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1900 | word:
affix
word_type:
noun
expansion:
affix (plural affixes)
forms:
form:
affixes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin affixus, perfect passive participle of affigere (from ad- + figere), equivalent to ad- + fix.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which is affixed; an appendage.
A bound morpheme added to the word’s stem's end.
A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem; a prefix, suffix, etc.
The complex number a+bi associated with the point in the Gauss plane with coordinates (a,b).
Any small feature, as a figure, a flower, or the like, added for ornament to a vessel or other utensil, to an architectural feature.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
mathematics
sciences
|
1901 | word:
affix
word_type:
verb
expansion:
affix (third-person singular simple present affixes, present participle affixing, simple past and past participle affixed)
forms:
form:
affixes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
affixing
tags:
participle
present
form:
affixed
tags:
participle
past
form:
affixed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin affixus, perfect passive participle of affigere (from ad- + figere), equivalent to ad- + fix.
senses_examples:
text:
to affix a stigma to a person
type:
example
text:
to affix ridicule or blame to somebody
type:
example
text:
to affix a syllable to a word
type:
example
text:
to affix a seal to an instrument
type:
example
text:
to affix one’s name to a writing
type:
example
text:
eyes affixed upon the ground
type:
example
text:
Look thou no further, but affix thine eye/On that bright, shiny, round, still moving mass,/The house of blessed gods, which men call sky,/All sow'd with glist'ring stars more thick than grass...
ref:
1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymn of Heavenly Beauty
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To attach.
To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to.
To fix or fasten figuratively; with on or upon.
senses_topics:
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1902 | word:
absorb
word_type:
verb
expansion:
absorb (third-person singular simple present absorbs, present participle absorbing, simple past and past participle absorbed or (archaic) absorpt)
forms:
form:
absorbs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
absorbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
absorbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
absorbed
tags:
past
form:
absorpt
tags:
archaic
participle
past
form:
absorpt
tags:
archaic
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
absorb
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French absorber, from Old French assorbir, from Latin absorbeō (“swallow up”), from ab- (“from”) + sorbeō (“suck in, swallow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ- (“to sip”). Compare French absorber.
senses_examples:
text:
Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all.
ref:
1782, William Cowper, On Observing some Names of Little Note
type:
quotation
text:
Wages absorbed 80% of the total revenue (which was inescapable), and they were rising at almost twice the rate of fares, which were pegged by law.
ref:
2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
to be absorpt, or swallowed up, in a lake of fire and brimstone.
ref:
1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth
type:
quotation
text:
The drops of water slowly absorbed into the dry sponge.
type:
example
text:
Heat, light, and electricity are absorbed in the substances into which they pass.
type:
example
text:
Livonian affairs held him tight, and were to absorb him for many a year.
ref:
1904, Kazimierz Waliszewski, translated by Lady Mary Loyd, Ivan the Terrible, Part 2 Chapter 3
type:
quotation
text:
If we fail to absorb the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat them.
type:
example
text:
Among the most debatable is the contention that the profit margins of small employers are insufficient to absorb the costs of health insurance
ref:
2006, Gunnar Almgren, Health Care Politics, Policy, and Services: A Social Justice Analysis
type:
quotation
text:
I’ll absorb the charge for the window replacement.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in.
To take in energy and convert it.
in receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil.
To take in energy and convert it.
in receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo.
To take in energy and convert it.
taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat.
To take in energy and convert it.
To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
To occupy or consume time.
To assimilate mentally.
To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
To defray the costs.
To accept or purchase in quantity.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business
|
1903 | word:
absence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absence (usually uncountable, plural absences)
forms:
form:
absences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English absence, from Old French absence, ausence, from Latin absentia, from absēns (“absent”), present active participle of absum (“I am away or absent”), from ab (“from, away from”) + sum (“I am”).
senses_examples:
text:
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
type:
example
text:
During Jane's absence, Mark will be taking charge.
type:
example
text:
Harry Kane was an absence in that first half. He touched the ball 11 times despite Spurs taking 62% of possession.
ref:
2018 September 15, Barney Ronay, “Finely tuned Liverpool are really getting into Jürgen Klopp’s groove”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.
ref:
2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
He had an absence of enthusiasm.
type:
example
text:
in the absence of higher and more authoritative sanctions the ordinances of foreign states, the opinions of eminent statesmen, and the writings of distinguished jurists, are regarded as of great consideration on questions not settled by conventional law
ref:
1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law
type:
quotation
text:
absence of mind
type:
example
text:
To conquer that abstraction which is called absence.
ref:
c. 1824-1829, Walter Landor, Imaginary Conversations
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship
The period of someone being away.
Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendance; deficiency.
Lack; deficiency; nonexistence.
Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind).
Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in epilepsy.
Lack of contact between blades.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war |
1904 | word:
Syria
word_type:
name
expansion:
Syria
forms:
wikipedia:
Syria
etymology_text:
From Middle English Sirie, from Latin Sȳria, from Ancient Greek Σῠρῐ́ᾱ (Suríā), ultimately from Akkadian 𒀸𒋩 (Aššur, “Assur”) and hence originally synonymous to Assyria.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in West Asia, in the Middle East. Official name: Syrian Arab Republic. Capital: Damascus.
Syria (an ancient region in the Levant in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern country of Syria).
An ancient Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE.
senses_topics:
|
1905 | word:
meat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
meat (countable and uncountable, plural meats)
forms:
form:
meats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
meat
etymology_text:
From Middle English mete, from Old English mete (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *mati, from Proto-Germanic *matiz (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to drip, ooze; grease, fat”). Cognate with West Frisian mete, Old Saxon meti, Old High German maz (“food”), Icelandic matur, Swedish mat, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (mats).
A -ja- derivation from the same base is found in Middle Dutch and Middle Low German met (“lean pork”), from which Dutch met (“minced pork”) and German Mett (“minced meat”) derive, respectively. Compare also Old Irish mess (“animal feed”) and Welsh mes (“acorns”), English mast (“fodder for swine and other animals”), which are probably from the same root.
senses_examples:
text:
A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.
type:
example
text:
The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter.
type:
example
text:
In many parts of the world, shark meat is an acceptable and desirable form of protein.
ref:
1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, page 144
type:
quotation
text:
While people who eat no meat at all are identified and identifiable as vegetarians, there is no commonly accepted term for people who eat it only a couple of times a week and are selective about its quality.
ref:
2010 October 19, Andy Atkins, “Debate on meat-eating does not cut the mustard”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.
type:
example
text:
As full of fun and frolic as an egg is full of meat.
ref:
1879, Silas Hocking, Her Benny
type:
quotation
text:
The way she said ‘dinner’ and the way she said ‘champagne’ gave meat and liquid their exact difference[…].
ref:
1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.
type:
example
text:
She took her spoon and stirred the melted butter into the yellow meat of the yam.
ref:
1954, Cothburn O'Neal, The Dark Lady, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
He sits me on the floor (the shower is still beating down on us). He lays me down and slides his huge meat into me.
ref:
1993, Nancy Friday, Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies, page 538
type:
quotation
text:
Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day.
ref:
2006, John Patrick, Play Hard, Score Big, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
Both men were completely, and very actively into this face fucking! Suddenly Bill pulled off of Jim's meat and said,
ref:
2011, Wade Wright, Two Straight Guys, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
We recruited him right from the meat of our competitor.
type:
example
text:
[…]it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.
ref:
1577, Gerald Eades Bentley, The Arte of Angling
type:
quotation
text:
He hit it right on the meat of the bat.
type:
example
text:
Throw it in here, meat.
type:
example
text:
When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: "What meat (clan) are you?"
ref:
1949, Vol.XX, Oceania
type:
quotation
text:
Granny Sullivan was ‘dead against’ the match at first because they did not know "what my meat was and because I was a bit on the fair side."
ref:
1973, M. Fennel, A. Grey, Nucoorilma
type:
quotation
text:
Some people maintained that she was "sung" because her family had killed or eaten the "meat" (totem) of another group.
ref:
1977, A. K. Eckermann, Group Organisation and Identity
type:
quotation
text:
Our family[…]usually married the red kangaroo "meat".
ref:
1992, P. Taylor, Tell it Like it Is
type:
quotation
text:
1993, J. Janson, Gunjies
That’s a beautiful goanna. […]. He’s my meat, can’t eat him.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink.
A type of food, a dish.
A meal.
Meal; flour.
Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
A penis.
The best or most substantial part of something.
The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
A meathead.
A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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1906 | word:
BOF
word_type:
noun
expansion:
BOF (countable and uncountable, plural BOFs)
forms:
form:
BOFs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
BOF
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: EOF
text:
Alternative form: BoF
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of beginning of file.
Initialism of birds of a feather (“group of people with common interests”).
Initialism of best of friends.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
1907 | word:
RFDS
word_type:
name
expansion:
RFDS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Early medical and RFDS memorabilia is on display inside.
ref:
2011, Rough Guides Snapshot: Australia: Northern Territory (ISBN-13: 9781409360902)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.
senses_topics:
|
1908 | word:
beer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beer (countable and uncountable, plural beers)
forms:
form:
beers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
A Dictionary of the English Language
Oxford English Dictionary
Samuel Johnson
beer
etymology_text:
From Middle English bere, from Old English bēor (“beer”) (Oxford OED notes: "rare, except in poetry"), from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą (“beer”) (putatively from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeusóm), meaning “brewer's yeast”.
