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14700 | word:
George Town
word_type:
name
expansion:
George Town
forms:
wikipedia:
King George III
etymology_text:
Both capitals were named after King George III of the United Kingdom.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital of the Cayman Islands.
The capital of Penang, Malaysia.
A town and local government area (George Town Council) in northern Tasmania, Australia.
senses_topics:
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14701 | word:
quibble
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quibble (plural quibbles)
forms:
form:
quibbles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Origin uncertain. Possibly from quib (“quibble”, noun) + -le (diminutive ending). Quib is probably from Latin quibus (“in what respect? how?”), which appeared frequently in legal documents and came to be suggestive of the verbosity and petty argumentation found therein; or perhaps an alteration of quip. Alternatively, perhaps related to dialectal Dutch kwebbelen (“to speak quickly and continuously, chatter”). Compare also Scots wheebele (“a quibble”).
senses_examples:
text:
He harped on his quibble about how the dark red paint should be described as carmine rather than burgundy.
type:
example
text:
Toward the end of “Galatea,” there are a few missteps: […] All in all, though, these are minor quibbles.
ref:
1995 June 27, Michiko Kakutani, “Playing Pygmalion to a Hermeneutic Computer”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Essentially, we want a commitment to no-quibble refunds, without admin fees, if people who have already paid decide not to travel because of the virus.
ref:
2020 March 25, “Network News: Passengers offered refunds or switched fares”, in Rail, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Is it a quibble, or play upon words?
ref:
1864, Robert Kemp Philp, editor, The Family Friend, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
This is a quibble between council and counsel. The latter word is still used to imply secrecy; as in the phrase, "keep your own counsel."
ref:
1870, Richard Grant White, The complete works of Shakspere, with a memoir, and essay
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An argument or objection based on an ambiguity of wording or similar trivial circumstance; a minor complaint.
A pun.
senses_topics:
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14702 | word:
quibble
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quibble (third-person singular simple present quibbles, present participle quibbling, simple past and past participle quibbled)
forms:
form:
quibbles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quibbling
tags:
participle
present
form:
quibbled
tags:
participle
past
form:
quibbled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Origin uncertain. Possibly from quib (“quibble”, noun) + -le (diminutive ending). Quib is probably from Latin quibus (“in what respect? how?”), which appeared frequently in legal documents and came to be suggestive of the verbosity and petty argumentation found therein; or perhaps an alteration of quip. Alternatively, perhaps related to dialectal Dutch kwebbelen (“to speak quickly and continuously, chatter”). Compare also Scots wheebele (“a quibble”).
senses_examples:
text:
They are constantly quibbling over insignificant details.
type:
example
text:
Mr. Musk has shown a disdain toward Twitter’s previous corporate culture. He has quibbled with the number of bird references in the company’s internal team names and products.
ref:
2023 July 24, Ryan Mac, Tiffany Hsu, “From Twitter to X: Elon Musk Begins Erasing an Iconic Internet Brand”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
The customer quibbled the bill.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner.
To contest, especially some trivial issue in a petty manner.
senses_topics:
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14703 | word:
diaphanous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
diaphanous (comparative more diaphanous, superlative most diaphanous)
forms:
form:
more diaphanous
tags:
comparative
form:
most diaphanous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin diaphanus, from Ancient Greek διαφανής (diaphanḗs), from δια- (dia-, “through”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “to shine, appear”).
senses_examples:
text:
Adam requires a touch of feminine lace and a whisper of diaphanous silk, not a direct vision of the gaping maw of the human vulva.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 23
type:
quotation
text:
But nonetheless the purpleness of the imagined purple cow will almost certainly be meaner, more diaphanous, more fleeting than any real-life purple that you ever saw: to imagine a purple cow is just not the same thing as to have a purple sensation (or at least a purple sensation worth the name).
ref:
1999, Nicholas Humphrey, A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
The evening mist, drifting among the leafless poplars, veiled their silhouettes with a violet film, paler and more translucent than the most diaphanous gauze that might have caught in their branches.
ref:
2004, Gustave Flaubert, translated by Margaret Maulden, Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
1951, Robert Frost, Unpublished preface to a collection, 2007, Mark Richardson (editor), The Collected Prose of Robert Frost, page 169,
The most diaphanous wings carry a burden of pollen from flower to flower.
text:
1963, Hermann Weyl, quoted in 1985, Floyd Merrell, Deconstruction Reframed, page 67,
What is amazing is that "a concept that is created by mind itself, the sequence of integers, the simplest and most diaphanous thing for the constructive mind, assumes a similar aspect of obscurity and deficiency when viewed from the axiomatic angle" (Weyl, 1963, 220).
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Transparent or translucent; allowing light to pass through; capable of being seen through.
Of a fine, almost transparent, texture; gossamer; light and insubstantial.
Isorefractive, having an identical refractive index.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
14704 | word:
gris-gris
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gris-gris (plural gris-gris)
forms:
form:
gris-gris
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown. Compare juju (“a fetish or charm”); compare also Mande gerregery or Mandingo gregory, an amulet or curse-object.
senses_examples:
text:
A horn, or rude image, is sometimes made use of as a means of preserving the medicines of defense, and is worn as an amulet. These images, horns, or other articles, called greegrees, or jeujeus, are not held sacred for a moment after the medicine is found to have lost its power […].
ref:
1865, David Livingstone, Charles Livingstone, Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
type:
quotation
text:
The Bambara were not Muslim, but they knew how to make gris-gris.
ref:
2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books, published 2009, page 61
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An African, or Afro-American, charm or talisman.
senses_topics:
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14705 | word:
Antwerp
word_type:
name
expansion:
Antwerp
forms:
wikipedia:
Antwerp
Antwerp (province)
etymology_text:
From Dutch Antwerpen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Flanders, Belgium, the most populous.
The second-largest city in Belgium, and the capital of its province.
senses_topics:
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14706 | word:
moniker
word_type:
noun
expansion:
moniker (plural monikers)
forms:
form:
monikers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Online Etymological Dictionary
Saturday Review (London newspaper)
etymology_text:
Unknown, first attested 1849. Suggested derivations are:
* Backslang for ekename (compare nickname);
* From Shelta munik, munika;
* From monk;
* Partridge (A Dictionary of Historical Slang) suggests a corruption of monogram, which is suggestive of the sense signature.
* From monarch in the sense 'king or No. 1, and thus with frank egotism, "I, myself".' (The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 281, pg. 349.)
Online Etymological Dictionary's entry cites in 1857, the Saturday Review (London newspaper) noted, "the word has a certain Coptic or Egyptian twang".
senses_examples:
text:
The rookie was upset at being called Lemon Drop until she realized that everyone on the team had a silly moniker.
type:
example
text:
Again fairly common, and always amusing, are the monikers drawn from the (imagined) childhood of a particular vagrant.
ref:
2000, Jim Phelan, “Irish Writing in the 1940s”, in David Pierce, editor, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader, page 541
type:
quotation
text:
A gang member may receive a new identity by taking on a nickname, or moniker, which others in the gang world would recognize. Monikers affirm a youth's commitment to gang life and may become their sole identity, the only way they see thselves and the only name they go by.
ref:
2010, Linda S. Miller, Kären M. Hess, Christine M. H. Orthmann, Community Policing: Partnerships for Problem Solving, 6th edition, page 388
type:
quotation
text:
Recently, a class of reactions has gained tremendous attention in the chemistry community under the moniker of "click chemistry," a concept introduced by Kolb and colleagues.
ref:
2010, Neal K. Devaraj, Ralph Weissleder, “30: "Click Chemistry": Applications to Molecular Imaging”, in Ralph Weissleder, Brian D. Ross, Alnawaz Rehemtulla, Sanjiv Sam, editors, Molecular Imaging, Principles and Practice, page 471
type:
quotation
text:
Actually, the various monikers Pilgrims, Puritans, Plymouth Rocks, Red Stockings, Hubs and Hubites were frequently used, informally, for both Boston big league clubs until 1912.
ref:
2012, Richard Worth, Baseball Team Names, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
The monikers of both these famously well-endowed movie stars contain enormous sworls (two of them, no less, for Ms West!) that could only signify you-know-what, according to Ms Koren.
ref:
2007, Barry L. Beyerstein, “Chapter 16: Graphology-a total write-off”, in Sergio Della Sala, editor, Tall Tales About the Mind and Brain: Separating Fact from Fiction, page 255
type:
quotation
text:
Monikers are often composed from other monikers to allow object hierarchies to be navigated based on a textual description of a path.
ref:
1998, Don Box, Essential COM, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
The GetObject function can also be used to access objects via monikers. A moniker is itself an object that acts as an intermediary between VBScript and the actual object to be accessed. Monikers are typically used when the objects to be accessed exist in a namespace other than the file system.
ref:
1999, Tim Hill, Windows 2000: Windows Script Host, page 186
type:
quotation
text:
There are different types of monikers, but the one that deals with object instantiation is the class moniker. A class moniker portrays a class factory.
ref:
2011, Thuan L. Thai, Learning DCOM, O'Reilly, page 121
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute.
A person's signature.
An object (structured item of data) used to associate the name of an object with its location.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
14707 | word:
Bruges
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bruges
forms:
wikipedia:
Bruges
etymology_text:
From French Bruges, from Old French, from Old Dutch Bruges, Bruggas, Brugias, probably from brugga (“bridge”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ. Doublet of bridge and Brigg.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of West Flanders province, Belgium.
