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14900 | word:
biennial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
biennial (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin bienni(um) (“two-year period”) [from bis, bi- (“twice”) + annus (“year”)] + -al (suffix forming adjectives). By surface analysis, bi- + -ennial.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Happening every two years.
Lasting for two years.
senses_topics:
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14901 | word:
biennial
word_type:
noun
expansion:
biennial (plural biennials)
forms:
form:
biennials
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin bienni(um) (“two-year period”) [from bis, bi- (“twice”) + annus (“year”)] + -al (suffix forming adjectives). By surface analysis, bi- + -ennial.
senses_examples:
text:
The famous Biennial was won by Earl of Dartrey, a light, peacocky horse, who was, perhaps, better than he looked.
ref:
1891, Sir George Chetwynd, Racing Reminiscences and Experiences of the Turf, page 122
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A plant that requires two years to complete its life-cycle, germinating and growing in its first year, then producing its flowers and fruit in its second year, after which it usually dies.
An event that happens every two years.
senses_topics:
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14902 | word:
volcanologist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
volcanologist (plural volcanologists)
forms:
form:
volcanologists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From volcanology + -ist.
senses_examples:
text:
2006, “A submerged island discovered off the coast of Sicily forms part of a vast underwater volcano, according to new research unveiled by Italian volcanoligists”, in Weekend Argus 24 June 2006.:
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who is skilled in, professes or practices volcanology.
senses_topics:
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14903 | word:
Shetland Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
Shetland Islands
forms:
wikipedia:
Shetland Islands
Shetland Islands Council
etymology_text:
See Shetland.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of islands of Scotland, roughly north-east of the Orkney Islands.
The region of Scotland comprising these islands.
A council area of Scotland, one of the 32, the council was originally formed in 1975.
senses_topics:
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14904 | word:
Orkney Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
Orkney Islands
forms:
wikipedia:
Orkney Islands
Orkney Islands Council
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island group off north-east Scotland, Great Britain island
A region of Scotland, British Isles comprising these islands.
A council area of Scotland, United Kingdom.
senses_topics:
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14905 | word:
Swiss
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Swiss (comparative more Swiss, superlative most Swiss)
forms:
form:
more Swiss
tags:
comparative
form:
most Swiss
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Swiss (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Adopted from Middle French Suisse in circa 1515, alongside the form Switzer directly loaned from German.
senses_examples:
text:
The obstructive tendency attributed to the knot in spiritual matters appears in a Swiss superstition that if, in sewing a corpse into its shroud, you make a knot on the thread, it will hinder the soul of the deceased on its passage to eternity.
ref:
1911, James George Frazer, chapter V, in Taboo and the Perils of the Soul (The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion; II), third edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 310
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Switzerland or the Swiss people.
senses_topics:
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14906 | word:
Swiss
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Swiss (countable and uncountable, plural Swisses or Swiss)
forms:
form:
Swisses
tags:
plural
form:
Swiss
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Swiss (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Adopted from Middle French Suisse in circa 1515, alongside the form Switzer directly loaned from German.
senses_examples:
text:
My favourite sandwich has roast beef and Swiss on rye bread.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Switzerland or of Swiss descent.
Swiss cheese.
senses_topics:
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14907 | word:
Swiss
word_type:
name
expansion:
Swiss
forms:
wikipedia:
Swiss (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Adopted from Middle French Suisse in circa 1515, alongside the form Switzer directly loaned from German.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Swiss German; the variety of German spoken in Switzerland.
senses_topics:
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14908 | word:
zany
word_type:
adj
expansion:
zany (comparative zanier, superlative zaniest)
forms:
form:
zanier
tags:
comparative
form:
zaniest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Fratellini family
Paul Fratellini
etymology_text:
From Middle French zani, zanni, from Italian zanni (“a kind of masked clown character”), from Zanni, a dialectal form of Giovanni. Doublet of John and Giovanni.
senses_examples:
text:
And I will admit now but never then that, more than once, listening to the Viennese chattering their zany German on the pavements, or taking himself to one of the struggling small theatres that were cropping up in cellars and bombed houses...
ref:
1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy
type:
quotation
text:
Press articles emphasized his [Dizzy Gillespie's] ambassadorial role and drew attention to the paradox that he was a shrewd musician and leader despite his zany image.
ref:
1999, Alyn Shipton, “Gillespiana”, in Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 293
type:
quotation
text:
When playing for Connie Mack, Rube [Waddell]'s pattern after one of his zany outbursts usually involved promises of good behavior and a spurt of excellent pitching.
ref:
2000, Alan H. Levy, Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist, Jefferson, N.C.: London: McFarland & Company, page 241
type:
quotation
text:
This runs counter to the play, where Grandpa is always benignly indulgent of all his zany progeny and their equally zany spouses, and is even somewhat zany himself.
ref:
2013, William Paul, “No Escaping the Depression: Utopian Comedy and the Aesthetics of Escapism in Frank Capra's You Can't Take it with You (1938)”, in Andrew Horton, Joanna E. Rapf, editors, A Companion to Film Comedy, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, page 280
type:
quotation
text:
The montage goes on to show scenes of Carla singing, dancing, meditating, breaking the tension amongst her co-cheftestants with sing-a-longs and “hootie-hoo” lessons, and ultimately wooing the judges with a combination of her zany personality and solid cooking skills.
ref:
2015, Kimberly D. Nettles-Barcelón, “The Sassy Black Cook and the Return of the Magic Negress: Popular Representations of Black Women's Food Work”, in Jennifer Jensen Wallach, editor, Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama, Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas Press, page 117
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unusual and awkward in a funny, comical manner; outlandish; clownish.
Ludicrously or incongruously comical.
senses_topics:
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14909 | word:
zany
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zany (plural zanies)
forms:
form:
zanies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Fratellini family
Paul Fratellini
etymology_text:
From Middle French zani, zanni, from Italian zanni (“a kind of masked clown character”), from Zanni, a dialectal form of Giovanni. Doublet of John and Giovanni.
senses_examples:
text:
Then write that I may follow, and so be / Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany.
ref:
a. 1631, John Donne, Epistle to Mr. I. W.
type:
quotation
text:
O great restorer of the good old stage, / Preacher at once, and Zany of thy age!
ref:
1728, Alexander Pope, “Book III”, in The Dunciad
type:
quotation
text:
Part of the illusory world is the 'quack' or mountebank who can be seen standing on his own special platform in the centre of the crowd[…]. Such a person travelled round to fairs and markets selling his nostrums or medicines. This character is dressed in a lace hat, long periwig and embroidered coat with lace cuffs, and is attended by his zany, who is wearing a chequered harlequin outfit and is 'quacking' or 'puffing' his master's wares. No seventeenth- or eighteenth-century mountebank was complete without his zany or 'Merry Andrew' – a term originally applied to Dr Andrew Boorde, physician to Henry VIII and noted for his ready wit and humour, who was the subject of many broadside ballads.
ref:
1996, Fiona Haslam, From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in Art in Eighteenth-century Britain, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, page 69
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fool or clown, especially one whose business on the stage is to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown.
senses_topics:
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14910 | word:
zany
word_type:
verb
expansion:
zany (third-person singular simple present zanies, present participle zanying, simple past and past participle zanied)
forms:
form:
zanies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
zanying
tags:
participle
present
form:
zanied
tags:
participle
past
form:
zanied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Fratellini family
Paul Fratellini
etymology_text:
From Middle French zani, zanni, from Italian zanni (“a kind of masked clown character”), from Zanni, a dialectal form of Giovanni. Doublet of John and Giovanni.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To mimic foolishly.
senses_topics:
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14911 | word:
vulcanology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vulcanology (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin Vulcan (“the god of fire”) + -ology.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The study of volcanoes.
senses_topics:
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14912 | word:
aloft
word_type:
adv
expansion:
aloft (comparative more aloft, superlative most aloft)
forms:
form:
more aloft
tags:
comparative
form:
most aloft
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old Norse á lopti (“in the sky”); equivalent to a- + loft.
senses_examples:
text:
high winds aloft
type:
example
text:
Someone's turned the chest out alow and aloft.
ref:
1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
type:
quotation
text:
He noticed that he still held the knife aloft and brought his arm down, replacing the blade in the sheath.
ref:
1954, William Golding, Lord of the Flies
type:
quotation
text:
Lewis Cook held the trophy aloft after becoming the first England captain to lead his country to victory in a major global final since Sir Bobby Moore. A white sea of confetti slowly filled the pitch, with each England player taking hold of the trophy on the stage swiftly erected in Suwon to kick-start the celebrations.
ref:
2017 June 11, Ben Fisher, “England seal Under-20 World Cup glory as Dominic Calvert-Lewin strikes”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I think you said something concerning the manner in which yonder ship has anchored, and of the condition they keep things alow and aloft?
ref:
1859, James Fenimore Cooper, The Red Rover: A Tale
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At, to, or in the air or sky.
Above, overhead, in a high place; up.
In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
14913 | word:
glitch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
glitch (countable and uncountable, plural glitches)
forms:
form:
glitches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
John Glenn
etymology_text:
Probably from Yiddish גליטש (glitsh), from German glitschig (“slippy”), from glitschen (“to slide, glide, slip”) + -ig (“-y”). Related to gleiten (“glide”). Cognate with French glisser (“to slip, slide, skid”).
Popularized in the 1960s, by the US space program. Attested in 1962 by American astronaut John Glenn, in reference to spikes in electrical current.
senses_examples:
text:
They are still trying to work out all the glitches.
type:
example
text:
Glitches—a spaceman’s word for irritating disturbances.
ref:
1965, Time magazine
type:
quotation
text:
A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
ref:
1999, The Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix (motion picture), spoken by Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss)
type:
quotation
text:
Some claimed on Monday that Foodpanda's account deletion system reported being under maintenance and could not process their request. It is unclear if the flock of requests had created a system failure, or Foodpanda had cut access on purpose, or the timing was merely a coincidence. The glitch only added fuel to online sympathizers' outrage.
ref:
2021 July 20, Masayuki Yuda, “Foodpanda faces backlash after calling Thai protest 'terrorism'”, in Nikkei Asia, Nikkei Inc, retrieved 2021-07-20
type:
quotation
text:
Another term we adopted to describe some of our problems was "glitch." Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical circuit which takes place when the circuit suddenly has a new load put on it. You have probably noticed a dimming of lights in your home when you turn a switch or start the dryer or the television set.
ref:
1962, John Glenn, Into Orbit, London: Cassell
type:
quotation
text:
Performing this glitch gives you extra lives.
type:
example
text:
How to reach 8.555 ー The glitch
You need to have Wrex alive and sabotage the cure. Without the glitch, Wrex will discover the lie and try to kill you after Priority: Citadel II when you try to go back to the Normandy. Triggering this scene will remove Wrex and the Clan Urdnot in the war assets list
The glitch is easy, when you want to leave the Citadel, simply go to a fast travel shuttle, then in a DLC area (Dr. Bryson's Lab or Silversun Strip)
Then again the shuttle, and go back to the Normandy from here
ref:
2021 September 4, Paarnahkrin, “8.550 War Assets - How to achieve the highest possible score”, in Steam Community, archived from the original on 2021-12-07, Paarnahkrin's Guides
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: noise
text:
You can hear this in the contemporary genre of ‘glitch’, where artists like Oval and Fennesz make radically beautiful music using the snaps, crackles and pops emitted by damaged CDs, malfunctioning software, etc.
ref:
2011, Simon Reynolds, Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop, Soft Skull Press, page 313
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A problem affecting function.
