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15200 | word:
graphite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
graphite (countable and uncountable, plural graphites)
forms:
form:
graphites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
graphite
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Graphit (A. G. Werner 1789), from Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “I write”).
senses_examples:
text:
Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder, […]
ref:
1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 4, in Well Tackled!
type:
quotation
text:
Modern tennis racquets are made of graphite, fibreglass and other man-made materials.
type:
example
text:
graphite:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An allotrope of carbon, consisting of planes of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal arrays with the planes stacked loosely, that is used as a dry lubricant, in "lead" pencils, and as a moderator in some nuclear reactors.
Short for graphite-reinforced plastic, a composite plastic made with graphite fibers noted for light weight strength and stiffness.
A grey colour, resembling graphite or the marks made with a graphite pencil.
senses_topics:
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15201 | word:
graphite
word_type:
verb
expansion:
graphite (third-person singular simple present graphites, present participle graphiting, simple past and past participle graphited)
forms:
form:
graphites
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
graphiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
graphited
tags:
participle
past
form:
graphited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
graphite
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Graphit (A. G. Werner 1789), from Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “I write”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To apply graphite to.
senses_topics:
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15202 | word:
Delos
word_type:
name
expansion:
Delos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Δῆλος (Dêlos).
senses_examples:
text:
We may also conclude that as it was the Ionic γένη of the Attic tetrapolis who in the main achieved the Ionization of Athens, so it was a branch of this same stock that settled at Delos […]
ref:
2010, Lewis Richard Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States, page 108
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island in the Cyclades, Greece.
senses_topics:
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15203 | word:
Delos
word_type:
name
expansion:
Delos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
plural of Delo
senses_topics:
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15204 | word:
kaput
word_type:
adj
expansion:
kaput (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”). Cognate to Dutch kapot.
senses_examples:
text:
My car went kaput.
type:
example
text:
His career is kaput.
type:
example
text:
Her marriage went kaput.
type:
example
text:
German propaganda loudspeaker: […] The Statue of Liberty is KAPUT.
Captain Miller: "The Statue of Liberty is kaput" – huh, that's disconcerting.
ref:
1998, Saving Private Ryan (motion picture)
type:
quotation
text:
In the book, his conclusion is simple: capitalism is kaput, celebrity charity won’t plug holes, revolution is the only solution. Yet it also feels like a bit of a cop-out: he insists all this can be achieved through love, peace and understanding.
ref:
2014 October 11, Simon Hattenstone, “Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Out of order; not working.
senses_topics:
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15205 | word:
plane
word_type:
adj
expansion:
plane (comparative planer, superlative planest)
forms:
form:
planer
tags:
comparative
form:
planest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin plānum (“flat surface”), a noun use of the neuter of plānus (“plain”). The word was introduced in the 17th century to distinguish the geometrical senses from the other senses of plain. Doublet of llano, piano, and plain.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a surface: flat or level.
senses_topics:
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15206 | word:
plane
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plane (plural planes)
forms:
form:
planes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin plānum (“flat surface”), a noun use of the neuter of plānus (“plain”). The word was introduced in the 17th century to distinguish the geometrical senses from the other senses of plain. Doublet of llano, piano, and plain.
senses_examples:
text:
Mirrors in the compartments have been canted out of the vertical plane to reduce reflections to the passengers when seated.
ref:
1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 396
type:
quotation
text:
Nettie's stories about her experiences in Africa point out many parallels between the African and American ways of life. Her stories about the African lifestyle and family structure, in particular, point out the sexist and oppressive conditions that women are forced to submit to on a global plane.
ref:
1982 December 4, Catherine Joseph, “Empowered into Enlightenment”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
astral plane
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A level or flat surface.
A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
A level of existence or development.
A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc. (Compare wing, airfoil, hydrofoil.)
Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
anatomy
geometry
mathematics
medicine
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15207 | word:
plane
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plane (plural planes)
forms:
form:
planes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Plane (tool)
etymology_text:
From Middle English plane, plaine, from Anglo-Norman plaine, from Late Latin plāna (“planing tool”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
senses_topics:
business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing |
15208 | word:
plane
word_type:
verb
expansion:
plane (third-person singular simple present planes, present participle planing, simple past and past participle planed)
forms:
form:
planes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
planing
tags:
participle
present
form:
planed
tags:
participle
past
form:
planed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Plane (tool)
etymology_text:
From Middle English plane, plaine, from Anglo-Norman plaine, from Late Latin plāna (“planing tool”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To smooth (wood) with a plane.
senses_topics:
business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing |
15209 | word:
plane
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plane (plural planes)
forms:
form:
planes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of aeroplane.
senses_examples:
text:
The plane is travelling impossibly slowly – 30km an hour – when it gently noses up and leaves the ground. With air beneath them, the rangy wings seem to gain strength; the fuselage that on the ground seemed flimsy becomes elegant, like a crane vaunting in flight. It seems not to fly, though, so much as float.
ref:
2013 September 6, Tom Cheshire, “Solar-powered travel”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An airplane; an aeroplane.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight.
The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.
senses_topics:
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
biology
entomology
natural-sciences |
15210 | word:
plane
word_type:
verb
expansion:
plane (third-person singular simple present planes, present participle planing, simple past and past participle planed)
forms:
form:
planes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
planing
tags:
participle
present
form:
planed
tags:
participle
past
form:
planed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of aeroplane.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move in a way that lifts the bow out of the water.
To glide or soar.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
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15211 | word:
plane
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plane (plural planes)
forms:
form:
planes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English plane, borrowed from Old French plane, from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos), from πλατύς (platús, “wide, broad”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
A sycamore.
senses_topics:
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15212 | word:
chi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chi (plural chis)
forms:
form:
chis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chi (letter)
etymology_text:
From Latin chī, from Ancient Greek χεῖ (kheî).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.
senses_topics:
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15213 | word:
chi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chi (usually uncountable, plural chis)
forms:
form:
chis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chi (force)
chi (letter)
etymology_text:
From the Mandarin 氣／气 (qì) from the Wade–Giles romanization: chʻi⁴, from Middle Chinese 氣 (MC khj+jH), from Old Chinese 氣 (OC *kʰɯds, “breath, vapor”). Compare modern Japanese 気(き) (ki), Korean 기(氣) (gi) and Vietnamese khí (氣).
senses_examples:
text:
Early Taoist philosophers and alchemists regarded ch'i as a vital force inhering in the breath and bodily fluids and developed techniques to alter and control the movement of ch'i within the body; their aim was to achieve physical longevity and spiritual power.]
ref:
[1987, “ch'i”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, volume 3, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 186, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
He took several deep breaths, finding his chi as Butler had taught him.
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2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, Viking Press, page 196
type:
quotation
text:
At the greenmarket, it’s still mostly potatoes and apples. There are no tender greens, fava beans, peas, asparagus, artichokes, sorrel, rhubarb or early strawberries.
Those harbingers of the season are said to be full of chi, or qi, the Chinese word for life force. We’re craving them as we’re craving lighter, brighter-tasting meals, food that is greener and fresher.
ref:
2013 April 2, David Tanis, “Hurry Up, Spring”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-04-02, Dining & Wine
type:
quotation
text:
According to traditional Chinese medicine, blood carries chi, your “life force,” which fuels all the functions of the body. When you lose blood, you lose chi, and this causes your body to go into a state of yin (cold). When yin (cold) and yang (hot) are out of balance, your body will suffer physical disorders.
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2017 January 8, Leslie Hsu Oh, “I tried the Chinese practice of ‘sitting the month’ after childbirth”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-01-08, Health & Science
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A life force in traditional Chinese philosophy, culture, medicine, etc, related (but not limited) to breath and circulation.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences |
15214 | word:
chi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chi (usually uncountable, plural chis)
forms:
form:
chis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chi (letter)
chi (unit)
etymology_text:
From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 尺 (chǐ). Doublet of chek.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Chinese foot, a traditional Chinese unit of length based on the human forearm.
The Chinese unit of length standardized in 1984 as ¹/₃ of a meter.
The Taiwanese unit of length standardized as ¹⁰/₃₃ of a meter, identical to the Japanese shaku.
The chek or Hong Kong foot, a unit of length standardized as 0.371475 meters.
senses_topics:
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15215 | word:
chi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chi (plural chis)
forms:
form:
chis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chi (letter)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of chihuahua.
senses_topics:
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15216 | word:
toxin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
toxin (plural toxins)
forms:
form:
toxins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
toxin
etymology_text:
From Latin toxicum, equivalent to toxi- + -in.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A toxic substance, specifically a poison produced by the biological processes of organisms.
