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3600 | word:
it
word_type:
pron
expansion:
it (subjective and objective it, reflexive and intensive itself, possessive determiner and pronoun its, plural subjective they, plural objective case them)
forms:
form:
it
tags:
objective
subjective
form:
itself
tags:
emphatic
reflexive
form:
its
tags:
determiner
possessive
pronoun
without-noun
form:
they
tags:
plural
subjective
form:
them
tags:
objective
plural
wikipedia:
it
etymology_text:
From Middle English it, hit ( > dialectal English hit (“it”)), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-West Germanic *hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with West Frisian it (“it”), Saterland Frisian et, 't (“it”), Dutch het (“it”), Low German it (“it”), German es (“it”). Compare also Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰 (ita, “it”), Latin cis (“on this”), hic (“this”). More at he.
senses_examples:
text:
Take this book and put it on the shelf.
type:
example
text:
Take each day as it comes.
type:
example
text:
I found a poor little cat. It seems to be half starving.
type:
example
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It is not a pen. It is a book.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
The Nansi District was formerly known as the "Jiaba Community", and was one of the early territories of the Taivoan, as well as where the Zou resided. Later, due to the invasion of the Siraya tribe, the community members later migrated out to regions such as Gongguan, Paoziliao (Kaohsiung County), and Daciouyuan. During the time of the Japanese occupation, because of its location at the west of the "Nanzihsian River", it was therefore renamed Nansi ("si" meaning "west"). A village and village hall were established here, under the governance of Sinhua District of Tainan Province. After the war in 1945, it was renamed Nansi Township, and was changed to Nansi District after the merging of Tainan City and County on December 25th, 2010.
ref:
2018 August 6, “Brief Introduction of Nansi”, in Nansi District Office, Tainan City, archived from the original on 2022-02-16
type:
quotation
text:
She took the baby and held it in her arms.
type:
example
text:
A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done; cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction.
ref:
1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter IV, in Jane Eyre
type:
quotation
text:
I could only encourage Mrs. Clements to speak next of Anne's early days […] "There was nobody else, sir, to take the little helpless creature in hand," replied Mrs. Clements. "The wicked mother seemed to hate it—as if the poor baby was in fault!—from the day it was born. My heart was heavy for the child, and I made the offer to bring it up as tenderly as if it was my own."
"Did Anne remain entirely under your care from that time?"
"Not quite entirely, sir. Mrs. Catherick had her whims and fancies about it at times, and used now and then to lay claim to the child, as if she wanted to spite me for bringing it up.
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1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
type:
quotation
text:
The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn't quite managed.
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2005, Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief, part 10
type:
quotation
text:
"[…] It's my belief that you don't know your own mind."
"I don't, dear," said Hulda, nestling to him.
"Why, what a puss it is!" cried Sir Philip, kissing her tenderly.
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1890, George Manville Fenn, Black Blood
type:
quotation
text:
1897, Olive Pratt Rayner (Grant Allen), The Type-Writer Girl
She caught my eye, and laughed. “What a funny girl it is!” she cried. “You are so comical! But it isn't the least use your trying to frighten me. I can see the twinkle in your big black eyes; and I like you in spite of your trying to be horrid. Do you know, I liked you from the first moment I saw you.”
text:
WILLIAM: You don't like me better?
CLARA: Indeed I do.
WILLIAM (laughing): Well, what a dear girl it is.
CLARA (flinging her arms around his neck with suddenly disclosed passion): Oh, I do love you!
ref:
1905, The Harvard Monthly, volumes 39-40, page 183
type:
quotation
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1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Next morning bought her [a drag queen] breakfast & she asked for a couple dollars to get a drink. Gave her $3, walked her to a bar. […] Some teenage boys watched us walking & began shouting. When I left her at the bar door & kissed her goodbye, they began shouting "Ugh! You kissed it!!"
text:
"Oh, don't be silly. I am neither male nor female. I'm a farfel." […] "It. Refer to me as an it."
"That seems pretty rude," I said nervously.
"Not as rude as calling me a he or a she," it said.
ref:
1993, Bruce Coville, Aliens Ate My Homework, pages 72–73
type:
quotation
text:
The individual known as Maia Arson Crimew was born as Tillie Kottmann on 7 August 1999 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Kottmann/Crimew has expressed on its website a desire to be referred to by ‘it’ pronouns (Crimew 2021), so this article will interchangeably refer to it by its preferred terms as either ‘Maia Arson Crimew’ or ‘it’.
Crimew is a well-known figure among hacking and cybersecurity circles. It has either taken credit for or been attributed to hacks from several major multinational corporations, including […]
ref:
2024 January 16, Matteo Garofalo, “Singular Purpose: Calculating the Degree of Ethno-Religious Over-representation in the USNo-Fly List”, in International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
type:
quotation
text:
It's me. John.
type:
example
text:
Is it her?
type:
example
text:
It is I, your king.
type:
example
text:
It is nearly 10 o’clock.
type:
example
text:
It’s 10:45.
type:
example
text:
It’s very cold today.
type:
example
text:
It’s lonely without you.
type:
example
text:
After all these years, she still has it.
text:
Later that night, a friend told Brady, “Still got it.” “Never lost it,” he replied. THAT WAS MOSTLY TRUE. But the 2013 season ended with the Patriots coaches wondering whether Brady's skills were in a subtle but irrevocable decline […]
ref:
2021, Seth Wickersham, It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness, Liveright Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
I caught them doing it.
text:
Are you getting it regularly?
text:
Is man really the only animal who does "it" face to face?
ref:
1968, Dear Doctor Hip Pocrates; advice your family doctor never gave you, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
rough it
text:
live it up
text:
stick it out
text:
'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street
ref:
1904, Rudyard Kipling, Mrs Bathurst
type:
quotation
text:
And she had It. It, hell; she had Those.
ref:
1927, Dorothy Parker, “Madame Glyn Lectures on 'It,' with Illustrations”, in The New Yorker, published 1927 November 26; republished in Brendan Gill, editor, The Portable Dorothy Parker, New York: Penguin, 1976, pages 464-468
type:
quotation
text:
It is easy to see how she would think that.
(with the infinitive clause headed by to see)
type:
example
text:
I find it odd that you would say that.
(with the noun clause introduced by that)
type:
example
text:
It is hard seeing you so sick.
(with the gerund seeing)
type:
example
text:
He saw to it that everyone would vote for him.
(with the noun clause introduced by that)
type:
example
text:
It is not clear if the report was true.
(with the noun clause introduced by if)
type:
example
text:
Are there more students in this class, or is this it?
type:
example
text:
That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.
type:
example
text:
In briefe, I am content, and what should providence add more? Surely this is it [= it which] wee call Happinesse, and this doe I enjoy [...].
ref:
1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, II.2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.
A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a baby or child, especially of unknown gender.
An affectionate third-person singular personal pronoun.
A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or non-binary.
Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement (known as the dummy pronoun, dummy it or weather it).
The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
Referring to a desirable quality or ability, or quality of being successful, fashionable or in vogue.
The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
Referring to sexual intercourse or other sexual activity.
The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.
The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.
All or the end; something after which there is no more.
Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun: That which; what.
senses_topics:
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3601 | word:
it
word_type:
det
expansion:
it
forms:
wikipedia:
it
etymology_text:
From Middle English it, hit ( > dialectal English hit (“it”)), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-West Germanic *hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with West Frisian it (“it”), Saterland Frisian et, 't (“it”), Dutch het (“it”), Low German it (“it”), German es (“it”). Compare also Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰 (ita, “it”), Latin cis (“on this”), hic (“this”). More at he.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Its.
senses_topics:
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3602 | word:
it
word_type:
noun
expansion:
it (plural its)
forms:
form:
its
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
it
etymology_text:
From Middle English it, hit ( > dialectal English hit (“it”)), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-West Germanic *hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with West Frisian it (“it”), Saterland Frisian et, 't (“it”), Dutch het (“it”), Low German it (“it”), German es (“it”). Compare also Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰 (ita, “it”), Latin cis (“on this”), hic (“this”). More at he.
senses_examples:
text:
His master glanced up quickly, and removed the letter from his hands. "I'm surprised at you, James," he remarked severely. "A secretary should control itself. Don't forget that the perfect secretary is an it: an automatic machine—a thing incapable of feeling.…"
ref:
1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond
type:
quotation
text:
Too often, children become an "it" in their homes and their humanness is devalued.
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1995, Neil Weiner, Sharon E. Robinson Kurpius, Shattered innocence, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…
type:
example
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When there are only two children left who haven't been tagged, I will stop the game, and we will start over with those children starting as the Its.
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2000, Katherine T. Thomas, Amelia M. Lee, Jerry R. Thomas, Physical education for children, page 464
type:
quotation
text:
Let's play it at breaktime.
type:
example
text:
Man, he's really got it.
text:
She's the it girl, at least for this Fall.
text:
OMG, they were doing it in the storage room.
text:
She really has it going on.
text:
For Groddeck, the it is given, unknowable, and he does not try to conceptualize drives or forces. Early life and sexuality permeate […]
ref:
1988, Frederic D. Homer, The Interpretation of Illness, Purdue University Press, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
[…] thus reversing the roles of the I and the it, the former now occupying the place of the latter and vice versa. An awareness of our bisubjective nature (it and me) requires thus an I as a third term that slides between […]
ref:
2015, Charis Charalampous, Rethinking the Mind-Body Relationship in Early Modern Literature, Philosophy, and Medicine: The Renaissance of the Body, Routledge, page 36
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
A game of tag.
A desirable characteristic, as being fashionable.
Sexual intercourse.
Sex appeal.
Alternative letter-case form of It (“force in the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck”)
Alternative letter-case form of It (“the id”)
senses_topics:
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3603 | word:
it
word_type:
adj
expansion:
it (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
it
etymology_text:
From Middle English it, hit ( > dialectal English hit (“it”)), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-West Germanic *hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with West Frisian it (“it”), Saterland Frisian et, 't (“it”), Dutch het (“it”), Low German it (“it”), German es (“it”). Compare also Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰 (ita, “it”), Latin cis (“on this”), hic (“this”). More at he.
senses_examples:
text:
Going away for the weekend and feel the need to profile en route? This is the "it" bag.
ref:
2007 September, Vibe, volume 15, number 9, page 202
type:
quotation
text:
With Hit Girl, Moretz is this year's It Girl, alternately sweet, savage and scary.
