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15500 | word:
achromatopsy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
achromatopsy (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of achromatopsia
senses_topics:
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15501 | word:
loft
word_type:
noun
expansion:
loft (plural lofts)
forms:
form:
lofts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”).
Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft.
senses_examples:
text:
an artist's loft
type:
example
text:
maximum loft
type:
example
text:
an organ loft
type:
example
text:
a Manhattan loft
type:
example
text:
Today, with a loft in Manhattan and a condo in Century City, they are the epitome of the bi-coastal couple.
ref:
1989 July 1, Jan Herman, “Sitcom face of Harry Groener also familiar on stage”, in Los Angeles Times, Entertainment and Arts
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
air, the air; the sky, the heavens.
An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
Such an attic used as an atelier.
The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.
The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
A floor or room placed above another.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
textiles
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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15502 | word:
loft
word_type:
verb
expansion:
loft (third-person singular simple present lofts, present participle lofting, simple past and past participle lofted)
forms:
form:
lofts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lofting
tags:
participle
present
form:
lofted
tags:
participle
past
form:
lofted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”).
Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft.
senses_examples:
text:
Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.
ref:
2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
When she saw houses lofting past her window, she ran to the child, who slept on a feather bed and she gathered the coverlet around them both.
ref:
2004, Wallace Akin, The Forgotten Storm
type:
quotation
text:
Two sisters, one under fifteen years of age, have lofted the house, so as to have a room for themselves.
ref:
1853, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
Lofting a bed is much harder work than it seems, and pulling a nail out with the back of a hammer is much simpler than using your own nails.
ref:
2010, Casey Lewis, Knack Dorm Living, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To propel high into the air.
To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
To furnish with a loft space.
To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.
senses_topics:
bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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15503 | word:
loft
word_type:
adj
expansion:
loft (comparative more loft, superlative most loft)
forms:
form:
more loft
tags:
comparative
form:
most loft
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”).
Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft.
senses_examples:
text:
A heart, where dread was never so imprest
To hide the thought that might the truth advance;
In neither fortune loft, nor yet represt
ref:
1542, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Epitath on Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
lofty; proud; haughty
senses_topics:
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15504 | word:
Holland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Holland
forms:
wikipedia:
Holland
Holland (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”). A popular but false etymology holds that it is derived from hol land (“hollow land”), inspired by the low-lying geography of both the Dutch and the English region (Holland, Lincolnshire).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A traditional region in the Netherlands formed by two modern provinces, North Holland and South Holland.
the Netherlands (a country in Western Europe).
An English habitational surname from Middle English for someone from the Netherlands.
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Faulkner County, Arkansas.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Chattooga County, Georgia.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Cass Township, Dubois County, Indiana.
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Grundy County, Iowa.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Dickinson County, Kansas.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Allen County, Kentucky.
A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Hampden County, Massachusetts.
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Missaukee County, Michigan.
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Ottawa County, Michigan.
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Ottawa County and Allegan County, Michigan.
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota.
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Pipestone County, Minnesota.
A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Pemiscot County, Missouri.
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Erie County, New York.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wake County, North Carolina.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Springfield Township, Lucas County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Northampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Bell County, Texas.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Orleans County, Vermont.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Brown County, Wisconsin.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in La Crosse County, Wisconsin.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
A community of the Rural Municipality of Victoria, Manitoba, Canada.
A southern suburb of Oxted, Tandridge district, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ4050).
A settlement on Papa Westray, Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HY4851).
senses_topics:
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15505 | word:
Holland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Holland
forms:
wikipedia:
Holland
Holland (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Old English hoh land (“spur land”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A historical region of Lincolnshire (also called Parts of Holland).
An English habitational surname from Middle English for someone from any of the various places in England named Holland.
senses_topics:
|
15506 | word:
achromaticity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
achromaticity (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From achromatic + -ity.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state or quality of being achromatic.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics |
15507 | word:
ASCII art
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ASCII art (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A form of letter art that uses only ASCII characters.
senses_topics:
art
arts
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15508 | word:
concatenate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
concatenate (third-person singular simple present concatenates, present participle concatenating, simple past and past participle concatenated)
forms:
form:
concatenates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
concatenating
tags:
participle
present
form:
concatenated
tags:
participle
past
form:
concatenated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
concatenate
etymology_text:
From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).
senses_examples:
text:
Locke, by contrast, contended that [madness] was essentially a question of intellectual delusion, the capture of the mind by false ideas concatenated into a logical system of unreality.
ref:
2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring".
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To join or link together, as though in a chain.
To join (text strings) together.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15509 | word:
concatenate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
concatenate (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
concatenate
etymology_text:
From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that the concatenate arrangement is hardly apparent.
ref:
1947, Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, A monograph of the lichen genus Placopsis Nyl, page 166
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Joined together as if in a chain.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
15510 | word:
jenny
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jenny (plural jennies)
forms:
form:
jennies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
spinning jenny
etymology_text:
Partially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles (also called spinning jenny).
A female creature of certain kinds:
a female donkey
A female creature of certain kinds:
a female wren
A female creature of certain kinds:
a female crab.
A catmill.
In billiards and similar games, a powerful follow shot with plenty of topspin.
senses_topics:
|
15511 | word:
jenny
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jenny (third-person singular simple present jennies, present participle jennying, simple past and past participle jennied)
forms:
form:
jennies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jennying
tags:
participle
present
form:
jennied
tags:
participle
past
form:
jennied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
spinning jenny
etymology_text:
Partially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wind finished lace onto cards ready for sale.
senses_topics:
|
15512 | word:
occult
word_type:
verb
expansion:
occult (third-person singular simple present occults, present participle occulting, simple past and past participle occulted)
forms:
form:
occults
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
occulting
tags:
participle
present
form:
occulted
tags:
participle
past
form:
occulted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin occultus (“hidden, secret”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Earth occults the Moon during a lunar eclipse.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover or hide from view.
To dissimulate, conceal, or obfuscate.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
|
15513 | word:
occult
word_type:
adj
expansion:
occult (comparative more occult, superlative most occult)
forms:
form:
more occult
tags:
comparative
form:
most occult
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin occultus (“hidden, secret”).
senses_examples:
text:
occult blood loss; occult cancer
type:
example
text:
This counter-influence is so much more conclusive[…] because it is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation.
ref:
1860, Isaac Taylor, “Mind in Form”, in Ultimate Civilization, page 178
type:
quotation
text:
Be aware that occult knowledge can be used for good or evil purposes.
ref:
2017, Pao Chang, Word Magic: The Powers & Occult Definitions of Words, →OCLC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Secret; hidden from general knowledge; undetected.
Related to the occult; pertaining to mysticism, magic, or astrology.
