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15700 | word:
UAE
word_type:
name
expansion:
UAE
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Kuwait immediately put its small forces on alert (although it did not request US help). The UAE, whose offshore oil rigs Baghdad had attacked during the Iran-Iraq war, followed suit on July 22, but they also asked us to send aerial tankers and participate in a joint military exercise.
ref:
1998, George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 309
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of United Arab Emirates.
Initialism of Unix Amiga emulator.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15701 | word:
Rice Krispies
word_type:
name
expansion:
Rice Krispies
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Marketing coinage, from crispy.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cereal manufactured by Kellogg Company that consists of puffed rice.
senses_topics:
|
15702 | word:
jackass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jackass (countable and uncountable, plural jackasses)
forms:
form:
jackasses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From jack + ass.
senses_examples:
text:
Bobby, only jackasses go around saying how much money they make.
ref:
2004 King of the Hill (TV, season 8.8)
text:
As the vintner Louis Foppiano recalled years later, Sonoma County during Prohibition became a center for bootlegging, not of wine, but of spirits. 'There were some big stills hidden up in the hills of Sonoma, some producing five hundred gallons of Jackass [spirits made from spring water and sugar] a day.'
ref:
Richard Mendelson, From Demon to Darling: A Legal History of Wine in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 82)
text:
By now the wine counties were rife with the activity of the illegal wine trade and the force of the Prohibition Unit was hustling to keep up. At the start of the year, Officer William Navas had staged a raid on the dining room at Healdsburg's Hotel Sotoyome and discovered 'jackass' brandy […]
ref:
Vivienne Sosnowski, When the Rivers Ran Red: An Amazing Story of Courage and Triumph in America's Wine Country (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, p. 110)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male donkey.
A foolish or stupid person.
An inappropriately rude or obnoxious person.
A kind of bootleg liquor.
The laughing kookaburra.
senses_topics:
|
15703 | word:
jackass
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jackass (third-person singular simple present jackasses, present participle jackassing, simple past and past participle jackassed)
forms:
form:
jackasses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jackassing
tags:
participle
present
form:
jackassed
tags:
participle
past
form:
jackassed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From jack + ass.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To behave very obnoxiously.
senses_topics:
|
15704 | word:
jackass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jackass (plural jackasses)
forms:
form:
jackasses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the phonetic similarity of "jack, ace" to "jackass".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
senses_topics:
card-games
poker |
15705 | word:
gauze
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gauze (countable and uncountable, plural gauzes)
forms:
form:
gauzes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
gauze
etymology_text:
From French gaze.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
Wire gauze, used as fence.
Mist or haze
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
15706 | word:
gauze
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gauze (third-person singular simple present gauzes, present participle gauzing, simple past and past participle gauzed)
forms:
form:
gauzes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gauzing
tags:
participle
present
form:
gauzed
tags:
participle
past
form:
gauzed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
gauze
etymology_text:
From French gaze.
senses_examples:
text:
The wide plain gauzed into a sea on which the hut floated lonely.
ref:
1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To apply a dressing of gauze
To mist; to become gauze-like.
senses_topics:
|
15707 | word:
cocoa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cocoa (countable and uncountable, plural cocoas)
forms:
form:
cocoas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
A Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson
en:cocoa
etymology_text:
From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. The form cocoa by confusion with coco, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language. Doublet of cacao.
senses_examples:
text:
Do you like cocoa?
type:
example
text:
Half past nine - high time for supper;
Cocoa, love? Of course, my dear.
Helen thinks it quite delicious,
John prefers it now to beer....
¶For they've stumbled on the secret
Of a love that never wanes,
Rapt beneath the tumbled bedclothes,
Cocoa coursing through their veins.
ref:
1979, Stanley J. Sharpless, A Food Lover's Companion, Harper & Row, Evan Jones (edit.)
text:
I like to watch TV with a cocoa.
type:
example
text:
cocoa:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.
A serving of this drink.
A light to medium brown colour.
senses_topics:
|
15708 | word:
cocoa
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cocoa (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
A Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson
etymology_text:
From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. The form cocoa by confusion with coco, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language. Doublet of cacao.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.
senses_topics:
|
15709 | word:
cocoa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cocoa
forms:
wikipedia:
A Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson
etymology_text:
By confusion with cocoa, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of coco.
senses_topics:
|
15710 | word:
informatician
word_type:
noun
expansion:
informatician (plural informaticians)
forms:
form:
informaticians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From informatic + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who practices informatics.
senses_topics:
|
15711 | word:
vegetarianism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vegetarianism (usually uncountable, plural vegetarianisms)
forms:
form:
vegetarianisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Attested since circa 1847, when the British Vegetarian Society was founded. From vegetarian + -ism.
senses_examples:
text:
Vegetarianism, he said, is an idea “that has three things going for it all at once—economics, health and compassion.”
ref:
1975 March 21, Judy Klemesrud, quoting Jean Mayer, “Vegetarianism: Growing Way of Life, Especially Among the Young”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The practice of following a vegetarian diet.
senses_topics:
|
15712 | word:
cobra
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cobra (plural cobras)
forms:
form:
cobras
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cobra
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae.
A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.
senses_topics:
|
15713 | word:
bustier
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bustier (plural bustiers)
forms:
form:
bustiers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French bustier, from buste + -ier.
senses_examples:
text:
The clothes were equally frothy: teacup silk skirts, a bubbly wool coat in Bazooka pink, satin bustiers with huge fan pleats across the front, metallic peplum jackets and flamboyantly patterned tights.
ref:
2009 February 18, Cathy Horyn, “In the Moment, or Not”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Next came the narrow silk straps of her bustier. She pushed the satin fabric down, toward her waist, exposing her breasts.
ref:
2010, Jane Porter, The Sheikh's Wife
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tight-fitting women's top, often strapless, which covers the bust and sometimes extends over the belly, worn either as an undergarment or as outerwear.
senses_topics:
|
15714 | word:
bustier
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bustier
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See busty.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
comparative form of busty: more busty
senses_topics:
|
15715 | word:
cornflakes
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cornflakes pl (normally plural, singular cornflake)
forms:
form:
cornflake
tags:
singular
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of corn flakes
senses_topics:
|
15716 | word:
immature
word_type:
adj
expansion:
immature (comparative immaturer, superlative immaturest)
forms:
form:
immaturer
tags:
comparative
form:
immaturest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French immature. Partially displaced unripe, from Old English unrīpe (“unripe, immature”).
senses_examples:
text:
You're only young once, but you can be immature the rest of your life.
type:
example
text:
The man was immature for throwing a tantrum.
type:
example
text:
Wilhelm Stekel - As quoted in The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger.
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Occurring before the proper time; untimely, premature (especially of death).
Not fully formed or developed; not grown.
Childish in behavior; juvenile.
senses_topics:
|
15717 | word:
immature
word_type:
noun
expansion:
immature (plural immatures)
forms:
form:
immatures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French immature. Partially displaced unripe, from Old English unrīpe (“unripe, immature”).
senses_examples:
text:
There are many genera and even families of Brachypylina for which immatures are not yet known, and thus numerous examples of adult convergence and misclassification remain to be revealed: such is the case with Hypozetes.
ref:
2001, DE Walter, H Proctor, RA Norton, Acarology: Proceedings of the 10th International Congress, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
While on a walk the next morning I found what looked like a patch of old growth habitat - perhaps somewhere the fires had missed - and to my astonishment saw a female Red-lored Whistler accompanied by an immature.
ref:
2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 240
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An immature member of a species.
senses_topics:
|
15718 | word:
caucus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
caucus (plural caucuses or caucusses)
forms:
form:
caucuses
tags:
plural
form:
caucusses
tags:
plural
form:
in UK
tags:
Pakistan
archaic
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown. Often claimed to be from an Algonquian language; transcribed words such as cawaassough and caucauasu meaning "counselor, elder, adviser" appear in early texts.
A popular folk etymology attested in Great Leaders and National Issues of 1896 stated: "In the early part of the eighteenth century a number of caulkers connected with the shipping business in the North End of Boston held a meeting for consultation. That meeting was the germ of the political caucuses which have formed so prominent a feature of our government ever since its organization."
American Heritage Dictionary states the term is taken from the Caucus Club of Boston in the 1760s, possibly from Medieval Latin caucus (“drinking vessel”).
senses_examples:
text:
He conferred with Mr. Warren of Plymouth upon the necessity of giving into spirited measures, and then said, "Do you keep the committee in play, and I will go and make a caucus against the evening; and do you meet me."
ref:
1788, William Gordon, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A usually preliminary meeting of party members to nominate candidates for public office or delegates to be sent a nominating convention, or to confer regarding policy.
A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party.
A political interest group by members of a legislative body.
senses_topics:
|
15719 | word:
caucus
word_type:
verb
expansion:
caucus (third-person singular simple present caucuses or caucusses, present participle caucusing or caucussing, simple past and past participle caucused or caucussed)
forms:
form:
caucuses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
caucusses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
caucusing
tags:
participle
present
form:
caucussing
tags:
participle
present
form:
caucused
tags:
participle
past
form:
caucused
tags:
past
form:
caucussed
tags:
participle
past
form:
caucussed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown. Often claimed to be from an Algonquian language; transcribed words such as cawaassough and caucauasu meaning "counselor, elder, adviser" appear in early texts.
A popular folk etymology attested in Great Leaders and National Issues of 1896 stated: "In the early part of the eighteenth century a number of caulkers connected with the shipping business in the North End of Boston held a meeting for consultation. That meeting was the germ of the political caucuses which have formed so prominent a feature of our government ever since its organization."