However, also see the "beer" entry on OED (q.v.), which links a connection to monastic Vulgar Latin *biber (“a drink, beverage”), from Latin bibere (“to drink”). Samuel Johnson in his famous 18th-century A Dictionary of the English Language guessed it was from (unattested) Welsh *bîr; he distinguished it in his time from ale — the ancient usual word — by beer being older-aged and/or smaller.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bjoor, West Frisian bier, German Low German Beer, Dutch bier, German Bier, Icelandic bjór (“beer”).
senses_examples:
text:
Beer is brewed all over the world.
type:
example
text:
I bought a few beers from the shop for the party.
type:
example
text:
Can I buy you a beer?
type:
example
text:
I'd like two beers and a glass of white wine.
type:
example
text:
Pilsner is one of the most commonly served beers in Europe.
type:
example
text:
I haven't tried this beer before.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt; often with hops or some other substance (like gruit) to impart a bitter flavor.
A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.
A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid.
A glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.
A variety of the above beverages.
senses_topics:
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1909 | word:
beer
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beer (third-person singular simple present beers, present participle beering, simple past and past participle beered)
forms:
form:
beers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
beering
tags:
participle
present
form:
beered
tags:
participle
past
form:
beered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
A Dictionary of the English Language
Oxford English Dictionary
Samuel Johnson
beer
etymology_text:
From Middle English bere, from Old English bēor (“beer”) (Oxford OED notes: "rare, except in poetry"), from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą (“beer”) (putatively from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeusóm), meaning “brewer's yeast”.
However, also see the "beer" entry on OED (q.v.), which links a connection to monastic Vulgar Latin *biber (“a drink, beverage”), from Latin bibere (“to drink”). Samuel Johnson in his famous 18th-century A Dictionary of the English Language guessed it was from (unattested) Welsh *bîr; he distinguished it in his time from ale — the ancient usual word — by beer being older-aged and/or smaller.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bjoor, West Frisian bier, German Low German Beer, Dutch bier, German Bier, Icelandic bjór (“beer”).
senses_examples:
text:
No doubt he then can feed us, wine us, beer us, And cook us something that can warm and cheer us.
ref:
1870, Sidney Daryl, His First Brief. A Comedietta in Clement Scott, Drawing-room Plays and Parlour Pantomimes, Robson and Sons, pages 303–304
text:
“Beer me!” said Goody. “Also your weed is shit. Where’s the good stuff, dude?”
ref:
2010, Steve Brezenhoff, The Absolute Value of -1, Carolrhoda Lab, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
I heard Patty Marsh yelling, ‘Beer him, Eleanor!’
ref:
2013, Janet E. Cameron, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World, Hatchette Books Ireland, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
“Beer me!” To his astonishment she obeyed his command, appearing a minute later with a glass of beer and a wry smile.
ref:
2013, R. D. Power, Forbidden, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
In Japan, students on a Friday night announce “Let's beer!”
ref:
2008, Charles Foran, Join the Revolution, Comrade: Journeys and Essays, page 83
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give beer to (someone).
To drink beer.
senses_topics:
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1910 | word:
beer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beer (plural beers)
forms:
form:
beers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
beer
etymology_text:
table From Middle English beere, equivalent to be + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
That meant, among other things, that he was going to be a fast-moving doer. And even when he was three or four, it wasn't hard for me to know that this wasn't going to be easy. Because Albert was a beer. Born that way.
ref:
1990, Budge Wilson, “Be-ers and Doers”, in The leaving, and other stories
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who is or exists.
senses_topics:
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1911 | word:
ID card
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ID card (plural ID cards)
forms:
form:
ID cards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ID + card.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of identity card.
senses_topics:
|
1912 | word:
software
word_type:
noun
expansion:
software (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From soft + -ware, by contrast with hardware (“the computer itself”). Coined by John Tukey in 1958.
senses_examples:
text:
The "software" comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its "hardware" of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like.
ref:
1958, John W. Tukey, "The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics" in The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 65, no. 1 (Jan. 1958), pp 1-9
text:
As originally conceived, the word "software" was merely an obvious way to distinguish a program from the computer itself. A program comprised sequences of changeable instructions each having the power to command the behavior of the permanently crafted machinery, the "hardware."
ref:
1995, Paul Niquette, Softword: Provenance for the Word ‘Software’
type:
quotation
text:
The Americans have devoted their attention to the hardware of disarmament: Europeans can make a special contribution to the 'software' or human content of detente.
ref:
1989, Christopher Layton, A Step Beyond Fear: Building a European Security Community
type:
quotation
text:
[…] preview of horrific images to come, as the hardware stage of the war yields to the software — or human — stage.
ref:
1991, New York Magazine, volume 24, number 5, page 33
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM).
The human beings involved in warfare, as opposed to hardware such as weapons and vehicles.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
government
military
politics
war |
1913 | word:
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (usually uncountable, plural dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanes)
forms:
form:
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dichloro + diphenyl + trichloro + ethane.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chlorinated hydrocarbon originally used as an insecticide, often abbreviated as DDT.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
1914 | word:
sasquatch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sasquatch (plural sasquatches)
forms:
form:
sasquatches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Halkomelem sásq’ets (“hairy man”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large hairy humanoid creature of western North America.
senses_topics:
biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology |
1915 | word:
winter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
winter (countable and uncountable, plural winters)
forms:
form:
winters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
winter
etymology_text:
From Middle English winter, from Old English winter, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz (“winter”). Cognate with West Frisian winter (“winter”), Dutch winter (“winter”), German Winter (“winter”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian vinter (“winter”), Icelandic vetur (“winter”).
senses_examples:
text:
Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
ref:
a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
And after summer evermore succeeds
Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold.
ref:
1592, Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1
type:
quotation
text:
There shall he learn, ere sixteen winters old,
That …
ref:
1785, William Cowper, “Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools." in The Poems of William Cowper, Vol. II., The Press of C. Whittingham (1822), page 174
text:
[…] a woman, tall, and strong of aspect, of some thirty winters by seeming, [...]
ref:
1897, William Morris, The Water of the Wondrous Isles, volume I, Longmans, Green and Co., published 1914, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge.
ref:
1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion
type:
quotation
text:
Buterin seemed to sense that the market was out of balance, and he made a smart decision that helped Ethereum weather the crypto winter and continue to build while the market was down.
ref:
2023, Ben Armstrong, Catching Up to Crypto, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
Note that the Citie of Goa is the principall place of all the Oriental India, and the winter thus beginneth the 15 of May, with very great raine.
ref:
1584, Barret, in Hakl. ii. 413
text:
The Winter heere beginneth about the first of Iune and dureth till the twentieth of September, but not with continuall raines as at Goa, but for some sixe or seuen dayes every change and full, with much wind, thunder and raine.
ref:
1610, Finch, in Purchas, i. 423
text:
In Winter (when they rarely stir) they have a Mumjama, or Wax Cloth to throw over it […]
ref:
1678, Fryer, 410
text:
The mere breadth of these mountains divides summer from winter, that is to say, the season of fine weather from the rainy […] all that is meant by winter in India is the time of the year when the clouds […] are driven violently by the winds against the mountains, […]
ref:
1770,—Raynal, tr. 1777, i. 34
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as being from December to February in continental regions of the Northern Hemisphere or the months of June, July, and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.
The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
Someone with dark skin, eyes and hair, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
An appliance to be fixed on the front of a grate, to keep a kettle warm, etc.
The rainy season.
senses_topics:
fashion
lifestyle
|
1916 | word:
winter
word_type:
verb
expansion:
winter (third-person singular simple present winters, present participle wintering, simple past and past participle wintered)
forms:
form:
winters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wintering
tags:
participle
present
form:
wintered
tags:
participle
past
form:
wintered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
winter
etymology_text:
From Middle English winter, from Old English winter, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz (“winter”). Cognate with West Frisian winter (“winter”), Dutch winter (“winter”), German Winter (“winter”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian vinter (“winter”), Icelandic vetur (“winter”).
senses_examples:
text:
When they retired, they hoped to winter in Florida.
type:
example
text:
Those who seek to invade another country anywhere across the great Eurasian steppes are condemned eventually to winter in it.
ref:
2022 December 27, “Ukraine war: Five ways conflict could go in 2023”, in BBC News
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To spend the winter (in a particular place).
To store something (for instance animals) somewhere over winter to protect it from cold.
senses_topics:
|
1917 | word:
winter
word_type:
adj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
senses_topics:
|
1918 | word:
IAAF
word_type:
name
expansion:
IAAF
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of International Amateur Athletics Federation (1912–2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (2001–2019). Organization renamed World Athletics in 2019.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
1919 | word:
Northern Marianas
word_type:
name
expansion:
Northern Marianas
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Short for Northern Mariana Islands.
senses_topics:
|
1920 | word:
Niue
word_type:
name
expansion:
Niue
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Niuean Niuē (“behold the coconut palm”), from niu (“coconut”) + ē (“o (vocative particle)”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island and country in Polynesia in Oceania, a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand. Official name: Republic of Niue. Capital: Alofi.
senses_topics:
|
1921 | word:
neologisms
word_type:
noun
expansion:
neologisms
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of neologism
senses_topics:
|
1922 | word:
Vanuatu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Vanuatu
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Bislama Vanuatu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country and archipelago in Melanesia in Oceania. Official name: Republic of Vanuatu. Capital and largest city: Port Vila.
senses_topics:
|
1923 | word:
French Guiana
word_type:
name
expansion:
French Guiana
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An overseas department and administrative region of France in South America. Official name: Department of French Guiana.
senses_topics:
|
1924 | word:
dictionary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dictionary (plural dictionaries)
forms:
form:
dictionaries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dixionare, learned borrowing from Medieval Latin dictiōnārium, from Latin dictiōnārius, from dictiō (“a speaking”), from dictus, perfect past participle of dīcō (“to speak”) + -ārium (“room, place”). By surface analysis, diction + -ary.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: thesaurus
text:
If you want to know the meaning of a word, look it up in the dictionary.
type:
example
text:
But what other kind(s) of syntactic information should be included in Lexical Entries? Traditional dictionaries such as Hornby's (1974) Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English include not only categorial information in their entries, but also information about the range of Complements which a given item permits (this information is represented by the use of a number/letter code).
