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2200 | word:
tigre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tigre (plural tigres)
forms:
form:
tigres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of tiger.
senses_topics:
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2201 | word:
secondo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
secondo (plural secondos or secondi)
forms:
form:
secondos
tags:
plural
form:
secondi
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian secondo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The second part in a concerted piece.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
2202 | word:
skirmish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
skirmish (plural skirmishes)
forms:
form:
skirmishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English skirmish (as a verb), from Old French escarmouche (“skirmish”), from Italian scaramuccia, earlier schermugio. Doublet of escarmouche and Scaramouche.
senses_examples:
text:
On 2 March, Chinese border guards with the help of regular PLA forces skillfully ambushed Strelnikov's unit on the ice near Chen Pao, killing him and 30 Soviets in the subsequent skirmish.
ref:
1970 April 28, “Chen Pao Battle and Subsequent Threat Campaign”, in The Evolution of Soviet Policy in the Sino-Soviet Border Dispute, Directorate of Intelligence, published 2007, →OCLC, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
Three people were arrested after a skirmish in a bar.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A brief battle between small groups, usually part of a longer or larger battle or war.
Any minor dispute.
A type of outdoor military style game using paintball or similar weapons.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
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2203 | word:
skirmish
word_type:
verb
expansion:
skirmish (third-person singular simple present skirmishes, present participle skirmishing, simple past and past participle skirmished)
forms:
form:
skirmishes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
skirmishing
tags:
participle
present
form:
skirmished
tags:
participle
past
form:
skirmished
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English skirmish (as a verb), from Old French escarmouche (“skirmish”), from Italian scaramuccia, earlier schermugio. Doublet of escarmouche and Scaramouche.
senses_examples:
text:
Other historians might also remark that […] they have persisted all this time, constantly wrestling and skirmishing and yet never destroying themselves.
ref:
2019, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin, Macmillan, page 376
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To engage in a minor battle or dispute.
senses_topics:
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2204 | word:
SARS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SARS (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
SARS set off a panic about global spread and contagion.
ref:
2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 182
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of severe acute respiratory syndrome; also Sars.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
2205 | word:
SARS
word_type:
name
expansion:
SARS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a Nigerian police unit known for police brutality and corruption
Initialism of South African Revenue Service.
senses_topics:
government
law-enforcement
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2206 | word:
cowbell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cowbell (countable and uncountable, plural cowbells)
forms:
form:
cowbells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From cow + bell.
senses_examples:
text:
This song would sound better with the addition of a cowbell.
type:
example
text:
It's good, but it really needs more cowbell.
type:
example
text:
The Eagles don't have a cow-bell running back, like Gurley, but they have enough by-committee.
ref:
2018 December 17, Jeff McLane, “Eagles-Rams: What we learned from the surprising victory”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bell worn by cows; sometimes with an ornate strap.
A musical instrument, typically found without a clapper.
Misconstruction of bell cow
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
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2207 | word:
stylus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stylus (plural styli or styluses)
forms:
form:
styli
tags:
plural
form:
styluses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stylus
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin stylus (“a stake or pale”). Probably not directly related to Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos, “a pillar”). Doublet of style.
senses_examples:
text:
[T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.
ref:
2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review”, in The Telegraph
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ancient writing implement consisting of a small rod with a pointed end for scratching letters on clay, wax-covered tablets or other surfaces, and a blunt end for obliterating them.
A small implement with a pointed end used for engraving and tracing.
An ancient writing implement consisting of a small rod with a pointed end for scratching letters on clay, wax-covered tablets or other surfaces, and a blunt end for obliterating them.
A small device resembling a pen used to input handwritten text or drawings directly into an electronic device with a touch-sensitive screen.
An ancient writing implement consisting of a small rod with a pointed end for scratching letters on clay, wax-covered tablets or other surfaces, and a blunt end for obliterating them.
A hard-pointed pen-shaped instrument for marking on stencils used in a mimeograph machine.
A hard point, typically of diamond or sapphire, following a groove in a phonograph and transmitting the recorded sound for reproduction.
A hard point, typically of diamond or sapphire, following a groove in a phonograph and transmitting the recorded sound for reproduction.
A pointed device formerly used to produce a groove in a record when recording sound.
A tool for making small dots on a piece of heavy paper, used to produce Braille writing for the blind by hand.
Synonym of style.
senses_topics:
communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
communications
computing
engineering
journalism
literature
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
writing
communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
2208 | word:
worthwhile
word_type:
adj
expansion:
worthwhile (comparative more worthwhile, superlative most worthwhile)
forms:
form:
more worthwhile
tags:
comparative
form:
most worthwhile
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From worth + while.
senses_examples:
text:
Doing volunteer work to help others is truly worthwhile.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on.
senses_topics:
|
2209 | word:
wrote
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wrote
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
We all wrote down the instructions.
type:
example
text:
I have wrote without any Reſentment againſt him, knowing very well how apt young People are to miſtake their Talents, to fancy they are Maſters of every Point of Knowledge wherein they have dipped never ſo little[…]
ref:
1743, Corbyn Morris, A Letter to the Reverend Mr. Thomas Carte, Author of the Full Anſwer to The Letter from a Byſtander, Jacob Robinson, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
It has been almost ten years since I have wrote Embodied Prayer. Much has happened in my own life, including profound loss through divorce, and changes in my vocational life. I am not the same person that I was when I wrote it, and neither is my body, or rather what I would call my "bodysoul".
ref:
2004 [1995], Celeste Snowber, Embodied Prayer: Toward a Wholeness of Body, Mind, and Soul, Wood Lake Publishing Inc., page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of write
past participle of write
senses_topics:
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2210 | word:
Barbados
word_type:
name
expansion:
Barbados
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese barbados (“bearded ones”), from barba (“beard”), due to the dense hanging moss or vines in the island.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island and country in the Caribbean.
senses_topics:
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2211 | word:
Barbados
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Barbados (third-person singular simple present Barbadoses, present participle Barbadosing, simple past and past participle Barbadosed)
forms:
form:
Barbadoses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Barbadosing
tags:
participle
present
form:
Barbadosed
tags:
participle
past
form:
Barbadosed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese barbados (“bearded ones”), from barba (“beard”), due to the dense hanging moss or vines in the island.
senses_examples:
text:
The Barbadian planters […] resorted to shipping in hundreds of Scottish and Irish soldiers who’d been taken prisoner during Oliver Cromwell’s conquest. When that supply ran out, they took to kidnapping children, so many that a new term was coined: “barbadosed” meant the same thing in the late seventeenth century as “shanghaied” would in the twentieth.
ref:
2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 7, in American nations, New York: Penguin
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To press-gang (force into naval service).
senses_topics:
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2212 | word:
wove
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wove
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
She wove a beautiful basket out of reeds.
type:
example
text:
One might have wove Stuffs with it, had it been prepar'd.
ref:
1701, Francis Leguat, A new voyage to the Eaſt-Indies by Francis Leguat and his companions […], page 61
type:
quotation
text:
[…]and the pearls which they have wove among her black tresses, were whiter than the frozen hail drops.
ref:
1823, Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
[…]enlisting as soldiers, during the late war, who, had they stuck to their looms, would have wove, at least, 50 pounds worth of cloth each in the year
ref:
2005, W. H. Crawford, The Impact of the Domestic Linen Industry in Ulster, Ulster Historical Foundation, page 185
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of weave
past participle of weave
senses_topics:
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2213 | word:
wove
word_type:
adj
expansion:
wove (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
made on a mould of closely woven wire
senses_topics:
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2214 | word:
throne room
word_type:
noun
expansion:
throne room (plural throne rooms)
forms:
form:
throne rooms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
throne room
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The economy of space is a marvel; the studio may seem cluttered, a kind of Middle-earthian junkyard ringed by the stalks of lighting rigs, but one glance into the monitor and there is Théoden’s massive throne room, carved straight out of the pages of Tolkien’s vast antiquity.
ref:
2005, Andrew O’Hehir, “The Fellowship of the Ring”, in Peter Jackson: From Gore to Mordor, Plexus, page 138
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A room with a throne, particularly
A room used for formal public audiences by a monarch.
A room with a throne, particularly
A bathroom: a room with a toilet, especially one in one's home.
senses_topics:
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2215 | word:
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
forms:
form:
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Russian Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик (Sojúz Sovétskix Socialistíčeskix Respúblik).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nation in Eurasia that existed from December 30, 1922 to December 26, 1991.
senses_topics:
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2216 | word:
on
word_type:
adj
expansion:
on (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English on, from Old English on, an (“on, upon, onto, in, into”), from Proto-West Germanic *ana, from Proto-Germanic *ana (“on, at”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-.
Cognate with North Frisian a (“on, in”), Saterland Frisian an (“on, at”), West Frisian oan (“on, at”), Dutch aan (“on, at, to”), Low German an (“on, at”), German an (“to, at, on”), Swedish å (“on, at, in”), Faroese á (“on, onto, in, at”), Icelandic á (“on, in”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰 (ana), Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, upon”), Albanian në (“in”); and from Old Norse upp á: Danish på, Swedish på, Norwegian på, see upon.
senses_examples:
text:
All the lights are on, so they must be home.
type:
example
text:
We had to ration our food because there was a war on.
type:
example
text:
Some of the cast went down with flu, but the show's still on.
type:
example
text:
That TV programme that you wanted to watch is on now.
type:
example
text:
This is her last song. You're on next!
type:
example
text:
Are we still on for tonight?
type:
example
text:
Mike just threw coffee onto Paul's lap. It's on now.
type:
example
text:
England need a hundred runs, with twenty-five overs remaining. Game on!
type:
example
text:
"Five bucks says the Cavs win tonight." ―"You're on!"
type:
example
text:
If he wants a fight, he's on!
type:
example
text:
Your feet will soon warm up once your socks are on.
type:
example
text:
I was trying to drink out of the bottle while the top was still on!
type:
example
text:
The photograph shows the UFO side on.
text:
edge on, side on, end on, face on
text:
You can't do that; it's just not on.
type:
example
text:
This kind of over-packaging of goods is completely not on.
ref:
1998 May 22, Phoenix Gamma, “If I was owned Nintendo...”, in alt.games.video.nintendo-64 (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
so Simon Nelson saying on Feedback "we'd prefer it if everybody listened to digital radio via DAB" is completely not on at all.
ref:
2003 August 12, DAB sounds worse than FM, “Gerg Dyke's Speech at Radio Festival”, in alt.radio.digital (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
He'd like to play the red next to the black spot, but that shot isn't on.
type:
example
text:
With one out and no men on, Tristen Carranza belted a ball to the opposite field for a solo home run to put the NM State deficit at just 2-1.
ref:
2019 February 24, Chris Kennedy, “Aggies Earn Series Win Over Yale in Sunday Finale”, in New Mexico State University Athletics
type:
quotation
text:
Although Stanford was outhit 15-6, the Cardinal stranded eight runners to UCLA's three, hitting just 3-15 with runners on compared to the Bruin's 9-22.
ref:
2019 April 6, Daniel Martinez-Krams, “Baseball Falls Short in Game 2 of UCLA Series”, in The Stanford Daily
type:
quotation
text:
The captain moved two fielders to the on side.
text:
Ponsonby-Smythe hit a thumping on drive.
text:
If the player fails to hit the ball on, it's a foul.
type:
example
text:
He always has to be on, it's so exhausting.
type:
example
text:
It still gets in the way of her doing things like swimming, and she avoids sleepovers when she's "on".
ref:
2011, Hollie Smith Netmums, You and Your Tween: Managing the years from 9 to 13, Hachette
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
Happening; taking place; being or due to be put into action.
Happening; taking place; being or due to be put into action.
Of a person, used to express agreement to or acceptance of a proposal or challenge made by that person; most commonly with subject "you" (see you're on).
Fitted; covering or being worn.
Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
Acceptable, appropriate.
Possible; capable of being successfully carried out.
Destined; involved, doomed.
Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
Of a ball, being the next in sequence to be potted, according to the rules of the game.
Acting in character.
Performative or funny in a wearying manner.
Menstruating.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
acting
broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
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2217 | word:
on
word_type:
adv
expansion:
on (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English on, from Old English on, an (“on, upon, onto, in, into”), from Proto-West Germanic *ana, from Proto-Germanic *ana (“on, at”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-.
Cognate with North Frisian a (“on, in”), Saterland Frisian an (“on, at”), West Frisian oan (“on, at”), Dutch aan (“on, at, to”), Low German an (“on, at”), German an (“to, at, on”), Swedish å (“on, at, in”), Faroese á (“on, onto, in, at”), Icelandic á (“on, in”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰 (ana), Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, upon”), Albanian në (“in”); and from Old Norse upp á: Danish på, Swedish på, Norwegian på, see upon.
senses_examples:
text:
turn the television on
type:
example
text:
The lid wasn't screwed on properly.
type:
example
text:
Put on your hat and gloves.
type:
example
text:
drive on, rock on
type:
example
text:
He met Luis Suarez's cross at the far post, only for Chelsea keeper Petr Cech to show brilliant reflexes to deflect his header on to the bar. Carroll turned away to lead Liverpool's insistent protests that the ball had crossed the line but referee Phil Dowd and assistant referee Andrew Garratt waved play on, with even a succession of replays proving inconclusive.
ref:
2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
and so on
type:
example
text:
He rambled on and on.
type:
example
text:
Ten years on, nothing had changed in the village.
type:
example
text:
That horse is twenty-to-one on, so you need to stake twenty pounds just to win one pound.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To an operating state.
