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2100 | word:
Jacobian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Jacobian (comparative more Jacobian, superlative most Jacobian)
forms:
form:
more Jacobian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Jacobian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Jacob + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the biblical Jacob.
senses_topics:
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2101 | word:
web browser
word_type:
noun
expansion:
web browser (plural web browsers)
forms:
form:
web browsers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A computer program used to navigate the World Wide Web, chiefly by viewing web pages and following hyperlinks.
senses_topics:
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2102 | word:
IOC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
IOC (countable and uncountable, plural IOCs)
forms:
form:
IOCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:IOC (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of interoffice communication.
Initialism of initial operating capability.
Initialism of indicator of compromise.
Initialism of Italian organized crime.
Initialism of international oil company.
senses_topics:
business
government
military
politics
war
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2103 | word:
IOC
word_type:
adj
expansion:
IOC (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
en:IOC (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of immediate or cancel.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
2104 | word:
IOC
word_type:
name
expansion:
IOC
forms:
wikipedia:
en:IOC (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of International Olympic Committee.
Initialism of International Ornithological Committee. (now known as International Ornithologists' Union)
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology |
2105 | word:
maskin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maskin (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
18th-century. Etymology unknown.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Coal.
senses_topics:
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2106 | word:
maskin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maskin (plural maskins)
forms:
form:
maskins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mass + -kin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mass.
senses_topics:
Christianity |
2107 | word:
maskin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maskin (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A molecule that binds to CPE (cytoplasmic polyadenylation element) and thus affects the translation of mRNA in dictyate.
senses_topics:
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
2108 | word:
smalls
word_type:
noun
expansion:
smalls pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From small.
senses_examples:
text:
He's in the garden hanging his smalls on the washing line.
type:
example
text:
The smalls he was wearing were tight.
type:
example
text:
Unkempt, bearded to the eyes, there he stood clutching his shapeless old cabbage-tree, in mud-stained jumper and threadbare smalls—the very spit of the unsuccessful digger.
ref:
1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix, Echo Library, published 2007, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
[…]there are also some great B&Bs and guesthouses where you can unpack a toothbrush and fresh set of smalls for the morning.
ref:
2008, Donna Wheeler, Melbourne & Victoria City Guide, Lonely Planet, page 198
type:
quotation
text:
They billowed in the sticky summer breeze, curved and enormous like the sails of the Sydney Opera House.
Just when did my smalls become so impossibly large?
ref:
2008, Shauna Reid, The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
He reassured another questioner that B.R. were still deeply interested in smalls traffic, but said that there would have to be substantial changes in the mode of operation and that concentration of the traffic was essential.
ref:
1963 December, “News and Comment: Smalls rates to be increased?”, in Modern Railways, page 364
type:
quotation
text:
You see, Miss Dodd, an university examination consists of several items: neglect but one, and Crichton himself would be ploughed; because brilliancy in your other papers is not allowed to count; that is how the most distinguished man of our day got ploughed for Smalls.
ref:
1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash
type:
quotation
text:
Provincial English papers still carry their “smalls” — want ads — on the first page.
ref:
1957, Morton J. A. McDonald, How to Use Classified Advertising to Sell More Real Estate, page 21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Underwear.
Small goods.
The preliminary examination for a degree.
Short for small ads.
senses_topics:
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2109 | word:
smalls
word_type:
noun
expansion:
smalls
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of small
senses_topics:
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2110 | word:
smalls
word_type:
verb
expansion:
smalls
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of small
senses_topics:
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2111 | word:
Vatican City
word_type:
name
expansion:
Vatican City
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Italian Città del Vaticano, from Latin Cīvitās Vāticāna (“Vatican City”), referring to the Vatican hill, ultimately from vāticinor (“I prophesy”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city-state in Southern Europe, an enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. Official name: Vatican City State.
senses_topics:
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2112 | word:
Burkina Faso
word_type:
name
expansion:
Burkina Faso
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Moore burkĩna (“honest”) + Dyula faso (“father's house”), coined by Thomas Sankara.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta. Official name: Burkina Faso.
senses_topics:
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2113 | word:
disease
word_type:
noun
expansion:
disease (countable and uncountable, plural diseases)
forms:
form:
diseases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
disease
etymology_text:
From Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, disaise, from Old French desaise, from des- + aise. Displaced native Middle English adle, audle (“disease”) (from Old English ādl (“disease, sickness”), see adle), Middle English cothe, coathe (“disease”) (from Old English coþu (“disease”), see coath). By surface analysis, dis- + ease.
senses_examples:
text:
The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.
type:
example
text:
The instability, injustice, and confusion, introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished; […]
ref:
November 22, 1787, James Madison Jr., Federalist No. 10
text:
[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes […] And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases.
ref:
1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, →OL
type:
quotation
text:
Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
ref:
2012 March 24, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.
ref:
1955, The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
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2114 | word:
disease
word_type:
verb
expansion:
disease (third-person singular simple present diseases, present participle diseasing, simple past and past participle diseased)
forms:
form:
diseases
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
diseasing
tags:
participle
present
form:
diseased
tags:
participle
past
form:
diseased
tags:
past
wikipedia:
disease
etymology_text:
From Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, disaise, from Old French desaise, from des- + aise. Displaced native Middle English adle, audle (“disease”) (from Old English ādl (“disease, sickness”), see adle), Middle English cothe, coathe (“disease”) (from Old English coþu (“disease”), see coath). By surface analysis, dis- + ease.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
To infect with a disease.
senses_topics:
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2115 | word:
HIV
word_type:
noun
expansion:
HIV (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of human immunodeficiency virus.
Initialism of header isolation valve.
Initialism of helium isolation valve.
Initialism of hydraulic isolation valve.
senses_topics:
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
2116 | word:
Algerian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Algerian (plural Algerians)
forms:
form:
Algerians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Algeria + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Algeria or of Algerian descent.
senses_topics:
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2117 | word:
Algerian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Algerian (comparative more Algerian, superlative most Algerian)
forms:
form:
more Algerian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Algerian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Algeria + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Algeria or the Algerian people.
senses_topics:
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2118 | word:
Cayman Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cayman Islands
forms:
wikipedia:
Cayman Islands
etymology_text:
From Spanish Caymanes, variant of earlier Spanish Lagartos in reference to the early prevalence of marine and freshwater crocodiles on the islands. Spanish caimán and Portuguese caimão are of uncertain etymology, being variously attributed to Taíno kaimán, Kari'na acayouman, and Kongo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Three islands in the Caribbean Sea constituting an overseas territory of the United Kingdom.
offshore bank accounts based in the Cayman Islands.
tax havens
senses_topics:
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2119 | word:
fy
word_type:
intj
expansion:
fy
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"O fy, Andrew, how can ye say sae? How can ye doubt that it was in the Almighty's name?"
ref:
1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic form of fie.
senses_topics:
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2120 | word:
Costa Rica
word_type:
name
expansion:
Costa Rica
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish Costa Rica (“rich coast”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Costa Rica.
senses_topics:
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2121 | word:
QED
word_type:
noun
expansion:
QED (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From q(uantum) e(lectro)d(ynamics).
senses_examples:
text:
QCD is a theory of quark interactions much analogous to QED: the interaction is carried by "gluons" (analogous to photons) which couple to the "color" (analogous to charge) of the quarks.
ref:
1980 January, W. B. Atwood, “Lepton Nucleon Scattering”, in Ann Mosher, editor, Proceedings of Summer Institute on Particle Physics: July 9–20, 1979: Quantum Chromodynamics (SLAC Report), Springfield, Va.: National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, →OCLC, part I (Lectures), section 3.1 (The General Scheme), page 26, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
By the way, these days QED is considered a relatively simple example of a quantum field theory.
ref:
2006, A[nthony] Zee, “Introduction to the 2006 Edition”, in Richard P[hillips] Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Princeton Science Library), Princeton, N.J., Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, page xii
type:
quotation
text:
QED is the theory that explains how electrically charged particles, like electrons, interact with each other and with particles of light (photons). […] Pretty much everything else – certainly everything you see and feel around you – is explained at the deepest known level by QED. Matter, light, electricity and magnetism – it is all QED.
ref:
2011, Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, “Interaction”, in The Quantum Universe: Everything that Can Happen Does Happen, London: Allen Lane, page 176
type:
quotation
text:
Finally, there is still plenty of room to employ and apply QED theory for predictive purposes, by proposing new phenomena, especially within the realm of photonics, thereby ensuring QED remains relevant to current and future generations of researchers working in chemical physics.
ref:
2015, Abdus Salam, “Quantum Electrodynamics”, in David L. Andrews, editor, Photonics: Scientific Foundations, Technology and Applications: Fundamentals of Photonics and Physics, volume I, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, section 8.10 (Resonance Energy Transfer), page 271
type:
quotation
text:
The aim of this work is essentially twofold: to establish the conception and thus model of a 'unitary universal cohesive field' from 'first principles' within which existing theories, primarily QED and the foundation of its approach, may be understood both in principle and therefore from any abstruse mathematical perspective extrapolated from it; […]
ref:
2018, James Everitt, “The Aim and Approach”, in A Wave Theory of Universal Resonance: The Physical Basis of Quantum Electro-dynamics in the Cohesive Mechanics of a Unitary Universal Field, volume 1, [Munich, Bavaria]: GRIN Verlag, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
Although his own early work on QED helped bring photons and electrons into a consistent framework, Dr. Dyson doubted that superstrings, or anything else, would lead to a Theory of Everything, unifying all of physics with a succinct formulation inscribable on a T-shirt.
ref:
2020 February 28, George Johnson, “Freeman Dyson, Math Genius Turned Technological Visionary, Dies at 96”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
(Partial) initialism of quantum electrodynamics.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
2122 | word:
QED
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
QED
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See Q.E.D.
senses_examples:
text:
[A]fter the ſame manner S and U are proved to be equal, therefore the ſquare of CB is equal to the ſquare of the 2 other ſides QED.
ref:
1684 August 30, Mr. Ash, “A New and Easy Way of Demonstrating Some Propositions in Euclid”, in Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume XIV, number 162, London: Printed by T. R. for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society; […], →OCLC, page 674
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Q.E.D. (“initialism of quod erat demonstrandum”)
senses_topics:
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2123 | word:
Benin
word_type:
name
expansion:
Benin
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Benim, from Itsekiri Ubinu, from Yoruba ile ibinu (“house of vexation”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in West Africa, formerly Dahomey.
People's Republic of Benin, from 1975 to 1990
A country in West Africa, formerly Dahomey.
Republic of Benin, since 1990
A historical kingdom in West Africa, in present-day Nigeria.
senses_topics:
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2124 | word:
shuttle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shuttle (plural shuttles)
forms:
form:
shuttles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Shuttle
etymology_text:
From a merger of two words:
* Middle English shutel, shotel, schetel, schettell, schyttyl, scutel (“bar; bolt”), from Old English sċyttel, sċutel (“bar; bolt”), equivalent to shut + -le
* Middle English shutel, schetil, shotil, shetel, schootyll, shutyll, schytle, scytyl (“missile; projectile; spear”), from Old English sċytel, sċutel (“dart, arrow”), from Proto-Germanic *skutilaz.
The name for a loom weaving instrument, recorded from 1338, is from a sense of being "shot" across the threads. The back-and-forth imagery inspired the extension to "passenger trains" in 1895, aircraft in 1942, and spacecraft in 1969, as well as older terms such as shuttlecock.
senses_examples:
text:
Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide
My feather'd hours, and all my hopes deride!.
ref:
1638, George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon Job
type:
quotation
text:
By placing the sword edgewise, the weaver keeps the countershed open, in order to shoot through the shuttle.
ref:
2013 November 11, Claus-Dieter Brauns, “Food and Clothing”, in Mru: Hill People on the Border of Bangladesh, Basel: Birkhäuser, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
The shuttle bus runs to the airport on a half-hourly basis from the central station.
type:
example
text:
And until December 2010 the northern stretch of the 'Extension' featured a charming side-show: the Chesham Shuttle. [...] But the people of Chesham moaned about the shuttle: the waiting room at Chalfont & Latimer was too hot, or too cold; there were leaves on the line. [...] On 12 Dec 2010 the shuttle ceased operations and Metropolitan trains began to terminate at both Amersham and Chesham.
ref:
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, pages 76, 77
type:
quotation
text:
You're saying we take the parking shuttles, reinforce them with aluminum siding and then head to the gun store where our friend Andy plays some cowboy-movie, jump-on-the-wagon bullshit.
ref:
2004, Dawn of the Dead, 1:14:20
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.
