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16000 | word:
farm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
farm (plural farms)
forms:
form:
farms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ferme, farme (“rent, revenue, produce, factor, stewardship, meal, feast”), influenced by Anglo-Norman ferme (“rent, lease, farm”), from Medieval Latin ferma, firma. There is debate as to whether Medieval Latin acquires this term from Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *fermō, *firhuma- (“means of living, subsistence”), from Proto-Germanic *ferhwō (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”), or from Latin firmus (“solid, secure”), from Proto-Italic *fermos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-mo-s (“holding”), from the root *dʰer- (“to hold”). If the former etymology is correct, the term is related to Old English feorh (“life, spirit”), Icelandic fjör (“life, vitality, vigour, animation”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌿𐍃 (fairƕus, “the world”). Compare also Old English feormehām (“farm”), feormere (“purveyor, supplier, grocer”). Cognate with Scots ferm (“rent, farm”).
senses_examples:
text:
antenna farm; fuel farm; solar farm; wind farm
type:
example
text:
The skies are threatening to pour on the Apple solar farm but as the woman in-charge of the company’s environmental initiatives points out: the panels are still putting out some power. Apple is still greening its act.
ref:
2014 July 25, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Apple eyes solar to power the cloud and iPhone 6 sapphire manufacturing”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
a render farm
type:
example
text:
a server farm
type:
example
text:
If a man be bounden unto 1.s. in 100.l.£ to grant unto him the rent and farme of such a Mill.
ref:
1642, J. Perkins, transl., Profitable Bk. (new ed.) xi. §751. 329
type:
quotation
text:
All..Tythings shall stand at the old Farm, without any Increase.
ref:
1700, J. Tyrrell, Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 814
type:
quotation
text:
The most usual and customary feorm or rent..must be reserved yearly on such lease.
ref:
1767, W. Blackstone, Comm. Laws Eng. II. 320
type:
quotation
text:
He [the Sheriff] paid into the Exchequer the fixed yearly sum which formed the farm of the shire.
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1876, E. A. Freeman, Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 439
type:
quotation
text:
The first farm of postal income was made in 1672.
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1885, Edwards in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 580
text:
They despair of a suppression of the Farm.
ref:
1786, T. Jefferson, Writings (1859) I. 568
type:
quotation
text:
It is a great willfullnes in any such Land-lord to refuse to make any longer farmes unto their Tennants.
ref:
a1599, Spenser, View State Ireland in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) 58
text:
Thence the Leases so made were called Feormes or Farmes, which word signifieth Victuals.
ref:
1647, N. Bacon, Hist. Disc. Govt. 75
type:
quotation
text:
The words demise, lease, and to farm let, are the proper ones to constitute a lease.
ref:
1818, W. Cruise, Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 68
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.
A group of coordinated servers.
Food; provisions; a meal.
A banquet; feast.
A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.
A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.
The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
The body of farmers of public revenues.
The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
A baby farm.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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16001 | word:
farm
word_type:
verb
expansion:
farm (third-person singular simple present farms, present participle farming, simple past and past participle farmed)
forms:
form:
farms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
farming
tags:
participle
present
form:
farmed
tags:
participle
past
form:
farmed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fermen, from Anglo-Norman fermer (“to let out for a fixed payment, lease, rent”) ultimately from the same Old English source as Etymology 1. Compare Old English feormian (“to feed, supply with food, sustain”).
senses_examples:
text:
to farm the taxes
type:
example
text:
December 1, 1783, Edmund Burke, Speech on Mr. Fox's East-India Bill
to farm their subjects and their duties toward these
text:
In Paris it is stated that nearly half the birth-rate of the city finds its way to nurses who farm babies in the suburbs.
ref:
1886, The Fortnightly, volume 46, page 530
type:
quotation
text:
When you hit a black pudding with an iron weapon that does at least one point of damage there is a good chance it will divide into two black puddings of the same size (but half the hit points IIRC). […] When eaten black puddings confer several intrinsics so AC [armor class] is not the only potential benefit. […] Since black puddings are formidible monsters for an inexperienced character, farming is also a good way to die.
ref:
2004, Doug Freyburger, “Pudding Farming Requires Care”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
The practice of gold farming is controversial within gaming communities and violates the end user licensing agreements[…]
ref:
2010, Robert Alan Brookey, Hollywood Gamers, page 130
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
To devote (land) to farming.
To grow (a particular crop).
To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.
To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
To take at a certain rent or rate.
To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.
senses_topics:
games
gaming
video-games |
16002 | word:
farm
word_type:
verb
expansion:
farm (third-person singular simple present farms, present participle farming, simple past and past participle farmed)
forms:
form:
farms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
farming
tags:
participle
present
form:
farmed
tags:
participle
past
form:
farmed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English fermen, from Old English feormian (“to clean, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *furbēn (“to clean, polish, buff”). Doublet of furbish.
senses_examples:
text:
Farm out the stable and pigsty.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out
senses_topics:
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16003 | word:
billiards
word_type:
noun
expansion:
billiards (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
billiards
etymology_text:
From French billard, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yos (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.
Any of various games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.
senses_topics:
games
games |
16004 | word:
billiards
word_type:
noun
expansion:
billiards
forms:
wikipedia:
billiards
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of billiard
senses_topics:
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16005 | word:
frater
word_type:
noun
expansion:
frater (plural fraters)
forms:
form:
fraters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*bʰréh₂tēr
Learned borrowing from Latin frāter (“brother”). Doublet of bhai, brother, friar, and pal.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A monk.
A frater house.
A comrade.
senses_topics:
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16006 | word:
ars
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ars
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of ar
senses_topics:
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16007 | word:
integument
word_type:
noun
expansion:
integument (plural integuments)
forms:
form:
integuments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin integumentum (“a covering”).
senses_examples:
text:
The power of turning into an animal has this serious disadvantage that it lays you open to the chance of being wounded or even slain in your animal skin before you have the chance to put it off and scramble back into your human integument.
ref:
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
[…] if we're moved by the book's condemnation of a world wounded by exploitation, where the drive for profit hobbles the mass of humanity, bolsters vast integuments of oppression and repression, […]
ref:
2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Sarsem became a naked young epicene in an integument of lavender scales with puffs of purple hair like pom-poms growing down his back.
ref:
1984, Jack Vance, Rhialto the Marvellous
type:
quotation
text:
Her active living was suspended, but underneath, in the darkness, something was coming to pass. If only she could break through the last integuments!
ref:
1920, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A shell or other outer protective layer.
An outer protective covering such as the feathers or skin of an animal, a rind or shell.
The outer layer of an ovule, which develops into the seed coat.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
16008 | word:
Zazi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Zazi pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
Zazi
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Pashtun tribe.
senses_topics:
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16009 | word:
Zazi
word_type:
name
expansion:
Zazi
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language of this people.
senses_topics:
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16010 | word:
skater
word_type:
noun
expansion:
skater (plural skaters)
forms:
form:
skaters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
skater
etymology_text:
From skate + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who skates.
A member of skateboarding subculture, characterized by dingy and baggy clothes, and often wallet chains.
A skateboarder
A player who is not a goaltender.
Any of numerous hemipterous insects in the family Gerridae, which run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating.
senses_topics:
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
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16011 | word:
Bangla
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bangla
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Bengali বাংলা (baṅla).
senses_examples:
text:
The segmental phones of Bangla are slightly different from those of other Indo-European languages.
ref:
2010, Somdev Kar, Syllable Structure of Bangla, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
I have spent a great deal of time in the subject of Bangla spelling reform, researched about it, written and published about it. I have written in Bangla in the reform I proposed for many years.
ref:
2011, Munayem Mayenin, Baanglara My Bangla Tutor, page 442
type:
quotation
text:
The best thorough treatment of Bangla phonetics and phonology remains Ferguson and Chowdhury (1960).
ref:
2015, Anne Boyle David, Thomas J. Conners, Dustin Chacón, Descriptive Grammar of Bangla, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Whitechapel: Transport for London has been asked to erect signs at the Elizabeth Line station in Bangla, as well as English, to reflect the East End's cultural diversity. There are already bilingual notices at Southall.
ref:
2021 October 6, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Anglia”, in RAIL, number 941, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
Historian Neehar Ranjan Roy has said that although the place lay on the footsteps of the Himalayas, it was in fact linked to the Bangla region.
ref:
2001, Mohāmmada Hānanāna, Political History of Bangladesh, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
As the Greek histories suggest, Alexander the Great was unsuccessful in his bid to conquer the Bangla region, then known as Gangaridai/Gangaridi, largely due to the military prowess of the people of the region;
ref:
2018, Abul Kalam, Bangladesh’s Maritime Policy
type:
quotation
text:
All the river banks of the western parts of Bangla have such places which include the catchment areas of Mayurakhi, Ajay, Banka, Damodar, Dwarakeswar, Kangsabati, etc.”
ref:
2021, Dibyendu Chakraborty, Origin of Bangla Seventh Part Ghoti Children of the Land of Five Male Rivers
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of Bengali (language).
Synonym of Bengal (region).
senses_topics:
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16012 | word:
Bangla
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Bangla (plural Banglas)
forms:
form:
Banglas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Bengali বাংলা (baṅla).
senses_examples:
text:
This cooking's so different he says, from their Bangla cooking.
ref:
2005, Indian Literature - Volume 49, Issues 5-6, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
After a gap of two years caused by the Covid 19 pandemic, the Bangla new year Pohela Boisakh was celebrated across Bangladesh on Thursday, April 14 with enthusiasm and festivity.
ref:
2022 April 15, Rajesh Jha/Dhaka, “Bangla New Year Pohela Boisakh celebrated in Bangladesh”, in News On Air
type:
quotation
text:
On Friday, Bengalis will welcome 1429 as per Bangla calendar
ref:
2022 April 20, Dipawali Mitra, “Bangla calendars live through ages, evolve to welcome 1429”, in The Times of India
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bengali (ethnicity).
senses_topics:
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16013 | word:
Bangla
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Bangla (plural Banglas)
forms:
form:
Banglas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of Bangladeshi.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Bangladeshi.
senses_topics:
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16014 | word:
research
word_type:
noun
expansion:
research (countable and uncountable, plural researches)
forms:
form:
researches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
research
etymology_text:
Early Modern French rechercher (“to examine closely”), from Old French recerchier (“to seek, to look for”), by surface analysis, re- + search.
senses_examples:
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, archived from the original on 2012-04-04, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
The research station that houses Wang and his team is outside Lijiang, a city of about 1.2 million people.
text:
The first step I took in this so necessary a research, was to examine the motives, the justice, the necessity and expediency of the revolution[…]
ref:
1747, The Scots magazine, volume 9, page 567
type:
quotation
text:
Although very numerous researches have been made on the differentiation of striped muscles, and on the termination of their motor nerve-fibres, yet the multifarious observations have often been too incomplete to lead to any but conflicting and unsatisfactory theories.
ref:
1883 December, “Zoology. A. General, including Embryology and Histology of the Vertebrata. Development of Muscle-fibres and their Union with Nerves”, in Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, volume 3, number 6, page 821
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc. (that are currently available, or that are familiar to one's self).
A particular instance or piece of research.
senses_topics:
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16015 | word:
research
word_type:
verb
expansion:
research (third-person singular simple present researches, present participle researching, simple past and past participle researched)
forms:
form:
researches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
researching
tags:
participle
present
form:
researched
tags:
participle
past
form:
researched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
research
etymology_text:
Early Modern French rechercher (“to examine closely”), from Old French recerchier (“to seek, to look for”), by surface analysis, re- + search.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
To make an extensive investigation into.
