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3200 | word:
qualm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
qualm (plural qualms)
forms:
form:
qualms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Perhaps from Middle English qualm, cwalm (“death, sickness, plague”), which is from Old English cwealm (West Saxon: "death, disaster, plague"), ūtcwalm (Anglian: "utter destruction"), from Proto-West Germanic *kwalm (“killing, death, destruction”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to stick, pierce; pain, injury, death”), whence also quell. Although the sense development is possible, this has the problem that there are no attestations in intermediate senses before the appearance of "pang of apprehension, etc." in the 16th century. The alternative etymology is from Dutch kwalm or German Qualm (“steam, vapor, mist”) earlier “daze, stupefaction”, which is from the root of German quellen (“to stream, well up”). The sense “feeling of faintness” is from 1530; “uneasiness, doubt” from 1553; “scruple of conscience” from 1649.
senses_examples:
text:
Opponents of those privatization plans hoped to use Mr. Armstrong's qualms as ammunition to block the White House initiatives, and they asked for more public statements.
ref:
2012 August 25, Andy Pasztor, “Armstrong, First Man on Moon, Dies”, in Wall Street Journal, retrieved 2012-08-26
type:
quotation
text:
Questions of bad taste have hung around Dear Evan Hansen since it debuted on Broadway in 2016, though such qualms were mostly drowned out by praise for Platt’s visceral live performance and the catchy Broadway-by-way-of-Christian-rock tunes from wunderkind songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (who are also responsible for the toe-tapping numbers from The Greatest Showman).
ref:
2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
This lawyer has no qualms about saving people who are on the wrong side of the law.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.
A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness.
A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt.
Mortality; plague; pestilence.
A calamity or disaster.
senses_topics:
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3201 | word:
qualm
word_type:
verb
expansion:
qualm (third-person singular simple present qualms, present participle qualming, simple past and past participle qualmed)
forms:
form:
qualms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
qualming
tags:
participle
present
form:
qualmed
tags:
participle
past
form:
qualmed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Perhaps from Middle English qualm, cwalm (“death, sickness, plague”), which is from Old English cwealm (West Saxon: "death, disaster, plague"), ūtcwalm (Anglian: "utter destruction"), from Proto-West Germanic *kwalm (“killing, death, destruction”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to stick, pierce; pain, injury, death”), whence also quell. Although the sense development is possible, this has the problem that there are no attestations in intermediate senses before the appearance of "pang of apprehension, etc." in the 16th century. The alternative etymology is from Dutch kwalm or German Qualm (“steam, vapor, mist”) earlier “daze, stupefaction”, which is from the root of German quellen (“to stream, well up”). The sense “feeling of faintness” is from 1530; “uneasiness, doubt” from 1553; “scruple of conscience” from 1649.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have a sickly feeling.
senses_topics:
|
3202 | word:
attributive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
attributive (comparative more attributive, superlative most attributive)
forms:
form:
more attributive
tags:
comparative
form:
most attributive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From attribute + -ive.
senses_examples:
text:
In "this big house", "big" is attributive, whereas in "this house is big", it is predicative.
type:
example
text:
In "this tiger is a man-eater," "man" is an attributive noun.
type:
example
text:
Since both Attributes and Adjuncts recursively expand N-bar into N-bar, it seems clear that the two have essentially the same function, so that Attributes are simply pronominal Adjuncts (though we shall continue to follow tradition and refer to attributive premodifiers as Attributes rather than Adjuncts).
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 197
type:
quotation
text:
ATTRIBUTIVE NOUN. A noun that modifies another noun: steel in steel bridge; London in London house.
ref:
2005, Thomas Burns McArthur, Tom McArthur, Roshan McArthur, Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
type:
quotation
text:
Grammatically, three ways of using adjectives can be distinguished: the attributive use, the predicative use and the adverbial use. We will only deal with the attributive and the predicative use here. In the attributive use, the adjective, within an NP, is attached to the head noun, e.g. a dubious company, a red balloon, the stupid driver.
ref:
2013, Sebastian Loebner, Understanding Semantics
type:
quotation
text:
To hate, &c.] Or thus, To be affected with hatred and horrour at. For abhor, though arranged in our dictionaries among verbs active, attributes an affection rather than an act of the mind. As the mind however is an active principle, all verbs attributive of what passes in the mind, even those we call neuter, attribute at the same time some mental act or operation. To grieve is reckoned a verb neuter; yet in grieving at some misfortune, the mind is not less active than it is in abhorring or loathing an object; which latter verbs are called verbs active.
ref:
1806, Benjamin Dawson, Philologia Anglicana: or, a Philological and synonymical dictionary of the English language ["A-Adornment"], page 36
type:
quotation
text:
947 आल and आट put after वाक् Speech, with it form adjectives attributive of much bad or improper speaking; as वाचाल, or वाचाट Who utters much bad language.
948 […] affixed to nouns, with them form adjectives attributive of detraction,[…]
ref:
1808, Charles Wilkins, A Grammar of the Sanskrita Language, page 516
type:
quotation
text:
Notably, along with being attributive of color, some of those adjectives are used to characterize sound or intensity of sensation (e.g. pain may behele 'shrill' or tume 'dull'), cognitive abilities (such as hearing, vision and acumen),[…]
ref:
2007 November 21, Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei, Don Dedrick, Anthropology of Color: Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling, John Benjamins Publishing, page 201
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Modifying another word, typically a noun, while in the same phrase.
Attributing; characterized by attributing; effecting attribution.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
3203 | word:
attributive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
attributive (plural attributives)
forms:
form:
attributives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
attributive
etymology_text:
From attribute + -ive.
senses_examples:
text:
In "this big house," "big" is an attributive, while in "this house is big," it is a predicative.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An attributive word or phrase (see above), contrasted with predicative or substantive.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3204 | word:
en
word_type:
noun
expansion:
en
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of English.
senses_topics:
|
3205 | word:
en
word_type:
noun
expansion:
en (plural ens)
forms:
form:
ens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The name of the letter comes from Latin en. The typographic sense dates to 1793.
senses_examples:
text:
The ems and ens at the beginnings and ends.
type:
example
text:
The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.
ref:
1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged
type:
quotation
text:
I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.
ref:
2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.
A unit of measurement equal to half an em (half the height of the type in use).
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography |
3206 | word:
en
word_type:
prep
expansion:
en
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used in various phrases borrowed from French or formed as if borrowed from French (see "Derived terms" below).
senses_topics:
|
3207 | word:
en
word_type:
pron
expansion:
en
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English hine.
senses_examples:
text:
Such a strappen fine gentleman as he was, too. Yes, I rather like en sometimes.
ref:
1895, Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes, page 236
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
him
it (when the thing being referred to is masculine)
senses_topics:
|
3208 | word:
en
word_type:
noun
expansion:
en (plural ens)
forms:
form:
ens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Cyrillic script letter Н / н.
senses_topics:
|
3209 | word:
amusement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
amusement (countable and uncountable, plural amusements)
forms:
form:
amusements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French amusement, from amuser + -ment.
Morphologically amuse + -ment
senses_examples:
text:
To my great amusement, the dog kept on chasing its tail and yelped when it bit it.
type:
example
text:
This is some form of amusement you're talking about.
ref:
2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 234a
type:
quotation
text:
What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society.
ref:
1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
type:
quotation
text:
His chief amusements were gunning and fishing, or sauntering along the beach and through the myrtles, in quest of shells or entomological specimens--his collection of the latter might have been envied by a Swammerdamm.
ref:
1843, Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold-Bug
type:
quotation
text:
The Cat was sour-tempered and grumpy, at first, but before they had journeyed far, the crystal creature had discovered a fine amusement. The long tails of the monkeys were constantly sticking through the bars of their cage, and when they did, the Glass Cat would slyly seize the tails in her paws and pull them.
ref:
1919, L. Frank Baum, The Magic of Oz
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Entertainment.
An activity that is entertaining or amusing, such as dancing, gunning, or fishing.
senses_topics:
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3210 | word:
four
word_type:
num
expansion:
four
forms:
wikipedia:
four
etymology_text:
From Middle English four, from Old English fēower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from previous pre-Grimm *petwṓr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres. Doublet of cuatro and quatre.
Cognates include Scots fower, Saterland Frisian fjauer, West Frisian fjouwer, Dutch vier, German Low German veer, German vier, Norwegian Bokmål and Danish fire, Swedish fyra, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 (fidwōr) and, more distantly, Latin quattuor (whence Spanish cuatro, French quatre), Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), Irish ceathair, Armenian չորս (čʻors), Lithuanian keturi, Albanian katër, Sanskrit चतुर् (catur).
senses_examples:
text:
There are four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)
Describing a set or group with four elements.
senses_topics:
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3211 | word:
four
word_type:
noun
expansion:
four (countable and uncountable, plural fours)
forms:
form:
fours
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Arabic numerals
Chinese numerals
Greek numerals
Roman numerals
four
etymology_text:
From Middle English four, from Old English fēower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from previous pre-Grimm *petwṓr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres. Doublet of cuatro and quatre.
