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15400 | word:
reception
word_type:
noun
expansion:
reception (countable and uncountable, plural receptions)
forms:
form:
receptions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French reception, from Latin receptiō (“the act of receiving; reception”), from recipiō (“receive”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“I hold”).
senses_examples:
text:
We have poor TV reception in the valley.
type:
example
text:
The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.
type:
example
text:
After the wedding we proceeded to the reception.
type:
example
text:
The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception.
type:
example
text:
At the end of a week, she could bear the suspense no longer, and so went humbly to her old home and sought forgiveness. She was not repulsed, but her reception was cold; and this hurt her almost as badly.
ref:
1850, T. S. Arthur, “Happy on a Little”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
Former Tottenham star Rohan Ricketts came off the Rovers bench with 19 minutes to go to a warm reception from the home fans, six years after leaving the Lane.
ref:
2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Among the numerous receptions of Roman law one event stood out, to the extent that, at least in central Europe, it almost monopolized the term.
ref:
1942 October, Ernst Levy, “Reflections on the First "Reception" of Roman Law in Germanic States”, in The American Historical Review, →JSTOR, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
Henderson can play multiple techniques, man and off, and over the last two seasons, he yielded just 20 receptions, on 44 targets, in single coverage on the boundary, according to Pro Football Focus, making him a prime candidate to start there as a rookie.
ref:
2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in New York Time
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of receiving.
The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.
A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.
A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.
The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.
The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.
The act of catching a pass.
Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps, such as ideation, comprehension, reconstruction, interpretation.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
education
law
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
15401 | word:
underpants
word_type:
noun
expansion:
underpants pl (plural only, attributive underpant)
forms:
form:
underpant
tags:
attributive
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From under- + pants.
senses_examples:
text:
The Italian fashion of wearing red underpants on December 31 is becoming popular, reputedly to guarantee luck for the new year.
ref:
1994, Marketing in Europe, Issues 380-385, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
She takes off her fatigue pants and throws them in the washer and the surgical greens and her bloodstained bra and turns on the machine. She is wearing socks and underpants and a .38 Special with a shrouded hammer in an ankle holster.
ref:
1999, Thomas Harris, Hannibal, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
He wore khakis slung so low that five inches of his underpants showed—dark blue boxers with big white polka dots.
ref:
2011, Les Roberts, The Cleveland Creep: A Milan Jacovich Mystery, page 87
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Underwear covering the genitalia and often buttocks, usually going no higher than the navel.
senses_topics:
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15402 | word:
acholia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acholia (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin acholia, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χολή (kholḗ, “bile”).
senses_examples:
text:
The intensely bilious color of the liver shows that the discoloration of the contents of the intestines is not due to arrested production of bile, that is to acholia.
ref:
1875, Felix von Niemeyer, translated by Geoorge H. Humphreys and Charles E. Hackley, A Text-book of Practical Medicine, with Particular Reference to Physiology and Pathological Anatomy, page 692
type:
quotation
text:
This then illustrates acholia in the literal sense of the word, and explains the absence of icterus in spite of the complete obliteration of the ductus communis choledochus.
ref:
1884, The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 2, page 320
type:
quotation
text:
A 1-month 3-week-old infant with a history of neonatal jaundice, cholestasis, and acholia is admitted to our hospital to rule out biliary atresia and further treatment.
ref:
2012, Carmen Gallego Herrera, Enrique Medina Benítez, “Case 1: Percutaneous Ultrasound-guided Liver Biopsy”, in María I. Martínez-León, Antonio Martínez-Valverde, Luisa Ceres-Ruiz, editors, Imaging for Pediatricians: 100 Key Cases, page 163
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Deficiency or absence of bile.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences |
15403 | word:
chiasmus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chiasmus (countable and uncountable, plural chiasmi or chiasmuses)
forms:
form:
chiasmi
tags:
plural
form:
chiasmuses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin chiasmus, from Ancient Greek χιασμός (khiasmós), from χιάζω (khiázō, “to mark with a chi”), from χ (kh, “chi”).
senses_examples:
text:
The book of Habakkuk has been discovered to consist of a closely knit chiastic structure throughout. This is the first poem of such length to stand revealed as a literary unit of this kind, though chiasmus has already been discovered throughout many psalms[…]
ref:
1934, H. H. Walker, N. W. Lund, “The Literary Structure of the Book of Habakkuk”, in Journal of Biblical Literature, 53 (4): 355
type:
quotation
text:
John F. Kennedy is more famous for his chiasmus than for many of his policies:
"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."
ref:
1984, Ethel Grodzins Romm, “Persuasive Writing”, in American Bar Association Journal, 70: 158
type:
quotation
text:
Leeman therefore holds that chiasmus is the basic order in Greek and Latin: antithesis is, he claims, normal for the modern, rational mind, but for the Greeks and Romans chiasmus was more natural.
ref:
2002, Simon R. Slings, “Figures of Speech in Aristophanes”, in Andreas Willi, editor, The Language of Greek Comedy, pages 103–104
type:
quotation
text:
The realization that Mawlānā was using parallelism and chiasmus to organize the higher levels of his work has been a major surprise.
ref:
2009, Seyed Ghahreman Safavi, Simon Weightman, Rūmī's Mystical Design: Reading the Mathnawī, Book One, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases.
senses_topics:
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15404 | word:
Zeus
word_type:
name
expansion:
Zeus (plural Zeuses)
forms:
form:
Zeuses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús). Doublet of Dyeus and Jove.
senses_examples:
text:
67 give zeus a bath Wash off whatever your dog rolled in over the weekend. It'll freshen up your house and you'll burn about 100 calories.
ref:
2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Supreme ruler of all Greek gods, husband to Hera.
A male given name.
A representative given name for a dog.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
|
15405 | word:
grain
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grain (countable and uncountable, plural grains)
forms:
form:
grains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
grain
etymology_text:
From Middle English greyn, grayn, grein, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin grānum (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”). Doublet of corn, gram, granum, and grao.
senses_examples:
text:
We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.
type:
example
text:
a grain of wheat
type:
example
text:
grains of oat
type:
example
text:
The fields were planted with grain.
type:
example
text:
Cut along the grain of the wood.
type:
example
text:
He doesn't like to shave against the grain.
type:
example
text:
a grain of sand
type:
example
text:
a grain of salt
type:
example
text:
[…] doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colours of less value, then give them the last tincture of crimson in grain.
ref:
a. 1825, Quoted by Coleridge, preface to Aids to Reflection
text:
The grain of the leather is also sometimes damaged by the filling , by the taking off the hair , and by the river work.
ref:
1773, Royal Dublin Society, The Art of Tanning and of Currying Leather
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
A single seed of grass food crops.
The crops from which grain is harvested.
A linear texture of a material or surface.
A single particle of a substance.
Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
senses_topics:
aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
arts
broadcasting
film
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
television
videography |
15406 | word:
grain
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grain (third-person singular simple present grains, present participle graining, simple past and past participle grained)
forms:
form:
grains
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
graining
tags:
participle
present
form:
grained
tags:
participle
past
form:
grained
tags:
past
wikipedia:
grain
etymology_text:
From Middle English greyn, grayn, grein, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin grānum (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”). Doublet of corn, gram, granum, and grao.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To feed grain to.
To make granular; to form into grains.
To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
To soften leather.
To yield fruit.
senses_topics:
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15407 | word:
grain
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grain (plural grains)
forms:
form:
grains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
grain
etymology_text:
From Middle English grayn, from Old Norse grein (“bough, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *grainiz (“branch, twig, ramification”), of unknown origin. Related to English grove (“thicket”).
senses_examples:
text:
Served 5 lb of fish per man which was caught by striking with grains
ref:
4 May 1770, Stephen Forwood (gunner on H.M. Bark Endeavour), journal (quoted by Parkin (page 195)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
A tine, prong, or fork.
One of the branches of a valley or river.
A tine, prong, or fork.
An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
A tine, prong, or fork.
A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
A tine, prong, or fork.
An arm of a cross.
A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
A fork in a river valley or ravine.
The branch of a family; clan.
The groin; crotch.
