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15300 | word:
I'd
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
I'd
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etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I'd already been there, but I wanted to go again.
text:
But had me believing it was always something that I'd done [...]
ref:
2011, Gotye, Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra) [Official Music Video] (yt)
type:
quotation
text:
I'd like to go to Armenia one day, but am worried about the weather.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of I had.
Contraction of I would.
Contraction of I should.
senses_topics:
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15301 | word:
we've
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
we've
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of we have.
senses_topics:
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15302 | word:
they'd
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
they'd
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
They had.
They would.
senses_topics:
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15303 | word:
he'd
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
he'd
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of he had.
Contraction of he would.
senses_topics:
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15304 | word:
we're
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
we're
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of we are.
senses_topics:
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15305 | word:
you've
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
you've
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of you have.
senses_topics:
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15306 | word:
you'd
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
you'd
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
You had.
You would.
2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Omega (Samara: The Ardat-Yakshi)
2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Omega (Samara: The Ardat-Yakshi):
Morinth: Look into my eyes and tell me you want me. Tell me you'd kill for me. Anything I want.
Morinth: Look into my eyes and tell me you want me. Tell me you'd kill for me. Anything I want.
senses_topics:
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15307 | word:
afflatus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
afflatus (plural afflatuses)
forms:
form:
afflatuses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin afflātus (“a breath, an act of breathing out or breathing upon; breeze, gust of air, vapour, wind; inspiration”), from afflāre (from afflō (“to blow, to breathe”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to, towards’”) + flō (“to blow, to breathe”)) + -tus (“suffix producing an action noun from a verb”). The related Latin word adflātū was first used in the “inspiration” sense by the Roman orator and philosopher Cicero (106–43 B.C.E.) in De Natura Deorum (The Nature of the Gods, 44 B.C.E.), book II, section 167.
senses_examples:
text:
divine afflatus
type:
example
text:
'Tis extremely difficult to keep up the Spirit of Poetry in another's Compoſitions, tho' you catch all the […] apteſt Moments; and never employ the Mind, but when there is an Impetus comes upon it toward that particular buſineſs: […] I know not how far this was the Caſe with Mr. [Alexander] Pope, in this performance: but wherever it was, the Poet will be little more than a common Man: He is, at ſuch times, much the ſame as a Prophet without his Afflatus.
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1726, [Joseph Spence], “Evening the Third”, in An Essay on Pope's Odyssey: In which some Particular Beauties and Blemishes of that Work are Consider'd, London: Printed for James and J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, W. and J. Innys, J. Wyatt, D. Midwinter, booksellers in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London; and S. Wilmot, bookseller in Oxford, →OCLC, pages 147–148
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Men acted by seducing spirits: for πνεύματα doth often signify the impulses or afflatuses of good or evil spirits; […] You are zealous, πνευματων, of spiritual gifts, or afflatuses, and so throughout the chapter; […]
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1822, Simon Patrick, William Lowth, Richard Arnald, Daniel Whitby, Moses Lowman, “The First Epistle to Timothy. With Annotations. [Annotations on Chap. IV.]”, in J[ohn] R[ogers] Pitman, editor, A Critical Commentary and Paraphrase on the Old and New Testament and the Apocrypha. … In Six Volumes, new edition, volume VI, London: Printed by J. F. Dove, St. John's Square; for Richard Priestley, 143, High Holborn, →OCLC, page 293
type:
quotation
text:
We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece,—the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus, and touched the high level of the best.
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1873 March, H[enry] James Jr., “The Madonna of the Future”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXXI, number CLXXXV, Boston, Mass.: James R. Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood & Co., page 276
type:
quotation
text:
"I hope," he [William Petty] writes to Aubrey, "that no man takes what I say about the living and dying of men for a mathematical demonstration." But, when the afflatus was on him, he was prone to take what he said for a mathematical demonstration himself.
ref:
1900 May, Charles H[enry] Hull, “Petty’s Place in the History of Economic Theory”, in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume 14, number 3, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, section II, page 318
type:
quotation
text:
Imagine a sentimental young man of the provinces, awaking one morning to the somewhat startling discovery that he is full of the divine afflatus, and nominated by the hierarchy of hell to enrich the literature of his fatherland.
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1920, H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, “The National Letters. 4. The Ferment Underground.”, in Prejudices: Second Series, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →OCLC, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
Titled "Citizen Clem" in Britain (Oxford University Press published it here as "Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain"), it is a study in actual radical accomplishment with minimal radical afflatus—a story of how real social change can be achieved, providing previously unimaginable benefits to working people, entirely within an embrace of parliamentary principles as absolute and as heroic as any in the annals of democracy.
ref:
2018 January 2, Adam Gopnik, “Never Mind Churchill, Clement Attlee is a Model for These Times”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 2018-01-07
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration, often attributed to divine influence.
senses_topics:
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15308 | word:
water buffalo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
water buffalo (plural water buffalos or water buffaloes or water buffalo)
forms:
form:
water buffalos
tags:
plural
form:
water buffaloes
tags:
plural
form:
water buffalo
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
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senses_glosses:
A large ungulate, widely used as a domestic animal in Asia, South America. North Africa and Europe: Bubalus bubalis.
A water tank mounted on a trailer to be towed by a motor vehicle.
senses_topics:
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15309 | word:
it'd
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
it'd
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of it had.
Contraction of it would.
senses_topics:
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15310 | word:
sisters
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sisters
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
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senses_glosses:
plural of sister
senses_topics:
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15311 | word:
sisters
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sisters
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of sister
senses_topics:
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15312 | word:
Lamia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lamia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in Greece.
senses_topics:
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15313 | word:
stepsister
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stepsister (plural stepsisters)
forms:
form:
stepsisters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From step- + sister.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The daughter of one's stepparent who is not the daughter of either of one's parents.
The stepdaughter of one's parent which is not one's half-sister.
senses_topics:
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15314 | word:
cockatoo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cockatoo (plural cockatoos)
forms:
form:
cockatoos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cockatoo
etymology_text:
From Dutch kaketoe, borrowed from Malay kakaktua, kakatua. Spelling influenced by cock.
senses_examples:
text:
We saw some cockatoos in the aviary.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bird of the family Cacatuidae with a curved beak and a zygodactyl foot.
A lookout posted during a two-up game, when gambling was illegal.
senses_topics:
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15315 | word:
toxic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
toxic (comparative more toxic, superlative most toxic)
forms:
form:
more toxic
tags:
comparative
form:
most toxic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French toxique, from Late Latin toxicus (“poisoned”), from Latin toxicum (“poison”), from Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón) [φάρμακον (phármakon)] ("poison for use on arrows"), from τοξικός (toxikós, “pertaining to arrows or archery”), from τόξον (tóxon, “bow”).
senses_examples:
text:
Tobacco smoke contains many toxic substances.
type:
example
text:
If some types of electronic waste aren’t incinerated at a high enough temperature, dioxins, which can cause cancer and developmental problems, infiltrate the food supply. Without proper safeguarding, toxic heavy metals seep into the soil and groundwater.
ref:
2019 December 8, Hannah Beech, Ryn Jirenuwat, “The Price of Recycling Old Laptops: Toxic Fumes in Thailand’s Lungs”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
The child appeared toxic on arrival at the hospital.
type:
example
text:
a toxic environment that promoted bullying
type:
example
text:
It is not good to be around toxic people.
type:
example
text:
Though Twitter is still overrun with toxic anger and fear-based nonsense (now more than ever), it is also, in one crucial way, beginning to play an important role in our response to the pandemic.
ref:
2020 April 23, Cal Newport, “'Expert Twitter' Only Goes So Far. Bring Back Blogs”, in Wired
type:
quotation
text:
A veteran UN diplomat, Kaag, 62, said the environment for politicians in the Netherlands had become “toxic” as she and colleagues faced a continual barrage of “hate, intimidation and threats” and often needed tight police security.
ref:
2024 April 29, Jon Henley, “Surreal claims, lawfare and abuse: toxic politics in Spain reflect the new Europe”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.
Appearing grossly unwell; characterised by serious, potentially life-threatening compromise in the respiratory, circulatory or other body systems.
Severely negative or harmful.
Hateful or strongly antipathetic.
senses_topics:
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
toxicology
medicine
sciences
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15316 | word:
hitman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hitman (plural hitmen)
forms:
form:
hitmen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hit (“to murder”) + -man.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: hitwoman
text:
Their top hitman, Joe Russo, was on the lam after murdering Joe Barboza in San Francisco.
ref:
2007, Howie Carr, The Brothers Bulger
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male contract killer, especially one paid by a mafia.
A goalscorer; someone who scores goals.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports |
15317 | word:
didn't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
didn't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
did + -n't
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
did not (negative auxiliary)
senses_topics:
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15318 | word:
couldn't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
couldn't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
could + -n’t
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
could not (negative auxiliary)
senses_topics:
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15319 | word:
'tis
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
'tis
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
’Tis a shame!
type:
example
text:
’Tis but a scratch!
type:
example
text:
Why should we say ’tis yet too soon, / To seek for Heaven or think of death […]
ref:
1825, Harrison’s Amusing Picture and Poetry Book, page 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of it is.
senses_topics:
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15320 | word:
substitution
word_type:
noun
expansion:
substitution (countable and uncountable, plural substitutions)
forms:
form:
substitutions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French substitution, from Late Latin substitutio.
senses_examples:
text:
In this football tournament, three substitutions can be made during the match.
type:
example
text:
Gary is off this weekend, so Jeff will be his substitution.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: importation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
A substitute or replacement.
The replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another.
The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
15321 | word:
achiever
word_type:
noun
expansion:
achiever (plural achievers)
forms:
form:
achievers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From achieve + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who achieves something.
One who tends to succeed; a winner.
senses_topics:
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15322 | word:
she's
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
she’s
forms:
form:
she’s
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* Contraction of she is.
* Contraction of she has.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of she is.
Contraction of she has.
senses_topics:
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15323 | word:
ad infinitum
word_type:
adv
expansion:
ad infinitum (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad infinitum (“to infinity”).
senses_examples:
text:
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum!
ref:
1984, Milan Kundera, part I (Lightness and Weight), chapter I, in Michael Henry Heim, transl., The Unbearable Lightness of Being, London: Faber and Faber, translation of Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí, published 1985, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Endlessly; for ever; neverendingly.
senses_topics:
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15324 | word:
ruse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ruse (countable and uncountable, plural ruses)
forms:
form:
ruses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English rūse (“evasive movements of a pursued animal; circuitous course taken by a hunter to pursue a game animal”), from Old French rëuse, ruse (“evasive movements of a pursued animal; trickery”) (modern French ruse (“trick, ruse; cunning, guile”)), from ruser (“to use cunning, to be crafty, beguile”), possibly from Latin rursus (“backward; on the contrary; again, in return”) or Latin recūsāre, from recūsō (“to decline, refuse; to object to, protest, reject”). Doublet of recuse and rouse in the latter case.
The verb is derived from the noun. Compare Middle French ruser (“to use cunning, to be crafty, beguile”); see further above.
senses_examples:
text:
The boar was evidently most averse to leave the field in which he had spent so may pleasant hours of uninterrupted rest; […] He turned sharply to one flank; he stopped dead, and went away in the opposite direction as he heard the hunters gallop past; every ruse he tried, but tried in vain.
ref:
1867, J. T. Newall, chapter XVII, in Hog Hunting in the East, and Other Sports, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 367–368
type:
quotation
text:
Near-synonyms: ploy, stratagem
text:
It must be borne in mind that huntsmen sometimes make casts which they know must lose them their fox: […] At the same time, it would be bad policy to explain these little matters: some parties, who are not sufficiently acquainted with the management of hounds, might be discontented, whereas by such a ruse no offence is given, as nine-tenths of the Field are not aware that it is not the most likely cast to recover the scent.
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1839 November, “Cecil”, “Observations on Hunting, with Comparisons of the Usages of the Past and Present Days”, in The Sporting Magazine, or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chase and Every Other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprise & Spirit, volume XX (2nd Series; volume XCV, Old Series), number CXV, London: Published by [J.] Pittman, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
He was soon upon his feet, another assegai whistled through the air, and pierced through the neck of the lioness. But, as before, the wound was not fatal, and the animal, now enraged to a frenzy, charged once more upon her assailant. So rapid was her advance that it was with great difficulty Congo got under cover. A moment later, and his ruse would have failed, for the claws of the lion rattled upon the shield as it descended.
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1857, [Thomas] Mayne, “How Congo the Kaffir Killed a Lioness”, in The Young Yägers: Or, A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, pages 64–65
type:
quotation
text:
I have that strong impression on my mind that a person who is guilty of a ruse will hesitate at no falsehood. If it was a ruse, and if it was a deceit, you are to judge whether that elevates the persons in your mind who are parties to that trick.
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1873 August 7, “Sixty-eighth Day.—Tuesday, August 7th, 1873.”, in [Edward] Kenealy, editor, The Trial at Bar of Sir Roger C. D. Tichborne, Bart., […], volume IV, London: "Englishman" Office, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, London, published 1877, →OCLC, page 69, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Soon, however, Courvoisier forced matters, when, despairing of ever catching the wily outlaw leader by fair means, he resorted to the ruse of carrying off Friar Tuck of Copmanhurst and holding him as a hostage.
ref:
1922 May, Fred R. Hurworth, “The Alchemist: A Story of the Days of Robin Hood”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, volume XLV, part 7, London: "Boy's Own Paper" Office, […], →OCLC, chapter I, page 474, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Warships, whether surface or submarine, may use ruses and strategems. They may sail under false flags, both enemy and neutral, but before going into action whether at sea or if about to attack a land target they must strike any false colours and raise their own battle colours. It would be perfidy for them to use the red cross or crescent or any other protected emblem in this way.
ref:
1993, L[eslie] C. Green, “Conduct of Hostilities: Maritime”, in The Contemporary Law of Armed Conflict (Melland Schill Monographs in International Law), Manchester, New York, N.Y.: Manchester University Press, page 169
type:
quotation
text:
The terminological distinction between reproductive and therapeutic cloning is a semantic ruse, as every instance of human cloning is a true reproducive act. That is to say, the intended purpose of this research is to produce a new human being with human embryonic stem cells.
ref:
2005 November, John R. Meyer, “The Brave New World of Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Utilitarian Consequentialism and Faulty Moral Reasoning”, in Eugene F. Diamond, John J. Brennan, editors, The Linacre Quarterly: Journal of the Catholic Medical Association, volume 72, number 1, Needham, Mass.: Catholic Medical Association, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, footnote 2, page 327
type:
quotation
text:
Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts, a deceiver, a means of unleashing vast evil in the world of the most unexpected and undetected sort and the greatest diverter of human productivity ever concocted by those who do not believe in authentic social and economic progress.
ref:
2012 August 12, Anthony Wile (interviewer), Jeffrey Tucker, “Exclusive Interview: Jeffrey Tucker on Laissez Faire Books, Intellectual Property Rights and ‘Beautiful Anarchy’”, in The Daily Bell, archived from the original on 2017-08-08
type:
quotation
text:
[H]e [Bertrand du Guesclin] had great natural cunning, that half-savage quality, was full of ruse and trick in war, he was contemptuous towards the high noblesse, but gentle to the poor, and generous to his friends.
ref:
1873, G[eorge] W[illiam] Kitchin, “The Deeds of Charles V, ‘the Wise.’ a.d. 1360–1380.”, in A History of France down to the Year 1453 (Clarendon Press Series), Oxford: At the University Press, →OCLC, pages 456–457
type:
quotation
text:
A French privateer operating under an English commission raided Massacre Island at the mouth of Mobile Bay in 1710, robbing its warehouse of thousands of deerskins and other pelts, as well as of naval stores. They took the small place by ruse.
ref:
2005, Benerson Little, “Houses, Towns, and Cities Sacked: The Sea Rover as a Soldier”, in The Sea Rover’s Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630–1730, Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books; 1st paperback edition, Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007, page 190
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs.
An action intended to deceive; a trick.
Cunning, guile, trickery.
senses_topics:
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
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15325 | word:
ruse
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ruse (third-person singular simple present ruses, present participle rusing, simple past and past participle rused)
forms:
form:
ruses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rusing
tags:
participle
present
form:
rused
tags:
participle
past
form:
rused
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English rūse (“evasive movements of a pursued animal; circuitous course taken by a hunter to pursue a game animal”), from Old French rëuse, ruse (“evasive movements of a pursued animal; trickery”) (modern French ruse (“trick, ruse; cunning, guile”)), from ruser (“to use cunning, to be crafty, beguile”), possibly from Latin rursus (“backward; on the contrary; again, in return”) or Latin recūsāre, from recūsō (“to decline, refuse; to object to, protest, reject”). Doublet of recuse and rouse in the latter case.
The verb is derived from the noun. Compare Middle French ruser (“to use cunning, to be crafty, beguile”); see further above.
senses_examples:
text:
Anyway, no man can escape the woman he considers too much rused for him: tear her down or run away toward her if he can't meet her head-and-hind on.
ref:
1956, Herbert Gold, “Then Visited from the Jungle to Jungles”, in The Man who was Not with It, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC; republished as The Man who was Not with It (Second Edition Books), Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1987, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
And, in a way, s/he is already told, and what s/he him/herself is telling will not undo the fact that somewhere else s/he is told, but it will "ruse" with this; it will offer a variant in the form and even in the story.
ref:
1985, Jean-François Lyotard, Jean-Loup Thébald, translated by Wlad Godzich, Just Gaming (Theory and History of Literature; 20), Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, published 1999, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
Even at that, the most plausible way of understanding, "the text deconstructs itself" is surely that the text signals the itinerary of its desire to be "about something," and that this itinerary must ruse over the open-endedness of the field of meaning; at a certain point, it is possible to locate the moment when the rusing reveals itself as the structure of unresolvable self-cancellings.
ref:
1998, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Finding Feminist Readings: Dante–Yeats”, in In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
In all types, manners and forms, empire “bilderz” come forward rusing out their favorite lines and spew. A sale just means yer not bein' gouged as much, doesn't it?
ref:
2009, Lee Kierig, “Ain’t No School, Quite Like, No Skool”, in Where, is Infinite Love? Public Welfare, Human Responsibility and Sustainability of Earth: A Letter to Humanity, New York, N.Y.: Strategic Book Publishing, page 225
type:
quotation
text:
Moreover, since we have now reached an extreme point in the development of consciousness, and know our own selves through and through, no 'ultimate self-doubt' remains which would allow us to ruse with death – as when, in Pascal's wager, it is the doubt about the afterlife which determines the choice.
