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1700 | word:
Mali
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Mali (plural Malis)
forms:
form:
Malis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of Somali (“a person from Somalia or of Somali descent”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Somali
senses_topics:
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1701 | word:
Cyprus
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cyprus
forms:
wikipedia:
Cyprus
Cyprus, London
etymology_text:
Via Latin Cyprus, from Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island and country in the Mediterranean Sea, normally considered politically part of Southeast Europe but geographically part of Western Asia. Official name: Republic of Cyprus. Capital: Nicosia.
A suburban area of Beckton, borough of Newham, Greater London, England, named after the Mediterranean island (OS grid ref TQ4380).
senses_topics:
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1702 | word:
Cyprus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Cyprus (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Cyprus
Cyprus, London
etymology_text:
Via Latin Cyprus, from Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thin, translucent, usually black fabric, a kind of crape.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
textiles |
1703 | word:
abundance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abundance (countable and uncountable, plural abundances)
forms:
form:
abundances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
abundance
etymology_text:
From Middle English abundaunce, habaundance, from Old French habundance, abondance, from Latin abundantia (“fullness, plenty”), from abundō (“to overflow”). Equivalent to abound + -ance. Displaced Old English geniht (“abundance, plenty”).
senses_examples:
text:
Due to the abundance of art material, the class made a giant collage.
type:
example
text:
There is not a great abundance of time, so please don't dawdle.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large quantity; many.
An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness.
Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources.
Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample.
A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.
enough, sufficiency.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
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1704 | word:
about
word_type:
prep
expansion:
about
forms:
wikipedia:
about
etymology_text:
Preposition and adverb from Middle English aboute, abouten, from Old English abūtan, onbūtan, from on (“in, on”) + būtan (“outside of”), itself from be (“by”) + ūtan (“outside”). Cognate with Old Frisian abûta (“outside; except”).
Adjective from Middle English about (adverb).
senses_examples:
text:
The snake was coiled about his ankle.
type:
example
text:
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
ref:
1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Proverbs, iii, 3
text:
Nothing daunted, the fleet put to sea, and after sailing about the island for some time, a landing was effected in the west of Munster.
ref:
1886, Duncan Keith, A history of Scotland: civil and ecclesiastical from the earliest times to the death of David I, 1153, volume 1
type:
quotation
text:
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. […] Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
ref:
1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid
type:
quotation
text:
Rubbish was strewn about the place.
type:
example
text:
The children were running about the room.
type:
example
text:
He was well known about town.
type:
example
text:
[It] was held, that the latter requirement was fulfilled by an affidavit declaring that "the defendant was about leaving the State permanently."
ref:
1866, Charles Daniel Drake, A treatise on the law of suits by attachment in the United States, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
He talked a lot about his childhood.
type:
example
text:
We must do something about this problem.
type:
example
text:
I already have made way / To some Philistian lords, with whom to treat / About thy ransom.
ref:
1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
type:
quotation
text:
There have been violent quarrels about whether the whole is greater than a part.
ref:
1856, Voltaire, Philosophical dictionary
type:
quotation
text:
"I'll tell you what, Fanny: she must have her way about Sarah Thompson. You can see her to-morrow and tell her so."
ref:
1860, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
type:
quotation
text:
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
ref:
2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
Well, let’s not talk about yesterday.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
to be about one’s business
type:
example
text:
Have you much hay about? (Chester) ― Have you much in the process of making?
type:
example
text:
“What’s Mary doin'?” “Oh! oo’s about th’ butter.” (Chester) ― “What’s Mary doing?” “Oh, she’s making the butter.”
type:
example
text:
And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
ref:
1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Luke, ii, 49
text:
RON: And I’ll have the number 8.
WAITER: That’s a party platter, it serves 12 people.
RON: I know what I’m about, son.
ref:
2013 March 14, Parks and Recreation, season 5, episode 16, Bailout
text:
I can’t find my reading glasses, but they must be somewhere about the house.
type:
example
text:
John’s in the garden, probably somewhere about the woodshed.
type:
example
text:
I had no weapon about me but a stick.
type:
example
text:
He has his wits about him.
type:
example
text:
There was an air of confidence about the woman.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.
Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
Indicates that something will happen very soon; indicates a plan or intention to do something.
See about to.
Indicates that something will happen very soon; indicates a plan or intention to do something.
On the point or verge of.
Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect.
Concerned with; engaged in; intent on.
Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
On one’s person; nearby the person.
In or near, as in mental faculties or (literally) in the possession of; under the control of; at one's command; in one's makeup.
senses_topics:
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1705 | word:
about
word_type:
adv
expansion:
about (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
about
etymology_text:
Preposition and adverb from Middle English aboute, abouten, from Old English abūtan, onbūtan, from on (“in, on”) + būtan (“outside of”), itself from be (“by”) + ūtan (“outside”). Cognate with Old Frisian abûta (“outside; except”).
Adjective from Middle English about (adverb).
senses_examples:
text:
I looked about at the scenery that surrounded me.
type:
example
text:
Why, then, I see, ’tis time to look about, / When every boy Alphonsus dares control.
ref:
1599, Robert Greene, The Comical History of Alphonsus King of Aragon, III-ii
type:
quotation
text:
Bits of old machinery were lying about.
type:
example
text:
walking about; rushing about; jumping about; thrashing about
type:
example
text:
1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, 1 Timothy, v,13,
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
text:
messing about; fooling about; loafing about
type:
example
text:
It’s about as cold as it was last winter.
type:
example
text:
He owes me about three hundred dollars.
type:
example
text:
Dinner’s about ready.
type:
example
text:
I was so scared, I about fainted.
type:
example
text:
1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Matthew, xx, 3,
And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace
text:
Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.
ref:
1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Exodus, ix, 18
text:
And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
ref:
1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Exodus, xxxii,28
text:
[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
ref:
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
to face about; to turn oneself about
type:
example
text:
Mr. Carter, whose back had been turned, turned about and faced his niece.
ref:
1888, Horatio Alger, The Errand Boy
type:
quotation
text:
We went about and headed offshore.
type:
example
text:
When he had finished, he drew his plaid around his head, and went slowly down to the little dell, where he used every day to offer up his morning and evening prayers, and where we have often sat together on Sabbath afternoons, reading verse about with our children in the Bible.
ref:
1818, James Hogg, published in The Scots Magazine, Vol. 86, p. 218, "On the Life and Writings of James Hogg" https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=W-5HAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA128&dq=%22reading+verse+about+with+our+children%22 [Quoted in the OED]
text:
The island was a mile about, and a third of a mile across.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On all sides; around.
Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.
Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.
Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
Near; in the vicinity.
To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.
To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.
To the opposite tack: see go about.
In succession; one after another; in the course of events.
In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; in circumference.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
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1706 | word:
about
word_type:
adj
expansion:
about (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
about
etymology_text:
Preposition and adverb from Middle English aboute, abouten, from Old English abūtan, onbūtan, from on (“in, on”) + būtan (“outside of”), itself from be (“by”) + ūtan (“outside”). Cognate with Old Frisian abûta (“outside; except”).
Adjective from Middle English about (adverb).
senses_examples:
text:
out and about; up and about
type:
example
text:
After my bout with Guillan-Barre Syndrome, it took me 6 months to be up and about again.
type:
example
text:
This idea has been about for a while but has only recently become fashionable.
type:
example
text:
To my mind, transportation engineering is similar to flying in the 1930s — it has been about for some time but it has taken the present economic jolt to shake it out of its infancy, in the same way that the war started the development of flying to its current stage.
ref:
1975, IPC Building & Contract Journals Ltd, Highways & road construction, volume 43
type:
quotation
text:
Although it has been about for some time now, I like the typeface Sauna.
ref:
2005, IDG Communications, Digit, numbers 89-94
type:
quotation
text:
2006, Great Britain Parliament: House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, Energy: Meeting With Malcolm Wicks MP,
Is not this sudden interest in capturing CO₂ — and it has been about for a little while — simply another hidey-hole for the government to creep into?
text:
I had my keys just a minute ago, so they must be about somewhere.
type:
example
text:
Watch out, there's a thief about.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Moving around; astir.
In existence; being in evidence; apparent.
Near; in the vicinity or neighbourhood.
senses_topics:
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1707 | word:
accountancy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accountancy (countable and uncountable, plural accountancies)
forms:
form:
accountancies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
accountancy
etymology_text:
From account + -ancy.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The function of compiling and providing financial information primarily by reports referred to as financial statements, including bookkeeping, systems design, analysis and interpretation of accounting information.
A company or organisation that performs such a function.
senses_topics:
accounting
business
finance
accounting
business
finance |
1708 | word:
NCAA
word_type:
name
expansion:
NCAA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of National Collegiate Athletic Association.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
1709 | word:
NAIA
word_type:
name
expansion:
NAIA
forms:
wikipedia:
NAIA
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.
Initialism of National Animal Interest Alliance.
Initialism of Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
senses_topics:
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1710 | word:
acclaim
word_type:
verb
expansion:
acclaim (third-person singular simple present acclaims, present participle acclaiming, simple past and past participle acclaimed)
forms:
form:
acclaims
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
acclaiming
tags:
participle
present
form:
acclaimed
tags:
participle
past
form:
acclaimed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in the early 14th century.
* (to applaud): First attested in the 1630s.
* Borrowed from Latin acclāmō (“raise a cry at; applaud”), formed from ad- + clāmō (“cry out, shout”).
senses_examples:
text:
a highly-acclaimed novel
type:
example
text:
a widely-acclaimed article
type:
example
text:
The design, when finally developed, was a slight disappointment to Monsieur Deplis, who had suspected Icarus of being a fortress taken by Wallenstein in the Thirty Years' War, but he was more than satisfied with the execution of the work, which was acclaimed by all who had the privilege of seeing it as Pincini's masterpiece.
ref:
1911, Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To shout; to call out.
To express great approval (for).
To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.
To claim.
To declare by acclamations.
To elect (a politician, etc.) to an office automatically because no other candidates run; elect by acclamation.
senses_topics:
government
politics |
1711 | word:
acclaim
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acclaim (countable and uncountable, plural acclaims)
forms:
form:
acclaims
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in 1667.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An acclamation; a shout of applause.
A claim.
senses_topics:
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1712 | word:
pollution
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pollution (countable and uncountable, plural pollutions)
forms:
form:
pollutions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pollution
etymology_text:
From Middle English pollucion, from Anglo-Norman pollutiun, Middle French pollution, pollucion, and their source, post-classical Latin pollūtiō (“defilement, desecration; nocturnal emission”) (4th century), from the participial stem of polluō (“to soil, defile, contaminate”), from por- (“before”) + -luō (“to smear”), related to lutum (“mud”) and luēs (“filth”). Compare Ancient Greek λῦμα (lûma, “filth, dirt, disgrace”) and λῦμαξ (lûmax, “rubbish, refuse”), Old Irish loth (“mud, dirt”), Lithuanian lutynas (“pool, puddle”).
senses_examples:
text:
Pollution levels are almost always higher in cities rather than the countryside, what with the cars, industry and so on.
type:
example
text:
If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the[…]hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.
ref:
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion
type:
quotation
text:
Schools across the country are moving to ban the school run amid growing concern about the devastating impact of air pollution on young people’s health.
ref:
2018 July 13, Matthew Taylor, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Pollution now kills three times as many people worldwide as Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined.
ref:
2019, George Monbiot, “Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out”, in Guardian.
type:
quotation
text:
Flying only looks like a bargain because the cost of pollution is so cheap.
ref:
2023 August 9, “Network News: Network rail under fire for spending thousands of pounds on flights”, in RAIL, number 989, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
When occasioned by a voluntary act it is called, simply, Pollution or Masturbation (q.v.); when excited, during sleep, by lascivious dreams, it takes the name Noctur'nal pollution, Exoneiro'sis, Oneirog'mos, Oneirog'onos, Gonorrhœ'a dormien'tium, G. oneirog'onos, G. Vera, G. libidino'sa, Proflu'vium Sem'inis, Spermatorrhœ'a, Paronir'ia salax, Night pollution.
ref:
1839, Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon, Blanchard, page 492
type:
quotation
text:
According to Billuart and other theologians, pollution in sleep is not sin, unless voluntarily caused; if, however, it begins in sleep, and is completed in the half-waking state, with a sense of pleasure, it is a venial sin.
ref:
1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, volume 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Physical contamination, now especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances, or by disruptive levels of noise, light etc.
Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
The desecration of something holy or sacred; defilement, profanation.
The ejaculation of semen outside of sexual intercourse, especially a nocturnal emission.
Moral or spiritual corruption; impurity, degradation, defilement.
senses_topics:
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1713 | word:
achromatism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
achromatism (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare French achromatisme.
senses_examples:
text:
the achromatism of a lens
type:
example
text:
No flaming flower relieved its black achromatism although that tree had been known long ago to burst open with a three-hour glory.
ref:
1946, Mervyn Peake, “Mrs Slagg by Moonlight”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state or quality of being achromatic; achromaticity.
The state of being free of colors, not emitting or separating into colors.
Achromatopia.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
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1714 | word:
accomplishable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accomplishable (comparative more accomplishable, superlative most accomplishable)
forms:
form:
more accomplishable
tags:
comparative
form:
most accomplishable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accomplish + -able.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of being accomplished; practicable.
senses_topics:
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1715 | word:
accountability
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accountability (usually uncountable, plural accountabilities)
forms:
form:
accountabilities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
accountability
etymology_text:
From accountable + -ity.
senses_examples:
text:
The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power. It is a solemn moment for the American Democracy. For with primacy in power is also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the future.
ref:
1946, Winston Churchill, Sinews of Peace
type:
quotation
text:
Just think about that: 1 in 4 had an error, and 1 in 20 was seriously wrong. And that is not good. If every 20th Frosty that Wendy’s sold turned out to be a cup of warm goat semen, we would want some accountability and we’d want it fast! At least freeze it!
ref:
2016 April 10, “Credit Reports”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 8, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
Levying a charge will not, by itself, guarantee accountability: witness the millions of dissatisfied customers of the private sector travel agents who book the wrong holiday, solicitors who over-charge, builders who do shoddy work, garages that misrepair cars, estate agents who mislead, shops that sell defective goods and refuse refunds, etc.
ref:
2000, Neil Bateman, Advocacy Skills for Health and Social Care Professionals, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
As the biggest rail player, Network Rail was usually held accountable for failings, but had no authority to change anything to solve the problems. The DfT had been given that authority in 2004 - but consistently ducked accountability.
ref:
2021 March 10, Nigel Harris, “It's time to get on with it!”, in RAIL, number 926, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
The erosion of accountability doesn't seem to matter now, but it will matter when things start unraveling.
ref:
2023 October 18, Charles Hugh Smith, Our Mutually Reinforcing Crises: Not All Polycrises Are Equal
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.
An open determination of one's responsibility for something and imposition of consequences.
Good-faith acceptance of one's responsibility for something and of its consequences.
The obligation imposed by law or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property, documents, or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records, while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody, care, and safekeeping.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
1716 | word:
curvaceous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
curvaceous (comparative more curvaceous, superlative most curvaceous)
forms:
form:
more curvaceous
tags:
comparative
form:
most curvaceous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From curve + -aceous. Originally American English, 1930s.
senses_examples:
text:
He watched her walk, upon curvaceous legs, to the edge of the bed. For just a second, she smiled down at him.
ref:
1962, M. E. Knerr, The Sex Life of the Gods
type:
quotation
text:
Anya is tall, gorgeous and curvaceous, all of which I enjoy sexually, especially the curvaceous part: I enjoy squeezing and grabbing all the sexy, abundant parts of her body.
ref:
2023 May 13, Kitty Drake, “This is how we do it: ‘A tired, throwaway midweek shag doesn’t interest me’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having shapely and voluptuous curves; curvy.
senses_topics:
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1717 | word:
Laos
word_type:
name
expansion:
Laos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French Laos, plural of Lao, from Lao ລາວ (lāo, “Lao”). More at Lao.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Capital: Vientiane.
senses_topics:
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1718 | word:
Laos
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Laos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of Lao
senses_topics:
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1719 | word:
WYSIWYG
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
WYSIWYG
forms:
wikipedia:
Xerox PARC
etymology_text:
Coined by computer typesetter John W. Seybold and popularized at Xerox PARC during the late 1970s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of what you see is what you get.
senses_topics:
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1720 | word:
WYSIWYG
word_type:
noun
expansion:
WYSIWYG (plural WYSIWYGs)
forms:
form:
WYSIWYGs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Xerox PARC
etymology_text:
Coined by computer typesetter John W. Seybold and popularized at Xerox PARC during the late 1970s.
senses_examples:
text:
WYSIWYGs are helpful tools in that they enable you to create pages much more quickly
ref:
2003, James H. Pence, How to Do Everything with HTML & XHTML, page 132
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Software that allows editing on screen what the printed version would be like; software with a what-you-see-is-what-you-get display interface.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
1721 | word:
Niger
word_type:
name
expansion:
Niger or the Niger
forms:
form:
Niger
tags:
canonical
form:
the Niger
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Commonly linked by folk etymology to Latin niger (“black”), which likely influenced the modern spelling.
Some sources give the term to Tuareg roots, deriving it from a claimed gher n-gheren or egereou n-igereouen (“river of rivers”). Compare Tarifit iɣzar-n-iɣezran.
Older sources derive Niger, via a series of mistranslations and geographic misplacements by Greek, Roman and Arab geographers, from Ptolemy's descriptions of the wadi Gir (in modern Algeria) and the "Lower Gir" (or "Ni-Gir") to the south.
senses_examples:
text:
From here we can see the River Niger in the distance running across town, a long gleaming diamond in the horizon.
ref:
2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 290
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria. Official name: Republic of the Niger.
A major river in West Africa that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria.
A state of Nigeria in the North Central geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Minna.
senses_topics:
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1722 | word:
Asian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Asian (plural Asians)
forms:
form:
Asians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Asian people
etymology_text:
From Latin āsiānus. The popular American definition referring to East and Southeast Asians collectively seems to be a shortened form of "Asian American", a term whose origins activists and academics trace back to 1968 and University of California, Berkeley (UCLA) students Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee, who, inspired by the Black Power Movement and the protests against the Vietnam War, founded the "Asian American Political Alliance" as a way to unite Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino American students on campus. It replaced the term "Mongoloid", but still continued the racial grouping of "Mongoloid". South Asians are also sometimes called "Asian" in the English settler colonies (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) but rarely (if ever) Near Easterners and Central Asians. The British term exclusively referring to South Asians was due to South Asians making up a majority of immigrants from the continent of Asia in the United Kingdom.
senses_examples:
text:
If radio and television programmes are anything to go by, Asians in Britain get up early on a Sunday.
ref:
1987 May, Paul Oliver, “Movie Mahal: Indian cinema on ITV Channel 4”, in Popular Music, →DOI, page 215
type:
quotation
text:
Were there Taliban beheading people? I didn't tell my parents, but I flinched if an Asian-looking man came close.
ref:
2013, Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from the continent of Asia, or a descendant thereof - especially:
A person from or with ancestry in East or Southeast Asia, occasionally South Asia.
A person from the continent of Asia, or a descendant thereof - especially:
A person from or with ancestry in South Asia.
A domestic cat of a breed similar to the Burmese.
senses_topics:
|
1723 | word:
Asian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Asian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Asian people
etymology_text:
From Latin āsiānus. The popular American definition referring to East and Southeast Asians collectively seems to be a shortened form of "Asian American", a term whose origins activists and academics trace back to 1968 and University of California, Berkeley (UCLA) students Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee, who, inspired by the Black Power Movement and the protests against the Vietnam War, founded the "Asian American Political Alliance" as a way to unite Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino American students on campus. It replaced the term "Mongoloid", but still continued the racial grouping of "Mongoloid". South Asians are also sometimes called "Asian" in the English settler colonies (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) but rarely (if ever) Near Easterners and Central Asians. The British term exclusively referring to South Asians was due to South Asians making up a majority of immigrants from the continent of Asia in the United Kingdom.
senses_examples:
text:
There are white, black, Asian and Chinese Britons
ref:
2015 June 4, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, “The beauty contest winner making Japan look at itself”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, relating to or from Asia.
senses_topics:
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1724 | word:
accompaniment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accompaniment (countable and uncountable, plural accompaniments)
forms:
form:
accompaniments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French accompagnement; equivalent to accompany + -ment. First attested in 1744.
senses_examples:
text:
Brooks performed a saxophone solo on stage, with Robert as accompaniment on the bass.
type:
example
text:
A side salad is a common accompaniment to a main dish.
type:
example
text:
My audience to this not-too-easy operation was a small group of Scottish school lasses, who seemed (perhaps naturally) to find the proceedings somewhat mysterious, but at any rate amusing. I wished they would go away, but they didn't, so I had to get on with the job to the accompaniment of a background of giggles!
ref:
1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in music, or adds for ornamentation; also, the harmony of a figured bass.
That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
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1725 | word:
feature
word_type:
noun
expansion:
feature (plural features)
forms:
form:
features
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
feature
etymology_text:
From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin factūra, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Doublet of facture.
senses_examples:
text:
A feature interview with a noted personality or a discussion covering a specific issue is then presented.
ref:
1984 April 7, Warren Blumenfeld, “Boston's Other Voice”, in Gay Community News, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
The program contained an internal feature, which allowed a user to update display text after each command keystroke.
ref:
2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom
type:
quotation
text:
one of the features of the landscape
type:
example
text:
The most prominent feature of the New England land system was the town grant, which in every case became the territorial basis of a group settlement.
ref:
1911, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
type:
quotation
text:
Another recently discovered cave temple site, Shizikou in Linyou County, Shaanxi, preserves sculptures with thin legs, particularly bodhisattvas, that are much taller and more slender than the figures of this niche but share a number of stylistic features, including a diagonal chest shawl and a dhoti with an overlapping apron of cloth that falls from the waist in the same two-part pattern of scalloped folds and a waist tie hanging down the middle; they have long tubular arms as well.
ref:
2007, Annette L. Juliano, “Niche with Amitabha Buddha and two Guanyin (Skt. Avalokiteshvara) Bodhisattvas [龛式阿弥陀佛和二观音菩萨造像]”, in Buddhist Sculpture from China: Selections from the Xi’an Beilin Museum: Fifth through Ninth Centuries, New York: China Institute, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 100, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
England are up and running. Again. It has been a happy feature of the Gareth Southgate years that his team always win their opening tie at tournaments. It never used to be the case with England but to the list that features Tunisia, Croatia and Iran can be added the name of Serbia.
ref:
2024 June 16, David Hytner, “Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat”, in Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
A feature of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other features at these sites may include small hearths.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: (output) parameter
text:
MIT researchers are striving to improve the interpretability of features so decision makers will be more comfortable using the outputs of machine-learning models. Drawing on years of field work, they developed a taxonomy to help developers craft features that will be easier for their target audience to understand.
ref:
2022 June 30, Adam Zewe, “Building explainability into the components of machine-learning models”, in MIT News
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
An important or main item.
A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
Ellipsis of feature film.
Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.
Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
The act of being featured in a piece of music.
The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
senses_topics:
media
broadcasting
film
media
television
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
mathematics
sciences
statistics
entertainment
lifestyle
music
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
1726 | word:
feature
word_type:
verb
expansion:
feature (third-person singular simple present features, present participle featuring, simple past and past participle featured)
forms:
form:
features
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
featuring
tags:
participle
present
form:
featured
tags:
participle
past
form:
featured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
feature
etymology_text:
From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin factūra, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Doublet of facture.
senses_examples:
text:
Whitfield wanted to put together a new act to feature his abilities.
ref:
1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 275
type:
quotation
text:
England are up and running. Again. It has been a happy feature of the Gareth Southgate years that his team always win their opening tie at tournaments. It never used to be the case with England but to the list that features Tunisia, Croatia and Iran can be added the name of Serbia.
ref:
2024 June 16, David Hytner, “Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat”, in Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love, Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water and Layla by Derek and the Dominos also featured in the top five.
ref:
2009 November 27, “Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has 'best guitar riff'”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
More than his talents, Roger grudged him his looks, the brown eyes, golden hair, and oval face, which made people say how Johnny Weir featured his mother.
ref:
Sunday. Reading for the Young (page 219)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
To star, to contain.