So as to cover or be fitted.
Along, forwards (continuing an action).
In continuation, at length.
Later.
Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
senses_topics:
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2218 | word:
on
word_type:
prep
expansion:
on
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English on, from Old English on, an (“on, upon, onto, in, into”), from Proto-West Germanic *ana, from Proto-Germanic *ana (“on, at”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-.
Cognate with North Frisian a (“on, in”), Saterland Frisian an (“on, at”), West Frisian oan (“on, at”), Dutch aan (“on, at, to”), Low German an (“on, at”), German an (“to, at, on”), Swedish å (“on, at, in”), Faroese á (“on, onto, in, at”), Icelandic á (“on, in”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰 (ana), Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, upon”), Albanian në (“in”); and from Old Norse upp á: Danish på, Swedish på, Norwegian på, see upon.
senses_examples:
text:
A vase of flowers stood on the table.
type:
example
text:
Please lie down on the couch.
type:
example
text:
The parrot was sitting on Jim's shoulder.
type:
example
text:
I stood on the bridge at midnight.
ref:
1845, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Bridge
type:
quotation
text:
He had a scar on the side of his face.
type:
example
text:
There is a dirty smudge on this window.
type:
example
text:
The painting hangs on the wall.
type:
example
text:
The fruit ripened on the trees.
type:
example
text:
He wore old shoes on his feet.
type:
example
text:
All of the responsibility is on him.
type:
example
text:
I put a bet on the winning horse.
type:
example
text:
tug on the rope; push hard on the door
text:
I stubbed my toe on an old tree stump.
type:
example
text:
I caught my fingernail on the door handle.
type:
example
text:
The rope snagged on a branch.
type:
example
text:
to play on a violin or piano
type:
example
text:
We live on the edge of the city.
text:
on the left, on the right, on the side, on the bottom
text:
The Tories are on twenty-five percent in this constituency.
text:
The lighthouse that you can see is on the mainland.
text:
The suspect is thought to still be on the campus.
text:
The fleet is on the American coast.
type:
example
text:
Croton-on-Hudson, Rostov-on-Don, Southend-on-Sea
type:
example
text:
A table can't stand on two legs.
type:
example
text:
After resting on his elbows, he stood on his toes, then walked on his heels.
type:
example
text:
on a bus, on a train, on a plane, on a ferry, on a yacht
text:
on a bicycle, on a motorbike, on a horse, on a scooter
text:
Born on the 4th of July.
type:
example
text:
On Sunday I'm busy. I'll see you on Monday.
type:
example
text:
Can I see you on a different day?
type:
example
text:
Smith scored again on twelve minutes, doubling Mudchester Rovers' lead.
type:
example
text:
The Spain striker had given Chelsea the lead on 29 minutes but was shown a straight red card 10 minutes later for a rash challenge on Mark Gower.
ref:
2011 September 24, Aled Williams, “Chelsea 4-1 Swansea”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
I was reading a book on history.
type:
example
text:
The city hosted the World Summit on the Information Society
type:
example
text:
I have no opinion on this subject.
type:
example
text:
I haven't got any money on me.
type:
example
text:
to arrest someone on suspicion of bribery
type:
example
text:
to contact someone on a hunch
type:
example
text:
On Jack's entry, William got up to leave.
type:
example
text:
On the addition of ammonia, a chemical reaction begins.
type:
example
text:
I need to get my planting done, as the season will soon be on us.
type:
example
text:
Before we knew it, the forest was on us, and the air grew colder and damper.
type:
example
text:
The drinks are on me tonight, boys.
type:
example
text:
The meal is on the house.
type:
example
text:
I paid for the airfare and meals for my family, but the hotel room was on the company.
type:
example
text:
I saw it on television.
type:
example
text:
Can't you see I'm on the phone?
type:
example
text:
My favorite shows are on BBC America.
type:
example
text:
The Beatles' appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show is on YouTube.
type:
example
text:
The film was released on DVD.
type:
example
text:
They planned an attack on London.
type:
example
text:
The soldiers mutinied and turned their guns on their officers.
type:
example
text:
Her words made a lasting impression on my mind.
type:
example
text:
What will be the effect on morale?
type:
example
text:
Have pity or compassion on him.
type:
example
text:
'[…] the hunger is on me to carry my sword in distant places.' Mynyddog bowed his head.
ref:
2013 February 27, Rosemary Sutcliff, The Shining Company, Random House
type:
quotation
text:
“Christ, the thirst on me.” “Sure, it's serious work, all that talk of independence.” The theater's stained-glass doors had first flung open in 1904, all in the hope of “rewriting the Irish identity,” of using culture in the fight[…]
ref:
2017 January 24, Ruth Gilligan, Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan, Tin House Books
type:
quotation
text:
“I've got the hunger on me, I do.” Riordan snorted. Hardly a man knew hunger as he did. The prison rations at Point Lookout, spare enough, had been a feast compared to the black years in Ireland.[…]
ref:
2017 August 29, Ralph Peters, Judgment at Appomattox: A Novel, Forge Books, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
I'm on question four.
type:
example
text:
They lived on ten dollars a week.
type:
example
text:
The dog survived three weeks on rainwater.
type:
example
text:
He's on his lunch break.
type:
example
text:
I'm on nights all this week.
type:
example
text:
on vacation; on holiday; on a mission; on the job; on the fiddle
type:
example
text:
You've been on these antidepressants far too long.
type:
example
text:
He's acting crazy because he's on crack right now.
type:
example
text:
heaps on heaps of food
type:
example
text:
mischief on mischief; loss on loss
type:
example
text:
I depended on them for assistance.
type:
example
text:
He will promise on certain conditions.
type:
example
text:
He is on the jury; I am on the committee.
type:
example
text:
He affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honour.
type:
example
text:
On us be all the blame.
type:
example
text:
A curse on him!
type:
example
text:
Please don't tell on her and get her in trouble.
type:
example
text:
He turned on her and has been her enemy ever since.
type:
example
text:
He went all honest on me, making me listen to his confession.
type:
example
text:
The fight was three on one, and he never stood a chance.
type:
example
text:
On naturalism, it is therefore difficult to find a ground for ultimate moral hope.
ref:
2021, Gavin Ortlund, Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't: The Beauty of Christian Theism, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic
type:
quotation
text:
All the way around the table, off four cushions, and ... and he's on the black!
type:
example
text:
a function on #x5C;mathbb#x7B;R#x7D;
type:
example
text:
an operator on #x5C;mathbb#x7B;Z#x7D;
type:
example
text:
the free group on four letters
type:
example
text:
Twenty on three.
type:
example
text:
I never seen 'im, and that's the truth on it.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
Covering.
Expressing figurative placement, burden, or attachment.
Denoting physical contact or interaction with an object, such as impact or application of force.
With verbs describing an action of pushing, pulling, pressing, etc., designates the thing to which force is applied.
Denoting physical contact or interaction with an object, such as impact or application of force.
With verbs describing an action of hitting, rubbing, scratching, binding against, etc., designates the thing impacted or contacted.
Denoting physical contact or interaction with an object, such as impact or application of force.
Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with.
At or in (a certain region or location).
Denoting relative position or position within the whole.
At or in (a certain region or location).
To be ranked thusly.
At or in (a certain region or location).
Near; adjacent to; alongside; just off.
Supported by (the specified part of itself).
Aboard (a mode of transport, especially public transport, or transport that one sits astride or uses while standing).
At the date or day of.
At a given time after the start of something; at.
Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
In the possession of.
Because of; due to; upon the basis of (something not yet confirmed as true).
At the time of (and often because of).
Arrived or coming into the presence of.
Paid for by.
Indicating a means or medium.
Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
Indicating the position that one has reached in a sequence.
Indicating a means of subsistence.
Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
Regularly taking (a drug).
Under the influence of (a drug, or something that is causing drug-like effects).
In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
Indicating dependence or reliance.
Serving as a member of.
By virtue of; with the pledge of.
By virtue of; with the pledge of.
Ellipsis of I swear on: on my life, on God, on everything, etc.
To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
Against; in opposition to.
According to, from the standpoint of; expressing what must follow, whether accepted or not, if a given premise or system is assumed true.
In a position of being able to pot (a given ball).
Having as identical domain and codomain.
Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for the specified set V and some integer n.
Generated by.
Divided by.
Of.
At the peril of, or for the safety of.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
|
2219 | word:
on
word_type:
verb
expansion:
on (third-person singular simple present ons, present participle oning or onning, simple past and past participle oned or onned)
forms:
form:
ons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
oning
tags:
participle
present
form:
onning
tags:
participle
present
form:
oned
tags:
participle
past
form:
oned
tags:
past
form:
onned
tags:
participle
past
form:
onned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English on, from Old English on, an (“on, upon, onto, in, into”), from Proto-West Germanic *ana, from Proto-Germanic *ana (“on, at”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-.
Cognate with North Frisian a (“on, in”), Saterland Frisian an (“on, at”), West Frisian oan (“on, at”), Dutch aan (“on, at, to”), Low German an (“on, at”), German an (“to, at, on”), Swedish å (“on, at, in”), Faroese á (“on, onto, in, at”), Icelandic á (“on, in”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰 (ana), Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, upon”), Albanian në (“in”); and from Old Norse upp á: Danish på, Swedish på, Norwegian på, see upon.
senses_examples:
text:
Can you on the light?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To switch on.
senses_topics:
|
2220 | word:
on
word_type:
prep
expansion:
on
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old Norse ón, án (“without”), from Proto-Germanic *ēnu, *ēno, *ino (“without”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḗnu (“without”). Cognate with North Frisian on (“without”), Middle Dutch an, on (“without”), Middle Low German āne (“without”), German ohne (“without”), Gothic 𐌹𐌽𐌿 (inu, “without, except”), Ancient Greek ἄνευ (áneu, “without”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Without.
senses_topics:
|
2221 | word:
on
word_type:
noun
expansion:
on
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Japanese 音読み (on'yomi, literally “sound reading”).
senses_examples:
text:
Most kanji have two kinds of reading, called "on" and "kun".
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the Japanese language, a pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character that was originally based on the character's pronunciation in Chinese, contrasted with kun.
senses_topics:
|
2222 | word:
fruit tree
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fruit tree (plural fruit trees)
forms:
form:
fruit trees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The countryside of eastern Bohemia is cultivated intensely. Fruit trees grow thickly alongside the roads instead of the hawthorn hedges common in England.
ref:
1947 January and February, Gerald Druce (Jun.), “A Journey on the "Slovak Arrow"”, in Railway Magazine, page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tree that bears a crop of edible fruit on a regular basis.
senses_topics:
|
2223 | word:
cat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cat (countable and uncountable, plural cats)
forms:
form:
cats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
Elmar Seebold
Etymological Dictionary of the German Language
cat
de:Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
etymology_text:
From Middle English cat, catte, from Old English catt (“male cat”), catte (“female cat”), from Proto-West Germanic *kattu, from Proto-Germanic *kattuz. Further etymology is unclear.
Further etymology and cognates.
The Germanic word is generally thought to be from Late Latin cattus (“domestic cat”) (c. 350, Palladius), from Latin catta (c. 75 A.D., Martial), from an Afroasiatic language. This would roughly match how domestic cats themselves spread, as genetic studies suggest they began to spread out of the Near East / Fertile Crescent during the Neolithic (being in Cyprus by 9500 years ago, and Greece and Italy by 2500 years ago), especially after they became popular in Egypt. However, every proposed source word has presented problems. Adolphe Pictet and many subsequent sources refer to Barabra (Nubian) [script needed] (kaddîska) and "Nouba" (Nobiin) ⲕⲁⲇⲓ̄ⲥ (kadīs, “kadīs”) as possible sources or cognates, but M. Lionel Bender says the Nubian word is a loan from Arabic قِطَّة (qiṭṭa). Jean-Paul Savignac suggests the Latin word is from an Egyptian precursor of Coptic ϣⲁⲩ (šau, “tomcat”) suffixed with feminine -t, but John Huehnergard says "the source … was clearly not Egyptian itself, where no analogous form is attested."
It may be a Wanderwort. Kroonen says the word must have existed in Germanic from a very early date, as it shows morphological alternations, and suggests that it might have been borrowed from Uralic, compare Northern Sami gađfe (“female stoat”) and Hungarian hölgy (“stoat; lady, bride”) from Proto-Uralic *käďwä (“female (of a fur animal)”).
