom.
ref:
1952 October, “Notes and News: Derailment near Shawford”, in Railway Magazine, page 710
type:
quotation
text:
They turned over the evidence to the authorities.
type:
example
text:
They can turn over about three hundred units per hour.
type:
example
text:
The business turned over £1m last year.
type:
example
text:
The Giants didn't turn the ball over in their last four games.
type:
example
text:
I've turned over the whole place, but I still can't find my glasses.
type:
example
text:
Thieves turned over the apartment while the owners were away on holiday.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, over.
To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
To relinquish; give back.
To transfer.
To produce, complete, or cycle through.
To generate (a certain amount of money from sales).
To mull, ponder
To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).
To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property.
senses_topics:
business
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
14353 | word:
hackneyed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hackneyed (comparative more hackneyed, superlative most hackneyed)
forms:
form:
more hackneyed
tags:
comparative
form:
most hackneyed
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hackney + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Repeated too often.
Let out for hire.
senses_topics:
|
14354 | word:
hackneyed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hackneyed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hackney + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of hackney
senses_topics:
|
14355 | word:
climatologist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
climatologist (plural climatologists)
forms:
form:
climatologists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From climatology + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who studies, professes or practices climatology.
senses_topics:
|
14356 | word:
brown thumb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brown thumb (plural brown thumbs)
forms:
form:
brown thumbs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I have a terrible brown thumb. I could probably kill silk flowers.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lack of skill at growing plants; something possessed by a poor gardener.
senses_topics:
|
14357 | word:
hecto-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
hecto-
forms:
wikipedia:
engineering notation
scientific notation
etymology_text:
From French hecto-, from Ancient Greek ἑκατόν (hekatón, “hundred”). Doublet of hecato- and centi-.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
hundred
In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 100. Symbol: h
senses_topics:
|
14358 | word:
Micronesian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Micronesian (plural Micronesians)
forms:
form:
Micronesians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Micronesia + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Micronesia or of Micronesian descent.
senses_topics:
|
14359 | word:
Micronesian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Micronesian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Micronesia + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from or pertaining to Micronesia or the Micronesian people.
senses_topics:
|
14360 | word:
Bermudian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Bermudian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Bermuda + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Bermuda, or the Bermudian people.
Personal legal status equivalent to citizenship for the country of Bermuda.
senses_topics:
|
14361 | word:
Bermudian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Bermudian (plural Bermudians)
forms:
form:
Bermudians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Bermuda + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent
Bermuda sloop
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
14362 | word:
snowflake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
snowflake (plural snowflakes)
forms:
form:
snowflakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From snow + flake. Compare Saterland Frisian Sneeflokke (“snowflake”), Dutch sneeuwvlok, Luxembourgish Schnéiflack, German Schneeflocke.
senses_examples:
text:
When I come home, one space monkey is reading to the assembled space monkeys who sit covering the whole first floor. “You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.”
ref:
1996, Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, published 2005, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
When have words ever hurt anyone? The triggered snowflakes at this liberal university are trying to literally murder our freedom of speech.
ref:
2017, Dylan Kyle, quoted in "Campus Voices", The Mugdown (Texas A&M University), August 2017, page 15
text:
Fox News pundits claim to be upset because companies are choosing to embrace the "holidays" rather than "Christmas" to avoid offending any liberal snowflakes.
ref:
2017, Ben Brill, "What's wrong with saying 'Happy holidays' this December", High Tide (Redondo Union High School), 20 October 2017, page 7
text:
Now, at least in theory, snowflakes on both coasts in withdrawal from Rachel Maddow’s nightly Kremlinology lesson can purchase a whole book to inspire paroxysms of rage. “White” — even the title is a trigger — is a veritable thirst trap for the easily microaggressed.
ref:
2019 April 17, Bari Weiss, “Bret Easton Ellis Takes On ‘Generation Wuss’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Within a few minutes of stepping foot on the school grounds, a triggered snowflake called the police. Multiple officers accosted Kevin McMahon, a YAF staffer, and threatened to arrest him for exercising his free speech rights since he was outside the designated "free speech area."
ref:
2020 January 31, Erin McLaughlin, “Free speech cowed at GMU”, in The Collegian, Grove City College, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Robertson and colleagues reported 10 patients in four families with lesions similar to those of stage I and stage II snowflake generation.