To appear, to make an appearance.
To have features resembling.
To think about, understand, or imagine.
senses_topics:
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1727 | word:
acidification
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acidification (countable and uncountable, plural acidifications)
forms:
form:
acidifications
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French acidification.
senses_examples:
text:
Coral reefs, for instance, are suffering from the higher temperatures and the effects of acidification whilst also being weakened by bad fishing practices, pollution, siltation and toxic algal blooms.
ref:
2013 October 3, Roger Harrabin, “Health of oceans 'declining fast'”, in bbc.co.uk, retrieved 2013-10-05
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or process of making something sour (acidifying), or changing into an acid.
senses_topics:
|
1728 | word:
accreditation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accreditation (countable and uncountable, plural accreditations)
forms:
form:
accreditations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
accreditation
etymology_text:
First attested in 1806, from accredit + -ation.
senses_examples:
text:
letters of accreditation
type:
example
text:
Remus Chen, head of Taiwan's Foreign Ministry's Department of European Affairs, told reporters that the new Lithuanian representative Paulius Lukauskas had arrived in Taipei earlier this month, and on Monday had formally applied for his accreditation.
ref:
2022 September 13, Ben Blanchard, “Taiwan says new Lithuanian office in Taipei begins operations”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-09-13, Asia Pacific
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The giving of credentials.
The act of accrediting.
The granting of approval to an institution of higher learning by an official review board after the school has met certain requirements.
senses_topics:
education |
1729 | word:
crow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crow (plural crows)
forms:
form:
crows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English crowe, from Old English crāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *krāā, from Proto-Germanic *krēǭ (compare West Frisian krie, Dutch kraai, German Krähe), from *krēaną (“to crow”). See below.
senses_examples:
text:
Gaslark in his splendour on the golden stairs saying adieu to those three captains and their matchless armament foredoomed to dogs and crows on Salapanta Hills.
ref:
1922, E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroborus
type:
quotation
text:
He approached the humble tomb in which Antonia reposed. He had provided himself with an iron crow and a pick-axe: but this precaution was unnecessary.
ref:
1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 267
type:
quotation
text:
“Ay,” put in a young man, who had the reputation of being the smartest “crow” in London—“‘fishers of men,’ as the parson says.”
ref:
1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of his Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
But it helps a man along to have a wife he can be proud of. Suppose you marry some old crow. People point at her and ask, 'Who is that death's head yonder?'
ref:
1899, George Horton, A Fair Brigand, H.S. Stone, page 242
type:
quotation
text:
(Mrs. Meany to Woody, from a window) "I don't care! I'm not running a pet shop."
"Well it looks like one with an old crow in the window!"
ref:
1970, Paul J. Smith, 0:13 from the start, in Woody Woodpecker: "Seal on the Loose", spoken by Woody Woodpecker (Grace Stafford)
type:
quotation
text:
A young petty officer that must have just received his “crow” (a single chevron, with an eagle over it) was showing off to several seamen.
ref:
2002, Ed Goodrich, Riggers that Dive, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
The young man had been threatened with loss of his third class rank, his “crow,” the eagle in a petty officer's sleeve insignia.
ref:
2003, Jonathan T. Malay, Seraphim Sky, page 106
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.
A bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
Someone who keeps watch while their associates commit a crime; a lookout.
A gangplank (corvus) used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships.
The mesentery of an animal.
An ill-tempered and obstinate woman, or one who otherwise has features resembling the bird; a harpy.
A black person.
The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
1730 | word:
crow
word_type:
adj
expansion:
crow
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English crowe, from Old English crāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *krāā, from Proto-Germanic *krēǭ (compare West Frisian krie, Dutch kraai, German Krähe), from *krēaną (“to crow”). See below.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: raven
text:
"Though her her crow hair is lovely and wavy, she loathes it and craves yellow locks. Since she saw Hugh, she's given me no peace.” Sheffield's square , good-looking face shaped a grimace.
ref:
1945, George Marsh, Ask No Quarter, New York, W. Morrow & Company
type:
quotation
text:
[…] only her crow hair could be seen. Her appearance could not be seen as she anxiously called out, "Mother ..." The setting sun cast a dim yellow light on the interior of the house. The woman lay on her back and looked up at the beams overhead[…]
ref:
2019 December 6, Shi Shuifeiyan, Escaped Consort: Hubby, Don’t Chase Me: Volume 3, Funstory
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dark black, the color of a crow; crow-black.
senses_topics:
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1731 | word:
crow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
crow (third-person singular simple present crows, present participle crowing, simple past crowed or (UK) crew, past participle crowed or (archaic) crown)
forms:
form:
crows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
crowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
crowed
tags:
past
form:
crew
tags:
UK
past
form:
crowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
crown
tags:
archaic
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is from Middle English crowen, from Old English crāwan (past tense crēow, past participle crāwen), from Proto-West Germanic *krāan, from Proto-Germanic *krēaną, from imitative Proto-Indo-European *gerH- (“to cry hoarsely”).
The noun is from Middle English crowe, from the verb.
Compare Dutch kraaien, German krähen, Lithuanian gróti, Russian гра́ять (grájatʹ)). Related to croak.
senses_examples:
text:
This is the Cock that crowed in the Morn[.]
ref:
1784, The House that Jack Built, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
When your rooster crows at the break o' dawn / Look out your window and I'll be gone.
ref:
1962, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”, in The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
type:
quotation
text:
He’s been crowing all day about winning the game of cards.
type:
example
text:
Touting its sponsorship of local engineering and sustainability programs, Amazon crows about such “investments” as its dog park, playing fields, art installations, and Buckyball-reminiscent domical gardens.
ref:
2017 September 27, Julianne Tveten, “Zucktown, USA”, in The Baffler
type:
quotation
text:
Another of my favorite dishes, the Asian chicken salad, was inspired by a skit by comedian Margaret Cho (“This is not the salad of my people…” she crows).
ref:
2023 October 7, Ajesh Patalay, quoting Margaret Cho, “The Naked Chef 2.0”, in FT Weekend, HTSI, page 77
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance.
To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
1732 | word:
crow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crow (plural crows)
forms:
form:
crows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is from Middle English crowen, from Old English crāwan (past tense crēow, past participle crāwen), from Proto-West Germanic *krāan, from Proto-Germanic *krēaną, from imitative Proto-Indo-European *gerH- (“to cry hoarsely”).
The noun is from Middle English crowe, from the verb.
Compare Dutch kraaien, German krähen, Lithuanian gróti, Russian гра́ять (grájatʹ)). Related to croak.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cry or call of a rooster or a cockerel, especially as heard at sunrise.
senses_topics:
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1733 | word:
crow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crow (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
My young boys hop out the ride in a crop yard searching, tryna find this crow
ref:
2024 June 13, Bagzoverfame X General Jamz - Imagine (lyrics and music), “Imagine” (0:37 from the start)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of cro (“marijuana”)
senses_topics:
|
1734 | word:
Anguilla
word_type:
name
expansion:
Anguilla
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin anguilla (“eel”), from an uncertain Romance language original. The name of the island refers to its elongated shape.
senses_examples:
text:
In the late 1990s, the tiny Caribbean nation of Anguilla was home to an interesting cluster of expatriates. With its nonexistent taxes and incredible beaches, it was the perfect place for self-employed computer geeks to develop projects during the dot-com boom.
ref:
2020, Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Sealand: The True Story of the World's Most Stubborn Micronation, Icon Books
type:
quotation
text:
With companies wanting internet addresses that communicate they are at the forefront of the A.I. boom — like Elon Musk’s X.ai website for his artificial intelligence company — Anguilla has recently received a huge influx in requests for domain names.
ref:
2024 March 22, Emma Bubola, “The A.I. Boom Makes Millions for an Unlikely Industry Player: Anguilla”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, in the Caribbean Sea.
senses_topics:
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1735 | word:
Wednesday
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Wednesday (plural Wednesdays)
forms:
form:
Wednesdays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Wednesday, Wednesdai, from unattested Old English *wēdnesdæġ (“Wednesday”), synchronically an i-mutated form of attested wōdnesdæġ (itself from Proto-West Germanic *Wōdanas dag, its reflex Middle English Wodnesdei falling into disuse), from Proto-West Germanic *Wōdinas dag also attested in Old Frisian wednesdei and Middle Dutch wenesdach. In any case, a calque (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Mercuriī (“day of Mercury”) and Koine Ancient Greek ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”) Ἑρμοῦ (Hermoû, “of Hermes”), via an association of the god Odin (“Woden”) with Mercury and Hermes.
Cognate with West Frisian woansdei (“Wednesday”), Afrikaans Woensdag (“Wednesday”), Dutch woensdag (“Wednesday”), Limburgish woonsdig (“Wednesday”), Dutch Low Saxon woonsdag (“Wednesday”), German Low German Woonsdag (“Wednesday”), dialectal German Wodenstag (“Wednesday”), Danish onsdag (“Wednesday”), Norwegian Bokmål onsdag (“Wednesday”), Norwegian Nynorsk onsdag (“Wednesday”), Swedish onsdag (“Wednesday”).
See also Japanese 水曜日 (Mercury's day).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fourth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the third day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Tuesday and precedes Thursday.
senses_topics:
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1736 | word:
Wednesday
word_type:
name
expansion:
Wednesday
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Wednesday, Wednesdai, from unattested Old English *wēdnesdæġ (“Wednesday”), synchronically an i-mutated form of attested wōdnesdæġ (itself from Proto-West Germanic *Wōdanas dag, its reflex Middle English Wodnesdei falling into disuse), from Proto-West Germanic *Wōdinas dag also attested in Old Frisian wednesdei and Middle Dutch wenesdach. In any case, a calque (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Mercuriī (“day of Mercury”) and Koine Ancient Greek ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”) Ἑρμοῦ (Hermoû, “of Hermes”), via an association of the god Odin (“Woden”) with Mercury and Hermes.
Cognate with West Frisian woansdei (“Wednesday”), Afrikaans Woensdag (“Wednesday”), Dutch woensdag (“Wednesday”), Limburgish woonsdig (“Wednesday”), Dutch Low Saxon woonsdag (“Wednesday”), German Low German Woonsdag (“Wednesday”), dialectal German Wodenstag (“Wednesday”), Danish onsdag (“Wednesday”), Norwegian Bokmål onsdag (“Wednesday”), Norwegian Nynorsk onsdag (“Wednesday”), Swedish onsdag (“Wednesday”).
See also Japanese 水曜日 (Mercury's day).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
nickname of Sheffield Wednesday of the Football League.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports |
1737 | word:
Wednesday
word_type:
adv
expansion:
Wednesday (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Wednesday, Wednesdai, from unattested Old English *wēdnesdæġ (“Wednesday”), synchronically an i-mutated form of attested wōdnesdæġ (itself from Proto-West Germanic *Wōdanas dag, its reflex Middle English Wodnesdei falling into disuse), from Proto-West Germanic *Wōdinas dag also attested in Old Frisian wednesdei and Middle Dutch wenesdach. In any case, a calque (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Mercuriī (“day of Mercury”) and Koine Ancient Greek ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”) Ἑρμοῦ (Hermoû, “of Hermes”), via an association of the god Odin (“Woden”) with Mercury and Hermes.
Cognate with West Frisian woansdei (“Wednesday”), Afrikaans Woensdag (“Wednesday”), Dutch woensdag (“Wednesday”), Limburgish woonsdig (“Wednesday”), Dutch Low Saxon woonsdag (“Wednesday”), German Low German Woonsdag (“Wednesday”), dialectal German Wodenstag (“Wednesday”), Danish onsdag (“Wednesday”), Norwegian Bokmål onsdag (“Wednesday”), Norwegian Nynorsk onsdag (“Wednesday”), Swedish onsdag (“Wednesday”).
