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2900 | word:
adjunct
word_type:
verb
expansion:
adjunct (third-person singular simple present adjuncts, present participle adjuncting, simple past and past participle adjuncted)
forms:
form:
adjuncts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
adjuncting
tags:
participle
present
form:
adjuncted
tags:
participle
past
form:
adjuncted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
adjunct
etymology_text:
From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
senses_examples:
text:
I also nannied through the first part of graduate school. I had friends who bartended or worked at a wine store and also adjuncted. A lot of people would package these jobs together.
ref:
2015 November 24, Noah Davis, quoting Monica Brannon, “How Do You Make a Living, Visiting Professor?”, in Pacific Standard, Santa Barbara, C.A.: The Miller-McCune Center […], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-18
type:
quotation
text:
A sudden fantasy emerges of Adam adjuncting at Hannah's college, a sweet Mr. Mom to Paul-Louis' (Riz Ahmed) baby while Hannah becomes a professor slash internet celeb -- but there I go writing fanfiction.
ref:
2017 April 15, Emily Jordan, “Let me be misunderstood: The final episode of HBO's "Girls" and how we really feel about Hannah Horvath”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2023-08-23
type:
quotation
text:
I wish I had a cut and dry answer to this question. When I adjunct at the University of Baltimore, I get asked a similar question by my students every semester.
ref:
2022 July 26, Donte Kirby, quoting Tronster Hartley, “Want to break into tech? Software devs say to learn these coding languages”, in Technical.ly, archived from the original on 2022-12-09
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To work as an adjunct professor.
senses_topics:
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2901 | word:
yeasty
word_type:
adj
expansion:
yeasty (comparative yeastier, superlative yeastiest)
forms:
form:
yeastier
tags:
comparative
form:
yeastiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From yeast + -y.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having or resembling yeast.
Foamy and frothy.
Emotionally bubbling over (as with exuberance)
Trivial.
senses_topics:
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2902 | word:
football
word_type:
noun
expansion:
football (countable and uncountable, plural footballs)
forms:
form:
footballs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fotbal, footbal, equivalent to foot + ball, which may refer to the act of kicking a ball with the feet or to the fact the game was played on foot (as opposed to on horseback or with players in fixed positions). The name for the briefcase is a play on “dropkick”, the code name of an early version of the nuclear war plan.
senses_examples:
text:
Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football.
type:
example
text:
Each team scored three goals when they played football.
type:
example
text:
Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football.
type:
example
text:
They played football in the snow.
type:
example
text:
The player kicked the football.
type:
example
text:
That budget item became a political football.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: Cheget
text:
The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade. He is responsible for the football (or “black box” or “black bag”), a briefcase containing the codes and targeting information the president would require to order or authorize a nuclear attack.
ref:
1994, Herbert L. Abrams, The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability, and the 25th Amendment, Stanford University Press, page 126
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.
Association football, also called soccer: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball.
American football: a game played on a field 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
Canadian football: a game played on a field 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
Australian rules football.
Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.
rugby league.
rugby union.
The ball used in any game called "football".
Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
2903 | word:
football
word_type:
verb
expansion:
football (third-person singular simple present footballs, present participle footballing, simple past and past participle footballed)
forms:
form:
footballs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
footballing
tags:
participle
present
form:
footballed
tags:
participle
past
form:
footballed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fotbal, footbal, equivalent to foot + ball, which may refer to the act of kicking a ball with the feet or to the fact the game was played on foot (as opposed to on horseback or with players in fixed positions). The name for the briefcase is a play on “dropkick”, the code name of an early version of the nuclear war plan.
senses_examples:
text:
It was an announcement of the outbreak of what is now termed World War I. Some of us lads were footballing when we heard the news. It left us bewildered.
ref:
1969, Alec Hugh Chisholm, The Joy of the Earth, page 358
type:
quotation
text:
You walked up our road, passed the elms that bordered our park until Dutch disease killed them in the early 1970s, diagonally crossed its field where we footballed, turned right at the drinking fountain and cattle trough […]
ref:
2019, David Randall, Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To play football.
senses_topics:
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2904 | word:
but
word_type:
prep
expansion:
but
forms:
wikipedia:
BUT
etymology_text:
From Middle English but, buten, boute, bouten, from Old English būtan (“without, outside of, except, only”), from Proto-West Germanic *biūtan, *biūtini, equivalent to be- + out. Cognate with Scots but, bot (“outside, without, but”), Saterland Frisian buute (“without”), West Frisian bûten (“outside of, apart from, other than, except, but”), Dutch buiten (“outside”), Dutch Low Saxon buten (“outside”), German Low German buuten, buute (“outside”), obsolete German baußen (“outside”), Luxembourgish baussen. Compare bin, about.
Eclipsed non-native Middle English mes (“but”) borrowed from Old French mes, mais (> French mais (“but”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Everyone but Father left early.
type:
example
text:
I like everything but that.
type:
example
text:
Nobody answered the door when I knocked, so I had no choice but to leave.
type:
example
text:
Luiz struggled with the movement of Helguson in the box, as he collected a long ball and the Spaniard barged him over, leaving referee Chris Foy little option but to point to the spot.
ref:
2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1-0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Apart from, except (for), excluding.
Outside of.
senses_topics:
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2905 | word:
but
word_type:
adv
expansion:
but (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
BUT
etymology_text:
From Middle English but, buten, boute, bouten, from Old English būtan (“without, outside of, except, only”), from Proto-West Germanic *biūtan, *biūtini, equivalent to be- + out. Cognate with Scots but, bot (“outside, without, but”), Saterland Frisian buute (“without”), West Frisian bûten (“outside of, apart from, other than, except, but”), Dutch buiten (“outside”), Dutch Low Saxon buten (“outside”), German Low German buuten, buute (“outside”), obsolete German baußen (“outside”), Luxembourgish baussen. Compare bin, about.
Eclipsed non-native Middle English mes (“but”) borrowed from Old French mes, mais (> French mais (“but”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Christmas comes but once a year.
type:
example
text:
For to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love for ever.
ref:
1791, Robert Burns, Ae Fond Kiss
type:
quotation
text:
Black Knight: "'Tis but a scratch." King Arthur: "A scratch? Your arm's off!"
ref:
1975, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
type:
quotation
text:
The stony outcrops are often covered but thinly with arable soil; winters are bitingly cold, and rainfall scanty and unpredictable.
ref:
1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
May the Protector of the Buddhist Faith grant me but seven more days grace of life to be quit of this disloyal couple, father and son.
ref:
1990, Claude de Bèze, translated by E. W. Hutchinson, 1688 revolution in Siam: the memoir of Father de Bèze, s.j, University Press, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
I'll have to go home early but.
type:
example
text:
"Supposin' the chap ain't dead, but?" Regan persisted.
ref:
1906, "Steele Rudd", Back At Our Selection, page 161
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Merely, only, just, no more than
Though, however.
senses_topics:
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2906 | word:
but
word_type:
conj
expansion:
but
forms:
wikipedia:
BUT
etymology_text:
From Middle English but, buten, boute, bouten, from Old English būtan (“without, outside of, except, only”), from Proto-West Germanic *biūtan, *biūtini, equivalent to be- + out. Cognate with Scots but, bot (“outside, without, but”), Saterland Frisian buute (“without”), West Frisian bûten (“outside of, apart from, other than, except, but”), Dutch buiten (“outside”), Dutch Low Saxon buten (“outside”), German Low German buuten, buute (“outside”), obsolete German baußen (“outside”), Luxembourgish baussen. Compare bin, about.
Eclipsed non-native Middle English mes (“but”) borrowed from Old French mes, mais (> French mais (“but”)).
senses_examples:
text:
She is very old but still attractive.
type:
example
text:
You told me I could do that, but she said that I could not.
type:
example
text:
I am not rich but [I am] poor. Not John but Peter went there.
type:
example
text:
But I never said you could do that!
type:
example
text:
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.
Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref:
2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
ref:
2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
I cannot but feel offended.
type:
example
text:
Wow! But that's amazing!
type:
example
text:
"Jakers, but we worked." With a long breath she shut her eyes. "But it was too much for one woman and a half-grown girl […]"
ref:
2013, Nora Roberts, Irish Thoroughbred, Little, Brown, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
It never rains but it pours.
type:
example
text:
It is not impossible but next year I may have the honour of waiting on your Lordship at St. Asaph, If I go to Ireland I certainly will go that way.
ref:
1784, Joshua Reynolds, edited by John Ingamells and John Edgcumbe, The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale, published 2000, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
“I am convinced, if you were to press this matter earnestly upon her, she would consent.”
“It is not impossible but she might,” said Madame de Seidlits […].
ref:
1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
It is not improbable but future observations will add Pliny's Well to the class of irregular reciprocators.
ref:
1813 July, Journal of Natural Philosophy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (introducing a clause contrary to prior belief or in contrast with the preceding clause or sentence).
On the contrary, rather (as a regular adversative conjunction, introducing a word or clause in contrast or contradiction with the preceding negative clause or sentence).
Used at the beginning of a sentence to express opposition to a remark.
Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "except such that".
Used to link an interjection to the following remark as an intensifier.
Without it also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant).
Except with; unless with; without.
Only; solely; merely.
Until.
That.
senses_topics:
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2907 | word:
but
word_type:
noun
expansion:
but (plural buts)
forms:
form:
buts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
BUT
etymology_text:
From Middle English but, buten, boute, bouten, from Old English būtan (“without, outside of, except, only”), from Proto-West Germanic *biūtan, *biūtini, equivalent to be- + out. Cognate with Scots but, bot (“outside, without, but”), Saterland Frisian buute (“without”), West Frisian bûten (“outside of, apart from, other than, except, but”), Dutch buiten (“outside”), Dutch Low Saxon buten (“outside”), German Low German buuten, buute (“outside”), obsolete German baußen (“outside”), Luxembourgish baussen. Compare bin, about.
Eclipsed non-native Middle English mes (“but”) borrowed from Old French mes, mais (> French mais (“but”)).
senses_examples:
text:
It has to be done—no ifs, ands, or buts.
type:
example
text:
But—and this is a big but—you have to come home by sundown.
type:
example
text:
"I support you/understand where you're coming from, but..." ¶ No. No "buts" when it comes to other people's survival.
ref:
2016 December 28, Concepcion de Leon, “5 Things Well-Meaning People Say to Me That Are Actually Really Offensive”, in Glamour, Greenwich, C.T., […]: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-08
type:
quotation
text:
But - and this is a pretty important but - it's just as bad to eat the wrong thing before a workout as it is to eat nothing at all.
ref:
2018 September 17, Catriona Harvey-Jenner, “8 foods you should never eat before a workout”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instance of using the word "but"; an objection or caveat.
The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
A limit; a boundary.
The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.
senses_topics:
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2908 | word:
but
word_type:
verb
expansion:
but (third-person singular simple present buts, present participle butting, simple past and past participle butted)
forms:
form:
buts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
butting
tags:
participle
present
form:
butted
tags:
participle
past
form:
butted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
BUT
etymology_text:
From Middle English but, buten, boute, bouten, from Old English būtan (“without, outside of, except, only”), from Proto-West Germanic *biūtan, *biūtini, equivalent to be- + out. Cognate with Scots but, bot (“outside, without, but”), Saterland Frisian buute (“without”), West Frisian bûten (“outside of, apart from, other than, except, but”), Dutch buiten (“outside”), Dutch Low Saxon buten (“outside”), German Low German buuten, buute (“outside”), obsolete German baußen (“outside”), Luxembourgish baussen. Compare bin, about.
Eclipsed non-native Middle English mes (“but”) borrowed from Old French mes, mais (> French mais (“but”)).
senses_examples:
text:
But me no buts.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Use the word "but".
senses_topics:
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2909 | word:
noon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
noon (countable and uncountable, plural noons)
forms:
form:
noons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
noon
etymology_text:
From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English nōn (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nōna (“ninth hour”) (short for nōna hōra), feminine of nōnus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.
senses_examples:
text:
On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
type:
example
text:
The race is due to start at noon sharp.
type:
example
text:
The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
ref:
1933, Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution
type:
quotation
text:
So the sad mother at the noon of night / From bloody Memphis stole her silent flight […].
ref:
1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents […].
ref:
1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
The mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks.
The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
The highest point; culmination.
senses_topics:
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2910 | word:
noon
word_type:
verb
expansion:
noon (third-person singular simple present noons, present participle nooning, simple past and past participle nooned)
forms:
form:
noons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nooning
tags:
participle
present
form:
nooned
tags:
participle
past
form:
nooned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
noon
etymology_text:
From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English nōn (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nōna (“ninth hour”) (short for nōna hōra), feminine of nōnus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.
senses_examples:
text:
We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning, the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.
ref:
1853, Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle
type:
quotation
text:
Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook.
ref:
1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Chapter XX
type:
quotation
text:
Well, we crossed and nooned, lying around on purpose to give them a good lead, and when we hit the trail back in these sand-hills, there he was, not a mile ahead, and you can see there was no chance to get around
ref:
1906, Andy Adams, The Double Trail
type:
quotation
text:
They nooned at a spring and squatted about the cold and blackened sticks of some former fire and ate cold beans and tortillas out of a newspaper.
ref:
1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, page 157
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To relax or sleep around midday.
senses_topics:
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2911 | word:
noon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
noon (plural noons)
forms:
form:
noons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
noon
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The letter ن in the Arabic script.
senses_topics:
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2912 | word:
POW
word_type:
noun
expansion:
POW (plural POWs)
forms:
form:
POWs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative forms: P.O.W., PoW
text:
After his capture he was taken to a camp for POWs.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of prisoner of war.
Initialism of place of worship.
Alternative letter-case form of PoW (“proof of work”)
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
lifestyle
religion
business
computing
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
cryptography
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
2913 | word:
pip
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pip (plural pips)
forms:
form:
pips
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pip
etymology_text:
From Middle English pippe, from Middle Dutch pip, from post-classical Latin pipita, from Latin pītuīta (“mucus, phlegm, head cold”). Doublet of pituita.
senses_examples:
text:
1912, D. H. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett
I've got the pip horribly at present.
text:
Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got / The pip wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot.
ref:
1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of the Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
With this deal Uncle Tom's got on with Homer Cream, it would be fatal to risk giving [Mrs Cream] the pip in any way.
ref:
1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IV
type:
quotation
text:
So sorry that you caught the pip
On our most recent northward trip
But you'll be better soon I'm hopin'
Cause with the mornings I'm not copin'
Some nerve. Tell those nasty viruses to Bug off!
ref:
1980 August 16, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
senses_topics:
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2914 | word:
pip
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pip (plural pips)
forms:
form:
pips
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pip
etymology_text:
Apparently representing a shortened form of pippin, from Middle English pipin, from Old French pepin (“a seed”) (French pépin).
senses_examples:
text:
On most of the shores of the ancient Mediterranean, before any historical record, the cultivated grape vine, Vitis vinifera Linn., was grown. Its relationship to the wild vine of Eurasia, Vitis silvestris Gmel., is uncertain. Its pips can mostly be distinguished from those of the wild vine, and have been found in Egypt and Syrian Hama from the fourth millennium BC, at Lachish and Jericho in the early Bronze, at Troy II during the Bronze, in the Peloponnesus from Early Helladic, in Crete from the Early Minoan.
ref:
1995, John Pairman Brown, Israel and Hellas (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 231), volume 1, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
Apple pips are edible, but don't have a pleasant taste.
type:
example
text:
She sure is a pip, that one. You need company?
ref:
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 612
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pippin, seed of any kind.
A pippin, seed of any kind.
A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as a peach, orange, or apple.
Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
senses_topics:
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2915 | word:
pip
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pip (third-person singular simple present pips, present participle pipping, simple past and past participle pipped)
forms:
form:
pips
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pipping
tags:
participle
present
form:
pipped
tags:
participle
past
form:
pipped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
pip
etymology_text:
Apparently representing a shortened form of pippin, from Middle English pipin, from Old French pepin (“a seed”) (French pépin).
senses_examples:
text:
Peel and pip the grapes.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove the pips from.
senses_topics:
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2916 | word:
pip
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pip (plural pips)
forms:
form:
pips
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pip
etymology_text:
Origin uncertain; perhaps related to Etymology 2, above.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
A spot; a speck.
A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
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2917 | word:
pip
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pip (third-person singular simple present pips, present participle pipping, simple past and past participle pipped)
forms:
form:
pips
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pipping
tags:
participle
present
form:
pipped
tags:
participle
past
form:
pipped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
pip
etymology_text:
Origin uncertain; perhaps related to Etymology 2, above.
senses_examples:
text:
He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post.
type:
example
text:
Arteta faced much scrutiny after Spurs pipped the Gunners to Champions League football on the final day of last season, with opposite number Conte deservedly hailed for the transformation he had overseen in just a few months at the helm.
ref:
2022 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 3-1 Tottenham: Gunners show identity & direction in outstanding derby win”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Some 28 percent said he was the best performer, pipping DeSantis by one point
ref:
2023 August 24, Rob Crilly, “Vivek Ramaswamy beats Ron DeSantis for best performance AND tops Donald Trump as the 'real winner' in poll of the Republican debate”, in Daily Mail
type:
quotation
text:
The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.
To hit with a gunshot.
senses_topics:
|
2918 | word:
pip
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pip (third-person singular simple present pips, present participle pipping, simple past and past participle pipped)
forms:
form:
pips
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pipping
tags:
participle
present
form:
pipped
tags:
participle
past
form:
pipped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
pip
etymology_text:
Imitative.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To peep, to chirp.
To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology |
2919 | word:
pip
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pip (plural pips)
forms:
form:
pip The sound of the BBC pips
tags:
canonical
form:
pips
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pip
etymology_text:
Imitative.
senses_examples:
text:
I could clearly hear the frequent cataclysms of the upstairs lavatory, and my day began with the pips for the morning news in Charlotte Lawless's kitchen.
ref:
1982, John Banville, The Newton Letter
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.
senses_topics:
|
2920 | word:
pip
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pip (plural pips)
forms:
form:
pips
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pip
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of percentage in point.
senses_examples:
text:
The set-and-forget trader is playing fundamental direction and is seeking very large moves of 150 to 300 pips. This trader doesn't want to sit and watch the screen but play the longer moves and forces behind forex.
ref:
2015, Abe Cofnas, “Trading Styles and Strategies”, in The Forex Trading Course: A Self-study Guide to Becoming a Successful Currency Trader, 2nd edition, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, part II (Timing the Trade with Technical Analysis), page 157
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
2921 | word:
indicative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
indicative (comparative more indicative, superlative most indicative)
forms:
form:
more indicative
tags:
comparative
form:
most indicative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French indicatif, from Late Latin indicātīvus.
senses_examples:
text:
He had pains indicative of a heart attack.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
serving as a sign, indication or suggestion of something
of, or relating to the indicative mood
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2922 | word:
indicative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
indicative (countable and uncountable, plural indicatives)
forms:
form:
indicatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French indicatif, from Late Latin indicātīvus.
senses_examples:
text:
The fact that imperative forms were taken into English as indicatives suggests that the English speakers using the Hindustani verbs were most familiar (in some cases perhaps only familiar) with the imperative form.
ref:
2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 253
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The indicative mood.
A term in the indicative mood.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2923 | word:
quadrupedal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
quadrupedal (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From quadruped + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Walking on four feet.
senses_topics:
|
2924 | word:
PVC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PVC (countable and uncountable, plural PVCs)
forms:
form:
PVCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
PVC (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of polyvinyl chloride.
Initialism of premature ventricular contraction.
Initialism of peripheral venous catheter.
Initialism of permanent virtual circuit.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences |
2925 | word:
Spaniard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Spaniard (plural Spaniards)
forms:
form:
Spaniards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Spaignarde, from Old French Espaignard, from Espaigne. Equivalent to Spain + -ard.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Spain or of Spanish descent.
senses_topics:
|
2926 | word:
feat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
feat (plural feats)
forms:
form:
feats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman fet (“action, deed”), from Old French fait, from Latin factum, from facere (“to do, to make”). Doublet of fact.
senses_examples:
text:
I consider scaling Mount Blanc the greatest physical feat of my life.
type:
example
text:
Raising six children who all went on to be doctors was a tough feat for us.
type:
example
text:
Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.
ref:
2013 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4)”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.
senses_topics:
|
2927 | word:
feat
word_type:
adj
expansion:
feat (comparative feater, superlative featest)
forms:
form:
feater
tags:
comparative
form:
featest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman fet (“action, deed”), from Old French fait, from Latin factum, from facere (“to do, to make”). Doublet of fact.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] she set downe her period on the face of Alexis, thinking he was the fairest, and the featest swaine of all the rest.
ref:
1590, Robert Greene, “The Shepheards Tale”, in Greenes Mourning Garment, London: Thomas Newman, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
Oh you high sp’rited Paragons of witte,
That flye to fame beyond our earthly pitch,
Whose sence is sound, whose words are feat and fitte,
Able to make the coyest eare to itch:
Shroud with your mighty wings that mount so well,
These little loues, new crept from out the shell.
ref:
1593, Thomas Lodge, “Induction”, in Phillis, London: John Busbie
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.
senses_topics:
|
2928 | word:
feat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
feat (third-person singular simple present feats, present participle feating, simple past and past participle feated)
forms:
form:
feats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
feating
tags:
participle
present
form:
feated
tags:
participle
past
form:
feated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman fet (“action, deed”), from Old French fait, from Latin factum, from facere (“to do, to make”). Doublet of fact.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form; to fashion.
senses_topics:
|
2929 | word:
feat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
feat (third-person singular simple present feats, present participle feating, simple past and past participle feated)
forms:
form:
feats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
feating
tags:
participle
present
form:
feated
tags:
participle
past
form:
feated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of feature. See also the abbreviation feat.
senses_examples:
text:
A new team suite will also be added feating new team locker rooms, a nutrition station, team meeting room, a team lounge and coaches’ offices and conference room.
ref:
2018 February 22, Christopher Walsh, “Alabama announces $21 million renovation of swimming/diving facilities”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
type:
quotation
text:
Two films by John and Yoko, ‘Imagine’ and ‘Gimme Some Truth’ will also be re-released on October 5 feating new footage, “raw” studio mixes and a new insight into a photo shoot the couple did with iconic British photographer David Bailey.
ref:
2018 August 23, Elizabeth Aubrey, “A never before heard demo of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ has been discovered”, in NME
type:
quotation
text:
This could also be the match in which we see the highly-anticipated debut of an attacking triumvirate feating Nicolas Pepe, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette.
ref:
2019 September 1, Cy Brown, “North London Derby 2019: How To Watch Arsenal vs. Tottenham”, in Forbes
type:
quotation
text:
Last year, the rapper had a number of hit singles, including Fefe, with Nicki Minaj, and Stoopid, feating imprisoned rapper Bobby Shmurda.
ref:
2019 October 3, Jack Williams, “Tell Tale Hit: Tekashi 6ix9ine testimony leads to conviction of two men on racketeering after ‘snitch’ rapper turns on fellow Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods thugs”, in The Sun
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To feature.
senses_topics:
|
2930 | word:
second
word_type:
adj
expansion:
second (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
second (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English secunde, second, secound, secund, borrowed from Old French second, seond, from Latin secundus (“following, next in order”), from root of sequor (“I follow”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Doublet of secundo. Displaced native twoth and partially displaced native other (from Old English ōþer (“other; next; second”)).
senses_examples:
text:
He lives on Second Street.
type:
example
text:
The second volume in "The Lord of the Rings" series is called "The Two Towers".
type:
example
text:
You take the first one, and I'll have the second.
type:
example
text:
Residents of Texas prepared for Hurricane Harvey, which would in some ways turn out to become the second Hurricane Katrina.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
senses_topics:
|
2931 | word:
second
word_type:
adv
expansion:
second (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
second (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English secunde, second, secound, secund, borrowed from Old French second, seond, from Latin secundus (“following, next in order”), from root of sequor (“I follow”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Doublet of secundo. Displaced native twoth and partially displaced native other (from Old English ōþer (“other; next; second”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system.
type:
example
text:
He is batting second today.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
After the first; at the second rank.
After the first occurrence but before the third.
senses_topics:
|
2932 | word:
second
word_type:
noun
expansion:
second (plural seconds)
forms:
form:
seconds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
second (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English secunde, second, secound, secund, borrowed from Old French second, seond, from Latin secundus (“following, next in order”), from root of sequor (“I follow”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Doublet of secundo. Displaced native twoth and partially displaced native other (from Old English ōþer (“other; next; second”)).
senses_examples:
text:
They were discounted because they contained blemishes, nicks or were otherwise factory seconds.
type:
example
text:
That was good barbecue. I hope I can get seconds.
type:
example
text:
The policeman smiled, his eyes twinkling. "Now if you'll follow me, I'll escort you to the Victoria."
"Oh, there's no need of that. If you'll just point me in the right direction..."
That's what got you in trouble the first time around. You don't need a second.
ref:
2003, Sheila Ryan Wallace, The Sea Captain and His Ladies, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
Smoky Joe ran against a Houston horse named Cherokee Chief.
“Don't hit him,” Jeanine said to the jockey. “Maybe once. But you don't get a second.”
ref:
2009, Paulette Jiles, Stormy Weather, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
I'll have one chance to show them that's no longer true. One chance ... and if I stumble, I'll not get a second.
ref:
2011, Karen Miller, The Innocent Mage
type:
quotation
text:
Many packs have a sixer's council where the sixers, and sometimes the seconds, meet with Akela and some of the other leaders.
ref:
1995, Boy Scouts of Canada. National Council, The Cub Book
type:
quotation
text:
[Stephen Hawking] […] would go to Cambridge, he said, if they gave him a first, and stay at Oxford if they gave him a second. He got a first.
ref:
2004, William H. Cropper, Great Physicists, page 454
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that is number two in a series.
Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
An additional helping of food.
A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
The second gear of an engine.
Second base.
The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
A second-class honours degree.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
2933 | word:
second
word_type:
verb
expansion:
second (third-person singular simple present seconds, present participle seconding, simple past and past participle seconded)
forms:
form:
seconds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
seconding
tags:
participle
present
form:
seconded
tags:
participle
past
form:
seconded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
second (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English secunde, second, secound, secund, borrowed from Old French second, seond, from Latin secundus (“following, next in order”), from root of sequor (“I follow”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Doublet of secundo. Displaced native twoth and partially displaced native other (from Old English ōþer (“other; next; second”)).
senses_examples:
text:
I second the motion.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See etymology 3 for translations.)
To follow in the next place; to succeed.
To climb after a lead climber.
senses_topics:
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
2934 | word:
second
word_type:
noun
expansion:
second (plural seconds)
forms:
form:
seconds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
second (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English secunde, seconde, borrowed from Old French seconde, from Medieval Latin secunda, short for secunda pars minuta (“second diminished part (of the hour)”).
senses_examples:
text:
I'll be there in a second.
type:
example
text:
Exposure of aluminum to the air causes a near instantaneous oxide. So rapid is the oxidation that it is safe to say you never see aluminum that has no oxide on its surface... The initial exposure of aluminum, regardless of alloy, will form a thin oxide film on the surface the second it is exposed.
ref:
2020, L. William Zahner, “Corrosion Characteristics”, in Aluminum Surfaces: a Guide to Alloys, Finishes, Fabrication and Maintenance in Architecture and Art, John Wiley & Sons, →OCLC, page 287
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
A short, indeterminate amount of time.
senses_topics:
|
2935 | word:
second
word_type:
verb
expansion:
second (third-person singular simple present seconds, present participle seconding, simple past and past participle seconded)
forms:
form:
seconds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
seconding
tags:
participle
present
form:
seconded
tags:
participle
past
form:
seconded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
second (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle French seconder, from Latin secundō (“assist, make favorable”).
senses_examples:
text:
The army officer was seconded while he held civil office.
type:
example
text:
Things changed quickly from 1892 when Sam Fay was seconded from the L.S.W.R. as General Manager & Secretary.
ref:
1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 585–586
type:
quotation
text:
Daniel had still been surprised, however, to find the lab area deserted, all the scientists apparently seconded by Cleomides's military friends.
ref:
1998, Paul Leonard, chapter 9, in Dreamstone Moon
type:
quotation
text:
I second the motion.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
To assist or support; to back.
To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from etymology 1 above.)
To accompany by singing as the second performer.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
2936 | word:
second
word_type:
noun
expansion:
second (plural seconds)
forms:
form:
seconds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
second (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle French seconder, from Latin secundō (“assist, make favorable”).
senses_examples:
text:
The dogs however parted, and after a little handling by their seconds immediately returned to the charge
ref:
1820, Pierce Egan, Sporting Anecdotes, page 414
type:
quotation
text:
They find ways to take advice from their seconds or they arrange the schedule against you as they did to me in the finals of the 1962 World Tournament
ref:
1973, Frank Brady, Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
Vaguely reminiscent of the use of "seconds" among duelists, this provision required that the two hostile nations stop threatening each other and, instead, to let two appointed countries (their "seconds") try and solve their difficulties
ref:
1992, Mark W. Janis, International Courts for the Twenty-First Century, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
Theodore's practice is described as a model for the housemasters and their seconds
ref:
2009, David Brakke, Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early ...
type:
quotation
text:
If we want the motion to pass, we will need a second.
type:
example
text:
Give second, and my love / Is everlasting thine.
ref:
1608, J. Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
Aid; assistance; help.
senses_topics:
|
2937 | word:
affirmative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
affirmative (comparative more affirmative, superlative most affirmative)
forms:
form:
more affirmative
tags:
comparative
form:
most affirmative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English affirmative, affirmatyve, from Old French affirmatif, from Latin affirmativus, from affirmare (“to assert”).
senses_examples:
text:
an affirmative answer
type:
example
text:
an affirmative vote
type:
example
text:
an act affirmative of common law
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming
pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result
positive
Confirmative; ratifying.
Dogmatic.
Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
positive; not negative
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences |
2938 | word:
affirmative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
affirmative (plural affirmatives)
forms:
form:
affirmatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English affirmative, affirmatyve, from Old French affirmatif, from Latin affirmativus, from affirmare (“to assert”).
senses_examples:
text:
That’s an affirmative Houston, the space shuttle has lost the secondary thrusters.
type:
example
text:
10-4 good buddy. That’s an affirmative—the tractor trailer is in the ditch at the side of the highway.
type:
example
text:
that every hare is both male and female, beside the vulgar opinion, was the affirmative of Archelaus, of Plutarch, Philostratus, and many more.
ref:
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
An answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
An assertion.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
2939 | word:
affirmative
word_type:
intj
expansion:
affirmative
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English affirmative, affirmatyve, from Old French affirmatif, from Latin affirmativus, from affirmare (“to assert”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Yes.
