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15000 | word:
lesbian
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lesbian (third-person singular simple present lesbians, present participle lesbianing, simple past and past participle lesbianed)
forms:
form:
lesbians
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lesbianing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lesbianed
tags:
participle
past
form:
lesbianed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
lesbian
etymology_text:
From Latin Lesbiana, from Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos) + Latin adjective suffix -iana; by reference to Sappho of Lesbos (whence also sapphist, sapphic), known for her sentimental poems about women. This sense of the word may have been borrowed from, or influenced by, the German cognate lesbisch, where it is found in medical literature from the 1830s.
senses_examples:
text:
That's the way I want to go – Lesbianed to death.
ref:
2014, Ian Collin, Angels of The North, page 107
type:
quotation
text:
Surveillance by other inmates creates yet another dimension of power and control. Angry with Chapman and Vause, Dogget tells Healy that she has witnessed the two “lesbianing” in the shower, […]
ref:
2016, April Kalogeropoulos Householder, Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, Feminist Perspectives on Orange Is the New Black, page 85
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To (cause to) take part in lesbian sex, or other lesbian activity.
senses_topics:
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15001 | word:
forest
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forms:
form:
forests
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
forest
etymology_text:
From Middle English forest, from Old French forest, from Early Medieval Latin forestis, likely from Proto-West Germanic *furhisti. In this sense, mostly displaced the native Middle English wode, from Old English wudu (modern English wood).
senses_examples:
text:
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
ref:
2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
a forest of criticism
text:
Squealing and still propelled by the kick, the calf scrabbled through the forest of legs and into the open.
ref:
1998, Katharine Payne, Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
ref:
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
type:
quotation
text:
[...] in places such as the Forest of Bowland there is hardly a tree in sight and much of the area is a vast tract of almost barren gritstone hills and peat moorland.
ref:
2013, Alexander Tulloch, The Little Book of Lancashire, The History Press
type:
quotation
text:
Let H be a traversal of an undirected graph G = (X, U). For given H, the set U can be split into set of tree edges from the forest G_H and the set of inverse edges that do not belong to this forest.
ref:
2000, Victor N. Kasyanov, Vladimir A. Evstigneev, Graph Theory for Programmers: Algorithms for Processing Trees, Springer Science & Business Media, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
Forests are considered the security boundary in Active Directory; by this we mean that if you need to definitively restrict access to a resource within a particular domain so that administrators from other domains do not have any access to it whatsoever, you need to implement a separate forest instead of using an additional domain within the current forest.
ref:
2008, Laura E. Hunter, Robbie Allen, Active Directory Cookbook, O'Reilly Media, Inc., page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
Any dense collection or amount.
A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
The color forest green.
senses_topics:
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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15002 | word:
forest
word_type:
verb
expansion:
forest (third-person singular simple present forests, present participle foresting, simple past and past participle forested)
forms:
form:
forests
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
foresting
tags:
participle
present
form:
forested
tags:
participle
past
form:
forested
tags:
past
wikipedia:
forest
etymology_text:
From Middle English forest, from Old French forest, from Early Medieval Latin forestis, likely from Proto-West Germanic *furhisti. In this sense, mostly displaced the native Middle English wode, from Old English wudu (modern English wood).
senses_examples:
text:
From the view-point of national economy professor Fehér communicates to us most interesting facts, which he has established in an important question now of actuality : in the subject of foresting the Great Hungarian Plains.
ref:
1937, Széchenyi Scientific Society, Report on the Work of the Széchenyi Scientific Society: Founded for the Promotion of Research in Natural Sciences in Hungary, Zeéchenyi Scientific Society, page 83
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover an area with trees.
senses_topics:
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15003 | word:
fustian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fustian (usually uncountable, plural fustians)
forms:
form:
fustians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English fustian (“type of fabric, probably made from cotton, flax, or wool; piece of fustian spread over a bed or mattress”) [and other forms], from Old French fustaine, fustaigne (modern French futaine), from Medieval Latin fūstāneum, from (pannus) fūstāneus or (tela) fūstānea, of disputed origin.
Sense 3 (“inflated, pompous, or pretentious speech or writing”) is possibly from the fact that the fabric was sometimes used to make cushion- and pillowcases, thus suggesting that the speech or writing is “padded” or “stuffed”; compare bombast. The relationship between sense 4 (“hot drink made of a mixture of alcoholic beverages with egg yolk, lemon, and spices”) and the fabric is unclear.
The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun.
cognates
* Italian fustagno
* Occitan fustani
* Portuguese fustão
* Spanish fustan
senses_examples:
text:
Fustian, of which I found only one entry before 1401, occurs frequently in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It appears to have been a ribbed cloth. […] On one occasion (1443) it is described as 'white ribbed fustian.'
ref:
1882, James E[dwin] Thorold Rogers, “On the Price of Textile Fabrics and Clothing”, in A History of Agriculture and Prices in England […], volumes IV (1401–1582), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 568
type:
quotation
text:
The different names given to fustian cloths depend upon their degree of fineness, and the manner in which they are woven and finished. […] In all fustians there is a warp and filling, or weft thread, independent of the additional filling-thread forming the pile; but in corduroys the pile thread is only 'thrown in' where the corded portions are and is absent in the narrow spaces between.
ref:
1903, “FUSTIAN”, in Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby, editors, The New International Encyclopædia, volume VIII, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 30, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
The East India company was pursuing its own financial interests, but in doing so was also fostering the establishment of industries such as calico printing — an industry that would have not achieved the same degree of accomplishment if it had confined itself simply to the printing of European fustians (mixed cottons) and linens, both of which were more difficult to print on than cotton.
ref:
2009, Giorgio Riello, “The Indian Apprenticeship: The Trade of Indian Textiles and the Making of European Cottons”, in Giorgio Riello, Tirthankar Roy, editors, How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850 (Global Economic History Series; 4), Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISSN, part III (Regions of Change: Indian Textiles and European Development), page 334
type:
quotation
text:
Fustian is a species of coarse twilled cotton, but may be considered as a general term which comprehends several varieties of cotton fabrics, as corduroy, jean, velveret, velveteen, thickset, thickset cord, and other stout cloths for men's wearing apparel; from their strength and cheapness, they are very serviceable to agricultural people. It is generally dyed of an olive, leaden, or other colours. […] Fustians are either plain or twilled.
ref:
1855, T[homas] Webster, Mrs. [William] Parkes, “Book XVII. On the Various Textile Fabrics for Clothing and Furniture.”, in D[avid] M[eredith] Reese, editor, An Encyclopædia of Domestic Economy: […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, chapter IV (Cotton Fabrics for Dress and Furniture), section VIII (Description of the Various Cotton Fabrics), paragraph 5665, page 962
type:
quotation
text:
Fustian originally referred to a large variety of textiles of linen-and-cotton blend; later it came to mean all-cotton textiles. Common varieties of the fancy fustians are corduroy, jean, pillow, thickset, velveret and velveteen.
ref:
1986 fall (June), Richard Henning Field, “Lunenberg-German Household Textiles: The Evidence from Lunenburg County Estate Inventories, 1780–1830”, in Material History Bulletin = Bulletin d’histoire de la Culture Matérielle, volume 24, Hull, Que.: Canadian Museum of Civilization; Ottawa, Ont.: National Museum of Science and Technology, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-04-07, page 18, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Fustians, a large group of general-purpose fabrics were mainly woven with a tight heavy texture. Sometimes they were plainly woven, but fustians could also be fashioned with “tufts” creating fabric like corduroy or velveteen. Fustians were used for anything from draperies to dresses or upholstery to men’s waistcoats.
ref:
2007, Susan M. Ouellette, “Flax from the Field, Cotton from the Sea”, in US Textile Production in Historical Perspective: A Case Study from Massachusetts (Studies in American Popular History and Culture), New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, pages 34–35
type:
quotation
text:
In the nineteenth century fustian cutting was a major occupation right across the North West and thousands of people in the cotton towns were employed at it. Sometimes the work was done at tables but more often than not the cloth was stretched across rollers and they'd walk up and down all day, slicing through the threads of the weave row by row, using tiny blades fashioned from watch springs and honed until they were as sharp as razorblades. Cutting even a basic fustian, they could walk ten or eleven miles over the length of a shift. With more sophisticated fustians – fabrics like velveteen, for instance – you had to walk further, much further.
ref:
2008, Steve Haywood, chapter 9, in Narrowboat Dreams: A Journey North by England’s Waterways, Chichester, West Sussex: Summersdale Publishers, page 103
type:
quotation
text:
What made [Édouard] Manet a veritable prophet in his day, was that he brought a simple formula to a period in which the official art was merely fustian and conventionality.
ref:
1923, Ambroise Vollard, “Cézanne Aspires to the Salon of Bouguereau (1866–1895)”, in Harold L. Van Doren, transl., Paul Cézanne: His Life and Art […], New York, N.Y.: Nicholas L. Brown, →OCLC, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
Anything grandiose or historically based tends to sound flat and banal when it reaches English, partly because translators get stuck between contradictory imperatives: juggling fidelity to the original sense with what is vocally viable, they tend to resort to a genteel fustian which lacks either poetic resonance or demotic realism, adding to a sense of artificiality rather than enhancing credibility.
ref:
2014 March 1, Rupert Christiansen, “English translations rarely sing”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, page R19
type:
quotation
text:
RUMFUSTIAN. The yolks of twelve eggs, one quart of strong beer, one bottle of white wine, half a pint of gin, a grated nutmeg, the juice from the peeling of a lemon, a small quantity of cinnamon, and sufficient sugar to sweeten it;[…]]
ref:
[1827, [Richard Cook], “RUMFUSTIAN”, in Oxford Night Caps. Being a Collection of Receipts for Making Various Beverages Used in the University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, London: […] Henry Slatter; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
Rum Fustian is a "night-cap" made precisely in the same way as the preceding [egg-posset or egg-flip], with the yolks of twelve eggs, a quart of strong home-brewed beer, a bottle of white wine, half-a-pint of gin, a grated nutmeg, the juice from the peel of a lemon, a small quantity of cinnamon, and sugar sufficient to sweeten it.
ref:
1832, William Hone, “January 9”, in The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information, […], London: […] [J. Haddon] for Thomas Tegg, […], →OCLC, column 62
type:
quotation
text:
Rum fustian [i]s prepared at Oxford as follows: whisk up to a froth the yolks of six eggs and add them to a pint of gin and a quart of strong beer; boil up a bottle of sherry in a sauce-pan, with a stick of cinnamon or nutmeg grated, a dozen large lumps of sugar, and the rind of a lemon peeled very thin; when the wine boils, it is poured upon the beer and gin and drank hot.
ref:
1853, [Robert F. Riddell], “Drinks, Liqueurs, etc.”, in Indian Domestic Economy and Receipt Book; […], 4th edition, Madras: […] D. P. L. C. Connor, at the Christian Knowledge Society’s Press, […], →OCLC, page 350
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Originally, a kind of coarse fabric made from cotton and flax; now, a kind of coarse twilled cotton, or cotton and linen, stuff with a short pile and often dyed a dull colour, which is chiefly prepared for menswear.
