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15600 | word:
gaunt
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gaunt (comparative gaunter, superlative gauntest)
forms:
form:
gaunter
tags:
comparative
form:
gauntest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gawnt, gawnte (“lean, slender”), from Old French jaunet, probably from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source, related to Old Norse gandr (“magic staff, stick”), from Proto-Germanic *gandaz (“stick, staff”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to beat, hit, drive”).
Cognates:
Cognate with Icelandic gandur (“magic staff”), Norwegian gand (“tall pointed stick; tall, thin man”), Danish gand, gan, Norwegian gana (“cut-off tree limbs”), Bavarian Gunten (“a kind of wedge or peg”). Related also to Old English gūþ (“battle”), Latin dēfendō (“ward off, defend”). Compare also dialectal Swedish gank (“a lean, emaciated horse”).
senses_examples:
text:
Hanging from the beam,
Slowly swaying (such the law),
Gaunt the shadow on your green,
Shenandoah!
ref:
1866, Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, The Portent
type:
quotation
text:
A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a House-dog who was passing by.
ref:
1894, Joseph Jacobs, chapter 1, in The Fables of Aesop, archived from the original on 2011-02-28
type:
quotation
text:
Whatever the official cause of his is death is said to be—and Navalny, though gaunt, seemed in good spirits in a court hearing a day earlier—foreign leaders are rightly holding the Kremlin responsible.
ref:
2024 February 17, “The extraordinary courage of Alexei Navalny”, in FT Weekend, The FT View, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
The present stage of progress in Christian Science presents two opposite aspects, — a full-orbed promise, and a gaunt want.
ref:
1896, Mary Baker Eddy, “The Way”, in Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, page 355
type:
quotation
text:
Behind me, rose up, to an extraordinary height, gaunt, black cliffs.
ref:
1908, William Hope Hodgson, chapter 14, in The House on the Borderland, archived from the original on 2012-04-14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lean, angular, and bony.
Haggard, drawn, and emaciated.
Bleak, barren, and desolate.
senses_topics:
|
15601 | word:
Heimweh
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Heimweh (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German Heimweh.
senses_examples:
text:
For the long trail stretched before us, for we heard the call, / Left the hearthstone and the homeland, felt the rover's thrall; / Wandered to the far horizon, sought the joy of life— / Now the wanderlust is waning, heimweh now is rife.
ref:
1908 December 12, Harry Davids, Tom Springer, “Christmas Sorrows”, in Alfred Holman, editor, The Argonaut, volume LXIII, number 1655, San Francisco, Calif.: Argonaut Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 397, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Homesickness.
senses_topics:
|
15602 | word:
snowman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
snowman (plural snowmen)
forms:
form:
snowmen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
snowman
etymology_text:
* snow + -man.
* (score of eight; card ranked eight): A typical snowman, built from two balls of snow, resembles a figure eight.
senses_examples:
text:
[The Angels] dropped a snowman early on us [Saturday] and we built a snowman early too.
ref:
1996 June 3, Buster Olney, “Chat with Sparky helps 'useless' Johnson Dejected O's manager gets lift from ex-Tigers boss”, in The Baltimore Sun (quoting B. J. Surhoff)
type:
quotation
text:
"Then they dropped a snowman (8) on us and did it pretty quick," Narron said. "Then Stone had to stay out there and suck it up for us […]"
ref:
2005 June 26, Dayton Daily News, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
For me, another blow-up score of a snowman, 8, seems about right on this hole.
ref:
2018, Andre Huu, The Round of Your Life: A Book on Golf and Life, Archway Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: ice queen
text:
A few years ago there lived a lover
By the name of Jimmy Jones
Who really snowed the girls and left them cold
And gained the title of "The Great Snowman".
ref:
1961, John D. Loudermilk (lyrics and music), “The Great Snowman”
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).
A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).
A playing card with the rank of eight.
An attractive but heartless man.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
15603 | word:
Sehnsucht
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Sehnsucht (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Sehnsucht, from sehnen (“to long”) + Sucht (“anxiety; sickness; addiction”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tender, wistful, or melancholic desire; yearning, longing.
senses_topics:
|
15604 | word:
producer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
producer (plural producers)
forms:
form:
producers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:producer
etymology_text:
From produce + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
ref:
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An individual or organization that creates goods and services.
One who produces an artistic production, such as an album, a theater production, a film, a TV program, a video game, and so on.
An organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple molecules and an external source of energy.
An arrest for speeding after which the driver is allowed seven (in the UK) or ten (in Ireland) days to produce his/her driving licence and related documents at a police station.
A furnace for producing combustible gas for fuel.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
|
15605 | word:
management
word_type:
noun
expansion:
management (usually uncountable, plural managements)
forms:
form:
managements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From manage + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
Excellent time management helped her succeed in all facets of her life.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Administration; the use of limited resources combined with forecasting, planning, leadership and execution skills to achieve predetermined specific goals.
The executives of an organisation, especially senior executives.
Judicious use of means to accomplish an end.
senses_topics:
|
15606 | word:
BBS
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
BBS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of be back soon.
senses_topics:
|
15607 | word:
BBS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
BBS (countable and uncountable, plural BBSes or BBSs)
forms:
form:
BBSes
tags:
plural
form:
BBSs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Parallel to the emergence of text-based multiplayer games, though, was another kind of virtual community: Bulletin Boards (BBSs). BBSs were modems people could dial up to, connect with, and exchange software and messages with other members of the community. […] These BBSs, early frontier outposts of our virtual worlds, were John Lester’s first experience of a community outside the physical.
ref:
2007, Tim Guest, “Lester Prototype: The Beginning of Virtual Worlds”, in Second Lives: A Journey Through Virtual Worlds, London: Hutchinson, page 60
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of bulletin board system or bulletin board service.
Abbreviation of Bachelor of Business Studies.
Initialism of BIOS boot sequence.
Initialism of BIOS boot specification.
Initialism of Bardet-Biedl syndrome.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
education
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
medicine
sciences |
15608 | word:
married
word_type:
adj
expansion:
married (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English maried, imaried, mariet, past participle of Middle English marien (“to marry”), equivalent to marry + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
Are you married or single?
type:
example
text:
married to one's work
type:
example
text:
married to an idea
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a state of marriage; having a wife or a husband.
Showing commitment or devotion normally reserved for a spouse.
senses_topics:
|
15609 | word:
married
word_type:
verb
expansion:
married
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English maried, imaried, mariet, past participle of Middle English marien (“to marry”), equivalent to marry + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of marry
senses_topics:
|
15610 | word:
married
word_type:
noun
expansion:
married (plural marrieds)
forms:
form:
marrieds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English maried, imaried, mariet, past participle of Middle English marien (“to marry”), equivalent to marry + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
A perfect example is life insurance. Most people starting out don't need it; you should only insure what you can't afford to lose or replace, and singles or young marrieds without a lot of assets frequently don't require coverage.
ref:
2001, Charles A. Jaffe, The Right Way to Hire Financial Help, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A married person.
senses_topics:
|
15611 | word:
Drenthe
word_type:
name
expansion:
Drenthe
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Dutch Drenthe, see below.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province in the northeastern Netherlands with Assen as capital and Emmen as largest city.
senses_topics:
|
15612 | word:
template
word_type:
noun
expansion:
template (plural templates)
forms:
form:
templates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
template
etymology_text:
Alteration of templet, probably from French templet, diminutive of temple (“a weaver's stretcher”), variant of tempe, from Latin tempora (“temple”). Alteration of second syllable due to analogy with plate. Cognate with Faroese tamba (“to stretch out, relax”), Icelandic þamb (“a stretched, bloated, or extended belly”).
senses_examples:
text:
Classically, the functional product of coding genes is a protein whose synthesis is directed by an mRNA-template.
ref:
2002, S. Lottin et al., “Thioredoxin post-transcriptional regulation by H19 provides a new function to mRNA-like non-coding RNA”, in Nature, volume 21, number 10
type:
quotation
text:
A template is a blueprint or formula for creating a generic class or a function. “C++ Templates”, in tutorialspoint, 2016
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A physical object whose shape is used as a guide to make other objects.
A generic model or pattern from which other objects are based or derived.
A generic model or pattern from which other objects are based or derived.
document template (file with a basic outline for a work)
A macromolecule which provides a pattern for the synthesis of another molecule.
A partially defined class or function, that can be instantiated in a variety of ways depending on the instantiation arguments.
A strip of metal used in boiler-making, pierced with a series of holes, and serving as a guide in marking out a line of rivet-holes.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
15613 | word:
template
word_type:
verb
expansion:
template (third-person singular simple present templates, present participle templating, simple past and past participle templated)
forms:
form:
templates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
templating
tags:
participle
present
form:
templated
tags:
participle
past
form:
templated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
template
etymology_text:
Alteration of templet, probably from French templet, diminutive of temple (“a weaver's stretcher”), variant of tempe, from Latin tempora (“temple”). Alteration of second syllable due to analogy with plate. Cognate with Faroese tamba (“to stretch out, relax”), Icelandic þamb (“a stretched, bloated, or extended belly”).
senses_examples:
text:
Only that part of the floor timber that bears on the planking and keel need be templated; […]
ref:
1994, Howard I. Chapelle, Boatbuilding, page 368
type:
quotation
text:
Metal phosphates that are templated by transition-metal complexes are rare.
ref:
2003, Yu Wang et al., “Synthesis and characterization of a new layered gallium phosphate templated by cobalt complex”, in Journal of Solid State Chemistry, volume 170, number 1, →DOI
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To set up or mark off using a template.
To provide a template or pattern for.
To synthesize by means of a template.
senses_topics:
|
15614 | word:
barber
word_type:
noun
expansion:
barber (plural barbers)
forms:
form:
barbers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
barber
barber (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
PIE word
*bʰardʰéh₂
From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba.
senses_examples:
text:
There's also a barber's shop and that staple of railway stations up and down the UK - a WH Smith.
ref:
2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in RAIL, number 948, page 27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards.
