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3000 | word:
yegg
word_type:
verb
expansion:
yegg (third-person singular simple present yeggs, present participle yegging, simple past and past participle yegged)
forms:
form:
yeggs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
yegging
tags:
participle
present
form:
yegged
tags:
participle
past
form:
yegged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Origin unknown.
senses_examples:
text:
The bookmakers were yegged as they left the track in the era of the hand-books.
ref:
1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 10, in Diamonds Are Forever
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rob.
senses_topics:
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3001 | word:
president
word_type:
noun
expansion:
president (plural presidents, feminine presidentess)
forms:
form:
presidents
tags:
plural
form:
presidentess
tags:
feminine
wikipedia:
president
etymology_text:
From Old French president, from Latin praesidēns (“presiding over; president, leader”) (accusative: praesidentem). The Latin word is the substantivized present active participle of the verb praesideō (“preside over”). The verb is composed from prae (“before”) and sedeō (“sit”). The original meaning of the verb is 'to sit before' in the sense of presiding at a meeting. A secondary meaning of the verb is 'to command, to govern'. So praesidēns means 'the presiding one on a meeting' or 'governor, commander'.
senses_examples:
text:
Well, nobody else can make a decision but me because I was the President and the final decision comes to the President, you know. I used to have a sign on my desk that said, "The Buck Stops Here." The buck stops at the president's desk when he's president of the United States, and he either makes the decisions or he lets them go by default, and you can't afford to do that when you're president.
ref:
1965, Harry S. Truman, 0:20 from the start, in MP2002-401 Former President Truman Discusses "The Buck Stops Here", Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162
type:
quotation
text:
[…] to change the pattern of the last 220 years of only voting for a white male president, and elect a woman president […]
ref:
2007, Benjamin Camins, Hillary Is the Best Choice, Page 144
text:
The vast majority of presidents have been male.
type:
example
text:
The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;
The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President,[…]
ref:
1803, Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The head of state of a republic.
In presidential republics, the head of government and head of state.
Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position that is sometimes held by a different person.
A person presiding over a meeting; a chair, presiding officer, presider.
Obsolete form of precedent.
senses_topics:
|
3002 | word:
president
word_type:
adj
expansion:
president (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
president
etymology_text:
From Old French president, from Latin praesidēns (“presiding over; president, leader”) (accusative: praesidentem). The Latin word is the substantivized present active participle of the verb praesideō (“preside over”). The verb is composed from prae (“before”) and sedeō (“sit”). The original meaning of the verb is 'to sit before' in the sense of presiding at a meeting. A secondary meaning of the verb is 'to command, to govern'. So praesidēns means 'the presiding one on a meeting' or 'governor, commander'.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding.
senses_topics:
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3003 | word:
president
word_type:
verb
expansion:
president (third-person singular simple present presidents, present participle presidenting, simple past and past participle presidented)
forms:
form:
presidents
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
presidenting
tags:
participle
present
form:
presidented
tags:
participle
past
form:
presidented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
president
etymology_text:
From Old French president, from Latin praesidēns (“presiding over; president, leader”) (accusative: praesidentem). The Latin word is the substantivized present active participle of the verb praesideō (“preside over”). The verb is composed from prae (“before”) and sedeō (“sit”). The original meaning of the verb is 'to sit before' in the sense of presiding at a meeting. A secondary meaning of the verb is 'to command, to govern'. So praesidēns means 'the presiding one on a meeting' or 'governor, commander'.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act as president; to do presidential duties.
senses_topics:
|
3004 | word:
ordinal number
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ordinal number (plural ordinal numbers)
forms:
form:
ordinal numbers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ordinal number
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
First, second and third are the ordinal numbers corresponding to one, two and three.
type:
example
text:
In the expression a₃, the "3" is an ordinal number.
type:
example
text:
1950, Frederick Bagemihl (translator), Erich Kamke, Theory of Sets, Dover (Dover Phoenix), 2006, page 137,
For not only do the antinomies a) to e) disappear when we admit as elements of sets only such sets, ordinal numbers, and cardinal numbers as are bounded above by a fixed cardinal number, but we see also that paradoxes always arise if we collect into a set any sets, cardinal numbers, or ordinal numbers which are not bounded above by a fixed cardinal number.
text:
1960 [D. Van Nostrand], Paul R. Halmos, Naive Set Theory, 2017, Dover, Republication, page 80,
Is there a set that consists exactly of all the ordinal numbers? It is easy to see that the answer must be no. If there were such a set, then we could form the supremum of all ordinal numbers. That supremum would be an ordinal number greater than or equal to every ordinal number. Since, however, for each ordinal number there exists a strictly greater one (for example, its successor), this is impossible; it makes no sense to speak of the "set" of all ordinals.
text:
2009, Marek Kuczma, Attila Gilányi (editor), An Introduction to the Theory of Functional Equations and Inequalities, Springer (Birkhäuser), 2nd Edition, page 10,
If α is an ordinal number, then by definition any two well-ordered sets of type α are similar, i.e., there exists a one-to-one mapping from one set to the other. Consequently these sets have the same cardinality. Consequently to any ordinal number α we may assign a cardinal number, the common cardinality of all well-ordered sets of type α.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word that expresses the relative position of an item in a sequence.
A natural number used to denote position in a sequence.
Such a number generalised to correspond to any cardinal number (the size of some set); formally, the order type of some well-ordered set of some cardinality a, which represents an equivalence class of well-ordered sets (exactly those of cardinality a) under the equivalence relation "existence of an order-preserving bijection".
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
arithmetic
mathematics
sciences
set-theory |
3005 | word:
sausage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sausage (countable and uncountable, plural sausages)
forms:
form:
sausages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From late Middle English sawsiche, from Anglo-Norman sausiche (compare Norman saûciche), from Late Latin salsīcia (compare Sicilian sausizza, Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), feminine of salsīcius (“seasoned with salt”), derivative of Latin salsus (“salted”), from sal (“salt”). More at salt. Doublet of saucisse. See also Sicilian sausizza. Displaced native Old English mearh.
senses_examples:
text:
my little sausage
type:
example
text:
“Algernon, you silly sausage. Now you want to marry me? Don't you remember we were already engaged to be married, and then I broke it off with you?”
ref:
2019, Paullina Simons, Inexpressible Island (End of Forever)
type:
quotation
text:
There are loads of mazes, it's all really good fun and utterly addictive — so you should certainly consider adding this little sausage to your collection.
ref:
1991, Rich Pelley, "Tilt" (video game review) in Your Sinclair (issue 62, page 52)
text:
I got fired and I'm back on the sausage again.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing; a length of this food.
A sausage-shaped thing.
The penis.
A term of endearment.
A saucisse.
A dachshund; sausage dog.
Short for sausage roll (“the dole; unemployment”).
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
|
3006 | word:
sausage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sausage (third-person singular simple present sausages, present participle sausaging, simple past and past participle sausaged)
forms:
form:
sausages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sausaging
tags:
participle
present
form:
sausaged
tags:
participle
past
form:
sausaged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From late Middle English sawsiche, from Anglo-Norman sausiche (compare Norman saûciche), from Late Latin salsīcia (compare Sicilian sausizza, Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), feminine of salsīcius (“seasoned with salt”), derivative of Latin salsus (“salted”), from sal (“salt”). More at salt. Doublet of saucisse. See also Sicilian sausizza. Displaced native Old English mearh.
senses_examples:
text:
He leapt to his feet, carefully sausaged his screwdrivers in a roll beneath his arm and turned to reach into the box.
ref:
2009, Paul Kenyon, I Am Justice: A Journey Out of Africa, Preface Publishing, The Random House Group, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
Now it was my turn to whip my wrap off the ground. I quickly sausaged myself within it while simultaneously dusting sand off my arms and legs.
ref:
2011, Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer, Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
No longer able to wear white socks and slippers, she wore Tet Hose that sausaged her swollen feet and legs.
ref:
2012, Mary Elizabeth Moloney, Elizabeth: Learning to Dress Myself from the Inside Out, Heart Whisperings, page 253
type:
quotation
text:
Knit blankets sausaged their legs.
ref:
2012, Katrina Onstad, Everybody Has Everything, Emblem, McClelland & Stewart, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
In the top drawer were neatly piled thermals and socks sausaged into pairs.
ref:
2012, Emily Perkins, The Forrests, Bloomsbury Circus, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
Socks she sausaged like everyone else, but T-shirts she folded and stacked like a factory worker.
ref:
2015, Tyrone Geronimo Johnson, Welcome to Braggsville, William Morrow, pages 150–151
type:
quotation
text:
Filled to bursting with IV fluids, the skin on my hips is taut; it feels like I’ve sausaged myself into pantyhose five sizes too small.
ref:
2014 March/April, Caitlin Crawshaw, “The Other F-word”, in Briarpatch, volume 43, number 2, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Oh well, yes, I sausaged myself into the dark-blue wool—quite proper—and walked forever to the 21 Club where Dad was being tossed out—raging, whining—I hadn’t, I’ve told you already—seen him in years.
ref:
2015, Helen Wickes, World as You Left It: Poems, Sixteen Rivers Press, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
Dressing in a flash, she sausaged on her skinny jeans and sleeveless camo top with peek-a-boo sides for boob aficionados.
ref:
2016, Christopher Carr, Mayday, 2nd edition, SynergEbooks, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
In her arms, an infant sausaged inside a rolled cedar mat.
ref:
2017, Karen Polinsky, Dungeness, Fairfield, Calif.: Bink Books, Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
My soldier has pulled the maid’s apron from the mannequin in the larder, and sausaged his hairy thighs inside splitting the lace and seams, […]
ref:
2017, Kevin Shaw, Smaller Hours, Icehouse Poetry, Goose Lane Editions, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
There’s nothing worse than having cashed out the college fund so that Mom and Dad and Buddy and Sis can afford airfare to Wally World, only to find out that they are additionally facing bag fees and snack fees, and soon enough, there will likely be a fee to have the 350-pound man sausaged next to Sis in the middle seat keep his meaty elbows out of her ribcage.
ref:
2017 December 25, “The Scrapbook: A Surcharge on the Charge, Sir”, in The Weekly Standard, volume 23, number 16, page 2, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
There is no escaping the Limerick pig. In single file, in battalions, as solitary scout, alive or dead, baconed and sausaged, he dominates the town.
ref:
1904, M[ilburg] F[rancisco] Mansfield, B[lanche] McM[anus], Romantic Ireland, volume II, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
I mayn’t know much about pigs, but I know a lot about Muckley, and there must be something pretty wrong with any pigs that he wouldn’t risk sausaging.
ref:
1938, Dion Fortune, The Sea Priestess, York Beach, Me.: Samuel Weiser, Inc., published 1989, page 245
type:
quotation
text:
At butchering time, they kept three pigs for their own use, smoking, brining, and sausaging the meat, and trying the lard.
ref:
1965, Landmark, Waukesha County Historical Society, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
Long afterward Renate remembered “the pigs squeaking and jerking while coming down a funnel in which they were shorn…on their way to getting quartered and sausaged” and the elevator that “released one steer at a time” to be “greeted with a blow of a sledge hammer on his head.”
ref:
1987, Susan Quinn, A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney, Summit Books, Simon & Schuster, Inc., pages 246–247
type:
quotation
text:
The fresh meat was sausaged into the tripes of pig and deer and ox, because the time for salting was not yet come.
ref:
a. 1994, John James, edited by Caitlín Matthews and John Matthews, The Fourth Gwenevere, Jo Fletcher Books, Quercus Editions Ltd., published 2014, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
So I took the lot and had much of it custom-smoked, then I roasted, fried, grilled, sautéed, stir-fried, stewed, braised, and sausaged the rest.
ref:
1992 September, Leslie Land, “High on the Hog”, in House & Garden, volume 164, number 9, page 62, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
The second Mrs. Teague wore a baby blue tank top and too-tight white shorts that sausaged her hips.
ref:
2001, Jonathan Kellerman, Flesh and Blood, New York, N.Y.: Random House, page 226
type:
quotation
text:
Blood and gravity had sausaged her legs and feet, fattening them into white-stocking loaves that dangled eighteen inches above her neatly folded nurse’s uniform on the floor.
ref:
2007, Joe Schreiber, Eat the Dark, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey/Ballantine Books, page 108
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To squeeze tightly into something.
To make into sausage.
To make sausage-like, especially to give the appearance of barely fitting into the casing or skin.
To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
3007 | word:
cast
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cast (third-person singular simple present casts, present participle casting, simple past and past participle cast or (nonstandard) casted)
forms:
form:
casts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
casting
tags:
participle
present
form:
cast
tags:
participle
past
form:
cast
tags:
past
form:
casted
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
casted
tags:
nonstandard
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
cast
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
cast
etymology_text:
From Middle English casten, from Old Norse kasta (“to throw, cast, overturn”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), of unknown origin.
