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21900 | word:
arco
word_type:
adv
expansion:
arco (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian arco (“bow”). Doublet of arch and arc.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A note in string instrument musical notation indicating that the bow is to be used in the usual way, usuall... |
21901 | word:
PEI
word_type:
name
expansion:
PEI
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Prince Edward Island, a province of Canada.
senses_topics:
|
21902 | word:
PEI
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PEI (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of polyethyleneimine.
Initialism of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency.
senses_topics:
|
21903 | word:
period
word_type:
noun
expansion:
period (plural periods)
forms:
form:
periods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English periode, from Middle French periode, from Medieval Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, an interval of time, path around”), ... |
21904 | word:
period
word_type:
adj
expansion:
period (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English periode, from Middle French periode, from Medieval Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, an interval of time, path around”), from περί- (perí-, “around”) + ὁδός (ho... |
21905 | word:
period
word_type:
intj
expansion:
period
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English periode, from Middle French periode, from Medieval Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, an interval of time, path around”), from περί- (perí-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”). Dis... |
21906 | word:
period
word_type:
verb
expansion:
period (third-person singular simple present periods, present participle perioding, simple past and past participle perioded)
forms:
form:
periods
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
perioding
tags:
participle
present
form:
pe... |
21907 | word:
adenitis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
adenitis (countable and uncountable, plural adenitises or adenitides)
forms:
form:
adenitises
tags:
plural
form:
adenitides
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀδήν (adḗn) + -itis.
senses_examples:
sense... |
21908 | word:
Unix
word_type:
name
expansion:
Unix
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A pun on Multics to sound like eunuchs, as Unix was considered to be an emasculated Multics (see multi- and uni-). Probably coined by Brian Kernighan in 1970.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: UNIX
text:
Alternat... |
21909 | word:
Unix
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Unix (plural Unixes or Unices or Unixen)
forms:
form:
Unixes
tags:
plural
form:
Unices
tags:
plural
form:
Unixen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Unix
etymology_text:
A pun on Multics to sound like eunuchs, as Unix was considered to be an emascu... |
21910 | word:
fireman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fireman (plural firemen)
forms:
form:
firemen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fireman
etymology_text:
From fire + -man.
senses_examples:
text:
By February 1944 there were over two thousand women employed at the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company [...].... |
21911 | word:
colonus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
colonus (plural coloni)
forms:
form:
coloni
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin colōnus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sharecropping tenant farmer of the late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages.
senses_topics:
|
21912 | word:
diminuendo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
diminuendo (plural diminuendos)
forms:
form:
diminuendos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.
senses_examples:
text:
Thus, in "Flavia and Her Artists" (1905), for example, a fiction of consonance in diminuend... |
21913 | word:
diminuendo
word_type:
adv
expansion:
diminuendo (comparative more diminuendo, superlative most diminuendo)
forms:
form:
more diminuendo
tags:
comparative
form:
most diminuendo
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.
senses_examples:
senses... |
21914 | word:
diminuendo
word_type:
adj
expansion:
diminuendo (comparative more diminuendo, superlative most diminuendo)
forms:
form:
more diminuendo
tags:
comparative
form:
most diminuendo
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.
senses_examples:
senses... |
21915 | word:
adduction
word_type:
noun
expansion:
adduction (countable and uncountable, plural adductions)
forms:
form:
adductions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
adduction
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin adductio, adductionis, from adducō (“I bring to myself”), from ad + ducō (“I lead”). Compare French addu... |
21916 | word:
cyclops
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cyclops (plural cyclops or cyclopes or cyclopses)
forms:
form:
cyclops
tags:
plural
form:
cyclopes
tags:
plural
form:
cyclopses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cyclops
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin cyclōps, from Ancient Greek Κύκλωψ (K... |
21917 | word:
-ing
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-ing
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
Inherited from Middle English -ing, from Old English -ing, -ung (“-ing”, suffix forming nouns from verbs), from Proto-West Germanic *-ingu, *-ungu, from Proto-Germanic *-ingō, *-ungō. Cognate with Saterland Frisian -enge (“... |
21918 | word:
-ing
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-ing
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English -inge, -ynge, alteration of earlier -inde, -ende, -and (see -and), from Old English -ende (present participle ending), from Proto-West Germanic *-andī, from Proto-Germanic *-andz (present participle endi... |
21919 | word:
-ing
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-ing
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table From Middle English -ing, from Old English -ing, from Proto-West Germanic *-ing, from Proto-Germanic *-ingaz. Akin to Old Norse -ingr.
senses_examples:
text:
Ealing, Dorking, Reading, Worthing
type:
example
te... |
21920 | word:
adjuration
word_type:
noun
expansion:
adjuration (countable and uncountable, plural adjurations)
forms:
form:
adjurations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin adiuratio.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A grave warning.