Cognates include Scots fower, Saterland Frisian fjauer, West Frisian fjouwer, Dutch vier, German Low German veer, German vier, Norwegian Bokmål and Danish fire, Swedish fyra, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 (fidwōr) and, more distantly, Latin quattuor (whence Spanish cuatro, French quatre), Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), Irish ceathair, Armenian չորս (čʻors), Lithuanian keturi, Albanian katër, Sanskrit चतुर् (catur).
senses_examples:
text:
Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.
type:
example
text:
Letters to Sheffield are despatched every morning at six, and arrive every afternoon at ten minutes past four.
ref:
1828, Pigot and Co.'s National Commercial Directory for 1828-9, Comprising a Directory of the Merchants, Bankers, Professional Gentleman … in the Counties of Cheshire, Cumberland …, London, Manchester: J. Pigot & Co., page 767
type:
quotation
text:
The larger ships picked up the low lying atoll on their radar about four in the morning at distances from 16 to 26 miles.
ref:
1972, George Carroll Dyer, chapter XVII, in The Amphibians Came to Conquer: The Story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, volume 2, U.S. Marine Corps, →OL, page 657
type:
quotation
text:
I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.
type:
example
text:
The team bought a new four last season.
type:
example
text:
Our four won both races.
type:
example
text:
We got third place in the varsity four.
type:
example
text:
I was a-strollin' down, thinkin' between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of gin hot would be, when suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same house.
ref:
1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, section IV
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
Anything measuring four units, as length.
Four o'clock.
A person who is four years old.
An event in which the batsmen run four times between the wickets or, more often, a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
A power forward.
Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
The shell itself.
Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
The crew rowing in a four boat.
Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
A regatta event for four boats.
A four-pennyworth of spirits.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
|
3212 | word:
Spanish
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Spanish (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Spanish
etymology_text:
From Middle English Spainish, Spanish, equivalent to Spain + -ish.
senses_examples:
text:
Whether Martial's heart was in the Spanish highlands or whether he was happy enough in Rome will be discussed later[…]
ref:
2005, J. P. Sullivan, Martial, the unexpected classic, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Though she was Indian like the rest of us, she had a fine Spanish nose.
ref:
1996, Oscar Zeta Acosta, “From Whence I Came”, in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta: the uncollected works, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
Spanish cuisine is not as spicy hot as Mexican, but it is flavorful and bright.
ref:
2007, Lynette Rohrer Shirk, chapter 1, in The Everything Tapas and Small Plates Cookbook
type:
quotation
text:
Fundamentally, the Spanish vowel sounds are only five, even though as a matter of fact there may be different other sounds for such vowels as [a], [e] and [o].
ref:
1918, Julián Moreno-Lacalle, Elements of Spanish Pronunciation, page 12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Spain.
Of or pertaining to the people or culture of Spain.
Of or pertaining to the Spanish language.
Of or pertaining to Hispanic people or their culture.
senses_topics:
|
3213 | word:
Spanish
word_type:
name
expansion:
Spanish (countable and uncountable, plural Spanishes)
forms:
form:
Spanishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Spanish
etymology_text:
From Middle English Spainish, Spanish, equivalent to Spain + -ish.
senses_examples:
text:
If he speaks Spanish, my daughter can converse with him ; she has but shortly arrived from Spain.
ref:
1873, Frederick Marryat, Mr. Midshipman Easy, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
Therefore in Novial, as well as in Esp-Ido, we simplify the spelling in all words containing double letters in the national languages, from which the words are taken: pasa (E pass, F passer), efekte, komun (F commun, E common), etc. In this we follow the beautiful example of Spanish, which writes pasar, efecto, común, etc., and even extend it to cases in which Spanish makes a distinction in sound and spelling, as with ll and rr: bel S bello, F belle, koresponda, S corresponder, etc.
ref:
1928, Otto Jespersen, An International Language, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
In contrast with the creole languages discussed above, the article systems of Rumanian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese are more complex, since neutralization fails to occur to a large extent.
ref:
1995, Hanna Pishwa, Karl Maroldt, editors, The Development of Morphological Systematicity, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Spanish.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Romance language primarily spoken in Spain and in the Americas.
A town in Ontario, Canada
senses_topics:
|
3214 | word:
Spanish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Spanish (countable and uncountable, plural Spanish or Spanishes)
forms:
form:
Spanish
tags:
plural
form:
Spanishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Spanish
etymology_text:
From Middle English Spainish, Spanish, equivalent to Spain + -ish.
senses_examples:
text:
The Spanish are not the only ones selling their goods along the wharves and the inner streets.
ref:
1976, Robert Rézette, The Spanish Enclaves in Morocco, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
Sixty-four percent more Spanish are functionally illiterate compared to Anglos in Lubbock (only 15 percent more of nonwhites than Anglos).
ref:
1970, Henry Sioux Johnson, William J. Hernández-Martinez, Educating the Mexican American, page 87
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
People of Spain, collectively.
Spanish cuisine; traditional Spanish food.
People of Hispanic origin; one whose first language is Spanish.
senses_topics:
|
3215 | word:
superlative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
superlative (plural superlatives)
forms:
form:
superlatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
superlative
etymology_text:
From Middle English superlatyf, from Old French superlatif, from Late Latin superlātīvus, from Latin superlātus (“extravagant, of hyperbole”), past participle of superfero (“carry over”), from super (“above”) + fero (“bear, carry”).
senses_examples:
text:
A twist is accordingly something especially good, and a big twist is the superlative of excellence.
ref:
1966, Sidney John Baker, The Australian language
type:
quotation
text:
The superlative of "big" is "biggest".
type:
example
text:
Daniel is amazing, wonderful, fantastic, and many other superlatives I can’t think of right now!
type:
example
text:
Sometimes it feels like there are no more superlatives left. Seriously, what else can be said about this little guy with the No 10 shirt and magic in his feet other than to ask, perhaps, whether there is anyone who wants to persist with the argument that Pelé, or Diego Maradona, or any of the others, have ever played this sport any better?
ref:
2019 May 1, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The extreme (e.g. highest, lowest, deepest, farthest, etc) extent or degree of something.
The form of an adjective that expresses which of several items has the highest degree of the quality expressed by the adjective; in English, formed by appending "-est" to the end of the adjective (for some short adjectives only) or putting "most" before it.
An adjective used to praise something exceptional.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
3216 | word:
superlative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
superlative (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
superlative
etymology_text:
From Middle English superlatyf, from Old French superlatif, from Late Latin superlātīvus, from Latin superlātus (“extravagant, of hyperbole”), past participle of superfero (“carry over”), from super (“above”) + fero (“bear, carry”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Exceptionally good; of the highest quality; superb.
Of or relating to a superlative.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3217 | word:
irregular
word_type:
adj
expansion:
irregular (comparative more irregular, superlative most irregular)
forms:
form:
more irregular
tags:
comparative
form:
most irregular
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
irregular
etymology_text:
From Middle English irreguler, from Old French irreguler, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin irrēgulāris, from in- + regularis, equivalent to ir- + regular.
senses_examples:
text:
‘ “It would be most irregular Grandpa!” says Miss Cecily frowning and tapping her foot. “Well, we’re a pretty irregular family so that’s neither here nor there,” says the old man, impish like. [...] ’
ref:
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
ref:
1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick
type:
quotation
text:
Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.
ref:
2013 January 1, Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore, “Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, pages 47–48
type:
quotation
text:
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref:
2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
The improvements will be most keenly felt across Lincolnshire, where current irregular service patterns are more a function of operational convenience than passenger demand.
ref:
2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
"Calves", "cacti", and "children" are irregular plurals.
type:
example
text:
I hate learning all the irregular conjugations in French.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations
rough (of a surface)
without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity
not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal
whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each other)
not following the regular or expected patterns of inflection in a given language
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3218 | word:
irregular
word_type:
noun
expansion:
irregular (plural irregulars)
forms:
form:
irregulars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
irregular
etymology_text:
From Middle English irreguler, from Old French irreguler, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin irrēgulāris, from in- + regularis, equivalent to ir- + regular.
senses_examples:
text:
There's one neighborhood tavern where the regulars and irregulars go after a hard day to unlax and rewind, throw back a few, and just hang out - you know the one.
ref:
2015, Brian Cook, Hands Across The Sea, page 190
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and who may not use regular army tactics.
One who does not regularly attend a venue.
senses_topics:
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3219 | word:
eighth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
eighth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
eighth
etymology_text:
From Middle English eiȝtthe, from Old English eahtoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number eight.
senses_topics:
|
3220 | word:
eighth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eighth (plural eighths)
forms:
form:
eighths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
eighth
etymology_text:
From Middle English eiȝtthe, from Old English eahtoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the eighth position.
One of eight equal parts of a whole.
An eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs.
senses_topics:
|
3221 | word:
eighth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
eighth (third-person singular simple present eighths, present participle eighthing, simple past and past participle eighthed)
forms:
form:
eighths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
eighthing
tags:
participle
present
form:
eighthed
tags:
participle
past
form:
eighthed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
eighth
etymology_text:
From Middle English eiȝtthe, from Old English eahtoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô.
senses_examples:
text:
The first step is to eighth the script out. See figure 3.6 overleaf. Eighthing a script is subjective.
ref:
2013, Raindance Producers' Lab Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking, page 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to divide by eight
senses_topics:
|
3222 | word:
three
word_type:
num
expansion:
three
forms:
wikipedia:
three
etymology_text:
PIE word
*tréyes
From Middle English thre, threo, thrie, thri, from Old English þrī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Doublet of tres and trey.