A city and town in Gironde, Aquitaine, region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
senses_topics:
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14708 | word:
Nauruan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Nauruan (plural Nauruans)
forms:
form:
Nauruans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Nauruan
etymology_text:
From Nauru + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
Landowners received royalties from the phosphate earnings, and many Nauruans were unemployed by choice.
ref:
2024, Nauru Britannica
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Nauru or of Nauruan descent.
senses_topics:
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14709 | word:
Nauruan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Nauruan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Nauruan
etymology_text:
From Nauru + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Nauru, the Nauruan people or the Nauruan language.
senses_topics:
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14710 | word:
Nauruan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nauruan
forms:
wikipedia:
Nauruan
etymology_text:
From Nauru + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the language of Nauru
senses_topics:
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14711 | word:
innuendo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
innuendo (plural innuendoes or innuendos or innuendis)
forms:
form:
innuendoes
tags:
plural
form:
innuendos
tags:
plural
form:
innuendis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the Latin innuendō (“by nodding”), ablative singular form of innuendum (“a nodding”), gerund of innuō (“I give a nod”).
senses_examples:
text:
She made a devious innuendo about her opponent, who was embarrassed.
type:
example
text:
We were both quite good friends and apart from the playful innuendos about having an affair together we never really did anything.
ref:
1995, Bunmi Sofola, Yours Sincerely: Selected Writings of Bunmi Sofola
type:
quotation
text:
Later in this phone call, Frank assk Libby on a date, and she accepts the invitation. [...] A similar road toward flirtatious innuendo seems to be at work in the following example. / FIELD NOTE / Fred: Who's that beautiful girl in that great sports car?! / Shirley: ((lightheartedly)) Shut up and get in the car! / Fred: You mean I get to ride with the beautiful girl? / :Template:[...] Fred offers a courtly compliment, which Shirley brushes aside with a rude retort. This creates an unusual event, and Fred's persistent repetition of the compliment makes a flirtatious intention seem likely. Of course, flirtatious may be touched off by more marked sexual innuendo. / FIELD NOTE / ((co-workers are working late, finishing a project)) / Velma: You know how it is when you're close but can't stop. / Sid: ((starts to give Velma a shoulder rub)) / Velma makes a comment with a possible sexual meaning, and Sid responds by initiating body contact (in a public place) to show that he hears (and follows up on) the sexual double entendre.
ref:
1998, Anna Banks, Stephen P. Banks, Fiction and Social Research: By Ice Or Fire, Rowman & Littlefield, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
Donoghue represents the closet in Stir-Fry as a performance space of playful innuendo and verbal wit, while Hensher describes it in Kitchen Venom as an existential site to which the subject retreats in a paranoid attempt to avoid cultural and social definition.
ref:
2012 January 15, Paulina Palmer, The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic, University of Wales Press, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
This is kalaburi, a joking banter that includes stories, jokes, wordplays (puns and double entendres, which are often sexual), and playful innuendo.
ref:
2016 September 29, Jane K. Cowan, Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece, Princeton University Press, page 157
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A derogatory hint or reference to, or (often sexual) insinuation about, a person or thing.
A remark that is suggestive of something sexual without stating it explicitly.
A rhetorical device with an omitted, but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument.
Part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander, pointing out what and who was meant by the libellous matter or description.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
law |
14712 | word:
innuendo
word_type:
verb
expansion:
innuendo (third-person singular simple present innuendos, present participle innuendoing, simple past and past participle innuendoed)
forms:
form:
innuendos
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
innuendoing
tags:
participle
present
form:
innuendoed
tags:
participle
past
form:
innuendoed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the Latin innuendō (“by nodding”), ablative singular form of innuendum (“a nodding”), gerund of innuō (“I give a nod”).
senses_examples:
text:
A statement that a person's presence at a certain club may be "irksome," may be innuendoed that the person is of such bad character as not to be a fit associate with honourable men.
ref:
1894, Frank Towers Cooper, A Handbook of the Law of Defamation and Verbal Injury, page 119
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To interpret (something libellous or slanderous) in terms of what was implied.
senses_topics:
law |
14713 | word:
Israeli
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Israeli (plural Israelis)
forms:
form:
Israelis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Israel + -i.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Israel or of Israeli descent.
senses_topics:
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14714 | word:
Israeli
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Israeli (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Israel + -i.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Israel, the Israeli people.
senses_topics:
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14715 | word:
Israeli
word_type:
name
expansion:
Israeli
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Israel + -i.
senses_examples:
text:
Thus, when most native Israeli-speakers speak Israeli, their intonation is much more similar to that of Yiddish, the mother tongue of most revivalists, than to that of Arabic or any other language belonging to the Semitic branch […]
ref:
2010, Joshua A. Fishman, Ofelia García, Handbook of Language & Ethnic Identity, volume 2, page 73
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The modern Hebrew language.
senses_topics:
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14716 | word:
Formosa
word_type:
name
expansion:
Formosa
forms:
wikipedia:
Formosa (disambiguation)
Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Ilha Formosa (“Beautiful Island”) and Portuguese Vila Formosa da Imperatriz (“Beautiful Town of the Empress”), from formosa (“beautiful”), from Latin fōrmōsus (“beautiful, well-formed”), from fōrma (“form, shape”) + -ōsus (“-ose: full of”). The Brazilian city is named in honor of the empress Teresa Cristina in the 1840s.
senses_examples:
text:
Heere we had the higheſt Land of Formoſa, South-eaſt, the neereſt land about eight leagues off, the neather point of it Eaſt by North ten leagues off our depth, fortie ſixe fathomes ozie : the latitude twentie fiue degree twentie minutes. From the high Land of Formoſa, ſtretcheth out a lower Land to the water-ſide, being a white ſandy ſhoare, and ſmooth ſand Hils farther vp the Countrey, much like to the Coaſt of Barbary.
ref:
1625, Samuel Purchas, Pvrchas His Pilgrimes, volume I, London, →OCLC, page 652
type:
quotation
text:
The Iſland Formoſa, or the fair Iſland doth alſo belong to this Province ; as likewiſe the near adjacent Iſland called Teiwan, which the Hollanders poſſeſs, who have built a Fort there called new Zealand.
ref:
1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
THE Iſland of Formoſa is about Eighty Leagues in compaſs ; ſo that the Hollanders were never in poſſeſſion of the whole Iſland, but were onely Maſters of four Fortreſſes, and two and fifty Villages, wherein they could number about fourteen or fifteen thouſand Inhabitants.
ref:
1684, A New and Particular Relation of the Kingdom of Tunquin, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
We do not want Formosa or any part of Asia for ourselves. We believe that the future of Formosa should be settled peacefully by international action.
ref:
1950 September 1, Harry S. Truman, 3:42 from the start, in MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162
type:
quotation
text:
These two islands are in the area of freedom. The Nationalists have these two islands. We should not force our Nationalist allies to get off of them and give them to the Communists. If we do that, we start a chain reaction, because the Communists aren't after Quemoy and Matsu, they're after Formosa.
ref:
1960, 56:02 from the start, in Presidential Candidates Debate, Richard Nixon (actor), via C-SPAN
type:
quotation
text:
The developing scene had ominous aspects. The Chinese Communists were constantly threatening aggressive action against Formosa and the government of Chiang Kai-shek. Ever since World War II, the United States had recognized the strategic necessity of maintaining the integrity of the Western Pacific island chain, including Formosa as one of its principal links. Our readiness to go to the defense of that island, if it were attacked, had been announced as a governmental policy before I was inaugurated, and I had personally emphasized the importance of this island's safety to our nation's security.
ref:
1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 168
type:
quotation
text:
FORMOSA (TAIWAN) is an island separated from the southeast coast of China by the 121-mi.-wide Formosa strait (T’ai-wan hai-hsia) and one of a great island system rimming the western Pacific ocean.
ref:
1968, Norton S. Ginsburg, “FORMOSA”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 9, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 627, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
When our airplanes first took off that morning, the Japs did come in. They hit the city of Baguio in the northern part of Luzon, and then went back to Formosa.
ref:
1984, Anton Bilek, “Anton Bilek”, in Studs Terkel, editor, "The Good War": An Oral History of World War Two, New York: Pantheon Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
A new broom is not more active for reform than this new governor-general is in the new province of Formosa.
ref:
1887 April 6, “A Camphor Monopoly.”, in Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter, volume XXXI, number 14, →OCLC, page 56, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
H. E. Li.—We can say in the Treaty "In respect to the province of Formosa, when the Treaty has been ratified and exchanged the two Governments shall draw up the conditions for the transfer."
ref:
1895, Verbal Discussions During Peace Negotiations Between the Chinese Plenipotentiary, Viceroy Li Hung-chang and the Japanese Plenipotentiaries Count Ito and Viscount Mutsu, at Shimonoseki, Japan, →OCLC, page 22, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
UNTIL 1895, Formosa formed the nineteenth and only insular province of China, but after coming briefly under a Republican form of government, it became an integral part of the Empire of Japan.
ref:
1915, William Campbell, Sketches from Formosa, Marshall Brothers Limited, →OCLC, →OL, page 261
type:
quotation
text:
Except for the relatively unimportant Ryukyu Islands, which were acquired earlier, Formosa is Japan's oldest colony. She acquired it out of her war with China in 1894, and during recent years was believed to have fortified it heavily.
ref:
1944 October 14, “Planes Over Formosa”, in The Washington Post, number 24,957, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Economically, the island is already far better off (with massive American aid) than it would be if it were incorporated into Communist China, and it would be better off still (and less of a burden to the American taxpayer) if its people were not required to support two governments and two civil services—one for the Chinese mainland, and the other for the province of Formosa—and an army of more than half a million, whose raison d’étre continues to be the reconquest of the mainland.
ref:
1961 January 28, The Economist, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 330, column 2; republished as Current, 1961 March, pages 22-23
type:
quotation
text:
Government population policy has for the most part been notable for its absence, and few leading Nationalists have publicly admitted the problem. Indeed, in 1959, in an interview with a western correspondent, Chou Chih-jou, then Governor of Formosa (province), complained that population growth was “ his most serious problem ” but his administration was hamstrung by the stand taken against artificial birth control by the central government in Taipei and the ruling Nationalist party.
ref:
1963, Sheppard Glass, “Some Aspects of Formosa's Economic Growth”, in Mark Mancall, editor, Formosa Today, Frederick A. Praeger, published 1964, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
General Chiang Kai-Shek was also very prominent in the start of the uprising, but later defected and was forced out of the country to the Province of Formosa, now called Taiwan.
ref:
1994, C.M. (Bud) Fraser, “Preface”, in China Revisited, New York: Carlton Press, Inc., →OCLC, page v-vi
type:
quotation
text:
If we should propose an exchange of ambassadors, Mao Tse-tung would surely ask if our recognition extended to Communist sovereignty over the 'Province of Formosa.'
ref:
1961, Robert P. Newman, “Will China Accept United States Recognition?”, in Recognition of Communist China? A Study in Argument, New York: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 237
type:
quotation
text:
The armed forces of China have struck the rebellious province of Formosa with force. We demand your immediate and unconditional surrender. Failure to comply with this order will warrant further action by our forces.
ref:
1998, Caspar Weinberger, Peter Schweizer, chapter 5, in The Next War (Current Affairs), Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of Taiwan, an island in East Asia.