Cognate with Scots cast (“to cast, throw”), Danish kaste (“to throw”), Swedish kasta (“to throw, cast, fling, toss, discard”), Icelandic kasta (“to pitch, toss”). In the sense of "flinging", displaced native warp.
The senses relating to broadcasting are based on that same term; compare -cast.
senses_examples:
text:
Near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Madman, co-pilot and plane were caught in a storm, cast into the Caribbean, drowned.
ref:
1930 December 19, “Sidar the Madman”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
Her bow is not to her liking. In a temper, she casts it on the grass.
ref:
2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 316
type:
quotation
text:
when the serjeant saw me, he cast his coat and put it on me, and they carried me on their shoulders to a village where the wounded were and our surgeons[…].
ref:
1822, “Life of Donald McBane”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 12, page 745
type:
quotation
text:
You know the saying, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out"? Well, personally, I'm bored of my winter clothes by March.
ref:
2002 March 2, Jess Cartner-Morley, “How to Wear Clothes”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Kenett states that the military works still known by the name of Tadmarten Camp and Hook-Norton Barrow were cast up at this time ; the former, large and round, is judged to be a fortification of the Danes, and the latter, being smaller and rather a quinquangle than a square, of the Saxons.
ref:
1881, John Kirby Hedges, The history of Wallingford, volume 1, page 170
type:
quotation
text:
1695 (first published), 1726 (final dated of publication) John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies
This […] casts a sulphurous smell.
text:
This horned bird, as it casts a strong smell, so it hath a foul look, much exceeding the European Raven in bigness
ref:
1849, Philip Henry Gosse, Natural History
type:
quotation
text:
But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.
ref:
1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
type:
quotation
text:
They cast it up and found it agreed with the printed balance-sheet.
ref:
1859, David Morier Evans, “The Royal British Bank—Its Suspension and General Mismanagement”, in Facts, Failures and Frauds, London: Groombridge & Sons, page 337
type:
quotation
text:
Obtain an aged list of accounts receivable balances at the financial year end and use CAATs to cast and cross-cast the schedule and agree the total to the general ledger control account for accounts receivable.
ref:
2007, George Puttick, Sandy van Esch, “Auditing Revenue Transactions and Balances”, in The Principles and Practice of Auditing, page 637
type:
quotation
text:
Obtain a list of individual customers with balances outstanding at the year end, cast this and agree it to the trade receivables account.
ref:
2023, “Procedures”, in Audit and Assurance, Kaplan Financial Limited, page 354
type:
quotation
text:
he is […] a perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use.
ref:
, vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.309
text:
John Gadbury confessed that Mrs Cellier, ‘the Popish Midwife’, had asked him to cast the King's nativity, although the astrology claimed to have refused to do so.
ref:
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 332
type:
quotation
text:
He did the washing up and stayed behind to watch the dinner cook while she hopped off with a friend to have her horoscope cast by another friend.
ref:
1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p.1197
text:
[...] for the quene had cast to haue ben ageyne with kyng Arthur at the ferthest by ten of the clok / and soo was that tyme her purpoos.
[...] "for the queen had cast to have been again with King Arthur at the furthest by ten of the clock, and so was that time her purpose."
ref:
1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XIX, Chapter i leaf 386v
type:
quotation
text:
The cloister[…]had, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house].
ref:
1685, William Temple, "Upon the Gardens of Epicurus
type:
quotation
text:
The director cast the part carefully.
type:
example
text:
The director cast John Smith as King Lear.
type:
example
text:
King John cast his predecessor in a negative light to deflect criticism of his own questionable decisions.
type:
example
text:
to cast about for reasons
type:
example
text:
to be cast in damages
type:
example
text:
She was cast to be hanged.
ref:
1822, John Galt, The Provost
type:
quotation
text:
a casting voice
type:
example
text:
24 July, 1659, Robert South, Interest Deposed, and Truth Restored
How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!
text:
Sorcery is not the exclusive prerogative of the fetish-man, but is practised haphazardly by anyone who wishes to cast a spell upon another.
ref:
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178
type:
quotation
text:
The threat of Russian barbarism sweeping over the free world will cast its ominous shadow over us for many, many years.
ref:
1950 April 24, “A Global View”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
A sudden thought cast a gloom over his countenance.
ref:
1960, Lawrence Durrell, Clea
type:
quotation
text:
The Poet and the Painter
Casting shadows on the water
As the sun plays on the infantry
Returning from the sea.
ref:
1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull
type:
quotation
text:
being with childe, they may without feare of accusation, spoyle and cast [translating avorter] their children, with certaine medicaments, which they have only for that purpose.
ref:
, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.98
text:
One copy of the magnificent caveman, The Thinker, of which Rodin cast several examples in bronze, is seated now in front of the Detroit Museum of Art, where it was placed last autumn.
ref:
1923 March 24, “Rodin's Death”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
The practice of casting steel seems the most difficult of all the foundry arts, for despite every care, a percentage of the work is liable to be faulty and disappointing, but at Crewe, generally, a very good class of casting was turned out.
ref:
1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343
type:
quotation
text:
Stuff is said to cast or warp when[…]it alters its flatness or straightness.
ref:
c. 1680, Joseph Moxon, The Art of Joinery
type:
quotation
text:
To display a number, you need to cast it to a string type.
type:
example
text:
He clambered on to an apron of rock that held its area out to the sun and began to cast across it. The direction of the wind changed and the scent touched him again.
ref:
1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
The streamer was the first to cast footage of the new game.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move, or be moved, away.
To throw.
To move, or be moved, away.
To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.
To move, or be moved, away.
To throw down or aside.
To move, or be moved, away.
To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.
To move, or be moved, away.
To remove, take off (clothes).
To move, or be moved, away.
To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
To move, or be moved, away.
To vomit.
To move, or be moved, away.
To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
To move, or be moved, away.
To throw out or emit; to exhale.
To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
To predict, to decide, to plan.
To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).
To predict, to decide, to plan.
To plan, intend.
To predict, to decide, to plan.
To assign (a role in a play or performance).
To predict, to decide, to plan.
To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).
To predict, to decide, to plan.
To describe in an opinionated way. Mostly used with a metaphor involving light.
To predict, to decide, to plan.
To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.
To predict, to decide, to plan.
To impose; to bestow; to rest.
To predict, to decide, to plan.
To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.
To predict, to decide, to plan.
To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.
To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
To stereotype or electrotype.
To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.
To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
To broadcast (video) over the Internet or a local network, especially to one's television.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
media
printing
publishing
nautical
transport
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
Wicca
lifestyle
religion
media |
3008 | word:
cast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cast (plural casts)
forms:
form:
casts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cast
etymology_text:
From Middle English casten, from Old Norse kasta (“to throw, cast, overturn”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), of unknown origin.
Cognate with Scots cast (“to cast, throw”), Danish kaste (“to throw”), Swedish kasta (“to throw, cast, fling, toss, discard”), Icelandic kasta (“to pitch, toss”). In the sense of "flinging", displaced native warp.
The senses relating to broadcasting are based on that same term; compare -cast.
senses_examples:
text:
I went out on the timber boom and made a few casts, but with little success.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 152
type:
quotation
text:
The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts.
type:
example
text:
He’s in the cast of Oliver.
type:
example
text:
The cast was praised for a fine performance.
type:
example
text:
The men got into position for the cast, two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.
type:
example
text:
The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.
type:
example
text:
The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.
type:
example
text:
A plaster cast was made from his face.
type:
example
text:
Louis XIV was keen, employing a total hawking personnel of 175 and adding a fourth cast of gyrfalcons to hunt hares in 1682 […].
ref:
2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2013, page 395
type:
quotation
text:
The image of the affected eye is clearer and in consequence the diplopy more striking the less the cast of the eye; hence the double vision will be noticed by the patient before the misdirection of the eye attracts the attention of those about him.
ref:
1847, John Churchill, A manual of the principles and practice of ophthalmic medicine and surgery, p. 389, paragraph 1968
text:
Arriving in Brittany, the Woodville exiles found a sallow young man, with dark hair curled in the shoulder-length fashion of the time and a penchant for expensively dyed black clothes, whose steady gaze was made more disconcerting by a cast in his left eye – such that while one eye looked at you, the other searched for you.
ref:
2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Her features had a delicate cast to them.
type:
example
text:
Using a tungsten-balanced film outdoors results in a blue cast to the photo.
ref:
2004, Betsy Brill, Photojournalism: The Professional's Approach, page 240
type:
quotation
text:
He stared down at his champagne glass with narrowed eyes and a hard cast to his mouth.
ref:
2007, Lindsay Armstrong, The Australian's Housekeeper Bride, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
The cast of mind which prompted the plan was permanent, and in it are to be found both the strength and the weakness of Petty's character.
ref:
1894, Wilson Lloyd Bevan, Sir William Petty : A Study in English Economic Literature, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
I have read all her articles and come to admire both her elegant turn of phrase and the noble cast of mind which inspires it; but never, I confess, did I look to see beauty and wit so perfectly united.
ref:
1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 330
type:
quotation
text:
The brahmin's cast is higher than any other cast.
ref:
1821, Report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, volumes 12-16, page 160
type:
quotation
text:
Cast is the measurement of the central line of the gun and the stock’s butt. If the butt is tilted slightly to the left of the central line, it’s called “cast on.” If the butt is tilted slightly to the right of the central line, it’s called “cast off.”
ref:
Savage Arms, "THE PERFECT SHOTGUN FIT," 2021
text:
The superiors rode în a spring-van, and the rest in the wagon, while I walked the whole distance. None of them had the civility to give me a cast forward on either vehicle, […]
ref:
1852, Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, volumes 17-18, page 398
type:
quotation
text:
boatman, just give us a cast over to the other side of the water.
ref:
1882, Sir James William Redhouse, The Turkish Vade-Mecum of Ottoman Colloquial Language, page 328
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of throwing.
An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
The casting procedure.
An object made in a mould.
A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
The mould used to make cast objects.
The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
A squint.
Visual appearance.
The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
Obsolete form of caste (“hereditary social class of South Asia”).
Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
A group of crabs.
The measurement of the angle of a shotgun stock from a top-view center line, used to align the shotgun to the shooter's eye.
A chance or attempt at something.
Assistance given by transporting a person or lightening their labour.
senses_topics:
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
falconry
hawking
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
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3009 | word:
cast
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cast (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
cast
etymology_text:
From Middle English casten, from Old Norse kasta (“to throw, cast, overturn”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), of unknown origin.
Cognate with Scots cast (“to cast, throw”), Danish kaste (“to throw”), Swedish kasta (“to throw, cast, fling, toss, discard”), Icelandic kasta (“to pitch, toss”). In the sense of "flinging", displaced native warp.
The senses relating to broadcasting are based on that same term; compare -cast.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of an animal, such as a horse or sheep: Lying in a position from which it cannot rise on its own.
senses_topics:
|
3010 | word:
poison
word_type:
noun
expansion:
poison (countable and uncountable, plural poisons)
forms:
form:
poisons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English poisoun, poyson, poysone, puyson, puisun, from Old French poison, poisun, from Latin pōtio, pōtiōnis (“drink, a draught, a poisonous draught, a potion”), from pōtō (“I drink”). See also potion and potable (from the same root).
Mostly displaced native Old English ātor (see atter).
senses_examples:
text:
We used a poison to kill the weeds.
type:
example
text:
Gossip is a malicious poison.
type:
example
text:
— What's your poison?
text:
— I'll have a glass of whiskey.
text:
The temperature effect of poisons. The influence of poison on the catalyst can be different with the change of reaction conditions.
ref:
2013, Huazhang Liu, Ammonia Synthesis Catalysts: Innovation and Practice, page 693
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.
Anything harmful to a person or thing.
An intoxicating drink; a liquor. (Mainly in the phrases "name your poison" and "what's your poison ?")
Any substance that inhibits catalytic activity.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
3011 | word:
poison
word_type:
verb
expansion:
poison (third-person singular simple present poisons, present participle poisoning, simple past and past participle poisoned)
forms:
form:
poisons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
poisoning
tags:
participle
present
form:
poisoned
tags:
participle
past
form:
poisoned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English poisoun, poyson, poysone, puyson, puisun, from Old French poison, poisun, from Latin pōtio, pōtiōnis (“drink, a draught, a poisonous draught, a potion”), from pōtō (“I drink”). See also potion and potable (from the same root).
