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2000 | word:
Kyrgyzstan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kyrgyzstan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Kyrgyz Кыргызстан (Kırgızstan), from кыргыз (kırgız, “Kyrgyz”) + -стан (-stan, “-stan”). Equivalent to Kyrgyz + -stan. More at Kyrgyz.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central Asia, bordering on Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China. Official name: Kyrgyz Republic. Capital: Bishkek.
senses_topics:
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2001 | word:
Saint Kitts and Nevis
word_type:
name
expansion:
Saint Kitts and Nevis
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The Taipei Veterans General Hospital (TVGH) announced in a press release on Monday that its medical team participated in the 2024 Lesser Antilles Medical Assistance Team (LAMAT) in Saint Kitts and Nevis this March, embarking on a 10-day mission to provide community medical services at the local hospital. The hospital stated that this cross-national medical cooperation has proven successful and received high praise.[…]
Taiwan's ambassador to Saint Kitts and Nevis, Michel Lin (林昭宏), expressed gratitude for TVGH's contributions to diplomatic relations. He emphasized that the medical mission has significantly bolstered medical cooperation between the two nations, establishing a strong foundation for expanded collaboration across various fields in the future.
ref:
2024 April 8, Ching-en Chiou, “Taiwan’s hospital completes medical assistance to Saint Kitts and Nevis”, in Radio Taiwan International, archived from the original on 2024-05-04
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in the Caribbean, comprising the islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis. Official name: Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis.
senses_topics:
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2002 | word:
translation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
translation (countable and uncountable, plural translations)
forms:
form:
translations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English translacioun (“transfer, translation”), from Anglo-Norman translacioun, from Latin trānslātiō, from trānslāt-, the supine stem of trānsferō (“to transfer, transport, transform, translate”). Displaced native Old English wending.
senses_examples:
text:
This old text needs translation into modern English before it is published.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of translating, in its various senses:
The conversion of text from one language to another.
The act of translating, in its various senses:
The discipline or study of translating written language (as opposed to interpretation, which concerns itself with spoken language).
The act of translating, in its various senses:
The conversion of something from one form or medium to another.
The act of translating, in its various senses:
A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation.
The act of translating, in its various senses:
A relation between two mathematical figures such as a straight line where the coordinates of each point in one figure is a constant added to the coordinates of a corresponding point in the other figure.
The act of translating, in its various senses:
The process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins within a ribosome.
The act of translating, in its various senses:
A transfer of motion occurring within a gearbox.
The act of translating, in its various senses:
The automatic retransmission of a telegraph message.
The act of translating, in its various senses:
The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:
An ascension to Heaven without death.
The act of translating, in its various senses:
The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:
A transfer of a bishop from one diocese to another.
The act of translating, in its various senses:
The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:
A transfer of a holy relic from one shrine to another.
The act of translating, in its various senses:
The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:
A transfer of a disease from one body part to another.
The product or end result of an act of translating, in its various senses.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Christianity
Christianity
Christianity
medicine
sciences
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2003 | word:
secret
word_type:
noun
expansion:
secret (countable and uncountable, plural secrets)
forms:
form:
secrets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is from Middle English secret, from Latin sēcrētum. Doublet of secretum. Displaced Old English dēagolnes (“a secret”).
The verb is from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
"Can you keep a secret?" "Yes." "So can I."
type:
example
text:
To tell our own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery
ref:
May 1, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 13
text:
Barla Von: Most people think I deal in finances, but my real currency is knowledge. I trade information and it has made me very wealthy.
Barla Von: But the Shadow Broker is the true master. Every day, he buys and sells secrets that could topple governments, always giving them to the highest bidder.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel
type:
quotation
text:
Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
ref:
2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
The storage of cryptographic secrets is one of the paramount requirements in building trustworthy systems.
ref:
2014, Thomas Feller, Trustworthy Reconfigurable Systems
type:
quotation
text:
The secret to a long-lasting marriage is compromise.
type:
example
text:
The work was done in secret, so that nobody could object.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack.
Something not understood or known.
Private seclusion.
The genital organs.
A form of steel skullcap.
Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the Tridentine Mass, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.
senses_topics:
Christianity |
2004 | word:
secret
word_type:
verb
expansion:
secret (third-person singular simple present secrets, present participle (UK) secretting or (US) secreting, simple past and past participle (UK) secretted or (US) secreted)
forms:
form:
secrets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
secretting
tags:
UK
participle
present
form:
secreting
tags:
US
participle
present
form:
secretted
tags:
UK
participle
past
form:
secretted
tags:
UK
past
form:
secreted
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
secreted
tags:
US
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is from Middle English secret, from Latin sēcrētum. Doublet of secretum. Displaced Old English dēagolnes (“a secret”).
The verb is from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
… she would unfold the silk, press it with a smooth wooden block that she'd heated in the oven, and then once more secret it away.
ref:
1984, Peter Scott Lawrence, Around the mulberry tree, Firefly Books, p. 26
text:
1986, InfoWorld, InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.
Diskless workstations … make it difficult for individuals to copy information … onto a diskette and secret it away.
text:
To prevent the elixir from reaching mankind and thereby upsetting the balance of the universe, two gods secret it away.
ref:
1994, Phyllis Granoff & Koichi Shinohara, Monks and magicians: religious biographies in Asia, Mosaic Press, p. 50
text:
He was so scared for his safety he secreted arms around the house.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make or keep secret.
To hide secretly.
senses_topics:
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2005 | word:
secret
word_type:
adj
expansion:
secret (comparative more secret, superlative most secret)
forms:
form:
more secret
tags:
comparative
form:
most secret
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English secrette, from Old French secret, from Latin sēcrētus (“separated, hidden”), from ptp of sēcernō (“separate, to set aside, sunder out”), from cernō, from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Displaced Old English dēagol (“secret”).
senses_examples:
text:
We went down a secret passage.
type:
example
text:
secret in her sapphire cell
ref:
1716, Elijah Fenton, an ode to the Right Honourable John Lord Gower
type:
quotation
text:
They suppose two other divine hypostases superior thereunto, which were perfectly secret from matter.
ref:
1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Being or kept hidden.
Withdrawn from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.
Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive, separate, apart.
Separate; distinct.
senses_topics:
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2006 | word:
access
word_type:
noun
expansion:
access (countable and uncountable, plural accesses)
forms:
form:
accesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English accesse, acces, borrowed from Middle French acces (“attack, onslaught”) or from its source Latin accessus, perfect passive participle of accēdō (“approach; accede”), from ad (“to, toward, at”) + cēdō (“move, yield”). Doublet of accessus. First attested in the early 14th century. The sense "entrance" was first attested about 1380.
senses_examples:
text:
Coalition plans to widen access to university will fail to get to the 'root cause' of the problem, according to the Russell Group.
ref:
2011 September 20, Graeme Paton, “University access plan 'will fail', says Russell Group”, in Telegraph
type:
quotation
text:
an access of territory
type:
example
text:
The Magpie's flashlight, as he shifted it from his right hand to his left and wrenched out his revolver, had fallen upon two men crouched close against the wall by the library door—and he screamed out in an access of fury. "De double cross! A plant! De bulls! You damned snitch, Larry!" screamed out the Magpie—and fired.
ref:
1917, Frank L. Packard, chapter 15, in The Adventures of Jimmie Dale
type:
quotation
text:
It appears that, about the middle of the fourth century of the Christian Era, the Germans in the Roman service started the new practice of retaining their native names; and this change of etiquette, which seems to have been abrupt, points to a sudden access of self-confidence and self-assurance in the souls of the barbarian personnel which had previously been content to 'go Roman' without reservations.
ref:
1946, Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History (Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell)
text:
Operations on C++ volatiles do put the compiler on notice that the object may be modified asynchronously, and hence are generally safer to use than ordinary variable accesses.
ref:
2011, Victor Pankratius, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Walter Tichy, Fundamentals of Multicore Software Development, page 74
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
Admission to sexual intercourse.
An increase by addition; accession
An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion.
The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.
The process of locating data in memory.
Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.
Complicity or assent.
senses_topics:
law
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
|
2007 | word:
access
word_type:
verb
expansion:
access (third-person singular simple present accesses, present participle accessing, simple past and past participle accessed)
forms:
form:
accesses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accessing
tags:
participle
present
form:
accessed
tags:
participle
past
form:
accessed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in 1962.
senses_examples:
text:
The value of having in-house medical expertise is that staff with poor attendance records who have difficulty accessing NHS services can receive support from their employer, to help reduce absenteeism brought about by medical conditions.
ref:
2023 December 13, 'Industry Insider', “Delivering a robust timetable”, in RAIL, number 998, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
I can't access most of the data on the computer without a password.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To gain or obtain access to.
To have access to (data).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
2008 | word:
Suriname
word_type:
name
expansion:
Suriname
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From English Surinam, from the name of the Surinen people, likely Lokono.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Suriname. Capital and largest city: Paramaribo.
senses_topics:
|
2009 | word:
academy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
academy (plural academies)
forms:
form:
academies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Academy (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From French académie, from Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attic hero Akademos. Doublet of academia and Akademeia; compare academe.
senses_examples:
text:
The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures
ref:
1760–5, Tobias Smollett, The history of England from the revolution in 1688, to the death of George II, published 1805, page 449
type:
quotation
text:
In this year 1633, I became acquainted with Nicholas Fiske, licentiate in physic, who was born in Suffolk, near Framingham* Castle, of very good parentage, who educated him at country schools, until he was fit for the university; but he went not to the academy, studying at home both astrology and physic, which he afterwards practised in Colchester; and there was well acquainted with Dr Gilbert, who wrote "De Magnete".
ref:
1776, David Hume, The life of David Hume
type:
quotation
text:
the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music; a music academy; a language academy
type:
example
text:
Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
ref:
1956, Delano Ames, chapter 9, in Crime out of Mind
type:
quotation
text:
the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology
type:
example
text:
In the academy and outside of it, the privileging of technical expertise above other forms of knowledge is a political gesture, and one that has proved highly effective in neutralizing critique of established power relations.
ref:
2016, Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The garden where Plato taught.
Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
Academia.
A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.
senses_topics:
classical-studies
history
human-sciences
sciences
classical-studies
history
human-sciences
sciences
education |
2010 | word:
automatic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
automatic (comparative more automatic, superlative most automatic)
forms:
form:
more automatic
tags:
comparative
form:
most automatic
tags:
superlative
form:
dubious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French automatique, from Ancient Greek αὐτόματον (autómaton), neuter of αὐτόματος (autómatos, “self-moving, moving of oneself, self-acting, spontaneous”), from αὐτός (autós, “self, myself”) + μέμαα (mémaa, “to wish eagerly, strive, yearn, desire”).
senses_examples:
text:
The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device.
type:
example
text:
The reaction was automatic: flight!
type:
example
text:
Absent-minded doodling is a form of automatic art.
type:
example
text:
"I don't know why! Sometimes I feel like a girl! Sometimes a guy! I don't know why I feel that way! I just do! Always have! I can't remember not feeling this way! How do you explain something as natural and automatic to you as breathing?!"
ref:
2021 November 10, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Nov 10, 2021
type:
quotation
text:
Spitting at another player means an automatic red card.
type:
example
text:
Fully automatic weapons cannot be legally owned by private citizens in the US, except in very special circumstances, as by private security companies.
type:
example
text:
The US Army adopted John Browning's M1911 pistol as its sidearm, chambered in .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol).
