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2600 | 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 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:
The 1994 Amendments address the incidental take of marine mammals in the course of commercial fishing, not the direct lethal take of pinnipeds for management purposes.
ref:
1999, Report to Congress: Impacts of California Sea Lions and Pacific Harbor Seals on Salmonids and West Coast Ecosystems, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
'I saw you in Norfolk doing twenty-odd takes with that fisherman chap and it looked perfect in the rushes.'
ref:
2009, Lissa Evans, Their Finest Hour and a Half, London […]: Doubleday, page 321
type:
quotation
text:
He wants half of the take if he helps with the job.
type:
example
text:
The mayor is on the take.
type:
example
text:
What's your take on this issue, Fred?
type:
example
text:
Another unsolicited maths take: talking about quotients in terms of "equivalence classes" or cosets is really unnatural.
type:
example
text:
I wrote Thursday morning that the Washington Post had printed a column that qualified as the worst take on the debate over whether Gina Haspel, who supported the torture of "War on Terror" detainees, should become CIA director. I was very wrong. This is the worst take:
ref:
2018 May 10, Ben Mathis-Lilley, “Fox News Military Analyst Says John McCain Broke Under Torture and Gave Secrets to North Vietnamese”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2022-11-28
type:
quotation
text:
a new take on a traditional dish
type:
example
text:
Whatever the provenance, the result is a delightfully novel take on a stalwart, often deadening Victorian feature.
ref:
2009, Tim Richardson, Great Gardens of America, London: Frances Lincoln Limited, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
The League of Gentlemen was all set in one town; The Fast Show did what it said on the tin, the sketches came thick and fast; Goodness Gracious Me was a brilliant take on British Asian culture.
ref:
2012, David Walliams, Camp David: The Autobiography, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, page 288
type:
quotation
text:
It's a take.
type:
example
text:
Act seven, scene three, take two.
type:
example
text:
did a double take and then a triple take
type:
example
text:
I did a take when I saw the new car in the driveway.
type:
example
text:
When our client mentioned Dr. Chesterton, you did a take that was perceptible to one with my trained eye. Know the gent, amigo?
ref:
1991, William Shatner, [Ron Goulart], TekLords, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
Biddy did a 'take' and stared at Mandy speechless for a moment—then she fled back to the kitchen.
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2007, Laura McBride, Catch a Falling Starr: A Novel, New York, N.Y. […]: iUniverse, Inc., page 138
type:
quotation
text:
He's a stone-cold snake, Nick, but he's our stone—cold snake. Keep tugging on hanging threads and one day your pants will fall off." ¶ Nick did a take, grinning in spite of his miserable mood. "How, exactly, would that work?" ¶ Mavis shrugged, grinned right back at him.
ref:
2013, Carsten Stroud, The Homecoming, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 301
type:
quotation
text:
When the copy arrives, it is taken in hand by the printer, who first of all divides it into "takes" or short portions, distributing these among the various compositors. A take usually consists of a little more than a stickful of matter, but it varies sometimes, for if a new paragraph occurs it is not overlooked. These takes are carefully numbered, and a list is kept of the compositors who take the several pieces.
ref:
1884, John Southward, chapter XXI, in Practical Printing: A Handbook of the Art of Typography, second edition, London: J. M. Powell & Son, page 197
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The or an act of taking.
Something that is taken; a haul.
Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
Something that is taken; a haul.
The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
film
media
television
entertainment
lifestyle
music
medicine
sciences
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
media
printing
publishing |
2601 | 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 mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.
ref:
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Arctic mammal, Ovibos moschatus of the Caprinae subfamily of the family Bovidae, having a thick coat and long curved horns.
senses_topics:
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2602 | 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).
senses_topics:
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2603 | 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, closely related to the alpaca, llama, and guanaco.
senses_topics:
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2604 | 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”).
senses_examples:
text:
Tho' there are but seventeen feet water in the channel, I have seen vessels of five hundred ton enter into it. I know not why this entrance is left so neglected, as we are not in want of able engineers in France, in the hydraulic branch, a part of the mathematics to which I have most applyed myself.
ref:
1757, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
A hydraulic press is operated by the differential pressure of water on pistons of different dimensions.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to water.
Related to, or operated by, hydraulics.
senses_topics:
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2605 | 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
present
form:
hydraulicked
tags:
participle
past
form:
hydraulicked
tags:
past
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”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To mine using the technique of hydraulic mining.
senses_topics:
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2606 | 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. The fruits have a little white, fluffy tail.
The fruit of this tree.
senses_topics:
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2607 | 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_examples:
text:
an irrational decision
type:
example
text:
July 18, 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/
Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
text:
The number π is irrational.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not rational; unfounded or nonsensical.
Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers.
senses_topics:
arithmetic
mathematics
number-theory
sciences |
2608 | 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 known to the early Pythagoreans, and ingenious methods of approximating to its value were discovered.
ref:
1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.24
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.
senses_topics:
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2609 | 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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2610 | 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”).
senses_examples:
text:
He approached the throne reverently.
type:
example
text:
Queen Victoria sat upon the throne of England for 63 years.
text:
The prince's newborn baby is fifth in line to the throne.
type:
example
text:
Thou shalt be ouer my house, and according vnto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater then thou.
ref:
1611, Bible (KJV), Genesis, 41:40
text:
Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne.
ref:
2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
Pope Joan, who once occupied the throne of the Vatican, was reputed to be the blackest sorcerer of them all.
ref:
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
"If she has intestinal flu, you probably called while she was on the throne and she didn't want to admit it," Alan said dryly.
ref:
1991, Stephen King, Needful Things
type:
quotation
text:
For by him were all things created that are in heauen, and that are in earth, visible and inuisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.
ref:
1611, Bible (KJV), Epistle of Paul to the Colossians, 1:16
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An impressive seat used by a monarch, often on a raised dais in a throne room and reserved for formal occasions.
Leadership, particularly the position of a monarch.
The seat of a bishop in the cathedral-church of his diocese; also, the seat of a pope.
A toilet.
A kind of stool used by drummers.
A member of an order of angels ranked above dominions and below cherubim.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
Christianity |
2611 | 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:
throned
tags:
participle
past
form:
throned
tags:
past
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”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place on a royal seat; to enthrone.
To place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt.
To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.
senses_topics:
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2612 | 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 Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately imitative.
Cognate with Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”), Old Norse trumba (“pipe; trumpet”). More at drum.
Displaced native English beme, from Middle English beme, from Old English bīeme.
senses_examples:
text:
The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.
type:
example
text:
In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.
ref:
1820, Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 6th edition, volume 20, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, page 501
type:
quotation
text:
The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit.
type:
example
text:
The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters.
type:
example
text:
The result of adopting the latter principle would be that even unimportant T-junctions would be in the form of trumpets or half-cloverleaf junctions.
ref:
1974, O.T.A., Proceedings, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.
Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.
A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.
Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.
senses_topics:
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2613 | 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:
trumpeted
tags:
participle
past
form:
trumpeted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
trumpet
etymology_text:
From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette (“trumpet”), from Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately imitative.
Cognate with Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”), Old Norse trumba (“pipe; trumpet”). More at drum.
Displaced native English beme, from Middle English beme, from Old English bīeme.
senses_examples:
text:
The music trumpeted from the speakers, hurting my ears.
type:
example
text:
Cedric made a living trumpeting for the change of passersby in the subway.
type:
example
text:
The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet.
type:
example
text:
The bird trumpeted a second time. Dinah listened to the echo die around her.
ref:
2017, Gerhard Gehrke, Nineveh's Child
type:
quotation
text:
Andy trumpeted Jane's secret across the school, much to her embarrassment.
type:
example
text:
An anniversary summit in Washington in July is sure to trumpet a nearly eight-decade record of success.
ref:
2024 April 2, Howard LaFranchi, Anna Mulrine Grobe, “NATO has united the West for 75 years. Here’s why it still matters.”, in The Christian Science Monitor
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sound loudly, be amplified
To play the trumpet.
Of an elephant, to make its cry.
To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.
To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
senses_topics:
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2614 | 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, cloth”) and mundus (“world”). See mop for more on the first component.
senses_examples:
text:
a map of Australia, a map of Lilliput
type:
example
text:
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref:
2012 March–April, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2013-02-19, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
Anna, it is a map.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, “Learning English (public domain)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), via VOA, archived from the original on 2017-09-25
type:
quotation
text:
a map of the Earth's magnetic field
type:
example
text:
The 256 bytes of internal RAM are subdivided as shown in the memory map above.
ref:
2005, Craig Steiner, The 8051/8052 Microcontroller, page 9
type:
quotation
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, archived from the original on 2017-04-27, page 171
type:
quotation
text:
Let f be a map from ℝ to ℝ
text:
And as the eye rested on him, he too filled me with pity and terror, for his map was flushed and his manner distraught. He looked like Jack Dempsey at the conclusion of his first conference with Gene Tunney, the occasion, if you remember, when he forgot to duck.
ref:
1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X
type:
quotation
text:
I don't want to play this map again!
type:
example
text:
On top of that, each of Evolve's maps are dim, open arenas with little to interact with besides the occasional hostile organism.
ref:
2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.
A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.
A function, especially a function satisfying a certain property (e.g. continuity, linearity, etc.; see Usage notes).
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.
The face.
An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.
Synonym of associative array.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
video-games
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
2615 | 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:
participle
past
form:
mapped
tags:
past
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, cloth”) and mundus (“world”). See mop for more on the first component.
senses_examples:
text:
This large atlas maps the whole world in very great detail.
type:
example
text:
Figure 3 maps the pressure distribution within the human circulatory system.
type:
example
text:
The team is mapping the route of the new railway line.
type:
example
text:
The space probe is mapping the Earth's gravitational field.
type:
example
text:
This equipment is designed to map the neurons of the human brain in three dimensions.
type:
example
text:
This doesn't map to my understanding of how things should work.
type:
example
text:
Significantly, the aural-oral data does not map closely to the visual linguistic landscape at NIE.
ref:
2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Map "volume down" to the F2 key. (computing)
type:
example
text:
f maps A to B, mapping every a∈A to f(a)∈B.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To represent by means of a map.
