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14600 | word:
in the wake of
word_type:
prep
expansion:
in the wake of
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Following
As a result of
In the noticeable disturbance of water behind (a maritime vessel).
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14601 | word:
home away from home
word_type:
noun
expansion:
home away from home (plural homes away from home)
forms:
form:
homes away from home
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I stayed in a lot of hotels in New York with the Dead and with Jerry's band, but the Navarro, more than any other, became our home away from home.
ref:
2004, Steve Parish, Joe Layden, Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead, St. Martin's Press
type:
quotation
text:
Here's how you can create your own home away from home if you travel often: keep some of your favorite things that say home in a bag—like a backpack or travel bag—so you can take it with you.
ref:
2008, Susie Castillo, Confidence is Queen: The Four Keys to Ultimate Beauty Through Positive Thinking, Penguin
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A place in which one is as comfortable as one's actual home.
senses_topics:
|
14602 | word:
cylinder head
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cylinder head (plural cylinder heads)
forms:
form:
cylinder heads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cylinder, head.
A part of an internal combustion engine, usually made as a removable piece, that closes one end of the engine's cylinders.
senses_topics:
automotive
transport
vehicles |
14603 | word:
flood
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flood (plural floods)
forms:
form:
floods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
flood
etymology_text:
From Middle English flod, from Old English flōd, from Proto-West Germanic *flōdu, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from *plew- (“to flow”). Cognate with Scots flude, fluid, Saterland Frisian Floud, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Danish flod, Icelandic flóð, and Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus).
senses_examples:
text:
Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
ref:
2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
China's Ministry of Water Resources Saturday warned that floods are expected to hit the country and called on relevant departments to make preparation.
Heavy rains have hit parts of southern, eastern and central China since Wednesday, pushing water levels in some rivers well above warning lines, the ministry said.
China entered its flood season on Saturday, four days earlier than previous years, and the country may suffer from more and stronger rain as well as floods with more extreme weather forecast for the flood season, the ministry warned.
ref:
2020 March 29, “China enters flood season”, in China Internet Information Center
type:
quotation
text:
a flood of complaints
type:
example
text:
Deregulation of financial markets laid the groundwork for the subprime crisis in the United States, while a badly designed euro contributed to the debt crisis in Greece, and the Schengen system of open borders made it difficult to control the flood of refugees in Europe.
ref:
2016 December 6, Francis Fukuyama, “The Dangers of Disruption”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
It was ebb tide when she touched, and it was supposed that when the flood made she would float off again.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 217
type:
quotation
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senses_glosses:
An overflow (usually disastrous) of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
A floodlight.
Menstrual discharge; menses.
Water as opposed to land.
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14604 | word:
flood
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flood (third-person singular simple present floods, present participle flooding, simple past and past participle flooded)
forms:
form:
floods
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
flooding
tags:
participle
present
form:
flooded
tags:
participle
past
form:
flooded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
flood
etymology_text:
From Middle English flod, from Old English flōd, from Proto-West Germanic *flōdu, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from *plew- (“to flow”). Cognate with Scots flude, fluid, Saterland Frisian Floud, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Danish flod, Icelandic flóð, and Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus).
senses_examples:
text:
The floor was flooded with beer.
type:
example
text:
They flooded the room with sewage.
type:
example
text:
The station's switchboard was flooded with listeners making complaints.
type:
example
text:
Blackburn offered nothing going forward in the opening period and that continued after the break, encouraging City to flood forward.
ref:
2011 October 1, David Ornstein, “Blackburn 0 - 4 Man City”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The iconic Glenfinnan Viaduct was flooded with blue light to show support for the National Health Service staff treating Coronavirus patients.
ref:
2020 April 22, “Glenfinnan turns blue to honour NHS workers”, in Rail, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
There's also a spam filter in the code now, so if someone attempts to flood people's screens with macros or a bot, everything after the first few lines is thrown away.
ref:
1998, Dr. Cat, “Furry web site plug”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
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14605 | word:
Turkmen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Turkmen (countable and uncountable, plural Turkmen or Turkmens)
forms:
form:
Turkmen
tags:
plural
form:
Turkmens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Turkmen language
etymology_text:
The current majority view for the etymology of the ethnonym Türkmen or Turcoman is that it comes from Türk and the Turkic emphasizing suffix -men, meaning "'most Turkish of the Turks' or 'pure-blooded Turks.'" A folk etymology, dating back to the Middle Ages and found in al-Biruni and Mahmud al-Kashgari, instead derives the suffix -men from the Persian suffix -mānind, with the resulting word meaning "like a Turk". While formerly the dominant etymology in modern scholarship, this mixed Turkic-Persian derivation is now viewed as incorrect.
senses_examples:
text:
The conquest took 16 years and ended in 1885 in a battle with the Afghans on the banks of the Murghab. During this period, the Turkmens offered the Russians stubborn resistance […]
ref:
2005, Chahryar Adle, History of Civilizations of Central Asia, page 316
type:
quotation
text:
Keimir-Ker, a Turkmen from the Tekke clan, led a rebellion against the Persians […]
ref:
2009, Barbara A. West, Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania, page 841
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Turkmenistan or of Turkmen descent.
A Turkic language of the Turkmen spoken mostly in Turkmenistan.
senses_topics:
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14606 | word:
Turkmen
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Turkmen (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Turkmen language
etymology_text:
The current majority view for the etymology of the ethnonym Türkmen or Turcoman is that it comes from Türk and the Turkic emphasizing suffix -men, meaning "'most Turkish of the Turks' or 'pure-blooded Turks.'" A folk etymology, dating back to the Middle Ages and found in al-Biruni and Mahmud al-Kashgari, instead derives the suffix -men from the Persian suffix -mānind, with the resulting word meaning "like a Turk". While formerly the dominant etymology in modern scholarship, this mixed Turkic-Persian derivation is now viewed as incorrect.
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Turkmenistan, the Turkmen people or the Turkmen language.
senses_topics:
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14607 | word:
Turkmen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Turkmen
forms:
wikipedia:
Turkmen language
etymology_text:
Treated as a plural of the deprecated term Turkman, influenced by English man, plural men.
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
plural of Turkman
senses_topics:
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14608 | word:
hockey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hockey (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Hockey World Cup
World Cup of Hockey
hockey
etymology_text:
Unknown, 16th century, possibly related to hook due to the curvature of the stick.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of a family of sports in which hockey sticks are used to move a ball or puck into a goal.
Field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick.
Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.
senses_topics:
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14609 | word:
hockey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hockey (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
hockey
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
“I thought she'd just gone to pee but I reckon she must be making hockey too.”
ref:
1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug
type:
quotation
text:
My anger surged back a pace. “Harry Boone is a lickspittle, butt kissing, hunk of horse hockey,” I said precisely.
ref:
2014, Gwen Hunter, Bloodstone
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Faeces, excrement.
senses_topics:
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14610 | word:
hockey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hockey (plural hockeys)
forms:
form:
hockeys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hockey
etymology_text:
See oche.
senses_examples:
text:
As has been mentioned, Darts of to-day is essentially a "public-house game," and in pretty nearly every inn, club, or institute where it has a footing (and in which has it not!) will be found minor variations in play and often games that are peculiar to the locality or even to the "school" itself. […] And in this domestic circle, at all events, it is thought that this set of Rules will prove a useful guide when taken in conjunction with what has already been said as regards the board, its position, the hockey-line, etc.
ref:
1950, Edmond Hoyle, Lawrence H. Dawson, “Darts”, in Hoyle’s Games Modernized, 20th edition, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →OCLC; republished as The Complete Hoyle’s Games (Wordsworth Reference), Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1994, page 457
type:
quotation
text:
Henry Lewis's body was tense, taut, his toes against the hockey, his right arm raised, his left eye half-closed. With grim intensity, backed by years of practice and experience, he sighted along the steel point, drew his arm back—and let the dart fly.
ref:
1977, Harry Harrison, chapter 22, in Skyfall, [London]: Hamlyn Publishing Group, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Small bars would tend to produce short hockeys; the tiny fishing pubs of Yarmouth gave rise to 6ft marks […]
ref:
1985, Keith Turner, Darts, 1st Perennial Library edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, page 22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of oche.
senses_topics:
darts
games |
14611 | word:
Bromley
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bromley (countable and uncountable, plural Bromleys)
forms:
form:
Bromleys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bromley (disambiguation)
London Borough of Bromley
etymology_text:
From Old English brōm (“broom”) + lēah (“wood”). Equivalent to broom + -ley and doublet of Brimley.; compare Broom.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A number of places in England:
A town in the borough of Bromley, in south-eastern Greater London (OS grid ref TQ4069).
A number of places in England:
A London borough of Greater London.
A number of places in England:
A district in the borough of Tower Hamlets, eastern London, officially Bromley by Bow (OS grid ref TQ3782).
A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Standon parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL4121).
A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Wortley parish, Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK3298).
A number of places in England:
A suburb of Kingswinford, Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands (OS grid ref SO9088).
An unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States.
A minor city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States.
A village in Mashonaland East province, Zimbabwe.
An eastern suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
A habitational surname from Old English.
senses_topics:
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14612 | word:
Dominican
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Dominican (plural Dominicans)
forms:
form:
Dominicans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Dominica + -an & Dominic + -an. Compare Latin dominicānus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from the Dominican Republic or of its descent.
A person from the Commonwealth of Dominica or of its descent.
A member of the religious order founded by St. Dominic.
senses_topics:
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14613 | word:
Dominican
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Dominican (comparative more Dominican, superlative most Dominican)
forms:
form:
more Dominican
tags:
comparative
form:
most Dominican
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Dominica + -an & Dominic + -an. Compare Latin dominicānus.
senses_examples:
text:
The first night, I did nothing more than have a glass of wine at Faust Wine Cellar, located under the Dominican cloister that houses the Hilton Budapest Hotel in the Buda Castle complex.
ref:
2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to the Dominican Republic, or its people.
Of, from, or pertaining to Dominica, or its people.
