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1500 | word:
dick
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num
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dick
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Yan Tan Tethera
etymology_text:
From a Cumbric numeral corresponding to Welsh deg, from Proto-Brythonic *deg.
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Ten, in Cumbrian sheep counting.
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1501 | word:
Indonesia
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name
expansion:
Indonesia
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etymology_text:
(late nineteenth century) Attested circa 1850, composed of Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós, “Indian”) + Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos, “island”); initially, in competition with Insulinde, of the same meaning, lexically constructed on a Latin basis, or in reference to the East Indies archipelago.
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A country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of Indonesia (since 1950). Capital: Jakarta.
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1502 | word:
Malawi
word_type:
name
expansion:
Malawi
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wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Said to be from Chichewa malawi (“flames”), after the appearance of the sunrise over Lake Malawi; also possibly from Maravi, the name of an early Malawi tribe, or from an old name for a lake. Chosen by Hastings Banda in 1964.
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A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Malawi.
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1503 | word:
Haiti
word_type:
name
expansion:
Haiti
forms:
wikipedia:
en:Haiti
etymology_text:
From Taíno hayiti (“land of lofty barrows or mountains”), which was the native name given to the whole island of Hispaniola.
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The first exhibition of 320 Vodou objects from Haiti opens in Taiwan and will run through June 16 at the Museum of World Religions in Yonghe, New Taipei City. Vodou is a religion, made up of influences from many other religions. Prof.Rachel Beauvoir Dominique, a Vodou priestess and a professor of anthropology at the University of Haiti, said Vodou is a way of life and an important part in the day-to-day lives of many Haitians.
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2015 April 12, Carlson Wong, “Haitian Vodou exhibition opens in Taiwan”, in Radio Taiwan International, archived from the original on 2023-05-14
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A country in the Caribbean. Official name: Republic of Haiti.
Synonym of Hispaniola.
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1504 | word:
season
word_type:
noun
expansion:
season (plural seasons)
forms:
form:
seasons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
season
etymology_text:
From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year”), from Old French seson, saison (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin satiō (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of serō (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English sāwan (“to sow”), sǣd (“seed”). Displaced native Middle English sele (“season”) (from Old English sǣl (“season, time, occasion”)), Middle English tide (“season, time of year”) (from Old English tīd (“time, period, yeartide, season”)).
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we saw, in six days' traveling, the several seasons of the year in their beauty and perfection
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c. 1705, Joseph Addison, Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703
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We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun, / But the wine and the song, / like the seasons, have all gone.
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1973, “Seasons in the Sun”, Jaques Brel (original version), Rod McKuen (lyrics), performed by Terry Jacks
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mating season
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the rainy season
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the football season
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The third season of Friends aired from 1996 to 1997.
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Or - is she Erin Gray in the second season of Buck Rogers beautiful?
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1998 February 11, “Tom's Rhinoplasty”, in South Park, season 1, episode 11
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So it is in a person when a breach hath been made upon his conscience, quiet, perhaps credit, by his lust, in some eruption of actual sin; — carefulness, indignation, desire, fear, revenge are all set on work about it and against it, and lust is quiet for a season, being run down before them; but when the hurry is over and the inquest is past, the thief appears again alive, and is as busy as ever at his work.
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1656, John Owen, The Mortification of Sin
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quotation
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A season of great doubt fell upon her soul.
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1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
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quotation
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Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter
A part of a year when something particular happens.
A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
That which gives relish; seasoning.
A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.
An extended, undefined period of time.
The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
A fixed period of time in a massively multiplayer online game in which new content (themes, rules, modes, etc.) becomes available, sometimes replacing earlier content.
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ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
broadcasting
media
video-games
video-games |
1505 | word:
season
word_type:
verb
expansion:
season (third-person singular simple present seasons, present participle seasoning, simple past and past participle seasoned)
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seasons
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seasoning
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seasoned
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seasoned
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past
wikipedia:
season
etymology_text:
From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year”), from Old French seson, saison (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin satiō (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of serō (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English sāwan (“to sow”), sǣd (“seed”). Displaced native Middle English sele (“season”) (from Old English sǣl (“season, time, occasion”)), Middle English tide (“season, time of year”) (from Old English tīd (“time, period, yeartide, season”)).
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to season oneself to a climate
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The timber needs to be seasoned.
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The wood has seasoned in the sun.
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When the male hath once ſeaſoned the female, he neuer after toucheth her.
[When the male hath once seasoned the female, he never after toucheth her.]
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1589, Richard Hakluyt, chapter 22, in The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, part 1, London, page 93
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For this prince[…]would not ſuffer the Buls to come unto the Kine and ſeaſon them, before they were both foure yeares old.
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1601, Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, book 8, London, translation of Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder, chapter 45, page 224
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If you had seasoned me with that philosophy, which formeth the mind to ratiocination, and insensibly accustoms it to be satisfied with nothing but solid reasons, if you had given me those excellent precepts and doctrines, which raise the foul above the assaults of fortune, and reduce her to an unshakeable and always equal temper, and permit her not to be lifted up b prosperity, nor debased by adversity, if you had taken care to give me the knowledge of what we are, and what are the first principles of things, and had assisted me in forming in my mind a fit idea of the greatness of the universe, and of the admirable order and motion of the parts thereof, if, I say, you had instilled into me this kind of philosophy, I should think myself incomparably more obliged to you than Alexander was to his Aristotle
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1745, A Collection of Voyages and Travels, page 150
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In minds, not seasoned and impregnated with the due apprehension of those ends, that conduce to ease and security, there is usually a tempestuous discontent, that raises unruly ferments; an unkind gale, by whose resistless powers, the port is overreached.
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1763, Edmund Burton, Antient Characters deduced from Classical Remains, page 82
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To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.
To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.
To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
To impregnate (literally or figuratively).
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1506 | word:
season
word_type:
verb
expansion:
season (third-person singular simple present seasons, present participle seasoning, simple past and past participle seasoned)
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seasons
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seasoning
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present
form:
seasoned
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past
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seasoned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
season
etymology_text:
From French assaisonner.
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To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
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1507 | word:
Trinidad and Tobago
word_type:
name
expansion:
Trinidad and Tobago
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
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A country and islands in the Caribbean. Official name: Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
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1508 | word:
Mauritania
word_type:
name
expansion:
Mauritania
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Maurītānia, from Maurus (“Moor”). Doublet of Mauretania.
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A country in West Africa. Official name: Islamic Republic of Mauritania. Capital: Nouakchott.
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1509 | word:
Swaziland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Swaziland
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wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Swazi + land.
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The former name of Eswatini, a country in Southern Africa.
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1510 | word:
pollutant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pollutant (plural pollutants)
forms:
form:
pollutants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From pollute + -ant.
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text:
Acid rain forms when water in the atmosphere condenses on particles containing acid-forming pollutants, such as sulfate produced by the burning of fossil fuels and nitrogen oxides from automobile exhausts.
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1987 January 20, “Airborne Pollutants”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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quotation
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A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.
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1511 | word:
Nigeria
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nigeria
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Niger + -ia, coined by British journalist Flora Shaw in 1897.
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A country in West Africa, south of the country of Niger. Official name: Federal Republic of Nigeria. Capital: Abuja. Largest city: Lagos.
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1512 | word:
umbrella
word_type:
noun
expansion:
umbrella (plural umbrellas)
forms:
form:
umbrellas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
umbrella
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian ombrella, umbrella (“parasol, sunshade”), diminutive of ombra (“shade”) (or from a Late Latin or Medieval Latin umbrella), from Latin umbra (“shadow”).
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Meronyms: runner, rib, canopy, stretcher
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Quick, grab that umbrella before you get rained on!
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example
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When the [lost property] office first opened, the most frequently lost items were umbrellas. Every white-collar professional carried one, but despite, or because of, that they were easily forgotten about. [...] In the 1930s, a quarter of a million umbrellas a year came into the office. Now it's more like 10,000.
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2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 197
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The fighters provide a defensive air umbrella over the battle group.
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The test facility was established under the umbrella of the company's quality program.
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Jellyfish are composed of more than 90% water and most of their umbrella mass is made up of gelatinous material.
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Using umbrellas for shooting a wedding party is ok, but not necessary.
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2014, Michael Allen, Modern Wedding Photography, page 97
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quotation
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A cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.
Anything that provides protection.
Something that covers a wide range of concepts, purposes, groups, etc.
The main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles.
An umbrella-shaped reflector with a white or silvery inner surface, used to diffuse a nearby light.
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arts
broadcasting
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
television |
1513 | word:
umbrella
word_type:
verb
expansion:
umbrella (third-person singular simple present umbrellas, present participle umbrellaing, simple past and past participle umbrellaed)
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umbrellas
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present
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umbrellaing
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present
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umbrellaed
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participle
past
form:
umbrellaed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
umbrella
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian ombrella, umbrella (“parasol, sunshade”), diminutive of ombra (“shade”) (or from a Late Latin or Medieval Latin umbrella), from Latin umbra (“shadow”).
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Experts with saws and ladders came and lopped off the lower branches. This sent the tree's growth rushing violently to her head in a lush overhanging which umbrellaed the House of All Sorts.
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1944, Emily Carr, “Life Loves Living”, in The House of All Sorts
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quotation
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Huge pine and eucalyptus umbrellaed the grounds, airconditioning the morning.
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2008, Jonathan Kellerman, Bad Love: Alex Delaware 8
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quotation
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Bright yellow gowns fit them tightly and umbrellaed from their waist to just below the knees.
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2011, B. A. Rothwell, The Peaceful Queen, page 31
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quotation
text:
The light catches the filigreed tendrils and graceful motion of the jellies, their orange bodies umbrella-ing along like fairy parasols come to life.
