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2500 | word:
Albanian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Albanian (plural Albanians)
forms:
form:
Albanians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Albanian language
etymology_text:
From Albany + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone from the city of Albany, New York State.
senses_topics:
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2501 | word:
Albanian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Albanian (comparative more Albanian, superlative most Albanian)
forms:
form:
more Albanian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Albanian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Albanian language
etymology_text:
From Alba + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Scottish, especially referring to the Kingdom of Alba, Scotland, between 900 and 1286.
senses_topics:
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2502 | word:
edible
word_type:
adj
expansion:
edible (comparative more edible, superlative most edible)
forms:
form:
more edible
tags:
comparative
form:
most edible
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin edibilis, from Latin edō (“eat”).
senses_examples:
text:
edible fruit
type:
example
text:
Although stale, the bread was edible.
type:
example
text:
However, rather than try to place the Viceroy in a rigid, all-or-none category which implies more than the data show, the Viceroy is here considered more edible than its model, the Monarch, but initially less edible (except to C-2) than the non-mimetic butterflies used in these experiments.
ref:
1957, Jane Van Zandt Brower, “Experimental Stdies of Mimicry in Some North American Butterflies”, in Lynne D. Houck, Lee C. Drickamer, editors, Foundations of Animal Behavior: Classic Papers with Commentaries, published 1996, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
Recently germinated seeds are often even more nutritious from the point of view of humans because the stored chemicals are often transformed into more edible and palatable substances.
ref:
2006, Ernest Small, Culinary Herbs, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
This gets to the heart of the matter because, in the parthenogenic state, the fruits are more edible (though there are also apparently advantages to pollinated figs, which may be bigger and stronger) and the trees more productive from the human's point of view.
ref:
2009, Ephraim Philip Lansky, Helena Maaria Paavilainen, Figs, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Gardens do not contain flowers and ornamental plants, but edible plants. Although edible, these gardens are equally valued for their aesthetic qualities. It is women who collect from edible gardens, […]
ref:
2020, Valentina Peveri, The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
To get started, how about creating an edible window box? Sowed in the spring, salad seeds like radish, lettuce and spring onion will germinate so quickly that you'll be harvesting a crop in a month or two.
ref:
2021, Rose Ray, Caro Langton, Into Green: Everyday Ways to Find and Lose Yourself in Nature, page 62
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of being eaten without harm; suitable for consumption; innocuous to humans.
Capable of being eaten without disgust.
In which edible plants are grown for human consumption.
senses_topics:
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2503 | word:
edible
word_type:
noun
expansion:
edible (plural edibles)
forms:
form:
edibles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin edibilis, from Latin edō (“eat”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Anything edible.
Anything edible.
In particular, an edible mushroom.
A foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabutter or other marijuana.
senses_topics:
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2504 | word:
abstract
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstract (plural abstracts)
forms:
form:
abstracts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away”), formed from abs- (“away”) + trahō (“to pull, draw”). The verbal sense is first attested in 1542.
senses_examples:
text:
Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled.
ref:
1628, John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
Concentrated essence of a product.
Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
An abstract work of art.
A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
art
arts
business
real-estate |
2505 | word:
abstract
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abstract (comparative more abstract or abstracter, superlative most abstract or abstractest)
forms:
form:
more abstract
tags:
comparative
form:
abstracter
tags:
comparative
form:
most abstract
tags:
superlative
form:
abstractest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away”), formed from abs- (“away”) + trahō (“to pull, draw”). The verbal sense is first attested in 1542.
senses_examples:
text:
The more abstract we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light.
ref:
17th century, John Norris (philosopher), The Oxford Dictionary
text:
During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy),[…]
ref:
1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, page 489
type:
quotation
text:
Her new film is an abstract piece, combining elements of magic realism, flashbacks, and animation but with very little in terms of plot construction.
type:
example
text:
The politician gave a somewhat abstract answer when asked about their plans to cut spending.
type:
example
text:
Abstract words such as glory, honour, courage, or hallow were obscene.
ref:
1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
type:
quotation
text:
A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing...
ref:
1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, volume 1, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing.[…]A practice, however, has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression "abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes.
ref:
1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, volume 1, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
Given their opposition to innate ideas, philosophers in the empiricist tradition have sought to explain how the rich and multifarious representational capacities that human beings possess derive from experience. A key explanatory strategy in this tradition, tracing back at least as far as John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, is to maintain that the acquisition of many of these capacities can be accounted for by a process of abstraction. In fact, Locke himself claims in the Essay that abstraction is the source of all general ideas (1690/1975, II, xii, §1). Although Berkeley and Hume were highly critical of Locke, abstraction as a source of generality has been a lasting theme in empiricist thought.
ref:
2012, Laurence, Stephen and Margolis, Eric, Abstraction and the Origin of General Ideas, Philosophers' Imprint volume 12, no. 19, December 2012
text:
White and abstract-looking, he sat and ate his dinner.
ref:
1922, D. H. Lawrence, Aaron's Rod
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Derived; extracted.
Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
Insufficiently factual.
Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
Absent-minded.
Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
Absolute.
Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
Lacking a story.
Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
art
arts
art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
music
art
arts
dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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2506 | word:
abstract
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abstract (third-person singular simple present abstracts, present participle abstracting, simple past and past participle abstracted)
forms:
form:
abstracts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abstracting
tags:
participle
present
form:
abstracted
tags:
participle
past
form:
abstracted
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
abstract
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away”), formed from abs- (“away”) + trahō (“to pull, draw”). The verbal sense is first attested in 1542.
senses_examples:
text:
The lightning of the public burdens, which at present abstract a large proportion of profits and wages.
ref:
1834, Harriet Martineau, Illustration of Political Economy, volume IX
type:
quotation
text:
Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness.
ref:
1872, William Black, The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton
type:
quotation
text:
The inlaid characters in diamond, and other precious stones, have been all abstracted away by the pelf-loving Jaut and Mahratta—leaving the walls defaced with the hollow marks of the chisel.
ref:
1869, Bholanauth Chunder, The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India
type:
quotation
text:
Section 13 of the 1968 Act enacts a separate offence of dishonestly abstracting electricity. The separate offence is needed because electricity, like other forms of energy such as heat, is not property.
ref:
2014, A P Simester, J R Spencer, G R Sullivan, Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine
type:
quotation
text:
Poison from roses who could e'er abstract?
ref:
1601, John Marston, Antonio's Revenge, act II, scene I
type:
quotation
text:
The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.
ref:
June 1869, William Blackwood, Late for the Train (published in Blackwood's Magazine)
text:
He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
text:
I own myself able to abstract in one sense.
ref:
1710, George Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
type:
quotation
text:
He abstracted out the square root function.
text:
To abstract the notions of time, of space, and of matter.
ref:
1781, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To separate; to disengage.
To remove; to take away; withdraw.
To separate; to disengage.
To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
To separate; to disengage.
To extract by means of distillation.
To separate; to disengage.
To draw off (interest or attention).
To separate; to disengage.
To withdraw oneself; to retire.
To separate; to disengage.
To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
To separate; to disengage.
To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
To perform the process of abstraction.
To separate; to disengage.
To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
To create abstractions.
To separate; to disengage.
To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
To separate; to disengage.
To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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2507 | word:
sixty
word_type:
num
expansion:
sixty
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sixty, sexty, Old English sixtiġ, from Proto-Germanic *sehs tigiwiz (“sixty”), equivalent to six + -ty. Cognate with Scots sexty, saxty (“sixty”), Saterland Frisian säkstich (“sixty”), West Frisian sechstich (“sixty”), Dutch zestig (“sixty”), German Low German sesstig (“sixty”), German sechzig (“sixty”), Swedish sextio (“sixty”), Norwegian seksti (“sixty”), Icelandic sextíu (“sixty”). Compare also Sanskrit षष्टि (ṣaṣṭi).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.
senses_topics:
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2508 | word:
seventy
word_type:
num
expansion:
seventy
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English seventy, sevynty, from Old English hundseofontiġ, from Proto-Germanic *sebuntēhundą (“seventy”), equivalent to seven + -ty. Cognate with Scots seiventy (“seventy”), Saterland Frisian soogentich (“seventy”), West Frisian santich (“seventy”), Dutch zeventig (“seventy”), German Low German söventig (“seventy”), German siebzig (“seventy”), Swedish sjuttio (“seventy”), Norwegian sytti (“seventy”), Icelandic sjötíu (“seventy”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXX and in Arabic numerals as 70.
senses_topics:
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2509 | word:
would
word_type:
verb
expansion:
would
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English wolde, past tense of willan, predecessor of will.
senses_examples:
text:
On my first day at University, I met the woman who would become my wife.
type:
example
text:
That her Lily should have been won and not worn, had been, and would be, a trouble to her for ever.
ref:
1867, Anthony Trollope, chapter 28, in Last Chronicle of Barset
type:
quotation
text:
Toure would have the decisive say though, rising high to power a header past Kenny from Aleksandar Kolarov's cross.
ref:
2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2-3 Man City”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
When we were younger, we would cycle out to the beach most summer Sundays.
text:
When we were kids we would sit by the radio with a tape recorder on a Sunday, listening out for the chart songs we wanted to have.
ref:
2009 March 15, “Soundtrack of my life”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I asked her to stay in with me, but she would go out.
type:
example
text:
Sorry, officer, I wouldn't know anything about the crime, since I was nowhere near the scene.
type:
example
text:
The free access model, the media magnate said last week, was "malfunctioning". Well he would, wouldn't he?
ref:
2009 May 10, “Is the era of free news over?”, in The Observer
type:
quotation
text:
And thenne at laste a-nother sayd that he wolde have eyren. Then the good wyf sayd that she understod hym wel.
ref:
1490, William Caxton, Prologue to Eneydos
type:
quotation
text:
The Greeks, especially those who would be thought adepts in mystic theology, ran after fantastic allegories […].
ref:
1852, James Murdock, trans. Johann Lorenz Mosheim, Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, II.7.iii
text:
At which time he told me, he would to London that week, and so to Oxford.
ref:
1694, John Strype, Memorials of The Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranmer, Appendix page 68
type:
quotation
text:
He sat as one astonish'd, a good-while, looking at me, without speaking a Word, till I came quite up to him, kneel'd on one Knee to him, and almost whether he would or no, kiss'd his Hand[…].
ref:
1724, Daniel Defoe, Roxana, Penguin, page 107
type:
quotation
text:
If I won the lottery, I would give half the money to charity.
type:
example
text:
If I could fly, I would away to those realms of light and warmth – far, far away in the southern clime[…].
ref:
1846, “A New Sentimental Journey”, in Blackwoods Magazine, volume LX, number 372
type:
quotation
text:
Warnock admitted it would be the ideal scenario if he received a Carling Cup winners' medal as well as an England call-up[…].
ref:
2010 February 26, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I would love to come and visit.
type:
example
text:
Look at that yummy cake! I would eat that all up!
type:
example
text:
It's a piece of old folklore for which I would love to find hard proof.
ref:
2008 November 3, Mark Cocker, “Country Diary”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I would ask you all to sit down.
type:
example
text:
I would imagine that they have already left.
type:
example
text:
“Those trials are being run by the American army so surely you must have access to the documents?” “Well, yeah, you’d think.”
ref:
2009, Nick Snow, The Rocket's Trail, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
Departing on schedule with the help of a friendly doctor was quite usual. Does that still apply? It would seem so.
ref:
2010 February 2, Terry Pratchett, “My case for a euthanasia tribunal”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
It's disgraceful the way that they've treated you. I would write and complain.
text:
He's very security-conscious, so he would have remembered to lock the door.
type:
example
text:
They would be arriving in London round about now.
type:
example
text:
Would you pass the salt, please?
type:
example
text:
But as the youth increased their annoyance by declaring that the goddess was quite right, because the Emperor was Archon Eponym of the city of Athens, he said: "Would that he also presided the Panathenaic festival."
ref:
1912, Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, translated by F. C. Conybeare (Loeb Classical Library), 8.16
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to; indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly.
Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
Could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
Wanted to.
Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses.
Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
Wished, desired (something).
A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.
A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.
A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption.
A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?
A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
Might wish (+ verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of "if only".
A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
Might desire; wish (something).
senses_topics:
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2510 | word:
would
word_type:
noun
expansion:
would (plural woulds)
forms:
form:
woulds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English wolde, past tense of willan, predecessor of will.
senses_examples:
text:
When the golf ball is there, the whole self-interference package — the hopes, worries, and fears; the thoughts on how-to and how-not-to; the woulds, the coulds, and the shoulds — is there too.
ref:
1996, Fred Shoemaker, Extraordinary Golf: The Art of the Possible, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
Shushona you must learn to rightfully prioritize all the woulds, shoulds and coulds of your life.
ref:
2010, Shushona Novos, The Personal Universal: A Guidebook for Spiritual Evolution, page 395
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
senses_topics:
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2511 | word:
would
word_type:
intj
expansion:
would
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English wolde, past tense of willan, predecessor of will.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of I would: used to denote that the speaker finds another person sexually attractive.
senses_topics:
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2512 | word:
adroit
word_type:
adj
expansion:
adroit (comparative adroiter or more adroit, superlative adroitest or most adroit)
forms:
form:
adroiter
tags:
comparative
form:
more adroit
tags:
comparative
form:
adroitest
tags:
superlative
form:
most adroit
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French adroit, from French à (“on the; to”) (from Old French a (“to; towards”), from Latin ad (“to; towards”), from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“at; near”)) + French droit (“right”) (from Old French droit, dreit, from Late Latin drictus, syncopated form of Latin dīrectus (“laid straight; direct, straight; level; upright”), perfective passive participle of dīrigō (“to lay straight”), from dis- (“apart, in two”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dwís (“twice; in two”)) + regō (“to govern, rule; to guide, steer”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to be straightening, setting upright”))).
senses_examples:
text:
A ſimple lad, with a whip in one hand, and the other locked in the arm of a young girl, is ſo loſt in gaping aſtoniſhment, that an adroit branch of the family of the Filches is clearing his pockets of their contents.
ref:
1803, William Hogarth, Thomas Cook, engraver, “Southwark Fair”, in Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth, and Explanatory Descriptions of the Plates of Hogarth Restored. Engraved by Thomas Cook, London: Printed for the engraver, no. 38, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden; and G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
[W]hile the press has teemed with a thousand better modes of defending Christianity, unbelievers had been asleep all the while, and dreamed of no adroiter methods of attacking it: […]
ref:
1829, Robert Taylor, “[Appendix:] False Representations”, in The Diegesis; being a Discovery of Origin, Evidences, and Early History of Christianity. Never before or elsewhere so Fully and Faithfully Set Forth, London: Richard Carlile, 62, Fleet Street; John Brooks, 421, Oxford Street, →OCLC, page 424
type:
quotation
text:
[O]ne basic economic problem defeated the ingenuity of even the adroitest Italian bankers – the balance of payments. It often happened that the exchange of commodies was so uneven that there were no funds in Bruges to settle accounts in Florence.
ref:
1966, Denys Hay, Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, London: Longmans, Green & Co., →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
[A] person is called right-handed because his right hand is more adroit than his left; confronted by any task requiring precision of control, wielding a tennis racket or a pencil, the right-handed person uses his right hand. Similarly, as among lip, apex of the tongue and dorsum, it is apparent that the apex is the most adroit of the three. It is not surprising then that, as has often been remarked, the apical sounds are generally more frequent than the others.
ref:
2012, William Diver, “Phonology as Human Behavior”, in Alan Huffman, Joseph Davis, editors, Language: Communication and Human Behavior: The Linguistic Essays of William Diver, Leiden: Brill Publishers, page 308
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Deft, dexterous, or skillful.
senses_topics:
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2513 | word:
create
word_type:
verb
expansion:
create (third-person singular simple present creates, present participle creating, simple past and past participle created)
forms:
form:
creates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
creating
tags:
participle
present
form:
created
tags:
participle
past
form:
created
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
create
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Modern English
etymology_text:
From Middle English createn, from Latin creātus, the perfect passive participle of creō. In this sense, mostly displaced Old English wyrċan (whence Modern English work) and ġesċieppan (whence Modern English shape).
senses_examples:
text:
Couturiers create exclusive garments for an affluent clientele.
