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3400 | word:
of
word_type:
verb
expansion:
of
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A spelling of /əv/ influenced by Etymology 1.
senses_examples:
text:
I have refrained from giving many details which I might of done, from feelings of delicacy; indeed, they were of so dark and dreadful a nature, that I could do no more than hint at them
ref:
1846, Linus Wilson Miller, Notes of an Exile to Van Dieman's Land (McKinstry: Fredonia, NY) p. 367
text:
"I had a woman up here last week to look at my feet, and when she have been the bill you'd of thought she had my appendicitus out."
ref:
1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin, published 2000, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
‘You must of left your door unlocked. Or even open.’
ref:
1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin, published 2005, page 87
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Eye dialect spelling of have or ’ve, chiefly in depictions of colloquial speech.
senses_topics:
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3401 | word:
of
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
of
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of off, often
senses_topics:
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3402 | word:
mortage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mortage
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of mortgage.
senses_topics:
|
3403 | word:
mortage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mortage
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of mortgage.
senses_topics:
|
3404 | word:
little finger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
little finger (plural little fingers)
forms:
form:
little fingers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English litile fynge, litil fyngir.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The outermost and smallest finger of the hand, next to the ring finger, farthest from the thumb.
senses_topics:
|
3405 | word:
endowment mortgage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
endowment mortgage (plural endowment mortgages)
forms:
form:
endowment mortgages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: repayment mortgage
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of mortgage (typically a loan to buy a house) where, over the term of the loan, the borrower's regular payments to the lender cover only the interest charged by the lender. At the same time, the borrower makes regular payments into a separate savings or investment plan. When this plan matures, the borrower uses the proceeds to repay the principal of the loan.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
3406 | word:
Quebec
word_type:
name
expansion:
Quebec (usually uncountable, plural Quebecs)
forms:
form:
Quebecs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Quebec
en:Quebec City
en:Saint Lawrence River
etymology_text:
From French Québec, from Algonquin kepék (“(it) narrows”). Cognate with Mi'kmaq gepe'g (“plug”), and Mi'kmaq Kepinkek. It originally referred to the area around Quebec City where the Saint Lawrence River narrows to a cliff-lined gap. The name of the city preceded that of the province.
senses_examples:
text:
And of course, in July 1967 De Gaulle did come to Canada. He made his speeches in Quebec, was enthusiastically received on the Chemin du Roy, shouted “Vive le Quebec libre” in Montreal and, on learning of the reaction of the Canadian government, returned to Paris without going to Ottawa.
ref:
1996, Eldon Black, “Prologue: 1960-1967”, in Direct Intervention: Canada-France Relations, 1967-1974, Carleton University Press, →OCLC, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province in eastern Canada.
The capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada.
senses_topics:
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3407 | word:
o
word_type:
character
expansion:
o (lower case, upper case O, plural os or o's)
forms:
form:
O
tags:
uppercase
form:
os
tags:
plural
form:
o's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The system's Bayer designation is o Persei.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.
Alternative form of ο, the fifteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets, called omicron and (astronomy) used as an abbreviation of omicron in star names.
senses_topics:
|
3408 | word:
o
word_type:
num
expansion:
o (lower case, upper case O)
forms:
form:
O
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number fifteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
3409 | word:
o
word_type:
noun
expansion:
o (plural oes)
forms:
form:
oes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
It is currently two-o-five in the afternoon (2:05 PM).
type:
example
text:
The first permanent English settlement in America was in Jamestown in sixteen-o-seven (1607).
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Latin-script letter O/o.
A zero (used in reading out numbers).
senses_topics:
|
3410 | word:
o
word_type:
particle
expansion:
o
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I lift my soule to thee o Lord
mee, o Iehovah, heare
In thee, o Lord, I put my trust
ref:
2007, The Bay Psalm Book, Cosimo Classics, published 1640, p.37, 41 & 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
alternative form of O (vocative particle)
senses_topics:
|
3411 | word:
o
word_type:
intj
expansion:
o
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of oh
senses_topics:
|
3412 | word:
o
word_type:
noun
expansion:
o
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Operator
Object, see SVO
senses_topics:
IRC
|
3413 | word:
o
word_type:
adj
expansion:
o
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Over
senses_topics:
|
3414 | word:
o
word_type:
prep
expansion:
o
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See o'.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of of
senses_topics:
|
3415 | word:
caipirinha
word_type:
noun
expansion:
caipirinha (plural caipirinhas)
forms:
form:
caipirinhas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Portuguese caipirinha.
senses_examples:
text:
They thought of, I don’t know, monkeys and caipirinhas and samba.”
ref:
2007 September 20, Eric Wilson, “Blame It on Rio and Gisele”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A traditional Brazilian alcoholic drink prepared with cachaça, lime juice, sugar, and ice.
senses_topics:
|
3416 | word:
nature
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nature (countable and uncountable, plural natures)
forms:
form:
natures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nature, natur, from Old French nature, from Latin nātūra (“birth, origin, natural constitution or quality”), future participle from perfect passive participle (g)natus (“born”), from deponent verb (g)nasci (“to be born, originate”) + future participle suffix -urus.
Displaced native Middle English erd (“character, nature, disposition”) from Old English eard (compare German Art (“nature, character, kind, type”)); and Middle English kinde, ikinde (“character, disposition, nature”) from Old English ġecynd. More at kind.
senses_examples:
text:
In the works of nature we find, in many instances, beauty and sublimity involved among circumstances, which are either indifferent, or which obstruct the general effect: and it is only by a train of experiments, that we can separate those circumstances from the rest... Accordingly, the inexperienced artist, when he copies nature, will copy her servilely... and the beauties of his performances will be encumbered with a number of superfluous or disagreeable concomitants. Experience and observation alone can enable him to make this determination: to exhibit the principles of beauty pure and unadulterated, and to form a creation of his own, more faultless, than ever fell under the observation of his senses.
ref:
1808, Dugald Stewart, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, pages 315–6
type:
quotation
text:
Most persons in striving after effect lose the likeness when they should go together to produce a good effect you must copy Nature: leave Nature for an imaginary effect & you lose all. Nature as Nature cannot be exceeded, and as your object it [is] to copy Nature twere the hight of folly to look at any thing else to produce that copy.
ref:
1816, Matthew Harris Jouett, Notes... on Painting with Gilbert Stuart Esqr
type:
quotation
text:
Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. When I look at a landscape I cannot help seeing all its defects.
ref:
1891, Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying
type:
quotation
text:
Nature’s logic was too horrid for him to care for.
ref:
1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
...they will shout at you, it is no use protesting: it is a case of twice two makes four! Nature does not ask your permission, she has nothing to do with your wishes, and whether you like her laws or dislike them, you are bound to accept her as she is, and consequently all her conclusions. A wall, you see, is a wall... Merciful Heavens! but what do I care for the laws of nature and arithmetic, when, for some reason I dislike those laws and the fact that twice two makes four? Of course I cannot break through the wall by battering my head against it if I really have not the strength to knock it down, but I am not going to be reconciled to it simply because it is a stone wall and I have not the strength.
ref:
1918, Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Notes from Underground”, in Constance Garnett, transl., White Nights and Other Stories, pages 58–9
type:
quotation
text:
Man was entirely at the mercy of nature—a mere scavenger who eked out a miserable existence as a food-gatherer and an eater of shell-fish.
ref:
1928, Christopher Dawson, The Age of the Gods, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
Freamon: She too young for you, boy... They get younger, William. Skinnier too. You don't... 's just the nature of things. Age is age, fat is fat, nature’s nature.
Moreland: Pitiful.
Freamon: Pitiless. Nature don't care. Nature just is.
ref:
2006 Oct. 1, Dennis Lehane, "Refugees", The Wire, 00:34:06
text:
As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
ref:
2012 January 24, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
Gómez Ortega... explicitly ordered them to study only fresh plants, in situ, to draw every part, and 'to copy nature exactly without presuming to correct it or decorate it as some draughtsmen are used to doing, adding colours and ornaments drawn from their imagination'.
ref:
2015, Alisa Luxenberg, “Printing Plants: The Technology of Nature Printing in Eighteenth-Century Spain”, in Art, Technology, and Nature, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
As Hurricane Irma prepares to strike, it's worth remembering that Mother Nature never intended us to live here.
ref:
2017 Sept. 8, Michael Grunwald, "A Requiem for Florida" in Politico Magazine
text:
The tao of Lao Tzu was a cosmic tao, inner and unwritten, a tao of Nature, while the tao of Confucius was moral and written.
ref:
2021, Olof G. Lidin, From Taoism to Einstein, page 196
type:
quotation
text:
Nature doesn't lie.
type:
example
text:
The laws of nature are written in the language of mathematics.
type:
example
text:
Tectonic activity is part of nature, so there's no way to stop earthquakes.
type:
example
text:
Nature passes norture.
ref:
1641, David Fergusson, Scottish proverbs, D4
type:
quotation
text:
Men may change their Climate, but they cannot their Nature.
ref:
1709, Robert Steele, Tatler, number 93
type:
quotation
text:
Domestic animals of a base nature and not fit for food, are not the subjects of theft. This rule includes dogs and cats.
ref:
1834, Criminal Law Commission, First Report... on Criminal Law, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
His own better nature which... was magnanimous and heroic, moved and won him.
ref:
1848, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Harold, volume III, page 375
type:
quotation
text:
The Monophysites held that the two Natures were so united, that although the 'One Christ' was partly Human and partly Divine, His two Natures became by their union only one Nature.
ref:
1874, John Henry Blunt, Dictionary of Sects..., page 332
type:
quotation
text:
Mark hardly knew whether to believe this or not. He already began to suspect that Roswell was something of a humbug, and though it was not in his nature to form a causeless dislike, he certainly did not feel disposed to like Roswell.
ref:
1869, Horatio Alger Jr., Mark the Match Boy, Ch. 16
type:
quotation
text:
The phrase ‘nature and nurture’ is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed.
ref:
1874, Francis Galton, English Men of Science, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
Being by nature of a cheerful disposition, the symptom did not surprise his servant, late private of the same famous regiment, who was laying breakfast in an adjoining room.
ref:
1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond
type:
quotation
text:
The contrast between nature and grace, between human appetites and interests and religion, is not absolute, but relative.
ref:
1926, Richard Henry Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
Couples bitching at each other is human nature.
ref:
1961, Barry Crump, Hang on a Minute Mate, page 147
type:
quotation
text:
Freamon: She too young for you, boy... They get younger, William. Skinnier too. You don't... 's just the nature of things. Age is age, fat is fat, nature's nature.
Moreland: Pitiful.