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1997, National Geographic Traveler, page 36
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quotation
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To cover or protect, as if by an umbrella.
To form the dome shape of an open umbrella.
To move like a jellyfish.
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1514 | word:
Kiribati
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kiribati
forms:
wikipedia:
Gilbert Islands
Kiribati
fr:Ernest Sabatier
etymology_text:
From Gilbertese Kiribati, from English Gilberts adapted to Gilbertese phonotactics, a shortening of Gilbert Islands. First entry in the Dictionnaire gilbertin-français of Ernest Sabatier (1954).
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A country consisting mostly of the Gilbert Islands archipelago, located in Micronesia in Oceania. Official name: Republic of Kiribati. Capital and largest city: South Tarawa.
The Micronesian language spoken in Kiribati.
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1515 | word:
planet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
planet (plural planets)
forms:
form:
planets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English planete, from Old French planete, from Latin planeta, planetes, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, “wanderer”) (ellipsis of πλάνητες ἀστέρες (plánētes astéres, “wandering stars”).), from Ancient Greek πλανάω (planáō, “wander about, stray”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Latin pālor (“wander about, stray”), Old Norse flana (“to rush about”), and Norwegian flanta (“to wander about”). More at flaunt. So called because they have apparent motion, unlike the "fixed" stars. Originally including also the moon and sun but not the Earth; modern scientific sense of "world that orbits a star" is from 1630s in English. The Greek word is an enlarged form of πλάνης (plánēs, “who wanders around, wanderer”), also "wandering star, planet", in medicine "unstable temperature."
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The moon[…]began to rise from her bed, where she had slumbered away the day, in order to sit up all night. Jones had not travelled far before he paid his compliments to that beautiful planet, and, turning to his companion, asked him if he had ever beheld so delicious an evening?
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1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 288
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quotation
text:
Another of Boehme's followers, the Welshman Morgan Llwyd, also believed that the seven planets could be found within man.
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1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 361
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quotation
text:
A Discovrse concerning a New Planet. Tending to prove, That 'tis probable our Earth is one of the Planets
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1640, John Wilkins, A Discovrse concerning a New Planet. Tending to prove, That 'tis probable our Earth is one of the Planets, title
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Their decision will force a rewrite of science textbooks because the solar system is now a place with eight planets and three newly defined "dwarf planets"—a new category of object that includes Pluto.
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2006 December 22, Alok Jha, The Guardian
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quotation
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2009 December 1st, Keiichi Wada, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Eiichiro Kokubo, “Planet Formation around Supermassive Black Holes in the Active Galactic Nuclei”, in The Astrophysical Journal, volume 886, number 2, article 107:
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It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]:[…]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is;[…].
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2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
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quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
Any body that orbits the Sun, including the asteroids (as minor planets) and sometimes the moons of those bodies (as satellite planets)
A body which is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (generally resulting in being an ellipsoid) but not enough to attain nuclear fusion and, in IAU usage, which directly orbits a star (or multiple star) and dominates the region of its orbit; specifically, in the case of the Solar system, the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
construed with the or this: synonym of Earth.
senses_topics:
astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
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1516 | word:
trade
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trade (countable and uncountable, plural trades)
forms:
form:
trades
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
trade
etymology_text:
From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-Germanic *tradō (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to tread, walk, step, run”).
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text:
I did no trades with them once the rumors started.
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example
text:
EXCHANGE — A trade or swap of no material profit to either side.
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1989, Bruce Pandolfini, Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps, Glossary, page 225
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quotation
text:
When Golden State matched the Knicks' offer sheet, the Warriors and Knicks worked out a trade that sent King to New York for Richardson.
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2009, Elliott Kalb, Mark Weinstein, The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All Time, page 60
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quotation
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The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.
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example
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But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
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2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
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quotation
text:
It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade.
type:
example
text:
In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade
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1969, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, “The Boxer”, Bridge over Troubled Water, Columbia Records
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He learned his trade as an apprentice.
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example
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After failing his entrance exams, he decided to go into a trade.
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example
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Most veterans went into trade when the war ended.
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example
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Subsequently some Scottish troops settled, took up trade as weavers, tailors, or mariners, and married Dutch women.
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2007, Michael Lynch, The Oxford Companion to Scottish History, USA: Oxford University Press, page 228
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quotation
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Getting a job in your major is no breeze: Remember we made fun of those who took up a trade
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2012, Liberty Carrington, Wide Eyes Closed, AuthorHouse, page 92
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quotation
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Even before noon there was considerable trade.
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example
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They rode the trades going west.
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Calms and variable winds, are also experienced during every month of the year, in the space between the trades;[…] the vicinity of the north-east trade seems most liable to them.
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1826 [1816], James Horsburgh, India Directory, Or Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil and the Interjacent Ports, page 28
type:
quotation
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Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades.
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example
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In a homosexual of this kind—corresponding to the test of eccentric behavior in the drawing-room—one usually finds a preference for "trade," i.e., sexually normal males, because, if another homosexual yields to him, he is only one of a class, but if he can believe that an exception is being made in his case, it seems a proof that he is being accepted for himself alone.
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1950, W. H. Auden, “A Playboy of the Western World: St. Oscar, The Homintern Martyr”, in Partisan Review, pages 391–2
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quotation
text:
Josh picked up some trade last night.
type:
example
text:
His House and household Gods! his trade of War, / His Bow and Quiver; and his trusty Cur.
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1697, John Dryden, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in The works of Virgil containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
A postern with a blind wicket there was, / A common trade to pass through Priam's house
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1557, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Second Book of Virgil's Æneid
type:
quotation
text:
As Shepheardes curre, that in darke eveninges shade / Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade
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1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II
type:
quotation
text:
Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, / Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet / May hourly trample on their sovereign's head.
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c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act III, scene iii
type:
quotation
text:
The Jewes, emong whom alone and no moe, God hitherto semed for to reigne, by reason of their knowledge of the law, and of the autoritee of being in the right trade of religion.
ref:
1545, Nicholas Udall, Paraphrase on Luke, translation of original by Desiderius Erasmus
type:
quotation
text:
There those five sisters had continual trade / And used to bathe themselves in that deceitful shade.
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1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II
type:
quotation
text:
Long did I love this lady, / Long was my travel, long my trade to win her.
ref:
1655, Philip Massinger, John Fletcher, A Very Woman
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
A particular instance of buying or selling.
An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
Instruments of any occupation.
Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
Course; custom; practice; occupation.
senses_topics:
LGBT
business
mining
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1517 | word:
trade
word_type:
verb
expansion:
trade (third-person singular simple present trades, present participle trading, simple past and past participle traded)
forms:
form:
trades
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present
singular
third-person
form:
trading
tags:
participle
present
form:
traded
tags:
participle
past
form:
traded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
trade
etymology_text:
From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-Germanic *tradō (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to tread, walk, step, run”).
senses_examples:
text:
This company trades (in) precious metal.
type:
example
text:
[…]a free port, where Nations warring with one another resorted with their Goods, and traded as in a neutral Country.
ref:
1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures, page 248
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quotation
text:
Apple is trading at $200.
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example
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ExxonMobil trades on the NYSE.
type:
example
text:
The stock is trading rich relative to its sector.
type:
example
text:
Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?
type:
example
text:
The rival schoolboys traded insults.
type:
example
text:
The [Halo effect] strikes our combined fleets. All ships piloted by biologicals are now [adrift]. I can trade Mendicant ship for ship now and still prevail.
ref:
2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary)
type:
quotation
text:
Kalinin Bay is also in trouble, trading fire with Japanese destroyers and taking hits from both them and cruisers at the same time. Unlike the Gambier Bay, however, it does not appear that these ships have realized they need to switch to high explosive from armor-piercing, and, despite being riddled with shellfire, the ship stays afloat, despite this rather-unequal battering going on for another twenty to thirty minutes.
ref:
2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 29:08 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03
type:
quotation
text:
Some musicians try to trade on their past success by playing the same hits over and over again.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To engage in trade.
To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
To give (something) in exchange (for).
To mutually exchange (something) (with).
To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.
To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
To recommend and get recommendations.
senses_topics:
business
finance
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
|
1518 | word:
trade
word_type:
adj
expansion:
trade (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
trade
etymology_text:
From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-Germanic *tradō (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to tread, walk, step, run”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a product, produced for sale in the ordinary bulk retail trade and hence of only the most basic quality.
senses_topics:
|
1519 | word:
stock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stock (countable and uncountable, plural stocks or (obsolete) stocken)
forms:
form:
stocks
tags:
plural
form:
stocken
tags:
obsolete
plural
wikipedia:
stock (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”), with modern senses mostly referring either to the trunk from which the tree grows (figuratively, its origin and/or support/foundation), or to a piece of wood, stick, or rod. The senses of "supply" and "raw material" arose from a probable conflation with steck (“an item of goods, merchandise”) or the use of split tally sticks consisting of foil or counterfoil and stock to capture paid taxes, debts or exchanges. Doublet of chock.
senses_examples:
text:
We have a stock of televisions on hand.
type:
example
text:
Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
type:
example
text:
When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.
type:
example
text:
After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.
type:
example
text:
With his stock rising fast in the party, the governor has conspicuously refrained from saying he would stand aside if Mr. Trump runs for the Republican nomination for president in 2024.
ref:
2022 January 17, Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman, “Who Is King of Florida? Tensions Rise Between Trump and a Former Acolyte.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.
type:
example
text:
His hatred is not based upon whom these people are (like many rightwing Republicans, Gallo comes from immigrant stock), but how easily these people have come by success in America.
ref:
2003 November 14, Jacques Peretti, “You are a bad man trying to do bad things to Vincent”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
We may also conclude that as it was the Ionic γένη of the Attic tetrapolis who in the main achieved the Ionization of Athens, so it was a branch of this same stock that settled at Delos […]
ref:
2010, Lewis Richard Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
The most underrated component in building a custom gun is the metalsmithing. Stock work immediately attracts attention. Fancy checkering patterns, meticulously executed, are sure to elicit oohs and ahhs.
ref:
2013, Tom Turpin, Modern Custom Guns: Walnut, Steel, and Uncommon Artistry, 2nd edition, Iola, Wis.: Gun Digest Books, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
He wore a brown tweed suit and a white stock. His clothes hung loosely about him as though they had been made for a much larger man. He looked like a respectable farmer of the middle of the nineteenth century.
ref:
1915, W. Somerset Maugham, “chapter 116”, in Of Human Bondage
type:
quotation
text:
His grey waistcoat sported pearl buttons, and he wore a stock which set off to admiration a lean and aquiline face which was almost as grey as the rest of him.
ref:
1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), page 417
type:
quotation
text:
Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick.
ref:
1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey
type:
quotation
text:
[…]a somewhat rude machine called the stocks, and consisting of a pair of wooden mallets, worked alternately by a cog wheel.
ref:
1842, Jam Bischoff, A Comprehensive History of the Woollen and Worsted Manufactures
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A store or supply.