ref:
2012, Paul de Man, “Mallarmé (1960)”, in Martin McQuillan, editor, The Post-Romantic Predicament, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, part II (Igitur), page 73
type:
quotation
text:
And he [the hart] fleeth then mightily and far from the hounds, that is to say he hath gone a great way from them, then he will go into the stank, and will soil therein once or twice in all the stank and then he will come out again by the same way that he went in, and then he shall ruse again the same way that he came (the length of) a bow shot or more, and then he shall ruse out of the way, for to stall or squatt to rest him, and that he doeth for he knoweth well that the hounds shall come by the fues [footing] into the stank where he was.
ref:
c. 1425, Edward, Second Duke of York [i.e., Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York], “Of the Hart and His Nature”, in W[illia]m A[dolf] Baillie-Grohman, F[lorence] Baillie-Grohman, editors, The Master of Game by Edward, Second Duke of York: The Oldest English Book on Hunting, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1909, →OCLC, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
With these whelps [the hunting dogs] who know the way but are in danger of being baffled by the rusing stag, the hunter sends the reliable old harre (perseverance). He is indispensable, as he has often confronted the stag at bay.
ref:
1974, Marcelle Thiébaux, “Medieval Allegories of the Love Chase”, in The Stag of Love: The Chase in Medieval Literature, Ithaca, N.Y., London: Cornell University Press, published 2014, page 190
type:
quotation
text:
In the parallel hunt of Octovian, the hart has rused and momentarily escaped. With the death of White, the Knight's heart is wounded and his life is endangered but he escapes for a time as does the hart, though the hunter Death will ultimately be successful in both cases.
ref:
1988, “Hunt”, in Jean-Charles Seigneuret, editor, Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs, volumes 1 (A–J), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, page 642
type:
quotation
text:
Sometimes the stag would throw the hounds off the scent by a series of clever ruses—for example, by retracing a part of his path and leaping dramatically in one direction. […] Ultimately, the stag would tire, and its signals of exhaustion (short rusing runs, downwind flight, and the narrowing of the toe prints) would be evident to the trackers.
ref:
1991, Thomas S. Henricks, “Sport in the Later Middle Ages”, in Disputed Pleasures: Sport and Society in Preindustrial England (Contributions to the Study of World History; no. 28), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISSN, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To deceive or trick using a ruse.
Of an animal: to turn or double back to elude hunters or their hunting dogs.
senses_topics:
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle |
15326 | word:
he's
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
he’s
forms:
form:
he’s
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of he is.
Contraction of he has.
senses_topics:
|
15327 | word:
haven't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
haven't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
have + -n't
senses_examples:
text:
Sce.: Which I'd grant ye, if ye came at Midnight; but now I haven't the conveniency o' supplying your Wants.'
ref:
1694, Titus Maccius Plautus, Plautus's comedies, Amphitryon, Epidicus, and Rudens, Made English: With Critical Remarks Upon Each Play, page 170
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
have not (negative form of have)
senses_topics:
|
15328 | word:
wouldn't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wouldn't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Contraction of would not.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
would not (negative auxiliary)
senses_topics:
|
15329 | word:
hasn't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hasn't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
has + -n't
senses_examples:
text:
“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
ref:
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Has not: negative form of the auxiliary has
Has not/does not have: negative form of the lexical has
senses_topics:
|
15330 | word:
sick
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sick (comparative sicker, superlative sickest)
forms:
form:
sicker
tags:
comparative
form:
sickest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
sick
etymology_text:
From Middle English sik, sike, seek, seke, seok, from Old English sēoc (“sick, ill”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuk, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sewg- (“to be troubled or grieved”).
See also West Frisian siik, Dutch ziek, German siech, Norwegian Bokmål syk, Norwegian Nynorsk sjuk, Danish syg; also Middle Irish socht (“silence, depression”), Old Armenian հիւծանիմ (hiwcanim, “I am weakening”).
senses_examples:
text:
Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
ref:
a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc’s “Science of cirurgie.”, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
She was sick all day with the flu.
type:
example
text:
We have to care for the sick.
type:
example
text:
My daughter was violently sick three times in the night.
type:
example
text:
In the meantime the old man had gotten up and gone out in the yard and began to vomit. Henry said I believe I feel sick and got up and went out. He went out one door and his father went out the other one. I did not think there was anything wrong with the coffee and I asked my wife to pour this out […]
ref:
1913, The Texas criminal reports, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Q. Didn't he complain he was sick before he commenced to vomit?
A. He did, just before he said, to me, “I feel sick,” I asked him if he wanted to throw up and he said yes.
ref:
1918, Cecil Day Lewis, The Whispering Roots, Jonathan Cape, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
[…] trying hard to cry. Crying’s good. Crying teaches him to breathe. But I wish he weren’t crying from hunger. I feel dizzy. I sit down and feel a little sick. Maybe I’ll vomit, too. No, I never vomit. I feel sick, but I won’t vomit. I never vomit.
ref:
1958, Gene D’Olive, Chiara, Signet Book
type:
quotation
text:
I feel sick, like I might vomit, and I'm more tired than I can ever remember feeling.
ref:
2013, Cheryl Rainfield, Stained, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
What a sick, sick feeling / To let you go, my dear
ref:
2018, Boy Pablo (lyrics and music), “Sick Feeling”
type:
quotation
text:
That’s a sick joke.
type:
example
text:
I’ve heard that song on the radio so many times that I’m starting to get sick of it.
type:
example
text:
I’m so sick of that same old love, the kind that breaks your heart.
ref:
2015, “Same Old Love”, in Revival, performed by Selena Gomez
type:
quotation
text:
This tune is sick.
type:
example
text:
Dude, this car's got a sick subwoofer!
type:
example
text:
sick building syndrome; my car is looking pretty sick; my job prospects are pretty sick
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In poor health; ill.
Having an urge to vomit.
Mentally unstable, disturbed.
In bad taste.
Tired of or annoyed by something.
Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
In poor condition.
Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
lifestyle |
15331 | word:
sick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sick (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
sick
etymology_text:
From Middle English sik, sike, seek, seke, seok, from Old English sēoc (“sick, ill”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuk, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sewg- (“to be troubled or grieved”).
See also West Frisian siik, Dutch ziek, German siech, Norwegian Bokmål syk, Norwegian Nynorsk sjuk, Danish syg; also Middle Irish socht (“silence, depression”), Old Armenian հիւծանիմ (hiwcanim, “I am weakening”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] they're spitting and belching chunks of lentilly gunk. Looks like sick.
ref:
2003, Lynsey Calderwood, Cracked: Recovering After Traumatic Brain Injury, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
The bogan, true to form, laps it up like a dog does its own sick.
ref:
2010, Michael Jayfox, E. Chas McSween, Intravenus DeMilo, Enron Hubbard, Hunter McKenzie-Smythe, Flash Johnson, Things Bogans Like, Sydney: Hachette, page 80
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Vomit.
(especially in the phrases on the sick and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or incapacitated.
senses_topics:
|
15332 | word:
sick
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)
forms:
form:
sicks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sicking
tags:
participle
present
form:
sicked
tags:
participle
past
form:
sicked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
sick
etymology_text:
From Middle English sik, sike, seek, seke, seok, from Old English sēoc (“sick, ill”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuk, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sewg- (“to be troubled or grieved”).
See also West Frisian siik, Dutch ziek, German siech, Norwegian Bokmål syk, Norwegian Nynorsk sjuk, Danish syg; also Middle Irish socht (“silence, depression”), Old Armenian հիւծանիմ (hiwcanim, “I am weakening”).
senses_examples:
text:
I woke up at 4 am and sicked on the floor.
type:
example
text:
Old man to pickney, so wave unno hand if you with me /To see the sufferation sick me.
ref:
2005, Damian Marley, “Welcome to Jamrock”, in Welcome to Jamrock(album)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To vomit.
To fall sick; to sicken.
senses_topics:
|
15333 | word:
sick
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)
forms:
form:
sicks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sicking
tags:
participle
present
form:
sicked
tags:
participle
past
form:
sicked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
sick
etymology_text:
Variant of sic, itself an alteration of seek.
senses_examples:
text:
"Wapi," she almost screamed, "go back! Sick 'em, Wapi—sick 'em—sick 'em—sick 'em!"
ref:
1920, James Oliver Curwood, Back to God's Country
type:
quotation
text:
When we were at work swabbing the deck, necessarily barelegged, Pelle would sick the dog on us; and it was an endless source of pleasure to him when the dog succeeded in fastening its teeth in our legs and making the blood run down our ankles.
ref:
1938, Johannes Buchholtz, translated by Eugene Gay-Tifft, The Saga of Frank Dover, Kessinger Publishing edition, published 2005, page 125
type:
quotation
text:
1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 154,
"...is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."
text:
2001 (publication date), Anna Heilman, Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman, University of Calgary Press, →ISBN, page 82,
Now they find a new entertainment: they sick the dog on us.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of sic (“set upon”)
senses_topics:
|
15334 | word:
defenestration
word_type:
noun
expansion:
defenestration (countable and uncountable, plural defenestrations)
forms:
form:
defenestrations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Holy Roman Emperor
Johann Philipp Abelin
Theatrum Europaeum
etymology_text:
From New Latin defenestratio, from dē (“from; out”) + fenestra (“window”) + -atio (suffix indicating an action or process); compare Middle French défenestrer (modern French défenestrer), défenestration, Italian defenestrazione and
German Fenstersturz. The verb defenestrate was formed later.
senses_examples:
text:
The "Defenestration" at Prague (A.D. 1618). [...] The imperial Austrian Councillors are thrown out of the window of the castle of Hradschin by the enraged Bohemian Deputies [...]