Freamon: Pitiless. Nature don't care. Nature just is.
ref:
2006 Oct. 1, Dennis Lehane, "Refugees", The Wire, 00:34:06
text:
Unlike the static conception of nature or nurture, epigenic research demonstrates how genes and environments continuously interact to produce characteristics throughout a lifetime.
ref:
2015 July 10, Evan Nesterak, "The End of Nature versus Nurture" in The Psych Report
text:
It's not in my nature to steal.
type:
example
text:
You can't help feeling that way. It's human nature.
type:
example
text:
Power corrupts. That's just the nature of the beast.
type:
example
text:
For the French, it was impossible for them to serve her in that nature.
ref:
1626 July 12, Charles I, Instructions
text:
And yet, though you could not actually hear what the man was saying, you could not be in any doubt about its general nature.
ref:
1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
The extent and nature of Bach's influence on Haydn is now due for further reassessment.
ref:
1988 April, Music and Letters, Vol. 69, p. 463
text:
What was the nature of your relationship with the deceased?
type:
example
text:
The best medium might be petroleum, liquified gas, or something of that nature.
type:
example
text:
...One Hundred of each Nature of Case-Shot...
ref:
1828, James Morton Spearman, The British Gunner, page 130
type:
quotation
text:
B.L. cartridges have lubricators choked inside the cartridges of 40-pr. and lower natures.
ref:
1879, War Office, Manual of Siege and Garrison Artillery Exercises, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
Any such corrasiue, sharpe or eager medicine... as the said H. shal think his nature is vnable to suffer...
ref:
1592, William West, Symbolaeography, Pt. I, §102b
type:
quotation
text:
I returned hungry... and had only snow to supply the calls of nature.
ref:
1807, Zebulon Pike, An Account of Expeditions to the Source of the Mississippi..., volume II, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
The timber... is found to be brittle and effete; or, to use the workman's expression, 'its nature is gone'.
ref:
1820, Thomas Tredgold, Elementary Principles of Carpentry, page 165
type:
quotation
text:
Nature is unable to repair the extensive injury.
ref:
1826 April 1, Lancet, p. 32
text:
The prison allowance will not support nature.
ref:
1843, George Henry Borrow, The Bible in Spain, volume III, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
My iron’s just comin’ to natur’.
ref:
1895, T. Pinnock, Tom Brown's Black Country Annual...
type:
quotation
text:
Hungry-groond, ground credited to be so much enchanted that a person passing over it would faint if they did not use something to support nature.
ref:
1984, William N. Herbert, Sterts & Stobies, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
He withdrew from the Company to ease Nature.
ref:
1701, William Wotton, The History of Rome, page 328
type:
quotation
text:
The women tell you to stop because they's feeling the call of nature. If you don't stop they pee in your lorry.
ref:
1965, Wole Soyinka, Road, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
I hear the call of nature.
type:
example
text:
She marvelled "What he saw in such a baby
"As that prim, silent, cold Aurora Raby?"
...Why Adeline had this slight prejudice
...For me appears a question far too nice,
Since Adeline was liberal by Nature;
But Nature’s Nature, and has more caprices
Than I have time, or will to take to pieces...
ref:
1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Draft, Canto XV, St. xlix & lii
type:
quotation
text:
He had placed a spell on her by means of a cunjer bag... Its effect was to rob her of connubial allure—in her words, ‘it stole her nature’.
ref:
1941, William Alexander Percy, Lanterns on the Levee, page 305
type:
quotation
text:
Every time I felt nature for her, she would rub something on her hands and face to take away my nature.
ref:
1974 July 25, Daily Telegraph, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Freamon: She too young for you, boy... They get younger, William. Skinnier too. You don't... 's just the nature of things. Age is age, fat is fat, nature’s nature.
Moreland: Pitiful.
Freamon: Pitiless. Nature don't care. Nature just is.
ref:
2006 Oct. 1, Dennis Lehane, "Refugees", The Wire, 00:34:06
text:
Have we not seen (the blood of Laius shed)
The murd'ring son ascend his parent's bed,
Thro' violated Nature force his way,
And stain the sacred womb where once he lay?
ref:
1712, Alexander Pope, “The First Book of Statius's Thebais”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
She had no nature, nor indeed any passion but that of money.
ref:
1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, volume I, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
...I could bear much. I'd not move nor scream
While you wrote the red stripes:
But there's no nature in you...
ref:
1937, Robinson Jeffers, “Thurso's Landing”, in Selected Poetry, page 312
type:
quotation
text:
If a man want to break his wife from some man, he steals this dishcloth... an' he ketches her nachure in this dishcloth...
ref:
c. 1938, spell cited in Harry Middleton Hyatt, Hoodoo Conjuration Witchcraft Rootwork, Vol. I, p. 534
text:
... offer her the Horse, and... wash her Nature with cold Water ...
ref:
1743 May, William Ellis, Modern Husbandman, No. xiv, p. 137
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The way things are, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order, especially the physical world in contrast to spiritual realms and flora and fauna as distinct from human conventions, art, and technology.
The particular way someone or something is, especially
The essential or innate characteristics of a person or thing which will always tend to manifest, especially in contrast to specific contexts, reason, religious duty, upbringing, and personal pretense or effort.
The particular way someone or something is, especially
The distinguishing characteristic of a person or thing, understood as its general class, sort, type, etc.
The particular way someone or something is, especially
Synonym of caliber: the class of a gun.
The vital functions or strength of someone or something, especially (now dialect) as requiring nourishment or careful maintenance or (medicine) as a force of regeneration without special treatment.
A requirement or powerful impulse of the body's physical form, especially
The need to urinate and defecate.
A requirement or powerful impulse of the body's physical form, especially
Sexual desire.
A requirement or powerful impulse of the body's physical form, especially
Spontaneous love, affection, or reverence, especially between parent and child.
A product of the body's physical form, especially semen and vaginal fluids, menstrual fluid, and (obsolete) feces.
A part of the body's physical form, especially (obsolete) the female genitalia.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
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3417 | word:
nature
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nature (third-person singular simple present natures, present participle naturing, simple past and past participle natured)
forms:
form:
natures
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
naturing
tags:
participle
present
form:
natured
tags:
participle
past
form:
natured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nature, natur, from Old French nature, from Latin nātūra (“birth, origin, natural constitution or quality”), future participle from perfect passive participle (g)natus (“born”), from deponent verb (g)nasci (“to be born, originate”) + future participle suffix -urus.
Displaced native Middle English erd (“character, nature, disposition”) from Old English eard (compare German Art (“nature, character, kind, type”)); and Middle English kinde, ikinde (“character, disposition, nature”) from Old English ġecynd. More at kind.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To endow with natural qualities.
senses_topics:
|
3418 | word:
theirs
word_type:
pron
expansion:
theirs
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English theires, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to their + -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced theirn (from Middle English theiren, formed by analogy to mine, thine) in standard speech.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which belongs to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun.
senses_topics:
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3419 | word:
lukewarm
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lukewarm (comparative lukewarmer or more lukewarm, superlative lukewarmest or most lukewarm)
forms:
form:
lukewarmer
tags:
comparative
form:
more lukewarm
tags:
comparative
form:
lukewarmest
tags:
superlative
form:
most lukewarm
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English leukwarm, lukewarm (“lukewarm, tepid”), equivalent to luke (“lukewarm”) + warm. Compare Saterland Frisian luukwoarm (“lukewarm”), German Low German luukwarm (“lukewarm”), German lauwarm (“lukewarm”). First element believed to be an alteration of Middle English lew (“tepid”) (> English dialectal lew), from Old English hlēow (“warm, sunny”), from Proto-Germanic *hliwjaz, *hlēwaz, *hlūmaz, *hleumaz (“warm”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱal(w)e-, *ḱel(w)e-, *k(')lēw- (“warm, hot”). Cognate with Dutch lauw (“tepid”), German lau (“lukewarm”), Faroese lýggjur (“warm”), Swedish ljum (“lukewarm”), ljummen (“lukewarm”) and ly (“warm”), Danish lummer (“muggy”), Danish and Norwegian lunken (“tepid”), dialectal Swedish ljummen (“lukewarm”).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: underwarm
text:
Wash it in lukewarm water.
type:
example
text:
My curry is lukewarm.
type:
example
text:
The suggestion met with only a lukewarm response.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Between warm and cool.
Unenthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea).
senses_topics:
temperature
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3420 | word:
annually
word_type:
adv
expansion:
annually (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From annual + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
The Sunshine Festival is held annually, at the end of May.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Once every year without fail, yearly
senses_topics:
|
3421 | word:
forefinger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forefinger (plural forefingers)
forms:
form:
forefingers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Mid-15th century, from Middle English forefyngure; equivalent to fore- + finger.
senses_examples:
text:
He touched me on the arm with his forefinger twice or thrice giving a ghastly nod each time:- […]
ref:
1866, Charles Dickens, The Signal-Man
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The index finger: the first finger next to the thumb.
senses_topics:
|
3422 | word:
tense
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tense (plural tenses)
forms:
form:
tenses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tense
etymology_text:
From Middle English tens, from Old French tens (modern French temps), from Latin tempus. Doublet of tempo and tempus.
senses_examples:
text:
The basic tenses in English are present, past, and future.
type:
example
text:
English only has a past tense and a non-past tense; it has no future tense.
type:
example
text:
In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation
I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]
ref:
1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […], London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972
type:
quotation
text:
Dyirbal verbs are not inflected for tense.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists.
An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3423 | word:
tense
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tense (third-person singular simple present tenses, present participle tensing, simple past and past participle tensed)
forms:
form:
tenses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tensing
tags:
participle
present
form:
tensed
tags:
participle
past
form:
tensed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tense
etymology_text:
From Middle English tens, from Old French tens (modern French temps), from Latin tempus. Doublet of tempo and tempus.
senses_examples:
text:
tensing a verb
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To apply a tense to.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3424 | word:
tense
word_type:
adj
expansion:
tense (comparative tenser, superlative tensest)
forms:
form:
tenser
tags:
comparative
form:
tensest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
tense
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin tēnsus, one form of the past participle of tendō (“stretch”). Ultimately identical to Etymology 1.
senses_examples:
text:
You need to relax, all this overtime and stress is making you tense.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
Pulled taut, without any slack.
(of a vowel) Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3425 | word:
tense
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tense (third-person singular simple present tenses, present participle tensing, simple past and past participle tensed)
forms:
form:
tenses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tensing
tags:
participle
present
form:
tensed
tags:
participle
past
form:
tensed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tense
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin tēnsus, one form of the past participle of tendō (“stretch”). Ultimately identical to Etymology 1.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make tense.
To become tense.
senses_topics:
|
3426 | word:
orang
word_type:
noun
expansion:
orang (plural orangs)
forms:
form:
orangs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
To judge from its sinuses, Hispanopithecus crusafonti is the earliest known hominine (the group including all great apes except orangs).
ref:
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 115
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An orangutan.
senses_topics:
|
3427 | word:
stock car
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stock car (plural stock cars)
forms:
form:
stock cars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Stock cars can't have all the modifications of other racing cars.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A racing car, such as those sanctioned by NASCAR and ARCA, nominally or notionally based on one of the regular production models available for purchase by the public.
A railway car for carrying livestock.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
rail-transport
railways
transport |
3428 | word:
ours
word_type:
pron
expansion:
ours
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English oures, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to our + -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced ourn (from Middle English ouren) in standard speech.
senses_examples:
text:
You can't take that! It's ours!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which belongs to us; the possessive case of we, used without a following noun.
senses_topics:
|
3429 | word:
sibling
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sibling (plural siblings)
forms:
form:
siblings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1903, modern revival of Old English sibling (“relative, a relation, kinsman”), equivalent to sib + -ling. Compare Middle English siblynges pl, sib, sibbe (“relative; kinsman”), German Sippe. The term apparently meant merely kin or relative until the 20th century when it was applied in a way that aided the study of genetics, which led to its specialized use. For example, the OED has a 1903 citation in which "sibling" must be defined for those who don't know the intended meaning.
senses_examples:
text:
None of my siblings are married yet.
type:
example
text:
D. simulans, D. mauritiana and D. sechellia (which we will call “the siblings” when we do not need to distinguish among them) have homosequential polytene chromosome banding patterns differing from those of D. melanogaster by one long inversion on chromosome arm 3R and a few much smaller inversions.
ref:
1990 April 1, P. Hutter et al., “A genetic basis for the inviability of hybrids between sibling species of Drosophila”, in Genetics, volume 124, number 4, pages 909–920
type:
quotation
text:
Bush suggested that this difference might represent a case of chromosomal polymorphism or, more likely, sibling species.
ref:
2015 November 26, Lucie Vaníčková et al., “Current knowledge of the species complex Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera, Tephritidae) in Brazil”, in ZooKeys, volume 540, →DOI, pages 211–237
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.