Mostly displaced native Old English ātor (see atter).
senses_examples:
text:
The assassin poisoned the king.
type:
example
text:
That factory is poisoning the river.
type:
example
text:
Suspicion will poison their relationship.
type:
example
text:
He poisoned the mood in the room with his non-stop criticism.
type:
example
text:
She's poisoned him against all his old friends.
type:
example
text:
In this technique, the hacker poisons the cache to launch malware into Web pages.
ref:
2013, Ronald L. Mendell, Investigating Information-based Crimes, page 93
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody).
To pollute; to cause to become poisonous.
To cause to become much worse.
To cause (someone) to hate or to have unfair negative opinions.
To inhibit the catalytic activity of.
To place false information into (a cache) as part of an exploit.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
3012 | word:
cow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cow (countable and uncountable, plural cows or cattle or kine)
forms:
form:
cows
tags:
plural
form:
cattle
tags:
plural
form:
kine
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:cow
en:cow (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English cou, cu, from Old English cū (“cow”), from Proto-West Germanic *kō, from Proto-Germanic *kōz (“cow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cow”).
Cognate with Sanskrit गौ (gow), Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs), Persian گاو (gâv)), Latvian govs (“cow”), Proto-Slavic *govędo (Serbo-Croatian govedo, Russian говядина (govjadina) ("beef")), Scots coo (“cow”), North Frisian ko, kø (“cow”), West Frisian ko (“cow”), Dutch koe (“cow”), Low German Koh, Koo, Kau (“cow”), German Kuh (“cow”), Swedish ko (“cow”), Norwegian ku (“cow”), Icelandic kýr (“cow”), Latin bōs (“ox, bull, cow”), Armenian կով (kov, “cow”). Doublet of beef.
The plural kine is from Middle English kyne, kyn, kuin, kiin, kien (“cows”), either a double plural of Middle English ky, kye (“cows”), equivalent to modern kye + -en, or inherited from Old English cȳna (“cows', of cows”), genitive plural of cū (“cow”).
senses_examples:
text:
The whole herd is out to pasture right now — the cows, calves, and heifers are out back, and the bulls are down by the creek.
type:
example
text:
We saw lots of cows at the farm show, including some surprisingly gigantic bulls.
type:
example
text:
The only meat I eat is cow.
type:
example
text:
Greville Preston: You've been set up, you silly cow. Now, don't let me hear any more about this unless you have absolute stand-up-in-court proof it's kosher...
Mattie Storin: Pig.
ref:
1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 2
type:
quotation
text:
By the time of my third, five months ago, I was a right bossy cow about what I wanted because I knew the drill. For reasons I shan’t bore you with, I got them to induce me at 39 weeks, at 10am, with the epidural going in first, and it was all a dream.
ref:
2014 December 5, Marina Hyde, “Childbirth is as awful as it is magical, thanks to our postnatal ‘care’”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: dog
text:
Colonel Red Reeder, West Point Second Classman
An assistant manager, wearing the stripes of a cadet corporal, walked up to Coach Smith. Clint knew him, a Cow from B-l. What had he done to become so outstanding that the Tacs made him a corporal?
text:
When I was a cow (junior) at West Point, I dated a plebe (freshman), which is considered fraternization in the cadet realm.
ref:
2023, James E Parco, David A Levy, Daphne DePorres, Attitudes Aren't Free: A Call to Action, page 242
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved.
Any member of the species Bos taurus regardless of sex or age, including bulls and calves.
Beef: the meat of cattle as food.
Any bovines or bovids generally, including yaks, buffalo, etc.
A female member of other large species of mammal, including the bovines, moose, whales, seals, hippos, rhinos, manatees, and elephants.
A woman considered unpleasant in some way, particularly one considered nasty, stupid, fat, lazy, or difficult.
A chock: a wedge or brake used to stop a machine or car.
A third-year cadet at West Point.
A fish that is very large for its species, such as a large striped bass or large bluefin tuna.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
business
mining
government
military
politics
war
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle |
3013 | word:
cow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cow (third-person singular simple present cows, present participle cowing, simple past and past participle cowed)
forms:
form:
cows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
cowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
cowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:cow (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Probably from Old Norse kúga (“to oppress”) (whence also Norwegian and Danish kue, Swedish kuva); compare Icelandic kúfa (“to set on top”) and Faroese kúga (“to oppress”).
senses_examples:
text:
Con artists are not cowed by the law.
type:
example
text:
Emily looked across at the girl. Large, steady, purplish-grey eyes gazed into beady, twinkling, black ones—gazed unquailingly—with something in them that cowed and compelled. The black eyes wavered and fell, their owner covering her retreat with another giggle and toss of her short braid of hair.
ref:
1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To intimidate; to daunt the spirits or courage of.
senses_topics:
|
3014 | word:
cow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cow (plural cows)
forms:
form:
cows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:cow (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Who could live to gaze from day to day on bricks and slates, who had once felt the influence of a scene like this? Who could continue to exist, where there are no cows but the cows on the chimneypots; nothing redolent of Pan but pan-tiles; […]
ref:
1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chimney cowl.
senses_topics:
|
3015 | word:
cow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cow (plural cows)
forms:
form:
cows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:AT2018cow
en:cow (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Clipping of AT2018cow. From the name of the archetypal event, AT2018cow, an LFBOT. From being an astronomical transient (AT) occurring in 2018, with an automatically assigned code to distinguish it from other events in 2018.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
LFBOT: Synonym of luminous fast blue optical transient
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences |
3016 | word:
duenna
word_type:
noun
expansion:
duenna (plural duennas)
forms:
form:
duennas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old Spanish duenna or dueña, from Vulgar Latin donna, from Latin domina (“Lady”). Doublet of dame.
senses_examples:
text:
Then he placed her in a house and shut her up in a chamber, appointing ten old women as duennas to guard her, and forbade her to go forth to the Seven Palaces.
ref:
1949, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a chaperon of a young lady, usually an older woman.
a governess or nanny.
senses_topics:
|
3017 | word:
BX
word_type:
noun
expansion:
BX (plural BXes)
forms:
form:
BXes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:BX
etymology_text:
Abbreviation
senses_examples:
text:
Despite the reduced price of goods at the BX, everything is of high quality.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of base exchange. The U.S. Air Force's Base Exchange
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
3018 | word:
BX
word_type:
noun
expansion:
BX
forms:
wikipedia:
en:BX
etymology_text:
Former trademark of General Electric Company.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flexible, metal-armored electrical cable.
senses_topics:
|
3019 | word:
handsome
word_type:
adj
expansion:
handsome (comparative more handsome or handsomer, superlative most handsome or handsomest)
forms:
form:
more handsome
tags:
comparative
form:
handsomer
tags:
comparative
form:
most handsome
tags:
superlative
form:
handsomest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English handsum, hondsom, equivalent to hand + -some. Compare Dutch handzaam, German Low German handsaam. The original sense was ‘easy to handle or use’, hence ‘suitable’ and ‘apt, clever’ (mid 16th century), giving rise to the current appreciatory senses (late 16th century).
senses_examples:
text:
I was struck dumb. Here was the most handsome man I’d ever seen in my life coming out of the surf.
type:
example
text:
She was either handsome or her uniform created a flattering effect but—being very nearsighted—he couldn't tell from this distance.
type:
example
text:
That is one handsome tree you've got there.
type:
example
text:
On the opposite side of the street, on the corner, is the city hall, a very handsome building of brick and stone.
ref:
1916, On H.R. 4683, site for post-office building at Chicago, Ill, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.
ref:
1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories, Project Gutenberg, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
Often, human mortals describe their visits to the Tuatha's [places] in similar terms: they were great bright places, occupied by exceedingly handsome men and women, that sported wonderful crystal chairs, inexhaustible supplies of mead or ale ...
ref:
2006, Richard Leviton, The Gods in Their Cities, iUniverse, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
Sunday, the sixth, we heaved up our sheet-anchor again, the day beginning with little wind, and continued handsome weather till eight at night, when the wind came to S. S. W. and it fell a snowing.
ref:
1808, John Pinkerton, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, page 513
type:
quotation
text:
The story goes that James Whitcomb Riley, the poet, on a beautiful spring day, in making his way from his home to his office, was accosted by numerous friends on the way who were exclaiming most extravagantly on the beauty of the day. It was "Good morning, Mr. Riley, a fine day;" "Good morning, Mr. Riley, […] a handsome day;" […].
ref:
1911, Farm Chemicals, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
a handsome style
type:
example
text:
Easiness and handsome address in writing.
ref:
1713, Henry Felton, A Dissertation on Reading the Classics and Forming a Just Style
type:
quotation
text:
City have lapped up the plaudits this season for a series of handsome wins but manager Roberto Mancini has demanded that his side also learn to grind out results when they do not play well. He now has an example to point to.
ref:
2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
a handsome salary
type:
example
text:
He […] accumulated a handsome sum of money.
ref:
1779, Vicesimus Knox, Essays Moral and Literary
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive
Of a man or boy: attractively manly, having a pleasing face and overall effect.
Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive
Of a woman: statuesque, beautiful in a masculine or otherwise imposing way.
Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly
Good, appealing, appropriate.
Fine, clear and bright.
Good, appealing, appropriate.
Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; appropriate.
Good, appealing, appropriate.
Generous or noble in character.
Ample; moderately large.
Of people and things: dexterous; skillful.
senses_topics:
|
3020 | word:
handsome
word_type:
verb
expansion:
handsome (third-person singular simple present handsomes, present participle handsoming, simple past and past participle handsomed)
forms:
form:
handsomes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
handsoming
tags:
participle
present
form:
handsomed
tags:
participle
past
form:
handsomed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English handsum, hondsom, equivalent to hand + -some. Compare Dutch handzaam, German Low German handsaam. The original sense was ‘easy to handle or use’, hence ‘suitable’ and ‘apt, clever’ (mid 16th century), giving rise to the current appreciatory senses (late 16th century).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To render handsome.
senses_topics:
|
3021 | word:
Hungarian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Hungarian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Hungarian
etymology_text:
From Hungary + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
The Hungarian prefix used in this book for a GroupBox control is “grp”.
ref:
2009, Michael Ekedahl, Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic 2008
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to present-day Hungary, the ethnic Hungarian people or the Hungarian language.
Of, from, or pertaining to the Kingdom of Hungary, during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, regardless of ethnicity.
Of or relating to Hungarian notation.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
3022 | word:
Hungarian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Hungarian (countable and uncountable, plural Hungarians)
forms:
form:
Hungarians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Hungarian
etymology_text:
From Hungary + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
The qualifier is the descriptive part of the name that would probably make up the entire name if you weren't using Hungarian.
ref:
1993, Steve McConnell, Code Complete
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from present-day Hungary or of ethnic Hungarian descent.
A person from the former Kingdom of Hungary, during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, regardless of that person's ethnicity.
The main language of Hungary.
Hungarian notation.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
3023 | word:
one eighty out
word_type:
adj
expansion:
one eighty out
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I read you loud and clear but it's still 180-out.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
incorrect; false
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
3024 | word:
floor exercise
word_type:
noun
expansion:
floor exercise (plural floor exercises)
forms:
form:
floor exercises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A performance on a mat-covered floor using no apparatus.
senses_topics:
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
3025 | word:
myriad
word_type:
noun
expansion:
myriad (plural myriads)
forms:
form:
myriads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
myriad
etymology_text:
From French myriade, from Late Latin mȳriadem (accusative of mȳrias), from Ancient Greek μυριάς (muriás, “number of 10,000”), from μυρίος (muríos, “numberless, countless, infinite”).
senses_examples:
text:
Earth hosts a myriad of animals.
type:
example
text:
I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, / And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, / I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war, […]
ref:
1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems
type:
quotation
text:
How far he surpassed them all may be felt if we remember that no Scythian, although the Scythians are reckoned by their myriads, has ever succeeded in dominating a foreign nation ...
ref:
1914, Henry Graham Dakyns, Xenophon, Cyropaedia, Book I
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ten thousand; 10,000
A countless number or multitude (of specified things)
senses_topics:
|
3026 | word:
myriad
word_type:
adj
expansion:
myriad (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
myriad
etymology_text:
From French myriade, from Late Latin mȳriadem (accusative of mȳrias), from Ancient Greek μυριάς (muriás, “number of 10,000”), from μυρίος (muríos, “numberless, countless, infinite”).
senses_examples:
text:
one night he would be singing at the barred window and yelling down out of the soft myriad darkness of a May night; the next night he would be gone [...].
ref:
1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
"As a clinician, it's a difficult symptom to treat," Cornelius said. "The end symptom may be the same, but what's causing it may be myriad."
ref:
2011 April 6–19, Kara Krekeler, "Researchers at Washington U. have 'itch' to cure problem", West End Word, 40 (7), p. 8
text:
Earth hosts myriad animals.
type:
example
text:
Driven by a perceived political need to adopt a hard-line stance, Mr. Cameron’s coalition government has imposed myriad new restrictions, the aim of which is to reduce net migration to Britain to below 100,000.
ref:
2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-09-28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Multifaceted, having innumerable elements
Great in number; innumerable, multitudinous
senses_topics:
|
3027 | word:
pom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pom (plural poms)
forms:
form:
poms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Alternative words for British
etymology_text:
A clipping of pomegranate. In reference to the British, first attested in Australia in 1912 as rhyming slang for immigrant with additional reference to the likelihood of sunburn turning their skin pomegranate red. As a cocktail, originally American.
senses_examples:
text:
I could see more than mere humour in car stickers that read ‘Grow your own Dope: Plant a Pom’ ... ‘Keep Australia Beautiful: Shoot a Pom’.
ref:
1987, Linda Christmas, The Ribbon and the Ragged Square: An Australian Journey, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
The prize for being Australia′s original pom goes to the enterprising pirate William Dampier, who made the first investigations ashore about 40 years after Tasman and nearly 100 years before Cook.
ref:
1989, Tony Wheeler, Australia: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
At one stage a group called British People Against Racial Discrimination complained to the Advertising Standards Board in Australia about an advert for Tooheys beer that claimed it was ‘cold enough to scare a Pom’.
ref:
2008, Lawrence Booth, Cricket, Lovely Cricket?, page 214
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Englishman; a Briton; a person of British descent.