Cognate with German drei, Albanian tre, Armenian երեք (erekʻ), Latin trēs, Latvian trīs, Lithuanian trỹs, Greek τρεῖς (treîs), Old Church Slavonic трьѥ (trĭje), and others.
senses_examples:
text:
Okay, on three, we open the door and jump on the rope. One, two…
Wait, wait! Do we go on three? Or do we go on “go”?
Three! Who said anything about “go”?
ref:
2003 April 7, Michelle Lamoreaux, Robert Lamoreaux, “A Spy is Born Part II”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Clover (Jennifer Hale as Samantha “Sam” and Andrea Taylor), Marathon Media, via Teletoon
type:
quotation
text:
Why should she care? One…two…
Do we shoot on three?
Yes on three. Like one, two, three, shoot.
ref:
2011 October 18, Paul Dini, Paul Crocker, Sefton Hill, Batman: Arkham City, spoken by Joker thugs, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, via Rocksteady Studios
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).
Describing a set or group with three elements.
senses_topics:
|
3223 | word:
three
word_type:
noun
expansion:
three (plural threes)
forms:
form:
threes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
three
etymology_text:
PIE word
*tréyes
From Middle English thre, threo, thrie, thri, from Old English þrī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Doublet of tres and trey.
Cognate with German drei, Albanian tre, Armenian երեք (erekʻ), Latin trēs, Latvian trīs, Lithuanian trỹs, Greek τρεῖς (treîs), Old Church Slavonic трьѥ (trĭje), and others.
senses_examples:
text:
Put all the threes in a separate container.
type:
example
text:
All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The digit/figure 3.
Anything measuring three units, as length.
A person who is three years old.
The playing card featuring three pips.
Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
Abbreviation of three-pointer.
senses_topics:
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
3224 | word:
quaghog
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quaghog (plural quaghogs)
forms:
form:
quaghogs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Amerindian kwag-hawg.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of quahog
senses_topics:
|
3225 | word:
approval
word_type:
noun
expansion:
approval (countable and uncountable, plural approvals)
forms:
form:
approvals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From approve + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
I need to get an approval on this purchase order.
type:
example
text:
Words of approval never seem to come from him.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression granting permission; an indication of agreement with a proposal; an acknowledgement that a person, thing, or event meets requirements.
An expression of favorable acceptance and encouragement; a compliment that also condones.
Something mailed by a seller to a collector to match their stated interests; the collector can approve of or return the item.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
philately |
3226 | word:
sieve
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sieve (plural sieves)
forms:
form:
sieves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sive, syfe, from Old English sife, from Proto-West Germanic *sibi (“sieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyp-, *seyb- (“to pour, sieve, strain, run, drip”). Akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef, Proto-Slavic *sito (Russian си́то (síto), сев (sev), се́ять (séjatʹ)).
senses_examples:
text:
Near-synonyms: sifter, strainer, temse
text:
Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.
type:
example
text:
Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.
type:
example
text:
Among, his other achievements, Matiyasevich and his colleague Boris Stechkin also developed an interesting “visual sieve” for prime numbers, which effectively “crosses out” all the composite numbers, leaving only the primes.
ref:
2010, Luke Mastin, “20TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS - ROBINSON AND MATIYASEVICH”, in www.storyofmathematics.com, retrieved 2013-09-08
type:
quotation
text:
To be a sieve was to lack clinical judgment, courage, and group loyalty all at once.
ref:
1997, Leo Galland, The Four Pillars of Healing, page 25
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
A kind of coarse basket.
A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under precomposition by any morphism in the category.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
3227 | word:
sieve
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sieve (third-person singular simple present sieves, present participle sieving, simple past and past participle sieved)
forms:
form:
sieves
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sieving
tags:
participle
present
form:
sieved
tags:
participle
past
form:
sieved
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sive, syfe, from Old English sife, from Proto-West Germanic *sibi (“sieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyp-, *seyb- (“to pour, sieve, strain, run, drip”). Akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef, Proto-Slavic *sito (Russian си́то (síto), сев (sev), се́ять (séjatʹ)).
senses_examples:
text:
This was their seventh defeat out of nine finals, including five in a row, and the second half was a chastening experience for the Serie A champions, culminating in them sieving more goals in one match than in the rest of the competition put together.
ref:
2017 June 3, Daniel Taylor, “Real Madrid win Champions League as Cristiano Ronaldo double defeats Juv”, in The Guardian (London)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
To concede; let in
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
3228 | word:
fifty
word_type:
num
expansion:
fifty
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*pénkʷe
From Middle English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“five tens”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
senses_topics:
|
3229 | word:
fifty
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fifty (plural fifties)
forms:
form:
fifties
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*pénkʷe
From Middle English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“five tens”).
senses_examples:
text:
Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?
type:
example
text:
‘If you shoot him I’ll give you fifty pounds.’
‘All right!’ The driver laughed. ‘I’ll do my best to earn that fifty!’
ref:
1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.
A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
3230 | word:
quaver
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quaver (plural quavers)
forms:
form:
quavers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
quaver
etymology_text:
From Middle English quaveren, frequentative form of quaven, cwavien (“to tremble”), equivalent to quave + -er. Cognate with Low German quabbeln (“to quiver”), German quabbeln, quappeln (“to quiver”). More at quave, quab, quiver.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A trembling shake.
A trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing.
an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
3231 | word:
quaver
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quaver (third-person singular simple present quavers, present participle quavering, simple past and past participle quavered)
forms:
form:
quavers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quavering
tags:
participle
present
form:
quavered
tags:
participle
past
form:
quavered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
quaver
etymology_text:
From Middle English quaveren, frequentative form of quaven, cwavien (“to tremble”), equivalent to quave + -er. Cognate with Low German quabbeln (“to quiver”), German quabbeln, quappeln (“to quiver”). More at quave, quab, quiver.
senses_examples:
text:
"Aw come on, guys!" The woman, clearly overwhelmed by the force of the two friends' personalities, quavered on the point of tears.
ref:
1982 December 11, Andrea Loewenstein, “The Joys of Community or Holiday-itis Strikes Back”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 21, page 12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To shake in a trembling manner.
To use the voice in a trembling manner, as in speaking or singing.
To utter quaveringly.
senses_topics:
|
3232 | word:
vocative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
vocative (comparative more vocative, superlative most vocative)
forms:
form:
more vocative
tags:
comparative
form:
most vocative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Vocative case
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Middle French vocatif, from Latin vocātīvus (“for calling”); a calque of Ancient Greek κλητῐκή (klētikḗ, “for calling; vocative case”) – from vocāre (“to call”), from Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-, o-grade of *wekʷ- (“give vocal utterance, speak”). See Latin vōx.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
Used in address; appellative (said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed). For example "Domine, O Lord"
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3233 | word:
vocative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vocative (plural vocatives)
forms:
form:
vocatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Vocative case
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Middle French vocatif, from Latin vocātīvus (“for calling”); a calque of Ancient Greek κλητῐκή (klētikḗ, “for calling; vocative case”) – from vocāre (“to call”), from Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-, o-grade of *wekʷ- (“give vocal utterance, speak”). See Latin vōx.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The vocative case
A word in the vocative case
Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
3234 | word:
shishkabob
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shishkabob (plural shishkabobs)
forms:
form:
shishkabobs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of shish kebab
senses_topics:
|
3235 | word:
shish kebob
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shish kebob (plural shish kebobs)
forms:
form:
shish kebobs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of shish kebab
senses_topics:
|
3236 | word:
tick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tick (plural ticks)
forms:
form:
ticks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tick (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English tyke, teke, from Old English ticia (“parasitic animal, tick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīkō, compare Dutch teek, German Zecke.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
senses_topics:
|
3237 | word:
tick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tick (plural ticks)
forms:
form:
ticks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tick (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English tek (“light touch, tap”).
senses_examples:
text:
The steady tick of the clock provided a comforting background for the conversation.
type:
example
text:
At midday, the long bond is up a tick.
type:
example
text:
I'll be back in a tick.
type:
example
text:
Indicate that you are willing to receive marketing material by putting a tick in the box
type:
example
text:
Kate's choice to don her pink suit again now, at the height of the Barbiecore trend, shows the royal really does have her finger on the pulse. That, paired with her statement belt and the fact pearls are having a real fashion moment (courtesy of the Met Gala) is three big ticks from us.
ref:
2023 May 26, Natasha Harding, Alexandria Dale, “Kate Middleton just re-wore her Alexander McQueen baby pink trouser suit”, in Women's Health
type:
quotation
text:
There are few birders who have not had stringy ticks on their lists at some stage.
ref:
1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
A twitcher's list is very democratic. Each bird counts as one tick. There are no extra points for beauty or rarity. The humble sparrow counts just as much as a Wedge-tailed Eagle or a Paradise Parrot.
ref:
2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 41
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
A short period of time, particularly a second.
A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
Each of the fixed time periods, in a tick-based game, in which players or characters may perform a set number of actions.
A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
A whinchat (Saxicola rubetra).
A tap or light touch.