A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
The most closely related species, or one of several most closely related species when none can be determined to be more closely related.
senses_topics:
computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy |
3430 | word:
annuity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
annuity (plural annuities)
forms:
form:
annuities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French annuité, from Medieval Latin annuitās, from Latin annuus (“annual”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A right to receive amounts of money regularly over a certain fixed period, in perpetuity, or, especially, over the remaining life or lives of one or more beneficiaries.
senses_topics:
business
insurance |
3431 | word:
zebra
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zebra (plural zebra or zebras)
forms:
form:
zebra
tags:
plural
form:
zebras
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
zebra
etymology_text:
1600; borrowed from Italian zebra, from Portuguese zebra, zebro (“zebra”), from Old Galician-Portuguese enzebro, ezebra, azebra (“wild ass”), from earlier cebrario (882), ezebrario (897), from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”) (Pliny), from equus (“horse”) + ferus (“wild”).
While the word was traditionally pronounced with a long vowel in the first syllable in standard English, during the twentieth century a vowel shift occurred in regions of England, with the shortening of the first vowel. This pronunciation is now used throughout the UK and most Commonwealth nations. The long-vowel pronunciation remains standard in Canadian and American English.
(referee): In reference to the black and white striped shirts they wear.
senses_examples:
text:
EDS charities around the world use a zebra logo to promote the idea that sometimes it really is that ‘rare’ condition.
ref:
2020, Pharmaceutical Technology
type:
quotation
text:
“I was told in medical school, ‘when you hear hoofbeats think horses, not zebras,’” she says. Many trainee doctors receive the same advice – when a patient presents with symptoms, “look for the common thing.” That’s why EDS patients commonly refer to themselves as zebras – and also use the fabulous collective noun “dazzle.” The name represents rarity and evokes the stripy stretch marks that are a common feature on EDS skin.
ref:
2022 December 24, CNN
type:
quotation
text:
“People change countries for all kinds of reasons,” Ross tells me. “But at least one of them was that she had this light-skinned, mixed-race child who had already been called a zebra at school.”
ref:
2021 April 10, Alex Clark, “‘I’m 51, I can say what I want’: Leone Ross has overcome her fears”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
On his way home he'd picked up two economy-sized bags of tortilla chips, and had dropped both when a twat in a Lexus honked him on a zebra . . .
ref:
2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 247
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of three species of subgenus Hippotigris: E. grevyi, E. quagga, or E. zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.
A referee.
An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment. (Originates in the advice often given to medical students: "when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras".)
Someone who has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome or hypermobility spectrum disorder
A biracial person, specifically one born to a Sub-Saharan African person and a white person.
A fish, the zebra cichlid.
Any of various papilionid butterflies of the subgenus Paranticopsis of the genus Graphium, having black and white markings.
A zebra crossing.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
|
3432 | word:
laundry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laundry (countable and uncountable, plural laundries)
forms:
form:
laundries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
laundry
etymology_text:
From Middle English lavendrie, from Old French lavanderie, from Latin lavandaria. See launder.
senses_examples:
text:
In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.
type:
example
text:
Old Faithful is sometimes degraded by being made a laundry. Garments placed in the crater during quiescence are ejected thoroughly washed when the eruption takes place.
ref:
1883, Henry J. Winser, The Yellowstone National Park-A Manual for Tourists, New York: G.P. Putnam Sons, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.
type:
example
text:
Q. Did you use to do the washing around your house, too? / The Court: She did all the work of the house, I suppose. / Mr. Feltenstein: That's what I want to find out. / A. I gave the laundry to the laundry. / Q. What? / A. I gave the wash to the laundry.
ref:
1935, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs., page 69
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A laundering; a washing.
A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
A penalty flag.
A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.
senses_topics:
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
3433 | word:
consonant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
consonant (plural consonants)
forms:
form:
consonants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English consonant or consonaunt, from Old French consonant, from Latin cōnsonāns (“sounding with”), from the prefix con- (“with”) + the present participle sonāns (“sounding”), from sonāre (“to sound”). The Latin is a calque of Ancient Greek σύμφωνον (súmphōnon).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
|
3434 | word:
consonant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
consonant (comparative more consonant, superlative most consonant)
forms:
form:
more consonant
tags:
comparative
form:
most consonant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English consonant or consonaunt, from Old French consonant, from Latin cōnsonāns (“sounding with”), from the prefix con- (“with”) + the present participle sonāns (“sounding”), from sonāre (“to sound”). The Latin is a calque of Ancient Greek σύμφωνον (súmphōnon).
senses_examples:
text:
Each one pretends that his opinion […] is consonant to the words there used.
ref:
1710, William Beveridge, The true nature of the Christian church, the office of its ministers, and the means of grace administred by them explain'd. In twelve sermons
type:
quotation
text:
Cheerfulness, even gaiety, is consonant with every species of virtue and practice of religion, and I think it inconsistent only with impiety and vice.
ref:
1900, Sabine Baring-Gould, “The Rev. Mr. Carter, Parson-Publican”, in Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events
type:
quotation
text:
This essential right of the courts to be free of intimidation and coercion was held to be consonant with a recognition that freedom of the press must be allowed in the broadest scope compatible with the supremacy of order.
ref:
1946, United States Supreme Court, Pennekamp v. Florida 328 U.S. 331,334
text:
1645-1650, James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae
consonant words and syllables
text:
consonant tones; consonant chords
text:
No Russian whose dissonant consonant name / Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame.
ref:
1813, Thomas Moore, Intercepted Letters, or the Two-Penny Post-Bag
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
consistent, harmonious, compatible, or in agreement
Having the same sound.
Harmonizing together; accordant.
Of or relating to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
3435 | word:
money
word_type:
noun
expansion:
money (usually uncountable, plural monies or moneys)
forms:
form:
monies
tags:
plural
form:
moneys
tags:
plural
form:
used only in certain senses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Money (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English moneye, moneie, money, borrowed from Anglo-Norman muneie (“money”), from Latin monēta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was.
In this sense, displaced native Old English feoh, whence English fee. Doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of manat, through Russian and Azeri or Turkmen.
senses_examples:
text:
I cannot take money, that I did not work for.
type:
example
text:
Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used as money in Western Africa.
type:
example
text:
At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.
ref:
2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
money supply; money market
type:
example
text:
He was born with money.
type:
example
text:
He married money.
type:
example
text:
I grew up in Ballybeg, neither of my working-class parents came from money or went to university, so I was part of a working-class family, I assumed.
ref:
2023 July 15, Megan Nolan, “‘I grew up on an “estate from hell” but I have no idea what class I am’: novelist Megan Nolan on the conundrum of identity”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
Wealth; a person, family or class that possesses wealth.
An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
A person who funds an operation.
senses_topics:
|
3436 | word:
money
word_type:
adj
expansion:
money (comparative more money, superlative most money)
forms:
form:
more money
tags:
comparative
form:
most money
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Money (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English moneye, moneie, money, borrowed from Anglo-Norman muneie (“money”), from Latin monēta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was.
In this sense, displaced native Old English feoh, whence English fee. Doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of manat, through Russian and Azeri or Turkmen.
senses_examples:
text:
2011, Stewart O'Nan, Stephen King, Faithful
But Schilling was great again today. As my younger son would no doubt say, he's so money he doesn't know he's money. Two more like him and never mind the World Series; the Red Sox would be ready for the Super Bowl.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cool; excellent.
senses_topics:
|
3437 | word:
wiki
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wiki (plural wikis)
forms:
form:
wikis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
PC Week
wiki
etymology_text:
First appears in 1995 in PC Week. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.
senses_topics:
|
3438 | word:
wiki
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wiki (third-person singular simple present wikis, present participle wikiing, simple past and past participle wikied)
forms:
form:
wikis
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wikiing
tags:
participle
present
form:
wikied
tags:
participle
past
form:
wikied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
PC Week
wiki
etymology_text:
First appears in 1995 in PC Week. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.
senses_examples:
text:
To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
type:
example
text:
I tore through his collection wikiing any plot points that I missed learning the importance of the players of the DC universe
ref:
2008 December 1, GeekDad, “Son of a Geek: Comics and Growing Up the DC Way”, in Wired News
type:
quotation
text:
Her English is no better than my Portuguese, but I wikied 'influenza' in Portuguese and it came up with 'gripe'
ref:
2009 June 18, Lizz Holmans, “Janus”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
I did research on the internet and found out so. I “wikied” it.
ref:
2010, Noemi Gonzalez, Journey, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
Blogging, wiki-ing, coding are all activities that generate authorial product.
ref:
2006, Deptford Tv, Deptford.TV Diaries, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
The best way to start wiki-ing is to find an existing wiki (that is, a hosted wiki) and start adding to it.
ref:
2007, Dan Woods with Peter Thoeny, Wikis for dummies, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
For example, blog and wiki software can be used to support all sorts of activities that are not commonly associated with the activities of “blogging” or “wikiing.” This includes activities like sharing syllabi, publishing announcements
ref:
2008, Robert E. Cummings with Matt Barton, Wiki writing: collaborative learning in the college classroom, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
The history of wikied novels isn't pretty (Penguin Books never published the gobbledygook that was "A Million Penguins"), and no one has dared wiki a jazz song.
ref:
2009 October 19, “Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen?”, in Time, archived from the original on 2011-06-04
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
To contribute to a wiki.
To participate in the wiki-based production of.
senses_topics:
|
3439 | word:
niece
word_type:
noun
expansion:
niece (plural nieces)
forms:
form:
nieces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nece (“niece, granddaughter”), from Old French nece (“niece, granddaughter”) (Modern French nièce (“niece”)) from Late Latin neptia, representing Latin neptis (“granddaughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *néptih₂ (“granddaughter, niece”). Doublet of nift.
senses_examples:
text:
My niece just celebrated her 15th birthday.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A daughter of one’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either the daughter of one's brother ("fraternal niece"), or of one's sister ("sororal niece").
A daughter of one’s cousin or cousin-in-law
senses_topics:
|
3440 | word:
their
word_type:
det
expansion:
their
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old Norse þeirra. Replaced native Old English heora.
senses_examples:
text:
they will meet tomorrow at their convenience
type:
example
text:
this is probably their cat
type:
example
text:
For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
ref:
2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref:
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
Place the casualty on their back with feet and legs raised—this is called the shock position. [emphasis in original] Once the casualty is positioned, cover them to preserve body heat, but do not overheat.
ref:
2006, St. John Ambulance, First on the Scene: Student Reference Guide, Lesson 2, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
I prefer to think that birds have a sufficiently developed sense of humour to enjoy the spectacle of a human being hunched beneath a bush kissing the back of their hand.
ref:
1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
‘I mean ... if somebody made a mistake,’ Harry went on, ‘and let something slip, I know they didn’t mean to do it. It’s not their fault,’ he repeated, again a little louder than he would usually have spoken.
ref:
2007, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, (quoted edition: London: Bloomsbury, 2008, page 93)
type:
quotation
text:
The only object ... showing the signature of N₂ in their spectra is Sedna.
ref:
2021, Stern, Moore, Grundy, Young & Binzel, editor, The Pluto System after New Horizons, page 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural).
