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word: take word_type: noun expansion: take (plural takes) forms: form: takes tags: plural 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...
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word: musk ox word_type: noun expansion: musk ox (plural musk oxen) forms: form: musk oxen tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: So called because of the strong odour, or musk, emitted by the males during the rutting season. senses_examples: text: Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly ...
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word: Chilean eagle word_type: noun expansion: Chilean eagle (plural Chilean eagles) forms: form: Chilean eagles tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: the black-chested buzzard eagle, Geranoaetus melanoleucus (formerly Buteo melanoleucus)...
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word: vicuna word_type: noun expansion: vicuna (plural vicunas) forms: form: vicunas tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Spanish vicuña, itself borrowed from Quechua wik'uña. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A South American mammal, Vicugna vicugna, closel...
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word: hydraulic word_type: adj expansion: hydraulic (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From French hydraulique, from Latin hydraulicus, from Ancient Greek ὑδραυλικός (hudraulikós, “of a water organ”), from ὕδραυλις (húdraulis, “water organ”), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + αὐλός (aulós, “pipe”...
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word: hydraulic word_type: verb expansion: hydraulic (third-person singular simple present hydraulics, present participle hydraulicking, simple past and past participle hydraulicked) forms: form: hydraulics tags: present singular third-person form: hydraulicking tags: participle ...
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word: Spanish chestnut word_type: noun expansion: Spanish chestnut (plural Spanish chestnuts) forms: form: Spanish chestnuts tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Castanea sativa, a deciduous tree with edible deep brown nutlike fruits. ...
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word: irrational word_type: adj expansion: irrational (comparative more irrational, superlative most irrational) forms: form: more irrational tags: comparative form: most irrational tags: superlative wikipedia: etymology_text: From Latin irratiōnālis, from ir- + ratiōnālis. senses_exa...
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word: irrational word_type: noun expansion: irrational (plural irrationals) forms: form: irrationals tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Latin irratiōnālis, from ir- + ratiōnālis. senses_examples: text: The square root of 2, which was the first irrational to be discovered, was know...
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word: bush dog word_type: noun expansion: bush dog (plural bush dogs) forms: form: bush dogs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A wild canine animal (Speothos venaticus), found in Central and South America. senses_topics:
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word: throne word_type: noun expansion: throne (plural thrones) forms: form: thrones tags: plural wikipedia: Thrones etymology_text: From Middle English trone, from Old French trone, from Latin thronus, from Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos, “chair, throne”). Superseded earlier seld (“seat, throne”)....
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word: throne word_type: verb expansion: throne (third-person singular simple present thrones, present participle throning, simple past and past participle throned) forms: form: thrones tags: present singular third-person form: throning tags: participle present form: thron...
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word: trumpet word_type: noun expansion: trumpet (plural trumpets) forms: form: trumpets tags: plural wikipedia: trumpet etymology_text: From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette (“trumpet”), from Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankis...
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word: trumpet word_type: verb expansion: trumpet (third-person singular simple present trumpets, present participle trumpeting, simple past and past participle trumpeted) forms: form: trumpets tags: present singular third-person form: trumpeting tags: participle present form:...
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word: map word_type: noun expansion: map (plural maps) forms: form: maps tags: plural wikipedia: Map etymology_text: Shortening or back-formation of Middle English mappemounde, mapemounde (“world map”), from Old French mapamonde, from Medieval Latin mappa mundī, compound of Latin mappa (“napkin, c...
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word: map word_type: verb expansion: map (third-person singular simple present maps, present participle mapping, simple past and past participle mapped) forms: form: maps tags: present singular third-person form: mapping tags: participle present form: mapped tags: p...
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word: blowjob word_type: noun expansion: blowjob (plural blowjobs) forms: form: blowjobs tags: plural wikipedia: blowjob etymology_text: US, 1942, from blow off (“to fellate”, originating among prostitutes from 1933) + job. senses_examples: text: You just don't hear much about it because no...
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word: thousand word_type: num expansion: thousand (plural thousands) forms: form: thousands tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English thousend, thusand, from Old English þūsend (“thousand”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundī (“thousand”), (compare S...
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word: bighorn sheep word_type: noun expansion: bighorn sheep (plural bighorn sheep) forms: form: bighorn sheep tags: plural wikipedia: bighorn sheep etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Certain North American species of sheep Certain North American species o...
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word: fourteenth word_type: adj expansion: fourteenth (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: The ordinal form of the number fourteen. senses_topics:
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word: fourteenth word_type: noun expansion: fourteenth (plural fourteenths) forms: form: fourteenths tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: The person or thing in the fourteenth position. One of fourteen equal parts of a whole. The...