Of or belonging to the Dominican religious order.
senses_topics:
|
14614 | word:
treff
word_type:
noun
expansion:
treff (plural treffs)
forms:
form:
treffs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German Treff (“meeting point”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Moscow experts on treffs perform their duty with ponderous, often ridiculous, awkwardness. Before the atomic spy Allan Nunn May left Canada to go to London, a treff in London had to be arranged for him and another agent.
ref:
1955, David J. Dallin, Soviet Espionage, page 495
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A covert meeting.
senses_topics:
espionage
government
military
politics
war |
14615 | word:
endocrinologist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
endocrinologist (plural endocrinologists)
forms:
form:
endocrinologists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From endocrinology + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is skilled at, or practices, endocrinology.
senses_topics:
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14616 | word:
slowly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
slowly (comparative slowlier or more slowly, superlative slowliest or most slowly)
forms:
form:
slowlier
tags:
comparative
form:
more slowly
tags:
comparative
form:
slowliest
tags:
superlative
form:
most slowly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English slowly, slowli, slouli, slowliche, from Old English slāwlīċe (“slowly; sluggishly”), equivalent to slow + -ly. Compare Old Norse slæliga, sljóliga.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At a slow pace.
senses_topics:
manner |
14617 | word:
Loglan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Loglan
forms:
wikipedia:
Loglan
etymology_text:
Short for logical language.
senses_examples:
text:
The Loglan formal grammar is made up of 91 CFG-type rules.
text:
Loglan is an isolating language, much like English. That means that once you’ve learned a word, you don’t have to worry about changing its form. Even in English, you have to remember to add ‘-ed’ to a verb to make it refer to the past, and ‘-s’ to nouns to make them plural. In Loglan, you won’t have to do that. Also, some English verbs and nouns have irregular forms. There are no irregular Loglan forms.
ref:
1994 May, Stephen L. Rice, “Loglan 3 : Understanding Loglan”, in www.loglan.org, retrieved 2012-08-04
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several related artificial languages, designed to be logical, the first of which was developed by James Cooke Brown in the mid-20th century.
The original language developed by James Cooke Brown, as maintained by The Loglan Institute.
senses_topics:
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14618 | word:
pneumoconiosis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pneumoconiosis (countable and uncountable, plural pneumoconioses)
forms:
form:
pneumoconioses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin pneumoconiōsis, from Ancient Greek πνεῦμα (pneûma, “wind, breath, spirit”) + κόνις (kónis, “dust”) + -osis.
senses_examples:
text:
Zhang Haichao was twenty-eight when he got pneumoconiosis. He was fit and well before he started working at an abrasive-materials factory in Xinmi, not far from Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan, where he comes from. On the job, he inhaled a huge amount of dust every day. In the second half of 2007, he began to cough and felt short of breath.
ref:
2012, Hsiao-Hung Pai, Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants, Verso Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
Wu Dengfan, a 40-year-old farmer from Gulang county in Gansu who worked at a gold mine close to the Mongolian border from 1996 to 2006, had a similar experience.
“We even preferred not to wear masks inside the mine, because it made breathing even more difficult,” said Wu, who has stage II pneumoconiosis. “When we finished our work and came out of the mine, each of us was completely covered in dust.”
ref:
2018 January 13, Alice Yan, “These migrant workers helped China prosper. Now they’re dying and not getting the help they need”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-01-13, People & Culture
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A disease of the lungs caused by inhalation of particulate matter.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences |
14619 | word:
barnet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
barnet (plural barnets)
forms:
form:
barnets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Rhyming slang, from Barnet Fair, an annual horse and pleasure fair in Barnet, North London.
senses_examples:
text:
Boris [Johnson], it seems, is taking it in this spirit, joshing beneath his ever-redeeming barnet that Labour's opposition to military action in Syria is a fey stance that he, as GQ politician of the year, would never be guilty of.
ref:
2013 September 13, Russell Brand, “Russell Brand and the GQ awards”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Rather than banging on about my barnet, I’d ask friends about theirs.
ref:
2021 March 14, Michael Segalov, “It can leave your self-image fractured”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
hair (on one's head)
senses_topics:
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14620 | word:
gaberdine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gaberdine (countable and uncountable, plural gaberdines)
forms:
form:
gaberdines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of gabardine (“long cloak”)
Alternative form of gabardine (“textile”)
senses_topics:
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14621 | word:
affect
word_type:
verb
expansion:
affect (third-person singular simple present affects, present participle affecting, simple past and past participle affected)
forms:
form:
affects
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
affecting
tags:
participle
present
form:
affected
tags:
participle
past
form:
affected
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English affecten, from Latin affectāre, from Latin affectus, the participle stem of Latin afficere (“to act upon, influence, affect, attack with disease”), from ad- + facere (“to make, do”).
senses_examples:
text:
The experience affected me deeply.
type:
example
text:
The heat of the sunlight affected the speed of the chemical reaction.
type:
example
text:
Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
ref:
2012 January 24, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
He was deeply affected by the tragic ending of the play.
type:
example
text:
A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.
ref:
1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
type:
quotation
text:
Hepatitis affects the liver.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To influence or alter.
To move to emotion.
Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
To dispose or incline.
To tend to by affinity or disposition.
To assign; to appoint.
To burden (property) with a fixed charge or payment, or other condition or restriction.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences
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14622 | word:
affect
word_type:
verb
expansion:
affect (third-person singular simple present affects, present participle affecting, simple past and past participle affected)
forms:
form:
affects
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
affecting
tags:
participle
present
form:
affected
tags:
participle
past
form:
affected
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English affecten, from Anglo-Norman affecter (“strive after”), Middle French affecter (“feign”), and their source, Latin affectāre (“to strive after, aim to do, pursue, imitate with dissimulation, feign”), frequentative of afficere (“to act upon, influence”) (see Etymology 1, above).
senses_examples:
text:
to affect ignorance
type:
example
text:
to affect a British accent
type:
example
text:
He managed to affect a smile despite feeling quite miserable.
type:
example
text:
Careless she is with artful care, / Affecting to seem unaffected.
ref:
a. 1729, William Congreve, A Hue and Cry After Fair Amoret
type:
quotation
text:
I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated.
ref:
1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, in Essays: First Series
type:
quotation
text:
1825, William Hazlitt, “On the Conduct of life: or Advice to a schoolboy” in Table-Talk Volume II, Paris: A. & W. Galignani, p. 284,
Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of.
To aim for, to try to obtain.
To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
senses_topics:
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14623 | word:
affect
word_type:
noun
expansion:
affect (plural affects)
forms:
form:
affects
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English affect, from Latin affectus, adfectus (“a state of mind or body produced by some (external) influence, especially sympathy or love”), from afficere (“to act upon, influence”).
senses_examples:
text:
if we are afraid of robbers in a dream, the robbers are certainly imaginary, but the fear is real. This draws our attention to the fact that the development of affects [translating Affectentwicklung] in dreams is not amenable to the judgement we make of the rest of the dream-content [...].
ref:
1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
A third study demonstrated that the effects of self-affirmation on self-regulated performance were not due to positive affect.
ref:
2004, Jeffrey Greenberg, Thomas A Pyszczynski, Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology, page 407
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.
One's mood or inclination; mental state.
A desire, an appetite.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
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14624 | word:
turn out
word_type:
verb
expansion:
turn out (third-person singular simple present turns out, present participle turning out, simple past and past participle turned out)
forms:
form:
turns out
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
turning out
tags:
participle
present
form:
turned out
tags:
participle
past
form:
turned out
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English turnen out, tornen out, equivalent to turn + out.
The slang and prison terms meaning "to turn into a prostitute, etc." are probably an ellipsis for turn (inside) out (“to flip someone's character or role”).
senses_examples:
text:
I had hoped our first meeting would turn out better.
type:
example
text:
The thing we’ll all remember is Arya Stark, Supreme Badass Of The Seven Kingdoms. Not Jon Snow, not Daenerys, but the pint-size warrior who spends the first part of the fight just annihilating White Walkers one after the other, then turns out to be the one who deals the killing blow to the Night King.
ref:
2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-05-31
type:
quotation
text:
I'm afraid the cake didn't turn out.
type:
example
text:
Hundreds of people turned out to see the parade.
type:
example
text:
The train is usually crowded and half the township of Forres seems to turn out to watch it go off.
ref:
1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Turn out the lights before you leave.
type:
example
text:
The day grew strong, and showed itself outside, even against the flaming lights within. The lights were turned out, and the work went on.
ref:
1854, Dickens, chapter 11, in Hard Times
type:
quotation
text:
It turns out that he just made a lucky guess.
type:
example
text:
The Ivorian is a player with such a liking for improvisation it does not usually look like he has any more idea than anyone else what he is going to do next, so it was an interesting choice. As it turned out, it was a masterstroke. The striker was full of running, played with a more direct shoot-on-sight approach than normal and finished with two goals and an assist.
ref:
2012 September 15, Amy Lawrence, “Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The bakery turns out three hundred pies each day.
type:
example
text:
This new locomotive was turned out of Doncaster works in May, 1934, to a mighty fanfare of trumpets.
ref:
1942 February, O. S. Nock, “The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley: Part VII”, in Railway Magazine, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
Turn out at the third driveway.
type:
example
text:
Turn out the dough onto a board and shape it.
type:
example
text:
He had found the pocket, and was turning out the contents.
ref:
1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
type:
quotation
text:
Please turn out your pockets.
type:
example
text:
The security guard asked everyone to turn out their bags.
type:
example
text:
The hotel staff hastened to turn out the noisy drunk.
type:
example
text:
The poor family were turned out of their lodgings at only an hour's notice.
type:
example
text:
The whole lot of grafters was later turned out of office.
type:
example
text:
And so the teacher turned it out
But still it lingered near,
And waited patiently about
Till Mary did appear.
ref:
1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, Mary Had a Little Lamb, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
He then turned her out onto the streets of Chicago with a quota to meet: $500 for a night's work.
ref:
2008, Carolyn Maloney, Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
type:
quotation
text:
Like I told you, I'm still turning this one bitch out. […] Sunday is three days away, if you ain't turned her out by then she ain't worth it.
ref:
2008, Joseph B. Haggerty, Sr., Shame: The Story of a Pimp, page 361
type:
quotation
text:
The nigga that turned her out was named Derek “Sweets” D. I despised that pimping motherfucker with passion.
ref:
2012, Eyes . . . JB, If I Should Die Tonight: The Untold Stories, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
turn out potential voters
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To end up; to result.