A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, especially one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; so named from the cutting ice spicules.
senses_topics:
|
15615 | word:
barber
word_type:
verb
expansion:
barber (third-person singular simple present barbers, present participle barbering, simple past and past participle barbered)
forms:
form:
barbers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
barbering
tags:
participle
present
form:
barbered
tags:
participle
past
form:
barbered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
barber (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
PIE word
*bʰardʰéh₂
From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba.
senses_examples:
text:
‘I shouldn't ought to barber with you. But when I like a guy, the ceiling's the limit.’
ref:
1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut the hair or beard of (a person).
To chatter, talk.
senses_topics:
|
15616 | word:
gauntlet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gauntlet (plural gauntlets)
forms:
form:
gauntlets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
gauntlet
etymology_text:
From Middle English gauntelett, gantlett, a borrowing from Old French gantelet (“gauntlet worn by a knight in armor, a token of one's personality or person, and symbolizing a challenge”), diminutive of gant (“glove”), a borrowing from Frankish *want (“glove; mitten”) and reinforced by Medieval Latin wantus (“glove”) itself borrowed from the former, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove; mitten”). Cognate with Dutch want (“mitten; shroud”), German Low German Want (“shroud”), Danish vante (“mitten”), Swedish vante (“glove; mitten”), Faroese vøttur (“glove; mitten”).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: manifer
text:
The hands were defended by Gauntlets, these were sometimes of chain mail, but oftener of small plates of iron rivetted together, in imitation of the lobster's tail, so as to yield every motion of the hand, some gauntlets inclosed the whole hand, as in a box or case, others were divided into fingers, each finger consisting of eight or ten separate pieces, the inside gloved with buff leather, some of these reached no higher than the wrist, others to the elbow; the latter were stiled long armed gauntlets: many of them are to be seen in the Tower; for a representation of one of them, see plate 26, fig 6.
ref:
1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, pages 22–23
type:
quotation
text:
Solventproof rubber gauntlets under solventproof sleeves closed at the wrists should be worn.
ref:
1969, Lance William DeStwolinski, Occupational Health in the Construction Industry, page 235
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat.
A long glove covering the wrist.
A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
An eruption of pellagra on the hands.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
medicine
sciences |
15617 | word:
gauntlet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gauntlet (plural gauntlets)
forms:
form:
gauntlets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Gauntlet track
gauntlet
etymology_text:
Modified, under the influence of etymology 1, from gantlope, from Swedish gatlopp (“passageway”), from Old Swedish gata (“lane”) + lopp (“course”), from löpa (“to run”)
]
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Two parallel rows of attackers who strike at a criminal as punishment.
A simultaneous attack from two or more sides.
Any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal, often one performed for atonement or punishment.
Overlapping parallel rail tracks; either to allowing passage through a narrow opening in each direction without switching, or to allow vehicles of a larger gauge to pass through a station without hitting the platforms.
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport |
15618 | word:
hippopotamus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hippopotamus (plural hippopotami or hippopotamuses or hippopotamus)
forms:
form:
hippopotami
tags:
plural
form:
hippopotamuses
tags:
plural
form:
hippopotamus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hippopotamus
etymology_text:
From Latin and New Latin hippopotamus, from Ancient Greek ἱπποπόταμος (hippopótamos), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) (English hippo-) + ποταμός (potamós, “river”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large, semi-aquatic, herbivorous (plant-eating) African mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius; common hippopotamus).
Any similar animal of the family Hippopotamidae.
senses_topics:
|
15619 | word:
Welt
word_type:
name
expansion:
Welt (plural Welts)
forms:
form:
Welts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Welt.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname from German.
senses_topics:
|
15620 | word:
scanner
word_type:
noun
expansion:
scanner (plural scanners)
forms:
form:
scanners
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
scanner
etymology_text:
From scan + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
He put the picture in the scanner, then e-mailed a copy of it to his family.
type:
example
text:
Chorban: I'm using a small scanner to gather readings on the keepers.
Chorban: So far, I've had mixed results. I find it difficult to get near the creatures.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium.
A device which scans barcodes or QR codes for the purpose of charging a customer, performing a price check or enquiry, printing a price label or sticker, checking an item in or out of the store or warehouse, or finding an item ordered through click and collect and its corresponding location; a pricing gun or HHT.
A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal.
A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes.
A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode).
One who scans.
senses_topics:
|
15621 | word:
Flevoland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Flevoland
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of the Netherlands.
senses_topics:
|
15622 | word:
yaw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yaw (plural yaws)
forms:
form:
yaws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
yaw
etymology_text:
Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century. Perhaps related to yar (“quick, agile”), or alternatively from Old Norse jaga (“to chase, drive, move back and forth”), from Middle Low German jagen (“to hunt, chase, pursue”), from Old Saxon *jagōn, from Proto-West Germanic *jagōn, from Proto-Germanic *jakkōną (“to hunt”).
senses_examples:
text:
the yaw of an aircraft
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
|
15623 | word:
yaw
word_type:
verb
expansion:
yaw (third-person singular simple present yaws, present participle yawing, simple past and past participle yawed)
forms:
form:
yaws
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
yawing
tags:
participle
present
form:
yawed
tags:
participle
past
form:
yawed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century. Perhaps related to yar (“quick, agile”), or alternatively from Old Norse jaga (“to chase, drive, move back and forth”), from Middle Low German jagen (“to hunt, chase, pursue”), from Old Saxon *jagōn, from Proto-West Germanic *jagōn, from Proto-Germanic *jakkōną (“to hunt”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
To swerve off course to port or starboard.
To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
|
15624 | word:
yaw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yaw (plural yaws)
forms:
form:
yaws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Sometimes there remains one large Yaw, high and knobbed, red and moist; this is called the master Yaw; […]
ref:
1770, William Northcote, The Marine Practice of Physic and Surgery, page 408
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
senses_topics:
|
15625 | word:
hoarse
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hoarse (comparative hoarser, superlative hoarsest)
forms:
form:
hoarser
tags:
comparative
form:
hoarsest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hors, hos, from Old English hās, *hārs, from Proto-Germanic *haisaz, *haisraz, akin to Old Norse háss (West Norse) and heiss (East Norse) (whence Icelandic hás, Norwegian Nynorsk hås, Norwegian Bokmål hes and Swedish hes).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a dry, harsh tone to the voice, as a result of a sore throat, age, emotion, etc.
senses_topics:
|
15626 | word:
hoarse
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hoarse (third-person singular simple present hoarses, present participle hoarsing, simple past and past participle hoarsed)
forms:
form:
hoarses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hoarsing
tags:
participle
present
form:
hoarsed
tags:
participle
past
form:
hoarsed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hors, hos, from Old English hās, *hārs, from Proto-Germanic *haisaz, *haisraz, akin to Old Norse háss (West Norse) and heiss (East Norse) (whence Icelandic hás, Norwegian Nynorsk hås, Norwegian Bokmål hes and Swedish hes).
senses_examples:
text:
"[...] Madame! Is—that—your—horse?!"
"Ain't no horse!" she hoarses. "Thassa thuruly bred Great Dane!" The thuruly bred Great Dane's balls shine like big , bald onions as he squeezes to deposit 4 1⁄2 pounds of vitamin - enriched apcray near the lamp-post.
ref:
1980, Leo Rosten, King Silky!, HarperCollins Children's Books
type:
quotation
text:
"See anything, mum?" she hoarsed. “No—I think it's lower down. Go back to bed, Jane. I'm sure there's nothing to worry about. Someone's forgotten something, that's all.” She wanted to get rid of Jane without knowing exactly.
ref:
2022 August 1, J. Jefferson Farjeon, Back to Victoria, DigiCat
type:
quotation
text:
"Helene," he croaked, reaching out his arms—his voice tensed with the infinity of his desire. "Back," she iced. And then, "Why have you come here?" she hoarsed. "What business have you here?"
ref:
2022 September 16, Stephen Leacock, Further Foolishness, DigiCat
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To utter hoarsely; to croak.
senses_topics:
|
15627 | word:
hoarse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hoarse (plural hoarses)
forms:
form:
hoarses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The 15. 3 mo. 1668 - An act maid in a Towne Meting to provent hoarses and meares from doinge damage, as foloeth. All such hoarses and meares, as comonly kepes about the towne, or in the towne stretes, or comonly doth goe in to the towne neck, […]
ref:
1668, act, quoted in 1912, Sandwich and Bourne, Colony and Town Records, page 20
text:
[…] we got in to Town after Dark on the 18th I staid in Town Mr. Newnon's hoarse got Lame and him & I swapt'd hoarses and Drank whiskey on the 19th he Started home I staid in Town Expecting some intillegence from Mr.Taylor on the 20th we made a Party and went to the Paths and Run every turkey in […]
ref:
, quoted in 1934, The North Carolina Historical Review (and also in 1981, Doris Cline Ward, Charles D. Biddix, The Heritage of Old Buncombe County)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of horse.
senses_topics:
|
15628 | word:
ignominious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ignominious (comparative more ignominious, superlative most ignominious)
forms:
form:
more ignominious
tags:
comparative
form:
most ignominious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French or Old French ignominieux, from Latin ignōminiōsus (“disgraceful”), from ignōminia (“loss of a good name, ignominy”), from ig- (“not”) + nomen (“name”) (prefix assimilated form of in-). By surface analysis, ignominy + -ious.
senses_examples:
text:
The time when the pseudovirtuous men and women die a painful and ignominious death has yet to come.
type:
example
text:
And it came to pass that they took him; and his name was Nehor; and they carried him upon the top of the hill Manti, and there he was caused, or rather did acknowledge, between the heavens and the earth, that what he had taught to the people was contrary to the word of God; and there he suffered an ignominious death.
ref:
1830, The Book of Mormon
type:
quotation
text:
Greene died of a debauch; and Marlowe, the gracer of tragedians, perished in an ignominious brawl.
