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1600 | word:
Thailand
word_type:
name
expansion:
Thailand
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Thai + -land, from Thai ไทย (tai), from ไท (tai, “Tai, or 'free' via folk etymology”).
senses_examples:
text:
Are you from Thailand? I got you soup from Thailand!
ref:
2011 November 2, 00:07:14 from the start, in Conan Delivers Chinese Food in NYC (Conan), Conan O'Brien (actor), Team Coco
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quotation
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senses_glosses:
A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Kingdom of Thailand. Capital: Bangkok. Former name: Siam.
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1601 | word:
pollute
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pollute (third-person singular simple present pollutes, present participle polluting, simple past and past participle polluted)
forms:
form:
pollutes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
polluting
tags:
participle
present
form:
polluted
tags:
participle
past
form:
polluted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English polluten, borrowed from Latin pollūtum, from pollūtus (“no longer virgin", "unchaste”), perfect passive participle of polluō (“soil", "defile", "dishonor”).
senses_examples:
text:
The factory polluted the river when it cleaned its tanks.
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The lights from the stadium polluted the night sky, and we couldn't see the stars.
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But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
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1952, Bible (Revised Standard Version, Revelation 21:8
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product.
To make something or somewhere less suitable for some activity, especially by the introduction of some unnatural factor.
To corrupt or profane
To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonour.
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1602 | word:
pollute
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pollute (comparative more pollute, superlative most pollute)
forms:
form:
more pollute
tags:
comparative
form:
most pollute
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English polluten, borrowed from Latin pollūtum, from pollūtus (“no longer virgin", "unchaste”), perfect passive participle of polluō (“soil", "defile", "dishonor”).
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senses_glosses:
Polluted; defiled.
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1603 | word:
Nauru
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nauru
forms:
wikipedia:
Nauru
etymology_text:
Possibly from Nauruan anáoero (“I go to the beach”).
senses_examples:
text:
The announcement Wednesday said those seeking refuge would all now be processed on the island nation of Nauru, another country that has been doing that work for Australia.
ref:
2021 October 6, Isabella Kwai, “Australia to Shift All Offshore Processing of Migrants to Island Nation of Nauru”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-06, Australia
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country and island in Oceania, in the Pacific Ocean. Official name: Republic of Nauru.
Nauruan, the language of Nauru.
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1604 | word:
weapon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
weapon (plural weapons)
forms:
form:
weapons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wepen, from Old English wǣpn, from Proto-West Germanic *wāpn, from Proto-Germanic *wēpną (“weapon”), of unknown origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wēbnom. Cognate with Scots wapyn, wappen (“weapon”), West Frisian wapen (“weapon”), Dutch wapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Low German wapen (“weapon”), German Waffe (“weapon”) and Wappen (“coat of arms”), Danish våben (“weapon; coat of arms”) Swedish vapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Norwegian Bokmål våpen (“weapon”), Icelandic vopn (“weapon”).
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text:
The club that is now mostly used for golf was once a common weapon.
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Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
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2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
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quotation
text:
Money is the main weapon of modern oligarchs.
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example
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Rory Delap's long throw-ins are a familiar weapon to the Potters' opponents but this does not make them any easier to defend against.
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2011 January 15, Phil Dawkes, “Stoke 2-0 Bolton”, in BBC
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quotation
text:
Choose your weapon.
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example
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It has a whopping 5.4-litre V8, with a supercharger bolted to the top of it to help low-end pulling power. In short, it's a weapon and will happily dust a Porsche as easy as brushing your teeth.
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2006 May 12, Joshua Dowling, “Brains or brawn”, in The Sydney Morning Herald
type:
quotation
text:
We played Endless Heights' record release show earlier this year and during their set Christian from Endless Heights' lung collapsed, but he finished the set like an absolute weapon.
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2016 November 21, Marcus Tamp, “Hardcore 2016 Focus: Vices”, in The Music
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quotation
text:
I adore her in Easter Parade and Meet Me in St. Louis, but my favourite performance of hers is her concert at [New York’s] Carnegie Hall. She’s a total weapon on that stage.
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2020 October 24, Alley Pascoe, “Megan Washington's Love Letter To RuPaul”, in Marie Claire
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quotation
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American teenager Caroline Marks was trotting across the sand on her dream day at North Narrabeen when Luke Egan called out to her: "You weapon!" [...] Egan was mentoring Marks in between commentary stints. He was one of the people to chair the weapon up the beach, calling out to her: "What did I tell you!"
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2021 April 20, Will Swanton, “From one goofy-footer to another: American Caroline Marks 'stoked' to win Narrabeen Classic”, in The Australian
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quotation
text:
Young motherfucking legend, niggas just pretending
I spit my shit, infectious, don't come in my section
Or get wet bitch with that weapon
Lift the pussy, yeah I bench press it, and I been stressing since a adolescent
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2013 December 3, Beamon (lyrics and music), “Lord Love Me” (track 2), in The BeamGod: Lost Files
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quotation
text:
Weh you get da pussy deh from?
Hey, gyal me love you
Md love the way you use your weapon
Gyal, your pussy tight like a vice grip
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
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2017 April 13, Mavado (lyrics and music), “Ride All Night (My Kinda Girl)” (in Jamaican Creole)
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quotation
text:
Bring my baby a present
Put your head on the dresser
She open her legs, then I whip out my weapon
Sj immortal, the fuck is checking
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2019 February 14, “Jimmy Neutron” (track 4), in NQTATS aka CAVIN KON (lyrics), A Taste Of My Heart
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quotation
text:
I bust a bitch down in forty-five seconds
If it's good, Imma pop two Percs, and come back for seconds
She probably got a felony, that's an illegal weapon
Stick my whole hand in her pussy, I was tryna stretch it
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2019 June 29, “3 Minutes”, Rio Da Yung OG (lyrics)
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quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords; arm.
An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
A tool of any kind.
An idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person.
A very skilled, competent, or capable person or thing worthy of awe.
The human genital organ.
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1605 | word:
weapon
word_type:
verb
expansion:
weapon (third-person singular simple present weapons, present participle weaponing, simple past and past participle weaponed)
forms:
form:
weapons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
weaponing
tags:
participle
present
form:
weaponed
tags:
participle
past
form:
weaponed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wepen, from Old English wǣpn, from Proto-West Germanic *wāpn, from Proto-Germanic *wēpną (“weapon”), of unknown origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wēbnom. Cognate with Scots wapyn, wappen (“weapon”), West Frisian wapen (“weapon”), Dutch wapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Low German wapen (“weapon”), German Waffe (“weapon”) and Wappen (“coat of arms”), Danish våben (“weapon; coat of arms”) Swedish vapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Norwegian Bokmål våpen (“weapon”), Icelandic vopn (“weapon”).
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text:
[…] the friends of the country and of the equal rights of all men, the friends of enfranchising the black man and of weaponing his hand for defense; the friends of taking the governments of these rebel States out of the hands of their rebel possessors, […]
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1868, Henry Wilson, History of the Reconstruction Measures of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses, 1865-68, page 425
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quotation
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senses_glosses:
To equip with a weapon; to arm.
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1606 | word:
Azerbaijan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Azerbaijan
forms:
wikipedia:
Atropates
etymology_text:
From Persian آذربایجان (âzarbâyjân), from Arabic أَذَرْبَيْجَان (ʔaḏarbayjān), from Classical Persian آذربایگان (āðarbāygān)/آذربادگان (āzarbādgān), from Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾtwrpʾtkʾn), [script needed] (ʾtwrpʾtkn /Ādurbādagān/), from the name of Atropates, the Persian nobleman who founded the independent kingdom of Atropatene, from Old Persian *Ātr̥pātah (/Āturpat/, “protected by fire”). For the suffix see -ական (-akan), گان (gân). Compare Old Armenian Ատրպատական (Atrpatakan), Ատրապատական (Atrapatakan), Ատրպայական (Atrpayakan), Armenian Ադրբեջան (Adrbeǰan), Byzantine Greek Ἀδαρβιγάνων (Adarbigánōn), Classical Syriac ܐܕܘܪܒܝܓܐܢ (ʾĀḏōrbêḡān), Coptic ⲁⲇⲟⲩⲣⲃⲁⲇⲁⲅⲁⲛ (adourbadagan).
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A country in the South Caucasus, Asia and Europe. Official name: Republic of Azerbaijan. Capital: Baku.
A region in northwestern Iran.
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1607 | word:
Slovenia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Slovenia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Slovene (from German, from Slovene) + -ia.
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A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Slovenia. Capital and largest city: Ljubljana. Part of Yugoslavia until 1991.
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1608 | word:
Interlingua
word_type:
name
expansion:
Interlingua
forms:
wikipedia:
Interlingua
etymology_text:
Coined possibly independently multiple times in multiple languages, but modern use derives from the Interlingua word. The word itself comes from Latin inter (“between”) + lingua (“language”).
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A constructed interlanguage based on Romance languages, English, German, Russian and Latin, developed by the International Auxiliary Language Association, and first published in 1951.
Latino sine flexione, a simplified version of Latin by Giuseppe Peano
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1609 | word:
Lebanon
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lebanon (usually uncountable, plural Lebanons)
forms:
form:
Lebanons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Lebanon
Lebanon (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
The country's name comes from the name of the mountain range, which in turn comes from Biblical Hebrew לְבָנוֹן (ləḇānôn), from Proto-West Semitic *laban- (“white”) (compare Hebrew לָבָן (lāḇān, “white”), Arabic لَبَن (laban, “milk”)).
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text:
"He does a trip from Jiddah up to the Lebanon and now he's extending it as far as Marseilles."
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1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 382
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quotation
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A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East. Official name: Lebanese Republic. Capital: Beirut. Also (especially formerly) known as "the Lebanon".
A mountain range in the country of Lebanon, Western Asia.
Various places in the United States of America:
A small unincorporated community in Montezuma County, Colorado.
Various places in the United States of America:
A town in New London County, Connecticut.
Various places in the United States of America:
A census-designated place in Kent County, Delaware, in full Rising Sun-Lebanon.
Various places in the United States of America:
A city in St. Clair County, Illinois.
Various places in the United States of America:
A city, the county seat of Boone County, Indiana.
Various places in the United States of America:
A small city in Smith County, Kansas.
Various places in the United States of America:
A home rule city, the county seat of Marion County, Kentucky.
Various places in the United States of America:
A town in York County, Maine.
Various places in the United States of America:
A city, the county seat of Laclede County, Missouri.
Various places in the United States of America:
A small village in Red Willow County, Nebraska.
Various places in the United States of America:
A city in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
Various places in the United States of America:
A borough of Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
Various places in the United States of America:
A town in Madison County, New York.
Various places in the United States of America:
A city, the county seat of Warren County, Ohio.
Various places in the United States of America:
A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Marshall County, Oklahoma.