To succeed; work out; turn out well.
To attend; show up.
To go out; to leave one's home.
To extinguish a light or other device
To become apparent or known, especially (as) it turns out
To produce; make.
To leave a road.
To remove from a mould, bowl etc.
To empty for inspection.
To refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict.
To convince a person (usually a woman) to become a prostitute.
To rape; to coerce an otherwise heterosexual individual into performing a homosexual role.
To put (cattle) out to pasture.
To convince to vote
To leave one's work to take part in a strike.
To get out of bed; get up.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
sex
sexuality
lifestyle
sex
sexuality
|
14625 | word:
acharnement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acharnement (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French acharnement.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Savage fierceness; ferocity.
senses_topics:
|
14626 | word:
Hainaut
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hainaut
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Wallonia, Belgium.
senses_topics:
|
14627 | word:
fructify
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fructify (third-person singular simple present fructifies, present participle fructifying, simple past and past participle fructified)
forms:
form:
fructifies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fructifying
tags:
participle
present
form:
fructified
tags:
participle
past
form:
fructified
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French fructefier.
senses_examples:
text:
It is good to detect hints of a more aggressive attitude from the B.T.C. in face of constant reminders of accumulated deficits and niggling for economies before modernisation schemes have had a chance fully to fructify [...].
ref:
1959 August, “Talking of Trains: Reappraisal is completed”, in Trains Illustrated, page 345
type:
quotation
text:
When fruit trees are to be planted it is good practice to plant alternate rows of different varieties of the same fruit, because the pollen of one variety is often wanted to fructify or fertilise the flowers of another.
ref:
1901 May 10, “Gleanings”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 5, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
He slew the Bull (symbol of the gross Earth which the sunlight fructifies).
ref:
1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bear fruit; to generate useful products or ideas.
To make productive or fruitful.
senses_topics:
|
14628 | word:
what is your name
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
what is your name
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
What is your name? — My name is Mary. — A pretty name. — It is my mother's name. — Indeed!
ref:
1854, Gustave Chouquet, Easy Conversations in French, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to ask the name of a person.
senses_topics:
|
14629 | word:
ladybug
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ladybug (plural ladybugs)
forms:
form:
ladybugs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From lady + bug, the “lady” here referring to Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus. Compare German Marienkäfer.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of ladybird.
senses_topics:
|
14630 | word:
PPS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PPS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Shah has since apologised, saying: “I deeply regret the hurt I have caused.” It emerged later that she had stepped down as PPS to McDonnell.
ref:
2016 April 26, Nazia Parveen, “Bradford MP Naz Shah quits as McDonnell's PPS after antisemitic posts”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of polyphenylene sulfide, polyphenylenesulphide.
Initialism of parliamentary private secretary.
Initialism of post postscriptum (initialism indicating a footnote to a PS footnote)
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
government
politics
|
14631 | word:
criminologist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
criminologist (plural criminologists)
forms:
form:
criminologists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From criminology + -ist.
senses_examples:
text:
When he finished his stint in Brooklyn, Weisburd decided to team up with Larry Sherman, another young criminologist.
ref:
2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers, page 283
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is skilled in, or practices criminology.
senses_topics:
|
14632 | word:
im-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
im-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin im-, assimilated form of in- used before b-/p-/m-.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expressing negation; not.
senses_topics:
|
14633 | word:
im-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
im-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From em-, from Old French em-. Also from later Middle French im-, partly by confusion with im- of Latin origin (on which see above).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of the prefix em-, itself variant of en-.
senses_topics:
|
14634 | word:
New Guinea
word_type:
name
expansion:
New Guinea
forms:
wikipedia:
New Guinea
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large Oceanian island in the Pacific Ocean, north of Australia, whose territory is divided between Indonesia in the west and Papua New Guinea in the east.
The northern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea, formerly administered as a separate territory to Papua.
Papua New Guinea.
senses_topics:
|
14635 | word:
litre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
litre (plural litres)
forms:
form:
litres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
litre
etymology_text:
From French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”). Related to Latin libra. Doublet of rottol.
senses_examples:
text:
You should be able to fill four cups with one litre of water.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbols: l, L, ℓ
A measure of volume equivalent to a litre.
senses_topics:
|
14636 | word:
crossword
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crossword (plural crosswords)
forms:
form:
crosswords
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
crossword
etymology_text:
From cross + word.
senses_examples:
text:
HOW TO ENTER::Fill in the crossword and send it to CROSSWORD No.54, DRUM, 176 Main Street, Johannesburg
ref:
1957, Drum: A magazine of Africa for Africa, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
I sat on the bed and began to fill in the crossword.
ref:
1962, Juan Garcia Hortelano, Summer Storm, page 175
type:
quotation
text:
All you have to do is fill in the crossword on this page and write your name and address on the coupon in Block Capitals (those written in longhand will not qualify).
ref:
1967, Pigeon Racing News and Gazette - Volumes 23-24, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
They should be able to fill out the crossword using their knowledge from this chapter.
ref:
1979, Judith A. Gillespie, An Energy Curriculum for the Elementary Grades - Page 2-45, Indiana Dept. of Commerce Energy Group, page 2-45
type:
quotation
text:
You said you wanted me to fill out the crossword for you!
ref:
2021, Sarah Everett, Some Other Now, page 218
type:
quotation
text:
Flair, the butler, drank.[…]On weekdays when we were alone, he would open The Times and fill in the crossword, each clue no sooner read than solved. At weekends he merely read the crossword, then ironed the paper before giving it to Herbie.
ref:
2021, Sian Phillips, Private Faces and Public Places: The Autobiography
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word.
The grid of such a puzzle
senses_topics:
games
|
14637 | word:
turnover
word_type:
noun
expansion:
turnover (countable and uncountable, plural turnovers)
forms:
form:
turnovers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
turnover
etymology_text:
Deverbal from turn over.
senses_examples:
text:
The company had an annual turnover of $500,000.
type:
example
text:
High staff-turnover can lead to low morale amongst employees
text:
Those apartments have a high turnover because they are so close to the railroad tracks.
text:
They only served me one apple turnover for breakfast.
type:
example
text:
The Nimrods committed another dismaying turnover en route to another humiliating loss.
type:
example
text:
Australia’s 18 turnovers were a costly case of self-harm. So, too, were the two interception tries that ultimately wrecked any chance of Michael Cheika’s side ending their recent grim sequence against the Poms.
ref:
2019 October 19, Robert Kitson, “England into World Cup semi-finals after bruising victory over Australia”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media
type:
quotation
text:
a bad turnover in a carriage
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The amount of money taken as sales transacted in a given period.
The frequency with which stock is replaced after being used or sold, workers leave and are replaced, a property changes hands, etc.
A semicircular pastry made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, enclosing the filling (usually fruit).
A loss of possession of the ball without scoring.
A measure of leg speed: the frequency with which one takes strides when running, typically given in strides per minute.
The act or result of overturning something; an upset.
Synonym of runover.
An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
media
printing
publishing
|
14638 | word:
turnover
word_type:
adj
expansion:
turnover (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
turnover
etymology_text:
Deverbal from turn over.
senses_examples:
text:
a turnover collar
text:
Chamoisette glove samples for spring show some very swagger styles with gauntlet tops and turnover cuffs piped and embroidered with harmonious contrasts.
ref:
1922, Women's Wear, Toronto, volume 6, page 51
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of being turned over; designed to be turned over.
senses_topics:
|
14639 | word:
-ist
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-ist
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English -ist, -iste, from Old French -iste and Latin -ista, from Ancient Greek -ιστής (-istḗs), from -ίζω (-ízō, “-ize, -ise”, verbal suffix) + -τής (-tḗs, agent-noun suffix). Equivalent to -ism + -t.
senses_examples:
text:
botanist, one who studies plants
text:
psychiatrist, one who practices psychiatry
text:
violinist, one who plays a violin
text:
bicyclist, one who rides a bicycle
text:
autoist, one who drives an automobile
text:
pianist, one who plays the piano
text:
vapist, one who uses a vaping device
text:
adventurist, one who takes risks or goes on adventures
text:
artist, one who makes art
text:
bigamist, one who commits bigamy
text:
terrorist, one who causes terror
text:
tourist, one who tours
text:
Note, many of these are related to -isms: adventurism, terrorism, tourism
text:
autist, egoist
text:
Note, these are related to -isms: autism, egoism
text:
Buddhist, Baptist, monotheist
text:
Note, these are related to -isms: Buddhism, monotheism
text:
Marxist, modernist, nihilist, existentialist, fascist, pacifist, activist, environmentalist,
text:
Note, these are related to -isms: Marxism, modernism, nihilism, existentialism, fascism, pacifism
text:
capitalist; industrialist
text:
Note, these are related to -isms: capitalism; industrialism
text:
sexist, racist: Note, these are related to -isms: sexism, racism
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Added to words to form nouns denoting:
a person who studies or practices a particular discipline;
Added to words to form nouns denoting:
a person who uses a device of some kind;
Added to words to form nouns denoting:
one who engages in a particular type of activity;
Added to words to form nouns denoting:
one who suffers from a specific condition or syndrome
Added to words to form nouns denoting:
one who subscribes to a particular theological doctrine or religious denomination;
Added to words to form nouns denoting:
one who has a certain ideology or set of beliefs;
Added to words to form nouns denoting:
one who owns or manages something;
Added to words to form nouns denoting:
a person who holds bigoted, partial views.