A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
A store or supply.
A supply of anything ready for use.
A store or supply.
Railroad rolling stock.
A store or supply.
A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
A store or supply.
Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
A store or supply.
The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
A share in a company.
The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
The type of paper used in printing.
The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
Ellipsis of film stock.
The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
Stock theater, summer stock theater.
The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
Lineage, family, ancestry.
The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
Lineage, family, ancestry.
A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
The tailstock of a lathe.
A bar, stick or rod.
A ski pole.
A bar, stick or rod.
A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
A bar, stick or rod.
The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
A bar, stick or rod.
A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
A cover for the legs; a stocking.
A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
The beater of a fulling mill.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
business
finance
business
finance
business
finance
business
finance
cooking
food
lifestyle
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
geography
geology
natural-sciences
arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
biology
natural-sciences
|
1520 | word:
stock
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stock (third-person singular simple present stocks, present participle stocking, simple past and past participle stocked)
forms:
form:
stocks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stocking
tags:
participle
present
form:
stocked
tags:
participle
past
form:
stocked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
stock (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”), with modern senses mostly referring either to the trunk from which the tree grows (figuratively, its origin and/or support/foundation), or to a piece of wood, stick, or rod. The senses of "supply" and "raw material" arose from a probable conflation with steck (“an item of goods, merchandise”) or the use of split tally sticks consisting of foil or counterfoil and stock to capture paid taxes, debts or exchanges. Doublet of chock.
senses_examples:
text:
The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
type:
example
text:
...he would not stock any product on his shelves from any company that hired a communist or, as it was called at the time, a comsymp.
ref:
2005, William Froug, How I Escaped from Gilligan's Island
type:
quotation
text:
to stock a warehouse with goods
type:
example
text:
to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools
type:
example
text:
to stock land, i.e. to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass
type:
example
text:
A rather interesting and notable convenience, however, is that of ice water bags, which are hung on to the outside of the coaches at certain stops. These can be reached by leaning out of the window rather perilously, to unhook them, and paper cups are stocked in the compartments.
ref:
1951 February, K. Westcott Jones, “Some Australian Railway Byways”, in Railway Magazine, page 118
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have on hand for sale.
To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
To put in the stocks as punishment.
To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
card-games
games |
1521 | word:
stock
word_type:
adj
expansion:
stock (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
stock (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”), with modern senses mostly referring either to the trunk from which the tree grows (figuratively, its origin and/or support/foundation), or to a piece of wood, stick, or rod. The senses of "supply" and "raw material" arose from a probable conflation with steck (“an item of goods, merchandise”) or the use of split tally sticks consisting of foil or counterfoil and stock to capture paid taxes, debts or exchanges. Doublet of chock.
senses_examples:
text:
stock items
text:
stock sizes
text:
He gave me a stock answer.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
|
1522 | word:
stock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stock (plural stocks)
forms:
form:
stocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stock (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Italian stoccata.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
senses_topics:
|
1523 | word:
eagle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eagle (plural eagles)
forms:
form:
eagles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English egle, from Anglo-Norman egle, from Old French aigle, from Latin aquila. Displaced native Middle English ern, earn, arn, from Old English earn (“eagle”). More at erne.
senses_examples:
text:
I, I go my own way
I swim against the stream
Forever I will fight the pοwers that be
The eagle flies alone
ref:
2017, “The Eagle Flies Alone”, performed by Arch Enemy
type:
quotation
text:
I got an eagle in the third hole.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.
A gold coin with a face value of ten dollars, formerly used in the United States.
A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and circulated in England as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I of England.
A score of two under par for a hole.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
1524 | word:
eagle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
eagle (third-person singular simple present eagles, present participle eagling, simple past and past participle eagled)
forms:
form:
eagles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
eagling
tags:
participle
present
form:
eagled
tags:
participle
past
form:
eagled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English egle, from Anglo-Norman egle, from Old French aigle, from Latin aquila. Displaced native Middle English ern, earn, arn, from Old English earn (“eagle”). More at erne.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To score an eagle.
senses_topics:
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
1525 | word:
Ethiopia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ethiopia
forms:
wikipedia:
Aethiopia (Classical Greek term)
Ethiopia
etymology_text:
From Latin Aethiopia, from Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπία (Aithiopía), from Αἰθίοψ (Aithíops), of Proto-Hellenic origin. Displaced native Old English Siġelhearwena land (literally “land of the sun worshippers”).
senses_examples:
text:
Wheat has been and continues to be one of the most important cereal crops in Ethiopia in terms of both area under cultivation and production.
ref:
1991, Tesfaye Tesemma, “Improvement of indigenous durum wheat landraces in Ethiopia” in Plant Genetic Resources of Ethiopia, 288
text:
The Diamande is engendred in the mynes of India, Ethiopia, Arabia, Macedonia, and Cyprus, and in the golde mynes of the same countries.
ref:
1553, Richard Eden, A treatyse of the newe India, unnumbered
type:
quotation
text:
The Greeks denominated this region of the country, undefined in its limits, Ethiopia or the ‘land of black faces’; the people we call Nubians, are by the Arabs comprehended under the general name of Baraba, and if you enter the bureau of a merchant, or the mansion of a wealthy personage at Cairo or Alexandria, you will be pretty sure to find the atendants to be Berberees.
ref:
1858, George Leighton Ditson, The Para Papers on France, Egypt and Ethiopia, page 243
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in East Africa.
The Ethiopian Empire, from c. 1270 to 1974; Abyssinia.
A country in East Africa.
Italian Ethiopia, from 1936 to 1941.
A country in East Africa.
Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia, from 1974 to 1987; Derg.
A country in East Africa.
The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, since 1987.
A country in East Africa.
Sub-Saharan Africa, especially the parts south of Egypt and along and east of the Nile.
senses_topics:
|
1526 | word:
abridgement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abridgement (countable and uncountable, plural abridgements)
forms:
form:
abridgements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abridge + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
CHEMINS DE FER. Edited by Jean Herbert. Elsevier Publishing Co. [...] 30s. [...] The work of abridgement has been skilfully done by excluding financial, administrative and general engineering terms.
ref:
1960 August, “New Reading on Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 512
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of abridgment
senses_topics:
|
1527 | word:
Mauritius
word_type:
name
expansion:
Mauritius
forms:
wikipedia:
Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange
Mauritius
etymology_text:
From a Latinized form of the name of Maurits van Nassau.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in the Indian Ocean, east of East Africa and Madagascar. Official name: Republic of Mauritius.
The main island of the country of Mauritius.
A male given name of historical usage, found e.g. in St. Mauritius.
senses_topics:
|
1528 | word:
also
word_type:
adv
expansion:
also (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English also, alswo, alswa (also als(e), as, whence English as), from Old English eallswā (“just like, also”), from Proto-West Germanic *allswā, equivalent to all + so. Cognate with Scots alsa, alswa (“also, even so, in the same way, as, as well”), Saterland Frisian also (“accordingly, therefore, thus”), West Frisian alsa (“so, just so, even so, thus”), Old Saxon alsō (“similarly, as if, just as, when”), Dutch alzo (“so, thus”), German also (“so, thus”), Danish altså (“so”), Norwegian Bokmål altså (“so, therefore, accordingly, thus”), Norwegian Nynorsk altso (“so, accordingly, therefore, thus”), Swedish alltså (“so, therefore, accordingly, thus, then”). Doublet of as. More at all, so.
senses_examples:
text:
Everyone had eggs for breakfast, but Alice also had toast.
type:
example
text:
The subject of denoting is of very great importance, not only in logic and mathematics, but also in the theory of knowledge.
ref:
1905, Bertrand Russell, On Denoting
type:
quotation
text:
Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
text:
[…] thereupon the queen's majesty […] did send a solemn ambassade of her privy-counsellors, whereof one was an ancient earl of the realm, the other also an ancient baron of the same, and others of the council of her state […]
ref:
c. 1709, John Strype, Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In addition; besides; as well; further; too.
To the same degree or extent; so, as.
senses_topics:
|
1529 | word:
Namibia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Namibia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Namib (from Khoekhoe namib) + -ia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Namibia. Capital: Windhoek.
senses_topics:
|
1530 | word:
Qatar
word_type:
name
expansion:
Qatar
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Transliteration of Arabic قَطَر (qaṭar).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East. Official name: State of Qatar. Capital: Doha.
senses_topics:
|
1531 | word:
digital
word_type:
adj
expansion:
digital (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
digital
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin digitālis, from digitus (“finger, toe”) + -alis (“-al”). Doublet of digitalis.
senses_examples:
text:
digital palpation
type:
example
text:
digital examination
type:
example
text:
digital computer
type:
example
text:
digital clock
type:
example
text:
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
ref:
2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: online
text:
Near-synonyms: computerized, electronic, digitized, virtual
text:
Digital payment systems are replacing cash transactions.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); especially, performed with a finger.
