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2800 | word:
guanaco
word_type:
noun
expansion:
guanaco (plural guanacos or guanacoes)
forms:
form:
guanacos
tags:
plural
form:
guanacoes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae.
senses_topics:
|
2801 | word:
indefinite pronoun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
indefinite pronoun (plural indefinite pronouns)
forms:
form:
indefinite pronouns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pronoun that does not specify the identity of its referent.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2802 | word:
win
word_type:
verb
expansion:
win (third-person singular simple present wins, present participle winning, simple past won or (obsolete) wan, past participle won)
forms:
form:
wins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
winning
tags:
participle
present
form:
won
tags:
past
form:
wan
tags:
obsolete
past
form:
won
tags:
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
win
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
win
etymology_text:
From Middle English winnen, from Old English winnan (“to labour, swink, toil, trouble oneself; resist, oppose, contradict; fight, strive, struggle, rage; endure”) (compare Old English ġewinnan (“conquer, obtain, gain; endure, bear, suffer; be ill”)), from Proto-Germanic *winnaną (“to swink, labour, win, gain, fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, desire, love”). Cognate with Low German winnen, Dutch winnen, German gewinnen, Danish vinde, Norwegian Bokmål vinne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish vinna.
senses_examples:
text:
For and we doo bataille we two wyl fyghte with one knyȝt at ones
and therfore yf ye wille fyghte ſoo we wille be redy at what houre ye wille aſſigne
And yf ye wynne vs in bataille the lady ſhal haue her landes ageyne
ye ſay wel ſayd ſir Vwayne
ref:
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book IV
type:
quotation
roman:
therfor make yow redy ſo that ye be here to morne in the defence of the ladyes ryght
text:
For the glory, the power to win the Black Lord, I will search for the Emerald Sword.
ref:
1998, Rhapsody, Emerald Sword
type:
quotation
text:
I well may gang out, love, but I'll never win home.
ref:
c. 17th century, unknown author, The Baron of Brackley (traditional folk song)
text:
As this position was vulnerable, a trench was immediately begun from the junction of the Green Line with Lager Alley, back to the old British front line, in order to form a defensive flank for the protection of the troops of the 5th Infantry Brigade who had won through to their objective.
ref:
1922, Everard Wyrall, The History of the Second Division 1914-1918
type:
quotation
text:
Parson Brooke was transferred in a couple of years to the Southwark mint, on dissolution of which he won back to the Tower, there to experiment with machinery in Mary's reign.
ref:
1953, John Craig, The Mint: A History of the London Mint from A.D. 287 to 1948
type:
quotation
text:
to win the jackpot in a lottery; to win a bottle of wine in a raffle
type:
example
text:
Mr. Weston seems an excellent creature—quite a first-rate favourite with me already, I assure you. And she appears so truly good—there is something so motherly and kind-hearted about her, that it wins upon one directly.
ref:
1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 14
type:
quotation
text:
Who would win in a fight between an octopus and a dolphin?
type:
example
text:
Ever since the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Bostonians now run as "One Boston." The terrorists did not win.
type:
example
text:
The company hopes to win an order from the government worth over 5 million dollars.
type:
example
text:
The success of the economic policies should win Mr. Smith the next elections.
type:
example
text:
The policy success should win the elections for Mr. Smith.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To conquer, defeat.
To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).
To achieve victory.
To have power, coercion or control.
To obtain (something desired).
To cause a victory for someone.
To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
To defeat or surpass someone or something.
senses_topics:
business
mining
|
2803 | word:
win
word_type:
noun
expansion:
win (plural wins)
forms:
form:
wins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
win
etymology_text:
From Middle English winn, winne, from Old English winn (“toil, labor, trouble, hardship; profit, gain; conflict, strife, war”), from Proto-Germanic *winną (“labour, struggle, fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, desire, wish, love”). Cognate with German Gewinn (“profit, gain”), Dutch gewin (“profit, gain”).
senses_examples:
text:
Our first win of the season put us in high spirits.
type:
example
text:
Giovani dos Santos smashed home a third five minutes later to wrap up the win.
ref:
2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An individual victory.
A feat carried out successfully; a victorious achievement.
Gain; profit; income.
Wealth; goods owned.
senses_topics:
|
2804 | word:
win
word_type:
noun
expansion:
win
forms:
wikipedia:
win
etymology_text:
From Middle English wynne, winne, wunne, from Old English wynn (“joy, rapture, pleasure, delight, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnju, from Proto-Germanic *wunjō (“joy, delight, pleasure, lust”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, desire, love”).
Cognate with German Wonne (“bliss, joy, delight”), archaic Dutch wonne (“joy”), Danish ynde (“grace”), Icelandic yndi (“delight”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pleasure; joy; delight.
Alternative form of wynn
senses_topics:
|
2805 | word:
win
word_type:
verb
expansion:
win
forms:
wikipedia:
win
etymology_text:
From wind.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To dry by exposure to the wind.
senses_topics:
|
2806 | word:
Icelandic
word_type:
name
expansion:
Icelandic
forms:
wikipedia:
Icelandic language
etymology_text:
From Iceland + -ic.
senses_examples:
text:
Although it's hard for us to imagine, they see the pixels in a raw, uninterpreted fashion, and thus to them a TV screen is as drained of long-ago-and-far-away meaning as is, to you or me, a pile of fall leaves, a Jackson Pollock painting, or a newspaper article in Malagasy (my apologies to you if you speak Malagasy; in that case, please replace it by Icelandic — and don't tell me that you speak that language, too!).
ref:
2007, Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A North Germanic language, the national tongue of Iceland.
senses_topics:
|
2807 | word:
Icelandic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Icelandic (plural Icelandics)
forms:
form:
Icelandics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Icelandic language
etymology_text:
From Iceland + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Iceland; an Icelander.
An Icelandic horse.
senses_topics:
|
2808 | word:
Icelandic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Icelandic (comparative more Icelandic, superlative most Icelandic)
forms:
form:
more Icelandic
tags:
comparative
form:
most Icelandic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Icelandic language
etymology_text:
From Iceland + -ic.
senses_examples:
text:
Despite of the absence of Shaun Derry and Adel Taarabt because of illness and injury respectively, the home side began superbly. Helguson twice threatened early on with shots from the right-hand corner of the box before Anton Ferdinand spurned a great chance at the back post following the Icelandic striker's header back across goal.
ref:
2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the North Germanic language spoken in Iceland.
Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Iceland.
Of, relating to, or originating from Iceland.
senses_topics:
|
2809 | word:
simple present
word_type:
noun
expansion:
simple present (usually uncountable, plural simple presents)
forms:
form:
simple presents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
simple (“accompanied by no modal or auxiliary verb”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The present tense; a verb or sentence in this tense.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2810 | word:
subjunctive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
subjunctive (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin subjunctīvus (“serving to join, connecting, in grammar applies to the subjunctive mode”), from subjungere (“to add, join, subjoin”), from sub (“under”) + jungere (“to join, yoke”). See join.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2811 | word:
subjunctive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
subjunctive (countable and uncountable, plural subjunctives)
forms:
form:
subjunctives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin subjunctīvus (“serving to join, connecting, in grammar applies to the subjunctive mode”), from subjungere (“to add, join, subjoin”), from sub (“under”) + jungere (“to join, yoke”). See join.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of subjunctive mood.
A form in the subjunctive mood.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
2812 | word:
indirect object
word_type:
noun
expansion:
indirect object (plural indirect objects)
forms:
form:
indirect objects
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
indirect object
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A grammatical role of a ditransitive verb that manifests a secondary or passive participant in an action, often a recipient or goal.
The object of a monotransitive verb that it is not in the accusative case, especially when it is in the dative case.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2813 | word:
Slovak
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Slovak (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Slovak Slovák (“Slovak”), from a shortening of Proto-Slavic *slověninъ (“Slav”) + -ák. Related to Slovene.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Slovakia, the Slovak people or the Slovak language.
senses_topics:
|
2814 | word:
Slovak
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Slovak (countable and uncountable, plural Slovaks)
forms:
form:
Slovaks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Slovak Slovák (“Slovak”), from a shortening of Proto-Slavic *slověninъ (“Slav”) + -ák. Related to Slovene.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Slovakia or of Slovak descent.
The Slavic language of Slovakia.
senses_topics:
|
2815 | word:
negative clause
word_type:
noun
expansion:
negative clause (plural negative clauses)
forms:
form:
negative clauses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a clause that states a negative
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2816 | word:
direct verb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
direct verb (plural direct verbs)
forms:
form:
direct verbs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A verb that agrees in person and number with the subject of a clause, by conjugation. Conjugation is a form of inflection.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2817 | word:
worst
word_type:
adj
expansion:
worst
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English worste, wurste, warste, werste, wirste, from Old English wierrest, from Proto-Germanic *wirsistaz, superlative form of *ubilaz (“bad, evil”). Cognate with Old Saxon wirsista, wirrista (“worst”), Old High German wirst, wirsesto, wirsisto (“worst”), Danish værst (“worst”), Swedish värst (“worst”), Icelandic verstur (“worst”).
senses_examples:
text:
I think putting oil on a burn is the worst thing you can do.
type:
example
text:
That's the worst news I've had all day.
type:
example
text:
The worst storm we had last winter knocked down our power lines.
type:
example
text:
None of these photographs of me are good, but this one is definitely the worst.
type:
example
text:
I'm feeling really ill — the worst I've felt all week.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
superlative form of bad: most bad
Most inferior; doing the least good.
superlative form of bad: most bad
Most unfavorable.
superlative form of bad: most bad
Most harmful or severe.
superlative form of bad: most bad
Used with the definite article and an implied noun: something that is worst.
superlative form of ill: most ill
senses_topics:
|
2818 | word:
worst
word_type:
adv
expansion:
worst
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English worste, wurste, warste, werste, wirste, from Old English wierrest, from Proto-Germanic *wirsistaz, superlative form of *ubilaz (“bad, evil”). Cognate with Old Saxon wirsista, wirrista (“worst”), Old High German wirst, wirsesto, wirsisto (“worst”), Danish værst (“worst”), Swedish värst (“worst”), Icelandic verstur (“worst”).
senses_examples:
text:
My sore leg hurts worst when it's cold and rainy.
type:
example
text:
This is the worst-written essay I've ever seen.
type:
example
text:
She's the worst-informed of the lot.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
superlative form of badly: most badly
superlative form of ill: most ill
senses_topics:
|
2819 | word:
worst
word_type:
noun
expansion:
worst (plural worsts)
forms:
form:
worsts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English worste, wurste, warste, werste, wirste, from Old English wierrest, from Proto-Germanic *wirsistaz, superlative form of *ubilaz (“bad, evil”). Cognate with Old Saxon wirsista, wirrista (“worst”), Old High German wirst, wirsesto, wirsisto (“worst”), Danish værst (“worst”), Swedish värst (“worst”), Icelandic verstur (“worst”).
senses_examples:
text:
The humorist helps people to explore and confront their worsts
ref:
1991, Don C. Dinkmeyer, Jr., The Encouragement Book: Becoming a Positive Person, page 201
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something or someone that is the worst.
senses_topics:
|
2820 | word:
worst
word_type:
verb
expansion:
worst (third-person singular simple present worsts, present participle worsting, simple past and past participle worsted)
forms:
form:
worsts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
worsting
tags:
participle
present
form:
worsted
tags:
participle
past
form:
worsted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English worste, wurste, warste, werste, wirste, from Old English wierrest, from Proto-Germanic *wirsistaz, superlative form of *ubilaz (“bad, evil”). Cognate with Old Saxon wirsista, wirrista (“worst”), Old High German wirst, wirsesto, wirsisto (“worst”), Danish værst (“worst”), Swedish värst (“worst”), Icelandic verstur (“worst”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make worse.
To grow worse; to deteriorate.