ref:
2007, Kenneth W. Wright, Peter H. Spiegel, Lisa Thompson, Handbook of Pediatric Retinal Disease, page 195
type:
quotation
text:
The authors have recently analyzed a PMMA lens explanted because of snowflake degeneration in the dry and hydrated states.
ref:
2010, Roger F. Steinert, Cataract Surgery, page 525
type:
quotation
text:
These defects may be more pronounced in the superior visual field, perhaps corresponding to the inferior predilection for the snowflake lesions.
ref:
2011, Elias I. Traboulsi, Genetic Diseases of the Eye, page 520
type:
quotation
text:
MS is referred to as a “snowflake” disease because symptoms vary from person to person.
ref:
2016 July 14, Sara Schabe, Krysten Massa, “North Fork native begins stem cell treatment to battle MS”, in Suffolk Times
type:
quotation
text:
Alright, snowflake, where's the dope?
ref:
2009, Michael Jai White, Byron Minns, Scott Sanders, Black Dynamite (motion picture), spoken by Black Dynamite (Michael Jai White)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry.
Any of several bulbous European plants, of the genus Leucojum, having white flowers.
The snow bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis.
Someone who believes they are particularly unique and special.
Someone hypersensitive to insult or offense, especially a young person with politically correct sensibilities.
A type of lesion that appears as scattered white-brown spots under high magnification light microscopy.
Something that is unique in every presentation.
A Caucasian person.
Someone (usually white) who was opposed to the abolition of slavery (Missouri, 1860s)
senses_topics:
medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
|
14363 | word:
snowflake
word_type:
verb
expansion:
snowflake (third-person singular simple present snowflakes, present participle snowflaking, simple past and past participle snowflaked)
forms:
form:
snowflakes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
snowflaking
tags:
participle
present
form:
snowflaked
tags:
participle
past
form:
snowflaked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From snow + flake. Compare Saterland Frisian Sneeflokke (“snowflake”), Dutch sneeuwvlok, Luxembourgish Schnéiflack, German Schneeflocke.
senses_examples:
text:
Like a seagull swooping, the white figure of a victim snowflaked against the cliff and then plummeted down.
ref:
1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 143
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fall in the manner of a snowflake.
To arrange (data) into a snowflake schema.
senses_topics:
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
14364 | word:
bumbershoot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bumbershoot (plural bumbershoots)
forms:
form:
bumbershoots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably a blend of bumber + shoot, modifications of umbr(ella) + (para)chute. Compare umbershoot.
senses_examples:
text:
It smells like rain. Perhaps we should take along a bumbershoot.
type:
example
text:
Oh! Hang the bumbershoot! [Flings umbrella away, clasps Mrs. Dobbs wildly.]
ref:
1887, Olivia Lovell Wilson, “Left. A Railroad Episode.”, in Parlor Varieties: Part Three: Plays, Pantomimes, and Charades, Boston, Mass.: Lee and Shepard; New York, N.Y.: Charles T. Dillingham, →OCLC, act I, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
Little drops of water / It is safe to bet / If you have no bumbershoot, / Make you doosid wet.
ref:
1891 March 21, “From the New Mother Goose”, in Brooklyn Life: A Journal of Society, Literature, Drama & the Clubs, volume III, number 55, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: Brooklyn Life Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 2, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Two women pickets, Krkossa and Menefee, walked the picket line in front of the Respondent's studio for 1½ hours on 1 day carrying large old-fashioned men's umbrella (perhaps better described by the word "bumbershoots") thereby, according to the Respondent's theory, committing serious strike misconduct by interfering with pedestrian traffic in front of the Respondent's studio, by preventing others on the street or sidewalk from reading advertising material painted on the approximately 50-foot expanse of windows of the Respondent's building facing upon the street, and by reason of the hazard allegedly created of physical damage to passing pedestrians from the ribs of said bumbershoots.
ref:
1958 December 1, “Wichita Television Corporation Incorporated, d/b/a KARD-TV and International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees & Moving Picture Machine Operators of the U.S. & Canada, Motion Picture Projectionists, Local No. 414, AFL-CIO [Cases Nos. 17-CA-1109 and 17-CA-1153]”, in Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, volume 122, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office [for the National Labor Relations Board], published 1959, →OCLC, page 251
type:
quotation
text:
Nick Fury. Hey, Percy! Get that blasted umbrella outta my ribs!! / Percy Pinkerton. I beg your par … Oh! You mean my bumbershoot!