ref:
1905, Rossiter Johnson, editor, The Great Events by Famous Historians; a Comprehensive and Readable Account of the World’s History, […], volumes XI (A.D. 1609–1660), New York, N.Y.: National Alumni, →OCLC, pages 62–75
type:
quotation
text:
The Third Defenestration of Prague occurred on 10 March 1948. During the closing stages of the communist takeover in Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk, the popular foreign minister and son of Tomáš Masaryk, fell – or more likely was pushed – out of a window.
ref:
1996, Adrian [G. V.] Hyde-Price, “East Central Europe: A Brief History”, in The International Politics of East Central Europe, Manchester, New York, N.Y.: Manchester University Press, footnote 41, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
On September 11, 2001 when NYC's Twin Towers were impacted [...] some occupants trapped above the inferno facing certain death instead jumped from windows to their certain death (self defenestration).
ref:
2004, Paul Dehn Carleton, “Notes and References”, in Concepts: A ProtoTheist Quest for Science-minded Skeptics of Catholic, and Other Christian, Jewish & Muslim Backgrounds, Pontiac, Mich.: Carleton House, footnote 15, page 359
type:
quotation
text:
Be that as it may, his defenestration was coldly abrupt, and in his place, the Football Association resurrected a veteran manager and former England star in Joe Mercer for seven games.
ref:
2005 September 4, The Sunday Times, London
type:
quotation
text:
With Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid gone from the cabinet, it could all be over for Boris Johnson – although quite how long it will take his enemies to finish him off is not at all clear and his defenestration does not look immediate.
ref:
2022 July 5, Andrew Sparrow, “As Sunak and Javid quit cabinet, is it all over for Boris Johnson?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Defenestration might be an option too. May I recommend Linux?
ref:
1998 November 1, “Dorian Bliss”, “He’s dead, Jim”, in rec.humor.oracle.d (Usenet), message-ID <363DA726.C27FA5F@spamfree.land>
type:
quotation
text:
It's defenestration day in Redmond today. A clearly stunned Microsoft did what it could to pretend that Judge Jackson's findings of fact were "just one step", as [Bill] Gates put said in the prepared statement that he read at a press conference last night, but it was hopeless.
ref:
1999 November 6, Graham Lea, “Stunned MS vows to fight on for freedom: ‘Integrity, partnership, quality … giving’ – (takes out onion)”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2014-08-19
type:
quotation
text:
No defenestration here. Ask questions about all aspects of Windows programming, get help on Microsoft technologies covered in Apress books, or provide feedback on any Apress Windows book.
ref:
2002, John Kilburn, Palm Programming in Basic, Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, page 392
type:
quotation
text:
What's needed is defenestration – throwing out the Windows mindset along with Microsoft's licenses and software – but that's not as simple as changing a boot CD or even migrating a whole raft of servers. What's involved is fundamental change both in how IT operates and in what it does.
ref:
2004 February 12, Paul Murphy, “What does Linux cost?”, in LinuxInsider: Linux News & Information from around the World, archived from the original on 2016-03-11
type:
quotation
text:
Traditionally, the verb defenestrate means to throw out of a window. But as Australian companies take their first timid steps towards installing non-proprietary software on corporate desktops, defenestration is starting to be linked to the throwing out of Windows software.
ref:
2005 December 1, D. Braue, P. Gray, L. Colquhoun, J.-V. Douglas, “Leaders of the pack”, in MIS Asia: Managing Information Strategies, archived from the original on 2007-10-07
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of throwing something or someone out of a window.
The high-profile removal of a person from an organization.
The act of removing the Microsoft Windows operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15335 | word:
doesn't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
doesn't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
does + -n't
senses_examples:
text:
July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/
Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
text:
Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).
ref:
2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, Harvard University Press, page 12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Does not (negative auxiliary)
senses_topics:
|
15336 | word:
an't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
an't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
amn't; am not
aren't; are not
isn't; is not
haven't; hasn't
senses_topics:
|
15337 | word:
trial
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trial (plural trials)
forms:
form:
trials
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Trial (disambiguation)
trial
etymology_text:
From Middle English trial, triall, from Anglo-Norman trial, triel, from trier (“to pick out, cull”) + -al. More at English try.
senses_examples:
text:
They will perform the trials for the new equipment next week.
text:
A randomized, controlled trial (RCT).
text:
soccer trials; sheepdog trials
text:
In both your armies there is many a soul / Shall pay full dearly for this encounter, / If once they join in trial.
ref:
c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act V, Scene 1
type:
quotation
text:
all thy vexations / Were but my trials of thy love and thou / Hast strangely stood the test here
ref:
c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1
type:
quotation
text:
had my powers been less limited, I might have enforced obedience; but as it was, it was but a trial of strength between her and me, in which she generally came off victorious
ref:
1847, Anne Brontë, chapter 3, in Agnes Grey, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
Jama saw the sweaty, smelly work as a kind of test that, if passed, would entitle him to see his father, a trial of his worth as a son and as a man.
ref:
2010, Nadifa Mohamed, Black Mamba Boy, Harper Collins, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
If you are convicted at trial, you have the right to file an appeal.
type:
example
text:
He was charged with war crimes and brought to trial before the International Tribunal.
type:
example
text:
The journalists have been held in custody for three years without trial.
type:
example
text:
She, after form of trial condemned to die on the scaffold, / Patiently met her doom at the foot of the statue of Justice.
ref:
1847, Henry Wadworth Longfellow, Evangeline, Boston: Ticknor, Part 3, p. 42
type:
quotation
text:
[…] this case should never have come to trial.
ref:
1960, Harper Lee, chapter 20, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia: Lippincott, page 215
type:
quotation
text:
2020, Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown, New York: Pantheon, Act VI,
Your Honor, we object to all of this. The whole thing. This mock trial. The entire justice system is rigged against my client.
text:
That boy was a trial to his parents.
type:
example
text:
That they are Cowards, many have said, but few have found it so in the time of Trial.
ref:
1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, London: Nath. Ponder, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
Poor Justine was very ill; but other trials were reserved for her.
ref:
1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 5, in Frankenstein, volume 1, London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, page 120
type:
quotation
text:
I’m afraid I’m going to be a dreadful trial to you. Maybe you’d better send me back to the asylum.
ref:
1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 12, in Anne of Green Gable, Toronto: Ryerson Press, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
[…] I’m not used […] to waiting hungry on others while they eat. It is a sore trial for a hobbit, that.
ref:
1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, chapter 4, in The Return of the King, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1973, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
You must be strong now, for your greatest trials are still ahead.
ref:
2008, Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain, New York: Weinstein Books, Book 2, Chapter 13, p. 365
type:
quotation
text:
Finding my first Seed did not grow, which I easily imagin’d was by the Drought, I sought for a moister Piece of Ground to make another Trial in,
ref:
1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
He summoned up all his strength for one last trial, and bent his faltering steps towards [the house].
ref:
1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 28, in Oliver Twist, volume 2, London: Richard Bentley, page 144
type:
quotation
text:
After a dozen trials he succeeded in lighting the lantern,
ref:
1913, Willa Cather, chapter 1, in O Pioneers!, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Before the first living cell was created, there may have been many trials and failures.
ref:
1950, Rachel Carson, chapter 1, in The Sea Around Us, New York: Oxford University Press, published 1961, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
The testing of a product or procedure.
An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
A research study to test the effectiveness and safety of a drug, medical procedure, etc.
An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
An event in which athletes’ or animals’ abilities are tested as they compete for a place on a team, or to move on to the next level of a championship, for example.
An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.
An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
An internal examination set by Eton College.
An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
An occasion on which armies or individuals meet in combat.
An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
A meeting or series of meetings in a court of law at which evidence is presented to a judge (and sometimes a jury) to allow them to decide on a legal matter (especially whether an accused person is guilty of a crime).
A difficult or annoying experience or person; (especially religion) such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety.
The action of trying (to do) something, especially more than once. (This sense is still current in the expression trial and error.)
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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15338 | word:
trial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
trial (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Trial (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English trial, triall, from Anglo-Norman trial, triel, from trier (“to pick out, cull”) + -al. More at English try.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to a trial or test.
Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis.
senses_topics:
|
15339 | word:
trial
word_type:
verb
expansion:
trial (third-person singular simple present trials, present participle (UK) trialling or (US) trialing, simple past and past participle (UK) trialled or (US) trialed)
forms:
form:
trials
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
trialling
tags:
UK
participle
present
form:
trialing
tags:
US
participle
present
form:
trialled
tags:
UK
participle
past
form:
trialled
tags:
UK
past
form:
trialed
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
trialed
tags:
US
past
wikipedia:
Trial (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English trial, triall, from Anglo-Norman trial, triel, from trier (“to pick out, cull”) + -al. More at English try.
senses_examples:
text:
The warning system was extensively trialed before being fitted to all our vehicles.
type:
example
text:
In the week beginning April 6, the company began trialling the new processes - these include greater spacing, split shifts, additional safety requirements and washing facilities.
ref:
2020 April 22, “Network News: Bombardier resumes work at Derby Litchurch Lane”, in Rail, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
The team trialled a new young goalkeeper in Saturday's match, with mixed results.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it.
To try out (a new player) in a sports team.
senses_topics:
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15340 | word:
trial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
trial (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Trial (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Latin tri- (stem of trēs (“three”)) + -al, on the pattern of dual.
senses_examples:
text:
No language has a trial number unless it has a dual.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components.
Triple.