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other manually actuated handgun, which fires one shot per pull of the trigger; distinct from machine guns.
Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
Having one or more finite-state automata.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
mathematics
sciences |
2011 | word:
automatic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
automatic (plural automatics)
forms:
form:
automatics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French automatique, from Ancient Greek αὐτόματον (autómaton), neuter of αὐτόματος (autómatos, “self-moving, moving of oneself, self-acting, spontaneous”), from αὐτός (autós, “self, myself”) + μέμαα (mémaa, “to wish eagerly, strive, yearn, desire”).
senses_examples:
text:
I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: revolver
text:
The G-men raiding the speakeasy were equipped with .45 automatics, while the local policemen were carrying revolvers and shotguns.
type:
example
text:
'The automatic under his pillow gave the lie to that statement.'
ref:
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 9, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 262
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A car with an automatic transmission; the transmission itself.
A semi-automatic pistol.
senses_topics:
|
2012 | word:
couch potato
word_type:
noun
expansion:
couch potato (plural couch potatoes)
forms:
form:
couch potatoes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From couch + potato; coined by Tom Iacino in 1976 as a pun on boob tuber (from boob tube (“television”) and tuber (“potato”)); trademarked by Robert Armstrong from 1976–91.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who spends a lot of time sitting or lying down, often watching television, eating snacks or drinking alcohol.
senses_topics:
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2013 | word:
Panama
word_type:
name
expansion:
Panama
forms:
wikipedia:
Panama
Panama (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish Panamá, of unknown origin. Probably from a Chibchan language such as Kuna, or another indigenous language of the region (such as Cueva, barely attested and now extinct).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Panama.
senses_topics:
|
2014 | word:
Panama
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Panama (plural Panamas)
forms:
form:
Panamas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Panama
Panama (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish Panamá, of unknown origin. Probably from a Chibchan language such as Kuna, or another indigenous language of the region (such as Cueva, barely attested and now extinct).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Panama hat.
senses_topics:
|
2015 | word:
Achilles
word_type:
name
expansion:
Achilles
forms:
wikipedia:
Achilles
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin Achillēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).
senses_examples:
text:
If once the lamentation is heard, it will ring out again, of the short-lived Achilles, of the leaf-like change and vicissitude of the human race, of the decay of the heroic age.
ref:
1910, Friedrich Nietzsche, chapter 3, in William A. Haussmann, transl., edited by Oscar Levy, The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche; 1), Edinburgh, London: T. N. Foulis, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
In the last third of the Iliad, Achilles’ beloved companion, Patroklos, and his bitter enemy, Hektor, die wearing Achilles’ armor, their deaths prefiguring Achilles’ own.
ref:
2012, Richard Holway, Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), page 153
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.
A male given name from Ancient Greek.
The Greek camp Trojan asteroid 588 Achilles.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences |
2016 | word:
paraskavedekatriaphobia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
paraskavedekatriaphobia (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Greek Παρασκευή (Paraskeví, “Friday”) + δεκατρείς (dekatreís, “thirteen”) + -phobia.
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:paraskavedekatriaphobia.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fear of Friday the thirteenth.
senses_topics:
|
2017 | word:
acid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acid (comparative acider, superlative acidest)
forms:
form:
acider
tags:
comparative
form:
acidest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
acid
etymology_text:
From French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”), from aceō (“I am sour”). Doublet of agita.
senses_examples:
text:
acid fruits or liquors
type:
example
text:
His voice was as stern and his face as acid as ever.
ref:
1864, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, 2nd edition, volume 2, Smith, Elder & Co., page 235
type:
quotation
text:
Like other nyssas, it is in nature a creature of swampy places and looks loveliest where massed close to water and reflected in it, but justifies itself elsewhere if the soil is moist and acid, succeeding in wet clay.
ref:
1975, Peter N. Barber, Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips, The Trees Around Us, page 101
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
Sour-tempered.
Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
2018 | word:
acid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acid (countable and uncountable, plural acids)
forms:
form:
acids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
acid
etymology_text:
From French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”), from aceō (“I am sour”). Doublet of agita.
senses_examples:
text:
You are in error. / This is terror. / This is your banishment. This land is mine. / This is what you earn. / This is the Law of No Return. / This is the sour dough, this the sweet wine. / This is my history, this my race / And this unhappy man threw acid in my face.
ref:
2006, James Fenton, Jerusalem
type:
quotation
text:
In the end, though, there is one sure way to distinguish a real hippie from his assorted sympathizers: hippies drop acid. That is, real hippies frequently, if irregularly, ingest LSD.
ref:
1967, Joe David Brown, editor, The Hippies, New York: Time, Inc, page 171
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sour substance.
Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
Any corrosive substance.
LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
2019 | word:
Guam
word_type:
name
expansion:
Guam
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish, from Chamorro Guåhan, meaning "a place that has" or "a place of resources".
senses_examples:
text:
But to proceed with our Voyage : The Iſland Guam or Guahon , (as the Native Indians pronounce it) is one of the Ladrone Iſlands, belongs to the Spaniards , who have a ſmall Fort with ſix Guns in it, with a Governour, and 20 or 30 Soldiers.
ref:
1699, William Dampier, chapter X, in A New Voyage Round the World. […], 4th corrected edition, volume I, London: Printed for James Knapton, […], →OCLC, page 290
type:
quotation
text:
It had been the intention of the Navy Department to fortify Guam with a view to turning it into a first-class naval base. The fact that America has been willing to forgo this intention must be taken as evidence of a genuine desire to preserve the peace with Japan.
ref:
1922, Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, →OL, page 150
type:
quotation
text:
We began our six-day visit to China in Beijing on a cloudy, overcast morning following another overnight stopover on Guam.
ref:
1990, Ronald Reagan, “Staying the Course”, in An American Life, Pocket Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 369
type:
quotation
text:
The Chinese military has refined its anti-ship missile training from striking large, carrier-sized targets to smaller ships and naval bases, according to recent satellite images.
They show a training base in Xinjiang’s remote Taklamakan desert with the layout of mock-up ship moored in a naval base that resembles one in northeast Taiwan and other targets in Guam, according to a Taipei-based naval analyst.
ref:
2022 May 12, Minnie Chan, “Satellite images ‘suggest China is practising missile strikes on targets in Taiwan and Guam’”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 2022-05-12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the Pacific Ocean. Official name: Territory of Guam.
senses_topics:
|
2020 | word:
brown
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brown (countable and uncountable, plural browns)
forms:
form:
browns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
brown
etymology_text:
From Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin.
cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún
senses_examples:
text:
The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
type:
example
text:
brown:
text:
I know there are many persons — some who are themselves poor — who 'never turn a beggar from their door,' but always give them a few browns (halfpence) or some scran (broken victuals).
ref:
1853, Charles John Chetwynd Talbot, Meliora, Or, Better Times to Come, page 247
type:
quotation
text:
"We've not had any breakfast,—won't you toss us down a brown?"—
That's what they call a penny in the streets of London Town.
ref:
1883, “The Omnibus”, in London Town
type:
quotation
text:
[…] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.
ref:
1877, George Nevile, Horses and Riding, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
Many browns and blacks are immigrants — some of whom have not yet become naturalized citizens of the United States.
ref:
2005, Kristen A. Myers, Racetalk: Racism Hiding in Plain Sight
type:
quotation
text:
The temptation to have a shot into the brown was great. There was not a head there which was not a big one and the one by himself was not too easy a shot since it is always difficult to shoot when lying in soft snow.
ref:
1928, R. Pigot, Twenty-five Years Big Game Hunting, page 166
type:
quotation
text:
My anger mounted at this, I opened the courtyard door and raised my musket to fire into the brown; I had loaded it with small shot, and if it had gone off that would have been the death of us and the ruin of all of us in the house.
ref:
1979, Kevin Andrews, Athens Alive, page 223
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
Black tar heroin.
A copper coin.
A brown horse or other animal.
A person of Latino, Middle Eastern or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle |
2021 | word:
brown
word_type:
adj
expansion:
brown (comparative browner or more brown, superlative brownest or most brown)
forms:
form:
browner
tags:
comparative
form:
more brown
tags:
comparative
form:
brownest
tags:
superlative
form:
most brown
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
brown
etymology_text:
From Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin.
cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún
senses_examples:
text:
Reminds me of the time they asked me and a group of other Latino, predominantly Mexican, friends for our passports when we tried to go to their [expletive] party a little over a year ago.[…]
The saddest part is that I don’t think they understand why it’s insulting to ask a brown person for a passport.
ref:
2015 November 2 [2014], Susan Svrluga, quoting Ivonne Gonzalez, “Students accuse Yale SAE fraternity brother of saying ‘white girls only’ at party door”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-11-03, Grade Point
type:
quotation
text:
I think they sort of realized like, oh, we have Aasif who is a Muslim, an American, brown person, you know, who can sit on that fence between cultures and sort of talk about what it is--what this is from the perspective of being an insider and an outsider at the same time.[…]
I think there is in the sort of South Asian, you know, psyche, a kind of adoration of Western ideals and culture that was sort of implanted into us by the British, you know, and this idea that everything that is Western is superior and better than what we have and what India--you know, what is true to our own culture.
ref:
2021 September 9, Aasif Mandvi, quotee, “Transcript: Race in America: Giving Voice with Aasif Mandvi”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-25
type:
quotation
text:
I came to deeply embrace anti-racism in slow, sustained increments.
To do so, I had to embrace my own identity as a Brown person -- and understand my own complicity in white supremacy.[…]
I had grown up in an entire Southeast Asian culture that had largely been groomed, indoctrinated and brainwashed into white-centered thinking over some 450 years of colonization by our Western overlords: Spain for almost 400 years, and then the United States of America for nearly 50 years more.
ref:
2020 September 25, Eric J. Daza, “How A 'Secret Asian Man' Embraced Anti-Racism”, in LAist, archived from the original on 2021-04-23, Essays
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a brown colour.
Gloomy.
Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
Latino
Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African
Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
Southeast Asian
senses_topics:
|
2022 | word:
brown
word_type:
verb
expansion:
brown (third-person singular simple present browns, present participle browning, simple past and past participle browned)
forms:
form:
browns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
browning
tags:
participle
present
form:
browned
tags:
participle
past
form:
browned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
brown
etymology_text:
From Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin.
cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún
senses_examples:
text:
Fry the onions until they brown.
type:
example
text:
The chicken was browning nicely, the skin beginning to crisp and take on the toasty tones of oiled wood.
ref:
2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, page 269
type:
quotation
text:
Don't microwave your milk too long
It browns and bubbles over
ref:
2019, Patricia Taxxon (lyrics and music), “Cold Water”, in Doraemon
type:
quotation
text:
Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […]
ref:
1887, Indian Cookery "Local" for Young Housekeepers: Second Edition, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
type:
example
text:
A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
ref:
1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad
type:
quotation
text:
It is mixed uniformly with olive oil, and rubbed upon the iron slightly heated, which is afterwards exposed to the air, till the wished-for degree of browning is produced.
ref:
1860, Andrew Ure, Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, page 463
type:
quotation
text:
the browning of America
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become brown.