Synonym of toxicant: a toxic substance in a body requiring removal.
senses_topics:
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15217 | word:
Tisch
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tisch (plural Tisches)
forms:
form:
Tisches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Tisch.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname from German.
senses_topics:
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15218 | word:
Iraklion
word_type:
name
expansion:
Iraklion
forms:
wikipedia:
Iraklion
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Greek Ηράκλειο (Irákleio).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Crete, Greece.
A regional unit in central Crete.
senses_topics:
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15219 | word:
budgerigar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
budgerigar (plural budgerigars)
forms:
form:
budgerigars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly an alteration of Gamilaraay gijirrigaa; change of initial syllable unexplained though possibly from Aboriginal Pidgin English budgeree.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A species of small green parrot, Melopsittacus undulatus, native to inland Australia; a common cagebird throughout the world and bred in many colour varieties.
senses_topics:
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15220 | word:
avuncular
word_type:
adj
expansion:
avuncular (comparative more avuncular, superlative most avuncular)
forms:
form:
more avuncular
tags:
comparative
form:
most avuncular
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin avunculus (“maternal uncle”).
senses_examples:
text:
Both uncle Frank and uncle Stephen Austen had made it a point of principle to be rigorously unsentimental in the discharge of their avuncular obligations.
ref:
1997, David Nokes, Jane Austen: A Life
type:
quotation
text:
A man with such a nice, avuncular personality would not blow up the world.
ref:
1987 January, William Schneider, “The New Shape of American Politics”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
I imagine the Dreamward’s Hotel Manager to be an avuncular Norwegian with a rag sweater and a soothing odor of Borkum Rif about him, a guy w/o sunglasses or hauteur who throws open the pressurized doors to the Dreamward’s Bridge and galley and Vacuum Sewage System and personally takes me through, offering pithy and quotable answers to questions before I’ve even asked them.
ref:
1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group
type:
quotation
text:
Thornton's reputation was that of a soft-hearted and avuncular veterinarian known for getting teary-eyed while listening to even slightly sentimental stories.
ref:
2003 September 20, Vicki Croke, “New leader of the MSPCA moves to tame budget woes”, in Boston Globe
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the manner of an uncle, pertaining to an uncle.
Kind, genial, benevolent, or tolerant.
senses_topics:
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15221 | word:
GCSE
word_type:
noun
expansion:
GCSE (plural GCSEs)
forms:
form:
GCSEs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
You need GCSEs in Maths and English to work here.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of General Certificate of Secondary Education: a British qualification taken by secondary school students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
senses_topics:
education |
15222 | word:
atheism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
atheism (usually uncountable, plural atheisms)
forms:
form:
atheisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
atheism
etymology_text:
16th century Middle French athéisme, from athée (“atheist”), a loan from Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos, “godless”, from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + θεός (theós, “deity, god”)).
First English attestation dates to 1587 (OED).
senses_examples:
text:
Near-synonyms: antireligiousness, irreligion, irreligiousness
text:
For atheism to be rationally justified it is only necessary that it be more probable than not or at least more probable than theism. Certainty is no more required in the case of atheism than it is in the case of scientific theories.
ref:
2002, Michael Martin, “Should atheists be agnostics?”, in Julian Baggini, editor, The Philosophers' Magazine, number 19, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2002-12-20, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Near-synonyms: irreligion, irreligiousness, nonreligion, nonreligiousness
text:
The theory of Secularism is a form, not of dogmatic, but of skeptical, Atheism; it is dogmatic only in denying the sufficiency of the evidence for the being and perfections of God. It does not deny, it only does not believe, His existence.
ref:
1857, James Buchanan, Modern Atheism: under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws, Boston: Gould and Lincoln, page 365
type:
quotation
text:
...but Atheism per se simply means, not denial, but rejection, in the sense of not accepting the Theistic theory of the universe which Mr. Lee has put forward tonight.
ref:
1896, George William Foote with W. T. Lee, “First Night”, in Theism or Athiesm: Which is the more reasonable?, London: R. Forder, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
What can parents do, and mothers more especially, […] with regard to the atheism that is natural to all the children of men?
ref:
1829, John Wesley, Sermons, on Several Occasions, 10th edition, volume 2, page 373
type:
quotation
text:
Atheism, in its basic form, is not a belief; it is the absence of belief. An atheist is not primarily a person who believes that a god does not exist; rather, he does not believe in the existence of a god.
ref:
1979, George H. Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God, Buffalo, New York: Prometheus, →LCCN, LCC BL2747.3.S6 1979, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Domitilla, Flavia, niece of the emperor Domitian (81-96). She and her husband, Flavius Clemens (consul in 95 and cousin of Domitian), were probably Christians; charged with atheism and adoption of Jewish ways, they were punished (95) with death (Clemens) and exile (Domitilla).
ref:
1995, Richard P. McBrien, editor, The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism, HarperCollins, keyword Domitilla, Flavia, page 431
type:
quotation
text:
Sacrificial religion becomes redundant – which is why Christianity did indeed have a reputation in the ancient world for atheism: it rejected the key duty humans are thought to owe to the gods, namely sacrifice.
ref:
2010, Ross Thompson, Buddhist Christianity: A Passionate Openness, O-Books, page 260
type:
quotation
text:
Some worldviews are based in a belief in God; others are not. Buddhism, Taoism, atheism, Marxism, and existentialism are examples of worldviews that are nontheistic.
ref:
2009 June 2, Ed Gungor, What Bothers Me Most about Christianity: Honest Reflections from an Open-Minded Christ Follower, Simon and Schuster, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Buddhism and atheism do agree on the view that there is no God. But Buddhism and atheist materialism totally disagree on the points such as “What is life?”, “Is there any Super natural?” etc.
ref:
2013 December 16, Yalith Wijesurendra, Buddhist Answers: For the Critical Questions: A bridge from religion to science and reason, Xlibris Corporation, page 254
type:
quotation
text:
Another reason why the transition between Buddhism and atheism seemed so easy, was my personal discomfort with the theory of reincarnation.
ref:
2016 December 13, Luke C. Hsieh, Unicorn, You Taught Me How to Fly, Lulu Press, Inc
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A non-belief in deities.
Belief that no deities exist (sometimes including rejection of other religious beliefs).
A non-belief in deities.
A lack of belief in deities, or a belief that there is insufficient evidence to believe in a god.
A non-belief in deities.
Absence of belief that any deities exist (including absence of the concept of deities).
Absence of belief in a particular deity, pantheon, or religious doctrine (notwithstanding belief in other deities).
Absence of belief in the One True God, defined by Moore as personal, immaterial and trinitarian (thus Islam, Judaism and unitarian Christianity), as opposed to monotheism.
A rejection of all religions, even non-theistic ones.
senses_topics:
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15223 | word:
bow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bow (plural bows)
forms:
form:
bows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bowe, from Old English boga, Proto-West Germanic *bogō, from Proto-Germanic *bugô.
Cognate with West Frisian boge, Dutch boog, German Bogen, Swedish båge.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] she kept toying with a pair of old sunglasses which lay beside her on the kitchen table. One of the bows had been mended with adhesive tape, and one of the lenses was cracked.
ref:
1991, Stephen King, Needful Things
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: blade
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddle tree.
The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
Either of the two handles of a pair of scissors.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
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15224 | word:
bow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bow (third-person singular simple present bows, present participle bowing, simple past and past participle bowed)
forms:
form:
bows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bowe, from Old English boga, Proto-West Germanic *bogō, from Proto-Germanic *bugô.
Cognate with West Frisian boge, Dutch boog, German Bogen, Swedish båge.
senses_examples:
text:
The musician bowed his violin expertly.
type:
example
text:
The shelf bowed under the weight of the books.
type:
example
text:
Know thou the secret of a spirit
Bow’d from its wild pride into shame.
ref:
1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
To become bent or curved.
To make something bend or curve.
To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
To humble or subdue, to make submit.
senses_topics:
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15225 | word:
bow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bow (third-person singular simple present bows, present participle bowing, simple past and past participle bowed)
forms:
form:
bows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bowen, buwen, buȝen, from Old English būgan, from Proto-West Germanic *beugan, from Proto-Germanic *beuganą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”). Cognate with West Frisian bûge (“to bow”), Dutch buigen (“to bow”), German biegen (“to bow”), Danish bue (“to curve, arch”).
senses_examples:
text:
That singer always bows towards her audience for some reason.
type:
example
text:
The show bowed in the first week of December, 1951. Dinah was ready, and so were the technicians who put on her makeup […]
ref:
1979, Bruce Cassiday, Dinah!: A Biography, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
SCP recently announced that How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical will bow on the newly renovated stage next December.
ref:
2010 (publication date), Kara Krekeler, "Rebuilding the opera house", West End Word, volume 39, number 26, December 22, 2010 – January 11, 2011, page 1
text:
I bow to your better judgement in the matter.
type:
example
text:
Poirot rose gallantly, bowed her into the seat opposite him.
ref:
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 7, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
He saw himself, in a smart suit and a songkok, bowed into the opulent suites of Ritzes and Waldorfs and baring, under dark glasses, a hairy chest to a milder sun by a snakeless sea.
ref:
1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 302
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
To debut.