ref:
1902, Thomas Ebenezer Webb, The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence, page 242
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Marked by great disgrace, dishonour, humiliation, or shame; disgraceful, shameful.
senses_topics:
|
15629 | word:
demo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
demo (plural demos)
forms:
form:
demos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
demo
etymology_text:
Clipping of demonstration and various other words beginning with "demo-".
senses_examples:
text:
The professor prepared a demo to help her class understand the topic.
type:
example
text:
ER received the first of its own HSTs on September 7 1977, with a handover taking place at York. It then worked a demo run to Darlington with power cars 43057 and 43056.
ref:
2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Traction transition: HST to Azuma”, in Rail, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
After hearing the demo the record label approved funding to record the song with a full band.
type:
example
text:
Elli standing there, takes a sip of her tea, fixes hostile eyes on Somraj and says, ‘Well, what are you waiting for? You signed the petition against yourself, will you now join our demo against you?’
ref:
2007, Indra Sinha, Animal's People, Simon and Schuster
type:
quotation
text:
The game's developers released a demo version to the public 3 months before the full release.
type:
example
text:
Effect 6: Gouraud spacecut - Probably the worst effect in the demo - has been done miles better before!
ref:
1995, dro...@vnet.ibm.com, “Demo review - Killing time by oxyron”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
This party will have it all for the Amiga scener: demos, competitions, dealers, and huge projection screen and sound system to entertain you.
ref:
1996, John Bus, “Amiga Domain - An Aussie Scene Party!”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Though the idea of procedural textures has been around for years, they have primarily been exploited by the demo scene, made famous by impressive demos like kkrieger, and haven't hit it big in the game industry yet[…]
ref:
2007, Game Face, numbers 21-25
type:
quotation
text:
A very successful PC demo from 1993, Second Reality from Future Crew[…]
ref:
2008, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1
type:
quotation
text:
No more ‘is it good?’ or even ‘is it original?’, only ‘does it work in the demo?’ – ‘demo’ as in ‘demographics’, not to be confused with ‘democracy’, much less ‘demonstration’.
ref:
2000 September 21, Hal Foster, “Slumming with Rappers at the Roxy”, in London Review of Books, volume 22, number 18, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Our target demo is sports-minded families, and a good part of our clientele is moms who are with dad and the kids.
ref:
2005, Market Watch, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
Where taste communities and Nielsen demos differ is in the way they’re used. Demo ratings are how linear networks measure success; taste communities are the tool Netflix relies on to drive viewers to new material it estimates they might want to watch.
ref:
2018 June 11, Josef Adalian, “Inside the Binge Factory”, in New York Magazine
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A demonstration or visual explanation.
A recording of a song meant to demonstrate its overall sound for the purpose of getting it published or recorded more fully.
An example of a product used for demonstration and then sold at a discount.
A march or gathering to make a political protest.
An edition of limited functionality to give the user an example of how the program works.
A non-interactive audiovisual computer program developed by enthusiasts to demonstrate the capabilities of the machine. See demoscene.
A democrat.
A demographic group.
Demolition.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
15630 | word:
demo
word_type:
adj
expansion:
demo (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
demo
etymology_text:
Clipping of demonstration and various other words beginning with "demo-".
senses_examples:
text:
This Nutty Kid leavin' 'Crazy Face Selfies' On Demo Products...
ref:
December 21, 2022, u/[deleted], Reddit r/peopleofwalmart
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
designed to test consumers' interest in a retail item prior to purchasing.
senses_topics:
|
15631 | word:
demo
word_type:
verb
expansion:
demo (third-person singular simple present demos, present participle demoing, simple past and past participle demoed)
forms:
form:
demos
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
demoing
tags:
participle
present
form:
demoed
tags:
participle
past
form:
demoed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
demo
etymology_text:
Clipping of demonstrate.
senses_examples:
text:
The band demoed thirty songs. Their manager thought that ten of the songs would make a good record.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To record a demo version of a song, usually not intended for commercial release.
To demonstrate.
senses_topics:
|
15632 | word:
demo
word_type:
verb
expansion:
demo (third-person singular simple present demos, present participle demoing, simple past and past participle demoed)
forms:
form:
demos
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
demoing
tags:
participle
present
form:
demoed
tags:
participle
past
form:
demoed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
demo
etymology_text:
Clipping of demolish.
senses_examples:
text:
This means we are going to demo the house to the dirt, or hopefully leave one wall standing.
ref:
2004 June 29, Sonja, Salvage Materials before Demolition of House, quoted in The Owner-Builder Book: Construction Bargain Strategies →ISBN, page 336
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To demolish (especially a house or fixture).
senses_topics:
|
15633 | word:
myxomatosis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
myxomatosis (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
myxomatosis
etymology_text:
From myxoma.
senses_examples:
text:
“A lot of factors have contributed to the rabbit population explosion: there was the pandemic, when no one could hunt for two years; they’ve become immune to myxomatosis; and the female can produce seven or eight offspring every two months,” Foix says.
ref:
2023 April 24, Stephen Burgen, “Catalonia’s farmers face threat of drought … and a plague of hungry rabbits”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A usually fatal viral disease of rabbits, causing skin tumors.
A condition characterized by the growth of many myxomata (tumors of primitive connective tissue).
senses_topics:
|
15634 | word:
barrow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
barrow (plural barrows)
forms:
form:
barrows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
barrow
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English berwe, bergh, from Old English beorg (“mountain, hill, mound, barrow, burial place”), from Proto-West Germanic *berg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰos, from *bʰerǵʰ-. Cognate with Scots burrow (“mound, tumulus, barrow”), Saterland Frisian Bäirch, Bierich (“mountain”), West Frisian berch (“mountain”), Dutch berg (“mountain”), Low German Barg (“mountain”), German Berg (“mountain”), Danish bjerg (“mountain”), Swedish berg (“mountain”), Norwegian berg (“rock, mountain, hillock, rock bottom”), Icelandic berg (“mountain”), bjarg (“rock”), Northern Luri برگ (berg, “mountain,hill”), Polish brzeg (“bank, shore”), Russian бе́рег (béreg, “bank, shore, land”).
senses_examples:
text:
Meronym: dolmen
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mountain.
A hill.
A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
15635 | word:
barrow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
barrow (plural barrows)
forms:
form:
barrows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
barrow
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English barowe, barwe, barewe, from Old English bearwe (“basket, handbarrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *barwā, *barwijā, from Proto-Germanic *barwǭ, *barwijǭ (“stretcher, bier”) (compare Low German Berwe, Old Norse barar (plural), Middle High German radebere (“wheelbarrow”)), from *beraną (“to bear”). More at bear.
senses_examples:
text:
In contrast, the Westminster Gazette in 1912 was much more positive about railway staff, praising the "...army of porters hustling and bustling hither and thither with barrows groaning under the weight of bags and baggage and... the ever-patient and long-suffering guards, courteously giving information and advice to the querulous passengers... to the porter the Christmas season means a continuous round of heavy labour, extremely tiring to both nerves and temper, and this fact the public too often seem either to forget or ignore."
ref:
2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
senses_topics:
|
15636 | word:
barrow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
barrow (plural barrows)
forms:
form:
barrows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
barrow
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English barow, bareȝ, bareh, from Old English bearg, bearh (“boar”), from Proto-West Germanic *barug, *barah, from Proto-Germanic *barugaz, *barahaz. Cognate with Old Frisian barch, Old Saxon barug, Old High German barug (German Borg), Old Norse bǫrgr.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A castrated boar.
senses_topics:
|
15637 | word:
barrow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
barrow (plural barrows)
forms:
form:
barrows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
barrow
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English *berwe, *borwe, *bergh (attested in hamberwe and berwham (“horse-collar”)), from Middle English berwen (“to protect”), from Old English beorgan (“to protect”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
senses_topics:
|
15638 | word:
well
word_type:
adv
expansion:
well (comparative better, superlative best)
forms:
form:
better
tags:
comparative
form:
best
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wel, wal, wol, wele, from Old English wel (“well, abundantly, very, very easily, very much, fully, quite, nearly”), from Proto-Germanic *wela, *wala (“well”, literally “as wished, as desired”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“wish, desire”).
Cognate with Scots wele, weil (“well”), North Frisian wel, weil, wal (“well”), West Frisian wol (“well”), Dutch wel (“well”), Low German wol (“well”), German wol, wohl (“well”), Norwegian and Danish vel (“well”), Swedish väl (“well”), Icelandic vel, val (“well”). Related to will.
senses_examples:
text:
He does his job well.
type:
example
text:
In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
ref:
1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page 266
type:
quotation
text:
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
This day is not going well.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
a well done steak
type:
example
text:
We’re well beat now.
type:
example
text:
That author is well known.
type:
example
text:
A monument well worth seeing
type:
example
text:
Indeed, some readers may feel that I am beating a horse now already well dead. But in fact, that dead horse is still being driven daily through the pages of introductory textbooks.
ref:
1995 Feb, Luke Timothy Johnson, “The New Testament and the examined life: Thoughts on teaching”, in The Christian Century, volume 112, number 4, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
Energy markets demonstrated in the 1970s and 1980s that they were well capable of adapting to a perceived scarcity.
ref:
2000, Colin Robinson, “Energy Economists and Economic Liberalism”, in Energy Journal, volume 21, number 2, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
neither of us was paying attention to any damn imaginary scoring judges -- we were both well content, if a little fatigued.
ref:
2006, Spider Robinson, Callahan's legacy
type:
quotation
text:
That guy rocks! I think he's called Matthew Lillard or sommat but he is well cool in Scream.
ref:
1999, Drummond Pearson, “What Ash are doing right now...”, in alt.music.ash (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Hey Dude / FIFA 2003 is well wicked, I've got FIFA 2002 on PS2, David Beckham on Xbox and Football Manager on Xbox too, out of all pf them FIFA 2003 is easliy the best.
ref:
2002, jibaili, “FIFA 2003 How is it?”, in microsoft.public.xbox (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Hey, you should've seen it, it was well good.
ref:
2003, Steve Eddy, Empower, Book 2
type:
quotation
text:
I'm glad Joe got fired last week. I think we're well rid of him.
type:
example
text:
October 10, 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Joseph Addison
All the world speaks well of you.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
Completely, fully.