Yes; true; correct.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
government
media
military
politics
radio
radio-communications
war |
2940 | word:
fourth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fourth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English fourthe, an alteration (due to four) of ferthe, from Old English fēorþa, fēowerþa, from Proto-West Germanic *feurþō, from Proto-Germanic *fedurþô, equivalent to four + -th.
cognates
Compare West Frisian fjirde, Saterland Frisian fjädde, fjoode, Dutch vierde, German Low German feerde, feerd, German vierte, Danish fjerde, Icelandic fjórði.
senses_examples:
text:
The fourth model is called the enlightment model: Actors are seen to be responsible for problems but unable or unwilling to provide solutions. They are believed to need discipline provided by authoritative guidance. The Alcoholic Anonymous groups are considered prototypical for this model.
ref:
2013 June 29, Leo Montada, “Coping with Life Stress”, in Herman Steensma, Riël Vermunt, editors, Social Justice in Human Relations Volume 2: Societal and Psychological Consequences of Justice and Injustice, Springer Science & Business Media, page 26
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number four.
senses_topics:
|
2941 | word:
fourth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fourth (plural fourths)
forms:
form:
fourths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English fourthe, an alteration (due to four) of ferthe, from Old English fēorþa, fēowerþa, from Proto-West Germanic *feurþō, from Proto-Germanic *fedurþô, equivalent to four + -th.
cognates
Compare West Frisian fjirde, Saterland Frisian fjädde, fjoode, Dutch vierde, German Low German feerde, feerd, German vierte, Danish fjerde, Icelandic fjórði.
senses_examples:
text:
We are one F and two M's seeking the company of a fourth (M or F) for our spacious and friendly Somerville apt.
ref:
1978 April 8, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Now I've heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do ya? / It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
ref:
1984, Leonard Cohen (lyrics and music), “Hallelujah”, in Various Positions
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the fourth position.
A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole.
The fourth gear of an engine.
A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F).
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
2942 | word:
fourth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fourth (third-person singular simple present fourths, present participle fourthing, simple past and past participle fourthed)
forms:
form:
fourths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fourthing
tags:
participle
present
form:
fourthed
tags:
participle
past
form:
fourthed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English fourthe, an alteration (due to four) of ferthe, from Old English fēorþa, fēowerþa, from Proto-West Germanic *feurþō, from Proto-Germanic *fedurþô, equivalent to four + -th.
cognates
Compare West Frisian fjirde, Saterland Frisian fjädde, fjoode, Dutch vierde, German Low German feerde, feerd, German vierte, Danish fjerde, Icelandic fjórði.
senses_examples:
text:
If he remembered rightly what took place in the House on the first night of the session, the Attorney General would have to file an information, not only against the noble Lord who proposed the address, and the hon. Member for London who seconded it, but also against the hon. Member who thirded, and the noble Lord who fourthed it, and indeed against every Member in the House.
ref:
1830 March 2, Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, volume XXII, London, page 1189
type:
quotation
text:
A lisping young “Soundings,” or master’s assistant, sung out “I thecond the mothon,” instantly transferring his beer to our hero’s face. In short the resolution was thirded, fourthed, fifthed, and sixthed, all following suit with the swipes:[…]
ref:
1854 January, “Tregonhorke’s First Trip in a Man-of-War”, in Hunt’s Yachting Magazine, volume the third, London: Hunt and Son, […]; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., […], page 14
type:
quotation
text:
It was then moved, seconded, thirded, fourthed, and fifthed, “that Jarman be, and is hereby hung, and ought to be kicked.”
ref:
1892 December 31, Talbot Baines Reed, “Tom, Dick, and Harry. A School Story.”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, volume XV, number 729, page 212, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been thirded.
senses_topics:
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2943 | word:
hander
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hander (plural handers)
forms:
form:
handers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hand (verb) + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who hands over or transmits; a conveyor in succession
senses_topics:
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2944 | word:
hander
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hander (plural handers)
forms:
form:
handers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hand (noun) + -er (measurement suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
Two-handers generally do not transition to the net as quickly or as often as one-handers. This, to me, however, is just a coaching failure rather than a technical limitation.
ref:
2010, Chris Lewit, Tennis Technique Bible, volume One
type:
quotation
text:
I got six "handers", and it hurt. It taught me my lesson, and I never slid down the banisters again.
ref:
1959, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Lords official report, page 507
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something having, using, or requiring, a certain hand, or number of hands
A blow on the hand as punishment.
senses_topics:
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2945 | word:
pit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pit (plural pits)
forms:
form:
pits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pit, pet, püt, from Old English pytt, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus (“trench, pit, well”), although there are phonetic difficulties.
senses_examples:
text:
The meadow around the town is full of old pits.
type:
example
text:
Two drivers have already gone into the pit this early in the race.
type:
example
text:
The exact sites of Feng and Hao have yet to be verified, but seven pits containing chariots, horses and other Zhou burial objects were discovered at Fengxi, and a concentration of Western Zhou relics and tombs was found in the area of Doumen in Changan County on the east bank of the Feng River.
ref:
1991 [1987], Zou Zongxu, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
ref:
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
His circus job was the pits, but at least he was in show business.
type:
example
text:
Because the museum was closed for renovation, the school decided to bring its fourth-graders to the pit at a Cannibal Corpse gig instead.
type:
example
text:
The ball carrier can be with or without a football. For the “Head-On” tackle have the “Ball Carrier” stand right in front of the pit and face the tackler.
ref:
2007, Bob Swope, Youth Football Drills and Plays Handbook, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
“They don't call the middle of the line The Pit for nothing. We really do get like animals, trying to claw one another apart in there. It is very hard in The Pit. No matter how it seems, no matter what the score shows, it's always hard. […]
ref:
2018, Paul Zimmerman, The New Thinking Man's Guide to Professional Football
type:
quotation
text:
Many Bacardi & Cokes later I climbed up into my pit and fell into a deep sleep, and woke up at one thirty in the morning and threw up my tea.
ref:
2009, Julian Beirne, Diary of a Sapper, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
This house is a total pit. We've got to get out of here!
type:
example
text:
Get back to the pit, dish bitch!
type:
example
text:
The plot takes us through the "sleaze pits", the lower West Side leather bars, which Travis notes with undue repulsion.
ref:
1979 April 28, Eric Rofes, “New Yech, New Yech”, in Gay Community News, page 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hole in the ground.
An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
The section of a marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to be marched, such as the tam-tam; the front ensemble. Can also refer to the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
A mine.
A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.
A trading pit.
Armpit.
A luggage hold.
A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
The grave, underworld or Hell.
An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.
Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
Only used in the pits.
A mosh pit.
The center of the line.
The emergency department.
A bed.
An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
entertainment
lifestyle
music
archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
business
finance
trading
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
gambling
games
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
military
politics
war
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2946 | word:
pit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pit (third-person singular simple present pits, present participle pitting, simple past and past participle pitted)
forms:
form:
pits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pitting
tags:
participle
present
form:
pitted
tags:
participle
past
form:
pitted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pit, pet, püt, from Old English pytt, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus (“trench, pit, well”), although there are phonetic difficulties.
senses_examples:
text:
Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.
type:
example
text:
Are you ready to pit your wits against one of the world's greatest puzzles?
type:
example
text:
For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down, The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are called “tributes”— while pitting the districts against each other.
ref:
2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, AV Club, The Hunger Games
type:
quotation
text:
2017 August 25, Aukkarapon Niyomyat & Panarat Thepgumpanat, "Thai junta seeks Yingluck's arrest as former PM skips court verdict", in reuters.com, Reuters
That movement, pitted against a Bangkok-centered royalist and pro-military elite, has been at the heart of years of turmoil.
text:
2017 August 25, "Arrest threat as Yingluck Shinawatra misses verdict", in aljazeera.com, Al Jazeera
Thaksin's ouster triggered years of upheaval and division that has pitted a poor, rural majority in the north that supports the Shinawatras against royalists, the military and their urban backers.
text:
Bottas had to pit earlier than expected for fresh tyres. Hamilton followed him in next time around and the two drivers were instructed to stay off the kerbs to protect their tyres.
ref:
2020 September 13, Andrew Benson, “Tuscan Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton claims 90th win after incredible race”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports |
2947 | word:
pit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pit (plural pits)
forms:
form:
pits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Dutch pit (“kernel, core”), from Middle Dutch pitte, from Proto-Germanic *pittan (compare dialectal German Pfitze (“pimple”)), oblique of Proto-Germanic *piþō. Compare pith.
senses_examples:
text:
[...] weapons "pits" (the plutonium components of nuclear weapons, named by analogy with the pit of a fruit such as a peach), [...].
ref:
1996, “2 Background”, in :w:National Research Council (United States), editor, An Evaluation of the Electrometallurgical Approach for Treatment of Excess Weapons Plutonium, Washington DC, USA: National Academies Press, →DOI, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
The Nagasaki-type [bomb] [...] had a wider range of yield potential depending on the kind of fissile core and tamper assembly, or "pit," used in it.
ref:
1999, Anne C Fitzpatrick, Igniting the Light Elements: The Los Alamos Thermonuclear Weapon Project, 1942-1952, Los Alamos, NM (United States): Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), →DOI, Thesis LA-13577-T, page 248
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
2948 | word:
pit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pit (third-person singular simple present pits, present participle pitting, simple past and past participle pitted)
forms:
form:
pits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pitting
tags:
participle
present
form:
pitted
tags:
participle
past
form:
pitted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Dutch pit (“kernel, core”), from Middle Dutch pitte, from Proto-Germanic *pittan (compare dialectal German Pfitze (“pimple”)), oblique of Proto-Germanic *piþō. Compare pith.
senses_examples:
text:
One must pit a peach to make it ready for a pie.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
senses_topics:
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2949 | word:
pit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pit (plural pits)
forms:
form:
pits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortening.
senses_examples:
text:
I resolved to find all my pits good homes and to get out of the rescue and breeding business.
ref:
2012, Shorty Rossi, Four Feet Tall and Rising, page 186
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pit bull terrier.
senses_topics:
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2950 | word:
Danish
word_type:
name
expansion:
Danish (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of Middle English Denish, Dench (under the influence of Dan — compare Dane), from Old English Denisċ (“Danish”), from Proto-Germanic *daniskaz.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language of Danes and Denmark.
senses_topics:
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2951 | word:
Danish
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Danish (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of Middle English Denish, Dench (under the influence of Dan — compare Dane), from Old English Denisċ (“Danish”), from Proto-Germanic *daniskaz.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Denmark.
senses_topics:
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2952 | word:
Danish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Danish (plural Danish)
forms:
form:
Danish
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of Middle English Denish, Dench (under the influence of Dan — compare Dane), from Old English Denisċ (“Danish”), from Proto-Germanic *daniskaz.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Danes, natives of Denmark.
senses_topics:
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2953 | word:
Danish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Danish (countable and uncountable, plural Danishes)
forms:
form:
Danishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of Middle English Denish, Dench (under the influence of Dan — compare Dane), from Old English Denisċ (“Danish”), from Proto-Germanic *daniskaz.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of Danish pastry.
senses_topics:
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2954 | word:
Danish
word_type:
name
expansion:
Danish
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Persian دانش (literally “knowledge, science, wisdom”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name.
senses_topics:
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2955 | word:
Danish
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Danish (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Dan + -ish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The nature or characteristics of someone named Dan.
senses_topics:
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2956 | word:
PX
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PX (plural PXes)
forms:
form:
PXes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:PX
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The prices at the PX are incredibly reduced.
text:
Some straight legs caught a trooper at the post exchange (PX) one day and made him unblouse his boots.
ref:
2002, Jack Allsup, Mountains of Hope, page 50
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of post exchange. The U.S. Army's Post Exchange.
Abbreviation of peroxidase.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
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2957 | word:
Taiwan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Taiwan
forms:
wikipedia:
Anping District
Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan)
Taiwan
etymology_text:
The specific form "Taiwan" in English emerged from the letters of Wade–Giles Tʻai²-wan¹ romanization of Mandarin 臺灣／台湾 (Táiwān) and also possibly the romaji of Japanese 臺灣(たいわん) (taiwan), which both of whom are ultimately from Literary Chinese 臺灣, which came from Hokkien 大員 (Tāi-oân), 大圓, 臺員, 大灣, 臺灣, etc., a placename initially referring to a sandbank peninsula that later silted up now wholly part of the island in the area of modern-day Anping District, Tainan, and eventually became the name of the entire island. The original placename itself was likely originally a loanword transcription from possibly Siraya. Cognate with Dutch Tayouan / Taioan / Taiwan / etc., and other early variant forms of Hokkien 臺窩灣／台窝湾 (Tâi-o-oân), etc. The name is sometimes folk-etymologized to supposedly originally mean "terraced bay" (臺灣／台湾) or "great bay" (大灣／大湾) or similar parsings from interpreting the meaning from the Chinese characters alone.
senses_examples:
text:
India was not alone in its predicament or in its policy. While a few developing countries like Taiwan, Mexico, and Thailand had made remarkable progress in agriculture and had experienced success in curbing their population increases, others were nearly as bad off as India, even without a drought.
ref:
1971, Lyndon Johnson, “Feeding the Hungry: India's Food Crisis”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 224
type:
quotation
text:
Pei Ling Wu, 30, said: "I am worried about my family, but they do not want to leave Taiwan. They want to defend their country and fight to the end. If China continues to push us, independence is the only solution."
ref:
1996 March 15, Leyla Linton, “London students sing their defiance”, in The Times, number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 14, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Taiwan carried out an unprecedented military drill Tuesday, a day ahead of its National Day celebrations, in Taoyuan in northern parts of the country.
ref:
2018 October 9, “Taiwan conducts massive military drills ahead of National Day”, in EFE, archived from the original on 2022-08-18
type:
quotation
roman:
The drill was attended by Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen, and President of Paraguay Mario Abdo Benitez, who is on a state visit to Taiwan until Thursday.
text:
The Government claims suzerainty over and receives tribute more or less regularly from Corea, and also from Anam, Siam, Burmah, and part of the Loochoo Islands, and it has recently erected the beautiful and extensive Island of Formosa, or Taiwan, hitherto attached to the province of Fo-Kien, into a separate province with its own governor-general who, like those of the other provinces, is appointed directly from Peking.
ref:
1888, James Harrison Wilson, chapter III, in China: Travels and Investigations in the "Middle Kingdom": A Study of Its Civilization and Possibilites, →OCLC, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
The Pescadores or Hoko islands, lying between Formosa (Taiwan) and the Chinese coast, are described by Koto (Notes on the Geology of the dependent isles of Taiwan, Journ. Coll. Sci., Imp. Univ., Tokyo, xiii, 1899, pt. 1) as the ragged remnants of a series of nearly horizontal basalt sheets with intercalated strata of supposed Tertiary age.
ref:
1900 June 1, W. M. Davis, “Current Notes on Physiography.”, in Science, volume XI, number 283, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 871, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
As a result of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95, China lost to Japan the important islands of Taiwan (Formosa) and the Pescadores, lying about a hundred miles off the Chinese coast.
ref:
1963, Dwight Eisenhower, “Formosa Doctrine”, in Mandate for Change 1953-1956, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 460
type:
quotation
text:
TAIWAN, or Chinese Formosa, is considered a Foo or district of the province of Fokien, and is governed by a Taoutai extraordinary, who, though responsible to the provincial viceroy, possesses the privilege of memorialising the Throne direct. “The district of Taiwan,” says the Chinese Government Chart, of which a copy was supplied to me by the Formosan authorities, “is bounded in the rear by mountains, and in front by the sea. The ancestral hills of Formosa derive their origin from the Woo-hoo-mun (Five Tiger Gate), the entrance to Foochow, whence they glided across the sea. In the ocean towards the east are two places called Tungkwan (Damp Limit) and Pih-mow (White Acre), which mark the spots where the dragons of the Formosan hills emerged. These sacred reptiles had pierced unseen the depths of ocean, and announcing their ascent to the surface by throwing up the bluff at Kelung-head, by a number of violent contortions heaved up the regular series of hills, valleys, and plains that extend north and south in varied undulations for the space of 1000 leagues (applied figuratively). The mountain-peaks are too multitudinous to enumerate, and the geography of the island too comprehensive to take into present consideration ; we will therefore confine ourselves to a few general remarks. In rear of the hills, eastward, flows the ocean ; facing them, to the westward, is the sea ; and between lies the prefecture of Taiwan.”