Related to Scots cat, West Frisian kat, North Frisian kåt and kaat, Dutch kat, Danish kat, Norwegian katt, Swedish katt, German Low German Katt and Katte, German Katze, Alemannic German Chatz, Icelandic köttur, Afrikaans kat, Latin cattus, French chat, Norman cat, Occitan cat, Portuguese gato, Spanish gato, Aromanian cãtush, Scottish Gaelic cat, Irish cat, Breton kazh, Welsh cath, Cornish kath, as well as Ancient Greek κάττα (kátta), Greek γάτα (gáta), Turkish kedi, and from the same ultimate source Russian кот (kot), Ukrainian кіт (kit), Belarusian кот (kot), Polish kot, Kashubian kòt, Lithuanian katė, and more distantly Armenian կատու (katu), Basque katu, Arabic قِطَّة (qiṭṭa) alongside dialectal Maghrebi Arabic قَطُّوس (qaṭṭūs) (from Berber, probably from Latin).
senses_examples:
text:
I grabbed it and ran over to the lion from behind, the cat still chewing thoughtfully on Silent's arm.
ref:
1977, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush, St. Martin's Press, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
If you should someday round a corner on the hiking trail and come face to face with a mountain lion, you would probably never forget the mighty cat.
ref:
1985 January, George Laycock, “Our American Lion”, in Boys' Life, Boy Scouts of America, section 28
type:
quotation
text:
She felt privileged to be here, living the experience inside the majestic cat [i.e. a tiger]; privileged to be part of their bond, even for only a few hours.
ref:
2014, Dale Mayer, Rare Find. A Psychic Visions Novel, Valley Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
Mammals need two genes to make the taste receptor for sugar. Studies in various cats (tigers, cheetahs and domestic cats) showed that one of these genes has mutated and no longer works.
ref:
2011, Karl Kruszelnicki, Brain Food, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
“[…]—Say, do you mind telling me if people around here really eat cats?” He felt a shiver in the pit of his stomach. “Do they eat cat?” said the little old man, profoundly shocked.
ref:
1948, Harry Stephen Keeler, The Case of the Jeweled Ragpicker (The Screwball Circus Mysteries; 3), Wildside Press, published 2017
type:
quotation
text:
You do not eat cat simply for the thrill of eating cat. You eat cat because cats have a lively jingshen, or spirit, and thus by eating the animal you will improve your spirits.
ref:
2013, Peter Hessler, Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West, Harper Perennial
type:
quotation
text:
I ate at a Chinese restaurant once, even though my friends told me I would probably be eating cat and dog disguised as chicken.
ref:
2013, James Bartleman, The Redemption of Oscar Wolf, Dundurn
type:
quotation
text:
But, ere one rapid moon its tale has told, / He finds his prize — a cat — a slut — a scold.
ref:
1835 September, anonymous author, “The Pigs”, in The New-England Magazine, Vol. 9, 156
type:
quotation
text:
jazz cat
type:
example
text:
I turn on the radio / There's some cat on the saxophone / Laying down a litany of excuses
ref:
2008, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (lyrics and music), “Hold on to Yourself”
type:
quotation
text:
Now you've listened to my story / Here's the point that I have made / Cats were born to give chicks fever / Be it Fahrenheit or Centigrade
ref:
1958, “Fever”, Eddie Cooley, Otis Blackwell, Peggy Lee (lyrics), performed by Peggy Lee
type:
quotation
text:
Didn't know what time it was the lights were low / I leaned back on my radio / Some cat was layin' down some rock'n'roll 'lotta soul, he said
ref:
1972, “Starman”, in The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, performed by David Bowie
type:
quotation
text:
1973 December, "Books Noted", discussing A Dialogue (by James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni), in Black World, Johnson Publishing Company, 77.
BALDWIN: That's what we were talking about before. And by the way, you did not have to tell me that you think your father is a groovy cat; I knew that.
text:
What fags are true I know what Mack's might do
I'm quite familiar with cats like you
Provoke to get me give me a good reason to smoke me
Try to break me but never wrote me)
ref:
1998, “Fiend”, in Respect, performed by Shaquille O'Neal
type:
quotation
text:
I am sick of rappers claiming they hot when they really not
I am sick of rappers bragging about shit they ain’t really got
These cats stay rapping about cars they don’t own
I am sick of rappers bragging about models they don’t bone.[…]
And I am sick of all these cats with no talent
That never lived in the hood but yet their lyrics be so violent.
ref:
2006, “Sick of it all”, in Masta Ace (lyrics), Pariah
type:
quotation
text:
"Tell me. Willie said there was a cat in love with you. That isn't true, is it?" "Yes. It's true," Hudson corrects her, letting her think that by "cat" he means prostitute.
ref:
1999, Carl P. Eby, Hemingway's Fetishism. Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood, State University of New York Press, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
Overhaul down & hook the cat, haul taut. Walk away the cat. When up, pass the cat head stopper. Hook the fish in & fish the anchor.
ref:
2009, Olof A. Eriksen, Constitution - All Sails Up and Flying, Outskirts Press, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
[…]he whipped a black man for disobedience of his orders fifty lashes; and again whipped him with a cat, which he wound with wire, about the same number of stripes;[…]he used this cat on one other man, and then destroyed the cat wound with wire.
ref:
1839, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, testimony by Henry L. Pinckney (Assembly No. 335), page 44
type:
quotation
text:
"What the hell, so this broad's got a prematurely-gray cat."
ref:
1969, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, Holloway House Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
As she came up, she tried to put her cat in his face for some licking.
ref:
2005, Carolyn Chambers Sanders, Sins & Secrets, Hachette Digital
type:
quotation
text:
I had a notion to walk over to her, rip her apron off, sling her housecoat open and put my finger inside her cat to see if she was wet or freshly fucked because the dream I had earlier was beginning to really annoy me.
ref:
2007, Franklin White, Money for Good, Simon and Schuster, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
From behind the narrow slits in the walls of Castellar, crossbowmen and archers took aim at the juddering cat as it came closer.
ref:
2000, Stephen O'Shea, The Perfect Heresy, Profile Books, page 97
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An animal of the family Felidae:
A domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
An animal of the family Felidae:
Any similar animal of the family Felidae, which includes lions, tigers, bobcats, leopards, cougars, cheetahs, caracals, lynxes, and other such non-domesticated species.
An animal of the family Felidae
The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
A person:
A spiteful or angry woman.
A person:
An enthusiast or player of jazz.
A person:
A person (usually male).
A person:
A prostitute.
A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
Short for cat-o'-nine-tails.
A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").
The game of trap ball.
The game of trap ball.
The trap in that game.
The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
A vagina or vulva.
A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
|
2224 | word:
cat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cat (third-person singular simple present cats, present participle catting, simple past and past participle catted)
forms:
form:
cats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
catting
tags:
participle
present
form:
catted
tags:
participle
past
form:
catted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
Elmar Seebold
Etymological Dictionary of the German Language
cat
de:Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
etymology_text:
From Middle English cat, catte, from Old English catt (“male cat”), catte (“female cat”), from Proto-West Germanic *kattu, from Proto-Germanic *kattuz. Further etymology is unclear.
Further etymology and cognates.
The Germanic word is generally thought to be from Late Latin cattus (“domestic cat”) (c. 350, Palladius), from Latin catta (c. 75 A.D., Martial), from an Afroasiatic language. This would roughly match how domestic cats themselves spread, as genetic studies suggest they began to spread out of the Near East / Fertile Crescent during the Neolithic (being in Cyprus by 9500 years ago, and Greece and Italy by 2500 years ago), especially after they became popular in Egypt. However, every proposed source word has presented problems. Adolphe Pictet and many subsequent sources refer to Barabra (Nubian) [script needed] (kaddîska) and "Nouba" (Nobiin) ⲕⲁⲇⲓ̄ⲥ (kadīs, “kadīs”) as possible sources or cognates, but M. Lionel Bender says the Nubian word is a loan from Arabic قِطَّة (qiṭṭa). Jean-Paul Savignac suggests the Latin word is from an Egyptian precursor of Coptic ϣⲁⲩ (šau, “tomcat”) suffixed with feminine -t, but John Huehnergard says "the source … was clearly not Egyptian itself, where no analogous form is attested."
It may be a Wanderwort. Kroonen says the word must have existed in Germanic from a very early date, as it shows morphological alternations, and suggests that it might have been borrowed from Uralic, compare Northern Sami gađfe (“female stoat”) and Hungarian hölgy (“stoat; lady, bride”) from Proto-Uralic *käďwä (“female (of a fur animal)”).
Related to Scots cat, West Frisian kat, North Frisian kåt and kaat, Dutch kat, Danish kat, Norwegian katt, Swedish katt, German Low German Katt and Katte, German Katze, Alemannic German Chatz, Icelandic köttur, Afrikaans kat, Latin cattus, French chat, Norman cat, Occitan cat, Portuguese gato, Spanish gato, Aromanian cãtush, Scottish Gaelic cat, Irish cat, Breton kazh, Welsh cath, Cornish kath, as well as Ancient Greek κάττα (kátta), Greek γάτα (gáta), Turkish kedi, and from the same ultimate source Russian кот (kot), Ukrainian кіт (kit), Belarusian кот (kot), Polish kot, Kashubian kòt, Lithuanian katė, and more distantly Armenian կատու (katu), Basque katu, Arabic قِطَّة (qiṭṭa) alongside dialectal Maghrebi Arabic قَطُّوس (qaṭṭūs) (from Berber, probably from Latin).
senses_examples:
text:
The anchors were catted at the bows of the yacht …
ref:
1922, Francis Lynde, Pirates' Hope, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 226
type:
quotation
text:
"He doesn't realize that I know," Lord Callan said, "but it's been pretty obvious that most of his catting about London's darker alleys has been a search for his origins.
ref:
1998, Mary Spencer, Lady's Wager, page 324
type:
quotation
text:
This was going to be my first try at catting out. I went looking for somebody to cat with me.
ref:
2010, Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
My own dear wife could have tended to his needs if she hadn't been out catting.
ref:
2012, Valerie Hansen, Wages of Sin
type:
quotation
text:
Men from young to middleaged, with matt faces, vivacious and brightly dressed, catted together in gay groups.
ref:
1932, Hugh Brooke, Man Made Angry, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
They smiled, touched, rolled their eyes and raised their eyebrows, as they relived the audition and catted about some of their competition.
ref:
1996, Alistair Boyle, The Unlucky Seven
type:
quotation
text:
In the story, Lady Ina gossiped and catted about a parade of the rich and famous—Jackie Kennedy looking like an exaggerated version of herself, Princess Margaret so boring she made people fall asleep, Gloria Vanderbilt so ditzy she didn't recognize her first husband.
ref:
2016, Melanie Benjamin, The Swans of Fifth Avenue, page 293
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
To vomit.
To go wandering at night.
To gossip in a catty manner.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
|
2225 | word:
cat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cat (plural cats)
forms:
form:
cats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cat
etymology_text:
From concatenate, derived from the program's function of concatenating files. Compare concat.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
2226 | word:
cat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cat (third-person singular simple present cats, present participle catting, simple past and past participle catted)
forms:
form:
cats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
catting
tags:
participle
present
form:
catted
tags:
participle
past
form:
catted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
cat
etymology_text:
From concatenate, derived from the program's function of concatenating files. Compare concat.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
2227 | word:
cat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cat (plural cats)
forms:
form:
cats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cat
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
text:
a carrier's bow cats
type:
example
text:
She missed the fish diet of her own country, and twice every summer she sent the boys to the river, twenty miles to the southward, to fish for channel cat.
ref:
1913, Willa Cather, chapter 2, in O Pioneers!
type:
quotation
text:
Fishing for cat is probably, up to a certain stage, the least exciting of all similar sports.
ref:
1916, M. Shults, “Fishing for Yellow Cat in the Brazos”, in Field and Stream, vol. 21, 478
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A street name of the drug methcathinone.
Abbreviation of catapult.
Abbreviation of catalytic converter.
Abbreviation of catamaran.
Abbreviation of category.
Abbreviation of catfish.
Abbreviation of caterpillar.
Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
Abbreviation of caterpillar.
A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
Abbreviation of computed axial tomography. Often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.
senses_topics:
|
2228 | word:
cat
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cat (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
cat
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
text:
The weather was cat, so they returned home early.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.
senses_topics:
|
2229 | word:
women
word_type:
noun
expansion:
women
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wimmen, from Old English wīfmenn (“women”), from wīf (“female”) + menn (“men, persons, human beings”), equivalent to wife + men. Spelling (with o) influenced by the singular; see woman for more.
senses_examples:
text:
Three women went for a walk.
type:
example
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:women.
text:
Since the outbreak of war women have been recruited for many grades of railway work. The number of women clerks has been increased greatly, and women are performing invaluable work as porters, motor drivers, carriage cleaners, and telephone operators, as well as in a variety of other capacities.
ref:
1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 207
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of woman
senses_topics:
|
2230 | word:
women
word_type:
noun
expansion:
women
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wimmen, from Old English wīfmenn (“women”), from wīf (“female”) + menn (“men, persons, human beings”), equivalent to wife + men. Spelling (with o) influenced by the singular; see woman for more.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of woman.
senses_topics:
|
2231 | word:
free
word_type:
adj
expansion:
free (comparative freer or more free, superlative freest or most free)
forms:
form:
freer
tags:
comparative
form:
more free
tags:
comparative
form:
freest
tags:
superlative
form:
most free
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English free, fre, freo, from Old English frēo (“free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frī, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz (“beloved, not in bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“dear, beloved”), from *preyH- (“to love, please”). Related to friend.
cognates, etc
Germanic cognates include West Frisian frij (“free”), Dutch vrij (“free”), Low German free (“free”), German frei (“free”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian fri (“free”).
