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3300 | word:
quadruplet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quadruplet (plural quadruplets)
forms:
form:
quadruplets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
quadruplet
etymology_text:
From quadruple + -et.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A set of four, particularly
A tuplet of four notes.
A set of four, particularly
A sequence of four elements.
One of a group of four, particularly one of four babies born from the same mother during the same birth.
A cycle for carrying four riders, arranged so that all the riders can assist in the propulsion.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
3301 | word:
unvail
word_type:
verb
expansion:
unvail (third-person singular simple present unvails, present participle unvailing, simple past and past participle unvailed)
forms:
form:
unvails
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
unvailing
tags:
participle
present
form:
unvailed
tags:
participle
past
form:
unvailed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + vail.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of unveil.
senses_topics:
|
3302 | word:
hand-hole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hand-hole (plural hand-holes)
forms:
form:
hand-holes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hand + hole.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small hole in a steam boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc.
senses_topics:
|
3303 | word:
Montreal
word_type:
name
expansion:
Montreal
forms:
wikipedia:
Montreal
etymology_text:
From French Montréal; from Mont Royal (“Mount Royal”) (mont + royal), after the nearby hill by Jacques Cartier. It is uncertain how Royal became -real. A common explanation is that real is the Middle French form of Royal, but Cartier himself recorded le mont Royal when he named it. It may have perhaps been from the Italian G.B. Rasmusio's 1556 map translating the name to Italian Monte Real.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: 514
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
A river port, the largest city in Quebec, Canada.
A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
An island in Quebec, Canada, on which the city is situated.
A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
Ellipsis of Montreal Archipelago.; An archipelago on the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, which contains the island.
A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
An administrative region of Quebec, Canada, containing the island.
A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
A metropolitan area in Quebec, Canada, containing the archipelago.
A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
A former county of Quebec, Canada, containing the archipelago.
A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
A district of Quebec, Canada, containing the county.
A judicial district in Quebec, Canada
A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
A district of Quebec, Canada, containing the county.
A former administrative district in Quebec, Canada
A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
A district of Quebec, British North America
A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
A district of Canada, New France
A river in Algoma and Sudbury districts, Ontario, Canada.
A river in Timiskaming district, Ontario, Canada.
A river in No. 18, Saskatchewan, Canada.
An unincorporated community in Camden County, Missouri, United States.
A small city in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States.
A river on the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, United States.
A river in northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States.
senses_topics:
|
3304 | word:
son-in-law
word_type:
noun
expansion:
son-in-law (plural sons-in-law or (colloquial, nonstandard) son-in-laws)
forms:
form:
sons-in-law
tags:
plural
form:
son-in-laws
tags:
colloquial
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sone in lawe; equivalent to son + -in-law.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The husband of one's child.
senses_topics:
|
3305 | word:
upbar
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upbar (third-person singular simple present upbars, present participle upbarring, simple past and past participle upbarred)
forms:
form:
upbars
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upbarring
tags:
participle
present
form:
upbarred
tags:
participle
past
form:
upbarred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + bar.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fasten with a bar.
To remove the bar or bars of, as a gate; to unbar.
senses_topics:
|
3306 | word:
daughter-in-law
word_type:
noun
expansion:
daughter-in-law (plural daughters-in-law or (colloquial, nonstandard) daughter-in-laws)
forms:
form:
daughters-in-law
tags:
plural
form:
daughter-in-laws
tags:
colloquial
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English douȝter in lawe; equivalent to daughter + -in-law.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The wife of one's child.
senses_topics:
|
3307 | word:
comparative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
comparative (comparative more comparative, superlative most comparative)
forms:
form:
more comparative
tags:
comparative
form:
most comparative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English comparatif, from Middle French comparatif, from Latin comparātīvus, equivalent to comparātus, from comparāre (“to compare”) + -ive, from Latin -īvus.
senses_examples:
text:
that kind of animals that have the comparative faculty, by which they compare things together, deliberate and resolve
ref:
1773, James Burnett, Of the Origin and Progress of Language
type:
quotation
text:
comparative anatomy
type:
example
text:
After all, it is undeniable that the B.R. standard coach scored highly in comparative trials with other European railway vehicles on the Continent a few years ago, so that B.R. civil engineers must share responsibility for any defects in its behaviour over here.
ref:
1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The riding of B.R. coaches”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 705–706
type:
quotation
text:
The Olympics, the weather and a comparative lack of heavyweight clashes so far this season have been cited as reasons for the drop in viewers.
ref:
2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian, London
type:
quotation
text:
The recurrence of comparative warmth and cold.
ref:
1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences
type:
quotation
text:
This bubble, […] by reason of its comparative levity to the fluid that encloses it, would necessarily ascend to the top.
ref:
1692, Richard Bentley, A Confutation of Atheism
type:
quotation
text:
And need he had of slumber yet, for none / Had suffered more—his hardships were comparative / To those related in my grand-dad's Narrative.
ref:
1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.137
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to comparison.
Using comparison as a method of study, or founded on something using it.
Approximated by comparison; relative.
Comparable; bearing comparison.
senses_topics:
|
3308 | word:
comparative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
comparative (plural comparatives)
forms:
form:
comparatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
comparative
etymology_text:
From Middle English comparatif, from Middle French comparatif, from Latin comparātīvus, equivalent to comparātus, from comparāre (“to compare”) + -ive, from Latin -īvus.
senses_examples:
text:
Investment ratios are positive. Comparative or trend data are required to draw final conclusions. The absence of comparatives and trend data constrains the conclusions.
ref:
2010, Barry Smith, Introductory Financial Accounting and Reporting, page 171
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A construction showing a relative quality, in English usually formed by adding more or appending -er. For example, the comparative of green is greener; of evil, more evil.
A word in the comparative form.
Data used to make a comparison.
An equal; a rival; a compeer.
One who makes comparisons; one who affects wit.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
3309 | word:
Hawaiian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Hawaiian (comparative more Hawaiian, superlative most Hawaiian)
forms:
form:
more Hawaiian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Hawaiian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hawaii + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Descended from the peoples inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to European contact.
Of or having to do with the Hawaiian race, culture, or language.
Of or having to do with the culture of the US state of Hawaii.
Of or having to do with a resident of the US state of Hawaii.
senses_topics:
|
3310 | word:
Hawaiian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Hawaiian (countable and uncountable, plural Hawaiians)
forms:
form:
Hawaiians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hawaii + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
"A plain tomato cheese, two Hawaiians and a Coke," I told Greg, finally earning me a brief smile. […] Darrell paused to tear off a bite of ham and pineapple.
ref:
2009, David Grace, Fever Dreams
type:
quotation
text:
Faced with a choice between the Supreme, the Hawaiian [...], the Capricciosa or the Meat Lovers', the bogan will invariably gravitate to the meal most likely to induce a fatal disease.
ref:
2010, Michael Jayfox, E. Chas McSween, Intravenus DeMilo, Enron Hubbard, Hunter McKenzie-Smythe, Flash Johnson, Things Bogans Like, Sydney: Hachette, page 117
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A descendant of the peoples inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to European contact.
A native or resident of the state of Hawaii in the United States of America.
A pizza topped with ham and pineapple.
senses_topics:
|
3311 | word:
Hawaiian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hawaiian
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hawaii + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Hawaiian language.
senses_topics:
|
3312 | word:
second hand
word_type:
adj
expansion:
second hand (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
second (ordinal) + hand (“party”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of secondhand
senses_topics:
|
3313 | word:
second hand
word_type:
noun
expansion:
second hand (plural second hands)
forms:
form:
second hands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
second (ordinal) + hand (“party”)
senses_examples:
text:
“My Lord Oxford, by a second hand, proposed my being his chaplain, which I, by a second hand, excused.
ref:
1826, Walter Scott, editor, Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
Under certain circumstances there is always a danger in a young man's playing the benefactor towards the other sex, in his own person. A thousand times better do it by a second hand — engage the services of some kind aunt or female cousin.
ref:
1832, James Sheridan Knowles, The Magdalen, and other tales, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An intermediate person or means; intermediary.
senses_topics:
|
3314 | word:
second hand
word_type:
noun
expansion:
second hand (plural second hands)
forms:
form:
second hands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
second (“unit of time”) + hand (“pointer”)
senses_examples:
text:
... the ticking of a second hand. Tick, tick, tick. The clock. Jude wrenched himself free of his gift's trance, surprised that there wasn't a tearing sound when his hand came free of the doubloon. The visions fell away, and he felt his ...
ref:
2018 April 17, Bryan Camp, The City of Lost Fortunes, Titan Books, →OCLC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On a clock or watch, the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed.
senses_topics:
|
3315 | word:
midnight
word_type:
noun
expansion:
midnight (countable and uncountable, plural midnights)
forms:
form:
midnights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
midnight
etymology_text:
From Middle English midnight, from Old English midniht, from Proto-Germanic *midjanahts (“midnight”), equivalent to mid- + night. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Midnoacht (“midnight”), Old High German mittinaht (“midnight”), Danish midnat (“midnight”), Swedish midnatt (“midnight”), Icelandic miðnætti (“midnight”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Middernoacht (“midnight”), Dutch middernacht (“midnight”), German Mitternacht (“midnight”).
senses_examples:
text:
Thanks to its sonar, the narwhal can remain active even at midnight, unhindered by the darkness.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
Twelve o'clock at night exactly.
Synonym of boxcars (“a pair of sixes”)
senses_topics:
dice
games |
3316 | word:
midnight
word_type:
adj
expansion:
midnight (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
midnight
etymology_text:
From Middle English midnight, from Old English midniht, from Proto-Germanic *midjanahts (“midnight”), equivalent to mid- + night. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Midnoacht (“midnight”), Old High German mittinaht (“midnight”), Danish midnat (“midnight”), Swedish midnatt (“midnight”), Icelandic miðnætti (“midnight”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Middernoacht (“midnight”), Dutch middernacht (“midnight”), German Mitternacht (“midnight”).
senses_examples:
text:
Free and falling, his midnight hair flowed out all around us like a silk canopy.
ref:
2013, Sharon Ricklin, Ravenswynd Legends, page 143
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Utterly dark or black.
senses_topics:
|
3317 | word:
ordinate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ordinate (plural ordinates)
forms:
form:
ordinates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin ordino, ordinatus. Doublet of ordain.
senses_examples:
text:
The point (3,2) has 3 as its abscissa and 2 as its ordinate.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The second of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes.
The vertical line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the ordinate (sense above) is shown.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
3318 | word:
ordinate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ordinate (third-person singular simple present ordinates, present participle ordinating, simple past and past participle ordinated)
forms:
form:
ordinates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ordinating
tags:
participle
present
form:
ordinated
tags:
participle
past
form:
ordinated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin ordino, ordinatus. Doublet of ordain.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to ordain a priest, or consecrate a bishop
to align a series of objects
senses_topics:
|
3319 | word:
ordinate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ordinate (comparative more ordinate, superlative most ordinate)
forms:
form:
more ordinate
tags:
comparative
form:
most ordinate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin ordino, ordinatus. Doublet of ordain.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
arranged regularly in rows; orderly; disposed or arranged in an orderly or regular fashion.
senses_topics:
|
3320 | word:
kiwi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kiwi (countable and uncountable, plural kiwi or kiwis)
forms:
form:
kiwi
tags:
plural
form:
kiwis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Maori kiwi.
senses_examples:
text:
kiwi:
text:
And as its role grew in importance, ground commanders, or kiwis as they were called, made many mistakes in judgment […]
ref:
1953, Air Force: Official Service Journal of the U.S. Army Air Forces
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flightless bird of the genus Apteryx native to New Zealand.
Alternative letter-case form of Kiwi (“person from New Zealand”).
A New Zealand dollar.
A kiwi fruit.
A green-yellow colour, like that of kiwi fruit flesh (also called kiwi green).
A member of the air force who does not fly.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
3321 | word:
advertisement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
advertisement (countable and uncountable, plural advertisements)
forms:
form:
advertisements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
advertisement
etymology_text:
From Middle French advertissement (“statement calling attention”), compare French avertissement (“warning”). See advertise. Equivalent to advertise + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
Companies try to sell their products using advertisements in form of placards, television spots and print publications.
type:
example
text:
The city council placed an advertisement in the local newspaper to inform its residents of the forthcoming roadworks.
type:
example
text:
The good manners and intelligence of the students are an advertisement for the school.
type:
example
text:
The safest time to answer a possible advertisement is when you have no indication as to what suit your opponent wants. Then even if he has advertised, the odds are that your answer is not the card he is looking for.
ref:
1947, On Gin Rummy: An All-American Roundup, page 121
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.
A public notice.
A recommendation of a particular product, service or person.
Notoriety.