An unexpected behavior in an electrical signal, especially if the signal spontaneously returns to expected behavior after a period of time.
A bug or an exploit.
A genre of experimental electronic music since the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.
A sudden increase in the rotational frequency of a pulsar.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
video-games
entertainment
lifestyle
music
astronomy
natural-sciences |
14914 | word:
glitch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
glitch (third-person singular simple present glitches, present participle glitching, simple past and past participle glitched)
forms:
form:
glitches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
glitching
tags:
participle
present
form:
glitched
tags:
participle
past
form:
glitched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
John Glenn
etymology_text:
Probably from Yiddish גליטש (glitsh), from German glitschig (“slippy”), from glitschen (“to slide, glide, slip”) + -ig (“-y”). Related to gleiten (“glide”). Cognate with French glisser (“to slip, slide, skid”).
Popularized in the 1960s, by the US space program. Attested in 1962 by American astronaut John Glenn, in reference to spikes in electrical current.
senses_examples:
text:
My computer keeps glitching; every couple of hours it just reboots without warning.
type:
example
text:
Jake’s parents, played unnervingly well by Colette and Thewlis, are like alien robots who have been programmed to behave like human beings, but keep glitching.
ref:
2020 September 1, Nicholas Barber, “Five stars for I'm Thinking of Ending Things”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
His character will glitch into the wall and out of the level.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To experience an unexpected, typically intermittent malfunction.
To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.
senses_topics:
video-games |
14915 | word:
salad
word_type:
noun
expansion:
salad (countable and uncountable, plural salads)
forms:
form:
salads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
salad
etymology_text:
PIE word
*séh₂ls
From Middle English salade, from Old French salade, borrowed from Northern Italian salada, salata (compare insalata), from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (“salt”). Vegetables were seasoned with brine or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings during Roman times.
senses_examples:
text:
chicken salad
type:
example
text:
We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.
type:
example
text:
romaine salad
type:
example
text:
kale salad
type:
example
text:
sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment
type:
example
text:
Rebuffed by the Arabs and then the Iranians for trying to be part of them and their societies, Pakistan is just a hotchpotch salad of people supposedly bound together by the myth of Muslim 'Ummah'.
ref:
2021 October 16, Gurvinder Singh, “Why Pakistan will fail”, in Guruwonder
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
Especially, such a mixture whose principal base is greens, most especially lettuce.
A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.
Any varied blend or mixture.
senses_topics:
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14916 | word:
shiny
word_type:
adj
expansion:
shiny (comparative shinier or more shiny, superlative shiniest or most shiny)
forms:
form:
shinier
tags:
comparative
form:
more shiny
tags:
comparative
form:
shiniest
tags:
superlative
form:
most shiny
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From shine + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
We're shiny, Okay?
ref:
2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
Like distant thunder on a shiny day.
ref:
1665, John Dryden, Verses to her Royal Highness the Duchess [of York]
type:
quotation
text:
When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire
Full well I served my master for nigh on seven years
Till I took up to poaching as you shall quickly hear
Oh, 'tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year.
ref:
The Lincolnshire Poacher (traditional song)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Reflecting light.
Emitting light.
Excellent; remarkable.
Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
senses_topics:
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14917 | word:
shiny
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shiny (plural shinies)
forms:
form:
shinies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From shine + -y.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Anything shiny; a trinket.
Contraction of disparaging term "shiny arses", originating during World War Two, to describe a desk worker.https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mAdUqLrKw4YC&pg=PA1717
senses_topics:
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14918 | word:
Apulian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Apulian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Apulia + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Apulia.
senses_topics:
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14919 | word:
Apulian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Apulian (plural Apulians)
forms:
form:
Apulians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Apulia + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or a resident of Apulia.
senses_topics:
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14920 | word:
cafe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cafe (plural cafes)
forms:
form:
cafes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of café
A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items.
senses_topics:
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14921 | word:
backslash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
backslash (plural backslashes)
forms:
form:
backslashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From back + slash, because it is a slash going back against the direction of writing, in contrast to the common slash / (“slash, solidus, oblique, forward slash”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] I was trying to find a web-site for which I had been given the following address: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/pacrim/pubs/korjournal.htm. […] I began to work backwards, removing first the last part of the address following the last backslash (/korjournal.htm).
ref:
2001, James T. Bretzke, Bibliography on East Asian Religion and Philosophy, Edwin Mellen Press, page 455
type:
quotation
text:
“So, do what I tell you. Open a browser window and type this in the menu bar: F-T-P colon backslash backslash euronews dot net backslash...”
I pecked carefully at the keyboard as he dictated a URL that was about fifty characters long, […]
ref:
2010, Lee Vance, The Garden of Betrayal, Random House, published 2011, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
Also, avoid submenus that can confuse the audience—if you're giving lengthy Web site addresses full of backslashes, shorten it so only the Web site's home page is given.
ref:
2010, Frank Barnas, Ted White, Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, Fifth Edition, Elsevier, page 114
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The punctuation mark \.
Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
14922 | word:
backslash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
backslash (third-person singular simple present backslashes, present participle backslashing, simple past and past participle backslashed)
forms:
form:
backslashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
backslashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
backslashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
backslashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From back + slash, because it is a slash going back against the direction of writing, in contrast to the common slash / (“slash, solidus, oblique, forward slash”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
14923 | word:
archaeology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
archaeology (countable and uncountable, plural archaeologies)
forms:
form:
archaeologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀρχαιολογία (arkhaiología, “antiquarian lore, ancient legends, history”), from ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “primal, old, ancient”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, study”). By surface analysis, archaeo- + -logy.
senses_examples:
text:
The building's developers have asked for some archaeology to be undertaken.
type:
example
text:
The archaeology will tell us which methods of burial were used by the Ancient Greeks.
type:
example
text:
She studied archaeology at Edinburgh University.
type:
example
text:
He first presented a complementary thesis on the Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), in which he used the term “archaeology” for the first time, and which indicated the period of history to which he was constantly to return.
The latent grid of knowledge which organizes every scientific discourse and defines what can or cannot be thought scientifically — the process of uncovering these levels Foucault calls 'archaeology'.
“Archaeology”, as the investigation of that which renders necessary a certain form of thought, implies an excavation of unconsciously organized sediments of thought. Unlike a history of ideas, it doesn’t assume that knowledge accumulates towards any historical conclusion. Archaeology ignores individuals and their histories. It prefers to excavate impersonal structures of knowledge.
Archaeology is a task that doesn’t consist of treating discourse as signs referring to a real content like madness. It treats discourses, such as medicine, as practices that form the objects of which they speak.
ref:
1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books, Icon Books, pages 36, 63, and 64
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains:
the actual excavation, examination, analysis and interpretation.
The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains:
the actual remains together with their location in the stratigraphy.
The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains:
the academic subject; in the USA: one of the four sub-disciplines of anthropology.
The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains
senses_topics:
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14924 | word:
monastery
word_type:
noun
expansion:
monastery (plural monasteries)
forms:
form:
monasteries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English monasterie, from Old French monastere, from Medieval Latin monastērium (“monastery”), from Ancient Greek μοναστήριον (monastḗrion, “hermitage, monastery”), from μοναστήριος (monastḗrios, “alone, made alone”) + -ιον (-ion, “-ium: forming places”), from μονάζω (monázō, “to be alone”), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”) + -άζω (-ázō, “forming verbs”). Doublet of minster.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A residence for monks or others who have taken religious vows.
senses_topics:
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14925 | word:
Lojban
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lojban
forms:
wikipedia:
Lojban
etymology_text:
From Lojban lojban., from rafsi loj (logji (“logic”)) + ban (bangu (“language”)).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An artificial language created by Logical Language Group designed to be logical, based on the earlier Loglan.
senses_topics:
|
14926 | word:
Lojban
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Lojban (comparative more Lojban, superlative most Lojban)
forms:
form:
more Lojban
tags:
comparative
form:
most Lojban
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Lojban
etymology_text:
From Lojban lojban., from rafsi loj (logji (“logic”)) + ban (bangu (“language”)).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Lojban.
senses_topics:
|
14927 | word:
judo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
judo (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 柔(じゅう)道(どう) (jūdō, literally “the soft way”).
senses_examples:
text:
He started doing judo at the age of eight.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Japanese martial art and sport adapted from jujutsu.
senses_topics:
|
14928 | word:
TBC
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
TBC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of to be continued.
Initialism of to be confirmed.
Initialism of to be concluded.
senses_topics:
|
14929 | word:
Rhineland-Palatinate
word_type:
name
expansion:
Rhineland-Palatinate
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation.
senses_topics:
|
14930 | word:
Saarland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Saarland
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
This was, even more strikingly, his attitude towards French actions in the Saarland. The Saar Landtag had approved in November 1947 a constitution instituting a monetary and customs union with France […]
ref:
1984, Alan S. Milward, The Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1945-51, page 390
type:
quotation
text:
The most famous sight in Saarland is the Saarschleife.
ref:
2005, Henk Bekker, Adventure Guide Germany, published 2005, page 308
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation.
senses_topics:
|
14931 | word:
egret
word_type:
noun
expansion:
egret (plural egrets)
forms:
form:
egrets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman egret, aigrette (“egret”), from Old Occitan aigreta, diminutive of aigron (“heron”), from Medieval Latin hairo, from Frankish *haigro (“heron”). Cognate with Old High German heigaro (“heron”), Old English hrāgra (“heron”). Doublet of aigrette. More at heron.
senses_examples:
text:
Egrets picked their way through the grass, attentive and showy as fussy girlfriends at the cows' sides.
ref:
2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 64
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season.