senses_topics:
|
14640 | word:
hypergraphia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hypergraphia (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Two features of the interictal behavior syndrome are relevant: hypergraphia or the tendency to write compulsively and often repetitively, and verbosity or loquaciousness, the tendency to be overly talkative, rambling, and circumstantial in speech.
ref:
1994, Thomas J. Csordas, “12: Words from the Holy People: a case study in cultural phenomenology”, in Thomas J. Csordas, editor, Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self, page 280
type:
quotation
text:
There is some suggestion that hypergraphia is associated with non-dominant hemisphere temporal lobe disturbances (Trimble, 1986c).
ref:
1996, Michael R. Trimble, Biological Psychiatry, page 279
type:
quotation
text:
Two cases of mania and hypergraphia in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy were reported by Sanders and Mathews (1994). In the first case, a 58-year-old right-handed man suffered a ruptured right middle cerebral artery aneurism, which required a craniotomy. During interictal periods, the patient demonstrated hypergraphia, as well as several episodes of alternating manic and mildly depressive phases.
ref:
2009, Joseph M. Tonkonogy, Antonio E. Puente, Localization of Clinical Syndromes in Neuropsychology and Neuroscience, page 559
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A behavioural condition characterised by an intense desire to write, associated with changes in the temporal lobes due to epilepsy or chemical changes.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences |
14641 | word:
general election
word_type:
noun
expansion:
general election (plural general elections)
forms:
form:
general elections
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
With a General Election under two years away (and if, by then, the Plan for Rail had already begun to be implemented), would it be efficient or worth implementing Labour's full nationalisation should it form a government?
ref:
2023 May 31, Tammy Samuel, Fergus McLaverty, “The political picture: what lies ahead for Britain's railways?”, in RAIL, number 984, page 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An election, usually held at regular intervals, in which candidates are elected in all or most constituencies or electoral districts of a nation.
An erection.
senses_topics:
|
14642 | word:
ditheism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ditheism (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From di- + theism.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A belief in two deities, which may be in conflict with each other.
senses_topics:
|
14643 | word:
unicycle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
unicycle (plural unicycles)
forms:
form:
unicycles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
unicycle
etymology_text:
From uni- + cycle.
senses_examples:
text:
A man rode past on a unicycle, laughing.
ref:
2019, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer, Penguin Books (2020), page 194
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of cycle that has only one wheel and is powered by pedals; it is most often used by acrobats.
senses_topics:
|
14644 | word:
unicycle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
unicycle (third-person singular simple present unicycles, present participle unicycling, simple past and past participle unicycled)
forms:
form:
unicycles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
unicycling
tags:
participle
present
form:
unicycled
tags:
participle
past
form:
unicycled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
unicycle
etymology_text:
From uni- + cycle.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To travel or move around by unicycle.
senses_topics:
|
14645 | word:
delirious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
delirious (comparative more delirious, superlative most delirious)
forms:
form:
more delirious
tags:
comparative
form:
most delirious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From delirium + -ous; see also Latin delirus (“silly, doting, crazy”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…]the angelic form of a creature whose very existence was a gigantic balm of Gilead to the lacerated body of our hero, and, in a half delirious state of mind, he felt like leaping mountains to raise prostrate female forms, and to become blessed with hymeneal joys of the most glorious character; but, his imagination soon forsook him, and a raging fever, accompanied by the most violent deadly delirium, ensued, which lasted a fortnight.
ref:
1872, Simon Mohler Landis, The Social War, Chapter III: Deacon Stew raves at Lucinda's Love for Victor
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Being in the state of delirium.
Having uncontrolled excitement; ecstatic.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
14646 | word:
Georgian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Georgian (countable and uncountable, plural Georgians)
forms:
form:
Georgians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Georgian
Georgians
etymology_text:
From Georgia + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language of Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
A person or a descendant of a person from Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
A native or resident of the state of Georgia in the United States of America.
senses_topics:
|
14647 | word:
Georgian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Georgian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Georgian
Georgians
etymology_text:
From Georgia + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
As in their narrow defeat of Argentina last week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have been behind at half-time.
ref:
2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41 – 10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2016-06-10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to the Eastern European country of Georgia, the Georgian people or the Georgian language.
Of, from, or pertaining to the U.S. State of Georgia or its Georgian English dialect.
senses_topics:
|
14648 | word:
Georgian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Georgian (plural Georgians)
forms:
form:
Georgians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Georgian
Georgians
etymology_text:
From George + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A British citizen during the reign of a king named George.
senses_topics:
|
14649 | word:
Georgian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Georgian (comparative more Georgian, superlative most Georgian)
forms:
form:
more Georgian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Georgian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Georgian
Georgians
etymology_text:
From George + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
The same Georgian persona, leonine and sacerdotal (that of the aristocratic priest) appears throughout the reminiscences of all his disciples.
ref:
2001, Martin Travers, Critics of Modernity: The Literature of the Conservative Revolution in Germany, 1890–1933, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
Another example of this sterile Georgian orthodoxy is to be found in the case of Ernst Morwitz ...
ref:
2005, Ernst Osterkamp, “The Legacy of the George Circle”, in Exile, Science and Bildung: The Contested Legacies of German Emigre Intellectuals, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Kantorowicz […] warns against confusing a Georgian aesthetic “secret Germany,” which still slumbered in concealment, with contemporary, ‘awakened’ Nazi Germany.
ref:
2012, Paul Fleming, “Bodies: Ernst H. Kantorowicz”, in “Escape to Life”: German Intellectuals in New York: A Compendium on Exile after 1933, page 227
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or characteristic of the reigns of Kings George I and George II of Great Britain, and George III and George IV of the United Kingdom (1714–1830).
Pertaining to a movement in lyric poetry during the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom (1910-1936).
Pertaining to or characteristic of Stefan George (a German poet).
senses_topics:
|
14650 | word:
birth certificate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
birth certificate (plural birth certificates)
forms:
form:
birth certificates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From birth + certificate.
senses_examples:
text:
[T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.
ref:
2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An official document certifying the details of a an individual's birth, indicating the name, date, and parents' names, and details such as parents' occupation and religion.
senses_topics:
|
14651 | word:
show off
word_type:
verb
expansion:
show off (third-person singular simple present shows off, present participle showing off, simple past showed off, past participle shown off)
forms:
form:
shows off
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
showing off
tags:
participle
present
form:
showed off
tags:
past
form:
shown off
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Grocery stores show off their produce by placing the most attractive specimens in front.
type:
example
text:
She loves to show off her driving prowess.
type:
example
text:
She loves to show off when she gets behind the wheel of a car.
type:
example
text:
If you've just acquired a Google Glass headset for £1,000, don't show it off at the movies. UK cinemas are to ban the headsets over fears that the gadgets can be used to make pirate copies of Hollywood blockbusters.
ref:
2014 June 29, Adam Sherwin, “UK cinemas ban Google glasses over piracy risk”, in The Independent
type:
quotation
text:
She told the press that the group had been for an evening out and that the driver has been showing off by driving fast.
ref:
2022 September 7, “Network News: High-speed car crash blocks Tube Line”, in RAIL, number 965, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To exhibit the best attributes of something.
To attract attention to for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism; to demonstrate a skill, talent or property for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism.
senses_topics:
|
14652 | word:
show off
word_type:
noun
expansion:
show off (plural show offs)
forms:
form:
show offs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nonstandard spelling of show-off.
senses_topics:
|
14653 | word:
shop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shop (countable and uncountable, plural shops)
forms:
form:
shops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
shop
etymology_text:
From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“spade, kick”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”) (< Germanic).
senses_examples:
text:
I just left Dannemora and the same thing is happening here at Auburn prison […] They don't want to put me in the plate shop or let me have a good paying job.
ref:
1986 December 14, Willie Rice, “He Is White And I Am Black”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 22, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
The car's in the shop right now.
type:
example
text:
What struck me about the occasion was the quiet though cheerful tone of the gathering, the restraint, noticeable also in the very few speeches. Chemistry was taboo, by common consent — no " shop " allowed.
ref:
1917, South African Chemical Institute, Proceedings, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
But Mary cut her short.
"We don't allow shop at tea, Sally," she said firmly.
ref:
1919, Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
type:
quotation
text:
Nothing but shop was ever talked on any of these occasions. I am sure these close relationships were necessary for the conduct of the war, and I could not have grasped the whole position without them.
ref:
1953, Winston Churchill, “Strain and Suspense”, in The Second World War, page 619
type:
quotation
text:
a barber shop
text:
This is where I do my weekly shop.
type:
example
text:
I’ve got a big shop, so feel free to go in front.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
Discussion of business or professional affairs.
A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skills.
An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
The collective items bought (or to be bought) on a shopping trip.
senses_topics:
|
14654 | word:
shop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shop (third-person singular simple present shops, present participle shopping, simple past and past participle shopped)
forms:
form:
shops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shopping
tags:
participle
present
form:
shopped
tags:
participle
past
form:
shopped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
shop
etymology_text:
From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“spade, kick”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”) (< Germanic).
senses_examples:
text:
I went shopping early before the Christmas rush.
text:
He’s shopping for clothes.
text:
Shop our new arrivals.
type:
example
text:
You fantasized about having unhurried afternoons before the baby arrived to leisurely shop your favorite boutiques. Then the first crash hits — you no longer have the money to shop your favorite boutiques.
ref:
1988, Sylvia Harney, Married beyond recognition: a humorous look at marriage, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
He shopped his mates in to the police.
type:
example
text:
A grocery clerk who, after he had been "shopped" on occasions, was discharged because he had admitted that on one occasion he had not rung up a sale immediately after the transaction, as required by the company rule, but had recorded it later when he had remembered it, held discharged, but not for misconduct connected with his work […]
ref:
quoted in 1970, United States. Bureau of Employment Security, Benefit Series Service: Unemployment Insurance (page 221-7)
text:
Because mystery shoppers' reports are presented to employees some time (often several days) after they have "been shopped," employees may not be able to recall who the mystery shopper was, even after the fact — and, consequently, they may be unable to judge the accuracy and fairness of these reports.
ref:
2001, Stuart Tannock, Youth at Work: The Unionized Fast-food and Grocery Workplace, page 50
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).