In gin rummy, the discarding of a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.
senses_topics:
business
marketing
card-games
games |
3322 | word:
kill
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kill (third-person singular simple present kills, present participle killing, simple past and past participle killed)
forms:
form:
kills
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
killing
tags:
participle
present
form:
killed
tags:
participle
past
form:
killed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
kill
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
kill
etymology_text:
From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots kele, keil (“to kill”).
* Perhaps from Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
* Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell).
* Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).
Compare also Saterland Frisian källe (“to hurt”), Middle Dutch kellen (“to kill, hurt”), Middle Low German kellen, killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).
senses_examples:
text:
Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined.
type:
example
text:
Indeed, referring to his drone murder extermination campaign Obama bragged: "I'm really good at killing people!" Those are Obama's own words!
ref:
2021, Francis A. Boyle, World Politics, Human Rights, and International Law, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
type:
example
text:
He killed the motor.
ref:
1965 February 24, Worlds of If, page 33, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Peter: Ask Childers if it was worth his arm.
Policeman: What did you do to his arm, Peter?
Peter: I killed it, with a machine gun.
ref:
1978, John Farris, The Fury
type:
quotation
text:
The editor decided to kill the story.
type:
example
text:
The news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it.
type:
example
text:
My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes.
type:
example
text:
He closed the boot, walked round to the kerbside and bent to peer into the car's interior, his face pressed to the passenger window, his hands shading his eyes to kill the reflection.
ref:
2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 244
type:
quotation
text:
That night, she was dressed to kill.
type:
example
text:
That joke always kills me.
type:
example
text:
These tight shoes are killing my feet.
type:
example
text:
two laps into our first walk, my dad needed to sit down. His back and legs were killing him. "You'll be okay," I assured him. "You just need to shake off the rust."
I gave him a couple of Advil and, after a few minutes, urged him back onto the track.
ref:
2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.
type:
example
text:
It kills me to learn how many poor people are practically starving in this country while rich moguls spend such outrageous amounts on useless luxuries.
type:
example
text:
I'm just doing this to kill time.
type:
example
text:
Except for the shirt, which he’d worn, and the check, which he’d cashed, and the bottle of port, which he’d killed in bed on Christmas night, the gifts from his family were still on the floor of his bedroom.
ref:
2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
type:
quotation
text:
Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate anymore.
type:
example
text:
The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations.
type:
example
text:
You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill.
type:
example
text:
My parents are going to kill me!
type:
example
text:
That close call encouraged Wales to launch another series of attacks that ended when lock Louis Deacon killed the ball illegally in the shadow of England's posts.
ref:
2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
As the ball was delivered deep into St Kilda's forward line by Billings, Bontempelli had position on the goal line, with a pack forming in front of him. He decided to fly but didn't kill the ball, leaving it to spill where he had been positioned moments earlier. Jack Sinclair gratefully swooped and kicked a goal that cut the margin to five points.
ref:
2015 May 10, Nathan Schmook, “Billings vs Bont”, in St Kilda Football Club
type:
quotation
text:
When comics fail, they "die"; when they succeed, they "kill."
ref:
2012, Yael Kohen, We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy
type:
quotation
text:
You really killed it at the Comedy Store last night.
ref:
2016 February 23, Tim Gray, “Chris Rock Tests Jokes at Comedy Clubs Ahead of Oscars”, in Variety
type:
quotation
text:
I felt on her big fat fanny/Pulled out the jammy and killed the punanni
ref:
1992, Ice Cube (lyrics and music), “It Was A Good Day”, in The Predator
type:
quotation
text:
Don't kill yourself raking the leaves now; we're due for a windstorm tonight.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
To render inoperative.
To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
To use up or to waste.
To exert an overwhelming effect on.
To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
To force a company out of business.
To produce intense pain.
To punish severely.
To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
To cause to assume the value zero.
To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
To deadmelt.
To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
mathematics
sciences
IRC
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
3323 | word:
kill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kill (plural kills)
forms:
form:
kills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
kill
etymology_text:
From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots kele, keil (“to kill”).
* Perhaps from Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
* Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell).
* Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).
Compare also Saterland Frisian källe (“to hurt”), Middle Dutch kellen (“to kill, hurt”), Middle Low German kellen, killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).
senses_examples:
text:
The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
type:
example
text:
The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
type:
example
text:
The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
type:
example
text:
confirmed kills
type:
example
text:
A flying ace is usually one with five or more confirmed kills.
type:
example
text:
As a senior in 1993, Turner had a kill percentage of 40.8, which was a school record at the time and the best in the SAC. Turner concluded her volleyball career with 1,349 kills, ranking fifth all-time at Catawba.
ref:
2011, the 34th Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame, in Catawba College's Campus Magazine, Spring/Summer 2011, page 21
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of killing.
Specifically, the death blow.
The result of killing; that which has been killed.
The result of killing; that which has been killed.
An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
senses_topics:
games
gaming
government
military
politics
war
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball |
3324 | word:
kill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kill (plural kills)
forms:
form:
kills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
kill
etymology_text:
Borrowing from Dutch kil, from Middle Dutch kille, from Old Dutch *killa, from Proto-West Germanic *killjā, from Proto-Germanic *kiljǭ.
senses_examples:
text:
The channel beyond Staten Island, which connects Newark Bay with Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills.
type:
example
text:
Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
senses_topics:
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3325 | word:
kill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kill (plural kills)
forms:
form:
kills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
kill
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
This very curious and valuable record is as follows, in the handwriting of Conyers and the accompanying engraving is carefully reduced (see Fig. 138 ) from Conyers' own drawing:—“This kill was full of the coarser sorts of potts or cullings, so that few were saved whole, viz., lamps, bottles, urnes, dishes.
ref:
1878, Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt, The Ceramic Art of Great Britain from Pre-historic Times Down to the Present Day, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
The stack of one of the pottery kills is still a visible land mark of this once thriving industry.
ref:
1945, Arthur Edwin James, The Potters and Potteries of Chester County, Pennsylvania, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
A funerary ceremony comparable to that reported from Kolomoki site is indicated, though no "pottery kill” was located.
ref:
1951, Bulletin - Eastern States Archeological Federation, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
We may indeed assume that cracked and broken ware was discarded in the immediate vicinity of the pottery kills, that is, if it was not thrown in to the Krka.
ref:
2000, Argo - Volume 43, Issue 1, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
Admonished that she should “keep the woman's virtue and be more silent,” she countered “that she was 'born in a mill, begot in a kill, she must have her will,' she could speak no softlier.”
ref:
2015, Kirilka Stavreva, Words Like Daggers, page 77
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of kiln
senses_topics:
|
3326 | word:
finish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
finish (plural finishes)
forms:
form:
finishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English finishen, finisshen, finischen, from Old French finiss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of finir, from Latin fīnīre, present active infinitive of fīniō, from fīnis (“end, limit, border, boundary”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).
senses_examples:
text:
Noel meets a cruel finish: "Kid," the government lackey who "protects" the clubs in the tourist belt, shoots Noel dead in an alley for stealing Pining out of the brothel.
ref:
1990 August 18, Karin Aguilar-San Juan, “The Boston Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Continues”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 6, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
The car's finish was so shiny and new.
type:
example
text:
The Italian opted for Bolton's Cahill alongside captain John Terry - and his decision was rewarded with a goal after only 13 minutes. Bulgaria gave a hint of defensive frailties to come when they failed to clear Young's corner, and when Gareth Barry found Cahill in the box he applied the finish past Nikolay Mihaylov.
ref:
2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
However, Colombia broke the deadlock, Leicy Santos toying with Rachel Daly after collecting Caicedo’s pass, before sweeping a dipping effort over a caught-out Mary Earps. It was a luscious finish and the crowd enjoyed it.
ref:
2023 August 12, Suzanne Wrack, “England hit back to beat Colombia and set up World Cup semi with Australia”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An end; the end of anything.
A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.
The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth.
A finishing touch; careful elaboration; polish.
A shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
3327 | word:
finish
word_type:
verb
expansion:
finish (third-person singular simple present finishes, present participle finishing, simple past and past participle finished)
forms:
form:
finishes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
finishing
tags:
participle
present
form:
finished
tags:
participle
past
form:
finished
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
finish
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English finishen, finisshen, finischen, from Old French finiss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of finir, from Latin fīnīre, present active infinitive of fīniō, from fīnis (“end, limit, border, boundary”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).
senses_examples:
text:
Be sure to finish your homework before you go to bed!
type:
example
text:
Why doesn't Italy finish their buildings
ref:
2024 May 6, @thepunbible, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-06-28
type:
quotation
text:
The furniture was finished in teak veneer.
type:
example
text:
Seats are trimmed in a grey and blue moquette and tables are finished with grey Vyanide tops, gilt edging and ebony legs.
ref:
1961 February, “New "Mini-Buffets" from Wolverton”, in Trains Illustrated, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
Due to BSE, cows in the United Kingdom must be finished and slaughtered before 30 months of age.
type:
example
text:
We had to leave before the concert had finished.
type:
example
text:
These rumours could finish your career.
type:
example
text:
Fucked my cousin in her asshole
Before I finish on her tits
ref:
2016, “Redneck Shit”, performed by Wheeler Walker Jr.
type:
quotation
text:
"Understand the anxiety around sex and what beliefs are triggering it," says Van Kirk."Are you worried you aren't good in bed? That you'll come off as selfish? That pleasuring you will take too long? Reframe that anxiety. Your excitement needs to be louder than any anxiety" to finish.
ref:
2019 June 14, Macaela Mackenzie, Lindsay Geller, “Why Your Orgasm Is MIA—And Exactly What To Do About It”, in Women's Health, archived from the original on 2021-01-25
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To complete (something).
To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).
To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the intention of fattening the animal.
To come to an end.
To put an end to; to destroy.
To reach orgasm.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
sex
sexuality |
3328 | word:
two
word_type:
num
expansion:
two
forms:
wikipedia:
two
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English two, twa, from Old English twā, feminine and neuter of twēġen (whence twain), from Proto-West Germanic *twai-, from Proto-Germanic *twai, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.
Cognate with Scots twa (“two”); North Frisian tou, tuu (“two”); Saterland Frisian twäin, two (“two”); West Frisian twa (“two”); Dutch twee (“two”); Low German twee, twei (“two”); German zwei, zwo (“two”); Danish and Norwegian to (“two”); Swedish två, tu (“two”); Icelandic tvö (“two”); Faroese tvey (“two”); Latin duō (“two”); Ancient Greek δύο (dúo, “two”); Irish dhá (“two”); Lithuanian dù (“two”); Russian два (dva, “two”); Albanian dy (“two”); Old Armenian երկու (erku, “two”); Sanskrit द्व (dvá, “two”); Tocharian A wu, Tocharian B wi. Doublet of duo. See also twain.
senses_examples:
text:
[…]The two murders might have been done by one of the ryots who was dissatisfied over his assessment and thought he had a grievance. […].
ref:
1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••).
Describing a set or group with two elements.
senses_topics:
|
3329 | word:
two
word_type:
noun
expansion:
two (plural twos)
forms:
form:
twos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
two
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English two, twa, from Old English twā, feminine and neuter of twēġen (whence twain), from Proto-West Germanic *twai-, from Proto-Germanic *twai, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.
Cognate with Scots twa (“two”); North Frisian tou, tuu (“two”); Saterland Frisian twäin, two (“two”); West Frisian twa (“two”); Dutch twee (“two”); Low German twee, twei (“two”); German zwei, zwo (“two”); Danish and Norwegian to (“two”); Swedish två, tu (“two”); Icelandic tvö (“two”); Faroese tvey (“two”); Latin duō (“two”); Ancient Greek δύο (dúo, “two”); Irish dhá (“two”); Lithuanian dù (“two”); Russian два (dva, “two”); Albanian dy (“two”); Old Armenian երկու (erku, “two”); Sanskrit द्व (dvá, “two”); Tocharian A wu, Tocharian B wi. Doublet of duo. See also twain.
senses_examples:
text:
The number 2202 contains three twos.
type:
example
text:
This toy is suitable for the twos and threes.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The digit/figure 2.
A two-dollar bill.
A child aged two.
A playing card featuring two pips.
Two o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
Short for two shot.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
film
media
television |
3330 | word:
helping verb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
helping verb (plural helping verbs)
forms:
form:
helping verbs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Such verbs as can be formed through the present and past times without the aid of any of these helping verbs, are called principal verbs, and are formed thus:
ref:
1814, Lindley Murray, The Young Man's Best Companion: And Book of General Knowledge
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An auxiliary verb; a verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3331 | word:
yeah
word_type:
particle
expansion:
yeah
forms:
wikipedia:
yeah
yes and no
etymology_text:
Colloquial form of yea or yes. Compare nah.
senses_examples:
text:
Do you wanna get pizza for dinner?