ref:
1964 September, Stan Lee, “On to Okinawa!”, in Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, number 10, New York, N.Y.: Marvel Comics Group, →OCLC, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Me ol' bamboo, me ol' bamboo / You'd better never bother with me ol' bamboo. / You can have me hat or me bumbershoot / But you'd better never bother with me ol' bamboo.
ref:
1968, Richard Morton Sherman, Robert Bernard Sherman (lyrics and music), “Me Ol’ Bamboo”, in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Original Cast Soundtrack, performed by Dick Van Dyke, New York, N.Y.: United Artists, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Wait a minute! Where's my hat? Where— and somebody stole my bumbershoot!
ref:
1970 December 11, Ken Anderson et al., The Aristocats, spoken by Napoleon (Pat Buttram), Glendale, Calif.: Walt Disney Productions, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
On the march, it began to rain, I had an umbrella, but at 5:51 we copped out for our dinner-date, when just in sight of the sidestreet leading to the U. N., solid with motionless people under their parapluies and bumbershoots; that’s the way it shone back to us, international.
ref:
1972, Hortense Calisher, “Seizures of Love and Work”, in Herself, New York, N.Y.: Arbor House, page 274
type:
quotation
text:
Drizzles and mizzles. Recruit a bumbershoot.
ref:
1982, Robert B[ailey] Thomas, “April, the Fourth Month”, in Jud Hale [i.e., Judson D. Hale Sr.], editor, The (Old) Farmer’s Almanack, Calculated on a New and Improved Plan for the Year of Our Lord 1982, number 190, Dublin, N.H.: Rob Trowbridge, Yankee Publishing, →OCLC, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
She was terrified as a pair of footmen—dressed in full sixteenth-century livery, powdered wigs and all—cut through the chaos and ushered them inside the Waldorf, shielding them from the flying debris with bumbershoots.
ref:
2021 April, Renée Rosen, chapter 60, in The Social Graces, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, page 352
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An umbrella.
senses_topics:
|
14365 | word:
deci-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
deci-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin decimus (“tenth”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tenth part.
In the metric system, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10⁻¹. Symbol: d
senses_topics:
|
14366 | word:
my name is
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
my name is
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A common way to identify oneself.
senses_topics:
|
14367 | word:
feed dog
word_type:
noun
expansion:
feed dog (plural feed dogs)
forms:
form:
feed dogs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
feed + corruption of cog.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On a sewing machine, the toothed mechanism that uses a forward, down, back, and up motion against the presser foot to advance the fabric through the machine evenly.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles |
14368 | word:
gung ho
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gung ho (comparative more gung ho, superlative most gung ho)
forms:
form:
more gung ho
tags:
comparative
form:
most gung ho
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Evans Carlson
Gung ho
Raid on Makin Island
etymology_text:
From a catachresis of Mandarin 工合 (gōnghé), interpreted as 工 (gōng, “work”) + 合 (hé, “together”) to mean "to work together", itself an acronym for 工業合作社／工业合作社 (Gōngyè Hézuòshè, “[Chinese] Industrial Cooperative Society”). The interpretation "work together" was created by U.S. Marine Evans Carlson, who was posted in China during the 1930s. It became the motto and nickname of the enthusiastic battalion Carlson commanded, leading to other marines adopting the term to mean "overly enthusiastic". It was popularized in the United States by the 1943 war film Gung Ho!, which profiled the battalion's leadership of the Raid on Makin Island during World War II.
senses_examples:
text:
No matter how gung ho you are when you start, you will tire as you become mired in details.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Overly enthusiastic or energetic.
Cocky; undisciplined; contemptuous of rules.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
14369 | word:
lux
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lux (plural lux or luxes)
forms:
form:
lux
tags:
plural
form:
luxes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lux
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin lūx (“light”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Cognates include Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, blank, light, bright, clear”), Ancient Greek λύκη (lúkē, “light, morning twilight”), Sanskrit रोचते (rocate), Middle Persian 𐭩𐭥𐭬 (rōz, “day”) and Old English lēoht (noun) (English light).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lx
senses_topics:
|
14370 | word:
lux
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lux (third-person singular simple present luxes, present participle luxing, simple past and past participle luxed)
forms:
form:
luxes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
luxing
tags:
participle
present
form:
luxed
tags:
participle
past
form:
luxed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
lux
etymology_text:
Compare French luxer. See luxate.