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word: transcultural word_type: adj expansion: transcultural forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From trans- + cultural. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Extending through more than one human culture. Not culturally specific. senses_topics: anthropology human-sciences sciences ...
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word: can word_type: verb expansion: can (third-person singular simple present can, present participle (by suppletion) able, simple past could, past participle (obsolete except in adjectival use) couth) forms: form: can tags: present singular third-person form: able tags: participl...
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word: can word_type: noun expansion: can (plural cans) forms: form: cans tags: plural wikipedia: Can (verb) etymology_text: From Middle English canne, from Old English canne (“glass, container, cup, can”), from Proto-Germanic *kannǭ (“can, tankard, mug, cup”). senses_examples: text: (toil...
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word: can word_type: verb expansion: can (third-person singular simple present cans, present participle canning, simple past and past participle canned) forms: form: cans tags: present singular third-person form: canning tags: participle present form: canned tags: p...
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word: soccer word_type: noun expansion: soccer (uncountable) forms: wikipedia: Oxford -er etymology_text: Originally British English; as an abbreviation for association football, via abbreviation assoc. + -er (suffix); earlier socker (1885), also socca (1889), with soccer attested 1888. Compare contemporary ...
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word: soccer word_type: verb expansion: soccer (third-person singular simple present soccers, present participle soccering, simple past and past participle soccered) forms: form: soccers tags: present singular third-person form: soccering tags: participle present form: so...
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word: Flemish word_type: adj expansion: Flemish (comparative more Flemish, superlative most Flemish) forms: form: more Flemish tags: comparative form: most Flemish tags: superlative wikipedia: Flemish etymology_text: From Middle English flemmysshe, from Old English flēmisc, from Old Fr...
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word: Flemish word_type: name expansion: Flemish forms: wikipedia: Flemish etymology_text: From Middle English flemmysshe, from Old English flēmisc, from Old Frisian flāmisk, derived from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“flowing, current water”) and *-iskaz. Equivalent to English fleam + -ish. More at Flanders. sen...
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word: rational word_type: adj expansion: rational (comparative more rational, superlative most rational) forms: form: more rational tags: comparative form: most rational tags: superlative wikipedia: etymology_text: From Old French rationel, rational, from Latin rationalis (“of or belo...
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word: rational word_type: noun expansion: rational (plural rationals) forms: form: rationals tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Old French rationel, rational, from Latin rationalis (“of or belonging to reason, rational, reasonable; having a ratio”), from ratio (“reason; calculation”). s...
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word: rational word_type: noun expansion: rational (plural rationals) forms: form: rationals tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Old French rational, from Medieval Latin rationale (“a pontifical stole, a pallium, an ornament worn over the chasuble”), neuter of Latin rationalis (“rational...
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word: Catalan word_type: noun expansion: Catalan (plural Catalans) forms: form: Catalans tags: plural wikipedia: Catalan etymology_text: From Middle English Catalane, from French Catalan, from Spanish catalán, from Catalan Catalunya. senses_examples: text: Even if he draws back from a declar...
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word: Catalan word_type: name expansion: Catalan forms: wikipedia: Catalan etymology_text: From Middle English Catalane, from French Catalan, from Spanish catalán, from Catalan Catalunya. senses_examples: text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Catalan. senses_categories: senses_glosses:...
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word: Catalan word_type: adj expansion: Catalan (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: Catalan etymology_text: From Middle English Catalane, from French Catalan, from Spanish catalán, from Catalan Catalunya. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Of or pertaining to Catalonia. senses_topics:
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word: grass word_type: noun expansion: grass (countable and uncountable, plural grasses) forms: form: grasses tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English gras, from Old English græs, from Proto-Germanic *grasą (“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). cognates Cogn...
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word: grass word_type: verb expansion: grass (third-person singular simple present grasses, present participle grassing, simple past and past participle grassed) forms: form: grasses tags: present singular third-person form: grassing tags: participle present form: grassed...
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word: cane word_type: noun expansion: cane (countable and uncountable, plural canes) forms: form: canes tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English cane, canne, from Old French cane (“sugar cane”), from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû...
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word: cane word_type: verb expansion: cane (third-person singular simple present canes, present participle caning, simple past and past participle caned) forms: form: canes tags: present singular third-person form: caning tags: participle present form: caned tags: p...
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word: war word_type: noun expansion: war (countable and uncountable, plural wars) forms: form: wars tags: plural wikipedia: American Revolution Anglo-Saxon England Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Battle of Hastings Battle of Shanghai Battle of the Somme Bayeaux Tapestry Blood...