Yeah, I think I'm gonna eat some leftovers.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
yes.
Used to express acknowledgment of what was previously said.
senses_topics:
|
3332 | word:
yeah
word_type:
intj
expansion:
yeah
forms:
wikipedia:
yeah
yes and no
etymology_text:
Colloquial form of yea or yes. Compare nah.
senses_examples:
text:
Yeah! We did it!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expressing joy, celebration, glee, etc.
senses_topics:
|
3333 | word:
yeah
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yeah (plural yeahs)
forms:
form:
yeahs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
yeah
etymology_text:
See year.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of year.
senses_topics:
|
3334 | word:
quantity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quantity (countable and uncountable, plural quantities)
forms:
form:
quantities
tags:
plural
form:
qty
tags:
abbreviation
wikipedia:
quantity
etymology_text:
From Middle English quantite, from Old French quantité, from Latin quantitās (“quantity”), from quantus (“how much”).
senses_examples:
text:
You have to choose between quantity and quality.
type:
example
text:
Some soap making oils are best as base oils, used in a larger quantity in the soap, while other oils are best added in a small quantity.
type:
example
text:
Olive oil can be used practically in any quantity.
type:
example
text:
This bag would normally cost $497.50 for a quantity of 250, at a price of $1.99 per piece.
type:
example
text:
Generally it should not be used in a quantity larger than 15 percent.
type:
example
text:
The Boeing P-26A was the first all-metal monoplane fighter produced in quantity for the U.S. Army Air Corps.
type:
example
text:
x plus y quantity squared equals x squared plus 2xy plus y squared.
type:
example
text:
For problems 58-67, translate each word phrase into an algebraic expression. […] 65. x plus 9, the quantity squared
ref:
2006, Jerome E. Kaufmann, Karen Schwitters, Elementary and Intermediate Algebra: A Combined Approach, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
The second, (#x5C;sumx)², read "summation of x, quantity squared," tells us to first add up all the xs to get #x5C;sumx and then square #x5C;sumx to get (#x5C;sumx)².
ref:
2005, R. Mark Sirkin, Statistics For The Social Sciences, page 137
type:
quotation
text:
ANN. ra quantity cubed.
SERGE LANG. That's right, (ra)³.
ref:
1985, Serge Lang, Math!: Encounters with High School Students, page 54
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items.
An indefinite amount of something.
A specific measured amount.
A considerable measure or amount.
Property of a phenomenon, body, or substance, where the property has a magnitude that can be expressed as number and a reference.
Indicates that the entire preceding expression is henceforth considered a single object.
Length of sounds.
senses_topics:
metrology
mathematics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences |
3335 | word:
time
word_type:
noun
expansion:
time (countable and uncountable, plural times)
forms:
form:
times
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus.
cognates
*Scots tym, tyme (“time”)
*Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”)
*Danish time (“hour, lesson”)
*Swedish timme (“hour”)
*Norwegian time (“lesson, hour”)
*Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”)
*Icelandic tími (“time, season”).
senses_examples:
text:
Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.
type:
example
text:
We all have a visceral understanding of what it means for the universe to have multiple space dimensions, since we live in a world in which we constantly deal with a plurality — three. But what would it mean to have multiple times? Would one align with time as we presently experience it psychologically while the other would somehow be "different"?
ref:
2010, Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, W. W. Norton & Company, page 204
type:
quotation
text:
Time slows down when you approach the speed of light.
type:
example
text:
Eventually time would also die because no processes would continue, no light would flow.
ref:
2012, Robert Zwilling, Natural Sciences and Human Thought, Springer Science & Business Media, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
2015, Highfield, Arrow Of Time, Random House →ISBN
Given the connection between increasing entropy and the arrow of time, does the Big Crunch mean that time would run backwards as soon as collapse began?
text:
An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change.
type:
example
text:
Time flies when you're having fun.
type:
example
text:
Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time
type:
example
text:
Time is the fire in which we burn.
ref:
1937, Delmore Schwartz, Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day
type:
quotation
text:
One of the most common truisms on Earth is the advice to value or at least not waste time. Why has it become so widespread? Every person eventually realizes that time is the most valuable resource on the planet. Not oil or uranium. Not lithium or anything else, but time. Time. The very flow of time convinces us of this. Some people realize this sooner, and these are the lucky ones. Others realize it too late when they lose someone or something. People cannot avoid it, this is just a matter of time. But there is a fundamental difference that comes down to the question of time. The time of your life is under your control. The time of life of our force on the front line, the time of life of all Ukrainians who are forced to live through this terrible Russian aggression unfortunately is subject to many factors that are not all in their control. I do not wish anyone to feel like they are in my shoes, and it's impossible to give a manual on how to go through life so as not to waste time. However, one piece of advice always works. You have to know exactly why you need today and how you want your tomorrows to look like.
ref:
2023 May 26, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 0:40 from the start, in Zelenskyy surprises the Johns Hopkins commencement ceremony, MSNBC, archived from the original on 2023-05-26
type:
quotation
text:
More time is needed to complete the project. You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute. Are you finished yet? Time’s up!
type:
example
text:
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
ref:
1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
type:
quotation
text:
a long time; Record the individual times for the processes in each batch. Only your best time is compared with the other competitors. The algorithm runs in O(n²) time.
type:
example
text:
The shock of the water, of course, woke him, and he swam for quite a time.
ref:
1938, Richard Hughes, In Hazard
type:
quotation
text:
The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time. He is not living at home because he is doing time.
type:
example
text:
Arrested on duty at Fort Richardson, both parents had worked hard at blaming the other for their son's death, but Kate's meticulous recording of the detail of the bruising found on the child's body and the physical evidence surrounding the scene, plus patient, painstaking interviews with neighbors above and below stairs had resulted in time for both.
ref:
1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
We had a wonderful time at the party.
type:
example
text:
Roman times; the time of the dinosaurs; how things were at that time; how things were in those times
type:
example
text:
Dr. Manuel: You're wasting your time. The age of humanity is over. Our extinction is inevitable.[...]
Shepard: I don't have time for this.
Dr. Manuel: Time? Our time is over.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime
type:
quotation
text:
In my time, we respected our elders.
type:
example
text:
Excuse me, have you got the time? What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock? A computer keeps time using a clock battery.
type:
example
text:
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref:
2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
it’s time for bed; it’s time to sleep; we must wait for the right time; it's time we were going
type:
example
text:
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.
ref:
2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
at what times do the trains arrive?; these times were erroneously converted between zones
type:
example
text:
When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember.
type:
example
text:
see you another time; that’s three times he’s made the same mistake
type:
example
text:
Okay, but this is the last time. No more after that!
type:
example
text:
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
ref:
1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity
type:
quotation
text:
One more time.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Last call: it's almost time.
type:
example
text:
It was his time.
text:
Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time.
type:
example
text:
your car runs three times faster than mine; that is four times as heavy as this
type:
example
text:
The musician keeps good time.
type:
example
text:
common or triple time; time signature
type:
example
text:
After the introduction, the drummer is to play time.
type:
example
text:
(dated) dance time; march time (see usage notes)
type:
example
text:
the time of a verb
type:
example
text:
Though we have, in the notes under the thirteenth rule of the Grammar, explained in general the principles, on which the time of a verb in the infinitive mood may be ascertained, and its form determined; [...]
ref:
1823, Lindley Murray, Key to the Exercises Adapted to Murray's English Grammar, Fortland, page 53f
type:
quotation
text:
The participles of the future time active, and perfect passive, when joined with the verb esse, were sometimes used as indeclinable; thus, [...]
ref:
1829, Benjamin A. Gould, Adam's Latin Grammar, Boston, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
I used to pay for things but that was time ago.
ref:
2019 September 15, “Wiley Flow” (track 12), in Heavy Is The Head, performed by Stormzy
type:
quotation
text:
Ats' mum is looking for him, says he ain't been back in time
ref:
2022 March 18, Ronan Bennett, Gerry Jackson, Tyrone Rashard, Sagirah Gammon, 00:38:33 from the start, in Brady Hood, director, Top Boy(Good Morals) (4), episode 1 (TV), spoken by girl called B
type:
quotation
text:
INCHEZ:Man this is long! We've been in here for time!
ref:
2023 January 15, Layton Williams, 12:51 from the start, in Freddy Syborn, director, Bad Education(Prison) (4), episode 3 (TV), spoken by Inchez (Anthony J. Abraham)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
A duration of time.
A quantity of availability of duration.
A duration of time.
A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
A duration of time.
The serving of a prison sentence.
A duration of time.
An experience.
A duration of time.
An era; (with the, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
A duration of time.
A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
A duration of time.
Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
An instant of time.
The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
An instant of time.
A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
An instant of time.
A numerical indication of a particular moment.
An instant of time.
An instance or occurrence.
An instant of time.
Closing time.
An instant of time.
The hour of childbirth.
An instant of time.
The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
A ratio of comparison.
The measured duration of sounds.
Tempo; a measured rate of movement.
The measured duration of sounds.
Rhythmical division, meter.
The measured duration of sounds.
(uncountable) A straight rhythmic pattern, free from fills, breaks and other embellishments.
The measured duration of sounds.
A tense.
Clipping of a long time.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
3336 | word:
time
word_type:
verb
expansion:
time (third-person singular simple present times, present participle timing, simple past and past participle timed)
forms:
form:
times
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
timing
tags:
participle
present
form:
timed
tags:
participle
past
form:
timed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus.
cognates
*Scots tym, tyme (“time”)
*Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”)
*Danish time (“hour, lesson”)
*Swedish timme (“hour”)
*Norwegian time (“lesson, hour”)
*Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”)
*Icelandic tími (“time, season”).
senses_examples:
text:
I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.
type:
example
text:
The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.
type:
example
text:
The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.
type:
example
text:
With oar strokes timing to their song.
ref:
1861, John Greenleaf Whittier, At Port Royal
type:
quotation
text:
Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke.
ref:
1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
To choose when something commences or its duration.
To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
To pass time; to delay.
To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
To measure, as in music or harmony.
senses_topics:
|
3337 | word:
time
word_type:
intj
expansion:
time
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus.
cognates
*Scots tym, tyme (“time”)
*Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”)
*Danish time (“hour, lesson”)
*Swedish timme (“hour”)
*Norwegian time (“lesson, hour”)
*Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”)
*Icelandic tími (“time, season”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.
A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
|
3338 | word:
i
word_type:
character
expansion:
i (lower case, upper case I, plural is or i's)
forms:
form:
I
tags:
uppercase
form:
is
tags:
plural
form:
i's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin i, minuscule of I.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ninth letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
3339 | word:
i
word_type:
num
expansion:
i (lower case, upper case I)
forms:
form:
I
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin i, minuscule of I.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number ninth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
3340 | word:
i
word_type:
noun
expansion:
i (plural ies)
forms:
form:
ies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin i, minuscule of I.
senses_examples:
text:
the position of an i-dot (the dot of an i)
text:
i-mutation, i-umlaut
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Latin-script letter I/i.
senses_topics:
|
3341 | word:
i
word_type:
pron
expansion:
i
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English iċ.
senses_examples:
text:
Here follow ſome few lines in the original, which not underſtanding i have omitted. […] Laſtly that amidſt ſo many viciſſitudes of fortune, to which I have been expoſed, amongſt all the goods, i ſay, and evils, the joyfull and gloomy, the pleaſing, and diſagreeable circumſtances of life, thou endowedſt me with an equal, conſtant, manly, and ſuperior ſpirit on every occaſion.
ref:
1762, Benj[amin] Stillingfleet, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Natural History, Husbandry, and Physick. To Which Is Added the Calendar of Flora., 2nd edition, London: […] R. and J. Dodsley, […]; S. Baker, […]; and T. Payne, […], pages 30 and 32
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of I
senses_topics:
|
3342 | word:
quaint
word_type:
adj
expansion:
quaint (comparative quainter, superlative quaintest)
forms:
form:
quainter
tags:
comparative
form:
quaintest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English queynte, quoynte, from Anglo-Norman cointe, queinte and Old French cointe (“pretty, clever, knowing”), from Latin cognitus, past participle of cognōscō (“I know”).
senses_examples:
text:
What none would dispute though many smiled over was the good-humored, necessary, yet quaint omission of the writer's name from the whole consideration.
ref:
1924 November 17, Time
type:
quotation
text:
If you're fond of sand dunes and salty air, / Quaint little villages here and there, / You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod.
ref:
1957, Claire Rothrock, Milton Yakus, Allan Jeffrey (lyrics and music), “Old Cape Cod”, performed by Patti Page
type:
quotation
text:
The rock is a haven for rare wildlife, a landscape where pretty hedgerows and quaint villages are bordered by a breathtaking, craggy coastline.
ref:
2011 January 31, Ian Sample, The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a person: cunning, crafty.
Cleverly made; artfully contrived.
