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14500 | word:
Michurin
word_type:
name
expansion:
Michurin
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in southeastern Bulgaria
senses_topics:
|
14501 | word:
spelunk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spelunk (plural spelunks)
forms:
form:
spelunks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English spelunke, from Old French spelonque and/or Latin spelunca, from Ancient Greek σπῆλυγξ (spêlunx, “cave”), related to σπέος (spéos). Cognates include Middle Dutch spelunke, spelonke, German Spelunke.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cave, cavern or grotto.
senses_topics:
|
14502 | word:
spelunk
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spelunk (third-person singular simple present spelunks, present participle spelunking, simple past and past participle spelunked)
forms:
form:
spelunks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
spelunking
tags:
participle
present
form:
spelunked
tags:
participle
past
form:
spelunked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
U.S., 1940s. Back-formation from spelunker.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To explore caves.
To explore a system in depth.
senses_topics:
|
14503 | word:
Dimitrovgrad
word_type:
name
expansion:
Dimitrovgrad
forms:
wikipedia:
Georgi Dimitrov
etymology_text:
Named after Georgi Dimitrov.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in Bulgaria.
A town and municipality in Pirot district, south-easterm Serbia, near the border with Bulgaria.
senses_topics:
|
14504 | word:
Kyustendil
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kyustendil
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in western Bulgaria.
senses_topics:
|
14505 | word:
Lovech
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lovech
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in northern Bulgaria.
senses_topics:
|
14506 | word:
transportability
word_type:
noun
expansion:
transportability (countable and uncountable, plural transportabilities)
forms:
form:
transportabilities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From transport + -ability.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of equipment, devices, systems, and associated hardware that permits their being moved from one location to another to interconnect with locally available complementary equipment, devices, systems, associated hardware, or other complementary facilities.
The capability of materiel to be moved by towing, self-propulsion, or carrier via any means, such as railways, highways, waterways, pipelines, oceans, and airways.
senses_topics:
communication
communications
government
military
politics
war |
14507 | word:
Petrich
word_type:
name
expansion:
Petrich
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in southwestern Bulgaria
senses_topics:
|
14508 | word:
Razgrad
word_type:
name
expansion:
Razgrad
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in northeastern Bulgaria
senses_topics:
|
14509 | word:
Malko Tŭrnovo
word_type:
name
expansion:
Malko Tŭrnovo
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Bulgarian Малко Търново (Malko Tǎrnovo), ultimately derived from Old Church Slavonic малъ (malŭ, “small”) and трънъ (trŭnŭ, “thorn”), thus "lesser thorn", opposed to Veliko Tŭrnovo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in southeastern Bulgaria.
senses_topics:
|
14510 | word:
knock it off
word_type:
verb
expansion:
knock it off (third-person singular simple present knocks it off, present participle knocking it off, simple past and past participle knocked it off)
forms:
form:
knocks it off
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
knocking it off
tags:
participle
present
form:
knocked it off
tags:
participle
past
form:
knocked it off
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Would you two please knock it off with the shouting? I'm trying to sleep.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cease doing something, particularly annoying or unpleasant; to desist.
senses_topics:
|
14511 | word:
knock it off
word_type:
intj
expansion:
knock it off
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Knock it off! This is the last time I'm telling you!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cease doing something, particularly annoying or unpleasant; desist.
senses_topics:
|
14512 | word:
childish
word_type:
adj
expansion:
childish (comparative more childish, superlative most childish)
forms:
form:
more childish
tags:
comparative
form:
most childish
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English childisch, from Old English ċildisċ. By surface analysis, child + ish.
senses_examples:
text:
She remembered, too, when, after a long childish illness, her father had carried her in his arms to the garden, […]
ref:
1824, Susan Ferrier, The Inheritance, page 130
type:
quotation
text:
Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or suitable for a child.
Immature in thought or behaviour.
senses_topics:
|
14513 | word:
Sliven
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sliven
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in central Bulgaria
senses_topics:
|
14514 | word:
Pleven
word_type:
name
expansion:
Pleven
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in northern Bulgaria
senses_topics:
|
14515 | word:
North Korean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
North Korean (plural North Koreans)
forms:
form:
North Koreans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From North Korea + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A citizen or resident of North Korea.
senses_topics:
|
14516 | word:
North Korean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
North Korean (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From North Korea + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
In the 1960s the Chinese government decided to standardize the Korean-language education for Korean Chinese and adopted the Joseoneo dialect used in North Korea instead of Hangugeo used in South Korea. As a result, Joseonjok in South Korea speak North Korean–accented Korean, which is easily recognizable in South Korea.
ref:
2013, Melody Chia-Wen Lu, Shin Hyunjoon, “Ethnicizing, Capitalizing, and Nationalizing: South Korea and the Returning Korean Chinese”, in Xiang Biao, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Mika Toyota, editors, Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, page 165
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to North Korea, the North Korean people or the North Korean language.