Esoteric.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
15514 | word:
occult
word_type:
noun
expansion:
occult (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin occultus (“hidden, secret”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Supernatural affairs.
senses_topics:
|
15515 | word:
petrol
word_type:
noun
expansion:
petrol (usually uncountable, plural petrols)
forms:
form:
petrols
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
petrol
etymology_text:
From French (essence de) pétrole, from Medieval Latin petroleum, from Ancient Greek πετρέλαιον (petrélaion, “oil of the rock”), from πέτρα (pétra, “stone, rock”)+ ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil, any oily substance”).
senses_examples:
text:
1987 October 29, Advertisement, New Scientist, page 31,
We were the first company to introduce unleaded petrol in Britain, opening our first pump in June 1986.
type:
quotation
text:
2000 September 27, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 106th Congress, Second Session, Volume 146, Part 14, page 19605,
European oil firms are beginning to follow the example of their American counterparts by adding convenience stores to their pumps: the typical American petrol station now makes some 40 percent of its profits from the sale of non-oil products, such as cigarettes and beer.
type:
quotation
text:
2003, S. Srinivasan, Automotive Mechanics, Tata McGraw Hill, India, 2nd Edition, page 149,
At a crank angle 6° before the TDC, the electric spark ignites the petrol mixture.
type:
quotation
text:
He also admitted that when big trucks bring in petrol, they park along Langata Road[…].
ref:
2006 February 10, Kenya Gazette, page 354
type:
quotation
text:
2006 August, Economic Scenario, Pratiyogita Darpan, page 218,
The increase in rates comes just a few days after India raised petrol prices by 9-2% and diesel prices by 6-6% which boosed inflation expectations in Indian economy.
type:
quotation
text:
2008, Robin Stonecash, Joshua Gans, Stephen King, Gregory Mankiw, Principles of Macroeconomics, Cengage Learning Australia, page 122,
Most major Australian cities receive their petrol from a single refinery.
type:
quotation
text:
However, I do feel entitled to criticise the car. There are lots of different versions: manuals and automatics; petrols and diesels; two-wheel drives and four-wheel drives, and it's possible to spend thirty grand on one.
ref:
2016, Honest John, George Fowler, Car-tastrophes: 80 Automotive Atrocities from the past 20 years
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fluid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, primarily consisting of octane, commonly used as a motor fuel.
A motor vehicle powered by petrol (as opposed to diesel).
senses_topics:
|
15516 | word:
petrol
word_type:
verb
expansion:
petrol (third-person singular simple present petrols, present participle petroling or petrolling, simple past and past participle petroled or petrolled)
forms:
form:
petrols
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
petroling
tags:
participle
present
form:
petrolling
tags:
participle
present
form:
petroled
tags:
participle
past
form:
petroled
tags:
past
form:
petrolled
tags:
participle
past
form:
petrolled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
petrol
etymology_text:
From French (essence de) pétrole, from Medieval Latin petroleum, from Ancient Greek πετρέλαιον (petrélaion, “oil of the rock”), from πέτρα (pétra, “stone, rock”)+ ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil, any oily substance”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fill or supply (a vehicle, etc.) with petrol.
senses_topics:
|
15517 | word:
achromatize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
achromatize (third-person singular simple present achromatizes, present participle achromatizing, simple past and past participle achromatized)
forms:
form:
achromatizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
achromatizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
achromatized
tags:
participle
past
form:
achromatized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To deprive of colour; to make achromatic.
To remove chromatic aberration from an optical system
senses_topics:
|
15518 | word:
AGP
word_type:
noun
expansion:
AGP (countable and uncountable, plural AGPs)
forms:
form:
AGPs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[quoting another user] w/ androphilic TS like me ¶ LOL. "I blame-ah myself" :-) Please don't start calling yourself AGP ¶ Heike or you'll totally screw up my AGP/wannabe gestalts.
ref:
1999 March 24, Ariika Aeirt <anon-23093@anon.twwells.com [anonymizer service]>, “Re: What do gays and lesbians think of T*Girls”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet), retrieved 2021-11-10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of accelerated graphics port, a type of motherboard expansion slot.
Abbreviation of autogynephilia.
Abbreviation of aerosol-generating procedure.
Initialism of arts, graphics, photography; i.e., the visual arts.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
15519 | word:
nutmeg
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nutmeg (countable and uncountable, plural nutmegs)
forms:
form:
nutmegs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Nutmeg_(football)#Etymology
nutmeg
etymology_text:
From Middle English notemege, notemuge, a partial translation of Medieval Latin nux muga, a variant of Medieval Latin nux muscata (“musky nut”). Compare also Old French nois mugede.
For the term used in various ball sports, see Wikipedia.
senses_examples:
text:
The same applied to Loftus-Cheek, who grew into the game after a quiet start and even had the impudence to slip the ball through Marcel Halstenberg’s legs in the first half. Nutmegs aside, Loftus-Cheek also came up with one of England’s best passes of the night, sending Jamie Vardy through the middle at the end of the first half.
ref:
2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian (London)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds.
The aromatic seed of this tree, used as a spice.
The powdered seed, ready for use.
The aromatic seed of this tree, used as a spice.
A whole nutmeg seed.
A small moth, Hadula trifolii, feeding on plants and native to the Northern Hemisphere.
A grey-brown colour.
The playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent.
senses_topics:
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports |
15520 | word:
nutmeg
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nutmeg (third-person singular simple present nutmegs, present participle nutmegging, simple past and past participle nutmegged)
forms:
form:
nutmegs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nutmegging
tags:
participle
present
form:
nutmegged
tags:
participle
past
form:
nutmegged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Nutmeg_(football)#Etymology
nutmeg
etymology_text:
From Middle English notemege, notemuge, a partial translation of Medieval Latin nux muga, a variant of Medieval Latin nux muscata (“musky nut”). Compare also Old French nois mugede.
For the term used in various ball sports, see Wikipedia.
senses_examples:
text:
She decided the eggnog was lacking in flavor, so she decided to nutmeg it heavily.
type:
example
text:
Barcelona did not just out play them, they emphatically put them in their place during that opening 45 minutes when Luis Suárez scored twice, Dani Alves struck the crossbar, Lionel Messi nutmegged David Silva and Manuel Pellegrini’s team stumbled to the interval like a side in need of smelling salts rather than half-time oranges.
ref:
2015 February 24, Daniel Taylor, “Luis Suárez strikes twice as Barcelona teach Manchester City a lesson”, in The Guardian (London)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To flavour with nutmeg.
To play the ball between the legs of (an opponent).
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
15521 | word:
event
word_type:
noun
expansion:
event (plural events)
forms:
form:
events
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
event
etymology_text:
From Middle French event, from Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ē (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veniō (“come”); related to venture, advent, convent, invent, convene, evene, etc.
senses_examples:
text:
Experience in Australia indicates that after a devastating weather event, up to one-fifth of people suffer the debilitating effects of extreme stress, emotional injury, and despair.
ref:
2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
I went to an event in San Francisco last week.
type:
example
text:
Where will the event be held?
type:
example
text:
Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event.
ref:
1707, Semele, by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8
text:
In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
text:
Miss Burton, you are an event! Sleepy, old Lymston's going to love you! Bye-bye. Bye.
ref:
1985, Miss Marple: The Moving Finger, spoken by Mr. Pye (Richard Pearson)
type:
quotation
text:
If X is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be: X=1, X=2, X>5,X̸=4, and X isin 1,3,5.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An occurrence; something that happens.
A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
A remarkable person.
A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
An episode of severe health conditions.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
medicine
sciences |
15522 | word:
event
word_type:
verb
expansion:
event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)
forms:
form:
events
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
eventing
tags:
participle
present
form:
evented
tags:
participle
past
form:
evented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
event
etymology_text:
From Middle French event, from Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ē (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veniō (“come”); related to venture, advent, convent, invent, convene, evene, etc.
senses_examples:
text:
1590, Robert Greene, Greene’s Never Too Late, in The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, Volume 8, Huff Library, 1881, p. 33,
[…] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of England […]
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To occur, take place.
senses_topics:
|
15523 | word:
event
word_type:
verb
expansion:
event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)
forms:
form:
events
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
eventing
tags:
participle
present
form:
evented
tags:
participle
past
form:
evented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
event
etymology_text:
From French éventer.
senses_examples:
text:
c. 1597, Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, Act V, Scene 8, in C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (editors), Ben Jonson, Volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, p. 178,
ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold
The place from whence that scalding sigh evented.
text:
This is the reason why this water hath no such force when it is carried, as it hath at the spring it self: because the vertue of it consisteth in a spiritual and occulte qualitie, which eventeth and vanisheth by the carriage.