A class of fabric including corduroy and velveteen.
Inflated, pompous, or pretentious speech or writing; bombast; also (archaic), incoherent or unintelligible speech or writing; gibberish, nonsense.
Chiefly in rum fustian: a hot drink made of a mixture of alcoholic beverages (as beer, gin, and sherry or white wine) with egg yolk, lemon, and spices.
senses_topics:
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15004 | word:
fustian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fustian (comparative more fustian, superlative most fustian)
forms:
form:
more fustian
tags:
comparative
form:
most fustian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English fustian (“type of fabric, probably made from cotton, flax, or wool; piece of fustian spread over a bed or mattress”) [and other forms], from Old French fustaine, fustaigne (modern French futaine), from Medieval Latin fūstāneum, from (pannus) fūstāneus or (tela) fūstānea, of disputed origin.
Sense 3 (“inflated, pompous, or pretentious speech or writing”) is possibly from the fact that the fabric was sometimes used to make cushion- and pillowcases, thus suggesting that the speech or writing is “padded” or “stuffed”; compare bombast. The relationship between sense 4 (“hot drink made of a mixture of alcoholic beverages with egg yolk, lemon, and spices”) and the fabric is unclear.
The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun.
cognates
* Italian fustagno
* Occitan fustani
* Portuguese fustão
* Spanish fustan
senses_examples:
text:
Her husband was trying to calm her down, assuage her, and in the end what she did was to put a handkerchief over her face and secure it with the brim of a fustian hat.
ref:
1972, Edna O’Brien, Night, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, published 1987, page 103
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made out of fustian (noun sense 1).
Of a person, or their speech or writing: using inflated, pompous, or pretentious language; bombastic; grandiloquent; also (obsolete) using incoherent or unintelligible language.
Imaginary; invented.
Useless; worthless.
senses_topics:
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15005 | word:
clover
word_type:
noun
expansion:
clover (plural clovers)
forms:
form:
clovers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English clovere, claver, from Old English clāfre, earlier clǣfre, from Proto-West Germanic *klaibrā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kleeuwer (“clover”), West Frisian klaver (“clover”), Dutch klaver (“clover”), German Low German Klaver (“clover”), German Klee (“clover”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.
The second Lenormand card, representing hope, optimism and short-term luck.
senses_topics:
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences |
15006 | word:
pronghorn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pronghorn (plural pronghorn or pronghorns)
forms:
form:
pronghorn
tags:
plural
form:
pronghorns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From prong + horn.
senses_examples:
text:
If historical records are accurate, the current population of about 250 pronghorn in the northern range is less than 15% of that in the early 1900s (YNP 1997) (Figure 4–7).
ref:
2002, National Research Council, Ecological Dynamics on Yellowstone's Northern Range, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
When a pronghorn breaks into an easy, rocking canter (a 30 miles per hour pace that it can keep up indefinitely), the humerus swings back and forth over just a few inches with each stride. Only when a pronghorn stretches into a gallop does the humerus appear to be swinging freely, and then the hoof travels several yards with each stride.
ref:
2009, John A. Byers, Built for Speed: A Year in the Life of Pronghorn, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
For the 10-year period 1981-90 an additional 736 pronghorns were transplanted within the state.
During 1980-90, pronghorn occupied about 13.5 million acres in the Trans-Pecos, High Plains, Rolling Plains, and Edwards Plateau ecological regions.
ref:
2011, Ted L. Clark, “13: Wildlife Management Programs, Goals, and Issues: The State Perspective, 1990”, in Raymond C. Telfair II, editor, Texas Wildlife Resources and Land Uses, page 220
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A North American mammal, Antilocapra americana, that resembles an antelope.
senses_topics:
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15007 | word:
Calabrian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Calabrian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Calabria + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
Much tunnelling and many bridges will be necessary in the tumbled Calabrian terrain.
ref:
1964 November, “Beyond the Channel: Italy: New railways are authorised”, in Modern Railways, page 360
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Calabria.
senses_topics:
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15008 | word:
Calabrian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Calabrian (plural Calabrians)
forms:
form:
Calabrians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Calabria + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or a resident of Calabria.
senses_topics:
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15009 | word:
Calabrian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Calabrian
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Calabria + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language of the Calabrian people.
A subdivision of the Pleistocene epoch.
senses_topics:
biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences |
15010 | word:
Luddite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Luddite (plural Luddites)
forms:
form:
Luddites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Luddite
etymology_text:
Named after Ned Ludd, a legendary example, + -ite.
senses_examples:
text:
For instance, the Luddites, so maligned as technology-fearing machine breakers, were a highly sophisticated insurrectionary movement, composed of small, well-disciplined groups who used disguises and watchwords, raised funds and gathered arms, terrorized their opponents, and carried out well-planned, targeted attacks. (And, while it is true the Luddite movement ultimately failed, it was only after Parliament had mobilized twelve thousand troops to put it down – more troops than had fought in the Peninsular War.)
ref:
2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 482 (footnote)
type:
quotation
text:
[Benjamin Friedman] added, "How long does it take the Luddites to be wrong — a few years, a decade, a couple of decades?" Perhaps just as important, what happens to the workers who happen to be living during a time when the Luddite argument has some truth to it?
ref:
2012 October 24, David Leonhardt, “Standard of Living Is in the Shadows as Election Issue”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of a group of early-19th-century English textile workers who destroyed machinery because it would harm their livelihood.
Someone who opposes technological change.
One who lives among nature, forsaking technology.
senses_topics:
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15011 | word:
paralysis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
paralysis (countable and uncountable, plural paralyses)
forms:
form:
paralyses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
paralysis
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, “palsy”), from παραλύω (paralúō, “to disable on one side”). By surface analysis, para- + -lysis. Doublet of palsy.
senses_examples:
text:
The government has been in a paralysis since it lost its majority in the parliament.
type:
example
text:
Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”.
ref:
2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The complete loss of voluntary control of part of a person's body, such as one or more limbs.
A state of being unable to act.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences
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15012 | word:
TBD
word_type:
noun
expansion:
TBD (plural TBDs)
forms:
form:
TBDs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
TBD (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of torpedo boat destroyer.
senses_topics:
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15013 | word:
TBD
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
TBD
forms:
wikipedia:
TBD (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of to be dated.
Initialism of to be decided.
Initialism of to be declared.
Initialism of to be deducted.
Initialism of to be defined.
Initialism of to be delivered.
Initialism of to be derived.
Initialism of to be designed.
Initialism of to be destroyed.
Initialism of to be determined.
Initialism of to be developed.
Initialism of to be disclosed.
Initialism of to be discovered.
Initialism of to be discussed.
Initialism of to be done.
Initialism of to be documented.
senses_topics:
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15014 | word:
lips
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lips
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of lip
senses_topics:
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15015 | word:
lips
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lips
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of lip
senses_topics:
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15016 | word:
lips
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lips (third-person singular simple present lipses, present participle lipsing, simple past and past participle lipsed)
forms:
form:
lipses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lipsing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lipsed
tags:
participle
past
form:
lipsed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Nah, that's not me / Act like a wasteman? That's not me / Sex any girl? Nah, that's not me / Lips any girl? Nah, that's not me
ref:
2014, Skepta, Jme (lyrics and music), “That's Not Me” (track 10), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta featuring Jme
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To kiss (passionately), to smooch.
senses_topics:
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15017 | word:
hound
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hound (plural hounds)
forms:
form:
hounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hound, from Old English hund, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz. Cognate with West Frisian hûn, Dutch hond, Luxembourgish Hond, German Hund, German Low German Hund, Danish hund, Faroese hundur, Icelandic hundur, Norwegian Bokmål hund, Norwegian Nynorsk hund, and Swedish hund, from pre-Germanic *ḱuntós (compare Latvian sùnt-ene (“big dog”), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ (“dog”) (compare Old Irish cú (“dog”), Tocharian B ku, Lithuanian šuõ, Armenian շուն (šun), Russian сука (suka)). Doublet of canine.
In 14th-century England, hound was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog. By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting.
senses_examples:
text:
On the way out of the building I was asked for my autograph. If I'd known who the signature hound thought I was, I would've signed appropriately.
ref:
1996, Marc Parent, Turning Stones, Harcourt Brace & Company, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
I still do not know if he's taken on this case because he's a glory hound, because he wants the PR, or if he simply wanted to help Anna.
ref:
2004, Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper, Simon & Schuster,, page 483
type:
quotation
text:
"She had a good many successors, John."