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2010, David Germain, Hilarious ‘Kick-Ass’ delivers bloody fun, Associated Press
type:
quotation
text:
These Italian made sneakers quickly became an it shoe and the trend is not going anywhere any time soon!
ref:
2021 October 4, Robert P, “Are Golden Goose Sneakers Worth It? My Honest Review Of Golden Goose Sneakers”, in Gold Talk Club
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Most fashionable, popular, or in vogue.
senses_topics:
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3604 | word:
southeast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
southeast (plural southeasts)
forms:
form:
southeasts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From south + east.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The intercardinal compass point halfway between east and south; specifically at a bearing of 135°.
senses_topics:
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3605 | word:
southeast
word_type:
adj
expansion:
southeast (not generally comparable, comparative more southeast, superlative most southeast)
forms:
form:
more southeast
tags:
comparative
form:
most southeast
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From south + east.
senses_examples:
text:
The first rocket exploded on the southeast camp fire perimeter, and the second dropped in to the northwest, a few hundred meters from the center of the workforce complex.
ref:
2014, Robert Barr, For the Love of Flight, Dorrance Publishing, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
A southeast course.
type:
example
text:
A southeast wind.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, in or pertaining to the southeast; southeastern.
Situated toward or in the direction of the southeast; southeastward; southeasterly.
Coming from the southeast; southeasterly.
senses_topics:
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3606 | word:
southeast
word_type:
adv
expansion:
southeast (not generally comparable, comparative more southeast, superlative most southeast)
forms:
form:
more southeast
tags:
comparative
form:
most southeast
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From south + east.
senses_examples:
text:
We are travelling southeast at the moment.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Towards or in the direction of the southeast; southeastwards.
senses_topics:
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3607 | word:
former
word_type:
adj
expansion:
former (comparative form only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English former, comparative of forme (“first”), from Old English forma (“first”), descended from Proto-Germanic *frumô. Parallel to prior (via Latin), as comparative form from same Proto-Indo-European root. Related to first and fore (thence before), from Proto-Germanic.
senses_examples:
text:
A former president
type:
example
text:
the former East Germany
type:
example
text:
The former-slaves-turned-abolitionists Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano were the chief organizers of the Sons of Africa.
ref:
2007, Junius P. Rodriguez, Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World
type:
quotation
text:
The former is a good idea but the latter is not.
type:
example
text:
We have two cars, a red one and a blue one. We won the former on a game show.
type:
example
text:
Bananas are tastier than parsnips, but the latter’s nutritional value is higher than the former’s.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Previous.
First of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun.
senses_topics:
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3608 | word:
former
word_type:
noun
expansion:
former (plural formers)
forms:
form:
formers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English formere. By surface analysis, form + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
Dave was the former of the company.
type:
example
text:
The brick arch was built using a wooden former.
type:
example
text:
Fifth-former.
type:
example
text:
Sixth-former.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who forms something; a maker; a creator or founder.
An object used to form something, such as a template, gauge, or cutting die.
Someone in, or of, a certain form (class).
senses_topics:
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3609 | word:
maul
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maul (plural mauls)
forms:
form:
mauls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English malle (“mace, maul”), from Anglo-Norman mail, from Old French mail, from Latin malleus (“hammer”). Doublet of malleus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports |
3610 | word:
maul
word_type:
verb
expansion:
maul (third-person singular simple present mauls, present participle mauling, simple past and past participle mauled)
forms:
form:
mauls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mauling
tags:
participle
present
form:
mauled
tags:
participle
past
form:
mauled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English malle (“mace, maul”), from Anglo-Norman mail, from Old French mail, from Latin malleus (“hammer”). Doublet of malleus.
senses_examples:
text:
The bear mauled him in a terrible way.
type:
example
text:
The embattled heavy cruiser is not in immediate danger of sinking, but is being badly mauled.
ref:
2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 26:02 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03
type:
quotation
text:
The latest film by the Cohen brothers was mauled by the press, and was a box-office flop to boot.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To handle someone or something in a rough way.
To savage; to cause serious physical wounds (usually used of an animal).
To criticise harshly.
To beat with a maul.
senses_topics:
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3611 | word:
his
word_type:
det
expansion:
his
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English his, from Old English his (“his; its”), from Proto-Germanic *hes (“of this”), genitive of Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this”). Cognate with Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic hans (“his”). More at he; see also its.
senses_examples:
text:
In his first televised address since the siege in Abidjan began this week, Ouattara said he would focus on returning the country to normal to ease the plight of civilians.
ref:
2011 April 8, Xan Rice, “Ivory Coast: 100 more bodies found as ethnic tensions rise”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
It is our conviction that piecemeal critiques of nontheisms will not suffice. The theist must enter the arena with a positive and comprehensive case of his own.
ref:
2003, Norman L. Geisler, Winfried Corduan, Philosophy of Religion: Second Edition, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation
I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]
ref:
1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […], London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972
type:
quotation
text:
Ahab his mark
for Ahab's mark.
type:
example
text:
Sejanus his Fall
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to him.
Belonging to a person of unspecified gender.
Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case.
senses_topics:
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3612 | word:
his
word_type:
pron
expansion:
his
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English his, from Old English his (“his; its”), from Proto-Germanic *hes (“of this”), genitive of Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this”). Cognate with Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic hans (“his”). More at he; see also its.
senses_examples:
text:
The decision was his to live with.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.
Alternative spelling of His
senses_topics:
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3613 | word:
his
word_type:
noun
expansion:
his
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The Hikkams pushed a table over by the booth where the Lochwoods and Meekums were sitting, exchanged his and sat down.
ref:
2009, John M. Carney, Welcome to Tranquility
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of hi
senses_topics:
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3614 | word:
anterior
word_type:
adj
expansion:
anterior (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin anterior (“that is before, foremost”).
senses_examples:
text:
Transillumination of anterior teeth, using the composite curing light placed labially to shine through the tooth and be viewed using the mouth mirror, shows up any cavities as dark interproximal shadows.
ref:
2013, Carole Hollins, Questions and Answers for Dental Nurses, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion.
ref:
1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nearer the forward end, especially in the front of the body; nearer the head or forepart of an animal.
(of a part of a flower or leaf) Situated further away from the mainstem.
Nearer the forward end, especially in the front of the body; nearer the head or forepart of an animal.
Pronounced with an obstruction located in front of the palato-alveolar region of the mouth, e.g. b, p, d, t.
Nearer the forward end, especially in the front of the body; nearer the head or forepart of an animal.
Coming before or earlier in time or development, prior to, preceding.
senses_topics:
anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
anatomy
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
phonetics
phonology
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
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3615 | word:
aquamarine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aquamarine (countable and uncountable, plural aquamarines)
forms:
form:
aquamarines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
aquamarine
etymology_text:
From Latin aqua marīna (“sea water”), adjective form from mare (“sea”).
senses_examples:
text:
aquamarine:
text:
Before we could embark on the details of his mother's health we were joined by a fair, plump woman of indefinite age, who had once been—and at moments still was—very pretty. She wore a simple black silk dress, perhaps in deference to Tilly's death, though the note of mourning was jarred by flamboyant aquamarine ear-rings and too much rouge.
ref:
1956, Delano Ames, chapter 4, in Crime out of Mind
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The bluish-green colour of the sea.
A transparent bluish-green, sometimes yellow-green, variety of beryl.
senses_topics:
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3616 | word:
aquamarine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aquamarine (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
aquamarine
etymology_text:
From Latin aqua marīna (“sea water”), adjective form from mare (“sea”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a bluish-green colour.
senses_topics:
|
3617 | word:
pi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pi (countable and uncountable, plural pis)
forms:
form:
pis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Technische Universität Berlin
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”). Doublet of pe. Its mathematical use apparently stems from its use as the first letter in περιφέρεια (periphéreia, “periphery; circumference”) and was first cited in 1706 in the Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos by William Jones.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: pie
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The 16th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.
An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written π.
Metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
letterpress-typography
media
publishing
typography |
3618 | word:
pi
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pi (third-person singular simple present pies, present participle piing, simple past and past participle pied)
forms:
form:
pies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
piing
tags:
participle
present
form:
pied
tags:
participle
past
form:
pied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Technische Universität Berlin
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”). Doublet of pe. Its mathematical use apparently stems from its use as the first letter in περιφέρεια (periphéreia, “periphery; circumference”) and was first cited in 1706 in the Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos by William Jones.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: pie
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To spill or mix printing type.
senses_topics:
letterpress-typography
media
publishing
typography |
3619 | word:
pi
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pi (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Technische Universität Berlin
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”). Doublet of pe. Its mathematical use apparently stems from its use as the first letter in περιφέρεια (periphéreia, “periphery; circumference”) and was first cited in 1706 in the Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos by William Jones.
senses_examples:
text:
In computing, pi characters may be entered with special key combinations.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not part of the usual font character set; especially, non-Roman type or symbols as opposed to standard alphanumeric Roman type.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography |
3620 | word:
pi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pi
forms:
wikipedia:
Technische Universität Berlin
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
pica (conventionally, 12 points = 1 pica, 6 picas = 1 inch).
Piaster.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography
|
3621 | word:
pi
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pi
forms:
wikipedia:
Technische Universität Berlin
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
text:
Our Major was "Cherub" Cheeseman, noted for his foul language. I am afraid he lost a tidy little legacy that he was expecting from his aunt, the Dowager Lady Shuttlecock (a very "pi" old lady), through this same habit of his.
ref:
1927, Magdalen King-Hall, I Think I Remember: Being the Random Recollections of Sir Wickham Woolicomb, an Ordinary English Snob and Gentleman
type:
quotation
text:
“Those are very 'pi' sentiments. Was a preacher in Staffordshire— I was raised chapel, though've tried to forget it—he talked that way... redemption and the lot.”
ref:
1972, Anya Seton, Green Darkness, Hachette UK
type:
quotation
text:
In Sense and Sensibility, as even you might agree, there's at least the danger of a rather pi moral framework clamping down on the spontaneous fun and leaving the sisters to survive - a bit drearily - on the periphery of a mean world.
ref:
1994, Roger Gard, Jane Austen's Novels: The Art of Clarity, Yale University Press, page 101
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pious.
senses_topics:
|
3622 | word:
handcuffs
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handcuffs pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
handcuffs
etymology_text:
1775, from hand + cuff (“end of shirtsleeve”).