Belonging to someone (one person, singular), or occasionally to something.
senses_topics:
|
3441 | word:
their
word_type:
adv
expansion:
their
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old Norse þeirra. Replaced native Old English heora.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of there.
senses_topics:
|
3442 | word:
their
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
their
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old Norse þeirra. Replaced native Old English heora.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of they’re.
senses_topics:
|
3443 | word:
unvariable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unvariable
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + variable.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Invariable.
senses_topics:
|
3444 | word:
skimmed milk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
skimmed milk (countable and uncountable, plural skimmed milks)
forms:
form:
skimmed milks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
We like to drink skimmed milk instead so as to consume fewer calories.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
British standard form of skim milk.
senses_topics:
|
3445 | word:
skim milk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
skim milk (countable and uncountable, plural skim milks)
forms:
form:
skim milks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
We like to drink skim milk instead so as to consume fewer calories.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Non-fat milk; milk that has had the cream removed.
senses_topics:
|
3446 | word:
general
word_type:
adj
expansion:
general (comparative more general, superlative most general)
forms:
form:
more general
tags:
comparative
form:
most general
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English general, in turn from Anglo-Norman general, generall, Middle French general, and their source, Latin generālis, from genus (“class, kind”) + -ālis (“-al”); thus morphologically parallel with, and a doublet of, generic.
senses_examples:
text:
It is generall / To be mortall: / I haue well espyde / No man may hym hyde / From Deth holow eyed […].
ref:
c. 1495, John Skelton, "Vppon a deedman's hed"
type:
quotation
text:
"Among us!" was the general shout, and Peppersorn sat frozen to his chair.
ref:
1842, Douglas Jerrold, “Mr Peppersorn ‘At Home’”, in Cakes and Ale
type:
quotation
text:
Undoubtedly the age of the Antonines was much better than any later age until the Renaissance, from the point of view of the general happiness.
ref:
1946, Bertrand Russell, “Stoicism”, in History of Western Philosophy, book 1, part 3
type:
quotation
text:
One advantage of having profitable companies in Britain is that they pay large sums in corporate tax into the Exchequer, which in theory at least is used for the general good.
ref:
2006 October 15, Ruth Sutherland, “Invite public to the private equity party”, in The Observer
type:
quotation
text:
For these successes he obtained the rank of Field-Marshal General.
ref:
1865, Edward Cust, Lives of the Warriors of the Thirty Years War, page 527
type:
quotation
text:
He becomes the chief chartered libertine, the whoremaster-general flourishing his "standard" over a female army […].
ref:
2002, James Turner, Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
‘I can't quite afford you the sympathy you expect upon this score,’ I replied; ‘the misfortune is so general, that it belongs to one half of the species […].’
ref:
1817, Sir Walter Scott, chapter IX, in Rob Roy
type:
quotation
text:
The general opinion on Baz Luhrmann's overstuffed epic Australia seems to be that it throws in everything but the kitchen sink, and then tosses that in too, just to be sure.
ref:
2008 December 20, John Patterson, “Home movies”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
M. Venizelos went to Athens from Paris early last January in response to a general invitation from the Greek populace.
ref:
1924 March 17, Time
type:
quotation
text:
Already in the primary school work is conducted for the purpose of equipping the pupils with those elements of general knowledge which are closely related to the military preparation of future warriors.
ref:
1947 October 20, “Russian Catechism”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is a general term indicating a rapid heartbeat (tachycardia) coming from the top chambers of the heart - in essence, above (supra) the lower chamber (ventricular).
ref:
2009, Douglas P. Zipes, Saturday Evening Post, volume 281, number 1, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
As she thus spoke, the entrance of the servants with dinner cut off all conversation but that of a general nature.
ref:
1817, Sir Walter Scott, chapter X, in Rob Roy
type:
quotation
text:
There was a moment's pause. The Princess broke in with some casual remark and once more the conversation became general.
ref:
1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage, published 2004, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
The quick answer is that the 1893 Exposition was simply so important — "the greatest event in the history of the country since the Civil War," as Harper's put it that October — but that feels too general.
ref:
2006 July 16, Kevin Nance, “Ghosts of the White City”, in Chicago Sun-Times
type:
quotation
text:
Given the scarcity of relevant historical detail in the New Testament, we are left with only a general outline about Joseph.
ref:
2008, Robert P. Maloney, “The Quiet Carpenter”, in America, volume 199, number 19, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
general goods
type:
example
text:
His measured, springless walk was the walk of the skilled countryman as distinct from the desultory shamble of the general labourer […].
ref:
2007, Alan Cheuse, “A Little Death”, in Southern Review, volume 43, number 3, page 692
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole, etc.; common to all, universal.
Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent.
Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual.
Not limited in use or application; applicable across a broad range.
Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite.
Not of a specific class; miscellaneous.
senses_topics:
|
3447 | word:
general
word_type:
noun
expansion:
general (countable and uncountable, plural generals)
forms:
form:
generals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English general, in turn from Anglo-Norman general, generall, Middle French general, and their source, Latin generālis, from genus (“class, kind”) + -ālis (“-al”); thus morphologically parallel with, and a doublet of, generic.
senses_examples:
text:
Hannibal was one of the greatest generals of the ancient world.
type:
example
text:
We have dealt with the generals; now let us turn to the particulars.
type:
example
text:
I work in general.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces.
A great strategist or tactician.
A general fact or proposition; a generality.
The head of certain religious orders, especially Dominicans or Jesuits.
A commander of naval forces; an admiral.
A general servant; a maid with no specific duties.
A general anesthetic.
General anesthesia.
The general insurance industry.
A xiangqi piece that is moved one point orthogonally and confined within the palace.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
Christianity
nautical
transport
business
insurance
board-games
games
xiangqi |
3448 | word:
general
word_type:
verb
expansion:
general (third-person singular simple present generals, present participle generalling or generaling, simple past and past participle generalled or generaled)
forms:
form:
generals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
generalling
tags:
participle
present
form:
generaling
tags:
participle
present
form:
generalled
tags:
participle
past
form:
generalled
tags:
past
form:
generaled
tags:
participle
past
form:
generaled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English general, in turn from Anglo-Norman general, generall, Middle French general, and their source, Latin generālis, from genus (“class, kind”) + -ālis (“-al”); thus morphologically parallel with, and a doublet of, generic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lead (soldiers) as a general.
senses_topics:
|
3449 | word:
general
word_type:
adv
expansion:
general (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English general, in turn from Anglo-Norman general, generall, Middle French general, and their source, Latin generālis, from genus (“class, kind”) + -ālis (“-al”); thus morphologically parallel with, and a doublet of, generic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a general or collective manner or sense; in most cases; upon the whole.
senses_topics:
|
3450 | word:
upblow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upblow (third-person singular simple present upblows, present participle upblowing, simple past upblew, past participle upblown)
forms:
form:
upblows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upblowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
upblew
tags:
past
form:
upblown
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English upblowen, equivalent to up- + blow.
senses_examples:
text:
1525, uncredited translator, The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri by Brunschwig, Hieronymus, London, Chapter 48 “Of the wounde in the brest,”
[…] the pacyent hath heuynes and vpblowynge in the syde […]
text:
With Wine inflated, Man is all upblown,
And feels a Power which he believes his own;
ref:
1810, George Crabbe, The Borough, Letter 16, p. 214
type:
quotation
text:
1666, anonymous, Song 37, in Thomas Davidson, Cantus, songs and Fancies, to three, four, or five parts, Aberdeen,
Ingyniers in the trench
earth, earth uprearing,
Gun-powder in the mynes,
Pagans upblowing.
text:
1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 5, in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 28,
The helmsman steerd, the ship mov’d on;
Yet never a breeze up-blew;
text:
Here the rocky precipice
Hurls forth redundant flames, and from the rim
A blast upblown, with forcible rebuff
Driveth them back,
ref:
1814, Dante Alighieri, “The Vision of Purgatory”, in Henry Francis Cary, transl., The Divine Comedy, Canto 25
type:
quotation
text:
The woods break down, the sand upblows
In blinding volleys warm;
ref:
1893, Louise Imogen Guiney, “Peter Rugg the Bostonian”, in A Roadside Harp,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
1915, Vance Thompson, “Swift Reversal to Barbarism” in Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War, L.T. Myers, p. 105,
A blazing August sun; a road of pebbles and stinging, upblown dust.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To inflate.
To explode, blow up.
To blow in an upward direction.
senses_topics:
|
3451 | word:
know
word_type:
verb
expansion:
know (third-person singular simple present knows, present participle knowing, simple past knew or (nonstandard) knowed, past participle known or (colloquial and nonstandard) knew)
forms:
form:
knows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
knowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
knew
tags:
past
form:
knowed
tags:
nonstandard
past
form:
known
tags:
participle
past
form:
knew
tags:
colloquial
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
know
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
know
etymology_text:
From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwan (“to know, perceive, recognise”), from Proto-West Germanic *knāan, from Proto-Germanic *knēaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).
cognates
* from Proto-Germanic: Scots knaw (“to know, recognise”), Icelandic kná (“to know, know how to, be able”), Old High German knājan (“to know, recognise”), Old Norse kná (“to know how”). Remotely related also Dutch and German kennen, West Frisian kenne (see English ken).
* from Indo-European: Latin gnoscō, Latin cognoscō (Spanish conocer, French connaître, Italian conoscere, Portuguese conhecer), Ancient Greek γνωρίζω (gnōrízō, “I know”) and γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”), Albanian njoh (“I know, recognise”), Russian знать (znatʹ, “to know”), Lithuanian žinoti (“to know”), and Persian شناختن (šenâxtan, “to know”).
senses_examples:
text:
Question things. I have the most fun when I'm writing questioning things that people do not question- the assumptions that everybody knows are true.
ref:
1985 April 17, Frank Herbert, 15:46 from the start, in Frank Herbert speaking at UCLA 4/17/1985, UCLACommStudies, archived from the original on 2017-02-10
type:
quotation
text:
I know that I’m right and you’re wrong.
type:
example
text:
He knew something terrible was going to happen.
type:
example
text:
Did you know Michelle and Jack were getting divorced? ― Yes, I knew.
type:
example
text:
Did you know Michelle and Jack were getting divorced? ― Yes, I knew.
type:
example
text:
She knows where I live.
type:
example
text:
I knew he was upset, but I didn't understand why.
type:
example
text:
I know your mother, but I’ve never met your father.
type:
example
text:
Marsha is my roommate. — I know Marsha. She is nice.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Now Gerald had never thought of her having a mother. Then there must have been a father, too, some time. And Miss Wilmarth existed because two people once had loved and known. It was not a thought to dwell upon.
ref:
1939, Dorothy Parker, “Horsie,”, in Here lies: The collected stories of Dorothy Parker
type:
quotation
text:
Wait a second. Are you… attempting to know me?
ref:
2003 May 11, Garland Testa, 19:37 from the start, in Gary McCarver, director, Night and Deity (King of the Hill), season 7, episode 21, spoken by Dale Gribble (Johnny Hardwick), 20th Century Fox
type:
quotation
text:
Their relationship knew ups and downs.
type:
example
text:
The Truman family knew good times and bad,[…].
ref:
1991, Irvin Haas, Historic Homes of the American Presidents, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
Let me do it. I know how it works.
type:
example
text:
She knows how to swim.
type:
example
text:
His mother tongue is Italian, but he also knows French and English.
type:
example
text:
She knows chemistry better than anybody else.
type:
example
text:
Know your enemy and know yourself.
type:
example
text:
The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
ref:
2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
to know a person's face or figure
type:
example
text:
to know right from wrong
type:
example
text:
I wouldn't know one from the other.
type:
example
text:
Flares do not know friend from foe and so illuminate both. Changes in wind direction can result in flare exposure of the attacker while defenders hide in the shadows.
ref:
1980, Armored and mechanized brigade operations, p.3−29
text:
At nearer view he thought he knew the dead, / And call'd the wretched man to mind.
ref:
c. 1645-1688, Thomas Flatman, Translation of Part of Petronius Arbiter's Satyricon
type:
quotation
text:
It is vital that he not know.
type:
example
text:
She knew of our plan.
type:
example
text:
He knows about 19th century politics.
type:
example
text:
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
ref:
2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884
type:
quotation
text:
Marsha knows.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Do you know "Blueberry Hill"?
type:
example
text:
Mmm... Seems you searched for a name that we don't know, we'll send our trained monkeys to check what's in stock.
ref:
2023 June 7, “Search Names and Meanings”, in Name Doctor, archived from the original on 2023-06-07
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
To be or become aware or cognizant.