Various places in the United States of America:
A city in Linn County, Oregon.
Various places in the United States of America:
A city, the county seat of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
Various places in the United States of America:
A small town in Potter County, South Dakota.
Various places in the United States of America:
A city, the county seat of Wilson County, Tennessee.
Various places in the United States of America:
An unincorporated community in Hardin County, Tennessee.
Various places in the United States of America:
A town, the county seat of Russell County, Virginia.
Various places in the United States of America:
A town and census-designated place in Dodge County, Wisconsin.
Various places in the United States of America:
A town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
Various places in the United States of America:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Lebanon Township.
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1610 | word:
Italy
word_type:
name
expansion:
Italy
forms:
wikipedia:
Italy
etymology_text:
From Middle English Italy, Italie, from Old English Italia (“Italy”), from Latin Italia (“Italy”), via Ancient Greek Ῑ̓ταλίᾱ (Ītalíā), from Oscan 𐌅𐌝𐌕𐌄𐌋𐌉𐌞 (víteliú). Usually explained as a cognate of vitulus (“calf”), thus meaning "land of young bulls" in Oscan. In that case, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”). According to some ancient Greek authors, named after a king Italus or Italos, whose kingdom was on the peninsula.
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text:
Rome is the heart of Italy [...]. She was, is, and must ever be, her capital.
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1868, E. S. G. S., Italy and her capital, page 170
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quotation
text:
Italy and her invaders
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19th century, Thomas Hodgkin, Italy and her invaders, title
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senses_glosses:
A country in Southern Europe. Official names: Italian Republic and Republic of Italy. Capital and largest city: Rome.
Synonym of Apennine Peninsula
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1611 | word:
Jamaica
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jamaica
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Taíno Xaymaca (“land of wood and water”), from Taino maca (“wood”).
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An island and country in the Caribbean
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1612 | word:
Jamaica
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jamaica
forms:
wikipedia:
Massachusett
etymology_text:
After Kuchamakin, a Massachusett leader; from Massachusett.
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Jamaica Plain, Boston, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
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1613 | word:
Jamaica
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jamaica
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the Massachusett word for “beaver”, tummunk. Compare next etymology. Doublet of Tamaqua and Etymology 4.
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Jamaica, Vermont, a town in Vermont.
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1614 | word:
Jamaica
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jamaica
forms:
wikipedia:
Jamaica, Queens
etymology_text:
From earlier Jamaco, Jemaco, Jameco, borrowed from Munsee amoxkw (“beaver”), or another Lenape language. Doublet of Tamaqua and Etymology 3.
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Jamaica, Queens, a neighborhood of Queens, New York.
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1615 | word:
Germany
word_type:
name
expansion:
Germany (countable and uncountable, plural Germanies or Germanys)
forms:
form:
Germanies
tags:
plural
form:
Germanys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
1 BC
1000
1914
1944
750 BC
Germany
Julius Caesar
Strabo
The German Question
etymology_text:
From Middle English Germanie, from Old English Germanie & Germania, from Latin Germānia (“land of the Germans”), from Germānī, a people living around and east of the Rhine first attested in the 1st century B.C.E. works of Julius Caesar and of uncertain etymology. The exonym was said by Strabo to derive from germānus (“close kin; genuine”), making it cognate with germane and german, but this seems unsupported. Attempts to derive it from Germanic or Celtic roots since the 18th century are all problematic, although it is perhaps cognate with the Old Irish gair (“neighbour”). Doublet of Germania.
In reference to a medieval kingdom, English Germany is usually an anachronism using the Roman name to describe the area or calquing various Latin terms like rex Teutonicorum ("king of the Teutons"), which were often derogatory exonyms rather than formal titles.
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text:
Ancient Germany, excluding from its independent limits the province weſtward of the Rhine, which had ſubmitted to the Roman yoke, extended itſelf over a third part of Europe. Almoſt the whole of modern Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Livonia, Pruſſia, and the greater part of Poland, were peopled by the various tribes of one great nation, whoſe complexion, manners, and language, denoted a common origin and preſerved a ſtriking reſemblance.
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1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, page 218
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quotation
text:
While the Germans of Gaul, Italy, and Spain became Romans, the Saxons retained their language, their genius, and manners, and created in Britain a Germany outside of Germany.
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1872, John Fiske, editor, History of English Literature, abridgment of Henri van Laun's translation of Hippolyte Taine's Histoire de la littérature anglaise (1864), page 26
type:
quotation
text:
There have been in Germany, as in all other nations, eulogists of aggression, war, and conquest. But there have been other Germans too. The greatest are not to be found in the ranks of those glorifying tyranny and German world hegemony. Are Heinrich von Kleist, Richard Wagner, and Detlev von Liliencron more representative of the national character than Kant, Goethe, Schiller, Mozart, and Beethoven? The idea of a nation's character is obviously arbitrary. It is derived from a judgment which omits all unpleasant facts contradicting the preconceived dogma.
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1944, Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government, page 265
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quotation
text:
There had been a long bloody war in the empire of Germany for twelve years, between the Emperor, the Duke of Bavaria, the King of Spain, and the Popiſh Princes and Electors, on the one side; and the Proteſtant Princes on the other; and both ſides having been exhauſted by the war, and even the Catholicks themſelves beginning to diſlike the growing power of the houſe of Auſtria, it was thought that all parties were willing to make peace.
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1759, A Military History of Germany; and of England. From the Year 1631 to the Year 1648. Being the Memoirs of an English Gentleman, who served in the army of Gustavus Adolphus; and afterwards in the Royal Army of King Charles I (1759), page 33
type:
quotation
text:
I had frequently been told, that the Bohemians were the moſt muſical people of Germany, or, perhaps, of all Europe...
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1775, Charles Burney, The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces, volume II, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
When the race of Charlemagne ceaſed to govern in Germany, the princes and ſtates aſſociated to continue the empire; and that its majeſty might be viſible, and its laws enforced, they agreed to chooſe an emperor. From this emperor, all electors and princes, except thoſe before 1582, receive inveſtiture of their dominions; counts and free cities from the Aulic council. But this inveſtiture is no more than a ſign of ſubmiſſion to the majeſty of the empire, which is depoſited in the emperor. For as the conſtituted members of the empire are dependent on that collective union from which they derive protection, they therefore ſhew this dependence on the emperor, becauſe he repreſents the majeſty of that union, or of the empire; but in all other reſpects they are independent and free.
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1790, Thomas B. Clarke, A Statistical View of Germany, in respect to the Imperial and Territorial Constitutions, Forms of Government, Legislation, Administration of Justice, and Ecclesiastical State, page 13
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quotation
text:
There are few cities in Germany beſides Vienna which contain ſo rich and numerous a nobility as this does: there are fome houſes here which have eſtates of 100,000 guilders, or 10,000l. a-year.
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1797, Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig, editors, Encyclopædia Britannica, 3rd edition, A. Bell & C. MacFarquhar, "Mentz", page 396
type:
quotation
text:
Severing's belief that trade union workers were the most progressive and democratic element in Germany holds up well under investigation.
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1996, Paul Bookbinder, Weimar Germany: The Republic of the Reasonable, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
The win made Germany the first European team to prevail in a World Cup in the Americas and gave the Germans, who have made it to the knockout stage in 16 consecutive World Cups, their first trophy since 1990.
ref:
2014 July 13, Sam Borden, “Germans End Long Wait: 24 Years and a Bit Extra”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2014-07-13
type:
quotation
text:
Germans save a lot, produce plenty and spend little. The result is a massive external surplus. Last year, Germany’s current account surplus stood at almost €200 billion ($260 billion), the world's largest.
ref:
2014 September 25, Michael Heise, “The Myth of the Stupid German Investor”, in The Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on 2015-01-07
type:
quotation
text:
The differences between England and the Germanies sprang from the absence or presence of ministerial interventions.
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2007, William Clark, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
In a Renault 14, they drove from one Germany to the other.
ref:
2010, Ilan Stavans, Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years
type:
quotation
text:
It is the fall of 1989, and two time zones farther to the west, thousands of people march through downtown Leipzig every Monday, while more than 6,000 East German citizens are camped out in the embassies of West Germany in Prague and Warsaw, hoping to be allowed to emigrate. The images have circled the globe, and it is clear to leaders Thatcher and Gorbachev that the two Germanys are on the verge of radical change.
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2010 September 29, Klaus Wiegrefe, “Germany's Unlikely Diplomatic Triumph: An Inside Look at the Reunification Negotiations”, in Spiegel Online, archived from the original on 2012-06-27
type:
quotation
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senses_glosses:
A nation or civilization occupying the country around the Rhine, Elbe, and upper Danube Rivers in Central Europe, taken as a whole under its various governments.
A nation or civilization occupying the country around the Rhine, Elbe, and upper Danube Rivers in Central Europe, taken as a whole under its various governments.
The German Sprachraum; the countries and territories within Europe where German is or was the primary language.
The principal state in this country, including
A nominal medieval kingdom forming part of the Carolingian and Holy Roman Empires; (metonymically, now uncommon) the Holy Roman Empire in its entirety; (metonymically, obsolete) the Austrian Habsburg empire in its entirety.
The principal state in this country, including
An empire formed by Prussia in 1871 with its capital at Berlin.
The principal state in this country, including
A republic formed in 1918 with its capital at Berlin, inclusive of the Nazi regime who controlled it after 1933.
The principal state in this country, including
The socialist republic formed in 1949 with its capital at Berlin, more often known in English as East Germany.
The principal state in this country, including
A country in Central Europe, formed in 1949 as West Germany, with its provisional capital Bonn until 1990, when it incorporated East Germany. Official name: Federal Republic of Germany. Capital and largest city: Berlin.
The various states in this country either over time or during periods of disunity and division, sometimes (inexact) inclusive of the Holy Roman Empire and Austria-Hungary's other holdings.
A male given name.
A surname.
A township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States.
An unincorporated community in Clark County, Indiana, United States.
An unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas, United States.
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1616 | word:
Mozambique
word_type:
name
expansion:
Mozambique
forms:
wikipedia:
Mozambique
Mussa Bin Bique
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Portuguese Moçambique, from the name of sultan Mussa Bin Bique.
senses_examples:
text:
During our cruise in the Mozambique we had generally light winds, almost invariably from E.S.E., or calms, and smooth water, nearly the whole time.
ref:
1857 May, “Extracts from the Journal of Captain M. S. Nolloth, H.M.S. 'Frolic'”, in The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, for 1857, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., page 252
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in East Africa and Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Mozambique (since 1990). Capital: Maputo.
The former communist country of the People's Republic of Mozambique.
The former communist country of the People's Republic of Mozambique.
A former colony of Portugal.
An island or its town in the province of Nampula, Mozambique, from which its name was transferred to the country.