ref:
1864, Robert Swinhoe, “Notes on the Island of Formosa.”, in The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London, volume XXXIV, London: John Murray, published 1865, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
THE PESCADORES, consisting of over twenty inhabited islands, besides several inlets and rocks, lie off the south-western coast of Formosa at a minimum distance of about twenty-five miles, and the entire group is set down on the charts as extending from latitude 23° 12′ to 23° 47′ N., and from longitude 119° 19′ to 119° 41′ E. They form together the Dashing Lake District or Ting, 澎湖廳, of the Taiwan Prefecture, and are placed under the control of resident civil and military mandarins who report to their superior officers at Taiwanfoo.
ref:
1887 February, W. Campbell, “A Few Notes from the Pescadores.”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume XVIII, number 2, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
In effect each area paid an assigned land tax quota, which was allocated among households — depending upon the amount of land they owned and registered with the land tax office. Households paid this tax in silver, and by 1736 the state collected this kind of land tax in all provinces except Shansi, Taiwan prefecture (part of Fukien province), and Kweichow.
ref:
1980, Ramon H. Myers, “The Public Sector: The State”, in The Chinese Economy Past and Present, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 78–79
type:
quotation
text:
President Ma further noted that in 1683 during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) the emperor formally included the Diaoyutais as territory of China in Taiwan Prefecture, Fujian Province. In 1812, the Diaoyutais were placed under the administration of the Kavalan Office of the Taiwan prefectural government, he added, pointing out that the Record of Missions to Taiwan and Adjacent Waters 《臺海使槎錄》 and the Illustrations of Taiwan 《全臺圖説》 prove that China effectively ruled over the Diaoyutai Islets during the Qing Dynasty.
ref:
2016 [2014 April 17], “President Ma Attends "Examining the Diaoyutai/Senkaku Islands Dispute under New and Multiple Perspectives" International Conference”, in Ying-jeou Ma, editor, Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, volume 32 (2014), Brill Nijhoff, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 281
type:
quotation
text:
In 1885 Governor LIU determined to reconstruct Taipei and make it the temporary capital until, the railway having on its way to Taiwan reached the old town of Changhua, in about the middle of Formosa, he should build a city near that place and make it, under the name of Taiwan, the capital of the province of Taiwan.
ref:
1896, J. D. Clark, Formosa, Shanghai: Shanghai Mercury, →OCLC, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
Near Bang-ka is Twa-tu-tia, the great center of the tea-trade of Formosa, and the capital of the province of Taiwan (i. e. Formosa) from 1885 to 1896.
ref:
1898, “Bang-ka, or Mang-ka”, in Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia: A New Edition, volume I, New York: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 480, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
The Chinese forces holding Formosa numbered about 50,000 men, and its defence was ably conducted by Liu Ming-chüan, then imperial High Commissioner ad hoc afterwards first governor of the newly created province of Taiwan.
ref:
1918, Hosea Ballou Morse, “France and Tongking”, in The International Relations of the Chinese Empire, volume II, Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 861
type:
quotation
text:
Taiwan (Formosa) and Hōkotō (the Pescadores) were ceded to Japan upon the close of the Chinese War of 1895. Taiwan has a Governor-General with extreme powers, and is now an integral part of Japan.
ref:
1902, “Appendix”, in The Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Malta, St Helena, Barbados, Cyrpus, the Channel Islands, the British Army & Navy (The British Empire Series), volume V, →OCLC, page 649
type:
quotation
text:
Taiwan is governed by a Governor-General. Since 1895 three Governors have resigned. The present in office is General Count Samata Sakuma.
ref:
1913, Charlotte M. Salwey, “Formosa, the Beautiful (Taiwan)”, in The Island Dependencies of Japan, London: Eugène L. Morice, →OCLC, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
Amoy is one of the three Chinese ports closer to the Japanese colony of Taiwan (Formosa) than are any ports in the Japanese Empire proper.
ref:
1938 July 29, “Amoy is Island Key to South China's Strategic Province”, in The Winchester Star, volume LVIII, number 1, Winchester, Mass., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 5
type:
quotation
text:
Recent reports from Taiwan (Formosa), although fragmentary, begin to give a picture of economic conditions following the conclusion of the war. Now officially referred to as Taiwan Province, the island's former Japanese administration is being replaced by Chinese officials with little change, at least as yet, in the administrative pattern. Although there is no indication that ideographs will be changed, Chinese readings rather than Japanese will be followed for place names. Taihoku, for example, will be read in our alphabet as Taipei. This city presumably will continue to be the capital of Taiwan.
ref:
1946 February 16, “China”, in Foreign Commerce Weekly, volume XXII, number 7, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
The Chinese Government today, with its program of local self-government in Taiwan, provides a revealing contrast to the Communist totalitarian "democratic dictatorship" on the mainland. Herein lies the foundation for our eventual victory against Communism.
ref:
1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 239–240
type:
quotation
text:
By all accounts, Lee lacks Chiang's charisma. The son of a rice farmer from northern Taiwan, he trained as an agronomist at Cornell University, then served as mayor of Taipei and governor of Taiwan Province, where he won widespread popularity.
ref:
1988 January 25, Fay Willey, Carroll Bogert, Dorinda Elliott, David Newell, “End of a Dynasty and an Era”, in Newsweek, volume CXI, number 4, →ISSN, →OCLC, International, page 34, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
In August 1993, I began preparing to run in the first race for mayor of Taipei elected directly by popular vote, to be held in December 1994. At the same time, the positions of mayor of Kaohsiung City and governor of Taiwan Province were also up for direct popular election.
ref:
2000, Shui-Bian Chen, “From Elected Representative to Administrative Chief”, in David J. Toman, transl., The Son of Taiwan: The Life of Chen Shui-Bian and His Dreams for Taiwan, Taiwan Publishing Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
The participants then marched to several sites where other major incidents had occurred, and they ended at the Executive Yuan building, which was formerly the headquarters of the Taiwan Provincial Government.
ref:
2022 February 28, Yi-ching Chiang, Teng Pei-ju, “Civil groups march in Taipei, demand truth about 228 Incident”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2022-02-28
type:
quotation
text:
The eastern part of Taiwan Province is washed by the Pacific Ocean while the mainland coast borders on the Pohai, the Yellow, the East China and the South China Seas, each with its different depth and water temperature.
ref:
1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], “Seas”, in 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, →OL, pages 42–43
type:
quotation
text:
China (excluding Taiwan Province) has 381 cities as of the end of 1987, including 3 provincial-level cities, 170 provincially administered cities and 208 township-level cities. In addition there are 1,985 counties (including autonomous counties, banners and autonomous banners) in China.
ref:
1992, Shunwu (周舜武) Zhou, “Overview”, in 中国分省地理 [China Provincial Geography], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 499
type:
quotation
text:
I had my final meeting with Deng Xiaoping. We signed agreements concerning consular offices, trade, science and technology, cultural exchange, and so forth. After discussing the political problems I had in normalization, Zbig asked him, "Did you have political opposition in China?" Everybody listened very carefully when Deng said, "Yes, I had serious opposition in one province in China—Taiwan."
ref:
2011 [1979 January 31], Jimmy Carter, White House Diary, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 286
type:
quotation
text:
The ports of Cháu-chau or Swatau, in the province of Kwangtung, and Taiwan on Formosa in the province of Fuhkien, will be opened to American commerce, and for Americans to reside with their families, on and after the first day of January, 1860.
ref:
1862 [1859], John E. Ward, “Proclamation of JOHN E. WARD announcing exchange of ratifications of Treaty”, in Treaties between the United States of America and China, Japan Lewchew and Siam, Acts of Congress, and the Attorney-General's Opinion, with the Decrees and Regulations Issued for the Guidance of U.S. Consular Courts in China, Hongkong, →OCLC, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
In 1860 Mr. Swinhoe attended Gen. Napier, and afterwards Sir Hope Grant, the Commander-in-Chief, as interpreter, and received a medal for war service. At the end of the same year he was appointed Vice-Consul at Taiwan, Formosa, and in 1865 to the full Consulship.
ref:
1877 November 8, “Robert Swinhoe, F.R.S.”, in Nature, volume XVII, number 419, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Evidently the French blockade of Formosa is not very effective, or else the Pescadores are not included in the blockaded district. The Daily Press of 31st December states:—We learn by private letter that there have been no blockading ships at Taiwan or at Takao during the last seven days. The blockade is a purely paper one. Troops and treasure are pouring into South Formosa.
ref:
1885 January 7, “Summary of News”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XXXIV, number 913, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 4, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
In 1885 Governor LIU determined to reconstruct Taipei and make it the temporary capital until, the railway having on its way to Taiwan reached the old town of Changhua, in about the middle of Formosa, he should build a city near that place and make it, under the name of Taiwan, the capital of the province of Taiwan.
ref:
1896, J. D. Clark, Formosa, Shanghai: Shanghai Mercury, →OCLC, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
For the Massalia family, we only have information on (20) Massalia (pv = 0.21±0.01). Finally, for the Astrid family, we have (1128) Astrid with pv = 0.077±0.010 and (2169) Taiwan with pv = 0.099±0.020. In each of these cases, the values conform to the taxonomic type of the corresponding families.
ref:
2005, D. Vokrouhlický et al., “Yarkovsky/YORP chronology of asteroid families”, in Icarus, volume 182, number 1, published 2006, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 126, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
2169 Taiwan, a carbonaceous asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, will be at its closest to Earth at around 11 p.m. Thursday, the Taipei Astronomical Museum said.
ref:
2019 August 29, “Asteroid 'Taiwan' to come closest to Earth late Thursday: museum”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2022-09-10, Science & Tech
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in East Asia. Official name: Republic of China. Capital: Taipei.
An island between the Taiwan Strait and Philippine Sea in East Asia.
An administrative division including Taiwan and nearby islands.
A prefecture of Fujian, China (Qing Empire) (1683–1885).
An administrative division including Taiwan and nearby islands.
A province of China (Qing Empire) (1885–1895).
An administrative division including Taiwan and nearby islands.
A dependency of Japan (1895–1945).
An administrative division including Taiwan and nearby islands.
A province of Taiwan (Republic of China) (from 1945).
An administrative division including Taiwan and nearby islands.
A claimed province of China (People's Republic of China/mainland China) (from 1949).
Synonym of Tainan, a city of Taiwan, former capital of Taiwan Province.
2169 Taiwan, a main belt asteroid.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences |
2958 | word:
bank
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bank (countable and uncountable, plural banks)
forms:
form:
banks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco.
senses_examples:
text:
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.
ref:
2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money.
ref:
2010, Paul Bouchard, Enlistment, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
blood bank; sperm bank; data bank
type:
example
text:
If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.
type:
example
text:
a fogbank
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
A branch office of such an institution.
An underwriter or controller of a card game.
A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
Money; profit.
In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
A device used to store coins or currency.
a natural elevation of mud and other material under sea, rising for instance from a continental shelf
a mound or mass of cloud or fog
A group or collection of telephones.
senses_topics:
gambling
games
|
2959 | word:
bank
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)
forms:
form:
banks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
banking
tags:
participle
present
form:
banked
tags:
participle
past
form:
banked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco.
senses_examples:
text:
He banked with Barclays.
type:
example
text:
the sort of face you would happily bank with
ref:
1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
type:
quotation
text:
I’m going to bank the money.
type:
example
text:
Johnny banked some coke for me.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
To put into a bank.
To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
senses_topics:
|
2960 | word:
bank
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bank (plural banks)
forms:
form:
banks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bank, from Old English hōbanca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).
senses_examples:
text:
On the opposite bank of the river other Chinese units attacked Taoshih and Yunmeng north-west of Hankow.
ref:
1943 June 8, “Jap Remnants Suffer Heavy Casualties: Alerts In Chungking”, in The Bombay Chronicle, volume XXXI, number 134, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.
ref:
2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
the banks of Newfoundland
type:
example
text:
This is the hardest duty on the railway, for the trains are heavy and there are some long 1 in 40 banks.
ref:
1940 December, O. S. M. Raw, “The Rhodesia Railways—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 640
type:
quotation
text:
The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
type:
example
text:
Ores are brought to bank.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
An incline, a hill.
A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
The face of the coal at which miners are working.
A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
The ground at the top of a shaft.
senses_topics:
geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
nautical
transport
geography
natural-sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport
business
mining
business
mining
business
mining |
2961 | word:
bank
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)
forms:
form:
banks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
banking
tags:
participle
present
form:
banked
tags:
participle
past
form:
banked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bank, from Old English hōbanca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).
senses_examples:
text:
to bank sand
type:
example
text:
Have I not heard these islanders shout out / Vive le roi! as I have banked their towns?
ref:
c. 1595, William Shakespeare, King John, act 5, scene 2
type:
quotation
text:
Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley.
ref:
1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
[...] the 4-4-0 unhappily stalled after a stop on Reading Old Bank with its eight-coach load and the Reading Up Line pilot, a "Hall", had to bank the train into Reading General.
ref:
1960 July, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 443
type:
quotation
text:
Soon after leaving Bebra the line rises, mostly at 1 in 74, for 7 miles to Cornberg and all trains of over 400 tons are banked.
ref:
1960 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part One”, in Trains Ilustrated, page 558
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
To pass by the banks of.
To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport |
2962 | word:
bank
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bank (plural banks)
forms:
form:
banks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bank (“bank”), banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *bank. Akin to Old English benc (“bench”).
senses_examples:
text:
a bank of switches
type:
example
text:
a bank of pay phones
type:
example
text:
Wanderers were finally woken from their slumber when Kevin Davies brought a fine save out of Brad Guzan while, minutes after the restart, Klasnic was blocked out by a bank of Villa defenders.
ref:
2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
2963 | word:
bank
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)
forms:
form:
banks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
banking
tags:
participle
present
form:
banked
tags:
participle
past
form:
banked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bank (“bank”), banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *bank. Akin to Old English benc (“bench”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To arrange or order in a row.
senses_topics:
|
2964 | word:
bank
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bank (plural banks)
forms:
form:
banks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
Probably from French banc. Of Germanic origin, and akin to English bench.
senses_examples:
text:
Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.
ref:
1658, Edmund Waller, he Passion of Dido for Æneas
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
A bench or seat for judges in court.
The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
A kind of table used by printers.
A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
2965 | word:
skew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
skew (third-person singular simple present skews, present participle skewing, simple past and past participle skewed)
forms:
form:
skews
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
skewing
tags:
participle
present
form:
skewed
tags:
participle
past
form:
skewed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is derived from Middle English skeuen, skewe, skewen (“to run at an angle or obliquely; to escape”), from Old Northern French escuer [and other forms], variants of Old French eschuer, eschever, eschiver (“to escape, flee; to avoid”) (modern French esquiver (“to dodge (a blow), duck; to elude, evade; to slip away; to sidestep”)), from Frankish *skiuhan (“to dread; to avoid, shun”), from Proto-Germanic *skiuhijaną (“to frighten”). The English word is cognate with Catalan esquiu (“evasive, shy”), Danish skæv (“crooked, slanting; skew, wry”) (> Norwegian Bokmål skjev), Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”), Norwegian skeiv (“crooked, lopsided; oblique, slanting; distorted”), Saterland Frisian skeeuw (“aslant, slanting; oblique; awry”), and is a doublet of eschew.