To create a map of; to examine or survey in order to gather information for a map.
To have a direct relationship; to correspond.
To create a direct relationship to; to create a correspondence with.
To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.
To assign a drive letter to a shared folder.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
2616 | 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 foreign nation is going to complain when a US president wants to give them a collective blowjob.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of fellatio, or sucking a penis or other phallic object (such as a dildo).
Excessive praise.
senses_topics:
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2617 | 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 Scots thousand (“thousand”), Saterland Frisian duusend (“thousand”), West Frisian tûzen (“thousand”), Dutch duizend (“thousand”), German tausend (“thousand”), Danish tusind (“thousand”), Swedish tusen (“thousand”), Norwegian tusen (“thousand”), Icelandic þúsund (“thousand”), Faroese túsund (“thousand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHsont-, *tuHsenti- (compare Lithuanian tūkstantis (“thousand”), Polish tysiąc, Russian ты́сяча (týsjača), Finnish tuhat, Estonian tuhat).
senses_examples:
text:
The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.
type:
example
text:
Many thousands of people came to the conference.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10³ (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation.)
senses_topics:
|
2618 | 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 of sheep
especially, Ovis canadensis, having large, curving horns.
senses_topics:
|
2619 | 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:
|
2620 | 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 interval comprising an octave and a seventh.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
2621 | 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
social-science
sociology
|
2622 | 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:
participle
present
suppletive
form:
could
tags:
past
form:
couth
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
-
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Can (verb)
etymology_text:
From Middle English can, first and third person singular of connen, cunnen (“to be able, know how”), from Old English can(n), first and third person singular of cunnan (“to know how”), from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence also know). Doublet of con. See also: canny, cunning.
senses_examples:
text:
She can speak English, French, and German.
type:
example
text:
I can play football.
type:
example
text:
Can you remember your fifth birthday?
type:
example
text:
prouyng which eny clerk can or woel or mai make bi eny maner euydence of resoun or of Scripture, and namelich of resoun into the contrarie.
ref:
1449, Reginald Pecock, Represser of over-much weeting [blaming] of the Clergie
type:
quotation
text:
Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
ref:
2013 July–August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework.
type:
example
text:
Can I use your pen?
type:
example
text:
Can it be Friday already?
type:
example
text:
Teenagers can really try their parents' patience.
type:
example
text:
Animals can experience emotions.
type:
example
text:
Teenagers can be so cruel, and nicknames cut deep.
ref:
2009, Annette Sym, Simply Too Good to be True, Greenleaf Book Group, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Can you hear that?
type:
example
text:
I can feel the baby moving inside me.
type:
example
text:
ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman
I can rimes of Robin Hood.
text:
ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman
I can no Latin, quod she.
text:
Importance of Identifying Leaf: Identify Plants: If we can able to identify leaf, we can easily able to identify plants.
ref:
2011 November 29, Tai-hoon Kim, Hojjat Adeli, Carlos Ramos, Byeong-Ho Kang, Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition: International Conferences, SIP 2011, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2011, in Conjunction with GDC 2011, Jeju Island, Korea, December 8-10, 2011. Proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media, page 114
type:
quotation
text:
Children in need of care and protection can allowed to be placed in foster care based on the orders of the CWC. The selection of the foster family is based on the family's ability, intent, capacity, and prior experience of taking care[…]
ref:
2018 February 15, Asha Bajpai, Child Rights in India: Law, Policy, and Practice, Oxford University Press
type:
quotation
text:
It can possible to design the ruleset refreshes that allow them to subsequently run at precise interludes and these keep informed.
ref:
2020 May 22, Pardeep Kumar, Vasaki Ponnusamy, Vishal Jain, Industrial Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Transforming the Conventional to Digital: Transforming the Conventional to Digital, IGI Global, page 226
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To know how to; to be able to.
May; to be permitted or enabled to.
To have the potential to; be possible.
Used with verbs of perception.
To know.
To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed).
senses_topics:
|
2623 | 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:
(toilet):
text:
(place with a toilet):
text:
Shit or get off the can.
type:
example
text:
Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.
type:
example
text:
1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
If he was going to hide out in the can, he can just stay there & sleep in the tub.
text:
Bob’s in the can. He won’t be back for a few years.
type:
example
text:
The undercover cop never liked the Monkey Man / Even back in childhood, he wanted to see him in the can
ref:
1988, The Traveling Wilburys (lyrics and music), “Tweeter and the Monkey Man”, in The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1
type:
quotation
text:
[…] prosecution for selling and giving away marijuana, the evidence clearly constituted substantial proof that a package purchased by defendant contained marijuana where he requested "four cans" of marijuana to be delivered to himself and […]
ref:
1970, California. Supreme Court, Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A more or less cylindrical and often metal container or vessel.
A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
A chamber pot.
A chamber pot.
a toilet or lavatory.
Buttocks.
Jail or prison.
Headphones.
A drinking cup.
A cylindrical buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
A chimney pot.
An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
The breasts of a woman.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
|
2624 | 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:
participle
past
form:
canned
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
can
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
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:
They canned air to sell as a novelty to tourists.
type:
example
text:
They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
type:
example
text:
He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
type:
example
text:
My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned. Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such as Radley, where mast piles are already sunk or lie discarded at the lineside.
ref:
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68
type:
quotation
text:
Can your gob.
type:
example
text:
The boss canned him for speaking out.
type:
example
text:
As a result of his refusal, the employee was subsequently canned in 2015 on the basis of "professional inadequacy" and failing to embody the "party" atmosphere that the consultancy was trying to cultivate.
ref:
2022 November 25, B. Cost, “Man wins legal right to be 'boring' at work, gets $3K from company”, in New York Post, NYP Holdings, retrieved 2022-11-27
type:
quotation
text:
I thought I had canned it, but it just missed, and I tapped in the second one for a par.
ref:
1958, Dick Mayer, How to Think and Swing Like a Golf Champion, page 186
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To seal in a can.
To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
To shut up.
To fire or dismiss an employee.
To hole the ball.
To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
senses_topics:
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
2625 | 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 rugger, from Rugby. Similarly constructed coinages from the same period include: brekker (“breakfast”), fresher (“freshman”) and footer (“football”). See Oxford -er.
senses_examples:
text:
The 'Varsity played Aston Villa and were beaten after a very exciting game; this was pre-eminently the most important "Socker" game played in Oxford this term.
ref:
1885 December 24, “Our Oxford Letter”, in The Oldhallian, page 171
type:
quotation
text:
Golf is perhaps seven or eight years old in Oxford, ... football, seu Rugger, sive Soccer, not more than sixteen or seventeen.
ref:
1888 February 15, “Charley Symonds”, in The Oxford Magazine, page 224
type:
quotation
text:
Those who play under the "Socker" (Association) rules in the North of England, the Midlands, and Scotland take no heed of the warmness of the weather
ref:
1889 September 16, “Football Prospects in the West of England”, in The Western Daily Press, volume 63, number 9757, Bristol, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Socker (public schools), football played according to the Association Rules
ref:
1890, Albert Barrère, Charles Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume 2, Ballantyne, page 275
type:
quotation
text:
1987, Charles Hughes, The Football Association Coaching Book of Soccer: Tactics and Skills, London: BBC, →ISBN:
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Association football.
senses_topics:
|
2626 | 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:
soccered
tags:
participle
past
form:
soccered
tags:
past
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 rugger, from Rugby. Similarly constructed coinages from the same period include: brekker (“breakfast”), fresher (“freshman”) and footer (“football”). See Oxford -er.
senses_examples:
text:
The rule seems to have encouraged players to soccer the ball along the ground.
ref:
1990, Geoffrey Blainey, A Game of Our Own: The Origins of Australian Football, Black Inc. Publishing, published 2003, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
[…]West Perth seemed on the verge of victory, only to succumb by 4 points after a soccered goal from Old Easts with less than half a minute remaining.
ref:
2008, John Devaney, Full Points Footy′s WA Football Companion, page 334
type:
quotation
text:
Fevola showed the best and worst of his play after dropping a simple chest mark, only to regather seconds later and soccer the ball through from the most acute of angles.
ref:
2010 March 27, Michael Whiting, “Lions give Fev debut to remember”, in AFL - The official site of the Australian Football League
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands.
senses_topics:
|
2627 | 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 Frisian flāmisk, derived from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“flowing, current water”) and *-iskaz. Equivalent to English fleam + -ish. More at Flanders.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Flanders, either as the historical county of Flanders (the current provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders in Belgium, Zeelandic Flanders in the Netherlands and French Flanders); or as the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium.
Of or relating to the Belgian standard variety of the Dutch language.
Of or relating to West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.
senses_topics:
|
2628 | 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.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Standard Dutch as it is spoken in Flanders.
West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.
senses_topics:
|
2629 | 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 belonging to reason, rational, reasonable; having a ratio”), from ratio (“reason; calculation”).
senses_examples:
text:
Man is a rational creature.
type:
example
text:
The utility of valid arguments is a monument to our frailty: to the fact that we are not completely rational beings.
ref:
2001, Mark Sainsbury, chapter 1, in Logical Forms — An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, 2nd edition, Blackwell Publishing, §7, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
His statements were quite rational.
type:
example
text:
Prevention for the future is now almost universally allowed to be the only rational plea for the infliction of punishment; but this, when left to the arbitrary discretion of individuals, always has been found, and always will be found, to degenerate into the exercise of revenge for the past.
ref:
1812 The Freethinking Christians' Magazine: Volume 2 p. 21
text:
rational conduct
type:
example
text:
Temperature 99.8 degrees. Pulse 104. She was quite conscious and rational at times, at others very noisy.
ref:
1867 C. Handfield Jones, Case Of Low Fever: Delirium: Incomplete Dementia. The British Medical Journal Vol. 2, No. 344, Aug. 3
text:
The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
ref:
2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892
type:
quotation
text:
¾ is a rational number, but √2 is an irrational number.
text:
A rational table is physical, a written table is neither.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of reasoning.
