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15100 | word:
béret
word_type:
noun
expansion:
béret (plural bérets)
forms:
form:
bérets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The béret, heretofore peculiar to the Latin Quarter and the head of Jean Borotra, has now been seen on the Prince of Wales and General Trotter. Telegraphic dispatches from Biarritz reported that the two men were observed on the golf course ‘wearing bérets adjusted at exactly the right angle.’
ref:
1926 November, “[Life, Letters, and the Arts] Bérets”, in The Living Age, volume 331, number 4293, Boston, Mass.: The Living Age Company, pages 274–275
type:
quotation
text:
By the older villagers the whole idea is looked upon as nothing less than madness, and is classed by them with the wearing of bérets by young men, the drawing of the “idle money,” and the carrying of a comb with which to smooth back a cascade of hair that otherwise might interfere seriously with its owner’s vision.
ref:
1934, Punch, or The London Charivari, volume 186, page 270, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
For school and sport wear, bérets and caps have superseded more conventional forms of headdress for boys and girls alike.
ref:
1936, Lawrence Augustus Averill, “Adolescent Interests”, in Adolescence: A Study in the Teen Years, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
Youth and agility characterize the white-clad figures wearing bérets and Basque sandals.
ref:
1936, Amy Oakley, The Heart of Provence, New York, N.Y., London: D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc., page 178
type:
quotation
text:
The Mülhauser Tagblatt, official Nazi daily paper for Upper Alsace, April, 1941: “Kreisleiter Murer took the opportunity to deliver a last warning to the few still living in Mülhaus who do not want to learn. It is that small clique of people who . . . walk about wearing bérets and converse in French. We can compel these people, and if they do not mend their ways, we can compel them more quickly than they expect. Müilhaus is a German town, and in a German town there is no room for people who do not want to be German.”
ref:
1944 September, “[Oppression and Terror] Enforced Germanisation”, in A Catalogue of Crime: An Outline Indictment of German War Guilt, Criminal War Aims and War-Time Excesses (Great Britain Ministry of Information, Miscellaneous Publications; 9), section III (German War Crimes and Excesses), pages 43–44
type:
quotation
text:
They were surrounded by men and boys wearing bérets who, armed with cudgels, their aspect fierce and determined, clamoured in unison, “Death to Daladier!”
ref:
1956, Jean-Louis Curtis, translated by Humphrey Hare, “Fragments from a Dead World”, in The Side of the Angels, London: Secker & Warburg, part one, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
“Hunters,” Armando says. / “Not so sure,” Paul replies. “Look how they’re dressed. Too neat and not outfitted for the cold. They’re wearing bérets, for God’s sake. Hunting? That dog’s a herder, not a hunting dog. They have a rifle. That doesn’t bother you?”
ref:
2018, Michael Barnes Selvin, All the Clouds, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], page 484
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of beret.
senses_topics:
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15101 | word:
Khios
word_type:
name
expansion:
Khios
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Chios
senses_topics:
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15102 | word:
alliaceous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
alliaceous (comparative more alliaceous, superlative most alliaceous)
forms:
form:
more alliaceous
tags:
comparative
form:
most alliaceous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin allium (“garlic”) + -aceous.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Smelling or tasting of garlic or onion.
senses_topics:
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15103 | word:
nonplus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nonplus (plural nonpluses or nonplusses)
forms:
form:
nonpluses
tags:
plural
form:
nonplusses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Latin nōn plūs (“no further, no more”), from nōn (“not”) + plūs (“additionally, more; further”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
Being now made much abler to make their queries, of the ſecrets of that myſtery, by how much their often failings, had put them to often ſtops and nonpluſſes in the work.
ref:
1657, Richard Ligon, A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados. […], London: […] Humphrey Moseley, […], page 85
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state of bewilderment or perplexity.
senses_topics:
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15104 | word:
nonplus
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nonplus (third-person singular simple present nonplusses or nonpluses, present participle nonplussing or nonplusing, simple past and past participle nonplussed or nonplused)
forms:
form:
nonplusses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nonpluses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nonplussing
tags:
participle
present
form:
nonplusing
tags:
participle
present
form:
nonplussed
tags:
participle
past
form:
nonplussed
tags:
past
form:
nonplused
tags:
participle
past
form:
nonplused
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Latin nōn plūs (“no further, no more”), from nōn (“not”) + plūs (“additionally, more; further”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bewilder or perplex (someone); to confound, to flummox.
senses_topics:
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15105 | word:
aren't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
aren't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
are + -n’t
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
are not (negative auxiliary)
senses_topics:
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15106 | word:
aren't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
aren't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Spelling replacement of the homonym an’t.
senses_examples:
text:
I’m a nasty-tempered dog if any one tries to take my bone away; aren’t I, my sons?
ref:
1904, George Manville Fenn, To Win Or To Die: A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze
type:
quotation
text:
Aren’t I supposed to tell you how I feel?
ref:
2008 July 1, “Falling in Love”, in The Secret Life of the American Teenager, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Ricky Underwood (Daren Kagasoff)
type:
quotation
text:
2010 October 26, “Why Aren’t I Home?”, in Athletics (music), Why Aren’t I Home?:
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A contraction of “am not”, used e.g. in the construction "aren’t I?"
senses_topics:
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15107 | word:
spades
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spades
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of spade
senses_topics:
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15108 | word:
spades
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spades pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Griff and his cronies played spades at the back of the classroom.
ref:
2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 57
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.
A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
card-games
games |
15109 | word:
spades
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spades
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of spade
senses_topics:
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15110 | word:
banjo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
banjo (plural banjos or banjoes)
forms:
form:
banjos
tags:
plural
form:
banjoes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
banjo
etymology_text:
From the pronunciation of African slaves, of unknown ultimate origin. Possibly a corruption of bandore, alternatively from a West African language such as Mandinka banjul, or Kimbundu mbanza.
senses_examples:
text:
I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee...
type:
example
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:banjo.
text:
They all came back here — we cleared the room and put up tables for the reception — and then we went to another house on the banjo for a "knees-up".
ref:
1963, Peter Willmott, The Evolution of a Community, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
Billy Tower lived in the far left house in the banjo that was Dagenham's version of cul de sacs. The trouble was you could be seen from the house and, in the time it took to walk along the Banjo, drugs could be flushed away.
ref:
2013, M. C. Dutton, The Godfathers of London
type:
quotation
text:
The banjo format is not an unalloyed success these days: kids playing noisily on the quite narrow common green […]
ref:
2013, Martin Crookston, Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.
Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
A cul-de-sac with a round end.
A miner's round-nosed shovel.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
15111 | word:
banjo
word_type:
verb
expansion:
banjo (third-person singular simple present banjos, present participle banjoing, simple past and past participle banjoed)
forms:
form:
banjos
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
banjoing
tags:
participle
present
form:
banjoed
tags:
participle
past
form:
banjoed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
banjo
etymology_text:
From the pronunciation of African slaves, of unknown ultimate origin. Possibly a corruption of bandore, alternatively from a West African language such as Mandinka banjul, or Kimbundu mbanza.
senses_examples:
text:
Admitting the assault, the husband said that he had given her a 'banjoing' but that she had asked for it.
ref:
1989, Susan S. M. Edwards, Policing 'domestic' Violence: Women, the Law and the State, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
Madar was turfed out on a final misdemeanour of banjoing one of his teammates in training before a big game
ref:
1998, "Fergie's world just gets Madar" (Sport), Sunday Mail, Jan 4, 1998
text:
"Me and other folk were just trying to get the boot in and some other guy banjoed [decked] him”.
ref:
2007 July 31, “Return of Smeato, the extraordinary hero”, in Times Online
type:
quotation
text:
Riding reported that on the day Mayne had asked for DZ coordinates, their base had been banjoed by the Germans.
ref:
2008, Michael Asher, The Regiment: The Definitive Story of the SAS, page cxxx
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To play a banjo.
To beat, to knock down.
To shell or attack (a target).
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
15112 | word:
Riksmål
word_type:
name
expansion:
Riksmål
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Norwegian riksmål.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A conservative and unofficial variety of Bokmål that resists the attempted merger with Nynorsk, and is closer to Danish.
senses_topics:
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15113 | word:
apollo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
apollo (plural apollos)
forms:
form:
apollos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Apollo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A very handsome young man.
Any of several papilionid butterflies of the genus Parnassius, especially Parnassius apollo of Eurasia (also known as the mountain apollo).
senses_topics:
biology
entomology
natural-sciences |
15114 | word:
nonplussed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
nonplussed (comparative more nonplussed, superlative most nonplussed)
forms:
form:
more nonplussed
tags:
comparative
form:
most nonplussed
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Morewood Staniforth
Oxford University Press
Random House
etymology_text:
From nonplus (“state of bewilderment or perplexity”, noun) or nonplus (“to bewilder or perplex (someone)”, verb) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives, and the past tense and past participle forms of verbs). Nonplus (noun) is derived from Latin nōn plūs (“no further, no more”), from nōn (“not”) + plūs (“additionally, more; further”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)). The etymological sense is similar to being left speechless as a result of confusion: the nonplussed person can say or do “no more”.
Sense 2 (“unaffected”) is probably from a misinterpretation of the first element of the word as the prefix non- meaning “not”.
senses_examples:
text:
In the opposite direction the allowance of 103 min. for the 83.8 miles from Waterloo to Salisbury, which has remained untouched since the worst period in the war, when it included a Woking stop that long since has been excised, was another timing that left drivers completely nonplussed at times as to how to fill it out.
ref:
1949 July and August, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 257
type:
quotation
text:
"I regard Dean [W. P.] Baddeley's gambling activities with embarrassment and dismay," said Anglican dean of Melbourne S. Barton Babbage. […] The Rev. Baddeley remained nonplussed. "I don't intend to make a habit of going to the races but I feel clergymen should mix as our Lord did with all walks of life," Dr. Baddeley said.