Possibly influenced by Old English handcops, from hand + cops (“fetter, chains”), but due to lack of continuity (centuries between Old English and modern term), generally analyzed as a re-invention.
senses_examples:
text:
Security is tight inside and outside the building, guarded by a bewildering collection of soldiers, policemen and gendarmes. Relatives watch as prisoners in handcuffs and leg irons shuffle past.
ref:
2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fastening consisting of two metal rings, designed to go around a person's wrists, and connected by a chain or hinge.
senses_topics:
|
3623 | word:
handcuffs
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handcuffs
forms:
wikipedia:
handcuffs
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of handcuff
senses_topics:
|
3624 | word:
handcuffs
word_type:
verb
expansion:
handcuffs
forms:
wikipedia:
handcuffs
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of handcuff
senses_topics:
|
3625 | word:
hers
word_type:
pron
expansion:
hers
forms:
wikipedia:
hers
etymology_text:
From Middle English hires, heres, hers, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to her + -s (compare -'s).
senses_examples:
text:
The life of La Motte, who had more than saved her's […], depended on the testimony she should give.
ref:
1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin, published 1999, page 335
type:
quotation
text:
The rest of us, meanwhile, would do well to accept that one woman’s choice is just that; hers and hers alone, not the standard by which all must be judged.
ref:
2019 August 31, Gaby Hinsliff, The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which belongs to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun.
senses_topics:
|
3626 | word:
hers
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hers
forms:
wikipedia:
hers
etymology_text:
From Middle English hires, heres, hers, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to her + -s (compare -'s).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of her
senses_topics:
|
3627 | word:
banana
word_type:
noun
expansion:
banana (countable and uncountable, plural bananas)
forms:
form:
bananas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
banana
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Portuguese banana or Spanish banana, derived from a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Guinea region. Specific derivation is unclear. Possible ancestor or cognate languages include Wolof banaana, Eastern Maninkakan banana, and Vai ꕒꘌꕯ (ɓaana) or ꕒꕌꕯ (ɓaana). However, Ay Baati Wolof (Munro & Gaye, 1997) posits that Wolof banaana is itself derived from Portuguese banana.
The racial slur derives from the notion that they are "Yellow (East-Asian) on the outside, White (Westernized) on the inside".
senses_examples:
text:
I'll need a few things. I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana.
ref:
2017, Sam Shepard, chapter 27, in Spy of the First Person, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
banana:
text:
The fact that the cop bought O'Brien a beer after feeling of his banana suggests that it must have been a promising one
ref:
1986, Christopher Street, Cop Feels of Three Men's "Privates", volume 10
type:
quotation
text:
His you-know-what turned soft .. his eight o'clock class was the last thing on his mind five minutes ago, when his banana wasn't overripe.
ref:
2012, Sarah Miynowski, Fishbowl, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
Most of the gang were trying their best to shag the girls. One boy was sitting in a tree playing with himself and another was asking a table of teenagers if they would like to see his banana.
ref:
2014, Anthony Bunko, Lord Forgive Me, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
He adds that after eating his banana (sucking his penis), he wants anal sex, but she asks him to lick her pussy. Then he tells her no because it is disgusting.
ref:
2017, Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture, page 234
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
In particular, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar, which may be eaten raw, as distinct from e.g. a plantain for cooking.
The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas, a plant of the genus Musa (but sometimes also including plants from Ensete), which has large, elongated leaves.
A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
A person of East or Southeast Asian descent, considered to be overly assimilated and subservient to white authority.
The penis.
A banana kick.
A banana equivalent dose.
A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences |
3628 | word:
banana
word_type:
adj
expansion:
banana (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
banana
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Portuguese banana or Spanish banana, derived from a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Guinea region. Specific derivation is unclear. Possible ancestor or cognate languages include Wolof banaana, Eastern Maninkakan banana, and Vai ꕒꘌꕯ (ɓaana) or ꕒꕌꕯ (ɓaana). However, Ay Baati Wolof (Munro & Gaye, 1997) posits that Wolof banaana is itself derived from Portuguese banana.
The racial slur derives from the notion that they are "Yellow (East-Asian) on the outside, White (Westernized) on the inside".
senses_examples:
text:
Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.
ref:
2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.
ref:
2002, Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
[...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.
ref:
2006, Richard Witzig, The Global Art of Soccer, page 247
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.
senses_topics:
|
3629 | word:
unutterable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unutterable (comparative more unutterable, superlative most unutterable)
forms:
form:
more unutterable
tags:
comparative
form:
most unutterable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + utterable.
senses_examples:
text:
unutterable anguish
type:
example
text:
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
ref:
1964 December 11, Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Lecture by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, Norway, December 11, 1964, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, published 1965, →OCLC, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not utterable; incapable of being physically spoken or voiced; unpronounceable.
Incapable of being articulated or expressed; indescribable, inexpressible.
Not allowed to be spoken; taboo, unspeakable.
Extremely bad or objectionable; unspeakable.
senses_topics:
|
3630 | word:
unutterable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
unutterable (plural unutterables)
forms:
form:
unutterables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + utterable.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something which is unutterable (incapable of being physically spoken, incapable of being articulated or expressed, etc.).
senses_topics:
|
3631 | word:
stem
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stem (plural stems)
forms:
form:
stems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stem
etymology_text:
From Middle English stem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old English stemn, from Proto-West Germanic *stamni, from Proto-Germanic *stamniz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, stay”).
senses_examples:
text:
While I do pray, learn here thy stem / And true descent.
ref:
1633, George Herbert, Church Monuments
type:
quotation
text:
After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem.
ref:
1736, Sir Walter Raleigh, The History of the World in Five Books
type:
quotation
text:
the stem of an apple or a cherry
type:
example
text:
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
ref:
2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7
type:
quotation
text:
She was perfectly, fuckably proportioned everywhere else, both above and below her waist. A pocket-size Venus, with the longest stems he'd ever seen on someone so dang diminutive.
ref:
2008, Lori Wilde, Rhonda Nelson, Cara Summers, August Harlequin Blaze
type:
quotation
text:
Waves of ecstasy roll through him as the moustachioed Casanova slides his stem in and out of the spaced-out chick.
ref:
2005, Eric Bogosian, Wasted Beauty, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
Stem mastering processes a mix by breaking it down into several manageable pieces—that is, stereo stems. The stem approach allows the mastering engineer the opportunity to make larger or smaller changes to separate mix elements before the final compression and limiting are applied to the complete mix.
ref:
2019, Karl Pedersen, Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard, The Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Reference Handbook, Oxford University Press, page 268
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
A branch of a family.
A branch of a family.
A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
A person's leg.
The penis.
A vertical stroke of a letter.
A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
biology
botany
natural-sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
media
publishing
typography
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
nautical
transport
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
anatomy
medicine
sciences
|
3632 | word:
stem
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stem (third-person singular simple present stems, present participle stemming, simple past and past participle stemmed)
forms:
form:
stems
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stemming
tags:
participle
present
form:
stemmed
tags:
participle
past
form:
stemmed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
stem
etymology_text:
From Middle English stem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old English stemn, from Proto-West Germanic *stamni, from Proto-Germanic *stamniz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, stay”).
senses_examples:
text:
to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves
type:
example
text:
The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.
type:
example
text:
Weight stigma often stems from an idea that patients are at fault for their body size.
ref:
2023 June 2, H Conley, “Studies show top surgery is safe for fat patients, but some surgeons still mandate weight loss”, in STAT
type:
quotation
text:
As when two warlike Brigandines at sea, / With murdrous weapons arm'd to cruell fight, / Doe meete together on the watry lea, / They stemme ech other with so fell despight, / That with the shocke of their owne heedlesse might, / Their wooden ribs are shaken nigh a sonder […]
ref:
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove the stem from.
To be caused or derived; to originate.
To descend in a family line.
To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
senses_topics:
|
3633 | word:
stem
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stem (third-person singular simple present stems, present participle stemming, simple past and past participle stemmed)
forms:
form:
stems
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stemming
tags:
participle
present
form:
stemmed
tags:
participle
past
form:
stemmed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
stem
etymology_text:
From Middle English stemmen, a borrowing from Old Norse stemma (“to stop, stem, dam”) (whence Danish stemme/stæmme (“to stem, dam up”)), from Proto-Germanic *stammijaną. Cognate with German stemmen, Middle Dutch stemmen, stempen. Compare stammer.
senses_examples:
text:
to stem a tide
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
In rock climbing, to use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
|
3634 | word:
stem
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stem (plural stems)
forms:
form:
stems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stem
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of steem
senses_topics:
|
3635 | word:
stem
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stem (plural stems)
forms:
form:
stems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stem
etymology_text:
Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.
senses_examples:
text:
Stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields are a particular cause for concern because within them there are more pronounced stereotypes, extreme competitiveness and gender inequities regarding the abilities and competencies of black male and female students.
ref:
2015 May 29, BBC News, How do US black students perform at school?
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of STEM
senses_topics:
|
3636 | word:
stem
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stem (plural stems)
forms:
form:
stems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stem
etymology_text:
Blend of stud + femme
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of stemme (“lesbian who combines stud and femme traits”)
senses_topics:
|
3637 | word:
astronaut
word_type:
noun
expansion:
astronaut (plural astronauts)
forms:
form:
astronauts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
astronaut
etymology_text:
From astro- + -naut. Coined from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”) and ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”).
senses_examples:
text:
Though from different social, economic, and political worlds, the astronauts and cosmonauts had much in common, both as professionals and human beings.
ref:
2013, Edward Clinton Ezell, Linda Neuman Ezell, The Partnership: A NASA History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Courier Corporation
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
An American space traveler, when contrasted against equivalent terms from other countries such as cosmonaut, taikonaut, spationaut, and vyomanaut.