"You are such a hound, in that respect, Goodson," said Claywell, "and you have always been such a hound, that it astounds me to find you—unaccompanied."
ref:
1915, Norman Duncan, "A Certain Recipient", in Harper's, volume 122, number 787, December 1915, republished in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 122, December 1915 to May 1916, page 108, "Are you alone, Goodson? […] I thought, perhaps, that the […] young woman, Goodson, who supplanted Mary?" […]
text:
'You blackmailing hound,' the parrot said distinctly, in what Hodges recognized as General Derby's voice. Anstruther turned pale.
ref:
1973, Elizabeth Walter, Come and Get Me and Other Uncanny Invitations
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
Any canine animal.
Someone who seeks something.
A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.
A despicable person.
A houndfish.
senses_topics:
|
15018 | word:
hound
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hound (third-person singular simple present hounds, present participle hounding, simple past and past participle hounded)
forms:
form:
hounds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hounding
tags:
participle
present
form:
hounded
tags:
participle
past
form:
hounded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
tableFrom Middle English hounden, from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
He hounded me for weeks, but I was simply unable to pay back his loan.
type:
example
text:
More pertinently for the plot, another marked difference from history is that the United Kingdom of this 1982 is precociously computerised. Instead of having been hounded to death for his homosexuality, the scientist Alan Turing is thriving and lauded.
ref:
2019 April 11, Marcel Theroux, “Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan review – intelligent mischief”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
We both thought we saw what had the appearance to be a fox, and hounded the dogs at it, but they would not pursue it.
ref:
1897, Andrew Lang, The Book of Dreams and Ghosts, page 162
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To persistently harass.
To urge on against; to set (dogs) upon in hunting.
senses_topics:
|
15019 | word:
hound
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hound (plural hounds)
forms:
form:
hounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
tableFrom Middle English hownde, hount, houn, probably from Old Norse húnn, from Proto-Germanic *hūnaz.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Projections at the masthead or foremast, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on; foretop
A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
|
15020 | word:
intractable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
intractable (comparative more intractable, superlative most intractable)
forms:
form:
more intractable
tags:
comparative
form:
most intractable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From in- + tractable.
senses_examples:
text:
And I cannot but expect that this will repeatedly lead to the discovery that an initially intractable problem can be factored after all.
ref:
1972, Edsger W. Dijkstra, The Humble Programmer (EWD340)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not tractable; not able to be managed, controlled, governed or directed.
(of a mathematical problem) Not able to be solved in polynomial time; too difficult to attempt to solve.
Difficult to deal with, solve, or manage. (of a problem)
Stubborn; obstinate. (of a person)
Difficult to treat (of a medical condition).
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
medicine
sciences |
15021 | word:
bridegroom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bridegroom (plural bridegrooms)
forms:
form:
bridegrooms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English brydgrome, bridegome, from Old English brȳdguma, from Proto-Germanic *brūdigumô; equivalent to Old English brȳd (“bride”) + guma (“man”). Altered by folk etymology to end with groom, with it re-analyzed as or influenced by grom, grome (“attendant”), as guma was obsolete. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Brüüdicham, Dutch bruidegom, Afrikaans bruidegom, German Low German Brödigam, Brüdigam, Brögam, Brügam, Plautdietsch Briegaum, German Bräutigam, Norwegian Bokmål brudgom, Norwegian Nynorsk brudgom, Danish brudgom, Swedish brudgum, Icelandic brúðgumi, Faroese brúðgómur.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A man in the context of his own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
senses_topics:
|
15022 | word:
spam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spam (countable and uncountable, plural spams)
forms:
form:
spams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:spam
etymology_text:
The original sense (canned ham) is a proprietary name registered by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in U.S., 1937. It is presumed to be a conflation of either "spiced ham" or "shoulder of pork and ham" but was soon extended to other kinds of canned meat. Hormel spells the trademarked name in all upper case.
The use for unsolicited and unwanted email derives from a Monty Python sketch (Flying Circus, Episode 25). In the 1970 sketch, a group of Vikings in a restaurant repeatedly chant the word "spam". The earliest recorded real-life use for this sense occurs around 1993 which finds reference in a newsgroup post dated March 31, 1993.
The term appears to have been used earlier in a different sense in relation to "Multi-User Dungeons" (MUDs), a kind of multi-user computer gaming environment before widespread use of the Internet, in the 1980s.
senses_examples:
text:
I get far too much spam.
type:
example
text:
I received 58 spams yesterday.
type:
example
text:
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
ref:
2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
An Act to provide for the control of spam, which is unsolicited commercial communications sent in bulk by electronic mail or by text or multi-media messaging to mobile telephone numbers, and to provide for matters connected therewith.
ref:
Long title, Spam Control Act (Cap. 311A, R. Ed. 2008)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.
Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.
Excessive, often unwanted and repeated online messages.
Ellipsis of spam account.
A type of tinned meat made mainly from ham.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
15023 | word:
spam
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spam (third-person singular simple present spams, present participle spamming, simple past and past participle spammed)
forms:
form:
spams
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
spamming
tags:
participle
present
form:
spammed
tags:
participle
past
form:
spammed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:spam
etymology_text:
The original sense (canned ham) is a proprietary name registered by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in U.S., 1937. It is presumed to be a conflation of either "spiced ham" or "shoulder of pork and ham" but was soon extended to other kinds of canned meat. Hormel spells the trademarked name in all upper case.
The use for unsolicited and unwanted email derives from a Monty Python sketch (Flying Circus, Episode 25). In the 1970 sketch, a group of Vikings in a restaurant repeatedly chant the word "spam". The earliest recorded real-life use for this sense occurs around 1993 which finds reference in a newsgroup post dated March 31, 1993.
The term appears to have been used earlier in a different sense in relation to "Multi-User Dungeons" (MUDs), a kind of multi-user computer gaming environment before widespread use of the Internet, in the 1980s.
senses_examples:
text:
Stop spamming that special attack!
type:
example
text:
Spam the Z key to get a speed boost.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)
To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.
To send messages repeatedly, often with disruptive effect; to flood.
To do something rapidly and repeatedly.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games |
15024 | word:
beach
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beach (plural beaches)
forms:
form:
beaches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
beach
etymology_text:
From Middle English bache, bæcche (“bank, sandbank”), from Old English beċe (“beck, brook, stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *baki, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“flowing water”).
Cognate with Dutch beek (“brook, stream”), German Bach (“brook, stream”), Swedish bäck (“stream, brook, creek”). More at batch, beck.
senses_examples:
text:
Up and down, the beach lay empty for miles.
ref:
1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son
type:
quotation
text:
I never realised Lincoln was a seaside town. BRIAN LAWS Scunthorpe manager, after losing on a liberally sanded beach of a pitch
ref:
2008, Phil Shaw, The Book of Football Quotations, page 415
type:
quotation
text:
The series was brought to an ironic conclusion when England became hoist by their own petard, as they lost the deciding final Test on a 'beach' of a wicket. Neither side batted well.
ref:
2012, Tim Quelch, Bent Arms & Dodgy Wickets
type:
quotation
text:
That beach should be punished!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
Synonym of gravel trap
A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.
Euphemistic form of bitch (taboo swear word).
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
15025 | word:
beach
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beach (third-person singular simple present beaches, present participle beaching, simple past and past participle beached)
forms:
form:
beaches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
beaching
tags:
participle
present
form:
beached
tags:
participle
past
form:
beached
tags:
past
wikipedia:
beach
etymology_text:
From Middle English bache, bæcche (“bank, sandbank”), from Old English beċe (“beck, brook, stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *baki, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“flowing water”).
Cognate with Dutch beek (“brook, stream”), German Bach (“brook, stream”), Swedish bäck (“stream, brook, creek”). More at batch, beck.
senses_examples:
text:
When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea.
ref:
1941, Emily Carr, “Salt Water”, in Klee Wyck
type:
quotation
text:
Great Aías led twelve ships from Sálamis
and beached them where Athenians formed for battle.
ref:
1974, Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, Iliad, Doubleday, Book Two, lines 530-31, p. 53
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To run aground on a beach.
To run (something) aground on a beach.
To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.
senses_topics:
|
15026 | word:
beration
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beration (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From berate + -ion, as if it were a Latinate verb.
senses_examples:
text:
However, this self-beration had little effect on her eyes as, with a will of their own, they touched on the curve of his lips.
ref:
1983, Lynsey Stevens, Forbidden Wine, Harlequin Books, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Seems that there are two Lisa's out there... Lisa 1, Please acknowledge. This is Lisa G. We'll have to keep ourselves straight. I'm not involved in the beration or phone sex thing.
ref:
1992 February 12, Lisa J. Gilmore, “Re: Oh, you sweet thing”, in bit.listserv.words-l (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
There are a few things that I have always found helpful when I am reflecting upon where I am, without it degenerating into a futile exercise in narcissistic navel-gazing or self-beration.
ref:
1999, Farid Esack, On Being a Muslim: Finding a Religious Path in the World Today, Oneworld, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
now before the mass beration for slating a religion could I just say, 'who the f...'s Jesus?'
ref:
2000 November 14, Al, “Re: first concert [ot] but who cares”, in alt.music.savage-garden (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Writing in a post-Waterloo culture that repudiated the trappings of usurping authority and revolutionary time, Austen depicts Sir Walter as the perfect example of a subject born out of ressentiment, affectively retreading the ground of the past with an impotent self-beration that props up his calcified sense of prestige.
ref:
2009, Jacques Khalip, Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession, Stanford University Press, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
See..my constant beration has paid off!
ref:
2009 January 31, ldnayman, “Re: serial killers pinball”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Beratement: the act of berating.
senses_topics:
|
15027 | word:
Atlas Mountains
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Atlas Mountains pl (plural only)
forms:
form:
the Atlas Mountains
tags:
canonical
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Arabic جِبَال الأَطْلَس (jibāl al-ʔaṭlas), from Berber ⵉⴷⵓⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵡⴰⵟⵍⴰⵙ (idurar n waṭlas), both ultimately from the Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), stemming from the belief that the mountain range is actually the body of the Titan Atlas after being turned to stone.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mountain range in northwestern Africa, occupying portions of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
senses_topics:
|
15028 | word:
length
word_type:
noun
expansion:
length (countable and uncountable, plural lengths)
forms:
form:
lengths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lengthe, from Old English lengþ, lengþu, from Proto-West Germanic *langiþu, from Proto-Germanic *langiþō, equivalent to long + -th. Cognate with Scots lenth, lainth (“length”), Saterland Frisian Loangte (“length”), West Frisian lingte, langte (“length”), Dutch lengte (“length”), German Low German Längde, Längd, Längte, Längt (“length”), Danish længde (“length”), Swedish längd (“length”), Icelandic lengd (“length”).
senses_examples:
text:
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
ref:
1941, Robert Frost, The Gift Outright
type:
quotation
text:
the length of a book
type:
example
text:
a length of rope
type:
example
text:
[…] open your book of the play, which you have previously carefully perused, and at the same time marked with the proper calls, as thus: a length (or 42 lines) before an entrance, with a pen make a figure on the margin, […]
ref:
1890, Henry Austin, Address of Henry Austin Before the Second Nationalist Club, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
The boy was engaged to write out parts at a penny a length (42 lines) for Chetwood, who then charged the manager, […]
ref:
1960, J. L. Hodgkinson, Rex Pogson, The Early Manchester Theatre, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
An artificial bid doesn't necessarily show length in the suit being bid, it has an altogether different meaning.
ref:
1999, Edwin B. Kantar, Eddie Kantar Teaches Advanced Bridge Defense, page 191
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
duration.