To outdo or defeat, especially in battle.
senses_topics:
|
2821 | word:
degrees of comparison
word_type:
noun
expansion:
degrees of comparison
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of degree of comparison
senses_topics:
|
2822 | word:
spring
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spring (third-person singular simple present springs, present participle springing, simple past sprang or sprung, past participle sprung)
forms:
form:
springs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
springing
tags:
participle
present
form:
sprang
tags:
past
form:
sprung
tags:
past
form:
sprung
tags:
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
spring
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
spring
etymology_text:
From Middle English springen, from Old English springan (“to spring, leap, bounce, sprout forth, emerge, spread out”), from Proto-West Germanic *springan, from Proto-Germanic *springaną (“to burst forth”), from Proto-Indo-European *spre(n)ǵʰ- (“to move, race, spring”), from *sper- (“to jerk, twitch, snap, shove”).
cognates
* Saterland Frisian springe
* West Frisian springe
* Dutch springen
* German Low German springen
* German springen
* Danish springe
* Swedish springa
* Norwegian springe
* Faroese springa
* Icelandic springa (“to burst, explode”).
Other possible cognates include Lithuanian spreñgti (“to push (in)”), Old Church Slavonic прѧсти (pręsti, “to spin, to stretch”), Latin spargere (“to sprinkle, to scatter”), Ancient Greek σπέρχω (spérkhō, “to hasten”), Sanskrit स्पृहयति (spṛháyati, “to be eager”). Some newer senses derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
Dr. Sigmund Freud... says that everything you and I do springs from two motives: the sex urge and the desire to be great.
ref:
1936, Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
There was moisture in the ground, and from it sprang a million flowers, gold and blue and brown and red.
ref:
1974, James Albert Michener, Centennial, page 338
type:
quotation
text:
Foxglove sprang tall and purple among the trees.
ref:
2006, N. Roberts, Morrigann's Cross, section VI
type:
quotation
text:
He hit the gas and the car sprang to life.
type:
example
text:
Deer spring with their hind legs, using their front hooves to steady themselves.
type:
example
text:
...into helle spring...
ref:
c. 1250, Life of St Margaret, Trin. Col. MS B.14.39 (323), f. 22v
text:
Ye kynge... sprange out of his chare and resseyuyd them worshipfully.
ref:
1474, William Caxton, transl., Game and Playe of the Chesse, iii, vii, 141
type:
quotation
text:
...the Mountain Stag, that springs
From Height to Height, and bounds along the Plains,
Nor has a Master to restrain his Course...
ref:
1722, Ambrose Philips, The Briton
type:
quotation
text:
...out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.
ref:
1827, Clement Clarke Moore, (A Visit from St. Nicholas)
type:
quotation
text:
Thus she advanced; her belly low, almost touching the surface of the ground—a great cat preparing to spring upon its prey.
ref:
1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes
type:
quotation
text:
Reporters sprang to the conclusion that the speech would make detailed new commitments...
ref:
2011 April 11, The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
He sprang from peasant stock.
type:
example
text:
From this basis, a first-order difference equation for the evolution of capital per worker is found, and the time path of the economy springs from this equation.
ref:
2008, George McCandless, The ABCs of RBCs, Harvard University Press, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
...for swenge swat ædrum sprong
forð under fexe.
...for the swing, the blood from his veins sprang
forth under his hair.
ref:
Beowulf, ll. 2966–7
text:
...þe wound þat was springand with huge stremes of blude...
ref:
c. 1540, Livy, translated by John Bellenden, History of Rome, Vol. I, i, xxii, p. 125
type:
quotation
text:
The boat sprang a leak and began to sink.
type:
example
text:
He sprang the trap.
type:
example
text:
They sprung another Mine... wherein was placed about sixtie Barrels of Powder.
ref:
1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Vol. II, x, ix
type:
quotation
text:
On the 23d, the Besiegers sprung a Mine under the Salient Angle, upon the Right of the Haif Moon, which had the desired Success, the Enemy's Gallery on that Side, and the Mason-Work of the Counterscarp, being thereby demolished.
ref:
1747, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
type:
quotation
text:
...[they] sought the fairest stoned horses to spring their mares...
ref:
1585, Nicolas De Nicolay, translated by Thomas Washington, The Navigations, Peregrinations, and Voyages, Made into Turkie..., Bk. IV, p. 154
type:
quotation
text:
On the 22nd the mines sprang, and took very good effect.
ref:
1698, François Froger, A Relation of a Voyage Made... on the Coasts of Africa, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
The whole contraption appears liable to spring apart at any moment.
ref:
2012 April 21, Sydney Morning Herald, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
The Edward sprang hir foremast.
ref:
1582 August 2, Richard Madox, diary
text:
For generations of men the springer spaniel has been looked upon as the dog for springing pheasants in covert and finding and retrieving dead birds or winged runners when ordered to do so. The properly broken dog will not chase, but drop to wing and shot.
ref:
1921, Field and Stream, page 832
type:
quotation
text:
[…] by the beginning of this century a still smaller breed, with a weight of 4 of 5 pounds and a chest measurement of around 12 inches, had come into being for springing rabbits. Such, then, is a rough, quick ancestral picture of our modern Dachshund, and[…]
ref:
1940, Allen A. Day, “Dachsunds for Woodchucks”, in Dwight Williams Huntington, editor, The Game Breeder and Sportsman, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
I winter, ruffed grouse sometimes roost at night on the ground under the insulating snow. Even during the midday hours, I have often flushed grouse out from under the snow-bowed branches of "buck-brush," the type of environment where a hunter would more likely expect to spring a rabbit or two.
ref:
2003 August 1, Dennis Walrod, Grouse Hunter's Guide: Solid Facts, Insights, and Observations on How to Hunt Ruffled Grouse, Stackpole Books
type:
quotation
text:
He figured that nobody would ever spring him, but he figured wrong.
ref:
1980, John Hepworth et al., Boozing Out in Melbourne Pubs..., page 42
type:
quotation
text:
North Korea loves to spring surprises. More unusual is for its US foe to play along.
ref:
2012 February 29, Aidan Foster-Carter, “North Korea: The Denuclearisation Dance Resumes”, in BBC News
type:
quotation
text:
Sorry to spring it on you like this but I've been offered another job.
type:
example
text:
His lieutenants hired a team of miners to help spring him.
type:
example
text:
If I was in jail I know you'd spring me
ref:
2007, Mike Batt (lyrics and music), “If You Were a Sailboat”, performed by Katie Melua
type:
quotation
text:
They sprung an arch over the lintel.
type:
example
text:
The arches spring from the front posts.
type:
example
text:
He wouldn't spring a nickel for a bag of peanuts.
ref:
1957, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Over Seventy, page 137
type:
quotation
text:
Don't drive it in too hard, as it will ‘spring’ the plane-iron, and make it concave.
ref:
1873 July, Routledge's Young Gentleman's Magazine, page 503
type:
quotation
text:
A piece of timber sometimes springs in seasoning.
type:
example
text:
He sprang in the slat.
type:
example
text:
“Gee, Dad, Nancy’s springing all right,” Ray said and paused in spontaneous pleasure.
Stan Parker came, and together they looked at their swelling heifer.
ref:
1955, Patrick White, chapter 15, in The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, page 228
type:
quotation
text:
I do not know how John and his mistress would have settled the fate of the thief, but just at this moment a policeman entered — for the cook had sprung the rattle, and had been screaming "Murder" and "Thieves."
ref:
1850, Samuel Prout Newcombe, Pleasant pages, page 197
type:
quotation
text:
True it is that, owing to the migratory propensities of our countrymen, every third man has wintered at Naples, springed at Vienna, summered in Switzerland, and autumned on the banks of the Lago Maggiore;
ref:
1835 May, “Northern Germany. A Sketch.”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XI, number LXV, page 507
type:
quotation
text:
If Tad’s father and Tad had wintered, springed, summered, and autumned together for an hundred years instead of fifteen they could[…]
ref:
1912, William C[yrus] Sprague, Tad, the Story of a Boy who Had No Chance, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
They wintered in a warm place / And summered in a cold, / But where they springed and autumned / I never have been told.
ref:
1937, Mortimer Jones, “Lines of No Importance”, in The Alphi Phi Quarterly, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
She springed in London, summered in Stockholm, autumned at Vichy, and wintered at Monte Carlo.
ref:
1950, Chambers’s Journal, page 269
type:
quotation
text:
In recent years his friend the fourth-quarter king summered, autumned, and springed in nearby Southern California, which was how they stayed so easily in touch.
ref:
2006, Tim Pratt, “The Third-Quarter King”, in Jonathan Strahan, Jeremy G Byrne, editors, Eidolon I, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
Larry and Bill had planned to hold a white-linen “fancy” fund-raiser dinner in late June or early July, which would bring out the moneyed crowd who “summered” on the Island. If you summer or winter somewhere you are affluent, Larry knew. (Funny, though, he had never heard of anyone who “autumned” in Vermont or who was “springing” in Colorado.)
ref:
2010, Larry Stettner, Bill Morrison, Cooking for the Common Good: The Birth of a Natural Foods Soup Kitchen, Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, page 84
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move or burst forth.
To appear.
To move or burst forth.
To grow, to sprout.
To move or burst forth.
To grow, to sprout.
To mature.
To move or burst forth.
To arise, to come into existence.
To move or burst forth.
To enliven.
To move or burst forth.
To move with great speed and energy.
To move or burst forth.
To be born, descend, or originate from
To move or burst forth.
To rise in social position or military rank, to be promoted.
To move or burst forth.
To cause to spring (all senses).
To cause to spring (all senses).
To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
To breed with, to impregnate.
To wetten, to moisten.
To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
To go off.
To crack.
To surprise by sudden or deft action.
To come upon and flush out.
To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
To begin.
To put bad money into circulation.
To tell, to share.
To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
To build, to form the initial curve of.
To extend, to curve.
To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
To raise an offered price.
Alternative form of sprain.
Alternative form of strain.
To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
to inspire, to motivate.
To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
To swell with milk or pregnancy.
To sound, to play.
To spend the springtime somewhere
To find or get enough food during springtime.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
nautical
transport
architecture
architecture
nautical
transport
|
2823 | word:
spring
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spring (countable and uncountable, plural springs)
forms:
form:
springs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
spring
etymology_text:
From Middle English spryng (“a wellspring, tide, branch, sunrise, kind of dance or blow, ulcer, snare, flock”); partly from Old English spring (“wellspring, ulcer”), from Proto-West Germanic *spring, from Proto-Germanic *springaz (“a wellspring, fount”); and partly from Old English spryng (“a jump”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprungi, from Proto-Germanic *sprungiz (“a jump”). Further senses derived from the verb and from clippings of day-spring, springtime, spring tide, etc. Its sense as the season, first attested in a work predating 1325, gradually replaced Middle English lente, lentin, from Old English lencten (“spring, Lent”) as that word became more specifically liturgical. Compare fall.
senses_examples:
text:
The pris'ner with a spring from prison broke;
Then stretch'd his feather'd fans with all his might,
ref:
1700, John Dryden, The Cock and the Fox
type:
quotation
roman:
And to the neighb'ring maple wing'd his flight.
text:
Chinese New Year always occurs in January or February but is called the "Spring Festival" throughout East Asia because it is reckoned as the beginning of their spring.
type:
example
text:
I spent my spring holidays in Morocco.
type:
example
text:
The spring issue will be out next week.
type:
example
text:
Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.
type:
example
text:
You can visit me in the spring, when the weather is bearable.
type:
example
text:
Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
ref:
2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
Arab Spring
type:
example
text:
Prague Spring
type:
example
text:
This beer was brewed with pure spring water.
type:
example
text:
We jumped so hard the bed springs broke.
type:
example
text:
He had warped round with the springs on his cable, and had recommenced his fire upon the Aurora.
ref:
1836, Frederick Marryat, Mr. Midshipman Easy, volume III, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
You should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much.
type:
example
text:
Spring is likewise a rope reaching diagonally from the stern of a ship to the head of another which lies along-side or a-breast of her.
ref:
1769, William Falconer, An Universal Dictionary of the Marine, s.v
type:
quotation
text:
‘Springs’ are the ropes used on a ship that is alongside a berth to prevent fore and aft movements.
ref:
2007 January 26, Business Times:
type:
quotation
text:
A spar is said to be sprung, when it is cracked or split,... and the crack is called a spring.
ref:
1846, Arthur Young, Nautical Dictionary, page 292
type:
quotation
text:
the spring of a bow
type:
example
text:
Heav'ns what a spring was in his Arm, to throw:
How high he held his Shield, and rose at ev'ry blow!
ref:
1697, John Dryden, Virgil's Aeneis, Bk. xi, ll. 437–8
text:
Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds.
ref:
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30
type:
quotation
text:
Such a man can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth him, he can patiently suffer all things with cheerfull submission and resignation to the Divine Will. He has a secret Spring of spiritual Joy, and the continual Feast of a good Conscience within, that forbid him to be miserable.
ref:
1693, The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism..., Richard Bentley, Sermon 1
type:
quotation
text:
[…] discover, at least in some degree, the secret springs and principles, by which the human mind is actuated in its operations?
ref:
1748, David Hume, Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals, London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, §9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
a period of political liberalization and democratization
Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
The rising of the sea at high tide.
Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
Short for spring tide, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
A race, a lineage.
Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
A youth.
Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
A shoot, a young tree.
Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
A grove of trees; a forest.
An erection of the penis.
A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or (rare) a plank or seam.
Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
Elastic energy, power, or force.
The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
A cause, a motive, etc.
Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
A lively piece of music.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
government
politics
fashion
lifestyle
geography
geology
natural-sciences
geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
|
2824 | word:
spring
word_type:
adj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
senses_topics:
|
2825 | word:
Saxon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Saxon (plural Saxons)
forms:
form:
Saxons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Saxon
etymology_text:
Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), and Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxonem, accusative of Saxo (“a Saxon”), both from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Cognates:
Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax.
senses_examples:
text:
Kenett states that the military works still known by the name of Tadmarten Camp and Hook-Norton Barrow were cast up at this time ; the former, large and round, is judged to be a fortification of the Danes, and the latter, being smaller and rather a quinquangle than a square, of the Saxons.
ref:
1881, John Kirby Hedges, The history of Wallingford, volume 1, page 170
type:
quotation
text:
[...] in West Germany Saxony and Saxons became synonymous with Ulbricht's Communist regime, [...]
ref:
2002, Jonathan Grix, Paul Cooke, East German distinctiveness in a unified Germany, page 142
type:
quotation
text:
The film taught that socialist competition, through encouraging the collaboration of both men and women and Saxons and Berliners, could overcome the natural antagonism between male industrial mass production and female fashion.
ref:
2005, Judd Stitziel, Fashioning socialism: clothing, politics, and consumer culture, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
Dealing with people there was different from the way I dealt with Saxons, Berliners and others back in Leipzig.
ref:
2008, Eckbert Schulz-Schomburgk, From Leipzig to Venezuela, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
Not everyone from the former GDR states are Saxons – and they do not all speak Saxon, […]
ref:
2014, Marco Polo, Dresden Marco Polo Guide, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
Then came the call to arms, love, the heather was aflame / Down from the silent mountains, the Saxon strangers came.
ref:
1973, Sean McCarthy (lyrics and music), “Shanagolden”
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.
A native or inhabitant of Saxony.
An English/British person.
A size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type.
A kind of rapidly spinning ground-based firework.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
|
2826 | word:
Saxon
word_type:
name
expansion:
Saxon
forms:
wikipedia:
Saxon
etymology_text:
Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), and Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxonem, accusative of Saxo (“a Saxon”), both from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Cognates:
Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax.
senses_examples:
text:
Not everyone from the former GDR states are Saxons – and they do not all speak Saxon, […]
ref:
2014, Marco Polo, Dresden Marco Polo Guide, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
But does this mean that Germans nowadays speak Saxon? Far from it, in fact; Saxon is the most widely despised dialect in Germany, by a wide margin.
ref:
2014, Gaston Dorren, Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language of the ancient Saxons.
The dialect of modern High German spoken in Saxony.
A surname.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage or directly from the noun Saxon.
A place name:
A census-designated place in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.
A place name:
An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.
A place name:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States.
A place name:
A municipality in Martigny district, Valais canton, Switzerland.
senses_topics:
|
2827 | word:
Saxon
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Saxon (comparative more Saxon, superlative most Saxon)
forms:
form:
more Saxon
tags:
comparative
form:
most Saxon
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Saxon
etymology_text:
Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), and Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxonem, accusative of Saxo (“a Saxon”), both from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Cognates:
Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax.
senses_examples:
text:
But his bitch queen was Saxon to the bone and her legacy showed in the sons that Vortigern bred off her. Katigern Minor might be young, but he has become what his grandfather never was – more Saxon than Celt.
ref:
2009, M. K. Hume, King Arthur: Dragon’s Child, London: Headline Review, page 340
type:
quotation
text:
Eadyth managed to make one of her beekeeping veils into a bridal veil hanging from a circlet of Drifa’s flowers. All this attire was more Saxon than Norse. So she wore her hair in one long braid, Viking style, and at her shoulder was a brooch in a writhing, intertwined animal design. / Her sisters looked just as lovely in their bright gowns, Tyra’s Saxon style, but the others pure Viking.
ref:
2010, Sandra Hill, Viking in Love, New York, N.Y.: Avon, page 353
type:
quotation
text:
He was a large, very Saxon type of man; that is to say, an English one, having shed the vices and cruelties and developed the patience and cool-headedness.
ref:
1987, Idries Shah, Adventures, Facts and Fantasy in Darkest England, London: The Octagon Press, page 325
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxons.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of Saxony.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxon language.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of England, typically as opposed to a Celtic nationality.
senses_topics:
|
2828 | word:
present continuous
word_type:
noun
expansion:
present continuous (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tense that describes an ongoing action in the present. In English it is formed by use of a form of be with a present participle.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2829 | word:
twelve
word_type:
num
expansion:
twelve
forms:
wikipedia:
twelve
etymology_text:
From Middle English twelve, from Old English twelf (“twelve”), from Proto-Germanic *twalif, an old compound of *twa- (“two”) and *-lif (“left over”) (i.e., two left over after having already counted to ten), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian tweelf, tweelif, tweelich (“twelve”), West Frisian tolve (“twelve”), Dutch twaalf (“twelve”), German Low German twalf, twalv (“twelve”), German zwölf (“twelve”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian tolv (“twelve”), Icelandic tólf (“twelve”).
senses_examples:
text:
There are twelve months in a year.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Arabic numerals as 12 and in Roman numerals as XII.
senses_topics:
|
2830 | word:
twelve
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twelve (plural twelves)
forms:
form:
twelves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
twelve
etymology_text:
From Middle English twelve, from Old English twelf (“twelve”), from Proto-Germanic *twalif, an old compound of *twa- (“two”) and *-lif (“left over”) (i.e., two left over after having already counted to ten), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian tweelf, tweelif, tweelich (“twelve”), West Frisian tolve (“twelve”), Dutch twaalf (“twelve”), German Low German twalf, twalv (“twelve”), German zwölf (“twelve”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian tolv (“twelve”), Icelandic tólf (“twelve”).
senses_examples:
text:
Fractions would be a little easier if we counted by twelves.
type:
example
text:
In this way Von Esslin ‘inherited’ two fine hammerless twelves which he used once or twice for duck on the Camargue.
ref:
1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 880
type:
quotation
text:
watch your twelve
type:
example
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:twelve.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of twelve items.
A twelve-bore gun.
A jury (normally composed of twelve persons).
The police; law enforcement, especially a narcotics officer.
Front (front side of something, position in front of something).
senses_topics:
law
government
military
politics
war |
2831 | word:
Finnish
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Finnish (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Finnish
etymology_text:
From Finn + -ish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Finland; Finlandic, Finlandish.
Of or pertaining to the Finnish language.
senses_topics:
|
2832 | word:
Finnish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Finnish (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Finnish
etymology_text:
From Finn + -ish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Finno-Ugric language spoken by the majority of the people living in Finland, one of the two official languages of the country (the other is Swedish).
senses_topics:
|
2833 | word:
ground
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ground (countable and uncountable, plural grounds)
forms:
form:
grounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ground
etymology_text:
From Middle English grounde, from Old English grund, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond and German Grund.
senses_examples:
text:
Look, I found a ten dollar bill on the ground!
type:
example
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
As the terrain-following radar scans the ground ahead of the aircraft the actual clearance height is measured by the radio altimeter.
ref:
1971, “The development of terrain following radar: an account of the progress made with an airborne guidance system for low flying military aircraft”, in Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology
type:
quotation
text:
The worm crawls through the ground.
type:
example
text:
[B]e the consequences what they may, they shall not move an inch, nor a hair's-breadth from the ground of their groundless spiritual independence, […]
ref:
1840, Lewis Rose, chapter III, in An Humble Attempt to Put an End to the Present Divisions in the Church of Scotland, and to Promote Her Usefulness. […], Glasgow: George Gallie, →OCLC, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
You will need to show good grounds for your action.
type:
example
text:
He could not come on grounds of health, or on health grounds.
type:
example
text:
a forest traditionally used as a hunting-ground
type:
example
text:
I gather from your last answer that at the present time the constabulary, to a certain extent, is good recruiting ground for the army?
ref:
1876, Parliamentary Papers, volume 14, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, page 147
type:
quotation
text:
crimson flowers on a white ground
type:
example
text:
[…] to pad a piece in diluted acetate of alumine to obtain a pale lemon ground […]
ref:
1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia
type:
quotation
text:
One and All is the motto of the County of Cornwall, used below the coat-of-arms, which is a shield embracing fifteen bezants, or golden roundels, on a black ground; [...].
ref:
1941 December, “The Why and the Wherefore: Cornish names of G.W.R. locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 575
type:
quotation
text:
Brussels ground
text:
Grounds are usually put up first and the plastering floated flush with them.
type:
example
text:
Manchester United's ground is known as Old Trafford.
type:
example
text:
А ground may be undesirable, inadvertent, or accidental path taken by an electrical current; or it may be the deliberate provision of conductors well connected to the ground by means of plates buried therein, or similar device.
ref:
1961, “GROUND”, in The International Dictionary of Physics and Electronics, 2nd edition, Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand, page 539
type:
quotation
text:
It is sub-divided into annas (or 16ths), of 3,600 square feet each; or when the land is for building purposes, into grounds (munnies) of 1/24 of a cawny each, as in the town of Madras.
ref:
1885, Manual of the Administration of the Madras Presidency, page 515
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
Terrain.
Soil, earth.
The bottom of a body of water.
Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
Background, context, framework, surroundings.
The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
A place suited to a specified activity.
The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
A gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
A soccer stadium.
An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
Electric shock.
The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
The pit of a theatre.
Synonym of munny (“land measure”)
senses_topics:
architecture
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
2834 | word:
ground
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ground (third-person singular simple present grounds, present participle grounding, simple past and past participle grounded)
forms:
form:
grounds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
grounding
tags:
participle
present
form:
grounded
tags:
participle
past
form:
grounded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ground
etymology_text:
From Middle English grounde, from Old English grund, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond and German Grund.
senses_examples:
text:
These geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) can become a hazard when they flow through conducting infrastructure, usually entering and exiting networks where equipment is grounded to Earth.
ref:
2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
If you don't clean your room, I'll have no choice but to ground you.
type:
example
text:
Eric, you are grounded until further notice for lying to us about where you were last night!
type:
example
text:
My kids are currently grounded from television.
type:
example
text:
Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.
type:
example
text:
Jim was grounded in maths.
type:
example
text:
[Ichiro Suzuki] went 0 for 4, popping out in foul territory, grounding out to second, and striking out looking. And then, in the top of the eighth inning with a runner on second, the “True Hit King” grounded out to short, just barely failing to beat it out.
ref:
2019 March 21, Chris Cwik, “Ichiro Suzuki Goes Out in Style, Retires After Series in Japan”, in Yahoo! Sports
type:
quotation
text:
The Twins scored three times in the eighth to make it 9-4 and loaded the bases with no outs. Jeurys Familia got Willians Astudillo to ground into a double play, limiting the damage.
ref:
2019 April 10, Ben Walker (AP), “Twins Pitchers Go Wild, Syndergaard and Mets Stroll 9-6”, in Yahoo! Sports, archived from the original on 2019-04-11
type:
quotation
text:
The ship grounded on the bar.
type:
example
text:
I ground myself with meditation.
type:
example
text:
We design WikiChat (Figure 1) to ground LLMs using Wikipedia to achieve the following objectives. While LLMs tend to hallucinate, our chatbot should be factual.
ref:
2023, Sina J. Semnani, Violet Z. Yao, Heidi C. Zhang, Monica S. Lam, “WikiChat: A Few-Shot LLM-Based Chatbot Grounded with Wikipedia”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
To electrocute.
