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1800 | word:
autumn
word_type:
adj
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1801 | word:
accelerator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accelerator (plural accelerators)
forms:
form:
accelerators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in 1611.
* (motor vehicle): First attested in 1900.
* accelerate + -or
senses_examples:
text:
The Second World War is said to have been a great accelerator for many scientific findings.
type:
example
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As soon as you get onto the slipway, push the accelerator.
type:
example
text:
If they had allowed single-character accelerators, Windows wouldn't be able to determine whether the character was input or a shortcut.
ref:
2002, Davis Howard Chapman, Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++ .NET in 21 Days, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
In the nineties, before the accelerator era, startups were usually launched by mid-career engineers or repeat entrepreneurs, who sought millions in venture capital and then labored in secret on something complicated that took years to launch.
ref:
2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker
type:
quotation
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senses_glosses:
One who, or that which, accelerates.
A device for causing acceleration.
A substance which speeds up chemical reactions.
A pedal causing the vehicle to accelerate when it is pressed.
A chemical that reduces development time.
A device that accelerates charged subatomic particles; a particle accelerator.
A muscle or nerve that speeds the performance of an action.
An accelerator key.
A computer component using dedicated hardware to accelerate the processing and display of graphics.
A light van to take mails between a post office and a railway station.
A mentoring program for startup companies.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
medicine
physiology
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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1802 | word:
United States
word_type:
name
expansion:
the United States
forms:
form:
the United States
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
United States
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
As soon as the war in Europe had embraced those powers with whom the United States have the most extensive relations there was reason to apprehend that our intercourse with them might be interrupted and our disposition for peace drawn into question by the suspicions too often entertained by belligerent nations.
ref:
1793 December 3, George Washington, Fifth State of the Union Address
text:
As we have seen, people migrated to the United States for a variety of reasons. But nearly all shared two great hopes: the hope for personal freedom and the hope for economic opportunity.
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1964, John F. Kennedy, “The Immigrant Contribution”, in A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
I used to have a sign on my desk that said, "The Buck Stops Here." The buck stops at the president's desk when he's president of the United States, and he either makes the decisions or he lets them go by default, and you can't afford to do that when you're president.
ref:
1965, Harry S. Truman, 0:26 from the start, in MP2002-401 Former President Truman Discusses "The Buck Stops Here", Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162, archived from the original on 2021-02-02
type:
quotation
text:
“King Homer” follows the story of King Kong closely, with Mr. Burns taking the freakishly over-sized King Homer from his native Africa, where he lives proud as a simian god, to the United States, where he is an initially impressive but ultimately rather limited Broadway attraction.
ref:
2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
life in these United States
type:
example
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The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State. (Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, 1794)
type:
example
text:
Congress have no expectations from the influence which the people of England may have on the British counsels, whatever may be the disposition of that nation or their magistrates towards these United States.
ref:
1781, January 10, Samuel Huntington, letter to John Adams
text:
A tour of military duty has become an accepted part of life in these United States for physically and mentally fit young men. Existing regulations clearly outline the minimum physical standards, and mental standards are based on the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) which is a good objective measurement of ability to learn. There remains a significant group of men who meet these minimum physical and mental standards, and who enlist or are inducted into the armed services, but who are found to be unsuitable for service and shortly after entry are discharged.
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1955 February 24, William K. Goodspeed, William B. Buckingham, Oliver N. Evans, “The unsuitable enlisted seaman”, in United States Armed Forces Medical Journal, volume 6, number 2, page 244
type:
quotation
text:
the Republic of the United States of Brazil (the First Brazilian Republic)
type:
example
text:
the United States of Mexico (the United Mexican States)
type:
example
text:
the United States of Europe
type:
example
text:
the United States of the Ionian Islands
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of United States of America.
The collection of individual states of the United States of America.
Federal nation consisting of several states, actual, historical or hypothetical.
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1803 | word:
quotation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quotation (countable and uncountable, plural quotations)
forms:
form:
quotations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
quotation
etymology_text:
The obsolete sense of “quota”, from Medieval Latin quotatio, from Latin quotāre, is attested from the 15th century. The sense “fragment of verbal expression”, attested from the 17th century, may come from this source, or else from the verb quote + -ation.
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text:
"Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.
type:
example
text:
One of these preachers was a blacksmith, whose iron constitution had entirely given way, and the little strength that remained he exhausted in endless quotation of texts from the Bible.
ref:
1868, S[amuel] W[hite] Baker, “Arrival at Metemma, or Gallabat”, in Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia. The Sources, Supply, and Overflow of the Nile; the Country, People, Customs, etc. […], Hartford, Conn.: […] O[rlando] D[wight] Case & Co., page 523
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. [Augustine] Birrell has, as usual, quoted very liberally, and to excellent effect. Quotation is an art the difficulty of which may easily be underrated by paragraph-writers or by persons who do not write at all. You may say no end of wise things about a writer, and yet fail to convey a sense of the peculiar flavor for which you really value him. To insinuate a phrase or verse of our author into the midst of our own readable (because ephemeral) discourse, is all most of us may do, without giving our readers an unpalatable suspicion that they are being seduced into the perusal of a real author. Mr. Birrell quotes by the page, and we gratefully read every line because we are sure Mr. Birrell, at least, is incapable of asking us to read anything inconsequent or dull.
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1905 December, H[enry] W[alcott] Boynton, “Books New and Old”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XCVI, number 6, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, section I, page 844, columns 1–2
type:
quotation
text:
In his mature works, [Chinary] Ung pays regular homage to Cambodian music by evoking its ambience without resorting to quotation of specific Cambodian melodies.
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1992, David Tsang, “UNG, Chinary”, in edited by Brian Morton and Pamela Collins, Contemporary Composers, Chicago, Ill., London: St. James Press, page 936, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.
type:
example
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senses_glosses:
A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech.
The act of quoting someone or something.
A price that has been quoted for buying or selling.
The act of setting a price.
A quota, a share.
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1804 | word:
gp
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gp (plural gps)
forms:
form:
gps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
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Abbreviation of group.
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1805 | word:
accost
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accost (third-person singular simple present accosts, present participle accosting, simple past and past participle accosted)
forms:
form:
accosts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accosting
tags:
participle
present
form:
accosted
tags:
participle
past
form:
accosted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in the 1570s. From Old French accoster, from Vulgar Latin accosto (“to come alongside someone”), from ad (“near”) + costa (“rib, side”). Cognate with Spanish acostar (“to lie down, go to bed”).
senses_examples:
text:
You mistake, knight. ‘Accost’ is front / her, board her, woo her, assail her.
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c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 1, scene 3, lines 53–54
type:
quotation
text:
Him, Satan thus accosts.
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1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost, line 653
type:
quotation
text:
She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head. The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request—"She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink."
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1847, Charlotte Bronte, chapter XVIII, in Jane Eyre
type:
quotation
text:
For all the Shores, which to the Sea accost
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1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V”, in The Faerie Queene, canto 2, stanza XLII
type:
quotation
text:
Lapland hath since been often surrounded (so much as accosts the sea) by the English.
ref:
1662, Thomas Fuller, “Derby-shire”, in History of the Worthies of England
type:
quotation
text:
Surveillance video of the incident shows the man and woman being accosted by a man armed with and assault-style handgun.
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2017 June 21, Glenn E. Rice, “Police seek two gunmen who accosted Kansas City couple”, in The Kansas City Star
type:
quotation
text:
The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991.
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2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Gladstone's initial tone of disinterested philanthropy also characterized his first encounters with prostitutes in London once he has moved there to undertake his parliamentary duties. Accosted in a London park in 1837 by two women, Gladstone merely reported of them that "both ... had taken to their miserable calling from losing their livelihood by the death of their husbands."
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1997, Travis L. Crosby, The Two Mr. Gladstones
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
To join side to side; to border.
To sail along the coast or side of.
To approach; to come up to.
To speak to first; to address; to greet.
To adjoin; to lie alongside.
To assault.
To solicit sexually.
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1806 | word:
accost
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accost (plural accosts)
forms:
form:
accosts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in the 1570s. From Old French accoster, from Vulgar Latin accosto (“to come alongside someone”), from ad (“near”) + costa (“rib, side”). Cognate with Spanish acostar (“to lie down, go to bed”).
senses_examples:
text:
A man does not seize a woman by the sleeve and ask, "Is it you?" without some reason for an address so destitute of ordinary courtesy; and Lucilla was sufficiently versed in such matters to know that so rude and startling an accost could be only addressed to some one whose presence set the speaker's heart beating, and quickened the blood in his veins.
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1866, Margaret Oliphant, chapter XXIII, in Miss Marjoribanks (Chronicles of Carlingford)
type:
quotation
text:
Anne liked to accost foreigners in their own tongue , but , being ignorant of Spanish , asked M. de Grignaux to teach her a sentence of polite accost in his own language, wherewith to welcome an ambassador from Spain.
ref:
1871, Henry Morley, Clement Marot
type:
quotation
text:
Great was my amazement to find the unconquerable Mr. Sim thaw immediately on the accost of this strange gentleman, who hailed him with a ready familiarity, proceeded at once to discuss with him the trade of droving and the prices of cattle, and did not disdain to take a pinch from the inevitable ram's horn.