The fangs of a tooth.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
15408 | word:
Maltese Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
Maltese Islands
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea making up the Republic of Malta.
senses_topics:
|
15409 | word:
kopi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kopi (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Baagandji kopi, gabi.
senses_examples:
text:
In these parts you find kopi, gypsum I think you call it, and you see it in layers exposed on the sides of certain hills.
ref:
2010, Monte Dwyer, Red in the Centre: Through a Crooked Lens, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
They were made by taking a cast of woven cord, and covered in kopi, a white gypsum clay.
ref:
2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 152
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A variety of gypsum found in southern Australia, sometimes containing opal, and traditionally used by Indigenous Australian in powdered form as body ornamentation for mourning ceremonies.
senses_topics:
|
15410 | word:
researcher
word_type:
noun
expansion:
researcher (plural researchers)
forms:
form:
researchers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From research + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref:
2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who researches.
senses_topics:
|
15411 | word:
Malta Island
word_type:
name
expansion:
Malta Island
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Malta + island
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The largest island of Malta.
senses_topics:
|
15412 | word:
preferences
word_type:
noun
expansion:
preferences
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of preference
senses_topics:
|
15413 | word:
preferences
word_type:
noun
expansion:
preferences pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The user-specified settings of parameters in interactive computer software
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15414 | word:
preferences
word_type:
verb
expansion:
preferences
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of preference
senses_topics:
|
15415 | word:
Edge Island
word_type:
name
expansion:
Edge Island
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island of Svalbard.
senses_topics:
|
15416 | word:
in-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
in-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₁én
From Middle English in-, from Old English in- (“in, into”, prefix), from Proto-Germanic *in, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én. More at in.
senses_examples:
text:
inbeat is occurring on an inward beat, inbend is to bend or curve inwards, incave is to cave inward
type:
example
text:
inbreed is to produce or generate within, inburning is burning within, incircle is a circle within a polygon
type:
example
text:
inhold, inmove, intake, inthrill
text:
inborn, inbound
text:
infield, infighting, insight, intalk, inwork
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
in, into, towards, within.
Inward (direction)
in, into, towards, within.
Within (position)
in, into, towards, within.
senses_topics:
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15417 | word:
in-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
in-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English in-, borrowed (in words of Latinate origin) from Latin in-, from Latin in, from Proto-Indo-European *en (cognate to Germanic in-, above). Often borrowed from French in- (e.g. incise, incite, incline, indication), or as French en-, originally from Latin in.
senses_examples:
text:
imband is to form into a band or bands, imbar is to bar in, imbarn is to store in a barn
type:
example
text:
inblind is to make blind, incloister is to cloister
type:
example
text:
imbannered is having banners, inaureole is to have a halo, incarnate is be crimson
type:
example
text:
il- before l, e.g. illusion
im- before b, m, or p, e.g. imperil
ir- before r, e.g. irrigate
ref:
Note: Before certain letters, in- becomes
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
in, into
Into
in, into
Doing; forming verbs.
in, into
Having, possessing
in, into
senses_topics:
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15418 | word:
in-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
in-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*ne
From Middle English in-, borrowed (in words of latinate origin) from Latin in- (“not”). Sometimes the Latin word has passed through French before reaching English (e.g. incapable, incertainty, inclement, incompatible). Doublet of un-.
senses_examples:
text:
inedible
text:
inaccurate
text:
incredulity
text:
ineptitude
text:
inannihilable is that cannot be annihilated, inappellable is that cannot be appealed against, inassimilable is that cannot be assimilated
type:
example
text:
ig- before n, e.g. ignoble
il- before l, e.g. illegal
im- before b, m, or p, e.g. improper
ir- before r, e.g. irresistible
ref:
Note: Before certain letters, in- becomes
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used with certain words to reverse their meaning.
Added to adjectives to mean not.
Used with certain words to reverse their meaning.
Added to nouns to mean lacking or without.
Used with certain words to reverse their meaning.
Cannot, unable.
Used with certain words to reverse their meaning.
senses_topics:
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15419 | word:
aching
word_type:
verb
expansion:
aching
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of ache
senses_topics:
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15420 | word:
aching
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aching (comparative more aching, superlative most aching)
forms:
form:
more aching
tags:
comparative
form:
most aching
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The aching heart, the aching head.
ref:
1851, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend
type:
quotation
text:
There was a long spell of silence, a big, aching void, and then from the Professor a keen 'S-s-s-s!'
ref:
1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page 189
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That aches; continuously painful; that causes pain.
senses_topics:
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15421 | word:
aching
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aching (plural achings)
forms:
form:
achings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The feeling of an ache; a dull pain.
senses_topics:
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15422 | word:
Barents Island
word_type:
name
expansion:
Barents Island
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island of Svalbard.
senses_topics:
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15423 | word:
score
word_type:
noun
expansion:
score (plural scores)
forms:
form:
scores
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
score
etymology_text:
From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō (“incision; tear; rift”), which is related to *skeraną (“to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“cut”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear.
For the sense “twenty”: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.
senses_examples:
text:
The player with the highest score is the winner.
type:
example
text:
The score is 8-1 even though it's not even half-time!
type:
example
text:
The test scores for this class were high.
type:
example
text:
Some words have scores of meanings.
type:
example
text:
I went on trying for fish along the western bank down the river, but only small trout rose at my flies, and a score was the total catch.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 152
type:
quotation
text:
Use a few “introductory plays” to become known to a casino before you go for a big score.
ref:
2013, Arnold Snyder, Big Book of Blackjack
type:
quotation
text:
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
ref:
2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
Well, although we haven't discussed the views of all those who make precise reckonings of being and not [being], we've done enough on that score.
ref:
2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 245e
type:
quotation
text:
The local village priest is expected to pass through the Holi bonfire, which, in the opinion of the faithful, cannot burn him. Indeed he holds his land rent-free simply on the score of his being fire-proof.
ref:
1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 3, page 306
type:
quotation
text:
Let's pull a score!
type:
example
text:
Batman: Dangerous crowd you're stealing from.
Catwoman: Jesus. Is this how you get your kicks, hon? Sneaking up on girls in the dark?
Batman: Is that why you work in the club? It was all just a score?
ref:
2022, Matt Reeves, Peter Craig, The Batman
type:
quotation
text:
He made a big score.
type:
example
text:
Ah, who gives a shit? The only score I'm interested in is the one I might make if some foxy chicks start pilin' outta there.
ref:
1976, William C. Thomas, Cat Murkil and the Silks, spoken by Punch
type:
quotation
text:
Above the harbour, steeply up the hill, run The Bolts, narrow stepped passages, equivalent of The Scores of Lowestoft and The Rows of Great Yarmouth.
ref:
1975, John Seymour, The Companion Guide to the Coast of North-east England, page 206
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
Twenty, 20.
An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.
A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
A weight of twenty pounds.
The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts.
The music of a movie or play.
Subject.
Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.
a criminal act, especially:
A robbery.
a criminal act, especially:
A bribe paid to a police officer.
a criminal act, especially:
An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
a criminal act, especially:
A prostitute's client.
A sexual conquest.
In the Lowestoft area, a narrow pathway running down a cliff to the beach.
senses_topics:
gambling
games
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
15424 | word:
score
word_type:
verb
expansion:
score (third-person singular simple present scores, present participle scoring, simple past and past participle scored)
forms:
form:
scores
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
scoring
tags:
participle
present
form:
scored
tags:
participle
past
form:
scored
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
score
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
score
etymology_text:
From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō (“incision; tear; rift”), which is related to *skeraną (“to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“cut”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear.
For the sense “twenty”: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.
senses_examples:
text:
The baker scored the cake so that the servers would know where to slice it.
type:
example
text:
It is unusual for a team to score a hundred goals in one game.
type:
example
text:
Pelé scores again!
type:
example
text:
And White Hart Lane was stunned when Rovers scored just five minutes after the restart in front of their away following.
ref:
2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
At the end of first grade, the children scored 80 percent correct on this test, a value that remained unchanged through third grade.
ref:
2004, Diane McGuinness, Early reading instruction: what science really tells us about how to teach reading
type:
quotation
text:
No, Butthead, that's my point. You didn't score. You got a zero.
ref:
1996 March 5, Mike Judge, “Substitute”, in Beavis and Butthead, season 6, episode 18, Mr. Van Driessen (actor)
type:
quotation
text:
[…] he scored big by hitting the jack pot at the Bellagio (he won $7,000). The next day, he won $15,000 on the nickel machines at the Palm Casino!
ref:
2005, Shannon Nash, For the Love of Money, page 215
type:
quotation
text:
What am I doing in this place? / Why does the doctor have no face? / Oh, I can't crawl across the floor / Ah, can't you see, Sister Morphine, I'm trying to score
ref:
1971, Jagger–Richards, Marianne Faithfull (lyrics and music), “Sister Morphine”, in Sticky Fingers, performed by The Rolling Stones
type:
quotation
text:
I jump up, bubble up, what's in store? / Love is the drug and I need to score
ref:
1975, Andy Mackay, Bryan Ferry (lyrics and music), “Love Is the Drug”, performed by Roxy Music
type:
quotation
text:
I scored some drugs last night.
type:
example
text:
Did you score tickets for the concert?
type:
example
text:
Chris finally scored with Pat last week.
type:
example
text:
Gotta find a chick who'll give you more / Well, there's a spot that I've discovered / Where a guy's guaranteed to score
ref:
1982, “Prowlin'”, in Domenic Bugatti, Frank Muskeer, Christopher Cerf (lyrics), Grease 2
type:
quotation
text:
Critics scored the game 92%.
type:
example
text:
this was the case for most students, who scored it highly (medians of 4 with many scores of 5)
ref:
2007, Cross-Cultural Urban Design: Global or Local Practice?, page 197
type:
quotation
text:
Godfather II is nothing like ready. It is not yet scored, and thus not mixed. There remain additional shooting, looping, editing.
ref:
1974, New York Magazine, volume 7, number 45, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
Robertson scored several of Scorsese’s films, including Raging Bull, Casino, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Irishman.
ref:
2023 August 10, Adrian Horton, “Robbie Robertson, member of the Band, dies at age 80”, in The Guardian, UK
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
To obtain something desired.