To cook something until it becomes brown.
To tan.
To make brown or dusky.
To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle
demographics
demography |
2023 | word:
Dominica
word_type:
name
expansion:
Dominica
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Dominica (“Lord's Day [Island], Sunday [Island]”) due to being sighted by Columbus on a Sunday.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island and country in the Caribbean. Official name: Commonwealth of Dominica.
senses_topics:
|
2024 | word:
accessory
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accessory (comparative more accessory, superlative most accessory)
forms:
form:
more accessory
tags:
comparative
form:
most accessory
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1550s. From Middle English accessorie, from Medieval Latin accessōrius, from Latin accessor (“helper, subordinate”), from accessus. Compare access, from same root.
senses_examples:
text:
accessory garments
type:
example
text:
Surprise parties succeed with the help of accessory neighbors or colleagues.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: principal
text:
Her actions were clearly accessory because they helped him commit and probably also conceal the crime.
type:
example
text:
accessory mineral
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate function by accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; being additional; contributing or being contributory.
Assisting a crime without actually participating in committing the crime itself; being connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal.
Present in a minor amount, and not essential.
senses_topics:
law
|
2025 | word:
accessory
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accessory (plural accessories)
forms:
form:
accessories
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* (legal): First attested in 1414.
* (fashion): First attested in 1896.
senses_examples:
text:
the accessories of a mobile phone
type:
example
text:
One of the first of a wave of American women contemporary designers who emerged in the 1990s, she [Kate Spade] built a brand on the appeal of clothes and accessories that made shoppers smile.
ref:
2018 June 5, Jonah Engel Bromwich, Vanessa Friedman, Matthew Schneier, “Kate Spade, whose handbags carried women into adulthood, is dead at 55”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-06
type:
quotation
text:
She was an accessory to the murder because she helped him commit and probably also conceal the crime.
type:
example
text:
You can be an accessory before the fact, or an accessory after the fact. It doesnʼt matter if itʼs before or after; either way youʼd be in for it.
ref:
2005, Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2009), page 150
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that belongs to part of another main thing; something additional and subordinate, an attachment.
An article that completes one's basic outfit, such as a scarf or gloves.
A person who is not present at a crime, but contributes to it as an assistant or instigator.
Something in a work of art without being indispensably necessary, for example solely ornamental parts.
senses_topics:
fashion
lifestyle
law
art
arts |
2026 | word:
the grass is always greener on the other side
word_type:
proverb
expansion:
the grass is always greener on the other side
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The circumstances of others seem more desirable than one's own but in reality often are not.
senses_topics:
|
2027 | word:
New Caledonia
word_type:
name
expansion:
New Caledonia
forms:
wikipedia:
New Caledonia
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago and overseas territory of France in Oceania. Official name: Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies.
A district of the west coast of British North America traded by the Hudson's Bay Company, which became the colony of British Columbia in 1858.
A short-lived (1698–1700) Scottish colony in Panama, around Darien (which was renamed New Edinburgh as its capital).
senses_topics:
|
2028 | word:
Faroe Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Faroe Islands sg or pl
forms:
form:
the Faroe Islands
tags:
canonical
plural
singular
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old Norse Færeyjar (“Faroe Islands”, literally “Sheep Islands”), a compound of fær (“sheep”) and eyjar (“islands”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
an archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean between Scotland and Iceland; a self-governing dependent territory of Denmark.
senses_topics:
|
2029 | word:
BID
word_type:
adv
expansion:
BID (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin bis in diē.
senses_examples:
text:
It has been repeatedly documented that moving patients from a TID dosing regimen to BID or OD vastly improves compliance, and thus the medicine's effectiveness.
ref:
2014 April, Ken. Seufert, “The New Dawn of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Innovative Solutions for Unprecedented Challenges”, in American Pharmaceutical Review
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
twice a day, two times per day
senses_topics:
medicine
pharmacology
sciences |
2030 | word:
Somalia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Somalia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
An Egyptian exonym deriving from Coptic ϣⲙⲟⲩⲗ (šmoul, “left side, east”), Somalia being east of Egypt. Compare Proto-Semitic *šimāl-, Hebrew שְׂמֹאל (s'mól, “left”), Akkadian 𒆏 (šumēlum, “left side”), Aramaic סְמָלָא (səmālā) / ܣܡܠܐ (semmālā, “left side”), Ugaritic 𐎌𐎎𐎀𐎍 (šmảl). ϣⲙⲟⲩⲗ translates Ancient Egyptian jꜣbt, of same meaning. The name also has many quaint folk-etymologies. See Somali_people.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in East Africa, in the Horn of Africa. Official name: Federal Republic of Somalia. Capital: Mogadishu.
senses_topics:
|
2031 | word:
emoticon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
emoticon (plural emoticons)
forms:
form:
emoticons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
emoticon
etymology_text:
Blend of emotion + icon
senses_examples:
text:
A remark intended humorously is often indicated by the letter G in parentheses, for "grin," or by a sideways happy face built from punctuation marks. Such symbols are known as emoticons.]
ref:
[1992 December 1, William Grimes, “Computer as a Cultural Tool: Chatter Mounts on Every Topic”, in The New York Times, page C13
type:
quotation
text:
In a 4 by 2 experimental procedure, :) ;) :( or no emoticon were inserted alternately in simulated e-mail message mock-ups
ref:
2006, Joseph B. Walther, “Nonverbal dynamics in computer-mediated communication”, in Valerie Manusov, Miles Patterson, editors, The SAGE Handbook of Nonverbal Communication, page 470
type:
quotation
text:
The range of interpretations was surprising broad, for instance the emoticon (-.-) had 16 possible interpretations
ref:
2007, M. Yanagisawa, M. Kobayashi, Y. Kato, S. Kato, D. Scott, “Research on the emotions interpreted from emoticons in Japanese cellular telephone email”, in T. Hirashima, U. Hoppe, S. Young, editors, Supporting Learning Flow through Integrative Technologies, page 271
type:
quotation
text:
In addition to placing emoticons by clicking icons in the pop-up panel shown in Figure 4-2, you can enter the text representation in your text chat window. For example, to show the image of the emoticon with sunglasses, you enter (cool).
ref:
2007, Loren Abdulezer, Susan Abdulezer, Howard Dammond, Skype for Dummies, page 61
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A graphical representation of a particular emotion of the writer, used especially in SMS, email, or other electronic communication.
A graphic made up of text characters to represent such emotion; a smiley.
A graphical representation of a particular emotion of the writer, used especially in SMS, email, or other electronic communication.
An image or graphic icon used to represent such emotions; an emoji.
senses_topics:
|
2032 | word:
clock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
clock (countable and uncountable, plural clocks)
forms:
form:
clocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
clock
etymology_text:
c. 1350–1400, Middle English clokke, clok, cloke, from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Dutch *klokka, from Medieval Latin clocca, probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch, Old Irish cloc), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną (“to laugh”)).
Related to Old English clucge, Dutch klok, Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell; clock”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka.
Doublet of cloak and cloche.
senses_examples:
text:
In the June days of 1848 Baudelaire reports seeing revolutionaries (he might have been one of them) going through the streets of Paris with rifles, shooting all the clocks.
ref:
1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →OCLC, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
A 12-hour clock system; an antique clock sale; Acme is a clock manufacturer.
type:
example
text:
This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
type:
example
text:
I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock.
type:
example
text:
We let the guys use the shop's tools and equipment for their own projects as long as they're off the clock.
type:
example
text:
Executing a NEXT to code takes 7 clocks, or 1.05 microseconds.
ref:
1984, The Journal of Forth Application and Research, volume 2, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
The best schedule produced by any hardware algorithm takes 7 clocks, whereas the statically reordered code in Figure 1.2(b) takes only 5 clocks.
ref:
1990, Joseph F. Traub, Barbara J. Grosz, Annual Review of Computer Science, page 180
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
The odometer of a motor vehicle.
An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
The seed head of a dandelion.
A time clock.
A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
2033 | word:
clock
word_type:
verb
expansion:
clock (third-person singular simple present clocks, present participle clocking, simple past and past participle clocked)
forms:
form:
clocks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
clocking
tags:
participle
present
form:
clocked
tags:
participle
past
form:
clocked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
clock
etymology_text:
c. 1350–1400, Middle English clokke, clok, cloke, from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Dutch *klokka, from Medieval Latin clocca, probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch, Old Irish cloc), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną (“to laugh”)).
Related to Old English clucge, Dutch klok, Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell; clock”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka.
Doublet of cloak and cloche.
senses_examples:
text:
He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
type:
example
text:
Dan Patch clocked a scorching 1:55.5 flat.
ref:
1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 186
type:
quotation
text:
When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
type:
example
text:
Clock the wheels on that car!
type:
example
text:
It is true. Carmen is an official gold digger. In fact, she is an instructor at the school of gold digging. Hood rats have been clocking her style for years. Wanting to pull the players she pulled, and wishing they had the looks she had.
ref:
2005, Jr. Aaron Bryant, Cupid Is Stupid, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Cut to the pub on a lads night out, / Man at the bar cos it was his shout, / Clocks this bird and she looks OK, / Caught him looking and she walks his way,
ref:
2006, Lily Allen (lyrics and music), “Knock 'Em Out”
type:
quotation
text:
First it was only when I was with him—we would pass a pretty girl, I would notice her first, and my eyes would dart to his to see him clock her.
ref:
2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House
type:
quotation
text:
He made it to ten yards away. Still they hadn't clocked him. Five yards. He felt increasingly confident about grabbing the actual thief, even if it meant letting the other lad get away. Both were pretty scrawny kids, although the other one was quite a bit older, maybe twenty,[…]
ref:
2021 July 1, Nick Oldham, Scarred, Severn House Publishers Ltd
type:
quotation
text:
I had just long enough at Lancaster to clock another plaque to a great Victorian railway engineer, Joseph Locke (1805-60).
ref:
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Lancaster (1860)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
I'd already clocked her as someone who couldn't reliably be believed when she spoke. And now this too!
type:
example
text:
Bo John and I twisted our heads around as Miranda braked over to the gravelly shoulder, let the Scout wheeze to a stop. She was climbing out, hurrying back to whatever had caught her eye. Bo John leered into the door mirror, clocking her flouncing, leggy strut.
ref:
2000, Phil Austin, Naugahide Days: The Lost Island Stories of Thomas Wood Briar, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
Once my transformation was complete I considered moving to London, where I felt there was less chance of being clocked and a larger support network.
type:
example
text:
Jaz said that the palpitations of fear he used to experience at the prospect of being publicly outed in the gurdwara dissipated after he clocked other gay Sikhs in there, even one who professed a Jat caste identity, he said – Jatness being associated with stereotypical dominant macho masculinity. He reflected that this was a major factor in his rapprochement with his[…]
ref:
2018 September 14, Nicola Frost, Tom Selwyn, Travelling towards Home: Mobilities and Homemaking, Berghahn Books, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Consuella Lopez, the director of operations and housing at Casa Ruby, remembers. "The more passable your body was, the less bullying you'd get, the more chances of you getting a regular job at a regular place without somebody clocking you."
ref:
2019 September 1, Dani Nett, “For Trans Women, Silicone 'Pumping' Can Be A Blessing And A Curse”, in NPR
type:
quotation
text:
Jess was a sixty-something, short, White, bald man who could easily be "clocked" as gay.
ref:
2022 February 1, Townsand Price-Spratlen, Addiction Recovery and Resilience: Faith-based Health Services in an African American Community, State University of New York Press
type:
quotation
text:
Quarantine had thrown a new wrench "do not perceive me" discourse, but trans people have arguably always had a messy relationship to being perceived. We avoid it, and yet we also juice our lives to be seen. Getting clocked feels bad, but being hot feels good.
ref:
2022 March 1, Charlie Markbreiter, “"Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric": Trans Assimilation and Cringe”, in The New Inquiry
type:
quotation
text:
I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
type:
example
text:
Have you clocked that game yet?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To measure the duration of.