ref:
1615, William Barclay, Callirhoe; commonly called The Well of Spa or The Nymph of Aberdene, Aberdeen, published 1799, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
1559, attributed to William Baldwin, “How the Lorde Clyfford for his straunge and abhominable cruelty came to as straunge and sodayne a death” in The Mirror for Magistrates, Part III, edited by Joseph Haslewood, London: Lackington, Allen & Co., 1815, Volume 2, p. 198,
For as I would my gorget have undon
To event the heat that had mee nigh undone,
An headles arrow strake mee through the throte,
Where through my soule forsooke his fylthy cote.
text:
1598, George Chapman, The Third Sestiad, Hero and Leander (completion of the poem begun by Christopher Marlowe),
[…] as Phœbus throws
His beams abroad, though he in clouds be clos’d,
Still glancing by them till he find oppos’d
A loose and rorid vapour that is fit
T’ event his searching beams, and useth it
To form a tender twenty-colour’d eye,
Cast in a circle round about the sky […]
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
To expose to the air, ventilate.
senses_topics:
|
15524 | word:
Chisinau
word_type:
name
expansion:
Chisinau
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Moreover, in the case of Moldova, Chisinau has been the sole engine of growth (in 1997, Chisinau grew by around 10 percent, fueled by a construction boom, while Moldova overall had just a 1.3 percent growth).
ref:
1999, Moldova--poverty Assessment, World Bank Publications, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
In addition, a consensus has not been reached over the legal status of Transnistria, and the authority of the Moldovan government in Chisinau has not yet been extended over the Transnistrian territory.
ref:
2005, Takako Ueta, Eric Remacle, Japan and Enlarged Europe: Partners in Global Governance, Peter Lang, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
In August, strikes broke out in the large factories of Chisinau and Transnistria, most of whose workforce was Russian, in protest at the language law.
ref:
2005, Paul Hare, Judy Batt, Reconstituting the Market, Routledge, page 359
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Chișinău.
senses_topics:
|
15525 | word:
hernia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hernia (plural hernias or herniae or (dated) herniæ)
forms:
form:
hernias
tags:
plural
form:
herniae
tags:
plural
form:
herniæ
tags:
dated
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin hernia (“protruded viscus”). See also yarn and cord.
senses_examples:
text:
give someone a hernia
type:
example
text:
have a hernia
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences |
15526 | word:
double vision
word_type:
noun
expansion:
double vision (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A disorder of vision in which a single object is seen as two.
senses_topics:
|
15527 | word:
Alexander
word_type:
name
expansion:
Alexander (plural Alexanders)
forms:
form:
Alexanders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Alexander (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin Alexander, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros), from ἀλέξω (aléxō, “I defend”) + ἀνδρ- (andr-), the stem of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”). Doublet of Alejandro.
senses_examples:
text:
And for my own part, said my uncle Toby, though I should blush to boast of myself, Trim - yet had my name been Alexander, I could have done no more at Namur than my duty.
ref:
1765, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, Book IV, Chapter 18
type:
quotation
text:
"My son's name is Alexander," Muriel said. "Did I tell you that? I named him Alexander because it sounded high-class.
ref:
1985, Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist, page 170
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from Ancient Greek, most famously held by Alexander the Great.
A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic, anglicized from Scottish Gaelic Mac Alasdair (“son of Alexander”).
A place in the United States:
A city in Arkansas.
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Georgia; named for early settler Hugh Alexander.
A place in the United States:
A city in Iowa.
A place in the United States:
A minor city in Rush County, Kansas; named for early settler Alexander Harvey.
A place in the United States:
A town in Maine; named for British politician and financier Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton.
A place in the United States:
A town and village therein, in Genesee County, New York; named for early settler Alexander Rea.
A place in the United States:
A city in North Dakota; named for early North Dakota politician Alexander McKenzie.
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in West Virginia; named for local lumber businessman John M. Alexander.
A rural municipality of Manitoba, Canada.
A community of Manitoba, Canada; named for early settler Alexander Speers.
senses_topics:
|
15528 | word:
Alexander
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Alexander (plural Alexanders)
forms:
form:
Alexanders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Alexander (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin Alexander, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros), from ἀλέξω (aléxō, “I defend”) + ἀνδρ- (andr-), the stem of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”). Doublet of Alejandro.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of alexander
senses_topics:
|
15529 | word:
Moses
word_type:
name
expansion:
Moses
forms:
wikipedia:
en:Moses
etymology_text:
From Latin Mōsēs, Mōȳsēs, from Ancient Greek Μωυσῆς (Mōusês), from Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (mōšê). Further etymology is unclear, but it is sometimes conjectured to derive from Egyptian ms-s (msj, “to give birth to”), a common element in Egyptian names of the form ‘[name of deity] is the one who bore him’; or, alternatively, contains Egyptian N35A (mw, “water”).
senses_examples:
text:
Moses supposes his toeses are roses, / But Moses supposes erroneously, / Moses he knowses his toeses aren't roses, / As Moses supposes his toeses to be!
ref:
1952 Singin' in the Rain: Moses supposes (a song)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The pharaonic patriarch who led the enslaved Hebrews out of Egypt, the brother of Aaron and Miriam described in the Book of Exodus and the Quran.
A male given name from Hebrew.
A surname transferred from the given name.
A dialect of the Columbia-Wenatchi language
pseudonym for Harriet Tubman
senses_topics:
biblical
lifestyle
religion
|
15530 | word:
Moses
word_type:
intj
expansion:
Moses
forms:
wikipedia:
en:Moses
etymology_text:
From Latin Mōsēs, Mōȳsēs, from Ancient Greek Μωυσῆς (Mōusês), from Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (mōšê). Further etymology is unclear, but it is sometimes conjectured to derive from Egyptian ms-s (msj, “to give birth to”), a common element in Egyptian names of the form ‘[name of deity] is the one who bore him’; or, alternatively, contains Egyptian N35A (mw, “water”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exclamation of shock.
senses_topics:
|
15531 | word:
unabridged
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unabridged (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + abridged.
senses_examples:
text:
an unabridged dictionary
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not abridged, shortened, expurgated or condensed; complete.
senses_topics:
|
15532 | word:
unabridged
word_type:
noun
expansion:
unabridged (plural unabridgeds)
forms:
form:
unabridgeds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + abridged.
senses_examples:
text:
it would seem to indicate that arcanes restoration to general usage is fairly recent and we may expect that it will move from the comparative obscurity of the unabridgeds' to proper listing in general use
ref:
1975, William Morris, It's Easy to Increase Your Vocabulary
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An unabridged publication, especially a reference work
senses_topics:
|
15533 | word:
DMZ
word_type:
noun
expansion:
DMZ (plural DMZs)
forms:
form:
DMZs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
DMZ
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of demilitarized zone.
Initialism of dorsal marginal zone.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
|
15534 | word:
perspective
word_type:
noun
expansion:
perspective (countable and uncountable, plural perspectives)
forms:
form:
perspectives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English perspective, perspectif, attested since 1381, from Old French or Middle French, from the first word of the Medieval Latin perspectiva ars (“science of optics”), the feminine of Latin perspectivus (“of sight, optical”), from perspectus, the past participle of perspicere (“to inspect, look through”), itself from per- (“through”) + specere (“to look at”); the noun sense was influenced or mediated by Italian prospettiva, from prospetto (“prospect”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] our predecessors; who could never have believed, that there were such lunets about some of the planets, as our late perspectives have descried […]
ref:
1645, Joseph Hall, The Peace-Maker
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A view, vista or outlook.
The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
An artwork that represents three-dimensional objects in this way.
The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
The ability to consider things in such relative perspective.
A perspective glass.
A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.
senses_topics:
|
15535 | word:
perspective
word_type:
adj
expansion:
perspective (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English perspective, perspectif, attested since 1381, from Old French or Middle French, from the first word of the Medieval Latin perspectiva ars (“science of optics”), the feminine of Latin perspectivus (“of sight, optical”), from perspectus, the past participle of perspicere (“to inspect, look through”), itself from per- (“through”) + specere (“to look at”); the noun sense was influenced or mediated by Italian prospettiva, from prospetto (“prospect”).
senses_examples:
text:
a perspective drawing
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, in or relating to perspective.