A broad strait, the modern Mozambique Channel, which separates the island of Madagascar from the African mainland of Mozambique.
senses_topics:
|
1617 | word:
Mozambique
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Mozambique (plural Mozambiques)
forms:
form:
Mozambiques
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Mozambique
Mussa Bin Bique
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Portuguese Moçambique, from the name of sultan Mussa Bin Bique.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Mozambique; a Mozambican.
Alternative letter-case form of mozambique (“fabric”).
senses_topics:
|
1618 | word:
a-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
a-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English a- (“up, out, away”), from Old English ā-, originally *ar-, *or-, from Proto-West Germanic *uʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out-”), from Proto-Indo-European *uds- (“up, out”). Cognate with Old Saxon a-, German er-.
senses_examples:
text:
arise, await
type:
example
text:
abide, amaze
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Forming verbs with the sense away, up, on, out.
Forming verbs with the sense of intensified action.
senses_topics:
|
1619 | word:
a-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
a-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* From Middle English a- (“on”), derived from unstressed Middle English an (“on”), from Old English an (“on”)
* See a (preposition, on, to, in, etc.)
senses_examples:
text:
aglow, apace, afire, aboil, a-bling, abluster
type:
example
text:
asunder
type:
example
text:
astern, abeam
type:
example
text:
Come a-morning we are going hunting.
type:
example
text:
hits a-poppin
type:
example
text:
doins a-transpirin [doings a-transpiring]
type:
example
text:
1777, Thomas Arne, A-Hunting We Will Go:
type:
quotation
text:
The twelfth day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Twelve lords a-leaping,
…
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
ref:
1780, The Twelve Days of Christmas
text:
circa 1850, Here We Come A-wassailing/Here We Come A-caroling
Here we come a-wassailing
Among the leaves so green;
Here we come a-wand’ring
So fair to be seen.
text:
Oh waste no words a-wooing
The soft sleep to your bed;
ref:
1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, XIII, lines 6-7
type:
quotation
text:
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'
ref:
1964, Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are a-Changin' " (recorded 1963, released 1964)
text:
If the van’s a-rockin’, don’t come a-knockin’.
ref:
circa 1970, bumper sticker
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In, on, at; used to show a state, condition, or manner. Also passing into sense 2.
In, into. Also passing into sense 5.
In the direction of, or toward.
At such a time.
In the act or process of. Used in some dialects before a present participle.
senses_topics:
|
1620 | word:
a-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
a-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English a-, a variant form of y-, from Old English ġe-, from Proto-West Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with”).
senses_examples:
text:
aware, alike
type:
example
text:
I have a-gone.
type:
example
text:
I have a-seen a bird.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of y- (archaic and dialectal) In dialect, it is sometimes conflated with sense 5 of the previous definition, and is used as a general indicator of a participle.
Used to form the past participle of a verb.
senses_topics:
|
1621 | word:
a-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
a-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman a-, from Old French e-, from Latin ex-.
senses_examples:
text:
abash
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Forming words with the sense of wholly, or utterly out.
senses_topics:
|
1622 | word:
a-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
a-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) (ἀν- (an-) immediately followed by a vowel).
senses_examples:
text:
amoral, asymmetry, atheism, asexual, acyclic, atypical
type:
example
text:
When invited to believe in the Chimaera, the horse-centaurs, or the winged horse Pegasus, all of them straightforward Pelasgian cult-symbols, a philosopher felt bound to reject them as a-zoölogical improbabilities ….
ref:
1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber 1999, page 7
text:
If aroused outside the proper outlet of marriage, [female lust] could range out of control, turning its possessor into an a-feminine monster: that is what happened to fallen women.
ref:
2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 191
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not, without, opposite of.
senses_topics:
|
1623 | word:
a-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
a-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English a-, from Middle French a-, from Latin ad (“towards”).
senses_examples:
text:
ascend, aspire, amass, abandon, avenue
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Towards; Used to indicate direction, reduction to, increase to, change into, or motion.
senses_topics:
|
1624 | word:
a-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
a-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin ab (“of, off, from, away”).
senses_examples:
text:
avert, aperient, abridge, assoil, assoilzie
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Away from.
senses_topics:
|
1625 | word:
a-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
a-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English a-, o- (“of”). See a (preposition, of).
senses_examples:
text:
anew, afresh, athirst
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from.
senses_topics:
|
1626 | word:
a-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
a-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
A-tisket a-tasket,
A green and yellow basket
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of -a (“empty syllable added to songs, poetry, verse and other speech”)
senses_topics:
|
1627 | word:
a-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
a-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
a-be, a-going
type:
example
text:
Let that choilt a-be, wilt ta. ― Let that child alone, will you.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used as a prefix to verbs in the sense of remaining in the same condition. Actively doing something.
senses_topics:
|
1628 | word:
political
word_type:
adj
expansion:
political (comparative more political, superlative most political)
forms:
form:
more political
tags:
comparative
form:
most political
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From politic + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
Political principles are rarely absolute, as political logic holds an imperfect result by compromise is better than a theoretically perfect abstention from the political process in the opposition.
type:
example
text:
In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
ref:
2012 January 24, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.
ref:
2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Good political staff is hard to find, they may neither be ambitious and corrupted by power nor tempted by private sector careers.
type:
example
text:
“The Court invalidates Minnesota’s political apparel ban based on its inability to define the term ‘political'”
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing.
Concerning a polity or its administrative components.
Motivated, especially inappropriately, by political (electoral; or, more generally, power, standing, influence or conflict) calculation.
Of or relating to views about social relationships that involve power, standing, influence or conflict.
Interested in politics.
senses_topics:
|
1629 | word:
political
word_type:
noun
expansion:
political (plural politicals)
forms:
form:
politicals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From politic + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
One such officer was Count Nikolai Ignatiev, a brilliant and ambitious political, who enjoyed the ear of the Tsar and burned to settle his country's scores with the British.
ref:
1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 265
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A political agent or officer.
A publication focusing on politics.
senses_topics:
|
1630 | word:
Israel
word_type:
name
expansion:
Israel (plural Israels)
forms:
form:
Israels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Israel, from Old English, borrowed from Latin Israel, from Ancient Greek Ἰσραήλ (Israḗl), from Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra'él, “Israel”). In the Bible, it is said to be from the name יִשְׂרֶה אֵל (yisré 'él) given to Jacob in he:T:29, after which his descendants came to be known as Israelites and their land as the "kingdom/land of Israel". The personal name, already attested in Eblaite 𒅖𒊏𒅋 (iš-ra-il) and Ugaritic 𐎊𐎌𐎗𐎛𐎍 (yšrỉl), has been variously translated as "he wrestles with God", "he prevails with God", or "God rules" (possibly from the same root ש־ר־ה/ש־ר־ר as שָׂרָה (“Sarah”)).
Line 27 of the Merneptah Stele (from about 1200 B.C.E.) is thought to contain the earliest attestation of the name Israel in any language, Egyptian ysrjꜣr.
: i-i-z:Z1s*Z1s:r-i-A-r:Z1*T14-A1*B1:Z2
Doublet of Yisroel.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. Official name: State of Israel.
A Biblical region of Western Asia roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel, known in the Bible as the Land of Israel and considered the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people.
An ancient kingdom in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel and the Land of Israel.
An ancient kingdom that occupied the northern part of the Land of Israel and modern State of Israel, as distinct from Judah.
The Jews, taken collectively.
A male given name from Hebrew,
A male given name from Hebrew,
Another name for Jacob, notably after Genesis 32:28 and in later references.
A surname.
senses_topics:
biblical
lifestyle
religion
|
1631 | word:
above
word_type:
prep
expansion:
above
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English above, aboven, abuven, from Old English ābufan, onbufan, from on (“on”) + bufan (“over”), (akin to Icelandic ofan (“from above”), Middle Dutch bōven, Old Frisian bova, Middle High German bobene) from bī (“by”) + ufan (“over”); also cognate with Danish oven, Dutch boven, German oben, Swedish ovan, Old Saxon oƀan, Old High German obana.
The preposition, adjective and the noun derive from the adverb.
senses_examples:
text:
He always put his coat on above his sweater.
type:
example
text:
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
ref:
2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7
type:
quotation
text:
Idaho is above Utah.
type:
example
text:
to cut above average
type:
example
text:
Even the chief of police is not above suspicion.
type:
example
text:
He was always above reproach.
type:
example
text:
I thought you said you were above these kinds of antics.
type:
example
text:
That's above my comprehension.
type:
example
text:
Thy worth, sweet friend, is far above my gifts,
ref:
1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, act I, scene i
type:
quotation
text:
to stand head and shoulders above the rest
type:
example
text:
above and beyond the call of duty
type:
example
text:
over and above
type:
example
text:
That amount is way above our asking price.
type:
example
text:
The owner was above taking more than a token salary.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Physically over; on top of; worn on top of, said of clothing.
In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface.
Farther north than.
Rising; appearing out of reach height-wise.
Higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; higher in measure, degree, volume, or pitch, etc. than; out of reach; not exposed to; not likely to be affected by; incapable of negative actions or thoughts.
Higher in rank, status, or position.
In addition to; besides.
Surpassing in number or quantity; more than.
In preference to.
Too proud to stoop to; averse to; disinclined towards;
Beyond; on the other side.
Upstage of.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
theater |
1632 | word:
above
word_type:
adv
expansion:
above (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English above, aboven, abuven, from Old English ābufan, onbufan, from on (“on”) + bufan (“over”), (akin to Icelandic ofan (“from above”), Middle Dutch bōven, Old Frisian bova, Middle High German bobene) from bī (“by”) + ufan (“over”); also cognate with Danish oven, Dutch boven, German oben, Swedish ovan, Old Saxon oƀan, Old High German obana.
The preposition, adjective and the noun derive from the adverb.
senses_examples:
text:
Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
ref:
2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
Nobody has lived in it since the summer of 1879, and it is fast going to pieces. For some three years before the date mentioned above, it was occupied by the family of Charles May
ref:
1913, Ambrose Bierce, Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
type:
quotation
text:
That angels are men in the most complete form, and enjoy every sense, may be seen above (n. 73-77); and that the light in heaven is far brighter than the light in the world (n. 126-132).
ref:
1905, Emanuel Swedenborg, chapter 19, in Heaven and Hell
type:
quotation
text:
He’s in a better place now, floating free as the clouds above.
type:
example
text:
He appealed to the court above.
type:
example
text:
It was a cold day at only 5 above.
type:
example
text:
The sparrow I saw was rufous above and off-white below.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Directly overhead; vertically on top of.
Higher in the same page; earlier in the order as far as writing products go.
Into or from heaven; in the sky.
In a higher place; upstairs; farther upstream.
Higher in rank, power, or position.
In addition.
More in number.
Above zero; above freezing.