The adjective and adverb are probably derived from the verb and/or from askew, and the noun is derived from either the adjective or the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
When making this joint it is important to see that the eccentric or crank is at dead-centre; if it is at the end or limit of its stroke, the rubber is skewed the full length of same; if it is at the centre, the skewing, which is the cause of wear, is halved.
ref:
1937, W. C. Warrell, “Machine Clothing”, in The Paper-maker and British Paper Trade Journal, volume XCIV, annual number, London: [s.n.], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Thus asynchronous torques cannot be avoided but can be reduced by proper choice of coil span and by skewing the stator or rotor slots.
ref:
2009, Uday A. Bakshi, Mayuresh V. Bakshi, “Three Phase Induction Motors”, in Electrical Machines, Pune, Maharashtra: Technical Publications Pune, page 6-70
type:
quotation
text:
Skewing an object, as we mention at the start of this section, involves distorting the angles of the object. For example, you can create a parallelogram by skewing a square, or you can create shadow effects with skewed text (which we show you later in this chapter).
ref:
2010, Philip Beadle, Mahesh Krishnan, “Enhancing the User Interface”, in Microsoft Silverlight 4 for Dummies (For Dummies), Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons
type:
quotation
text:
The easiest way to skew objects is to use the Free Transform tool. [...] Use the left box to skew horizontally. To skew clockwise, click the current value and then either type a value between 1 and 89 or drag up. To skew counterclockwise, click the current value and then either type a value between -1 and -89 or drag down. Then press Enter or Return.
ref:
2010, Ellen Finkelstein, Gurdy Leete, Mary Leete, “You are the Object Editor”, in Flash Professional CS5 & Flash Catalyst CS5, Hoboken, M.J.: Wiley Publishing, part II (1,000 Pictures and 1,000 Words), page 124
type:
quotation
text:
We have looked at the obese and anorexic communities, whose conditions fall on a curve skewed towards overweight for determining the social norm of body weight and who face a golden-mean social ideal of body weight.
ref:
2006, Andrew Stark, “Between the Normal and the Ideal”, in The Limits of Medicine: Cure or Enhancement, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results.
type:
example
text:
Accordingly, public policy can be skewed towards certain interest groups which have the best organization and most resources; it can be skewed towards certain politically powerful state agencies; and it can be skewed by intense rivalries between different sectors of government itself.
ref:
2006, David Held, “Pluralism, Corporate Capitalism and the State”, in Models of Democracy, 3rd edition, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, page 165
type:
quotation
text:
because of parliamentary rules written by the military after the 2014 coup that are skewed in its favour.
ref:
2023 May 14, Panarat Thepgumpanat, Panu Wongcha-um, “Thailand's opposition opens up big election lead as army parties slide”, in Reuters
type:
quotation
text:
Trump urged his followers to “boycott baseball” – though, much like his core support, the sport’s fanbase skews older, male and white.
ref:
2023 June 12, Tom Dart, “US culture wars come to baseball as MLB celebrates Pride month”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
[T]he plaintiff's surveyor says, his line struck the house ten inches in the rear and fifteen inches in the front; and farther that the "house is a little skewing and is not set exactly square."
ref:
1829 February, Charles Ewing, Chief Justice, William Halsted, Jr. (reporter), “JOHN DEN ex dem. WILLIAM BROWER against JOHN EMERSON”, in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New-Jersey, volume V, Trenton, N.J.: Printed by Joseph Justice, →OCLC, page 283
type:
quotation
text:
The upper sign corresponds to the case represented in the figure in which the arch skews to the right, and the lower one to the case in which it skews to the left.
ref:
1859 May, William G. Peck, “Equation of the Coursing Joint Curve”, in J[ohn] D[aniel] Runkle, editor, The Mathematical Monthly, volume I, number VIII, Cambridge, Mass.: John Bartlett; London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC, page 281
type:
quotation
text:
The horses capered. One tore its reins from her hands, burning a trail across her palms. She clung to the other as it pulled against the restraint. Frantically, Brienne moved to its side, pitching the reins over the beast's head, and jammed her foot into the stirrup. The horse skewed, drawing her along on one foot.
ref:
1991, Kathleen Kirkwood [pseudonym; Anita Gordon], chapter 21, in The Valiant Heart, New York, N.Y.: Jove Books; revised edition, [s.l.]: Anita Gordon, 2013
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
To bias or distort in a particular direction.
To hurl or throw.
To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
statistics
|
2966 | word:
skew
word_type:
adj
expansion:
skew (not generally comparable, comparative skewer or more skew, superlative skewest or most skew)
forms:
form:
skewer
tags:
comparative
form:
more skew
tags:
comparative
form:
skewest
tags:
superlative
form:
most skew
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is derived from Middle English skeuen, skewe, skewen (“to run at an angle or obliquely; to escape”), from Old Northern French escuer [and other forms], variants of Old French eschuer, eschever, eschiver (“to escape, flee; to avoid”) (modern French esquiver (“to dodge (a blow), duck; to elude, evade; to slip away; to sidestep”)), from Frankish *skiuhan (“to dread; to avoid, shun”), from Proto-Germanic *skiuhijaną (“to frighten”). The English word is cognate with Catalan esquiu (“evasive, shy”), Danish skæv (“crooked, slanting; skew, wry”) (> Norwegian Bokmål skjev), Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”), Norwegian skeiv (“crooked, lopsided; oblique, slanting; distorted”), Saterland Frisian skeeuw (“aslant, slanting; oblique; awry”), and is a doublet of eschew.
The adjective and adverb are probably derived from the verb and/or from askew, and the noun is derived from either the adjective or the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
a skew arch
type:
example
text:
[O]ur earth which makes one in that airy fleet when it eſcaped ſo narrowly being ſhipwrackt in the great Deluge, was however ſo broken and diſordered that it loſt its equal poiſe and thereupon the centre of its gravity changing, one Pole became more inclined towards the Sun and the other more removed from it, in which ſkew poſture it hath ſtood ever ſince.
ref:
1698, Jo[hn] Keill, “Of the Perpendicular Position of the Axis of the Earth to the Plane of the Ecliptick”, in An Examination of Dr. Burnet’s Theory of the Earth. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, →OCLC, page 78
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quotation
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And this is done by cauſing the Threads of the Screw C D to take hold of the oblique or ſkew Teeth of the Wheel as c, and by continually turning the Wheel round to draw up a great Weight as W by means of the Rope which is wound on the Axis E F.
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1745, J[ohn] T[heophilus] Desaguliers, “Lecture III”, in A Course of Experimental Philosophy, 2nd edition, volume I, W[illiam] Innys, T[homas] Longman and T. Shewell, and C. Hitch, […], and M. Senex, […], →OCLC, paragraph 78, page 124
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Over Barrow-street the arch is built with what is technically called knee'd or elbow quoins; the stones being cut so as to form an oblique or skew bed on the face of the ring, and to return to a square bed within: [...]
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1834, “Description of the Line of Railroad from the Entrance Station, Westland-Row, to Kingstown”, in Thirteen Views of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, Dublin: P[hilip] Dixon Hardy, […], →OCLC, page 13
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Here is another of those magnificent skew bridges, sprung from the sides of the excavation. Looking at it with the face towards the tunnel, when you are about 200 yards distant, the effect is very singular, as it appears to be a portion of the entrance thereto.
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[1838], Arthur Freeling, The London and Birmingham Railway Companion, […], London: Whittaker and Company, →OCLC, page 178
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quotation
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Their [the graves'] enclosure walls, within which several burials were found, were at right angles to the great wall of the town, and cut through the other graves (mastabas) which, though parallel to one another, were skew to the town walls.
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1898, J[ames] E[dward] Quibell, “The Earliest Tombs”, in El Kab (Egyptian Research Account, 1897), London: Bernard Quaritch, […], →OCLC, paragraph 4, page 3, column 1
type:
quotation
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The last crossing, immediately short of Keswick station, is an inverted bowstring girder bridge with a skew span of 120ft.
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1961 October, Voyageur, “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601
type:
quotation
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Ocular tilt reaction [...]—the triad of head tilt in roll, skew deviation of the eyes, and cyclorotation of the eyes towards the head tilt—may indicate a lesion induced deviation of the primary position of the vertical VOR [vestibulo-ocular reflex] in either peripheral otolithic or central vestibular brain stem disorders. [...] Skew deviation, a vertical divergence of the eyes, theoretically can be due to: (1) hypertropia of one eye while the other eye maintains a normal position; [...]
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1992, Marianne Dieterich, Thomas Brandt, “Subjective Visual Vertical and Eye-head Coordination (Roll) with Brain Stem Lesions”, in Alain Berthoz, Werner Graf, Pierre Paul Vidal, editors, The Head-neck Sensory Motor System, New York, N.Y., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, page 640
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quotation
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Through the given point there are two lines one of which is parallel to one of the given skew lines, while the other is parallel to the other of the given skew lines. These two "parallels" determine a plane, and the only plane, that is parallel to both the given skew lines.
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1963, [George David] Birkhoff, [Ralph] Beatley, Basic Geometry: Answer Book, [New York, N.Y.]: Chelsea Publishing Company, →OCLC
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quotation
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A slope value over 1 indicates that digits are skewer than the Benford condition in favor of low ones. A slope value less than 1 indicates that digits are less skewed as compared with the Benford condition.
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2014, Alex Ely Kossovsky, “Saville Regression Measure”, in Benford’s Law: Theory, the General Law of Relative Quantities, and Forensic Fraud Detection Applications, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, section 3 (Data Compliance Tests), page 137
type:
quotation
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The skewest possible distribution is that in which every but one target value has only one element and the other target value has all the other elements.
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2016, Bettina Hüttenrauch, “Analysis of Data Augmentation KPIs”, in Targeting Using Augmented Data in Database Marketing: Decision Factors for Evaluating External Sources, Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler, →DOI, section 6.4.3 (Model Lift (Uniform)), page 199
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
statistics |
2967 | word:
skew
word_type:
adv
expansion:
skew (comparative more skew, superlative most skew)
forms:
form:
more skew
tags:
comparative
form:
most skew
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is derived from Middle English skeuen, skewe, skewen (“to run at an angle or obliquely; to escape”), from Old Northern French escuer [and other forms], variants of Old French eschuer, eschever, eschiver (“to escape, flee; to avoid”) (modern French esquiver (“to dodge (a blow), duck; to elude, evade; to slip away; to sidestep”)), from Frankish *skiuhan (“to dread; to avoid, shun”), from Proto-Germanic *skiuhijaną (“to frighten”). The English word is cognate with Catalan esquiu (“evasive, shy”), Danish skæv (“crooked, slanting; skew, wry”) (> Norwegian Bokmål skjev), Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”), Norwegian skeiv (“crooked, lopsided; oblique, slanting; distorted”), Saterland Frisian skeeuw (“aslant, slanting; oblique; awry”), and is a doublet of eschew.
The adjective and adverb are probably derived from the verb and/or from askew, and the noun is derived from either the adjective or the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
The walls are all united at one end into one head wall; which runs 14′ skew of the Pyramid on the W.; [...]
ref:
[1883], W[illiam] M[atthew] Flinders Petrie, “The Outside of the Second Pyramid”, in The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, London: Field & Tuer, […]; Simpkin, Marshall & Co., […]; Hamilton, Adams & Co., […], →OCLC, paragraph 72, page 101
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Askew, obliquely; awry.
senses_topics:
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2968 | word:
skew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
skew (plural skews)
forms:
form:
skews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is derived from Middle English skeuen, skewe, skewen (“to run at an angle or obliquely; to escape”), from Old Northern French escuer [and other forms], variants of Old French eschuer, eschever, eschiver (“to escape, flee; to avoid”) (modern French esquiver (“to dodge (a blow), duck; to elude, evade; to slip away; to sidestep”)), from Frankish *skiuhan (“to dread; to avoid, shun”), from Proto-Germanic *skiuhijaną (“to frighten”). The English word is cognate with Catalan esquiu (“evasive, shy”), Danish skæv (“crooked, slanting; skew, wry”) (> Norwegian Bokmål skjev), Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”), Norwegian skeiv (“crooked, lopsided; oblique, slanting; distorted”), Saterland Frisian skeeuw (“aslant, slanting; oblique; awry”), and is a doublet of eschew.
The adjective and adverb are probably derived from the verb and/or from askew, and the noun is derived from either the adjective or the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
We now come to Whiston village and bridge, (7½ miles) and after passing under a wooden bridge, dash under one of 47 feet span, of stone and brick, with a remarkable skew.
ref:
1832, James Scott Walker, “The Broad-green Embankment”, in An Accurate Description of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, […], 3rd edition, Liverpool: J. F. Cannell, printer, […], →OCLC, page 29
type:
quotation
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Thus one of the many skews in the Harleian Catalogue was set straight. (Don't let any one abuse the first Cataloguer of a Collection for skews. For all Catalogues (as for all Indexes) one ought to be grateful: for those without mistakes, most grateful.)
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1869, F[rederick] J[ames] Furnivall, “Forewords”, in F. J. Furnivall, editor, Queene Elizabethes Achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert): […] (Early English Text Society Extra Series; VIII), London: N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC, page xvii
type:
quotation
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The angle of skew, or obliquity, is the angle which the axis of the archway, A A, makes with a perpendicular to the face of the arch, B C A B. The span of the archway, "on the square," as it is called (that is, the perpendicular distance between the abutments), is less than the span on the skew, or parallel to the face of the arch, in the ratio of the cosine of the obliquity to unity. It is the span on the skew which is equal to that of the corresponding symmetrical arch.
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1876, William John Macquorn Rankine, E. F. Bamber, “Of Masonry”, in A Manual of Civil Engineering, 11th edition, London: Charles Griffin and Company, […], →OCLC, part II (Of Materials and Structures), section VIII (Of Stone and Brick Arches), paragraph 295 (Skew Arches), page 429
type:
quotation
text:
The mean skew of the core to the base is 1′ 33″, and its mean azimuth - 5′ 16″ to true North.
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[1883], W[illiam] M[atthew] Flinders Petrie, “Outside of Great Pyramid”, in The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, London: Field & Tuer, […]; Simpkin, Marshall & Co., […]; Hamilton, Adams & Co., […], →OCLC, paragraph 22, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
It is apparent that by shifting the position of the hitching link the angle of skew may be increased or diminished as the conditions require. When dragging immediately over ruts or down the center of the road after the sides have been dragged, it is usually preferable to have the hitching link at the center of the chain and to run the drag without skew.
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1917 March, “How to Use the Drag”, in The Road Drag and How It is Used (United States Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletin; no. 597), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
One application for which an optical filter can play an important role is that of a wideband connection with low time skew. [...] One signal, the clock, needs to be distributed to all parts of a digital circuit to synchronize its action. The necessarily long path results in the danger of the clock signal arriving at the wrong time (clock skew), limiting the maximum frequency at which the circuit may be clocked.
ref:
1989, Ivan Andonovic, Deepak Uttamchandani, editors, Principles of Modern Optical Systems, volume 1, Norwood, Mass.: Artech House, page 501
type:
quotation
text:
Until recently, there has been a great reluctance to alter the clock network and attempt a nonzero-skew solution. However, recently, an increasing number of designers have been willing to utilize skews for performance enhancement.
ref:
2004, Sachin Sapatnekar, “Clocking and Clock Skew Optimization”, in Timing, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, section 9.8 (Conclusion), page 205
type:
quotation
text:
Skewness (skew) is the degree to which a distribution's shape departs from symmetry [...]. The greater the departure, the greater the skew. Symmetric distributions have no skew. For instance, the normal distribution is symmetric and is thus not a skewed distribution.
ref:
2012, James A. Rosenthal, “Shape of Distribution”, in Statistics and Data Interpretation for Social Work, New York, N.Y.: Springer Publishing Company, section 5.3.1 (Characteristics), page 53
type:
quotation
text:
Skew is the contour, or the unevenness, in a distribution, the dent in the bell curve. A negative skew suggests that the left half of the normal distribution (the left side of the mean) is twisted in such a way that the prospect of achieving negative returns is superior to that of achieving large positive returns. [...] When dealing with skew, traders strive to resolve how frequently in the trading time horizon they will obtain negative returns rather than positive returns. A skew demonstrates the relationship between the movement of an underlying asset and its volatility.
ref:
2013, Larry Shover, “Volatility Skew: Smile or Smirk?”, in Trading Options in Turbulent Markets: Master Uncertainty through Active Volatility Management, 2nd edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Bloomberg Press, John Wiley & Sons, page 47
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
An oblique or sideways movement.
A squint or sidelong glance.