Providing visual aid; of or relating to the science of vision; optical.
senses_topics:
|
15536 | word:
Longyearbyen
word_type:
name
expansion:
Longyearbyen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The largest settlement in Svalbard.
senses_topics:
|
15537 | word:
UV-EPROM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
UV-EPROM
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
ultraviolet-erasable programmable read-only memory
senses_topics:
|
15538 | word:
EEPROM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
EEPROM (plural EEPROMs)
forms:
form:
EEPROMs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Electrically erasable programmable read-only memory.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
15539 | word:
goal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
goal (plural goals)
forms:
form:
goals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
goal
etymology_text:
From Middle English gol (“boundary, limit”), from Old English *gāl (“obstacle, barrier, marker”), suggested by its derivatives Old English gǣlan (“to hinder, delay, impede, keep in suspense, linger, hesitate, dupe”), and hyġegǣls (“hesitating, slow, sluggish”), hyġegǣlsa (“slow one, sluggish one”). Possibly cognate with Lithuanian gãlas (“end”), Latvian gals (“end”), Old Prussian gallan (“death”), Albanian ngalem (“to be limping, lame, paralyzed”), ngel (“to remain, linger, hesitate, get stuck”).
senses_examples:
text:
My lifelong goal is to get into a Hollywood movie.
type:
example
text:
She failed in her goal to become captain of the team.
type:
example
text:
The goal should be to strengthen workers without hamstringing firms. Growth, rather than employment protection, is the priority. More work means a stronger labour market, which would bid up employees’ slice, as it did in America in the 1990s when unemployment was at record lows.
ref:
2013 November 2, “A shrinking slice”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8860
type:
quotation
text:
fans behind the goal
type:
example
text:
play in goal
type:
example
text:
miss a goal
type:
example
text:
concede a goal
type:
example
text:
let in a goal
type:
example
text:
score a goal
type:
example
text:
The former Forest man, who passed a late fitness test, appeared to use Guy Moussi for leverage before nodding in David Fox's free-kick at the far post - his 22nd goal of the season.
ref:
2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2-1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A result that one is attempting to achieve.
In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
The act of placing the object into the goal.
A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
15540 | word:
goal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
goal (third-person singular simple present goals, present participle goaling, simple past and past participle goaled)
forms:
form:
goals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
goaling
tags:
participle
present
form:
goaled
tags:
participle
past
form:
goaled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
goal
etymology_text:
From Middle English gol (“boundary, limit”), from Old English *gāl (“obstacle, barrier, marker”), suggested by its derivatives Old English gǣlan (“to hinder, delay, impede, keep in suspense, linger, hesitate, dupe”), and hyġegǣls (“hesitating, slow, sluggish”), hyġegǣlsa (“slow one, sluggish one”). Possibly cognate with Lithuanian gãlas (“end”), Latvian gals (“end”), Old Prussian gallan (“death”), Albanian ngalem (“to be limping, lame, paralyzed”), ngel (“to remain, linger, hesitate, get stuck”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To score a goal.
senses_topics:
|
15541 | word:
exoreic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
exoreic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French exorrhéisme (“drainage reaching the sea”). Compare exo- from Ancient Greek ἔξω (éxō, “outer; external”), and -ic (“pertaining to”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Running or draining to the sea.
senses_topics:
geography
natural-sciences |
15542 | word:
tyre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tyre (plural tyres)
forms:
form:
tyres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tire#Etymology and spelling
tyre
etymology_text:
The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the word derives from attire, while other sources suggest a connection with the verb to tie. George Sturt in The Wheelwright's Shop (1923) makes a case for the latter derivation in that the metal tyre ('tyer') pulled the wooden wagon wheel tightly together when it shrank after being fitted red-hot. The spelling tyre is used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and most current and former Commonwealth nations after being revived in the 19th century. Both tyre and tire were used in the 15th and 16th centuries. The United States and Canada did not adopt the revival of tyre, and tire is the only spelling currently used there.
senses_examples:
text:
pneumatic tyres
type:
example
text:
runflat tyres
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: strakes
text:
iron tyres for the coach and iron shoes for the horse
type:
example
text:
tyres and rails of steel, and every axle with roller bearings
type:
example
text:
It is also curious that whereas brake-blocks made of certain compositions (other than cast iron) offer improved coefficients of friction, their use can reduce adhesion, and thereby increase the liability to skid (doubtless by tending to polish the tyres) by as much as 20 per cent.
ref:
1960 April, “The braking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 237
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.
The metal rim, or metal covering on a rim, of a (wooden or metal) wheel, usually of steel or formerly wrought iron, as found on (horse-drawn or railway) carriages and wagons and on locomotives.
senses_topics:
|
15543 | word:
tyre
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tyre (third-person singular simple present tyres, present participle tyring, simple past and past participle tyred)
forms:
form:
tyres
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tyring
tags:
participle
present
form:
tyred
tags:
participle
past
form:
tyred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Tire#Etymology and spelling
tyre
etymology_text:
The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the word derives from attire, while other sources suggest a connection with the verb to tie. George Sturt in The Wheelwright's Shop (1923) makes a case for the latter derivation in that the metal tyre ('tyer') pulled the wooden wagon wheel tightly together when it shrank after being fitted red-hot. The spelling tyre is used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and most current and former Commonwealth nations after being revived in the 19th century. Both tyre and tire were used in the 15th and 16th centuries. The United States and Canada did not adopt the revival of tyre, and tire is the only spelling currently used there.
senses_examples:
text:
The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.
ref:
1929, The Listener, numbers 41-50, page 552
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fit tyres to (a vehicle).
senses_topics:
|
15544 | word:
tyre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tyre (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Tire#Etymology and spelling
tyre
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Tamil தயிர் (tayir), itself from Sanskrit दधि (dádhi). Doublet of dahi.
senses_examples:
text:
The boiled milk, that the family has not used, is allowed to cool in the same vessel; and a little of the former days tyre, or curdled milk, is added to promote its coagulation, and the acid fermentation. Next morning it has become tyre, or coagulated acid milk.
ref:
1809, The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, […], page 954
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Curdled milk.
senses_topics:
|
15545 | word:
tyre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tyre (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Tire#Etymology and spelling
tyre
etymology_text:
Possibly a shortening of attire.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Attire.
senses_topics:
|
15546 | word:
tyre
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tyre (third-person singular simple present tyres, present participle tyring, simple past and past participle tyred)
forms:
form:
tyres
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tyring
tags:
participle
present
form:
tyred
tags:
participle
past
form:
tyred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Tire#Etymology and spelling
tyre
etymology_text:
Possibly a shortening of attire.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To adorn.
senses_topics:
|
15547 | word:
double agent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
double agent (plural double agents)
forms:
form:
double agents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: triple agent
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A spy who pretends to work for one side, when they are actually working for or passing information to the other.
senses_topics:
espionage
government
military
politics
war |
15548 | word:
ADSL
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ADSL (countable and uncountable, plural ADSLs)
forms:
form:
ADSLs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of asymmetric digital subscriber line.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications |
15549 | word:
erase
word_type:
verb
expansion:
erase (third-person singular simple present erases, present participle erasing, simple past and past participle erased)
forms:
form:
erases
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
erasing
tags:
participle
present
form:
erased
tags:
participle
past
form:
erased
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin erasus, past participle of eradere (“to scrape, to abrade”), from ex- (“out of”) + radere (“to scrape”). Compare Middle English arasen, aracen (“to eradicate, erase”). Displaced native Old English dilegian.
senses_examples:
text:
I erased that note because it was wrong.
type:
example
text:
I'm going to erase this tape.
type:
example
text:
I'm going to erase those files.
type:
example
text:
Jones was erased by a 6-4-3 double play.
type:
example
text:
The chalkboard erased easily.
type:
example
text:
The files will erase quickly.
type:
example
text:
I suggest, then, that counterdiscourses, when reductive, tend to emulate the screen discourse that erases gay sociality.
ref:
1998, Janice Lynn Ristock, Catherine Taylor, Inside the academy and out
type:
quotation
text:
As a result, Palestinians are hyperpresent in Israeli media, while Mizrahim are erased from public discourse.
ref:
2004, Daniel Lefkowitz, Words and Stones, page 209
type:
quotation
text:
Silence around Native sexuality benefits the colonizers and erases queer Native people from their communities.
ref:
2011, Qwo-Li Driskill, Queer Indigenous Studies, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
C.J. Henderson has the speed and anticipation to erase receivers all over the field, and his athleticism is absurd; according to Bruce Feldman of The Athletic, Henderson bench presses 380 pounds and squats 545.