A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament.
The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, such as the down of the thistle.
The crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis)
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
|
14932 | word:
prototype
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prototype (plural prototypes)
forms:
form:
prototypes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:prototype (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From French prototype or Late Latin prototypon, from Ancient Greek πρωτότυπος (prōtótupos, “original; prototype”), from πρωτο- (prōto-, “prefix meaning ‘first’”) (from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first; earliest”)) + τῠ́πος (túpos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from τύπτω (túptō, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)). The word is analysable as proto- + -type.
senses_examples:
text:
[T]his Holy Trinity is not Three Divine Attributes, ſuch as Wiſdom, Power, and Goodneſs; for they are all Three the very ſame with each other, the ſame Wiſdom, Goodneſs, and Power, and therefore not Three Parts or Attributes of the ſame Deity, but each is the whole, the Prototype, and its living Image is.
ref:
1694, [William Sherlock], A Defence of Dr. Sherlock’s Notion of a Trinity in Unity, […], London: Printed for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC, pages 28–29
type:
quotation
text:
Only one manuscript of Plautus seems to have escaped the general wreck of ancient literature; and it served as the prototype to all the manuscripts at present extant.
ref:
1839 August, “Plautus. …”, in Foreign Monthly Review, and Continental Literary Journal, volume I, number IV, London: D[avid] Nutt, […]; Dulau and Co., […]; Berlin: Asher; Paris: Gayet and Lebrun, →OCLC, page 417
type:
quotation
text:
The making of the new prototypes of the metre and the kilogramme, the tracing of the metres, the comparison of the new prototypes with those of the Archives, as well as the construction of the auxillary apparatus necessary to these operations, are entrusted to the care of the French section, with the concurrence of the Permanent Committee, […]
ref:
1872 October 31, “International Metric Commission”, in Nature: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, volume VI, number 157, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, section III (In Reference to the Carrying Out of the Commission's Decision), article 34, page 544, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
The prototype had loose wires and rough edges, but it worked.
type:
example
text:
General Electric, under contract to the A.E.C., is now building a land-based prototype of this nuclear-power plant at West Milton, N.Y. A land-based prototype of the nuclear-power plant for the "Nautilus," developed jointly by the A.E.C.'s Argonne National Laboratory and the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, is now being built by Westinghouse, also under contract to the A.E.C.
ref:
1952 August, “[Washington Reporting] General Dynamics will Build Second Nuclear Sub”, in The Log, volume 47, number 9, Bristol, Conn.: Miller Freeman Publications, →OCLC, page 24, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
Unfortunately however, what may seem on paper an ideal specification for a particular type of machine does not always prove to be so in practice and the German Federal Railway submits prototypes of every new design to long and exhaustive tests before plans are made to put it into service.
ref:
1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
Like any variable in a C program it is necessary to prototype or declare a function before its use, if it returns a value other than an int. It informs the compiler that the function would be referenced at a later stage in the program. / For example, / In program 1, the statement / void display_message(); / is a function prototype or declaration. Here void specifies that this function does not return any value, and the empty parenthesis indicate that it takes no parameters (arguments).
ref:
2005, J. B. Dixit, “Unit-5: Functions and Pointers”, in Sangeeta Dixit, editor, Fundamentals of Computing, new edition, New Delhi: Laxmi Publications, page 355
type:
quotation
text:
A robin is a prototype of a bird; a penguin is not.
type:
example
text:
If the robin is the prototype of bird, do particular examples of robin constitute that prototype for different people? I think not. Rather, prototypes are themselves categories. Thus, to say that a robin is a prototypic bird is to propose that a class of similar creatures called robin is a prototype of bird.
ref:
2014, Cecil H. Brown, “A Survey of Category Types in Natural Language”, in S[avas] L. Tsohatzidis, editor, Meanings and Prototypes: Studies in Linguistic Categorization (Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, part 1 (On the Content of Prototype Categories: Questions of Word Meaning), page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Although it is common knowledge today that a great many linguistic categories are, indeed, prototype categories[…], a number of linguists still perceive grammatical categories as being classical in their nature[…]. These linguists are reluctant to accept the idea that prototypicality might be relevant to grammar and that grammatical categories, like all other categories, can also display prototype effects.
ref:
2015, [anonymous], “Introduction”, in Words, Affixes, and Clitics as Prototype Categories: Seminar Paper, [Munich, Bavaria]: GRIN Verlag, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.
An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports |
14933 | word:
prototype
word_type:
verb
expansion:
prototype (third-person singular simple present prototypes, present participle prototyping, simple past and past participle prototyped)
forms:
form:
prototypes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
prototyping
tags:
participle
present
form:
prototyped
tags:
participle
past
form:
prototyped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:prototype (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From French prototype or Late Latin prototypon, from Ancient Greek πρωτότυπος (prōtótupos, “original; prototype”), from πρωτο- (prōto-, “prefix meaning ‘first’”) (from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first; earliest”)) + τῠ́πος (túpos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from τύπτω (túptō, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)). The word is analysable as proto- + -type.
senses_examples:
text:
In short, he has purposely perverted the whole case from beginning to end, and distorted it in such a manner, as not to be prototyped except by his own mind; […]
ref:
1807 July, Alex. Denmark, “[Mr. Denmark, in Answer to Mr. Chalmers.] To the Editors of the Medical and Physical Journal.”, in T. Bradley, R[obert] Batty, editors, The Medical and Physical Journal, volume XVIII, number 101, London: Printed for R[ichard] Phillips, by W[illiam] Thorne, […], →OCLC, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
[Y]ou may form acquaintance with the Wye before it sees the light, by penetrating that interesting cavern, Poole's Hole, as I have several times before. It is a wondrous place, and worthy of a far more dignified name; a sort of crypt in Nature's vast cathedral; an assemblage of all grotesque, fantastic and beautiful mineral formations, in a fretted vault not made by man, yet mimicking or prototyping all his art.
ref:
1857, Spencer T[imothy] Hall, “The Wye and Dove”, in The Peak and the Plain: Scenes in Woodland, Field, and Mountain, 2nd edition, London: Houlston and Wright, […], →OCLC, page 345
type:
quotation
text:
[W]hatsoe'er the poet sings, / Of prototyped in nature or in man, / Moves deeply, though it touch not wrath of kings / Or frantic battle-van.
ref:
1859, Frederic W[illiam] H[enry] Myers, “Burns Centenary Poems. I.”, in George Anderson, John Finlay, editors, The Burns Centenary Poems: A Collection of Fifty of the Best out of Many Hundreds Written on Occasion of the Centenary Celebration, […], Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son; Edinburgh: John Menzies; London: Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co.; Dublin: M'Glashan and Gill, →OCLC, stanza V, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
The following themes will arise repeatedly in this book: / • the use of symbolic computation to prototype the behaviour of models.
ref:
1995, Eugene Fiume, “Mathematical Computation”, in An Introduction to Scientific, Symbolic, and Graphical Computation, Wellesley, Mass.: A K Peters, section 0.2 (Themes of This Book), page 4
type:
quotation
text:
The BBC wanted a computer to go with their television series and started to look for candidate systems. […] Several companies competed for the contract, and the Proton project was an ideal candidate. The only problem was the Proton didn't actually exist. It was only in the design stage; it wasn't prototyped. Acorn had little time, only 4 days, and spent those 4 days working night and day, prototyping the design, and getting the Proton ready to show to the BBC. […] The BBC Micro was born.
ref:
2014, James A. Langbridge, “The History of ARM”, in Professional Embedded ARM Development, Indianapolis, Ind.: Wrox, John Wiley & Sons, part I (ARM Systems and Development), pages 4–5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To create a prototype of.
senses_topics:
|
14934 | word:
Balkanize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Balkanize (third-person singular simple present Balkanizes, present participle Balkanizing, simple past and past participle Balkanized)
forms:
form:
Balkanizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Balkanizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
Balkanized
tags:
participle
past
form:
Balkanized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Balkan + -ize.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To break up into small, mutually-hostile units, especially on a political basis.
senses_topics:
|
14935 | word:
monastic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
monastic (comparative more monastic, superlative most monastic)
forms:
form:
more monastic
tags:
comparative
form:
most monastic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French monastique, from Late Latin monasticus.
senses_examples:
text:
new monastic people
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to monasteries or monks.
senses_topics:
|
14936 | word:
monastic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
monastic (plural monastics)
forms:
form:
monastics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French monastique, from Late Latin monasticus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person with monastic ways; a monk.
senses_topics:
|
14937 | word:
achoo
word_type:
intj
expansion:
achoo
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
text:
Achoo—I think I'm coming down with something!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sound of a sneeze.
senses_topics:
|
14938 | word:
achoo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
achoo (plural achoos)
forms:
form:
achoos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sound of a sneeze.
senses_topics:
|
14939 | word:
achoo
word_type:
verb
expansion:
achoo (third-person singular simple present achoos, present participle achooing, simple past and past participle achooed)
forms:
form:
achoos
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
achooing
tags:
participle
present
form:
achooed
tags:
participle
past
form:
achooed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sneeze loudly; to make an "achoo" sound.
senses_topics:
|
14940 | word:
wildebeest
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wildebeest (plural wildebeest or wildebeests or (rare) wildebeesten)
forms:
form:
wildebeest
tags:
plural
form:
wildebeests
tags:
plural
form:
wildebeesten
tags:
plural
rare
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed in the early 19th century from early Afrikaans wildebeest, modern wildebees (literally “wild ox”), with influence from beast.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: hartebeest
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The gnu.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
14941 | word:
Ilocano
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Ilocano (plural Ilocanos)
forms:
form:
Ilocanos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Ilocano
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish, from Ilocos (“Ilocanos, Ilukos, their region”) + -ano (“from”), from Ilocano Iluko (“Ilocano”), from i- (“from”) + either lukong (“flat lands”) or luek/look (“bay”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines.
senses_topics:
|
14942 | word:
Ilocano
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ilocano
forms:
wikipedia:
Ilocano
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish, from Ilocos (“Ilocanos, Ilukos, their region”) + -ano (“from”), from Ilocano Iluko (“Ilocano”), from i- (“from”) + either lukong (“flat lands”) or luek/look (“bay”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A language spoken principally on the island of Luzon.
senses_topics:
|
14943 | word:
Ilocano
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Ilocano (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Ilocano
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish, from Ilocos (“Ilocanos, Ilukos, their region”) + -ano (“from”), from Ilocano Iluko (“Ilocano”), from i- (“from”) + either lukong (“flat lands”) or luek/look (“bay”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the Ilocano.
senses_topics:
|
14944 | word:
New Holland
word_type:
name
expansion:
New Holland
forms:
wikipedia:
New Holland
Parts of Holland
etymology_text:
(sense 1) Coined in 1644 by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman as Nieuw Holland.