To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).
To place something on the ground.
To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
To complement a machine learning model with relevant information it was not trained on.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
2835 | word:
ground
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ground
forms:
wikipedia:
ground
etymology_text:
Inflected form of grind. See also milled.
senses_examples:
text:
I ground the coffee up nicely.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of grind
senses_topics:
|
2836 | word:
ground
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ground (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
ground
etymology_text:
Inflected form of grind. See also milled.
senses_examples:
text:
ground mustard seed
type:
example
text:
Alike, joy and sorrow, hope and fear, seemed ground to finest dust, and powdered, for the time, in the clamped mortar of Ahab's iron soul.
ref:
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick
type:
quotation
text:
The intestinal contents of F. Stellifer seem finely ground in comparison to those of F. catenatus, probably as a result of chewing with the stout pharyngeal molars.
ref:
1969, Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany, volume 16, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
Powder mixing and grinding are complete when the powder is homogenous and grey-black in color, appears finely ground, and feels smooth.
ref:
2018, S Sivakumar, E Zwier, PB Meisenheimer…, “Bulk and Thin Film Synthesis of Compositionally Variant Entropy-stabilized Oxides”, in Journal of Visualized Experiments
type:
quotation
text:
lenses of ground glass
type:
example
text:
the traces of wear have the appearance of dull patches that look ground.
ref:
1985, Sergeĭ Aristarkhovich Semenov, Prehistoric Technology: An Experimental Study of the Oldest Tools and Artefacts from Traces of Manufacture and Wear, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
The axial perforation, the handle socket and the quern base are all rough and do not appear ground or polished
ref:
2000, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, page 258
type:
quotation
text:
An advantage of such a finishing tool is that, after the machining, the workpiece has high surface quality. The surface which is produced appears finely ground to polished by means of this procedure.
ref:
2018, H Glimpel, HJ Lauffer, A Bremstahler, Finishing Tool, In Particular End Milling Cutter, US Patent App. 15/764,739
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
Processed by grinding.
senses_topics:
|
2837 | word:
auxiliary verb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
auxiliary verb (plural auxiliary verbs)
forms:
form:
auxiliary verbs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2838 | word:
indefinite article
word_type:
noun
expansion:
indefinite article (plural indefinite articles)
forms:
form:
indefinite articles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The English Indefinite Article, "a" or "an", is more frequently used that the Italian Indefinite Article, "un", "uno", "una".
ref:
1884, Napoleone Perini, “On the Use of the Indefinite Article”, in An Italian Conversation Grammar, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
In the indefinite article, we must note the plural in i, due to the influence of the plural li of the definite article[.]
ref:
1921, Harry Egerton Ford, “Part II. Morphology”, in Modern Provençal Phonology and Morphology
type:
quotation
text:
The main literary dialect of ancient Greek ... has a definite article, but no indefinite article.
ref:
2018, Kory Stamper, Word by Word, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word preceding a noun to indicate that the noun refers to any member of the class of objects named by the noun.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2839 | word:
violet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
violet (plural violets)
forms:
form:
violets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
violet
etymology_text:
From Middle English violet, vyolet, vyolette, from Old French violette, from Latin viola (“violet”). Cognate with Lithuanian violetinė (“purple, violet”) and Spanish violeta (“purple, violet”).
senses_examples:
text:
Refreshed by their cooling bath of evening dew, the violets and other nocturnal flowers emitted a pleasant fragrance over the fields, but from the bogs and the rivulets came up now and then damp, penetrating gusts, that sent an icy chill through me.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 160
type:
quotation
text:
violet:
text:
web violet:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers.
A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy.
The color of most violets; the colour evoked by the shortest visible wavelengths between 380 and 435 nm, an additive tertiary colour.
Clothes and (ecclesiastical) vestments of such a colour.
The characteristic scent of V. odorata.
Synonym of onion.
senses_topics:
|
2840 | word:
violet
word_type:
adj
expansion:
violet (comparative violeter, superlative violetest)
forms:
form:
violeter
tags:
comparative
form:
violetest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
violet
etymology_text:
From Middle English violet, vyolet, vyolette, from Old French violette, from Latin viola (“violet”). Cognate with Lithuanian violetinė (“purple, violet”) and Spanish violeta (“purple, violet”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a violet colour.
senses_topics:
|
2841 | word:
compound sentence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
compound sentence (plural compound sentences)
forms:
form:
compound sentences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sentence that has two or more independent clauses, joined by a conjunction (such as 'but', 'and') and/or punctuation (such as ',').
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2842 | word:
noun phrase
word_type:
noun
expansion:
noun phrase (plural noun phrases)
forms:
form:
noun phrases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The term "restaurant supply service" is a noun phrase, as are "red blood cell" and "happy cat".
type:
example
text:
Many collocations are noun phrases.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A phrase that has a noun (or indefinite pronoun) as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2843 | word:
crow eater
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crow eater (plural crow eaters)
forms:
form:
crow eaters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of croweater
senses_topics:
|
2844 | word:
passive voice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
passive voice (usually uncountable, plural passive voices)
forms:
form:
passive voices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The passive voice is sometimes criticized for de-emphasizing the actor. ["is ... criticized" is passive.]
type:
example
text:
Many languages, including English, use auxiliary verbs in constructing the passive voice.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The form of a transitive verb in which its subject receives the action.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2845 | word:
banana bender
word_type:
noun
expansion:
banana bender (plural banana benders)
forms:
form:
banana benders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
“Not now, you banana bender! The Commencement Speech takes place at the dinner tonight.”
“Banana bender! I'm not from Queenland, I'll ‘ave you know. And I needs to test out the mike in advance. Always have trouble with those things.”
ref:
2003, Rosemary Patterson, Journey Great Barrier Reef: An Adventure Novel Set in Australia, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
If Billy Lane hadn't given him such a firm handshake, Henry reckons he'd be wondering if all the Banana-benders shook like a girl.
ref:
2007, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 137
type:
quotation
text:
In comparison with other Australians, they were considered an odder sort of people – the banana-benders of Banana-land – a heat-stroked and skin-cancered people, dogged, ‘unimaginably tough and undeniably brittle’.
ref:
2007, Raymond Evans, A History of Queensland, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
Terry nodded. “Yes, you don't have too many cars to contend with here, and we banana benders are rather courteous, especially once we realize you're a tourist. Just be careful on the curves, especially where the road goes along the bluffs.”
ref:
2011, Reynold Conger, Chased Across Australia, page 180
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant of Queensland.
senses_topics:
|
2846 | word:
dative case
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dative case (plural dative cases)
forms:
form:
dative cases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Case used to express direction towards an indirect object, the recipient or beneficiary of an action, and is generally indicated in English by to (when a recipient) or for (when a beneficiary) with the objective case. The direct object may be either stated or unstated where the indirect object is the beneficiary of the verbal action, but is stated where the indirect object is a recipient. If there is emphasis on the indirect object, the indirect object usually precedes the direct object and is not usually indicated with to or for; said structure is also used when neither object is being emphasized.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2847 | word:
weekend
word_type:
noun
expansion:
weekend (plural weekends)
forms:
form:
weekends
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From week + end. Originally a Northern England regionalism (see 1903 quotation), in more general use from late 19th century. Compare Saterland Frisian Wiekeneende (“weekend”), West Frisian wykein (“weekend”), Dutch weekeinde (“weekend”), German Low German Wekenenn (“weekend”), German Wochenende (“weekend”).
senses_examples:
text:
“They can live upon barley-meal without a morsel of meat from week-end to week-end, can these miserable Sawnies,” quoth another.
ref:
1874 July–December, W. Senior, “With the Herring Fleet”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 704
type:
quotation
text:
[…] often took a few boys down there for what we North Country folk call the week-end — Saturday and Sunday; it was also used as a sanatorium if required.
ref:
1903, Francis Markham with Sir Clements Robert Markham, Recollections of a town boy at Westminster, 1849–1855, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
I love a phrase of Dizzy's in one of his later letters to Lady Bradford, whom he reproaches for her addiction to what we now call week-end visits to country houses: “the monotony of organized platitude.”
ref:
1921 June 21, The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, K.G., chapter XX, in Memories and Reflections 1852–1927, volume 2, Cassell and Company, published 1928, →OCLC, page 197
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in western countries, Saturday and Sunday.
senses_topics:
|
2848 | word:
weekend
word_type:
verb
expansion:
weekend (third-person singular simple present weekends, present participle weekending, simple past and past participle weekended)
forms:
form:
weekends
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
weekending
tags:
participle
present
form:
weekended
tags:
participle
past
form:
weekended
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From week + end. Originally a Northern England regionalism (see 1903 quotation), in more general use from late 19th century. Compare Saterland Frisian Wiekeneende (“weekend”), West Frisian wykein (“weekend”), Dutch weekeinde (“weekend”), German Low German Wekenenn (“weekend”), German Wochenende (“weekend”).
senses_examples:
text:
We'll weekend at the beach.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To spend the weekend.
senses_topics:
|
2849 | word:
weekend
word_type:
adj
expansion:
weekend (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From week + end. Originally a Northern England regionalism (see 1903 quotation), in more general use from late 19th century. Compare Saterland Frisian Wiekeneende (“weekend”), West Frisian wykein (“weekend”), Dutch weekeinde (“weekend”), German Low German Wekenenn (“weekend”), German Wochenende (“weekend”).
senses_examples:
text:
I'm wearing my weekend shoes.
type:
example
text:
a weekend break
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, relating to or for the weekend.
Occurring at the weekend.
senses_topics:
|
2850 | word:
Territorian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Territorian (plural Territorians)
forms:
form:
Territorians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From territory + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
Territorians also could elect a representative to Federal Parliament (a right granted in 1923).
ref:
1967, Brian Hodge, Allen Whitehurst, Nation and People: An Introduction to Australia in a Changing World, page 258
type:
quotation
text:
1998 December, Minister for Health, Family and Community Services, Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, speech, quoted in 2008, Tess Lea, Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts: Indigenous Health in Northern Australia, page 25,
Put simply, Aboriginal Territorians have drastically poorer health across virtually all causes of disease. Life expectancy at birth for indigenous men in the Northern Territory is 57 years compared to 77 years for other male Territorians.
text:
One of the ways he did this was by attending meetings of the Northern Territory Legislative Councul, the wind instrument created by the Chifley Labor Government in 1947 to give Territorians the illusion that they had democratic rights.
ref:
2011, Stephen Gray, The Protectors: A Journey Through Whitefella Past, ReadHowYouWant, page 138
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant of the Northern Territory.
senses_topics:
|
2851 | word:
direct object
word_type:
noun
expansion:
direct object (plural direct objects)
forms:
form:
direct objects
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The noun or noun phrase that a verb is directly acting upon.
Such an object when it is in the accusative case, but (generally) not when it is in another case.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2852 | word:
wombat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wombat (plural wombats)
forms:
form:
wombats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wombat
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dharug wambad, wambaj, or wambag. It was originally written whom-batt in English.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia.