A solemn oath.
senses_topics:
... |
21921 | word:
single
word_type:
adj
expansion:
single (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
single
etymology_text:
From Middle English single, sengle, from Old French sengle, saingle, sangle, from Latin singulus, a diminutive derived from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”). Akin to Latin simplex (“simple”). See simple, ... |
21922 | word:
single
word_type:
noun
expansion:
single (plural singles)
forms:
form:
singles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
single
etymology_text:
From Middle English single, sengle, from Old French sengle, saingle, sangle, from Latin singulus, a diminutive derived from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”). Akin to... |
21923 | word:
single
word_type:
verb
expansion:
single (third-person singular simple present singles, present participle singling, simple past and past participle singled)
forms:
form:
singles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
singling
tags:
participle
present
form:
singl... |
21924 | word:
bareback
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bareback (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
bareback
etymology_text:
From bare + back.
senses_examples:
text:
bareback riding
type:
example
text:
bareback sex
type:
example
text:
‘Bareback’ bathing for men, heretofore taboo in Atlantic Ci... |
21925 | word:
bareback
word_type:
adv
expansion:
bareback (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
bareback
etymology_text:
From bare + back.
senses_examples:
text:
I can ride a horse bareback.
type:
example
text:
We had sex bareback.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Without a s... |
21926 | word:
bareback
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bareback (third-person singular simple present barebacks, present participle barebacking, simple past and past participle barebacked)
forms:
form:
barebacks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
barebacking
tags:
participle
present
... |
21927 | word:
bareback
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bareback (plural barebacks)
forms:
form:
barebacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bareback
etymology_text:
From bare + back.
senses_examples:
text:
Buyers discount many broiler flocks by from one to five cents a pound due to barebacks, but the loss to the i... |
21928 | word:
adductor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
adductor (plural adductors or adductores)
forms:
form:
adductors
tags:
plural
form:
adductores
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin adduco. Equivalent to adduct + -or.
senses_examples:
text:
The adductor of the eye turns th... |
21929 | word:
starter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
starter (plural starters)
forms:
form:
starters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
starter
etymology_text:
From start + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
The most charitable view taken of them by their colleagues was that, as late starters on the journey away from ... |
21930 | word:
eating establishment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eating establishment (plural eating establishments)
forms:
form:
eating establishments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A public place where food and drinks are served for a fee
s... |
21931 | word:
wait state
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wait state (plural wait states)
forms:
form:
wait states
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
With memory that slow, the processor is going to spend most of its time on wait states.
type:
example
senses_categories:... |
21932 | word:
everything
word_type:
pron
expansion:
everything
forms:
wikipedia:
everything
etymology_text:
Univerbation of every + thing.
senses_examples:
text:
I checked the list again and everything is done.
type:
example
text:
Thank you for everything you've done for us.
type:
example
t... |
21933 | word:
everything
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
senses_topics:
|
21934 | word:
wait for
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wait for (third-person singular simple present waits for, present participle waiting for, simple past and past participle waited for)
forms:
form:
waits for
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
waiting for
tags:
participle
present
... |
21935 | word:
stage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stage (plural stages)
forms:
form:
stages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stage
etymology_text:
From Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”), from Old French ester (“to be standing, be located”). Cognate wi... |
21936 | word:
stage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stage (third-person singular simple present stages, present participle staging, simple past and past participle staged)
forms:
form:
stages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
staging
tags:
participle
present
form:
staged
tag... |
21937 | word:
stage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stage (plural stages)
forms:
form:
stages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stage
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French stage (“internship”).
senses_examples:
text:
It doesn’t matter that recent reporting on the stage economy of Copenhagen […] has revealed a patte... |
21938 | word:
stage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stage (third-person singular simple present stages, present participle staging, simple past and past participle staged)
forms:
form:
stages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
staging
tags:
participle
present
form:
staged
tag... |
21939 | word:
treasure
word_type:
noun
expansion:
treasure (countable and uncountable, plural treasures)
forms:
form:
treasures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tresour, from Old French tresor (“treasury”), from Latin thēsaurus (“treasure”), from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaur... |
21940 | word:
treasure
word_type:
verb
expansion:
treasure (third-person singular simple present treasures, present participle treasuring, simple past and past participle treasured)
forms:
form:
treasures
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
treasuring
tags:
participle
present
f... |
21941 | word:
arf
word_type:
intj
expansion:
arf!
forms:
form:
arf!