To measure the speed of.
To hit (someone) heavily.
To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).
To recognize; to assess.
To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).
To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
To beat a video game.
senses_topics:
|
2034 | word:
clock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
clock (plural clocks)
forms:
form:
clocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
clock
etymology_text:
Uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.
senses_examples:
text:
But this you can't stand, so you throw up your hand,
and you find you're as cold as an icicle,
In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold clocks),
crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle
ref:
1882, W.S. Gilbert, “When you're lying awake”, in Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri
type:
quotation
text:
She'd a gown wi' girt flowers lik' hollyhocks
ref:
1894, William Barnes, “Grammer's Shoes”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, page 110
type:
quotation
roman:
An zome stockèns o' gramfer's a-knit wi' clocks
text:
Most decoration involved the ankle clocks, and several are shown on p.15 in the form of charts.
ref:
2004, Sheila McGregor, Traditional Scandinavian Knitting, Courier Dover, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
Clocks: These are ornamental designs embroidered or woven on to the ankles of stockings.
ref:
2006, J. Munslow, Kathryn McKelvey, Fashion Source Book, page 231
type:
quotation
text:
his stockings with silver clocks were ravished from him
ref:
c. 1720, Jonathan Swift, An Essay on Modern Education
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
senses_topics:
|
2035 | word:
clock
word_type:
verb
expansion:
clock (third-person singular simple present clocks, present participle clocking, simple past and past participle clocked)
forms:
form:
clocks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
clocking
tags:
participle
present
form:
clocked
tags:
participle
past
form:
clocked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
clock
etymology_text:
Uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
senses_topics:
|
2036 | word:
clock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
clock (plural clocks)
forms:
form:
clocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
clock
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
senses_topics:
|
2037 | word:
clock
word_type:
verb
expansion:
clock (third-person singular simple present clocks, present participle clocking, simple past and past participle clocked)
forms:
form:
clocks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
clocking
tags:
participle
present
form:
clocked
tags:
participle
past
form:
clocked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
clock
etymology_text:
From Middle English clokken, from Old English cloccian, ultimately imitative; compare Dutch klokken, English cluck.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
To hatch.
senses_topics:
|
2038 | word:
Palau
word_type:
name
expansion:
Palau
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Palauan Belau (“Palau”), traditionally derived from aidebelau (“indirect replies”) in reference to the island's creation story, or from beluu (“village”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *banua (“inhabited land, territory”).
senses_examples:
text:
Another society in which wealth per se was highly valued was Palau, but wealth belonging to descent units and not to individuals.[…]
Palau society was divided into a large number of individually named, exogamous matriclans, and these were in turn subdivided into named matrilineages, each of which was a land-owning corporation and localized within a single community.
ref:
1989, Douglas L. Oliver, “Social Relations”, in Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
The president of Palau declared Tuesday that his Pacific island nation will ban commercial fishing and become a marine sanctuary.[…]
Remengesau said establishing “a 100 percent marine sanctuary” will enable Palau to preserve “a pristine environment” and promote snorkeling, scuba diving and ecotourism as an alternative way to grow its economy.
ref:
2014 February 5, Edith M. Lederer, “Palau to ban commercial fishing, promote tourism”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-07-19
type:
quotation
text:
Few places on the planet are as isolated as Palau, or as sprawling. Its 21,000 residents are scattered across a handful of its 250 islands, which take up just 177 square miles combined. Relatively poor, and with no military of its own, Palau employs a marine police division with just 18 members and one patrol ship.
ref:
2016 February 17, Ian Urbina, “Palau vs. the Poachers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-02-17
type:
quotation
text:
Fully 99% of Palau's population over 12 has had both shots of vaccine for the new coronavirus, the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) said, citing government figures which also show that this amounts to 16,152 people.
That puts Palau, an archipelago of 500 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, in the "top spot", the IFRC said in a statement, ahead of countries like Portugal which was named one of the world's most vaccinated countries when 80% of its 10 million people were fully immunized last month.
ref:
2021 October 14, Byron Kaye, “Tiny Pacific nation beats the world with 99% COVID vaccination, says Red Cross”, in Raju Gopalakrishnan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-10-14, Asia Pacific
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania. Official name: Republic of Palau. Capital: Ngerulmud.
senses_topics:
|
2039 | word:
academic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
academic (comparative more academic, superlative most academic)
forms:
form:
more academic
tags:
comparative
form:
most academic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From both the Medieval Latin acadēmicus and the French académique, from Latin academia, from Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós), from Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía) or Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia), the name of the place where Plato taught; compare academy.
senses_examples:
text:
the academic sect or philosophy
type:
example
text:
But unhappily, by too short a view of things, you have been apt to mistake the completion of your academic courses for the completion of your theologic studies: and then, by a false modesty, have despaired of knowing more than you would suffer those august places of your education to teach you.
ref:
1761, William Warburton, A Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of Gloucester; republished as The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D. D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester, volume 9, 1811, page 372
type:
quotation
text:
It was left to the motor industry, half a century later, to destroy Oxford's academic calm.
ref:
1959 December, John Alves, “Resorts for Railfans - 29: Oxford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 596
type:
quotation
text:
Programs of work should provide students the opportunities to demonstrate both academic and vocational competence attainment.
ref:
1991, Wisconsin State Board of Vocational, Technical and Adult Education, Accountability Report, and ... State Plan for Vocational, Technical and Adult Education in Wisconsin, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
I have always had an academic interest in hacking.
type:
example
text:
the distinction is academic
type:
example
text:
an academic question
type:
example
text:
In theory, a fully intact reverse osmosis membrane should be capable of removing lipopolysaccharide pyrogens […] In practice, this distinction is academic, because pyrogens do not replicate, and as long as the product water is […]
ref:
1985, Depyrogenation, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
In practice this distinction is academic, as any small nodule on the surface of a thyroidectomy specimen should be examined histologically. If carcinoma is suspected or proven, the whole surface of the specimen may be marked[…]
ref:
1990, David George Lowe, I. J. M. Jeffrey, Surgical Pathology Techniques, Mosby Incorporated
type:
quotation
text:
The question of how many weapons are required for credible deterrence against India is purely academic.
ref:
2011 May 16, “Pakistan's AQ Khan: My Nuclear Manifesto”, in Newsweek
type:
quotation
text:
For the majority of owners, its four-wheel-drive endeavours will be of purely academic interest.
ref:
2017 November 10, “Land Rover Discovery review – SUV's the finest car in the Landy”, in Scottish Daily Record
type:
quotation
text:
As a general matter, we will not consider a protest where the issue presented has no practical consequences with regard to an existing federal government procurement, and thus is of purely academic interest.
ref:
2018 May 22, Decision, Matter of Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, US Government Accountability Office
type:
quotation
text:
[…]; if you do not know, or care to know, much about critical theory, the writings of Butler are academic in the unflattering sense of that term. But in their world, they are, if not royalty, lords of the realm.
ref:
2018 September 23, Eliot A. Cohen, “The Crisis of the American Elites”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
I’m more academic than athletic — I get lower marks in phys. ed. than in anything else.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato
Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
senses_topics:
art
arts
art
arts
|
2040 | word:
academic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
academic (plural academics)
forms:
form:
academics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From both the Medieval Latin acadēmicus and the French académique, from Latin academia, from Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós), from Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía) or Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia), the name of the place where Plato taught; compare academy.
senses_examples:
text:
Academics[…]see integrated systems for collecting, processing and acting on data as offering a “second electrification” to the world’s metropolises.
ref:
2013 September 7, “The multiplexed metropolis”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852
type:
quotation
text:
Many spoke of an intense fear of failing one’s academics at university, which can both be highly motivating to secure academic success (sometimes at the cost of socialising), but can also immobilise one’s desire to try harder as it can be rather disappointing if one does not succeed. […] Many autistic students commonly reported viewing academics to be the most important aspect of university life and had a strong sense of persistence and self-determination to succeed. […] However, while some autistic students viewed socialising to be a source of threat that could jeopardise their academic success if indulged in, others highlighted the importance of social connections at university beyond that of academics.
ref:
2021 July 25, Jiedi Lei, and Ailsa Russell, “Understanding the role of self-determination in shaping university experiences for autistic and typically developing students in the United Kingdom”, in Autism, volume 25, number 5, →DOI, pages 1262–1278
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
A member of the Academy; an academician.
A student in a college.
Academic dress; academicals.
Academic studies.
senses_topics:
|
2041 | word:
accuse
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accuse (third-person singular simple present accuses, present participle accusing, simple past and past participle accused)
forms:
form:
accuses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accusing
tags:
participle
present
form:
accused
tags:
participle
past
form:
accused
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
accuse
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested around 1300. From Middle English acusen, from Old French acuser, from Latin accūsō (“to call to account, accuse”), from ad (“to”) + causa (“cause, lawsuit, reason”). Akin to cause. Displaced native English bewray.
senses_examples:
text:
We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms when their differences might have involved the Powers of Europe in contention.
ref:
1849 February 2, Lord Palmerston, The Address in Answer to the Speech—Adjourned Debate, House of Commons; republished as Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, volume 102, third series, 1849, page 216
type:
quotation
text:
For the U.S. President to be impeached, he must be accused of a high crime or misdemeanor.
type:
example
text:
Ting Ling had disappeared from public life in 1958. She was accused of being a "Rightist" and was sent to a farm in Hei-lung-chiang Province in remote northeast China, worked there twelve years raising chickens, was in prison five years (1970-1975), and began to live in a village in Shansi in 1975.
ref:
1981, Hualing Nieh, editor, Literature of the Hundred Flowers, volume II, Columbia University Press, page xxxix
type:
quotation
text:
According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
ref:
2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to find fault with, blame, censure
to charge with having committed a crime or offence
to make an accusation against someone
senses_topics:
law
|
2042 | word:
accuse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accuse (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested around 1300. From Middle English acusen, from Old French acuser, from Latin accūsō (“to call to account, accuse”), from ad (“to”) + causa (“cause, lawsuit, reason”). Akin to cause. Displaced native English bewray.
senses_examples:
text:
And dogged York, that reaches at the moon, / Whose overweening arm I have plucked back, / By false accuse doth level at my life.
ref:
c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, act 3, scene 1, lines 158–160
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Accusation.
senses_topics:
|
2043 | word:
mither
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mither (third-person singular simple present mithers, present participle mithering, simple past and past participle mithered)
forms:
form:
mithers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mithering
tags:
participle
present
form:
mithered
tags:
participle
past
form:
mithered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Late 17th century, of unknown origin;
* Possibly related to Middle English bemothered (“confused, perplexed”), itself probably related to Old English mēþe (“exhausting, troublesome”), Old Norse móðr (“angry, frustrated”), Middle Dutch moeden (“to tire, exhaust, disturb, trouble”).