A slow and stupid person; a dullard.
senses_topics:
|
2853 | word:
sandgroper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sandgroper (plural sandgropers)
forms:
form:
sandgropers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Sandgroper
etymology_text:
From sand + groper. The sense “Western Australian” may originate either as a reference to the relatively large proportion of desert in the state or to gold mining during the rushes of the 19th Century.
senses_examples:
text:
On both occasions the sandgropers downed the ‘big V’, as indeed they did in 1947 at Hobart when finishing second; the VFL′s only other defeat in 68 pre-state of origin carnival games came in 1911 against South Australia in Adelaide.
ref:
2008, John Devaney, Full Points Footy′s WA Football Companion, page 320
type:
quotation
text:
Leonard not only accepted, he told the club he could help sign several West Australians. The Foreign Legion policy was born and, through Leonard′s personal contacts, South [Melbourne] signed Sandgropers Brighton Diggins and Bill Faul (both from Subiaco) and Gilbert Beard (South Fremantle).
ref:
2011, Ashley Browne, editor, The Grand Finals: 1897-1938, volume 1, page 370
type:
quotation
text:
After the race, Damien Oliver added to an already magnificent occasion for David Mueller by spending some time with his fellow Sandgroper and giving Mueller the jockey′s trophy from the race as a memento.
ref:
2011, John Hunt, Princess: The Miss Andretti Story, page 288
type:
quotation
text:
The sandgroper is not unique to Western Australia, being found elsewhere in Australia and also in New Guinea,[…].
ref:
1980, Western Australian Department of Agriculture, Journal, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
Most species are small, 4 to 15 mm in length, although some sandgropers (Cylindrachetidae) can reach the length of 40 mm.
ref:
2001, Simon A. Levin, Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, page 264
type:
quotation
text:
Sandgropers remain under the soil surface and are only seen when soil is worked or dug.
ref:
2007, Peter T. Bailey, Pests of Field Crops and Pastures: Identification and Control, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant of Western Australia.
Any species of the family Cylindrachetidae of subterranean insects, found in Australia, New Guinea and Argentina.
senses_topics:
|
2854 | word:
plant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plant (plural plants)
forms:
form:
plants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English plante, from Old English plante (“young tree or shrub, herb newly planted”), from Latin planta (“sprout, shoot, cutting”). Broader sense of "any vegetable life, vegetation generally" is from Old French plante. Doublet of clan (borrowed through Celtic languages) and planta (directly from Latin).
The verb is from Middle English planten, from Old English plantian (“to plant”), from Latin plantāre, later influenced by Old French planter. Compare also Dutch planten (“to plant”), German pflanzen (“to plant”), Swedish plantera (“to plant”), Icelandic planta (“to plant”).
senses_examples:
text:
The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.
type:
example
text:
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual. Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 217
type:
quotation
text:
That gun’s not mine! It’s a plant! I’ve never seen it before!
type:
example
text:
O’Sullivan risked a plant that went badly astray, splitting the reds.
ref:
2008 April 28, Phil Yates, The Times
type:
quotation
text:
Take, Shepherd, take a Plant of ſtubborn Oak; / And labour him with many a ſturdy ſtroke: / Or with hard Stones, demoliſh from afar / His haughty Creſt, the feat of all the War.
ref:
1694, “The Third Book of Virgil's Georgicks”, in John Dryden, transl., The Annual Miscellany, for the Year 1694, 2nd edition, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1708, page 185
type:
quotation
text:
Knotty legs, and plants of clay, / Seek for eaſe, or love delay.
ref:
1611, Ben Jonson, “Oberon, the Faery Prince”, in The Works of Ben Jonson, volume V, London: D. Midwinter et al., published 1756, page 384
type:
quotation
text:
It wasn’t a bad plant that of mine, on Fikey, the man accused of forging the Sou’ Westeru Railway debentures—it was only t’ other day—because the reason why? I’ll tell you.
ref:
1850 March 30, Charles Dickens, “A Detective Police Party”, in Household Words, volume 1, page 413
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
An organism of the kingdom Plantae. Now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
A stash or cache of hidden goods.
Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
The sole of the foot.
A plan; a swindle; a trick.
An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
The combination of process and actuator.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
ecology
natural-sciences
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
|
2855 | word:
plant
word_type:
verb
expansion:
plant (third-person singular simple present plants, present participle planting, simple past and past participle planted)
forms:
form:
plants
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
planting
tags:
participle
present
form:
planted
tags:
participle
past
form:
planted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English plante, from Old English plante (“young tree or shrub, herb newly planted”), from Latin planta (“sprout, shoot, cutting”). Broader sense of "any vegetable life, vegetation generally" is from Old French plante. Doublet of clan (borrowed through Celtic languages) and planta (directly from Latin).
The verb is from Middle English planten, from Old English plantian (“to plant”), from Latin plantāre, later influenced by Old French planter. Compare also Dutch planten (“to plant”), German pflanzen (“to plant”), Swedish plantera (“to plant”), Icelandic planta (“to plant”).
senses_examples:
text:
to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest
type:
example
text:
His father had given him a little square bed in a corner of the garden, which he had planted with corn two days before.
ref:
1848, Jacob Abbott, “Story I. Labour Lost.—Elky.”, in Rollo at Work: Or, The Way for a Boy to Learn to be Industrious, London: James S. Hodson, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
With your mouse, you plant a garden by selecting plants from a database of 450 of the most common flowers, shrubs, and trees.
ref:
1991 November 26, Don Trivette, “How Does Your Garden Grow? With Silver Bells And Mouse Button Clicks”, in PC Mag, volume 10, number 20, Ziff Davis, Inc., →ISSN, page 604
type:
quotation
text:
That gun’s not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
type:
example
text:
Not only that, I thought, but cynics would now theorise that the interview piece was a PR exercise, a planted story designed as damage-limitation in the event that some probing journalist revealed all about the love nest.
ref:
1999, Terry Prone, The Skywriter, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one’s feet on solid ground
type:
example
text:
Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
type:
example
text:
First Anelka curled a shot wide from just outside the box, then Lampard planted a header over the bar from Bosingwa's cross.
ref:
2011 January 15, Sam Sheringham, “Chelsea 2 - 0 Blackburn Rovers”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.
ref:
1780, William Cowper, “Light Shining out of Darkneſs”, in Twenty-ſix Letters on Religious Subjects […] To which are added Hymns […], 4th edition, page 252
type:
quotation
text:
Sarah, she kissed each of her grandparents on the forehead. They were planted in a graveyard behind the church.
ref:
2007, Richard Laymon, Savage, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
to plant a colony
type:
example
text:
to plant Christianity among the heathen
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
To furnish or supply with plants.
To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
To place in the ground.
To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
To set up; to install; to instate.
senses_topics:
|
2856 | word:
intransitive verb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
intransitive verb (plural intransitive verbs)
forms:
form:
intransitive verbs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
In the English language, ‘sleep’ is an intransitive verb.
type:
example
text:
‘Feel’ is an intransitive verb in your sentence and is modified by an adjective.
ref:
2003, Toni Morrison, Love, Vintage (2016), page 126
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An action verb which does not take a direct object.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2857 | word:
raccoon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
raccoon (plural raccoons)
forms:
form:
raccoons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
raccoon
etymology_text:
From arocoun (1608), from Powhatan ärähkun, from ärähkuněm (“he scratches with his hands”).
senses_examples:
text:
Thus we're presented with[…]a man who has the head of his penis bitten off by a raccoon, then bleeds to death in a forest.
ref:
2010 April 3, Charlie Brooker, “Screen Burn”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An omnivorous, nocturnal mammal native to North America, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; Procyon lotor.
Any mammal of the genus Procyon.
Any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae, a procyonine.
Any mammal of the family Procyonidae, a procyonid.
Any mammal superficially resembling a raccoon, such as a raccoon dog.
senses_topics:
|
2858 | word:
anarchy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
anarchy (countable and uncountable, plural anarchies)
forms:
form:
anarchies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
anarchy
etymology_text:
From New Latin anarchia, from Ancient Greek ἀναρχία (anarkhía). By surface analysis, an- + -archy.
senses_examples:
text:
Anarchy still reigns in this new country;—not only have the miners to defend their persons and their acquisitions against the incursions from Indian tribes; not only are crimes and offences common (lynch law maintaining a permitted existence instead of laws and police); but every one appears to hold his property by right of first comer: a miner choses the spot he likes best; a strong arm and a carbine, with a steady eye, are his title deeds. To seize upon a rich "placer" from a miner too weak to resist, is called in the slang of the district, to "jump a claim." The President of the United States himself, stated in his last message, that "The mineral lands should remain free to every citizen;" and the Secretary of State has added, "that the right of occupancy should be submitted only to such laws as the miners themselves thought fit to make."
ref:
1853, Leon Faucher, “IV.”, in Thomson Hankey, transl., Remarks on the Production of the Precious Metals, and on the Demonetization of Gold in Several Countries in Europe, 2nd revised edition, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., →OCLC, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
It was total anarchy in the clothes shop on Black Friday as soon as they opened the doors.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.
Anarchism; the political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
Confusion in general; disorder.
senses_topics:
|
2859 | word:
brekkie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brekkie (countable and uncountable, plural brekkies)
forms:
form:
brekkies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
What's for brekkie, Dad?
type:
example
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:brekkie.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Breakfast.
senses_topics:
|
2860 | word:
impala
word_type:
noun
expansion:
impala (plural impalas or impala)
forms:
form:
impalas
tags:
plural
form:
impala
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Zulu impala.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An African antelope, Aepyceros melampus, noted for its leaping ability; the male has ridged, curved horns.
senses_topics:
|
2861 | word:
Taswegian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Taswegian (plural Taswegians)
forms:
form:
Taswegians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Royal Australian Navy
etymology_text:
Blend of Tasmanian + Glaswegian. Royal Australian Navy slang from about 1930. Possibly a reference to the cold climate of Tasmania, comparing it to the cold climate of Glasgow.
senses_examples:
text:
The town is filled with lovely, lovely Taswegians, the kindest and most generous people I have ever met.
ref:
2005, Beverly Walton, Watermarks: A Tasmanian Journal, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
The new year is also vigorously celebrated further south during the Hobart Summer Festival (p646), when Taswegians stuff themselves with food, wine and song.
ref:
2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
That was when I learned that every Taswegian worth his salt carries an axe in his boot and, more often than not, two in case of axe-less friends.
ref:
2011, Teri Louise Kelly, Punktuation, page 57
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Tasmanian seaman.
An inhabitant of Tasmania.
senses_topics:
government
military
navy
politics
war
|
2862 | word:
five hundred
word_type:
num
expansion:
five hundred
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after four hundred ninety-nine and before five hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 500. Ordinal: five-hundredth.
senses_topics:
|
2863 | word:
five hundred
word_type:
noun
expansion:
five hundred (countable and uncountable, plural five hundreds)
forms:
form:
five hundreds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A note worth 500 units of some currency.
A trick-taking card game with elements of euchre and bridge.
senses_topics:
card-games
games |
2864 | word:
prick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prick (plural pricks)
forms:
form:
pricks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
prick
etymology_text:
From Middle English prik, prikke, from Old English prica, pricu (“a sharp point, minute mark, spot, dot, small portion, prick”), from Proto-West Germanic *prikō, *priku, from Proto-Germanic *prikô, *prikō (“a prick, point”), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *breyǵ- (“to scrape, scratch, rub, prickle, chap”).
Cognate with West Frisian prik (“small hole”), West Frisian prikke (“penis”), Dutch prik (“point, small stick", also "penis”), Danish prik (“dot”), Icelandic prik (“dot, small stick”).
senses_examples:
text:
I felt a sharp prick as the nurse took a sample of blood.
type:
example
text:
1768–1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued
the pricks of conscience
text:
Patriarchal attitudes have made a society where men rule and women obey, where "you'd-better-know-your-place-boy," where gay men actually play husband-and-wife (my lover and I did it for four years, until it became intolerable), where king prick lays down the law.
ref:
1977 December 10, Arnold W. Klassen, “Looking For Alternatives: A New Political Analysis”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 23, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
A small pointed object.
The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
A feeling of remorse.
The penis.
Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
The footprint of a hare.
