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3500 | word:
handiron
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handiron (plural handirons)
forms:
form:
handirons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of andiron.
senses_topics:
|
3501 | word:
mother-in-law
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mother-in-law (plural mothers-in-law or (colloquial, nonstandard) mother-in-laws)
forms:
form:
mothers-in-law
tags:
plural
form:
mother-in-laws
tags:
colloquial
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English moder in lawe; equivalent to mother + -in-law.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The mother of one's spouse.
A mother-in-law apartment.
A mother-in-law sandwich.
A stepmother.
senses_topics:
|
3502 | word:
hot tamale
word_type:
intj
expansion:
hot tamale
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Boy oh boy it’s cold today, hot tamale!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exclamation of surprise.
senses_topics:
|
3503 | word:
hot tamale
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hot tamale (plural hot tamales)
forms:
form:
hot tamales
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"Isn't he the cutest thing?" she whispered to Evelyn. "Have you noticed? This place is absolutely crawling with gorgeous men. The ticket-taker, that Latin hot tamale […]"
ref:
1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
type:
quotation
text:
After years of wearing her hair in braids and schlumping down Seventh Avenue all covered up in padded coats, sweaters, and undies, Wally reinvented herself as a hot tamale with a mane of wild ringlets and a Coca-Cola—shaped bod.
ref:
2010, Jenyne M. Raines, Beautylicious!: The Black Girl's Guide to the Fabulous Life, Crown, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
He' so funny; what a hot tamale he is!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A physically attractive person.
A comical person or thing.
senses_topics:
|
3504 | word:
habitat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
habitat (countable and uncountable, plural habitats)
forms:
form:
habitats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin habitat (“it dwells, lives”), the 3rd person singular present active indicative form of habitō (“I live or dwell”). In Linnaeus and similar authors, the geographical ranges of species were customarily denoted in Latin by a sentence beginning with "Habitat", e.g. "Habitat in Europa" ("It lives in Europe"), and it thus became the convention to refer to the geographical range as the "habitat". Compare the English derivations of exit and ignoramus from Latin finite verbs reanalyzed as English nouns.
senses_examples:
text:
This park offers important amphibian habitat and breeding area.
type:
example
text:
rights-of-way are usually perceived as disturbance zones that provide a habitat and corridor for non-native species.
ref:
2006, John Davenport, Julia L. Davenport, The Ecology of Transportation, page 248
type:
quotation
text:
this book is just the impetus you need to clear the clutter and reorganize your habitat.
ref:
2006 June, Jessica Houssian, “Hot List”, in Bazaar, number 3535, page 146
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.
A range; a place where a species naturally occurs.
A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
A place in which a person lives.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
|
3505 | word:
quagmire
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quagmire (plural quagmires)
forms:
form:
quagmires
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
quagmire
etymology_text:
Recorded since 1579, from quag + mire. The sense “perilous, mixed up and troubled situation” has been recorded since 1775.
Alternatively, the word may apparently be a variation of the earlier quakemire, from quake + mire.
senses_examples:
text:
That quagmire regularly ‘swallows’ caught-up hikers’ boots
type:
example
text:
The paperwork got lost in a quagmire of bureaucracy.
type:
example
text:
Those election results are a quagmire for any coalition except one of national union.
type:
example
text:
I’ve had my doubts about Daenerys’ ability to rule, inspired in part by the quagmire in Meereen. Still, this feels like a precipitous decline. The queen of sobriquets has always been power hungry.
ref:
2019 May 5, Danette Chavez, “Campaigns are Waged On and Off the Game Of Thrones Battlefield (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-01-28
type:
quotation
text:
The only way to know Shakespeare is through his works, and his works are textual quagmires.
ref:
2021 November 24, Stephen Marche, “The Algorithm That Could Take Us Inside Shakespeare’s Mind”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A swampy, soggy area of ground.
A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.
senses_topics:
|
3506 | word:
quagmire
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quagmire (third-person singular simple present quagmires, present participle quagmiring, simple past and past participle quagmired)
forms:
form:
quagmires
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quagmiring
tags:
participle
present
form:
quagmired
tags:
participle
past
form:
quagmired
tags:
past
wikipedia:
quagmire
etymology_text:
Recorded since 1579, from quag + mire. The sense “perilous, mixed up and troubled situation” has been recorded since 1775.
Alternatively, the word may apparently be a variation of the earlier quakemire, from quake + mire.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To embroil (a person, etc.) in complexity or difficulty.
senses_topics:
|
3507 | word:
mi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mi (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Ut queant laxis
etymology_text:
From Glover's solmization, from Middle English mi (“third degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian mi in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin mīra (“miracles; the miraculous”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
3508 | word:
mi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mi
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of mi. .
senses_topics:
|
3509 | word:
benzoic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
benzoic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From benzene + -oic. Compare French benzoïque.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin.
Derived from benzoic acid or its derivatives.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
3510 | word:
twenty
word_type:
num
expansion:
twenty
forms:
wikipedia:
twenty
etymology_text:
From Middle English twenty, twenti, from Old English twēntiġ (“twenty”, literally “two tens”), from Proto-Germanic *twaintigiwiz, *twai tigiwiz, an old compound of *twain- (“two”) + *-tigaz (“group of ten”), equivalent to two + -ty, or twain + -ty. Cognate with Scots twenty, tuenty (“twenty”), West Frisian tweintich (“twenty”), Dutch twintig (“twenty”), German zwanzig (“twenty”), Danish tyve.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
senses_topics:
|
3511 | word:
twenty
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twenty (plural twenties)
forms:
form:
twenties
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
twenty
etymology_text:
From Middle English twenty, twenti, from Old English twēntiġ (“twenty”, literally “two tens”), from Proto-Germanic *twaintigiwiz, *twai tigiwiz, an old compound of *twain- (“two”) + *-tigaz (“group of ten”), equivalent to two + -ty, or twain + -ty. Cognate with Scots twenty, tuenty (“twenty”), West Frisian tweintich (“twenty”), Dutch twintig (“twenty”), German zwanzig (“twenty”), Danish tyve.
senses_examples:
text:
The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.
type:
example
text:
The more a shop looks as though it trades in farthings and ha’pennies, the more tenners and twenties you can expect to hand over at the till.
ref:
2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
What’s your twenty, good buddy?
type:
example
text:
What's your twenty?
Where's your brain?
Checking in to check you out
Concerned about your whereabouts
ref:
2012, Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal, Gwen Stefani, 0:54 from the start, in Settle Down (music video), No Doubt (actor), Vevo
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A banknote with a denomination of 20.
10-20 (location).
An old English division of infantry.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
3512 | word:
uppish
word_type:
adj
expansion:
uppish (comparative more uppish, superlative most uppish)
forms:
form:
more uppish
tags:
comparative
form:
most uppish
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up + -ish.
senses_examples:
text:
1699, B.E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew in its Several Tribes of Gypsies, Beggers, Thieves, Cheats &c., London: W. Hawes et al.,
Uppish, rampant, crowing, full of Money. He is very Uppish, well lined in the Fob […]
text:
“Heah that John is livenin’ things up at the darky school,” volunteered the postmaster, after a pause.
“What now?” asked the Judge, sharply.
“Oh, nothin’ in particulah,—just his almighty air and uppish ways. […]”
ref:
1903, W. E. B. Du Bois, chapter 13, in The Souls of Black Folk
type:
quotation
text:
Six runs were still required, and an uppish stroke by the new arrival secured two of them.
ref:
1898 July, Philip C. W. Trevor, “A Second Innings: A Story of a ’Varsity Match”, in The Badminton Magazine, published 1989, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
All the coaching he had received had been aimed at keeping the ball down. An ‘uppish’ stroke was to be deplored. But everything had to be uppish on this pitch.
ref:
1974, James Herriot, chapter 24, in Vet in Harness, London: Pan Books, published 2006, page 174
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having plenty of money.
proud; arrogant; assuming
In which the ball is hit into the air, with the chance of being caught.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
3513 | word:
almost
word_type:
adv
expansion:
almost (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
almost (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English almost, from Old English eallmǣst (“nearly all, almost, for the most part”), equivalent to al- (“all”) + most.
senses_examples:
text:
Almost all people went there. (not all but very close to it)
type:
example
text:
We almost missed the train. (not missed but very close to it)
type:
example
text:
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
ref:
2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
almost all
type:
example
text:
almost no
type:
example
text:
almost everywhere
type:
example
text:
almost nowhere
type:
example
text:
almost certain
type:
example
text:
almost sure
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very close to, but not quite.
Up to, except for a negligible set (where negligible is not universally but contextually defined).
Up to, except for a negligible set (where negligible is not universally but contextually defined).
Up to a null set; except for a set of measure 0.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
measure-theory
probability-theory
sciences |
3514 | word:
almost
word_type:
noun
expansion:
almost (plural almosts)
forms:
form:
almosts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
almost (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English almost, from Old English eallmǣst (“nearly all, almost, for the most part”), equivalent to al- (“all”) + most.
senses_examples:
text:
In all the submissions, they found four papers that were clearly worth publishing and another dozen almosts.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something or someone that doesn't quite make it.
senses_topics:
|
3515 | word:
bergamot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bergamot (countable and uncountable, plural bergamots)
forms:
form:
bergamots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French bergamote, from Italian bergamotta, from Ottoman Turkish بك آرمودی (beg armudu, literally “a lord's pear”), denoting a fattish kind of pear. The European word developed the sense of a fruit of a certain citrus cultivar in the late 17th century.
senses_examples:
text:
One of my Neighbours has a Bergamot Pear Tree, that was brought from England in a Box , about the Year 1643
ref:
a. 1724, Philosophical Transactions
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tree of the orange family (Citrus × limon, syn. Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume.
The fruit from the bergamot tree
The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
Either of two plants of the mint family noted for their bergamot-like scent:
Mentha × piperita, nothosubspecies citrata, more commonly known as bergamot mint
Either of two plants of the mint family noted for their bergamot-like scent:
Monarda didyma, also known as American bergamot or bee balm.
A variety of pear.
senses_topics:
|
3516 | word:
bergamot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bergamot (usually uncountable, plural bergamots)
forms:
form:
bergamots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Bergamo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair.
senses_topics:
|
3517 | word:
Indonesian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Indonesian (comparative more Indonesian, superlative most Indonesian)
forms:
form:
more Indonesian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Indonesian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
en:Indonesian
etymology_text:
From Indonesia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Indonesia or its people or language.
senses_topics:
|
3518 | word:
Indonesian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Indonesian (countable and uncountable, plural Indonesians)
forms:
form:
Indonesians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Indonesian
etymology_text:
From Indonesia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person living in or coming from Indonesia.
The common language spoken in Indonesia.
senses_topics:
|
3519 | word:
homonym
word_type:
noun
expansion:
homonym (plural homonyms)
forms:
form:
homonyms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From homo- + -onym.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both).
A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.
A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both).
A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy |
3520 | word:
toe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
toe (countable and uncountable, plural toes)
forms:
form:
toes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:toe
etymology_text:
From Middle English to, from Old English tā, (Mercian) tāhe, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ (compare Dutch teen, German Zehe, Danish tå, Swedish tå), from *tīhwaną (“to show, announce”) (compare Old English teōn (“to accuse”), German zeihen (“to accuse, blame”)), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (tekkuššāi), Latin dīcere (“to say”), digitus (“finger”), Ancient Greek δείκνυμι (deíknumi, “to point out, show”), Sanskrit दिदेष्टि (dídeṣṭi), दिशति (diśáti)).
senses_examples:
text:
(golf) the extreme end of the head of a club.
text:
(hurling) the end of a hurley.
text:
(cricket) the tip of the bat farthest from the handle
text:
(kayaking) the bow; the front of the kayak.
text:
(geology) a bulbous protrusion at the front of a lava flow or landslide.
text:
to have a lot of toe
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Each of the five digits on the end of the foot.
An equivalent part in an animal.
That part of a shoe or sock covering the toe.
Something resembling a toe, especially at the bottom or extreme end of something.
An advanced form of ballet primarily performed by women, wearing pointe shoes.
An alignment of the wheels of a road vehicle, either positive (toe in), meaning the wheels are closer together at the front than at the back, or negative (toe out), the other way round.
The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.
A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, such as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved.
A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece.
The long side of an angled cut.
The upper end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead; as opposed to the heel (lower end).
A cameltoe.
Speed, energy, vigor.
a person
senses_topics:
dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
automotive
transport
vehicles
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
|
3521 | word:
toe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
toe (third-person singular simple present toes, present participle toeing, simple past and past participle toed)
forms:
form:
toes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
toeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
toed
tags:
participle
past
form:
toed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:toe
etymology_text:
From Middle English to, from Old English tā, (Mercian) tāhe, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ (compare Dutch teen, German Zehe, Danish tå, Swedish tå), from *tīhwaną (“to show, announce”) (compare Old English teōn (“to accuse”), German zeihen (“to accuse, blame”)), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (tekkuššāi), Latin dīcere (“to say”), digitus (“finger”), Ancient Greek δείκνυμι (deíknumi, “to point out, show”), Sanskrit दिदेष्टि (dídeṣṭi), दिशति (diśáti)).
senses_examples:
text:
"Here's ten shillings for you, but I'm going to toe your backside first!" said Manna. And the Dane let him kick away; his yellow teeth gleamed in a servile grin and then he clutched at the money.
ref:
1927, Nordahl Grieg, The Ship Sails On, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
Just five minutes later the turnaround was complete when Arshavin toed the ball through to Bendtner, who slotted into the left corner from close range just before half-time.
ref:
2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
to toe the mark
text:
The framers toed the irregular pieces into the sill.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To furnish (a stocking, etc.) with a toe.
To touch, tap or kick with the toes.
To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to.
To fasten (a piece) by driving a fastener at a near-45-degree angle through the side (of the piece) into the piece to which it is to be fastened.
To mishit a golf ball with the toe of the club.
senses_topics:
business
construction
manufacturing
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
3522 | word:
kebbuck
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kebbuck (plural kebbucks)
forms:
form:
kebbucks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
15th century, from Scottish Gaelic càbaig.
senses_examples:
text:
Syne draws her kebbuck an’ her knife
ref:
1785, Robert Burns, The Holy Fair
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A whole wheel or ball of cheese.
senses_topics:
|
3523 | word:
father-in-law
word_type:
noun
expansion:
father-in-law (plural fathers-in-law or (colloquial, nonstandard) father-in-laws)
forms:
form:
fathers-in-law
tags:
plural
form:
father-in-laws
tags:
colloquial
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
father-in-law
etymology_text:
From Middle English fader in lawe, fadyr-in-lay, fader yn lawe, equivalent to father + -in-law.
senses_examples:
text:
`Yes,` replied Snawley. `The fact is, I am not their father, Mr Squeers. I'm only their father-in-law.`
ref:
1839, Charles Dickens, chapter IV, in Nicholas Nickleby, page 41
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One's spouse's father.