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:
You can create the color orange by mixing yellow and red.
type:
example
text:
… God created man a moral agent.
ref:
1829, Thomas Tully Crybbace, An Essay on Moral Freedom
text:
Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
ref:
2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 171
type:
quotation
text:
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", […] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref:
2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
crop failures created food shortages and high prices; his stubbornness created many difficulties
text:
A sudden chemical spill on the highway created a chain‐collision which created a record traffic jam.
type:
example
text:
Henry VIII created him a Duke. Last month, the queen created two barons.
type:
example
text:
Under the concordate with Belgium, at least one Belgian clergyman must be created cardinal; by tradition, every archbishop of Mechelen is thus created a cardinal.
type:
example
text:
Children usually enjoy creating, never mind if it is of any use!
type:
example
text:
'What's the time?' she said. 'I must fly. Miss'll start creating.'
ref:
1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.
To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc.
To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.
To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.
To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.
In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.
To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
senses_topics:
|
2514 | word:
create
word_type:
adj
expansion:
create (comparative more create, superlative most create)
forms:
form:
more create
tags:
comparative
form:
most create
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Modern English
etymology_text:
From Middle English createn, from Latin creātus, the perfect passive participle of creō. In this sense, mostly displaced Old English wyrċan (whence Modern English work) and ġesċieppan (whence Modern English shape).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Created, resulting from creation.
senses_topics:
|
2515 | word:
Dutch
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Dutch (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*tewtéh₂
Derived from Middle English Duch (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Middle Low German dütsch, düdesch (“German, Low German, Dutch”) and Middle Dutch dūtsch, duutsc (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of one’s people”), derived from *þeudō (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂. Doublet of Deutsch and Doitsu.
Compare Middle English thedisch (“native, endemic”) from Old English þēodisċ (“of one’s people”), Old Saxon thiudisk (German Low German düütsch (“German”)), Old High German diutisc (modern German deutsch (“German”)), modern Dutch Duits (“German”) alongside elevated Diets (“Dutch”) (a secondary distinction, fully accepted only in the 19th century). See also Derrick, Teuton, Teutonic.
The pejorative senses (Dutch courage, Dutch wife, Dutch uncle, etc.) are said to stem from the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the accompanying rivalry.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the Netherlands, the Dutch people or the Dutch language.
Pertaining to Germanic-speaking peoples on the European continent, chiefly the Germans (especially established German-speaking communities in parts of the USA), or the Dutch; Teutonic; Germanic.
Substitute, inferior, ersatz.
Thrifty.
Pertaining to Afrikaner culture (Cape Dutch).
senses_topics:
|
2516 | word:
Dutch
word_type:
name
expansion:
Dutch
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*tewtéh₂
Derived from Middle English Duch (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Middle Low German dütsch, düdesch (“German, Low German, Dutch”) and Middle Dutch dūtsch, duutsc (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of one’s people”), derived from *þeudō (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂. Doublet of Deutsch and Doitsu.
Compare Middle English thedisch (“native, endemic”) from Old English þēodisċ (“of one’s people”), Old Saxon thiudisk (German Low German düütsch (“German”)), Old High German diutisc (modern German deutsch (“German”)), modern Dutch Duits (“German”) alongside elevated Diets (“Dutch”) (a secondary distinction, fully accepted only in the 19th century). See also Derrick, Teuton, Teutonic.
The pejorative senses (Dutch courage, Dutch wife, Dutch uncle, etc.) are said to stem from the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the accompanying rivalry.
senses_examples:
text:
According to this view, Dutch is a descendant of Old (West) Low Franconian and …
ref:
2003, Anthony F. Buccini, "Ab errore liberato". The Northern Expansion of Frankish Power in the Merovingian Period and the Genesis of the Dutch Language, in: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik: Band 57 — 2003: Quod vulgo dicitur: Studien zum Altniederländischen, volume edited by Willy Pijnenburg, Arend Quak, Tanneke Schoonheim, here p. 183
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The main language of the Netherlands, Flanders (i.e., the northern half of Belgium) and Suriname; Netherlandic.
German; the main language of the Holy Roman Empire (Germany, Austria, Alsace, Luxembourg).
A male given name, more often given as a nickname to someone of Dutch or German ancestry than as an official given name
senses_topics:
|
2517 | word:
Dutch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Dutch pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*tewtéh₂
Derived from Middle English Duch (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Middle Low German dütsch, düdesch (“German, Low German, Dutch”) and Middle Dutch dūtsch, duutsc (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of one’s people”), derived from *þeudō (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂. Doublet of Deutsch and Doitsu.
Compare Middle English thedisch (“native, endemic”) from Old English þēodisċ (“of one’s people”), Old Saxon thiudisk (German Low German düütsch (“German”)), Old High German diutisc (modern German deutsch (“German”)), modern Dutch Duits (“German”) alongside elevated Diets (“Dutch”) (a secondary distinction, fully accepted only in the 19th century). See also Derrick, Teuton, Teutonic.
The pejorative senses (Dutch courage, Dutch wife, Dutch uncle, etc.) are said to stem from the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the accompanying rivalry.
senses_examples:
text:
The Dutch will vote on the matter next month.
type:
example
text:
In upstate New York, the Dutch continued to speak their language into the nineteenth century.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The people of the Netherlands, or one of certain ethnic groups descending from the people of the Netherlands.
Afrikaner people (Cape Dutch).
The Pennsylvania Dutch people.
senses_topics:
|
2518 | word:
Dutch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Dutch (third-person singular simple present Dutches, present participle Dutching, simple past and past participle Dutched)
forms:
form:
Dutches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Dutching
tags:
participle
present
form:
Dutched
tags:
participle
past
form:
Dutched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*tewtéh₂
Derived from Middle English Duch (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Middle Low German dütsch, düdesch (“German, Low German, Dutch”) and Middle Dutch dūtsch, duutsc (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of one’s people”), derived from *þeudō (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂. Doublet of Deutsch and Doitsu.
Compare Middle English thedisch (“native, endemic”) from Old English þēodisċ (“of one’s people”), Old Saxon thiudisk (German Low German düütsch (“German”)), Old High German diutisc (modern German deutsch (“German”)), modern Dutch Duits (“German”) alongside elevated Diets (“Dutch”) (a secondary distinction, fully accepted only in the 19th century). See also Derrick, Teuton, Teutonic.
The pejorative senses (Dutch courage, Dutch wife, Dutch uncle, etc.) are said to stem from the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the accompanying rivalry.
senses_examples:
text:
Dutch processed is made from cocoa beans that have been treated with an alkalized solution. You'll get a deeper color and a great chocolaty flavor, but more importantly, the process of Dutching the chocolate renders the powder neutral.
ref:
2015, Deb Wise, Incredibly Decadent Desserts: 100 Divine Treats Under 300 Calories
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To treat cocoa beans or powder with an alkali solution to darken the color and lessen the bitterness of the flavor.
senses_topics:
|
2519 | word:
tuba
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tuba (plural tubas)
forms:
form:
tubas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin tuba (“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”), first borrowed as a historic term in the 18th century. The name of the modern instrument was borrowed in the 19th century from German Tuba (“tuba”), originally Baß-Tuba (literally “bass tuba”), from the same Latin source. The Latin term is of obscure ultimate origin, but is possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”), see there.
senses_examples:
text:
One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa.
ref:
1990, Thomas D. Rossing, The Science of Sound, page 230
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.
A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba.
A large reed stop in organs.
senses_topics:
|
2520 | word:
tuba
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tuba (plural tubas or tubae)
forms:
form:
tubas
tags:
plural
form:
tubae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin tuba (“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”), first borrowed as a historic term in the 18th century. The name of the modern instrument was borrowed in the 19th century from German Tuba (“tuba”), originally Baß-Tuba (literally “bass tuba”), from the same Latin source. The Latin term is of obscure ultimate origin, but is possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”), see there.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tube or tubular organ.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
2521 | word:
tuba
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tuba (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Malay tuba.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis.
senses_topics:
|
2522 | word:
tuba
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tuba (plural tubas)
forms:
form:
tubas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Cebuano tuba.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap.
senses_topics:
|
2523 | word:
sixteen
word_type:
num
expansion:
sixteen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sextene, sixtene, from Old English sixtīene, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun. Cognate with West Frisian sechstjin, Dutch zestien, German sechzehn, Danish seksten. Equivalent to six + -teen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after fifteen and before seventeen, represented in Arabic numerals as 16 and in Roman numerals as XVI.
senses_topics:
|
2524 | word:
symptom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
symptom (plural symptoms)
forms:
form:
symptoms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek σύμπτωμα (súmptōma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of συμπίπτω (sumpíptō, “Ι befall”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + πίπτω (píptō, “I fall”).
senses_examples:
text:
Swollen breasts, morning sickness, and a missed period are classic symptoms of pregnancy.
type:
example
text:
Lying, hiding one's true feelings, and having affairs are typical symptoms of a doomed marriage.
type:
example
text:
Some people see birth outside of marriage as a social problem—a sign of a breakdown in the traditional family and a symptom of moral decay.
ref:
2009, Charles Zastrow, Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash; strictly, a symptom is felt or experienced by the patient, while a sign can be detected by an observer.
A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
2525 | word:
eighty
word_type:
num
expansion:
eighty
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eiȝti, eyȝty, eiȝtety, aghty, from Old English hundeahtatiġ, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōutēhundą (“eighty”), equivalent to eight + -ty. Cognate with Scots hechty, auchty (“eighty”), Saterland Frisian tachentich (“eighty”), West Frisian tachtich (“eighty”), Dutch tachtig (“eighty”), Low German tachentig (“eighty”), German achtzig (“eighty”), Swedish åttio (“eighty”), Norwegian åtti (“eighty”), Icelandic áttatíu (“eighty”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXXX and in Arabic numerals as 80.
senses_topics:
|
2526 | word:
been
word_type:
verb
expansion:
been
forms:
wikipedia:
been
etymology_text:
From Middle English been (past participle), from Old English (ġe)bēon; equivalent to be + -en.
senses_examples:
text:
All the fries have been eaten.
type:
example
text:
They been here since yesterday. (dialectal, e.g. AAVE, omitting have)
type:
example
text:
He been had that job.
type:
example
text:
We been knew they was doing this.
type:
example
text:
She was disloyal, Casper was disloyal, so them muthafuckas gotta go. Like you said[,] we been knew we was going to have to kill Frost, so let's do it and Light too.” Star said. “Say no more. I'ma handle Kisha myself.” Max said walking to the door.
ref:
2013, DayQuan Miller, Back Blocks, StealthMode Entertainment, page 147
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of be.
remote past form of be.
senses_topics:
|
2527 | word:
been
word_type:
verb
expansion:
been
forms:
wikipedia:
been
etymology_text:
Either from Middle English been (“to be”, infinitive) (from Old English bēon), or from a dialectal use of the preceding past tense form as an infinitive form (compare dialectal use of (I)'s, (I) is in the first person, (he) am in the third person, etc).
senses_examples:
text:
It useta been five foot long.
type:
example
text:
"Bones", says he, "I tink dey's a-goin' to been a war ober de Alabamy question[…]
ref:
1875, Minstrel Gags and End Men's Hand-book, New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, page 83; republished New York: Literature House, 1969
type:
quotation
text:
Yur a boald 'un to tell the missus theer to hur feeace as how ya wur 'tossicatit whan ya owt to been duing yur larful business.
ref:
1888, Mary Augusta Ward, “Book I”, in Robert Elsmere, London: Macmillan and Company, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
[…]But one time it use' to been so cold right first of the winter.
ref:
1966, DARE Tape SC10, quotee, “be v”, in edited by Frederic G. Cassidy and Joan Houston Hall, Dictionary of American Regional English, volume 1, Harvard University Press, published 1985, page 178
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of be (infinitival sense).
senses_topics:
|
2528 | word:
been
word_type:
verb
expansion:
been
forms:
wikipedia:
been
etymology_text:
From Middle English been (plural indicative form); equivalent to be + -en.
senses_examples:
text:
My love is fair, my love is gay,
As fresh as been the flowers in May;
ref:
1584, George Peele, The Arraignment of Paris, I, ii
type:
quotation
text:
O Friar, those are faults that are not seen,
Ours open, and of worse example been.
ref:
1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, iii
type:
quotation
text:
Some of green Boughs their slender Cabbins frame, / Some lodged were Tortoſa's streets about, / Of all the Hoſt the Chief of Worth and Name / Aſſembled been, a Senate grave and ſtout;
ref:
1686, Edward Fairfax, transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne: Or, The Recovery of Jerusalem, section 20, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural simple present of be.
senses_topics:
|
2529 | word:
been
word_type:
noun
expansion:
been
forms:
wikipedia:
been
etymology_text:
From Middle English been, bene, ben, beon, from Old English bēon (“bees”), equivalent to bee + -en (plural ending).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of bee
senses_topics:
|
2530 | word:
ninety
word_type:
num
expansion:
ninety
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nynty, nynety, from Old English hundniġontiġ, from Proto-Germanic *newuntēhundą (“ninety”), equivalent to nine + -ty. Cognate with Scots nynty, nynety (“ninety”), Saterland Frisian njuugentich (“ninety”), West Frisian njoggentich (“ninety”), Dutch negentig (“ninety”), German Low German negentig (“ninety”), German neunzig (“ninety”), Swedish nittio (“ninety”), Norwegian Bokmål nitti (“ninety”), Norwegian Nynorsk nitti (“ninety”), Icelandic níutíu (“ninety”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after eighty-nine and before ninety-one, represented in Roman numerals as XC and in Arabic numerals as 90.
senses_topics:
|
2531 | word:
ICQ
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ICQ (plural ICQs)
forms:
form:
ICQs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ICQ
etymology_text:
Pun on the pronunciation of "I seek you."