A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
Any other item that moves repeatedly back and forth between two positions, possibly transporting something else with it between those points (such as, in chemistry, a molecular shuttle).
A shuttlecock.
A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
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2125 | word:
shuttle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shuttle (third-person singular simple present shuttles, present participle shuttling, simple past and past participle shuttled)
forms:
form:
shuttles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shuttling
tags:
participle
present
form:
shuttled
tags:
participle
past
form:
shuttled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Shuttle
etymology_text:
From a merger of two words:
* Middle English shutel, shotel, schetel, schettell, schyttyl, scutel (“bar; bolt”), from Old English sċyttel, sċutel (“bar; bolt”), equivalent to shut + -le
* Middle English shutel, schetil, shotil, shetel, schootyll, shutyll, schytle, scytyl (“missile; projectile; spear”), from Old English sċytel, sċutel (“dart, arrow”), from Proto-Germanic *skutilaz.
The name for a loom weaving instrument, recorded from 1338, is from a sense of being "shot" across the threads. The back-and-forth imagery inspired the extension to "passenger trains" in 1895, aircraft in 1942, and spacecraft in 1969, as well as older terms such as shuttlecock.
senses_examples:
text:
On several occasions during the next several months my attempts to see the logs were met alternately with this denial of their existence or a denial of my right to see them. After being shuttled from station to headquarters and headquarters to station, I finally consulted with GCNs attorney, John Ward.
ref:
1982 April 24, Larry Goldsmith, “Freedom of Information: A Heterosexual Privilege?”, in Gay Community News, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Guests can be shuttled to a from the hotel for no extra cost.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To go or send back and forth between two places.
To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
senses_topics:
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2126 | word:
turkey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
turkey (plural turkeys or (obsolete) turkies)
forms:
form:
turkeys
tags:
plural
form:
turkies
tags:
obsolete
plural
wikipedia:
Sabi Sand Game Reserve
etymology_text:
Clipping of turkey-cock and turkey-hen (“(originally) the guinea fowl (family Numididae)”), which was imported to Europe by Turkey merchants through Turkey. The word was then applied to the larger northern American bird Meleagris gallopavo which was brought to Spain by conquistadors in 1523. This transfer of the name may have occurred because the two birds were considered similar to each other, or because the North American turkey was in part introduced through Ottoman territories, or simply to indicate that it was foreign.
senses_examples:
text:
All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.
type:
example
text:
Mumford (1970) noted that the terms ‘crock’, ‘gomer’, and ‘turkey’, were sometimes utilized by interns to designate different types of undesirable patients, and sometimes used synonymously.]
ref:
[1976, Stephen Charles Frankel, Emergency Medical Care in an Urban Area (Ph.D. dissertation in Anthropology), Berkeley, Calif.: University of California, Berkeley, →OCLC, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
That film was a turkey.
type:
example
text:
And despite the gross incompetence of Hemmings' direction, the ludicrous script, and the heavy-handed acting, there remains a stellar reason to see and enjoy Just a Gigolo: David Bowie. David Bowie is a great actor, and not even this turkey can obscure that fact.
ref:
1981 August 8, Rob Schmieder, “Starring Bowie and Berlin”, in Gay Community News, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
There were a few turkeys. In the rush to present a futuristic vision, the railways' heritage was largely forgotten and we ended up with new stations at Euston and at Coventry, its brash sidekick which I particularly loathe, although (of course) it won design awards.
ref:
2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
The turkey cut in front of me and then berated me for running into him.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated).
The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).
An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
A pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase.
A failure.
A foolish or inept person.
A prostitute.
senses_topics:
bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
medicine
sciences
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2127 | word:
Portugal
word_type:
name
expansion:
Portugal
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portucale < Portus Cale (former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia), from portus + Callus, which is disputed:
* From the name of the Gallaeci, a Celtic tribe of Iberia.
* From Latin calidus (“warm”).
* From Ancient Greek Καλλίς (Kallís, “Beautiful”), referring to the Douro valley; see καλός (kalós, “beautiful”).
* An Iberian pronunciation of Ancient Greek Γαῖα (Gaîa, “goddess of the Earth”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula. Official name: Portuguese Republic. Capital and largest city: Lisbon.
senses_topics:
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2128 | word:
Portugal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Portugal (plural Portugals)
forms:
form:
Portugals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portucale < Portus Cale (former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia), from portus + Callus, which is disputed:
* From the name of the Gallaeci, a Celtic tribe of Iberia.
* From Latin calidus (“warm”).
* From Ancient Greek Καλλίς (Kallís, “Beautiful”), referring to the Douro valley; see καλός (kalós, “beautiful”).
* An Iberian pronunciation of Ancient Greek Γαῖα (Gaîa, “goddess of the Earth”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Portuguese person.
senses_topics:
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2129 | word:
bone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bone (countable and uncountable, plural bones)
forms:
form:
bones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bone
etymology_text:
From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, strike, beat”).
Cognate with Scots bane, been, bean, bein, bain (“bone”), North Frisian bien (“bone”), West Frisian bien (“bone”), Dutch been (“bone; leg”), German Low German Been, Bein (“bone”), German Bein (“leg”), German Gebein (“bones”), Swedish ben (“bone; leg”), Norwegian and Icelandic bein (“bone”), Breton benañ (“to cut, hew”), Latin perfinēs (“break through, break into pieces, shatter”), Avestan 𐬠𐬫𐬈𐬥𐬙𐬈 (byente, “they fight, hit”). Related also to Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”) (whence Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), Scots bein, bien (“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”)), Icelandic beinn (“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegian bein (“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See bain, bein.
senses_examples:
text:
Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
ref:
a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
The reason I rarely fish for Mag Bay bones with a 5-weight or 6-weight is the number of fish that can turn light stuff inside out.
ref:
2019, Scott Sadil, “Tres Bocas”, in California Fly Fisher
type:
quotation
text:
bone:
text:
Speakin' on the phone, for hours on end / On the bone from just listenin', and then:
ref:
2003, “Let Me Watch”, in Vaudeville Villain, performed by Viktor Vaughn ft. Apani B. Fly
type:
quotation
text:
Let's head to the casino and roll them bones!
type:
example
text:
In between sets I took her outside, sat against a fence near the dumpster, and smoked a bone with her.
ref:
2006, Sean Conway, Gillis Huckabee, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
When I'm a good dog they sometimes throw me a bone in
ref:
1979, Pink Floyd, Nobody Home
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
A bonefish.
One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
The framework of anything.
An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
A dollar.
The wishbone formation.
An erect penis; a boner.
A domino or die.
A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
A reward.
senses_topics:
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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2130 | word:
bone
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bone (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
bone
etymology_text:
From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, strike, beat”).
Cognate with Scots bane, been, bean, bein, bain (“bone”), North Frisian bien (“bone”), West Frisian bien (“bone”), Dutch been (“bone; leg”), German Low German Been, Bein (“bone”), German Bein (“leg”), German Gebein (“bones”), Swedish ben (“bone; leg”), Norwegian and Icelandic bein (“bone”), Breton benañ (“to cut, hew”), Latin perfinēs (“break through, break into pieces, shatter”), Avestan 𐬠𐬫𐬈𐬥𐬙𐬈 (byente, “they fight, hit”). Related also to Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”) (whence Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), Scots bein, bien (“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”)), Icelandic beinn (“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegian bein (“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See bain, bein.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
senses_topics:
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2131 | word:
bone
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)
forms:
form:
bones
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
boning
tags:
participle
present
form:
boned
tags:
participle
past
form:
boned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bone
etymology_text:
From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, strike, beat”).
Cognate with Scots bane, been, bean, bein, bain (“bone”), North Frisian bien (“bone”), West Frisian bien (“bone”), Dutch been (“bone; leg”), German Low German Been, Bein (“bone”), German Bein (“leg”), German Gebein (“bones”), Swedish ben (“bone; leg”), Norwegian and Icelandic bein (“bone”), Breton benañ (“to cut, hew”), Latin perfinēs (“break through, break into pieces, shatter”), Avestan 𐬠𐬫𐬈𐬥𐬙𐬈 (byente, “they fight, hit”). Related also to Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”) (whence Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), Scots bein, bien (“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”)), Icelandic beinn (“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegian bein (“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See bain, bein.
senses_examples:
text:
One of the fish stalls specialized in boning shad, and he who has never eaten a boned shad baked twenty minutes on a hot oak plank has been deprived of the most delicious morsel that the ocean yields.
ref:
1949, Kenneth Lewis Roberts, I Wanted to Write, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which is boned, stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle. The term ballottine should strictly apply only to meat, boned and rolled, but not stuffed.
ref:
1977, Prosper Montagné, Charlotte Snyder Turgeon, The New Larousse Gastronomique, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
Then it is boned; keeping the bone in during cooking improves the flavour and enriches the meat with calcium.
ref:
2009, Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, A History of Food, page 379
type:
quotation
text:
Other fish suited to boning through the back include small bluefish, Arctic char, steelhead salmon, salmon, small wild striped bass, hybrid striped bass, Whitefish, drum, trout, and sea trout.
ref:
2011, Aliza Green, Steve Legato, The Fishmonger's Apprentice, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
He cites an instance of land heavily boned 70 years ago as “still markedly luxuriant beyond any other grass land in the same district.”
ref:
1859 July 9, The Economist, page 758
type:
quotation
text:
Having my stays very fully boned and fitted with shoulder-straps.
ref:
1871, Figure-Training
type:
quotation
text:
boning rod
type:
example
text:
We’re bonin’ on the dark blocks / Wearin’ out the shocks, wettin’ up the dashboard clock
ref:
1993, “Back Seat (of My Jeep)”, in 14 Shots to the Dome, performed by LL Cool J
type:
quotation
text:
Stash in the buildin wit this chick named Alona / From Daytona, when I was young I wants to bone her
ref:
1997, “It's All About the Benjamins”, in No Way Out, performed by Puff Daddy
type:
quotation
text:
[…]These cats stay rapping about cars they don't own / I am sick of rappers bragging about models they don't bone
ref:
2006, “Sick of it all”, in Masta Ace (lyrics), Pariah
type:
quotation
text:
When we return we'll find out which one of our six remaining contestants' dreams will be totally ruined, like your mom's reputation after I bone her face.
ref:
2007, Stacey Deddo, The Elimination Special, Part II: The Elimination (Drawn Together), season 3, episode 14, spoken by The Jew Producer (James Arnold Taylor), via Comedy Central
type:
quotation
text:
I swear on the good book that if you pull through, I will bone Travis Junior.
ref:
2007, Reno Mounties (Reno 911!), season 4, episode 11, spoken by Deputy Cherisha Kimball (Mary Birdsong), via Comedy Central
type:
quotation
text:
I'd been boning French chicks for a while now and was always shocked to see how many able-bodied young white women had no qualms about being on welfare.
ref:
2012, Gavin McInnes, The Death of Cool: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood, Simon and Schuster, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
“You don’t know!”, Bony echoed. “You can tell me who boned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you can’t tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater”.
ref:
1962, Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe, Collier Books, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
bone up
type:
example
text:
“I know it. You do not study.” “What’s the use of boning all the time! I wasn’t cut out for it.”
ref:
1896, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Chums
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the permanent boning (excessive polishing) of boots by recruits […]
ref:
c. 1980, F. van Zy, SADF National Service (1979-1980), archived from the original on 2004-06-22
type:
quotation
text:
Dix Handley: Don’t bone me!
Cobby: Now look, I’m not boning you, Dix—
Dix: Did I ever welsh?
Cobby: Nobody said you did—
Dix: You just boned me!
ref:
1950, Asphalt Jungle
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
To fertilize with bone.
To put whalebone into.
To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
To have sexual intercourse (with).
To perform “bone pointing”, a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
To study.
To polish boots to a shiny finish.