To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
To be acquainted (with another person).
To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
To have sexual relations with. This meaning normally specified in modern English as e.g. to ’know someone in the biblical sense’ or to ‘know biblically.’
To experience.
To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.
To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
To have indexed and have information about within one's database.
To maintain (a belief, a position) subject to a given philosophical definition of knowledge; to hold a justified true belief.
senses_topics:
biblical
lifestyle
religion
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences |
3452 | word:
know
word_type:
noun
expansion:
know (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
know
etymology_text:
From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwan (“to know, perceive, recognise”), from Proto-West Germanic *knāan, from Proto-Germanic *knēaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).
cognates
* from Proto-Germanic: Scots knaw (“to know, recognise”), Icelandic kná (“to know, know how to, be able”), Old High German knājan (“to know, recognise”), Old Norse kná (“to know how”). Remotely related also Dutch and German kennen, West Frisian kenne (see English ken).
* from Indo-European: Latin gnoscō, Latin cognoscō (Spanish conocer, French connaître, Italian conoscere, Portuguese conhecer), Ancient Greek γνωρίζω (gnōrízō, “I know”) and γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”), Albanian njoh (“I know, recognise”), Russian знать (znatʹ, “to know”), Lithuanian žinoti (“to know”), and Persian شناختن (šenâxtan, “to know”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Knowledge; the state of knowing.
Knowledge; the state of knowing. (Now confined to the fixed phrase in the know.)
senses_topics:
|
3453 | word:
know
word_type:
noun
expansion:
know (plural knows)
forms:
form:
knows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
know
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Owing to increasing numbers and consequent want of room for nestage, the old birds drove away the younger ones, who took refuge in their present abode at Fox's Know, where they have been located about six years.
ref:
1868, History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, volumes 4-5, page 223
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of knowe (“hill, knoll”)
senses_topics:
|
3454 | word:
know
word_type:
particle
expansion:
know
forms:
wikipedia:
know
etymology_text:
You know without the subject.
senses_examples:
text:
Make sure you water the plants, know…
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used at the end of a sentence to draw attention to information the speaker thinks the listener should keep in mind.
senses_topics:
|
3455 | word:
half-yearly
word_type:
adj
expansion:
half-yearly (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From half-year + -ly; or half- + yearly.
senses_examples:
text:
However, a Carlisle newspaper got hold of the story, and at the half-yearly meeting of the Caledonian Railway Company, held on March 17, 1863, a shareholder, Mr. Meiklem, questioned the Chairman, Lt.-Col. Salkeld, regarding a "Chase of Engines," described in the newspaper article. The Chairman admitted that the statements made in the article were perfectly true.
ref:
1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, pages 54–55
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of which there are two in a year; semiannual; biyearly.
senses_topics:
|
3456 | word:
half-yearly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
half-yearly (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From half-year + -ly; or half- + yearly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Twice in a year; semiannually.
senses_topics:
|
3457 | word:
nephew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nephew (plural nephews)
forms:
form:
nephews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nevew, neveu (“nephew, grandson”), from Old French neveu, from Latin nepos, nepōtem, from Proto-Italic *nepōts (“nephew, grandson”), whence also French neveu, Italian nipote. Displaced or absorbed the inherited English neve (“nephew, grandson, male cousin”), from Middle English neve, from Old English nefa, from Proto-West Germanic *nefō, from Proto-Germanic *nefô (“nephew, grandson”), whence Dutch neef, German Neffe. All ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *népōts (“grandchild, sister's son”). Cognate with Serbo-Croatian nećak, Irish nia, Persian نوه (nave).
Spelt with -ph- by readaptation to Latin nepos since the 15th century, which later triggered the spelling pronunciation with /f/.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A son of one's sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either a son of one's brother (fraternal nephew) or a son of one's sister (sororal nephew).
A son of one's cousin or cousin-in-law
A son of one's child.
senses_topics:
|
3458 | word:
vowel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vowel (plural vowels)
forms:
form:
vowels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
vowel
etymology_text:
From Middle English vouel, from Old French vouel, a variant of voyeul (whence French voyelle), from Latin vōcālis (“voiced”), itself a semantic loan of Koine Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen). Doublet of vocal.
senses_examples:
text:
In Welsh, the w usually represents a vowel.
type:
example
text:
Facetiously is spelled with all six vowels in alphabetical order.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
A letter representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
writing |
3459 | word:
vowel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vowel (third-person singular simple present vowels, present participle vowelling or (US) voweling, simple past and past participle vowelled or (US) voweled)
forms:
form:
vowels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
vowelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
voweling
tags:
US
participle
present
form:
vowelled
tags:
participle
past
form:
vowelled
tags:
past
form:
voweled
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
voweled
tags:
US
past
wikipedia:
vowel
etymology_text:
From Middle English vouel, from Old French vouel, a variant of voyeul (whence French voyelle), from Latin vōcālis (“voiced”), itself a semantic loan of Koine Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen). Doublet of vocal.
senses_examples:
text:
However it should be vowelled – perhaps ‘Almaqah’ – his name seems to be composed of ‘Il’, the general name of the paramount Semitic deity […], plus another element that is possibly from the Sabaic verb wqh, ‘to command’ […].
ref:
2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic).
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3460 | word:
close
word_type:
verb
expansion:
close (third-person singular simple present closes, present participle closing, simple past and past participle closed)
forms:
form:
closes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
closing
tags:
participle
present
form:
closed
tags:
participle
past
form:
closed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
close
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
close
etymology_text:
From Middle English closen (“to close, enclose”), partly continuing (in altered form) earlier Middle English clusen (“to close”) (from Old English clȳsan (“to close, shut”); compare beclose, foreclose, etc.), and partly derived from Middle English clos (“close, shut up, confined, secret”, adjective), from Old French clos (“close, confined”, adjective), from Latin clausus (“shut up”, past participle), from claudere (“to bar, block, close, enclose, bring an end to, confine”), from Proto-Indo-European *klāw- (“key, hook, nail”), related to Latin clāvis (“key, deadbolt, bar”), clāvus (“nail, peg”), claustrum (“bar, bolt, barrier”), claustra (“dam, wall, barricade, stronghold”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “bar, bolt, key”), German schließen (“to close, conclude, lock”), Dutch sluiten (“to close, conclude, lock”). Partially replaced Old English lūcan (“to close, lock, enclose”), (whence English lock). Doublet of clause.
senses_examples:
text:
Close the door behind you when you leave.
type:
example
text:
Jim was listening to headphones with his eyes closed.
type:
example
text:
The runner in second place is closing the gap on the leader.
type:
example
text:
to close the ranks of an army
type:
example
text:
The road was closed for the festival.
type:
example
text:
1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Phillip II
They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest.
text:
close the session; to close a bargain; to close a course of instruction
type:
example
text:
The debate closed at six o'clock.
type:
example
text:
The supermarket closes at eight o'clock.
type:
example
text:
He has closed the last two games for his team.
type:
example
text:
Close the file when you have finished reading data.
type:
example
text:
This app has a bug: when you try to sort a large spreadsheet, it closes.
type:
example
text:
But now Thou dost Thyself immure and close / In some one corner of a feeble heart; / Where yet both Sinne and Satan, Thy old foes, / Do pinch and straiten Thee, and use much art / To gain Thy thirds' and little part.
ref:
1633, George Herbert, The Church
type:
quotation
text:
Whoever closed last night forgot to turn off the closet light.
type:
example
text:
Please close the lights, the (electric) fan, the TV.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove a gap.
To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
To remove a gap.
To obstruct or block.
To remove a gap.
To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
To remove a gap.
To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
To remove a gap.
To grapple; to engage in close combat.
To finish, to terminate.
To put an end to; to conclude.
To finish, to terminate.
To come to an end.
To finish, to terminate.
To cease trading for the day.
To finish, to terminate.
To conclude (a sale).
To finish, to terminate.
To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
To finish, to terminate.
To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
To finish, to terminate.
To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
To come or gather around; to enclose.
To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
To turn off; to switch off.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business
marketing
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
business
finance
geography
natural-sciences
surveying
|
3461 | word:
close
word_type:
noun
expansion:
close (plural closes)
forms:
form:
closes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
close
etymology_text:
From Middle English closen (“to close, enclose”), partly continuing (in altered form) earlier Middle English clusen (“to close”) (from Old English clȳsan (“to close, shut”); compare beclose, foreclose, etc.), and partly derived from Middle English clos (“close, shut up, confined, secret”, adjective), from Old French clos (“close, confined”, adjective), from Latin clausus (“shut up”, past participle), from claudere (“to bar, block, close, enclose, bring an end to, confine”), from Proto-Indo-European *klāw- (“key, hook, nail”), related to Latin clāvis (“key, deadbolt, bar”), clāvus (“nail, peg”), claustrum (“bar, bolt, barrier”), claustra (“dam, wall, barricade, stronghold”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “bar, bolt, key”), German schließen (“to close, conclude, lock”), Dutch sluiten (“to close, conclude, lock”). Partially replaced Old English lūcan (“to close, lock, enclose”), (whence English lock). Doublet of clause.
senses_examples:
text:
We owe them our thanks for bringing the project to a successful close.
type:
example
text:
Regardless of the situation, the minute you feel it's time for the close, try it.
ref:
1983, Charles B. Roth, Roy Alexander, Secrets of Closing Sales, page 110
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An end or conclusion.
The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
A grapple in wrestling.
The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
A double bar marking the end.