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 7, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 339
type:
quotation
text:
By 1986 the name Walkman was included as a word in the English dictionary.
ref:
2019, John Hughes, Life Pre-Intermediate Student's Book, National Geographic Learning, page 188
type:
quotation
text:
User calls RouteCollection.GetVirtualPath, passing in a RequestContext, a dictionary of values, and an optional route name used to select the correct route to generate the URL.
ref:
2011, Jon Galloway, Phil Haack, Brad Wilson, Professional ASP.NET MVC 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings (senses), and sometimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, and translations, as well as other data.
A synchronic dictionary of a standardised language held to only contain words that are properly part of the language.
Any work that has a list of material organized alphabetically; e.g., biographical dictionary, encyclopedic dictionary.
An associative array, a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a dictionary (sense 1).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
1925 | word:
dictionary
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dictionary (third-person singular simple present dictionaries, present participle dictionarying, simple past and past participle dictionaried)
forms:
form:
dictionaries
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dictionarying
tags:
participle
present
form:
dictionaried
tags:
participle
past
form:
dictionaried
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dixionare, learned borrowing from Medieval Latin dictiōnārium, from Latin dictiōnārius, from dictiō (“a speaking”), from dictus, perfect past participle of dīcō (“to speak”) + -ārium (“room, place”). By surface analysis, diction + -ary.
senses_examples:
text:
By a reference to the following dictionaried abbreviations, the simplicity and harmony of each sentence will be manifestly apparent; although it does not embrace everything, and could not, as it would be far too voluminous for general use.
ref:
1866, William Henry Ward, The international day, night, and fog signal telegraph, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
Should I use a word that a lot of people use but isn't in the dictionary? Uncle Phil would rather get a root canal than say he was scrapbooking, because the word isn't dictionaried.
ref:
2001, The Michigan Alumnus, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
They [dictionary-makers] may have had their romance at home — may have been crossed in love, and thence driven to dictionarying; may have been involved in domestic tragedies — who can say?
ref:
1864, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 96, page 334
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To look up in a dictionary.
To add to a dictionary.
To compile a dictionary.
senses_topics:
|
1926 | word:
debt-laden
word_type:
adj
expansion:
debt-laden (comparative more debt-laden, superlative most debt-laden)
forms:
form:
more debt-laden
tags:
comparative
form:
most debt-laden
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
having a burden of debt
senses_topics:
|
1927 | word:
Switzerland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Switzerland
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compound of Switzer + -land, adopted in the 16th century from Early Modern German Schwytzerland (“land of the Swiss”). Noun sense refers to the state’s political neutrality in both World Wars.
senses_examples:
text:
Much of Switzerland is located in the Alps.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Western Europe and Central Europe. Official name: Swiss Confederation. Capital: Bern (de facto).
senses_topics:
|
1928 | word:
Switzerland
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Switzerland (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compound of Switzer + -land, adopted in the 16th century from Early Modern German Schwytzerland (“land of the Swiss”). Noun sense refers to the state’s political neutrality in both World Wars.
senses_examples:
text:
I’m not getting involved in this argument. I’m Switzerland.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A neutral party in a dispute; one who does not take sides.
senses_topics:
|
1929 | word:
abominable snowman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abominable snowman (plural abominable snowmen)
forms:
form:
abominable snowmen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1921. Calque of Tibetan མི་སྡུག་གངས་མི (mi sdug gangs mi), from མི་སྡུག (mi sdug, “repulsive, unlovely, ugly, hideous”) and གངས་མི (gangs mi, “snowman”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A humanoid or apelike animal said to exist in the Himalayas.
senses_topics:
biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology |
1930 | word:
um
word_type:
intj
expansion:
um
forms:
wikipedia:
Speech disfluency
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
text:
Um, I don’t know.
type:
example
text:
Let’s see... um... how about this?
type:
example
text:
It's a great test of the claims of open-source gurus, who say that a self-motivated community can outcode any team working for a single employer—like, um, Microsoft.
ref:
2002, Newsweek, volume 140, page lxxx
type:
quotation
text:
"About the same, wherever you go," he agreed.
"Um," I said.
ref:
1963, Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., page 65
type:
quotation
text:
Um, excuse me!
type:
example
text:
While I was in her room, Sam walked by and said, “Um, I'm telling!”
“You're telling what?” I asked.
“You're reading Tori's journal,” she said.
ref:
2011, Kimberly Willis Holt, Piper Reed, Clubhouse Queen
type:
quotation
text:
Mair used to look after Laura. If anyone threatened to tease her, Mair would stand up straight, point her finger at the enemy and shout, 'Um! I'm telling on you!'
ref:
2021, Sarah Strangeways, The Gingerbread House, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expression of hesitation, uncertainty or space filler in conversation.
Dated spelling of mmm.
An expression to forcefully call attention to something wrong.
An expression of shocked disapproval used by a child who witnesses forbidden behavior.
senses_topics:
|
1931 | word:
um
word_type:
verb
expansion:
um (third-person singular simple present ums, present participle umming, simple past and past participle ummed)
forms:
form:
ums
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
umming
tags:
participle
present
form:
ummed
tags:
participle
past
form:
ummed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Speech disfluency
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
text:
Meanwhile, in the popular mind umming was simply a bad habit, akin to spitting or picking one’s nose.
ref:
2007, Michael Erard, Um... Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean, page 136
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make the um sound to express uncertainty or hesitancy.
senses_topics:
|
1932 | word:
um
word_type:
prep
expansion:
um
forms:
wikipedia:
Speech disfluency
etymology_text:
From Middle English um, from Old Norse um, umb (“around, about”), from Proto-Germanic *umbi (“around”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”). Cognate with Old English ymbe (“around”), West Frisian om (“around”), Dutch om (“around”), German um (“around”). More at umbe.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of umbe
senses_topics:
|
1933 | word:
um
word_type:
particle
expansion:
um
forms:
wikipedia:
Speech disfluency
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
He um Growling Bear. He um heap big chief.
type:
example
text:
me heap brave—me talk to um white man so[…] me good injun, like um white man, mebbe so, ugh!
ref:
1871, “Grand camp meeting on Bear River”, in The Keepapitchinin, volume III, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An undifferentiated determiner or article; a miscellaneous linking word, or filler with nonspecific meaning; representation of broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans.
senses_topics:
|
1934 | word:
die
word_type:
verb
expansion:
die (third-person singular simple present dies, present participle dying, simple past and past participle died)
forms:
form:
dies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dying
tags:
participle
present
form:
died
tags:
participle
past
form:
died
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
die
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Modern English
etymology_text:
From Middle English deyen, from Old English dīeġan and Old Norse deyja, both from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną (“to die”). Displaced Old English sweltan, whence Modern English swelt.
senses_examples:
text:
He died of malaria.
type:
example
text:
In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.
ref:
2000, Stephen King, On Writing, Pocket Books, published 2002, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
He died from heart failure.
type:
example
text:
She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.
ref:
1865 March 4, British Medical Journal, page 213
type:
quotation
text:
Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb […]
ref:
2007, Frank Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune, Tor, published 2007, page 191
type:
quotation
text:
He died for the one he loved.
type:
example
text:
Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.
ref:
1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Simon & Schuster, published 1999, page 232
type:
quotation
text:
Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.
ref:
2003, Tara Herivel, Paul Wright, editors, Prison Nation, Routledge, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.
ref:
1830, Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, Richards, published 1854, page 337
type:
quotation
text:
I can't believe I just died to a turret!
type:
example
text:
Dr Thomas concluded she had died to a blow to the head, which led to a bleed on the brain, probably a fall and had hit her head hard on the wooden bedpost, as there was blood on the bedpost.
ref:
2014, S. J. Groves, The Darker Side to Dr Carter, page 437
type:
quotation
text:
She died with dignity.
type:
example
text:
Will I die a happy man?
type:
example
text:
He died a hero's death.
type:
example
text:
They died a thousand deaths.
type:
example
text:
[…] he chose instead to suffer even greater personal pain, with unimaginable fortitude and resolve, albeit for a shorter time. Thus he died a small death, in order to benefit the living. Similarly, a small and voluntary death was died by Socrates.
ref:
2019, Lou Marinoff, On Human Conflict: The Philosophical Foundations of War and Peace, Rowman & Littlefield, page 452
type:
quotation
text:
Of course, Nazis are not present in this game. Instead, we have animals that will try to cover you with dirt. As soon as you get too dirty, you will die.
ref:
1995, “Slobzone”, in Coming Soon! magazine (video game review)
type:
quotation
text:
Oh look, I just died.[…]I missed that jump again! That was dumb! Hey, I just died on the same freakin' Zinger.
ref:
2009, Brian Sulpher, 9:15–9:30 from the start, in Onto Doom And Gloom (video game playthrough), via youtube
type:
quotation
text:
Whenever my brother dies, he ragequits.
type:
example
text:
I'm dying for a packet of crisps.
type:
example
text:
I'm dying for a piss.
type:
example
text:
I could see that he was dying, dying for a cigarette, dying for a fix maybe, dying for a little bit of freedom, but trapped in a hospital bed and a sick body.
ref:
2004, Paul Joseph Draus, Consumed in the city: observing tuberculosis at century's end, page 168
type:
quotation
text:
The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
type:
example
text:
"My dad […] beat us until we couldn't sit down." […] "What about your mother?" […] "She's alive. […] My aunt visits her once a year, but I don't ask about my mother. She died to me the day she chose my father over protecting us." Luke's voice hitched with emotion.
ref:
2015, Emily Duvall, Inclusions, page 150
type:
quotation
text:
"You haven't been my son since you were ten years old. That boy died to me the day he ran away. I don't know you. You are merely a shell that resembles someone I used to know, but you are dead to me. You are the bringer of pain and death. Leave me be. Leave me with my son, Jyosh." "Mother..." Barlun pleaded.
ref:
2017, Mike Hoornstra, Descent into the Maelstrom, page 366
type:
quotation
text:
He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
type:
example
text:
Do you know that I went down / To the ground / Landed on both my broken-hearted knees... / […]I didn't even cry / 'Cause pieces of me had already died
ref:
2011, Ingrid Michaelson (lyrics and music), “Ghost”, in Human Again
type:
quotation
text:
If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.
type:
example
text:
When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.
type:
example
text:
I literally died when I saw that.
ref:
1976, an anchorman on Channel Five in California, quoted in Journal and Newsletter [of the] California Classical Association, Northern Section
text:
My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
type:
example
text:
Sorry I couldn't call you. My phone died.
type:
example
text:
My battery died and my charger was at home.
type:
example
text:
The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee.
type:
example
text:
When the truth is found to be lies / And all the joy within you dies / Don't you want somebody to love? / Don't you need somebody to love?
ref:
1965, Darby Slick, “Somebody to Love”, in Surrealistic Pillow, performed by Jefferson Airplane, published 1967
type:
quotation
text:
to die to pleasure or to sin
type:
example
text:
Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
followed by of as an indication of direct cause; general use
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
followed by from as an indication of direct cause; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
followed by with as an indication of direct cause
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from)
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
followed by with as an indication of manner
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
to die in a certain form.