Property of representing values as discrete, often binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.
Of or relating to computers or the Information Age.
senses_topics:
|
1532 | word:
digital
word_type:
noun
expansion:
digital (countable and uncountable, plural digitals)
forms:
form:
digitals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
digital
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin digitālis, from digitus (“finger, toe”) + -alis (“-al”). Doublet of digitalis.
senses_examples:
text:
He moved to digital for the first time, using a Sony camera.
type:
example
text:
Initially, traditional watchmakers could not see much future in digitals.
ref:
2000, Amy Glasmeier, Manufacturing Time, page 209
type:
quotation
text:
Beginning with the keyboard, direct attention to the grouping of the black digitals, and show that though at the outer edge of the keyboard the white digitals look as if they were all equally close neighbours, yet, […]
ref:
c.1920?, Annie Jessy Gregg Curwen, The Teacher's Guide to Mrs. Curwen's Pianoforte Method (The Child Pianist)
text:
[…] turning round as he reached the door, he placed his digitals in close proximity to his proboscis, saying—“I guess there an't anything green about this child!' and left the Professor in utter astonishment […]
ref:
1853, Yankee Notions, volume 2, page 137
type:
quotation
text:
[…] with grave complacency wiggles his digitals, and turns away with a scornful smile playing upon his countenance.
ref:
1855, North Carolina University Magazine, volume 3, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A digital option.
Digital equipment or technology.
Short for digital watch.
Short for digital art.
Any of the keys of a piano or similar instrument.
A finger.
senses_topics:
business
finance
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
1533 | word:
current account
word_type:
noun
expansion:
current account (plural current accounts)
forms:
form:
current accounts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
current account
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That part of the balance of payments recording a nation's exports and imports of goods and services and transfer payments
An account at a bank which is used for daily transactions.
senses_topics:
banking
business |
1534 | word:
France
word_type:
name
expansion:
France (usually uncountable, plural Frances)
forms:
form:
Frances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:France (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English France, from Old French France, from Latin Francia, from Francī, the name of a Germanic tribe, of unclear (but Proto-Germanic) origin. Believed to be most likely from Frankish *Frankō (“a Frank”), from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preng- (“pole, stalk”). Compare Frank. Displaced native Old English Francland.
senses_examples:
text:
For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.
ref:
1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat, Cassandra Editions, published 1977, page 237
type:
quotation
text:
Although scholars have offered different chronologies and causalities for the move toward modernity, most have resolved the paradox of the two Frances by placing them in sequence: "diverse France gave way over time as modern centralized France gathered force."
ref:
1998, Shanny Peer, France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
Hollande told cheering supporters in his rural fiefdom of Corrèze in south-west France that he was best-placed to lead France towards change, saying the vote marked a "rejection" of Sarkozy and a "sanction" against his five years in office.
ref:
2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Western Europe. Official name: French Republic. Capital and largest city: Paris.
A surname from French, famously held by—
A surname from French, famously held by—
Anatole France, a French poet, journalist, and novelist.
Alternative form of Frances; A female given name; feminine of Francis.
senses_topics:
|
1535 | word:
add
word_type:
verb
expansion:
add (third-person singular simple present adds, present participle adding, simple past and past participle added)
forms:
form:
adds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
adding
tags:
participle
present
form:
added
tags:
participle
past
form:
added
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
add
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English adden, from Latin addō (“add, give unto”), from ad (“to”) + dō (“give”).
senses_examples:
text:
to add numbers
type:
example
text:
to add a column of numbers
type:
example
text:
It adds to our anxiety.
type:
example
text:
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial.[…]Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. Dr Yoshimoto and his colleagues would like to add liver cancer to that list.
ref:
2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3
type:
quotation
text:
He adds rapidly.
type:
example
text:
Typically, a hostile mob will add whenever it's within the aggro radius of a player.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate.
To sum up; to put together mentally; to add up.
To combine elements of (something) into one quantity.
To give by way of increased possession (to someone); to bestow (on).
To append (e.g. a statement); to say further information; to add on.
To intensify; to augment; to increase; to add on.
To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.
To summon minions or reinforcements.
To add someone as a friend.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
video-games
video-games |
1536 | word:
add
word_type:
noun
expansion:
add (plural adds)
forms:
form:
adds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English adden, from Latin addō (“add, give unto”), from ad (“to”) + dō (“give”).
senses_examples:
text:
In a typical week, 10 to 15 songs may be up for consideration as “adds” of new songs for the station's playlist.
ref:
2006, David Baskerville, Music Business Handbook and Career Guide, page 370
type:
quotation
text:
Effectiveness of their work is measured by the number of “adds” they receive on the airplay charts of major trades.
ref:
2013, Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, From Demo to Delivery
type:
quotation
text:
List the number of adds and multiplies for each of the forms (6) , (7), and (8).
ref:
2004, C. K. Birdsall, A. B. Langdon, Plasma Physics via Computer Simulation, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
When the player has fought the boss for one minute, two adds will arrive from the back and must be dealt with.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The addition of a song to a station's playlist.
An act or instance of adding.
An additional enemy that joins a fight after the primary target.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
radio
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
video-games |
1537 | word:
tax
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tax (countable and uncountable, plural taxes)
forms:
form:
taxes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tax
etymology_text:
From Middle English taxe, from Middle French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa. Doublet of task. Displaced native Old English gafol, which was also the word for "tribute" and "rent."
senses_examples:
text:
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
ref:
2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
a heavy tax on time or health
type:
example
text:
In the expectation that such would be the case, I came but slightly attended, sending most of my people with the heavy baggage by sea to the Indus, and I took every precaution to render the tax of my support as light as possible, by furnishing a memorandum of the number of persons composing my suite, and limiting the amount of supplies each should receive.
ref:
1843, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons - Volume 39, page 234
type:
quotation
text:
The extent of the traffic is a tax on the existing yard in the area at Frodingham, the busiest in the District.
ref:
1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 128
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
A burdensome demand.
A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
charge; censure
senses_topics:
|
1538 | word:
tax
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tax (third-person singular simple present taxes, present participle taxing, simple past and past participle taxed)
forms:
form:
taxes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
taxing
tags:
participle
present
form:
taxed
tags:
participle
past
form:
taxed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tax
etymology_text:
From Middle English taxen, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin taxāre, present active infinitive of taxō (“I handle”, “I censure”, “I appraise”, “I compute”).
senses_examples:
text:
Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.
type:
example
text:
Taxing the food and chemical industries, which make billions off our food consumption, could be another way to generate revenue for the program.
ref:
2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, page 251
type:
quotation
text:
Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.
type:
example
text:
Do not tax my patience.
type:
example
text:
The heavy freight traffic which shares the double line between Paddington and Wolverhampton with the passenger traffic has taxed the ingenuity of the timetable planners.
ref:
1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 103
type:
quotation
text:
But patent applications are increasingly accompanied by volumes and volumes of data on DVD, which taxes the resources of the patent office.
ref:
2007 January 16, “IBM - Reinventing the invention system - United States”, in IDEAS from IBM
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
To impose and collect a tax on (something).
To make excessive demands on.
To accuse.
To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
senses_topics:
|
1539 | word:
van
word_type:
noun
expansion:
van (plural vans)
forms:
form:
vans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Short for caravan.
senses_examples:
text:
The van sped down the road.
type:
example
text:
Designed to be fully mobile and self-contained, the complete equipment includes an air-conditioned van containing all necessary electronic gear and a flat bed trailer in which missiles, jet engines and other large assemblies may be cleaned.
ref:
1959, Western Aerospace, volume 39, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.
An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.
A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.
A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.
senses_topics:
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
1540 | word:
van
word_type:
verb
expansion:
van (third-person singular simple present vans, present participle vanning, simple past and past participle vanned)
forms:
form:
vans
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
vanning
tags:
participle
present
form:
vanned
tags:
participle
past
form:
vanned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Short for caravan.
senses_examples:
text:
I have to have a license to own them, a license to train them, my jockey has to have a license to ride them, the van company must have a license to van them, and the black shoe man must have a license to shoe them.
ref:
1966, United States Congress, Senate, Committee on Commerce, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
[They] had their own horses, but they hadn't bothered to van them over to Pine Hollow for this outing.
ref:
1999, Bonnie Bryant, Changing Leads, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
One Anon explained the reason for this, saying: "As for the domains, they were transferred to Ryan after some of us got vanned so he can keep the network up. What he did certainly wasn't the plan." (Getting "vanned" refers to getting picked up by the police.)
ref:
2011, The hackers hacked: main Anonymous IRC servers invaded
type:
quotation
text:
He later told CW that he had been "v&" or "vanned" by the police, and he expressed surprise that the police showed him detailed transcripts of his conversations.
ref:
2012, FBI names, arrests Anon who infiltrated its secret conference call
type:
quotation
text:
But not before someone supposedly forwarded all the information onto the FBI. In a last-ditch effort to avoid getting "vanned," Naratto tried to put the memie back in the bottle
ref:
2013, Redditor Confesses to Murder with Meme, Gets Doxed by Other Redditors, Deletes His Account and Disappears
type:
quotation
text:
2015 13-year-old credited with hacking CIA director’s AOL account gives bizarre, possibly final interview
The hacker says he thinks he is about to be v&, or “vanned,” meaning being raided by law enforcement, sometime soon.