The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel |
3462 | word:
close
word_type:
adj
expansion:
close (comparative closer, superlative closest)
forms:
form:
closer
tags:
comparative
form:
closest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
close
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French clos, from Latin clausum, participle of claudō.
senses_examples:
text:
As the alchymists were assiduous workmen—as they mixed all the metals, salts, &c... and subjected such mixtures to the action of heat in close vessels, their labours were occasionally repaid by the discovery of new substances...
ref:
1830, Thomas Thomson (chemist), The History of Chemistry, volume 1, pages 30–31
type:
quotation
text:
a close alley; close quarters
type:
example
text:
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
ref:
2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
Is your house close?
type:
example
text:
He is a close friend.
type:
example
text:
1907, Algernon Blackwood, The Dance of Death …the artificial light and close air of his high office stool …
text:
He sighed drowsily. The atmosphere of the auction room was close; you weren't allowed to smoke; and altogether he was beginning to regret that he had come.
ref:
1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter X, in Indiscretions of Archie
type:
quotation
text:
a close prisoner
type:
example
text:
a close contest
type:
example
text:
to cut grass or hair close
type:
example
text:
close reasoning
type:
example
text:
Where the original is close no version can reach it in the same compass.
ref:
1690, John Dryden, Translations (Preface)
text:
Some of these parties have not paid their last payment, because money was close last fall.
ref:
1886, “Leases of Lands in the Indian Territory”, in United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 2362, page 184
type:
quotation
text:
We are told out West that the reason money is so close now is because so large an amount has been invested in real estate. I cannot understand why that would make any difference if that money has been sent from one section of the country into another for the purpose of buying real estate. Why should it make any difference as to money being close? We are told in the East large amounts have been invested in the large manufacturing plants, such as the steel plants, etc. but if the money has been invested there it has simply changed hands, and why should that make any difference?
ref:
1903, Gunton's Magazine of American Economics and Political Science, page 249
type:
quotation
text:
But there is reason underlying this confusion: time as well as money is close these days and a small wardrobe of hats can be very boring.
ref:
1965, Country Life - Volume 137, page 326
type:
quotation
text:
Money is close.
type:
example
text:
[...] he was a crusty old fellow, as close as a vice.
ref:
1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe”, in Twice-Told Tales, volume I
type:
quotation
text:
a close translation; a close copy
type:
example
text:
The patient was kept under close observation.
type:
example
text:
No, but you were close.
type:
example
text:
We were so close to winning!
type:
example
text:
Crest, a cockatrice, wings close, vert, combed and wattled gu.
ref:
1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry
type:
quotation
text:
Sable, an eagle close or - ROPER, Derby. / Sable, a chevron ermine between three eagles close argent - GAMES, Leicester, granted 1614. / Sable a chevron between three eagles close argent - JERVOISE.
ref:
1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 215
type:
quotation
text:
Arms : Azure, a chevron ermine between three cross - crosslets fitchy argent. Crest : An eagle close argent, ducally gorged.
ref:
1902, Lincoln's Inn (London, England), The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, page 458
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Closed, shut.
Narrow; confined.
At a little distance; near.
Intimate; well-loved.
Intimate; well-loved.
Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
Hot, humid, with no wind.
Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
Short.
Dense; solid; compact.
Concise; to the point.
Difficult to obtain.
Parsimonious; stingy.
Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
Marked, evident.
Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
senses_topics:
law
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
weather
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
3463 | word:
close
word_type:
noun
expansion:
close (plural closes)
forms:
form:
closes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
close
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French clos, from Latin clausum, participle of claudō.
senses_examples:
text:
The woman nodded at a nearby flight of steps. 'This is my close. We can talk in here. Come on.'.
ref:
2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 279
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An enclosed field, especially a field enclosed around a (usually religious) building.
A street that ends in a dead end.
A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
The common staircase in a tenement.
A cathedral close.
The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
senses_topics:
law |
3464 | word:
masculine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
masculine (comparative more masculine, superlative most masculine)
forms:
form:
more masculine
tags:
comparative
form:
most masculine
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
masculine
etymology_text:
From Middle English masculyne, masculyn, from Old French masculin, from Latin masculīnus, diminutive of masculus (“male, manly”), itself a diminutive of mās (“male”). Displaced native Old English werlīċ (literally “manly”).
senses_examples:
text:
“John”, “Paul”, and “Jake” are masculine names.
type:
example
text:
That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy.
ref:
1818, Henry Hallam, View of the state of Europe during the Middle ages
type:
quotation
text:
The noun Student is masculine in German.
type:
example
text:
German uses the masculine form of the definite article, der, with Student.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: feminine
text:
Masculine caesura, masculine catalexis, masculine ending.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
Belonging to males; typically used by males.
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
Being of the masculine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
Being inflected in agreement with a masculine noun.
Having the vowel harmony of a back vowel.
Following or ending on a stressed syllable.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences |
3465 | word:
masculine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
masculine (plural masculines)
forms:
form:
masculines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
masculine
etymology_text:
From Middle English masculyne, masculyn, from Old French masculin, from Latin masculīnus, diminutive of masculus (“male, manly”), itself a diminutive of mās (“male”). Displaced native Old English werlīċ (literally “manly”).
senses_examples:
text:
The masculine functions as the negative term in the opposition, i.e. when the gender is not defined, the masculine is used.
ref:
2009, Carlos Quiles, Fernando López-Menchero, A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, Second Edition
type:
quotation
text:
As to the class to which the masculines of the strong declension belong, we repeat that […]
ref:
1905, George Theodore Dippold, A German grammar for high schools and colleges
type:
quotation
text:
These forces would also seem to reflect the gender distinction that can be made with respect to the divine, the feminine associated with the divine as immanent within the finite and the masculine with the divine transcendence and the infinite.
ref:
2004, Leonora Leet, The Universal Kabbalah
type:
quotation
text:
I think women, at least those who do their own work, would live very simply in that respect, if there were none of the masculines to feed.
ref:
1868, The Ladies' Repository, A Universalist Monthly Magazine For The Home Circle. Volume XXXIX [39], page 458 (left column)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The masculine gender.
A word of the masculine gender.
That which is masculine.
A man.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
3466 | word:
one
word_type:
num
expansion:
one
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”).
Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno.
Use as indefinite personal pronoun influenced by unrelated French on.
Verb form from Middle English onen.
senses_examples:
text:
In some religions, there is only one god.
type:
example
text:
In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth.
type:
example
text:
One person, one vote.
type:
example
text:
One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do / Two can be as bad as one / It's the loneliest number since the number one
ref:
1968, Harry Nilsson (lyrics and music), “One”, in Aerial Ballet
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
senses_topics:
mathematics
number-theory
sciences
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
mathematics
sciences |
3467 | word:
one
word_type:
pron
expansion:
one (reflexive oneself, possessive adjective one’s, plural ones)
forms:
form:
oneself
tags:
reflexive
form:
one’s
tags:
adjective
possessive
form:
ones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”).
Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno.
Use as indefinite personal pronoun influenced by unrelated French on.
Verb form from Middle English onen.
senses_examples:
text:
Any one of the boys. The big one looks good. I want the green one. Every one of the bank’s employees. A good driver is one who drives carefully.
type:
example
text:
She offered him an apple and an orange; he took one and left the other.
type:
example
text:
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
ref:
1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
type:
quotation
text:
One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed. One shouldn’t be too quick to judge.
type:
example
text:
One has to admire the sheer optimism of modern science: I love the fact that there is such a discipline as astrobiology, whose practitioners' task is to imagine what life might be like on other planets. Yet here on the home planet we have profoundly strange aliens of our own.
ref:
2013 September 6, Philip Hoare, “If we're all Martians, who are the aliens?”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
"driver", noun: one who drives.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
Any person (applying to people in general).
Any person, entity or thing.
senses_topics:
|
3468 | word:
one
word_type:
noun
expansion:
one (plural ones)
forms:
form:
ones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”).
Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno.
Use as indefinite personal pronoun influenced by unrelated French on.
Verb form from Middle English onen.
senses_examples:
text:
I need some ones to make change.
text:
The ophthalmic surgeon attends Tuesdays and Saturdays, at half-past one.
ref:
1853 September 17, “Metropolitan Hospitals & Medical Schools”, in The Lancet, volume 62, number 1568, →DOI, page 268
type:
quotation
text:
Did you hear the one about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac?
type:
example
text:
Pause. They look meaningly at one another. / "You are a one for being roundabout," says the lady.
ref:
1905, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
I knew as soon I met him that John was the one for me and we were married within a month.
type:
example
text:
That car's the one — I'll buy it.
type:
example
text:
When you love a woman then tell her / that she's really wanted / When you love a woman then tell her that she's the one / 'cause she needs somebody to tell her / that it's gonna last forever
ref:
1995, Bryan Adams, Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?
type:
quotation
text:
Finally got Ollie Martin. He couldn't have more poise, and what do I care if he is one?
ref:
1933 March 25, Dorothy Parker, “The Diary of a Lady”, in The New Yorker, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!1!?1!
Someone help me; I'm always losing!?
type:
example
text:
B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!
Why don't you just go away loser!
type:
example
text:
2003 September 26, "DEAL WITH IT!!!!11one!!", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, Usenet
text:
2004 November 9, "AWK sound recorder!!!11!!11one", in comp.lang.awk, Usenet
text:
2007 December 1, "STANFORD!!1!!1!one!11!!1oneone!1!1!", in rec.sport.football.college, Usenet
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The digit or figure 1.
Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context
A one-dollar bill.
Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context
One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context
One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context
A joke or amusing anecdote.
A person (having some specified characteristic or attribute).
A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
A gay person.
The identity element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
Deliberate misspelling of !. Used to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
mathematics
sciences
|
3469 | word:
one
word_type:
adj
expansion:
one (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”).
Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno.
Use as indefinite personal pronoun influenced by unrelated French on.
Verb form from Middle English onen.
senses_examples:
text:
One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries.
type:
example
text:
My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other."
type:
example
text:
He is the one man who can help you.
type:
example
text:
The one male audience member at the concert is invited on stage.
type:
example
text:
Body and soul are not separate; they are one.
type:
example
text:
We are one on the importance of learning.
type:
example
text:
The two types look very different, but are one species.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a period of time, being particular.
Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
Sole, only.
Whole, entire.
In agreement.
The same.
senses_topics:
|
3470 | word:
one
word_type:
det
expansion:
one
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”).
Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno.
Use as indefinite personal pronoun influenced by unrelated French on.
Verb form from Middle English onen.
senses_examples:
text:
There was one box of biscuits available.
type:
example
text:
He is one hell of a guy.
type:
example
text:
The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A single.
Used for emphasis in place of a
Being a preeminent example.
Used for emphasis in place of a
Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".
senses_topics:
|
3471 | word:
one
word_type:
verb
expansion:
one (third-person singular simple present ones, present participle oning, simple past and past participle oned)
forms:
form:
ones
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
oning
tags:
participle
present
form:
oned
tags:
participle
past
form:
oned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”).
Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno.
Use as indefinite personal pronoun influenced by unrelated French on.
Verb form from Middle English onen.
senses_examples:
text:
The question, of course, evokes discernment, not dogma, but we should note that the "unknowing" involves intellectual knowledge, whereas the problematic of being "oned" involves experiential knowledge.
ref:
1994, Christopher Nugent, Mysticism, Death and Dying, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
And both shall be oned in eternal happiness.
ref:
2000, Carolyn Baker, The Journey of Forgiveness: Fulfilling the Healing Process, page 145
type:
quotation
text:
Knit and oned to God human beings are irrevocably in relationship with the divine.
ref:
2003, Elizabeth MacKinlay, Mental Health and Spirituality in Later Life, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
What might be if we were Oned? United, as we would say, but at a greater depth than being a season ticket holder in a football club, or a shareholder in some conglomerate.
ref:
2019, David Grieve, Love in Thin Places: Confessions of a Cathedral Chaplain, page 43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite.
senses_topics:
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3472 | word:
one
word_type:
particle
expansion:
one
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Analogous to several senses of Hokkien ê and Mandarin 的 (de, declarative particle, nominalizer, etc.). This semantic loan might have stemmed from the apparent similarity between one as a prop-word and 的/-ê as a nominalizer (e.g. 青色的 (“the green one”)). Compare Cantonese 嘅 (ge³).
senses_examples:
text:
Got almonds one. ― There are almonds in it.
type:
example
text:
How come so heavy one? ― Why is it so heavy?
type:
example
text:
'My boyfriends very possessive one. They don't allow me to wear clothes I want, do things I want,' she laments.
ref:
2000 February 14, Patricia Mok, The Straits Times (Life! section), Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings, →OCLC, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Why so special one?
ref:
2004, Ethical Egoist, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
My friend send one. ― It was sent by my friend.
type:
example
text:
Who say one? ― Who said so?
type:
example
text:
ooooooooooar! you own self admit one har! i never say one har!
ref:
2011, Singrish King, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
The sell fruits one went home already. ― The fruit seller went home.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something.
Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the originator of something.