Pertaining to a language form referring to three of something, like people. (See Ambai language for an example.)
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
15341 | word:
trial
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trial (plural trials)
forms:
form:
trials
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Trial (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Latin tri- (stem of trēs (“three”)) + -al, on the pattern of dual.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The trial number.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
15342 | word:
clubs
word_type:
verb
expansion:
clubs
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of club
senses_topics:
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15343 | word:
clubs
word_type:
noun
expansion:
clubs
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of club
senses_topics:
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15344 | word:
clubs
word_type:
noun
expansion:
clubs
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of clumps (“game of asking questions”)
One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♣.
senses_topics:
card-games
games |
15345 | word:
hadn't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hadn't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
had + -n't
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of had not. (negative auxiliary)
senses_topics:
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15346 | word:
shan't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shan't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From shall + -n't; contraction of shalln't or shall not, historically via shannot.
senses_examples:
text:
I shan't be coming back after the way you've treated me today.
type:
example
text:
That's not a threat, sir, for they have played fair with me, and I sha'n't sacrifice a penny of their money—unless they force me to do so. But—I'm in control. I'm sitting pretty. They can't unseat me, and I warn them not to try.
ref:
1922, Rex [Ellingwood] Beach, “chapter XXIV”, in Flowing Gold, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, by arrangement with Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 290
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of shall not (negative auxiliary).
senses_topics:
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15347 | word:
usedn't to
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
usedn't to
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
He usedn’t to live in London.
type:
example
text:
Usedn't your uncle to live with you?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
used not to, didn't use to
senses_topics:
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15348 | word:
dons
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dons
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of don
plural of dom (title of Portuguese and Brazilian nobility)
senses_topics:
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15349 | word:
dons
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dons
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of don
senses_topics:
|
15350 | word:
oughtn't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
oughtn't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
ought + -n't
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
(US, Philippines, dated, rare) ought not (negative auxiliary).
senses_topics:
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15351 | word:
mustn't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mustn't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
must + -n't
senses_examples:
text:
You mustn't blame yourself for this tragedy.
text:
We must go, mustn't we?
text:
1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar,
"Now, listen," said Mother; "it's quite true that we're poor, but we have enough to live on. You mustn't go telling everyone about our affairs--it's not right. And you must never, never, never ask strangers to give you things. Now always remember that--won't you?"
text:
Look, we mustn't mistake ourselves for regular people. We're artists.
ref:
1989: Batman (movie)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
must not (negative auxiliary); used to indicate that something is forbidden or, in a tag question, that something is not necessary.
senses_topics:
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15352 | word:
feast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
feast (plural feasts)
forms:
form:
feasts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
feast
etymology_text:
From Middle English feeste, feste, borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of Latin festum (“holiday, festival, feast”), from Proto-Italic *fēs-tos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”); see also Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god, goddess”). More at theo-. Doublet of fete, fiesta, and fest. Displaced Old English winhate.
senses_examples:
text:
We had a feast to celebrate the harvest.
type:
example
text:
It was a feast for the eyes.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
Something delightful
A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
senses_topics:
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15353 | word:
feast
word_type:
verb
expansion:
feast (third-person singular simple present feasts, present participle feasting, simple past and past participle feasted)
forms:
form:
feasts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
feasting
tags:
participle
present
form:
feasted
tags:
participle
past
form:
feasted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
feast
etymology_text:
From Middle English feesten, festen, from Old French fester, from Medieval Latin festāre, from the noun. See above.
senses_examples:
text:
I feasted on turkey and dumplings.
type:
example
text:
We feasted them after the victory.
type:
example
text:
1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To partake in a feast, or large meal.
To dwell upon (something) with delight.
To hold a feast in honor of (someone).
To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
senses_topics:
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15354 | word:
Corinth
word_type:
name
expansion:
Corinth
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Corinthus, from Ancient Greek Κόρινθος (Kórinthos). Doublet of currant.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A port city in Greece.
An isthmus in Greece near the city, connecting the Peloponnese to Europe.
A city, the county seat of Alcorn County, Mississippi, United States.
senses_topics:
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15355 | word:
dynamic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dynamic (comparative more dynamic, superlative most dynamic)
forms:
form:
more dynamic
tags:
comparative
form:
most dynamic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French dynamique, from Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós, “powerful”), from δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”), from δύναμαι (dúnamai, “I am able”).
senses_examples:
text:
The environment is dynamic, changing with the years and the seasons.
text:
dynamic economy
text:
He was a dynamic and engaging speaker.
type:
example
text:
The dynamic marking in bar 40 is forte.
type:
example
text:
dynamic allocation
text:
dynamic IP addresses
text:
the dynamic resizing of an array
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Changing; active; in motion.
Powerful; energetic.
Able to change and adapt.
Having to do with the volume of sound.
Happening at runtime instead of being predetermined at compile time.
Pertaining to dynamics, the branch of mechanics concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects.
Of a verb: not stative, but fientive; indicating continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
15356 | word:
dynamic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dynamic (plural dynamics)
forms:
form:
dynamics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French dynamique, from Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós, “powerful”), from δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”), from δύναμαι (dúnamai, “I am able”).
senses_examples:
text:
Watch the dynamic between the husband and wife when they disagree.
type:
example
text:
One of the under-reported dynamics during the coronavirus pandemic has been the collapse of One Nation’s vote.
ref:
2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The study of fluid dynamics quantifies turbulent and laminar flows.
type:
example
text:
If you pay attention to the dynamics as you play, it's a very moving piece.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A characteristic or manner of an interaction; a behavior.
A moving force.
The varying loudness or volume of a song or the markings that indicate the loudness.
A symbol in a musical score that indicates the desired level of volume.
A verb that indicates continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
15357 | word:
Corfu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Corfu
forms:
wikipedia:
Corfu
Old Fortress of Corfu
etymology_text:
From Italian Corfù, from Ancient Greek Κορυφώ (Koruphṓ), from κορυφή (koruphḗ) ("summit", "mountain peak"). Named after the twin peaks of the Old Fortress of Corfu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island in Greece, one of the Ionian Islands. The ancient name is Corcyra (Κόρκυρα (Kórkura)), in Modern Greek Kérkira (Κέρκυρα (Kérkyra)).
The capital of Corfu.
senses_topics:
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15358 | word:
AS
word_type:
name
expansion:
AS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Anglo-Saxon.
Abbreviation of Assam.
senses_topics:
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15359 | word:
AS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
AS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
AS-level
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: AD
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Advanced Supplementary.
Initialism of Advanced Subsidiary.
Initialism of aortic stenosis.
Initialism of Asperger's syndrome.
Initialism of ankylosing spondylitis.
Initialism of autonomous system.
Initialism of auxiliary submarine: a naval tender, a submarine tender that tends to submarines
Initialism of application server.
senses_topics:
education
education
cardiology
medicine
sciences
medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
medicine
sciences
|
15360 | word:
AS
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
AS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ (ʕalayhi s-salāmu, “peace be upon him”), placed after the name of holy persons in Islamic texts.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of alayhi as-salaam.
senses_topics:
Islam
lifestyle
religion |
15361 | word:
labia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
labia pl (normally plural, singular labium)
forms:
form:
labium
tags:
singular
wikipedia:
labia
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Latin labia (“lips”), plural of labium (“lip”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The folds of tissue of the vulva, at either side of the vagina.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
15362 | word:
labia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
labia
forms:
wikipedia:
labia
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Latin labia (“lips”), plural of labium (“lip”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of labium
senses_topics:
|
15363 | word:
lyre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lyre (plural lyres)
forms:
form:
lyres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lyre
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek λύρᾱ (lúrā, “lyre, a stringed instrument with a sounding-board formed of the shell of a tortoise”). Doublet of lira and Lyra.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.
An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.
Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute.
A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical.
A composer of lyric poetry.
senses_topics:
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15364 | word:
lyre
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lyre (third-person singular simple present lyres, present participle lyring, simple past and past participle lyred)
forms:
form:
lyres
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lyring
tags:
participle
present
form:
lyred
tags:
participle
past
form:
lyred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
lyre
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek λύρᾱ (lúrā, “lyre, a stringed instrument with a sounding-board formed of the shell of a tortoise”). Doublet of lira and Lyra.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to play the lyre
senses_topics:
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15365 | word:
won't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
won't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier wonnot, from Middle English wynnot, wilnot, wolnot, wilnat, a contraction of Middle English will not, wil not, wyll not, will noght, wil noht, willi noȝt, wyl nat, wol not, woll not, wole not, wolle not, wol nat, woll nat, etc., equivalent to a will + not and/or woll + not. For the pronunciation with /oʊ/, /əʊ/, see poultry.
senses_examples:
text:
Sam won't be doing any work this afternoon.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
will not (negative auxiliary); used to indicate a future non-occurring action.
senses_topics:
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15366 | word:
invisible
word_type:
adj
expansion:
invisible (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English invisible, from Old French invisible, from Late Latin invīsibilis. Displaced native Old English unġesewenlīċ.