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1897, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Drovers”, in St. Ives
type:
quotation
text:
At last, when I was already within reach of her, I stopped. Words were denied me; if I advanced I could but clasp her to my heart in silence; and all that was sane in me, all that was still unconquered, revolted against the thought of such an accost.
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1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Olalla”, in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Address; greeting.
An attack.
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1807 | word:
Senegal
word_type:
name
expansion:
Senegal
forms:
wikipedia:
Sanhaja
Senegal
Serer religion
etymology_text:
Probably from a Portuguese transliteration of the name of the Zenaga (possibly from Arabic زنجي (“Zanj, Negro”), from Persian زَنگ (“Land of the Blacks”) Etymology 3}. Or a combination of the supreme deity in Serer religion (Rog Sene) and o gal meaning body of water in the Serer language.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A river on the border between Senegal and Mauritania in West Africa.
A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Senegal.
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1808 | word:
abundant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abundant (comparative more abundant, superlative most abundant)
forms:
form:
more abundant
tags:
comparative
form:
most abundant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested about 1380. From Middle English abundaunt, habundaunt, aboundant, from Anglo-Norman abundant, from Old French abondant, from Latin abundāns, present participle of abundo (“to overflow, to abound”). Compare abound.
senses_examples:
text:
Blackberries are abundant in this part of the country in October, so we always make lots of jam.
type:
example
text:
an abundant selection of carpets to choose from
type:
example
text:
[W]ith their magical words they [poets] bring forth to our eyesight the abundant images and beauties of creation.
ref:
a. 1859, Leigh Hunt, On the Realities of Imagination
type:
quotation
text:
Kadara was of great interest to the Andromeda Initiative after it appeared on long-range surveys. Seemingly abundant liquid water and an oxygen-mix atmosphere made it a strong candidate for settlement, earning it the designation Habitat 4. Closer range surveys now reveal that Kadara's water sources are tainted and unpotable.
ref:
2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Kadara
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing.
Richly supplied; wealthy; possessing in great quantity.
Being an abundant number, i.e. less than the sum of all of its divisors except itself.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
1809 | word:
Luxembourg
word_type:
name
expansion:
Luxembourg
forms:
wikipedia:
Luxembourg (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle High German Luccelemburc, from Old High German Lucilinburhuc, ultimately from luzil (“little”) + burg (“castle”), from Proto-Germanic *lūtilaz and *burgz.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small country in Western Europe. Official name: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Capital and largest city: Luxembourg.
A province of Wallonia, Belgium.
The capital city of Luxembourg.
One of the twelve cantons of the country of Luxembourg, which includes its capital city.
senses_topics:
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1810 | word:
Tokelau
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tokelau
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Tokelauan Tokelau, from Tokelauan tokelau (“north wind”), from Proto-Polynesian *tokelau (“northwesterly”). Compare Maori tokerau (“north”); Rapa Nui tokerau (“wind”).
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senses_glosses:
Three atolls forming a dependent territory of New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean.
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1811 | word:
acetylene
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetylene (countable and uncountable, plural acetylenes)
forms:
form:
acetylenes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Marcellin Berthelot
acetylene
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French acétylène, coined by French chemist Marcellin Berthelot, from acetyl + -ene.
senses_examples:
text:
The acetylene gas lighting in the station offices and platforms at Kyle of Lochalsh recently has been replaced by electric lighting.
ref:
1951 April, “Notes and News: Improvements at Kyle of Lochalsh”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281
type:
quotation
text:
Mrs. Winnie had kindly sent her limousine car for them, and it stood throbbing in front of the hotel-entrance, its acetylenes streaming far up the street.
ref:
1908, Upton Sinclair, The Metropolis, New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, page 69
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any organic compound having one or more carbon–carbon triple bonds; an alkyne.
Ethyne; the simplest alkyne, a hydrocarbon of formula HC≡CH. It is a colourless, odourless, extremely flammable, explosive gas, formerly used as an illuminating gas, but now used in welding and metallurgy.
A lamp powered by acetylene, particularly a motor vehicle headlight.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
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1812 | word:
brotus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brotus (plural brotuses)
forms:
form:
brotuses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Mitford Mathews suggested in 1951 that the term derived from brot (“scrap(s), small amount(s)”), a northern England dialectal term ultimately derived from Old English brēotan, but Frederic Cassidy notes that this has "no connection to the marketing context" and Joey Lee Dillard finds the idea "unconvincing". Cassidy mentions that the term might be related to Jamaican Creole braata (“little extra given by a seller to a buyer”), though he considers this "questionable" because "the stressed vowel is rather different … and the final -us of the American form would have to be accounted for"; the Jamaican term might derive from a Spanish cognate of Portuguese barato (“favour”). An African origin has also been suggested, but not substantiated; The African Heritage of American English for example suggests derivation from an African word mbata meaning "something given on credit, without payment", but Kongo mbata in fact means "perquisite, commission, brokerage".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
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Something added at no extra charge, such as the thirteenth item in a baker's dozen.
senses_topics:
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1813 | word:
accomplice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accomplice (plural accomplices)
forms:
form:
accomplices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
accomplice
etymology_text:
First attested in 1550. From a complice, from Middle English complice, from Old French complice (“confederate”), from Latin complicāre (“fold together”). The article a became part of the word, through the influence of the word accomplish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.
A cooperator.
senses_topics:
law
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1814 | word:
acidic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acidic (comparative more acidic, superlative most acidic)
forms:
form:
more acidic
tags:
comparative
form:
most acidic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acid + -ic. Doublet of acidy.
senses_examples:
text:
an acidic solution
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red.
Containing a high percentage of silica-bearing minerals; opposed to basic.
Of or relating to acid; having the character of an acid.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
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1815 | word:
New Zealand
word_type:
name
expansion:
New Zealand
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Dutch Nieuw-Zeeland (“new Zeeland”), (nieuw calqued as new), Zeeland calqued as the respelling Zealand to parallel the historical exonym, after the Dutch settlement in Batavia, which in turn had been named after the Dutch province of Zeeland, from Middle Dutch sêelant, equivalent to zee (“sea”) + land (“land”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country and archipelago in Oceania, to the east of Australia. Official name: New Zealand. Capital: Wellington.
The Realm of New Zealand, including the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau and the Ross Dependency.
A western suburb of Derby, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3336).
A hamlet in Hilmarton parish, north-central Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0177).
senses_topics:
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1816 | word:
New Zealand
word_type:
noun
expansion:
New Zealand (plural New Zealands)
forms:
form:
New Zealands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Dutch Nieuw-Zeeland (“new Zeeland”), (nieuw calqued as new), Zeeland calqued as the respelling Zealand to parallel the historical exonym, after the Dutch settlement in Batavia, which in turn had been named after the Dutch province of Zeeland, from Middle Dutch sêelant, equivalent to zee (“sea”) + land (“land”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rabbit of a breed that originated in California from rabbits imported from New Zealand.
senses_topics:
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1817 | word:
spilikin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spilikin (plural spilikins)
forms:
form:
spilikins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Old Dutch spelleken a small pin. Compare spill
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small peg used for playing a game or for keeping score, as in cribbage.
a game played with such pegs, pushpin.
A jackstraw or pickup stick.
The game of jackstraws or pick up sticks.
senses_topics:
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1818 | word:
Achilles heel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Achilles heel (plural Achilles heels)
forms:
form:
Achilles heels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
etymology_text:
From the Greek hero Achilles, whom according to legend his mother held by the heel when she dipped him in the River Styx, making him invulnerable everywhere except on his heel. He was later killed by an arrow wound to the heel. Although the legend is ancient, the phrase only entered English in the 19th century. It is used as a metaphor for vulnerability, as in the earliest citation, an essay by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
senses_examples:
text:
A good all-round golfer, playing out of bunkers is my Achilles heel.
type:
example
text:
It might seem counter-intuitive, but getting right up in the Demoman's face is the Achillees heel to the power of his explosives.
ref:
2020 December 27, Uncle Dane, 10:54 from the start, in How To Fight Every Class In TF2 (As Engineer) (And Win!), archived from the original on 2020-12-27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vulnerability in an otherwise strong situation.