text:
On Wednesday night, Motherboard spoke to the teenager accused of being Cracka. "I got fucking v&," he told Motherboard, using "v&," the slang for "vanned," or getting arrested. (At this point, the arrest had not been made public.)
ref:
2016, Teen Allegedly Behind CIA, FBI Breaches: 'They're Trying to Ruin My Life.'
type:
quotation
text:
Commander X: Yep, so now you all know how I got vanned. And you just met the snitch who did it to me.
ref:
2017, Dark Ops: An Anonymous Story, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived from party van).
senses_topics:
|
1541 | word:
van
word_type:
noun
expansion:
van (plural vans)
forms:
form:
vans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortening of vanguard.
senses_examples:
text:
Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd, / Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare / Streame in the Aire, and for distinction serve
ref:
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book 5, lines 588–590
type:
quotation
text:
Then a bumper to the Queen led the van of our good wishes, another to the Church Established, a third was left to the whim of the toaster[…]
ref:
1698, Ned Ward, The London Spy
type:
quotation
text:
Bhīṣma then outlined the following strategy: “… Let Karṇa, clad in armour, stand in the van. And I shall command the entire army in the rear.”
ref:
1965, “Virāṭa Parva”, in Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, transl., The Mahābhārata, book 4, translation of original in Sanskrit, section 33, page 84
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of vanguard.
senses_topics:
|
1542 | word:
van
word_type:
noun
expansion:
van (plural vans)
forms:
form:
vans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Cornish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A shovel used in cleansing ore.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
1543 | word:
van
word_type:
verb
expansion:
van (third-person singular simple present vans, present participle vanning, simple past and past participle vanned)
forms:
form:
vans
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
vanning
tags:
participle
present
form:
vanned
tags:
participle
past
form:
vanned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Cornish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
1544 | word:
van
word_type:
noun
expansion:
van (plural vans)
forms:
form:
vans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From
Latin vannus (“a van, or fan for winnowing grain”): compare French van and English fan, winnow. Doublet of fan.
senses_examples:
text:
with strange amaze / A shepherd meeting thee, the oar surveys, / And names a van (Book XI)
ref:
1726, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, The Odyssey
type:
quotation
text:
He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans in vain; / His vans no longer could his flight sustain.
ref:
1717, John Dryden, Ovid's Metamorphoses, book XII
type:
quotation
text:
Because these wings are no longer wings to fly / But merely vans to beat the air[…]
ref:
1930, T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
A wing with which the air is beaten.
senses_topics:
|
1545 | word:
Egypt
word_type:
name
expansion:
Egypt
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Egipt, from Middle French Egypte, from Latin Aegyptus, from Ancient Greek Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos) (see also the Mycenaean Greek ethnonym 𐁁𐀓𐀠𐀴𐀍 (ai-ku-pi-ti-jo, “Egyptian”)), from Egyptian ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ (“Egypt; Memphis; the temple of Ptah in Memphis”, literally “The temple of the ka of Ptah”), whose Late Egyptian pronunciation is reflected by Akkadian 𒄭𒆪𒌒𒋫𒀪 (ḫikuptaḫ).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in North Africa and Western Asia. Official name: Arab Republic of Egypt. Capital: Cairo.
A civilization based around the river Nile, on its lower reaches nearer the Mediterranean.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Craighead County, Arkansas.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Effingham County, Georgia.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jordan Township, Jasper County, Indiana.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Chickasaw County, Mississippi.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Holmes County, Mississippi.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Auglaize County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
An extinct town in Belmont County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Leon County, Texas.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Texas.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wharton County, Texas.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
A number of places in the United States:
A former settlement in Summers County, West Virginia.
A number of places in England:
A tiny hamlet in Leckhampstead parish, West Berkshire, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU4476).
A number of places in England:
A suburban village in Farnham Royal parish, Buckinghamshire, previously in South Bucks district (OS grid ref SU9685).
A number of places in England:
A suburb of Nailsworth, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST8499).
A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Wonston parish, Winchester district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4640).
A number of places in England:
A hamlet near Thornton, City of Bradford, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE0933).
A rural locality in Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia.
senses_topics:
|
1546 | word:
forecast
word_type:
verb
expansion:
forecast (third-person singular simple present forecasts, present participle forecasting, simple past and past participle forecast or forecasted)
forms:
form:
forecasts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
forecasting
tags:
participle
present
form:
forecast
tags:
participle
past
form:
forecast
tags:
past
form:
forecasted
tags:
participle
past
form:
forecasted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English forecasten, forcasten, equivalent to fore- + cast.
The noun is from Middle English forecast, forcast.
senses_examples:
text:
to forecast the weather, or a storm
type:
example
text:
to forecast a rise in prices
type:
example
text:
Within six months, the total number of passengers forecast to use the line in the entire first year (650,000) had already been passed. For the first 12 months, the figure was in excess of 1.2 million. And overall, it has grown year-on-year, reaching over two million in 2018-19.
ref:
2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in Rail, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To estimate how something will be in the future.
To foreshadow; to suggest something in advance.
To contrive or plan beforehand.
senses_topics:
|
1547 | word:
forecast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forecast (plural forecasts)
forms:
form:
forecasts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English forecasten, forcasten, equivalent to fore- + cast.
The noun is from Middle English forecast, forcast.
senses_examples:
text:
What's the forecast for tomorrow?
type:
example
text:
It's nice to anticipate sunny weather, but it's a good idea to carry an umbrella just in case the forecasts prove overly optimistic.
ref:
2024 April 19, Charles Hugh Smith, Living on Uneasy Street
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An estimation of a future condition.
An estimation of a future condition.
A prediction of the weather.
exacta
senses_topics:
gambling
games |
1548 | word:
Oman
word_type:
name
expansion:
Oman
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic عُمَان (ʕumān).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East. Official name: Sultanate of Oman. Capital: Muscat.
senses_topics:
|
1549 | word:
precipitously
word_type:
adv
expansion:
precipitously (comparative more precipitously, superlative most precipitously)
forms:
form:
more precipitously
tags:
comparative
form:
most precipitously
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From precipitous + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a precipitous manner.
Abruptly; quickly.
In a precipitous manner.
At a sharp upwards angle.
senses_topics:
|
1550 | word:
increase
word_type:
verb
expansion:
increase (third-person singular simple present increases, present participle increasing, simple past and past participle increased)
forms:
form:
increases
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
increasing
tags:
participle
present
form:
increased
tags:
participle
past
form:
increased
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English encresen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman encreistre, from Latin increscere (“increase”), present active infinitive of increscō, from in (“in, on”) + crescō (“grow”).
The noun is from Middle English encres, from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
His rage only increased when I told him of the lost money.
type:
example
text:
The report said that deep learning methods increased from just 118 patent requests in 2013 to nearly 2,400 in 2016.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 2019-02-07
type:
quotation
text:
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
ref:
2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
The Moon increases.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
(of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.
To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences |
1551 | word:
increase
word_type:
noun
expansion:
increase (countable and uncountable, plural increases)
forms:
form:
increases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English encresen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman encreistre, from Latin increscere (“increase”), present active infinitive of increscō, from in (“in, on”) + crescō (“grow”).
The noun is from Middle English encres, from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
ref:
2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
She says an increase in melting from climate change may put that at risk.
ref:
2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An amount by which a quantity is increased.
For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger
Offspring, progeny
The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
senses_topics:
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles |
1552 | word:
abut on
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abut on (third-person singular simple present abuts on, present participle abutting on, simple past and past participle abutted on)
forms:
form:
abuts on
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abutting on
tags:
participle
present
form:
abutted on
tags:
participle
past
form:
abutted on
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
His land abuts on the road.
type:
example
text:
The fronts of the houses abut on the pathway, which is about four feet wide, and are unequally places, following the contour of the ground.
ref:
1919, Katherine Routledge, The Mystery of Easter Island, Cosimo, Inc. (2007), page 24
type:
quotation
text:
The stalked gland (14 — 12-15) has a capital of usually 32 cells radiating from the centre and standing out like an umbrella top. These cells all abut on a central short cell resting on the top of the long stalk cell.
ref:
1942, Francis Ernest Lloyd, The Carnivorous Plants, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
Now the two bounding notes of an enharmonic tetrachord of the relevant sort will indeed both be the lowest notes of pykna when the tetrachords are put together in conjunction; but the higher of them can never abut on a pyknon in the case envisaged here, where the tone is introduced to disjoin the tetrachords.
ref:
2007, Andrew Barker, The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece, Cambridge University Press, page 209
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To border on.
senses_topics:
|
1553 | word:
pencil
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pencil (plural pencils)
forms:
form:
pencils
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pencil
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman and Old French pincil (see the variant pincel, which gave rise to Modern French pinceau (“paintbrush”)), from Latin pēnicillum, diminutive of pēniculus (“brush”), itself a diminutive of pēnis (“tail; penis”). Not related to pen.
senses_examples:
text:
He requested three things of Sir Joshua Reynolds:—To forgive him thirty pounds which he had borrowed of him; to read the Bible; and never to use his pencil on a Sunday.
ref:
1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 1390
type:
quotation
text:
When, by the pencil becoming oblique to the surface, the vergency produced on the pencil becomes changed, the primary and secondary focal points, V and H, separate […]
ref:
1863, The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal
type:
quotation
text:
Let l and m be two hyperparallel lines. All the transversals to l and m that form congruent corresponding angles with l and m lie in a pencil.
ref:
2012, G. E. Martin, The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane, page 357
type:
quotation
text:
And most important of all, Cully now had 'The Pencil', that most coveted of Las Vegas powers.
ref:
1978, Mario Puzo, Fools Die
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A paintbrush.
A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper.
An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
A family of geometric objects with a common property, such as the set of lines that pass through a given point in a projective plane.
A small medicated bougie.