A person (typically man) working abroad away from their family.
senses_topics:
|
3638 | word:
vertebra
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vertebra (plural vertebrae or (obsolete) vertebræ or vertebras)
forms:
form:
vertebrae
tags:
plural
form:
vertebræ
tags:
obsolete
plural
form:
vertebras
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowing from Latin vertebra (“a joint”), from vertō (“to turn”) + -bra (instrumental nominal suffix). Having multiple vertebrae (plural of vertebra) in one's backbone instead of having a single bone or solid spine, allows for the movement of the body with bends and turns. Hence meaning 1.
senses_examples:
text:
Meronyms: see Thesaurus:vertebra
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of the bony or cartilaginous segments which make up the backbone, consisting in some lower vertebrates of several distinct elements which never become united, and in higher vertebrates having a short more or less cylindrical body whose ends articulate by pads of elastic or cartilaginous tissue with those of adjacent vertebrae and a bony arch that encloses the spinal cord.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
3639 | word:
web-footed gecko
word_type:
noun
expansion:
web-footed gecko (plural web-footed geckos)
forms:
form:
web-footed geckos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of gecko, Palmatogecko rangei, from Namibia and adjacent areas, having broad, webbed feet
senses_topics:
|
3640 | word:
delineate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
delineate (third-person singular simple present delineates, present participle delineating, simple past and past participle delineated)
forms:
form:
delineates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
delineating
tags:
participle
present
form:
delineated
tags:
participle
past
form:
delineated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin dēlīneātus, past participle of dēlīneo (“to sketch out, to delineate”), from de- + līnea (“line”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sketch out, draw or trace an outline.
To depict, represent with pictures.
To describe or depict with words or gestures.
To outline or mark out.
senses_topics:
|
3641 | word:
fennec fox
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fennec fox (plural fennec foxes)
forms:
form:
fennec foxes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fennec.
senses_topics:
|
3642 | word:
northwest
word_type:
noun
expansion:
northwest (plural northwests)
forms:
form:
northwests
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From north + west.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The intercardinal compass point halfway between west and north; specifically at a bearing of 315°.
senses_topics:
|
3643 | word:
northwest
word_type:
adj
expansion:
northwest (not generally comparable, comparative more northwest, superlative most northwest)
forms:
form:
more northwest
tags:
comparative
form:
most northwest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From north + west.
senses_examples:
text:
A northwest course.
type:
example
text:
A northwest wind.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, in or pertaining to the northwest; northwestern.
Situated toward or in the direction of the northwest; northwestward; northwesterly.
Coming from the northwest; northwesterly.
senses_topics:
|
3644 | word:
northwest
word_type:
adv
expansion:
northwest (not generally comparable, comparative more northwest, superlative most northwest)
forms:
form:
more northwest
tags:
comparative
form:
most northwest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From north + west.
senses_examples:
text:
We are travelling northwest at the moment.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Towards or in the direction of the northwest; northwestwards.
senses_topics:
|
3645 | word:
welcome
word_type:
adj
expansion:
welcome (comparative more welcome, superlative most welcome)
forms:
form:
more welcome
tags:
comparative
form:
most welcome
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Western Roman Empire
etymology_text:
From Middle English welcome, wolcume, wulcume, wilcume, from Old English wilcuma (“a wished-for guest”; compare also wilcume (“welcome!”, interjection)), from Proto-West Germanic *willjakwemō, from Proto-Germanic *wiljakwemô (“a wished-for arrival or guest”), possibly from *wiljakwemaną (“to be welcome”), equivalent to will (“desire”) + come (“comer, arrival”). The component wil- was replaced by wel- when the sense “guest” of the second component was no longer understood, likely under influence from the adverb well. Cognate with Scots walcome, West Frisian wolkom, Dutch welkom (earlier willecome), German willkommen, German Low German willkamen, Danish velkommen, Norwegian Bokmål velkommen, Norwegian Nynorsk velkomen, velkommen, Swedish välkommen, Icelandic velkominn, Faroese vælkomin, and Old French wilecome (whence Middle French willecomme (“welcome”)), from Germanic.
The verb is from Middle English welcomen, wolcumen, wilcumen, from Old English wellcumian, wylcumian, wilcumian (“to welcome, receive gladly”).
Similar constructions are found in Romance languages, such as Italian benvenuto, Spanish bienvenido, French bienvenu, Catalan benvingut, Portuguese bem-vindo and Romanian bun venit, meaning “[may you have fared] well [in] coming [here]”. These do not derive from a Classical Latin root, as no similar construction in Latin is found to exist, but are instead presumed to be the result of a calque from, considering the ruling elite of the Germanic kingdoms which succeeded the Western Roman Empire, a Germanic language into Proto-Romance (Vulgar Latin; see Latin *bene venūtus, and compare perdōnō and compāniō for similar historical calques).
senses_examples:
text:
a welcome visitor
type:
example
text:
Refugees welcome to education!
type:
example
text:
When the glad soul is made Heaven's welcome guest.
ref:
1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error
type:
quotation
text:
a welcome present; welcome news
type:
example
text:
You are welcome to the use of my library.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Whose arrival is a cause of joy; received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company.
Producing gladness.
Free to have or enjoy gratuitously.
senses_topics:
|
3646 | word:
welcome
word_type:
intj
expansion:
welcome
forms:
wikipedia:
Western Roman Empire
etymology_text:
From Middle English welcome, wolcume, wulcume, wilcume, from Old English wilcuma (“a wished-for guest”; compare also wilcume (“welcome!”, interjection)), from Proto-West Germanic *willjakwemō, from Proto-Germanic *wiljakwemô (“a wished-for arrival or guest”), possibly from *wiljakwemaną (“to be welcome”), equivalent to will (“desire”) + come (“comer, arrival”). The component wil- was replaced by wel- when the sense “guest” of the second component was no longer understood, likely under influence from the adverb well. Cognate with Scots walcome, West Frisian wolkom, Dutch welkom (earlier willecome), German willkommen, German Low German willkamen, Danish velkommen, Norwegian Bokmål velkommen, Norwegian Nynorsk velkomen, velkommen, Swedish välkommen, Icelandic velkominn, Faroese vælkomin, and Old French wilecome (whence Middle French willecomme (“welcome”)), from Germanic.
The verb is from Middle English welcomen, wolcumen, wilcumen, from Old English wellcumian, wylcumian, wilcumian (“to welcome, receive gladly”).
Similar constructions are found in Romance languages, such as Italian benvenuto, Spanish bienvenido, French bienvenu, Catalan benvingut, Portuguese bem-vindo and Romanian bun venit, meaning “[may you have fared] well [in] coming [here]”. These do not derive from a Classical Latin root, as no similar construction in Latin is found to exist, but are instead presumed to be the result of a calque from, considering the ruling elite of the Germanic kingdoms which succeeded the Western Roman Empire, a Germanic language into Proto-Romance (Vulgar Latin; see Latin *bene venūtus, and compare perdōnō and compāniō for similar historical calques).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Greeting given upon someone's arrival.
Ellipsis of you're welcome.
senses_topics:
|
3647 | word:
welcome
word_type:
noun
expansion:
welcome (plural welcomes)
forms:
form:
welcomes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Western Roman Empire
etymology_text:
From Middle English welcome, wolcume, wulcume, wilcume, from Old English wilcuma (“a wished-for guest”; compare also wilcume (“welcome!”, interjection)), from Proto-West Germanic *willjakwemō, from Proto-Germanic *wiljakwemô (“a wished-for arrival or guest”), possibly from *wiljakwemaną (“to be welcome”), equivalent to will (“desire”) + come (“comer, arrival”). The component wil- was replaced by wel- when the sense “guest” of the second component was no longer understood, likely under influence from the adverb well. Cognate with Scots walcome, West Frisian wolkom, Dutch welkom (earlier willecome), German willkommen, German Low German willkamen, Danish velkommen, Norwegian Bokmål velkommen, Norwegian Nynorsk velkomen, velkommen, Swedish välkommen, Icelandic velkominn, Faroese vælkomin, and Old French wilecome (whence Middle French willecomme (“welcome”)), from Germanic.
The verb is from Middle English welcomen, wolcumen, wilcumen, from Old English wellcumian, wylcumian, wilcumian (“to welcome, receive gladly”).
Similar constructions are found in Romance languages, such as Italian benvenuto, Spanish bienvenido, French bienvenu, Catalan benvingut, Portuguese bem-vindo and Romanian bun venit, meaning “[may you have fared] well [in] coming [here]”. These do not derive from a Classical Latin root, as no similar construction in Latin is found to exist, but are instead presumed to be the result of a calque from, considering the ruling elite of the Germanic kingdoms which succeeded the Western Roman Empire, a Germanic language into Proto-Romance (Vulgar Latin; see Latin *bene venūtus, and compare perdōnō and compāniō for similar historical calques).
senses_examples:
text:
We entered the house and found a ready welcome.
type:
example
text:
the warmest welcome at an inn
ref:
1735, William Shenstone, Written at an inn at Henley
type:
quotation
text:
The townspeople crossed freely from bank to bank, and it stayed that way until breakup in March or April or, in years when winter outstayed its welcome, maybe even May.
ref:
1992, Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder, page 42
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of greeting someone’s arrival, especially by saying "Welcome!"; reception.
The utterance of such a greeting.
Kind reception of a guest or newcomer.
The state of being a welcome guest.
senses_topics:
|
3648 | word:
welcome
word_type:
verb
expansion:
welcome (third-person singular simple present welcomes, present participle welcoming, simple past and past participle welcomed)
forms:
form:
welcomes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
welcoming
tags:
participle
present
form:
welcomed
tags:
participle
past
form:
welcomed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Western Roman Empire
etymology_text:
From Middle English welcome, wolcume, wulcume, wilcume, from Old English wilcuma (“a wished-for guest”; compare also wilcume (“welcome!”, interjection)), from Proto-West Germanic *willjakwemō, from Proto-Germanic *wiljakwemô (“a wished-for arrival or guest”), possibly from *wiljakwemaną (“to be welcome”), equivalent to will (“desire”) + come (“comer, arrival”). The component wil- was replaced by wel- when the sense “guest” of the second component was no longer understood, likely under influence from the adverb well. Cognate with Scots walcome, West Frisian wolkom, Dutch welkom (earlier willecome), German willkommen, German Low German willkamen, Danish velkommen, Norwegian Bokmål velkommen, Norwegian Nynorsk velkomen, velkommen, Swedish välkommen, Icelandic velkominn, Faroese vælkomin, and Old French wilecome (whence Middle French willecomme (“welcome”)), from Germanic.