To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
senses_topics:
civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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2132 | word:
bone
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)
forms:
form:
bones
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
boning
tags:
participle
present
form:
boned
tags:
participle
past
form:
boned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bone
etymology_text:
Unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.
senses_examples:
text:
“Did I?” said Squeers, “Well it was rather a startling thing for a stranger to come and recommend himself by saying that he knew all about you, and what your name was, and why you were living so quiet here, and what you had boned, and who you had boned it from.”
ref:
1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, page 127
type:
quotation
text:
[…]as long as you and I live I take it for granted that you will not suspect me of boning them. But to guard against casualties hereafter, I have asked Nicolay to write you a line saying that I have never had in my possession or custody any of the papers which you entrusted to him.
ref:
1915, William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay
type:
quotation
text:
But troll's old seat is much the same,
And the bone he boned from its owner
ref:
1936, J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Root of the Boot”, in Songs for the Philologists
type:
quotation
text:
Therefore she wants to take results that belong to other people: she wants to bone everybody else's loaf.
ref:
1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 802
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To apprehend, steal.
senses_topics:
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2133 | word:
bone
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)
forms:
form:
bones
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
boning
tags:
participle
present
form:
boned
tags:
participle
past
form:
boned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bone
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French bornoyer (“to look at with one eye, to sight”), from borgne (“one-eyed”).
senses_examples:
text:
Joiners, &c., bone their work with two straight edges.
ref:
1846, W. M. Buchanan, A Technological Dictionary, page 151
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
senses_topics:
business
carpentry
construction
geography
manufacturing
masonry
natural-sciences
surveying |
2134 | word:
bone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bone (plural bones)
forms:
form:
bones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bone
etymology_text:
Clipping of trombone
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of trombone.
senses_topics:
|
2135 | word:
absolute
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absolute (comparative more absolute or absoluter, superlative most absolute or absolutest)
forms:
form:
more absolute
tags:
comparative
form:
absoluter
tags:
comparative
form:
most absolute
tags:
superlative
form:
absolutest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested around 1380. From Middle English absolut, from Middle French absolut, from Latin absolūtus (“unconditional; unfettered; completed”), perfect passive participle of absolvō (“loosen, set free, complete”), from ab (“away”) + solvo (“to loose”). Influenced in part by Old French absolu. Compare absolve.
senses_examples:
text:
1658, Samuel Hoard, God[']s Love to Mankind, Manifested, by disprooving his absolute decree for their damnation:
type:
quotation
text:
While Americans enjoy an almost absolute freedom to name their children whatever they please, in Germany the State (as public guardian of the good of the child) restricts parents [...]
ref:
2005, Names, volume 53, page 238
type:
quotation
text:
An absolute monarch is free from all forcible restraint, and so far as he is absolute[,] from all legal restraints of positive laws.
ref:
1846, George Gillespie, The Presbyterian's Armoury
type:
quotation
text:
The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, / With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed.
ref:
1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the more absolute the ruler, the more absolute the revolution will be which replaces him.
ref:
1962, Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, published 1990, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
absolute purity, absolute liberty
type:
example
text:
Indeed, my lord, it is a most absolute and excellent horse.
ref:
1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V
type:
quotation
text:
absolute alcohol
type:
example
text:
an absolute denial of all charges
type:
example
text:
When caught, he told an absolute lie.
type:
example
text:
You're an absolute genius!
type:
example
text:
The growth and acceptance of this idea followed Amartya Sen's theory of exchange entitlements, which suggested that famines occur not from an absolute lack of food but from people's inability to obtain access to that food.
ref:
2008, Household Economy Approach, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Yet if the register is not to be absolute evidence of proprietorship, it is clear that some investigation of title would still be necessary.
ref:
1862, The Solicitors' Journal and Reporter, volume 6, page 365
type:
quotation
text:
[...] and in the absence of other signs, or when these latter are inconclusive, it is extremely useful. But it is not, under any circumstances, absolute evidence of the syphilitic nature of a given symptom or set of symptoms.
ref:
1913, International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics
type:
quotation
text:
Unless the determined lease to which the easements relate has been registered with title absolute and the easements have been entered without qualification in the register for that title, evidence must be lodged to prove [...]
ref:
2021, HM Land Registry Practice Guide 26
type:
quotation
text:
the doctrine that absolute knowledge of things is possible; an absolute principle
type:
example
text:
Absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man in a state of nature as contradistinguished from relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him in his social relations.
type:
example
text:
absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position
type:
example
text:
His experiments led him to infer that the boiling point of the substance is probably below 9 degrees absolute.
ref:
1903, Ice and Refrigeration, volume 24, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
This new absolute temperature scale (also called the Kelvin scale) employs the SI unit of absolute temperature, the kelvin, […]
ref:
2015, Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett, Physics for Scientists and Engineers
type:
quotation
text:
Even when the absolute form of an adverb ends in -ly, the comparative and superlative are identical with the corresponding forms of the adjective: badly, worse, worst.
ref:
1991, English Grammar, 3rd edition
type:
quotation
text:
absolute deviation
type:
example
text:
absolute square
type:
example
text:
mean absolute difference
type:
example
text:
absolute music
type:
example
text:
A freehold property is an estate in fee simple absolute in possession.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.
Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.
Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory.
Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.
Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).
Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.
Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.
Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".
Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominative absolute or genitive absolute, accusative absolute or ablative absolute.
Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".
Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry".
Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".
Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect".
Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".
Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative).
Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".
Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill".
Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".
Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of particles or compounded with a preverb.
As measured using an absolute value.
Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
Indicating that a tenure or estate in land is not conditional or liable to terminate on (strictly) any occurrence or (sometimes contextually) certain kinds of occurrence.
Absolved; free.
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human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
education
art
arts
dance
dancing
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
law
|
2136 | word:
absolute
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absolute (plural absolutes)
forms:
form:
absolutes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested around 1380. From Middle English absolut, from Middle French absolut, from Latin absolūtus (“unconditional; unfettered; completed”), perfect passive participle of absolvō (“loosen, set free, complete”), from ab (“away”) + solvo (“to loose”). Influenced in part by Old French absolu. Compare absolve.
senses_examples:
text:
moral absolutes
type:
example
text:
There is a well-known generalization that human rights come before property rights. […] Unqualified absolutes like these do not contain the truth as tested by human experience. What we do say is that human rights and property rights are related to one another, are intertwined with one another, work with and play upon one another.
ref:
1944, United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, World Freedom of Press and Radio, Editorials Submitted...: Senate Concurrent Resolution 50, Senate Concurrent Resolution 52, Senate Concurrent Resolution 53, House Concurrent Resolution 97, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
But if the psychoanalytic mood seems gloomy or pretentious, one may merely think of Anna as a person who comes to deal in absolutes: unconditional demands, total fears, extremities of power and subservience, […]
ref:
1987, Harold Bloom, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Chelsea House Pub
type:
quotation
text:
Notice the use of unconditional absolutes in each of these statements. They are the words always, never, and forever. The illusion of absolutes is the ultimate pathological double bind. Yet the only absolute is that there are no absolutes.
ref:
2002, Jordan Zarren, MSW, DAHB, Jordan I. Zarren, Bruce N. Eimer, Brief Cognitive Hypnosis: Facilitating the Change of Dysfunctional Behavior, Springer Publishing Company, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
This is important to understand, for when we see that the knowledge of good and evil is an absolute, we realize we can have absolutely no say in what it is or is not. Pause for a moment and consider that. Mathematicians work in absolutes.
ref:
2010, Joshua K. Hildebrandt, The Knowledge of Good and Evil: Who Decides What Is Morally Right and Wrong?, AuthorHouse, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
The reason is that we are confronted here with a genuine moral dilemma, i.e. a clash of two moral absolutes – the unconditional right to protection of the fetus from the point of fertilization; and the unconditional protection of the right to choose of the pregnant woman.
ref:
2010, Klaus Brinkmann, Idealism Without Limits: Hegel and the Problem of Objectivity, Springer Science & Business Media, page 265
type:
quotation
text:
Often one is dealing not with absolutes (complete stability) but with relative differences in rate (see below).
ref:
2012, P. Katsoyannis, The Chemistry of Polypeptides: Essays in Honor of Dr. Leonidas Zervas, Springer Science & Business Media, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
When discussing these concepts, it is unreasonable to expect absolutes. Complete impact, complete compliance with Court decisions, and complete implementation are a myth even for the most admired Supreme Court decisions.
ref:
2016, I. Unah, The Supreme Court in American Politics, Springer, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
Withdrawn as a Buddha he sat, watching the alien world from his perch in the absolute.
ref:
1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1039
type:
quotation
text:
Complete concentration in a vacuum still at low temperature results in a concentrated flower oil, free from alcohol, the so-called absolute of enfleurage. The crude absolutes of enfleurage are usually of dark color and, because of their fat content, […]
ref:
1948, Ernest Guenther, The Essential Oils: History, origin in plants, production, analysis
type:
quotation
text:
The main difference between these and those of indifferent quality is that the former contain flower absolutes in fairly large proportion and the latter either an insignificant quantity or […]
ref:
2019, William A. Poucher, Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps: The Production, Manufacture and Application of Perfumes: Volume 2, page 57
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which exists (or has a certain property, nature, size, etc) independent of references to other standards or external conditions; that which is universally valid; that which is not relative, conditional, qualified or mitigated.
In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced; the unity of spirit and nature; God.
A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
2137 | word:
Canada
word_type:
name
expansion:
Canada (countable and uncountable, plural Canadas)
forms:
form:
Canadas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Name of Canada
etymology_text:
From French Canada, from the Laurentian kanata (“village, settlement”) (compare Onondaga ganataa), ultimately from Proto-North Iroquoian *-nat-. See also "Name of Canada" on English Wikipedia.
senses_examples:
text:
Father narrated the story of how Canada developed over a short period to surpass other countries, including Britain, from which it had emerged.
ref:
2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen, ONE, page 219
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in North America.
Lower Canada 1791–1840 (also Canada East 1840–1867, now province of Quebec) or respectively Upper Canada (Canada West, now province of Ontario), often “the Canadas” (or politically, “United Canada” 1840–1867).
(1608–1763) The most active province of New France. Nowadays corresponds to the territory of much of Quebec, Ontario, and several US states (aligning with the Saint Lawrence River and Ottawa River plains and Great Lakes plains, and Laurentian Mountains)
A surname.
senses_topics:
|
2138 | word:
Canada
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Canada (plural Canadas)
forms:
form:
Canadas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Name of Canada
etymology_text:
From French Canada, from the Laurentian kanata (“village, settlement”) (compare Onondaga ganataa), ultimately from Proto-North Iroquoian *-nat-. See also "Name of Canada" on English Wikipedia.
senses_examples:
text:
Belgium is France's Canada.
ref:
2015, Michael DeMocker, The land of waffles, frites, chocolate, meat and, oh yes, culture, Louisiana: The Times-Picayune, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country bordering a larger country that shares many similarities with it, but is overshadowed by the more prominent larger.
senses_topics:
|
2139 | word:
donner
word_type:
verb
expansion:
donner (third-person singular simple present donners, present participle donnering, simple past and past participle donnered)
forms:
form:
donners
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
donnering
tags:
participle
present
form:
donnered
tags:
participle
past
form:
donnered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Afrikaans donder (“thrash”), from Dutch donder (“thunder”). Doublet of thunder.
senses_examples:
text:
Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling / We wanna see an ou called Sky High Lee / When he fights Willie Liebenberg / There's gonna be a murder / 'Cos Willie's gonna donner that blerrie yankee
ref:
1962, Jeremy Taylor (lyrics and music), “Ag Pleez Deddy”
type:
quotation
text:
They went into the pub and started a fight. One that was just bad enough for someone to call the boere. When the gattas arrived they got donnered for their trouble.
ref:
2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex, Zebra Press, published 2005, page 167
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To beat up; clobber; thrash.
senses_topics:
|
2140 | word:
donner
word_type:
noun
expansion:
donner (plural donners)
forms:
form:
donners
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From don + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
O sweet little wearers of round hats. O dainty donners of Mauve silks and sprigged muslins—I hear a voice saying—there was a time when all the ladies of Rome, with perfumes and fans, went daily to the Colosseum to see gigantic slaves chop each other to pieces; […]
ref:
1861 June 29, “Old Rome in Crystal”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round. […], volume V, number 114, London: […] Messrs. Chapman and Hall, […], page 324, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Gathered in circle, / With clangour of armour, / Our youth struck the mighty / Donners of armlets: / Limbs dead and bloody / Glutted the death-birds. / Who shall avenge now / The mighty belt-wearer?
ref:
1871, Robert [Williams] Buchanan, The Land of Lorne, Including the Cruise of the “Tern” to the Outer Hebrides. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 186
type:
quotation
text:
Tony Rossitto, grand opera tenor, who is in the ranks at Camp Sherman, is spending the week here and has been permitted to sing at the barracks and Broadway Theater. He is beiing billed about the town as “The Soldier Caruso From Camp Sherman” and “The Fighter With the Golden Throat.” Mr. Rossitto was formerly a member of the Chicago Grand Opera Company. His beautiful tenor has won many friends for him both among his fellow donners of khaki and those civilians who have heard him.