To defer (to something).
To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
senses_topics:
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15226 | word:
bow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bow (plural bows)
forms:
form:
bows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bowen, buwen, buȝen, from Old English būgan, from Proto-West Germanic *beugan, from Proto-Germanic *beuganą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”). Cognate with West Frisian bûge (“to bow”), Dutch buigen (“to bow”), German biegen (“to bow”), Danish bue (“to curve, arch”).
senses_examples:
text:
He made a polite bow as he entered the room.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
senses_topics:
|
15227 | word:
bow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bow (plural bows)
forms:
form:
bows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bow (ship)
etymology_text:
PIE word
*bʰeh₂ǵʰús
From Middle English bowe, bowgh, a borrowing from Middle Low German bôch and/or Middle Dutch boech, from Proto-Germanic *bōguz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵʰus (“arm”). Cognate with Dutch boeg (“bow”), Danish bov (“bow”), Swedish bog (“bow”). Doublet of bough.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The front of a boat or ship.
The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports |
15228 | word:
bow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bow (plural bows)
forms:
form:
bows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See bough.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of bough.
senses_topics:
|
15229 | word:
bow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bow (plural bows)
forms:
form:
bows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Mandarin 包 (bāo) or Cantonese 包 (baau1).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of bao; any of several Chinese buns and breads
senses_topics:
|
15230 | word:
jandal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jandal (plural jandals)
forms:
form:
jandals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of Japanese + sandal, originally a trademarked name.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flip-flop (type of footwear)
senses_topics:
|
15231 | word:
diamonds
word_type:
noun
expansion:
diamonds
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of diamond
senses_topics:
|
15232 | word:
diamonds
word_type:
noun
expansion:
diamonds pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♦.
Testicles.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
|
15233 | word:
diamonds
word_type:
verb
expansion:
diamonds
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of diamond
senses_topics:
|
15234 | word:
wasabi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wasabi (usually uncountable, plural wasabis)
forms:
form:
wasabis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wasabi
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 山葵 (wasabi).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pungent green Japanese condiment made from the plant Eutrema japonicum (syn. Wasabia japonica).
An imitation of this condiment made from horseradish with green dye.
senses_topics:
|
15235 | word:
Delphi
word_type:
name
expansion:
Delphi
forms:
wikipedia:
Delphi
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δελφοί (Delphoí).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city of ancient Greece, the site of the Delphic oracle
A female given name from Ancient Greek, as well a diminutive of Delphine.
A city, the county seat of Carroll County, Indiana, United States.
A programming language dialect based on Pascal.
A method for obtaining consensus from a group of experts; see Delphi method in Wikipedia.
senses_topics:
|
15236 | word:
Brandenburg
word_type:
name
expansion:
Brandenburg
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* From German Brandenburg.
* (city in Kentucky): Named after Solomon Brandenburg, a land owner.
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 state in the northeast of Germany.
Brandenburg an der Havel, a German town.
The lands of Brandenburg (Mark Brandenburg, Provinz Brandenburg), provinces of Prussia from 1815 to 1946.
A home rule city, the county seat of Meade County, Kentucky, United States.
senses_topics:
|
15237 | word:
Brandenburg
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Brandenburg (plural Brandenburgs)
forms:
form:
Brandenburgs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* From German Brandenburg.
* (city in Kentucky): Named after Solomon Brandenburg, a land owner.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe.
senses_topics:
|
15238 | word:
galah
word_type:
noun
expansion:
galah (plural galahs)
forms:
form:
galahs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
galah
etymology_text:
From Gamilaraay gilaa.
* (fool): A connection with Malay gila (“mad”) has been suggested, but this explanation has not gained acceptance.
]
senses_examples:
text:
There were red-tailed cockatoos, casuarina cockatoos, a little corella and a galah.
ref:
1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 434
type:
quotation
text:
The Galah has benefited from changes in the environment brought about by human activities (Rowley, 1990; Saunders and Ingram, 1995; Forshaw, 2002). The Galah′s diet is predominantly seeds, especially those from cereal crops and agricultural weeds.
ref:
2005, David Lindenmayer, Mark A. Burgman, Practical Conservation Biology, page 175
type:
quotation
text:
That galah nearly drove me off the road.
text:
‘Don′t just stand there, you great galah, lend a hand here!’ Billy Kemp shoved Edmund towards the longboat. ‘Get it free. The lads are bringing up the casks.’
ref:
1991, Patricia Shaw, River of the Sun, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
‘But, Sergeant, I reckon a man would look a proper galah falling about with an empty rifle, going click, click, click, “bang you′re dead” when he wasn′t doing rifle drill on parade, like when it′s not official, know what I mean?’ one of the infantrymen volunteers.
ref:
1999, Bryce Courtenay, Solomon's Song, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
‘[…]Then you will strut around like a great galah tryin′ to impress the sheilas about what a fuckin′ big iron ore miner you are.’
ref:
2006, John Chalmers, The Professional Guest, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Nicky: 'Of course I came. You called me. I am here to help you.' (NICKY sneezes) / Sam: 'You called this galah?'
ref:
2020, "Moments of Silence", in Taskmaster, series 10, episode 8, Channel 4, character scripts in The Smart Steak
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pink and grey species of cockatoo, Eolophus roseicapilla, native to Australia.
A fool, an idiot.
senses_topics:
|
15239 | word:
Australianize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Australianize (third-person singular simple present Australianizes, present participle Australianizing, simple past and past participle Australianized)
forms:
form:
Australianizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Australianizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
Australianized
tags:
participle
past
form:
Australianized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Australianise
senses_topics:
|
15240 | word:
parakeet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
parakeet (plural parakeets)
forms:
form:
parakeets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French perroquet, probably a diminutive form of the personal name Pierre; some variant forms perhaps via Italian parrocchetto, Spanish periquito.
senses_examples:
text:
According to one legend, the parakeets escaped from the set of The African Queen, John Huston's 1951 film made at Shepperton studios.
ref:
2009 October 12, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various species of small parrot primarily of tropical regions.
senses_topics:
|
15241 | word:
volt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
volt (plural volts)
forms:
form:
volts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
volt
etymology_text:
Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Italian Volta.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V
senses_topics:
|
15242 | word:
volt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
volt (plural volts)
forms:
form:
volts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
volt
etymology_text:
From French volte.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a centre makes two concentric tracks.
A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.
senses_topics:
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war |
15243 | word:
volt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
volt (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
volt
etymology_text:
From French volte.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A colour similar to lime often used in Nike products.
A colour similar to lime often used in Nike products.
volt:
volt
senses_topics:
|
15244 | word:
Chios
word_type:
name
expansion:
Chios
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Chios, from Ancient Greek Χίος (Khíos).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the Aegean islands of Greece.
The capital of the island of Chios, Greece.
senses_topics:
|
15245 | word:
hearts
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hearts
forms:
wikipedia:
hearts
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of heart
senses_topics:
|
15246 | word:
hearts
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hearts pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
hearts
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the four suits of playing cards, in red, marked with the symbol ♥.
A trick-taking card game in which players are penalized for taking hearts and (especially) the queen of spades.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
card-games
games |
15247 | word:
hearts
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hearts
forms:
wikipedia:
hearts
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of heart
senses_topics:
|
15248 | word:
automaton
word_type:
noun
expansion:
automaton (plural automatons or automata)
forms:
form:
automatons
tags:
plural
form:
automata
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
automaton
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek αὐτόματον (autómaton), neuter of αὐτόματος (autómatos, “self moving, self willed”). Doublet of automat.
senses_examples:
text:
Due to her strict adherence to her daily schedule, Jessica was becoming more and more convinced that she was an automaton.
type:
example
text:
July 12, 1816, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval Monticello
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion.
A formal system, such as a finite-state machine or cellular automaton.
A toy in the form of a mechanical figure.