The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
Total extent.
Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
The number of cards held in a particular suit.
senses_topics:
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
mathematics
sciences
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
entertainment
lifestyle
theater
bridge
games |
15029 | word:
length
word_type:
verb
expansion:
length (third-person singular simple present lengths, present participle lengthing, simple past and past participle lengthed)
forms:
form:
lengths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lengthing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lengthed
tags:
participle
past
form:
lengthed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lengthe, from Old English lengþ, lengþu, from Proto-West Germanic *langiþu, from Proto-Germanic *langiþō, equivalent to long + -th. Cognate with Scots lenth, lainth (“length”), Saterland Frisian Loangte (“length”), West Frisian lingte, langte (“length”), Dutch lengte (“length”), German Low German Längde, Längd, Längte, Längt (“length”), Danish længde (“length”), Swedish längd (“length”), Icelandic lengd (“length”).
senses_examples:
text:
Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.
ref:
XIV. 30
type:
quotation
text:
Was never man such favour could off atall ladies fynde, To cause them lengthe or shorte the day which they to hym assynde.
ref:
1552, Richard Huloet, “Ladies of Destinie”, in Abecedarium Anglico-Latinum
type:
quotation
text:
[He] knows full well life doth but length his pain.
ref:
a. 1608, Thomas Sackville, Allegorical Personages described in Hell
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lengthen.
senses_topics:
|
15030 | word:
Iranian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Iranian (plural Iranians)
forms:
form:
Iranians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Iran + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Iran or of Iranian descent.
senses_topics:
|
15031 | word:
Iranian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Iranian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Iran + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to the Iranian languages or their speakers.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
15032 | word:
Iranian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Iranian
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Iran + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Persian (the language).
senses_topics:
|
15033 | word:
castrato
word_type:
noun
expansion:
castrato (plural castratos or castrati)
forms:
form:
castratos
tags:
plural
form:
castrati
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
castrato
etymology_text:
From Italian castrato, from Latin castrō (“to castrate”), likely from caedō (“to cut”).
senses_examples:
text:
A castrato stepped forward, a slender / young man with earnest grey eyes.
ref:
2001, Bernardine Evaristo, The Emperor's Babe, Penguin Essentials (2020), page 170
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male who has been castrated, especially a male whose testicles have been removed before puberty in order to retain his boyish voice.
A male soprano or alto voice produced by castration of the treble singer before puberty, intended to conserve his voice; the singer.
senses_topics:
|
15034 | word:
castrato
word_type:
adj
expansion:
castrato (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
castrato
etymology_text:
From Italian castrato, from Latin castrō (“to castrate”), likely from caedō (“to cut”).
senses_examples:
text:
Nowadays, either women or countertenors take the castrato roles.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Castrated; especially castrated prepubescently.
Having, using or containing the voice of a castrato (noun).
Originally composed for a castrato.
senses_topics:
|
15035 | word:
toxicity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
toxicity (usually uncountable, plural toxicities)
forms:
form:
toxicities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From toxic + -ity.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality or degree of being toxic.
senses_topics:
|
15036 | word:
private cost
word_type:
noun
expansion:
private cost (plural private costs)
forms:
form:
private costs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cost incurred in the production process by the producer; including tax and profit margins that are anticipated.
senses_topics:
|
15037 | word:
climber
word_type:
noun
expansion:
climber (plural climbers)
forms:
form:
climbers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English climber, clymber, clymbare (“one who climbs, climber”), from climben (“to climb; to ascend, fly upward, rise; to slope upwards; to approach God in prayer; to advance; to overcome, triumph; to aspire; to be presumptuous”) + -er, -ere (suffix forming agent nouns). The English word is analysable as climb (verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).
senses_examples:
text:
His mother was a climber, determined that her children should attend the right schools and generally succeed in what was still very much a WASP world.
ref:
1977 August 20, Robert Etherington, “John Horne Burns and His Enemies”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
If his greatest hits are museum climbers that complement the subject matter in surrounding exhibits, then "the mall jobs," he says, which are more about color and composition, "are little ditties."
ref:
2016 September 28, Megan Gambino, “King of the Playground, Spencer Luckey, Builds Climbers That Are Engineering Marvels”, in Smithsonian Magazine, archived from the original on 2022-12-10
type:
quotation
text:
Regardless of the design, the playground will include a traditional climber with a ramp, an upper-level climber, multiple climbing and balance opportunities, junior slides, two senior slides, a wheelchair accessible bouncing glider, a pull along slide, activity panels, a freestanding climber and swings.
ref:
2019 May 13, “Eastview Community Park wants your input for new playground”, in Guelph Today, archived from the original on 2023-03-04
type:
quotation
text:
Students raced in a swarm to be the first to the top of Monterey middle school’s newest piece of playground equipment, a $50,000 climber, when principal Ken Andrews removed the yellow tape on Friday.
ref:
2019 June 4, Travis Paterson, “Monterey installs playground climber to kids’ delight”, in Victoria News, archived from the original on 2021-12-06
type:
quotation
text:
We've been working for the past year to bring an inclusive zipline and a spinning rope climber to the playground!
ref:
2022 July 13, Nixon Norman, quoting Jessica Berkholtz, “Cove Universal Playground receives exciting and inclusive new additions”, in WZDX, archived from the original on 2022-08-11
type:
quotation
text:
The new playground, which is made of wood, features a climber, swings, a sand play area with a play hut and digging toys.
ref:
2022 September 26, “New playground installed at Errington Community Park”, in CHEK News, archived from the original on 2022-10-07
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone or something that climbs (such as a mountain climber).
A plant such as a vine that climbs upwards as it grows by attaching itself to some support.
Someone or something that climbs (such as a mountain climber).
A cyclist who specializes in riding especially well on steep hills or roads.
Someone or something that climbs (such as a mountain climber).
A person who is constantly trying to get ahead socially.
Someone or something that climbs (such as a mountain climber).
A bird that climbs, such as a parrot or woodpecker; specifically (archaic), a bird having two toes pointing forward, and two pointing backward, formerly regarded as being from the order Scansores or Zygodactyli (now obsolete as the birds formerly in this order have been reclassified into different orders); a zygodactyl.
Something that is used for climbing.
Any structure on a playground designed to be climbed on.
Something that is used for climbing.
Synonym of climbing iron (“a kind of crampon attached to the shoe to aid with climbing”)
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
15038 | word:
climber
word_type:
verb
expansion:
climber (third-person singular simple present climbers, present participle climbering, simple past and past participle climbered)
forms:
form:
climbers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
climbering
tags:
participle
present
form:
climbered
tags:
participle
past
form:
climbered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From climb + -er (frequentative suffix); or a blend of climb + clamber.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ascend or mount with effort; to clamber, to climb.
senses_topics:
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15039 | word:
fatwa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fatwa (plural fatwas or (rare) fatawa)
forms:
form:
fatwas
tags:
plural
form:
fatawa
tags:
plural
rare
wikipedia:
Ruhollah Khomeini
Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
etymology_text:
The noun is borrowed from Arabic فَتْوَى (fatwā, “formal legal opinion”), the verbal noun of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”) (whence مُفْتٍ (muftin, “mufti”), the active participle of the same verb: see mufti).
The forms fetwa, fetwah are derived from Italian fetfà (obsolete), and directly from its etymon Ottoman Turkish فتوی (fetva) (modern Turkish fetva), from Arabic فَتْوَى (fatwā): see above.
Modern uses of noun sense 1.2 (“decree that a person should be put to death”) and the corresponding verb sense are probably influenced by the issuance of a fatwa on 14 February 1989 by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1900 or 1902 – 1989), the Supreme Leader of Iran, calling for the British-American author Salman Rushdie (born 1947) and his publishers to be put to death for alleged blasphemy in his novel The Satanic Verses (1988).
The plural form fatawa is borrowed from Arabic فَتَاوَى (fatāwā).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
The website contains fatwas on points of Islamic law that arise in court cases.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A formal legal decree, opinion, or ruling issued by a mufti or other Islamic judicial authority.
A decree issued by a mufti or other Islamic judicial authority that a person should be put to death, usually as punishment for committing apostasy or blasphemy.
A formal decree or ruling, or statement, issued by an authority of a religion other than Islam.