This is the earliest occurrence of this sense of the word recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary.
ref:
1960 August 2, “Cleric’s error was to win his wagers”, in Oakland Tribune, home edition, volume CLXXIII, number 33, Oakland, Calif.: Oakland Tribune, →ISSN, →OCLC, page E7, column 6
type:
quotation
text:
And while many of us might be a little taken aback if Mom showed up at our offices, Secrist is utterly nonplussed, even happy about it.
ref:
2002 April 14, Debra Pickett, “Sunday lunch with”, in Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Public Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
One cannot help but wonder how the unnecessary death of 10 men sat on [John Charles] Fremont's conscience. From all appearances, he seemed nonplussed and never was remorseful or contrite.
ref:
2003 September, Gerald F. Kreyche, “John Charles Fremont and the Exploration of the American West”, in USA Today, volume 132, number 2700, New York, N.Y.: Society for the Advancement of Education, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-13, pages 52–57
type:
quotation
text:
My screams woke everyone on the boat the first night when a large bat flapped up against the screen door to our small cabin, with its foam double beds. My brother-in-law, Mike, was nonplussed: "Why would you get excited over a little bug like that?"
ref:
2004 June, Shannon Thompson, “Houseboating on California’s Shasta Lake”, in Sunset, volume 212, number 6, Oakland, Calif.: Sunset Publishing, published 2 September 2004 (online), →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-12, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
The lions in question were nonplussed. "They just stuck their noses into the wind, looked around and slumped down again into the grass," the now 73-year-old [Jonathan Scott] recalls.
ref:
2022 August 14, Joe Shute, “The rise and fall of the pride that inspired the Lion King”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unsure how to act or respond; bewildered, perplexed.
Unaffected, unfazed; unimpressed.
senses_topics:
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15115 | word:
nonplussed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nonplussed
forms:
wikipedia:
Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Morewood Staniforth
etymology_text:
From nonplus (“state of bewilderment or perplexity”, noun) or nonplus (“to bewilder or perplex (someone)”, verb) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives, and the past tense and past participle forms of verbs). Nonplus (noun) is derived from Latin nōn plūs (“no further, no more”), from nōn (“not”) + plūs (“additionally, more; further”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)). The etymological sense is similar to being left speechless as a result of confusion: the nonplussed person can say or do “no more”.
Sense 2 (“unaffected”) is probably from a misinterpretation of the first element of the word as the prefix non- meaning “not”.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of nonplus
senses_topics:
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15116 | word:
Thira
word_type:
name
expansion:
Thira
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Greek Θήρα (Thíra), inherited from Ancient Greek Θήρᾱ (Thḗrā).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Santorini (an island in Greece)
senses_topics:
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15117 | word:
hamburger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hamburger (countable and uncountable, plural hamburgers)
forms:
form:
hamburgers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Hamburger (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Shortening of Hamburger sandwich, Hamburger steak, etc.; or, less likely, borrowed from German Hamburger (“native of Hamburg”), equivalent to Hamburg + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger.
type:
example
text:
I'm going to make you into hamburger if you do that again.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: hot dog
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, usually also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.
The patty used in such a sandwich.
Ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers.
An animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an accident or conflict.
Short for hamburger button.
Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a short rectangle.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
education |
15118 | word:
hamburger
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hamburger (third-person singular simple present hamburgers, present participle hamburgering, simple past and past participle hamburgered)
forms:
form:
hamburgers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hamburgering
tags:
participle
present
form:
hamburgered
tags:
participle
past
form:
hamburgered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Hamburger (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Shortening of Hamburger sandwich, Hamburger steak, etc.; or, less likely, borrowed from German Hamburger (“native of Hamburg”), equivalent to Hamburg + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
The men played baseball on coral diamonds that tore their shoes and clothes and hamburgered their hands.
ref:
1944, C. G. Morris, Hugh B. Cave, “The Fightin’est Ship”: The Story of the Cruiser “Helena”, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
And his tires triggered no Claymore mines or Bouncing Betties that might have hamburgered his vehicle with him in it.
ref:
1981, John Nichols, The Nirvana Blues, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, page 283
type:
quotation
text:
My tears are like gagged pieces of ice cutting up my eyeballs and hamburgering my face.
ref:
1994, Beatrice Sparks (falsely indicated as editor), It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager, a True Story from Her Diary, Avon Books, published 2005, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
It’s a trail that has taken more than its fair share of blood, my first flat tire, and hamburgered my entire forearm on a descent.
ref:
2014, Shannon Galpin, Mountain to Mountain: A Journey of Adventure and Activism for the Women of Afghanistan, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
Ken broke three fingers and hamburgered his legs, but he still got to his feet, chased down his burro, and continued on to the finish line.
ref:
2019, Christopher McDougall, Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
Why they didn’t both break their necks or get hamburgered by cloven hooves was a mystery.
ref:
2020, Lynn Stansbury, Crossing the Divide, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To badly injure or damage.
senses_topics:
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15119 | word:
cheetah
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cheetah (plural cheetahs)
forms:
form:
cheetahs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Hindi चीता (cītā, “leopard, panther”), ultimately from Sanskrit चित्र (citra, “multicolored, speckled”) (akin to Old High German haitar (“bright”) > German heiter; Old Norse heiðr (“bright”)) + Sanskrit काय (kāya, “body”), thus “having a spotted body”.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A distinctive member (Acinonyx jubatus) of the cat family, slightly smaller than the leopard, but with proportionately longer limbs and a smaller head; native to Africa and southeast Asia (where it is nearly extinct) and also credited with being the fastest terrestrial animal.
senses_topics:
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15120 | word:
Acherontic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Acherontic
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
It was a Comedy, to see what a crowding (as if it had bene at a newe Play,) there was vpon the Acheronticque Strond,
ref:
1607, Thomas Dekker, chapter 4, in A Knights Conjuring, London: William Barley
type:
quotation
text:
Fierce earthquakes tear the world, the heavens bow,
A passage opens to the shades below:
From acherontick shores black fiends ascend,
ref:
1726, anonymous author, The British Apollo, 3rd edition, London: Theodore Sanders, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
Is Free Industry free to convert all our rivers into Acherontic sewers; England generally into a roaring sooty smith’s forge?
ref:
1867, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 10, in Shooting Niagara: and After?, London: Chapman and Hall, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
Although Wright’s underwater man in Venice may remind us of the ghosts of the drowned in the Ohio River, this Italian fantasy is more benign; the canal is not like the Acherontic Ohio […]
ref:
1987, Paul Breslin, chapter 8, in The Psycho-Political Muse, University of Chicago Press, page 179
type:
quotation
text:
1623, George Langford, Search the Scriptures, London: John Clarke, Section 7, p. 43,
How did those Aegyptians storme, when Moses and Aaron, Crumwell and Cranmer came, to deliuer Gods Israel, from that Acheronticall ignorance?
text:
Both sex, hideously cut, and gash, and pink in sundry works, their browes, nose, cheeks, armes, brest, back, belly, thighes and legges in Acherontick order: in a word, are so deformed, that if they had studied to become antick, they might be praised for invention.
ref:
1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique, London: Jacob Blome and Richard Bishop, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
[…] they proceeded through the fog like Acherontic shades for a long while, without sound or gesture.
ref:
1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, New York: Harper, published 1896, Part 6, Chapter 4, p. 428
type:
quotation
text:
1599, John Weever, Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut, and Newest Fashion, London: Thomas Bushell, The Thirde Weeke, Epig. 7,
Depart to blacke nights Acheronticke Cell,
text:
1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, Part 3, Section 3, Member 4, Subsection 2, p. 701,
[…] it is most odious, when an old Acheronticke dizard, that hath one foote in his graue, shall flicker after a young wench, what can be more detestable.
text:
I see no owls, though I am told that at night they fill these Acherontic woods with demon hooting […]
ref:
1860, Walter Thornbury, chapter 9, in Turkish Life and Character,, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder, page 213
type:
quotation
text:
It was twilight in the streets. On every corner glowed lights from doors and dusty windows. Acherontic figures lounged by lazily or sat against the walls.
ref:
1947, Frank Waters, chapter 10, in The Yogi of Cockroach Court, Chicago: Sage Books, published 1972, page 225
type:
quotation
text:
In Manchester, our designer Roy Stonehouse had built the dark lanes of his [Dickens’] Acherontic township on the low-lying land behind Water Street […]
ref:
2001, Timothy West, chapter 22, in A Moment Towards the End of the Play…, London: Nick Hern Books, page 176
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, pertaining to or resembling Acheron (one of the rivers located in the underworld according to ancient Greek mythology).
Of or pertaining to hell.
Lacking joy and comfort; nearing death.
senses_topics:
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15121 | word:
beret
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beret (plural berets)
forms:
form:
berets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French béret, from Occitan (Gascon) berret (“cap”), from Old Occitan berret, from Medieval Latin birretum, from Late Latin birrus (“large hooded cloak”), from Gaulish birrus (“short cloak”), from Proto-Celtic *birros (“short”) (compare Welsh byr, Middle Irish berr). Compare biretta.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually culturally associated with France.
senses_topics:
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15122 | word:
Rosicrucian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Rosicrucian (plural Rosicrucians)
forms:
form:
Rosicrucians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Rosicrucian
etymology_text:
Originally employed in the three Manifestos of the Order, published as anonymous in the early 17th century: Fama Fraternitatis, 1614; Confessio Fraternitatis, 1615; and The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz, 1616.
senses_examples:
text:
the Rosicrucian Fellowship
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A 'Brother' of the 'Order of the Rose Cross'; a member of a Rosicrucian Order.