To a significant degree.
Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
senses_topics:
manner
manner
|
15639 | word:
well
word_type:
adj
expansion:
well (comparative better or weller, superlative best or wellest)
forms:
form:
better
tags:
comparative
form:
weller
tags:
comparative
form:
best
tags:
superlative
form:
wellest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wel, wal, wol, wele, from Old English wel (“well, abundantly, very, very easily, very much, fully, quite, nearly”), from Proto-Germanic *wela, *wala (“well”, literally “as wished, as desired”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“wish, desire”).
Cognate with Scots wele, weil (“well”), North Frisian wel, weil, wal (“well”), West Frisian wol (“well”), Dutch wel (“well”), Low German wol (“well”), German wol, wohl (“well”), Norwegian and Danish vel (“well”), Swedish väl (“well”), Icelandic vel, val (“well”). Related to will.
senses_examples:
text:
I had been sick, but now I'm well.
type:
example
text:
Mr. Peng said that the world-famous scientist, Sven Hedin, was kidnapped by troops under General Ma in south Sinkiang, but was released later, and is believed to be safe and well at Akosu.
ref:
1934 July 14, “Sinkiang Chief Predicts Early Suppression of Rebels”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 69, number 7, →OCLC, page 257
type:
quotation
text:
“How are you?” — “I'm well, thank you!”
type:
example
text:
In this respect it would be well for you to depart from the standard format and to indicate why you did what you did.
ref:
2014, Tom Mitchell, Assoc. Prof., “Psych 308/309 GUIDE FOR WRITING PROJECT REPORT”, in Academic website, archived from the original on 2014-12-04
type:
quotation
text:
When executing bone scan protocols, it is well for one to be aware of how key deviations from optimal technique can degrade image quality.
ref:
2004 September 1, Sleiman Y. Naddaf, MD with B. David Collier, MD, Abdelhamid H. Elgazzar, MD, and Magdy M. Khalil, MSc, “Technical Errors in Planar Bone Scanning”, in Kathy S. Thomas, editor, Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology, volume 32, number 3, Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, archived from the original on 2021-04-23, page 149
type:
quotation
text:
On leaving the operating table it is well to put the patient in a bed previously warmed and supplied with hot cans.
ref:
1897, National Association of Railway Surgeons, Railway surgeon, page 191
type:
quotation
text:
This wahoo tastes val.
ref:
1984, Peter A. Smith, Fred M. Barritt, Bermewjan Vurds, Island Press
type:
quotation
text:
Drunk, like, a gallon of orange mindral. Tasted wel.
ref:
2013 September 5, James Burton, “Burton's Banter: Our rich dialogue — as moreish as a cold burr...”, in The Bermuda Sun, archived from the original on 2022-12-12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In good health.
Good, content.
Prudent; good; well-advised.
Good to eat; tasty, delicious.
senses_topics:
|
15640 | word:
well
word_type:
intj
expansion:
well
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wel, wal, wol, wele, from Old English wel (“well, abundantly, very, very easily, very much, fully, quite, nearly”), from Proto-Germanic *wela, *wala (“well”, literally “as wished, as desired”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“wish, desire”).
Cognate with Scots wele, weil (“well”), North Frisian wel, weil, wal (“well”), West Frisian wol (“well”), Dutch wel (“well”), Low German wol (“well”), German wol, wohl (“well”), Norwegian and Danish vel (“well”), Swedish väl (“well”), Icelandic vel, val (“well”). Related to will.
senses_examples:
text:
“The car is broken.” “Well, we could walk to the movies instead.”
type:
example
text:
“I didn't like the music.” “Well, I thought it was good.”
type:
example
text:
I forgot to pack the tent! Well, I guess we’re sleeping under the stars tonight.
type:
example
text:
If gold pleased the conqueror, well,
That gold should be the one thing
The conqueror henceforth should lack.
ref:
1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range
type:
quotation
text:
Well, well, well, what do we have here?
type:
example
text:
Well! There was no need to say that in front of my mother!
type:
example
text:
It was a bit... well... too loud.
type:
example
text:
“So what have you been doing?” “Well, we went for a picnic, and then it started raining so we came home early.”
type:
example
text:
Well, I am sorry. — It’s okay, Anna.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Well lads. How's things?
type:
example
text:
And what do you think you're doing? ...Well?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
An exclamation of indignance.
Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
Used as a greeting, short for "Are you well?"
Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
senses_topics:
|
15641 | word:
well
word_type:
noun
expansion:
well (plural wells)
forms:
form:
wells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
well
etymology_text:
From Middle English welle, from Old English wielle (“well”), from Proto-Germanic *wallijǭ (“well, swirl, wave”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn; wind; roll”).
Cognate with West Frisian wel (“well”), Dutch wel (“well”), German Low German Well (“well”), German Welle (“wave”), Danish væld (“well; spring”), Swedish väl (“well”), Icelandic vella (“boiling; bubbling; eruption”).
senses_examples:
text:
Make a well in the dough mixture and pour in the milk.
type:
example
text:
They're having a special tonight: $1 wells.
type:
example
text:
Tetris, the most widely played computer game of all time, is a problem-solving puzzle game. […] The player attempts to lock the falling shape smoothly together with the shapes in the well.
ref:
2005, James Paul Gee, Why Video Games are Good for Your Soul
type:
quotation
text:
You can reposition the order of documents in the window by clicking and dragging the tabs, or you can drag a tab out of the well and view a document in its own floating window.
ref:
2011, Ted LoCascio, Using Adobe InDesign CS5, Enhanced Edition, pages 2-12
type:
quotation
text:
You should now have three documents open with their tabs showing in the tab well (this refers to the row of tabs for each open document in the editor), as shown in the following screenshot: […]
ref:
2016, Jeff Martin, Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
A source of supply.
A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
The cockpit of a sailboat.
A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
A well drink.
The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
The region of an interface that contains tabs.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
government
military
politics
war
architecture
arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
video-games
biology
natural-sciences
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15642 | word:
well
word_type:
verb
expansion:
well (third-person singular simple present wells, present participle welling, simple past and past participle welled)
forms:
form:
wells
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
welling
tags:
participle
present
form:
welled
tags:
participle
past
form:
welled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wellen, from a merger of Old English weallan (intransitive) and wiellan (transitive), both meaning “to boil.” Further from Proto-Germanic *wallaną and *wallijaną. Doublet of wall.
Cognate with German wallen (“boil, seethe”), Danish vælde (“gush”), Norwegian Nynorsk vella and outside Germanic, with Albanian valë (“hot, boiling”).
senses_examples:
text:
[Yon spring] wells softly forth.
ref:
1824, William Cullen Bryant, A Forest Hymn
type:
quotation
text:
Her eyes welled with tears.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
To have something seep out of the surface.
senses_topics:
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15643 | word:
included
word_type:
verb
expansion:
included
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of include
senses_topics:
|
15644 | word:
Vaduz
word_type:
name
expansion:
Vaduz
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Via Rhaeto-Romance auadutg from latin aquaeductus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town and municipality, the capital of Liechtenstein.
senses_topics:
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15645 | word:
ADN
word_type:
name
expansion:
ADN
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Advanced Digital Network.
Initialism of Alliance Defense Network.
senses_topics:
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15646 | word:
ADN
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ADN (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of ammonium dinitramide.
Initialism of application delivery network.
senses_topics:
|
15647 | word:
signal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
signal (plural signals)
forms:
form:
signals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French segnal, seignal or Medieval Latin signāle; noun use of the neuter of Late Latin signālis, from Latin signum; verb use from 1805, as a shortened from signalize (1650s).
senses_examples:
text:
My mobile phone can't get a signal in the railway station.
type:
example
text:
There was not the least signal of the calamity to be seen.
ref:
1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sequence of states representing an encoded message in a communication channel.
Any variation of a quantity or change in an entity over time that conveys information upon detection.
A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted action.
An on-off light, semaphore, or other device used to give an indication to another person.
An electromagnetic action, normally a voltage that is a function of time, that conveys the information of the radio or TV program or of communication with another party.
An action, change or process done to convey information and thus reduce uncertainty.
A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
Useful information, as opposed to noise.
A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.
A signalling interaction between cells
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephone
telephony
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
15648 | word:
signal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
signal (third-person singular simple present signals, present participle (UK) signalling or (US) signaling, simple past and past participle (UK) signalled or (US) signaled)
forms:
form:
signals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
signalling
tags:
UK
participle
present
form:
signaling
tags:
US
participle
present
form:
signalled
tags:
UK
participle
past
form:
signalled
tags:
UK
past
form:
signaled
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
signaled
tags:
US
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French segnal, seignal or Medieval Latin signāle; noun use of the neuter of Late Latin signālis, from Latin signum; verb use from 1805, as a shortened from signalize (1650s).
senses_examples:
text:
I signalled my acquiescence with a nod.
type:
example
text:
He whistled to signal that we should stop.
type:
example
text:
It is the latest step towards an airline-style advance booking-only system, which rail users have denounced as signalling the end of affordable, immediate travel.
ref:
2024 February 7, Mel Holley, “Network News: LNER ditches Off-Peak for 70min semi-flexible fare”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Seeing the flames, he ran to the control room and signalled headquarters.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To indicate; to convey or communicate by a signal.