The Achilles tendon, the tendo Achillis.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
1819 | word:
accumulator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accumulator (plural accumulators)
forms:
form:
accumulators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin accumulātor, agent noun of accumulō (“pile up”), accumulate + -or.
senses_examples:
text:
He is a great accumulator of bad jokes.
type:
example
text:
Looks like it's time to recharge the accumulator again.
type:
example
text:
The largest payout for a bet on a horse race was $1,627,084 after tax, paid to Britons Anthony Speelman and Nicholas Cowan on their $64 nine-horse accumulator at Santa Anita Racecourse, California, in 1987.
ref:
2000, Guinness World Records, Guinness Book of Records 2000, Demco Media
type:
quotation
text:
The contents of the memory location and accumulator are NOT altered, but the Negative, Zero and Carry flags are conditioned according to the result of the subtraction.
ref:
1986, Jules H. Gilder, Apple IIc and IIe Assembly Language, Springer Science & Business Media, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
The function signature has changed to include the additional parameter accumulator. This parameter, in a way, takes on the job of the return value.
ref:
2011, Oliver Sturm, Functional Programming in C#, John Wiley & Sons, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
This product was fairly popular among investors in Hong Kong in 2007 considering the market conditions at that time. It is an accumulator of the underlying stock with a contract period of 12 months.
ref:
2014, Jerome Yen, Kin Keung Lai, Emerging Financial Derivatives, Routledge
type:
quotation
text:
1691–92, Anthony Wood (antiquary), Athenæ Oxonienses
The first of these two was a compounder, the other who was an accumulator, was lately made provost of Trin. coll. near Dublin, and on the 31st of March 1692 was nominated bish. of Kilmore.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who, or that which, accumulates.
A wet-cell storage battery.
A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively.
A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
A vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam.
A container which stores hydraulic power for release, in the form of a pressurized fluid (often suspended within a larger tank of fluid under pressure).
A register or variable used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.
A derivative contract under which the seller commits to sell shares of an underlying security at a certain strike price, which the buyer is obligated to buy.
One who takes two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce their length of study.
A one way membership function.
senses_topics:
gambling
games
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
manufacturing
engineering
hydraulics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
business
finance
education
computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
1820 | word:
acetate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetate (plural acetates)
forms:
form:
acetates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Formed from the root of Latin acētum (“vinegar”) ( + -ate), from aceō (“I am sour”). By surface analysis, acet- + -ate.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] to pad a piece in diluted acetate of alumine to obtain a pale lemon ground […]
ref:
1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia
type:
quotation
text:
Performers use acetate because eyelash glue is not available. They create eyelashes out of horse hair or cut from carbon paper. Their nails are glued on with a shoe adhesive.
ref:
2007 July 16, Leslie Feinberg, “How La Güinera made room for more gender”, in Workers World
type:
quotation
text:
Near-synonym: gel
text:
Coordinate term: dubplate
text:
Acetates are a relic of the days before cassettes, DAT, and recordable CDs came into widespread use in recording studios. Manufactured from aluminum, and coated in a thin sheet of vinyl, they were produced to allow the concerned parties to hear how a particular version of a recording would sound outside the studio, on their home hi-fi, for example.
ref:
2002, Dave Thompson, The Music Lover's Guide to Record Collecting, Hal Leonard Corporation, Acetates—The Rock Star's Rough Draft
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any ester or salt of acetic acid.
Cellulose acetate.
A transparent sheet used for overlays, whether of cellulose acetate or (loosely) any macroscopically similar plastic.
In full acetate disc: a disc of aluminium covered in a wax used to make demonstration copies of a phonograph record.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
|
1821 | word:
Zaïre
word_type:
name
expansion:
Zaïre
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Zaire: (historical) A former country (1971–1997) in Central Africa; now the Democratic Republic of the Congo
senses_topics:
|
1822 | word:
Ivory Coast
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ivory Coast
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of French Côte d’Ivoire.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in West Africa. Official names: Republic of Côte d'Ivoire and Côte d'Ivoire.
senses_topics:
|
1823 | word:
CDC
word_type:
name
expansion:
CDC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
A 2009 multistate CDC survey off over seventy thousand adults found that more than 35 percent of people slept fewer than seven hours per night.
ref:
2018, Timothy R. Jennings, The Aging Brain, pages 64–65
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Control Data Corporation
Initialism of Center for Disease Control. (U.S. federal CDC)
Connected Device Configuration
Clark Development Corporation
senses_topics:
business
medicine
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
business |
1824 | word:
CDC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CDC (plural CDCs)
forms:
form:
CDCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri): You were the most excellent CDC at the most excellent restaurant in the entire United States of America. So, what are you doing here, I guess?
Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White): Making sandwiches.
ref:
2022 June 23, Christopher Storer, “System”, in Christopher Storer, director, The Bear, season 1, episode 1, via Hulu
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of change data capture.
Initialism of centre for disease control.
Initialism of chef de cuisine.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
medicine
sciences
cooking
food
lifestyle |
1825 | word:
koomkie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
koomkie (plural koomkies)
forms:
form:
koomkies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Bengali কুমকি (kumki), from Classical Persian کمک (kumak).
senses_examples:
text:
When an elephant is in a proper state to be removed from the keddah, he is conducted either by koomkies or by tame males.
ref:
1807, Thomas Williamson, Oriental Field Sports
type:
quotation
text:
Though on some occasions the mahouts accompany the koomkies up to the saun, yet it is safer, and generally the most sure and easy mode, for them to dismount in some contiguous cover with their blankets and ropes, leading the koomkies to the saun, towards which they proceed in the most cunning style.
ref:
1810, “Decoy Elephants Catching a Male”, in Enos Bronson, editor, Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines, volume 3, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
The drivers remain concealed at a little distance, while the koomkies surround the goondah, as this sort of elephant is called.
ref:
1834, Frederic Shoberl, Natural History of Quadrupeds, volume 1, page 213
type:
quotation
text:
The hunters rode out on their koomkies, supplied with ropes, and other apparatus, for securing their captives.
ref:
1881, Edmund Routledge, Routledge's Every Boy's Annual, page 486
type:
quotation
text:
With the aid of koomkies, the captives were driven in batches of three or four into a circular stockade […]
ref:
1957, The National Geographic Magazine, volume 112, page 505
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tame female elephant used as a decoy in the capture of wild male elephants.
senses_topics:
|
1826 | word:
Aruba
word_type:
name
expansion:
Aruba
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I wanna take ya / Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
ref:
1988, “Kokomo”, in Still Cruisin', performed by The Beach Boys
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island, dependent territory, and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea.
A Meitei surname from Manipuri
senses_topics:
|
1827 | word:
Martinique
word_type:
name
expansion:
Martinique
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named by Christopher Columbus after Saint Martin of Tours. The name is sometimes suggested to be a modification of a native Ta-Arawakan (Taino or Kalinago) name Madinina (“island of flowers”) or Matinino (“island of women”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island, overseas department, and administrative region of France, in the Caribbean. Official name: Department of Martinique.
senses_topics:
|
1828 | word:
bio
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bio (plural bios)
forms:
form:
bios
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
To find more about her, check out her bio on Instagram.
type:
example
text:
She doesn’t position herself as a biblical scholar or a prophet. She’s a humble “wifey & mommy,” according to her Instagram bio—even if her 2019 wedding did garner almost 2.5 million views on YouTube.
ref:
2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in Cosmopolitan
type:
quotation
text:
I've got a bio exam in the morning.
type:
example
text:
It boils down to science. Biology, chemistry and physics. I used to hate bio and chem. Now they fascinate me because I’ve realised they make up the world around us as well as us.
ref:
2015 June 9, Lilah Raptopoulos, quoting Reed Shapiro, “Young people speak out about their fears and hopes on climate change”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Sometimes Estelle had to help her mother on Saturdays and Irwin went to classes for ultra-brainy children, but Alan and I always went to the bio.
ref:
1995, HerStoriA: South African women's journal, volumes 1-3, page 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of biography.
A biographical sketch.
Clipping of biology.
Clipping of bioscope (“cinema”).
senses_topics:
|
1829 | word:
bio
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bio (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
a bio detergent
type:
example
text:
We only purchase vegetables at the bio food shop.
type:
example
text:
my bio family
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
biological.
senses_topics:
|
1830 | word:
inc
word_type:
adj
expansion:
inc
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Inc
Abbreviation of incoming.
senses_topics:
|
1831 | word:
inc
word_type:
noun
expansion:
inc
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of increment.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
1832 | word:
inc
word_type:
verb
expansion:
inc
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Change to larger needles and knit 1 rnd in CC, inc 3 (4, 5) sts evenly[…]
ref:
2011, Barb Brown, Knitting Knee-Highs: Sock Styles from Classic to Contemporary, page 55
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of increase.
senses_topics:
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles |
1833 | word:
accompany
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accompany (third-person singular simple present accompanies, present participle accompanying, simple past and past participle accompanied)
forms:
form:
accompanies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accompanying
tags:
participle
present
form:
accompanied
tags:
participle
past
form:
accompanied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in early 15th century.
From Middle English accompanien, from Old French acompagner (“to associate with”), from compaing (“companion”), nominative singular of compaignon (“companion”). See company.
senses_examples:
text:
Geoffrey accompanied the group on their pilgrimage.
type:
example
text:
The Persian dames, […] / In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march.
ref:
1804, Richard Glover, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
ref:
1581, Philip Sidney, An Apology of Poetry, or a Defense of Poesy, Book I
type:
quotation
text:
He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels.
ref:
1979, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England
type:
quotation
text:
The strings were accompanied by two woodwinds.
type:
example
text:
I will accompany her on the oboe.
type:
example
text:
Gijb, Suche as accompanyeth with man-killers and murtherers.
ref:
1534, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius
type:
quotation
text:
Thunder almost always accompanies lightning during a rain storm.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.