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:
to remove markings or information
To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play
To be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information).
To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.
To kill; assassinate.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
15550 | word:
erase
word_type:
noun
expansion:
erase (plural erases)
forms:
form:
erases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin erasus, past participle of eradere (“to scrape, to abrade”), from ex- (“out of”) + radere (“to scrape”). Compare Middle English arasen, aracen (“to eradicate, erase”). Displaced native Old English dilegian.
senses_examples:
text:
This subsystem is waiting to become Exclusive after having issued an erase.
ref:
2000, Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, Gurindar S. Sohi, Readings in Computer Architecture, page 603
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The operation of deleting data.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15551 | word:
dodecagon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dodecagon (plural dodecagons)
forms:
form:
dodecagons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dodeca- + -gon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A polygon with twelve edges and twelve angles.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
15552 | word:
tire
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)
forms:
form:
tires
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tiring
tags:
participle
present
form:
tired
tags:
participle
past
form:
tired
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tiren, tirien, teorien, from Old English tȳrian, tēorian (“to fail, cease, become weary, be tired, exhausted; tire, weary, exhaust”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *teuʀōn (“to cease”), which is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dews- (“to fail, be behind, lag”). Compare Ancient Greek δεύομαι (deúomai, “to lack”), Sanskrit दोष (dóṣa, “crime, fault, vice, deficiency”).
senses_examples:
text:
As Moldova understandably tired after a night of ball chasing, Everton left-back Baines scored his first international goal as his deflected free-kick totally wrong-footed Namasco.
ref:
2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
I tire of this book.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become sleepy or weary.
To make sleepy or weary.
To become bored or impatient (with).
To bore.
senses_topics:
|
15553 | word:
tire
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tire (plural tires)
forms:
form:
tires
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Believed from Middle English tire (“equipment”) aphetic form of attire; see details at tyre. See also German zieren (“to decorate”).
senses_examples:
text:
the tire of war
ref:
1705, John Philips, Blenheim
type:
quotation
text:
men like apes follow the fashions in tires, gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […].
ref:
, New York Review of Books 2001, p.66
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
alternative spelling of tyre: The rubber covering on a wheel.
alternative spelling of tyre: The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
Accoutrements, accessories.
Dress, clothes, attire.
A covering for the head; a headdress.
senses_topics:
|
15554 | word:
tire
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)
forms:
form:
tires
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tiring
tags:
participle
present
form:
tired
tags:
participle
past
form:
tired
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Believed from Middle English tire (“equipment”) aphetic form of attire; see details at tyre. See also German zieren (“to decorate”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To dress or adorn.
senses_topics:
|
15555 | word:
tire
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)
forms:
form:
tires
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tiring
tags:
participle
present
form:
tired
tags:
participle
past
form:
tired
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tire, from Old French tirer (“to draw or pull”), akin to English tear (“to rend”).
senses_examples:
text:
Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tyring on her son.
ref:
1616, George Chapman, Iliad
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
senses_topics:
|
15556 | word:
tire
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tire (plural tires)
forms:
form:
tires
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tier, row, or rank.
senses_topics:
|
15557 | word:
knock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
knock (countable and uncountable, plural knocks)
forms:
form:
knocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
knock
etymology_text:
From Middle English knokken, from Old English cnocian, ġecnocian, cnucian (“to knock, pound on, beat”), from Proto-West Germanic *knokōn, from Proto-Germanic *knukōną (“to knock”), a suffixed form of *knu-, *knew- (“to pound on, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnew-, *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up, concentrate”). The English word is cognate with Middle High German knochen (“to hit”), Old English cnuian, cnuwian (“to pound, knock”), Old Norse knoka (compare Danish knuge (“to squeeze”), Swedish knocka (“to hug”)).
senses_examples:
text:
I heard a knock on my door.
type:
example
text:
He took a knock on the head.
type:
example
text:
Since forming in 2007 Mumford & Sons have hard-toured their way to a vast market for throaty folk that's strong on banjo and bass drum. They have released two enormous albums. But, wow, do they take some knocks back home.
ref:
2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Daily Telegraph
type:
quotation
text:
"Come on!" cried Mr. Beaver, who was almost dancing with delight. "Come and see! This is a nasty knock for the Witch! It looks as if her power was already crumbling."
ref:
1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
type:
quotation
text:
He played a slow but sure knock of 35.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
A sharp impact.
A criticism.
A blow or setback.
Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
A batsman's innings.
Synonym of hunger knock
senses_topics:
automotive
transport
vehicles
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
15558 | word:
knock
word_type:
verb
expansion:
knock (third-person singular simple present knocks, present participle knocking, simple past and past participle knocked)
forms:
form:
knocks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
knocking
tags:
participle
present
form:
knocked
tags:
participle
past
form:
knocked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
knock
etymology_text:
From Middle English knokken, from Old English cnocian, ġecnocian, cnucian (“to knock, pound on, beat”), from Proto-West Germanic *knokōn, from Proto-Germanic *knukōną (“to knock”), a suffixed form of *knu-, *knew- (“to pound on, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnew-, *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up, concentrate”). The English word is cognate with Middle High German knochen (“to hit”), Old English cnuian, cnuwian (“to pound, knock”), Old Norse knoka (compare Danish knuge (“to squeeze”), Swedish knocka (“to hug”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Knock on the door and find out if they’re home.
type:
example
text:
Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it.
type:
example
text:
A Judge must be respected, / A Judge you mustn't knock / Or else you'll be detected / And shoved into the dock.
ref:
1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 148
type:
quotation
text:
And what do you care when some folks start knocking you? It’s a sign you getting some place.
ref:
1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books, published 2014, page 386
type:
quotation
text:
The pious have sometimes knocked the day [Thanksgiving] for its laughter, its late sleeping, its overeating.
ref:
1980 November 27, “Inclusive”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Despite enjoying more than their fair share of possession the visitors did not look like creating anything, with their lack of a killer ball painfully obvious as they harmlessly knocked the ball around outside the home side's box without ever looking like they would hurt them.
ref:
2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 – 1 Birmingham”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
I knocked against the table and bruised my leg.
type:
example
text:
I accidentally knocked my drink off the bar.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.
To kick a ball towards another player; to pass.
To impress forcibly or strongly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
To bump or impact.
To have sex with.
To prosecute under the law; to arrest, imprison, etc.