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Representing the sound of a dog's bark.
senses_topics:
|
21942 | word:
Scots Gaelic
word_type:
name
expansion:
Scots Gaelic
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Gaelic language spoken in Scotland.
senses_topics:
|
21943 | word:
draco
word_type:
noun
expansion:
draco (plural dracos)
forms:
form:
dracos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Chop trees with the draco
ref:
2018, “Narcos”, in Quavious Marshall, Kirshnik Ball, Kiari Cephus (lyrics), Culture II, performed by Migos, M... |
21944 | word:
edifice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
edifice (plural edifices)
forms:
form:
edifices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English edifice, from Old French edifice, a classical borrowing of Latin aedificium (“building”), derived from aedificāre (“to build, establish”) (whence al... |
21945 | word:
Neo Latin
word_type:
name
expansion:
Neo Latin
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Neo-Latin; Synonym of New Latin
senses_topics:
|
21946 | word:
padre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
padre (plural padres or padri)
forms:
form:
padres
tags:
plural
form:
padri
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian padre, Spanish padre, Portuguese padre (“priest”), from Latin pater (“father”). Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, pater... |
21947 | word:
fortissimo
word_type:
adv
expansion:
fortissimo (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian fortissimo.
senses_examples:
text:
He claims he was doing no more than repeating the standard nationalist account. So he was, but he was also repeating that passionate liberal... |
21948 | word:
fortissimo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fortissimo (plural fortissimos or fortissimi)
forms:
form:
fortissimos
tags:
plural
form:
fortissimi
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian fortissimo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The dynami... |
21949 | word:
astroturfing
word_type:
noun
expansion:
astroturfing (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From AstroTurf (“a synthetic substitute for grass”), a play on grass roots, as in “fake grass roots”. Attributed to U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen in an unidentified 1985 public statement: "[A] fellow from... |
21950 | word:
bogie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bogie (plural bogies)
forms:
form:
bogies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A dialectal word from Northern England of unknown origin which is unrelated to bogey (“hostile supernatural creature; terrifying thing, bugbear”).
senses_examples:
text:
... |
21951 | word:
bogie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bogie (plural bogies)
forms:
form:
bogies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Easy Rider
Fraternity of Man
Humphrey Bogart
etymology_text:
Possibly from bogart (“to selfishly take or keep something, to hog; especially to hold a joint (marijuana cigarette) dangling be... |
21952 | word:
bogie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bogie (plural bogies)
forms:
form:
bogies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A variant of bogey.
senses_examples:
text:
All of a sudden he heard a terrible scream ahead, and he thought it must be the bogie singing his dirge.
ref:
1886, Peter... |
21953 | word:
activation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
activation (countable and uncountable, plural activations)
forms:
form:
activations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alarm activations cause the driver to have to stop the train - and in some cases walk back to reset... |
21954 | word:
penile
word_type:
adj
expansion:
penile (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From pen(is) + -ile.
senses_examples:
text:
penile strength
type:
example
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:penile.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to the pen... |
21955 | word:
hero
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hero (plural heroes or (sandwich sense only) heros, feminine heroine)
forms:
form:
heroes
tags:
plural
form:
heros
tags:
error-unknown-tag
plural
form:
heroine
tags:
feminine
wikipedia:
hero
etymology_text:
From Middle English heroe... |
21956 | word:
PRC
word_type:
name
expansion:
PRC
forms:
wikipedia:
PRC (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: ROC
text:
(c) Ratification: It falls outside the scope of this calendar to describe the process of ratification for each agreement. Under the 1954 Constitutio... |
21957 | word:
PRC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PRC (countable and uncountable, plural PRCs)
forms:
form:
PRCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
PRC (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"It doesn't matter," she said. "They may still think you're a PRC who obtained a British passport."
... |
21958 | word:
filtrate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
filtrate (plural filtrates)
forms:
form:
filtrates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin filtrātus, past participle of filtrō.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The liquid or solution that has passed through a filte... |
21959 | word:
filtrate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
filtrate (third-person singular simple present filtrates, present participle filtrating, simple past and past participle filtrated)
forms:
form:
filtrates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
filtrating
tags:
participle
present
f... |
21960 | word:
angelus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
angelus (plural angeluses)
forms:
form:
angeluses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Angelus
senses_topics:
|
21961 | word:
Islamist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Islamist (plural Islamists)
forms:
form:
Islamists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Islam + -ist. Compare Islamicist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Muslim.