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A call for acknowledgement.
senses_topics:
|
2532 | word:
ICQ
word_type:
name
expansion:
ICQ
forms:
wikipedia:
ICQ
etymology_text:
Pun on the pronunciation of "I seek you."
senses_examples:
text:
ICQ was unusual among instant-messaging systems because it used what is called peer-to-peer technology—ICQ users essentially communicated with each other directly, without having all their messages pass through a central server.
ref:
2005, Laura Lambert, Chris Woodford, Christos J. P. Moschovitis, The Internet: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, page 136
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A program allowing users to send each other instant messages via the Internet.
senses_topics:
|
2533 | word:
ICQ
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ICQ (third-person singular simple present ICQs, present participle ICQing, simple past and past participle ICQed)
forms:
form:
ICQs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ICQing
tags:
participle
present
form:
ICQed
tags:
participle
past
form:
ICQed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ICQ
etymology_text:
Pun on the pronunciation of "I seek you."
senses_examples:
text:
"My friends ICQ me before they call me just to make sure I'm there," said Kurera, a 19-year-old sophomore […]
ref:
2000 January 14, Greg Miller, “Ethernet Is Changing Dorm Life”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 2013-06-30
type:
quotation
text:
I'll log-on in Hawaii. If needed we can ICQ from there.
ref:
2002, Mike Savage, Lake Effect, Savage Press, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
It shut him up. Never had him ICQ me again.
ref:
2004, Michael C. Westwood, Meeting the President, page 94
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To send an instant message to (someone) using ICQ.
senses_topics:
|
2534 | word:
ten
word_type:
num
expansion:
ten
forms:
wikipedia:
ten
etymology_text:
From Middle English ten, tene, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognate with Scots ten, tene (“ten”), West Frisian tsien (“ten”), Saterland Frisian tjoon (“ten”), North Frisian tiin (“ten”). See also teen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.
senses_topics:
|
2535 | word:
ten
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ten (countable and uncountable, plural tens)
forms:
form:
tens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ten
etymology_text:
From Middle English ten, tene, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognate with Scots ten, tene (“ten”), West Frisian tsien (“ten”), Saterland Frisian tjoon (“ten”), North Frisian tiin (“ten”). See also teen.
senses_examples:
text:
We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors.
type:
example
text:
Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.
type:
example
text:
tens of thousands of voters
type:
example
text:
Can you give me two tens for this twenty?
type:
example
text:
I was in the Woodley Park–Zoo in D.C. and mom and sister were waiting to see the pandas, so me and my pops broke away to check out the monkey house. Well, there was a beautiful teacher, I mean we're talking a ten, she was blond, had a low-cut dress on, just gorgeous. And she has about eight or nine students and she's pointing out all the different monkeys. And me and my dad noticed this huge orangutan kind of fiddling with himself. And on close [censored] And we kept checking it out and he was looking directly at the teacher. Well, a couple minutes passed by [censored] he proceeds to [censored] that's when the teacher noticed and, you know, took the kids away very hurriedly. But I looked at my dad and said, you know, they're so much like us.
ref:
2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, quoting Chris, 22:22 from the start, in Penn Radio
type:
quotation
text:
An Office Ten is a person who falls somewhere between average to mildly good-looking in the world at large but skyrockets to wildly attractive within the confines of an open-concept desk plan.
ref:
2023 September 11, Danielle Cohen, “Why Am I Attracted to My Coworker? Meet ‘The Office Ten’”, in New York Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
At the 1,000-metres post we gave a ten, which raised our lead to 1⅔ lengths; the Belgians were rowing hard, but one felt that they still had plenty of spurting power.
ref:
1911, The Cambridge Review, volume 32, page 486
type:
quotation
text:
Morris gave a ten, and an unbelievable surge ran through the boat, one that I had never felt before.
ref:
1982, Stanley French, Aspects of Downing history, page 105
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A set or group with ten elements.
An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100.
A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units.
A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
A high level of intensity.
The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports |
2536 | word:
big
word_type:
adj
expansion:
big (comparative bigger, superlative biggest)
forms:
form:
bigger
tags:
comparative
form:
biggest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Northern Middle English big, bigge (“powerful, strong”), possibly from a dialect of Old Norse. Ultimately perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”), in which case big would be related to bogey, bugbear, and bug.
Compare dialectal Norwegian bugge (“great man”), Low German Bögge, Boggelmann.
senses_examples:
text:
Elephants are big animals, and they eat a lot.
type:
example
text:
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref:
2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
Gosh, she is big!
type:
example
text:
She was big with child.
type:
example
text:
I'm the shortest man on the team but in the gym shower everyone can see that I'm also the biggest.
type:
example
text:
I've been lifting weights for a full year now, but I'm finally getting big.
type:
example
text:
By midnight, however, the last light had fled / For even big people have then gone to bed[.]
ref:
1931, Robert L. May, Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Montgomery Ward (publisher), draft
text:
Uh oh ... that looks like one of those things the big people don't want us to touch, Marvin!
ref:
1998 April 12, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic)
type:
quotation
text:
Kids should get help from big people if they want to use the kitchen.
type:
example
text:
We were just playing, and then some big kids came and chased us away.
type:
example
text:
She did it all on her own like a big girl.
type:
example
text:
I don't think so, if you're shouting at people across the playground at your big age.
ref:
2020, Candice Carty-Williams, Notting Hill Carnival
type:
quotation
text:
That's very big of you; thank you!
type:
example
text:
I tried to be the bigger person and just let it go, but I couldn't help myself.
type:
example
text:
So the bloke says, 'Fine, that's real big of you, much appreciated,' and off he goes with Big John back to Ferrari's.
ref:
2011, Joe Pieri, The Big Men
type:
quotation
text:
What's so big about that? I do it all the time.
type:
example
text:
It proved a big miss as Hoilett produced a sublime finish into the top corner of the net from 20 yards after evading a couple of challenges in first-half stoppage time.
ref:
2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3-3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
That style is very big right now in Europe, especially among teenagers.
type:
example
text:
Big in Japan, alright, pay then I'll sleep by your side / Things are easy when you're big in Japan
ref:
1984, “Big in Japan”, in Forever Young, performed by Alphaville
type:
quotation
text:
You are a big liar. Why are you in such a big hurry?
type:
example
text:
Why is it whenever I'm in a big hurry he's always in a big slow?
ref:
2007 August 8, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic)
type:
quotation
text:
There were concerns about the ethics of big pharma.
type:
example
text:
big money
type:
example
text:
Big Tech, Big Steel ― large or influential tech or steel companies
type:
example
text:
Big Science ― science performed by large terms, of large scope, with government or corporate funding
type:
example
text:
After the Airblade’s launch, a battle began to boil, pitting the dryer industry against the world’s most powerful hand-drying lobby: Big Towel.
ref:
2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
“The C.E.O.s don’t want to be testifying. Even having this collective hearing creates a sense of quasi-guilt just because of who else has gotten called in like this — Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, Big Banks,” said Paul Gallant, a tech policy analyst at the investment firm Cowen. “That’s not a crowd they want to be associated with.”
ref:
2020 July 28, “Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Prepare for Their ‘Big Tobacco Moment’”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Neville is big on standing by his principles and he deserves plaudits for acknowledging he got his starting system wrong, reverting to 4-2-3-1 and introducing Kirby in the No 10 role.
ref:
2019 July 2, Louise Taylor, “Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I'm not big on the idea, but if you want to go ahead with it, I won't stop you.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of great size, large.
Of great size, large.
Fat.
Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
Well-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.
Specifically, big-breasted.
Well-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.
Having a large penis.
Well-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.
Having large muscles, especially visible ones such as the chest and arm muscles.
Adult; (of a child) older.
Adult; (of a child) older.
Old, mature. Used to imply that someone is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
Mature, conscientious, principled; generous.
Important or significant.
Popular.
Populous.
Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
Enthusiastic (about).
senses_topics:
|
2537 | word:
big
word_type:
adv
expansion:
big (comparative bigger, superlative biggest)
forms:
form:
bigger
tags:
comparative
form:
biggest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Northern Middle English big, bigge (“powerful, strong”), possibly from a dialect of Old Norse. Ultimately perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”), in which case big would be related to bogey, bugbear, and bug.
Compare dialectal Norwegian bugge (“great man”), Low German Bögge, Boggelmann.
senses_examples:
text:
He's always talking big, but he never delivers.
type:
example
text:
He won big betting on the croquet championship.
type:
example
text:
Don't miss our November sale — it's your last chance to save big before Christmas!
type:
example
text:
I've always been big into sport, but I'm especially big into football.
type:
example
text:
You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.
type:
example
text:
'You've got to put it over big,' he was saying in a loud nasal voice.
ref:
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 3, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a loud manner.
In a boasting manner.
In a large amount or to a large extent.
In a large amount or to a large extent.
(modifying a preposition)
On a large scale, expansively.
Hard; with great force.
senses_topics:
|
2538 | word:
big
word_type:
noun
expansion:
big (plural bigs)
forms:
form:
bigs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Northern Middle English big, bigge (“powerful, strong”), possibly from a dialect of Old Norse. Ultimately perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”), in which case big would be related to bogey, bugbear, and bug.
Compare dialectal Norwegian bugge (“great man”), Low German Bögge, Boggelmann.
senses_examples:
text:
In the Appalachian League, where Cal Ripken once played in Bluefield, W.Va., a ballplayer's chances of making it to the bigs are less than one in six.
ref:
2004 June 23, Michelle Boorstein, “Ballclub’s Pullout Caps Va. Town’s Run of Woes; Struggling Martinsville No Longer Celebrates Its Boys of Summer”, in Washington Post
type:
quotation
text:
He was there the night of Cristoph's party. All the littles were assigned to their bigs. Ian and Christoph had rushed the same fraternity. When they became upperclassmen, they both ended up on the board.
ref:
2018, Kelly Ann Gonzales, Through an Opaque Window
type:
quotation
text:
She added that the relationship between bigs and littles is "what each pair makes of it," and that a lot of the pairs often get dinner together and become close friends.
ref:
2019 April 1, Audrey Steinkamp, “Sororities pair new members with "bigs"”, in Yale Daily News
type:
quotation
text:
Some traditions of the chapter include lineages with bigs and littles, receiving of paddles from a big, and a national stroll, Wolsch-Gallia said.
ref:
2022 September 27, Shreya Varrier, “Gamma Rho Lambda provides LGBTQIA+ community in greek life”, in Iowa State Daily
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
The big leagues, big time.
An initiated member of a sorority or fraternity who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).
The participant in ageplay who acts out the older role.
senses_topics:
BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality |
2539 | word:
big
word_type:
verb
expansion:
big (third-person singular simple present bigs, present participle bigging, simple past and past participle bigged)
forms:
form:
bigs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bigging
tags:
participle
present
form:
bigged
tags:
participle
past
form:
bigged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English biggen, byggen, from Old Norse byggja, byggva (“to build, dwell in, inhabit”), a secondary form of Old Norse búa (“to dwell”), related to Old English būan (“to dwell”). Cognate with Danish bygge, Swedish bygga.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To inhabit; occupy.
To locate oneself.
To build; erect; fashion.
To dwell; have a dwelling.
senses_topics:
|
2540 | word:
big
word_type:
noun
expansion:
big (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English byge, from Old Norse bygg (“barley, probably Hordeum vulgare, common barley”), from Proto-Germanic *bewwuz (“crop, barley”). Cognate with Old English bēow (“barley”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.
senses_topics:
|
2541 | word:
Polari
word_type:
name
expansion:
Polari
forms:
wikipedia:
Lord Chief Baron
Polari
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Polari, from Italian parlare (“to talk”). The loss of the first r and the changing vowel quality of the non-stressed vowels is due to the non-rhotic UK accent which reinterpreted the phonemes. The adoption of the infinitive form means that the word probably originated from a Romance-based creole or pidgin like Sabir. First use in English appears c. 1846, in the writings of Lord Chief Baron.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cant used in the London fishmarkets, in the British theatre, and by the gay community in Britain, attested since at least the 19th century and popularised in the 1950s and 1960s by the camp characters Julian and Sandy in the popular BBC radio show Round the Horne.
A cant used by travelling showmen in Britain.
senses_topics:
|
2542 | word:
Afghan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Afghan (plural Afghans)
forms:
form:
Afghans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Classical Persian افغان (afğān, “Afghan”), from Bactrian αβαγανο (abagano), first attested in the fourth century CE, most likely a compound of *apāka- (“distant, faraway”), from Proto-Iranian *Hapá, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hapá (“away”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó + *-āna (“ethnic group”), from Proto-Indo-European *-nós, thus: "people from a distant land". Various scholars have proposed Sanskrit etymologies since the nineteenth century (especially prior to the 2007 publication of earlier Bactrian attestations for the word), but linguist Johnny Cheung notes that these are "extremely difficult to reconcile" with recent evidence pointing to a Bactrian source.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Afghanistan.
A person of Pashtun ethnicity.