See also Japanese 水曜日 (Mercury's day).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On Wednesday.
senses_topics:
|
1738 | word:
Saturday
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Saturday (plural Saturdays)
forms:
form:
Saturdays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Saturday (disambiguation)
Third Saturday in October
Week-day names
etymology_text:
From Middle English Saterday, from Old English sæterdæġ, earlier sæternesdæġ (“Saterday”, literally “Saturn's day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Sāturnas dag; a translation of Latin diēs Saturnī. Compare West Frisian saterdei (“Saturday”), Dutch zaterdag (“Saturday”), German Low German Saterdag (“Saturday”). See also Japanese 土曜日.
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senses_glosses:
The seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; observed as the Sabbath/Shabbat in Judaism (Friday sunset to Saturday sunset); it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.
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1739 | word:
Saturday
word_type:
adv
expansion:
Saturday (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Saturday (disambiguation)
Week-day names
etymology_text:
From Middle English Saterday, from Old English sæterdæġ, earlier sæternesdæġ (“Saterday”, literally “Saturn's day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Sāturnas dag; a translation of Latin diēs Saturnī. Compare West Frisian saterdei (“Saturday”), Dutch zaterdag (“Saturday”), German Low German Saterdag (“Saturday”). See also Japanese 土曜日.
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
On Saturday.
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1740 | word:
Saturday
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Saturday (third-person singular simple present Saturdays, present participle Saturdaying, simple past and past participle Saturdayed)
forms:
form:
Saturdays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Saturdaying
tags:
participle
present
form:
Saturdayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
Saturdayed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Saturday (disambiguation)
Week-day names
etymology_text:
From Middle English Saterday, from Old English sæterdæġ, earlier sæternesdæġ (“Saterday”, literally “Saturn's day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Sāturnas dag; a translation of Latin diēs Saturnī. Compare West Frisian saterdei (“Saturday”), Dutch zaterdag (“Saturday”), German Low German Saterdag (“Saturday”). See also Japanese 土曜日.
senses_examples:
text:
Mr. Angus Hibbard, of New York, Fridayed and Saturdayed in Chicago, for the show and banquet.
ref:
1913, Bell Telephone News, volume 3, page 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To spend Saturday (at a place or doing an activity).
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1741 | word:
fuddy-duddy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fuddy-duddy (plural fuddy-duddies)
forms:
form:
fuddy-duddies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown, c. 1900 US
senses_examples:
text:
My grandma is a fuddy-duddy when it comes to keeping her house clean.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An old-fashioned, persnickety or ineffective person.
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1742 | word:
fuddy-duddy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fuddy-duddy (comparative fuddy-duddier, superlative fuddy-duddiest)
forms:
form:
fuddy-duddier
tags:
comparative
form:
fuddy-duddiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown, c. 1900 US
senses_examples:
text:
Kingsolver lives by the tenets of her public-spirited fictional characters, whom she sculpts with a keen eye for individuality, e.g. Nannie Land Rawley, a seventy-something orchardist who shocks a fuddy-duddy male neighbor by wearing shorts, […]
ref:
2015, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Barbara Kingsolver: A Literary Companion, McFarland, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Old-fashioned and persnickety or ineffective.
senses_topics:
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1743 | word:
comma
word_type:
noun
expansion:
comma (plural commas or (rare) commata or (obsolete) commaes)
forms:
form:
commas
tags:
plural
form:
commata
tags:
plural
rare
form:
commaes
tags:
obsolete
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma), from κόπτω (kóptō, “I cut”).
senses_examples:
text:
No points were used by the ancient printers, excepting the colon and the period; but, after some time, a short oblique stroke, called a virgil, was introduced, which answered to the modern comma. In the fifteenth century this punctuation was improved by the famous Aldus Manutius with the typographical art in general; when he gave a better shape to the comma, added the semicolon, and assigned to the former points more proper places.
ref:
1828, Richard Thomson, Illustrations of the History of Great Britain, Vol. II, pp. 145–6
text:
Commas (Polygonia comma) and Question Marks (Polygonia interrogationis) occur from the Gulf Coast to Canada and west to the Rockies. [...] Question Marks and Commas are handsome butterflies with burnt orange and black markings. [...] On the underside of each hind wing of the Comma is a small, distinctive silver hook that resembles a comma.
ref:
2004, Scott Shalaway, “Close-ups”, in Butterflies in the Backyard, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Other members of this genus that are frequently encountered in the park are the eastern comma (P. comma) and question mark (P. interrogationis).
ref:
2013, Ann Simpson, Rob Simpson, “Butterflies and Moths”, in Nature Guide to Shenandoah National Park (Falcon Pocket Guide), Guilford, Conn., Helena, Mont.: Falcon Guides, Globe Pequot Press, page 91
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
A brief interval.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography
media
publishing
typography
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
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1744 | word:
comma
word_type:
verb
expansion:
comma (third-person singular simple present commas, present participle commaing, simple past and past participle commaed)
forms:
form:
commas
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
commaing
tags:
participle
present
form:
commaed
tags:
participle
past
form:
commaed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma), from κόπτω (kóptō, “I cut”).
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.
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1745 | word:
leg up
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leg up (plural leg ups or legs up)
forms:
form:
leg ups
tags:
plural
form:
legs up
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of assisting another's progress over a wall or other obstacle by forming a step for one of their feet with one's hands.
A boost, a sudden improvement; an advantage, an edge.
Assistance, help given to get started or overcome a problem or obstacle.
senses_topics:
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1746 | word:
leg up
word_type:
verb
expansion:
leg up (third-person singular simple present legs up, present participle legging up, simple past and past participle legged up)
forms:
form:
legs up
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
legging up
tags:
participle
present
form:
legged up
tags:
participle
past
form:
legged up
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
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senses_glosses:
To walk a horse on a hard surface regularly.
senses_topics:
equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports |
1747 | word:
acerbate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acerbate (comparative more acerbate, superlative most acerbate)
forms:
form:
more acerbate
tags:
comparative
form:
most acerbate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acerbātus, perfect passive participle of acerbō (“make bitter”), from acerbus (“bitter”).
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senses_glosses:
Embittered; having a sour disposition or nature.
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1748 | word:
acerbate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
acerbate (third-person singular simple present acerbates, present participle acerbating, simple past and past participle acerbated)
forms:
form:
acerbates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
acerbating
tags:
participle
present
form:
acerbated
tags:
participle
past
form:
acerbated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acerbātus, perfect passive participle of acerbō (“make bitter”), from acerbus (“bitter”).
senses_examples:
text:
Lady Laura had triumphed; but she had no desire to acerbate her husband by any unpalatable allusion to her victory.
ref:
1869, Anthony Trollope, chapter 51, in Phineas Finn
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To exasperate; to irritate.
To make bitter or sour.
senses_topics:
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1749 | word:
IPO
word_type:
noun
expansion:
IPO (plural IPOs)
forms:
form:
IPOs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
You just shrug when you change the site’s privacy settings overnight to capture lucrative personal information and make Facebook’s IPO one of the biggest in Silicon Valley.
ref:
2013, Joanna Biggs, “Tell me everything”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of initial public offering.
Initialism of Intellectual Property Office.
senses_topics:
business
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1750 | word:
IPO
word_type:
verb
expansion:
IPO (third-person singular simple present IPOs, present participle IPOing, simple past and past participle IPOed or IPO'ed or IPO-ed)
forms:
form:
IPOs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
IPOing
tags:
participle
present
form:
IPOed
tags:
participle
past
form:
IPOed
tags:
past
form:
IPO'ed
tags:
participle
past
form:
IPO'ed
tags:
past
form:
IPO-ed
tags:
participle
past
form:
IPO-ed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
OnX recently IPO'ed at $7.50 per share, quickly rose to $10.50 per share and then drifted down to about $5 per share.
ref:
2000, Patrick Doucette, Making a Fortune in Canadian Stocks: How to Get Started on the Road to Wealth with Canadian Equities, iUniverse, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
@大学生讲坛 tweets, “A stock market investor asks Hades, ‘What level of hell is this?’ Hades replies, ‘The 18th.’ The investor tears up out of happiness, ‘Finally I've managed to buy at the bottom!’ Hades looks at him with a smile, ‘Don't you know that hell has IPOed and expanded to 36 levels?’”
ref:
2012 October 1, Rachel Lu, “Gallows Humor: The Dark Jokes of Weibo as China's Stock Market Tanked”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
The extra scrutiny was a sign of the times, but having never IPO-ed a company before, most of the executive team took it as par for the course.
ref:
2022, Jimmy Soni, The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, Simon and Schuster
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To launch an initial public offering, to go public.
senses_topics:
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1751 | word:
accountable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accountable (comparative more accountable, superlative most accountable)
forms:
form:
more accountable
tags:
comparative
form:
most accountable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested around 1400.
* account + -able
senses_examples:
text:
Everyone is accountable to God for their conduct.
type:
example
text:
You will be held accountable for your misdemeanors.
type:
example
text:
"Because the railway is economically and socially vital, it receives large amounts of public money and must therefore ultimately be accountable to government. [...]
ref:
2020 April 22, Philip Haigh, “Labour's blueprint for the future of Britain's railways”, in Rail, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege.
ref:
1703, Benjamin Whichcote, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obliged, when called upon, to answer (for one’s deeds); answerable.
Obliged to keep accurate records (of property or funds).
Liable to be called on to render an account.
Capable of being accounted for; explicable; explainable.
senses_topics:
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1752 | word:
accomplished
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accomplished (comparative more accomplished, superlative most accomplished)
forms:
form:
more accomplished
tags:
comparative
form:
most accomplished
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in the late 15th century, from accomplish + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
an accomplished fact
text:
an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain
text:
When Margaret Frances Desha returned to Batesville, the most accomplished woman of the town, she was wooed and won by William French Denton, a distinguished lawyer of Batesville, and a gift of Tennessee to Arkansas growth.
ref:
1967, Josiah Hazen Shinn, Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas, page 335
type:
quotation
text:
The presence of the dog and hart further clarifies the meaning of these scenes: hunting was one of the ways in which an accomplished young man could assert himself.
ref:
1997, Giovanni Levi, Jean-Claude Schmitt, A History of Young People in the West - Volume 1, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
Knowing this, makes all the difference in the world as to how you will be received as an accomplished young lady when you are presented to the world, and later presented to your Adam.
ref:
2007, Keisha Clark, The Young Lady's Guide to Charm, Style & Femininity, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
an accomplished first novel
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Completed; effected; established.
Having many accomplishments, often as a result of study or training.
Showing skill and artistry.
senses_topics:
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1753 | word:
accomplished
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accomplished
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in the late 15th century, from accomplish + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of accomplish
senses_topics:
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1754 | word:
initial public offering
word_type:
noun
expansion:
initial public offering (plural initial public offerings)
forms:
form:
initial public offerings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The first offering to members of the public of stock in a company, normally followed by a listing of that stock on a stock exchange.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
1755 | word:
acerbity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acerbity (countable and uncountable, plural acerbities)
forms:
form:
acerbities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French acerbité, from Latin acerbitās (“acerbity; harshness”), from acerbus (“bitter”). See acerb.
senses_examples:
text:
acerbity of temper, of language, of pain
type:
example
text:
[…] the recollection of that yesterday […] made him bear with the meekness and patience of a true-hearted man all the worrying little acerbities of to-day;
ref:
1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 16, in Mary Barton, volume 2, London: Chapman and Hall, page 222
type:
quotation
text:
This opera was mainly in the style of late Puccini, with acerbities stolen from Stravinsky.
ref:
1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 21, in Earthly Powers, Penguin, published 1981, page 115
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
Harshness, bitterness, or severity
Something harsh (e.g. a remark, act or experience).
senses_topics:
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1756 | word:
accumulation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accumulation (countable and uncountable, plural accumulations)
forms:
form:
accumulations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English acumulacyon, from Middle French accumulation and its etymon, Latin accumulātiō, accumulātiōnis. By surface analysis, accumulate + -ion. First attested in the late 15th century. Doublet of accumulatio.
senses_examples:
text:
an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, or of honors
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
A mass of something piled up or collected.