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word: war word_type: verb expansion: war (third-person singular simple present wars, present participle warring, simple past and past participle warred) forms: form: wars tags: present singular third-person form: warring tags: participle present form: warred tags: p...
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word: black vulture word_type: noun expansion: black vulture (plural black vultures) forms: form: black vultures tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: In many Latin American towns, the Black Vulture is urbicolous, throwing in its lot with humans, taking advantage o...
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word: last name word_type: noun expansion: last name (plural last names) forms: form: last names tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Synonym of surname, a person's family name. senses_topics:
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word: bit word_type: noun expansion: bit (plural bits) forms: form: bits tags: plural wikipedia: bit etymology_text: From Middle English bitte, bite, from Old English bita (“bit; fragment; morsel”) and bite (“a bite; cut”), from Proto-Germanic *bitô and *bitiz; both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd...
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word: bit word_type: verb expansion: bit (third-person singular simple present bits, present participle bitting, simple past and past participle bitted) forms: form: bits tags: present singular third-person form: bitting tags: participle present form: bitted tags: p...
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word: bit word_type: verb expansion: bit forms: wikipedia: bit etymology_text: See bite senses_examples: text: Your dog bit me! type: example text: I have been bit by your dog! type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: simple past of bite past participle of bite, bitten s...
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word: bit word_type: adj expansion: bit (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: bit etymology_text: See bite senses_examples: text: Even though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him. type: example text: Fortunately, someone who gets skeeter-bit this much may develop an immunity t...
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word: bit word_type: noun expansion: bit (plural bits) forms: form: bits tags: plural wikipedia: Claude Shannon bit etymology_text: Coined by John Tukey in 1946 as an abbreviation of binary digit, probably influenced by connotations of “small portion”. First used in print 1948 by Claude Shannon....
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word: fifteenth word_type: adj expansion: fifteenth (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: fifteenth etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: The ordinal form of the number fifteen. senses_topics:
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word: fifteenth word_type: noun expansion: fifteenth (plural fifteenths) forms: form: fifteenths tags: plural wikipedia: fifteenth etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: The person or thing in the fifteenth position. One of fifteen equal parts of a whole. ...
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word: griffon vulture word_type: noun expansion: griffon vulture (plural griffon vultures) forms: form: griffon vultures tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A large Old World vulture, Gyps fulvus, native to mountainous areas from Iberia...
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word: marsh buck word_type: noun expansion: marsh buck (plural marsh bucks) forms: form: marsh bucks tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A swamp-dwelling antelope found throughout Central Africa, Tragelaphus spekii An antelope found...
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word: perpendicular word_type: adj expansion: perpendicular (comparative more perpendicular, superlative most perpendicular) forms: form: more perpendicular tags: comparative form: most perpendicular tags: superlative wikipedia: perpendicular etymology_text: From Middle French perpendi...
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word: perpendicular word_type: noun expansion: perpendicular (plural perpendiculars) forms: form: perpendiculars tags: plural wikipedia: perpendicular etymology_text: From Middle French perpendiculaire, from Old French perpendiculer, from Latin perpendiculum (“plumb line”). senses_examples: sen...
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word: pristine word_type: adj expansion: pristine (comparative more pristine, superlative most pristine) forms: form: more pristine tags: comparative form: most pristine tags: superlative wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle French pristin, borrowed from Latin prīstinus. senses_exam...
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word: pristine word_type: adj expansion: pristine (comparative more pristine, superlative most pristine) forms: form: more pristine tags: comparative form: most pristine tags: superlative wikipedia: etymology_text: From Ancient Greek πρίστης (prístēs, “a saw, one that saws”). senses_e...
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word: seventh word_type: adj expansion: seventh (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: seventh etymology_text: From Middle English seventhe, sefte, from Old English seofoþa, from Proto-West Germanic *sebundō, from Proto-Germanic *sebundô. senses_examples: text: Sozomenus who wrote above twelve hundred year...
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word: seventh word_type: noun expansion: seventh (plural sevenths) forms: form: sevenths tags: plural wikipedia: seventh etymology_text: From Middle English seventhe, sefte, from Old English seofoþa, from Proto-West Germanic *sebundō, from Proto-Germanic *sebundô. senses_examples: senses_catego...
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word: mental word_type: adj expansion: mental (comparative more mental, superlative most mental) forms: form: more mental tags: comparative form: most mental tags: superlative wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowing from Middle French mental, from Late Latin mentālis, from mēns (“mind, d...
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word: mental word_type: noun expansion: mental (plural mentals) forms: form: mentals tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowing from Middle French mental, from Late Latin mentālis, from mēns (“mind, disposition; heart, soul”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). senses_examples: text: ...