A member of certain modern groups or organizations formed for the study of Rosicrucianism and allied subjects.
senses_topics:
|
15123 | word:
Rosicrucian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Rosicrucian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Originally employed in the three Manifestos of the Order, published as anonymous in the early 17th century: Fama Fraternitatis, 1614; Confessio Fraternitatis, 1615; and The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz, 1616.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
mystic, occult or esoteric and related to the philosophy of Rosicrucianism.
senses_topics:
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15124 | word:
Friulian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Friulian (plural Friulians)
forms:
form:
Friulians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Friulian language
etymology_text:
From Friuli + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native, inhabitant or a resident of Friuli.
senses_topics:
|
15125 | word:
Friulian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Friulian
forms:
wikipedia:
Friulian language
etymology_text:
From Friuli + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A language spoken in Friuli.
senses_topics:
|
15126 | word:
Friulian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Friulian (comparative more Friulian, superlative most Friulian)
forms:
form:
more Friulian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Friulian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Friulian language
etymology_text:
From Friuli + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Friuli.
senses_topics:
|
15127 | word:
battology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
battology (countable and uncountable, plural battologies)
forms:
form:
battologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek βαττολογία (battología, “stammering speech”).
senses_examples:
text:
Logomachy, battology, jingling of words, are all these fine speeches!
ref:
1856, Henry Sutherland Edwards, Louis de Lom̂aenie, de Louis Léonard Loménie, Beaumarchais and His Times: Sketches of French Society in the Eighteenth Century, page 278
type:
quotation
text:
This sonorous balance of phrase and epithet cannot always escape what Milton himself calls "the heathenish battology of multiplying words."
ref:
1900, Walter Alexander Raleigh, Milton, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
For Watt's sense of chronology was strong, in a way, and his dislike of battology was very strong.
ref:
1959, Samuel Beckett, Watt, page 165
type:
quotation
text:
Thus he objected to the battology of the Nicene Creed, 'God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God,' because, he said, it 'adds neither to the emphasis nor the expressiveness of the document.'
ref:
2004, Paul Helm, John Calvin's Ideas, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
“Battology” means pointlessly repeating the same thing over and over again. “Battology” means pointlessly repeating the same thing over and over again.
ref:
2004, “Bats”, in QI, season B, episode 9, Stephen Fry (actor)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Continual unnecessary reiteration of the same words, phrases, or ideas.
senses_topics:
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15128 | word:
Salonika
word_type:
name
expansion:
Salonika
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From incomplete latinization of Byzantine Greek Σαλονίκη (Saloníkē), clipping of Ancient Greek Θεσσαλονίκη (Thessaloníkē), named for Thessalonike daughter of Philip II, half-sister of Alexander the Great, and wife of Cassander of Macedonia, from Θεσσᾰλός (Thessalós, “Thessalian”) + νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”), possibly named for her birth on the anniversary of the Battle of Crocus Field. Used chiefly as a calque of Ottoman Turkish سلانیك (Selânik) but with occasional reference to modern Greek Σαλονίκη (Saloníki).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Salonica, Thessaloniki, a port city in northern Greece.
senses_topics:
|
15129 | word:
Ionian Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Ionian Islands pl (plural only)
forms:
form:
the Ionian Islands
tags:
canonical
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of islands in the Ionian Sea – one of the 13 peripheries of Greece. The main islands are Cephalonia, Corfu, Ithaca, Kythira, Lefkada, Paxoi and Zante.
senses_topics:
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15130 | word:
pizzicato
word_type:
adv
expansion:
pizzicato (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian pizzicato, past participle of pizzicare (“to pluck”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be played by plucking the strings instead of using the bow.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
15131 | word:
pizzicato
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pizzicato (plural pizzicatos or pizzicati)
forms:
form:
pizzicatos
tags:
plural
form:
pizzicati
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian pizzicato, past participle of pizzicare (“to pluck”).
senses_examples:
text:
The music is weaving / Haunting notes, pizzicato strings
ref:
1981, “Vienna”, performed by Ultravox
type:
quotation
text:
“Trapeze” begins with pizzicatos that plunge into a circuslike cacophony with rapid trills, busy, clashing textures and motion in every direction.
ref:
2007 May 7, Vivien Schweitzer, “Players With No Conductor and, Increasingly, With No Fear”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A note that is played pizzicato
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
15132 | word:
Volos
word_type:
name
expansion:
Volos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Greek Βόλος (Vólos).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in Greece.
senses_topics:
|
15133 | word:
bight
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bight (plural bights)
forms:
form:
bights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Australia
Great Australian Bight
etymology_text:
From Middle English bight, biȝt, byȝt (also bought, bowght, bouȝt; see bought), from Old English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”).
Cognate with Scots bicht (“bight”), Dutch bocht (“bend, curve”), Low German Bucht (“bend, bay”), German Bucht (“bay, bight”), Danish bugt (“bay”), Icelandic bugða (“curve”), Albanian butë (“soft, flabby”).
senses_examples:
text:
the bight of a horse's knee
text:
the bight of an elbow
text:
I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.
ref:
1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, page 166
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow
An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
A curve in a rope
senses_topics:
geography
natural-sciences
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15134 | word:
bight
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bight (third-person singular simple present bights, present participle bighting, simple past and past participle bighted)
forms:
form:
bights
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bighting
tags:
participle
present
form:
bighted
tags:
participle
past
form:
bighted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bight, biȝt, byȝt (also bought, bowght, bouȝt; see bought), from Old English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”).
Cognate with Scots bicht (“bight”), Dutch bocht (“bend, curve”), Low German Bucht (“bend, bay”), German Bucht (“bay, bight”), Danish bugt (“bay”), Icelandic bugða (“curve”), Albanian butë (“soft, flabby”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To arrange or fasten (a rope) in bights.
senses_topics:
|
15135 | word:
Trikala
word_type:
name
expansion:
Trikala
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Greek Τρίκαλα (Tríkala), from Ancient Greek Τρίκκη (Tríkkē), named after the nymph daughter of Penaeus in mythology.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in Thessaly, Greece.
senses_topics:
|
15136 | word:
Hania
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hania
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ottoman Turkish خانیه (Hanya) and irregular romanization of Greek Χανιά (Chaniá), q.v.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Chania, a city and regional unit on the island of Crete, Greece.
senses_topics:
|
15137 | word:
Sarajevo
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sarajevo
forms:
wikipedia:
Sarajevo
etymology_text:
From Serbo-Croatian Sarajevo, from Ottoman Turkish سرای, Turkish Saray-ovası, from saray (“palace”), from Persian سرای (sarây, “inn”).), and ova "plain, lowland".
senses_examples:
text:
I had planned a stop in Sarajevo to meet with a multiethnic delegation to hear their ideas about what the United States government and private organizations could do to help heal a society ripped apart by war. The security situation forced me to cancel my trip to Sarajevo, but the people I was to meet were so disappointed that they insisted on braving the journey along fifty miles of treacherous roads to meet me in Tuzla.
ref:
2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “War Zones”, in Living History, →OCLC, page 344
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, built on the Miljacka river.
A canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
senses_topics:
|
15138 | word:
Santorini
word_type:
name
expansion:
Santorini
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Greek Σαντορίνη (Santoríni), from Medieval Latin Santa Irini (“Saint Irene”), from St Irene as the patron of the parish church at Perissa under the Latin Empire.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island in the Cyclades, Greece.
senses_topics:
|
15139 | word:
electricity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
electricity (usually uncountable, plural electricities)
forms:
form:
electricities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Etymology of electricity
electricity
etymology_text:
From electric + -ity.
senses_examples:
text:
Again, the concretion of Ice will not endure a dry attrition without liquation ; for if it be rubbed long with a cloth, it melteth. But Cryſtal will calefie unto electricity ; that is, a power to attract ſtraws or light bodies, and convert the needle freely placed.
ref:
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 4th edition, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
For, reſtoring the equilibrium in the bottle does not at all affect the Electricity in the man thro’ whom the fire paſſes ; that Electricity is neither increaſed nor diminiſhed.
ref:
1747 July 28, Benjamin Franklin, letter to Peter Collinson, collected in New Experiments and Observations on Electricity, part I, 3rd edition, London: D. Henry and R. Cape, published 1760, page 8
text:
Attraction, then, is the first phenomenon that arrests our attention, and it is one that is constantly attendant on excitation. It is therefore considered a sure indicator of the presence of electricity in an active state, and forms the basis of all its tests.
ref:
1837, William Leithead, Electricity, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
We may express all these results in a concise and consistent manner by describing an electrified body as charged with a certain quantity of electricity, which we may denote by e.
ref:
1873, James Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
type:
quotation
text:
How does it work, though? It's based on the observation made some 200 years ago that electricity can change the shape of flames.
ref:
2011 March 29, Jon Henley, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Opening night for the new production had an electricity unlike other openings.
type:
example
text:
The electricity was crackling around Celtic Park even before a ball had been kicked, the home crowd unleashing noise and colour and every ounce of passion in their bodies on the visitors.
ref:
2016 September 28, Tom English, “Celtic 3–3 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Householders could one day be producing as much electricity as all the country's nuclear power stations combined, thanks to the revolutionary application of a device developed in the early 19th century.
ref:
2000, James Meek, Home-made answer to generating electricity harks back to the past The Guardian
type:
quotation
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:
Electricity bosses set to make record profits.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Originally, a property of amber and certain other nonconducting substances to attract lightweight material when rubbed, or the cause of this property; now understood to be a phenomenon caused by the distribution and movement of charged subatomic particles and their interaction with the electromagnetic field.
The study of electrical phenomena; the branch of science dealing with such phenomena.
A feeling of excitement; a thrill.
Electrical power, as supplied by power stations or generators.
The supply of electricity, as a utility.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business |
15140 | word:
marrow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
marrow (countable and uncountable, plural marrows)
forms:
form:
marrows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mary, marow, marwe, marowȝ, from Old English mearg, from Proto-West Germanic *maʀg, from Proto-Germanic *mazgą, *mazgaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos. Compare West Frisian moarch, Dutch merg, German Mark, Swedish märg, Icelandic mergur, and also Russian мозг (mozg, “brain”), Polish mózg (“brain”), Persian مغز (mağz, “brain”). Doublet of maghaz.
senses_examples:
text:
Chop me up, I like to be hurt / Drink my marrow and blood for dessert
ref:
2004, “Eaten”, performed by Bloodbath
type:
quotation
text:
The finest European vegetables, cabbages, cauliflowers, potatoes, vegetable marrow, were lying in the market-hall, awaiting purchasers.
ref:
1847, Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk, “Steam-Boat Voyage to Barbados”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume XXII, London: Richard Bentley, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
This patient will have a marrow today.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.
A kind of vegetable like a large courgette/zucchini or squash.
The pith of certain plants.
The essence; the best part.
Inner meaning or purpose.
Bone marrow biopsy.
(uncountable) Semen.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
15141 | word:
marrow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
marrow (plural marrows)
forms:
form:
marrows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old Norse margr.
senses_examples:
text:
Cheers marrow!
type:
example
text:
A 'getter' or miner is paid 1½ to 2 cents per hundred weight of Coals excavated, […] but out of this sum, his "marrows" or assistants who do the business of 'putting' and 'hurrying' for him must be paid […]
ref:
1855, Mining Magazine, page 519
type:
quotation
text:
The moon’s my constant Mistresse / & the lowlie owle my morrowe. / The flaming Drake and yͤ Nightcrowe make / mee musicke to my sorrowe.
ref:
c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A friend, pal, buddy, mate.