Ellipsis of power of the pencil.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
geometry
mathematics
sciences
medicine
sciences
gambling
games |
1554 | word:
pencil
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pencil (third-person singular simple present pencils, present participle (UK) pencilling or (US) penciling, simple past and past participle (UK) pencilled or (US) penciled)
forms:
form:
pencils
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pencilling
tags:
UK
participle
present
form:
penciling
tags:
US
participle
present
form:
pencilled
tags:
UK
participle
past
form:
pencilled
tags:
UK
past
form:
penciled
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
penciled
tags:
US
past
wikipedia:
pencil
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman and Old French pincil (see the variant pincel, which gave rise to Modern French pinceau (“paintbrush”)), from Latin pēnicillum, diminutive of pēniculus (“brush”), itself a diminutive of pēnis (“tail; penis”). Not related to pen.
senses_examples:
text:
I penciled (BrE: pencilled) a brief reminder in my notebook.
type:
example
text:
She had hardly got back when she encountered a piece by Robert Trewe in the new number of her favourite magazine, which must have been written almost immediately before her visit to Solentsea, for it contained the very couplet she had seen pencilled on the wallpaper by the bed, and Mrs. Hooper had declared to be recent.
ref:
1888, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Wessex Tales
type:
quotation
text:
It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.
ref:
1852, The Ark, and Odd Fellows' Western Magazine
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To write (something) using a pencil.
To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.
senses_topics:
|
1555 | word:
Singapore
word_type:
name
expansion:
Singapore
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay Singapura, from Sanskrit सिंहपुर (siṃhá-pura), from सिंह (siṃha, “lion”) + पुर (pura, “city”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island and city-state in Southeast Asia, located off the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula; a former British crown colony. Official name: Republic of Singapore.
senses_topics:
|
1556 | word:
absorbency
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absorbency (countable and uncountable, plural absorbencies)
forms:
form:
absorbencies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absorbance + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
Product benefits are quickly copied, whether it's cleaning power or diaper absorbency.
ref:
2007 May 1, “Detergent Can Be So Much More”, in BusinessWeek, retrieved 2009-02-09
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being absorbent.
The ratio of the absorbance or optical density of a substance to that of a similar body of pure solvent.
The action of absorbing.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
1557 | word:
Gambia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Gambia or the Gambia
forms:
form:
Gambia
tags:
canonical
form:
the Gambia
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
Gambia River
The Gambia
etymology_text:
From the name of the Gambia River.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A river in West Africa.
A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of The Gambia.
senses_topics:
|
1558 | word:
Monaco
word_type:
name
expansion:
Monaco
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Ultimately from Ancient Greek μόνοικος (mónoikos, “single house”), from μόνος (mónos, “single, alone”) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house”), the name of the 6th century BC colony of Phocaeans and an epithet of Heracles (Hercules), Ἡρακλῆς Μόνοικος (Heracles Monoikos). According to an ancient Greek myth and a Ligurian legend, Heracles passed through the Monaco area. A temple was constructed there by Phocaeans, the temple of Heracles Monoikos (Strabo, Geography, Gaul, 4.6.3).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city-state in Western Europe. Official name: Principality of Monaco.
senses_topics:
|
1559 | word:
network
word_type:
noun
expansion:
network (plural networks)
forms:
form:
networks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From net + work.
senses_examples:
text:
He wore a mantle of network.
ref:
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 287
type:
quotation
text:
A network of roads crisscrossed the country.
type:
example
text:
To get a job in today's economy, it is important to have a strong network.
type:
example
text:
2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns), […]
text:
The copy machine is connected to the network so it can now serve as a printer.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fabric or structure of fibrous elements attached to each other at regular intervals.
Any interconnected group or system
A directory of people maintained for their advancement
A group of affiliated television stations that broadcast common programs from a parent company.
Multiple computers and other devices connected together to share information
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
1560 | word:
network
word_type:
verb
expansion:
network (third-person singular simple present networks, present participle networking, simple past and past participle networked)
forms:
form:
networks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
networking
tags:
participle
present
form:
networked
tags:
participle
past
form:
networked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From net + work.
senses_examples:
text:
Many people find it worthwhile to network for jobs and information.
type:
example
text:
If we network his machine to the server, he will be able to see all the files.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To interact socially for the purpose of getting connections or personal advancement.
To connect two or more computers or other computerized devices.
To interconnect a group or system.
To broadcast across an entire network of stations and affiliates at the same time.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media |
1561 | word:
abettor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abettor (plural abettors)
forms:
form:
abettors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abettour, from Anglo-Norman abettour, from Old French abeter + -our (“-or”). See abet.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One that abets an offender; one that incites; instigates; encourages.
A supporter or advocate.
senses_topics:
|
1562 | word:
french fries
word_type:
noun
expansion:
french fries pl (normally plural, singular french fry)
forms:
form:
french fry
tags:
singular
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of earlier French fried potatoes (1856) and French-fried potatoes, potatoes supposedly prepared in the French style.
senses_examples:
text:
French fries are our specialty.
type:
example
text:
“What's the matter?” she asked quickly. “Haven't we had all the things before? Soup, chops, peas, French fries, and the fruit pudding–there wasn't a thing new.”
ref:
1903, Lillian Pettengill, Toilers of the Home, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 292
type:
quotation
text:
His first official act was to order dinner. “A nice, juicy steak,” he is said to have called for, “French fries, apple pie and a cup of coffee.” It is probable that he really said “a coff of cuppee,” however, as he was a wag of the first water and loved a joke as well as the next king.
ref:
1922, Robert C. Benchley, chapter XXII, in Love Conquers All, Henry Holt & Company, page 111
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Strips of deep-fried potatoes that have been frenched (cut into strips).
senses_topics:
|
1563 | word:
Irish
word_type:
name
expansion:
Irish
forms:
wikipedia:
Irish
etymology_text:
From Middle English Irish (12th c.), from Old English *Īrisċ, from Old English Īras (“Irishmen”), from Old Norse Írar, from Old Irish Ériu (modern Irish Éire (“Ireland”)), further origin heavily debated but probably from Proto-Celtic *Φīweriyū (“fat land, fertile”), from Proto-Indo-European *péyh₂wr̥ (“fat, swelling”), from *peyh₂- (“to swell; to be fat”), akin to Ancient Greek πίειρα (píeira, “fertile land”), Sanskrit पीवरी (pīvarī, “fat”).
senses_examples:
text:
Irish is the first official and national language of Ireland.
type:
example
text:
America used to love dams... Yes, and we built those dams with ingenuity and brawn and, of course, piles and piles of dead Irish.
ref:
2015 March 1, “Infrastructure”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 4, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Gaelic language indigenous to Ireland, also known as Irish Gaelic.
The Irish people.
A surname.
A female given name of chiefly Philippine usage.
senses_topics:
|
1564 | word:
Irish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Irish (countable and uncountable, plural Irish or Irishes)
forms:
form:
Irish
tags:
plural
form:
Irishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Irish
etymology_text:
From Middle English Irish (12th c.), from Old English *Īrisċ, from Old English Īras (“Irishmen”), from Old Norse Írar, from Old Irish Ériu (modern Irish Éire (“Ireland”)), further origin heavily debated but probably from Proto-Celtic *Φīweriyū (“fat land, fertile”), from Proto-Indo-European *péyh₂wr̥ (“fat, swelling”), from *peyh₂- (“to swell; to be fat”), akin to Ancient Greek πίειρα (píeira, “fertile land”), Sanskrit पीवरी (pīvarī, “fat”).
senses_examples:
text:
But her Irish was up too high to do any thing with her, and so I quit trying.
ref:
1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, Nebraska, published 1987, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
Whenever he got his Irish up, Clancy lowered the boom.
ref:
1947, Hy Heath, John Lange, Clancy Lowered the Boom
type:
quotation
text:
The Priest is as fierce a fighter as I am when he gets his Irish up.
ref:
1997, Andrew M. Greeley, Irish Lace, page 296
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A board game of the tables family.
Temper; anger, passion.
Whiskey, or whisky, elaborated in Ireland.
senses_topics:
|
1565 | word:
Irish
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Irish (comparative more Irish, superlative most Irish)
forms:
form:
more Irish
tags:
comparative
form:
most Irish
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Irish
etymology_text:
From Middle English Irish (12th c.), from Old English *Īrisċ, from Old English Īras (“Irishmen”), from Old Norse Írar, from Old Irish Ériu (modern Irish Éire (“Ireland”)), further origin heavily debated but probably from Proto-Celtic *Φīweriyū (“fat land, fertile”), from Proto-Indo-European *péyh₂wr̥ (“fat, swelling”), from *peyh₂- (“to swell; to be fat”), akin to Ancient Greek πίειρα (píeira, “fertile land”), Sanskrit पीवरी (pīvarī, “fat”).
senses_examples:
text:
Sheep are typical in the Irish landscape.
type:
example
text:
A. Fink-Nottle: But it's absolute balderdash, Bertie. I mean, listen to this: "Sure and begorrah, I don't know what's after being the matter with you, Michael." I mean, what on earth is this "what's after being" stuff mean?
B.W. Wooster: My dear old Gussie, that is how people think Irish people talk.
ref:
1992 April 26, “Hot Off the Press”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 5
type:
quotation
text:
The slur continued with Irish confetti, a popular term for paving stones or Belgian bricks that were laid in New York streets beginning about 1832.
ref:
1995, Irving Lewis Allen, The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people.