The verb is from Middle English welcomen, wolcumen, wilcumen, from Old English wellcumian, wylcumian, wilcumian (“to welcome, receive gladly”).
Similar constructions are found in Romance languages, such as Italian benvenuto, Spanish bienvenido, French bienvenu, Catalan benvingut, Portuguese bem-vindo and Romanian bun venit, meaning “[may you have fared] well [in] coming [here]”. These do not derive from a Classical Latin root, as no similar construction in Latin is found to exist, but are instead presumed to be the result of a calque from, considering the ruling elite of the Germanic kingdoms which succeeded the Western Roman Empire, a Germanic language into Proto-Romance (Vulgar Latin; see Latin *bene venūtus, and compare perdōnō and compāniō for similar historical calques).
senses_examples:
text:
We welcome suggestions for improvement.
type:
example
text:
CPS MerseyCheshire welcomes the jailing of Helen Dove who conned her friend into giving up her job for a dream post that never existed. Kimberley McDonnell lost around £50,000 because of the fraudster.
ref:
2020 January 29, “Woman jailed for conning her friend into giving up her job for a dream post that never existed”, in CPS Mersey-Cheshire, London: Crown Prosecution Service, retrieved 2020-04-02
type:
quotation
text:
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang welcomed cooperation with South Korea.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!".
To accept something willingly or gladly.
senses_topics:
|
3649 | word:
any
word_type:
adv
expansion:
any (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
any
etymology_text:
From Middle English any, eny, ony, ani, aniȝ, eniȝ, æniȝ, from Old English ǣniġ (“any”), from Proto-West Germanic *ainīg, *ainag, from Proto-Germanic *ainagaz, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), equivalent to one + -y. Cognate to Saterland Frisian eenich (“some”), West Frisian iennich (“only”), Dutch enig (“any, some”), Afrikaans enig (“any”), German Low German enig (“some”), German einig (“some”), Italian unico (“unique”), French unique (“unique”). Piecewise doublet of unique.
senses_examples:
text:
I will not remain here any longer.
text:
If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways!
text:
That doesn't bother me any. (chiefly US usage)
text:
I wasn't any too easy in my mind.
ref:
1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam, published 1992, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
'That wouldn't surprise me any.'
ref:
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 104
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To even the slightest extent, at all.
senses_topics:
|
3650 | word:
any
word_type:
det
expansion:
any
forms:
wikipedia:
any
etymology_text:
From Middle English any, eny, ony, ani, aniȝ, eniȝ, æniȝ, from Old English ǣniġ (“any”), from Proto-West Germanic *ainīg, *ainag, from Proto-Germanic *ainagaz, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), equivalent to one + -y. Cognate to Saterland Frisian eenich (“some”), West Frisian iennich (“only”), Dutch enig (“any, some”), Afrikaans enig (“any”), German Low German enig (“some”), German einig (“some”), Italian unico (“unique”), French unique (“unique”). Piecewise doublet of unique.
senses_examples:
text:
Near-synonym: some
text:
Do you have any biscuits?
type:
example
text:
Do you have any food?
type:
example
text:
I haven't got any money.
type:
example
text:
It won't do you any good.
type:
example
text:
"Give me your pen." — "I don't have any pen."
type:
example
text:
Choose any item you want.
type:
example
text:
Any person may apply.
type:
example
text:
Press any key to continue.
type:
example
text:
The character '#' matches any digit 0–9.
type:
example
text:
Please bring some plates — any plates will do.
type:
example
text:
I'll drink any whiskey you've got.
type:
example
text:
[a-z]: A range of characters that matches any character in the specified range. For example, [a-z] matches any lowercase alphabetic character in the range a through z.
ref:
2006 February, Chuck White, Developing Killer Web Apps with Dreamweaver MX and C#, Wiley, page 269
type:
quotation
text:
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
They'll be arriving any day.
type:
example
text:
I expect the phone to ring at any moment.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One at all; at least one; at least one kind of; some; a positive quantity of.
A/an, each or some, no matter its/their identity or nature.
An unspecified but imminent (second, minute, day etc.).
senses_topics:
|
3651 | word:
any
word_type:
pron
expansion:
any
forms:
wikipedia:
any
etymology_text:
From Middle English any, eny, ony, ani, aniȝ, eniȝ, æniȝ, from Old English ǣniġ (“any”), from Proto-West Germanic *ainīg, *ainag, from Proto-Germanic *ainagaz, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), equivalent to one + -y. Cognate to Saterland Frisian eenich (“some”), West Frisian iennich (“only”), Dutch enig (“any, some”), Afrikaans enig (“any”), German Low German enig (“some”), German einig (“some”), Italian unico (“unique”), French unique (“unique”). Piecewise doublet of unique.
senses_examples:
text:
Any may apply.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any thing(s) or person(s).
senses_topics:
|
3652 | word:
southwest
word_type:
noun
expansion:
southwest (plural southwests)
forms:
form:
southwests
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English southwest, southewest, from Old English sūþwest and sūþanwestan, equivalent to south + west. Cognate with West Frisian súdwest, Dutch zuidwest, German Südwesten, Danish sydvest, Swedish sydväst.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The intercardinal compass point halfway between south and west; specifically at a bearing of 225°.
senses_topics:
|
3653 | word:
southwest
word_type:
adj
expansion:
southwest (not generally comparable, comparative more southwest, superlative most southwest)
forms:
form:
more southwest
tags:
comparative
form:
most southwest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English southwest, southewest, from Old English sūþwest and sūþanwestan, equivalent to south + west. Cognate with West Frisian súdwest, Dutch zuidwest, German Südwesten, Danish sydvest, Swedish sydväst.
senses_examples:
text:
A southwest course.
type:
example
text:
A southwest wind.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, in or pertaining to the southwest; southwestern.
Situated toward or in the direction of the southwest; southwestward; southwesterly.
Coming from the southwest; southwesterly.
senses_topics:
|
3654 | word:
southwest
word_type:
adv
expansion:
southwest (not generally comparable, comparative more southwest, superlative most southwest)
forms:
form:
more southwest
tags:
comparative
form:
most southwest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English southwest, southewest, from Old English sūþwest and sūþanwestan, equivalent to south + west. Cognate with West Frisian súdwest, Dutch zuidwest, German Südwesten, Danish sydvest, Swedish sydväst.
senses_examples:
text:
We are travelling southwest at the moment.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Towards or in the direction of the southwest; southwestwards.
senses_topics:
|
3655 | word:
quarrel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quarrel (countable and uncountable, plural quarrels)
forms:
form:
quarrels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English querele (“altercation, dispute; argument, debate; armed combat; trial by combat; basis for dispute, complaint; claim, legal suit; a lament; illness”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman querele [and other forms] and Middle French querele, querelle (“altercation, dispute; basis for dispute; side in a dispute; complaint; accusation; legal suit; lament; problem”) (modern French querelle), and from their etymon Latin querēla, querella (“dispute; argument; complaint, grievance; legal complaint; lament; illness”), from querī + -ēla, -ella (suffix forming nouns). Querī is the present active infinitive of queror (“to complain; to bewail, lament; to be indignant”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes- (“to puff; to sigh”).
senses_examples:
text:
We got into a silly quarrel about what food to order.
type:
example
text:
Quarrels would not last long, if the fault was only on one side.
ref:
1851, Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld [i.e., François de La Rochefoucauld], translated by [anonymous], Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld. […], New York, N.Y.: William Gowans, →OCLC, number 523, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
All quarrels halt at the grave.
ref:
2016 June 17, John O’Sullivan, “U.K. Membership in the European Union”, in C-SPAN, 4:34 from the start, archived from the original on 2020-12-23
type:
quotation
text:
A few customers in the shop had some quarrels with us, so we called for the manager.
type:
example
text:
I have no quarrel with her; it’s her partner whom I dislike.
type:
example
text:
The material is powerful, though more theatrical than realistic. The writing is good. On thinking the play over, however, I came up with a few quarrels with it, and I wonder if to some Rabe has not attempted to cover some weaknesses in construction with the sensationalism of shocking bloodshed.
ref:
1976 December 4, Robert Chesley, “"Streamers" Deals with Gay Triangle”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 23, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dispute or heated argument (especially one that is verbal).
Often preceded by a form of to have: a basis or ground of dispute or objection; a complaint; also, a feeling or situation of ill will and unhappiness caused by this.
A propensity to quarrel; quarrelsomeness.
senses_topics:
|
3656 | word:
quarrel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quarrel (third-person singular simple present quarrels, present participle (UK) quarrelling or (US) quarreling, simple past and past participle (UK) quarrelled or (US) quarreled)
forms:
form:
quarrels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quarrelling
tags:
UK
participle
present
form:
quarreling
tags:
US
participle
present
form:
quarrelled
tags:
UK
participle
past
form:
quarrelled
tags:
UK
past
form:
quarreled
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
quarreled
tags:
US
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
quarrel
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English querelen (“to dispute, quarrel; to assert one's claims; to rebel”) [and other forms], from querele (noun); see etymology 1. Compare Anglo-Norman, Middle French, and Old French quereler, quereller (“to argue with, dispute; to criticize; to bring a legal suit”) (modern French quereller (“to quarrel, squabble”)).
senses_examples:
text:
to quarrel with one’s lot
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To argue fiercely; to contend; to squabble; to cease to be on friendly terms, to fall out.
To find fault; to cavil.
Followed by at: to disagree with; to take offence.