Synonym of Afghan Hound.
senses_topics:
|
2543 | word:
Afghan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Afghan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Classical Persian افغان (afğān, “Afghan”), from Bactrian αβαγανο (abagano), first attested in the fourth century CE, most likely a compound of *apāka- (“distant, faraway”), from Proto-Iranian *Hapá, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hapá (“away”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó + *-āna (“ethnic group”), from Proto-Indo-European *-nós, thus: "people from a distant land". Various scholars have proposed Sanskrit etymologies since the nineteenth century (especially prior to the 2007 publication of earlier Bactrian attestations for the word), but linguist Johnny Cheung notes that these are "extremely difficult to reconcile" with recent evidence pointing to a Bactrian source.
senses_examples:
text:
He will be in Afghan for another six months.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pashto, a language primarily spoken by Pashtun people in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan.
Clipping of Afghanistan.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
2544 | word:
Afghan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Afghan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Classical Persian افغان (afğān, “Afghan”), from Bactrian αβαγανο (abagano), first attested in the fourth century CE, most likely a compound of *apāka- (“distant, faraway”), from Proto-Iranian *Hapá, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hapá (“away”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó + *-āna (“ethnic group”), from Proto-Indo-European *-nós, thus: "people from a distant land". Various scholars have proposed Sanskrit etymologies since the nineteenth century (especially prior to the 2007 publication of earlier Bactrian attestations for the word), but linguist Johnny Cheung notes that these are "extremely difficult to reconcile" with recent evidence pointing to a Bactrian source.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Afghanistan.
Of, from, or pertaining to the Pashtun ethnic community.
senses_topics:
|
2545 | word:
writer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
writer (plural writers)
forms:
form:
writers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
writer
etymology_text:
From Middle English writer, writere, from Old English wrītere (“draughtsman; painter; writer; scribe; copyist”) and ġewritere (“writer; composer”), equivalent to write + -er and writ + -er. Cognate with Icelandic ritari (“clerk, secretary”), Faroese ritari (“clerk, secretary”).
senses_examples:
text:
Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!
type:
example
text:
I met some of my favourite authors at the writers' convention.
type:
example
text:
the present writer (referring to oneself as the writer)
type:
example
text:
Though the writer has striven to dwell on aspects that have passed, or are passing away, it will be apparent that many features of Midland practice have been adopted as standard for the L.M.S.R. and other railways.
ref:
1946 May and June, J. Alan Rannie, “The Midland of 35 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called.
ref:
2001, Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals, page 715
type:
quotation
text:
Writers were reunited with their crews, none having seen each other since back in the day, since they'd spun from teenage affiliations into lives more burdened and serious.
ref:
2003, Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude, Doubleday, page 443
type:
quotation
text:
Two aspects of style co-exist in graffiti art, as explained in chapter 2. There is a writer's personal style, and there is iconic style, or style as convention.
ref:
2008, Lisa Gottlieb, Graffiti Art Styles: A Classification System and Theoretical Analysis, McFarland & Company, page 77
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
Anything that writes or produces output.
The seller of an option.
A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.
A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.
A graffiti artist.
senses_topics:
business
finance
|
2546 | word:
imperfect
word_type:
adj
expansion:
imperfect (comparative more imperfect, superlative most imperfect)
forms:
form:
more imperfect
tags:
comparative
form:
most imperfect
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English imperfit, from Old French imparfit (modern French imparfait), from Latin imperfectus. Spelling modified 15c. to conform Latin etymology. See im- + perfect.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
not perfect
unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
belonging to a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2547 | word:
imperfect
word_type:
noun
expansion:
imperfect (plural imperfects)
forms:
form:
imperfects
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English imperfit, from Old French imparfit (modern French imparfait), from Latin imperfectus. Spelling modified 15c. to conform Latin etymology. See im- + perfect.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
something having a minor flaw
a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2548 | word:
imperfect
word_type:
verb
expansion:
imperfect (third-person singular simple present imperfects, present participle imperfecting, simple past and past participle imperfected)
forms:
form:
imperfects
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
imperfecting
tags:
participle
present
form:
imperfected
tags:
participle
past
form:
imperfected
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English imperfit, from Old French imparfit (modern French imparfait), from Latin imperfectus. Spelling modified 15c. to conform Latin etymology. See im- + perfect.
senses_examples:
text:
1651, John Donne, Letter to Henry Goodere, in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, edited by Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr., New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1910,
I write to you from the Spring Garden, whither I withdrew my self to think of this; and the intensenesse of my thinking ends in this, that by my help Gods work should be imperfected, if by any means I resisted the amasement.
text:
Time, which perfects some things, imperfects also others.
ref:
1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 43
type:
quotation
text:
[…] such was their desire for greater rhythmic freedom that composers began to use red notes as well. […] Their value was […] restricted at first, for redness implies the imperfecting of a note which is perfect if black […]
ref:
1962, Alec Harman, Wilfrid Mellers, Man and His Music: The Story of Musical Experience in the West, Oxford University Press, Part I, Chapter 5, p. 126
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to make imperfect
senses_topics:
|
2549 | word:
slashdot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slashdot (third-person singular simple present slashdots, present participle slashdotting, simple past and past participle slashdotted)
forms:
form:
slashdots
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
slashdotting
tags:
participle
present
form:
slashdotted
tags:
participle
past
form:
slashdotted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
After Slashdot, a site that commonly links to other, smaller sites.
senses_examples:
text:
2002, Shelley Powers et al., Unix Power Tools http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596003307&id=t295L6vYuUkC&pg=PA501&lpg=PA501&dq=slashdotted&sig=rF5IZDXp33wnnsgkRIC5niMtqHM
If these numbers are significantly higher than normal usage, something is amiss (perhaps your web server has been slashdotted).
text:
[2003], 2006 Matthew Strebe, The Best of SlashNOT, 2002–2005 http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0595383157&id=skVK4smqz8UC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=slashdotted&sig=z6LagXUGvJ09gG77HdLoLSEnFAk
And that guy is supposed to be thrilled to lose both his inbound and outbound connections and e-mail for the joy of having been slashdotted.
text:
2005, Ivan Ristic, Apache Security http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596007248&id=5yiULnTkN6oC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=slashdotted&sig=_zJmLeVMfDyEAAt8FhAl6NZcrVA
Sites that have been slashdotted report traffic between several hundred and several thousand hits per minute.
text:
2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando https://web.archive.org/web/20080519054317/http://www.accelerando.org/_static/accelerando.html
Oh shit, thinks Manfred, better buy some more server time. He can recognize the signs: He's about to be slashdotted.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
2550 | word:
router
word_type:
noun
expansion:
router (plural routers)
forms:
form:
routers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
router
etymology_text:
From route + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
The router directed the movement of the company's trucks.
type:
example
text:
When the router receives the package, he places the route number on it as well as on the triplicate part of the attached salescheck.
ref:
1930, Edwin A. Godley, Alexander Kaylin, Control of Retail Store Operations, page 213
type:
quotation
text:
Obviously, the production control department might consist of one man or it might occupy a score of production control experts: routers, schedulers, expediters, and dispatchers.
ref:
1963, Louis J. von Rago, Production Analysis and Control, page 476
type:
quotation
text:
The system benefits include reduced delivery costs, increased vehicle use, and improved route decision making by dispatchers and routers.
ref:
1990, Mary Kay Allen, Omar Keith Helferich, Putting Expert Systems to Work in Logistics, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
The router was configured to forward packets outside of a certain range of IP addresses to its internet uplink port.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.
Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to Internet Protocol routers.
A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.
In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
2551 | word:
router
word_type:
noun
expansion:
router (plural routers)
forms:
form:
routers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
router
etymology_text:
From rout + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
He made an attractive edge on the table with a router.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.
A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
senses_topics:
|
2552 | word:
router
word_type:
verb
expansion:
router (third-person singular simple present routers, present participle routering, simple past and past participle routered)
forms:
form:
routers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
routering
tags:
participle
present
form:
routered
tags:
participle
past
form:
routered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
router
etymology_text:
From rout + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
An alternative is shown in which the carcase ends are grooved by routering.
ref:
1952, John Hooper, Percy A. Wells, Modern Cabinetwork, Furniture and Fitments, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
Figures 276: 10, 11 are typical sliding flush door pulls, the former routered out, but the latter can be turned in a lathe, while 276:12 is an oblong routered version.
ref:
2000, Ernest Joyce, Alan Peters, Patrick Spielman, Encyclopedia of Furniture Making, page 290
type:
quotation
text:
Routered holes may also be filled with diluted maple syrup (1 part syrup to 9 parts water) to create a sap well for sapsuckers.
ref:
2007, Laurie J. Gage, Rebecca S. Duerr, Hand-Rearing Birds, page 352
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to hollow out or cut using a router power tool.
senses_topics:
|
2553 | word:
naff
word_type:
adj
expansion:
naff (comparative naffer, superlative naffest)
forms:
form:
naffer
tags:
comparative
form:
naffest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Perhaps from Polari, 1960s. Further etymology unknown; perhaps a conscious corruption of either fanny or eff (off) (see naff off).
senses_examples:
text:
That tie is a bit naff, don’t you think?
type:
example
text:
She was an ordinary woman in her dress style; she didn't wear a leather bodice or naff over-knee plastic spiky-heeled boots.
ref:
1998, Robert Llewellyn, The Man on Platform Five, London: Hodder & Stoughton, page 291
type:
quotation
text:
I mean ten years ago a bit of charlie was for pop stars or a celebrities birthday bash. It was demonized by Daily Mail Readers getting drunk in naff wine bars.
ref:
2004, J. J. Connolly, Layer Cake, spoken by XXXX (Daniel Craig)
type:
quotation
text:
Remember, “tacky” means “cheap or glitzy”, whereas “naff” is about stylistic shortcomings which are horrifyingly average and pathetically ordinary. The Jersey Shore is tacky, but The Bachelor is naff.
ref:
2012, Simon Doonan, Gay men don't get fat, New York: Blue Rider Press, page 206
type:
quotation
text:
A mere seven years after her tragic death, isn’t it grim and tasteless to send her hologram off on some naff tour?
ref:
2019 February 24, Barbara Ellen, “Amy Winehouse could belt out a tune – her naff hologram can’t”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Note that last phrase: what actually emerged was a virtual-reality platform called Horizon Worlds, accessible only via naff and clunky Oculus headsets (think an uncomfortable version of Zoom) […]
ref:
2023 May 13, John Naughton, “A moment’s silence, please, for the death of Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse”, in The Observer, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
The omie was a veritable donkey beneath the waistband, darlings. A donkey! No wonder your boss-palone is so smitten. I've seen my share, dollies, but this old omiepalone was shaken to the core. Such a terrible waste on a naff bloke.
ref:
2004, Pip Granger, Trouble In Paradise
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bad; tasteless, poorly thought out, not workable.
Heterosexual.
senses_topics:
|
2554 | word:
bench
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bench (plural benches)
forms:
form:
benches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bench
etymology_text:
From Middle English bench, benk, bynk, from Old English benċ (“bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-.
Cognate with Scots benk, bink (“bench”), West Frisian bank (“bench”), Dutch bank (“bench”), German Bank (“bench”), Danish bænk (“bench”), Swedish bänk (“bench”), Icelandic bekkur (“bench”). Doublet of banc, banco, and bank.
senses_examples:
text:
They sat on a park bench and tossed bread crumbs to the ducks and pigeons.
type:
example
text:
Scarborough station's famous 139-metre-long bench, believed to be the longest in the world, has been restored in a £14,500 project.
ref:
2021 January 27, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 923, page 71, photo caption
type:
quotation
text:
They are awaiting a decision on the motion from the bench.
type:
example
text:
She sat on the bench for 30 years before she retired.
type:
example
text:
the government front bench
type:
example
text:
On the opposition benches at Holyrood, Scottish Labour's transport spokesman Neil Bibby favours a more formal approach of involving passenger and worker representatives in the management of ScotRail.
ref:
2022 April 6, Conrad Landin, “ScotRail in the public eye...”, in RAIL, number 954, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
the bench of bishops
type:
example
text:
the civic bench
type:
example
text:
Mr. Zuckerberg’s repositioning of Meta started in earnest last year, when he began rearranging his bench of lieutenants.
ref:
2022 July 26, Mike Isaac, “‘Operating With Increased Intensity’: Zuckerberg Leads Meta Into Next Phase”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
He spent the first three games on the bench, watching.
type:
example
text:
But Chelsea, who left Didier Drogba on the bench as coach Carlo Ancelotti favoured Fernando Torres, staged a stirring fightback to move up to fourth and keep United in their sights on a night when nothing other than victory would have kept the Blues in contention.
ref:
2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
Injuries have shortened the bench.
type:
example
text:
She placed the workpiece on the bench, inspected it closely, and opened the cover.
type:
example
text:
2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
I had no bench or power rack, so by necessity every exercise I did started with the weights on the floor.
text:
After removing the bench, we can use the mark left on the wall as a reference point.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.
The seat where the judges sit in court.
The people who decide on the verdict, collectively; the judiciary.
The seat where the judges sit in court.
The office or dignity of a judge.
A seat where people sit together in an official capacity.
A long seat for politicians in a parliamentary chamber.
A seat where people sit together in an official capacity.
The dignity of holding an official seat.
A seat where people sit together in an official capacity.
The people who hold a certain type of official seat, collectively; a group of officeholders.
The place where players (substitutes) and coaches sit when not playing.
The place where players (substitutes) and coaches sit when not playing.
The number of players on a team able to participate, expressed in terms of length.
A place where assembly or hand work is performed; a workbench.
A horizontal padded surface, usually adjustable in height and inclination and often with attached weight rack, used for proper posture during exercise.
A bracket used to mount land surveying equipment onto a stone or a wall.
A flat ledge in the slope of an earthwork, work of masonry, or similar.
A thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by steeper slopes above and below.
A kitchen surface on which to prepare food, a counter.
A bathroom surface which holds the washbasin, a vanity.
A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public, traditionally on benches or raised platforms.
senses_topics:
law
law
government
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
geography
natural-sciences
surveying
geography
geology
natural-sciences
|
2555 | word:
bench
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bench (third-person singular simple present benches, present participle benching, simple past and past participle benched)
forms:
form:
benches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
benching
tags:
participle
present
form:
benched
tags:
participle
past
form:
benched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bench
etymology_text:
From Middle English bench, benk, bynk, from Old English benċ (“bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-.
Cognate with Scots benk, bink (“bench”), West Frisian bank (“bench”), Dutch bank (“bench”), German Bank (“bench”), Danish bænk (“bench”), Swedish bänk (“bench”), Icelandic bekkur (“bench”). Doublet of banc, banco, and bank.
senses_examples:
text:
They benched him for the rest of the game because they thought he was injured.
type:
example
text:
OK, you are out! You’re benched!
ref:
2016, Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea, spoken by hockey coach (Tate Donovan)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove a player from play.
To remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily.
To push a person backward against a conspirator behind them who is on their hands and knees, causing them to fall over.
To furnish with benches.
To place on a bench or seat of honour.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
2556 | word:
bench
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bench (third-person singular simple present benches, present participle benching, simple past and past participle benched)
forms:
form:
benches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
benching
tags:
participle
present
form:
benched
tags:
participle
past
form:
benched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bench
etymology_text:
From bench press by shortening.
senses_examples:
text:
I heard he can bench 150 pounds.
text:
1988, Frederick C. Hatfield, "Powersource: Ties that bind", Ironman 47 (6): 21.
For the first several years of my exclusive career in powerlifting, I couldn't bench too well.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lift by bench pressing
senses_topics:
|
2557 | word:
bench
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bench (plural benches)
forms:
form:
benches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bench
etymology_text:
From bench press by shortening.
senses_examples:
text:
He became frustrated when his bench increased by only 10 pounds despite a month of training.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting |
2558 | word:
bench
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bench (third-person singular simple present benches, present participle benching, simple past and past participle benched)
forms:
form:
benches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
benching
tags:
participle
present
form:
benched
tags:
participle
past
form:
benched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bench
etymology_text:
See bentsh.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of bentsh
senses_topics:
|
2559 | word:
nineteen
word_type:
num
expansion:
nineteen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nynetene, nintene, from Old English niġontīene, niġontēne, from Proto-Germanic *newuntehun. Cognate with Dutch negentien, Low German negenteihn, Hunsrik neinzen, German neunzehn, Danish nitten.
Equivalent to nine + -teen
senses_examples:
text:
She says groovy like it's nineteen sixty-nine.
ref:
1997, Swan Dive (lyrics and music), “Groovy Tuesday” (track 1), in Wintergreen, performed by Swan Dive
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".
senses_topics:
|
2560 | word:
handsomeness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handsomeness (countable and uncountable, plural handsomenesses)
forms:
form:
handsomenesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From handsome + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being handsome.
senses_topics:
|
2561 | word:
seventeen
word_type:
num
expansion:
seventeen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English seventene, from Old English seofontīene, from Proto-Germanic *sebuntehun. Cognate with Dutch zeventien, West Frisian santjin, German siebzehn, Danish sytten.
Equivalent to seven + -teen
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.
senses_topics:
|
2562 | word:
polygon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polygon (plural polygons)
forms:
form:
polygons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
polygon
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek πολύγωνον (polúgōnon), from πολύς (polús, “many”) + γωνία (gōnía, “angle”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A plane figure bounded by edges that are all straight lines.
The boundary of such a figure.
A figure comprising vertices and (not necessarily straight) edges, alternatingly.
Such a figure and its interior, taken as a whole.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
2563 | word:
zebra mongoose
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zebra mongoose (plural zebra mongooses)
forms:
form:
zebra mongooses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A banded mongoose (Mungos mungo).
senses_topics:
|
2564 | word:
England
word_type:
name
expansion:
England (usually uncountable, plural Englands)
forms:
form:
Englands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
England
Wales and Berwick Act 1746
Welsh Language Act 1967
etymology_text:
From Middle English Engelond, England, from Old English Engla land (literally “land of the Angles”), from genitive of Engle (“the Angles”) + land (“land”).
senses_examples:
text:
(by extension, sometimes proscribed) the area of this kingdom generally, south of Scotland and east of Wales, including (historical) this area of Celtic and Roman Britain or the post-Roman kingdoms of the Angles and other Germans taken collectively.
text:
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?...
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England’s green & pleasant Land.
ref:
1804, William Blake, Milton, Vol. I, Preface
type:
quotation
text:
What is England? She is Elizabeth... To live alone, to go alone, to reign alone, to be alone,—such is Elizabeth, such is England...
England has two books: one which she has made, the other which has made her,—Shakespeare and the Bible. These two books do not agree together... Shakespeare thinks, Shakespeare dreams, Shakespeare doubts... Moreover, Shakespeare invents.
ref:
1864, Victor Hugo, chapter 6, in Amédée Baillot, transl., William Shakespeare
type:
quotation
text:
England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted passage, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. It has rich relations who have to be kow-towed to and poor relations who are horribly sat upon, and there is a deep conspiracy of silence about the source of the family income.
ref:
1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I
type:
quotation
text:
England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire.
ref:
1983, William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads, page 203
type:
quotation
text:
"This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources."
ref:
2012, Maureen Johnson, The Madness Underneath
type:
quotation
text:
Had they responded this way in France or America, this wouldn't have surprised me, but wasn't everyone in England supposed to be a detective? Wasn't every crime, no matter how complex, solved in a timely fashion by either a professional or a hobbyist? That's the impression you get from British books and TV shows.
ref:
2013 March 25, David Sedaris, "Long Way Home" in The New Yorker
text:
Just close your eyes and think of England.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The kingdom established in southeast Britain by Aethelstan of Wessex in 927 and its various successor states, now the largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom
Synonym of England and Wales.
Synonym of United Kingdom.
A habitational surname from Old English.
A city in Lonoke County, Arkansas, United States.
senses_topics:
law
|
2565 | word:
twig
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twig (plural twigs)
forms:
form:
twigs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
twig
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English twig, twyg, from Old English twiġ, from Proto-Germanic *twīgą (compare West Frisian twiich, Dutch twijg, German Zweig), from Proto-Indo-European *dweygʰom (compare Old Church Slavonic двигъ (dvigŭ, “branch”), Albanian degë (“branch”)), from *dwóh₁. More at two.
senses_examples:
text:
They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.
type:
example
text:
You need to find a source of motivation and play off of that. Whether it be the jock in high school that always called you fat, or the guy who picked on you and called you a twig.
ref:
2007 February 24, Matt Weik, CSCS, “Successful Tips and Tricks For Contest Prep!”, in Bodybuilding.com
type:
quotation
text:
Schwarzenegger was long past his professional bodybuilding days when he and Carrere shot the tango scene, but he wasn’t a twig.
ref:
2022 July 19, Jason Rossi, “Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Most Dangerous Mistake on ‘True Lies’: ‘It Would Have Put Us Back 30 Days in the Production’”, in Showbiz CheatSheet
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small thin branch of a tree or bush.
Somebody, or one of his body parts, not looking developed.
senses_topics:
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
2566 | word:
twig
word_type:
verb
expansion:
twig (third-person singular simple present twigs, present participle twigging, simple past and past participle twigged)
forms:
form:
twigs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
twigging
tags:
participle
present
form:
twigged
tags:
participle
past
form:
twigged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English twig, twyg, from Old English twiġ, from Proto-Germanic *twīgą (compare West Frisian twiich, Dutch twijg, German Zweig), from Proto-Indo-European *dweygʰom (compare Old Church Slavonic двигъ (dvigŭ, “branch”), Albanian degë (“branch”)), from *dwóh₁. More at two.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To beat with twigs.
senses_topics:
|
2567 | word:
twig
word_type:
verb
expansion:
twig (third-person singular simple present twigs, present participle twigging, simple past and past participle twigged)
forms:
form:
twigs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
twigging
tags:
participle
present
form:
twigged
tags:
participle
past
form:
twigged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Irish and Scottish Gaelic tuig (“to understand”).
senses_examples:
text:
He hasn't twigged that we're planning a surprise party for him.
type:
example
text:
I pray you now send me some dub, / A bottle or two to the needy. / I beg you won't bring it yourself, / The harman is at the Old-Bailey; / I'd rather you'd send it behalf, / For, if they twig you they'll nail you.
ref:
1765, “A Song in High Life”, in The Merry Medley, volume 1, London: W. Hoggard, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
I twigged him at once, by the description you gave me. I never see a cove togged out as he was,—tall hat, light sit-down-upons, and a short coat—wasn't it cut short! but in really bang-up style.
ref:
1915, “Putting on the Screw”, in Caught in the Net, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, translation of Les Esclaves de Paris by Émile Gaboriau, page 23
type:
quotation
roman:
J'y ai reconnu le particulier que vous m'avez dit. Bien vêtu, ma foi! Chapeau rogné, tout plat, pantalon clair, en fourreau de parapluie, veston court, oh! mais d'un court... enfin, le dernier genre.
text:
Well, with fewer people doing two or three times the work, you may have already twigged to this.
ref:
2012 May 30, John E. McIntyre, “A future for copy editors”, in Baltimore Sun, archived from the original on 2013-06-23
type:
quotation
text:
At this point in our story, we first meet the fleet repair ship Kamchatka, who everyone would soon become regrettably familiar with. Her entry into our account here was her signal that she was under attack by torpedo boats! When she was asked how many, she replied "about eight, from all directions!". Eventually, someone twigged to the fact that absolutely nobody else could see so much as a seagull, let alone any exceptionally-lost Japanese torpedo boats. And, when nothing actually happened, Kamchatka refused to say that it was a false alarm, only that it had altered course and the torpedo boats had gone away.
ref:
2019 March 13, Drachinifel, 18:23 from the start, in The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned, archived from the original on 2023-01-29
type:
quotation
text:
Do you twig me?
type:
example
text:
Now twig him; now mind him: mark how he hawls his muscles about.
ref:
1763, Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garratt, act 2
type:
quotation
text:
This excellent man appears to have sunk into himself in a sitting posture, […] while his exceedingly homely and wrinkled face, held a little on one side, twinkles at you with the shrewdest complacency, as if he were looking right into your eyes and twigged something there which you had half a mind to conceal from him.
ref:
1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.
To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
senses_topics:
|
2568 | word:
twig
word_type:
verb
expansion:
twig (third-person singular simple present twigs, present participle twigging, simple past and past participle twigged)
forms:
form:
twigs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
twigging
tags:
participle
present
form:
twigged
tags:
participle
past
form:
twigged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare tweak.
senses_examples:
text:
Frank shall twig your Nose from your Face
ref:
1755, John Shebbeare, Lydia: Or, Filial Piety
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pull
To twitch
To tweak
senses_topics:
|
2569 | word:
invest
word_type:
verb
expansion:
invest (third-person singular simple present invests, present participle investing, simple past and past participle invested)
forms:
form:
invests
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
investing
tags:
participle
present
form:
invested
tags:
participle
past
form:
invested
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French investir or Medieval Latin investire, from Latin investio (“to clothe, cover”), from in- (“in, on”) + vestio (“to clothe, dress”), from vestis (“clothing”); see vest. The sense “to spend money etc.” probably via Italian investire, of the same root.
senses_examples:
text:
We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.
type:
example
text:
He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.
ref:
1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
type:
quotation
text:
Cannot find one this girdle to invest!
ref:
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 4, canto 5, verse 18
type:
quotation
text:
Night / Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes
ref:
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 207-8
type:
quotation
text:
I do invest you jointly with my power.
ref:
c. 1603–06, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 1, scene 1
type:
quotation
text:
For he saith, if there can be found such an inequality between man and man, as there is between man and beast, or between soul and body, it investeth a right of government: which seemeth rather an impossible case than an untrue sentence.
ref:
a. 1626, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement Touching a Holy War
type:
quotation
text:
The scene was not without a mixture of awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt and shame in a fellow-creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering, at it.
ref:
1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
type:
quotation
text:
to invest a town
type:
example
text:
From early on in his career, Zola's work as a critic revealed just how heavily he was invested in the literary “dream of stone.”
ref:
2004, Michael D. Garval, A Dream of Stone, University of Delaware Press, page 214
type:
quotation
text:
She knew from watching him grow up that he didn't let that many people too close to him, but once he did, he was invested in that relationship.
ref:
2014, Sarah Varland, Tundra Threat: Faith in the Face of Crime, Harlequin, page 107
type:
quotation
text:
We decided that it was because he trusted the core beliefs of the Conservative Party, and he was invested in their vision of change in the NorthWest of England where he comes from.
ref:
2015, James Graham, Tory Boyz, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
The outcome also makes it very difficult for Feijóo to become the next PM, because he does not have the support to be invested as such, unless there are changes in the initial positions of key players such as the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV).
ref:
2023 July 24, Carlos Cué, “In Spain, the left's resistance thwarts a PP-Vox majority and leaves all possibilities open”, in El País, retrieved 2023-08-06
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
To clothe or wrap (with garments).
To put on (clothing).
To envelop, wrap, cover.
To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
To ceremonially install someone in some office.
To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
To formally give (power or authority).
To surround, accompany, or attend.
To lay siege to.
To make investments.
To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
To cause to be involved in; to cause to form strong attachments to.
To inaugurate the Prime Minister of Spain after a successful parliamentary vote.
senses_topics:
engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
government
politics |
2570 | word:
invest
word_type:
noun
expansion:
invest (plural invests)
forms:
form:
invests
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From investigate, by shortening.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.
senses_topics:
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences |
2571 | word:
hemisphere
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hemisphere (plural hemispheres)
forms:
form:
hemispheres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hemisphere
etymology_text:
From Latin hemisphaerium, from Ancient Greek ἡμισφαίριον (hēmisphaírion), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “half”) + σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “sphere”). Equivalent to hemi- + sphere. Displaced native Old English healftrendel (literally “half-sphere”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Half of the celestial sphere, as divided by either the ecliptic or the celestial equator .
A realm or domain of activity .
Half of the Earth, such as the Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere or Eastern Hemisphere, Land Hemisphere, Water Hemisphere etc. .
Any half-sphere, formed by a plane intersecting the center of a sphere. .
A map or projection of a celestial or terrestrial hemisphere .