To search again.
senses_topics:
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16016 | word:
minor
word_type:
adj
expansion:
minor (comparative more minor, superlative most minor)
forms:
form:
more minor
tags:
comparative
form:
most minor
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English minor, menor, menour, etc., from Latin minor (“lesser; young; young person”) both directly and via Norman and Middle French menor, menour, etc. Doublet of minus but not mini-. Cognate with minister, minify, Minorca, Menshevik, and possibly minnow. Compare Latin minimum and minuō, Old High German minniro, Cornish minow.
senses_examples:
text:
The defendant resides at 123 Fake Street with his partner and two minor children.
type:
example
text:
She suffered a minor injury.
type:
example
text:
There was minor bruising.
type:
example
text:
He has a minor case of puppy love.
type:
example
text:
We now know on authority of Dr. Briggs that every case of vaccination is "a minor case of smallpox," and that every such case of smallpox "should be carefully watched until all danger is passed".
ref:
1899 October, Edward Pollock Anshutz, Homoepathic Envoy, Vol. 10, No. 8, p. 58
text:
The musical interval between C and E♭ is a minor third while C to E is a major third.
type:
example
text:
...a certaine Fraction, which may be the difference betwixt a Tone major and a Tone minor, which we nominate a Schism...
ref:
1653, Rene Descartes, translated by Lord Brouncker, Excellent Compendium of Musick, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
Beethoven's melancholy Moonlight Sonata is scored in the key of C# minor, using the diatonic scale C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, A, and B, but modulates throughout.
type:
example
text:
The minor mode of D is tender.
ref:
1772, William Jones, “On the Arts, Commonly Called Imitative”, in Poems..., page 209
type:
quotation
text:
The first chorus: ‘Behold the Lamb of God’, with its dark minor chords, brings threatening clouds over us.
ref:
1843 March, United States Magazine & Democratic Review, page 273
type:
quotation
text:
Modern harmonists are unwilling to acknowledge that the minor triad is less consonant than the major.
ref:
1880, Edmund Gurney, The Power of Sound, page 271
type:
quotation
text:
After harmony was introduced into music during the late Middle Ages, major and minor triads emerged as the principal chords. The major triad, as C E G, was regarded with especial favor, because it occurs naturally in the harmonic series, as on bugles, and can be expressed by the simple ratios, 4:5:6. A system of tuning for the diatonic scale known today as just intonation gained support in the 16th century, because its principal triads, C E G, F A C, and G B D, had these just ratios. But an important minor triad, D F A, is harsh in just intonation, and other unsatisfactory triads result when this tuning is extended to the complete chromatic scale.
ref:
1948 November, J.M. Barbour, “Music and Ternary Continued Fractions”, in American Mathematical Monthly, volume 55, number 9, page 545
type:
quotation
text:
The first voice of the fugue that Elizabeth had played... came to him, inverted mockingly and in a minor key.
ref:
1951, Carson McCullers, “The Sojourner”, in O. Henry Prize Stories of 1951, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
Tufnel: It's part of a trilogy, really, a musical trilogy that I'm doing in D... minor which I always find is really the saddest of all keys, really. I don't know why but it makes people weep instantly to play it... This piece is called "Lick My Love Pump".
ref:
1984, Christopher Guest et al., This Is Spin̈al Tap
type:
quotation
text:
He was a moralist in a minor key, more concerned that people should say ‘tinned peaches’ and not ‘tin peaches’, than that they should worry about nuclear disarmament.
ref:
1995 October 23, John Walsh, “The Pragmatic Entertainer Who Said the Unsayable”, in The Independent, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
The minor requirements only involve about 20 hours of classes.
type:
example
text:
The minor term of John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism—usually mistakenly credited to Aristotle—is Socrates; the major term is mortal.
type:
example
text:
He whipt her with a foxes taile, Barnes minor,
ref:
c. 1593, Henry Chettle, Kind-harts Dreame, sig. C2
roman:
And he whipt her with a foxes taile, Barnes maior.
text:
Espionage... was a field that had sophisticated itself since the distant time when Patullo Minor... had enthralled his school-fellows with his hazardous escapades.
ref:
1978, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, Full Term, page 250
type:
quotation
text:
The minor perfect mode was marked by one single line which crossed three spaces, and the longue was equal to three breves... The minor imperfect mode was marked by a line which crossed two spaces only, and its longue was equal only to two breves.
ref:
1779, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated by William Waring, Complete Dictionary of Music, page 243
type:
quotation
text:
Josquin works in minor prolation—that is, works in which the signature indicates that a semibreve is equal to two minims, often have a 3 as a medial signature for a few measures, indicating that until the 3 is canceled by the reappearance of a sign for minor prolation, there are to be 3 minims to a semibreve.
ref:
1969, Arthur Mendel, "Some Preliminary Attempts at Computer-Assisted Style Analysis in Music", Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 45
text:
...that the Minor part of the Lords might joyn with the Major part of the House of Commons...
ref:
1642, Charles I, His Majesties Answer to a Printed Book Entituled A Remonstrance..., page 13
type:
quotation
text:
In every other, the minor will be preferred by me to the major vote.
ref:
1796 December 27, Thomas Jefferson, letter
text:
of minor importance
type:
example
text:
a minor poet
type:
example
text:
Here we se thre proposicions, or sentences, whereof the first is called Maior, that is to saie, the proposicion at large. the seconde is called Minor, that is to saie, the seuerall proposicion. the thirde is called conclusio.
ref:
1551, Thomas Wilson, The Rule of Reason..., sig. F8
text:
It is my intention to wait a few years before I publish any minor poems.
ref:
1819 January 2, John Keats, letter
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Underage, not having reached legal majority.
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval.
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, (also figurative) tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect.
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study.
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion.
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
The younger of two pupils with the same surname.
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Having semibreves twice as long as a minim.
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Of or related to a minority party.
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Having little worth or ability; paltry; mean.
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly
senses_topics:
law
medicine
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
education
mathematics
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
government
politics
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16017 | word:
minor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
minor (plural minors)
forms:
form:
minors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English minor, menor, menour, etc., from Latin minor (“lesser; young; young person”) both directly and via Norman and Middle French menor, menour, etc. Doublet of minus but not mini-. Cognate with minister, minify, Minorca, Menshevik, and possibly minnow. Compare Latin minimum and minuō, Old High German minniro, Cornish minow.
senses_examples:
text:
No, he can't get a mortgage or sell the house. He's still a minor. For the most part, he can't sign a legally binding contract.
type:
example
text:
King Richard the second... for the first tenne yeares of his raigne, was a Minor.
ref:
1612, John Davies, A Discouerie of the True Causes Why Ireland Was Neuer Entirely Subdued..., page 88
type:
quotation
text:
He plays in the minors.
type:
example
text:
She hasn't won a minor since the Sichuan Open.
type:
example
text:
The play is considered one of his minors.
type:
example
text:
Mr Gloss'em, who is a shining character in the theatrical world, at least among the minors of the metropolis.
ref:
1821, Pierce Egan, Real Life in London..., volume I, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
I got a minor in English Lit.
type:
example
text:
I became an English minor.
type:
example
text:
...the whole of a system of rth minors being zero...
ref:
1850, James Joseph Sylvester, London, Edinburgh, & Dublin Philosophical Magazine..., volume 37, page 366
type:
quotation
text:
Let A be a non-zero matrix of rank r over a field. Then A has a non-zero r-minor and all s-minors of A are zero for s > r.
ref:
1986, C.W. Norman, Undergraduate Algebra, page 315
type:
quotation
text:
He... to þe menours ordre went
ref:
1447, Osbern Bokenham, Legendys of Hooly Wummen, l. 10520
type:
quotation
text:
And so musten oure clerkis argue whan þai aleggen for her lordeschip þe lyuynge of her patrons & sayntis, & sayen þus: "Seynt thomas & seynt hwe & seynt Swiþune wer þus lordis, & in þis þai suyd cristis lyuynge & his lore; þerfor we may lefulli be þus lordis." And I wote wel þat gabriel schal blow his horne or þai han preuyd þe mynor; þat is, þat þes seyntes or patrons in þis suyden þe lore or þe life of ihesu criste.
ref:
c. 1450, anonymous author, The Clergy May Not Hold Property, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
It is certain that the major leagues must depend upon the minors for their recruits.
ref:
1890 July 31, Sporting Life, Philadelphia, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Penalties... First Period... all minors.
ref:
1924 December 30, Gazette, Montreal, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Brown from a mark on the magazine wing put up the first minor.
ref:
1903 May 16, Sporting News, Tasmania, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
At half-time the score was—one goal, three tries, and four minors.
ref:
1883 February 5, York Herald, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Many find it easier to remember 20 for Minors, 30 for Majors and 35 for No Trump.
ref:
1927, Milton Cooper Work, Contract Bridge, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
Let my minor pass, you fellows!... Here, Chudleigh, just make room there.
ref:
1864, Eton School Days, page 82
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
Ellipsis of minor interval, scale, mode, key, chord, triad, etc.
A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.
Ellipsis of minor league: the lower level of teams.
Ellipsis of minor penalty: a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores.
Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
Ellipsis of minor point: a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions.
Ellipsis of minor suit; a card of a minor suit.
Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
Changes rung on six bells.
An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.
Synonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.
The younger brother of a pupil.
senses_topics:
law
entertainment
lifestyle
music
education
education
mathematics
sciences
Catholicism
Christianity
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
bridge
games
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
campanology
history
human-sciences
sciences
mathematics
sciences
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16018 | word:
minor
word_type:
verb
expansion:
minor (third-person singular simple present minors, present participle minoring, simple past and past participle minored)
forms:
form:
minors
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
minoring
tags:
participle
present
form:
minored
tags:
participle
past
form:
minored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English minor, menor, menour, etc., from Latin minor (“lesser; young; young person”) both directly and via Norman and Middle French menor, menour, etc. Doublet of minus but not mini-. Cognate with minister, minify, Minorca, Menshevik, and possibly minnow. Compare Latin minimum and minuō, Old High German minniro, Cornish minow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used in a phrasal verb: minor in.
senses_topics:
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16019 | word:
turn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
turn (third-person singular simple present turns, present participle turning, simple past and past participle turned or (obsolete) turnt)
forms:
form:
turns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
turning
tags:
participle
present
form:
turned
tags:
participle
past
form:
turned
tags:
past
form:
turnt
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
turnt
tags:
obsolete
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
turn
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
turn
etymology_text:
From Middle English turnen, from Old English turnian, tyrnan (“to turn, rotate, revolve”) and Old French torner (“to turn”), both from Latin tornāre (“to round off, turn in a lathe”), from tornus (“lathe”), from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos, “turning-lathe: a tool used for making circles”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by turning, turn, twist, bore”). Cognate with Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist, wind”), whence English throw. Displaced native Middle English wenden from Old English wendan (see wend), and Middle English trenden from Old English trendan (see trend), among several other terms.
senses_examples:
text:
the Earth turns; turn on the spot
type:
example
text:
We didn't start the fire / It was always burning / Since the world's been turning
ref:
1989 September 18, Billy Joel, “We Didn't Start the Fire”, in Storm Front
type:
quotation
text:
Turn the knob clockwise.
type:
example
text:
Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
ref:
2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
She turned right at the corner.
type:
example
text:
She turned the table legs with care and precision.
type:
example
text:
turn the bed covers; turn the pages
type:
example
text:
turn to page twenty; turn through the book
type:
example
text:
I fell off my bike and turned my ankle severely.
type:
example
text:
The leaves turn brown in autumn. When I asked him for the money, he turned nasty.
type:
example
text:
The former-slaves-turned-abolitionists Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano were the chief organizers of the Sons of Africa.
ref:
2007, Junius P. Rodriguez, Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World
type:
quotation
text:
The midfielder turned provider moments later, his exquisite reverse pass perfectly weighted for Cisse to race on to and slide past Stoke keeper Asmir Begovic.
ref:
2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The hillside behind our house isn't generally much to look at, but once all the trees turn it's gorgeous.
type:
example
text:
This milk has turned; it smells awful.
type:
example
text:
to turn cider or wine
type:
example
text:
How long ago was he turned?
type:
example
text:
His companions had turned him on purpose. Annie, bless her heart, was immune.
ref:
2017, Michael J. Totten, Into the Wasteland: A Zombie Novel
type:
quotation
text:
Bruce Banner turns when he is angry: he becomes the Hulk, an incredibly powerful green monster.
type:
example
text:
We may not be made gay or lesbian in the sense of being “turned” by some error in parenting or child rearing, but we are certainly biologically made and raised (most of us) by straights.
ref:
2009 September 10, W. C. Harris, Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture, State University of New York Press, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
An old homophobic fantasy has it that a gay man or lesbian can be “turned” by a fulfilling sexual encounter with someone of the opposite sex
ref:
2023 May 15, Eliot Borenstein, Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World Inside Your Head, Cornell University Press, page 244
type:
quotation
text:
Midas made everything turn to gold. He turned into a monster every full moon.
type:
example
text:
Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
ref:
2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
Charlie turns six on September 29.
type:
example
text:
The decision turns on a single fact.
type:
example
text:
The prisoners turned on the warden.
type:
example
text:
The sight turned my stomach.
type:
example
text:
They say they can turn the parts in two days.
type:
example
text:
We turned a pretty penny with that little scheme.
type:
example
text:
Liverpool introduced Carroll for Spearing and were rewarded after 64 minutes when he put them back in contention. Stewart Downing blocked Jose Bosingwa's attempted clearance, which fell into the path of Carroll. He turned John Terry superbly before firing high past Cech.
ref:
2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Ivory turns well.
type:
example
text:
to turn the Iliad
type:
example
text:
who turns a Persian tale for half a crown
ref:
1735, Alexander Pope, The Prologue to the Satires
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a non-linear physical movement.
To move about an axis through itself.
To make a non-linear physical movement.
To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
To make a non-linear physical movement.
To change one's direction of travel.
To make a non-linear physical movement.
To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
To make a non-linear physical movement.
To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
To make a non-linear physical movement.
To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
To make a non-linear physical movement.
To navigate through a book or other printed material.
To make a non-linear physical movement.
To twist or sprain.
To make a non-linear physical movement.
Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
To make a non-linear physical movement.
Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
To change condition or attitude.
To become (begin to be).
To change condition or attitude.
To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
To change condition or attitude.
To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
To sour or spoil; to go bad.
To change condition or attitude.
To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
To change condition or attitude.
To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
To change condition or attitude.
To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
To change condition or attitude.
To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
To change the sexual orientation or gender of another person, or otherwise awaken a sexual preference.
To change condition or attitude.
To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
To change condition or attitude.
To reach a certain age.
To change condition or attitude.
To hinge; to depend.
To change condition or attitude.
To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
To change condition or attitude.
To change personal condition.
To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
To change condition or attitude.
To change personal condition.
To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
To change condition or attitude.
To change personal condition.
To sicken; to nauseate.
To change condition or attitude.
To change personal condition.
To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
To complete.
To make (money); turn a profit.
Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
To translate.
To magically or divinely repel undead.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
fantasy
fantasy
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
medicine
obstetrics
sciences
media
printing
publishing
|
16020 | word:
turn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
turn (plural turns)
forms:
form:
turns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
turn
etymology_text:
Partly from Anglo-Norman *torn, from Latin turnus, from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos), and partly an action noun from the verb turn.
senses_examples:
text:
Give the handle a turn, then pull it.
type:
example
text:
Let's take a turn in the garden.
type:
example
text:
They took turns playing with the new toy.
type:
example
text:
I cooked tonight, so it's your turn to do the dishes.
type:
example
text:
They quote a three-day turn on parts like those.
type:
example
text:
I've had a funny turn.
type:
example
text:
I'm sure I never shall forget the turn young Simmons gave me when he came in with that paper as he'd been and copied out of a winder thro' being in a west-end house, […]
ref:
1865 September 23, “Mrs. Brown and the Emperor of the French”, in Fun, London: Published (for the proprietors) by Thomas Baker, →OCLC, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
She took a turn for the worse.
type:
example
text:
One good turn deserves another.
type:
example
text:
I felt that the man was of a vindictive nature, and would do me an evil turn if he found the opportunity[…].
type:
example
text:
Between the pieces were individual turns, comic songs and dances.
ref:
1960, Theatre Notebook, volumes 14-16, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
There are usually at least two jobbers who specialise in the leading stocks, and this acts to keep the jobber's turn to a reasonable amount […]
ref:
1977, Michael Arthur Firth, Valuation of Shares and the Efficient-markets Theory, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A change of direction or orientation.
A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
A walk to and fro.
A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
The time required to complete a project.
A fit or a period of giddiness.
A change in temperament or circumstance.
A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
A single loop of a coil.
A pass behind or through an object.
Character; personality; nature.
An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
A short skit, act, or routine.
A type turned upside down to serve for another character that is not available.
The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
card-games
poker
card-games
poker
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
arts
circus
comedy
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
theater
media
printing
publishing
business
finance |
16021 | word:
lug
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lug (plural lugs)
forms:
form:
lugs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English luggen, possibly from Scandinavian source, (compare Swedish lugga, Norwegian lugge); also in English dialectal as lig (“to lug”). Noun is via Scots lugge, probably from Old Norse (compare Norwegian and Swedish lugg). Probably related to slug (“lazy, slow-moving”), which may be from similar source(s). See slow.
senses_examples:
text:
a hard lug
type:
example
text:
The pack is a heavy lug.
type:
example
text:
While shaving, the poor sod had a fit and cut part of a lug off.
type:
example
text:
They put the lug on him at the courthouse.
type:
example
text:
He took another long lug on his cigarette before continuing quietly, 'I've seen too much and it was seriously screwing me up. […]
ref:
2013, Paul Burke, The Man Who Fell In Love With His Wife
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of hauling or dragging.
That which is hauled or dragged.
Anything that moves slowly.
A lug nut.
A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
A large, clumsy, awkward man; a fool.
An ear or ear lobe.
A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
A request for money, as for political purposes.
A lugworm.
A pull or drag on a cigarette.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
16022 | word:
lug
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lug (third-person singular simple present lugs, present participle lugging, simple past and past participle lugged)
forms:
form:
lugs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lugging
tags:
participle
present
form:
lugged
tags:
participle
past
form:
lugged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English luggen, possibly from Scandinavian source, (compare Swedish lugga, Norwegian lugge); also in English dialectal as lig (“to lug”). Noun is via Scots lugge, probably from Old Norse (compare Norwegian and Swedish lugg). Probably related to slug (“lazy, slow-moving”), which may be from similar source(s). See slow.
senses_examples:
text:
Why do you always lug around so many books?
type:
example
text:
They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.
ref:
c. 1700, Jeremy Collier, A Thought
type:
quotation
text:
As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
ref:
1923, P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves
type:
quotation
text:
Luggage areas need to be within sight, rather than at the end of carriages, despite the inconvenience of lugging cases further into a carriage.
ref:
2021 July 14, Anthony Lambert, “Grand designs on superior interiors”, in RAIL, number 935, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
When driving up a hill, choose a lower gear so you don't lug the engine.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
To run at too slow a speed.
To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports |
16023 | word:
lug
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lug (plural lugs)
forms:
form:
lugs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lugge (“pole, stick, staff”).
senses_examples:
text:
And from the bodies [of pines and oaks] the boughes and loftie lugges they beare.
ref:
1567, George Turberville, Epitome
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rod or pole.
A measure of length equal to 16+¹⁄₂ feet.
A lugsail.
The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
|
16024 | word:
pair of compasses
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pair of compasses (plural pairs of compasses)
forms:
form:
pairs of compasses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tool for drawing accurate circles or circular arcs, or for measuring or transferring lengths, usually consisting of two arms joined with an adjustable hinge at one end; until the middle ages both arms always had metal points at their free ends (this version is now called a divider or pair of dividers), but in recent centuries for a device called a compass or pair of compasses, one arm typically holds a ruling pen, pencil, or some other implement for making marks.
senses_topics:
|
16025 | word:
horsepower
word_type:
noun
expansion:
horsepower (countable and uncountable, plural horsepowers or horsepower)
forms:
form:
horsepowers
tags:
plural
form:
horsepower
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
horsepower
etymology_text:
horse + power: the unit was originally defined as the amount of power that a horse could provide.
Both non-metric and metric units of power were derived from effectively identical measurements of the power a draught horse could sustain over several hours, with the difference in watts solely due to different rounding errors to express that power in round numbers in the original non-SI units (ft·lbf/min and kgf⋅m/s respectively).
senses_examples:
text:
Shillibeer's bus came in 1829 drawn by three horses. Later two horses were found sufficient to pull these closed wagonettes, which eventually had outside seats, and later on the substitution of a motor for horsepower.
ref:
1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
The wheel was to have been turned by horsepower, but it was adapted to be driven by a mill-wheel on the river Derwent […]
ref:
2003, Gavin Weightman, What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
In the past, before the widespread adoption of SI units, the work that engines were capable of doing was compared with the work that horses could do – hence the term ‘horsepower’. Various people came up with various equivalencies, but the modern agreed definition is that 1 horsepower is 746 joules per second or 746 watts.
ref:
2012 March 22nd, David Blockley, Engineering: A Very Short Introduction (309), Oxford University Press, chapter 2: “The age of gravity – time for work”, page 20
text:
political horsepower
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Power derived from the motion of a horse.
A nonmetric unit of power (symbol hp) with various definitions, for different applications. The most common of them is probably the mechanical horsepower, approximately equal to 745.7 watts.
A metric unit (symbol often PS from the German abbreviation), approximately equal to 735.5 watts.
Strength.
senses_topics:
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16026 | word:
cross
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cross (plural crosses)
forms:
form:
crosses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cross, cros, from Old English cros (“rood, cross”), perhaps from Old Irish cros (compare Welsh croes, Irish crois), perhaps from Latin crux (cruci). In this sense displaced native Middle English rood, from Old English rōd; see rood.
The sense of "two intersecting lines drawn or cut on a surface; two lines intersecting at right angles" without regard to religious signification develops from the late 14th century.
cognates
*Old Norse kross (“cross”)
*Icelandic kross (“cross”)
*Faroese krossur (“cross”)
*Danish kors (“cross”)
*Swedish kors (“cross”)
*German Kreuz (“cross”)
*Dutch kruis (“cross”)
senses_examples:
text:
Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.
type:
example
text:
Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross.
type:
example
text:
She made the cross after swearing.
type:
example
text:
She was wearing a cross on her necklace.
type:
example
text:
It's a cross I must bear.
type:
example
text:
Heaven prepares good men with crosses.
ref:
1641, Ben Jonson, Timber
type:
quotation
text:
A quick cross of the road.
type:
example
text:
Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler
ref:
1856, Lord Dufferin, Letters from High Latitudes
type:
quotation
text:
And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.
ref:
2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
the church-lands lying within the same, which were called the Cross
ref:
1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
Alternative form of Cross The Crucifix, the cross on which Christ was crucified.
A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross; sign of the Cross.
Any representation of the Crucifix, as in religious architecture, burial markers, jewelery, etc.
A difficult situation that must be endured.
The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
A hybrid of any kind.
A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
Church lands.
A line across or through another line.
An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
Crossfire.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Christianity
Christianity
Christianity
biology
natural-sciences
boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
geography
natural-sciences
surveying
Rubik's-Cube
games
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
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16027 | word:
cross
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cross (comparative crosser, superlative crossest)
forms:
form:
crosser
tags:
comparative
form:
crossest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cross, cros, from Old English cros (“rood, cross”), perhaps from Old Irish cros (compare Welsh croes, Irish crois), perhaps from Latin crux (cruci). In this sense displaced native Middle English rood, from Old English rōd; see rood.
The sense of "two intersecting lines drawn or cut on a surface; two lines intersecting at right angles" without regard to religious signification develops from the late 14th century.
cognates
*Old Norse kross (“cross”)
*Icelandic kross (“cross”)
*Faroese krossur (“cross”)
*Danish kors (“cross”)
*Swedish kors (“cross”)
*German Kreuz (“cross”)
*Dutch kruis (“cross”)
senses_examples:
text:
At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.
type:
example
text:
His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.
type:
example
text:
As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.
ref:
, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50
text:
a cross fortune
ref:
c. 1650, Jeremy Taylor, Of Contentedness
type:
quotation
text:
The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvellously cross to the common experience of mankind.
ref:
1694, Robert South, Christianity Mysterious, and the Wisdom of God in Making it So (sermon preached at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 1694)
text:
She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.
text:
Please don't get cross at me. (or) Please don't get cross with me.
text:
1650/1651, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
He had received a cross answer from his mistress.
text:
cross interrogatories
text:
cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other
text:
As my father remarked to me when I stole on deck to view the state of affairs, the sea was a "cross one," and very difficult to steer against.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Transverse; lying across the main direction.
Opposite, opposed to.
Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
16028 | word:
cross
word_type:
prep
expansion:
cross
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cross, cros, from Old English cros (“rood, cross”), perhaps from Old Irish cros (compare Welsh croes, Irish crois), perhaps from Latin crux (cruci). In this sense displaced native Middle English rood, from Old English rōd; see rood.
The sense of "two intersecting lines drawn or cut on a surface; two lines intersecting at right angles" without regard to religious signification develops from the late 14th century.
cognates
*Old Norse kross (“cross”)
*Icelandic kross (“cross”)
*Faroese krossur (“cross”)
*Danish kors (“cross”)
*Swedish kors (“cross”)
*German Kreuz (“cross”)
*Dutch kruis (“cross”)
senses_examples:
text:
She walked cross the mountains.
type:
example
text:
The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Across.
The cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
senses_topics:
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16029 | word:
cross
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cross (third-person singular simple present crosses, present participle crossing, simple past and past participle crossed)
forms:
form:
crosses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
crossing
tags:
participle
present
form:
crossed
tags:
participle
past
form:
crossed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
cross
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cross, cros, from Old English cros (“rood, cross”), perhaps from Old Irish cros (compare Welsh croes, Irish crois), perhaps from Latin crux (cruci). In this sense displaced native Middle English rood, from Old English rōd; see rood.
The sense of "two intersecting lines drawn or cut on a surface; two lines intersecting at right angles" without regard to religious signification develops from the late 14th century.
cognates
*Old Norse kross (“cross”)
*Icelandic kross (“cross”)
*Faroese krossur (“cross”)
*Danish kors (“cross”)
*Swedish kors (“cross”)
*German Kreuz (“cross”)
*Dutch kruis (“cross”)
senses_examples:
text:
She frowned and crossed her arms.
type:
example
text:
to cross the letter t
type:
example
text:
Cross the box which applies to you.
type:
example
text:
Again Beatrice crossed herself and sighed heavily as she bent over the dead insect.
ref:
1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini's Daughter”, in Mosses from an Old Manse
type:
quotation
text:
"Well, no! that's what I cannot make out either," said the mother quite innocently, "for I've had castor in the cradle, - I have crossed him, and I put a silver brooch in his shirt, and I stuck a knife in the beam over the door, so I don't know how they could have managed to change him."