Logically sound; not self-contradictory or otherwise absurd.
Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
Of a number, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two integers.
Of an algebraic expression, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two polynomials.
Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; said of formulae.
Expressing a physical object.
senses_topics:
arithmetic
mathematics
number-theory
sciences
arithmetic
mathematics
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
2630 | 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”).
senses_examples:
text:
The quotient of two rationals is again a rational.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rational number: a number that can be expressed as the quotient of two integers.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
2631 | 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”), for which see the first etymology. Translation of λογεῖον (logeîon) or perhaps λόγιον (lógion, “oracle”) in the Septuagint version of Exodus 28.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The breastplate worn by Israelite high priests.
senses_topics:
|
2632 | 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 declaration, many Catalans – including Mossos and civil servants – may decide to not to obey orders from Madrid, and tens of thousands of people could take to the streets to protect key regional government institutions.
ref:
2017 October 22, Sam Jones, “Catalonia weighs up declaration of independence”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Catalonia.
senses_topics:
|
2633 | 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:
The Romance language of Catalonia, an autonomous region in the northeast of Spain, also spoken in the Valencian autonomous region (where the language is officially named valencià), the Balearic Islands, Andorra, Roussillon in France, and the Sardinian city of Alghero.
A surname from Spanish.
senses_topics:
|
2634 | 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:
|
2635 | 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
Cognate with Scots girs, gers, gress (“grass”), North Frisian gäärs, geers (“grass”), Saterland Frisian Gäärs (“grass”), West Frisian gers (“grass”), Low German Gras (“grass”), Dutch gras (“grass, turf, pasture”), German Gras (“grass, weed”), Danish græs (“grass”), Swedish gräs (“grass”), Norwegian Bokmål gress (“grass”), Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk gras (“grass”), Latin herba (“plant, weed, grass”), Albanian grath (“grass blade, spike”). Related to grow, green.
The "informer" sense is probably a shortening of grasshopper (“police officer, informant”), rhyming slang for copper (“police officer”) or shopper (“informant”); the exact sequence of derivation is unclear.
senses_examples:
text:
Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona / For some California grass
ref:
1970, Paul McCartney (lyrics and music), “Get Back”, in Let It Be, performed by The Beatles
type:
quotation
text:
What just happened must remain secret. Don't be a grass.
type:
example
text:
He was a grass and an arse lick and he didn't do it for him, he did it for his brother, because if Vaughan had hit him especially with his mallet, Mark was the kind of lowlife that would have pressed charges and then that's a whole different problem.
ref:
2007, Paul Knight, Coding of a Concrete Animal, page 215
type:
quotation
text:
Another claimed a £10,000 bounty was put on his head as he was rumoured to be a “grass”.
ref:
2023 June 29, Metro, London, page 4, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The problem in radar detection is to have a signal to noise ratio that will allow the echo to be seen through the grass on the radar screen. The use of a long pulse allows a greater average signal strength to be returned in the target echoes.
ref:
1960, Radarman 3 & 2, volume 1, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
Some of the scattered waves can be picked up by the receiver and may show up as "grass" on the radar presentation. Weather radars make use of this phenomenon to chart the progress of storms.
ref:
1963, Analysis of Weapons, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
'Have ready a hundred of ſmall graſs boiled, then ſave tops enough to ſtick the rolls with, the reſt cut ſmall and put into the cream, fill the loaves with them.'
ref:
1769, Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy, 9th edition, page 195
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
A lawn.
Marijuana.
An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
That which is transitory.
Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
The surface of a mine.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business
mining |
2636 | 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
tags:
participle
past
form:
grassed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gras, from Old English græs, from Proto-Germanic *grasą (“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”).
cognates
Cognate with Scots girs, gers, gress (“grass”), North Frisian gäärs, geers (“grass”), Saterland Frisian Gäärs (“grass”), West Frisian gers (“grass”), Low German Gras (“grass”), Dutch gras (“grass, turf, pasture”), German Gras (“grass, weed”), Danish græs (“grass”), Swedish gräs (“grass”), Norwegian Bokmål gress (“grass”), Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk gras (“grass”), Latin herba (“plant, weed, grass”), Albanian grath (“grass blade, spike”). Related to grow, green.
The "informer" sense is probably a shortening of grasshopper (“police officer, informant”), rhyming slang for copper (“police officer”) or shopper (“informant”); the exact sequence of derivation is unclear.
senses_examples:
text:
He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.
ref:
1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty, Norton, published 2005, page 709
type:
quotation
text:
"I'm dressed as a woman, but I am still technically a man. I believe that to comply with the law of the land I ought to continue to use the Gents', but in order not to look out place I intend to use the Ladies' from now on. I trust none of you will grass on me..."
ref:
2004, David Nobbs, Sex and Other Changes, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
Let him hook and land a tigerfish of 20 lb., at the imminent risk of capsizing and joining the company of the engaging crocodiles, or, when he has grassed the fish, of having a finger bitten off by his iron teeth […]
ref:
1903, John Buchan, The African Colony
type:
quotation
text:
In typical Necker style, the farmer walked to the line and mounted his gun without any shilly-shally. If he grassed the bird, he and Faurote would go into a shootout. If he missed, Faurote would win.
ref:
2011, Deeanne Gist, Love on the Line, page 138
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
To cover with grass or with turf.
To feed with grass.
To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
senses_topics:
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2637 | 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, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of canna and kaneh. Related to channel and canal.
senses_examples:
text:
The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.
type:
example
text:
Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign / The flying skirmish of the darted cane.
ref:
1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada
type:
quotation
text:
After breaking his leg, he needed a cane to walk.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae
A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed
A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
Sugar cane
A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar
The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
A lance or dart made of cane
A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant.
A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick
A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant.
A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking
A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant.
A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path
Split rattan, as used in wickerwork and basketry.
A local European measure of length; the canna.
senses_topics:
arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
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2638 | 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:
participle
past
form:
caned
tags:
past
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, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of canna and kaneh. Related to channel and canal.
senses_examples:
text:
to cane chairs
type:
example
text:
In colonial days, threesquare was used to cane chair seats.
ref:
2018 March 14, Bryan MacKay, Paddle Maryland: A Guide to Rivers, Creeks, and Water Trails, JHU Press, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
Mudchester Rovers were caned 10-0.
type:
example
text:
Don't hit me with that. It really canes!
type:
example
text:
Mate, my legs cane!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.
To do something well, in a competent fashion.
To go very fast.
To produce extreme pain.
senses_topics:
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2639 | 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
Bloody Saturday (photograph)
Emanuel Leutze
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River
H. S. Wong
Lagash
Napoleonic Wars
Norman Conquest
Retreat from Moscow
Russian Empire
Russian conquest of Central Asia
Shanghai South Railway Station
Stele of the Vultures
Taiping Rebellion
The Apotheosis of War
Third Battle of Nanking
Turkestan Series
Umma
Vasily Vereshchagin
WWI
WWII
Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 painting)
war
war (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English werre, from Late Old English werre, wyrre (“armed conflict”), from Old Northern French werre (compare modern French guerre), from Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Gradually displaced native Old English beadu, hild, ġewinn, orleġe, wīġ, and many others as the general term for "war" during the Middle English period.
Related to Old High German werra (“confusion, strife, quarrel”) and German verwirren (“to confuse”), but not to Wehr (“defense”). Also related to Old Saxon werran (“to confuse, perplex”), Dutch war (“confusion, disarray”), West Frisian war (“confusion”),
Old English wyrsa, wiersa (“worse”), Old Norse verri (“worse, orig. confounded, mixed up”), Italian guerra (“war”). There may be a connection with worse and wurst.
senses_examples:
text:
holy war; just war; civil war
type:
example
text:
War is indeed a fearful thing and the more I see it the more dreadful it appears.
ref:
1854, Prince George, letter to his wife from Crimea
text:
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our Country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out... You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war.
ref:
1864 Sept. 12, William Tecumseh Sherman, letter to the mayor of Atlanta & al.
text:
I've been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It's entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here. Suppress it! You don't know the horrible aspects of war. I've been through two wars and I know. I've seen cities and homes in ashes. I've seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is hell!
ref:
1879 June 19, William Tecumseh Sherman, speech to the Michigan Military Academy
text:
Here Lee and Longstreet stood during most of the fighting [at Fredericksburg], and it is told that, on one of the Federal repulses from Marye's Hill, Lee put his hand upon Longstreet's arm and said, "It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it."
ref:
1907, Edward Porter Alexander, Military Memoirs of a Confederate, page 302
type:
quotation
text:
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives... Of course, it isn't put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all put our shoulders to the wheel," but the profits jump and leap and skyrocket—and are safely pocketed.
ref:
1935, Smedley Butler, War Is a Racket, page 1 & 7
type:
quotation
text:
War is the greatest of all agents of change. It speeds up all processes, wipes out minor distinctions, brings realities to the surface. Above all, war brings it home to the individual that he is not altogether an individual.
ref:
1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. III
type:
quotation
text:
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
ref:
1944 June 27, Herbert Hoover, speech to the Republican National Convention
text:
War, huh, Good God, y'all!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing...
ref:
1969, “War”, in Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong (lyrics), War & Peace, performed by Edwin Starr
type:
quotation
text:
War. War never changes. The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth. Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory. Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower. But war never changes.