A stepfather.
senses_topics:
|
3524 | word:
Greek
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Greek (comparative Greeker, superlative Greekest)
forms:
form:
Greeker
tags:
comparative
form:
Greekest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Greece
Greek language
Greek people
Griko
Names of the Greeks
Wikipedia
etymology_text:
From Old English Grēcas (“Greeks”), variant of Crēcas, from Proto-West Germanic *Krēkō, from Latin Graecus of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from the toponym Γραῖα (Graîa) or from other Paleo-Balkanic forms from a tribal name Graii. See also the Wikipedia articles on "Griko" and "Names of the Greeks". Greek in any case has the cognate Γραικός (Graikós), the mythological ancestor of the Γραίοι (Graíoi, “Graecians”). Germanic cognates include Dutch Griek, German Grieche. The ⟨g⟩ in English and Germanic cognates was restored under influence from French grec and classical Latin Graecus. The adjective dates to 14th-century Middle English, replacing Old English Grēċisċ (“Greekish”) and earlier Middle English Gregeis. In reference to fraternities and sororities, a clipping of earlier Greek-letter in reference to their usual names being initialisms of mottos in the Greek language. In reference to terms used to analysize financial derivatives, from their usual names consisting of Greek letters.
senses_examples:
text:
“Every single person is going to have a different experience watching this film,” she said when I asked about possibly labeling the Greek system as “toxic”.
ref:
2023 May 24, Adrian Horton, “‘Competitive femininity’: inside the wild and secretive world of sororities”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Greece, its people, its language, or its culture
Synonym of incomprehensible, used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjects.
Of or relating to collegiate fraternities, sororities, and/or (uncommon) honor societies.
senses_topics:
|
3525 | word:
Greek
word_type:
name
expansion:
Greek (countable and uncountable, plural Greeks)
forms:
form:
Greeks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Greece
Greek language
Greek people
Griko
Names of the Greeks
Wikipedia
etymology_text:
From Old English Grēcas (“Greeks”), variant of Crēcas, from Proto-West Germanic *Krēkō, from Latin Graecus of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from the toponym Γραῖα (Graîa) or from other Paleo-Balkanic forms from a tribal name Graii. See also the Wikipedia articles on "Griko" and "Names of the Greeks". Greek in any case has the cognate Γραικός (Graikós), the mythological ancestor of the Γραίοι (Graíoi, “Graecians”). Germanic cognates include Dutch Griek, German Grieche. The ⟨g⟩ in English and Germanic cognates was restored under influence from French grec and classical Latin Graecus. The adjective dates to 14th-century Middle English, replacing Old English Grēċisċ (“Greekish”) and earlier Middle English Gregeis. In reference to fraternities and sororities, a clipping of earlier Greek-letter in reference to their usual names being initialisms of mottos in the Greek language. In reference to terms used to analysize financial derivatives, from their usual names consisting of Greek letters.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language spoken by people of Greece, particularly, depending on context, Ancient Greek or Modern Greek.
The written form of these languages.
A surname.
senses_topics:
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3526 | word:
Greek
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Greek (countable and uncountable, plural Greeks)
forms:
form:
Greeks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Greece
Greek language
Greek people
Griko
Names of the Greeks
Wikipedia
etymology_text:
From Old English Grēcas (“Greeks”), variant of Crēcas, from Proto-West Germanic *Krēkō, from Latin Graecus of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from the toponym Γραῖα (Graîa) or from other Paleo-Balkanic forms from a tribal name Graii. See also the Wikipedia articles on "Griko" and "Names of the Greeks". Greek in any case has the cognate Γραικός (Graikós), the mythological ancestor of the Γραίοι (Graíoi, “Graecians”). Germanic cognates include Dutch Griek, German Grieche. The ⟨g⟩ in English and Germanic cognates was restored under influence from French grec and classical Latin Graecus. The adjective dates to 14th-century Middle English, replacing Old English Grēċisċ (“Greekish”) and earlier Middle English Gregeis. In reference to fraternities and sororities, a clipping of earlier Greek-letter in reference to their usual names being initialisms of mottos in the Greek language. In reference to terms used to analysize financial derivatives, from their usual names consisting of Greek letters.
senses_examples:
text:
"I don't hear one word in ten that they say," continued Mrs. Abingdon; "it's Greek to me. However, ..."
ref:
1821, Mary Jane Mackenzie, Geraldine, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
"It's all Greek to me," said my companion at the outset, but as the warrior continued, his fears arose within him; it might be sentence of death—what did he know what it might not be?
ref:
1859, Kinahan Cornwallis, Two Journeys to Japan, 1856–7, volume 2, page 246
type:
quotation
text:
preferred risk... family maintenance... 20-pay life. That's a bare sampling of the merchandise you're asked to pick and choose from. If it sounds like Greek to you, don't worry. It sounds like Greek to most people.
ref:
1951 December, “Which Kind of Life Insurance Policy?”, in Changing Times – The Kiplinger Magazine, volume 5, number 12, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
Was Joe a Greek in college?
type:
example
text:
The wind-up is, that the father becomes bankrupt; the wife and daughters town-traders; the sons Greeks, Fancy-swells, Conveyancers (pickpockets), or Cracksmen (house breakers), and the New Drop is the last drop they ever take.
ref:
1822, A Morning in Cork-Street: or, Raising the wind, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
She is absolutely a total GFE, no limits, except no Greek. (Well...I say “no Greek” - - if she is really hot for you, and if she is really turned on in a long session, she might beg for a finger in her anus while you suck her clit, but she is just too tiny and tight for any “real meat” in the backdoor.)
ref:
2001, "ASP: 'Julie' of Oral-Land-Oh", alt.sex.prostitution, Usenet
text:
“What's within reason?” “Hand-job, blow-job, full sex — straight, full service. Greek, maybe, if you're not too big. Golden shower, if you like, but not reverse. No hardsports. And absolutely nothing without.”
ref:
2012, Maxim Jakubowski, The Best British Crime Omnibus
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Greece or of Greek descent.
Greek cuisine, traditional or representative Greek food.
Synonym of gibberish, used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjects.
Synonym of lorem ipsum, dummy placeholder text used in greeking.
A member of a collegiate fraternity or sorority.
A cunning rogue.
A merry fellow.
Anal sex.
One of the Greeks, measures of derivative price sensitivity.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
3527 | word:
Greek
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Greek (third-person singular simple present Greeks, present participle Greeking, simple past and past participle Greeked)
forms:
form:
Greeks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Greeking
tags:
participle
present
form:
Greeked
tags:
participle
past
form:
Greeked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Greece
Greek language
Greek people
Griko
Names of the Greeks
Wikipedia
etymology_text:
From Old English Grēcas (“Greeks”), variant of Crēcas, from Proto-West Germanic *Krēkō, from Latin Graecus of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from the toponym Γραῖα (Graîa) or from other Paleo-Balkanic forms from a tribal name Graii. See also the Wikipedia articles on "Griko" and "Names of the Greeks". Greek in any case has the cognate Γραικός (Graikós), the mythological ancestor of the Γραίοι (Graíoi, “Graecians”). Germanic cognates include Dutch Griek, German Grieche. The ⟨g⟩ in English and Germanic cognates was restored under influence from French grec and classical Latin Graecus. The adjective dates to 14th-century Middle English, replacing Old English Grēċisċ (“Greekish”) and earlier Middle English Gregeis. In reference to fraternities and sororities, a clipping of earlier Greek-letter in reference to their usual names being initialisms of mottos in the Greek language. In reference to terms used to analysize financial derivatives, from their usual names consisting of Greek letters.
senses_examples:
text:
A discovery of Greeking at Brighton, has made considerable noise this month in the sporting world.
ref:
1817, Sporting Magazine, number 50, page 284
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cheat at cards.
Alternative letter-case form of greek.
senses_topics:
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3528 | word:
tulip
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tulip (plural tulips)
forms:
form:
tulips
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French tulipe, from earlier tulipan, from Ottoman Turkish دلبند (tülbent, dülbent, “cheesecloth”), from Classical Persian دلبند (dulband, “turban”). Doublet of turban.
senses_examples:
text:
The sturdy burghers of Holland took the tulip mania so badly that single bulbs that could not flower till another year would sell for more than $2000 apiece.
ref:
1876 April, “The Tulip Mania”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume LII, number CCCXL
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of flowering plant, genus Tulipa.
The flower of this plant.
senses_topics:
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3529 | word:
bisque
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bisque (countable and uncountable, plural bisques)
forms:
form:
bisques
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Kent
Rochester
bisque
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French bisque, possibly from Biscaye.
senses_examples:
text:
lobster bisque
type:
example
text:
bisque:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables.
A pale pinkish brown colour.
A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit.
senses_topics:
ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
3530 | word:
bisque
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bisque (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Kent
Rochester
bisque
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French bisque, possibly from Biscaye.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a pale pinkish brown colour.
senses_topics:
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3531 | word:
bisque
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bisque (third-person singular simple present bisques, present participle bisquing, simple past and past participle bisqued)
forms:
form:
bisques
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bisquing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bisqued
tags:
participle
past
form:
bisqued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Kent
Rochester
bisque
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French bisque, possibly from Biscaye.
senses_examples:
text:
I use an electric kiln strictly for bisquing my pots.
ref:
2018, Melissa Weiss, Handbuilt, A Potter's Guide, page 147
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To prepare ceramics in the bisque style.
senses_topics:
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3532 | word:
bisque
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bisque (plural bisques)
forms:
form:
bisques
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Kent
Rochester
bisque
Émile Littré
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French bisque, of unknown origin; Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, suggests a comparison with Spanish bisca (“gambling house, gambling den”).
senses_examples:
text:
Going round with Angus McTavish carrying your bag, she mused, was equivalent to about four bisques to the opposition. Angus McTavish was the sort of man who, just by going about looking like a frozen asset, takes all the edge and zip out of a girl's game.
ref:
1937 March 19, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, Lord Emsworth and Others, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 851336728; republished Woodstock, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-58567-277-6, pages 137–138
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.
A free turn in a handicap croquet match.
An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.
A free point in a handicap real tennis match.
An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.
Exemption from work or other duty on a particular day.
A day's leave an employee may take without warning or reason and not be counted as annual leave.
Exemption from work or other duty on a particular day.
Permission for an MP to be absent from a vote, granted by the whips when the absence is not likely to affect the outcome.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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3533 | word:
example
word_type:
noun
expansion:
example (plural examples)
forms:
form:
examples
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
example
etymology_text:
From Middle English example, exaumple, from Old French example, essaumple, from Latin exemplum (“sample, pattern, specimen, copy for imitation, etc.”, literally “what is taken out”); see exempt. Doublet of exemplum and sample. Displaced native Middle English forebisne, from Old English forebȳsn; and Middle English bisne, from Old English bȳsn (modern English bizen).
senses_examples:
text:
If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.
ref:
2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism, Cambridge University Press, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.
ref:
2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
ref:
2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
text:
Nelson Mandela was an example for many to follow.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
A person punished as a warning to others.
A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.
senses_topics:
|
3534 | word:
example
word_type:
verb
expansion:
example (third-person singular simple present examples, present participle exampling, simple past and past participle exampled)
forms:
form:
examples
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
exampling
tags:
participle
present
form:
exampled
tags:
participle
past
form:
exampled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
example
etymology_text:
From Middle English example, exaumple, from Old French example, essaumple, from Latin exemplum (“sample, pattern, specimen, copy for imitation, etc.”, literally “what is taken out”); see exempt. Doublet of exemplum and sample. Displaced native Middle English forebisne, from Old English forebȳsn; and Middle English bisne, from Old English bȳsn (modern English bizen).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be illustrated or exemplified (by).
senses_topics:
|
3535 | word:
amount
word_type:
noun
expansion:
amount (plural amounts)
forms:
form:
amounts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Quantity
etymology_text:
From Middle English amounten (“to mount up to, come up to, signify”), from Old French amonter (“to amount to”), from amont, amunt (“uphill, upward”), from the prepositional phrase a mont (“toward or to a mountain or heap”), from Latin ad montem, from ad (“to”) + montem, accusative of mons (“mountain”).
senses_examples:
text:
The amount of atmospheric pollution threatens a health crisis.
type:
example
text:
Pour a small amount of water into the dish.
type:
example
text:
The dogs need different amounts of food.
type:
example
text:
The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.
ref:
2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.
ref:
2001, Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education, page 195
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
A quantity or volume.
The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
senses_topics:
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3536 | word:
amount
word_type:
verb
expansion:
amount (third-person singular simple present amounts, present participle amounting, simple past and past participle amounted)
forms:
form:
amounts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
amounting
tags:
participle
present
form:
amounted
tags:
participle
past
form:
amounted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Quantity
etymology_text:
From Middle English amounten (“to mount up to, come up to, signify”), from Old French amonter (“to amount to”), from amont, amunt (“uphill, upward”), from the prepositional phrase a mont (“toward or to a mountain or heap”), from Latin ad montem, from ad (“to”) + montem, accusative of mons (“mountain”).
senses_examples:
text:
The money in my pocket amounts to three dollars and change.
type:
example
text:
He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
type:
example
text:
His response amounted to gross insubordination.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To total or evaluate.
To be the tantamount to; to reach up to the level of.
To go up; to ascend.
senses_topics:
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3537 | word:
xerox
word_type:
noun
expansion:
xerox (plural xeroxes)
forms:
form:
xeroxes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Genericized trademark from Xerox (“a photocopier”), from xerography, from Ancient Greek ξηρός (xērós, “dry”) and γραφή (graphḗ, “writing”).
senses_examples:
text:
Hand me that xerox, would you?
type:
example
text:
There were twenty pictures in the envelope, xeroxes but clear enough. They documented the scene pretty much as I imagined it.
ref:
2009, David Ebershoff, The 19th Wife, Random House, page 142
type:
quotation
text:
The xerox broke down yesterday.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A photocopy.
A photocopier.
senses_topics:
|
3538 | word:
xerox
word_type:
verb
expansion:
xerox (third-person singular simple present xeroxes, present participle xeroxing, simple past and past participle xeroxed)
forms:
form:
xeroxes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
xeroxing
tags:
participle
present
form:
xeroxed
tags:
participle
past
form:
xeroxed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Genericized trademark from Xerox (“a photocopier”), from xerography, from Ancient Greek ξηρός (xērós, “dry”) and γραφή (graphḗ, “writing”).
senses_examples:
text:
I xeroxed the report for all the people at the meeting.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a paper copy or copies by means of a photocopier.
senses_topics:
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3539 | word:
rite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rite (plural rites)
forms:
form:
rites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rite
etymology_text:
Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.
senses_examples:
text:
But he had to perform the rites of hospitality, had to behave politely to his ally.
ref:
1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A religious custom.