Other cognates include Russian приятель (prijatelʹ, “friend”) and Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá-, “beloved”).
Germanic and Celtic are the only Indo-European language branches in which the PIE word with the meaning of "dear, beloved" acquired the additional meaning of "free" in the sense of "not in bondage". This was an extension of the idea of "characteristic of those who are dear and beloved", in other words friends and tribe members (in contrast to unfree inhabitants from other tribes and prisoners of war, many of which were among the slaves – compare the Latin use of liberi to mean both "free persons" and "children of a family").
The verb comes from Middle English freen, freoȝen, from Old English frēon, frēoġan (“to free; make free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frijōn, from Proto-Germanic *frijōną, from Proto-Indo-European *preyH-.
senses_examples:
text:
a free man
type:
example
text:
He's very free with his money.
type:
example
text:
My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
ref:
1679, John Dryden, Oedipus: A Tragedy, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
free time
type:
example
text:
a free school
type:
example
text:
Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free / For me as for you?
ref:
1590-2, William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, I, ii
type:
quotation
text:
This is a free country.
type:
example
text:
OpenOffice is free software.
type:
example
text:
He was given free rein to do whatever he wanted.
type:
example
text:
There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”
ref:
1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock
type:
quotation
text:
Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
ref:
2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref:
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
The government provides free health care.
type:
example
text:
It's free real estate.
type:
example
text:
Buy a TV to get a free DVD player!
type:
example
text:
The fundamental group of the figure eight is free of rank 2.
type:
example
text:
z is the free variable in #x5C;forallx#x5C;existsy#x3A;xy#x3D;z.
type:
example
text:
the drain was free
type:
example
text:
a free radical
type:
example
text:
You can sit on this chair; it's free.
type:
example
text:
In this group of mushrooms, the gills are free.
type:
example
text:
We had a wholesome, filling meal, free of meat. I would like to live free from care in the mountains.
type:
example
text:
princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties
ref:
1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England
type:
quotation
text:
a free horse
type:
example
text:
He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, / Free of his farm.
ref:
1697, John Dryden, “Part 3, line 1245”, in The Hind and the Panther
type:
quotation
text:
free service; free socage
type:
example
text:
a free fishery; a free warren
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unconstrained.
Not imprisoned or enslaved.
Unconstrained.
Generous; liberal.
Unconstrained.
Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.
Unconstrained.
Without obligations.
Unconstrained.
To be enjoyed by anyone freely.
Unconstrained.
Upholding individual rights.
Unconstrained.
With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.
Unconstrained.
Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version.
Unconstrained.
Obtainable without any payment.
Obtainable without any payment.
Complimentary.
Unconstrained.
In any of various technical senses generic, universal.
Such that any map f from X to the underlying set of an object A in the same category as F induces a map ̄f from F to A which is compatible with f (i.e. such that f=̄f∘i).
Unconstrained.
In any of various technical senses generic, universal.
Having a set of generators which satisfy no non-trivial relations; equivalently, being the group of reduced words on a set of generators.
Unconstrained.
In any of various technical senses generic, universal.
Having a linearly independent set of generators (called a basis).
Unconstrained.
Unconstrained by quantifiers.
Unconstrained.
Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound.
Unconstrained.
(of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.
Unconstrained.
Unobstructed, without blockages.
Unconstrained.
Unattached or uncombined.
Unconstrained.
Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.
Unconstrained.
Not attached; loose.
Unconstrained.
Of a rocket or missile: not under the control of a guidance system after being launched.
Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.
Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.
senses_topics:
country
location
region
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
algebra
category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
algebra
group-theory
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
government
military
politics
war
law
law |
2232 | word:
free
word_type:
adv
expansion:
free (comparative more free, superlative most free)
forms:
form:
more free
tags:
comparative
form:
most free
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English free, fre, freo, from Old English frēo (“free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frī, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz (“beloved, not in bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“dear, beloved”), from *preyH- (“to love, please”). Related to friend.
cognates, etc
Germanic cognates include West Frisian frij (“free”), Dutch vrij (“free”), Low German free (“free”), German frei (“free”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian fri (“free”).
Other cognates include Russian приятель (prijatelʹ, “friend”) and Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá-, “beloved”).
Germanic and Celtic are the only Indo-European language branches in which the PIE word with the meaning of "dear, beloved" acquired the additional meaning of "free" in the sense of "not in bondage". This was an extension of the idea of "characteristic of those who are dear and beloved", in other words friends and tribe members (in contrast to unfree inhabitants from other tribes and prisoners of war, many of which were among the slaves – compare the Latin use of liberi to mean both "free persons" and "children of a family").
The verb comes from Middle English freen, freoȝen, from Old English frēon, frēoġan (“to free; make free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frijōn, from Proto-Germanic *frijōną, from Proto-Indo-European *preyH-.
senses_examples:
text:
I got this bike free.
type:
example
text:
Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.
ref:
1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714
type:
quotation
text:
I as free forgive you / As I would be forgiven.
ref:
c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, published 1623
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Without needing to pay.
Freely; willingly.
senses_topics:
|
2233 | word:
free
word_type:
verb
expansion:
free (third-person singular simple present frees, present participle freeing, simple past and past participle freed)
forms:
form:
frees
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
freeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
freed
tags:
participle
past
form:
freed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English free, fre, freo, from Old English frēo (“free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frī, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz (“beloved, not in bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“dear, beloved”), from *preyH- (“to love, please”). Related to friend.
cognates, etc
Germanic cognates include West Frisian frij (“free”), Dutch vrij (“free”), Low German free (“free”), German frei (“free”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian fri (“free”).
Other cognates include Russian приятель (prijatelʹ, “friend”) and Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá-, “beloved”).
Germanic and Celtic are the only Indo-European language branches in which the PIE word with the meaning of "dear, beloved" acquired the additional meaning of "free" in the sense of "not in bondage". This was an extension of the idea of "characteristic of those who are dear and beloved", in other words friends and tribe members (in contrast to unfree inhabitants from other tribes and prisoners of war, many of which were among the slaves – compare the Latin use of liberi to mean both "free persons" and "children of a family").
The verb comes from Middle English freen, freoȝen, from Old English frēon, frēoġan (“to free; make free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frijōn, from Proto-Germanic *frijōną, from Proto-Indo-European *preyH-.
senses_examples:
text:
Then I walked about, till I found on the further side, a great river of sweet water, running with a strong current; whereupon I called to mind the boat-raft I had made aforetime and said to myself, "Needs must I make another; haply I may free me from this strait. If I escape, I have my desire and I vow to Allah Almighty to forswear travel; and if I perish I shall be at peace and shall rest from toil and moil."
ref:
1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 564
type:
quotation
text:
There is no way to access that original area of memory, nor is there any way to free it before the program ends.
ref:
2002, Jesse Liberty, SAMS Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours, page 148
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make free; set at liberty; release.
To rid of something that confines or oppresses.
To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
2234 | word:
free
word_type:
noun
expansion:
free (plural frees)
forms:
form:
frees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English free, fre, freo, from Old English frēo (“free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frī, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz (“beloved, not in bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“dear, beloved”), from *preyH- (“to love, please”). Related to friend.
cognates, etc
Germanic cognates include West Frisian frij (“free”), Dutch vrij (“free”), Low German free (“free”), German frei (“free”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian fri (“free”).
Other cognates include Russian приятель (prijatelʹ, “friend”) and Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá-, “beloved”).
Germanic and Celtic are the only Indo-European language branches in which the PIE word with the meaning of "dear, beloved" acquired the additional meaning of "free" in the sense of "not in bondage". This was an extension of the idea of "characteristic of those who are dear and beloved", in other words friends and tribe members (in contrast to unfree inhabitants from other tribes and prisoners of war, many of which were among the slaves – compare the Latin use of liberi to mean both "free persons" and "children of a family").
The verb comes from Middle English freen, freoȝen, from Old English frēon, frēoġan (“to free; make free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frijōn, from Proto-Germanic *frijōną, from Proto-Indo-European *preyH-.
senses_examples:
text:
Whether deserved or not, the free gave Cresswell the chance to cover himself in glory with a shot on goal after the siren.
ref:
2006, http://footballlegends.org/daryn_cresswell.htm
text:
Hargreaves, who left Manchester United on a free during the summer, drilled a 22-yard beauty to open the scoring.
ref:
2011 September 21, Sam Lyon, “Man City 2 - 0 Birmingham”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The team won the 200 meters free relay.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of free kick.
A free transfer.
The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
Abbreviation of freestyle.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming |
2235 | word:
academician
word_type:
noun
expansion:
academician (plural academicians)
forms:
form:
academicians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From academic + -ian (“one skilled in”), partly after French académicien.
senses_examples:
text:
‘Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious Academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.’
ref:
1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic.
A member or follower of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, such as the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of Arts.
senses_topics:
|
2236 | word:
ontology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ontology (countable and uncountable, plural ontologies)
forms:
form:
ontologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jacob Lorhard
ontology
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from New Latin ontologia (1606, Ogdoas Scholastica, by Jacob Lorhard (Lorhardus), from Ancient Greek ὤν, ὄντος (ṓn, óntos, “being”), present participle of εἰμί (eimí, “being, existing, essence”) + λόγος (lógos, “account”).
First known English use 1663: Archelogia philosophica nova; or, New principles of Philosophy. Containing Philosophy in general, Metaphysicks or Ontology, Dynamilogy or a Discourse of Power, Religio Philosophi or Natural Theology, Physicks or Natural philosophy, by Gideon Harvey (1636–1702), London, Thomson, 1663.
Popularized as a philosophical term by German philosopher Christian Wolff (1679–1754).
senses_examples:
text:
[Martin] Heidegger's concern […] was with ontology, the nature of beings, above all humans. The central question for him was "What is being? What is it for something to be?" He tackled this question not by way of the sciences, but by way of an examination of our prescientific daily life. We are, he argued, not cut off from the world by our mental processes: we are "in the world", in direct contact with our surroundings.
ref:
2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R10
type:
quotation
text:
Do you believe in ghosts? Then ghosts are in your ontology, along with tables and chairs and songs and vacations, and snow, and all the rest. It has proved more than convenient to extend the term "ontology" beyond this primary meaning and use it for the set of "things" that an animal can recognize and behave appropriately with regard to (whether or not animals can properly be said to have beliefs) and — more recently — the set of "things" a computer program has to be able to deal with to do its job (whether or not it can properly be said to have beliefs). Vacations are not in the ontology of a polar bear, but snow is, and so are seals. Snow is probably not in the ontology of a manatee, but outboard-motor propellers may well be, along with seaweed and fish and other manatees. The GPS system in your car handles one-way streets, left and right turns, speed limits, and the current velocity of your car (if it isn't zero, it may not let you put in a new target address), but its ontology also includes a number of satellites, as well as signals to and from those satellites, which it doesn't bother you with, but needs if it is to do its job.
ref:
2017, Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back
type:
quotation
text:
The answer to the controversial question of whether Aristotle's ontology includes non-substantial particulars, then, is that it does.
ref:
2000, C. D. C. Reeve, Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle's Metaphysics, Hackett Publishing, page 97
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.
In a subject view, or a world view, the set of conceptual or material things or classes of things that are recognised as existing, or are assumed to exist in context, and their interrelations; in a body of theory, the ontology comprises the domain of discourse, the things that are defined as existing, together with whatever emerges from their mutual implications.
The theory of a particular philosopher or school of thought concerning the fundamental types of entity in the universe.
A logical system involving theory of classes, developed by Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939).
A structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships; a system model.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
computer
computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences |
2237 | word:
zipper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zipper (plural zippers)
forms:
form:
zippers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
zipper
etymology_text:
1925, zip + -er. The trade name was registered in 1925 by B.F. Goodrich for “boots made of rubber and fabric,” claiming use of the name since June 1923. No longer a registered trademark.
senses_examples:
text:
He got his T-shirt stuck in the zipper of his jacket.
type:
example
text:
I also competed in track and field at Idaho, and it's all because of putting the shot that I've got my long scar, my zipper, down the back of my neck.
ref:
1969, Jerry Kramer, Farewell to football, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
Making the transition from high school to college teams, for instance, he could not believe the scars his new players were sporting. "So many athletes had zippers down the side of their knee, or knees; they thought nothing of it and called this or that a Band-Aid operation. […]
ref:
1979, Don Atyeo, Blood & guts, violence in sports, page 227
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the usual gap between the time the last strike of the day departed and the first night hecklers arrived was closed with "zippers" — night fighters who, using day fighter tactics, proceeded to the target in daylight in time to relieve the last day blanket patrol.
ref:
1949, Walter Karig, Battle Report
type:
quotation
text:
They would handle all the night combat air patrols, the night hecklers who would go over the enemy airfields, and we formed a new little gimmick called "zippers" to help close that gap between the time the daylight strikes left the target and darkness.
ref:
1993, E. T. Wooldridge, Carrier Warfare in the Pacific: An Oral History Collection, page 268
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A zip fastener.