Synonym of Taiwan, an administrative division including Formosa and nearby islands.
A prefecture of Fujian, China (Qing Empire) (1683–1885).
Synonym of Taiwan, an administrative division including Formosa and nearby islands.
A province of China (Qing Empire) (1885–1895).
Synonym of Taiwan, an administrative division including Formosa and nearby islands.
A dependency of Japan (1895–1945).
Synonym of Taiwan, an administrative division including Formosa and nearby islands.
A province of Taiwan (Republic of China) (from 1945).
Synonym of Taiwan, an administrative division including Formosa and nearby islands.
A claimed province of China (People's Republic of China/mainland China) (from 1949).
A city in Goias, Brazil.
An island in the Bissagos Islands, Guinea-Bissau.
senses_topics:
|
14717 | word:
Formosa
word_type:
name
expansion:
Formosa
forms:
wikipedia:
Formosa (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Spanish Formosa, from Vuelta la Formosa and Vuelta Fermosa (“Beautiful Turn”) in reference to a bend in the Paraguay River near the city, from Old Spanish fermosa, from Latin formosa.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in northern Argentina.
A department of Argentina around the city.
A province of Argentina around the city.
senses_topics:
|
14718 | word:
Formosa
word_type:
name
expansion:
Formosa (plural Formosas)
forms:
form:
Formosas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Formosa (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Maltese Formosa.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname from Maltese.
senses_topics:
|
14719 | word:
Jan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: Jan.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of January.
A male given name from Dutch.
senses_topics:
|
14720 | word:
Jan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French Jehan (“John”). Doublet of John.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from Hebrew
senses_topics:
|
14721 | word:
Jan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A clipping or hypochoristic form of Janet, Janice, Janine, Janis, etc.
Doublet of Ivanka, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
senses_examples:
text:
"Yes, Mommy," answered Janice. Then she turned to her friend and asked, "Shall I wear my light chintz and kenton kerchief, or my purple and white striped Persian?" "Sufficiently smart for a country lass, Jan," cried her friend.
ref:
1899, Paul Leicester Ford, chapter 1, in Janice Meredith
type:
quotation
text:
She's startled. How long has it been since he called her Jax instead of Janet or Jan? The last is a nickname she secretly hates. It makes her think of that syrupy-sweet actress on Lassie when she was a kid, the little boy (Timmy, his name was Timmy) always fell down a well or got bitten by a snake or trapped under a rock, and what kind of parents put a kid's life in the hands of a fucking collie?
ref:
2008, Stephen King, Just after Sunset, Simon and Schuster, published 2009, page 129
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female given name.
senses_topics:
|
14722 | word:
Jan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From various European languages, ultimately from Latin Johannes.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name, equivalent to English John
senses_topics:
|
14723 | word:
fate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fate (countable and uncountable, plural fates)
forms:
form:
fates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Modern English
fate
etymology_text:
From Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.
senses_examples:
text:
Accept your fate.
type:
example
text:
It’s important to research chemical fate because chemical fate is the best tool we have for understanding and managing human health risks or environmental damage caused by chemical release.
ref:
2019 July 12, Danielle Freeman, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, retrieved 2022-08-02
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
embryology
medicine
sciences |
14724 | word:
fate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fate (third-person singular simple present fates, present participle fating, simple past and past participle fated)
forms:
form:
fates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fating
tags:
participle
present
form:
fated
tags:
participle
past
form:
fated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Modern English
fate
etymology_text:
From Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.
senses_examples:
text:
The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
type:
example
text:
At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.
ref:
2011, James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays, page 119
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
senses_topics:
|
14725 | word:
great-granddaughter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
great-granddaughter (plural great-granddaughters)
forms:
form:
great-granddaughters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From great- + granddaughter.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The daughter of someone's grandchild.
senses_topics:
|
14726 | word:
tuberculosis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tuberculosis (countable and uncountable, plural tuberculoses)
forms:
form:
tuberculoses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
To international scientific vocabulary from New Latin tūberculōsis, from Latin tūberculum (diminutive of tūber (“lump”)) + Latin -ōsis (“diseased condition”); named for the encapsulated colonies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis within the lungs in pulmonary tuberculosis, which can look like small tubers (tubercles) on gross pathology. The disease has existed throughout human experience and had other names for millennia before scientific medicine renamed it with a New Latin term in the mid-19th century (1840s); in English it was called consumption because of the wasting away that consumed health and seemed even to consume flesh in some cases (for example, causing fistulas and tissue breakdown).
senses_examples:
text:
With smallpox gone, tuberculosis is today the deadliest infectious disease on the planet.
ref:
2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 380
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis, mainly infecting the lungs where it causes tubercles characterized by the expectoration of mucus and sputum, fever, weight loss, and chest pain, and transmitted through inhalation or ingestion of bacteria.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences |
14727 | word:
kilogram
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kilogram (plural kilograms)
forms:
form:
kilograms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French kilogramme. By surface analysis, kilo- + gram.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10⁻³⁴ when expressed in units of kg⋅m²⋅s⁻¹. Symbol: kg
The unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.
senses_topics:
|
14728 | word:
hype
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hype (usually uncountable, plural hypes)
forms:
form:
hypes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of hyperbole.
senses_examples:
text:
After all the hype for the diet plan, only the results ended up slim.
type:
example
text:
Don't believe the hype, it's a sequel / As an equal can I get this through to you
ref:
1988, “Don't Believe the Hype”, in It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, performed by Public Enemy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Promotion or propaganda; especially exaggerated claims.
senses_topics:
business
marketing |
14729 | word:
hype
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hype (third-person singular simple present hypes, present participle hyping, simple past and past participle hyped)
forms:
form:
hypes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hyping
tags:
participle
present
form:
hyped
tags:
participle
past
form:
hyped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of hyperbole.
senses_examples:
text:
They started hyping the new magazine months before its release.
type:
example
text:
Hydrogen fuel cells are hugely hyped but have yet to prove themselves in the real world beyond a few limited trials or small fleets on the European mainland.
ref:
2023 August 23, Ben Jones, “A Fast Charge to DMUs' demise?”, in RAIL, number 990, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To promote heavily; to advertise or build up.
senses_topics:
|
14730 | word:
hype
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hype (comparative more hype, superlative most hype)
forms:
form:
more hype
tags:
comparative
form:
most hype
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hyped; excited.
Excellent, cool.
senses_topics:
|
14731 | word:
hype
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hype (plural hypes)
forms:
form:
hypes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
hype kit
type:
example
text:
The Mob enforced the No-“H” Law. They tortured pushers. They killed them. Local hypes copped in L.A. Local hypes rode the Heroin Highway.
ref:
2001, James Ellroy, The Cold Six Thousand, New York: Knopf, page 90
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Short for hypodermic needle.
A drug addict.
senses_topics:
|
14732 | word:
hype
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hype (plural hypes)
forms:
form:
hypes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of hipe (“wrestling move”)
senses_topics:
|
14733 | word:
hype
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hype (third-person singular simple present hypes, present participle hyping, simple past and past participle hyped)
forms:
form:
hypes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hyping
tags:
participle
present
form:
hyped
tags:
participle
past
form:
hyped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of hipe (“wrestling move”)
senses_topics:
|
14734 | word:
waylay
word_type:
verb
expansion:
waylay (third-person singular simple present waylays, present participle waylaying, simple past and past participle waylaid or (nonstandard) waylayed)
forms:
form:
waylays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
waylaying
tags:
participle
present
form:
waylaid
tags:
participle
past
form:
waylaid
tags:
past
form:
waylayed
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
waylayed
tags:
nonstandard
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From way + lay, likely a calque of Middle Dutch wegelagen (“besetting of ways, lying in wait with evil or hostile intent along public ways”). Compare Middle Low German wegelagen, German wegelagern (“to waylay; rob”).
senses_examples:
text:
And when some of the friends, the ones who came every day, waylaid the doctor in the corridor, Stephen was the one who asked the most informed questions, who’d been keeping up not just with the stories that appeared several times a week in the Times […]
ref:
1986 November 24, Susan Sontag, “The Way We Live Now”, in The New Yorker
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lie in wait for and attack from ambush.
To accost or intercept unexpectedly.
senses_topics:
|
14735 | word:
Byzantine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Byzantine (comparative more Byzantine, superlative most Byzantine)
forms:
form:
more Byzantine
tags:
comparative
form:
most Byzantine
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin byzantinus, itself from Byzantium. The metaphorical senses evoke the reputation for palace intrigue of the Byzantium imperial court.
senses_examples:
text:
a Byzantine system of regulations
type:
example
text:
The byzantine, meandering processes of Icann are engineered in a way that avoids any dissent surfacing, all under the reassuring guise of consensus.
ref:
2014 July 1, Julia Powles, “The byzantine, meandering discussion on the future of the internet”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Those following what has been dubbed “Pestminster” may nevertheless struggle to keep up with the Byzantine internal reporting structures, the range of accusations being levied and the sheer number of MPs involved.
ref:
2017 November 3, Julia Rampen, “A week in Pestminster”, in New Statesman
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Byzantium.
Belonging to the civilization of the Eastern Roman Empire between 331, when its capital was moved to Constantinople, and 1453, when that capital was conquered by the Turks and ultimately renamed Istanbul.
Of a style of architecture prevalent in the Eastern Empire down to 1453, marked by the round arch springing from columns or piers, the dome supported upon pendentives, capitals elaborately sculptured, mosaic or other encrustations, etc.
Overly complex or intricate, especially of bureaucracy.
Of a devious, usually stealthy, manner or practice.
