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15800 | word:
frown
word_type:
verb
expansion:
frown (third-person singular simple present frowns, present participle frowning, simple past and past participle frowned)
forms:
form:
frowns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
frowning
tags:
participle
present
form:
frowned
tags:
participle
past
form:
frowned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English frounen (“to frown as an expression of disapproval, displeasure, shame, fear, or jealousy”), from Old French frognier (“to frown or scowl”), from Gaulish *frognā (“nostril”), from Proto-Celtic *srognā.
senses_examples:
text:
She frowned when I told her the news.
type:
example
text:
Noisy gossip in the library is frowned upon.
type:
example
text:
Let us frown the impudent fellow into silence.
type:
example
text:
Frank frowned his displeasure with my proposal.
type:
example
text:
As the band paused between songs, a gust of wind blew a distinctive Worthy Farm odour in the direction of drummer/vocalist Julien Ehrich: “Wow,” he frowned, “this place smells of cow shit.”
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:
To have a frown on one's face.
To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly.
To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look.
To communicate by frowning.
senses_topics:
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15801 | word:
antagonist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
antagonist (plural antagonists)
forms:
form:
antagonists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
antagonist
etymology_text:
From Latin antagonista, from Ancient Greek ἀνταγωνιστής (antagōnistḗs, “opponent”) (ἀντί (antí, “against”) + ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “a combatant, pleader, actor”)), from ἀνταγωνίζεσθαι (antagōnízesthai, “antagonize”).
senses_examples:
text:
2001: The calcium antagonists represent one of the top ten classes of prescription drugs in terms of commercial value, with worldwide sales of nearly $10 billion in 1999. — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 41)
text:
So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being / I mean, imagine if antagonists lacked any evil scheme
ref:
2022, Will Wood (musician) (lyrics and music), “The Main Character”, in In case I make it,, performed by Will Wood
type:
quotation
text:
A flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An opponent or enemy.
One who antagonizes or stirs.
A chemical that binds to a receptor but does not produce a physiological response, blocking the action of agonist chemicals.
The main character or force opposing the protagonist in a literary work or drama.
A muscle that acts in opposition to another.
senses_topics:
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
15802 | word:
cos
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cos (plural coses)
forms:
form:
coses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Cos, name of the Greek island from where it was introduced.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Romaine lettuce: a variety of lettuce with long, crisp leaves.
senses_topics:
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15803 | word:
cos
word_type:
conj
expansion:
cos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Taking the shortcut through the alleyway by the Jobcentre Plus, just cos I can, we arrive at my flat within minutes.
ref:
2021, Isabel Waidner, Sterling Karat Gold, Peninsula Press, page 161
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Informal spelling of 'cause (“because”).
senses_topics:
|
15804 | word:
cos
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cos (plural cosses)
forms:
form:
cosses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of cousin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cousin, cuz.
senses_topics:
|
15805 | word:
cos
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From co + -s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of co
senses_topics:
|
15806 | word:
cos
word_type:
pron
expansion:
cos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From co + -s.
senses_examples:
text:
Psychiatrists are trained to try to impose the responsibility for a patient’s problem on the patient coself, rather than on cos environment.
ref:
1973, Michael Glenn, Richard Kunnes, Repression or Revolution?: Therapy in the United States Today, Harper Colophon Books, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
WHEREAS a child’s sexuality is just as much a part of cos whole person from birth as the blood that flows in cos veins, making cos sexual rights inherent and inalienable […]
ref:
1975, Valida Davila, “A Child’s Sexual Bill of Rights”, in Bernhardt J. Hurwood, editor, The Whole Sex Catalogue, New York, N.Y.: Pinnacle Books, published 1976, page 287
type:
quotation
text:
Co absents coself from the Community for more than three weeks beyond the point of having made satisfactory arrangements with the Community with regard to cos absence.
ref:
1986, Ingrid Komar, Living the Dream: Twin Oaks Community 1979-1982, Louisa, Va.: Twin Oaks Community, →OCLC, page 355
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to co. Gender-neutral possessive adjective, grammatically equivalent to the gendered his and her and the singular their.
senses_topics:
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15807 | word:
decompose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
decompose (third-person singular simple present decomposes, present participle decomposing, simple past and past participle decomposed)
forms:
form:
decomposes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
decomposing
tags:
participle
present
form:
decomposed
tags:
participle
past
form:
decomposed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French décomposer. Equivalent to de- + compose.
senses_examples:
text:
Various fungi can decompose wood.
type:
example
text:
Plastics can take centuries to decompose.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To separate or break down (something) into its components; to disintegrate or fragment.
To rot, decay or putrefy.
senses_topics:
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15808 | word:
Alexandria
word_type:
name
expansion:
Alexandria
forms:
wikipedia:
Alexander the Great
etymology_text:
From Middle English Alexandria, from Latin Alexandrīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρεια (Alexándreia), from Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros, “Alexander”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming place names”), initially chiefly places founded by Alexander the Great of Macedonia and subsequently usually with reference to Alexandria in Egypt, a major Hellenistic cultural center, center of early Christianity, and continuing major international port. Compare Antioch, Seleucia, and Ptolemais. Doublet of Kandahar, Iskenderun, Scandaroon, and Alexandretta.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city, port, and former capital of Egypt famed for its ancient library and lighthouse.
Various other former cities in Southwestern Asia founded by Alexander the Great, including
Former name of Iskandariya, a city in central Iraq.
Various other former cities in Southwestern Asia founded by Alexander the Great, including
Former name of Iskenderun, a city in southeastern Turkey.
Various other former cities in Southwestern Asia founded by Alexander the Great, including
Former name of Kandahar, a city in southern Afghanistan.
Various other former cities in Southwestern Asia founded by Alexander the Great, including
Former name of Bagram, a city in eastern Afghanistan.
Various other former cities in Southwestern Asia founded by Alexander the Great, including
Former name of Ghazni, a city in eastern Afghanistan.
Various other former cities in Southwestern Asia founded by Alexander the Great, including
Former name of Mary, a city in Turkmenistan.
Various other former cities in Southwestern Asia founded by Alexander the Great, including
Former name of Khujand, a city in Tajikistan.
Alternative form of Alessandria, a city in Piedmont, Italy.
A governorate of Egypt around the city.
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Calhoun County, Alabama.
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Monroe Township, Madison County, Indiana.
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Kentucky, and one of the two county seats of Campbell County.
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana.
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Douglas County, Minnesota.
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Douglas County, Minnesota.
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Clark County, Missouri.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Thayer County, Nebraska.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Jefferson County, New York.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Licking County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Scioto County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
A borough of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city, the county seat of Hanson County, South Dakota.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in DeKalb County, Tennessee.
A number of places in the United States:
An independent city in Virginia, next to Arlington County, Fairfax County and Washington, D.C.
A former town in the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada; now a part of the township of North Glengarry.
A ghost town in British Columbia, Canada.
A town in Sarah Baartman District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
A town in Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
A town in West Dunbartonshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3980).
A city in Teleorman, Romania
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
senses_topics:
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15809 | word:
garlic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
garlic (countable and uncountable, plural garlics)
forms:
form:
garlics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English garlek, garlik, from Old English gārlēac (“garlic”, literally “spear-leek”), from gār ("spear"; in reference to its sharp, tapering leaves) + lēac (“leek”). Cognate with Scots garlic (“garlic”), Faroese geirleykur (“garlic”), Icelandic geirlaukur (“garlic”).
senses_examples:
text:
Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
ref:
2013 March 24, David S. Senchina, “Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 2013-05-16, page 134
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.
A preparation from Allium sativum used as a food ingredient or the flavor or other characteristics of such an ingredient.
senses_topics:
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15810 | word:
garlic
word_type:
verb
expansion:
garlic (third-person singular simple present garlics, present participle garlicking, simple past and past participle garlicked)
forms:
form:
garlics
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
garlicking
tags:
participle
present
form:
garlicked
tags:
participle
past
form:
garlicked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English garlek, garlik, from Old English gārlēac (“garlic”, literally “spear-leek”), from gār ("spear"; in reference to its sharp, tapering leaves) + lēac (“leek”). Cognate with Scots garlic (“garlic”), Faroese geirleykur (“garlic”), Icelandic geirlaukur (“garlic”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To flavour with garlic
senses_topics:
|
15811 | word:
retail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
retail (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
retail
etymology_text:
From the Old French verb retaillier.
senses_examples:
text:
She works in retail.
type:
example
text:
I never pay retail for clothes.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sale of goods directly to the consumer, encompassing the storefronts, mail-order, websites, etc., and the corporate mechanisms, branding, advertising, etc. that support them.
Retail price; full price; an abbreviated expression, meaning the full suggested price of a particular good or service, before any sale, discount, or other deal.
senses_topics:
business
|
15812 | word:
retail
word_type:
adj
expansion:
retail (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
retail
etymology_text:
From the Old French verb retaillier.
senses_examples:
text:
"This is a very retail approach for us," Czerw said. "But when you buy one out of every six home loans in the US, you are going to have a constant flow ..."
ref:
1997 December 28, “Freddie Mac establishes existing-home sales division”, in Deseret News
type:
quotation
text:
The future for Bradley International Airport near Hartford, Conn., also looks very retail. Plans call for $156 million to expand the main terminal,
ref:
1999 December 12, Naedine Joy Hazell, “TRAVEL INSIDER; Airport Malls Redefine 'Shopping on the Fly'”, in Los Angeles Times
type:
quotation
text:
But even with her level of celebrity, it would be very hard to win a race without engaging voters in a very retail way.
ref:
2010 September 17, “Sarah Palin's visit to Iowa keeps fans guessing”, in Des Moines Register
type:
quotation
text:
When the New York Post branded Ron DeSantis “DeFuture” in 2022[…], it had not reckoned on the Florida governor being astonishingly awkward with the basics of retail politics: smiling, shaking hands, interacting with other people.
ref:
2024 January 19, Jonathan Freedland, “There is still a way to stop Donald Trump – but time is running out”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the (actual or figurative) sale of goods or services directly to individuals.
senses_topics:
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15813 | word:
retail
word_type:
adv
expansion:
retail
forms:
wikipedia:
retail
etymology_text:
From the Old French verb retaillier.
senses_examples:
text:
We've shut shown our reseller unit. We're only selling retail now.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Direct to consumers, in retail quantities, or at retail prices.
senses_topics:
|
15814 | word:
retail
word_type:
verb
expansion:
retail (third-person singular simple present retails, present participle retailing, simple past and past participle retailed)
forms:
form:
retails
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
retailing
tags:
participle
present
form:
retailed
tags:
participle
past
form:
retailed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
retail
etymology_text:
From the Old French verb retaillier.
senses_examples:
text:
a half part of this purveying is carried on within the city and is called retailing.
ref:
2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 223d
type:
quotation
text:
He retailed to them the curious interchange of phrases he had overheard on the journey from Aleppo.
ref:
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 12, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 157
type:
quotation
text:
He became quite pale as he retailed these stories to Constance.
ref:
1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 762
type:
quotation
text:
The fantasies of blood libel that Bosnian Serbs retailed about Bosnian Muslims were the fantasies that Rhinelanders had centuries earlier retailed about the Jews they had murdered.
ref:
1998 February 1, Alan Ryan, “Hot Spots (review of The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff)”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sell at retail, or in small quantities directly to customers.