The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
The practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.
senses_topics:
law
accounting
business
finance
business
finance
education |
1757 | word:
Mongolia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Mongolia
forms:
wikipedia:
Mongolia
etymology_text:
From Mongol + -ia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in East Asia. Capital and largest city: Ulaanbaatar.
A region in East Asia including Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia, sometimes also including Buryatia, Tuva, Altay.
senses_topics:
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1758 | word:
Tonga
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tonga
forms:
wikipedia:
Tonga
etymology_text:
From Tongan Tonga, from Samoan toga (“southern”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country and archipelago in Polynesia in Oceania. Official name: Kingdom of Tonga. Capital and largest city: Nuku'alofa.
senses_topics:
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1759 | word:
Tonga
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tonga
forms:
wikipedia:
Tonga
Tonga language (Malawi)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Bantu language, in the Nyasa branch, spoken in Malawi.
senses_topics:
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1760 | word:
Tonga
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tonga
forms:
wikipedia:
Tonga
Tonga language (Zambia and Zimbabwe)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Enela cleared their way through the throng, speaking in Tonga, a heavy language that freighted the air with ceremony.
ref:
2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Bantu language, in the Botatwe branch, spoken in Zambia and Zimbabwe.
senses_topics:
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1761 | word:
Tonga
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tonga
forms:
wikipedia:
Tonga
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Bantu language spoken in Mozambique.
senses_topics:
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1762 | word:
Tonga
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tonga (plural Tongas)
forms:
form:
Tongas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tonga
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname.
senses_topics:
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1763 | word:
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Two distinct dependencies of Norway. Official name: Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands.
senses_topics:
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1764 | word:
accession
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accession (countable and uncountable, plural accessions)
forms:
form:
accessions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Ultimately from Latin accessiō, from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.
senses_examples:
text:
a king's accession to a confederacy
type:
example
text:
1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p. xli,
[…] armed vessels being provided, their crews were soon recruited by accessions from the needy or adventurous, the discontented or the bold.
text:
her accession to the throne
type:
example
text:
This is the 6 ft. 4-6-0 engine No. 8301, Springbok, the second design produced by Mr. Edward Thompson since his accession to office as Chief Mechanical Engineer.
ref:
1943 March and April, “L.N.E.R. New Mixed-Traffic 4-6-0 Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
Charles will be formally proclaimed King at a historic Accession Council in an ancient ceremony at St James’s Palace on Saturday, it has been announced.
ref:
2022 September 9, Caroline Davies, “Charles to be proclaimed King at St James’s Palace on Saturday”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
Agreement.
Access; admittance.
A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.
senses_topics:
law
law
medicine
sciences
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1765 | word:
accession
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accession (third-person singular simple present accessions, present participle accessioning, simple past and past participle accessioned)
forms:
form:
accessions
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accessioning
tags:
participle
present
form:
accessioned
tags:
participle
past
form:
accessioned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Ultimately from Latin accessiō, from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a record of (additions to a collection).
senses_topics:
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1766 | word:
accuracy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accuracy (countable and uncountable, plural accuracies)
forms:
form:
accuracies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
accuracy
etymology_text:
* First attested in the 1660s.
* accurate + -cy
senses_examples:
text:
Its professed end [of logic], is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy.
ref:
1827, Thomas Reid, Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind
type:
quotation
text:
The efficiency of the instrument will also depend upon the accuracy with which the piston fits the bottom and sides of the barrel. When the piston is depressed to the bottom, it is considered in theory to be in absolute contact, so as to exclude every particle of air from the space between it and the bottom.
ref:
1856, Dionysius Lardner, Popular Lectures on Science and Art
type:
quotation
text:
The jury doubted the accuracy of the witness' comments.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being accurate; being free from error; exactness; correctness
Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.
senses_topics:
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1767 | word:
Venezuela
word_type:
name
expansion:
Venezuela
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish Venezuela, from Italian Veneziola, diminutive of Venezia (“Venice”), after the stilt houses reminiscent of Venetian architecture.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in South America. Official name: Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Capital and largest city: Caracas.
senses_topics:
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1768 | word:
Venezuela
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
senses_topics:
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1769 | word:
Paraguay
word_type:
name
expansion:
Paraguay
forms:
wikipedia:
Paraguay
etymology_text:
Disputed; from Guaraní Payagua (“Pajagua tribe”) y (“water”) or para (“river”) guái (“crown”) or para (“river”) gua (“from”) y (“water”).
senses_examples:
text:
Sanson in his Geographical Table hath divided this AMERICA MERIDIONALIS into PERUVIANA, and BRASLIANA [sic], subdividing Peruviana into Terra Firma, and Peru; and Brasiliana, into Brazile, and Paraguay; the first division is taken by a line which from the mouth of the Amazona, goes to seek the utmost part of Chili towards the South, ...
ref:
1670, Richard Blome, in “America, the Fourth Part” of A Geographical Description of the Four Parts of the World, 30
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Paraguay. Capital and largest city: Asunción.
The Paraguay River, a river in South America that flows into the Paraná, through Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina.
senses_topics:
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1770 | word:
send
word_type:
verb
expansion:
send (third-person singular simple present sends, present participle sending, simple past sent, past participle sent or (nonstandard) sended)
forms:
form:
sends
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sending
tags:
participle
present
form:
sent
tags:
past
form:
sent
tags:
participle
past
form:
sended
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
send
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English senden, from Old English sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *sandijan, from Proto-Germanic *sandijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sont-eye- (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun is from the verb.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian seende (“to send”), Dutch zenden (“to send”), German senden (“to send”), Danish and Norwegian sende (“to send”), Swedish sända (“to send”), Icelandic senda (“to send”). Related also to Old English sand, sond (“a sending, mission, message”). See also sith.
senses_examples:
text:
Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.
type:
example
text:
She sends me a letter every month.
type:
example
text:
Some hooligan sent a brick flying through our front window.
type:
example
text:
Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
ref:
2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
this definition is sending me rn
text:
The train had an excellent whistle which sent me, just as Sinatra sends the bobby-sockers.
ref:
1947, Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183
type:
quotation
text:
Darling you send me / I know you send me
ref:
1957, Sam Cooke, You Send Me
type:
quotation
text:
Baby you send me.
ref:
1991, P.M. Dawn, Set Adrift on Memory Bliss
type:
quotation
text:
Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.
type:
example
text:
She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.
type:
example
text:
But if you want beef, it's war. I'll rip you to shreds and send once more[…]And you think you can send for Aspin? Sort it, stop gassing.
ref:
2017 November 7, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”performed by Soph Aspin
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
To excite, delight, or thrill (oneself).
To bring to a certain condition.
To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.
To cause to be or to happen; to bring, bring about; (archaic) to visit: (Referring to blessing or reward) To bestow; to grant. (Referring to curse or punishment) To inflict. Sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
To pitch.
To make a successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
To care.
To call out or diss a specific person in a diss track.
To launch oneself off an edge.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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1771 | word:
send
word_type:
noun
expansion:
send (plural sends)
forms:
form:
sends
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English senden, from Old English sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *sandijan, from Proto-Germanic *sandijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sont-eye- (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun is from the verb.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian seende (“to send”), Dutch zenden (“to send”), German senden (“to send”), Danish and Norwegian sende (“to send”), Swedish sända (“to send”), Icelandic senda (“to send”). Related also to Old English sand, sond (“a sending, mission, message”). See also sith.
senses_examples:
text:
In the sonification of the PDE code, notes are scattered throughout a wide pitch range, and sends and receives are relatively balanced; although in the beginning of the application there are bursts of sends […]
ref:
1992, Tara M. Madhyastha, A Portable System for Data Sonification, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
Good thing I didn't hit send on that resume; I just noticed a bad typo.
type:
example
text:
thus we drifted, steadily trending with the send of each giant surge further and deeper into the icy regions of the south-west
ref:
1877, William Clark Russell, The Frozen Pirate
type:
quotation
text:
Why you're another bird that's fat again. No competition that's, that's the send.
ref:
2017 November 7, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”performed by Soph Aspin
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An operation in which data is transmitted.
An icon (usually on a computer screen and labeled with the word "Send") on which one clicks (with a mouse or its equivalent) or taps to transmit an email or other electronic message.
Alternative form of scend
A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.
A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
nautical
transport
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
1772 | word:
skill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
skill (countable and uncountable, plural skills)
forms:
form:
skills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
skill
etymology_text:
From Middle English skill, skille (also schil, schile), from Old English scille and Old Norse skil (“a distinction, discernment, knowledge”), from Proto-Germanic *skilją (“separation, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Danish skel (“a separation, boundary, divide”), Swedish skäl (“reason”), Dutch verschil (“difference”) and schillen (“to separate the outer layer (schil) from the product”, verb).
senses_examples:
text:
Where did you pick up that skill?
type:
example
text:
With great skill, she navigated through the tricky passage.
type:
example
text:
Doing that coaching course not only taught me useful skills on the field, but also some important life skills.
type:
example
text:
The skill was not in creating a grid full of words, but in producing clues cryptic enough to baffle the puzzler, yet constructed so honestly that they could be solved by any intelligent person who knew the conventions.
ref:
2013 November 26, Simon Hoggart, “Araucaria's last puzzle: crossword master dies”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 26, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
'I kenna whatna man ye are,' he says, 'but ye have the skill of lassies' hearts. Tell me truly, is there no way to win her to common love?'
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.
Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
Knowledge; understanding.
Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
senses_topics:
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1773 | word:
skill
word_type:
adj
expansion:
skill (comparative skiller, superlative skillest)
forms:
form:
skiller
tags:
comparative
form:
skillest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
skill
etymology_text:
From Middle English skill, skille (also schil, schile), from Old English scille and Old Norse skil (“a distinction, discernment, knowledge”), from Proto-Germanic *skilją (“separation, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Danish skel (“a separation, boundary, divide”), Swedish skäl (“reason”), Dutch verschil (“difference”) and schillen (“to separate the outer layer (schil) from the product”, verb).
senses_examples:
text:
Well, unfortunately for you, my dearest Waggipoos, I'm much more skill than you!
ref:
1987 June, Teresa Maughan, “Letters”, in Your Sinclair, number 18
type:
quotation
text:
This game is skill. Remember that because it's going to sound really complicated.
ref:
1991, Wreckers (video game review in Crash issue 88, May 1991)
text:
And I am skiller than you.
ref:
1999, Andy Smith, “I am well skill”, in alt.digitiser (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Great, excellent.
senses_topics:
|
1774 | word:
skill
word_type:
verb
expansion:
skill (third-person singular simple present skills, present participle skilling, simple past and past participle skilled)
forms:
form:
skills
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
skilling
tags:
participle
present
form:
skilled
tags:
participle
past
form:
skilled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
skill
etymology_text:
From Middle English skilen (also schillen), partly from Old English scilian (“to separate, part, divide off”); and partly from Old Norse skilja (“to divide, separate”); both from Proto-Germanic *skilōną, *skiljaną (“to divide, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Danish skille (“to separate, discard”), Swedish skilja (“to distinguish, differentiate, part”), Icelandic skilja (“to understand”), Low German schelen (“to make a difference; to be squint-eyed”), Dutch schelen (“to make a difference”).
senses_examples:
text:
I cannot skill of these Thy ways […]
ref:
1633, George Herbert, “Justice”, in The Temple
type:
quotation
text:
As for the virginals I have none here that skill of them, except the young lord.
ref:
1613, Breadalbane Letters, Documents
type:
quotation
text:
17th century, Isaac Barrow, “On Industry in Our Particular Calling as Scholars,”
[…] to skill the arts of expressing our mind and imparting our conceptions with advantage, so as to instruct or persuade others […]
text:
So then the whole scripture of God, being true, whence soever this be delivered and gathered, it skilleth not […]
ref:
1592, Richard Turnbull, An Exposition upon the Canonicall Epistle of Saint Jude, London: John Windet, Sermon 5, p. 67
type:
quotation
text:
What skills it, if a bag of stones or gold
About thy neck do drown thee?
ref:
1633, George Herbert, “The Church Porch”, in The Temple
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To set apart; separate.