To argue or squabble with (someone).
senses_topics:
|
3657 | word:
quarrel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quarrel (countable and uncountable, plural quarrels)
forms:
form:
quarrels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*kʷetwóres
From Middle English quarrel (“bolt for an arbalest, crossbow, or siege engine; (figurative) seductive glance, temptation to sin; needle (possibly one square in cross-section); small (perhaps square-shaped) opening in window tracery; a cushion (perhaps square-shaped)”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman quarel, quarele, quarrel, Middle French quarrel, and Old French quarel, quarrel, carrel (“crossbow bolt; floor tile or paving stone (rectangular- or square-shaped); small glass pane for windows”) (modern French carreau (“crossbow bolt; a tile; windowpane; a square”)), from Late Latin quarellus, quadrellus (“crossbow bolt; paving stone; a tile”), from Latin quadrum (“a square; square section; regular shape or form”) + -ellus (variant of -ulus (suffix forming diminutive nouns, indicating small size or youth)). Quadrum is ultimately derived from quattuor (“four”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”).
senses_examples:
text:
The small cross-bow, called the arbalet or arbalest, is said to have been invented by the Sicilians. It was carried by the foot-soldiers, and when used was charged with a quarrel or bar-bolt, that is, a small arrow with a flat head, one of which occasioned the death of Harold [Godwinson] at the battle of Hastings, [...]
ref:
1829 January–July, [Edward Augustus Kendall], “Illustrations of History. Archery.”, in The Olio; or Museum of Entertainment, volume III, London: […] Shackell and Carfrae [for] Joseph Shackell, […], →OCLC, page 174, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An arrow or bolt for a crossbow or an arbalest (“a late, large type of crossbow”), traditionally with the head square in its cross section.
A diamond- or square-shaped piece of glass forming part of a lattice window.
A square tile; a quarry tile; (uncountable) such tiles collectively.
A cutting tool or chisel with a diamond- or square-shaped end.
A small square-shaped opening in window tracery.
senses_topics:
archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
architecture
architecture
architecture |
3658 | word:
advice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
advice (countable and uncountable, plural advices)
forms:
form:
advices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
advice
etymology_text:
From Middle English avys, from Old French avis, from the phrase ce m'est a vis ("in my view"), where vis is from Latin visus, past participle of videre (“to see”). See vision, and compare avise, advise. The unhistoric -d- was introduced in English 15c. Doublet of aviso.
Displaced native Old English rǣd.
senses_examples:
text:
She was offered various pieces of advice on what to do with her new-found wealth.
type:
example
text:
On the advice of her doctor, Mary cut down on her carbohydrates.
type:
example
text:
I have some useful advice to give you.
type:
example
text:
Sushil never took the advice of his parents, but still became rich.
type:
example
text:
We may give advice, but we can not give conduct.
ref:
1732, Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
type:
quotation
text:
late advices from France
type:
example
text:
An advice of an incoming settlement payment order may be given to an off-line receiving bank.
type:
example
text:
(g) A Reserve Bank will issue to each depositor following any transaction affecting book-entry securities maintained for such depositor under this part a confirmation thereof in the form of an advice (serially numbered or otherwise) which shall describe the amount and maturity date thereof, and include pertinent transaction data.
ref:
1990, United States Office of the Federal Register, The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
type:
quotation
text:
However, an advice of an incoming settlement payment order will be given to an off-line receiving bank only when the receiving bank has notified the Reserve Bank in writing
ref:
1992, Benjamin Geva, The Law of Electronic Funds Transfers - Issue 3
type:
quotation
text:
a letter of advice
type:
example
text:
the drawees acknowledged the receipt of the letter of advice of the nineteenth of December , and promised to honor the draft when presented
ref:
1884, John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman, The American Decisions […]
type:
quotation
text:
An advice issued by a Monitoring Committee could be applicable in a Dutch court
type:
example
text:
Any measure that is not a formal (binding) act within the meaning of article 189 EEC, such as for example an advice, is clearly outside the scope of the action.
ref:
1992, Robert M. MacLean, European Community Law Textbook
type:
quotation
text:
the question arises, whether an advice issued by a Monitoring Committee would actually be applicable in a Dutch court
ref:
1999, J. Vervaele, Compliance and Enforcement of European Community Law
type:
quotation
text:
the Executive Director will determine which requests will be referred to chief counsel for preparation of an advice and which requests will be submitted directly to the Commission for an opinion.
ref:
1979, Pennsylvania Bulletin - Volume 9 - Page 4072
type:
quotation
text:
The central purpose of this chapter is, however, to explain how to write an advice or an opinion.
ref:
1996, Valerie Beardsmore, Opinion Writing & Drafting In Tort
type:
quotation
text:
Documents and submissions to the Commission relating to a request for an opinion or an appeal of an advice shall be made at least 7 days prior to the meeting of the Commission during which the appeal or opinion will be reviewed
ref:
1993, Chrostwaite's Pennsylvania Municipal Law Reporter
type:
quotation
text:
An honest oath taken under advice of counsel, therefore, is not perjury
ref:
1885, Francis Wharton, A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful.
Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
Information or news given; intelligence
In language about financial transactions executed by formal documents, an advisory document.
In commercial language, information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange
A communication providing information, such as how an uncertain area of law might apply to possible future actions
Counseling to perform a specific legal act.
Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.
senses_topics:
law
law
law
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
3659 | word:
advice
word_type:
verb
expansion:
advice
forms:
wikipedia:
advice
etymology_text:
From Middle English avys, from Old French avis, from the phrase ce m'est a vis ("in my view"), where vis is from Latin visus, past participle of videre (“to see”). See vision, and compare avise, advise. The unhistoric -d- was introduced in English 15c. Doublet of aviso.
Displaced native Old English rǣd.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of advise.
senses_topics:
|
3660 | word:
el
word_type:
noun
expansion:
el (plural els)
forms:
form:
els
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
El
el
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Old English el, from Latin el (the name of the letter L).
senses_examples:
text:
The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.
ref:
1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.
senses_topics:
|
3661 | word:
el
word_type:
noun
expansion:
el (plural els)
forms:
form:
els
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
El
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The main section of the Sixth Avenue El from Morris Street to Ninth Avenue and 53rd Street shut down on December 4, 1938.
ref:
2012, Roger P. Roess, Gene Sansone, The Wheels That Drove New York, page 294
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An elevated railway, especially for specific systems such as the metro in Chicago.
senses_topics:
|
3662 | word:
el
word_type:
num
expansion:
el
forms:
wikipedia:
El
etymology_text:
Shortening of eleven.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after dek and before do in a duodecimal system. Written ↋, decimal value 11.
senses_topics:
|
3663 | word:
el
word_type:
article
expansion:
el
forms:
wikipedia:
El
etymology_text:
From Spanish el.
senses_examples:
text:
"[…] A sister of Joseph Gerard […] was found unconscious on the kitchen floor by the family cook early this morning. […]"
[…] What leads could they have, if the old lady was el zonko?
ref:
2007, Richard Bachman, Blaze, page 125
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The (sometimes where "the" would not occur in normal English).
senses_topics:
|
3664 | word:
el
word_type:
noun
expansion:
el (plural els)
forms:
form:
els
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
El
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Unspecified script letter Л / л.
senses_topics:
|
3665 | word:
expression
word_type:
noun
expansion:
expression (countable and uncountable, plural expressions)
forms:
form:
expressions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
expression
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French expression, from Late Latin expressiō, expressiōnem (“a pressing out”).
Morphologically express + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
The expression "break a leg!" should not be taken literally.
type:
example
text:
They stared at the newcomer with a puzzled expression.
type:
example
text:
The best poker players can tell if the opponents have a good hand by looking at their expression.
type:
example
text:
Her expression changed from joy to misery after realising her winning lottery ticket had expired.
type:
example
text:
At any other time Jessamy would have laughed at the expressions that chased each other over his freckled face: crossness left over from his struggle with the baby; incredulity; distress; and finally delight.
ref:
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
expression from a gland
type:
example
text:
Breast milk expression can be achieved by hand or with a pump.
type:
example
text:
However the mechanical expression of juice led to an improvement of the solutes extraction from mash.
type:
example
text:
The number of children who could read with expression would be very small ; ...
ref:
1849, Great Britain. Committee on Education, Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education; with appendices. 1847-8-9. England and Wales. Schools of Parochial Unions, etc, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
I cannot say that all read with expression. Indeed , this power is hardly to be expected in young children . And though “ to read with expression ...
ref:
1864, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, page 170
type:
quotation
text:
1976, Aline D. Wolf, Tutoring is Caring: You Can Help Someone to Read, Parent Child Press
Perhaps when you were learning to read , you were asked to stand and " read with expression " for your classmates
text:
To read with expression, readers must know when to pause appropriately, must know when to change their tone to reflect the emotions of different characters, ...
ref:
2010, Kimberly A. Henry, How Do I Teach this Kid to Read?: Teaching Literacy Skills to Young Children with Autism, from Phonics to Fluency, Future Horizons, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
Think of reading words like reading music. When you read with expression, your audience will understand and appreciate your “performance.” Name ...
ref:
2014, Edward Fry, Timothy Rasinski, High Frequency Word Phrases Level 3--Reading with Expression, Teacher Created Materials, page 43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
A particular way of phrasing an idea.
A colloquialism or idiom.
A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
The process of translating a gene into a protein.
A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
A specific blend of whisky.
The act of pressing or squeezing out.
The tone of voice or sound in music.
Emotional involvement or engagement in a text read aloud rendered by the voice of the reciter or the reader.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
biology
business
manufacturing
natural-sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
3666 | word:
pimple
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pimple (plural pimples)
forms:
form:
pimples
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pimple
etymology_text:
Early Modern English pimple, pumple, from Middle English pymple, pympyl, of uncertain origin but probably a nasalized variant of Old English *pipel, *pypel, from Old English piplian, pyplian (“to break out in pimples, show eruptions”), probably related to Latin papula (“pimple, pustule”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (“pock mark, nipple”)). Akin to Old English pipliġende (“having shingles”).
senses_examples:
text:
I had to pop that embarrassing pimple, it was huge and red and on the tip of my nose.
type:
example
text:
He's such a pimple! I wish he'd stop being so irritating!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.
An annoying person.