On the upper half or the dorsal surface of an animal.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
1633 | word:
above
word_type:
adj
expansion:
above (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English above, aboven, abuven, from Old English ābufan, onbufan, from on (“on”) + bufan (“over”), (akin to Icelandic ofan (“from above”), Middle Dutch bōven, Old Frisian bova, Middle High German bobene) from bī (“by”) + ufan (“over”); also cognate with Danish oven, Dutch boven, German oben, Swedish ovan, Old Saxon oƀan, Old High German obana.
The preposition, adjective and the noun derive from the adverb.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of heaven; heavenly.
Being located higher on the same page or on a preceding page.
senses_topics:
|
1634 | word:
above
word_type:
noun
expansion:
above (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English above, aboven, abuven, from Old English ābufan, onbufan, from on (“on”) + bufan (“over”), (akin to Icelandic ofan (“from above”), Middle Dutch bōven, Old Frisian bova, Middle High German bobene) from bī (“by”) + ufan (“over”); also cognate with Danish oven, Dutch boven, German oben, Swedish ovan, Old Saxon oƀan, Old High German obana.
The preposition, adjective and the noun derive from the adverb.
senses_examples:
text:
A brother from another mother, sent from the above.
ref:
1998, “Twinz”, in Capital Punishment, performed by Big Pun and Fat Joe
type:
quotation
text:
Withal they saw of him that he had no doubt but that they should come to their above on the morrow,
ref:
1896, William Morris, The Well at the World's End
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Heaven.
Something, especially a person's name in legal documents, that appears higher on the same page or on a preceding page.
Higher authority.
betterment, raised status or condition.
senses_topics:
|
1635 | word:
most
word_type:
det
expansion:
most
forms:
wikipedia:
MOST (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English most, moste, from Old English mǣst, māst, from Proto-Germanic *maistaz, *maist. Cognate with Scots mast, maist (“most”), Saterland Frisian maast (“most”), West Frisian meast (“most”), Dutch meest (“most”), German meist (“most”), Danish and Swedish mest (“most”), Icelandic mestur (“most”).
senses_examples:
text:
The teams competed to see who could collect (the) most money.
type:
example
text:
The team with the most points wins.
type:
example
text:
Most bakers and dairy farmers have to get up early.
type:
example
text:
Winning was not important for most participants.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
superlative degree of much.
superlative degree of many: the comparatively largest number of (construed with the definite article)
superlative degree of many: the majority of; more than half of (construed without the definite article)
senses_topics:
|
1636 | word:
most
word_type:
adv
expansion:
most (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
MOST (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English most, moste, from Old English mǣst, māst, from Proto-Germanic *maistaz, *maist. Cognate with Scots mast, maist (“most”), Saterland Frisian maast (“most”), West Frisian meast (“most”), Dutch meest (“most”), German meist (“most”), Danish and Swedish mest (“most”), Icelandic mestur (“most”).
senses_examples:
text:
This is the most important example.
type:
example
text:
Correctness is most important.
type:
example
text:
This is a most unusual specimen.
type:
example
text:
Most cruel edict! Sure, thy generous soul, Septimius, abhors the dreadful task of persecution.
ref:
1750, “Theodora”, Thomas Morell (lyrics), George Frideric Handel (music)
type:
quotation
text:
“His song is most unpleasant,” said the King rubbing his head, “pray bid him cease,” and off went the secretary to argue with the wind.
ref:
1922, Ruth Plumly Thompson, “The Last Giant”, in The Princess of Cozytown, P. F. Volland, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Boundary Problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Forms the superlative of many adjectives.
To a great extent or degree; highly; very.
superlative degree of much
senses_topics:
|
1637 | word:
most
word_type:
adj
expansion:
most (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
MOST (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English most, moste, from Old English mǣst, māst, from Proto-Germanic *maistaz, *maist. Cognate with Scots mast, maist (“most”), Saterland Frisian maast (“most”), West Frisian meast (“most”), Dutch meest (“most”), German meist (“most”), Danish and Swedish mest (“most”), Icelandic mestur (“most”).
senses_examples:
text:
PATTY:They announced this year's nominees for student council. And guess who's up for vice-president? Me! Isn't that the most to say the least?
ref:
1978 September 14, Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey, Bronte Woodard, directed by Randal Kleiser, Grease (film), spoken by Patty Simcox (Susan Buckner)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The greatest; the best.
senses_topics:
|
1638 | word:
most
word_type:
pron
expansion:
most
forms:
wikipedia:
MOST (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English most, moste, from Old English mǣst, māst, from Proto-Germanic *maistaz, *maist. Cognate with Scots mast, maist (“most”), Saterland Frisian maast (“most”), West Frisian meast (“most”), Dutch meest (“most”), German meist (“most”), Danish and Swedish mest (“most”), Icelandic mestur (“most”).
senses_examples:
text:
Most want the best for their children.
type:
example
text:
The peach was juicier and more flavourful than most.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The greater part of a group, especially a group of people.
senses_topics:
|
1639 | word:
most
word_type:
noun
expansion:
most (usually uncountable, plural mosts)
forms:
form:
mosts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
MOST (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English most, moste, from Old English mǣst, māst, from Proto-Germanic *maistaz, *maist. Cognate with Scots mast, maist (“most”), Saterland Frisian maast (“most”), West Frisian meast (“most”), Dutch meest (“most”), German meist (“most”), Danish and Swedish mest (“most”), Icelandic mestur (“most”).
senses_examples:
text:
The most I can offer for the house is $150,000.
type:
example
text:
Most of the penguins were friendly and curious.
type:
example
text:
Most of the rice was spoiled.
type:
example
text:
Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
ref:
2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Along with their massive size will come other “mosts”: they will likely be the longest living, the best educated, the wealthiest and the most wired/ wireless.
ref:
2001, George Barna, Real Teens: A Contemporary Snapshot of Youth Culture, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
Virginia had a number of "mosts” that made it appealing, if not representative of all Confederate states: the most citizens among the Southern states; the most slaves; the most men under arms; the most famous Southern generals; the most fighting within its borders; the most divided by the war (what other Southern state lost a quarter of its territory and saw a new state created out of that former territory?); and the most damaged by the war.
ref:
2002, John Gregory Selby, Virginians at War: The Civil War Experiences of Seven Young Confederates, page xvii
type:
quotation
text:
The record of Elvis' achievement is truly remarkable; his list of “firsts” and “mosts” is probably without parallel in music and entertainment history.
ref:
2007, Joe Moscheo, The Gospel Side of Elvis
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The greatest amount.
The greater part.
A record-setting amount.
senses_topics:
|
1640 | word:
most
word_type:
adv
expansion:
most (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
MOST (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Reduction of almost.
senses_examples:
text:
A well-daiquiried redhead eyed him from across the room at Jilly's one night in 1963 — although it could have been most any night ever […]
ref:
1998, Bill Zehme, The Way You Wear Your Hat: And the Lost Art of Livin' (page 181)
text:
We walked there most every day after school.
ref:
2000, Jewish Baltimore: A Family Album, page 159
type:
quotation
text:
“Can't be all that bad if Luke likes it. Most everywhere has air-conditioning, he says.”
ref:
2011, Charlotte Maclay, Wanted: A Dad to Brag About
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Almost.
senses_topics:
|
1641 | word:
I love you
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
I love you
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"I love you, Mom," said Candace.
type:
example
text:
"I love you, Camille," said Dan.
type:
example
text:
I love you, man, but you need some professional help.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An affirmation of affection or deep caring, especially to a family member.
An affirmation of romantic feeling to a lover or spouse.
A platonic expression of strong inclination or liking to a friend.
senses_topics:
|
1642 | word:
Rwanda
word_type:
name
expansion:
Rwanda
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Rwanda-Rundi u Rwanda from the archaic verb -anda (“to expand”). Compare Zulu anda (“to multiply”).
senses_examples:
text:
VINCENT: Have you ever heard of Rwanda?
ref:
2004, Stuart Beattie, Collateral, DreamWorks Pictures
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in East Africa.
The standardized dialect of the Bantu language Rwanda-Rundi spoken in Rwanda.
The genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994.
senses_topics:
|
1643 | word:
lapidation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lapidation (countable and uncountable, plural lapidations)
forms:
form:
lapidations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin lapidātiō.
senses_examples:
text:
The five women on trial were almost all activists for the full repeal (not just a moratorium) of lapidation, ie stoning, from Iran’s law books.
ref:
2007 March 6, “International Women’s Day, another day of repression for women”, in 亚州新闻
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The practice or act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death, as punishment
senses_topics:
law |
1644 | word:
Liberia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Liberia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin līber (“free”) + -ia (“place”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Liberia.
senses_topics:
|
1645 | word:
Liberia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Liberia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The provincial capital of Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
senses_topics:
|
1646 | word:
full stop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
full stop (plural full stops)
forms:
form:
full stops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[S]pielberg was keen to stress that The Fabelmans is not a full stop: “It is not because I decided to retire, and this is my swan song, don’t believe that.”
ref:
2022 October 22, Wendy Ide, quoting Steven Spielberg, “‘It’s a way to bring my mum and dad back’: Steven Spielberg on the new wave of cine-memoirs”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The punctuation mark "." (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
A decisive end to something.
senses_topics:
|
1647 | word:
full stop
word_type:
intj
expansion:
full stop
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
We need more people to join IRC, full stop.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking to show something is not up for discussion or debate.
senses_topics:
|
1648 | word:
Norway
word_type:
name
expansion:
Norway
forms:
wikipedia:
Norway
etymology_text:
From Middle English Norwey, Norweye, Northwey, Norweȝe, Norewæiȝ, Norwæge, from Old English Norþweġ, a calque of Old Norse Norðvegr (“north way”), from norðr (“north”) + vegr (“way”), contrasted with suðrvegr (“south way”), i.e. Germany, and austrvegr (“east way”), the Baltic lands. Norwegian (1607) is from Medieval Latin Norvegia, with the -w- from Norway. Equivalent to North + way.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Scandinavia, in northern Europe. Official name: Kingdom of Norway.
The former name of a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, now Upper Beaches.
A settlement in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
An unincorporated community in LaSalle County, Illinois.
A census-designated place in White County, Indiana.
A small city in Benton County, Iowa.
A rural unincorporated community in Republic County, Kansas.
A town in Oxford County, Maine.
A small city in Dickinson County, Michigan.
An unincorporated community in Thomas County, Nebraska.
A small town in Herkimer County, New York.
A small town in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.