Strange or odd; unusual.
Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim.
Pleasingly unusual; especially, having old-fashioned charm.
senses_topics:
|
3343 | word:
quaint
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quaint (plural quaints)
forms:
form:
quaints
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A variant of quim, possibly as a euphemistic pun.
senses_examples:
text:
The rest looked on, horrified, as Clarice trussed up her habit and in open view placed her hand within her queynte crying, ‘The first house of Sunday belongs to the sun, and the second to Venus.’
ref:
2003, Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The vulva.
senses_topics:
|
3344 | word:
wrong
word_type:
adj
expansion:
wrong (comparative more wrong, superlative most wrong)
forms:
form:
more wrong
tags:
comparative
form:
most wrong
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
wrong (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English wrong, from Old English wrang (“wrong, twisted, uneven”), from Old Norse rangr, *vrangr (“crooked, wrong”), from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz (“crooked, twisted, turned awry”), from Proto-Indo-European *werḱ-, *wrengʰ- (“to twist, weave, tie together”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots wrang (“wrong”), Danish vrang (“wrong, crooked”), Swedish vrång (“perverse, distorted”), Icelandic rangur (“wrong”), Norwegian Nynorsk rang (“wrong”), Dutch wrang (“bitter, sour”) and the first element in the mythic Old Frisian city of Rungholt (“crooked wood”). More at wring.
senses_examples:
text:
Some of your answers were correct, and some were wrong.
type:
example
text:
In this respect then, Gabriel's repetitive lyric of everyone playing: “games without frontiers and war without tears” was on the one hand quite funnily wrong. 'It's a Knockout' produced tears of laughter. […]
ref:
2015 December 26, Victor Robert Farrell, Night-Whispers Vol 01-Q1-'Stirring Passions', Lulu.com, page 143
type:
quotation
text:
Throughout this time, Mystic Wolmar has been trying his luck and mostly getting it wrong - especially in 2006, when he got virtually everything wrong, including the departure of Tony Blair.
ref:
2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
You're wrong: he's not Superman at all.
type:
example
text:
It is wrong to lie.
type:
example
text:
Shepard: Some part of you must still realize this is wrong. You can fight this!
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Council Chambers, Citadel
type:
quotation
text:
A bikini is the wrong thing to wear on a cold day.
type:
example
text:
Something is wrong with my cellphone.
type:
example
text:
Don't cry, honey. Tell me what's wrong.
type:
example
text:
the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth
type:
example
text:
a wrong nose
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Incorrect or untrue.
Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
Immoral, not good, bad.
Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
Not working; out of order.
Designed to be worn or placed inward
Twisted; wry.
senses_topics:
|
3345 | word:
wrong
word_type:
adv
expansion:
wrong (comparative more wrong, superlative most wrong)
forms:
form:
more wrong
tags:
comparative
form:
most wrong
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
wrong (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English wrong, from Old English wrang (“wrong, twisted, uneven”), from Old Norse rangr, *vrangr (“crooked, wrong”), from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz (“crooked, twisted, turned awry”), from Proto-Indo-European *werḱ-, *wrengʰ- (“to twist, weave, tie together”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots wrang (“wrong”), Danish vrang (“wrong, crooked”), Swedish vrång (“perverse, distorted”), Icelandic rangur (“wrong”), Norwegian Nynorsk rang (“wrong”), Dutch wrang (“bitter, sour”) and the first element in the mythic Old Frisian city of Rungholt (“crooked wood”). More at wring.
senses_examples:
text:
I spelled several names wrong in my address book.
type:
example
text:
You're doing it all wrong!
type:
example
text:
Then, just as I was, I walked out of the house and went to the recruiting-office, stating my age wrong.
ref:
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 131
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a way that isn't right; incorrectly, wrongly.
senses_topics:
|
3346 | word:
wrong
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wrong (plural wrongs)
forms:
form:
wrongs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wrong
wrong (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English wrong, from Old English wrang (“wrong, twisted, uneven”), from Old Norse rangr, *vrangr (“crooked, wrong”), from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz (“crooked, twisted, turned awry”), from Proto-Indo-European *werḱ-, *wrengʰ- (“to twist, weave, tie together”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots wrang (“wrong”), Danish vrang (“wrong, crooked”), Swedish vrång (“perverse, distorted”), Icelandic rangur (“wrong”), Norwegian Nynorsk rang (“wrong”), Dutch wrang (“bitter, sour”) and the first element in the mythic Old Frisian city of Rungholt (“crooked wood”). More at wring.
senses_examples:
text:
Injustice is a heinous wrong.
type:
example
text:
Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak? Shall I call her good when she proves unkind?
ref:
1597, John Dowland, The First Booke of Songes or Ayres, Part V
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that is immoral or not good.
An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
senses_topics:
|
3347 | word:
wrong
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wrong (third-person singular simple present wrongs, present participle wronging, simple past and past participle wronged)
forms:
form:
wrongs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wronging
tags:
participle
present
form:
wronged
tags:
participle
past
form:
wronged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
wrong (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English wrong, from Old English wrang (“wrong, twisted, uneven”), from Old Norse rangr, *vrangr (“crooked, wrong”), from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz (“crooked, twisted, turned awry”), from Proto-Indo-European *werḱ-, *wrengʰ- (“to twist, weave, tie together”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots wrang (“wrong”), Danish vrang (“wrong, crooked”), Swedish vrång (“perverse, distorted”), Icelandic rangur (“wrong”), Norwegian Nynorsk rang (“wrong”), Dutch wrang (“bitter, sour”) and the first element in the mythic Old Frisian city of Rungholt (“crooked wood”). More at wring.
senses_examples:
text:
The dealer wronged us by selling us this lemon of a car.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To treat unjustly; to injure or harm; to do wrong by.
To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.
To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.
senses_topics:
|
3348 | word:
cachaça
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cachaça (countable and uncountable, plural cachaças)
forms:
form:
cachaças
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese cachaça.
senses_examples:
text:
A line of ants heads across the table, detouring around the bottle of cachaça that is now empty.
ref:
1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 222
type:
quotation
text:
Neat cachaça put fire in your belly and stilled the pangs of hunger.
ref:
2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of Brazilian white rum made of sugar cane juice, used as one of the ingredients of a caipirinha.
senses_topics:
|
3349 | word:
thirty
word_type:
num
expansion:
thirty
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thirty, metathetic alternant of Middle English thriti, þrittiȝ, from Old English þrītiġ (“thirty”), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz tigiwiz (“thirty”, literally “three tens”), equivalent to three + -ty. Cognate with Scots therty, tretty (“thirty”), West Frisian tritich (“thirty”), Dutch dertig (“thirty”), German dreißig (“thirty”).
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:thirty.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after twenty-nine and before thirty-one, represented in Arabic numerals as 30.
senses_topics:
|
3350 | word:
thirty
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thirty (plural thirties)
forms:
form:
thirties
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thirty, metathetic alternant of Middle English thriti, þrittiȝ, from Old English þrītiġ (“thirty”), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz tigiwiz (“thirty”, literally “three tens”), equivalent to three + -ty. Cognate with Scots therty, tretty (“thirty”), West Frisian tritich (“thirty”), Dutch dertig (“thirty”), German dreißig (“thirty”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rack of thirty beers.
senses_topics:
|
3351 | word:
cock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cock (countable and uncountable, plural cocks)
forms:
form:
cocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cock
etymology_text:
From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin.
Cognate with Middle Dutch cocke (“cock, male bird”) and Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”), dialectal Swedish kokk (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, also of imitative origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock (“penis”) attested since 1325.
senses_examples:
text:
The liquor is discharged from the cock S into liquor cans V […], from which it is transferred to the sugar in the moulds. W represents one of the traps or stairs which communicate with respective floors of the sugarhouse.
ref:
1864, Robert Niccol, Essay on Sugar, and General Treatise on Sugar Refining
type:
quotation
text:
Alternative form: cawk
text:
My cock is much bigger than yours / My cock can walk right through the door / With a feeling so pure / It's got you screaming back for more
ref:
2005, System of a Down (lyrics and music), “Cigaro”
type:
quotation
text:
[…] in 1803; my eyes transmogrified […]; my nose had lost its pretty cock, and had grown elegantly hooked; and […]
ref:
1843, James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, Fraser's Magazine, page 694
type:
quotation
text:
The running patterer cares less than other street-sellers for bad weather, for if he "work" on a wet and gloomy evening, and if the work be "a cock," which is a fictitious statement or even a pretended fictitious statement, there is the less chance of any one detecting the ruse.
ref:
1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor
type:
quotation
text:
You used to talk an awful lot of cock.
ref:
1956, William Golding, Pincher Martin
type:
quotation
text:
That Hitler's armies can't be beat is just a load of cock, / For Marshal Timoshenko's boys are pissing through von Bock […]
ref:
2013, M. J. Trow, Swearing Like A Trooper: Rude Slang of World War Two
type:
quotation
text:
All right, cock?
type:
example
text:
Now, in coming down here, I journeyed part of the way with a jolly old cock, who shed a tear with me every time the coach stopped […]
ref:
1848, Thomas Frost, Paul the Poacher, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
The contrarye [side of a die] to this... was called Venus, or Cous, and yt was cocke, the beste that might be cast.
ref:
1542, Erasmus, translated by Nicholas Udall, Apophthegmata, page 164
type:
quotation
text:
Tis sir Salomon's sword; cock of as many men as it hath been drawn against. Woe worth the man that comes in the way of so dead-doing a tool, […]
ref:
1672 (original), 1776 (printed), Andrew Marvell, The Works of Andrew Marvell, page 154
text:
She is a widow, don, consider that; Has buried one was thought a Hercules, Two cubits taller, and a man that cut Three inches deeper in the say, than I; Consider that too : She may be cock o'twenty, nay, for aught know, she is immortal.
ref:
1833, James Shirley, The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, page 232
type:
quotation
text:
And here we are, half-way to Alcalá, between cocks and midnight.
ref:
1842 (published 1856), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems …, page 334
text:
As spawning time approaches – autumn or very early winter in most rivers, though in some late-run streams salmon may spawn as late as January or February – the hen's colouration becomes first a matt-pewter and then a drab dark brown-grey. The cock fish, in contrast, begins to gain some brighter colours.
ref:
2005, Roderick Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, “Life in the Nursery”, in Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
Sun-dials, when the shadow of the Cock by passing over the lines of the hours[…]show the stay of the time sliding by.
ref:
1656, William Dugard, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
The cock, or pointer, which makes a right angle with the beam, will stand upright when the weighing is accurate.
ref:
1833, John Holland, Treatise on the Manufactures in Metal
type:
quotation
text:
A round small Silver Watch[…]with a steel Chain[…]a brass Cock, an endless Screw
ref:
(Can we date this quote?), “London Gazette”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male bird, especially:
A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
A male bird, especially:
A cock pigeon.
A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
A penis.
The circle at the end of the rink.
The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
A man; a fellow.
A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
Shuttlecock.
A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
A chief person; a leader or master.
A leading thing.
The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
The style or gnomon of a sundial.
The indicator of a balance.
The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
senses_topics:
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
3352 | word:
cock
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cock (third-person singular simple present cocks, present participle cocking, simple past and past participle cocked)
forms:
form:
cocks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cocking
tags:
participle
present
form:
cocked
tags:
participle
past
form:
cocked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
cock
etymology_text:
From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin.
Cognate with Middle Dutch cocke (“cock, male bird”) and Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”), dialectal Swedish kokk (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, also of imitative origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock (“penis”) attested since 1325.
senses_examples:
text:
Cocked, fired, and missed his man.
ref:
1812, Lord Byron, The Waltz
type:
quotation
text:
In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.
type:
example
text:
Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears.
ref:
1720, John Gay, Thursday: Or, The Spell
type:
quotation
text:
Dick would cock his nose in scorn.
ref:
1728, Jonathan Swift, A Dialogue Between Mad Mullinix and Timothy
type:
quotation
text:
Foster's Lager TV commercial, 1980s
"Please tell me the way to Cockfosters." ... "Drink it warm, mate."
text:
He cocked his hat jauntily.
type:
example
text:
The Sentry, to this question, said nothing in reply; / But first he cocked his rifle, and then he cocked his eye.
ref:
1873, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch, volumes 64-65, page 36
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
To erect; to turn up.
To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).
senses_topics:
|
3353 | word:
cock
word_type:
intj
expansion:
cock
forms:
wikipedia:
cock
etymology_text:
From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin.