A pressure-sensitive plastic closure.
A leucine zipper.
A scar on a person's body.
An air patrol carried out at dawn or dusk.
A string of clothes pegs or clips attached to the body and then quickly pulled off.
A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).
senses_topics:
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
government
military
politics
war
BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
2238 | word:
zipper
word_type:
verb
expansion:
zipper (third-person singular simple present zippers, present participle zippering, simple past and past participle zippered)
forms:
form:
zippers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
zippering
tags:
participle
present
form:
zippered
tags:
participle
past
form:
zippered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
zipper
etymology_text:
1925, zip + -er. The trade name was registered in 1925 by B.F. Goodrich for “boots made of rubber and fabric,” claiming use of the name since June 1923. No longer a registered trademark.
senses_examples:
text:
He zippered his sweater against the cold.
text:
These fall jackets are zippered.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to close a zipper.
to put a zipper on an article.
senses_topics:
|
2239 | word:
because
word_type:
adv
expansion:
because (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bi cause, from bi (“by”) + cause, modelled on Old French par cause.
senses_examples:
text:
My life is ruined because of you!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
For the reason (that).
On account (of), for sake (of).
senses_topics:
|
2240 | word:
because
word_type:
intj
expansion:
because
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bi cause, from bi (“by”) + cause, modelled on Old French par cause.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used alone to refuse to provide a full answer a question begun with "why", usually taken as an anapodoton of the elided full phrase "Because I said so".
senses_topics:
|
2241 | word:
because
word_type:
conj
expansion:
because
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bi cause, from bi (“by”) + cause, modelled on Old French par cause.
senses_examples:
text:
I hid myself because I was afraid.
type:
example
text:
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
text:
It must be broken, because I pressed the button and nothing happened.
type:
example
text:
I don't think he is a nice person, because he yells at people for no reason.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.
As is known, inferred, or determined from the fact that.
So that, in order that.
senses_topics:
|
2242 | word:
because
word_type:
prep
expansion:
because
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bi cause, from bi (“by”) + cause, modelled on Old French par cause.
senses_examples:
text:
He rejected me because revenge, I guess.
type:
example
text:
It doesn't work because reasons.
type:
example
text:
You probably know it better, however, as explanation by way of Internet—explanation that maximizes efficiency and irony in equal measure. I'm late because YouTube. You're reading this because procrastination. As the language writer Stan Carey delightfully sums it up: “‘Because’ has become a preposition, because grammar.”
ref:
2013 November 19, Megan Garber, “English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On account of, because of.
senses_topics:
|
2243 | word:
Malta
word_type:
name
expansion:
Malta
forms:
wikipedia:
Antonine Itinerary
Malta
Malta (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Italian and Maltese Malta, from Arabic مَالِطَا (māliṭā, “Māliṭā”) etc., from Latin Melita, from Ancient Greek Μελίτη (Melítē), apparently from μέλι (méli, “honey”) + -η (-ē, “-a: forming feminine place names”) although its use for the island of Malta is considered uncertain. Some scholars consider it to represent the importance of the islands' indigenous bees and their output. Others consider it a transcription of Phoenician 𐤌𐤋𐤈 (mlṭ, “Grand Harbor, Cospicua”), from 𐤌𐤋𐤈 (mlṭ, “refuge, port”), reapplied first to the island and then, after the Punic Wars, to its Roman seat of government at Mdina. Note however that Latin Malta is already attested in some medieval manuscripts of the Antonine Itinerary. See Wikipedia's articles on Melite and Malta. Doublet of Meleda and Mljet.
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senses_glosses:
An island country in Southern Europe. Capital: Valletta.
The archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea composing the country.
The largest island in the Maltese Archipelago.
A small city, the county seat of Phillips County, Montana, United States.
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2244 | word:
absinthe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absinthe (countable and uncountable, plural absinthes)
forms:
form:
absinthes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* (wormwood; figuratively bitterness, sorrow): From Middle English absinthe.
* (liquor): From Modern French absinthe.
Both from Middle French absinthe, from Latin absinthium, from Ancient Greek ἀψίνθιον (apsínthion, “wormwood”). Doublet of absinthium.
senses_examples:
text:
Absinthe ads like to trade on artists like Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec, as if the history of the green fairy began in the Pigalle neighborhood of 1870s Paris, but wormwood-infused drinks have been around for thousands of years.
ref:
2010, Paul Owens, Paul Nathan, The Little Green Book of Absinthe, Penguin
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The herb absinthium Artemisia absinthium (grande wormwood); essence of wormwood.
Bitterness; sorrow.
A distilled, highly alcoholic, anise-flavored liquor originally made from grande wormwood, anise, and other herbs.
A moderate yellow green.
A moderate yellow green.
absinthe green:
absinthe green
Sagebrush.
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2245 | word:
derivative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
derivative (comparative more derivative, superlative most derivative)
forms:
form:
more derivative
tags:
comparative
form:
most derivative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Derivative (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle French dérivatif, from Latin dērīvātus, perfect passive participle of dērīvō (“I derive”). Related with derive; By surface analysis, derive + -ative.
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text:
a derivative conveyance
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example
text:
a derivative word
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example
text:
People started talking about the pandemic as if it were itself a television show; as the second wave hit last fall, they griped about the derivative writing on Covid Season 2.
ref:
2021 April 27, Amanda Hess, “Inject the Vaccine Fan Fiction Directly Into My Veins”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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quotation
text:
No, I really felt it was very derivative. To me it it looked like it was straight out of Diane Arbus, but it had none of the wit.
ref:
1979, Woody Allen, Manhattan, spoken by Mary (Diane Keaton)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obtained by derivation; not radical, original, or fundamental.
Imitative of the work of someone else.
Referring to a work, such as a translation or adaptation, based on another work that may be subject to copyright restrictions.
Having a value that depends on an underlying asset of variable value.
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copyright
intellectual-property
law
business
finance |
2246 | word:
derivative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
derivative (plural derivatives)
forms:
form:
derivatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Derivative (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle French dérivatif, from Latin dērīvātus, perfect passive participle of dērīvō (“I derive”). Related with derive; By surface analysis, derive + -ative.
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text:
The derivative of x² is 2x; if f(x)#x3D;x², then f'(x)#x3D;2x
type:
example
text:
The derivative of f(x)#x3D;x³ at x#x3D;2 is 12.
type:
example
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senses_glosses:
Something derived.
A word that derives from another one.
A financial instrument whose value depends on the valuation of an underlying asset; such as a warrant, an option etc.
A chemical derived from another.
One of the two fundamental objects of study in calculus (the other being integration), which quantifies the rate of change, tangency, and other qualities arising from the local behavior of a function.
The derived function of f(x): the function giving the instantaneous rate of change of f; equivalently, the function giving the slope of the line tangent to the graph of f. Written f'(x) or (df)/(dx) in Leibniz's notation, ̇f(x) in Newton's notation (the latter used particularly when the independent variable is time).
One of the two fundamental objects of study in calculus (the other being integration), which quantifies the rate of change, tangency, and other qualities arising from the local behavior of a function.
The value of such a derived function for a given value of its independent variable: the rate of change of a function at a point in its domain.
One of the two fundamental objects of study in calculus (the other being integration), which quantifies the rate of change, tangency, and other qualities arising from the local behavior of a function.
Any of several related generalizations of the derivative: the directional derivative, partial derivative, Fréchet derivative, functional derivative, etc.
One of the two fundamental objects of study in calculus (the other being integration), which quantifies the rate of change, tangency, and other qualities arising from the local behavior of a function.
The linear operator that maps functions to their derived functions, usually written D; the simplest differential operator.
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human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
business
finance
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
calculus
mathematics
sciences
calculus
mathematics
sciences
calculus
mathematics
sciences
calculus
mathematics
sciences |
2247 | word:
Guinea
word_type:
name
expansion:
Guinea
forms:
wikipedia:
Guinea
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Portuguese Guiné, which is of uncertain origin.
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senses_glosses:
The coastal region of West Africa between Morocco and the Congo, particularly the north shore of the Gulf of Guinea.
A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Guinea.
Someone of Italian descent in the United States.
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2248 | word:
kindling
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kindling (plural kindlings)
forms:
form:
kindlings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Firelighting
etymology_text:
From kindle + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
Go and collect some kindling.
type:
example
text:
December 14, 1784, Hester Rogers, letter to the Rev. Mr. Fletcher
The kindlings of love which had been felt before, now became a flame in every believing soul; and when fallen on our knees, the power of God descended of a truth […]
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senses_glosses:
Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.
The act by which something is kindled.
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2249 | word:
kindling
word_type:
adj
expansion:
kindling (comparative more kindling, superlative most kindling)
forms:
form:
more kindling
tags:
comparative
form:
most kindling
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Firelighting
etymology_text:
From kindle + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
The morning o'er the gilded grove
Bright on the kindling landscape fell,
I sought her where she oft did rove
In want and sorrow's lonely cell;
ref:
1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, "Ye shall seek me in the Morning, but I shall not be,", page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Illuminated, lit.
senses_topics:
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2250 | word:
kindling
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kindling
forms:
wikipedia:
Firelighting
etymology_text:
From kindle + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
Despite the damp wood, he had no trouble kindling a fire.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of kindle
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2251 | word:
morning
word_type:
noun
expansion:
morning (plural mornings)
forms:
form:
mornings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
morning
etymology_text:
From Middle English morwenyng, from morwen + -ing. By surface analysis, morn + ing. See also morrow (Middle English morwe).
senses_examples:
text:
I'll see you tomorrow morning.
type:
example
text:
I'm working in the morning, so let's meet in the afternoon.
type:
example
text:
Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
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1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, volume 1, pages 284–5
type:
quotation
text:
Sheesh, it's two in the morning. Why do kids always have to feel sick at two in the morning?
ref:
1988 October 11, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic)
type:
quotation
text:
Celestina […] retired to her own room, leaving her friend to the pleasing and important occupation of the toilet, in which half of what is now called morning, was usually passed by Matilda.
ref:
1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 101
type:
quotation
text:
We breakfasted before nine, and do not dine till half-past six on the occasion, so I hope we three shall have a long morning enough.
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1813, Jane Austen, letter, 26 October
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senses_glosses:
The early part of the day, especially from midnight to noon.
The early part of anything.
That part of the day from dawn until the main meal (typically in late afternoon).
The first alcoholic drink of the day; a morning draught.
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2252 | word:
morning
word_type:
intj
expansion:
morning
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English morwenyng, from morwen + -ing. By surface analysis, morn + ing. See also morrow (Middle English morwe).
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senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of good morning.
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2253 | word:
heinous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
heinous (comparative more heinous, superlative most heinous)
forms:
form:
more heinous
tags:
comparative
form:
most heinous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hainous, from Old French haïneus (compare French haineux) from haïr (“to hate”), hadir (“to hate”) (compare Old French enhadir (“to become filled with hate”)), from Frankish *hattjan (“to hate”)
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text:
I hope they catch the person responsible for that heinous crime.
type:
example
text:
The perpetrators of this heinous act must be brought to justice.
type:
example
text:
Perhaps burdened by the weight of history, talk of the heinous 2-2 draw in 2002, or the magnitude of the fixture, Scotland seemed spooked in the early throes.
ref:
2021 October 12, Jamie Lyall, “Faroe Islands 0-1 Scotland”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Totally reprehensible.
Bad, evil or villainous.
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2254 | word:
abuse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abuse (countable and uncountable, plural abuses)
forms:
form:
abuses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abusen, then from either Old French abus (“improper use”), or from Latin abūsus (“misused, using up”), perfect active participle of abūtor (“make improper use of, consume, abuse”), from ab (“away”) + ūtor (“to use”). Equivalent to ab- + use.
senses_examples:
text:
human rights abuses
type:
example
text:
All abuse, whether physical, verbal, psychological or sexual, is bad.
type:
example
text:
Dickens was careful to castigate abuses which were being reformed.
ref:
1948, W. R. Inge, The End of an Age and Other Essays
type:
quotation
text:
Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power.
ref:
1788, James Madison, Federalist, Number 63
type:
quotation
text:
Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
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2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 164
type:
quotation
text:
Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?
ref:
1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act IV, scene VII
type:
quotation
text:
The two parties, after exchanging a good deal of abuse, came to blows.
ref:
1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The history of England: from the accession of James the Second, volume 9, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
But he and all the southerners who indulge in this abuse in the newspapers should realize that this will not enable us to find a solution to our problem but will merely aggravate it.
ref:
1950 February 11, Alhaji Na-Alhaji, Gaskiya Fa Ti Kwabo
type:
quotation
text:
The pair – aged 14 and 15 years old – have been accused of assaulting and shouting abuse at four people in central Southampton, police have said.
ref:
2020, “Coronavirus: Teenage girls arrested after 'abusing Chinese people wearing face masks in racially-motivated attack'”, in The Independent
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
Misuse; improper use; perversion.