An emphatic decree or opinion, especially one which condemns or criticizes.
senses_topics:
Islam
lifestyle
religion
Islam
lifestyle
religion
lifestyle
religion
|
15040 | word:
fatwa
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fatwa (third-person singular simple present fatwas, present participle fatwaing, simple past and past participle fatwaed)
forms:
form:
fatwas
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fatwaing
tags:
participle
present
form:
fatwaed
tags:
participle
past
form:
fatwaed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Ruhollah Khomeini
Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
etymology_text:
The noun is borrowed from Arabic فَتْوَى (fatwā, “formal legal opinion”), the verbal noun of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”) (whence مُفْتٍ (muftin, “mufti”), the active participle of the same verb: see mufti).
The forms fetwa, fetwah are derived from Italian fetfà (obsolete), and directly from its etymon Ottoman Turkish فتوی (fetva) (modern Turkish fetva), from Arabic فَتْوَى (fatwā): see above.
Modern uses of noun sense 1.2 (“decree that a person should be put to death”) and the corresponding verb sense are probably influenced by the issuance of a fatwa on 14 February 1989 by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1900 or 1902 – 1989), the Supreme Leader of Iran, calling for the British-American author Salman Rushdie (born 1947) and his publishers to be put to death for alleged blasphemy in his novel The Satanic Verses (1988).
The plural form fatawa is borrowed from Arabic فَتَاوَى (fatāwā).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
Unlike many writers and artists, Chahine had not been fatwaed by the militants, but he felt threatened nevertheless.
ref:
1999, Mary Anne Weaver, “Life in the Alleys”, in A Portrait of Egypt: A Journey through the World of Militant Islam, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
One wonders why these terrorists are not fatwaed.
ref:
2002, South Asia Politics, volume 1, New Delhi: Rashtriya Jagriti Sansthan, →OCLC, page 30, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
'I'm just beginning one,' says famously-fatwaed author of new novel [subtitle]
An adjective use.
ref:
2013 April 15, Katie Van Syckle, “Q&A: Salman Rushdie Talks ‘Midnight’s Children,’ Other Projects”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-12
type:
quotation
text:
Ask Salman Rushdie. He was fatwaed for linking facts and fiction in ways that the mullahs say they should not be linked.
ref:
2015, Mohamed Gibril Sesay, “The Youth of Paradise”, in This Side of Nothingness […] (Sierra Leonean Writers Series), Freetown, Sierra Leone: Karantha Publishers, page 186
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To issue a fatwa (noun sense 1) against (someone); specifically (loosely, erroneous), a fatwa imposing a ban or a death sentence.
senses_topics:
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15041 | word:
jersey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jersey (countable and uncountable, plural jerseys)
forms:
form:
jerseys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
jersey (clothing)
jersey (fabric)
etymology_text:
From a typical fisherman's sweater used on the island of Jersey.
senses_examples:
text:
, pullover, sweater
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body.
A shirt worn by a member of an athletic team, usually oversized, typically depicting the athlete's name and team number as well as the team's logotype.
A type of fabric knit.
senses_topics:
|
15042 | word:
achenial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
achenial (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From achene + -ial.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to an achene.
senses_topics:
|
15043 | word:
kava
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kava (countable and uncountable, plural kavas)
forms:
form:
kavas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
kava
etymology_text:
From Tongan kava, in turn from Proto-Polynesian *kawa.
senses_examples:
text:
The Nationals MP suffered the consequences of drinking an entire shell of sakau – a traditional Micronesian kava with sedative qualities made from the root of the pepper plant – in one hit, thinking it was similar to South Pacific kava. […] While not alcoholic, sakau – like other kavas served throughout the Pacific region – is known for its narcotic sedative effect.
ref:
2022 December 16, Amy Remeikis, “‘I went cross-eyed’: Australia’s former deputy PM taken to hospital after drinking entire bowl of kava”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A plant from the South Pacific, Piper methysticum.
An intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant.
senses_topics:
|
15044 | word:
half brother
word_type:
noun
expansion:
half brother (plural half brothers or half brethren)
forms:
form:
half brothers
tags:
plural
form:
half brethren
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English half-brother, equivalent to half- + brother. Cognate with Dutch halfbroer (“halfbrother”), German Halbbruder (“halfbrother”), Danish halvbroder (“halfbrother”), Swedish halvbroder, halvbror (“halfbrother”), Icelandic hálfbróðir (“halfbrother”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male sibling sharing a single parent, as distinguished from a full brother or brother-german, from a step-brother, or from a brother-like figure such as a blood brother.
senses_topics:
|
15045 | word:
mad cow disease
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mad cow disease (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of bovine spongiform encephalopathy
senses_topics:
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology |
15046 | word:
ANZAC
word_type:
name
expansion:
ANZAC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
senses_topics:
|
15047 | word:
ANZAC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ANZAC (plural ANZACs)
forms:
form:
ANZACs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A soldier from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (1914-1918).
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
15048 | word:
mien
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mien (countable and uncountable, plural miens)
forms:
form:
miens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French mine (“appearance”) (whence also Danish mine and German Miene), perhaps from Breton min (“face of an animal”), or from Latin minio (“to redden”).
senses_examples:
text:
Beauty, like all divine gifts, is everywhere to be seen by the eye of the faithful admirer of nature; and, like all spirits, she is scarcely to be described by words. Her countenance and mien, her path, her hue and carriage, often surpass expression, and soothe the enthusiast into reverie and silence.
ref:
1856, Joseph Turnley, The Language of the Eye, →OCLC, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
Jenny's coming o'er the green, / Fairer form was never seen, / Winning is her gentle mien; / Why do I love her so?
ref:
1860, Stephen Foster (lyrics and music), “Jenny's coming o'er the green”
type:
quotation
text:
Although still young at heart and head, he looks more and more like his old friend Archimedes, increasingly bearded and increasingly grey, with an otherworldly mien – a look that should earn him a spot in the online quiz featuring portraits of frumpy old men under the rubric “Prof or Hobo?”
ref:
2015 July 23, Siobhan Roberts, “John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
It’s hard to say which is worse: the press-on smiles favored by many a ballet dancer, or the stony “I’m going to pretend this isn’t happening to me” miens often found in contemporary troupes like White Road.
ref:
2007 February 10, Claudia La Rocco, “Stony Miens and Sad Hearts”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
A specific facial expression.
senses_topics:
|
15049 | word:
cerebral
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cerebral (comparative more cerebral, superlative most cerebral)
forms:
form:
more cerebral
tags:
comparative
form:
most cerebral
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowing from French cérébral, from Latin cerebrum (“a brain”); equivalent to cerebrum + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: visceral
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, or relating to the brain, cerebrum, or cerebral cortex.
Intellectual rather than emotional or physical.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
|
15050 | word:
cerebral
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cerebral (comparative more cerebral, superlative most cerebral)
forms:
form:
more cerebral
tags:
comparative
form:
most cerebral
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Semantic loan from Sanskrit मूर्धन्य (mūrdhanya, “pertaining to the head”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Retroflex.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
15051 | word:
sedition
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sedition (countable and uncountable, plural seditions)
forms:
form:
seditions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sedition
etymology_text:
From Old French sedicion, from Latin sēditiō (“sedition, discord”), from sēd- (“apart”) (an alternative form of sē-) + itiō (“going”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Organized incitement of rebellion or civil disorder against authority or the state, usually by speech or writing.
Insurrection or rebellion.
senses_topics:
|
15052 | word:
miasma
word_type:
noun
expansion:
miasma (plural miasmas or miasmata)
forms:
form:
miasmas
tags:
plural
form:
miasmata
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1665. From Ancient Greek μίασμα (míasma, “stain; pollution”).
senses_examples:
text:
It was into this lossy compression miasma that aptX was born.
ref:
2020 September 15, Geoffrey Morrison, “aptX: Everything you need to know about the wireless Bluetooth enhancement”, in CNET
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A noxious atmosphere or emanation once thought to originate from swamps and waste, and to cause disease.
A noxious atmosphere or influence, an ominous environment.
senses_topics:
|
15053 | word:
compass point
word_type:
noun
expansion:
compass point (plural compass points)
forms:
form:
compass points
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of the horizontal directions indicated on a compass. There may be 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, or even 128 compass points on a compass, depending on its size and accuracy.
senses_topics:
|
15054 | word:
achievance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
achievance (plural achievances)
forms:
form:
achievances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From achieve + -ance, parallel to Middle French achevance.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An achievement.
senses_topics:
|
15055 | word:
collage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
collage (countable and uncountable, plural collages)
forms:
form:
collages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from French collage.
senses_examples:
text:
Richard Brautigan's novel So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away is a collage of memories.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface.
A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of various media; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc.
The technique of producing a work of art of this kind.
senses_topics:
|
15056 | word:
collage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
collage (third-person singular simple present collages, present participle collaging, simple past and past participle collaged)
forms:
form:
collages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
collaging
tags:
participle
present
form:
collaged
tags:
participle
past
form:
collaged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from French collage.
senses_examples:
text:
collage the picture together.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make into a collage.
senses_topics:
|
15057 | word:
tau
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tau (plural taus)
forms:
form:
taus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Hospital Brothers of Saint Anthony
Trần Thanh Vân
etymology_text:
From Middle English tau, taue, from Latin tau, from Ancient Greek ταῦ (taû) and Hebrew תָּו (tav).
Sense 6 (“mathematical constant equal to 2π”) was used by Joseph M. Lindenberg in 1991, and popularized by the American educator and entrepreneur Michael Hartl in a 2010 paper which explains that τ resembles π; and that τ is the Greek equivalent of t, the first letter of turn, and 2π corresponds to one turn of a circle with a radius of one unit.