Cognate with Middle Dutch cocke (“cock, male bird”) and Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”), dialectal Swedish kokk (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, also of imitative origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock (“penis”) attested since 1325.
senses_examples:
text:
2006, Vamp, “oh cock i should have kept with a toyota!”, in uk.rec.cars.modifications (Usenet):
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expression of annoyance.
senses_topics:
|
3354 | word:
cock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cock (plural cocks)
forms:
form:
cocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cock
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Some authors speculate it derives from cockle, a yonic fertility symbol, others suggested it entered Southern US vernacular during the period of French rule (of Louisiana) from Cajun French coquille (“shell”) (itself the source of cockle), which in 18th and 19th century slang meant the vulva.
senses_examples:
text:
Born in the canebrake and you were suckled by a bear,
Jumped right through your mammy's cock and never touched a hair.
ref:
c. 1920-1960, Rufus George Perryman (Speckled Red), quoted by Elijah Wald, The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama
text:
My back is made of whalebone
And my cock is made of brass
ref:
1935 March 5, “Shave 'Em Dry, No. 2”, in Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops, performed by Lucille Bogan, published 1991, track 6
type:
quotation
text:
The dog come a-trottin' and the dog come a-lopin'
A purty little gal with her cock wide open.
ref:
1992, Vance Randolph, edited by Gershon Legman, Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore: Roll me in your arms, volume 1, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, page 411
type:
quotation
text:
I stuck my fist up in her cock, she didn't budge or move it.
ref:
1998 February 17, Scarface, Too Short, Tela, Devin the Dude (lyrics and music), “Fuck Faces”, in My Homies, track 8
type:
quotation
text:
She smelled like she was on her period and hadn't changed pads. On ah many occasions I heard men say her cock smelled through her clothing.
ref:
2010, Vildred C. Tucker-Dawson, A Journey Back in Time: My Story Book, page 42
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Vulva, vagina.
senses_topics:
|
3355 | word:
cock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cock (plural cocks)
forms:
form:
cocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cock
etymology_text:
From Middle English cokke, cock, cok, from Old English -cocc (attested in place names), from Old Norse kǫkkr (“lump”), from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“bulge, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *geugh- (“swelling”).
Cognate with Norwegian kok (“heap, lump”), Swedish koka (“a lump of earth”), German Kocke (“heap of hay, dunghill”), Middle Low German kogge (“wide, rounded ship”), Dutch kogel (“ball”), German Kugel (“ball, globe”).
senses_examples:
text:
The farmhands stack the hay into cocks.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hay-cock, a small conical pile of hay.
senses_topics:
|
3356 | word:
cock
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cock (third-person singular simple present cocks, present participle cocking, simple past and past participle cocked)
forms:
form:
cocks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cocking
tags:
participle
present
form:
cocked
tags:
participle
past
form:
cocked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
cock
etymology_text:
From Middle English cokke, cock, cok, from Old English -cocc (attested in place names), from Old Norse kǫkkr (“lump”), from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“bulge, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *geugh- (“swelling”).
Cognate with Norwegian kok (“heap, lump”), Swedish koka (“a lump of earth”), German Kocke (“heap of hay, dunghill”), Middle Low German kogge (“wide, rounded ship”), Dutch kogel (“ball”), German Kugel (“ball, globe”).
senses_examples:
text:
Under the cocked hay.
ref:
1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form into piles.
senses_topics:
|
3357 | word:
cock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cock (plural cocks)
forms:
form:
cocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cock
etymology_text:
from Middle English cok, from Old French coque (“a type of small boat”), from child-talk coco ('egg').
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.
senses_topics:
|
3358 | word:
cock
word_type:
name
expansion:
cock
forms:
wikipedia:
cock
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.
senses_topics:
|
3359 | word:
tonight
word_type:
adv
expansion:
tonight (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tonyght, to niȝt, from Old English tō niht.
senses_examples:
text:
I want to party tonight!
type:
example
text:
I had a wonderful time with you tonight.
type:
example
text:
Besides, I met Lord Bigot and Lord Salisbury,
With eyes as red as new-enkindled fire,
And others more, going to seek the grave
Of Arthur, whom they say is killed to-night
On your suggestion.
ref:
1596, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, act 4, scene 2, page 165
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
During the night following the current day; during the evening of today.
Last night.
senses_topics:
|
3360 | word:
tonight
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tonight (usually uncountable, plural tonights)
forms:
form:
tonights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tonyght, to niȝt, from Old English tō niht.
senses_examples:
text:
Tonight is the night.
type:
example
text:
I have high hopes for tonight.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The nighttime of the current day or date; this night.
senses_topics:
|
3361 | word:
adore
word_type:
verb
expansion:
adore (third-person singular simple present adores, present participle adoring, simple past and past participle adored)
forms:
form:
adores
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
adoring
tags:
participle
present
form:
adored
tags:
participle
past
form:
adored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *adoren, aouren, from Old French adorer, aorer, from Latin adōrō (“I pray to”), from ad (“to”) + ōrō (“I speak”).
senses_examples:
text:
1758, Tobias Smollett, A Complete History of England, London: James Rivington and James Fletcher, 3rd edition, Volume 6, Book 8, “William III,” p. 29,
[James] was met at the castle-gate by a procession of […] bishops and priests in their pontificals, bearing the host, which he publicly adored.
text:
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.
ref:
1852, Frederick Oakeley (translator), “O Come, All Ye Faithful” in Francis H. Murray, A Hymnal for Use in the English Church, Come and behold him Born the King of Angels
text:
It is obvious to everyone that Gerry adores Heather.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To worship.
To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
To be very fond of.
To adorn.
senses_topics:
|
3362 | word:
work
word_type:
noun
expansion:
work (countable and uncountable, plural works)
forms:
form:
works
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
work
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
From Middle English work, werk, from Old English weorc, from Proto-West Germanic *werk, from Proto-Germanic *werką, from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom.
Akin to Scots wark, Saterland Frisian Wierk, West Frisian wurk, Dutch werk, German Werk, German Low German Wark, Danish værk, Norwegian Bokmål verk, Norwegian Nynorsk verk, Swedish verk and yrke, Icelandic verk, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺𐌹 (gawaurki), Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”) (from ϝέργον (wérgon)), Avestan 𐬬𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰 (vər^əz, “to work, to perform”), Armenian գործ (gorc, “work”), Albanian argëtoj (“entertain, reward, please”). English cognates include bulwark, boulevard, energy, erg, georgic, liturgy, metallurgy, organ, surgeon, wright. Doublet of erg and ergon.
senses_examples:
text:
My work involves a lot of travel.
type:
example
text:
He hasn’t come home yet; he’s still at work.
type:
example
text:
I want to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work will give me the time off.
type:
example
text:
In trials of a Martin furnace in a steel work at Remscheiden, Germany, a lining of zirconia was found in good condition after […]
ref:
1917, Platers' Guide, page 246
type:
quotation
text:
Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
type:
example
text:
We know what we must do. Let's go to work.
type:
example
text:
We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.
type:
example
text:
There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.
type:
example
text:
Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.
type:
example
text:
Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning "vortex", and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
ref:
2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
There's a lot of guesswork involved.
type:
example
text:
We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work.
type:
example
text:
It is a work of art.
type:
example
text:
the poetic works of Alexander Pope
type:
example
text:
William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.
type:
example
text:
Tell me you're using clean works at least.
type:
example
text:
If you buy new works, clean them before using them. If you share works, clean them before you or the next person uses them. Blood may be in your works even if you can't see it. Clean your works either with rubbing alcohol (available in drugstores), a household bleach solution (three tablespoons of bleach in a cup of water), or boiling water.
ref:
1996, Paul Harding Douglas with Laura Pinsky, The Essential AIDS Fact Book, Simon and Schuster, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
While in San Francisco, where the AIDS crisis was particularly devastating, they saw numerous public awareness signs reading “Bleach Your Works” posted around the city, urging IV drug users to clean their needles with bleach to help staunch the spread of the disease.
ref:
2009, Gillian G. Gaar, The Rough Guide to Nirvana, Rough Guides UK
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Employment.
labour, occupation, job.
Employment.
The place where one is employed.
Employment.
One's employer.
Employment.
A factory; a works.
Effort.
effort expended on a particular task.
Effort.
Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
Effort.
Something on which effort is expended.
Effort.
A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
Effort.
A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
Product; the result of effort.
The result of a particular manner of production.
Product; the result of effort.
Something produced using the specified material or tool.
Product; the result of effort.
A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
Product; the result of effort.
A fortification.
The staging of events to appear as real.
Ore before it is dressed.
The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
business
mining
|
3363 | word:
work
word_type:
verb
expansion:
work (third-person singular simple present works, present participle working, simple past and past participle worked or (rare/archaic) wrought)
forms:
form:
works
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
working
tags:
participle
present
form:
worked
tags:
participle
past
form:
worked
tags:
past
form:
wrought
tags:
archaic
participle
past
form:
wrought
tags:
archaic
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
work
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
work
etymology_text:
From Middle English werken and worchen, from Old English wyrċan and wircan (Mercian), from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥ǵyéti (“to be working, to be at work”), from the root *werǵ-. Cognate with Old Frisian werka, wirka, Old Saxon wirkian, Low German warken, Dutch werken, Old High German wurken (German wirken, werken and werkeln), Old Norse yrkja and orka, (Swedish yrka and orka), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 (waurkjan).
senses_examples:
text:
I work in a national park.
type:
example
text:
She works in the human resources department.
type:
example
text:
He mostly works in logging but sometimes works in carpentry too.
type:
example
text:
I work as a cleaner.
type:
example
text:
She works for Microsoft.
type:
example
text:
He works for the President.
type:
example
text:
I work closely with my Canadian counterparts.
type:
example
text:
You work with computers, right?
type:
example
text:
She works with the homeless people from the suburbs.
type:
example
text:
He's working in a bar.
type:
example
text:
to work into the earth
type:
example
text:
He worked his way through the crowd.
type:
example
text:
The dye worked its way through.
type:
example
text:
Using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand.
type:
example
text:
He worked the levers.
type:
example
text:
The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.
type:
example
text:
They were told of a ſilver mine, that had been worked by the Spaniards, ſomewhere in the Healthſhire Hills, in St. Catharine; but they were not able to diſcover it.
ref:
1774, Edward Long, chapter 11, in The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, volume 2, page 240
type:
quotation
text:
He used pliers to work the wire into shape.
type:
example
text:
She works the night clubs.
type:
example
text:
The salesman works the Midwest.
type:
example
text:
The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.
type:
example
text:
She knows how to work the system.
type:
example
text:
I cannot work a miracle.
type:
example
text:
Failure to hold the annual meeting, or to otherwise conduct the business of the annual meeting, shall not work a forfeiture or dissolution of the Cooperative.
ref:
2022, Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation Bylaws, Article III, Section 3.01
type:
quotation
text:
He is working his servants hard.
type:
example
text:
He pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?
type:
example
text:
He looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work.
type:
example
text:
My plan didn't work.
type:
example
text:
They worked on her to join the group.
type:
example
text:
His fingers worked with tension.
type:
example
text:
A ship works in a heavy sea.
type:
example
text:
This dough does not work easily.
type:
example
text:
The soft metal works well.
type:
example
text:
‘I wolde hit were so,’ seyde the Kynge, ‘but I may nat stonde, my hede worchys so—’
ref:
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XXI
type:
quotation
text:
I would have never thought those pieces would go together, but she is working it like nobody's business.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
Followed by as. Said of one's job title
To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
To effect by gradual degrees;
To effect by gradual degrees.
To embroider with thread.
To set into action.
To cause to ferment.
To ferment.
To exhaust, by working.
To shape, form, or improve a material.
To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
To provoke or excite; to influence.
To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
To cause to work.
To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
To influence.
To move in an agitated manner.
To behave in a certain way when handled
To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
To hurt; to ache.
To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
senses_topics:
law
|
3364 | word:
habitually
word_type:
adv
expansion:
habitually (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From habitual + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
He is habitually inattentive of time.
type:
example
text:
Professor Franklein is habitually pessimistic.
type:
example
text:
Such recognition is a much-needed boost for Scotland's habitually busiest station.
ref:
2023 October 18, Nick Brodrick, “The grand gateway to Glasgow”, in RAIL, number 994, page 33
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
By habit; in a habitual manner.