Scotch (whisky)
senses_topics:
dermatology
medicine
sciences
|
3667 | word:
pimple
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pimple (third-person singular simple present pimples, present participle pimpling, simple past and past participle pimpled)
forms:
form:
pimples
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pimpling
tags:
participle
present
form:
pimpled
tags:
participle
past
form:
pimpled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
pimple
etymology_text:
Early Modern English pimple, pumple, from Middle English pymple, pympyl, of uncertain origin but probably a nasalized variant of Old English *pipel, *pypel, from Old English piplian, pyplian (“to break out in pimples, show eruptions”), probably related to Latin papula (“pimple, pustule”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (“pock mark, nipple”)). Akin to Old English pipliġende (“having shingles”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To develop pimples
senses_topics:
|
3668 | word:
habitual
word_type:
adj
expansion:
habitual (comparative more habitual, superlative most habitual)
forms:
form:
more habitual
tags:
comparative
form:
most habitual
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English habitual (“of one's inherent disposition”), from Medieval Latin habituālis (“customary; habitual”), from Latin habitus (“character; disposition; habit; physical or emotional condition; attire, dress”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship); analysable as habit + -ual. Habitus is derived from habeō (“to have; to hold; to own; to possess”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, take”)) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
Her habitual lying was the reason for my mistrust.
type:
example
text:
Thomas Aquinas attributeth preparation vnto free-vvill, but not conuerſion. Now this preparation hee thus coloureth, that it is indeed a furtherance to the habituall grace of cõuersion, but yet through the free aſsiſtance of God mouing vs inwardly.
ref:
1617, Zacharias Ursinus, “Quest. 90. What is the Quickning of the New Man?”, in Henrie Parrie [i.e., Henry Parry], David Pareus, transl., The Svmme of Christian Religion, Deliuered Zacharias Vrsinvs in His Lectures vpon the Catechisme, […] Translated into English […], and Lately Conferred with the Last and Best Latine Edition […], London: Imprinted by H. L. and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson, […], →OCLC, 3rd part (Of Mans Thankefulnes), section 4 (What are the Causes of Conuersion), page 861
type:
quotation
text:
There is an actual Grace removing the Power of ſin, before habitual or ſanctifying Grace, the [Holy] Spirit doing it immediately by an omnipotent act, by that which is called actuating moving Grace; Chriſt can and muſt firſt bind the ſtrong man and caſt him out by this working or actual Grace, before he dwels in the houſe of mans heart by habitual and ſanctifying Grace: [...]
ref:
1655, Rich[ard] Baxter, “Sect. III. The Testimony of Reformed Divines Ascribing as Much to Works as I: And Many of Them Delivering the Same Doctrine.”, in Rich[ard] Baxter’s Confesssion [sic] of His Faith, Especially Concerning the Interest of Repentance and Sincere Obedience to Christ, in Our Justification & Salvation. […], London: Printed by R[obert] W[hite] for Tho[mas] Underhil and Fra[ncis] Tyton, […], →OCLC, page 421
type:
quotation
text:
The Night-Mare is either Accidental or Habitual. [...] The Habitual is occaſioned by ſome Acid Lymph that diſorders the Spirits and Creates a Paralytic or Convulſive Diſpoſition of the Nerves of the Middriff and Muſcles of the Breast; which by conſent Cramp thoſe of the Wind-Pipe, whoſe Contraction raiſes a ſenſe of ſtrangling, and aboliſhes the power of an Articulate Voice.
ref:
1703, Michael Etmullerus [i.e., Michael Ettmüller], “Sect. XIV. Of Diseases Relating to the Lungs and Organs of Respiration.”, in Etmullerus Abridg’d: Or, A Compleat System of the Theory and Practice of Physic. […] Translated from the Last Edition of the Works […], 2nd corrected and much improved edition, London: Printed for Andrew Bell […], and Richard Wellington, […], →OCLC, 1st book, chapter II (Of Inspiration Deprav’d, or Difficult Breathing), article III (Of the Night Mare), page 144
type:
quotation
text:
But by a long and habitual courſe of giving way to evil tempers, and indulging ſinful paſſions, a perſon may be ſo blinded thereby as not to ſee the evil thereof, and ſo hardened therein as not to feel the bad effects of them.
ref:
1774, W[illiam] Mason, An Affectionate Address to Passionate Professors: Shewing the Blessedness of a Meek and Quiet Spirit: The Evil of Giving Way to Bad Tempers and Sinful Passions; And Pointing Out Some Remedies for Subduing Them, London: Printed for the author; and sold by M. Lewis, […]; and J. Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
The nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondneſs, is in ſome degree a ſlave: it is a ſlave to its authority or its affection, either of which is ſufficient to lead it aſtray from its duty and its intereſt.
ref:
1796 September 17, George Washington, “The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States”, in Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, Pa.: D[avid] C. and S. Claypoole, published 19 September 1796, →OCLC; republished as “Address of General Washington on His Resignation”, in The Scots Magazine; or, General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics, volume LVIII (volume III, New Series), Edinburgh: Printed by Alex[ander] Chapman and Company, for James Watson and Company, […], December 1796, →OCLC, page 832, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
KNOWLEDGE COMPETENCIES [...] Explore the rationale behind an individual's smoking habit (nicotine addiction/dependence, psychosocial aspects, and habitual cues).
ref:
1997, Christine A. Wynd, “Smoking Cessation”, in Barbara Montgomery Dossey, editor, Core Curriculum for Holistic Nursing, Gaithersburg, Md.: Aspen Publishers, page 220
type:
quotation
text:
Professor Franklein took his habitual seat at the conference table.
type:
example
text:
Our hearts are ſaid to be purified by faith; Acts 15. 9. not our lives onely in the acts of holineſſe and purity, but our heart in the habituall frame of them.
ref:
1653, Thomas Shepard, The Sound Beleever. A Treatise of Evangelicall Conversion. Discovering the Work of Christs Spirit, in Reconciling of a Sinner to God, London: Printed for Andrew Crooke […], →OCLC, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
Now he [Edmund Bonner] was deprived, and had no more to doe with the Bishoprick of London, then with the Bishoprick of Conſtantinople, he had the habituall power of the Keies, but had no flock to exercise it upon.
ref:
1658, John Bramhall, “The Fourth and Fifth Reasons against This Improbable Fiction, from the No Necessity of It, and the Lesse Advantage of It”, in The Consecration and Succession, of Protestant Bishops Justified. […], Gravenhagh [The Hague]: By John Ramzey, →OCLC, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
He’s a habitual chain-smoker.
type:
example
text:
[N]o drunkard (i.e.) no Habituall, Impenitent drunkard, ſhall come into Gods Kingdome.
ref:
1658, Thomas Hall, “[Chap. 3.] Verse 2. For men shall be lovers of themselves, Covetous, Boasters, Proud, Blasphemers, disobedient to Parents, unthankfull, unholy, &c.”, in A Practical and Polemical Commentary: Or, Exposition upon the Third and Fourth Chapters of the Latter Epistle of Saint Paul to Timothy. […], London: Printed by E. Tyler, for John Starkey, […], →OCLC, [https://books.google.com/books?id=LvwqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA95 page [95]]
type:
quotation
text:
The habitual drunkard, the habitual fornicator, the habitual cheat must be converted. The breaking off a habit, especially when we had placed much of our gratification in it, is alone so great a thing, and such a step in our Christian life, as to merit the name of conversion.
ref:
a. 1806, William Paley, W[illiam] Hamilton Reid, “Conversion”, in Beauties Selected from the Writings of the Late William Paley, D.D. Archbishop of Carlisle: […], London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, […], published 1810, →OCLC, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
That the hospitals for the insane be designated as the proper places for the custody, care, and treatment of constitutionally unstable offenders, whether occasional or habitual offenders, and whether feeble-minded, or non-feeble-minded, [...]
ref:
1922 July, “Quotations: Defectives, Criminals, and Misdemeanants”, in J. Harold Williams, editor, The Journal of Delinquency, volume VII, number 4, Whittier, Calif.: California Bureau of Juvenile Research, Whittier State School, →OCLC, page 194
type:
quotation
text:
In addition to the dose of caffeine, there are other items that athletes need to be aware of before utilizing caffeine or caffeine-containing products as an ergogenic aid. Habitual caffeine users may respond differently than naïve users [...]. Research indicates that in habitual users, caffeine may increase fat breakdown, but this does not necessarily result in an increase in fat use for energy or an increase in catecholamines or performance.
ref:
2002, Jose Antonio, Jeffrey R. Stout, “Caffeine and Ephedrine”, in Supplements for Endurance Athletes, Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics Publishers, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
While some novice entrepreneurs have no intention of becoming a habitual entrepreneur, others do. [...] Accordingly, while 'pure' novice entrepreneurs represent the group of novice entrepreneurs that will remain one-time entrepreneurs, 'transient'; novice entrepreneurs will at least attempt to become habitual entrepreneurs.
ref:
2006, Deniz Ucbarasan, Paul Westhead, Mike Wright, “Conclusions”, in Habitual Entrepreneurs, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, page 205
type:
quotation
text:
In English, for instance, the Habitual Aspect (used to construction) can combine freely with Progressive Aspect, to give such forms as used to be playing.
ref:
1976, Bernard Comrie, “Perfective and Imperfective”, in Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics; 2), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, published 1998, section 1.2.1.1 (Habitual and Other Aspectual Values), page 30
type:
quotation
text:
The majority of South Arawak, Pareci-Xingu, and Peruvian Arawak languages have a three-fold aspect distinction: completive (completed, perfective or telic action); progressive (action/state in progress; also a durative meaning); and habitual.
ref:
1999, Alexandra Y[urievna] Aikhenvald, “The Arawak Language Family”, in R[obert] M[alcolm] W[ard] Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, editors, The Amazonian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, section 6.4 (Other Verbal Categories), page 93
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.
Regular or usual.
Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly.
