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2700 | word:
existence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
existence (countable and uncountable, plural existences)
forms:
form:
existences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
existence
etymology_text:
From Middle English existence, from Old French existence, from Late Latin existentia (“existence”), from existēns, from existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”). Cognate with Spanish existencia, French existence, German Existenz.
Morphologically exist + -ence.
senses_examples:
text:
In order to destroy evil, we must first acknowledge its existence.
type:
example
text:
The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
ref:
2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
The ancients said, “A ruler should exist for the existence of the people.” The famous thinker, Mencius noted, “The people are the most valuable, then the country, and the ruler comes last.”
ref:
2020 June 29, Wendi, “The Loyal General Yue Fei”, in Minghui
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)
senses_topics:
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2701 | word:
feet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
feet
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English feet, fet, from Old English fēt, from Proto-Germanic *fōtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *pódes, nominative plural of *pṓds (“foot”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fäite (“feet”), West Frisian fiet (“feet”), German Füße (“feet”), Danish fødder (“feet”), Swedish fötter (“feet”), Faroese føtur (“feet”), Icelandic fætur (“feet”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of foot
senses_topics:
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2702 | word:
feet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
feet
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fact; performance; feat.
senses_topics:
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2703 | word:
twelfth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
twelfth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
twelfth
etymology_text:
From Middle English twelfthe, twelfte, from Old English twelfta (“twelfth”), from Proto-Germanic *twaliftô (“twelfth”), equivalent to twelve + -th. Cognate with Scots twalt (“twelfth”), Saterland Frisian tweelfte (“twelfth”), West Frisian tolfde (“twelfth”), Dutch twaalfde (“twelfth”), German Low German twalfde, twalvde (“twelfth”), German zwölfte (“twelfth”), Danish tolvte (“twelfth”),
Swedish tolfte (“twelfth”), Icelandic tólfta (“twelfth”).
senses_examples:
text:
The answer appears on the twelfth page of the book.
type:
example
text:
She finished twelfth in the race.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number twelve, describing a person or thing in position number 12 of a sequence.
senses_topics:
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2704 | word:
twelfth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twelfth (plural twelfths)
forms:
form:
twelfths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
twelfth
etymology_text:
From Middle English twelfthe, twelfte, from Old English twelfta (“twelfth”), from Proto-Germanic *twaliftô (“twelfth”), equivalent to twelve + -th. Cognate with Scots twalt (“twelfth”), Saterland Frisian tweelfte (“twelfth”), West Frisian tolfde (“twelfth”), Dutch twaalfde (“twelfth”), German Low German twalfde, twalvde (“twelfth”), German zwölfte (“twelfth”), Danish tolvte (“twelfth”),
Swedish tolfte (“twelfth”), Icelandic tólfta (“twelfth”).
senses_examples:
text:
A twelfth of 240 is 20.
type:
example
text:
Five twelfths of the population voted in support of the proposal.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of twelve equal parts of a whole.
An interval equal to an octave plus a fifth.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
2705 | word:
anoa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
anoa (plural anoas)
forms:
form:
anoas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Indonesian anoa.
senses_examples:
text:
Anoas need undisturbed forest and cannot adapt to logged areas. The bad-tempered anoa with its sharp short horns is greatly feared, but in spite of this it is periodically suggested as a potential domestic animal. Anyone who has met with an anoa ridicules this idea.
ref:
1998, Jane Whitten, Tropical Wildlife of Southeast Asia, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
The Celebes pig and, to a lesser degree, the anoa were the focus of the Wana's large game interests.
ref:
2000, Michael Alvard, “The Impact of Traditional Subsistence Hunting and Trapping on Prey Populations: Data from Wana Horticuluralists of Upland Central Sulwesi, Indonesia”, in John G. Robinson, Elizabeth L. Bennett, editors, Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests, page 223
type:
quotation
text:
They reported seeing mountain anoa trophies for sale, and also a living captive animal, in the Toraja highlands; probable lowland anoas in the Gunung Tangkoko National Park on the N tip of Sulawesi, and evidence of both kinds of anoas in or near the Dumoga-Bone National Park.
ref:
2011, Colin Groves, Peter Grubb, Ungulate Taxonomy, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Either of two related species of small Indonesian water buffalo similar in appearance to deer; Bubalus quarlesi or Bubalus depressicornis.
senses_topics:
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2706 | word:
Indian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Indian (comparative more Indian, superlative most Indian)
forms:
form:
more Indian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Indian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman indien, Middle French indien, corresponding to Ind + -ian. Applied to inhabitants of the Americas due to an early misconception that the Americas were the eastern end of Asia / the Indies (hence also the designation of Caribbean islands as the West Indies).
senses_examples:
text:
, Indish (archaic)
text:
The hardships of bark-collecting in the primeval forests of South America are of the severest kind, and undergone only by the half-civilized Indians and people of mixed race, in the pay of speculators or companies located in the towns.
ref:
1879, Friedrich August Flückiger et al., Pharmacographia..., page 346
type:
quotation
text:
Indian bread
type:
example
text:
Indian meal
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.
Eastern; Oriental.
Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Made with Indian corn or maize.
Designating any of various chess openings now characterised by black's attempt to control the board through knights and fianchettoed bishops rather than with a central pawn advance.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games |
2707 | word:
Indian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Indian (plural Indians)
forms:
form:
Indians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman indien, Middle French indien, corresponding to Ind + -ian. Applied to inhabitants of the Americas due to an early misconception that the Americas were the eastern end of Asia / the Indies (hence also the designation of Caribbean islands as the West Indies).
senses_examples:
text:
With savage desperation the Indian lunged his horse straight at Hopalong and, knife in hand, leaped for him!
ref:
1951, Louis L'Amour, Rustlers of West Fork
type:
quotation
text:
We're going out tonight for an Indian.
type:
example
text:
We're going down to the Indian for a curry—wanna join us?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from India.
An American Indian, a member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, or Yupik).
An indigenous inhabitant of Australia, New Zealand or the Pacific islands.
Indian cuisine; traditional Indian food.
A meal at (or taken away from) an Indian restaurant.
An Indian restaurant.
Short for Mardi Gras Indian.
senses_topics:
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2708 | word:
Indian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Indian
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman indien, Middle French indien, corresponding to Ind + -ian. Applied to inhabitants of the Americas due to an early misconception that the Americas were the eastern end of Asia / the Indies (hence also the designation of Caribbean islands as the West Indies).
senses_examples:
text:
[They said] 'Mutton can speak Indian', 'Mutton can see Kanchinjunga out of his bedroom window'[.]
ref:
1968, Anne Rider, A hilltop in hazard, page 51
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of the (unrelated) languages spoken by American Indians.
Any language spoken by natives of India, especially Hindi.
senses_topics:
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2709 | word:
million
word_type:
num
expansion:
million (plural millions)
forms:
form:
millions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”, from mille (“thousand”, from Latin mille) + -one). Compare -illion.
senses_examples:
text:
I told you a million times before.
type:
example
text:
I can think of millions of reasons not to go.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number 1,000,000: 10⁶; a thousand thousand.
An unspecified very large number.
senses_topics:
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2710 | word:
weave
word_type:
verb
expansion:
weave (third-person singular simple present weaves, present participle weaving, simple past wove or weaved, past participle woven or weaved or (now colloquial and nonstandard) wove)
forms:
form:
weaves
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
weaving
tags:
participle
present
form:
wove
tags:
past
form:
weaved
tags:
past
form:
woven
tags:
participle
past
form:
weaved
tags:
participle
past
form:
wove
tags:
colloquial
nonstandard
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English weven (“to weave”), from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *webaną, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to weave, braid”).
Cognates:
Cognate with Saterland Frisian weeuwe, West Frisian weve, Dutch weven, German weben, Danish væve, Swedish väva, Norwegian Nynorsk veva, Icelandic vefa.
senses_examples:
text:
This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.
type:
example
text:
Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
type:
example
text:
to weave the plot of a story
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
To spin a cocoon or a web.
To unite by close connection or intermixture.
To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
senses_topics:
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2711 | word:
weave
word_type:
noun
expansion:
weave (plural weaves)
forms:
form:
weaves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English weven (“to weave”), from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *webaną, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to weave, braid”).
Cognates:
Cognate with Saterland Frisian weeuwe, West Frisian weve, Dutch weven, German weben, Danish væve, Swedish väva, Norwegian Nynorsk veva, Icelandic vefa.
senses_examples:
text:
That rug has a very tight weave.
type:
example
text:
The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.
ref:
2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations, page 154
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type or way of weaving.
Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.
senses_topics:
cosmetics
lifestyle |
2712 | word:
weave
word_type:
verb
expansion:
weave (third-person singular simple present weaves, present participle weaving, simple past and past participle weaved)
forms:
form:
weaves
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
weaving
tags:
participle
present
form:
weaved
tags:
participle
past
form:
weaved
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English weven (“to wander”); probably from Old Norse veifa (“move around, wave”), related to Latin vibrare.
senses_examples:
text:
The drunk weaved into another bar.
type:
example
text:
The victims’ feeling of incredulity at what they were seeing, swiftly turning to paralysing fear as the van bore down on them, swerving and weaving to hit as many people as possible, can barely be imagined.
ref:
2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer
type:
quotation
text:
Tevez picked up a throw-in from the right, tip-toed his way into the area and weaved past three Wolves challenges before slotting in to display why, of all City's multi-million pound buys, he remains their most important player.
ref:
2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move by turning and twisting.
To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
To move the head back and forth in a stereotyped pattern, typically as a symptom of stress.
senses_topics:
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2713 | word:
red deer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
red deer (plural red deer or red deers)
forms:
form:
red deer
tags:
plural
form:
red deers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
red deer
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A species of large deer, Cervus elaphus, found in Europe and southwestern Asia.
