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2300 | word:
de
word_type:
noun
expansion:
de (plural des)
forms:
form:
des
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Russian дэ (dɛ).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Cyrillic script letter Д / д.
senses_topics:
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2301 | word:
de
word_type:
verb
expansion:
de (third-person singular simple present diz, present participle dein, simple past did, past participle dyun)
forms:
form:
diz
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dein
tags:
participle
present
form:
did
tags:
past
form:
dyun
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of dee (“to do”).
senses_topics:
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2302 | word:
de
word_type:
article
expansion:
de
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
“He went to’ds de back, ma’am.” The negro opened the door and slid his legs, clad in army O.D. and a pair of linoleum putties, to the ground. “‘I’ll go git ’im.”’
ref:
1964 [1929], William Faulkner, Sartoris (The Collected Works of William Faulkner), London: Chatto & Windus, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
So I'll prolly say de biggest threat to Bermy is de new selfish mentality like, she ank helpin no one in de end.
ref:
2013 April 12, “Exclusive: Meet Derpuntae - Bermuda's first meme”, in The Bermuda Sun, archived from the original on 2022-12-12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of the.
senses_topics:
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2303 | word:
de
word_type:
intj
expansion:
de
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"Dum de dum, dum de dum", he hummed as he sauntered down the road.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A meaningless unstressed syllable used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.
senses_topics:
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2304 | word:
de
word_type:
prep
expansion:
de
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French de (“of”).
senses_examples:
text:
When Prosper Mérimée had next seen Mercedes after Spain, in March 1846, he told the Countess de Montijo that Mercedes "looked less well preserved [and] limped a little."
ref:
2014, Alina García-Lapuerta, La Belle Créole: The Cuban Countess Who Captivated Havana, Madrid, and Paris, Chicago, I.L.: Chicago Review Press, page 236
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used in the titles of French nobility; of.
senses_topics:
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2305 | word:
day
word_type:
noun
expansion:
day (plural days)
forms:
form:
days
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English day, from Old English dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”); see there for more.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dai (“day”), West Frisian dei (“day”), Dutch dag (“day”), German Low German Dag (“day”), Alemannic German Däi (“day”), German Tag (“day”), Swedish, Norwegian and Danish dag (“day”), Icelandic dagur (“day”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags, “day”). Possible cognates beyond Germanic relatives include Albanian djeg (“to burn”), Lithuanian degti (“to burn”), Tocharian A tsäk-, Russian жечь (žečʹ, “to burn”) from *degti, дёготь (djógotʹ, “tar, pitch”), Sanskrit दाह (dāhá, “heat”), दहति (dáhati, “to burn”), Latin foveō (“to warm, keep warm, incubate”).
Latin diēs is a false cognate; it derives from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).
senses_examples:
text:
day and night; I work at night and sleep during the day.
type:
example
text:
I've been here for two days and a bit.
type:
example
text:
Your 8am forecast: The high for the day will be 30 and the low, before dawn, will be 10.
type:
example
text:
The day begins at midnight.
type:
example
text:
Monday is the first day of the week in many countries of the world.
type:
example
text:
A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.
type:
example
text:
I worked two days last week.
type:
example
text:
every dog has its day; in that day; back in the day; in those days
type:
example
text:
In his senior year, he had run across an old '66 Chevy Super Sport headed for the junkyard, bought it for a song, and overhauled it with his dad's help, turning it into the big red muscle car it was back in its day.
ref:
2011, Kat Martin, A Song for My Mother, Vanguard Press
type:
quotation
text:
The day belonged to the Allies.
type:
example
text:
The Axis was having a day in a dayze due to the Allies.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.
A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle.
The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; a solar day.
A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle.
The time taken for the Earth to make a full rotation about its axis with respect to the fixed stars; a sidereal day or stellar day.
A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle.
A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.
A period of time between two set times which mark the beginning and the end of day in a calendar, such as from midnight to the following midnight or (Judaism) from nightfall to the following nightfall.
The rotational period of a planet.
The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time; era.
A period of contention of a day or less.
A period of confusion of a day or more.
senses_topics:
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
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2306 | word:
day
word_type:
verb
expansion:
day (third-person singular simple present days, present participle daying, simple past and past participle dayed)
forms:
form:
days
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
daying
tags:
participle
present
form:
dayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
dayed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English day, from Old English dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”); see there for more.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dai (“day”), West Frisian dei (“day”), Dutch dag (“day”), German Low German Dag (“day”), Alemannic German Däi (“day”), German Tag (“day”), Swedish, Norwegian and Danish dag (“day”), Icelandic dagur (“day”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags, “day”). Possible cognates beyond Germanic relatives include Albanian djeg (“to burn”), Lithuanian degti (“to burn”), Tocharian A tsäk-, Russian жечь (žečʹ, “to burn”) from *degti, дёготь (djógotʹ, “tar, pitch”), Sanskrit दाह (dāhá, “heat”), दहति (dáhati, “to burn”), Latin foveō (“to warm, keep warm, incubate”).
Latin diēs is a false cognate; it derives from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).
senses_examples:
text:
I nighted and dayed in Damascus town[.]
ref:
1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXIII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 233
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To spend a day (in a place).
senses_topics:
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2307 | word:
grey
word_type:
adj
expansion:
grey (comparative greyer or more grey, superlative greyest or most grey)
forms:
form:
greyer
tags:
comparative
form:
more grey
tags:
comparative
form:
greyest
tags:
superlative
form:
most grey
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
grey
etymology_text:
From Middle English grey, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”) (compare Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”)).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
British and Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).
senses_topics:
|
2308 | word:
grey
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grey (third-person singular simple present greys, present participle greying, simple past and past participle greyed)
forms:
form:
greys
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
greying
tags:
participle
present
form:
greyed
tags:
participle
past
form:
greyed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
grey
etymology_text:
From Middle English grey, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”) (compare Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Now only a few hand-hewn cedar planks and roof beams remained, moss-grown and sagging—a few totem poles, greyed and split.
ref:
1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
British and Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
senses_topics:
|
2309 | word:
grey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grey (plural greys)
forms:
form:
greys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
grey
etymology_text:
From Middle English grey, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”) (compare Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Pioneer seemed now to have the game in his own hands; but the Captain, by taking two desperate leaps, cut off a corner, by which he regained the ground he had lost by the fall, and was up with the grey the remainder of the chase.
ref:
1833, Sporting Magazine, volume 6, page 400
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
British and Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
senses_topics:
|
2310 | word:
Moldova
word_type:
name
expansion:
Moldova
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unclear; see Romanian Moldova for theories.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Moldova. Capital and largest city: Chișinău.
A region in eastern Romania adjacent to the country of Moldova, once part of the principality of Moldova.
A river in Romania.
senses_topics:
|
2311 | word:
Vietnam
word_type:
name
expansion:
Vietnam
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Vietnamese Việt Nam. Extended senses come from the Vietnam War.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Capital: Hanoi.
The Vietnam War.
senses_topics:
|
2312 | word:
Vietnam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Vietnam (plural Vietnams)
forms:
form:
Vietnams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Vietnamese Việt Nam. Extended senses come from the Vietnam War.
senses_examples:
text:
another Vietnam
type:
example
text:
the Soviet Union's Vietnam (the 1979–89 occupation of Afghanistan)
text:
France's Vietnam (the Algerian War or First Indochina War)
text:
Welcome back to Vietnam, California.
ref:
1992, “187um (Deep Cover Remix)”, in Deep Cover, performed by Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg
type:
quotation
text:
Vietnam, California, back in and on a mission.
ref:
1992, “Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat”, in The Chronic, performed by Dr. Dre, Death Row Records
type:
quotation
text:
Everyone was miserable, including Coppola. "It was my Vietnam," he moaned a few months later.
ref:
1989, Michael Goodwin, Naomi Wise, On the Edge: The Life and Times of Francis Coppola, page 195
type:
quotation
text:
Judy is the great deceiver / Judy is your Viet Nam
ref:
2011, “Judy is your Viet Nam”, performed by They Might Be Giants
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long and protracted war or conflict in which the dominating foreign occupier is unable to secure a victory.
A place that is very dangerous, especially if afflicted by violence.
A situation in which one cannot win.
senses_topics:
|
2313 | word:
krill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
krill (plural krill or krills)
forms:
form:
krill
tags:
plural
form:
krills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Norwegian kril (“fry of fish”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca.
senses_topics:
|
2314 | word:
centillion
word_type:
num
expansion:
centillion (plural centillions)
forms:
form:
centillions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
centillion
etymology_text:
From centi- + -illion.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
10³⁰³.
10⁶⁰⁰.
senses_topics:
|
2315 | word:
ace
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ace (plural aces)
forms:
form:
aces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English as, from Old French as, from Latin as, assis (“unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage”). Doublet of as. Likely related or deriving ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs, or otherwise taking from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”) in the sense of "singular".
senses_examples:
text:
You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
ref:
1948 January 1, “Deck of Cards” (track 20), in Famous Country Music Makers, performed by Tex Ritter
type:
quotation
text:
1961, The Hustler (film): a character is calling his next shot
Ace in the corner.
text:
[…] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver.
ref:
1990, David F. Friedman, Don DeNevi, A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-film King, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
If they got too many aces (dollar bills) or fives or tens, they turned them in to the vault where they became part of the reserve.
ref:
1996, Arthur M. Smith, Robert Thomas King, Let's Get Going, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty.
ref:
c. 1658, Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue
type:
quotation
text:
"Most of the aces weren't on holes I would have liked to have made them on," confessed Colk, who dropped his fifth dodo of 1935 on December 29, which was believed at the time to be a record for most aces in a year.
ref:
2012, Arv Olson, Backspin: 120 Years of Golf in British Columbia, page 253
type:
quotation
text:
an ace detective
type:
example
text:
‘Weston, the ace of theatrical agents.’
ref:
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Mexican ace Dos Santos smashed home the third five minutes later after good work from Defoe.
ref:
2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game.
A die face marked with a single dot, typically representing the number one.
The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games.
A dollar bill.
A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
A point won by a single stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
The best pitcher on the team.
A run.
A hole in one.
An expert at something; a maverick, genius; a person of supreme talent.
A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more.
A perfect score on a school exam.
Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
A quark.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
dice
games
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
volleyball
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
2316 | word:
ace
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ace (third-person singular simple present aces, present participle acing, simple past and past participle aced)
forms:
form:
aces
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
acing
tags:
participle
present
form:
aced
tags:
participle
past
form:
aced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English as, from Old French as, from Latin as, assis (“unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage”). Doublet of as. Likely related or deriving ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs, or otherwise taking from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”) in the sense of "singular".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
To defeat (others) in a contest; to outdo (others) in a competition.