(sense 2) Uncertain, Parts of Holland was in the south of Lincolnshire.
senses_examples:
text:
1787, Chart of New Holland, published by J. Stockdale, London https://web.archive.org/web/20060107065752/http://www.nla.gov.au/rmaps/nk1586.html
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The continent and the country of Australia.
A village, civil parish, and port in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA0823).
A settlement in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hall County, Georgia.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Logan County, Illinois.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Fayette County and Pickaway County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
A community of Hyde County, North Carolina.
A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Douglas County, South Dakota.
senses_topics:
|
14945 | word:
volcanology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
volcanology (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French volcanologie, from volcan (“volcano”); and/or directly from volcano + -logy.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The study of volcanoes.
senses_topics:
|
14946 | word:
kiss
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kiss (third-person singular simple present kisses, present participle kissing, simple past and past participle kissed)
forms:
form:
kisses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kissing
tags:
participle
present
form:
kissed
tags:
participle
past
form:
kissed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
kiss
etymology_text:
From Middle English kissen, kussen, from Old English cyssan (“to kiss”), from Proto-West Germanic *kussijan, from Proto-Germanic *kussijaną (“to kiss”).
Cognates include Saterland Frisian küsje, Dutch kussen, German Low German küssen, German küssen, Danish kysse, Swedish kyssa, Norwegian kysse, Icelandic kyssa. Compare Proto-Indo-European *ku-, *kus- (probably imitative), with byspels including Ancient Greek κύσσω (kússō), poetic form of κύσω (kúsō, “to kiss”), and Hittite [script needed] (kuwassanzi, “they kiss”).
senses_examples:
text:
I kissed a girl and I liked it / The taste of her cherry chapstick / I kissed a girl just to try it / I hope my boyfriend don't mind it
ref:
2008 April 28, Katy Perry, Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Cathy Dennis, “I Kissed a Girl”, in One of the Boys, performed by Katy Perry
type:
quotation
text:
The nearside of the car just kissed a parked truck as he took the corner at high speed.
type:
example
text:
His ball kissed the black into the corner pocket.
type:
example
text:
We're kissing in the moonlight / Love was shining so bright and true
ref:
1990, Norell Oson Bard (lyrics and music), “Kissing in the Moonlight”performed by The Boppers
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.
Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
To treat with fondness.
senses_topics:
|
14947 | word:
kiss
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kiss (plural kisses)
forms:
form:
kisses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
kiss
etymology_text:
From Middle English kis, kys, kus, forms of cos influenced by kissen, from Old English coss, from Proto-West Germanic *koss, from Proto-Germanic *kussaz.
senses_examples:
text:
With some satisfaction, Gergory read this through twice, signed it and added kisses[.]
ref:
1966, Brian W. Aldiss, The Saliva Tree, published 1968, page 67
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message, signifying the bestowal of a kiss from the sender to the receiver.
A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See Hershey's Kisses.
The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth; conjunction.
A low-speed mid-air collision between the envelopes of two hot air balloons, generally causing no damage or injury.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
14948 | word:
Lower Saxony
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lower Saxony
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of German Niedersachsen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A component state of Germany, in existence since 1946
senses_topics:
|
14949 | word:
against the grain
word_type:
prep_phrase
expansion:
against the grain
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
By going against the grain and going to work nude, you've made yourself a laughing stock.
type:
example
text:
Get the thinkers out into the open like Vidal and Buckley, a really radical idea, against the grain.
ref:
2015 August 1, Ed Vulliamy, quoting Robert Gordon, “‘Don’t call me a crypto-Nazi!’ The lost heart of political debate”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
For Nabiullina, the developments unpick almost a decade of work going against the grain of Putin’s increasing global isolation by opening up the economy.
ref:
2022 March 5, Richard Partington, “Russia’s central bank head ‘is mourning for her economy’”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
It went much against the grain with him.
type:
example
text:
In all ordinary processes of grinding, the friction of the rapidly revolving millstones against the grain, or even of the stones against each other, develops a large amount of heat, so that the crushed wheat comes from the stones quite hot
ref:
1879, R. C. Kedzie, “The Adulteration and Deterioration of Food”, in Annual Report of the National Board of Health, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
There simply was not enough grain in each elevator to satisfy the known claims against the grain.
ref:
1983, US Congress, Grain Elevator Bankruptcy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 134
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Preventing a smooth, level surface from being formed by raising the nap of the wood or causing larger splinters to form ahead of the cutting tool below the cutting surface.
Contrary to what is expected; especially, of behavior different from what society expects.
Unwillingly, reluctantly; contrary to one's nature.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see against, the, grain.
senses_topics:
arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
|
14950 | word:
somatize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
somatize (third-person singular simple present somatizes, present participle somatizing, simple past and past participle somatized)
forms:
form:
somatizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
somatizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
somatized
tags:
participle
past
form:
somatized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From somatic + -ize.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] I don’t feel anything, naturally, since I’ve somatized the anxiety.
ref:
1988, Edmund White, chapter 6, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To express (a psychological process) through physical symptoms such as pain or anxiety; to have a psychosomatic reaction to (e.g. a situation).
senses_topics:
|
14951 | word:
Kiswahili
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kiswahili
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Swahili Kiswahili.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Swahili, an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa.
senses_topics:
|
14952 | word:
fathom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fathom (plural fathoms)
forms:
form:
fathoms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fathome, fadom, fadme (“unit of length of about six feet; depth of six feet for nautical soundings; (loosely) cubit; ell”) [and other forms], from Old English fæþm, fæþme (“encircling or outstretched arms, bosom, embrace; envelopment; control, grasp, power; fathom (unit of measurement); cubit”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *faþm (“outstretched arms, embrace; fathom (unit of measurement)”), from Proto-Germanic *faþmaz (“outstretched arms, embrace; fathom (unit of measurement)”), from Proto-Indo-European *pet-, *peth₂- (“to spread out; to fly”).
cognates
* Ancient Greek πέταλος (pétalos, “broad; flat”), πετᾰ́ννῡμῐ (petánnūmi, “to open; to spread out; to be dispersed or scattered”) (whence English petal)
* Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌸𐌰 (faþa, “fench; hedge”)
* Latin pateō (“to extend, increase; to be accessible, attainable, open; to be exposed, vulnerable”)
* Low German fadem, faem (“cubit; thread”)
* Middle Dutch vadem (modern Dutch vaam, vadem (“fathom”))
* Norwegian Bokmål favn (“an embrace; a fathom”)
* Old Frisian fethm (“outstretched arms”)
* Old High German fadam, fadum (“cubit”) (Middle High German vade (“enclosure”), vadem, vaden, modern German Faden (“fathom; filament, thread”))
* Old Norse faþmr (Danish favn (“an embrace; a fathom”), Icelandic faðmur (“an embrace”), Swedish famn (“the arms, bosom; an embrace”))
* Old Welsh etem (“thread”)
senses_examples:
text:
After we'd rowed for an hour, we found ourselves stranded ten fathoms from shore.
type:
example
text:
At fifty fathoms, the waters of the Southern Ocean are dark blue.
ref:
1983, Richard Ellis, “The Predators”, in The Book of Sharks, 1st paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, published 1989, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A man's armspan, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres). Later used to measure the depth of water, but now generally replaced by the metre outside American usage.
A measure of distance to shore: the nearest point to shore at which the water depth is the value quoted.
An unspecified depth.
Depth of insight; mental reach or scope.
The act of stretching out one's arms away from the sides of the torso so that they make a straight line perpendicular to the body.
Someone or something that is embraced.
Control, grasp.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
|
14953 | word:
fathom
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fathom (third-person singular simple present fathoms, present participle fathoming, simple past and past participle fathomed)
forms:
form:
fathoms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fathoming
tags:
participle
present
form:
fathomed
tags:
participle
past
form:
fathomed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fathmen, fadmen (“to encircle (something) with the arms, embrace; to feel, grope; to measure by the ell (or perhaps the fathom)”) [and other forms], from Old English fæðmian, from Proto-Germanic *faþmōjan, from *faþm (“outstretched arms, embrace; fathom (unit of measurement)”): see further at etymology 1.
cognates
* Old High German fademōn
* Old Norse faþma (Danish favne (“to embrace”), Icelandic to embrace, hug; to cuddle, Swedish famna)
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: grok
text:
I can’t for the life of me fathom what this means.
type:
example
text:
Otamendi’s selection ahead of Vincent Kompany was difficult to fathom and, apart from Fernandinho, City’s line-up was otherwise filled with attacking players.
ref:
2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To measure the depth of (water); to take a sounding of; to sound.
To encircle (someone or something) with outstretched arms; specifically, to measure the circumference or (rare) length of something.
Often followed by out: to deeply understand (someone or something); to get to the bottom of.
To embrace (someone or something).
To measure a depth; to sound.
To conduct an examination or inquiry; to investigate.
senses_topics:
|
14954 | word:
dassie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dassie (plural dassies)
forms:
form:
dassies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Afrikaans dassie, from Dutch das (“badger”).
senses_examples:
text:
The dassie is the closest living relative to the elephant.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small, herbivorous mammal in the order Hyracoidea, the rock hyrax.
senses_topics:
|
14955 | word:
Schleswig-Holstein
word_type:
name
expansion:
Schleswig-Holstein
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation.
senses_topics:
|
14956 | word:
bull ant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bull ant (plural bull ants)
forms:
form:
bull ants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Occasionally I would see their innards revealed by a gang of men in Jackie Howes with jack-hammers and chinking mattocks picked the sleepers clean of ballast like bull ants cleaning up a fish′s frame.
ref:
2010, Roger K. A. Allen, Ballina Boy: A Child's Odyssey through the 1950s, page 194
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Myrmecia brevinoda
senses_topics:
|
14957 | word:
Montana
word_type:
name
expansion:
Montana (countable and uncountable, plural Montanas)
forms:
form:
Montanas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Montana
Montana (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Latin montāna
* the US state via Spanish montaña (“mountain”)
* the surname from Spanish Montaña topographic surname
senses_examples:
text:
'Montana?' I said. 'You can't call a kid Montana'―these friends of mine were going to call their new baby girl Montana and I tried to talk them out of it, because I'm sick of Australians naming their kids after American placenames, I'm sick of all these Montanas and Delawares and Indianas and Dallases. […]
ref:
2002, Danny Katz, Dork Geek Jew, Allen & Unwin, published 2002, page 12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A placename
A town and province in northwestern Bulgaria.