A miner's mate or assistant.
One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.
senses_topics:
business
mining
|
15142 | word:
Prague
word_type:
name
expansion:
Prague
forms:
wikipedia:
Prague
etymology_text:
From German Prag, from Slavic. See Czech Praha for further origin.
senses_examples:
text:
I said, I've always wanted to visit Prague.
ref:
1998 June 3, “Conjoined Fetus Lady”, in South Park, season 2, episode 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of the Czech Republic; former capital of Czechoslovakia; former capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia.
The Czech government.
senses_topics:
|
15143 | word:
lathe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)
forms:
form:
lathes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lathing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lathed
tags:
participle
past
form:
lathed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
lathe
etymology_text:
From Middle English lathen, from Old English laþian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask”), from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn, from Proto-Germanic *laþōną (“to invite”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to want, desire”). Cognate with German laden (“to invite”), Icelandic laða (“to attract”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To invite; bid; ask.
senses_topics:
|
15144 | word:
lathe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lathe (plural lathes)
forms:
form:
lathes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lathe
etymology_text:
From Middle English *lath, leth, from Old English lǣþ (“a division of a county containing several hundreds, a district, lathe”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāþ.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.
senses_topics:
|
15145 | word:
lathe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lathe (plural lathes)
forms:
form:
lathes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lathe
etymology_text:
From Middle English lathe (“turning-lathe; stand”), from Old Norse hlað (“pile, heap”)—compare dialectal Danish lad (“stand, support frame”) (as in drejelad (“turning-lathe”), savelad (“saw bench”)), dialectal Norwegian la, lad (“pile, small wall”), dialectal Swedish lad (“folding table, lay of a loom”)—from hlaða (“to load”). More at lade.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: see types of machine tools
text:
He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.
text:
1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
Of the windows of the village there was one yet more often occupied; for on Sundays from morning to night, and every morning when the weather was bright, one could see at the dormer-window of the garret the profile of Monsieur Binet bending over his lathe, whose monotonous humming could be heard at the Lion d'Or.
text:
[…]lathe, a barn, is still used in some parts of Yorkshire, but chiefly in local designations, being otherwise obsolescent ; see the Cleveland and Whitby glossaries. ‘The northern man writing to his neighbor may say, “My lathe standeth neer the kirkegarth,” for My barn standeth neere the churchyard’
ref:
2008 [1894], Walter William Skeat, Notes on The Canterbury Tales. Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 5, page 124
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.
A granary; a barn.
senses_topics:
arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tools
woodworking
business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
|
15146 | word:
lathe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)
forms:
form:
lathes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lathing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lathed
tags:
participle
past
form:
lathed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
lathe
etymology_text:
From Middle English lathe (“turning-lathe; stand”), from Old Norse hlað (“pile, heap”)—compare dialectal Danish lad (“stand, support frame”) (as in drejelad (“turning-lathe”), savelad (“saw bench”)), dialectal Norwegian la, lad (“pile, small wall”), dialectal Swedish lad (“folding table, lay of a loom”)—from hlaða (“to load”). More at lade.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To shape with a lathe.
To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
senses_topics:
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15147 | word:
Bremen
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bremen
forms:
wikipedia:
Bremen (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From German Bremen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of the state of Bremen, in northwest Germany, on the Weser river.
A state of Germany, composed of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven.
A community in the Rural Municipality of Bayne No. 371, Saskatchewan, Canada.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cullman County, Alabama.
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Haralson County and Carroll County, Georgia.
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Cook County, Illinois.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jo Daviess County, Illinois.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Illinois.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in German Township, Marshall County, Indiana.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Kansas.
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.
A number of places in the United States:
A town and village therein, in Lincoln County, Maine.
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Pine County, Minnesota.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wells County, North Dakota.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Fairfield County, Ohio.
senses_topics:
|
15148 | word:
Salonica
word_type:
name
expansion:
Salonica
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin Salonica, from Byzantine Greek Σαλονίκη (Saloníkē), clipping of Ancient Greek Θεσσαλονίκη (Thessaloníkē), named for Thessalonike daughter of Philip II, half-sister of Alexander the Great, and wife of Cassander of Macedonia, from Θεσσᾰλός (Thessalós, “Thessalian”) + νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”), possibly named for her birth on the anniversary of the Battle of Crocus Field. Sometimes parsed as a clipping within English of Thessalonica. Originally and still chiefly as a calque of Ottoman Turkish سلانیك (Selânik); now with occasional reference to modern Greek Σαλονίκη (Saloníki).
senses_examples:
text:
Sleeping-car passengers, however, will know little of their entry into Greece until, at 6 a.m. on the third morning after leaving Paris, the short train runs over the Vardar plain, with dawn glimpses of Mount Athos to the east and of cloud-capped Olympus across the gulf to the south, past the rebuilt yard and into the new passenger station at Salonica.
ref:
1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of Thessaloniki, a port city in northern Greece.
senses_topics:
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15149 | word:
achievable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
achievable (comparative more achievable, superlative most achievable)
forms:
form:
more achievable
tags:
comparative
form:
most achievable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From achieve + -able.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of being achieved, which either means possible or probable.
Not linked to fate or outside influences.
senses_topics:
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15150 | word:
sterile
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sterile (comparative more sterile, superlative most sterile)
forms:
form:
more sterile
tags:
comparative
form:
most sterile
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French stérile, from Latin sterilis (“barren, futile”). See also Ancient Greek στεῖρα (steîra).
senses_examples:
text:
a sterile kitchen table
type:
example
text:
An early CIA decision was to bring war surplus in Europe to the United States, rather than let it fall into the hands of left-wing movements. Some of the guns would also, it was reasoned, be useful as "sterile" weapons (foreign-made and untraceable to the United States) to be provided secretly to foreign friends.
ref:
1980, Russell Warren Howe, Weapons: The International Game of Arms, Money and Diplomacy
type:
quotation
text:
In addition to this rapid supply system, the US Army Counterinsurgency Support Office on Okinawa helped procure special equipment including rucksacks, special rations for irregular troops, 'sterile' weapons which could not be traced to the USA and other items not procurable through foreign channels.
ref:
1990, Leroy Thompson, The US Army in Vietnam, page 111
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unable to reproduce (or procreate).
Terse; lacking sentiment or emotional stimulation, as in a manner of speaking.
Fruitless, uninspiring, or unproductive.
Germless; free from all living or viable microorganisms.
Free from dangerous objects, as a zone in an airport that can be only be entered via a security checkpoint.
Of weapons: foreign-made and untraceable to the United States.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
15151 | word:
prep
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prep (countable and uncountable, plural preps)
forms:
form:
preps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Preparation.
Abbreviation of preposition.
A prep school.
A student or graduate of a prep school, a preppy.
Homework, work set to do outside class time, used widely in public schools and preparatory schools but not state schools.
Nursery school; preschool.
Preparatory level; the last two levels or the fourth and fifth years of preschool; the two levels before first grade.
Alternative form of PrEP
senses_topics:
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15152 | word:
prep
word_type:
verb
expansion:
prep (third-person singular simple present preps, present participle prepping, simple past and past participle prepped)
forms:
form:
preps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
prepping
tags:
participle
present
form:
prepped
tags:
participle
past
form:
prepped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
prep someone for something
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To prepare.
senses_topics:
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15153 | word:
bassoon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bassoon (plural bassoons)
forms:
form:
bassoons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French basson.
senses_examples:
text:
Higher and higher every day, / Till over the mast at noon— / The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.
ref:
1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges.
senses_topics:
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15154 | word:
bassoon
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bassoon (third-person singular simple present bassoons, present participle bassooning, simple past and past participle bassooned)
forms:
form:
bassoons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bassooning
tags:
participle
present
form:
bassooned
tags:
participle
past
form:
bassooned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French basson.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To play the bassoon.
To make a bassoon-like sound.
senses_topics:
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15155 | word:
agglutinative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
agglutinative (comparative more agglutinative, superlative most agglutinative)
forms:
form:
more agglutinative
tags:
comparative
form:
most agglutinative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From agglutinate + -ive.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sticky, tacky, adhesive.
Having words derived by combining parts, each with a separate meaning.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
15156 | word:
agglutinative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
agglutinative (plural agglutinatives)
forms:
form:
agglutinatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From agglutinate + -ive.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sticky material; an adhesive.
A word formed from the combination of parts, each with a separate meaning.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
15157 | word:
nipple
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nipple (plural nipples)
forms:
form:
nipples
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier neple, nypil, neble, believed to be a diminutive of nib, neb (“tip, point”), equivalent to nib + -le. Compare Old English nypel (“elephant trunk”), formed analogously as "a protuberance from one's neb" .
senses_examples:
text:
I could tell he didn't agree but he went to the corner and took up his squirrel gun, feeling the nipple for a percussion cap.
ref:
2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Turn the nipples on to the bicycle spokes only one turn, for each spoke on the new wheel all the way around until they are all snug, then check alignment.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.
A mechanical device through which liquids or gases can be passed in a regulated manner.
An artificial nipple (definition 1) used for bottle-feeding infants.
Any small physical protrusion, such as the lumps on the F and J keys on computer keyboards.
Any small physical protrusion on an automotive, a machine part or any other part that fits into a groove on another part.
A perforated segment that fits into part of the breech of a muzzle-loading gun, on which the percussion cap is fixed.
A short tube threaded at both ends, used as a connector.
An internally threaded piece which holds a bicycle spoke in place on the rim.
A pointing stick.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
business
construction
manufacturing
plumbing
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15158 | word:
nipple
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nipple (third-person singular simple present nipples, present participle nippling, simple past and past participle nippled)
forms:
form:
nipples
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nippling
tags:
participle
present
form:
nippled
tags:
participle
past
form:
nippled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier neple, nypil, neble, believed to be a diminutive of nib, neb (“tip, point”), equivalent to nib + -le. Compare Old English nypel (“elephant trunk”), formed analogously as "a protuberance from one's neb" .
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fit (a baby's bottle, etc.) with a nipple.