To sell secondhand, or in broken parts.
To repeat or circulate (news or rumours) to others.
senses_topics:
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15815 | word:
buccaneering
word_type:
adj
expansion:
buccaneering (comparative more buccaneering, superlative most buccaneering)
forms:
form:
more buccaneering
tags:
comparative
form:
most buccaneering
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
bold, reckless and unscrupulous
senses_topics:
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15816 | word:
buccaneering
word_type:
noun
expansion:
buccaneering (usually uncountable, plural buccaneerings)
forms:
form:
buccaneerings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
robbery on the high seas; piracy
senses_topics:
|
15817 | word:
buccaneering
word_type:
verb
expansion:
buccaneering
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of buccaneer
senses_topics:
|
15818 | word:
participant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
participant (plural participants)
forms:
form:
participants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French participant, from Latin participāns, present participle of participō; see participate. Displaced native Old English dǣlnimend (literally “part taker”).
senses_examples:
text:
All participants must adhere to the rules of the competition.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who participates.
senses_topics:
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15819 | word:
participant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
participant (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French participant, from Latin participāns, present participle of participō; see participate. Displaced native Old English dǣlnimend (literally “part taker”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sharing; participating; having a share of part.
senses_topics:
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15820 | word:
lite
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lite (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
lite
etymology_text:
Variation of light (in the sense of lacking weight, substance, etc.)
senses_examples:
text:
His lite dinner consisted of crackers, some broccoli and a salad with lite ranch dressing.
type:
example
text:
My favorite color is lite blue!
type:
example
text:
this compromise bill is reform lite. It is both more palatable to nursing home owners and less protective of elderly patients
ref:
2003 March 6, “Reform Lite”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch
type:
quotation
text:
If there is a difference between doing this to a child and engaging in old-fashioned punishment, it is at best a quantitative rather than a qualitative difference. What Dreikurs and his followers are selling is Punishment Lite.
ref:
2006, Alfie Kohn, Beyond discipline: from compliance to community, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
The analysis bolsters claims by the Tories that markets will not wait patiently as Britain draws up leisurely plans for austerity-lite
ref:
2010 April 8, “Sovereign debt crisis at 'boiling point', warns Bank for International Settlements”, in Telegraph.co.uk
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abridged or lesser; being a simpler or unpaid version of a product.
Light in composition, notably low in fat, calories etc. Most commonly used commercially.
Lightweight
Informal spelling of light.
Lacking substance or seriousness; watered down.
senses_topics:
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15821 | word:
lite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lite (plural lites)
forms:
form:
lites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lite
etymology_text:
Variation of light (in the sense of lacking weight, substance, etc.)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic form of light (“window or aperture in a building”).
A window pane
senses_topics:
architecture |
15822 | word:
lite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lite (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
lite
etymology_text:
From Middle English lit, lut (“little”), from Old English lȳt.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A little, bit.
senses_topics:
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15823 | word:
lite
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lite (comparative liter, superlative litest)
forms:
form:
liter
tags:
comparative
form:
litest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
lite
etymology_text:
From Middle English lit, lut (“little”), from Old English lȳt.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
few; little
senses_topics:
|
15824 | word:
lite
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lite (third-person singular simple present lites, present participle liting, simple past and past participle lited)
forms:
form:
lites
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
liting
tags:
participle
present
form:
lited
tags:
participle
past
form:
lited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
lite
etymology_text:
From Middle English liten, from Old Norse hlíta (“to rely on, trust, abide by”). Cognate with Icelandic hlíta (“to comply”), Swedish lita (“to trust, rely on, depend on, confide in”), Danish lide (“to trust”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To expect; wait.
To rely.
senses_topics:
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15825 | word:
lite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lite (plural lites)
forms:
form:
lites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lite
etymology_text:
From Middle English liten, from Old Norse hlíta (“to rely on, trust, abide by”). Cognate with Icelandic hlíta (“to comply”), Swedish lita (“to trust, rely on, depend on, confide in”), Danish lide (“to trust”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of waiting; a wait.
senses_topics:
|
15826 | word:
sees
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sees
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of see
senses_topics:
|
15827 | word:
sees
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sees
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of see
senses_topics:
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15828 | word:
success
word_type:
noun
expansion:
success (countable and uncountable, plural successes)
forms:
form:
successes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Modern English
success
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin successus, from succēdō (“succeed”), from sub- (“next to”) + cēdō (“go, move”). Partly displaced native Old English spēd, whence Modern English speed.
senses_examples:
text:
His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.
type:
example
text:
a glowing success
type:
example
text:
Don't let success go to your head.
type:
example
text:
Scholastically, he was a success.
type:
example
text:
The new range of toys has been a resounding success.
type:
example
text:
She is country music's most recent success.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The achievement of one's aim or goal.
Financial profitability.
One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.
Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.
senses_topics:
business
|
15829 | word:
tenet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tenet (plural tenets)
forms:
form:
tenets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin tenet (“he, she, or it holds”), from teneō (“hold; have”). Compare obsolete tenent.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.
senses_topics:
|
15830 | word:
horse race
word_type:
noun
expansion:
horse race (plural horse races)
forms:
form:
horse races
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:horse race
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A competitive race for horses carrying jockeys; often the subject of betting
An exciting and arduous competition (as in a political campaign).
senses_topics:
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15831 | word:
Samothracian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Samothracian (plural Samothracians)
forms:
form:
Samothracians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French Samothracien, from Latin Samothraciensis. Alternatively, it could be analyzed Samothrace + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or a resident of Samothrace.
senses_topics:
|
15832 | word:
Samothracian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Samothracian (comparative more Samothracian, superlative most Samothracian)
forms:
form:
more Samothracian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Samothracian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French Samothracien, from Latin Samothraciensis. Alternatively, it could be analyzed Samothrace + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Samothrace.
senses_topics:
|
15833 | word:
canyon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
canyon (plural canyons)
forms:
form:
canyons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish cañón. Doublet of cannon.
senses_examples:
text:
After we have crossed the Glenderamackin stream, which drains the northern slopes of Saddleback, and the latter has united with the St. John's Beck to form the Greta, however, we see ahead the miniature canyon the Greta has hollowed out for itself, and into the depth of which the train now descends.
ref:
1961 October, Voyageur, “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601
type:
quotation
text:
Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.
ref:
2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
senses_topics:
|
15834 | word:
purge
word_type:
noun
expansion:
purge (plural purges)
forms:
form:
purges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
purge
etymology_text:
From Middle English purgen, from Old French purgier, from Latin pūrgō (“I make pure, I cleanse”), from pūrus (“clean, pure”) + agō (“I make, I do”).
senses_examples:
text:
Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were not reversible.
type:
example
text:
One of the few surviving Bolsheviks with real power, Mikoyan had been brought to Moscow by Stalin in 1926, had escaped innumerable purges, and had demonstrated an uncanny ability to survive and to associate himself with the right faction at the right time.
ref:
1971, Lyndon Johnson, “"I feel like I have already been here a year"”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
he prescribes a Purge or a Vomit
ref:
1722, John Arbuthnot, Mr. Maitland’s account of inoculating the small-pox
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of purging.
An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
A cleansing of pipes.
A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
15835 | word:
purge
word_type:
verb
expansion:
purge (third-person singular simple present purges, present participle purging, simple past and past participle purged)
forms:
form:
purges
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
purging
tags:
participle
present
form:
purged
tags:
participle
past
form:
purged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
purge
etymology_text:
From Middle English purgen, from Old French purgier, from Latin pūrgō (“I make pure, I cleanse”), from pūrus (“clean, pure”) + agō (“I make, I do”).
senses_examples:
text:
"What did they die of?” I asked.
"Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died."
"He bled and purged babies?"
"They were two and three. He said it would break the fever. And it did. But they … they died anyway."
ref:
1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred
type:
quotation
text:
Deng Xiaoping was purged twice during the Cultural Revolution, but managed to return to power after Mao's death.
type:
example
text:
Cromwell had Colonel Pride purge Parliament of royalists who opposed Charles I's execution.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.
To free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds.
To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
To void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
To cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
To forcibly remove, e.g., from political activity.
To forcibly remove people from.
To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
To become pure, as by clarification.
To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
To trim, dress, or prune.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
law
|
15836 | word:
grasp
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grasp (third-person singular simple present grasps, present participle grasping, simple past and past participle grasped)
forms:
form:
grasps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
grasping
tags:
participle
present
form:
grasped
tags:
participle
past
form:
grasped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
grasp
etymology_text:
From Middle English graspen, grapsen, craspen (“to grope; feel around”), from Old English *grǣpsian, from Proto-West Germanic *graipisōn, from Proto-Germanic *graipisōną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to take, seize, rake”), the same ultimate source as grab.
Cognate with German Low German grapsen (“to grab; grasp”), German grapsen and grapschen, Saterland Frisian Grapse (“double handful”), Old English grāpian ("to touch, feel, grasp"; > Modern English grope). Compare also Swedish krafsa (“to scatch; scabble”), Norwegian krafse (“to scramble”).
senses_examples:
text:
I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
To understand.
To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.
senses_topics:
|
15837 | word:
grasp
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grasp (plural grasps)
forms:
form:
grasps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
grasp
etymology_text:
From Middle English graspen, grapsen, craspen (“to grope; feel around”), from Old English *grǣpsian, from Proto-West Germanic *graipisōn, from Proto-Germanic *graipisōną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to take, seize, rake”), the same ultimate source as grab.
Cognate with German Low German grapsen (“to grab; grasp”), German grapsen and grapschen, Saterland Frisian Grapse (“double handful”), Old English grāpian ("to touch, feel, grasp"; > Modern English grope). Compare also Swedish krafsa (“to scatch; scabble”), Norwegian krafse (“to scramble”).
senses_examples:
text:
If a mirror does slip from your grasp, do not attempt to catch it. Just get out of the way.
ref:
1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
The goal is within my grasp.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Grip.
Understanding.