To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
To know; to understand.
To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
To make a difference; signify; matter.
To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
senses_topics:
video-games |
1775 | word:
Turks and Caicos Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
Turks and Caicos Islands
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago and overseas territory in the United Kingdom, in the Caribbean, abbreviated as TCI.
senses_topics:
|
1776 | word:
accentuate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accentuate (third-person singular simple present accentuates, present participle accentuating, simple past and past participle accentuated)
forms:
form:
accentuates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accentuating
tags:
participle
present
form:
accentuated
tags:
participle
past
form:
accentuated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in 1731.
* (emphasize): First attested in 1865.
* From Medieval Latin accentuātus, past participle of accentuāre, from Latin accentus.
senses_examples:
text:
our danger and insolation only accentuated the incompatibility
ref:
1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds/Book 2/Chapter 3
type:
quotation
text:
These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.
ref:
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
type:
quotation
text:
Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the batteries were sufficiently recharged.
ref:
1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 159
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.
To bring out distinctly; to make more noticeable or prominent; to emphasize.
To mark with a written accent.
senses_topics:
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1777 | word:
acidosis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acidosis (countable and uncountable, plural acidoses)
forms:
form:
acidoses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acid + -osis.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An abnormally increased acidity of the blood.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences |
1778 | word:
Yemen
word_type:
name
expansion:
Yemen
forms:
wikipedia:
Yemen
etymology_text:
From Arabic اَلْيَمَن (al-yaman), from Proto-Semitic *yamīn- (“right; right hand”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East. Official name: Republic of Yemen. Capital: Sanaa.
A region in the southern Arabian Peninsula; the Arabia Felix.
senses_topics:
|
1779 | word:
accomplish
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accomplish (third-person singular simple present accomplishes, present participle accomplishing, simple past and past participle accomplished)
forms:
form:
accomplishes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accomplishing
tags:
participle
present
form:
accomplished
tags:
participle
past
form:
accomplished
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English accomplisshen, acomplissen, from Old French acompliss-, extended stem of acomplir (Modern French accomplir), from Vulgar Latin *(ac)complīre, from Latin complēre (“fill up/out, complete”, whence English complete).
First attested in the late 14th century.
senses_examples:
text:
to accomplish a design, an object, a promise
type:
example
text:
It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it.
ref:
1638, John Wilkins, The Discovery of a World in the Moone
type:
quotation
text:
These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman.
ref:
1863, Charles Cowden Clarke, Shakespeare's Characters
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To finish successfully.
To complete, as time or distance.
To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.
To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
To gain; to obtain.
to fill out a form.
senses_topics:
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1780 | word:
food
word_type:
noun
expansion:
food (usually uncountable, plural foods)
forms:
form:
foods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fode, foode, from Old English fōda (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdō, from Proto-Germanic *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”).
Cognate with Scots fuid (“food”), Low German föde, vöde (“food”), West Frisian fiedsel (“food”), Dutch voedsel (“food”) Danish føde (“food”), Swedish föda (“food”), Icelandic fæða, fæði (“food”), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (fōdeins, “food”), Latin pānis (“bread, food”), Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, verb). Related to fodder, foster.
senses_examples:
text:
The innkeeper brought them food and drink.
type:
example
text:
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
ref:
2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3
type:
quotation
text:
Variation and changes in the trans fatty acid content of different foods, especially in processed foods, further complicate such estimates.
ref:
2006, C Williams, J Buttriss, Improving the Fat Content of Foods, page 492
type:
quotation
text:
The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought.
type:
example
text:
Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
type:
example
text:
In this moment there is life and food / For future years.
ref:
1798, William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey
type:
quotation
text:
What kind of things that you have. When I find out don't expect me to stop. I'll come for the P's that you stack. And come for the food that you blot.
ref:
2009 March 17, “Next Hype” (track 3), in All-Star Pars, performed by Tempa T
type:
quotation
text:
I'm so London, I'm so south / Food in the ends like there ain't no drought / Flipz don't talk like he's got no mouth
ref:
2015, Stormzy (lyrics and music), “Shut Up” (track 15), in Gang Signs & Prayer, performed by Stormzy
type:
quotation
text:
[Verse 2:Kano]:If you've been shotting in the manor from way back when and you ain't on a kilo ting, I don't wanna hear about cunch and food and tings, man don't do those tings.
ref:
2016 March 4, “3 Wheel-Ups” (track 4), in Made in the Manor, performed by Kano (British musician),Giggs (rapper),Wiley (musician)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
A foodstuff.
Anything that nourishes or sustains.
Any illegal substance or illegal substances, drugs.
senses_topics:
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1781 | word:
acidify
word_type:
verb
expansion:
acidify (third-person singular simple present acidifies, present participle acidifying, simple past and past participle acidified)
forms:
form:
acidifies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
acidifying
tags:
participle
present
form:
acidified
tags:
participle
past
form:
acidified
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acid + -ify, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”); compare French acidifier.
senses_examples:
text:
to acidify sugar
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make something (more) acidic or sour; to convert into an acid.
To neutralize alkalis.
To sour; to embitter.
senses_topics:
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1782 | word:
amigo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
amigo (plural amigos, feminine amiga)
forms:
form:
amigos
tags:
plural
form:
amiga
tags:
feminine
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish amigo (“friend”), from Latin amīcus (“friend”), derived from amāre (“to love”). Compare French ami, Italian amico, Portuguese amigo and Romanian amic. Doublet of amicus.
senses_examples:
text:
I don’t remember electing you dictator, amigo.
ref:
1989, Dan Simmons, Hyperion, London: Headline, published 1991, page 247
type:
quotation
text:
Chillin' in a Benz with my amigos / Tryin' to stick a nigga for his pesos
ref:
1996, “No Time”, in Hard Core, performed by Lil' Kim ft. Diddy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A friend.
Mexican.
A native of the Philippines who was friendly toward the Spanish.
senses_topics:
|
1783 | word:
capsid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
capsid (plural capsids)
forms:
form:
capsids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French capside.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The outer protein shell of a virus
senses_topics:
|
1784 | word:
religion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
religion (countable and uncountable, plural religions)
forms:
form:
religions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
religion
etymology_text:
From Middle English religioun, from Old French religion, from Latin religiō (“scrupulousness, pious misgivings, superstition, conscientiousness, sanctity, an object of veneration, cult-observance, reverence”). Most likely from the Proto-Indo-European *h₂leg- with the meanings preserved in Latin dīligere and legere (“to read repeatedly”, “to have something solely in mind”). Displaced Old English ǣfæstnes (“religion, lawfulness”).
senses_examples:
text:
Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
text:
My brother tends to value religion, but my sister not as much.
type:
example
text:
Phallicism was, therefore, at the root of all religion, and was definitely the opponent of evil and darkness.
ref:
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 160
type:
quotation
text:
Religion is not identical with spirituality; rather, religion is the form spirituality takes in a civilization; it is not so much the opiate of the masses as it is the antidote for the poisons of civilization.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 103
type:
quotation
text:
Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
text:
Near-synonyms: credo, creed
text:
Islam is a major religion, particularly in North Africa and Southwest Asia.
type:
example
text:
Mormonism is a new religion, while Zoroastrianism is an old one.
type:
example
text:
Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country: and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.
ref:
1722, William Wollaston, “Sect. V. Truths relating to the Deity. Of his exiſtence, perfection, providence, &c.”, in The Religion of Nature Delineated, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
Priest: I wasn't being rude.
Father: Just bear in mind that there are plenty of other religions you know. Some of them, I may say, offering much greater range and value.
ref:
1989 February 10, Stephen Fry et al., “Christening”, in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, season 1, episode 5
type:
quotation
text:
The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.
type:
example
text:
I think some Christians would love Jesus more if they weren't so stuck in religion.
type:
example
text:
Jack's spiritual, but he's not really into religion.
type:
example
text:
At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion.
type:
example
text:
'Religion can't exist without mystery, especially science, the newest religion.'
ref:
1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 97
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
senses_topics:
|
1785 | word:
religion
word_type:
verb
expansion:
religion (third-person singular simple present religions, present participle religioning, simple past and past participle religioned)
forms:
form:
religions
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
religioning
tags:
participle
present
form:
religioned
tags:
participle
past
form:
religioned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
religion
etymology_text:
From Middle English religioun, from Old French religion, from Latin religiō (“scrupulousness, pious misgivings, superstition, conscientiousness, sanctity, an object of veneration, cult-observance, reverence”). Most likely from the Proto-Indo-European *h₂leg- with the meanings preserved in Latin dīligere and legere (“to read repeatedly”, “to have something solely in mind”). Displaced Old English ǣfæstnes (“religion, lawfulness”).
senses_examples:
text:
On the scales below, circle the one ( + ) or (-) number which best represents your situation on both the belief and practice dimensions for each of the traditional and nontraditional forms of religioning.
ref:
1978, Military Chaplains' Review, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
A similar caution is made by Nye when he calls for a re-evaluation of the category of religion in relationship to theory and method, suggesting that this category: be reconstructed in terms of practice theory as religious practice or religioning.
ref:
2013, Monica R. Miller, Religion and Hip Hop, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
Religious practice and action (“religioning”) can be liberating, and can connect displaced people with the spirits of home.
ref:
2015, Alexander Horstmann, Jin-Heon Jung, Building Noah’s Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
To men whose minds are thus religioned, tied back to gods that never advance, there can never be any such word as progress
ref:
1890, John R. Kelso, Deity analyzed: In six lectures - Page 37
text:
What do you do, Donnigan? Spend all yer time religioning yer young?
ref:
2007, Janette Oke, A Bride for Donnigan, page 225
type:
quotation
text:
The discussion of diet and health raises the question of the importance of discussing vegetarianism in relation to the contemporary religioning of health; as Ross remarks, 'health has replaced sexuality as the new privileged discourse of bodily truth and inner essence'.
ref:
1994, Timothy Morton, Shelley and the Revolution in Taste, page 238
type:
quotation
text:
The ideas expressed above challenge us to continuously rupture and interrupt racialized, classed, gendered, religioned and sexualized norms that inhere between and within institutions, understandings of bodies and our Selves.
ref:
2011, Andrew O'Shea, Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate, p 116
text:
If queer Jews, Muslims and Christians are engaged in queering their religions, they are also engaged in what might becalled 'religioning' the queer.
ref:
2013, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, Stephen Hunt, The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Engage in religious practice.
Indoctrinate into a specific religion.