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 298
type:
quotation
text:
2022, Andrew Lang, Oxford
The reign of Mary was scarcely more favourable to letters. No one knew what to be at in religion. In Magdalen no one could be found to say Mass, the fellows were turned out, the undergraduates were whipped — boyish martyrs — and crossed at the buttery.
text:
Why did the chicken cross the road?
type:
example
text:
You need to cross the street at the lights.
type:
example
text:
Ukraine, however, will complain long and hard about a contentious second-half incident when Marko Devic's shot clearly crossed the line before it was scrambled away by John Terry, only for the officials to remain unmoved.
ref:
2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Whatever the merits or otherwise of Scottish independence or a united UK, plenty of people cross the border every year.
ref:
2021 December 29, Philip Haigh, “Rail's role in unifying Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, in RAIL, number 947, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way.
type:
example
text:
November 4, 1866, James David Forbes, letter to E. C. Batten Esq.
Your kind letter crossed mine.
text:
He crossed the ball into the penalty area.
type:
example
text:
England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break.
ref:
2011 February 12, Mark Orlovac, “England 59-13 Italy”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
"You'll rue the day you tried to cross me, Tom Hero!" bellowed the villain.
type:
example
text:
But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it / Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of / You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin' / Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
ref:
1995, “Gangsta's Paradise”, in Artis Ivey, Jr., Karry Sanders, Doug Rasheed (lyrics), Gangsta's Paradise (CD), performed by Coolio and L.V., Tommy Boy, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.
type:
example
text:
Question: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino?
Answer : El-if-I-no.
ref:
1978, Kim Applegate Peggs, Carpenter, volume 96, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
The English practice of crossing checks so that payment may be made to the bank account or to order is prevalent.
ref:
1924, Commerce Reports, volume 1, number 13, page 849
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make or form a cross.
To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
To make or form a cross.
To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
To make or form a cross.
To mark with an X.
To make or form a cross.
To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ
To make or form a cross.
To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
To make or form a cross.
To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
To make or form a cross.
To mark a cross against the name of (a student) in the buttery or kitchen, so that they cannot get food there.
To move relatively.
To go from one side of (something) to the other.
To move relatively.
To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
To move relatively.
To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
To move relatively.
Relative movement by a player or of players.
Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
To move relatively.
Relative movement by a player or of players.
To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
To move relatively.
Relative movement by a player or of players.
To score a try.
To oppose.
To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
To oppose.
To interfere and cut off ; to debar.
To oppose.
To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
law
biology
natural-sciences
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16030 | word:
ape
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ape (plural apes)
forms:
form:
apes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ape
etymology_text:
From Middle English ape, from Old English apa (“ape, monkey”), from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô (“monkey, ape”), possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”), compare Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”), if the word originally referred to a "water sprite". Traditionally assumed to be an ancient loanword instead, ultimately probably from an unidentified non-Indo-European language of regions in Africa or Asia where monkeys are native. Cognate with Scots aip (“ape”), West Frisian aap (“ape”), Dutch aap (“monkey, ape”), Low German Ape (“ape”), German Affe (“monkey, ape”), Swedish apa (“monkey, ape”), Icelandic api (“ape”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
Any such primate other than a human.
An uncivilized person.
One who apes; a foolish imitator.
senses_topics:
|
16031 | word:
ape
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ape (third-person singular simple present apes, present participle aping or apeing, simple past and past participle aped)
forms:
form:
apes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
aping
tags:
participle
present
form:
apeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
aped
tags:
participle
past
form:
aped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ape
etymology_text:
From Middle English ape, from Old English apa (“ape, monkey”), from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô (“monkey, ape”), possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”), compare Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”), if the word originally referred to a "water sprite". Traditionally assumed to be an ancient loanword instead, ultimately probably from an unidentified non-Indo-European language of regions in Africa or Asia where monkeys are native. Cognate with Scots aip (“ape”), West Frisian aap (“ape”), Dutch aap (“monkey, ape”), Low German Ape (“ape”), German Affe (“monkey, ape”), Swedish apa (“monkey, ape”), Icelandic api (“ape”).
senses_examples:
text:
And well their dignity it ſuits, / To ape the gravity of brutes.
ref:
1772, [Thomas Bridges], “Something by Way of Preface”, in A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
But there’s this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.
ref:
1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XXI, in Wuthering Heights
type:
quotation
text:
It is not conceived as a mere “aping” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.
ref:
1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 92, page 454
type:
quotation
text:
Every year a paper or a book appears, bemoaning the fate of economics and complaining about its attempts to ape physics.
ref:
2010, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, New York: Random House, page 180
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To behave like an ape.
To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.
senses_topics:
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16032 | word:
ape
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ape (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
ape
etymology_text:
Clipping of apeshit (“ape-shit (crazy)”).
senses_examples:
text:
We were ape over the new look.
type:
example
text:
He went ape when he heard the bad news.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Wild; crazy.
senses_topics:
|
16033 | word:
cosy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cosy (comparative cosier, superlative cosiest)
forms:
form:
cosier
tags:
comparative
form:
cosiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Scots cosie, from Old Scots colsie, but ultimate derivation is unknown. Possibly of North Germanic origin, such as Norwegian kose seg (“to have a cozy time”), from Old Norse kose sig, from koselig, koslig, perhaps ultimately from Old High German kōsa; see modern German kosen (“to cuddle”).
senses_examples:
text:
I feel very cosy here in my bed.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Affording comfort and warmth; snug; social.
Warm and comfortable.
senses_topics:
|
16034 | word:
cosy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cosy (plural cosies)
forms:
form:
cosies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Scots cosie, from Old Scots colsie, but ultimate derivation is unknown. Possibly of North Germanic origin, such as Norwegian kose seg (“to have a cozy time”), from Old Norse kose sig, from koselig, koslig, perhaps ultimately from Old High German kōsa; see modern German kosen (“to cuddle”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A padded or knit covering put on an item to keep it warm, especially a teapot or egg.
A padded or knit covering for any item (often an electronic device such as a laptop computer).
A work of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.
senses_topics:
|
16035 | word:
cosy
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cosy (third-person singular simple present cosies, present participle cosying, simple past and past participle cosied)
forms:
form:
cosies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cosying
tags:
participle
present
form:
cosied
tags:
participle
past
form:
cosied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Scots cosie, from Old Scots colsie, but ultimate derivation is unknown. Possibly of North Germanic origin, such as Norwegian kose seg (“to have a cozy time”), from Old Norse kose sig, from koselig, koslig, perhaps ultimately from Old High German kōsa; see modern German kosen (“to cuddle”).
senses_examples:
text:
He spent all day cosying up to the new boss, hoping for a plum assignment.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become snug and comfortable.
To become friendly with.
senses_topics:
|
16036 | word:
glass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
glass (countable and uncountable, plural glasses)
forms:
form:
glasses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
glass
etymology_text:
From Middle English glas, from Old English glæs, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, possibly related to Proto-Germanic *glōaną (“to shine”) (compare glow), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰel- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”). Cognate with West Frisian glês, Dutch glas, Low German Glas, German Glas, Swedish glas, Icelandic gler.
senses_examples:
text:
The tabletop is made of glass.
type:
example
text:
A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.
type:
example
text:
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
ref:
2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
Metal glasses, unlike those based on silica, are electrically conductive, which can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the application.
type:
example
text:
Fill my glass with milk, please.
type:
example
text:
There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.
type:
example
text:
We collected art glass.
type:
example
text:
1599, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, Act III, Scene 1, J.M. Dent & Co., 1904, p. 67,
[…] for what lady can abide to love a spruce silken-face courtier, that stands every morning two or three hours learning how to look by his glass, how to speak by his glass, how to sigh by his glass, how to court his mistress by his glass? I would wish him no other plague, but to have a mistress as brittle as glass.
text:
Beholding her charms in the glaſs, ſhe wandered over a wilderneſs of vain fancies.
ref:
1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 11
type:
quotation
text:
As of old, he took down his portable glass hanging on a nail, and carefully wiping it, replaced it in its case.
ref:
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 216
type:
quotation
text:
She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.
type:
example
text:
Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young, have no horns, as is well known, and in the early part of the stalking season, when seen through a glass, might be mistaken for hummels […]
ref:
1912, The Encyclopædia of Sport & Games
type:
quotation
text:
He caught the rebound off the glass.
type:
example
text:
He fired the outlet pass off the glass.
type:
example
text:
The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever / But if you break the bloody glass you won’t hold up the weather.
ref:
1938, Louis MacNeice, “Bagpipe Music”, in The Earth Compels, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
glass frog; glass shrimp; glass worm
type:
example
text:
Her new camera was incompatible with her old one, so she needed to buy new glass.
type:
example
text:
[N]o sooner had we entered Holbourn than letting down one of the Front Glasses I enquired of every decent-looking Person that we passed ‘If they had seen my Edward?’
ref:
1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).
Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
Glassware.
A mirror.
A magnifying glass or telescope.
A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
The backboard.
A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
A barometer.
Transparent or translucent.
An hourglass.
Lenses, considered collectively.
A pane of glass; a window (especially of a coach or similar vehicle).
senses_topics:
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
|
16037 | word:
glass
word_type:
verb
expansion:
glass (third-person singular simple present glasses, present participle glassing, simple past and past participle glassed)
forms:
form:
glasses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
glassing
tags:
participle
present
form:
glassed
tags:
participle
past
form:
glassed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
glass
etymology_text:
From Middle English glas, from Old English glæs, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, possibly related to Proto-Germanic *glōaną (“to shine”) (compare glow), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰel- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”). Cognate with West Frisian glês, Dutch glas, Low German Glas, German Glas, Swedish glas, Icelandic gler.
senses_examples:
text:
JUDD. Any trouble last night?
LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed.
ref:
1987, John Godber, Bouncers page 19
text:
I often mused on what the politicians or authorities would say if they could see for themselves the horrendous consequences of someone who’d been glassed, or viciously assaulted.
ref:
2002, Geoff Doherty, A Promoter's Tale page 72
text:
One night he was in this nightclub in Sheffield and he got glassed by this bloke who’d been just let out of prison that day.
ref:
2003, Mark Sturdy, Pulp page 139
text:
“The Covenant don’t ‘miss’ anything when they glass a planet,” the Master Chief replied.
ref:
2003, Eric Nylund, Halo: First Strike, New York: Del Rey, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
Andy took his binoculars and glassed the area below.
ref:
2000, Ben D. Mahaffey, 50 Years of Hunting and Fishing, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
One of the keys to glassing effectively is supporting your binoculars. Advanced glassers who scan lots of country for long periods of time, or who use binoculars of 10X power or more, often use a lightweight camera tripod […]
ref:
2000, Field & Stream, volume 105, number 6, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
Not only were his eyes averted from mine, but they were glassed to an uncanny degree.
ref:
2018, Harry Leon Wilson, Ruggles of Red Gap, page 199
type:
quotation
text:
Bourez had timed it perfectly: a wind that was forecast for the morning began to stir just after his arrival and the sea glassed off for a brief period before the waves grew bigger and bigger.
ref:
2012, Keith Duggan, Cliffs Of Insanity: A Winter On Ireland's Big Waves, page 32
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fit with glass; to glaze.
To enclose in glass.
Clipping of fibreglass. To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass).
To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
To bombard an area with such intensity (by means of a nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
To reflect; to mirror.
To make glassy.
To become glassy.
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
|
16038 | word:
duckling
word_type:
noun
expansion:
duckling (plural ducklings)
forms:
form:
ducklings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dokeling, dukling, dookelynge (“duckling”), equivalent to duck + -ling.
senses_examples:
text:
Good night, darling; take that kiss to your respected mother, and tell her with my compliments that we can’t afford to make ducks and drakes of the romance of our little pet’s life: she will hatch those birds for herself in due time, and remain cluck-clucking, wisely, but sadly, like a perplexed old hen, when her ducklings and drakelings have unexpectedly taken the water.
ref:
1858, “Edith Clarel: A Story from Three Points of View”, in The Money Bag: Literature, Politics, Finance, volume I, number 4, London: Daniel F. Oakey, […], page 232
type:
quotation
text:
Referring to Table 1 it will be seen that if a breeding duck produces 40 marketable progeny each year (and in practice this should be achieved) half of which are ducklings and the other half drakelings, and these birds realise 2s. per lb. live weight, then that breeding duck would return approximately £15 10s. over feeding costs for the 12 months.
ref:
1951, Supplement to the Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Western Australia, volume 28, page 216
type:
quotation
text:
Muscovy ducks with ducklings. This is the most popular breed for table purposes. They make weights of up to 5 lb. for ducklings at 13 to 14 weeks, and up to 9 lb. for drakelings at 16 weeks when correctly handled.
ref:
1961, Allan A[rthur] McArdle, Poultry Management and Production (Agricultural and Livestock Series), Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson, page 563
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A young duck.