To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.
To yearn intensely.
To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
senses_topics:
video-games
architecture
|
1935 | word:
die
word_type:
noun
expansion:
die (plural dies)
forms:
form:
dies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dō (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Doublet of datum.
Replaced Old English tasul, tesul (“die”), from Latin tessella (“die, cube”).
senses_examples:
text:
The number of dies per wafer is basically the area of the wafer divided by the area of the die.
ref:
2002, John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Elsevier, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Once the wafer has undergone the wafer-probe test, it is separated into individual dice by sawing or scribing and breaking. The dice are visually inspected, sorted, and readied for assembly into packages.
ref:
2009, Paul R. Gray, Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, 5th edition, John Wiley & Sons, page 159
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
A device for cutting into a specified shape.
A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
Any small cubical or square body.
senses_topics:
dice
games
|
1936 | word:
die
word_type:
noun
expansion:
die (plural dice or (nonstandard) dies)
forms:
form:
dice
tags:
plural
form:
dies
tags:
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dō (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Doublet of datum.
Replaced Old English tasul, tesul (“die”), from Latin tessella (“die, cube”).
senses_examples:
text:
Most dice are six-sided.
type:
example
text:
I rolled the die and moved 2 spaces on the board.
type:
example
text:
When you roll two dies—or three, or four—the odds of obtaining a specific number becomes complex in a logarithmic progression.
ref:
2000, Richard Shoup, edited by Barry Lenson, Take Control Of Your Life: How to Control Fate, Luck, Chaos, Karma, and Life’s Other Unruly Forces, McGraw-Hill, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
We roll two dies repeatedly until we get the first double.
ref:
2012, Rinaldo B. Schinazi, “Probability Space”, in Probability with Statistical Applications, 2nd edition, Birkhäuser, “Independent Events”, “Exercises”, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
Roll two dies 24 times. What is the probability of rolling at least one double 6?
ref:
2014, Ionut Florescu, Ciprian A. Tudor, Handbook of Probability, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
type:
quotation
text:
When this creature enters the battlefield, roll a six-sided die. You gain life equal to the result.
ref:
2017 December 8, “Adorable Kitten”, in Unstable, Wizards of the Coast
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.
That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
senses_topics:
|
1937 | word:
die
word_type:
noun
expansion:
die (plural dies)
forms:
form:
dies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant spelling.
senses_examples:
text:
He hath carried his friendship to this man to a blameable length, by too long concealing facts of the blackest die.
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of dye.
senses_topics:
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1938 | word:
die
word_type:
verb
expansion:
die (third-person singular simple present dies, present participle dying, simple past and past participle died)
forms:
form:
dies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dying
tags:
participle
present
form:
died
tags:
participle
past
form:
died
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant spelling.
senses_examples:
text:
Also no dyer shall die any cloth, except he die the cloth and the list with one colour, without tacking any bulrushes or such like thing upon the lists, upon pain to forfeit 40 s. for every cloth. And no person shall put to sale any cloth deceitfully dyed,
ref:
1739, John Cay, An abridgment of the publick statutes in force and use from Magna Charta, in the ninth year of King Henry III, to the eleventh year of his present Majesty King George II, inclusive, Drapery, XXVII. Sect. 16
text:
To die wool with madder, prepare a fresh liquor, and when the water is come to a heat to bear the hand, put in half a pound of the finest grape madder for each pound of wool;
ref:
1813, James Haigh, The Dier's Assistant in the Art of Dying Wool and Woollen Goods
type:
quotation
text:
To die Wool and Woollen Cloths of a Blue Colour. One part of indigo, in four parts concentrated sulphuric acid, dissolved; then add one part of dry carbonate of potash, [...]
ref:
1827, John Shepard, The artist & tradesman's guide: embracing some leading facts
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of dye.
senses_topics:
|
1939 | word:
Falkland Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Falkland Islands sg or pl
forms:
form:
the Falkland Islands
tags:
canonical
plural
singular
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Name taken from the Falkland Sound, which was named for Viscount Falkland by John Strong, who landed on the islands in 1690.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, located in the South Atlantic.
senses_topics:
|
1940 | word:
US Virgin Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
US Virgin Islands
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I looked forward to seeing our friends and loved the long, serious conversations at Renaissance. But I needed some rest, and I was eager for the four days we had planned on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands after New Year’s.
ref:
2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Third Way”, in Living History, →OCLC, page 437
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Short for United States Virgin Islands.
senses_topics:
|
1941 | word:
Security Council
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Security Council
forms:
form:
the Security Council
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The UN Security Council.
senses_topics:
|
1942 | word:
is
word_type:
verb
expansion:
is
forms:
wikipedia:
IS
etymology_text:
From Middle English is, from Old English is, from Proto-West Germanic *ist, from Proto-Germanic *isti (a form of Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (“is”).
Cognate with West Frisian is (“is”), Dutch is (“is”), German ist (“is”), Afrikaans is (“am, are, is”) Old Swedish är, er, Old Norse er, es. Also, via Proto-Indo-European, Latin esse (“be”)
senses_examples:
text:
He is a doctor.
type:
example
text:
"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
ref:
1999 January 8, Ken Starr, quoting Bill Clinton, Referral from Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, Section 595(c) (Starr Report), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, retrieved 2020-02-14, page 176
type:
quotation
text:
"It's not two weeks yet," I reminded her, hoping that might somehow cheer her. […] "Tomorrow is two weeks," Ruth said in a distant voice, staring into the flames.
ref:
2012, Robert Moore, Where the Gold is Buried, a legend of Old Fort Niagara, page 137
type:
quotation
text:
There is three of them there.
type:
example
text:
Let the whole world know we's on some off-key tip
ref:
2001, “Witness (1 Hope)”, in Run Come save me, performed by Roots Manuva
type:
quotation
text:
"Them niggas shot my girl, yo! And I ain't gonna sleep until all of them niggas is dead!" RJ hissed.
ref:
2012, Trae Macklin, Flippin' The Hustle
type:
quotation
text:
"Y'all is some disorganized niggahs," Mama Byrd said.
ref:
2013, Tu-Shonda Whitaker, The Ex Factor, page 270
type:
quotation
text:
Who the fuck do you think I is? / You ain't married to no average bitch, boy
ref:
2016, “Don't Hurt Yourself”, in Lemonade, performed by Beyoncé
type:
quotation
text:
Nigga, yeah, you's a bitch
ref:
2022, “Plan B”, performed by Megan Thee Stallion
type:
quotation
text:
Like Jazzie, Stacie, Nicki / All of the Barbies is pretty / All of the Barbies is bad
ref:
2023, “Barbie World”, in Barbie: The Album, performed by Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of be
Used in phrases with existential there (also here and where) when the semantic subject is plural.
present indicative of be; am, are, is.
senses_topics:
|
1943 | word:
is
word_type:
pron
expansion:
is
forms:
wikipedia:
IS
etymology_text:
Alternative pronunciation of us.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of us (“me”).
senses_topics:
|
1944 | word:
is
word_type:
noun
expansion:
is
forms:
wikipedia:
IS
etymology_text:
From i + -s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of i's.
senses_topics:
|
1945 | word:
Iran
word_type:
name
expansion:
Iran
forms:
wikipedia:
Iran
Iran (word)
etymology_text:
From Iranian Persian ایران (irân), from Classical Persian ایران (ērān), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (ʾērān, “of the Aryans”). See 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (ʾērān) for word formation, further etymology and cognates. The name of the political entity is a 3rd-century development that derives from the indigenous ethnolinguistic name of the Iranian peoples, i.e. the great variety of Iranian tribes that spoke an Iranian language.
senses_examples:
text:
The Persians, in naming their country, make use of one word, which they indifferently pronounce Iroun, and Iran.
ref:
ca. 1675, Jean Chardin (Sir John Chardin), Travels in Persia, 1673-1677, fasc. reprint 1988, Dover, page 126
text:
Light was happiness; and the people of Iran, the land of light, were the favourites of heaven; while those of Turan, the gloomy region beyond the mountains to the north, were its enemies.
ref:
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
Iran is a vast and ancient country in a strategic location in the Middle East. It borders Russia, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, the Gulf of Oman, and the Persian Gulf.
ref:
2005, Massoume Price, editor, Iran's Diverse Peoples, ABC-Clio, page xiii
type:
quotation
text:
"Kavi means a king, but it is particularly used of the kings belonging to the second and most celebrated of the two mythical dynasties of Iran."