That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.
senses_topics:
|
15838 | word:
cent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cent (plural cents or cent)
forms:
form:
cents
tags:
plural
form:
cent
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Cent (currency)
cent
etymology_text:
From Middle English cent, from Old French cent, from Latin centum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.
senses_examples:
text:
It's true. 1.7 cents to make 1 cent. That really makes the phrase “you have to spend money to make money” ring painfully true.
ref:
2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
Every cent aside from his own expenses for the barest kind of living went to his down-and-out buddies.
ref:
1990, Lou Sullivan, From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
He blew every last cent.
type:
example
text:
And broght with hem many stout cent / Of green lordynges.
ref:
c. 1450, Octouian Imperator (Octavian), lines 1463-4
text:
The demon makes his full descent / In one abundant shower of cent per cent.
ref:
1733, Alexander Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle III to Allen, Lord Bathurst, 372
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
A small sum of money.
A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.
Abbreviation of century.
Abbreviation of centum. One hundred.
Abbreviation of centigrade.
Abbreviation of center.
senses_topics:
business
finance
money
business
finance
money
business
finance
money
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
15839 | word:
ox
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ox (plural oxen or (nonstandard) oxes)
forms:
form:
oxen
tags:
plural
form:
oxes
tags:
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
en:ox
en:ox (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English oxe, from Old English oxa, from Proto-West Germanic *ohsō, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô (compare West Frisian okse, Dutch os, German Ochse), from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn.
Cognate with Welsh ych (“ox”), Tocharian A ops, Tocharian B okso (“draft-ox”), Avestan 𐬎𐬑𐬱𐬀𐬥 (uxšan, “bull”), Sanskrit उक्षन् (ukṣán).
senses_examples:
text:
Here the same four kinds are mentioned ... These are sheep, goats, camels and oxen.
ref:
1934, commentary on the Qur'an (Sura 39 verse 6) by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus), especially when used as a beast of burden.
Any bovine animal (genus Bos). A neat, a beef.
senses_topics:
|
15840 | word:
ox
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ox (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
en:ox (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Clipping of oxygen.
senses_examples:
text:
I'm super excited to be on the summit of K2! No Ox! (coughs) It was hard.
ref:
2020, Carla Perez, 42:40 from the start, in Breathtaking: K2 - The World's Most Dangerous Mountain | Eddie Bauer, YouTube, Eddie Bauer, archived from the original on 2020-05-22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of oxygen.
senses_topics:
|
15841 | word:
triannually
word_type:
adv
expansion:
triannually (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From tri- + annual + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Three times per year.
Occurring every three years; triennially.
senses_topics:
|
15842 | word:
heating
word_type:
noun
expansion:
heating (countable and uncountable, plural heatings)
forms:
form:
heatings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From heat + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
We're hopng to have the new heating installed before winter.
type:
example
text:
The crucible was subjected to several heatings.
type:
example
text:
After repeated swagings and heatings […]
ref:
1913, The Mineral Industry, volume 21, page 849
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A system that raises the temperature of a room or building. Compare heater.
The act of making something hot.
senses_topics:
|
15843 | word:
heating
word_type:
adj
expansion:
heating (comparative more heating, superlative most heating)
forms:
form:
more heating
tags:
comparative
form:
most heating
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From heat + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Causing heat.
senses_topics:
|
15844 | word:
heating
word_type:
verb
expansion:
heating
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From heat + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of heat
senses_topics:
|
15845 | word:
baggage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
baggage (usually uncountable, plural baggages)
forms:
form:
baggages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bagage, from Old French bagage, baguage, from bague (“bundle, sack”), of Germanic/North Germanic origin, probably from the same ultimate source as Old Norse baggi (“pack, bundle”). Compare also bag).
senses_examples:
text:
Please put your baggage in the trunk.
type:
example
text:
As soon as they had determined on their course, Ya-nei slid under the bed, and made himself a place among the baggages.
ref:
1929, Charles Georges Souli, Eastern Shame Girl
type:
quotation
text:
Needless to say, one's seat must be booked in advance and a platoon of urbane officials, one to each door of the train, awaits passengers to usher them to their seats and relieve them of their bulkier baggage.
ref:
1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
Alone, she clings to her baggages on the street.
ref:
1991 September 20, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Love Films: A Cassavetes Retrospective”, in Chicago Reader
type:
quotation
text:
The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months.
ref:
2014 August 21, “A brazen heist in Paris [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Uncountable synonyms: luggage; gear; stuff
text:
Countable synonyms: bags; suitcases
text:
This person has got a lot of emotional baggage.
type:
example
text:
[…]How much shall I honour one, who has a stronger propensity to poetry, and has got a greater name in it, if he performs his promise to me of putting away these idle baggages after his sacred espousal.
ref:
1846, Henry Francis Cary, Lives of the English Poets
type:
quotation
text:
Flynn was so flawed, team Trump was repeatedly warned about his baggage by both then acting AG Sally Yates and President Obama, and even as reported this week, General Flynn himself! But Trump kept standing by him anyway, which kind of makes sense in a way, because literally every decision in the Trump administration is the worst possible one. “Paper or plastic? Whichever one kills the most birds!” “Soup or salad? I’m gonna go with the n-word!” “Favorite Beatle? It’s got to be Yoko!”
ref:
2017 May 21, “Stupid Watergate”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 13, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
Betty and Molly (they were soft-hearted baggages) felt for their master--pitied their poor master!
ref:
1828, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, No. 288
type:
quotation
text:
But he had a roving eye and a joyous temperament; and though he loved me better than any of the baggages to whom he paid court, he would not visit me so often as he should.
ref:
1897, Charles Whibley, A Book of Scoundrels
type:
quotation
text:
But your perverse attempts to wring blushes from little baggages in convenient corners outrage my love of Love!
ref:
1910, Gertrude Hall, Chantecler
type:
quotation
text:
However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.
ref:
1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix
type:
quotation
text:
Shall we ask this baggage to sit down or shall we just throw her out of the window?
ref:
1964: My Fair Lady (film)
text:
Friedrich decides to go down the River; he himself to Lowen, perhaps near twenty miles farther down, but where there is a Bridge and Highway leading over; Prince Leopold, with the heavier divisions and baggages, to Michelau, some miles nearer, and there to build his Pontoons and cross.
ref:
1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia
type:
quotation
text:
In Poland, for example, the unknown Bolesław Bierut, who appeared in 1944 in the baggage of the Red Army, and who played a prominent role as a ‘non-party figure’ in the Lublin Committee, turned out to be a Soviet employee formerly working for the Comintern.
ref:
2007, Norman Davies, No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945, New York: Penguin, page 305
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Portable cases, large bags, and similar equipment for manually carrying, pushing, or pulling personal items while traveling
Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively.
A woman.
An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
15846 | word:
once upon a time
word_type:
adv
expansion:
once upon a time (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there lived a beautiful princess.
type:
example
text:
There was once upon a time a charcoal-burner who had a son, and he was also a charcoal-burner.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 308
type:
quotation
text:
Long before popular music evolved its many genres and subgenres, the industry was driven by a simple one-size-fits-all philosophy […] Songwriters, once upon a time, wrote songs for the masses.
ref:
2012, Christoper Zara, chapter 2, in Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, page {{{pg}}}
type:
quotation
text:
Once upon a time, there was a Goblin Queen
And she lived in a grand palace...
ref:
2023, A. C. MacDonald, Twistwood Tales (comic), Andrews McMeel, page 138
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long time ago; at some time in the past (a traditional beginning of children's stories, especially fairy tales).
senses_topics:
|
15847 | word:
pagination
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pagination (countable and uncountable, plural paginations)
forms:
form:
paginations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
from French pagination
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of creating pages for a document, book, etc., or determining when to truncate text on the pages.
The act of numbering pages for a document, book, etc.
The separation of data into batches, so that it can be retrieved with a number of smaller requests.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15848 | word:
coinage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
coinage (countable and uncountable, plural coinages)
forms:
form:
coinages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
coinage
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English coynage, from Old French coignage, from coignier.
senses_examples:
text:
The Minoan age had not only an elaborate system of weights, but the first beginnings of a coinage.
ref:
1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
Caution needs to be exercised in regards to claims of coinage as the data contained a number of examples of writers professing the invention of a term that had actually been in existence for many years.
ref:
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
As for Nash his chief aim seems to have been to vilify ; he by no means troubled himself about consistency. In Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem we find more strange expressious than he could have got out of all Harvey’s works, of which the following may serve as samples : callichrimate, Works, IV, 51 ; investurings, 72; sacrificatory, 76; delinquishment, 78; succoursuers, 116 ; intercessionate, 156 ; deplorement, 30. There are also a great number of derivatives in -ize, which are worth particular mention, e. g., unmortalize, 70 ; carionized, 75 ; oblivionize, 79 ; anatomize, 109 ; and many others. Of these some were in good use at the time, but others are obviously new coinages. There was some comment upon these particular derivatives on the appearance of the first edition of Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem, and in the second edition Nash commented upon the matter.
ref:
1903, Edward E. Hale, Jr., “Ideas on Rhetoric in the Sixteenth Century”, in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, volume XVIII, number 3, Modern Language Association of America, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 441–442
type:
quotation
text:
Most importantly perhaps, it is evident that the impression of archaicity which any reader will experience on reading The Lord of the Rings is partly due to three simple lexical causes: the “overuse” of words borrowed from nineteenth-century fiction (e.g. yonder, journey [v], topmost), the avoidance of words associated with the modern world and the comparatively dense use of new coinages, unusual grammatical patterns, rare or obsolescent words.
ref:
2021, Thomas Kullmann and Dirk Siepmann, Tolkien as a Literary Artist: Exploring Rhetoric, Language and Style in The Lord of the Rings, Palgrave-Macmillan 2021
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of coining money.
Coins taken collectively; currency.
The creation of new words, neologizing.
Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word; a neologism.
The process of creating something new.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
|
15849 | word:
biannually
word_type:
adv
expansion:
biannually (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From biannual + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Taking place twice per year, semiannually.
Taking place every two years, biennially.
senses_topics:
|
15850 | word:
Great Wall of China
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Great Wall of China
forms:
form:
the Great Wall of China
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First used by Daniel Defoe on page 29 of his 1729 pamphlet The Advantages of peace and commerce: with some remarks on the East-India trade; attested but not much in currency until the early 1900s, when it supplanted "the Chinese wall" (not to be confused with the later jargon term Chinese Wall), perhaps in response to or as part of exaggerated accounts of the wall's size and construction.
senses_examples:
text:
Of the Mongall Tartars.