senses_topics:
|
14517 | word:
North Korean
word_type:
name
expansion:
North Korean
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From North Korea + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
When you came back you sat in the dark and when someone asked you to speak North Korean, or Chinese, you would do it in your head while saying, "I forgot all that over there."
ref:
1995, Center for the Study of the Korean War, The Hermit Kingdom: Poems of the Korean War, Dubuque, Ia.: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
As the Orientals gradually worked into combat it became necessary to have a separate controller to speak North Korean and Chinese.
ref:
a. 2011, Walker M[elville] Mahurin, Honest John, Pickle Partners Publishing, published 2016
type:
quotation
text:
“He was clearly upset, but what was even more interesting was that he didn’t look North Korean, he looked American.” / American? That was definitely unusual. Most Americans didn’t speak North Korean, and those who were fluent in another language gravitated toward Spanish, French, Italian, and even Russian. / Not a dialect from North Korea. / “And you’re sure about that,” she said, trying to wrap her mind around the information. / “Yeah.” He shrugged. “Could be a coincidence.” / “You know it’s not.” Sun didn’t believe in them. Especially not an American who could speak North Korean.
ref:
2021, Laura Scott, Target for Revenge
type:
quotation
text:
Chunmi (aged twenty-six) had lived in South Korea for ten years with her parents who, having arrived in the country in their fifties, had not changed how they spoke. She described how a colleague of her father had heard him speak “North Korean” (pukhan-mal), and promptly reported him to the authorities because they thought he was an illegal immigrant. “If you don't change how you talk, they will think you are Chinese,” she said.
ref:
2023, Jennifer Hough, “The racialization of North Koreans in South Korea: diasporic co-ethnics in the South Korean ethnolinguistic nation”, in Sylvia Ang, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, editors, Asian Migration and New Racism: Beyond Colour and the ‘West’ (Ethnic and Racial Studies), Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The version of Korean spoken in North Korea.
senses_topics:
|
14518 | word:
Pernik
word_type:
name
expansion:
Pernik
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in western Bulgaria
senses_topics:
|
14519 | word:
Silistra
word_type:
name
expansion:
Silistra
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Bulgarian Силистра (Silistra).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in northeastern Bulgaria.
senses_topics:
|
14520 | word:
Shumen
word_type:
name
expansion:
Shumen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town and oblast in northeastern Bulgaria
senses_topics:
|
14521 | word:
Pazardzhik
word_type:
name
expansion:
Pazardzhik
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in southern Bulgaria.
senses_topics:
|
14522 | word:
Vratsa
word_type:
name
expansion:
Vratsa
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in northwestern Bulgaria.
senses_topics:
|
14523 | word:
Smolyan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Smolyan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in southern Bulgaria.
senses_topics:
|
14524 | word:
Veliko Tărnovo
word_type:
name
expansion:
Veliko Tărnovo
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in northern Bulgaria
senses_topics:
|
14525 | word:
berry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
berry (plural berries)
forms:
form:
berries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Green's Dictionary of Slang
berry
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *bazją
Proto-West Germanic *baʀi
Old English berġe
Middle English berye
English berry
From Middle English berye, from Old English berġe, from Proto-West Germanic *baʀi, from Proto-Germanic *bazją.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bäie, West Flemish beier, German Beere, Icelandic ber, Danish bær.
The slang sense "police car" may come from the lights on the vehicles' roofs.
senses_examples:
text:
The crabs carry their berries for six months.
ref:
1877, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 24, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
That is the only restriction existing: not even small fish or fish in berry, and there are no restrictions on soft-shelled fish.
ref:
1913, Journals and Printed Papers of the Parliament of Tasmania, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
These crawfish are speared by the Kafirs, who bring them in to the village for sale, and who catch anything and everything either female fish in berry, or male fish in soft shell.
ref:
1914, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Provincial Council, Minutes and Ordinances - Volume 5, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
The corals have the shape of a shrub and are green. Their berries are snow-white under water and soft. As soon as you take them out of the water, they grow hard and red.
ref:
1960, Friedrich Simon Bodenheimer, Animal and Man in Bible Lands: Supplement, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
McCormick (1934) stated that eggs in various stages of development were found in females at the same time that they were in berry, which indicates a long egg-laying season.
ref:
1965, Fishery Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service - Volume 65, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
Four rounds and Enright still on his feet and a hundred and fifty thousand berries gone if he stays two more!
ref:
1921, Collier's, volume 67, page 365
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
A coffee bean.
One of the ova or eggs of a fish or crustacean.
A police car.
A dollar.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
|
14526 | word:
berry
word_type:
verb
expansion:
berry (third-person singular simple present berries, present participle berrying, simple past and past participle berried)
forms:
form:
berries
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
berrying
tags:
participle
present
form:
berried
tags:
participle
past
form:
berried
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Green's Dictionary of Slang
berry
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *bazją
Proto-West Germanic *baʀi
Old English berġe
Middle English berye
English berry
From Middle English berye, from Old English berġe, from Proto-West Germanic *baʀi, from Proto-Germanic *bazją.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bäie, West Flemish beier, German Beere, Icelandic ber, Danish bær.