A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
Catachresis.
Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
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2255 | word:
abuse
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abuse (third-person singular simple present abuses, present participle abusing, simple past and past participle abused)
forms:
form:
abuses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abusing
tags:
participle
present
form:
abused
tags:
participle
past
form:
abused
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abusen, from Middle French abuser, from Latin abūsus (“misused, using up”), perfect active participle of abūtor (“to use up, misuse, consume”), from ab (“from, away from”) + ūtor (“to use”).
senses_examples:
text:
He abused his authority.
type:
example
text:
This principle (if we may so abuse the word) shot rapidly into popularity
ref:
1856, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the fall of Wolsey to the defeat of the Spanish Armada, volume 1, published 1870, page 353
type:
quotation
text:
And I would have things to say to this God at the judgement, storming at him, as Job stormed with the eloquence of the abused heart.
ref:
a. 1990, R. S. Thomas, At It
type:
quotation
text:
But ever and always curse him and abuse him.
ref:
1904, W. B. Yeats, The King's Threshold
type:
quotation
text:
So we were angered by this and we could not tolerate this one because prophet Mohammed has been abused so many times in this country. Awolowo abused him sometimes ago saying that he was more successful and popular that Mohammed and Jesus.
ref:
1991, Yakubu Yahaya, quoted in: 2001, Toyin Falola, Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies, p. 199
text:
However, shortages have seen customers yelling at employees, and abusing staff members as they work frantically to keep up with demand.
ref:
2020, “'Our team are here to help, not hurt': Woolworths urge customers not to abuse staff”, in Nine News
type:
quotation
text:
This the Holy Scripture teaches, as expreſly as may be; Neither Fornicators, ſays St. Paul, nor Adulterers, nor the Abominable, ſhall inherit the Kingdom of God; cautioning alſo at the ſame time, that we don’t abuſe our ſelves, nor flatter our ſelves in this Reſpect.
ref:
1722, Onania; or, The Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution, 6th edition, London, retrieved 2022-02-28, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
Through “wantonness,” or just by being “idle and alone,” or by the instruction of intimates, the young learn to abuse themselves without learning how wrong and dangerous it is.
ref:
2003, Thomas W. Laqueur, Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation, New York: Zone Books, retrieved 2022-02-28, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Believe me, sir, he hath been abused, grossly abused to you.
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
type:
quotation
text:
1651-2, Jeremy Taylor, "Sermon VI, The House of Feasting; or, The Epicures Measures", in The works of Jeremy Taylor, Volume 1, page 283 (1831), edited by Thomas Smart Hughes
When Cyrus had espied Astyages and his fellows coming drunk from a banquet loaden with variety of follies and filthiness, their legs failing them, their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud and abused by a double object
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert
To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of a drug than was prescribed for recreational reasons; to take illegal drugs habitually.
To violate; defile; to rape; (reflexive) to masturbate.
Misrepresent; adulterate.
To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
Disuse.
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2256 | word:
wrought
word_type:
adj
expansion:
wrought (comparative more wrought, superlative most wrought)
forms:
form:
more wrought
tags:
comparative
form:
most wrought
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The past participle of Middle English werken (“to work”), from Old English wyrċan (past tense worhte, past participle ġeworht), from Proto-West Germanic *wurkijan, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Doublet of worked.
Cognate with wright (as in wheelwright etc.), Dutch gewrocht, archaic past participle of werken (archaic past tense wrocht), Low German wracht, archaic past participle of warken (archaic past tense wrach, archaic past participle wracht).
senses_examples:
text:
Is that fence made out of wrought iron?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having been worked or prepared somehow.
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2257 | word:
wrought
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wrought
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The past participle of Middle English werken (“to work”), from Old English wyrċan (past tense worhte, past participle ġeworht), from Proto-West Germanic *wurkijan, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Doublet of worked.
Cognate with wright (as in wheelwright etc.), Dutch gewrocht, archaic past participle of werken (archaic past tense wrocht), Low German wracht, archaic past participle of warken (archaic past tense wrach, archaic past participle wracht).
senses_examples:
text:
What hath God wrought?
text:
I need not describe his attainments as sheep-farmer or shepherd; he scarcely learned the barest rudiments; and the sage master of Clachlands trusted him only when he wrought under his own vigilant eye.
ref:
1899, John Buchan, Summer Weather
type:
quotation
text:
Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
ref:
2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
The goldsmiths who wrought the gold, those were Medes and Egyptians. The men who wrought the wood, those were Sardians and Egyptians. The men who wrought the baked brick, those were Babylonians.
ref:
2001, Josef Wiesehofer, Ancient Persia, I.B.Tauris, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
We are, however, in danger of ignoring the more fundamental lessons, forgetting the imperative to root out and to curb within our societies at every level—most importantly that of the individual—the greed, avarice, corruption and hubris which has wrought and will wreak so much havoc, not just in our relatively rich countries, but has its impact most unfairly on the poorer, unsophisticated countries.
ref:
2008, The Parliamentary Debates : House of Lords official report, page 85
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of work
simple past and past participle of wreak
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2258 | word:
pulpit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pulpit (plural pulpits)
forms:
form:
pulpits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pulpit, from Old French pulpite and Latin pulpitum (“platform”). Doublet of pulpitum.
senses_examples:
text:
Always, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, as in private conversation, there is an absolute simplicity about the man and his words; a simplicity, an earnestness, a complete honesty.
ref:
1915, Russell H. Conwell, Robert Shackleton, chapter IV, in Acres of Diamonds, His Life and Achievements
type:
quotation
text:
In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.
ref:
1941 March 24, Life, page 85
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon.
Activity performed from a church pulpit, in other words, preaching, sermons, religious teaching, the preaching profession, preachers collectively or an individual preaching position; by extension: bully pulpit.
A raised desk, lectern, or platform for an orator or public speaker.
The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck. It is sometimes referred to as bow pulpit. The railing at the stern of the boat is sometimes referred to as a stern pulpit; other texts use the term pushpit.
A bow platform for harpooning.
A plane's cockpit.
senses_topics:
Christianity
nautical
transport
government
military
politics
war |
2259 | word:
half past
word_type:
noun
expansion:
half past (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
My train's supposed to arrive at 2. Let's plan on meeting at half past.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Thirty minutes past any hour.
senses_topics:
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2260 | word:
citrus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
citrus (plural citruses or (rare) citrusses or (rare) citri)
forms:
form:
citruses
tags:
plural
form:
citrusses
tags:
plural
rare
form:
citri
tags:
plural
rare
wikipedia:
citrus
etymology_text:
From Latin citrus (“citron tree, thuja”), probably via Etruscan from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros); compare Middle English citurtre, cytyr tre.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Citrus in the family Rutaceae.
The fruit of such plants, generally spherical, oblate, or prolate, consisting of an outer glandular skin (called zest), an inner white skin (called pith or albedo), and generally between 8 and 16 sectors filled with pulp consisting of cells with one end attached to the inner skin. Citrus fruits include orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and citron.
senses_topics:
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2261 | word:
citrus
word_type:
adj
expansion:
citrus (not generally comparable, comparative more citrus, superlative most citrus)
forms:
form:
more citrus
tags:
comparative
form:
most citrus
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
citrus
etymology_text:
From Latin citrus (“citron tree, thuja”), probably via Etruscan from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros); compare Middle English citurtre, cytyr tre.
senses_examples:
text:
Its nose is very citrus and fruity.
ref:
2001, Robin Shepard, Wisconsin's Best Breweries and Brewpubs, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
[…] and his cologne was more citrus than the usual leatherwood floating in formaldehyde.
ref:
2007, Eric Martin, The Virgin's Guide to Mexico: A Novel, page 176
type:
quotation
text:
The problem with AG2 is that it's too citrus.
ref:
2008, Chandler Burr, The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, relating to, or similar to citrus plants or fruit.
senses_topics:
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2262 | word:
Eritrea
word_type:
name
expansion:
Eritrea
forms:
wikipedia:
Eritrea
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian (l')Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (“Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)”), from Latin erythraeus (“reddish”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in East Africa, on the Red Sea. Capital: Asmara.
The modern State of Eritrea (since the 1990s).
A country in East Africa, on the Red Sea. Capital: Asmara.
A former province of or in union with Ethiopia.
A country in East Africa, on the Red Sea. Capital: Asmara.
A former colony of Italy.
senses_topics:
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2263 | word:
Congo
word_type:
name
expansion:
Congo or the Congo
forms:
form:
Congo
tags:
canonical
form:
the Congo
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
Congo
Kongo
etymology_text:
After Kongo, from Kongo nkongo (“hunter”). Compare Kongo dikongo (“spear”), Zulu umkhonto, Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀kóndó.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo (a country in Central Africa, larger and to the east of the Republic of the Congo; official name: Democratic Republic of the Congo; capital: Kinshasa).
Congo, Republic of the Congo (a country in Central Africa, smaller and to the west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; official name: Republic of the Congo; capital: Brazzaville).
A region of Central Africa, comprising the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo.
A large river in Africa which flows for about 4,380 km (2,720 miles) to the Atlantic Ocean in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
senses_topics:
|
2264 | word:
Congo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Congo (plural Congos)
forms:
form:
Congos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Congo
etymology_text:
Clipping of Congregationalist + -o.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Congregationalist
senses_topics:
|
2265 | word:
husband
word_type:
noun
expansion:
husband (plural husbands)
forms:
form:
husbands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English husbonde, housbonde, from Old English hūsbonda, hūsbunda (“male head of a household, householder, master of a house”), from Old Norse húsbóndi (“master of house”), from hús (“house”) + bóndi (“dweller, householder”), equivalent to house + bond (“serf, slave", originally, "dweller”).
Bond in turn represents a formation derived from the present participle of West Scandinavian búa, East Scandinavian bôa = to build, plow; compare German bauen, der Bauende. Cognate with Icelandic húsbóndi (“head of household”), Faroese húsbóndi (“husband”), Norwegian husbond (“head of household, husband”), Swedish husbonde (“master”), Danish husbond (“husband”) (< Old Danish husbonde).
senses_examples:
text:
You should start dating so you can find a suitable husband.
type:
example
text:
God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant thereof.
ref:
1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times, Occasional Meditations: V
type:
quotation
text:
While reading her book, Sally leaned back against her husband, wishing it were the human kind.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
A prudent or frugal manager.
The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
The male of a pair of animals.
A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position; a husband pillow.
A polled tree; a pollard.
senses_topics:
|
2266 | word:
husband
word_type:
verb
expansion:
husband (third-person singular simple present husbands, present participle husbanding, simple past and past participle husbanded)
forms:
form:
husbands
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
husbanding
tags:
participle
present
form:
husbanded
tags:
participle
past
form:
husbanded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English husbonde, housbonde, from Old English hūsbonda, hūsbunda (“male head of a household, householder, master of a house”), from Old Norse húsbóndi (“master of house”), from hús (“house”) + bóndi (“dweller, householder”), equivalent to house + bond (“serf, slave", originally, "dweller”).
Bond in turn represents a formation derived from the present participle of West Scandinavian búa, East Scandinavian bôa = to build, plow; compare German bauen, der Bauende. Cognate with Icelandic húsbóndi (“head of household”), Faroese húsbóndi (“husband”), Norwegian husbond (“head of household, husband”), Swedish husbonde (“master”), Danish husbond (“husband”) (< Old Danish husbonde).
senses_examples:
text:
1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
...I found pens, ink, and paper, and I husbanded them to the utmost; and I shall show that while my ink lasted, I kept things very exact, but after that was gone I could not, for I could not make any ink by any means that I could devise.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
To conserve.
To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.
To provide with a husband.