senses_examples:
text:
and as I reel'd I fell, / Lux'd the neck-joint—my soul descends to hell.
ref:
1726, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, The Odyssey
type:
quotation
text:
the bones are simply luxed without being broken
ref:
1835, Alfred Velpeau, Granville Sharp Pattison, New Elements of Operative Surgery
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To dislocate; to luxate.
senses_topics:
|
14371 | word:
wacky
word_type:
adj
expansion:
wacky (comparative wackier, superlative wackiest)
forms:
form:
wackier
tags:
comparative
form:
wackiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From whack (“someone who whacked his head onto something often, hence being weird”) + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
Though the idea of placing wacky made-up characters in a real-life context was carried over from Da Ali G Show—wherein Buzz Aldrin was once asked if he was upset that Michael Jackson got all the credit for inventing the moonwalk—Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat felt like something new, an attempt to square an improvised, guerrilla style of underground comedy with reality-TV stunt shows like Jackass or Fear Factor.
ref:
2012 May 15, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: The Dictator”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
How do artists and curators come up with titles for exhibitions? They seem to get wackier all the time.
ref:
2013 September 25, Jonathan Jones, “Dissecting the Exploding Whale: why do modern art shows have odd names?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Zany; eccentric.
senses_topics:
|
14372 | word:
wacky
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wacky (countable and uncountable, plural wackies)
forms:
form:
wackies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of wacke
senses_topics:
|
14373 | word:
turn up one's nose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
turn up one's nose (third-person singular simple present turns up one's nose, present participle turning up one's nose, simple past and past participle turned up one's nose)
forms:
form:
turns up one's nose
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
turning up one's nose
tags:
participle
present
form:
turned up one's nose
tags:
participle
past
form:
turned up one's nose
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A description of a gesture possibly universally understood as indicating scorn, contempt or disgust.
Already found in Ancient Greek as ἐκμυκτηρίζω (ekmuktērízō, “I hold in derision”), from ἐκ- (ek-) (intensifier with additional senses of out from or of the nature of) and μυκτηρίζω (muktērízō, “I turn up the nose, I sneer at”), from the stem μυκτήρ (muktḗr, “nostril”).
senses_examples:
text:
The actors paused, their arms hanging limply by their sides, while Fontan turned up his nose and asked with a sneer :
'What do you mean? What's not like that?'
ref:
1972, Émile Zola, translated by George Holden, Nana, Penguin Books
type:
quotation
text:
But he turned up his nose at their murmuring and stammering,
And cared (shall I say?) not a d—— for their damming;
So they first read him out of their church, and next minute
Turned round and declared he had never been in it.
ref:
1848, James Russell Lowell (initially published anonymously), A Fable for Critics
type:
quotation
text:
So Old Cheeseman went on, and didn’t he lead a miserable life! Of course the Reverend turned up his nose at him, and of course she did—because both of them always do that at all the masters—but he suffered from the fellows most, and he suffered from them constantly.
ref:
1853, Charles Dickens, The Schoolboy's Story
type:
quotation
text:
Lovely as he was, Satan could be cruelly offensive when he chose; and he always chose when the human race was brought to his attention. He always turned up his nose at it, and never had a kind word for it.
ref:
1916, Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
type:
quotation
text:
... but the rulers scoffed and sneered (turned up their noses) at Him, saying, He rescued others; let Him now rescue Himself, if He is the Christ (the Messiah) of God, His Chosen One!
ref:
1958, annotated translation based on documents deriving from postulated c.85 Greek text attributed to Luke (ἐξεμυκτήριζον δὲ καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες σὺν αὐτοῖς λέγοντες· Ἄλλους ἔσωσε, σωσάτω ἑαυτόν, εἰ οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Χριστὸς ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐκλεκτός.). Lockman Foundation, The Amplified New Testament, used in 1965 Zondervan Corporation, The Amplified Bible, Luke 23:35
text:
I tried to help, but they turned up their noses at my advice.
type:
example
text:
Why I recollect, a bit ago, having a tarrier dog what got old and disagreeable, and was turned out on that account from a swell house in Belgravy. Well, he come into my hands, and nat'rally I put him on paunch, like the rest. Would he eat it? Not he. He had been used to his chicken, and his mutton chops, and his 'ashes: and he turned up his nose at anything commoner.
ref:
1881, James Greenwood, Low-Life Deeps
type:
quotation
text:
What I want to know is what he gets to eat there. A piece of dried fish now and then--what? That's coming down pretty low for a man who turned up his nose at my table d'hote!
ref:
1915, Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make the gesture of raising one's nose, as a sign of scorn, contempt or disgust.