A slight speck.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
games
gaming
biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
|
3238 | word:
tick
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tick (third-person singular simple present ticks, present participle ticking, simple past and past participle ticked)
forms:
form:
ticks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ticking
tags:
participle
present
form:
ticked
tags:
participle
past
form:
ticked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Tick (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English tek (“light touch, tap”).
senses_examples:
text:
As 2020 ticked over into 2021, some 240 worksites were active on HS2's Phase 1 route between London and the West Midlands.
ref:
2021 January 13, Richard Clinnick, “HS2 reaches key milestones and gears up for a busy 2021”, in Rail, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
He took the computer apart to see how it ticked.
type:
example
text:
I wonder what makes her tick.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
To make a tick or checkmark.
To work or operate, especially mechanically.
To strike gently; to pat.
To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
senses_topics:
biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology |
3239 | word:
tick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tick (countable and uncountable, plural ticks)
forms:
form:
ticks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tick (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English tike, probably from Middle Dutch, from Latin theca (“cover”).
senses_examples:
text:
She had an old tick for mattress that she stuffed with dried moss.
ref:
1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 101
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ticking.
A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
senses_topics:
|
3240 | word:
tick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tick (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Tick (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Clipping of ticket.
senses_examples:
text:
Immediately he got any money he would pay his debt; if there was any over he would spend it; if there was not—and there seldom was—he would begin to go on tick again.
ref:
1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 42, in The Way of All Flesh
type:
quotation
text:
He paid his mother-in-law rent and, when the baker or the butcher or the grocer wouldn't let her have any more on tick, he paid the bills.
ref:
1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, page 190
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Credit, trust.
senses_topics:
|
3241 | word:
tick
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tick (third-person singular simple present ticks, present participle ticking, simple past and past participle ticked)
forms:
form:
ticks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ticking
tags:
participle
present
form:
ticked
tags:
participle
past
form:
ticked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Tick (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Clipping of ticket.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To go on trust, or credit.
To give tick; to trust.
senses_topics:
|
3242 | word:
tick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tick (plural ticks)
forms:
form:
ticks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tick (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English tik-, tic-, tike-, tiken- (in compounds), an unassibilated form of Middle English tiche, tichen (“young goat”), from Old English tiċċen (“young goat; kid”), from Proto-West Germanic *tikkīn (“goatling”), diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *tigā (“goat”). Cognate with regional German Zicke (“nanny goat”), from Ziege (“goat; nanny goat”).
senses_examples:
text:
Tickhill, Tickham, Ticknock, Tickenhall Drive, Tickenhill Manor, Tickenhurst
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A goat.
senses_topics:
|
3243 | word:
king
word_type:
noun
expansion:
king (plural kings)
forms:
form:
kings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
king
etymology_text:
From Middle English king, kyng, from Old English cyng, cyning (“king”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz, *kunungaz (“king”), equivalent to kin + -ing. Doublet of cyning and knez. Cognate with Scots keeng (“king”), North Frisian köning (“king”), West Frisian kening (“king”), Dutch koning (“king”), Low German Koning, Köning (“king”), German König (“king”), Danish konge (“king”), Norwegian konge, Swedish konung, kung (“king”), Icelandic konungur, kóngur (“king”), Polish ksiądz (“priest”), Russian князь (knjazʹ, “prince”), Old Church Slavonic кънѧѕь (kŭnędzĭ), Romanian chinez, Finnish kuningas (“king”), Estonian kuningas, Ingrian kunigas, Karelian kuninkas, Livvi kuńingas, Ludian kuńingas, Veps kuningaz, Võro kuning and Votic kunikaz. Eclipsed non-native Middle English roy (“king”) (Early Modern English roy), borrowed from Old French roi, rei, rai (“king”).
senses_examples:
text:
Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.
type:
example
text:
The British Parliament has had made it for it in the past the claim that it could do anything excepting convert a woman into a man.[…]And the high court [of Amsterdam] has done it by deciding that all officials and public servants shall take their oath of allegiance not to Queen Wilhelmina but to King Wilhelmina.
ref:
1891 January 3, ““King” Wilhelmina”, in The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume LI, number III, Chicago, Ill., page 5, column 7
type:
quotation
text:
Hatshepsut was ruling as a king, not queen and she needed to be recognised as such.
ref:
2009, Charlotte Booth, “Hatshepsut”, in The Curse of the Mummy and Other Mysteries of Ancient Egypt, Oneworld Publications, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
The act of perforating one’s ears could be read as a gendering performance—a modification from an overt masculinity (king) to a tempered female masculinity (king with female traits)—in which the male king was expected to adopt the quintessence of Omeppa’s female king wife, Ebulejonu, and by so doing, embody the true essence of womanhood.[…]Attah-Ebulejonu, like Hatshepsut of Egypt before her, ruled as (and was remembered as) a king, not queen, perhaps setting the precedent for the coronation of another female king, Ahebi Ugbabe, about four centuries later.[…]This time, the female king would not rule in the Igala kingdom nor would she be of Igala origin. Instead, the king would be an Igbo woman who had lived in Igalaland for many years, who had come of age and matured there and in the process had imbibed the cultural values and mores of the people with whom she had lived in exile.
ref:
2011, Nwando Achebe, “Mgbapu Ahebi: Exile in Igalaland, ca. 1895–1916”, in The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe, Bloomington, Ind., Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, pages 63–64
type:
quotation
text:
Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media".
type:
example
text:
The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.
ref:
2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892
type:
quotation
text:
In times of financial panic, cash is king.
type:
example
text:
It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities, especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as the king of winking self-parody.
ref:
2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
In knockemdowns and bowls ten pins are used, the centre one being called the king, and the ball has to be grounded before it reaches the frame.
ref:
1878, John Henry Walsh, British Rural Sports, page 712
type:
quotation
text:
Oi mate, have you got kings?
type:
example
text:
Try asking for a king-size bed next time because kings are usually firmer.
ref:
2002, Scott W. Donkin, Gerard Meyer, Peak Performance: Body and Mind, page 119
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
A powerful or majorly influential person.
Something that has a preeminent position.
A component of certain games.
The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
A component of certain games.
A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
A component of certain games.
A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
A component of certain games.
The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
A king skin.
A male dragonfly; a drake.
A king-sized bed.
A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games
card-games
games
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences |
3244 | word:
king
word_type:
verb
expansion:
king (third-person singular simple present kings, present participle kinging, simple past and past participle kinged)
forms:
form:
kings
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kinging
tags:
participle
present
form:
kinged
tags:
participle
past
form:
kinged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
king
etymology_text:
From Middle English king, kyng, from Old English cyng, cyning (“king”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz, *kunungaz (“king”), equivalent to kin + -ing. Doublet of cyning and knez. Cognate with Scots keeng (“king”), North Frisian köning (“king”), West Frisian kening (“king”), Dutch koning (“king”), Low German Koning, Köning (“king”), German König (“king”), Danish konge (“king”), Norwegian konge, Swedish konung, kung (“king”), Icelandic konungur, kóngur (“king”), Polish ksiądz (“priest”), Russian князь (knjazʹ, “prince”), Old Church Slavonic кънѧѕь (kŭnędzĭ), Romanian chinez, Finnish kuningas (“king”), Estonian kuningas, Ingrian kunigas, Karelian kuninkas, Livvi kuńingas, Ludian kuńingas, Veps kuningaz, Võro kuning and Votic kunikaz. Eclipsed non-native Middle English roy (“king”) (Early Modern English roy), borrowed from Old French roi, rei, rai (“king”).
senses_examples:
text:
1982, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Review, Volume 47, page 16,
The kinging of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play […] .
text:
One narrative is the kinging and unkinging of Macbeth; the other narrative is the attack on Banquo's line and that line's eventual accession and supposed Jacobean survival through Malcolm's successful counter-attack on Macbeth.
ref:
2008, William Shakespeare, edited by A. R. Braunmuller, Macbeth, Introduction, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
1918, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, The Railroad Trainman, Volume 35, page 675,
He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.
text:
Second, Mentor (the old man) combined the wisdom of experience with the sensitivity of a fawn in his attempts to convey kinging skills to young Telemachus.
ref:
2001, Chip R. Bell, Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
The seating arrangement of the temple was the Almanach de Gotha of Congregation Emanu-el. Old Ben Reitman, patriarch among the Jewish settlers of Winnebago, who had come over an immigrant youth, and who now owned hundreds of rich farm acres, besides houses, mills and banks, kinged it from the front seat of the center section.
ref:
1917, Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
If the machine does this, it will lose only one point, and as it is not looking far enough ahead, it cannot see that it has not prevented its opponent from kinging but only postponed the evil day.
ref:
1957, Bertram Vivian Bowden, editor, Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines, page 302
type:
quotation
text:
I was about to make a move that would corner a piece that she was trying to get kinged, but I slid my checker back[…].
ref:
1986, Rick DeMarinis, The Burning Women of Far Cry, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
Through the ex-centric diaspora, kinging in postcolonial Australia has become a site of critical hybridity where diasporic female masculinities have emerged through the contestations of "home" and "host" cultures.
ref:
2008, Audrey Yue, “King Victoria: Asian Drag Kings, Postcolonial Female Masculinity, and Hybrid Sexuality in Australia”, in Fran Martin, Peter Jackson, Audrey Yue, Mark McLelland, editors, AsiaPacifQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities, page 266
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To crown king, to make (a person) king.