The Mongalls are a numerous people, and occupy a large extent of country, from this place to the Kallgan, which ſignifies the everlaſting Wall, or the great wall of China. From this wall they ſtretch themſelves northward as far as the river Amoor; and from the Amoor, weſtward, to the Baykail ſea ; where they border with the territories of the Kontayſha, or prince of the black Kalmucks. On the ſouth, they are bounded by a nation called Tonguts, among whom the Delay Lama has his residence.
ref:
1767, Annual register, or a view of the history and politics and literature for the year, page 38, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
The Mongalls are a numerous people, and occupy a large extent of country, from this place to the Kallgan, which ſignines the everlaſting Wall, or the great wall of China.
ref:
1796, The Annual Register, or, a view of the History, Politicks, and Literature for the Year 1767, 5th edition, London: J. Dodsley, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
Near that same fortieth parallel of latitude on which our Asiatic journey was begun and ended, we now struck, at its extreme western limit, the Great Wall of China. The Kiayu-kuan, or "Jade Gate," by which it is here intersected, was originally so called from the fact that it led into the Khotan country, whence the Chinese traders brought back the precious mineral.
ref:
1894, Thomas Gaskell Allen, Jr., William Lewis Sachtleben, “Over the Gobi Desert and through the Western Gate of the Great Wall”, in Across Asia on a Bicycle: The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking, New York: The Century Co., →OCLC, pages 190-191
type:
quotation
text:
A northern section of the Great Wall of China collapsed after a period of heavy rain last month, with many blaming poor-quality renovations for the deterioration of the iconic landmark.
ref:
2018 August 2, Christina Zhao, “Great Wall of China Collapse: Poor Renovation Works And Heavy Rainfall Blamed”, in Newsweek, archived from the original on 2018-08-02
type:
quotation
text:
Backhoes moved house by house, laying waste to a community called Xitai that was built in a plush green valley on the northern edge of Beijing, only a short walk from the Great Wall of China.
ref:
2020 August 7, Steven Lee Myers, Keith Bradsher, “Beijing Launches Another Demolition Drive, This Time in Its Bucolic Suburbs”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-07, Asia Pacific
type:
quotation
text:
Sadowski-Synnott scored 92.88 on her final run, landing back-to-back 1080s on a challenging course resembling the Great Wall of China.
Asked how she felt about making history as the island nation's first Winter Games gold medallist, she said it made her a "proud Kiwi".
ref:
2022 February 6, Mari Saito, Winni Zhou, “Snowboarding-Proud Kiwi Sadowski-Synnott bags New Zealand's first Winter Games gold”, in Jacqueline Wong, Clare Fallon, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ancient Chinese fortification, almost 4,000 miles long, originally designed to protect China from the Mongols.
senses_topics:
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15851 | word:
auf
word_type:
noun
expansion:
auf (plural aufs)
forms:
form:
aufs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Apparently of North Germanic origin, compare Danish alf, Swedish alf, alv, Old Norse alfr (“elf”). Doublet of alf, elf, and oaf.
senses_examples:
text:
Say that the Fayrie left this Aulfe,
And tooke away the other.
ref:
1605, Michael Drayton, “Battaile of Agincourt”, in Poems Lyric and Pastoral
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A changeling or elf child; a child left by fairies.
A deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf.
senses_topics:
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15852 | word:
awe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
awe (usually uncountable, plural awes)
forms:
form:
awes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English aw, awe, agh, awȝe, borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“terror, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be upset, afraid”). Displaced native Middle English eye, eyȝe, ayȝe, eȝȝe, from Old English ege, æge (“fear, terror, dread”), from the same Proto-Germanic root.
senses_examples:
text:
Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
ref:
2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 172
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A feeling of fear and reverence.
A feeling of amazement.
Power to inspire awe.
senses_topics:
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15853 | word:
awe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
awe (third-person singular simple present awes, present participle awing or aweing, simple past and past participle awed)
forms:
form:
awes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
awing
tags:
participle
present
form:
aweing
tags:
participle
present
form:
awed
tags:
participle
past
form:
awed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English aw, awe, agh, awȝe, borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“terror, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be upset, afraid”). Displaced native Middle English eye, eyȝe, ayȝe, eȝȝe, from Old English ege, æge (“fear, terror, dread”), from the same Proto-Germanic root.
senses_examples:
text:
That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
While a sense of outrage is the only rational response to atrocity, if that outrage is maintained at too high a level over too long a time it can generate feelings of impotence, as we permit ourselves to be awed by this irrational act of violence.
ref:
1982 August 21, Bob Nelson, “Harnessing Our Anger”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 6, page 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To inspire fear and reverence in.
To control by inspiring dread.
senses_topics:
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15854 | word:
descriptive geometry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
descriptive geometry (plural descriptive geometries)
forms:
form:
descriptive geometries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A graphical protocol which creates three-dimensional virtual space on a two-dimensional plane.
senses_topics:
|
15855 | word:
puritan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
puritan (plural puritans)
forms:
form:
puritans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See Puritan.
senses_examples:
text:
These new puritans have turned out to be surprisingly unskilled and inexperienced - very different from my generation who invented wife-swapping, orgies and free love in the late Sixties and early Seventies.
ref:
2016 August 5, Janet Street-Porter, “Anxious young people may be having less sex than ever before, but we baby boomers are still obsessed with it”, in The Independent
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A puritanical person.
senses_topics:
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15856 | word:
puritan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
puritan (comparative more puritan, superlative most puritan)
forms:
form:
more puritan
tags:
comparative
form:
most puritan
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See Puritan.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex; ascetic.
senses_topics:
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15857 | word:
paginate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
paginate (third-person singular simple present paginates, present participle paginating, simple past and past participle paginated)
forms:
form:
paginates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
paginating
tags:
participle
present
form:
paginated
tags:
participle
past
form:
paginated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin paginare, from Latin pagina.
senses_examples:
text:
Each table is now paginated. That makes it straightforward if you wish to print a few pages of a long table by entering the page numbers required into the printer file.
ref:
2022 January 26, Barry Doe, “Fabrik offers an end to hard times”, in RAIL, number 949, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
Word-processing applications are designed to automatically paginate a continuous flow of text, and this require additional capabilities such as page breaks and image-positioning for some control over page layout. However, this makes tasks such as laying out a double- page magazine spread very difficult.
ref:
2016, Jefferson D. Pooley, Eric W. Rothenbuhler, editor, The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, volume 4, page 943
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To number the pages of (a book or other document); to foliate.
To divide (a continuous stream of text) into pages.
To separate (data) into batches, so that it can be retrieved with a number of smaller requests.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
15858 | word:
Kala Lagaw Ya
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kala Lagaw Ya
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Pama-Nyungan language spoken in the western Torres Strait Islands.
senses_topics:
|
15859 | word:
Meryam Mir
word_type:
name
expansion:
Meryam Mir
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Trans-Fly Papuan language spoken in the eastern Torres Strait Islands.
senses_topics:
|
15860 | word:
doppelganger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
doppelganger (plural doppelgangers)
forms:
form:
doppelgangers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Doppelgänger (“ghostly spirit”, literally “double-walker”).
senses_examples:
text:
Stars in Their Eyes ran for 16 years from 1990, and had the "wow" factor moment of transforming a pub singer into their idol, as the contestant said the famous words: "Tonight Matthew, I'm going to be…" and then stepped out from a puff of dry ice as their musical doppelganger.
ref:
2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts such a person.
An evil twin.
A remarkably similar double.
A monster that takes the forms of people, usually after killing them.
senses_topics:
fantasy |
15861 | word:
smite
word_type:
verb
expansion:
smite (third-person singular simple present smites, present participle smiting, simple past smote or smited or (obsolete) smit, past participle smitten or smote or smited or (obsolete) smit)
forms:
form:
smites
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
smiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
smote
tags:
past
form:
smited
tags:
past
form:
smit
tags:
obsolete
past
form:
smitten
tags:
participle
past
form:
smote
tags:
participle
past
form:
smited
tags:
participle
past
form:
smit
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English smiten, from Old English smītan (“to daub, smear, smudge; soil, defile, pollute”), from Proto-West Germanic *smītan, from Proto-Germanic *smītaną (“to sling; throw; smear”), from Proto-Indo-European *smeyd- (“to smear, whisk, strike, rub”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian smiete (“to throw, toss”), West Frisian smite (“to throw”), Low German smieten (“to throw, chuck, toss”), Dutch smijten (“to fling, hurl, throw”), Middle Low German besmitten (“to soil, sully”), German schmeißen (“to fling, throw”), Danish smide (“to throw”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌼𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bismeitan, “to besmear, anoint”).
senses_examples:
text:
"Right you are!" I cried. "We must believe the other until we prove it false. We can't afford to give up heart now, when we need heart most. The branch was carried down by a river, and we are going to find that river." I smote my open palm with a clenched fist, to emphasize a determination unsupported by hope.
ref:
1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 4, in The Land That Time Forgot, Chicago, Ill.: A. C. McClurg & Co., published 1924, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
For it is written, I will ſmite the Shepheard, and the Sheep ſhall be ſcattered. […] Becauſe the Shepheard was to be ſmitten, they as Sheepe muſt be ſcattered. The Scope of which place is, to prove Chriſt the true Paſtor of the Flocke, even by his ſmiting and abaſement; and ſo moſt aptly alledged that the Diſciples might have matter of ſtrength and comfort thence where they ſtumbled and offended themſelves.
ref:
1653, Thomas Taylor, “Peters Repentance. Marke 14.27.”, in The Works of that Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, Dr. Thom. Taylor, Sometimes Minister of the Gospel in Aldermanbury, London. Not Hitherto Published, (though Earnestly Desired by the Very Many Experimental Christians,) because the Iniquity of Those Times could not Bear such Burning and Shining Light, as is here Handed Forth in these Several Treatises Following. …, London: Printed by T. R. & E. M. for John Bartlet the elder and John Bartlet the younger, and are to be sold at the Golden Cup near Austins gate in the new Building, →OCLC, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
VERSE 12. And the fourth angel ſounded, and the third part of the ſun was ſmitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the ſtars, ſo as the third part of them was darkened, and the day ſhone not for a third part of it, and the night likewiſe. […] [T]his Jeſus which ſignifies the ſun, was ſmitten with persecution and ſufferings in the time of his miniſtry, that there could but a third part of his heavenly light ſhine upon the people of the Jews, and happy were thoſe that this light did ſhine upon.
ref:
1746, Lodowick[e] Muggleton, “CHAP. XXV [of the Book of Revelation].”, in True Interpretation of All the Chief Texts, and Mysterious Sayings and Visions Opened, of the Whole Book of the Revelation of St. John. Whereby is Unfolded, and Plainly Declared, those Wonderful Deep Mysteries and Visions Interpreted, Concerning the True God, and Alpha and Omega. With Variety of other Heavenly Secrets, which Have Never Been Pen'd, Nor Revel'd to Any Man since the Creation of the World to this Day, until Now, London: First Printed for the Author, in the Year 1665. And now Re-printed by Subscription, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
[…]and it turned out, if you just dumped pure oxygen and kerosene into the combustion chamber, the torpedo would travel at fairly-high speed... just instantaneously in all directions at once, disassembling itself, and any nearby people, with considerable enthusiasm. Explaining that this was entirely-unacceptable behavior for a torpedo that was designed to smite the Emperor's enemies didn't really tend to work out that well, since they hadn't yet invented the Machine Spirit, and, in any case, working out which bit of the torpedo you were supposed to talk to, or possibly scrape off the wall, was somewhat difficult once it had decided to launch a several-hundred-meter search into the realm of the honorable ancestors.