ref:
1997, Ron Perlman, Fallout
type:
quotation
text:
Edward Wilson, the inventor of the field of sociobiology, once wrote that "war is embedded in our very nature". This is a belief commonly held not just by sociobiologists but also by anthropologists and other students of human behaviour. They base it not only on the propensity of modern man to go to war with his neighbours (and, indeed, with people halfway around the world, given the chance) but also on observations of the way those who still live a pre-agricultural "hunter-gatherer" life behave... Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine... One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries... Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
ref:
2013 July 20, "Old Soldiers?", The Economist, Vol. 408, No. 8845
text:
All human tribes glad token see
In the close of the wars of Grant and Lee.
ref:
1865, Herman Melville, The Surrender at Appomattox
type:
quotation
text:
A second challenge will be to implement, with our allies, a plan of stability in the Balkans, so that the region's bitter ethnic problems can no longer be exploited by dictators and Americans do not have to cross the Atlantic again to fight in another war.
ref:
1999 Nov. 8, Bill Clinton, speech at Georgetown University
text:
a war of succession... a war of attrition... the Cold War... World War III...
type:
example
text:
Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.
ref:
2001 Sept. 20, George W. Bush, speech before Congress, White House Archives
text:
...These wars are not going away. This is at least a generational struggle.
ref:
2021 Sept. 8, Seth G. Jones, quoted in Chris Moody, "Twenty Years after 9/11, Did US Win Its ‘War on Terror’?" Al-Jazeera
text:
the Great Emu War... the Global War on Terrorism...
type:
example
text:
The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party... Ask all our millions, north and south, whether they would vote now (were such a thing possible) to have our war for the Union expunged from history... and probably hardly a handful of eccentrics would say yes. Those ancestors, those efforts, those memories and legends, ar the most ideal part of what we now own together, a sacred spiritual possession worth more than all the blood poured out. Yet ask those same people whether they would be willing, in cold blood, to start another civil war now to gain another similar possession, and not one man or woman would vote for the proposition.
ref:
1906, William James, The Moral Equivalent of War
type:
quotation
text:
the War on Poverty... the War on Drugs... the War on Christmas...
type:
example
text:
price wars... Cola Wars... format wars...
type:
example
text:
turf war... gang war... Castellammarese War...
type:
example
text:
flame war... edit war...
type:
example
text:
We played crazy eights, war, fifty-two card pickup. Rudy flipped the whole deck across the table at me and the cards sailed to the floor, kings, queens, deuces.
ref:
2004, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
A particular conflict of this kind.
Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.
Any protracted conflict, particularly
Campaigns against various social problems.
Any protracted conflict, particularly
A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade.
Any protracted conflict, particularly
A prolonged conflict between two groups of organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control.
Any protracted conflict, particularly
An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.
An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.
Armed forces.
Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.
senses_topics:
business
card-games
games |
2640 | 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:
participle
past
form:
warred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
American Revolution
Anglo-Saxon England
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Battle of Hastings
Battle of Shanghai
Battle of the Somme
Bayeaux Tapestry
Bloody Saturday (photograph)
Emanuel Leutze
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River
H. S. Wong
Lagash
Napoleonic Wars
Norman Conquest
Retreat from Moscow
Russian Empire
Russian conquest of Central Asia
Shanghai South Railway Station
Stele of the Vultures
Taiping Rebellion
The Apotheosis of War
Third Battle of Nanking
Turkestan Series
Umma
Vasily Vereshchagin
WWI
WWII
Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 painting)
war
war (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English werre, from Late Old English werre, wyrre (“armed conflict”), from Old Northern French werre (compare modern French guerre), from Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Gradually displaced native Old English beadu, hild, ġewinn, orleġe, wīġ, and many others as the general term for "war" during the Middle English period.
Related to Old High German werra (“confusion, strife, quarrel”) and German verwirren (“to confuse”), but not to Wehr (“defense”). Also related to Old Saxon werran (“to confuse, perplex”), Dutch war (“confusion, disarray”), West Frisian war (“confusion”),
Old English wyrsa, wiersa (“worse”), Old Norse verri (“worse, orig. confounded, mixed up”), Italian guerra (“war”). There may be a connection with worse and wurst.
senses_examples:
text:
...to war the Scot, and borders to defend...
ref:
1595, Samuel Daniel, The First Four Books of the Civil Wars
type:
quotation
text:
And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they slew all the males
ref:
1611, King James Bible, Book of Numbers, 31:7
text:
This vein of reflection, warring with his inner knowledge that he had been driven by fear and hatred . . ., produced an exhausting whirl in his thoughts.
ref:
1882, George Bernard Shaw, chapter 14, in Cashel Byron's Profession
type:
quotation
text:
People keep on learning
Soldiers keep on warring
World keep on turning
'Cause it won't be too long
ref:
1973, Stevie Wonder (lyrics and music), “Higher Ground”, in Innervisions
type:
quotation
text:
In a paradox, language wars against the world.
ref:
1979 April 28, Gerry McNamara, “Life for Art's Sake”, in Gay Community News, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
senses_topics:
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2641 | 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 of slaughterhouses, garbage dumps, and fishing docks.
ref:
2007, Amadeo M. Rea, Wings in the Desert: A Folk Ornithology of the Northern Pimans, University of Arizona Press, page 101
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An American vulture species, Coragyps atratus, with black plumage.
A north African and Eurasian vulture species, Aegypius monachus.
senses_topics:
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2642 | 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:
|
2643 | 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- (“to split”). More at bite.
cognates
Cognate with West Frisian bit, Saterland Frisian Bit, Dutch bit, German Low German Beet, Biet, German Biss and Bissen, Danish bid, Swedish bit, Icelandic biti.
senses_examples:
text:
A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth.
type:
example
text:
a threepenny bit
type:
example
text:
A quarter is two bits.
type:
example
text:
The smallest coin we had in Canada in early days was a dime, worth ten cents. The Indians called this coin “a Bit”. Our next coin, double in buying power and in size, was a twenty-five cent piece and this the Indians called “Two Bits”.
ref:
1941, Emily Carr, chapter 10, in Klee Wyck
type:
quotation
text:
I trusted to the Lord to be with me; and at one of our trips to St. Eustatia, a Dutch island, I bought a glass tumbler with my half bit, and when I came to Montserrat I sold it for a bit, or sixpence.
ref:
1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 6, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I
type:
quotation
text:
There were bits of paper all over the floor.
type:
example
text:
Does your leg still hurt? —Just a bit now.
type:
example
text:
I've done my bit; I expect you to do yours.
type:
example
text:
I'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first.
type:
example
text:
He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out.
type:
example
text:
The movie lasted for two and a bit hours.
type:
example
text:
The 400 metres race was won in 47 seconds and bits.
type:
example
text:
I'd like a big bit of cake, please.
type:
example
text:
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
ref:
2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
Am I bored? Not a bit of it!
type:
example
text:
1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney'
My young companion was a bit of a poet.
text:
Had it not been for the influence of Mrs. Booth and Hope Hall I should still be grafting or doing a bit in some stir
ref:
1904, The Anamosa prison press, volume 7, Iowa. Colony of Detention at Anamosa
type:
quotation
text:
Before doing that I am going to tell you what was the result of my own incarceration, because I presume it may not be a secret to you, that I have done a "bit" myself, not the "bit" which the prosecuting attorney was so anxious to have me do.
ref:
1916, Thomas Mott Osborne. Warden, Sing Sing Prison, N. Y., “Prison Reform”, in The Journal of sociologic medicine, volume 17, page 407
type:
quotation
text:
Chino didn't make me think of Dachau or that notorious joint in Angola, Louisiana, where a brother who had done a bit there told me how they used to cut the grass on the front lawn with their fingernails.
ref:
1994, Odie Hawkins, Lost Angeles, page 158
type:
quotation
text:
Not counting the days—that's okay for a county-time slap, but it'll make you crazy if you've got years to go on a felony bit.
ref:
2001, Andrew H. Vachss, Pain management
type:
quotation
text:
His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show.
type:
example
text:
Are you serious, or is this a bit?
type:
example
text:
Also, I'm bi. I like dudes! ...That's weird to say. Everything I say feels like a bit now, god dammit.
ref:
2024 March 1, F1NN5TER, 3:36 from the start, in Coming Out, archived from the original on 2024-05-14
type:
quotation
text:
She acted her bit in the opening scene.
type:
example
text:
Jimmy: I need to get my hands on some bits. If you’re still in the business.
Ronnie (played by Nick Nevern): Oi!
Trojan (played by Jean-Paul Van Cauwelaert): Ronnie.
[…]
ref:
2013 December 23, Stephen Reynolds, 46:53 from the start, in Stephen Reynolds, director, Vendetta (film), spoken by Jimmy Vickers (Danny Dyer)
type:
quotation
roman:
Trojan: Now that is a SIG Sauer P226.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
A coin of a specified value.
Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
A unit of currency worth one eighth of a dollar, originally of a Spanish dollar but later also US or Canadian; also, a coin with this value, in particular the silver Spanish real.
Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
A coin of a value similar but not equal to this, in particular the ‘short bit’, i.e. the ten-cent piece or dime.
Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
A unit of currency and coin of the British West Indies worth six black dogs, originally equal to one-eighth of a Spanish dollar but later increasingly debased to one tenth, one eleventh, one twelfth, etc.
Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
A unit of currency of the Dutch West Indies in the early 20th century, worth one fifth of a cent.
A small amount of something.
Specifically, a small amount of time.
A small fraction above a whole number.
Fractions of a second.
A portion of something.
Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
A prison sentence, especially a short one.
An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
A gag or put-on; a humorous conceit, especially when insistently presented as true.
Short for bit part.
The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
The cutting iron of a plane.