"One certain fact is the occurrence of geographical names [Bactria, Sogdiana, etc] in Vendidad I, which are obviously intended to describe the earliest homes of the Iranian races whose lore was the Avesta."
ref:
1882, James Darmesteter, The Zend-Avesta, volume 1 (SBE, volume 31), Oxford UP, page 7, xxviii
text:
Zoroaster of Iran. — Zoroaster, it is believed, sprang up in the seventh century before the Christian era, somewhere in the land between the Indus and the Tigris.
ref:
1898, A. V. W. Jackson, Zoroaster: The Prophet of Ancient Iran, Macmillan, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
Iran. in early times, the name applied to the great Asiatic plateau which comprised the entire region from the Caucasus, the Caspian Sea, and Russian Turkestan on the north to the Tigris, the Persian Gulf, and the Arabian Sea on the west and south, and extending to the Indus on the east, likewise comprising the modern Afghanistan and the territory to the north of it as far as the Jaxartes River.
ref:
1909, “Iran”, in John Huston Finley, editor, Nelson's Perpetual Loose-leaf Encyclopaedia, volume 6, page 479
type:
quotation
text:
[W]e may surmise that there was a strong sense of Iranian unity lending solidarity to the eastern half of the empire. It is only in the generations after Alexander, in Eudemus and in Eratosthenes (ap. Strabo), that we find mention of the concept of a greater nation of Iran (Arianē) stretching from the Zagros to the Indus; but the sense of unity must have been there, for Herodotus tells us that the Medes were formerly called Arioi, and Darius I (followed by Xerxes) in his inscriptions proclaims himself an Iranian (Ariya) by race - he speaks of himself in ascending order as an Achaemenid, a Persian and an Iranian (Naqsh-i Rustam).
ref:
1985, J. M. Cooke, “The Rise of the Achaemenids”, in Cambridge Historiy of Iran, volume 2, page 290
type:
quotation
text:
[The] Cambridge History of Iran [is] a survey of the history and historical geography of the land which is present-day Iran, as well as other territories inhabited by peoples of Iranian descent.
ref:
1990, Hubert Darke, “Cambridge History of Iran”, in Encyclopedia Iranica, volume 4, page 724
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in West Asia, in the Middle East. Official name: Islamic Republic of Iran. Capital: Tehran.
regions inhabited by the Iranian peoples.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical |
1946 | word:
Armenia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Armenia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Armenia, from Ancient Greek Ἀρμενία (Armenía) (early 5th century BC), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎼𐎷𐎡𐎴 (a-r-mi-i-n /Armina/) (late 6th century BC); see it for more. The Old Persian name is an exonym: see հայ (hay) for the native name. Attested in English since late 14th century.
senses_examples:
text:
In the Caucasian republics, 100,000 Azerbaijanis, 30,000 Georgians, and tens of thousands of Armenians were imprisoned, tortured, or killed under Stalin, with Armenia's prisons so full at some points that basements of government buildings were converted into makeshift jails.
ref:
1992, Richard Nixon, “The Former Evil Empire”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 57
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ancient kingdom in the Armenian Highland southeast of Black Sea and southwest of Caspian Sea; area now divided between Turkey, Republic of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Iran.
A country in the South Caucasus region of Asia, sometimes considered to belong politically to Europe. Official name: Republic of Armenia. Capital: Yerevan.
A town in the Sonsonate department, El Salvador
senses_topics:
|
1947 | word:
Kropotkinist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Kropotkinist (plural Kropotkinists)
forms:
form:
Kropotkinists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Kropotkin + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An adherent of Peter Kropotkin's anarchist-communism; an anarcho-communist.
senses_topics:
anarchism
communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences |
1948 | word:
Liechtenstein
word_type:
name
expansion:
Liechtenstein
forms:
wikipedia:
Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein Castle (Maria Enzersdorf)
etymology_text:
From German Liechtenstein, after the name of the ruling dynasty, which in turn derives its name from that of Liechtenstein Castle, which means “bright stone”, from liecht, an obsolete variant of licht (“light, bright”), + Stein (“stone”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A microstate in Central Europe. Official name: Principality of Liechtenstein. Capital: Vaduz.
senses_topics:
|
1949 | word:
Liechtenstein
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Liechtenstein (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein Castle (Maria Enzersdorf)
etymology_text:
From German Liechtenstein, after the name of the ruling dynasty, which in turn derives its name from that of Liechtenstein Castle, which means “bright stone”, from liecht, an obsolete variant of licht (“light, bright”), + Stein (“stone”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Liechtenstein.
Of or pertaining to the people or culture of Liechtenstein.
senses_topics:
|
1950 | word:
scrimmage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
scrimmage (plural scrimmages)
forms:
form:
scrimmages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A corruption of skirmish.
senses_examples:
text:
get caught up in a scrimmage
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rough fight.
In some team sports, especially soccer, a practice game which does not count on a team's record.
In American football or Canadian football, a play that begins with a snap from the center while opposing teams are on either side of a line of scrimmage.
senses_topics:
|
1951 | word:
scrimmage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
scrimmage (third-person singular simple present scrimmages, present participle scrimmaging, simple past and past participle scrimmaged)
forms:
form:
scrimmages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
scrimmaging
tags:
participle
present
form:
scrimmaged
tags:
participle
past
form:
scrimmaged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A corruption of skirmish.
senses_examples:
text:
We scrimmaged a few times and then settled into boring drills.
type:
example
text:
Elwood caught sight of a football field where some boys scrimmaged and yelped.
ref:
2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 45
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have, or be involved in, a scrimmage.
senses_topics:
|
1952 | word:
Uzbekistan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Uzbekistan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain; possibly from Turkic uz (“genuine”) + Sogdian [Term?] (/bek/, “master”) (for the second element, see Turkish bey). The suffix is known to be from Classical Persian ـِستان (istān, “stan”).
senses_examples:
text:
In Uzbekistan, forced sterilizations apparently began in 2004 and became official state policy in 2009.
ref:
2013, Al Gore, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 234
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central Asia. Official name: Republic of Uzbekistan. Capital: Tashkent.
senses_topics:
|
1953 | word:
EOF
word_type:
noun
expansion:
EOF (countable and uncountable, plural EOFs)
forms:
form:
EOFs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of end of file.
Initialism of end of field.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
1954 | word:
EOF
word_type:
name
expansion:
EOF
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Enterprise Objects Framework.
Initialism of Elswick Ordnance Factory.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
government
military
politics
war |
1955 | word:
DDT
word_type:
noun
expansion:
DDT (usually uncountable, plural DDTs)
forms:
form:
DDTs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (“compound originally developed as an insecticide”)
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
1956 | word:
DDT
word_type:
noun
expansion:
DDT (plural DDTs)
forms:
form:
DDTs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
DDT (professional wrestling)
etymology_text:
Various theories; see DDT (professional wrestling).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a move where a wrestler puts another wrestler into a standing front face lock and then falls backwards, driving the recipient's head into the floor.
senses_topics:
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling |
1957 | word:
picosecond
word_type:
noun
expansion:
picosecond (plural picoseconds)
forms:
form:
picoseconds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From pico- (“metric prefix”) + second.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻¹² seconds. Symbol: ps
senses_topics:
metrology |
1958 | word:
American Samoa
word_type:
name
expansion:
American Samoa
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
SECRETARY James G. Blaine, on April 11, 1889, instructed the American Samoa commissioners at Berlin that the plan of governing natives without their consent was "not in harmony with the established policy of this government."
ref:
1899 April 29, Friends' Intelligencer, volume LVI, number 17, Philadelphia, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 329, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
In a decision citing American Samoa cultural traditions, those born in the U.S. territory shouldn’t have citizenship automatically forced on them, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.[…]
American Samoa is the only unincorporated territory of the United States where the inhabitants are not American citizens at birth.[…]
Drawing on the views of the American Samoa people is one of the more gratifying aspects of the ruling, said Michael Williams, an attorney representing the American Samoa government, which intervened to oppose the lawsuit.
“It is also vindication for the principle that the people of American Samoa should determine their own status in accordance with Samoan culture and traditions,” he said.
ref:
2021 June 16, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, “American Samoa culture plays role in US citizenship ruling”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2021-06-16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago and overseas territory of the United States in the Pacific Ocean. Official name: Territory of American Samoa. It is distinct from Samoa (formerly: Western Samoa).
senses_topics:
|
1959 | word:
Svalbard
word_type:
name
expansion:
Svalbard
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Old Norse Svalbarð n probably through Norwegian. From svalr (“cool”) + barð (“edge, brim”), thus roughly meaning “cold shore”, probably alluding to the treeless landscape mostly covered with grass.
The name was first attested in annales referring to year 1194, but it’s uncertain whether it referred to the modern archipelago.
Cognate with Faroese Svalbarð, Icelandic Svalbarði and Norwegian Svalbard.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of islands northeast of Greenland; a territory of Norway.
senses_topics:
|
1960 | word:
Norfolk Island
word_type:
name
expansion:
Norfolk Island
forms:
wikipedia:
Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk
Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk
James Cook
Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk
Norfolk Island
William Ambrosia Cowley
etymology_text:
From the duchy of Norfolk in England, q.v. As an Ecuadorian island, clipping of Duke of Norfolk's Island, bestowed by William Ambrosia Cowley in 1684 honor of Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk; his son Henry, the 7th duke; or both. As an Australian island and territory, bestowed by James Cook in 1774 in honor of Mary Howard, wife of the 9th duke.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island in Australia.
A territory of Australia, surrounding the island.