To win a point against (an opponent) by an ace.
To make an ace (hole in one).
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
2317 | word:
ace
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ace (comparative more ace, superlative most ace)
forms:
form:
more ace
tags:
comparative
form:
most ace
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English as, from Old French as, from Latin as, assis (“unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage”). Doublet of as. Likely related or deriving ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs, or otherwise taking from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”) in the sense of "singular".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Excellent.
senses_topics:
|
2318 | word:
ace
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ace (comparative more ace, superlative most ace)
forms:
form:
more ace
tags:
comparative
form:
most ace
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of asexual.
senses_examples:
text:
Some people who identify as ace fall under the GLBT umbrella while many others do not. Members of the queer movement have reached out to asexuals to include them in their community. The acronym for this has now become GLBTQA (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and asexual).
ref:
2009 June 22, Anneli Rufus, “Asexuals at the Pride Parade”, in Psychology Today
type:
quotation
text:
“I was 14 when I first realized I had no interest in sex,” Jed Strohm, a happily satisfied, romantic asexual from upstate New York, said. “I identified as ace (asexual) and the group leader said I was too attractive.”
ref:
2010, Amy Ebersole, "Asexuality, not to be confused with celibacy", The Daily Aztec (San Diego State University), 25 January 2010
text:
“If you identify as ace [asexual] and you just don’t feel like having sex, then for me, sex-positive means, ‘That’s great! It’s fantastic you don’t want to have sex!’” says McGown.
ref:
2013 March 28, Andrea Garcia-Vargas, “Ourselves, our sex, our choices”, in The Eye
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Asexual, not experiencing sexual attraction.
senses_topics:
|
2319 | word:
ace
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ace (plural aces)
forms:
form:
aces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of asexual.
senses_examples:
text:
Asexuals are programmed differently, like anybody else on the LGBTQXYZ spectrum, but difference is cool! Difference is perhaps the best part of being queer. Own it, aces!
ref:
2012 July 23, Tasmin Prichard, “Freedom from Desire: Some Notes on Asexuality”, in Salient, Victoria University of Wellington, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
Negativity toward asexuality can make emerging aces fear that something is wrong with them.
ref:
2013 April, Leigh Miller, “(A)Sexual Healing”, in Jerk, volume XII, number V, Syracuse University, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
G. F. said she came up with the idea of creating an asexual group last semester, when she was struggling with the way being an ace was affecting her personal life.
ref:
2014 February 4, Emma Ianni, “New Group to Bring Awareness Of C. U. Asexual Community”, in The Cornell Daily Sun, volume 130, number 81, Cornell University, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is asexual.
senses_topics:
|
2320 | word:
board
word_type:
noun
expansion:
board (countable and uncountable, plural boards)
forms:
form:
boards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
board
etymology_text:
From Middle English bord, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board; plank; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerdʰ- (“to cut”). The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table."
senses_examples:
text:
Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.
type:
example
text:
We have to wait to hear back from the board.
type:
example
text:
room and board
type:
example
text:
1890, Algernon Blackwood, Christmas in England, Methodist Magazine Volume 32 pg 481.
The real beginning of the festivities is on Christmas-eve, when the large parties meet their friends from far and near round the festive board.
text:
Túrin took a seat without heed, for he was wayworn, and filled with thought; and by ill-luck he set himself at a board among the elders of the realm, and in that place where Saeros was accustomed to sit.
ref:
2007, J. R. R. Tolkien edited by Christopher Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
type:
quotation
text:
to bind a book in boards
type:
example
text:
The object of the game is to move the smiley face over the preset board, in doing so removing the green squares and ending up at the exit […]
ref:
2004, Dan Whitehead, Martyn Carroll, Shaun Bebbington, “Future Shocks”, in Your Sinclair, number 94
type:
quotation
text:
You are able to then change a color candy with any candy around the board, similar to the way you are able to with color bomb candies.
ref:
2015, Hiddenstuff Entertainment, Candy Crush Soda Saga Game Guide, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, circuit board, message board (on the Internet), bulletin board, etc.
A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
The side of a ship.
The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
A level or stage having a particular two-dimensional layout.
The portion of the playing field where creatures or minions can be placed (or played, summoned, etc.).
A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
A provincial assembly or council.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
video-games
bridge
games
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2321 | word:
board
word_type:
verb
expansion:
board (third-person singular simple present boards, present participle boarding, simple past and past participle boarded)
forms:
form:
boards
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
boarding
tags:
participle
present
form:
boarded
tags:
participle
past
form:
boarded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
board
etymology_text:
From Middle English bord, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board; plank; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerdʰ- (“to cut”). The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table."
senses_examples:
text:
It is time to board the aircraft.
type:
example
text:
You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication.
ref:
1862, Benjamin J. Totten, Naval Text-Book, and Dictionary, for the use of the Midshipmen of the U.S. Navy
type:
quotation
text:
I have just enough time for a "swifty" in the reopened (but on this day just about to close) '301' bar on Platform 4 before boarding a two-car Northern Class 158 working the 1824 to Leeds.
ref:
2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
to board one’s horse at a livery stable
type:
example
text:
We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house,
ref:
February 8, 1712, Charity Frost, The Spectator No. 296 (letter to the editor)
text:
to board a house
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
To (at least attempt to) capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party.
To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
To cover with boards or boarding.
To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
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2322 | word:
board
word_type:
noun
expansion:
board (plural boards)
forms:
form:
boards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From backboard.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rebound.
senses_topics:
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
2323 | word:
yesterday
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yesterday (plural yesterdays)
forms:
form:
yesterdays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yesterday, yisterday, ȝesterdai, ȝisterdai, from Old English ġiestrandæġ, ġister dæġ, ġestor dæġ, ġeostran dæġ. Compare Scots yisterday, yesterday (“yesterday”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌹𐍃 (gistradagis, “tomorrow”, adverb). Compare further Dutch gisteren, German gestern. By surface analysis, yester- + day.
senses_examples:
text:
Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
Yesterday was rainy, but by this morning it had begun to snow.
type:
example
text:
Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …
ref:
1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish
type:
quotation
text:
yesterday's technology
type:
example
text:
The worker of today is different from that of yesterday.
type:
example
text:
Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.
ref:
2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The day immediately before today; one day ago.
The past, often in terms of being outdated.
senses_topics:
|
2324 | word:
yesterday
word_type:
adv
expansion:
yesterday (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yesterday, yisterday, ȝesterdai, ȝisterdai, from Old English ġiestrandæġ, ġister dæġ, ġestor dæġ, ġeostran dæġ. Compare Scots yisterday, yesterday (“yesterday”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌹𐍃 (gistradagis, “tomorrow”, adverb). Compare further Dutch gisteren, German gestern. By surface analysis, yester- + day.
senses_examples:
text:
I started to watch the video yesterday, but could only finish it this evening.
type:
example
text:
I want this done yesterday!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On the day before today.
As soon as possible.
senses_topics:
|
2325 | word:
weekday
word_type:
noun
expansion:
weekday (plural weekdays)
forms:
form:
weekdays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English weke-day, from Old English wicdæġ. By surface analysis, compound of week + day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Nottingham to Skegness route and Robin Hood line from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop will continue with their current weekday patterns; linked to the latter is EMR's commitment to carry out a feasibility study into operating Robin Hood trains to Ollerton.
ref:
2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.
Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday.
Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (e.g. in Vietnam)
Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday.
Any day of the week (Monday through Sunday).
senses_topics:
Islam
lifestyle
religion
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2326 | word:
hexahedron
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hexahedron (plural hexahedrons or hexahedra)
forms:
form:
hexahedrons
tags:
plural
form:
hexahedra
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hexa- + -hedron.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A polyhedron with six faces. The regular hexahedron is the cube, and is one of the Platonic solids.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
2327 | word:
Catalonia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Catalonia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Catalan Catalunya.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An autonomous community of Spain.
A traditional region and former principality, including the autonomous community of Catalonia, the Aragon Strip and the region of Northern Catalonia (France).
senses_topics:
|
2328 | word:
last
word_type:
adj
expansion:
last (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest.
senses_examples:
text:
“Eyes Wide Shut” was the last film to be directed by Stanley Kubrick.
type:
example
text:
The last time I saw him, he was married.
type:
example
text:
I have received your note dated the 17th last, and am responding to say that[…] (archaic usage)
type:
example
text:
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year.
ref:
2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
He is the last person to be accused of theft.
type:
example
text:
The last person I want to meet is Helen.
type:
example
text:
More rain is the last thing we need right now.
type:
example
text:
Japan is the last empire.
type:
example
text:
Contending for principles of the last importance.
ref:
1802, Robert Hall, Reflections on War
type:
quotation
text:
Three contestants will win awards, but the last prize is just a book voucher.
type:
example
text:
I will not wish you to consider me but as the last and lowest of mankind.
ref:
1797, Richard Cumberland, The Last of the Family; republished as The Posthumous Dramatick Words of the Late Richard Cumberland, Esq., volume 2, 1813, page 237
type:
quotation
text:
The whole community from the patrician master to the last beggar knew that in the five months when the generous bosom of the steppe throbbed with creative life, they must toil for the subsistence of all […]
ref:
1899, Richard Savage, The White Lady of Khaminavatka: A Story of the Ukraine, page 186
type:
quotation
text:
Lesser, but still important executives had offices without corner windows. The rank below this had offices without windows at all. […] The last rank had desks out in an open room.
ref:
1970, Julius Fast, Body Language, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
Russia is a very different place than here. […] Even the last soldier knows who Malevich was, and what the Black Square is, since they were taught this in school.
ref:
2003 March 31, Marko Peljhan, “Lecture: March 31, 2003”, in Jen Budney, Adrian Blackwell, editors, Unboxed Engagements in Social Space, published 2005, page 110
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
Most recent, latest, last so far.
Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
Being the only one remaining of its class.
Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
Lowest in rank or degree.
senses_topics:
|
2329 | word:
last
word_type:
det
expansion:
last
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest.
senses_examples:
text:
We went there last year.
type:
example
text:
I was last to arrive.
type:
example
text:
It's Wednesday, and the party was last Tuesday; that is, not yesterday, but eight days ago.
type:
example
text:
When you say last Monday, do you mean the Monday just gone, or the one before that?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The (one) immediately before the present.
Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
senses_topics:
|
2330 | word:
last
word_type:
adv
expansion:
last (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest.
senses_examples:
text:
When we last met, he was based in Toronto.
type:
example
text:
I'll go last as I have to add the butter last.
type:
example
text:
last but not least
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Most recently.
after everything else; finally
senses_topics:
|
2331 | word:
last
word_type:
verb
expansion:
last (third-person singular simple present lasts, present participle lasting, simple past and past participle lasted)
forms:
form:
lasts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lasting
tags:
participle
present
form:
lasted
tags:
participle
past
form:
lasted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lasten, from Old English lǣstan, from Proto-West Germanic *laistijan, from Proto-Germanic *laistijaną. Cognate with German leisten (“yield”).
senses_examples:
text:
Summer seems to last longer each year.
type:
example
text:
They seem happy now, but that won't last long.
type:
example
text:
One of the earliest (and biggest) space weather events on record occurred in September 1859, when a massive solar eruption crashed into the Earth's magnetosphere, triggering a geomagnetic storm that lasted for days.
ref:
2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
I don't know how much longer we can last without reinforcements.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To endure, continue over time.
To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
To purposefully refrain from orgasm
To perform, carry out.
senses_topics:
|
2332 | word:
last
word_type:
noun
expansion:
last (plural lasts)
forms:
form:
lasts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Old English lǣste, Proto-Germanic *laistiz. Compare Swedish läst, German Leisten Dutch leest, Proto-Germanic *laistaz (“footprint”).
senses_examples:
text:
2006, Newman, Cathy, Every Shoe Tells a Story, National Geographic (September, 2006), 83,
How is an in-your-face black leather thigh-high lace-up boot with a four-inch spike heel like a man's black calf lace-up oxford? They are both made on a last, the wood or plastic foot-shaped form that leather is stretched over and shaped to make a shoe.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes.
senses_topics:
|
2333 | word:
last
word_type:
verb
expansion:
last (third-person singular simple present lasts, present participle lasting, simple past and past participle lasted)
forms:
form:
lasts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lasting
tags:
participle
present
form:
lasted
tags:
participle
past
form:
lasted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Old English lǣste, Proto-Germanic *laistiz. Compare Swedish läst, German Leisten Dutch leest, Proto-Germanic *laistaz (“footprint”).
senses_examples:
text:
to last a boot
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last.
senses_topics:
|
2334 | word:
last
word_type:
noun
expansion:
last (plural lasts or lasten)
forms:
form:
lasts
tags:
plural
form:
lasten
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English last, from Old English hlæst (“burden, load, freight”), from Proto-Germanic *hlastuz (“burden, load, freight”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”). Cognate with West Frisian lêst, Dutch last, German Last, Swedish last, Icelandic lest.
senses_examples:
text:
Now we so quietly followed our businesse, that in three moneths wee made three or foure Last of Tarre, Pitch, and Sope ashes [...].
ref:
1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 114
type:
quotation
text:
The last of wool is twelve sacks.
ref:
1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 169
type:
quotation
text:
1942 (1601), T D Mutch, The First Discovery of Australia, page 14,
The tonnage of the Duyfken of Harmensz's fleet is given as 25 and 30 lasten.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A burden; load; a cargo; freight.
A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned.
An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons.
A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
senses_topics:
|
2335 | word:
wall
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wall (plural walls)
forms:
form:
walls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wall
etymology_text:
From Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-West Germanic *wall (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”).
Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English wāg, wāh (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw.
Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk.
senses_examples:
text:
The town wall was surrounded by a moat.
type:
example
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
We're adding another wall in this room during the remodeling. The wind blew against the walls of the tent.
type:
example
text:
They want Abramovich out for obvious reasons, including the optics, and they do not want to send Chelsea to the wall as they consider the club to be of cultural significance to the country.
ref:
March 11 2022, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
A wall of police officers met the protesters before they reached the capitol steps.
type:
example
text:
Researchers found that 15 of 17 species which commonly live on farmland – including the small tortoiseshell, small skipper and wall butterfly – show declines associated with increasing neonic use.
ref:
2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
a seawall; a firewall
type:
example
text:
a wall of sound; a wall of water; a wall of smoke obscured their view of enemy forces
type:
example
text:
I built a wall between myself and the bullies.
type:
example
text:
The extraordinary thinness of the walls of these vases, which reminds us of the finest china, or even of Venetian glass
ref:
1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
There is definitely some sort of lump on the back wall of my throat (right side).
ref:
1982 April 24, Matthew Ross, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
Blackburn were the recipients of another dose of fortune when from another Thomas pass Odemwingie was brought down by Jones inside the penalty area, but referee Mark Clattenburg awarded a free-kick which Chris Brunt slammed into the wall.
ref:
2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2-0 West Brom”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
It can also be used to maintain the presence of a wall when one of the blockers who makes up the wall is picked off by an opposing blocker attempting to shut down the wall.
ref:
2013, Ellen Parnavelas, The Roller Derby Athlete, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
Depreciation of assets happens. Prepare yourself
Marla. Get ready for the wall.
ref:
1996 December 27, “The Definitive Answer to "Why Nice Guys Finish Last"”, in alt.romance (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
At what age would you peg the
'wall' to be for men, on or thereabouts?
ref:
2001 February 2, “what a drag it is getting old”, in soc.singles (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
I have never had a problem getting the attention of men. I'm 44
and there's no wall staring me in the face
ref:
2001 June 19, “the laws of biomechanics”, in soc.singles (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
That was only six
years later and Natasha is not near the wall yet
ref:
2002 January 22, “towards a useful smv metric”, in soc.singles (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
As for the wall....Im convinced part of this is just something us guys tell ourselves to 'get back'(in our minds) at all the girls who wouldn't sleep with us 5-10 years ago
ref:
2015 July 20, “catcalls are bad”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
He related to me the following minute anecdote of this period: 'In the last age, when my mother lived in London, there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it; the peaceable and the quarrelsome. […] Now it is fixed that every man keeps to the right; or, if one is taking the wall, another yields it; and it is never a dispute.'
ref:
1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson
type:
quotation
text:
All persons, in walking the streets, whose right sides are next the wall, are intitled to take the wall.
ref:
1822, The Pamphleteer, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
Taking the wall thus was also a social distinction. An entire episode in the second book is therefore dedicated “to whom to give the wall” and “to whom to refuse the wall” (II. 4564).
ref:
2017, Catharina Löffler, Walking in the City, page 135
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
A point of desperation.
A point of defeat or extinction.
An impediment to free movement.
The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
A barrier.
Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
A means of defence or security.
One of the vertical sides of a container.
A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
A very steep slope.
senses_topics:
anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
medicine
sciences
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
business
mining
lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
2336 | word:
wall
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)
forms:
form:
walls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
walling
tags:
participle
present
form:
walled
tags:
participle
past
form:
walled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-West Germanic *wall (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”).
Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English wāg, wāh (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw.
Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk.
senses_examples:
text:
He walled the study with books.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
To use a wallhack.
senses_topics:
video-games |
2337 | word:
wall
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)
forms:
form:
walls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
walling
tags:
participle
present
form:
walled
tags:
participle
past
form:
walled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wallen, from Old English weallan (“to bubble, boil”), from Proto-West Germanic *wallan, from Proto-Germanic *wallaną (“to fount, stream, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“wave”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch wallen (“to boil, bubble”), Dutch wellen (“to weld”), German wellen (“to wave, warp”), Danish vælde (“to overwhelm”), Swedish välla (“to gush, weld”). See also well.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To boil.
To well, as water; spring.
senses_topics:
|
2338 | word:
wall
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wall (plural walls)
forms:
form:
walls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English walle, from Old English *wealla, *weall (“spring”), from Proto-Germanic *wallô, *wallaz (“well, spring”). See above. Cognate with Old Frisian walla (“spring”), Old English wiell (“well”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A spring of water.
senses_topics:
|
2339 | word:
wall
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wall (plural walls)
forms:
form:
walls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
2340 | word:
wall
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)
forms:
form:
walls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
walling
tags:
participle
present
form:
walled
tags:
participle
past
form:
walled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
2341 | word:
wall
word_type:
intj
expansion:
wall
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Wall, they spoke up, 'n' says to her, s'd they, "Why, look a-here, aunty, Wus't his skin, 't was rock?" so s's she, "I guess not." (Well, they spoke up and says to her, said they, "Why look a-here, aunty, was it his skin that was rock [referring to the Apostle Peter]?" So says she, "I guess not.")
ref:
1858, Robert Lowell, The New Priest in Conception Bay
type:
quotation
text:
Wall, be that as it may, ol' Hosshead was a purty good citizen in his day, an' he shore did make Juneybell toe the mark.
ref:
1988, Herbert M. Sutherland, Tall Tales of the Devil's Apron, The Overmountain Press, page 97
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of well.
senses_topics:
|
2342 | word:
chook
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chook (plural chooks)
forms:
form:
chooks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Irish English chuck (call made to poultry or pigs), from Irish tsiug, tsiuc. Compare English buck buck.
senses_examples:
text:
Worm chickens once every three months and, if an occasional lice problem occurs, spray the inside of the chook shed with Coopex.
ref:
2005, Don Burke, The Complete Burke′s Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets, page 683
type:
quotation
text:
2006, Judith Brett, The Chook in the Australian Unconscious, in Peter Beilharz, Robert Manne, Reflected Light: La Trobe Essays, page 329,
This little book, with its meticulous pencil drawings of chooks in mechanical contraptions and photos to show the machine in operation with a white leghorn called Gregory Peck, is evidence of both the sadism inspired by the chook′s comparatively flightless fate and the laughter we use to defend ourselves against the knowledge of that sadism.
text:
She decided to dig her way under the fence into their chook house and had great fun running around and biting the necks of about eight chooks and leaving them half-dead and bleeding. The neighbour was furious, and unfortunately it was Dad′s birthday, so when he arrived home from work, Mum said ‘Happy birthday and darling. Guess what? Your dog has half-killed most of the neighbour′s chooks.
ref:
2011, Helen Maczkowiack, An Awkward Fit, page 21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chicken, especially a hen.
A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.
A fool.