A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
mathematics
sciences
statistics |
2969 | word:
skew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
skew (plural skews)
forms:
form:
skews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English skeu, skew (“stone with a sloping surface forming the slope of a gable, offset of a buttress, etc.”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman eschu, escuwe, eskeu, or Old Northern French eschieu, eskieu, eskiu, from Old French escu, escut, eschif (“a shield”) (modern French écu), from Latin scūtum (“a shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewH- (“to cover, protect”) or *skey- (“to cut, split”).
senses_examples:
text:
How many yards of roofing and serking, in a Roof 45 feet, 8 in. long, from skew to skew; and 21 feet, 8 in. deep, from ridge to easing, including 9 inches for wall plates or double eave?
ref:
1838, James Morrison, “Appendix II. Duodecimals. Or Cross Multiplication.”, in A Concise System of Commercial Arithmetic, Adapted to Modern Practice: […], new edition, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, page 210
type:
quotation
text:
Skew, Skew-table: the term skew is still used in the north for a stone built into the bottom of a gable or other similar situation to support the coping above [...]]
ref:
[1845, [John Henry Parker], “Skew, Skew-table”, in A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture, 4th edition, volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Henry Parker; London: David Bogue, →OCLC, page 340
type:
quotation
text:
Gable Copings or Skews are of various forms of section, the most common varieties being the parallel sided, Fig. 654; the weathered, or feather-edged, Fig. 655; and the saddle-backed, Fig. 656. [...] The skews at the eaves terminate in what is termed a club-skew or skew-corbel. This admits of an infinite variety of forms, according to the style of the building, but the object is the same in all—namely, to afford a support and abutment to the skew.
ref:
1855, J. N., “MASON WORK”, in edited by John C[halmers] Morton, A Cyclopedia of Agriculture, Practical and Scientific, […], volume II, Glasgow, Edinburgh: Blackie and Son […], →OCLC, page 389
type:
quotation
text:
The architecture of the steadings given in Plates I. to IX. is of the simplest description—plain rubble-work, with broached ashlar corners, rebates, lintels, and skews, and the roofs extending in stretches, and terminating in gables, without points to be affected by the weather. [...] A somewhat more ornamental style is given in Plate XV. of the farm-steading at Coleshill, in Berkshire, the corners and rebates being in raised work, and the skews of the gables ridged and pinnacled.
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1861, Henry Stephens, Robert Scott Burn, “Division Second—Plans of Existing Steadings”, in The Book of Farm-buildings: Their Arrangement and Construction, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, 1st book (Principles of Arrangement), paragraph 276, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
[page xxviii] Here ensuithe an abstracte of the freemasons worke. [...] It'm, the walle new made on the west syde of the watergate [...] a bottres made wᵗ harde asheler of Kent, l. foot, and in Cane asheler a skew vj. foot, [...] [page xxix] It'm, at the Juell Hows door, iij. spaces covered wᵗ skew and crest, amontying xxxvj. fote of stone.
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1533, John Bayley, “Appendix to Part I. [The Following is Extracted from a Survey Made of the Tower, in Order to a General Repair of Its Different Buildings, in the Twenty-third Year of King Henry the Eighth, Preserved in the Chapter-house at Westminster.]”, in The History and Antiquities of the Tower of London, […] In Two Parts, part I, London: T[homas] Cadell, […], published 1821, →OCLC, pages xxviii and xxix
type:
quotation
text:
Skew and crest: this phrase, which occurs in the specifications for the repairs at the Tower of London, (23 H. VIII.,) plainly describes the common coping of a wall which consists of a sloping or skew surface surmounted by a roll moulding by way of crest; sometimes there are two skews, separated by a set-off.
ref:
1850, [John Henry Parker], “Skew and crest”, in A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture, 5th edition, volume I (Text), Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Henry Parker; London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 429
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
The coping of a gable.
One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
senses_topics:
architecture
architecture
architecture |
2970 | word:
bomb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bomb (plural bombs)
forms:
form:
bombs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom.
senses_examples:
text:
During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes.
type:
example
text:
If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.
ref:
2014 April 25, Martin Lukacs, “Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 190, number 20, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
"The hard Brexiteers have built a bomb under the UK automotive industry and the EU have lit it," they said.
ref:
2018 June 6, “Brexit: EU advises businesses not to use British components because of Theresa May's plan to leave customs union”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air / Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there
ref:
1814, “The Star-Spangled Banner”, Francis Scott Key (lyrics), John Stafford Smith (music)
type:
quotation
text:
The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb.
ref:
2008, Sidney Gelb, Foreign Service Agent, page 629
type:
quotation
text:
box-office bomb
type:
example
text:
Projection problems plagued Countess’ London premiere on January 5, 1967, Jerry Epstein recalled, and it was perhaps an omen, for reaction by critics afterward was swift and immediate: The film was a bomb.
ref:
1997, Eric L. Flom, Chaplin in the Sound Era: An Analysis of the Seven Talkies, page 277
type:
quotation
text:
The movie was a bomb and so was my next film, Balboa, in which I played a scheming real estate tycoon.
ref:
2010, Tony Curtis, Peter Golenbock, American Prince: My Autobiography, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
The movie was a bomb, but it put the band before an even larger audience.
ref:
2011, Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
Nowadays, an old bomb simply won’t pass the inspection.
ref:
2005 August 6, “Warm affection for a rust-bucket past”, in Sydney Morning Herald
type:
quotation
text:
We′ve got the money and it just feels ridiculous to let you drive around in that old bomb.
ref:
2010, Rebecca James, Beautiful Malice, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
After two weeks of driving it she knew the car was a bomb and she did not need anyone saying it to her. The only one allowed to pick on her car was her. Piece of crap car[…]
ref:
2011, Amarinda Jones, Seducing Celestine, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
make a bomb
type:
example
text:
cost a bomb
type:
example
text:
When Kiley presented Blackpool with the custom shotgun, he said, “This must′ve cost a bomb.”
ref:
2009, Matthew Vierling, The Blizzard, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
'You′ve already spent a bomb!'
'Not on it, Sal — under it. Presents!' As we eventually staggered up to bed, Sally said to me, 'I hope to God he's not been spending a bomb on presents, too.[…]'
ref:
2010, Liz Young, Fair Game, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
The kids cost a bomb to feed, they eat all the time.
ref:
2011, Michael R. Häack, Passport: A Novel of International Intrigue, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
2011, Bibe, A Victim, page 38,
He had recently exchanged his old bike for a new, three speed racer, which cost a bomb and the weekly payment were becoming difficult, with the dangers of repossession.
text:
Our fabulous new crumpets have been selling like a bomb.
type:
example
text:
It was an ordinary speech, until the president dropped a bomb: he would be retiring for medical reasons.
type:
example
text:
Normally very controlled, he dropped the F-bomb and cursed the paparazzi.
type:
example
text:
With five seconds remaining, Smith received the inbounds pass and launched a bomb that dropped through the net to give his team an 80-79 victory.
ref:
2013, Brett L. Abrams, Raphael Mazzone, The Bullets, the Wizards, and Washington, DC, Basketball, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
A bomb for this study is defined as one in which the deepening rate is the geostrophic equivalent of at least 12 mb in 12 h at 45ºN.
ref:
1980 October, Frederick Sanders with John R. Gyakum, “Synoptic-dynamic climatology of the 'bomb'”, in Monthly Weather Review, volume 108, number 10, page 1596
type:
quotation
text:
The process consisted in preparing the metal by metallothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium metal in a steel bomb.
ref:
2008, François Cardarelli, Materials Handbook: A Concise Desktop Reference, page 276
type:
quotation
text:
In clear contravention of the International Code of Conduct for Swimming Baths, a teenager had entered the pool by performing a bomb.
ref:
2016, Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons & Rob Gibbons, Alan Partridge: Nomad, page 45
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
The atomic bomb.
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
A mortar shell.
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
Ellipsis of bomb ship.
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
Any explosive charge.
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
A car in poor condition.
A large amount of money.
Something highly effective or attractive.
A success; the bomb.
Something highly effective or attractive.
A very attractive woman.
Something highly effective or attractive.
An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
Something highly effective or attractive.
An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
An obscene word identified by its first letter.
Something highly effective or attractive.
A long forward pass.
Something highly effective or attractive.
A high kick that sends the ball relatively straight up so players can get under it before it comes down.
Something highly effective or attractive.
A throw into the basket from a considerable distance.
A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
A woman’s breast.
A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
An act of jumping into water while keeping one's arms and legs tucked into the body, as in a squatting position, to maximize splashing.
senses_topics:
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
soccer
sports
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
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2971 | word:
bomb
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bomb (third-person singular simple present bombs, present participle bombing, simple past and past participle bombed)
forms:
form:
bombs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bombing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bombed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bombed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom.
senses_examples:
text:
2000, Canadian Peace Research Institute, Canadian Peace Research and Education Association, Peace Research, Volumes 32-33, page 65,
15 May: US jets bombed air-defence sites north of Mosul, as the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the US and Britain of intentionally bombing civilian targets. (AP)
text:
Italy had bombed cities in the Ethiopian war; Italy and Germany had bombed civilians in the Spanish Civil War; at the start of World War II German planes dropped bombs on Rotterdam in Holland, Coventry in England, and elsewhere.
ref:
2005, Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, page 421
type:
quotation
text:
Essendon was bombed in the early hours of 3 September 1916; a few houses and part of the church were destroyed, and two sisters killed.
ref:
2007, David Parker, Hertfordshire Children in War and Peace, 1914-1939, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
Dr. Ngo: Did you ever find out where the smugglers were smuggling from?'Dr. Ngo: Chief? Did you ev—Chief Ibanez: No, and I never will, because as I tried to tell you at the start, when I was sixteen the Chaos Insurgency bombed us into the fucking ground.
ref:
2022 September 9, HarryBlank, “The Mausoleum at Ipperwash”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-27
type:
quotation
text:
School days have been missed or cut short many times to accommodate soccer travel through the years, but this return felt different. Photos posted on his social media documenting the experience were seen by classmates, many of whom bombed him with questions about his future in the sport.
ref:
2022 May 7, Ray Brewer, “Henderson native takes another step toward his soccer dreams with spot on Lights' roster”, in Las Vegas Sun
type:
quotation
text:
I was bombing down the road on my motorbike.
type:
example
text:
The calendar was selling Moctezuma beer, so I had one of them in her honor while Murray bombed himself with the mezcal.
ref:
1985, Pete Hamill, Dirty Laundry, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
TED: The champagne you ordered, sir.
MAN: No time for this. Leave it on ice.
WIFE: But I want some now...
MAN: There'll be plenty for you at the party, baby, you can bomb yourself all you want at the party.
ref:
1995, Four Rooms (film)
text:
It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing and piecing.
ref:
2009, Scape Martinez, GRAFF: The Art & Technique of Graffiti, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
So Hall quit the job, turned in the company car and went to Chicago, where as a stand-up comic he bombed several times before he was discovered by Nancy Wilson, who took him on the road — where he bombed again before a room of Republicans—and then to Los Angeles.
ref:
1992 June, Lynn Norment, “Arsenio Hall: Claiming the Late-night Crown”, in Ebony, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
2000, Carmen Infantino, Jon B. Cooke (interviewer), The Carmen Infantino Interview, in Jon B. Cooke, Neal Adams, Comic Book Artist Collection, page 12,
Carmen: […] Then it bombed and it bombed badly. After a few more issues I asked Mike what was happening and he said, “I′m trying everything I can but it′s just not working.” So I took him off the book and he left. That was it.
text:
She was the reason why he bombed the interview. He just couldn′t seem to get her out of his mind.
ref:
2008, Erik Sternberger, The Long and Winding Road, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
When things weren't going Alison's way at work — some editor wanted something changed or her computer bombed again — she'd cuss and yell at whoever happened to be in the way.
ref:
2001, Janet Holm McHenry, Girlfriend Gatherings: Creative Ways to Stay Connected, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
What over-charged piece of melancholie / Is this, breakes in betweene my wishes thus, / With bombing sighs?
ref:
1625, Ben Jonson, The Fortunate Isles and Their Union
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
To attack or annoy in the manner of a bombing.
To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, in order to maximise the resulting splash.
To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
To move at high speed.
To make oneself drunk.
To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
To fail dismally.
To crash.
To make a smelly mess in (a toilet).
To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
Synonym of parachute (“wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them”)
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
2972 | word:
bomb
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bomb (comparative more bomb, superlative most bomb)
forms:
form:
more bomb
tags:
comparative
form:
most bomb
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom.
senses_examples:
text:
Have you tried the new tacos from that restaurant? They're pretty bomb!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Great, awesome.
senses_topics:
|
2973 | word:
Italian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Italian (comparative more Italian, superlative most Italian)
forms:
form:
more Italian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Italian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Italian
etymology_text:
From Middle English Italian, from Medieval Latin Italiānus, from Latin Italia (“Italy”).
senses_examples:
text:
It has been shown that there was a great disposition on the part of some German printers, especially Albert Durer, to adopt the rounded Italian type; others preferring the crisp angularity of the Gothic black-letter, even for general purposes; while for books of devotion it appears to have been deemed the more orthodox; the Italian style of type being deemed an innovation.
ref:
1868, Henry Noel Humphreys, A History of the Art of Printing, page 175
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to Italy, its people or its language.
Using an italic style; italic.
senses_topics:
|
2974 | word:
Italian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Italian (countable and uncountable, plural Italians)
forms:
form:
Italians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Italian
etymology_text:
From Middle English Italian, from Medieval Latin Italiānus, from Latin Italia (“Italy”).
senses_examples:
text:
As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.
ref:
2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Simple Cannoli, Lemon Ice, or a delicious Tira Mi Su. With so many wonderful recipes, you can eat Italian anytime.
ref:
1995, Betty Crocker's New Italian Cooking, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
gin and Italian
type:
example
text:
So the English women would have been interested in American drinks, and in came the gin-and-Italian, for example.
ref:
1971, John Doxat, The World of Drinks and Drinking, page 102
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant of Italy, or a person of Italian descent.
The official language of Italy, also spoken in San Marino, the Vatican, and parts of Argentina, Slovenia and Switzerland.
A style of cuisine or individual dishes of or associated with Italy or Italian people.
Short for Italian cloth, a type of linen or cotton cloth with satin finish used primarily for linings.
Short for Italian vermouth, a dark-colored sweet or mildly bitter vermouth.
Short for Italian sandwich.
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle
business
manufacturing
textiles
|
2975 | word:
personal pronoun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
personal pronoun (plural personal pronouns)
forms:
form:
personal pronouns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Mondays come with questions of couples
Where and with whom did you go?
Avoiding the personal pronoun
She hopes it doesn't show
Shopping with her lover in the city
Two women holding hands don't get a stare
If the kids at school knew what they do
Would they hate her? Why should they care?
ref:
1983, Fred Small (lyrics and music), “Annie”, in The Heart of the Appaloosa
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pronoun which, in English, refers to one or a combination of the following:
The person or people speaking. (first person)
A pronoun which, in English, refers to one or a combination of the following:
The person or people spoken to. (second person)
A pronoun which, in English, refers to one or a combination of the following:
Another person or group of people. (third person)
A pronoun which, in English, refers to one or a combination of the following
Any pronoun, with an antecedent, standing in as the subject or object of a verb.
senses_topics:
|
2976 | word:
in
word_type:
prep
expansion:
in
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₁en
Preposition and verb from Middle English in, from Old English in, from Proto-Germanic *in.
Adverb, noun and adjective from Middle English in, from Old English inn and inne, from Proto-Germanic *innai.