The wapiti or North American elk, Cervus canadensis, a deer species of North America, long believed to be a subspecies of the European red deer.
senses_topics:
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2714 | word:
cooee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cooee (plural cooees)
forms:
form:
cooees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Dharug guuu-wi adopted into English by white settlers in Australia from 1790.
senses_examples:
text:
Then they heard in the distance the "coo-ee" of a white man, which was instantly answered by another "coo-ee".
ref:
1943, H. Lorna Bingham, The Lost Tribe, Sydney: Winn and Co., page 32, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
I call out, “Coo-ee” with long Coo and short ee like whip-bird call. Everybody in my mob know my cooee. Any one of my mob hear that, they give me cooee back.
I listen.
No cooee come back.
ref:
2002, Andrew Parkin, A Thing Apart, page 195
type:
quotation
text:
2006, Saskia Beudel, Walking: West MacDonnell Ranges 2002, in Drusilla Modjeska, The Best Australian Essays 2006, page 309,
Just as I was preparing to write in my exercise book, I heard a cooee. Cooees were not part of the code.
text:
That is not within cooee of 10 per cent; it is much closer to six per cent.
ref:
1996, australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates Australia, volume 207, page 1469
type:
quotation
text:
We were carless, in the dark, and no one to help within cooee.
ref:
1999, Tony Shillitoe, Joy Ride, page 136
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long, loud call used to attract attention when at a distance, mainly done in the Australian bush.
A short distance; hailing distance.
senses_topics:
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2715 | word:
cooee
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cooee (third-person singular simple present cooees, present participle cooeeing, simple past and past participle cooeed)
forms:
form:
cooees
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cooeeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
cooeed
tags:
participle
past
form:
cooeed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Dharug guuu-wi adopted into English by white settlers in Australia from 1790.
senses_examples:
text:
‘Look out for snakes,’ said Long Charlie, flourishing his lantern. ‘And don′t all of us be coo-eeing all the time, or when the little chap sings out we shan't be able to hear him.’
ref:
2001, Robert Holden, Nicholas Holden, Bunyips: Australia's Folklore of Fear, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
Slipping out of the tail of the dray, I cooeed as loud as I could which was answered.
ref:
2003, Les Hughes, A Young Australian Pioneer: Henry Mundy, page 225
type:
quotation
text:
2006, Saskia Beudel, Walking: West MacDonnell Ranges 2002, in Drusilla Modjeska, The Best Australian Essays 2006, page 310,
I cooeed back. Another cooee came in what seemed to be a reply. I cooeed again.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make such a call.
senses_topics:
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2716 | word:
cooee
word_type:
intj
expansion:
cooee
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Dharug guuu-wi adopted into English by white settlers in Australia from 1790.
senses_examples:
text:
Cooee! I'm over here!
text:
Then, raising her hands to her lips she utters a long, loud, piercing " Cooee ! "
" Coo — ee ! " comes back over the black waters.
ref:
1894, Temple Bar, volume 183, page 587
type:
quotation
text:
2001, June E. Barker, First Platypus, Gaygar—The Little Mother Duck, in Helen F. McKay (editor), Pauline E. McLeod, Francis Firebrace Jones, June E. Barker, Gadi Mirrabooka: Australian Aboriginal Tales from the Dreaming, page 58,
Gaygar could hear her people cooee out to her, "COOEE, GAYGAR! COOEE, GAYGAR!" they would cry.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to attract someone's attention.
senses_topics:
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2717 | word:
VB
word_type:
name
expansion:
VB
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Victoria Bitter (an Australian brand of beer)
Initialism of Virginia Beach (independent coastal city in Virginia)
Initialism of Visual Basic
senses_topics:
computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
2718 | word:
VB
word_type:
noun
expansion:
VB (countable and uncountable, plural VBs)
forms:
form:
VBs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of valence bond.
Initialism of vinylbenzene.
Initialism of volleyball.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
2719 | word:
demonstrative pronoun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
demonstrative pronoun (plural demonstrative pronouns)
forms:
form:
demonstrative pronouns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Note: In English they are the same as the demonstrative adjectives - this, that, these and those
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a pronoun that replaces a noun whose identity can be understood from the context; it indicates whether the noun is singular or plural, and whether it is near or far from the speaker or writer
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2720 | word:
young
word_type:
adj
expansion:
young (comparative younger, superlative youngest)
forms:
form:
younger
tags:
comparative
form:
youngest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
young
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuHn̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”).
senses_examples:
text:
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!
ref:
1809 October 26, William Wordsworth, “The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement”, in Friend, No. 11, ll. 4-5
type:
quotation
text:
What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society.
ref:
1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
type:
quotation
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:
a lamb is a young sheep; these picture books are for young readers
type:
example
text:
the age of space travel is still young; a young business
type:
example
text:
[…] while the Fears of the People were young, they were encreas’d strangely by several odd Accidents […]
ref:
1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
And thou, our Mother, twice two centuries young,
Bend with bright shafts of truth thy bow fresh-strung.
ref:
1906, Robertson Nicoll, Tis Forty Years Since, quoted in T. P.'s Weekly, volume 8, page 462
text:
How young is your dog? Her grandmother turned 70 years young last month.
type:
example
text:
The young Mr. Chester must be in the wrong, and the old Mr. Chester must be in the right.
ref:
1841, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
type:
quotation
text:
1922, E. Barrington, “The Mystery of Stella” in “The Ladies!” A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, pp. 40-41,
[…] Miss Hessy is as pretty a girl as eye can see, in her young twenties and a bit of a fortune to boot.
text:
Ephraim would be in his young thirties.
ref:
1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, London: Macmillan, Part One, Chapter 1
type:
quotation
text:
[…] while this may appeal to older, better-off shoppers, vast numbers, especially those in their teens and young twenties, still want fast, cheap fashion.
ref:
2008 January 20, Alice Fisher, “Grown-up chic is back as high street goes upmarket”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
My grandmother is a very active woman and is quite young for her age.
type:
example
text:
The cynical world soon shattered my young dreams.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
Junior (of two related people with the same name).
Early. (of a decade of life)
Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
Of or belonging to the early part of life.
Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
senses_topics:
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2721 | word:
young
word_type:
noun
expansion:
young (plural young)
forms:
form:
young
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
young
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuHn̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”).
senses_examples:
text:
The lion caught a gnu to feed its young.
type:
example
text:
The lion's young are curious about the world around them.
type:
example
text:
There is a logic in this behavior: a mother will not come into breeding condition again unless her young is ready to be weaned or has died, so killing a baby may hasten […]
ref:
2010, Mammal Anatomy: An Illustrated Guide, page 21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.
senses_topics:
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2722 | word:
young
word_type:
verb
expansion:
young (third-person singular simple present youngs, present participle younging, simple past and past participle younged)
forms:
form:
youngs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
younging
tags:
participle
present
form:
younged
tags:
participle
past
form:
younged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
young
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuHn̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”).
senses_examples:
text:
The aging (or younging) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger).
ref:
1993, Jacob S. Siegel, A Generation of Change, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Medicare data was "younged" by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census.
ref:
1984, US Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces.
ref:
1994, R. Kerrich, D.A. Wyman, “The mesothermal gold-lamprophyre association”, in Mineralogy and Petrology, →DOI
type:
quotation
text:
The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas.
ref:
2001 November 23, Paul Tapponnier et al., “Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau”, in Science, volume 294, number 5547, →DOI, pages 1671–1677
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become or seem to become younger.
To cause to appear younger.
To exhibit younging.
senses_topics:
demographics
demography
demographics
demography
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
2723 | word:
counterfeit
word_type:
adj
expansion:
counterfeit (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
counterfeit
etymology_text:
From Middle English counterfeit, countrefet, from Anglo-Norman countrefait, from Old French contrefait, from Latin contra- (“against”) + Latin facere (“to make”).
senses_examples:
text:
This counterfeit watch looks like the real thing, but it broke a week after I bought it.
type:
example
text:
Finding out Irish people might have been slaves is kind of like finding a counterfeit bill where you're like, "You think I can use this for something?"
ref:
2023 October 28, Ryan Long, Irish Slaves
type:
quotation
text:
counterfeit sympathy
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
Inauthentic.
Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
senses_topics:
|
2724 | word:
counterfeit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
counterfeit (plural counterfeits)
forms:
form:
counterfeits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
counterfeit
etymology_text:
From Middle English counterfeit, countrefet, from Anglo-Norman countrefait, from Old French contrefait, from Latin contra- (“against”) + Latin facere (“to make”).
senses_examples:
text:
‘Revelation’, to a philosopher such as Plotinus, was not merely irrational: it led to second-rate counterfeits of traditional academic philosophical culture. It was as if the inhabitants of an underdeveloped country were to seek to catch up with western technology by claiming to have learnt nuclear physics through dreams and oracles.
ref:
1971, Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150—750, Thames & Hudson LTD, published 2013, page 53
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A non-genuine article; a fake.
One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
An impostor; a cheat.
senses_topics:
|
2725 | word:
counterfeit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
counterfeit (third-person singular simple present counterfeits, present participle counterfeiting, simple past and past participle counterfeited)
forms:
form:
counterfeits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
counterfeiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
counterfeited
tags:
participle
past
form:
counterfeited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
counterfeit
etymology_text:
From Middle English counterfeit, countrefet, from Anglo-Norman countrefait, from Old French contrefait, from Latin contra- (“against”) + Latin facere (“to make”).
senses_examples:
text:
to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.
type:
example
text:
The title page of White's original album includes a descriptive title page that identifies the contents as “the pictures of sondry things collected and counterfeited according to the truth,"
ref:
2008, Michael Gaudio, Engraving the savage: the New World and techniques of civilization, page xii
type:
quotation
text:
to counterfeit the voice of another person
type:
example
text:
Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee / At all his jokes, for many a joke had he.
ref:
1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Village Schoolmaster
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.
To produce a faithful copy of.
To feign; to mimic.
Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.
senses_topics:
card-games
poker |
2726 | word:
relative pronoun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
relative pronoun (plural relative pronouns)
forms:
form:
relative pronouns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pronoun that introduces a relative clause and refers to an antecedent. In English, some words that can be used as interrogative pronouns can alternatively be used as relative pronouns: which, who, whose, whom and (non-standard) what. The other English relative pronouns are whoever, whomever, whatever, and that.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2727 | word:
thee
word_type:
pron
expansion:
thee (second-person singular, objective case, nominative thou, reflexive thyself)
forms:
form:
thou
tags:
nominative
form:
thyself
tags:
reflexive
wikipedia:
thee
etymology_text:
From Middle English þe, from Old English þē (“thee”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-Germanic *þiz (“thee”), from Proto-Indo-European *te (“second-person singular pronoun”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian die (“thee”), West Frisian dy (“thee”), German Low German di (“thee”), German dir (“thee”, dative pron.), Icelandic þér (“thee”). More at thou.
senses_examples:
text:
Prince Henry: Did I ever call for thee to pay thy part?
Falstaff: No; I'll give thee thy due, thou hast paid all there.
ref:
1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV part 1, act 1, scene 2, lines 49–50
type:
quotation
text:
Michael, this my behest have thou in charge,
Take to thee from among the Cherubim
Thy choice of flaming Warriours, least the Fiend
ref:
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
type:
quotation
text:
Come, O thou Traveller unknown, / Whom still I hold, but cannot see! / My company before is gone, / And I am left alone with Thee; / With Thee all night I mean to stay, / And wrestle till the break of day.
ref:
1742, “Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown”, Charles Wesley (music)
type:
quotation
text:
[H]e immediately perceived when I was taken ill, and, after seeing Mama, said to me "I am afraid Thee art not well thyself?"
ref:
1773, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
"What does thee want, father?" said Rachel.
ref:
1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Objective and reflexive case of thou.
Thou.
senses_topics:
|
2728 | word:
thee
word_type:
verb
expansion:
thee (third-person singular simple present thees, present participle theeing, simple past and past participle theed)
forms:
form:
thees
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
theeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
theed
tags:
participle
past
form:
theed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
thee
etymology_text:
From Middle English þe, from Old English þē (“thee”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-Germanic *þiz (“thee”), from Proto-Indo-European *te (“second-person singular pronoun”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian die (“thee”), West Frisian dy (“thee”), German Low German di (“thee”), German dir (“thee”, dative pron.), Icelandic þér (“thee”). More at thou.
senses_examples:
text:
What! doſt thou not believe that God's Thouing and theeing was and is ſound Speech? [...] And theeing & Thouing of one ſingle Perſon was the language of Chriſt Jeſus, and the Holy Prophets and Apoſtles both under the Diſpenſations of Law and Goſpel, [...]
ref:
1677, William Gibson, “An Answer to John Cheyney’s Pamphlet Entituled The Shibboleth of Quakerism”, in The Life of God, which is the Light and Salvation of Men, Exalted: […], [London]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
The hardcore role-players will wake up one day feeling, like a dead weight on their chest, the strain of endless texting in Renaissance Faire English—yet dutifully go on theeing and thouing all the same.
ref:
2006, Julian Dibbell, chapter 5, in Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books
type:
quotation
text:
You want to hear the word of God, and be challenged to go out and change the world. Instead, you are, for the fifth Sunday in a row, mewling on about purple-headed mountains (which is a bit of an imaginative stretch, since you live in East Anglia) and "theeing" and "thouing" all over the place.
ref:
2009, David R. Keeston [pseudonym; Alan D. Jenkins], “Seeing God in the Ordinary”, in The Hitch Hikers’ Guide to the Gospel, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, page 39
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
To use the word thee.
senses_topics:
|
2729 | word:
thee
word_type:
verb
expansion:
thee (third-person singular simple present thees, present participle theeing, simple past and past participle theed)
forms:
form:
thees
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
theeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
theed
tags:
participle
past
form:
theed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
thee
etymology_text:
From Middle English theen (“to increase, prosper, flourish”), from Old English þēon (“to thrive, prosper, flourish, grow”), from Proto-Germanic *þinhaną (“to thrive, succeed”), from Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (“to succeed, turn out well”). Cognate with Dutch gedijen (“to flourish, thrive, prosper, succeed”), German gedeihen (“to thrive”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gaþeihan, “to increase, thrive”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To thrive; prosper.
senses_topics:
|
2730 | word:
thee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thee (plural thees)
forms:
form:
thees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
thee
etymology_text:
From Pitman zee, which it is related to phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The letter ⟨(⟩, which stands for the th sound /ð/ in Pitman shorthand.
senses_topics:
|
2731 | word:
thee
word_type:
article
expansion:
thee
forms:
wikipedia:
thee
etymology_text:
Respelling of the popularized by Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of the
senses_topics:
|
2732 | word:
wound
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wound (plural wounds)
forms:
form:
wounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-Germanic *wundō. Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōną.
senses_examples:
text:
The visitors were without Wayne Rooney after he suffered a head wound in training, which also keeps him out of England's World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.
ref:
2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
senses_topics:
|
2733 | word:
wound
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wound (third-person singular simple present wounds, present participle wounding, simple past and past participle wounded)
forms:
form:
wounds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wounding
tags:
participle
present
form:
wounded
tags:
participle
past
form:
wounded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-Germanic *wundō. Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōną.
senses_examples:
text:
The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.
type:
example
text:
The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.
type:
example
text:
I find neglect or rejection from my own community much harder to take and more wounding than the same thing or worse from the outside world.
ref:
1984 December 8, Michael Bronski, Andrea Loewenstein, “Family & Friends: Writers Talk Community”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 21, page 12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
To hurt (a person's feelings).
senses_topics:
|
2734 | word:
wound
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wound
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See wind (Etymology 2)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of wind
senses_topics:
|
2735 | word:
orange
word_type:
noun
expansion:
orange (countable and uncountable, plural oranges)
forms:
form:
oranges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Mon-Khmer *lŋaamder.?
Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga)bor.
Classical Persian نَارَنْگ (nārang)bor.
Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj)bor.
Old Occitan auranjabor.
Old French orengebor.
Middle English orenge
English orange
Inherited from Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by the place name Orange (which is from Gaulish and unrelated to the word for the fruit and color) and by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and un'arancia (“an orange”), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Early Classical Persian نَارَنْگْ (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), ultimately from Dravidian. Compare Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy), compound of நாரம் (nāram, “water”) and காய் (kāy, “fruit”); also Telugu నారంగము, నారింజ (nāraṅgamu, nāriñja), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅṅa), Kannada ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi)).
Originally borrowed as the surname (derived from the place name) in the 13th century, before the sense of the fruit was imported in the late 14th century and the color in 1510. In the color sense, largely displaced ġeolurēad, whence yellow-red.
For other cases of incorrect division (or, elision/rebracketing) like the Italian word above, see :Category:English rebracketings.
senses_examples:
text:
orange:
text:
“What you drinking?” “Orange and soda will go down nicely, thanks.” “Pint?” “Sure.” Andy headed for the bar, stopping along the way to kiss Shaunna and check she and Kris were OK for a drink. “Everything all right?” Sean asked.
ref:
2015 March 31, Debbie McGowan, Two By Two, Beaten Track Publishing, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
I ran out into the street and around the block, searching everywhere, and finally burst into O'Dowd's pub around the corner to see Thomas sitting at the bar drinking orange and eating a bag of crisps with two old men.
ref:
2015 May 7, Tosh Lavery, Tosh: An Amazing True Story Of Life, Death, Danger And Drama In The Garda Sub-Aqua Unit, Penguin UK
type:
quotation
text:
It transpired this lad was drinking orange and faculties were keen. There were one or two verbal exchanges, then I followed him into the car park. He said to the doorman, 'I won't be long.' He easily knocked me to the ground.
ref:
2018 May 25, Michael Nilsen, Beyond the Cave, Troubador Publishing Ltd, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
When the fast songs played, like the Beatles' 'Help' or The Rolling Stones' 'Satisfaction', Justin and I sat on two wooden chairs, drinking orange and holding hands. When the nuns weren't watching, I rested my head on his shoulder.
ref:
2021 June 10, Anna McPartlin, Waiting for the Miracle: Warm your heart this winter with this uplifting novel from the bestselling author of THE LAST DAYS OF RABBIT HAYES, Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
type:
quotation
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:orange.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
Specifically, a sweet orange or Citrus sinensis.
The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
Various drinks:
Orange juice.
Various drinks:
An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
Various drinks:
An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.
Various drinks
An orange-coloured roundel.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
2736 | word:
orange
word_type:
adj
expansion:
orange (comparative oranger or more orange, superlative orangest or most orange)
forms:
form:
oranger
tags:
comparative
form:
more orange
tags:
comparative
form:
orangest
tags:
superlative
form:
most orange
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Mon-Khmer *lŋaamder.?
Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga)bor.
Classical Persian نَارَنْگ (nārang)bor.
Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj)bor.
Old Occitan auranjabor.
Old French orengebor.
Middle English orenge
English orange
Inherited from Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by the place name Orange (which is from Gaulish and unrelated to the word for the fruit and color) and by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and un'arancia (“an orange”), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Early Classical Persian نَارَنْگْ (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), ultimately from Dravidian. Compare Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy), compound of நாரம் (nāram, “water”) and காய் (kāy, “fruit”); also Telugu నారంగము, నారింజ (nāraṅgamu, nāriñja), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅṅa), Kannada ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi)).
Originally borrowed as the surname (derived from the place name) in the 13th century, before the sense of the fruit was imported in the late 14th century and the color in 1510. In the color sense, largely displaced ġeolurēad, whence yellow-red.
For other cases of incorrect division (or, elision/rebracketing) like the Italian word above, see :Category:English rebracketings.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.
senses_topics:
|
2737 | word:
orange
word_type:
verb
expansion:
orange (third-person singular simple present oranges, present participle oranging, simple past and past participle oranged)
forms:
form:
oranges
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
oranging
tags:
participle
present
form:
oranged
tags:
participle
past
form:
oranged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Mon-Khmer *lŋaamder.?
Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga)bor.
Classical Persian نَارَنْگ (nārang)bor.
Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj)bor.
Old Occitan auranjabor.
Old French orengebor.