Morphologically in- + visible.
senses_examples:
text:
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
ref:
2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7
type:
quotation
text:
The teeth on an invisible zip are different from those on a conventional zip, as they are turned onto the inside so that they do not show, giving the impression of being concealed in the seam, as seen below.
ref:
2013, Jayne Smith, Guide to Basic Garment Assembly for the Fashion Industry, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
Soon after departure, we cross the invisible border into Scotland to enjoy more stunning coastal scenery, before the line finally swings inland at Burnmouth to traverse pine-clad valleys, shadowed by the A1 trunk road until we rejoin the coast at Cove, east of Dunbar.
ref:
2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
The physical covering of this image limited the Christians’ view, rendering the image invisible on all but a few occasions.
ref:
2024, Katherine Aron-Beller, chapter 6, in Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators: The History of an Allegation, 400–1700, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, page 261
type:
quotation
text:
I went invisible so that my ex-girlfriend wouldn't send me instant messages.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unable to be seen; out of sight; not visible.
Not appearing on the surface.
Apparently, but not actually, offline.
That is ignored by a person.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
15367 | word:
invisible
word_type:
verb
expansion:
invisible (third-person singular simple present invisibles, present participle invisibling, simple past and past participle invisibled)
forms:
form:
invisibles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
invisibling
tags:
participle
present
form:
invisibled
tags:
participle
past
form:
invisibled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English invisible, from Old French invisible, from Late Latin invīsibilis. Displaced native Old English unġesewenlīċ.
Morphologically in- + visible.
senses_examples:
text:
In the next section I look at some of the factors that contribute to the “invisibling” of people in later life in terms of the marginalization and splitting that occurs in providing decent psychological as well as physical care.
ref:
2007, Rachael Davenhill, Looking into Later Life
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make invisible, to invisiblize.
senses_topics:
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15368 | word:
invisible
word_type:
noun
expansion:
invisible (plural invisibles)
forms:
form:
invisibles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English invisible, from Old French invisible, from Late Latin invīsibilis. Displaced native Old English unġesewenlīċ.
Morphologically in- + visible.
senses_examples:
text:
Invisibles. Heretics who denied the visibility of the Church
ref:
1872, Orby Shipley, A Glossary of Ecclesiastical Terms
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An invisible person or thing; specifically, God, the Supreme Being.
A Rosicrucian; so called because avoiding declaration of his craft.
One of those (as in the 16th century) who denied the visibility of the church.
senses_topics:
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15369 | word:
baba
word_type:
noun
expansion:
baba (plural babas)
forms:
form:
babas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
As one of the first utterances many babies are able to say, baba (like mama, papa, and dada) has come to be used in many languages as a term for various family members:
* father: Albanian, Arabic, Western Armenian, Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Greek, Marathi, Mingrelian, Nepali, Persian, Swahili, Turkish, Yoruba, Shona, Zulu
* grandmother: many Slavic languages (such as Bulgarian, Russian, Czech and Polish), Romanian, Yiddish, Japanese
* grandfather: Azerbaijani, Zulu (father, grandfather)
* baby: Afrikaans, Sinhala, Hungarian
These terms often continue to be used by English speakers whose families came from one of these cultures. In some cases, they may become more widely used in localities that have been heavily influenced by an immigrant community. Some senses were extensions of one of these family terms in the original languages ("old woman" from "grandmother", "holy man" from "father"). The "cake" sense comes through French, from Polish baba (“old woman”). The Middle Eastern word baba (as in Ali Baba) is rather a term of endearment, and is ultimately derived from Persian بابا (bābā, “father”) (from Old Persian pāpa; as opposed to the Arabic words أَبُو (ʔabū) and أَب (ʔab); see also Papak), and is linguistically related to the common European word papa and the word pope, having the same Indo-European origin. The Chinese word "baba", meaning father comes from 爸爸.
senses_examples:
text:
My baba, Ksenia Dubinsky, tells me that my education makes her proud.
ref:
1993, Karen Dubinsky, Improper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929, University of Chicago Press
type:
quotation
text:
2001, Brattleboro Remembers, edited by the Brattleboro [Vermont] Historical Society, Arcadia Publishing
I walked first for my grandmother, and my mother was sorry she had missed my first steps. My Baba was so proud, my mother later told me.
text:
As we made eye contact, I slowly began to wonder if she was Baba. I did not know my grandmother though I'd spoken with her several times on the telephone;
ref:
2004, MaryBeth Bond, editor, A Woman's Europe: True Stories
type:
quotation
text:
Only two women, typical "babas" (peasant women) in the house from which I got my quilt and bedcloth, could be coaxed to pose;
ref:
1914, Russell Sage Foundation, Wage-earning Pittsburgh
type:
quotation
text:
Laura hadn't known that anyone's mother could look like that, like the babas you sometimes saw downtown, bandaged in kerchiefs and aprons, sitting toothless in stockinged feet on small verandahs, peeling potatoes or beets or just shaking their heads and grimacing.
ref:
1986, Janice Kulyk Keefer, The Paris-Napoli Express
type:
quotation
text:
According to some, new volunteers are becoming more difficult to recruit and there are dark suggestions that 'money is being made on the backs of the babas', the dedicated, but ageing ladies who still spend countless hours of their time preparing foodstuffs for the occasion.
ref:
2003, Colin Michael Hall, Liz Sharples, editors, Food Tourism Around The World: Development, Management and Markets
type:
quotation
text:
The first time I signed my exercise I wrote "Pisistratus Caxton" in my best round-hand. "And dey call your baba a scholar!" said the Doctor, contemptuously.
ref:
1849, Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Caxtons
type:
quotation
text:
"The greatest gift and honor is having you for a daughter. I've missed you so." "I've missed you too, baba."
ref:
1998, Mulan (movie)
text:
Okay. Okay. Fine, baba. Let's just do it before something else goes wrong.
ref:
2002, Bend It Like Beckham (movie)
text:
"Do not be disrespectful, son. Look at me." "Baba, were you a Savaki?"
ref:
2003, House of Sand and Fog (movie)
text:
While I was in Port Alberni, three babas came to Canada to raise money ...
ref:
1995, Hugh J.M. Johnston, Tara Singh Bains, The Four Quarters of the Night: The Life-Journey of an Emigrant Sikh
type:
quotation
text:
But according to Ray, 'all the babas my uncle knew were genuine. None of them was exposed. They were fairly humble people, not show-offs like the Maharishi ...
ref:
2004, Andrew Robinson, Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker
type:
quotation
text:
Most babas had little contact with written culture and are not therefore named in books and treatises.
ref:
2006, Suraiya Faroqhi, Subjects Of The Sultan: Culture And Daily Life In The Ottoman Empire
type:
quotation
text:
That is to say, if I do not take care, I shall go on calling my darling 'Baba' till she is as old as her mamma, and has a dozen Babas of her own.
ref:
1876, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay
type:
quotation
text:
For my child is dead—my baba is dead!
ref:
1904, Rudyard Kipling, Traffics and Discoveries
type:
quotation
text:
Oh, it's storytime! Let me get my baba.
ref:
2004, House (TV, episode 1.14)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
A grandmother.
An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture.
A father.
A holy man, a spiritual leader.
A baby, child.
In baby talk, often used for a variety of words beginning with b, such as bottle or blanket.
senses_topics:
Islam
lifestyle
religion
|
15370 | word:
acholous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acholous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lacking bile.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
15371 | word:
hagiography
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hagiography (countable and uncountable, plural hagiographies)
forms:
form:
hagiographies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hagiography
etymology_text:
From hagio- + -graphy.
senses_examples:
text:
The second half of the eleventh century saw a notable surge of interest in hagiography throughout England, which meant that many of the Anglo-Saxon saints of earlier eras were furnished, often for the first time, with a Latin Vita.
ref:
2004, Rosalind C. Love, Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: The Hagiography of the Female Saints of Ely
type:
quotation
text:
Jacques LeGoff remarks, 'Hagiography tells us much about the mental infrastructure [of the middle ages]: the interpenetration between the tangible world and the supernatural world, the common nature of the corporeal and psychic, are the conditions which make miracles and related phenomena possible.
ref:
2005, Thomas Head, Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orléans, 800-1200
type:
quotation
text:
Charters, wills, and monastic rules offer evidence for this transformation, but it is hagiography and its double-scoped discourse that illuminates it best, and we will start with a vita that pursued the question of peroperty and prestige more comprehensively than the rest, the Vita Sadalbergae.
ref:
2014, Jamie Kreiner, The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom, page 189
type:
quotation
text:
Churchill revisionism, of course, is almost as much of a cottage industry as Churchill hagiography.
ref:
2021 October 26, Peter Baker, “The Case Against Winston Churchill”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
For an obsequious hagiography of [William] Byrd, see L. Wright 1940. For a more critical assessment, see Lockridge 1987, 1992.
ref:
2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 151
type:
quotation
text:
This 'cultivated characteriology' (ibid., p. 117) is one that she suggests has been reduced to the cult of the theorist's personality in many of the hagiographies written about Foucault, missing how he cultivated his ethos or characteriology in order to persuade, seduce, unsettle, question, and so forth.
·
ref:
2016, Britta Timm Knudsen, Carsten Stage, Affective Methodologies, page 29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The study of saints and the documentation of their lives.
A biography of a saint.
A biography which expresses reverence and respect for its subject.