To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
To imprison.
To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
To dismiss from employment.
To investigate or evaluate as a mystery shopper.
senses_topics:
|
14655 | word:
shop
word_type:
intj
expansion:
shop
forms:
wikipedia:
shop
etymology_text:
From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“spade, kick”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”) (< Germanic).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to attract the services of a shop assistant
senses_topics:
|
14656 | word:
barbarian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
barbarian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
barbarian
etymology_text:
From Middle English barbarian, borrowed from Medieval Latin barbarinus (“Berber, pagan, foreigner”), from Latin barbaria (“foreign country”), from barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, non-Greek, strange”), possibly onomatopoeic (mimicking foreign languages, akin to English blah blah). Cognate to Sanskrit बर्बर (barbara, “barbarian, non-Aryan, stammering, blockhead”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to people, countries, or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.
senses_topics:
|
14657 | word:
barbarian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
barbarian (plural barbarians)
forms:
form:
barbarians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
barbarian
etymology_text:
From Middle English barbarian, borrowed from Medieval Latin barbarinus (“Berber, pagan, foreigner”), from Latin barbaria (“foreign country”), from barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, non-Greek, strange”), possibly onomatopoeic (mimicking foreign languages, akin to English blah blah). Cognate to Sanskrit बर्बर (barbara, “barbarian, non-Aryan, stammering, blockhead”).
senses_examples:
text:
Shall a noble writer, and an inspired noble writer, be called a solecist, and barbarian, for giving a new turn to a word so agreeable to the analogy and genius of the Greek tongue?
ref:
1725, Anthony Blackwall, The Sacred Classics Defended And Illustrated
type:
quotation
text:
Thou fell barbarian.
ref:
1712, Ambrose Philips, The Distrest Mother
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A non-Greek or a non-Roman citizen.
An uncivilized or uncultured person, originally compared to the hellenistic Greco-Roman civilisation; usually associated with senseless violence or other such shows of brute strength and lack of mental faculty.
A person destitute of culture; a Philistine.
Someone from a developing country or backward culture.
A warrior depicted in sword and sorcery and other fantasy stories; typically clad in primitive furs or leather and favoring brute strength while often possessing a bellicose temperament and disdain for laws.
A cruel, savage, inhumane, brutal, violently aggressive person, particularly one who is unintelligent or dim-witted; one without pity or empathy.
A foreigner, especially with barbaric qualities as in the above definitions.
senses_topics:
|
14658 | word:
hypergraphic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hypergraphic (comparative more hypergraphic, superlative most hypergraphic)
forms:
form:
more hypergraphic
tags:
comparative
form:
most hypergraphic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to, or exhibiting, hypergraphia.
senses_topics:
|
14659 | word:
hypergraphic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hypergraphic (plural hypergraphics)
forms:
form:
hypergraphics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who suffers from hypergraphia.
senses_topics:
|
14660 | word:
ambisexual
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ambisexual (comparative more ambisexual, superlative most ambisexual)
forms:
form:
more ambisexual
tags:
comparative
form:
most ambisexual
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ambi- + -sexual; in modern senses relating to human sexuality, influenced by bisexual.
senses_examples:
text:
However, the question must be asked: at which stage in the life-history of an ambisexual (hermaphroditic) fish does sex differentiation take place?
ref:
2012, U. Müller, W. Franke, Mechanisms of Gonadal Differentiation in Vertebrates, page 84
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hermaphroditic.
Bisexual: attracted to persons of either sex.
Unisex: fit for persons of either sex.
Of ambiguous sexual orientation.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
|
14661 | word:
ambisexual
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ambisexual (plural ambisexuals)
forms:
form:
ambisexuals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ambi- + -sexual; in modern senses relating to human sexuality, influenced by bisexual.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ambisexual person.
senses_topics:
|
14662 | word:
achate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
achate (plural achates)
forms:
form:
achates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English achate, agaten, from Old French acate, agate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An agate.
senses_topics:
|
14663 | word:
knock off
word_type:
noun
expansion:
knock off (plural knock offs)
forms:
form:
knock offs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
In the verb sense of stopping work, said to be from the practice aboard slave galleys to have a man beat time for the rowers by knocking on a block or drum; when he stopped, the rowers could rest.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of knockoff
senses_topics:
|
14664 | word:
knock off
word_type:
verb
expansion:
knock off (third-person singular simple present knocks off, present participle knocking off, simple past and past participle knocked off)
forms:
form:
knocks off
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
knocking off
tags:
participle
present
form:
knocked off
tags:
participle
past
form:
knocked off
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
In the verb sense of stopping work, said to be from the practice aboard slave galleys to have a man beat time for the rowers by knocking on a block or drum; when he stopped, the rowers could rest.
senses_examples:
text:
I think I'll knock off for the evening and go to bed.
type:
example
text:
The mobsters hired the guy to knock off their enemies.
type:
example
text:
The Hammers knocked off Arsenal on the strength of a 78th-minute tally from Jarrod Bowen.
type:
example
text:
They agreed to knock off 20% of the price.
type:
example
text:
They decided to knock off a liquor store downtown.
type:
example
text:
They send people to the shows in Milan for "ideas", which means knocking off the designs they guess would sell.
type:
example
text:
I took her down to Basin Street and to a movie, then took her to my room and knocked her off.
ref:
1965, Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land
type:
quotation
text:
I knocked off a couple of quick sketches before the design meeting.
type:
example
text:
He was knocked off his bike.
type:
example
text:
It now appears that the locomotive did not blow up, as was commonly stated at the time, but that the aeroplane flew so low as to come into contact with the dome of the engine, knocking it off. It was the combination of the impact and the uprush of steam that so disturbed the equilibrium of the raider as to cause it to crash.
ref:
1943 May and June, “Notes and News: Effective Locomotive "Ack-Ack" Fire”, in Railway Magazine, page 180
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To halt one's work or other activity.
To kill.
To kill.
To defeat.
To remove, as a discount or estimate.
To rob.
To make a copy of, as of a design.
To assign (an item) to a bidder at an auction, indicated by knocking on the counter.
To have sex with (a woman).
To accomplish hastily.
To remove by hitting (something, someone)
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
14665 | word:
black and white warbler
word_type:
noun
expansion:
black and white warbler (plural black and white warblers)
forms:
form:
black and white warblers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small North American bird, Mniotilta varia, that winters in Florida and Central America.
senses_topics:
|
14666 | word:
Christmas
word_type:
name
expansion:
Christmas (countable and uncountable, plural Christmases or Christmasses)
forms:
form:
Christmases
tags:
plural
form:
Christmasses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The proper noun is derived from Middle English Cristemasse, Criste-mas (“Christmas Day; season of Christmas; Christmas festivities”) [and other forms], from Old English Cristes mæsse (“Christmas”, literally “Christ’s mass”), from Crist (“Christ”) + -es (possessive marker) + mæsse (“a mass (celebration of the Eucharist)”). The English word is analysable as Christ + -mas (suffix denoting a holiday or sacred day).
The noun, adjective, and verb are derived from the proper noun.
Adjective sense 1 (“red and green in colour”) refers to these colours being traditionally associated with Christmas.
senses_examples:
text:
Do you celebrate Christmas?
type:
example
text:
This Christmas we’ll open presents, then go to grandma’s for dinner.
type:
example
text:
Be gladde, lordes, bothe more and lasse, / For this hath ordeyned our stewarde / To chere you all this christmasse / The bores heed with mustarde.]
ref:
[[15th century] (date written), “A Caroll Bringyng in the Bores Heed”, in [Christmasse Carolles], London: […] Wynkyn de Worde, published 1521, →OCLC; republished in Joseph Ames, Typographical Antiquities: Being a Historical Account of Printing in England: […], London: […] W[illiam] Faden, and sold by J. Robinson, […], 1749, →OCLC, page 96, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
The lord chancellor holds his fittings in this hall, and in former days, like the Temple, it had its revels and great Chriſtmaſſes. […] The account of the great feaſt in the hall of the Inner Temple, by the ſerjeants, in 1555, is extremely worth conſulting: and alſo of the hoſpitable Chriſtmaſſes of old times.
ref:
1798 July, “Account of Lincoln’s Inn: With a Perspective View of the Hall and Chapel”, in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure; […], volume CIII, London: […] W[illiam] Bent, […], →OCLC, page 42, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
“Lawk!” says our old granddam, who has taken the liberty of looking over our manuscript while we were gone to mix a glass of water and something. “Lawk!” says she, “how can you write such stuff? Christmas, indeed! you’ve no Christmas now. Do you call this Christmas? It’s more like a vapour bath. Such weather! Lawk, how times are changed! the Christmasses I remember! the good, old-fashioned Christmasses, when there was snow on the ground six feet deep, and poor people were starved to death by dozens, and you couldn’t go out without having your fingers frost-bitten, and coals were at six shillings a hundred, and canals froze up so that you couldn’t get your goods, and the roads all impassable, and daren’t ask a few friends to merrymake for fear of losing three or four of ’em going home in snow-drifts, and—oh, those were Christmasses! we shall never see such times again!”