The slang sense "police car" may come from the lights on the vehicles' roofs.
senses_examples:
text:
On summer days Grandma used to take us berrying, whether we wanted to go or not.
type:
example
text:
Partly because I always itched and prickled in a berry patch I may have been disinclined to nibble as I worked; but largely I think it was because I berried under a master strategist and I wanted to see how well we could coordinate our efforts...
ref:
1988, Early American Life, page 35
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pick berries.
To bear or produce berries.
senses_topics:
|
14527 | word:
berry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
berry (plural berries)
forms:
form:
berries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
berry
etymology_text:
From Middle English berȝe, berghe, from Old English beorġe, dative form of beorg (“mountain, hill, mound, barrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *berg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (“mountain, hill”). More at barrow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mound; a barrow.
senses_topics:
|
14528 | word:
berry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
berry (plural berries)
forms:
form:
berries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
berry
etymology_text:
From Middle English bery (“a burrow”). More at burrow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
An excavation; a military mine.
senses_topics:
|
14529 | word:
berry
word_type:
verb
expansion:
berry (third-person singular simple present berries, present participle berrying, simple past and past participle berried)
forms:
form:
berries
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
berrying
tags:
participle
present
form:
berried
tags:
participle
past
form:
berried
tags:
past
wikipedia:
berry
etymology_text:
From Middle English beryen, berien, from Old English *berian (found only in past participle ġebered (“crushed, kneaded, harassed, oppressed, vexed”)), from Proto-West Germanic *barjan, from Proto-Germanic *barjaną (“to beat, hit”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to rip, cut, split, grate”).
Cognate with Scots berry, barry (“to thresh, thrash”), German beren (“to beat, knead”), Icelandic berja (“to beat”), Latin feriō (“strike, hit”, verb).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To beat; give a beating to; thrash.
To thresh (grain).
senses_topics:
|
14530 | word:
Ghent
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ghent
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Dutch Gent, from its early form Ganda, probably of Celtic origin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of the province of East Flanders, Belgium.
senses_topics:
|
14531 | word:
Aytos
word_type:
name
expansion:
Aytos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Bulgarian Айтос (Ajtos), from Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ετός (āetós, “eagle”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in eastern Bulgaria.
senses_topics:
|
14532 | word:
Aytos
word_type:
name
expansion:
Aytos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of Ayto
senses_topics:
|
14533 | word:
technician
word_type:
noun
expansion:
technician (plural technicians)
forms:
form:
technicians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From technic + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
The lift technician found the reason the lift wasn't working.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who studies or practises technology; an expert in a particular technology.
senses_topics:
|
14534 | word:
Charleroi
word_type:
name
expansion:
Charleroi
forms:
wikipedia:
Charleroi
etymology_text:
From French Charleroi, from Charles (“Charles”) roi (“king”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The largest city of Wallonia, in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
A borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States, along the Monongahela River, 21 miles south of Pittsburgh.
senses_topics:
|
14535 | word:
submarine river
word_type:
noun
expansion:
submarine river (plural submarine rivers)
forms:
form:
submarine rivers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A river-like current on the seabed.
senses_topics:
geography
hydrology
natural-sciences |
14536 | word:
Yambol
word_type:
name
expansion:
Yambol
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in southeastern Bulgaria.
senses_topics:
|
14537 | word:
hula hoop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hula hoop (plural hula hoops)
forms:
form:
hula hoops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Wham-O
hula hoop
etymology_text:
Former trademark of Wham-O, which introduced the product in 1958.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A toy in the form of a large hoop which is twirled around various parts of the body, especially the waist.
senses_topics:
|
14538 | word:
hula hoop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hula hoop (third-person singular simple present hula hoops, present participle hula hooping, simple past and past participle hula hooped)
forms:
form:
hula hoops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hula hooping
tags:
participle
present
form:
hula hooped
tags:
participle
past
form:
hula hooped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Wham-O
hula hoop
etymology_text:
Former trademark of Wham-O, which introduced the product in 1958.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use a hula hoop.
senses_topics:
|
14539 | word:
colonist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
colonist (plural colonists)
forms:
form:
colonists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From colon(y) + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A founder of a colony.
A member of a colony.
senses_topics:
|
14540 | word:
Plovdiv
word_type:
name
expansion:
Plovdiv
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in southern Bulgaria
senses_topics:
|
14541 | word:
knockoff
word_type:
noun
expansion:
knockoff (plural knockoffs)
forms:
form:
knockoffs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From knock + off.
senses_examples:
text:
It's not a name-brand bag; it's just a cheap knockoff.
type:
example
text:
But then there's knockoffs of famous brands like Pizza Huh, Sunbucks, McDnoald's. OFC!? Wow, that's wrong on so many levels. Well, at least this Apple store looks like it has something good to eat.
ref:
2015 June 24, “Top 10 Chinese Knockoffs of Foreign Products” (00:04:33 from the start), in China Uncensored, spoken by Chris Chappell (himself), America Uncovered LLC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An imitation of something, particularly a well-known product, usually lower in quality and price than the original.