To end play by declaring one's hand to have under a certain amount of deadwood.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
card-games
games |
15559 | word:
aimer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aimer (plural aimers)
forms:
form:
aimers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From aim + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
After joining the RAF, he trained as a bomb aimer in Oxfords, Ansons and Wellingtons before joining a squadron of Lancasters.
ref:
2009 April 4, Steve Holland, “Ron 'Nobby' Clark”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who aims; one who is responsible for aiming.
senses_topics:
|
15560 | word:
tzar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tzar (plural tzars)
forms:
form:
tzars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of tsar
senses_topics:
|
15561 | word:
heptagon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
heptagon (plural heptagons)
forms:
form:
heptagons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Since 16th century, from Ancient Greek ἑπτάγωνον (heptágōnon), from ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”) + γωνία (gōnía, “angle”). Equivalent to hepta- + -gon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A polygon with seven sides and seven angles.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
15562 | word:
Spitsbergen
word_type:
name
expansion:
Spitsbergen
forms:
wikipedia:
Spitsbergen
etymology_text:
From Dutch Spitsbergen, from spits (“pointed, pointy”) + bergen (“mountains”), see there.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago located to the east of Greenland.
The largest island of this archipelago.
senses_topics:
|
15563 | word:
historic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
historic (comparative more historic, superlative most historic)
forms:
form:
more historic
tags:
comparative
form:
most historic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin historicus (“historical”), from Ancient Greek ἱστορικός (historikós, “exact; historical”). Cognate with French historique.
senses_examples:
text:
A historic opportunity
type:
example
text:
July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.
type:
example
text:
The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic.
type:
example
text:
Sights are thick sown in the counties of York and Nottingham: the former is more historic.
ref:
1756 August, Horace Walpole, letter republished in Private Correspondence (1820), Vol. II, No. 1
text:
An high-pac'd Muse treading a lofty march, leades honor enchaind in an Epique pen, grac'd with the furtherance of historique Clio.
ref:
1594, John Dickenson, Arisbas, Euphues amidst his slumbers; or, Cupids iourney to hell
type:
quotation
text:
The historic tenses include the imperfect, the pluperfect, and the future perfect.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.
Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity.
Synonym of historical: of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (See usage notes.)
Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
15564 | word:
historic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
historic (plural historics)
forms:
form:
historics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin historicus (“historical”), from Ancient Greek ἱστορικός (historikós, “exact; historical”). Cognate with French historique.
senses_examples:
text:
Before the beginnyng of this historic, I haue thought good by waie of a Proeme, to introduce the wordes of an excellent writer called Lodouicus Caelius Rhodoginus.
ref:
1566, William Painter, chapter XI, in The Palace of Pleasure Beautified, volume I
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A history, a non-fiction account of the past.
A historian.
senses_topics:
|
15565 | word:
Monte Carlo
word_type:
name
expansion:
Monte Carlo
forms:
wikipedia:
Charles III of Monaco
etymology_text:
Monte (“mountain”) + Carlo (“Charles/Carl”). Named after Charles III of Monaco.
senses_examples:
text:
The probability density of the Bayseian posterior was estimated by Metropolis-coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo, with multiple incrementally heated chains.
ref:
2004 July 27, F. Keith Barker et al., “Phylogeny and diversification of the largest avian radiation”, in PNAS, page 11040, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A part of Monaco famous for its casinos.
Ellipsis of Monte Carlo method.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
statistics |
15566 | word:
Monte Carlo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Monte Carlo (plural Monte Carlos)
forms:
form:
Monte Carlos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Charles III of Monaco
etymology_text:
Monte (“mountain”) + Carlo (“Charles/Carl”). Named after Charles III of Monaco.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A commonly served drink consisting of beer and grenadine.
An informal dance competition, where contestants in one quarter of the floor are eliminated by a randomly chosen card representing the corner.
senses_topics:
|
15567 | word:
decagon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
decagon (plural decagons)
forms:
form:
decagons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From deca- + -gon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A polygon with ten sides and ten angles.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
15568 | word:
yore
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yore (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yore, yoare, yare, ȝore, ȝare, ȝeare, from Old English ġeāra (literally “of years”), of unclear origin but probably from Proto-Germanic *jērǫ̂, the genitive plural of Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”). More at year.
senses_examples:
text:
This word comes from the days of yore.
type:
example
text:
It appeared strange to me that the “little dipper” should be still diving quietly in the river, as of yore; and it suggested that this bird might continue to dive here when Concord should be no more.
ref:
1860, Henry David Thoreau, The Last Days of John Brown
type:
quotation
text:
In days of yore and times long gone before there was a Sultan of India who begat three sons; the eldest hight Prince Husayn, the second Prince Ali, and the youngest Prince Ahmad; moreover he had a niece, named Princess Nur al-Nihár, the daughter of his cadet brother who, dying early, left his only child under her uncle's charge.
ref:
1886-88, Richard Francis Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night
type:
quotation
text:
Several logistics executives told me that if half-full freight vans from multiple firms kept congesting the streets, the best solution might be for every retailer to use a single firm instead. One delivery service to rule them all – just like the postal service of yore.
ref:
2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A time long past.
senses_topics:
|
15569 | word:
yore
word_type:
adv
expansion:
yore (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yore, yoare, yare, ȝore, ȝare, ȝeare, from Old English ġeāra (literally “of years”), of unclear origin but probably from Proto-Germanic *jērǫ̂, the genitive plural of Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”). More at year.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In time long past; long ago.
senses_topics:
|
15570 | word:
preference
word_type:
noun
expansion:
preference (countable and uncountable, plural preferences)
forms:
form:
preferences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
preference
etymology_text:
From Middle French preference, from Medieval Latin preferentia. Doublet of preferans.
Morphologically prefer + -ence.
senses_examples:
text:
He has a preference for crisp wines.
type:
example
text:
Can I keep my preferences when I upgrade to the new version of this application?
type:
example
text:
Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
ref:
2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The selection of one thing or person over others (with the main adposition being "for" in relation to the thing or person, but possibly also "of")
The option to so select, and the one selected.
The state of being preferred over others.
A strong liking or personal valuation.
A preferential bias; partiality; discrimination.
senses_topics:
|
15571 | word:
preference
word_type:
verb
expansion:
preference (third-person singular simple present preferences, present participle preferencing, simple past and past participle preferenced)
forms:
form:
preferences
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
preferencing
tags:
participle
present
form:
preferenced
tags:
participle
past
form:
preferenced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
preference
etymology_text:
From Middle French preference, from Medieval Latin preferentia. Doublet of preferans.
Morphologically prefer + -ence.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to.
senses_topics:
|
15572 | word:
preference
word_type:
noun
expansion:
preference (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Preferans
preference
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Preferans, a card game, principally played in Eastern Europe.
senses_topics:
|
15573 | word:
ADC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ADC (countable and uncountable, plural ADCs)
forms:
form:
ADCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Then ‘the ADC in Waiting was commanded by Their Excellencies, Lord and Lady Lytton, to invite Mr and Mrs Cusack-Bremmil to Peterhoff on July 26 at 9.30 p.p.’
ref:
1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Three and—an Extra”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Catalent’s SMARTag® technology platform offers ADC and biologics developers a one-step toolkit to develop optimized ADCs and bioconjugates.
ref:
2020, Catalent, Life Science Leader, archived from the original on 2021-10-29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of aide-de-camp. and postnominal.
Initialism of analog-to-digital converter.
Initialism of aid to dependent children.
Abbreviation of air defense command or aerospace defense command.
Abbreviation of air defense center or aerospace defense center.
Initialism of antibody-drug conjugate.
Initialism of automatic distance control.
Initialism of after-death communication.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
15574 | word:
Anglophone
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Anglophone (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo- + -phone.
senses_examples:
text:
the Anglophone media
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
English-speaking
senses_topics:
|
15575 | word:
Anglophone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Anglophone (plural Anglophones)
forms:
form:
Anglophones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo- + -phone.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who speaks English, generally natively.
senses_topics:
|
15576 | word:
Francophone
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Francophone (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Altered and reinterpreted from French Francophonie, with semantic influence from Latin Franco- (“French”) + Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ), Franco- + -phone.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
French-speaking.
senses_topics:
|
15577 | word:
Francophone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Francophone (plural Francophones)
forms:
form:
Francophones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Altered and reinterpreted from French Francophonie, with semantic influence from Latin Franco- (“French”) + Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ), Franco- + -phone.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who speaks French, especially as their mother tongue.
senses_topics:
|
15578 | word:
half
word_type:
noun
expansion:
half (plural halves)
forms:
form:
halves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English half, halfe from Old English healf (“half”); as a noun, 'half', 'side', 'part', from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz.