Sense 1/2 "in"/"into" are from the original PIE prefix, with locative/accusative case respectively. Sense 3/4 "qualification"/"means" are from the PIE metaphor of all infinitives coming from locatives.
senses_examples:
text:
The dog is in the kennel.
type:
example
text:
There were three pickles in a jar.
type:
example
text:
I like living in the city.
type:
example
text:
There are lots of trees in the park.
type:
example
text:
He sat in the chair.
type:
example
text:
She stood in the front-desk spot.
type:
example
text:
GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
We are in the enemy camp.
type:
example
text:
Her plane is in the air.
type:
example
text:
Waiter! There's a fly in my soup!
type:
example
text:
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
text:
You are one in a million.
type:
example
text:
She's in an orchestra.
type:
example
text:
My birthday is in the first week of December.
type:
example
text:
Easter falls in the fourth lunar month.
type:
example
text:
The country reached a high level of prosperity in his first term.
type:
example
text:
Will you be able to finish this in a week?
type:
example
text:
The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
type:
example
text:
They said they would call us in a week.
type:
example
text:
Many English nouns in -is form their plurals in -es.
type:
example
text:
The ball was accidentally kicked in Kevin Nolan's face in the opening seconds of the contest – an incident that set the tone for an extremely uncomfortable encounter for the Premier League side.
ref:
2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3-1 Newcastle”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
Less water gets in your boots this way.
type:
example
text:
She stood there looking in the window longingly.
type:
example
text:
My fat rolls around in folds.
type:
example
text:
He stalked away in anger.
type:
example
text:
John is in a coma.
type:
example
text:
You've got a friend in me.
type:
example
text:
He's met his match in her.
type:
example
text:
There has been no change in his condition.
type:
example
text:
What grade did he get in English?
type:
example
text:
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
type:
example
text:
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
type:
example
text:
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
type:
example
text:
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
text:
[…] tourists sometimes attempt to pay in euros or British pounds.
ref:
2014, Carla Bethmann, Clean, Friendly, Profitable?: Tourism, page 114
type:
quotation
text:
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
type:
example
text:
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
type:
example
text:
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
type:
example
text:
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
Contained by; inside.
Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
Within the bounds or limits of.
Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
Surrounded by; among; amidst.
Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
Wearing (an item of clothing).
Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
Part of; a member of; out of; from among.
Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
During (a period of time).
Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
Within (a certain elapsed time); by the end of.
Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
At the end of (a period of time).
Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
Characterized by.
Into.
Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
Indicating an order or arrangement.
Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
Denoting a state of the subject.
Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
Pertaining to; with regard to.
Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
In the form of, in the denomination of.
Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
|
2977 | word:
in
word_type:
verb
expansion:
in (third-person singular simple present ins, present participle inning, simple past and past participle inned)
forms:
form:
ins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
inning
tags:
participle
present
form:
inned
tags:
participle
past
form:
inned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₁en
Preposition and verb from Middle English in, from Old English in, from Proto-Germanic *in.
Adverb, noun and adjective from Middle English in, from Old English inn and inne, from Proto-Germanic *innai.
Sense 1/2 "in"/"into" are from the original PIE prefix, with locative/accusative case respectively. Sense 3/4 "qualification"/"means" are from the PIE metaphor of all infinitives coming from locatives.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To enclose.
To take in; to harvest.
senses_topics:
|
2978 | word:
in
word_type:
adv
expansion:
in (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₁en
Preposition and verb from Middle English in, from Old English in, from Proto-Germanic *in.
Adverb, noun and adjective from Middle English in, from Old English inn and inne, from Proto-Germanic *innai.
Sense 1/2 "in"/"into" are from the original PIE prefix, with locative/accusative case respectively. Sense 3/4 "qualification"/"means" are from the PIE metaphor of all infinitives coming from locatives.
senses_examples:
text:
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
type:
example
text:
Would you like that to take away or eat in?
type:
example
text:
He ran to the edge of the swimming pool and dived in.
type:
example
text:
They flew in from London last night.
type:
example
text:
For six hours the tide flows in, then for another six hours it flows out.
type:
example
text:
Bring the water to the boil and drop the vegetables in.
type:
example
text:
The Black Cats had a mountain to climb after James Morrison's header and Shane Long's neat side-foot finish gave Albion a 2-0 lead five minutes in.
ref:
2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2-2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The show still didn't become interesting 20 minutes in.
type:
example
text:
sing-in, pray-in, hug-in; see also be-in, love-in, sit-in, teach-in.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Towards the speaker or other reference point.
So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something.
After the beginning of something.
Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.
senses_topics:
|
2979 | word:
in
word_type:
noun
expansion:
in (plural ins)
forms:
form:
ins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₁en
Preposition and verb from Middle English in, from Old English in, from Proto-Germanic *in.
Adverb, noun and adjective from Middle English in, from Old English inn and inne, from Proto-Germanic *innai.
Sense 1/2 "in"/"into" are from the original PIE prefix, with locative/accusative case respectively. Sense 3/4 "qualification"/"means" are from the PIE metaphor of all infinitives coming from locatives.
senses_examples:
text:
His parents got him an in with the company.
type:
example
text:
This memoir has nothing to do with the question between the ins and the outs; it is intended neither to support nor to assail the administration; it is general in its views upon a general and national subject; […]
ref:
1827, Benjamin Chew, A Sketch of the Politics, Relations, and Statistics, of the Western World, page 192
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A position of power or influence, or a way to get it.
One who, or that which, is in; especially, one who is in office.
The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting; see innings.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
2980 | word:
in
word_type:
adj
expansion:
in (comparative more in, superlative most in)
forms:
form:
more in
tags:
comparative
form:
most in
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₁en
Preposition and verb from Middle English in, from Old English in, from Proto-Germanic *in.
Adverb, noun and adjective from Middle English in, from Old English inn and inne, from Proto-Germanic *innai.
Sense 1/2 "in"/"into" are from the original PIE prefix, with locative/accusative case respectively. Sense 3/4 "qualification"/"means" are from the PIE metaphor of all infinitives coming from locatives.
senses_examples:
text:
Is Mr. Smith in?
type:
example
text:
Little by little I pushed the snake into the basket, until finally all of it was in.
type:
example
text:
The bullet is about five centimetres in.
type:
example
text:
If the tennis ball bounces on the line then it's in.
type:
example
text:
I've discovered why the TV wasn't working – the plug wasn't in!
type:
example
text:
The replies to the questionnaires are now all in.
type:
example
text:
Skirts are in this year.
type:
example
text:
Pierce a new hole
If Hell was in you'd give your soul
To the great southern trendkill
ref:
1996, “The Great Southern Trendkill”, performed by Pantera
type:
quotation
text:
the in train
type:
example
text:
You can't get round the headland when the tide's in.
type:
example
text:
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
type:
example
text:
“[…] He […] took a rifle out of the batch and shot at me. I was lucky he was such a crummy shot.”
“Why would he do that?”
“I think he's in with them, Doctor.”
“Them? You mean Ned and Cody?”
“All of them. Hickok, the split tail, the whole lot.”
ref:
2010, Joe R. Lansdale, Flaming Zeppelins: The Adventures of Ned the Seal, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
He is very in with the Joneses.
type:
example
text:
I need to keep in with the neighbours in case I ever need a favour from them.
type:
example
text:
I think that bird fancies you. You're in there, mate!
type:
example
text:
I saw this thing on ITV the other week,
Said, that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen
She's playing with her hair, well regularly,
So I reckon I could well be in.
ref:
2004, The Streets (lyrics and music), “Could Well Be In”
type:
quotation
text:
Blocks of compressed coal keep the fire in for a long time, but they give out very little heat.
ref:
1888, H.C. O’Neill, Edith A. Barnett, Our Nurses and the Work They Have to Do, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
“At all events,” said the Doctor, “the fire’s in, and here’s the camp-oven, too. Somebody will be here soon. I will go in and light my pipe.”
ref:
1894, Henry Kingsley, The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn - Volume 2, page 183
type:
quotation
text:
Was there any person in your own house at Renmore to keep the fire in while you were here?.
ref:
1901, William Francis Barry, The Wizard’s Knot, page 231
type:
quotation
text:
Normally when they camped in the wild they took turns to sit up and keep the fire in while the others slept, […].
ref:
2011, Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles
type:
quotation
text:
He turned and started making up the range to keep the fire in overnight, and heard the front door click and Grant’s motor fire up. Sleep. He needed to sleep.
ref:
2019, A.L.Lester, Shadows on the Border
type:
quotation
text:
I'm three drinks in right now.
type:
example
text:
I was 500 dollars in when the stock crashed.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Located indoors, especially at home or at one's office or place of work.
Located inside something.
Falling or remaining within the bounds of the playing area.
Inserted or fitted into something.
Having been collected or received.
In fashion; popular.
Incoming.
Furled or stowed.
Of the tide, at or near its highest level.
With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin
Currently batting.
Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.
Having a favourable position, such as a position of influence or expected gain, in relation to another person.
(British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Burning; ablaze.
Having used, consumed , or invested a certain amount.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
nautical
transport
law
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
2981 | word:
in
word_type:
noun
expansion:
in (plural ins or in)
forms:
form:
ins
tags:
plural
form:
in
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of inch; inches.
senses_topics:
|
2982 | word:
head
word_type:
noun
expansion:
head (countable and uncountable, plural heads or head)
forms:
form:
heads
tags:
plural
form:
head
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Head (disambiguation)
head
human head
etymology_text:
From Middle English hed, heed, heved, heaved, from Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; source, origin; chief, leader; capital”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *káput-. The modern word comes from Old English oblique stem hēafd-, the expected Modern English outcome for hēafod would be *heaved (similar to the Middle English word). Doublet of cape, capo, caput, chef, chief, and Howth.
cognates
Cognate with Scots heid, hede, hevid, heved (“head”), Old English hafola (“head”), North Frisian hood (“head”), Dutch hoofd (“head”), German Haupt (“head”), Swedish huvud (“head”), Danish hoved (“head”), Icelandic höfuð (“head”), Latin caput (“head”), Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”), Hindi कपाल (kapāl, “skull”).
senses_examples:
text:
The company is looking for people with good heads for business.
type:
example
text:
He has no head for heights.
type:
example
text:
It's all about having a good head on your shoulders.
type:
example
text:
This song keeps going through my head.
type:
example
text:
“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
ref:
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court
type:
quotation
text:
a laced head; a head of hair
type:
example
text:
Admission is three dollars a head.
type:
example
text:
200 head of cattle and 50 head of horses
type:
example
text:
12 head of big cattle and 14 head of branded calves
type:
example
text:
at five years of age this head of cattle is worth perhaps $40
type:
example
text:
a reduction in the assessment per head of sheep
type:
example
text:
they shot 20 head of quail
type:
example
text:
we have a heavy head of deer this year
type:
example
text:
planting the hedges increased the head of quail and doves
type:
example
text:
Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.
type:
example
text:
During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at the head of the table.
type:
example
text:
Hit the nail on the head!
type:
example
text:
The head of the compass needle is pointing due north.
type:
example
text:
Tap the head of the drum for this roll.
type:
example
text:
The heads of your tape player need to be cleaned.
type:
example
text:
Pour me a fresh beer; this one has no head.
type:
example
text:
He never learned how to pour a glass of beer so it didn't have too much head.
type:
example
text:
The content of a headline over a news story should be taken from the lead of the story. […] The head should give the same impression as the body of the story.
ref:
1968, Earl English, Clarence Hach, Scholastic Journalism, page 166
type:
quotation
text:
What does it say at the head of the page?
type:
example
text:
We saw the last Campaign that an Army of Fourscore Thousand of the best Troops in Europe, with the Duke of Marlborough at the Head of them, cou'd do nothing against an Enemy that were too numerous to be assaulted in their Camps, or attack'd in their Strong Holds.
ref:
1708, Joseph Addison, The present state of the war, and the necessity of an augmentation, consider'd, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
I'd like to speak to the head of the department.
type:
example
text:
Police arrested the head of the gang in a raid last night.
type:
example
text:
At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...'
She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking.
As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.
ref:
1992 June 24, Edwina Currie, Diary
type:
quotation
text:
I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour.
type:
example
text:
Only true heads know this.
type:
example
text:
The expedition followed the river all the way to the head.
type:
example
text:
Give me a head of lettuce.
type:
example
text:
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
ref:
2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
text:
I've got to go to the head.
type:
example
text:
Heads. (Roofing.) Tiles which are laid at the eaves of a house
ref:
1875, Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, vol. II, page 1086
text:
We are having a difficult time making head against this wind.
type:
example
text:
We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.
type:
example
text:
These issues are going to come to a head today.
type:
example
text:
The indiſpoſition which has long hung upon me, is at laſt grown to ſuch an head, that it muſt quickly make an end of me, or of itſelf.
ref:
1712 October 18, anonymous letter in The Spectator, edited by Joseph Addison, no. 513, collected in The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq, Birmingham: John Baskerville, published 1761, volume IV, page 10
text:
Let the engine build up a good head of steam.
type:
example
text:
How much head do you have at the Glens Falls feeder dam?
text:
She gave great head.
type:
example
text:
Then I saw the more advanced narcotic addicts, who shot unbelievable doses of powerful heroin in the main line – the vein of their arms; the hysien users; chloroform sniffers, who belonged to the riff-raff element of the dope chippeys, who mingled freely with others of their kind; canned heat stiffs, paragoric hounds, laudanum fiends, and last but not least, the veronal heads.
ref:
1936, Lee Duncan, Over The Wall, Dutton
type:
quotation
text:
The term, "head," is, of course, not new with hippies. It has a long history among drug users generally, for whom it signified a regular, experienced user of any illegal drug—e.g., pot "head," meth "head," smack (heroin) "head."
ref:
1968, Fred Davis with Laura Munoz, “Heads and freaks: patterns and meanings of drug use among hippies”, in Journal of Health and Social Behavior, volume 9, number 2, pages 156–64
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
To do with heads.
Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
To do with heads.
Mind; one's own thoughts.
The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
To do with heads.
A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
To do with heads.
A headdress; a covering for the head.
The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
To do with heads.
An individual person.
The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
To do with heads.
A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
To do with heads.
The population of game.
The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
To do with heads.
The antlers of a deer.
The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The end of a table.
The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The end of a table.
The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The uppermost part of a valley.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
Short for headline.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The end of an abscess where pus collects.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The headstock of a guitar.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
A leading component.
The top edge of a sail.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
A leading component.
The bow of a vessel.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
A headland.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
A leader or expert.
The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
A leader or expert.
Leader; chief; mastermind.
A leader or expert.
A headteacher.
A leader or expert.
A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
A significant or important part.
A beginning or end, a protuberance.
The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
A significant or important part.
A beginning or end, a protuberance.
A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
A significant or important part.
A beginning or end, a protuberance.
A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
The leafy top part of a tree.
A significant or important part.
A beginning or end, a protuberance.
A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
A significant or important part.
A beginning or end, a protuberance.
The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
A significant or important part.
A beginning or end, a protuberance.
The toilet of a ship.
A significant or important part.
A beginning or end, a protuberance.
Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
A significant or important part.
A component.
The principal melody or theme of a piece.
A significant or important part.
A component.
A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
Headway; progress.
Topic; subject.
Denouement; crisis.
Pressure and energy.
A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
Pressure and energy.
The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
Pressure and energy.
More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
The glans penis.