A device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.
senses_topics:
|
14542 | word:
Vidin
word_type:
name
expansion:
Vidin
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in northwestern Bulgaria
senses_topics:
|
14543 | word:
Kŭrdzhali
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kŭrdzhali
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Bulgarian Кърджали (Kǎrdžali), from Ottoman Turkish قیرجهعلی (Kırcaali).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in southern Bulgaria
senses_topics:
|
14544 | word:
Stara Zagora
word_type:
name
expansion:
Stara Zagora
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in central Bulgaria
senses_topics:
|
14545 | word:
Palestinian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Palestinian (comparative more Palestinian, superlative most Palestinian)
forms:
form:
more Palestinian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Palestinian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Palestine + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Palestine or the Palestinian people.
senses_topics:
|
14546 | word:
Palestinian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Palestinian (plural Palestinians)
forms:
form:
Palestinians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Palestine + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
We got a message back from Israel that they were withdrawing their troops immediately from Lebanon. We are notifying the Syrians and the Lebanese and demanding that they mutually participate in a cease-fire and withdrawal of the Palestinians back ten kilometers from the Israeli borders.
ref:
2011 [1977 September 24], Jimmy Carter, White House Diary, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 107
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant of Palestine or an Arab descending from that area.
An inhabitant of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, legally governed by the Palestinian National Authority.
senses_topics:
|
14547 | word:
molecular engineering
word_type:
noun
expansion:
molecular engineering (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The manufacturing of products with a degree of precision defined by individual molecules or atoms
senses_topics:
|
14548 | word:
Greenlandic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Greenlandic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Greenlandic
etymology_text:
From Greenland + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, the Greenlandic people or the Greenlandic language.
senses_topics:
|
14549 | word:
Greenlandic
word_type:
name
expansion:
Greenlandic
forms:
wikipedia:
Greenlandic
etymology_text:
From Greenland + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The official language of Greenland, an Eskimo-Aleut language written with the Latin alphabet.
senses_topics:
|
14550 | word:
rainfall
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rainfall (countable and uncountable, plural rainfalls)
forms:
form:
rainfalls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From rain + fall.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The amount of rain that falls on a single occasion
The occurrence of liquid precipitation, the fall of rain.
senses_topics:
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
|
14551 | word:
Blagoevgrad
word_type:
name
expansion:
Blagoevgrad
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in southwestern Bulgaria.
senses_topics:
|
14552 | word:
watt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
watt (plural watts)
forms:
form:
watts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after Scottish engineer James Watt. For the surname, see Watt.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W
senses_topics:
|
14553 | word:
Barking and Dagenham
word_type:
name
expansion:
Barking and Dagenham
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A London borough of Greater London, England
senses_topics:
|
14554 | word:
Dodecanese
word_type:
name
expansion:
Dodecanese
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Greek Δωδεκάνησα (Dodekánisa, “twelve islands”), from δώδεκα (dṓdeka, “twelve”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island chain consisting of twelve main islands including Rhodes, its capital.
senses_topics:
|
14555 | word:
Dodecanese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Dodecanese pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Greek Δωδεκάνησα (Dodekánisa, “twelve islands”), from δώδεκα (dṓdeka, “twelve”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The people of this island chain.
senses_topics:
|
14556 | word:
how are you
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
how are you?
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I'm fine, thank you. /
Fine, thanks. (informal) /
Fine, and you? (informal)
ref:
I'm very well, thank you. How are you? (formal)
type:
example
text:
1967 July 20: Questions. Oral Answers. — Free Travel for Old Age Pensioners. Dáil Éireann debates
Mr. Dunne: "A small point", says the Minister for Justice.
Mr. Ryan: Justice, how are you! He would not recognise it in this world or the next.
text:
'Christmas how are you!' exclaimed Jim O'Hanlon ruefully. 'We will remember this one for quite a while anyway.' He was grateful that at least no one was injured in the incident.
ref:
2013 December 31, “'Christmas how are you! We'll remember this one for a while'"”, in Gorey Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An informal greeting, not requiring a literal response. In form a question, and thus followed by a question mark. Typical responses include
(Following a noun phrase; stress on are) An expression of derision, that the preceding referent is unworthy of the name. In form of an exclamation, and thus often followed by an exclamation mark.
senses_topics:
|
14557 | word:
caliph
word_type:
noun
expansion:
caliph (plural caliphs)
forms:
form:
caliphs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English calife, caliphe, from Old French caliphe, from Medieval Latin calipha, from Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”) and خَلِيف (ḵalīf, “successor”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Abbasid caliphs patronized art and science beside religious developments ushering in the Islamic Golden Age when their capital Baghdad began to flourish as a center of knowledge, culture and trade.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Monarchical title based on claim to be a successor of Muhammad.