A biography which is uncritically supportive of its subject, often including embellishments or propaganda.
senses_topics:
|
15372 | word:
achlamydate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
achlamydate
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χλαμύς (khlamús, “cloak, mantle”).
senses_examples:
text:
an achlamydate gastropod
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not possessing a mantle.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
15373 | word:
needn't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
needn't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
need + -n't.
senses_examples:
text:
I've worked many's the time to make up for the wages he's squandered, and I need a drop to keep up my strength. Take it good and leave it good, that's what I do; and if Jem did the same, he'd be welcome to it for all I should say to him, and he needn't sign no more than me. The [temperance] pledge is a very good thing for them as can't manage theirselves, and its kind in you, Mr. Watts, to come round and talk to the people, and get the drunkards to leave off the drink; but, bless you, I needn't sign.
ref:
1871 April 1, M. A. Paull, “‘I Needn’t Sign.’ (A Story for Wives, Founded on Fact.)”, in The Western Temperance Herald: The Official Organ of the Western Temperance League, volume XXXV, number 4, London: Houlston & Sons, 65, Paternoster Row; Yeovil: Clinker & Tite, →OCLC, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
‘Oh no,’ said the boy casually. ‘I won’t think much about them, mother. You needn’t worry. I wouldn’t worry, mother, if I were you.’ / ‘If you were me and I were you’, said his mother, ‘I wonder what we should do!’ / ‘But you know you needn’t worry, mother, don’t you?’ the boy repeated.
ref:
1926 July, D[avid] H[erbert Richards] Lawrence, “The Rocking-Horse Winner”, Harper's Bazaar, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corporation, OCLC 1639362
text:
There were perhaps half a dozen occasions on which he might have withdrawn and returned to the life that had been marked out for him. He needn't have been tortured in South Africa; he needn't have written his book; he needn't have taken the job with Sablich's; having taken the job, he needn't have become associated with Thrushcross Grange and Jimmy Ahmed.
ref:
1975, V. S. Naipaul, Guerrillas, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf
type:
quotation
text:
Of course, since he's Judy's lover he had to say she's got nicer legs! It's true he needn't have been so assertive about it. That wasn't very tactful towards poor Li; Li is right when she says that Fred is an egoistic lout. A terrible lout.
ref:
1996, Karel Čapek, “The Yacht on the Lagoon”, in M. Weatherall, R. Weatherall, transl., War with the Newts, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
We needn't swing the bludgeon when bargaining is still on the table. We needn't beat our plowshares into swords so long as we can browbeat or otherwise befuddle our enemy into believing our way is the best way—the only way. Thus, we needn't bloodily and bodily slay a foe when we can startle, stifle, and, when need be, snuff out any flame of resistance to our will.
ref:
2010 October, Haha Lung with Christopher B. Prowant, Mind Warrior: Strategies for Total Mind Domination, New York, N.Y.: Citadel Press, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
She needn't argue with Renee and Marian (she is speaking to them again) about the Black Panthers. She needn't worry that Lydia seems to be taking too many and more frightening drugs. She needn't keep it from Adam that she is smoking pot with her friends; […]
ref:
2011, Mary Gordon, The Love of My Youth, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, page 195
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Need not.
senses_topics:
|
15374 | word:
outrage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
outrage (countable and uncountable, plural outrages)
forms:
form:
outrages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English outrage, from Old French outrage, oultrage (“excess”), from Vulgar Latin *ultrāticum ("a going beyond"), derived from Latin ultrā (“beyond”). Later reanalysed as out- + rage, whence the contemporary pronunciation, though neither of these is etymologically related.
The verb is from Middle English outragen, from Old French oultragier.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts.
A destructive rampage.
senses_topics:
|
15375 | word:
outrage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
outrage (third-person singular simple present outrages, present participle outraging, simple past and past participle outraged)
forms:
form:
outrages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
outraging
tags:
participle
present
form:
outraged
tags:
participle
past
form:
outraged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English outrage, from Old French outrage, oultrage (“excess”), from Vulgar Latin *ultrāticum ("a going beyond"), derived from Latin ultrā (“beyond”). Later reanalysed as out- + rage, whence the contemporary pronunciation, though neither of these is etymologically related.
The verb is from Middle English outragen, from Old French oultragier.
senses_examples:
text:
August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet
Base and insolent minds […] outrage men when they have Hopes of doing it without a Return.
text:
1725-1726, William Broome, Odyssey
The interview […] outrages all the rules of decency.
text:
The senator's comments outraged the community.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
To inspire feelings of outrage in.
To sexually violate; to rape.
To rage in excess of.
senses_topics:
|
15376 | word:
sha'n't
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
sha'n't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Contraction of shall + -n't (“contraction of not”).
senses_examples:
text:
Bel[linda] […] Nay you ſha'n't go one ſtep out of the room. / […] Lady B[rute] Pray give me leave. / Lady Fanc[yfull] You know I won't. / Lady B. Indeed I muſt. / Lady Fanc. Indeed you ſha'n't. / Lady B. Indeed I will. / Lady Fanc. Indeed you ſha'n't. / Lady B. Indeed I will. / Lady Fanc. Indeed you ſha'n't. Indeed Indeed Indeed you ſha'n't. (Exit Lady Fanc. running. They follow.
ref:
1697, [John Vanbrugh], The Provok'd Wife: A Comedy, as It is Acted at the New Theatre, in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, London: Printed by J. O. for R. Wellington, at the Lute in St. Paul's Church Yard, and Sam. Briscoe in Covent-Garden, →OCLC, act III, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
[Alice:] I'm sure I sha'n't be able!
ref:
1866, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, chapter 2, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
That's not a threat, sir, for they have played fair with me, and I sha'n't sacrifice a penny of their money—unless they force me to do so. But—I'm in control. I'm sitting pretty. They can't unseat me, and I warn them not to try.
ref:
1922, Rex [Ellingwood] Beach, “chapter XXIV”, in Flowing Gold, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, by arrangement with Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 290
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dated spelling of shan't.
senses_topics:
|
15377 | word:
achlamydeous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
achlamydeous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + Ancient Greek χλαμύδος (khlamúdos, “mantle, cloak”) + -ous; a- + chlamydeous.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
having no perianth
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
15378 | word:
cloudcuckooland
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cloudcuckooland
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The very idea is straight out of cloudcuckooland!
ref:
1990, Colleen McCullough, Tim
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of cloud-cuckoo-land
senses_topics:
|
15379 | word:
antelope
word_type:
noun
expansion:
antelope (plural antelope or antelopes)
forms:
form:
antelope
tags:
plural
form:
antelopes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
antelope
etymology_text:
From Middle English antelope, from Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops), which is of obscure origin.
senses_examples:
text:
"It reminds me of when I was hunting antelope in Colorado," he said to her.
ref:
1881, John W. Forney, The New Nobility, page 80
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.
The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.
A fierce legendary creature said to live on the banks of the Euphrates, having long serrated horns and being hard to catch.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences |
15380 | word:
mightn't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mightn't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
might + -n't
senses_examples:
text:
Her driver was new to the country; he mightn't be prepared for the leaping of the yellow water down dry arroyos, swift as the pouncings of a cat, or the snake-like slidings of tons of loosened rock and clay from the steep potreros […]
ref:
1931, Mary Hunter Austin, Starry Adventure, page 274
type:
quotation
text:
“But, mightn’t there have been something unusual about the Stimatis contract itself?” [Perry Mason cross-examining Roger Correll.]
ref:
1963, Perry Mason, The Case of the Greek Goddess (Television Season 6, Episode 25)
text:
"But at night she would still think the same thing: mightn't it be that he wouldn't come to see her anymore?"
ref:
1974, Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversation in the Cathedral: A Novel, Harper & Row (First Rayo Edition, 2005), page 275
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
might not (negative auxiliary)
senses_topics:
|
15381 | word:
brothers
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brothers
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of brother
senses_topics:
|
15382 | word:
brothers
word_type:
verb
expansion:
brothers
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of brother
senses_topics:
|
15383 | word:
humour
word_type:
noun
expansion:
humour (usually uncountable, plural humours)
forms:
form:
humours
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
humour
etymology_text:
From Middle English humour, from Old French humor, humour, from Latin hūmor, correctly ūmor (“liquid”), from hūmeō, correctly ūmeō (“to be moist”). The h in these words, which was silent in late Classical Latin, is folk etymological, due to the erroneous association with the word humus (“soil”).
The shift in meaning "liquid" > "mood" is attributed to the classical system of physiology, where human behaviour is regulated by four bodily humours (fluids). The sense "mood" gave rise to the verb sense "to give in to someone's mood or whim" and, by narrowing of meaning, the sense "wit".
senses_examples:
text:
She has a great sense of humour, and I always laugh a lot whenever we get together.
type:
example
text:
The sensitive subject was treated with humour, but in such way that no one was offended.
type:
example
text:
Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
ref:
1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
type:
quotation
text:
He was in a particularly vile humour that afternoon.
type:
example
text:
Examine how your humour is inclined, / And which the ruling passion of your mind.
ref:
1684, Lord Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse
type:
quotation
text:
([I]t was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything)—“[…]Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money.[…]”
ref:
1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock
type:
quotation
text:
For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
ref:
1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), (tr. 1774) page 42
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
Moist vapour, moisture.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
15384 | word:
humour
word_type:
verb
expansion:
humour (third-person singular simple present humours, present participle humouring, simple past and past participle humoured)
forms:
form:
humours
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
humouring
tags:
participle
present
form:
humoured
tags:
participle
past
form:
humoured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
humour
etymology_text:
From Middle English humour, from Old French humor, humour, from Latin hūmor, correctly ūmor (“liquid”), from hūmeō, correctly ūmeō (“to be moist”). The h in these words, which was silent in late Classical Latin, is folk etymological, due to the erroneous association with the word humus (“soil”).