A nominalizer used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.
senses_topics:
|
3473 | word:
one
word_type:
pron
expansion:
one
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Analogous to several senses of Hokkien ê and Mandarin 的 (de, declarative particle, nominalizer, etc.). This semantic loan might have stemmed from the apparent similarity between one as a prop-word and 的/-ê as a nominalizer (e.g. 青色的 (“the green one”)). Compare Cantonese 嘅 (ge³).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause.
senses_topics:
|
3474 | word:
apology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
apology (plural apologies)
forms:
form:
apologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
apology
etymology_text:
From French apologie, from Late Latin apologia, from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología, “a speech in defence”), from ἀπολογοῦμαι (apologoûmai, “I speak in my defense”), from ἀπόλογος (apólogos, “an account, story”), from ἀπό (apó, “from, off”) (see apo-) + λόγος (lógos, “speech”). Doublet of apologia. By surface analysis, apo- + -logy.
senses_examples:
text:
What he said really hurt my feelings, but his apology sounded so sincere that I couldn't help but forgive him.
type:
example
text:
The CEO made a public apology for the scandal, and promised full cooperation with the authorities.
type:
example
text:
the Apology of Socrates
type:
example
text:
a poor apology for a hotel room
type:
example
text:
The response to firing is remarkable, and though the 280 lb. pressure seems more in the nature of a reserve for emergencies than a continuous working figure, even with the present-day apology for coal it seldom fell below 250 lb., and could always be brought up to blowing-off point with little difficulty. To this liveliness of steaming the thermic syphons are doubtless the chief contributory.
ref:
1947 January and February, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 39
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry).
A formal justification, defence.
Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.
senses_topics:
|
3475 | word:
picture
word_type:
noun
expansion:
picture (plural pictures)
forms:
form:
pictures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“I paint”). Doublet of pictura.
senses_examples:
text:
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref:
2012 March 24, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
ref:
1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A Day Dream
type:
quotation
text:
Prior to seeing him and meeting him, and hearing him speak, I had conjured up a picture of him in my mind, which actual contact with him proved to be an illusion. I had conceived of him[…]as being tall, commanding, and as the advance notices of him, a sliver-tongued orator. I found him, however, to be the opposite of my mental picture; short, squat, unpretentious[…].
ref:
2007, The Workers' Republic
type:
quotation
text:
There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.
type:
example
text:
I took a picture of the church.
type:
example
text:
It has not been used for many years, and although it was impracticable to photograph the engine in the small confines of the shed it was possible to obtain a picture of the plate which it still carries showing the former ownership.
ref:
1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
Pictures of Lily made my life so wonderful / Pictures of Lily helped me sleep at night
ref:
1967, “Pictures of Lily”, performed by The Who
type:
quotation
text:
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you / That I almost believe that they're real
ref:
1989, “Pictures of You”, in Disintegration, performed by The Cure
type:
quotation
text:
Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture.
type:
example
text:
"You make moving pictures. In jungles and places." "That's me. And I've picked you for the lead in my next picture."
ref:
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Let's go to the pictures.
type:
example
text:
She's the very picture of health.
type:
example
text:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in poor health for much of his presidency, even though his doctors, his family, and even journalists colluded to portray him as the picture of health.
ref:
2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, page 114
type:
quotation
text:
The garden is a real picture at this time of year.
type:
example
text:
it was heartening to see a young Indian football team Mata had invited to Manchester. His face was a picture when he listened to the little footballers sing a team song for him.
ref:
2018 January 1, Donald McRae, “The Guardian footballer of the year 2017: Juan Mata”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
any well-expressed image[…]either in picture or sculpture
ref:
1862, Henry Barnard, “Sir Henry Wotton”, in American Journal of Education
type:
quotation
text:
The employment picture for the older middle class is not so good.
type:
example
text:
You can't just look at the election, you've got to look at the big picture.
type:
example
text:
If you want me to buy your weed I’ll need a picture.
type:
example
text:
The COBOL restriction for the currency symbol in a picture string to be replaced by a single character currency symbol is a compromise solution.
ref:
1997, John Barnes, Ada 95 Rationale: The Language - The Standard Libraries, page 390
type:
quotation
text:
To recapitulate, the pictures we have considered so far are: X – any character A — alphabetic characters and the space character […]
ref:
1997, Roger Hutty, Mary Spence, Mastering COBOL Programming, page 20
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
An image; a representation as in the imagination.
A painting.
A photograph.
A motion picture.
("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
An attractive sight.
The art of painting; representation by painting.
A figure; a model.
Situation.
A sample of an illegal drug.
A format string in the COBOL programming language.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
3476 | word:
picture
word_type:
verb
expansion:
picture (third-person singular simple present pictures, present participle picturing, simple past and past participle pictured)
forms:
form:
pictures
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
picturing
tags:
participle
present
form:
pictured
tags:
participle
past
form:
pictured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“I paint”). Doublet of pictura.
senses_examples:
text:
while upon the shaded top of the box, drawn in perspective, the artist had pictured a plate with the beautifully executed, twin-lobed, brainlike, halved kernel of a walnut.
ref:
1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, page 130
type:
quotation
text:
What is striking about the self portrait is that the patient had pictured herself as a much younger woman
ref:
1966, Margaret Naumburg, Dynamically oriented art therapy, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
Anyone "skilled in the art" could see from their language that Lemp and Wightman had not invented or patented the invention their draftsman had pictured.
ref:
1999, Lisa Gitelman, Scripts, grooves, and writing machines, page 107
type:
quotation
text:
Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
ref:
1967, Lennon–McCartney (lyrics and music), “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
type:
quotation
text:
If you can picture this—a day in December / Picture this—freezing cold weather / You got clouds on your lids and you'd be on the skids
ref:
1978, “Picture This”, in Debbie Harry (lyrics), Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie
type:
quotation
text:
I had never found him so impossible to soften or to move. I tried this way and I tried that; I pictured his future in an English gaol; I described the sorrow of his mother when I came back with the news; I said everything to touch his heart, but all to no purpose.
ref:
1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man with the Watches
type:
quotation
text:
Drawing is picturing people, places, and things with line.
ref:
1985, Edmund Burke Feldman, Thinking about art, page 252
type:
quotation
text:
Many rock paintings picture various species of fish.
ref:
1989, Jan Jelínek, The great art of the early Australians, page 490
type:
quotation
text:
A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.
ref:
2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 196
type:
quotation
text:
The sketch pictured here takes in the whole scene.
ref:
2004, Helen South, The everything drawing book, page 75
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To represent in or with a picture.
To imagine or envision.
To depict or describe vividly.
senses_topics:
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3477 | word:
our
word_type:
det
expansion:
our
forms:
wikipedia:
our
etymology_text:
From Middle English oure, from Old English ūre, ūser (“our”), from Proto-Germanic *unseraz (“of us, our”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-s-ero- (“our”). Cognate with Scots oor (“our”), West Frisian ús (“our”), Low German uns (“our”), Dutch onze (“our”), German unser (“our”), Danish vor (“our”), Norwegian vår (“our”), and more distantly Latin noster.
senses_examples:
text:
Paying no attention to Lizzy, Mrs. Gibson began calling out our names in alphabetical order.
ref:
2008, Mike Knudson, Steve Wilkinson, Raymond and Graham Rule the School
type:
quotation
text:
As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
ref:
2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
I'm going to see our Terry for tea.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to us.
Of, from, or belonging to the nation, region, or language of the speaker.
Used before a person's name to indicate that the person is in one's family, or is a very close friend.
senses_topics:
|
3478 | word:
our
word_type:
verb
expansion:
our
forms:
wikipedia:
our
etymology_text:
From Middle English oure, from Old English ūre, ūser (“our”), from Proto-Germanic *unseraz (“of us, our”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-s-ero- (“our”). Cognate with Scots oor (“our”), West Frisian ús (“our”), Low German uns (“our”), Dutch onze (“our”), German unser (“our”), Danish vor (“our”), Norwegian vår (“our”), and more distantly Latin noster.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of are.
senses_topics:
|
3479 | word:
chartreuse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chartreuse (countable and uncountable, plural chartreuses)
forms:
form:
chartreuses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French chartreuse. Doublet of charterhouse.
senses_examples:
text:
Old Tinker, in evening dress, sat uncomfortably, sideways, upon the edge of a wicker and brocade “chaise lounge,” finishing a tiny glass of chartreuse, while Talbot Potter, in the middle of the room, took leave of a second guest who had been dining with him.
ref:
1921, Booth Tarkington, Harlequin and Columbine
type:
quotation
text:
Well, we shot the line and we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus
ref:
1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall
type:
quotation
roman:
In a chartreuse microbus.
text:
chartreuse (HTML):
text:
bright chartreuse (Pantone):
text:
ARRANGE DIFFERENT KINDS OF COOKED VEGETABLES IN A CASSEROLE […] The dish resembles a chartreuse.
ref:
1977, Joseph Dommers Vehling Apicius, Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome, page 238
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A yellow or green liqueur made by Carthusian monks.
A greenish-yellow color.
A kind of enamelled pottery.
A French dish of vegetables (and sometimes meat) wrapped tightly in a decorative layer of salad or vegetable leaves and cooked in a dome-shaped mould.
senses_topics:
art
arts
cooking
food
lifestyle |
3480 | word:
chartreuse
word_type:
adj
expansion:
chartreuse (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French chartreuse. Doublet of charterhouse.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a bright yellowish-green colour.
senses_topics:
|
3481 | word:
quail
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quail (third-person singular simple present quails, present participle quailing, simple past and past participle quailed)
forms:
form:
quails
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quailing
tags:
participle
present
form:
quailed
tags:
participle
past
form:
quailed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quaylen, from Middle Dutch queilen, quēlen, from Old Dutch *quelan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwelan, from Proto-Germanic *kwelaną (“to suffer”). Doublet of queal.
senses_examples:
text:
To tell the truth the prospect rather quailed him – wandering about in the gloomy corridors of a nunnery.
ref:
1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia: or, Buried Alive: A Novel, London; Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber; republished in The Avignon Quintet, London: Faber, published 1992, page 358
text:
Stouter hearts than a woman's have quailed in this terrible winter. Yours is tender and trusting, and needs a stronger one to lean on; so I have come to you now, with an offer of marriage.
ref:
1904, Seymour S. Tibbals, The Puritans or The Captain of Plymouth: A Comic Opera in Three Acts, [Franklin, Oh.]: Seymour S. Tibbals, →OCLC, act II, scene i, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
His colleagues quailed when, in 1986, he first sat on the court as a brash 50-year-old whose experience had been mostly as a combative government lawyer: a justice who, in that sanctum of columns and deep judicial silence, was suddenly firing questions like grapeshot.
ref:
2016 February 20, “Obituary: Antonin Scalia: Always right”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
And he commanded his soldiers […] to frighten them with fierce swords, but the hearts of the holy men did not quail, and they were unable to alter their words.
ref:
1928, E. A. Wallis Budge, transl., The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church[:] A translation of the Ethiopic Synaxarium […], volume 1, London: Cambridge University Press, page 220
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To waste away; to fade, to wither.
To daunt or frighten (someone).
To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.
Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.
senses_topics:
|
3482 | word:
quail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quail (countable and uncountable, plural quails or quail)
forms:
form:
quails
tags:
plural
form:
quail
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
quail
etymology_text:
From Middle English quayle, quaile, quaille, from Anglo-Norman quaille, from Late Latin quaccola (“quail”).