* Possibly allied to Welsh moedro (“to worry or bother”), though according to the GPC, the latter is borrowed from English.
* Alternatively, possibly tied to Welsh meidda (“to beg for whey”), from maidd (“whey”).
* Perhaps from Welsh meiddio (“to dare or venture”), a variant of beiddio (“to dare”).
The "dd" in Welsh corresponds in sound to the "th" in mither, and English also has moider and moither.
senses_examples:
text:
The European Commission is pondering how to compel phone companies to come up with a universal plug for their chargers. Apple, which uses its own design for its charger cables, is mithering about the change.
ref:
6 February 2020, “The parable of the plug”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
"Every night after work I'd mither [pester] my dad to take me out into the field and practise. There were definitely times when he didn't want to do it, but he never said no.
ref:
11 June 2019, “Women's World Cup: England v Argentina – Keira Walsh 'inspired' by opponents”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make an unnecessary fuss, moan, bother.
To pester or irritate someone.
senses_topics:
|
2044 | word:
mither
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mither (plural mithers)
forms:
form:
mithers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant from Middle English muther, muthir, from Old English mōdor (“mother”). More at mother.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
mother
senses_topics:
|
2045 | word:
paralipsis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
paralipsis (countable and uncountable, plural paraleipses)
forms:
form:
paraleipses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek παράλειψις (paráleipsis, “omission”), from παραλείπω (paraleípō, “I pass over”), from παρά (pará, “by, near”) + λείπω (leípō, “I leave”).
senses_examples:
text:
These negatives are a paraleipsis: what cannot be done to the soul can be done to the body.
ref:
1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae
type:
quotation
text:
Oxenberg tells us twice that she does not talk about the sister who died. She fools no one with this paralipsis […].
ref:
2008, Alisa Lebow, First Person Jewish, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
What's left to consider? I am loath to bring up Trump's paralipsis.
ref:
2016 November 2, Slate
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A figure of speech in which one pretends to ignore or omit something by actually mentioning it.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2046 | word:
China
word_type:
name
expansion:
China (usually uncountable, plural Chinas)
forms:
form:
Chinas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
China (disambiguation)
Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India
Duarte Barbosa
Garcia de Orta
Marco Polo
The Travels of Marco Polo
states of ancient China
etymology_text:
From Portuguese China, probably under influence from Old French Chin, from Classical Persian چین (čīn), from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭩𐭭 (Čīn, “China”), from Sanskrit चीन (cīna, “the Chinese; China”) of uncertain etymology. It is usually thought to be derived from Chinese 秦 (Qín) (sm Qín, mc d͡ziɪn, oc *zin, "Qin"), the westernmost ancient Chinese state, but other theories have been proposed, including derivation from 晉／晋 (jìn) (sm Jìn, mc t͡siɪn, oc *ʔsins, "Jin"), another important ancient state; 荊／荆 (jīng) (sm Jīng, mc kˠiæŋ, oc *keŋ, "Chu"), the southernmost ancient Chinese state; or Zina, the endonym of the people of the Yelang kingdom. See "Names of China" and "Chinas" at Wikipedia. As a female name, usually derived via china (“porcelain”) and china doll, ultimately from the same source.
senses_examples:
text:
The great China, whose kyng is thought... the greatest prince in the worlde.
ref:
1555, Peter Martyr, translated by Richard Eden, The Decades of the Newe Worlde..., folio 230 verso
type:
quotation
text:
The Commissioner General asked for Foreign Office guidance in view of his information about earlier events relating to the British claim. In reply, the Foreign Office, in a telegram dated 12 June 1956, pointed out that as there was now a territorial dispute involving the two Chinas, the Philippines and possibly Vietnam over the Nansha Islands the British vessel should ‘stay well clear’ of Spratly Island.
ref:
1987, Geoffrey Marston, “Abandonment of Territorial Claims: The Cases of Bouvet and Spratly Islands”, in The British Year Book of International Law 1986, volume 57, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 356
type:
quotation
text:
After I was nominated to the vice-presidency, Ronald Reagan asked me to go to China to reassure Deng that, despite having mentioned it in a campaign speech, he did not believe in two Chinas, and that he would honor the Shanghai Communiqué—which declared, in effect, that there was but one China. Joined by his top foreign policy team, Deng listened carefully as I explained that Reagan’s statement had been taken out of context. Just as I was finishing, a door opened and a message was passed down the line of advisors until it reached Deng. On reading it, he looked puzzled and annoyed. “He did it again!” he announced. “Ronald Reagan has again referred to ‘two Chinas’ in a speech!” I talked fast and got out of there.
ref:
1998, George H. W. Bush et al., A World Transformed, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
China has 5000 years of history.
type:
example
text:
'Only a Nixon' Could Go to China
ref:
1971 December 6, “A Size-up of President Nixon: Interview with Mike Mansfield, Senate Democratic Leader”, in US News & World Report, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
2017, Donald J. Trump, speech at Make America Great Again Rally, Harrisburg, PA
And I met with the President of China at great length in Florida, and we had long, long talks—hours and hours and hours.
text:
China will be 73 years old this October 1.
type:
example
text:
The gambling winnings were transferred from Macau to China.
type:
example
text:
My name is China Bayles. I'm the owner of Thyme and Seasons and the co-owner, with Ruby Wilcox, of a new tearoom called Thyme for Tea.
ref:
2001, Susan Wittig Albert, chapter 1, in Bloodroot, Berkley Publishing Group, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
'What's her name, this girl?' The fight had hoarsened Lynne's voice, and the words came out strangely staccato - a wooden doll that had just learned to speak.
'China,' he mumbled, feeling an obscure desire to invent a pseudonym for her.
'What an interesting name.'
Angus struck the table edge hard. 'Aw, don't gies it.'
'I don't know what you mean. Or is it a nickname? Fragile, is she?'
ref:
2014, Neil D. A. Stewart, The Glasgow Coma Scale, Constable & Robinson, page 159
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nation or civilization occupying the country around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers in East Asia, taken as a whole under its various dynasties.
The principal state in this country, including (historical) an empire under various dynasties and (since 1949) the People's Republic of China.
Synonym of mainland China.
A female given name.
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Indiana, United States.
A town in Kennebec County, Maine, United States.
An unincorporated community in Howell County, Missouri, United States.
A hamlet in Delaware County, New York, United States.
A small city in Jefferson County, Texas, United States.
A municipality and town in Nuevo León, Mexico.
senses_topics:
|
2047 | word:
China
word_type:
noun
expansion:
China (countable and uncountable, plural Chinas)
forms:
form:
Chinas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
China (disambiguation)
Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India
Duarte Barbosa
Garcia de Orta
Marco Polo
The Travels of Marco Polo
Zhengzhang Shangfang
states of ancient China
zh:鄭張尚芳
etymology_text:
From Portuguese China, probably under influence from Old French Chin, from Classical Persian چین (čīn), from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭩𐭭 (Čīn, “China”), from Sanskrit चीन (cīna, “the Chinese; China”) of uncertain etymology. It is usually thought to be derived from Chinese 秦 (Qín) (sm Qín, mc d͡ziɪn, oc *zin, "Qin"), the westernmost ancient Chinese state, but other theories have been proposed, including derivation from 晉／晋 (jìn) (sm Jìn, mc t͡siɪn, oc *ʔsins, "Jin"), another important ancient state; 荊／荆 (jīng) (sm Jīng, mc kˠiæŋ, oc *keŋ, "Chu"), the southernmost ancient Chinese state; or Zina, the endonym of the people of the Yelang kingdom. See "Names of China" and "Chinas" at Wikipedia. As a female name, usually derived via china (“porcelain”) and china doll, ultimately from the same source.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Chinese person.
Alternative form of cheyney: woollen stuff; items made or filled with cheyney.
Clipping of China rose: various flowers.
Clipping of China tea.
Alternative form of china: a mate, a friend.
senses_topics:
beverages
biology
botany
food
lifestyle
natural-sciences
|
2048 | word:
Guadeloupe
word_type:
name
expansion:
Guadeloupe
forms:
wikipedia:
Guadalupe, Cáceres
Guadeloupe
etymology_text:
From French Guadeloupe, from Spanish Santa María de Guadalupe (The Virgin Mary named after the Spanish town of Guadalupe in Extremadura). Doublet of Guadalupe.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island in the northeastern edge of the Caribbean Sea.
An archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, including the island of Guadeloupe.
senses_topics:
|
2049 | word:
smallgoods
word_type:
noun
expansion:
smallgoods pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From small + goods.
senses_examples:
text:
He worked at a smallgoods manufacturer.
type:
example
text:
Some smallgoods are cooked to kill harmful micro-organisms, but cooking changes the taste and texture of the food.
ref:
2000, Peter Cerexhe, John Ashton, Risky Foods, Safer Choices: Avoiding Food Poisoning, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
The Garibaldi incident has also been credited with a change in culture among smallgoods manufacturers in Australia.
ref:
2001, John Spriggs, Grant Isaac, Food Safety and International Competitiveness: The Case of Beef, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
The types of smallgoods discussed include uncooked and cooked fermented meats, cured meats and fish, and some specialty products such as pâté.
ref:
2010, CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences, Make It Safe: A Guide to Food Safety, page 124
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cooked, dried, cured and otherwise processed meat products, such as salami; manufactured meats.
senses_topics:
|
2050 | word:
Fiji
word_type:
name
expansion:
Fiji
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Fijian Viti, from Proto-Central Pacific *viti "east, sunrise".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania. Capital and largest city: Suva.
senses_topics:
|
2051 | word:
Chad
word_type:
name
expansion:
Chad
forms:
wikipedia:
4chan
Chad (name)
Chicago, Illinois
etymology_text:
From Middle English Chadde, from Old English Ċeadda, of obscure meaning; name of a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon saint, revived in the 20th century.
The sense of “alpha male” originates from an apparent stereotype that men with such a name tend to bear that temperament, first attested in c. late 1990s in Chicago, Illinois (specifically "successful white man, yuppie"), but in common usage only as of the late 2010s via 4chan slang.
senses_examples:
text:
"What else? Anyway, here's the genealogy: Charles Junior's only son is Charles the Third - like royalty. He goes by Chip - Cassie's daddy. The mom is Cindy. The dead son was Chad - Charles the Fourth."