A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
Power; armed force.
senses_topics:
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lacrosse
lifestyle
sports
entertainment
lifestyle
music
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
automotive
transport
vehicles
engineering
machining
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
geography
geology
natural-sciences
geography
geology
natural-sciences
journalism
media
medicine
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
entertainment
lifestyle
music
anatomy
medicine
sciences
nautical
transport
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
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2983 | word:
head
word_type:
adj
expansion:
head (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Head (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English hed, heed, heved, heaved, from Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; source, origin; chief, leader; capital”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *káput-. The modern word comes from Old English oblique stem hēafd-, the expected Modern English outcome for hēafod would be *heaved (similar to the Middle English word). Doublet of cape, capo, caput, chef, chief, and Howth.
cognates
Cognate with Scots heid, hede, hevid, heved (“head”), Old English hafola (“head”), North Frisian hood (“head”), Dutch hoofd (“head”), German Haupt (“head”), Swedish huvud (“head”), Danish hoved (“head”), Icelandic höfuð (“head”), Latin caput (“head”), Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”), Hindi कपाल (kapāl, “skull”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
senses_topics:
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2984 | word:
head
word_type:
verb
expansion:
head (third-person singular simple present heads, present participle heading, simple past and past participle headed)
forms:
form:
heads
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
heading
tags:
participle
present
form:
headed
tags:
participle
past
form:
headed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Head (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English hed, heed, heved, heaved, from Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; source, origin; chief, leader; capital”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *káput-. The modern word comes from Old English oblique stem hēafd-, the expected Modern English outcome for hēafod would be *heaved (similar to the Middle English word). Doublet of cape, capo, caput, chef, chief, and Howth.
cognates
Cognate with Scots heid, hede, hevid, heved (“head”), Old English hafola (“head”), North Frisian hood (“head”), Dutch hoofd (“head”), German Haupt (“head”), Swedish huvud (“head”), Danish hoved (“head”), Icelandic höfuð (“head”), Latin caput (“head”), Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”), Hindi कपाल (kapāl, “skull”).
senses_examples:
text:
Who heads the board of trustees?
type:
example
text:
to head an army, an expedition, or a riot
type:
example
text:
A group of clowns headed the procession.
type:
example
text:
The most important items headed the list.
type:
example
text:
When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop down the line.
ref:
1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325
type:
quotation
text:
The citations are set in smaller font, start on a new indented line and are headed with a date.
ref:
2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 491
type:
quotation
text:
We are going to head up North for our holiday.
type:
example
text:
We will head off tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
Next holiday we will head out West, or head to Chicago.
type:
example
text:
Right now I need to head into town to do some shopping.
type:
example
text:
I'm fed up working for a boss. I'm going to head out on my own, set up my own business.
type:
example
text:
Where does the train head to?
type:
example
text:
To the left towers the Jungfrau, with the train heading directly towards it.
ref:
1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752
type:
quotation
text:
Near-synonyms: behead, dehead
text:
The salmon are first headed and then scaled.
type:
example
text:
a broad purling river, that heads in the great blue ridge of mountains,
ref:
1775, James Adair, The History of the American Indians, page 223
type:
quotation
text:
The Templeton heads in the Cloncurry ranges[.]
ref:
1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 156
type:
quotation
text:
This kind of cabbage heads early.
type:
example
text:
To be honest, this hasn't been my Garden of Eden year. […] The lettuce turned bitter and bolted. The Green Comet broccoli was good, but my coveted Romanescos never headed up.
ref:
1995, Anne Raver, “Gandhi Gardening”, in Deep in the Green: An Exploration of Country Pleasures, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf
type:
quotation
text:
to head a nail
type:
example
text:
to head trees
type:
example
text:
I tell thee, man of God, the uncharitableness of the sect to which thou pertainest has thronged the land of punishment as much as those who headed, and hanged, and stabbed, and shot, and tortured.
ref:
1822, Allan Cunningham, “Ezra Peden”, in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, volume 1, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
to head a drove of cattle
type:
example
text:
to head a person
type:
example
text:
The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult.
type:
example
text:
to head a cask
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be in command of. (See also head up.)
To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
To move in a specified direction.
To remove the head from (a fish).
To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
To form a head.
To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
To cut off the top of; to lop off.
To behead; to decapitate.
To go in front of.
To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
To check or restrain.
To set on the head.
senses_topics:
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
|
2985 | word:
head
word_type:
adj
expansion:
head (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Head (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English heed, from Old English hēafod- (“main”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubida-, derived from the noun *haubid (“head”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian hööft-, West Frisian haad-, Dutch hoofd-, German Low German höövd-, German haupt-.
senses_examples:
text:
the head cook
type:
example
text:
head sea
type:
example
text:
head wind
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Foremost in rank or importance.
Placed at the top or the front.
Coming from in front.
senses_topics:
|
2986 | word:
Slovene
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Slovene (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German Slowene, from Slovene Slovenec. Related to Slovak.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Slovenia, the Slovenes or the Slovene language.
senses_topics:
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2987 | word:
Slovene
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Slovene (plural Slovenes)
forms:
form:
Slovenes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German Slowene, from Slovene Slovenec. Related to Slovak.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Slovenia.
senses_topics:
|
2988 | word:
Slovene
word_type:
name
expansion:
Slovene
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German Slowene, from Slovene Slovenec. Related to Slovak.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The official language of Slovenia.
senses_topics:
|
2989 | word:
storm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
storm (plural storms)
forms:
form:
storms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English storm (“disturbed state of the atmosphere; heavy precipitation; battle, conflict; attack”) [and other forms], from Old English storm (“tempest, storm; attack; storm of arrows; disquiet, disturbance, tumult, uproar; onrush, rush”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *sturm (“storm”), from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz (“storm”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twerH- (“to agitate, stir up; to propel; to urge on”). Related to stir.
cognates
* Danish storm (“storm”)
* Dutch storm (“storm”)
* German Sturm (“storm”)
* Icelandic stormur (“storm”)
* Low German storm (“storm”)
* Norwegian Bokmål storm (“storm”)
* Norwegian Nynorsk storm (“storm”)
* Scots storm (“storm”)
* Swedish storm (“storm”)
* West Frisian stoarm (“storm”)
senses_examples:
text:
The boat was torn to pieces in the storm, and nobody survived.
type:
example
text:
Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
ref:
2012 January, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, New Haven, Conn.: Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-01-10, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
a storm of bullets
type:
example
text:
"Sorry about the bullet storm," Corbin said as they approached her living quarters. "I'm a bit of a bet-hedger these days."
ref:
2023 September 22, HarryBlank, “Off Track”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-25
type:
quotation
text:
The proposed reforms have led to a political storm.
type:
example
text:
a storm of protest
type:
example
text:
asthmatic storm cytokine storm
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation; a tempest.
A heavy fall of precipitation (hail, rain, or snow) or bout of lightning and thunder without strong winds; a hail storm, rainstorm, snowstorm, or thunderstorm.
Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation; a tempest.
Synonym of cyclone (“a weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure”)
Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation; a tempest.
A period of frosty and/or snowy weather.
Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation; a tempest.
A disturbed state of the atmosphere between a severe or strong gale and a hurricane on the modern Beaufort scale, with a wind speed of between 89 and 102 kilometres per hour (55–63 miles per hour; 10 on the scale, known as a "storm" or whole gale), or of between 103 and 117 kilometres per hour (64–72 miles per hour; 11 on the scale, known as a "violent storm").
Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation; a tempest.
A heavy expulsion or fall of things (as blows, objects which are thrown, etc.).
A violent agitation of human society; a domestic, civil, or political commotion.
A violent commotion or outbreak of sounds, speech, thoughts, etc.; also, an outpouring of emotion.
Chiefly with a qualifying word: a violent attack of diease, pain, physiological reactions, symptoms, etc.; a paroxysm.
Ellipsis of storm window (“a second window (originally detachable) attached on the exterior side of a window in climates with harsh winters, to add an insulating layer of still air between the outside and inside”).
senses_topics:
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
medicine
pathology
sciences
|
2990 | word:
storm
word_type:
verb
expansion:
storm (third-person singular simple present storms, present participle storming, simple past and past participle stormed)
forms:
form:
storms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
storming
tags:
participle
present
form:
stormed
tags:
participle
past
form:
stormed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
storm
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is derived from Middle English stormen (“of the wind: to blow violently; to cause to roll or toss”), from storm (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitives of verbs).
Compare Middle English sturmen (“to attack (someone) with great force”), from Old English styrman (“to rage, storm; to make a great noise, cry aloud, shout, storm”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturmijan (“to storm”), from Proto-Germanic *sturmijaną (“to storm”), from *sturmaz (“a storm”) (see etymology 1) + *-janą (suffix forming causatives from strong verbs, with a sense of ‘to cause to do [the action of the verb]’). The Middle English word did not survive into modern English.
The noun is derived from verb sense 2.3 (“to violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it”).
cognates
* Dutch stormen (“to bluster, storm”)
* German stürmen (“to rage, storm; to assault, attack”)
* Icelandic storma (“to storm”)
* Low German stormen (“to storm”)
* Swedish storma (“to bluster, storm”)
senses_examples:
text:
It stormed throughout the night.
type:
example
text:
the storming of the Bastille
type:
example
text:
Troops stormed the complex.
type:
example
text:
The crowd was patient and never dreamed of storming Chungnanhai (which could scarcely have resisted a mass assault) and the most battle-tested groups made no attempt to send their commandos to kidnap the “highest leader.” Calm—if one may use the word—prevailed, and the group leaders were content to lead their followers in chanting slogans against Liu [Shaoqi] and quotations from Mao [Zedong]. The Chairman, like Vice-Chairman Lin Piao, had been away on a tour of inspection in the provinces since early July; at the time of the siege of Chungnanhai, he was in Wuhan.
ref:
1974, K. S. Karol, “The August of the Ultra-Left”, in Mervyn Jones, transl., The Second Chinese Revolution […], New York, N.Y.: Hill and Wang, →OCLC, page 278
type:
quotation
text:
No Engines can a Tyrant find, / to ſtorm the Truth-ſupported Mind, […]
ref:
1750 March 27 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Thomas Morell (lyrics), George Frideric Handel (music), Theodora: An Oratorio […], London: […] I. Walsh […], published [1751], →OCLC, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
They were storming near the end of the month to salvage some goodwill.
type:
example
text:
She stormed out of the room.
type:
example
text:
A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.
ref:
1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern Motive Power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 611
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or something) violently.
To disturb or trouble (someone).
To use (harsh language).
To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.
To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.
To assault or gain control or power over (someone's heart, mind, etc.).
To catch up (on production output) by making frenzied or herculean efforts.
To protect (seed-hay) from stormy weather by putting sheaves of them into small stacks.
Of the weather: to be violent, with strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
To be exposed to harsh (especially cold) weather.
To move noisily and quickly like a storm (noun sense 1), usually in a state of anger or uproar.
To move quickly in the course of an assault on a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.
To be in a violent temper; to use harsh language; to fume, to rage.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
agriculture
business
lifestyle
government
military
politics
war
|
2991 | word:
storm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
storm (plural storms)
forms:
form:
storms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is derived from Middle English stormen (“of the wind: to blow violently; to cause to roll or toss”), from storm (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitives of verbs).
Compare Middle English sturmen (“to attack (someone) with great force”), from Old English styrman (“to rage, storm; to make a great noise, cry aloud, shout, storm”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturmijan (“to storm”), from Proto-Germanic *sturmijaną (“to storm”), from *sturmaz (“a storm”) (see etymology 1) + *-janą (suffix forming causatives from strong verbs, with a sense of ‘to cause to do [the action of the verb]’). The Middle English word did not survive into modern English.
The noun is derived from verb sense 2.3 (“to violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it”).
cognates
* Dutch stormen (“to bluster, storm”)
* German stürmen (“to rage, storm; to assault, attack”)
* Icelandic storma (“to storm”)
* Low German stormen (“to storm”)
* Swedish storma (“to bluster, storm”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A violent assault on a fortified position or stronghold.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
2992 | word:
pommy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pommy (plural pommies)
forms:
form:
pommies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From pom + -y (“diminutive suffix”). Australian from 1912.
senses_examples:
text:
Though Sir Oswald had taken on enough London veneer to be sneered at as a pommy in certain Australian circles, he had never acquired the high-class Englishman′s apparent equanimity or indifference before the prospect of cuckolding.
ref:
1931, Miles Franklin, Back to Bool Bool, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
Rhona nodded her agreement. ‘That′s a very interesting answer from a new Aussie – and a Pommy into the bargain,’ she added.
ref:
2007, Tony Parsons, Silver in the Sun, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
During one of these acts of bravery by the English pilots I saw a great big tough Aussie with tears of frustration streaming down his face. He was shouting, ‘You magnificent, stupid Pommy bastard!’
ref:
2009, Robert Holman, On Paths of Ash: The Extraordinary Story of an Australian Prisoner of War, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pom; a person of British descent, a Briton; an Englishman.
senses_topics:
|
2993 | word:
pommy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pommy (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From pom + -y (“diminutive suffix”). Australian from 1912.
senses_examples:
text:
A gleam of humour, a moment of beautiful pommy arrogance.
ref:
1991, A Stranger's Trust, Emma Richmond
type:
quotation
text:
That is, of course, until Australian movie stars like Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman proved that they could sell tickets in the West End so long as they could play at being what Rees calls a ‘movie siren’ with a convincing ‘fake pommy accent’.
ref:
2003, Susan Bradley Smith, “12: Rhetoric, reconciliation and other national pastimes: showcasing contemporary Australian theatre in London”, in Elizabeth Schafer, Susan Bradley Smith, editors, Playing Australia: Australian Theatre and the International Stage, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
athol wrote:[…]> IIRC, "hood lining" is the more pommy terminology. :-)
ref:
2005 February 24, feral, “Hello, Hello”, in aus.cars (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
English; British.
senses_topics:
|
2994 | word:
pommy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pommy (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of pommee.
Semé of (strewn with) pommes (roundels vert).
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
2995 | word:
your
word_type:
det
expansion:
your
forms:
wikipedia:
your
etymology_text:
From Middle English your, youre, ȝour, ȝoure, from Old English ēower, īower (“your”, plural), from Proto-West Germanic *iuwar, from Proto-Germanic *izweraz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian jou (“your”), Dutch jouw (“your”), German Low German jo, jos (“your”), German euer (“your”, plural), Danish jeres (“your”).
senses_examples:
text:
Let’s meet tomorrow at your convenience.
type:
example
text:
Is this your cat?
type:
example
text:
Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry.
type:
example
text:
Your Show of Shows
type:
example
text:
Your World with Neil Cavuto
type:
example
text:
Not Your Average Travel Guide
type:
example
text:
Your man just bought a new car.
type:
example
text:
Have you seen what your one over there is doing?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.
That; the specified (usually used with a human referent)
senses_topics:
|
2996 | word:
your
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
your
forms:
wikipedia:
your
etymology_text:
From Middle English your, youre, ȝour, ȝoure, from Old English ēower, īower (“your”, plural), from Proto-West Germanic *iuwar, from Proto-Germanic *izweraz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian jou (“your”), Dutch jouw (“your”), German Low German jo, jos (“your”), German euer (“your”, plural), Danish jeres (“your”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of you're.
senses_topics:
|
2997 | word:
nominative case
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nominative case (plural nominative cases)
forms:
form:
nominative cases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
nominative case
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Every Verb, except in the Infinitive or the Participle, hath its Nominative Caſe, either expreſſed or implied [4]: as,
"Awake, ariſe, or be for ever fall'n: that is, "Awake ye, &c."
ref:
1763, Robert Lowth, A Short Introduction to English Grammar, page 133
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The case used to indicate the subject—or agent—of a finite verb.
The subject of a verb.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
2998 | word:
kiwi fruit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kiwi fruit (plural kiwi fruit)
forms:
form:
kiwi fruit
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Trade name used by exporters for one of several varieties selectively bred in New Zealand; named after the endemic New Zealand bird, the kiwi, because the fruit's fuzzy brown skin resembles the plumage of the bird. From Maori kiwi (“kiwi bird”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Chinese gooseberry vine fruit, having a hairy brown skin and dark green (or in the case of the kiwi fruit gold, yellow) flesh with fine black seeds, almost always varieties of Actinidia deliciosa.
senses_topics:
|
2999 | word:
yegg
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yegg (plural yeggs)
forms:
form:
yeggs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Origin unknown.
senses_examples:
text:
1904, Edwin S. Porter (director), Capture of the ‘Yegg’ Bank Burglars
text:
‘These racketeers are a new type. We think about them the way we think about old time yeggs or needled-up punks.’
ref:
1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 265
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who breaks open safes; a burglar.
senses_topics:
|
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