The self-acting power of the muscular and nervous systems, by which movement is effected without intelligent determination.
senses_topics:
|
15249 | word:
Belarusian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Belarusian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Belarus + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Belarus, the Belarusian people.
senses_topics:
|
15250 | word:
Belarusian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Belarusian (countable and uncountable, plural Belarusians)
forms:
form:
Belarusians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Belarus + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Slavic language spoken in Belarus (formerly called White Ruthenia or White Russia).
A citizen of Belarus.
senses_topics:
|
15251 | word:
ax
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ax (plural axes)
forms:
form:
axes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of axe
senses_topics:
|
15252 | word:
ax
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ax (third-person singular simple present axes, present participle axing, simple past and past participle axed)
forms:
form:
axes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
axing
tags:
participle
present
form:
axed
tags:
participle
past
form:
axed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of axe
senses_topics:
|
15253 | word:
ax
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ax (third-person singular simple present axes, present participle axing, simple past and past participle axed)
forms:
form:
axes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
axing
tags:
participle
present
form:
axed
tags:
participle
past
form:
axed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English axen, aksen, axien, from Old English ācsian and āxian, showing metathesis from āscian. Ax/aks was common in literary works until about 1600.
senses_examples:
text:
Dolly: And if so be, why did you ax me to keep you company? Housekeeper wants me below to pick raisins.
ref:
1836, Joanna Baillie, The Alienated Manor, act 4
type:
quotation
text:
Ar try who'l ax em the hardest riddle,
ref:
1879, William Barnes, “The Welshnut Tree”, in Complete Poems, volume 1, page 106
type:
quotation
roman:
Ar soonest vind out oone put us, true...
text:
Richard Dauntless: "But, axin' your pardon, miss, might I be permitted to salute the flag I'm a-goin' to sail under?"
ref:
1887, Gilbert and Sullivan, Ruddigore, act 1
type:
quotation
text:
‘I axed him if he knowed the way and he said he had not fergitten the lay of the land.’
ref:
1979, Verna Mae Slone, What My Heart Wants to Tell, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Wise: Your boy left here a while ago
Johnson: I ain' lookin' for him. He at his granmother's. I wanted to ax you somethin'.
ref:
2006 Sept. 17, David Mills, "Soft Eyes", The Wire, 00:19:01
text:
He's cool. Does triathlons dahn de Sahn. Don't drink. Ax me if I want a lift to de beach — he hurd it's a dahnce goin on dahn thurr.
ref:
2013 September 5, James Burton, The Bermuda Sun, archived from the original on 2022-12-12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of ask
senses_topics:
|
15254 | word:
borrow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
borrow (third-person singular simple present borrows, present participle borrowing, simple past and past participle borrowed)
forms:
form:
borrows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
borrowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
borrowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
borrowed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
borrow
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English borwen, borȝien, Old English borgian (“to borrow, lend, pledge surety for”), from Proto-West Germanic *borgōn, from Proto-Germanic *burgōną (“to pledge, take care of”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to take care”).
Cognate with Dutch borgen (“to borrow, trust”), German borgen (“to borrow, lend”), Danish borge (“to vouch”). Related to Old English beorgan (“to save, preserve”). More at bury.
senses_examples:
text:
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
ref:
2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another
type:
example
text:
Dryden’s form is of course borrowed from the ancients
ref:
1881, William Minto, Margaret Bryant, “John Dryden”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
type:
quotation
text:
Rosie, borrow me your look looker, I bet my lips are all. Everytime I eat or drink, so quick I gotta fix ’em, yet.
ref:
1951, The Grenadiers, edited by James P. Leary, Wisconsin Folklore, University of Wisconsin Press, published 1998, Milwaukee Talk, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
Samson, with all the cunning of a rhetorical master, cornered him. 'Then can my young son borrow me his old rifle?'
ref:
1996, Beverley Harper, Storms Over Africa
type:
quotation
text:
In a bank they borrow you the money at very low rates and if you don't take it back, you suffer the consequences in a jail sentence and there's a certain procedure it goes through.
ref:
1999, Sarah Curtis, Children who Break the Law, Or, Everybody Does it, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
The next week she came back and she said to me and my husband, "If I borrow you the money to buy a little house do you think you can pay me back like rent?"
ref:
1999, Marie Hall Ets, Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant, page 233
type:
quotation
text:
Ryan, borrow me your lunch pail so we can fill it with blueberries. Susie can make us a pie.
ref:
2005, Gladys Blyth, Summer at the Cannery, Trafford Publishing, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
Georgi reached for his empty pockets. “Can you borrow me your telephone?”
ref:
2006, Andrés Rueda, The Clawback, Andres Rueda, Chapter 13, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
Gaia, could you borrow me your pencils , today, if you do not use them?
ref:
2007, Silvia Cecchini, Bach Flowers Fairytales, Lulu.com, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
You must borrow me Garagantua's mouth first: 'tis a word too great for any mouth of this age's size: To say, ay, and no, to these particulars, is more than to answer in a catechism.
ref:
1623, William Shakespeare, As You Like It
type:
quotation
text:
Yes, my lord, he told me this in my own house; and I told him he might go to esquire Tindal, and I lent him eighteen pence, and borrowed him a horse in the town.
ref:
1681, Mr. Normanton, quotee, “Trial of Sir Miles Stapleton”, in State Trials, 33 Charles II, page 516
type:
quotation
text:
I went out and borrowed him a night cap; put him my night shirt on, and wrapped him in a blanket.
ref:
1866 April 20, Charles W. G. Howard, “Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), page 84
type:
quotation
text:
My folks couldn't afford a guitar, so my dad borrowed me a mandolin one time, and I was just learning to play it pretty good and the guy that he borrowed it from wanted it back.
ref:
1999 August 1, “Ronnie Dawson, Singer, Comments on his Career and Music”, in NPR_Weekend
type:
quotation
text:
George Lightfoot seemed to have forgotten he was meant to be a Lost Sheep, and turned up as the Tin Man, but I forgave him, because he'd managed to borrow me a divine brass crazier from one of his bishop friends.
ref:
2006, Laurie Graham, Gone with the Windsors, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
But if ony maiden would borrow me,
I would wed her wi' a ring,
And a' my land and a' my houses,
They should a' be at her command.
ref:
Traditional, "Young Beichan" (Child ballad 53)
text:
Can I borrow a sheet of paper?
type:
example
text:
John, can I borrow you for a second? I need your help with the copier.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
To adopt a word from another language.
In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
To lend.
To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
To feign or counterfeit.
To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
arithmetic
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
15255 | word:
borrow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
borrow (countable and uncountable, plural borrows)
forms:
form:
borrows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English borwen, borȝien, Old English borgian (“to borrow, lend, pledge surety for”), from Proto-West Germanic *borgōn, from Proto-Germanic *burgōną (“to pledge, take care of”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to take care”).
Cognate with Dutch borgen (“to borrow, trust”), German borgen (“to borrow, lend”), Danish borge (“to vouch”). Related to Old English beorgan (“to save, preserve”). More at bury.
senses_examples:
text:
This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.
type:
example
text:
The amount of borrow, as we term it, that must be taken from the side of any particular slope is entirely a matter of mathematical calculation, […]
ref:
1905, Harry Vardon, The Complete Golfer
type:
quotation
text:
[…] slippery contours, so that in making a side hill putt more than the usual amount of borrow had to be considered.
ref:
2020, George C. Thomas, Golf Architecture in America: Its Strategy and Construction
type:
quotation
text:
As previously indicated, slurry used for construction of the slurry cutoff trench at Beaver Creek Dam was produced with natural clays and clay tills from local borrows.
ref:
1979, The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin
type:
quotation
text:
If we currently have any borrows of a value, we can't mutably borrow it into self, nor can we move it (because that would invalidate the existing borrows).
ref:
2018, Daniel Arbuckle, Rust Quick Start Guide
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
A borrow pit.
In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
senses_topics:
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
civil-engineering
construction
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
15256 | word:
borrow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
borrow (plural borrows)
forms:
form:
borrows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English borwe, borgh, from Old English borh, borg, from Proto-West Germanic *borgōn, from Proto-Germanic *burgōną (“to borrow, lend”) (related to Etymology 1, above).
senses_examples:
text:
”where am I to find such a sum? If I sell the very pyx and candlesticks on the altar at Jorvaulx, I shall scarce raise the half; and it will be necessary for that purpose that I go to Jorvaulx myself; ye may retain as borrows my two priests.”
ref:
1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
A surety; someone standing bail.
senses_topics:
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15257 | word:
n/a
word_type:
adj
expansion:
a (not comparable)
forms:
form:
a
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
n/a
etymology_text:
From Latin non + applicabitis, from applicō (“join to, attach, apply”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
not applicable
not available
not assigned, no assignment
non-assessable
not attested
not approved
nonalcoholic (used in the restaurant industry)
senses_topics:
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15258 | word:
n/a
word_type:
noun
expansion:
a (uncountable)
forms:
form:
a
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
n/a
etymology_text:
From Latin non + applicabitis, from applicō (“join to, attach, apply”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of no answer.