A young female duck.
senses_topics:
|
16039 | word:
hymn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hymn (plural hymns)
forms:
form:
hymns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hymn
etymology_text:
From Middle English ymne, from Old English ymen (reinforced by Old French ymne), from Latin hymnus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕμνος (húmnos).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.
senses_topics:
|
16040 | word:
hymn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hymn (third-person singular simple present hymns, present participle hymning, simple past and past participle hymned)
forms:
form:
hymns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hymning
tags:
participle
present
form:
hymned
tags:
participle
past
form:
hymned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
hymn
etymology_text:
From Middle English ymne, from Old English ymen (reinforced by Old French ymne), from Latin hymnus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕμνος (húmnos).
senses_examples:
text:
An unknown cast, including Diane Keaton, hymned the Age of Aquarius, stripped off at the end of the first act and let the sunshine in at the end of the second.
ref:
2009 January 21, Michael Coveney, “Tom O'Horgan”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sing a hymn.
To praise or extol in hymns.
senses_topics:
|
16041 | word:
glad
word_type:
adj
expansion:
glad (comparative gladder or more glad, superlative gladdest or most glad)
forms:
form:
gladder
tags:
comparative
form:
more glad
tags:
comparative
form:
gladdest
tags:
superlative
form:
most glad
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English glad, gled, from Old English glæd (“shining; bright; cheerful; glad”), from Proto-Germanic *gladaz (“shiny; gleaming; radiant; happy; glossy; smooth; flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰladʰ-, from *ǵʰelh₂- (“to shine”).
Cognate with Scots gled, glaid (“shining; bright; glad”), Saterland Frisian glääd (“smooth; sleek”), West Frisian glêd (“smooth”), Dutch glad (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), German glatt (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish glad (“glad; happy; cheerful”), Icelandic glaður (“glad; joyful; cheery”), Latin glaber (“smooth; hairless; bald”), Russian гла́дкий (gládkij, “smooth”). Doublet of glatt.
senses_examples:
text:
I'm glad the rain has finally stopped.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pleased, happy, gratified.
Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.
senses_topics:
|
16042 | word:
glad
word_type:
verb
expansion:
glad (third-person singular simple present glads, present participle gladding, simple past and past participle gladded)
forms:
form:
glads
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gladding
tags:
participle
present
form:
gladded
tags:
participle
past
form:
gladded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English glad, gled, from Old English glæd (“shining; bright; cheerful; glad”), from Proto-Germanic *gladaz (“shiny; gleaming; radiant; happy; glossy; smooth; flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰladʰ-, from *ǵʰelh₂- (“to shine”).
Cognate with Scots gled, glaid (“shining; bright; glad”), Saterland Frisian glääd (“smooth; sleek”), West Frisian glêd (“smooth”), Dutch glad (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), German glatt (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish glad (“glad; happy; cheerful”), Icelandic glaður (“glad; joyful; cheery”), Latin glaber (“smooth; hairless; bald”), Russian гла́дкий (gládkij, “smooth”). Doublet of glatt.
senses_examples:
text:
God that glads the lover's heart
ref:
1922, A. E. Housman, Epithalamium, line 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make glad.
senses_topics:
|
16043 | word:
glad
word_type:
noun
expansion:
glad (plural glads)
forms:
form:
glads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of gladiolus
senses_examples:
text:
Glads are widely grown as cut flowers both in the United States and abroad.
ref:
2008, Lynn Byczynski, The Flower Farmer, page 217
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gladiolus (plant).
senses_topics:
|
16044 | word:
include
word_type:
verb
expansion:
include (third-person singular simple present includes, present participle including, simple past and past participle included)
forms:
form:
includes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
including
tags:
participle
present
form:
included
tags:
participle
past
form:
included
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English includen, borrowed from Latin inclūdere (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudere (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”). Doublet of enclose. Displaced native Old English belūcan (“to include,” also “to shut in”).
senses_examples:
text:
I will purchase the vacation package if you will include car rental.
type:
example
text:
The vacation package includes car rental.
type:
example
text:
Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets?
type:
example
text:
I was included in the invitation to the family gathering.
type:
example
text:
up to and including page twenty-five
type:
example
text:
I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.
ref:
, New York, 2001, p.107
text:
You have to include the strings library to use this function.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
To consider as part of something; to comprehend.
To enclose, confine.
To conclude; to terminate.
To use a directive that allows the use of source code from another file.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
16045 | word:
include
word_type:
noun
expansion:
include (plural includes)
forms:
form:
includes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English includen, borrowed from Latin inclūdere (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudere (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”). Doublet of enclose. Displaced native Old English belūcan (“to include,” also “to shut in”).
senses_examples:
text:
In the previous lesson, you learned how to use server-side includes, which enable you to easily include snippets of web pages within other web pages.
ref:
2006, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
16046 | word:
bimonthly
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bimonthly (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
bi- + monthly
senses_examples:
text:
The organization's bimonthly meetings allow for two discussions each quarter.
type:
example
text:
His bimonthly appointment was almost due.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Occurring once every two months
Occurring twice every month.
senses_topics:
|
16047 | word:
bimonthly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
bimonthly (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
bi- + monthly
senses_examples:
text:
The organization's board of directors meets bimonthly.
type:
example
text:
They checked on his progress bimonthly.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Once every two months; bimestrially.
Twice every month; semimonthly.
senses_topics:
|
16048 | word:
bimonthly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bimonthly (plural bimonthlies)
forms:
form:
bimonthlies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
bi- + monthly
senses_examples:
text:
We have to get the report done. If the boss doesn't get his bimonthly he'll scream.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A publication that is published on a bimonthly basis.
senses_topics:
|
16049 | word:
guess
word_type:
verb
expansion:
guess (third-person singular simple present guesses, present participle guessing, simple past and past participle guessed)
forms:
form:
guesses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
guessing
tags:
participle
present
form:
guessed
tags:
participle
past
form:
guessed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
guess
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
guess
etymology_text:
From Middle English gessen (verb) and Middle English gesse (noun), probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Danish getse, gitse, getsa (“to guess”), from Old Norse *getsa, *gitsa, from Proto-Germanic *gitisōną (“to guess”), from Proto-Germanic *getaną (“to get”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to take, seize”). Cognate with Danish gisne (“to guess”), Norwegian gissa, gjette (“to guess”), Swedish gissa (“to guess”), Saterland Frisian gisje (“to guess”), Dutch gissen (“to guess”), Low German gissen (“to guess”), Dutch gis (“a guess”). Related also to Icelandic giska ("to guess"; from Proto-Germanic *gitiskōną). Compare also Russian гада́ть (gadátʹ, “to conjecture, guess, divine”), Albanian gjëzë (“riddle”) from gjej (“find, recover, obtain”). More at get.
senses_examples:
text:
We can only guess at what was going through her mind.
type:
example
text:
She guessed that the delivery driver must have got stuck in traffic.
type:
example
text:
He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.
type:
example
text:
You guessed the right answer!
type:
example
text:
You will never guess what happened next.
type:
example
text:
That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.
type:
example
text:
"Are you a member of the union?"
"Sure."
"Then you'll get your job, I guess. Have you any friends?"
ref:
1914–1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
type:
quotation
text:
"I guess you were right." "What did he say?" "He guesses you were right."
type:
example
text:
"I guess I'll go to bed."
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
to suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
senses_topics:
|
16050 | word:
guess
word_type:
noun
expansion:
guess (plural guesses)
forms:
form:
guesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
guess
etymology_text:
From Middle English gessen (verb) and Middle English gesse (noun), probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Danish getse, gitse, getsa (“to guess”), from Old Norse *getsa, *gitsa, from Proto-Germanic *gitisōną (“to guess”), from Proto-Germanic *getaną (“to get”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to take, seize”). Cognate with Danish gisne (“to guess”), Norwegian gissa, gjette (“to guess”), Swedish gissa (“to guess”), Saterland Frisian gisje (“to guess”), Dutch gissen (“to guess”), Low German gissen (“to guess”), Dutch gis (“a guess”). Related also to Icelandic giska ("to guess"; from Proto-Germanic *gitiskōną). Compare also Russian гада́ть (gadátʹ, “to conjecture, guess, divine”), Albanian gjëzë (“riddle”) from gjej (“find, recover, obtain”). More at get.
senses_examples:
text:
If you don't know the answer, take a guess.
type:
example
text:
"But I shall have eleven guesses," answered Ozma. "Surely I ought to guess one object in eleven correctly; and, if I do, I shall rescue one of the royal family and be safe myself. Then the rest of you may attempt it, and soon we shall free all those who are enslaved."
ref:
1907, L. Frank Baum, Ozma of Oz
type:
quotation
text:
We are twelve billion light years from the edge / That's a guess
ref:
2005, Mike Batt (lyrics and music), “Nine Million Bicycles”, performed by Katie Melua
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.
senses_topics:
|
16051 | word:
explore
word_type:
verb
expansion:
explore (third-person singular simple present explores, present participle exploring, simple past and past participle explored)
forms:
form:
explores
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
exploring
tags:
participle
present
form:
explored
tags:
participle
past
form:
explored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French explorer, from Latin explōrāre (“to investigate, search out”), itself said to be originally a hunters' term meaning "to set up a loud cry", from ex- (“out”) + plōrāre (“to cry”), but the second element is also explained as "to make to flow" (from pluere (“to flow”)).
senses_examples:
text:
The committee has been exploring alternative solutions to the problem at hand.
type:
example
text:
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193
type:
quotation
text:
It was around that time that the expedition began exploring the Arctic Circle.
type:
example
text:
It is normal for a boy of this age to be exploring his sexuality.
type:
example
text:
He was too busy exploring to notice his son needed his guidance.
type:
example
text:
The boys explored all around till cold and hunger drove them back to the campfire one by one.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To seek for something or after someone.
To examine or investigate something systematically.
To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
To examine diagnostically.
To (seek) experience first hand.
To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
16052 | word:
explore
word_type:
noun
expansion:
explore (plural explores)
forms:
form:
explores
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French explorer, from Latin explōrāre (“to investigate, search out”), itself said to be originally a hunters' term meaning "to set up a loud cry", from ex- (“out”) + plōrāre (“to cry”), but the second element is also explained as "to make to flow" (from pluere (“to flow”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Daylight was fading quickly, but I was still keen to have a little explore of the town and beach.
ref:
2008, John Watters, Bonza Voyage
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.
senses_topics:
|
16053 | word:
net
word_type:
noun
expansion:
net (plural nets)
forms:
form:
nets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Net (device)
etymology_text:
From Middle English nett, from Old English net, nett, from Proto-West Germanic *nati, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”).
Cognate with West Frisian net, Low German Nett, Dutch net, German Netz, Danish net, Swedish nät.
senses_examples:
text:
a hairnet; a mosquito net; a tennis net
type:
example
text:
The nets have to be checked to make sure that they are not tangled up and therefore useless, and the carcasses of the dead sharks are removed.
ref:
1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, page 190
type:
quotation
text:
Petri net
type:
example
text:
caught in the prosecuting attorney's net
type:
example
text:
Wigan had N'Zogbia sent off late on but Squillaci headed into his own net to give the home side a deserved point.
ref:
2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
The striker headed the ball into the net to make it 1-0.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mesh of string, cord or rope.
A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.
Anything that has the appearance of such a device.
A trap.
Any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form a given polyhedron.
A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.
A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.
A conductor that interconnects two or more component terminals.
A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.
A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court).
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis |
16054 | word:
net
word_type:
verb
expansion:
net (third-person singular simple present nets, present participle netting, simple past and past participle netted)
forms:
form:
nets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
netting
tags:
participle
present
form:
netted
tags:
participle
past
form:
netted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Net (device)
etymology_text:
From Middle English nett, from Old English net, nett, from Proto-West Germanic *nati, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”).
Cognate with West Frisian net, Low German Nett, Dutch net, German Netz, Danish net, Swedish nät.
senses_examples:
text:
to net a tree
type:
example
text:
Evans netted the winner in the 80th minute.
type:
example
text:
Romeu then scored a penalty, Torres netted a header and Moses added the sixth from substitute Oscar's cross.
ref:
2012, Chelsea 6-0 Wolves
type:
quotation
text:
Azarenka whipped a sensational forehand around the net post to break for 2-0 in the second set, followed it up with a love hold and moved to 5-1 when Paszek netted a forehand.
ref:
2011 June 28, David Ornstein, “Wimbledon 2011: Victoria Azarenka beats Tamira Paszek in quarters”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To catch by means of a net.
To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.
To enclose or cover with a net.
To score (a goal).
To hit the ball into the net.
To form a netting or network; to knit.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
|
16055 | word:
net
word_type:
adj
expansion:
net (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Net (device)
etymology_text:
From Middle English net, nette, from Old French net, from Latin nitidus. Doublet of neat and nitid.
senses_examples:
text:
net wine
type:
example
text:
net profit; net weight
type:
example
text:
net result; net conclusion
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Good, desirable; clean, decent, clear.
Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat.
Remaining after expenses or deductions.
Final; end.
senses_topics:
|
16056 | word:
net
word_type:
adv
expansion:
net (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Net (device)
etymology_text:
From Middle English net, nette, from Old French net, from Latin nitidus. Doublet of neat and nitid.
senses_examples:
text:
You'll have $5000 net.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
After expenses or deductions.
senses_topics:
|
16057 | word:
net
word_type:
noun
expansion:
net (plural nets)
forms:
form:
nets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Net (device)
etymology_text:
From Middle English net, nette, from Old French net, from Latin nitidus. Doublet of neat and nitid.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit.
senses_topics:
|
16058 | word:
net
word_type:
verb
expansion:
net (third-person singular simple present nets, present participle netting, simple past and past participle netted)
forms:
form:
nets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
netting
tags:
participle
present
form:
netted
tags:
participle
past
form:
netted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Net (device)
etymology_text:
From Middle English net, nette, from Old French net, from Latin nitidus. Doublet of neat and nitid.
senses_examples:
text:
The company nets $30 on every sale.
type:
example
text:
The scam netted the criminals $30,000.
type:
example
text:
Every party is netting their position with a counter-party.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To receive as profit.
To yield as profit for.
To fully hedge a position.
senses_topics:
|
16059 | word:
net
word_type:
verb
expansion:
net (third-person singular simple present nets, present participle netting, simple past and past participle netted)
forms:
form:
nets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
netting
tags:
participle
present
form:
netted
tags:
participle
past
form:
netted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Net (device)
The English Dialect Dictionary
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French nettoyer (“to cleanse”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To clean, wash, rinse.
senses_topics:
|
16060 | word:
jackrabbit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jackrabbit (plural jackrabbits)
forms:
form:
jackrabbits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of jackass + rabbit
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
any of several large North American hares of the genus Lepus
senses_topics:
|
16061 | word:
jackrabbit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jackrabbit (third-person singular simple present jackrabbits, present participle jackrabbiting, simple past and past participle jackrabbited)
forms:
form:
jackrabbits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jackrabbiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
jackrabbited
tags:
participle
past
form:
jackrabbited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of jackass + rabbit
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a sudden, rapid movement
senses_topics:
|
16062 | word:
Panjabi
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Panjabi (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Panjabi
etymology_text:
See Punjabi.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Punjabi.
senses_topics:
|
16063 | word:
Panjabi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Panjabi (plural Panjabis)
forms:
form:
Panjabis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Panjabi
etymology_text:
See Punjabi.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Punjabi.
senses_topics:
|
16064 | word:
Panjabi
word_type:
name
expansion:
Panjabi
forms:
wikipedia:
Panjabi
etymology_text:
See Punjabi.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Punjabi.
senses_topics:
|
16065 | word:
pretext
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pretext (plural pretexts)
forms:
form:
pretexts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:pretext
etymology_text:
From French prétexte, from Latin praetextum (“an ornament, etc., wrought in front, a pretense”), neuter of praetextus, past participle of praetexere (“to weave before, fringe or border, allege”).
senses_examples:
text:
The reporter called the company on the pretext of trying to resolve a consumer complaint.
type:
example
text:
The smallest incidents were to serve as pretexts for demonstrations of force and for demands for indemnities and reparations which increased China's subjection.
ref:
1996, Jacques Gernet, translated by J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman, A History of Chinese Civilization, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 580
type:
quotation
text:
When that metaphor proves untenable, he switches to insisting that women are like beer but that’s mainly as a pretext to drink until he passes out in a father-son bonding haze.
ref:
2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “The Simpsons (Classic): ‘New Kid on the Block’ [season 4, episode 8; originally aired 12 November 1992]”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2020-09-18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.
senses_topics:
|
16066 | word:
pretext
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pretext (third-person singular simple present pretexts, present participle pretexting, simple past and past participle pretexted)
forms:
form:
pretexts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pretexting
tags:
participle
present
form:
pretexted
tags:
participle
past
form:
pretexted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Pretexting
en:pretext
etymology_text:
From French prétexte, from Latin praetextum (“an ornament, etc., wrought in front, a pretense”), neuter of praetextus, past participle of praetexere (“to weave before, fringe or border, allege”).
senses_examples:
text:
The spy obtained his phone records using possibly-illegal pretexting methods.
type:
example
text:
Not all the surviving veteran chiefs would actually fight. Some remained nominally in the resistance but in practice delayed at their bases, pretexting a lack of ammunition for their uncertain inertia.
ref:
1970 August 12 [1969 January 15], John Womack, Jr., Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 261
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.
senses_topics:
|
16067 | word:
sein
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sein (plural seins)
forms:
form:
seins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic spelling of seine.
senses_topics:
|
16068 | word:
lizard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lizard (plural lizards)
forms:
form:
lizards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lizard
etymology_text:
From Middle English lesarde, lisarde, from Anglo-Norman lusard, from Old French lesard (compare French lézard), from Latin lacertus, which is of obscure origin. Displaced native Middle English aske, from Old English āþexe (> modern English ask, askard).
senses_examples:
text:
Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown
ref:
1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Proof”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.
type:
quotation
text:
lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or an amphisbaenian, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.
Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
An unctuous person.
A coward.
A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.
senses_topics:
games
rock-paper-scissors
|
16069 | word:
Sinhala
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Sinhala (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Sinhalese සිංහල (siṁhala), itself borrowed from Sanskrit सिंहल (siṃhala, literally “lionlike”), from सिंह (siṃhá, “lion”) + -ल (-la), recorded as the name of the island of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from about the 10th to 12th century, but presumably older, as it is also the source of the name Ceylon in western geographic tradition.
The name is sometimes glossed as "abode of lions", referring to a supposed former abundance of lions on the island ( The Asiatic Journal 20 (1836), p. 30). Doublet of Ceylon and Elu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of Sinhalese (“language”).
senses_topics:
|
16070 | word:
Sinhala
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sinhala
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Sinhalese සිංහල (siṁhala), itself borrowed from Sanskrit सिंहल (siṃhala, literally “lionlike”), from सिंह (siṃhá, “lion”) + -ल (-la), recorded as the name of the island of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from about the 10th to 12th century, but presumably older, as it is also the source of the name Ceylon in western geographic tradition.
The name is sometimes glossed as "abode of lions", referring to a supposed former abundance of lions on the island ( The Asiatic Journal 20 (1836), p. 30). Doublet of Ceylon and Elu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The island of Sri Lanka.
The kingdom in the island of Sri Lanka mentioned in the Mahabharata.
senses_topics:
|
16071 | word:
caer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
caer (plural caers)
forms:
form:
caers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Welsh caer.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] a good many relics of the old Welsh Caers still bespeak the incompleteness of the early Teutonic conquest.
ref:
1892, Grant Allen, Science in Arcady, page 295
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Welsh fortress.
senses_topics:
|
16072 | word:
ginger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ginger (countable and uncountable, plural gingers)
forms:
form:
gingers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ginger
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English gingere, alteration of gingivere, from Old English gingifer, gingiber (influenced by Old French gingembre), from Medieval Latin gingiber, zingiber, from Latin zingiberi, from Late Ancient Greek ζιγγίβερις (zingíberis), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀕𑀺𑀯𑁂𑀭 (siṃgivera), ultimately from Dravidian, compare Tamil இஞ்சிவேர் (iñcivēr) from இஞ்சி (iñci, “ginger”) + வேர் (vēr, “root”).
senses_examples:
text:
ginger:
text:
The position in the country and in this House might be well expressed by a reference to the recent activities of the ginger party in Great Britain — the party that demanded that more ginger be put into the conduct of the war.
ref:
1918, Official Report of Debates, House of Commons, Canada Parliament House of Commons
type:
quotation
text:
He had, however, "put some more ginger in two nights ago. Things move with exasperating slowness in this country.”
ref:
1990, Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher, Egypt's Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health
type:
quotation
text:
The party managers demanded more “ginger.”
ref:
1919, John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, published 2007, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
Can you buy dry ginger in Croatia? If not what is an alternative?
ref:
2018 May 2, pyatts, Tripadvisor
type:
quotation
text:
Here’s, um, not toast but bread, anyway. And a can of ginger.
ref:
2010, Denise Mina, Still Midnight
type:
quotation
text:
A lot of people will tell you ‘ginger’ tastes best in glass, and there is a science behind that,” says the company’s commercial director.
ref:
2015 August 19, Douglas Fraser, bbc.co.uk
type:
quotation
text:
Maybe I was naive in thinking that baking with fizzy juice (soda, ginger, pop, whatever your regional name for the stuff is!) would be straightforward.
ref:
2016 January 7, Amy, baking with granny.co.uk
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The pungent aromatic rhizome of a tropical Asian herb, Zingiber officinale, used as a spice and as a stimulant and acarminative.
The plant that produces this rhizome.
Other species belonging to the same family, Zingiberaceae, especially those of the genus Zingiber
A reddish-brown color.
A person with reddish-brown hair; a redhead.
Vitality, vigour, liveliness (of character).
Ginger ale, or can or bottle of such (especially if dry).
Any fizzy soft drink, or can or bottle of such; pop; soda.
senses_topics:
|
16073 | word:
ginger
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ginger (comparative more ginger or (rare) gingerer, superlative most ginger or (rare) gingerest)
forms:
form:
more ginger
tags:
comparative
form:
gingerer
tags:
comparative
rare
form:
most ginger
tags:
superlative
form:
gingerest
tags:
rare
superlative
wikipedia:
ginger
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English gingere, alteration of gingivere, from Old English gingifer, gingiber (influenced by Old French gingembre), from Medieval Latin gingiber, zingiber, from Latin zingiberi, from Late Ancient Greek ζιγγίβερις (zingíberis), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀕𑀺𑀯𑁂𑀭 (siṃgivera), ultimately from Dravidian, compare Tamil இஞ்சிவேர் (iñcivēr) from இஞ்சி (iñci, “ginger”) + வேர் (vēr, “root”).
senses_examples:
text:
My eyes track upwards past the shoes to a pair of skinny legs, skinnier than mine, then to a tight black mini. Above that is a crisp white shirt. And crowning the whole thing is a mop of the gingerest hair I’ve ever seen in my life.
ref:
2003, Chrissie Glazebrook, “The Cadogan Hotel”, in Blue Spark Sisters, London: William Heinemann, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
And her hair’s brilliant red. It’s even gingerer than ours.
ref:
2005, Vera M. Black, chapter 8, in Trembling on the Brink, Ilfracombe, Devon: Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd., page 153
type:
quotation
text:
But as well as being a tough rugby player, Jammer [i.e., James Graham] also has the gingerest hair and palest skin in rugby (and possibly the world).
ref:
2009, Sean Long with Nick Appleyard, “Sozzled in Spain”, in Longy: Booze, Brawls, Sex and Scandal – The Autobiography of the Wild Man of Rugby League, London: John Blake, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
a ginger tomcat
text:
A chorus of ‘Aaah’s rose as they would in an episode of The Royle Family, while the gingerest boy in school swung his legs on the worktop and pretended he was Jamaican to be more like his mate sitting next to him, who wasn’t Jamaican either, but had parents who were.
ref:
2007, Lynsey Hanley, “The Wall in the Head”, in Estates: An Intimate History, London: Granta Books, page 151
type:
quotation
text:
But now evolution has stepped in, the reds are starting to mutate into bright ginger versions of themselves – and they’re here to stay. Leading squirrel expert Tony Handeigh, 48, is excited about the new breed of squirrel and thinks we could see woodland warfare in the future. He says: “I’ve seen one close up and it’s more ginger than Mick Hucknall’s pubes. But when it’s angry it gets even more gingerer.”
ref:
2009 April 26, “Ginger squirrels pose new threat”, in Sunday Sport, Manchester: Sport Newspapers Limited, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
He had everything. The Catweazle beard, the headband, the long flowing locks and he’s got to be the gingerest footballer ever (sorry Scholesy).
ref:
2010, James Chambers, “Alexi Lalas: The Genre Buster, General Custer”, in Footballers’ Haircuts: A New History, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
His frizzy ginger hair is all slicked down straight, his sideburns are trimmed, and he’s wearing a suit. […] That is the rudest thing that anyone has ever said to me! Coming from my own father means that it’s twenty billion times worse. ‘Well, you’re . . . you’re . . . you’re the gingerest person in the world!’ I don’t know if that hurt or not.
ref:
2011, Lil Chase, Boys for Beginners, London: Quercus, pages 14 (chapter 3) and 192–193 (chapter 22)
type:
quotation
text:
The walls of Jupiter’s study were lined with bookshelves and framed photographs, mostly of strange landscapes and people. Jupiter himself only popped up in a few of them – younger, gingerer, skinnier, less beardy.
ref:
2017 October 10, Jessica Townsend, “Happy Hour at the Hotel Deucalion”, in Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, Sydney, N.S.W.: Lothian, Hachette Australia, page 100
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a reddish-brown color.