To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
senses_topics:
|
2267 | word:
language
word_type:
noun
expansion:
language (countable and uncountable, plural languages)
forms:
form:
languages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
language
etymology_text:
From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). Doublet of langaj. Displaced native Old English ġeþēode.
senses_examples:
text:
The English language and the German language are related.
type:
example
text:
Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL.
type:
example
text:
Hence the natural language of the mute is, in schools of this class, suppressed as soon and as far as possible, and its existence as a language, capable of being made the reliable and precise vehicle for the widest range of thought, is ignored.
ref:
1867, Report on the Systems of Deaf-Mute Instruction pursued in Europe, quoted in 1983 in History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907 →ISBN, page 240
text:
No language could express his rage and despair.
ref:
1900, William Beckford, The History of the Caliph Vathek, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Darko, generally acknowledged to be the last surviving member of the Ofo Tribe, was also the last remaining speaker of the tribe's language.
ref:
2000, Geary Hobson, The Last of the Ofos, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
the gift of language
type:
example
text:
Language is the articulation of the limited to express the unlimited; it is the ultimate mystery which is the image of God, for in breaking up infinity to create finite beings, God has found a way to let the limited being yet be a reflection of His unlimited Being.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 15
type:
quotation
text:
legal language; the language of chemistry
type:
example
text:
body language; the language of the eyes
type:
example
text:
A tale about themselves [is] told by people with help from the universal languages of their eyes, their hands, and even their shirting feet.
ref:
2001, Eugene C. Kennedy, Sara C. Charles, On Becoming a Counselor
type:
quotation
text:
Birding had become like that for me. It is a language that, once learnt, I have been unable to unlearn.
ref:
2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 231
type:
quotation
text:
A more likely hypothesis was that the attacked leaves were transmitting some airborne chemical signal to sound the alarm, rather like insects sending out warnings […] But this is the first time that a plant-to-plant language has been detected.
ref:
1983, The Listener, volume 110, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Prairie dogs use their language to refer to real dangers in the real world, so it definitely has meaning.
ref:
2009, Animals in Translation, page 274
type:
quotation
text:
In fact pointers are called references in these languages to distinguish them from pointers in languages like C and C++.
ref:
2015, Kent D. Lee, Foundations of Programming Languages, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
1782, William Cowper, Hope
Their language simple, as their manners meek, […]
text:
The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.
type:
example
text:
The language he used to talk to me was obscene.
type:
example
text:
"Where the hell is Horace?" ¶ "There he is. He's coming. You shouldn't use language."
ref:
1978, James Carroll, Mortal Friends, page 500
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
The ability to communicate using words.
A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
A computer language; a machine language.
Manner of expression.
The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
Profanity.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
2268 | word:
language
word_type:
verb
expansion:
language (third-person singular simple present languages, present participle languaging, simple past and past participle languaged)
forms:
form:
languages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
languaging
tags:
participle
present
form:
languaged
tags:
participle
past
form:
languaged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). Doublet of langaj. Displaced native Old English ġeþēode.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To communicate by language; to express in language.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical |
2269 | word:
language
word_type:
intj
expansion:
language
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). Doublet of langaj. Displaced native Old English ġeþēode.
senses_examples:
text:
You're a pile of shit!
Hey! Language!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An admonishment said in response to vulgar language.
senses_topics:
|
2270 | word:
language
word_type:
noun
expansion:
language (plural languages)
forms:
form:
languages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of languet.
senses_examples:
text:
A flue-pipe is one in which the air passes through the throat, or flue, which is the narrow, longitudinal aperture between the lower lip and the tongue, or language. […] The language is adjusted by slightly elevating or depressing it, […]
ref:
1896, William Horatio Clarke, The Organist's Retrospect, page 79
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
senses_topics:
|
2271 | word:
burp
word_type:
noun
expansion:
burp (plural burps)
forms:
form:
burps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Originally from American English, of imitative origin.
senses_examples:
text:
Lennon let out a deep, proud burp after downing the beer.
type:
example
text:
Sylvanshine would burp and it would seem like more than a burp; it would taste like he'd almost thrown up a little.
ref:
2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A belch.
senses_topics:
immunology
medicine
sciences |
2272 | word:
burp
word_type:
verb
expansion:
burp (third-person singular simple present burps, present participle burping, simple past and past participle burped)
forms:
form:
burps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
burping
tags:
participle
present
form:
burped
tags:
participle
past
form:
burped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Originally from American English, of imitative origin.
senses_examples:
text:
Burping is considered impolite in most western cultures.
type:
example
text:
My dad used to burp to hide the fact he was farting.
type:
example
text:
Stevie intends to burp the alphabet at the school talent show.
type:
example
text:
Ferment the lemons for up to 2 weeks, opening the bag occasionally to burp it and release carbon dioxide, and reseal.
ref:
2021, Alan Bergo, The Forager Chef's Book of Flora, page 45
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To emit a burp.
To utter by burping
To cause someone (such as a baby) to burp.
To open (a container of fermenting substance) to allow the release of accumulated gas.
senses_topics:
|
2273 | word:
younger
word_type:
adj
expansion:
younger
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Our neighbor spent her younger years in England.
type:
example
text:
Reading this book takes me back to my younger days.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
comparative form of young: more young
senses_topics:
|
2274 | word:
younger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
younger (plural youngers)
forms:
form:
youngers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Hugh and Charlie also played fairly well, so perhaps it was not wonderful that James, who had always regarded cricket as a childish waste of time, felt rather at a loss, and did not care to display his inferiority to his youngers.
ref:
1882, L. H. Apaque, A baker's dozen, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
Youngers did not like olders to be mean and bossy.
ref:
1964, Robert S. Fox, Ronald Lippitt, John E. Lohman, Teaching of Social Science Material in the Elementary School, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
First, the use of Hindi is more among the males than among the females irrespective of the interaction with elders, equals or youngers.
ref:
1980, Hans Raj Dua, Language use in Himachal Pradesh, page 249
type:
quotation
text:
A section of semi-structured interview schedule was also included in the research in order to test if youngers face any problem with elders staying with them.
ref:
1997, M. G. Husain, Changing Indian Society And Status Of Aged, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
So, it is necessary to educate our youngers about economy and, school and college education can do this easily.
ref:
2008, Janardan Prasad, Panorama of Indian education, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
There are the usual tensions between elders and middles, and between middles and youngers.
ref:
2011, Carroll Anne Sheppard, Nancy Burton Dilliplane, Congregational Connections: Uniting Six Generations in the Church, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
Half of them youngers didn't know how much these Brixton olders are affiliated with these Peckham olders
ref:
2014, Simon Harding, Street Casino: Survival in violent street gangs
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who is younger than another.
senses_topics:
|
2275 | word:
Wales
word_type:
name
expansion:
Wales (countable and uncountable, plural Waleses)
forms:
form:
Waleses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Wales (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English Wales, from Old English Wēalas, plural of wealh (“Celt, Welsh person”), from Proto-West Germanic *walh, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“Celt, Roman”). Compare the second element in Cornwall, and also Gaul.
senses_examples:
text:
Meronyms: North Wales, South Wales; see also Category:Places in Wales
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom, formerly a principality.
The area in which the Welsh language and culture predominated, roughly coincident with the modern country.
A surname.
A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4883).
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Alaska.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Maine.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Massachusetts.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in New York.
A number of places in the United States:
A city in North Dakota.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Utah.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Wisconsin.
A submerged ghost town in Ontario, Canada.
senses_topics:
|
2276 | word:
clapper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
clapper (plural clappers)
forms:
form:
clappers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From clap + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
"Sir, sir! folks' tongues go like the clappers in the fields to drive away the blackbirds. A very little wind makes 'em rattle wonderfully."
ref:
1896, Sabine Baring-Gould, Arminell, a social romance, Ch. 37
type:
quotation
text:
Emilia 'tis true could use her clapper with great Dexterity, but he had the same advantages against her, which this had against him; Olimpia 's Tongue was also well hung but she ever had reason on her side, which he with reason could never either blame or oppose, and by both these came his Fortune: […]
ref:
1683, S. P., The Dutch Rogue, Or, Gusman of Amsterdam, page 238
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
A clapstick (musical instrument).
A pounding block.
The chattering damsel of a mill.
A slapshot
The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
A person's tongue.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
|
2277 | word:
clapper
word_type:
verb
expansion:
clapper (third-person singular simple present clappers, present participle clappering, simple past and past participle clappered)
forms:
form:
clappers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
clappering
tags:
participle
present
form:
clappered
tags:
participle
past
form:
clappered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From clap + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
It is still necessary to warn clergymen against allowing the lazy and pernicious practice of 'clappering,' i.e. tying the bell-rope to the clapper, and pulling it instead of the bell.
ref:
1903, Baron Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe, A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.
To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.
Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.
senses_topics:
|
2278 | word:
clapper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
clapper (plural clappers)
forms:
form:
clappers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French clapier.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rabbit burrow.
senses_topics:
|
2279 | word:
Belarus
word_type:
name
expansion:
Belarus
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Russian Белару́сь (Belarúsʹ).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Belarus. Capital and largest city: Minsk.
senses_topics:
|
2280 | word:
index
word_type:
noun
expansion:
index (plural indexes or indices or (obsolete, in use in the 17th century) index's)
forms:
form:
indexes
tags:
plural
form:
indices
tags:
plural
form:
index's
tags:
obsolete
plural
raw_tags:
in use in the 17th century
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin index (“a discoverer, informer, spy; of things, an indicator, the forefinger, a title, superscription”), from indicō (“point out, show”); see indicate.
senses_examples:
text:
The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.
type:
example
text:
His son's empty guffaws […] struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.
ref:
1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Misadventures of John Nicholson
type:
quotation
text:
In other words, we predict that the index for a new pair of materials can be obtained from the indexes of the individual materials, both against air or against vacuum.
ref:
1963, Richard Feynman, “Chapter 26, Optics: The Principle of Least Time”, in The Feynman Lectures on Physics, volume I
type:
quotation
text:
The index of 2ℤ in ℤ is 2.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
The index finger; the forefinger.
A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
A sign; an indication; a token.
A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context; e.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.
A raised suffix indicating a power.
An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
The number of cosets that exist.
A prologue indicating what follows.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
economics
sciences
sciences
mathematics
sciences
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences
|
2281 | word:
index
word_type:
verb
expansion:
index (third-person singular simple present indexes, present participle indexing, simple past and past participle indexed)
forms:
form:
indexes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
indexing
tags:
participle
present
form:
indexed
tags:
participle
past
form:
indexed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin index (“a discoverer, informer, spy; of things, an indicator, the forefinger, a title, superscription”), from indicō (“point out, show”); see indicate.
senses_examples:
text:
MySQL does not index short words and common words.
type:
example
text:
For thousands of years, human progress was indexed to the ease and speed of our mobility: our capacity to walk on two legs, and then to ride on animals, sail on boats, chug across the land and fly through the air, all to procure for ourselves the food and materials we wanted.
ref:
2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
For example, the feature I indexes the current speaker in the speech event and you, the current addressee.
ref:
2008, Haruko Minegishi Cook, Socializing Identities Through Speech Style, page 22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
To inventory; to take stock.
To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
To measure by an associated value.
To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
To access a value in a data container by an index.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
2282 | word:
Myanmar
word_type:
name
expansion:
Myanmar
forms:
wikipedia:
Myanmar
etymology_text:
From Burmese မြန်မာ (mranma), the formal Burmese name of the main ethnic group in Myanmar; ဗမာ (ba.ma), from which Burma is derived, is the informal name. Both Burmese terms are also adjectives meaning "Burmese" (related to Myanmar/Burma, its, people, language, etc). When certain words are attached, the combination may mean specifically Myanmar (Burma) (country) or Burmese (person, language, etc.) - a noun.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Capital: Naypyidaw. Also known as Burma (which was formerly the official name).
The Sino-Tibetan official language of the country of Myanmar.
The script in which the Myanmar language is written.
senses_topics:
|
2283 | word:
o'clock
word_type:
adv
expansion:
o'clock (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortened form of "of the clock", from Middle English of the clokke [from late 14th c.].
senses_examples:
text:
We are expected to be there at six o'clock in the morning!
type:
example
text:
It is two o'clock.
type:
example
text:
(rare, nonstandard) What o'clock is it?
type:
example
text:
I say, Watson, what o'clock is it?
ref:
1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2011
type:
quotation
text:
By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
ref:
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court
type:
quotation
text:
Shortly before five o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday, April 12, 1945, after the Senate adjourned, I went to the office of House Speaker Sam Rayburn. I went there to get an agreement between the Speaker and the Vice-President on certain legislation and to discuss the domestic and world situation generally. As I entered, the Speaker told me that Steve Early, the President's press secretary, had just telephoned, requesting me to call the White House.
ref:
1955, Harry S Truman, chapter 1, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Year of Decisions, volume I, Signet Books, published 1965, →OCLC, →OL, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
That same evening at tea-time — (I am sorry to have to introduce you to another eating-scene, but the hours in English households are usually marked by repasts. It is a daily calendar of feasts — breakfast o’clock, dinner o’clock, &c.,[…]).
ref:
1880, Henrietta A. Duff, Honor Carmichael, page 251
type:
quotation
text:
My sister requires your attendance at supper o’clock this evening — no excuse accepted.
ref:
1904, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple Bar, volume 129, page 144
type:
quotation
text:
“It's lunch o’clock. Wanna go out to eat?”
ref:
1998, Carolyn Greene, Heavenly Husband, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
We're here at Waffle House, and it's waffles o'clock!