Sense 8.1 (“short for tau lepton or tau particle”) was coined by the American physicist Martin Lewis Perl (1927–2014) after the first letter of Ancient Greek τρίτον (tríton, “third”), since the tau lepton or tauon was the third charged lepton discovered.
senses_examples:
text:
Hence it appears that the spits, or skewers, on which and to which the lamb was fixed and fastened in order to be roasted, assumed the form of a cross, not such a tau-cross as is engraved in Dr. Oliver’s Historical Landmarks of Freemasonry, vol. i. p. 80. having three arms only like the Greek letter tau; but a cross like the ancient Hebrew tau, with four arms, though not necessarily all of equal length.
ref:
1847, Richard Edmund Tyrwhitt, Sermons Chiefly Expository, volume I, Oxford: John Henry Parker; F[rancis] and J[ohn] Rivington, London, page 366
type:
quotation
text:
In the Spanish translation of Sallust, by the Infant Don Gabriel in 1772, called the Infant Sallust, there is a curious dissertation by Father Perez Bayer on the resemblance between the ancient Hebrew and Phœnician alphabets, in which it is observed that the Hebrew Tau was written in pure Phœnician, […]
ref:
1851, D[aniel] Rock, Hierurgia; or Transubstantiation, Invocation of Saints, Relics, and Purgatory, Besides Those Other Articles of Doctrine Set Forth in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Expounded; […], 2nd edition, London: C. Dolman, […], page 350
type:
quotation
text:
The tau is both the 19ᵗʰ letter of the Greek alphabet, and also the 22ⁿᵈ letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In this context, the Hebrew tau or tav is more pertinent.
ref:
2017, Piers Vaughan, Capitular Development Course, 2nd edition, Rose Circle Publications, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
Quite what that job is remains obscure, but one theory is that it is to stabilise another protein called tau, which is supposed in turn to keep in shape the tubular ‘skeleton’ of a neuron.
ref:
1999, Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, London: Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 263
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The letter Τ／τ in the Greek alphabet; being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, and the twenty-first letter of the Old and Ancient Greek alphabets.
Alternative form of taw; the 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic.
A Τ-shaped object or sign; a Saint Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded as a sacred symbol.
A Τ-shaped object or sign; a Saint Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded as a sacred symbol.
A crosier with a Τ-shaped head.
The ankh symbol (☥).
Chiefly written τ: used to designate the nineteenth star (usually according to brightness) in a constellation.
A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.
Chiefly written τ: an irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its radius, equal to twice the value of pi (2π; approximately 6.2831853071).
Short for tau protein (“a protein abundant especially in the neurons of the human central nervous system that stabilizes microtubules, and when misfolded is associated with forms of dementia such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases”).
Chiefly written τ.
Short for tau lepton or tau particle (“an unstable elementary particle which is a type of lepton, having a mass almost twice that of a proton, a negative charge, and a spin of ½; it decays into hadrons (usually pions) or other leptons, and neutrinos; a tauon”).
Chiefly written τ.
Short for tau meson, now known as a kaon.
senses_topics:
Christianity
astronomy
natural-sciences
business
finance
mathematics
sciences
medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
15058 | word:
hinny
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hinny (plural hinnies)
forms:
form:
hinnies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hinny
etymology_text:
From Latin hinnus – possibly cognate with hinnire (“to whinny”).
senses_examples:
text:
The curer said nothing to the cowboy but went straight to the mule, or hinny, rather, being out of San's big jenny by Alder's white horse.
ref:
2001, Ursula K. Le Guin, “On the High Marsh”, in Tales from Earthsea
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The hybrid offspring of a stallion (male horse) and a she-ass (female donkey).
senses_topics:
|
15059 | word:
hinny
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hinny (third-person singular simple present hinnies, present participle hinnying, simple past and past participle hinnied)
forms:
form:
hinnies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hinnying
tags:
participle
present
form:
hinnied
tags:
participle
past
form:
hinnied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
hinny
etymology_text:
Alteration of whinny, which is onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To whinny
senses_topics:
|
15060 | word:
hinny
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hinny (plural hinnies)
forms:
form:
hinnies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hinny
etymology_text:
From standard English honey.
senses_examples:
text:
You will make a great diagnostician, nae doot, my hinny, but you need tae improve your bedside manner.
ref:
2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 310
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A term of endearment usually for women.
senses_topics:
|
15061 | word:
idolatry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
idolatry (countable and uncountable, plural idolatries)
forms:
form:
idolatries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ydolatrie, from Old French idolatrie, from Ecclesiastical Latin īdōlatrīa, from Late Latin īdōlolatrīa, from Ancient Greek εἰδωλολατρίᾱ (eidōlolatríā, “worship of idols”), back-formation from εἰδωλολάτρης (eidōlolátrēs), from εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “idol”) + λάτρις (látris, “worshipper”) or λατρεύω (latreúō, “I worship”), from λάτρον (látron, “payment”). Equivalent to idol + -latry. Cognate with Modern French idolâtrie, Italian idolatria, Occitan ydolatria, Portuguese idolatria, and Spanish idolatría. Displaced native Old English dēofolġield (literally “devil worship”).
senses_examples:
text:
The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The worship of idols.
The excessive admiration of somebody or something.
senses_topics:
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15062 | word:
half-brother
word_type:
noun
expansion:
half-brother (plural half-brothers or half-brethren)
forms:
form:
half-brothers
tags:
plural
form:
half-brethren
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From half- + brother.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of half brother
senses_topics:
|
15063 | word:
wart
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wart (plural warts)
forms:
form:
warts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wart
etymology_text:
From Middle English warte, werte, from Old English wearte, from Proto-West Germanic *wartā, from Proto-Germanic *wartǭ. Cognate with Dutch wrat, German Warze, Hunsrik Waarz, Swedish vårta.
senses_examples:
text:
A wart has appeared on my toe.
type:
example
text:
Things that look too good to be true usually are, and every company has some warts that need to be taken into account.
ref:
2011, Pat Dorsey, The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing
type:
quotation
text:
Hungarian warts suck big time! If you need them, your functions are too big and your class interface is much too fat.
ref:
1998, Chris Ahlstrom, “Hungarian notation”, in microsoft.public.vc.language (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Far easier to not use warts in the first place. Even if a wart is present, you still have to verify the variable's declaration anyway, if you're a diligent maintenance programmer.
ref:
2002, Linonut, “Computer Science”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads.
Anything unsightly or undesirable; a blemish.
Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
15064 | word:
curious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
curious (comparative more curious or curiouser, superlative most curious or curiousest)
forms:
form:
more curious
tags:
comparative
form:
curiouser
tags:
comparative
form:
most curious
tags:
superlative
form:
curiousest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English curious, from Old French curius, from Latin cūriōsus. The English word is cognate with Italian curioso, Occitan curios, Portuguese curioso, and Spanish curioso.
senses_examples:
text:
Young children are naturally curious about the world and everything in it.
type:
example
text:
I was ſo curious likewiſe as to goe to the place, where it is ſaid the great tower of Babel was built, being about halfe a days iourney diſtant; where I ſawe nothing but a high mountaine of earth in the midſt of a plaine where in digging you may finde certaine bricks, whereof it is ſaide the tower is built.
ref:
1615, [Henri de Feynes, Comte de Monfart], translated by [Jean Loiseau de Tourval], An Exact and Cvriovs Survey of All the East Indies, euen to Canton, the Chiefe Cittie of China: All Duly Performed by Land, by Monsieur de Monfart, the Like whereof was Neuer hetherto, Brought to an End. […] Newly Translated out of the Trauailers Manuscript, London: Printed by Thomas Dawson, for VVilliam Arondell, […], →OCLC, pages 7–8
type:
quotation
text:
Jack Bradshaw, the leader of the Owl Patrol of the Redscar Scouts, strode to the dry stone wall bounding the cliff path, and drew from between the stones a ball of crumpled paper. He was curious as to why it had been placed there—where it could not have lodged accidentally—and he smoothed it out. He found it to be pencilled over with figures, like a scrap that had been used to reckon on.
ref:
1915 January, W. Jay, “The Answering Owl. A Tale of an East Coast Spy.”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, volume XXXVIII, part I, London: “Boy’s Own Paper” Office, […], →OCLC, chapter II, page 17, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
George is a little monkey, / and all monkeys are curious. / But no monkey / is as curious as George. / That is why his name is / Curious George.
ref:
1958, Margret Rey, Curious George Flies a Kite, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
I know that not everyone feels like they are naturally curious—or bold enough to ask about someone's shoes. But here's the secret: that doesn't matter. You can use curiosity even if you don't think of yourself as instinctively curious.
ref:
2015, Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
The platypus is a curious creature, with fur like a mammal and a beak like a bird.
type:
example
text:
1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book X, Chapter xxxi, leaf 232v
Thenne at the mete cam in Elyas the harper & by cause he was a curyous harper men herd hym synge the same lay that Dynadan had made
"Then at the meat came in Eliot the harper, and because he was a curious harper men heard him sing the same lay that Dinadan had made"
text:
Abundance of Samphire, and a curious bulboſe Plant, creſted with little Flowers ſtriped with white and Cinnamon colour.
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1693, [John Ray], “Some Plants Observ’d by Sir George Wheeler in His Voyage to Greece and Asia Minor”, in A Collection of Curious Travels and Voyages. […], tome II, [London: Printed for S[amuel] Smith and B[enjamin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […]], →OCLC, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
"But the curiousest thing a'most as I ever see at sea," resumed the mate, with an air of abstraction, and filling himself another glass of grog—"a'most the curiousest thing I ever see was when I was a coming home from Quebec in the old Jane— [...]"
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1851, [William Henry Gregory], chapter II, in A Transport Voyage to the Mauritius and back; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 90, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
What was the curiousest thing he had seen? Well! He didn't know. He couldn't momently name what was the curiousest thing he had seen—unless it was a Unicorn—and he see him once at a Fair.
ref:
1855 Christmas, Charles Dickens, “The Boots”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Holly-tree Inn. Being the Extra Christmas Number of Household Words, volume XII, New York, N.Y.: Dix & Edwards, publishers, […], published 1856, →OCLC, page 18, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
There are many curious varieties of cirrus, some common and some rare. They have strange movements, at times shooting out long streamers in a direction quite different from that of the drift of the cloud itself across the sky.