A scholastic Muslim who specializes in Muslim academi... |
21962 | word:
Islamist
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Islamist (comparative more Islamist, superlative most Islamist)
forms:
form:
more Islamist
tags:
comparative
form:
most Islamist
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Islam + -ist. Compare Islamicist.
senses_examples:
text:
I... |
21963 | word:
numinous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
numinous (comparative more numinous, superlative most numinous)
forms:
form:
more numinous
tags:
comparative
form:
most numinous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin nūmen (“nod of the head; divine sway or will; divinity”) + ... |
21964 | word:
Keynesian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Keynesian (comparative more Keynesian, superlative most Keynesian)
forms:
form:
more Keynesian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Keynesian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Keynesian economics
etymology_text:
From Keynes + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
... |
21965 | word:
Keynesian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Keynesian (plural Keynesians)
forms:
form:
Keynesians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Keynesian economics
etymology_text:
From Keynes + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
We Are All Keynesians Now [title]
ref:
1965 December 31, Milton Friedman, “We Are All ... |
21966 | word:
cattlewoman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cattlewoman (plural cattlewomen)
forms:
form:
cattlewomen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From cattle + -woman.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A woman who raises or tends cattle.
senses_topics:
|
21967 | word:
godly
word_type:
adj
expansion:
godly (comparative godlier or more godly, superlative godliest or most godly)
forms:
form:
godlier
tags:
comparative
form:
more godly
tags:
comparative
form:
godliest
tags:
superlative
form:
most godly
tags:
superlative
wikipedi... |
21968 | word:
godly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
godly (comparative more godly, superlative most godly)
forms:
form:
more godly
tags:
comparative
form:
most godly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From god + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
All that will live godly in Christ Jesus sh... |
21969 | word:
ufo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ufo (plural ufos)
forms:
form:
ufos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Reading of UFO as a word in its own right.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A UFO.
senses_topics:
|
21970 | word:
fame
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fame (usually uncountable, plural fames)
forms:
form:
fames
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fame
etymology_text:
From Middle English fame, from Old French fame (“celebrity, renown”), itself borrowed from Latin fāma (“talk, rumor, report, reputation”), from Proto-Indo-... |
21971 | word:
fame
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fame (third-person singular simple present fames, present participle faming, simple past and past participle famed)
forms:
form:
fames
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
faming
tags:
participle
present
form:
famed
tags:
p... |
21972 | word:
inaccuracy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
inaccuracy (countable and uncountable, plural inaccuracies)
forms:
form:
inaccuracies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically in- + accuracy.
senses_examples:
text:
This book has a few factual inaccuracies, but only because of the... |
21973 | word:
umami
word_type:
noun
expansion:
umami (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Japanese 旨味, うまみ (umami), from 旨い (umai, “delicious”), which describes the quality of a pleasant, savory taste.
senses_examples:
text:
Umami is the mysterious “fifth taste”—a flavour that has never seemed... |
21974 | word:
apropos
word_type:
adj
expansion:
apropos (comparative more apropos, superlative most apropos)
forms:
form:
more apropos
tags:
comparative
form:
most apropos
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”).
Similar in meaning and fo... |
21975 | word:
apropos
word_type:
prep
expansion:
apropos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”).
Similar in meaning and form, and to some extent etymology, to appropriate, but not a doublet of it.
senses_examples:
text:
Few have the same root and branch obsession w... |
21976 | word:
apropos
word_type:
adv
expansion:
apropos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”).
Similar in meaning and form, and to some extent etymology, to appropriate, but not a doublet of it.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
By the way.