(prostitute): So called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
senses_examples:
text:
Quail require little water, so there is no point to putting in a guzzler if there is any permanent water within travel range.
ref:
1954, Wildlife Review, numbers 75-83, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
Her's Agamemnon, an honeſt fellow inough and one that loues quailes, but hee has not ſo much braine as eare-wax, […]
ref:
c. 1602, William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. Excellently Expressing the Beginning of their Loues, with the Conceited Wooing of Pandarus, Prince of Licia, London: Imprinted by G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, and are to be sold at the spred Eagle in Paules Church-yeard, ouer against the great North doore, published 1609, →OCLC, act V, scene 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
The meat from this bird eaten as food.
A prostitute.
senses_topics:
|
3483 | word:
quail
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quail (third-person singular simple present quails, present participle quailing, simple past and past participle quailed)
forms:
form:
quails
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quailing
tags:
participle
present
form:
quailed
tags:
participle
past
form:
quailed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quaylen, qwaylen, from Old French quaillier, coaillier, from Latin coāgulāre. Doublet of coagulate.
senses_examples:
text:
[Laser is given] to such as haue supped off and drunk quailed milke, that is cluttered within their stomack.
ref:
1601, Pliny the Elder, translated by Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus; translated into English by Philemon Holland, London: Printed by Adam Islip, →OCLC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.
senses_topics:
|
3484 | word:
hammerkop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hammerkop (plural hammerkops)
forms:
form:
hammerkops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Afrikaans hamerkop, from hamer (“hammer”) + kop (“head”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the family Scopidae and related to the herons.
senses_topics:
|
3485 | word:
beeswax
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beeswax (usually uncountable, plural beeswaxes)
forms:
form:
beeswaxes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
beeswax
etymology_text:
From bee + -s- + wax.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wax secreted by bees from which they make honeycomb; or, the processed form of this wax used in the manufacture of various goods.
“Business”, as in such phrases as mind your own beeswax and none of your beeswax.
senses_topics:
|
3486 | word:
beeswax
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beeswax (third-person singular simple present beeswaxes, present participle beeswaxing, simple past and past participle beeswaxed)
forms:
form:
beeswaxes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
beeswaxing
tags:
participle
present
form:
beeswaxed
tags:
participle
past
form:
beeswaxed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
beeswax
etymology_text:
From bee + -s- + wax.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To polish with beeswax.
senses_topics:
|
3487 | word:
age
word_type:
noun
expansion:
age (countable and uncountable, plural ages)
forms:
form:
ages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
age
etymology_text:
From Middle English age, Old French aage, eage, edage, from an assumed Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem, itself derived from aevum (“lifetime”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force”). Compare French âge.
Displaced native Old English ieldu.
senses_examples:
text:
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
ref:
2013 July 1, Peter Wilby, “Finland’s education ambassador spreads the word”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2017-07-16; republished as “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, London, 2013 July 19, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
the age of infancy
type:
example
text:
the age of consent; the age of discretion
type:
example
text:
the golden age; the age of Pericles
type:
example
text:
Encircling the marble altar was a congregation of leering shamen. Eerie chants of a bygone age, originating unknown eons before the memory of man, were being uttered from the buried recesses of the acolytes' deep lings .
ref:
1970, Jim Theis, “The Eye of Argon”, in OSFAN, volume 10, Chapter 3½, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel: The world’s thirst for oil could be nearing a peak. That is bad news for producers, excellent for everyone else.”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 2013-08-01
type:
quotation
text:
The Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age.
type:
example
text:
Mr Lewis says we are living in the age of Aquarius, which means that the world is at present passing through the zodiacal sign of Aquarius, the airy constellation.
ref:
1911 April 10, The Evening News, Sydney, page 8, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
There are three ages living in her house.
type:
example
text:
It’s been an age since we last saw you.
type:
example
text:
The Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic Epoch.
type:
example
text:
What is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
type:
example
text:
to come of age; she is now of age
type:
example
text:
Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age.
ref:
1936 Feb. 15, Ernest Hemingway, letter to Maxwell Perkins
text:
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The whole duration of a being, whether human, animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
One of the stages of life.
The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
A great period in the history of the Earth.
One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and goverened by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.
A period of one hundred years; a century.
The people who live during a particular period.
A generation.
A long time.
The shortest geochronologic unit, being a period of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of an epoch (or sometimes a subepoch).
The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.
Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old, old age, senility; seniority.
senses_topics:
astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
geography
geology
natural-sciences
card-games
poker
|
3488 | word:
age
word_type:
verb
expansion:
age (third-person singular simple present ages, present participle ageing or (US) aging, simple past and past participle aged)
forms:
form:
ages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ageing
tags:
participle
present
form:
aging
tags:
US
participle
present
form:
aged
tags:
participle
past
form:
aged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
age
etymology_text:
From Middle English age, Old French aage, eage, edage, from an assumed Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem, itself derived from aevum (“lifetime”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force”). Compare French âge.
Displaced native Old English ieldu.
senses_examples:
text:
He grew fat as he aged.
type:
example
text:
I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-coloured, hair here and there. Sober thinking brings them
ref:
1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations
type:
quotation
text:
As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
ref:
2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
His prediction that we didn't stand a chance hasn't aged well, now that we've won the cup.
type:
example
text:
Grief ages us.
type:
example
text:
Money's a little tight right now, let's age our bills for a week or so.
type:
example
text:
One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.
type:
example
text:
Mr. [David] Brinkley started out with network news. We got our news- I think it was the Huntley-Brinkley Report. I'm probably aging myself now, okay?
ref:
1992 June 14, This Week with David Brinkley (television production), spoken by [James?] Carville, via ABC
type:
quotation
text:
To look at the hair by itself you'd say it was actually quite pretty, but on her head the gray sure ages her.
ref:
1998 Fall, Mare Freed, “Aluhana”, in The Antioch Review, volume 56, number 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
To be viewed or turn out in some way after a certain time has passed.
To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
To categorize by age.
To indicate that a person has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one.
senses_topics:
accounting
business
finance
|
3489 | word:
TLA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
TLA (countable and uncountable, plural TLAs)
forms:
form:
TLAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Three-letter acronym
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of three-letter acronym/abbreviation
Initialism of three-letter agency: the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc.
Initialism of trilaurylamine.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
3490 | word:
TLA
word_type:
name
expansion:
TLA
forms:
wikipedia:
Three-letter acronym
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Tlaxcala, a state of Mexico.
senses_topics:
|
3491 | word:
mata mata turtle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mata mata turtle (plural mata mata turtles)
forms:
form:
mata mata turtles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of matamata
senses_topics:
|
3492 | word:
tamale
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tamale (plural tamales)
forms:
form:
tamales
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from the plural tamales, from Spanish tamales, plural of tamal, from Nahuatl tamalli (“wrapped”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.
senses_topics:
|
3493 | word:
kerosene
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kerosene (countable and uncountable, plural kerosenes)
forms:
form:
kerosenes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek κηρός (kērós, “wax”) + -ene; a name trademarked in 1854.
senses_examples:
text:
The kerosene lasted all winter, so the furnace kept us always warm.
type:
example
text:
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thin, often colorless or blue or straw-colored petroleum-based fuel, heavier than gasoline/petrol or naptha but lighter than diesel, used primarily as jet fuel but also for heating and lighting in some remote or impoverished areas.
senses_topics:
|
3494 | word:
X-ray
word_type:
noun
expansion:
X-ray (plural X-rays)
forms:
form:
X-rays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Wilhelm Röntgen
etymology_text:
From X + ray, a calque of German X-Strahl, coined by Wilhelm Röntgen upon his discovery of the rays in 1895, X signifying their unknown nature.
senses_examples:
text:
X-rays are light with a wavelength between 0.1 and 10 nm.
type:
example
text:
The doctor ordered some X-rays of my injured wrist.
type:
example
text:
And this friendly was not without its injury worries, with defender Gary Cahill substituted early on after a nasty, needless push by Dries Mertens that caused him to collide with goalkeeper Joe Hart, an incident that left the Chelsea defender requiring a precautionary X-ray at Wembley.
ref:
2012 June 2, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Belgium”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Short wavelength electromagnetic radiation usually produced by bombarding a metal target in a vacuum. Used to create images of the internal structure of objects; this is possible because X-rays pass through most objects and can expose photographic film.
A radiograph: a photograph made with X-rays.
An X-ray machine.
senses_topics:
|
3495 | word:
X-ray
word_type:
verb
expansion:
X-ray (third-person singular simple present X-rays, present participle X-raying, simple past and past participle X-rayed)
forms:
form:
X-rays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
X-raying
tags:
participle
present
form:
X-rayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
X-rayed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Wilhelm Röntgen
etymology_text:
From X + ray, a calque of German X-Strahl, coined by Wilhelm Röntgen upon his discovery of the rays in 1895, X signifying their unknown nature.
senses_examples:
text:
Of course there was nothing wrong with my left wrist. They X-rayed the wrong arm!
type:
example
text:
1925, Sidney Coe Howard, They Knew What They Wanted (Doubleday, Page and Company), Act II, page 116.
Both legs broken in the morning. Tibia, fibula, femur, and ischium. X-rayed and set inside of an hour after the accident.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take a radiograph of; to obtain an image of using X-ray radiation, especially for the purpose of medical diagnostic evaluation.
senses_topics:
|
3496 | word:
X-ray
word_type:
adj
expansion:
X-ray (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Wilhelm Röntgen
etymology_text:
From X + ray, a calque of German X-Strahl, coined by Wilhelm Röntgen upon his discovery of the rays in 1895, X signifying their unknown nature.
senses_examples:
text:
I had to put my bags through an X-ray scanner at the airport.
type:
example
text:
Who will fly and have X-ray eyes— And be known as the man no bullet can kill?
ref:
1974, Shel Silverstein, “Who”, in Where the Sidewalk Ends, HarperCollins
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or having to do with X-rays.
senses_topics:
|
3497 | word:
quadruple
word_type:
adj
expansion:
quadruple (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
quadruple
etymology_text:
From Middle English quadruple, from Latin quadruplus. Can be analyzed as quadri- + -ple.
senses_examples:
text:
He's quite an athlete and can do quadruple jumps with ease.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.
senses_topics:
|
3498 | word:
quadruple
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quadruple (third-person singular simple present quadruples, present participle quadrupling, simple past and past participle quadrupled)
forms:
form:
quadruples
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quadrupling
tags:
participle
present
form:
quadrupled
tags:
participle
past
form:
quadrupled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
quadruple
etymology_text:
From Middle English quadruple, from Latin quadruplus. Can be analyzed as quadri- + -ple.
senses_examples:
text:
Quadrupling four gives sixteen.
type:
example
text:
Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements.
type:
example
text:
On June 8, 1872, the London & North Western Railway obtained powers to quadruple its main line, and a new tunnel was bored for the up and down slow lines.
ref:
1950 September, “Network News: Watford Tunnel, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 641
type:
quotation
text:
Quadrupling the short remaining stretch of three-track railway north of Rugby, left over by the turn of the century modernisation, is a possibility that could be pursued.
ref:
2019 October, “Railtalk: HS2 delay - time for lateral thinking”, in Modern Railways, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
A long-term aspiration is to quadruple the cross-country route between Peterborough and Werrington Junction, removing any conflict between trains on the Spalding and Leicester lines.
ref:
2020 April 22, Paul Shannon, “Felixstowe: Is 47 trains a day achievable?”, in Rail, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To multiply by four.
To increase by a factor of four.
To provide four parallel running lines on a given stretch of railway.
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport |
3499 | word:
quadruple
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quadruple (plural quadruples)
forms:
form:
quadruples
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
quadruple
etymology_text:
From Middle English quadruple, from Latin quadruplus. Can be analyzed as quadri- + -ple.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that is four times the usual number, amount, size, etc.
A figure-skating jump with four revolutions in the air.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
skating
sports |
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