To earn points in a game.
To obtain something desired.
To achieve academic credit on a test, quiz, homework, assignment, or course.
To obtain something desired.
To win money by gambling.
To obtain something desired.
To acquire or gain.
To obtain something desired.
To extract a bribe.
To obtain something desired.
To obtain a sexual favor.
To rate; to evaluate the quality of.
To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
senses_topics:
gambling
games
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
music
television |
15425 | word:
score
word_type:
intj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
score
etymology_text:
From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō (“incision; tear; rift”), which is related to *skeraną (“to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“cut”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear.
For the sense “twenty”: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acknowledgement of success
senses_topics:
|
15426 | word:
reputation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
reputation (countable and uncountable, plural reputations)
forms:
form:
reputations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
14c. "credit, good reputation", Latin reputationem (“consideration, thinking over”), noun of action from past participle stem of reputo (“reflect upon, reckon, count over”), from the prefix re- (“again”) + puto (“reckon, consider”). Displaced native Old English hlīsa, which was also the word for "fame."
senses_examples:
text:
And Balaam (or as the trueth of the hebrewe hath Bileam) doth signifie the people of no reputation / or the vayne people or they that are not counted for people.
ref:
1529, John Frith, A pistle to the Christen reader. The Revelation of Antichrist: Antithesis, […], Luft [i.e. Hoochstraten], page 117
type:
quotation
text:
Sometimes a man makes a reputation, deserved or otherwise, by a single action.
ref:
1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, page 12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
What somebody or something is known for.
senses_topics:
|
15427 | word:
drone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drone (plural drones)
forms:
form:
drones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper
etymology_text:
From Middle English drane, from Old English drān, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drēniz, *drēnuz, *drenô (“an insect, drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrēn- (“bee, drone, hornet”).
Cognate with:
* Dutch dar (“male bee or wasp”),
* Low German drone (“drone”),
* German Drohne, dialectal German Dräne, Trehne, Trene (“drone”),
* Danish drone (“drone”),
* Swedish drönje, drönare (“drone”).
The etymology of the sense of "remote-controlled aircraft" is disputed; theories include early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths.
senses_examples:
text:
he that gathereth not every day as much as I doe, the next day shall be set beyond the river, and be banished from the Fort as a drone, till he amend his conditions or starve.
ref:
1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
Several images of the compound were obtained via a drone overflight.
type:
example
text:
One team member launched a camera drone over the Third Pole.
type:
example
text:
An atomic tested Flying Fortress will make a nonstop flight from Florida, and from the time the first engine kicks over until the last propeller stops spinning at Bolling, no hands will touch the controls. A radio controlled drone, it will make the journey with its mother ship, another Fortress, as part of the Experimental Guided Missiles Group contribution to the demonstration.
ref:
1948 September 24, “Air Force Day”, in U.S. Air Services, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
The United Nations is setting up a unit to investigate American drone strikes and other targeted killings of terrorist suspects, Ben Emmerson, the United Nations special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, said Thursday.
ref:
2012 October 25, Scott Shane, “Drone Strikes to Be Investigated”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
ref:
2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly)
type:
quotation
text:
In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
ref:
2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
In April, as an Air Canada Jazz flight was landing at Trudeau Airport, a drone came so close the pilot was able to identify it as a quadcopter.
ref:
2017 October 17, Christina Caron, “After Drone Hits Plane in Canada, New Fears About Air Safety”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
NR made extensive use of drones, helicopters and a team of divers to inspect the flood-damaged section of embankment that forced the closure of one of the lines into Drax from February 6-April 20.
ref:
2020 May 20, Paul Stephen, “NR beats floods to secure tracks to Drax”, in Rail, page 58, photo caption
type:
quotation
text:
Indeed, referring to his drone murder extermination campaign Obama bragged: "I'm really good at killing people!" Those are Obama's own words!
ref:
2021, Francis A. Boyle, World Politics, Human Rights, and International Law, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
The Apex boat is a small radio-controlled craft which tows, at an angle, two Drone boats. The latter are small craft filled with explosives to be detonated from the control radio of the Apex boat.
ref:
1946, Seventh United States Army in France and Germany, Report of Operations, volume 1, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
Firefish, a drone boat, is the second radio-controlled target used by the detachment. A 17-foot fiber glass craft, it weighs 1700 pounds and operates from the support ship by remote control at a range of up to five miles using tracking radar.
ref:
1968 July 24, “Long-Distance Crews”, in All Hands, number 618, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
There, in the heart of a desert target range, operates a fleet of remote-control QM-56 mobile land drones, more familiarly described as modified tanks.
ref:
1968 September 24, “Desert Tank Corps”, in All Hands, number 620, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
"Libya obtained a remote controlled explosive boat system consisting of 30-knot drone boats packed with high explosives controlled from a cabin cruiser type craft," Butts told the seapower and strategic and critical materials subcomittee.
ref:
1984 March 1, UPI, “Libya owns drone boats, Navy says”, in Eugene Register-Guard, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
The van is locally referred to as "a drone" because it is compact and stable under extreme conditions. It is also very fast. Technically though, it is a Toyota Hiace, which is usually used for commercial purposes.
ref:
2021 February 4, Alex Mugasha, “Why Uganda's security agencies have fallen in love with the "Drone" van”, in Nile Post
type:
quotation
text:
He has been arrested several times, transported in drone vans and brutalized in various detention facilities.
ref:
2021 February 4, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, “Horror inside a kidnap drone”, in The Observer
type:
quotation
text:
The Toyota Hiace is a light commercial van that can be used as a minibus, a taxi, or even an ambulance. But in Uganda, the "drone" has a sinister reputation. Chris Atukwasize, a cartoonist at the Daily Monitor newspaper, dubbed it the #WheelsOfSteal and rendered it as a skull: brake lights dripping blood, its front grille a row of teeth, and hands plastered behind its tinted back windows, pleading for help.
ref:
2021 March 3, Liam Taylor, “They came in plainclothes with guns: 'Abducted' by Uganda's army”, in Al Jazeera
type:
quotation
text:
Earlier this week, Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa summoned the Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja together with the Ministers of Security and Internal Affairs and parliamentary whips to address the said return of drones on the streets.
ref:
2022 October 2, Sam Waswa, “UPDF Probes Drone Raid at Journalist's Home”, in Chimp Reports
type:
quotation
text:
A minibus van, often numberless and dubbed the 'drone', gained notoriety for kidnaps and disappearances.
ref:
2022 October 20, Albert K Awedoba, Andreas Mehler, Benedikt Kamski, David Sebudubudu, Africa Yearbook, volume 18, page 419
type:
quotation
text:
The billionaire-friendly media drones and frenzied
multiculturalist politicians are imposing
"vibrant" third world social violence onto
Australians, and Australians don't get to vote
against this "bipartisan" conspiracy. The
hyperactive globalist politicians and media drones
might find themselves facing firing squads if they
don't change their corrupt ways.
ref:
2009 December 18, Benway (original non-Zionist), “Shocking Jewish faggot property pimp attack on Australia”, in aus.politics (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
2011 September 2, corella, “What does it mean when gibbering media drones say that grotesque Asian-style "Stack and Pack" slums and plague immigration are vibrant?”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
type:
quotation
text:
Instead, you got into lockstep with all the other hive-mind libtard drones and voted for the slimy corrupt scumbag bitch who was under *two* active Congressional investigations (a first in history, BTW), Hitlery Clinton.
ref:
2017 January 19, The Party Of Trump (The Party For Winners), “Re: Clinton Cash”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.
Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
One who performs menial or tedious work.
A remotely operated vehicle:
An aircraft operated by remote control, especially an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
A remotely operated vehicle:
(chiefly military) Any remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), such as a tank or boat, especially when multiple such vehicles are operated from a larger vessel.
A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
senses_topics:
|
15428 | word:
drone
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drone (third-person singular simple present drones, present participle droning, simple past and past participle droned)
forms:
form:
drones
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
droning
tags:
participle
present
form:
droned
tags:
participle
past
form:
droned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper
etymology_text:
From Middle English drane, from Old English drān, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drēniz, *drēnuz, *drenô (“an insect, drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrēn- (“bee, drone, hornet”).
Cognate with:
* Dutch dar (“male bee or wasp”),
* Low German drone (“drone”),
* German Drohne, dialectal German Dräne, Trehne, Trene (“drone”),
* Danish drone (“drone”),
* Swedish drönje, drönare (“drone”).