American Heritage Dictionary states the term is taken from the Caucus Club of Boston in the 1760s, possibly from Medieval Latin caucus (“drinking vessel”).
senses_examples:
text:
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut said yesterday that he will caucus with Senate Democrats in the new Congress, but he would not rule out switching to the Republican caucus if he starts to feel uncomfortable among Democrats.
ref:
2006 November 13, “Lieberman won't rule out GOP caucusing”, in Boston Globe, sourced from Associated Press, archived from the original on 2006-11-28
type:
quotation
text:
The diehard Republicans of Kansas caucused today and delivered a big victory for Mike Huckabee, McCain's remaining serious challenger.
ref:
2008 February 9, Richard Adams, “Huckabee wins Kansas!”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Doug Jones of Alabama and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona voted with Republicans against the measure, as did Sen. Angus King of Maine, an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats.
ref:
2019 March 26, Rebecca Shabad, Dartunorro Clark, “Senate fails to advance Green New Deal as Democrats protest McConnell 'sham vote'”, in NBC news
type:
quotation
text:
Guardian Australia understands the Liberal states have caucused, and they want the newly elected Morrison government to reboot the Neg, or something very like it.
ref:
2019 June 21, Katharine Murphy, “Australia's energy future: the real power is not where you’d think”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Although journalists from the private media were barred from entering the hall, different districts caucused the meeting, discussing the voting centres and other logistics.
ref:
2017 May 6, Tatenda Chitagu, “Zanu PF to stage one-man chairmanship polls”, in NewsDay Zimbabwe
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To meet and participate in a caucus.
To bring into or treat in a caucus.
senses_topics:
|
15720 | word:
identify
word_type:
verb
expansion:
identify (third-person singular simple present identifies, present participle identifying, simple past and past participle identified)
forms:
form:
identifies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
identifying
tags:
participle
present
form:
identified
tags:
participle
past
form:
identified
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French identifier, from Medieval Latin identicus + Latin faciō.
senses_examples:
text:
It was hard to identify the shoplifter because the CCTV records didn't have a clear image.
type:
example
text:
The formal name of a national having domiciliary register shall be identified by the national identity card.
ref:
1953, Enforcement Regulations of the Name Act
type:
quotation
text:
The Associated Press will not identify the suspect of the crime because he is a juvenile.
type:
example
text:
A recent biological inventory uncovered 41 species and 2 subspecies of insects new to science and many species not before identified in the State of Washington.
ref:
2000, Bill Clinton, Proclamation 7319
type:
quotation
text:
Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people, and their rulers.
ref:
1809, David Ramsay, History of South Carolina, volume II, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
18 February, 1780, Edmund Burke, Speech on Economical Reform
Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people.
text:
Der Traum erhält eine neue Deutung, wenn sie im Traum nicht sich, sondern die Freundin meint, wenn sie sich an die Stelle der Freundin gesetzt oder, wie wir sagen können, sich mit ihr identifiziert hat.
The dream is given a new interpretation if in her dream she means not herself but her friend, if she has put herself in the place of her friend, or, as we may say, she has identified herself with her.
ref:
1999 [1899], Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, Die Traumdeutung [The Interpretation of Dreams], Oxford, published 2008, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
Cash endures because his most well-known songs—“I Walk the Line” and “Ring of Fire” among them—weave deeply personal narratives with which listeners of all stripes can effortlessly identify.
ref:
2012, Christoper Zara, chapter 1, in Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
Now, the vast majority of us identify with the second group, the one that believes in trusting the wisdom of the people rather than taking power away from them and concentrating it in the other hands.
ref:
1983, S:Presidential Radio Address - 26 February 1983
type:
quotation
text:
"The main message is that it's the interface between individuals and society that causes students who identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual the most distress," said study first author Yue Zhao.
ref:
2010 February 6, “Youth Who Self-Identify as Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual at Higher Suicide Risk, Say Researchers”, in Science Daily
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To establish the identity of someone or something.
To disclose the identity of someone.
To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one.
To have a strong affinity with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
To associate oneself with some group; to feel, or believe one feels, the same way.
To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
|
15721 | word:
substitute
word_type:
verb
expansion:
substitute (third-person singular simple present substitutes, present participle substituting, simple past and past participle substituted)
forms:
form:
substitutes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
substituting
tags:
participle
present
form:
substituted
tags:
participle
past
form:
substituted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English substituten, from Latin substitutus, past participle of substituō.
senses_examples:
text:
I had no shallots so I substituted onion.
type:
example
text:
I had to substitute new parts for the old ones.
type:
example
text:
I had to substitute old parts with the new ones.
type:
example
text:
He was playing poorly and was substituted after twenty minutes
type:
example
text:
Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini.
ref:
2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Accumulation of wealth by this route may substitute for personal saving.
ref:
1987, James Tobin, Essays in Economics, Vol. 2, page 75
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use in place of something else, with the same function.
To use X in place of Y.
To use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
15722 | word:
substitute
word_type:
noun
expansion:
substitute (plural substitutes)
forms:
form:
substitutes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English substituten, from Latin substitutus, past participle of substituō.
senses_examples:
text:
Since you left me, if you see me with another girl / Seeming like I'm having fun / Although she may be cute, she's just a substitute / Because you're the permanent one
ref:
1965, “The Tracks of My Tears”, in Going to a Go-Go, performed by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
type:
quotation
text:
Here we go. AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes.
ref:
1997, Quentin Tarantino, Jackie Brown, spoken by Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson)
type:
quotation
text:
Dean Whitehead opened the scoring shortly after the break with a low finish and substitute Peter Crouch sealed the win with a tap-in.
ref:
2011 November 3, David Ornstein, “Macc Tel-Aviv 1 - 2 Stoke”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
A substitute teacher.
A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually do so.
One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.
Abbreviation of substitute good.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
economics
sciences |
15723 | word:
North Brabant
word_type:
name
expansion:
North Brabant
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of the Netherlands.
senses_topics:
|
15724 | word:
Friesland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Friesland
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Frīsland, from Old English Frīsland (“Frisia”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of the Netherlands.
A district of Lower Saxony, Germany.
senses_topics:
|
15725 | word:
bracket
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bracket (plural brackets)
forms:
form:
brackets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bracket
bracket (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From earlier bragget, *bracket, from Middle English *braget, *braket (attested in braket nail), from Old French braguette (“the opening in the fore part of a pair of breeches, one's fly”), a diminutive of Old French brague (“knickers, britches”), from Old Occitan braga, from Latin brāca (“pants”), from Transalpine Gaulish *brāca, from Proto-Germanic *brāks, an early form of Proto-Germanic *brōks (“leggings, breeches, trousers”).
senses_examples:
text:
To determine if your frame has this bottom bracket type, look for a notched and possibly knurled lockring on the left side (the side without the chainrings).
ref:
2005, Todd Downs, The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance & Repair for Road and Mountain bikes
type:
quotation
text:
Not only does the attachment on the tooth surface (called a bracket) allow the tooth to be moved vertically or tilted, but also a force couple can be generated by the interaction between the bracket and an archwire running through the bracket.
ref:
2013, Laura Mitchell, An Introduction to Orthodontics, page 220
type:
quotation
text:
tax bracket, age bracket
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.
Any of the characters “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “<”, “>”, or the like, used in pairs to enclose parenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc.
“(” and “)” specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
Any of the characters “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “<”, “>”, or the like, used in pairs to enclose parenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc.
“[” and “]” specifically, as opposed to the other forms, which have their own technical names.
A diagram of games in a tournament.
A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
One of several ranges of numbers.
A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range.
Typically of stationary weapons, the zone enclosed by one long and one short shot impact expected to be hit very accurately.
The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.
a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a bench.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
nautical
transport
government
military
politics
war
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
algebra
mathematics
sciences
government
military
politics
war
media
publishing
typography
|
15726 | word:
bracket
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bracket (third-person singular simple present brackets, present participle bracketing, simple past and past participle bracketed)
forms:
form:
brackets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bracketing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bracketed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bracketed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bracket
bracket (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From earlier bragget, *bracket, from Middle English *braget, *braket (attested in braket nail), from Old French braguette (“the opening in the fore part of a pair of breeches, one's fly”), a diminutive of Old French brague (“knickers, britches”), from Old Occitan braga, from Latin brāca (“pants”), from Transalpine Gaulish *brāca, from Proto-Germanic *brāks, an early form of Proto-Germanic *brōks (“leggings, breeches, trousers”).
senses_examples:
text:
Because they didn’t have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year-olds with the eight-year-olds.
type:
example
text:
Next, since so much social activity is defined by being bracketed out of the world of ongoing events, it becomes possible that outside such bracketed episodes, […] people are — especially beforehand, but also afterwards — to some extent "out of role", and so off their guard.
ref:
1992, Tom Burns, Erving Goffman, page 292
type:
quotation
text:
SIL got access to academic legitimacy; linguists bracketed the evangelical engine that drives SIL because they got access to data and tools.
ref:
2009, Michael Erard, “Holy Grammar, Inc.”, in Search Magazine, July–August 2009
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To support by means of mechanical brackets.
To enclose in typographical brackets.
To bound on both sides, to surround, as enclosing with brackets.
To place in the same category.
To mark distinctly for special treatment.
To set aside, discount, ignore.
To gauge the range of a target by firing equally short and long of it and ranging the weapon between the two to achieve a very accurate hit.
To take multiple images of the same subject, using a range of exposure settings, in order to help ensure that a satisfactory image is obtained.
In the philosophical system of Edmund Husserl and his followers, to set aside metaphysical theories and existential questions concerning what is real in order to focus philosophical attention simply on the actual content of experience.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
human-sciences
phenomenology
philosophy
sciences |
15727 | word:
bracket
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bracket (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
bracket
bracket (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of bragget (“drink made with ale and honey”)
senses_topics:
|
15728 | word:
horrid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
horrid (comparative horrider or more horrid, superlative horridest or most horrid)
forms:
form:
horrider
tags:
comparative
form:
more horrid
tags:
comparative
form:
horridest
tags:
superlative
form:
most horrid
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin horridus (“rough, bristly, savage, shaggy, rude”), from horrere (“to bristle”). See horrent, horror, ordure.
senses_examples:
text:
horrid weather
type:
example
text:
The other girls in class are always horrid to Jane.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bristling, rough, rugged.