Initialism of nothing added.
senses_topics:
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15259 | word:
deserter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
deserter (plural deserters)
forms:
form:
deserters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
desertion
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin desertor (“deserter”), from desero (“I forsake, I abandon”); or from desert + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who has physically removed him- or herself from the control or direction of a military or naval unit with the intention of permanently leaving
A person who has physically removed him- or herself from the control or direction of a military or naval unit with the intention of permanently leaving
Under the United States Code of Military Justice, a person who has been placed on AWOL status for more than 30 days
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war |
15260 | word:
siblings
word_type:
noun
expansion:
siblings
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of sibling
senses_topics:
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15261 | word:
Thessaloniki
word_type:
name
expansion:
Thessaloniki
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Greek Θεσσαλονίκη (Thessaloníki), from 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.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A port city in northern Greece, the capital of the Greek region of Macedonia.
senses_topics:
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15262 | word:
Canadianize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Canadianize (third-person singular simple present Canadianizes, present participle Canadianizing, simple past and past participle Canadianized)
forms:
form:
Canadianizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Canadianizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
Canadianized
tags:
participle
past
form:
Canadianized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Canadian + -ize.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become naturalized as a citizen of Canada.
To make Canadian as to custom, culture, or style.
To localize a medium for sale or use in Canada.
senses_topics:
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15263 | word:
venomous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
venomous (comparative more venomous, superlative most venomous)
forms:
form:
more venomous
tags:
comparative
form:
most venomous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English venymous, from Old French venimos, composed of venim (“venom”) + -os (adjective-forming suffix). Synchronically analysable as venom + -ous. Compare Modern French venimeux.
senses_examples:
text:
Do venomous spiders have glands?
type:
example
text:
The villain tricked him into drinking the venomous concoction.
type:
example
text:
Arsenal pressed forward again after half-time but other than a venomous [Theo] Walcott shot that [Tim] Howard repelled with a fine one-handed save, the hosts offered little cutting edge.
ref:
2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 – 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2023-04-30
type:
quotation
text:
His attitude toward me is utterly venomous.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of an animal (specifically a snake) or parts of its body: producing venom (“a toxin intended for defensive or offensive use”) which is usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging; hence, of a bite or sting: injecting venom.
Of or pertaining to venom.
Consisting of, or containing or full of, venom or some other poison; hence, harmful to health due to this.
Posing a threat; dangerous, threatening.
Hateful; malignant; spiteful.
Of a weapon such as an arrow or dart: dosed with venom or poison; envenomed, poisoned.
Harmful, hurtful, injurious; specifically, morally or spiritually harmful; evil, noxious, pernicious.
senses_topics:
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15264 | word:
Mongolian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Mongolian (comparative more Mongolian, superlative most Mongolian)
forms:
form:
more Mongolian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Mongolian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Mongolian (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Originally from Mongol + -ian, a translation (1706) of the German mongolisch, mongalisch. Subsequently, from the name of the country of Mongolia + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
1706, Evert Ysbants Ides, Three years travels from Moscow over-land to China:
type:
quotation
text:
The Mongolian variety inhabits eastern Asia, Finland, and Lapland in Europe, and includes the Esquimaux of North America.
ref:
1828, John Stark, Elements of natural history
type:
quotation
text:
The white (or Caucasian), the yellow (or Mongolian), and the black (or Ethiopian)
ref:
1834, Penny cyclopædia of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, volume II
type:
quotation
text:
It was not so much their Mongolian features that impressed everyone...
ref:
1990, Louis de Bernières, The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
type:
quotation
text:
Alternative form: mongolian
text:
The Mongolian type of idiocy occurs in more than ten per cent. of the cases which are presented to me.
ref:
1866, John Langdon Haydon Down, Clinical lectures and reports by the medical and surgical staff of the London Hospital, volume II
type:
quotation
text:
The condition known as trisomy 21 syndrome or mongolian idiocy (sometimes referred to as Down's syndrome) had long been an enigma.
ref:
1965, H. Eldon Sutton, An introduction to human genetics
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Mongolia or its peoples, languages, or cultures.
He had a Sister, which according to the Mongalian custom lived in the devoted spiritual state.
1878, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9th edition, volume XVI
1878, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9th edition, volume XVI:
The Mongolian characters...are written perpendicularly from above downward.
The Mongolian characters...are written perpendicularly from above downward.
1985, Robert Whelan, Robert Capa: A Biography
1985, Robert Whelan, Robert Capa: A Biography:
He usually had a heavy growth of dark stubble that made him look...rather like a Mongolian bandit.
He usually had a heavy growth of dark stubble that made him look...rather like a Mongolian bandit.
Resembling or having some of the characteristic physical features of the mongoloid racial type.
Relating to or affected with Down syndrome.
senses_topics:
anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
|
15265 | word:
Mongolian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Mongolian (countable and uncountable, plural Mongolians)
forms:
form:
Mongolians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Mongolian (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Originally from Mongol + -ian, a translation (1706) of the German mongolisch, mongalisch. Subsequently, from the name of the country of Mongolia + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
The Cossac there, The Calmuc, and Mungalian, round the bales In crowds resort.
ref:
1757, John Dyer, The fleece, a poem, published 1807
type:
quotation
text:
This day we saw some scattered tents of Mongalians, with their flocks.
ref:
1763, John Bell, A journey from St. Petersburg to Pekin
type:
quotation
text:
The Mongolians are the most nomadic of populations.
ref:
1854, Robert G. Latham, Orr's Circle of the sciences: Organic nature
type:
quotation
text:
Mongolians now regard animal husbandry as a low-status occupation.
ref:
1990 September 1, New Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
Khalka […] Mongolian possesses seven vowels and twenty consonants.
ref:
1926, Neville J. Whymant, A Mongolian Grammar
type:
quotation
text:
The Altaic family […] comprises about 40 languages, classified into three groups: Turkic, Mongolian, and Manchu-Tungus.
ref:
1987, David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
type:
quotation
text:
These inscriptions are in Mongolian and thus widen the appliqué's international connections.
ref:
1990 April, Orientations
type:
quotation
text:
A particular individual which the latter considered a Mongolian and the former assures us is an Ethiopian.
ref:
1823 July, North American Revolution
type:
quotation
text:
She was found to be one of the type of white women whose nasal organs appear never to have been developed, and who take to the loathsome Mongolian and his filthy hovel as blithely as a plague rat to a sewer.
ref:
1903 February 8, The Truth, Sydney, page 3, column 4
type:
quotation
text:
Extreme forms like the Australians, Negroes, Mongolians, and Europeans may be described as races because each has certain characteristics which set them off from other groups, and which are strictly hereditary.
ref:
1938, Franz Boas et al., General Anthropology
type:
quotation
text:
The thesis of this work was that native Americans were one race distinct from Eskimos and Mongolians.
ref:
1988, Current Anthropology, volume 29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Mongolia.
A group of languages from Mongolia, specifically Khalkha, the official language of Mongolia.
A person of the mongoloid physical type.
senses_topics:
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15266 | word:
horseradish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
horseradish (countable and uncountable, plural horseradishes)
forms:
form:
horseradishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
horseradish
etymology_text:
From horse + radish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A plant of the mustard family, Armoracia rusticana.