Former name of Santa Cruz, an island in Galapagos, Ecuador.
senses_topics:
|
1961 | word:
sky
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sky (plural skies)
forms:
form:
skies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English ski, skie, sky (“firmament, heavens, sky; cloud; cloud of mist or vapour; fog, mist; (astrology) certain configuration of the heavens; (astronomy) sphere of the celestial realm; (physiology) cloudiness, smoky residue (for example, in urine)”) [and other forms], from Old Norse ský (“cloud”), from Proto-Germanic *skiwją (“cloud; sky”), from *skiwô (“cloud; cloud cover, haze; sky”) (whence Old English sċēo (“cloud”) and Middle English skew (“air; sky; (rare) cloud”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover; to conceal, hide”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
The English word is cognate with Old English scēo (“cloud”), Old Saxon scio, skio, skeo (“light cloud cover”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål sky (“cloud”), Old Irish ceo (“mist, fog”), Irish ceo (“mist, fog”). It is also related to Old English scūa (“shadow, darkness”), Latin obscūrus (“dark, shadowy”), Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunāti, “he covers”). See also hide, hose, house, hut, shoe.
senses_examples:
text:
That year, a meteor fell from the sky.
type:
example
text:
Blue skies / Smiling at me / Nothing but blue skies / Do I see
ref:
1926, Irving Berlin (lyrics and music), “Blue Skies”
type:
quotation
text:
I lay back under a warm Texas sky.
type:
example
text:
We’re not sure how long the cloudy skies will last.
type:
example
text:
This mortal has incurred the wrath of the skies.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the surface of the Earth as the place where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds are seen.
With a descriptive word: the part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its climate, condition, etc.
Usually preceded by the: the abode of God or the gods, angels, the souls of deceased people, etc.; heaven; also, powers emanating from heaven.
Ellipsis of sky blue.
The set of all lightlike lines (or directions) passing through a given point in space-time.
In an art gallery: the upper rows of pictures that cannot easily be seen; also, the place where such pictures are hung.
A cloud.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
|
1962 | word:
sky
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sky (third-person singular simple present skies, present participle skying, simple past and past participle skied or skyed)
forms:
form:
skies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
skying
tags:
participle
present
form:
skied
tags:
participle
past
form:
skied
tags:
past
form:
skyed
tags:
participle
past
form:
skyed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English ski, skie, sky (“firmament, heavens, sky; cloud; cloud of mist or vapour; fog, mist; (astrology) certain configuration of the heavens; (astronomy) sphere of the celestial realm; (physiology) cloudiness, smoky residue (for example, in urine)”) [and other forms], from Old Norse ský (“cloud”), from Proto-Germanic *skiwją (“cloud; sky”), from *skiwô (“cloud; cloud cover, haze; sky”) (whence Old English sċēo (“cloud”) and Middle English skew (“air; sky; (rare) cloud”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover; to conceal, hide”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
The English word is cognate with Old English scēo (“cloud”), Old Saxon scio, skio, skeo (“light cloud cover”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål sky (“cloud”), Old Irish ceo (“mist, fog”), Irish ceo (“mist, fog”). It is also related to Old English scūa (“shadow, darkness”), Latin obscūrus (“dark, shadowy”), Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunāti, “he covers”). See also hide, hose, house, hut, shoe.
senses_examples:
text:
The artists—I mean the younger brood, and not the Brother Academicians who "skied" his pictures—were the first and the most enthusiastic in his [George Fuller's] praise.
ref:
1883 December, M[ariana] G[riswold] Van Rensselaer, “George Fuller”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume V (New Series; volume XXVII overall), number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co.; London: F[rederick] Warne & Co., →OCLC, page 227, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
In ‘skying’ a coin for the purpose of deciding a point at issue between two parties, two methods are in vogue: there is either the ‘slow torture’ of spinning the coin thrice, the decision to go against the tosser-up, if the other party, twice out of the three times, guesses right on which side the coin shall fall; or, the ‘sudden death’ method in which one toss is decisive; […]
ref:
1894, C[ornelis] Stoffel, “Preface”, in Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students (First Series), Zutphen, Gelderland, Netherlands: W. J. Thieme & Co.; London: Luzac & Co., →OCLC, footnote 1, page IX
type:
quotation
text:
Hernandez [i.e., Félix Hernández] walked the bases loaded, then fell behind 3–1 in the count to Bobby Abreu, who then skied the next pitch to left for a sacrifice fly.
ref:
2009 September 8, Geoff Baker, “Seattle Mariners at Los Angeles Angels: 09/08 game thread”, in The Seattle Times, Seattle, Wash.: The Seattle Times Company, published 29 November 2012, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-18
type:
quotation
text:
Van Persie [i.e., Robin van Persie] skied a penalty, conceded by Gary Caldwell who was sent off, and also hit the post before scoring his third with a shot at the near post.
ref:
2011 January 22, Tim Love, “Arsenal 3 – 0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2021-03-25
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To drink (a beverage) from a container without one's lips touching the container.
To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen; (by extension) to put (something) in an undesirable place.
To toss (something) upwards; specifically, to flip (a coin).
To clear (a high jump bar, hurdle, etc.) by a large margin.
To hit, kick, or throw (a ball) extremely high.
To raise (the price of an item on auction, or the level of the bids generally) by bidding high.
To move quickly, as if by flying; to fly; also, to escape, to flee (especially by airplane).
To hit, kick, or throw a ball extremely high.
To raise an oar too high above the water.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports |
1963 | word:
LOL
word_type:
intj
expansion:
LOL
forms:
wikipedia:
LOL
Loyal Orange Lodge
etymology_text:
Acronyms. Laugh Out Loud abbreviation apparently coined by Canadian Wayne Pearson in the early-to-mid 1980s and first attested in 1989.
senses_examples:
text:
SHEESH !!!! ¶ LOL (Laugh out loud) &&&& ¶ LOL (Lots of love, coz I'm a sharing caring kinda gal) ¶ Nikki
ref:
2002 November 29, Me Here, “Latest Rugby Poll.”, in nz.general (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Explaining how much I hated being away from him for another weekend, how I had to do it to pay for his school, for our life. Heartfelt, heart-full, I signed it "LOL, Dad.". Then a pause. And I see appearing on my screen these words. "Dad: what exactly do you think LOL means?" "Lots of Love, obviously," I replied.
ref:
2007, Adam Gopnik, Through the Children's Gate
type:
quotation
text:
The answer is in Job 40:7 to the end of the chapter, and 2 tim 2:11 thru 2:21. LOL, Dad Miscommunication: I was thinking he was laughing he didn't tell that was not true. An on-looker said he may mean lots of love. I asked and he didn't answer but he hugged me the next time he saw me for two seconds. Progress not perfection.
ref:
2010, Keturah Wasler, Box of Chocolates: Piece from My Heart, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
John 21:15, 16,17 Back in the fifties, when I used to write childish letters in long-hand to my grandmothers, I would delight in closing with LOL, by which I intended the sentiment "Lots of Love"! This was followed by "XOXOXOXO", which, of course, was hugs and kisses.
ref:
2011, Rhonda K. Kindig, Found in Translation, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
One of the most famous examples of this misunderstanding came to prominence three years ago, thanks to a screengrab of this text message sent by a mother to her son: "Your great aunt just passed away. LOL".
ref:
2014 May 28, Stuart Heritage, “25 years of LOL – the good and bad bits”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Laughing (or laugh) out loud.
Lots of laughs. (occasionally used)
Indicates light-heartedness or amusement, or that the accompanying statement is not intended as serious.
Lots of love.
senses_topics:
|
1964 | word:
LOL
word_type:
verb
expansion:
LOL (third-person singular simple present LOLs, present participle LOLing, simple past and past participle LOLed or LOLd or LOL'd)
forms:
form:
LOLs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
LOLing
tags:
participle
present
form:
LOLed
tags:
participle
past
form:
LOLed
tags:
past
form:
LOLd
tags:
participle
past
form:
LOLd
tags:
past
form:
LOL'd
tags:
participle
past
form:
LOL'd
tags:
past
wikipedia:
LOL
Loyal Orange Lodge
etymology_text:
Acronyms. Laugh Out Loud abbreviation apparently coined by Canadian Wayne Pearson in the early-to-mid 1980s and first attested in 1989.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To laugh out loud.
senses_topics:
|
1965 | word:
LOL
word_type:
noun
expansion:
LOL (plural LOLs)
forms:
form:
LOLs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
LOL
Loyal Orange Lodge
etymology_text:
Acronyms. Laugh Out Loud abbreviation apparently coined by Canadian Wayne Pearson in the early-to-mid 1980s and first attested in 1989.
senses_examples:
text:
LOL in NAD [dated emergency department slang for "little old lady in no apparent distress"]
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Loyal Orange Lodge, a prefix given to all branches of the Loyal Orange Order. For example, LOL 1 is Portadown branch.
Little old lady.
2001 May 13, Sheilendr Khipple, “Word for Word/Hospital Lingo; What's a Bed Plug? An L.O.L. in N.A.D.”, in New York Times
2001 May 13, Sheilendr Khipple, “Word for Word/Hospital Lingo; What's a Bed Plug? An L.O.L. in N.A.D.”, in New York Times:
L.O.L.: little old lady. (Oddly, there is no male equivalent.) / N.A.D.: no apparent distress. The classic description of a patient in a state of well-being: L.O.L. in N.A.D.
L.O.L.: little old lady. (Oddly, there is no male equivalent.) / N.A.D.: no apparent distress. The classic description of a patient in a state of well-being: L.O.L. in N.A.D.
2018, Jeanne Marie Laskas, To Obama, With love, joy, hate and despair, →ISBN, page 29
2018, Jeanne Marie Laskas, To Obama, With love, joy, hate and despair, →ISBN, page 29:
Then he started with his LOLs. The Little Old Ladies who needed help with daily chores.