To regard with contempt or scorn; to treat with contempt or scorn; to ignore or disregard in a contemptuous or scornful way.
To refuse, especially with disgust, contempt or scorn; to refuse with apparent disregard about offending the offerer.
senses_topics:
|
14374 | word:
thumbs up
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thumbs up (plural thumbs up)
forms:
form:
thumbs up
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Said to refer to the signal of approval or disapproval used by spectators at a Roman amphitheatre, but the directions have been reversed, and the Roman gesture was a bent thumb.
senses_examples:
text:
He smiled and gave a big thumbs up.
type:
example
text:
We got the thumbs-up to go ahead with the project.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gesture signifying approval or okay; a thumb pointing up out of a fist.
An approval or okay.
senses_topics:
|
14375 | word:
ir-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
ir-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin ir-, assimilated form of in- used before r-.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used for expressing negation; not
senses_topics:
|
14376 | word:
such is life
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
such is life
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Of course I’m not happy about it, but such is life.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to express the acceptance of misfortune in one's life.
senses_topics:
|
14377 | word:
under one's thumb
word_type:
prep_phrase
expansion:
under one's thumb
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
She has the entire crew under her thumb. They would do anything for her.
type:
example
text:
...when you find a man under his wife's thumb you can always be sure there's a soft spot in him somewhere.
ref:
1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl:
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Completely controlled by someone; at someone's command.
senses_topics:
|
14378 | word:
South Korean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
South Korean (plural South Koreans)
forms:
form:
South Koreans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From South Korea + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
By now South Koreans understand Pyongyang’s logic and know North Korea is highly unlikely to make good on its gothic threats.
ref:
2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A citizen or resident of South Korea.
senses_topics:
|
14379 | word:
South Korean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
South Korean (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From South Korea + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to South Korea or the South Korean people.
senses_topics:
|
14380 | word:
turn into
word_type:
verb
expansion:
turn into (third-person singular simple present turns into, present participle turning into, simple past and past participle turned into)
forms:
form:
turns into
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
turning into
tags:
participle
present
form:
turned into
tags:
participle
past
form:
turned into
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
turn + into
senses_examples:
text:
The carriage turned into a pumpkin at midnight.
type:
example
text:
Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
ref:
2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
I was just turning into my driveway when I got your call.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To transform into; become.
To transform into; cause to become.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, into.
senses_topics:
|
14381 | word:
psychiatrist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
psychiatrist (plural psychiatrists)
forms:
form:
psychiatrists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From psychiatry + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
14382 | word:
archaeologist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
archaeologist (plural archaeologists)
forms:
form:
archaeologists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From archaeolog(y) + -ist.
senses_examples:
text:
Working around an ancient monument has meant having an archaeologist on site whenever there were excavations.
ref:
2024 January 24, Peter Plisner, “Rising to the University challenge”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 61
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who studies or practises archaeology.
senses_topics:
|
14383 | word:
Iraqi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Iraqi (plural Iraqis)
forms:
form:
Iraqis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic عِرَاقِيّ (ʕirāqiyy, “Iraqi”). Equivalent to Iraq + -i.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Iraq or of Iraqi descent.
senses_topics:
|
14384 | word:
Iraqi
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Iraqi (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic عِرَاقِيّ (ʕirāqiyy, “Iraqi”). Equivalent to Iraq + -i.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Persian Iraq.
Of, from, or pertaining to Iraq, or the Iraqi people.
senses_topics:
|
14385 | word:
center
word_type:
noun
expansion:
center (plural centers)
forms:
form:
centers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* Borrowed from Middle French centre, from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron), from κεντεῖν (kenteîn, “to prick, goad”). Doublet of centrum.
* (group theory): In the notation Z(G), the letter Z derives from the German Zentrum (“center”).
senses_examples:
text:
If a point be taken within a circle, and more than two equal straight lines fall from the point on the circle, the point taken is the centre of the circle.
ref:
1908, Euclid, translated by Thomas L. Heath, Elements, III.9
type:
quotation
text:
Japanese scientists are to explore the centre of the Earth. Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the first to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below.
ref:
2005 June 4, David Adam, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
shopping center, convention center, civic center, garment center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Rockefeller Center
type:
example
text:
In Anatolia tensions between state officials (ehl-i örf) and the peasants were strained to breaking point.