To supplement with; add to.
To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
To perform an accompanying part next to (another instrument or musician).
To associate in a company; to keep company.
To cohabit (with).
To cohabit with; to coexist with; occur with.
To be found at the same time.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
1834 | word:
Togo
word_type:
name
expansion:
Togo
forms:
wikipedia:
Togo
Togoville
etymology_text:
From Togoville, from Ewe to (“to pound”) + go (“shore”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in West Africa. Official name: Togolese Republic.
A surname.
senses_topics:
|
1835 | word:
Togo
word_type:
name
expansion:
Togo
forms:
wikipedia:
Togo
Tōgō Heihachirō
etymology_text:
After Japanese admiral Tōgō Heihachirō.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A village in Saskatchewan, Canada
senses_topics:
|
1836 | word:
year
word_type:
noun
expansion:
year (plural years or (UK colloquial) year)
forms:
form:
years
tags:
plural
form:
year
tags:
UK
colloquial
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yeer, yere, from Old English ġēar (“year”), from Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, spring”). Doublet of hora and hour.
senses_examples:
text:
we moved to this town a year ago; I quit smoking exactly one year ago
type:
example
text:
Mars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years.
type:
example
text:
Shepard: What can you tell me about the Citadel Council?
Avina: Originally, the Council consisted of representatives from the asari and salarians, the two dominant species in Citadel space.
Roughly 1,304 galactic standard years ago, turians were invited to join the Council in recognition of the role they played during the Krogan Rebellion.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citdael
type:
quotation
text:
A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year.
type:
example
text:
I was born in the year 1950.
type:
example
text:
This Chinese year is the year of the Ox.
type:
example
text:
Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
ref:
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
During this school year I have to get up at 6:30 to catch the bus.
type:
example
text:
Every second-year student must select an area of specialization.
type:
example
text:
The exams in year 12 at high school are the most difficult.
type:
example
text:
Geneticists have created baker's yeast that can live to 800 in yeast years.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.
The time taken for the Earth to return to the same position along the ecliptic, completing a full cycle of seasons; a tropical year or solar year.
A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.
The time taken for the Earth to orbit the Sun with respect to the fixed stars; a sidereal year.
A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.
The length of twelve lunations; the time taken for any moon phase to happen twelve times; a lunar year.
A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.
The length of a year as marked by a calendar, 365 or 366 days in the Gregorian calendar; a calendar year.
A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.
The mean length of a calendar year in the Julian calendar, that is, 365.25 solar days; a Julian year.
A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.
The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star.
A period between set dates that mark a year, such as from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar.
A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
A level or grade in school or college.
The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).
senses_topics:
|
1837 | word:
year
word_type:
noun
expansion:
year
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of here.
Pronunciation spelling of hear.
senses_topics:
|
1838 | word:
Pakistan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Pakistan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Urdu پاکستان (pākistān, “Land of the Holy”), from پاک (pāk, “pure, holy, immaculate, chaste, undefiled”) and Classical Persian ـستان (-stān,-istān, “-stan”) (with the form -istān being used after consonants). The word was coined by Pakistani politician Chuhdary Rahmat Ali in 1933, who published it in the pamphlet Now or Never as an acronym of the names of the "Muslim homelands" of western India—Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Balochistan.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in South Asia. Official name: Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Capital: Islamabad.
senses_topics:
|
1839 | word:
fart
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fart (third-person singular simple present farts, present participle farting, simple past and past participle farted)
forms:
form:
farts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
farting
tags:
participle
present
form:
farted
tags:
participle
past
form:
farted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
fart
etymology_text:
From Middle English ferten, farten, from Old English feortan, from Proto-Germanic *fertaną, from Proto-Indo-European *perd-.
The noun is from Middle English fert, fart, from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
I fart with twenty ladies by; / They call me beast; and what care I?
ref:
1728, Jonathan Swift, A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy
type:
quotation
text:
Above his head the funnel farted black soot into the sky.
ref:
1988, Peter Carey, chapter 95, in Oscar and Lucinda, London: Faber and Faber, published 1989, page 457
type:
quotation
text:
We’ve been stuck behind a Ford Escort farting black smoke for ten minutes.
ref:
2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, New York: Riverhead Books, page 139
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
To waste time with idle and inconsequential tasks; to go about one's activities in a lackadaisical manner; to be lazy or over-relaxed in one's manner or bearing.
To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).
senses_topics:
|
1840 | word:
fart
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fart (plural farts)
forms:
form:
fart a fart
tags:
canonical
form:
farts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fart
etymology_text:
From Middle English ferten, farten, from Old English feortan, from Proto-Germanic *fertaną, from Proto-Indo-European *perd-.
The noun is from Middle English fert, fart, from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
I think I heard a fart. Was it you, Nigel?
type:
example
text:
Silent farts are often the smelliest.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus.
An irritating person; a fool.
(usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views.
One who is inflexibly meticulous.
senses_topics:
|
1841 | word:
Saint Helena
word_type:
name
expansion:
Saint Helena
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A saint.
An island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean, and an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. Official name: Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Formerly named Saint Helena and Dependencies.
A city in Napa County, California, United States.
senses_topics:
Christianity
|
1842 | word:
Réunion
word_type:
name
expansion:
Réunion
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island, overseas department, and administrative region of France, located in the Indian Ocean to the west of Mauritius and to the east of Madagascar.
senses_topics:
|
1843 | word:
book
word_type:
noun
expansion:
book (plural books)
forms:
form:
books
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
book
etymology_text:
From Middle English bok, book, from Old English bōc, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Eclipsed non-native Middle English livret, lyveret (“book, booklet”) from Old French livret (“book, booklet”). Bookmaker sense by clipping.
senses_examples:
text:
I repeat: it suffices that a book be possible for it to exist. Only the impossible is excluded. For example: no book can be a ladder, although no doubt there are books which discuss and negate and demonstrate this possibility and others whose structure corresponds to that of a ladder.
ref:
1962, Luis Borges, translated by James East Irby, The Library of Babel
type:
quotation
text:
I can be anything.
Take a look!
It's in a book:
A reading rainbow.
ref:
1983, Steve Horelick et al., Reading Rainbow
type:
quotation
text:
Trefusis's quarters could be described in one word. Books. Books and books and books. And then, just when an observer might be lured into thinking that that must be it, more books... Trefusis himself was highly dismissive of them. ‘Waste of trees,’ he had once said. ‘Stupid, ugly, clumsy, heavy things. The sooner technology comes up with a reliable alternative the better... The world is so fond of saying that books should be “treated with respect”. But when are we told that words should be treated with respect?’
ref:
1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.
type:
example
text:
He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book.
type:
example
text:
I have three copies of his first book.
type:
example
text:
“I would never read a book,” he once told an interviewer. “I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that.”
ref:
2022 December 6, Stephen Marche, quoting Sam Bankman-Fried, “The College Essay Is Dead”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
Genesis is the first book of the Bible.
type:
example
text:
Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing.
type:
example
text:
I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.
type:
example
text:
a book of stamps
type:
example
text:
a book of raffle tickets
type:
example
text:
The guild helps ensure that the ownership and control of the music, lyrics, and book of a show remain in the hands of its authors and composers—not the producers.
ref:
2010, David Baskerville, Tim Baskerville, Music Business Handbook and Career Guide, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
Celtic captain Scott Brown joined team-mate Majstorovic in the book and Rangers' John Fleck was also shown a yellow card as an ill-tempered half drew to a close.
ref:
2011 March 2, Andy Campbell, “Celtic 1 - 0 Rangers”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
The Book is an oral tradition of belief in The Life that has been passed down from player to player from generation to generation.
ref:
1974, Adrienne Lanier Seward, The Black Pimp as a Folk Hero, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
On the other hand The Book is an oral tradition containing the rules and principles to be adopted by a pimp who wishes to be a player.
ref:
1994, Antiquarian Book Monthly, volume 21, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
Getting your book (portfolio) organised is the first step, and knowing both what to include, and what to leave out, is an essential step towards achieving that important agency placement.
ref:
2017, Nik Mahon, Basics Advertising 02: Art Direction, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Your portfolio — your book — has to be killer.
ref:
Idea Industry (page 27)
text:
The opposite-colored bishops endgame is usually a book draw.
type:
example
text:
A book move
type:
example
text:
out of book
type:
example
text:
White to move and win. How can he do it? The BK plans a march to h8, eating the f4 pawn en route, for a book draw.
ref:
2018 April 6, Leonard Barden, “Chess: Schoolboy Vincent Keymer secures shock triumph at Grenke Open”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2023-01-12
type:
quotation
text:
This seems certain to simplify into a battle between White's king, rook and two pawns against Black's king and rook. In some cases a book draw is possible. But a book win is more likely.
ref:
2020, Andrew Soltis, How to Swindle in Chess, Batsford Books
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
A major division of a long work.