Causing horror or dread.
Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.
senses_topics:
|
15729 | word:
adversary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
adversary (plural adversaries)
forms:
form:
adversaries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English adversarie, from Anglo-Norman aversaire (in Wace's Life of Saint Margaret) and Old French aversier, aversaire (French adversaire), from Latin adversārius, from adversus (“turned toward”).
senses_examples:
text:
He prepared to fight his adversary.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An opponent or rival.
senses_topics:
|
15730 | word:
wont
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wont (usually uncountable, plural wonts)
forms:
form:
wonts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Origin uncertain; apparently a conflation of wone (“custom, habit, practice”) and wont (participle adjective, below). Compare German Low German Gewohnte (“custom, habit”) and Dutch gewoonte. Likely related to wone, wonder, wean, and win, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to wish for, strive for, pursue; to succeed, win”); more there.
senses_examples:
text:
He awoke at the crack of dawn, as was his wont.
type:
example
text:
[T]hey [Spartan youth] are by a ſudden alarum or watch-word, to be called out to their military motions, under ſky or covert, according to the ſeaſon, as was the Roman wont; […]
ref:
1644, John Milton, Of Education, To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: Printed for Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC; republished in The Works of John Milton, Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous. Now More Correctly Printed from the Originals, than in any Former Edition, and Many Passages Restored, which have been hitherto Omitted. To which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings [by Thomas Birch]. In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar, in the Strand, 1753, →OCLC, page 147
type:
quotation
text:
[…]when Sindbad the Seaman had related the history of what befel him in his sixth voyage, and all the company had dispersed, Sindbad the Landsman went home and slept as of wont.
ref:
1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563
type:
quotation
text:
Such conditions, having been the common practice for years, and, existing in a less degree in some localities to the present time, afford a tangible reason for a form of correlation that is more universal than it is the wont of the profession to admit; namely, that with the laity, dentistry and "the pulling of teeth," and the dentist and "the tooth puller," are very closely related subjects […]
ref:
1915, The Practical Dental Journal, volume 15, San Antonio, Tx.: Ferguson Dental Supply Co., →OCLC, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
As was also the wont of international conferences, a delegate from Pennsylvania, in this instance James Wilson, proposed the appointment of a secretary and nominated William Temple Franklin, whose selection would have been agreeable to the authorities of Pennsylvania, inasmuch as he was the grandson of its venerable chief executive.
ref:
1920, James Brown Scott, “The Federal Convention: An International Conference”, in The United States of America: A Study in International Organization (Publications of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of International Law), New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 149
type:
quotation
text:
With a simple-minded desire, and to rid my mind of this irrepressible urge, I retired to a corner of the room, as was my wont, but after a while I realized I couldn't jack off—proof well enough that I'd fallen in love again after twelve years!
ref:
2001, Orhan Pamuk; Erdağ M. Göknar, transl., “I am Called Black”, in My Name Is Red, London: Faber and Faber; paperback edition, London: Faber and Faber, 2002, page 62
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice.
senses_topics:
|
15731 | word:
wont
word_type:
adj
expansion:
wont (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wont, iwoned, from Old English ġewunod, past participle of ġewunian.
senses_examples:
text:
He is wont to complain loudly about his job.
type:
example
text:
This is the ſuteltie of Satan, who vnder the shew of godly matters, deceaueth the vnaduyſed, as we are wont to ſay, that in the honye lyeth hidden the poiſon.
ref:
1556, Anthoni de Adamo [Agostino Mainardi], “The Examinacion of the Kyrie Eleeson and of the Gloria in Excelsis Deo, and how that Many Praiers after the Gloria in Excelsis, be Wicked, and that the Epistle and Gospell, and Generally the Whole Worde of God in the Masse, are Vnworthely and Euell Fauoredly Handled”, in An Anatomi, that is to Say a Parting in Peeces of the Mass. Which Discouereth the Horrible Errors, and the Infinit Abuses Vnknowen to the People, aswel of the Mass as of the Mass Book, very Profitable, yea Most Necessary for al Christian People. With a Sermon of the Sacrament of Thankesgyuyng in the End, whiche Declareth whether Christ be Bodyly in the Sacrament or Not, [Strasbourg]: [Printed by the heirs of W. Köpfel], →OCLC, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
[…] I haue not that Alacrity of Spirit, / Nor cheere of Minde that I was wont to haue.
ref:
c. 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: With the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act V, scene iii, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
On ſome fond breaſt the parting ſoul relies, / Some pious drops the cloſing eye requires; / Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / Ev'n in our Aſhes live their wonted Fires.
ref:
1751, [Thomas Gray], An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church-yard, London: Printed for R[obert] Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and sold by M[ary] Cooper in Pater-noster-Row, →OCLC; republished as “An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard”, in A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands, volume IV, 2nd edition, London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, at Tully's-Head in Pall-Mall, 1758, →OCLC, page 5
text:
He could read English Manuscripts very elegantly, elegantissime: he was wont to preach to the people in the English tongue, though according to the dialect of Norfolk, where he had been brought up; […]
ref:
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “The Abbot’s Ways”, in Past and Present, book II (The Ancient Monk), London: Chapman & Hall, →OCLC, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
But while Katy Perry similarly threw herself into the spirit of the event – crowdsurfing, dancing with a security guard, charming the audience – her peculiar combination of newfound political conscience and longstanding predisposition to DayGlo cartoonishness was simultaneously intriguing and baffling, as a woman delivering between-song speeches about the necessity of taking back power surrounded by dancers dressed as flowers and giant pom-poms covered in fluorescent fur was perhaps wont to be.
ref:
2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Accustomed or used (to or with a thing), accustomed or apt (to do something).
senses_topics:
|
15732 | word:
wont
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wont (third-person singular simple present wonts, present participle wonting, simple past and past participle wonted)
forms:
form:
wonts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wonting
tags:
participle
present
form:
wonted
tags:
participle
past
form:
wonted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wonten (“to accustom”), from wont (adjective). See above.
senses_examples:
text:
I have heard it remarked by the old farmers, that when beasts are first transferred from one place to another, that if they keep them without food for two or three days, it will go far towards wonting them to their new situation.
ref:
1830, [Joseph Plumb Martin], “Campaign of 1780”, in A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier; Interspersed with Anecdotes of Incidents that Occurred within His Own Observation, Hallowell, Me.: Printed by Glazier, Masters & Co. No. 1, Kennebec-Row, →OCLC, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
What be the ſweet delights of learning a treaſure, / That wont with Comick ſock to beautify / The painted Theaters, and fill with pleaſure / The liſtners eyes, and eares with melodie; […]
ref:
c. 1580, Edmund Spenser, “The Teares of the Mvses[: Thalia]”, in Complaints: Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. VVhereof the Next Page Maketh Mention, London: Imprinted for VVilliam Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head, published 1591, →OCLC; republished in “The Teares of the Mvses[: Thalia]”, in The Faerie Qveen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Pöet, Edm. Spenser: Collected into One Volume, and Carefully Corrected, London: Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, 1617, →OCLC
text:
But by record of antique times I finde / That wemen wont in warres to beare most ſway, / And to all great exploites them ſelues inclind: […]
ref:
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, →OCLC, book III, canto II, stanza II, page 411
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something).
senses_topics:
|
15733 | word:
informatics
word_type:
noun
expansion:
informatics (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined 1967 from information + -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic.
German Informatik dates from 1957, French informatique from 1962.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A branch of information science and of computer science that focuses on the study of information processing, particularly with respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15734 | word:
torrid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
torrid (comparative torrider, superlative torridest)
forms:
form:
torrider
tags:
comparative
form:
torridest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin torridus, from torreō (“parch, scorch”).
senses_examples:
text:
a torrid love scene in a film or novel
type:
example
text:
Tomás O'Leary had a torrid time behind the forwards, fumbling on the floor, hesitant with his kicks.
ref:
2010 January 24, Eddie Butler, “"Rugby must beware leaping from the lenient to draconian over gouging"”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
But thanks to a torrid stretch that started in mid-June, the Yankees have regained first place in the A.L. East and built the largest division lead — nine games ahead of the second-place Tampa Bay Rays — in the league.
ref:
2019 July 22, James Wagner, “Yankees Face Another A.L. Powerhouse in the Twins”, in The New York Times, page B11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very hot and dry.
Full of intense emotions arising from sexual love; ardent and passionate.
Full of difficulty.
[of a streak, form, etc.] Good, impressive, hot
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
15735 | word:
pestilence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pestilence (countable and uncountable, plural pestilences)
forms:
form:
pestilences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pestilentia (“plague”), from pestilens (“infected, unwholesome, noxious”); equivalent to pestilent + -ence.
senses_examples:
text:
1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVII, Chapter iii, leaf 347r
and hit was in the realme of Logrys and soo bifelle grete pestylence & grete harme to both Realmes
"And it was in the realm of Logris; and so befell great pestilence and great harm to both realms."
text:
It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils.
ref:
1831 July 15, “Of the Blood”, in Western Journal of Health, volume 4, number 1, L. B. Lincoln, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
The snowshoe-rabbits build up through the years until they reach a climax when they seem to be everywhere; then with dramatic suddenness their pestilence falls upon them.
ref:
1949, Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
Anything harmful to morals or public order.
senses_topics:
|
15736 | word:
North Holland
word_type:
name
expansion:
North Holland
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of the Netherlands.
senses_topics:
|
15737 | word:
tod
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tod (plural tods)
forms:
form:
tods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tod, of unknown origin. Possibly influenced by Etymology 2, due to its bushy tail.
senses_examples:
text:
Who am Ah? Ah'm tod, whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!
ref:
1977, Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male fox.