Of or relating to the Byzantine Rite or any of the many Eastern Orthodox churches and Greek Catholic churches that use this rite for their liturgical celebrations.
senses_topics:
history
human-sciences
sciences
architecture
Catholicism
Christianity |
14736 | word:
Byzantine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Byzantine (countable and uncountable, plural Byzantines)
forms:
form:
Byzantines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin byzantinus, itself from Byzantium. The metaphorical senses evoke the reputation for palace intrigue of the Byzantium imperial court.
senses_examples:
text:
byzantine:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native of Byzantium (modern-day Istanbul) or of the Byzantine empire
Alternative form of byzantine (coin)
A dark, metallic shade of violet.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
|
14737 | word:
gift horse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gift horse (plural gift horses)
forms:
form:
gift horses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the economics of horse ownership, in which an aging horse of declining value continues to require feeding and stabling. Possibly influenced by the proverb don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
senses_examples:
text:
Having now, as he thought, balanced this little account of friendship, the captain was about to shift his saddle to this noble gift-horse when the affectionate patriarch plucked him by the sleeve, and introduced to him a whimpering, whining, leathern-skinned old squaw, that might have passed for an Egyptian mummy, without drying. "This," said he, "is my wife; she is a good wife--I love her very much.--She loves the horse--she loves him a great deal--she will cry very much at losing him.--I do not know how I shall comfort her--and that makes my heart very sore."
ref:
1837, Washington Irving, The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
type:
quotation
text:
To human beings, on the other hand, each meme vehicle is a potential friend or foe, bearing a gift that will enhance our powers or a gift horse that will distract us, burden our memories, derange our judgment.
ref:
1996, Daniel Clement Dennett, Darwin's dangerous idea: evolution and the meanings of life, page 352
type:
quotation
text:
"Don't worry. You can keep them. You don't have to pay for them." / Well, a gift horse and all that. I took the sneakers.
ref:
1990 Fall, Daniel Tyree McElrath, “Abusing the Privilege”, in Ploughshares, volume 16, number 2/3, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
The woman on the telephone in the science-faculty office found me an address for Timothy Butler in no time at all. Full marks for information retrieval. Zero for security. If I had been consulted, I would have insisted that callers produce something more compelling than a vague interest in locating a student before his address could be handed over. Still, what it is they say about a gift horse?
ref:
2000, Michelle Spring, Running for Shelter, page 164
type:
quotation
text:
You know what they say about a gift horse, man. This is free help. Don't take it for granted.
ref:
2009, John Hart, The last child
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An apparent gift, that has substantial associated costs or drawbacks, especially a gift that does not fit perfectly with the recipient's wants or needs.
senses_topics:
|
14738 | word:
Saint Peter Port
word_type:
name
expansion:
Saint Peter Port
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town, the capital of Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom.
senses_topics:
|
14739 | word:
buckthorn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
buckthorn (plural buckthorns)
forms:
form:
buckthorns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
buckthorn
etymology_text:
Calque of Latin cervī spīna (“deer's thorny shrub”), cervi (“deer's”) being the genitive singular of cervus (“deer”), from Proto-Italic *kerwos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂wós, from *ḱerh₂- (“horn”) + *-wós, spīna (“thorny shrub”) from Proto-Italic *speinā, from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”). By surface analysis, buck + thorn.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several, often thorny shrubs or small trees, especially
the family Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family,
especially genus Rhamnus,
Any of several, often thorny shrubs or small trees, especially
the family Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family,
especially genus Rhamnus,
especially the common buckthorn or purging buckthorn; Rhamnus cathartica.
Any of several, often thorny shrubs or small trees, especially
the family Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family,
also genus Frangula, especially Frangula alnus, the alder buckthorn.
Any of several, often thorny shrubs or small trees, especially
Hippophae (family Elaeagnaceae), the sea buckthorn.
senses_topics:
|
14740 | word:
pa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pa (plural pas)
forms:
form:
pas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of papa.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: ma
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Father, papa.
Grandpa, grandfather.
senses_topics:
|
14741 | word:
pa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pa (plural pas)
forms:
form:
pas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Maori pā.
senses_examples:
text:
A pa or Māori defence fortification appears at a height on the hill above the bay.
ref:
2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 68
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fortified Maori settlement, especially of pre-European times.
Any Maori village or settlement; a kainga.
senses_topics:
|
14742 | word:
Swahili
word_type:
name
expansion:
Swahili
forms:
wikipedia:
Swahili language
Swahili people
etymology_text:
From Swahili swahili, from Arabic سَوَاحِلِيّ (sawāḥiliyy, “(people) of the coasts”), from سَوَاحِل (sawāḥil, “coasts”), broken plural of سَاحِل (sāḥil, “coast”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An agglutinative language of the Bantu branch widely spoken in East Africa. Born in its modern form from the hybridization of the Arabic and Bantu cultures, it was the language of the traders in East Africa, and spread along the routes of trade.
senses_topics:
|
14743 | word:
Swahili
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Swahili (plural Swahilis or Swahili)
forms:
form:
Swahilis
tags:
plural
form:
Swahili
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Swahili language
Swahili people
etymology_text:
From Swahili swahili, from Arabic سَوَاحِلِيّ (sawāḥiliyy, “(people) of the coasts”), from سَوَاحِل (sawāḥil, “coasts”), broken plural of سَاحِل (sāḥil, “coast”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Swahilis are a unique and important community that began to form before the arrival of Islam, as a result of intermarriage between Arab traders who came to the coast and women from local ethnic groups.
ref:
2000, Arye Oded, Islam and Politics in Kenya, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
The final sources for the early history of the Swahili are the oral traditions related by them about their own past.
ref:
2017, Derek Nurse, Thomas Spear, The Swahili, page 29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of various ethnic groups — mainly Bantu, Afro-Arab and Comorian — inhabiting the Swahili coast.
senses_topics:
|
14744 | word:
Saint Helier
word_type:
name
expansion:
Saint Helier
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town, the capital of Jersey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom.
senses_topics:
|
14745 | word:
mate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mate (plural mates)
forms:
form:
mates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mate, a borrowing from Middle Low German mate (“messmate”) (replacing Middle English mette (“table companion, mate, partner”), from Old English ġemetta (“sharer of food, table-guest”)), derived from Proto-Germanic *gamatjô, itself from *ga- (“together”) (related to German and Dutch ge-) + *matjô (from *matiz (“food”)), related to Old English mete (“food”)). From the same Middle Low German source stems German Low German Maat (“journeyman, companion”), German Maat (“naval non-commissioned officer”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Moat (“friend, buddy, comrade, mate”), Dutch maat (“mate, partner, colleague, friend”). More at Old English ġe-, English co-, English meat. Doublet of maat.
senses_examples:
text:
A "mate" was a "mate" - share and share alike, no matter how bad might be the times, or how long a spell of ill luck had attended them.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 152
type:
quotation
text:
I'm going to the pub with a few mates.
type:
example
text:
He's my best mate.
type:
example
text:
Excuse me, mate, have you got the time?
type:
example
text:
I found one of the socks I wanted to wear, but I couldn't find its mate.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
A breeding partner.
A friend, usually of the same sex.
Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age.
In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
A first mate.
A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
The other member of a matched pair of objects.
A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
|
14746 | word:
mate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mate (third-person singular simple present mates, present participle mating, simple past and past participle mated)
forms:
form:
mates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mating
tags:
participle
present
form:
mated
tags:
participle
past
form:
mated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mate, a borrowing from Middle Low German mate (“messmate”) (replacing Middle English mette (“table companion, mate, partner”), from Old English ġemetta (“sharer of food, table-guest”)), derived from Proto-Germanic *gamatjô, itself from *ga- (“together”) (related to German and Dutch ge-) + *matjô (from *matiz (“food”)), related to Old English mete (“food”)). From the same Middle Low German source stems German Low German Maat (“journeyman, companion”), German Maat (“naval non-commissioned officer”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Moat (“friend, buddy, comrade, mate”), Dutch maat (“mate, partner, colleague, friend”). More at Old English ġe-, English co-, English meat. Doublet of maat.
senses_examples:
text:
The pieces of the puzzle mate perfectly.
type:
example
text:
Indeed, some cases of devotion that were met with were quite touching; and very often to all appearances the pairs were not always mated from the same class of society.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 152
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To match, fit together without space between.
To copulate.
To pair in order to raise offspring.
To arrange in matched pairs.
To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
To copulate with.
To marry; to match (a person).
To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
To fit (objects) together without space between.
To come together as companions, comrades, partners, etc.
To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.
senses_topics:
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
14747 | word:
mate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mate (plural mates)
forms:
form:
mates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English verb maten, from Middle French mater, from Old French noun mat (“checkmate”), from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of checkmate.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games |
14748 | word:
mate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mate (third-person singular simple present mates, present participle mating, simple past and past participle mated)
forms:
form:
mates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mating
tags:
participle
present
form:
mated
tags:
participle
past
form:
mated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English verb maten, from Middle French mater, from Old French noun mat (“checkmate”), from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of checkmate.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games |
14749 | word:
mate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mate (third-person singular simple present mates, present participle mating, simple past and past participle mated)
forms:
form:
mates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mating
tags:
participle
present
form:
mated
tags:
participle
past
form:
mated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English maten (“to overpower”), from Old French mater (“to kill”), from Vulgar Latin *mattō, of unclear origin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To confuse; to confound.
senses_topics:
|
14750 | word:
mate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mate (plural mates)
forms:
form:
mates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See maté.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
senses_topics:
|
14751 | word:
electronic game
word_type:
noun
expansion:
electronic game (plural electronic games)
forms:
form:
electronic games
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A game played on an electronic device.
senses_topics:
video-games |
14752 | word:
British Isles
word_type:
name
expansion:
the British Isles
forms:
form:
the British Isles
tags:
canonical
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From British (“relating to Britons, Britain, or the Britains”) + isles (“islands”). Compare Ancient Greek Βρεττανίδες νῆσοι (Brettanídes nêsoi) and Latin Britannicae insulae (“British islands”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago in Northern Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, Anglesey, the Isle of Man, the Isle of Wight, the Hebrides, the Shetland Islands, the Orkney Islands, the Isles of Scilly, the Channel Islands and many smaller islands.
senses_topics:
|
14753 | word:
British Isles
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
senses_topics:
|
14754 | word:
Scilly Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Scilly Islands
forms:
form:
the Scilly Islands
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Isles of Scilly
senses_topics:
|
14755 | word:
salubrious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
salubrious (comparative more salubrious, superlative most salubrious)
forms:
form:
more salubrious
tags:
comparative
form:
most salubrious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin salūbris (“healthy”) + -ous.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially relating to food or air.
senses_topics:
|
14756 | word:
silence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
silence (usually uncountable, plural silences)
forms:
form:
silences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English silence, from Old French silence, from Latin silentium (“silence”), from silēns (“quiet, silent”, present participle of silēre) + -ium. Displaced native Old English swīġe.
senses_examples:
text:
When the motor stopped, the silence was almost deafening.
type:
example
text:
Words like violence break the silence / Come crashing in into my little world
ref:
1990, Martin L. Gore (lyrics and music), “Enjoy the Silence”, in Violator, performed by w:Depeche Mode
type:
quotation
text:
deadly silence
type:
example
text:
in silence
type:
example
text:
total silence
type:
example
text:
"You have the right to silence," said the police officer.
type:
example
text:
1832, Daniel Webster, "a convention", quoted in The History of the Union, and of the Constitution by Charles Chauncey Burr
The administration itself keeps a profound silence.
text:
During silence a message came to me that there was that of God in every person.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The absence of any sound.