To communicate with (a person or system) by a signal.
senses_topics:
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15649 | word:
signal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
signal (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French segnal, seignal or Medieval Latin signāle; noun use of the neuter of Late Latin signālis, from Latin signum; verb use from 1805, as a shortened from signalize (1650s).
senses_examples:
text:
a signal exploit; a signal success; a signal act of benevolence
text:
But, setting this view aside, dishonorable would it be in the South were she willing to abandon to shame the memory of brave men who with signal personal disinterestedness warred in her behalf, though from motives, as we believe, so deplorably astray.
ref:
1866, Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Supplement
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement.
senses_topics:
|
15650 | word:
two-faced
word_type:
adj
expansion:
two-faced (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From two + faced, modelled after earlier English twi-faced.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having two faces or plane surfaces.
Deceitful, duplicitous.
Hypocritical.
senses_topics:
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15651 | word:
simian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
simian (comparative more simian, superlative most simian)
forms:
form:
more simian
tags:
comparative
form:
most simian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin sīmia (“ape, monkey”), from Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “snub-nosed”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to apes and monkeys.
Bearing resemblance to an ape or monkey; apelike or monkeylike.
senses_topics:
|
15652 | word:
simian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
simian (plural simians)
forms:
form:
simians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin sīmia (“ape, monkey”), from Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “snub-nosed”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ape or monkey, especially an anthropoid (infraorder Simiiformes).
senses_topics:
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15653 | word:
scent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
scent (countable and uncountable, plural scents)
forms:
form:
scents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From c.1400, from Middle English sent (noun) and senten (verb), from Old French sentir (“to feel, perceive, smell”), from Old French sentire "to feel, perceive, sense", from Latin sentīre, present active infinitive of sentiō. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”), and thus related to Dutch zin (“sense, meaning”), German Sinn (“sense”), Low German Sinn (“sense”), Luxembourgish Sënn (“sense, perception”), Saterland Frisian Sin (“sense”), West Frisian sin (“sense”). The -c- appeared in the 17th century, possibly by influence of ascent, descent, etc., or by influence of science.
senses_examples:
text:
the scent of flowers / of a skunk
type:
example
text:
to give off / release / exude a scent
type:
example
text:
to breathe in / inhale a scent
type:
example
text:
Behind me the forest stood wrapped in mist, its scents still sleeping.
ref:
1973, Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills, New York: William Morrow, Book 3, p. 357
type:
quotation
text:
The air is thick with the unexpected scent of rain.
ref:
2014, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, chapter 32, in Dust, London: Granta Books, page 289
type:
quotation
text:
The dogs picked up / caught the scent but then quickly lost it.
type:
example
text:
I believe the bloodhound has the best scent of all dogs.
type:
example
text:
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring:
ref:
1759, Samuel Johnson, chapter 29, in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, Philadelphia: Robert Bell, published 1768, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
a scent shop
type:
example
text:
a scent bazaar
type:
example
text:
He took a clean handkerchief (a lovely one such as you couldn’t buy today) out of the little left-hand drawer and put a few drops of scent on it.
ref:
1955, C. S. Lewis, chapter 6, in The Magician’s Nephew, New York: HarperCollins, published 2010
type:
quotation
text:
He went tripping away under a canvas umbrella, trailing the smell of cheap scent.
ref:
2014, Damon Galgut, chapter 6, in Arctic Summer, McClelland & Stewart, page 285
type:
quotation
text:
The minister's off-hand remark put journalists on the scent of a cover-up.
type:
example
text:
The tip put the detectives on a false scent / the wrong scent.
type:
example
text:
to pick up a scent / get scent of something ― discover one of a series of clues in the trail of evidence
type:
example
text:
to throw / put someone off the scent ― distract them from following the trail of evidence
type:
example
text:
Gullivant had to be firmly identified with Compton, the convict, in such a way as to bring the police hot on the scent.
ref:
1926, Nevil Shute, chapter 3, in Marazan, London: Cassell
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A distinctive smell.
A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
The sense of smell.
A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.
Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
Sense, perception.
senses_topics:
|
15654 | word:
scent
word_type:
verb
expansion:
scent (third-person singular simple present scents, present participle scenting, simple past and past participle scented)
forms:
form:
scents
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
scenting
tags:
participle
present
form:
scented
tags:
participle
past
form:
scented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From c.1400, from Middle English sent (noun) and senten (verb), from Old French sentir (“to feel, perceive, smell”), from Old French sentire "to feel, perceive, sense", from Latin sentīre, present active infinitive of sentiō. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”), and thus related to Dutch zin (“sense, meaning”), German Sinn (“sense”), Low German Sinn (“sense”), Luxembourgish Sënn (“sense, perception”), Saterland Frisian Sin (“sense”), West Frisian sin (“sense”). The -c- appeared in the 17th century, possibly by influence of ascent, descent, etc., or by influence of science.
senses_examples:
text:
The hounds scented the fox in the woods.
type:
example
text:
if she had scented danger in the air, as a dog scents the presence of some creature unseen, her alarm could not have displayed itself more suddenly
ref:
1860, Wilkie Collins, “The Woman in White”, in London, volume 3, Sampson Low, Son, & Co., page 334
type:
quotation
text:
Why, Maggie could scent a fire before it started, almost.
ref:
1988, Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons, Penguin, Part 3, Chapter 2, p. 279
type:
quotation
text:
I paused to scent the breeze as I entered the valley.
ref:
1899, W. E. B. Du Bois, “A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 83, page 103
type:
quotation
text:
One night he sprang from sleep with a start, eager-eyed, nostrils quivering and scenting,
ref:
1903, Jack London, chapter 7, in The Call of the Wild, New York: Macmillan, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
I scented trouble when I saw them running down the hill towards me.
type:
example
text:
Cope seemed to scent a challenge and accepted it.
ref:
1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 11, in Bertram Cope’s Year, Chicago: R.F. Seymour, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
A mysterious scene to me then—yet I scented that there was something momentous about it, though I could not tell what.
ref:
1978, Lawrence Durrell, chapter 1, in Livia, London: Faber and Faber, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
Scent the air with burning sage before you begin your meditation.
type:
example
text:
Balm, from a Silver box distill’d around, / Shall all bedew the roots and scent the sacred ground;
ref:
1685, John Dryden, “The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus”, in Sylvæ, or, The Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies, London: Jacob Tonson, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
[Vanilla pods] have a fat rich aromatic taste, and most agreeable flavour; on which account they are used to scent the chocolate.
ref:
1796, John Gabriel Stedman, chapter 25, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition, volume 2, London: J. Johnson & J. Edwards, page 235
type:
quotation
text:
You adorn yourself and scent yourself and sit with him in a comfortable way
ref:
1999, Ahdaf Soueif, chapter 18, in The Map of Love, London: Bloomsbury, page 300
type:
quotation
text:
1647, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, The False One, Act III, Scene 2, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, London: John Martyn et al., p. 325,
I smell him now: fie, how the Knave perfumes him, / How strong he scents of Traitor?
text:
though praying for a wounded Conscience may seemingly scent of pretended humility, it doth really and rankly savour of pride,
ref:
1647, Thomas Fuller, The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience, London: John Williams, Dialogue 21, page 154
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.
To inhale in order to detect the scent of (something).
To have a suspicion of; to detect the possibility of (something).
To impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell.
To have a smell; (figuratively) to give an impression (of something).
To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
senses_topics:
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15655 | word:
frappe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
frappe (plural frappes)
forms:
form:
frappes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French frappé.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A liqueur or cocktail served on shaved ice.
A thick milkshake containing ice cream.
An iced, sweetened, beaten coffee drink, associated with Greek cuisine.
senses_topics:
|
15656 | word:
czar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
czar (plural czars)
forms:
form:
czars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See tsar. The spelling czar, the older spelling in English, comes from Sigismund von Herberstein's Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii ("Notes on Muscovite Affairs") of 1549. The alternative tsar began to replace it in the 19th century.
senses_examples:
text:
Note therfore that Czar in the Ruthens tounge signifieth a kynge, wheras in the language of the Slauons, Pollons, Bohemes, and other, the same woorde Czar, signifieth Cesar by whiche name Themperours haue byn commonly cauled.
ref:
1555, Peter Martyr d’Anghiera, translated by Richard Eden, The decades of the newe worlde or west India, London: William Powell, page 290
type:
quotation
text:
drug czar
type:
example
text:
cyberczar
type:
example
text:
The federal mental health czar is calling for more money to expand services to help people suffering amid the social isolation imposed by the coronavirus pandemic […]
ref:
2020 May 8, Jayne O'Donnell, “'Deaths of despair': Coronavirus pandemic could push suicide, drug deaths as high as 150k, study says”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 2020-05-09
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of tsar (especially common in American English)
An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area.
senses_topics:
government
politics |
15657 | word:
arc
word_type:
noun
expansion:
arc (plural arcs)
forms:
form:
arcs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English ark, from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos (“bow, arrow”). Doublet of arch, arco, and arrow.
senses_examples:
text:
For while most comics have designated entry points into the story in the form of arcs, Homestuck is one elaborate, self-referencing inside joke collapsed inside its own funhouse mirror reflection.
ref:
2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
For all practical purposes the old carbon arcs, which were the backbone of film lighting, are no longer used.
ref:
2012, Kris Malkiewicz, Film Lighting
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.
A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve.
A curve, in general.
A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.
A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning.
A story arc.
A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
A directed edge.
The three-point line.
An arclight.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
mathematics
sciences
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
broadcasting
film
media
television |
15658 | word:
arc
word_type:
verb
expansion:
arc (third-person singular simple present arcs, present participle arcing or arcking, simple past and past participle arced or arcked)
forms:
form:
arcs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
arcing
tags:
participle
present
form:
arcking
tags:
participle
present
form:
arced
tags:
participle
past
form:
arced
tags:
past
form:
arcked
tags:
participle
past
form:
arcked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English ark, from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos (“bow, arrow”). Doublet of arch, arco, and arrow.
senses_examples:
text:
A warring bloodhunter detected it and skillfully arced his sword through its spinal column before it could return to follow through with its attack.
ref:
2008, T. R. Elmore, Blood Ties Series, Volume 1, Tainted, Book 1, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
Gatland's side got back to within striking distance when fly-half Jones's clever pass sent centre Jonathan Davies arcing round Shontayne Hape.
ref:
2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
The big wheel in the sky
He arcs o'er miles and miles
ref:
2024, Patricia Taxxon (lyrics and music), “Big Wheel”, in Bicycle
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move following a curved path.