To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify.
senses_topics:
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1786 | word:
Uganda
word_type:
name
expansion:
Uganda
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”), possibly from Proto-Bantu *-ganda (“family”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Uganda.
senses_topics:
|
1787 | word:
point
word_type:
noun
expansion:
point (plural points)
forms:
form:
points
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English poynt, from Old French point m (“dot; minute amount”), from Latin pūnctum (“a hole punched in; a point, puncture”), substantive use of pūnctus m, perfect passive participle of pungō (“I prick, punch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“prick, punch”)); alternatively, from Old French pointe f (“sharp tip”), from Latin pūncta f (past participle). Displaced native Middle English ord (“point”), from Old English ord (“point”). Doublet of pointe, punctum, punt, and punto.
senses_examples:
text:
The stars showed as tiny points of yellow light.
type:
example
text:
Commas and points they set exactly right.
ref:
1735, Alexander Pope, The Prologue to the Satires
type:
quotation
text:
10.5 is "ten point five", or ten and a half.
type:
example
text:
The Congress debated the finer points of the bill.
type:
example
text:
There comes a point in a marathon when some people give up.
type:
example
text:
At this point in the meeting, I'd like to propose a new item for the agenda.
type:
example
text:
She was not feeling in good point.
type:
example
text:
I made the point that we all had an interest to protect.
type:
example
text:
The point is that we should stay together, whatever happens.
type:
example
text:
Since the decision has already been made, I see little point in further discussion.
type:
example
text:
But I love you / More than I wanted to / There's no point in trying to pretend
ref:
1983 October 31, Genesis, “That's All”, in Genesis
type:
quotation
text:
We're all gonna die
What's the point in life
What's the point in life if we all die?
ref:
2023, “What's the Point in Life”, in Killjoy, performed by Coach Party
type:
quotation
text:
full large of limbe and euery ioint / He was, and cared not for God or man a point.
ref:
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii
type:
quotation
text:
When time's first point begun / Made he all souls.
ref:
1599, John Davies, “Of the Soule of Man and the Immortalitie Thereof”, in Nosce Teipsum
type:
quotation
text:
We should meet at a pre-arranged point.
type:
example
text:
Logic isn't my strong point.
type:
example
text:
the points of a horse
text:
Knowledge was always useful, and he had frequently heard the words 'Great Portland Street' on the lips of his son, who regularly perused all the twelve automobilistic papers, and who was apparently the most learned pundit and inclusive encyclopædia ever created on the subject of petrol-driven vehicles, their prices, and their innumerable points.
ref:
1931, Arnold Bennett, The Night Visitor and Other Stories, page 290
type:
quotation
text:
The point color of that cat was a deep, rich sable.
type:
example
text:
Possession is nine points of the law.
type:
example
text:
We have yet to touch on the idea of stars and directors receiving gross points, which is a percentage of the studio's gross dollar (e.g., the $5.00 studio share of the total box office dollar in Table 4.1). Even if the points are paid on "first dollar," the reference is only to studio share.
ref:
2013, Louise Levison, Filmmakers and Financing: Business Plans for Independents, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
The one with the most points will win the game.
type:
example
text:
This attack deals 320 points of damage.
type:
example
text:
Defeating the boss grants 60 experience points.
type:
example
text:
Ship ahoy, three points off the starboard bow!
type:
example
text:
Cut the skin with the point of the knife.
type:
example
text:
Solutrean points resemble the canines of the sabre-toothed cats.
ref:
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History
type:
quotation
text:
His cowboy belt was studded with points.
type:
example
text:
"When do we pull the trigger?" he asked. I was quick to respond, "If Tammy get's Mrs. Wellington to agree, she'll call you in a couple hours. Then just pull out all stops. Tammy has point on this, I don't want to hear from you unless it's an all clear."
ref:
2013, Erik Schubach, Music of the Soul, volume 1
type:
quotation
text:
The president’s senior policy adviser, Stephen Miller, has been point on immigration policy.
ref:
2018 July 2, Paul Winfree, “Trump’s economic agenda is unfocused. Here’s how to fix it.”, in Washington Post
type:
quotation
text:
He captained Regis High School’s 1958 squad, but now runs point on infectious diseases.
ref:
2020 July 23, Gabe Lacques, “Dr. Anthony Fauci throws first pitch at Nationals-Yankees MLB opener”, in USA TODAY
type:
quotation
text:
Instead of one point-person taking all the parents’ questions, WPSD has “put together coaches and ambassadors to handle calls so one person doesn’t have to handle 2,500 calls,” Woolf said.
ref:
2020 August 11, Michelle Karas, “Woodland Park School District plans for Aug. 25 reopening with multiple learning options”, in Pikes Peak Courier
type:
quotation
text:
to fall off a point
type:
example
text:
There was moreover a hint of the duchess in the infinite point with which, as she felt, she exclaimed: "And this is what you call coming often?"
ref:
1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew
type:
quotation
text:
The point, according to Edmondson, (meaning the point pointed,) is an ordinary somewhat resembling the pile, issuing from the base, as in Plate VII. fig. 24, and is sometimes termed a base point pointed, but the word base is superfluous, as that is the proper place of the point;[…]
ref:
1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry
type:
quotation
text:
[…] DCDP children are exposed to more points and gesturelike signs in their linguistic environment […]
ref:
2005, Marc Marschark, Patricia Elizabeth Spencer, Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education
type:
quotation
text:
The dog came to a point.
type:
example
text:
tierce point
type:
example
text:
point de Venise; Brussels point
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small dot or mark.
Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
A small dot or mark.
A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
A small dot or mark.
A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
A small dot or mark.
Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
A small dot or mark.
A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
A small dot or mark.
A note; a tune.
A small dot or mark.
A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
Condition, state.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
The smallest quantity of something; a jot, a whit.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
A tiny amount of time; a moment.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
The chief or excellent features.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
Short for percentage point.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
A unit of various numerical parameters used in a game, e.g. health, experience, stamina, mana.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
An electric power socket.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
A small discrete division or individual feature of something.
Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
A sharp extremity.
The sharp tip of an object.
A sharp extremity.
Any projecting extremity of an object.
A sharp extremity.
An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
A spearhead or similar object hafted to a handle.
A sharp extremity.
An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
A vaccine point.
A sharp extremity.
An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
A sharp extremity.
Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
A sharp extremity.
A peninsula or promontory.
A sharp extremity.
The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
A sharp extremity.
The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
Short for point man.
A sharp extremity.
Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
A sharp extremity.
The difference between two points of the compass.
A sharp extremity.
Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
A sharp extremity.
A railroad switch.
A sharp extremity.
A tine or snag of an antler.
A sharp extremity.
One of the "corners" of the escutcheon: the base (bottom center) unless a qualifier is added (point dexter, point dexter base, point sinister, point sinister base), generally when separately tinctured. (Compare terrace, point champaine, enté en point.)
A sharp extremity.
An ordinary similar to a pile (but sometimes shorter), extending upward from the base. (Often termed a point pointed.)
The act of pointing.
The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
The act of pointing.
The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
The act of pointing.
The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
The act of pointing.
The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
The act of pointing.
A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
Lace worked by the needle.
In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
The position of the pitcher and catcher.
In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
mathematics
sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
video-games
video-games
economics
sciences
media
publishing
typography
nautical
transport
automotive
transport
vehicles
archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
medicine
sciences
backgammon
games
nautical
transport
rail-transport
railways
transport
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
nautical
transport
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
ice-hockey
lacrosse
lifestyle
skating
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle |
1788 | word:
point
word_type:
verb
expansion:
point (third-person singular simple present points, present participle pointing, simple past and past participle pointed)
forms:
form:
points
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pointing
tags:
participle
present
form:
pointed
tags:
participle
past
form:
pointed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pointen, poynten, from Old French pointier, pointer, poynter, from point from Latin pūnctum.
senses_examples:
text:
It's rude to point at other people.
type:
example
text:
Luiz struggled with the movement of Helguson in the box, as he collected a long ball and the Spaniard barged him over, leaving referee Chris Foy little option but to point to the spot.
ref:
2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The arrow of a compass points north
type:
example
text:
The skis were pointing uphill.
type:
example
text:
The arrow on the map points towards the entrance
type:
example
text:
In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
ref:
2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort
type:
example
text:
Mr. Fitzsimons pointed my attention to an outside car on which was written, "Take warning," or something of that kind, and he pointed that out to me, and drew my attention to it, as a thing likely to intimidate […]
ref:
1853, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, volume 11, page 267
type:
quotation
text:
to point a dart, a pencil, or (figuratively) a moral
type:
example
text:
Tens of thousands of Portuguese, Greek and Irish people have left their homelands this year, many heading for the southern hemisphere. Anecdotal evidence points to the same happening in Spain and Italy.
ref:
2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Damaged stone will be removed, and the new stone installed and pointed to ensure a comprehensive match to maintain the integrity of the structure.
ref:
2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in Rail, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
If he asks for food, point him toward the refrigerator.
type:
example
text:
to point a composition
type:
example
text:
Bear off a little, we're pointing.
type:
example
text:
‘Oh, it is the great defect in our Indian character!’ – and, as if to point his criticism, the lights of the Civil Station appeared on a rise to the right.
ref:
1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 85
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
To face in a particular direction.
To direct toward an object; to aim.
To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
To indicate a probability of something.
To repair mortar.
To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
To mark with diacritics.
To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
To sail close to the wind.
To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
To approximate to the surface; to head.
To give point to (something said or done); to give particular prominence or force to.
senses_topics:
business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
mathematics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
nautical
transport
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
|
1789 | word:
point
word_type:
verb
expansion:
point (third-person singular simple present points, present participle pointing, simple past and past participle pointed)
forms:
form:
points
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pointing
tags:
participle
present
form:
pointed
tags:
participle
past
form:
pointed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pointen, poynten, by apheresis of apointen, appointen, appoynten. See appoint.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To appoint.
senses_topics:
|
1790 | word:
absorption
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absorption (countable and uncountable, plural absorptions)
forms:
form:
absorptions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1597. From Latin absorptiō (“a sucking in”), from absorbeō (“absorb”). Morphologically absorb + -tion.
senses_examples:
text:
the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger
type:
example
text:
the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool
type:
example
text:
the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.
type:
example
text:
absorption in some employment
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or process of absorbing or of being absorbed as,
engulfing; swallowing up, as of bodies or land.
The act or process of absorbing or of being absorbed as,
assimilation; incorporation.
The act or process of absorbing or of being absorbed as,
the imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action, of radiant energy; the process of being neutrons being absorbed by the nucleus; interception.
The act or process of absorbing or of being absorbed as,
The process in which incident radiant energy is retained by a substance (such as an air mass) by conversion to some other form of energy (such as heat).
The act or process of absorbing or of being absorbed as,
in living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs; taking in by various means, such as by osmosis.
Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind.
Mental assimilation.
The retaining of electrical energy for a short time after it has been introduced to the dielectric.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
medicine
physiology
sciences
business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
1791 | word:
Sudan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sudan or the Sudan (countable and uncountable, plural Sudans)
forms:
form:
Sudan
tags:
canonical
form:
the Sudan
tags:
canonical
form:
Sudans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic سُودَان (sūdān, “black people”), plural of أَسْوَد (ʔaswad).
senses_examples:
text:
Often used with the definite article "the".
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in North Africa and East Africa.
Turkish Sudan; autonym Turkiyyah; Sudan under the Eyalet of Egypt, from 1820 to 1885
A country in North Africa and East Africa.
Mahdist State, also known as Mahdist Sudan or the Sudanese Mahdiyya, from 1885 to 1898
A country in North Africa and East Africa.
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt from 1899 to 1955
A country in North Africa and East Africa.
Republic of the Sudan, since 1955
A country in North Africa and East Africa.
A climatic zone characterized by savannas and mosaic forests running in a belt just south of the Sahel in West and East Africa
Mali (when it was under French colonial rule as Soudan).
A minor city in Lamb County, Texas, United States, apparently named after the African region.
senses_topics:
|
1792 | word:
absorbent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absorbent (comparative more absorbent, superlative most absorbent)
forms:
form:
more absorbent
tags:
comparative
form:
most absorbent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin absorbēns, present active participle of absorbeō (“absorb”).
senses_examples:
text:
Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent. That was quite a spill.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive.
senses_topics:
|
1793 | word:
absorbent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absorbent (plural absorbents)
forms:
form:
absorbents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin absorbēns, present active participle of absorbeō (“absorb”).
senses_examples:
text:
In the Southern Ocean the winter is not so excessively cold, but the summer is far less hot, for the clouded sky seldom allows the sun to warm the ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat: and hence the mean temperature of the year […] is low.
ref:
1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, page 225, Forgotten Books
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Anything which absorbs.