T... |
21977 | word:
radii
word_type:
noun
expansion:
radii
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Now the centrifugal forces of bodies revolving in the ſame time in different circles being to one another as the radii of the circles (as ſhall be ſhewn when I come to treat of thoſe forces) it follo... |
21978 | word:
seismicity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seismicity (countable and uncountable, plural seismicities)
forms:
form:
seismicities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From seismic + -ity.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A measure or a degree of how seismic a region is o... |
21979 | word:
honesty
word_type:
noun
expansion:
honesty (countable and uncountable, plural honesties)
forms:
form:
honesties
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Lunaria
honesty
etymology_text:
From Middle English honeste (“honour, integrity”), from Old French honesté (compare modern French honnêteté) (honest + -y)... |
21980 | word:
Scottish Gaelic
word_type:
name
expansion:
Scottish Gaelic
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Gaelic language of Scotland, spoken primarily in the northern and western parts of the country, with important communities in Glasgow and Edinburgh.... |
21981 | word:
battle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
battle (plural battles)
forms:
form:
battles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English batel, batell, batelle, batayle, bataylle, borrowed from Old French bataille, from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia (“fighting and fencing exer... |
21982 | word:
battle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
battle (third-person singular simple present battles, present participle battling, simple past and past participle battled)
forms:
form:
battles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
battling
tags:
participle
present
form:
battl... |
21983 | word:
battle
word_type:
adj
expansion:
battle (comparative more battle, superlative most battle)
forms:
form:
more battle
tags:
comparative
form:
most battle
tags:
superlative
form:
except British
tags:
obsolete
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Early Modern English batell, ... |
21984 | word:
battle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
battle (third-person singular simple present battles, present participle battling, simple past and past participle battled)
forms:
form:
battles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
battling
tags:
participle
present
form:
battl... |
21985 | word:
wait on someone hand and foot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wait on someone hand and foot (third-person singular simple present waits on someone hand and foot, present participle waiting on someone hand and foot, simple past and past participle waited on someone hand and foot)
forms:
form:
waits on someo... |
21986 | word:
ocarina
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ocarina (plural ocarinas)
forms:
form:
ocarinas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian ocarina (literally “little goose”), due to the musical instrument's resemblance to the animal.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosse... |
21987 | word:
nox
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nox (plural nox)
forms:
form:
nox
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin nox (“night; darkness”), by analogy with lux from Latin lūx (“light; daylight, day”). Doublet of night.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
millilux (unit ... |
21988 | word:
nox
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nox (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From n (“nitrogen”) + ox (“oxide”).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: nos
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of NOx (nitrogen oxides)
Abbreviation of nitrous oxide.
senses_topics:
|
21989 | word:
bogey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bogey (plural bogeys)
forms:
form:
bogeys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably related to or alteration of bogle, akin to or from a variant of Middle English bugge (“frightening specter, scarecrow”) (whence partly bug), of uncertain origin: perha... |
21990 | word:
bogey
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bogey (third-person singular simple present bogeys, present participle bogeying, simple past and past participle bogeyed or bogied)
forms:
form:
bogeys
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bogeying
tags:
participle
present
form:
... |
21991 | word:
bogey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bogey (plural bogeys)
forms:
form:
bogeys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of bog-standard + -ey (diminutive suffix).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of pr... |
21992 | word:
bogey
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bogey (third-person singular simple present bogeys, present participle bogeying, simple past and past participle bogeyed)
forms:
form:
bogeys
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bogeying
tags:
participle
present
form:
bogeyed
... |
21993 | word:
bogey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bogey (plural bogeys)
forms:
form:
bogeys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Dharug bugi- (“to bathe, dive”).
senses_examples:
text:
My mother would use leaves from trees to make soap for washing our bodies with, and unfortunately for us kids... |
21994 | word:
bogey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bogey (plural bogeys)
forms:
form:
bogeys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A variant of bogie.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of bogie (“one of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; also, a s... |
21995 | word:
Jane Crow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Jane Crow (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Patterned after Jim Crow and Jane Doe, such Crow meaning "discrimination", and Doe meaning "unknown" or "anonymous"
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Discrimination against women.
... |
21996 | word:
Abkhazian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Abkhazian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Abkhaz
etymology_text:
From Abkhazia + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Abkhazia, a disputed territory in Georgia.
Of or pertaining to the Abkhaz language.
senses_topics:
... |
21997 | word:
Abkhazian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Abkhazian (plural Abkhazians)
forms:
form:
Abkhazians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Abkhaz
etymology_text:
From Abkhazia + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Abkhazia, a region in the Caucasus.
senses_topics:
|
21998 | word:
Abkhazian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Abkhazian
forms:
wikipedia:
Abkhaz
etymology_text:
From Abkhazia + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Abkhaz language, spoken in Abkhazia, a region in the Caucasus.
senses_topics:
|
21999 | word:
quixotic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
quixotic (comparative more quixotic, superlative most quixotic)
forms:
form:
more quixotic
tags:
comparative
form:
most quixotic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
etymology_text:
Derived from Spanish Quixote, the sur... |
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