A cocktail containing pomegranate juice and vodka.
senses_topics:
|
3028 | word:
Amy
word_type:
name
expansion:
Amy (plural Amys)
forms:
form:
Amys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Anglicized form of Old French Amee,
which was both a nickname and a form of the Latin name Amata (“beloved”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Dame Anne Dudley, mentioned in a contemporary record, was Leicester's first wife, the unfortunate Amy Robsart. It may be noticed, in passing, that the name Amy - presuming that it occurs in contemporary manuscripts of authority - is an extremely rare one. It is obvious how easily the name Aime might be read for Anne.
ref:
1886, Hubert Hall, Society in the Elizabethan Age, Kessinger Publishing, published 2003, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
As a child, Amy could have been drawn by Millais, if he was inclined - the name Amy is deceptively apt - but though the plumpness remains, not much but some, the ringlets have gone to be replaced by curls of the colour of cinnamon.
ref:
1975, Derek Marlowe, Nightshade, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
As Amy had been baptized Amelia (but always called Amy) after her mother, now her daughter, too, was baptized Amelia.
ref:
1999, Susan Butler, Lawrence Butler, East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart., page 5
type:
quotation
text:
When I remained alive, they named me Amy, because it was a regular girl's name, a popular girl's name, a name a thousand other baby girls were given that year, so maybe the gods wouldn't notice this little baby nestled among the others.
ref:
2012, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Phoenix, published 2013, page 249
type:
quotation
text:
[...] Mr. John W. Amy, landlord of the "Cross Keys" at Arnold, Nottingham.
ref:
1959 October, “Talking of Trains: Landlord hires a diesel”, in Trains Illustrated, page 460
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female given name from Latin
A surname.
senses_topics:
|
3029 | word:
buy
word_type:
verb
expansion:
buy (third-person singular simple present buys, present participle buying, simple past bought, past participle bought or (archaic, rare, dialectal) boughten)
forms:
form:
buys
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
buying
tags:
participle
present
form:
bought
tags:
past
form:
bought
tags:
participle
past
form:
boughten
tags:
archaic
dialectal
participle
past
rare
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
buy
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English byen, from Old English bycġan (“to buy, pay for, acquire, redeem, ransom, procure, get done, sell”), from Proto-West Germanic *buggjan, from Proto-Germanic *bugjaną (“to buy”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”), or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to take away, deliver”).
Cognate with Scots buy (“to buy, purchase”), obsolete Dutch beugen (“to buy”), Old Saxon buggian, buggean (“to buy”), Old Norse byggja (“to build, settle”), Gothic 𐌱𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bugjan, “to buy”). The spelling with “u” is from the Southwest, while the pronunciation with /aɪ/ is from the East Midlands.
senses_examples:
text:
I'm going to buy my father something nice for his birthday.
type:
example
text:
Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries.
ref:
1793, Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography
type:
quotation
text:
I've bought material comfort by foregoing my dreams.
type:
example
text:
You just bought yourself an assault charge!
type:
example
text:
He tried to buy me with gifts, but I wouldn't give up my beliefs.
type:
example
text:
The dollar doesn't buy as much as it used to.
type:
example
text:
I'm not going to buy your stupid excuses anymore!
type:
example
text:
People like to say that dead people look asleep, and maybe she would have bought that under different circumstances.
ref:
2020, Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji, Faber & Faber Ltd, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
She buys for Federated.
type:
example
text:
Let's go out for dinner. I'm buying.
type:
example
text:
Smith tried to buy the pot on the river with a huge bluff
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.
To obtain, especially by some sacrifice.
To suffer consequences for (something) through being deprived of something; to pay for (something one has done).
To bribe.
To be equivalent to in value.
to accept as true; to believe
To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a drink, meal or gift)
To make a bluff, usually a large one.
senses_topics:
card-games
poker |
3030 | word:
buy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
buy (plural buys)
forms:
form:
buys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English byen, from Old English bycġan (“to buy, pay for, acquire, redeem, ransom, procure, get done, sell”), from Proto-West Germanic *buggjan, from Proto-Germanic *bugjaną (“to buy”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”), or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to take away, deliver”).
Cognate with Scots buy (“to buy, purchase”), obsolete Dutch beugen (“to buy”), Old Saxon buggian, buggean (“to buy”), Old Norse byggja (“to build, settle”), Gothic 𐌱𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bugjan, “to buy”). The spelling with “u” is from the Southwest, while the pronunciation with /aɪ/ is from the East Midlands.
senses_examples:
text:
At only $30, the second-hand kitchen table was a great buy.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something which is bought; a purchase.
senses_topics:
|
3031 | word:
xylophone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
xylophone (plural xylophones)
forms:
form:
xylophones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
xylophone
etymology_text:
From xylo- (“of wood”) + -phone (“sound”).
senses_examples:
text:
All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
3032 | word:
xylophone
word_type:
verb
expansion:
xylophone (third-person singular simple present xylophones, present participle xylophoning, simple past and past participle xylophoned)
forms:
form:
xylophones
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
xylophoning
tags:
participle
present
form:
xylophoned
tags:
participle
past
form:
xylophoned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
xylophone
etymology_text:
From xylo- (“of wood”) + -phone (“sound”).
senses_examples:
text:
my eager fingers xylophoning over the memories
ref:
2002, Amu Nnadi, The Fire Within: Poetry : Includes the Abiola Manuscript
type:
quotation
text:
Like a cat, I arch into the back of the bench, my spine xylophoning along the slats while the tension of the day slowly drains out of me. I'm totally chill and mellow.
ref:
2010 October 26, Barrie Summy, I So Don't Do Spooky, Yearling, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
The others waged active war, claws xylophoning across Jack's pinwheeling swords.
ref:
2015 July 7, Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus, Trollhunters: The Book That Inspired the Netflix Animated Series TROLLHUNTERS!, Disney Electronic Content
type:
quotation
text:
His right hand, the good one, found one of Glass's ankles, pulled. Glass fell, her ulna, clavicle, pevis, and kneecap xylophoning along stair edges.
ref:
2020 August 4, George A. Romero, Daniel Kraus, The Living Dead, Tor Books
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
To move above a ridged surface or series of surfaces so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.
senses_topics:
|
3033 | word:
four one one
word_type:
noun
expansion:
four one one (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The number 411 dialed in North America reaches directory assistance.
senses_examples:
text:
Can you give me the four one one on their next concert?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
information
senses_topics:
|
3034 | word:
four oh four
word_type:
noun
expansion:
four oh four (plural four oh fours)
forms:
form:
four oh fours
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the Internet HTTP error code 404 (Not Found).
senses_examples:
text:
Yup, clueless in Seattle, a 404 if I ever saw one.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a naive or clueless person.
senses_topics:
|
3035 | word:
fifty six
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fifty six (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Among policemen, "time off from work."
senses_topics:
|
3036 | word:
symbol
word_type:
noun
expansion:
symbol (plural symbols)
forms:
form:
symbols
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Symbol (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From French symbole, from Latin symbolus, symbolum (“a sign, mark, token, symbol, in Late Latin also a creed”), from Ancient Greek σύμβολον (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”), from συμβάλλω (sumbállō, “I throw together, dash together, compare, correspond, tally, come to a conclusion”), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw, put”).
senses_examples:
text:
"$" is the symbol for dollars in the US and some other countries.
type:
example
text:
Chinese people use word symbols for writing.
type:
example
text:
The lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience.
type:
example
text:
The Apostles, Nicene Creed and the confessional books of Protestantism, such as the Augsburg Confession of Lutheranism are considered symbols.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
A thing considered the embodiment or cardinal exemplar of a concept, theme, or other thing.
A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index.
A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith.
The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes.
That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
Share; allotment.
An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code.
A signalling event on a communications channel; a signal that cannot be further divided into meaningful information.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications |
3037 | word:
symbol
word_type:
verb
expansion:
symbol (third-person singular simple present symbols, present participle symboling or symbolling, simple past and past participle symboled or symbolled)
forms:
form:
symbols
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
symboling
tags:
participle
present
form:
symbolling
tags:
participle
present
form:
symboled
tags:
participle
past
form:
symboled
tags:
past
form:
symbolled
tags:
participle
past
form:
symbolled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Symbol (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From French symbole, from Latin symbolus, symbolum (“a sign, mark, token, symbol, in Late Latin also a creed”), from Ancient Greek σύμβολον (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”), from συμβάλλω (sumbállō, “I throw together, dash together, compare, correspond, tally, come to a conclusion”), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw, put”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To symbolize.
senses_topics:
|
3038 | word:
yanqui
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yanqui (plural yanquis)
forms:
form:
yanquis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish, in turn from English Yankee, from Dutch (see more at said entry). Dated to 1914.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A citizen of the United States of America, as opposed to a Latin American.
senses_topics:
|
3039 | word:
bit of crumpet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bit of crumpet (plural bits of crumpet)
forms:
form:
bits of crumpet
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
She's a bit of crumpet, that one.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A very sexually desirable woman.
senses_topics:
|
3040 | word:
give
word_type:
verb
expansion:
give (third-person singular simple present gives, present participle giving, simple past gave, past participle given)
forms:
form:
gives
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
giving
tags:
participle
present
form:
gave
tags:
past
form:
given
tags:
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
give
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
give
etymology_text:
From Middle English given, from Old Norse gefa (“to give”), from Proto-Germanic *gebaną (“to give”). Merged with native Middle English yiven, ȝeven, from Old English ġiefan, from the same Proto-Germanic source (compare the obsolete inherited English doublet yive).
senses_examples:
text:
I gave him my coat.
type:
example
text:
I gave my coat to the beggar.
type:
example
text:
When they asked, I gave my coat.
type:
example
text:
I'm going to give my wife a necklace for her birthday.
type:
example
text:
She gave a pair of shoes to her husband for their anniversary.
type:
example
text:
I gave him my word that I'd protect his children.
type:
example
text:
I gave them permission to miss tomorrow's class.
type:
example
text:
Please give me some more time.
type:
example
text:
It gives me a lot of pleasure to be here tonight.
type:
example
text:
The fence gave me an electric shock.
type:
example
text:
My mother-in-law gives me nothing but grief.
type:
example
text:
it's giving me bad vibes — It's giving me old Hollywood (vibes)
type:
example
text:
The outfit is giving me eighties fitness video vibes, but you wear it well.
ref:
2023 February 21, Lakita Wilson, Last Chance Dance, Penguin, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
it's giving old Hollywood (vibes)
type:
example
text:
[subtitle:] It's giving Wednesday Addams at the salon...
ref:
2022 October 25, Medina Azaldin, ELLE Beauty Team, “30 Halloween Nail Art Trends To Get You In The Mood For Trick Or Treat”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
It's giving old Hollywood
ref:
2023 May 30, Sophie Williams, “Kylie Jenner is giving Marilyn Monroe vibes in her latest Instagram post”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-10
type:
quotation
text:
This outfit gives 'college girl that knows what she's doing' and even though I am the furthest from that, I'll take it.
ref:
2023 July 20, Rachel Krause, quoting Gabby Ragsdale, “4 Students On The Back-To-School Outfits They're Shopping Their Closets For”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 2023-09-10
type:
quotation
text:
I want to give you a kiss.