The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance, e.g., iodine, which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.
senses_topics:
medicine
physiology
sciences
medicine
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
1794 | word:
and
word_type:
conj
expansion:
and
forms:
wikipedia:
and
etymology_text:
From Middle English and, an, from Old English and, ond, end, from Proto-West Germanic *andi, from Proto-Germanic *andi, *anþi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti (“facing opposite, near, in front of, before”). Cognate with Scots an (“and”), North Frisian en (“and”), West Frisian en, in (“and”), Low German un (“and”), Dutch en (“and”), German und (“and”), Danish end (“but”), Swedish än (“yet, but”), Icelandic and Norwegian enn (“still, yet”), Albanian edhe (“and”) (dialectal ênde, ênne), ende (“still, yet, therefore”), Latin ante (“opposite, in front of”), and Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “opposite, facing”). Doublet of an ("if").
senses_examples:
text:
Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]
ref:
c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11
text:
‘The UKBA has some serious explaining to do if it is routinely carrying out such abusive and unlawful inspections.’
ref:
2011 November 5, Mark Townsend, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
When she saw several boys carrying a huge wooden case full of porcelain, she mumbled to Jinming that she was going to have a look, and left the room.
ref:
1991, Jung Chang, Wild Swans
type:
quotation
text:
"Consensus is essential for the country," he said, adding that he was not "tied" to his post and was willing to step aside.
ref:
2011 November 5, Helena Smith, Tom Kington, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
‘But if you think you can get it, Christian, you're a fool. Set one foot upcountry and I'll kill you.’
ref:
1996, David Beasley, Chocolate for the Poor
type:
quotation
text:
One more error and all the good work she had done on Friday would be for nought.
ref:
2004 August 22, Will Buckley, The Observer
type:
quotation
text:
2007: Jimmy Carr, 8 out of 10 Cats, 13th day of July episode
Romance is dead; men killed it, and made women clean up the mess.
text:
The One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
ref:
1956, Dodie Smith, (title)
text:
Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!
ref:
1939, Langley, Ryerson & Woolf, The Wizard of Oz (screenplay)
text:
He was at work in a nearby city when the tsunami struck. ‘As soon as I saw it, I called home. It rang and rang, but there was no answer.’
ref:
2011 March 18, Jonathan Watts, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The word "capable" occurs in Mr. Fisher's Bill, and rightly, because our mental and physical capacities are infinitely varied.
ref:
1918, George W. E. Russell, Prime Ministers and Some Others
type:
quotation
text:
President Pervez Musharraf is undoubtedly sincere in his belief that he, and he alone, can save Pakistan from the twin perils of terrorism and anarchy.
ref:
2008 January 29, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
‘And, Vera,’ added Mrs. Durmot, turning to her sixteen-year-old niece, ‘be careful what colour ribbon you wear in your hair[…].’
ref:
1914, Saki, ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts
type:
quotation
text:
Remember and help yourself to the soup! called Gavin.
ref:
1989, James Kelman, A Disaffection
type:
quotation
text:
Undoubtedly every party makes mistakes. But there are mistakes and mistakes.
ref:
1936, The Labour Monthly, volume XVIII
type:
quotation
text:
"There are managers and there are managers," he tells me. "I'm totally involved in every aspect of Nina's career."
ref:
1972, Esquire, volume LXXVIII
type:
quotation
text:
‘Nobody attempts to dispute that two and two make four: but with contests concerning moral truth, human passions are generally mixed[…].’
ref:
1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson
type:
quotation
text:
‘Can you do Addition?’ the White Queen asked. ‘What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?’
ref:
1871, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
type:
quotation
text:
"Where ys Sir Launcelot?" seyde King Arthure. "And he were here, he wolde nat grucche to do batayle for you."
ref:
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII
type:
quotation
text:
"And he went slower," Mike said softly, "he go better."
ref:
1958, Shirley Ann Grau, The Hard Blue Sky
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
Yet; but.
As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often omitted in US); to connect fractions to wholes.
As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, go and try.
As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
Expressing a condition.
If; provided that.
Expressing a condition.
As if, as though.
Connecting two well-formed formulas to create a new well-formed formula that requires it to only be true when both of the two formulas are true.
senses_topics:
heading
heading
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences |
1795 | word:
and
word_type:
noun
expansion:
and (plural ands)
forms:
form:
ands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
and
etymology_text:
From Middle English and, an, from Old English and, ond, end, from Proto-West Germanic *andi, from Proto-Germanic *andi, *anþi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti (“facing opposite, near, in front of, before”). Cognate with Scots an (“and”), North Frisian en (“and”), West Frisian en, in (“and”), Low German un (“and”), Dutch en (“and”), German und (“and”), Danish end (“but”), Swedish än (“yet, but”), Icelandic and Norwegian enn (“still, yet”), Albanian edhe (“and”) (dialectal ênde, ênne), ende (“still, yet, therefore”), Latin ante (“opposite, in front of”), and Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “opposite, facing”). Doublet of an ("if").
senses_examples:
text:
The same goes for measure 42, when you begin the phrase on the and of 1, because that kind of lick can easily bog down the time.
ref:
2006, Gordon Goodwin, Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band: Trumpet, page 51
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
1796 | word:
and
word_type:
noun
expansion:
and (plural ands)
forms:
form:
ands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
and
etymology_text:
From Middle English ande, from Old English anda (“grudge, enmity, malice, envy, hatred, anger, zeal, annoyance, vexation; zeal; injury, mischief; fear, horror”) and Old Norse andi (“breath, wind, spirit”); both from Proto-Germanic *anadô (“breath, anger, zeal”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”).
Cognate with German Ahnd, And (“woe, grief”), Danish ånde (“breath”), Swedish anda, ande (“spirit, breath, wind, ingenuity, intellect”), Icelandic andi (“spirit”), Albanian ëndë (“pleasure, delight”), Latin animus (“spirit, soul”). Related to onde.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Breath.
Sea smoke; steam fog.
senses_topics:
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1797 | word:
and
word_type:
verb
expansion:
and (third-person singular simple present ands, present participle anding, simple past and past participle anded)
forms:
form:
ands
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
anding
tags:
participle
present
form:
anded
tags:
participle
past
form:
anded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
and
etymology_text:
From Middle English anden, from Old English andian (“to be envious or jealous, envy”) and Old Norse anda (“to breathe”); both from Proto-Germanic *anadōną (“to breathe, sputter”). Cognate with German ahnden (“to avenge, punish”), Danish ånde (“to breathe”), Swedish andas (“to breathe”), Icelandic anda (“to breathe”). See above.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
senses_topics:
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1798 | word:
autumn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
autumn (countable and uncountable, plural autumns)
forms:
form:
autumns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Autumn Harvest Uprising
Autumnfest
German Autumn
Hot Autumn
Lacus Autumni
autumn
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English autumpne, from Middle French automne, from Old French automne, autonne, from Latin autumnus.
Some verb senses are from Latin autumnāre.
senses_examples:
text:
autumn leaves
type:
example
text:
She has beauty still, and if it be not in its heyday, it is not yet in its autumn.
ref:
1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House
type:
quotation
text:
It has been portrayed as the well-intended yet wrongly directed reaction to latter-day scholasticism, or as the harvest of medieval theology in its autumn years, as a revolution that is theological, political, economic, cultural—or all of the above.
ref:
2014, Robert Kolb, Irene Dingel, Lubomír Batka, The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology
type:
quotation
text:
Unlike the decline of British hegemony, in the current world-system no military or economic contender has emerged to replace US hegemony. Even though the US SCA has entered its autumn with the Vietname War and the economic crisis of the mid-1970s, there has been no legitimate hegemonic contender capable of instituting a new global regime to resolve both social and economic contradictions of global capitalism.
ref:
2014, Berch Berberoglu, The Global Capitalist Crisis and Its Aftermath
type:
quotation
text:
The autumn of life is also a matter of saying farewell, but the strange thing is that I do not feel it is autumn.
ref:
2014, May Sarton, At Seventy: A Journal
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves; typically regarded as being from September 24 to December 22 in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.
The time period when someone or something is past its prime.
A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.
senses_topics:
fashion
lifestyle |
1799 | word:
autumn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
autumn (third-person singular simple present autumns, present participle autumning, simple past and past participle autumned)
forms:
form:
autumns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
autumning
tags:
participle
present
form:
autumned
tags:
participle
past
form:
autumned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
autumn
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English autumpne, from Middle French automne, from Old French automne, autonne, from Latin autumnus.
Some verb senses are from Latin autumnāre.
senses_examples:
text:
True it is that, owing to the migratory propensities of our countrymen, every third man has wintered at Naples, springed at Vienna, summered in Switzerland, and autumned on the banks of the Lago Maggiore;
ref:
1835 May, “Northern Germany. A Sketch.”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XI, number LXV, page 507
type:
quotation
text:
If Tad’s father and Tad had wintered, springed, summered, and autumned together for an hundred years instead of fifteen they could[…]
ref:
1912, William C[yrus] Sprague, Tad, the Story of a Boy who Had No Chance, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
They wintered in a warm place / And summered in a cold, / But where they springed and autumned / I never have been told.
ref:
1937, Mortimer Jones, “Lines of No Importance”, in The Alphi Phi Quarterly, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
Floyd Waggaman, the namesake of “Floyd’s Folly,” summered and autumned at Siasconset, which your columnist has been told is hard by Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, or one of the disenchanted isles.
ref:
1938 November 18, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume XXXIX, number 8, page 180
type:
quotation
text:
The major’s office, young pudgy Major Lewis whose wife once offered Joe a bag of peanuts and who summered in New England and early-autumned in New York.
ref:
1944, O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
She springed in London, summered in Stockholm, autumned at Vichy, and wintered at Monte Carlo.
ref:
1950, Chambers’s Journal, page 269
type:
quotation
text:
I have summered and autumned (fallen?) on the North Fork for forty-two years.
ref:
1980, Alistair Cooke, The Americans: Letters from America on Our Life and Times, 1969-79, page 264
type:
quotation
text:
In recent years his friend the fourth-quarter king summered, autumned, and springed in nearby Southern California, which was how they stayed so easily in touch.
ref:
2006, Tim Pratt, “The Third-Quarter King”, in Jonathan Strahan, Jeremy G Byrne, editors, Eidolon I, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
Larry and Bill had planned to hold a white-linen “fancy” fund-raiser dinner in late June or early July, which would bring out the moneyed crowd who “summered” on the Island. If you summer or winter somewhere you are affluent, Larry knew. (Funny, though, he had never heard of anyone who “autumned” in Vermont or who was “springing” in Colorado.)
ref:
2010, Larry Stettner, Bill Morrison, Cooking for the Common Good: The Birth of a Natural Foods Soup Kitchen, Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
So when she summered with her family in the Mediterranean, she sailed across the ocean from New York, and when she autumned in Maine, her chauffeur drove her ten hours north through the foliage, and when winter thawed and it was time again for spring training, she met her Mets in Florida after a long journey down the coast by train.
ref:
2021, Devin Gordon, So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets—the Best Worst Team in Sports, Harper
type:
quotation
text:
The glistening path where weeds had clung, / And tumbled bushes lay, / Was hidden now, but yet there rung / Tones of an autumned May.[…]And cheers rang out, the song and shout, / For the fray had found its eve, / And pirate chief like autumned leaf, / O’er fallen pride did grieve!”
ref:
1886, Horace Eaton Walker, The Lady of Dardale and Other Poems, Manchester, N.H.: Browne & Rowe, pages 139 and 201
type:
quotation
text:
[…]he himself roamed with innocent Kate through the fast autumning woods[…]
ref:
1887, Virginia Sandars, “The Duke of Melton”, in London Society, volume LII, London: F. V. White & Co., page 185
type:
quotation
text:
She turns off towards the river, where the lawns lie autumned on the banks between the frayed golden willow branches.
ref:
2003, Antjie Krog, A Change of Tongue, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
[…]three quarters, two thirds of the flowering tops have changed colour and these are very resinous, solid buds and the colouration of the leaf, you can see how it’s yellowed off, it’s autumning, autumn has come if you would like to put it that way.
ref:
2008, Jeffrey Winterborne, Medical Marijuana / Cannabis Cultivation: Trees of Life at the University of London, Pukka Press, pages 249–250
type:
quotation
text:
Spirit of Autumn, When I grow tired of using my gifts to benefit others, take me to the autumned fields where earth freely yields the bounty of her summer.[…]All night a steady rain fell upon the autumned earth, moistening every dried crack of the bony summer, rinsing what lay tattered and soiled in the remnants of yesterday.
ref:
2018, Joyce Rupp, Anchors for the Soul: Daily Wisdom for Inspiration and Guidance, Notre Dame, Ind.: Sorin Books, pages 8 and 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To spend the autumn (in a particular place).
To undergo the changes associated with autumn, such as leaves changing color and falling from trees.
senses_topics:
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