ref:
1918 August 31, “[The Concert & Opera Field] Singer in the Ranks”, in The Billboard, volume XXX, number 35, Cincinnati, Oh.: The Billboard Publishing Company, page 20, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
Seven recruits were accepted by the United States army at the Transportation building Wednesday. Of the seven new donners of the khaki, six were old service men.
ref:
1919 July 3, “Seven Recruits Join Army on Wednesday”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LII, number 18, Atlanta, Ga., page twenty
type:
quotation
text:
Happy are only the donners of the waist-cloth whose minds always delight in meditating on the texts of the Upanishads.
ref:
1922, Yogiraja’s Disciple Maitreya (Buddha-Gaya), Discovery of the Universal Religion through a Comparative Theology Based on the Faiths of the Forefathers, London: W. Thacker & Co; Calcutta; Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
Early donners of dinner-jackets, décolleté, and toppers were about Park Avenue.
ref:
1932 March, Philip Wylie, “Angela regrets an Invitation: A story of the Wild Wallaces”, in Edwin Balmer, editor, Redbook Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The McCall Company, page 73, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Way and Brinton, football player and student respectively, donners of African costumes, and ministers in the making were real friends, and examples of demeanor.
ref:
1937, “Angel Factory”, in The Dart: The Annual Publication of the Dickinson Seminary and Junior College at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, volume 15, Williamsport, Pa.: The Williamsport Printing and Binding Company
type:
quotation
text:
The season 1944-45 saw the donners of the purple and gold of Loras take seven out of eight conference games . . .
ref:
1945, The Purgold, volume XVII, Dubuque, Ia.: Loras College, page one hundred nine
type:
quotation
text:
For the first few weeks the rush of voluntary donners of white were mostly in the Fourth Region of the North American Continent.
ref:
1954 November, D. A. Jourdan, “Change of Color”, in Robert [Augustine] W[ard] Lowndes, editor, Science Fiction Quarterly, volume 3, number 3, Holyoke, Mass.: Columbia Publications, Inc., page 42, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Honest and veteran Congressmen who have grown grey in the service of the country very often find themselves pushed aside by these new donners of the white cap.
ref:
1957, “[Election Manifestos] Communist Party of India”, in S. L. Poplai, editor, National Politics and 1957 Elections in India, Delhi: Metropolitan Book Co. Private Ltd., page 106
type:
quotation
text:
A donner of casual clothes, this fun loving gal enjoys swimming, skating, and dancing.
ref:
1962, The Maldonian, Malden, Mass.: Malden High School, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
“Donners of black” float by this “very cool” Lower East Side bar for its “hip” vibe and “awesome DJ”; […]
ref:
2001, Curt Gathje, editor, 2002 New York City Nightlife, New York, N.Y.: Zagat Survey, LLC, page 176
type:
quotation
text:
Rock of the world, raise the lofty house of Aaron, the donners of the Urim and Thumin [breastplate worn by the high priest of the biblical temple], they serve you in holiness.
ref:
2001, Moses Ashear, translated by Joshua Levisohn, “Listening Guide 59: Mifalot Elohim (‘The Works of God’; pizmon)”, in Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, page 235
type:
quotation
text:
COAL TRAIN: Marching band wieners. Tuba lards. Flautists. Triangle dingers. Auto-harp toters. Sniffers of fuzzy-tipped drumsticks, owners of spit-caked clarinets, and donners of fringy polyester uniforms.
ref:
2011, Sean Beaudoin, You Killed Wesley Payne, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, page 362
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who dons (something).
senses_topics:
|
2141 | word:
Grenada
word_type:
name
expansion:
Grenada
forms:
wikipedia:
1763 Treaty of Paris
Grenada
Grenada (disambiguation)
Seven Years' War
etymology_text:
From anglicization/latinization of French Grenade upon the island's cession to the United Kingdom under the terms of the 1763 Treaty of Paris ending the Seven Years' War, from Spanish Granada and Los Granadillos on Spanish maps from at least the 1520s, from Granada in Spain, from Arabic غَرْنَاطَة (Ḡarnāṭa), originally a suburb of the city. Doublet of Granada.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island and country in the Caribbean.
A census-designated place in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
A city, the county seat of Grenada County, Mississippi, United States.
senses_topics:
|
2142 | word:
A
word_type:
character
expansion:
A (upper case, lower case a, plural As or A's)
forms:
form:
a
tags:
lowercase
form:
As
tags:
plural
form:
A's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English and Old English upper case letter A and split of Middle English and Old English upper case letter Æ.
* The Old English letters A and Æ replaced the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letters ᚪ (a, “āc”) and ᚫ (æ, “æsc”), derived from the Runic letter ᚫ (a, “Ansuz”), in the 7th century.
senses_examples:
text:
Apple starts with A.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The first letter of the English alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
2143 | word:
A
word_type:
num
expansion:
A (upper case, lower case a)
forms:
form:
a
tags:
lowercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English and Old English upper case letter A and split of Middle English and Old English upper case letter Æ.
* The Old English letters A and Æ replaced the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letters ᚪ (a, “āc”) and ᚫ (æ, “æsc”), derived from the Runic letter ᚫ (a, “Ansuz”), in the 7th century.
senses_examples:
text:
Item A is "foods", item B is "drinks".
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number first, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
2144 | word:
A
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
A
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* (highest rank, grade, music): From the initial position of the letter A in the English alphabet.
* (blood type): From A antigen
senses_examples:
text:
We assign each item inspected a rating from A through G, depending on various factors.
type:
example
text:
In the UK, the highest social grade is A – upper middle class.
type:
example
text:
The only standard brassiere cup size smaller than the A cup is the AA cup.
type:
example
text:
I was so happy to get an A on that test.
type:
example
text:
Darcy's pretty sharp. She pulls A's.
ref:
1999, W. Peter Iliff, Varsity Blues, spoken by Mox (James Van Der Beek)
type:
quotation
text:
Orchestras traditionally tune to a concert A.
type:
example
text:
My blood type is A negative.
type:
example
text:
Hester Prynne, the historical character in The Scarlet Letter, was exposed and convicted by neighborhood gossip. [...] Gossip continues to brand some young ladies in small towns with this symbolic letter, but in our larger cities one rarely sees young ladies branded with an "A".
ref:
1966 July 30, Ralph McGill, “Today's students aim for humanistic values”, in Latrobe Bulletin, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, page 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rank, normally the highest rank, on any of various scales that assign letters.
The highest letter grade assigned (disregarding plusses and minuses).
A tone three fifths above C in the cycle of fifths; the sixth tone of the C major scale; the first note of the minor scale of A minor; the reference tone that occurs at exactly 440 Hz; the printed or written note A; the scale with A as its keynote.
A blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type B antigen in their blood. People with this blood type may receive blood from type A or type O but cannot receive blood from AB or B.
Mass number.
A universal affirmative suggestion.
Abbreviation of adulterer, adulteress, used as a human brand.
Allele dominant.
Alternative spelling of A.M. (“ante meridiem”) or AM
senses_topics:
education
entertainment
lifestyle
music
medicine
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
|
2145 | word:
A
word_type:
noun
expansion:
A
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* (highest rank, grade, music): From the initial position of the letter A in the English alphabet.
* (blood type): From A antigen
senses_examples:
text:
A-bomb
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ace. (including in card games)
Acre.
Adult; as used in film rating.
Ammeter.
Angstrom.
Answer.
An assist.
Asexual.
Arsehole.
Atom.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
lifestyle
sexuality
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry |
2146 | word:
A
word_type:
adj
expansion:
A
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* (highest rank, grade, music): From the initial position of the letter A in the English alphabet.
* (blood type): From A antigen
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Atom; atomic.
senses_topics:
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry |
2147 | word:
Bigfoot
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bigfoot
forms:
wikipedia:
Bigfoot
etymology_text:
August/September 1958, originally Big Foot, big + foot, relating to the large size of its supposed footprints relative to human footprints.
senses_examples:
text:
This imprint was made either Wednesday night or early Thursday morning by "Big Foot".]
ref:
[1958 October 6, Andrew Genzoli, “Huge Foot Prints Hold Mystery Of Friendly Bluff Creek Giant”, in Humboldt Times, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-06-11
type:
quotation
text:
Stories of “Bigfoot,” an eight-foot denizen of the forest in Northern California’s wild Trinity County, are among the main topics of conversation in that area. He is supposedly an Indian or half-breed who has reverted to an animal existence. A footprint believed to be his was measured by a Redding shoe store owner and found to be size 24!
ref:
1961 July 1, “Big deal”, in Boot and Shoe Recorder, volume 160, number 3, Philadelphia, Pa.: Chilton Company, →OCLC, The Last Word, page 68, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
Some Earth people believe Bigfoot lives in underground caves; others believe Bigfoot is connected with extraterrestrials; still others believe Bigfoot is a spirit that can sometimes manifest in form.
ref:
1994, Sun Bear, Wabun Wind, Shawnodese, “A Dream Language of the Earth”, in Dreaming with the Wheel: How to Interpret and Work with your Dreams Using the Medicine Wheel, Fireside, page 145
type:
quotation
text:
Then there are the sharp divisions of opinion about whether Bigfoot is a Gigantopithecus or a Neanderthal or some other hominid.
ref:
2016, Bryan Sykes, “The Guru”, in Bigfoot, Yeti, and the Last Neanderthal: A Geneticist’s Search for Modern Apemen, Disinformation Books, part II, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
Many enthusiasts believe that Bigfoot is not some sort of undiscovered hominid, but rather a mystical being that moves between dimensions.
ref:
2019, Christopher D. Bader, Joseph O. Baker, “Bigfoot: Undiscovered Primate or Interdimensional Spirit?”, in Deviance Management: Insiders, Outsiders, Hiders, and Drifters, University of California Press, page 77
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A very large, hairy, humanoid creature, similar to the yeti, said to live in the wilderness areas of the United States and Canada, especially the Pacific Northwest.
senses_topics:
arts
biology
cryptozoology
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
natural-sciences
publishing
sciences
zoology |
2148 | word:
Bigfoot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Bigfoot (plural Bigfoot or Bigfeet or Bigfoots)
forms:
form:
Bigfoot
tags:
plural
form:
Bigfeet
tags:
plural
form:
Bigfoots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bigfoot
etymology_text:
August/September 1958, originally Big Foot, big + foot, relating to the large size of its supposed footprints relative to human footprints.
senses_examples:
text:
My answer to those who believe that all Bigfoot are just huge cuddly Ewoks is to remind them that there is plenty of evidence that every member of the great apes family […] has exhibited hostility […].
ref:
2007, Matthew Scott Hansen, The Shadowkiller: A Novel, page 434
type:
quotation
text:
The striking news on the appearance of a Bigfoot on Taibai Mountain in Xi'an, Shaanxi Provnice recently spread among local residents of Mei County located near the foot of Taibai Mountain. Is Taibai Mountain really home to a Bigfoot?
Who encountered the Bigfoot on Taibai Mountain?