The shift in meaning "liquid" > "mood" is attributed to the classical system of physiology, where human behaviour is regulated by four bodily humours (fluids). The sense "mood" gave rise to the verb sense "to give in to someone's mood or whim" and, by narrowing of meaning, the sense "wit".
senses_examples:
text:
I know you don't believe my story, but humour me for a minute and imagine it to be true.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pacify by indulging.
senses_topics:
|
15385 | word:
they're
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
they're
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of they are.
senses_topics:
|
15386 | word:
they're
word_type:
adv
expansion:
they're
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of there.
senses_topics:
|
15387 | word:
they're
word_type:
det
expansion:
they're
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of their.
senses_topics:
|
15388 | word:
lioness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lioness (plural lionesses, masculine lion)
forms:
form:
lionesses
tags:
plural
form:
lion
tags:
masculine
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English leonesse, lyonesse, from Old French leonesse, lionesse; equivalent to lion + -ess.
senses_examples:
text:
Residents on the south-western outskirts of Berlin are being urged to stay indoors after overnight sightings of a “loose, dangerous animal”, suspected to be an escaped lioness.
ref:
2023 July 20, Philip Oltermann, “Lioness believed to be on loose in Berlin”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
The stories were a tremendous success; she was one of the leading lionesses of London literary society.
ref:
1877, The Contemporary Review, volume 29, page 1123
type:
quotation
text:
The Middlesbrough Labour MP, Stuart Bell, a political and personal friend, said: "Mo was a lioness both in terms of the Labour party and politics nationally. She cut to the quick with any issue and proved herself a stateswoman of the highest order when seeking to negotiate the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement.
ref:
2005 August 19, James Sturcke, quoting Stuart Bell, “Mowlam a political ‘lioness’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
The social worker said she talked to her 28-year-old daughter about the battles Feinstein fought so that younger generations of women could dream bigger. “She was a lioness.”
ref:
2023 October 6, “Memorial honors trailblazing senator Dianne Feinstein: ‘She was a lioness’”, in The Guardian, sourced from Associated Press, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
When "lionesses" visiting Oxford for the gay doings of commemoration week spend a morning at Merton, they should look out for Antony Wood's mural tablet in the chapel, […]
ref:
1871, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Annals of Oxford, page 305
type:
quotation
text:
"Now, boys, keep your eyes open, there must be plenty of lionesses about;" and thus warned, the whole load, including the cornopean player, were on the look-out for lady visitors, profanely called lionesses, all the way up the street.
ref:
1888, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, page 271
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female lion (animal).
A female lion (famous person regarded with interest and curiosity).
A female visitor to a student at Oxford, especially during commemoration week.
senses_topics:
|
15389 | word:
stamen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stamen (plural stamens or stamina)
forms:
form:
stamens
tags:
plural
form:
stamina
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin stamen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In flowering plants, the structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
15390 | word:
wo'n't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wo'n't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
We indeed!” cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end of his tail. “As if I would talk on such a subject! Our family always hated cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don’t let me hear the name again!”
“I wo’n’t indeed!” said Alice, in a great hurry to change the subject of conversation. “Are you—are you fond—of—of dogs?”
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic spelling of won't.
senses_topics:
|
15391 | word:
wo'n't
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
wo'n't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of wouldn't
senses_topics:
|
15392 | word:
Saxony
word_type:
name
expansion:
Saxony
forms:
wikipedia:
Saxony
etymology_text:
From Saxon + -y.
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, Vol.XXIX: History of the German Empire, page 2
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A historic realm and modern state of Germany.
senses_topics:
|
15393 | word:
Saxony
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Saxony (countable and uncountable, plural Saxonies)
forms:
form:
Saxonies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Saxony
etymology_text:
From Saxon + -y.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fine soft woollen fabric.
Saxony yarn, or flannel made from this or similar yarn.
senses_topics:
|
15394 | word:
mayn't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mayn't (third-person singular simple present mayn't, no present participle, simple past mightn't, no past participle)
forms:
form:
mayn't
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mightn't
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From may + -n't.
senses_examples:
text:
"Now, father," said Nancy, "is there any call for you to go home to tea? Mayn't you just as well stay with us?--such a beautiful evening as it's likely to be."
ref:
1861, George Eliot, chapter 17, in Silas Marner
type:
quotation
text:
You mayn't hardly believe it, but at the present moment I am absolutely without a farthing.
ref:
1914, Saki, The Romancers
type:
quotation
text:
I can't help about other people. But I surely would like to have a spot to stop till daylight. Still - if people don't relish this place, mayn't it be because it's getting so run-down?
ref:
1930, H. P. Lovecraft, Madusa's Coil
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
may not (negative auxiliary)
senses_topics:
|
15395 | word:
shrewdness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shrewdness (countable and uncountable, plural shrewdnesses)
forms:
form:
shrewdnesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From shrewd + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being shrewd.
An invented collective name for a group of apes.
senses_topics:
|
15396 | word:
jenny-ass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jenny-ass (plural jenny-asses)
forms:
form:
jenny-asses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
c. 1849, G. Herbert Rodwell, Old London Bridge, London: Henry Lea, Chapter 15, p. 158,
[…] this little donkey could not be trusted in the road, for it was always getting under the wheels, because it would not let its mother, a fine fat old jenny ass in the shafts, alone.
text:
[…] old rope is for tethering your jennyass […]
ref:
1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, London: Hutchinson, Part One
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female donkey.
senses_topics:
|
15397 | word:
Allah
word_type:
name
expansion:
Allah (plural Allahs)
forms:
form:
Allahs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic اللّٰه (allāh), contraction of اَل (al-, “the”) + إِلَه (ʔilah, “deity”); cognate with the Aramaic אלה (aláh) and אלהא (aláhâ), and Hebrew אֵל (él), אֱלוֹהַּ / אֱלֹהַּ (elóah) and אֱלוֹהִים \ אֱלֹהִים (elohím); ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-.-.
senses_examples:
text:
We are too much men and women; we are yet formed in the image of the Creator, and what can we say of Him with any certainty except that He, whoever He may be—Christ, Yahweh, Allah—He made us, did He not, because even He in His Infinite Perfection could not bear to be alone.
ref:
1998, Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand, New York: Knopf, →OL, page 273
type:
quotation
text:
What is the Shia Islamic view on the attributes of Allah?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts
senses_topics:
Islam
lifestyle
religion |
15398 | word:
tie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tie (plural ties)
forms:
form:
ties
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English teye (“cord, chain”), from Old English tēag, tēah (“cord, chain”), from Proto-West Germanic *taugu, from Proto-Germanic *taugō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk-. Compare Danish tov, Icelandic taug.
senses_examples:
text:
Oxford ties; Derby ties
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: court shoe
text:
the sacred ties of friendship or of duty
type:
example
text:
the ties of allegiance; the ties that bind
type:
example
text:
No distance breaks the tie of blood.
ref:
1866, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Prince and the Page
type:
quotation
text:
The film ends with the colorful deaths of Nico's enemies after he thwarts their attempts to assassinate a U.S. Senator investigating ties between drug dealers and the CIA.
ref:
2004, Peter Bondanella, chapter 4, in Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, pages 231–232
type:
quotation
text:
Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes.
type:
example
text:
It's two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: draw
text:
I thought José was still a point down. I thought he needed another takedown to tie and pull ahead, so I ordered José to let his man up. I looked up too late, realizing that José already scored a tie. By that point, the New Jersey champion got his ...
ref:
2010, Scott Glabb, A Saint in the City: Coaching At-risk Kids to Be Champions, Tate Publishing, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
[…] game in the championships shouldering a vast disadvantage and was in due course defeated by Egyetértés, one of the newcomers in the first league. Eger, the other novice in the championships, also took off successfully scoring a tie with the Ruha ETO.
ref:
1971, Budapress News Service, Budapress Bulletin, volume 10, issues 27-52, page 8
text:
The FA Cup third round tie between Liverpool and Cardiff was their first meeting in the competition since 1957.
type:
example
text:
Wikipedia: tie (typography)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A knot; a fastening.
A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
A lace-up shoe.
A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
A connection between two vertices.
A tiewig.
senses_topics:
business
construction
manufacturing
rail-transport
railways
transport
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
entertainment
lifestyle
music
mathematics
sciences
statistics
geography
natural-sciences
surveying
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
|
15399 | word:
tie
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tie (third-person singular simple present ties, present participle tying, simple past and past participle tied)
forms:
form:
ties
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tying
tags:
participle
present
form:
tied
tags:
participle
past
form:
tied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English teien, teiȝen, from Old English tīġan, tīeġan, from Proto-West Germanic *taugijan, from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to tug, draw”). Cognate with Icelandic teygja.
senses_examples:
text:
Tie this rope in a knot for me, please.
type:
example
text:
Tie the rope to this tree.
type:
example
text:
Tie a knot in this rope for me, please.
type:
example
text:
Tie him to the tree.
type:
example
text:
Tie your shoes.
type:
example
text:
They tied for third place.
type:
example
text:
They tied the game.
type:
example
text:
He tied me for third place.
type:
example
text:
[…] It seems they have sort of betrothal teas — can you tie it?"
"Heavens!" said Mary […]
ref:
1929, Collier's, volume 84, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
As the door slammed Pete turned to Hally, fuming. "Can you tie that? A little twopenny cold frightening him off."
ref:
1940, Woman's Home Companion, volume 67, numbers 1-4, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
So, a class for tying a hash to an ISAM implementation might provide an extra method to traverse a set of keys sequentially (the “S” of ISAM), since your typical DBM implementation can't do that.
ref:
2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl: 3rd Edition, page 814
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
To secure (something) by string or the like.
To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
To believe; to credit.
In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
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