type:
example
text:
She gave him a hug.
type:
example
text:
I'd like to give the tire a kick.
type:
example
text:
I gave the boy a push on the swing.
type:
example
text:
She gave me a wink afterwards, so I knew she was joking.
type:
example
text:
Give me your hand.
type:
example
text:
On entering the house, he gave his coat to the doorman.
type:
example
text:
My boyfriend gave me chlamydia.
type:
example
text:
He was convinced that it was his alcoholism that gave him cancer.
type:
example
text:
The doctors gave me morphine for the pain.
type:
example
text:
They're giving my favorite show!
type:
example
text:
We hope that the need to "give good e-mail" in response to questions from clients and potential clients will in fact induce firms to get serious about storing and reusing their expertise – and even become open to tailoring […]
ref:
1993, Business Law Today
type:
quotation
text:
[…]who did not have a culture in which 'giving good presentation' and successfully playing the internal political game was the way up.
ref:
2003, Iain Aitken, Value-Driven IT Management: Commercializing the IT Function, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
A friendly voice on the phone welcoming prospective new clients is a must. Don't underestimate the importance of giving good "phone".
ref:
2006, Christopher Matthew Spencer, The Ebay Entrepreneur, page 248
type:
quotation
text:
Social skills are required to meet new people in a chat room and maintain contact over time (“Do you give good e-mail?”). The Internet provides people with an opportunity to reinvent or misrepresent themselves.
ref:
2012 January 1, George Zinkan, Advertising Research: The Internet, Consumer Behavior, and Strategy, Marketing Classics Press, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
He gives good face too, posing for the camera with hands on waist, eyes forward, legs crossed (Fig. 4.1).
ref:
2016 November 25, Gabrielle Jamela Hosein, Lisa Outar, Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments, Springer, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
I give it ten minutes before he gives up.
type:
example
text:
I'd give it a 95% chance of success.
type:
example
text:
I'll give their marriage six months.
type:
example
text:
A soldier noticed how earth "gave" as he walked over the shallow trenches.
ref:
1992, Garry Wills, “prologue”, in Lincoln at Gettysburg, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
One pillar gave, then more, and suddenly the whole floor pancaked onto the floor below.
type:
example
text:
The master bedroom gives onto a spacious balcony.
type:
example
text:
Beyond the stile stands an attractive row of riverside trees – alder, hazel, beech, hawthorn and ash. Go across to the far corner of a field, where a through-stile gives onto a small, lightly wooded hill,[…]
ref:
2022 February 3, Terry Marsh, Walking the Dales Way: Ilkley to Bowness-on-Windermere through the Yorkshire Dales, Cicerone Press Limited
type:
quotation
text:
His window gave the park.
type:
example
text:
Columbus dwellers of Woodland Meadow Apts may not find themselves in a perfectly bucolic setting, as the residential complex gives onto a military defense logistics ground.
ref:
2006, Pierre Lagayette, Nature et progrès: interactions, exclusions, mutations, Presses Paris Sorbonne, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
type:
example
text:
"Can do" gives me a choice, while "should do" gives me a complex.
ref:
1997, Jim Smoke, How a Man Measures Success, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
He can be bad-tempered, I'll give you that, but he's a hard worker.
type:
example
text:
I don't wonder at people giving him to me for a lover.
ref:
1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
The umpire finally gave his decision: the ball was out.
type:
example
text:
once again
'Tis given me to behold my friend.
ref:
1700, Nicholas Rowe, The Ambitious Stepmother, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
The soldiers give themselves to plunder.
type:
example
text:
That boy is given to fits of bad temper.
type:
example
text:
Some moyst weather hath‥caused the powder to give and danke.
ref:
1590, John Smyth, A Discourse […] concerning […] weapons
type:
quotation
text:
My mind gives ye're reserv'd / To rob poor market women.
ref:
c. 1608-1634, John Webster, Appius and Virginia, page 16
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
To make a present or gift of.
To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
To pledge.
To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.
To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in (the specified person, or the target, audience, etc).
To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
To give off (a certain vibe or appearance). (Compare giving.)
To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.).
To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
To provide or administer (a medication)
To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
To yield or collapse under pressure or force.
To lead (onto or into).
To provide a view of.
To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.
To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow.
To devote or apply (oneself).
To become soft or moist.
To shed tears; to weep.
To have a misgiving.
senses_topics:
|
3041 | word:
give
word_type:
noun
expansion:
give (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
give
etymology_text:
From Middle English given, from Old Norse gefa (“to give”), from Proto-Germanic *gebaną (“to give”). Merged with native Middle English yiven, ȝeven, from Old English ġiefan, from the same Proto-Germanic source (compare the obsolete inherited English doublet yive).
senses_examples:
text:
This chair doesn't have much give.
type:
example
text:
There is no give in his dogmatic religious beliefs.
type:
example
text:
The striker's job was onerous, too, because there was so little "give" in the metal, and the perpetual jarring was indeed trying to the muscles.
ref:
1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilience.
senses_topics:
|
3042 | word:
give
word_type:
noun
expansion:
give (plural gives)
forms:
form:
gives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
give
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of gyve
senses_topics:
|
3043 | word:
a hundred and ten percent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
a hundred and ten percent (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Based on the metaphor of operating a machine at higher than its rated capacity or exceeding the normal maximum of some rated parameter such as speed or temperature.
senses_examples:
text:
We busted our tails and won; we really gave 110% in that game.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A level of effort beyond what one can usually sustain; great exertion.
senses_topics:
|
3044 | word:
piece of crumpet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
piece of crumpet (plural pieces of crumpet)
forms:
form:
pieces of crumpet
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
She's a piece of crumpet, that one.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A very sexually desirable woman.
senses_topics:
|
3045 | word:
dative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dative (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin datīvus (“appropriate for giving”), itself from datus (the past participle of dō (“I give”)) + -īvus (“-ive”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter or indirect object, generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.
In one’s gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office or other privilege.
Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; — said of an officer.
Given by a judge, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law itself.
Formed by two electrons contributed by one atom; see dative bond.
Given in advance; not needed to be calculated.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
law
law
law
sciences
mathematics
sciences |
3046 | word:
dative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dative (plural datives)
forms:
form:
datives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin datīvus (“appropriate for giving”), itself from datus (the past participle of dō (“I give”)) + -īvus (“-ive”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The dative case.
A word inflected in the dative case.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3047 | word:
ask
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ask (third-person singular simple present asks, present participle asking, simple past and past participle asked)
forms:
form:
asks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
asking
tags:
participle
present
form:
asked
tags:
participle
past
form:
asked
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
ask
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English asken (also esken, aschen, eschen, etc.), from Old English āscian, from Proto-West Germanic *aiskōn, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eys- (“to wish; request”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian aaskje (“to ask, demand, require”), West Frisian easkje (“to ask, demand, require”), Dutch eisen (“to demand, require”), German heischen (“to ask, request, implore”), Russian иска́ть (iskátʹ), Sanskrit इच्छति (iccháti) (whence Hindi ईछना (īchnā).
senses_examples:
text:
I asked her age.
type:
example
text:
I didn't know the answer so I asked.
type:
example
text:
I asked her (for) her age.
type:
example
text:
I’m going to ask this lady (for) directions.
type:
example
text:
If you want to know, ask her.
type:
example
text:
to ask for a second helping at dinner
type:
example
text:
to ask for help with homework
type:
example
text:
to ask a favour
type:
example
text:
If you want help, you only have to ask.
type:
example
text:
Emma asked Jim to close his eyes.
type:
example
text:
She asked to see the doctor.
type:
example
text:
Did you ask to use the car?
type:
example
text:
to ask a question
type:
example
text:
to ask a riddle
type:
example
text:
What price are you asking for the house?
type:
example
text:
It’s asking a lot of this old car to make it all the way up to Scotland.
type:
example
text:
Don’t ask them to the wedding.
type:
example
text:
Even when the damage isn't that clear cut, the intangible burdens of a bad image can add up. Just ask Dow Chemical.
ref:
1990 April 26, Paul Wiseman, “Dark days”, in USA Today
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To request or petition.
To request (information, or an answer to a question).
To request or petition.
To request or enquire of (a person).
To request or petition.
To request (an item or service); see also ask for.
To request or petition.
To request (someone to do something).
To request or petition.
To request permission (to do something).
To put forward (a question) to be answered.
To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
To invite.
To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
To take (a person's situation) as an example.
senses_topics:
|
3048 | word:
ask
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ask (plural asks)
forms:
form:
asks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English asken (also esken, aschen, eschen, etc.), from Old English āscian, from Proto-West Germanic *aiskōn, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eys- (“to wish; request”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian aaskje (“to ask, demand, require”), West Frisian easkje (“to ask, demand, require”), Dutch eisen (“to demand, require”), German heischen (“to ask, request, implore”), Russian иска́ть (iskátʹ), Sanskrit इच्छति (iccháti) (whence Hindi ईछना (īchnā).
senses_examples:
text:
To ask for a gift is a privilege, a wonderful expression of commitment to and ownership of the organization. Getting a yes to an ask can be a rush, but asking for the gift can and should be just as rewarding.
ref:
2005, Laura Fredricks, The ask
type:
quotation
text:
That really does not seem much of an ask.
ref:
2022 December 14, Christian Wolmar, “No Marston Vale line trains... and no one in charge seems to 'give a damn'”, in RAIL, number 972, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
I know this is a big ask, but …
type:
example
text:
Communication researchers call this the foot-in-the-door syndrome. Essentially it's based on the observation that people who respond positively to a small “ask” are more likely to respond to a bigger “ask” later on.
ref:
2008, Doug Fields, Duffy Robbins, Speaking to Teenagers
type:
quotation
text:
Answering 'asks' like this is one common way that Tumblr bloggers interact with their followers, so it is in the act of publicly answering these asks that I examine community building practices.
ref:
2017, Abigail Oakley, “Supporting one another: Nonbinary community building on Tumblr”, in Isabel K. Düsterhöft, Paul G. Nixon, editors, Sex in the Digital Age, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
The following example from Black Mental Health illustrates an ask from an anonymous follower seeking social support: […]
ref:
2018, Lynette Kvasny, Fay Cobb Payton, “African American Youth Tumbling Toward Mental Health Support-Seeking and Positive Academic Outcomes”, in Amanda Ochsner, William G. Tierney, Zoë B. Corwin, editors, Diversifying Digital Learning: Online Literacy and Educational Opportunity, page 168
type:
quotation
text:
Once the number of unanswered Asks in the inbox was over eight thousand, despite us deleting everything accumulated in the inbox once a year.
ref:
2020, Lee Brown, “Behind the Scenes of a Popular Trans Youth Resources Tumblr”, in Alexander Cho, Allison McCracken, Indira N. Hoch, Louisa Stein, editors, A Tumblr Book: Platforms and Cultures, page 265
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act or instance of asking.
Something asked or asked for.
An asking price.
A message sent to a blog on social networking platform Tumblr, which can be publicly posted and replied to by the recipient.
senses_topics:
|
3049 | word:
ask
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ask (plural asks)
forms:
form:
asks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English aske, arske, ascre, from Old English āþexe (“lizard, newt”), from Proto-West Germanic *agiþahsijā (“lizard”), a compound of *agiz (“snake, lizard”) + *þahsuz (“badger”). Cognate of German Echse (“lizard”).
senses_examples:
text:
He looked at the beast. It was not an eel. It was very like an ask.
ref:
1876, S. Smiles, Scottish Naturalist
type:
quotation
text:
We hear of Adder dens, but detailed accounts of the discovery of one are very rare. Service (1902) records that a peatman, when levelling on an estate by the Solway, found in a hole in the ground, some 8 inches below the surface, 40 adders, 10 toads and a large number of asks (lizards).
ref:
1951, Malcolm Arthur Smith, The British Amphibians & Reptiles, page 258
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An eft; newt.
A lizard.
senses_topics:
|
3050 | word:
tenth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
tenth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
tenth
etymology_text:
From Middle English tenth, tenthe. Old English had tēoþa (origin of Modern English tithe), but the force of analogy to the cardinal number "ten" caused Middle English speakers to recreate the regular ordinal and re-insert the nasal consonant. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tehundô. Equivalent to ten (numeral) + -th (suffix forming ordinals).
senses_examples:
text:
My dear young lady, here I am for the tenth time.
ref:
a. 1776, Joseph Baretti, “Dialogue the Fortieth”, in Easy Phraseology for the Use of Those Persons Who Intend to Learn the Colloquial Part of the Italian Language, 1835 edition, Turin: Joseph Bocca, page 221
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.