A town in Racine County, Wisconsin.
senses_topics:
|
1649 | word:
Norway
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Norway (plural Norways)
forms:
form:
Norways
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Norway
etymology_text:
From Middle English Norwey, Norweye, Northwey, Norweȝe, Norewæiȝ, Norwæge, from Old English Norþweġ, a calque of Old Norse Norðvegr (“north way”), from norðr (“north”) + vegr (“way”), contrasted with suðrvegr (“south way”), i.e. Germany, and austrvegr (“east way”), the Baltic lands. Norwegian (1607) is from Medieval Latin Norvegia, with the -w- from Norway. Equivalent to North + way.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Short for Norway rat.
senses_topics:
|
1650 | word:
Nepal
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nepal
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Nepali नेपाल (nepāl).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in South Asia, located between China and India. Official name: Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. Capital and largest city: Kathmandu.
senses_topics:
|
1651 | word:
y
word_type:
character
expansion:
y (lower case, upper case Y, plural ys or y's)
forms:
form:
Y
tags:
uppercase
form:
ys
tags:
plural
form:
y's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, called wy or wye and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
1652 | word:
y
word_type:
noun
expansion:
y
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
y
# (stenoscript) the sound sequence /ɔɪ̯/.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of why.
# (stenoscript) the suffix -ry or -rry.
senses_examples:
text:
Consider the following questions selected from the tests and estimate the proportion of Y8 pupils you would expect to answer correctly.
ref:
2003, Howard Tanner, Sonia Jones, Becoming a Successful Teacher of Mathematics
type:
quotation
text:
Y7
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of year.
Abbreviation of youth, usually followed by an age appropriate for the content so marked.
Abbreviation of yes.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
television
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
1653 | word:
y
word_type:
adv
expansion:
y (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
y
# (stenoscript) the sound sequence /ɔɪ̯/.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of why.
# (stenoscript) the suffix -ry or -rry.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of why.
senses_topics:
|
1654 | word:
acclimatization
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acclimatization (countable and uncountable, plural acclimatizations)
forms:
form:
acclimatizations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
acclimatization
etymology_text:
From acclimatize + -ation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured.
The climatic adaptation of an organism that has been moved to a new environment.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
1655 | word:
rape
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rape (countable and uncountable, plural rapes)
forms:
form:
rapes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Harvard University Press
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
rape (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English rapen, rappen (“to abduct; ravish; seduce; rape; seize; snatch; carry off; transport”), probably from Latin rapere (verb), possibly through or influenced by Anglo-Norman rap, rape (noun) (compare also ravish). But compare Swedish rappa (“to snatch, seize, carry off”), Low German rapen (“to snatch, seize”), Dutch rapen (“to pick up, gather, collect”); the relationship with Germanic forms is not clear. Cognate with Lithuanian reikėti (“to be in need”). Compare also rap (“seize, snatch”). Further, some senses may be from Etymology 3, an Old Norse word.
senses_examples:
text:
Last April the media world exploded in indignation at the rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park.
ref:
1990 January 22, ‘Turning Victims into Saints’, Time
type:
quotation
text:
Castor and Pollux are one set of twins birthed by Leda after her rape by Zeus in swan form; […]
ref:
2013, William Butler Yeats, The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version, Simon and Schuster
type:
quotation
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:rape.
text:
The ear rape of that concert was so bad I can't even listen to their songs at work anymore.
type:
example
text:
the Rape of Nanking
type:
example
text:
Ruin'd orphans of thy rapes complain.
ref:
1638, George Sandys, chapter XXII, in A Paraphrase upon Job
type:
quotation
text:
1712, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock:
type:
quotation
text:
Ellery Queen deals entirely in murders; you are not fobbed off, as you are with Mr. Leslie Charteris's Saint, with pablum about the rape of the dowager's emeralds, or the theft of the blueprint of the newest submarine.
ref:
1959, Dorothy Parker, “Ellery Queen: The New York Murders”, in The Portable Dorothy Parker, New York: Penguin, published 1976, pages 566–8
type:
quotation
text:
She worked under the great tapestry with its glowing but subdued tones—huntsmen with lofted horns had been running down a female stag. After the rape, leaving the grooms to bring the trophy home, they galloped away into the soft brumous Italian skyline; […]
ref:
1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur or The Prince of Darkness: A Novel, London: Faber and Faber; republished in The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx, London: Faber and Faber, 1992, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Few of the Teleri were willing to go forth to war, for they remembered the slaying at the Swanhaven, and the rape of their ships.
ref:
1977, JRR Tolkien, The Silmarillion
type:
quotation
text:
The tale of the rape of Lucretia, for example, is hardly tellable - as many Roman writers themselves discovered - without raising the question of where seduction ends and rape begins; the rape of the Sabines puts a similar question mark over the distinction between rape and marriage.
ref:
2000 September 8, Mary Beard, The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of forcing sex upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now generally any sex act forced by any person upon another person; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on or perpetrated by any being.
An experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary.
Overpowerment; utter defeat.
An experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary.
An insult to one's senses so severe that one feels that they cannot ever be the same afterwards.
The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.
The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.
That which is snatched away.
Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
senses_topics:
|
1656 | word:
rape
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rape (third-person singular simple present rapes, present participle raping, simple past and past participle raped)
forms:
form:
rapes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
raping
tags:
participle
present
form:
raped
tags:
participle
past
form:
raped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rape (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English rapen, rappen (“to abduct; ravish; seduce; rape; seize; snatch; carry off; transport”), probably from Latin rapere (verb), possibly through or influenced by Anglo-Norman rap, rape (noun) (compare also ravish). But compare Swedish rappa (“to snatch, seize, carry off”), Low German rapen (“to snatch, seize”), Dutch rapen (“to pick up, gather, collect”); the relationship with Germanic forms is not clear. Cognate with Lithuanian reikėti (“to be in need”). Compare also rap (“seize, snatch”). Further, some senses may be from Etymology 3, an Old Norse word.
senses_examples:
text:
The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."
ref:
2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
They taught us nothing but how to cheat, curse and abuse. I never killed in cold blood even if I was known as one of the most fearless fighters. Yes, I abducted several children, I robbed and beat, but I never raped.
ref:
2007, Kunda: The Story of a Child Soldier, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
Dr Ashok's eyes had a tendency to pop whenever he wanted to rape your attention.
ref:
1978, Gore Vidal, Kalki
type:
quotation
text:
It is six years since my just action to reclaim the armaments raped from here by the Lairds of Dalgetty and Tolly […].
ref:
1983, Alasdair Gray, “Logopandocy”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
A Princess rap’d transcends a Navy storm'd.
ref:
1718, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, The Iliad
type:
quotation
text:
I raped your richest roadstead—I plundered Singapore!
ref:
1892, Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads
type:
quotation
text:
They come out here in their perky little foreign cars, fifty pounds of American copper in each one, and tell us we're earth-raping monsters.
ref:
1996, Stephen King, Desperation
type:
quotation
text:
We've raped the land for power and possession / Two thousand years and all we'll have is a planetary toxic deathbed
ref:
2018, Power Trip, Armageddon Blues
type:
quotation
text:
My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.
type:
example
text:
Have you seen the prices in that store lately? I got raped for $20 just buying a sandwich.
type:
example
text:
I attended, the mothers went around the circle, introducing themselves. They added a brief statement about their own experiences with vaccine for the reporter’s benefit. Dionne said that she felt “raped” when she was forced to give Tate some vaccinations.
ref:
2018 January 2, Samantha D. Gottlieb, “8. Mothers and Gardasil”, in Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine. Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, page 121
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
To seize by force. (Now often with sexual overtones.)
To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.
To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.
To exploit an advantage, often involving money, where the other person has little choice but to submit.
To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.
senses_topics:
|
1657 | word:
rape
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rape (plural rapes)
forms:
form:
rapes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Edward Lye
English Place-Name Society
Rape (county subdivision)
Rope, Cheshire
rape (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Generally considered to derive from Old English rāp (“rope”), in reference to the ropes used to delineate the courts that ruled each rape. Compare Dutch reep and the parish of Rope, Cheshire.
In the 18th century, Edward Lye proposed derivation from Old Norse hreppr (“tract of land”), but this was rejected by the New English Dictionary and is considered "phonologically impossible" by the English Place-Name Society. Others, considering it improbable that the Normans would have adopted a local word, suggest derivation from Old French raper (“take by force”).
See Wikipedia for more.
senses_examples:
text:
It seems to me very clear that the rapes of Sussex were divisions already existing there when the Normans landed.
ref:
1888 March 20, Henry H. Howorth, in a letter to The Archaeological Review, volume 1 (March–August 1888), page 230
text:
There is little, if any, doubt that the division of Sussex into six rapes had been carried out before the Conquest, though the term is not mentioned in any Old English record.
ref:
1971, Frank Merry Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England
type:
quotation
text:
These four castles dominated the Sussex rapes named after them; the fifth rape, Bramber, held by William de Braose, was in existence by 1084.
ref:
1997, Ann Williams, The English and the Norman Conquest, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
senses_topics:
|
1658 | word:
rape
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rape (third-person singular simple present rapes, present participle raping, simple past and past participle raped)
forms:
form:
rapes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
raping
tags:
participle
present
form:
raped
tags:
participle
past
form:
raped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rape (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
tableFrom Middle English rapen, from Old Norse hrapa (“to fall, rush headlong, hurry, hasten”), from Proto-Germanic *hrapaną (“to fall down”). Cognate with Norwegian rapa (“to slip, fall”), Danish rappe (“to make haste”), German rappeln (“to hasten, hurry”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make haste; to hasten or hurry.
senses_topics:
|
1659 | word:
rape
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rape (plural rapes)
forms:
form:
rapes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rape (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
tableFrom Middle English rapen, from Old Norse hrapa (“to fall, rush headlong, hurry, hasten”), from Proto-Germanic *hrapaną (“to fall down”). Cognate with Norwegian rapa (“to slip, fall”), Danish rappe (“to make haste”), German rappeln (“to hasten, hurry”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.
senses_topics:
|
1660 | word:
rape
word_type:
adv
expansion:
rape (comparative more rape, superlative most rape)
forms:
form:
more rape
tags:
comparative
form:
most rape
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
rape (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
tableFrom Middle English rapen, from Old Norse hrapa (“to fall, rush headlong, hurry, hasten”), from Proto-Germanic *hrapaną (“to fall down”). Cognate with Norwegian rapa (“to slip, fall”), Danish rappe (“to make haste”), German rappeln (“to hasten, hurry”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Quickly; hastily.
senses_topics:
|
1661 | word:
rape
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rape (plural rape)
forms:
form:
rape
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rape (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
table
From Latin rapa, from rāpum (“turnip”).
senses_examples:
text:
After the Industrial Revolution, it was discovered that rape also yields oil suitable for lubrication.
ref:
2001, Bill Lambrecht, Dinner at the New Gene Café, page 231
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.
senses_topics:
|
1662 | word:
rape
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rape (countable and uncountable, plural rapes)
forms:
form:
rapes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rape (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English rape, from rape (“grape stalk, rasper”), from Old French raper, rasper (“to rasp, scratch”), from Old Frankish *raspōn (“to scratch”), related to Old High German raspōn (“to scrape”), Old English ġehrespan (“to strip, spoil”).
senses_examples:
text:
a rape of grapes
type:
example
text:
rape of Cistus
ref:
1682, John Ray, Methodus Plantarum Nova
type:
quotation
text:
With regard to this obligation, the Council, on 26 October 1971[,] also arranged for certain producers to be totally or partially exempted from it, either because their wine production is very low (less than 50 hectolitres in one marketing year), or because they deliver their rapes of grapes to oenological merchants, or because they make quality wines […]
ref:
1971, Bulletin of the European Communities
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
Fruit plucked in a bunch.
senses_topics:
|
1663 | word:
Madagascar
word_type:
name
expansion:
Madagascar
forms:
wikipedia:
Madagascar
Marco Polo
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French Madagascar, from Madageiscar, popularly reputed as a corrupted transliteration of Mogadishu by Marco Polo's misreading of Arabic. The maps of particular interest are that of al-Idrisi in the 12th century, who produced the Tabula Rogeriana, the most advanced world map at the time.