Then he started with his LOLs. The Little Old Ladies who needed help with daily chores.
senses_topics:
|
1966 | word:
South Korea
word_type:
name
expansion:
South Korea
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From south + Korea, due to its southerly position on the Korean peninsula.
senses_examples:
text:
HSI data indicates that up to a million dogs are bred and sacrificed annually in South Korea for human consumption, even though demand is at a “historic low,” with about 6 million dogs residing in South Korean homes and 57 percent of the population supporting the ban.
ref:
2024 January 9, “South Korea bans dog meat trade for human consumption”, in EFE, archived from the original on 2024-01-10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in East Asia, comprising the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. Official name: Republic of Korea. Capital: Seoul.
senses_topics:
|
1967 | word:
insusurration
word_type:
noun
expansion:
insusurration (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin insusurratio, from insusurrare (“to whisper into”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of whispering into something.
senses_topics:
|
1968 | word:
data structure
word_type:
noun
expansion:
data structure (plural data structures)
forms:
form:
data structures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any form of storing and organizing data in a computer so that it can be accessed efficiently.
senses_topics:
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences |
1969 | word:
abscissin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abscissin (usually uncountable, plural abscissins)
forms:
form:
abscissins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abscission + -in.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A plant hormone controlling the dropping off or abscission of certain plant parts, notably the leaves of trees in autumn or cotton bolls.
senses_topics:
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
1970 | word:
gismu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gismu (plural gismu)
forms:
form:
gismu
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Lojban gismu.
senses_examples:
text:
When two gismu are adjacent, the first one modifies the second, and the selbri takes its place structure from the rightmost word.
ref:
1997, John W. Cowan, The Complete Lojban Language
type:
quotation
text:
There are over 1,300 root gismu in the Lojban vocabulary, and these structures form a very interesting ontology of their own.
ref:
2005, Brian D. Eubanks, Wicked Cool Java
type:
quotation
text:
The main type of word used as a selbri is a gismu, or root-word.
Each gismu is exactly five letters long, and has one of two consonant-vowel patterns:CVCCV or CCVCV (e.g. rafsi or bridi). The gismu are built so as to minimize listening errors in a noisy environment. A gismu has at least two combining forms, known as rafsi. One is the gismu itself; one is the gismu with the final vowel deleted. Certain gismu have additional, shorter rafsi assigned. Up to three of these shorter rafsi may be assigned to a gismu, depending on frequency of usage of the gismu in building complex concepts and on availability of these shorter rafsi. Short rafsi use only certain combinations of letters from the gismu, and are of the forms CCV, CVC, CVV or CV'V.
ref:
2008, Robin Turner, Nick Nicholas, Lojban for Beginners
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A brivla that is a basic Lojban root, rather than being derived through compounding or borrowing.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
1971 | word:
colon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
colon (plural colons or cola)
forms:
form:
colons
tags:
plural
form:
cola
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
colon
etymology_text:
From Latin cōlon (“a member of a verse of poem”), from Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon, “a member, limb, clause, part of a verse”).
senses_examples:
text:
A colon tells the reader that what follows is closely related to the preceding clause.
ref:
2005, William Strunk Jr., E.B. White, The Elements of Style, Penguin Press, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The punctuation mark ⟨:⟩.
The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.
A clause or group of clauses written as a line, or taken as a standard of measure in ancient manuscripts or texts.
senses_topics:
biology
epigraphy
geography
history
human-sciences
literature
media
natural-sciences
palaeography
paleogeography
paleography
paleontology
publishing
sciences |
1972 | word:
colon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
colon (plural colons or cola or coli)
forms:
form:
colons
tags:
plural
form:
cola
tags:
plural
form:
coli
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
colon
etymology_text:
From Latin cŏlon (“large intestine”), from Ancient Greek κόλον (kólon, “the large intestine, also food, meat, fodder”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the rectum. (Because the colon is the largest part of the large intestine (constituting most of it), it is often treated as synonymous therewith in broad or casual usage.)
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
1973 | word:
colon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
colon (plural colons)
forms:
form:
colons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
colon
etymology_text:
From French colon.
senses_examples:
text:
The reaction of the European colons, a mixture of shock and fear, was to demand further draconian measures and to suspend any suggestion of new reforms.
ref:
1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A husbandman.
A European colonial settler, especially in a French colony.
senses_topics:
|
1974 | word:
Brunei
word_type:
name
expansion:
Brunei
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay Brunei, probably ultimately from Sanskrit वरुण (váruṇa), which also referred to the island of Borneo (a likely cognate to Brunei).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southeast Asia. Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan.
senses_topics:
|
1975 | word:
Aaronical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Aaronical (comparative more Aaronical, superlative most Aaronical)
forms:
form:
more Aaronical
tags:
comparative
form:
most Aaronical
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Aaronic
Pontifical.
senses_topics:
|
1976 | word:
Western Sahara
word_type:
name
expansion:
Western Sahara
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A territory and former Spanish colony in North Africa, now mostly occupied by Morocco, which claims ownership over the territory.
senses_topics:
|
1977 | word:
baglo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
baglo (plural baglos)
forms:
form:
baglos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A two-masted trading boat.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
1978 | word:
Tajikistan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tajikistan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Tajik Тоҷикистон (Tojikiston), from Classical Persian تاجیکستان (tājīkistān).
senses_examples:
text:
Rahmon, addressing Putin directly, said that Tajikistan and other countries in the vast region have been treated like outsiders and indicates that the region deserves more investment from Moscow.[…]
Rahmon said the neglect of Tajikistan and the other countries of Central Asia, which he said were only used for their raw materials during the Soviet era, was one of the reasons for the collapse.
ref:
2022 October 15, “Tajik President's Demand For 'Respect' From Putin Viewed Millions Of Times On YouTube”, in Radio Free Europe, archived from the original on 2022-10-17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central Asia. Official name: Republic of Tajikistan. Capital: Dushanbe.
senses_topics:
|
1979 | word:
accelerate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accelerate (third-person singular simple present accelerates, present participle accelerating, simple past and past participle accelerated)
forms:
form:
accelerates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accelerating
tags:
participle
present
form:
accelerated
tags:
participle
past
form:
accelerated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in the 1520s. Either from Latin accelerātus, perfect passive participle of accelerō (“I accelerate, hasten”), formed from ad + celerō (“I hasten”), which is from celer (“quick”) (see celerity), or back-formation from acceleration.
senses_examples:
text:
to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.
type:
example
text:
Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.
ref:
2013 September-October, Michael Sivak, “Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
to accelerate our departure
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
To cause a change of velocity.
To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
Grow; increase.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
education
|
1980 | word:
accelerate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accelerate (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in the 1520s. Either from Latin accelerātus, perfect passive participle of accelerō (“I accelerate, hasten”), formed from ad + celerō (“I hasten”), which is from celer (“quick”) (see celerity), or back-formation from acceleration.
senses_examples:
text:
... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate, and the like, sufficing.
ref:
1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
senses_topics:
|
1981 | word:
touring
word_type:
adj
expansion:
touring (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
a touring company
type:
example
text:
If you are not using a touring-specific bike and you have large feet, you could have problems with your heels striking your rear panniers. This is one of the very reasons why a touring bike has long chainstays (435mm minimum).
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Working for a short time in different places.
Intended for a journey through a country or a region, related to tourism.
senses_topics:
|
1982 | word:
touring
word_type:
verb
expansion:
touring
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of tour
senses_topics:
|
1983 | word:
touring
word_type:
noun
expansion:
touring (plural tourings)
forms:
form:
tourings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Finally, there was the 40-hp machine from the previous year, on the 120-inch wheelbase and listed in four body styles, tourings and roadsters.
ref:
1988, Cars and Parts, volume 31, page 60
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A touring car.
senses_topics:
|
1984 | word:
toddick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
toddick (plural toddicks)
forms:
form:
toddicks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Scots [Term?].
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dish upon which the miller's share was measured as compensation for milling the farmer's meal.
A very small quantity of something.
senses_topics:
|
1985 | word:
Saudi Arabia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Saudi Arabia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See Saudi and Arabia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East. Official name: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Capital: Riyadh.
senses_topics:
|
1986 | word:
phillumenist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
phillumenist (plural phillumenists)
forms:
form:
phillumenists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From phil- (“love of”) + Latin lumen (“light”) + -ist.
senses_examples:
text:
There is a new and happy breed, the Phillumenists, better known as Match-box Label collectors.
ref:
1948 May, A. J. Cruse, “I am a Phillumenist: Match-Box Labels as a Hobby”, in Chambers's Journal, page 238
type:
quotation
text:
To be a real phillumenist, however, requires that one take his assorted books and "shuck" them, "press" them, and then categorize them according to subject, era, size, and maker.
ref:
1984, Stephen Hughes, Pop Culture Mania: Collecting 20th-Century Americana for Fun and Profit, New York: McGraw-Hill, →OL, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
This matchbox is a Swedish safety match from the Jönköping match factory. It's manufactured in 1858, just in time for the American Civil War. I like it very much. I guess that makes me something of a phillumenist.
ref:
2012 January 23, Jennifer Johnson, “Kit Nelson” (30:10 from the start), in Alcatraz, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Edwin James (Jonny Coyne)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who collects match-related items, like matchbox labels, matchboxes, matchbooks, or matchbook covers.
senses_topics:
|
1987 | word:
Central African Republic
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Central African Republic
forms:
form:
the Central African Republic
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central Africa.
senses_topics:
|
1988 | word:
Romania
word_type:
name
expansion:
Romania
forms:
wikipedia:
Romania
etymology_text:
From Romanian român (“Romanian”) (in turn from Latin romanus (“Roman”)) + -ia. Doublet of Romagna.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southeast Europe. Capital and largest city: Bucharest.
senses_topics:
|
1989 | word:
Romania
word_type:
name
expansion:
Romania
forms:
wikipedia:
Romania
etymology_text:
From Latin Rōmānia, from Byzantine Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía), itself from Latin rōmānus.
senses_examples:
text:
There is a significant coincidence of dates between several events: the splitting of the Paulician community in Rhomania in consequence of Séryios’s innovations; the breach between Séryios’s partisans and the East Roman Imperial Government, […]
ref:
1973, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Constantine Porphyrogenitus and his world, page 682
type:
quotation
text:
The Doge of Venice was honored with his full title of dominator of one-quarter and one-eighth of the whole Empire of Romania; and he was promised repossession of all the rights and properties that his people had held in Constantinople in the years of the Latin occupation.