A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
senses_topics:
|
2865 | word:
prick
word_type:
verb
expansion:
prick (third-person singular simple present pricks, present participle pricking, simple past and past participle pricked)
forms:
form:
pricks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pricking
tags:
participle
present
form:
pricked
tags:
participle
past
form:
pricked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
prick
etymology_text:
From Middle English prikken, from Old English prician, priccan (“to prick”), from Proto-Germanic *prikōną, *prikjaną (“to pierce, prick”), of uncertain origin; perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *breyǵ- (“to scrape, scratch, rub, prickle, chap”). Cognate with dialectal English pritch, Dutch prikken (“to prick, sting”), Middle High German pfrecken (“to prick”), Swedish pricka (“to dot, prick”), and possibly to Lithuanian įbrėžti (“to scrape, scratch, carve, inscribe, strike”).
senses_examples:
text:
They had shot at old Tom, the hare, too, but he is still alive; at least I pricked him yesterday morn across the path into the turnip field.
ref:
1871, Robert Smith Surtees, Jorrocks's jaunts and jollities, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
John hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the adept nurse drew blood.
type:
example
text:
to prick holes in paper
type:
example
text:
to prick a pattern for embroidery
type:
example
text:
to prick the notes of a musical composition
type:
example
text:
c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
Some who are pricked for sheriffs.
text:
A sore finger pricks.
type:
example
text:
The dog's ears pricked up at the sound of a whistle.
type:
example
text:
Seed should be sown thinly and evenly to enable seedlings to be pricked out without disturbing those that have just emerged. If there is space, seedlings should be pricked out individually, either into small pots or module trays.
ref:
2002 July 6, Carol Klein, “Coming up primroses”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), archived from the original on 2013-02-15
type:
quotation
text:
All three germinate well in pots and can be pricked out and potted on with no problems. [...] Grass seeds can be collected as the heads begin to break up. Sow them in late spring, prick out small bundles of seedlings into 7.5cm (3in) pots and transplant them in late May.
ref:
2005 October 22, Valerie Bourne, “Self-seeding”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), archived from the original on 2013-11-24
type:
quotation
text:
Geoff might prefer to "take control": to collect seed and sow it next spring, pricking out a few of the best seedlings, growing them on in pots next summer before planting them out in the autumn.
ref:
2015 September 21, Helen Yemm, “How to manage hollyhocks [print version: Hollyhock and elder care, evil weevils, 12 September 2015, page 7]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), archived from the original on 2015-09-25
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pierce or puncture slightly.
To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
To pierce or puncture slightly.
To shoot without killing.
To pierce or puncture slightly.
To form by piercing or puncturing.
To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
To incite, stimulate, goad.
To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
To make acidic or pungent.
To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
To aim at a point or mark.
to dress or adorn; to prink.
senses_topics:
farriery
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
|
2866 | word:
multicolour yawn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
multicolour yawn (plural multicolour yawns)
forms:
form:
multicolour yawns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Consequently, to brighten up a shady spot in the front garden we have recently added ‘Harlequin’, its green foliage splashed generously with white, though hopefully not to be splashed generously with a multicolour yawn.
ref:
2006, Ian Shenton, The Trouble with Plants: Tales of Trivia and Tribulation from an English Garden, page 80
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Vomit; an act of vomiting.
senses_topics:
|
2867 | word:
dry as a dead dingo's donger
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dry as a dead dingo's donger (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
‘Not on a Sunday, mate. Town's as dry as a dead dingo′s donger. This is Queensland,’ explained one of the station hands.
ref:
2008, Di Morrissey, Heart of the Dreaming, page 376
type:
quotation
text:
‘It′s been an absolute bloody stinker today, hasn′t it?’ said the tanned octogenarian in an almost indecipherable Australian accent. ‘Dry as a dead dingo′s donger.’
ref:
2010, Jessica Rudd, Campaign Ruby, page 181
type:
quotation
text:
2010, Peter FitzSimons, Tobruk, eBook, unnumbered page,
Not a blade of anything seemed to grow in those parts; the whole place was as dry as a dead dingo′s donger, and yet, somehow, just, the local population seemed to hang on.
text:
‘No worries,’ Frank said, paying for his drink. ‘Boy, I need this. I′m drier than a dead dingo′s donger.’
ref:
2001, David Franklin, Looking for Sarah Jane Smith, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
“Let′s have a bottle.” Tim leant across and whispered, “I′m as dry as a dead dingo′s donger.”
ref:
2005, Patrick Taylor, Now and in the Hour of Our Death, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
‘Christ, I need a beer,’ Brennan muttered. ‘I'm dry as a dead dingo′s donger.’
ref:
2010, Gabrielle Lord, The Sharp End, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very dry, extremely dry.
Very thirsty.
senses_topics:
|
2868 | word:
kangaroo bar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kangaroo bar (plural kangaroo bars)
forms:
form:
kangaroo bars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The kangaroo bar is attached to the car at five points. Two bottom tubes are fixed via big plate brackets running inside the grille, the two top ones attach to the insides of the wing “walls” and a central lower one looks like a conventional car′s starting handle tube which is welded to the very strong front cross-member.
ref:
1969, The Autocar: A Journal Published in the Interests of the Mechanically Propelled Road Carriage, volume 130, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
Being a Yank, it takes me a moment to realize that a kangaroo bar is the metal guard I noticed on the front of his truck.
ref:
1999, Tony Horwitz, One for the Road: An Outback Adventure, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
I had four apples with me, and since they had to be destroyed before crossing the border I put two into the bin and ate the other two leaning on the kangaroo bar fitted to the front of the ute.
ref:
2008, Emilio Gabbrielli, Polenta and Goanna, page 154
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metal bar or framework of bars on the front of a vehicle to protect it during collisions with kangaroos or cattle.
senses_topics:
|
2869 | word:
roo bar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
roo bar (plural roo bars)
forms:
form:
roo bars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of kangaroo bar
senses_examples:
text:
Mr Giles has even, rather whimsically, helped design his preferred vehicle: roo bar for those late-night mercy dashes, roof rack for swags, red hand-print (‘my hand’) instead of red cross on the side.
ref:
2003, Nicholas Rothwell, “Aboriginal Portraits”, in Peter Craven, editor, The Best Australian Essays 2003, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
lf you drive in the outback, be sure to bring plenty of water, your cell phone, and other safety supplies (have a roo-bar on the front of the car).
ref:
2006, Terri Morrison, Wayne A. Conaway, Kiss, Bow, Or Shake Hands: The Bestselling Guide to Doing Business in More Than 60 Countries, 2nd edition, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
Her arm looped around the roo bar and she pulled herself into a more upright position, ignoring the sharp stab in her leg.
ref:
2010, Nikki Logan, The Soldier′s Untamed Heart, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
“Keeps those bloody roos from wrecking the bus,” he explained. Leather water bags, wet and shiny, dangled from the roo bars like a series of sad, drooping eyes.
ref:
2010, Ralph Alcock, Hidden Identity, page 32
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metal bar or framework of metal bars on the front of a vehicle to protect it during collisions with kangaroos or cattle.
senses_topics:
|
2870 | word:
liquid laugh
word_type:
noun
expansion:
liquid laugh (plural liquid laughs)
forms:
form:
liquid laughs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The Australian national passtime is drinking as much Foster's as possible and then spewing it up again (recently all over the net). This is followed by another round of drinking, another liquid laugh, more drinking, yet another rainbow smile, more drinking, and so on.
ref:
1990 May 19, Stephen King, “Trish and Social Responsibility - like chalk and cheese”, in alt.flame (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
My vote for stupidest TNG plot was 'the Royale'. This was the one where the crew visits the hotel that is right out of a shlocky crime pulp. The whole premise (not to mention execution) of this episode made me want to do a liquid laugh.
ref:
1994 June 3, K. Udo Weyer, “MY VOTE FOR THE STUPIDEST TNG EPI”, in rec.arts.startrek.current (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Thankfully, I have avoided the liquid laugh thus far but ... Hooray! My chap's back with the meat pies! Here goes nothing ...
ref:
1998 December 3, Bastard Bear, “Yamaha slightly bonkers?”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
I've been flying for 20 years, and this one's the best I've seen for my friends who are prone to 'liquid laughs.'
ref:
2000 April 21, Daniel Daly, “Airsickness”, in rec.aviation.soaring (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of vomiting; vomit.
senses_topics:
|
2871 | word:
regime
word_type:
noun
expansion:
regime (plural regimes)
forms:
form:
regimes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
regime
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French régime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”). Doublet of regimen.
senses_examples:
text:
a prison regime
type:
example
text:
the dictator's regime
type:
example
text:
Heaven will eliminate the tyrannical regimes.
type:
example
text:
a fitness regime
type:
example
text:
For three weeks Lorde engages in a regime of rest, relaxation, eurhythmy, and active meditation.
ref:
1988 December 11, Cheryl Clarke, “Still Shouting Down The Silence”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
ref:
2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Gorsuch’s theory would hobble this nondiscrimination regime by preventing the government from directing employers to tell employees about their rights and responsibilities under law.
ref:
2017, Mark Joseph Stern, “The Cake Is Just the Beginning”, in Slate
type:
quotation
text:
A typical annual water level regime would include a gradual summer drawdown beginning in early May.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Mode of rule or management.
A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.
A period of rule.
A regulated system; a regimen.
A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
A set of characteristics.
senses_topics:
geography
hydrology
natural-sciences |
2872 | word:
unvaluable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unvaluable (comparative more unvaluable, superlative most unvaluable)
forms:
form:
more unvaluable
tags:
comparative
form:
most unvaluable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + valuable.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not valuable; having little value.
Invaluable; beyond price.
senses_topics:
|
2873 | word:
U-turn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
U-turn (plural U-turns)
forms:
form:
U-turns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
U + turn, from the similarity to the shape of the letter U.
senses_examples:
text:
The government have done a U-turn and are now supporting greater European integration instead of opposing it.
type:
example
text:
Rishi Sunak, the UK prime minister, announced a major U-turn on the government’s climate commitments last month, pushing back the deadline for selling new petrol and diesel cars and the phasing out of gas boilers.
ref:
2023 October 10, Senay Boztas, “Frans Timmermans urges European left to unite against right’s climate backlash”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A turn in a vehicle carried out by driving in a semicircle in order to travel in the opposite direction.
A reversal of policy; an about-face, a backflip.
senses_topics:
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2874 | word:
U-turn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
U-turn (third-person singular simple present U-turns, present participle U-turning, simple past and past participle U-turned)
forms:
form:
U-turns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
U-turning
tags:
participle
present
form:
U-turned
tags:
participle
past
form:
U-turned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
U + turn, from the similarity to the shape of the letter U.
senses_examples:
text:
She made the case for cutting taxes as “the right thing to do morally and economically”, despite having just U-turned over her decision to abolish the 45p top rate of income tax.
ref:
2022 October 5, Rowena Mason, “Liz Truss promises ‘growth, growth and growth’ in protest-hit speech”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To turn a vehicle in a semicircle so as to face the opposite direction.
To shift from one opinion or decision to its opposite.
senses_topics:
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2875 | word:
Georgia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Georgia
forms:
wikipedia:
Georgia
en:Pomponius Mela
etymology_text:
A borrowing from Medieval Latin Geōrgia, itself a borrowing from Classical Persian گرج (gurj) (with influence from (sānctus) Geōrgius (“Saint George”), alluding to the saint's popularity in the country), from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭫𐭥𐭰𐭠𐭭 pl (wiruz-ān, “Iberians, Georgians”). The term's further history is unknown; it may ultimately be a derivation from Middle Persian 𐭢𐭥𐭫𐭢 (gurg, “wolf”), though that would be phonologically challenging; compare Parthian 𐭅𐭉𐭓𐭔𐭍 pl (wiruž-ān), Old Armenian վիր-ք (vir-kʻ), Old East Slavic гурзи (gurzi). Replaced earlier Georgie, from the same source via a Middle French intermediary.
Early medieval sources hypothesize that the country was named after Saint George, while later European accounts connect the name with agricultural tribes called "Georgi" (from Ancient Greek γεωργός (geōrgós, “farmer”)) mentioned by classical authors (Pliny, IV.26, VI.14; Mela, De Sita Orb. i.2); neither of these etymologies is accepted today.
senses_examples:
text:
During our stay in Georgia Mr. Chmarsky's gremlin hardly operated at all, and that made us feel better toward him, and made him feel better toward us.
ref:
1948, John Steinbeck, chapter 7, in A Russian Journal, New York: The Viking Press, →OCLC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transcontinental country in the Caucasus region of Europe and Asia, on the coast of the Black Sea, often considered to belong politically to Europe. Official name: Georgia. Capital: Tbilisi.
senses_topics:
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2876 | word:
Georgia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Georgia
forms:
wikipedia:
Georgia
etymology_text:
From George (male given name) + -ia (place-name suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
I said, Georgia, oh, Georgia
No peace I find
Just an old, sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind
ref:
1930, “Georgia on My Mind”, Stuart Gorrell (lyrics), Hoagy Carmichael (music)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in the Southern United States. Capital: Atlanta. It is named for George II of Great Britain (1683–1760).