The actual misconstrued term was Arabic جَزِيرَة المَالَائِيّ (jazīrat al-mālāʔiyy, “The Island of Mālāī”) listed alongside Arabic جَزِيرَة القَمَر (jazīrat al-qamar, “The Island of the Moon”) which lent its name to Comoros; Madagascar however likely being the original based on its dimensions.
The map in question warps the direction of Africa's east coast to be parallel to the coast of southeast Asia, prompting a conflation of the regions furthest east and furthest south, in the reaches of Arab exploration. This perhaps makes the Island of Mālāī both representing Madagascar and an island in Indonesia, likely Sumatra, in close proximity to Malaysia. To conflate matters further, the populations of both regions are of Austronesian background, a fact pointed out by Arab explorers who identified Madagascar as colony of the former region. A second wave of Austronesians, including Malays, did indeed migrate to the island after the first group had originally left from what was likely Southern Borneo from linguistic and genetic analysis.
"Mālāī-Gezīra" also holds connection to the term for the people and languages of the island, Malagasy, which had earlier forms Malegass and Madegass, because of dialect division.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island and country off the east coast of Africa. Official name: Republic of Madagascar. Capital: Antananarivo.
senses_topics:
|
1664 | word:
Madagascar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Madagascar (plural Madagascars)
forms:
form:
Madagascars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Madagascar
Marco Polo
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French Madagascar, from Madageiscar, popularly reputed as a corrupted transliteration of Mogadishu by Marco Polo's misreading of Arabic. The maps of particular interest are that of al-Idrisi in the 12th century, who produced the Tabula Rogeriana, the most advanced world map at the time.
The actual misconstrued term was Arabic جَزِيرَة المَالَائِيّ (jazīrat al-mālāʔiyy, “The Island of Mālāī”) listed alongside Arabic جَزِيرَة القَمَر (jazīrat al-qamar, “The Island of the Moon”) which lent its name to Comoros; Madagascar however likely being the original based on its dimensions.
The map in question warps the direction of Africa's east coast to be parallel to the coast of southeast Asia, prompting a conflation of the regions furthest east and furthest south, in the reaches of Arab exploration. This perhaps makes the Island of Mālāī both representing Madagascar and an island in Indonesia, likely Sumatra, in close proximity to Malaysia. To conflate matters further, the populations of both regions are of Austronesian background, a fact pointed out by Arab explorers who identified Madagascar as colony of the former region. A second wave of Austronesians, including Malays, did indeed migrate to the island after the first group had originally left from what was likely Southern Borneo from linguistic and genetic analysis.
"Mālāī-Gezīra" also holds connection to the term for the people and languages of the island, Malagasy, which had earlier forms Malegass and Madegass, because of dialect division.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A resident of Madagascar.
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1665 | word:
Uruguay
word_type:
name
expansion:
Uruguay
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Disputed; Guaraní urugua (“shellfish”) y (“water”) or uru (“kind of bird”) gua (“from”) y (“water”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in South America. Official name: Oriental Republic of Uruguay. Capital and largest city: Montevideo.
senses_topics:
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1666 | word:
Zimbabwe
word_type:
name
expansion:
Zimbabwe
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“houses of stones”) (see imba (“house”), ibwe (“stone”)), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Zimbabwe. Formerly called Southern Rhodesia or Rhodesia.
senses_topics:
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1667 | word:
acanthus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acanthus (plural acanthuses or acanthi)
forms:
form:
acanthuses
tags:
plural
form:
acanthi
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acanthus, from Ancient Greek ἄκανθος (ákanthos), from ἀκή (akḗ, “thorn”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”).
senses_examples:
text:
It is difficult to imagine that Bernard of Clairvaux was gullible enough to accept dozens of historiated windows, grisaille fields of griffins, mosaic pavements, carved acanthus capitals, inhabited vine columns, and golden altarware on the strength of the justifications offered by a single window, one tympanum, and Suger's libelli.
ref:
1994 March, R Ousterhout, “Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture, an Annotated Bibliography and Historiography by W. Eugene Kleinbauer”, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, volume 53, number 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of the genus Acanthus of herbaceous prickly plants with toothed leaves, (family Acanthaceae, order Lamiales (formerly Scrophulariales)) found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India.
An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of Acanthus spinosus, used in the capitals of the Corinthian and composite orders.
senses_topics:
architecture |
1668 | word:
Netherlands Antilles
word_type:
name
expansion:
Netherlands Antilles
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A former autonomous country in the Caribbean, within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, composed of the islands of Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten, dissolved in 2010.
senses_topics:
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1669 | word:
car hop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
car hop (plural car hops)
forms:
form:
car hops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
He was wearing standard car-hop attire.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A waiter who serves customers sitting in parked cars.
senses_topics:
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1670 | word:
acclimatize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
acclimatize (third-person singular simple present acclimatizes, present participle acclimatizing, simple past and past participle acclimatized)
forms:
form:
acclimatizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
acclimatizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
acclimatized
tags:
participle
past
form:
acclimatized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acclimate + -ize. First attested in 1836.
senses_examples:
text:
acclimatize to the new regulations
type:
example
text:
acclimatize the staff to the new regulations
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To get used to a new climate, or to a new situation.
To make used to a new climate or one that is different from that which is natural; to inure or habituate to other circumstances; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate.
senses_topics:
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1671 | word:
thou
word_type:
pron
expansion:
thou (plural ye, objective case thee, reflexive thyself, possessive determiner thy or thine, possessive pronoun thine)
forms:
form:
ye
tags:
plural
form:
thee
tags:
objective
form:
thyself
tags:
reflexive
form:
thy
tags:
determiner
possessive
form:
thine
tags:
determiner
possessive
form:
thine
tags:
possessive
pronoun
without-noun
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thou, tho, thogh, thoue, thouȝ, thow, thowe, tou, towe, thu, thue, thugh, tu, you (Northern England), ðhu, þeou, þeu, þou (the latter three early Southwest England), from Old English þū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū (“you (singular), thou”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“you, thou”).
cognates and usage evolution
The English word is cognate with Saterland Frisian du (“thou”), West Frisian do (“thou”), dialectal Dutch du, dou, douw (“thou”), Limburgish doe (“thou”), Low German du (“thou”), German du (“thou”), Danish du (“thou”), Swedish du (“thou”), Faroese tú (“thou”), Icelandic þú (“thou”), Gothic 𐌸𐌿 (þu, “thou”), Latin tu, Ancient Greek σύ (sú) (Doric Ancient Greek τύ (tú), Greek εσύ (esý)), Irish tu, Lithuanian tu, Old Church Slavonic ty, Welsh ti, Armenian դու (du), Albanian ti, Persian تو (to).
The informality of thou and its replacement by ye in formal situations date only to the 14th century and come from French influence, since French (as many European languages, but not Old English) uses the second-person plural (vous) instead of the second-person singular (tu) as a mark of politeness or respect.
senses_examples:
text:
Art thou in earnest about thy soul? and canst thou tell the Searcher of Hearts, Thou, O God, art the thing that I long for? Lord, Thou knowest all things, Thou knowest that I would love thee?
ref:
1742 April 4, Charles Wesley, A Sermon Preached on Sunday, April 4, 1742. Before the University of Oxford, London: Printed by J. Paramore, […], published 1783, →OCLC, page 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nominative singular of ye (“you”).
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion |
1672 | word:
thou
word_type:
verb
expansion:
thou (third-person singular simple present thous, present participle thouing, simple past and past participle thoued)
forms:
form:
thous
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
thouing
tags:
participle
present
form:
thoued
tags:
participle
past
form:
thoued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English thouen, theu, thew, thou, thowe, thowen, thui, thuy (“to address (a person) with thou, particularly in a contemptuous or polite manner”), from the pronoun thou: see etymology 1 above.
senses_examples:
text:
Don’t thou them as thous thee! – a Yorkshire English admonition to overly familiar children
type:
example
text:
Avaunt, caitiff, dost thou thou me! / I am come of good kin, I tell thee! / My mother was a lady of the stews' blood born, / And (knight of the halter) my father ware an horn; / Therefore I take it in full great scorn, / That thou shouldest thus check me.
ref:
c. 1530, “Hickscorner”, in W[illiam] Carew Hazlitt, editor, A Select Collection of Old English Plays. Originally Published by Robert Dodsley in the Year 1744. […], 4th edition, volume I, London: Reeves and Turner, […], published 1874, page 180
type:
quotation
text:
What! doſt thou not believe that God's Thouing and Theeing was and is ſound Speech? [...] And Theeing & Thouing of one ſingle Perſon was the language of Chriſt Jeſus, and the Holy Prophets and Apoſtles both under the Diſpenſations of Law and Goſpel, [...]
ref:
1677, William Gibson, “An Answer to John Cheyney’s Pamphlet Entituled The Shibboleth of Quakerism”, in The Life of God, which is the Light and Salvation of Men, Exalted: […], [London]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
The emperors before Rodolphus I. ſent all their mandates in Latin, thouing every prince, as the grammar of that language allows. This thouing of the counts of the empire was continued in the German language which diſallows ſuch expreſſions.
ref:
1755, [Voltaire [pseudonym; François-Marie Arouet]], “Ferdinand III. Forty-seventh Emperor.”, in Annals of the Empire from the Reign of Charlemagne […] In Two Volumes, volume II, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 257
type:
quotation
text:
Unfortunate we the duennas! though we descended in a direct male-line from Hector of Troy, our mistresses will never forbear "thouing" us, were they to be made queens for it.
ref:
1811, Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra, “Of Matters Relating and Appertaining to this Adventure, and to this Memorable History”, in Charles Jarvis, transl., The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Spanish [...] In Four Volumes, volume IV, London: Printed [by Harding & Wright] for Lackington, Allen, and Co. [et al.], →OCLC, part II, book III, pages 57–58
type:
quotation
text:
In Guy a duke in council thous his emperor [...] In Bevis the earl addresses the emperor of Almaine [...] while the young son of the family, Bevis, thous him not only as his father's murderer [...], but even when he is pretending friendship for him [...].
ref:
1917, Russell Osborne Stidston, “Inferiors to Superiors”, in The Use of Ye in the Function of Thou in Middle English Literature from Ms. Auchinleck to Ms. Vernon: A Study of Grammar and Social Intercourse in Fourteenth-century England: […], Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University, →OCLC, section 1 (The Higher Classes to Royalty), page 22
type:
quotation
text:
The hardcore role-players will wake up one day feeling, like a dead weight on their chest, the strain of endless texting in Renaissance Faire English—yet dutifully go on theeing and thouing all the same.
ref:
2006, Julian Dibbell, chapter 5, in Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books
type:
quotation
text:
You want to hear the word of God, and be challenged to go out and change the world. Instead, you are, for the fifth Sunday in a row, mewling on about purple-headed mountains (which is a bit of an imaginative stretch, since you live in East Anglia) and "theeing" and "thouing" all over the place.
ref:
2009, David R. Keeston [pseudonym; Alan D. Jenkins], “Seeing God in the Ordinary”, in The Hitch Hikers’ Guide to the Gospel, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, page 39
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of contempt or familiarity.