Having hair or fur of this color.
senses_topics:
|
16074 | word:
ginger
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ginger (third-person singular simple present gingers, present participle gingering, simple past and past participle gingered)
forms:
form:
gingers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gingering
tags:
participle
present
form:
gingered
tags:
participle
past
form:
gingered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ginger
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English gingere, alteration of gingivere, from Old English gingifer, gingiber (influenced by Old French gingembre), from Medieval Latin gingiber, zingiber, from Latin zingiberi, from Late Ancient Greek ζιγγίβερις (zingíberis), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀕𑀺𑀯𑁂𑀭 (siṃgivera), ultimately from Dravidian, compare Tamil இஞ்சிவேர் (iñcivēr) from இஞ்சி (iñci, “ginger”) + வேர் (vēr, “root”).
senses_examples:
text:
They gingered the biscotti, black and whited the cookies and oated the meals.
ref:
2009, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar
type:
quotation
text:
The first breather of the day came when Naomi brought some gingered lemonade out to the barn.
ref:
2013, Suzanne Woods Fisher, The Letters (The Inn at Eagle Hill Book #1): A Novel
type:
quotation
text:
The accident was an excuse merely to replace an old-fashioned regular with old-fashioned notions by an active, fire-eating young general who would ginger things up.
ref:
1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 886
type:
quotation
text:
Before an action began, he liked to make bold predictions as to its outcome; this was part of his way of gingering people up, of creating an aura of victory to come.
ref:
2004, Eric Larrabee, Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War, page 464
type:
quotation
text:
Regarding this human angle, DeMille wrote, "I am sometimes accused of gingering up the Bible with large and lavish infusions of sex and violence. I can only wonder if my accusers have ever read certain parts of the Bible."
ref:
2007, J. Stephen Lang, The Bible on the Big Screen: A Guide from Silent Films to Today's Movies
type:
quotation
text:
If he had been gingered, he would have gone well. After I bought him, I gingered him.
ref:
1850, William Percivall, editor, The Veterinarian, page 594
type:
quotation
text:
Gingering is decided cruelty.
ref:
1884, The British Veterinary Journal, volume 18, page 426
type:
quotation
text:
There he is, moving in his best form, with the full knowledge that that long whip in his rear will once more be round his flanks, as it has often been before, if he fails to wake up when he comes out for a show—well gingered, too, we should say, and all life and action.
ref:
1893, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 60, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
These steps may not be immediately popular, but the society may have to bear with them until they succeed in gingering renewed interest and pride in the language so chosen.
ref:
2002, K. K. Prah, Rehabilitating African Languages
type:
quotation
text:
In conclusion, intensive campaigns should be done in relation to gingering the nomads' interest in education, improve their interaction with neighbours and encourage them to start considering a more sedentary pastoral life.
ref:
2006, Africa e Mediterraneo: cultura, politica, economia, società
type:
quotation
text:
I attended their concert first, so that was what gingered me to continue this school.
ref:
2015, “19-year-old student at a music school in Nigeria”, in BBC Newshour
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To add ginger to.
To enliven, to spice (up).
To apply ginger to the anus of a horse to encourage it to carry its tail high and move in a lively fashion.
To inspire (someone); to give a little boost to.
senses_topics:
|
16075 | word:
ginger
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ginger (comparative more ginger or (rare) gingerer, superlative most ginger or (rare) gingerest)
forms:
form:
more ginger
tags:
comparative
form:
gingerer
tags:
comparative
rare
form:
most ginger
tags:
superlative
form:
gingerest
tags:
rare
superlative
wikipedia:
ginger
etymology_text:
Back-formation from gingerly (adverb).
senses_examples:
text:
He’s going to get an interview about ten o’clock, making the old gentleman predict war, and we’ll get out the gingerest kind of a special on the strength of it!
ref:
1899 April 1, Richard Stillman Powell [pseudonym; Ralph Henry Barbour], “The President and Tom Collins”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 171, number 40, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, page 626, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Wherefore, although for my own car I want the “gingerest” possible engine, I realise that it has shortcomings for the general market and I would commend to designers the ideal of an engine that shall be as “woolly” as possible, so long as its artificially restricted dimensions shall not cause its owner to find himself unable to tackle respectable gradients.
ref:
1921 January 29, W. Harold Johnson, “[The Automobile World.] My Ideal Small Car Specification”, in Country Life: The Journal for All Interested in Country Life & Country Pursuits, volume XLIX, number 1277, London, page lxvi, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
“Coney Island” is by far the best picture the Hip has had. That says very little for a house that has held the worst, but this F. B. O. [Film Booking Offices] will do business this week for the Hip because it more than makes good under one of the gingerest of names. And a name that should draw by itself.
ref:
1928 February 15, “Coney Island”, in Variety, volume XC, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Variety, Inc., →ISSN, page 27, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
They, the Rabbis, for better or for worse, were very ginger with this question.
ref:
2006, John W. McGinley, About the King’s Choice to Build His Palace Right on Top of a Dunghill: (Or, How to Conceptualize Jewishly), Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, page 540
type:
quotation
text:
After a very ginger landing, everyone aboard was able to see up close how lucky they had been to reach base.
ref:
2007, Flypast
type:
quotation
text:
Moving very slowly, taking extremely ginger steps, the woman felt beads of sweat dripping down from her body.
ref:
2009, Franklin Newman, The Prophetess of Bromfryel: The Knights of Callistor, page 509
type:
quotation
text:
My face hurt like a son of a bitch every time I placed even the gingerest of fingertips on it, but from what I could see from my reflection in the broad blade of my letter opener, it still hadn’t swollen.
ref:
2011, Craig Russell, chapter 5, in The Deep Dark Sleep (Lennox; 3), London: Quercus, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
To walk, each crutch he kinda hopped forward a little and used his torso to drag his legs after, using them as the gingerest element of a tripod.
ref:
2013, T. D. Badyna, chapter 4, in Flick, Whistle-Bit Books, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
Silence settles once more between us all, filled only by the gingerest of clinks of forks reluctantly hovering over flesh.
ref:
2015, James Hannah, “Rib”, in The A to Z of You and Me, London: Black Swan, Transworld Publishers, page 221
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very careful or cautious; also, delicate, sensitive.
senses_topics:
|
16076 | word:
ginger
word_type:
adv
expansion:
ginger (comparative more ginger, superlative most ginger)
forms:
form:
more ginger
tags:
comparative
form:
most ginger
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
ginger
etymology_text:
Back-formation from gingerly (adverb).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a very careful or cautious manner; also, delicately, sensitively.
senses_topics:
|
16077 | word:
ginger
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ginger (third-person singular simple present gingers, present participle gingering, simple past and past participle gingered)
forms:
form:
gingers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gingering
tags:
participle
present
form:
gingered
tags:
participle
past
form:
gingered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ginger
etymology_text:
Back-formation from gingerly (adverb).
senses_examples:
text:
Spring training began on Christmas Day, when my cousin and I gingered onto the lot behind the fire station to try out our new spikes.
ref:
1972 September 1, Paul Hemphill, “I Gotta Let the Kid Go”, in Life, volume 73, number 9, →ISSN, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
She gingered her way into the river and timidly splashed into its waters.
ref:
1979, Bill Marshall, Bukom, Longman, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
I gingered my hands into my grandfather’s [boxing] gloves.
ref:
1992, Donald Anderson, “My Name Is Stephen Mann”, in Aethlon, University of Iowa Press, published 2001, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
Takin’ good care not to topple into the depths o’ this muddy ol’ ooze, I gingered my way across the muddy path along the river’s edge until I arrived at that big hat.
ref:
2009, Montana Kid Hammer, The Old West Adventures of Ornery and Slim: The Partnership, AuthorHouse, page 47
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move gingerly, in a very careful and cautious manner.
senses_topics:
|
16078 | word:
ginger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ginger (plural gingers)
forms:
form:
gingers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ginger
etymology_text:
Cockney rhyming slang: ginger beer, queer.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A homosexual.
senses_topics:
|
16079 | word:
ginger
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ginger (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
ginger
etymology_text:
Cockney rhyming slang: ginger beer, queer.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Homosexual.
senses_topics:
|
16080 | word:
roman
word_type:
adj
expansion:
roman (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Roman.
senses_examples:
text:
In some early printed Bibles quoted text is indicated by changing the font from roman to italic.
ref:
2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 48
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
upright, as opposed to italic.
of or related to the Latin alphabet or roman numerals.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography
computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography |
16081 | word:
roman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
roman (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Roman.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: arabic
text:
What raises One Last Waltz far above the usual family roman is not just the gimmick of the ancient fable in modern clothes […] but Mordden's language and his sheer joy at telling a story.
ref:
1986 December 21, Michael Bronski, “Buddy Stories Your Brother Never Told You”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 23, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
2014, "Novel and Romance: Etymologies". Heyworth, Gregory; Logan, Peter Melville (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Novel, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 942. →ISBN
Samuel Johnson, writing in his Dictionary of the English Language (1755), [defined] "novel [as] a small tale, generally of love." To modern sensibilities, Johnson's novel resembles more closely the novella in dimension and the romance in substance. … [T]he term romance, or roman, once interchangeable with novel in English, retains the meaning of novel in Germany, France, Russia, and most of Europe, while in the anglophone world it has been demoted to frivolity.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.
Ellipsis of roman numeral.
A novel.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography
|
16082 | word:
dated
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dated (comparative more dated, superlative most dated)
forms:
form:
more dated
tags:
comparative
form:
most dated
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The first dated entry in the diary was from October 1922.
type:
example
text:
"Omnibus" is a dated term for a bus.
type:
example
text:
Calling a happy person gay seems awfully dated nowadays; people will assume you mean something else.
type:
example
text:
[She] changed the subject to Sex and the City reruns and how hopelessly dated they seem. “Miranda meets Steve at a bar,” she said, in a tone suggesting that the scenario might as well be out of a Jane Austen novel, for all the relevance it had to her life.
ref:
2018 November 13, Kate Julian, “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
Slang can become dated very quickly.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Marked with a date.
Outdated.
Anachronistic; being obviously inappropriate for its present context.
No longer fashionable.
Alotted a span of days.
senses_topics:
|
16083 | word:
dated
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dated
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of date
senses_topics:
|
16084 | word:
compress
word_type:
verb
expansion:
compress (third-person singular simple present compresses, present participle compressing, simple past and past participle compressed)
forms:
form:
compresses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
compressing
tags:
participle
present
form:
compressed
tags:
participle
past
form:
compressed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English compressen, from Old French compresser, from Late Latin compressare (“to press hard/together”), from Latin compressus, the past participle of comprimō (“to compress”), itself from com- (“together”) + premō (“press”).
senses_examples:
text:
The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
type:
example
text:
events of centuries […] compressed within the compass of a single life
ref:
1825 June 17, Daniel Webster, Speech on the laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument
type:
quotation
text:
The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues.
ref:
1810, William Melmoth, transl., Letters of Pliny
type:
quotation
text:
Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
type:
example
text:
This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
type:
example
text:
If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
To condense into a more economic, easier format.
To abridge.
To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
To embrace sexually.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
|
16085 | word:
compress
word_type:
noun
expansion:
compress (plural compresses)
forms:
form:
compresses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French compresse, from compresse (“to compress”), from Late Latin compressare (“to press hard/together”), from Latin compressus, the past participle of comprimō (“to compress”), itself from com- (“together”) + premō (“press”).
senses_examples:
text:
He held a cold compress over the sprain.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice, etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
A machine for compressing.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
16086 | word:
Bicol
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bicol
forms:
wikipedia:
Bicol River
etymology_text:
From Spanish Bicol / Vicol (“former province, river (Bicol River), language”), from Bikol Central, see Bikol Central Bicol for more.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Short for Bicol Region.