A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
The script of a musical or opera.
Records of the accounts of a business.
A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
Six tricks taken by one side.
Four of a kind.
A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
Any source of instruction.
The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.
senses_topics:
gambling
games
entertainment
lifestyle
theater
law
card-games
poker
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
advertising
business
marketing
board-games
chess
games |
1844 | word:
book
word_type:
verb
expansion:
book (third-person singular simple present books, present participle booking, simple past and past participle booked)
forms:
form:
books
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
booking
tags:
participle
present
form:
booked
tags:
participle
past
form:
booked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
book
etymology_text:
From Middle English booken, boken, from Old English bōcian, ġebōcian, from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night.
type:
example
text:
I can book tickets for the concert next week.
type:
example
text:
I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up.
ref:
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
They booked that message from the hill.
type:
example
text:
I booked a flight to New York.
type:
example
text:
The police booked him for driving too fast.
type:
example
text:
He was really booking until he passed the speed trap.
type:
example
text:
The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.
type:
example
text:
He was here earlier, but he booked.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To reserve (something) for future use.
To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
To travel very fast.
To record bets as bookmaker.
To receive the highest grade in a class.
To leave.
senses_topics:
government
law-enforcement
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
1845 | word:
book
word_type:
verb
expansion:
book
forms:
wikipedia:
book
etymology_text:
From Middle English book, bok, from Old English bōc, from Proto-Germanic *bōk, first and third person singular indicative past tense of Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of bake
senses_topics:
|
1846 | word:
Bosnia and Herzegovina
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bosnia and Herzegovina
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Bosnia + and + Herzegovina.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Official name: Bosnia and Herzegovina. Capital and largest city: Sarajevo. Part of Yugoslavia until 1992.
senses_topics:
|
1847 | word:
UFO
word_type:
noun
expansion:
UFO (plural UFOs)
forms:
form:
UFOs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
text:
After the case had been reported in the newspapers, Mrs. Gracindo de Souza, wife of a member of the local stock exchange, told police that she and her daughter had been driving down Alameda Sao Boaventura when they had seen an UFO hovering over the clearing where the bodies were later discovered.
ref:
1967, Brad Steiger, Joan Whritenour, “Someone Up There May Not Like Us”, in Flying Saucers Are Hostile, Tandem Publishing, published 1975, →OCLC, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
To my way of thinking, there is every bit as much evidence for the existence of UFOs as there is for the existence of God. Probably far more. At least in the case of UFOs there have been countless taped and filmed—and, by the way, unexplained—sightings from all over the world, along with documented radar evidence seen by experienced military and civilian radar operators.
ref:
2004, George Carlin, “THEY CAME FROM OUT OF THE SKY”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →OCLC, →OL, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
UFOs differ from WIPs in that a WIP is a project one is actively pursuing, while a UFO runs the risk of never getting finished.
ref:
2007, Kerry Wills, The Close-knit Circle: American Knitters Today, page 107
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of unidentified flying object; (loosely) an alien spacecraft.
An "unfinished object" in knitting or other kinds of craft.
senses_topics:
|
1848 | word:
industrial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
industrial (comparative more industrial, superlative most industrial)
forms:
form:
more industrial
tags:
comparative
form:
most industrial
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French industriel.
senses_examples:
text:
The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.
type:
example
text:
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
ref:
2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless.
type:
example
text:
More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
ref:
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
type:
quotation
text:
This is an industrial product—it's much too strong for home use.
type:
example
text:
Come, all ye workers, from every land, / Come, join in the grand industrial band; / Then we our share of this earth shall demand.
ref:
1913, “There Is Power in a Union”, in Little Red Songbook, performed by Joe Hill
type:
quotation
text:
Italy is a part-industrial, part-rural nation.
type:
example
text:
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
a track with clashing industrial beats
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
Produced by such industry.
Used by such industry.
Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.
Massive in scale or quantity.
Employed as manpower by such industry.
Having many industries; industrialized.
Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
1849 | word:
industrial
word_type:
noun
expansion:
industrial (countable and uncountable, plural industrials)
forms:
form:
industrials
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French industriel.
senses_examples:
text:
Actor, director, and producer for three decades offers coaching and directing in scenes, improves, cold copy, script analysis, commercials, voice-overs, industrials, film, and stage.
ref:
2012, Stuart J. Scesney, How to Enter the Business of Commercial Modeling and Acting Without Getting Ripped Off
type:
quotation
text:
I wish they'd play more industrial in this club.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An employee in industry.
An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
A bond or stock issued by such a company.
A film made for use within an industry, not for a movie-going audience.
Short for industrial music.
Short for industrial piercing.
senses_topics:
business
business
finance
broadcasting
film
media
television
|
1850 | word:
genome
word_type:
noun
expansion:
genome (plural genomes)
forms:
form:
genomes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier genom, from German Genom, coined by German botanist Hans Winkler in 1920 as a blend of Gen (“gene”) + Chromosom (“chromosome”). By surface analysis, gene + -ome, or a blend of gene + chromosome. Spelling altered by association with the surface analysis.
senses_examples:
text:
Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, just as having the human genome has made it possible to ask new questions about cellular and molecular systems.
ref:
2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2017-04-27, page 171
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism.
senses_topics:
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences |
1851 | word:
São Tomé and Príncipe
word_type:
name
expansion:
São Tomé and Príncipe
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese São Tomé (literally “Saint Thomas”) and Portuguese Príncipe (literally “Prince”), the two major islands which form the nation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country and archipelago in Central Africa, in the Atlantic Ocean. Official name: Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. Capital: São Tomé.
senses_topics:
|
1852 | word:
accretion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accretion (countable and uncountable, plural accretions)
forms:
form:
accretions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₂éd
Learned borrowing from Latin accrētiō (“increase, increment”) + English -ion (suffix forming nouns denoting actions or processes, or their results). Accrētiō is derived from accrēscō (“to grow; to increase”) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns denoting actions or processes, or their results); and accrēscō is from ac- (a variant of ad- (prefix meaning ‘to’, or having an intensifying effect)) + crēscō (“to grow; to increase”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to cause to grow; to grow; to nourish”)). Doublet of accrue, crescent, and increase.
senses_examples:
text:
A mineral augments not by growth, but by accretion.
type:
example
text:
Suddenly starting from a proposition, exactly and sharply defined, in terms of utmost simplicity and clearness, he [Edgar Allan Poe] rejected the forms of customary logic, and by a crystalline process of accretion, built up his ocular demonstrations in forms of gloomiest and ghastliest grandeur, or in those of the most airy and delicious beauty—so minutely and distinctly, yet so rapidly, that the attention which was yielded to him was chained till it stood among his wonderful creations—till he himself dissolved the spell, and brought his hearers back to common and base existence, by vulgar fancies or exhibitions of the ignoblest passion.
Originally published in the New-York Tribune, and now regarded as containing unfair characterizations of Poe.
ref:
1849 October 9, “Ludwig” [pseudonym; Rufus Wilmot Griswold], “Edgar Poe”, in N[athaniel] Parker Willis, Hurry-graphs; or, Sketches of Scenery, Celebrities and Society, Taken from Life, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner, published 1851, →OCLC, page 241
type:
quotation
text:
Our [women's] social life is largely a form, a whirl, a commercial relation, a display, a duty, the result of external accretion, not of internal growth. It is not in any sense a unity, nor an expression of the best intellectual life, which seeks other channels.
ref:
1890 August, Amelia Gere Mason, “The Women of the French Salons: The Salons of the Eighteenth Century”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume XVIII (New Series; volume XL overall), number 4, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co.; London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, →OCLC, page 596, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The systematic accretion of violence and complicity [during World War II] that engulfed whole populations at extreme velocity invoked a kind of bewilderment that ended in paralysis, even for many of the greatest minds of the twentieth century.
ref:
2019, Shoshana Zuboff, “‘We Make Them Dance’: Surveillance Capitalism, the Rise of Instrumentarian Power, and the Threat to Human Rights”, in Rikke Frank Jørgensen, editor, Human Rights in the Age of Platforms, Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
the accretion of particles to form a solid mass
type:
example
text:
an accretion of ice
type:
example
text:
If therefore it is admitted that a large part of the narrative of Dionysius [of Halicarnassus] is false, what good ground have we for believing the rest? Assuming however that we are to strip off all the subordinate parts of his narrative, as a later accretion, and to retain only a nucleus of the leading facts, do we find that these can be safely accepted, and that he is confirmed in them by the agreement of the other historians? So far is this from being the case, that the accounts transmitted to us differ widely in the material points of the transaction.
ref:
1855, George Cornewall Lewis, “History of Rome, from the Expulsion of the Kings to the Burning of the City by the Gauls (509–390 b.c.)”, in An Inquiry into the Credibility of the Early Roman History […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC, part I (From the Establishment of Consuls to the First Secession (509–494 b.c.)), § 17, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
Accretions of dirt on clothing are often left in place by conservators because they can provide additional details about the artefact’s importance or history.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Increase by natural growth, especially the gradual increase of organic bodies by the internal addition of matter; organic growth; also, the amount of such growth.