ref:
1840 January, Sylvanus Swanquill [pseudonym; John Hewitt], “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year”, in The New Sporting Magazine, volume XVIII, number 105, London: Walter Spiers, […], →OCLC, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
Reader have your Christmasses hitherto been marked with happiness? Thank God for it. […] Then mamma died—and later in your college days, dear Herbert, when you were both as tall as men, but as fond of play as ever—and we used to spend such happy Christmasses, till our dear father died, / “That was our first sad winter, the one which followed his death, for you remember how sadly we all missed him, and we were still in mourning—but the next one was a happy day, for Lawry was so full of spirits—and that was our last happy Christmas. Herbert darling, Lawrence has left the last impression of happiness on my memory—he, who has since broken up our domestic peace, and for a long time spoilt our Christmasses—Heaven bless him![…]”
ref:
1859, [Florence] Marryatt, chapter XXIX, in Temper. A Novel., New York, N.Y.: Dick & Fitzgerald, […], →OCLC, page 205
type:
quotation
text:
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas / With every Christmas card I write / May your days be merry and bright / And may all your Christmases be white
ref:
1942 July 30, Irving Berlin (lyrics and music), “White Christmas”, performed by Bing Crosby, New York, N.Y.: Decca Records, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Have yourself a merry little Christmas / Let your heart be light / Next year all our troubles will be out of sight
ref:
1943 (date written), “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, in Ralph Blane (lyrics), Hugo Martin (music), Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas: From the M.G.M. Picture Meet Me in St. Louis, performed by Judy Garland, New York, N.Y.: Leo Feist, published 1944, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
The last time I saw her was a week before Christmas, 1980. We took down a fat branch of berried Megginch holly, which we stuck in a pot for a Christmas tree, hung with silver balls and glitters. Aunt Victoria looked at it, smiled and unexpectedly said, “Christmas.” Surely she was sitting there dreaming of Christmasses long past: Christmas in the South China Sea, the Christmas lights of Hong Kong, hot Christmasses so long ago in the Anchises under the Southern Cross stars, or even longer ago of Christmasses at Megginch, singing carols round the lighted Christmas tree in the hall, while Queen Victoria’s goddaughter in her starched white dress and bronze shoes had worn the sparkling pendant given her by the great Queen.
ref:
1994, Cherry Drummond, The Remarkable Life of Victoria Drummond, Marine Engineer, London: The Institute of Marine Engineers, page 354
type:
quotation
text:
I don't want a lot for Christmas / There is just one thing I need / I don't care about the presents / Underneath the Christmas tree / I just want you for my own / More than you could ever know / Make my wish come true / All I want for Christmas is you
ref:
1994 October 29, Mariah Carey, Walter Afanasieff (lyrics and music), “All I Want for Christmas Is You”, in Merry Christmas, performed by Mariah Carey, New York, N.Y.: Columbia Records, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
This is not the first time a city in China has clamped down on Christmas merriment. Last December, Hengyang, a city in Hunan province, issued a stern notice asking Communist Party officials and their relatives to “resist the rampant Western festival.” The China Communist Youth League in Anhui wrote on social media last year that “Christmas is China’s day of shame” and represents a latter-day invasion by the West.
ref:
2018 December 19, Tiffany May, “Chinese City Bans Christmas Displays Amid Religious Crackdown”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-12-19, Asia Pacific
type:
quotation
text:
The last three Christmases have been good for retailers.
type:
example
text:
Christmas shoppers spent less this December than last year, but our store will probably see just as many returned items during the twelve days of Christmas.
type:
example
text:
There'll be parties for hosting / Marshmallows for toasting / And caroling out in the snow / There'll be scary ghost stories / And tales of the glories / Of Christmases long, long ago
ref:
1963 October 14, Eddie [i.e., Edward] Pola, George Wyle (lyrics and music), “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”, performed by Andy Williams, New York, N.Y.: Columbia Records, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Christmas is such a wonderful time of the year / Christmas, it's the season of good cheer / […] / Christmas is love, Christmas is love / The love of God, oh that's the marvelous thing
ref:
1981, John W[illard] Peterson (lyrics and music), “Christmas is Love”, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Singspiration, →OCLC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A festival or holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ and incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian, pagan, and secular customs, which in Western Christianity is celebrated on December 25 (Christmas Day) in most places.
Short for Christmas season (“the period of time before and after Christmas Day, during which people prepare for and celebrate Christmas”); Christmastime.
A number of places in the United States:
An uninhabited mining community in Gila County, Arizona.
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Orange County, Florida.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Au Train Township, Alger County, Michigan.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bolivar County, Mississippi
A surname.
senses_topics:
business
marketing
|
14667 | word:
Christmas
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Christmas (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The proper noun is derived from Middle English Cristemasse, Criste-mas (“Christmas Day; season of Christmas; Christmas festivities”) [and other forms], from Old English Cristes mæsse (“Christmas”, literally “Christ’s mass”), from Crist (“Christ”) + -es (possessive marker) + mæsse (“a mass (celebration of the Eucharist)”). The English word is analysable as Christ + -mas (suffix denoting a holiday or sacred day).
The noun, adjective, and verb are derived from the proper noun.
Adjective sense 1 (“red and green in colour”) refers to these colours being traditionally associated with Christmas.
senses_examples:
text:
Two of the girls carry between them on a stick what they call "the garland", […] The "garland" in shape reminds me of the "Christmas" which used to form the centre of the Christmas decorations in Yorkshire some few years ago, except that the latter had a bunch of mistletoe inside the hoops.
ref:
1893 September, Percy Manning, “[Folk-lore Miscellanea.] May-Day at Watford, Herts.”, in Folk-lore: A Quarterly Review of Myth, Tradition, Institution, & Custom, volume IV, number III, London: David Nutt, […] for The Folk-lore Society, →OCLC, page 403
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sprigs of holly and other evergreen plants used as Christmas decorations; also (generally), any Christmas decorations.
senses_topics:
|
14668 | word:
Christmas
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Christmas (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The proper noun is derived from Middle English Cristemasse, Criste-mas (“Christmas Day; season of Christmas; Christmas festivities”) [and other forms], from Old English Cristes mæsse (“Christmas”, literally “Christ’s mass”), from Crist (“Christ”) + -es (possessive marker) + mæsse (“a mass (celebration of the Eucharist)”). The English word is analysable as Christ + -mas (suffix denoting a holiday or sacred day).
The noun, adjective, and verb are derived from the proper noun.
Adjective sense 1 (“red and green in colour”) refers to these colours being traditionally associated with Christmas.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Red and green in colour.
Of a dish: having a sauce made with red (ripe) and green (unripe) chili peppers.
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle |
14669 | word:
Christmas
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Christmas (third-person singular simple present Christmases or Christmasses, present participle Christmasing or Christmassing, simple past and past participle Christmased or Christmassed)
forms:
form:
Christmases
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Christmasses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Christmasing
tags:
participle
present
form:
Christmassing
tags:
participle
present
form:
Christmased
tags:
participle
past
form:
Christmased
tags:
past
form:
Christmassed
tags:
participle
past
form:
Christmassed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The proper noun is derived from Middle English Cristemasse, Criste-mas (“Christmas Day; season of Christmas; Christmas festivities”) [and other forms], from Old English Cristes mæsse (“Christmas”, literally “Christ’s mass”), from Crist (“Christ”) + -es (possessive marker) + mæsse (“a mass (celebration of the Eucharist)”). The English word is analysable as Christ + -mas (suffix denoting a holiday or sacred day).
The noun, adjective, and verb are derived from the proper noun.
Adjective sense 1 (“red and green in colour”) refers to these colours being traditionally associated with Christmas.
senses_examples:
text:
(Moving to the holly boughs.) Come on; let's finish Christmassing the place.
ref:
1966, James Goldman, The Lion in Winter: A Comedy in Two Acts, New York, N.Y., Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.: Samuel French, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
Haddonfield was completely Christmased deep in December. It was lovely to see the beautifully decorated shops. Huge bows adorned the streetlamps, aerosol snow framed the windows, and people bundled up were moving in and out of the shops as the aroma of spice and clove from holiday candles scented the air.
ref:
2012, Robin S. Shapiro, “It’s Never too Late to Play the Violin”, in Touchstones: Essays on Spirituality and Healing, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
The 2016 campaign via TBWA Sydney asks the question, ‘How do Australians Christmas?’ with a film to be launched today featuring global superstar and style icon, Cate Blanchett.
ref:
2016 November 3, Ricki Green, “David Jones Asks ‘How do Australians Christmas?’ in New Campaign via TBWA Sydney”, in Campaign Brief, archived from the original on 2023-12-24
type:
quotation
text:
I've Christmased since those palmy days / In many a varied spot, / And suffered many a weary phase / Of Christmas cold and hot.
ref:
1878, “Ironbark” [pseudonym; George Herbert Gibson], “Christmas in Australia”, in Southerly Busters, Sydney, N.S.W.: John Sands, […], →OCLC, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
I have spent Christmas on the Severn, at Sharpness Point; in Paris, under siege, and among scenes of heartrending distress; among the Scotch hills, with Presbyterian severity, and I have Christmased in Normandy, where every tree seems green with mistletoe.
ref:
1878 December, Horace L. Nicholson, “Baulked by a Berry”, in W. J. Morgan, editor, The St. James’s Magazine and United Empire Review, volume XXXIV, London: Charing Cross Publishing Company, […], published 1879, →OCLC, page 1107
type:
quotation
text:
Prince Albert Victor on arrival in India will land at Bombay, and travel through Southern India, proceeding from Madras by sea to Calcutta. He will Christmas at Calcutta, and then make a tour through Bengal, and pay a visit to the frontier.
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1889 July 6, “Facts and Fancies”, in St. Stephen’s Review, number 330, London: The Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 9, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
André Maurois will be one of the spearheads of the Harold R[eginald] Peat list for the coming season, a result of Mr. Peat’s holiday visit to England, where he Christmassed with H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells.