senses_topics:
|
14558 | word:
Wallachian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Wallachian (plural Wallachians)
forms:
form:
Wallachians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Wallachia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Wallachia or of Wallachian descent.
senses_topics:
|
14559 | word:
Wallachian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Wallachian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Wallachia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Wallachia.
senses_topics:
|
14560 | word:
Wallachian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Wallachian
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Wallachia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language of the Wallachians; Romanian.
senses_topics:
|
14561 | word:
diagenesis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
diagenesis (plural diageneses)
forms:
form:
diageneses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined in the 18th century from greek meaning "Across Generation", dia- + genesis from Ancient Greek δια- (dia-, “through”) + γένεσις (génesis, “origin, creation”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
All the chemical, physical, and biological changes sediment goes through during and after lithification, not including weathering or other surface changes.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
14562 | word:
Lao
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Lao (countable and uncountable, plural Lao or Laos)
forms:
form:
or Laos
tags:
Lao
plural
wikipedia:
Lao people
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Lao ລາວ (lāo).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Tai ethnic group native to Southeast Asia.
The official language of Laos that is closely related to Thai.
senses_topics:
|
14563 | word:
Lao
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Lao (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Lao people
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Lao ລາວ (lāo).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Laos, the Lao people or their Kra-Dai Lao language.
senses_topics:
|
14564 | word:
lumen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lumen (plural lumens or lumina)
forms:
form:
lumens
tags:
plural
form:
lumina
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:lumen
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin lumen (“light, an opening”). Use as a unit was first adopted by French physicist André Blondel in 1894.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm.
The cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ.
The cavity bounded by a plant cell wall.
The bore of a tube such as a hollow needle or catheter.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
anatomy
medicine
sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
medicine
sciences |
14565 | word:
Rwandan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Rwandan (plural Rwandans)
forms:
form:
Rwandans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Rwanda + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Rwanda or of Rwandan descent.
senses_topics:
|
14566 | word:
Rwandan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Rwandan (comparative more Rwandan, superlative most Rwandan)
forms:
form:
more Rwandan
tags:
comparative
form:
most Rwandan
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Rwanda + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Rwanda, the Rwandan people or language.
senses_topics:
|
14567 | word:
Rwandan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Rwandan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Rwanda + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Kinyarwanda
senses_topics:
|
14568 | word:
quirky
word_type:
adj
expansion:
quirky (comparative quirkier, superlative quirkiest)
forms:
form:
quirkier
tags:
comparative
form:
quirkiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From quirk + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
She has a quirky laugh.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Given to quirks or idiosyncrasies; strange in a somewhat silly, awkward manner, potentially cute.
senses_topics:
|
14569 | word:
unfathomable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unfathomable (comparative more unfathomable, superlative most unfathomable)
forms:
form:
more unfathomable
tags:
comparative
form:
most unfathomable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + fathom (“to measure the depth of (water); (figurative) to deeply understand (someone or something)”) + -able (suffix forming adjectives denoting things not able or fit to be done).
senses_examples:
text:
The sheer number of warriors the enemy attacked with was unfathomable.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Impossible to fathom.
Especially of depth: physically incapable of being measured; immeasurable.
Impossible to fathom.
Impossible to grasp the extent of, or to fully know or understand.
senses_topics:
|
14570 | word:
Warwickshire
word_type:
name
expansion:
Warwickshire
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Warewikeschire.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inland county of England bordered by Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, West Midlands and Worcestershire.
senses_topics:
|
14571 | word:
radiologist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
radiologist (plural radiologists)
forms:
form:
radiologists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From radiology + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is skilled in or practices radiology.
senses_topics:
|
14572 | word:
blacksmith
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blacksmith (plural blacksmiths)
forms:
form:
blacksmiths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
blacksmith
etymology_text:
From black (color of forged iron) + smith (related to smite)..
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who forges iron.
A person who shoes horses.
A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis punctipinnis).
senses_topics:
|
14573 | word:
blacksmith
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blacksmith (third-person singular simple present blacksmiths, present participle blacksmithing, simple past and past participle blacksmithed)
forms:
form:
blacksmiths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
blacksmithing
tags:
participle
present
form:
blacksmithed
tags:
participle
past
form:
blacksmithed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
blacksmith
etymology_text:
From black (color of forged iron) + smith (related to smite)..