Affectionate name for someone, also a chicken, 'chooky egg': a chicken's egg..
senses_topics:
|
2343 | word:
chook
word_type:
intj
expansion:
chook
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Irish English chuck (call made to poultry or pigs), from Irish tsiug, tsiuc. Compare English buck buck.
senses_examples:
text:
Chook, chook, quack, quack, / Cock-a-doodle-doo; / All the ducks and the fowls / Admire me, they do.
ref:
1875 July 23, Sydney Punch, page 1, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A call made to chickens.
An imitation of the call of a chicken.
senses_topics:
|
2344 | word:
music
word_type:
noun
expansion:
music (usually uncountable, plural musics)
forms:
form:
musics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Modern English
Tchaikovsky
music
etymology_text:
From Middle English musik, musike, borrowed from Anglo-Norman musik, musike, Old French musique, and their source Latin mūsica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ), from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”), an Ancient Greek deity of the arts. By surface analysis, muse + -ic (“pertaining to”). In this sense, displaced native Old English drēam (“music”), whence Modern English dream.
senses_examples:
text:
I keep listening to this music because it’s a masterpiece.
type:
example
text:
Music lessons in early childhood lead to changes in the brain that could improve its performance far into adulthood, researchers say.
ref:
2013 November 22, Ian Sample, “Music lessons in early childhood may improve brain's performance”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 24, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
“Oh! this was very kind,” she said, with that simplicity and tenderness, which at times made her voice pure music, “I could not have expected you so soon.”
ref:
1856, John Esten Cooke, The Virginia Comedians, page 247
type:
quotation
text:
Wilson's definite genius for rapid, witty dialogue which becomes a kind of conversational music at times.
ref:
1978 August 19, Kevin Warren, “A Flawless Production”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A series of sounds organized in time, usually employing some combination of harmony, melody, rhythm, tempo, etc., often to convey a mood.
Any interesting or pleasing sounds.
An art form, created by organizing pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and/or singing.
A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.
Electronic signal jamming.
Heated argument.
Fun; amusement.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
|
2345 | word:
music
word_type:
verb
expansion:
music (third-person singular simple present musics, present participle musicking, simple past and past participle musicked)
forms:
form:
musics
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
musicking
tags:
participle
present
form:
musicked
tags:
participle
past
form:
musicked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Modern English
Tchaikovsky
music
etymology_text:
From Middle English musik, musike, borrowed from Anglo-Norman musik, musike, Old French musique, and their source Latin mūsica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ), from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”), an Ancient Greek deity of the arts. By surface analysis, muse + -ic (“pertaining to”). In this sense, displaced native Old English drēam (“music”), whence Modern English dream.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To seduce or entice with music.
senses_topics:
|
2346 | word:
music
word_type:
adj
expansion:
music (comparative more music, superlative most music)
forms:
form:
more music
tags:
comparative
form:
most music
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Modern English
Tchaikovsky
music
etymology_text:
From Middle English musik, musike, borrowed from Anglo-Norman musik, musike, Old French musique, and their source Latin mūsica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ), from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”), an Ancient Greek deity of the arts. By surface analysis, muse + -ic (“pertaining to”). In this sense, displaced native Old English drēam (“music”), whence Modern English dream.
senses_examples:
text:
Again, Moſes was the firſt that brought in ſacred Muſick: thus in like manner Strabo lib. 10. 453. informes us, that the Bacchick Muſick was famous throughout Aſia; and that many muſick Inſtruments had obteined a Barbarick name, as Jambla, Sambuke, Barbitos, Magades, &c. which ſeem all to be of Hebrew origination.
ref:
1669, T[heophilus] G[ale], The Court of the Gentiles: or A Discourse Touching the Original of Human Literature, Both Philologie and Philosophie, from the Scriptures, and Jewish Church in Order to a Demonstration, […], part I (Of Philologie), Oxon [Oxford]: […] Hen[ry] Hall for Tho[mas] Gilbert, pages 136–137
type:
quotation
text:
Loosened / Thy tongue shall with sweet-flowing sounds surprize / The ear of sense; another than thyself / Will be seen within to have come, and bringing / Music tones from other spheres to have made / Thee ever the harp of hidden minstrelsy.
ref:
1838 fall – 1839 summer, Jones Very, “The Unrevealed”, in Helen R. Deese, editor, Jones Very: The Complete Poems, Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, published 1993, page 159, lines 4–9
type:
quotation
text:
So should she drape the World’s wide round, / With sunny robes, and fresh Spring weather / And consecrate the loneliest ground, / While we went wandering linked together, / Her music voice, her beaming eyes, / Give to the Silence, glad replies.
ref:
1847, William Ellery Channing, “The Desert”, in Poems, second series, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
And therefore, prisoner, you are doomed for life / To solitary toil. Alone! alone! alone! / Love’s music voice will never greet your ear; / Affection’s eye will never meet your gaze; / Nor heart-warm hand of friend return your grasp; / But morn, and noon, and night, days, months, and years, / Will all be told in this one word—alone!
ref:
1851 January, Sarah J[osepha] Hale, “The Judge; a Drama of American Life”, in Sarah J[osepha] Hale, editor, Godey’s Lady’s Book, volume XLII, Philadelphia, Pa.: L[ouis] A[ntoine] Godey, act I, scene III, page 26, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Musical.
senses_topics:
|
2347 | word:
aloha
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aloha (plural alohas)
forms:
form:
alohas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Hawaiian aloha (“love”), from Proto-Polynesian *qarofa. Doublet of aroha and aropa.
senses_examples:
text:
Traveling as the princess regent with a retinue that included Princess Ruth and Queen Kapi‘olani, Lili‘u was welcomed by enormous crowds and lavish outpourings of aloha, as her subjects clasped her knees and kissed her hands and feet to show their reverence.
ref:
2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 91
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Good wishes, love.
An utterance of aloha (see Interjection, below).
senses_topics:
|
2348 | word:
aloha
word_type:
intj
expansion:
aloha
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Hawaiian aloha (“love”), from Proto-Polynesian *qarofa. Doublet of aroha and aropa.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expressing good wishes when greeting or parting from someone; hello; goodbye.
senses_topics:
|
2349 | word:
early
word_type:
adj
expansion:
early (comparative earlier, superlative earliest)
forms:
form:
earlier
tags:
comparative
form:
earliest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English erly, erlich, earlich, from Old English ǣrlīċ (“early”, adjective), equivalent to ere + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
at eleven, we went for an early lunch; she began reading at an early age; his mother suffered an early death
type:
example
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:
You're early today! I don't usually see you before nine o'clock.
type:
example
text:
The early guests sipped their punch and avoided each other's eyes.
type:
example
text:
The play "Two Gentlemen of Verona" is one of Shakespeare's early works.
type:
example
text:
Early results showed their winning 245 out of 300 seats in parliament. The main opponent locked up only 31 seats.
type:
example
text:
Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
ref:
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
It's too early for this sort of thing. I'm not awake yet.
type:
example
text:
early cancer
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.
Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.
Near the start or beginning.
Near the start of the day.
Having begun to occur; in its early stages.
Of a star or class of stars, hotter than the sun.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences |
2350 | word:
early
word_type:
noun
expansion:
early (plural earlies)
forms:
form:
earlies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English erly, erlich, earlich, from Old English ǣrlīċ (“early”, adjective), equivalent to ere + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
On my first day on the watch after leaving the shoplifting squad I paraded on earlies but had completely forgotten to take my ear ring off.
ref:
2007, Paul W. Browning, The Good Guys Wear Blue, page 193
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place early in the day.
senses_topics:
|
2351 | word:
early
word_type:
adv
expansion:
early (comparative earlier, superlative earliest)
forms:
form:
earlier
tags:
comparative
form:
earliest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English erly, orely, arely, erliche, arliche, from Old English ǣrlīċe, ārlīċe (“early; early in the morning”, adverb), equivalent to ere + -ly. Cognate with Old Norse árliga, árla ( > Danish årle, Swedish arla, Norwegian årle, Faroese árla).
senses_examples:
text:
We finished the project an hour sooner than scheduled, so we left early.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At a time before expected; sooner than usual.
Soon; in good time; seasonably.
senses_topics:
|
2352 | word:
pronunciation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pronunciation (countable and uncountable, plural pronunciations)
forms:
form:
pronunciations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pronunciacioun, from Middle French prononciation, pronunciation, from Latin prōnūntiātiō, noun of action from perfect passive participle prōnūntiātus, from verb prōnūntiāre (“proclaim”), from prō- (“for”) + nūntiāre (“announce”). Doublet of pronuntiatio.
senses_examples:
text:
What is the pronunciation of "hiccough"?
type:
example
text:
His Italian pronunciation is terrible.
type:
example
text:
The second part is the sentence, which is the judge's pronunciation upon a cause depending between two in controversy.
ref:
1831, Thomas Oughton, James Thomas Law, Forms of Ecclesiastical Law, page 62
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken.
The way in which the words of a language are made to sound when speaking.
The act of pronouncing or uttering a vocable.
senses_topics:
|
2353 | word:
morph
word_type:
noun
expansion:
morph (plural morphs)
forms:
form:
morphs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from morpheme, from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”). Compare German Morph, from Morphem. Attested since the 1940s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds representing an indivisible morphological form; especially as representing a morpheme.
An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2354 | word:
morph
word_type:
noun
expansion:
morph (plural morphs)
forms:
form:
morphs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from morphism. Attested since the 1950s. See also morphology.
senses_examples:
text:
Briefly, the yellow morphic males can change their status from paired to satellite and from satellite to the paired one. However, they cannot cross into the status of the red morph.
ref:
2010, T.J. Pandian, Sexuality in Fishes, page 51
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A variety of a species, distinguishable from other individuals of the species by morphology or behaviour.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
2355 | word:
morph
word_type:
verb
expansion:
morph (third-person singular simple present morphs, present participle morphing, simple past and past participle morphed)
forms:
form:
morphs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
morphing
tags:
participle
present
form:
morphed
tags:
participle
past
form:
morphed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of metamorphose
senses_examples:
text:
Meta leapt forward. In midair his lower half morphed, and suddenly he was one-half humanoid, one-half coiled spring.
ref:
1993, Peter David, The Siege
type:
quotation
text:
Would it reflect badly on women if I morphed my bust size up a bit for it? Sorta like wearing a padded bra?
ref:
2015 January 30, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive - EGS:NP (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Jan 30, 2015
type:
quotation
text:
By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.”
ref:
June 18 2013, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-21
type:
quotation
text:
“Highbrow and lowbrow, alternative and mainstream, work and play, CEO and hipster are all morphing together today,” [Richard] Florida enthuses.
ref:
2014, Astra Taylor, quoting Richard Florida, chapter 2, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.
To shapeshift.