ref:
1988, Donald M. Nicol, Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations, page 208
type:
quotation
text:
In this letter the basileus informed the Pope that Béla III had attacked Serbia, since he was not content with his own country, “which he acquired with difficulties and with the help of the armies and the money of Rhomania [i.e. Byzantium]”.
ref:
1989, Ferenc Makk, The Árpáds and the Comneni: political relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the 12th century, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
The Fourth Crusade ended in 1204 with the Western or Latin conquest of Constantinople and signalled the beginning of a new era in the history of the Byzantine lands or Romania.
ref:
1989, David Jacoby, “From Byzantium to Latin Romania: Continuity and Change”, in Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean After 1204, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
If the Constantinopolitan Byzantines regarded the Anatolian Turkic territories as lands temporarily lost from their indivisible universal Rhomania, the Turkoman rulers of the twelfth century considered Rhomania as being factually divided between several rulers.
ref:
1999, Rustam Shukurov, “Turkoman and Byzantine Self-Identity: Some reflections on the Logic of the Title-Making in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Anatolia”, in Eastern Approaches to Byzantium: Papers from the Thirty-Third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
type:
quotation
text:
The dramatic fall of Constantinople in 1204 and the Latin conquest of the Empire’s provinces in the following decade resulted in the dismemberment of Romania.
ref:
2001, David Jacoby, “Changing Economic Patterns in Latin Romania: The Impact of the West”, in The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, page 197
type:
quotation
text:
Next to them, the maritime region extending south to the Hellespont is Romania—a Greek nation, though it was once barbarian, and it is returning to barbarism in our own time, now that the empire of the Greeks has been destroyed and the Turks hold sway. The capital city of this country [Thrace] is Byzantium, formerly called Agios.
ref:
2013, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), trans. Robert Brown, Europe (c.1400-1458), page 69
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Latin or Romance-speaking areas of Europe, collectively.
Synonym of Byzantine Empire, also used for its former territories.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
1990 | word:
Romania
word_type:
name
expansion:
Romania
forms:
wikipedia:
Romania
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of Romagna.
senses_topics:
|
1991 | word:
Mayotte
word_type:
name
expansion:
Mayotte
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French Mayotte, from Arabic مَيِّت (mayyit, “dead”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar
senses_topics:
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1992 | word:
Turkmenistan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Turkmenistan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Turkmen Türkmenistan, from Türkmen (“Turk-like; Turkmen”) + Classical Persian ـستان (-istān, “-stan”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central Asia. Capital: Ashgabat.
senses_topics:
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1993 | word:
Cook Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cook Islands
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after Captain James Cook.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago and self-governing country in Oceania, in free association with New Zealand.
senses_topics:
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1994 | word:
false
word_type:
adj
expansion:
false (comparative falser, superlative falsest)
forms:
form:
falser
tags:
comparative
form:
falsest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
false
etymology_text:
From Middle English false, fals, from Old English fals (“false; counterfeit; fraudulent; wrong; mistaken”), from Latin falsus (“counterfeit, false; falsehood”), perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman and Old French fals, faus. Compare Scots fals, false, Saterland Frisian falsk, German falsch, Dutch vals, Swedish and Danish falsk; all from Latin falsus. Displaced native Middle English les, lese, from Old English lēas (“false”); See lease, leasing. Doublet of faux.
The verb is from Middle English falsen, falsien, from Old French falser, from Latin falsō (“falsify”), itself also from falsus; compare French fausser (“to falsify, to distort”).
senses_examples:
text:
Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.
ref:
1551, James A.H. Murray, editor, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1888, Part 1, page 217, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
false legislation, false punishment
type:
example
text:
false teeth
type:
example
text:
a false witness
type:
example
text:
a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises
type:
example
text:
She had been in Baton Rouge but a little over two weeks, when suddenly his letters ceased. She awaited in anxious suspense a whole week — no letter. Another week dragged heavily, and her anxiety became a terrible fear. Was he sick and unable to write — was he dead — or, still more terrible thought, had he proved false?
ref:
1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar
type:
example
text:
false scorpion (an arachnid)
type:
example
text:
false killer whale (a dolphin)
type:
example
text:
false powderpost beetles (members of Bostrichidae not in Lyctinae)
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
Based on factually incorrect premises.
Spurious, artificial.
Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
Used in the vernacular name of a species (or group of species) together with the name of another species to which it is similar in appearance.
Out of tune.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
1995 | word:
false
word_type:
verb
expansion:
false (third-person singular simple present falses, present participle falsing, simple past and past participle falsed)
forms:
form:
falses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
falsing
tags:
participle
present
form:
falsed
tags:
participle
past
form:
falsed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
false
etymology_text:
From Middle English false, fals, from Old English fals (“false; counterfeit; fraudulent; wrong; mistaken”), from Latin falsus (“counterfeit, false; falsehood”), perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman and Old French fals, faus. Compare Scots fals, false, Saterland Frisian falsk, German falsch, Dutch vals, Swedish and Danish falsk; all from Latin falsus. Displaced native Middle English les, lese, from Old English lēas (“false”); See lease, leasing. Doublet of faux.
The verb is from Middle English falsen, falsien, from Old French falser, from Latin falsō (“falsify”), itself also from falsus; compare French fausser (“to falsify, to distort”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal.
To violate, to betray (a promise, an agreement, one’s faith, etc.).
To counterfeit, to forge.
To make false, to corrupt from something true or real.
senses_topics:
business
communications
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
telecommunications
|
1996 | word:
false
word_type:
adv
expansion:
false (comparative more false, superlative most false)
forms:
form:
more false
tags:
comparative
form:
most false
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
false
etymology_text:
From Middle English false, fals, from Old English fals (“false; counterfeit; fraudulent; wrong; mistaken”), from Latin falsus (“counterfeit, false; falsehood”), perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman and Old French fals, faus. Compare Scots fals, false, Saterland Frisian falsk, German falsch, Dutch vals, Swedish and Danish falsk; all from Latin falsus. Displaced native Middle English les, lese, from Old English lēas (“false”); See lease, leasing. Doublet of faux.
The verb is from Middle English falsen, falsien, from Old French falser, from Latin falsō (“falsify”), itself also from falsus; compare French fausser (“to falsify, to distort”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a dishonest and disloyal way; falsely.
senses_topics:
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1997 | word:
false
word_type:
noun
expansion:
false (plural falses)
forms:
form:
falses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
false
etymology_text:
From Middle English false, fals, from Old English fals (“false; counterfeit; fraudulent; wrong; mistaken”), from Latin falsus (“counterfeit, false; falsehood”), perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman and Old French fals, faus. Compare Scots fals, false, Saterland Frisian falsk, German falsch, Dutch vals, Swedish and Danish falsk; all from Latin falsus. Displaced native Middle English les, lese, from Old English lēas (“false”); See lease, leasing. Doublet of faux.
The verb is from Middle English falsen, falsien, from Old French falser, from Latin falsō (“falsify”), itself also from falsus; compare French fausser (“to falsify, to distort”).
senses_examples:
text:
The student received a failing grade for circling every true and false on her quiz.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of two options on a true-or-false test, that not representing true.
senses_topics:
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1998 | word:
North Korea
word_type:
name
expansion:
North Korea
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The Little Assembly directed the commission to hold elections "wherever possible" which means, in effect, the United States-occupied zone. Russia, occupying North Korea, has boycotted the commission completely.
ref:
1948 March 9 [1948 March 8], “U.N. Officials Fight Korea Voting Plan”, in The Washington Post, number 26,199, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
A few species such as bat, shrew, striped hamster and muskrat are found only in North Korea. Also only in North Korea are tiger, lynx, two species of deer, Manchurian weasel and northern pika in the plateau regions of Paektusan.
ref:
1985, H. Edward Kim, “Land and People”, in Facts about Korea, 18th Revised edition, Seoul: Hollym Corporation, →OCLC, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
North Korea is currently experiencing a dire food crisis, with analysts warning the present situation could deteriorate into a similar humanitarian disaster seen during the four-year famine in the mid-1990s — referred to as the "Arduous March" by the regime — which led to the deaths of millions of people.
ref:
2023 January 27, Julian Ryall, “North Korea teetering on the brink of a humanitarian crisis”, in DW News, archived from the original on 2023-01-27
type:
quotation
text:
Some 200 hectares of rice paddies in Kangwon Province are reported to have been flooded by tropical storm Khanun, which swept across North Korea last week after battering Japan’s Okinawa.
ref:
2023 August 18, Gavin Blair, “Kim Jong-un at typhoon-hit farms as North Korea rebuked over starvation”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-18
type:
quotation
text:
North Korea has traditionally been especially strong in weightlifting, dominating the event at the Jakarta Asian Games in 2018 with eight golds.
ref:
2023 September 14, “North Korea set to end years-long sporting isolation at Asian Games”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2023-09-14
type:
quotation
text:
Satellite images show an “unprecedented” number of freight railcars on the border between Russia and North Korea following a summit between the countries’ leaders in which they discussed military cooperation.
ref:
2023 October 7, “‘Unprecedented’ freight rail cars on North Korea’s border with Russia: satellite images”, in EFE, archived from the original on 2023-10-08
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in East Asia, whose territory consists of the northern part of Korea. Official name: Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Capital: Pyongyang.
senses_topics:
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1999 | word:
baggala
word_type:
noun
expansion:
baggala (plural baggalas)
forms:
form:
baggalas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic بَغْلَة (baḡla, literally “she-mule”).
senses_examples:
text:
A baghla was among the largest Arab ocean-going vessels and displayed some traces of European design.
ref:
2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 124
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A traditional two-masted sailing vessel, used in the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf.
senses_topics:
|
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