Reporters interviewed many residents of Mei County, and their accounts varied.
ref:
2010 October 15, “Bigfoot sighted on Taibai Mountain”, in 叶欣, editor, People's Daily, archived from the original on 2015-05-23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bigfoot as a species, as opposed to an individual creature.
senses_topics:
arts
biology
cryptozoology
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
natural-sciences
publishing
sciences
zoology |
2149 | word:
Bigfoot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Bigfoot (third-person singular simple present Bigfoots, present participle Bigfooting, simple past and past participle Bigfooted)
forms:
form:
Bigfoots
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Bigfooting
tags:
participle
present
form:
Bigfooted
tags:
participle
past
form:
Bigfooted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Bigfoot
etymology_text:
August/September 1958, originally Big Foot, big + foot, relating to the large size of its supposed footprints relative to human footprints.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of bigfoot
senses_topics:
|
2150 | word:
accusative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accusative (comparative more accusative, superlative most accusative)
forms:
form:
more accusative
tags:
comparative
form:
most accusative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
accusative
etymology_text:
First attested in the mid 15th century. From Middle English accusative, from Anglo-Norman accusatif or Middle French acusatif or from Latin accūsātīvus (“having been blamed”), from accūsō (“to blame”). Equivalent to accuse + -ative. The Latin form is a mistranslation of the Ancient Greek grammatical term αἰτιᾱτική (aitiātikḗ, “expressing an effect”). This term actually comes from αἰτιᾱτός (aitiātós, “caused”) + -ῐκός (-ikós, adjective suffix), but was reanalyzed as coming from αἰτιᾱ- (aitiā-), the stem of the verb αἰτιάομαι (aitiáomai, “to blame”), + -τῐκός (-tikós, verbal adjective suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
This hath been a very accusative age.
ref:
1641 November 22, Edward Dering, a speech
type:
quotation
text:
The proprietor of the store was rude, insulting and accusative.
ref:
1984 April 14, William F. Orrell, “Bad Business”, in Gay Community News, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Producing accusations; in a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame
Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin, Lithuanian and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb has its limited influence. Other parts of speech, including secondary or predicate direct objects, will also influence a sentence’s construction. In German the case used for direct objects.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2151 | word:
accusative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accusative (plural accusatives)
forms:
form:
accusatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
accusative
etymology_text:
First attested in the mid 15th century. From Middle English accusative, from Anglo-Norman accusatif or Middle French acusatif or from Latin accūsātīvus (“having been blamed”), from accūsō (“to blame”). Equivalent to accuse + -ative. The Latin form is a mistranslation of the Ancient Greek grammatical term αἰτιᾱτική (aitiātikḗ, “expressing an effect”). This term actually comes from αἰτιᾱτός (aitiātós, “caused”) + -ῐκός (-ikós, adjective suffix), but was reanalyzed as coming from αἰτιᾱ- (aitiā-), the stem of the verb αἰτιάομαι (aitiáomai, “to blame”), + -τῐκός (-tikós, verbal adjective suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
65 mošu tat̰ ās nōit̮ darəγəm yat̰ . . ‘quickly it (tat̰) happened, it (was) not long till . . . — drūm avantəm airištəm: according to Bartholomae IF. 12. 146 the author of this part was led to use accusatives here (instead of nominatives) by the preceding sentence yezi ǰum frapayeni.
ref:
1911, Hans Reichelt, Avesta Reader: Texts, Notes, Glossary and Index, Strassburg [Strasbourg]: Verlag von Karl J. Trübner, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
There is some antecedent in old Latin; but as usual the influence is Greek too, for Greek prose and poetry freely use accusatives which are to some extent adverbial accusatives, or accusatives of respect.
ref:
1944, W[illiam] F[rancis] Jackson Knight, “Language, Verse, and Style”, in Roman Vergil (Peregrine Books), Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1966, page 265
type:
quotation
text:
Romani distinguishes dative and accusative pronouns formally and some Romani dialects use accusatives in constructions in which other languages employ a dative.
ref:
2000, Mily Crevels, Peter Bakker, “External Possession in Romani”, in Viktor Elšík, Yaron Matras, editors, Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science: Series IV – Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; 211), Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 181
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The accusative case.
A word inflected in the accusative case.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2152 | word:
wrung
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wrung
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I wrung out my wet jeans and hung them out to dry.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of wring
senses_topics:
|
2153 | word:
absurd
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absurd (comparative absurder or more absurd, superlative absurdest or most absurd)
forms:
form:
absurder
tags:
comparative
form:
more absurd
tags:
comparative
form:
absurdest
tags:
superlative
form:
most absurd
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1557. From Middle French absurde, from Latin absurdus (“incongruous, dissonant, out of tune”), from ab (“away from, out”) + surdus (“silent, deaf, dull-sounding”). Compare surd.
senses_examples:
text:
I know it sounds absurd / But please, tell me who I am
ref:
1979, “The Logical Song”, in Roger Hodgson (lyrics), Breakfast in America, performed by Supertramp
type:
quotation
text:
Adults have condemned them to live in what must seem like an absurd universe.
ref:
1968 March 2, Joseph Featherstone, “A New Kind of Schooling”, in The New Republic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly.
Inharmonious; dissonant.
Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
Dealing with absurdism.
senses_topics:
|
2154 | word:
absurd
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absurd (plural absurds)
forms:
form:
absurds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Absurdism
etymology_text:
First attested in 1557. From Middle French absurde, from Latin absurdus (“incongruous, dissonant, out of tune”), from ab (“away from, out”) + surdus (“silent, deaf, dull-sounding”). Compare surd.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An absurdity.
The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrational universe and his life has no meaning outside of his existence.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences |
2155 | word:
standard
word_type:
adj
expansion:
standard (comparative more standard, superlative most standard)
forms:
form:
most standard
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Standard (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English standard, from Old French estandart (“gathering place, battle flag”), from Frankish *standahard (literally “stand firm, stand hard”), equivalent to stand + -ard. Alternative etymology derives the second element from Frankish *oʀd (“point, spot, place”) (compare Old French ordé (“pointed”), Old English ord (“point, source, vanguard”), German Standort (“location, place, site, position, base”, literally “standing-point”)). Merged with Middle English standar, stander, standere (“flag, banner”, literally “stander”), equivalent to stand + -er. More at stand, hard, ord.
senses_examples:
text:
There are women who cannot grow alone as standard trees;—for whom the support and warmth of some wall, some paling, some post, is absolutely necessary […].
ref:
1863, Anthony Trollope, Rachel Ray
type:
quotation
text:
standard works in history; standard authors
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
Having recognized excellence or authority.
Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
Having a manual transmission.
As normally supplied (not optional).
Conforming to the standard variety.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2156 | word:
standard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
standard (plural standards)
forms:
form:
standards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Standard (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English standard, from Old French estandart (“gathering place, battle flag”), from Frankish *standahard (literally “stand firm, stand hard”), equivalent to stand + -ard. Alternative etymology derives the second element from Frankish *oʀd (“point, spot, place”) (compare Old French ordé (“pointed”), Old English ord (“point, source, vanguard”), German Standort (“location, place, site, position, base”, literally “standing-point”)). Merged with Middle English standar, stander, standere (“flag, banner”, literally “stander”), equivalent to stand + -er. More at stand, hard, ord.
senses_examples:
text:
the court, which used to be the standard of propriety and correctness of speech
ref:
1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue
type:
quotation
text:
I was disappointed when the concert ended with a "Tribute to Irving Berlin" that included "God Bless America" and two John Philip Sousa numbers, the "Washington Post" and "Stars and Stripes Forever." […] I think it's wrong, wrong, wrong for a gay band to play music that celebrates the martial life. There's plenty of other rousing music around, so how about dumping some of those armed forces standards.
ref:
1983 December 3, Jolanta Benal, “Spandex, Sousa, Bad Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
I finished my twelfth standard with less than stellar marks.
ref:
2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 179
type:
quotation
text:
I am in fifth standard.
type:
example
text:
It [Loranthus europaeus] grows chiefly on the branches of standards over coppice.
ref:
1907, William Schlich, Schlich's Manual of Forestry, page 415
type:
quotation
text:
Frolic, my lords; let all the standards walk, / Ply it till every man hath ta’en his load.
ref:
c. 1590, Thomas Lodge, Robert Greene, “A Looking Glass for London”, in The Complete Plays of Robert Greene, London: Ernest Ben Limited, published 1909
type:
quotation
text:
The scales generally showed on the face of the garment or defence, and we find body armour, gorgets, habergeons, standards or neck defences, and even the camailt of this class of armour.
ref:
1903, The Archaeological Journal, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
Goldsmiths also made gold and silver mail for the decorations of helmets and gorgets. The will of Duke Philip the Good shows that he owned a mail standard (collar) made of solid gold.
ref:
1992, Matthias Pfaffenbichler, British Museum, Armourers
type:
quotation
text:
The throat and upper chest was protected by the gorget plate, mail standard or a metal wrapper. Whichever helm Richard chose to wear, it might have had a keyhole at the top to allowed insignia to be inserted.
ref:
2008, Josephine Wilkinson, Richard III: The Young King to be, Amberley Publishing Limited
type:
quotation
text:
[page 286:] A defense for the neck variously described as a combination of gorget and bevor worn with a salade, and as a standard of mail, or collar, worn under the plate gorget.
[page 426:] Baron de Cosson says (Helmets and Mail 110): “Thus in the British Museum there is a standard of mail of which the rings of the top edge are exceedingly close and stiff, […]"
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2013, George Cameron Stone, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times, Courier Corporation
type:
quotation
text:
Mail was also used to provide skirts substituting for tassets, for collars called "standards" substituting for gorgets, as well as for coats (long) and shirts (short). Consequently finding a few links gives little or no clue to their source. The few from the Fort, however, include copper-alloy (brass?) links, ...
ref:
2016, Ivor Noel Hume, Audrey Noel Hume, The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred: Part 1, Interpretive Studies; Part 2, Artifact Catalog, University of Pennsylvania Press, page 151
type:
quotation
text:
Since standards are large dogs, they grow much more rapidly than miniatures and toys, which means that they require more supplements.
ref:
1968, Jeff Griffen, The Poodle Book, page 36
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
A level of quality or attainment.
A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
A musical work of established popularity.
A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language
A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
Grade level in primary education.
A vertical pole with something at its apex.
An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
A vertical pole with something at its apex.
The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
A vertical pole with something at its apex.
One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
A vertical pole with something at its apex.
Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
A vertical pole with something at its apex.
A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.
A vertical pole with something at its apex.
A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
A vertical pole with something at its apex.
The sheth of a plough.
A manual transmission vehicle.
The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
A large drinking cup.
A collar of mail protecting the neck.
Short for standard poodle.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology
biology
botany
natural-sciences
business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
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2157 | word:
standard
word_type:
intj
expansion:
standard
forms:
wikipedia:
Standard (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English standard, from Old French estandart (“gathering place, battle flag”), from Frankish *standahard (literally “stand firm, stand hard”), equivalent to stand + -ard. Alternative etymology derives the second element from Frankish *oʀd (“point, spot, place”) (compare Old French ordé (“pointed”), Old English ord (“point, source, vanguard”), German Standort (“location, place, site, position, base”, literally “standing-point”)). Merged with Middle English standar, stander, standere (“flag, banner”, literally “stander”), equivalent to stand + -er. More at stand, hard, ord.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression of agreement.
senses_topics:
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2158 | word:
wolf
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wolf (plural wolves)
forms:
form:
wolves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ƿulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. See also Saterland Frisian Wulf, West Frisian and Dutch wolf, German Wolf, Norwegian and Danish ulv; also Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka), Persian گرگ (gorg), Lithuanian vilkas, Russian волк (volk), Albanian ujk, Latin lupus, Greek λύκος (lýkos), Tocharian B walkwe). Doublet of lobo and lupus.
senses_examples:
text:
He would listen quietly at meetings of the Politburo, or to distinguished visitors, puffing at his Dunhill pipe, doodling aimlessly - his secretaries Poskrebyshev and Dvinsky write that his pads were sometimes covered with the phrase ‘Lenin-teacher-friend’, but the last foreigner to visit him, in February 1953, noted that he was doodling wolves.
ref:
1968, Robert Conquest, “The Purge Begins”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.
type:
example
text:
They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
type:
example
text:
the bee wolf
type:
example
text:
The loosening and purifying of the raw cotton from the various impurities , such as sand, grit, &c., is accomplished by beating with the hand, or by the Wolf machine, by means of a cylinder, the surface of which is covered with sharp iron teeth
ref:
1872, Johann Rudolph von Wagner, A handbook of Chemical Technology
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.
A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
A wolf tone or wolf note.
Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
A wolf spider.
An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
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2159 | word:
wolf
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wolf (third-person singular simple present wolfs, present participle wolfing, simple past and past participle wolfed)
forms:
form:
wolfs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wolfing
tags:
participle
present
form:
wolfed
tags:
participle
past
form:
wolfed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ƿulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. See also Saterland Frisian Wulf, West Frisian and Dutch wolf, German Wolf, Norwegian and Danish ulv; also Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka), Persian گرگ (gorg), Lithuanian vilkas, Russian волк (volk), Albanian ujk, Latin lupus, Greek λύκος (lýkos), Tocharian B walkwe). Doublet of lobo and lupus.
senses_examples:
text:
"Here's these legal ferrets has got our Puddin' in their clutches, and here's us, spellbound with anguish, watchin' them wolfin' it."
ref:
1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150
type:
quotation
text:
After a wolfed burger dinner, I called the night number at Administrative Vice and inquired about known lesbian gathering places.
ref:
1987, James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
type:
quotation
text:
Vicars seated himself and began wolfing a sandwich.
ref:
2013, Neil Martin, Collected Stories of the Sea
type:
quotation
text:
[1940s Chicago punk:] ‘I’ve seen a thing or two in my time,’ he still liked to boast, ‘that was how I found out the best place for wolfin’ ain’t the taverns. It ain’t in dance halls ’r on North Clark on Saturday night. It’s in the front row in Sunday school on Sunday mornin’. Oh yeh, I know a thing or two, I been around.’
ref:
1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.