Middle English orenge
English orange
Inherited from Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by the place name Orange (which is from Gaulish and unrelated to the word for the fruit and color) and by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and un'arancia (“an orange”), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Early Classical Persian نَارَنْگْ (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), ultimately from Dravidian. Compare Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy), compound of நாரம் (nāram, “water”) and காய் (kāy, “fruit”); also Telugu నారంగము, నారింజ (nāraṅgamu, nāriñja), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅṅa), Kannada ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi)).
Originally borrowed as the surname (derived from the place name) in the 13th century, before the sense of the fruit was imported in the late 14th century and the color in 1510. In the color sense, largely displaced ġeolurēad, whence yellow-red.
For other cases of incorrect division (or, elision/rebracketing) like the Italian word above, see :Category:English rebracketings.
senses_examples:
text:
It is this composition which reaches a colourist perfection in Le Bonheur with the complementarity of violet, purple and oranged gold
ref:
1986, Gilles Deleuze, Cinema: The movement-image, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
Jeff winked his eyes sleepily open and looked out into the cool flush of early morning. The east was oranged over with daybreak.
ref:
1987, Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie, page 256
type:
quotation
text:
I looked at him through my binoculars, his little lips oranged with Cheeto dust.
ref:
2009, Suzanne Crowley, The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
Cranes in the distance against the background of the slowly oranging sky
ref:
2007, Terézia Mora, Day in day out, page 296
type:
quotation
text:
It will be followed by a disappearance of the cash I had hidden in a sealed envelope behind the oranging Modigliani print over the living room couch.
ref:
2008, Wanda Coleman, Jazz & twelve o'clock tales: new stories, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
"What about his eyes?" / "Nothing. No oranging at all, from what I could see.
ref:
2010, Justin Cronin, The Passage, page 330
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To color orange.
To become orange.
senses_topics:
|
2738 | word:
definite article
word_type:
noun
expansion:
definite article (plural definite articles)
forms:
form:
definite articles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An article that introduces a noun and specifies it as the particular noun that is being considered; in English, the only definite article is the and its variations.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2739 | word:
epitaph
word_type:
noun
expansion:
epitaph (plural epitaphs)
forms:
form:
epitaphs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French epitafe, from Late Latin epitaphium (“eulogy”), from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios, “relating to a funeral”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + τάφος (táphos, “tomb”).
senses_examples:
text:
The church itself, or at all events the squat and tiny tower, has not altered much since Lamb saw it. But the epitaphs have gone. Search among the ivies and yews of the shady little churchyard will discover a number of flat, weatherworn slabs of stone, but the verses and the signatures have vanished.
ref:
1909, Eric Parker, chapter XXIII, in Highways and Byways in Surrey
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased.
A poem or other short text written in memory of a deceased person.
senses_topics:
|
2740 | word:
epitaph
word_type:
verb
expansion:
epitaph (third-person singular simple present epitaphs, present participle epitaphing, simple past and past participle epitaphed)
forms:
form:
epitaphs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
epitaphing
tags:
participle
present
form:
epitaphed
tags:
participle
past
form:
epitaphed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French epitafe, from Late Latin epitaphium (“eulogy”), from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios, “relating to a funeral”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + τάφος (táphos, “tomb”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Commons in their speeches epitaph upon him […] "He lived as a wolf and died as a dog."
ref:
1606, Joseph Hall, Heaven upon Earth
type:
quotation
text:
Let me rather be epitaphed the inventor of the English Hexameter.
ref:
1592, Gabriel Harvey, Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
To commemorate by an epitaph.
senses_topics:
|
2741 | word:
say
word_type:
verb
expansion:
say (third-person singular simple present says, present participle saying, simple past and past participle said)
forms:
form:
says
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
saying
tags:
participle
present
form:
said
tags:
participle
past
form:
said
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
say
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
say
etymology_text:
From Middle English seyen, seien, seggen, from Old English seċġan (“to say, speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną (“to say”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷ-h₁-yé-, a suffixed o-grade form of *sekʷ- (“to tell, talk”).
Cognate with West Frisian sizze (“to say”), Low German seggen (“to say”), Dutch zeggen (“to say”), German sagen (“to say”), Danish sige (“to say”), Norwegian Bokmål si (“to say”), Norwegian Nynorsk seia (“to say”), Swedish säga (“to say”), Yiddish זאָגן (zogn, “to say; to tell”).
The adverb and interjection are from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
Please say your name slowly and clearly.
type:
example
text:
Martha, will you say the Pledge of Allegiance?
type:
example
text:
He said he would be here tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
I want to say I’m sorry for yesterday. — It’s okay, Anna.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
The sign says it’s 50 kilometres to Paris.
type:
example
text:
They say "when in Rome, do as the Romans do", which means "behave as those around you do."
type:
example
text:
They say that Hope is happiness; But genuine Love must prize the past.
ref:
1815, George Gordon Byron, “They say that Hope is happiness”, in The Hebrew Melodies
type:
quotation
text:
It is said, a bargain cannot be set aside upon inadequacy only.
ref:
1819, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
It’s said that fifteen wagon loads of ready-made clothes for the Virginia troops came to, and stay in, town to-night.
ref:
1841, Christopher Marshall, The Knickerbocker (New-York Monthly Magazine), page 379
type:
quotation
text:
A holiday somewhere warm – Florida, say – would be nice.
type:
example
text:
Say he refuses. What do we do then?
type:
example
text:
Say your family is starving and you don't have any money, is it okay to steal some food?
type:
example
text:
I've followed Selina down the strip, when we're shopping, say, and she strolls on ahead, wearing sawn-off jeans and a wash-withered T-shirt[…]
ref:
1984, Martin Amis, Money: a suicide note
type:
quotation
text:
'My fifty pounds says three months after the invasion there'll be a free press in Iraq, and unmonitored internet access too.'
ref:
2005, Ian McEwan, Saturday, page 192
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pronounce.
To recite.
To tell, either verbally or in writing.
To indicate in a written form.
To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
senses_topics:
business
finance
money |
2742 | word:
say
word_type:
noun
expansion:
say (plural says)
forms:
form:
says
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
say
etymology_text:
From Middle English seyen, seien, seggen, from Old English seċġan (“to say, speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną (“to say”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷ-h₁-yé-, a suffixed o-grade form of *sekʷ- (“to tell, talk”).
Cognate with West Frisian sizze (“to say”), Low German seggen (“to say”), Dutch zeggen (“to say”), German sagen (“to say”), Danish sige (“to say”), Norwegian Bokmål si (“to say”), Norwegian Nynorsk seia (“to say”), Swedish säga (“to say”), Yiddish זאָגן (zogn, “to say; to tell”).
The adverb and interjection are from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
Above all, however, we would like to think that there is more to be decided, after the engines and after the humans have had their says.
ref:
2004, Richard Rogers, Information politics on the Web
type:
quotation
text:
He has consolidated the military's role in politics through an army-drafted 2017 constitution widely seen as designed to prevent Pheu Thai from returning to power and ensuring a continuing say for the army.
ref:
2019 February 8, Kocha Olarn, Helen Regan, “This princess could be the next prime minister of Thailand”, in CNN International Edition, Cable News Network, retrieved 2019-02-08
type:
quotation
text:
Sunday’s general election has been cast as a high-stakes contest between democracy and military rule, but critics say a new army-backed constitution gives junta-appointed officials a large say in the next government.
ref:
2019 March 22, Patpicha Tanakasempipat, Panarat Thepgumpanat, “Junta chief croons, ousted PM says 'we will win' in Thai election battle”, in Reuters, Reuters, retrieved 2019-03-23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision.
senses_topics:
|
2743 | word:
say
word_type:
adv
expansion:
say (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
say
etymology_text:
From Middle English seyen, seien, seggen, from Old English seċġan (“to say, speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną (“to say”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷ-h₁-yé-, a suffixed o-grade form of *sekʷ- (“to tell, talk”).
Cognate with West Frisian sizze (“to say”), Low German seggen (“to say”), Dutch zeggen (“to say”), German sagen (“to say”), Danish sige (“to say”), Norwegian Bokmål si (“to say”), Norwegian Nynorsk seia (“to say”), Swedish säga (“to say”), Yiddish זאָגן (zogn, “to say; to tell”).
The adverb and interjection are from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
Pick a color you think they'd like, say, peach.
type:
example
text:
He was driving pretty fast, say, fifty miles per hour.
type:
example
text:
He was a very old man, and was heavy, say about 250 pounds.
ref:
1894, T Miller, “Chapter 1”, in Over Five Seas and Oceans, From New York to Bangkok, Siam, and Return, New York: Albert Metz & Co., page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
For example; let us assume.
senses_topics:
|
2744 | word:
say
word_type:
intj
expansion:
say
forms:
wikipedia:
say
etymology_text:
From Middle English seyen, seien, seggen, from Old English seċġan (“to say, speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną (“to say”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷ-h₁-yé-, a suffixed o-grade form of *sekʷ- (“to tell, talk”).
Cognate with West Frisian sizze (“to say”), Low German seggen (“to say”), Dutch zeggen (“to say”), German sagen (“to say”), Danish sige (“to say”), Norwegian Bokmål si (“to say”), Norwegian Nynorsk seia (“to say”), Swedish säga (“to say”), Yiddish זאָגן (zogn, “to say; to tell”).
The adverb and interjection are from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
Say, what did you think about the movie?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to gain someone's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion
senses_topics:
|
2745 | word:
say
word_type:
noun
expansion:
say (countable and uncountable, plural says)
forms:
form:
says
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
say
etymology_text:
From Middle French saie, from Latin saga, plural of sagum (“military cloak”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of fine cloth similar to serge.
senses_topics:
|
2746 | word:
say
word_type:
verb
expansion:
say (third-person singular simple present says, present participle saying, simple past and past participle sayed)
forms:
form:
says
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
saying
tags:
participle
present
form:
sayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
sayed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
say
etymology_text:
Aphetic form of assay.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To try; to assay.
senses_topics:
|
2747 | word:
say
word_type:
noun
expansion:
say (plural says)
forms:
form:
says
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
say
etymology_text:
Aphetic form of assay.
senses_examples:
text:
If those principal works of God […] be but certain tastes and says, as if were, of that final benefit.
ref:
, page 193
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
Tried quality; temper; proof.