A placename
A former municipality of Valais canton, Switzerland.
A placename
A locality in northern Tasmania, Australia.
A placename
A place in the United States
A state in the Mountain West region of the United States, formerly a territory. Capital: Helena. Largest city: Billings.
A placename
A place in the United States
A place in the United States, named after Montana Territory:
A town in Buffalo County, Wisconsin.
A placename
A place in the United States
A place in the United States, named after Montana Territory:
An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Arkansas.
A placename
A place in the United States
A place in the United States, named after Montana Territory:
An unincorporated community in Labette County, Kansas.
A placename
A place in the United States
A place in the United States, named after Montana Territory:
An unincorporated community in Warren County, New Jersey.
A placename
A place in the United States
A place in the United States, named after Montana Territory:
An unincorporated community in Marion County, West Virginia.
A unisex given name transferred from the place name, specifically from the name of the U.S. state.
A surname from Spanish, equivalent to English Mountain, Mount, or Hill
senses_topics:
|
14958 | word:
bushbaby
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bushbaby (plural bushbabies)
forms:
form:
bushbabies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From bush + baby.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small, nocturnal, African primate, similar to a lemur.
senses_topics:
|
14959 | word:
army ant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
army ant (plural army ants)
forms:
form:
army ants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tropical nomadic ant, principally in the subfamiles Dorylinae and Leptanillinae, that preys on other insects.
senses_topics:
|
14960 | word:
North Rhine-Westphalia
word_type:
name
expansion:
North Rhine-Westphalia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From North Rhine + Westphalia. The Allied occupation authorities created the state in 1947 by joining the northern half of the Prussian Rhine Province to the province of Westphalia (as well as the small Free State of Lippe).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The most populous of the 16 component states of Germany, located in the west of the country.
senses_topics:
|
14961 | word:
TBA
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
TBA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of to be announced.
Initialism of to be arranged.
Initialism of to be advised.
Initialism of to be aired.
Initialism of to be affirmed.
Initialism of to be answered.
Initialism of to be assigned.
Initialism of to be assessed.
Initialism of to be added.
senses_topics:
|
14962 | word:
TBA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
TBA (countable and uncountable, plural TBAs)
forms:
form:
TBAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of tracheobronchial amyloidosis.
Initialism of tert-butyl alcohol.
Initialism of traditional birth attendant.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
14963 | word:
worker
word_type:
noun
expansion:
worker (plural workers)
forms:
form:
workers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English werkere, worcher, wercher, equivalent to work + -er. Displaced the older term wright, from Old English wyrhta.
senses_examples:
text:
Writer Ta Chen, in a statistical study of industrial labor in China in 1933, recorded that 66.6 percent of the total number of workers in the four main industrial regions of Kwangtung were women. In Shun-te, 81.2 percent of the labor force were women.
ref:
1986, Janice G. Raymond, A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection, Boston: Beacon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese […] began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death. Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare.
ref:
2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884
type:
quotation
text:
Although the radiation levels identified are high, a threat to human health is very unlikely because apart from workers at the site, no-one goes there.
ref:
2017 February 2, Jeff Farrell, “Fukushima nuclear disaster: Lethal levels of radiation detected in leak seven years after plant meltdown in Japan”, in The Independent, London
type:
quotation
text:
This FTP client spawns a separate worker for each file to be uploaded.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who performs labor for a living, especially manual labor.
A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
A female ant, bee, termite or wasp.
A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
14964 | word:
hyaena
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hyaena (plural hyaenas or hyaenae)
forms:
form:
hyaenas
tags:
plural
form:
hyaenae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of hyena
senses_topics:
|
14965 | word:
fishy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fishy (comparative fishier, superlative fishiest)
forms:
form:
fishier
tags:
comparative
form:
fishiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fishi, fischey, equivalent to fish + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
What is that fishy odor?
type:
example
text:
The ſwifteſt Ship beneath with ſudden Chains / In mid Career the fiſhy Bank detains. / The Wind all uſeleſs in the Canvas roars, / In vain the Sailors tug the ſticking Oars. / Fixt as a Rock the ſteady Throng abides; / The Ship as anchor'd in her Harbour rides.
ref:
1722, Oppian, [William Diaper and John Jones, transl.], “The Fourth Book of Oppian’s Halieuticks”, in Oppian’s Halieuticks: Of the Nature of Fishes and Fishing of the Ancients in V. Books. Translated from the Greek, with an Account of Oppian’s Life and Writings, and a Catalogue of His Fishes, Oxford: Printed at the Theater, →OCLC, page 172, lines 589–594
type:
quotation
text:
[William] Dampier. The Fleſh of both young and old is lean and black, yet very good Meat, taſting neither fiſhy nor unſavoury: A Diſh of Flamingo's Tongues being fit for a Prince's Table. They are large, having a large Knob of Fat at the Root, which is an excellent Bit.
ref:
1731, “[The Natural History of the Flamingo, &c. by Dr. J. Douglas, N. 350. p. 523.]”, in Henry Jones, editor, The Philosophical Transactions (from the Year 1700, to the Year 1720.) Abridg’d, and Dispos’d under General Heads, 2nd edition, volume V, part I (Zoology, &c. Anatomy, Physic, Chemistry), London: Printed for J. and J. Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, chap. I (Zoology, and the Anatomy of Animals), page 69
type:
quotation
text:
Few eyes have escaped the pictures of mermaids; that is, according to Horace's monster, with a woman's head above, and fishy extremity below; and these are conceived to answer the shape of the ancient sirens that attempted upon Ulysses. Which notwithstanding were of another description, containing no fishy composure, but made up of man and bird: […]
ref:
1852, Thomas Browne, “Of the Pictures of Mermaids, Unicorns, and some Others”, in Simon Wilkin, editor, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, volumes II (Containing the Three Last Books of Vulgar Errors, Religio Medici, and the Garden of Cyrus), London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, →OCLC, book V ([Pseudodoxia Epidemica.] The Particular Part Continued. Of Many Things Questionable as They are Commonly Described in Pictures; of Many Popular Customs, etc.), pages 59–61
type:
quotation
text:
I don't trust him; his claims seem fishy to me.
type:
example
text:
There was something more to this than met the eye, and he had the distinct feeling that the marshal had just snookered him into a corner. But he couldn't very well refuse, and it would look fishy if he demanded they march now.
ref:
1973, Matt Braun, chapter 5, in El Paso, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Paperbacks; reprinted New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Paperbacks, July 1999, page 236
text:
One day I dressed up all out fishy to go to my mother's place. I knocked and started walking in past her. She was like 'Can I help you?' I said, 'Ma?' and she was like OMG! She actually thought I was one of her boyfriend's hoochie [mamas].
ref:
2014, Todd Kachinski Kottmeier, Steve Hammond, “Mother’s Pretty Dress”, in DRAG411’s Official Drag Handbook, 4th edition, [s.l.]: BecHavn Publishing, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or similar to fish.
Suspicious; inspiring doubt.
Of a drag queen: appearing very feminine and resembling a cisgender woman.
senses_topics:
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality |
14966 | word:
fishy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fishy (plural fishies)
forms:
form:
fishies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fishi, fischey, equivalent to fish + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
You shall have a fishy / In a little dishy; / You shall have a fishy / When the boat comes in.
ref:
1846, “[Lullabies.] CCLXXVIII. [When the Boat Comes In.]”, in James Orchard Halliwell, editor, The Nursery Rhymes of England, Collected Chiefly from Oral Tradition, 4th edition, London: John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho Square, →OCLC, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
When Sachie got out of the tub and got her baby out of the tub her mom had her talk down the drain to the fishies and froggies. […] "Are you ready fishies? Are you ready froggies?" Both Sachie and mommy asked together. "One, two, three" they pulled out the plug. And they watched the water go down the drain.
ref:
2013, April V. Costa, Fishies and Froggies in the Drain, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse
type:
quotation
text:
I wish I were a fishy in the sea— / I wish I were a fishy in the sea— / I'd go swimming in the nudie without my bathing suity / Oh, I wish I were a fishy in the sea
ref:
2014 May 19, Patricia Averill, “I Wish I were a Little—: Open Ended Songs”, in Camp Songs, Folk Songs, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, page 304
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
diminutive of fish.
senses_topics:
|
14967 | word:
needle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
needle (plural needles)
forms:
form:
needles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nedle, from Old English nǣdl, from Proto-West Germanic *nāþlu, from Proto-Germanic *nēþlō, from pre-Germanic *neh₁-tleh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, twist”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch naald (“needle”), German Nadel (“needle, pin, crochet hook”), German nähen (“sew”), Danish nål (“needle”), Norwegian nål (“needle”), Finnish neula (“needle”). Further related with Welsh nyddu, Latin nēre, Sanskrit स्नायति (snāyati, “wraps up, winds”). Related to snood.
senses_examples:
text:
The seamstress threaded the needle to sew on a button.
type:
example
text:
reusable needles
type:
example
text:
single-use needles
type:
example
text:
a compass needle
type:
example
text:
The needle on the fuel gauge pointed to empty.
type:
example
text:
[…] On the 18th of October, 1841, a very intense magnetic disturbance was recorded, and amongst other curious facts mentioned is that of the detention of the 10:05pm express train at Exeter for 16 minutes, as from the magnetic disturbance affecting the needles so powerfully, it was impossible to ascertain if the line was clear at Starcross. The superintendent at Exeter reported the next morning that someone was playing tricks with the instruments, and would not let them work.
ref:
2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
Ziggy bought some diamond needles for his hi-fi phonograph.
type:
example
text:
At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth.
ref:
1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus
type:
quotation
text:
Both of these functions will look through the haystack for the specified needle and, if they find it, will return the portion of the string from the beginning of the needle to the end of the haystack.
ref:
2010, Peter MacIntyre, PHP: The Good Parts, page 39
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc.
Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph.
A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairs.