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1921 March 5, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, “Clouds”, in Peter Anderson Graham, editor, Country Life, volume XLIX, number 1261, London: George Newnes […], →OCLC, page 277, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
It's not what I'm used to / Just wanna try you on / I'm curious for you / Caught my attention
ref:
2008 April 28, Katy Perry, Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Cathy Dennis, “I Kissed a Girl”, in One of the Boys, performed by Katy Perry
type:
quotation
text:
[...] For he that is curious of his time, will not eaſily be unready and unfurniſhed.
ref:
1650, Jeremy Taylor, “Considerations of the General Instruments and Means Serving to a Holy Life, by Way of Introduction”, in The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living: […], London: Printed [by R. Norton] for Richard Royston […], →OCLC; 19th edition, London: Printed by J. Heptinstall, for John Meredith, in trust for Royston and Elizabeth Meredith; […], 1703, →OCLC, section I (The First General Instrument of Holy Living. Care of Our Time.), page 13
type:
quotation
text:
A pious woman [i.e., Catherine of Aragon] [...] little curious in her clothes, being wont to say, she accounted no time lost, but what was laid out in dressing of her; [...]
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1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ, untill the Year M. DC. XLVIII., London: Printed for Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, page 206; republished volume II, London: Printed [by James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], 1837, →OCLC, book V, section IV (To Master Henry Barnard, Late of London, Merchant), subsection 19 (The Death and Character of Queen Catherine Dowager), page 65
type:
quotation
text:
[T]he Water was very thick, and naſty; [...] however it ſerv'd our Purpoſe, for at that Time we were not very curious.
ref:
1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during His Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar: […], revised and corrected edition, London: Printed and sold by R. Meadow, […]; T[homas] Astley, […]; and B. Milles, […], →OCLC, pages 31–32
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
Caused by curiosity.
Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.
Clipping of bi-curious.
Careful, fastidious, particular; (specifically) demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
senses_topics:
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality
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15065 | word:
curious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
curious (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From curi(um) + -ous.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Containing or pertaining to trivalent curium.
senses_topics:
chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
15066 | word:
monitoring
word_type:
verb
expansion:
monitoring
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From monitor + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of monitor
senses_topics:
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15067 | word:
monitoring
word_type:
noun
expansion:
monitoring (usually uncountable, plural monitorings)
forms:
form:
monitorings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From monitor + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
NR is already 'on the case' here - its man in Inverness was trained some time ago (at his request, incidentally - good man!) in drone monitoring, which enables much longer aerial patrols than are possible on foot.
ref:
2020 August 26, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: Catastrophe at Carmont”, in Rail, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The carrying out of surveillance on, or continuous or regular observation of, an environment or people in order to detect signals, movements or changes of state or quality.
senses_topics:
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15068 | word:
panacea
word_type:
noun
expansion:
panacea (plural panaceas or panaceae or panaceæ)
forms:
form:
panaceas
tags:
plural
form:
panaceae
tags:
plural
form:
panaceæ
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin panacēa, from Ancient Greek πανάκεια (panákeia), from πανακής (panakḗs, “all-healing”), from πᾶν (pân, “all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + ἄκος (ákos, “cure”).
senses_examples:
text:
A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.
type:
example
text:
Hydrogen is not a panacea for reaching the zero net emissions target by 2050, but it can grow to become "a big niche" fuel in particular sectors and applications, claims a new report.
ref:
2023 January 11, “Network News: MPs seek clarity on hydrogen's role”, in RAIL, number 974, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
A solution to all problems.
The plant allheal (Valeriana officinalis), believed to cure all ills.
senses_topics:
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15069 | word:
kingfisher
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kingfisher (plural kingfishers)
forms:
form:
kingfishers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From king + fisher.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various birds of the suborder Alcedines (or the family Alcedinidae sensu lato), having a large head, short tail and brilliant colouration; they feed mostly on fish.
Any of various birds of the suborder Alcedines (or the family Alcedinidae sensu lato), having a large head, short tail and brilliant colouration; they feed mostly on fish.
common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
senses_topics:
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15070 | word:
recursive acronym
word_type:
noun
expansion:
recursive acronym (plural recursive acronyms)
forms:
form:
recursive acronyms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From recursive + acronym, originating in early hacker culture and later popularized by Douglas Hofstadter.
senses_examples:
text:
I used the odd variable name “tato”, mentioning that it is a recursive acronym standing for “tato (and tato only)”. Using this fact you can expand “tato” any number of times.
ref:
1983 April, Douglas R. Hofstadter, “Metamagical Themas”, in Scientific American, →ISSN, page 20
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An acronym in which a word (often the first) of the phrase represented by the acronym is the acronym itself.
senses_topics:
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15071 | word:
stepbrother
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stepbrother (plural stepbrothers or (obsolete) stepbrethren)
forms:
form:
stepbrothers
tags:
plural
form:
stepbrethren
tags:
obsolete
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From step- + brother.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The son of one's stepparent who is not the son of either of one's biological parents.
The stepson of one's parent who is not one's half-brother.
senses_topics:
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15072 | word:
progeny
word_type:
noun
expansion:
progeny (countable and uncountable, plural progenies)
forms:
form:
progenies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
progeny
etymology_text:
From Middle English progenie, from Old French progenie, from Latin prōgeniēs, from prōgignō (“beget”).
senses_examples:
text:
I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny.
type:
example
text:
One worm on a single plate can give rise to thousands of progeny after just a week or so.
ref:
2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
Descent, lineage, ancestry.
A result of a creative effort.
senses_topics:
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15073 | word:
hemorrhage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hemorrhage (countable and uncountable, plural hemorrhages)
forms:
form:
hemorrhages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:hemorrhage
etymology_text:
From Latin haemorrhagia, from Ancient Greek αἱμορραγία (haimorrhagía, “a violent bleeding”), from αἱμορραγής (haimorrhagḗs, “bleeding violently”), from αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + -ραγία (-ragía), from ῥηγνύναι (rhēgnúnai, “to break, burst”); see ῥήγνῡμῐ (rhḗgnūmi) for more.
senses_examples:
text:
We got news that he died of a hemorrhage.
type:
example
text:
the fiscal hemorrhage that has resulted from financial globalization
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A heavy release of blood within or from the body.
A sudden or significant loss
senses_topics:
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15074 | word:
hemorrhage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hemorrhage (third-person singular simple present hemorrhages, present participle hemorrhaging, simple past and past participle hemorrhaged)
forms:
form:
hemorrhages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hemorrhaging
tags:
participle
present
form:
hemorrhaged
tags:
participle
past
form:
hemorrhaged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:hemorrhage
etymology_text:
From Latin haemorrhagia, from Ancient Greek αἱμορραγία (haimorrhagía, “a violent bleeding”), from αἱμορραγής (haimorrhagḗs, “bleeding violently”), from αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + -ραγία (-ragía), from ῥηγνύναι (rhēgnúnai, “to break, burst”); see ῥήγνῡμῐ (rhḗgnūmi) for more.
senses_examples:
text:
He's hemorrhaging!
type:
example
text:
The company hemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.
type:
example
text:
“That in itself is important for [Iran’s] longer game and their broader strategic objectives,” says Dr. [Sanam] Vakil. “I think they were trying to force Israel to think twice, in order to stop the hemorrhaging around the region of their individuals and of their position.”
ref:
2024 May 3, Scott Peterson, “Iran’s official line on exchange with Israel: Deterrence restored”, in The Christian Science Monitor
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bleed copiously.
To lose (something) in copious and detrimental quantities.
senses_topics:
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15075 | word:
Azerbaijani
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Azerbaijani (plural Azerbaijanis)
forms:
form:
Azerbaijanis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Azerbaijani
etymology_text:
From Azerbaijan + -i.
senses_examples:
text:
Holonym: Azerbaijanese
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Azerbaijan or of Azerbaijani descent.
senses_topics:
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15076 | word:
Azerbaijani
word_type:
name
expansion:
Azerbaijani
forms:
wikipedia:
Azerbaijani
etymology_text:
From Azerbaijan + -i.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language of Azerbaijan.
senses_topics:
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15077 | word:
Azerbaijani
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Azerbaijani (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Azerbaijani
etymology_text:
From Azerbaijan + -i.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani people or the Azerbaijani language.
senses_topics:
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15078 | word:
PSX
word_type:
name
expansion:
PSX
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Sony product codename.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The original PlayStation, first released 1994.
The PSX PlayStation, based on the original PlayStation, with an integrated DVD drive (2003).
senses_topics:
video-games
video-games |
15079 | word:
Macedonian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Macedonian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Macedonia naming dispute
Macedonian
etymology_text:
From Middle English Macedonyen, partly from Macedonia and partly from Latin Macedonius, + -an; equivalent to Macedonia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Macedonia or its people or language.
senses_topics:
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15080 | word:
Macedonian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Macedonian (countable and uncountable, plural Macedonians)
forms:
form:
Macedonians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Macedonia naming dispute
Macedonian
etymology_text:
From Middle English Macedonyen, partly from Macedonia and partly from Latin Macedonius, + -an; equivalent to Macedonia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Macedonia (in any sense).
A South Slavic language, the standard language of the Republic of North Macedonia.