Either of the two halves of the cerebrum. .
senses_topics:
astrology
astronomy
human-sciences
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
geography
natural-sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
cartography
geography
natural-sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
2572 | word:
zeal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zeal (countable and uncountable, plural zeals)
forms:
form:
zeals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English zele, from Old French zel, from Late Latin zēlus, from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂- (“to search”). Related to jealous.
senses_examples:
text:
She extols the virtues of veganism with missionary zeal.
type:
example
text:
[…] the highest zeal in religion and the deepest hypocrisy, so far from being inconsistent, are often or commonly united in the same individual character.
ref:
1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, part 12, pages 143–144
type:
quotation
text:
It [Troutbeck] has religious isolation also, for it is several miles—and very strenuous miles in winter—from the parish church at Mungrisdale, and the introduction of the harmonium to the waiting room was due to the zeal of a vicar of many years ago who, in the absence of any other room in the village, obtained permission to use the premises for services, including Sunday School. Most of his successors have continued this self-sacrificing duty.
ref:
1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709
type:
quotation
text:
The stockman’s zeal for eliminating the coyote has resulted in plagues of field mice, which the coyote formerly controlled.
ref:
1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 15, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 248
type:
quotation
text:
[…] like a malicious purblinde zeale as thou art!
ref:
1614, Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, London: Robert Allot, act v, scene 5, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
[…] there are questionlesse both in Greeke, Roman and Africa Churches, solemnities, and ceremonies, whereof the wiser zeales doe make a Christian use, and stand condemned by us;
ref:
1642, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, London: Andrew Crooke, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
A zeal of zebras confuses predators. Each zebra has a different set of stripes.
ref:
2012, Alex Kuskowski, Zeal of Zebras: Animal Groups on an African Safari, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.
A person who exhibits such fervour or tireless devotion.
The collective noun for a group of zebras.
senses_topics:
|
2573 | word:
stye
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stye (plural styes)
forms:
form:
styes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stye
etymology_text:
First recorded in the 17th century; probably a back-formation from Middle English styanye (first recorded in the 15th century), which in turn comes from Old English stīgend (“a small tumour on the edge of the eyelid, stye”), from the verb stīgan (“to climb, ascend, rise”) + Middle English eie (“eye”). Equivalent to sty + eye.
senses_examples:
text:
have a stye
type:
example
text:
suffer from a stye
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences |
2574 | word:
stye
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stye (plural styes)
forms:
form:
styes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stye
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic form of sty (“shelter for pigs”).
senses_topics:
|
2575 | word:
white stork
word_type:
noun
expansion:
white stork (plural white storks)
forms:
form:
white storks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From white and stork.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large wading bird, of species Ciconia ciconia, that winters in Africa and breeds in Europe; in European folklore, it delivers babies.
senses_topics:
|
2576 | word:
common eland
word_type:
noun
expansion:
common eland (plural common elands)
forms:
form:
common elands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
an antelope, Taurotragus oryx, of the African savannah
senses_topics:
|
2577 | word:
Nelson's elk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Nelson's elk (plural Nelson's elk)
forms:
form:
Nelson's elk
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cervus elaphus nelsoni; a subspecies of red deer (or wapiti).
senses_topics:
|
2578 | word:
Australia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Australia
forms:
wikipedia:
Matthew Flinders
etymology_text:
First attested 16th century, from Latin terra austrālis incōgnita (“unknown southern land”), from auster (“the south wind”). Used also in 1693 (quotation below). Popularised by Matthew Flinders in 1814 (quotation below).
Distantly cognate to Austria, containing the same Proto-Indo-European root, but through German where it retained the earlier sense of “east” rather than “south”.
See also Terra Australis.
senses_examples:
text:
1693: translation of a French novel by Jacques Sadeur (believed to be a pen name of Gabriel de Foigny) titled Les Aventures de Jacques Sadeur dans la Découverte et le Voiage de la Terre Australe published 1692, translation published in London in 1693. Quoted in The Australian Language by Sidney J. Baker, second edition, 1966, chapter XIX, section 1, pages 388-9.
This is all that I can have a certain knowledge of as to that side of Australia ...
text:
Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original term, it would have been to convert it into AUSTRALIA; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An island in Oceania.
1814, Matthew Flinders, A Voyage to Terra Australis, volume 1 (at Project Gutenberg)
A country in Oceania comprising the islands of Australia, Tasmania and other smaller islands in the Pacific Ocean, as well as its precursor colony in the British Empire. Official name: Commonwealth of Australia. Capital: Canberra.
A continent consisting of the islands of Australia, New Guinea and intervening islands. New Guinea and the intervening islands are also on the Australian tectonic plate and are thus geologically considered part of the continent.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
2579 | word:
tempo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tempo (plural tempos or tempi)
forms:
form:
tempos
tags:
plural
form:
tempi
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tempo (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian tempo, from Latin tempus (“time”). Doublet of tense.
senses_examples:
text:
10 calls per hour isn't a bad start, but we'll need to up the tempo if we want to reach our target of selling insurance policies.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A frequency or rate.
A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another.
The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side.
The timing of a particular event – earlier or later than in an alternative situation (as in chess example)
The number of beats per minute in a piece of music; also, an indicative term denoting approximate rate of speed in written music (examples: allegro, andante)
The steady pace set by the frontmost riders.
A small truck or cargo van with three or four wheels, commonly used for commercial transport and deliveries (particularly in Asian and African countries): a genericized trademark, originally associated with the manufacturer Vidal & Sohn Tempo-Werke GmbH.
A rapid rate of play by the offense resulting from reducing the amount of time which elapses after one play ends and the next starts.
A temporary carport.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games
bridge
games
entertainment
lifestyle
music
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
2580 | word:
dollar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dollar (plural dollars)
forms:
form:
dollars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Joachimstal
Jáchymov
dollar
etymology_text:
Attested since the mid-16th century, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”), from Sankt Joachimsthaler, literally “of Joachimstal”, the name for coins minted in German Sankt Joachimsthal (“St. Joachim's Valley”) (now Jáchymov, Czech Republic). Ultimately from Joachim + Tal (“valley”). Possibly reinforced by the Dutch leeuwendaalder, which was also used in the American colonies. Cognate to Danish daler. Doublet of taler.
senses_examples:
text:
Yeah, but why? Lincoln doesn’t need the penny for notoriety. He’s everywhere. We put him on novelty bandages, cup-and-ball games, and creepy Chia Pets. And you know where else we put him? The five-dollar bill! You know, the thing that’s worth 500 times more than the penny!
ref:
2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies. In 1935, newspapers received 45 percent of the advertising dollar, magazines 8 percent, and radio 7 percent.
ref:
2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society
type:
quotation
text:
We like to go down to restaurant row / Spend those euro-dollars / All the way from Washington to Tokyo
ref:
1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Born at the Right Time”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.
type:
quotation
text:
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
ref:
2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco
ref:
1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard, vol 504, col 271, 22 July 1952
text:
For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others: dollar films and dollar tobacco.
ref:
1956, The Spectator, volume 197, page 342
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
Money generally.
A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
|
2581 | word:
it's
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
it’s
forms:
form:
it’s
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Contraction of ‘it is’, ‘it has’ or 'it was'.
senses_examples:
text:
it’s too expensive; it’s coming right for us!; it's a free country
type:
example
text:
[...], guided not by his own Will, but by the Medick Science, which dictates, that it's recessary, beneficial, and convenient to alter, mix, and temper this medicine, and fit it to the Disposition, and Constitution of the Patient[.]
ref:
1743, Martin Marley, The Good Confessor, page 307
type:
quotation
text:
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
ref:
2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
It’s been a long time since I’ve had cheesecake.
type:
example
text:
It’s the same stoneground flour from this week that we used to make last week's strudel.
type:
example
text:
I guess for you it's the past that had a surprise in store.
ref:
2016, Dominique Roques, Pico Bogue - Volume 4 - Striking the Balance, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
it's a fine line between love and hate; it's a package for you by the door
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of it is.
Contraction of it has.
Contraction of it was.
There's, there is; there're, there are.
senses_topics:
|
2582 | word:
it's
word_type:
det
expansion:
it's
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From it + -’s (possessive marker).
senses_examples:
text:
Behold the balanc’d Scales suspended stand,
Neither a jot inclin’d to either hand:
But place the smallest grain of weight in one,
Straight the fraternal equipoise is gone;
The loaded scale, preponderant, downward flies,
Drags down the chain, and makes it’s [sic] partner rise.
ref:
1767, George Canning, “Anti-Lucretius”, in Poems, London: for the author, page 281
type:
quotation
text:
No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws[.]
ref:
1787, “Article I”, in United States Constitution
type:
quotation
text:
The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, & such principal stream of it, as, by it’s course & communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean.
ref:
1803, President Thomas Jefferson, Instructions to Captain Meriwether Lewis
type:
quotation
text:
Article V.
The Boundary line between the two Republics shall commence in the Gulf of Mexico, three leagues from land, opposite the mouth of the Rio Grande, otherwise called Rio Bravo del Norte, or opposite the mouth of it’s deepest branch, if it should have more than one branch emptying directly into the sea; from thence up the middle of that river, following the deepest channel, where it has more than one, to the point where it strikes the southern boundary of New Mexico; thence, westwardly, along the whole southern boundary of New Mexico (which runs north of the town called Paso) to it’s western termination; thence, northward, along the western line of New Mexico, until it intersects the first branch of the river Gila; (or if it should not intersect any branch of that river, then, to the point on the said line nearest to such branch, and thence in a direct line to the same;) thence down the middle of the said branch and of the said river, until it empties into the Rio Colorado; thence, across the Rio Colorado, following the division line between Upper and Lower California, to the Pacific Ocean.
ref:
1848, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of its.
Misspelling of its.
senses_topics:
|
2583 | word:
lesser flamingo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lesser flamingo (plural lesser flamingos)
forms:
form:
lesser flamingos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flamingo the Old World species of flamingo, Phoeniconaias minor, syn. Phoenicopterus minor, found principally in the Great Rift Valley of Africa, smaller than flamingos of the other Old World species.
senses_topics:
|
2584 | word:
Chilean flamingo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Chilean flamingo (plural Chilean flamingos)
forms:
form:
Chilean flamingos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a species of flamingo, Phoenicopterus chilensis, found in temperate South America
senses_topics:
|
2585 | word:
Andean flamingo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Andean flamingo (plural Andean flamingos)
forms:
form:
Andean flamingos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A species of flamingo, Phoenicopterus andinus, native to the Andes of Chile
senses_topics:
|
2586 | word:
eighteen
word_type:
num
expansion:
eighteen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eightetene, eiȝtene, ehtetene, from Old English eahtatīene, eahtatēne, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōutehun. Cognate with West Frisian achttjin, Dutch achttien, German achtzehn, Danish atten.
Equivalent to eight + -teen
senses_examples:
text:
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
ref:
1971, Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after seventeen and before nineteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVIII and in Arabic numerals as 18.
senses_topics:
|
2587 | word:
date
word_type:
noun
expansion:
date (plural dates)
forms:
form:
dates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English date, from Old French date, datil, datille, from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”) (from the resemblance of the date to a human finger), probably a folk-etymological alteration of a word from a Semitic source such as Arabic دَقَل (daqal, “variety of date palm”) or Hebrew דֶּקֶל (deqel, “date palm”).
senses_examples:
text:
We made a nice cake from dates.
type:
example
text:
There were a few dates planted around the house.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
The date palm.
senses_topics:
|
2588 | word:
date
word_type:
noun
expansion:
date (plural dates)
forms:
form:
dates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English date, from Old French date, from Late Latin data, from Latin datus (“given”), past participle of dare (“to give”); from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”). Doublet of data.
senses_examples:
text:
the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin, etc.
type:
example
text:
US date : 05/24/08 = Tuesday, May 24th, 2008. UK date : 24/05/08 = Tuesday 24th May 2008.
text:
the date for pleading
type:
example
text:
The start date for the festival is September 2.
text:
He at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fix'd the dates of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest.
ref:
1844, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination, Book II
type:
quotation
text:
Do you know the date of the wedding?
type:
example
text:
We had to change the dates of the festival because of the flooding.
type:
example
text:
You may need that at a later date.
type:
example
text:
But because he is but briefe, and these things of great consequence not to be kept obscure, I shall conceave it nothing above my duty either for the difficulty or the censure that may passe thereon, to communicate such thoughts as I also have had, and do offer them now in this generall labour of reformation, to the candid view both of Church and Magistrate; especially because I see it the hope of good men, that those irregular and unspirituall Courts have spun their utmost date in this Land; and some beter course must now be constituted.
ref:
1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
type:
quotation
text:
1611-15, George Chapman (translator), Homer (author), The Odysseys of Homer, Volume 1, Book IV, lines 282–5,
As now Saturnius, through his life's whole date,
Hath Nestor's bliss raised to as steep a state,
Both in his age to keep in peace his house,
And to have children wise and valorous.
text:
I arranged a date with my Australian business partners.
type:
example
text:
"Why, Mr. Nisbet! I thought you were in New York."
"I had a telegram this morning, calling the date off,"
ref:
1903, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Lieutenant-Governor, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
I brought Melinda to the wedding as my date.
type:
example
text:
We really hit it off on the first date, so we decided to meet the week after.
type:
example
text:
The cinema is a popular place to take someone on a date.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
A point in time.
Assigned end; conclusion.
Given or assigned length of life; duration.
A pre-arranged meeting.
One's companion for social activities or occasions, especially a romantic partner.
A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
senses_topics:
|
2589 | word:
date
word_type:
verb
expansion:
date (third-person singular simple present dates, present participle dating, simple past and past participle dated)
forms:
form:
dates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dating
tags:
participle
present
form:
dated
tags:
participle
past
form:
dated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English date, from Old French date, from Late Latin data, from Latin datus (“given”), past participle of dare (“to give”); from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”). Doublet of data.
senses_examples:
text:
to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter
type:
example
text:
You will be surprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois.
ref:
1699, Joseph Addison, Letter to Rt. Hon. Charles Montagu, Esq., Blois, France; republished in Lucy Aikin, chapter 3, in The Life of Joseph Addison, volume 1, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
I keep to the very words of the letter; but that, by "this State," is meant the State of Pennsylvania, cannot be doubted, especially when we see that the letter is dated at Philadelphia.
ref:
1796 January 1, William Cobbett, A New Year's Gift to the Democrats, footnote; republished in Porcupine's Works, volume 2, London: For Cobbett and Morgan, 1801, page 430
type:
quotation
text:
The writer dates the festival on June 21st, which is probably a mistake.
ref:
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 10, page 202
type:
quotation
text:
to date the building of the pyramids
type:
example
text:
Jessica Simpson reportedly went on a drinking binge after discovering ex-boyfriend John Mayer is dating Jennifer Aniston.
ref:
2008 May 15, “Jessica Simpson upset John Mayer dating Jennifer Aniston”, in NEWS.com.au
type:
quotation
text:
They met a couple of years ago, but have been dating for about five months.
type:
example
text:
This show hasn't dated well.
type:
example
text:
The comedian dated himself by making quips about bands from the 1960s.
type:
example
text:
In these days of decimalization and metrication it is a pity that SI units were not used as this will date a very useful little book prematurely.
ref:
1971 April 30, “Research by Experiment”, in Nature, volume 230, number 5296, →DOI, page 603
type:
quotation
text:
The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms.
ref:
1826, Edward Everett, The Claims of Citizens of the United States of America on the Governments of Naples, Holland, and France
type:
quotation
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
To determine the age of something.