"All Cs," I said. "Sounds like they like order."
ref:
1993, Jonathan Kellerman, Devil's Waltz, Random House, published 1998, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
'He used to be called Trevor Buss.'
'Chad? I don't believe you.' […]
'He changed his name into Muhammad Shahabuddin Ali-Shah.'
'No!'
'He'd insist on the whole name. He played football and his mates got fed up saying, "Pass the ball, Muhammad Shahabuddin Ali-Shah" […] No one passed to him. So he became Chad.'
ref:
1995, Hanif Kureishi, The Black Album, Faber and Faber, pages 88, 90
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from Old English. Also a modern nickname for Charles, Chadwick and similar-sounding names
The British version of the "Kilroy was here" graffiti.
senses_topics:
|
2052 | word:
Chad
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Chad (plural Chads)
forms:
form:
Chads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
4chan
Chad (name)
Chad (slang)
Chicago, Illinois
etymology_text:
From Middle English Chadde, from Old English Ċeadda, of obscure meaning; name of a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon saint, revived in the 20th century.
The sense of “alpha male” originates from an apparent stereotype that men with such a name tend to bear that temperament, first attested in c. late 1990s in Chicago, Illinois (specifically "successful white man, yuppie"), but in common usage only as of the late 2010s via 4chan slang.
senses_examples:
text:
They are united by the fact that women will not have sex with them, usually attributed to shallow obsessions with looks or superficial personality, and by their hatred of “Chads” and “Stacys”, the men and women who have sex.
ref:
2018 April 25, Alex Hern, “Who are the 'incels' and how do they relate to Toronto van attack?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Short for “female humanoid”, it’s used in place of the word “woman” to depict how, in an incel’s view, women are not entirely human, but are instead robot-like androids who only crave sex with Chads.
ref:
2018 April 28, Kate Wilson, “Last week in tech: sex robots”, in The Georgia Straight
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A very handsome, usually tall man whom women find sexually attractive; at times seen as an alpha male of a group.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality |
2053 | word:
Chad
word_type:
name
expansion:
Chad
forms:
wikipedia:
Chad
Chad (name)
Lake Chad
etymology_text:
Believed to be from Kanuri tsade (“lake”). The country is named after the lake.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Chad.
Lake Chad (a freshwater lake at the junction of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon in Central Africa).
senses_topics:
|
2054 | word:
Saint Lucia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Saint Lucia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin sancta (“saint”) Lucia (“Lucy”) (landed on by French sailors on St. Lucy's Day, 13 December 1502).
senses_examples:
text:
Dr. Lewis also praised Taiwan’s technological prowess, calling it a “world leader” in the tech industry. He said Saint Lucia has sought closer cooperation with Taiwan to improve digital literacy in its schools.
ref:
2022 August 11, Kelvin Chen, “Saint Lucia ambassador stands with Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2022-08-12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island and country in the Caribbean. Capital: Castries.
senses_topics:
|
2055 | word:
Guinea-Bissau
word_type:
name
expansion:
Guinea-Bissau
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Guinea + Bissau.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Guinea-Bissau.
senses_topics:
|
2056 | word:
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
word_type:
name
expansion:
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
After Saint Vincent (sighted by Columbus on St Vincent's Day, 22 January 1498) and the city of Granada in Spain.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago and country in the Caribbean, comprising the islands of Saint Vincent and the island chain of the Grenadines.
senses_topics:
|
2057 | word:
port
word_type:
noun
expansion:
port (countable and uncountable, plural ports)
forms:
form:
ports
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Port
Port (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus a distant doublet of ford). The directional sense, attested since at least the 1500s, derives from ancient vessels with the steering oar on the right (see etymology of starboard), which therefore had to moor with their left sides facing the dock or wharf.
senses_examples:
text:
From the ground, Colombo's port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
More broadly, the port is seen as a litmus test for France; if its most multicultural city can foster vast Muslim enclaves viewed with broad suspicion or hostility by the police, then what hope is there elsewhere?
ref:
2023 July 1, Mark Townsend, “‘We are seen as less human’: inside Marseille’s districts abandoned by the police”, in The Observer, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Each eight has four ports and four starboards.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
A town or city containing such a place, a port city.
The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.
A sweep rower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports |
2058 | word:
port
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
Port (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus a distant doublet of ford). The directional sense, attested since at least the 1500s, derives from ancient vessels with the steering oar on the right (see etymology of starboard), which therefore had to moor with their left sides facing the dock or wharf.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
airport
airport
any port in a storm
carport
container port
dry port
establishment of the port
first port of call
free port
girl in every port
half-port
heliport
helm-port
helm port
home port
megaport
outport
port authority
port knocking
portlet
port of call
port of entry
port of registry
raft port
river port
seaport
secondary port
spaceport
standard port
static port
treaty port
any port in a storm
airport
any port in a storm
carport
container port
dry port
establishment of the port
first port of call
free port
girl in every port
half-port
heliport
helm-port
helm port
home port
megaport
outport
port authority
port knocking
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port of call
port of entry
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airport
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port of call
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standard port
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standard port
static port
treaty port
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port of entry
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seaport
secondary port
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standard port
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any port in a storm
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port authority
port knocking
portlet
port of call
port of entry
port of registry
raft port
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seaport
secondary port
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standard port
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treaty port
half-port
airport
any port in a storm
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container port
dry port
establishment of the port
first port of call
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girl in every port
half-port
heliport
helm-port
helm port
home port
megaport
outport
port authority
port knocking
portlet
port of call
port of entry
port of registry
raft port
river port
seaport
secondary port
spaceport
standard port
static port
treaty port
heliport
airport
any port in a storm
carport
container port
dry port
establishment of the port
first port of call
free port
girl in every port
half-port
heliport
helm-port
helm port
home port
megaport
outport
port authority
port knocking
portlet
port of call
port of entry
port of registry
raft port
river port
seaport
secondary port
spaceport
standard port
static port
treaty port
helm-port
airport
any port in a storm
carport
container port
dry port
establishment of the port
first port of call
free port
girl in every port
half-port
heliport
helm-port
helm port
home port
megaport
outport
port authority
port knocking
portlet
port of call
port of entry
port of registry
raft port
river port
seaport
secondary port
spaceport
standard port
static port
treaty port
helm port
airport
any port in a storm
carport
container port
dry port
establishment of the port
first port of call
free port
girl in every port
half-port
heliport
helm-port
helm port
home port
megaport
outport
port authority
port knocking
portlet
port of call
port of entry
port of registry
raft port
river port
seaport
secondary port
spaceport
standard port
static port
treaty port
home port
airport
any port in a storm
carport
container port
dry port
establishment of the port
first port of call
free port
girl in every port
half-port
heliport
helm-port
helm port
home port
megaport
outport
port authority
port knocking
portlet
port of call
port of entry
port of registry
raft port
river port
seaport
secondary port
spaceport
standard port
static port
treaty port
megaport
airport
any port in a storm
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container port
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establishment of the port
first port of call
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half-port
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port authority
port knocking
portlet
port of call
port of entry
port of registry
raft port
river port
seaport
secondary port
spaceport
standard port
static port
treaty port
outport
airport
any port in a storm
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container port
dry port
establishment of the port
first port of call
free port
girl in every port
half-port
heliport
helm-port
helm port
home port
megaport
outport
port authority
port knocking
portlet
port of call
port of entry
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raft port
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secondary port
spaceport
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port authority
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home port
megaport
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port authority
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port knocking
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any port in a storm
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container port
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girl in every port
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megaport
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port authority
port knocking
portlet
port of call
port of entry
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standard port
static port
treaty port
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any port in a storm
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girl in every port
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any port in a storm
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establishment of the port
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girl in every port
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establishment of the port
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girl in every port
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port authority
port knocking
portlet
port of call
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port authority
port knocking
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port of call
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port authority
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port of call
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girl in every port
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girl in every port
half-port
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home port
megaport
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port authority
port knocking
portlet
port of call
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treaty port
treaty port
senses_topics:
|
2059 | word:
port
word_type:
adj
expansion:
port (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Port (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus a distant doublet of ford). The directional sense, attested since at least the 1500s, derives from ancient vessels with the steering oar on the right (see etymology of starboard), which therefore had to moor with their left sides facing the dock or wharf.
senses_examples:
text:
on the port side
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to port, the left-hand side of a vessel when facing the bow.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
2060 | word:
port
word_type:
verb
expansion:
port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)
forms:
form:
ports
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
porting
tags:
participle
present
form:
ported
tags:
participle
past
form:
ported
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Port (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus a distant doublet of ford). The directional sense, attested since at least the 1500s, derives from ancient vessels with the steering oar on the right (see etymology of starboard), which therefore had to moor with their left sides facing the dock or wharf.
senses_examples:
text:
Port your helm!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
2061 | word:
port
word_type:
noun
expansion:
port (plural ports)
forms:
form:
ports
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Port (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Inherited from the Old English port, from the Latin porta (“passage, gate”), reinforced by the Old French porte. Doublet of porta.
senses_examples:
text:
And whan he cam to the porte of the pavelon, Sir Palomydes seyde an hyghe, ‘Where art thou, Sir Trystram de Lyones?’
ref:
1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, book X
type:
quotation
text:
Long were it to describe the goodly frame, / And stately port of Castle Joyeous […].
ref:
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1
type:
quotation
text:
Him I accuse / The city ports by this hath enter'd
ref:
1623, Shakespeare, Coriolanus, V.vi
type:
quotation
text:
And from their ivory port the Cherubim, / Forth issuing at the accustomed hour
ref:
1667, Milton, Paradise Lost, book IV
type:
quotation
text:
[…] her ports being within sixteen inches of the water […]
ref:
c. 1615, Sir W. Raleigh, A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass […]
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An entryway or gate.
An opening or doorway in the side of a ship, especially for boarding or loading; an embrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; a porthole.
A small medical appliance installed beneath the skin, connected to a vein by a catheter, and used to inject drugs or to draw blood samples.
A space between two stones wide enough for a delivered stone or bowl to pass through.
An opening where a connection (such as a pipe) is made.
A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.
A number that delimits a connection for specific processes or parts of a network service.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences |
2062 | word:
port
word_type:
verb
expansion:
port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)
forms:
form:
ports
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
porting
tags:
participle
present
form:
ported
tags:
participle
past
form:
ported
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Port (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Old French porter, from Latin portāre (“carry”). Akin to transport, portable.
senses_examples:
text:
They are easily ported by boat into other shires.
ref:
1662, Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England
type:
quotation
text:
Port arms!
type:
example
text:
[…] the angelic squadron...began to hem him round with ported spears.
ref:
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book IV
type:
quotation
text:
If you submit a request to port a number, and you list the name on the account as Bob Smith, but your local carrier has the number listed under your wife's name Mary Mahoney, the porting request is rejected.
ref:
2011, Stephen P. Olejniczak, Telecom For Dummies, page 131
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To carry, bear, or transport. See porter.