Pertaining to the Irish language.
nonsensical, daft or complex.
senses_topics:
|
1566 | word:
European
word_type:
adj
expansion:
European (comparative more European, superlative most European)
forms:
form:
more European
tags:
comparative
form:
most European
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
European
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French Européen, via Latin europaeus, ultimately from Ancient Greek Εὐρωπαῖος (Eurōpaîos, “European”).
senses_examples:
text:
Stamps like this were common on furniture made in Australia in the first half of last century, when there were a number of Chinese furniture makers in Australia who were seen as competition to 'European Australian' makers.
type:
example
text:
From a domestic point of view the advent of the Chinese was a decided blessing, for, instead of the European ladies of the settlement having to do all their own work, they were able to employ a proper staff of Chinese boys.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 233
type:
quotation
text:
All of these trade on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Most of the contracts are European. An exception is the OEX contract on the S&P 100, which is American.
ref:
2009, John C. Hull, Options, Futures, and other Derivatives (Seventh Edition), Pearson Education, page 182
text:
Based on the analyses throughout the case study, it is recommended that the use of a model that assumes an ESO is European style when, in fact, the option is American style with the other exotic variables should not be permitted, as this substantially overstates compensation expenses.
ref:
2010, Johnathan Mun, Modeling Risk + DVD: Applying Monte Carlo Risk Simulation, Strategic Real Options, Stochastic Forecasting, and Portfolio Optimization (Second Edition), John Wiley & Sons
type:
quotation
text:
Nevertheless, as we shall see, some properties of American options may be readily deduced from those of their European counterparts.
ref:
2012, Hugo D. Junghenn, Option Valuation: A First Course in Financial Mathematics, CRC Press, page 53
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Related to Europe or the European Union.
Of the white ethnicity.
That can be exercised only at the expiry date.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
1567 | word:
European
word_type:
noun
expansion:
European (plural Europeans)
forms:
form:
Europeans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
European
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French Européen, via Latin europaeus, ultimately from Ancient Greek Εὐρωπαῖος (Eurōpaîos, “European”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Person living or originating from Europe.
Person who resides within the European Union.
senses_topics:
|
1568 | word:
Spain
word_type:
name
expansion:
Spain
forms:
wikipedia:
Spain
etymology_text:
From Middle English Spayne, from Anglo-Norman Espayne, from Late Latin Spania, from earlier Latin Hispānia. Doublet of Hispania.
senses_examples:
text:
The mountains of Spain consist of parallel ranges, running from east to west[…]
ref:
1865, James Stuart Laurie, editor, Manual of Elementary Geography, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
Spain fought with France constantly from 1494 through the 1540s, especially over Italy.
ref:
1999, Stephen P. Reyna, "The Force of Two Logics", in S. P. Reyna & R. E. Downs (editors), Deadly Developments: Capitalism, states and war (War and Scoiety, volume 5), page 34
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southern Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula. Official name: Kingdom of Spain. Capital and largest city: Madrid.
An English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Spanish ancestry.
senses_topics:
|
1569 | word:
abysm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abysm (plural abysms)
forms:
form:
abysms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abime, from Old French abisme from Late Latin *abyssimus, a superlative of abyssus (“bottomless pit”), from Ancient Greek ἄβυσσος (ábussos). Cognate to French abîme. See also abyss.
senses_examples:
text:
The abysm of hell.
ref:
1623, Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, III, xiii
type:
quotation
text:
Dr. Prunesquallor had circled around Steerpike with his head drawn back so that his cervical vertebrae rested against the near wall of his high collar, and a plumbless abysm yawned between his Adam’s apple and his pearl stud.
ref:
1946, Mervyn Peake, “The Grotto”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode
type:
quotation
text:
[T]he Shakespearean sonnet doesn't lend itself to a sequential narrative, because the rhymed couplet, without its paired feet trembling at that abysm of time, has to settle instead for the sound of sighing resolution, at regular intervals, over and over, before taking a deep breath and returning usually, for better or worse, to the same subject.
ref:
2015 January 30, Glyn Maxwell, “‘Ideas of Order,’ by Neil L. Rudenstine [book review; print version: Eternal lines: A guide to Shakespeare's sonnets, International New York Times, 2 February 2015, p. 7]”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos.
An abyss; a gulf, a chasm, a very deep hole.
senses_topics:
|
1570 | word:
pie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pie (countable and uncountable, plural pies)
forms:
form:
pies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Pie (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English pye, pie, pey, perhaps from Old English *pīe (“pastry”) (compare Old English pīe, pēo (“insect, bug”)), attested in early Middle English piehus (“bakery”, literally “pie-house”) c. 1199. Relation to Medieval Latin pica, pia (“pie, pastry”) is unclear, as there are no similar terms found in any Romance languages; therefore, like Irish pióg (“pie”), the Latin term may have been simply borrowed from the English.
Some sources state the word comes from Latin pīca (“magpie, jay”) (from the idea of the many ingredients put into pies likened to the tendency of magpies to bring a variety of objects back to their nests), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”), though this has its controversies. However, if so, then it is a doublet of pica.
senses_examples:
text:
The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
type:
example
text:
Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.
type:
example
text:
It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead. But when the pie is shrinking, social groups are more likely to turn on each other.
ref:
2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “Why It’s Time to Worry”, in Newsweek
type:
quotation
text:
Pies are best for comparing the components of only one or two totals.
ref:
1986, Carolyn Sorensen, Henry J. Stock, Department of Education Computer Graphics Guide, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Programmers haven't exactly been wild about certain Microsoft policies — such as the price of the OS/2 developer's kit or the fib about how Microsoft Windows code would be pie to translate to the Presentation Manager.
ref:
1989, PC Mag, volume 8, number 5, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
"Yeah, take it off!" "SHOW US YOUR PIE!" The brunette opened the catch on her G-string and let the sequinned cloth slip down, teasing them with it.
ref:
1981, William Kotzwinkle, Jack in the Box
type:
quotation
text:
Yeah, some guys like to eat the old hairy pie. Women, too, or so I've heard.
ref:
2010, W. A. Moltinghorne, Magnolia Park, page 238
type:
quotation
text:
Did fed time outta town pie flipper / Turn Cristal into a crooked-I sipper
ref:
1997 January 3, “Can't Nobody Hold Me Down”performed by Sean Combs ft. Mase
type:
quotation
text:
My weed smoke is my lye, a ki of coke is a pie / When I'm lifted I'm high, with new clothes on I'm fly]
ref:
[1998 October 18, “Ebonics”performed by Big L
type:
quotation
text:
I love the cutie pies, never the zootie pies
ref:
1999 July 13, “Discipline”performed by Gang Starr ft. Total
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
A pizza.
A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.
The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
An especially badly bowled ball.
A pie chart.
Something very easy; a piece of cake.
The vulva.
A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
1571 | word:
pie
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pie (third-person singular simple present pies, present participle pieing, simple past and past participle pied)
forms:
form:
pies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pieing
tags:
participle
present
form:
pied
tags:
participle
past
form:
pied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Pie (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English pye, pie, pey, perhaps from Old English *pīe (“pastry”) (compare Old English pīe, pēo (“insect, bug”)), attested in early Middle English piehus (“bakery”, literally “pie-house”) c. 1199. Relation to Medieval Latin pica, pia (“pie, pastry”) is unclear, as there are no similar terms found in any Romance languages; therefore, like Irish pióg (“pie”), the Latin term may have been simply borrowed from the English.
Some sources state the word comes from Latin pīca (“magpie, jay”) (from the idea of the many ingredients put into pies likened to the tendency of magpies to bring a variety of objects back to their nests), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”), though this has its controversies. However, if so, then it is a doublet of pica.
senses_examples:
text:
I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.
type:
example
text:
Some of my friends drop everyone out as soon as they get a girlfriend, and they alienate people. Or they stop going out to the gym and doing things they love because they're all about the other person. When you do that you're sacrificing yourself and you will be left with nothing if you split up. You'll have to start again and get back in contact with all your mates you've pied off. Shame.
ref:
2017, Marcel Somerville, Dr Marcel's Little Book of Big Love: Your Guide to Finding Love, the Island Way, London: Blink Publishing, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
just my luck been put in a presentation group at uni with a guy I pied on tinder last week HAHA gud
ref:
2018 September 18, @_kirstenanna, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-01-27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
To ignore (someone).
senses_topics:
|
1572 | word:
pie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pie (plural pies)
forms:
form:
pies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Pie (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English pye, from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, feminine of pīcus (“woodpecker”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”). Cognate with speight. Doublet of pica.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Magpie.
senses_topics:
|
1573 | word:
pie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pie (plural pie or pies)
forms:
form:
pie
tags:
plural
form:
pies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Pie (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Hindi पाई (pāī, “quarter”), from Sanskrit पादिका (pādikā).
senses_examples:
text:
I gave him all the money in my possession, Rs.9.8.5. – nine rupees, eight annas, and five pie – for I always keep small change as bakshish when I am in camp.
ref:
1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”, in The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society, published 2005, page 117
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to ¹⁄₁₉₂ of a rupee or ¹⁄₁₂ of an anna.
senses_topics:
|
1574 | word:
pie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pie (plural pies)
forms:
form:
pies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Pie (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Hindi पाहि (pāhi, “migrant farmer, passer-through”), from Sanskrit पार्श्व (pārśva, “side, vicinity”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of pie-dog: an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
1575 | word:
pie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pie (plural pies)
forms:
form:
pies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Pie (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Spanish pie (“foot, Spanish foot”), from Latin pēs (“foot, Roman foot”), from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Doublet of foot, pes, and pous.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 27.9 cm.
senses_topics:
|
1576 | word:
pie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pie
forms:
wikipedia:
Pie (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of pi (“metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered”)
senses_topics:
letterpress-typography
media
publishing
typography |
1577 | word:
pie
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pie (third-person singular simple present pies, present participle pieing, simple past and past participle pied)
forms:
form:
pies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pieing
tags:
participle
present
form:
pied
tags:
participle
past
form:
pied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Pie (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The door of the [printing] shop was shattered. He went in. The presses were broken. The type pied.
ref:
1943, Esther Forbes Hoskins, Johnny Tremain
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of pi (“to spill or mix printing type”)
senses_topics:
|
1578 | word:
seven
word_type:
num
expansion:
seven
forms:
wikipedia:
seven
etymology_text:
From Middle English seven, from Old English seofon (“seven”), from Proto-West Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”).