The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
A gun.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
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2644 | 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:
participle
past
form:
bitted
tags:
past
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- (“to split”). More at bite.
cognates
Cognate with West Frisian bit, Saterland Frisian Bit, Dutch bit, German Low German Beet, Biet, German Biss and Bissen, Danish bid, Swedish bit, Icelandic biti.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
senses_topics:
|
2645 | 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
senses_topics:
|
2646 | 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 to the skeeter's saliva
ref:
1984 July, Field & Stream, volume 89, number 3, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
Only the year before, the conjure man had brought in the Jackson County madstone, from way over in Illinois, for a white peddler that had been dog-bit, and the man went ahead and died just the same
ref:
1992, Robert Lewis Taylor, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
type:
quotation
text:
He will not — he'll tell you not to be loco, climbing up trees late at night when you'll get bug-bit to death plus you can't see anything
ref:
1998, Adele Griffin, Rainy Season, page 121
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having been bitten.
senses_topics:
|
2647 | 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. Compare byte and nybble, with similar food associations.
senses_examples:
text:
status bits on IRC
type:
example
text:
permission bits in a file system
type:
example
text:
The researchers found that the original texts spanned a variety of entropy values in different languages, reflecting differences in grammar and structure.
But strangely, the difference in entropy between the original, ordered text and the randomly scrambled text was constant across languages. This difference is a way to measure the amount of information encoded in word order, Montemurro says. The amount of information lost when they scrambled the text was about 3.5 bits per word.
ref:
2011 May 17, Lisa Grossman, “Entropy Is Universal Rule of Language”, in Wired Science, retrieved 2012-09-26
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
A unit of measure for information entropy.
A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
cryptography
engineering
information-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
information-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
2648 | 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:
|
2649 | 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.
The interval comprising two octaves.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
2650 | 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 to Burma.
senses_topics:
|
2651 | 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 in forests throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Tragelaphus scriptus.
senses_topics:
|
2652 | 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 perpendiculaire, from Old French perpendiculer, from Latin perpendiculum (“plumb line”).
senses_examples:
text:
In most houses, the walls are perpendicular to the floor.
type:
example
text:
A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.
ref:
2012 March 24, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3
type:
quotation
text:
Hey, I'm not unsabotaging anything! This is completely perpendicular sabotage!
ref:
2019 May 31, David M. Willis, “Wrangled”, in Dumbing of Age
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At or forming a right angle (to something).
Exactly upright; extending in a straight line toward the centre of the earth, etc.
Independent of or irrelevant to each other; orthogonal.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
|
2653 | 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:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.
A meal eaten at a tavern bar while standing up.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
|
2654 | 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_examples:
text:
The beach back is in pristine condition after a council-led cleanup.
type:
example
text:
Fire fueled with gasoline
Life is beautiful, the world is pristine
We have been bound unseen
The walls of existence remain unclean
ref:
2020, The Acacia Strain (lyrics and music), “Solace and Serenity”
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.
Primitive, pertaining to the earliest state of something.
Perfect.
senses_topics:
|
2655 | 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_examples:
text:
2008, J.M. Whitty, N.M. Phillips, D.L. Morgan, J.A. Chaplin, D.C. Thorburn & S.C. Peverell, Habitat associations of Freshwater Sawfish (Pristis microdon)and Northern River Sharks (Glyphis sp. C): including genetic analysis of P. microdon across northern Australia https://web.archive.org/web/20120601194551/http://environment.gov.au/coasts/publications/pubs/freshwater-sawfish-northern-river-shark.pdf
This indicates that the present levels of genetic diversity in P. microdon are not unusually low, although the amount of diversity to be expected in pristine populations of coastal species of elasmobranch remains elusive because all populations investigated to date have suffered some degree of decline (e.g. Sandoval-Castillo et al. 2004, Keeney et al. 2005, Hoelzel et al. 2006, Stow et al. 2006, Lewallen et al. 2007).
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to sawfishes of the family Pristidae.
senses_topics:
|
2656 | 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 years agoe, in his Seaventh Book relates from his own knowledge, that in the Churches of Cyprus and Arabia (places neer to Jeruſalem, and with the firſt frequented by Apoſtles) they had Biſhops in every Village ; and what could thoſe be more then Preſbyters?
ref:
1644, Dudley Diggs, The Unlawfulnesse of Subjects Taking up Armes against their Soveraigne, in what Case ſoever, page 158
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number seven.
senses_topics:
|
2657 | 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_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the seventh position.
One of seven equal parts of a whole.
A tone of the seventh degree from a given tone, the interval between two such tones, or the two tones sounding in unison.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
2658 | 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, disposition; heart, soul”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
mental acuity
type:
example
text:
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref:
2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
mental science
type:
example
text:
the distinction between physical things and mental ideas
type:
quotation
text:
mental hospitals
type:
example
text:
He is the most mental freshman I've seen yet.
type:
example
text:
He went mental on us.
type:
example
text:
a mental patient
type:
example
text:
That was a mental party last night.
type:
example
text:
mental telepathy
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.
Of or relating to intellectual as contrasted with emotional activity.
Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.
Of, relating to, or being intellectual as contrasted with overt physical activity.
Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.
Occurring or experienced in the mind.
Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.
Relating to the mind, its activity, or its products as an object of study.
Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.
Relating to spirit or idea as opposed to matter.
Of, relating to, or affected by a psychiatric disorder.
Intended for the care or treatment of persons affected by psychiatric disorders.
Of, relating to, or affected by a psychiatric disorder.
Mentally disordered; insane, mad, crazy.
Of, relating to, or affected by a psychiatric disorder.
Enjoyable or fun, especially in a frenetic way.
Of or relating to telepathic or mind-reading powers.
senses_topics:
|
2659 | 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:
y'all need to fix your mentals
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
State of mind; ellipsis of mental state.
senses_topics:
|
2660 | 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 part of the lower jaw, genial.
Of or relating to the chinlike or liplike structure.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
biology
natural-sciences |
2661 | 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.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy |
2662 | 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 handfish, so-named because they ʻwalkʼ on fin-like hands.
ref:
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 69
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of the anglerfishes of the genus Brachionichthys, which can "walk" on the sea floor using their pectoral fins.
senses_topics:
|
2663 | 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 Lawrence, The Gone Shots, US: Franklin Watts, page 280
type:
quotation
text:
Barry musta figured Jamie′s friend lived in town because he did a Uey and headed back that way.
ref:
2000, Louis J. Fagan, Angelo, US: Independent Publishers Group, page 324
type:
quotation
text:
Since it pulled a U-ey and snapped Fang on the noggin, Barny had been dressing it in a flowery skirt and hat for reasons which are still a mystery.
ref:
2001, Steve Aylett, Only an Alligator, Scar Garden 2010 (The Complete Accomplice), p. 28
text:
[…]Sid, could you please just go up Holborn a little way, do a uey and pull in over there, where we can see the entrance over on this side.
ref:
2006, Richard Crick, My Word Is My Bonus, AuthorHouse, page 255
type:
quotation
text:
Climbing into the Mustang, McCauley banged a Uey in front of the post office and stopped for the red light half a block up at the corner of Sea Street.
ref:
2007, Richard Marinick, In For a Pound, US: Justin, Charles & Co., page 59
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A U-turn.
senses_topics:
|
2664 | 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 it being a two-seater.
senses_examples:
text:
You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
ref:
1948 January 1, “Deck of Cards” (track 20), in Famous Country Music Makers, performed by Tex Ritter
type:
quotation
text:
And she was blinded by the light/Oh, cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night.
ref:
1973 January 5, “Blinded by the Light” (track 1), in Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., performed by Bruce Springsteen
type:
quotation
text:
1978, Joe Mayall, “Driving Impression: Reproduction Deuce Hiboy”, in Rod Action, page 26:
type:
quotation
text:
It belonged to “the 1932 guy,” who had four or five Deuces sitting in his yard.
ref:
2012, Pat Ganahl, Lost Hot Rods II: More Remarkable Stories of How They Were Found, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
It was a shame of the chalk-takers to take their fee without even scoring one little mark; but chalk-takers are inexorable and must be paid their twopence. 'Down with your deuces', was the demand after each pair of birds had competed.
ref:
2010, James Lambie, The Story of Your Life, page 139
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
A side of a die with two spots.
A cast of dice totalling two.
The number two.
A piece of excrement; number two.
The number two.
A two-year prison sentence.
A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle fingers, a peace sign.
A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
A curveball.
A 1932 Ford.
Two-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase three deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
A table seating two diners.
A twopence coin.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
dice
games
dice
games
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
volleyball
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
2665 | 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).
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: Deuce
text:
Love is a bodily infirmity […] which breaks out the deuce knows how or why
ref:
1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, Catherine
type:
quotation
text:
To sit, staring at those fixed glazed eyes, in silence for a moment, would play, Scrooge felt, the very deuce with him.
ref:
1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
type:
quotation
text:
We had a deuce of a time getting here.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.
Synonym of devil (“something awkward or difficult”)
senses_topics:
|
2666 | 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:
|
2667 | 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 thirteenth position.
One of thirteen equal parts of a whole.
The interval comprising an octave and a sixth.