At several places—particularly in the frontier provinces—there were fierce clashes between the janissaries stationed there and the governors. In Aleppo and Damascus incidents were common after 1589: the kuls threw rocks at the beylerbeyi’s house, killed people, broke into the divan several times and took the money prepared by the council for remittance to the centre.
ref:
2018, Pál Fodor, The Business of State. Ottoman Finance Administration and Ruling Elites in Transition (1580s–1615) (Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker; 28), Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag × De Gruyter, published 2020, →DOI, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
the center of the controversy
type:
example
text:
the center of attention
type:
example
text:
Bent twice sent efforts wide of the far post after cutting in from the left, Wellbeck missed his kick from an inviting centre and failed to get on the end of a looping pass when six yards out.
ref:
2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
Gatland's side got back to within striking distance when fly-half Jones's clever pass sent centre Jonathan Davies arcing round Shontayne Hape.
ref:
2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
The innermost point of the Earth, or the Earth itself, as the center or foundation of the Universe; the center or foundation of the Universe abstractly.
The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).
The subgroup (respectively, subring), denoted Z(G), of those elements of a given group (respectively, ring) G that commute with every element of G.
A place, especially a building or complex, set aside for some specified function or activity.
The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
The venue in which the head of government in a centralized state is situated.
A topic that is particularly important in a given context, the element in a subject of cognition, volition or discussion that is perceived as decisive.
A player in the middle of a playing area.
The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
A player in the middle of a playing area.
The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the faceoffs.
A player in the middle of a playing area.
The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
A player in the middle of a playing area.
A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
A player in the middle of a playing area.
A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
A player in the middle of a playing area.
One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside centre.
A certain mechanical implement functioning in the middle of a whole apparatus
A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
A certain mechanical implement functioning in the middle of a whole apparatus
One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
A certain mechanical implement functioning in the middle of a whole apparatus
A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
A certain mechanical implement functioning in the middle of a whole apparatus
The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
group-theory
mathematics
sciences
government
politics
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
netball
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
architecture
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
14386 | word:
center
word_type:
adj
expansion:
center (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* Borrowed from Middle French centre, from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron), from κεντεῖν (kenteîn, “to prick, goad”). Doublet of centrum.
* (group theory): In the notation Z(G), the letter Z derives from the German Zentrum (“center”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, at, or related to a center.
senses_topics:
|
14387 | word:
center
word_type:
verb
expansion:
center (third-person singular simple present centers, present participle centering, simple past and past participle centered)
forms:
form:
centers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
centering
tags:
participle
present
form:
centered
tags:
participle
past
form:
centered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* Borrowed from Middle French centre, from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron), from κεντεῖν (kenteîn, “to prick, goad”). Doublet of centrum.
* (group theory): In the notation Z(G), the letter Z derives from the German Zentrum (“center”).
senses_examples:
text:
????, Matthew Prior, Celia to Damon
Thy joys are centred all in me alone.
text:
He centered the heading of the document.
type:
example
text:
However, Lucas also centered the plot around the protection of the secret Death Star plans, which now filled the role of the clan treasure the enemy is seeking in Hidden Fortress; […]
ref:
2012, Michael Kaminski et al., chapter 7, in Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
The plot centers on the life of a working-class family.
type:
example
text:
The discussion centered around the recent issues.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway between the extremes.
To give (something) a central basis.
To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
14388 | word:
commonwealth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
commonwealth (plural commonwealths)
forms:
form:
commonwealths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
commonwealth
etymology_text:
From common (“public”) + wealth (“well-being”).
From c. 1450 as common wele (commonweal). In the form common-wealth (common welthe) from c. 1520, used by Tyndale in the sense "secular society" in particular, for which other authors preferred publike weal.
Also from the 1520s treated as a synonym or loan-translation of res publica (republic) (Rollison 2017:67f).
senses_examples:
text:
1649, Act of the Long Parliament
Be it declared and enacted by this present Parliament and by the Authoritie of the same That the People of England and of all the Dominions and Territoryes thereunto belonging are and shall be and are hereby constituted, made, established, and confirmed to be a Commonwealth and free State And shall from henceforth be Governed as a Commonwealth and Free State by the supreame Authoritie of this Nation, the Representatives of the People in Parliam[ent] and by such as they shall appoint and constitute as Officers and Ministers under them for the good of the People and that without any King or House of Lords.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The well-being of a community.