The language of the native inhabitants of the region, Bicolano.
senses_topics:
|
16087 | word:
prestige
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prestige (usually uncountable, plural prestiges)
forms:
form:
prestiges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French prestige (“illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige”), from Latin praestīgium (“a delusion, an illusion”). Despite the phonetic similarities and the old meaning of “delusion, illusion, trick”, the word has a different root than prestidigitator (“conjurer”) and prestidigitation.
senses_examples:
text:
Oxford has a university of very high prestige.
type:
example
text:
That faith which, we are told, was founded on a rock, impregnable to the assaults of men and demons; to the sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture!
ref:
1811, William Warburton, edited by Richard Hurd, The works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester, volume the ninth, London: Luke Hansard & Sons, →OCLC, page 121
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
Delusion; illusion; trick.
senses_topics:
|
16088 | word:
prestige
word_type:
adj
expansion:
prestige (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French prestige (“illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige”), from Latin praestīgium (“a delusion, an illusion”). Despite the phonetic similarities and the old meaning of “delusion, illusion, trick”, the word has a different root than prestidigitator (“conjurer”) and prestidigitation.
senses_examples:
text:
Furthermore there is in each area a well recognized standard, known by a single name, which although often linguistically distinct from local dialects, has served as the prestige form for some time.
ref:
1971, John Gumperz, “Formal and informal standards in Hindi regional language area”, in Language in Social Groups, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
The 3rd person plural -ą ending is phonetically [ow̃] or [om], depending on the dialect. However, [ow̃] is the prestige form.
ref:
1981, Jerzy Rubach, Cyclic Phonology and Palatalization in Polish and English, Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, →OCLC, page 57
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Regarded as relatively prestigious; often, considered the standard language or language variety, or a part of such a variety.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology |
16089 | word:
prestige
word_type:
verb
expansion:
prestige (third-person singular simple present prestiges, present participle prestiging, simple past and past participle prestiged)
forms:
form:
prestiges
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
prestiging
tags:
participle
present
form:
prestiged
tags:
participle
past
form:
prestiged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French prestige (“illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige”), from Latin praestīgium (“a delusion, an illusion”). Despite the phonetic similarities and the old meaning of “delusion, illusion, trick”, the word has a different root than prestidigitator (“conjurer”) and prestidigitation.
senses_examples:
text:
This seriously depends on the prerequisites, but most chars will already have a +1 bow by the time they're thinking of prestiging - or will this stack with the equipment's magic?
ref:
2002 July 15, Mark Green, “help in creating prestige class: Sharpshooter”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
I'm going to try to stop and move onto a different game once I've prestiged, but the credits/equipment buying arrangement will make prestiging much less of a crippling shock than in previous games, so I may well be stuck playing it for a long time to come.
ref:
2010 December 3, Chris Stevens, “PWG 20101203 - The deja double”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
However, Treyarch crafts a narrative of leveling up when a player attempts to prestige. The player is stripped of most un-lockable game features and must re-earn them with the ability to repeat this process 15 times. Prestiging allows the empty narrative of online multiplayer first person shooters to continue on a much grander scale.
ref:
2013, Brent Kice, “Perceptions of Control: Open World Formats v. Online Multiplayer First Person Shooters”, in Matthew Wysocki, editor, Ctrl-Alt-Play: Essays on Control in Video Gaming, McFarland & Company, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
Reached level 50 and prestiged which I have never had the inclination to do in any game before.
ref:
2014 April 1, Man of Kent, “Monday, innit”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Prestiging itself is a concept popularized by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, where players can reset their in-game progress after reaching the maximum experience level, and receive a cosmetic token in exchange.
ref:
2018, Adam Kramarzewski, Ennio De Nucci, Practical Game Design, Packt, page 420
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To start over at an earlier point in a video game with some type of bonus or reward.
senses_topics:
video-games |
16090 | word:
course
word_type:
noun
expansion:
course (plural courses)
forms:
form:
courses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cours, from Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of cursus and cour.
senses_examples:
text:
I need to take a French course.
type:
example
text:
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
ref:
1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
type:
quotation
text:
Her course will be ‘Communication Studies with Theatre Studies’: God, how tedious, how pointless.
ref:
1992 August 21, Edwina Currie, Diary
type:
quotation
text:
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref:
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
Miss Clark, alarmed at her increasing stoutness, was doing a course of what is popularly known as banting.
ref:
1932, Agatha Christie, The Thirteen Problems
type:
quotation
text:
We offer seafood as the first course.
type:
example
text:
The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.
type:
example
text:
The cross-country course passes the canal.
type:
example
text:
The ship changed its course 15 degrees towards south.
type:
example
text:
A course was plotted to traverse the ocean.
type:
example
text:
It was curious to Oakfield to be back on the Ferozepore course, after a six months' interval, which seemed like years. How much had happened in these six months!
ref:
1853, William Delafield Arnold, Oakfield; or, Fellowship in the East, section II, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
His illness ran its course.
type:
example
text:
Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.
type:
example
text:
The bleeding body signifies as a shameful token of uncontrol, as a failure of physical self-mastery particularly associated with woman in her monthly "courses".
ref:
2018, Gail Kern Paster, The Body Embarrassed, Cornell University, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sequence of events.
A normal or customary sequence.
A sequence of events.
A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
A sequence of events.
Any ordered process or sequence of steps.
A sequence of events.
A learning programme, whether a single class or (UK) a major area of study.
A sequence of events.
A treatment plan.
A sequence of events.
A stage of a meal.
A sequence of events.
The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
A sequence of events.
A path that something or someone moves along.
The itinerary of a race.
A path that something or someone moves along.
A racecourse.
A path that something or someone moves along.
The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
A path that something or someone moves along.
The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
A path that something or someone moves along.
A golf course.
A path that something or someone moves along.
The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
A path that something or someone moves along.
The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
A path that something or someone moves along.
The drive usually frequented by Europeans at an Indian station.
A path that something or someone moves along.
The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
Menses.
A row or file of objects.
A row of bricks or blocks.
A row or file of objects.
A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
A row or file of objects.
In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to be played together.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
business
manufacturing
textiles
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
16091 | word:
course
word_type:
verb
expansion:
course (third-person singular simple present courses, present participle coursing, simple past and past participle coursed)
forms:
form:
courses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
coursing
tags:
participle
present
form:
coursed
tags:
participle
past
form:
coursed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cours, from Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of cursus and cour.
senses_examples:
text:
The oil coursed through the engine.
type:
example
text:
Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
type:
example
text:
He is a South American, so perhaps revolutionary spirit courses through Francis's veins. But what, pray, does the Catholic church want with doubt?
ref:
2013 September 20, Martina Hyde, “Is the pope Catholic?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
to course greyhounds after deer
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
To run through or over.
To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
To cause to chase after or pursue game.
senses_topics:
|
16092 | word:
course
word_type:
adv
expansion:
course (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"Course it's mighty hard to tell till we've put out a few traps," said the former, "but it looks to me like we've struck it lucky."
ref:
1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of of course.
senses_topics:
|
16093 | word:
Chickasaw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Chickasaw (plural Chickasaws or Chickasaw)
forms:
form:
Chickasaws
tags:
plural
form:
Chickasaw
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Chickasaw
etymology_text:
From Chickasaw Chikashsha.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of a Native American tribe/nation, now concentrated in southeastern Oklahoma.
senses_topics:
|
16094 | word:
Chickasaw
word_type:
name
expansion:
Chickasaw
forms:
wikipedia:
Chickasaw
etymology_text:
From Chickasaw Chikashsha.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Muskogean language of this tribe.
Some place names in the United States:
A city in Mobile County, Alabama.
Some place names in the United States:
A village in Mercer County, Ohio.
Some place names in the United States:
A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
Some place names in the United States:
Chickasaw County.
senses_topics:
|
16095 | word:
mule
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mule (plural mules)
forms:
form:
mules
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mule
etymology_text:
From Middle English mule, from Anglo-Norman mule and Old English mūl, both from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Indo-European *mukslós. Compare Late Latin muscellus (“young he-mule”), Old East Slavic мъшкъ (mŭškŭ, “mule”), Ancient Greek (Phocian) μυχλός (mukhlós, “he-ass”), and German Maul Maultier, Maulesel (through Latin).
senses_examples:
text:
One day he ran into a herd of a half dozen elk, so he rode his mule down the canyon three or four miles, leaving the sheep alone.
ref:
2017, Robert S. McPherson, Cowboying In Canyon Country, Dog Ear Publishing, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
It would be exceedingly interesting to know if the hybrid would reproduce, a matter I deem exceedingly doubtful, for the chances are it would prove a "mule" (infertile).
ref:
1922, Onnie Warren Smith, The Book of the Pike, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
Vegetable mules supply an irrefragable argument in favour of the sexual system of botany.
ref:
1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 149
type:
quotation
text:
The most extraordinary mule, however, that is asserted to have been produced on the Continent, is a cross between the cabbage and horse-radish, which Monsieur Sageret reports that he has obtained […]
ref:
1837, William Herbert, Amaryllidaceæ: Preceded by an Attempt to Arrange the Monocotyledonous Orders, and Followed by a Treatise on Cross-bred Vegetables, and Supplement, page 353
type:
quotation
text:
Where in the hell do you think I learned to be such a mule?
ref:
2005, Dorothea Benton Frank, Isle of Palms, Penguin
type:
quotation
text:
Cocaine packet ingestion (these patients referred to as “mules”) may warrant surgery, Golytely or expectant passage.
ref:
2006, “Gastroenterology: Esophageal Foreign Bodies”, in Steven E. Diaz, The Little Black Book of Emergency Medicine (Jones and Bartlett's Little Black Book Series), 2nd edition, Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, page 101
type:
quotation
text:
“Yeah, in Denver, we know about Uriarte's involvement in meth. Our Las Cruces office seized over six hundred pounds of methamphetamine from two of his mules last year.”
ref:
2007, Thomas G. Blacklock, Safe Zone: A Novel Approach to the Drug War, Xlibris Corporation, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
What is less clear, however, is why mint workers should have chosen to produce mules, if they were making forgeries […]
ref:
1988, Andrew Burnett, The Normanby hoard and other Roman coin hoards, British Museum Publications
type:
quotation
text:
He was in the middle of organizing his massive stash of rare and exquisite bounty, all kept safely in the inventory cache of a mule, an entirely separate character which he paid a monthly fee to maintain exclusively for that purpose.
ref:
2007, David L. McClard, Verotopia Online: The MMORPG of the Century, Xlibris, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
In heavier seas where a boat must sail a course dictated by waves, or where wave action makes power more important than pointing, the mule will prove the faster sail.
ref:
1974, Yachting, volume 135, page 60
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
A hybrid plant.
A stubborn person.
A person paid to smuggle drugs.
A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.
Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.
A kind of cotton-spinning machine.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
nautical
sailing
transport
|
16096 | word:
mule
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mule (third-person singular simple present mules, present participle muling, simple past and past participle muled)
forms:
form:
mules
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
muling
tags:
participle
present
form:
muled
tags:
participle
past
form:
muled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
mule
etymology_text:
From Middle English mule, from Anglo-Norman mule and Old English mūl, both from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Indo-European *mukslós. Compare Late Latin muscellus (“young he-mule”), Old East Slavic мъшкъ (mŭškŭ, “mule”), Ancient Greek (Phocian) μυχλός (mukhlós, “he-ass”), and German Maul Maultier, Maulesel (through Latin).
senses_examples:
text:
There are many drug lords, each with his own corridor (think of it as a franchise of sorts) funneling narcotics into Texas. There are multifold methods of transport. The old, and still viable, way is to "mule" it across the Rio Grande in a small boat.
ref:
2000, Arturo Longoria, Keepers of the Wilderness
type:
quotation
text:
Thornton was supposed to mule it back to the States from one of the ports he stopped in, give it to Maxwell and Ames, and get the second half of a quarter-million.
ref:
2004, William Glenn, The Sailor's Death
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To smuggle (illegal drugs).
senses_topics:
|
16097 | word:
mule
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mule (plural mules)
forms:
form:
mules
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mule
mule (shoe)
etymology_text:
From Middle French mule (“backless slipper”), from Medieval Latin mula (“slipper, shoe with a thick sole”), presumably from classical Latin mulleus, the dyed shoe of either the patricians or senators, from mūllus (“red mullet”) + -eus (“-y: forming adjectives”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).
senses_examples:
text:
The bride was a shocking housekeeper and dragged round all day in boudoir cap, frowsy negligee and mules—slip, slop, slip, slop.
ref:
1944, Emily Carr, “First Tenant”, in The House of All Sorts
type:
quotation
text:
Routine dress for Tuesday will be bra and panties with high-heel satin mules.
ref:
1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any shoe with an upper covering the front of the foot but without a back flap or strap, leaving the heel exposed.
senses_topics:
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16098 | word:
knick-knack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
knick-knack (plural knick-knacks)
forms:
form:
knick-knacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Reduplication of knack.
senses_examples:
text:
Is art anything that we have reason to value? Or is it a mere adornment of life which we can do without—a mere knick-knack for Dame Civilization to hang about her wrinkled neck in order to dazzle her neighbours?
ref:
1929, Frederick Philip Grove, “The Aim of Art”, in It Needs to Be Said
type:
quotation
text:
1985, Herbert Kretzmer, "Master of the House" (song) in Les Misérables
Picking up their knick-knacks when they can't see straight
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small ornament or other object of minor value.
senses_topics:
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16099 | word:
Malayalam
word_type:
name
expansion:
Malayalam
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malayalam മലയാളം (malayāḷaṁ), from മല (mala, “hill, mountain”) + അളം (aḷaṁ, “place”).
senses_examples:
text:
Padmanabhan uttered a command in Malayalam, the regional language.
ref:
2012 April 30, Jake Halpern, “The Secret of the Temple”, in The New Yorker
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Dravidian language spoken in the states of Kerala and Lakshadweep, India.
senses_topics:
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