The etymology of the sense of "remote-controlled aircraft" is disputed; theories include early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths.
senses_examples:
text:
"I have a lot of advice for him," Ayers said in the interview, aired Tuesday night. "I want him to stop droning people. I want him to close Guantanamo. I want universal healthcare. Don't you think we deserve universal healthcare? Seriously."
ref:
2014, Colin Campbell, “Bill Ayers To Obama: 'Stop Droning People'”, in Business Insider
type:
quotation
text:
“He won’t be waging wars all the world ― he’ll be waging ‘warsuits,’” Noah said. “Droning people with subpoenas all over the globe.”
ref:
2016, David Moye, “Trevor Noah: If Trump Is Elected, He’ll Wage ‘Warsuits’”, in Huffington Post
type:
quotation
text:
“Are we still droning people? Yeah,” he said. “Are we still running covert operations that weren’t authorized by Congress? Yeah. Is the government still spying on Americans without warrants? Without due process. Yeah. When some libertarians talk about the great accomplishments we’re seeing on foreign policy, I don’t know what they’re talking about. Reaching out to these guys is one thing, but you have to move down the court. [Trump] actually made it harder for us to have a good relationship with Russia.”
ref:
2018, David Weigel, “The new ‘Dr. No’: Rep. Justin Amash, marooned in Congress”, in Washington Post
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.
senses_topics:
|
15429 | word:
drone
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drone (third-person singular simple present drones, present participle droning, simple past and past participle droned)
forms:
form:
drones
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
droning
tags:
participle
present
form:
droned
tags:
participle
past
form:
droned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper
etymology_text:
From Middle English drounen (“to roar, bellow”), from Proto-West Germanic *drunnjan, from Proto-Germanic *drunjaną (“to drone, roar, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to roar, hum, drone”).
Cognate with Scots drune (“to drone, moan, complain”), Dutch dreunen (“to drone, boom, thud”), Low German drönen (“to drone, buzz, hum”), German dröhnen (“to roar, boom, rumble”), Danish drøne (“to roar, boom, peel out”), Swedish dröna (“to low, bellow, roar”), Icelandic drynja (“to roar”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
To speak in a monotone.
senses_topics:
|
15430 | word:
drone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drone (plural drones)
forms:
form:
drones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper
etymology_text:
From Middle English drounen (“to roar, bellow”), from Proto-West Germanic *drunnjan, from Proto-Germanic *drunjaną (“to drone, roar, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to roar, hum, drone”).
Cognate with Scots drune (“to drone, moan, complain”), Dutch dreunen (“to drone, boom, thud”), Low German drönen (“to drone, buzz, hum”), German dröhnen (“to roar, boom, rumble”), Danish drøne (“to roar, boom, peel out”), Swedish dröna (“to low, bellow, roar”), Icelandic drynja (“to roar”).
senses_examples:
text:
He chanted as he flew and the car responded with sonorous drone.
ref:
1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A low-pitched hum or buzz.
One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
A humming or deep murmuring sound.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
15431 | word:
drone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drone (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The drug mephedrone.
senses_topics:
|
15432 | word:
offspring
word_type:
noun
expansion:
offspring (plural offspring or offsprings)
forms:
form:
offspring
tags:
plural
form:
offsprings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- + spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.
senses_examples:
text:
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
text:
Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
An animal or plant's progeny or young.
Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
A process launched by another process.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15433 | word:
Parkinson's disease
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Parkinson's disease (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after English physician James Parkinson (1755-1824).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chronic neurological disorder affecting movement, characterized by tremor, slowness of movement (bradykinesia), cogwheel or lead-pipe rigidity, and postural instability.
senses_topics:
medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences |
15434 | word:
cruise control
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cruise control (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
cruise control
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina was badly at fault as Ramires scored at the near post after 11 minutes and Chelsea looked in cruise control when Drogba continued his love affair with the FA Cup final and Wembley with an angled finish beyond Reina.
ref:
2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
He seemed happy living life in cruise control, which pissed me off.
ref:
2012, Gavin McInnes, The Death of Cool: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood, Simon and Schuster, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
Caps Lock is cruise control for cool; remember that for online conversations.
ref:
2013, Chris Kluwe, Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A system that maintains a vehicle at constant set speed, usually until the brake or accelerator is pressed.
A state of being where tasks are completed easily and routinely.
senses_topics:
|
15435 | word:
cheque
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cheque (plural cheques)
forms:
form:
cheques
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A variant of check influenced in spelling by exchequer.
senses_examples:
text:
I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a cheque for the amount.
type:
example
text:
They do not, however, all deal with the same banker, and when A gives a cheque to B, B usually pays it not into the same but into some other bank.
ref:
1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, published 1920, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
1999, Sam Seunarine, Office Procedures for the Caribbean, 2nd edition, reprinted 2001, page 126,
Sometimes abbreviations are used (which would be explained on the statement) and only the last three figures of the cheque number may be given. ‘Sundries’ are cash or cheques paid into the account.
type:
quotation
text:
You can avoid dealing with paper cheques — written or printed — by paying your bills online.
ref:
2007, Eric Tyson, Tony Martin, Personal Finance for Canadians for Dummies
type:
quotation
text:
2009, R. Rajesh, T. Sivagnanasithi, Banking Theory Law & Practice, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, page 206,
The daily cheque clearings began around 1770 when bank clerks met at the Five Bells (a tavern in Lombard Street in the City of London) to exchange all their cheques in one place and settle the balances in cash.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A draft directing a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
senses_topics:
|
15436 | word:
cheque
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cheque (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A variant of check influenced in spelling by exchequer.
senses_examples:
text:
George PARK of FULFORDLIES, descended of the Family of Parkswells, carries Or, a Fesse Cheque, Gules and Argent; between Three Bucks Heads cabossed, all within a Border of the 2d; Motto, Providentia me committo.
ref:
1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 335
type:
quotation
text:
Arms. Argent, a chevron cheque, gules, and of the field, between three bugle horns, sable , garnished of the second, plate 40.
ref:
1779, Hugh Clark, Thomas Wormull, The Peerage of the Nobility of England, Scotland, and Ireland, page 137
type:
quotation
text:
Parted per pale gules and or, a lion rampant intercharged inter 3 fleurs de lys. 2. A saltire cheque gules and or inter 3 escallop shells gules. 2 Argent, within a bordure azure, semé de fleur de lis or, parted per chevron ermine[…]
ref:
1797, Thomas Langley, The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Desborough, and Deanery of Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire: Including the Borough Towns of Wycombe and Marlow, and Sixteen Parishes, page 442
type:
quotation
text:
... : several escutcheons of arms are dispersed about her, and her kirtle, or inward drapery thus blazoned; Or. a fret gules, and others on her mantle, Or. cheque, gules, and azure, a talbot is couchant at her feet.
ref:
1820, John Chambers, A General History of Worcester, page 148
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of chequy.
senses_topics:
|
15437 | word:
she-bear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
she-bear (plural she-bears)
forms:
form:
she-bears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sche bere; equivalent to she- + bear.
senses_examples:
text:
Elisha [...] was able to call upon two she-bears to come and eat up the children who had treated him irreverently[.]
ref:
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.
ref:
2001, Bible Old Testament 2 Kings 2:24 (English Standard Version)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female bear (as opposed to a he-bear, male bear).
senses_topics:
|
15438 | word:
Comino
word_type:
name
expansion:
Comino
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island of the Republic of Malta.
senses_topics:
|
15439 | word:
King Charles Land
word_type:
name
expansion:
King Charles Land
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of islands east of Svalbard.
senses_topics:
|
15440 | word:
spool
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spool (plural spools)
forms:
form:
spools
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English spole (possibly via Old Northern French spole, espole), from Middle Dutch spoele, from Old Dutch *spōla, *spuola, from Proto-Germanic *spōlǭ (“spool”), from Proto-Indo-European *spel- (“to cleave, split”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Spoule (“spool”), Dutch spoel (“spool”), German Spule (“spool”), Swedish spole (“spool”), Icelandic spóla (“spool; reel”). The aviation usage is based on the visual similarity of one of the spools of a turbine engine to a spool used for thread (especially in cross-section).
senses_examples:
text:
If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.
ref:
2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice
type:
quotation
text:
The high-pressure spool rotates faster than the intermediate- and low-pressure spools, as the high-pressure turbine is driven by superheated combustion gases straight out of the burners, while the high-pressure compressor has to spin very fast to compress air that has already been compressed and heated by the low- and intermediate-pressure compressors.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15441 | word:
spool
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spool (third-person singular simple present spools, present participle spooling, simple past and past participle spooled)
forms:
form:
spools
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
spooling
tags:
participle
present
form:
spooled
tags:
participle
past
form:
spooled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English spole (possibly via Old Northern French spole, espole), from Middle Dutch spoele, from Old Dutch *spōla, *spuola, from Proto-Germanic *spōlǭ (“spool”), from Proto-Indo-European *spel- (“to cleave, split”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Spoule (“spool”), Dutch spoel (“spool”), German Spule (“spool”), Swedish spole (“spool”), Icelandic spóla (“spool; reel”). The aviation usage is based on the visual similarity of one of the spools of a turbine engine to a spool used for thread (especially in cross-section).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wind on a spool or spools.