The act of refraining from speaking.
Refraining from speaking, for purposes of prayer or meditation; especially, a form of worship practiced by the Society of Friends (Quakers) during meetings.
senses_topics:
|
14757 | word:
silence
word_type:
verb
expansion:
silence (third-person singular simple present silences, present participle silencing, simple past and past participle silenced)
forms:
form:
silences
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
silencing
tags:
participle
present
form:
silenced
tags:
participle
past
form:
silenced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English silence, from Old French silence, from Latin silentium (“silence”), from silēns (“quiet, silent”, present participle of silēre) + -ium. Displaced native Old English swīġe.
senses_examples:
text:
Can you silence the crowd, so we can start the show?
type:
example
text:
Women, as well as children, have their thoughts or emotions routinely silenced.
type:
example
text:
Silence the critics.
type:
example
text:
Silence the doubters.
type:
example
text:
A state ideology, mixing nationalism, and basic Marxist economics, going under the name "Juche", was constructed, and Kim Il-sung effectively silenced, disposed of and cleared away any opposition, isolating the country and exercising an iron grip on the military, the state media and the government and party organs.
ref:
2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
They, and others through the years, believed Ruby must have acted on his own since there was no logic to the supposition that anyone could trust an uncontrollable, unreliable loudmouth like Ruby to silence Oswald.
ref:
2013, Mark Shaw, The Poison Patriarch: How the Betrayals of Joseph P. Kennedy Caused the Assassination of JFK, page 150
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make (someone or something) silent.
To repress the expression of something.
To suppress criticism, etc.
To block gene expression.
To murder.
senses_topics:
|
14758 | word:
silence
word_type:
intj
expansion:
silence
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English silence, from Old French silence, from Latin silentium (“silence”), from silēns (“quiet, silent”, present participle of silēre) + -ium. Displaced native Old English swīġe.
senses_examples:
text:
Silence! Enough of your insolence!
type:
example
text:
(in response to laughter from the audience)
Silence! I kill you!
ref:
2007 September 17, Spark of Insanity, spoken by Achmed the Dead Terrorist (Jeff Dunham)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Be silent.
senses_topics:
|
14759 | word:
turn off
word_type:
verb
expansion:
turn off (third-person singular simple present turns off, present participle turning off, simple past and past participle turned off)
forms:
form:
turns off
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
turning off
tags:
participle
present
form:
turned off
tags:
participle
past
form:
turned off
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[H]e came to this country in the service of an English gentleman, whom he was obliged to quit through the malice of the valet de chambre, who taking advantage of the young man's being overtaken with liquor on the last St.Andrew's day, turned him off, on the pretext of his being an habitual drunkard.
ref:
1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 273
type:
quotation
text:
Turn off the machine and unplug it when you leave.
type:
example
text:
"Will it ever stop?" Yo, I don't know / Turn off the lights, and I'll glow
ref:
1989, “Ice Ice Baby”, in Hooked, performed by Vanilla Ice
type:
quotation
text:
Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? Ok. Well, are you sure that it's plugged in?
ref:
2006 February 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, season 1, episode 4
type:
quotation
text:
My computer turned off!
type:
example
text:
Remember to turn the tap off once you've finished so you don't waste water.
type:
example
text:
Cigarette smoking really turns me off.
type:
example
text:
Better be a gentleman, or you'll turn me off
ref:
1986, “Nasty”, in Control, performed by Janet Jackson
type:
quotation
text:
They are turning people off travelling. And the removal of catering on such a long-distance route is just bonkers.
ref:
2021 December 29, Paul Clifton, “"Crisis" on the West of England line”, in RAIL, number 947, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
Turn off at the next exit so we can have lunch.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To dismiss; to fire.
To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
To become deactivated; to become powered down.
To rotate a tap or valve so as to interrupt the outflow of liquid or gas.
To repulse, disgust, or discourage (someone).
To leave a road; to exit.
senses_topics:
|
14760 | word:
Sark
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sark
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown, but see Wikipedia. Richard Coates has suggested derivation from Proto-Semitic, although this is considered unlikely.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the Channel Islands; notable inter alia for its local government containing one of the last vestiges of feudalism in Europe.
senses_topics:
|
14761 | word:
Zetland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Zetland
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Until 1974, the official name for the Shetland Islands.
An inner southern suburb of the City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, named after Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland.
senses_topics:
|
14762 | word:
trademark
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trademark (plural trademarks)
forms:
form:
trademarks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
trademark
etymology_text:
From trade + mark.
senses_examples:
text:
Trademark Notice / The following are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies: […] Google is a trademark of Google Corporation; eBay is a trademark of eBay, Inc.
ref:
2005, Kai A. Olsen, The Internet, the Web, and eBusiness, page xv
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products.
A word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products.
Especially, such a term that is registered with a government agency so as to have legal protection against use by other companies.
Any proprietary business, product or service name.
The aspect for which someone or something is best known; a hallmark or typical characteristic.
senses_topics:
|
14763 | word:
trademark
word_type:
verb
expansion:
trademark (third-person singular simple present trademarks, present participle trademarking, simple past and past participle trademarked)
forms:
form:
trademarks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
trademarking
tags:
participle
present
form:
trademarked
tags:
participle
past
form:
trademarked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
trademark
etymology_text:
From trade + mark.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To register something as a trademark.
To so label a product.
senses_topics:
|
14764 | word:
trademark
word_type:
adj
expansion:
trademark (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
trademark
etymology_text:
From trade + mark.
senses_examples:
text:
Sutho took a pull at his Johnny Walker and Coke and laughed that trademark laugh of his and said: `Okay. I'll pay that all right.'
ref:
1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 294
type:
quotation
text:
Riise did crash a fantastic, trademark free-kick against the bar from 25 yards but it was the Potters who increasingly posed the greater threat.
ref:
2011 October 15, Owen Phillips, “Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Distinctive, characteristic, signature.
senses_topics:
|
14765 | word:
alcove
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alcove (plural alcoves)
forms:
form:
alcoves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
alcove (architecture)
etymology_text:
From French alcôve, from Spanish alcoba or Portuguese alcova, from Arabic القُبَّة (al-qubba, “vault, chamber with vaulted roof”). Doublet of qubba.
senses_examples:
text:
The house was situated in a leafy alcove.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small recessed area set off from a larger room.
A shady retreat.
The geographical and geological term for a steep-sided hollow in the side of an exposed rock face or cliff of a homogeneous rock type, that was water eroded.
senses_topics:
architecture
|
14766 | word:
Outer Hebrides
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Outer Hebrides
forms:
form:
the Outer Hebrides
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago of the Hebrides in Scotland, separated from the Inner Hebrides by the Little Minch.
senses_topics:
|
14767 | word:
Inner Hebrides
word_type:
name
expansion:
Inner Hebrides
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The islands of the Hebrides along the west coast of Scotland, separated from the Outer Hebrides by the Little Minch.
senses_topics:
|
14768 | word:
operational service period
word_type:
noun
expansion:
operational service period (plural operational service periods)
forms:
form:
operational service periods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A period during which a telecommunications service remains in an operational state.
A performance measurement period, or succession of performance measurement periods, during which a telecommunications service remains in an operational service state.
senses_topics:
|
14769 | word:
flightless
word_type:
adj
expansion:
flightless (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From flight + -less.
senses_examples:
text:
America has its bald eagle and New Zealand has its kiwi, a flightless brown bird.
ref:
2010, Alexander Elder, Straying from the Flock: Travels in New Zealand
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unable to fly. Usually used with birds such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu.
senses_topics:
|
14770 | word:
output rating
word_type:
noun
expansion:
output rating (plural output ratings)
forms:
form:
output ratings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The expression of the stated power available at the output terminals of a transmitter when connected to the normal load or its equivalent.
Under specified ambient conditions, the expression of the power that can be delivered by a device over a long period of time without overheating.
senses_topics:
|
14771 | word:
record communication
word_type:
noun
expansion:
record communication
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A telecommunications process that produces an electronic message that is transmitted, received, stored or archived, and may be retrieved.
A telecommunications process that produces a hard copy record of the transmission, such as a teletypewriter printout or a facsimile printout.
senses_topics:
|
14772 | word:
tap
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tap (plural taps)
forms:
form:
taps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English tappe (“hollow device for controlling the flow of liquid from a hole, cock, faucet, spigot; hole through which the liquid flows; the liquid which thus flows”), from Old English tæppa, from Proto-West Germanic *tappō, from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“a plug, tap; peg; tapering stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂p- (“to lose; to sacrifice”).
The verb is derived from Middle English tappen (“to obtain (liquid, chiefly liquor) from a tap; to obtain and sell (liquor)”), from Old English tæppian (“to provide (a container) with a stopper; to obtain (liquid) from a tap”), and then either:
* from Old English tæppa (see above) + -ian (suffix forming verbs); or
* from Proto-Germanic *tappōną, from *tappô (noun) (see above).