Occurring regularly or usually.
senses_topics:
|
3365 | word:
Japanese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Japanese (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Japanese
etymology_text:
From Japan + -ese after the model of earlier Portuguese japonês, New Latin japonensis, French japonais, etc.
senses_examples:
text:
A Japanese saw is one that cuts on the pull stroke rather than on the push stroke.
type:
example
text:
In the United States, Japanese animation has had a tremendous surge in popularity over the last few years.
type:
example
text:
Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
ref:
2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change, page 319
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, relating to, or derived from Japan, its people, language, or culture.
senses_topics:
|
3366 | word:
Japanese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Japanese (countable and uncountable, plural Japanese or Japaneses)
forms:
form:
Japanese
tags:
plural
form:
Japaneses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Japanese
etymology_text:
From Japan + -ese after the model of earlier Portuguese japonês, New Latin japonensis, French japonais, etc.
senses_examples:
text:
A Japanese will typically have black hair, brown eyes, and pale skin.
type:
example
text:
2007 October 16, Madeleine Brand, “Japan Struggles to Meet Its CO2 Emissions Limits”, Day to Day, National Public Radio,
Motoyuki Shibata isn’t a typical Japanese.
text:
How courteous is the Japanese;
He always says, "Excuse it, please."
ref:
1938, Ogden Nash, The Japanese
type:
quotation
text:
Let’s go out to eat. I’m in the mood for Japanese.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person/people living in or coming from Japan, or of Japanese ancestry.
Japanese food.
senses_topics:
|
3367 | word:
Japanese
word_type:
name
expansion:
Japanese
forms:
wikipedia:
Japanese
etymology_text:
From Japan + -ese after the model of earlier Portuguese japonês, New Latin japonensis, French japonais, etc.
senses_examples:
text:
I’ve been studying Japanese for three years, and I still can’t order pizza in Tokyo!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A language that is primarily spoken in East Asia and is the official language of Japan.
senses_topics:
|
3368 | word:
qua
word_type:
prep
expansion:
qua
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin quā (“in the capacity of”).
senses_examples:
text:
Qua work of art, the work of art cannot be interpreted; there is nothing to interpret; we can only criticize it according to standards, in comparison to other works of art; […]
ref:
1920, T. S. Eliot, “Hamlet and His Problems”, in The Sacred Wood
type:
quotation
text:
As anatomy, physiology and, later, psychology have developed into more or less well-organized sciences, they have necessarily and rightly come to incorporate the study of, among other things, the structures, mechanisms, and functionings of animal and human bodies qua percipient.
ref:
1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
text:
For sleep qua sleep has no experiential content: it cannot turn out, as remarked before, that a man was not asleep because he was not having some experience or other.
I am denying that a dream qua dream is a seeming, appearance or ‘semblance of reality’.
ref:
1962: Norman Malcolm; Dreaming; chapter nine: “Judgments in Sleep”, page 39; chapter twelve: “The Concept of Dreaming”, page 68 (1977 paperback reprint; Routledge & Kegan Paul; ISBN 0‒7100‒3836‒4 (c), 0‒7100‒8434‒X (p))
text:
It was qua poet that Byron resurrected the exploded and discarded immortal Christian soul by bodying it forth through the notion of soul conceived as poetic imagination.
ref:
2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 458
type:
quotation
text:
2005: Ulfelder, Jay.Collective Action and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes. International Political Science Review, 26(3), p318. Retrieved 1615 240810 from http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/30039035.pdf?acceptTC=true.
"In essence, military regimes are autocracies in which the military qua organization performs many of the functions performed by the ruling party in single-party regimes."
text:
2009: Ken Levy, Killing, Letting Die, and the Case for Mildly Punishing Bad Samaritanism, Georgia Law Review, p. 24.
Blame qua attitude is the feeling or belief that an individual has committed a wrongdoing, usually a wrongful action and/or harm, and can be reasonably expected not to have committed this wrongdoing. Blame qua practice is the public expression of this attitude – usually by means of censure (written or verbal criticism) or punishment. Generally, the morally worse the wrongdoing, the more severe the censure/punishment.
text:
Sometimes, though, you pick up a novel and it makes your skin prickle — not necessarily because it’s a great novel qua novel, which you can’t know until the end, but because of the velocity of its microperceptions.
ref:
2022 March 29, Dwight Garner, “In Jennifer Egan’s New Novel, Our Memories Are Available for All to See”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
as; in the capacity of; acting as
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences |
3369 | word:
qua
word_type:
intj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Imitative.
senses_examples:
text:
Crows have a language of their own in a wild state that any observant person can learn. […] Then he would straighten his head back and, with the most comical bowing and wagging, say: "Qua qua qua, qua qua qua" for perhaps a minute.
ref:
1909, The Country Gentleman, volume 74, page 266
type:
quotation
text:
Qua... qua... qua... out of the blue I hear the crows cawing with great fanfare as they announce to the world at large that they are here by my side and intend to probe into my being.
ref:
2012, Jaman Tree, I Crow River
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cawing sound of a crow.
senses_topics:
|
3370 | word:
zero
word_type:
num
expansion:
zero
forms:
wikipedia:
zero
etymology_text:
From French zéro, from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”), itself calqued from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “void, nothingness”). Doublet of cipher and chiffre.
senses_examples:
text:
The conductor waited until the passenger count was zero.
type:
example
text:
A cheque for zero dollars and zero cents crashed the computers on division by zero.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0.
senses_topics:
|
3371 | word:
zero
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zero (countable and uncountable, plural zeros or zeroes)
forms:
form:
zeros
tags:
plural
form:
zeroes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
zero
etymology_text:
From French zéro, from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”), itself calqued from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “void, nothingness”). Doublet of cipher and chiffre.
senses_examples:
text:
In unary and k-adic notation in general, zero is the empty string.
type:
example
text:
Write 0.0 to indicate a floating point number rather than the integer zero.
type:
example
text:
The zero sign in American Sign Language is considered rude in some cultures.
type:
example
text:
One million has six zeroes.
type:
example
text:
The shipment was lost, so they had zero in stock.
type:
example
text:
He knows zero about humour.
type:
example
text:
In the end, all of our hard work amounted to zero.
type:
example
text:
The electromagnetic field does not drop all of the way to zero before a reversal.
type:
example
text:
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref:
2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
The temperature outside is ten degrees below zero.
type:
example
text:
The zeroes of a polynomial are its roots by the fundamental theorem of algebra.
type:
example
text:
The derivative of a continuous, differentiable function that twice crosses the axis must have a zero.
type:
example
text:
The nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function may all lie on the critical line.
type:
example
text:
Since a commutative zero is the inverse of any additive identity, it must be unique when it exists.
type:
example
text:
The zero (of a ring or field) has the property that the product of the zero with any element yields the zero.
type:
example
text:
The quotient ring over a maximal ideal is a field with a single zero element.
type:
example
text:
They rudely treated him like a zero.
type:
example
text:
The visit to Townsville was filled with nostalgia for me. I remembered very well staying there on June 8, 1942. I shared a room with a brave and friendly officer, Colonel Francis Stevens. Early the next morning we flew to Port Moresby in New Guinea, and from there we took off in separate planes. Colonel Stevens never returned from that flight; his plane was shot down by a Japanese Zero.
ref:
1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The New Age of Regionalism”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 361
type:
quotation
text:
The takeovers were financed by issuing zeroes.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.
The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.
Nothing, or none.
The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.
The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.
A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.
The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.
A person of little or no importance.
A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.
A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm, corresponding to a zero value.
A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences
government
military
politics
war
business
finance |
3372 | word:
zero
word_type:
det
expansion:
zero
forms:
wikipedia:
zero
etymology_text:
From French zéro, from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”), itself calqued from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “void, nothingness”). Doublet of cipher and chiffre.
senses_examples:
text:
She showed zero respect.
type:
example
text:
You have to salute Gerrard's bravery in accepting the challenge of trying to turn Rangers around given that he has zero experience in senior management. Immortality beckons if he does it.
ref:
2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of no.
senses_topics:
|
3373 | word:
zero
word_type:
adj
expansion:
zero (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
zero
etymology_text:
From French zéro, from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”), itself calqued from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “void, nothingness”). Doublet of cipher and chiffre.
senses_examples:
text:
The stem of "kobieta" with the zero ending is "kobiet".
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less.
Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.
Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the surface form.
senses_topics:
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3374 | word:
zero
word_type:
verb
expansion:
zero (third-person singular simple present zeroes or zeros, present participle zeroing, simple past and past participle zeroed)
forms:
form:
zeroes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
zeros
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
zeroing
tags:
participle
present
form:
zeroed
tags:
participle
past
form:
zeroed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
zero
etymology_text:
From French zéro, from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”), itself calqued from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “void, nothingness”). Doublet of cipher and chiffre.
senses_examples:
text:
They tried to zero the budget by the end of the quarter.
type:
example
text:
The bill was over $400, but the server zeroed it out as a gesture of gratitude.
type:
example
text:
Results were inconsistent because an array wasn’t zeroed during initialization.
type:
example
text:
Zero the fluorometer with the same solvent used in extraction.
type:
example
text:
George parked in space 34, zeroed the trip meter, closed and locked his car, then went back to the guard shack.
type:
example
text:
Traffic on the encrypted channels used by senior Iraqi generals had peaked and zeroed, then peaked again, and zeroed again.
ref:
1997, Tom Clancy, Executive Orders, page 340
type:
quotation
text:
They discovered the object code for the simulator that was DON, and zeroed it. DON — or his creator — was clever and had planted many copies,
ref:
2001, Mark Pesce, “True Magic”, in James Frenkel, editor, True Names by Vernor Vinge and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier
type:
quotation
text:
If I zeroed Jack, I'd get by So I'd erased him, pretended the last few months had never happened.
ref:
2004, Anna Maxted, Being Committed, page 358
type:
quotation
text:
The soldier took his gun to the shooting range to zero its aim.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To set some amount to be zero.
To disappear or make something disappear.
To adjust until the variance is reduced to an acceptably low amount.
senses_topics:
|
3375 | word:
ring finger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ring finger (plural ring fingers)
forms:
form:
ring fingers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ring fynger. So named from the wearing of wedding rings on this finger, originating from medieval belief that a nerve or artery ran from it to the heart.
senses_examples:
text:
See Thesaurus:ring finger
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The finger between the middle finger and the little finger; the "third finger" (UK) or the "fourth finger" (US), especially of the left hand. (The ring finger is the left hand; a ring finger is either hand.)
senses_topics:
|
3376 | word:
habitable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
habitable (comparative more habitable, superlative most habitable)
forms:
form:
more habitable
tags:
comparative
form:
most habitable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Originally derived from the Latin habitābilis (“habitable”), from habitō (“dwell, live”).
senses_examples:
text:
After we found the freshwater spring we were more confident that the place was habitable.
type:
example
text:
Humankind has never found any other habitable planets apart from Earth.
type:
example
text:
Feros is a habitable world in the Attican Beta cluster. Two-thirds of the habitable surface is covered with the ruins of a crumbling Prothean megatropolis.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Planets: Feros Codex entry
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.
Of an astronomical object: capable of supporting, or giving rise to, life.
senses_topics:
|
3377 | word:
adamant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
adamant (comparative more adamant, superlative most adamant)
forms:
form:
more adamant
tags:
comparative
form:
most adamant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
adamant
etymology_text:
From Middle English adamant, adamaunt, from Latin adamantem, accusative singular form of adamās (“hard as steel”), from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas, “invincible”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + δαμάζω (damázō, “I tame”) or of Semitic origin. Doublet of diamond.
senses_examples:
text:
Broiles and Kirkley were adamant about getting out of the lawsuit, but Mike and Dee were equally adamant about not wanting to sign a letter of apology
ref:
2002, Charles Moncrief, Wildcatters: The True Story of how Conspiracy, Greed and the IRS ..., page 195
type:
quotation
text:
Johan is determined to play the field and adamant about never committing.
ref:
2006, Cara E. C. Vermaak, Confessions of the Dyslexic Virgin, page 275
type:
quotation
text:
What good would such foolishness do a mountain man? But Pa had been adamant. Just as he'd been adamant about their reading, writing, numbers, geography, and languages. Just as he'd been adamant about using proper grammar
ref:
2010, Deeanne Gist, Maid to Match, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
Unprotected matter, however adamant, would have been ground to dust ages ago.
ref:
1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.
senses_topics:
|
3378 | word:
adamant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
adamant (plural adamants)
forms:
form:
adamants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
adamant
etymology_text:
From Middle English adamant, adamaunt, from Latin adamantem, accusative singular form of adamās (“hard as steel”), from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas, “invincible”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + δαμάζω (damázō, “I tame”) or of Semitic origin. Doublet of diamond.
senses_examples:
text:
This then is and alwayes hath ben the fashion of Worldlinges, & reprobate persons, to harden their hartes as an adamant stone, against anye thinge that shalbe tolde the for amendement of their lives, and for the savinge of their soules.
ref:
1582, Robert Parsons, chapter 8, in The first booke of the Christian exercise, appertayning to resolution, G. Flinton
type:
quotation
text:
As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead …
ref:
1611, King James Translators, Ezekiel 3:9
text:
Actual life might seem to her so real that she could not detect the union of shadow and adamant that men call poetry.
ref:
1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XV [Uniform ed., p. 163]
text:
An Adamant hinders the attractive vertue, as also Garlick rubbed on the Magnet; for its attractive faculty is not so valid, but it may be easily deluded, obscured, and superated […]
ref:
1657 [1608], Jean de Renou, translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory […], page 418
type:
quotation
text:
But we know from book 37 of the Natural History that adamant works on magnets in exactly the same way that garlic does: robbing them of their power to attract.
ref:
2012, Daryn Lehoux, What Did the Romans Knows? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking, page 139
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.