To send files to a device or a program (a spooler or a daemon that puts them in a queue for processing at a later time).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15442 | word:
spool
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spool (plural spools)
forms:
form:
spools
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From blend of spa + pool.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.
senses_topics:
|
15443 | word:
hybrid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hybrid (plural hybrids)
forms:
form:
hybrids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hybrid
etymology_text:
Known in English since 1601, but rare before c.1850. From Latin hybrida, a variant of hibrida (“a mongrel; specifically, offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar”).
senses_examples:
text:
All our family drive hybrids because they're greener.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.
Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
A word whose elements are derived from different languages.
Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
A hybrid vehicle (especially a car), one that runs on both fuel (gasoline/diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun).
Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
A bicycle that is a compromise between a road bike and a mountain bike.
Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
A golf club that combines the characteristics of an iron and a wood.
Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
An electronic circuit constructed of individual devices bonded to a substrate or PCB.
Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
A computer that is part analog computer and part digital computer.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
15444 | word:
hybrid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hybrid (comparative more hybrid, superlative most hybrid)
forms:
form:
more hybrid
tags:
comparative
form:
most hybrid
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Known in English since 1601, but rare before c.1850. From Latin hybrida, a variant of hibrida (“a mongrel; specifically, offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar”).
senses_examples:
text:
a hybrid mix of jazz and punk
type:
example
text:
Brooklyn has opted for hybrid SUVs, at least, to show environmental consciousness.
ref:
2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 270
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Consisting of diverse components.
Running on both fuel (gasoline/diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun).
senses_topics:
|
15445 | word:
Prince Charles Foreland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Prince Charles Foreland
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island of Svalbard.
senses_topics:
|
15446 | word:
Sofia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sofia
forms:
wikipedia:
Church of St. Sofia
Sofia
etymology_text:
Variant spelling of Sophia and from various other languages' own adaptions of Ancient Greek Σοφία (Sophía, “wisdom, especially divine wisdom”). Sometimes borrowed into English as an anglicization of an accented or closely related form, as with Spanish Sofía, Welsh Soffia, and Hungarian Zsófia.
As the capital of Bulgaria, via nonstandard romanization of Bulgarian Со́фия (Sófiya), from църква „Света София“ (cǎrkva "Sveta Sofija"), from Byzantine Greek Ναός Ἁγίας Σοφίας (Naós Hagías Sophías, “Church of Holy Wisdom”), the city's prominent 6th-century Byzantine Greek church, first attested being used as the name for the city in the 14th century and reinforced under Ottoman rule as Ottoman Turkish صوفيه (Sofya).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Sophia, a female given name.
The capital city of Bulgaria.
senses_topics:
|
15447 | word:
Sofia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sofia
forms:
wikipedia:
Sofia
etymology_text:
From Malagasy Sofia of uncertain origin. The region is named for the river.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A river in northwestern Madagascar
A region of Madagascar around the river.
senses_topics:
|
15448 | word:
strong
word_type:
adj
expansion:
strong (comparative stronger, superlative strongest)
forms:
form:
stronger
tags:
comparative
form:
strongest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English strong, strang, from Old English strang, from Proto-West Germanic *strang, from Proto-Germanic *strangaz (“tight, strict, straight, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“taut, stiff, tight”). Cognate with Scots strang (“strong”), Saterland Frisian strang, West Frisian string (“austere, strict, harsh, severe, stern, stark, tough”), Dutch streng (“strict, severe, tight”), German streng (“strict, severe, austere”), Swedish sträng, strang (“severe, strict, harsh”), Norwegian strang (“strong, harsh, bitter”), Norwegian streng (“strong, hard”), Icelandic strangur (“strict”), Latin stringō (“tighten”).
senses_examples:
text:
a big strong man; Jake was tall and strong
type:
example
text:
The man was nearly drowned after a strong undercurrent swept him out to sea.
type:
example
text:
But what sight is that? It seems a town right in the river, each building standing upon its own foundation, with the deep, strong current of the river sweeping all around it? They are flouring mills operated by the natural current of the stream.
ref:
1853 April 24, Warren Isham, “Notes from Hungary”, in Warren Isham, editor, The Michigan Farmer, volume XI, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
a strong foundation; good strong shoes
type:
example
text:
Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.
What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
ref:
1889, Friedrich Nietzsche, “Sprüche und Pfeile [Maxims and Arrows]”, in Götzen-Dämmerung, oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert [Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer]
type:
quotation
text:
Perhaps we grows very strong, stronger than Wraiths. Lord Smeagol? Gollum the Great? The Gollum! Eat fish every day, three times a day, fresh from the sea.
ref:
1954, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “The Passage of the Marshes”, in The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings; 2), HarperCollinsPublishers, published 2001, page 619
type:
quotation
text:
Ideas are eternal; they hang in the stars, and a man must be brave and strong enough to reach up to the stars and fetch down the fire from heaven and to carry the torch among men.
ref:
1934 March 24, Hermann Göring, Germany Reborn, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
It noted China was especially strong in the fast-growing area of “deep learning.”
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 2019-02-07
type:
quotation
text:
He is strong in the face of adversity.
type:
example
text:
a strong light; a strong taste
type:
example
text:
a strong smell
type:
example
text:
a strong cup of coffee; a strong medicine
type:
example
text:
a strong drink
type:
example
text:
She gets up, and pours herself a strong one. - Eagles, Lying Eyes
text:
a strong verb
type:
example
text:
a strong acid; a strong base
type:
example
text:
a strong position
type:
example
text:
a strong economy
type:
example
text:
You're working with troubled youth in your off time? That’s strong!
type:
example
text:
The enemy's army force was five thousand strong.
type:
example
text:
Physicians may diagnosis influenza by a throat culture or blood test, which may be important if you have a particularly strong flu, if your doctor suspects pneumonia or a bacterial infection.
ref:
2005, Andrew Gaeddert, Healing Immune Disorders: Natural Defense-Building Solutions, North Atlantic Books, page 221
type:
quotation
text:
[…] but grounding him ſelfe vpon ſtrong reaſons, to wit, that he had not offended the Iewes, neither yet the Law, but that he was innocēt, and therefore that no iudge oght to geue hym in the hādes of his ennemies […]
ref:
1558, John Knox, The Appellation of Iohn Knoxe from the cruell and moſt iniuſt ſentence pronounced againſt him by the falſe biſhoppes and clergie of Scotland, page 11v
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of producing great physical force.
Capable of withstanding great physical force.
Possessing power, might, or strength.
Determined; unyielding.
Highly stimulating to the senses.
Having an offensive or intense odor or flavor.
Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient.
Having a high alcoholic content.
Inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change vowels.
That completely ionizes into anions and cations in a solution.
Not easily subdued or taken.
Having wealth or resources.
Impressive, good.
Having a specified number of people or units.
Severe; very bad or intense.
Having a wide range of logical consequences; widely applicable. (Often contrasted with a weak statement which it implies.)
Convincing.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
government
military
politics
war
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
|
15449 | word:
strong
word_type:
adv
expansion:
strong (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English strong, strang, from Old English strang, from Proto-West Germanic *strang, from Proto-Germanic *strangaz (“tight, strict, straight, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“taut, stiff, tight”). Cognate with Scots strang (“strong”), Saterland Frisian strang, West Frisian string (“austere, strict, harsh, severe, stern, stark, tough”), Dutch streng (“strict, severe, tight”), German streng (“strict, severe, austere”), Swedish sträng, strang (“severe, strict, harsh”), Norwegian strang (“strong, harsh, bitter”), Norwegian streng (“strong, hard”), Icelandic strangur (“strict”), Latin stringō (“tighten”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a strong manner.
senses_topics:
|
15450 | word:
Gozo
word_type:
name
expansion:
Gozo
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Ultimately from Maltese Għawdex.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The second-largest island of the Republic of Malta.
senses_topics:
|
15451 | word:
White Island
word_type:
name
expansion:
White Island
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island of Svalbard, Norway, Kvitøya in Norwegian.