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To work as a blacksmith.
senses_topics:
|
14574 | word:
Belgian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Belgian (plural Belgians)
forms:
form:
Belgians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Belgium + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Belgium or of Belgian descent.
senses_topics:
|
14575 | word:
Belgian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Belgian (comparative more Belgian, superlative most Belgian)
forms:
form:
more Belgian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Belgian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Belgium + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Belgium or the Belgian people.
senses_topics:
|
14576 | word:
Belgian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Belgian
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Belgium + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hypothetical extinct Indo-European language, supposed to have been spoken distinct from Celtic in late prehistory, in certain parts of what has become known as Gaul.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
14577 | word:
Cluj
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cluj
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Romanian Cluj; see below for more.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cluj-Napoca, a capital city of Cluj County, Romania
A county of Romania
senses_topics:
|
14578 | word:
Cretan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Cretan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Crete + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Crete or its inhabitants.
senses_topics:
|
14579 | word:
Cretan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Cretan (plural Cretans)
forms:
form:
Cretans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Crete + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or a resident of Crete.
senses_topics:
|
14580 | word:
Cretan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cretan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Crete + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
Holonym: Doric
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The dialect of Greek spoken in Crete.
senses_topics:
|
14581 | word:
pallbearer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pallbearer (plural pallbearers)
forms:
form:
pallbearers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From pall + bearer.
senses_examples:
text:
It took ten pallbearers to carry her coffin.
ref:
1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig
type:
quotation
text:
They are likely displeased with the viral videos showing policemen attempting to tear the Palestinian flags from Abu Aqleh’s coffin while beating pallbearers with clubs, causing her coffin to almost fall to the ground.
ref:
2022 May 16, Elizabeth Tsurkov, “Israel knows it will get away with the attack on Shireen Abu Aqleh’s funeral”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who carries a corner of the pall over a coffin or casket.
One called upon to carry or bear the coffin or the casket at a funeral.
senses_topics:
|
14582 | word:
parable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
parable (plural parables)
forms:
form:
parables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English parable, from Old French parable, parabole, from Late Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ, “comparison”). Doublet of parabola, parole, and palaver.
senses_examples:
text:
In the New Testament the parables told by Jesus Christ convey His message, as in "The parable of the prodigal son".
type:
example
text:
Catholic homilies normally draw on at least one Biblical lecture, often parables.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy.
senses_topics:
|
14583 | word:
parable
word_type:
verb
expansion:
parable (third-person singular simple present parables, present participle parabling, simple past and past participle parabled)
forms:
form:
parables
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
parabling
tags:
participle
present
form:
parabled
tags:
participle
past
form:
parabled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English parable, from Old French parable, parabole, from Late Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ, “comparison”). Doublet of parabola, parole, and palaver.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To represent by parable.
senses_topics:
|
14584 | word:
parable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
parable (comparative more parable, superlative most parable)
forms:
form:
more parable
tags:
comparative
form:
most parable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin parābilis, from parāre (“to prepare, procure”).
senses_examples:
text:
The most parable and easy, and about which many are employed, is to teach a school, turn lecturer or curate […].
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That can easily be prepared or procured; obtainable.
senses_topics:
|
14585 | word:
temple
word_type:
noun
expansion:
temple (plural temples)
forms:
form:
temples
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Temple
etymology_text:
From Middle English temple, from Old English templ, tempel, borrowed from Latin templum (“shrine, temple, area for auspices”). Compare Old High German tempal (“temple”), also a borrowing from the Latin.
senses_examples:
text:
The temple of Zeus was very large.
type:
example
text:
As of October 1968 Lukang, which had a resident population of between 27,000 and 28,000 people, had 39 temples. It is my impression that Lukang has more temples than do most Taiwanese communities of equivalent size. By temple I mean a structure that houses an image, altar, and incense pot, and is freely accessible to the general public. In speaking of the 39 temples of Lukang, I am omitting the numerous small shrines to the unknown dead (Yu Ying Kung), buildings dedicated to ancestors rather than deities (two), Christian churches (four), incense-burner associations that keep their incense pot or image in private homes, and private shrines such as the domestic altars of tang-ki (spirit mediums) or the shrine of the now defunct Ch'üan-chou guild, found in the back room of a drugstore endowed with the guild property.[...]Lukang, seen in comparative perspective, has a lot of temples.
ref:
1974, Donald R. DeGlopper, “Religion and Ritual in Lukang”, in Arthur P. Wolf, editor, Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society (Studies in Chinese Society), Stanford: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
How often do you go to temple?
text:
a temple of commerce; a temple of drinking and dining
type:
example
text:
My body is my temple.
type:
example
text:
Again Abdullah listened intently, his eyes closed, his ten fingers forming a temple of his hands in front of him.
ref:
2010, James LePore, A World I Never Made, page 251
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A house of worship, especially:
A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
A house of worship, especially:
Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue.
A house of worship, especially:
As opposed to an LDS meetinghouse, a church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals.
A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.
Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
senses_topics:
|
14586 | word:
temple
word_type:
verb
expansion:
temple (third-person singular simple present temples, present participle templing, simple past and past participle templed)
forms:
form:
temples
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
templing
tags:
participle
present
form:
templed
tags:
participle
past
form:
templed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Temple
etymology_text:
From Middle English temple, from Old English templ, tempel, borrowed from Latin templum (“shrine, temple, area for auspices”). Compare Old High German tempal (“temple”), also a borrowing from the Latin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god
senses_topics:
|
14587 | word:
temple
word_type:
noun
expansion:
temple (plural temples)
forms:
form:
temples
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Temple (anatomy)
etymology_text:
:Template:Wiktionary:Picture dictionary/en:head
From Middle English temple, from Old French temple, from Vulgar Latin *temp(u)la, from Latin tempora (“the temples”), plural of tempus (“temple, head, face”). See temporal bone.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.
Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
medicine
ophthalmology
sciences |
14588 | word:
temple
word_type:
noun
expansion:
temple (plural temples)
forms:
form:
temples
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Temple (weaving)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin templum (“a small timber, a purlin”); compare templet and template.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving |
14589 | word:
Nederlands
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nederlands
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Nederlands.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dutch (language)
senses_topics:
|
14590 | word:
Brent
word_type:
name
expansion:
Brent (countable and uncountable, plural Brents)
forms:
form:
Brents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
English surname from placenames in Devon and Somerset, from Old English brant (“steep”), referring to hills. Compare Brents.
senses_examples:
text:
Only by the wet flapping of a barnacle goose did she know she now approached the River Brent, obscured as it was by a brickworks and yet more houses.
ref:
2023, Zadie Smith, The Fraud, Hamish Hamilton, page 189
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A habitational surname from Old English.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of 20th century and later usage.
A placename
A small river in Greater London, England, United Kingdom, which joins the Thames at Brentford.
A placename
A London borough in Greater London, England, United Kingdom, created in 1965 from the merger of the boroughs of Wembley and Willesden.
senses_topics:
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14591 | word:
achatour
word_type:
noun
expansion:
achatour (plural achatours)
forms:
form:
achatours
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman achatour, Old French achateor, achateur (“buyer, provider”), derived from achater (“buy, provide”), from Late Latin accaptare, from ad (“to”) + captare (“strive for”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A purveyor of provisions; a provedore.
senses_topics:
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14592 | word:
nano-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
nano-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin nānus (“dwarf”), from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos).
senses_examples:
text:
nano- + biology → nanobiology
type:
example
text:
nano- + particle → nanoparticle
type:
example
text:
nano- + plankton → nanoplankton
type:
example
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 10⁻⁹ (short scale billionth or long scale milliardth). Symbol: n
Derived from the nanotechnology industry.
Very small.
senses_topics:
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14593 | word:
knock out
word_type:
verb
expansion:
knock out (third-person singular simple present knocks out, present participle knocking out, simple past and past participle knocked out)
forms:
form:
knocks out
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
knocking out
tags:
participle
present
form:
knocked out
tags:
participle
past
form:
knocked out
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I accidentally knocked out the glass in my picture frame.
type:
example
text:
The boxer knocked out his opponent in the third round.
type:
example
text:
The allergy pill knocked him out for a good three hours.
type:
example
text:
That's a put-you-straight-to-sleep book if there ever was one, and I knocked right out after two paragraphs.
ref:
2014, D. G. Driver, Cry of the Sea, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
Running errands all day really knocked him out.
type:
example
text:
The antitank gun knocked out the enemy tank.
type:
example
text:
As they were approaching bankruptcy from being knocked out of the calculator market, they began development on the first commercially available microcomputer, the Altair.
ref:
1980, InfoWorld, volume 2, number 20
type:
quotation
text:
Tottenham were knocked out of the Europa League, despite a comfortable victory over Shamrock Rovers in Dublin.
ref:
2011 December 15, Marc Higginson, “Shamrock Rovers 0-4 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The prisoner knocked out a message on the wall for the prisoner in the adjoining cell.
type:
example
text:
They knocked out the entire project in one night.
type:
example
text:
"Hullo!" he said, getting up; "time for me to knock out, or old Copas will be in bed. […]"
ref:
1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1883, page 503
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To strike or render unconscious
To strike or bump (someone or something) out.
To strike or render unconscious
To render unconscious, as by a blow to the head.
To strike or render unconscious
To put to sleep.
To strike or render unconscious
To fall asleep, especially suddenly.
To strike or render unconscious
To exhaust.
To strike or render unconscious
To impress, surpass or overwhelm (someone).
To strike or render unconscious
To defeat or kill (someone).
To strike or render unconscious
To cause a mechanism to become non-functional by damaging or destroying it.
To strike or render unconscious
To eliminate from a contest or similar.
To communicate (a message) by knocking.
To complete, especially in haste; knock off.
To lose the scent of hounds in fox-hunting.
To leave college after hours—after half-past ten at night when the doors have been locked.
To obtain or earn (something, often money or food).