To give one's nipple to (a baby) to allow breastfeeding.
senses_topics:
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15159 | word:
element
word_type:
noun
expansion:
element (plural elements)
forms:
form:
elements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
element
etymology_text:
From Middle English element, from Old French element, from Latin elementum (“a first principle, element, rudiment”) (see further etymology there).
senses_examples:
text:
Hydrogen is the first element in the periodic table. It is the simplest possible atom composed of one proton in the nucleus which is orbited by a single electron.
ref:
2013, “Elements for Kids — Hydrogen”, in www.duckster.com, archived from the original on 2013-07-15
type:
quotation
text:
Letters are the elements of written language.
type:
example
text:
The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn.
ref:
1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides
type:
quotation
text:
an element of the picture
type:
example
text:
an element of doubt
type:
example
text:
The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.
ref:
1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings
type:
quotation
text:
exposed to the elements
type:
example
text:
to be in one’s element
type:
example
text:
You sometimes find the hooligan element at football matches.
type:
example
text:
The element in this electric kettle can heat the water in under a minute.
type:
example
text:
The element of area in Cartesian coordinates is dx dy.
type:
example
text:
The div element was introduced into HTML as a solution to the layout problem.
ref:
2011, Richard Wagner, Creating Web Pages All-in-One For Dummies
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
Any one of the types of atom distinguished by having a certain number of protons in its nucleus.
One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
A chemical substance made entirely of one such type of atom; any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material.
One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
One of the objects in a set.
One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
One of the entries of a matrix.
One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
Any of the teeth of a zip fastener.
One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
A small part of the whole.
A small but present amount of a quality, a hint.
A factor, one of the conditions contributing to a result.
The sky.
Any one of the heavenly spheres believed to carry the celestial bodies in premodern cosmology.
Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
A place or state of being that a person or object is best suited to.
The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
The basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments.
A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
An infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential.
An orbital element; one of the parameters needed to uniquely specify a particular orbit.
One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
law
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
mathematics
sciences
Christianity
mathematics
sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15160 | word:
element
word_type:
verb
expansion:
element (third-person singular simple present elements, present participle elementing, simple past and past participle elemented)
forms:
form:
elements
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
elementing
tags:
participle
present
form:
elemented
tags:
participle
past
form:
elemented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
element
etymology_text:
From Middle English element, from Old French element, from Latin elementum (“a first principle, element, rudiment”) (see further etymology there).
senses_examples:
text:
those things which elemented [love]
ref:
1633, John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
type:
quotation
text:
elemented bodies
ref:
1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist
type:
quotation
text:
thou art elemented and organed
ref:
1681, Maunyngham, Disc., page 89
type:
quotation
text:
His very soul was elemented of nothing but sadness.
ref:
1658, Izaak Walton, Life of Donne
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To compound of elements.
To constitute and be the elements of.
senses_topics:
|
15161 | word:
Prosecco
word_type:
name
expansion:
Prosecco
forms:
wikipedia:
Prosecco
Prosecco (Trieste)
etymology_text:
From Italian Prosecco, short for (vino de) Prosecco, “(wine of) Prosecco”, near Trieste. The toponym Prosecco comes from Proto-Slavic *prosěkъ (“kind of axe; opening, cutting (in a forest)”) from the areas deforested for the cultivation of the vine.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A variety of white grape grown in the Veneto region of Italy.
senses_topics:
|
15162 | word:
Prosecco
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Prosecco (countable and uncountable, plural Proseccos)
forms:
form:
Proseccos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Prosecco
Prosecco (Trieste)
etymology_text:
From Italian Prosecco, short for (vino de) Prosecco, “(wine of) Prosecco”, near Trieste. The toponym Prosecco comes from Proto-Slavic *prosěkъ (“kind of axe; opening, cutting (in a forest)”) from the areas deforested for the cultivation of the vine.
senses_examples:
text:
‘Itʼs Prosecco, champagneʼs Italian cousin!’
ref:
2019, Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie, Trapeze, page 96
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dry, slightly sparkling Italian white wine made from that grape.
senses_topics:
|
15163 | word:
Hesse
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hesse (countable and uncountable, plural Hesses)
forms:
form:
Hesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Hesse
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Hesse.
senses_examples:
text:
Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany... the provinces of Lower Germany towards the north conſiſt of the Low Country of the Rhine, Triers, Cologn, Mentz, Weſtphalia, Heſſe, Brunſwic, Miſnia, Luſatia, High Saxony upon the Elbe, Low Saxony upon the Elbe, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Brandenburg, Magdeburg, and Pomerania.
ref:
1759, George Sale et al., “The Modern Part of an Universal History”, in History of the German Empire, volume XXIX, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A former realm and modern state of Germany.
A surname from German.
senses_topics:
|
15164 | word:
aprosexia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aprosexia (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Inability to concentrate.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
15165 | word:
gym
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gym (plural gyms)
forms:
form:
gyms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I'm off to the gym for my pilates class.
type:
example
text:
Working out in commercial gyms, if anything, made my workouts worse instead of better.
ref:
2008, Lou Schuler, “Foreward”, in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
type:
quotation
text:
Pete, I want to work out. Where is the gym?
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
The gym teacher at our school makes us stretch before and after each class.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of gymnasium.
clipping of gymnastics. (often as sense 4)
A sports facility specialized for lifting weights and exercise.
physical education class
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
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15166 | word:
gym
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gym (third-person singular simple present gyms, present participle gyming or gymming, simple past and past participle gymed or gymmed)
forms:
form:
gyms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gyming
tags:
participle
present
form:
gymming
tags:
participle
present
form:
gymed
tags:
participle
past
form:
gymed
tags:
past
form:
gymmed
tags:
participle
past
form:
gymmed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The only thing that can make you susceptible to this condition pre-marriage is crash dieting or mindless gymming and exercise.)
ref:
2011, Rujuta Diwekar, Women and the weight loss tamasha
type:
quotation
text:
I have tried everything from yoga to dancing to gymming, but I can't be consistent with anything. Actually, I'm okay without working out.
ref:
2013, Neeta Iyer, Find_Love.com
type:
quotation
text:
So just like you go gymming for your body, go gymming with thoughts in order to have a healthier mind.
ref:
2021, Sandeep Dahiya, Lazy Ways To Truth, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To go to the gym.
senses_topics:
|
15167 | word:
octagon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
octagon (plural octagons)
forms:
form:
octagons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin octagōnon, octōgōnon (“octagon”), and from its etymon Ancient Greek ὀκτάγωνον (oktágōnon, “octagon”), probably from Koine Greek ὀκτάγωνος (oktágōnos, “having eight corners”) + -ον (-on, suffix forming nouns). ὀκτάγωνος is derived from ὀκτᾰ- (okta-, prefix meaning ‘eight’) (from ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw (“eight”)) + γωνία (gōnía, “angle; corner”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”)); analysable as octa- + -gon. The English word is cognate with Middle French octogone (modern French octogone), Italian octagono (obsolete), ottagono, Spanish octágono, octógono.
Sense 2 (“arena for mixed martial arts”) refers to its shape.
senses_examples:
text:
From the Circle deſcribe the Octagon, by taking half the Quadrant of the former for each Side of the latter. [...] [B]y conjoining theſe Points with ſtrait Lines agreeable to the Shape of the Octagon, the whole Work is completed.
ref:
1707, Andrea Pozzo, “The Ninety-second Fig. An Octangular Cupola.”, in John James, transl., Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper for Painters and Architects, etc. in English and Latin: […], London: […] Benj[amin] Motte [Sr.], […]; [s]old by John Sturt […], →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
In like manner it is demonſtrated that one angle of a regular hexagon will be equal to one right angle, and one third part of one right angle; one angle of a regular octagon equal to one right angle and half a right angle; [...]
ref:
1752, Euclid, “[Additions to the Fourth Book.] Prop[osition] VII. Probl[em]. To Describe any Regular Polygon upon a Given Right Line, Admitting the Division of a Given Arch of a Circle into any Number of Equal Parts.”, in E[dmund] Stone, transl., Euclid’s Elements of Geometry, the First Six, the Eleventh and Twelfth Books; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Payne, […], →OCLC, book IV, pages 199–200
type:
quotation
text:
Bismuth is the most common of all native metallic substances. It is generally found either in cubes or octagons, or of a dendritical form, or else in thin laminæ investing the ores of other metals, particularly those of cobalt.
ref:
1808, William Nicholson, “Ores of Bismuth”, in A Dictionary of Practical and Theoretical Chemistry, […], London: […] Richard Phillips, […], →OCLC, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
The font is an octagon, having at each angle a slender pillar with crockets and finials, and the sides are richly sculptured with angels and animals, the figures holding shields, with various devices; at each corner of the contracting part towards the pedestal, are cherubs heads with expanded wings; and the pedestal, which is an irregular octagon, is ornamented with four non-descript animals, scaled over their breasts; on a moulding round the bottom are several old characters, now illegible.
ref:
1810, [James Sargant Storer; John Grieg], “Worlingworth Church, Suffolk”, in Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet, Containing a Series of Elegant Views of the Most Interesting Objects of Curiosity in Great Britain. […], volume VII, London: […] W. Clarke, […], →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
The building [the Winter Garden conservatory, Kew Gardens] was to be of five parts—a centre, two small octagons, and two wings connected by the octagons with the centre. The centre and the two octagons were finished, and some expenditure must have been laid out on the wings, as the ground was dug out and foundations in concrete laid for the pillars.
ref:
1863 June 1, [Charles William] Selwyn, “Supply—Civil Service Estimates. Supply Considered in Committee.”, in Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, […] (House of Commons), volume CLXXI, London: Published by Cornelius Buck, at the office for “Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates,” […], →OCLC, columns 214–215
type:
quotation
text:
China converted the hard octagons of the Turkoman rugs into circular scrolls or medallions, beautifying them meanwhile with floral character manifestly borrowed from the Persians and yet by no means Persian.
ref:
1922 October 28, Roy C. Bennett, “Rug Gift to National Press Club Typifies New China Industry”, in J[ohn] B[enjamin] Powell, editor, The Weekly Review, volume XXII, number 9, Shanghai: Millard Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 299, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A polygon with eight sides and eight angles.