An uninhabitable volcanic island in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
senses_topics:
|
15452 | word:
I've
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
I've
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of I have.
senses_topics:
|
15453 | word:
rind
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rind (plural rinds)
forms:
form:
rinds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rind
etymology_text:
From Middle English rind, rinde, from Old English rind and rinde (“treebark, crust”), from Proto-West Germanic *rindā, from Proto-Germanic *rindō, *rindǭ (“crust, rind”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to come to rest, support or prop oneself”). Cognate with German Rinde (“bark, rind”). related to English rand.
senses_examples:
text:
Taking the money from a man when he's got his pants down. What are you, a doctor or a tailor's tout? Thirty bucks! If I figured you'd have the rind to touch me that much I'd have lashed them up with a pair of braces!
ref:
1939, Roy Forster, Joyous Deliverance, London: Thornton Butterworth, p. 262
text:
April 9, 1940. Then one of our RAF customers had the rind to suggest that ‘you women ought to give up smoking for the duration you know’. This, when they have the alternative of smoking pipes which is not open to us, …
ref:
1940, Amy Helen Bell (ed.), London Was Ours: Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz, 1940-1941, published 2002, Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University, p. 99
text:
[About a football match.] Come the second half and the Trinidadians and Tobagans had the immortal rind to make excursions into the England half, the spectacle of which was deeply offensive to those whose memories extend to those happy days before 1962, when independence was unwisely conferred on this archipelago. Back in those days, a game like this would have presented little anxiety. Any goals scored by the Trinidadians, or Tobagans for that matter, would have been instantly become the property of the Crown and therefore added to England's tally. Glad times – 22 men working together for a common aim. However, such is the insolence of the modern age that these dark fellows dared approach the England penalty box, forelocks untugged, as if demanding instant entry to the Garrick club without having been put up by existing members.
ref:
2010, David Stubbs, Send Them Victorious: England's Path to Glory 2006-2010, O Books (Zero Books), p. 12
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
tree bark
A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc
The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind"
senses_topics:
|
15454 | word:
rind
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rind (third-person singular simple present rinds, present participle rinding, simple past and past participle rinded)
forms:
form:
rinds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rinding
tags:
participle
present
form:
rinded
tags:
participle
past
form:
rinded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rind
etymology_text:
From Middle English rind, rinde, from Old English rind and rinde (“treebark, crust”), from Proto-West Germanic *rindā, from Proto-Germanic *rindō, *rindǭ (“crust, rind”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to come to rest, support or prop oneself”). Cognate with German Rinde (“bark, rind”). related to English rand.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove the rind from.
senses_topics:
|
15455 | word:
rind
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rind (plural rinds)
forms:
form:
rinds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rind
etymology_text:
Cognate with Flemish rijne, Low German ryn.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill.
senses_topics:
|
15456 | word:
forte
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forte (plural fortes)
forms:
form:
fortes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed 1640–50; earlier fort < Middle French; disyllabic pronunciation by association with Italian forte, from Latin fortis (“strong”). Doublet of fort and fortis.
senses_examples:
text:
He writes respectably, but poetry is not his forte.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A strength or talent.
The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.
senses_topics:
|
15457 | word:
forte
word_type:
adj
expansion:
forte (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian forte (“strong”).
senses_examples:
text:
This passage is forte, then there's a diminuendo to mezzo piano.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Loud. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, "f.", to indicate raising the volume of the music. (Abbreviated in musical notation with an f, the Unicode character 1D191.)
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
15458 | word:
forte
word_type:
adv
expansion:
forte (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian forte (“strong”).
senses_examples:
text:
The musicians played the passage forte.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Loudly.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
15459 | word:
forte
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forte (plural fortes)
forms:
form:
fortes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian forte (“strong”).
senses_examples:
text:
This forte marks the climax of the second movement.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music.
senses_topics:
|
15460 | word:
North East Land
word_type:
name
expansion:
North East Land
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Norwegian Nordaustlandet, from the definite singular of nord + aust + land.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island of Svalbard, Norway.
senses_topics:
|
15461 | word:
Egyptian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Egyptian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Egipcien, egyptiane, equivalent to Egypt + -ian. Displaced Old English Egyptisċ.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Egypt, the Egyptian people or the Egyptian language.
senses_topics:
|
15462 | word:
Egyptian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Egyptian (plural Egyptians)
forms:
form:
Egyptians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Egipcien, egyptiane, equivalent to Egypt + -ian. Displaced Old English Egyptisċ.
senses_examples:
text:
The people then assembled in this barn were no other than a company of Egyptians, or, as they are vulgarly called, gypsies, and they were now celebrating the wedding of one of their society.
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 457
type:
quotation
text:
I went to see the Egyptian, and the Hoodoo doctors too. They shook their heads, and told me there was nothing they could do.
ref:
1968, Little Brother Montgomery, Bruce Saunders, "Prescription for the Blues", Like to Get to Know You (Spanky & Our Gang)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent.
A gypsy.
senses_topics:
|
15463 | word:
Egyptian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Egyptian
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Egipcien, egyptiane, equivalent to Egypt + -ian. Displaced Old English Egyptisċ.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Afroasiatic language spoken (and written) in ancient Egypt
senses_topics:
|
15464 | word:
she-ass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
she-ass (plural she-asses)
forms:
form:
she-asses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English she asse; equivalent to she- + ass.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female donkey.
senses_topics:
|
15465 | word:
beehive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beehive (plural beehives)
forms:
form:
beehives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee + hive.
senses_examples:
text:
Brian Small said that the Minister could not 'hide in the beehive any longer'
ref:
2004, Nicholas Tarling, International Students in New Zealand, page 114
type:
quotation
text:
In New Zealand, this approach is taken one step forward in that Ministers physically sit together up in the beehive, as their building is known, rather than being based in the Departments.
ref:
2010, David Halpern, The Hidden Wealth of Nations, page 216
type:
quotation
text:
As with other major buildings the beehive demonstrated the need for a standardized building drawing practice which could be applied — and understood
ref:
1977, New Zealand Libraries - Volumes 40-42, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
By the way, what happens to a beehive which is under attack by one or two gliders such as pictured:
ref:
1989 December 22, Norbert Roestel, “CA-LETTER”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Alternatively, in many cases the debris can be suppressed by perturbing the debris with a passing spaceship before it stabilizes into the beehive or loaf.
ref:
1992 October 22, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 6a)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Unfortunately, a beehive (a common six cell still life) was also created close to the block, and its position made it impossible to eliminate with conventional methods using still lifes (anything placed to destroy it would be damaged by earlier activity).
ref:
1996 November 16, Paul Callahan, “Still-life glider reflector found”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young.
A man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey.
Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.
A particular style of hat.
A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
Alternative form of Beehive
In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life pattern with a rounded appearance.
senses_topics:
cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15466 | word:
beehive
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beehive (third-person singular simple present beehives, present participle beehiving, simple past and past participle beehived)
forms:
form:
beehives
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
beehiving
tags:
participle
present
form:
beehived
tags:
participle
past
form:
beehived
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee + hive.
senses_examples:
text:
Quite naturally, if there are more ministers swarming the cabinet rooms and conference halls, then there will be a spate of civil servants beehiving the secretariat.
ref:
1958, T. S. Bawa, Jawaharlal Nehru, Nehru's India: An Analytical Study, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
The patrons beehiving the place whooped and shouted.
ref:
1989, Craig Foley, Blood Knot, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
This is not the first time that I learnt of a neighbor's death after a lapse of a few weeks. You just don't see people beehiving a home, like in India […]
ref:
2012, Satish C. Bhatnagar, Epsilons and Deltas of Life: Everyday Stories, volume 1, page 16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fill (a place) with busy activity.
To style the hair in a hive-shaped or bouffant form.
senses_topics:
|
15467 | word:
bear cub
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bear cub (plural bear cubs)
forms:
form:
bear cubs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A young bear.
senses_topics:
|
15468 | word:
Tajik
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Tajik (plural Tajiks)
forms:
form:
Tajiks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tajik
etymology_text:
From Classical Persian تاجیک (tājīk, “non-Turk (of Central Asia)”) (akin to تازی (tāzī), تازیک (tāzīk)), (ultimately) from Middle Persian tʾcyk' (tāzīg, “Arab”), (ultimately) from Arabic طَيِّئ (ṭayyiʔ, “name of an Arab clan”). See Tayy.
Popular folk etymology traces the word to Tajik тоҷ (toj, “crown”) (see Arabic تَاج (tāj), from Persian تاج (tâj, “crown”)), but this is false.
senses_examples:
text:
True that it would be preferable that you marry a local, a Tajik, but Rasheed is healthy, and interested in you.
ref:
2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 48
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Tajikistan or of Tajik descent.
senses_topics:
|
15469 | word:
Tajik
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tajik
forms:
wikipedia:
Tajik
etymology_text:
From Classical Persian تاجیک (tājīk, “non-Turk (of Central Asia)”) (akin to تازی (tāzī), تازیک (tāzīk)), (ultimately) from Middle Persian tʾcyk' (tāzīg, “Arab”), (ultimately) from Arabic طَيِّئ (ṭayyiʔ, “name of an Arab clan”). See Tayy.