ref:
2021 January 20, Drachinifel, 5:49 from the start, in Type 93 Long Lance Torpedo - Long Range Hole Poking Device, archived from the original on 2022-11-01
type:
quotation
text:
Let us not mistake the goodness of God, nor imagine that because he smites us, therefore we are forsaken by him.
ref:
1688, William Wake, Preparation for Death
type:
quotation
text:
A country deprived of the Ganges is ſmitten; a family without learning is ſmitten; a woman without a child is ſmitten; a ſacrifice without the Brahman's rights is ſmitten.
ref:
1787 December, Charles Wilkins, “The Heetopades of Veeshnoo-Sarma. Translated from the Sanskreet Language. By Charles Wilkins.”, in The Edinburgh Magazine, or Literary Miscellany, volume VI, number 36, Edinburgh: Printed for J. Sibbald: and sold by J[ohn] Murray, London, →OCLC, page 383
type:
quotation
text:
Bob was smitten with Laura from the first time he saw her.
type:
example
text:
I was really smitten by the color combination, and soon repainted the entire house.
type:
example
text:
Who'd be smitten over a bird?
type:
example
text:
See what the charms that smite the simple heart, // Not touch'd by Nature, and not reach'd by art.
ref:
1757, Alexander Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, volume 5, London: Printed for A. Millar; J. and R. Tonson; H. Lintot; and C. Bathurst., page 222
type:
quotation
text:
Thus was written beneath the arms of Arthur of Lesser, duke of Brittany […] Love nonetheless made me feel his dart, / For my person was smitten and inflamed / In its soul by she for whom I bore my shield here: […]
ref:
2001, René of Anjou, edited by Stephanie Viereck Gibbs and Kathryn Karczewska, The Book of the Love-smitten Heart, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, page 159
type:
quotation
text:
Maybe he was smitten with Clare. And maybe the fact that he didn't want to leave meant it was past time he did.
ref:
2014, Colleen Coble, Kristin Billerbeck, Denise Hunter, Diann Hunt, The Smitten Collection: Smitten, Secretly Smitten, and Smitten Book Club, Thomas Nelson Inc.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hit; to strike.
To strike down or kill with godly force.
To injure with divine power.
To kill violently; to slay.
To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
To strike with love or infatuation.
senses_topics:
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15862 | word:
smite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
smite (plural smites)
forms:
form:
smites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English smiten, from Old English smītan (“to daub, smear, smudge; soil, defile, pollute”), from Proto-West Germanic *smītan, from Proto-Germanic *smītaną (“to sling; throw; smear”), from Proto-Indo-European *smeyd- (“to smear, whisk, strike, rub”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian smiete (“to throw, toss”), West Frisian smite (“to throw”), Low German smieten (“to throw, chuck, toss”), Dutch smijten (“to fling, hurl, throw”), Middle Low German besmitten (“to soil, sully”), German schmeißen (“to fling, throw”), Danish smide (“to throw”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌼𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bismeitan, “to besmear, anoint”).
senses_examples:
text:
On the other hand , your soft-headed, softhearted sentimentalist, whose heart is in his waistcoat pocket, always at hand for use, he who picks out the pretty parts of modern novels, and the tender parts of affecting tales, never hears of two young people meeting one another, but he begins to think that a smite must follow.
ref:
1844, The Mysterious Man. A Novel. By the Author of Ben Bradshawe; the Man Without a Head [i.e. Frederick Chamier, T. C. Newby, page 192
type:
quotation
text:
‘That is just what I was about to venture to propose,’returned the doctor with a smite. But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.
ref:
1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll, Doubleday, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
Beale, who had not been driving very well, took a smite at his ball and sent it curving far away to the left into a mess of gorse of bramble bushes.
ref:
2007, Rupert Penny, Policeman's Holiday, Ramble House, page 82
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A heavy strike with a weapon, tool, or the hand.
senses_topics:
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15863 | word:
Torres Strait Creole
word_type:
name
expansion:
Torres Strait Creole
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Torres Strait + Creole (“language formed from two parent languages”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A creole spoken in the Torres Strait Islands.
senses_topics:
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15864 | word:
racetrack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
racetrack (plural racetracks)
forms:
form:
racetracks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
racetrack
etymology_text:
From race + track.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A course over which any type of races are run.
A characteristic circular erosion pattern in deposition processes.
senses_topics:
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15865 | word:
Kriol
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kriol
forms:
wikipedia:
Kriol
etymology_text:
From English creole.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A creole language widely spoken by Australian Aborigines in Arnhem Land; Roper River creole; Australian Kriol.
The Belizean Creole; descendants of African slaves who were brought primarily from Jamaica and Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast to cut down mahogany trees in Belize.
A Portuguese-based creole spoken in Guinea-Bissau.
senses_topics:
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15866 | word:
dans
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dans
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of dan
senses_topics:
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15867 | word:
muggle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
muggle (countable and uncountable, plural muggles)
forms:
form:
muggles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Origin unknown; first known to have come into use in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., in the mid-1920s.
senses_examples:
text:
But there was a drug in New Orleans, although it took me over nine months to find out anything about it—a drug of a very different and insidious kind! [...] It looked like chopped hay, or dried clover, and was rolled up in a double brown cigarette paper. In short, a "muggles", "weed", or "mootie", cannabis indica, Indian hemp, or, to give it its Mexican name, marijuana, which translated into English just means Mary Jane!
ref:
1933, Cecil de Lenoir, “Way down South”, in The Hundredth Man: Confessions of a Drug Addict, London: Jarrolds […], →OCLC, page 220
type:
quotation
text:
The boy said he had been in the habit of smoking something which youthful friends called "muggles," a childish name for marihuana.
ref:
1963, Howard S[aul] Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance, New York, N.Y.: Free Press of Glencoe; London: Collier-Macmillan, →OCLC, page 142
type:
quotation
text:
While marijuana was still legal in New York, businessmen wanted to package Mezz [Mezzrow]'s muggle and turn it into a high-powered criminal enterprise. While tempted, Mezz rejected those efforts, as well.
ref:
2007, Ron Chepesiuk, “The White Mayor”, in Gangsters of Harlem: The Gritty Underworld of New York’s Most Famous Neighborhood, Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
Marijuana is a variety of hemp weed (Cannabis sativa) long common in Mexico, lately becoming common in the U. S. Its leaves can be dried, ground and rolled into cigarets, which are bootlegged under the name of "muggles," "reefers," or "Mary Warners." Thinner, shorter than standard cigarets, "muggles" are made from the small delicate leaves of the female marijuana plant.
ref:
1931 September 7, “Crime: Muggles”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-10-14
type:
quotation
text:
“[...] Eddie, what is this cigarette? It tastes a bit like opium.” / “It’s a ‘muggles’, kid—Mex marijuana; it won’t hurt you any if you don’t inhale too deeply, but you’ll pass out if you do. [...]”
ref:
1933, Cecil de Lenoir, “Way down South”, in The Hundredth Man: Confessions of a Drug Addict, London: Jarrolds […], →OCLC, page 226
type:
quotation
text:
Windy, muggle-smoking Louis Armstrong has never had patience or skill to build an orchestra of his own. He is happy strutting before any good hot band where he can introduce himself as "The Reverend Satchel Mouth" and proceed to triple-tongue a cornet at incredible speed.
ref:
1933 June 12, “Hot Ambassador”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2007-12-01
type:
quotation
text:
But even then "muggle" smoking does not affect along a given pattern. "Afflicted with hallucinations of terrifying extent," [James Skelly] Wright said, "he is liable to run amok, leaving a trail of crime – even murder, in his wake." Case after case in which criminals have admitted smoking "muggles" indicates this is true, according to Wright.
ref:
1938 July 1, Mansfield News Journal, Mansfield, Oh.: Mansfield Journal Co., →OCLC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Marijuana.
A marijuana cigarette; a joint.
senses_topics:
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15868 | word:
muggle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
muggle (plural muggles)
forms:
form:
muggles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See Muggle. The verb sense (“to deface a geocache”) derives from the fact that people interfering with such items are assumed not to be geocachers: see the noun sense 1.2.1.
senses_examples:
text:
The magical and the muggle are separated by a river, wide and deep. I could see across, but I couldn't get across, [...].
ref:
2005, Christine Wicker, Not in Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic is Transforming America, New York, N.Y.: HarperSanFrancisco, page 194
type:
quotation
text:
As it was nearing Halloween, we were able to join a potions class where we could change liquids into myriad colours with the addition of substances like dragon spit (muggle’s lemon juice).
ref:
2007 November 11, Lesley Oldfield, “Family break a eureka moment”, in Sunday Sun, Newcastle upon Tyne: Reach plc, →ISSN, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
There's another guy playing [Bob] Dylan as a formal poet facing some kind of muggle inquisition, but this is the movie's briefest and least consequential thread.
ref:
2007 November 21, Gary Thompson, “Dylan divided by six”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Some activists might know little of this ‘exterior’, such is their facility to move between activist spaces and places without having to encounter the ever-increasingly one-dimensional world in which the ‘muggles’ live.
ref:
2005, David Harvie, Ben Trott, Keir Milburn, editors, Shut Them Down!: The G8, Gleneagles 2005 and the Movement of Movements, Leeds, West Yorkshire: Dissent!; Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: Autonomedia, page 343
type:
quotation
text:
Try not to let the muggles see you find a Cache.
ref:
2006, Wisconsin Natural Resources, Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
Use Stealth. Commonly used in a place with a high muggle-to-geocacher ratio.
ref:
2010, Paul Gillin, Dana Gillin, “Appendix A: Glossary”, in The Joy of Geocaching […], Fresno, Calif.: Quill Driver Books, page 235
type:
quotation
text:
Each time we made a find [Teresa] Hinton would check there were no muggles, or non-geocachers, around before taking the container from its hiding place.
ref:
2016 February 16, Selina Powell, “The hidden world of geocaching in Marlborough”, in Marlborough Express (reproduced on Stuff), Blenheim, New Zealand: Stuff, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-16
type:
quotation
text:
Caches can be hidden in a disguised container, or very small package, and one element of difficulty is hiding caches in urban locations, where the hunter will have to avoid being spotted by ‘muggles’ – the name given to those unaware of the sport. Muggles will be surprised at the scale of the secret game taking place under their noses.
ref:
2018 February 6, Joseph Smith, “The ‘dead drop’ in Stokes Croft may be more than it appears”, in Bristol Post, Bristol, Somerset: Reach plc, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-02-10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Muggle
A person who has no magical abilities.