An embodiment of impregnable hardness.
A lodestone.
A substance that neutralizes lodestones.
senses_topics:
|
3379 | word:
quake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quake (plural quakes)
forms:
form:
quakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quaken, from Old English cwacian (“to quake, tremble, chatter”), from Proto-Germanic *kwakōną (“to shake, quiver, tremble”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷog- (“to shake, swing”), related to Old English cweċċan (“to shake, swing, move, vibrate, shake off, give up”) (see quitch), Dutch kwakkelen (“to ail, be ailing”), German Quackelei (“chattering”), Danish kvakle (“to bungle”), Latin vexō (“toss, shake violently, jostle, vex”), Irish bogadh (“a move, movement, shift, change”).
senses_examples:
text:
We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by.
text:
California is plagued by quakes; there are a few minor ones almost every month.
text:
Well, everybody talks about the California quakes
But the first time I ever felt the earth shake
Was in Miami, when Amy touched me.
ref:
1985, “Miami, My Amy”, in L.A. to Miami, performed by Keith Whitley
type:
quotation
text:
But HS1 was more exposed to the COVID quake than most given its inherent reliance on international travel, which had collapsed, leaving cross-Channel operator Eurostar stacked with millions of debt.
ref:
2024 January 24, Dyan Perry talks to Nick Brodrick, “The industry has given me so much”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 44
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A trembling or shaking.
An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.
Something devastating, like a strong earthquake.
senses_topics:
|
3380 | word:
quake
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quake (third-person singular simple present quakes, present participle quaking, simple past and past participle quaked or (archaic) quoke or (obsolete) quook)
forms:
form:
quakes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quaking
tags:
participle
present
form:
quaked
tags:
participle
past
form:
quaked
tags:
past
form:
quoke
tags:
archaic
participle
past
form:
quoke
tags:
archaic
past
form:
quook
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
quook
tags:
obsolete
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quaken, from Old English cwacian (“to quake, tremble, chatter”), from Proto-Germanic *kwakōną (“to shake, quiver, tremble”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷog- (“to shake, swing”), related to Old English cweċċan (“to shake, swing, move, vibrate, shake off, give up”) (see quitch), Dutch kwakkelen (“to ail, be ailing”), German Quackelei (“chattering”), Danish kvakle (“to bungle”), Latin vexō (“toss, shake violently, jostle, vex”), Irish bogadh (“a move, movement, shift, change”).
senses_examples:
text:
I felt the ground quaking beneath my feet.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To tremble or shake.
To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble.
senses_topics:
|
3381 | word:
Slovio
word_type:
name
expansion:
Slovio
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An artificial language based on the Slavic languages and written in either the Latin or Cyrillic script, intended to be readily understandable by speakers of any modern Slavic language.
senses_topics:
|
3382 | word:
belly dance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
belly dance (countable and uncountable, plural belly dances)
forms:
form:
belly dances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
belly dance
etymology_text:
Calque of French danse du ventre, equivalent to belly + dance. First attested in English in 1889, in an article about that year's Exposition Universelle in Paris in the November 22 edition of the Yorkshire Factory Times: "A café in the Rue du Caire attracted 2,000 spectators daily to see the ‘belly dance’, and realised a total of 400,000 francs." Early sources also used the French term danse du ventre as-is.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A form of dance originating in the Middle East and characterized by movements of the torso.
senses_topics:
|
3383 | word:
belly dance
word_type:
verb
expansion:
belly dance (third-person singular simple present belly dances, present participle belly dancing, simple past and past participle belly danced)
forms:
form:
belly dances
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
belly dancing
tags:
participle
present
form:
belly danced
tags:
participle
past
form:
belly danced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
belly dance
etymology_text:
Calque of French danse du ventre, equivalent to belly + dance. First attested in English in 1889, in an article about that year's Exposition Universelle in Paris in the November 22 edition of the Yorkshire Factory Times: "A café in the Rue du Caire attracted 2,000 spectators daily to see the ‘belly dance’, and realised a total of 400,000 francs." Early sources also used the French term danse du ventre as-is.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perform a belly dance.
senses_topics:
|
3384 | word:
grandparent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grandparent (plural grandparents)
forms:
form:
grandparents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
grandparent
etymology_text:
From grand- + parent. Compare French grand-parent.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the parent of someone's parent
senses_topics:
|
3385 | word:
grandparent
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grandparent (third-person singular simple present grandparents, present participle grandparenting, simple past and past participle grandparented)
forms:
form:
grandparents
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
grandparenting
tags:
participle
present
form:
grandparented
tags:
participle
past
form:
grandparented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
grandparent
etymology_text:
From grand- + parent. Compare French grand-parent.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of grandfather
senses_topics:
|
3386 | word:
endowment policy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
endowment policy (plural endowment policies)
forms:
form:
endowment policies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a life assurance savings scheme designed to pay out a lump sum when the policy matures
senses_topics:
|
3387 | word:
coin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
coin (countable and uncountable, plural coins)
forms:
form:
coins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:coin
etymology_text:
From Middle English coyn, from Old French coigne (“wedge, cornerstone, die for stamping”), from Latin cuneus (“wedge”). Doublet of coign and cuneus. See also quoin (“cornerstone”). Displaced Middle English mynt, from Old English mynet (whence modern English mint), which was derived from Latin monēta.
senses_examples:
text:
She spent some serious coin on that car!
type:
example
text:
Boy toy named Troy, used to live in Detroit, big dope dealer money he was getting some coin.
ref:
2014, Nicki Minaj, “Anaconda”, in The Pinkprint
type:
quotation
text:
For munchies try deep-fried jalapeño coins, jumbo Buffalo wings, and hush puppies with a sweet edge.
ref:
2015, Fodor's The Carolinas & Georgia
type:
quotation
text:
Spread out four bread and butter pickle coins on top, and sprinkle with onion.
ref:
2020, Evan Bloom, Rachel Levin, Eat Something, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
What's the best coin to buy right now?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
A token used in a special establishment like a casino.
That which serves for payment or recompense.
Something in broad circulation or use.
Money in general, not limited to coins.
One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
A corner or external angle.
A small circular slice of food.
A cryptocurrency; a cryptocoin.
senses_topics:
business
finance
money
card-games
games
business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance |
3388 | word:
coin
word_type:
verb
expansion:
coin (third-person singular simple present coins, present participle coining, simple past and past participle coined)
forms:
form:
coins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
coining
tags:
participle
present
form:
coined
tags:
participle
past
form:
coined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:coin
etymology_text:
From Middle English coyn, from Old French coigne (“wedge, cornerstone, die for stamping”), from Latin cuneus (“wedge”). Doublet of coign and cuneus. See also quoin (“cornerstone”). Displaced Middle English mynt, from Old English mynet (whence modern English mint), which was derived from Latin monēta.
senses_examples:
text:
to coin silver dollars
type:
example
text:
to coin a medal
type:
example
text:
Many persons believe that the so-called "dollar of the daddies," weighing 412½ grains (nine tenths fine), having a ratio to gold of "16 to 1" in value when first coined, was the original dollar of the Constitution.
ref:
1898 September 24, Alexander E. Outerbridge Jr., “Curiosities of American Coinage”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 53, D. Appleton & Company, page 601
type:
quotation
text:
Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.
To make or fabricate (especially a word or phrase).
To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
senses_topics:
|
3389 | word:
life assurance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
life assurance (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From life + assurance.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An insurance policy that pays out on death (or on certain other conditions).
senses_topics:
|
3390 | word:
hacienda
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hacienda (plural haciendas)
forms:
form:
haciendas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish hacienda. Doublet of faena and fazenda.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large homestead in a ranch or estate usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.
senses_topics:
|
3391 | word:
pinky
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pinky (comparative pinkier, superlative pinkiest)
forms:
form:
pinkier
tags:
comparative
form:
pinkiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
pinky
etymology_text:
From pink + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
In a pinky paper all folded neat,
And they fastened it down with a pin.
ref:
1871, Edward Lear, The Jumblies
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pinkish.
senses_topics:
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3392 | word:
pinky
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pinky (countable and uncountable, plural pinkies)
forms:
form:
pinkies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pinky
etymology_text:
From pink + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
“Here,” Nigel greeted him, “do try a spot of ‘pinky,’ it's ever so much fun, really.”
ref:
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 262
type:
quotation
text:
You may get some pinkies around the Black Rock area, but the snapper *run* is normally from late October to mid January, although it sounds like the odd adult fish is still lurking..
ref:
2001 May 3, Lindsay Vincent, “Re: snapper fishing in Victoria”, in aus.sport.fishing (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals.
A baby mouse, especially when used as food for a snake, etc.
A white person.
The Australasian snapper or pink snapper (Chrysophrys auratus).
A kind of fishing schooner of New England.
senses_topics:
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3393 | word:
pinky
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pinky (plural pinkies)
forms:
form:
pinkies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pinky
etymology_text:
:Template:Wiktionary:Picture dictionary/en:Fingers
From Dutch pinkje, diminutive of Dutch pink (“little finger”). Cognate with West Frisian pinke (“pinky”), dialectal English pink (“something small or tiny”), and perhaps to Old English pinca (“a point”). Compare also German Low German Pink (“penis”), English pintle (“penis”).
senses_examples:
text:
Everyday as he passes them, the hookers wave at him with their pinkies and say, “Hi there, little boy!”
ref:
2003, Billoo Badhshah, The Unofficial Joke Book of Australia, page 126
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The smallest finger or toe of a hand or foot.
senses_topics:
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3394 | word:
pinky
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pinky (comparative pinkier, superlative pinkiest)
forms:
form:
pinkier
tags:
comparative
form:
pinkiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
pinky
etymology_text:
From pink + -y, from pink (“to wink”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
winking
senses_topics:
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3395 | word:
quadrilateral
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quadrilateral (plural quadrilaterals)
forms:
form:
quadrilaterals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
quadrilateral
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin quadrilaterus.
senses_examples:
text:
The Venetian quadrilateral comprised Mantua, Peschiera, Verona, and Legnano.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A polygon with four sides.
An area defended by four fortresses supporting each other.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
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3396 | word:
quadrilateral
word_type:
adj
expansion:
quadrilateral (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
quadrilateral
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin quadrilaterus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having four sides.
senses_topics:
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3397 | word:
fifteen
word_type:
num
expansion:
fifteen (cardinal, ordinal fifteenth)
forms:
form:
fifteenth
tags:
ordinal
wikipedia:
fifteen
etymology_text:
PIE word
*pénkʷe
From Middle English fiftene, from Old English fīftīene, fīftēne, from Proto-Germanic *fimftehun. Cognate with West Frisian fyftjin, Dutch vijftien, German fünfzehn, Danish femten. Equivalent to five + -teen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).
senses_topics:
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3398 | word:
fifteen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fifteen (plural fifteens)
forms:
form:
fifteens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fifteen
etymology_text:
PIE word
*pénkʷe
From Middle English fiftene, from Old English fīftīene, fīftēne, from Proto-Germanic *fimftehun. Cognate with West Frisian fyftjin, Dutch vijftien, German fünfzehn, Danish femten. Equivalent to five + -teen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Irish traybake made with crushed digestive biscuits, marshmallows and glacé cherries combined with condensed milk and desiccated coconut.
senses_topics:
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3399 | word:
of
word_type:
prep
expansion:
of
forms:
wikipedia:
of
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *ab
Old English æf
Old English of
Middle English of
English of
From Middle English of, from Old English of (“from, out of, off”), an unstressed form of æf, from Proto-West Germanic *ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“away; away from”). Doublet of off, which is the stressed descendant of the same Old English word. More at off.
senses_examples:
text:
Obama has been obliged to make nice of late in hope of rescuing the moribund two-state process and preventing resumed West Bank settlement building.
ref:
2010 July 29, Simon Tisdall, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
type:
example
text:
Though Washington does not officially recognize Moscow, the Hoover Administration permits a Soviet Russian Information Bureau to flourish in a modest red brick house on Massachusetts Avenue, within a mile of the White House.