Popular folk etymology traces the word to Tajik тоҷ (toj, “crown”) (see Arabic تَاج (tāj), from Persian تاج (tâj, “crown”)), but this is false.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Persian dialect spoken in Tajikistan.
senses_topics:
|
15470 | word:
Tajik
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Tajik (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Tajik
etymology_text:
From Classical Persian تاجیک (tājīk, “non-Turk (of Central Asia)”) (akin to تازی (tāzī), تازیک (tāzīk)), (ultimately) from Middle Persian tʾcyk' (tāzīg, “Arab”), (ultimately) from Arabic طَيِّئ (ṭayyiʔ, “name of an Arab clan”). See Tayy.
Popular folk etymology traces the word to Tajik тоҷ (toj, “crown”) (see Arabic تَاج (tāj), from Persian تاج (tâj, “crown”)), but this is false.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Tajikistan, the Tajik people (living in Tajikistan and Afghanistan) or the Tajiki dialect of Persian.
senses_topics:
|
15471 | word:
achiote
word_type:
noun
expansion:
achiote (countable and uncountable, plural achiotes)
forms:
form:
achiotes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
achiote
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish achiote, from Classical Nahuatl āchiyōtl.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree.
The seed of this tree used as a colouring or in Latin American cooking.
An orange-red dye obtained from this seed.
senses_topics:
|
15472 | word:
wayleave
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wayleave (plural wayleaves)
forms:
form:
wayleaves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From way + leave (“permission”).
senses_examples:
text:
Our first precise information is contained in a Deed of Mutual Covenants dated October 1, 1863, and made between the Rhosydd Slate Co. Ltd. and H. B. Roberts, whereby the latter granted the company a wayleave under which it constructed a railway and incline from its property to the Croesor Tramway. The original wayleave was 2d. a ton, [...].
ref:
1941 June, C. Hamilton Ellis, Charles E. Lee, “The Welsh Highland Railway—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 250
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A right of way granted by a landowner.
A right to cross land.
senses_topics:
|
15473 | word:
ad banner
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ad banner (plural ad banners)
forms:
form:
ad banners
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An advertisement that stretches across (most often the top of) a web site.
senses_topics:
|
15474 | word:
heater
word_type:
noun
expansion:
heater (plural heaters)
forms:
form:
heaters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
heater
etymology_text:
From heat + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
Turn on the heater; I'm cold.
type:
example
text:
The thug pumped two rounds from his heater into her.
type:
example
text:
Jones threw a heater under his chin.
type:
example
text:
Emmy went on a heater in Las Vegas and came back six thousand dollars richer.
type:
example
text:
It can be assumed that as the earlier kite shield transformed into the heater shape, there must have been versions in between the two styles. Indeed, in artwork of the Medieval period, shields are rarely present after 1450 and even then are quite small. The development of flattop heaters from larger kite shields is likely the result of increased fighting on horseback and the use of improved armor.
ref:
1998, John Clements, Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated Methods and Techniques
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.
A person who heats something, for example in metalworking.
A gun.
A fastball, especially one thrown at high velocity.
An extended winning streak.
A medieval European shield having a rounded triangle shape like a clothes iron.
A dead heat; a race in which two or more competitors reach the finish line simultaneously.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
gambling
games
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports |
15475 | word:
away
word_type:
adv
expansion:
away (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Away
etymology_text:
From Middle English away, awey, awei, oway, o wey, on way, from Old English āweġ, onweġ (“away”), originally on weġ (“on one's way; onward; on”), equivalent to a- (“on”) + way.
Cognate with Scots awa, away (“away”), Old Frisian aweg, awei (“away”), Saterland Frisian wäch, wääge (“away”), Dutch weg (“away”), German weg (“away”), Danish væk (“away”), Swedish i väg (“away; off; along”).
senses_examples:
text:
He went away on vacation.
type:
example
text:
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
ref:
2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891
type:
quotation
text:
I tried to approach him, but he turned away.
type:
example
text:
throw away, chuck away, toss away
type:
example
text:
Christmas is only two weeks away.
type:
example
text:
While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
ref:
1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
I'll dry the dishes and you put them away.
type:
example
text:
Please file away these documents.
type:
example
text:
The jewels were locked away in the safe.
type:
example
text:
He was shut away in the castle tower for six months.
type:
example
text:
fade away, die away
type:
example
text:
The weather has worn away the inscription, and it is no longer legible.
type:
example
text:
Please wipe away this spilled drink.
type:
example
text:
That's where tourists go to hear great Cuban bands and dance the night away.
type:
example
text:
Away! Be gone! And don't let me see you round here again!
type:
example
text:
1933+, Fran Striker, The Lone Ranger, WXYZ-AM
Hi-yo Silver, away!
text:
She's been in her room all day, working away at her computer.
type:
example
text:
You've got questions? Ask away!
type:
example
text:
I saw her whaling away at her detractors.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
From a place, hence.
Aside; off; in another direction.
Aside, so as to discard something.
At a stated distance in time or space.
In or to something's usual or proper storage place.
In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place.
From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
So as to remove or use up something.
Come away; go away; take away.
On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
Without restraint.
senses_topics:
|
15476 | word:
away
word_type:
intj
expansion:
away
forms:
wikipedia:
Away
etymology_text:
From Middle English away, awey, awei, oway, o wey, on way, from Old English āweġ, onweġ (“away”), originally on weġ (“on one's way; onward; on”), equivalent to a- (“on”) + way.
Cognate with Scots awa, away (“away”), Old Frisian aweg, awei (“away”), Saterland Frisian wäch, wääge (“away”), Dutch weg (“away”), German weg (“away”), Danish væk (“away”), Swedish i väg (“away; off; along”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Come on! Go on!
Away with you! Go away!
senses_topics:
|
15477 | word:
away
word_type:
adj
expansion:
away (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Away
etymology_text:
From Middle English away, awey, awei, oway, o wey, on way, from Old English āweġ, onweġ (“away”), originally on weġ (“on one's way; onward; on”), equivalent to a- (“on”) + way.
Cognate with Scots awa, away (“away”), Old Frisian aweg, awei (“away”), Saterland Frisian wäch, wääge (“away”), Dutch weg (“away”), German weg (“away”), Danish væk (“away”), Swedish i väg (“away; off; along”).
senses_examples:
text:
The master is away from home.
type:
example
text:
Would you pick up my mail while I'm away.
type:
example
text:
He's miles away by now.
type:
example
text:
Spring is still a month away.
type:
example
text:
This is the entrance for away supporters.
type:
example
text:
Next, they are playing away in Dallas.
type:
example
text:
Two men away in the bottom of the ninth.
type:
example
text:
For example, immediately after every person in the group has teed off, if you are clearly the away player (perhaps because you smacked your drive into the tree closest to the tee pad), you should grab your bag and try to be the first person advancing down the fairway.
ref:
2016, Justin Menickelli, Ryan Pickens, Definitive Guide to Disc Golf
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.
At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.
Not on one's home territory.
Out.
Being the player whose ball lies farthest from the hole (or, in disc golf, whose disc lies farthest from the target).
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
15478 | word:
away
word_type:
verb
expansion:
away (third-person singular simple present aways, present participle awaying, simple past and past participle awayed)
forms:
form:
aways
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
awaying
tags:
participle
present
form:
awayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
awayed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Away
etymology_text:
From Middle English away, awey, awei, oway, o wey, on way, from Old English āweġ, onweġ (“away”), originally on weġ (“on one's way; onward; on”), equivalent to a- (“on”) + way.
Cognate with Scots awa, away (“away”), Old Frisian aweg, awei (“away”), Saterland Frisian wäch, wääge (“away”), Dutch weg (“away”), German weg (“away”), Danish væk (“away”), Swedish i väg (“away; off; along”).
senses_examples:
text:
At 9 o'clock sharp he awayed to bed.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To depart; to go to another place.
senses_topics:
|
15479 | word:
away
word_type:
adj
expansion:
away (comparative more away, superlative most away)
forms:
form:
more away
tags:
comparative
form:
most away
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Away
etymology_text:
See aweigh
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of aweigh.
senses_topics:
|
15480 | word:
quindecagon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quindecagon (plural quindecagons)
forms:
form:
quindecagons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From quin- + deca- + -gon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A polygon with fifteen sides and fifteen angles.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
15481 | word:
petrel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
petrel (plural petrels)
forms:
form:
petrels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier pitteral. Perhaps a diminutive of Peter, with reference to St. Peter's walking on the water (Matthew 14:29).