A fox in general.
Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
senses_topics:
|
15738 | word:
tod
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tod (plural tods)
forms:
form:
tods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Cognate with German Zotte (“clotted hair”), Saterland Frisian todde (“bundle”), Swedish todd (“mass (of wool)”, dialectal).
senses_examples:
text:
Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
ref:
1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 27, page 202
type:
quotation
text:
Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.
ref:
1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 209
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bush, especially of ivy.
An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).
senses_topics:
|
15739 | word:
tod
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tod (third-person singular simple present tods, present participle todding, simple past and past participle todded)
forms:
form:
tods
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
todding
tags:
participle
present
form:
todded
tags:
participle
past
form:
todded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Cognate with German Zotte (“clotted hair”), Saterland Frisian todde (“bundle”), Swedish todd (“mass (of wool)”, dialectal).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To weigh; to yield in tods.
senses_topics:
|
15740 | word:
pentagon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pentagon (plural pentagons)
forms:
form:
pentagons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French pentagone, from Late Latin pentagōnum, from Ancient Greek πεντάγωνον (pentágōnon), noun use of the neuter of the adjective πεντάγωνος (pentágōnos, “five-angled”), from πέντε (pénte, “five”) + -γωνος (-gōnos, “angled”). Equivalent to penta- + -gon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A polygon with five sides and five angles.
A fort with five bastions.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
government
military
politics
war |
15741 | word:
flamingo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flamingo (plural flamingos or flamingoes)
forms:
form:
flamingos
tags:
plural
form:
flamingoes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Diccionario de la lengua española
flamingo
etymology_text:
From Portuguese flamengo (“flamingo”) and Spanish flamenco (“flamingo”), which were adapted from Catalan flamenc (“flamingo”), of disputed ultimate origin in this sense. All three forms are used adjectivally as an ethnonym meaning 'Flemish' (of Germanic origin, cognate to English Fleming); Spanish flamenco refers also to a dance type. Compare also French flamant (“flamingo”).
*The bird's name may derive from the ethnonym by an association of a ruddy complexion or hair color with the Flemings; this etymology is supported by Corominas. (In Spanish, flamenco can be used colloquially as an adjective meaning "robust, healthy-looking").
* Alternatively, either the dance flamenco, the bird name or both come from attaching the same Germanic-derived ending found in the ethnonym to the distinct root of Latin flamma (“flame”): i.e. Catalan flamenc has been analyzed as flama (“flame”) + -enc. Compare also Portuguese -engo.
senses_examples:
text:
After Nakuru the light remains only long enough to see the Lake Nakuru, away to the south, with its fringe of pink flamingos, and as the darkness falls the old main line to Kisumu branches to the left.
ref:
1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 266
type:
quotation
text:
flamingo:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae.
A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.
senses_topics:
|
15742 | word:
flamingo
word_type:
adj
expansion:
flamingo (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Diccionario de la lengua española
flamingo
etymology_text:
From Portuguese flamengo (“flamingo”) and Spanish flamenco (“flamingo”), which were adapted from Catalan flamenc (“flamingo”), of disputed ultimate origin in this sense. All three forms are used adjectivally as an ethnonym meaning 'Flemish' (of Germanic origin, cognate to English Fleming); Spanish flamenco refers also to a dance type. Compare also French flamant (“flamingo”).
*The bird's name may derive from the ethnonym by an association of a ruddy complexion or hair color with the Flemings; this etymology is supported by Corominas. (In Spanish, flamenco can be used colloquially as an adjective meaning "robust, healthy-looking").
* Alternatively, either the dance flamenco, the bird name or both come from attaching the same Germanic-derived ending found in the ethnonym to the distinct root of Latin flamma (“flame”): i.e. Catalan flamenc has been analyzed as flama (“flame”) + -enc. Compare also Portuguese -engo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.
senses_topics:
|
15743 | word:
cartouche
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cartouche (plural cartouches)
forms:
form:
cartouches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cartouche
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French cartouche, from Italian cartuccia, from carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Doublet of cartridge.
senses_examples:
text:
Besides the uncial writing on the convex side of the sherd at the top, painted in dull red, on what had once been the lip of the amphora, was the cartouche already mentioned as being on the scarabaeus, which we had also found in the casket.
ref:
1887, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 3, in She
type:
quotation
text:
In 1762, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, a French priest who was a scholar of Eastern languages, had made the inspired guess that the cartouches set off words of great importance, such as the names of gods or rulers.
ref:
2013, Margalit Fox, The Riddle of the Labyrinth, Profile 2014, page 49
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ornamental figure, often on an oval shield.
An oval figure containing the characters of an important personal name, such as that of royal or divine people.
A paper cartridge.
A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.
A gunner's bag for ammunition.
A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
senses_topics:
architecture
|
15744 | word:
leopard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leopard (plural leopards)
forms:
form:
leopards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English leopard, leopart, lepard, leperd, from Old French leopard (“leopard”), from Late Latin leopardus (“leopon, lipard”) from late Ancient Greek λεόπαρδος (leópardos, “leopon, lipard”), from λέων (léōn, “lion”) + πάρδος (párdos, “pard, male leopard”), from earlier πάρδαλις (párdalis, “leopard”), probably from an unattested Old Persian [Term?] term ancestral to Middle Persian palang, Khwarezmian plyk, Sogdian [script needed] (pwrδnk), Pashto پړانګ (pṛāng). Compare Persian پلنگ (palang) and Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛdāku, “panther”).
senses_examples:
text:
During all such cases when we were present they responded by giving repeated alarm calls, even when the leopard was already feeding on a carcass. We wanted to determine whether vervets knew enough about the behavior of leopards to recognize that, even in the absence of a leopard, a carcass in a tree signaled the same potential danger as did a leopard itself.
ref:
1990, Dorothy L. Cheney, How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species, published 1992, page 284
type:
quotation
text:
The leopard (Panthera pardus or Felis pardus cf tulliana) is a close relative of the lion, but biblical references mentioning it are very few, suggesting that it was not as common.
ref:
1998, Oded Borowski, Every Living Thing: Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
Leopard skins have always been desirable commodities because of their spectacular spotted patterns.
ref:
2005, Richard Ellis, Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine, page 197
type:
quotation
text:
There are plenty of beautiful cats among the thirty-nine species in the Felidae family, but the three leopards—clouded, common, and snow—may be the most visually stunning. Cloaked in the most beautiful fur of any cat, the reclusive clouded leopard is the Greta Garbo of the lot; it lives a solitary life in the remote jungles of Asia, from Nepal to Borneo.
ref:
2005, Eric Dinerstein, Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
Sometimes there is confusion over the heraldic leopard, the question being—When is a leopard not a leopard? There is a theory that the lion and leopard were the same thing, and that they were named entirely depending on their attitude—thus if the animal was passant guardant it was a leopard, but when rampant it was a lion. Nowadays a leopard is the genuine spotted article and quite unmistakeable. Some people still speak, wrongly, of the leopards of England, but it does no great harm as it is an ancient expression and everybody knows what it means.
ref:
1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, pages 68–69
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (in contrast to leopardess).
A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
The clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), a large wild cat native to Asia.
A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), a large wild cat native to Asia.
A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
A lion passant guardant.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Phalanta, having black markings on an orange base.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
|
15745 | word:
pole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pole (plural poles)
forms:
form:
poles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pole, pal, from Old English pāl (“a pole, stake, post; a kind of hoe or spade”), from Proto-West Germanic *pāl (“pole”), from Latin pālus (“stake, pale, prop, stay”), perhaps from Old Latin *paxlos, from Proto-Italic *pākslos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to nail, fasten”). Doublet of peel, pale, and palus.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots pale, paill (“stake, pale”), North Frisian pul, pil (“stake, pale”), Saterland Frisian Pool (“pole”), West Frisian poal (“pole”), Dutch paal (“pole”), German Pfahl (“pile, stake, post, pole”), Danish pæl (“pole”), Swedish påle (“pole”), Icelandic páll (“hoe, spade, pale”), Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; lustrum”).
senses_examples:
text:
Meronyms: pole-guard, pole-hook, pole-hound, pole-pad, pole-pin, pole-pin-strap, pole-plate, pole-ring, pole-screen, pole-socket, pole-stop, pole-strap
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
A type of basic fishing rod.
A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
Pole position.
A rifle.
A penis.
senses_topics:
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
|
15746 | word:
pole
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pole (third-person singular simple present poles, present participle poling, simple past and past participle poled)
forms:
form:
poles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
poling
tags:
participle
present
form:
poled
tags:
participle
past
form:
poled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pole, pal, from Old English pāl (“a pole, stake, post; a kind of hoe or spade”), from Proto-West Germanic *pāl (“pole”), from Latin pālus (“stake, pale, prop, stay”), perhaps from Old Latin *paxlos, from Proto-Italic *pākslos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to nail, fasten”). Doublet of peel, pale, and palus.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots pale, paill (“stake, pale”), North Frisian pul, pil (“stake, pale”), Saterland Frisian Pool (“pole”), West Frisian poal (“pole”), Dutch paal (“pole”), German Pfahl (“pile, stake, post, pole”), Danish pæl (“pole”), Swedish påle (“pole”), Icelandic páll (“hoe, spade, pale”), Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; lustrum”).
senses_examples:
text:
Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.
type:
example
text:
He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.
type:
example
text:
to pole beans or hops
type:
example
text:
to pole hay into a barn
type:
example
text:
Long had poled the ball into the lower deck in right center.
ref:
2007, Tony Silvia, Baseball Over the Air
type:
quotation
text:
to pole copper
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
To furnish with poles for support.
To convey on poles.
To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
To strike (the ball) very hard.
To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
15747 | word:
pole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pole (plural poles)
forms:
form:
poles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French pole, pôle, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).
senses_examples:
text:
The function f(z)#x3D;#x5C;frac#x7B;1#x7D;#x7B;z-3#x7D; has a single pole at z#x3D;3.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
The firmament; the sky.
Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
complex-analysis
mathematics
sciences
|
15748 | word:
pole
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pole (third-person singular simple present poles, present participle poling, simple past and past participle poled)
forms:
form:
poles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
poling
tags:
participle
present
form:
poled
tags:
participle
past
form:
poled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French pole, pôle, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
senses_topics:
|
15749 | word:
poltergeist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
poltergeist (plural poltergeists or poltergeister)
forms:
form:
poltergeists
tags:
plural
form:
poltergeister
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from German Poltergeist, from poltern (“to rumble”) + Geist (“ghost”). Cognate with English boulder and ghost.
senses_examples:
text:
A poltergeist haunts the house by moving objects around, making chain-rattling noises and throwing things.
type:
example
text:
The chapel is haunted by a demonic poltergeist.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An unseen ghost which makes noises and causes disruption, especially by causing physical objects to move or fly about.
senses_topics:
parapsychology
pseudoscience |
15750 | word:
tea cosy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tea cosy (plural tea cosies or tea cozies)
forms:
form:
tea cosies
tags:
plural
form:
tea cozies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
She had just finished knitting a tea cosy decorated with a floral pattern.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An insulating cloth covering, shaped to fit over a teapot to maintain warmth.
senses_topics:
|
15751 | word:
liar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
liar (plural liars)
forms:
form:
liars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
liar
etymology_text:
From Middle English lier, liere, lyere, liȝer, lieȝer, legher, from Old English lēgere, lēogere (“liar, false witness, hypocrite”), from Proto-West Germanic *leugārī, from Proto-Germanic *leugārijaz (“liar”), from *leuganą (“to lie”) + *-ārijaz, equivalent to lie + -ar. More at lie.
senses_examples:
text:
The Swabber is to keep the Cabbins, and all the Rooms of the Ship clean within board, and the Liar to do the like without board. The Liar holds his Place but for a week; and he that is first taken with a Lie upon a Monday morning, […] for that week he is under the Swabber, and meddles not with making clean the Ship within board, but without.
ref:
1703, Sir William Monson, Sir William Monson's Naval Tracts in Six Books, page 348
type:
quotation
text:
The swabber, perhaps the lowliest position on the ship, was responsible for cleaning the decks. By tradition, each Monday a new crewmember was appointed the liar—the first person caught telling a lie the previous week.
ref:
2005, Caleb H. Johnson, The Mayflower and Her Passengers, page 35
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who frequently lies; someone who tells a lie.
A swabber responsible for cleaning the outside parts of the ship rather than the cabins, a role traditionally assigned to a person caught telling a lie the previous week.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
15752 | word:
virtual
word_type:
adj
expansion:
virtual (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*wiHrós
The adjective is derived from Middle English vertual, virtual [and other forms], from Old French vertüal, vertüelle (modern French virtuel), or from their etymon Medieval Latin virtuālis (“of or pertaining to potency or power; having power to produce an effect, potent; morally virtuous”), from Latin virtūs (“goodness, virtue; manliness, virility”) (from vir (“adult male, man”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós (“man”), possibly from *weyh₁- (“to chase, hunt, pursue”)) + -tūs (suffix forming collective or abstract nouns)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship), modelled after virtuōsus (“good, virtuous”).
Sense 4 (“pertaining to a theoretical infinitesimal velocity in a mechanical system that does not violate the system’s constraints”) is borrowed from French virtuel, from Middle French virtuel, from Old French vertüal, vertüelle: see above.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
cognates
* French virtuel
* Italian virtuale
* Spanish virtual
senses_examples:
text:
In fact a defeat on the battlefield, Tet was a virtual victory for the North, owing to its effect on public opinion.
type:
example
text:
Virtual addressing allows computer applications to believe that there is much more physical memory than actually exists.
type:
example
text:
VIRTUAL is opposed to actual.— […] A thing has a virtual existence when it has all the conditions necessary to its actual existence. The statue exists virtually in the brass or iron, the oak in the acorn.
ref:
1857, William Fleming, “VIRTUAL”, in The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical; […], London, Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Company, →OCLC, page 542
type:
quotation
text:
The angry peasants were a virtual army as they attacked the castle.
type:
example
text:
The Chelsea captain [John Terry] was a virtual spectator as he was treated to his side's biggest win for almost two years as Stamford Bridge serenaded him with chants of "there's only one England captain," some 48 hours after he announced his retirement from international football.
ref:
2012 September 24, “Capital One Cup Third Round: Chelsea 6 – 0 Wolves”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2012-11-25
type:
quotation
text:
a virtual assistant a virtual personal trainer
type:
example
text:
In recent months, hospitals around the country, looking for ways to free up beds for coronavirus patients, began expanding their virtual offerings, launching video doctors' visits and virtual therapy sessions, and rolling out programs to remotely monitor vulnerable patients, like those in nursing homes.
ref:
2020 August 10, Abigail Abrams, “Tech Companies are Transforming People’s Bedrooms into ‘Virtual Hospitals.’ Will It Last Post-COVID?”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-28
type:
quotation
text:
virtual machine virtual memory virtual private network
type:
example
text:
The virtual world of his computer game allowed character interaction.
type:
example
text:
virtual displacement virtual work
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality; also, imitated, simulated.
For practical purposes, though not technically; almost complete, very near.
Operating using a computer and/or online rather than physically present.
Simulated in a computer and/or online.
Of a class member: capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass.
Pertaining to a theoretical infinitesimal velocity in a mechanical system that does not violate the system's constraints; also, of other physical quantities: resulting from such a velocity.
Pertaining to a theoretical quality of something which would produce an observable effect if counteracting factors such as friction are disregarded; specifically, of a head of water: producing a certain pressure if friction, etc., is disregarded.
Chiefly in virtual focus: of a focus or point: from which light or other radiation apparently emanates; also, of an image: produced by light that appears to diverge from a point beyond the reflecting or refracting surface.
Pertaining to particles in temporary existence due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
Of a quantum state: having an intermediate, short-lived, and unobservable nature.
Having efficacy or power due to some natural qualities.
Having efficacy or power due to some natural qualities.
Of a plant or other thing: having strong healing powers; virtuous.
Having the power of acting without the agency of some material or measurable thing; possessing invisible efficacy.
Producing, or able to produce, some result; effective, efficacious.
Synonym of virtuous (“full of virtue; having excellent moral character”)
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
15753 | word:
virtual
word_type:
noun
expansion:
virtual (countable and uncountable, plural virtuals)
forms:
form:
virtuals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*wiHrós
The adjective is derived from Middle English vertual, virtual [and other forms], from Old French vertüal, vertüelle (modern French virtuel), or from their etymon Medieval Latin virtuālis (“of or pertaining to potency or power; having power to produce an effect, potent; morally virtuous”), from Latin virtūs (“goodness, virtue; manliness, virility”) (from vir (“adult male, man”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós (“man”), possibly from *weyh₁- (“to chase, hunt, pursue”)) + -tūs (suffix forming collective or abstract nouns)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship), modelled after virtuōsus (“good, virtuous”).
Sense 4 (“pertaining to a theoretical infinitesimal velocity in a mechanical system that does not violate the system’s constraints”) is borrowed from French virtuel, from Middle French virtuel, from Old French vertüal, vertüelle: see above.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
cognates
* French virtuel
* Italian virtuale
* Spanish virtual
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Preceded by the: that which is imitated or simulated rather than existing in fact or reality; (countable) an instance of this.
Preceded by the: that which is imitated or simulated rather than existing in fact or reality; (countable) an instance of this.
That which is simulated in a computer and/or online; virtual reality; (countable) an instance of this; specifically (gambling), a computer simulation of a real-world sport such as horse racing.
A virtual (adjective sense 3.3) member function of a class.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
15754 | word:
Gelderland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Gelderland
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of The Netherlands with Arnhem as capital.
senses_topics:
|
15755 | word:
horse racing
word_type:
noun
expansion:
horse racing (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sport where horses and their jockeys compete to race around a track the fastest.
senses_topics:
|
15756 | word:
Geist
word_type:
name
expansion:
Geist (plural Geists)
forms:
form:
Geists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Geist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname from German.
senses_topics:
|
15757 | word:
Cheerios
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cheerios
forms:
wikipedia:
Cheerios
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
etymology_text:
Introduced on May 2, 1941, as “Cheerioats”: cheery + oats. The name was shortened to “Cheerios” on December 2, 1945, after a competing cereal manufacturer, Quaker Oats, claimed to hold the rights to use the term oats.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A toroidal toasted oat cereal made by General Mills.
senses_topics:
|
15758 | word:
Cheerios
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Cheerios
forms:
wikipedia:
Cheerios
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
etymology_text:
Introduced on May 2, 1941, as “Cheerioats”: cheery + oats. The name was shortened to “Cheerios” on December 2, 1945, after a competing cereal manufacturer, Quaker Oats, claimed to hold the rights to use the term oats.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of Cheerio
senses_topics:
|
15759 | word:
pabulary
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pabulary (comparative more pabulary, superlative most pabulary)
forms:
form:
more pabulary
tags:
comparative
form:
most pabulary
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to pabulum or fodder.
senses_topics:
|
15760 | word:
manual
word_type:
noun
expansion:
manual (plural manuals)
forms:
form:
manuals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English manuel, from Old French manuel, from Late Latin manuāle (“handbook, manual”).
senses_examples:
text:
The dishwasher isn't working; can you remember where we put the manual?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of handbook.
A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product.
A drill in the use of weapons, etc.
An old office-book like the modern Roman Catholic ritual.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
Christianity |
15761 | word:
manual
word_type:
adj
expansion:
manual (comparative more manual, superlative most manual)
forms:
form:
more manual
tags:
comparative
form:
most manual
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English manuel, from Anglo-Norman manuel, Old French manual, from Latin manuālis, from manus (“hand”).
senses_examples:
text:
The teacher urged the students to do a manual check, because some errors aren't picked up by the spell checker.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Performed with the hands.