Often in the form Octagon: the arena for mixed martial arts.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war |
15168 | word:
Ioannina
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ioannina
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Greek Ιωάννινα (Ioánnina), possibly after Άγιος Ιωάννης (Ágios Ioánnis, “Saint John”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The largest city and capital of Epirus, Greece.
senses_topics:
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15169 | word:
rock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rock (countable and uncountable, plural rocks)
forms:
form:
rocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rock
etymology_text:
From Middle English rocke, rokke (“rock formation”), from Old English *rocc (“rock”), as in Old English stānrocc (“high stone rock, peak, obelisk”), and also later from Anglo-Norman roque, (compare Modern French roc, roche, rocher), from Medieval Latin rocca (attested 767), of uncertain origin, sometimes said to be of Celtic (in particular, perhaps Gaulish) origin (compare Breton roc'h). Related also to Middle Low German rocke (“rock ledge”).
senses_examples:
text:
Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
ref:
2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
The face of the cliff is solid rock.
type:
example
text:
The ship crashed on the rocks.
type:
example
text:
Some fool has thrown a rock through my window.
type:
example
text:
Look at the size of that rock on her finger!
type:
example
text:
I call all the shots, rip all the spots / Rock all the rocks, cop all the drops
ref:
1997, “Mo Money Mo Problems”, in Life After Death, performed by The Notorious B.I.G. ft. Ma$e and Diddy
type:
quotation
text:
Pearl Rock near Cape Cod is so named because the morning sun makes it gleam like a pearl.
type:
example
text:
1991, Robert Harling and Andrew Bergman, Soapdish, Paramount Pictures,
Celeste Talbert: She is my rock, my right hand.
text:
I'll have a whisky on the rocks, please.
type:
example
text:
While we're in Brighton, let's get a stick of rock!
type:
example
text:
I ain't guilty, ‘cause even though I sell rocks / It feels good puttin' money in your mailbox
ref:
1995, “Dear Mama”, in Me Against the World, performed by 2Pac
type:
quotation
text:
When I necked five-quid bottles of vodka, I did not read the label. When I scored rocks and bags off tumbleweed hobos blowing through the no-man's-land of Hackney estates, I conducted no litmus test.
ref:
2014, Russell Brand, “Prologue”, in Revolution, page xiii
type:
quotation
text:
We ordered rock and chips to take away.
text:
Yo homie, pass the rock!
type:
example
text:
It [the original Space Jam limped to 88 minutes with detours into Jordan’s swanky mansion and forced its cartoon cavalry to compete for screen time against Wayne Knight and a bunch of basketball players who delivered their lines much less confidently than they put the rock through the net.
ref:
2021 July 14, A. A. Dowd, “Space Jam: A New Legacy is one big, witless commercial for Warner Bros. properties”, in The A.V. Club
type:
quotation
text:
Now, you should never make the last out of an inning at third, and when a player does it, everyone knows he pulled a rock.
ref:
2014, Joe Morgan, Richard Lally, Baseball For Dummies, page 227
type:
quotation
text:
It was easily possible to double the cost of a CB rig just by adding all of the "rocks" necessary to do the job.
ref:
1980, Joseph J. Carr, The Complete Handbook of Radio Receivers, page 199
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A formation of minerals, specifically:
The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust.
A formation of minerals, specifically:
A mass of stone projecting out of the ground or water.
A formation of minerals, specifically:
A boulder or large stone; or (US, Canada) a smaller stone; a pebble.
A formation of minerals, specifically:
Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals.
A formation of minerals, specifically:
A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond.
A large hill or island having no vegetation.
Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
A lump or cube of ice.
A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.
A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
An Afrikaner.
An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.
Any of several fish:
The striped bass.
Any of several fish:
The huss or rock salmon.
A basketball.
A mistake.
Synonym of stone.
A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use
A crystal used to control the radio frequency.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences
card-games
poker
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
games
rock-paper-scissors
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
15170 | word:
rock
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rock (third-person singular simple present rocks, present participle rocking, simple past and past participle rocked)
forms:
form:
rocks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rocking
tags:
participle
present
form:
rocked
tags:
participle
past
form:
rocked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rock
etymology_text:
From Middle English rokken, from Old English roccian, from Proto-West Germanic *rokkōn, from Proto-Germanic *rukkōną (compare obsolete Dutch rokken, Middle High German rocken (“to drag, jerk”), Modern German rücken (“to move, shift”), Icelandic rukka (“to yank”)), from Proto-Germanic *rukkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ruknéh₂ti, from *h₃rewk-, *h₃runk- (compare Latin runcāre (“to weed”), Latvian rũķēt (“to toss, dig”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Rock the baby to sleep.
type:
example
text:
The empty swing rocked back and forth in the wind.
type:
example
text:
Don't rock the boat.
type:
example
text:
The boat rocked at anchor.
type:
example
text:
The ores had been rocked and laid out for inspection.
type:
example
text:
Downing Street has been rocked by yet another sex scandal.
type:
example
text:
She rocked my world.
type:
example
text:
The Blues' challenge had been rocking at that point, with Terry's centre-back partner Gary Cahill lost to injury and Barca having just levelled the tie through Busquets's neat, close-range finish from Isaac Cuenca's pull-back.
ref:
2012 April 24, Phil Dawkes, “Barcelona 2-2 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
That band rocks!
type:
example
text:
I wanna rock!
type:
example
text:
Cum on feel the noize, girls, rock your boys.
ref:
1973, Noddy Holder, Jim Lea (lyrics and music), “Cum On Feel the Noize”, performed by Slade
type:
quotation
text:
Rock me gently, rock me slowly, take it easy, don't you know, that I have never been loved like this before.
ref:
1974, Andy Kim (lyrics and music), “Rock Me Gently”
type:
quotation
text:
Open up your heart / And let the loving start / Oh, woman, take me in your arms / Rock your baby.
ref:
1974, Harry Wayne Casey, Richard Finch (lyrics and music), “Rock Your Baby”, performed by George McCrae
type:
quotation
text:
I just wanna rock you, all night long.
ref:
1980, Jonah Ellis, Alisa Peoples, Cavin Yarbrough (lyrics and music), “Don't Stop the Music”, in The Two of Us, performed by Yarbrough and Peoples
type:
quotation
text:
Tends to tap fingers on desk or spin ring on finger, especially when stressed. Sucks thumb in private. Loves to rock.
ref:
2019 May 4, C. L. Lynch, “"Autism is a Spectrum" Doesn’t Mean What You Think”, in NeuroClastic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move gently back and forth.
To cause to shake or sway violently.
To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.
To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).
To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.
To be cool.
To make love to or have sex (with).
To sway one's body as a stim.
senses_topics:
|
15171 | word:
rock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rock (plural rocks)
forms:
form:
rocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rock
etymology_text:
From Middle English rokken, from Old English roccian, from Proto-West Germanic *rokkōn, from Proto-Germanic *rukkōną (compare obsolete Dutch rokken, Middle High German rocken (“to drag, jerk”), Modern German rücken (“to move, shift”), Icelandic rukka (“to yank”)), from Proto-Germanic *rukkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ruknéh₂ti, from *h₃rewk-, *h₃runk- (compare Latin runcāre (“to weed”), Latvian rũķēt (“to toss, dig”)).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
senses_topics:
|
15172 | word:
rock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rock (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
rock
etymology_text:
Shortened from rock and roll. Since the meaning of rock has adapted to mean a simpler, more modern, metal-like genre, rock and roll has generally been left referring to earlier forms such as that originating in the 1950s, notably more swing-oriented style.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards (often), and vocals.
senses_topics:
|
15173 | word:
rock
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rock (third-person singular simple present rocks, present participle rocking, simple past and past participle rocked)
forms:
form:
rocks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rocking
tags:
participle
present
form:
rocked
tags:
participle
past
form:
rocked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rock
etymology_text:
Shortened from rock and roll. Since the meaning of rock has adapted to mean a simpler, more modern, metal-like genre, rock and roll has generally been left referring to earlier forms such as that originating in the 1950s, notably more swing-oriented style.
senses_examples:
text:
Let's rock!
type:
example
text:
I wanna rock! (Rock!) / I wanna rock! (Rock!) / I want to rock! (Rock!) / I wanna rock! (Rock!)
ref:
1984, Dee Snider (lyrics and music), “I Wanna Rock”, in Stay Hungry, performed by Twisted Sister
type:
quotation
text:
Chocolate rocks.
type:
example
text:
My holidays in Ibiza rocked! I can't wait to go back.
type:
example
text:
Let's rock this joint!
type:
example
text:
The scene was rocking, all were digging the sounds
Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds
The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
With their vocal group, The Crypt-Kicker Five.
ref:
1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers
type:
quotation
text:
I need to rock a piss.
type:
example
text:
I call all the shots, rip all the spots / Rock all the rocks, cop all the drops
ref:
1997, “Mo Money Mo Problems”, in Life After Death, performed by The Notorious B.I.G. ft. Ma$e and Diddy
type:
quotation
text:
Take today, where she's rocking that well-known fashion combo – a Tory Burch outfit offset with a whacking great bruise attained by smacking her head on a plane's overhead lockers.
ref:
2011 April 29, Tim Jonze, “Nerdy but nice”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Rihanna was the pick of the best bunch, rocking a black backless crocodile dress from Tom Ford’s Autumn 2012 collection
ref:
2012 May 8, “Rhianna dazzles at the Met Gala”, in The Sun newspaper
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.
To thrill or excite, especially with rock music.
To have people dancing and enjoying rock music.
To do something with excitement yet skillfully.
To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular look, style).
senses_topics:
|
15174 | word:
rock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rock (countable and uncountable, plural rocks)
forms:
form:
rocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rock
etymology_text:
From Middle English rok, rocke, rokke, perhaps from Middle Dutch rocke (whence Dutch rokken), Middle Low German rocken, or Old Norse rokkr (whence Icelandic / Faroese rokkur, Danish rok, Swedish spinnrock (“spinning wheel”)). Cognate with Old High German rocko (“distaff”).
senses_examples:
text:
By order of the General Court in 1642, the "prudentiall" men of each town were instructed "to take care of such [children] as are sett to keep cattle be set to some other employment withal, as spinning upon the rock, knitting, weaving tape, etc., and that boys and girls be not suffered to converse together so as may occasion any wanton, dishonest or immodest behavior.
ref:
1899, T Frank Waters, The Development of Our Town Government
type:
quotation
text:
A prepared end of yarn being fixed into the notch, the spinster, by a smart rolling motion of the spindle with the right hand against the right leg, threw it out from her, spinning in the air, while, with the left hand, she drew from the rock an additional supply of fibre which was formed into a uniform and equal strand with the right.
ref:
1902, Day Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 664
type:
quotation
text:
It is true that in Ireland, even in recent years, the flax, before being placed on the rock or distaff, was tangled into a mass, or, as Cormmelin expresses it, “drawn out in a flat cake.”
ref:
1920, John Horner, The Linen Trade of Europe During the Spinning-wheel Period, page 32
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Distaff.