Verb sense 1.3.5 (“to turn over (a playing card or playing piece) to remind players that it has already been used in that round”) alludes to the abilities or resources of the card or piece having been drawn on to the point of temporary exhaustion: see verb sense 1.3.2.
senses_examples:
text:
We don’t have bottled water; you’ll have to get it from the tap.
type:
example
text:
Is the tap water here safe to drink?
type:
example
text:
abdominal tap pleural tap spinal tap
type:
example
text:
a liquor of the same tap
type:
example
text:
telephone tap
type:
example
text:
bond tap tap issue
type:
example
text:
We drilled a hole and then cut the threads with the proper tap to match the valve’s thread.
type:
example
text:
The system was barely keeping pressure due to all of the ill-advised taps along its length.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tapering cylindrical peg or pin used to close and open the hole or vent in a container.
An object with a tapering cylindrical form like a tap (sense 1); specifically, short for taproot (“long, tapering root of a plant”).
A hollow device used to control the flow of a fluid, such as an alcoholic beverage from a cask, or a gas or liquid in a pipe.
A hollow device used to control the flow of a fluid, such as an alcoholic beverage from a cask, or a gas or liquid in a pipe.
A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity; paracentesis.
Liquor drawn through a tap (sense 2.2); hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; also (figurative, informal), a certain kind or quality of any thing.
A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls or other communications.
A secret interception of telephone calls or other communications using such a device; also, a recording of such a communication.
A situation where a borrowing government authority issues bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions.
A cylindrical tool used to cut an internal screw thread in a hole, with cutting edges around the lower end and an upper end to which a handle is fitted to turn the tool.
Short for taphouse or taproom (“place where alcoholic beverages are served on tap”).
A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it; a tapping.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
communication
communications
government
law-enforcement
communication
communications
government
law-enforcement
business
finance
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
14773 | word:
tap
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tap (third-person singular simple present taps, present participle tapping, simple past and past participle tapped)
forms:
form:
taps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tapping
tags:
participle
present
form:
tapped
tags:
participle
past
form:
tapped
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
tap
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English tappe (“hollow device for controlling the flow of liquid from a hole, cock, faucet, spigot; hole through which the liquid flows; the liquid which thus flows”), from Old English tæppa, from Proto-West Germanic *tappō, from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“a plug, tap; peg; tapering stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂p- (“to lose; to sacrifice”).
The verb is derived from Middle English tappen (“to obtain (liquid, chiefly liquor) from a tap; to obtain and sell (liquor)”), from Old English tæppian (“to provide (a container) with a stopper; to obtain (liquid) from a tap”), and then either:
* from Old English tæppa (see above) + -ian (suffix forming verbs); or
* from Proto-Germanic *tappōną, from *tappô (noun) (see above).
Verb sense 1.3.5 (“to turn over (a playing card or playing piece) to remind players that it has already been used in that round”) alludes to the abilities or resources of the card or piece having been drawn on to the point of temporary exhaustion: see verb sense 1.3.2.
senses_examples:
text:
He tapped the ten-year-old whiskey from its barrel.
type:
example
text:
If we tap the maple trees, we can get maple syrup.
type:
example
text:
Behold, unhappy tippler, this curious machine; […] reflect, while it is yet time, what infinite torture will this instrument in the surgeon's hand inflict upon thee, and that thou, who tappest so many barrels, shall at last be thyself a tapped barrel; […]
ref:
1844, J[ohn] Fisher Murray, “The Physiology of London Life. Chapter V. Little Bell Alley.”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XV, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 148
type:
quotation
text:
Businesses are trying to tap the youth market.
type:
example
text:
He tried to tap cable television without a subscription.
type:
example
text:
For our supper, Ginger tapped the local butcher, who gave us the best part of two pounds of sausages. Butchers are always very generous on Saturday nights.
ref:
1931, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Hop-picking”, in Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus, editors, An Age Like This: 1920–1940 (The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell; I), New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, published 1968, →OCLC, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
From morning to night they were begging. They wandered enormous distances, zigzagging right across the county, trailing from village and from house to house, ‘tapping’ at every butcher’s and every baker’s and every likely-looking cottage, […]
ref:
1935, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 2, in A Clergyman’s Daughter, London: Secker & Warburg, published 1969, →OCLC, § 2, page 107
type:
quotation
text:
"Yes, your buddy. A bit chewed up, I'm afraid. A burglar called it in. He was about to tap the house, then he saw the body. Pry marks on the doorjamb, so I buy it. Don't look inside if you've eaten."
ref:
1990 June, James Ellroy, L.A. Confidential, New York, N.Y.: The Mysterious Press, page 228
type:
quotation
text:
I tried to tap a cigarette off him, but he wouldn’t give me one.
type:
example
text:
They can’t tap the phone without a warrant.
type:
example
text:
"Oh, there is one thing," the Minister called after Lebel, "how did you know to tap the telephone line of Colonel Saint-Clair's private apartment?" Lebel turned in the doorway and shrugged. "I didn't," he said, "so last night I tapped all your telephones. Good day, gentlemen."
ref:
1971 August 6, Frederick Forsyth, “Anatomy of a Kill”, in The Day of the Jackal, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, page 347
type:
quotation
text:
I think there's an expression in poker. I'll tap you, Mr. Maverick.
ref:
1957 October 6, Roy Huggins, “According to Hoyle”, in Maverick, season 1, episode 3 (television series), spoken by Samantha Crawford (Diane Brewster), Burbank, Calif.: Warner Bros. Pictures, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To furnish (a container, etc.) with a tap (noun sense 2.2) so that liquid can be drawn.
To draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; also, to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source).
To draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; also, to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source).
To drain off fluid from (a person or a body cavity) by paracentesis.
To break into or open up (a thing) so as to obtain something; to exploit, to penetrate.
To deplete (something); to tap out.
To ask or beg for (something) to be given for free; to cadge, to scrounge; also, to ask or beg (someone) to give something for free.
To connect a listening and/or recording device to (a communication cable or device) in order to listen in secretly on telephone calls or other communications; also, to secretly listen in on and/or record (a telephone call or other communication).
To turn over (a playing card or playing piece) to remind players that it has already been used in that round.
To force (an opponent) to place all their poker chips in the pot (that is, to go all in) by wagering all of one's own chips.
To remove a taproot from (a plant).
To cut an internal screw thread in (a hole); also, to cut (an internal screw thread) in a hole, or to create an internally threaded hole in (something).
To cut an external screw thread into (a bolt or rod) to create a screw.
To put (a screw or other object) in or through another thing.
To act as a tapster; to draw an alcoholic beverage from a container.
To spend money, etc., freely.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
communication
communications
government
law-enforcement
card-games
games
card-games
poker
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
14774 | word:
tap
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tap (third-person singular simple present taps, present participle tapping, simple past and past participle tapped)
forms:
form:
taps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tapping
tags:
participle
present
form:
tapped
tags:
participle
past
form:
tapped
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
tap
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is derived from Middle English tappen, teppen (“to give (something) a knock or tap; to hit (something) lightly, pat, tap”), either:
* imitative of the making of a tapping sound; or
* from Old French tapper, taper (“to tap”) (modern French taper), from Frankish *tappōn, *dabbōn (“to strike”), or from Middle Low German tappen, tapen (“to rap, strike, tap”), both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dab- (“to strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰebʰ- (“to beat, strike; to stun; to be speechless”). Doublet of dab.
Verb sense 1.1.1 (“to arrest (someone)”) and sense 1.6 (“to choose or designate (someone) for a duty, etc.”) allude to a police officer or other person tapping someone on their shoulder to catch their attention or to select them.
The noun is derived from Middle English tap, tappe (“light blow or hit”), and then either:
* from Middle English tappen (verb) (see above); or
* from Old French tape (“light slap or touch, pat”) (modern French tape), from tapper, taper (verb) (see above).
cognates
* German tappen (“to fumble; to grope”)
* Icelandic tappa, tapsa, tæpta (“to tap”)
senses_examples:
text:
"You have to pack up and get out of there, girl. You could end up being tapped for that pimp's murder. The police ain't gonna hear about finding your aunt Viv. Or about Andre's butt. What are y'all going to do if they point the finger at him? If the cops over there are like they are over here, they ain't gonna look no further than the first black man they can put their hands on. They'll put his long legs under the jail."
ref:
1999 February, Charlotte Carter, Coq Au Vin, New York, N.Y.: The Mysterious Press, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
I would tap that hot girl over there.
type:
example
text:
I’d tap that.
type:
example
text:
What does waiting get you? Sure, I know the score, Connie. You ain't never been tapped. But what are you saving it for? It's either going to be me or some other guy. Look, if I join up with the Dags I gotta have a deb that gives. If I don't, all the guys will be ranking me.
ref:
1959, Wenzell Brown, Teen-age Mafia, Greenwich, Conn.: Gold Medal Books, →OCLC, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
What we're entitled to is a house in the Hamptons. Maybe a prescription drug problem. But happiness does not seem to be on the menu so smoke up and seal the deal with Blair because you're also entitled to tap that ass.
ref:
2007 September 19, Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, “Pilot”, in Gossip Girl, season 1, episode 1 (television series), spoken by Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick)
type:
quotation
text:
"He's handsome, isn't he? If he didn't have a girlfriend, I'd tap him for sure." "Excuse me?" Emma looked over to see who was talking to her. A woman old enough to be her mother was eyeing the band. "The lead singer. Everyone wants him." The woman parted her lips and sighed.
ref:
2016, Tabitha Levin, “Emma”, in Rock Hard (Rock Star; 2), [Australia]: Tabitha Levin, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
But Sheila was in no mood for legalisms. "It never bothered you when we were married, though, did it, Denny? You and your brother cops tapping everything with a pussy. Hey, do they know? Russo and Big Monty, they know you're stirring tar?"
ref:
2017, Don Winslow, The Force, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
"If I weren't married," Hasty says, eyeing Parker like he's a side of grass-fed organic beef and she's Michael Pollan, "I'd tap that."
ref:
2019, Julia Kent, chapter 2, in Perky (Do-over Series; 2), [Scotts Valley, Calif.]: [CreateSpace]
type:
quotation
text:
Heard that, too, Rose said. A thirtyeight revolver. Only you tapped him with a rifle from a hundred yards out.
ref:
2000, Christopher Cook, Robbers, New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
Not something he worried a lot about since in his line of work, chances were better than good that he wasn't going to live that long. When your job was to step between a bullet and its intended recipient, sooner or later you were going to be tapped, for sure.