(Gradual) increase by an external addition of matter; (countable) an instance of this.
(Gradual) increase by an external addition of matter; (countable) an instance of this.
The process by which material is added to a geological feature; specifically, to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone.
Followed by of: external addition of matter to a thing which causes it to grow, especially in amount or size.
The process of separate particles aggregating or coalescing together; concretion; (countable) a thing formed in this manner.
The process of separate particles aggregating or coalescing together; concretion; (countable) a thing formed in this manner.
The formation of planets, stars, and other celestial bodies by the aggregating of matter drawn together by gravity; also, the growth of a celestial body through this process.
Something gradually added to or growing on a thing externally.
Something gradually added to or growing on a thing externally.
A substance which has built up on the surface of an object, rather than become embedded in it.
Increase in property by the addition of other property to it (for example, gain of land by alluvion (“the deposition of sediment by a river or sea”) or dereliction (“recession of water from the usual watermark”), or entitlement to the products of the property such as interest on money); or by the property owner acquiring another person's ownership rights; accession; (countable) an instance of this.
Increase of an inheritance to an heir or legatee due to the share of a co-heir or co-legatee being added to it, because the latter person is legally unable to inherit the share.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences
astrophysics
biology
conservation
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
science
sciences
law
law |
1853 | word:
FIFA
word_type:
name
expansion:
FIFA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
FIFA (International Federation of Association Football)
A series of association football video games developed and released annually by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports label.
senses_topics:
video-games |
1854 | word:
accrue
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accrue (third-person singular simple present accrues, present participle accruing, simple past and past participle accrued)
forms:
form:
accrues
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accruing
tags:
participle
present
form:
accrued
tags:
participle
past
form:
accrued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
accrue
etymology_text:
First attested in mid 15th century. From Middle English acrewen, borrowed from Old French acreüe, past participle of accreistre (“to increase”), from Latin accrēsco (“increase”), from ad (“in addition”) + crēscō (“to grow”).
senses_examples:
text:
1879, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Dictionary of Terms and Phrases used in American or English Jurisprudence: ACCRUE
Interest accrues to principal.
text:
1772, Junius, The Letters of Junius, Preface
The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press
text:
The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.
type:
example
text:
He has accrued nine sick days.
type:
example
text:
We, who are dead and gone, shall bear no Part,
In all the Pleasures, no shall we feel the smart,
Which to that other Mortal shall accrew,
Whom of our Matter Time shall mould anew.
ref:
1709, John Dryden, "Lucretius: A Poem against the Fear of Death" (lines 26-29), published in a pamphlet of the same name with an Ode in Memory of Mrs. Ann Killebrew
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To increase, to rise
To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
To accumulate.
To become an enforceable and permanent right.
senses_topics:
accounting
business
finance
law |
1855 | word:
accrue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accrue (plural accrues)
forms:
form:
accrues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
accrue
etymology_text:
First attested in mid 15th century. From Middle English acrewen, borrowed from Old French acreüe, past participle of accreistre (“to increase”), from Latin accrēsco (“increase”), from ad (“in addition”) + crēscō (“to grow”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that accrues; advantage accruing
senses_topics:
|
1856 | word:
stylized
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stylized
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of stylize
senses_topics:
|
1857 | word:
stylized
word_type:
adj
expansion:
stylized (comparative more stylized, superlative most stylized)
forms:
form:
more stylized
tags:
comparative
form:
most stylized
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The symbol for the planet Mars is a stylized representation of the shield and spear of the god Mars.
type:
example
text:
Snoop Dogg’s logo for his line of marijuana products features the brand name superimposed on a stylized leaf, similar to Toronto Maple Leafs’ logo.
ref:
2016 June 23, Jessica Murphy, “Snoop Dogg v Toronto Maple Leafs: legal fight looms over marijuana logo”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made to conform to some style.
Represented according to some convention, omitting dispensable detail, rather than in a realistic or literal manner.
senses_topics:
|
1858 | word:
accustom
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accustom (third-person singular simple present accustoms, present participle accustoming, simple past and past participle accustomed)
forms:
form:
accustoms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accustoming
tags:
participle
present
form:
accustomed
tags:
participle
past
form:
accustomed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is from Middle English accustomen, from Old French acoustumer, acustumer (Modern French accoutumer) corresponding to a (“to, toward”) + custom. More at custom, costume.
The noun is from Middle English acustom.
senses_examples:
text:
Early exposure to pet allergens and pet-related bacteria accustoms the body to allergens.
type:
example
text:
I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater.
ref:
c. 1753, John Hawkesworth et al., Adventurer
type:
quotation
text:
Although it might be thought that drivers would naturally refer constantly to the speedometer, older drivers who come to diesel driving after years of steam experience without the help of speedometers, as well as those on steam engines which have been equipped with speedometers in recent years, have not accustomed themselves to the constant use of this instrument.
ref:
1962 December, “Talking of Trains: Derailment at Lincoln”, in Modern Railways, page 375
type:
quotation
text:
He took it [a television] back to his unfurnished room and began watching as much as he could, including Ms. Winfrey’s show, to accustom his ear to hearing English.
ref:
2011 March 11, Larry Rohter, “CNN’s Latin Sister Looks to Capture a Booming Market”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
[…] creating 3D graphics “is a fundamental building block” to popularizing AR because it helps accustom the general public to interacting with 3D content.
ref:
2017 May 31, Jonathan Vanian, “How Microsoft Is Sowing the Seeds of an Augmented Reality Future”, in Fortune
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure.
To be wont.
To cohabit.
senses_topics:
|
1859 | word:
accustom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accustom (plural accustoms)
forms:
form:
accustoms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is from Middle English accustomen, from Old French acoustumer, acustumer (Modern French accoutumer) corresponding to a (“to, toward”) + custom. More at custom, costume.
The noun is from Middle English acustom.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Custom.
senses_topics:
|
1860 | word:
East Timor
word_type:
name
expansion:
East Timor
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Portuguese Timor-Leste.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southeast Asia occupying half the island of Timor. Official name: Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. Capital: Dili.
senses_topics:
|
1861 | word:
British Virgin Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
British Virgin Islands
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean.
senses_topics:
|
1862 | word:
queachy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
queachy (comparative more queachy, superlative most queachy)
forms:
form:
more queachy
tags:
comparative
form:
most queachy
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From queach + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
the queachy fens
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving.
Like a queach or thicket; thick, bushy.
senses_topics:
|
1863 | word:
Tuvalu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tuvalu
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Tuvaluan Tuuvalu (literally “eight standing together”) in reference to the eight inhabited islands of Tuvalu, although Tuvalu consists of nine islands. The ninth island, Niulakita, was inhabited in 1949. Compare to Proto-Austronesian *walu (“eight”).
senses_examples:
text:
Tuvalu, a string of islands northwest of Australia, sold the rights to its suffix, “.tv,” to a Canadian entrepreneur for $50 million, and used the money to put electricity on the outer islands, create scholarships and finance the process to join the United Nations.
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:
A country and archipelago in Polynesia in Oceania. Capital and largest city: Funafuti.
senses_topics:
|
1864 | word:
Faeroe Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Faeroe Islands sg or pl
forms:
form:
the Faeroe Islands
tags:
canonical
plural
singular
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Faroe Islands
senses_topics:
|
1865 | word:
Wallis and Futuna
word_type:
name
expansion:
Wallis and Futuna
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago and overseas territory of France in Oceania. Official name: Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
senses_topics:
|
1866 | word:
lost with all hands
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lost with all hands (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
On the other hand, HMS Colossus takes multiple hits from several battleships at once, having drifted closer to the German fleet than the rest of her squadron. She explodes as multiple magazine detonations rip the ship apart, and is lost with all hands.
ref:
2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 21:33 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-04
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Destroyed or sunk, with all passengers and crew having died in the process.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
1867 | word:
achieve
word_type:
verb
expansion:
achieve (third-person singular simple present achieves, present participle achieving, simple past and past participle achieved)
forms:
form:
achieves
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
achieving
tags:
participle
present
form:
achieved
tags:
participle
past
form:
achieved
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English achieven, acheven, from Anglo-Norman achever, Old French achever, achiever et al., apparently from Late Latin *accappāre, present active infinitive of *accappō, from ad (“to”) + caput (“head”) + -ō (verbal suffix), or alternatively a construction based on Old French chief (“head”). Compare Catalan, Occitan, Portuguese and Spanish acabar, French achever.
senses_examples:
text:
You can achieve anything if you put your mind to it.
type:
example
text:
Hannah achieved her lifelong dream of winning a medal at the Olympics.
type:
example
text:
Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.
ref:
2013 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4)”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved.
ref:
1700, Matthew Prior, Carmen Seculare. for the Year 1700
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
To conclude, to turn out.