The entirety of a (secular) society, a polity, a state.
Republic. Often capitalized, as Commonwealth.
senses_topics:
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14389 | word:
banjaxed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
banjaxed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From banjax + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of banjax
senses_topics:
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14390 | word:
banjaxed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
banjaxed (comparative more banjaxed, superlative most banjaxed)
forms:
form:
more banjaxed
tags:
comparative
form:
most banjaxed
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From banjax + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
Here is his black heart sitting there as large as life in the middle of the pulp of his banjaxed corpse.
ref:
1939, Flann O'Brien [pseudonym; Brian O'Nolan], At Swim-Two-Birds
type:
quotation
text:
Then it got banjaxed, at a supper party to which he brought me.
ref:
1972, Edna O'Brien, Night, published 2001
type:
quotation
text:
Lindsay again waxes approving over Ballard’s hymn to the banjaxed landscape of the Heathrow environs, with its choked arterial roads, light industrial units and warehousing entrepots.
ref:
2011, Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.9
type:
quotation
text:
Part of the strategy is to dramatically increase the number of electric cars but people in rural areas are proving hesitant because of cost and lack of charging points. “If you were in the countryside you’d be banjaxed. You can’t plug it into a ditch, you can’t plug it into a cow,” said Derek Desmond, 50, a handyman from Tipperary.
ref:
2022 July 29, Rory Carroll, quoting Derek Desmond, “Fare deal: Ireland joins Europe-wide efforts to coax people out of cars”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
I'm completely banjaxed!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Broken, ruined, shattered; confounded.
Tired, sleepy, cream crackered.
senses_topics:
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14391 | word:
genealogist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
genealogist (plural genealogists)
forms:
form:
genealogists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From genealogy + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who studies or practises genealogy, an expert in genealogy.
senses_topics:
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14392 | word:
fish tape
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fish tape (plural fish tapes)
forms:
form:
fish tapes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From fish (“to get hold of an object”) + tape.
senses_examples:
text:
The installers attempted to thread the fish tape through the conduit, but were unable to reach around the tight bend in the tube.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long strip of stiff metal, frequently kept on a spool, used to guide or draw wires and cables through a building.
senses_topics:
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14393 | word:
analogy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
analogy (countable and uncountable, plural analogies)
forms:
form:
analogies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
analogy
etymology_text:
From Latin analogia, from Ancient Greek ἀναλογίᾱ (analogíā), from ἀνα- (ana-) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, reckoning”).
senses_examples:
text:
Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.
ref:
1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, chapter 6, in Essays: First Series
type:
quotation
text:
Is there any analogy, in certain constitutions, between keeping an umbrella up, and keeping the spirits up?
ref:
1869, Charles Dickens, chapter 18, in The Uncommercial Traveller
type:
quotation
text:
The old analogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo.
ref:
1901, Edith Wharton, chapter 12, in The Valley of Decision
type:
quotation
text:
Perhaps the easiest way to think of it is in terms of a simple analogy: hardware is to software as a television set is to the shows that appear on it.
ref:
1983 January 3, “How to Write Programs”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
A kid living on the street is a bit like — and please pardon the analogy here — a weed.
ref:
2002, Harlan Coben, Gone for Good, page 75
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.
The proportion or the equality of ratios.
The correspondence of a word or phrase with the genius of a language, as learned from the manner in which its words and phrases are ordinarily formed; similarity of derivative or inflectional processes.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
14394 | word:
fail
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fail (third-person singular simple present fails, present participle failing, simple past and past participle failed)
forms:
form:
fails
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
failing
tags:
participle
present
form:
failed
tags:
participle
past
form:
failed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
fail
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English failen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman faillir, from Vulgar Latin *fallire, alteration of Latin fallere (“to deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰāl- (“to lie, deceive”) or Proto-Indo-European *sgʷʰh₂el- (“to stumble”).