Several places in the United States.
A town in Franklin County, Vermont, named for George III of the United Kingdom (1738–1820).
Several places in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Indiana, named for the state.
Several places in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Cherry County, Nebraska, named for a local carpenter.
Several places in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
A hamlet in Towednack parish, Cornwall, England.
A transitional serif typeface named after the state, designed by Matthew Carter in 1993.
University of Georgia.
senses_topics:
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2877 | word:
Georgia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Georgia
forms:
wikipedia:
Georgia
etymology_text:
Latinate feminine form of George, from Ancient Greek Γεώργιος (Geṓrgios, “farmer”).
senses_examples:
text:
"Georgia?" his mother said. "Why in the world would a mother want to give her daughter such an outlandish name?" "It's no more outlandish than Jesse Griffith." "Why, Jesse G., thee's named for thy two grandfathers." "Georgia's named for a whole state."
ref:
1949, Jessamyn West, Except for Me and Thee, Macmillan, published 1969, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
senses_topics:
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2878 | word:
nickel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nickel (countable and uncountable, plural nickels)
forms:
form:
nickels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
nickel
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: dime
text:
That is just objectively terrifying regardless of contexts! He looks like if a nickel did cocaine!
ref:
2017 October 8, “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
Colonel Hazeltine still had trouble persuading air commanders to drop the nickels. Pilots profanely protested against risking their necks on such foolishness. But in the end 15,000,000 leaflets a week were being dropped on Sicily and Italy.
ref:
1945, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 217, Curtis Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
Many types of nickels were used in psychological warfare. Classified according to general purpose, there were strategic and tactical leaflets.
ref:
1948, The Army Air Forces in World War II, volume 3, Office of Air Force History, page 495
type:
quotation
text:
Nickels, the code-name for propaganda leaflets, were ordinary 8-1/2×11" sheets of paper either printed on both sides or folded in half and printed on all four sides. […] On most of our flights, after leaving the DZ or landing strip we distributed 150 to 450 pounds of nickels over designated areas, and a few of our missions were nickel runs only.
ref:
2010, Richard H. Kraemer, The Secret War in the Balkans, Author House, page 136
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
A coin worth 5 cents.
Five dollars.
Five hundred dollars.
Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
A playing card with the rank of five
A five-year prison sentence.
A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more common four.
An airborne propaganda leaflet.
senses_topics:
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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2879 | word:
nickel
word_type:
adj
expansion:
nickel (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
nickel
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.
senses_examples:
text:
Let me give you the nickel tour of the office.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of cheap: Low price and/or low value.
senses_topics:
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2880 | word:
nickel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nickel (third-person singular simple present nickels, present participle nickeling or nickelling, simple past and past participle nickeled or nickelled)
forms:
form:
nickels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nickeling
tags:
participle
present
form:
nickelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
nickeled
tags:
participle
past
form:
nickeled
tags:
past
form:
nickelled
tags:
participle
past
form:
nickelled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
nickel
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.
senses_examples:
text:
The 422d Bombardment Squadron extended the scope of its operations considerably in April and "attacked" Norwegian targets with the leaflet bomb. The number of cities nickeled per mission also increased until it was common for fifteen to twenty-five to be scheduled as targets for a five-plane mission.
ref:
1948, The Army Air Forces in World War II, volume 3, Office of Air Force History, pages 496–497
type:
quotation
text:
We flew numerous nickeling missions over the population centers of Southern France, dropping thousands of pounds of leaflets.
ref:
1966, Monro MacCloskey, Secret Air Missions, R. Rosen Press, →OCLC, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
From southern Greece to northern Italy, nickeling supplied both occupied peoples and their occupiers with fairly frequent and generally accurate reports of the war — in many cases, their only authoritative source of information.
ref:
2010, Richard H. Kraemer, The Secret War in the Balkans, Author House, page 136
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To plate with nickel.
To distribute airborne leaflet propaganda.
senses_topics:
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2881 | word:
g'day
word_type:
intj
expansion:
g'day
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Contraction of good day.
senses_examples:
text:
"G'day, Missus," said he, with a jerk of his head, and he shifted from one leg to the other, and turned his hat over and over uneasily in his great brown hands.
[…]
"G'day," said 'Lizer, with a bright smile that revealed the prettiest of white teeth. The girl's mouth was as fresh as a rose.
[…]
"G'day, Missus, hope you're keepin' well, an' the Boss, an' the children. Got back sooner'n I expected; Well, how's my mate shapin?" said he.
[…]
It ain't no one's fault but mine," he said, generously. "G'day, Missus; I'm goin' ter find my mate, alive-or dead;" and he galloped away.
ref:
1901 December 14, Bushwoman, “Lizer o' th' Overshot”, in Australian Town and Country Journal
type:
quotation
text:
G'day, Muck.
[…]
Ned
ref:
2012 February 20, Ned Latham, “Odd behaviour UPLOAD”, in aus.computers.linux (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Golf Golf Whiskey Golf, cleared the ILS approach runway one two, contact Sault Tower one one eight decimal eight, g'day.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hi, hello.
Denotes the end of a radio transmission.
senses_topics:
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2882 | word:
pavement pizza
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pavement pizza (countable and uncountable, plural pavement pizzas)
forms:
form:
pavement pizzas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I think I'm about to deliver a pavement pizza.
type:
example
text:
Being drunk is one thing, but creating a pavement pizza on a train is clearly overstepping the mark.
ref:
2004, Andrew Holmes, Matthew Reeves, Pains on Trains: A Commuter′s Guide to the 50 Most Irritating Travel Companions, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
I was so relieved at the end of the journey that if I had had anything left to throw up I would have made it a hat trick of pavement pizzas.
ref:
2009, Aaron Chynn, Memoirs of an Ordinary Man: A Yorkshireman's Tale, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
2010, Michael Powell, Matt Forbeck, Forbidden Knowledge College: 101 Things Not Every Student Should Know How To Do, Adams Media, UK, page 84,
This will make you gag and cough; keep going until your stomach starts heaving. Open your throat as if you were is about to swallow a sword; this sends another signal to your brain that a pavement pizza [is] about to be delivered.
text:
She would have been pavement pizza if she hadn′t been strapped in. As it was, she was hanging from the shoulder strap like a parachutist who hit a tree.
ref:
1998, Eileen Dreyer, Brain Dead, page 287
type:
quotation
text:
He′d even heard of there having been a jumper once. Ended up as pavement-pizza, but astoundingly still alive, now simply existing in a semi-vegetable state, a crippled slobbering mess, physically and mentally incapacitated for the remainder of his sorry life.
ref:
2008, Christopher Nosnibor, The Plagiarist, page 107
type:
quotation
text:
Fortunately, technology is in place to slow your descent before you become pavement-pizza.
ref:
2011, Bob Sehlinger, The Unofficial Guide to Britain′s Best Days Out, Theme Parks and Attractions, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
That's so the little critters can go there and eat their little hearts out instead of getting them smashed out on the road as a part of a pavement pizza.
ref:
1995, Margaret Lawrence, “Cousin Cassie′s Cookin′”, in Annette J. Bruce, J. Stephen Brooks, editors, Sandspun: Florida Tales by Florida Tellers, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
Had I been in an SUV, the kid would have been pavement pizza.
ref:
2004 September 13, Editorial Opinion, Philadelphia Daily News (PA)
type:
quotation
text:
If that schnauzer winds up pavement pizza, they′d love reporting me, they′d be checking my tires for fur in no time.
ref:
2005, Paul Frederick Kluge, Final Exam, page 21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A patch of vomit on the pavement, road or ground.
The badly damaged bodily remains of a person who has jumped or fallen from a great height.
Roadkill.
senses_topics:
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2883 | word:
donger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
donger (plural dongers)
forms:
form:
dongers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant of dong.
senses_examples:
text:
My donger gets sucked right up inside this bloody hose. Hell it was painful. / ‘Christ almighty,’ Sandy said. ‘Yer right. She′s a powerful pump alright.’
ref:
2011, Bill Marsh, The ABC Book of Great Aussie Stories: For Young People
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The penis.
senses_topics:
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2884 | word:
donger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
donger (plural dongers)
forms:
form:
dongers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From donga (“transportable cabin”).
senses_examples:
text:
The first donger had one of its sliding windows open a crack, so I was able to get in there without leaving a sign.
ref:
2009, David Everett, Kingsley Flett, Shadow Warrior: From the SAS to Australia′s Most Wanted, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A donga (transportable cabin or tourist accommodation).
senses_topics:
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2885 | word:
cardinal number
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cardinal number (plural cardinal numbers)
forms:
form:
cardinal numbers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The smallest cardinal numbers are 0, 1, 2, and 3.
type:
example
text:
The cardinal number “three” can be represented as “3” or “three”.
type:
example
text:
This cardinal number is the smallest of the infinite cardinal numbers; it is the one to which Cantor has appropriated the Hebrew Aleph with the suffix 0, to distinguish it from larger infinite cardinals. Thus the name of the smallest of infinite cardinals is ℵ₀.
ref:
1920, Bertrand Russell, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
“Three” is a cardinal number, while “third” is an ordinal number.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A number used to denote quantity; a counting number; a cardinal.
A generalized kind of number used to denote the size of a set, including infinite sets.
A word that expresses a countable quantity; a cardinal numeral.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2886 | word:
bull bar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bull bar (plural bull bars)
forms:
form:
bull bars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
2003 October, Cliff Gromer (article editor), GreatStuff, Popular Mechanics, page 120,
Bull bars give your SUV a macho look, as well as add protection and versatility. ARB's bull bars for the Jeep Liberty offer all of the above, with added features that include Hi-Lift jacking points, auxiliary driving-light mounts, a provision for relocating the factory foglights and accommodation for Warn winches.
text:
I got the job of buying the after-market products, such as the bull bar and tow bar, so Ruth and I set out for ARB, the 4X4 shop at Caboolture.
ref:
2010, Gary Hatcher, You Probably Have Parkinson Disease, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
Front protection bars, known as bull bars, brush bars, roo bars, and even nerf or nudge bars are probably the most contentious piece of equipment that can be fitted to a car. In some countries they are banned outright.[…]In some countries where risk of damage is very high, bull bars are considered essential safety equipment.
ref:
2011, Ralph Hosier, Land Rover Discovery, Defender & Range Rover: How to Modify for High Performance & Serious Off-Road Action, page 61
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A welded framework of metal bars at a vehicle's front, designed to protect it during collisions with animals, but often purchased as a fashion accessory.
senses_topics:
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2887 | word:
compass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
compass (plural compasses)
forms:
form:
compasses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
compass
etymology_text:
From Middle English compas (“a circle, circuit, limit, form, a mathematical instrument”), from Old French compas, from Medieval Latin compassus (“a circle, a circuit”), from Latin com- (“together”) + passus (“a pace, step, later a pass, way, route”); see pass, pace.
senses_examples:
text:
1689/1690, John Locke, On improvement of understanding
He that … first discovered the use of the compass … did more for the propagation of knowledge … than those who built workhouses.
text:
a glance at his compass would have shown him that a northerly course instead of an easterly could not be right
ref:
1890, Wilhelm Westhofen, The Forth Bridge
type:
quotation
text:
to fix one foot of their compass wherever they please
ref:
1701, Jonathan Swift, chapter 5, in A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome
type:
quotation
text:
In going up the Missisippi [sic], we meet with nothing remarkable before we come to the Detour aux Anglois, the English Reach: in that part the river takes a large compass.
ref:
1763, M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana, PG, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
ref:
1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator
type:
quotation
text:
Among tank engines, the 0-6-2 wheel arrangement was by far the most numerous, there being nearly 450 of this arrangement, which offers the advantage of good power and adhesive weight, coupled with adequate tank and bunker capacity, within a limited compass.
ref:
1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
within the compass of an encircling wall
type:
example
text:
In two hundred years before (I speak within compass), no such commission had been executed.
ref:
c. 1610, John Davies, Historical Tracts
type:
quotation
text:
There is a truth and falsehood in all propositions on this subject, and a truth and falsehood, which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding.
ref:
1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, Oxford University Press, published 1973, section 8
type:
quotation
text:
How very commonly we hear it remarked that such and such thoughts are beyond the compass of words! I do not believe that any thought, properly so called, is out of the reach of language.
ref:
1844, Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
type:
quotation
text:
The 1664 pages of this Collegiate make it the most comprehensive ever published. And its treatment of words is as nearly exhaustive as the compass of an abridged work permits.
ref:
2003, Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition edition, Merriam-Webster, page 6a
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).