A prescribed behavior.
senses_topics:
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3540 | word:
rite
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rite (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
rite
etymology_text:
Variation of right.
senses_examples:
text:
He's rite, you know.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Informal spelling of right.
senses_topics:
|
3541 | word:
rite
word_type:
adv
expansion:
rite (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
rite
etymology_text:
Variation of right.
senses_examples:
text:
It's rite next to my house.
type:
example
text:
1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
One of our cats has a bald spot on his hind & it looks like it was shaved rite off.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Informal spelling of right.
senses_topics:
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3542 | word:
rite
word_type:
intj
expansion:
rite
forms:
wikipedia:
rite
etymology_text:
Variation of right.
senses_examples:
text:
Rite, let's do it.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Informal spelling of right.
senses_topics:
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3543 | word:
rite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rite (plural rites)
forms:
form:
rites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rite
etymology_text:
Variation of right.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Informal spelling of right.
senses_topics:
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3544 | word:
dear
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dear (comparative dearer or more dear, superlative dearest or most dear)
forms:
form:
dearer
tags:
comparative
form:
more dear
tags:
comparative
form:
dearest
tags:
superlative
form:
most dear
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dere, from Old English dīere (“of great value or excellence, expensive, beloved”), from Proto-West Germanic *diurī, from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz (“dear, precious, expensive”). Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“of great value or worth, highly valued, precious, beloved”), Saterland Frisian djuur (“precious, dear, costly, expensive”), Dutch duur (“costly, precious”), German teuer (“costly, precious”), German Low German düür, Danish dyr (“expensive”), Swedish dyr (“expensive”), Norwegian dyr (“expensive”), Icelandic dýr (“expensive”), Yiddish טייַער (tayer, “precious,expensive”).
senses_examples:
text:
The dearer the jewel, the greater the love expressed.
type:
example
text:
This water is sold for 50 cents per ton, which is not dear under the circumstances.
ref:
1902, Briquettes as Fuel in Foreign Countries (report of the United States Bureau of Foreign Commerce)
text:
Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear.
ref:
1966, The Beatles (lyrics and music), “When I'm Sixty-Four”
type:
quotation
text:
"Yes, children dear, wait a bit till it turns itself," she answered - she ought to have said "till I turn it"[.]
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
Such dear embrace tenderly comforts even in this dear sorrow.
type:
example
text:
The dearer the giver, the dearer the trinket he brings!
type:
example
text:
Dear Sir/Madam/Miss, please notice our offices will be closed during the following bank holidays:[…].
type:
example
text:
My dear friend, I feel better as soon as you come sit beside my sickbed!
type:
example
text:
My dear man, you ought to think twice about who you're trying to blackmail.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
High in price; expensive.
Loved; lovable.
Lovely; kind.
Loving, affectionate, heartfelt
Precious to or greatly valued by someone.
A formal way to start (possibly after my) addressing somebody at the beginning of a letter, memo etc.
A formal way to start (often after my) addressing somebody one likes or regards kindly.
An ironic way to start (often after my) addressing an inferior or someone one dislikes.
Noble.
senses_topics:
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3545 | word:
dear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dear (plural dears)
forms:
form:
dears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dere, from Old English dīere (“of great value or excellence, expensive, beloved”), from Proto-West Germanic *diurī, from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz (“dear, precious, expensive”). Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“of great value or worth, highly valued, precious, beloved”), Saterland Frisian djuur (“precious, dear, costly, expensive”), Dutch duur (“costly, precious”), German teuer (“costly, precious”), German Low German düür, Danish dyr (“expensive”), Swedish dyr (“expensive”), Norwegian dyr (“expensive”), Icelandic dýr (“expensive”), Yiddish טייַער (tayer, “precious,expensive”).
senses_examples:
text:
My little cousin is such a dear, always drawing me pictures.
type:
example
text:
Pass me the salt, would you dear?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A very kind, loving person.
A beloved person.
An affectionate, familiar term of address, such as used between husband and wife.
An elderly person, especially a woman.
senses_topics:
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3546 | word:
dear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dear (third-person singular simple present dears, present participle dearing, simple past and past participle deared)
forms:
form:
dears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dearing
tags:
participle
present
form:
deared
tags:
participle
past
form:
deared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dere, from Old English dīere (“of great value or excellence, expensive, beloved”), from Proto-West Germanic *diurī, from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz (“dear, precious, expensive”). Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“of great value or worth, highly valued, precious, beloved”), Saterland Frisian djuur (“precious, dear, costly, expensive”), Dutch duur (“costly, precious”), German teuer (“costly, precious”), German Low German düür, Danish dyr (“expensive”), Swedish dyr (“expensive”), Norwegian dyr (“expensive”), Icelandic dýr (“expensive”), Yiddish טייַער (tayer, “precious,expensive”).
senses_examples:
text:
Nor should a Sonne his Sire loue for reward, But for he is his Sire, in nature dear’d.
ref:
1603, John Davies of Hereford, Microcosmos
type:
quotation
text:
I should have known no less: It hath been taught us from the primal state That he which is was wished until he were; And the ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, Comes deared by being lacked.
ref:
1623, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra
type:
quotation
text:
Nay, hide him in thy house, and also show Such deared love to him, as to delight In his base company both day and night?
ref:
1679, Benjamin Keach, The Glorious Lover, page 164
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To endear.
senses_topics:
|
3547 | word:
dear
word_type:
adv
expansion:
dear (comparative more dear, superlative most dear)
forms:
form:
more dear
tags:
comparative
form:
most dear
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dere, from Old English dīere (“of great value or excellence, expensive, beloved”), from Proto-West Germanic *diurī, from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz (“dear, precious, expensive”). Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“of great value or worth, highly valued, precious, beloved”), Saterland Frisian djuur (“precious, dear, costly, expensive”), Dutch duur (“costly, precious”), German teuer (“costly, precious”), German Low German düür, Danish dyr (“expensive”), Swedish dyr (“expensive”), Norwegian dyr (“expensive”), Icelandic dýr (“expensive”), Yiddish טייַער (tayer, “precious,expensive”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dearly; at a high price.
senses_topics:
|
3548 | word:
dear
word_type:
intj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dere, from Old English dīere (“of great value or excellence, expensive, beloved”), from Proto-West Germanic *diurī, from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz (“dear, precious, expensive”). Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“of great value or worth, highly valued, precious, beloved”), Saterland Frisian djuur (“precious, dear, costly, expensive”), Dutch duur (“costly, precious”), German teuer (“costly, precious”), German Low German düür, Danish dyr (“expensive”), Swedish dyr (“expensive”), Norwegian dyr (“expensive”), Icelandic dýr (“expensive”), Yiddish טייַער (tayer, “precious,expensive”).
senses_examples:
text:
Dear, dear! Whatever were they thinking?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Indicating surprise, pity, or disapproval.
senses_topics:
|
3549 | word:
dear
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dear (comparative more dear, superlative most dear)
forms:
form:
more dear
tags:
comparative
form:
most dear
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dere (“fierce, severe, hard, deadly”), from Old English dēor, dȳr (“brave, bold; severe, dire, vehement”), from Proto-Germanic *deuzaz. Cognate with the above.
senses_examples:
text:
The Christens found the heathens dear, as the lion doth the bear.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Severe, or severely affected; sore.
Fierce.
senses_topics:
|
3550 | word:
sorbet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sorbet (countable and uncountable, plural sorbets)
forms:
form:
sorbets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French sorbet, from Old Italian sorbetto, from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba, “drink”).
Doublet of sherbet and sharbat, related to syrup.
senses_examples:
text:
After dinner we had an orange sorbet that was very refreshing.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Frozen fruit juice, sometimes mixed with egg whites, eaten as dessert or between courses of a meal.
senses_topics:
|
3551 | word:
kangaroo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kangaroo (plural kangaroos)
forms:
form:
kangaroos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
kangaroo
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Guugu Yimidhirr gangurru (“eastern grey kangaroo”).
senses_examples:
text:
Besides the Animals which I have before mentioned, called by the Natives Kangooroo, or Kanguru […].
ref:
1770 August 4, James Cook, Journal
type:
quotation
text:
In the woods are the kanguroo, the emu or cassowary, paroquets, and a variety of small birds […].
ref:
1814, Matthew Flinders, A Voyage to Terra Australis
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia.
A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.
senses_topics:
|
3552 | word:
kangaroo
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kangaroo (third-person singular simple present kangaroos, present participle kangarooing, simple past and past participle kangarooed)
forms:
form:
kangaroos
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kangarooing
tags:
participle
present
form:
kangarooed
tags:
participle
past
form:
kangarooed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
kangaroo
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Guugu Yimidhirr gangurru (“eastern grey kangaroo”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.
To hunt kangaroo.
To move like a kangaroo.
senses_topics:
|
3553 | word:
kangaroo
word_type:
adj
expansion:
kangaroo (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
kangaroo
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Guugu Yimidhirr gangurru (“eastern grey kangaroo”).
senses_examples:
text:
The rapid growth in Kangaroo bond issues in the Australian market has given rise to an interest in the nature, trend and impact of this type of bond on Australia's international investment statistics. While Kangaroo bonds have been issued for a ...
ref:
2005, Year Book Australia: 2006, Aust. Bureau of Statistics, page 708
type:
quotation
text:
Furthermore, the issuers access the kangaroo bond market in order to diversify their funding sources. ... driven by factors such as the relative cost of issuance, including hedging costs and the liquidity of underlying derivative and bond markets.
ref:
2017, Jeff Madura, CHANDRASEKHAR & MADURA KRISHNAMURTI (JEFF & HOQUE, ARIFUL.), Ariful Hoque, International Financial Management with Student Resource Access 12 Months, Cengage AU, page 667
text:
Non-resident. bonds. Bonds issued in the Australian market by non-resident entities are known as kangaroo bonds. Figure 8.6 shows that kangaroo bonds represent approximately one-third of non-government bonds outstanding, making them ...
ref:
2018, Ben Hunt, Chris Terry, Financial Institutions and Markets, Cengage AU, page 206
type:
quotation
text:
3.1.2 The Australian dollar in the global bond market An internationalized currency also serves non-residents as a store of value ... borrowers issuing Australian dollar bonds in the domestic market (foreign bonds known as ' kangaroo bonds').
ref:
2009, W. Peng, C. Shu, Currency Internationalization: Global Experiences and Implications for the Renminbi, Springer, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
The market is comparatively liquid and the bonds are free of withholding tax if the funds are used overseas. The Commonwealth Bank has largely pioneered the market. It led the first kangaroo issue, a $150million offering by the (South) Korea ...
ref:
1998, Business Review Weekly: BRW
type:
quotation
text:
Some onshore markets have competed more successfully than others. Issuance in the Kangaroo bond market (Australian dollar bonds issued onshore by non- residents) soared over the 2002–06 period due to a combination of factors. While a ...
ref:
2010, Susan Black, Anella Munro, Why Issue Bonds Offshore?
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Australia.
Characterized by rapidly jumping prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices are unstable in contrast to bear and bull markets.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
3554 | word:
or
word_type:
conj
expansion:
or
forms:
wikipedia:
or
etymology_text:
From Middle English or; partially contracted from other, auther, from Old English āþor, āwþer, āhwæþer ("some, any, either"; > either); and partially from Middle English oththe, from Old English oþþe, from Proto-Germanic *efþau (“or”).
senses_examples:
text:
You may either stay or come.
type:
example
text:
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
type:
example
text:
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
type:
example
text:
The country Myanmar, or Burma
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc., each of which could make a passage true.
An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
Connects two equivalent names.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
|
3555 | word:
or
word_type:
noun
expansion:
or (plural ors)
forms:
form:
ors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Logical OR
or
etymology_text:
From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of OR
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
sciences |
3556 | word:
or
word_type:
noun
expansion:
or (countable and uncountable, plural ors)
forms:
form:
ors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Or (heraldry)
or
etymology_text:
From late Middle English or (“gold”), borrowed from Middle French or (“yellow”), from Old French or, from Latin aurum (“gold”). Doublet of aurum.
senses_examples:
text:
The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent".
ref:
1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry
type:
quotation
text:
In engraving, "Or" is expressed by dots.
ref:
1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry
type:
quotation
text:
or:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
3557 | word:
or
word_type:
adj
expansion:
or (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
or
etymology_text:
From late Middle English or (“gold”), borrowed from Middle French or (“yellow”), from Old French or, from Latin aurum (“gold”). Doublet of aurum.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
3558 | word:
or
word_type:
adv
expansion:
or
forms:
wikipedia:
or
etymology_text:
From Late Old English ār, from Old Norse ár. Compare ere.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Early (on).
Earlier, previously.
senses_topics:
|
3559 | word:
or
word_type:
prep
expansion:
or
forms:
wikipedia:
or
etymology_text:
From Late Old English ār, from Old Norse ár. Compare ere.
senses_examples:
text:
I looked to heaven, and tried to pray;
But or ever a prayer had gusht,
A wicked whisper came, and made
My heart as dry as dust.
ref:
1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Before; ere. Followed by "ever" or "ere".
senses_topics:
|
3560 | word:
middle finger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
middle finger (plural middle fingers)
forms:
form:
middle fingers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English myddel fyngir. By surface analysis, middle + finger.
senses_examples:
text:
An Indiana man argues in a federal lawsuit filed last week that he had a First Amendment right to give the middle finger to a state trooper, and that his free speech was violated when the gesture earned him a ticket.
ref:
2018 February 4, Jason Silverstein, “Giving Middle Finger to Police Is a First Amendment Right, Man Argues in Lawsuit Over Ticket”, in Newsweek
type:
quotation
text:
Her whole way of being is a big middle finger to the other guy.
ref:
2007, Dominique Paul, The Possibility of Fireflies, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
Beem called the tactic [paying US$23500 settlement in coins] "petty and a grand waste of time" and said the coin delivery was "a symbolic middle finger."
ref:
2023 October 24, “Colorado judge says company acted "maliciously and in bad faith" in coin stunt”, in CBS News
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The finger between the forefinger and the ring finger.
An obscene gesture directed towards another as an insult, made by sticking up the middle finger of a hand.
An insult directed at someone.
senses_topics:
|
3561 | word:
iceberg
word_type:
noun
expansion:
iceberg (plural icebergs)
forms:
form:
icebergs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Iceberg (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dutch ijsberg (compound of ijs (“ice”) + berg (“mountain”)), from Middle Dutch ijsberch. First used to describe a glacier as seen at a distance from a ship then used as a term to describe the floating chunks of ice broken off from such glaciers. Cognate to German Eisberg, Danish isbjerg, Norwegian isberg and Swedish isberg.
senses_examples:
text:
The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.
type:
example
text:
He has little to lose: at present he will go down in history, alongside George W. Bush, as a skipper who ignored the looming fiscal iceberg.
ref:
2013, “How Barack Obama can get at least some of his credibility back”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The seaward end of a glacier.