The thirteenth day of a month.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
2668 | 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”) (compare Scots aipple, West Frisian apel, Dutch appel, German Apfel, Swedish äpple, Danish æble), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl, *h₂ébl̥ (“apple”) (compare Welsh afal, Irish úll, Lithuanian óbuolỹs, Russian я́блоко (jábloko), possibly Ancient Greek ἄμπελος (ámpelos, “vine”)).
senses_examples:
text:
I prayed pieres to pulle adown an apple.
ref:
c. 1378, William Langland, Piers Plowman
type:
quotation
text:
Close by and under cover, I watched the juicing process. Apples were washed, then tipped, stalks and all, into the crusher and reduced to pulp.
ref:
2013 October 28, John Vallins, “Apples of Concord”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Venemous apples wherwith they poyson theyr arrows.
ref:
1585, Richard Eden (translating a 1555 work by Peter Martyr), Decades of the New World, v
text:
In Persia there grows a deadly tree, whose Apples are Poison, and present death.
ref:
1658, trans. Giambattista della Porta, Natural Magick, I.16
text:
The fly injects her juices into the oak-leaf, to raise an apple for hatching her young.
ref:
1765, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued, page 337
type:
quotation
text:
It is generally thought, that the curled topped potatoe proceeds from a neglect of raising fresh sorts from the apple or [potato-]seed.
ref:
1800, John Tuke, General View of the Agriculture of the North Riding of Yorkshire, page 150
type:
quotation
text:
Hippomane mancinella. (Manchineel-tree.) Dr. Peysonnel relates that a soldier, who was a slave with the Turks, eat some of the apples of this tree, and was soon seized with a swelling and pain of the abdomen.
ref:
1825, Theodric Romeyn Beck, Elements of Medical Jurisprudence, 2nd edition, page 565
type:
quotation
text:
One kind of apple or gall, inhabited only by one grub, is hard and woody on the outside, resembling a little wooden ball, of a yellowish color, but internally it is of a soft, spongy texture.
ref:
1833, Charles Williams, The Vegetable World, page 179
type:
quotation
text:
The cross-bill will have seeds from the apple, or cone of the fir—the green-finch, seeds from the uplands, or door of barn, or rick-yard.
ref:
1853, Mrs. S. F. Cowper, Country Rambles in England, Or, Journal of a Naturalist, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
The "apple" or gall usually forms a somewhat kidney-shaped excrescence, attached by a small base on the concave side, and varying in size from a half an inch to an inch and a half in length.
ref:
1889, Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, United States. Department of Agriculture, page 376
type:
quotation
text:
- Hey Dad! What do you say we toss the old apple around, huh? Sound like fun?
ref:
1990, "The Telltale Head" (The Simpsons season 1 episode 8)
text:
The sweat of fear and exertion was streaming down his face and chest, and his breath came in short, tearing, hard-drawn gasps and gulps, while the apple in his throat leaped up and down ceaselessly […]
ref:
1898, Hugh Charles Clifford, Studies in Brown Humanity: Being Scrawls and Smudges in Sepia, White, and Yellow, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
Elsie went away with her parents to Belgium and the convent-school on the twelfth, and as they left The Firs in the battered station cab surrounded by boxes and trunks, Willie could not speak. The apple in his throat rose and remained there […]
ref:
1922, Henry Williamson, Dandelion Days, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
The apple in his neck was hitting against his collar every time he drew breath and he tore at his collar nervously.
ref:
1999, Liam O'Flaherty, The Collected Stories, Wolfhound Press (IE)
text:
The apple in his neck bobbles as he gulps. “You've got to be kidding.” “No, I'm not. Your inheritance amounts to maybe three hundred thousand dollars."
ref:
2005, Sandra Benitez, Night of the Radishes, Hyperion
type:
quotation
text:
If the Hound had not been moving, the knife might have cored the apple of his throat; instead it only grazed his ribs, and wound up quivering in the wall near the door. He laughed then, a laugh as cold and hollow as if it had come from the bottom of a deep well.
ref:
2020, George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam, page 959
type:
quotation
text:
[…] shrugging up her Shoulders, to shew the tempting Apples of her white Breasts, Then suddainly lets them sink again, to hide them, blushing, as if this had been done by chance.
ref:
1705, J. S., City and Country Recreation, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
[…] count-palatine of the Rhine, who shall carry the globe or imperial apple; and, on his left, the marquis of Brandenburg carrying the scepter.
ref:
1761, An Universal History: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, page 508
type:
quotation
text:
The arms of Upland were a "golden apple," or globe, surrounded with a belt, in allusion to the monarchy.
ref:
1851, Robert Bigsby, Old Places Revisited; Or the Antiquarians Enthusiast, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
Andy picked up his two grenades and followed the line into the pits. The apples felt strangely heavy in his hands, and when he looked at them one was as ugly and lethal-looking as the other.
ref:
1956, Marion Hargrove, The Girl He Left Behind: Or, All Quiet in the Third Platoon, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
A peasant blouse that showed the tops of those lovely little apples.
ref:
1975, C. W. Smith, Country Music, IX, 256
type:
quotation
text:
Contrary to Henricus Martellus, Behaim included the tropics [on his globe...]. Evidently, there was no space for a Fourth Continent on Behaim's apple, although some recollection of the Catalan map seems to lie behind the shape of southern Africa.
ref:
2008, Harald Kleinschmidt, Ruling the Waves, Bibliotheca Humanistica & Refo
type:
quotation
text:
Sharon you've got a husband
And a family and a farm
I've got the apple of temptation
And a diamond snake around my arm
ref:
1976, Joni Mitchell, Song for Sharon
type:
quotation
text:
Woman ate the apple, and discovered sex, and lost all shame, and lift up her fig—leaf, and she must suffer the pains of hell. Monthly.
ref:
1985, Barry Reckord, The White Witch
type:
quotation
text:
If the grafted portion of an Apple or other tree were examined after one hundred years, the old cut surfaces would still be present, for mature or ripened wood, being dead, never unites.
ref:
1913, John Weathers, Commercial Gardening, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
This allows a weak plant to benefit from the strong roots of another, or a vigorous tree (such as an apple) to be kept small by growing on 'dwarfing rootstock'.
ref:
2000, P. A. Thomas, Trees: Their Natural History, page 227
type:
quotation
text:
Used to be apple orchards, used to be the river and irrigation ditches that watered the apples, used to be mining towns.
ref:
2009, Sid Gardner, The Faults of the Owens Valley, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
Other fruit trees, like apples, need well-drained soil.
ref:
2012, Terri Reid, The Everything Guide to Living Off the Grid, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
The presenter, close to tears, told the audience that she's really an apple—white on the inside and red on the outside—Native American.
ref:
1998, Opal J. Moore, “Git That Gal a Red Dress: A Conversation Between Female Faculty at a State School in Virginia”, in Daryl Cumber Dance, editor, Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor, W. W. Norton & Company, page 537
type:
quotation
text:
My ancestors five generations removed were "apples" who were "White" on the inside and "Red" on the outside.
ref:
2012 November 12, Joel Spring, The Cultural Transformation of A Native American Family and Its Tribe 1763-1995: A Basket of Apples, Routledge, ch. 9
type:
quotation
text:
Because of overcrowding, many a CB enthusiast (called an "apple") is strapping an illegal linear amplifier ("boots") on to his transceiver ("ears") […]
ref:
1977, New Scientist, volume 74, page 764
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: lemon
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.
Any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing produced by a plant such as a gall or cone, especially if produced by a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc.
Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica, such as a globe, ball, or breast.
The ball in baseball.
Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica, such as a globe, ball, or breast.
When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.
Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica, such as a globe, ball, or breast.
The Adam's apple.
Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica, such as a globe, ball, or breast.
The fruit of the tree of knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to modern Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.
A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
The wood of the apple tree.
Short for apples and pears (“stairs”).
A Native American or redskinned person who acts or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.
An assist.
A CB radio enthusiast.
The surface of revolution of a circular arc of angle greater than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc’s two endpoints.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Christianity
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
2669 | 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
tags:
participle
past
form:
appled
tags:
past
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”) (compare Scots aipple, West Frisian apel, Dutch appel, German Apfel, Swedish äpple, Danish æble), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl, *h₂ébl̥ (“apple”) (compare Welsh afal, Irish úll, Lithuanian óbuolỹs, Russian я́блоко (jábloko), possibly Ancient Greek ἄμπελος (ámpelos, “vine”)).
senses_examples:
text:
One might say they have to be appled-up; varieties are selected for marketing which have the most apple-like qualities.
ref:
1992, Marilyn Strathern, Reproducing the Future
type:
quotation
text:
He glanced at me, his cheeks appled in the impish grin I was learning to recognise as the clever under-side of his broad and gentle smile.
ref:
2004, Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram: A Novel
type:
quotation
text:
A large smile appled his full cheeks as the four sprytes eagerly served themselves from the seeds and thinly sliced fruits.
ref:
2007, Claudia D. Newcorn, Crossover: Krisalys Chronicles of Feyree, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
She smiled, and her cheeks appled up and her teeth were big and flat and her mouth was wide and spacious like an open invitation.
ref:
2011, Cynthia Robinson, The Barbary Dogs, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
Either they floure, or they apple or els be ready to bring forth fruit.
ref:
1601, Philemon Holland, transl., Pliny, published 1634, II, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
You may now sow upon moderate hot-beds, a few of the small Salad feeds, such as White Mustard, Rape, Cresses, and Cabbage Lettuces, and you may also sow upon other hot-beds, not to be drawn until they are pretty large and well appled, Radishes and Turnips, observing to sow them very thin, that the plants may have room to swell and grow;
ref:
1767, James Justice, The British gardener's calendar, page 274
type:
quotation
text:
The cabbage turnep is of two kinds; one apples above ground, and the other in it.
ref:
1796, Charles Marshall, Gardening, published 1800, page 245
type:
quotation
text:
Other cultivators, however, advise "that the seed collected from a few turnips thus transplanted, should be preserved and sown in drills, in order to raise plants for see for the general crop, drawing out all such as are weak and improper, leaving only those that are strong and which take the lead; and that when these have appled or formed bulbs, to again take out such as do not appear good and perfect, as by this means turnip seed may be procured, not only of a more vigorous nature, but which is capable of vegetating with less moisture and which produces stronger and more hardy plants.
ref:
1807, The Complete Farmer
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make or become apple-like.
To form buds, bulbs, or fruit.
senses_topics:
|
2670 | 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 leucoryx.
senses_topics:
|
2671 | 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:
senses_glosses:
A critically endangered antelope, Oryx dammah, living in the arid plains and deserts of North Africa.
senses_topics:
|
2672 | 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:
|
2673 | 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:
|
2674 | 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 Elch, Danish elg, Norwegian elg, Swedish älg), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élḱis, *h₁ólḱis (compare Polish łoś, Russian лось (losʹ), Vedic Sanskrit ऋश्य (ṛ́śya, “antelope”), variant of *h₁elh₁én (compare German Elen, Tocharian A yäl, Tocharian B ylem (“gazelle”), Lithuanian élnis (“stag”), Armenian եղնիկ (eġnik, “doe, hind”)), from *h₁el- (“deer”). Doublet of Elhaz.
senses_examples:
text:
In a narrow defile […] a male elk, (cervus alces, Lin.) of noble appearance, followed by twenty-two females, passed majestically under their platform, each as large as a common-sized horse.
ref:
1813, James Forbes, Oriental Memoirs, page 281
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes).