To rule over as king.
To perform the duties of a king.
To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
To dress and perform as a drag king.
senses_topics:
|
3245 | word:
king
word_type:
noun
expansion:
king (plural kings)
forms:
form:
kings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
king
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”)
senses_topics:
|
3246 | word:
granddaughter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
granddaughter (plural granddaughters)
forms:
form:
granddaughters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From grand- + daughter.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: grandson
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The daughter of someone's child.
senses_topics:
|
3247 | word:
here
word_type:
adv
expansion:
here (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
here
etymology_text:
From Middle English her, from Old English hēr (“at this place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hēr, from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r, from *hiz + *-r, from Proto-Indo-European *kís, from *ḱe + *ís.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian hier, West Frisian hjir, Dutch hier, German Low German hier, German hier, Danish her, Swedish här, Norwegian her, Faroese her, Icelandic hér. Also related to the English pronoun he (“this/that person”), and the words hither (“to this place”) and hence (“from this place”).
senses_examples:
text:
You wait here while I fetch my coat.
type:
example
text:
Here I stand.
type:
example
text:
Flu season is here.
type:
example
text:
Kilroy was here.
type:
example
text:
Ms. Doe is not here at the moment.
type:
example
text:
The Canadian visitor stated, “I’m not here to help you. I’m not here to do anything for you. I’m just here to get information.”
ref:
2008, Omar Khadr, Affidavit of Omar Ahmed Khadr
type:
quotation
text:
Oh, yes. I am here! — Good. You are there.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Please come here.
type:
example
text:
He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get.
ref:
1891, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
type:
quotation
text:
Derivatives can refer to anything that is derived from something else, but here they refer specifically to functions that give the slope of the tangent line to a curve.
type:
example
text:
The two great generalizations which the veteran Belgian astronomer has brought to bear on physiological and mental science, and which it is proposed to describe popularly here, may be briefly defined:
ref:
1872 May, Edward Burnett Tylor, “Quetelet on the Science of Man”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 1
type:
quotation
text:
The briefest characterization is all that will be attempted here.
ref:
1904 January 15, William James, “The Chicago School”, in Psychological Bulletin, 1.1, pages 1-5
type:
quotation
text:
Here endeth the lesson.
type:
example
text:
Here, perhaps I ought to stop.
ref:
1796, George Washington, Washington's Farewell Address
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In, on, or at this place.
To this place; used in place of the more dated hither.
In this context.
At this point in the argument, narration, or other, usually written, work.
senses_topics:
location
location
|
3248 | word:
here
word_type:
noun
expansion:
here (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
here
etymology_text:
From Middle English her, from Old English hēr (“at this place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hēr, from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r, from *hiz + *-r, from Proto-Indo-European *kís, from *ḱe + *ís.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian hier, West Frisian hjir, Dutch hier, German Low German hier, German hier, Danish her, Swedish här, Norwegian her, Faroese her, Icelandic hér. Also related to the English pronoun he (“this/that person”), and the words hither (“to this place”) and hence (“from this place”).
senses_examples:
text:
An Alzheimer patient's here may in his mind be anywhere he called home in the time he presently re-lives.
type:
example
text:
Here is where I met my spouse twelve years ago.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
This place; this location.
This time, the present situation.
senses_topics:
|
3249 | word:
here
word_type:
adj
expansion:
here (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
here
etymology_text:
From Middle English her, from Old English hēr (“at this place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hēr, from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r, from *hiz + *-r, from Proto-Indo-European *kís, from *ḱe + *ís.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian hier, West Frisian hjir, Dutch hier, German Low German hier, German hier, Danish her, Swedish här, Norwegian her, Faroese her, Icelandic hér. Also related to the English pronoun he (“this/that person”), and the words hither (“to this place”) and hence (“from this place”).
senses_examples:
text:
John here is a rascal.
type:
example
text:
This here orange is too sour.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Filler after a noun or demonstrative pronoun, solely for emphasis.
Filler after a demonstrative pronoun but before the noun it modifies, solely for emphasis.
senses_topics:
|
3250 | word:
here
word_type:
intj
expansion:
here
forms:
wikipedia:
here
etymology_text:
From Middle English her, from Old English hēr (“at this place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hēr, from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r, from *hiz + *-r, from Proto-Indo-European *kís, from *ḱe + *ís.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian hier, West Frisian hjir, Dutch hier, German Low German hier, German hier, Danish her, Swedish här, Norwegian her, Faroese her, Icelandic hér. Also related to the English pronoun he (“this/that person”), and the words hither (“to this place”) and hence (“from this place”).
senses_examples:
text:
Here, now I'm giving it to you.
type:
example
text:
Here, I'm tired and I want a drink.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used semi-assertively to offer something to the listener.
Used for emphasis at the beginning of a sentence when expressing an opinion or want.
senses_topics:
|
3251 | word:
reindeer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
reindeer (plural reindeer or reindeers)
forms:
form:
reindeer
tags:
plural
form:
reindeers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English reyndere, reynder, rayne-dere, from Old Norse hreindýri (“reindeer”), from hreinn (“reindeer”) + dýr (“animal”). Compare Dutch rendier (“reindeer”), German Renntier (“reindeer”), Swedish rendjur (“reindeer”), Danish rensdyr (“reindeer”). Related also to displaced Old English hrān (“reindeer”). Unrelated to rein.
senses_examples:
text:
Santa Claus' sleigh is supposedly pulled by eight reindeer
type:
example
text:
Here is a prodigious number of wild beaſts, as ſtags, bears, wolves, foxes of various colours, martens, hares, glittens, beavers, otters, elk, and rein deer: the latter is leſs than a stag.
ref:
1768, D[aniel] Fenning, “LAPLAND”, in The Royal English Dictionary; or, A Treasury of the English Language, 3rd improved edition, London: Printed for R. Baldwin, Hawes and Co., T. Caslon, S. Crowder, J. Johnson, Wilson and Fell, Robinson and Roberts, and B. Collins, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
ref:
2013 March, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 2016-04-13, page 98
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any Arctic and subarctic-dwelling deer of the species Rangifer tarandus, with a number of subspecies.
Any species, subspecies, ecotype, or other scientific grouping of such animals.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
3252 | word:
reindeer
word_type:
verb
expansion:
reindeer (third-person singular simple present reindeers, present participle reindeering, simple past and past participle reindeered)
forms:
form:
reindeers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
reindeering
tags:
participle
present
form:
reindeered
tags:
participle
past
form:
reindeered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English reyndere, reynder, rayne-dere, from Old Norse hreindýri (“reindeer”), from hreinn (“reindeer”) + dýr (“animal”). Compare Dutch rendier (“reindeer”), German Renntier (“reindeer”), Swedish rendjur (“reindeer”), Danish rensdyr (“reindeer”). Related also to displaced Old English hrān (“reindeer”). Unrelated to rein.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To herd or farm reindeer
senses_topics:
|
3253 | word:
upas
word_type:
noun
expansion:
upas (usually uncountable, plural upases)
forms:
form:
upases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:upas
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Malay upas.
senses_examples:
text:
[I]t is an all-blasting upas, whose root is earth, and whose leaves are the skies which rain their poison-dews upon mankind.
ref:
1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 11, in Nightmare Abbey, Hookham, published 1818
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.
A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows derived from the tree.
A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute.
senses_topics:
|
3254 | word:
yakitori
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yakitori (countable and uncountable, plural yakitori or yakitoris)
forms:
form:
yakitori
tags:
plural
form:
yakitoris
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 焼き鳥 (やきとり), from 焼き (yaki, “grilled, toasted”) + 鳥 (tori, “bird”).
senses_examples:
text:
We should have the bazaars full of yakitori pitches and geishas in bamboo cages.
ref:
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 851
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Japanese shish kebab-type dish made with small pieces of chicken or other ingredients cooked on skewers, often marinated in soy sauce or seasoned with salt.
senses_topics:
|
3255 | word:
in-law
word_type:
noun
expansion:
in-law (plural in-laws)
forms:
form:
in-laws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From -in-law.
senses_examples:
text:
Louie: 'Neither boiling nor baking can diminish this creature's overpowering musky scent. Only suitable for serving to unpleasant in-laws.'
ref:
2004, Nintendo EAD, Pikmin 2, Nintendo, level/area: Piklopedia
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A relative by marriage (or through affinity).
Sometimes specifically a parent-in-law of one's child, for which the dedicated terms co-mother-in-law, co-father-in-law are rare.
senses_topics:
|
3256 | word:
X
word_type:
num
expansion:
X
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Introduced by René Descartes in the context of mathematical notation, but has since widened to other contexts.
senses_examples:
text:
Let x represent the forecast traffic flow in 20 years’ time.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An unknown quantity or unknown value.
senses_topics:
|
3257 | word:
X
word_type:
name
expansion:
X
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Introduced by René Descartes in the context of mathematical notation, but has since widened to other contexts.
senses_examples:
text:
The woman known until now as Witness X has been unmasked after a court ruling.
type:
example
text:
Suppose that Mr and Mrs X have been married for many years.
type:
example
text:
Malcolm X
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A placeholder for an unknown, suppressed or hypothetical name.