To obtain (a material thing).
senses_topics:
|
1868 | word:
retrovirus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
retrovirus (plural retroviruses)
forms:
form:
retroviruses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
retrovirus
etymology_text:
From retro- + virus, from its reverse direction of replication.
senses_examples:
text:
Montagnier soon deduced that this was an RNA virus that could convert its genes into DNA and lodge into the human genome—a retrovirus.
ref:
2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 318
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of a group of viruses which insert a copy of their RNA genome into the DNA of a host cell, thus changing the genome of that cell.
A computer virus that seeks to attack antivirus programs in an attempt to avoid detection.
senses_topics:
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
|
1869 | word:
accusation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accusation (countable and uncountable, plural accusations)
forms:
form:
accusations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in the late 14th century. Inherited from Middle English accusacion, borrowed from Old French acusacion (French: accusation), from Latin accūsātiō (“accusation, indictment”), from accūsō (“blame, accuse”). Doublet of accusatio. More at accuse. Equivalent to accuse + -ation.
senses_examples:
text:
ungrounded accusations
type:
example
text:
a blind accusation
type:
example
text:
repeated accusations
type:
example
text:
an accusation of a crime
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of accusing.
A formal charge brought against a person in a court of law.
An allegation.
senses_topics:
law
|
1870 | word:
smiley
word_type:
adj
expansion:
smiley (comparative smilier, superlative smiliest)
forms:
form:
smilier
tags:
comparative
form:
smiliest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
smiley
etymology_text:
Diminutive of smile.
senses_examples:
text:
have a smiley demeanor
type:
example
text:
a very smiley girl
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cheerful and happy; smiling.
Having one's throat slit from side to side.
senses_topics:
|
1871 | word:
smiley
word_type:
noun
expansion:
smiley (plural smileys or smilies)
forms:
form:
smileys
tags:
plural
form:
smilies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
smiley
etymology_text:
Diminutive of smile.
senses_examples:
text:
Smiley/Scrumper and Frowny Smiley and scrumper are both names for a piercing of the upper frenulum that attaches the center of the lip to the gums.
ref:
2011, Elayne Angel, The Piercing Bible: The Definitive Guide to Safe Body Piercing, Crossing Press, page 118
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A simplified representation of a smiling face.
A sequence of text characters used to represent a happy mood; especially :) or :-) or other depictions of smiling.
An improvised street weapon consisting of a length of chain with padlocks and other heavy objects affixed to one end.
A roasted sheep's head.
The type of piercing of the upper frenulum (upper lip).
senses_topics:
|
1872 | word:
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
word_type:
name
expansion:
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An overseas territory of France off the eastern coast of Canada.
senses_topics:
|
1873 | word:
acceleration
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acceleration (countable and uncountable, plural accelerations)
forms:
form:
accelerations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1531. From French accélération or more likely directly from Latin accelerātiō (“a hastening, acceleration”). Equivalent to accelerate + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
A falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity.
type:
example
text:
On the East and West Coast Main Lines in the 1950s/60s, for example, we saw the extinction of intermediate stations in order to create the same sort of accelerations that IRP is now promising. Back then, the priority was faster main line services, with wayside/intermediate stations paying the ultimate price.
ref:
2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
The boosters produce an acceleration of 20 metres per second per second.
type:
example
text:
A period of social improvement, or of intellectual advancement, contains within itself a principle of acceleration […]
ref:
1859-1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilisation
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as opposed to retardation or deceleration.
The amount by which a speed or velocity increases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).
The change of velocity with respect to time (can include deceleration or changing direction).
The advancement of students at a rate that places them ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
1874 | word:
translationary
word_type:
adj
expansion:
translationary (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From translation + -ary.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to the translation of language.
Pertaining to the shifting of coordinate axes.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
1875 | word:
Jan Mayen
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jan Mayen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after Dutch explorer Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island in Norway in the Arctic Ocean.
senses_topics:
|
1876 | word:
San Marino
word_type:
name
expansion:
San Marino
forms:
wikipedia:
Saint Marinus
San Marino
etymology_text:
From Italian San Marino (“Saint Marinus”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A landlocked microstate in Southern Europe, located within the borders of Italy. Official name: Republic of San Marino.
The capital city of San Marino.
A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
senses_topics:
|
1877 | word:
offset
word_type:
noun
expansion:
offset (plural offsets)
forms:
form:
offsets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From off- + set, used to construct the noun form of the verb to set off. Compare Middle English ofsetten (“to encumber, harass, beset, besiege”), from Old English ofsettan (“to press, oppress, overwhelm, crush”).
senses_examples:
text:
Today's victory was an offset to yesterday's defeat.
type:
example
text:
There were more applicants for situations than vacancies, and nothing better or more congenial to my taste offering, I accepted a place in a Saloon. The salary was $100 per month, which was somewhat of an offset against the peculiarities of the position.
ref:
1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
Later, Timberlake would tell Playboy that he noticed Ryan's talent from the offset, saying, 'I thought he had charisma that was just beaming, which has turned out to serve him really well as an actor.'
ref:
2017, Nick Johnstone, Ryan Gosling - The Biography
type:
quotation
text:
offset lithographs
type:
example
text:
offset process
type:
example
text:
An array of bytes uses its index as the offset, of words a multiple thereof.
type:
example
text:
The raw signal data was subjected to a baseline correction process to subtract the sensor's offset and drift variations.
type:
example
text:
There is a small offset between the switch and the indicator which some users found confusing.
type:
example
text:
[…] [I]nfected tulips are weakened by the viruses that cause the very patterns and swirls that fascinated horticulturists and investors in the first place. Such bulbs tend to dwindle away instead of fattening up and producing offsets.
ref:
2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they vanish for good [print version: Inspired by a living bulb archive, 27 September 2014, p. G5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
A time at which something begins; outset.
The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
A terrace on a hillside.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
geography
natural-sciences
surveying
biology
botany
natural-sciences
architecture
architecture |
1878 | word:
offset
word_type:
verb
expansion:
offset (third-person singular simple present offsets, present participle offsetting, simple past and past participle offset or (rare) offsetted)
forms:
form:
offsets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
offsetting
tags:
participle
present
form:
offset
tags:
participle
past
form:
offset
tags:
past
form:
offsetted
tags:
participle
past
rare
form:
offsetted
tags:
past
rare
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From off- + set, used to construct the noun form of the verb to set off. Compare Middle English ofsetten (“to encumber, harass, beset, besiege”), from Old English ofsettan (“to press, oppress, overwhelm, crush”).
senses_examples:
text:
I'll offset the time difference locally.
type:
example
text:
to offset one charge against another
type:
example
text:
In order to gain first-hand experience of the operation of the new services I made a footplate journey on the only down two-hour train in the current timetable, the 8.30 a.m. Paddington [to Birmingham], a new express put on to offset the withdrawal of the 8.40 a.m. from Euston.
ref:
1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 103
type:
quotation
text:
The maroon livery of D1001 is offset, not only by yellow buffer beams and "aprons", but by white-painted cab window frames.
ref:
1962 April, “Motive power miscellany: Western Region”, in Modern Railways, page 280
type:
quotation
text:
The company said its rising production and sales were largely offset by reductions in the impact of raw material use, for instance by replacing virgin cashmere fibres with regenerated cashmere that had previously been considered a waste material.
ref:
2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
To place out of line.
To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
senses_topics:
|
1879 | word:
offset
word_type:
adv
expansion:
offset (comparative more offset, superlative most offset)
forms:
form:
more offset
tags:
comparative
form:
most offset
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From off- + set, used to construct the noun form of the verb to set off. Compare Middle English ofsetten (“to encumber, harass, beset, besiege”), from Old English ofsettan (“to press, oppress, overwhelm, crush”).
senses_examples:
text:
Offset Riley is romantically involved with Alexandra Maria Lara, who plays lan Curtis's lover Annik Honoré in Control.
ref:
2008, Film Review, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
Anita's pianoises are made offset for her by Norma Boleslawski, wife of late, great director Richard Boleslawski.
ref:
2014, Ivan Raykoff, Dreams of Love: Playing the Romantic Pianist, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
'Are the pubs open?' When the reply came back that they were indeed open, he would say, 'Then fuck your quarterly,' and rush offset, even though the break wasn't meant for the actors.
ref:
2018, Frank Henson, Luck of Losing the Toss
type:
quotation
text:
Not only did the cast and crew get along on set, that camaraderie continued offset as well.
ref:
2021, Padraic Maroney, It All Began With A Scream
type:
quotation
text:
For his scenes in alien form Bowie had to spend up to five hours each day in make-up: offset he painted, wrote and read voraciously.
ref:
2022, Stephen Glynn, David Bowie and Film: Hooked to the Silver Screen, page 56
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Away from or off from the set of a movie, film, video, or play.
senses_topics:
|
1880 | word:
offset
word_type:
adj
expansion:
offset (comparative more offset, superlative most offset)
forms:
form:
more offset
tags:
comparative
form:
most offset
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From off- + set, used to construct the noun form of the verb to set off. Compare Middle English ofsetten (“to encumber, harass, beset, besiege”), from Old English ofsettan (“to press, oppress, overwhelm, crush”).
senses_examples:
text:
By then, the cast had become good friends and spent all their offset time together.
ref:
2013, Kathleen A. Tracy, Superstars of the 21st Century, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
This is the principal need for a stand-in. To allow the actor to reset their own performance in a space right offset; which may also include resetting wardrobe and makeup.
ref:
2021, Kevin Marshall Pinkney, On the Mark
type:
quotation
text:
Offset photos show him absorbed in a biography of acting hero Buster Keaton upon whom Bowie modelled his stone face — 'on which you could read anything'.
ref:
2022, Ian Dixon, Brendan Black, I’m Not a Film Star: David Bowie as Actor
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Away from or off from the set of a movie, film, video, or play.
senses_topics:
|
1881 | word:
reminiscent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
reminiscent (comparative more reminiscent, superlative most reminiscent)
forms:
form:
more reminiscent
tags:
comparative
form:
most reminiscent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin reminīscēns, present participle of reminīscor (“remember”), from re- (“again”) + min-, base of me-min-isse (“to remember, think over”), akin to mens (“mind”); see mental, mind, etc.
senses_examples:
text:
That painting is very reminiscent of Picasso's later work.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, or relating to reminiscence.