Any of the subspecies of the moose (Alces alces, alternatively named Eurasian elk to avoid confusion with the wapiti), that occurs only in Europe and Asia.
Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes).
Any moose (Alces alces), the largest member of the deer family.
Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes).
Common wapiti (Cervus canadensis), the second largest member of the deer family, once thought to be a subspecies of red deer.
Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes).
Sambar (Cervus unicolor).
senses_topics:
|
2675 | 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:
|
2676 | 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 (Connochaetes taurinus)
senses_topics:
|
2677 | 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 currency by Amerindians.
type:
example
text:
Spangler went through his pockets, coming out with a handful of small coins, one piece of currency and a hard-boiled egg.
ref:
1943, William Saroyan, chapter 3, in The Human Comedy
type:
quotation
text:
The jargon’s currency.
type:
example
text:
Fear of punishment has no currency with me as long as I remain convinced of the larger value of what I have done.
ref:
1983 April 9, Kenneth Hale Wehmann, “Conscientious Resistance”, in Gay Community News, page 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
Paper money.
The state of being current; general acceptance, recognition or use.
Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
Fluency; readiness of utterance.
senses_topics:
|
2678 | 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
form:
copulated
tags:
participle
past
form:
copulated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the perfect passive participle of Latin cōpulāre (“to couple”).
senses_examples:
text:
The amorous couple were found copulating inside the car.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To engage in sexual intercourse.
senses_topics:
|
2679 | 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:
1870, Francis March, A Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Joined; associated; coupled.
Joining subject and predicate; copulative.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2680 | 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, that have prominent ear tufts.
senses_topics:
|
2681 | 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_topics:
|
2682 | 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, counter, and kontor.
Sense 1 first attested in 1613 by the poet Richard Brathwait.
Sense 2 first attested in 1897 in the Engineering magazine.
senses_examples:
text:
I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number: The daies of Man are threescore and ten.
ref:
1613, Richard Brathwait, The Yong Mans Gleanings, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
By which manner of ſpeaking, this Propheteſs, who is ſo exact a Computer, would have us, I ſuppoſe, to conclude, that it would be a great miſtake to think that the number of Angels was either 9, or 11 for one of Men.
ref:
1674, “To the Guardian-Angel”, in Reflexions upon the Devotions of the Roman Church, London: Richard Royston, page 419
type:
quotation
text:
Only a few years ago Mr. Powers, an American computer, disproved a hypothesis about prime numbers which had held the field for more than 250 years.
ref:
1927, J. B. S. Haldane, Possible Worlds and Other Essays, London: Chatto & Windus, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
One Harvard computer, Annie Jump Cannon, used her repetitive acquaintance with the stars to devise a system of stellar classifications so practical that it is still in use today.
ref:
2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
I spend around 6 hours a day at the computer.
type:
example
text:
As well as saving the photos on my computer, I have them backed up on a USB drive.
type:
example
text:
David is a computer expert.
type:
example
text:
Janet works at the computer store.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
A male computer, where the female computer is called a computress.
A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.
senses_topics:
|
2683 | 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
form:
computered
tags:
participle
past
form:
computered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Computer
Computer (occupation)
Engineering (magazine)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mental calculator
Richard Brathwait
etymology_text:
From compute + -er. Doublet of cantore, counter, and kontor.
Sense 1 first attested in 1613 by the poet Richard Brathwait.
Sense 2 first attested in 1897 in the Engineering magazine.
senses_examples:
text:
Cool he was computering, though. My dad, who is only in his 60's (mom too) thinks he is too busy to get connected to the internet. Oh well. More bandwidth for the rest of us, huh?
ref:
1995 December 31, Roxanne Coyle, “B'days”, in bit.listserv.words-l (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
I don't know if you have the same violent mood-swing issues that I do, but I was bustling around the house feeling very useful and good, and then I was sitting here computering for a while, and suddenly it was like a giant butterfly net scooped me up and threw me into an old mayonnaise jar, […]
ref:
2004, The World According to Mimi Smartypants, London: HarperCollinsEntertainment, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
I'm constantly computering, schlepping, stressing, and hauling ass like the rest of us. We are New Yorkers.
ref:
2017 May 16, Alyssa Shelasky, “What I Discovered When I Outsourced My Back Pain”, in New York Magazine, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-31
type:
quotation
text:
Yeah, you saw what he could do when he flips out. I mean, how am I going to say no to that? Plus, he does computer good.
ref:
2019 December 20, “Finding Mr. Right”, in Harley Quinn, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Harley Quinn (Kaley Cuoco)
type:
quotation
text:
They had immediately computered the description out to the scores of law enforcement agencies in Southern California.
ref:
1988, Marcel Montecino, The Crosskiller, New York, N.Y.: Arbor House; William Morrow, page 351
type:
quotation
text:
'Nah. It was him hated it more than me. Fish out of water. Cops watching every move he makes. Memos about him computered to every nick in the land. He was too innocent for this hi-tech world, Bobby. Would've been back inside in no time at all.'
ref:
2001, Will Kingdom, Mean Spirit, London […]: Bantam Press, page 428
type:
quotation
text:
I know there are storage warehouses in New York and Virginia and all over the place, St. Louis, and many other places, that keep these things. I think this is a very fertile area for this committee, and perhaps computering it, or microfilm preservation, or things of that sort.
ref:
1972 March 20, Benny L. Kass, quotee, U.S. Government Information Policies and Practices: Administration and Operation of the Freedom of Information Act, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 1425
type:
quotation
text:
Our sincere thanks are due to Antje Reuter, Jens Adam and Uwe Horstmann for computering the manuscript and Ralph Phillips and Kirsten Techmer for proof reading it.
ref:
1983, H. Ahrendt, N. Clauer, J. C. Hunziker, K. Weber, “Migration of Folding and Metamorphism in the Rheinische Schiefergebirge Deduced from K-Ar and Rb-Sr Age Determinations”, in Intracontinental Fold Belts: Case Studies in the Variscan Belt of Europe and the Damara Belt in Namibia, Berlin […]: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, page 336
type:
quotation
text:
It is also a pleasure to recommend the skill of Irit Markan who carried out the work of 'computering' the text, and of Ivor Ludlam who bore the labour of proof reading—both the English and the Greek.
ref:
1988, Shimon Applebaum, “Foreward”, in Judaea in Hellenistic and Roman Times, Leiden […]: E. J. Brill, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
I have 30 years worth of logs some place and they have been computered the last few years and the last few years I think I have posted them to the sites I hang out on.
ref:
2010 November 21, Burr, “MFW has been milked dry”, in misc.fitness.weights (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use a computer.
To send via computer.
To transfer onto a computer; to computerize.
senses_topics:
|
2684 | 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 come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
ref:
1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana, PG, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
There are two ways to become an authority on humor. The first way is to be one of the perpetrators. You know them: comedians, satirists, cartoonists, and impersonators. The second way to gain such credentials is to be the victim of their merciless talents. As such a victim, I take a backseat to no one as far as humor is concerned.
ref:
1987, Gerald Ford, “What's So Funny About the Presidency?”, in Humor and the Presidency, New York: Arbor House, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
US spelling of humour
senses_topics:
|
2685 | 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
tags:
participle
past
form:
humored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
US spelling of humour
senses_topics:
|
2686 | 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) *ju (“already”, adverb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-, accusative of *h₂óyu (“long time”) and (2) the Proto-Germanic *ta (“to, towards”), from Proto-Indo-European *do. More at aye and -th.
senses_examples:
text:
I haven't finished yet.
type:
example
text:
Have you finished yet?
type:
example
text:
We do not yet know what happened.
type:
example
text:
He has never yet been late for an appointment.
type:
example
text:
Don't switch it on yet – wait until I've reconnected the pump.
text:
He is yet breathing. (He is still breathing.)
type:
example
text:
The riddle will be solved yet.
type:
example
text:
I’ve yet to see him. — I have not yet seen him.
type:
example
text:
I had yet to go to a convention. — I had not yet gone to a convention.
type:
example
text:
They are yet to win a single match. — They have not yet won a single match.
type:
example
text:
He seemed yet to be convinced. — He seemed not yet to have been convinced.
type:
example
text:
After yet another missed penalty by Kvirikashvili from bang in front of the posts, England scored again, centre Tuilagi flying into the line and touching down under the bar.
ref:
2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
There are two hours yet to go until our destination.
type:
example
text:
K-2 is yet higher than this.
type:
example
text:
Oh no! Yet more problems!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time.
In negative or interrogative use, often with an expectation or potential of something happening in the future.
Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time.
In negative imperative use, asking for an action to be delayed.
Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time.
In affirmative use: still.
At some future time; eventually.
Not as of the time referenced.
In addition.