To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.
To form an electrical arc.
senses_topics:
|
15659 | word:
eel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eel (plural eels)
forms:
form:
eels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English el, from Old English ǣl (“eel”), from Proto-West Germanic *āl, from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz (“eel”), which is of unknown origin.
Cognates:
Cognate with West Frisian iel (“eel”), Dutch aal (“eel”), German Low German Aal, Ool (“eel”), German Aal (“eel”), Swedish, Danish and Norwegian ål (“eel”).
senses_examples:
text:
That Dennis is a right eel, he always seems to slip away from the scene at the right time.
type:
example
text:
His expression when incredulous. "Why would you think that?" He was a slippery little eel.
ref:
2003, Catherine Anderson, Only by Your Touch
type:
quotation
text:
Philosophers and literary critics from ancient times, along with social scientists, physicians, theologians, and biblical scholars more recently, have tried to get a tentative handle, if not a firm grasp, on this "slippery eel" of humor and laughter.
ref:
2004, F. Scott Spencer, Dancing Girls, Loose Ladies, and Women of the Cloth, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
John scowled after the dog. "Never fear, my lady. I shall get the sneaky, slippery eel yet."
ref:
2016, Jody Hedlund, Newton and Polly: A Novel of Amazing Grace, page 131
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
A European eel (Anguilla anguilla).
Someone or something that is sneaky and/or hard to catch.
senses_topics:
|
15660 | word:
eel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
eel (third-person singular simple present eels, present participle eeling, simple past and past participle eeled)
forms:
form:
eels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
eeling
tags:
participle
present
form:
eeled
tags:
participle
past
form:
eeled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English el, from Old English ǣl (“eel”), from Proto-West Germanic *āl, from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz (“eel”), which is of unknown origin.
Cognates:
Cognate with West Frisian iel (“eel”), Dutch aal (“eel”), German Low German Aal, Ool (“eel”), German Aal (“eel”), Swedish, Danish and Norwegian ål (“eel”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fish for eels.
To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.
senses_topics:
|
15661 | word:
perfume
word_type:
noun
expansion:
perfume (countable and uncountable, plural perfumes)
forms:
form:
perfumes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Perfume (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French parfum, perfum. Doublet of parfum.
senses_examples:
text:
The perfume industry is facing a major problem: maintaining constant levels of quality is crucial, but it is increasingly difficult to obtain a regular supply of all the necessary natural ingredients.
ref:
2014 March 7, Nicole Vulser, “Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 190, number 13, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor
A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.
senses_topics:
cosmetics
lifestyle |
15662 | word:
perfume
word_type:
verb
expansion:
perfume (third-person singular simple present perfumes, present participle perfuming, simple past and past participle perfumed)
forms:
form:
perfumes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
perfuming
tags:
participle
present
form:
perfumed
tags:
participle
past
form:
perfumed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Perfume (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French parfum, perfum. Doublet of parfum.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.
senses_topics:
|
15663 | word:
porcine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
porcine (comparative more porcine, superlative most porcine)
forms:
form:
more porcine
tags:
comparative
form:
most porcine
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English porcine, partly from Middle French porcin (from Old French [Term?]) and partly from its etymon, Latin porcīnus, from porcus (“pig”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to pigs.
Similar to a pig
Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; morbidly obese.
senses_topics:
|
15664 | word:
weak
word_type:
adj
expansion:
weak (comparative weaker, superlative weakest)
forms:
form:
weaker
tags:
comparative
form:
weakest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
weak
etymology_text:
From Middle English weyk, wayk, weik, waik, from Old Norse veikr (“weak”), from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz (“weak, yielded, pliant, bendsome”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, wind”).
Cognate with Old English wāc (“weak, bendsome”), Saterland Frisian wook (“soft, gentle, tender”), West Frisian weak (“soft”), Dutch week (“soft, weak”), German weich (“weak, soft”), Norwegian veik (“weak”), Swedish vek (“weak, pliant”), Icelandic veikur (“bendsome, weak”). Related to Old English wīcan (“to yield”). Doublet of week and wick.
senses_examples:
text:
The child was too weak to move the boulder.
type:
example
text:
They easily guessed his weak computer password.
type:
example
text:
a weak timber; a weak rope
type:
example
text:
weak resolutions; weak virtue
type:
example
text:
Guard thy heart / On this weak side, where most our nature fails.
ref:
1703, Nicholas Rowe, The Fair Penitent, act I, scene I
type:
quotation
text:
'Cause sugar pie, honey bunch
You know that I'm weak for you
Can't help myself
I love you and nobody else
ref:
2065 April 23, “I Can't Help Myself”, in Four Tops Second Album, performed by The Four Tops
type:
quotation
text:
It’s really good to hear your voice
Sayin' my name, it sounds so sweet
Comin' from the lips of an angel
Hearin' those words, it makes me weak
ref:
2006 April 3, “Lips Of An Angel”, in Extreme Behavior, performed by Hinder
type:
quotation
text:
We were served stale bread and weak tea.
type:
example
text:
a weak acid; a weak base
type:
example
text:
This place is weak.
type:
example
text:
The prosecution advanced a weak case.
type:
example
text:
a weak sentence; a weak style
type:
example
text:
a weak market; wheat is weak at present
type:
example
text:
a weak negative
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
Having a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such love.
Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:
Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense with -d- or -t-.
Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:
Showing less distinct grammatical endings.
Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:
Definite in meaning, often used with a definite article or similar word.
That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
Bad or uncool.
Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a strong statement which implies it.)
Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
Lacking in vigour or expression.
Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
Tending towards lower prices.
Lacking contrast.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
business
finance
stock-exchange
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography |
15665 | word:
los
word_type:
noun
expansion:
los (plural loses)
forms:
form:
loses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lusk, from Old English lox, from Proto-West Germanic *luhs, from Proto-Germanic *luhsaz. Cognate with Scots los, Saterland Frisian Luks, Low German Luks, Dutch los, German Luchs, Luxembourgish Luuss.
senses_examples:
text:
The los had been brought from a northern part of the United States.
type:
example
text:
A beaſt like unto a wolfe having many ſpottes, and being exceeding quicke of ſight: a wolfe like an hart, a Los or Lynx.
ref:
1592, Thomas Thomasius, Thomae Thomasii Dictionarium tertio ... emendatum ... et longe auctius ... redditum.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A medium-sized wildcat, most of them part of the genus Lynx.
senses_topics:
|
15666 | word:
los
word_type:
noun
expansion:
los (plural loses)
forms:
form:
loses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English los, from Old English los, from Proto-Germanic *lusą, from Proto-Indo-European *lews-.
senses_examples:
text:
If we come under France, we have not onely Spaine our enimie by Sea and Land (as we have ſhewne) but the los of our Spaniſh Trade, and the hazarding of our whole Levant Traffick: And if we rightly calculate, that amounts to no ſmall part of our Commerce.
ref:
1673, w:[Joseph Hill], The Interest Of theſe United Provinces. Being a Defence of the Zeelanders Choice […], Middelburg: Printed by Thomas Berry, [https://books.google.com/books?id=YD_cbDEj10sC&pg=PP75&dq=%22los%22 page [75]]
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of loss.
senses_topics:
|
15667 | word:
si
word_type:
noun
expansion:
si (plural sis)
forms:
form:
sis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English si (“seventh degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian si in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the initials of Latin Sāncte Iohannēs (“Saint John (the Baptist)”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon; thus, also an initialism of Sāncte Iohannēs.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
15668 | word:
doppelgänger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
doppelgänger (plural doppelgängers)
forms:
form:
doppelgängers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Robin’s doppelgänger looked Robin up and down for a moment, then seemed to come to a decision.
ref:
2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 67
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of doppelganger.
senses_topics:
|
15669 | word:
ursine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ursine (comparative more ursine, superlative most ursine)
forms:
form:
more ursine
tags:
comparative
form:
most ursine
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Mid 16th century, from Latin ursīnus, adjectival form of ursus (“bear”).
senses_examples:
text:
The British chief having undergone the ursine embrace of the Seikh monarch, the whole cavalcade proceeded towards the town.
ref:
1832, Godfrey Mundy, chapter VI, in Pen and Pencil Sketches, Being the Journal of a Tour in India, volume 1, London: John Murray, page 320
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the old man's eccentricities, sometimes bordering on the ursine, repelled the juniors […]
ref:
1924, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.
type:
quotation
text:
[…] we noted that a preponderance of the evidence supports an ursine origin for the giant panda.
ref:
2004, in Donald G. Lindburg and Karen Baragona (eds.), Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation, Berkeley: University of California Press, Part Two, Introduction, p. 77, https://books.google.ca/books?id=bFKrwj73REIC&pg=PA77
text:
2004, in Donald G. Lindburg and Karen Baragona (eds.), Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation, Berkeley: University of California Press, Part Two, Introduction, p. 37, https://books.google.ca/books?id=bFKrwj73REIC&pg=PA37
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the bear subfamily Ursinae.