Compare Dutch feilen, falen (“to fail, miss”), German fehlen (“to fail, miss, lack”), Danish fejle (“to fail, err”), Swedish fela (“to fail, be wanting, do wrong”), Icelandic feila (“to fail”), Spanish fallar (“to fail, miss”).
senses_examples:
text:
Throughout my life, I have always failed.
type:
example
text:
As the world’s drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
ref:
2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
The truck failed to start.
type:
example
text:
The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.
type:
example
text:
Those who have advocated the closure of the G.C. have so far failed to say by which alternative route this North-to-West traffic could be carried.
ref:
1960 December, B. Perren, “The role of the Great Central—present and future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 765
type:
quotation
text:
After running five minutes, the engine failed.
type:
example
text:
We also found that the only emergency egress from the tram was by smashing the front or rear windscreens, and that emergency lighting had failed when the tram overturned.
ref:
2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
I've failed my parents many times growing up.
type:
example
text:
I failed English last year.
type:
example
text:
The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments.
type:
example
text:
The crops failed last year.
type:
example
text:
If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not to be attributed to their size.
ref:
1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
type:
quotation
text:
A sick man fails.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be unsuccessful.
Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
To neglect.
Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
To miss attaining; to lose.
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
To perish; to die; used of a person.
To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
senses_topics:
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14395 | word:
fail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fail (countable and uncountable, plural fails)
forms:
form:
fails
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English failen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman faillir, from Vulgar Latin *fallire, alteration of Latin fallere (“to deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰāl- (“to lie, deceive”) or Proto-Indo-European *sgʷʰh₂el- (“to stumble”).
Compare Dutch feilen, falen (“to fail, miss”), German fehlen (“to fail, miss, lack”), Danish fejle (“to fail, err”), Swedish fela (“to fail, be wanting, do wrong”), Icelandic feila (“to fail”), Spanish fallar (“to fail, miss”).
senses_examples:
text:
The project was full of fail.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
A failing grade in an academic examination.
A failure (something incapable of success).
Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
senses_topics:
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14396 | word:
fail
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fail (comparative more fail, superlative most fail)
forms:
form:
more fail
tags:
comparative
form:
most fail
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English failen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman faillir, from Vulgar Latin *fallire, alteration of Latin fallere (“to deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰāl- (“to lie, deceive”) or Proto-Indo-European *sgʷʰh₂el- (“to stumble”).
Compare Dutch feilen, falen (“to fail, miss”), German fehlen (“to fail, miss, lack”), Danish fejle (“to fail, err”), Swedish fela (“to fail, be wanting, do wrong”), Icelandic feila (“to fail”), Spanish fallar (“to fail, miss”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way.
senses_topics:
|
14397 | word:
fail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fail (plural fails)
forms:
form:
fails
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown. Compare Scottish Gaelic fàl (“hedge”), Scots faill (“turf”). Attested from the 16th century.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A piece of turf cut from grassland.
senses_topics:
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14398 | word:
turn in
word_type:
verb
expansion:
turn in (third-person singular simple present turns in, present participle turning in, simple past and past participle turned in)
forms:
form:
turns in
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
turning in
tags:
participle
present
form:
turned in
tags:
participle
past
form:
turned in
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
He turned in his paperwork to the main office.
type:
example
text:
The actors turned in a formulaic performance.
type:
example
text:
The thief finally turned himself in at the police station.
type:
example
text:
My nosy next-door neighbor turned me in for building my garage without a permit.
type:
example
text:
I'm tired, so I think I'll turn in early tonight.
type:
example
text:
At that point Leicester were playing with drive and ambition but they were undone by two goals in three minutes. First, Vieira turned in a rebound after the defender Souleymane Bamba had blocked David Silva's shot on the line.
ref:
2011 January 18, Daniel Taylor, “Manchester City 4 Leicester City 2”, in Guardian Online
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To submit something; to give.
To relinquish; give up; to tell on someone to the authorities (especially to turn someone in).
To go to bed; to retire to bed.
To convert a goal using a turning motion of the body.
To reverse the ends of threads and insert them back into the piece being woven so they do not protrude and eventually unravel.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving |
14399 | word:
ahem
word_type:
intj
expansion:
ahem
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Ahem! Could we please get started?
type:
example
text:
Ahem! In case you didn't notice, I did my share of the work, too.
type:
example
text:
I really (ahem!) liked the chocolate broccoli surprise.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sound of a quiet cough or of clearing one's throat.
An exclamation or cough to get attention.
An exclamation of disapproval or annoyance.
An exclamation to indicate sarcasm.
senses_topics:
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