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1938 January, Program: A Magazine for Program and Entertainment Committees, volume 4, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Program Company, →OCLC, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Christmasing in Khartoum, writing in his Cairo study about the Al Azhar University, overseeing the publication of learned articles about Moslem medievalism, attending conferences and tea parties hosted by his former AUB students, feted constantly in many an Arab capital, and filling up his diary with descriptions of the bazaars of Lucknow and the exotic birds of Asia, [Bayard] Dodge was reaping the bounty of a life devoted to the Arabs and Moslem culture.
ref:
1993, Robert D[avid] Kaplan, “End of the Rainbow”, in The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite, New York, N.Y.: The Free Press, part I (Dream), page 80
type:
quotation
text:
In particular, please keep my brother in your prayers as he Christmases in Afghanistan.
ref:
2012 October 26, Lorrene Desbien, “December 22”, in Losing Sarah: A Mother’s Journey to Peace, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
“[…] But there’s only so much joyful, greedy delight you can see in a young child’s eyes before you want to go screaming out for the nearest bar.” He tossed his handstitched, kidskin gloves onto the table top. “I’m about Christmassed-out, if you want to know.”
ref:
2001, Susan Kiernan-Lewis, chapter 17, in Toujours Dead: A Mystery in Provence, Atlanta: Abdale Books, page 342
type:
quotation
text:
The kids claim they are all Christmassed-out and have disappeared in protest.
ref:
2008, Tina-Sue Ducross, No Shadows Left Behind, Galion, Oh.: Harris Innovations, page 204
type:
quotation
text:
I had done Christmas in so many ways that I was somewhat ‘Christmassed-out.
ref:
2012, Michael Parker, “Of Loos and Ships and Ceiling Lights, And Cabbages and Kings”, in It’s All Going Terribly Wrong: Organised Chaos at Royal, National and Military Celebrations over 45 years, London: Bene Factum Publishing, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
That evening, after the family, Christmased out, went early to bed, Herman brought out his unmailed letters.
ref:
2005 February, Nora Laurie Percival, Herman Gund, “A Taste of Paradise”, in Silver Pages on the Lawn: A True Story of Student Love during the 1930s, Vilas, N.C.: Kent Hollow Press, published November 2009, part III (Fall 1934—Love Learns), page 141
type:
quotation
text:
Christmas muzak was pumping out, presumably to get her into the spirit of the thing. Not much chance of that, when she had felt all Christmassed out for months. Bugger off, she felt like shouting as a particularly cheesy version of ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ blared out. Look at all these people. Do any of them look bloody merry?
ref:
2009, Julia Williams, “Prologue”, in Last Christmas, London: Avon, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
I notice that this is one of the very few buildings in town that hasn’t any Christmas decorations whatsoever. / “We’re a respite from Christmas, I guess,” Suze explains. “Our kids are all Christmassed out.”
ref:
2012, Jon Ronson, “Santa’s Little Conspirators”, in Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, part three (Everyday Difficulty), page 157
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To decorate (a place) with Christmas (“sprigs of holly and other evergreen plants used as Christmas decorations, or any Christmas decorations”).
To bring (someone) Christmas cheer.
To celebrate Christmas.
To spend Christmas or the Christmas season in some place.
To subject to Christmas celebrations.
senses_topics:
|
14670 | word:
Christmas
word_type:
intj
expansion:
Christmas
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Short for Jiminy Christmas, probably a variant of Jiminy Cricket or Jiminy Crickets, a euphemism for Jesus Christ.
senses_examples:
text:
"Christmas! I didn't know it," said Harvey, turning round. "I'll give you a dollar for it when I—get my wages. Say, I'll give you two dollars."
ref:
1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous
type:
quotation
text:
"I've been tottering on the edge … Christmas!" His eyes brightened with a sudden thought. "How stupid I've been!" he cried at once.
ref:
1930, Ellery Queen [pseudonym; Frederic Dannay, Manfred Bennington Lee], “‘The Time has Come …’”, in The French Powder Mystery: A Problem in Deduction, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes Company, →OCLC, page 269
type:
quotation
text:
She said, "All right with you, Bertie?" / "Oh Christmas! he said. "I suppose so."
ref:
1959, Ngaio Marsh, “On the Scent”, in False Scent, New York, N.Y.: Jove Books, published November 1981, section 3, page 158
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression of annoyance or surprise: Christ, Jesus Christ, Jiminy Cricket, Jiminy Crickets.
senses_topics:
|
14671 | word:
bodily fluid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bodily fluid (plural bodily fluids)
forms:
form:
bodily fluids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
Any liquid portion of the body, such as blood, urine, semen, saliva, especially when expelled.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
14672 | word:
Bouvet Island
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bouvet Island
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An uninhabited volcanic island and dependent territory of Norway in the South Atlantic Ocean, south-southwest of the South African Cape of Good Hope.
senses_topics:
|
14673 | word:
whereas
word_type:
adv
expansion:
whereas (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From where + as (“that”); first attested in the meaning of "where" First attested in the 14ᵗʰ century. Compare thereas.
senses_examples:
text:
And home she came, whereas her mother blynd / Sate in eternall night […]
ref:
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Where (that).
senses_topics:
|
14674 | word:
whereas
word_type:
conj
expansion:
whereas
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From where + as (“that”); first attested in the meaning of "where" First attested in the 14ᵗʰ century. Compare thereas.
senses_examples:
text:
He came first in the race, whereas his brother came last.
type:
example
text:
And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in Congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union.
ref:
1778, United States Articles of Confederation
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In contrast; whilst on the contrary; although.
It being the fact that; inasmuch as. (Often used to begin recitals; sometimes emboldened or emphasized as a signifier.)
senses_topics:
law |
14675 | word:
whereas
word_type:
noun
expansion:
whereas (plural whereases)
forms:
form:
whereases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From where + as (“that”); first attested in the meaning of "where" First attested in the 14ᵗʰ century. Compare thereas.
senses_examples:
text:
[…]the promise is stated after a whereas, though the promise is the very gist of the action, yet, such a count so framed, will be held good on demurrer.
ref:
1883, The Insurance Law Journal, Potter and Company
type:
quotation
text:
It had a page or so of whereases.
ref:
1908, United States Congress, Hearings beginning March 9, 1908 – April 30, 1908
type:
quotation
text:
I feel it is most unfortunate that some of the preambles, prefaces, whereases or whatever you want to call it, are put before motions or before resolutions[…]
ref:
1961, Aluminum Workers' International Union, Biennial Convention
type:
quotation
text:
If it is the desire of any Lodge on the floor that the whereases that were listed in their original Resolution be quoted by the Chairman or by the Secretary[…]
ref:
1973, Canadian Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Proceedings
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A clause, as in legal documents, stating whereas.
senses_topics:
|
14676 | word:
prothonotary warbler
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prothonotary warbler (plural prothonotary warblers)
forms:
form:
prothonotary warblers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small North American bird, Protonotaria citrea, having a yellow body and blue wings; it breeds in swampland.
senses_topics:
|
14677 | word:
says
word_type:
verb
expansion:
says
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
She says it is beautiful.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of say
senses_topics:
|
14678 | word:
says
word_type:
noun
expansion:
says
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of say
senses_topics:
|
14679 | word:
American golden plover
word_type:
noun
expansion:
American golden plover (plural American golden plovers)
forms:
form:
American golden plovers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A medium-sized, migratory plover of the Americas, Pluvialis dominica.
senses_topics:
|
14680 | word:
black-bellied plover
word_type:
noun
expansion:
black-bellied plover (plural black-bellied plovers)
forms:
form:
black-bellied plovers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Arctic bird, Pluvialis squatarola.
senses_topics:
|
14681 | word:
Burgas
word_type:
name
expansion:
Burgas
forms:
wikipedia:
Burgas
etymology_text:
There are several possible origins for the name of the city, which is similar to Burgos, a city in Spain. When the city was founded, the inhabitants of the surrounding country got into the fortified village, named πύργος (púrgos, “fortress”). By another theory, the city's name comes from Latin burgus (“tower, fortress”), or Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐍃 (baurgs, “consolidated walled village”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in eastern Bulgaria.
A province in eastern Bulgaria.
senses_topics:
|
14682 | word:
Pashto
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Pashto (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Pashto پښتو (paẍto).
senses_examples:
text:
Tariq clenched his teeth and muttered something to himself in Pashto that Laila didn’t catch.
ref:
2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 131
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The native Indo-Iranian language of the Pashtun people; an official language of Afghanistan.
senses_topics:
|
14683 | word:
Namur
word_type:
name
expansion:
Namur
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Wallonia, Belgium.
A province of Wallonia, Belgium.
senses_topics:
|
14684 | word:
Namur
word_type:
name
expansion:
Namur
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Marshallese Nim̧ur.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Namur islet, Kwajalein atoll, Marshall Islands.
senses_topics:
|
14685 | word:
soporific
word_type:
noun
expansion:
soporific (plural soporifics)
forms:
form:
soporifics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French soporifique, from Latin sopor (“deep sleep”). Unrelated to stupor (distinct in Proto-Indo-European).
senses_examples:
text:
The doctor prescribed a soporific to help the patient sleep.
type:
example
text:
And ancient soporifics—such as poisonous leaves and various opiate concoctions—were roughly as likely to kill you as they were to induce REM.
ref:
2022 January 27, Derek Thompson, “Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia?”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.
Something boring or dull.
senses_topics:
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
|
14686 | word:
soporific
word_type:
adj
expansion:
soporific (comparative more soporific, superlative most soporific)
forms:
form:
more soporific
tags:
comparative
form:
most soporific
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French soporifique, from Latin sopor (“deep sleep”). Unrelated to stupor (distinct in Proto-Indo-European).
senses_examples:
text:
It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is “soporific.” I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a rabbit. They certainly had a very soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies!
ref:
1909, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies
type:
quotation
text:
I should imagine that the smooth riding and the quietness of the diesel or electric cab, coupled with the effect on the eyes of endless successions of sleepers disappearing from sight immediately under the driver's eyes, might in time have a soporific effect, so that the company of a second man, who can assist in signal observations when he is not at work in the engine cab, seems highly desirable in such conditions.
ref:
1961 July, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 401
type:
quotation
text:
The professor delivered a soporific lecture.
type:
example
text:
COP stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph (the Paris agreement in 2015) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009).
ref:
2019 December 2, Fiona Harvey, “Climate crisis: what is COP and can it save the world?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tending to induce sleep.