To hunt for wolves.
senses_topics:
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2160 | word:
word
word_type:
noun
expansion:
word (countable and uncountable, plural words)
forms:
form:
words
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Word (computer architecture)
etymology_text:
From Middle English word, from Old English word, from Proto-West Germanic *word, from Proto-Germanic *wurdą, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰh₁om. Doublet of verb and verve; further related to vrata.
senses_examples:
text:
Then all was silent save the voice of the high priest, whose words grew louder and louder, […]
ref:
1894, Alex. R. Mackwen, “The Samaritan Passover”, in Littell's Living Age, volume 1, number 6
type:
quotation
text:
I can't believe you want me back.
You've got Jen to thank for that. Her words the other day moved me deeply. Very deeply indeed.
Really? What did she say.
Like I remember! Point is it's the effect of her words that's important.
ref:
2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4
text:
The name was a confused gift of love from her father, who could not read the word but picked it out of the Bible for its visual shape, […]
ref:
2003, Jan Furman, Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: A Casebook, page 194
type:
quotation
text:
Well-meaning academics even introduced spelling absurdities such as the “s” in the word “island,” a misguided Renaissance attempt to restore the etymology of the [unrelated] Latin word insula.
ref:
2009, Stanislas Dehaene, Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read
type:
quotation
text:
Ain’t! How often am I to tell you ain’t ain’t a word?
ref:
1896, Israel Zangwill, Without Prejudice, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
Fisherwoman isn’t even a word. It’s not in the dictionary.
ref:
1999, Linda Greenlaw, The Hungry Ocean, Hyperion, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
But every word, whether written or spoken, which urges the woman to antagonism against the man, every word which is written or spoken to try and make of her a hybrid, self-contained opponent of men, makes a rift in the lute to which the world looks for its sweetest music.
ref:
1897, Ouida, “The New Woman”, in An Altruist and Four Essays, page 239
type:
quotation
text:
The word, whether written or spoken, does not look like or sound like its meaning — it does not resemble its signified. We only connect the two because we have learnt the code — language. Without such knowledge, 'Maggie' would just be a meaningless pattern of shapes or sounds.
ref:
1986, David Barrat, Media Sociology, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
Brian and Abby signed the word clothing, in which the thumbs brush down the chest as though something is hanging there. They both spoke the word clothing. Brian then signed the word for change, […]
ref:
2009, Jack Fitzgerald, Viva La Evolucin, page 233
type:
quotation
text:
Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
ref:
2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
In still another variation, the nonsense word is presented and the teacher asks, "What sound was in the beginning of the word?" "In the middle?" and so on. The child should always respond with the phoneme; he should not use letter labels.
ref:
1974, Thinking Goes to School: Piaget's Theory in Practice, page 183
type:
quotation
text:
All 15.5 million ‘words’ (or so–the exact length depends on the repeat sequences, which vary greatly) in the twenty-second chapter of the human autobiography have been read and written down in English letters: 47 million As, Cs, Gs and Ts.
ref:
1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Collins, page 301
type:
quotation
text:
I wrote a nonsense word, "umbalooie," in the Input Panel's Writing Pad. Input Panel converted it to "cembalos" and displayed it in the Text Preview pane.
ref:
2003, How To Do Everything with Your Tablet PC, page 278
type:
quotation
text:
Here the scribe has dropped the με from καθημενος, thereby creating the nonsense word καθηνος.
ref:
2006, Scribal Habits and Theological Influences in the Apocalypse, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
If M. V. has sustained impairment to a phonological output process common to reading and repetition, we might anticipate that her mispronunciations will partially reflect the underlying phonemic form of the nonsense word.
ref:
2013, The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
The size of a register in the MIPS architecture is 32 bits; groups of 32 bits occur so frequently that they are given the name word in the MIPS architecture.
ref:
1997, John L. Hennessy with David A. Patterson, Computer Organization and Design, 2nd edition, San Francisco, California: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., §3.3, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
[…] she believed them still so very much attached to each other, that they could not be too sedulously divided in word and deed on every occasion.
ref:
1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
type:
quotation
text:
As they fell apart against Austria, England badly needed someone capable of leading by word and example.
ref:
2004 September 8, Richard Williams, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
She said; but at the happy word "he lives", / My father stooped, re-fathered, o'er my wound.
ref:
1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess
type:
quotation
text:
There is only one other point on which I offer a word of remark.
ref:
1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House
type:
quotation
text:
"The Kaiser laid down his arms at a quarter to twelve. In me, however, they have an opponent who ceases fighting only at five minutes past twelve," said Hitler some time ago. He has never spoken a truer word.
ref:
1945 April 1, Sebastian Haffner, The Observer
type:
quotation
text:
Despite appearances to the contrary [...] dragomans stuck rigidly to their brief, which was not to translate the Sultan's words, but his word.
ref:
2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 126
type:
quotation
text:
In what sense is God's Word living? No other word, whether written or spoken, has the power that the Bible has to change lives.
ref:
2011, John Lehew (senior), The Encouragement of Peter, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!
ref:
1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III
type:
quotation
text:
I have the word : sentinel, do thou stand; […]
ref:
c. 1623, John Fletcher, William Rowley, The Maid in the Mill, published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio), published 1647, scene 3
type:
quotation
text:
mum's the word
type:
example
text:
Among all other was wrytten in her trone / In golde letters, this worde, whiche I dyde rede: / Garder le fortune que est mauelz et bone.
ref:
1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Court
type:
quotation
text:
Let the word be 'Not without mustard'. Your crest is very rare, sir.
ref:
1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour
type:
quotation
text:
The old word is, 'What the eye views not, the heart rues not.'
ref:
1646, Joseph Hall, The Balm of Gilead
type:
quotation
text:
Have you had any word from John yet?
type:
example
text:
I've tried for weeks to get word, but I still don't know where she is or if she's all right.
type:
example
text:
He sent word that we should strike camp before winter.
type:
example
text:
Don't fire till I give the word
type:
example
text:
Their mother's word was law.
type:
example
text:
I give you my word that I will be there on time.
type:
example
text:
Can I have a word with you?
type:
example
text:
I had a word with him about it.
type:
example
text:
There had been words between him and the secretary about the outcome of the meeting.
type:
example
text:
Her parents had lived in Botswana, spreading the word among the tribespeople.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
Something like such a unit of language:
A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning.
Something like such a unit of language:
A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
Something like such a unit of language:
A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
Something like such a unit of language:
A finite string that is not a command or operator.
Something like such a unit of language:
A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
A proverb or motto.
News; tidings.
An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
A promise; an oath or guarantee.
A brief discussion or conversation.
A minor reprimand.
See words.
Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
Logos, Christ.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telegraphy
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
group-theory
mathematics
sciences
lifestyle
religion
theology
lifestyle
religion
theology |
2161 | word:
word
word_type:
verb
expansion:
word (third-person singular simple present words, present participle wording, simple past and past participle worded)
forms:
form:
words
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wording
tags:
participle
present
form:
worded
tags:
participle
past
form:
worded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English word, from Old English word, from Proto-West Germanic *word, from Proto-Germanic *wurdą, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰh₁om. Doublet of verb and verve; further related to vrata.
senses_examples:
text:
I’m not sure how to word this letter to the council.
type:
example
text:
He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not / be noble to myself.
ref:
1607, William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra, act 5, scene 2
type:
quotation
text:
[…] if one were to be worded to death, Italian is the fittest Language [for that task]
ref:
1621 November 30, James Howell, letter to Francis Bacon, from Turin
type:
quotation
text:
[…] if a man were to be worded to death, or stoned to death by words, the High-Dutch were the fittest [language for that task].
ref:
1829 April 24, “Webster's Dictionary”, in The North American Review, volume 28, page 438
type:
quotation
text:
Against him […] who could word heaven and earth out of nothing, and can when he pleases word them into nothing again.
ref:
c. 1645-1715, Robert South, Sermon on Psalm XXXIX. 9
type:
quotation
text:
"Postcolonialism" might well be another linguistic construct, desperately begging for a referent that will never show up, simply because it never existed on its own and was literally worded into existence by the very term that pretends to be born from it.
ref:
1994, “Liminal Postmodernisms”, in Postmodern Studies, volume 8, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
The being of each person is worded into existence in the Word, […]
ref:
2013, Carla Mae Streeter, Foundations of Spirituality: The Human and the Holy, page 92
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
To flatter with words, to cajole.
To ply or overpower with words.
To conjure with a word.
To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse.
senses_topics:
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2162 | word:
word
word_type:
intj
expansion:
word
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English word, from Old English word, from Proto-West Germanic *word, from Proto-Germanic *wurdą, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰh₁om. Doublet of verb and verve; further related to vrata.
senses_examples:
text:
"Yo, that movie was epic!" / "Word?" ("You speak the truth?") / "Word." ("I speak the truth.")
type:
example
text:
"[…] Know what I'm sayin'?" / "Word!" the other man strongly agreed. "Let's do this — "
ref:
2004, Shannon Holmes, Never Go Home Again: A Novel, page 218
type:
quotation
text:
"[…] Not bad at all, man. Worth da wait, dawg. Word." / "You liked it?" I asked dumbly, stoned still, and feeling victorious. / "Yeah, man," said Oral B. "Word up. […]"
ref:
2007, Gabe Rotter, Duck Duck Wally: A Novel, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
"[…] I mean, I don't blame you... Word! […]"
ref:
2007, Relentless Aaron, The Last Kingpin, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond."
An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval.
senses_topics:
|
2163 | word:
word
word_type:
verb
expansion:
word
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant of worth (“to become, turn into, grow, get”), from Middle English worthen, from Old English weorþan (“to turn into, become, grow”), from Proto-West Germanic *werþan, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną (“to turn, turn into, become”). More at worth § Verb.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of worth (“to become”).
senses_topics:
|
2164 | word:
outdoors
word_type:
adv
expansion:
outdoors (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From outdoor (adjective) + -s (adverbial genitive suffix), earlier out (of) doors.
senses_examples:
text:
They went outdoors to light up their cigarettes.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not inside a house or under covered structure; unprotected; in the open air.
senses_topics:
|
2165 | word:
outdoors
word_type:
noun
expansion:
outdoors (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From outdoor (adjective) + -s (adverbial genitive suffix), earlier out (of) doors.
senses_examples:
text:
He won't leave his house: he's afraid of the outdoors.
type:
example
text:
She loves the outdoors, for its freedom and fresh air.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The environment outside of enclosed structures.
The natural environment in the open air, countryside away from cities and buildings.
senses_topics:
|
2166 | word:
outdoors
word_type:
verb
expansion:
outdoors
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From outdoor (verb) + -s (third-person suffix).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of outdoor
senses_topics:
|
2167 | word:
Bermuda
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bermuda
forms:
wikipedia:
Juan de Bermudez
etymology_text:
From the name of Juan de Bermudez, the Spanish explorer who discovered the islands in 1515. See Bermúdez.
senses_examples:
text:
Sir Thomas Gates was appointed Lieutenant Generall ; Sir George Sommers Admirall of Virginia and were ſent to reſide there as Gouernours of the Colonie. But the Sea Venture, wherein the two Knights, and Captaine Newport, with a hundred and fiftie perſons ſayled, after long conflict with the two angrie Elements, was ſent to be impriſoned in Bermuda, where betweene two Rocks the Ship ſplit, the people eſcaping to Land.
ref:
1613, Samuel Purchas, Pvrchas His Pilgrimes, volume I, London, →OCLC, page 632
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean, 580 nautical miles (1074 kilometers) east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
senses_topics:
|
2168 | word:
Bermuda
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Bermuda (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Juan de Bermudez
etymology_text:
From the name of Juan de Bermudez, the Spanish explorer who discovered the islands in 1515. See Bermúdez.
senses_examples:
text:
Bermuda:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pale, slightly blue shade of green
senses_topics:
|
2169 | word:
protester
word_type:
noun
expansion:
protester (plural protesters)
forms:
form:
protesters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From protest + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
The protesters thronged Trafalgar Square and sang anti-war songs.
type:
example
text:
The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
ref:
2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
The protester must also draw up an affidavit containing the literal reproduction of the bill with its acceptance, endorsements, guarantee by endorsement ("aval"), and anything else contained in the note […]
ref:
1997, Charles Evan Stewart, Transnational Contracts, volume 1, page 96
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who protests, either alone or in a public display of group feeling.