A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf
An aloof person.
An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show, in reference to one-tenth of the volume of an iceberg being visible above water.
senses_topics:
|
3562 | word:
species
word_type:
noun
expansion:
species (countable and uncountable, plural species or (rare, nonstandard) specieses)
forms:
form:
species
tags:
plural
form:
specieses
tags:
nonstandard
plural
rare
wikipedia:
species
etymology_text:
From Latin speciēs (“appearance; quality”), from speciō (“see”) + -iēs suffix signifying abstract noun. Doublet of spice.
senses_examples:
text:
This species of animal is unique to the area.
type:
example
text:
We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water.
ref:
2012 January 24, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
Westerlund News Reporter Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani reached out recently to her viewers with a wartime plea for unity and cooperation among all galactic species.
UPDATED
Her sincerity touched extranet viewers and donations for war relief efforts are pouring in, both to the Alliance and its alien allies.
ref:
2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: War Assets: Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani
type:
quotation
text:
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
ref:
2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
text:
the male species
type:
example
text:
a new species of war
type:
example
text:
What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.
ref:
1871, Richard Holt Hutton, Essays, Theological and Literary
type:
quotation
text:
I cast the species of the Sun onto a sheet of paper through a telescope.
type:
example
text:
There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.
ref:
1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Type or kind. (Compare race.)
A group of plants or animals in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction, usually having similar appearance.
Type or kind. (Compare race.)
A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank.
Type or kind. (Compare race.)
A particular type of atom, molecule, ion or other particle.
Type or kind. (Compare race.)
A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.
Type or kind. (Compare race.)
An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
The image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection.
An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.
Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.
Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Christianity
|
3563 | word:
species
word_type:
noun
expansion:
species
forms:
wikipedia:
species
etymology_text:
From Latin speciēs (“appearance; quality”), from speciō (“see”) + -iēs suffix signifying abstract noun. Doublet of spice.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of specie
senses_topics:
|
3564 | word:
article
word_type:
noun
expansion:
article (plural articles)
forms:
form:
articles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Article (grammar)
Article (publishing)
etymology_text:
From Middle English article, from Old French article, from Latin articulus (“a joint, limb, member, part, division, the article in grammar, a point of time”), from Latin artus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂értus (“that which is fit together; juncture, ordering”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join, fit (together)”). Doublet of articulus.
senses_examples:
text:
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […]. (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
ref:
2012 March 24, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
an article of clothing
type:
example
text:
‘A song called “Freak Like Me” by the Sugababes,’ said Jesse.
‘Just Sugababes, no article,’ the man said, enjoying the stunned reaction on Jesse’s face.
ref:
2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 118
type:
quotation
text:
The Articles of War are a set of regulations[…]to govern the conduct of[…]military[…]forces
type:
example
text:
Each of the chelicerae is composed of two articles, forming a powerful pincer.
type:
example
text:
a shrewd article
type:
example
text:
"You dateless article," stormed his father, leaving Bennett to realise in his laconic way that he was, and probably always would be, a disappointment to Dad.
ref:
2001 August 4, Lynne Walker, “Classical: Musical portrait of the artist as a young man”, in The Independent
type:
quotation
text:
She's a prime article, a devilish good piece, a hell of a goer.
type:
example
text:
[…] who has more opportunities of acquiring the knowledge, than a physician? He is admitted into the dwellings of all ranks of people, and into the innermost parts of them; he sees them by their fireside, at their tables, and in their beds; he sees them at work, and at their recreations; he sees them in health, in sickness, and in the article of death; […]
ref:
1805, Charles Hall, The Effects of Civilisation on the People in European States, Original Preface
text:
each article of time
ref:
1634, William Habington, Castara
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A piece of nonfiction writing such as a story, report, opinion piece, or entry in a newspaper, magazine, journal, encyclopedia, etc.
An object, a member of a group or class.
A part of speech that indicates, specifies and limits a noun (a, an, or the in English). In some languages the article may appear as an ending (e.g. definite article in Swedish) or there may be none (e.g. Russian, Pashto).
A section of a legal document, bylaws, etc. or, in the plural, the entire document seen as a collection of these.
Short for genuine article.
A part or segment of something joined to other parts, or, in combination, forming a structured set.
A person; an individual.
A wench.
Subject matter; concern.
A distinct part.
A precise point in time; a moment.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
3565 | word:
article
word_type:
verb
expansion:
article (third-person singular simple present articles, present participle articling, simple past and past participle articled)
forms:
form:
articles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
participle articling
tags:
present
form:
articled
tags:
participle
past
form:
articled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English article, from Old French article, from Latin articulus (“a joint, limb, member, part, division, the article in grammar, a point of time”), from Latin artus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂értus (“that which is fit together; juncture, ordering”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join, fit (together)”). Doublet of articulus.
senses_examples:
text:
to article an apprentice to a mechanic
type:
example
text:
When the boy left school at Liskeard, he was articled to a lawyer, Mr. Jacobson, at Plymouth, a wealthy man in good practice, first cousin to his mother; but this sort of profession did not at all approve itself to Robert's taste, and he only remained with Mr. Jacobson a few months.
ref:
1876, Sabine Baring-Gould, “Chapter LIV”, in The Vicar of Morwenstow
type:
quotation
text:
After educational training at Hayes Grammar School and Hayes College, Mr. Nokes was articled to a Surveyor and Land Agent in 1885, and, at the expiration of his articles, became a partner in the firm.
ref:
1948 May and June, “G. A. Sekon”, in Railway Magazine, page 145
type:
quotation
text:
[…] if the Captain of any Merchant ship under convoy shall wilfully disobey Signals […] he shall be liable to be articled against in the High Court of Admiralty […]
ref:
1793, Manning of the Navy Act (Statutes of George III 33 c. 66) ¶VIIIhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31970009469807
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bind by articles of apprenticeship.
To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles or accusations.
To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.
senses_topics:
|
3566 | word:
antler
word_type:
noun
expansion:
antler (plural antlers)
forms:
form:
antlers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English auntelere, hauntelere, from Old French antoillier (“antler, horn”), from ante- (“in front of”) + oillier (oil (“eye”) + -ier (a suffix indicating location)), possibly from an unattested Latin *anteocularis (“before the eye”).
senses_examples:
text:
While hiking in the woods, I found an antler from a deer.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A deciduous branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs. They are grown and shed each year. (Compare with horn, which is generally not shed.)
senses_topics:
|
3567 | word:
bombard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bombard (plural bombards)
forms:
form:
bombards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bombard, from Middle French bombarde (“a bombard, mortar, catapult"; also "a bassoon-like musical instrument”), from Latin bombus (“buzzing; booming”).
The modern pronunciation is from modern French bombarde.
senses_examples:
text:
With mines and parallels contracts the space;
Then bids the battering floats his labors crown
And pour their bombard on the shuddering town
ref:
1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
a bassoon-like medieval instrument
a large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle.
A bombardment.
A bombardon.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
3568 | word:
bombard
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bombard (third-person singular simple present bombards, present participle bombarding, simple past and past participle bombarded)
forms:
form:
bombards
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bombarding
tags:
participle
present
form:
bombarded
tags:
participle
past
form:
bombarded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French bombarder, from Middle French bombarde (“a bombard”).
senses_examples:
text:
The enemy's stronghold was bombarded for 3 hours straight.
type:
example
text:
I was bombarded with WhatsApp messages after appearing on the news.
type:
example
text:
Please don't bombard me with questions right now, I'll answer them at the end of the statement.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To continuously attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
To continuously send or direct (at someone)
To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
3569 | word:
temperature
word_type:
noun
expansion:
temperature (countable and uncountable, plural temperatures)
forms:
form:
temperatures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin temperātūra (cf. also French température), from the past participle stem of tempero (“I temper”).
senses_examples:
text:
The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.
type:
example
text:
The temperature in the room dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.
type:
example
text:
The most accurate way to take your temperature is by sticking a thermometer up your butt.
type:
example
text:
Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
ref:
2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.
type:
example
text:
"Aren't you feeling so well this morning?" she asked him anxiously. "Do you think you've got a temperature?"
ref:
1951, Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time
type:
quotation
text:
In consequence, macroscopic amounts of matter in thermal contact with one another tend to be at the same temperature, a fact of sufficient fundamental importance to merit belated designation as the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics.
ref:
2000 September, Clinton D. Stoner, “Inquiries into the Nature of Free Energy and Entropy in Respect to Biochemical Thermodynamics”, in Entropy, volume 2, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 106–141
type:
quotation
text:
But it is both easier and more accurate to take the industry's true temperature at small private gatherings like a conference organized by the Ziff Davis publishing company in northern California last week.
ref:
2005 August 20, Seth Schiesel, “Taking the Temperature of the Creative Body”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Only a strong dose of love will cure / A woman with an angry temperature.
ref:
1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.
A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents.
A parameter that controls the degree of randomness of the output.
The general mood.
The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
|
3570 | word:
quarantine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quarantine (countable and uncountable, plural quarantines)
forms:
form:
quarantines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Cuban Missile Crisis
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Louis IX of France
quarantine
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin quarentena and quarentīna (“40-day period, Lent”) via Middle English quarentine, Norman quarenteine, French quarenteine, and Italian quarantina, via proposed Late Latin *quaranta + -ēna (“forming distributive adjectives”), from Latin quadrāgintā (“four tens, 40”). Doublet of carene and quadragene.
In reference to French politics, calque of French quarantaine after edicts of Louis IX. In reference to a severance of political relations, popularized by the Roosevelt administration's 1937 approach to the Axis powers and the later Kennedy administration's 1962 approach to Cuba during the missile crisis.
senses_examples:
text:
Querentyne is where a man dyeth seisyd of a maner place and other landis where of the wyfe ought to be indowed, than the woman shall hold the maner place by .xl. days within which tyme her dower shalbe to her assyned.
ref:
c. 1523, John Rastell, Exposiciones Terminorum Legum Anglorum, fol. 4v
text:
Quarantain of the King, is a Truce of forty Days appointed by S. Louis; during which it was expressly forbid to take any Revenge of the Relation or Friends of People.
ref:
1728, Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopaedia, "Quarantaine"
text:
Forty days, called the King's quarantain, were allowed the friends or relations of a principal in a private war to grant or find security.
ref:
1818, Alexander Ranken, The History of France, volume IV, page 233
type:
quotation
text:
Now the Question seems to lye thus, where lay the Seeds of the Infection all this while? How came it to stop so long, and not stop any longer? Either the Distemper did not come immediately by Contagion from Body to Body, or if it did, then a Body may be capable to continue infected, without the Disease discovering itself, many Days, nay Weeks together, even not a Quarantine of Days only, but Soixantine, not only 40 Days but 60 Days or longer.
ref:
1722, Daniel Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year, page 235
type:
quotation
text:
From Toulon... Our Gallyes which were upon the point of finishing their Quarantaine, and entering into this Port, have been hindred from it by th'arrival of three others that were out a roaming.
ref:
1649, Moderate Intelligencer, No. 236, p. 2279
text:
Making of all ships coming from thence... to perform their Quarantine (for 30 days as Sir Richard Browne expressed it... contrary to the import of the word; though in the general acceptation, it signifies now the thing, not the time spent in doing it).
ref:
1663 Nov. 26, Samuel Pepys, Diary, Vol. IV, p. 399
text:
This dreadful malady might be annihilated by making all the dogs in Great Britain perform a kind of quarantine, by shutting them up for a certain number of weeks.
ref:
1796, Edward Darwin, Zoonomia, volume II, page 265
type:
quotation
text:
The lepers often sought a voluntary death as the only escape from their perpetual quarantine.
ref:
1859, John Mounteney Jephson et al., Narrative of a Walking Tour in Brittany, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
Formerly great stress was laid on the value of quarantine; all plant imports were grown in a quarantine ground under the supervision of a Government botanist until it was certain that they had no disease.
ref:
1922, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 12th ed., Vol. XXX, p. 925
text:
2. Tsai called on the public not to incite hatred or blame others for the epidemic. She then offered thanks to everyone who has dutifully followed home quarantine and self-health management protocols.
ref:
2020 March 20, Keoni Everington, “Next 14 Days Are Critical for Taiwan's Wuhan Virus Battle: Tsai”, in Taiwan News
type:
quotation
text:
The tourists were put in quarantine to ensure none of them would be able to spread the plague.
type:
example
text:
Now treating Sandwich seems the fittest choice
For Spain, there to condole and to rejoyce:
He meets the French, but to avoid all harms,
Slips into Groine, Embassies bears no Arms.
There let him languish a long Quarrentine,
And ne're to England come, till he be clean.
ref:
1667, John Denham, The Second Advice to a Painter, pages 13–14
type:
quotation
text:
What I wish to put under Quarantine are family events—& all allusion thereto past—present—or to come.
ref:
1816 Nov. 27, Lord Byron, Letter
text:
They bring wood, millet, rye, barley, and a little wheat to the quarantine to barter with the Cossaks for salt.
ref:
1806 April, Reginald Heber, Journal
text:
When a great power establishes diplomatic quarantine against them it is well not to go too far on a course on which they appear to be embarking with a light heart.
ref:
1891 Dec. 16, New York Times, p. 1
text:
President Roosevelt today challenged the effectiveness of a policy of neutrality in keeping the United States at peace and advocated instead a collective ‘quarantine’ of aggressor nations.
ref:
1937 Oct. 6, New York Herald Tribune, p. 1
text:
To halt this offensive buildup, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated. All ships of any kind bound for Cuba from whatever nation or port will, if found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons, be turned back. This quarantine will be extended, if needed, to other types of cargo and carries.
ref:
1962 Oct. 22, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Address to the American People
text:
Also included is Canary, a ‘quarantine’ program for use as a sample to test for a virus by pairing it with new or suspect programs.
ref:
1988 Mar. 21, InfoWorld
text:
At least one expert says... that a quarantine can be futile if the software is infected with a time-activated virus.
ref:
1989 Feb. 2, American Banker, p. 8
text:
If they click on the link then they're added to your approved senders list and their message is moved to your inbox; if they don't, the message stays in quarantine.
ref:
2004 Dec., .Net, No. 131, p. 71
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A period of 40 days, particularly
The 40-day period during which a widow is entitled to remain in her deceased husband's home while any dower is collected and returned.
A period of 40 days, particularly
The 40-day period of isolation required after 1448 at Venice's lazaret to avoid renewed outbreaks of the bubonic plague and identical policies in other locations.
A period of 40 days, particularly
A 40-day period formerly imposed by the French king upon warring nobles during which they were forbidden from exacting revenge or continuing to fight.
A period of 40 days, particularly
A period, instance, or state of isolation from the general public or from native livestock and flora enacted to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.
A place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret.
A blockade of trade, suspension of diplomatic relations, or other action whereby one country seeks to isolate another.