Alternative letter-case form of Muggle
A person who lacks a particular ability or skill; a non-specialist; also, a person who is not a member of a group; an outsider.
Alternative letter-case form of Muggle
A person who lacks a particular ability or skill; a non-specialist; also, a person who is not a member of a group; an outsider.
A person not involved in the pastime of geocaching.
senses_topics:
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15869 | word:
muggle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
muggle (third-person singular simple present muggles, present participle muggling, simple past and past participle muggled)
forms:
form:
muggles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
muggling
tags:
participle
present
form:
muggled
tags:
participle
past
form:
muggled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See Muggle. The verb sense (“to deface a geocache”) derives from the fact that people interfering with such items are assumed not to be geocachers: see the noun sense 1.2.1.
senses_examples:
text:
Okay, September 3. That was just last Monday—Labor Day—so the geocache had been muggled sometime during the past week.
ref:
2010, Katy Grant, chapter 1, in Hide and Seek, 1st trade paperback edition, Atlanta, Ga.: Peachtree Publishers, published 2012, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Stolen or vandalized geocaches are termed "muggled" or "plundered".]
ref:
[2012, Allison Bruning, “Geocatching: A Modern Day Treasure Hunt”, in Reflections: Poems and Essays, [Bloomington, Ind.?]: Mountain Springs House, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
We returned the cache to its original place and left it just as we'd found it. If a cache is interfered with, it's deemed to have been "muggled" and this is severely frowned upon by the Geochaching community.
ref:
2015 June 29, Dom Joy, “Dom Joly’s family geocaching treasure hunt in Spain and Portugal”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-09-06
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To deface, destroy, or remove a geocache.
senses_topics:
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15870 | word:
muggle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
muggle (third-person singular simple present muggles, present participle muggling, simple past and past participle muggled)
forms:
form:
muggles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
muggling
tags:
participle
present
form:
muggled
tags:
participle
past
form:
muggled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Origin unknown; attested in Berkshire, Devonshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Somersetshire, Staffordshire, the West Country, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. The word is possibly a variant of muddle.
senses_examples:
text:
And zo thay muggled along, 'till tha volks all begun to make giame on them.
ref:
1872, Agrikler [pseudonym; Joseph Edwards], “Tha Man as Coodent Plaze Nubbody”, in Rhymes in the West of England Dialect. […], 2nd edition, Bristol, Somerset: Leech and Taylor, […], →OCLC, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
I might have a made out to muggle along if so be Mister Jolly would a rised my wages, or the Union could a kept on taken care o' this last poor little un, till sich time as I might a married some'un to keep the childern tidy; [...]
ref:
1873, [Edward Jenkins], “Justices’ Justice and Statutes at Large”, in Little Hodge, author’s edition, New York, N.Y.: Dodd & Mead, […], →OCLC, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
She might truly be said "to muggle along;" everything in her house was in the greatest state of confusion, and, it must be added, dirt.
ref:
1877 May, [Frances Hariott Wood], “The Old Red School-house”, in W[illiam] Meynell Whittemore, editor, Sunshine for 1877. […], number 185, London: William Poole, […], →OCLC, chapter VI (Widow Lawrence’s Story), page 77, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
He rose to no eminence and got through life somehow, ‘muggled along,’ as Somersetshire people say.
ref:
1889, [John Hutton Balfour Browne], “Popular”, in Times and Days: Being Essays in Romance and History, London, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
"He has whiskers and whuskers but no wapers; / He whiffles and whaffles and muggles along;" / Thus ran the headlines of the morning papers; / The reporters all put to sea in a flong.
ref:
1934, Margaret, Lady Rhondda, editor, Time and Tide, volume 15, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1016, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
[T]he tractor struggles and muggles through the overgrown tour path, the tall grass whispers on the bottom of our cage, [...]
ref:
2010 October, Paul Tremblay, “Tour: Slipshod Safari”, in We Will Never Live in the Castle, Toronto, Ont.: ChiZine Publications, published April 2013
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Often followed by along: to live or work in an unorganized and unplanned way; to muddle along.
senses_topics:
|
15871 | word:
Aotearoa
word_type:
name
expansion:
Aotearoa
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Maori Aotearoa (“long white cloud; North Island; New Zealand”), see there for more.
senses_examples:
text:
he found in the sea this island Aotearoa (the northern island of New Zealand), and he thought he would land there.
ref:
1855, Sir George Grey, Polynesian mythology and ancient traditional history of the New Zealand race: as furnished by their priests and chiefs
type:
quotation
text:
Aotearoa / rugged individual / glistens like a pearl at the bottom of the world [...].
ref:
1981, Tim Finn, Split Enz (lyrics and music), “Six Months in a Leaky Boat”
type:
quotation
text:
The Maori in Aotearoa (the pair of major islands which Europeans have known as New Zealand) were part of the same oceanic culture.
ref:
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, page 877
type:
quotation
text:
You were a professor at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo and I know you went to Aotearoa to have some time there and gain some experiences.
ref:
2019, Kamaka Pili, “Ep. 37: Manulani Aluli Meyer - Hawaiian Epistemology” (4:35 from the start), in Aloha Authentic, via YouTube
type:
quotation
text:
There then arose a triangle of settlement across the vast Pacific, which had as its points Hawai‘i, Rapa Nui and Aotearoa.
ref:
2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
New Zealand vaccinated at least 2.5% of its people on Saturday as the government tries to accelerate inoculations and live with COVID-19, preliminary health ministry data showed.
Through an array of strategies, gimmicks and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's encouragement through the day, 124,669 shots were administered by late in the day in a country of 4.9 million.
"We set a target for ourselves, Aotearoa, you've done it, but let's keep going," Ardern said, using a Maori name for New Zealand at a vaccination site, according to the Newshub news service. "Let's go for 150 [thousand]. Let's go big or go home."
ref:
2021 October 16, Lidia Kelly, “New Zealand vaccinates 2.5% of its people in a day in drive to live with COVID-19”, in William Mallard, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-10-16, Asia Pacific
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The North Island of New Zealand.
New Zealand, a country in Oceania; especially seen in a Polynesian or pre-colonial context.
senses_topics:
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15872 | word:
jackal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jackal (plural jackals)
forms:
form:
jackals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
jackal
etymology_text:
From French chacal, chacale, checale, schakal, ciacale, from Turkish çakal, from Persian شغال (šağâl), borrowed from Sanskrit शृगाल (śṛgāla, “jackal”).
senses_examples:
text:
In passing, it also mentions how the jackal and the tiger acquired their reddish spots. All of the animals referred to, except the deer, have tricksterlike personalities, both in this tale and in other story contexts. But the jackal is the most renowned of all for roguishness.
ref:
1987, Brenda E. F. Beck, Peter J. Claus, Praphulladatta Goswami, Jawaharlal Handoo, editors, Folktales of India, page 289
type:
quotation
text:
Until recently, scientists thought Ethiopian wolves were a type of jackal. They gave Ethiopian wolves names like Semien jackal, Simenian jackal, or Ethiopian jackal.
ref:
2002, Fred H. Harrington, The Ethiopian Wolf, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
As we will see, the jackal is usually associated in the Indic context with death and impurity, and would therefore sit squarely at the bottom of Dumont's social hierarchy.
ref:
2007, McComas Taylor, The Fall of the Indigo Jackal: The Discourse of Division and Pūrnabhadra's Pañcatantra, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
A nephew of hers, after receiving some learning at her ladyship's expence, got a commission, and fell upon the field of Waterloo; another is still at her heels, as a sort of jackall to fetch and carry when required.
ref:
1819 July 1, “The Political Vis——ss”, in [John Mitford], editor, The New Bon Ton Magazine; or, Telescope of the Times, volume III, number 15, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 179
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of certain wild canids of the genera Lupulella and Canis, native to the tropical Old World and smaller than a wolf.
A person who performs menial/routine tasks, a dogsbody.
A person who behaves in an opportunistic way; especially a base collaborator.
A jack (the playing card).
A player who steals the ball at the tackle.
senses_topics:
|
15873 | word:
jackal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jackal (third-person singular simple present jackals, present participle jackalling, simple past and past participle jackalled)
forms:
form:
jackals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jackalling
tags:
participle
present
form:
jackalled
tags:
participle
past
form:
jackalled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
jackal
etymology_text:
From French chacal, chacale, checale, schakal, ciacale, from Turkish çakal, from Persian شغال (šağâl), borrowed from Sanskrit शृगाल (śṛgāla, “jackal”).
senses_examples:
text:
They have jackalled for the great beast, to pick in turns the bones of each other; they have subserved those above, to oppress and defraud those below; and they are suffering, and, so far as classes can, justly suffering their purgation.
ref:
1800, Pamphlets on British Taxation
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perform menial or routine tasks
senses_topics:
|
15874 | word:
Zeeland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Zeeland
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Dutch Zeeland.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of the Netherlands.
A village in North Brabant, Netherlands.
A city in Ottawa County, Michigan.
A city in McIntosh County, North Dakota.
senses_topics:
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15875 | word:
AHD
word_type:
name
expansion:
AHD
forms:
wikipedia:
AHD
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of American Heritage Dictionary.
senses_topics:
|
15876 | word:
AHD
word_type:
noun
expansion:
AHD (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
AHD
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of alveolar hydatid disease.
Initialism of adenovirus hemorrhagic disease.
senses_topics:
|
15877 | word:
fountain
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fountain (plural fountains)
forms:
form:
fountains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English [Term?]; from Old French fontaine (whence modern fontaine); from Late Latin fontana, from Latin fontanus, fontaneus, adjectives from fons (“source, spring”).
senses_examples:
text:
As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, →OL
type:
quotation
text:
They heard her rouse the sleeping servant, and with her enter the kitchen; then the noise of a fire being lighted and the fountain being filled came to the watchers.
ref:
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 208
type:
quotation
text:
Nothing will pleaſe ſome Men, but Books ſtuff’d with Antiquity, groaning under the weight of Learned Quotations drawn from the Fountains: And what is all this but Pilfering.
ref:
1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Crest : A boar's head couped gold semy of fountains armed gules. Motto : REMIS VELISQUE. Granted by the College of Arms 1966.
ref:
1928, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Committee on Heraldry, A Roll of Arms
type:
quotation
text:
Argent, seme of fountains on a chief azure a Lorraine cross and an oak leaf of the first. Crest, None. Motto, Able and Ready. The blue of the shield represents Infantry. The fountains are emblematic of Arizona,[…]
ref:
1953, United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History, The Army Lineage Book, page 828
type:
quotation
text:
He takes out a soup bowl, fills it with Pepsi from the fountain, and places it carefully on the counter in front of the boy. “That'll be a quarter,” he says professionally.
ref:
2014, Danielle Sarver Coombs, Bob Batchelor, We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life... and Always Has, page 222
type:
quotation
text:
A Sproke was a soft drink Gloria and I had created with Jimbo’s help at the Banana Shack. It was basically fountain Coke mixed with fountain Sprite.
ref:
2018, Chris Grabenstein, Sandapalooza Shake-up, New York: Random House, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
Travellers over the London & North Western main line in bygone days will need no reminder of the pattering of cinders on the carriage roofs, the fountains of sparks from the chimneys at night and the distance from which the exhaust of approaching locomotives could be heard, due to the fierceness of their blast in such conditions.
ref:
1962 June, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 399
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A natural source of water; a spring.