Being one of ten equal parts of a whole.
senses_topics:
|
3051 | word:
tenth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tenth (plural tenths)
forms:
form:
tenths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tenth
etymology_text:
From Middle English tenth, tenthe. Old English had tēoþa (origin of Modern English tithe), but the force of analogy to the cardinal number "ten" caused Middle English speakers to recreate the regular ordinal and re-insert the nasal consonant. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tehundô. Equivalent to ten (numeral) + -th (suffix forming ordinals).
senses_examples:
text:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.
One of ten equal parts of a whole.
The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
A tenth of a mil; a ten-thousandth of an inch.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
law
engineering
machining
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
3052 | word:
tenth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tenth (third-person singular simple present tenths, present participle tenthing, simple past and past participle tenthed)
forms:
form:
tenths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tenthing
tags:
participle
present
form:
tenthed
tags:
participle
past
form:
tenthed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tenth
etymology_text:
From Middle English tenth, tenthe. Old English had tēoþa (origin of Modern English tithe), but the force of analogy to the cardinal number "ten" caused Middle English speakers to recreate the regular ordinal and re-insert the nasal consonant. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tehundô. Equivalent to ten (numeral) + -th (suffix forming ordinals).
senses_examples:
text:
A regular cistern may be inched or tenthed by the rule given for inching or tenthing the back, copper, or cooler, which inching or tenthing should be entered in a table book for use.
ref:
1832, The Practical Measurer, Containing the Uses of Logarithms, and Gunter's Scale
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To divide by ten, into tenths.
senses_topics:
|
3053 | word:
dual
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dual (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Dual (grammatical number)
Duality
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
Borrowed from Latin dualis (“two”), from duo (“two”) + adjective suffix -alis.
senses_examples:
text:
a dual-motor vehicle
type:
example
text:
dual engine failure
type:
example
text:
dual citizenship
type:
example
text:
Both Deborah and Samuel held dual roles as judges and prophets.
ref:
2020, Grace Ying May, “Women Disciplining Men: A Biblical Pattern of Leadership”, in Aída Besançon Spencer, William David Spencer, editors, Christian Egalitarian Leadership: Empowering the Whole Church According to the Scriptures, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
Modern Arabic displays a dual number, as did Homeric Greek.
type:
example
text:
Accordingly, a hyperplane in the sample space is dual to a subspace in the variable space.
ref:
2012, Doug Fisher, Hans-J. Lenz, Learning from Data: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics V, Springer Science & Business Media, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
Every category is dual to its own dual, so if a statement holds in all categories so does its dual.
ref:
1992, Colin McLarty, Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes, Clarendon Press, page 77
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
Pertaining to two, pertaining to a pair of.
Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes.
Exhibiting duality.
Being the space of all linear functionals of (some other space).
Being the dual of some other category; containing the same objects but with source and target reversed for all morphisms.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
3054 | word:
dual
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dual (plural duals)
forms:
form:
duals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Dual (grammatical number)
Duality
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
Borrowed from Latin dualis (“two”), from duo (“two”) + adjective suffix -alis.
senses_examples:
text:
The octahedron is the dual of the cube.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.
Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces.
The dual number.
Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
mathematics
sciences |
3055 | word:
dual
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dual (third-person singular simple present duals, present participle (UK) dualling or (US) dualing, simple past and past participle (UK) dualled or (US) dualed)
forms:
form:
duals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dualling
tags:
UK
participle
present
form:
dualing
tags:
US
participle
present
form:
dualled
tags:
UK
participle
past
form:
dualled
tags:
UK
past
form:
dualed
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
dualed
tags:
US
past
wikipedia:
Dual (grammatical number)
Duality
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
Borrowed from Latin dualis (“two”), from duo (“two”) + adjective suffix -alis.
senses_examples:
text:
I have to declare an interest and I do so with some ambivalence because if the road is dualled it is likely to take half of my front garden.
ref:
1994, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates
type:
quotation
text:
The power generation and propulsion systems are dualled to accommodate component failure and maintain propulsion at reduced speed should any part of one system be lost.
ref:
2006, David Lowe, Intermodal Freight Transport, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
The investment will allow Nexus to increase service frequencies, reduce journey times, and improve reliability by dualling three sections of line between Pelaw and South Shields.
ref:
2021 September 22, “Network News: Nexus increases Tyne and Wear Metro train order to 46”, in RAIL, number 940, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To convert from single to dual; specifically, to convert a single-carriageway road to a dual carriageway.
senses_topics:
|
3056 | word:
quantitate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quantitate (third-person singular simple present quantitates, present participle quantitating, simple past and past participle quantitated)
forms:
form:
quantitates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quantitating
tags:
participle
present
form:
quantitated
tags:
participle
past
form:
quantitated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from quantitative.
senses_examples:
text:
Lastly, a "toeprint" of 30S subunits bound to T4 gene 32 mRNA has been observed with MMLV reverse transcriptase; while the experiment has not been quantitated, appearance of a signal at a subunit concentration of 0.02 μM is consistent with a binding constant on the order of 10⁷ M⁻¹ (Hartz et al., 1991).
ref:
2012, K.H. Nierhaus, F. Franceschi, A.R. Subramanian, The Translational Apparatus: Structure, Function, Regulation, Evolution, page 198
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To measure the quantity of, especially with high accuracy and taking uncertainty into account, as in quantitative analysis.
senses_topics:
|
3057 | word:
knight
word_type:
noun
expansion:
knight (plural knights)
forms:
form:
knights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
knight
etymology_text:
From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.
senses_examples:
text:
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.
senses_topics:
law
board-games
chess
games
card-games
games
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
|
3058 | word:
knight
word_type:
verb
expansion:
knight (third-person singular simple present knights, present participle knighting, simple past and past participle knighted)
forms:
form:
knights
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
knighting
tags:
participle
present
form:
knighted
tags:
participle
past
form:
knighted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
knight
etymology_text:
From Middle English knighten, kniȝten, from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten.
senses_examples:
text:
The king knighted the young squire.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To confer knighthood upon.
To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games |
3059 | word:
antecedent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
antecedent (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
antecedent
etymology_text:
From Middle English antecedent, borrowed from Old French antecedent, from Latin antecēdēns (“going before”), from antecēdō (“to precede; excel; surpass”).
senses_examples:
text:
an antecedent cause
type:
example
text:
an event antecedent to the Biblical Flood
type:
example
text:
an antecedent improbability
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Earlier, either in time or in order.
Presumptive.
senses_topics:
|
3060 | word:
antecedent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
antecedent (plural antecedents)
forms:
form:
antecedents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
antecedent
etymology_text:
From Middle English antecedent, borrowed from Old French antecedent, from Latin antecēdēns (“going before”), from antecēdō (“to precede; excel; surpass”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Boston agent added that this clerk was a young man of wholly unquestioned veracity and reliability, of known antecedents and long with the company.
ref:
1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 3, in The Whisperer in Darkness
type:
quotation
text:
[W]hereas it might seem orderly that, as who is appropriated to persons, so that should have been appropriated to things […] the antecedent of that is often personal
ref:
1926, H. W. Fowler, “that rel. pron.”, in A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, reprint of the first edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 2002, page 634, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
One such condition can be formulated in terms of the c-command relation defined in (9) above: the relevant condition is given in (16) below:
(16) C-COMMAND CONDITION ON ANAPHORS
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 117
type:
quotation
roman:
An anaphor must have an appropriate c-commanding antecedent
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
An ancestor.
A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. p→q, where p is the antecedent, and q is the consequent.
The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.
The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
mathematics
sciences
|
3061 | word:
MIA
word_type:
adj
expansion:
MIA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
When his patrol didn't come back from the front, he and all his buddies were listed as MIA.
type:
example
text:
My friends have been MIA today.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of missing in action.
To be absent for a long time.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
|
3062 | word:
MIA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MIA (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Mutual Improvement Association.
Initialism of missing in action., a service member that did not return from action and was not found in the field
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
3063 | word:
MIA
word_type:
name
expansion:
MIA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
56 Michael Jordan, CHI vs. MIA, Apr. 29, 1992.
ref:
1996, Marty Strasen, Basketball Almanac, 1996-97, page 415
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Middle Indo-Aryan.
Abbreviation of Miami.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
3064 | word:
Turkish
word_type:
name
expansion:
Turkish
forms:
wikipedia:
Turkish
etymology_text:
From Turk + -ish. Doublet of turquoise.
senses_examples:
text:
This dictionary for Chaghatay Turkish (although it also contains much material for what the author calls 'Rūmī', i.e. south-western Turkish, above all, Ottoman) is the Sanglakh of an obscure eighteenth-century compiler
ref:
2001, C. Edmund Bosworth, editor, A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
M.A. Òerbak considers Chaghatay Turkish a period of Uzbek.
ref:
2003, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Culture and Learning in Islam, page 256
type:
quotation
text:
[...] these works include stories of the battles the Turks fought against the Chinese, a variety of legends, and numerous specimens of verse (found mostly in Chinese translation) written in Uyghur Turkish.
ref:
2011, Talat S. Halman, Jayne L. Warner, A Millennium of Turkish Literature, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
And my uncle always shouted: “Uzbek Turkish is very close to our Turkish language!”
ref:
2011, Elif Batuman, The Possessed
type:
quotation
text:
It was Navai who through his poetry almost single-handedly turned his native Chaghatay Turkish into a literary language.
ref:
2022, Dominic Lieven, In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The official language of Turkey, Republic of Cyprus (alongside Greek) and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Synonym of Turkic
senses_topics:
|
3065 | word:
Turkish
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Turkish (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Turkish
etymology_text:
From Turk + -ish. Doublet of turquoise.
senses_examples:
text:
When a question was asked, would put on a mysterious look. Shake his head. Smoke in silence. Observe, at length, he had doubts. Presided at the council, in state. Swayed a Turkish pipe instead of a scepter. Known to sit with eyes closed ...[…]
ref:
1896, Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg, Higher Lessons in English: A work on English Grammar and composition, 1st edition, Outlook Verlag GmbH, published 2023, page 557
type:
quotation
text:
[...] in Mongolian and some Turkish languages
ref:
1962, Gerard Clauson, Turkish and Mongolian Studies, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
Old Turkish began with the separation, formation and consolidation of the independent Turkish languages.
ref:
1982, András Róna-Tas, Chuvash Studies, page 119
type:
quotation
text:
This is openly a characteristics of Chaghatay and other Eastern Turkish languages and dialects.
ref:
2007, László Károly, Turcology in Turkey: selected papers, page 458
type:
quotation
text:
In the Timurid empire, the Chaghatay Turkish language, which became the standard of the Timurid court, was part of the eastern branch of Turkic languages.
ref:
2019, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Hammer and Anvil
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Turkey, the Turkish people or the Turkish language.
Synonym of Turkic
senses_topics:
|
3066 | word:
prisoner of war
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prisoner of war (plural prisoners of war)
forms:
form:
prisoners of war
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of French prisonnier de guerre, prisonier de guerre (obsolete).
senses_examples:
text:
As a prisoner of war, he was interrogated by his enemy captors.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A combatant or soldier who is captured by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
senses_topics:
|
3067 | word:
gringo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gringo (plural gringos or gringoes)
forms:
form:
gringos
tags:
plural
form:
gringoes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish gringo, from griego (“Greek”), used for anyone who spoke an unintelligible language. Doublet of Greek.
senses_examples:
text:
Truly it is as Don José tells me; these gringos have come but to make trouble where all was peace.
ref:
2017, B. M. Bower, The Gringos: The Tale of the California Gold Rush Days
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A white person from an English-speaking country, particularly the United States.
senses_topics:
|
3068 | word:
balance beam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
balance beam (plural balance beams)
forms:
form:
balance beams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
balance beam
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gymnastics apparatus, a narrow wooden rail used in artistic (athletic) gymnastics.
A gymnastics event using the balance beam apparatus.
The horizontal member of any balance (scale,) usually carrying pans at each end, supported at its center by a fulcrum.
senses_topics:
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
3069 | word:
yacht
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yacht (plural yachts)
forms:
form:
yachts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:yacht
etymology_text:
Circa 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe (“light, fast-sailing ship”), from Dutch jacht (“yacht; hunt”), in older spelling jaght(e), short for jaghtschip (“light sailing vessel, fast pirate ship”, literally “pursuit ship”), compound of jacht and schip (“ship”).
In the 16th century the Dutch built light, fast ships to chase the ships of pirates and smugglers from the coast. The ship was introduced to England in 1660 when the Dutch East India Company presented one to King Charles II, who used it as a pleasure boat, after which it was copied by British shipbuilders as a pleasure craft for wealthy gentlemen.
senses_examples:
text:
Would you like to go sailing on my uncle’s yacht?
type:
example
text:
You are a true yachtsman! Are you a member of the local yacht club?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.
Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
senses_topics:
|
3070 | word:
yacht
word_type:
verb
expansion:
yacht (third-person singular simple present yachts, present participle yachting, simple past and past participle yachted)
forms:
form:
yachts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
yachting
tags:
participle
present
form:
yachted
tags:
participle
past
form:
yachted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:yacht
etymology_text:
Circa 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe (“light, fast-sailing ship”), from Dutch jacht (“yacht; hunt”), in older spelling jaght(e), short for jaghtschip (“light sailing vessel, fast pirate ship”, literally “pursuit ship”), compound of jacht and schip (“ship”).
In the 16th century the Dutch built light, fast ships to chase the ships of pirates and smugglers from the coast. The ship was introduced to England in 1660 when the Dutch East India Company presented one to King Charles II, who used it as a pleasure boat, after which it was copied by British shipbuilders as a pleasure craft for wealthy gentlemen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.
senses_topics:
|
3071 | word:
polyglot
word_type:
adj
expansion:
polyglot (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Book of Genesis
Complutensian Polyglot Bible
Targum Onkelos
etymology_text:
PIE word
*glōgʰs
Borrowed from Koine Greek πολύγλωττος (polúglōttos, “speaking many languages, multilingual”), Attic Greek πολύγλωττος (polúglōttos, “many-tongued”), alternative forms of Ancient Greek πολῠ́γλωσσος (polúglōssos, “speaking many languages, multilingual”), from πολῠ́ς (polús, “a lot of, many”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)) + Attic Greek γλῶττα (glôtta), Ancient Greek γλῶσσᾰ (glôssa, “tongue; language”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰs (“tip of corn”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming o-grade action nouns). The English word is analysable as poly- + -glot.
Noun sense 1 (“publication in several languages”) is probably derived from Late Latin polyglottus, from Koine Greek πολύγλωττος (polúglōttos): see above.
senses_examples:
text:
a polyglot bible a polyglot lexicon
type:
example
text:
A polyglot region without a clearly dominant culture may develop an artificial lingua franca, such as Pidgin English in the South Sea.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a person: speaking, or versed in, many languages; multilingual.
Containing, or made up of, several languages; specifically, of a book (especially a bible): having text translated into several languages.
Comprising various (native) linguistic groups; multilingual.
senses_topics:
|
3072 | word:
polyglot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polyglot (plural polyglots)
forms:
form:
polyglots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Book of Genesis
Complutensian Polyglot Bible
Targum Onkelos
etymology_text:
PIE word
*glōgʰs
Borrowed from Koine Greek πολύγλωττος (polúglōttos, “speaking many languages, multilingual”), Attic Greek πολύγλωττος (polúglōttos, “many-tongued”), alternative forms of Ancient Greek πολῠ́γλωσσος (polúglōssos, “speaking many languages, multilingual”), from πολῠ́ς (polús, “a lot of, many”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)) + Attic Greek γλῶττα (glôtta), Ancient Greek γλῶσσᾰ (glôssa, “tongue; language”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰs (“tip of corn”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming o-grade action nouns). The English word is analysable as poly- + -glot.
Noun sense 1 (“publication in several languages”) is probably derived from Late Latin polyglottus, from Koine Greek πολύγλωττος (polúglōttos): see above.
senses_examples:
text:
But ſince that period the biblical apparatus has been much enriched by the publication of polyglots; […]
ref:
1792, William Newcome, “Arguments Shewing that an Improved Version of the Bible is Expedient”, in An Historical View of the English Biblical Translations: The Expediency of Revising by Authority our Present Translation: And the Means of Executing Such a Revision, Dublin: […] John Exshaw, →OCLC, page 239
type:
quotation
text:
If you are interested in polyglot file formats, take a look at the polyglot web page in the Corkami wiki. There are various example polyglots, including a PDF file that is also a valid HTML file with JavaScript, as well as a valid Windows PE executable.
ref:
2015, Joxean Koret, Elias Bachaalany, “Evading Scanners”, in The Antivirus Hacker’s Handbook, Indianapolis, Ind.: John Wiley & Sons, part II (Antivirus Software Evasion), page 148
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A publication in several languages; specifically, a book (especially a bible) containing several versions of the same subject matter or text in several languages.
One who has mastered (especially when able to speak) several languages.
A mixture of languages or nomenclatures.
A file that can be interpreted validly as multiple formats.
A program written to be valid in multiple programming languages.
A bird able to imitate the sounds of other birds.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
|
3073 | word:
next
word_type:
adj
expansion:
next (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
next
etymology_text:
From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English nīehsta, nīehste, etc., inflected forms of nīehst (“nearest, next”), superlative form of nēah (“nigh”) (the comparative would become near), corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nēhwist (“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh + -est. Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist (“next”), Dutch naast (“next to”), German nächst (“next”), Danish næste (“next”), Swedish näst (“next”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Persian نزد (nazd, “near, with”).
senses_examples:
text:
The man in the next bunk kept me awake all night with his snoring.
type:
example
text:
She lives a mile or two away, in the next village.
type:
example
text:
The road to resolution, lies by doubt:
"The next way home's the farthest way about."
ref:
1777, Francis Quarles, Emblems Divine and Moral: Together with Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man, page 152, epigram 2
type:
quotation
text:
Please turn to the next page.
type:
example
text:
On Wednesday next, I'm going to Spain.
type:
example
text:
the next chapter; the next week; the Sunday next before Easter
type:
example
text:
The man was driven by his love for money and his desire to become the next Bill Gates.
type:
example
text:
"[…]You patriotic?" / "I guess so, as much as the next guy," I said, wondering how the hell I could shake him.
ref:
1945, Yank: the army weekly, volume 4, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
next friend
text:
And if a man purchase land in fee simple and die without issue, he which is his next cousin collaterall of the whole blood, how farre so ever he be from him in degree, (de quel pluis long degree qu'il soit), may inherite and have the land ...
ref:
1628, Coke, On Littleton (10. a. 10. b. §2), quoted in 1890, John Bethell Uhle, Current Comment and Legal Miscellany, page 250
text:
Thomas Humphrey Doleman died the 30th of August 1712, an infant, intestate and without issue; Lewis the next nephew died the 17th of April 1716, an infant about sixteen years old, having left his mother Mary Webb, ...
ref:
1793, William Peere Williams, Samuel Compton Cox, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]: De Term. S. Trin. 1731, page 602
type:
quotation
text:
If it be a property, it is a new species, unknown to the civil law, the common law, and the statute law; there is no medium, it must be, if it goes to her next kin, because it is absolute property in her. There can be no distribution of personal property ...
ref:
1874, Thomas Sergeant, William Rawle, Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
Most direct, or shortest or nearest in distance or time.
Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.
Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.)
senses_topics:
law |
3074 | word:
next
word_type:
det
expansion:
next
forms:
wikipedia:
next
etymology_text:
From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English nīehsta, nīehste, etc., inflected forms of nīehst (“nearest, next”), superlative form of nēah (“nigh”) (the comparative would become near), corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nēhwist (“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh + -est. Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist (“next”), Dutch naast (“next to”), German nächst (“next”), Danish næste (“next”), Swedish näst (“next”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Persian نزد (nazd, “near, with”).
senses_examples:
text:
Next week would be a good time to meet.
type:
example
text:
I'll know better next time.
type:
example
text:
The party is next Tuesday; that is, not tomorrow, but eight days from now.
type:
example
text:
When you say next Thursday, do you mean Thursday this week or Thursday next week?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Denotes the one immediately following the current or most recent one.
Closest in the future, or closest but one if the closest is very soon; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) in the future.
senses_topics:
|
3075 | word:
next
word_type:
adv
expansion:
next (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
next
etymology_text:
From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English nīehsta, nīehste, etc., inflected forms of nīehst (“nearest, next”), superlative form of nēah (“nigh”) (the comparative would become near), corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nēhwist (“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh + -est. Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist (“next”), Dutch naast (“next to”), German nächst (“next”), Danish næste (“next”), Swedish näst (“next”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Persian نزد (nazd, “near, with”).
senses_examples:
text:
They live in the next closest house.
text:
It's the next best thing to ice cream.
text:
First we removed all the handles; next, we stripped off the old paint.
text:
Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next?
type:
example
text:
When we next meet, you'll be married.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.
In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.
So as to follow in time or sequence something previously mentioned.
On the first subsequent occasion.
senses_topics:
|
3076 | word:
next
word_type:
prep
expansion:
next
forms:
wikipedia:
next
etymology_text:
From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English nīehsta, nīehste, etc., inflected forms of nīehst (“nearest, next”), superlative form of nēah (“nigh”) (the comparative would become near), corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nēhwist (“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh + -est. Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist (“next”), Dutch naast (“next to”), German nächst (“next”), Danish næste (“next”), Swedish näst (“next”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Persian نزد (nazd, “near, with”).
senses_examples:
text:
D is so dainty a letter, that she admits no other consonant next her but R:[…]
ref:
1660, James Howell, Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: […] By the Labours, and Lucubrations of James Howell, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
All persons, in walking the streets, whose right sides are next the wall, are intitled to take the wall.
ref:
1822, The Pamphleteer, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
The fact that the line cannot be original is patent from the fact that Aias in the rest of the Iliad is not encamped next the Athenians […] .
ref:
1900, The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices, translated by Walter Leaf (London, Macmillan), notes on line 558 of book 2
text:
Photographs indicate that the southern terminals of the ditch system next the west gate may be in echelon, whilst those marginal to the east gate may be slightly inturned.
ref:
1986, University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies, Bwletin Y Bwrdd Gwybodau Celtaidd - Volume 33, page 413
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to.
senses_topics:
|
3077 | word:
next
word_type:
noun
expansion:
next (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
next
etymology_text:
From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English nīehsta, nīehste, etc., inflected forms of nīehst (“nearest, next”), superlative form of nēah (“nigh”) (the comparative would become near), corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nēhwist (“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh + -est. Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist (“next”), Dutch naast (“next to”), German nächst (“next”), Danish næste (“next”), Swedish näst (“next”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Persian نزد (nazd, “near, with”).
senses_examples:
text:
Next, please, don't hold up the queue!
text:
One moment she was there, the next she wasn't.
text:
The week after next
text:
There is no time for lunch, hauling myself from one place to the next.
ref:
2007, Steve Cohen, Next Stop Hollywood (St. Martin's Griffin)
text:
gg team, Wanna play next?
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The one that follows after this one.
Next match
senses_topics:
games
gaming |
3078 | word:
amontillado
word_type:
noun
expansion:
amontillado (countable and uncountable, plural amontillados)
forms:
form:
amontillados
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish amontillado.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pale, dry sherry from Montilla.
senses_topics:
|
3079 | word:
cold day in Hell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cold day in Hell (plural cold days in Hell)
forms:
form:
cold days in Hell
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
It'll be a cold day in hell when that happens.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The time of occurrence of an event that will never happen.
senses_topics:
|
3080 | word:
Swedish
word_type:
name
expansion:
Swedish (countable and uncountable, plural Swedishes)
forms:
form:
Swedishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Swede + -ish. Cognate with Dutch Zweeds, German Schwedisch.
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Swedish.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language of Sweden and Åland (an autonomous part of Finland). Swedish is also one of the two official languages of Finland, spoken by 6% of the citizens. A very small minority in Estonia has Swedish as their mother tongue.
senses_topics:
|
3081 | word:
Swedish
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Swedish (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Swede + -ish. Cognate with Dutch Zweeds, German Schwedisch.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Sweden.
Of or pertaining to the Swedish language.
senses_topics:
|
3082 | word:
league
word_type:
noun
expansion:
league (countable and uncountable, plural leagues)
forms:
form:
leagues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
league
etymology_text:
From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin ligō (“I tie”).
senses_examples:
text:
the League of Nations
type:
example
text:
And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.
ref:
1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas
type:
quotation
text:
My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League and the American League in baseball.
type:
example
text:
Are you going to watch the league tonight?
type:
example
text:
Forget about dating him; he's out of your league.
type:
example
text:
We're not even in the same league.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group or association of cooperating members.
An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
Ellipsis of rugby league.
A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).