An isolation of one program, drive, computer, etc. from the rest of a computer network to limit the damage from a bug, computer virus, etc..
The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.
senses_topics:
law
government
politics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
3571 | word:
quarantine
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quarantine (third-person singular simple present quarantines, present participle quarantining, simple past and past participle quarantined)
forms:
form:
quarantines
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quarantining
tags:
participle
present
form:
quarantined
tags:
participle
past
form:
quarantined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Cuban Missile Crisis
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Louis IX of France
quarantine
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin quarentena and quarentīna (“40-day period, Lent”) via Middle English quarentine, Norman quarenteine, French quarenteine, and Italian quarantina, via proposed Late Latin *quaranta + -ēna (“forming distributive adjectives”), from Latin quadrāgintā (“four tens, 40”). Doublet of carene and quadragene.
In reference to French politics, calque of French quarantaine after edicts of Louis IX. In reference to a severance of political relations, popularized by the Roosevelt administration's 1937 approach to the Axis powers and the later Kennedy administration's 1962 approach to Cuba during the missile crisis.
senses_examples:
text:
Venice began quarantining incoming ships for 40 days in 1448 to prevent further outbreaks of bubonic plague.
type:
example
text:
We... sent our boat on board a French man of war lying in the bay, with a letter for our consul; captain Murray not wishing to have any communication with the shore, for fear of being quarantined at the next port he went to.
ref:
1803 Feb. 17, Maryland Gazette, Letter
text:
On sanitary grounds Morocco could certainly show better cause for placing a quarantine on Spain than Spain for quarantining Morocco.
ref:
1866 July 26, The Times, p. 10
text:
International travelers must quarantine themselves at their own expense in a designated hotel for 14 days upon arrival.
type:
example
text:
The Mauretania... is expected to ‘quarantine’ at New York at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
ref:
1928 Aug. 7, Daily News, p. 7
text:
She brought her dog home, and that's a big step. Dogs have to quarantine for six months in England.
ref:
1995 May 12, Daily Oklahoman
text:
Australians returning from overseas have been required to quarantine for 14 days since 15 March, with mandatory stays inside hotel rooms enforced since 29 March.
ref:
2020 April 10, The Guardian
text:
It has just been announced that Norfolk, Va., and Holly Springs, Miss., have quarantined against Memphis.
ref:
1879 July 22, The Times, p. 12
text:
J.F.K. "quarantined" Cuba rather than blockading it to avoid needless escalation of the conflict.
type:
example
text:
...where I should be detained, Quarantined, smoaked & vinegard...
ref:
1804 Dec. 20, Washington Irving, Letter
text:
No computer system or even individual PC is safe from a virus unless it is isolated—quarantined, in effect—from all others.
ref:
1988 Jan. 31, Los Angeles Times, p. 1
text:
Did any moral taint hang about me that quarantined my entrance into its circle?
ref:
1850 July 27, Chamber's Edinburgh Journal, p. 49
text:
The parliament of the island... quarantined Great Britain against sending any potatoes into the island.
ref:
c. 1912, E.H. Grubb et al., Potato, page 479
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.
To impose a quarantine, to establish quarantine regulations.
Synonym of isolate more generally.
Synonym of restrict.
senses_topics:
|
3572 | word:
quarantine
word_type:
name
expansion:
quarantine
forms:
wikipedia:
Cuban Missile Crisis
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Louis IX of France
quarantine
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin quarentena and quarentīna (“40-day period, Lent”) via Middle English quarentine, Norman quarenteine, French quarenteine, and Italian quarantina, via proposed Late Latin *quaranta + -ēna (“forming distributive adjectives”), from Latin quadrāgintā (“four tens, 40”). Doublet of carene and quadragene.
In reference to French politics, calque of French quarantaine after edicts of Louis IX. In reference to a severance of political relations, popularized by the Roosevelt administration's 1937 approach to the Axis powers and the later Kennedy administration's 1962 approach to Cuba during the missile crisis.
senses_examples:
text:
By yonde ys a wyldernys of quarentyne,
Wher Cryst wyth fastyng hys body dyd pyne;
In that holy place, as we rede,
The deuyl wold had of stonys bred.
ref:
c. 1470, William Wey, The Itineraries, page 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Quarantine: the Mount of Temptation where Jesus Christ supposedly fasted for 40 days, Jebel Quruntul near Jericho.
senses_topics:
Christianity |
3573 | word:
sun
word_type:
name
expansion:
the sun
forms:
form:
the sun
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sonne, sunne, from Old English sunne, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wen-, oblique of Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). See also Saterland Frisian Sunne, West Frisian sinne, German Low German Sünn, Dutch zon, German Sonne, Icelandic sunna; outside of Germanic, Welsh huan, Sanskrit स्वर् (svar), Avestan 𐬓𐬇𐬧𐬔 (xᵛə̄ṇg)). Related to sol, Sol, Surya, and Helios. More at solar.
senses_examples:
text:
"I suppose I may have leave to do that!" Yes, she could do that, he said, but there was no road to that place; it lay east of the sun and west of the moon, and she could never find her way there.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 233
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The star that the Earth revolves around and from which it receives light and warmth.
senses_topics:
|
3574 | word:
sun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sun (countable and uncountable, plural suns)
forms:
form:
suns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sonne, sunne, from Old English sunne, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wen-, oblique of Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). See also Saterland Frisian Sunne, West Frisian sinne, German Low German Sünn, Dutch zon, German Sonne, Icelandic sunna; outside of Germanic, Welsh huan, Sanskrit स्वर् (svar), Avestan 𐬓𐬇𐬧𐬔 (xᵛə̄ṇg)). Related to sol, Sol, Surya, and Helios. More at solar.
senses_examples:
text:
Because Haestrom's sun has overwhelmed the planet's protective magnetosphere, humans foolhardy enough to venture into geth-controlled Haestrom must exercise extreme caution. Minutes of radiation exposure will overload shields and hours of exposure will kill.
ref:
2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Haestrom Codex entry
type:
quotation
text:
I love these sons of earth every mother's son of them, with their great hearty hearts rushing tumultuously in herds from spectacle to spectacle, as if fearful lest there should not be time between sun and sun to see them all, and the sun does not wait more than in haying-time.
ref:
1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, published 1873, page 357
type:
quotation
text:
You see, the President has five jobs, any one of which would be more than a full-time job for one man; but I have to do all five of them between sun and sun.
ref:
1962, Harry S. Truman, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, page 651
type:
quotation
text:
“Tomorrow at first sun.” Not being much of a morning person, she winced internally. “First sun?” “It is the proper time, when the flowers of the pohoroh first open to the light.”
ref:
1997, Alan Dean Foster, Howling Stones, page 149
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
The light and warmth which is received from the sun; sunshine or sunlight.
Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
Sunrise or sunset.
A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.
A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.
The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
The thirty-first Lenormand card.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences |
3575 | word:
sun
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sun (third-person singular simple present suns, present participle sunning, simple past and past participle sunned)
forms:
form:
suns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sunning
tags:
participle
present
form:
sunned
tags:
participle
past
form:
sunned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sonne, sunne, from Old English sunne, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wen-, oblique of Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). See also Saterland Frisian Sunne, West Frisian sinne, German Low German Sünn, Dutch zon, German Sonne, Icelandic sunna; outside of Germanic, Welsh huan, Sanskrit स्वर् (svar), Avestan 𐬓𐬇𐬧𐬔 (xᵛə̄ṇg)). Related to sol, Sol, Surya, and Helios. More at solar.
senses_examples:
text:
Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs.
type:
example
text:
There were lots of zany antics and we tried not to stare too obviously at the beautiful women toplessly sunning themselves...
ref:
2000, William Laurance, Stinging Trees and Wait-a-Whiles: Confessions of a Rainforest Biologist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun.
To warm or dry in the sunshine.
To be exposed to the sun.
To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
senses_topics:
alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences |
3576 | word:
sun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sun (plural suns or sun)
forms:
form:
suns
tags:
plural
form:
sun
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Japanese 寸 (sun). Doublet of cun.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).
senses_topics:
|
3577 | word:
sun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sun (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of sunn (“the plant”)
senses_topics:
|
3578 | word:
was
word_type:
verb
expansion:
was
forms:
wikipedia:
Was (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English was, from Old English wæs, from Proto-Germanic *was, (compare Scots was, West Frisian was (dated, wie is generally preferred today), Dutch was, Low German was, German war, Swedish var), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂we-h₂wós-e (compare Kamkata-viri vos-, Sanskrit उवास (uvā́sa)), from *h₂wes- (“to reside”), whence also vestal. The paradigm of “to be” has been since the time of Proto-Germanic a synthesis of three originally distinct verb stems. The infinitive form be is from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become”). The forms is and are are both derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”). Lastly, the past forms starting with w- such as was and were are from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to reside”).
senses_examples:
text:
I was castigated and scorned.
type:
example
text:
It was a really humongous slice of cake.
type:
example
text:
I killed my poor father, Tuesday was a week, for doing the like of that.
ref:
1915, John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World, section I
type:
quotation
text:
He saw it clear enough, now that the lordling had pointed it out. “They couldn't have froze. Not if the Wall was weeping. It wasn't cold enough."
ref:
1996 August 1, George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire; 1), HarperCollins, →OCLC, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
There was three of them there.
type:
example
text:
“What happened here, Hadley?” the chief asked. “We was robbed, damn it, we was robbed.”
ref:
2001, Darrel Rachel, The Magnolias Still Bloom, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
When the reflection in the glass that I held to my lips now baby / Revealed the tears that was on my face, yeah
ref:
1968, Etta James, Ellington Jordan, Billy Foster (lyrics and music), “I'd Rather Go Blind”, performed by Etta James
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
first-person singular simple past indicative of be.
third-person singular simple past indicative of be.
Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural.
second-person singular simple past indicative of be; were.
first-person plural simple past indicative of be; were.
third-person plural simple past indicative of be; were.
senses_topics:
|
3579 | word:
available
word_type:
adj
expansion:
available (comparative more available, superlative most available)
forms:
form:
more available
tags:
comparative
form:
most available
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English available, avayllable, avayleable, equivalent of avail + -able.
senses_examples:
text:
We have an available candidate.
type:
example
text:
The list shows the available products in the store.
type:
example
text:
This is an available plea.
type:
example
text:
One thing however, I finally settled upon—and that was, if I ever did meet him that I would shoot him precisely as I would shoot a mad dog. In order to make this plan available, I had […] armed myself with a revolver.
ref:
1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
The different navigations she had to pass through for this purpose were such that only an independent method of propulsion would be available.
ref:
1897, Henry Banroft, Proceedings - Institution of Mechanical Engineers, canal Boat Propulsion
type:
quotation
text:
I have a question for you when you're available.
type:
example
text:
Hi, this is Mark Smith calling. Is your mother available?
type:
example
text:
I asked her if she was available, but she said she had a boyfriend.
type:
example
text:
Van de Velde did not make himself available to journalists. “He wants to rest his mind,” Immers explained.
ref:
2024 July 28, Matthew Futterman, “Steven van de Velde brings yet another moral hazard to the Olympics”, in nytimes.com
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Such as one may avail oneself of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose.
Readily obtainable.
Valid.
Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy to achieve the purpose; availing, effective.
Free to meet someone, speak on the telephone, enter a romantic relationship, or the like.
senses_topics:
law
|
3580 | word:
Czech
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Czech (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Polish Czech, from Czech Čech, ultimately a variation and contraction of Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ (“human”).
senses_examples:
text:
A big beast of the men's field was put through the mangle then dumped out of Wimbledon as Rafael Nadal fell at around 10.06pm to Lukas Rosol, a Czech debutant who will never forget this Thursday evening in south-west London.
ref:
2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to the Czech Republic (Czechia), the Czech people, culture, or language.
senses_topics:
|
3581 | word:
Czech
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Czech (countable and uncountable, plural Czechs)
forms:
form:
Czechs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Polish Czech, from Czech Čech, ultimately a variation and contraction of Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ (“human”).
senses_examples:
text:
By 1963, almost 130,000 Czechs had migrated to this country. They tended to gravitate to the farming communities.
ref:
1964, John F. Kennedy, “Immigration Policy”, in A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from the Czech Republic (Czechia) or of Czech descent.
senses_topics:
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3582 | word:
Czech
word_type:
name
expansion:
Czech
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Polish Czech, from Czech Čech, ultimately a variation and contraction of Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ (“human”).
senses_examples:
text:
She's from Czech, Croatia, or somewhere over there. The ill thing is that we always come together when we're drunk, but half way through our drunken talks, she always gets mad at something and leaves.
ref:
2008, George Stowers, Straight Up, No Sippin': Memoirs of Life and Work Onboard Mega Cruise Ships, page 325
type:
quotation
text:
A whole array of companies and consultants are found travelling to Croatia or Czech or China, to extol the latest virtues of electioneering, perhaps via the UK Westminster Foundation for Democracy, […]
ref:
2009, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, Political Marketing: Principles and Applications, Routledge, page 237
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Slavic language primarily spoken in the Czech Republic.
The Czech Republic (Czechia).
senses_topics:
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3583 | word:
neuter
word_type:
adj
expansion:
neuter (not generally comparable, comparative more neuter, superlative most neuter)
forms:
form:
more neuter
tags:
comparative
form:
most neuter
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English neutre, from Latin neuter, from ne (“not”) + uter (“whether”), a semantic loan from Koine Greek οὐδέτερος (oudéteros); compare English whether and neither.
senses_examples:
text:
This is certain, that in all our Undertakings God will be either our Friend or our Enemy. For Providence never stands neuter […]
ref:
1672, Robert South, “A Sermon Preach’d at Westminster-Abbey, on the Twenty Ninth of May, 1672. Being the Anniversary Festival appointed by Act of Parliament, for the Happy Restoration of King Charles II”, in Twelve Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions, 6th edition, volume 5, London: Jonah Bowyer, published 1727, page 271
type:
quotation
text:
A relay race that does not match teams but integrates the fastest and the slowest in one race against the most neuter of all adversaries — time.
ref:
1973, Nancy Frazier, Myra Sadker, Sexism in school and society
type:
quotation
text:
a neuter noun
type:
example
text:
the neuter definite article
type:
example
text:
a neuter termination
type:
example
text:
the neuter gender
type:
example
text:
In The Cook and the Carpenter, Arnold used the device of a neuter pronoun "na," instead of assigning gender to the characters.
ref:
1982 April 10, Maida Tilchen, “June Arnold Dies of Cancer”, in Gay Community News, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
a neuter verb
type:
example
text:
Rich girls stayed home and got married and then "put out" occasionally, but only as their wifely duty. Prior to the sexual revolution in the 1960s southern belles were the most neuter members of the human race[.]
ref:
2000, Jan Hutson, The Chicken Ranch: The True Story of the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
Intransitive.
Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
Sexless, nonsexual.
Castrated; having had the reproductive organs removed.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
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3584 | word:
neuter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
neuter (plural neuters)
forms:
form:
neuters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English neutre, from Latin neuter, from ne (“not”) + uter (“whether”), a semantic loan from Koine Greek οὐδέτερος (oudéteros); compare English whether and neither.
senses_examples:
text:
But if you should beecome eyther a counterfayt Protestant, or a perverse Papist, or a colde and carelesse newter (which God forbid) the harme could not be expressed which you should do to your native Cuntrie.
ref:
1571, Arthur Golding, “Epistle Dedicatorie”, in The Psalmes of David and others. With M. John Calvins Commentaries
type:
quotation
text:
Make one do, or act (to), fare fare, fare agire, with an accusative when the verb is a neuter, and with a dative when otherwise.
ref:
1820, M. Santagnello, A Dictionary of the Peculiarities of the Italian Language, G. and W. B. Whittaker, page 185
text:
Compound verbs other than those already spoken of whereby neuters are made active, are very rare, as I have already hinted under the head of nouns.
ref:
1847, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Essay the First; On the Kocch, Bódo and Dhimál Tribes, in Three Parts, J. Thomas, page 119
text:
In all the Apachean languages, verbs are divided into two major categories, neuters and actives, each of which may be further divided into intransitives, transitives, and passives.
ref:
1971, Harry Hoijer, “Athapaskan Morphology”, in Jesse O. Sawyer, editor, Studies in American Indian Languages, University of California Press, published 1973, page 130
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
The neuter gender.
A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3585 | word:
neuter
word_type:
verb
expansion:
neuter (third-person singular simple present neuters, present participle neutering, simple past and past participle neutered)
forms:
form:
neuters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
neutering
tags:
participle
present
form:
neutered
tags:
participle
past
form:
neutered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English neutre, from Latin neuter, from ne (“not”) + uter (“whether”), a semantic loan from Koine Greek οὐδέτερος (oudéteros); compare English whether and neither.
senses_examples:
text:
The neutering extends to Believe’s guest stars, with warm-and-fuzzy verses from Ludacris (“I love everything about you / You’re imperfectly perfect”), Big Sean (“I don’t know if this makes sense, but you’re my hallelujah”), Nicki Minaj (who at least squeaks a “bitches” into her verse), and especially Drake, whose desire to hug and kiss the object of his affection on “Right Here” is reminiscent of The Red Hot Chili Peppers on Krusty’s Comeback Special.
ref:
2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
Congress neutered the bill by adding an exception for big corporations.
type:
example
text:
Here wrangling, bitty conflicts neutered change.
ref:
1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
This collusion with the forces of corporate oppression neuters the press, Trump's critics and the Democratic Party.
ref:
2024 July 14, Chris Hedges, “My Thoughts On the Attempted Trump Assassination”, in The Chris Hedges Report
type:
quotation
text:
At their religious services Am Tikva makes all attempts to de-genderize the liturgy by neutering English nouns and pronouns and, when Hebrew is used, by using both masculine and the feminine forms of the language.
ref:
1983 December 3, Warren Blumenfeld, “Am Tikva”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
To rid of sexuality.
To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.
To make grammatically neuter.
senses_topics:
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3586 | word:
argument
word_type:
noun
expansion:
argument (countable and uncountable, plural arguments)
forms:
form:
arguments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English argument, from Anglo-Norman and Old French arguement, from Latin argūmentum (“argument (for a position); evidence, proof; point, theme; thesis, topic; plot (in theatre)”), from arguere + -mentum (suffix indicating the instrument, medium, or result of something). Arguere is the present active infinitive of arguō (“to argue, assert, declare; to make clear, prove, show; to accuse, charge with, reprove; to blame, censure; to denounce as false”), either ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ- (“silver, white; glittering”), or from Hittite [script needed] (arkuwā(i)-, “to make a plea, state one’s case”). The English word is analysable as argue + -ment. Doublet of argumentum.
Displaced native Old English racu and ġeflit.
senses_examples:
text:
Consider the argument: / 15) I am hungry; therefore I am hungry. / Intuitively this should count as valid. But suppose we thought of the components of arguments as sentences, and suppose we imagine the context shifting between the utterance of the premise and the utterance of the conclusion. Suppose you are hungry and utter the premise, and I am not hungry and utter the conclusion. Then we would have a true premise and a false conclusion, so the argument would not be valid. Clearly we need to avoid such problems, and introducing the notion of a proposition, in the style of this section, is one way of doing so.
ref:
2001, Mark Sainsbury, “Validity”, in Logical Forms: An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Blackwell Publishing, § 8, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
In ‘The Critic of Arguments’ (1892), [Charles Sanders] Peirce adopts a notion that is even closer to that of a propositional function. There he develops the concept of the ‘rhema’. He says the rhema is like a relative term, but it is not a term. It contains a copula, that is, when joined to the correct number of arguments it produces an assertion. For example, ‘__ is bought by __ from __ for __’ is a four-place rhema. Applying it to four objects a, b, c, and d produces the assertion that a is bought by b from c for d[…].
ref:
2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Functions”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, fall 2011 edition, archived from the original on 2020-08-07
type:
quotation
text:
Meanwhile, the authoritarianism, which has turned left-liberalism into a movement for sneaks and prudes, was always going to play into the hands of the right. Free citizens have stopped listening to those who respond to the challenge of argument by screaming for the police to arrest the politically incorrect or for universities to ban speakers who depart from leftish orthodoxy.
ref:
2016 October 2, Nick Cohen, “Liberal Guilt Won’t Fight Nationalism”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 195, numbers 17 (30 September – 6 October 2016), London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
The neighbours got into an argument about the branches of the trees that extended over the fence.
type:
example
text:
Steve got in a physical argument with his neighbor and came away with a black eye.
type:
example
text:
While biking home, he got in an argument with the pavement.
type:
example
text:
D5131 has received extensive cab damage, having been in an argument with Class 37 D6855 at Inverness in August 1971 - one of two accidents that occurred there on August 20.
ref:
2022 January 26, John Crosse, “When the tide turned to a safer railway...”, in RAIL, number 949, page 52, photo caption
type:
quotation
text:
In numerous works over the past two decades, beginning with the pioneering work of Gruber (1965), Fillmore (1968a), and Jackendoff (1972), it has been argued that each Argument (i.e. Subject or Complement) of a Predicate bears a particular thematic role (alias theta-role, or θ-role to its Predicate), and that the set of thematic functions which Arguments can fulfil are drawn from a highly restricted, finite, universal set.
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, “The Lexicon”, in Transformational Grammar: A First Course (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, published 1999, section 7.10 (Thematic Relations), pages 372–373
type:
quotation
text:
The altitude is the argument of the refraction.
type:
example
text:
Parameters are like labelled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks.
type:
example
text:
The abstract, or argument of the piece, is shortly as follows.
The passage does not appear in the original review published in the Edinburgh Review (February 1822), volume XXXVI, issue LXXII, pages 413–452.
ref:
1844, Francis Jeffrey, “Sardanapalus, a Tragedy. The Two Foscari, a Tragedy. Cain, a Mystery. By Lord Byron. 8vo. pp. 440. Murray, London: 1822. [book review]”, in Contributions to the Edinburgh Review. […], 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] [Andrew Spottiswoode] for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, part III (Poetry), page 357
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
A process of reasoning; argumentation.
An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves.
A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
Any dispute, altercation, or collision.
Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
The independent variable of a function.
The phase of a complex number.
A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.
A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
A matter in question; a business in hand.
The subject matter of an artistic representation, discourse, or writing; a theme or topic.
Evidence, proof; (countable) an item of such evidence or proof.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
astronomy
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
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3587 | word:
argument
word_type:
verb
expansion:
argument (third-person singular simple present arguments, present participle argumenting, simple past and past participle argumented)
forms:
form:
arguments
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
argumenting
tags:
participle
present
form:
argumented
tags:
participle
past
form:
argumented
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
argument
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The obsolete senses are derived from Middle English argumenten (“to argue, discuss; to consider, reflect”), from Old French argumenter (“to argue”), from Latin argūmentārī, the present active infinitive of argūmentor (“to adduce arguments or proof, prove, reason; to adduce (something) as argument or proof; to conclude”), from argūmentum (“argument (for a position); evidence, proof; point, theme; thesis, topic; plot (in theatre)”) (see further at etymology 1) + -or (the first-person singular present passive indicative of -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).
The current sense is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
Both kneeling, and all the reſt of the Popiſh Ceremonies, may well be compared to the Brazen Serpent. […] I. Rainoldes [i.e., John Rainolds] argumenteth, from Hezekiah his breaking downe of the Brazen Serpent, to the plucking downe of the ſigne of the Croſſe.
ref:
1637, [George Gillespie], “That the Ceremonies are Unlawfull, because They are Monuments of By-past Idolatry, […]”, in A Dispvte against the English-Popish Ceremonies Obtrvded vpon the Chvrch of Scotland. […], [Leiden]: [ […] W. Christiaens], →OCLC, 3rd part (Against the Lavvfulnesse of the Ceremonies), section 15, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
[…] And Lord Lanſdown, in his Preface to the Britiſh Enchanters, exclaims againſt that Species of Dramatic Dialogue, which (inſtead of being free, natural, and eaſy, as Converſation ſhould be) is preciſe, or formal, argumenting pro and con, like Diſputants in a School; […]
ref:
[1762], attributed to Thomas Augustine Arne, “Preface”, in Artaxerxes. An English Opera. […], London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
But, can this be alleged of him who has oft been heard to speak of faith and of works together—and who, after argumenting the utter worthlessness of the latter, has confined most rigidly to the former all of power and of efficacy that there is in the business of salvation?
ref:
a. 1848, Thomas Chalmers, “Introductory Essay to a Treatise on the Faith and Influence of the Gospel. By the Rev. Archibald Hall.”, in Miscellanies; Embracing Reviews, Essays, and Addresses, New York, N.Y.: Robert Carter & Brothers, […], published 1851, →OCLC, page 416
type:
quotation
text:
Hence, domestic potato marketing cannot be argumented in such fashion.
ref:
1983, Gregory J. Scott, Marketing Bhutan’s Potatoes: Present Patterns and Future Prospects, Lima, Peru: International Potato Center, →OCLC, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
It may be argumented that many elderly persons stay at home and do not even try to use a ticket machine.
ref:
1993, Andreas Gourmelon, “A Method to Analyse the Strain of Memory of Elderly Persons Working with Information Technologies”, in E. Ballabio, I. Placencia-Porrero, R. Puig de la Bellacasa, editors, Rehabilitation Technology: Strategies for the European Union: […] (Technology and Informatics; 9), Amsterdam, Oxford, Oxfordshire: IOS Press, →ISSN, page 211
type:
quotation
text:
This was first enunciated by Loiseau et al. (1967) when he argumented that RE 'does not exist' in clinical practice, referring to its pure, typical form.
ref:
1999, Bernd A. Neubauer, Ulrich Stephani, Hermann Doose, “The Genetics of Rolandic Epilepsy and Related Conditions: Multifactorial Inheritance with a Major Gene Effect”, in S[amuel] F[rank] Berkovic, P. Genton, E. Hirsch, F. Picard, editors, Genetics of Focal Epilepsies: Clinical Aspects and Molecular Biology (Current Problems in Epilepsy; 13), London: John Libbey & Company, →ISSN, part II (The Idiopathic Age-related Focal Epilepsies), page 57
type:
quotation
text:
The settlement data do in fact not support the Dutch Model, and it is argumented that the ¹⁴C-evidence for the model is absent as well.
ref:
2012, Harry Fokkens, “Background to Dutch Beakers: A Critical Review of the Dutch Model”, in Harry Fokkens, Franco Nicolis, editors, Background to Beakers: Inquiries into Regional Cultural Backgrounds of the Bell Beaker Complex, Leiden: Sidestone Press, abstract, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
Although it is argumented that organizational learning is based on individual learning (Song et al., 2008), the insights from this study are not generalizable for business-to-business markets.
ref:
2013, Daniel Gurski, “Conclusion”, in Customer Experiences Affect Customer Loyalty: An Empirical Investigation of the Starbucks Experience Using Structural Equation Modeling, Hamburg: Anchor Compact, Anchor Academic Publishing, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
Albeit that it apperteneth to the apoſtolis, be the puiſtoun of God to tak ordour in all materis off debait cõcernyng ye faith, & ſpecialie to iterprete ye ſcripturis, as yat quhilkis had yͤ ſpreit of god, & wer yͤ trew kirk: It argumẽtis [argumentis] not yat vtheris, quha hes ꝯuenit [conuenit] ſenſyne in generale ꝯſales [consales] had the ſpreit of GOD, or wer the trew kirk: […]
ref:
1558, Quintine Kennedy [i.e., Quintin Kennedy], chapter 5, in Ane Compendius Tractiue Conforme to the Scripturis of Almychtie God, Ressoun, and Authoritie, […], [Edinburgh]: [J. Scot], →OCLC, signature C.ii.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put forward as an argument; to argue.