An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
A soda fountain.
A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
|
15878 | word:
fountain
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fountain (third-person singular simple present fountains, present participle fountaining, simple past and past participle fountained)
forms:
form:
fountains
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fountaining
tags:
participle
present
form:
fountained
tags:
participle
past
form:
fountained
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English [Term?]; from Old French fontaine (whence modern fontaine); from Late Latin fontana, from Latin fontanus, fontaneus, adjectives from fons (“source, spring”).
senses_examples:
text:
Lava fountained from the volcano.
type:
example
text:
The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.
ref:
1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
senses_topics:
|
15879 | word:
seas
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seas
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of sea
senses_topics:
|
15880 | word:
WTF
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
WTF
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I've READ them; I know what all the words are. I still say, "WTF, over?" Someone's playing with our heads on this one, but what's all the word stew?
ref:
1985, Dick Dunn, “China Cat lyrics - explanations?”, in net.music.gdead (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Now, please, explain WTF did you mean by this text?
ref:
1994, Marat Fayzullin, “Re: MMM”, in relcom.talk (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
WTF are you on about? We played some very good football for most of the match, […]
ref:
2005, “defect violation”, “Re: WTF!!”, in uk.sport.football.clubs.liverpool (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
WTF was that about?
ref:
2019, 20 November, Carol Midgley, "Prince Andrew is ‘not very quick on his feet’, says the Duchess of York. What of her?" (in The Times newspaper)
text:
There’s a similar “sure but what else?” vibe to Made for Love, HBO Max’s new high-concept half-hour comedy, gently coasting on its WTF setup for longer than it should, to the detriment of the main star Cristin Milioti, trying her very best to secure our attention as it slowly drifts elsewhere.
ref:
2021 March 31, Benjamin Lee, “Made for Love review – Black Mirror-esque comedy needs an upgrade”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of what the fuck.
Where the fuck, why the fuck, when the fuck, or who the fuck.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
|
15881 | word:
WTF
word_type:
name
expansion:
WTF
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Likewise the WTF says they are the official Tae Kwon Do organization because […]
ref:
1998, The complete Idiot's guide to Taekwondo
type:
quotation
text:
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognizes WTF at its 83rd […]
ref:
2003, Taekwondo: A Step-By-Step Guide to the Korean Art of Self-Defense
type:
quotation
text:
The Secretariat of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) is located in Seoul, South Korea, in a beautiful edifice […]
ref:
2005, Official Taekwondo Training Manual
type:
quotation
text:
The WTF secretary general, Hoss Rafaty, told insidethegames that the governing body would look to market itself as World Taekwondo for business and commercial purposes, although there are no current plans to officially change the organisation’s name.
ref:
2015 December 26, “WTF? Taekwondo governing body set for rebrand over use of acronym”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of World Taekwondo Federation.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
15882 | word:
pabulum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pabulum (countable and uncountable, plural pabula or pabulums)
forms:
form:
pabula
tags:
plural
form:
pabulums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin pābulum (“food, nourishment; fodder or pasture for animals; nourishment for the mind, food for thought”), from pā(scō) (“to nourish”) + -bulum (“suffix denoting an instrument”), or directly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-dʰlom (*peh₂- (“to protect, shepherd”) + *-dʰlom, variant of *-trom (“suffix denoting a tool or instrument”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: pap
text:
Having for many years considered oil as the great pabulum of plants, I was much hurt by the result of some experiments, which state oil as poison; and turning this in my thoughts a thousand times over, it at last occurred to me, that though oil, as oil in its crude state, might act as a poison, yet it might be so changed as to convey it with great advantage to the soil, […]
ref:
1803 September 1, C. Baldwin, “On Oil used as a Manure. By C. Baldwin, Esq. From Hunter’s Georgical Essays.”, in The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture. Consisting of Original Communications, Specifications of Patent Inventions, Practical and Interesting Papers, Selected from the Philosophical Transactions and Scientific Journals of All Nations. Monthly Intelligence Relating to the Useful Arts, Proceedings of Learned Societies, and Notices of All Patents Granted for Inventions, volume III, number XVI (Second Series), London: Printed for J. Wyatt, Repertory-Office, Hatton-Garden, →OCLC, page 277
type:
quotation
text:
Germinal matter, as far as is known, is structureless soft, transparent, colorless. It can be studied in the fungi and in the lowest form of animals in the amœba, and in mucus, pus and the white-blood corpuscles of the higher animals. Its properties, as we have seen, are living, growing, active, and it moves through some natural power of its own. It has power to produce itself out of the food or pabulum, and muliplying by division, or dropping off of portions of its body.
ref:
1880, C. S. Beck, “Cell Life”, in Transactions of the Pennsylvania State Dental Society, Lancaster, Pa.: Pearsol & Geist, printers, 22 South Queen-St, →OCLC, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
[…] But when we find that they [volcanoes] are but few in Number, and the chiefeſt of thoſe too near the torrid Zone, and from their Tops to iſſue forth, now clear Fire, then thick, black Smoke, and ſometimes little or nothing at all; we muſt conclude, that they are only particular Fires, probably of the Sun’s kindling at firſt, and ſince continued by the caſual and incidental Applications of that Pabulum, which thoſe Part of the Earth adminiſter to them.
ref:
1727, Tobias Swinden, “The Improbability of Hell Fire’s Being in, or about the Center of the Earth”, in An Enquiry into the Nature and Place of Hell. [...] With a Supplement, wherein the Notions of A[rch]b[isho]p [John] Tillotson, Dr. Lupton, and Others, as to the Eternity of Hell Torments, are Impartially Represented. And the Rev. Mr. Wall’s Sentiments of this Learned Work, 2nd edition, London: Printed by H. P. for Tho[mas] Astley, at the Dolphin and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, →OCLC, pages 98–99
type:
quotation
text:
[W]e know from experience, that the light of a candle, lamp, or fire depends on, and emanates from the flame of each; and we alſo knw that this flame is nouriſhed and ſuſtained by a pabulum or fuel, which is conſumed or waſted, according to the quantity of light that iſſues from the flame; and that, when this food or fuel is exhauſted, the flame expires and yields no more light.
ref:
1785, Felix O'Gallagher, “Lecture VIII. The Nature of the Sun and its Pabulum Investigated.”, in An Essay on the Investigation of the First Principles of Nature: Together with the Application thereof to Solve the Phænomena of the Physical System. …, part II, Dublin: Printed by John Chambers, No. 5, Abbey-Street, →OCLC, section I (Necessity of Fuel for the Sun: Qualities thereof: Comets Not Adequate, nor Destined for that Purpose), page 2
type:
quotation
text:
To comfort the desponding parent with the thought that, without diminishing the stock which is imperiously demanded to furnish the more pressing and homely wants of our nature, he has disposed of one or more perhap out of a numerous offspring, under the shelter of a care scarce less tender than the paternal, where not only their bodily cravings shall be supplied, but that mental pabulum is also dispensed, which He hath declared to be no less necessary to our sustenance, who said, that "not by bread alone man can live;" for this Christ's Hospital unfolds her bounty.
ref:
1835, Charles Lamb, “Recollections of Christ’s Hospital”, in Essays of Elia, to which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale, Paris: Baudry's European Library, Rue du Coq, near the Louvre. [...], →OCLC, page 302
type:
quotation
text:
And with the eye of a bird seeking for minute fragmnts of seed, minute insects, tiny parasites, we also look for things that to us are the constituents of our mental or visual pabula.
ref:
1905, Ford Hermann Hueffer, chapter 1, in The Soul of London: A Survey of a Modern City, London: Routledge, →OCLC, pages 16–19; republished in Rick Allen, The Moving Pageant: A Literary Sourcebook on London Street-life, 1700–1914, London, New York, N.Y., 1998, part IV (“In Darkest England and Some Ways out”), pages 214–215
type:
quotation
text:
But the rescheduling of the directors' meeting for 7.30 a.m., and the trotting-out of such tawdry pabulums?
ref:
1998, Will Self, “A Story for Europe”, in Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
As this was largely a traditionally crafted speech, there were some painful cliches and political pabulum to which a typical politician might be prone, of course.
ref:
2017 March 1, Anthony Zurcher, “Trump addresses Congress: A kinder, gentler president”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2017-06-05
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Food or fodder, particularly that taken in by plants or animals.
Material that feeds a fire.
Food for thought.
Bland intellectual fare; an undemanding diet of words.
senses_topics:
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15883 | word:
Herbst
word_type:
name
expansion:
Herbst (plural Herbsts)
forms:
form:
Herbsts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Herbst.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname from German.
senses_topics:
|
15884 | word:
mote
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mote (plural motes)
forms:
form:
motes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mot, from Old English mot (“grain of sand; mote; atom”), but of uncertain ultimate origin. Sometimes linked to Spanish mota (“speck”) and English mud.
Compare West Frisian mot (“peat dust”), Dutch mot (“dust from turf; sawdust; grit”), Norwegian mutt (“speck; mote; splinter; chip”).
senses_examples:
text:
What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise?
An Emmet match an Emperor in might?
ref:
a. 1729, Edward Taylor, Meditation. Joh. 14.2. I go to prepare a place for you
type:
quotation
text:
I wanted to shrink myself to a mote of dust, plunge into this pool I held in my own cyclopean hands, soar down these runs of light to places where light itself was born from this colloquy of dust.
ref:
1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small particle; a speck.
senses_topics:
|
15885 | word:
mote
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mote (third-person singular simple present mote, no present participle, simple past and past participle must)
forms:
form:
mote
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
must
tags:
participle
past
form:
must
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English moten, from Old English mōtan (“to be allowed, be able to, have the opportunity to, be compelled to, may, must”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtaną (“to be able to, have to, be delegated”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to acquire, possess, be in charge of”). Cognate with Dutch moeten (“to have to, must”), German müssen (“to have to, must”), Ancient Greek μέδω (médō, “to prevail, dominate, rule over”). Related to empty.
senses_examples:
text:
‘I shall not take Vengeance into my own Hands. The Goddess will do what She will.’ ‘So mote it be,’ said the Grandmaster.
ref:
1980, Erica Jong, Fanny
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
May or might.
Must.