A pair of compasses (a device used to draw circular arcs and transfer length measurements).
The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.
A space within limits; an area.
An enclosing limit; a boundary, a circumference.
Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within.
Synonym of scope.
Range, reach.
A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
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2888 | word:
compass
word_type:
verb
expansion:
compass (third-person singular simple present compasses, present participle compassing, simple past and past participle compassed)
forms:
form:
compasses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
compassing
tags:
participle
present
form:
compassed
tags:
participle
past
form:
compassed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
compass
etymology_text:
From Middle English compassen (“to go around, make a circuit, draw a circle, contrive, intend”), from Old French compasser; from the noun; see compass as a noun.
senses_examples:
text:
Jack was called plucky, and he was, but it took all the strength of will that the slim, resolute engineer possessed, to hold him to his purpose, when he faced about and surveyed the unimpassive faces which compassed him.
ref:
1899, Martha Frye Boggs, Jack Crews, page 237
type:
quotation
text:
[…] tho' theſe ſeem'd to be very unfit Inſtruments for compaſſing of that great Deſign for which they were then employ'd, becauſe of their Inability and Uncapacity in performing the Work ſo very great and important; […]
ref:
1720, John Shaw, “Of Religion”, in The Fundamental Doctrines of the Church of England, […], volume I, London: […] George Strahan, […] William Mears, […], page 36
type:
quotation
text:
[...] they never find ways sufficient to compass that end.
ref:
1763, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated by M. Nugent, Emilius; or, an essay on education, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
[...] to settle the end of our action or disputation; and then to take fit and effectual means to compass that end.
ref:
1816, Catholicon: or, the Christian Philosopher, volume 3, July to December 1816, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
[...] and was an artful flatterer, when that was necessary to compass his end, in which generally he was successful.
ref:
1857, Gilbert Burnet, Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: from the Restoration of King Charles the Second to the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht in the Reign of Queen Anne, page 657
type:
quotation
text:
The immediate problem is how to compass that end: by the seizure of territory or by the cultivation of the goodwill of the people whose business she seeks.
ref:
1921 November 23, The New Republic, volume 28, number 364, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
That he plotted and compassed to raise Sedition and Rebellion [...]
ref:
1600, R. Bagshaw, “The Arraignment and Judgement of Captain Thomas Lee”, in Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials, volume 1, published 1809, pages 1403–04
type:
quotation
text:
But it went beyond it by the loose construction of compassing to depose the King, …
ref:
1794 November 1, Speech of Mr. Erskine in Behalf of Hardy, published in 1884, by Chauncey Allen Goodrich, in Select British Eloquence, page 719
text:
The Bavarian felt a mad wave of desire for her sweep over him. What scheme wouldn't he compass to mould that girl to his wishes.
ref:
1915, The Wireless Age, volume 2, page 580
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.
To go about or round entirely; to traverse.
To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.
To plot; to scheme (against someone).
senses_topics:
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2889 | word:
compass
word_type:
adv
expansion:
compass (comparative more compass, superlative most compass)
forms:
form:
more compass
tags:
comparative
form:
most compass
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
compass
etymology_text:
From Middle English compassen (“to go around, make a circuit, draw a circle, contrive, intend”), from Old French compasser; from the noun; see compass as a noun.
senses_examples:
text:
Near the same plot of ground, for about six yards compasse were digged up coals and incinerated substances, […]
ref:
1658, Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a circuit; round about.
senses_topics:
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2890 | word:
musical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
musical (comparative more musical, superlative most musical)
forms:
form:
more musical
tags:
comparative
form:
most musical
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English musical, from Old French [Term?], from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica (“music”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives); equivalent to music + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
musical proportion
type:
example
text:
musical instruments
type:
example
text:
She had a musical voice.
type:
example
text:
having a musical ear
type:
example
text:
The child is musical.
type:
example
text:
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
ref:
1962, Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play, Simon and Schuster, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
Musical seats upon an airplane is not a game I recommend.
ref:
2004, Mike Bright, A Dream Realized: A Collection of Poems by Cowboy Mike Bright, Xulon Press, page 341
type:
quotation
text:
“Sounds like y'all are playing musical houses. How did you convince your mama to move to Austin?”
ref:
2006, Evelyn Palfrey, The Price of Passion, Simon and Schuster, page 441
type:
quotation
text:
Parties were splitting, forming, merging, and dissolving in such rapid succession that the game of musical chairs seemed to describe what was going on better than any known theory of political science.
ref:
2011, Leonard James Schoppa, The Evolution of Japan's Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change, University of Toronto Press, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Among my small circle of college friends, and even more so among the volunteers here, couples are so often changing places, people playing musical lovers.
ref:
2014, Tyler McMahon, Kilometer 99: A Novel, St. Martin's Griffin, page 138
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.
Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious.
Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music.
Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions.
senses_topics:
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2891 | word:
musical
word_type:
noun
expansion:
musical (plural musicals)
forms:
form:
musicals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English musical, from Old French [Term?], from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica (“music”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives); equivalent to music + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
It is unthinkable for a straight play to enjoy a life span like those of the blockbuster musicals or to earn such astronomical grosses.
ref:
2004, Steven Adler, On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way, SIU Press, page 221
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.
A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale.
senses_topics:
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2892 | word:
Welsh
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Welsh (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Volcae
etymology_text:
From Middle English Walsch, Welische, from Old English wīelisċ (“Briton; Roman; Celt”), from Proto-West Germanic *walhisk, from Proto-Germanic *walhiskaz (“Celt; later Roman”), from *walhaz (“Celt, Roman”) (compare Old English wealh), from the name of the Gaulish tribe, the Volcae (recorded only in Latin contexts).
This word was borrowed from Germanic into Slavic (compare Old Church Slavonic Влахъ (Vlaxŭ, “Vlachs, Romanians”), Byzantine Greek Βλάχος (Blákhos)).
Doublet of Vellish. Compare Walloon, walnut, Vlach, Walach, Gaul, Cornwall.
senses_examples:
text:
The Tudors, it was argued, were of Welsh or ancient British descent.
ref:
1985, Michael Wood, In Search of the Trojan War
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Wales.
Of or pertaining to the Celtic language of Wales.
Designating plants or animals from or associated with Wales.
Indigenously British; pertaining to the Celtic peoples who inhabited much of Britain before the Roman occupation.
senses_topics:
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2893 | word:
Welsh
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Welsh (countable and uncountable, plural Welsh)
forms:
form:
Welsh
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Volcae
etymology_text:
From Middle English Walsch, Welische, from Old English wīelisċ (“Briton; Roman; Celt”), from Proto-West Germanic *walhisk, from Proto-Germanic *walhiskaz (“Celt; later Roman”), from *walhaz (“Celt, Roman”) (compare Old English wealh), from the name of the Gaulish tribe, the Volcae (recorded only in Latin contexts).
This word was borrowed from Germanic into Slavic (compare Old Church Slavonic Влахъ (Vlaxŭ, “Vlachs, Romanians”), Byzantine Greek Βλάχος (Blákhos)).
Doublet of Vellish. Compare Walloon, walnut, Vlach, Walach, Gaul, Cornwall.
senses_examples:
text:
9 minutes to 2. We just stopped to have our horses' mouths washed, and there all people spoke welsh.
ref:
1832, Queen Victoria, journal, 6 Aug 1832
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Welsh language.
The people of Wales.
A breed of pig, kept mainly for bacon.
senses_topics:
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2894 | word:
Welsh
word_type:
name
expansion:
Welsh (plural Welshes)
forms:
form:
Welshes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Volcae
etymology_text:
From Middle English Walsch, Welische, from Old English wīelisċ (“Briton; Roman; Celt”), from Proto-West Germanic *walhisk, from Proto-Germanic *walhiskaz (“Celt; later Roman”), from *walhaz (“Celt, Roman”) (compare Old English wealh), from the name of the Gaulish tribe, the Volcae (recorded only in Latin contexts).
This word was borrowed from Germanic into Slavic (compare Old Church Slavonic Влахъ (Vlaxŭ, “Vlachs, Romanians”), Byzantine Greek Βλάχος (Blákhos)).
Doublet of Vellish. Compare Walloon, walnut, Vlach, Walach, Gaul, Cornwall.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname for someone who was a Welshman or a Celt.
An Irish surname, a variant of Walsh.
A town in Louisiana, United States, named for early landowner Henry Welsh.
An unincorporated community in Ohio, United States, named for an early settler.
senses_topics:
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2895 | word:
Qiana
word_type:
name
expansion:
Qiana
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Introduced in the 1960s; originally a trademark of DuPont.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A silky material made from nylon fibers.
senses_topics:
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2896 | word:
alpaca
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alpaca (countable and uncountable, plural alpacas or alpaca)
forms:
form:
alpacas
tags:
plural
form:
alpaca
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.
senses_examples:
text:
A lady in frayed alpaca, carrying a house-flannel, came to hearken.
ref:
1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company
type:
quotation
text:
The dress was at the bottom, — it was an alpaca, of a pretty shade in blue, bedecked with lace and ribbons, as is the fashion of the hour, and lined with sea-green silk.
ref:
1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sheep-like domesticated animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.
Wool from the alpaca, with strong very long fibres and coloring from black to brown to white.
A garment made of such wool.
senses_topics:
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2897 | word:
koala
word_type:
noun
expansion:
koala (plural koalas)
forms:
form:
koalas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Dharug gula or gulawany.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.
senses_topics:
|
2898 | word:
adjunct
word_type:
noun
expansion:
adjunct (plural adjuncts)
forms:
form:
adjuncts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
adjunct
etymology_text:
From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
senses_examples:
text:
noun adjunct
type:
example
text:
When a female enters the profession, she is generally not referred to as doctor but as a lady doctor or woman doctor. The use of "feminizing" adjuncts designates a deviation from the norm, doctor, and does not carry the weight of the term unmodified.
ref:
1981 April 4, Signe A. Dayhoff, “Sexist Language: You Become Your Label”, in Gay Community News, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
We can see from (34) that Determiners are sisters of N-bar and daughters of N-double-bar; Adjuncts are both sisters and daughters of N-bar; and Complements are sisters of N and daughters of N-bar. This means that Adjuncts resemble Complements in that both are daughters of N-bar; but they differ from Complements in that Adjuncts are sisters of N-bar, whereas Complements are sisters of N. Likewise, it means that Adjuncts resemble Determiners in that both are sisters of N-bar, but they differ from Determiners in that Adjuncts are daughters of N-bar, whereas Determiners are daughters of N-double-bar.
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 177
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that modifies its meaning.
A graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of an adjective that modifies that logogram (rather than as a phonetic complement that disambiguates the logogram).
A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
Symploce.
One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
senses_topics:
beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
entertainment
lifestyle
music
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
biology
epigraphy
geography
history
human-sciences
literature
media
natural-sciences
palaeography
paleogeography
paleography
paleontology
publishing
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax
category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
2899 | word:
adjunct
word_type:
adj
expansion:
adjunct (comparative more adjunct, superlative most adjunct)
forms:
form:
more adjunct
tags:
comparative
form:
most adjunct
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
adjunct
etymology_text:
From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Connected in a subordinate function.
Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
senses_topics:
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