We're here at Waffle House, and it's time to eat waffles.
type:
example
text:
It's at nine o'clock about two feet in from the edge of the branch. You need to know your "o'clocks" (nondigital) to spot birds.
ref:
1989, Aileen R. Lotz, Birding around the year: when to find birds in North America
type:
quotation
text:
Without moving your head, move your gaze upward to look at twelve o’clock. Now look down at six o’clock. Repeat three times, then blink several times, and rest with your eyes closed.
ref:
1992, Herbert Benson with Eileen M. Stuart and Staff of the Mind/Body Medical Institute of New England Deaconess Hospital and Harvard Medical School, The Wellness book, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
Thus, you could tell them to "look at three o'clock," or "look just off-center toward nine o'clock," and so forth. Alternatively, in some microscopes a thin black line appears to cut across the field of view
ref:
1994, Peter Abramoff with Robert G. Thomson, Laboratory outlines in biology--VI, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
Three o'clock and nine o'clock would be at the outer right and outer left sides of the tree, respectively, and so on. The clock technique is a very helpful way for one bird watcher to direct others to a hard-to-spot perched bird.
ref:
1997, Bill Thompson, Bird watching for dummies
type:
quotation
text:
At 1057 we were just over the islands and at 1100 the tail gunner reported flak at six o’clock, below.
ref:
1943 November 29, “Target: Germany”, in Life, page 80
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In conjunction with a numeral, indicates the time within a twelve-hour period (midnight to noon or noon to midnight), specifically the time when the hour hand of a clock points precisely to the symbol or marking corresponding to the designated numeral.
In conjunction with a term representing an action or event that occurs daily, indicates the time that said action or event occurs, first occurs.
Used to indicate that it is time to do a specific action, or time for a specific action to occur.
In conjunction with a numeral, indicates the direction, relative to the speaker or a vehicle, especially an aircraft, corresponding to the direction the hour hand is pointing at the time corresponding to the numeral, with twelve representing directly ahead on a horizontal plane, or directly up on a vertical plane, and three being to the right on either.
senses_topics:
|
2284 | word:
solar system
word_type:
name
expansion:
the solar system
forms:
form:
the solar system
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
solar system
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Solar System; the Sun and all the objects in orbit around it.
senses_topics:
|
2285 | word:
solar system
word_type:
noun
expansion:
solar system (plural solar systems)
forms:
form:
solar systems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
solar system
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.
ref:
1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
type:
quotation
text:
1992, J. Laskar, page 31 in, Sylvio Ferraz-Mello (editor), "Chaos, resonance, and collective dynamical phenomena in the solar system", International Astronomical Union Symposium,
I would like to stress out that the meaning of unstable for our solar system is very different than for another solar system.
text:
Every satellite has turned out to differ in some significant feature from its neighbor: "[…]the sense of novelty would probably not have been greater if we had explored a different solar system".
ref:
2001, Stuart Ross Taylor, Solar system evolution: a new perspective, 2nd edition, page xiii
type:
quotation
text:
Almost half of all U.S. households are unable to host a rooftop solar system because they rent or have inadequate roof space.
ref:
2022 April 19 (last accessed), “Planning a Home Solar Electric System”, in Energy.gov, U.S. Department of Energy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any collection of heavenly bodies including a star or binary star, and any lighter stars, brown dwarfs, planets, and other objects in orbit.
Ellipsis of solar power system. (electric power system that supplies usable solar power by means of photovoltaics)
senses_topics:
|
2286 | word:
minuscule
word_type:
noun
expansion:
minuscule (countable and uncountable, plural minuscules)
forms:
form:
minuscules
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
minuscule
etymology_text:
From French minuscule, from Latin minuscula, feminine of minusculus (“rather less, rather small”), from minus (“less, smaller”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
By the eighth century, Irish scribes had refined everyday cursive writing in minuscule to allow its use for the production of quality vellum books.
ref:
2001, Steven Roger Fischer, History of Writing, Reaktion Books, page 254
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lowercase letter.
Either of the two medieval handwriting styles minuscule cursive and Caroline minuscule.
A letter in these styles.
senses_topics:
|
2287 | word:
minuscule
word_type:
adj
expansion:
minuscule (comparative more minuscule, superlative most minuscule)
forms:
form:
more minuscule
tags:
comparative
form:
most minuscule
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
minuscule
etymology_text:
From French minuscule, from Latin minuscula, feminine of minusculus (“rather less, rather small”), from minus (“less, smaller”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
a minuscule dot
type:
example
text:
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
ref:
2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Written in minuscules, lowercase.
Written in minuscule handwriting style.
Very small; tiny.
senses_topics:
|
2288 | word:
security
word_type:
noun
expansion:
security (countable and uncountable, plural securities)
forms:
form:
securities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From secure + -ity, from Middle English securite, from Middle French securité (modern sécurité), from Latin sēcūritās, from Latin sēcūrus (“safe, secure”), from sē- (“without”) + cūra (“care”); see cure. Similar to Latin sine cūrā (“without care, carefree”), which led to English sinecure. Doublet of surety.
senses_examples:
text:
Chad always carries a gun for his own security.
type:
example
text:
The pink blanket gives little Mary lots of security.
type:
example
text:
Pamela works in security.
type:
example
text:
The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.
ref:
2012 December 14, Simon Jenkins, “We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially.
Something that secures.
An organization or department responsible for providing security by enforcing laws, rules, and regulations as well as maintaining order.
Something that secures the fulfillment of an obligation or law.
Freedom from apprehension.
A tradeable financial asset, such as a share of stock.ᵂ
Proof of ownership of stocks, bonds or other investment instruments.
Property etc. temporarily relinquished to guarantee repayment of a loan.
A guarantee.
Carelessness; negligence.
senses_topics:
law
law
business
finance
business
finance
business
finance
|
2289 | word:
dilettante
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dilettante (plural dilettanti or dilettantes)
forms:
form:
dilettanti
tags:
plural
form:
dilettantes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dilettante
etymology_text:
From Italian dilettante, present participle of dilettare (“to delight”), from Latin dēlectāre (“to delight”).
senses_examples:
text:
A comment like "The author is a self-important dilettante." is really nothing more than a pretentious version of "u r a fag."
ref:
2008 March 24, Paul Graham, How to Disagree
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.
senses_topics:
|
2290 | word:
dilettante
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dilettante (comparative more dilettante, superlative most dilettante)
forms:
form:
more dilettante
tags:
comparative
form:
most dilettante
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
dilettante
etymology_text:
From Italian dilettante, present participle of dilettare (“to delight”), from Latin dēlectāre (“to delight”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to or like a dilettante.
senses_topics:
|
2291 | word:
present participle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
present participle (plural present participles)
forms:
form:
present participles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nonfinite verb form that indicates an ongoing action or state and which can function as an adjective.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2292 | word:
prime number
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prime number (plural prime numbers)
forms:
form:
prime numbers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
prime number
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The fundamental theorem of arithmetic states that every natural number greater than 1 can be factorized into prime numbers in a way that is unique up to the order in which the factors are written.
type:
example
text:
2007, James Alfred Walker, Julian Francis Miller, Predicting Prime Numbers Using Cartesian Genetic Programming, Marc Ebner, Michael O'Neill, Anikó Ekárt, Anna Isabel Esparcia-Alcázar, Leonardo Vanneschi (editors), Genetic Programming: 10th European Conference, EuroGP 2007, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 4445, page 215,
As the evolved solution for the first 16 prime numbers was capable of accepting inputs up to 31, we decided to extend the experiment to see how the solution generalised on 15 previously unseen inputs (just as we did with the integer-based approach). From the 15 unseen inputs, 7 of the predicted 15 outputs were prime numbers, which is just below 50%, indicating that the solution had learned something about "primeness" or favoured prime numbers.
text:
The most common definition of a prime number used in school seems to be 'an integer whose only factors are one and itself', which unfortunately leaves open the question of whether one is itself a prime number. Until the nineteenth century, most mathematicians regarded one as a prime number – Henri Lebesgue (1875–1941) is often said to be the last professional mathematician to call one prime – so it is a little unfair to regard learners as silly for thinking this today, or for questioning why we do not now regard one as a prime number – it is still a good question.
ref:
2010, Colin Foster, Resources for Teaching Mathematics: 14-16, Continuum International Publishing Group, page 168
type:
quotation
text:
Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
ref:
2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any natural number greater than 1 that cannot be formed by multiplying two smaller natural numbers.
Any natural number (including 1) that is divisible only by itself and 1.
senses_topics:
mathematics
number-theory
sciences
mathematics
number-theory
sciences |
2293 | word:
ache
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ache (third-person singular simple present aches, present participle aching, simple past ached or (obsolete) oke, past participle ached or (obsolete) aken)
forms:
form:
aches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
aching
tags:
participle
present
form:
ached
tags:
past
form:
oke
tags:
obsolete
past
form:
ached
tags:
participle
past
form:
aken
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English aken (verb), and ache (noun), from Old English acan (verb) (from Proto-West Germanic *akan, from Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to be bad, be evil”)) and æċe (noun) (from Proto-West Germanic *aki, from Proto-Germanic *akiz), both from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eg- (“sin, crime”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian eeke, ääke (“to ache, fester”), Low German aken, achen, äken (“to hurt, ache”), German Low German Eek (“inflammation”), North Frisian akelig, æklig (“terrible, miserable, sharp, intense”), West Frisian aaklik (“nasty, horrible, dismal, dreary”), Dutch akelig (“nasty, horrible”).
The verb was originally strong, conjugating for tense like take (e.g. I ake, I oke, I have aken), but gradually became weak during Middle English; the noun was originally pronounced as /eɪt͡ʃ/ as spelled (compare breach, from break). Historically the verb was spelled ake, and the noun ache (even after the form /eɪk/ started to become common for the noun; compare again break which is now also a noun). The verb came to be spelled like the noun when lexicographer Samuel Johnson mistakenly assumed that it derived from Ancient Greek ἄχος (ákhos, “pain”) due to the similarity in form and meaning of the two words.
senses_examples:
text:
My feet were aching for days after the marathon.
type:
example
text:
Every muscle in his body ached.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
senses_topics:
|
2294 | word:
ache
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ache (plural aches)
forms:
form:
aches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English aken (verb), and ache (noun), from Old English acan (verb) (from Proto-West Germanic *akan, from Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to be bad, be evil”)) and æċe (noun) (from Proto-West Germanic *aki, from Proto-Germanic *akiz), both from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eg- (“sin, crime”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian eeke, ääke (“to ache, fester”), Low German aken, achen, äken (“to hurt, ache”), German Low German Eek (“inflammation”), North Frisian akelig, æklig (“terrible, miserable, sharp, intense”), West Frisian aaklik (“nasty, horrible, dismal, dreary”), Dutch akelig (“nasty, horrible”).
The verb was originally strong, conjugating for tense like take (e.g. I ake, I oke, I have aken), but gradually became weak during Middle English; the noun was originally pronounced as /eɪt͡ʃ/ as spelled (compare breach, from break). Historically the verb was spelled ake, and the noun ache (even after the form /eɪk/ started to become common for the noun; compare again break which is now also a noun). The verb came to be spelled like the noun when lexicographer Samuel Johnson mistakenly assumed that it derived from Ancient Greek ἄχος (ákhos, “pain”) due to the similarity in form and meaning of the two words.
senses_examples:
text:
You may suffer a minor ache in your side.
type:
example
text:
The aches and pains died down after taking an analgesic.
type:
example
text:
Fill all thy bones with aches.
ref:
c. 1610, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene II
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
senses_topics:
|
2295 | word:
ache
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ache (plural aches)
forms:
form:
aches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ache, from Old French ache, from Latin apium (“celery”). Reinforced by modern French ache.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Parsley.
senses_topics:
|
2296 | word:
ache
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ache (plural aches)
forms:
form:
aches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Representing the pronunciation of the letter H.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rare spelling of aitch.
senses_topics:
|
2297 | word:
yourself
word_type:
pron
expansion:
yourself (referring to the person being spoken to, previously mentioned, the reflexive case of you)
forms:
form:
you
tags:
reflexive-of
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yourself, equivalent to your + -self.
senses_examples:
text:
Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself.
type:
example
text:
You yourself know that what you wrote was wrong.
text:
After a good night's sleep you'll feel like yourself again.
text:
I spoke with yourself last in February.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Your own self (singular).
You (singular); used emphatically, especially to indicate exclusiveness of the referent's participation in the predicate, i.e., that no one else is involved.
You (singular); used emphatically, especially to indicate exclusiveness of the referent's participation in the predicate, i.e., that no one else is involved.
You (singular); in other contexts, a hypercorrection perceived as being more polite in formal and professional conversation..
senses_topics:
|
2298 | word:
Samoa
word_type:
name
expansion:
Samoa
forms:
wikipedia:
Samoa
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Samoan Sāmoa. See there for more.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania. Official name: Independent State of Samoa. Capital and largest city: Apia. Formerly Western Samoa, and, before that, German Samoa. It is distinct from American Samoa.
A census-designated place in Humboldt County, California, United States.
senses_topics:
|
2299 | word:
Samoa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Samoa (plural Samoas)
forms:
form:
Samoas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Samoa
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Samoan Sāmoa. See there for more.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kind of cookie with coconut flavoring, often sold by Girl Scouts.
senses_topics:
|
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