A surname, used by those who have had their identity or heritage, including their proper ancestral names, erased or forgotten.
senses_topics:
government
politics |
3258 | word:
X
word_type:
character
expansion:
X (upper case, lower case x, plural Xs or X's)
forms:
form:
x
tags:
lowercase
form:
Xs
tags:
plural
form:
X's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, called ex and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
3259 | word:
X
word_type:
noun
expansion:
X
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any mark that looks like that letter, such as a mark made by a person who cannot read or write in lieu of a signature.
The spot behind the goal.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lacrosse
lifestyle
sports |
3260 | word:
X
word_type:
adj
expansion:
X (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Intersex or non-binary (in passports and identification documents).
senses_topics:
|
3261 | word:
X
word_type:
noun
expansion:
X (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Presumably by abbreviation of the pronunciation of ecstasy.
senses_examples:
text:
You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub'. Look, mami, I got the X if you into takin' drugs.
ref:
2003 January 7, “In da Club” (track 5), in Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent
type:
quotation
text:
Tonight the kids will go out and party down in a more righteous mode. Alcohol and not a few tabs of X will be ingested. Club music will throb through big speakers.
ref:
2008, Stephen King, Graduation Weekend
type:
quotation
text:
I'm a love druggie falling for these drug junkies. Come n call on me besides these X parties. It's fucking hard on my body.
ref:
2018 June 8, “Love Druggie”performed by Mendoza
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ecstasy, a particular street drug.
senses_topics:
|
3262 | word:
X
word_type:
adj
expansion:
X (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
If you go to an X movie you do so knowingly, as does everyone else in the audience. Or if the same thing comes up on TV you can switch over, or, if you wish, enjoy it in relative privacy.
ref:
1976, Movie Maker, volume 10, numbers 1-6, page 364
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Suitable only for those aged 16 or (later) 18 years and over.
Obscene.
senses_topics:
|
3263 | word:
X
word_type:
name
expansion:
X
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Christ by abbreviation, orthographic borrowing from Ancient Greek Χ (Kh, letter chi), from Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Christ
senses_topics:
|
3264 | word:
X
word_type:
noun
expansion:
X (plural Xes)
forms:
form:
Xes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From cross, due to the X symbol being a cross saltire.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cross, crossing.
senses_topics:
|
3265 | word:
X
word_type:
adj
expansion:
X (comparative more X, superlative most X)
forms:
form:
more X
tags:
comparative
form:
most X
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of extreme.
senses_topics:
|
3266 | word:
design
word_type:
noun
expansion:
design (countable and uncountable, plural designs)
forms:
form:
designs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English designen, from Old French designer, from Latin designō (“I mark out, point out, describe, design, contrive”), from de- (or dis-) + signō (“I mark”), from signum (“mark”). Doublet of designate.
senses_examples:
text:
The initial design of the park was rejected for being too expensive.
type:
example
text:
We're working on some new designs for our range of summer shirts
type:
example
text:
We have designs on winning the league next season.
type:
example
text:
To be hateful of the truth by design.
type:
example
text:
I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.
ref:
1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisisana, PG, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]
ref:
1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools, volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202
type:
quotation
text:
Lisicki will rise from her current ranking of 62 to at least 35 in the world on the back of her efforts at the All England Club, but she will have serious designs on a first Grand Slam title after overcoming the 2007 runner-up.
ref:
2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
To have evil designs.
type:
example
text:
Danish furniture design is world-famous.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A specification of an object or process, referring to requirements to be satisfied and thus conditions to be met for them to solve a problem.
A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
The composition of a work of art.
Intention or plot.
Intention or plot.
Malicious or malevolent intention.
The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
The art of designing
senses_topics:
|
3267 | word:
design
word_type:
verb
expansion:
design (third-person singular simple present designs, present participle designing, simple past and past participle designed)
forms:
form:
designs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
designing
tags:
participle
present
form:
designed
tags:
participle
past
form:
designed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English designen, from Old French designer, from Latin designō (“I mark out, point out, describe, design, contrive”), from de- (or dis-) + signō (“I mark”), from signum (“mark”). Doublet of designate.
senses_examples:
text:
She designed his retirement from the Royal Irish Artillery, and had negociated an immediate berth for him on the Staff of the Commander of the Forces, and a prospective one in the household of Lord Townshend […]
ref:
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
type:
quotation
text:
The king designed to mount an expedition to the New World.
type:
example
text:
He was designed to the study of the law.
ref:
1700, John Dryden, Translations from Ovid's Epistles, Preface
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
To plan (to do something).
To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.
To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
To manifest requirements to be satisfied by an object or process for them to solve a problem.
senses_topics:
|
3268 | word:
septuplet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
septuplet (plural septuplets)
forms:
form:
septuplets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From septuple + -et.
senses_examples:
text:
Lady (Alyson Levy): Where are my babies? Where are my babies?
Xavier (Vernon Chatman): Keep it down, lady, we got families around here.
Lady: Aaaah, have you seen my babies?
Xavier: I'm poppin' a peek at a smokin' babe right now.
Lady: I lost seven of my babies!
Xavier: Tragic, I've got septuplets myself. I don't know what I'd do if I lost them. Good thing I'm a responsible parent. You should try it sometime.
ref:
2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of seven, particularly (music) a tuplet of seven notes.
One of a group of seven, particularly one of seven babies born at the same birth.
senses_topics:
|
3269 | word:
octuplet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
octuplet (plural octuplets)
forms:
form:
octuplets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From octuple + -et.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of eight things, particularly
An eight-part multiplet.
A group of eight things, particularly
A group of eight children born together.
A group of eight things, particularly
A group of eight notes played in the time of six.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
3270 | word:
cockroach
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cockroach (plural cockroaches)
forms:
form:
cockroaches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish cucaracha, from cuca (“butterfly caterpillars”), of onomatopoeic origin; see also Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux) and Late Latin cucus. Influenced, via folk etymology, by cock and roach. Doublet of cucaracha.
senses_examples:
text:
Then there were cockroach hunts; we chased them out of their haunts, where at night they busily devoured currants, jam, and sugar; in fact their diet was far more varied than ours, for they made plentiful meals off our boots, the coverings of our books, and any stray pieces of flannel that came in their way.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 121
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea.
A person or a member of a group of people regarded as undesirable and rapidly procreating.
A person from New South Wales.
A hard lump of brown sugar.
senses_topics:
|
3271 | word:
pink
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pink (plural pinks)
forms:
form:
pinks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pink
etymology_text:
Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pincken (“blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked.
senses_examples:
text:
My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink.
type:
example
text:
pink:
text:
light pink:
text:
This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks.
type:
example
text:
Your hat, madam, is the very pink of fashion.
type:
example
text:
I had taken it for granted that there would be people ‘in pink’, but these enormous confident strangers overwhelmed me with the visible authenticity of their brick-red coats.
ref:
1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
it is interesting to note the curious legend that the pink of the hunting field is not due to any optical advantage but to an entirely different reason.
ref:
1986, Michael J. O'Shea, James Joyce and Heraldry, SUNY, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
Oh dear, he's left himself snookered behind the pink.
type:
example
text:
My own guess is that there are some pinks in the State Department and in other government departments and agencies, and of course they should be found and ousted; but it seems to me that this can be done without besmirching innocent people and without making such broadside charges that people will lose faith in all government.
ref:
1981, Edwin R. Bayley, quoting Ben Hibbs, Joe McCarthy and the Press, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
Then Eddie did what he calls, 'Two in the pink, one in the stink.' “I held up my right forefinger and middle finger and said, “Two.” Then I held up my ring finger and said “One. Two in the pussy, one in the ass.”
ref:
2020 March 23, Mike Hatch, The Dumb Class: Boomer Junior High, Mike Hatch H&A Publishing, page 78
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A colour reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
A colour reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
Pale red.
A colour reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.
Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
Alternative form of pinko
The vagina or vulva.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
|
3272 | word:
pink
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pink (comparative pinker, superlative pinkest)
forms:
form:
pinker
tags:
comparative
form:
pinkest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
pink
etymology_text:
Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pincken (“blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked.
senses_examples:
text:
The word "socialist" has so many connotations that it can cover almost anything from pink liberalism to red-red communism.
ref:
1976, Bhalchandra Pundlik Adarkar, The Future of the Constitution: A Critical Analysis
type:
quotation
text:
pink-collar
type:
example
text:
pink job
type:
example
text:
the pink economy
type:
example
text:
pink pound
type:
example
text:
pink dollar
type:
example
text:
pink triangle
type:
example
text:
The lesbian and gay movement must decide whether the Parade is for celebrating how far we've come as we further our struggle for liberation, or whether it is going to be just another profit-making industry, supporting lesbian and gay careerism and becoming part of the Establishment (albeit a pink one!)
ref:
1991 August 24, Lori Nairne, “Whose Parade Is It, Anyway?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
Having conjunctivitis.
By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
Relating to women or girls.
Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
senses_topics:
|
3273 | word:
pink
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pink (third-person singular simple present pinks, present participle pinking, simple past and past participle pinked)
forms:
form:
pinks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pinking
tags:
participle
present
form:
pinked
tags:
participle
past
form:
pinked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
pink
etymology_text:
Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pincken (“blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked.
senses_examples:
text:
The woman’s pale skin pinked as she shook her head. “No. It’s out of my budget. Come on, Sammy”
ref:
2014, Teresa Carpenter, Her Boss by Arrangement, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
They are all nearly nude, pinked and bronzed by the sun.
ref:
1961, Tennessee Williams, The Night of the Iguana, New Directions Publishing, published 2009, act II, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
The rabbits, still lining the roadside, but now pinked by dawn, craned their necks to follow her departure.
ref:
1985, Carl Sagan, chapter 3, in Contact, Simon & Schuster, published 1997, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
Because heating is relatively easy to perform once one is trained to do it, it can be assumed that any pink topaz from Brazil, the gem’s main modern producer, is colored more by man than nature.[…] Relatively few stones from Brazil have this trace element in enough quantity for what dealers call “pinking.”
ref:
2012, David Federman, Modern Jeweler’s Consumer Guide to Colored Gemstones, page 227
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become pink in color, to redden.
To turn (something) pink.
To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
senses_topics:
|
3274 | word:
pink
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pink (plural pinks)
forms:
form:
pinks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pink
etymology_text:
Unknown. Some lexicographers suggest comparison to regional German Pinke (“minnow; small salmon”), but this is not widely accepted.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
senses_topics:
|
3275 | word:
pink
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pink (plural pinks)
forms:
form:
pinks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pink
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle Dutch pincke. Compare French pinque.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A narrow boat.
senses_topics:
|
3276 | word:
pink
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pink (third-person singular simple present pinks, present participle pinking, simple past and past participle pinked)
forms:
form:
pinks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pinking
tags:
participle
present
form:
pinked
tags:
participle
past
form:
pinked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
pink
etymology_text:
Probably ultimately imitative, or from Dutch pingelen (“to do fine needlework”) or Low German [Term?]; compare Low German pinken (“hit, peck”) and Pinke (“big needle”).
senses_examples:
text:
Within three seconds D'Artagnan pinked him thrice, dedicating each thrust as he dealt it. “One for Athos!" he cried. “One for Porthos!" and at the last, “one for Aramis!”
ref:
1999 [1844], Jacques Le Clercq, The Three Musketeers, translation of original by Alexandre Dumas, page 187
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
To prick with a sword.
To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
senses_topics:
|
3277 | word:
pink
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pink (plural pinks)
forms:
form:
pinks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pink
etymology_text:
Probably ultimately imitative, or from Dutch pingelen (“to do fine needlework”) or Low German [Term?]; compare Low German pinken (“hit, peck”) and Pinke (“big needle”).
senses_examples:
text:
At a great word she will her poynard draw, Looke for the pincke if once thou giue the lye.
ref:
1601, Weever, Mirr. Mart., C j
text:
A freebooter’s pink, sir, three or four inches deep.
ref:
1607, Thomas Middleton, Your Five Gallants, iii 5
type:
quotation
text:
The fellow's a shrewd fellow at a pink.
ref:
1638, “Lady's Trial”, in Ford, III. i
type:
quotation
text:
He is spotted with marks of stabs and revolver 'pinks', and he takes all his wounds quite as matter of course.
ref:
1885 May 13, Pall Mall G., 4/I
type:
quotation
text:
Item,..for iiil* powdringis and pinkis to the sam goune, .xij s
ref:
1512, Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot, IV 215
type:
quotation
text:
small pinks, cuts or iagges in clothes
ref:
1598, Florio, Tagliuzzi
type:
quotation
text:
Is this pinke of equall proportion to this cut?
ref:
1599, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Rev., volume iv
type:
quotation
text:
You had rather have / An ulcer in your body than a pink / More in your clothes.
ref:
c. 1632–1641, Ben Jonson, Magnetick Lady, iii. 4
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron.
A small hole or puncture made by a sharp, slender instrument such as a rapier, poniard or dagger, or (by extension) a bullet; a stab.
A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron.
A small hole or eyelet punched in a garment for decoration, as with a pinking iron; a scallop.
senses_topics:
|
3278 | word:
pink
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pink (third-person singular simple present pinks, present participle pinking, simple past and past participle pinked)
forms:
form:
pinks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pinking
tags:
participle
present
form:
pinked
tags:
participle
past
form:
pinked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
pink
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
text:
And then the record changed, a piano pinking high a Poulenc-like theme.
ref:
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 590
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
senses_topics:
|
3279 | word:
pink
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pink (third-person singular simple present pinks, present participle pinking, simple past and past participle pinked)
forms:
form:
pinks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pinking
tags:
participle
present
form:
pinked
tags:
participle
past
form:
pinked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
pink
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dutch pinken.
senses_examples:
text:
A Hungry Fox that had got a Cock in his Eye, and could not tell how to come at him ; cast himself at his Length upon the Ground, and there he lay winking and pinking as if he had Sore Eyes.
ref:
1692, Roger L'Estrange, “A Fox and a Cock”, in Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, page 409
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wink; to blink.
senses_topics:
|
3280 | word:
pink
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pink (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
pink
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dutch pinken.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Half-shut; winking.
senses_topics:
|
3281 | word:
pink
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pink (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
pink
etymology_text:
Unknown. Attested from the late 15th century.
senses_examples:
text:
To make Dutch pink, boil the stems of woad in a solution of alum, and then mix the liquor with clay, marl, or chalk, which will become mixed with the colour of the decoction
ref:
1816, Pierre François Tingry, The Painter and Varnisher's Guide, page 245
type:
quotation
text:
Carlyle (2001) lists from her study of nineteenth century British documentary sources yellow carmine, Dutch pink, English pink and yellow lake in descending order of intensity.
ref:
2008, Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, Pigment Compendium, page 156
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green, or brown shades made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
senses_topics:
|
3282 | word:
grandchild
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grandchild (plural grandchildren)
forms:
form:
grandchildren
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From grand- + child.
senses_examples:
text:
...he fell into amazement when he thought of the Herculean labours those fifteen pairs of hands had performed: of the cows they had milked, the butter they had made, the gardens they had planted, the children and grandchildren they had tended, the brooms they had worn out, the mountains of food they had cooked. It made him dizzy.
ref:
1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl:
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A child of someone's child.
senses_topics:
|
3283 | word:
sextuplet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sextuplet (plural sextuplets)
forms:
form:
sextuplets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sextuplet
etymology_text:
From sextuple + -et.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of six objects.
One of a group of six persons or animals born from the same mother during the same birth.
A group of six notes played in the time of four.
A group of six notes played in the time of four, with accents on the first, third and fifth notes.
A group of six notes played in the time of four.
A group of six notes played in the time of four, with accents on the first and fourth notes; a double triplet.
A group of six notes played in the time of four.
A group of six notes played in the time of four, with an accent only on the first note.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
3284 | word:
deer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
deer (plural deer or (nonstandard) deers)
forms:
form:
deer
tags:
plural
form:
deers
tags:
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
deer
deer (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English deere, dere, der, dier, deor (“small animal, deer”), from Old English dēor (“animal”), from Proto-West Germanic *deuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *deuzą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewsóm (“living thing”), from *dʰéws (“breath”), full-grade derivative of *dʰwes-.
Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“deer”), North Frisian dier (“animal, beast”), West Frisian dier (“animal, beast”), Dutch dier (“animal, beast”), German Low German Deer, Deert (“animal”), German Tier (“animal, beast”), Swedish djur (“animal, beast”), Norwegian dyr (“animal, beast”), Icelandic dýr (“animal, beast”), Danish dyr (“animal, beast”).
Related also to Albanian dash (“ram”) (possibly), Lithuanian daũsos (“upper air; heaven”), Lithuanian dùsti (“to sigh”), Russian душа́ (dušá, “breath, spirit”), Lithuanian dvėsti (“to breathe, exhale”), Sanskrit ध्वंसति (dhvaṃsati, “he falls to dust”).
For the semantic development compare Latin animālis (“animal”), from anima (“breath, spirit”).
senses_examples:
text:
I wrecked my car after a deer ran across the road.
type:
example
text:
Oh, I've never had deer before.
type:
example
text:
But mice and rats and such small deer, have been Tom's food for seven long year.
ref:
1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act III, scene IV
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla.
One of the smaller animals of this family, distinguished from a moose or elk
The meat of such an animal; venison.
Any animal, especially a quadrupedal mammal as opposed to a bird, fish, etc.
senses_topics:
|
3285 | word:
conditional
word_type:
adj
expansion:
conditional (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French condicionel (French conditionnel).
senses_examples:
text:
I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.
type:
example
text:
Every covenant of God with man […] may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared.
ref:
1753, William Warburton, The Character and Conduct of the Messengers
type:
quotation
text:
"A implies B" is a conditional statement.
type:
example
text:
A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another.
ref:
1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic
type:
quotation
text:
a conditional word, mode, or tense
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Limited by a condition.
Stating that one sentence is true if another is.