Forming subjunctive expressions of wish: may.
senses_topics:
|
15886 | word:
mote
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mote (plural motes)
forms:
form:
motes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See moot (“a meeting”).
senses_examples:
text:
a wardmote in the city of London
text:
a folk mote
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A meeting for discussion.
A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
A place of meeting for discussion.
senses_topics:
|
15887 | word:
mote
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mote (plural motes)
forms:
form:
motes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From remote, with allusion to the other sense of mote (“a speck of dust”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust.
senses_topics:
|
15888 | word:
congeal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
congeal (third-person singular simple present congeals, present participle congealing, simple past and past participle congealed)
forms:
form:
congeals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
congealing
tags:
participle
present
form:
congealed
tags:
participle
past
form:
congealed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English congelen, from Middle French congeler, from Latin congelare, cognate with Portuguese and Spanish congelar.
senses_examples:
text:
We must act before opposition to our plans congeals.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.
To coagulate, make curdled or semi-solid such as gel or jelly.
To make rigid or immobile.
To become congealed, solidify.
senses_topics:
|
15889 | word:
maize
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maize (countable and uncountable, plural maizes)
forms:
form:
maizes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish maíz, from Taíno *mahis, *mahisi, from Proto-Arawak *marikɨ. Cognate with Lokono marisi, Wayuu maiki.
senses_examples:
text:
A fundamental creative act of American man was the development of maize. For it was maize that made possible and sustained the whole Peruvian civilization as well as Mexican and Central American ones. Exactly where it originated is not known, but corn was found in pre-Mayan graves dating to 3000 B.C.
ref:
1972, Lytle Robinson, chapter 5, in Edgar Cayceʼs Story of the Origin and Destiny of Man, USA: Berkley Publishing Corporation, page 106
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.
senses_topics:
|
15890 | word:
bicentennial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bicentennial (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
By surface analysis, bi- + centennial and bi- + cent- + -ennial.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to the 200th anniversary of an event or happening.
Occurring every two hundred (200) years
senses_topics:
|
15891 | word:
bicentennial
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bicentennial (plural bicentennials)
forms:
form:
bicentennials
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
By surface analysis, bi- + centennial and bi- + cent- + -ennial.
senses_examples:
text:
The US bicentennial in 1976 was celebrated greatly because the economy happened to be good.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The 200th anniversary of an event or happening.
senses_topics:
|
15892 | word:
ersatz
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ersatz (comparative more ersatz, superlative most ersatz)
forms:
form:
more ersatz
tags:
comparative
form:
most ersatz
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Ersatz (“replacement”); and from the German ersetzen (“to replace”, verb).
senses_examples:
text:
Back then, we could only get ersatz coffee.
type:
example
text:
In these days of “rolled” gold, electro-plate, and undetectable pearls, it is curious that almost the only honest Ersatz material known to the goldsmith's art should be utterly forgotten.
ref:
1923, Arthur Michael Samuel, “Pinchbeck”, in The Mancroft Essays, page 164
type:
quotation
text:
Ersatzgas, Ersatzpfennige. Ersatz has become a brave word in Germany. As a substantive it means War Reparations. As part of compounded words it means substitute.]
ref:
[1929 September 16, “Zeppelining”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
The avant-garde's opposite number, in Greenberg's scheme, is kitsch, "ersatz culture"—art for capitalism's new man (who turns out to be no different from Fascism's or Communism's new man).
ref:
2001 October 15, The New Yorker
type:
quotation
text:
The NATO visitors watched an ersatz eighteenth-century dance (complete with powdered wigs and simulated copulation) that might have been considered obscene had it not been so amusing.
ref:
2003 February 17, David Remnick, “Exit the Castle: Václav Havel”, in The New Yorker
type:
quotation
text:
The crowd wandered out to a huge party on the ersatz city blocks of the Paramount lot.
ref:
2004 May 31, The New Yorker
type:
quotation
text:
If all goes according to plan, the ersatz city hall will soon be relocated to a former lumber warehouse in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista, at which point construction on the rest of Town Square will start.
ref:
2016 December 12, Amanda Kolson Hurley, “Time-Travel Therapy”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made in imitation; artificial, especially of a poor quality.
senses_topics:
|
15893 | word:
ersatz
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ersatz (plural ersatzes)
forms:
form:
ersatzes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Ersatz (“replacement”); and from the German ersetzen (“to replace”, verb).
senses_examples:
text:
The important point I want to emphasize here is that, regardless of a Government agency's conception of what a consumer expects of a food item, by and large the consumer detests the use of chemicals in foods as substitutes for nutritious, wholesome natural ingredients which improve flavor and quality. The consumer has little to gain in purchasing a product containing questionable ersatzes if his life is to be endangered or he will suffer ill effects.
ref:
1951, United States. Congress, Chemicals in Food Products, U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 400
type:
quotation
text:
What intrigues us is what will happen when the ersatzes for the ersatzes come along. Will characters start substituting for actors, bona fide dogs for barking ladies; will people start looking at people again instead of television and at nature instead of at documentaries?
ref:
1955 June 30, “Ersatzes for Ersatzes”, in The Christian Science Monitor, volume 47, number 182
type:
quotation
text:
They don't have the skills to tell ersatz magic from the real thing, for as children they daily invested the ersatz with what imagination they had.
ref:
2003 July 7, A. S Byatt, “Harry Potter and the Childish Adult”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
You do Berlin a disservice, baron. We too have mastered a few things: ersatzes, for instance, and the metaphysics of fictionalism—
ref:
2016 [c. 1927], Joanne Turnbull, The Return of Munchausen, New York: New York Review of Books, translation of Возвращение Мюнхгаузена by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, page 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something made in imitation; an effigy or substitute.
senses_topics:
|
15894 | word:
amaze
word_type:
verb
expansion:
amaze (third-person singular simple present amazes, present participle amazing, simple past and past participle amazed)
forms:
form:
amazes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
amazing
tags:
participle
present
form:
amazed
tags:
participle
past
form:
amazed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
amaze
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is derived from Middle English *amasen, amase (“to bewilder, perplex”) (attested chiefly in the past participle form, and thus often difficult to distinguish from amased (adjective)), from Old English āmasian (“to confuse, astonish”), from ā- (perfective prefix) + *masian (“to confound, confuse, perplex; to amaze”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon, signal”)). The English word is analysable as a- (intensifying prefix) + maze (“(archaic) to astonish, amaze, bewilder; to daze, stupefy”).
The noun is derived from Late Middle English amase, from the verb: see above.
senses_examples:
text:
He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.
type:
example
text:
Pealing rays and trumpet-blazes,— / Eye is blinded, ear amazes: […]
ref:
1871, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Bayard Taylor, Faust: A Tragedy. […] The Second Part. […], 11th edition, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, act I, scene i, page 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fill (someone) with surprise and wonder; to astonish, to astound, to surprise.
To stun or stupefy (someone).
To bewilder or perplex (someone or oneself).
To fill (someone) with panic; to panic, to terrify.
To experience amazement; to be astounded.
senses_topics:
|
15895 | word:
amaze
word_type:
noun
expansion:
amaze (countable and uncountable, plural amazes)
forms:
form:
amazes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is derived from Middle English *amasen, amase (“to bewilder, perplex”) (attested chiefly in the past participle form, and thus often difficult to distinguish from amased (adjective)), from Old English āmasian (“to confuse, astonish”), from ā- (perfective prefix) + *masian (“to confound, confuse, perplex; to amaze”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon, signal”)). The English word is analysable as a- (intensifying prefix) + maze (“(archaic) to astonish, amaze, bewilder; to daze, stupefy”).
The noun is derived from Late Middle English amase, from the verb: see above.
senses_examples:
text:
Shattuck looked at him in amaze. "Why, of course and welcome. What do you mean?" His tone was surprised and wounded, but pacific.
ref:
1891, Charles Egbert Craddock [pseudonym; Mary Noailles Murfree], chapter VIII, in In the “Stranger People’s” Country […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 175
type:
quotation
text:
While the world did gaze, in deep amaze, at those fearless men but few. Who bore the fight that freedom's light might shine through the foggy dew.
ref:
c. 1919, “The Foggy Dew” (track 3), in The Long Black Veil, performed by The Chieftains and Sinéad O'Connor, published 1995
type:
quotation
text:
She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze, dazed by her own behaviour.
ref:
1985, Lawrence Durrell, “Quinx”, in The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx, London: Faber and Faber, published 2004, page 1361
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Amazement, astonishment; (countable) an instance of this.
Fear, terror.
Stupefaction of the mind; bewilderment; (countable) an instance of this.
senses_topics:
|
15896 | word:
greater
word_type:
adj
expansion:
greater
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
senses_examples:
text:
The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.
ref:
2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects as chefs put bugs back on the menu”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
comparative form of great: more great
senses_topics:
|
15897 | word:
greater
word_type:
adj
expansion:
greater (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
senses_examples:
text:
Greater Antilles
type:
example
text:
greater yellowlegs
type:
example
text:
Greater New York includes nearby parts of three states as well as the City itself.
type:
example
text:
[…]statistics revealing that while greater Tokyo has a total area that represents only 3.6 percent of the total land available[…]more than 25 percent of the country's population live there.
ref:
1990, Chikara Higashi, Geza Peter Lauter, The Internationalization of the Japanese Economy, page 285
type:
quotation
text:
GMRLC is a regional consortium of medium-size research libraries (17 in 1995) located in the greater Midwest.
ref:
1997, Virginia Boucher, “Interlibrary Cooperation”, in Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook, 2nd edition, page 98, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The rate in isolated counties was about a third higher than in the greater metropolitan counties.
ref:
2004, Janet Golden, Richard Alan Meckel, Heather Munro Prescott, Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health: A Historical Handbook and Guide, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
In February 2010, the largest high—concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) solar power plant in Asia began operation in Lujhu, located in the Greater Kaohsiung area.
ref:
2013, Peter Newman, Anne Matan, “The Renewable Energy City”, in Green Urbanism in Asia: The Emerging Green Tigers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 41
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of two (or, rarely, more than two) things: the larger in size (bigger), in value, in importance etc.
Used in referring to a region or place together with the surrounding area pertaining to it; (of a city) metropolitan.
senses_topics:
|
15898 | word:
cubiculum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cubiculum (plural cubiculums or cubicula)
forms:
form:
cubiculums
tags:
plural
form:
cubicula
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom”). Doublet of cubicle.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small room, especially a bedroom, typically those small rooms found on the upper floor of a Roman house.
A small room carved out of the wall of a catacomb, used as mortuary chapels, and in Roman times, for Christian worship.
senses_topics:
|
15899 | word:
trimillennial
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trimillennial (plural trimillennials)
forms:
form:
trimillennials
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin trimillennialis, from tri- + mill- (“thousand”) + enni(us) (“year”) + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The 3,000th anniversary of an event or happening.
senses_topics:
|
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