To use the word thou.
senses_topics:
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1673 | word:
thou
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thou (plural thous)
forms:
form:
thous
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of thou(sandth).
senses_examples:
text:
But to continue, "At Horwich they had gone all scientific, and talked in 'thous.,' though apparently some of their work was to the nearest half-inch. […]."
ref:
1946 November and December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 344
type:
quotation
text:
All these methods remove metal and can, in fact, remove a few thou from the surface. For accurately machined parts, therefore, none of these methods are suitable but wet blasting with a fine alumina which gives a polishing–cleaning action may be operated within the required tolerances.
ref:
1984, Robert D. Adams, William C. Wake, “Surface Preparation”, in Structural Adhesive Joints in Engineering, Barking, Essex: Elsevier Applied Science Publishers, published 1986, →DOI, pages 220–221
type:
quotation
text:
Make no mistake, we’re talking about some major repositioning; the rear ends of the cones didn’t move just a few thou’ or even 1/4 or 1/2 inch in one direction. These beauties moved around big time.
ref:
2000, Mike Bishop, Vern Tardel, “Bells and Whistles”, in How to Build a Traditional Ford Hot Rod, revised edition, Osceola, Wis.: MBI Publishing Company, page 131, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit of length equal to one-thousandth of an inch (25.4 µm).
senses_topics:
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1674 | word:
thou
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thou (plural thou)
forms:
form:
thou
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of thou(sand).
senses_examples:
text:
Butch [Cassidy] gave him 3 thous in cash 1 thous for the lawyer another thous if the lawyer wins & 1 thous for Tom O'Day.
ref:
1977, Larry Pointer, “Belle Fourche”, in In Search of Butch Cassidy (Red River Books), Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1988, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
He has a few thou in the account, enough to make your everyday living expenses, not enough to keep current with the bigger bills.
ref:
1999, Don Winslow, chapter 58, in California Fire and Life, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf; 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, September 2007, page 169
type:
quotation
text:
Well, we'll need a few thou, Carlos. Got to get together a few thou first. For rent, you know. Rent and making contacts with artists, all that.
ref:
2000 November, Sheri S[tewart] Tepper, “Benita”, in The Fresco, New York, N.Y.: Eos, HarperCollins; 1st Eos paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Eos, HarperCollins, February 2002, page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thousand, especially a thousand of some currency (dollars, pounds sterling, etc.).
senses_topics:
|
1675 | word:
thou
word_type:
adv
expansion:
thou (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See though.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of though.
senses_topics:
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1676 | word:
thou
word_type:
conj
expansion:
thou
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See though.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of though.
senses_topics:
|
1677 | word:
epidemic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
epidemic (plural epidemics)
forms:
form:
epidemics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
epidemic
etymology_text:
From French épidémique, from épidémie, from Medieval Latin epidēmia, reanalysis of plural Late Latin epidēmia, from Ancient Greek ἐπιδήμιος (epidḗmios), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + δῆμος (dêmos, “people”). By surface analysis, epi- (“on”) + demic (“of the people”).
senses_examples:
text:
At that time, the city [Christiania, now Oslo] was in the grip of a cholera epidemic, and victims were dying at the rate of 60 a day. Bradshaw contracted the disease, and died on September 6 [1853].
ref:
1950 January, “Notes and News: George Bradshaw's Grave”, in Railway Magazine, pages 61–62
type:
quotation
text:
Even before the pandemic, the United States surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, said the country was experiencing an “epidemic of loneliness,” driven by the accelerated pace of life and the spread of technology into all of our social interactions.
ref:
2022 April 20, John Leland, quoting Vivek Murthy, “How Loneliness Is Damaging Our Health”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
People are holding coordinated protests across UK towns and cities this weekend against what they call a “climate of fear” on the roads, and an “epidemic” of careless and dangerous driving that is curbing children’s freedoms and putting lives at risk.
ref:
2023 September 29, Laura Laker, “UK protests planned amid ‘epidemic’ of dangerous driving”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A widespread disease that affects many individuals in a population.
An occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period; an episode of outbreak and subsequent high prevalence.
A heightened occurrence of anything harmful.
The spreading of an idea or belief amongst a population.
senses_topics:
epidemiology
medicine
sciences
|
1678 | word:
epidemic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
epidemic (comparative more epidemic, superlative most epidemic)
forms:
form:
more epidemic
tags:
comparative
form:
most epidemic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
epidemic
etymology_text:
From French épidémique, from épidémie, from Medieval Latin epidēmia, reanalysis of plural Late Latin epidēmia, from Ancient Greek ἐπιδήμιος (epidḗmios), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + δῆμος (dêmos, “people”). By surface analysis, epi- (“on”) + demic (“of the people”).
senses_examples:
text:
Epidemic hysteria occurred upon the incumbent’s reelection.
type:
example
text:
[In] May, there was, at London and in its neighbourhood, a disease very epidemic, though not fatal, which had some time before been very prevalent both in Italy and Germany.
ref:
1852, Annals of influenza or epidemic catarrhal fever in Great Britain, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
The major reason for such an examination was to determine if any patterns uncovered seemed to be more epidemic than endemic.
ref:
1986, Gerald F. Pyle, The Diffusion of Influenza: Patterns and Paradigms, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
This proportion increased about 5% from 1988 to 1992—hardly a change of epidemic proportions.
ref:
2003, James C. Howell, Preventing & Reducing Juvenile Delinquency: A Comprehensive Framework, SAGE Publications, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
This was the stagecoach holdup, and while these encounters were not as epidemic as we like to remember, nonetheless there were numerous bands of "road agents" who lay by the roadside in wait for passengers.
ref:
2013, Frederick Allen, A Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Like or having to do with an epidemic; widespread.
senses_topics:
|
1679 | word:
os
word_type:
noun
expansion:
os (plural ossa)
forms:
form:
ossa
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Terminologia Anatomica
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin os (“a bone”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of bone.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
1680 | word:
os
word_type:
noun
expansion:
os (plural ora)
forms:
form:
ora
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Latin ōs (“the mouth”).
senses_examples:
text:
The instrument closed, as seen in Fig. 1, is then passed along the finger to the os, in and through the cervix up to the fundus of the uterus, which may be determined both by the distance and the resistance to the broad rounded head of the Capiat.
ref:
1891, Texas Medical Association, Transactions, volume 23, page 175
type:
quotation
text:
[…] monocolpate (“unisulcate”) pollen grains still have a continuous aperture membrane devoid of special openings (ora) in the exine for the emergence of the pollen tube.
ref:
2009 July 6, Armen Takhtajan, Flowering Plants, Springer Science & Business Media
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An opening or entrance to a passage, particularly one at either end of the cervix, internal (to the uterus) or external (to the vagina).
senses_topics:
anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences |
1681 | word:
os
word_type:
noun
expansion:
os (plural osar)
forms:
form:
osar
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Swedish ås.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An osar or esker.
senses_topics:
|
1682 | word:
os
word_type:
noun
expansion:
os
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From o + -s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of o's.
senses_topics:
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1683 | word:
Ukraine
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ukraine or the Ukraine
forms:
form:
Ukraine
tags:
canonical
form:
the Ukraine
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Polish Ukraina or Russian Украи́на (Ukraína), from Old East Slavic оукраина (ukraina), which is most commonly taken to have meant "borderland, marches" in this context, though for about a century now Ukrainian scholars have articulated an alternative theory that it meant "region, country, the land around (a given center)" in this context instead. See Name of Ukraine for more.
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Ukraine.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Eastern Europe, bordering on the north shore of the Black Sea. Capital and largest city: Kyiv.
senses_topics:
|
1684 | word:
front organization
word_type:
noun
expansion:
front organization (plural front organizations)
forms:
form:
front organizations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Superheroes such as Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man use front organizations to hide their secret identities.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An organization which secretly acts as the public face of a covert group.
senses_topics:
|
1685 | word:
XXXX
word_type:
noun
expansion:
XXXX
forms:
wikipedia:
XXXX
etymology_text:
From the (Australian) XXXX brand of lager, which was named after the practice of using repetitions of X, such as XXX, to indicate the strength of an alcoholic beverage, and which was advertised with the slogan "Australians couldn't give a XXXX for any other lager."
senses_examples:
text:
Allied does not give a XXXX for Elders.
ref:
1985 September 6, in the Times of London, quoted in 2009 by Jesse Sheidlower in The F-Word, page 269
text:
Quite a few of the party's MPs don't give a XXXX for the whole affair […] .
ref:
1988 June 10, in the Guardian, quoted in 2009 by Jesse Sheidlower in The F-Word, page 269
text:
Most of the world couldn't give a XXXX about it, something that has long rankled with the marketing men […] .
ref:
1996, in the December (1995) / January (1996) Arena, volume 59, number 1, quoted in 2009 by Jesse Sheidlower in The F-Word, page 269
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fuck / damn.
senses_topics:
|
1686 | word:
XXXX
word_type:
name
expansion:
XXXX
forms:
wikipedia:
XXXX
etymology_text:
From X chromosome.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tetrasomy X, a rare chromosomal disorder affecting females, caused by the presence of four X chromosomes instead of two present in the usual human karyotype.
senses_topics:
|
1687 | word:
XXXX
word_type:
adj
expansion:
XXXX
forms:
wikipedia:
XXXX
etymology_text:
From X (“motion picture "adult" rating”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
X-rated, pornographic
senses_topics:
|
1688 | word:
Ireland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ireland (usually uncountable, plural Irelands)
forms:
form:
Irelands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Ireland
Ireland (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English Ireland, Irelond, Irlond, Irland, from Old English Īrland. Perhaps also from Middle Irish Éire + -land. Ultimately from Old Irish Ériu (“Ireland”). See Irish.
senses_examples:
text:
The crux of Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit issue lies in the fact it is a British territory on the island of Ireland, meaning it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland, an EU member.
ref:
2023 February 28, “UK’s Sunak in Northern Ireland after landing new Brexit trade deal”, in EFE, archived from the original on 2023-03-01
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large island in northwestern Europe.