To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion.
senses_topics:
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
|
2356 | word:
morph
word_type:
noun
expansion:
morph (plural morphs)
forms:
form:
morphs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of metamorphose
senses_examples:
text:
But what is this metasubstance that blinks at us from the apex of the morph, and that in Terminator 2 is hyperbolized in the quicksilver substratum of the T-1000?
ref:
2000, Vivian Carol Sobchack, Meta Morphing, page 123
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.
senses_topics:
|
2357 | word:
morph
word_type:
noun
expansion:
morph (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of morphine
senses_examples:
text:
They're bringing you some morph before long. […] The tube has its own needle, and the medic jabs it in like he has done it a million times, then marks Chickenfeed's forehead so the Rear will know he's already had morphine.
ref:
2008, Donald Bodey, F.N.G., page 103
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
morphine
senses_topics:
|
2358 | word:
morph
word_type:
noun
expansion:
morph (plural morphs)
forms:
form:
morphs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of morphodite
senses_examples:
text:
I am seeking to correspond with a TV [transvestite] or a natural morph. I want them to be passive (I'm totally non-violent) but open in feelings and ideas. I need no financial support, only moral support from a person with small sex parts.
ref:
1990 April 7, Roy Vance, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hermaphrodite, an intersex person.
senses_topics:
|
2359 | word:
Zuni
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Zuni (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Zuni
etymology_text:
From earlier Zuñi, from American Spanish, from Acoma Western Keres sɨ̂‧ni or a cognate thereof.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the Zuni people or their traditional language.
senses_topics:
|
2360 | word:
Zuni
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Zuni (plural Zunis or Zuni)
forms:
form:
Zunis
tags:
plural
form:
Zuni
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Zuni
etymology_text:
From earlier Zuñi, from American Spanish, from Acoma Western Keres sɨ̂‧ni or a cognate thereof.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of a Native American Pueblo people, native to the Zuni River valley.
senses_topics:
|
2361 | word:
Zuni
word_type:
name
expansion:
Zuni
forms:
wikipedia:
Zuni
etymology_text:
From earlier Zuñi, from American Spanish, from Acoma Western Keres sɨ̂‧ni or a cognate thereof.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language traditionally spoken by members of this tribe.
senses_topics:
|
2362 | word:
DNA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
DNA (countable and uncountable, plural DNAs)
forms:
form:
DNAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is an initialism of deoxyribonucleic acid. The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
Among the various fractions isolated was one presumed to contain only desoxyribosenucleic acid (DNA). Because of certain speculations on the role of nucleic acids in protein synthesis it was necessary to measure and compare the rate of phosphate entry into DNA with that in other fractions of yeast phosphate.
Desoxyribosenucleic acid is an archaic name of deoxyribonucleic acid.
ref:
1948 March–April, Martin D[avid] Kamen, “Detection of Intermediates, Criteria of Purity”, in Louis H. Roddis, editor, Supplement to the United States Naval Medical Bulletin on Preparation and Measurement of Isotopes and Some of Their Medical Aspects, Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, U.S. Navy; U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest.
ref:
1953 April 25, J[ames] D[ewey] Watson, F[rancis] H[arry] C[ompton] Crick, “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid”, in Nature: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, volume 171, number 4356, London: Macmillan and Co.; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-04-03, page 737, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
As you know, heredity resides in our genes. Our genes are, in turn, composed of complex molecules called DNA. About 10 years ago we learned how to synthesize DNA in the test tube with the use of a certain cellular catalyst or enzyme. […] During the past year, we have been able to synthesize DNA which has the full genetic activity of natural DNA.
ref:
1968 March 8, Arthur Kornberg (witness), “Statement of Dr. Arthur Kornberg, Professor and Executive Head of the Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, Calif.”, in National Commission on Health Science and Society: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Government Research of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session on S.J. Res. 145: A Joint Resolution for the Establishment of the National Commission on Health Science and Society […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
Recent breakthroughs in DNA technology are expected to provide investigators with powerful forensic tools to help solve these difficult kinds of cases.
ref:
1988 August, John W. Hicks, “DNA Profiling: A Tool for Law Enforcement”, in Thomas J. Deakin, editor, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, volume 57, number 8, Washington, D.C.: Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice; Office of Congressional and Public Affairs, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
[I]n bacteria, recombination between the DNAs of different organisms usually occurs between a piece of DNA from one strain of a bacterium, called the donor strain, and the entire chromosome of another strain, called the recipient strain.
ref:
2020, Tina M. Henkin, Joseph E. Peters, “Bacterial Genetic Analysis: Fundamentals and Current Approaches”, in Snyder & Champness: Molecular Genetics of Bacteria, 5th edition, Washington, D.C.: ASM Press, page 157, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
These ingredients in a company's DNA mean that [the] company will attract and grow leaders with these qualities.
ref:
2003, Kevin [John] Kennedy, Mary Moore, “The Predictable Challenges Faced by Dominant Companies”, in Going the Distance: Why Some Companies Dominate and Others Fail, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Financial Times Prentice Hall, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
The main leadership priority at Level 2 is creating the business's DNA by defining how all the moving parts of the company will work, both independently and together.
ref:
2012, Bill McBean, “Fact 1: If You Don’t Lead, No One Will Follow”, in The Facts of Business Life: What Every Successful Business Owner Knows that You Don’t, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
But this new fixation on guns is […] coming from the hardcore MAGA set, and not only is it likely to stick around beyond the primaries, it's likely hardwired into the DNA of a party now driven by extremism, conspiracy, and a belief that violence is a legitimate tool to achieve desired political outcomes.
ref:
2022 April 13, Ryan Bort, “The Real Reason Republicans are Loading Their 2022 Campaign Ads with Guns”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-09
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of deoxyribonucleic acid (“a nucleic acid found in all living things (and some non-living things such as certain viruses) which consists of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix; encoded in its structure are genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction”).
The part of a living thing that carries genetic information.
The fundamental nature or values of a person, or an organization or other thing, especially when considered as innate and/or immutable.
senses_topics:
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
2363 | word:
DNA
word_type:
verb
expansion:
DNA (third-person singular simple present DNAs, present participle DNAing, simple past and past participle DNAed)
forms:
form:
DNAs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
DNAing
tags:
participle
present
form:
DNAed
tags:
participle
past
form:
DNAed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is an initialism of deoxyribonucleic acid. The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
The only way we're gonna know is if we DNA him against the spunk in Karen.
ref:
2002, Matthew Stokoe, High Life, New York, N.Y.: Akashic Books, published 2008, page 261
type:
quotation
text:
The barrister went on to say that his client 'remains persecuted and victimised. He has been DNAed; his hair, his blood and his clothes. Nothing. No charges have ever been brought.'
ref:
2004, Michael Sheridan, Death in December: The Story of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, updated edition, Dublin: O’Brien, page 194
type:
quotation
text:
Maybe nothing to do with the break-in, but worth fingerprinting the wrapper and DNAing the gum.
ref:
2020, Julian Mitchell, A Devon Deception, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To examine a sample of (someone's) deoxyribonucleic acid.
senses_topics:
|
2364 | word:
DNA
word_type:
name
expansion:
DNA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
An initialism of the various terms listed below. The verb sense is derived from noun sense 7.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Defense Nuclear Agency, an agency of the United States Department of Defense which existed from 1971 to 1996 and has since been reorganized as the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
2365 | word:
DNA
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
DNA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
An initialism of the various terms listed below. The verb sense is derived from noun sense 7.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Did not answer.
Did not arrive (used when someone fails to keep an appointment).
Did not attend.
Do not assume.
Does not apply.
Drugs 'n' alcohol.
Do not arm (that is, do not provide with a firearm).
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
2366 | word:
DNA
word_type:
verb
expansion:
DNA (third-person singular simple present DNAs, present participle DNAing, simple past and past participle DNAed)
forms:
form:
DNAs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
DNAing
tags:
participle
present
form:
DNAed
tags:
participle
past
form:
DNAed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
An initialism of the various terms listed below. The verb sense is derived from noun sense 7.
senses_examples:
text:
She had her weapons back. She wasn't DNA'd anymore. But she didn't use a weapon. That's not how she did it.
ref:
2018, Jeanne Marie Laskas, To Obama, with Love, Joy, Hate and Despair, New York, N.Y.: Random House, page 239
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place (someone) under a DNA (do not arm) order because of mental illness.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
2367 | word:
mauve
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mauve (countable and uncountable, plural mauves)
forms:
form:
mauves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mauve
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French mauve (“mallow”), from Latin malva, which has a purple colour. Doublet of mallow. Coined in 1856 by the chemist William Henry Perkin, when he accidentally created the first aniline dye.
senses_examples:
text:
mauveine:
text:
old mauve:
text:
mauve:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye when it faded.
senses_topics:
|
2368 | word:
mauve
word_type:
adj
expansion:
mauve (comparative mauver or more mauve, superlative mauvest or most mauve)
forms:
form:
mauver
tags:
comparative
form:
more mauve
tags:
comparative
form:
mauvest
tags:
superlative
form:
most mauve
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
mauve
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French mauve (“mallow”), from Latin malva, which has a purple colour. Doublet of mallow. Coined in 1856 by the chemist William Henry Perkin, when he accidentally created the first aniline dye.
senses_examples:
text:
[A]long their time-marked walls wistaria threw patches of mauve blossom.
ref:
1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 222
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a pale purple colour.
senses_topics:
|
2369 | word:
grapefruit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grapefruit (countable and uncountable, plural grapefruits or grapefruit)
forms:
form:
grapefruits
tags:
plural
form:
grapefruit
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Widely assumed to be a marketing term from grape + fruit, an allusion to the supposed grapelike clusters of fruit on the tree, early 19th c. Ciardi proposes another theory: one of the pomelo's botanical names is Citrus grandis, meaning "great citrus [fruit]", due to the size of its fruit. A new pomelo variety might first have been called a "greatfruit" (see greatfruit), and through the process of assimilation, the word came to be pronounced "grapefruit".
senses_examples:
text:
Results have begun to come in and at Comfort Castle this month I spent a useful and happy half day carting round 8 children in my car to their homes where we all helped to fill in with good soil and manure, their excellently dug holes and planted the grapefruit.
ref:
1932, The Farmer, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
Grapefruit is high in vitamin C. The pink and red varieties contain vitamin A (betacarotene) and lycopene, an antioxidant that may help prevent cancer. Grapefruit contains a chemical that can alter intestinal absorption of some medications and lead to higher than normal blood levels of some drugs and potential problems.
ref:
2002, “Fruits”, in Encyclopedia of Foods: A Guide to Healthy Nutrition, Academic Press, part II (Encyclopedia of Foods), page 176, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
Once loaded by Canaveral, the grapefruit are transported to Japan, where the shipments are unloaded by employees of Japanese stevedoring companies. The grapefruit are then received by the Japanese importers.
ref:
2002, NLRB Advice Memorandum Reporter, Labor Relations Press, page 100
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The tree of the species Citrus paradisi, a hybrid of Citrus maxima and sweet orange.