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word: mental word_type: adj expansion: mental (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: c. 1727, from Latin mentum (“the chin”) + -al. senses_examples: text: the mental nerve, the mental region type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: Of or relating to the chin or median pa...
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word: mental word_type: noun expansion: mental (plural mentals) forms: form: mentals tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: c. 1727, from Latin mentum (“the chin”) + -al. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile. se...
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word: handfish word_type: noun expansion: handfish (plural handfish or handfishes) forms: form: handfish tags: plural form: handfishes tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From hand + fish. senses_examples: text: An astonishing exception, however, is a single fossil of a hand...
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word: uey word_type: noun expansion: uey (plural ueys) forms: form: ueys tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From U(-turn) + -ey. senses_examples: text: “Don't lose her,” I growled, and plowed between the two cars and across the dividing line and banged a Uey. ref: 1987, Kelly Law...
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word: deuce word_type: noun expansion: deuce (plural deuces) forms: form: deuces tags: plural wikipedia: deuce etymology_text: From Middle English dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo. The word was used by Ford to describe a model of car they made in 1932 due to i...
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word: deuce word_type: noun expansion: deuce (plural deuces) forms: form: deuces tags: plural wikipedia: deuce etymology_text: Compare Late Latin dusius (“phantom, specter”); Scottish Gaelic taibhs, taibhse (“apparition, ghost”); or from Old French deus (“God”), from Latin deus (compare deity). se...
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word: thirteenth word_type: adj expansion: thirteenth (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: thirteenth etymology_text: From Old English þrēottēoþa. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: The ordinal form of the number thirteen. senses_topics:
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word: thirteenth word_type: noun expansion: thirteenth (plural thirteenths) forms: form: thirteenths tags: plural wikipedia: thirteenth etymology_text: From Old English þrēottēoþa. senses_examples: text: January 13th senses_categories: senses_glosses: The person or thing in the thir...
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word: apple word_type: noun expansion: apple (plural apples) forms: form: apples tags: plural wikipedia: apple etymology_text: PIE word *h₂ébōl From Middle English appel, from Old English æppel (“apple, fruit in general, ball”), from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz (“apple”...
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word: apple word_type: verb expansion: apple (third-person singular simple present apples, present participle appling, simple past and past participle appled) forms: form: apples tags: present singular third-person form: appling tags: participle present form: appled tag...
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word: Arabian oryx word_type: noun expansion: Arabian oryx (plural Arabian oryxes or Arabian oryx) forms: form: Arabian oryxes tags: plural form: Arabian oryx tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: An oryx of species Oryx leuco...
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word: scimitar-horned oryx word_type: noun expansion: scimitar-horned oryx (plural scimitar-horned oryxes or scimitar-horned oryx) forms: form: scimitar-horned oryxes tags: plural form: scimitar-horned oryx tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: ...
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word: ao word_type: adv expansion: ao (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of amongst/among/and others. senses_topics:
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word: ao word_type: noun expansion: ao (uncountable) forms: wikipedia: Ao (color) etymology_text: Borrowed from Japanese あお (ao). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: grue ("blue or green", considered one color) senses_topics:
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word: elk word_type: noun expansion: elk (plural elk or elks) forms: form: elk tags: plural form: elks tags: plural wikipedia: en:elk etymology_text: From Middle English elk, from Old English eolc, eolh (“elk”), from Proto-Germanic *elhaz, *algiz (“elk”) (compare Low German Elk, German...
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word: elk word_type: noun expansion: elk (plural elks) forms: form: elks tags: plural wikipedia: en:elk etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Obsolete form of elke (common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus)). senses_topics:
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word: brindled gnu word_type: noun expansion: brindled gnu (plural brindled gnus or brindled gnu) forms: form: brindled gnus tags: plural form: brindled gnu tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: The blue wildebeest (Connochaet...
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word: currency word_type: noun expansion: currency (countable and uncountable, plural currencies) forms: form: currencies tags: plural wikipedia: currency etymology_text: Borrowed from Medieval Latin currentia, from Latin currēns, from currō. senses_examples: text: Wampum was used as a curre...
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word: copulate word_type: verb expansion: copulate (third-person singular simple present copulates, present participle copulating, simple past and past participle copulated) forms: form: copulates tags: present singular third-person form: copulating tags: participle present f...
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word: copulate word_type: adj expansion: copulate (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From the perfect passive participle of Latin cōpulāre (“to couple”). senses_examples: text: Copulate words may be really a simple subject, 1, a repetition of the same notion, often a climax ref: ...