To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
senses_topics:
|
2590 | word:
first
word_type:
adj
expansion:
first (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
first
etymology_text:
From Middle English first, furst, ferst, fyrst, from Old English fyrest, from Proto-West Germanic *furist, from Proto-Germanic *furistaz (“foremost, first”), superlative of Proto-Germanic *fur, *fura, *furi (“before”), from Proto-Indo-European *per-, *pero- (“forward, beyond, around”), equivalent to fore + -est.
Cognate with North Frisian foarste (“first”), Dutch voorste (“foremost, first”), German Fürst (“chief, prince”, literally “first (born)”), Swedish först (“first”), Norwegian Nynorsk fyrst (“first”), Icelandic fyrstur (“first”).
Other cognates include Sanskrit पूर्व (pūrva, “first”) and Russian первый (pervyj).
senses_examples:
text:
Hancock was first to arrive.
type:
example
text:
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
ref:
2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
The first day of September 2013 was a Sunday.
type:
example
text:
I was the first runner to reach the finish line, and won the race.
type:
example
text:
Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.
type:
example
text:
the first violinist
type:
example
text:
1784: William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., PREFACE
THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Perſons of the firſt diſtinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ſeveral new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and diſtinguiſh it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
text:
It rose to be the first of pastoral regions, and continued until after the gold discovery to be the land of squatterdom.
ref:
1880, S. W. Silver, Handbook for Australia & New Zealand, Co, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
The French openings decided that satin gowns, suits, wraps and even hats were to be in first fashion this autumn.
ref:
1916 September 11, Anne Rittenhouse, “Dress: One-piece Frocks of Satin in Neutral Colors, With Bits of Colored Embroidery”, in The Journal and Tribune, volume 30, number 235, Knoxville, Tenn., page 6
type:
quotation
text:
First Cat; First Daughter; First Dog; First Son
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
Of or belonging to a first family.
Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.
senses_topics:
|
2591 | word:
first
word_type:
adv
expansion:
first (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
first
etymology_text:
From Middle English first, furst, ferst, fyrst, from Old English fyrest, from Proto-West Germanic *furist, from Proto-Germanic *furistaz (“foremost, first”), superlative of Proto-Germanic *fur, *fura, *furi (“before”), from Proto-Indo-European *per-, *pero- (“forward, beyond, around”), equivalent to fore + -est.
Cognate with North Frisian foarste (“first”), Dutch voorste (“foremost, first”), German Fürst (“chief, prince”, literally “first (born)”), Swedish först (“first”), Norwegian Nynorsk fyrst (“first”), Icelandic fyrstur (“first”).
Other cognates include Sanskrit पूर्व (pūrva, “first”) and Russian первый (pervyj).
senses_examples:
text:
Clean the sink first, before you even think of starting to cook.
type:
example
text:
I plunged nose first into the water.
type:
example
text:
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.
ref:
2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
I first witnessed a death when I was nine years old.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Before anything else; firstly.
For the first time.
Now.
senses_topics:
|
2592 | word:
first
word_type:
noun
expansion:
first (countable and uncountable, plural firsts)
forms:
form:
firsts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
first
etymology_text:
From Middle English first, furst, ferst, fyrst, from Old English fyrest, from Proto-West Germanic *furist, from Proto-Germanic *furistaz (“foremost, first”), superlative of Proto-Germanic *fur, *fura, *furi (“before”), from Proto-Indo-European *per-, *pero- (“forward, beyond, around”), equivalent to fore + -est.
Cognate with North Frisian foarste (“first”), Dutch voorste (“foremost, first”), German Fürst (“chief, prince”, literally “first (born)”), Swedish först (“first”), Norwegian Nynorsk fyrst (“first”), Icelandic fyrstur (“first”).
Other cognates include Sanskrit पूर्व (pūrva, “first”) and Russian первый (pervyj).
senses_examples:
text:
He was the first to complete the course.
type:
example
text:
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
ref:
1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
type:
quotation
text:
This is a first. For once he has nothing to say.
type:
example
text:
I remember other firsts: how I wussily asked her out the first time, and the first time I told her I loved her.
ref:
2020, Jim Pace, Should We Fire God?
type:
quotation
text:
There was a close play at first.
type:
example
text:
[Stephen Hawking] […] would go to Cambridge, he said, if they gave him a first, and stay at Oxford if they gave him a second. He got a first.
ref:
2004, William H. Cropper, Great Physicists, page 454
type:
quotation
text:
one forty-first of the estate
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the first position.
The first gear of an engine.
Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
first base
A first-class honours degree.
A first-edition copy of some publication.
A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
2593 | word:
first
word_type:
verb
expansion:
first (third-person singular simple present firsts, present participle firsting, simple past and past participle firsted)
forms:
form:
firsts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
firsting
tags:
participle
present
form:
firsted
tags:
participle
past
form:
firsted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
first
etymology_text:
From Middle English first, furst, ferst, fyrst, from Old English fyrest, from Proto-West Germanic *furist, from Proto-Germanic *furistaz (“foremost, first”), superlative of Proto-Germanic *fur, *fura, *furi (“before”), from Proto-Indo-European *per-, *pero- (“forward, beyond, around”), equivalent to fore + -est.
Cognate with North Frisian foarste (“first”), Dutch voorste (“foremost, first”), German Fürst (“chief, prince”, literally “first (born)”), Swedish först (“first”), Norwegian Nynorsk fyrst (“first”), Icelandic fyrstur (“first”).
Other cognates include Sanskrit पूर्व (pūrva, “first”) and Russian первый (pervyj).
senses_examples:
text:
This motion has been firsted and seconded. I desire to third it.
ref:
1828, Diary of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, from 1656 to 1659: […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 290
type:
quotation
text:
Sure—er—well, the motion was firsted and seconded that we kick ’em out; […]
ref:
1920, Rural Manhood, volume 11, page 241, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Sure, Brother Severn, I second that motion. If you hadn’t got ahead of me I’d have firsted it myself.
ref:
1922, Grace Livingston Hill, The City of Fire, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, page 139
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To propose (a new motion) in a meeting, which must subsequently be seconded.
senses_topics:
|
2594 | word:
first
word_type:
noun
expansion:
first (plural firsts)
forms:
form:
firsts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
first
etymology_text:
From Middle English first, furst, fyrst, from Old English fyrst, fierst, first (“period, space of time, time, respite, truce”), from Proto-Germanic *frestaz, *fristiz, *frestą (“date, appointed time”), from Proto-Indo-European *pres-, *per- (“forward, forth, over, beyond”). Cognate with North Frisian ferst, frest (“period, time”), German Frist (“period, deadline, term”), Swedish frist (“deadline, respite, reprieve, time-limit”), Icelandic frestur (“period”). See also frist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Time; time granted; respite.
senses_topics:
|
2595 | word:
nine
word_type:
num
expansion:
nine
forms:
wikipedia:
nine
etymology_text:
From Middle English nyne, nine, from Old English nigon (“nine”), from Proto-West Germanic *neun, from Proto-Germanic *newun (“nine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”). Cognate with Scots neen, nine (“nine”), Saterland Frisian njúgen (“nine”), West Frisian njoggen (“nine”), Dutch negen (“nine”), German Low German negen (“nine”), German neun (“nine”), Danish ni (“nine”), Swedish nio (“nine”), Icelandic níu (“nine”), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun, “nine”), Latin novem (“nine”), Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa, “nine”), Sanskrit नवन् (navan, “nine”).
senses_examples:
text:
A cat has nine lives.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.
Describing a group or set with nine elements.
senses_topics:
|
2596 | word:
nine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nine (plural nines)
forms:
form:
nines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:High availability#"Nines"
en:Nines (notation)
nine
etymology_text:
From Middle English nyne, nine, from Old English nigon (“nine”), from Proto-West Germanic *neun, from Proto-Germanic *newun (“nine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”). Cognate with Scots neen, nine (“nine”), Saterland Frisian njúgen (“nine”), West Frisian njoggen (“nine”), Dutch negen (“nine”), German Low German negen (“nine”), German neun (“nine”), Danish ni (“nine”), Swedish nio (“nine”), Icelandic níu (“nine”), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun, “nine”), Latin novem (“nine”), Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa, “nine”), Sanskrit नवन् (navan, “nine”).
senses_examples:
text:
They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines.
type:
example
text:
The St. Louis club is the only nine in the league which gives its patrons the right to see a full game or no pay.
ref:
1877, Chicago Times, July 8, 1877
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The digit or figure 9.
A playing card with nine pips.
A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).
senses_topics:
card-games
games
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
2597 | word:
Darwin's rhea
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Darwin's rhea (plural Darwin's rheas)
forms:
form:
Darwin's rheas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named for Charles Darwin, with the genus name Rhea.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small rhea, Rhea pennata, found from Patagonia to the high Andes.
senses_topics:
|
2598 | word:
trumpeter swan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trumpeter swan (plural trumpeter swans)
forms:
form:
trumpeter swans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The largest North American swan, Cygnus buccinator; they have white plumage with a long neck, a short black bill.
senses_topics:
|
2599 | word:
take
word_type:
verb
expansion:
take (third-person singular simple present takes, present participle taking, simple past took, past participle taken or (archaic or Scotland) tane)
forms:
form:
takes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
taking
tags:
participle
present
form:
took
tags:
past
form:
taken
tags:
participle
past
form:
tane
tags:
Scotland
archaic
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
take
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
Helmut Rix
Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben
etymology_text:
From Middle English taken (“to take, lay hold of, grasp, strike”), from Old English tacan (“to grasp, touch”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse taka (“to touch, take”), from Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (“to touch”), from pre-Germanic *deh₁g- (“to touch”), possibly a phonetically altered form of Proto-Indo-European *te-th₂g- (“to touch, take”) (see there for details).
Cognate with Scots tak, Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk taka (“to take”), Norwegian Bokmål ta (“to take”), Swedish ta (“to take”), Danish tage (“to take, seize”), Middle Dutch taken (“to grasp”), Dutch taken (“to take; grasp”), Middle Low German tacken (“to grasp”). English thack may be from the same root. Compare tackle. Unrelated to Lithuanian tèkti (“to receive, be granted”), which is instead cognate with English thig.
Gradually displaced Middle English nimen (“to take”; see nim), from Old English niman (“to take”).
senses_examples:
text:
take the guards prisoner
type:
example
text:
take prisoners
type:
example
text:
After a bloody battle, they were able to take the city.
type:
example
text:
took ten catfish in one afternoon
type:
example
text:
Billy took her pencil.
type:
example
text:
take a toll
type:
example
text:
take revenge
type:
example
text:
took the next two tricks
type:
example
text:
took Smith's rook
type:
example
text:
They took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands.
type:
example
text:
I'll take that plate off the table.
type:
example
text:
We take, take, take until we can't take anymore. Maybe it's because our inner nature is not primarily one of giving, but of taking. Even these things we take that should balance our lives and give us rest do not. We make work out of them. We do them aggressively; always in control. Take.
ref:
1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →OCLC, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
The store doesn't take checks.
type:
example
text:
She wouldn't take any money for her help.
type:
example
text:
Do you take plastic?
type:
example
text:
The vending machine only takes bills, it doesn't take coins.
type:
example
text:
take my advice
type:
example
text:
take a wife
type:
example
text:
The school only takes new students in the fall.
type:
example
text:
The therapist wouldn't take him as a client.
type:
example
text:
There was no intestacy, and they did not take under the will as heirs, but the widow and the children, under the residuary devise, take as tenants in common.
ref:
1831 June, J. Duncan, “Lodge against Simonton”, in Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, third edition, volume II, Philadelphia, P.A.: Kay & Brother, published 1880, page 442
type:
quotation
text:
He took all the credit for the project, although he had done almost none of the work.
type:
example
text:
She took the blame, in the public's eyes, although the debacle was more her husband's fault than her own.
type:
example
text:
took third place
type:
example
text:
took bribes
type:
example
text:
The camera takes 35mm film.
type:
example
text:
The earthquake took many lives.
type:
example
text:
The plague took rich and poor alike.
type:
example
text:
Cancer took her life.
type:
example
text:
He took his life last night.
type:
example
text:
Take one from three and you are left with two.
type:
example
text:
take two eggs from the carton
type:
example
text:
Sometimes he would have her standing up by the side of the bed, not bothering to undress, merely undoing his fly and using her like a cheap envelope to receive his lust. At others he would take her on the floor of her clothes closet and then leave her, locked in for the rest of the night, awash with his sex, until her embarrassed maid freed her the next morning.
ref:
1990, Pat Booth, Malibu, Crown Publishers, Inc., page 222
type:
quotation
text:
I wonder what it would feel like to take two cocks at the same time.
ref:
2002 September 16, INCESTOR, “STORY: "Horny Peeping Sister" (6/9) (mf, voy, family) 566710”, in alt.sex.stories (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
He remembered her look of distress, her childish "Oh!" when he took her for the first time, clumsily, because he felt ashamed. And each time after that, each time they had sex together, though he tried to be as gentle as possible, he knew she was wearing the same expression, he avoided seeing her face, and thus it happened that instead of being a pleasure the sexual act became an ordeal.
ref:
1967 [1945], Georges Simenon, translated by Jean Stewart, Monsieur Monde Vanishes, New York, N.Y., London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 126
type:
quotation
text:
Modern Amsterdam is among Europe's most progressive cities, leading in such fields as design, fisting, felching, civil engineering, fashion, five-ways, pony play, computer science, and transportation. Its stock exchange is the oldest in Europe, and lovely Anastasia takes six men at once while shitting into a crystal goblet during her live show on the Bloedstraat at 11:30 p.m. every Tuesday.
ref:
2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: A Definitive Encyclopaedia of Existing Information: In 27 Excruciating Volumes, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
And the queen takes the bishop...this is turning out to be quite the royal wedding! [winks at the camera]
ref:
2014 July 3, Mock the Week, season 13, episode 4, Susan Calman (actor)
type:
quotation
text:
Don't try to take that guy. He's bigger than you.