The large spherical tart fruit produced by this tree.
senses_topics:
|
2370 | word:
hourglass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hourglass (plural hourglasses)
forms:
form:
hourglasses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hour + glass.
senses_examples:
text:
Meronym: pinch
text:
After each game turn, invert the hourglass to reset the time limit for the next player.
type:
example
text:
The sands of thy short life are spent this hour, / And no hand in the universe can turn / Thy hourglass, if these gummed leaves be burnt / Ere thou canst mount up these immortal steps.
ref:
1819, John Keats, “Canto I”, in The Fall of Hyperion
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: (Apple) beach ball
text:
When I right click the desktop display to check Display Properties, it hangs and shows me only the hourglass instead of the display menu.
ref:
2002, Maximum PC (Winter 2002, page 16)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A clock made of two glass vessels connected by a narrow passage through which sand flows.
A cursor, often shaped like an hourglass, indicating that the computer is busy.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
2371 | word:
colloquial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
colloquial (comparative more colloquial, superlative most colloquial)
forms:
form:
most colloquial
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1751, from earlier term colloquy (“a conversation”), from Latin colloquium (“conference, conversation”), from con- (“together”) + loquor (“to speak”), + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
You're using too many colloquial words in this cover letter: I suggest changing "I picked up loads of cool skills" to "I acquired many positive abilities"
type:
example
text:
The colloquial, and at times sarcastic, tone of her books makes her popular with teenagers.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Characteristic of familiar conversation, of common parlance; informal.
Of or pertaining to a conversation; conversational or chatty.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
2372 | word:
colloquial
word_type:
noun
expansion:
colloquial (plural colloquials)
forms:
form:
colloquials
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1751, from earlier term colloquy (“a conversation”), from Latin colloquium (“conference, conversation”), from con- (“together”) + loquor (“to speak”), + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A colloquial word or phrase, colloquialism
senses_topics:
|
2373 | word:
number
word_type:
noun
expansion:
number (plural numbers)
forms:
form:
numbers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English number, nombre, numbre, noumbre, from Anglo-Norman noumbre, Old French nombre, from Latin numerus (“number”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to divide”). Compare Saterland Frisian Nummer, Nuumer, West Frisian nûmer, Dutch nummer (“number”), German Nummer (“number”), Danish nummer (“number”), Swedish nummer (“number”), Icelandic númer (“number”). Replaced Middle English ȝetæl and rime, more at tell, tale and rhyme.
senses_examples:
text:
Zero, one, −1, 2.5, and pi are all numbers.
type:
example
text:
The number 8 is usually made with a single stroke.
type:
example
text:
The equation e#x7B;i#x5C;pi#x7D;#x2B;1#x3D;0 includes the most important numbers: 1, 0, #x5C;pi, i, and e.
type:
example
text:
Horse number 5 won the race.
type:
example
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
Any number of people can be reading from a given repository at a time.
type:
example
text:
Her passport number is C01X864TN.
type:
example
text:
Let's give her a call. Do you have her number handy?
type:
example
text:
I'm definitely interested. Here's my number. Call me back anytime.
type:
example
text:
Rikki, don't lose that number / You don't wanna call nobody else / Send it off in a letter to yourself
ref:
1974, “Rikki Don't Lose That Number”, performed by Steely Dan
type:
quotation
text:
[...] I wonder if you could get hold of him and have him call me here at Interior. I’m in my office, do you have my number?
ref:
2001, E. Forrest Hein, The Ruach Project,, Xulon Press, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
When I agreed to go surfing with him he said, “Great, can I have your number?” Well, I don’t give my number to guys I don’t know.
ref:
2007, Lindsey Nicole Isham, No Sex in the City: One Virgin's Confessions on Love, Lust, Dating, and Waiting, Kregel Publications, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
Marsha's work number is 555-8986.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Adjectives and nouns should agree in gender, number, and case.
type:
example
text:
For his second number, he sang "The Moon Shines Bright".
type:
example
text:
I laughed. "Don't doubt that. She's a saucy little number."
ref:
1968, Janet Burroway, The dancer from the dance: a novel,, Little, Brown, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
"Signorina Jessica," says the maid, a saucy little number, "your father has gone to his prayers and demands that you come to the synagogue at once [...]"
ref:
1988, Erica Jong, Serenissima,, Dell, page 214
type:
quotation
text:
He had to focus on the mission, staying alive and getting out, not on the sexy number rubbing up against him.
ref:
2005, Denise A. Agnew, Kate Hill, Arianna Hart, By Honor Bound,, Ellora's Cave Publishing, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
The trouble was I was wearing my backless glittering number from the night before underneath, so unless I could persuade the office it was National Fancy Dress Day I was doomed to sweat profusely in bottle blue.
ref:
2007, Cesca Martin, Agony Angel: So You Think You've Got Problems...,, Troubador Publishing Ltd, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
I doubt the sexy number you wore earlier tonight fell from the sky.
ref:
2007, Lorelei James, Running with the Devil, Samhain Publishing, Ltd, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
These were the two that Tommy had chosen to collect a debt owed to his family by a dude named Heath who ran numbers out of a grocery store on 131st and Lenox.
ref:
2005, K'wan, Hoodlum, St. Martin's Press, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Back at his place again, Doc rolled a number, put on a late movie, found an old T-shirt, and sat tearing it up into short strips […]
ref:
2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
the latest number of a magazine
text:
Despite last week's woes, the Braves still sport numbers that would make Christie Brinkley blush.
ref:
1980 May 10, Al King, “Braves travel to New England with reputation”, in The Indiana Gazette
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.
Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.
Quantity.
A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
A telephone number.
Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
A person.
An outfit, particularly a stylish one.
A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought from a dealer.
An issue of a periodical publication.
A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance.
An activity; assignment; job, as in cushy number.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
2374 | word:
number
word_type:
verb
expansion:
number (third-person singular simple present numbers, present participle numbering, simple past and past participle numbered)
forms:
form:
numbers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
numbering
tags:
participle
present
form:
numbered
tags:
participle
past
form:
numbered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English number, nombre, numbre, noumbre, from Anglo-Norman noumbre, Old French nombre, from Latin numerus (“number”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to divide”). Compare Saterland Frisian Nummer, Nuumer, West Frisian nûmer, Dutch nummer (“number”), German Nummer (“number”), Danish nummer (“number”), Swedish nummer (“number”), Icelandic númer (“number”). Replaced Middle English ȝetæl and rime, more at tell, tale and rhyme.
senses_examples:
text:
I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands.
type:
example
text:
Do they number in the hundreds, do they number in the thousands? Do they number in the tens of thousand?
ref:
1977, United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Federal Role in Criminal Justice and Crime Research, page 107
type:
quotation
text:
The old man knew that his days were numbered.
type:
example
text:
THE DAYS OF ENGLAND NOT “NUMBERED.” REPLY TO SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON.
ref:
1867, The Days of England Not “numbered”: Reply to Sir Archibald Alison, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
To conclude this book, we will let Lange’s photo and its three layers guide us. Each layer invites us to explore a different answer to this book's title question—how did our days become numbered?
ref:
2018 February 6, Dan Bouk, How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual, University of Chicago Press, page 209
type:
quotation
text:
The king ordered that all his subjects be numbered.
type:
example
text:
Who can number all the stars and who can count the desert sands?
type:
example
text:
From twentie yeare old and above, all that go forth to the warre in Iſrael, thou and Aaron ſhall number them, throughout their armies.
ref:
1610, The Bible: That Is, the Holy Scriptures Contained in the Olde and New Testament, Numbers 1:3
type:
quotation
text:
Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.
type:
example
text:
“Public Health Service Numbered Publications – A Catalog, 1950-1962” and contains those numbered publications issued during the period 1963-64.
ref:
1964, Education U.S. Department of Health (and Welfare), United States. Public Health Service, Public Health Service Numbered Publications: Supplement
type:
quotation
text:
Most of the remaining records in the War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records were designated "miscellaneous" records, consecutively numbered, and placed in a fourth large series of records that came to be known as […]
ref:
1972, United States. National Archives and Records Service, Miscellaneous Numbered Records (the Manuscript File) in the War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, 1775-1790's, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
The remainder of the valley is laid off into cute little squares and streets, with everything named and numbered, ready to be listed in the brokers’ offices.
ref:
2022 September 4, Francis Lynde, The City of Numbered Days, DigiCat
type:
quotation
text:
Shelley numbered off the group into two teams for the baseball game.
type:
example
text:
I counted them and numbered them off, and I found about three hundred and seventy or three hundred and seventy-five.
ref:
1870, USA House of Representatives, House Documents, page 532
type:
quotation
text:
At my entrance, the Sergeant called them to attention, numbered them off smartly, and presented two Companies for my instruction.
ref:
2014 March 3, Flora Johnston, War Classics: The Remarkable Memoir of Scottish Scholar Christina Keith on the Western Front, The History Press
type:
quotation
text:
I numbered them off on my fingers as I stated them. “First, I would redeem a small amount of my investment assets to pay off the cleared lot and come up with a down payment for the ten acres. Second, I would seek to obtain an open[…]
ref:
2019 January 11, Mark G. Turner, We Both Shall Row, My Love And I, FriesenPress, page 367
type:
quotation
text:
Alexander the Great's army numbered an elite cavalry among its ranks.
type:
example
text:
We fools counted their life madness, and their end to be without honour: how are they numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the Saints!
ref:
1839, Saint Cyprian (Bishop of Carthage.), The Treatises of S. Caecilius Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, and Martyr, page 298
type:
quotation
text:
They number among them men of intelligence and education, fitted in almost every respect to share in the responsibilities of government as well as receive a part of its benefits.
ref:
1879, United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Report, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
We certainly endorse the essential purpose of S. 708 — namely, that an applicant should not obtain a grant simply because it numbers among its stockholders a Member of Congress […]
ref:
1963, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Hearings, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
Unite them to Your Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, and number them with Your chosen flock. That with us they may glorify Your all-honorable and majestic name: of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever.
ref:
2019 August 6, Fr. Joseph Irvin, The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom: Orthodox Service Books - Number 1, Lulu Press, Inc
type:
quotation
text:
Her horses number among the fastest in her country.
type:
example
text:
They number among our best people, particularly when we realise that they are models for what the rest of us might also achieve.
ref:
2010 September 3, Catherine Tizard, Cat Among the Pigeons: A Memoir, Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
type:
quotation
text:
If they number among those who abuse their wives, they, just like abusing leaders, should stop.
ref:
2020 October 1, Elizabeth Koepping, Spousal Violence Among World Christians: Silent Scandal, Bloomsbury Publishing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To total or count; to amount to.
To limit to a certain number; to reckon (as by fate) to be few in number.
To count; to determine the quantity of.
To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
To call out and assign a series of numbers (usually to people), either for the sake of dividing into groups or for counting.