Even.
senses_topics:
|
2687 | 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”, adverb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-, accusative of *h₂óyu (“long time”) and (2) the Proto-Germanic *ta (“to, towards”), from Proto-Indo-European *do. More at aye and -th.
senses_examples:
text:
I thought I knew you, yet how wrong was I!
type:
example
text:
It’s incredible yet true.
type:
example
text:
Emaciated little creatures, with skin harsh and rough, rapid pulse, nerves ever on the strain—have yet a look of lively intelligence.
ref:
1907, Margaret McMillan, Labour and Childhood, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
ref:
2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nevertheless; however; but; despite that.
senses_topics:
|
2688 | 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
form:
yet
tags:
past
form:
yetted
tags:
past
form:
yet
tags:
participle
past
form:
yetted
tags:
participle
past
form:
yoten
tags:
participle
past
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- (“to pour”). Cognate with Scots yat (“to pour, yet”), West Frisian jitte (“to scatter, shed, pour”), Dutch gieten (“to pour, cast, mould”), German gießen (“to pour, cast, mould”), Swedish gjuta (“to pour, cast”). Doublet of yote.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] & stablenes of perseueraunce; graunt me for all wor[l]dly consolacyons the swete, gracyous vnccyon of the holy goost, & for all carnall loue
ref:
1502, William Atkynson (translator), De Imitatione Christi, in 1893, John Kells Ingram, The Earliest English Translation of the First Three Books of the De Imitatione Christi, page 221
roman:
yet into my soule the loue of thyne holy name.
text:
Some with a fals herte, and a payntyd face
In his lordes seruyce to haue chefe rowme and place
Into his lordes erys yetyth secretly
Lyes venemous, […]
ref:
1509 (edition published 1874), Alexander Barclay (translator), The Ship of Fools (originally by Sebastian Brant), page 211
text:
[…] whiche shall present him selfe openly stained or embrued with sondry colours, or poudered with the duste of stones that he cutteth, or perfumed with tedious sauours of the metalles by him yoten.
ref:
1531 (edition reprinted 1880), Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Gouernour, page 48
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pour.
To melt; found; cast (e.g. metal, by pouring it into a mould when molten).
senses_topics:
|
2689 | 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- (“to pour”). Cognate with Scots yat (“to pour, yet”), West Frisian jitte (“to scatter, shed, pour”), Dutch gieten (“to pour, cast, mould”), German gießen (“to pour, cast, mould”), Swedish gjuta (“to pour, cast”). Doublet of yote.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metal pan or boiler; yetling.
senses_topics:
|
2690 | 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:
past
form:
yotten
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yeten, ȝeten, from Old English ġietan, from Proto-Germanic *getaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-. More at get.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To get.
senses_topics:
|
2691 | 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, “The Language of Crime”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 50, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 834
type:
quotation
text:
The first practical constructed language was the south-west German Pastor Schleyer's Volapük from 1879; its complicated grammar and irregular vocabulary made learning difficult, however. The most successful has been Esperanto, devised by the Warsaw ophthalmologist Ludwig Zamenhof in 1887, that today can count some one million speakers.
ref:
2004, Steven Roger Fischer, A history of language, Reaktion Books, page 180
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An artificial language (constructed language) created in 1879 by Johann Martin Schleyer.
senses_topics:
|
2692 | 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_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number eleven.
senses_topics:
|
2693 | 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 Old English endlefta, from Proto-Germanic *ainaliftô.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the eleventh position.
One of eleven equal parts of a whole.
The note eleven scale degrees from the root of a chord.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
2694 | 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 (Gazella leptoceros).
senses_topics:
|
2695 | 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; it shares a common ancestry with the domestic dog.
senses_topics:
|
2696 | 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”, literally “age/era of man”), equivalent to wer (“man”) + eld (“age”).
Cognate with Scots warld (“world”), Saterland Frisian Waareld (“world”), West Frisian wrâld (“world”), Afrikaans wêreld (“world”), Dutch wereld (“world”), Low German Werld (“world”), German Welt (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål verden (“(the) world”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“world”), Swedish värld (“world”), Icelandic veröld (“world”).
senses_examples:
text:
In retrospect, the process of economic globalization has meant the end of the world as we knew it.
type:
example
text:
There will always be lovers, till the world’s end.
type:
example
text:
O wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there here! / How beauteous mankind is! / O brave new world, / That has such people in 't.
ref:
1610–1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest
type:
quotation
text:
(Huxley is quoting William Shakespeare's play The Tempest in this novel's title)
ref:
1931, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
type:
quotation
text:
So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?.
ref:
2024 May 8, Damian Carrington, “‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair. World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target”, in The Guardian, UK
type:
quotation
text:
The period immediately following my divorce seemed like the end of my world.
type:
example
text:
He was my world! [said of a slain companion]
type:
example
text:
The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed. As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): 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:
Running after God is the only life worth living. Even though the world believes that living for God is boring, we believe that there is nothing more exciting.
type:
example
text:
People are dying of starvation all over the world.
type:
example
text:
“As the world turns, we know the bleakness of winter, the promise of spring, the fullness of summer and the harvest of autumn–the cycle of life is complete.” - quotation attributed to Irna Phillips.
text:
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
ref:
2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7
type:
quotation
text:
She says the Third Pole is one of the world’s largest sources of fresh drinking water.
ref:
2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
type:
quotation
text:
So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?.
ref:
2024 May 8, Damian Carrington, “‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair. World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target”, in The Guardian, UK
type:
quotation
text:
Who would want to live in a world like this?
type:
example
text:
the best of all possible worlds. In the French original: le meilleur des mondes possibles. In German: die beste aller möglichen Welten.
ref:
1710, Gottfried Leibniz, Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal (Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil)
type:
quotation
text:
Our mission is to travel the galaxy and find new worlds.
type:
example
text:
Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.
ref:
1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
I think many people think of asteroids as kind of little chips of rock. But the places that Dawn is going to really are more like worlds.
ref:
2007 September 27, Marc Rayman (interviewee), “NASA's Ion-Drive Asteroid Hunter Lifts Off”, National Public Radio
text:
the New World
type:
example
text:
Frey [...] clambered up on to the Hildskjalf, the throne from which Odin could see everything that happened across the nine worlds.
ref:
2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
the world of Narnia
type:
example
text:
the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
type:
example
text:
a zombie world
type:
example
text:
In the world of boxing, good diet is all-important.
type:
example
text:
Welcome to my world.
type:
example
text:
According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
ref:
2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
Have you reached the boss at the end of the ice world?
type:
example
text:
There's a hidden warp to the next world down this pipe.
type:
example
text:
Taking a break from work seems to have done her a world of good.
type:
example
text:
You're going to be in a world of trouble when your family finds out.
type:
example
text:
That new wallpaper has made worlds of difference downstairs.
type:
example
text:
This movie isn't even billed as a comedy, but it's worlds funnier than the comedy I saw last month.
type:
example
text:
to think the world of someone
type:
example
text:
to mean the world to someone
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general; the reality we live in.
The subjective human experience, regarded individually.
A majority of people.
The Universe.
The Earth, especially in a geopolitical or cultural context, or as the physical planet.
Any of several possible scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.
(Several) alternative scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.
A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
Any other astronomical body which may be inhabitable, such as a natural satellite.
A very large extent of country.
In various mythologies, cosmologies, etc., one of a number of separate realms or regions having different characteristics and occupied by different types of inhabitants.
A fictional realm, such as a planet, containing one or multiple societies of beings, especially intelligent ones.
An individual or group perspective or social setting.
The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.
The twenty-second trump or major arcana card of the tarot.
A great amount, a lot.
Age, era.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
tarot
|
2697 | 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
tags:
participle
past
form:
worlded
tags:
past
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”, literally “age/era of man”), equivalent to wer (“man”) + eld (“age”).
Cognate with Scots warld (“world”), Saterland Frisian Waareld (“world”), West Frisian wrâld (“world”), Afrikaans wêreld (“world”), Dutch wereld (“world”), Low German Werld (“world”), German Welt (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål verden (“(the) world”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“world”), Swedish värld (“world”), Icelandic veröld (“world”).
senses_examples:
text:
There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics. These debates inform this attempt at worlding women—moving beyond white western power centres and their dominant knowledges (compare Spivak, 1985), while recognising that I, as a white settler-state woman, need to attend to differences between women, too.
ref:
1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, page ix-x
type:
quotation
text:
In a sense, the dictatorship was a failure of failure and, on that account, it was perhaps the exemplary system of control. Having in 1933 wagered on the worlding of the world in the regime's failure, Heidegger after the war can only rue his opportunistic hopes for an exposure of the ontological foundations of control.
ref:
2005, James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry, Stanford University Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focussing on national or other distinctions; compare globalise.
To make real; to make worldly.
senses_topics:
|
2698 | 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-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch (“dull grey”)), from Vulgar Latin *bysseus (“cottony grey”) (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bigio), from Late Latin byssus (“cotton”), from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “cotton homespun”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic בוץ (būṣ)). Doublet of bice.
senses_examples:
text:
beige:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.
senses_topics:
|
2699 | 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:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from French (dialectal) beige, from Old French bege (“color of undyed wool or cotton”), from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch (“dull grey”)), from Vulgar Latin *bysseus (“cottony grey”) (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bigio), from Late Latin byssus (“cotton”), from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “cotton homespun”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic בוץ (būṣ)). Doublet of bice.
senses_examples:
text:
Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.
ref:
1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, in Crime out of Mind
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Lauwaert of Sony said he realized that most consumers were not going to buy computers that cost far more than discount beige boxes.
ref:
2006 November 23, Michel Marriott, “When Beige Won’t Do”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Think about it: he grew up in Iowa, the beigest of states, was doted on, loved generously by his parents, the top of his class, probably voted Most Handsome of 2000.
ref:
2007, Prairie L. Markussen, Cover, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
In the beigest parts of suburbia where I grew up, bridge was a game played by groups of parents in recreation rooms furnished with upright pianos and souvenir sombreros.
ref:
2010, Gerald J. McCarthy, A Man of Substances
type:
quotation
text:
For a meal of relentlessly beige food, may I suggest the beigest of wines? That would be chardonnay, which will go beautifully with Melissa Clark’s chicken potpie.
ref:
2013 March 25, Eric Asimov, “A Beige Wine for a Beige Meal”, in NYT Diner’s Journal Blog
type:
quotation
text:
He has no criminal record. He has no traffic tickets. His social media posts are just like... he's beige.
ref:
2016, Penelope Garcia, “The Witness”, in Criminal Minds, season 11, episode 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.
senses_topics:
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