Covered in stiff bristles.
senses_topics:
biology
entomology
natural-sciences |
15670 | word:
ursine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ursine (plural ursines)
forms:
form:
ursines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Mid 16th century, from Latin ursīnus, adjectival form of ursus (“bear”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bear.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
15671 | word:
barranca
word_type:
noun
expansion:
barranca (plural barrancas)
forms:
form:
barrancas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish barranca.
senses_examples:
text:
Have you ever been south of Monterey? / Barrancas carve the coastline / And the chaparral flows to the sea / 'Neath waves of golden sunshine
ref:
1973, Al Jardine (lyrics and music), “California Saga (California)”, in Holland, performed by The Beach Boys
type:
quotation
text:
[…]his hero, the Consul, is shot and thrown down the barranca followed by a dead dog.
ref:
1994, Gordon Bowker, Pursued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A steep-sided gulch or arroyo; a canyon or ravine.
senses_topics:
|
15672 | word:
formaldehyde
word_type:
noun
expansion:
formaldehyde (countable and uncountable, plural formaldehydes)
forms:
form:
formaldehydes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From form(yl) + aldehyde.
senses_examples:
text:
The shark chosen to replace the original was injected with 224 gallons of formaldehyde, ten times the amount used on the first shark and in a stronger concentration.
ref:
2010, Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Aurum Press Limited
type:
quotation
text:
Back in 2006, Hirst found himself at the centre of a different debate arising out of the need to refurbish or update formaldehyde pieces that are prone to decay. It related to the piece that made him famous: the formaldehyde shark The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), which had been bought by the US hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen for $8m.
ref:
2024 March 19, Maeve McClenaghan, “Damien Hirst formaldehyde animal works dated to 1990s were made in 2017”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The simplest aldehyde, HCHO, a colourless gas that has many industrial applications; it dissolves in water to give formol (10%) and formalin.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
15673 | word:
amongst
word_type:
prep
expansion:
amongst
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From amongs + -t (excrescent), from among + -s (genitive). By surface analysis, among + -st (excrescent). Root among from Old English ongemang, from on (“in”) + gemang (“assemblage, mingling”).
senses_examples:
text:
Janek feels very at ease amongst his friends, but gets incredibly nervous when meeting new people.
type:
example
text:
The smart little locomotives, mostly 0-6-0 saddletanks, which are always busy shunting traffic amongst the vast dockside warehouses, belong to the Manchester Ship Canal Railway, a line of considerable importance.
ref:
1959 October, Norman Jones, “The Manchester Ship Canal Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 488
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. See usage note at amidst.
senses_topics:
|
15674 | word:
flèche
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flèche (plural flèches)
forms:
form:
flèches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French flèche. Compare fletch.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An arrow.
Any of the twenty-four points on a backgammon board.
A spire or steeple, especially of Gothic style; an object emerging from the ridge of a roof.
An earthwork consisting of two berms forming an angle with an open gorge.
A method of attack with a sword (foil or épée) in which the attacker's back leg crosses in front of the front leg in the offensive move.
senses_topics:
backgammon
games
architecture
fortification
fortifications
government
military
politics
war
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war |
15675 | word:
flèche
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flèche (third-person singular simple present flèches, present participle flèching, simple past and past participle flèched)
forms:
form:
flèches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
flèching
tags:
participle
present
form:
flèched
tags:
participle
past
form:
flèched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French flèche. Compare fletch.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To attack using the flèche method.
senses_topics:
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war |
15676 | word:
grease
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grease (countable and uncountable, plural greases)
forms:
form:
greases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
grease
etymology_text:
From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *grassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”).
senses_examples:
text:
Some of the people I talked to said it could be done—but it would cost big money. More grease than I’d ever dreamed of.
ref:
1982, Stephen King, Survivor Type
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
Any oily or fatty matter.
Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
Money.
senses_topics:
|
15677 | word:
grease
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grease (third-person singular simple present greases, present participle greasing, simple past and past participle greased)
forms:
form:
greases
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
greasing
tags:
participle
present
form:
greased
tags:
participle
past
form:
greased
tags:
past
wikipedia:
grease
etymology_text:
From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *grassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”).
senses_examples:
text:
Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred.
ref:
2008, Byron Archibald Dunn, With Lyon in Missouri
type:
quotation
text:
His employee status didn't entitle him to one, but Magdy on reception would slip him a key if Sabr greased him with a fifty.
ref:
2009, Dan Richardson, GOG - an End Time Mystery
type:
quotation
text:
To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.
type:
example
text:
I’m with a girl, call me Rick, I get my crank on
Choppa knock him out his briefs, ayy free willy
ref:
2022 November 22, BLP Kosher (lyrics and music), “Chopping Block” (track 3, 1:31 from the start), in BLP Kosher and The Magic Dreidel
type:
quotation
roman:
He a blood, why the fuck I’m greasin his bitty
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
To bribe.
To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
To extinguish the life of.
To have sexual intercourse with.
To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
To depart or slip away.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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15678 | word:
Burmese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Burmese (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Burmese (cat)
Burmese language
etymology_text:
From Burma + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Burma (Myanmar) or its people or language.
senses_topics:
|
15679 | word:
Burmese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Burmese (plural Burmese)
forms:
form:
Burmese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Burmese (cat)
Burmese language
etymology_text:
From Burma + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Myanmar or of Burmese descent.
A medium-sized, short-haired domestic cat breed, originating in Thailand.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
15680 | word:
Burmese
word_type:
name
expansion:
Burmese
forms:
wikipedia:
Burmese (cat)
Burmese language
etymology_text:
From Burma + -ese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Sino-Tibetan official language of the country Burma. Also known as Myanmar (which is the name preferred by the country's current government).
The script in which the Burmese language is written.
senses_topics:
|
15681 | word:
thong
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thong (plural thongs)
forms:
form:
thongs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Thong (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English thong, thwong, thwang, from Old English þwong, þwang, þweng, þwæng (“thong, band, strap, cord, strip of leather; phylactery”), from Proto-West Germanic *þwangi, from Proto-Germanic *þwangiz, *þwanguz (“coercion, constraint, band, clamp, strap”), from Proto-Indo-European *twenk- (“to squeeze, press, pressure”). Cognate with Scots thwang, thwayng, thang (“thong”), Middle Low German dwenge (“clamp, jaws, steel-trap”), German Zwinge (“vise, clamp”), Danish tvinge (“clamp”), dialectal Norwegian tveng (“shoestrap, shoelace”), Icelandic þvengur (“strap, thong, latchet”).
senses_examples:
text:
Because of August he wears shorts and sandals, the Japanese geta sort called thongs.
ref:
1963 March 16, Hal Porter, “Little old lady passing by”, in The Bulletin, page 22, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs (T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs).
ref:
1964, The Beach Boys, All Summer Long
type:
quotation
text:
2006, Peter Murray, David Poole, Grant Jones, Contemporary Issues in Management and Organisational Behaviour, Thomson, page 108,
Players turned up for questioning wearing thongs, shorts and T-shirts.
text:
Thongs are the favoured footwear for many Aussies, especially near the beaches, but most people in the Outback find that they can't put a foot wrong with a tough, nicely worn-in pair or workboots.
ref:
2008, Steve Parish, Eccentric Australia, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
You shouldn′t face condescension if you rock into a boutique in your thongs and a singlet, but neither will you be treated like a princess just because you've splashed $5000 on daddy's credit card.
ref:
2009, Charles Rawlings-Way, Sydney, Lonely Planet, page 126
type:
quotation
text:
She was impressed by her friend's confidence to wear a thong on the crowded beach.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A strip of leather.
An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour.
An item of clothing, usually an undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more.
The largest section of a bullwhip constructed of many straps of braided leather.
senses_topics:
|
15682 | word:
hirsute
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hirsute (comparative more hirsute, superlative most hirsute)
forms:
form:
more hirsute
tags:
comparative
form:
most hirsute
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin hirsūtus (“shaggy, hairy”).
senses_examples:
text:
Despite occasional hirsute rebellions by Cavaliers in the seventeenth century and hippies in the twentieth, the shaggy, long-haired male has remained a rarity […]
ref:
2008, Desmond Morris, chapter 2, in The Naked Man: A Study of the Male Body, London: Vintage, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Covered in hair or bristles; hairy.
senses_topics:
|
15683 | word:
hirsute
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hirsute (plural hirsutes)
forms:
form:
hirsutes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin hirsūtus (“shaggy, hairy”).
senses_examples:
text:
Virchow is mentioned as having described the “Russian hairy men” the “hirsutes,” who, although their bodies were covered with a thick growth of hair were nevertheless almost entirely devoid of teeth.
ref:
1929 April, James D. Frankel, “Anomalies of the Fetal Ectoderm (Dr. Zimmerman, Vierteljarsschr. f. Zahnheilk. 44:419, No. 3, 1928)”, in The Journal of the American Dental Association, volume 16, number 4, page 759, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Where’s the sockless hirsutes from the grasshopper-bitten wilds of Kansas?
ref:
1897 May 13, “Run Here, Somebody”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, volume LXVII (old series) / XXXII (new series), number 291, Montgomery, Ala.: The Advertiser Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
THE hairy fibrous or hirsute begonias (either term is correct, though the latter is preferred) are not so well known as those already discussed, but they are just as lovely. Their flowering season is mainly in fall and winter when most other plants have finished blooming. They get their name from the hairs on the outside of the flower petals. Leaves and stems may be quite smooth, or moderately to heavily covered with hairs. These hirsutes come in varying heights, from a foot for the dwarf varieties, to well over six feet for the larger ones.
ref:
1960 winter, Margaret M. Lee, “Worth Exploring: The Begonia Family”, in California Garden, volume 51, number 4, San Diego, Calif.: San Diego Floral Association, pages 20–21
type:
quotation
text:
Gadzooks! Where Did All the Hirsutes Come From? […] ONE DAY a caveman sat scratching his bristly cheeks with a sharp shell. Maybe it was the shell of a razor clam. But at least it took the whiskers off dandily. And pretty soon a little cavegirl wandered by and rubbed the caveman’s smooth cheek fondly. It would have made a great television commercial. We can be pretty certain that within a few days, our boy had learned to scrape just part of that facial stubble-[?], leaving a bit here and there for the special effect it offered. And thus was born pogonotrophy: beard growing if you aren’t up on your Greek.
ref:
1966 April 3, Art Vinsel, “Gadzooks! Where Did All the Hirsutes Come From?”, in Independent-Press-Telegram, volume 14, number 31, Long Beach, Calif., page eight
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone or something that is hirsute.
senses_topics:
|
15684 | word:
mope
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mope (third-person singular simple present mopes, present participle moping, simple past and past participle moped)
forms:
form:
mopes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
moping
tags:
participle
present
form:
moped
tags:
participle
past
form:
moped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Late Middle English (as a noun meaning "simpleton, fool"), probably related to mop (“young of an animal, moppet”).