Cognate with Scots seiven (“seven”), West Frisian sân (“seven”), Saterland Frisian soogen (“seven”), Low German söven (“seven”), Dutch zeven (“seven”), German sieben (“seven”), Danish syv (“seven”), Norwegian sju (“seven”), Icelandic sjö (“seven”), Latin septem (“seven”), Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”), Russian семь (semʹ), Sanskrit सप्तन् (saptán).
senses_examples:
text:
The cabbalism of the number seven is emphasized, for in hell seven judges at each of seven gates take one of these divine laws away from her.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). Describing a group or set with seven elements.
senses_topics:
|
1579 | word:
seven
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seven (countable and uncountable, plural sevens)
forms:
form:
sevens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
seven
etymology_text:
From Middle English seven, from Old English seofon (“seven”), from Proto-West Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”).
Cognate with Scots seiven (“seven”), West Frisian sân (“seven”), Saterland Frisian soogen (“seven”), Low German söven (“seven”), Dutch zeven (“seven”), German sieben (“seven”), Danish syv (“seven”), Norwegian sju (“seven”), Icelandic sjö (“seven”), Latin septem (“seven”), Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”), Russian семь (semʹ), Sanskrit सप्तन् (saptán).
senses_examples:
text:
He wrote three sevens on the paper.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof.
A card bearing seven pips.
senses_topics:
card-games
games |
1580 | word:
financial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
financial (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From finance + -ial.
senses_examples:
text:
For financial reasons, we're not going to be able to continue to fund this program.
type:
example
text:
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
ref:
2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
A Cultural Revolution is a movement designed to preserve the political and financial power of a ruling elite by social rather than political or financial means.
ref:
2019 January 18, Charles Hugh Smith, The West's Descent into 'Cultural Revolution'
type:
quotation
text:
Jerry is a financial member of the club.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Related to finances.
Having dues and fees paid up to date for a club or society.
senses_topics:
|
1581 | word:
Andorra
word_type:
name
expansion:
Andorra
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish Andorra.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A microstate in Southern Europe, between Spain and France. Official name: Principality of Andorra. Capital and largest city: Andorra la Vella.
senses_topics:
|
1582 | word:
Guatemala
word_type:
name
expansion:
Guatemala
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish Guatemala (originally the name of Iximche, the location of Guatemala's first capital), from Classical Nahuatl Cuauhtēmallān, from cuauhtēmalli (“woodpile”) + -tlān (“place”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Guatemala.
A department of Guatemala.
senses_topics:
|
1583 | word:
abstergent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abstergent (comparative more abstergent, superlative most abstergent)
forms:
form:
more abstergent
tags:
comparative
form:
most abstergent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French, from Latin abstergens, present participle of abstergeo (“wiping off”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cleansing, detergent.
senses_topics:
|
1584 | word:
abstergent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstergent (plural abstergents)
forms:
form:
abstergents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French, from Latin abstergens, present participle of abstergeo (“wiping off”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A substance used to cleanse; a detergent.
senses_topics:
|
1585 | word:
Tanzania
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tanzania
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of Tanganyika + Zanzibar + -ia, combining the names of the former countries that merged to form Tanzania in 1964.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in East Africa. Official name: United Republic of Tanzania.
senses_topics:
|
1586 | word:
Slovakia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Slovakia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested to in German in 1586, itself apparently derived from Slovak Slováky, equivalent to English Slovak + -ia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central Europe. Official name: Slovak Republic. Capital and largest city: Bratislava.
senses_topics:
|
1587 | word:
mars
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mars
forms:
wikipedia:
Mars (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of mar
senses_topics:
|
1588 | word:
mars
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mars
forms:
wikipedia:
Mars (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of mar
senses_topics:
|
1589 | word:
abstractionism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstractionism (countable and uncountable, plural abstractionisms)
forms:
form:
abstractionisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstraction + -ism.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The creation, principles, or ideals of abstractions, in particular art.
The presentation of ideas in an abstract manner.
senses_topics:
|
1590 | word:
Zambia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Zambia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Zambezi. See Zambezi at Wikipedia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Zambia. Formerly called Northern Rhodesia.
senses_topics:
|
1591 | word:
skillful
word_type:
adj
expansion:
skillful (comparative more skillful, superlative most skillful)
forms:
form:
more skillful
tags:
comparative
form:
most skillful
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English skilful, skylfull, scelvol, equivalent to skill + -ful.
senses_examples:
text:
she's a skillful mechanical
type:
example
text:
a skillful task
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Possessing skill; skilled.
Requiring skill.
senses_topics:
|
1592 | word:
Kuwait
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kuwait
forms:
wikipedia:
Kuwait
etymology_text:
From Arabic الْكُوَيْت (al-kuwayt), diminutive of اَلْكُوت (al-kūt).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East. Official name: State of Kuwait. Capital: Kuwait City.
Alternative form of Kuwait City: The capital city of Kuwait.
senses_topics:
|
1593 | word:
El Salvador
word_type:
name
expansion:
El Salvador
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish El Salvador (literally “The Saviour”). Named in honor of Jesus Christ.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of El Salvador.
senses_topics:
|
1594 | word:
abstention
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstention (countable and uncountable, plural abstentions)
forms:
form:
abstentions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1521. Borrowed from French abstention, from Late Latin abstēntiō from Latin abstinēō (“withhold, to abstain”)
senses_examples:
text:
abstention from alcohol
type:
example
text:
abstention from sex
type:
example
text:
There were five abstentions in the vote.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of restraining oneself.
The act of abstaining or refraining (from).
The act of declining to vote on a particular issue.
Non-participation in the political world; as a country avoiding international affairs.
senses_topics:
|
1595 | word:
abutment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abutment (countable and uncountable, plural abutments)
forms:
form:
abutments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1644; engineering sense first attested in 1793. From Old French aboutement. Equivalent to abut + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
Each of the bridges consists of six separate girder spans on brick abutments.
ref:
1959 May, “Talking of Trains: Bethnal Green alterations”, in Trains Illustrated, page 236
type:
quotation
text:
Heavy rains have caused the dam's abutments to seep, raising concern over possible dam failure.
text:
The fulcrum acted as an abutment.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The point of junction between two things, in particular a support, that abuts.
The solid portion of a structure that supports the lateral pressure of an arch or vault.
A construction that supports the ends of a bridge; a structure that anchors the cables on a suspension bridge.
The part of a valley or canyon wall against which a dam is constructed.
Something that abuts, or on which something abuts.
The state of abutting.
That element that shares a common boundary or surface with its neighbor.
The tooth that supports a denture or bridge.
A fixed point or surface where resistance is obtained.
senses_topics:
architecture
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
architecture
dentistry
medicine
sciences
|
1596 | word:
Angola
word_type:
name
expansion:
Angola
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese (Reino de) Angola (“(kingdom of) Angola”), from Kimbundu ngola, title held by native kings at the time of the Portuguese colonization in the 15th century AD. Compare Kituba ngolo (“strength”).
The Louisiana State Penitentiary is named "Angola" after the Angola slave plantation it replaced, which was named after the country, from which many enslaved people in Louisiana had been taken.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.
A former colony of Portugal, Portuguese Angola, also known as Portuguese West Africa and officially the State of West Africa, from 1575 to 1975.
A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.
The People's Republic of Angola, from 1975 to 1992
The Louisiana State Penitentiary.
An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
A city, the county seat of Steuben County, Indiana, United States.
An unincorporated community in Labette County, Kansas, United States.
A village in Erie County, New York, United States.
senses_topics:
|
1597 | word:
Angola
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Angola (plural Angolas)
forms:
form:
Angolas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese (Reino de) Angola (“(kingdom of) Angola”), from Kimbundu ngola, title held by native kings at the time of the Portuguese colonization in the 15th century AD. Compare Kituba ngolo (“strength”).
The Louisiana State Penitentiary is named "Angola" after the Angola slave plantation it replaced, which was named after the country, from which many enslaved people in Louisiana had been taken.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of angora (cat).
senses_topics:
|
1598 | word:
singular
word_type:
adj
expansion:
singular (comparative more singular, superlative most singular)
forms:
form:
more singular
tags:
comparative
form:
most singular
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English singuler, Borrowed from Old French, from Latin singulāris (“alone of its kind”), from Latin singulus (“single”).
senses_examples:
text:
A singular experiment cannot be regarded as scientific proof of the existence of a phenomenon.
type:
example
text:
She has a singular personality.
type:
example
text:
a man of singular gravity or attainments
type:
example
text:
It was very singular; I don't know why he did it.
type:
example
text:
to convey several parcels of land, all and singular
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Being only one of a larger population.
Being the only one of the kind; unique.
Distinguished by superiority: peerless, unmatched, eminent, exceptional, extraordinary.
Out of the ordinary; curious.
Referring to only one thing or person.
Having no inverse.
Having the property that the matrix of coefficients of the new variables has a determinant equal to zero.
Not equal to its own cofinality.
Each; individual.
Engaged in by only one on a side; single.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
law
|
1599 | word:
singular
word_type:
noun
expansion:
singular (plural singulars)
forms:
form:
singulars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English singuler, Borrowed from Old French, from Latin singulāris (“alone of its kind”), from Latin singulus (“single”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A form of a word that refers to only one person or thing.
That which is not general; a specific determinate instance.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences |
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