Expressing a condition or supposition.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3286 | word:
conditional
word_type:
noun
expansion:
conditional (plural conditionals)
forms:
form:
conditionals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French condicionel (French conditionnel).
senses_examples:
text:
"A implies B" is a conditional.
type:
example
text:
Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals
ref:
1867, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater, Manual of Elementary Logic, quoted in OED
type:
quotation
text:
if and while are conditionals in some programming languages.
type:
example
text:
The former is called the law, which hath his promises, conditionals, and comminations or threats, accordingly; the other is called the gospel, or rather the free promises hanging not on conditions on our behalf, but simply on God's verity and mercy, although they require conditions, but not as hanging thereon; of which promises the gospel may well be called a publication.
ref:
1832, John Bradford, Memoirs of the Life and Martyrdom of John Bradford, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
GOD grant us to be clean beasts, to cleave the hoofs accordingly, that is, to give the old man meat, meet for the owers, that is, the law with his appurtenances, conditionals, promises, and comminations; and to give to the new man the gospel and sweet free promises, as appertaineth; and then doubtless we shall walk in the right high-way unto eternal life, that is, in Christ Jesus, the end of the law and the fulfilling of the promises, in whome they be yea and Amen.
ref:
1837, The Letters of the Martyrs: Collected and Published in 1564, page 363
type:
quotation
text:
For mine own part, I confess I do not in any measure think it needful to insist upon the conditionals of these assertions of the Holy Ghost, as to the removal of any or all the oppositions that from them, of old or of late, have been raised and framed against the doctrine of the saints' perseverance, there being in neither of the texts insisted on either name or thing inquired after, nor any one of all the severals inquired into, and constantly in the Scriptures used, in the description of the saints and believers of whom we speak.
ref:
1853, John Owen, edited by Rev. William H. Goold, The Works of John Owen, D. D., page 640
type:
quotation
text:
There were so many ways to answer, yet each potential response seemed out of context, inadequate. The problem with context—and any conditionals I might apply in my answer—was the high risk that Jim and Margot dismiss it all as “hedging,” as positioning myself to win the engagement.
ref:
2009, Dennis J. Roberts, Mergers & Acquisitions
type:
quotation
text:
Sanders questions this move under a model that assumes comprehensive divine foreknowledge because there aren't any conditionals; the outcome is certain: “How can a conditional promise be genuine if God already foreknows the human response and so foreknows that he will, in fact, never fulfill the promise?"
ref:
2018, John D. Laing, Middle Knowledge: Human Freedom in Divine Sovereignty
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.
The conditional mood.
A statement that one sentence is true if another is.
An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.
A condition (a limitation or restriction).
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
|
3287 | word:
grandson
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grandson (plural grandsons)
forms:
form:
grandsons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From grand- + son.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: granddaughter
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A son of one's child.
senses_topics:
|
3288 | word:
quintuplet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quintuplet (plural quintuplets)
forms:
form:
quintuplets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
quintuplet
etymology_text:
From quintuple + -et, from Middle French quintuple.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of five, particularly (music) a tuplet of five notes to be played in the time for four.
One of a group of five, particularly babies born from the same mother during the same birth.
A cycle adapted for five riders, all of whom can assist in the propulsion.
senses_topics:
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3289 | word:
sixth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sixth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
sixth
etymology_text:
From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô.
senses_examples:
text:
Dr. Ridpath, in his usual happy manner, thanked the Executive Committee and the various members of the Association who had so earnestly cooperated with him in the work of the Sixth Annual Meeting now drawing to a close.
ref:
1892, Western Association of Writers, Sayings and Doings of the Sixth General Meeting, Jones Brothers Publishing Company, pages 271–272
type:
quotation
text:
As this sixth edition is published in 2011, it is exactly 25 years since the publication of the first edition in 1986. That, in itself, is a very sobering thought, for all kinds of reasons.
ref:
2011 February 25, Peter Dicken, Global Shift, Sixth Edition: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy, Guilford Press, page xi
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number six.
senses_topics:
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3290 | word:
sixth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sixth (plural sixths)
forms:
form:
sixths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sixth
etymology_text:
From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the sixth position.
One of six equal parts of a whole.
The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale, for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth. (Note that the interval covers six notes counting inclusively, for example C-D-E-F-G-A.)
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
3291 | word:
sixth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sixth (third-person singular simple present sixths, present participle sixthing, simple past and past participle sixthed)
forms:
form:
sixths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sixthing
tags:
participle
present
form:
sixthed
tags:
participle
past
form:
sixthed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
sixth
etymology_text:
From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô.
senses_examples:
text:
Why would anyone use sixthing when any (N − a²) divisible by 6 would also be divisible by 3? The answer is that sometimes the numerator and/or the denominator is simpler in sixthing,
ref:
1993, Dead Reckoning: Calculating Without Instruments, page 102
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to divide by six, which also means multiplying a denominator by six
senses_topics:
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3292 | word:
Castilian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Castilian
forms:
wikipedia:
Castilian
etymology_text:
From Castile + -ian as a calque of Spanish castellano (“Of or related to Castile, Spain, or the Spanish language”). Doublet of castellano, castellanus, castellan, and chatelain.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Castilian dialect of Spanish, often (especially historically) considered the prestige dialect of Spanish.
Synonym of Spanish, the language of Spain and its former colonies.
senses_topics:
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3293 | word:
Castilian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Castilian (plural Castilians)
forms:
form:
Castilians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Castilian
etymology_text:
From Castile + -ian as a calque of Spanish castellano (“Of or related to Castile, Spain, or the Spanish language”). Doublet of castellano, castellanus, castellan, and chatelain.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native of Castile.
senses_topics:
|
3294 | word:
Castilian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Castilian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Castilian
etymology_text:
From Castile + -ian as a calque of Spanish castellano (“Of or related to Castile, Spain, or the Spanish language”). Doublet of castellano, castellanus, castellan, and chatelain.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or relating to Castile.
senses_topics:
|
3295 | word:
genitive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
genitive (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
genitive
etymology_text:
From Renaissance Latin cāsus genitīvus (literally “case pertaining to origin, birth”) (also spelled cāsus genetīvus), from genitus, the perfect passive participle of gignō (“beget”).
senses_examples:
text:
The student who had taken a German exam realised his error afterwards. He had used the dative case instead of the genitive case to show possession.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses a quality, origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3296 | word:
genitive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
genitive (countable and uncountable, plural genitives)
forms:
form:
genitives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
genitive
etymology_text:
From Renaissance Latin cāsus genitīvus (literally “case pertaining to origin, birth”) (also spelled cāsus genetīvus), from genitus, the perfect passive participle of gignō (“beget”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession.
A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3297 | word:
fifth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fifth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
fifth
etymology_text:
PIE word
*pénkʷe
From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five + -th. Cognate with Scots fift, fyft (“fifth”), North Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), West Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), Dutch vijfde (“fifth”), Low German fifte, föfte, füfte (“fifth”), German fünfte (“fifth”), Danish femte (“fifth”), Swedish femte (“fifth”), Icelandic fimmta (“fifth”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number five.
senses_topics:
|
3298 | word:
fifth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fifth (plural fifths)
forms:
form:
fifths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fifth
etymology_text:
PIE word
*pénkʷe
From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five + -th. Cognate with Scots fift, fyft (“fifth”), North Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), West Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), Dutch vijfde (“fifth”), Low German fifte, föfte, füfte (“fifth”), German fünfte (“fifth”), Danish femte (“fifth”), Swedish femte (“fifth”), Icelandic fimmta (“fifth”).
senses_examples:
text:
Now I've heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do ya? / It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
ref:
1984, Leonard Cohen (lyrics and music), “Hallelujah”, in Various Positions
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the fifth position.
The person or thing in the fifth position.
The fifth gear of a transmission.
One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)
The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
3299 | word:
fifth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fifth (third-person singular simple present fifths, present participle fifthing, simple past and past participle fifthed)
forms:
form:
fifths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fifthing
tags:
participle
present
form:
fifthed
tags:
participle
past
form:
fifthed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
fifth
etymology_text:
PIE word
*pénkʷe
From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five + -th. Cognate with Scots fift, fyft (“fifth”), North Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), West Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), Dutch vijfde (“fifth”), Low German fifte, föfte, füfte (“fifth”), German fünfte (“fifth”), Danish femte (“fifth”), Swedish femte (“fifth”), Icelandic fimmta (“fifth”).
senses_examples:
text:
Another extension of strict organum is 'fifthing'. Fifthing is a note-against- note method of creating a two-part texture by improvising a second voice over the given tune, starting and ending each musical phrase at the octave and proceeding mainly in fifths above the tune at others times.
ref:
1996, Music in Early English Religious Drama: Minstrels playing, page 510
type:
quotation
text:
Each of these three groups contributes some special insight into the nature of fifthing and the context in which it was practiced.
ref:
1978, Discant and the Theory of Fifthing
type:
quotation
text:
Though seconding (or fifthing) the praise for “BoJack Horseman” and “In Treatment,” I think I’ll use the majority of my space to discuss “You’re the Worst.”
ref:
2017, Critics Pick the TV Shows That Get Mental Health Right — IndieWire Survey
type:
quotation
text:
3/5 has been through fifthing. 2/3 has been through thirding. Therefore, 3/5 now needs thirding and 2/3 needs fifthing
ref:
2006, Mathematics for Dyslexics: Including Dyscalculia, page 188
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
To divide by five.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
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