A republic occupying the majority-area of the island of Ireland, with Northern Ireland occupying the rest of the island. Also known as the Republic of Ireland since 1949.
A surname.
Other places named Ireland:
A hamlet in Southill parish, Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1341).
Other places named Ireland:
A community of Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Other places named Ireland:
An unincorporated community in Madison Township, Dubois County, Indiana, United States.
Other places named Ireland:
An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States.
senses_topics:
|
1689 | word:
accredit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accredit (third-person singular simple present accredits, present participle accrediting, simple past and past participle accredited)
forms:
form:
accredits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accrediting
tags:
participle
present
form:
accredited
tags:
participle
past
form:
accredited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in the 1610s.
* From French accréditer, from à (“to”) + to credit, from crédit (“credit”).
* See credit.
senses_examples:
text:
February 17, 1793, William Cowper, letter to Samuel Rose, Esq.
His censure will […] accredit his praises.
text:
He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft.
ref:
1820, Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley; and Rise and Progress of Methodism
type:
quotation
text:
The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century.
ref:
1855, George Cornewall Lewis, Enquiry into the Credibility of the Early Roman History
type:
quotation
text:
The school was an accredited college.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ascribe; attribute; credit with.
To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
To believe; to put trust in.
To enter on the credit side of an account book.
To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance.
To recognize as outstanding.
To credit.
senses_topics:
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1690 | word:
abstinence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstinence (countable and uncountable, plural abstinences)
forms:
form:
abstinences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
abstinence
etymology_text:
From Middle English abstinence, from Old French abstinence, from Latin abstinentia, from abstinēns, present participle of abstineō (“I withhold”). Equivalent to abstain + -ence.
senses_examples:
text:
Abstinence is the only 100% guaranteed contraception.
type:
example
text:
"The church teaching before Vatican II was that it was 'gravely sinful' to take 2 ounces of meat on a day of abstinence such as Friday," said the Rev. Joseph S. Rossi, a Jesuit professor of church history at Loyola College.
ref:
1995 September 18, Rafael Alvarez, “Catholics asked to avoid eating meat on Fridays Cardinal suggests abstinence in weeks leading up to Pope's visit”, in Baltimore Sun
type:
quotation
text:
These five short films by San Francisco artist James Broughton, reveal to the viewer the artistic changes undergone by the artist during his 15-year abstinence from filmmaking.
ref:
1981 August 22, Larry Goldsmith, “Lesbian and Gay Independents”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 6, page 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or practice of abstaining, refraining from indulging a desire or appetite.
Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating/alcoholic beverages; total abstinence; teetotalism).
The act or practice of abstaining, refraining from indulging a desire or appetite.
Specifically, the practice of abstaining from sexual intercourse, either permanently or until marriage.
The act or practice of abstaining, refraining from indulging a desire or appetite.
Abstention from certain foods on days of penitential observance.
The act or practice of abstaining, refraining from indulging a desire or appetite.
The practice of self-denial; self-restraint; forebearance from anything.
Self-denial; abstaining; or forebearance of anything.
Delay of spending to accrue capital.
senses_topics:
ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
business |
1691 | word:
AIDS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
AIDS (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
AIDS
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Patients with AIDS become highly susceptible to infection by intracellular microbes normally contained by T cells (Fig. 4.8).
ref:
2007, Clinical Pathology, page 50
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences |
1692 | word:
AIDS
word_type:
adj
expansion:
AIDS (comparative more AIDS, superlative most AIDS)
forms:
form:
more AIDS
tags:
comparative
form:
most AIDS
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
AIDS
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Dude, this game is so fucking AIDS.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Extremely annoying or frustrating.
senses_topics:
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1693 | word:
Denmark
word_type:
name
expansion:
Denmark
forms:
wikipedia:
Denmark
Denmark (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English Denmark, from Danish Danmark, from dansk (“Danish”) + Old Norse merki (“boundary”) or mǫrk (“borderland”). Cognate with (and perhaps influenced by) Old English Denemearc.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Europe. Official name: Kingdom of Denmark. Capital and largest city: Copenhagen.
The main part of the Kingdom of Denmark, excluding the Faroe Islands and Greenland; the metropole of the Kingdom of Denmark.
A number of places in other countries:
A town and local government area (Shire of Denmark) in the Great Southern region, Western Australia.
A number of places in other countries:
A community of Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
A number of places in other countries:
A parish in Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada, named for the commmnity of New Denmark.
A number of places in other countries:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bulloch County, Georgia.
A number of places in other countries:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marion Township, Owen County, Indiana.
A number of places in other countries:
A place in the United States:
A census-designated place and township in Lee County, Iowa.
A number of places in other countries:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Kansas.
A number of places in other countries:
A place in the United States:
A town in Oxford County, Maine.
A number of places in other countries:
A place in the United States:
A township in Tuscola County, Michigan.
A number of places in other countries:
A place in the United States:
A township in Washington County, Minnesota.
A number of places in other countries:
A place in the United States:
A town in Lewis County, New York.
A number of places in other countries:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Morrow County, Ohio.
A number of places in other countries:
A place in the United States:
A township in Ashtabula County, Ohio.
A number of places in other countries:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Curry County, Oregon.
A number of places in other countries:
A place in the United States:
A city in Bamberg County, South Carolina.
A number of places in other countries:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community and former city in Madison County, Tennessee.
A number of places in other countries:
A place in the United States:
A village in the town of New Denmark, Brown County, Wisconsin.
A surname.
senses_topics:
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1694 | word:
abstraction
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstraction (countable and uncountable, plural abstractions)
forms:
form:
abstractions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Abstraction (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English abstraccyone; either from Middle French abstraction or from Medieval Latin abstrāctiō (“separation”), from Latin abstrahō (“draw away”). Equivalent to abstract + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
The cancelling of the debt would be no destruction of wealth, but a transfer of it: a wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community, for the profit of the government, or of the tax-payers.
ref:
1848, J. S. Mill, Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy
type:
quotation
text:
a hermit’s abstraction
type:
example
text:
Holonym: induction
text:
Abstraction is no positive act: it is simply the negative of attention.
ref:
c. 1837, W. Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, published 1860, Lecture XXXV, page 474
type:
quotation
text:
Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.
type:
example
text:
to fight for mere abstractions
type:
example
text:
"One penny, sir!" He was roused at once from his abstraction; for it was a question to himself whether he had even that in his pocket. Sixpence was, however, discovered; he paid the toll, and passed on.
ref:
1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
Files are an abstraction provided by the file system for storing data, so that applications do not have to care how that data is stored.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.
The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
art
arts
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
geography
geology
natural-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
1695 | word:
Cuba
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cuba
forms:
wikipedia:
Cuba (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Disputed; likely from Taíno cubao (“abundant fertile land”) or coabana (“great place”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country, and the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean. Capital and largest city: Havana.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
A town in Sumter County, Alabama.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
An unincorporated community in Early County, Georgia.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
A city in Fulton County, Illinois.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
A township in Lake County, Illinois.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
An unincorporated community in Springfield Township, Allen County, Indiana.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
An unincorporated community in Montgomery Township, Owen County, Indiana.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
A minor city in Republic County, Kansas.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
An unincorporated community in Graves County, Kentucky.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
A township in Becker County, Minnesota.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
A ghost town in Becker County, Minnesota.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
A city in Crawford County, Missouri.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
A ghost town in Lafayette County, Missouri.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
A village in Sandoval County, New Mexico.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
A town and village therein, in Allegany County, New York.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
A township in Barnes County, North Dakota.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Clinton County, Ohio.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Ohio.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
A former settlement in Lassen County, California.
A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
A former settlement in Merced County, California.
A surname.
senses_topics:
|
1696 | word:
Cuba
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cuba
forms:
wikipedia:
Cuba (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Cuba, possibly of Arabic origin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A village in Beja district, Portugal.
senses_topics:
|
1697 | word:
company
word_type:
noun
expansion:
company (countable and uncountable, plural companies)
forms:
form:
companies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
company
etymology_text:
From Middle English companye (“a team; companionship”), from Old French compaignie (“companionship”) (Modern French: compagnie), possibly from Late Latin *compania, but this word is not attested. Old French compaignie is equivalent to Old French compaignon (Modern French: compagnon) + -ie. More at companion.
Displaced native Old English werod, gefer, getæl, and hired.
senses_examples:
text:
a company of actors
type:
example
text:
the boys in Company C
type:
example
text:
It took six companies to put out the fire.
type:
example
text:
As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.
type:
example
text:
[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.[…]If she had her way, she’d ruin the company inside a year with her hare-brained schemes; love of the people, and that sort of guff.
ref:
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
type:
quotation
text:
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
ref:
2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
ref:
2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
Keep the house clean; I have company coming.
type:
example
text:
Come, O thou Traveller unknown, / Whom still I hold, but cannot see! / My company before is gone, / And I am left alone with Thee; / With Thee all night I mean to stay, / And wrestle till the break of day.
ref:
1742, “Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown”, Charles Wesley (music)
type:
quotation
text:
At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]
ref:
1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools, volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202
type:
quotation
text:
I treasure your company.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
The entire crew of a ship.
A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
An intelligence service.
A small group of birds or animals.
An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
Social visitors or companions.
Companionship.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
nautical
transport
espionage
government
military
politics
war
law
business
|
1698 | word:
company
word_type:
verb
expansion:
company (third-person singular simple present companies, present participle companying, simple past and past participle companied)
forms:
form:
companies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
companying
tags:
participle
present
form:
companied
tags:
participle
past
form:
companied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
company
etymology_text:
From Middle English companye (“a team; companionship”), from Old French compaignie (“companionship”) (Modern French: compagnie), possibly from Late Latin *compania, but this word is not attested. Old French compaignie is equivalent to Old French compaignon (Modern French: compagnon) + -ie. More at companion.
Displaced native Old English werod, gefer, getæl, and hired.
senses_examples:
text:
it was with a distinctly fallen countenance that his father hearkened to his mother's parenthetical request to “’bide hyar an’ company leetle Moses whilst I be a-milkin’ the cow.”
ref:
1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
companying with Infidels may not be simply condemned
ref:
a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. I. F.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To accompany, keep company with.
To associate.
To be a lively, cheerful companion.
To have sexual intercourse.
senses_topics:
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1699 | word:
Mali
word_type:
name
expansion:
Mali
forms:
wikipedia:
Mali Empire
etymology_text:
Inherits its name from the Mali Empire, in turn from Mandinka or Dyula mali (“hippopotamus”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Mali.
senses_topics:
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