The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a haystack)
Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Synlestes, endemic to Australia.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
biology
entomology
natural-sciences |
14968 | word:
needle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
needle (third-person singular simple present needles, present participle needling, simple past and past participle needled)
forms:
form:
needles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
needling
tags:
participle
present
form:
needled
tags:
participle
past
form:
needled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nedle, from Old English nǣdl, from Proto-West Germanic *nāþlu, from Proto-Germanic *nēþlō, from pre-Germanic *neh₁-tleh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, twist”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch naald (“needle”), German Nadel (“needle, pin, crochet hook”), German nähen (“sew”), Danish nål (“needle”), Norwegian nål (“needle”), Finnish neula (“needle”). Further related with Welsh nyddu, Latin nēre, Sanskrit स्नायति (snāyati, “wraps up, winds”). Related to snood.
senses_examples:
text:
[…]the eyes were once more beginning to show the old nystagmus; so I decided to needle the cataracts, and on Jan. 31 I needled the right eye.
ref:
1892, H. Lindo Ferguson, “Operation on Microphthamlmic Eyes”, in Ophthalmic Review, volume 11, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
Possibly the greatest effect is achieved in the hand by needling the thumb, the index finger and the region of the 1st and 2nd metacarpal.
ref:
2000, Felix Mann, Reinventing Acupuncture, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
Billy needled his sister incessantly about her pimples.
type:
example
text:
FRED: Well, I teased her to some extent, or I needled her, not teased her. I needled her about—first I said that she didn't want to work, and then I think that there were a couple of comments.
ref:
1984, Leopold Caligor, Philip M. Bromberg, James D. Meltzer, Clinical Perspectives on the Supervision of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
To needle Lady Leviathan, Hel has convinced her husband to agree to the heartful offer.
ref:
2015, Carl Gleba, “Megaverse in Flames”, in Rifts World Book 35
type:
quotation
text:
Significantly, similar language was used by Sullivan, who had been needled by a question from a Ukrainian activist who suggested the US was “afraid of Ukraine winning”.
ref:
2023 July 12, Dan Sabbagh, “Zelenskiy forced to recalibrate to avert Nato summit falling-out”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
to needle crystals
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.
senses_topics:
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14969 | word:
climatology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
climatology (countable and uncountable, plural climatologies)
forms:
form:
climatologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From climate + -ology.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The science that deals with climates, and investigates their phenomena and causes.
senses_topics:
|
14970 | word:
spitting cobra
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spitting cobra (plural spitting cobras)
forms:
form:
spitting cobras
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various cobras of the genus Naja that can spit venom.
senses_topics:
|
14971 | word:
gymnasium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gymnasium (plural gymnasia or gymnasiums)
forms:
form:
gymnasia
tags:
plural
form:
gymnasiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin gymnasium, from Ancient Greek γυμνάσιον (gumnásion, “exercise, school”), from γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”), because Greek athletes trained naked.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: gymnasion
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large room or building for indoor sports.
A type of secondary school in some European countries which typically prepares students for university; grammar school, prep school
A public place or building where Ancient Greek youths took exercise, with running and wrestling grounds, baths, and halls for conversation.
senses_topics:
|
14972 | word:
Thuringia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Thuringia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Thuringia, from German Thüringen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation.
senses_topics:
|
14973 | word:
Turku
word_type:
name
expansion:
Turku
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Finnish Turku, from Old East Slavic търгъ (tŭrgŭ, “market place”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in Finland.
senses_topics:
|
14974 | word:
-tion
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-tion
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English -cioun, borrowing from Old French -tion, -cion, borrowed from the stem of Latin -tiō. The Middle English -cioun became -tion in Modern English under the influence of the Middle French -tion and original Latin spellings.
senses_examples:
text:
ignore + -tion → ignortion
type:
example
text:
scrimp + -tion → scrimption
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to form nouns meaning "the action of (a verb)" or "the result of (a verb)". Words ending in this suffix are almost always derived from a similar Latin word; a few (e.g. gumption) are not derived from Latin and are unrelated to any verb. More often, -ation is used.
senses_topics:
|
14975 | word:
lofty
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lofty (comparative loftier, superlative loftiest)
forms:
form:
loftier
tags:
comparative
form:
loftiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lofty, lofti, lofte (“of high rank; noble; ornate”), equivalent to loft (“sky, firmament; upper room”) + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
The lofty mountains roſe faint to the ſight and loſt their foreheads in the diſtant ſkies: the little hills, cloathed in darker green and ſkirted with embroidered vales, diſcovered the ſecret haunts of kids and bounding roes.
ref:
1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv
type:
quotation
text:
On my left was a river, which came roaring down from a range of lofty mountains right before me to the south-east.
ref:
1862, George Borrow, chapter 98, in Wild Wales, archived from the original on 2011-12-24
type:
quotation
text:
When the night was half spent, I rose and walked on, till the day broke in all its beauty and the sun rose over the heads of the lofty hills and athwart the low gravelly plains.
ref:
1885, Richard F. Burton, “Night 551”, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
type:
quotation
text:
a lofty goal
type:
example
text:
A goal from Steven Caulker, just after the hour mark, was enough to hand victory to Malky Mackay's men, with Swansea falling some way short of the lofty standards they have set previously at this level.
ref:
3 November 2013, Delme Parfitt, “Cardiff City 1 - 0 Swansea City: Steven Caulker heads Bluebirds to South Wales derby win”, in Wales Online
type:
quotation
text:
that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers
ref:
1886, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
High, tall, having great height or stature.
Idealistic, implying over-optimism.
Extremely proud; arrogant; haughty.
senses_topics:
|
14976 | word:
half sister
word_type:
noun
expansion:
half sister (plural half sisters)
forms:
form:
half sisters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English halfesister, half-suster, half sister, equivalent to half- + sister. Compare Dutch halfzus, halfzuster (“half-sister”), German Halbschwester (“half-sister”), Swedish halvsyster (“half-sister”), Icelandic hálfsystir (“half-sister”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female sibling sharing a single parent.
senses_topics:
|
14977 | word:
font
word_type:
noun
expansion:
font (plural fonts)
forms:
form:
fonts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”).
senses_examples:
text:
Blessed be God, that, at the font, / My sponsors bound me to the call / Of Christ in England to confront / The world, the flesh, the fiend and all.
ref:
1791, Christopher Smart, “Moderation”, in Hymns for the Amusement of Children
type:
quotation
text:
In the Apostolic Age, as in Jewish times (John, iii, 23), baptism was administered without special fonts, at the seaside or in streams or pools of water (Acts, viii, 38); […]
ref:
1913, John Bertram Peterson, “Baptismal Font”, in Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
senses_topics:
Christianity
|
14978 | word:
font
word_type:
noun
expansion:
font (plural fonts)
forms:
form:
fonts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
A typeface.
A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography
media
publishing
typography
media
publishing
typography
computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography |
14979 | word:
font
word_type:
verb
expansion:
font (third-person singular simple present fonts, present participle fonting, simple past and past participle fonted)
forms:
form:
fonts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fonting
tags:
participle
present
form:
fonted
tags:
participle
past
form:
fonted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).
senses_examples:
text:
When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture.
ref:
1981, William Safire, On language, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
[…] character generator instead of an easel card to create letters on camera or telephone numbers that can run across the TV screen. The process is called fonting.
ref:
1987, The Foundation Center, Promoting issues & ideas: a guide to public relations for nonprofit organizations, page 97
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To overlay (text) on the picture.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
television |
14980 | word:
font
word_type:
noun
expansion:
font (plural fonts)
forms:
form:
fonts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).
senses_examples:
text:
1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V
A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
The arts of which these lands were once the font
text:
As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.
ref:
1910, Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, part II
type:
quotation
text:
I am interested to fix your attention on this prospect now because unless you take it within your view and permit the full significance of it to command your thought I cannot find the right light in which to set forth the particular matter that lies at the very font of my whole thought as I address you to-day.
ref:
1915, Woodrow Wilson, Third State of the Union Address
type:
quotation
text:
The Bible lays special stress on the fear of God as the font of wisdom.
ref:
1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A source, wellspring, fount.
senses_topics:
|
14981 | word:
hyrax
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hyrax (plural hyraxes or hyraces)
forms:
form:
hyraxes
tags:
plural
form:
hyraces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ὕραξ (húrax, “shrewmouse”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several small, paenungulate herbivorous mammals of the order Hyracoidea, with a bulky frame and fang-like incisors, native to Africa and the Middle East.
senses_topics:
|
14982 | word:
nail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nail (plural nails)
forms:
form:
nails
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nail, nayl, Old English næġl, from Proto-West Germanic *nagl, from Proto-Germanic *naglaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nogʰ- (“nail”).
Cognates
Compare North Frisian Nail (“nail”), Saterland Frisian Nail (“nail”), West Frisian neil, Low German Nagel, Dutch nagel, German Nagel, Danish negl, Swedish nagel, Finnish naula (“nail”), Estonian nael (“nail”), (compare Irish ionga, Latin unguis, Albanian nyell (“ankle, hard part of a limb”), Lithuanian nagas, Russian нога́ (nogá, “foot, leg”), но́готь (nógotʹ, “nail”), Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux), Persian ناخن (nâxon), Sanskrit नख (nakhá).
senses_examples:
text:
When I'm nervous I bite my nails.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
The claw of a bird or other animal.
A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.
A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The Exchange, Bristol.