Boring, dull.
senses_topics:
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
|
14687 | word:
varna
word_type:
noun
expansion:
varna (plural varnas)
forms:
form:
varnas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Sanskrit वर्ण (várṇa, “colour, tint, dye, pigment, appearance, aspect”), from verbal root वृणोति (vṛṇoti, “to choose, select”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
any of the four original castes in Hinduism, or the system of such castes
senses_topics:
|
14688 | word:
ERP
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ERP (countable and uncountable, plural ERPs)
forms:
form:
ERPs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The guild, called Abhorrent Taboo on WoW's Ravenholdt server, attracted gamers through its participation in Erotic Roleplay (ERP). In the case of massive multiplayer online games, this usually involves grinding avatars together to simulate sexual encounters and erotically-charged text chatting.
ref:
2007 September 18, Austin Modine, “World of Warcraft smites den of orc and elf sexual delinquency”, in The Register
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of erotic roleplay.
Initialism of event-related potential.
Initialism of equity risk premium.
Initialism of estimated retail price.
Initialism of enterprise resource planning.
Initialism of effective radiated power.
Initialism of effective refractory period.
senses_topics:
medicine
neurology
neurophysiology
neuroscience
physiology
sciences
business
finance
business
finance
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
medicine
physiology
sciences |
14689 | word:
ERP
word_type:
name
expansion:
ERP
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Electronic road pricing (ERP)is one of the main tools which is keeping Singapore’s traffic problems within manageable levels.
ref:
2004 Feb, ERP in Singapore - what’s been learnt from five years of operation, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
Many car parks are now run using the same in-vehicle unit and cashcard and ERP gantries instead of the coupon system.
ref:
2010, Simon Richard, Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei, page 569
type:
quotation
text:
However, the term ERP is unique to Singapore, and it serves to differentiate the fact that charges are not collected at physical toll stations but are done automatically on the roadways.
ref:
2011, Ozge Yalciner Ercoskin, Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning: Creating Smart Cities: Creating Smart Cities, page 178
type:
quotation
text:
The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has called a tender to develop Singapore's next generation electronic road pricing system. The new system will be based on Global Navigation Satellite System technology.
ref:
2014 October 1, The Straits Times (online), LTA calls tender for next generation ERP
type:
quotation
text:
Singapore has cleared the way for its next-generation Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system, which will have islandwide coverage and the ability to charge according to distance travelled.
ref:
2016 February 25, Christopher Tan, The Straits Times (Singapore), LTA to roll out next-generation ERP from 2020, NCS-MHI to build system for $556m
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Electronic Road Pricing. an electronic system of road pricing with gantries installed throughout several locations in Singapore, with the purpose of managing traffic problems especially during peak hours.
senses_topics:
transport |
14690 | word:
pauper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pauper (plural paupers)
forms:
form:
paupers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin pauper (“poor”). Originally a legal term. Doublet of poor.
senses_examples:
text:
He has hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank, and he lives like a pauper!
ref:
1991, Art Spiegelman, Maus I: My Father Bleeds History, New York: Pantheon Books, page 132
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who is extremely poor.
One living on or eligible for public charity.
senses_topics:
|
14691 | word:
pauper
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pauper (third-person singular simple present paupers, present participle paupering, simple past and past participle paupered)
forms:
form:
paupers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
paupering
tags:
participle
present
form:
paupered
tags:
participle
past
form:
paupered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin pauper (“poor”). Originally a legal term. Doublet of poor.
senses_examples:
text:
“There's no sense in you paupering yourself because you're too stubborn to take my money.”
ref:
2017, Naomi Rawlings, Love's Christmas Hope
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a pauper of; to drive into poverty.
senses_topics:
|
14692 | word:
sabbatical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sabbatical (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin sabbaticus + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to the Sabbath.
Relating to a sabbatical.
senses_topics:
|
14693 | word:
sabbatical
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sabbatical (plural sabbaticals)
forms:
form:
sabbaticals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin sabbaticus + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An extended period of leave from a person's usual pursuits.
A sabbatical year (ancient religious observance).
senses_topics:
|
14694 | word:
bergen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bergen (plural bergens)
forms:
form:
bergens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortened from Bergen rucksack, possibly named after their creator, Norwegian Ole F. Bergan, combined with the name of the Norwegian city of Bergen.
senses_examples:
text:
Their bergens were already stuffed almost to bursting point, as were their belt kits, with rations, water, radios and spare batteries, ammunition, personal equipment, sleeping bags, waterproofs, medical packs, survival kits, and much more.
ref:
2012, Peter Ratcliffe, Eye of the Storm
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large rucksack.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
14695 | word:
haemorrhage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
haemorrhage (countable and uncountable, plural haemorrhages)
forms:
form:
haemorrhages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
We got news that he died of a haemorrhage!
type:
example
text:
Lan Chengzhang, who worked for the China Trade News, died of an apparent brain haemorrhage after over 20 thugs set upon him and his taxi driver on January 10 at a mine in Hunyuan county, in the northern province of Shanxi.
ref:
2007 January 24, “China's Hu takes up case of dead reporter”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-03-10, World News
type:
quotation
text:
Relics of the British empire now mostly survive in the interstices of the global economy. They are the major winners from the fiscal haemorrhage that has resulted from financial globalisation.
ref:
2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
British standard spelling of hemorrhage.
senses_topics:
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14696 | word:
haemorrhage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
haemorrhage (third-person singular simple present haemorrhages, present participle haemorrhaging, simple past and past participle haemorrhaged)
forms:
form:
haemorrhages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
haemorrhaging
tags:
participle
present
form:
haemorrhaged
tags:
participle
past
form:
haemorrhaged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
It’s haemorrhaging now!
type:
example
text:
The company haemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.
type:
example
text:
In the early 1980s, the UK was gripped by a recession. A newly elected Conservative government was never going to let BR haemorrhage money if it could help it.
ref:
2021 July 14, Pip Dunn, “Woodhead 40 years on: time to let go”, in RAIL, number 935, page 39
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
British standard spelling of hemorrhage.
senses_topics:
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14697 | word:
negligible
word_type:
adj
expansion:
negligible (comparative more negligible, superlative most negligible)
forms:
form:
more negligible
tags:
comparative
form:
most negligible
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From negligence/negligent + -ible, as if from New Latin *negligibilis, from Latin neglegō (“I neglect”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).
senses_examples:
text:
We found errors, but their effects were negligible.
type:
example
text:
Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini.
ref:
2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.
senses_topics:
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14698 | word:
faze
word_type:
verb
expansion:
faze (third-person singular simple present fazes, present participle fazing, simple past and past participle fazed)
forms:
form:
fazes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fazing
tags:
participle
present
form:
fazed
tags:
participle
past
form:
fazed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese (“to alarm, discomfit, frighten”), from Middle English fēsen (“to chase, drive away; put to flight; discomfit, frighten, terrify”), from Old English fēsan, fȳsan (“to send forth; to hasten, impel, stimulate; to banish, drive away, put to flight; to prepare oneself”), from Proto-West Germanic *funsijan, from Proto-Germanic *funsijaną (“to predispose, make favourable; to make ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go; to walk”). The word is cognate with Old Saxon fūsian (“to strive”), Old Norse fýsa (“to drive, goad; to admonish”).
Citations for faze in the Oxford English Dictionary start in 1830, and usage was established by 1890.
senses_examples:
text:
Jumping out of an airplane does not faze him, yet he is afraid to ride a roller coaster.
type:
example
text:
But we're / Not getting anywhere. Nothing / fazes her.
ref:
1965, Catullus, translated by Barriss Mills, The Carmina of Catullus: A Verse Translation, [West Lafayette, Ind.]: Purdue University Studies, →OCLC, carminum 42, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
In the dreary world / That we're living in / It's fashionable / To let nothing faze you
ref:
1978, “Living in a Dream”, in On the Edge, performed by Sea Level
type:
quotation
text:
Some individuals "can't hold their liquor" and become thoroughly intoxicated on small amounts of alcohol which would not faze most social drinkers.
ref:
1990, “Assessment”, in Broadening the Base of Treatment for Alcohol Problems: Report of a Study by a Committee of the Institute of Medicine, Division of Mental Health and Behavioral Medicine, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, section III (Aspects of Treatment), pages 252–253
type:
quotation
text:
He sticks it out even further in the scherzo, fazing the listener with displaced accents, and then inserting a malicious pause just when we seem to have found our feet.
ref:
2009, Richard Wigmore, The Faber Pocket Guide to Haydn, London: Faber and Faber, page 192
type:
quotation
text:
[Gareth] Southgate should be absolutely clear now that [Jordan] Pickford is not fazed by the big occasion but, on the flip-side, he might not be too thrilled his goalkeeper was involved so much.
ref:
2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2018-03-28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb.
senses_topics:
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14699 | word:
cantankerous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cantankerous (comparative more cantankerous, superlative most cantankerous)
forms:
form:
more cantankerous
tags:
comparative
form:
most cantankerous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Perhaps derived from earlier contenkerous, from contentious + rancorous.
senses_examples:
text:
"She is a cantankerous old maid," added another, whom I recognised, by his voice, as a man whose attentions I had put a determined check to not six weeks before: "she is a cantankerous old maid, fretting and snarling over the loss of her beauty."
ref:
1839, “The youth of Julia Howard”, in Fraser's magazine for town and country, volume 20, page 618
type:
quotation
text:
Murphy's Law never proved itself more accurate than at the Nov. 18 film benefit for Persephone Press. With problems ranging from a cantankerous projector to blown fuses, the presentations of Jan Oxenberg's films were blurred, disrupted and played with lapses in their soundtracks.
ref:
1978 December 9, Pat M. Kuras, “A Splice of Lesbian Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
By contrast, cantankerous and churlish people are contemptuously independent of others’ opinions, not caring enough about others and their views.
ref:
1998, Pauline Chazan, The Moral Self, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
Nina was thrilled, muttering her cantankerous joy that I was getting out of the house.
ref:
2007, Linda Francis Lee, The Devil in the Junior League, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
Unfortunately, as Great-Aunt Bert could be a bit cantankerous, they were having to be creative.
ref:
2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest, page 169
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby.
senses_topics:
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