Essay; trial; attempt.
senses_topics:
|
2748 | word:
say
word_type:
noun
expansion:
say (plural says)
forms:
form:
says
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
say
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A strainer for milk.
senses_topics:
|
2749 | word:
cube
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cube (plural cubes)
forms:
form:
cubes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cube
etymology_text:
From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
senses_examples:
text:
a sugar cube
type:
example
text:
a stock cube
type:
example
text:
the cube of 2 is 8
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
2750 | word:
cube
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cube (third-person singular simple present cubes, present participle cubing, simple past and past participle cubed)
forms:
form:
cubes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cubing
tags:
participle
present
form:
cubed
tags:
participle
past
form:
cubed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
cube
etymology_text:
From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
senses_examples:
text:
Three cubed can be written as 3³, and equals twenty-seven.
type:
example
text:
Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
type:
example
text:
He likes to cube now and then.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
To form into the shape of a cube.
To cut into cubes.
To use a Rubik's cube.
senses_topics:
arithmetic
|
2751 | word:
cube
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cube (plural cubes)
forms:
form:
cubes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cube
etymology_text:
Clipped form of cubicle (with intentional reference to their common shape per cube, etymology 1), which from Latin cubiculum (“a small bedchamber or lounge”), from cubare (“to lie down”).
senses_examples:
text:
My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
senses_topics:
|
2752 | word:
carcass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
carcass (plural carcasses)
forms:
form:
carcasses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Carcass
etymology_text:
Dated from the late 13th Century C.E.; from Anglo-Norman carcois, possibly related to Old French charcois. Cognate with French carcasse.
senses_examples:
text:
Plate 31, figure B shows a desiccated carcass in the ventral position with a sharp S curvature in the vertebral column. Such pronounced drying-out of a carcass probably happens only when it is quickly carried to a dry place and exposed to the strong rays of the sun.
ref:
1989, Johannes Weigelt, Recent Vertebrate Carcasses and Their Paleobiological Implications, page 152
type:
quotation
text:
Despite all of the groups' experiences with leopards and carcasses in trees, neither the vervets nor the baboons gave alarm calls at the sight of the carcass alone.
ref:
1992, Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth, How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species, page 284
type:
quotation
text:
Instead, the majority of studies involve freezing the carcasses until time permits the analysis.
ref:
2005, Maria S. Johnson, Tim R. Nagy, “Chapter 10: Animal Body Composition Methods”, in Steven B. Heymsfield, Timothy G. Lohman, ZiMian Wang, Scott B. Going, editors, Human Body Composition, 2nd edition, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
1961, D. M. Doty, John C. Pierce, Beef Muscle Characteristics as Related to Carcass Grade, Carcass Weight, and Degree of Aging, US Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 1231, page 33,
Lean flavor scores for this muscle were lower than those for ribeye, especially in Prime grade carcasses.
text:
The most important is the carcass but the liver, kidneys and, to a limited extent, various other visceral components also have value as food items.[…]For example, the carcasses from sheep and cattle have the head removed immediately after slaughter but in pigs this may be delayed until after chilling and further butchery.
ref:
2000, P. D. Warriss, Meat Science: An Introductory Text, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
In some countries, there is still a significant trade in chicken carcasses that have been plucked, but not eviscerated, by the producer. Subsequently, the carcass may be eviscerated by a butcher or in the kitchen of the consumer.
ref:
2000, Geoffrey C. Mead, Fresh and Further-Processed Poultry, Barbara Lund, Tony C. Baird-Parker (editors), Microbiological Safety and Quality of Food, page 464
type:
quotation
text:
The tyres used on DC-8s have a tread portion that contains three fabric re-enforcing layers. These layers protect the tyre carcass to some extent against foreign object damage. A tyre tread, however, does not contribute to the carcass integrity; even when a tyre is worn to the third fabric layer, the normal change point, it does not lose any structural integrity. The mandatory change point for a tyre is when it is worn to the carcass layer; however, at this point, the tyre could not undergo a retread.
ref:
1993 June, Presidency of Civil Aviation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, “1.16.5 Wear Characteristics of Aviation Tyres”, in McDonnell-Douglas DC-8-61, C-GMXQ, accident at King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on 11 July 1991, archived from the original on 2022-05-14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The body of a dead animal.
The body of a slaughtered animal, stripped of unwanted viscera, etc.
The body of a dead human, a corpse.
The framework of a structure, especially one not normally seen.
An early incendiary ship-to-ship projectile consisting of an iron shell filled with saltpetre, sulphur, resin, turpentine, antimony and tallow with vents for flame.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
2753 | word:
subordinate clause
word_type:
noun
expansion:
subordinate clause (plural subordinate clauses)
forms:
form:
subordinate clauses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence, but functions as either a noun, adjective or adverb in a sentence.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2754 | word:
triangle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
triangle (plural triangles)
forms:
form:
triangles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*tréyes
From Middle English triangle, from Old French triangle, from Latin triangulum, noun use of adjective triangulus (“three-cornered, having three angles”), from trēs (“three”) + angulus (“corner, angle”), equivalent to tri- + angle.
senses_examples:
text:
The wedge-shaped character was the triangle, the archaic Paleolithic sign of the vulva; the pubic triangle was at the end of the phallic stylus.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 22
type:
quotation
text:
One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.
ref:
2009, Neil McDonald, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 104
text:
But nothing is said as to what we are to do with the negro when we have cut him off from absolute dominion; we are not informed if we may spread him on the triangles as aforetime;
ref:
1868, “The Week”, in The Nation, volume 6, number 149
type:
quotation
text:
After turning on the triangle at Jeumont, we set off light engine back to Aulnoye.
ref:
1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 147
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A polygon with three sides and three angles.
A set square.
A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
A love triangle.
The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound when undergoing corporal punishment.
Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
rail-transport
railways
transport |
2755 | word:
millipede
word_type:
noun
expansion:
millipede (plural millipedes)
forms:
form:
millipedes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin millipeda (“wood louse”), from mille (“thousand”) + pedis (“foot”), equivalent to milli- + -pede.
senses_examples:
text:
With one or two exceptions, male millipedes make direct contact with the female and transfer sperm via a pair of modified front legs (gonopods) which have been charged with semen from the genitalia situated towards the rear of the body.
ref:
1993, Rod Preston-Mafham, The Encyclopedia of Land Invertebrate Behaviour, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
When alive, millipedes maintain tension in these muscles and are therefore difficult to straighten out when coiled.
ref:
2005, Thomas Eisner, For Love of Insects, page 276
type:
quotation
text:
Soil millipedes (Diplopoda) possess a specific gut microbiota that differs from microbial communities in soil and leaf litter.
ref:
2006, Boris A. Byzov, “4: Intestinal Microbiota of Millipedes”, in Helmut König, Ajit Varma, editors, Intestinal Microorganisms of Termites and Other Invertebrates, page 89
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of many elongated arthropods, of the class Diplopoda, with cylindrical bodies that have two pairs of legs for each one of their 20 to 100 or more body segments.
senses_topics:
|
2756 | word:
possessive pronoun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
possessive pronoun (plural possessive pronouns)
forms:
form:
possessive pronouns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The possessive pronouns are, my, thy, his, her, its, our, your, their, own.
ref:
1878, Geo. F. Holmes, A Grammar of the English Language, page 66
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pronoun which expresses possession.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2757 | word:
Asian lion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Asian lion (plural Asian lions)
forms:
form:
Asian lions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Panthera leo persica, a subspecies of lion that inhabited Asia.
senses_topics:
|
2758 | word:
loan word
word_type:
noun
expansion:
loan word (plural loan words)
forms:
form:
loan words
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of loanword.
senses_topics:
|
2759 | word:
snow leopard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
snow leopard (plural snow leopards)
forms:
form:
snow leopards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large feline mammal, Panthera uncia (syn. Uncia uncia), native to mountain ranges of central Asia.
senses_topics:
|
2760 | word:
Frisian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Frisian
forms:
wikipedia:
Frisian languages
etymology_text:
From Middle English Frisoun, taken from Old French frison (“a Frisian”), itself derived from Latin Frīsiī (“Frisians”). Displaced native Old English Frīsa (“a Frisian”); see the plural Frīsan for more.
senses_examples:
text:
In the province of Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands, a high percentage of the population, about 350000, speak Frisian as their first language.
ref:
1998, Colin Baker, Sylvia Prys Jones, Encyclopedia of bilingualism and bilingual education, page 405
type:
quotation
text:
This means that full competence in both Frisian and Dutch (ie understanding, speaking, reading and writing ability) is aimed at all pupils in the province, whether they speak Frisian or Dutch at home.
ref:
2000, Jasone Cenoz, Ulrike Jessner, English in Europe: the acquisition of a third language, page 223
type:
quotation
text:
Many Frisians speak Frisian at home and Dutch at work.
ref:
2005, Pat Seward, Sunandini Arora Lal, Netherlands, page 89
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Germanic language group or language (see Usage notes), or a lect thereof, which descended from Old Frisian, with speakers in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.
The West Frisian (or Western Frisian) lect, spoken in the northern Netherlands.
A Germanic language group or language (see Usage notes), or a lect thereof, which descended from Old Frisian, with speakers in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.
Saterland Frisian, the last surviving dialect of the East Frisian lect, spoken in Northern Germany close to the Dutch border.
A Germanic language group or language (see Usage notes), or a lect thereof, which descended from Old Frisian, with speakers in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.
The North Frisian lect, spoken in northwestern Schleswig-Holstein in Germany.
senses_topics:
|
2761 | word:
Frisian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Frisian (plural Frisians)
forms:
form:
Frisians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Frisian languages
etymology_text:
From Middle English Frisoun, taken from Old French frison (“a Frisian”), itself derived from Latin Frīsiī (“Frisians”). Displaced native Old English Frīsa (“a Frisian”); see the plural Frīsan for more.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of the Germanic ethnic group which is native to the region of Frisia (which is in the Netherlands, northern Germany, and southern Denmark).