To enumerate or list, especially while assigning numbers to.
To classify or include (in a group of things)
To be classified or included (in a certain group or category of things).
senses_topics:
|
2375 | word:
number
word_type:
adj
expansion:
number
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table From numb + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
comparative form of numb: more numb
senses_topics:
|
2376 | word:
metaphysics
word_type:
noun
expansion:
metaphysics (countable and uncountable, plural metaphysics)
forms:
form:
metaphysics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
metaphysics
etymology_text:
1560s; plural of metaphysic, from Middle English methaphesik, methaphisik, methaphisique, metaphesyk, methafisik, metaphesyk, methephysyk, from Old French metafisique, methaphisique and Medieval Latin metaphysica, methephisica, from Byzantine Greek μεταφυσικά (metaphusiká), from the title of the collection by Aristotle μετὰ τὰ φυσικά (metà tà phusiká, “Following The Natural World”), a collection that comes after (μετά (metá)) Aristotle's collection entitled τὰ φυσικά (tà phusiká, “The Natural World”), from φυσικός (phusikós, “natural”).
senses_examples:
text:
Philosophers sometimes say that metaphysics is the study of the ultimate nature of the universe.
type:
example
text:
The metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas holds that all real beings have both essence and existence.
text:
In Aristotelian metaphysics physical objects have both form and matter.
text:
In his Pensées, Pascal mentioned some first principles recognized within his metaphysics: space, time, motion, and number.
text:
Even other universes should be a result of different physics. Without rules, these universes wouldn't exist, because they will have an undefined, thus impossible, nature. We will never understand or guess all possible forms of physics. That's why we have to understand the generic metaphysics.
type:
example
text:
The metaphysics of global power has changed. Markets are now more valuable than territory.
ref:
1990 January 1, Lance Morrow, “Gorbachev: The Unlikely Patron of Change”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
I have a collection of books on metaphysics, covering astral projection, reincarnation, and communication with spirits.
type:
example
text:
This political polemic strikes me as a protracted piece of overwrought, fog-shrouded metaphysics!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being (Latin: ens in quantum ens).
The view or theory of a particular philosopher or school of thinkers concerning the first principles which describe or explain all that is.
The metalogic of physics; the logical framework of physics.
Any fundamental principles or rules.
The study of a supersensual realm or of phenomena which transcend the physical world.
Displeasingly abstruse, complex material on any subject.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
|
2377 | word:
metaphysics
word_type:
noun
expansion:
metaphysics
forms:
wikipedia:
metaphysics
etymology_text:
1560s; plural of metaphysic, from Middle English methaphesik, methaphisik, methaphisique, metaphesyk, methafisik, metaphesyk, methephysyk, from Old French metafisique, methaphisique and Medieval Latin metaphysica, methephisica, from Byzantine Greek μεταφυσικά (metaphusiká), from the title of the collection by Aristotle μετὰ τὰ φυσικά (metà tà phusiká, “Following The Natural World”), a collection that comes after (μετά (metá)) Aristotle's collection entitled τὰ φυσικά (tà phusiká, “The Natural World”), from φυσικός (phusikós, “natural”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of metaphysic
senses_topics:
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2378 | word:
twenty one
word_type:
num
expansion:
twenty one
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of twenty-one
senses_topics:
|
2379 | word:
Yiddish
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Yiddish (comparative more Yiddish, superlative most Yiddish)
forms:
form:
more Yiddish
tags:
comparative
form:
most Yiddish
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Yiddish
etymology_text:
From Yiddish ייִדיש (yidish), from Yiddish ייִדיש־דוײַטש (yidish-daytsh), cognate with German jüdisch (“Jewish”).
senses_examples:
text:
Yiddish cooking; Yiddish music
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
Jewish; relating to Yiddishkeit.
senses_topics:
|
2380 | word:
Yiddish
word_type:
name
expansion:
Yiddish
forms:
wikipedia:
Yiddish
etymology_text:
From Yiddish ייִדיש (yidish), from Yiddish ייִדיש־דוײַטש (yidish-daytsh), cognate with German jüdisch (“Jewish”).
senses_examples:
text:
Holonym: High German
text:
Meronyms: Eastern Yiddish, East Yiddish, Western Yiddish, West Yiddish
text:
Yiddish is a High German language [...] two varieties of Yiddish developed [...]
ref:
1983, Philip Baldi, An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages, page 128
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A West Germanic, or more specifically High German, language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including Hebrew-Aramaic, Romance, Slavic, English, etc., and mostly written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.
senses_topics:
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2381 | word:
Indo-European
word_type:
name
expansion:
Indo-European
forms:
wikipedia:
Indo-European
etymology_text:
Coined by English polymath Thomas Young in 1813, from Indo- + European, relating to the geographical extremes in India and Europe (which was valid before the discovery of Tocharian languages in the early 20th century).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A major language family which includes many of the native languages of Europe, Western Asia and India, with notable Indic, Iranian and European sub-branches.
Proto-Indo-European: the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family.
senses_topics:
|
2382 | word:
Indo-European
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Indo-European (plural Indo-Europeans)
forms:
form:
Indo-Europeans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Indo-European
etymology_text:
Coined by English polymath Thomas Young in 1813, from Indo- + European, relating to the geographical extremes in India and Europe (which was valid before the discovery of Tocharian languages in the early 20th century).
senses_examples:
text:
Two theories of the origins of the Indo-Europeans currently compete. M. Gimbutas believes that early Indo-Europeans entered southeastern Europe from the Pontic Steppes starting ca. 4500 B.C. and spread from there. C. Renfrew equates early Indo-Europeans with early farmers who entered southeastern Europe from Asia Minor ca. 7000 BC and spread through the continent.
ref:
1992, R.R. Sokal, N.L. Oden, B.A. Thomson, “Origins of the Indo-Europeans: genetic evidence”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 89, →DOI, →PMID
type:
quotation
text:
Thus, although at least one term for ‘alder’ can be reconstructed to PIE, the wide distribution of this tree prevents it from being diagnostic of the earlier location of the Indo-Europeans.
ref:
1997, J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams, “ALDER”, in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
To the same direction points a recent revelation made by Professor Henning who identifies the Gutians or Kutians and Tukres of the ancient Near East that occur in the cuneiform inscriptions of the end of the 3rd millennium B.C. with historical Kuchi-Tocharians, this being the earliest appearance of the Indo-Europeans in history (cf. W. Henning, the first Indo-Europeans in history, "Society and History." […]).
ref:
1988, Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, “On the problem of an Asiatic original homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans”, in T.L. Markey and John A.C. Greppin, editors, When Worlds Collide: The Indo-Europeans and the Pre-Indo-Europeans, Ann Arbor: Karoma Publishers, Inc., published 1990, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
We Indo-Europeans are crazy about three! We see the world as earth, sky, water. We see things as having a beginning, a middle, and an end. Do you want a third example? Sure you do—you're Indo-European!
ref:
2015 December 18, Mark Damen, “The Indo-European Dual”, in TEDxUSU (video)
type:
quotation
text:
The sale of looted items persisted for a month, and quick profits were made by burghers and Indo-Europeans.
ref:
2020, Sujit Sivasandaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 236
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of the original ethnolinguistic group hypothesized to have spoken Proto-Indo-European and thus to have been the ancestor for most of India and Western Eurasia.
A speaker of any Indo-European language (though especially an ancient one), or a member of an Indo-European culture, who is regarded as a continuation of the Proto-Indo-Europeans in terms of language, ancestry, or cultural affinity.
A European living in India or the Indies.
A person of mixed European and Indian or Indonesian ancestry.
senses_topics:
anthropology
archaeology
history
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
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2383 | word:
Indo-European
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Indo-European (comparative more Indo-European, superlative most Indo-European)
forms:
form:
more Indo-European
tags:
comparative
form:
most Indo-European
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Indo-European
etymology_text:
Coined by English polymath Thomas Young in 1813, from Indo- + European, relating to the geographical extremes in India and Europe (which was valid before the discovery of Tocharian languages in the early 20th century).
senses_examples:
text:
As there is no evidence for Indo-European apiculture, we have to reckon with foreign origin for κηρός […].
ref:
2010, Robert S. P. Beekes, “κηρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 690
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the family of languages originally spoken in Europe and Western Asia.
Of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family.
Of or relating to the hypothetical group of peoples that spread early Indo-European languages.
Of or relating to persons of mixed European and Indian or Indonesian ancestry.
senses_topics:
|
2384 | word:
twenty four
word_type:
num
expansion:
twenty four
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of twenty-four
senses_topics:
|
2385 | word:
yours
word_type:
pron
expansion:
yours
forms:
wikipedia:
yours
etymology_text:
From Middle English youres, ȝoures, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to your + -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced yourn in standard speech.
senses_examples:
text:
If this edit is mine, the other must be yours. Their encyclopedia is good, but yours is even better. It’s all yours.
type:
example
text:
Yours sincerely, Yours faithfully, Yours, Sincerely yours,
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which belongs to you (singular); the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.
That which belongs to you (plural); the possessive second-person plural pronoun used without a following noun.
Written at the end of a letter, before the signature.
senses_topics:
|
2386 | word:
twenty two
word_type:
num
expansion:
twenty two
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after twenty one and before twenty three, represented in Roman numerals as XXII and in Arabic numerals as 22. Ordinal: twenty-second.
senses_topics:
|
2387 | word:
Macedonia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Macedonia
forms:
wikipedia:
Macedonia
Macedonia (terminology)
Macedonia naming dispute
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Μακεδονία (Makedonía, “Macedonia”), from μακεδονία (makedonía, “highland”), from μακεδνός (makednós, “high, tall”). Doublet of macedoine.
senses_examples:
text:
But all this took time and delayed the start of the Communist-led uprising in Macedonia until October 11, 1941, that is, almost three months after it began in other parts of Yugoslavia. The CPY only had a few members in Macedonia at the time […]
ref:
2002, Jozo Tomasevich, War and Revolution in Yugoslavia: 1941 - 1945, Stanford University Press, page 166
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ancient Greek kingdom, located to the north of Thessaly, comprising the Greek city of Thessaloniki and its surroundings.
The largest and second-most populous region of Greece, comprising the regions of West Macedonia, Central Macedonia and the East Macedonia part of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace.
North Macedonia, a country in Southeastern Europe, or one of its predecessor incarnations, such as the Socialist Republic of Macedonia in Yugoslavia.
A geographical region which includes the Republic of North Macedonia, the Greek region of Macedonia, the Pirin region of Bulgaria, and small parts of Albania and Serbia.