type:
example
text:
The woman guarding us looks like a professional, but I can take her!
type:
example
text:
He took her hand in his.
type:
example
text:
Take whichever bag you like.
type:
example
text:
She took the best men with her and left the rest to garrison the city.
type:
example
text:
I'll take the blue plates.
type:
example
text:
I'll take two sugars in my coffee, please.
type:
example
text:
She took his side in every argument.
type:
example
text:
take a stand on the important issues
type:
example
text:
The next bus will take you to Metz.
type:
example
text:
I took him for a ride
type:
example
text:
I took him down to London.
type:
example
text:
These stairs take you down to the basement.
type:
example
text:
Stone Street took us right past the store.
type:
example
text:
She took the steps two or three at a time.
type:
example
text:
He took the curve / corner too fast.
type:
example
text:
The pony took every hedge and fence in its path.
type:
example
text:
He took her to lunch at the new restaurant, took her to the movies, and then took her home.
type:
example
text:
In a rare example of clemency Pope John assured him of a pardon, perhaps on the grounds that the innocent monk had merely been the victim of Louis's overbearing ambitions. Nicholas then took himself to Avignon where in August 1330 he formally renounced his claim to the papacy.
ref:
2007, Edwin B. Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, New York, N.Y.: BlueBridge, published 2008, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
She took her sword with her everywhere she went.
type:
example
text:
I'll take the plate with me.
type:
example
text:
take the ferry
type:
example
text:
I took a plane.
type:
example
text:
He took the bus to London, and then took a train to Manchester.
type:
example
text:
He's 96 but he still takes the stairs.
type:
example
text:
She took a condo at the beach for the summer.
type:
example
text:
He took a full-page ad in the Times.
type:
example
text:
They took two magazines.
type:
example
text:
I used to take The Sunday Times.
type:
example
text:
take two of these and call me in the morning
type:
example
text:
take the blue pill
type:
example
text:
I take aspirin every day to thin my blood.
type:
example
text:
The general took dinner at seven o'clock.
type:
example
text:
take sun-baths
type:
example
text:
take a shower
type:
example
text:
She made the decision to take chemotherapy.
type:
example
text:
She takes pride in her work.
type:
example
text:
I take offence at that.
type:
example
text:
to take a dislike
type:
example
text:
to take pleasure in his opponent's death
type:
example
text:
took a pay cut
type:
example
text:
take a joke
type:
example
text:
If you're in an abusive relationship, don't just sit and take it; you can get help.
type:
example
text:
The hull took a lot of punishment before it broke.
type:
example
text:
I can take the noise, but I can't take the smell.
type:
example
text:
That truck bed will only take two tons.
type:
example
text:
[…] and, kind of the ultimate example of the plans for the R-class was to refit them with huge bulges, almost monitor-style bulges, to be able to take multiple air-dropped torpedo attacks, but also to just, literally, slap on four inches of deck armor.
ref:
2022 September 11, Drachinifel, 56:34 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 213 (Part 1), YouTube, archived from the original on 2022-09-12
type:
quotation
text:
The ship took a direct hit and was destroyed.
type:
example
text:
Her career took a hit.
type:
example
text:
She took a vacation to France but spent the whole time feeling miserable that her husband couldn't be there with her.
type:
example
text:
Aren't you supposed to take your math final today?
type:
example
text:
Despite my misgivings, I decided to take a meeting with the Russian lawyer.
type:
example
text:
He had to take it apart to fix it.
type:
example
text:
She took down her opponent in two minutes.
type:
example
text:
In 1961, they lined up a lawyer and an underwriter to take the company public. And they retained an accounting firm to produce audited financial statements.
ref:
2011, Thomas M. Bloch, Many Happy Returns: The Story of Henry Bloch, America's Tax Man, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., page 86
type:
quotation
text:
He took the news badly.
type:
example
text:
took the decision to close its last remaining outlet
type:
example
text:
took a dim view of city officials
type:
example
text:
Don't take my comments as an insult.
type:
example
text:
if she took my meaning
type:
example
text:
The author explained the theory of Dove, which, if we took him correctly, was, that the lustre of bodies and particularly the metallic lustre arose from the light coming from the one stratum of the superficial particles of bodies interfering on the eye with the light coming from other and deeper strata,—the regular symmetrical arrangement of the particles in these bodies producing effects somewhat analogous to that of mother-of-pearl
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1853 January, The American Journal of Science and Arts, volume 15, number 43, →ISSN, page 125
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take her word for it
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take him at his word
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I took him to be a person of honor.
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He was often taken to be a man of means.
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Do you take me for a fool?
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Do you take me to be stupid?
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Looking at him as he came into the room, I took him for his father.
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The dimensions of the ark, if we take a cubit to be equal to 1½ feet, are 450 × 75 × 45 feet. It is to be built in three stories and to contain rooms or nests for Noah's family and the animals.
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1950, E[wdin] Basil Redlich, The Early Traditions of Genesis, London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., page 108
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take it from her comments she won't be there.
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I'm not sure what moral to take from that story.
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"As I Lay Dying" takes its title from Book XI of Homer's "Odyssey"
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took a chill
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to take cold
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took her fancy
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took her attention
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I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features,—a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty,—which took my fancy more than all the out-shining loveliness of her companions.
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1839, Thomas Moore, The Epicurean: A Tale, London: John Macrone, page 33
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cloth that takes dye well
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paper that takes ink
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the leather that takes a certain kind of polish
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The British brought the ship into Haifa harbor. The ship was taking seawater in 4 places, and the passengers had been without fresh water for the last few days of their voyage, with several ill from drinking seawater.
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1972, Anne Sinai, Israel & the Arabs: Prelude to the Jewish State, New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, Inc., pages 107–108
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It takes a while to get used to the smell.
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Looks like it's gonna take a taller person to get that down.
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Finishing this on schedule will take a lot of overtime.
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If the summary of the Tientsin society as accurate, a famine population of.more than 14,000,000 is already bad enough. If it takes five dollars to keep one of them alive, the task of relieving the whole population affected will require nearly $80,000,000.
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1921 January 15, Millard's Review of the Far East, volume XV, number 7, →OCLC, page 357
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While it takes courage to come out, the acceptance of parents and other family members can really help the person coming out to accept themselves.
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2009, Rachel Hagger-Holt, Sarah Hagger-Holt, Living It Out, Norwich, Norfolk: Canterbury Press, page 82
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He took a seat in the front row.
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Hunting that whale takes most of his free time.
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His collection takes a lot of space.
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The trip will take about ten minutes.
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He took that opportunity to leave France.
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When that happened, he almost gave up the idea of asking what he had come to ask. But then the opportunity arose, and he took it, then waited breathlessly for her answer.
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2000, Cameron Judd, The Overmountain Men: A Novel, Nashville, T.N.: Cumberland House, page 166
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He took the pause to allow himself time to begin to catalog all the surfaces he may have touched during the scuffle.
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2001, Stephen White, The Program, Waterville, M.E.: Thorndike Press, page 365
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take a walk
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take action/steps/measures to fight drug abuse
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take a trip
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take aim
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take the tempo slowly
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The kick is taken from where the foul occurred.
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Pirès ran in to take the kick.
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The throw-in is taken from the point where the ball crossed the touch-line.
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took the form of a duck
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took shape
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a god taking the likeness of a bird
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take the part of the villain/hero
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take office
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take the throne
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he took the oath of office last night
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go down two blocks and take the next left
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take the path of least resistance
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I knew I should have taken the left toin at Albuquerque.
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1945 January 13, Herr Meets Hare, spoken by Bugs Bunny
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the witness took the stand
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the next team took the field
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take cover/shelter/refuge
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take her pulse / temperature / blood pressure
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take a census
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He took a mental inventory of his supplies.
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She took careful notes.
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She took a video of their encounter.
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Could you take a picture of us?
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The police took his fingerprints.
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The photographer will take you sitting down.
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to take a group/scene
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took me for ten grand
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As a child, she took ballet.
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Next semester, I plan to take math, physics, literature, and art history.
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take matters as they arise
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I've had a lot of problems recently: take last Monday, for example. My car broke down on the way to work. Then […] etc.
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He'll probably take this one.
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This verb takes the dative; that verb takes the genitive.
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The function takes two arguments, an array of size n and an integer k.
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My husband and I have a dysfunctional marriage. He just takes and takes; he never gives.
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the dye didn't take
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Boiling pasta with a bit of the sauce in the water will help the sauce "take."
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not all grafts take
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I started some tomato seeds last spring, but they didn't take.
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The cradles are supported under their centres by shores, on which the keel takes. The ends of the cradles are hinged, and can drop down clear when the boat is being hoisted or lowered.
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1884, S[tephen] B[leecker] Luce, Aaron Ward, Text-book of Seamanship. […], New York, N.Y.: D. Van Nostrand, page 179
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At the depot, Hook climbed out, slamming the door twice before the latch took. A train idled on the main track, the engine hissing as it waited for the crew change. From the windows, passengers watched on at the world outside.
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2009, Sheldon Russell, The Yard Dog, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, page 210
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Each Wit may praiſe it, for his own dear Sake, / And hint He writ it, if the Thing ſhowd take.
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1716, [Joseph Addison], “Prologue”, in The Drummer; […], second edition (play), London: […] Jacob Tonſon […], published 1741, unnumbered page
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Here was only cruelty and pain; where was the loving side of Christianity? "When I was young," I said, "I was vaccinated with religion, but the vaccination didn't take."
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1967, Richard Martin Stern, The Kessler Legacy, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 103
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They took ill within 3 hours.
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She took sick with the flu.
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'Photographs never do give anything but a pale imitation, you know, but the likenesses, as likenesses, are good. She "takes well" as they say, and those were done lately.'
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1881, Jessie Fothergill, chapter IX, in Kith and Kin: A Novel, volume II, London: Robert Bentley and Son, page 259
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I don't know but she would, but just then poor Sukey came in, and looked so frightened and scarey—Sukey is a pretty gal, and looks so trembling and delicate, that it's kinder a shame to plague her, and so I took and come away for that time.
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1843, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Mayflower; Or, Sketches of Scenes and Characters Among the Descendants of the Pilgrims, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, page 34
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As made Queen 'Lizzybeth swear like blazes, and ketched poor old Dizzy sich a smack o' the face, as sent 'im up in a corner a-wimperin' with 'is 'ankercher to 'is nose, as made Gladstin give a grin, tho' he took good care to keep out of old Betsey's way, as glared at 'im; and then took and turned on me and says, "Let me give you a turn, for you're a-layin' on your back too much."
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1875, Arthur Sketchley, Mrs. Brown at the Crystal Palace, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 100
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I took and beat the devil out of him. I got him against the wall, and the back of his head bumped the wall just when my fist hit his chin, and he went out like a light, and that's how he come to have that big cut on his chin, like you was talking about.
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1943, Max Brand [pseudonym; Frederick Schiller Faust], Silvertip's Trap, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, page 30
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[…] I went and kicked the door in and took care of some other people. Then I took and went back to the hotel—" ¶ "The hotel where you live, right? The Gilbert Hotel?" ¶ "Right. I took and went back to the hotel, took a shower, went out and talked to a police officer—" ¶ "A police officer. Sheriff's deputy? LAPD? What's his name?" ¶ "Can't recall. Jim. Charlie, could be."
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1985, Darcy O'Brien, Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers, New York, N.Y., Scarborough, Ont.: New American Library, page 34
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He took me a blow on the head.
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Now about a Year ſince, R. B. and B. F. took that City in the Way from Frederickſtadt to Amſterdam, and gave them a Viſit: In which they informed them ſomewhat of Friend's Principles, and recommended the Teſtimony of TRUTH to them, as both a nearer and more certain Thing than the utmoſt of De Labadie's Doctrine. They left them tender and loving.
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1677, William Penn, A Collection of the Works of William Penn: […], volume I, London: […] J. Sowle, […], published 1726, page 60
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But it seems that he did not attend to this circumstance at present; for in May, he set out again for Epworth, and took Manchester in his way, to see his friend Mr. Clayton, who had now left Oxford.
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1793, John Whitehead, The Life of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A. […], Dublin: […] John Jones, […], published 1805, page 441
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senses_glosses:
To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To seize or capture.
To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To exact.
To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
To accept and follow (advice, etc.).
To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
To receive into some relationship.
To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
To accept, be given (rightly or wrongly), or assume (especially as if by right).
To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
To remove.
To remove or end by death; to kill.
To remove.
To subtract.
To remove.
To have sex with.
To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
To grasp or grip.
To select or choose; to pick.
To select or choose; to pick.
To adopt (select) as one's own.
To carry or lead (something or someone).
To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
To carry or lead (something or someone).
To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
To carry or lead (something or someone).
To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
To carry or lead (something or someone).
To escort or conduct (a person).
To carry or lead (something or someone).
To go.
To carry or lead (something or someone).
To use as a means of transportation.
To obtain for use by payment or lease.
To obtain for use by payment or lease.
To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
To receive (medicine or drugs) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
To consume (food or drink).
To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
To experience or feel.
To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
To participate in.
To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
To regard in a specified way.
To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
To understand (especially in a specified way).
To believe, to accept the statements of.
To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
To catch or contract (an illness, etc.).
To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc.); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc.).
To let in (water).
To require.
To proceed to fill.
To fill, require, or use up (time or space).
To fill or require: to last or expend (an amount of time).
To avail oneself of; to exploit.
To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
To assume or perform (a form or role).
To assume (a form).
To assume or perform (a form or role).
To perform (a role).
To assume or perform (a form or role).
To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc.).
To bind oneself by.
To go into, through, or along.
To go into, through, or along.
To go or move into.
To have and use one's recourse to.
To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
To make a picture, photograph, etc. of (a person, scene, etc.).
To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
To apply oneself to the study of.
To deal with.
To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
To accept as an input to a relation.
To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc.).
To accept as an input to a relation.
To accept (zero or more arguments).
To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
To engage, take hold or have effect.
To adhere or be absorbed properly.
To engage, take hold or have effect.
To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
To engage, take hold or have effect.
To catch; to engage.
To engage, take hold or have effect.
To win acceptance, favor or favorable reception; to charm people.
To become; to be affected in a specified way.
To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
An intensifier.
To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).
To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.
To visit; to include in a course of travel.
To portray in a painting.
Used in phrasal verbs: take in, take off, take on, take out, take to, take something to, take up.
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ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
law
road
transport
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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