The tongue of the Ancient Macedonians, spoken in Macedon during the 1st millennium BC. (see Ancient Macedonian)
The Greek dialect in Macedonia, region of Greece.
senses_topics:
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15081 | word:
Macedonian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Macedonian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Macedonia naming dispute
Macedonian
Macedonius I of Constantinople
etymology_text:
From Middle English Macedonyan, from Latin Macedoniānus, from Macedonius + -ānus, after the Greek bishop Macedonius I of Constantinople.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to the Macedonian heresy or to Macedonian heretics.
senses_topics:
Christianity |
15082 | word:
Macedonian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Macedonian (plural Macedonians)
forms:
form:
Macedonians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Macedonia naming dispute
Macedonian
Macedonius I of Constantinople
etymology_text:
From Middle English Macedonyan, from Latin Macedoniānus, from Macedonius + -ānus, after the Greek bishop Macedonius I of Constantinople.
senses_examples:
text:
I do therfoꝛe ſo diligently admoniſh you of this thing, becauſe it is daungerous leſt among ſo many errours, and in ſo great varietie and confuſion of ſectes, there might ſtep vp ſome Arrians, Eunomians, Macedonians, and ſuch other heretikes, that might doe harme to the Churches with their ſubteltie.
ref:
1575, Martin Luther, translated by “certaine godly learned men”, A Commentarie of M. Doctor Martin Luther vpon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians, […], London: […] Thomas Vautroullier […], folio 16, recto
type:
quotation
text:
With these data at our disposal we are in a position to sketch the teaching of the Macedonians to a great extent from their own writings,[…]. 3. Doctrine of the Macedonians in the same period.—The leading doctrine of the Macedonians is found in the thesis characterized by their opponents as ‘Pneumatomachian,’ viz. that the Holy Spirit is not to be designated Θεός (frag. 32, lines 1–8, Dial. c. Maced. i. 1 [p. 1292 A]; frag. 29, Did. de Trin. iii. xxxvi. [p. 965 B]).
ref:
1915, Friedrich Loofs, “Macedonianism”, in edited by James Hastings, John A[lexander] Selbie, and Louis H[erbert] Gray, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, volume VIII (Life and Death–Mulla), Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, […]; New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, […], page 225, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
At least as Auxentius reports him in the covering letter which precedes Ulfila’s confession, he is as vehement in his opposition to what he sees as heretical alternatives to his own form of belief as most other participants in the controversies of the time. Heretics are not Christians but antichrists. Homoousians, Homoiousians, and Macedonians are all included in this blanket condemnation.
ref:
1996, Maurice Wiles, “[The End of Arianism] Gothic Christianity”, in Archetypal Heresy: Arianism through the Centuries, Oxford, Oxon: Clarendon Press, page 43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of an anti–Nicene Creed sect founded by the Greek bishop Macedonius I of Constantinople, which flourished in the regions adjacent to the Hellespont during the latter half of the fourth, and the beginning of the fifth centuries.
senses_topics:
Christianity |
15083 | word:
estado
word_type:
noun
expansion:
estado (plural estados)
forms:
form:
estados
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish estado (“Spanish fathom, state, status”), from Latin stātus (“standing, state, status”). Doublet of state, status, estate, and stade.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 1.67 m.
senses_topics:
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15084 | word:
ereption
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ereption (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sudden snatching away.
senses_topics:
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15085 | word:
Lesvos
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lesvos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A borrowing or transliteration of Greek Λέσβος (Lésvos).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Lesbos
senses_topics:
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15086 | word:
half-sister
word_type:
noun
expansion:
half-sister (plural half-sisters)
forms:
form:
half-sisters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of half sister
senses_topics:
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15087 | word:
gazelle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gazelle (plural gazelles or gazelle)
forms:
form:
gazelles
tags:
plural
form:
gazelle
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Middle French gazelle, from Old French gazel, from Arabic غَزَال (ḡazāl).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa) or Procapra (native to Asia), capable of running at high speeds for long periods.
senses_topics:
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15088 | word:
Mykonos
word_type:
name
expansion:
Mykonos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island in the Cyclades, Greece.
senses_topics:
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15089 | word:
alliaphage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alliaphage (plural alliaphages)
forms:
form:
alliaphages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An eater of garlic.
senses_topics:
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15090 | word:
asleep
word_type:
adj
expansion:
asleep (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English aslepe, equivalent to a- (“in, on”) + sleep.
senses_examples:
text:
I was asleep when you called.
type:
example
text:
Never disturb a man asleep.
type:
example
text:
How could you miss that? Were you asleep?
type:
example
text:
The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.
ref:
1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
My arm fell asleep. You know, like pins and needles.
type:
example
text:
Louisa sat in the car crying, until her foot fell asleep. She shook her foot violently, afraid the numbness would turn to frostbite.
ref:
2003, Norma L. Bronoski, Nuns Don't Dance
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting.
Inattentive.
Having a numb or prickling sensation accompanied by a degree of unresponsiveness.
Dead.
senses_topics:
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15091 | word:
plover
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plover (plural plovers or plover)
forms:
form:
plovers
tags:
plural
form:
plover
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
plover
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various wading birds of the family Charadriidae.
A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles).
senses_topics:
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15092 | word:
plover
word_type:
verb
expansion:
plover (third-person singular simple present plovers, present participle plovering, simple past and past participle plovered)
forms:
form:
plovers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
plovering
tags:
participle
present
form:
plovered
tags:
participle
past
form:
plovered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
plover
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”).
senses_examples:
text:
Invisible twine plying merchants are unravelling the long grasses and the plovering pull of the long windstrewngrasses pluck the prince in his chest his heart his passion and love as if no tomorrow.
ref:
1997, Barry MacSweeney, The Book of Demons, page 107
type:
quotation
text:
I would blanch, I would quail and, maybe in that season, I would have plovered — plovered my head deep into my feathers and plovered away on thin, wading bird's legs.
ref:
2000, Stuart Jeffries, Mrs Slocombe's Pussy: Growing Up in Front of the Telly, page 144
type:
quotation
text:
Our Dove's a fat man's tits plovering a T - shirt;
ref:
2002, Calvin Bedient, The Violence of the Morning: Poems, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
Gentlemen often came from Dublin, and payed me for going into the Channel with them a plovering and fishing, and going aboard of Ships in the Bay; but once among the rest, some of these Chaps came to hire my Smack, to go into the Bay, which I let them have to my Sorrow;
ref:
1769, John Poulter, The Discoveries of John Poulter, Alias Baxter, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
There is a handsome prospect from the plains, which render very good shooting in the season of plovering.
ref:
1865, Henry Onderonk, Queens County in Olden Times, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
Brisler went Yesterday a plovering with a Party who killed about an hundred.
ref:
1962, Diary and Autobiography of John Adam, page 244
type:
quotation
text:
Men with nothing to do plovered the sand - edge with clam rakes that raked nothing.
ref:
1971, John Ciardi, Lives of X., page 50
type:
quotation
text:
Blathwyte indicates the scale of another population of waders through recording an annual crop of 250 Lapwing eggs Vanellus vanellus being taken by 'plovering' gamekeepers.
ref:
2021, Clive Chatters, Heathland
type:
quotation
text:
If we can let the plovers do their plovering thing, then perhaps, instead of rejecting our human weirdnesses, we embrace them.
ref:
2021, Jeffrey Cohen, Stephanie Foote, The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities, page 282
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To dote over, or, crowd or nestle with
To hunt for plover.
To wade along the shore, examining the sand like a plover does.
senses_topics:
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15093 | word:
warthog
word_type:
noun
expansion:
warthog (plural warthogs)
forms:
form:
warthogs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From wart + hog.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wild pig of the genus Phacochoerus, native to Africa.
A nickname for the A-10 Thunderbolt II air support warplane
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
government
military
politics
war |
15094 | word:
can't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
can't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
can + -n't, since 1706 or earlier.
senses_examples:
text:
I can’t quite get it to work.
type:
example
text:
Shepard: Mordin, walk away.
Mordin: Can't do that, Shepard.
Shepard: I don't have a choice here. Walk away, or I will fire.
ref:
2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tuchanka
type:
quotation
text:
You can’t enter the hall without a ticket.
type:
example
text:
The butler can’t be the murderer because he was in London that evening.
type:
example
text:
To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done; […]
ref:
1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion: Or Profitable Directions for Whatever Relates to the Management and Good Œconomy of the Domestick Concerns of a Country Life, According to the Present Practice of the Country Gentleman's, the Yeoman's, the Farmer's, &c. Wives, in the Counties of Hertford, Bucks, and Other Parts of England: Shewing how Great Savings may be Made in Housekeeping: … With Variety of Curious Matters … The Whole Founded on Near Thirty Years Experience, London: Printed for James Hodges, at the Looking-glass, facing St. Magnus Church, London-Bridge; and B. Collins, bookseller, at Salisbury, →OCLC, page 157
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cannot (negative auxiliary); is unable to; does not have the ability to.
Is forbidden to; is not permitted to.
Often followed by be: is logically impossible.
senses_topics:
|
15095 | word:
goldfish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
goldfish (plural goldfish or goldfishes)
forms:
form:
goldfish
tags:
plural
form:
goldfishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
goldfish
etymology_text:
From gold + fish.
senses_examples:
text:
For the children's fair we'll have a few games they can play, so that each child "wins" a goldfish as a prize.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored.
A person with an unreliable memory.
senses_topics:
|
15096 | word:
Achaian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Achaian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Achaean
senses_topics:
|
15097 | word:
Achaian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Achaian (plural Achaians)
forms:
form:
Achaians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Achaean
senses_topics:
|
15098 | word:
grid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grid (plural grids)
forms:
form:
grids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation or clipping of griddle or gridiron.
senses_examples:
text:
You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid.
ref:
1988, Die Hard (movie)
text:
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fought up from the back of the grid to eighth, with team-mate Jenson Button taking ninth.
ref:
2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Everything on the grid – all the backdrops and curtains, anything that has to move up and down from the fly-tower – has to be counterweighted.
ref:
2018, Maggie Harcourt, Theatrical
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.
A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
A method of marking off maps into areas.
The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
A battery-plate somewhat like a grating, especially a zinc plate in a primary battery, or a lead plate in a secondary or storage battery.
A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron.
An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
cartography
geography
natural-sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
broadcasting
entertainment
lifestyle
media
television
theater |
15099 | word:
grid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grid (third-person singular simple present grids, present participle gridding, simple past and past participle gridded)
forms:
form:
grids
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gridding
tags:
participle
present
form:
gridded
tags:
participle
past
form:
gridded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation or clipping of griddle or gridiron.
senses_examples:
text:
On the SAT, to answer a grid-in question, you grid in your answer by filling out the ovals.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To mark with a grid.
To assign a reference grid to.
To enter in a grid.
senses_topics:
education |
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