The part of that region which is in south-western Bulgaria. (Also called Pirin Macedonia or Bulgarian Macedonia.)
senses_topics:
|
2388 | word:
Brazilian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Brazilian (plural Brazilians)
forms:
form:
Brazilians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Brazil + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Brazil or of Brazilian descent.
A Brazilian wax (style of pubic hair removal).
senses_topics:
|
2389 | word:
Brazilian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Brazilian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Brazil + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Brazil, or the Brazilian people.
Pertaining to full removal of pubic hair.
senses_topics:
|
2390 | word:
leap year
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leap year (plural leap years)
forms:
form:
leap years
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*yóh₁r̥
From Late Middle English lepe-yer, lep-yer (“year with 366 days, leap year”), from lep, lepe (“act of jumping, jump, leap”) (from Old English hlīep, hlȳp, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *klewp- (“to spring; to stumble”)) + yer (“calendrical unit based on a complete revolution of the Earth around the Sun, year”) (from Old English ġēar, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year”)). The English term is analysable as leap (noun) + year, and possibly relates to the phenomenon that any fixed date of a 365-day calendar advances one weekday each year but every date of a 366-day year after February 29 (often seen as the leap day) advances by two weekdays instead. For example, Christmas (December 25) fell on a Saturday in 2004, a Sunday in 2005, a Monday in 2006, and a Tuesday in 2007 but then “leapt” over Wednesday to fall on a Thursday in 2008 which was a leap year.
Compare also Old English mōnan hlȳp (“moon’s leap”) and Medieval Latin saltus lūnae (literally “leap moon”), an additional day added every 19 years (a Metonic cycle) to bring the lunar and solar calendars into alignment.
cognates
* Old Norse hlaup-ár (“leap year”)
senses_examples:
text:
The additional day which occurred every fourth year [after the Julian Reform] was given to February, as being the shortest month, and was inserted in the calendar between the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth day. February having then twenty-nine days, the twenty-fifth was the sixth of the calends of March, sexto calendas; the preceding, which was the additional or intercalary day, was called bis-sexto calendas, hence the term bissextile, which is still employed to distinguish the year of 366 days. The English denomination of Leap-Year would have been more appropriate if that year had differed from common years in defect, and contained only 364 days. In the ecclesiastical calendar the intercalary day is still placed between the 24th and 25th of February; in the civil calendar it is the 29th.
ref:
1842, “CALENDAR”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature. […], 7th edition, volume VI, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, →OCLC, page 5, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A year in the Julian or Gregorian calendar with an intercalary day added to February (in the Gregorian calendar, February 29), used to adjust for the extra hours of the solar year; a 366-day year.
Any other year featuring intercalation, such as a year in a lunisolar calendar with 13 months instead of 12, used to maintain its alignment with the seasons of the solar year.
senses_topics:
|
2391 | word:
now
word_type:
adj
expansion:
now (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
now
etymology_text:
From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots noo (“now”), Saterland Frisian nu (“now”), West Frisian no (“now”), Dutch nu, nou (“now”), German nu, nun (“now”), Norwegian Bokmål nå (“now”), Norwegian Nynorsk no (“now”), Swedish and Danish nu (“now”), Icelandic nú (“now”), Latin num (“even now, whether”), Latin nunc (“now”), Albanian ni (“now”), Lithuanian nù (“now”), Avestan 𐬥𐬏 (nū, “now”), Sanskrit नु (nu, “now”).
senses_examples:
text:
Defects seem as necessary to our now happiness as their Opposites.
ref:
17th century, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion, published 1885, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
The history of the infant colonies teaches us that the country comprised within the limits of the now United States of America was originally patented in the reign of James I., of England, into two portions: that in less than eighty years from that period, the same was again divided into twelve distinct provinces; a thirteenth being after added in the creation of the State of Georgia.
ref:
1855, Conrad Swackhamer, The United States democratic review, volume 5
type:
quotation
text:
Where in assumpsit for money lent, the defendant pleaded that in an action in which the now defendant was plaintiff, and the now plaintiff was defendant,[…].
ref:
1908, The English reports
type:
quotation
text:
Radio 4's continuity announcer said at the end of the show: "As many of you will have noticed, that edition of The Now Show wasn't very now. It was actually last week's programme. Our apologies for that."
ref:
2010 March 17, “Radio 4 apologises for day old shipping forecast”, in The Daily Telegraph
type:
quotation
text:
I think this band's sound is very now.
type:
example
text:
Bernard: What does it do?Fran: It's very in.Bernard: You don't know what it is, do you?Fran: It's very now.
ref:
2000, “Cooking the Books”, in Black Books, season 1, episode 1 (television production)
type:
quotation
text:
Now wife.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Present; current.
Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.
senses_topics:
law |
2392 | word:
now
word_type:
adv
expansion:
now (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
now
etymology_text:
From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots noo (“now”), Saterland Frisian nu (“now”), West Frisian no (“now”), Dutch nu, nou (“now”), German nu, nun (“now”), Norwegian Bokmål nå (“now”), Norwegian Nynorsk no (“now”), Swedish and Danish nu (“now”), Icelandic nú (“now”), Latin num (“even now, whether”), Latin nunc (“now”), Albanian ni (“now”), Lithuanian nù (“now”), Avestan 𐬥𐬏 (nū, “now”), Sanskrit नु (nu, “now”).
senses_examples:
text:
Now I am six.
type:
example
text:
Stop that now, Jimmy!
type:
example
text:
Now, we all want what is best for our children.
type:
example
text:
Now Jimmy, stop that.
type:
example
text:
Now I am ready.
type:
example
text:
We all now want the latest toys for our children.
type:
example
text:
We all want what is now best for our children.
type:
example
text:
Now he remembered why he had come.
type:
example
text:
He now asked her whether she had made pudding.
type:
example
text:
The pudding was now ready to be served.
type:
example
text:
Now listen, we must do something about this.
type:
example
text:
I always used to do my shopping now, to avoid the rush.
type:
example
text:
They that but now, for honour and for plate, / Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.
ref:
c. 1656, Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and Fight for Sea
type:
quotation
text:
Now, you want to protect me. An hour ago, you were mercilessly bullying me!
type:
example
text:
His face fit his roles: now smiling, now earnest, now glowering, now raging.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At the present time.
Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
At the time reached within a narration.
Used to indicate a context of urgency.
At the present point of a recurring cycle or event.
As 'but now': Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.
Used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before. (In this usage, now is usually emphasized).
Sometimes; occasionally.
senses_topics:
|
2393 | word:
now
word_type:
conj
expansion:
now
forms:
wikipedia:
now
etymology_text:
From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots noo (“now”), Saterland Frisian nu (“now”), West Frisian no (“now”), Dutch nu, nou (“now”), German nu, nun (“now”), Norwegian Bokmål nå (“now”), Norwegian Nynorsk no (“now”), Swedish and Danish nu (“now”), Icelandic nú (“now”), Latin num (“even now, whether”), Latin nunc (“now”), Albanian ni (“now”), Lithuanian nù (“now”), Avestan 𐬥𐬏 (nū, “now”), Sanskrit नु (nu, “now”).
senses_examples:
text:
Now all the children have grown up and left, the house is very quiet.
type:
example
text:
Now that my sister has gotten rid of their cat, we can go to her house this coming Thanksgiving.
type:
example
text:
We can play football now that the rain has stopped.
type:
example
text:
Now that you mention it, I am kind of hungry.
type:
example
text:
Now that we're all here, let's start the meeting.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.
senses_topics:
|
2394 | word:
now
word_type:
intj
expansion:
now!
forms:
form:
now!
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
now
etymology_text:
From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots noo (“now”), Saterland Frisian nu (“now”), West Frisian no (“now”), Dutch nu, nou (“now”), German nu, nun (“now”), Norwegian Bokmål nå (“now”), Norwegian Nynorsk no (“now”), Swedish and Danish nu (“now”), Icelandic nú (“now”), Latin num (“even now, whether”), Latin nunc (“now”), Albanian ni (“now”), Lithuanian nù (“now”), Avestan 𐬥𐬏 (nū, “now”), Sanskrit नु (nu, “now”).
senses_examples:
text:
Now! Fire all we've got while the enemy is in reach!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Indicates a signal to begin.
senses_topics:
|
2395 | word:
now
word_type:
noun
expansion:
now (usually uncountable, plural nows)
forms:
form:
nows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
now
etymology_text:
From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots noo (“now”), Saterland Frisian nu (“now”), West Frisian no (“now”), Dutch nu, nou (“now”), German nu, nun (“now”), Norwegian Bokmål nå (“now”), Norwegian Nynorsk no (“now”), Swedish and Danish nu (“now”), Icelandic nú (“now”), Latin num (“even now, whether”), Latin nunc (“now”), Albanian ni (“now”), Lithuanian nù (“now”), Avestan 𐬥𐬏 (nū, “now”), Sanskrit नु (nu, “now”).
senses_examples:
text:
Now is the right time.
type:
example
text:
There is no better time than now.
type:
example
text:
She is living in the now.
type:
example
text:
Time is not thrust together and summed up out of nows, but the reverse: with reference to the now we can articulate the stretching out of time always only in specific ways.
ref:
1982, Albert Hofstadter, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, translation of original by Martin Heidegger, page 249
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The present time.
The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
senses_topics:
|
2396 | word:
now
word_type:
verb
expansion:
now
forms:
wikipedia:
now
etymology_text:
See know.
senses_examples:
text:
I don't now. (intended: I don't know.)
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of know.
senses_topics:
|
2397 | word:
ad
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ad (plural ads)
forms:
form:
ads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ad
etymology_text:
Clipping of advertise, advertising, advertisement, advertiser.
senses_examples:
text:
I have placed both of the ads in the newspaper as instructed.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of advertisement.
Abbreviation of advertising.
Abbreviation of advertiser.
senses_topics:
|
2398 | word:
ad
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ad (plural ads)
forms:
form:
ads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ad
etymology_text:
From a shortening of the word advantage.
senses_examples:
text:
[S]uddenly Agassi hits a hard heavy cross-court back hand that pulls Federer way out to his ad (= his left) side, and Federer gets to it but slices the stretch backhand short, a couple feet past the service line […].
ref:
2006, David Foster Wallace, “Federer Both Flesh And Not”, in Both Flesh And Not, Penguin, published 2013, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
ads and disads
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Advantage; also, designating the left-hand side, from the player's point of view, of their half of the court, where the advantage point following a deuce is always played.
advantage
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
|
2399 | word:
ad
word_type:
prep
expansion:
ad
forms:
wikipedia:
ad
etymology_text:
From Latin ad (“to, on”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to, toward
senses_topics:
|
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