The flax or wool on a distaff.
senses_topics:
|
15175 | word:
rock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rock (plural rocks)
forms:
form:
rocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rock
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic form of roc (mythical bird)
senses_topics:
|
15176 | word:
brioche
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brioche (countable and uncountable, plural brioches)
forms:
form:
brioches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French brioche.
senses_examples:
text:
French brioche dough is especially rich in butter and eggs. It's often retarded […] for 6–18 hours to stiffen it, then rolled out and briefly rested.
ref:
2004, Harold McGee, chapter 10, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner
type:
quotation
text:
She sat him at the table in the saloon, then unobtrusively she made him tea and brought him slices of brioche spread with lock keeper’s honey.
ref:
2017, Kate Dunn, The Dragonfly, Twickenham: Aurora Metro Books, page 304
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of light sweet pastry or bun of French origin.
A knitted cushion for the feet.
senses_topics:
|
15177 | word:
Heraklion
word_type:
name
expansion:
Heraklion
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Iraklion
senses_topics:
|
15178 | word:
Chania
word_type:
name
expansion:
Chania
forms:
wikipedia:
Chania
etymology_text:
From Latin Chania, from Byzantine Greek Χανιά (Khaniá), from Arabic الخان (al-ḵān) + -ιά (-iá, “-ia: forming place names”), literally from ال (al-, “the, place of the”) + خان (ḵān, “caravanserai, inn”) but possibly transliterating a neighborhood whose named derived from its former importance in the worship of the Minoan god Velchanos, whose Minoan name was transcribed into Ancient Greek as Ϝελχάνος (Welkhános).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city on the island of Crete, Greece.
A regional unit of the island of Crete, Greece, around the city.
senses_topics:
|
15179 | word:
ach
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ach (plural aches)
forms:
form:
aches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ache, from Old French ache, from Latin apium (“parsley”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several species of plants, such as smallage, wild celery, parsley.
senses_topics:
|
15180 | word:
ach
word_type:
intj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"Ach." Auntie frowned hugely. "That is all nonsense."
ref:
1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression of annoyance.
An expression of woe or regret.
Alternative form of och
senses_topics:
|
15181 | word:
Mytilene
word_type:
name
expansion:
Mytilene
forms:
wikipedia:
Mytilene
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Μυτιλήνη (Mutilḗnē).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lesbos.
The capital of Lesbos.
senses_topics:
|
15182 | word:
penumbra
word_type:
noun
expansion:
penumbra (plural penumbras or penumbrae or (obsolete) penumbræ)
forms:
form:
penumbras
tags:
plural
form:
penumbrae
tags:
plural
form:
penumbræ
tags:
obsolete
plural
wikipedia:
penumbra
etymology_text:
From New Latin pēnumbra, from Latin paene (“almost”) + umbra (“shadow”).
senses_examples:
text:
The other places see the penumbra of the moon's shadow fall on the earth, so the eclipse is partial, and part of the sun's disc is still visible.
ref:
2011, Galen C. Duree, Jr., Optics for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc., published 2011, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
In the boiling temperature of 119 ° F – the hottest they had experienced so far – they watched as the penumbra of Venus blurred its outline at the precise moment the disc crossed the sun.
ref:
2011, Frank McLynn, Captain Cook: Master of the Seas, Yale University Press, published 2011, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
The part of the moon that remains in the penumbra receives some direct sunlight, and the glare is usually great enough to prevent your seeing the faint coppery glow of the part of the moon in the umbra.
ref:
2012, Michael A. Seeds, Dana E. Backman, Horizons: Exploring the Universe, Brooks/Cole, published 2012, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
These firms or businesses are not illegal in the strict sense, but there is a shadowy penumbra within which they live, and it is often convenient for the government to look the other way.
ref:
1998, Debraj Ray, Development Economics, Princeton University Press, pages 346–347
type:
quotation
text:
[…] God chose to descend into the realm of human imperfection, where the light of truth is spare and must exist in the penumbra of partial knowledge mixed with partial ignorance.
ref:
2010, Denis Farkasfalvy, Inspiration and Interpretation: A Theological Introduction to Sacred Scripture, The Catholic University of America Press, published 2010, page 188
type:
quotation
text:
Unlike some of his contemporaries Parkes never implied that the Irish were close, in the racial hierarchy, to black, condemned to some racial penumbra, between black and white; but nor, given Catholic exclusion from the given traditions of his native radicalism, were the Irish white in the same way that he was.
ref:
2011, Bill Schwartz, The White Man's World, Oxford University Press, published 2011, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
Whilst the orthodox, de-charismatized churches steadily lose influence and support and the new cults develop, in the religious penumbra there have persisted, during the last century, echoes of charisma.
ref:
1975, Bryan R. Wilson, The Noble Savages: The Primitive Origins of Charisma and Its Contemporary Survival, Quantum Books, published 1975, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
But for all the expansionist energy of a metro area that sprawls from Wisconsin to Indiana (total population: 7.2 million), downtown Chicago and its penumbra also stand rejuvenated.
ref:
1986, John McCormick, “Chicago Bounces Back”, in Newsweek, volume 108, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
Some are accounts of the latest advances, but too many are in that weary penumbra of science inhabited by sociologists, who wander like children in a toyshop, playing with devices they scarcely understand.
ref:
2000, Steve Jones, The Language of Genes, Flamingo, page xv
type:
quotation
text:
The foregoing [United States Supreme Court] cases suggest that specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance.
ref:
1965, William O. Douglas, Griswold v. Connecticut, United States Reports, 381 U.S. 479
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A partially shaded area around the edges of a shadow, especially an eclipse.
A region around the edge of a sunspot, darker than the sun's surface but lighter than the middle of the sunspot.
An area of uncertainty or intermediacy between two mutually exclusive states or categories.
An area that lies on the edge of something; a fringe.
Something related to, connected to, and implied by, the existence of something else that is necessary for the second thing to be full and complete in its essential aspects.
A region of the brain that has lost only some of its blood supply, and retains structural integrity but has lost function.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
medicine
sciences |
15183 | word:
acerebral
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acerebral (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + cerebral.
senses_examples:
text:
an acerebral organism
text:
He acted on reflex, an acerebral reaction to a situation beyond his control.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Without a brain
not using or involving the brain
senses_topics:
|
15184 | word:
Andros
word_type:
name
expansion:
Andros
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island in the Cyclades, Greece.
An island in the Bahamas.
senses_topics:
|
15185 | word:
kaputt
word_type:
adj
expansion:
kaputt (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of kaput
senses_topics:
|
15186 | word:
rhombus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rhombus (plural rhombi or rhombuses)
forms:
form:
rhombi
tags:
plural
form:
rhombuses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rhombus
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos, “rhombus, spinning top”). Doublet of rhomb and rhumb.
senses_examples:
text:
The Greeks also used an instrument called a rhombus, or witches' wheel. As the wheel spun round, it was thought that influence was gained over certain people or circumstances.
ref:
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
the greedy Tuberon or Shark arm'd with a double row of venemous teeth pursues them, directed by a little Rhombus, Musculus or pilot-fish that scuds to and fro to bring intelligence [...].
ref:
1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A parallelogram having all sides of equal length.
A parallelogram having all sides of equal length.
The rhombus diamond, as one of the suits seen in a deck of playing cards ( or ).
In early Greek religion, an instrument whirled on the end of a string similar to a bullroarer.
Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part of the genus Rhombus, now in Scophthalmus.
Snails, now in genus Conus or family Conidae.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
15187 | word:
values
word_type:
noun
expansion:
values
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of value
senses_topics:
|
15188 | word:
values
word_type:
verb
expansion:
values
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of value
senses_topics:
|
15189 | word:
Debrecen
word_type:
name
expansion:
Debrecen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in Hungary.
senses_topics:
|
15190 | word:
unmarried
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unmarried (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + married.
senses_examples:
text:
Her young parents, who worked in a pottery factory in Rongchang in present-day Chongqing municipality, conceived her while unmarried.
ref:
2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-16, Sinosphere
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having no husband or wife.
senses_topics:
|
15191 | word:
unmarried
word_type:
noun
expansion:
unmarried (plural unmarrieds)
forms:
form:
unmarrieds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + married.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An unmarried person.
senses_topics:
|
15192 | word:
radius
word_type:
noun
expansion:
radius (plural radii or radiuses)
forms:
form:
radii
tags:
plural
form:
radiuses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin radius (“ray”). Doublet of ray.
senses_examples:
text:
It is also obvious, and proved by experiment, that the rotatory motions observed in the hand proceed from the rotatory motions of the radius.
ref:
1808, John Barclay, The Muscular Motions of the Human Body, →OCLC, page 396
type:
quotation
text:
Fatima claims to have visited all the bars within a five-mile radius of her Manhattan apartment.
type:
example
text:
[…] I can do more with a Quadrant, Sextant or Octant, of 1 foot Radius, furniſhed with Teleſcopical Sights and Screws, then can poſſibly be done with any other Inſtrument, furniſhed only with Common Sights, though 10, 20, 30, nay threeſcore foot Radius; […]
ref:
1674, Robert Hooke, Animadversions on the Firſt Part of the Machina Coelestis of the […] Aſtronomer Johannes Hevelius […], page 43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.
One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell.
A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.
The length of this line segment.
Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
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15193 | word:
radius
word_type:
verb
expansion:
radius (third-person singular simple present radiuses, present participle radiusing, simple past and past participle radiused)
forms:
form:
radiuses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
radiusing
tags:
participle
present
form:
radiused
tags:
participle
past
form:
radiused
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin radius (“ray”). Doublet of ray.
senses_examples:
text:
A comfortable grip is ensured by smoothing the surface of the handle and radiusing the edge.
ref:
2014, Anil Mital, Anoop Desai, Anand Subramanian, Product Development, page 358
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give a rounded edge to.
senses_topics:
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15194 | word:
egregious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
egregious (comparative more egregious, superlative most egregious)
forms:
form:
more egregious
tags:
comparative
form:
most egregious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin ēgregius, from e- (“out of”), + grex (“flock”), + English adjective suffix -ous, from Latin suffix -osus (“full of”); reflecting the positive connotations of "standing out from the flock".
senses_examples:
text:
The student has made egregious errors on the examination.
type:
example
text:
16thC, Christopher Marlowe, Ignoto,
I cannot cross my arms, or sigh "Ah me," / "Ah me forlorn!" egregious foppery! / I cannot buss thy fill, play with thy hair, / Swearing by Jove, "Thou art most debonnaire!"
text:
22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
When the goal is simply to be as faithful as possible to the material—as if a movie were a marriage, and a rights contract the vow—the best result is a skillful abridgment, one that hits all the important marks without losing anything egregious.
text:
She's sitting opposite a window that's gently breezing into her face, wafting her hair into cover-girl perfection ... It's a little moment that seems to encapsulate her appeal: ... her gorgeousness being so egregious that even breezes oblige with their tousle-fanning effects ...
ref:
2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Conspicuous, exceptional, outstanding; usually in a negative sense.
Outrageously bad; shocking.
senses_topics:
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15195 | word:
newspaper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
newspaper (countable and uncountable, plural newspapers)
forms:
form:
newspapers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From news + paper.
senses_examples:
text:
There is, however, one habit of reading which has become almost a social evil; and that is the habit of reading newspapers which many indulge in, morning, noon, and night.
ref:
1922, P. B. M. Allan, The Book-Hunter at Home, 2nd edition, London: Philip Allan & Co., page 64
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A publication, usually published daily or weekly and usually printed on cheap, low-quality paper, containing news and other articles.
A quantity of or one of the types of paper on which newspapers are printed.
senses_topics:
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15196 | word:
newspaper
word_type:
verb
expansion:
newspaper (third-person singular simple present newspapers, present participle newspapering, simple past and past participle newspapered)
forms:
form:
newspapers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
newspapering
tags:
participle
present
form:
newspapered
tags:
participle
past
form:
newspapered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From news + paper.
senses_examples:
text:
She newspapered one end of the room before painting the bookcase.
type:
example
text:
His newspapered his way through the South on the sports beat, avoiding dry towns.
type:
example
text:
He got newspapered out of public life.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover with newspaper.
To engage in the business of journalism
To harass somebody through newspaper articles.
senses_topics:
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15197 | word:
atrocity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
atrocity (countable and uncountable, plural atrocities)
forms:
form:
atrocities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
atrocity
etymology_text:
From Middle French atrocité, from Latin atrox (“terrible, cruel”), from āter (“matte black”).
senses_examples:
text:
to carry out / commit / perpetrate an atrocity
type:
example
text:
The regime is guilty of mass atrocities including forced displacement and the use of chemical weapons.
type:
example
text:
[…] it seemed an atrocity or cruelty to Narses a good General, to take punishment of innoxious Hostages:
ref:
1662, William Pynchon, The Covenant of Nature Made with Adam, London, Chapter 11, Section 3, p. 277
type:
quotation
text:
It was impossible for the convention to suffer the crimes they had committed, and the still greater atrocities which they had meditated, to pass unnoticed.
ref:
1795, Helen Maria Williams, Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France, London: G. G. and J. Robinson, Letter 4, p. 61
type:
quotation
text:
“Any delay in arresting the assassin,” I observed, “might give him time to perpetrate some fresh atrocity.”
ref:
1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 7, in A Study in Scarlet, New York and London: Street & Smith, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
The United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union have received from many quarters evidence of atrocities, massacres and cold-blooded mass executions which are being perpetrated by Hitlerite forces in many of the countries they have overrun and from which they are now being steadily expelled.
ref:
1943, Declaration of the Four Nations on General Security
type:
quotation
text:
1553, John Bradford, letter, in Miles Coverdale (ed.), Certain Most Godly, Fruitful, and Comfortable letters, London: John Day, 1564, pp. 481-482,
Thys wil I muse on, & way with my self, [tha]t I may dulye knowe, both in me and in al other things, the atrocitie and bitternesse of synne which dwelleth in me, & so may the more hartely geue ouer my self wholy to [th]e lord Christ my Sauiour,
text:
What character is so detestable as that of one who takes pleasure to sow dissention among friends, and to turn their most tender love into mortal hatred? Yet wherein does the atrocity of this so much abhorred injury consist? […] It is in depriving them of that friendship itself, in robbing them of each others affections […]
ref:
1759, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, London: A. Millar, Part 1, Section 3, Chapter 4, p. 81
type:
quotation
text:
an apology devised after the commission of the deed, to cover up its atrocity
ref:
1843, William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico, New York: Harper, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 8, p. 284
type:
quotation
text:
Hernandez […] had been an inoffensive, small ranchero, kidnapped with circumstances of peculiar atrocity from his home during one of the civil wars, and forced to serve in the army.
ref:
1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, New York: Harper, Part 1, Chapter 8, p. 119
type:
quotation
text:
The Pools had given them a “hanging lamp,” coveted by the farmer’s wife; a hideous atrocity in yellow, with pink roses on its shade and prisms dangling and tinkling all around the edge.
ref:
1924, Edna Ferber, chapter 7, in So Big, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, page 114
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice.
The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.
An object considered to be extremely unattractive or undesirable.
senses_topics:
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15198 | word:
priestess
word_type:
noun
expansion:
priestess (plural priestesses, masculine priest)
forms:
form:
priestesses
tags:
plural
form:
priest
tags:
masculine
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From priest + -ess. Compare Middle English preesteresse (“priestess”).
senses_examples:
text:
Sir Knight, said she (whose looks, language, and gesture create strange thoughts within me) be pleased to know, that I am (I will not say the first) of those Ladies of Honour, who wait upon the high-born, illustrious, and refulgent Maulkina, Daughter to the high and mighty Prince Paraclet, Prince of No-Land, on the confines of whose Territories we now are, so it is that the Divine Maulkina having been a vowed Votaress to Diana (whose Priestess she was, and whose Oracles she exhibited) upon a night as she sat at the feet of the Image of that chaste Deity […]
ref:
1656, Samuel Holland, Don Zara Del Fogo, London, retrieved 2019-11-24, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
Among the Northern tribes also the woman was held in all moral aspects the equal of man. Alike the blue-eyed wife of the Barbarian and the proud Roman matron were, as the bearers and breeders of the race, the equals of the fighters and rulers of the race. The importance of their functions was fully recognized and respected, and the priestess at the sylvan altar, the vestals serving the fires and the temples at Rome were held worthy to speak face to face with the gods and convey their blessings to man.
ref:
1894 June, Elizabeth Bisland, “The Cry of the Women”, in The North American Review, volume 158, number 451, →ISSN, →JSTOR, retrieved 2019-11-24, page 758
type:
quotation
text:
The “extenuating circumstances” set forth by the Rev. Mr. Higgins certainly bring home not only the nature of Bishop Hall's problem but its cause; however, the problems of parish life under a deaconess are insignificant in comparison with the very grave issues raised by the ordination of a priestess.
ref:
1944 November 19, “Letters”, in The Living Church, volume 109, number 21, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Morehouse-Gorham Co., page 2
type:
quotation
text:
The churches have enjoyed excellent ecumenical relations, he said, and he will continue to work with Anglicans as he does with Jews, Moslems, Catholics and other religious groups, but he added firmly that “there can never be intercommunion with the Anglican church if it has women priestesses.”[…] “Imagine the problems women priestesses would create with pregnancies and things like that.”
ref:
1976 July 10, Aubrey Wice, “Anglican, Greek Orthodox Doctrines at Odds: Women Priests Create Rift Between Churches”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, →ISSN, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
He has cleverly figured out that the deluded pro-priestess faction of the church already has its necessary two-thirds majority and that the time to act is now.
ref:
1986 June 25, John Fraser, “Dust-up Over Women Will Enliven Anglican Synod”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, →ISSN, page A7
type:
quotation
text:
THE Church of England is considering taking legal action against a recalcitrant opponent of women priests in Hull who refuses to take down a church sign which says: "This Anglican parish has no part in the apostasy of priestesses."
ref:
1996 July 15, Madeleine Bunting, “Priest Defends 'Sexist' Sign”, in The Guardian, London, →ISSN, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
In 1976 [the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA)] formally ratified and accepted the irregular ordination of several priestesses, which had been carried out by a few individual bishops acting without formal approval […] Less than two decades after the creation of priestesses by ECUSA, the Anglican Church in England (sort of a first among equals in the worldwide Anglican Communion) debated and “studied” the issue, formally approving the practice in the early 1990s. […]As “gateway drugs” such as marijuana often introduce youth to even more menacing substances, so the sexual confusion of priestesses opens the doors to sodomy.
ref:
2003 December, Larry A. Carstens, “The Non Serviam of the Episcopal Church: Unsex Me!”, in New Oxford Review, volume 70, number 11, →ISSN, pages 33–34
type:
quotation
text:
As ſoon as they were parted, the Prieſteſs flounced out of the Houſe, call'd for her Coachman, and bid him put in his Horſes, for away would ſhe go […]
ref:
1709, Delarivier Manley, Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes, from the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean, 2nd edition, London, →OCLC, page 158
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain religions.
A priest’s wife.
senses_topics:
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15199 | word:
priestess
word_type:
verb
expansion:
priestess (third-person singular simple present priestesses, present participle priestessing, simple past and past participle priestessed)
forms:
form:
priestesses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
priestessing
tags:
participle
present
form:
priestessed
tags:
participle
past
form:
priestessed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From priest + -ess. Compare Middle English preesteresse (“priestess”).
senses_examples:
text:
Ye Ye Ife, a gifted feminist ritualist and priestess of Oshun from San Diego, trained in the Yoruba tradition, designed and priestessed the ritual with me.
ref:
1998, Wendy Hunter Roberts, Celebrating Her: Feminist Ritualizing Comes of Age, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
Priestessing the earth is for me personally the only natural response to the awe and deep love this evokes in me.
ref:
2014, Danu Forest, Celtic Tree Magic: Ogham Lore and Druid Mysteries
type:
quotation
text:
I priestessed the ceremony. I played Hecate. One time I played Demeter and my daughter played Persephone.
ref:
2014, John C. Sulak, Carl Llewellyn Weschcke, Oberon Zell, The Wizard and the Witch: Seven Decades of Counterculture, Magick & Paganism
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To oversee (a pagan ceremony, etc.) as priestess.
senses_topics:
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