ref:
2010, Dana Marton, The Socialite and the Bodyguard, Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin Enterprises, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
Fuck a tap dance niggas head get tapped / If you not a real member you won't get a pass
ref:
2023 April 5, “Nicky Nine Door”performed by Smiley
type:
quotation
text:
She tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention.
type:
example
text:
Let vs then get vviſdome in the guiding of all our ſpeeches, and perſvvaſions. Imitate the threſher, vvhen thou art to deale vvith thy Brother; vvho firſt Tappeth his Corne in the ſheafe, before he lay on greater ſtroakes, for elſe the good graine vvould fly into euery corner, and the ſtravv not endure the flayle: ſo, begin by degrees vvith another, and vvhen he vvill endure Tapping, then ſmite harder, or elſe thou doſt but labour in vaine.
ref:
1625, John Barlow, “Vers[e] 7. For God hath not giuen vs the Spirit of feare, but of power, and of loue, and of a sound mind.”, in An Exposition of the Second Epistle of the Apostle Paul to Timothy, the First Chapter. […], London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, page 180
type:
quotation
text:
Next, tap on the browser to get on the internet.
text:
The therapist tapped him when he was overcome by anxiety.
text:
You can pay by tapping your card.
type:
example
text:
He was so nervous he began to tap his fingers on the table.
type:
example
text:
Hard to believe Kimo [Leopoldo] used a triangle choke to tap [Kazushi] Sak[uraba], but 4 years can make a difference.
ref:
2000 October 14, “K®Æz¥ k ° †€°”, “Kimo Tapped Sakuraba”, in alt.ufc (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Just started bjj [Brazilian jiu-jitsu] couple of months ago and i finally tapped someone!!! WOOOHOO! The guy i tapped has been traiing a few more months than me, outweighs me by at least 30 pounds, and is in great shape from the army.
ref:
2003 April 2, “Eddie”, “I Tapped Somebody!”, in rec.martial-arts (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
[Genki] Sudo weighed 1/4 of what Butterbean [i.e., Eric Esch] weighs and he still tapped Butterbean.
ref:
2004 April 7, “Araxen”, “UFC vs. Boxing”, in rec.sport.boxing (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Tap the Save Image button to save the picture in your iPod touch or iPhone photo library (in the Saved Images album) or tap Cancel to cancel.
ref:
2010, Tony Bove, “Your Pocket Picture Player”, in iPod & iTunes For Dummies (For Dummies), 7th edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, part IV (Playing It back on Your iPod or iPhone), page 301
type:
quotation
text:
Amazon says clothes racks will feature QR codes, which customers can scan to see available sizes, colors, customer ratings, and product details. Then, with a tap of a button, selected items will be sent to a fitting room to try on without having to first rummage through racks.
ref:
2022 January 20, Jon Porter, “Amazon’s First Clothing Store Lets You Summon Clothes to the Fitting Room”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2024-01-05
type:
quotation
text:
to tap shoes
type:
example
text:
He was tapped by the president to act as a special counsel.
type:
example
text:
One day reconnaissance informs us that the krauts have moved up their forward outposts in our sector. It could be the prelude to an attack. A patrol is organized to knock out the positions. In our platoon Kerrigan, Berner, and Thompson get tapped for service.
ref:
1949, Audie Murphy, To Hell and Back, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
'Special Agent Hudgins,' he said, holding the door wide open. 'My office was closest to the scene so I got tapped to secure it for you Cincinnati guys. But I have to tell you, this wasn't what I expected when I got the call to come out here.'
ref:
2014, Karen Rose, Closer Than You Think, London: Headline Publishing Group, page 463
type:
quotation
text:
Unbeknownst to Rosquette, the contract killer he'd just tapped for the job was an FBI informant.
ref:
2018 March 9, Drew Schwartz, “This New Yorker Hired a Hitman to ‘Take Care of’ His Noisy Neighbors, Feds Say”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-11-07
type:
quotation
text:
The tree was swaying in the breeze and tapping on the window pane.
type:
example
text:
Night tappeth gently at a casement gleaming / With the thin fire light, flick'ring faint and low; […]
ref:
1849, Charles Swain, “The Three Callers”, in English Melodies, London: […] [Spottiswoode and Shaw] for Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, […], →OCLC, page 33
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.
Also in the form tap on the shoulder: to arrest (someone).
To strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.
To have sexual intercourse with (someone).
To strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.
To shoot (someone or something) with a firearm.
To strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.
To (lightly) touch (a finger, foot, or other body part) on a surface, often repeatedly.
To lightly touch a touchscreen, usually an icon or button, to activate a function.
To (lightly) touch (a finger, foot, or other body part) on a surface, often repeatedly.
To lightly and repeatedly touch (a person or one or more body parts) as part of various forms of psychological treatment.
To (lightly) touch (a finger, foot, or other body part) on a surface, often repeatedly.
To force (an opponent) to submit, chiefly by indicating their intention to do so by striking a hand on the ground several times; to tap out.
To invoke a function on an electronic device such as a mobile phone by touching (a button, icon, or specific location on its touch screen).
To repair (an item of footwear) by putting on a new heel or sole, or a piece of material on to the heel or sole.
To choose or designate (someone) for a duty, an honour, membership of an organization, or a position.
Often followed by at or on: to strike lightly with a clear sound; also, to make a sharp noise through this action.
To walk by striking the ground lightly with a clear sound.
Of a bell, a drum, etc.: to make a sharp noise, often as a signal.
To submit to an opponent, chiefly by indicating an intention to do so by striking a hand on the ground several times; to tap out.
Of a hare or rabbit: to strike the ground repeatedly with its feet during the rutting season.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
14775 | word:
tap
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tap (countable and uncountable, plural taps)
forms:
form:
taps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is derived from Middle English tappen, teppen (“to give (something) a knock or tap; to hit (something) lightly, pat, tap”), either:
* imitative of the making of a tapping sound; or
* from Old French tapper, taper (“to tap”) (modern French taper), from Frankish *tappōn, *dabbōn (“to strike”), or from Middle Low German tappen, tapen (“to rap, strike, tap”), both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dab- (“to strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰebʰ- (“to beat, strike; to stun; to be speechless”). Doublet of dab.
Verb sense 1.1.1 (“to arrest (someone)”) and sense 1.6 (“to choose or designate (someone) for a duty, etc.”) allude to a police officer or other person tapping someone on their shoulder to catch their attention or to select them.
The noun is derived from Middle English tap, tappe (“light blow or hit”), and then either:
* from Middle English tappen (verb) (see above); or
* from Old French tape (“light slap or touch, pat”) (modern French tape), from tapper, taper (verb) (see above).
cognates
* German tappen (“to fumble; to grope”)
* Icelandic tappa, tapsa, tæpta (“to tap”)
senses_examples:
text:
When Steve felt a tap on his shoulder, he turned around.
type:
example
text:
That put an end to work. They've hardly done a tap since. By now we should have half the season's copra stacked and ready for shipping. But you saw the plantation. Nothing done at all.
ref:
1964, Jim Blair, The Secret of the Reef, London: Angus & Robertson, →OCLC, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Bone idle, Charlie was, he had never done a tap in the house, always 'busy' whenever she asked him to do anything.
ref:
2021, Karen Woods, Tracks, Manchester: HarperNorth, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
Now, until you get to wearing block shoes, the same sandals do for everything except tap, and the world doesn't come to an end if you just wear your tunic knickers and a shirt for tap; but when we could get the stuff there was all that changing into rompers, and we'd special satin sandals for ballet. It was change, change, all the time.
ref:
1944, Noel Streatfeild, “Cousins”, in Curtain Up (Pennant Books), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Sons, published 1964, →OCLC, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
As successful commercially as it was critically, Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk established Savion Glover as the new tap superstar.
ref:
2000, Ian Driver, “Sight and Sound: Tap Dancing”, in A Century of Dance, London: Hamlyn, page 116, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A light blow or strike with a clear sound; a gentle rap; a pat; also, the sound made by such a blow or strike.
The smallest amount of work; a stroke of work.
One of the metal pieces attached to the sole of a tap dancer's shoe at the toe and heel to cause a tapping sound.
A shot fired from a firearm.
An act of touching a button, icon, or specific location on the touch screen of an electronic device such as a mobile phone to invoke a function.
A single muscle contraction in vocal organs causing a consonant sound; also, the sound so made.
A piece of leather or other material fastened upon the bottom of an item of footwear when repairing the heel or sole; also (England, dialectal) the sole of an item of footwear.
Ellipsis of tap dance.
senses_topics:
dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
14776 | word:
tap
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tap (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Persian or Urdu تب (tab, “malarial fever”), ultimately from Sanskrit ताप (tāpa, “fever; heat; pain, torment”).
senses_examples:
text:
According to the Yunani hakims dengue is a "tap safrow"—a fever due to excess of bile, and it is wonderful the amount of dark colored bile that passes away after a purgative, especially if that is not administered until the third day.]
ref:
[1873 February 1, James Wise, “Report on the Epidemic of Dengue in the Dacca District During 1872”, in The Indian Medical Gazette, volume VIII, Calcutta: Wyman & Co., page 32, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
[…] in despair, he fell back on the unfailing reason (to the native mind) for every unaccountable action, and declared that the horses had tap, or fever. ¶ "Oh, that's all nonsense, Sooka!" replied Blunt to this assertion of his subordinate. They were walking along between the rows of stalls, making their morning inspection, and closely examining into the condition of every animal: "that's all nonsense! there's no tap here. Every one of them is as cool and nice as he can be—perfect pictures of condition most of them, No, no; there's no fever whatever amongst them."
ref:
1874, Stephen J Mac Kenna, At School With An Old Dragoon, second edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., pages 330–331
type:
quotation
text:
The country, my entertainer informed me, was considered perfectly safe, unless I feared the tap, the bad kind of fever which infests all the country at the base of the hills.
ref:
1882, F[rancis] Marion Crawford, Mr. Isaacs: A Tale of Modern India, New York, N.Y.: P. F. Collier & Son, page 261
type:
quotation
text:
But, when I heard her speak soft Urdu words, / Like a white angel in her pity of us, / No whit afraid of sitla, or of tap / Fever or pest!]