A person who is from or who has long resided in the Dutch province of Friesland.
senses_topics:
|
2762 | word:
Frisian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Frisian (comparative more Frisian, superlative most Frisian)
forms:
form:
more Frisian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Frisian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Frisian languages
etymology_text:
From Middle English Frisoun, taken from Old French frison (“a Frisian”), itself derived from Latin Frīsiī (“Frisians”). Displaced native Old English Frīsa (“a Frisian”); see the plural Frīsan for more.
senses_examples:
text:
Because the instruction manual was Frisian, Yves couldn't read it.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, in or relating to the Frisian language or a Frisian language.
Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Frisia; to people of Frisian descent.
Of or relating to the region of Frisia.
Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of the Dutch province of Friesland.
Of or relating to the Dutch province of Friesland.
senses_topics:
|
2763 | word:
impersonal subject
word_type:
noun
expansion:
impersonal subject (plural impersonal subjects)
forms:
form:
impersonal subjects
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a pronoun such as it used as the subject of a clause involving weather, distance, or time
senses_topics:
|
2764 | word:
main verb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
main verb (plural main verbs)
forms:
form:
main verbs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a clause, the verb with the highest semantic content, contrasted with auxiliary verb.
In a sentence, the main-clause verb with the highest semantic content.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2765 | word:
keyboard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
keyboard (plural keyboards)
forms:
form:
keyboards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:keyboard
etymology_text:
From key + board.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A set of keys used to operate a typewriter, computer etc.
A component of many instruments including the piano, organ, and harpsichord consisting of usually black and white keys that cause different tones to be produced when struck.
A device with keys of a musical keyboard, used to control electronic sound-producing devices which may be built into or separate from the keyboard device.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
2766 | word:
keyboard
word_type:
verb
expansion:
keyboard (third-person singular simple present keyboards, present participle keyboarding, simple past and past participle keyboarded)
forms:
form:
keyboards
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
keyboarding
tags:
participle
present
form:
keyboarded
tags:
participle
past
form:
keyboarded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:keyboard
etymology_text:
From key + board.
senses_examples:
text:
Keyboarding is the part of this job I hate the most.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To type on a computer keyboard.
senses_topics:
|
2767 | word:
main clause
word_type:
noun
expansion:
main clause (plural main clauses)
forms:
form:
main clauses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A clause that can stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence and contains at least a subject and a verb.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2768 | word:
genitive case
word_type:
noun
expansion:
genitive case (plural genitive cases)
forms:
form:
genitive cases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Noun case used to express some relationship such as possession or origin. It corresponds roughly to the English preposition “of” and the suffix “-'s”.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2769 | word:
five
word_type:
num
expansion:
five
forms:
wikipedia:
Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law
five
etymology_text:
PIE word
*pénkʷe
From Middle English five, vif, fif, from Old English fīf (“five”), from Proto-West Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.
See also West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf, Norwegian and Swedish fem, Icelandic fimm; also Welsh pump, Latin quinque, Tocharian A päñ, Tocharian B piś, Lithuanian penki, Russian пять (pjatʹ), Albanian pesë, pêsë, Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), Armenian հինգ (hing), Persian پنج (panj), Sanskrit पञ्च (páñca). Doublet of cinque, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi and related to Pompeii.
The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.
senses_examples:
text:
The r-stems had apparently been reduced to the five nuclear kinship terms that still survive in Modern English.
ref:
2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 197
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.
Describing a group or set with five elements.
senses_topics:
|
2770 | word:
five
word_type:
noun
expansion:
five (plural fives)
forms:
form:
fives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law
five
etymology_text:
PIE word
*pénkʷe
From Middle English five, vif, fif, from Old English fīf (“five”), from Proto-West Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.
See also West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf, Norwegian and Swedish fem, Icelandic fimm; also Welsh pump, Latin quinque, Tocharian A päñ, Tocharian B piś, Lithuanian penki, Russian пять (pjatʹ), Albanian pesë, pêsë, Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), Armenian հինգ (hing), Persian پنج (panj), Sanskrit पञ्च (páñca). Doublet of cinque, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi and related to Pompeii.
The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.
senses_examples:
text:
He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.
type:
example
text:
Can anyone here change a five?
type:
example
text:
All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.
type:
example
text:
The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.
type:
example
text:
See you at five.
type:
example
text:
Take five, soldier.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The digit/figure 5.
A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver.
Anything measuring five units, as length.
A person who is five years old.
Five o'clock.
A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
A basketball team, club or lineup.
senses_topics:
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
2771 | word:
accusative case
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accusative case (plural accusative cases)
forms:
form:
accusative cases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In English and other modern languages, the case used to mark the immediate object (direct object) on which the transitive verb acts. In Latin grammar, the accusative case (cāsus accūsātīvus) includes functions derived from the Indo-European accusative and lative cases; said Lative Case expresses concepts similar to those of the English prepositions "to" and "towards".
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2772 | word:
its
word_type:
det
expansion:
its
forms:
wikipedia:
its
etymology_text:
Equivalent to it + -s (possessive marker). From the earlier form it's (it + -'s), which is now considered nonstandard. Began to displace his as the possessive of the neuter pronoun in the Middle English period; had fully displaced it by the 1700s.
senses_examples:
text:
since I have been at the Pains to write it, if he consents to it's being published I will follow my Friend's Advice, and chiefly yours.
ref:
1751, G. Burnett, translated by Thomas More, Utopia
type:
quotation
text:
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land. (originally "of it own accord" in the 1611 first edition)
ref:
1763, Authorized King James Version of the Bible, Oxford Standard Text, Leviticus 25:5
text:
They descended the hill, crossed the bridge, and drove to the door; and, while examining the nearer aspect of the house, all her apprehensions of meeting its owner returned.
ref:
1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
type:
quotation
text:
The Chinese government is at war with its own people.
ref:
1989 June 5, Jasper Becker, John Gittings, The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to it.
senses_topics:
|
2773 | word:
its
word_type:
pron
expansion:
its
forms:
wikipedia:
its
etymology_text:
Equivalent to it + -s (possessive marker). From the earlier form it's (it + -'s), which is now considered nonstandard. Began to displace his as the possessive of the neuter pronoun in the Middle English period; had fully displaced it by the 1700s.
senses_examples:
text:
… both Houses have resolved to rob the North of a good friend of its and yours.
ref:
1645, Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton, Letter to Ferdinando Fairfax, 6 February 1645
text:
EBay Canada argued in court that the data sought by tax collectors was not its to give.
ref:
2007 October 1, Ian Austen, “Canadian Court Opens Up eBay Data to Tax Agency”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
...the Board of Trade of Chicago can at least feel that it has played its part manfully and patriotically, and that no act of its has stood in the way of National victory.
ref:
1917, Charles Henry Taylor, History of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, volume 2, page 1259
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The one (or ones) belonging to it.
senses_topics:
|
2774 | word:
its
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
its
forms:
wikipedia:
its
etymology_text:
Contraction of it is.
senses_examples:
text:
As for the main bulk of Palaces, its true ſome have a greatneſs in plainneſs, […]
ref:
1662, Balthazar Gerbier, A Brief Discourse Concerning the Three Chief Principles of Magnificent Building. Viz. Solidity, Conveniency, and Ornament., London, page 37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of it's.
senses_topics:
|
2775 | word:
its
word_type:
noun
expansion:
its
forms:
wikipedia:
its
etymology_text:
From it + -s (plural suffix).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of it
senses_topics:
|
2776 | word:
six
word_type:
num
expansion:
six
forms:
wikipedia:
six
etymology_text:
From Middle English six, from Old English six, from Proto-West Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Compare West Frisian seis, Dutch zes, Low German söss, sess, German sechs, Norwegian and Danish seks, also Latin sex, Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx), Sanskrit षष् (ṣaṣ). Doublet of sice. Toilet sense predates military usage.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and preceding seven. This many dots: (••••••).
senses_topics:
|
2777 | word:
six
word_type:
noun
expansion:
six (plural sixes)
forms:
form:
sixes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
six
etymology_text:
From Middle English six, from Old English six, from Proto-West Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Compare West Frisian seis, Dutch zes, Low German söss, sess, German sechs, Norwegian and Danish seks, also Latin sex, Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx), Sanskrit षष् (ṣaṣ). Doublet of sice. Toilet sense predates military usage.
senses_examples:
text:
In Austria the prisoners rise at five, [...]. There are morning prayers at a quarter to six, after which the prisoners are conducted to work.
ref:
1838, Francis Bisset Hawkins, chapter XIII, in Germany: The Spirit of Her History, Literature, Social Condition and National Economy, Illustrated by Reference to Her Physical, Moral and Political Statistics, etc., →OCLC, page 228
type:
quotation
text:
cover my six
type:
example
text:
Just as having an enemy on your “six” is the hardest situation to escape, being on an enemy at six o'clock is the surest kill. Fighter pilots are always practicing maneuvers to get out from having another aircraft on their six.
ref:
2009, Bill Yenne, Aces High: The Heroic Saga of the Two Top-scoring American Aces of World War II, Penguin, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
England required 15 from the last over of the regular match. Ben Stokes hit a six and benefited when a throw from the deep hit him and went for four overthrows.
ref:
2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group or set with six elements.
The digit or figure 6.
Six o'clock.
Rear, behind (rear side of something).
An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team.
A touchdown.
A bathroom or toilet.
Small beer sold at six shillings per barrel.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
2778 | word:
dar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dar (plural dars)
forms:
form:
dars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Besides these peculiarities, our river abounds with the usual fresh water fish, such as the roach, dar, flounders, carp, chub, trout, &c.
ref:
1829, A Concise History and Description of the City and Cathedral of Worcester, page 100
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fish found in the Severn River; a dart or dace.
senses_topics:
|
2779 | word:
dar
word_type:
adv
expansion:
dar (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
African-American Vernacular form of there
senses_topics:
|
2780 | word:
dar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dar (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
African-American Vernacular form of there
senses_topics:
|
2781 | word:
dar
word_type:
pron
expansion:
dar
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
African-American Vernacular form of there
senses_topics:
|
2782 | word:
eight
word_type:
num
expansion:
eight
forms:
wikipedia:
eight
etymology_text:
From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.
Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”).
senses_examples:
text:
2009, Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”
Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a show based on two facts: 1) Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and 2) the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.
text:
He works eight hours a day.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
Describing a group or set with eight elements.
senses_topics:
|
2783 | word:
eight
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eight (plural eights)
forms:
form:
eights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
eight
etymology_text:
From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.
Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”).
senses_examples:
text:
Sharp at eight we were waiting on the wharf where the Messagerie boats lie, and wondering what the deuce was going to happen.
ref:
1905, Guy Newell Boothby, “The Treasure of Sacramento Nick”, in A Crime of the Under-Seas, London: Ward Lock & Co Limited, →OCLC, →OL
type:
quotation
text:
Miranda showed him in at a quarter to eight, accompanied by a pretty young woman she introduced as Erin d'Angelo.
ref:
1997 February 1 [1981 April 12], John Dunning, Deadline, New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., →OCLC, →OL, page 263
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The digit/figure 8.
Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.
A race in which such craft participate.
The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.
Eight o'clock.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
|
2784 | word:
eight
word_type:
adj
expansion:
eight (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
eight
etymology_text:
From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.
Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of eighth.
senses_topics:
|
2785 | word:
eight
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eight (plural eights)
forms:
form:
eights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
eight
etymology_text:
See ait.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of ait (island in a river)
senses_topics:
|
2786 | word:
Unicode
word_type:
name
expansion:
Unicode
forms:
wikipedia:
Unicode
etymology_text:
Published as a draft proposal in 1988, “intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding”. From uni- + code.
senses_examples:
text:
This character isn't in Unicode.
type:
example
text:
convert to Unicode
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.
The Unicode standards, together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
2787 | word:
Unicode
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Unicode (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Unicode
etymology_text:
Published as a draft proposal in 1988, “intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding”. From uni- + code.
senses_examples:
text:
Since most users on the site are westerners, we have banned Unicode in all text input boxes.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Characters from a contextually different script, often used in a nonstandard fashion. Sometimes used as an antonym to the characters of the Latin alphabet.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
2788 | word:
be
word_type:
verb
expansion:
be (highly irregular; see conjugation table)
forms:
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
be
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
be
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
be
etymology_text:
From Middle English been (“to be”).
further etymology of be and its conjugated forms
The various forms have three separate origins, which were mixed together at various times in the history of English.
* The forms beginning with b- come from Old English bēon (“to be, become”), from Proto-Germanic *beuną (“to be, exist, come to be, become”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt (“to grow, become, come into being, appear”), from the root *bʰuH-. In particular:
** Now-dialectal use of been as an infinitive of be is either from Middle English been (“to be”) or an extension of the past participle.
** Now-obsolete use of been as a plural present tense (meaning "are") is from Middle English been, be (present plural of been (“to be”), with the -n leveled in from the past and subjunctive; compare competing forms aren/are).
** Use of been as a past participle is from Middle English been, ybeen, from Old English ġebēon.
* The forms beginning with w- come from the aforementioned Old English bēon, which shared its past tense with the verb wesan, from Proto-West Germanic *wesan, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to reside”).
* The remaining forms (am, are, is) are also from Old English wesan (“to be”), from Proto-West Germanic *wesan, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti, from the root *h₁es-.
senses_examples:
text:
The dog was saved by the boy.
type:
example
text:
Study courses of Esperanto and Ido have been broadcast.
ref:
1995, C. K. Ogden, Psyche: An Annual General and Linguistic Psychology 1920-1952, C. K. Ogden, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
The woman is walking.
type:
example
text:
I shall be writing to you soon.
type:
example
text:
We liked to chat while we were eating.
type:
example
text:
In the possibility of radio uses of a constructed language — and such experiments are proving successful—vast sums of money and untold social forces may be involved.
ref:
1995, C. K. Ogden, Psyche: An Annual General and Linguistic Psychology 1920-1952, C. K. Ogden, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
I am to leave tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
They are to stay here until I return.
type:
example
text:
The season opener was to have been on Monday.
type:
example
text:
How were they to know the whole exercise was a ruse?
type:
example
text:
They were to have been married overseas but COVID forced a change of plans.
type:
example
text:
He is finished.
type:
example
text:
He is gone.
type:
example
text:
He is come. (archaic)
type:
example
text:
‘I wish that he were come to me, / For he will come,’ she said.
ref:
1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, ll.67-68
type:
quotation
text:
He is not here; for he is risen […].
ref:
Matthew 28:6 (various translations, from the King James Version of 1611 to Revised Version of 1881)
text:
The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning;
ref:
1922, A. E. Housman, Last Poems XXV, l.13, page 51
text:
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita: Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, he takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
ref:
1965, J. Robert Oppenheimer, The Decision to Drop the Bomb
type:
quotation
text:
His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world’s turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man’s will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.
ref:
1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
1996, David Sheffield, Barry W. Blaustein, Tom Shadyac and Steve Oedekerk, screenplay of The Nutty Professor
Women be shoppin’! You cannot stop a woman from shoppin’!
text:
Niggas be tellin' these bitches 'bout business
ref:
2020, Moneybagg Yo, Thug Cry
type:
quotation
text:
There is just one woman in town who can help us.
type:
example
text:
(or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
type:
example
text:
"There has been lots of commentary on who is staying and who is staying out and this weekend will be the real test," said one senior media buying agency executive who has pulled the advertising for one major client.
ref:
2011 July 6, Mark Sweney, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Hi, I’m Jim.
type:
example
text:
3 times 5 is fifteen.
type:
example
text:
These four are the ones going to the quarter-finals.
type:
example
text:
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
type:
example
text:
This is how we do it.
type:
example
text:
Rex is a dog.
type:
example
text:
A dog is an animal.
type:
example
text:
Dogs are animals.
type:
example
text:
The sky is blue.
type:
example
text:
Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. (Luke 22:42)
type:
example
text:
The sky is a deep blue today.
type:
example
text:
This building is three hundred years old.
type:
example
text:
I am 75 kilograms.
type:
example
text:
He’s about 6 feet tall.
type:
example
text:
I’m 20 (years old).
type:
example
text:
It is almost eight (o’clock).
type:
example
text:
It’s 8:30 [read eight-thirty] in Tokyo.
type:
example
text:
What time is it there? It’s night.
type:
example
text:
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to "My grandmother died three years ago", but emphasizes the intervening period)
type:
example
text:
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
type:
example
text:
I saw her Monday was a week: I saw her a week ago last Monday (a week before last Monday).
type:
example
text:
On the morning of Sunday was fortnight before Christmas: on the morning of the Sunday that was two weeks before the Sunday prior to Christmas.
type:
example
text:
And so, without as much as to return home to furnish myself for such a journey, volens, nolens, they prevailed, or rather forced me to come to Dublin to confer with those colonels, and that was the last August was twelvemonth.
ref:
1770, Historical Memoirs of the Irish Rebellion, in the year 1641 […] In a letter to Walter Harris, Esq; [By John Curry.] The fourth edition, with corrections throughout the whole, and large additions, by the author, Ireland, page 186
type:
quotation
text:
That they were present at the Election in August was Twelvemonth, at which there was the strictest Scrutiny that ever they saw in their Lives, by all the Four Candidates.
ref:
1803, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Journals of the House of Commons, page 249
type:
quotation
text:
'Twas there to-morrow is a week.
ref:
1895, Miss M. E. Rope of Suffolk, quoted by Joseph Wright, in The English Dialect Dictionary, page 202
text:
I killed my poor father, Tuesday was a week, for doing the like of that.
ref:
1907, John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World, I, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
Theobald Green gent dead in the Marshalsea in August was twelvemonth
John Grey gent delivered out of the Marshalsea about August last by Mr. Secretary and remains in St. Mary Overies.
John Jacob gent delivered out of the Marsh. the XVII of May was twelvemonth and sent to Bridewell by order of the Council.
ref:
1920 (published), St. George Kieran Hyland, A Century of Persecution Under Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns from Contemporary Records, London, Paul, page 402, quoting an earlier document, Loosley volume 5, no. 28, "List of Prisoners: In Sir W. More's handwriting"
text:
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
type:
example
text:
Why is it so dark in here?
type:
example
text:
When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.
ref:
2006 October 9, Kristin Newman (writer), Barney Stinson (character), How I Met Your Mother, season 2, episode 1
text:
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves."
type:
example
text:
Just be yourself.
type:
example
text:
Why is he being nice to me?
type:
example
text:
The Universe has no explanation: it just is.
type:
example
text:
That was the week that was.
type:
example
text:
There is surely a peece of Divinity in us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.
ref:
1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, II.2, link
type:
quotation
text:
And after this death there is to be no resurrection. The old man of sin has ceased to be; once crucified, he lives no more. The death is utter; the end complete.
ref:
1893, Andrew Martin Fairbairn, Christ in the Centuries, and Other Sermons, 2nd edition, volume 12, E.P. Dutton & Company, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!
ref:
1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese)
type:
quotation
text:
The genial hotel manager of the past is no more. Now owner of a trucking concern and living in Belgium, Rusesabagina says the horrors he witnessed in Rwanda "made me a different man."
ref:
2004 December 13, Richard Schickel, “Not Just an African Story”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
Let them be for a few hours.
type:
example
text:
Leave us be until the guests arrive.
type:
example
text:
The cup is on the table.
type:
example
text:
When will the meeting be?
type:
example
text:
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
type:
example
text:
I have been to Spain many times.
type:
example
text:
We've been about twenty miles.
type:
example
text:
I have terrible constipation – I haven't been for several days.
type:
example
text:
They have been through a great deal of trouble.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
As an auxiliary verb:
Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
As an auxiliary verb:
Used with present participles of verbs to form the continuous aspect.
As an auxiliary verb:
Used with to-infinitives of verbs to express intent, obligation, appropriateness, or relative future occurrence.
As an auxiliary verb:
Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
As an auxiliary verb:
To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect.
As a copulative verb:
To exist.
As a copulative verb:
Used to indicate that the subject and object are identical or equivalent.