ref:
1932 September 30, Time
type:
quotation
text:
There are now upwards of 1.4 million 99ers in America facing a life with no benefits and few prospects for finding a job in a market in which companies are still not hiring.
ref:
2010 November 7, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
type:
example
text:
I am almost entirely cured of my rheumatism—just a little pain in my knee now and then, to make me remember what it was, and keep on flannel.
ref:
1816 February 20, Jane Austen, Letter
type:
quotation
text:
In Houston, ten minutes after the Lindquist Finance Corp. was robbed of $447, Office Manager Howard Willson got a phone call from the thief who complained: "You didn't have enough money over there."
ref:
1951 September 3, Time
type:
quotation
text:
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
type:
example
text:
But schemes are perfectly accidental: some will appear barren of hints and matter, but prove to be fruitful […]
ref:
1731 August 28, Jonathan Swift, Letter
type:
quotation
text:
Yet for long spells Villa looked laboured and devoid of ideas.
ref:
2010 October 31, Stuart James, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
He was kindly treated by the people at Saco, and recovered of his wounds.
ref:
1822, Jacob Bailey Moore, New Hampshire, volume 1, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
type:
example
text:
My father was born of a family of weavers in Manchester, England.
ref:
1954, The Rotarian, volume 85:6
type:
quotation
text:
Nothing may come of these ideas, yet their potential should not be dismissed.
ref:
2010, “The Cost of Repair”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
Jesus of Nazareth (after hometown)
type:
example
text:
Anselm of Canterbury (after diocese)
type:
example
text:
Anselm of Aosta (after birthplace)
type:
example
text:
Anselm of Bec (after monastery)
type:
example
text:
Pedro II of Brazil (after dominion)
type:
example
text:
Mrs Miggins of Gasworks Road, Mudchester (after place of residence)
type:
example
text:
The invention was born of necessity.
type:
example
text:
Undoubtedly it is to be understood, that inflicting deserved punishment on all evil doers, of right, belongs to God.
ref:
1803, John Smalley, Sermons
type:
quotation
text:
The woman who danced for me said she was there of her own free will, but when I pushed a bit further, I discovered that she "owed a man a lot of money", and had to pay it back quickly.
ref:
2008 December 3, Rowenna Davis, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
type:
example
text:
He smelled of beer and cigarette smoke and his own body.
ref:
2006, Joyce Carol Oates, The Female of the Species
type:
quotation
text:
Two men, one from Somalia and one from Zimbabwe, died of terminal illnesses shortly after their incarceration ended.
ref:
2010 October 5, Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I am tired of all this nonsense.
type:
example
text:
Lib Dems were appalled by Mr Boles’s offer, however kindly meant: the party is so frightened of losing its independence under Mr Clegg that such a pact would “kill” him, says a senior member.
ref:
2010 September 23, Bagehot, The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
Thus, one finds individuals dead of a gunshot wound with potentially lethal levels of drugs.
ref:
2015, Vincent J. M. DiMaio, Gunshot Wounds
type:
quotation
text:
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
type:
example
text:
The family is ordained of God.
ref:
1995, The Family: A Proclamation to the World, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
type:
quotation
text:
Colombia and Venezuela share an elegantly restrained style, with much back-stepping, smaller hand-movements and little use of the elaborate, arm-tangling moves beloved of Cuban dancers.
ref:
2008 March 27, “Selling rhythm to the world”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
type:
example
text:
In Blood and Sand, meanwhile, Valentino repeatedly solicits the attention of women who have turned away from him.
ref:
1994, Paul Coates, Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
Somehow Croatia has escaped the opprobrium of the likes of the German Christian Democrats and others that are against any rapid enlargement of the European Union to the include rest of the western Balkans.
ref:
2009 December 28, “Head to head”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
type:
example
text:
Morrissey's spokesperson says he is considering the offer. It would perhaps be rude of him to decline.
ref:
2007 January 10, Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
type:
example
text:
She wore a dress of silk.
type:
example
text:
Perhaps symbolically, Van Doesburg was building a house of straw: he died within a few months of completion, not in Meudon but in Davos, of a heart attack following a bout of asthma.
ref:
2010 January 23, Simon Mawer, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
It's 25km of rolling pitch from the start of the 175 to Nansi. If you want to continue riding through more undeveloped natural landscape, head up the east side of Tsengwen Reservoir.
ref:
2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, Taiwan, 9th edition, Lonely Planet, →OCLC, page 253
type:
quotation
text:
What a lot of nonsense!
type:
example
text:
I'd expected to be confronted by oodles of barely suppressed tension and leather-clad, pouty-mouthed, large-haired sexiness; the visual shorthand of rock gods in general, and Jon Bon Jovi in particular.
ref:
2010 October 31, Polly Vernon, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
type:
example
text:
In his studio in the Behlendorf woods, near the Baltic city of Lübeck, Günter Grass reflects on the outcry over his fictive memoir Peeling the Onion.
ref:
2010 October 30, Maya Jaggi, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
type:
example
text:
As he swallowed the soup his heart warmed to this fool of a girl.
ref:
1911, Katherine Mansfield, In a German Pension
type:
quotation
text:
"I'm having a bitch of a day," he says, after ordering a restorative pint of Guinness and flopping down in a seat by the front window.
ref:
2010 August 22, Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I'm always thinking of you.
type:
example
text:
while producing Cook, which includes more than 250 seasonal recipes by 80 different chefs, we washed up more than 500 times (oh, how I dreamed of dishwashers).
ref:
2010 October 19, Rebecca Seal, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
He told us the story of his journey to India.
type:
example
text:
Recession and rising unemployment have put paid to most thoughts of further EU enlargement.
ref:
2010 October 21, The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
type:
example
text:
Most of these apples are rotten.
type:
example
text:
Many of the civilisational achievements of Mesopotamia are the product of that symbiosis.
ref:
2010 November 10, Michael Wood, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
everyone, even the ladies of the village, called the dish tzigayner shmeklekh, or “gypsies' penises.”
ref:
2005, Naomi Wolf, The Treehouse, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
That, I think, is the buried core of the outrage people feel most generally.
ref:
2006, Norman Mailer, The Big Empty
type:
quotation
text:
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
type:
example
text:
Dunning, however, is of the old school, and does not like new faces; so he will have no Irishman at his door […]
ref:
1846, James Fenimore Cooper, The Redskins
type:
quotation
text:
He is a friend of mine.
type:
example
text:
He is just what I should have liked a son of mine to be.
ref:
1893, Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, section IV
type:
quotation
text:
In its flattering way, the press tried to invest this habit of Bush's with the sense that it was indicative of a particularly sharp wit.
ref:
2010 August 27, Michael Tomasky, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
type:
example
text:
The building was erected in two years, at the parochial expence, on the foundation of the former one, which was irreparably damaged by the hurricane of Auguſt, 1712.
ref:
1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, volume 2, book 2, chapter 7, 5
type:
quotation
text:
Thus, as he dressed, the thoughts and the rage of yesterday began to stir and move in his mind again.
ref:
1908, E. F. Benson, The Blotting Book
type:
quotation
text:
Within ten seconds, the citizens of New York, Cleveland, Detroit and Toronto were being given first-hand experience of what it was like to live in the nineteenth century.
ref:
2003 August 20, Julian Borger, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
type:
example
text:
In a much-anticipated radio broadcast the Duke of Edinburgh said last night that Britain will be a grim place in the year 2000 […]
ref:
1977 October 28, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The third son, William John (1826-1902), was headmaster of the Boys' British School, Hitchin […]
ref:
2001, Dictionary of National Biography, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
type:
example
text:
The breasts of young girls sometimes become tender at puberty in sympathy with the evolution of the sexual organs […]
ref:
1933, Havelock Ellis, Psychology of Sex, volume 4
type:
quotation
text:
It amounts to knocking on the door of No 10 then running away.
ref:
2010 October 29, Marina Hyde, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
She had a profound distrust of the police.
type:
example
text:
Antifeminism has been a credible cover and an effective vehicle because the hatred of women is not politically anathema on either the Right or the Left.
ref:
2000, Sheila Ruth, Issues in Feminism
type:
quotation
text:
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
type:
example
text:
He was huge, raw-boned, knotty, long of body and long of leg, with the head of a war charger.
ref:
1917, Zane Gray, Wildfire, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
Still nimble of mind and fleet of foot, Morris buzzed here and there, linking well and getting stuck in at every opportunity.
ref:
2004 August 11, Sean Ingle, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
type:
example
text:
His frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and firmness.
ref:
1891, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery
type:
quotation
text:
No other man has made so deep a mark on his time and on our world unless he has been a man of action, a Cromwell or a Napoleon.
ref:
1951, Jacob Bronowski, The Common Sense of Science
type:
quotation
text:
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
type:
example
text:
She was a tall young girl of about twenty-two or three, holding herself erect and with fine dignity.
ref:
1903, Frank Norris, The Pit, Doubleday, published 1924, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
A police car, traveling southbound at a speed of 40.0 m/s, approaches with its siren producing sound at a frequency of 2 500 Hz.
ref:
1996, Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett, Principles of Physics, published 2006, page 428
type:
quotation
text:
It's not that big of a deal.
type:
example
text:
Such hegemonic projects often appropriate certain local traditions and re-inscribe them as "national," while dismissing other traditions which pose too great of a threat to the reproduction of the existing socio-political order.
ref:
1990, Mary Crain, “The Social Construction of National Identity in Highland Ecuador”, in Anthropological Quarterly, volume 61, number 1, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
For some individuals, even 1000 calories/day may be too great of a deficit.
ref:
1998, Lyle McDonald, The Ketogenic Diet: A Complete Guide for the Dieter and Practitioner, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
While it is quite obvious that the state continues to try and dilute the voting power of Native Americans, at least as big of a challenge is the need for mobilizing Native American voters.
ref:
2017, Jean Reith Schroedel, Artour Aslanian, “A Case Study of Descriptive Representation: The Experience of Native American Elected Officials in South Dakota”, in American Indian Quarterly, volume 41, number 3, page 278
type:
quotation
text:
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
type:
example
text:
I’ve not taken her out of a goodly long while.
type:
example
text:
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
type:
example
text:
The cab driver's claim he was sleepwalking during the attack has already been supported by his wife of 37 years.
ref:
2011 March 2, Grant McCabe, The Sun
type:
quotation
text:
I’ll be ready at ten of two
I’ll be ready at 1:50
type:
example
text:
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
type:
example
text:
I'll be ready by five of noon.
type:
example
text:
"Fellow Democrats," he began, "I left Washington at a quarter of two this morning […]"
ref:
1940 June 17, “Little Bull Booed”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
Quarter of seven. Fifteen minutes to go.
ref:
1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 194
type:
quotation
text:
I’ll be ready at ten of
I’ll be ready at 1:50, or 2:50, or whatever time ending in 10 makes most sense in context.
type:
example
text:
Wednesday was more of the same. Out at 08:30, got to the office by quarter of, clients all day.
ref:
2022 May 16, Ariel Levine, 09:20 from the start, in Giancarlo Esposito, director, Better Call Saul S6E6: Axe and Grind (TV series), spoken by Private Investigator (Lennie Loftin)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expressing distance or motion.
Expressing distance or motion.
From (of distance, direction), "off".
Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
Expressing separation.
Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.
Expressing separation.
Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.
Expressing separation.
Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.
Expressing origin.
Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.
Expressing origin.
Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.
Expressing origin.
Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of.
Expressing origin.
Indicates the source or cause of the verb.
Expressing origin.
Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.
Expressing agency.
Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).
Expressing agency.
Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also 'Possession' senses below).
Expressing agency.
Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.
Expressing composition, substance.
Used to indicate the material or substance used.
Expressing composition, substance.
Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.
Expressing composition, substance.
Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.
Expressing composition, substance.
Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.
Expressing composition, substance.
Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; "which is also".
Introducing subject matter.
Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to.
Introducing subject matter.
Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning.
Introducing subject matter.
Introduces its subject matter.
Having partitive effect.
Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; "from among".
Having partitive effect.
Indicates a given part.
Having partitive effect.
Some, an amount of, one of.
Having partitive effect.
Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).
Expressing possession.
Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
Expressing possession.
Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
Expressing possession.
Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under "agency" senses.)
Forming the "objective genitive".
Forming the "objective genitive".
Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.
Expressing qualities or characteristics.
Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier; in respect to, as regards.
Expressing qualities or characteristics.
Indicates a quality or characteristic; "characterized by".
Expressing qualities or characteristics.
Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.
Expressing qualities or characteristics.
Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives modified by certain common adverbs of degree.
Expressing a point in time.
During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Expressing a point in time.
For (a given length of time).
Expressing a point in time.
Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.
Expressing a point in time.
Before (the hour); to (the hour).
Expressing a point in time.
Before (the hour); to (the hour).
Often used without the hour
senses_topics:
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