ref:
[1888, Edwin Arnold, With Sa'di in the Garden: Or, the Book of Love, Boston, M.A.: Roberts Brothers, page 47
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A malarial fever.
senses_topics:
|
14777 | word:
Kyrgyz
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Kyrgyz (plural Kyrgyz)
forms:
form:
Kyrgyz
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Kyrgyz
etymology_text:
From Kyrgyz кыргыз (kırgız), possibly derived from Kyrgyz кырк ууз (kırk uuz, “forty tribes”); or possibly from кыргый (kırgıy, “hawk”); or likely from кырк (kırk, “extinguish, mince, cut”). More at Kyrgyz.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
member of a Turkic people living primarily in Kyrgyzstan
member of a Siberian Turkic people now known as Khakas
senses_topics:
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14778 | word:
Kyrgyz
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kyrgyz
forms:
wikipedia:
Kyrgyz
etymology_text:
From Kyrgyz кыргыз (kırgız), possibly derived from Kyrgyz кырк ууз (kırk uuz, “forty tribes”); or possibly from кыргый (kırgıy, “hawk”); or likely from кырк (kırk, “extinguish, mince, cut”). More at Kyrgyz.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Western Turkic language of Kyrgyz people.
senses_topics:
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14779 | word:
Kyrgyz
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Kyrgyz (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Kyrgyz
etymology_text:
From Kyrgyz кыргыз (kırgız), possibly derived from Kyrgyz кырк ууз (kırk uuz, “forty tribes”); or possibly from кыргый (kırgıy, “hawk”); or likely from кырк (kırk, “extinguish, mince, cut”). More at Kyrgyz.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Kyrgyzstan, the Kyrgyz people or the Kyrgyz language.
senses_topics:
|
14780 | word:
visible
word_type:
adj
expansion:
visible (comparative more visible, superlative most visible)
forms:
form:
more visible
tags:
comparative
form:
most visible
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English visible, from Old French visible, from Late Latin visibilis (“that may be seen”), from Latin videre (“to see”), past participle visus; see vision. Displaced native Old English ġesewenlīċ.
senses_examples:
text:
When the sun rises, the world becomes visible.
type:
example
text:
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
ref:
2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Able to be seen.
senses_topics:
|
14781 | word:
pliers
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pliers pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
pliers
etymology_text:
From ply (“to bend”) + -ers.
senses_examples:
text:
I need a pair of pliers to get a good grip on that broken screw.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pincer-like gripping tool that multiplies the strength of the user's hand, often used for bending things.
senses_topics:
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14782 | word:
pliers
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pliers
forms:
wikipedia:
pliers
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of plier
senses_topics:
|
14783 | word:
Aeolian Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Aeolian Islands
forms:
form:
the Aeolian Islands
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of Lipari Islands
senses_topics:
|
14784 | word:
Qur'an
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Qur'an (plural Qur'ans)
forms:
form:
the Qur'an
tags:
canonical
form:
Qur'ans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Arabic الْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān), definite form of قُرْآن (qurʔān, “act of reciting”), verbal noun of قَرَأَ (qaraʔa, “to recite; to read (aloud)”). (The obsolete alternative spellings with "al-", like the Alcoran, redundantly retained the Arabic definite article.) Compare Classical Syriac ܩܪܝܢܐ (qeryānā, “reading; scripture”).
senses_examples:
text:
Thus it is not without wonder, how those learned Arabicks so tamely delivered up their belief unto the absurdities of the Alcoran.
ref:
1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.5
type:
quotation
text:
‘A poor forlorn and ignorant stranger, unacquainted with the very Alcoran of the savage tribe whom you are come to reside among—Never to have heard of Markham, the most celebrated author on farriery!’
ref:
1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy
type:
quotation
text:
He reads largely religious books, chiefly the Gita and Upanishads. He has read the Koran and he is now re-reading the Bible.
ref:
1923 December 16, “Gandhi spends his time”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
In the summer of 2002, responding to the 9/11 atrocity, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made a selection of verses from the Qur'an a mandatory text for new students.
ref:
2011 July 1, Malise Ruthven, The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Islamic holy book, considered by Muslims to be the word of God as revealed to Muhammad.
senses_topics:
Islam
lifestyle
religion |
14785 | word:
Qur'an
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Qur'an (plural Qur'ans)
forms:
form:
Qur'ans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Arabic الْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān), definite form of قُرْآن (qurʔān, “act of reciting”), verbal noun of قَرَأَ (qaraʔa, “to recite; to read (aloud)”). (The obsolete alternative spellings with "al-", like the Alcoran, redundantly retained the Arabic definite article.) Compare Classical Syriac ܩܪܝܢܐ (qeryānā, “reading; scripture”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A specific version, edition, translation, or copy of one of the above-mentioned book.
senses_topics:
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14786 | word:
Pelagian Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
Pelagian Islands
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of islands of Italy south of Sicily.
senses_topics:
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14787 | word:
quirk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quirk (plural quirks)
forms:
form:
quirks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in the 1540s. Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English *querk, from Old Norse kverk (“a bend or angle, especially below a cross-beam or below the chin, the bight of an axe", also "throat, gullet”), from Proto-Germanic *kwerkō (“throat, gullet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour; maw”). Cognate with Scots querk (“throat", also "any hollow in the body, such as an armpit, groin, instep, etc.”), Icelandic kverk (“interior angle”). Also partially from dialectal quirk, querk (“a whim, fancy, fuss, huff, complaint", also "to peevishly grumble, grunt, sigh, croak, die”), from Middle English querken, *quirken (“to choke”), from Old Norse kvirkja (“to choke, strangle”), from the same origin above. Related to dialectal querken, quirken (“to choke”). Likely not related to queer.
senses_examples:
text:
The car steers cleanly, but the gearshift has a few quirks.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone.
An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a moulding and a soffit.
A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge.
senses_topics:
architecture
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14788 | word:
quirk
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quirk (third-person singular simple present quirks, present participle quirking, simple past and past participle quirked)
forms:
form:
quirks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quirking
tags:
participle
present
form:
quirked
tags:
participle
past
form:
quirked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in the 1540s. Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English *querk, from Old Norse kverk (“a bend or angle, especially below a cross-beam or below the chin, the bight of an axe", also "throat, gullet”), from Proto-Germanic *kwerkō (“throat, gullet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour; maw”). Cognate with Scots querk (“throat", also "any hollow in the body, such as an armpit, groin, instep, etc.”), Icelandic kverk (“interior angle”). Also partially from dialectal quirk, querk (“a whim, fancy, fuss, huff, complaint", also "to peevishly grumble, grunt, sigh, croak, die”), from Middle English querken, *quirken (“to choke”), from Old Norse kvirkja (“to choke, strangle”), from the same origin above. Related to dialectal querken, quirken (“to choke”). Likely not related to queer.
senses_examples:
text:
He quirked an eyebrow.
type:
example
text:
The corners of her mouth quirked.
type:
example
text:
He quirked his lips playfully.
ref:
2017, Jane Gloriana Villanueva, Snow Falling, page 203
type:
quotation
text:
But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.
ref:
1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
I have stung her and wrung her,
The venom is working;—
And if you had hung her
With canting and quirking,
She could not be deader than she will be soon
ref:
1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To (cause to) move with a wry jerk.
To furnish with a quirk or channel.
To alter in a unique and unusual way.
To use verbal tricks or quibbles.
senses_topics:
architecture
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14789 | word:
quirk
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quirk (third-person singular simple present quirks, present participle quirking, simple past and past participle quirked)
forms:
form:
quirks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quirking
tags:
participle
present
form:
quirked
tags:
participle
past
form:
quirked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of querk
senses_topics:
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14790 | word:
Herm
word_type:
name
expansion:
Herm
forms:
wikipedia:
Herm
etymology_text:
Perhaps from Old Norse armr (“arm”), because of its shape.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the Channel Islands and part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey.
A commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in south-western France.
senses_topics:
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14791 | word:
village
word_type:
noun
expansion:
village (plural villages)
forms:
form:
villages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
village
etymology_text:
From Middle English village, from Old French village, from Latin villāticus, ultimately from Latin villa (English villa).
Broadly overtook Old English wic, þorp, and ham.
The Philippine sense is due to its frequent use in the names of gated communities.
senses_examples:
text:
There are 2 churches and 3 shops in our village.
type:
example
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.
ref:
2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
After the storm, the park in our village was a mess.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
A gated community.
senses_topics:
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14792 | word:
waylaid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
waylaid
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of waylay
senses_topics:
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14793 | word:
atomic weight
word_type:
noun
expansion:
atomic weight (plural atomic weights)
forms:
form:
atomic weights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The equivalent weight of an element or compound is that weight equivalent in reactive power to one atomic weight of hydrogen.
ref:
1922, Leicester F. Hamilton, Calculations of Analytical Chemistry, page 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Former term for the more specific relative atomic mass.
A term used to represent the mean relative atomic mass of an element in nature, as distinct from the relative atomic mass of a single isotope.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
14794 | word:
Lipari Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Lipari Islands
forms:
form:
the Lipari Islands
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago of Italy, off the north coast of Sicily.
senses_topics:
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14795 | word:
ESRB
word_type:
name
expansion:
ESRB
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Entertainment Software Rating Board.
senses_topics:
video-games |
14796 | word:
Laotian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Laotian (plural Laotians)
forms:
form:
Laotians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Laos + -ian, or after French laotien.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from the Lao People's Democratic Republic or of Lao descent.
senses_topics:
|
14797 | word:
Laotian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Laotian
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Laos + -ian, or after French laotien.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of Lao (“the official language of Laos”)
senses_topics:
|
14798 | word:
Laotian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Laotian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Laos + -ian, or after French laotien.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to the Lao People's Democratic Republic, the Laotian people or the Laotian language.
senses_topics:
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14799 | word:
herpetology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
herpetology (usually uncountable, plural herpetologies)
forms:
form:
herpetologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Derived from French herpétologie, from Ancient Greek ἑρπετόν (herpetón, “reptile”) + -logie (suffix indicating a field of study or work), equivalent to herpet- + -logy.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The branch of biology dealing with reptiles (Reptilia) and amphibians (Amphibia).
senses_topics:
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