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word: eagle owl word_type: noun expansion: eagle owl (plural eagle owls) forms: form: eagle owls tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Any of various Old World large owls of the genus Bubo, especially the Eurasian eagle owl, Bubo bubo, th...
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word: predator bug word_type: noun expansion: predator bug (plural predator bugs) forms: form: predator bugs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Any of several species of African assassin bugs, especially Platymeris rhadamanthus. senses...
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word: computer word_type: noun expansion: computer (plural computers) forms: form: computers tags: plural wikipedia: Computer Computer (occupation) Engineering (magazine) Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mental calculator Richard Brathwait etymology_text: From compute + -er. Doublet of cantore,...
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word: computer word_type: verb expansion: computer (third-person singular simple present computers, present participle computering, simple past and past participle computered) forms: form: computers tags: present singular third-person form: computering tags: participle present ...
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word: humor word_type: noun expansion: humor (usually uncountable, plural humors) forms: form: humors tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: He was in a particularly vile humor that afternoon. type: example text: For some days a fistula lacrymalis had co...
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word: humor word_type: verb expansion: humor (third-person singular simple present humors, present participle humoring, simple past and past participle humored) forms: form: humors tags: present singular third-person form: humoring tags: participle present form: humored ...
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word: yet word_type: adv expansion: yet (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English yet, yit, from Old English ġīet, gȳta, from Proto-West Germanic *jūta, from Proto-Germanic *juta (compare West Frisian jit, jitte (“yet”), Dutch ooit (“ever”), German jetzt (“now”)), compound of (1...
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word: yet word_type: conj expansion: yet forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English yet, yit, from Old English ġīet, gȳta, from Proto-West Germanic *jūta, from Proto-Germanic *juta (compare West Frisian jit, jitte (“yet”), Dutch ooit (“ever”), German jetzt (“now”)), compound of (1) *ju (“already”...
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word: yet word_type: verb expansion: yet (third-person singular simple present yets, present participle yetting, simple past yet or yetted, past participle yet or yetted or yoten) forms: form: yets tags: present singular third-person form: yetting tags: participle present for...
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word: yet word_type: noun expansion: yet (plural yets) forms: form: yets tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English yeten, from Old English ġēotan (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *geutan, from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd-...
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word: yet word_type: verb expansion: yet (third-person singular simple present yets, present participle yetting, simple past yot, past participle yotten) forms: form: yets tags: present singular third-person form: yetting tags: participle present form: yot tags: pas...
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word: Volapük word_type: name expansion: Volapük forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Volapük Volapük. senses_examples: text: ...some authors have claimed that the slang of the criminal was a kind of international language for thieves, a Volapük of crime. ref: 1897 April 24, A. F. B. Crofton, ...
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word: eleventh word_type: adj expansion: eleventh forms: wikipedia: eleventh etymology_text: From Middle English elleventhe, from elleven + -the, equivalent to eleven + -th. This re-formation replaced inherited forms such as endleft, ellefthe, from Old English endlefta, from Proto-Germanic *ainaliftô. senses...
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word: eleventh word_type: noun expansion: eleventh (plural elevenths) forms: form: elevenths tags: plural wikipedia: eleventh etymology_text: From Middle English elleventhe, from elleven + -the, equivalent to eleven + -th. This re-formation replaced inherited forms such as endleft, ellefthe, from ...
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word: slender-horned gazelle word_type: noun expansion: slender-horned gazelle (plural slender-horned gazelles) forms: form: slender-horned gazelles tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A gazelle with slender horns adapted to desert life...
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word: grey wolf word_type: noun expansion: grey wolf (plural grey wolves) forms: form: grey wolves tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A large canid, Canis lupus, once found throughout forested areas of northern Europe, Asia and America...
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word: world word_type: noun expansion: world (plural worlds) forms: form: worlds tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English world, weoreld, from Old English weorold (“world”), from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz (“lifetime, human existence, world”, li...
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word: world word_type: verb expansion: world (third-person singular simple present worlds, present participle worlding, simple past and past participle worlded) forms: form: worlds tags: present singular third-person form: worlding tags: participle present form: worlded ...
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word: beige word_type: noun expansion: beige (countable and uncountable, plural beiges) forms: form: beiges tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Unadapted borrowing from French (dialectal) beige, from Old French bege (“color of undyed wool or cotton”), from an Alpine language (compare Franco-P...
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word: beige word_type: adj expansion: beige (comparative beiger or more beige, superlative beigest or most beige) forms: form: beiger tags: comparative form: more beige tags: comparative form: beigest tags: superlative form: most beige tags: superlative wikipedia: ...