Cognates:
Akin to Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Dutch half, West Frisian heal, German halb, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian halv, Icelandic hálfur and Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍃 (halbs). Compare halve, behalf.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: quarter
text:
An association football match usually consists of two halves of 45 minutes each.
type:
example
text:
However, the hosts hit back and hit back hard, first replacement hooker Andrew Hore sliding over, then Williams careering out of his own half and leaving several defenders for dead before flipping the ball to Nonu to finish off a scintillating move.
ref:
2011 September 16, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
I ate the slightly smaller half of the apple.
type:
example
text:
You don’t know the half of it.
type:
example
text:
Of the passengers on the plane, half were English.
type:
example
text:
The cake was delicious: half was vanilla and half was chocolate.
type:
example
text:
He came back with a pint of Guinness for me and a half of bitter for Wendy.
ref:
1968, John Braine, The Crying Game, Houghton Mifflin, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
I accepted a half of bitter from him.
ref:
1974, James Herriot, All Things Bright and Beautiful, St. Martin's Press,
type:
quotation
text:
I went to the bar where I bought a pint and two large brandies. ... "Not brandy," she replied, "but I could use a long drink - maybe a half of lager."
ref:
2006, Bill Appleton, Wide Boy, Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie, page 168
type:
quotation
text:
Barrels came in firkins, nine gallons; kilderkins, eighteen gallons; halves, twenty-seven gallons; barrels, thirty-six gallons and hogsheads, fifty-four.
ref:
1987, Keith Dunstan, The Amber Nectar, Ringwood: Vicking O'Neil, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
Three-quarters minus a quarter is a half.
type:
example
text:
So for Richard and Barbara, Jeff and Kari, the impossibly varied collection of steps and halves that is another legacy of my father.
ref:
2016, Robert M. Herzog, A World Between
type:
quotation
text:
Tonight, we're offering the last of the Walking Liberty Halves for awhile:
ref:
2002 August 15, Fred A. Murphy, “FA: Last of the Walkers”, in rec.collecting.coins (Usenet), retrieved 2023-01-03
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.
One of two equal periods into which a game is divided.
One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.
One of the two opposite parts of the playing field of various sports, in which each starts the game.
One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.
Half of a standard measure, chiefly:
half a pint of beer or cider. (Refusing a pint) Just a half, thank you. (Offering to top up a pint glass) Do you want a half in that? (Minimizing the amount of drink taken) A swift half at the Pear Tree.
Half of a standard measure, chiefly:
A barrel measure of 27 gallons (half a hogshead).
The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2.
Any of the three terms at Eton College, for Michaelmas, Lent, and summer.
A half sibling.
A child ticket. Two and a half to Paddington.
abbreviated form for half marathon.
Clipping of half-dollar.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
15579 | word:
half
word_type:
adj
expansion:
half (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English half, halfe from Old English healf (“half”); as a noun, 'half', 'side', 'part', from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz.
Cognates:
Akin to Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Dutch half, West Frisian heal, German halb, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian halv, Icelandic hálfur and Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍃 (halbs). Compare halve, behalf.
senses_examples:
text:
a half kilo
type:
example
text:
a half hour
type:
example
text:
a half dollar
type:
example
text:
a half truth
type:
example
text:
A half brother or half sister
type:
example
text:
A half uncle or half aunt or half cousin
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Consisting of a half (½, 50%).
Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect.
Having one parent (rather than two) in common.
Related through one common grandparent or ancestor rather than two.
senses_topics:
|
15580 | word:
half
word_type:
adv
expansion:
half (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English half, halfe from Old English healf (“half”); as a noun, 'half', 'side', 'part', from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz.
Cognates:
Akin to Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Dutch half, West Frisian heal, German halb, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian halv, Icelandic hálfur and Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍃 (halbs). Compare halve, behalf.
senses_examples:
text:
half-colored
type:
example
text:
half done
type:
example
text:
half persuaded
type:
example
text:
half conscious
type:
example
text:
He does sometimes half wish to change his life, but it is too difficult.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In two equal parts or to an equal degree.
In some part approximating a half.
Partially; imperfectly.
Practically, nearly.
senses_topics:
|
15581 | word:
half
word_type:
verb
expansion:
half (third-person singular simple present halves, present participle halving, simple past and past participle halved)
forms:
form:
halves
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
halving
tags:
participle
present
form:
halved
tags:
participle
past
form:
halved
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English half, halfe from Old English healf (“half”); as a noun, 'half', 'side', 'part', from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz.
Cognates:
Akin to Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Dutch half, West Frisian heal, German halb, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian halv, Icelandic hálfur and Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍃 (halbs). Compare halve, behalf.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To halve.
senses_topics:
|
15582 | word:
half
word_type:
prep
expansion:
half
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English half, halfe from Old English healf (“half”); as a noun, 'half', 'side', 'part', from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz.
Cognates:
Akin to Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Dutch half, West Frisian heal, German halb, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian halv, Icelandic hálfur and Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍃 (halbs). Compare halve, behalf.
senses_examples:
text:
The time is 9:30; it is half nine.
type:
example
text:
In some countries, "half seven" means 6:30.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Half past; a half-hour (30 minutes) after the last hour.
A half-hour to (preceding) the next hour.
senses_topics:
|
15583 | word:
half
word_type:
intj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English half, halfe from Old English healf (“half”); as a noun, 'half', 'side', 'part', from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz.
Cognates:
Akin to Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Dutch half, West Frisian heal, German halb, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian halv, Icelandic hálfur and Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍃 (halbs). Compare halve, behalf.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A call reminding performers that the performance will begin in thirty minutes.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
theater |
15584 | word:
autour
word_type:
noun
expansion:
autour (plural autours)
forms:
form:
autours
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
For truely men be to theym ſelues the autours of ſyn and damnation. God is neyther autour of ſynne, nor the cauſe of damnation.
ref:
1534, A Necessary Doctrine and Erudition for any Chrysten man, Set Furth by the Kynges Maiestye of Englande. ⁊c.
type:
quotation
text:
Fyrſt therfore to ſpeake of Spayne, ⁊ by the teſtimonie of oulde autours to declare the commodities therof: Plinie a graue ⁊ faythful autour, in the laſt boke ⁊ laſt chapiture of his natural hiſtory greatly commendynge Italy aboue al other contreys, giueth the ſecond prayſe vnto Spaine, aſwel for al ſuch thynges as in maner the heuen can geue ⁊ the earth brynge furth for the commoditie of this lyfe as alſo for the excellente wittes of men ⁊ Ciuile gouernaunce.
ref:
1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria, translated by Rycharde Eden, The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, London: […] Guilhelmi Powell
type:
quotation
text:
For the ſtyle is wont to be a certaine taken of the right autour (chiefly in ſome mens writings,) whereby we vſe often to try and diſcerne a true booke from a forged: as learned men haue done in Auſtin, Ierom, Ambroſe, Cyprian, Tertullian, and others. But herein the triall is the vnlikeneſſe of the ſtyle, betweene an autours owne worke and a baſtard fathered on him.
ref:
1588, The Summe of the Conference betweene Iohn Rainoldes and Iohn Hart: Touching the Head and the Faith of the Church, London: […] George Bishop, page 438
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of author.
senses_topics:
|
15585 | word:
isn't
word_type:
verb
expansion:
isn't
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From is + -n't.