To adduce evidence, to provide proof.
senses_topics:
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3588 | word:
concrete
word_type:
adj
expansion:
concrete (comparative concreter, superlative concretest)
forms:
form:
concreter
tags:
comparative
form:
concretest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
concrete (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin concrētus, past participle of concrescō (to curdle) from con- (with, together) + crescō (to grow, rise).
senses_examples:
text:
Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that Bigfoot exists.
type:
example
text:
Once arrested, I realized that handcuffs are concrete, even if my concept of what is legal wasn't.
type:
example
text:
l am perplexed by the superior importance which Dr, Pratt attributes to abstract trueness over concrete verifiability in an idea, and I wish that he might be moved to explain.
ref:
1909, William James, The Meaning of Truth: A Sequel to 'Pragmatism', London […]: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 173
type:
quotation
text:
That fact I think should be leading us to explore again what our tradition has always said, that militarization is not good for us as it is not good for the rest of humanity either, and we ought to be examining what in this generation that means in the toughest, realest, concretest form, what it means for us to be struggling toward.
ref:
1978, Jerry V. Diller, editor, Ancient Roots and Modern Meanings: A Contemporary Reader in Jewish Identity, New York, N.Y.: Bloch Publishing Company, page 244
type:
quotation
text:
The secretary general went on to express his concern with recent Israeli announcements to expand settlements in the occupied lands, urging them to: stop the demolitions of Palestinian homes and confiscation of Palestinian lands, address the humanitarian situation in Gaza and to take concrete steps to improve the daily lives of the Palestinian people. He also noted that all of these behaviours made more difficult the achievement of an Israel-Palestinian peace.
ref:
2016 February 6, James Zogby, “Israel's prickliness blocks the long quest for peace”, in The National, archived from the original on 2022-01-20
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Thaler challenged the decision in federal court, arguing that human authorship is not a concrete legal requirement and allowing AI copyrights would be in line with copyright's purpose as outlined in the U.S. constitution to "promote the progress of science and useful arts."
ref:
2023 August 21, Blake Brittain, “AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law, court rules”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-23
type:
quotation
text:
He will be occupied during his whole life with a study not of ideas apart from their concrete embodiment, not of things concrete apart from their inward significance, but with a study of expression, — expression as seen in the countenance of external nature, expression in Greek statue, mediæval cathedral, Renaissance altar-piece, expression in the ritual of various religions, and in the visible bearing of various types of manhood, in various exponents of tradition, of thought, and of faith.
ref:
1902 July, Edward Dowden, “Walter Pater”, in The Atlantic, volume 90, number 537, Boston, M.A., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-01, page 113, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
While everyone else offered thoughts and prayers, she made a concrete proposal to help.
type:
example
text:
concrete ideas
type:
example
text:
The environments that hemmed in their isolation and the other human beings threatening it were certainly set down in the concretest detail; there is no question of their reality; yet at the center of most of Conrad's novels and stories is the solitary man fighting against what is outside him.
ref:
1954, Walter Allen, The English Novel: A Short Critical History, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., page 370
type:
quotation
text:
The office building had concrete flower boxes out front.
type:
example
text:
The reason why this wisdom so strengthens the wise, even more then many mighty men, so that one wise man more preserves the City then many strong men; it seems to be, because Wisdom both originally and formally, is concrete with power and might: and therefore whatsoever strength can do alone, that also can Wisdom do & more.
ref:
1659, Robert Gell, An Essay Toward the Amendment of the Last English-Translation of the Bible […], page 765
type:
quotation
text:
And therefore by analogy with all other liquors and concretions, the form of the Chaos, whether liquid or concrete, could not be the ſame with that of the preſent Earth, or like it: And conſequently, that form of the firſt or primigenial Earth which riſe immediately out of the Chaos, was not the ſame, nor like to that of the preſent Earth.
ref:
1684, Thomas Burnet, chapter IV, in The Theory Of The Earth: […], Book I, London: […] R. Norton, for Walter Kettilby, […], page 51
type:
quotation
text:
The oily baſis of this ammoniacal ſoap, ſeparated by acids, is deſcribed as a concrete ſubſtance, of a greyiſh yellow colour, and ſomewhat more fuſible than wax; combined with fixed or volatile alkali it forms, we are told, a firm ſoap.
ref:
1793 September, “Review of New Publications”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume LXIII, number 3, London: […] John Nichols […], Part II, page 828, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The natives distil a kind of arrack from the flowers, which are also eaten raw. The seeds, too, yield a concrete oil, by expression, used for lamps, and occasionally to fry withal.
ref:
c. 1848, J[oseph] D[alton] Hooker, “Extracts from the Private Letters of Dr. J. D. Hooker, written during a Botanical Mission to India”, in William Jackson Hooker, editor, Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, published 1849, →OCLC, page 42
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Real, actual, tangible.
Analogous to the categories of algebraic objects which category theory was created to generalize, in the sense of having objects which can be thought of as sets equipped with some additional structure. Formally, equipped with a faithful functor to the category of sets.
Real, actual, tangible.
Equipped with a faithful functor to X (called a base category), in which case C is called a concrete category over X.
Real, actual, tangible.
Being or applying to actual things, rather than abstract qualities or categories.
Particular, specific, rather than general.
Made of concrete (building material).
Made up of separate parts; composite.
Not liquid or fluid; solid.
senses_topics:
category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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3589 | word:
concrete
word_type:
noun
expansion:
concrete (countable and uncountable, plural concretes)
forms:
form:
concretes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
concrete
concrete (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin concrētus, past participle of concrescō (to curdle) from con- (with, together) + crescō (to grow, rise).
senses_examples:
text:
The road was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs.
type:
example
text:
Within hours of the deadly van attack on April 23, 2018, the city installed a series of thigh-high concrete barriers around Union Station and other bustling spots in downtown Toronto.
ref:
2022 October 7, Ben Mussett, “'As ugly as ugly can be': Why are there still temporary barriers around Union Station four years later?”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, ON: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-26
type:
quotation
text:
Whence follows, that the Abſtract Terms, [Entity] or [Eſſence] do properly ſignify [A Capacity of Being.] Tho' Entity is often us'd as a Concrete for the Thing it ſelf.
ref:
1697, J[ohn] S[ergeant], Solid Philosophy Asserted Against the Fancies of the Ideists: […], London: […] Roger Clavil […] Abel Roper […] Thomas Metcalf, […], page 91
type:
quotation
text:
Conceptualization is man's method of organizing sensory material. To form a concept, one isolates two or more similar concretes from the rest of one's perceptual field, and integrates them into a single mental unit, symbolized by a word.
ref:
1982, Leonard Peikoff, The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America, New York, N.Y.: Stein and Day/Publishers, page 331
type:
quotation
text:
With regard to the physical domain, concretes are as a rule perceived through the senses.
ref:
1990, Avi Sion, Future Logic, page 344
type:
quotation
text:
However, how can such a structure of concretes and abstracts be made evident, which after all means that knowledge always aims at the concrete, the unprecedented, the irreducibly dissimilar, although cognition always happens in developing similarity through abstraction?
ref:
1997, Joseph A. Bracken, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, editors, Trinity in Process: A Relational Theology of God, New York, N.Y.: Continuum, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
On the right-hand sides we have sentences asserting that an equivalence relation holds between concretes—that is, that they are identical in some respect.
ref:
2009, Alan Musgrave, “Pleonastic Platonism”, in Heather Dyke, editor, From Truth to Reality: New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, pages 79–80
type:
quotation
text:
When Nudger and Claudia were finished eating they drove to the Ted Drewes frozen custard stand on Chippewa and stood in line for a couple of chocolate chip concretes. Drewes's concretes were delicious custard concoctions so thick that before the kids working behind the counter handed them to customers, they turned the cups upside down to demonstrate that the contents wouldn't pour out.
ref:
1990, John Lutz, Diamond Eyes, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, page 170
type:
quotation
text:
Paradoxically richer and yet lighter than ice cream, frozen custard is softly served, and at Curly's you can have your I vanilla or chocolate flavor custard "concrete" style, with your choice of a rainbow of candy and fruit toppings whipped in.
ref:
2013, Jonanna Widner, Dallas & Fort Worth (Moon Handbooks), Berkeley, C.A.: Avalon Travel, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
A concrete has some distinct differences from a milkshake, specifically, the custard base mixture, the final texture, and the mix-ins. Technically, the common ice cream you buy at the store and use in a regular milkshake is made from a custard base. A custard is dairy thickened with the help of heated whole eggs or egg yolks, and a concrete uses a custard base that has a higher ratio of egg yolks in the recipe than the average ice cream.
ref:
2023 May 11, Allie Chanthorn Reinmann, “The Difference Between Milkshakes and Concretes (and How to Make Them)”, in Lifehacker, archived from the original on 2023-06-08
type:
quotation
text:
Most concretes contain about 50 per cent wax, 50 per cent volatile oil, such as jasmine; in rare cases, as with ylang ylang, the concrete is liquid and contains about 80 per cent essential oil, 20 per cent wax. The advantage of concretes is that they are more stable and concentrated than pure essential oils.
ref:
1992, Julia Lawless, The Encyclopedia of Essential Oils: A Complete Guide to the Use of Aromatics in Aromatheraapy, Herbalism, Health & Well-Being, Shaftesbury, Dorset, […]: Element, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
Monsieur Roca held another concrete under my nose and asked if it reminded me of tea. I breathed in a refreshing green note of verbena, a smell that was so quintessentially English that I felt suddenly nostalgic. It was a daffodil scent; it symbolized spring and the hope that spring always brings. And finally he held out the mimosa concrete for me. As I breathed in its heady aroma I forgot all about the noxious fumes I'd inhaled as I'd walked towards the Robertet factory.
ref:
2007, Celia Lyttelton, The Scent Trail: An Olfactory Odyssey, London […]: Bantam Books, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
Concretes, the waxy extracts produced by solvent extraction, were first introduced by the house of Roure, Bertrand Fils in Grasse, in 1873, and in 1888 Joseph Robert succeeded in developing a large-scale process for the solvent extraction of fragrant plants. This process was brought into commercial production two years later.
ref:
2008, David G. Williams, The Chemistry of Essential Oils: An Introduction for Aromatherapists, Beauticians, Retailers and Students, second edition, Port Washington, N.Y., Weymouth, Dorset: Micelle Press, page 226
type:
quotation
text:
Once the material is exhausted, the solvent containing the dissolved essential oil is distilled. This process removes the solvent, leaving behind the extracted matter, which is known as a concrete. The concrete is processed further to produce an absolute for use in perfumery.
ref:
2013, Karen Gilbert, Perfume: The Art and Craft of Fragrance, London, New York, N.Y.: CICO Books, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
The concrete is made by ingredients which are to remove the feculencies from the cane-juice as soon as expressed from the mill and which check fermentation; indeed juice may be kept for a week after the canes have been gruond, without turning acid, when these ingredients have been used.
ref:
1848, The Sugar Question: […], Part II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., page 115
type:
quotation
text:
Also molasses in the definition refers only to the product separated from the various sugar concretes specified in the purification of these raw sugars, while in trade terms what is defined under sugar cane syrup in the standards is often called molasses, the term "open kettle molasses" being used in this connection to indicate that the cane juice has been simply boiled down in open kettles.
ref:
1910 August 18, Edward W[iley] Duckwall, “Semi-Monthly Report of National Canners' Laboratory”, in The Canner and Dried Fruit Packer, volume XXXI, number 6, Chicago, I.L.: The Canner Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
In some areas of the Far East, for example, factories producing sugar concrete may process as little as one ton of sugar cane per day and a total of not over 100 tons of sugar cane per year. From this we go to the other extreme where factories in the West Indies and Mexico process as much as 20,000 tons of sugar cane per day and 2 to 3 million tons of sugar cane per year.
ref:
1959, An Industrial Waste Guide to the Cane Sugar Industry, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Maple sugar is crystallized from the concentrated sap of maple. Maple concrete can be purchased and water added to make maple syrup.
ref:
1975, Lendal H[enry] Kotschevar, Quantity Food Purchasing, second edition, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, page 352
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.
A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.
Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
Any solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particle; a compound substance, a concretion.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
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3590 | word:
concrete
word_type:
verb
expansion:
concrete (third-person singular simple present concretes, present participle concreting, simple past and past participle concreted)
forms:
form:
concretes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
concreting
tags:
participle
present
form:
concreted
tags:
participle
past
form:
concreted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
concrete (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin concrētus, past participle of concrescō (to curdle) from con- (with, together) + crescō (to grow, rise).
senses_examples:
text:
I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.
type:
example
text:
In odd moments David had made an estimate on the cost of shooting down the menace in the eastern tunnel drifting and concreting the gash which would be left by the blasting out of the fissure material.
ref:
1919, Francis Lynde, David Vallory, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 322
type:
quotation
text:
At first they could not remember anything out of the ordinary, and then the farmer's wife remarked that they had changed the pattern of the milking parlour by concreting the area where the cows were waiting.
ref:
1985, Reshad Feild, Here to Heal, Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element Books, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
Just so economics has concreted the concept of capital. The law needs a term for the material and quasi-material objects of property.
ref:
1936, C. Reinold Noyes, The Institution of Property, New York, N.Y., Toronto, Ont., London: Longmans, Green and Co.; Humphrey Milford, page 536
type:
quotation
text:
It is only such a logos that can concrete the concrete and make reality real.
ref:
1940, Kurt Riezler, Physics and Reality: […], New Haven, C.T.: Yale University Press, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
At three years old, her mother observed something come from her, as she walked across the room, which, when examined, was found to be fat in a liquid state, which concreted when cold.
ref:
1813, Everard Home, “On the Formation of Fat in the Intestines of living Animals”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, London: […] W[illiam] Bulmer and Co. […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 152
type:
quotation
text:
The mastic which concretes on the stem is called mastic in the tear, while that which falls to the earth constitutes common mastic.
ref:
1840, Jonathan Pereira, “Pista'cia Lentis'cus, Linn. L. E. D.—The Mastic or Lentisk Tree.”, in The Elements of Materia Medica; […], Part II, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 1183
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).
To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real).
To unite or coalesce into a solid mass.
senses_topics:
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3591 | word:
homophone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
homophone (plural homophones)
forms:
form:
homophones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French homophone.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: homograph (can be coinstantial)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.
A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
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3592 | word:
stand
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stand (third-person singular simple present stands, present participle standing, simple past stood, past participle stood or (obsolete) standen or (nonstandard) stand)
forms:
form:
stands
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
standing
tags:
participle
present
form:
stood
tags:
past
form:
stood
tags:
participle
past
form:
standen
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
stand
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
stand
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Stand
etymology_text:
From Middle English standen, stonden (verb) and stand, stond (noun, from the verb), from Old English standan (“to stand, occupy a place”), from Proto-West Germanic *standan, from Proto-Germanic *standaną (“to stand”), from Pre-Germanic *sth₂-n-t-´, an innovative extended n-infixed form of Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.
cognates
Cognate with Scots stand (“to stand”), Saterland Frisian stounde (“to stand”), West Frisian stean (“to stand”), dialectal German standen (“to stand”), Danish stande (“to stand”), Swedish stånda (“to stand”), Norwegian standa (“to stand”), Faroese standa (“to stand”), Icelandic standa (“to stand”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (standan), Russian стоя́ть (stojátʹ, “to stand”). Also from *steh₂-: Irish seas, Latin stare, Lithuanian stóti, Old Church Slavonic стояти (stojati), Albanian shtoj (“to increase”), Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to put”), Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (hištaⁱti), Sanskrit तिष्ठति (tiṣṭhati). From the related Proto-Germanic *stāną (“to stand”): West Frisian stean, Dutch staan, German stehen, Danish stå.
senses_examples:
text:
Here I stand, wondering what to do next.
type:
example
text:
At one time a "standard test" for carriage riding was to stand a pencil on end on the compartment floor, or to measure how long it was possible to stand on one leg without touching the corridor walls; […]
ref:
1961 February, R. K. Evans, “The role of research on British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.
type:
example
text:
Do not leave your car standing in the road.
type:
example
text:
He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.
type:
example
text:
At one time a "standard test" for carriage riding was to stand a pencil on end on the compartment floor, or to measure how long it was possible to stand on one leg without touching the corridor walls; [...].
ref:
1961 February, R. K. Evans, “The role of research on British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
Paris stands on the Seine.
type:
example
text:
The chapel ſtands on the South ſide of the ſquare, near the governor’s houſe.
ref:
1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, volume 2, book 2, chapter 7, 6
type:
quotation
text:
Las Vegas police say the number of people injured now stands at 515.
ref:
2017 October 2, "Las Vegas shooting: At least 58 dead at Mandalay Bay Hotel", in bbc.com, BBC
text:
now my heart beginneth to melt within me being wounded (with that the tears stood in his eyes) to see the faces of some here present, whom J most earnestly love, and now must depart from with shame […]
ref:
1651, Francis Bacon, “Sir Jervas his Confession”, in A True and Historical Relation of the Poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, London: John Benson & John Playford, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
He stands to get a good price for the house.
type:
example
text:
I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions.
type:
example
text:
I can’t stand him.
type:
example
text:
The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.
type:
example
text:
He is standing for election to the local council.
type:
example
text:
He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.
ref:
1678, Izaak Walton, The Life of Robert Sanderson
type:
quotation
text:
What I said yesterday still stands.
type:
example
text:
"Kim, Jack, and I will stand you guys," Jimmie Burdette said. / "We'll smear you!" laughed Ron.
ref:
1957, Matt Christopher, chapter 7, in Basketball Sparkplug
type:
quotation
text:
The game stopped while sides were sorted out. Andy did the sorting. "Okay," he said. "Jimmy is coming out. He and Gaston and Ike and me will stand you guys."
ref:
c. 1973, R. J. Childerhose, Hockey Fever in Goganne Falls, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
"Hey, Louis," Dameon shouted. "Do you want to play kickball?" ¶ ""All right," said Louis. "Ron and I will both play." […] "Ron and I will stand everybody!" Louis announced.
ref:
1978, Louis Sachar, chapter 21, in Sideways Stories from Wayside School, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
to stand a round of drinks
type:
example
text:
to stand a treat
type:
example
text:
to stand bail (security in respect of an arrested person)
type:
example
text:
Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
type:
example
text:
To repaire his defects, hee stood for the coast of Calabria, but hearing there was six or seven Galleyes at Mesina hee departed thence for Malta[…].
ref:
1630, John Smith, True Travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 40
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To position or be positioned physically:
To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
To position or be positioned physically:
To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
To position or be positioned physically:
To remain motionless.