Suggestive of an earlier event or times.
Tending to bring some memory etc. to mind (followed by of)
Remembering; undergoing reminiscence.
senses_topics:
|
1882 | word:
reminiscent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
reminiscent (plural reminiscents)
forms:
form:
reminiscents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin reminīscēns, present participle of reminīscor (“remember”), from re- (“again”) + min-, base of me-min-isse (“to remember, think over”), akin to mens (“mind”); see mental, mind, etc.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences.
senses_topics:
|
1883 | word:
accumulate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accumulate (third-person singular simple present accumulates, present participle accumulating, simple past and past participle accumulated)
forms:
form:
accumulates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accumulating
tags:
participle
present
form:
accumulated
tags:
participle
past
form:
accumulated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English accumylaten, from Latin accumulātus, perfect passive participle of accumulō (“amass, pile up”), formed from ad (“to, towards, at”) + cumulō (“heap”), from cumulus (“a heap”). First attested in the 1520's.
senses_examples:
text:
He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
type:
example
text:
With her company going bankrupt, her divorce, and a gambling habit, debts started to accumulate so she had to sell her house.
type:
example
text:
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, / Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
ref:
1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, lines 17–18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively)
To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number.
To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.
senses_topics:
education |
1884 | word:
accumulate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accumulate (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English accumylaten, from Latin accumulātus, perfect passive participle of accumulō (“amass, pile up”), formed from ad (“to, towards, at”) + cumulō (“heap”), from cumulus (“a heap”). First attested in the 1520's.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Collected; accumulated.
senses_topics:
|
1885 | word:
ci
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ci (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Mandarin 詞／词 (cí).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the Classical Chinese poetry forms
senses_topics:
|
1886 | word:
AANT
word_type:
name
expansion:
AANT
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Automobile Association of the Northern Territory, a member of the Australian Automobile Association.
senses_topics:
|
1887 | word:
Peru
word_type:
name
expansion:
Peru
forms:
wikipedia:
Peru
Peru (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Spanish Perú, possibly from the personal name Birú, or from the Quechua pelu (“river”).
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: Perú
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Peru. Capital and largest city: Lima.
A city in Illinois.
A city, the county seat of Miami County, Indiana.
A township in Miami County, Indiana.
A city in Kansas.
A town in Maine.
A town in Massachusetts.
A city in Nebraska.
A town in New York.
An unincorporated community in Pennsylvania.
A town in Vermont.
An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
A town in Wisconsin
senses_topics:
|
1888 | word:
abyss
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abyss (plural abysses)
forms:
form:
abysses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abissus, from Late Latin abyssus (“a bottomless gulf”), from Ancient Greek ἄβυσσος (ábussos, “bottomless”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + βυσσός (bussós, “deep place”), from βυθός (buthós, “deep place”). Displaced native Old English neowolnes.
senses_examples:
text:
'You cannot enter here,' said Gandalf, and the huge shadow halted. 'Go back to the abyss prepared for you! Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go!'
ref:
1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 190
type:
quotation
text:
Below is the deep abyss of the Lauterbrunnen valley, and at its head a stately semi-circle of mountains, with the pyramidal Lauterbrunnen Breithorn as the centre-piece.
ref:
1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752
type:
quotation
text:
They fell into the abyss of drug addiction.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.
A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.
Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.
An impending catastrophic happening.
The center of an escutcheon.
The abyssal zone.
A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
|
1889 | word:
NRMA
word_type:
name
expansion:
NRMA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of National Roads and Motorists' Association.
senses_topics:
|
1890 | word:
RACQ
word_type:
name
expansion:
RACQ
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Royal Automobile Club of Queensland.
senses_topics:
|
1891 | word:
Seychelles
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Seychelles
forms:
form:
the Seychelles
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
After French official and politician Jean Moreau de Séchelles.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean. Official name: Republic of Seychelles.
senses_topics:
|
1892 | word:
RACT
word_type:
name
expansion:
RACT
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Royal Automobile Club of Tasmania.
senses_topics:
|
1893 | word:
RACV
word_type:
name
expansion:
RACV
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Royal Automobile Club of Victoria.
senses_topics:
|
1894 | word:
RACWA
word_type:
name
expansion:
RACWA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia.
senses_topics:
|
1895 | word:
RAA
word_type:
name
expansion:
RAA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Royal Automobile Association.
senses_topics:
|
1896 | word:
yowie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yowie (plural yowies)
forms:
form:
yowies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Gamilaraay yuwi (“dream spirit”).
senses_examples:
text:
The white population claimed that an escaped panther from a travelling circus was the culprit; others thought that a Yowie was responsible.
ref:
1986, Bruce Pascoe, “The Slaughters of the Bulumwaal Butcher”, in Anita Heiss, Peter Minter, editors, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 101
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ape-like monster or animal said to exist in parts of eastern Australia.
senses_topics:
biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology |
1897 | word:
letter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
letter (plural letters)
forms:
form:
letters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English letter, lettre, from Old French letre, from Latin littera (“letter of the alphabet"; in plural, "epistle”), from Etruscan, from Ancient Greek διφθέρᾱ (diphthérā, “tablet”). Related to diphtheria. Displaced Old English bōcstæf (literally “book staff”) in sense 1 and ǣrendġewrit (literally “message writing”) in sense 2.
senses_examples:
text:
There are twenty-six letters in the English alphabet.
type:
example
text:
I wrote a letter to my sister about my life.
type:
example
text:
The style of letters ought to be free, easy, and natural.
ref:
1692, William Walsh, “Preface”, in Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant
type:
quotation
text:
The magician gave this to the young man and said to him,“ Go at such an hour of the night and stand before a pagan tomb and call the demons, and throw the letter into the air, and immediately they will come to you.” And the young man called the devils and threw the letter into the air, and the prince of darkness came,[…]
ref:
1892, P.A.C., edited by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke, Poet Lore: A Magazine of Letters, volume 4, New York, N.Y.: AMS Reprint Company, →OCLC, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s ‘Golden Legend’ and its Analogues, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
Some MEPs from some countries may have pocketed £2m more than I have by observing the letter but not the spirit of the rules.
ref:
2009 February 23, Laurence Peter, quoting Chris Davies, “Euro MP expenses 'can reach £1m'”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2012-01-10
type:
quotation
text:
Benjamin Franklin was multiskilled – a scientist, politician and a man of letters.
type:
example
text:
Letter (b) constitutes an exception to this provision.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A symbol in an alphabet.
A written or printed communication, generally longer and more formal than a note.
The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (the spirit).
Literature.
A division unit of a piece of law marked by a letter of the alphabet.
A size of paper, 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm).
A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm.
Clipping of varsity letter.
A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.
senses_topics:
law
media
printing
publishing |
1898 | word:
letter
word_type:
verb
expansion:
letter (third-person singular simple present letters, present participle lettering, simple past and past participle lettered)
forms:
form:
letters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lettering
tags:
participle
present
form:
lettered
tags:
participle
past
form:
lettered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English letter, lettre, from Old French letre, from Latin littera (“letter of the alphabet"; in plural, "epistle”), from Etruscan, from Ancient Greek διφθέρᾱ (diphthérā, “tablet”). Related to diphtheria. Displaced Old English bōcstæf (literally “book staff”) in sense 1 and ǣrendġewrit (literally “message writing”) in sense 2.
senses_examples:
text:
I think Mom lettered in shot put her junior year.
ref:
1992 September 23, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To print, inscribe, or paint letters on something.
To earn a varsity letter (award).
senses_topics:
|
1899 | word:
letter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
letter (plural letters)
forms:
form:
letters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English letere, equivalent to let + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
the letter of a room
type:
example
text:
a blood-letter
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who lets, or lets out.
One who retards or hinders.
senses_topics:
|
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