A derivation from patter or pitter-patter has been suggested, for instance by ornithologist Elliott Ladd Coues.
senses_examples:
text:
The seventh of May following, we first saw many Birds in bignesse of Cliffe Pidgeons, and after divers other as Pettrels, Cootes, Hagbuts, Pengwins, Murres, Gannets, Cormorants, Guls, with many else in our English Tongue of no name.
ref:
1625, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes, The Relation of Captaine GOSNOLS Voyage to the North part of Virginia, begunne the sixe and twentieth of March, Anno 42. ELIZABETHAE Reginae 1602. and delivered by GABRIEL ARCHER, a Gentleman in the said Voyage
type:
quotation
text:
In a storm they will hover close under the ship's stern in the wake of the ship (as it is called) or the smoothness which the ship's passing has made on the sea; and there as they fly (gently then) they pat the water alternately with their feet as if they walked upon it; though still upon the wing. And from hence the seamen give them the name of petrels in allusion to St. Peter's walking upon the Lake of Gennesareth.
ref:
1703, William Dampier, chapter III, in A Voyage to New Holland, etc. in the Year 1699
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes.
senses_topics:
|
15482 | word:
enneagon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
enneagon (plural enneagons)
forms:
form:
enneagons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ennea- + -gon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A polygon with nine sides; a nonagon.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
15483 | word:
real
word_type:
adj
expansion:
real (comparative realer or more real, superlative realest or most real)
forms:
form:
realer
tags:
comparative
form:
more real
tags:
comparative
form:
realest
tags:
superlative
form:
most real
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English real, from Old French reel, from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”). Doublet of realis.
senses_examples:
text:
[T]he real reason he didn't come was because he was scared of flying[.]
ref:
2007, Jim Kokoris, The Rich Part of Life: A Novel, page 179
type:
quotation
text:
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
ref:
2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
ref:
2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly)
type:
quotation
text:
This is real leather.
type:
example
text:
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…]"share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref:
2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
These are real tears!
type:
example
text:
a description of real life
text:
No one has ever seen a real unicorn.
type:
example
text:
My dad calculated my family's real consumption per month.
type:
example
text:
What is the real GNP of this polity?
type:
example
text:
real estate; real property
type:
example
text:
This is a real problem.
type:
example
text:
I'm keeping it real.
type:
example
text:
yo, Imma be real with u... don't ever text me again
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.
Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.
Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.
Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.
That has objective, physical existence.
Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power (contrast nominal).
Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.
Being either a rational number, or the limit of a convergent infinite sequence of rational numbers: being one of a set of numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line.
Relating to immovable tangible property.
Absolute, complete, utter.
Signifying meritorious qualities or actions especially as regard the enjoyment of life, prowess at sports, or success wooing potential partners.
Firm.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
economics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
law
|
15484 | word:
real
word_type:
adv
expansion:
real (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English real, from Old French reel, from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”). Doublet of realis.
senses_examples:
text:
When I told him the truth, he got real mad.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Really; very.
senses_topics:
|
15485 | word:
real
word_type:
noun
expansion:
real (plural reals)
forms:
form:
reals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English real, from Old French reel, from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”). Doublet of realis.
senses_examples:
text:
There have been several classical constructions of the reals that avoid these problems, the most famous ones being Dedekind Cuts and Cauchy Sequences, named respectively for the mathematicians Richard Dedekind (1831 - 1916) and Augustine Cauchy (1789 - 1857). We will not discuss these constructions here, but will use a more modern one developed by Gabriel Stolzenberg, based on "interval arithmetic."
ref:
2007, Mark Bridges, REAL ANALYSIS: A Constructive Approach, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A commodity; see realty.
One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
A real number.
A realist.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
|
15486 | word:
real
word_type:
noun
expansion:
real (plural reals or reales)
forms:
form:
reals
tags:
plural
form:
reales
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish real (“royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“regal, royal”). Doublet of ariary, regal, riyal, and royal.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.
A coin worth one real.
senses_topics:
|
15487 | word:
real
word_type:
noun
expansion:
real (plural reis or réis or reals)
forms:
form:
reis
tags:
plural
form:
réis
tags:
plural
form:
reals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese real (“royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“regal; royal”). Doublet of ariary, regal, riyal, and royal.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until 1942.
A coin worth one real.
senses_topics:
|
15488 | word:
real
word_type:
noun
expansion:
real (plural reais or reals)
forms:
form:
reais
tags:
plural
form:
reals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese real (“royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“regal; royal”). Doublet of ariary, regal, riyal, and royal.
senses_examples:
text:
Within weeks of this bombshell, an aide to the brother of the chairman of the PT, José Genoino, was arrested boarding a flight with 200,000 reais in a suitcase and $100,000 in his underpants.
ref:
2011, Perry Anderson, “Lula's Brazil”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit of currency used in Brazil since 1994. Symbol: R$.
A coin worth one real.
senses_topics:
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15489 | word:
ADO
word_type:
name
expansion:
ADO
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of ActiveX Data Objects.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15490 | word:
AIFF
word_type:
name
expansion:
AIFF
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Audio Interchange File Format.
senses_topics:
|
15491 | word:
flip-flop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flip-flop (plural flip-flops)
forms:
form:
flip-flops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic. Most probably an imitation of the sound produced when walking in them.
senses_examples:
text:
the necessity for yet another place at which to buy a polo shirt or a pair of flip-flops may not be apparent to the town's residents
ref:
30 August 2004, The New Yorker,, page 38
text:
On the break for strong left, everything remains the same, except for the flip-flop of positions.
ref:
1964, Scholastic Coach, volume 34, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
BR's flip-flop attitude towards the two options can be observed in comments made by the BR chairman in September 1967, which were interpreted as meaning that the facts now have to be "adjusted" to prove the electrification case.
ref:
2020 April 8, David Clough, “How the West Coast wiring war was won”, in Rail, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
Ten two-state flip-flops […] were formed into ten-stage ring counters representing each decimal digit in the ten-digit accumulators […]
ref:
2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin, published 2013, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
We'll catch you on the flip-flop. This here's the Rubber Duck on the side. We gone, 'bye, 'bye.
ref:
1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sandal consisting of a rubber sole fastened to the foot by a rubber thong fitting between the toes and around the sides of the foot.
A change of places; an inversion or swap.
A change of places; an inversion or swap.
An instance of flip-flopping, of repeatedly changing one's stated opinion about a matter.
A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory.
The sound of a regular footfall.
A somersault.
A return trip.
A person or inhabitant of the Middle East, or a Muslim nation, particularly Afghanistan.
senses_topics:
business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
|
15492 | word:
flip-flop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flip-flop (third-person singular simple present flip-flops, present participle flip-flopping, simple past and past participle flip-flopped)
forms:
form:
flip-flops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
flip-flopping
tags:
participle
present
form:
flip-flopped
tags:
participle
past
form:
flip-flopped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic. Most probably an imitation of the sound produced when walking in them.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To alternate back and forth between directly opposite opinions, ideas, or decisions.
senses_topics:
|
15493 | word:
undecagon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
undecagon (plural undecagons)
forms:
form:
undecagons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From undeca- + -gon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A polygon with eleven sides and eleven angles.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
15494 | word:
hyena
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hyena (plural hyenas or hyena or hyenae)
forms:
form:
hyenas
tags:
plural
form:
hyena
tags:
plural
form:
hyenae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hyena
etymology_text:
From Middle English hiena, variant of hyene, from Old French hiene, from Medieval Latin hyēna, from Latin hyaena, from Ancient Greek ὕαινα (húaina). Displaced native Old English nihtgenġe (literally “night walker”).
senses_examples:
text:
I took no systematic data on the costs to cheetahs and hyenas, but some anecdotes suggest that both parties took numerical advantage and hunger into account.
ref:
1994, T. M. Caro, Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plains: Group Living in an Asocial Species, page 283
type:
quotation
text:
Hyenas are scavengers, which means they eat food left behind by other animals and people.
ref:
2002, Maskew Miller Longman, Find Out about African Animals, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
Hyena biologists often think of spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) as baboons with big teeth and relatively small brains.
ref:
2003, Anne Engh, Kay E. Holekamp, “Case Study 5A: Maternal Rank "Inheritance" in the Spotted Hyena”, in Frans B. M. De Waal, Peter L Tyack, editors, Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies, page 149
type:
quotation
text:
see Citations:hyena
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily Hyaenidae, native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited.
A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls.
senses_topics:
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15495 | word:
achromatically
word_type:
adv
expansion:
achromatically (comparative more achromatically, superlative most achromatically)
forms:
form:
more achromatically
tags:
comparative
form:
most achromatically
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From achromatic + -ally.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an achromatic manner.
senses_topics:
|
15496 | word:
achromatization
word_type:
noun
expansion:
achromatization (countable and uncountable, plural achromatizations)
forms:
form:
achromatizations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare French achromatisation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or process of achromatizing.
senses_topics:
|
15497 | word:
Reykjavik
word_type:
name
expansion:
Reykjavik
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Reykjavík
senses_topics:
|
15498 | word:
AIF
word_type:
name
expansion:
AIF
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Audio Interchange File Format.
Initialism of alternative investment fund.
senses_topics:
|
15499 | word:
achromatin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
achromatin (countable and uncountable, plural achromatins)
forms:
form:
achromatins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + chromato- + -in.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tissue that is not stained by fluid dyes.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
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