To position or be positioned physically:
To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
To position or be positioned physically:
To place in an upright or standing position.
To position or be positioned physically:
To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
To position or be positioned physically:
To measure when erect on the feet.
To position or be positioned physically:
To be present, to have welled up.
To position or be positioned mentally:
To be positioned to gain or lose.
To position or be positioned mentally:
To tolerate.
To position or be positioned mentally:
To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
To position or be positioned mentally:
To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
To position or be positioned mentally:
To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
To position or be positioned socially:
To act as an umpire.
To position or be positioned socially:
To undergo; withstand; hold up.
To position or be positioned socially:
To be a candidate (in an election).
To position or be positioned socially:
To remain valid.
To position or be positioned socially:
To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
To position or be positioned socially:
To cover the expense of; to pay for.
To position or be positioned socially:
To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
To position or be positioned socially:
To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
To position or be positioned socially:
To appear in court.
Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
To remain without ruin or injury.
To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
nautical
transport
card-games
games |
3593 | word:
stand
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stand (plural stands)
forms:
form:
stands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Stand
etymology_text:
From Middle English standen, stonden (verb) and stand, stond (noun, from the verb), from Old English standan (“to stand, occupy a place”), from Proto-West Germanic *standan, from Proto-Germanic *standaną (“to stand”), from Pre-Germanic *sth₂-n-t-´, an innovative extended n-infixed form of Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.
cognates
Cognate with Scots stand (“to stand”), Saterland Frisian stounde (“to stand”), West Frisian stean (“to stand”), dialectal German standen (“to stand”), Danish stande (“to stand”), Swedish stånda (“to stand”), Norwegian standa (“to stand”), Faroese standa (“to stand”), Icelandic standa (“to stand”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (standan), Russian стоя́ть (stojátʹ, “to stand”). Also from *steh₂-: Irish seas, Latin stare, Lithuanian stóti, Old Church Slavonic стояти (stojati), Albanian shtoj (“to increase”), Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to put”), Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (hištaⁱti), Sanskrit तिष्ठति (tiṣṭhati). From the related Proto-Germanic *stāną (“to stand”): West Frisian stean, Dutch staan, German stehen, Danish stå.
senses_examples:
text:
I took my stand upon an eminence […] to look into their several ladings.
ref:
October 2, 1712, Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 499
text:
The Commander says we will make our stand here.
type:
example
text:
There are also a growing number of lesbians in prison who are out about being lesbian and that stand in and of itself is much stronger than being out on the outside. These women are in much greater danger.
ref:
1991 December 1, Rebecca Levine, Judy Greenspan, “A Great Need”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.
type:
example
text:
They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees. They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.
type:
example
text:
He set the music upon the stand and began to play. an umbrella stand; a hat-stand
type:
example
text:
Whilst I nipped out to get the booze Eddie would ease the large bread stand at the far end of the shop out from the counter so as to leave a gap behind, big enouh to take the basket. I would streak into the shop like a whippet and be behind the bread stand before you could blink.
ref:
2009, B.O.B Wild, The Dogs of War, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
She took the stand and quietly answered questions.
type:
example
text:
Shortly after Ellison started at Alameda around fall 2018 as a trader, she learned that the company was financially far sicker than she had known, she said on the stand.
ref:
2023 October 11, Victoria Bekiempis, “Bankman-Fried’s ex-girlfriend to take stand again after day of dramatic testimony”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
When a member has failed to comply with his bargains the fact is announced from one of the stands, […]
ref:
1923, Julius E. Day, The Stockbroker's Office: Organisation, Management and Accounts, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
Just as that clock is striking now, the two waiters appear on the stands and take off their hats, as if to a corpse.
ref:
1934, Frances Cosgrove, Scenes for Student Actors: Dramatic Selections from New Plays, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.
type:
example
text:
Pernambuco is a coastal wood which grows in maintained stands in Brazil.
ref:
2000, James Beament, The Violin Explained: Components, Mechanism, and Sound, page 159
type:
quotation
text:
One of the later school of the Grecians, examineth the matter, and is at a stand, to think what should be in it, that men should love lies; where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie’s sake.
ref:
1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Truth”, in Essays
type:
quotation
text:
Antonia's patience now was at a stand—
"Come, come, 't is no time now for fooling there,"
She whispered[…]
ref:
1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.168
type:
quotation
text:
a taxi stand
type:
example
text:
a good, bad, or convenient stand for business
type:
example
text:
The end of the opening period was relatively quite [sic] as Vassiljev's desperate shot from well outside the penalty area flew into the stand housing the Irish supporters and then Ward's ctoss [sic] was gathered by goalkeeper Pareiko.
ref:
2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport
type:
quotation
text:
England wrapped up a five-wicket victory in the first Test as a stand of 132 between Alastair Cook and Ian Bell saw off an early West Indies charge.
ref:
2012 May 21, Tom Fordyce, “England v West Indies: Hosts cruise home in Lord's Test”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.
ref:
1927, Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld, Paragon House, published 1990, page 170
type:
quotation
text:
to be at a stand what to do
type:
example
text:
The cost of the printing alone will average $2 a 'stand.' The sheets are about 28x42 inches and are in four colors, which means they must go through the process four times.
ref:
1900, Marketing Communications, volume 30, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
Crew of 14 billers and a four-man brigade will be 10 days ahead and will use all special paper including new jungle and animal designs being prepared by Enquirer Printing Company.
New this season will be a 20-sheet poster depicting 21 K-M elephants parading to local Chevrolet agencies. Deal calls for use of the 20-sheet on poster panels where the auto agency has space allotment. Smaller versions of the same art also will be used.
Circulation of Kelly-Miller heralds, which last season averaged between 5,000 and 6,000 copies per stand, will be in for one of the greatest boosts this year.
ref:
1951 February 24, Billboard, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of standing.
A defensive position or effort.
A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
A period of performance in a given location or venue.
A device to hold something upright or aloft.
The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
Short for tavern stand (“a roadside inn”).
Grandstand. (often in the plural)
A partnership.
A single set, as of arms.
Rank; post; station; standing.
A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
A location or position where one may stand.
An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
A type of psychically created being in the anime and manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, named for the fact that they appear to 'stand' next to their user.
senses_topics:
business
forestry
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
military
politics
war
advertising
business
marketing
fiction
literature
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3594 | word:
stand
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stand (plural stands)
forms:
form:
stands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Stand
etymology_text:
From Middle English stand, stande, stond, stonde, stoonde, probably from Middle Dutch stande, from Old Dutch *standan (“to stand”), from Frankish *standan.
Forms with -o- may show influence of stonden (“stand”, verb).
senses_examples:
text:
Item, for a ſtande of small ale - ii s.
ref:
1559, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth. Among Which are Interspersed, Other Solemnities, Public Expenditures, and Remarkable Events, During the Reign of that Illustrious Princess. […], volume I, […] the Editor [John Nichols], […], published 1788, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
[…]one gialfatte, 3 stannes 3s.,[…]
ref:
1582, Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641, Being the Farming and Account Books of Henry Best, of Elmswell, in the East Riding of the County of York (The Publications of the Surtees Society; volume XXXIII), Durham: […] for the Society by George Andrews, […]. London: Whittaker & Co., […]; T. & W. Boone, […]. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1857, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
Therefore at length sir Iefferie bethought him of a feat whereby he might both visit the alestond, and also keepe his othe.
ref:
1588, Martin Mar-prelate, An Epistle to the Terrible Priests of the Convocation House, London: John Petheram, published 1842, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
Memp. Ile teach my wag-halter to know grapes from barley. Pris. And I mine to discerne a spigot from a faucet. Spe. And I mine, to iudge the difference between a blacke boule and a siluer goblet. Stel. And mine shall learne the oddes betweene a stand and a hogs-head; yet I cannot choose but laugh to see how my wag aunswered mee, when I stroke him for drinking sacke.
ref:
1594, John Lyly, “Mother Bombie”, in The Complete Works of John Lyly, published 1902, page 193
type:
quotation
text:
As for the Tapſter, he fled into the Cellar, rapping out fiue or ſixe plaine Country oathes, that hée would drowne himſelfe in a moſt villanous Stand of Ale, if the ſicke Londoner ſtoode at the doore any longer.
ref:
1603, Thomas Dekker, “The VVonderfull Yeare”, in The Non-Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, volume I, published 1884, pages 123–124
type:
quotation
text:
I have the rareſt Stand of Ale to drink out in the Afternoon, with three or four honeſt Country-fellows;
ref:
1672, Thomas Shadwell, “Epsom-Wells”, in The Works of Thomas Shadwell, volume the second, London: […] James Knapton, […]; and Jacob Tonson, […], published 1720, page 196
type:
quotation
text:
[…]that he may have leave to meet ſome few Neighbours to duſt a ſtand of Ale[…]
ref:
1674, A Letter from a Gentleman of the Romish Religion to His Brother, a Person of Quality of the Same Religion; Perswading Him to Go to Church, and Take Those Oaths the Law Directs, Proving the Lawfulness Thereof by Arguments Not Disagreeable to Doctrines of the Roman Church, London: […] John Starkey, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
All his war ſtore of proviſions conſiſted in three ſtands of barbicued veniſon, till he had an opportunity to revenge blood, and return home.
ref:
1775, James Adair, The History of The American Indians; Particularly Those Nations Adjoining to the Missisippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: […], London: […] Edward and Charles Dilly, page 395
type:
quotation
text:
First dip me in a stand o milk, / And then a stand o water;
ref:
a. 1791, “Tam Lin”, in Francis James Child, editor, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, part II, Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; New York: […]; The Riverside Press, Cambridge; London: Henry Stevens, […], published 1884, page 344
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A container which stands upright, such as a barrel or cask.
A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
senses_topics:
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3595 | word:
northeast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
northeast (plural northeasts)
forms:
form:
northeasts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From north + east.
senses_examples:
text:
Chungshe is one of eleven villages in Liuchia township, Tainan county (see Maps 2 and 3). It lies about 30 kilometers northeast of Tainan city.
ref:
1972, Burton Pasternak, Kinship & Community in Two Chinese Villages, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
The task of discussing priority concerns for this region is complicated by the fact that there are essentially two rural northeasts.
ref:
1990, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development, Rural Economic Development: Hearings, page 1604
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The intercardinal compass point halfway between north and east; specifically at a bearing of 45°.
senses_topics:
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3596 | word:
northeast
word_type:
adj
expansion:
northeast (not generally comparable, comparative more northeast, superlative most northeast)
forms:
form:
more northeast
tags:
comparative
form:
most northeast
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From north + east.
senses_examples:
text:
A northeast course.
type:
example
text:
A northeast wind.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, in or pertaining to the northeast; northeastern.
Situated toward or in the direction of the northeast; northeastward; northeasterly.
Coming from the northeast; northeasterly.
senses_topics:
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3597 | word:
northeast
word_type:
adv
expansion:
northeast (not generally comparable, comparative more northeast, superlative most northeast)
forms:
form:
more northeast
tags:
comparative
form:
most northeast
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From north + east.
senses_examples:
text:
We are travelling northeast at the moment.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Towards or in the direction of the northeast; northeastwards.
senses_topics:
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3598 | word:
yeast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yeast (countable and uncountable, plural yeasts)
forms:
form:
yeasts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
yeast
etymology_text:
From Middle English yest, yeest, gest, gist, from Old English ġist, ġyst, from Proto-West Germanic *jestu, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jääst (“yeast”), West Frisian gêst, gist (“yeast”), Dutch gist (“yeast”), German Low German Gest (“yeast”), German Gischt (“sea foam”), Swedish jäst (“yeast”), Norwegian jest (“yeast”), Icelandic jöstur (“yeast”).
senses_examples:
text:
A microscopical examination of the yeast taken from these rapid vigorous fermentations will only be able to give useful conclusions in one respect.
ref:
1903, Alfred Peter Carlslund Jørgensen (R. Grey, translator), Practical Management of Pure Yeast: The Application and Examination of Brewery, Distillery, and Wine, Yeasts, The Brewing trade review, page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
The resulting infection, candidiasis.
A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
A frothy foam.
senses_topics:
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3599 | word:
yeast
word_type:
verb
expansion:
yeast (third-person singular simple present yeasts, present participle yeasting, simple past and past participle yeasted)
forms:
form:
yeasts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
yeasting
tags:
participle
present
form:
yeasted
tags:
participle
past
form:
yeasted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
yeast
etymology_text:
From Middle English yest, yeest, gest, gist, from Old English ġist, ġyst, from Proto-West Germanic *jestu, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jääst (“yeast”), West Frisian gêst, gist (“yeast”), Dutch gist (“yeast”), German Low German Gest (“yeast”), German Gischt (“sea foam”), Swedish jäst (“yeast”), Norwegian jest (“yeast”), Icelandic jöstur (“yeast”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ferment.
To rise.
To exaggerate.
senses_topics:
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