To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command.
To adapt, modify, or create a new version of, a program so that it works on a different platform.
To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one telephone service provider to another.
To transfer a voucher or subsidy from one jurisdiction to another.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
government
law |
2063 | word:
port
word_type:
noun
expansion:
port (plural ports)
forms:
form:
ports
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Port (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Old French porter, from Latin portāre (“carry”). Akin to transport, portable.
senses_examples:
text:
And of his port as meeke as is a mayde.
ref:
late 14th c., Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in Canterbury Tales, line 69
type:
quotation
text:
Those same with stately grace, and princely port / She taught to tread, when she her selfe would grace […]
ref:
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii
type:
quotation
text:
Gamers can't wait until a port of the title is released on the new system.
type:
example
text:
The latest port of the database software is the worst since we made the changeover.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making.
The manner in which a person carries himself; bearing; deportment; carriage. See also portance.
The position of a weapon when ported; a rifle position executed by throwing the weapon diagonally across the front of the body, with the right hand grasping the small of the stock and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder.
A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform from the one for which it was created; the act of this adapting.
A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an application.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
2064 | word:
port
word_type:
noun
expansion:
port (countable and uncountable, plural ports)
forms:
form:
ports
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Port (disambiguation)
Port wine
etymology_text:
Named from Portuguese Porto, a city in Portugal where the wines were originally shipped from.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal.
senses_topics:
|
2065 | word:
port
word_type:
noun
expansion:
port (plural ports)
forms:
form:
ports
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Port (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of portmanteau.
senses_examples:
text:
No, she just paid up proper-like t' the end of the week, an' orf she went with 'er port, down t' the station, I suppose.
ref:
1964, George Johnston, My Brother Jack
type:
quotation
text:
As they left the classroom, Jennifer pointed at the shelves lining the veranda. “Put your port in there.”
“What?” asked Penny.
“Your port - your school bag, silly. It goes in there.”
ref:
2001, Sally de Dear, The House on Pig Island, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
How do you think the cane toads got into this pristine environment? Joseph Midnight brought them in his port from Townsville, smuggled them in, not that anyone was there to stop him.
ref:
2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 53
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A suitcase or schoolbag.
senses_topics:
|
2066 | word:
port
word_type:
noun
expansion:
port (plural ports)
forms:
form:
ports
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Port (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of portfolio.
senses_examples:
text:
This is a logical way to order your work, but use it only if you're confident the first piece in your port is a strong one. Also note that this style of arrangement works best if all the pieces are in the same category.
ref:
2011, Debbie Rose Myers, The Graphic Designer's Guide to Portfolio Design, page 53
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The portfolio of a model or artist.
senses_topics:
|
2067 | word:
Lesotho
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lesotho
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Sotho Lesotho (“Land of the Basotho (Sotho people)”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Kingdom of Lesotho. Capital: Maseru.
senses_topics:
|
2068 | word:
NASDAQ
word_type:
name
expansion:
NASDAQ
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
If you'd been using your approach a year ago, the list of A-rated funds for the preceding year—indeed, even for the preceding five years—would be loaded with funds invested in what the bizbabble channels call "the tech-heavy NASDAQ" (it's gotten to sound sort of like Homer's "wine-dark sea" and "rosy-fingered dawn" to me).
ref:
2001, Erwin S. Strauss, The Connection, issues 248–254
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Nasdaq.
senses_topics:
|
2069 | word:
Burma
word_type:
name
expansion:
Burma
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma); see Myanmar for more.
senses_examples:
text:
The province of Yunnan lies in the extreme southwest of the Empire, its southern and western borders forming the northern frontiers of Tongking and Burma respectively. On the north it is bordered by Szechuan, and on the east by Kweichau and Kwangsi. It is the third largest province of the Empire, its area measuring 122,000 square miles, but, as elsewhere remarked, owing to the devastatations of the Mohammedan rebellion and ensuing plague, its population has been greatly reduced, and now is not more than 6,000,000. Yet its mineral wealth is greater and more varied than that of any other province. Its capital is Yunnan, between which town and Burma a considerable trade is carried on.
ref:
1898, Archibald R. Colquhoun, “The Geographical Question”, in China in Transformation, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Capital: Naypyidaw. Officially known as Myanmar.
senses_topics:
|
2070 | word:
rupophobia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rupophobia (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly from Ancient Greek ῥύπος (rhúpos, “filth”) + -phobia (See rhypophobia). Alternatively, related to Latin rupes (“cliff, rock”).
senses_examples:
text:
Patients with rupophobia, the fear of dirt, are at times encountered by the dermatologist. Some of these patients present a traumatic dermatitis, or a self inflicted lesion of the skin.
ref:
1925, Transactions of the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology of the American Medical Association at the Annual Session, page 189
type:
quotation
text:
In fact it is known that in rupophobia there is always an obsessional component.
ref:
1983, Neuropsychobiology, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
Today we see the triumph of hyper-hygiene, a sort of rupophobia. In a consumerist and fetishist way, this prescribes appearance, aesthetics, and narcissism.
ref:
2022, Cosimo Schinaia, Psychoanalysis and Ecology, page 65
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fear of rubbish or dirt.
senses_topics:
|
2071 | word:
slow
word_type:
adj
expansion:
slow (comparative slower, superlative slowest)
forms:
form:
slower
tags:
comparative
form:
slowest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
slow
etymology_text:
From Middle English slow, slaw, from Old English slāw (“sluggish, inert, slothful, late, tardy, torpid, slow”), from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt, dull, faint, weak, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”). Cognate with Scots slaw (“slow”), West Frisian sleau (“slow, dull, lazy”), Dutch sleeuw (“blunt, dull”), Low German slee (“dull, sluggish”), German schlehe, schleh (“dull, exhausted, faint”), Danish sløv (“dull, torpid, drowsy”), Swedish slö (“slack, lazy”), Icelandic sljór (“dim-witted, slow”).
senses_examples:
text:
a slow train; a slow computer
type:
example
text:
Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
ref:
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
ref:
2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
Hey, don't yell at Homer, just because he's a little slow.
ref:
1994, Greg Daniels, “Secrets of a Successful Marriage”, in The Simpsons, season 5, episode 22, spoken by Carl (Hank Azaria)
type:
quotation
text:
Experienced classroom teachers are well acquainted with the attention-seeker, the shy girl, the aggressive boy, the poor concentrator, the slow student […]
ref:
1960, Dissertation Abstracts, volume 20, page 4007
type:
quotation
text:
And even after the emotional cast comes off, we need to be slow about getting deeply involved in a relationship again
ref:
1999, Brian Paul Kaufman, K. Winston Caine, Prayer, Faith, and Healing: Cure Your Body, Heal Your Mind and Restore Your Soul
type:
quotation
text:
That clock is slow.
type:
example
text:
It was a slow news day, so the editor asked us to make our articles wordier.
type:
example
text:
I'm just sitting here with a desk of cards, enjoying a slow afternoon.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
Not busy; lacking activity.
senses_topics:
|
2072 | word:
slow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slow (third-person singular simple present slows, present participle slowing, simple past and past participle slowed)
forms:
form:
slows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
slowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
slowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
slowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
slow
etymology_text:
From Middle English slow, slaw, from Old English slāw (“sluggish, inert, slothful, late, tardy, torpid, slow”), from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt, dull, faint, weak, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”). Cognate with Scots slaw (“slow”), West Frisian sleau (“slow, dull, lazy”), Dutch sleeuw (“blunt, dull”), Low German slee (“dull, sluggish”), German schlehe, schleh (“dull, exhausted, faint”), Danish sløv (“dull, torpid, drowsy”), Swedish slö (“slack, lazy”), Icelandic sljór (“dim-witted, slow”).
senses_examples:
text:
slow the process
type:
example
text:
slow the traffic
type:
example
text:
After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.
ref:
2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time
type:
quotation
text:
As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: "Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? Where's the mail?" Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon.
ref:
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
senses_topics:
|
2073 | word:
slow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slow (plural slows)
forms:
form:
slows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
slow
etymology_text:
From Middle English slow, slaw, from Old English slāw (“sluggish, inert, slothful, late, tardy, torpid, slow”), from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt, dull, faint, weak, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”). Cognate with Scots slaw (“slow”), West Frisian sleau (“slow, dull, lazy”), Dutch sleeuw (“blunt, dull”), Low German slee (“dull, sluggish”), German schlehe, schleh (“dull, exhausted, faint”), Danish sløv (“dull, torpid, drowsy”), Swedish slö (“slack, lazy”), Icelandic sljór (“dim-witted, slow”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
A slow song.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
2074 | word:
slow
word_type:
adv
expansion:
slow (comparative slower, superlative slowest)
forms:
form:
slower
tags:
comparative
form:
slowest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
slow
etymology_text:
From Middle English slow, slaw, from Old English slāw (“sluggish, inert, slothful, late, tardy, torpid, slow”), from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt, dull, faint, weak, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”). Cognate with Scots slaw (“slow”), West Frisian sleau (“slow, dull, lazy”), Dutch sleeuw (“blunt, dull”), Low German slee (“dull, sluggish”), German schlehe, schleh (“dull, exhausted, faint”), Danish sløv (“dull, torpid, drowsy”), Swedish slö (“slack, lazy”), Icelandic sljór (“dim-witted, slow”).
senses_examples:
text:
That clock is running slow.
type:
example
text:
I want to dance with you nice and slow
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Slowly.
senses_topics:
|
2075 | word:
efficacy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
efficacy (usually uncountable, plural efficacies)
forms:
form:
efficacies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French efficace, from Late Latin efficācia (“efficacy”), from efficāx (“efficacious”); see efficacious.
senses_examples:
text:
[…]and this hath even made me ſuſpect the efficacy of reliques, to examine the bones, queſtion the habits and appurtenances of Saints, and even of Chriſt himſelf.
ref:
1642, Sir Thomas Browne, “Religio Medici [The Religion of a Doctor]”, in The Works Of the Learned Sr Thomas Brown, Kt., London: Tho. Basset et al., published 1686, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
No method of verification known to science is applicable to the efficacy of prayer. […] If, then, the efficacy of prayer eludes the test of science, and if even uncertainty may rest upon the connection between an event asked in prayer, and the prayer that sought it, is there any evidence by which the efficacy of prayer may be tested and known?
ref:
1875, Rev. Professor Wallace, “Prayer in Relation to Natural Law”, in Science and Revelation, Belfast: William Mullan, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
2005, Flay et al. Standards of Evidence: Criteria for Efficacy, Effectiveness and Dissemination DOI: 10.1007/s11121-005-5553-y
Efficacy refers to the beneficial effects of a program or policy under optimal conditions of delivery, whereas effectiveness refers to effects of a program or policy under more real-world conditions.
text:
Toothbrush with improved efficacy
ref:
1996, Moskovich, Patent application PCT/US1996/003658
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ability to produce a desired effect under ideal testing conditions.