A pungent condiment made from the root of the plant.
senses_topics:
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15267 | word:
poisonous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
poisonous (comparative more poisonous, superlative most poisonous)
forms:
form:
more poisonous
tags:
comparative
form:
most poisonous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English poisounous, poysonouse. By surface analysis, poison + -ous.
senses_examples:
text:
While highly poisonous to dogs, this substance is completely harmless if ingested by humans.
type:
example
text:
Nor taint-worm ſhall infect the yeaning herds / Nor penny-graſs, nor ſpearwort's poiſ'nous leaf.
ref:
1757, John Dyer, “Book I”, in The Fleece: A Poem […], London: R. and J. Dodsley, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
I had picked a mushroom so poisonous that particles of it, stuck to my fingers and accidentally swallowed, could have made me deathly ill, and a piece the size of my thumb could have killed me.
ref:
2003, Charles L. Fergus, Common Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northeast, Stackpole Books, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
Poisonous snakes should only be handled by experienced professionals.
type:
example
text:
The Cencoatl (o), which is alſo a poiſonous ſnake, is about five feet long, and eight inches round at the thickeſt part.
ref:
1787, F.S. Clavigero, The History of Mexico, London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
The characteristics which separate the dangerously venomous groups from their non-poisonous relatives are emphasized.
ref:
1963, United States. Navy Department. Naval Operations Office, Poisonous Snakes of World, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
These antivenins make living near poisonous spiders much safer.
ref:
2002, B. Kalman and K. Smithyman, The Life Cycle of a Spider, Crabtree Publishing Company, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
He didn't want to end up like his grandfather, bitter and intractable, consumed in his hatred like an addict on haze — a poisonous attitude that would possess him all his remaining years.
ref:
2013, Kylie Griffin, Allegiance Sworn, Penguin
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Containing sufficient poison to be dangerous to touch or ingest.
Of an animal such as a snake or spider, or parts of its body: producing a toxin intended for defensive or offensive use which is usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging; hence, of a bite or sting: injecting poison.
Negative, harmful.
senses_topics:
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15268 | word:
Alzheimer's disease
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Alzheimer's disease (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), a German neurologist who described the disease in 1906.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A disorder involving loss of mental functions resulting from brain tissue changes; senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type.
senses_topics:
medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences |
15269 | word:
Python
word_type:
name
expansion:
Python
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), from Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ), the early name of Delphi, from πύθω (púthō, “to rot, to decay”).
The programming language is named after Monty Python.
senses_examples:
text:
Here Apollo killed a serpent called the Python, and established a great prophetic shrine. Sometimes it is said that the Titaness Themis had the shrine before him, and this, as well as the killing of the Python, suggests that Apollo took over a place already of religious significance, associated with chthonic (i.e., earth) powers.
ref:
1995, Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood, A Short Guide to Classical Mythology, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
It would seem, therefore, that what we have on the Phasian phiale is the Python coiled round the omphalos.[…]Paintings on Greek pottery and coins have preserved many an example of gods seated on an omphalos, including those of Apollo, Nike, Asclepius and others.⁴¹³ Python on the omphalos must have carried some symbolic meaning.
ref:
2000, Otar Lordkipanidze, Phasis: The River and City in Colchis, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
Python, says Bailey, is derived from Putho to putrify, and the serpent Python being slain by Apollo, is thus interpreted: by Python is understood the ruin of the waters; Apollo slew this serpent with his arrows; that is, the beams of the sun dispersed the noxious vapours, which destroyed man like a devouring serpent.
ref:
2005, M. A. Dwight, Taylor Lewis, Grecian and Roman Mythology, page 183
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The earth-dragon of Delphi, represented as a serpent, killed by Apollo.
An interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language invented by Guido van Rossum.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15270 | word:
Python
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Python (plural Pythons)
forms:
form:
Pythons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), from Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ), the early name of Delphi, from πύθω (púthō, “to rot, to decay”).
The programming language is named after Monty Python.
senses_examples:
text:
John Cleese is perhaps the best-known of the Pythons.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any member of the comedy troupe Monty Python: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones or Michael Palin.
senses_topics:
|
15271 | word:
Nuuk
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nuuk
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Danish Nuuk.
From Greenlandic Nuuk, capitalization of Greenlandic nuuk (“cape”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Greenland.
senses_topics:
|
15272 | word:
alopecia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alopecia (countable and uncountable, plural alopecias)
forms:
form:
alopecias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
alopecia
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin alopecia, from the Ancient Greek ἀλωπεκία (alōpekía, “fox-mange”), from ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx, “fox”) + -ία (-ía, a formative ending used in Ancient Greek, especially used in naming diseases).
senses_examples:
text:
“Jada, can’t wait for GI Jane 2,” Rock said in an apparent reference to her shaved hair, which is a result of the hair loss condition alopecia.
ref:
2022 March 28, Nadia Khomami, “‘Violence instead of words’: Will Smith condemned for hitting Chris Rock at the Oscars”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Baldness.
Deficiency of the hair, which may be caused by failure to grow or loss after growth.
Loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers, whether natural or caused by disease.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences
medicine
sciences |
15273 | word:
Australianise
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Australianise (third-person singular simple present Australianises, present participle Australianising, simple past and past participle Australianised)
forms:
form:
Australianises
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Australianising
tags:
participle
present
form:
Australianised
tags:
participle
past
form:
Australianised
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Australian + -ise.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make Australian as to custom, culture, or style.
To localise a medium for sale or use in Australia.
senses_topics:
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15274 | word:
wat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wat (plural wats)
forms:
form:
wats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Thai วัด (wát).
senses_examples:
text:
There are two wats near this village.
type:
example
text:
Angkor Wat
type:
example
text:
Having at last got past the crowd of boats, we advanced rapidly for two hours more, when we stopped at a wat, in order to give the men a rest.
ref:
1857, Sir John Bowring, The kingdom and people of Siam, volume 1, page 165
type:
quotation
text:
Aside from its religious function in the community, the wat also performs a large variety of social functions.
ref:
1982, Carlo Caldarola, Religions and societies, Asia and the Middle East, page 379
type:
quotation
text:
It would be a mistake, however, to emphasize the Hindu element in Cambodian Buddhism and Cambodian temples. At its greatest it is always a subordinate element and in most of the wats or temples it hardly appears at all, […]
ref:
1996, James Bissett Pratt, The Pilgrimage of Buddhism and a Buddhist Pilgrimage, page 194
type:
quotation
text:
It is often possible to discern the motivation or importance of a wat by examining its name
ref:
1999, Steve Van Beek with Luca Invernizzi, The arts of Thailand, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
The ubosoth is in a small enclosure just before the main entrance to the wat, on the right, which has fine gilded doors. The wat has a small museum.
ref:
2003, Joshua Eliot with Jane Bickersteth, Thailand handbook, page 268
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia, especially those in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.
senses_topics:
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15275 | word:
wat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wat
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowing from Amharic ወጥ (wäṭ).
senses_examples:
text:
In Ethiopia, a volcanic pepper and spice seasoning, berbere, is widely used, and the stews called wats are eaten with a spongy flat bread, injera.]
ref:
[1987 July 29, Steven Barboza, “Culinary Delights of Africa Reflect a Continent's Diversity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kind of stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle |
15276 | word:
wat
word_type:
pron
expansion:
wat
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variation of what, used for humorous effect.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of what
senses_topics:
|
15277 | word:
wat
word_type:
adv
expansion:
wat (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variation of what, used for humorous effect.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of what
senses_topics:
|
15278 | word:
wat
word_type:
det
expansion:
wat
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variation of what, used for humorous effect.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of what
senses_topics:
|
15279 | word:
axis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
axis (plural axes or (rare) axiis)
forms:
form:
axes
tags:
plural
form:
axiis
tags:
plural
rare
wikipedia:
axis
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin axis (“axle, axis”) in the 16th century.
senses_examples:
text:
A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
ref:
2012 March 24, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3
type:
quotation
text:
The Earth rotates once a day on its axis
type:
example
text:
This Berlin-Rome vertical line is not an obstacle but rather an axis around which can revolve all those European states with a will to collaboration and peace.
ref:
1936, November 1st, Benito Mussolini, Milan Speech
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An imaginary line around which an object spins (an axis of rotation) or is symmetrically arranged (an axis of symmetry).
A fixed one-dimensional figure, such as a line or arc, with an origin and orientation and such that its points are in one-to-one correspondence with a set of numbers; an axis forms part of the basis of a space or is used to position and locate data in a graph (a coordinate axis)
The second cervical vertebra of the spine
An imaginary, visualized plane separating two morphologically similar parts of an organism
A form of classification and descriptions of mental disorders or disabilities used in manuals such as the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
The main stem or central part about which organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged
An alliance or coalition.
The centre of attention within a process (e.g. the axis of investigation)
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
government
military
politics
war
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15280 | word:
axis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
axis (plural axises)
forms:
form:
axises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
axis
etymology_text:
From Latin, name of an Indian animal mentioned by the Roman senator Pliny.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A deer native to Asia, of species Axis axis.
senses_topics:
|
15281 | word:
Piraeus
word_type:
name
expansion:
Piraeus
forms:
wikipedia:
Piraeus
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Πειραιεύς (Peiraieús).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality and port in Greece, part of Athens agglomeration, the chief port of Athens, located on the Saronic Gulf.