Operated by means of the hands.
Performed by a human rather than a machine.
senses_topics:
|
15762 | word:
manual
word_type:
noun
expansion:
manual (countable and uncountable, plural manuals)
forms:
form:
manuals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English manuel, from Anglo-Norman manuel, Old French manual, from Latin manuālis, from manus (“hand”).
senses_examples:
text:
Tom's transmission shop can fix both manuals and automatics.
type:
example
text:
I'm not used to automatics; I've always driven manuals.
type:
example
text:
do a manual
type:
example
text:
give someone a quick manual
type:
example
text:
In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]
ref:
2007, Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger, Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
Put the controls to manual.
type:
example
text:
Leave the system on manual.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine.
A manual transmission; a gearbox, especially of a motorized vehicle, shifted by the operator.
A device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine.
A vehicle with a manual transmission.
A device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine.
A keyboard for the hands on a harpsichord, organ, or other musical instrument.
A device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine.
A manual typewriter (as contrasted with an electronic one).
A procedure or operation that is done using the hands, or by a human rather than machine.
Manual measurement of the blood pressure, done with a manual sphygmomanometer.
A procedure or operation that is done using the hands, or by a human rather than machine.
A bicycle technique whereby the front wheel is held aloft by the rider, without the use of pedal force.
A procedure or operation that is done using the hands, or by a human rather than machine.
A similar maneuver on a skateboard, lifting the front or back wheels while keeping the tail or nose of the board from touching the ground.
Manual control or operation.
senses_topics:
automotive
transport
vehicles
entertainment
lifestyle
music
medicine
sciences
|
15763 | word:
spaceport
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spaceport (plural spaceports)
forms:
form:
spaceports
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From space + port; compare airport.
senses_examples:
text:
Ashley: You're Dr. Warren, the one in charge of the excavation. Do you know what happened to the beacon?
Dr. Warren: It was moved to the spaceport this morning. Manuel and I stayed behind to help pack up the camp.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A site for launching spacecraft.
senses_topics:
|
15764 | word:
dis
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dis (third-person singular simple present disses, present participle dissing, simple past and past participle dissed)
forms:
form:
disses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dissing
tags:
participle
present
form:
dissed
tags:
participle
past
form:
dissed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
dis
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of disrespect.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of diss
senses_topics:
|
15765 | word:
dis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dis (plural disses)
forms:
form:
disses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dis
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of disrespect.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of diss
senses_topics:
|
15766 | word:
dis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dis (plural disir)
forms:
form:
disir
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dis
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Old Norse dís.
senses_examples:
text:
In Norway the Dîsir appear to have been held in great veneration.
ref:
1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, E Lumley, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
A number of places in Norway and Sweden were also named after the Disir
ref:
1993, Hilda Ellis Davidson, The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe, Routledge, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
Bard had prepared a feast for him, because a sacrifice was being made to the disir.
ref:
1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, translated by Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 67
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of a group of minor female deities in Scandinavian folklore.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences |
15767 | word:
dis
word_type:
det
expansion:
dis
forms:
wikipedia:
dis
etymology_text:
Representing a colloquial or dialectal pronunciation with th-stopping of this.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
This.
senses_topics:
|
15768 | word:
dis
word_type:
pron
expansion:
dis
forms:
wikipedia:
dis
etymology_text:
Representing a colloquial or dialectal pronunciation with th-stopping of this.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
This.
senses_topics:
|
15769 | word:
cruise
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cruise (plural cruises)
forms:
form:
cruises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cruising
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux.
senses_examples:
text:
He departed with the Naniwa and the Hashidate²⁰ for a two day cruise, skirting the Wuchiu and Hui Ch’uan Islands and the shore of Fukien Province.
ref:
1936, Edwin A. Falk, Togo and the Rise of Japanese Sea Power, Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 229
type:
quotation
text:
I ended my cruise of four years in the Marine Corps at the first Officers' Training Camp for enlisted men at Quantico […]
ref:
1919, United States. Marine Corps, Recruiters' Bulletin, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
The New Orleans had to have numerous alterations made, and as the Chicago was just about going into commission, I was ordered to that ship to finish my cruise.
ref:
2015, George Barnett, Andy Barnett, George Barnett, Marine Corps Commandant: A Memoir, 1877-1923
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: blast
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
A period spent in the Marine Corps.
A car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group. See Cruising (driving).
A period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to a full-dosed cycle (blast).
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
government
military
politics
war
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
15770 | word:
cruise
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cruise (third-person singular simple present cruises, present participle cruising, simple past and past participle cruised)
forms:
form:
cruises
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cruising
tags:
participle
present
form:
cruised
tags:
participle
past
form:
cruised
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux.
senses_examples:
text:
1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Lot of not too bad looking boys there but when M came in I knew right then: him. Very thin & feminine, brown hair fluffed around his sharp featured face. So I began cruising him.
text:
We see him [Joseph Huff-Hannon] approach several sets of men to ak if they have "a minute to talk about climate change"; they dismiss him out of hand, clearly more interesting in playing volleyball and cruising—including cruising Huff-Hannon himself—than in listening to bad news.
ref:
2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 144
type:
quotation
text:
Germany cruised to a World Cup victory over the short-handed Australians.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: blast
text:
blast and cruise
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sail about, especially for pleasure.
To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
To inspect (forest land) for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.
To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.
To attempt to pick up as a casual sexual partner; hit on
To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
To win easily and convincingly.
To take part in a cruise (car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group).
To have a period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to going through a full-dosed cycle (blast).
senses_topics:
business
forestry
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
15771 | word:
cruise
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cruise (plural cruises)
forms:
form:
cruises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
ref:
King James translators, 1 Kings 17:12
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small cup; cruse.
senses_topics:
|
15772 | word:
Murrinh-Patha
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Murrinh-Patha pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
Murrinh-Patha
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small tribe of Australian Aboriginal people living in Australia's Northern Territory.
senses_topics:
|
15773 | word:
Murrinh-Patha
word_type:
name
expansion:
Murrinh-Patha
forms:
wikipedia:
Murrinh-Patha
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language spoken by these people; Murinypata.
senses_topics:
|
15774 | word:
reliable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
reliable (comparative more reliable, superlative most reliable)
forms:
form:
more reliable
tags:
comparative
form:
most reliable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From rely + -able.
senses_examples:
text:
a reliable witness to the truth of the miracles
ref:
1855, Andrews Norton, Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels
type:
quotation
text:
the best means, and the most reliable pledge, of a higher object
ref:
February 18, 1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Report on Mr. Pitt's Speech in Parliament of February 17, 1800, on the Continuance of the War with France (published in The Morning Post)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence, reliance or trust; dependable, trustworthy
Such that either a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing |
15775 | word:
reliable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
reliable (plural reliables)
forms:
form:
reliables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From rely + -able.
senses_examples:
text:
the old reliables
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something or someone reliable or dependable
senses_topics:
|
15776 | word:
subtext
word_type:
noun
expansion:
subtext (plural subtexts)
forms:
form:
subtexts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
subtext
etymology_text:
From sub- + text.
senses_examples:
text:
Everyone heard the announcement, but not everyone agrees on what the subtext was.
type:
example
text:
The word dick has meant penis since the 1890s, but Chester Gould’s private detective “Dick Tracy” has no puerile subtext related to this word.
ref:
2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
While his major plays appear on the surface to have little plot, their subtext is full of overheated romance and melodrama.
ref:
2012 July 27, Jason Zinoman, “Chekhov's Banana Peel”, in Slate
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The implicit meaning of a text, often a literary one, or a speech or dialogue.
senses_topics:
authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing |
15777 | word:
subtext
word_type:
verb
expansion:
subtext (third-person singular simple present subtexts, present participle subtexting, simple past and past participle subtexted)
forms:
form:
subtexts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
subtexting
tags:
participle
present
form:
subtexted
tags:
participle
past
form:
subtexted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From sub- + text.
senses_examples:
text:
All the participants used subtexting as an important viewing strategy of mainstream films. We are always looking for innuendoes and cues either with certain individual characters or between female characters.
ref:
1996, Womonspace News: Our Voice in the Lesbian Community: Dec 1996
type:
quotation
text:
Subtexting is the technique that every author needs to know in order to create dialogue that is rich in meaning while sounding natural, for in real life, this is the way people often converse.
ref:
2002, Collins, Brandilyn, Getting into character : seven secrets a novelist can learn from actors, →OCLC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To create or use a subtext.
senses_topics:
|
15778 | word:
Overijssel
word_type:
name
expansion:
Overijssel
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dutch Overijssel, meaning “[land] across the IJssel”, from the perspective of the bishopric of Utrecht by which it was held until 1528.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of the Netherlands, with Zwolle as capital city and Enschede the largest city.
senses_topics:
|
15779 | word:
shelf
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shelf (plural shelves)
forms:
form:
shelves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English schelfe, probably from Old English sċylfe, sċilfe (“shelf, ledge, deck of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *skilfijā, from Proto-Germanic *skelfō (“shelf, ledge, cliff”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), distantly related to sculpt, carve and shell. Cognate with Dutch schelf (“hay loft, haystack”), German Low German Schelf (“haystack”), Old Norse skjalf (“bench”).
senses_examples:
text:
We keep the old newspapers on the bottom shelf of the cupboard, and our photos on the top shelf.
type:
example
text:
Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
ref:
2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, retrieved 2012-10-31
type:
quotation
text:
a shelf of videos
type:
example
text:
This is where the Visual Studio Shelving function can help. A shelf is a place on the server in source control that is separate from the main code line so it will not affect other developers.
ref:
2012, Bradley Irby, Reengineering .NET
type:
quotation
text:
A shelveset allows you to store a changeset on the server without adding it to the current codebase and sharing it with team members directly. Each team member has his own “shelf,” where he can store as many shelvesets as he wants.
ref:
2016, Wouter de Kort, DevOps on the Microsoft Stack, page 114
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects.