Degree of ability to produce a desired effect; effectiveness.
senses_topics:
|
2076 | word:
summer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
summer (countable and uncountable, plural summers)
forms:
form:
summers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Great Summer Army
Red Summer
Revolution Summer
Summer Archbishop's Palace
Summer Coast
Summer Garden
Summer Isles
Summer Palace (disambiguation)
Summer Paralympics
Summer of Three Popes
Summercon
Summerfest
Year Without a Summer
summer
etymology_text:
From Middle English somer, sumer, from Old English sumor (“summer”), from Proto-West Germanic *sumar, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz (“summer”), from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₂-ó-, oblique of *semh₂- (“summer, year”).
Cognate with Scots somer, sumer, simer (“summer”), West Frisian simmer (“summer”), Saterland Frisian Suumer (“summer”), Dutch zomer (“summer”), Low German Sommer (“summer”), German Sommer (“summer”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sommer (“summer”), Swedish sommar (“summer”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic sumar (“summer”), Welsh haf (“summer”), Armenian ամ (am, “year”), ամառ (amaṙ, “summer”), Sanskrit समा (sámā, “a half-year, season, weather, year”),
Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬨 (ham-, “summer”), Middle Persian ḥʾmyn (hāmīn, “summer”), Northern Kurdish havîn (“summer”), Central Kurdish ھاوین (hawîn, “summer”).
senses_examples:
text:
the heat of summer
type:
example
text:
He was barely eighteen summers old.
type:
example
text:
She had seen not more than twenty summers.
type:
example
text:
O! craving heart, for the lost flowers
And sunshine of my summer hours!
ref:
1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 21 to September 22 or 23 in parts of the USA, the months of June, July and August in the United Kingdom and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.
year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.
Most flourishing, happy, or beautiful period; golden age, prime.
Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
senses_topics:
fashion
lifestyle |
2077 | word:
summer
word_type:
verb
expansion:
summer (third-person singular simple present summers, present participle summering, simple past and past participle summered)
forms:
form:
summers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
summering
tags:
participle
present
form:
summered
tags:
participle
past
form:
summered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
summer
etymology_text:
From Middle English somer, sumer, from Old English sumor (“summer”), from Proto-West Germanic *sumar, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz (“summer”), from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₂-ó-, oblique of *semh₂- (“summer, year”).
Cognate with Scots somer, sumer, simer (“summer”), West Frisian simmer (“summer”), Saterland Frisian Suumer (“summer”), Dutch zomer (“summer”), Low German Sommer (“summer”), German Sommer (“summer”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sommer (“summer”), Swedish sommar (“summer”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic sumar (“summer”), Welsh haf (“summer”), Armenian ամ (am, “year”), ամառ (amaṙ, “summer”), Sanskrit समा (sámā, “a half-year, season, weather, year”),
Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬨 (ham-, “summer”), Middle Persian ḥʾmyn (hāmīn, “summer”), Northern Kurdish havîn (“summer”), Central Kurdish ھاوین (hawîn, “summer”).
senses_examples:
text:
We like to summer in the Mediterranean.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.
senses_topics:
|
2078 | word:
summer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
summer (plural summers)
forms:
form:
summers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
summer
etymology_text:
From Middle English somer, from Anglo-Norman summer, sumer, from Vulgar Latin saumārius, for Late Latin sagmārius, from Latin sagma (“sum”). Compare sumpter.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A horizontal beam supporting a building.
A pack-horse.
senses_topics:
architecture
|
2079 | word:
summer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
summer (plural summers)
forms:
form:
summers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
summer
etymology_text:
From sum + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
A basic feedback system consists of ... and a summing point (comparator or summer).
ref:
2014, Michael R. Lindeburg, chapter 48, in FE Mechanical Review Manual, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
The output of the summer is therefore fed into the input of the first integrator.
ref:
2016, George H. Olsen, Ian Burdess, Computers and Microprocessors: Made Simple, page 36
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who sums.
A machine or algorithm that sums.
senses_topics:
|
2080 | word:
summer
word_type:
adj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
senses_topics:
|
2081 | word:
Montserrat
word_type:
name
expansion:
Montserrat
forms:
wikipedia:
Montserrat
Virgin of Montserrat
etymology_text:
From Catalan Montserrat. The island was named after the Virgin of Montserrat.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean. Official name: Montserrat.
A mountain range in Catalonia, Spain, near Barcelona, the site of a monastery.
senses_topics:
|
2082 | word:
yeti
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yeti (plural yeti or yetis)
forms:
form:
yeti
tags:
plural
form:
yetis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).
senses_examples:
text:
There is no doubt that the Sherpas accept the fact that the Yeti really exists. But then they believe just as confidently that their gods live in comfort on the summit of Mount Everest. We found it quite impossible to divorce the Yeti from the supernatural.
ref:
1962, Edmund Hillary, Desmond Doig, “Into the Mingbo Valley”, in High in the Thin Cold Air: The Story of the Himalayan Expedition, led by Sir Edmund Hillary, sponsored by World Book Encyclopedia, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 131
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.
senses_topics:
biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology |
2083 | word:
Sierra Leone
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sierra Leone
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Spanish sierra (“mountain”) + leona (“lioness”), from Portuguese Serra Leoa, in the reference to the Lion Mountains (named by Pedro de Sintra in 1462).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Sierra Leone.
senses_topics:
|
2084 | word:
Albania
word_type:
name
expansion:
Albania
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Medieval Latin Albānia, from Byzantine Greek Ἀλβανία (Albanía).
senses_examples:
text:
However, word-final unstressed schwa is deleted even by the speakers from South Albania, though to different degrees and dependant on the speech style[…]
ref:
2006 April 27, Sylvia Moosmüller, Theodor Granser, “The spread of Standard Albanian: An illustration based on an analysis of vowels”, in Language Variation and Change, volume 18, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Albania. Capital and largest city: Tirana.
senses_topics:
|
2085 | word:
Albania
word_type:
name
expansion:
Albania
forms:
wikipedia:
Caucasian Albania
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Ἀλβανία (Albanía).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Caucasian Albania.
senses_topics:
|
2086 | word:
te
word_type:
noun
expansion:
te (plural tes)
forms:
form:
tes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
te
etymology_text:
Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter, to become ti; the vowel was then changed to 'e' to signify a flattened note.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): ta.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
2087 | word:
te
word_type:
noun
expansion:
te (plural tes)
forms:
form:
tes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
te
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Unspecified script letter Т / т.
senses_topics:
|
2088 | word:
presidente
word_type:
noun
expansion:
presidente (plural presidentes)
forms:
form:
presidentes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish presidente (“president”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cocktail made from rum, curaçao, dry vermouth, and grenadine that is stirred or shaken with cracked ice.
senses_topics:
|
2089 | word:
Croatia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Croatia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Medieval Latin Croātia, equivalent to modern Croat + -ia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Croatia. Capital and largest city: Zagreb. Part of Yugoslavia until 1991.
senses_topics:
|
2090 | word:
deoxyribonucleic acid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
deoxyribonucleic acid (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Meronym: nucleotide
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nucleic acid found in all living things (and some non-living things such as certain viruses) which consists of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix; encoded in its structure are genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction.
senses_topics:
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
2091 | word:
Puerto Rico
word_type:
name
expansion:
Puerto Rico
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish Puerto Rico (literally “Rich Port”). In US English, the name is commonly pronounced and was formerly spelled Porto Rico; many other Spanish Puerto placenames were formerly also anglicized to Porto.
senses_examples:
text:
The indigenous Taíno name for the island of Puerto Rico was 'Borikén', which literally means "Land of the Valiant Lord".
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A self-governing commonwealth and dependent territory of the United States in the Caribbean.
The island comprising most of that territory.
senses_topics:
|
2092 | word:
India
word_type:
name
expansion:
India (plural Indias)
forms:
form:
Indias
head_nr:
1
tags:
plural
form:
Synonyms: Hindiyyah
head_nr:
2
tags:
canonical
form:
Hindustan
head_nr:
2
tags:
canonical
form:
Bharat
head_nr:
2
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
Indian reunification
etymology_text:
Inherited from Old English India, Indea, from Latin India, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós, “Indus river”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿdūš), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”).
Compare Middle English Inde and Ynde from Old French Ynde (original form started to prevail in the 16th century), Classical Persian هند (hind, “India”), Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “a river, stream”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in South Asia. Official name: Republic of India. Capital: New Delhi.
A region of South Asia, traditionally delimited by the Himalayas and the Indus river; the Indian subcontinent.
A territory of the British Empire, chiefly comprising the modern day countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Burma.
A female given name
senses_topics:
|
2093 | word:
Kazakhstan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kazakhstan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Russian Казахста́н (Kazaxstán). Analyzable as Kazakh + -stan.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Kazakhstan.
senses_topics:
|
2094 | word:
ID
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ID (countable and uncountable, plural IDs)
forms:
form:
IDs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Show me your ID.
type:
example
text:
If not done at the top of the hour, however, the station ID should come at the next possible break in the programme.
ref:
2015, Simran Kohli, The Radio Jockey Hand Book, page 93
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of identification / identifier / identity document.
An electronic music track without an official title.
An ident.
Initialism of image description.
Initialism of intellectual disability.
Initialism of intelligent design.
Initialism of industrial design.
Initialism of inside diameter or inner diameter or internal diameter.
Initialism of industry discount.
Initialism of iron deficiency.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
broadcasting
media
radio
television
|
2095 | word:
ID
word_type:
name
expansion:
ID
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Idaho.
senses_topics:
|
2096 | word:
ID
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ID (third-person singular simple present IDs or ID's, present participle IDing or ID'ing, simple past and past participle IDed or ID'ed or ID'd)
forms:
form:
IDs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ID's
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
IDing
tags:
participle
present
form:
ID'ing
tags:
participle
present
form:
IDed
tags:
participle
past
form:
IDed
tags:
past
form:
ID'ed
tags:
participle
past
form:
ID'ed
tags:
past
form:
ID'd
tags:
participle
past
form:
ID'd
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Police have been unable to ID the body found in the river.
type:
example
text:
The bartender will have to ID you before serving you a drink.
type:
example
text:
Anyway, Margiotti found the guard and showed him the picture. He ID'ed it. Sort of. It was dark.
ref:
2007, Jane Haddam, Conspiracy Theory: A Gregor Demarkian Novel
type:
quotation
text:
I have one black grandfather, but I don't ID as mixed race
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To identify (an object, etc.).
To request to see a person’s identification for proof of identity or age.
To identify (as something)
senses_topics:
|
2097 | word:
ID
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ID (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of intellectually disabled.
senses_topics:
|
2098 | word:
Jacobian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Jacobian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
etymology_text:
From Jacobi + -an, after Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, a German mathematician of the 19th century.
senses_examples:
text:
The Jacobian matrix has partial derivatives as its entries.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to specify certain mathematical objects named in honour of C. G. J. Jacobi.
senses_topics:
|
2099 | word:
Jacobian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Jacobian (plural Jacobians)
forms:
form:
Jacobians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
etymology_text:
From Jacobi + -an, after Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, a German mathematician of the 19th century.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Jacobian matrix or its associated operator.
The determinant of such a matrix.
senses_topics:
calculus
mathematics
sciences
calculus
mathematics
sciences |
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