As a copulative verb:
Used to indicate that the subject is an instance of the predicate nominal.
As a copulative verb:
Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective, prepositional phrase.
As a copulative verb:
Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
As a copulative verb:
Used to link a subject to a measurement.
As a copulative verb:
Used to state the age of a subject in years.
As a copulative verb:
Used to indicate the time of day.
As a copulative verb:
Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
As a copulative verb:
Used to link two noun clauses, the first of which is a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place), and the second of which is a period of time indicating how long ago that day was.
As a copulative verb:
Used to indicate ambient conditions such as weather, light, noise or air quality.
As a copulative verb:
To exist or behave in a certain way.
As an intransitive lexical verb:
To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
As an intransitive lexical verb:
To remain undisturbed in a certain state or situation.
As an intransitive lexical verb:
To occupy a place.
As an intransitive lexical verb:
To occur, to take place.
As an intransitive lexical verb:
Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
senses_topics:
|
2789 | word:
be
word_type:
prep
expansion:
be
forms:
wikipedia:
be
etymology_text:
A variant of by which goes back to Middle English be (variant of Middle English bi).
senses_examples:
text:
O ful tru un pertikler akeawnt o... th' greyt Eggshibishun. Be o felley fro Rachde.
ref:
1851, Oliver Ormerod, Felley fro Rachde
type:
quotation
text:
Go thy way vorth be tha vootsteps uv tha vlock.
ref:
1860, Henry Baird, The Song of Solomon in the Devonshire Dialect, i 8
type:
quotation
text:
Aw teuk me seat be day an' neet.
ref:
1870, Joseph Philip Robson, Evangeline: The Spirit of Progress, section 332
type:
quotation
text:
Fetchin' it yan... be a round about rooad.
ref:
1870, Roger Piketah, Forness Folk, section 44
type:
quotation
text:
Like a leeaf be firm decree / Mun fade an' fall.
ref:
1878, John Castillo, Poems in the North Yorkshire Dialect, section 35
type:
quotation
text:
‘I'll meet you agin to-morra,’ says he, ‘be the chapel-door.’
ref:
1885, Alfred Lord Tennyson, To-morrow
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of by. Also found in compounds, especially oaths, e.g. begorra.
senses_topics:
|
2790 | word:
be
word_type:
noun
expansion:
be (plural bes)
forms:
form:
bes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
be
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Russian бэ (bɛ).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Cyrillic script letter Б / б.
senses_topics:
|
2791 | word:
coordinating conjunction
word_type:
noun
expansion:
coordinating conjunction (plural coordinating conjunctions)
forms:
form:
coordinating conjunctions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A conjunction that joins two grammatical elements of the same status or construction. It can join subjects, objects, verbs, nouns, adjectives, phrases, and independent clauses.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2792 | word:
magenta
word_type:
noun
expansion:
magenta (countable and uncountable, plural magentas)
forms:
form:
magentas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Battle of Magenta
magenta
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French magenta, from Italian Magenta, sometime after the colour was named after the town to celebrate the Franco-Italian victory at the Battle of Magenta in 1859; possibly in reference to the colour of the uniforms worn by Zouave French troops there. The town's name derives from Latin castrum Maxentiae (“castle of Maxentius”).
senses_examples:
text:
web magenta (additive magenta):
text:
printer's magenta (subtractive magenta):
text:
Prismacolor magenta:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A colour which is close to an equal mixture of red and blue which is an additive secondary colour but a subtractive primary colour evoked by the combination of red and blue light.
senses_topics:
|
2793 | word:
magenta
word_type:
adj
expansion:
magenta (comparative more magenta, superlative most magenta)
forms:
form:
more magenta
tags:
comparative
form:
most magenta
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Battle of Magenta
magenta
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French magenta, from Italian Magenta, sometime after the colour was named after the town to celebrate the Franco-Italian victory at the Battle of Magenta in 1859; possibly in reference to the colour of the uniforms worn by Zouave French troops there. The town's name derives from Latin castrum Maxentiae (“castle of Maxentius”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.
senses_topics:
|
2794 | word:
new
word_type:
adj
expansion:
new (comparative newer, superlative newest)
forms:
form:
newer
tags:
comparative
form:
newest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English newe, from Old English nīewe, from Proto-West Germanic *niwi, from Proto-Germanic *niwjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *néwyos (“new”), from *néwos.
cognates
Cognate with Scots new (“new”), West Frisian nij (“new”), Dutch nieuw (“new”), Low German nee (“new”), German neu (“new”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ny (“new”), Icelandic nýr (“new”), Faroese nýggjur (“new”), Latin novus (“new”), Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”), Welsh newydd (“new”), Russian но́вый (nóvyj, “new”), Armenian նոր (nor, “new”), Persian نو (“now”),Northern Kurdish nû (“new”), Hindi नया (nayā, “new”), Tocharian B ñuwe (“new”).
Compare also Old English nū (“now”). More at now. Doublet of nuevo and novuss.
senses_examples:
text:
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
ref:
2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
This is a new scratch on my car! The band just released a new album.
type:
example
text:
I can't see you for a while; the pain is still too new. Did you see the new King Lear at the theatre?
type:
example
text:
We turned up some new evidence from the old files.
type:
example
text:
My new car is much better than my previous one, even though it is older. We had been in our new house for five years by then.
type:
example
text:
New Bond Street is an extension of Bond Street.
type:
example
text:
Are you going to buy a new car or a second-hand one?
type:
example
text:
That shirt is dirty. Go and put on a new one. I feel like a new person after a good night's sleep. After the accident, I saw the world with new eyes.
type:
example
text:
My sister has a new baby, and our mother is excited to finally have a grandchild.
type:
example
text:
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref:
2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
The idea was new to me. I need to meet new people.
type:
example
text:
Have you met the new guy in town? He is the new kid at school.
type:
example
text:
Don't worry that you're new at this job; you'll get better with time. I'm new at this business.
type:
example
text:
We expect to grow at 10% annually in the new decade.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Recently made, or created.
Recently made, or created.
Of recent origin; having taken place recently.
Additional; recently discovered.
Current or later, as opposed to former.
Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously existing.
In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used.
Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed.
Newborn.
Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known.
Recently arrived or appeared.
Inexperienced or unaccustomed at some task.
Next; about to begin or recently begun.
senses_topics:
|
2795 | word:
new
word_type:
adv
expansion:
new (comparative more new, superlative most new)
forms:
form:
more new
tags:
comparative
form:
most new
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English newe, from Old English nīewe, from Proto-West Germanic *niwi, from Proto-Germanic *niwjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *néwyos (“new”), from *néwos.
cognates
Cognate with Scots new (“new”), West Frisian nij (“new”), Dutch nieuw (“new”), Low German nee (“new”), German neu (“new”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ny (“new”), Icelandic nýr (“new”), Faroese nýggjur (“new”), Latin novus (“new”), Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”), Welsh newydd (“new”), Russian но́вый (nóvyj, “new”), Armenian նոր (nor, “new”), Persian نو (“now”),Northern Kurdish nû (“new”), Hindi नया (nayā, “new”), Tocharian B ñuwe (“new”).
Compare also Old English nū (“now”). More at now. Doublet of nuevo and novuss.
senses_examples:
text:
Near-synonym: recently
text:
new-born, new-formed, new-found, new-mown
text:
They are scraping the site clean to build new.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of newly, especially in composition.
As new; from scratch.
senses_topics:
|
2796 | word:
new
word_type:
noun
expansion:
new (usually uncountable, plural news)
forms:
form:
news
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English newe, from Old English nīewe, from Proto-West Germanic *niwi, from Proto-Germanic *niwjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *néwyos (“new”), from *néwos.
cognates
Cognate with Scots new (“new”), West Frisian nij (“new”), Dutch nieuw (“new”), Low German nee (“new”), German neu (“new”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ny (“new”), Icelandic nýr (“new”), Faroese nýggjur (“new”), Latin novus (“new”), Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”), Welsh newydd (“new”), Russian но́вый (nóvyj, “new”), Armenian նոր (nor, “new”), Persian نو (“now”),Northern Kurdish nû (“new”), Hindi नया (nayā, “new”), Tocharian B ñuwe (“new”).
Compare also Old English nū (“now”). More at now. Doublet of nuevo and novuss.
senses_examples:
text:
Out with the old, in with the new.
type:
example
text:
In the Britannia "news" were worms, to be trodden on […]
ref:
1956, Naval Review (London), volume 44, page 286
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Things that are new.
A typically light-coloured lager brewed by the bottom-fermentation method.
A naval cadet who has just embarked on training.
senses_topics:
government
military
naval
navy
politics
war |
2797 | word:
new
word_type:
verb
expansion:
new (third-person singular simple present news, present participle newing, simple past and past participle newed)
forms:
form:
news
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
newing
tags:
participle
present
form:
newed
tags:
participle
past
form:
newed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English newe, from Old English nīewe, from Proto-West Germanic *niwi, from Proto-Germanic *niwjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *néwyos (“new”), from *néwos.
cognates
Cognate with Scots new (“new”), West Frisian nij (“new”), Dutch nieuw (“new”), Low German nee (“new”), German neu (“new”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ny (“new”), Icelandic nýr (“new”), Faroese nýggjur (“new”), Latin novus (“new”), Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”), Welsh newydd (“new”), Russian но́вый (nóvyj, “new”), Armenian նոր (nor, “new”), Persian نو (“now”),Northern Kurdish nû (“new”), Hindi नया (nayā, “new”), Tocharian B ñuwe (“new”).
Compare also Old English nū (“now”). More at now. Doublet of nuevo and novuss.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of new up
To make new; to recreate; to renew.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
|
2798 | word:
subject clause
word_type:
noun
expansion:
subject clause (plural subject clauses)
forms:
form:
subject clauses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a clause that is the subject of a sentence
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2799 | word:
subordinating conjunction
word_type:
noun
expansion:
subordinating conjunction (plural subordinating conjunctions)
forms:
form:
subordinating conjunctions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word that appears at the beginning of a subordinate clause and establishes its nature.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
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