An archaic English unit of length equivalent to ¹⁄₂₀ of an ell or ¹⁄₁₆ of a yard (2+¹⁄₄ inches or 5.715 cm).
senses_topics:
|
14983 | word:
nail
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nail (third-person singular simple present nails, present participle nailing, simple past and past participle nailed)
forms:
form:
nails
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nailing
tags:
participle
present
form:
nailed
tags:
participle
past
form:
nailed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English naylen, from Old English næġlan.
senses_examples:
text:
He nailed the placard to the post.
type:
example
text:
He used the ax head for nailing.
type:
example
text:
I pray you now send me some dub, / A bottle or two to the needy. / I beg you won't bring it yourself, / The harman is at the Old-Bailey; / I'd rather you'd send it behalf, / For, if they twig you they'll nail you.
ref:
1765, “A Song in High Life”, in The Merry Medley, volume 1, London: W. Hoggard, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
Military Intelligence seems to be on the spot in a quiet sort of way. I just met a G-2 slue-foot and he was a most efficient guy! They're keeping low, I think, until they nail their man.
ref:
1943 October 9, The Australian Women's Weekly, page 3, column 4
type:
quotation
text:
Dammit, John, I'm tired of this 'Demolition Man' stuff! […] Now, I know you've been trying to nail this psycho for two years, but try remembering a little thing called official police procedure.
ref:
1993, Peter M. Lenkov, Robert Reneau, Daniel Waters, Demolition Man, spoken by Captain Healy (Steve Kahan)
type:
quotation
text:
we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge;
ref:
2005, Lesley, transl. Brown, Sophist, 261a, translation of original by Plato
type:
quotation
text:
I really nailed that test.
type:
example
text:
The chief executive and founder of Meta used his new Threads account to say Twitter had not “nailed” its opportunity to become a mega app and that his copycat version would be “focusing on kindness”.
ref:
2023 July 6, Dan Milmo, quoting Mark Zuckerberg, “Zuckerberg uses Threads to say Twitter has missed its chance”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Fly-half Ruaridh Jackson departed early with injury but Chris Paterson nailed a penalty from wide out left to give Scotland an early lead, and Jackson's replacement Dan Parks added three more points with a penalty which skimmed over the crossbar.
ref:
2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Allison Reynolds: I'm a nymphomaniac. […] The only person I told was my shrink. / Andrew Clark: And what did he do when you told him? / Allison Reynolds: He nailed me.
ref:
1985, John Hughes, The Breakfast Club (motion picture)
type:
quotation
text:
There’s a benefit gala at the Boston Pops tonight, and... well, I’m trying to nail the flautist.
ref:
1999, Neil Goldman, Garrett Donovan, “Da Boom”, in Family Guy, season 2, episode 3, spoken by Brian Griffin (Seth MacFarlane)
type:
quotation
text:
That the Ordinance be not nayled, nor the munition fiered.
ref:
1598, Robert Barret, he Theorike and Practike of Modern Warres
type:
quotation
text:
Loud was the laughter at this and other remarks about nailing "stooks" (silk pocket handkerchiefs), "clouts" (cotton ditto), german sausages, &c.
ref:
1866, Temple Bar, volume 16, page 507
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
To drive a nail.
To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
To catch.
To expose as a sham.
To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
To spike, as a cannon.
To nail down: to make certain, or confirm.
To steal.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
|
14984 | word:
limb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
limb (plural limbs)
forms:
form:
limbs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Limb_(anatomy)
etymology_text:
From Middle English lyme, lim, from Old English lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-West Germanic *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”).
The spelling with the silent unetymological -b first arose in the late 1500s. Compare crumb.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
A branch of a tree.
The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
Short for limb of Satan (“a wicked or mischievous child”).
senses_topics:
archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
|
14985 | word:
limb
word_type:
verb
expansion:
limb (third-person singular simple present limbs, present participle limbing, simple past and past participle limbed)
forms:
form:
limbs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
limbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
limbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
limbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Limb_(anatomy)
etymology_text:
From Middle English lyme, lim, from Old English lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-West Germanic *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”).
The spelling with the silent unetymological -b first arose in the late 1500s. Compare crumb.
senses_examples:
text:
They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.
type:
example
text:
Man was not made so large limbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him.
ref:
1859, Henry D. Thoreau, Walden
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).
To supply with limbs.
senses_topics:
|
14986 | word:
limb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
limb (plural limbs)
forms:
form:
limbs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Limb_(anatomy)
etymology_text:
From Latin limbus (“border”).
senses_examples:
text:
the solar limb
type:
example
text:
At 4h 57m 9s by my chronometer, (see Schedule B,) I observed with my telescope a small black speck on the preceding limb of the sun's disk, at the precise point to which I had been for some minutes directing my attention.
ref:
1870, United States Naval Observatory, Reports on Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, August, 7, 1869, page 174
type:
quotation
text:
Chandrasekhar (1946a, b) predicted that the limb of a star will be polarized, because photons scattered at the limb and toward the observer experience a scattering angle of Θ ≈ 90°.
ref:
2015, Ludmilla Kolokolova, James Hough, Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd, Polarimetry of Stars and Planetary Systems, page 449
type:
quotation
text:
The corolla limb of the moonvine Calonyction aculeatum is normally undivided.
ref:
1945, “A new form of the moonvine Calonyction aculeatum with divided corolla limb, and length-of-day behavior and flowering of the common form”, in Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, volume 35, number 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
14987 | word:
vanish
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vanish (third-person singular simple present vanishes, present participle vanishing, simple past and past participle vanished)
forms:
form:
vanishes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
vanishing
tags:
participle
present
form:
vanished
tags:
participle
past
form:
vanished
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Aphetic for obsolete evanish, from Middle English vanyshen, evaneschen, from Old French esvanir, esvaniss- (modern French évanouir), from Vulgar Latin *exvanire (“to vanish, disappear, to fade out”), from Latin evanescere, from vanus (“empty”). Doublet of evanesce.
senses_examples:
text:
I realize sometimes / In a web of passion we all get caught / But understand / All the hurt and all the pain / It's gonna vanish just like the rain
ref:
1982, Ashford & Simpson (lyrics and music), “Love It Away”, in Street Opera
type:
quotation
text:
The function f such as f(x)#x3D;x² vanishes at x#x3D;0.
type:
example
text:
And as if to prove it, one of his friends was vanished and was never seen again. The guy got in a taxi one night, and no one ever saw him ever again.
ref:
2011, Patrick Meaney, Our Sentence Is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison's the Invisibles, Sequart, page 330
type:
quotation
text:
It was whispered that men had been “vanished” by the Line and returned everted. Turned inside out.
ref:
2004, John Varley, The John Varley Reader, Penguin
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
To become equal to zero.
To disappear; to kidnap.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
|
14988 | word:
vanish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vanish (plural vanishes)
forms:
form:
vanishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Aphetic for obsolete evanish, from Middle English vanyshen, evaneschen, from Old French esvanir, esvaniss- (modern French évanouir), from Vulgar Latin *exvanire (“to vanish, disappear, to fade out”), from Latin evanescere, from vanus (“empty”). Doublet of evanesce.
senses_examples:
text:
a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill.
type:
example
text:
o as in old ordinarily ends with a vanish of oo as in foot.
type:
example
text:
The median stres may also on a protracted quantity , slightly resemble respectively that of the radical and of the vanish , by sudenly enlarging in the course of the prolongation and gradualy diminishing ; and by the reverse
ref:
1827, James Rush, The Philosophy of the Human Voice
type:
quotation
text:
The French drop is a well-known vanish involving sleight of hand.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.
A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
|
14989 | word:
curiosity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
curiosity (countable and uncountable, plural curiosities)
forms:
form:
curiosities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
curiosity
etymology_text:
From Middle English curiosite, variant of curiouste, from Anglo-Norman curiouseté, from Latin cūriōsitātem, accusative of cūriōsitās. By surface analysis, curious + -ity. Displaced native Old English firwitt.
senses_examples:
text:
"Certainly there is nothing wrong with Alvin's intelligence, but many of the things that should concern him seem to be a matter of complete indifference. On the other hand, he shows a morbid curiosity regarding subjects which we do not generally discuss."
ref:
1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
Curiosity about the power of self-control skills, which include conscientiousness, self-discipline, and perseverance, arose from recent empirical observations that preschool Head Start, an ambitious, federally funded program of special services launched in 1965 to boost the intellectual development of needy children, has failed to achieve the goal of boosting IQ scores. But the programs have unexpectedly succeeded in lowering the former pupils’ rates of teen pregnancy, school dropout, delinquency, and work absenteeism.
ref:
2013 September-October, Terrie Moffitt et al., “Lifelong Impact of Early Self-Control”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
He put the strangely shaped rock in his curiosity cabinet.
type:
example
text:
wee built a homely thing like a barne, set upon Cratchets, covered with rafts, sedge, and earth, so also was the walls; the best of our houses of the like curiosity, but the most part farre much worse workmanship […]
ref:
1631, John Smith, Advertisements, Kupperman, published 1988, page 81
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask and learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring.
A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest.
Careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building.
senses_topics:
|
14990 | word:
brood
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brood (countable and uncountable, plural broods)
forms:
form:
broods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English brōd (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *brōduz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).
senses_examples:
text:
Garland Green, the tenth in a brood of eleven, was born on June 24, 1942, in Dunleath, Mississippi.
ref:
1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 243
type:
quotation
text:
[…] flocks of the airy brood,
Cranes, geese or long-neck'd swans, here, there, proud of their pinions fly […]
ref:
1598, George Chapman translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 2
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
The children in one family; offspring.
That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
Parentage.
Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
senses_topics:
business
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14991 | word:
brood
word_type:
adj
expansion:
brood (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English brōd (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *brōduz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).
senses_examples:
text:
brood ducks
type:
example
text:
a brood mare
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Kept or reared for breeding.
senses_topics:
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14992 | word:
brood
word_type:
verb
expansion:
brood (third-person singular simple present broods, present participle brooding, simple past and past participle brooded)
forms:
form:
broods
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
brooding
tags:
participle
present
form:
brooded
tags:
participle
past
form:
brooded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English brōd (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *brōduz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).
senses_examples:
text:
In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
type:
example
text:
Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
type:
example
text:
He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.
type:
example
text:
As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood
ref:
1833, Alfred Tennyson, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
(typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
To be bred.
senses_topics:
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14993 | word:
turn on
word_type:
verb
expansion:
turn on (third-person singular simple present turns on, present participle turning on, simple past and past participle turned on)
forms:
form:
turns on
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
turning on
tags:
participle
present
form:
turned on
tags:
participle
past
form:
turned on
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Turn on the tap
type:
example
text:
Please turn the lights on so I can see what I'm reading.
type:
example
text:
Please turn on automatic updates.
type:
example
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:
Robins, of Torquay, had denied a single charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal. She claimed the microwave was accidentally turned on by one of the cats after the kitten got inside. But Knutton said the kitten was too small to even get onto the work surface.
ref:
2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
My computer won't turn on.
type:
example
text:
Attractive packaging can turn buyers on to a product.
type:
example
text:
Attractive showroom models can turn buyers on.
type:
example
text:
Hearing that song turned me on to jazz fusion.
type:
example
text:
John's a maid fetishist. Maid outfits really turn him on.
type:
example
text:
You don't have to be beautiful to turn me on / I just need your body, baby, from dusk 'til dawn
ref:
1986, Prince (lyrics and music), “Kiss”, in Parade, performed by Prince and the Revolution
type:
quotation
text:
You really turn me on / You knock me off of my feet / My lonely days are gone
ref:
1987, “The Way You Make Me Feel”, in Bad, performed by Michael Jackson
type:
quotation
text:
You make me feel like I'm livin' a teenage dream / The way you turn me on, I can't sleep
ref:
2010, “Teenage Dream”, performed by Katy Perry
type:
quotation
text:
"Well, they seem to always have dope up there, and I like to turn on, too."