One who protests a bill of exchange, or note.
senses_topics:
law |
2170 | word:
defer
word_type:
verb
expansion:
defer (third-person singular simple present defers, present participle deferring, simple past and past participle deferred)
forms:
form:
defers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
deferring
tags:
participle
present
form:
deferred
tags:
participle
past
form:
deferred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Originally a variant of (and hence a doublet of) differ; from Middle English differren (“to postpone”), from Old French differer, from Latin differō.
senses_examples:
text:
We're going to defer the decision until we have all the facts.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To delay or postpone.
To delay or postpone.
to postpone induction into military service.
After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
To delay, to wait.
senses_topics:
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
2171 | word:
defer
word_type:
verb
expansion:
defer (third-person singular simple present defers, present participle deferring, simple past and past participle deferred)
forms:
form:
defers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
deferring
tags:
participle
present
form:
deferred
tags:
participle
past
form:
deferred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From late Middle English differren (“to refer for judgement”), from Middle French déférer, from Latin dēferō.
senses_examples:
text:
Hereupon the commissioners […] deferred the matter to the Earl of Northumberland.
ref:
1622, Francis Bacon, History of the Reign of King Henry VII
type:
quotation
text:
Defer/Defer/To the Lord High Executioner.
ref:
1885, W.S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, The Mikado
type:
quotation
text:
worship deferred to the Virgin
ref:
1872, Daniel Brevint, Saul and Samuel at Endor
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To submit to the opinion or desire of others in respect to their judgment or authority.
To render, to offer.
senses_topics:
|
2172 | word:
supersede
word_type:
verb
expansion:
supersede (third-person singular simple present supersedes, present participle superseding, simple past and past participle superseded)
forms:
form:
supersedes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
superseding
tags:
participle
present
form:
superseded
tags:
participle
past
form:
superseded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French superseder (“postpone, defer”), from Latin supersedēre, from super (“over”) + sedēre (“to sit”). The meaning “to replace” is from 1642, probably by association with unrelated precede – note that c instead of s (from cēdere (“to yield”), not sedēre (“to sit”)). As a result, supercede is a common misspelling – see therein for further discussion. Doublet of surcease.
senses_examples:
text:
Those older products have been superseded by our new range.
type:
example
text:
In the early days troubles were experienced with oscillation from the rod drive and with the transformers, but were overcome later, and these machines performed useful service until superseded by more modern locomotives less costly in maintenance.
ref:
1960 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Operating a mountain main line: the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 743
type:
quotation
text:
Modern US culture has superseded the native forms.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take the place of.
To displace in favor of itself.
senses_topics:
|
2173 | word:
supersede
word_type:
noun
expansion:
supersede (plural supersedes)
forms:
form:
supersedes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French superseder (“postpone, defer”), from Latin supersedēre, from super (“over”) + sedēre (“to sit”). The meaning “to replace” is from 1642, probably by association with unrelated precede – note that c instead of s (from cēdere (“to yield”), not sedēre (“to sit”)). As a result, supercede is a common misspelling – see therein for further discussion. Doublet of surcease.
senses_examples:
text:
Rogue cancels and supersedes are being issued on a large scale against posters.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An updated newsgroup post that supersedes an earlier version.
senses_topics:
|
2174 | word:
current
word_type:
noun
expansion:
current (countable and uncountable, plural currents)
forms:
form:
currents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
current
etymology_text:
From Middle English curraunt, borrowed from Old French curant (French courant), present participle of courre (“to run”), from Latin currere, present active infinitive of currō (“I run”) (present participle currens). Doublet of courant.
senses_examples:
text:
The mantle is important to our discussion in that its viscous nature can conduct convection currents that have effects on the crust upon which we live.
ref:
2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition
type:
quotation
text:
Symbol: I (inclined upper case letter "I")
text:
Units:
text:
SI: ampere (A)
text:
CGS: esu/second (esu/s)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.
The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) short for ocean current.
the amount of electric charge flowing in each unit of time.
a tendency or a course of events
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
2175 | word:
current
word_type:
adj
expansion:
current (comparative currenter or more current, superlative currentest or most current)
forms:
form:
currenter
tags:
comparative
form:
more current
tags:
comparative
form:
currentest
tags:
superlative
form:
most current
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
current
etymology_text:
From Middle English curraunt, borrowed from Old French curant (French courant), present participle of courre (“to run”), from Latin currere, present active infinitive of currō (“I run”) (present participle currens). Doublet of courant.
senses_examples:
text:
current events
type:
example
text:
current leaders
type:
example
text:
current negotiations
type:
example
text:
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
ref:
2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
current affairs
type:
example
text:
current bills and coins
type:
example
text:
current fashions
type:
example
text:
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
ref:
2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
current bill
type:
example
text:
current shock
type:
example
text:
In April and May this year, the average daily current consumption dropped to 55 MU[…]Compared to household electricity charges, the current unit charge used by commercial companies is higher.[…]Electricity consumption is generally higher in summer as compared to monsoon and winter. The use of ACs will increase not only in homes but also in commercial establishments and current consumption will increase.
ref:
2021 June 13, Ravali Hymavathi, “Telangana: Even The TSSPDCL Is Facing Heavy Losses Due To Covid-19”, in The Hans India
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Existing or occurring at the moment.
Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment; having currency.
Electric; of or relating to electricity.
Running or moving rapidly.
senses_topics:
|
2176 | word:
gag
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gag (countable and uncountable, plural gags)
forms:
form:
gags
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is from Early Modern English gagge; the verb is from Middle English gaggen. Possibly imitative or perhaps related to or influenced by Old Norse gag-háls ("with head thrown backwards"; > Norwegian dialectal gaga (“bent backwards”)). The intransitive sense "to retch" is from 1707. The noun is from the 16th century, figurative use (for "repression of speech") from the 1620s. The secondary meaning "(practical) joke" is from 1863, of unclear origin.
senses_examples:
text:
Blood may seep to the back of the throat and may clot, producing an “artificial gag” of clotted blood.
ref:
2014, Anil Aggrawal, APC Essentials of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, page 298
type:
quotation
text:
Civil Court blocks PM's gag on free speech
ref:
2021 August 6, Online Reporters, “Civil Court blocks PM's gag on free speech”, in Bangkok Post, retrieved 2021-08-06
type:
quotation
text:
We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.
ref:
2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
On Hacksaw Ridge, Oliver and his team of effects artisans devised gags for that spectacular flamethrower shot along with other devastating body and bullet hits, and several mortar and full-scale explosions, all aimed at communicating the reality of battle.
ref:
2016 November 3, Ian Failes, “How the King of Practical Effects Conquered ‘Hacksaw Ridge’”, in Inverse
type:
quotation
text:
L. has recorded the repugnance of the school to gags, or the fat of fresh beef boiled, and sets it down to some superstition.
ref:
2008, Charles Lamb, Percy Fitzgerald, The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb - Volume 3, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
...and to take that fire behind the bony bars of the chest and into the tower of the windpipe, in one breath, before you choke on a gag of air thickened from the last breath of the executed the breathing of hot barrels and blood streaming on concrete,...
ref:
2013, Kathleen Cioffi, Alternative Theatre in Poland, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
"The Critic" has long been known in the theatre as a "gag-piece;" that is, a play which the performers consider themselves entitled to treat with the most merciless licence.
ref:
1882, Dutton Cook, A Book of the Play, page 329
type:
quotation
text:
[…] and my actors imbibe a reverence for their author, sir, which reverence I regret to observe is fast vanishing, in other places, under the baneful influence of gag, sir, gag! We play no pranks with the text, sir, in my company; if you cannot improve your author, which is generally doubtful, don't make him worse than he is.
ref:
1886, The Theatre, volume 1, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
The shallow water groups (Family Serranidae), including gag (Mycteroperca microlepis), black grouper (M. bonaci), scamp (M. phenax), and red grouper (Epinephalus morio), support major commercial and recreational fisheries in the southeastern United States.
ref:
1996, C.C. Koenig, “Reproduction in Gag (Mycteroperca microlepis) (Pisces: Serranidae) in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Consequences of Fishing Spawning Aggregations”, in Biology, Fisheries, and Culture of Tropical Groupers and Snappers
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.
An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
Any suppression of freedom of speech.
A joke or other mischievous prank.
a device or trick used to create a practical effect; a gimmick
A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.
A mouthful that makes one retch or choke.
Unscripted lines introduced by an actor into his part.
Mycteroperca microlepis, a species of grouper.
senses_topics:
law
broadcasting
film
media
television
|
2177 | word:
gag
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gag (third-person singular simple present gags, present participle gagging, simple past and past participle gagged)
forms:
form:
gags
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gagging
tags:
participle
present
form:
gagged
tags:
participle
past
form:
gagged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is from Early Modern English gagge; the verb is from Middle English gaggen. Possibly imitative or perhaps related to or influenced by Old Norse gag-háls ("with head thrown backwards"; > Norwegian dialectal gaga (“bent backwards”)). The intransitive sense "to retch" is from 1707. The noun is from the 16th century, figurative use (for "repression of speech") from the 1620s. The secondary meaning "(practical) joke" is from 1863, of unclear origin.
senses_examples:
text:
He gagged when he saw the open wound.
type:
example
text:
His empty stomach was suddenly full of butterflies, and for the first time since arriving here at scenic Durkin Grove Village, he felt an urge to gag himself. He would be able to think more clearly about this if he just stuck his fingers down his throat […]
ref:
2008, Stephen King, A Very Tight Place
type:
quotation
text:
1917, Francis Gregor (translator), De Laudibus Legum Angliae, Sir John Fortescue, written 1468–1471, first published 1543.
[…] some have their mouths gagged to such a wideness, for a long time, whereat such quantities of water are poured in, that their bellies swell to a prodigious degree […]
text:
When the financial irregularities were discovered, the CEO gagged everyone in the accounting department.
type:
example
text:
The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked.
ref:
c. 1840, Thomas Macaulay, Essay on Machiavelli
type:
quotation
text:
Vaid blasted the Bush administration for gagging doctors from discussing abortion.
ref:
1992 May 8, John Zeh, Gay Community News, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
I endeavoured what I could to soften off the affectation of her sudden change of Disposition; and I gagged the Gentleman with as much ease as my very little ease would allow me to assume.
ref:
1777, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 79
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To experience the vomiting reflex.
To cause to heave with nausea.
To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.
To choke; to retch.
To deceive (someone); to con.
To astonish (someone); (to cause someone) to be at a loss for words; to leave speechless; to be left speechless.
senses_topics:
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality |
2178 | word:
bunk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bunk (plural bunks)
forms:
form:
bunks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bunk
etymology_text:
Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), origin is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian.
Compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”).
See also boarding, flooring and compare bunch.
senses_examples:
text:
Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.
type:
example
text:
The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
ref:
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
A cot.
A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
government
military
politics
war
|
2179 | word:
bunk
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bunk (third-person singular simple present bunks, present participle bunking, simple past and past participle bunked)
forms:
form:
bunks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bunking
tags:
participle
present
form:
bunked
tags:
participle
past
form:
bunked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bunk
etymology_text:
Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), origin is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian.
Compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”).
See also boarding, flooring and compare bunch.
senses_examples:
text:
Due to bed shortages, Jeff and Paul had to bunk together.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To occupy a bunk.
To provide a bunk.
senses_topics:
|
2180 | word:
bunk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bunk (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Buncombe County, North Carolina
bunk
etymology_text:
Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe, from Buncombe County, North Carolina. See bunkum for more.
senses_examples:
text:
What she said about me was total bunk. Don't believe a word.
type:
example
text:
“You can’t pull any bunk like that on us!” roared Quelch. “We’ve had enough of this flapdoodlery! Take your money, Mrs. Clinton, and sign the deed.”
ref:
1927, Arthur Train, When Tutt Meets Tutt, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
This knife-throwing act is the bunk
ref:
1927 January 30, Randall Faye, 1:45 from the start, in Upstream, spoken by Eric Brasingham (Earle Foxe), Fox Film Corporation
type:
quotation
text:
I still can get off with a pound of bunk and pretend it's some Runtz
ref:
2020 July 18, Rio Da Yung OG, featured by T LB$ (lyrics and music), “Toledo 2 Flint”, in The World is Yours, 1:26–1:28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
In early use often in the form the bunk.