To sell.
senses_topics:
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14594 | word:
OTO
word_type:
name
expansion:
OTO
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Ordo Templi Orientis.
senses_topics:
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14595 | word:
begone
word_type:
intj
expansion:
begone
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Univerbation of be + gone. Compare English beware.
senses_examples:
text:
Begone! move quickly! if quickly you can, you that shine forth into sight in moist times like the worm.
ref:
1856, Herman Melville, The Lightning Rod Man
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away.
senses_topics:
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14596 | word:
begone
word_type:
verb
expansion:
begone
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inflected forms.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of bego
senses_topics:
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14597 | word:
berth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
berth (plural berths)
forms:
form:
berths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Late Middle English birth (“(nautical) bearing away or off, clearance, berth”); further etymology uncertain, probably from beren (“to carry (away), bear”) + -th (suffix denoting a condition, quality, state of being, etc., forming nouns), Beren is derived from Old English beran (“to carry, hold, bear”), from Proto-West Germanic *beran (“to carry, bear”), from Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to carry, bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti (“to be carrying”), from *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). If so, the English word is analysable as bear + -th (suffix forming nouns from verbs), and is a piecewise doublet of birth.
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
By what I then thought to be great good luck I had succeeded in getting a three-berth cabin for myself and my little boy alone—Nos. 45, 46, 47—on the starboard side of the ship.
ref:
1885 December, [Alice Kipling], “The Haunted Cabin”, in Quartette, the Christmas Annual of the Civil & Military Gazette, Lahore, British India: The “Civil and Military Gazette” Press, →OCLC, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
It is realised that the old Pullman standard sleeper, with its convertible "sections", each containing upper and lower berths, and with no greater privacy at night than the curtains drawn along both sides of a middle aisle, has had its day.
ref:
1944 November–December, “‘Duplex Roomette’ Sleeping Cars”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 324
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space in the water for a ship or other vessel to lie at anchor or manoeuvre without getting in the way of other vessels, or colliding into rocks or the shore.
A place for a vessel to lie at anchor or to moor.
Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space in the water for a ship or other vessel to lie at anchor or manoeuvre without getting in the way of other vessels, or colliding into rocks or the shore.
A room in a vessel in which the officers or company mess (“eat together”) and reside; also, a room or other place in a vessel for storage.
Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space in the water for a ship or other vessel to lie at anchor or manoeuvre without getting in the way of other vessels, or colliding into rocks or the shore.
A place on a vessel to sleep, especially a bed on the side of a cabin.
Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space in the water for a ship or other vessel to lie at anchor or manoeuvre without getting in the way of other vessels, or colliding into rocks or the shore.
A job or position on a vessel.
An assigned place for a person in (chiefly historical) a horse-drawn coach or other means of transportation, or (military) in a barracks.
A bunk or other bed for sleeping on in a caravan, a train, etc.
A place for a vehicle on land to park.
An appointment, job, or position, especially one regarded as comfortable or good.
Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space for manoeuvring or safety.
A proper place for a thing.
A position or seed in a tournament bracket.
A position on a field of play.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
road
transport
nautical
transport
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
14598 | word:
berth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
berth (third-person singular simple present berths, present participle berthing, simple past and past participle berthed)
forms:
form:
berths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
berthing
tags:
participle
present
form:
berthed
tags:
participle
past
form:
berthed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Late Middle English birth (“(nautical) bearing away or off, clearance, berth”); further etymology uncertain, probably from beren (“to carry (away), bear”) + -th (suffix denoting a condition, quality, state of being, etc., forming nouns), Beren is derived from Old English beran (“to carry, hold, bear”), from Proto-West Germanic *beran (“to carry, bear”), from Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to carry, bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti (“to be carrying”), from *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). If so, the English word is analysable as bear + -th (suffix forming nouns from verbs), and is a piecewise doublet of birth.
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
Further west, in Pembrokeshire, the Esso Petroleum Co. refinery at Milford Haven, opened last November, is designed to berth the world's largest tankers and to process, initially, 4,500,000 tons of crude oil a year.
ref:
1961 August, “New Traffic Flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 494
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bring (a ship or other vessel) into a berth (noun sense 1.1); also, to provide a berth for (a vessel).
To bring (a ship or other vessel) into a berth (noun sense 1.1); also, to provide a berth for (a vessel).
To use a device to bring (a spacecraft) into its berth or dock.
To assign (someone) a berth (noun sense 1.3 or sense 2.2) or place to sleep on a vessel, a train, etc.
To provide (someone) with a berth (noun sense 3.1) or appointment, job, or position.
Of a vessel: to move into a berth.
Of a person: to occupy a berth.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
nautical
transport
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14599 | word:
berth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
berth (third-person singular simple present berths, present participle berthing, simple past and past participle berthed)
forms:
form:
berths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
berthing
tags:
participle
present
form:
berthed
tags:
participle
past
form:
berthed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly borrowed from Icelandic byrði (“side of a ship, board”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Chiefly in shipbuilding: to construct (a ship or part of it) using wooden boards or planks; to board, to plank.
senses_topics:
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