"You do?"
"Sure. Cops is just people. I don't drink, so I gotta do something to get my kicks."
ref:
1971, Chuck Barnes, Revenge, Timely Books
type:
quotation
text:
In fact, many youngsters will not even turn on a close friend if they know he has never used drugs. And it is rare indeed for a youth to actively seek out people to turn on.
ref:
1976, Robert H. Coombs, Lincoln J. Fry, Patricia G. Lewis, Socialization in drug abuse
type:
quotation
text:
He turned the searchlight on the passing planes.
type:
example
text:
Cornered by the authorities, the shooter turned the gun on himself.
type:
example
text:
Suddenly all his friends turned on him.
type:
example
text:
She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.
ref:
2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Milk Tea Alliance: are young Thais turning on China over Hong Kong?
ref:
2020 June 14, Jitsiree Thongnoi, “Milk Tea Alliance: are young Thais turning on China over Hong Kong?”, in South China Morning Post, retrieved 2020-06-16
type:
quotation
text:
We need to be thinking about what it means the way they are locking us up, and turning us on each other. We need to start fighting for our rights together.
ref:
1984 August 18, X-Con, “Women In Cages”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
The argument turned on the question of whether or not jobs would be lost.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To set a flow of fluid or gas running by rotating a tap or valve.
To power up, to put into operation, to start, to activate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
To start operating; to power up, to become on.
To introduce (someone to something), and especially to fill them with enthusiasm (about it); to intoxicate, give pleasure to ( + to an object of interest or excitement).
To sexually arouse.
To take drugs.
To cause to take up drugs, especially hallucinogens.
To aim at.
To rebel against; to suddenly attack.
To cause (someone) to rebel against or suddenly attack (someone else).
To depend upon; to pivot around, to have as a central subject.
senses_topics:
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14994 | word:
prodigy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prodigy (plural prodigies)
forms:
form:
prodigies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English prodige (“portent”), from Latin prōdigium (“omen, portent, prophetic sign”).
senses_examples:
text:
John Foxe believed that special prodigies had heralded the Reformation.
ref:
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 87
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak.
An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder.
A wonderful example of something.
An extremely talented person, especially a child.
An extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent.
senses_topics:
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14995 | word:
oryx
word_type:
noun
expansion:
oryx (plural oryxes or oryx or (rare) oryges)
forms:
form:
oryxes
tags:
plural
form:
oryx
tags:
plural
form:
oryges
tags:
plural
rare
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin, from Ancient Greek ὄρυξ (órux, “a pickax; an oryx (the antelope)”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several antelopes, of the genus Oryx, native to Africa, which have long, straight horns
senses_topics:
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14996 | word:
Achillean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Achillean (comparative more Achillean, superlative most Achillean)
forms:
form:
more Achillean
tags:
comparative
form:
most Achillean
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Achilles + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
Guyon subdues these Achillean affections through his own power; but they break out again as Cymochles lapses into lust and Pyrochles burns in the idle lake.
ref:
1959 September, A.C. Hamilton, “Spenser's Treatment of Myth”, in ELH, volume 26, number 3
type:
quotation
text:
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has offered salutary warnings against seeing in male homosexuality a simple "epitome, ... The two genres of homosocial behavior in the text can be seen as chivalric or antichivalric, Hectoresque or Achillean: the first is active, specular, militant, conservative, apparently (not really) heterosexually inflected; the other is listless, covert, pacifistic, and passively subversive, clearly (not entirely) homosexually inclined.
ref:
1995, Eric Scott Mallin, Inscribing the Time: Shakespeare and the End of Elizabethan England
type:
quotation
text:
There is, I suggest, a typically Achillean joke at play here, a visual pun, displaying the phoenix as truly phoenix-ian in its exposure of its sex organs and at the same time snidely alluding to the Phoenicians' famed preoccupation with female genitalia.
ref:
2004, Helen Morales, Vision and Narrative in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon
type:
quotation
text:
We are once again reaching a period in our collective cultural history when we may resume the post-Platonic, Achillean conversation.
ref:
2009, David A. Powell, 21st-Century Gay Culture, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
Tendon-reflexes, as a rule, remain intact, except the Achillean one, which is frequently either absent or lowered.
ref:
1890, The London Medical Recorder - Volume 3, page 481
type:
quotation
text:
The Achillean reflex is the contraction obtained in the gastrocnemii and solei by the percussion of the tendo Achillis.
ref:
1901, The Medical Examiner and General Practitioner
type:
quotation
text:
The posterior compartment contains the Achille's tendon, the deep pre-Achillean and superficial retro-Achillean bursae, and the posterior aspect of the talo-calcaneal joint.
ref:
2015, Yasser El Miedany, Musculoskeletal Ultrasonography in Rheumatic Diseases, page 371
type:
quotation
text:
Historically, there was indeed an Achillean, homosexual flavor of the declassé bachelorhood out of which Hitler and others formed the advance guard of National Socialism.
ref:
1980, Douglas Fowler, A Reader's Guide to Gravity's Rainbow, page 169
type:
quotation
text:
Thus, he exalts as a means of republican cohesion, as the unshakeable basis of the modern nation what he calls "manly love," a sort of Achillean friendship, but at the same time it is this love, this passionate friendship that he sings.
ref:
1995, Gay Wilson Allen, Ed Folsom, Walt Whitman & the World, page 254
type:
quotation
text:
For Theocritus Idyll 29.34 the sexual love between Achilles and Patroclus was so uncontroversial that it could be referred to in a pederastic poem by means of the shorthand "Achillean friends".
ref:
2007, Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence A. Tritle, Pat Wheatley, Alexander's Empire: Formulation to Decay, page 87
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.
Invincible with only one small weakness (an Achilles heel), which becomes one's downfall.
Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.
Guided by emotional motives, especially rage, rather than reason.
Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.
Of or relating to Achilles Tatius, a Roman-era Greek writer.
Pertaining to the Achilles tendon.
Of or relating to sexual or romantic intimacy between men, supposedly in the style of Achilles' relationship with Patroclus.
senses_topics:
|
14997 | word:
Achillean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Achillean (plural Achilleans)
forms:
form:
Achilleans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Achilles + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
[A] singular genius, whose mathematical studies gave him in his own day the reputation of a necromancer, espousing fervently the cause of Hector, called out in a voice of thunder, "Let us see whether the Achilleans can fight as well as speak?"
ref:
1881, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The History of Don Quixote of la Mancha, page 453
type:
quotation
text:
Even the romantic and glorious vision of this war is mostly rhetoric because the cunning Ulysses with the Achilleans invented the successful stratagem of the horse for committing great evils with the destruction of the city, ...
ref:
2009, Velio Bocci, Women At The Helm, Arena books
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fighter on the side of Achilles in the Trojan war; an Achaean.
senses_topics:
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14998 | word:
lesbian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lesbian (comparative more lesbian, superlative most lesbian)
forms:
form:
more lesbian
tags:
comparative
form:
most lesbian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
lesbian
etymology_text:
From Latin Lesbiana, from Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos) + Latin adjective suffix -iana; by reference to Sappho of Lesbos (whence also sapphist, sapphic), known for her sentimental poems about women. This sense of the word may have been borrowed from, or influenced by, the German cognate lesbisch, where it is found in medical literature from the 1830s.
senses_examples:
text:
Lesbian fans of the show were rooting for Jane and Amanda to get together.
type:
example
text:
a lesbian relationship / marriage / kiss
type:
example
text:
The so-termed Lesbian love is a vice of a still more hideous and degrading nature than pederasty.
ref:
1855 [1854], Charles Hempel, transl., Homœopathic guide in all diseases of the Urinary and Sexual Organs, Philadelphia: Rademacher & Sheek, translation of Der homöopathische Rathgeber: in allen Krankheiten der Geschlechts- und Harnwerkzeuge by Wilhelm Gollmann, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Madonna's infamous nationally televised lesbian kiss with Britney Spears […]
ref:
2011, Michael Bruce, Robert M. Stewart, College Sex - Philosophy for Everyone, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
We're going to a lesbian bar tonight.
type:
example
text:
Some lesbians also felt comfortable in the entertainment clubs in the black section of the city; these clubs were not lesbian but were lesbian friendly.
ref:
2000, Bonnie Zimmerman, Encyclopedia of lesbian and gay histories and cultures, volume 1, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
Openly gay poets such as Allen Ginsberg were prominent among the beats, and many North Beach bars were gay and lesbian as well as bohemian.
ref:
2008, Carl Abbott, How cities won the West: four centuries of urban change, page 283
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners.
Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners.
Preferring primarily women as romantic or sexual partners.
Between two or more women; homosexual, gay.
Intended for lesbians.
Alternative letter-case form of Lesbian (“of or pertaining to the island of Lesbos”).
senses_topics:
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14999 | word:
lesbian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lesbian (plural lesbians)
forms:
form:
lesbians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lesbian
etymology_text:
From Latin Lesbiana, from Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos) + Latin adjective suffix -iana; by reference to Sappho of Lesbos (whence also sapphist, sapphic), known for her sentimental poems about women. This sense of the word may have been borrowed from, or influenced by, the German cognate lesbisch, where it is found in medical literature from the 1830s.
senses_examples:
text:
There have also been women who loved other women. These are the Lesbians or Tribades.
ref:
1904, Jacobus X, Crossways of Sex: A Study in Eroto-pathology, volume 1, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
Another Spanish-speaking respondent said that she does not identify as a lesbian because that is a term for women who like women, and as she does not like women, and so she cannot be a lesbian.
ref:
2020, Ana Patrícia Hilário, Fábio Rafael Augusto, Practical and Ethical Dilemmas in Researching Sensitive Topics with Populations Considered Vulnerable, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
There was one recently that determined on an island off California 14 percent of the female sea gulls were lesbians (and we know that kind of thing would never go among Nantucket sea gulls).
ref:
1979, Terry Hekker, Ever Since Adam and Eve, New York: Morrow
type:
quotation
text:
The only between this pair and others in the community is that they are among the 8 to 14 percent of the residents that are lesbians. After building their nest, the pair, two female western gulls, customarily produce twice as many eggs […]
ref:
2014, George H Harrison, Birds Do It, Too: The Amazing Sex Life of Birds, Willow Creek Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gay woman, one who is mostly or exclusively sexually or romantically attracted to other women.
A female animal that performs courtship, pairing or mating behavior with other female animals.
Alternative letter-case form of Lesbian (“native or inhabitant of Lesbos.”)
senses_topics:
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