The capacity of such an object
A projecting ledge that resembles such an object.
The part of a repository where shelvesets are stored.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15780 | word:
shelf
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shelf (plural shelves or shelfs)
forms:
form:
shelves
tags:
plural
form:
shelfs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Of obscure origin; evidently identical to Middle English shelp (“sandbar in a river”), but the sound shift is unexpected. Shelp might be from Old English scylp (“crag”) or Middle Dutch schelp-.
senses_examples:
text:
The Marchant that returnes from ſome far forrain lands, / Eſcaping dreadfull rocks and dangerous ſhelfs and ſands, / When as he ſees his ſhip her home-hauen enter ſafe, / Will he repine at God, and as offended chafe / For being brought to ſoone home to his natiue ſoile, / Free from all perills ſad that threaten ſaylor’s ſpoile?
ref:
1594, Odet de la Noue, translated by Iosuah Silvester, The Profit of Imprisonment. A Paradox, VVritten in French by Odet de la Noue, Lord of Teligni, Being Prisoner in the Castle of Tournay., London: […] Peter Short, for Edward Blunt
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A reef, sandbar, or shoal.
senses_topics:
|
15781 | word:
South Holland
word_type:
name
expansion:
South Holland
forms:
wikipedia:
South Holland
South Holland, Illinois
South Holland, Lincolnshire
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of the Netherlands.
A local government district in Lincolnshire, England.
A village in Thornton Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States.
senses_topics:
|
15782 | word:
HK
word_type:
name
expansion:
HK
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
(when referring to Hong Kong Island)
text:
An investigation is underway after some HK$800,000 in valuables was stolen from a detached house in Pok Fu Lam.
ref:
2023 June 9, “Burglars grab HK$800,000 in valuables from detached house in Pok Fu Lam”, in The Standard, archived from the original on 2023-08-21, Local
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Hong Kong.
Initialism of Heckler and Koch.
senses_topics:
|
15783 | word:
mange
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mange (usually uncountable, plural manges)
forms:
form:
manges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English manjewe, manjeue, from Old French manjue, derived from mangier (“to eat”) (modern French manger (“to eat”)), from Latin manducare.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: (in humans) scabies
text:
Not yet come! [the] worrying of wolves, biting of mad dogs, the manges, and the
ref:
1621, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, John Ford, The Witch of Edmonton
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).
senses_topics:
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology |
15784 | word:
Skopje
word_type:
name
expansion:
Skopje
forms:
wikipedia:
Skopje
etymology_text:
Romanization of Macedonian Скопје (Skopje).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of North Macedonia.
North Macedonia, especially in the Greek media.
senses_topics:
|
15785 | word:
contribute
word_type:
verb
expansion:
contribute (third-person singular simple present contributes, present participle contributing, simple past and past participle contributed)
forms:
form:
contributes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
contributing
tags:
participle
present
form:
contributed
tags:
participle
past
form:
contributed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*tréyes
From Latin contribūtus, perfect passive participle of contribuō (“I bring together; I unite”), from con- (“together”) + tribuō (“I bestow”), from tribus (“tribe”), derived from trēs (“three”), from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
senses_examples:
text:
to contribute money to a church fund
type:
example
text:
to contribute articles to a journal
type:
example
text:
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.
senses_topics:
|
15786 | word:
reference
word_type:
noun
expansion:
reference (countable and uncountable, plural references)
forms:
form:
references
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
reference
etymology_text:
From Middle French référence, from Medieval Latin referentia, nominative neuter plural of referēns, present participle of referō (“return, reply”, literally “carry back”). Morphologically refer + -ence.
senses_examples:
text:
Changes will befall, and friends may part, / But distance only cannot change the heart / And were I call’d to prove th’ assertion true, / One proof should serve—a reference to you.
ref:
a. 1800, William Cowper, “An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq.”, in The Task, Tirocinium, and Other Poems, page 180
type:
quotation
text:
reference grammar ― detailed linguistic description of a particular language's grammar
type:
example
text:
Reference Dictionary of Linguistics
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A relationship or relation (to something).
A measurement one can compare (some other measurement) to.
Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
A person who provides this information; a referee.
A reference work.
The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.
A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.
A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.
Appeal.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
|
15787 | word:
reference
word_type:
verb
expansion:
reference (third-person singular simple present references, present participle referencing, simple past and past participle referenced)
forms:
form:
references
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
referencing
tags:
participle
present
form:
referenced
tags:
participle
past
form:
referenced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
reference
etymology_text:
From Middle French référence, from Medieval Latin referentia, nominative neuter plural of referēns, present participle of referō (“return, reply”, literally “carry back”). Morphologically refer + -ence.
senses_examples:
text:
You must thoroughly reference your paper before submitting it.
type:
example
text:
Reference the dictionary for word meanings.
type:
example
text:
The penchant for synthesizing the work of others that pervades British scholarship has been described by one of my cynical American colleagues as “a giant bibliography that is always eating its own tail.” By this he means that cliques of like-minded writers tend to reference each other’s work incessantly.
ref:
1990, Thomas L. Bell, “Political Economy's Response to Positivism”, in Geographical Review, volume 80, number 3, American Geographical Society, →JSTOR, page 314
type:
quotation
text:
Written information is a relatively new phenomenon. Depositing it and being able to reference it centuries later is not common human experience.
ref:
1994, Barry Chamish, quoting Louis Rossetto, “The End of the Book”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
On the Florence Harding page, for instance, a researcher will be able to reference a book by Waarren Harding’s alleged mistress, Nan Britton, who claimed that she bore his daughter.
ref:
1998 January 26, Donnie Radcliffe, “New Library Will Chronicle First Ladies”, in The Washington Post, page C1+
type:
quotation
text:
In his speech, the candidate obliquely referenced the past failures of his opponent.
type:
example
text:
Humanities institutions specifically reference the work setting for illustrative applications of the unique and significant contributions of the Humanities.
ref:
1988, Integrating the Humanities into Associate Degree Occupational Programs, American Association of Community Colleges, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
With the economy characteristic of all African sculpture, these portraits reference individual and social identities simultaneously, so that the image of a king may represent a particular king and all kings; a commemorative mask for a woman, a particular woman and all titled women.
ref:
1990, Jean Borgatti, “Portraiture in Africa”, in African Arts, volume 23, number 3, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
And I would simply reference those of you who are out there working.
ref:
1991 January 19, Bobby Ray Inman, “A Nominee’s Withdrawal: Transcript of the Statement by Inman on His Decision to Withdraw”, in The New York Times, page A14
type:
quotation
text:
The given pointer will reference the actual generated data.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To provide a list of references for (a text).
To refer to, to use as a reference.
To mention, to cite.
To contain the value that is a memory address of some value stored in memory.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
15788 | word:
speedway
word_type:
noun
expansion:
speedway (countable and uncountable, plural speedways)
forms:
form:
speedways
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:speedway
etymology_text:
From speed + way.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A form of motorcycle racing on flat (without camber) oval dirt tracks using motorcycles with neither brakes nor gears.
A form of bicycle racing on flat (non-banked) oval dirt tracks.
A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
A positive-camber banked oval racing circuit, designed for high speed cornering, racing anywhere on the length of the track.
A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
A positive-camber banked oval racing circuit, designed for high speed cornering, racing anywhere on the length of the track.
A size of paved banked oval racetrack, smaller than superspeedways, but larger than a mile.
A road for high speed traffic; an expressway.
senses_topics:
|
15789 | word:
red violet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
red violet (plural red violets)
forms:
form:
red violets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From red + violet.
senses_examples:
text:
red violet:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A purplish red colour, like that of a red violet flower.
senses_topics:
|
15790 | word:
red violet
word_type:
adj
expansion:
red violet (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From red + violet.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a purplish red colour, like that of a red violet flower.
senses_topics:
|
15791 | word:
Christendom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Christendom (countable and uncountable, plural Christendoms)
forms:
form:
Christendoms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Christendom
etymology_text:
From Middle English cristendom, cristendome, from Old English cristendōm, equivalent to Christen + -dom.
senses_examples:
text:
The result is contained in the fact of a wide and still widening Christendom.
ref:
1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Aphorisms on that which is indeed spiritual religion”, in Aids to Reflection, page 184
type:
quotation
text:
Wessex was facing new barbarians, apparently intent on destroying everything that Christendom meant for England.
ref:
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 503
type:
quotation
text:
[…]and yet cannot be denied that ſo it ought to be, by any man that would not have his Chriſtendome ſuſpected.
ref:
1643, Jeremy Taylor, Of the Sacred Order and Offices of Epiſcopacy […], R. Royſton, page 101
type:
quotation
text:
Especially about law and its obligatory force was Cromwell's head clear, making clearer distinctions than Wolsey with his conscience or More with his Christendom.
ref:
2015 March 12 [1934], Kenneth Pickthorn, Early Tudor Government, volume 2, Cambridge University Press, page 137
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Christian world; Christ's Church on Earth.
The state of being a (devout) Christian; Christian belief or faith.
The name received at baptism; any name or appellation.
senses_topics:
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15792 | word:
deciduous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
deciduous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin dēciduus (“falling down or off”), from dēcidō (“fall down”).
senses_examples:
text:
. Compare caducous.
text:
a deciduous tree
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Describing a part that falls off, or is shed, at a particular time or stage of development.
Of or pertaining to trees which lose their leaves in winter or the dry season.