Alternatively, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish mopa (“to sulk”), Danish måbe, themselves borrowed from Low German mopen (“to make faces, gape”), of uncertain ultimate origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“protruding lip, pout”). Compare also German muffen, French moue.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
To make spiritless and stupid.
senses_topics:
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15685 | word:
mope
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mope (plural mopes)
forms:
form:
mopes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Late Middle English (as a noun meaning "simpleton, fool"), probably related to mop (“young of an animal, moppet”).
Alternatively, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish mopa (“to sulk”), Danish måbe, themselves borrowed from Low German mopen (“to make faces, gape”), of uncertain ultimate origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“protruding lip, pout”). Compare also German muffen, French moue.
senses_examples:
text:
When she gets upset, she has a little mope, and then gets over it.
type:
example
text:
2011: LA Weekly, documenting uses dating to the 1990s
The porn industry is many things. Subtle is not one of them. So when Porn Inc. went searching for a job title for people like Stephen Hill, the choice was "mope." It's based on the off-camera life of these fringe actors, hangers-on who mope around the studios hoping for a bit role, which if they're lucky might bring them $50 plus food — and the chance to have sex with a real, live woman.https://web.archive.org/web/20110310155324/http://www.laweekly.com/2011-02-24/news/porn-machete-murder/
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of moping
A dull, spiritless person.
A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay.
senses_topics:
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15686 | word:
farmer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
farmer (plural farmers)
forms:
form:
farmers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
farmer
etymology_text:
From Middle English fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), from Old French fermier (“a farmer, a lessee, husbandman, bailliff”), from Medieval Latin firmarius (“one to whom land is rented, a collector of taxes, deputy”), from firma; equivalent to farm + -er. Compare Old English feormere (“a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer”). More at farm.
senses_examples:
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:
a farmer of the revenues
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone or something that farms, as:
A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
Someone or something that farms, as:
More specifically, a farm owner, as distinguished from a farmworker or farmhand as a hired employee thereof.
One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.
The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship.
A baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage).
senses_topics:
business
mining
|
15687 | word:
Nahuatl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Nahuatl pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish náhuatl, from Classical Nahuatl nahuatl, nahuatlatolli (“the clear or understandable language”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of people indigenous to the Central Mexico region spanning multiple tribal groups including the Aztecs.
senses_topics:
|
15688 | word:
Nahuatl
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nahuatl
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish náhuatl, from Classical Nahuatl nahuatl, nahuatlatolli (“the clear or understandable language”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The polysynthetic Aztecan language spoken by an indigenous people of Mexico.
senses_topics:
|
15689 | word:
Nahuatl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Nahuatl (plural Nahuatls)
forms:
form:
Nahuatls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish náhuatl, from Classical Nahuatl nahuatl, nahuatlatolli (“the clear or understandable language”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of this group.
senses_topics:
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15690 | word:
frappé
word_type:
noun
expansion:
frappé (plural frappés)
forms:
form:
frappés
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French frappé, past participle of frapper (“to hit, strike”), from Old French fraper, from Old Low Franconian *hrappan 'to jerk, snatch', from Proto-Germanic *hrappijaną (“to hurry”), from *hrapaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krob.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A frozen fruit-flavoured dessert or appetizer.
Alternative form of frappe (“a liqueur or cocktail served on shaved ice”)
A movement where the foot is struck against the floor over the ankle in ballet or other forms of dance.
senses_topics:
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15691 | word:
frappé
word_type:
adj
expansion:
frappé (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French frappé, past participle of frapper (“to hit, strike”), from Old French fraper, from Old Low Franconian *hrappan 'to jerk, snatch', from Proto-Germanic *hrappijaną (“to hurry”), from *hrapaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krob.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Iced; cooled.
senses_topics:
|
15692 | word:
STFU
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
STFU
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of shut the fuck up.
senses_topics:
|
15693 | word:
STFU
word_type:
name
expansion:
STFU
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Southern Tenant Farmers Union.
senses_topics:
|
15694 | word:
undermine
word_type:
verb
expansion:
undermine (third-person singular simple present undermines, present participle undermining, simple past and past participle undermined)
forms:
form:
undermines
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
undermining
tags:
participle
present
form:
undermined
tags:
participle
past
form:
undermined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From under- + mine.
senses_examples:
text:
Martin, for instance, had on one occasion undermined a tree sacred to old gods, then stood in the path of its fall, but forced it to fall elsewhere by making the sign of the Cross.
ref:
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 312
type:
quotation
text:
The war efforts were undermined by the constant bickering between the allies.
type:
example
text:
The growing use of social media to spread anger and dissent in the Arab world has been hailed by western governments as one of the chief justifications for a completely unfettered internet. The US is reportedly funding the secret rollout of technology in Iran in an effort to undermine internet censors in the country.
ref:
2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The 'partygate' controversy has played a major part in undermining the credibility of Boris Johnson and his Government and has led to calls from senior MPs for him to resign.
ref:
2022 January 26, “Network News: DfT awaits verdict on COVID 'partygate' scandal”, in RAIL, number 949, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 after torrential rain and thunderstorms. The thousands of gallons of water that cascaded onto the railway line below washed away track, ballast and overhead line equipment, and undermined embankments along a 300-metre section of Scotland's busiest rail link.
ref:
2020 August 26, “Network News: Major flood damage severs key Edinburgh-Glasgow rail artery”, in Rail, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: overmine
text:
We can even go further: when we consider an object in everyday life we do not usually just undermine or overmine it as if it demanded an either/or approach, but rather we run the two processes in tandem: duomining, as Harman labels it.
ref:
2022, Nicholas Gayle, Conrad and the Being of the World, page 25
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To dig underneath (something), to make a passage for destructive or military purposes; to sap.
To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
To erode the base or foundation of something, e.g. by the action of water.
To regard an object as the sum of the parts that compose it, in object-oriented ontology.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences |
15695 | word:
Reykjavík
word_type:
name
expansion:
Reykjavík
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Icelandic Reykjavík (literally “bay of smokes”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Iceland.
senses_topics:
|
15696 | word:
metanoia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
metanoia (countable and uncountable, plural metanoias)
forms:
form:
metanoias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek μετάνοια (metánoia, “repentance”, literally “afterthought”), a compound of μετά (metá, “after, with”) and νοέω (noéō, “to perceive, to think”).
senses_examples:
text:
Sadly behind the great age of rowdy self-advertisement in which their lot has fallen, they seem not to have advanced one whit beyond John the Baptist and the Apostles, 1800 years ago, in their notions of the way in which the metanoia, the change of mind of the ill-doer, is to be brought about.
ref:
1890 December 9, Thomas H. Huxley, “Letter to the "Times" on the "Darkest England Scheme"”, in Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays
type:
quotation
text:
Metanoia is the knowledge that there can be totalities in this world totally different from what we thought. This is the sense in which metanoia is the most radical form of poiesis.
ref:
2017, Armen Avanessian, Anke Hennig, Metanoia: A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain, Bloomsbury, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
There is therefore enthusiasm no less than resignation in an enlightened metanoia. You give up everything in the form of claims; you receive everything back in the form of a divine presence.
ref:
1948 December, George Santayana, “A Change of Heart”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
Ecstatic seizures are rare—they only occur in something like 1 or 2 percent of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. But the last half century has seen an enormous increase in the prevalence of other states sometimes permeated by religious joy and awe, "heavenly" visions and voices, and, not infrequently, religious conversion or metanoia.
ref:
2012 December 12, Oliver Sacks, “Seeing God in the Third Millennium”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
Two months after Obama’s autocue mishap, his vice-presidential running mate Joe Biden raised a laugh when he used metanoia in his speech to the Democratic convention:
“You know, folks, that’s the America that George Bush has left us. And that’s the America we’ll continue to get if George – excuse me, if John McCain is elected president of the United States of America. Freudian slip. Freudian slip.”
ref:
2015 April 28, Martin Shovel, “I'm sorry, I'll say that again – the rhetorical trick of metanoia”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fundamental change of mind.
A spiritual or religious conversion.
A fundamental change in the human personality.
A device used to retract a statement just made, and then state it in a better way.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
|
15697 | word:
photograph
word_type:
noun
expansion:
photograph (plural photographs)
forms:
form:
photographs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From photo- + -graph.
senses_examples:
text:
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref:
2012 March 24, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2013-02-19, page 106
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
senses_topics:
|
15698 | word:
photograph
word_type:
verb
expansion:
photograph (third-person singular simple present photographs, present participle photographing, simple past and past participle photographed)
forms:
form:
photographs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
photographing
tags:
participle
present
form:
photographed
tags:
participle
past
form:
photographed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From photo- + -graph.
senses_examples:
text:
He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
ref:
1891, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing
type:
quotation
text:
As the game worlds we explore have become more beautiful, players have become more interested in photographing them and sharing the results.
ref:
2019 February 25, Jordan Erica Webber, “Point and shoot: what's next for photography in video games?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
He is photographed on my mind.
ref:
1881, Mary Anne Hardy, Through Cities and Prairie Lands
type:
quotation
text:
She photographs well. The camera loves her.
type:
example
text:
He told me that he liked Dolls Kill just fine—its clothes photographed well and he always wore them to Coachella—but attending this event was basically work for him.
ref:
2021 February 6, Rachel Monroe, “Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take a photograph (of).
To fix permanently in the memory etc.
To appear in a photograph.
senses_topics:
|
15699 | word:
UAE
word_type:
noun
expansion:
UAE (plural UAEs)
forms:
form:
UAEs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of unrecoverable application error (the standard Microsoft Windows error message in Win16)
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
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