A regional unit of Greece
senses_topics:
|
15282 | word:
baboon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
baboon (plural baboons)
forms:
form:
baboons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
baboon
etymology_text:
From Middle English babewin, baboin, from Old French babouin, from baboue (“grimace; muzzle”), of West Germanic origin, related to dialectal German Bäppe (“lips; muzzle”), Middle High German beffen (“to bark”), Middle English baffen (“to bark”). See also baff, baffle.
senses_examples:
text:
Mix swallowed the comment he wanted to make, that the council hall stank like a congress of baboons. But he was in no position to insult his host, nor should he. The man was only expressing the attitude of his time.
ref:
1971, Philip José Farmer, Down in the Black Gang: and others; a story collection, Nelson Doubleday, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
ref:
2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2017-06-21, page 162
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks.
A foolish or boorish person.
senses_topics:
|
15283 | word:
Acheron
word_type:
name
expansion:
Acheron
forms:
wikipedia:
Acheron
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin Acherōn, from Ancient Greek Ἀχέρων (Akhérōn), probably Pre-Greek but folk-etymologically said to be from ἄχος (ákhos, “pain, distress”) + ῥέον (rhéon, “stream”).
senses_examples:
text:
Behold! I rise from primal silence / As a storm crushing dismal shores ov Acheron
ref:
2009, Behemoth, The Seed ov I
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A river in the infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets, it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.
Hell
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
|
15284 | word:
Acheron
word_type:
name
expansion:
Acheron
forms:
wikipedia:
Acheron
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A language of Sudan.
senses_topics:
|
15285 | word:
violence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
violence (countable and uncountable, plural violences)
forms:
form:
violences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English violence, from Old French violence, from Latin violentia, from adjective violentus, see violent. Displaced native Old English stræc.
senses_examples:
text:
The violence of the storm, fortunately, was more awesome than destructive.
type:
example
text:
Some others get a rotten wheele, all worne and cast aside,
Which covered round about with strawe, and tow, they closely hide:
And caryed to some mountaines top, being all with fire light,
ref:
1570, Thomas Naogeorgus, translated by Barnabe Googe, The Popish Kingdome
type:
quotation
roman:
They hurle it down with violence, when darke appeares the night
text:
We try to avoid violence in resolving conflicts.
type:
example
text:
One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
ref:
2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Violence between the government and the rebels continues.
type:
example
text:
The translation does violence to the original novel.
type:
example
text:
Racism, classism, sexism, ethnocentrism, and heterosexism are also wicked problems of structural violence […]
ref:
2017, Kevin J. O'Brien, The Violence of Climate Change
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Extreme force.
Physical action which causes destruction, harm, pain, or suffering.
Widespread fighting.
Injustice, wrong.
senses_topics:
|
15286 | word:
violence
word_type:
verb
expansion:
violence (third-person singular simple present violences, present participle violencing, simple past and past participle violenced)
forms:
form:
violences
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
violencing
tags:
participle
present
form:
violenced
tags:
participle
past
form:
violenced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English violence, from Old French violence, from Latin violentia, from adjective violentus, see violent. Displaced native Old English stræc.
senses_examples:
text:
The key general point is that the idea of the agendered, asexual, aviolenced worker is a fiction; workers and organizational members do not exist in social abstraction; they are gendered, sexualed and violenced, partly by their position ...
ref:
1996, Professor Cathy Nutbrown, Respectful Educators - Capable Learners: Children's Rights and Early Education, SAGE, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
And the triad is made complete by she who is violenced by him.
ref:
2011, Timothy D. Forsyth, The Alien, AuthorHouse, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
He physically violenced my mother, physically violenced me and my brothers, and was sexually abusive to me until I was in second grade.
ref:
2012, Megan Sweeney, The Story Within Us: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading, University of Illinois Press, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To subject to violence.
senses_topics:
|
15287 | word:
Gaul
word_type:
name
expansion:
Gaul
forms:
wikipedia:
Gaul
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French Gaule (“Gaul”), from Middle French Gaule (“Gaul”), from Old French Gaule, Waulle (“Gaul”, a term used to translate unrelated Latin Gallia (“Gaul”)), from Frankish *Walha(land) (“Gaul, Land of the Romans, foreigners”), from Proto-West Germanic *walh (“foreigner, Roman, Celt”), from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“an outlander, foreigner, Celt”), probably of Celtic origin, from the same source as Latin Volcae (name of a Celtic tribe in South Germany, which later emigrated to Gaul).
Akin to Old High German Walh, Walah (“a Celt, Roman, Gaul”), Old English Wealh, Walh (“a non-Germanic foreigner, Celt/Briton/Welshman”), Old Norse Valir (“Gauls, Frenchmen”). More at Wales/Welsh, Cornwall, Walloon, and Vlach/Wallachia.
Despite their similar appearance, Latin Gallia is not the origin of French Gaule. During the evolution from Latin to French, stressed initial /ˈɡa-/ yielded /dʒa/ > /ʒa/ (cf. Latin gamba > French jambe), while unstressed final /-lia/ yielded /ʎə/ > /j/ (cf. Latin filia > French fille). Thus, the regular outcome of Latin Gallia is /ʒaj/ ⟨Jaille⟩, which is attested in several French toponyms: La Jaille-Yvon, Saint-Mars-la-Jaille, etc.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A historical region roughly corresponding to modern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy (Lombardy), the Netherlands, and Germany west of the Rhine.
senses_topics:
|
15288 | word:
Gaul
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Gaul (plural Gauls)
forms:
form:
Gauls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Gauls
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French Gaule (“Gaul”), from Middle French Gaule (“Gaul”), from Old French Gaule, Waulle (“Gaul”, a term used to translate unrelated Latin Gallia (“Gaul”)), from Frankish *Walha(land) (“Gaul, Land of the Romans, foreigners”), from Proto-West Germanic *walh (“foreigner, Roman, Celt”), from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“an outlander, foreigner, Celt”), probably of Celtic origin, from the same source as Latin Volcae (name of a Celtic tribe in South Germany, which later emigrated to Gaul).
Akin to Old High German Walh, Walah (“a Celt, Roman, Gaul”), Old English Wealh, Walh (“a non-Germanic foreigner, Celt/Briton/Welshman”), Old Norse Valir (“Gauls, Frenchmen”). More at Wales/Welsh, Cornwall, Walloon, and Vlach/Wallachia.
Despite their similar appearance, Latin Gallia is not the origin of French Gaule. During the evolution from Latin to French, stressed initial /ˈɡa-/ yielded /dʒa/ > /ʒa/ (cf. Latin gamba > French jambe), while unstressed final /-lia/ yielded /ʎə/ > /j/ (cf. Latin filia > French fille). Thus, the regular outcome of Latin Gallia is /ʒaj/ ⟨Jaille⟩, which is attested in several French toponyms: La Jaille-Yvon, Saint-Mars-la-Jaille, etc.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Gaul.
senses_topics:
|
15289 | word:
subtle
word_type:
adj
expansion:
subtle (comparative subtler or more subtle, superlative subtlest or most subtle)
forms:
form:
subtler
tags:
comparative
form:
more subtle
tags:
comparative
form:
subtlest
tags:
superlative
form:
most subtle
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sotil, soubtil, subtil, borrowed from Old French soutil, subtil, from Latin subtīlis (“fine, thin, slender, delicate”); probably, originally, “woven fine”, and from sub (“under”) + tēla (“a web”), from texere (“to weave”). Displaced native Old English smēag (literally “creeping”).
senses_examples:
text:
The difference is subtle, but you can hear it if you listen carefully.
type:
example
text:
The mighty Magnet from the Center darts / This ſtrong, tho' ſubtile Force, thro' all the Parts: / Its active Rays ejaculated thence, / Irradiate all the wide Circumference.
ref:
1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem. Demonstrating the Existence and Providence of a God. In Seven Books, book I, London: Printed for S. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little-Britain; and J[acob] Tonson, at Shakespear's Head over-against Catherine-Street in the Strand, OCLC 731619916; 5th edition, Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, in Dame's-street, 1727, OCLC 728300884, page 7
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hard to grasp; not obvious or easily understood.
Barely noticeable, not obvious, indistinct.
Cleverly contrived.
Cunning, skillful.
Insidious.
Tenuous; rarefied; of low density or thin consistency.