senses_examples:
text:
As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
ref:
2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of is not. (negative auxiliary)
senses_topics:
|
15586 | word:
isn't
word_type:
noun
expansion:
isn't (plural isn'ts)
forms:
form:
isn'ts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From is + -n't.
senses_examples:
text:
The most obvious recommendations for Joe Biden are a succession of “isn’ts.” He isn’t Donald Trump. He isn’t Bernie Sanders. He isn’t angry, bigoted, cruel, demagogic, erratic, frightening or gross. He isn’t going to drive Americans to distraction or the country into a ditch.
ref:
2020 August 17, Bret Stephens, “On Being a Biden Conservative”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something or someone that is defined by the lack of the characteristic being discussed.
senses_topics:
|
15587 | word:
nonagon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nonagon (plural nonagons)
forms:
form:
nonagons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From nona- + -gon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A polygon with nine sides and nine angles; an enneagon.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
15588 | word:
horny
word_type:
adj
expansion:
horny (comparative hornier, superlative horniest)
forms:
form:
hornier
tags:
comparative
form:
horniest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English horny, equivalent to horn + -y. Compare German hornig. Compare also Dutch hoornachtig, Swedish hornaktig, Old English hyrniġ (“angular”).
senses_examples:
text:
Two Dwarfs were at the bellows, another was holding a piece of red-hot metal on the anvil with a pair of tongs, a fourth was hammering it, and two, wiping their horny little hands on a greasy cloth, were coming forward to meet the visitors.
ref:
1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998, Chapter 6
type:
quotation
text:
In 1997, 4th and 5th grade Waterville Elementary students told me they saw Short-horned lizards (commonly known as Horny toads) all around their area.
ref:
2006 January 24, Karen M. Dvornich, “Short-horned Lizard”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2010-10-28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.
Having the hard consistency and pale colour of an animal's horn.
Having horns.
senses_topics:
|
15589 | word:
horny
word_type:
adj
expansion:
horny (comparative hornier, superlative horniest)
forms:
form:
hornier
tags:
comparative
form:
horniest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the phrase "having the horn", and similar phrases which were used to refer to male sexual arousal in the 18th century, later abbreviated to horn (a hard projection) + -y (having the quality of); initially this referred to physical sexual response in males (the male erection being analogized as a "horn"), yet later was semantically generalized to refer not only to sexual arousal but also to sexual desire in both males and females.
senses_examples:
text:
Ain’t that the horny bitch that was grindin with the blind dude.
ref:
1971 October, Black World, page 65/1
type:
quotation
text:
As I turn the corner, starin' in your cornea / You're gettin' hornier and hornier
ref:
1993, “Back Seat (of My Jeep)”, in 14 Shots to the Dome, performed by LL Cool J
type:
quotation
text:
“Mrs. Fletcher,” the HBO mini-series about a middle-aged woman’s sexual reawakening, showcases a horny mom who can’t stop masturbating to pornography.
ref:
2019 December 13, Tracie Egan Morrissey, “The Year Women Got ‘Horny’”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
That we are horny creatures is proven by the fact that the invention of video calling found us already having sex over the phone.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
text:
It’s something of a cliché, at least among war correspondents, that war makes people unusually horny; what it actually does is make you want to touch as much flesh as you can get your hands on.
ref:
2014, David Burr Gerrard, Short Century
text:
Mark Corrigan: She [the dentist] should have to wear a mask for this kind of thing. Reagan or Batman or... actually she'd look pretty horny as Batman... Jesus, no, don't!
ref:
2003, Peep Show (TV series), Funeral (episode)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sexually aroused, with or without physical manifestation; experiencing a feeling of sexual desire.
Sexually arousing.
In a state of physical sexual arousal: experiencing tentigo, tumescence of the penis as a result of sexual arousal.
senses_topics:
|
15590 | word:
miner
word_type:
noun
expansion:
miner (plural miners)
forms:
form:
miners
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Miner (disambiguation)
miner
etymology_text:
From mine + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
The group of miners were stuck underground after a shaft caved in.
type:
example
text:
Hui from Lin’an—especially those from the village of Huilong—were famously skilled miners and traveled long distances to work mines throughout the province.
ref:
2005, David G. Atwill, “Shades of Islam: The Muslim Yunnanese”, in The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
ref:
2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: staker
text:
The move would have probably prevented Kazakhstan-based miners from accessing the bitcoin network.
ref:
2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who works in a mine.
An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.
Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency.
A person who mines cryptocurrency.
senses_topics:
business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance |
15591 | word:
miner
word_type:
noun
expansion:
miner (plural miners)
forms:
form:
miners
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Miner (disambiguation)
miner
etymology_text:
From myna.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.
senses_topics:
|
15592 | word:
achromatic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
achromatic (comparative more achromatic, superlative most achromatic)
forms:
form:
more achromatic
tags:
comparative
form:
most achromatic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀχρωμάτιστος (akhrōmátistos, “uncolored”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”), equivalent to a- + chromatic; compare French achromatique.
senses_examples:
text:
The lecture was achromatic; the speaker used politics to suppress the weight of his/her subject.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Free from color; transmitting light without color-related distortion.
Containing components such as achromatic lenses and prisms, designed to prevent color-related distortion.
Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid.
Having only the diatonic notes of the scale; not modified by accidentals.
Being achromatic in subject.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
biology
natural-sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
15593 | word:
coarse
word_type:
adj
expansion:
coarse (comparative coarser, superlative coarsest)
forms:
form:
coarser
tags:
comparative
form:
coarsest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
coarse
etymology_text:
Adjectival use of course that diverged in spelling in the 18th century. The sense developed from '(following) the usual course' (cf. of course) to 'ordinary, common' to 'lacking refinement', with 'not fine, granular' arising from its application to cloth. Compare the development of mean.
senses_examples:
text:
coarse sand
type:
example
text:
coarse manners
type:
example
text:
coarse language
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
With a rough texture; not smooth.
Composed of large particles.
Lacking refinement, taste or delicacy.
Unrefined.
Of inferior quality.
senses_topics:
|
15594 | word:
sunroof
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sunroof (plural sunroofs)
forms:
form:
sunroofs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From sun + roof.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fixed or operable opening in a vehicle roof (car or truck) which allows fresh air and/or light to enter the passenger compartment. A sunroof may include a transparent or opaque panel and may be manually operated or power driven.
senses_topics:
automotive
transport
vehicles |
15595 | word:
UV
word_type:
adj
expansion:
UV (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of ultraviolet.
senses_topics:
|
15596 | word:
UV
word_type:
noun
expansion:
UV (countable and uncountable, plural UVs)
forms:
form:
UVs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of ultraviolet.
Abbreviation of utility vehicle.
senses_topics:
|
15597 | word:
reptile
word_type:
noun
expansion:
reptile (plural reptiles)
forms:
form:
reptiles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
reptile
etymology_text:
From Middle English reptil, from Old French reptile, from Late Latin rēptile, neuter of reptilis (“creeping”), from Latin rēpō (“to creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *rep- (“to creep, slink”) (Pokorny; Watkins, 1969).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia; an amniote that is neither a synapsid nor a bird; excludes amphibians.
A reptile or amphibian.
A mean, grovelling, loathsome or repulsive person.
senses_topics:
|
15598 | word:
reptile
word_type:
adj
expansion:
reptile (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
reptile
etymology_text:
From Middle English reptil, from Old French reptile, from Late Latin rēptile, neuter of reptilis (“creeping”), from Latin rēpō (“to creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *rep- (“to creep, slink”) (Pokorny; Watkins, 1969).
senses_examples:
text:
a reptile race or crew reptile vices
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
Grovelling; low; vulgar.
senses_topics:
|
15599 | word:
Valletta
word_type:
name
expansion:
Valletta
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after Jean de Valette, a French nobleman and 49th Grand Master of the Order of Malta
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Malta.
senses_topics:
|
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