An alliance or coalition.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
government
military
politics
war |
3083 | word:
league
word_type:
verb
expansion:
league (third-person singular simple present leagues, present participle leaguing, simple past and past participle leagued)
forms:
form:
leagues
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
leaguing
tags:
participle
present
form:
leagued
tags:
participle
past
form:
leagued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
league
etymology_text:
From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin ligō (“I tie”).
senses_examples:
text:
I believe that all the Bohemians and the great folks in Paris are so leagued together, that they are afraid of one another, and the people receive all the buffets of their disagreeings.
ref:
1845, Bentley's Miscellany, volume 18, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
senses_topics:
|
3084 | word:
league
word_type:
noun
expansion:
league (plural leagues)
forms:
form:
leagues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
league
etymology_text:
From Middle English lege (“league”), from Late Latin leuca, leuga (“the Gaulish mile”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lougā (compare Middle Breton leau, lew, Breton lev / leo (“league”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Thenne kynge Mark and sir Dynadan rode forth a four leges englysshe tyl that they came to a brydge where houed a knyght on horsbak armed and redy to Iuste.
"Then King Mark and Sir Dinadan rode forth a four leagues English, till that they came to a bridge where hoved a knight on horseback, armed and ready to joust."
ref:
1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X, Chapter 10
type:
quotation
text:
Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.
ref:
1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47
text:
To this time the Dutch had kept two garrisons in the North of Formosa, one of which was at Fort Kelang, taken from the Spaniards ; the other was at a place called Tamsui, about ten leagues to the westward of Kelang.
ref:
1813, James Burney, A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean, volume 3, London: Luke Hansard and Sons, page 257
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
senses_topics:
|
3085 | word:
ate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ate
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I have a very good appetite, have ate some excellent melons, and they have served me up some quails, the fattest and tenderest I have ever ate.
ref:
1805, Maximilien de Béthune duc de Sully, Memoirs of Maximillian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great […], volume IV, page 171
type:
quotation
text:
“Haven't ate all the eggs, I hope? For I be hungry as a hunter[…]
ref:
1929, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Nicky-Nan, Reservist, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
So I'd have ate when me Dad had ate, sort of thing, I think, you know when he come home from work, I'd have waited for him, I wouldn't have said I wanted mine at four o'clock[…]
ref:
2013 January 11 [1997], David Bell, Gill Valentine, Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat, Routledge, page 140
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of eat
past participle of eat
senses_topics:
|
3086 | word:
ate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ate (plural ates)
forms:
form:
ates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Tagalog ate (“elder sister”), from Hokkien 阿姊 (á-ché, “eldest sister”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An elder sister
A respectful title or form of address for an older woman.
senses_topics:
|
3087 | word:
eleven
word_type:
num
expansion:
eleven
forms:
wikipedia:
eleven
etymology_text:
From Middle English elleven, enleven, eleven, from Old English endleofan; from Proto-Germanic *ainalif (“one left”) (i.e., one left over after having already counted to ten), a compound of *ainaz and *-lif, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Compare West Frisian alve, Low German ölven, Dutch elf, German elf, Icelandic ellefu, Danish and Norwegian elleve.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.
senses_topics:
|
3088 | word:
eleven
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eleven (plural elevens)
forms:
form:
elevens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
eleven
etymology_text:
From Middle English elleven, enleven, eleven, from Old English endleofan; from Proto-Germanic *ainalif (“one left”) (i.e., one left over after having already counted to ten), a compound of *ainaz and *-lif, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Compare West Frisian alve, Low German ölven, Dutch elf, German elf, Icelandic ellefu, Danish and Norwegian elleve.
senses_examples:
text:
A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!
text:
B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.
A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.
Deliberate misspelling of !!. Used to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.
A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.
An exceptional specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.
A very high level of intensity.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
|
3089 | word:
nominative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
nominative (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
nominative
etymology_text:
From Middle English nominatyf, either via Old French nominatif or directly from Latin nōminātīvus (“pertaining to naming, nominative”).
senses_examples:
text:
nominative fair use
type:
example
text:
A telling marker of the change in the reporter's status was the elimination of the nominative reports (that is, the citation of the reports by the reporter's name). The first state to use “state reports” rather than the nominative designation was Connecticut (1814). Many other states made this change in the middle of the 19th Century or began their official reports with state reports.
ref:
2007, William D. Popkin, Evolution of the Judicial Opinion: Institutional and Individual Styles, NYU Press, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
To Duchamp, an artist's nominative act—the declaration itself regardless of the object—was itself the art. He could choose anything indifferent to, or even in spite of, its aesthetic merits.
ref:
2014, Eva Diaz, The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Giving a name; naming; designating.
Being in that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
Making a selection or nomination; choosing.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
3090 | word:
nominative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nominative (plural nominatives)
forms:
form:
nominatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
nominative
etymology_text:
From Middle English nominatyf, either via Old French nominatif or directly from Latin nōminātīvus (“pertaining to naming, nominative”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The nominative case.
A noun in the nominative case.
senses_topics:
|
3091 | word:
chess
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chess (usually uncountable, plural chesses)
forms:
form:
chesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chess
etymology_text:
From Middle English ches, chesse, from Old French eschés, plural of eschec, from Medieval Latin scaccus, from Arabic شَاه (šāh, “king [in chess]”), from Classical Persian شاه (šāh, “shah, king”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ /šāh/), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /xšāyaθiya/).
Compare German Schach and Italian scacchi. Compare French échecs (“chess”) and its descendants: Catalan escacs and Dutch schaak. More at check and shah (“king of Persia or Iran”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
senses_topics:
|
3092 | word:
chess
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chess (plural chesses)
forms:
form:
chesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chess
etymology_text:
Uncertain; perhaps linked to Etymology 1, above, from the sense of being arranged in rows or lines.
senses_examples:
text:
Hobbled, loudly gourmandizing the dry chess grass, they were guarded by a pair of dismounted soldiers in long, dusty coats [...].
ref:
2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 59
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.
senses_topics:
|
3093 | word:
chess
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chess (plural chesses)
forms:
form:
chesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chess
etymology_text:
Compare French châssis (“a framework of carpentry”).
senses_examples:
text:
the balks are laid and covered with chesses to within 1 foot of the trestle
ref:
1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
type:
quotation
text:
ach chess consists of three planks.
ref:
1885, Edward S. Farrow, Farrow's Military Encyclopedia; A Dictionary of Military Knowledge
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
3094 | word:
karoshi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
karoshi (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 過労死 (karōshi), from 過労 (karō, “overwork”) + 死 (shi, “death”). Doublet of guolaosi.
senses_examples:
text:
For a while he began to speak Japanese, rather slangy, never having seemed to learn it — karoshi for death from overwork, yakitaori-ya for eatery, and gaijin for clumsy foreigner.
ref:
1976, Bill Henderson, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, Pushcart Press, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
Second, we discuss the problem of karoshi, which is unique to Japan. Karoshi has become an increasingly serious problem.
ref:
2006, Ronald J. Burke, Research Companion to Working Time and Work Addiction, page 158
type:
quotation
text:
[…] I am a workaholic. […] The Japanese have a word for the problem: karōshi. It means “death from overwork.”]
ref:
[2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 120
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Death, such as from heart attack or stroke, brought on by overwork or job-related stress.
senses_topics:
|
3095 | word:
twenty-four seven
word_type:
adv
expansion:
twenty-four seven (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortened from "twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week".
senses_examples:
text:
They're open twenty-four seven; you can go there any time you want.
type:
example
text:
My girlfriend's jealous 'cause I talk about you twenty-four seven
ref:
2000, “Stan”, in Eminem (music), The Marshall Mathers LP
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
24 hours per day, seven days per week. Designates a round-the-clock service, typically including holidays, as might be offered by a supermarket, ATM, gas station, concierge service or manned data center.
Constantly, without interruption.
senses_topics:
|
3096 | word:
silver
word_type:
noun
expansion:
silver (countable and uncountable, plural silvers)
forms:
form:
silvers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
silver
etymology_text:
From Middle English silver, selver, sulver, from Old English seolfor, from Proto-West Germanic *silubr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą (“silver”), of uncertain origin.
cognates and etymology discussion
Cognate with Scots siller (“silver”), Saterland Frisian Säälwer (“silver”), West Frisian sulver (“silver”), Dutch zilver (“silver”), German Low German Silver, Sülver (“silver”), German Silber (“silver”), Swedish silver (“silver”), Icelandic silfur (“silver”). The Germanic word has parallels in Baltic and Slavic (Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро (sĭrebro), Lithuanian sidabras), Celtic (Celtiberian silaPur-), and outside Indo-European, in Basque zilar and Proto-Berber *a-ẓrəf, but the ultimate origin of the word is unknown.
Adjective sense of twenty-fifth wedding anniversary generalized from silver wedding, from German Silberhochzeit, silberne Hochzeit.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver.
ref:
1990, David F. Friedman, Don DeNevi, A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-film King, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana.
ref:
2017, Sam Shepard, chapter 27, in Spy of the First Person, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
silver:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag.
Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.
Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.
Any items made from silver or any other white metal.
A shiny gray color.
a silver medal
Anything resembling silver; something shiny and white.
senses_topics:
|
3097 | word:
silver
word_type:
adj
expansion:
silver (comparative more silver, superlative most silver)
forms:
form:
more silver
tags:
comparative
form:
most silver
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
silver
etymology_text:
From Middle English silver, selver, sulver, from Old English seolfor, from Proto-West Germanic *silubr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą (“silver”), of uncertain origin.
cognates and etymology discussion
Cognate with Scots siller (“silver”), Saterland Frisian Säälwer (“silver”), West Frisian sulver (“silver”), Dutch zilver (“silver”), German Low German Silver, Sülver (“silver”), German Silber (“silver”), Swedish silver (“silver”), Icelandic silfur (“silver”). The Germanic word has parallels in Baltic and Slavic (Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро (sĭrebro), Lithuanian sidabras), Celtic (Celtiberian silaPur-), and outside Indo-European, in Basque zilar and Proto-Berber *a-ẓrəf, but the ultimate origin of the word is unknown.
Adjective sense of twenty-fifth wedding anniversary generalized from silver wedding, from German Silberhochzeit, silberne Hochzeit.
senses_examples:
text:
But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
ref:
1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
type:
quotation
text:
Mostly, these have been relationships of 10 or less years. However, one respondent has celebrated her silver wedding anniversary.
ref:
1994, “Mate matching” in Accent on Living, v 38, n 4 (Spring), p 52
text:
a silver-voiced young girl
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made from silver.
Made from another white metal.
Having a color like silver: a shiny gray.
Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary, especially of a wedding.
Premium, but inferior to gold.
Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.
senses_topics:
|
3098 | word:
silver
word_type:
verb
expansion:
silver (third-person singular simple present silvers, present participle silvering, simple past and past participle silvered)
forms:
form:
silvers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
silvering
tags:
participle
present
form:
silvered
tags:
participle
past
form:
silvered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Long John Silver
silver
etymology_text:
From Middle English silver, selver, sulver, from Old English seolfor, from Proto-West Germanic *silubr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą (“silver”), of uncertain origin.
cognates and etymology discussion
Cognate with Scots siller (“silver”), Saterland Frisian Säälwer (“silver”), West Frisian sulver (“silver”), Dutch zilver (“silver”), German Low German Silver, Sülver (“silver”), German Silber (“silver”), Swedish silver (“silver”), Icelandic silfur (“silver”). The Germanic word has parallels in Baltic and Slavic (Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро (sĭrebro), Lithuanian sidabras), Celtic (Celtiberian silaPur-), and outside Indo-European, in Basque zilar and Proto-Berber *a-ẓrəf, but the ultimate origin of the word is unknown.
Adjective sense of twenty-fifth wedding anniversary generalized from silver wedding, from German Silberhochzeit, silberne Hochzeit.
senses_examples:
text:
to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To acquire a silvery colour.
To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal.
To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
To make hoary, or white, like silver.
senses_topics:
|
3099 | word:
ostrich
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ostrich (plural ostriches)
forms:
form:
ostriches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ostrich, ostriche, ostryche, ostrige, borrowed from Anglo-Norman ostrige and Old French ostruce, from Vulgar Latin *austruthio, from Latin avis (“bird”) + strūthiō (“ostrich”), from Ancient Greek στρουθίων (strouthíōn), or shortened from strūthiocamēlus, from Ancient Greek στρουθιοκάμηλος (strouthiokámēlos), from στρουθός (strouthós, “sparrow”) + κάμηλος (kámēlos, “camel”). Compare Spanish avestruz and Portuguese avestruz.
senses_examples:
text:
The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
ref:
2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
The Lengua Indians of the Gran Chaco love to hunt the ostrich
ref:
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 245
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large flightless bird of the genus Struthio.
A large flightless bird of the genus Struthio.
The most widespread species of the genus, known as the common ostrich (Struthio camelus).
The rhea.
One who buries their head in the sand instead of acknowledging problems.
The hypothetical completion of a hole five strokes under par (a quintuple birdie, quadruple eagle, triple albatross, or double condor).
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
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