Refined; exquisite.
senses_topics:
|
15290 | word:
mongoose
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mongoose (plural mongooses or (nonstandard) mongeese)
forms:
form:
mongooses
tags:
plural
form:
mongeese
tags:
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
mongoose
etymology_text:
First attested in the 1690s. Borrowed from Portuguese mangusto, from Marathi मुंगूस (muṅgūs), from Old Marathi 𑘦𑘳𑘽𑘐𑘳𑘭 (muṃgusa), from Sanskrit मद्गुश (madguśa). Ultimately a Dravidian borrowing (compare Telugu ముంగిస (muṅgisa)). Spelling altered by folk-etymological association with goose. Displaced native Old English nǣderbita (literally “snake biter”).
senses_examples:
text:
After the mongoose had satisfied its appetite, we proceeded to examine with a pocket lens the wounds he had received from the cobra; and on cleansing one of these places, the lens disclosed the broken fang of the cobra deeply imbedded in the head of the mongoose... We have had the mongoose confined ever since (now four days' time), and it is as healthy and lively as ever.
ref:
1864, John Holmes Agnew et al., The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature
type:
quotation
text:
He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.
ref:
1924, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book:Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several species of generalist predatory Carnivores in the family Herpestidae; the various species range in size from rats to large cats. The Indian mongoose is noted as a predator of venomous snakes, though other mongoose species have similar habits.
Any members of family Eupleridae of Malagasy mongooses, only distantly related to the Herpestidae, but resembling them in appearance and habits, with larger ears and ringed tails.
senses_topics:
|
15291 | word:
static
word_type:
adj
expansion:
static (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
static
etymology_text:
Modern Latin staticus, from Ancient Greek στατικός (statikós), from ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to make stand”). By surface analysis, stasis + -tic.
senses_examples:
text:
It's important to know that the Earth's crust is in no manner a stable and static place.
ref:
2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition
type:
quotation
text:
England were ponderous with ball in hand, their runners static when taking the ball and their lines obvious, while their front row struggled badly in the scrum.
ref:
2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
A further advantage of static type checking is of course computational efficiency, since run time checks are no longer necessary.
ref:
1980, R. Barbuti, A. Martelli, “Static Type Checking for Languages with Parametric Types and Polymorphic Procedures”, in Proceedings of the Fourth ‘Colloque Internationale sur la Programmation’
type:
quotation
text:
A static variable is one whose storage remains allocated for the duration of the entire program. All global variables are static variables.
ref:
1998, Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, Mark R. Headington, chapter 8, in Programming and Problem Solving with C++
type:
quotation
text:
Despite the term, a static website doesn’t mean one that never changes. Static refers to the fact that the site’s assets—HTML files, graphics, and other downloadable content such as PDF files—are just static files sitting in an S3 bucket.
ref:
2019, Ben Piper, David Clinton, chapter 12, in AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide with Online Labs
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
Making no progress; stalled, without movement or advancement.
Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.
Computed, created, or allocated before the program starts running, as opposed to at runtime.
Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
|
15292 | word:
static
word_type:
noun
expansion:
static (countable and uncountable, plural statics)
forms:
form:
statics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
static
etymology_text:
Modern Latin staticus, from Ancient Greek στατικός (statikós), from ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to make stand”). By surface analysis, stasis + -tic.
senses_examples:
text:
Near-synonyms: shash, snow
text:
The World Series was on, but there was so much static that we could barely even follow the action.
type:
example
text:
The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.
ref:
1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)
text:
The girls don't seem to care tonight / As long as the mood is right / No static at all (no static, no static at all) / FM (no static at all)
ref:
1978, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen (lyrics and music), “FM (No Static at All)”, in FM (soundtrack), performed by Steely Dan
type:
quotation
text:
Damaged Hologram: --alled Reapers. [static]... the Citadel... [static] ...overwhelmed... [static] ...only hope... [static]...
Damaged Hologram: --[static] act of desperation... [static] ... the Conduit... [static] ... all is lost [static]
Damaged Hologram: ...cannot be stopped... [static] ...cannot be stopped... [static]
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Ilos
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: runaround
text:
I was getting a lot of static from the bean counters whenever I tried to proceed.
type:
example
text:
Near-synonym: flak
text:
Don't you be giving me any static over it. You know the rules.
type:
example
text:
You want to start some static?
ref:
1984, Daniel Petrie Jr., Beverly Hills Cop, spoken by Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy), Paramount Pictures
type:
quotation
text:
And then she heads for the clinic and she gets some static walkin' through the doors / They call her a killer, and they call her a sinner, and they call her a whore
ref:
1998, “What It's Like”, performed by Everlast
type:
quotation
text:
This stupid carpet is always giving me a shock from the static.
type:
example
text:
Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time.
ref:
2000, Dov Bulka, David Mayhew, Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques, page 149
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.
Interference or obstruction from people.
Verbal abuse.
Static electricity.
A static caravan.
A static variable.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
15293 | word:
aggregate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aggregate (countable and uncountable, plural aggregates)
forms:
form:
aggregates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin aggregātus, perfect passive participle of aggregō (“I flock together”), from ag- (combining form of ad (“to, toward”)) + gregō (“I flock or group”), from grex (“flock”). Compare gregarious.
senses_examples:
text:
If the nebulosity were due to an aggregate of stars so far off as to be separately indistinguishable, then the central body would have to be a star of almost incomparably greater dimensions than an ordinary star; if, on the other hand, the central body were of dimensions comparable with those of an ordinary star, the nebulosity must be due to something other than a star cluster.
ref:
1898, Arthur Berry, chapter 12, in A Short History of Astronomy, Herschel
type:
quotation
text:
1847, William Black, A Practical Treatise on Brewing : Calculating Lengths and Gravities
This in the second boiling will be replaced by nearly an equal quantity of worts, of the same gravity as turned out of the copper, which, in making the calculation, is to be deducted from the aggregate of the second worts, and so on with a third wort if necessary.
text:
Brazil won the first series 2-0 on aggregate before Argentina got revenge in 2012 via a penalty shootout.
ref:
12 December 2016, Associated Press, Brazil and Argentina reportedly to play friendly at MCG in 2017
text:
"Yes sair," returned the Frenchman, whose prominent eyes were watching the precarious footsteps of the beast he rode, as it picked its dangerous way among the roots of trees, holes, log bridges, and sloughs that formed the aggregate of the highway.
ref:
1823, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 21, in The Pioneers
type:
quotation
text:
He explained that engineers had been able to examine the bridge visually, and had started surveying likely sites for access roads and where to place the heavyweight crawler crane. NR was also ordering the aggregates needed for the access roads.
ref:
2020 August 26, “Network News: Mid-September before line reopens, says Network Rail”, in Rail, page 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
A set (collection of objects).
The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores.
Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements; especially the gravel and sand added to concrete.
Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.
A mechanical mixture of more than one phase.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
|
15294 | word:
aggregate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aggregate (comparative more aggregate, superlative most aggregate)
forms:
form:
more aggregate
tags:
comparative
form:
most aggregate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin aggregātus, perfect passive participle of aggregō (“I flock together”), from ag- (combining form of ad (“to, toward”)) + gregō (“I flock or group”), from grex (“flock”). Compare gregarious.
senses_examples:
text:
All over the country small British columns had been operating during these months--operations which were destined to increase in scope and energy as the cold weather drew in. The weekly tale of prisoners and captures, though small for any one column, gave the aggregate result of a considerable victory.
ref:
1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War Chapter 33 The Northern Operations from January to April, 1901
text:
aggregate glands
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
|
15295 | word:
aggregate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
aggregate (third-person singular simple present aggregates, present participle aggregating, simple past and past participle aggregated)
forms:
form:
aggregates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
aggregating
tags:
participle
present
form:
aggregated
tags:
participle
past
form:
aggregated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin aggregātus, perfect passive participle of aggregō (“I flock together”), from ag- (combining form of ad (“to, toward”)) + gregō (“I flock or group”), from grex (“flock”). Compare gregarious.
senses_examples:
text:
the aggregated soil
type:
example
text:
There are ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
To add or unite (e.g. a person), to an association.
To amount in the aggregate to.
senses_topics:
|
15296 | word:
they've
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
they've
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
they have
senses_topics:
|
15297 | word:
we'd
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
we'd
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of we had.
Contraction of we would.
senses_topics:
|
15298 | word:
she'd
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
she'd
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of she had.
Contraction of she would.
senses_topics:
|
15299 | word:
altar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
altar (plural altars)
forms:
form:
altars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English alter, from Old English alter, taken from Latin altare (“altar”), probably related to adolere (“burn”); thus "burning place", influenced by altus (“high”). Displaced native Middle English wēved.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] now marking the end of ascetic rationalism, the monadology no longer implied a sacrifice of individuality on the altar of rationality.
ref:
2000, Alain Renaut, M. B. De Bevoise, Era of the Individual: A Contribution to a History of Subjectivity
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.
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