Transitory, ephemeral, not lasting.
senses_topics:
anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
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15793 | word:
linen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
linen (countable and uncountable, plural linens)
forms:
form:
linens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lynnen, lynen, from Old English līnen (“linen", "made of flax”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnīn (“made of flax”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”), equivalent to line + -en. Cognate with Latin līnum (“flax”). More at line.
senses_examples:
text:
She put the freshly cleaned linens into the linen closet.
type:
example
text:
linen:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Thread or cloth made from flax fiber.
Domestic textiles, such as tablecloths, bedding, towels, underclothes, etc., that are made of linen or linen-like fabrics of cotton or other fibers; linens.
A light beige colour, like that of linen cloth undyed.
senses_topics:
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15794 | word:
linen
word_type:
adj
expansion:
linen (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lynnen, lynen, from Old English līnen (“linen", "made of flax”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnīn (“made of flax”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”), equivalent to line + -en. Cognate with Latin līnum (“flax”). More at line.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made from linen cloth or thread.
Having the colour linen, light beige.
senses_topics:
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15795 | word:
haunt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
haunt (third-person singular simple present haunts, present participle haunting, simple past and past participle haunted)
forms:
form:
haunts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
haunting
tags:
participle
present
form:
haunted
tags:
participle
past
form:
haunted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English haunten (“to reside, inhabit, use, employ”), from Old French hanter (“to inhabit, frequent, resort to”), from Old Northern French hanter (“to go back home, frequent”), from Old Norse heimta (“to bring home, fetch”) or/and from Old English hāmettan (“to bring home; house; cohabit with”); both from Proto-Germanic *haimatjaną (“to house, bring home”), from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“village, home”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village”).
Cognate with Old English hǣman (“to cohabit, lie with, marry”); related to Old English hām (“home, village”), Old French hantin (“a stay, a place frequented by”) from the same Germanic source. Another descendant from the French is Dutch hanteren, whence German hantieren, Swedish hantera, Danish håndtere. More at home.
senses_examples:
text:
A couple of ghosts haunt the old, burnt-down house.
type:
example
text:
those cares that haunt the court and town
ref:
1713, Jonathan Swift, Imitation of Horace, Book I. Ep. VII
type:
quotation
text:
The memory of his past failures haunted him.
type:
example
text:
The policeman haunted him, following him everywhere.
type:
example
text:
Ex's and the oh-oh-oh's, they haunt me / Like ghosts, they want me / To make 'em a-a-all / They won't let go / Ex's and oh's
ref:
2014 September 23, Elle King, Dave Bassett, “Ex's & Oh's”, in Love Stuff, performed by Elle King
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
To make uneasy, restless.
To stalk; to follow.
To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
To practise; to devote oneself to.
To persist in staying or visiting.
senses_topics:
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15796 | word:
haunt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
haunt (plural haunts)
forms:
form:
haunts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English haunten (“to reside, inhabit, use, employ”), from Old French hanter (“to inhabit, frequent, resort to”), from Old Northern French hanter (“to go back home, frequent”), from Old Norse heimta (“to bring home, fetch”) or/and from Old English hāmettan (“to bring home; house; cohabit with”); both from Proto-Germanic *haimatjaną (“to house, bring home”), from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“village, home”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village”).
Cognate with Old English hǣman (“to cohabit, lie with, marry”); related to Old English hām (“home, village”), Old French hantin (“a stay, a place frequented by”) from the same Germanic source. Another descendant from the French is Dutch hanteren, whence German hantieren, Swedish hantera, Danish håndtere. More at home.
senses_examples:
text:
The shopping mall is a popular haunt of the local teenagers in this town.
type:
example
text:
I went back the town I used to live and visited all my old haunts.
type:
example
text:
It is a great rock or cliff on the loneliest part of the mountains, and, … is known by the name of the Garden Rock. Near the foot of it is a small lake, the haunt of the solitary bittern, with water-snakes basking in the sun on the leaves of the pond-lilies which lie on the surface.
ref:
1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle
type:
quotation
text:
Both Jack and Fletcher had graduated the year before, but still took an interest in their old haunts, and patronized the fellows who were not yet through.
ref:
1868, Louisa May Alcott, Kitty's Class Day
type:
quotation
text:
Wyoming has been a favorite haunt of paleontologists for the past century ever since westering pioneers reported that many vertebrate fossils were almost lying on the ground.
ref:
1984 October 8, Timothy Loughran, Natalie Angier, “Science: Striking It Rich in Wyoming”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.
ref:
2018, Michael Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol Newsom, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha
type:
quotation
text:
The lofty mountains roſe faint to the ſight and loſt their foreheads in the diſtant ſkies: the little hills, cloathed in darker green and ſkirted with embroidered vales, diſcovered the ſecret haunts of kids and bounding roes.
ref:
1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.
A ghost.
A lair or feeding place of animals.
senses_topics:
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15797 | word:
lawyer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lawyer (plural lawyers)
forms:
form:
lawyers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lawyer
etymology_text:
From Middle English lawier, lawyer, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer.
senses_examples:
text:
A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade. - aphorism often credited to Abraham Lincoln, but without attestation
text:
The species of Eugnomus are very partial to the lawyer (Rubus australis ) when in bloom.
ref:
1881 April, George M. Thomson, “On the Fertilization of New Zealand Flowering Plants”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, volume 13, page 250
type:
quotation
text:
In the lawyer (Rubus australis) a considerable differentiation has taken place. All the alllies of this plant (such as the true roses, brambles, rasps, &c.), exhibit a strong development of epidermal structures in the form of hooks, spines, or hairs, but in none are these structures so perfect as in our lawyer.
ref:
1885, New Zealand Journal of Science - Volume 2, page 417
type:
quotation
text:
A plant that is excessively troublesome in the localities where the native vegetation has been least disturbed is the “lawyer” (Rubus australis).
ref:
1915, John Henderson, P. Marshall, Percy Gates Morgan, The Geology and Mineral Resources of the Reefton Subdivision, Westport and North Westland Division, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Besides the bags and nets common throughout the continent, these tribes have water-bags, which they make of closely-plaited “lawyer” (Calamus Australis), and also of palm-leaf sewn with the sinews of animals.
ref:
1886, Edward Micklethwaite Curr, The Australian Race, page 427
type:
quotation
text:
The nest was a foot or two from the ground, and placed in a bunch of lawyer (Calamus ) canes.
ref:
1901, Archibald James Campbell, Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, page 267
type:
quotation
text:
This lawyer (Calamus australis) is a climbing palm, throwing up shoots from its roots as thick as a man's finger and tough as wire, covered with sharp spines, and bearing much divided leaves, alternating with tendrils twenty feel long.
ref:
1905, W. J. Gordon, “Jackey Jackey”, in The Boy's Own Annual, volume 28, page 318
type:
quotation
text:
They were usually very neatly laid out under arching masses of the exasperating lawyer-palm vines ( Calamus moti and C. australis ), and consequently not too easy to examine.
ref:
1910 October, Sidney Wm. Jackson, “Additional Notes on Tooth-billed Bower-Bird (Scenopaeetes dentirostris) of North Queensland”, in The Emu: Official Organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union, volume 10, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
Lawyer Vine (Calamus muelleri), also known as Hairy Mary and Wait-a-while, is actually a palm, that grows in long canes that loop and snake through the undergrowth.
ref:
2014, Germaine Greer, White Beech: The Rainforest Years, page 171
type:
quotation
text:
The trail of the lawyer vine (CALAMUS OBSTRUENS), with its leaf sheath and long tentacles bristling with incurved hooks, is over it all.
ref:
2022, E. J. Banfield, The Confessions of a Beachcomber
type:
quotation
text:
The stems of the "lawyer vine" (Flagellaria indica), buz or buzi (W.), boz (E.), are used in house-building, tying fences, etc.
ref:
2011, A. C. Haddon, W. H. R. Rivers, Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, page 89
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)
A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law as an attorney-at-law, solicitor, advocate, barrister or equivalent, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice.
A legal layman who argues points of law.
The burbot.
The stem of a bramble.
Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.
A relative of the raspberry found in Australia and New Zealand, Rubus australis
Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.
Various species of Calamus, including Calamus australis, Calamus muelleri, Calamus obstruens, Calamus vitiensis, Calamus warburgii, and Calamus moti.
Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.
A woody climbing rainforest vine, Flagellaria indica.
senses_topics:
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15798 | word:
lawyer
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lawyer (third-person singular simple present lawyers, present participle lawyering, simple past and past participle lawyered)
forms:
form:
lawyers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lawyering
tags:
participle
present
form:
lawyered
tags:
participle
past
form:
lawyered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
lawyer
etymology_text:
From Middle English lawier, lawyer, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer.
senses_examples:
text:
You've been lawyered!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To practice law.
To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
To make legalistic arguments.
To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.
senses_topics:
|
15799 | word:
frown
word_type:
noun
expansion:
frown (plural frowns)
forms:
form:
frowns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English frown, froun (“a threatening appearance; lowering of the clouds”), from frounen (“to frown”). See below.
senses_examples:
text:
Philip had once told him of a man who had a horse-shoe frown, and Tom had tried with all his frowning-might to make a horse-shoe on his forehead
ref:
1860, George Eliot, “V: Maggie's Second Visit”, in The Mill on the Floss, Volume I Book II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood, page 336‑337
type:
quotation
text:
He encounters some obstacle in his train of reasoning ... and then a frown passes like a shadow over his brow.
ref:
1873, Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, page 223
type:
quotation
text:
The smile and the frown are both indicated and the operation of a motor driven flasher causes the face to look happy and sad in turn.
ref:
1911 December 24, “Facial Expression Electric Sign”, in Popular Electricity, volume iv, number 8, Chicago, page 714
type:
quotation
text:
1931, “Turn That Frown Upside Down, Smile at the Cock-eyed World”, Joe Young (lyrics), Sam Stept (music):
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wrinkling of the forehead with the eyebrows brought together, typically indicating displeasure, severity, or concentration.
A downturn of the corners of the mouth, typically expressing sadness.
senses_topics:
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