A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
senses_topics:
|
2181 | word:
bunk
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bunk (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Buncombe County, North Carolina
bunk
etymology_text:
Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe, from Buncombe County, North Carolina. See bunkum for more.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Defective, broken, not functioning properly.
senses_topics:
|
2182 | word:
bunk
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bunk (third-person singular simple present bunks, present participle bunking, simple past and past participle bunked)
forms:
form:
bunks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bunking
tags:
participle
present
form:
bunked
tags:
participle
past
form:
bunked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bunk
etymology_text:
19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "to occupy a bunk" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.
senses_examples:
text:
The naughty boys decided to bunk school and visit the comic shop.
type:
example
text:
"They're moving off," he said. "[…] [T]he funny little man with the beard like a goat is going a different way from everyone else — the gardeners will have to head him off. I don't see Mademoiselle, though. The rest of you had better bunk. […]"
ref:
1907, Edith Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').
To expel from a school.
To depart; scram.
senses_topics:
|
2183 | word:
Micronesia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Micronesia
forms:
wikipedia:
Federated States of Micronesia
Micronesia
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek μικρόνησος (mikrónēsos, “small island”, from μικρός (mikrós, “small, minimum”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”)) + -ia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A geographical region of Oceania.
A country consisting of about 2000 islands in Oceania. Official name: Federated States of Micronesia. Capital: Palikir.
senses_topics:
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2184 | word:
Sri Lanka
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sri Lanka
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Sinhalese ශ්රී ලංකාව (śrī laṁkāwa), from Sanskrit श्री लङ्का (śrī laṅkā, literally “holy Lanka”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island and country in South Asia, off the coast of India. Official name: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. Capital: Colombo.
senses_topics:
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2185 | word:
choir
word_type:
noun
expansion:
choir (plural choirs)
forms:
form:
choirs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Choir (disambiguation)
choir
etymology_text:
From Middle English quer, quere, from Old French quer, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós, “company of dancers or singers”). Modern spelling influenced by chorus and French chœur. Doublet of quire, chorus, and hora.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: (archaic) quire
text:
The church choir practices Thursday nights.
type:
example
text:
Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones are three of the choirs of angels.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.
Uncommon form of quire (“one quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse”).
One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.
senses_topics:
architecture
angelology
lifestyle
religion
theology
|
2186 | word:
choir
word_type:
verb
expansion:
choir (third-person singular simple present choirs or quires, present participle choiring or quiring, simple past and past participle choired or quired)
forms:
form:
choirs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quires
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
choiring
tags:
participle
present
form:
quiring
tags:
participle
present
form:
choired
tags:
participle
past
form:
choired
tags:
past
form:
quired
tags:
participle
past
form:
quired
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Choir (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English quer, quere, from Old French quer, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós, “company of dancers or singers”). Modern spelling influenced by chorus and French chœur. Doublet of quire, chorus, and hora.
senses_examples:
text:
The great aim of this book is to secure congregational singing, which the churches must come to, at last, after a long interval of choiring.
ref:
1859, The Presbyterian Magazine, volume 9, page 423
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sing in concert.
senses_topics:
|
2187 | word:
nuisance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nuisance (countable and uncountable, plural nuisances)
forms:
form:
nuisances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English noysaunce, from Anglo-Norman nusaunce, nussance and Old French nuisance, from nuisir (“to harm”), from Latin nocēre.
senses_examples:
text:
The neighbor's dog barking throughout the night is a right nuisance - I'm going to complain.
type:
example
text:
By itself, nondifferentiability at zero is a minor nuisance.
ref:
2010, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge, Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data, 2nd edition, The MIT Press, page 407
type:
quotation
text:
You can be such a nuisance when you don't get your way.
type:
example
text:
With Vardy working tirelessly up front, chasing lost causes and generally making a nuisance of himself, Sevilla were never allowed to settle on a night when the atmosphere was electric inside the King Power Stadium.
ref:
2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
a public nuisance
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.
Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.
senses_topics:
law |
2188 | word:
accountant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accountant (plural accountants)
forms:
form:
accountants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
accountant
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Middle French acuntant. Equivalent to account + -ant. First attested in the mid 15th century.
senses_examples:
text:
Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis
When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this
50-inch screen, money-green leather sofa
Got two rides, a limousine with a chauffeur
Phone bill about two G's flat
No need to worry, my accountant handles that
And my whole crew is loungin'
Celebratin' every day, no more public housin'
ref:
1994, 2:40 from the start, in Juicy (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who renders account; one accountable.
A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
A sex worker, particularly one who does not want to be publicized as one
senses_topics:
accounting
business
finance
accounting
business
finance
|
2189 | word:
accountant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accountant (comparative more accountant, superlative most accountant)
forms:
form:
more accountant
tags:
comparative
form:
most accountant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Middle French acuntant. Equivalent to account + -ant. First attested in the mid 15th century.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Accountable.
senses_topics:
|
2190 | word:
copacetic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
copacetic (comparative more copacetic, superlative most copacetic)
forms:
form:
more copacetic
tags:
comparative
form:
most copacetic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Stephen Goranson says "there is good reason to think that Irving Bacheller invented the word [with spelling copasetic] for a fictional character with a private vocabulary in his best-selling and later-serialized 1919 book about Abraham Lincoln in Illinois, A Man for the Ages", and its currency increased by use in the 1920 song "At the New Jump Steady Ball". Alternatively, it has been speculated that it may have originated among African Americans in the Southern US in the late 19th or early 20th century, perhaps specifically in the jargon of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, who certainly helped popularize it in any case. Many hypotheses about its origin (etymon) exist, all lacking supporting evidence:
Possible origins.
* That it derives from Cajun French coup esètique / coupersètique (“capable of being coped with successfully; able to cope with anything and everything”).
* That it derives from a word *copasetti used by Italian speakers in New York.
* That it derives from Chinook Jargon copasenee (“everything is satisfactory”) — if the Chinook Jargon term is not itself derived from English.
* The common suggestion that the term derives from Hebrew הכל בסדר (hakól b'séder, “everything is in order”) has been rejected, as has the fanciful suggestion that it derives from criminals' observation that they could go about their business because "the cop is on the settee".
senses_examples:
text:
["][…]an' as to looks I'd call him, as ye might say, real copasetic." Mrs. Lukins expressed this opinion solemnly and with a slight cough. Its last word stood for nothing more than an indefinite depth of meaning.[…] There was one other word in her lexicon which was in the nature of a jewel to be used only on special occasions. It was the word "copasetic".
ref:
1919, Irving Bacheller, A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, pages 69 and 287
type:
quotation
text:
Molly-squally, Miss Molly / Yeah, everything copacetic, now
ref:
1967, “Niki Hoeky”, in Enigma, performed by P. J. Proby
type:
quotation
text:
Count the cash, clean the oven, dump the trash, oh your loving is a rare and a copacetic gift.
ref:
1976, “I Can’t Wait to Get Off Work (and See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue)”, performed by Tom Waits
type:
quotation
text:
It’s a shame those boys couldn’t be more copacetic.
ref:
1987, “West L.A. Fadeaway”, performed by Grateful Dead
type:
quotation
text:
Colombia and Brazil were supposed to be more copacetic.
ref:
2014 July 5, Sam Borden, “For bellicose Brazil, payback carries heavy price: Loss of Neymar [International New York Times version: Brazil and referee share some blame for Neymar's injury: Spaniard's failure to curb early pattern of fouls is seen as major factor (7 July 2014, p. 13)]”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
I keep it real, niggas better keep it copacetic
ref:
2018, “Open Letter”, in Tha Carter V, performed by Lil Wayne
type:
quotation
text:
We’re only a few months into the Congress, and there are plenty of opportunities for bigger gulfs to appear; partisans agree on most things most of the time because most votes aren’t on hot-button issues. Nor does it make sense to pretend that everything’s copacetic.
ref:
2019 July 12, David A. Graham, “The Overhyped Feud Between Nancy Pelosi and AOC”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fine, excellent, OK, in excellent order.
senses_topics:
|
2191 | word:
vi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vi
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of verb intransitive or intransitive verb (often in dictionaries)
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2192 | word:
mortar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mortar (countable and uncountable, plural mortars)
forms:
form:
mortars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mortar
etymology_text:
From Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium.
senses_examples:
text:
The holy hearth! If any earthly and material thing, or rather a divine idea embodied in brick and mortar, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth, it was this.
ref:
1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Fire Worship”, in Mosses from an Old Manse
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories.
In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
|
2193 | word:
mortar
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mortar (third-person singular simple present mortars, present participle mortaring, simple past and past participle mortared)
forms:
form:
mortars
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mortaring
tags:
participle
present
form:
mortared
tags:
participle
past
form:
mortared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
mortar
etymology_text:
From Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium.
senses_examples:
text:
The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
To pound in a mortar.
To fire a mortar (weapon).
To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).
senses_topics:
|
2194 | word:
stone fruit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stone fruit (plural stone fruits)
forms:
form:
stone fruits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Drupe
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any fruit with a soft fleshy exterior surrounding a hard pit or stone containing the seed.
Any plant in the genus Prunus.
senses_topics:
|
2195 | word:
phoenix
word_type:
noun
expansion:
phoenix (plural phoenix or phoenixes or phoenices)
forms:
form:
phoenix
tags:
plural
form:
phoenixes
tags:
plural
form:
phoenices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English and Old French fenix, from Medieval Latin phenix, from Latin phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoînix), from Egyptian bnw (boinu, “grey heron”). Doublet of Bennu. The grey heron was venerated at Heliopolis and associated in Egypt with the cyclical renewal of life because the bird rises in flight at dawn and migrates back every year in the flood season to inhabit the Nile waters.
senses_examples:
text:
Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.
type:
example
text:
Many of the legitimate nightclubs of today sprang like legalized phoenixes from the still-hot ashes of the speakeasies of prohibition days.
ref:
1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
The national currency, the phoenix, which had been established by Kapodistrias, was renamed after an ancient Greek coin, the drachma.
ref:
2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 116
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.
A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.
A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.
A marvelous person or thing.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
|
2196 | word:
phoenix
word_type:
verb
expansion:
phoenix (third-person singular simple present phoenixes, present participle phoenixing, simple past and past participle phoenixed)
forms:
form:
phoenixes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
phoenixing
tags:
participle
present
form:
phoenixed
tags:
participle
past
form:
phoenixed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English and Old French fenix, from Medieval Latin phenix, from Latin phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoînix), from Egyptian bnw (boinu, “grey heron”). Doublet of Bennu. The grey heron was venerated at Heliopolis and associated in Egypt with the cyclical renewal of life because the bird rises in flight at dawn and migrates back every year in the flood season to inhabit the Nile waters.
senses_examples:
text:
Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association CEO John Winter said phoenixing has been "endemic" for decades.
ref:
2019 December 17, Noel Gladstone, Carrie Fellner, “Small business flattened by 'dodgy' builders in phoenixing epidemic”, in The Sydney Morning Herald
type:
quotation
text:
The ATO defines iIllegal phoenixing as when a new company is created to continue the business of a company that has been deliberately liquidated to avoid paying its debts, including taxes, creditors and employee entitlements.
ref:
2020 September 24, Anne Davies, “Phoenixing: how unscrupulous dealers rise debt-free from the ashes of failed companies”, in The Sydney Morning Herald
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liability
senses_topics:
|
2197 | word:
Netherlands
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Netherlands (usually uncountable, plural the Netherlands)
forms:
form:
the Netherlands
tags:
canonical
form:
the Netherlands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Netherlands
etymology_text:
From nether (“lower”) + lands, the country being very low-lying, with a great part below sea level. Compare Dutch Nederland.
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Netherlands.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The main constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located primarily in Western Europe bordering Germany and Belgium. Capital and largest city: Amsterdam.
A country in Western Europe, consisting of four constituent countries: the Netherlands per se, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten.
senses_topics:
|
2198 | word:
Netherlands
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Netherlands (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Netherlands
etymology_text:
From nether (“lower”) + lands, the country being very low-lying, with a great part below sea level. Compare Dutch Nederland.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from or relating to the Netherlands.
senses_topics:
|
2199 | word:
Netherlands
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Netherlands pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
Netherlands
etymology_text:
From nether (“lower”) + lands, the country being very low-lying, with a great part below sea level. Compare Dutch Nederland.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of netherlands.
senses_topics:
|
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