Pertaining to an action performed customarily, ordinarily, or usually.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3669 | word:
habitual
word_type:
noun
expansion:
habitual (plural habituals)
forms:
form:
habituals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English habitual (“of one's inherent disposition”), from Medieval Latin habituālis (“customary; habitual”), from Latin habitus (“character; disposition; habit; physical or emotional condition; attire, dress”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship); analysable as habit + -ual. Habitus is derived from habeō (“to have; to hold; to own; to possess”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, take”)) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
It has been suggested that we should classify prisoners as casuals and habituals. If a casual is to be distinguished from an habitual simply by the length of his sentence, this classification would hardly answer.
ref:
1870 January 20, G. Hutchinson, “XXIV. The Present State of the Prison Question in British India.”, in Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the Prison Association of New York, and Accompanying Documents, for the Year 1869. […] (New York State Senate; 1870, no. 21), Albany, N.Y.: The Argus Company, printers, →OCLC, page 433
type:
quotation
text:
However, in an era when legal punishment was dominated by principles of classical justice and Victorian political economy, what else could one do with the habituals other than provide for an accumulation of prison sentences: the more repeated one's crime, the longer one might be sentenced to imprisonment.
ref:
1997, John Pratt, “Dangerousness: The Birth of a Concept”, in Governing the Dangerous: Dangerousness, Law and Social Change, Leichhardt, N.S.W.: The Federation Press, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
Habituals, generally speaking, are the people who might in the context of college admissions be referred to as "legacies." These are people who choose to go into finance either because their parents or siblings work in finance, or because they've grown up with financiers in their immediate social circle. Strictly speaking, most Habituals make it to Wall Street on their own, but their upbringings (in wealthy or upper-middle-class communities) and their educational opportunities (at private high schools and top-tier colleges) have made finance a destination that, if not inevitable, is at least a known and respected option for people in their circumstances.
ref:
2014, Kevin Roose, chapter 11, in Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s Post-crash Recruits, New York, N.Y.: Grand Central Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
Since any situation that can be protracted sufficiently in time, or that can be iterated a sufficient number of times over a long enough period – and this means, in effect, almost any situation – can be expressed as a habitual, it follows that habituality is in principle combinable with various other aspectual values, namely those appropriate to the kind of situation that is prolonged or iterated.
ref:
1976, Bernard Comrie, “Perfective and Imperfective”, in Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics; 2), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, published 1998, section 1.2.1.1 (Habitual and Other Aspectual Values), page 30
type:
quotation
text:
Indeed, [Thomas] Givón (1994: 323) suggests the habitual is a 'hybrid modality', sharing some features of realis (higher assertive certainty) and some of irrealis ('lack of specific temporal reference; lack of specific evidence; …').
ref:
2001, F[rank] R[obert] Palmer, “Subjunctive and Irrealis”, in Mood and Modality (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics), 2nd edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, page 191
type:
quotation
text:
Stative verbs such as know and see are not associated with [+perf] since, like habituals, they are associated with a generic operator.
ref:
2004, Elly van Gelderen, “Aspect: The Tense Aspect Parameter and Inner to Outer Aspect”, in Grammaticalization as Economy (Linguistik Aktuell = Linguistics Today; 71), Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISSN, section 5 (Giorgi & Pianesi: The Demise of the Infinitival Ending and Aspect), page 221
type:
quotation
text:
As an expression of the iterative habitual suffixal -s is by no means recent. It is found in emigrant letters from the early nineteenth century. [...] O'Hara's uses as an inflected first person singular as an iterative habitual, e.g. I hopes the [ ] family are well …, I hopes you will except [sic!] my thanks for the same … (Kean O'Hara, 1818–19). This usage is still to be found in east coast varieties of Irish English.
ref:
2007, Raymond Hickey, “The Emergence of Irish English”, in Irish English: History and Present-day Forms (Studies in English Language), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, page 216
type:
quotation
text:
For example, repeated occurrence (iteratives or ‘habituals’) in English may be signalled by repeatedly or several times (‘He shouted repeatedly’), or it may be part of the meaning of the verb (‘The bird fluttered its wings’).
ref:
2007, Howard Jackson, “Grammar: Morphology and Syntax”, in Key Terms in Linguistics, London, New York, N.Y.: Continuum, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who does something habitually, such as a serial criminal offender.
A construction representing something done habitually.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3670 | word:
my
word_type:
det
expansion:
my
forms:
wikipedia:
my
etymology_text:
From Middle English mi, my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.) (possessive of *ek (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *méynos (“my; mine”).
Cognate with West Frisian myn (“my”), Afrikaans my (“my”), Dutch mijn (“my”), German mein (“my”), Swedish min (“my”). More at me.
senses_examples:
text:
I can't find my book.
text:
My seat at the restaurant was uncomfortable.
text:
Don't you know my name?
text:
I recognised him because he had attended my school.
text:
My parents won't let me go out tonight.
text:
I have to take my books back to the library soon.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
Belonging to me.
First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
Associated with me.
First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
Related to me.
First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
In the possession of me.
senses_topics:
|
3671 | word:
my
word_type:
intj
expansion:
my
forms:
wikipedia:
my
etymology_text:
An abbreviation of an oath such as my word or my Lord
senses_examples:
text:
My, what big teeth you have!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to express surprise, shock or amazement.
senses_topics:
|
3672 | word:
sidewinder
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sidewinder (plural sidewinders)
forms:
form:
sidewinders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From side + winder (“one who winds or wends, traveller”), from the sideways, looping manner in which they move.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A North American rattlesnake, Crotalus cerastes, that inhabits lowland deserts.
A person who is untrustworthy and dangerous.
A heavy swinging blow from the side which disables an adversary.
A pitcher who throws sidearm.
A type of middle-distance deep-sea trawler widely used during the 1960s and 1970s.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
3673 | word:
computer-aided design
word_type:
noun
expansion:
computer-aided design (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The technology seeks to identify the birds' nests on the ground. Details of their location are then fed into computer-aided design drawings and the global positioning systems of machinery working on site, to let operators know when they are working near exclusion zones.
ref:
2020 August 12, “Network News: Drones locate skylark nests”, in Rail, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of using drawings made by using a computer to design machines, buildings, etc.
senses_topics:
|
3674 | word:
sombrero
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sombrero (plural sombreros)
forms:
form:
sombreros
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish sombrero (“hat”), from sombra (“shadow, shade”) + -ero, literally, "shade-maker". The drink was named after the hat.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kind of hat with a high conical or cylindrical crown and a saucer-shaped brim, highly embroidered, made of plush felt.
A mixed drink with coffee liqueur and cream.
A series of four consecutive strikes.
senses_topics:
bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
3675 | word:
action
word_type:
noun
expansion:
action (countable and uncountable, plural actions)
forms:
form:
actions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English accion, from Old French aucion, acciun, from Latin āctiō (“act of doing or making”), from āctus + action suffix -iō, perfect passive participle of agere (“do, act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti; see also act, active.
Morphologically act + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
Knead bread with a rocking action.
type:
example
text:
a movie full of exciting action
type:
example
text:
Pressing a piano key causes the action of the hammer on the string.
type:
example
text:
pump-action shotgun
type:
example
text:
The run in bar 12 is almost impossible with this piano's heavy action.
type:
example
text:
You're getting fret buzz because the action is too low.
type:
example
text:
She gave him some action.
type:
example
text:
I hope to get a bit of action with the hot guy from the club.
type:
example
text:
He saw some action in the Korean War.
type:
example
text:
The Action Sermon is quite simply, then, the eucharistic sermon.
ref:
2008, Duncan B. Forrester, Doug Gay, Worship and Liturgy in Context, scm Press, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
The protest was set up in less than three weeks by an ad hoc group called Act Up […] According to Kramer, Act Up will continue AIDS-related organizing, possibly inclcuding an action at an early June Washington, D.C., AIDS conference for scientists worldwide.
ref:
1987 April 11, Kim Westheimer, “NY Protesters Rip FDA”, in Gay Community News, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The effort of performing or doing something.
Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
A way of motion or functioning.
Fast-paced activity.
The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
The distance separating the strings and the fingerboard on a string instrument.
Sexual intercourse.
Combat.
A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
A way in which each element of some algebraic structure transforms some other structure or set, in a way which respects the structure of the first. Formally, this may be seen as a morphism from the first structure into some structure of endomorphisms of the second; for example, a group action of a group G on a set S can be seen as a group homomorphism from G into the set of bijections on S (which form a group under function composition), while a module M over a ring R can be defined as an abelian group together with a ring homomorphism from R into the ring of group endomorphisms of M (which is also called the action of R on M).
The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
spin put on the bowling ball.
A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds.
A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
Purposeful behavior.
A demonstration by activists.
senses_topics:
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
entertainment
lifestyle
music
arts
crafts
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
music
government
military
politics
war
law
mathematics
sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
literature
media
publishing
art
arts
bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Christianity
sciences
economics
sciences
|
3676 | word:
action
word_type:
intj
expansion:
action!
forms:
form:
action!
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English accion, from Old French aucion, acciun, from Latin āctiō (“act of doing or making”), from āctus + action suffix -iō, perfect passive participle of agere (“do, act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti; see also act, active.
Morphologically act + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
The director yelled ‘Action!’ after the cameras started rolling.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually a performance.
senses_topics:
|
3677 | word:
action
word_type:
adj
expansion:
action (comparative more action, superlative most action)
forms:
form:
more action
tags:
comparative
form:
most action
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English accion, from Old French aucion, acciun, from Latin āctiō (“act of doing or making”), from āctus + action suffix -iō, perfect passive participle of agere (“do, act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti; see also act, active.
Morphologically act + -ion.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
arrogant
senses_topics:
|
3678 | word:
action
word_type:
verb
expansion:
action (third-person singular simple present actions, present participle actioning, simple past and past participle actioned)
forms:
form:
actions
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
actioning
tags:
participle
present
form:
actioned
tags:
participle
past
form:
actioned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English accion, from Old French aucion, acciun, from Latin āctiō (“act of doing or making”), from āctus + action suffix -iō, perfect passive participle of agere (“do, act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti; see also act, active.
Morphologically act + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
‘Here, give me the minutes of Monday’s meeting. I’ll action your points for you while you get on and sort out the open day.’
ref:
2004, Ros Jay, Richard Templar, “Fast thinking: project”, in Fast Thinking Manager's Manual, 2nd edition, Pearson Education, Fast Thinking Leader, page 276
type:
quotation
text:
Violent reactions from the Jewish authorities were expected and difficulties of actioning the new guidelines were foreseen.
ref:
2005, Fritz Liebreich, “The physical confrontation: interception and diversion policies in theory and practice”, in Britain's Navel and Political Reaction to the Illegal Immigration of Jews to Palestine, 1945-1948, Routledge, page 196
type:
quotation
text:
HMRC said that one reason they had not actioned her appeal was because she had said in her appeal form ‘I am appealing against the overpayment for childcare for 2003-04, 2004-05’, thus implying she was disputing her ‘overpayment’.
ref:
2007, Great Britain: Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, “Case study: 11257”, in Tax Credits: Getting it wrong? 5th report session 2006-2007, The Stationery Office, Chapter 2: Changes and developments since June 2005, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
Do say: “I can action that for you going forward, my little summer squash.”
ref:
2024 May 13, “Spice up your spreadsheets! Should you run your relationship like a business?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
‘I have no business to settle with you—arrest me, Sir, at your peril and I’ll action you in law for false imprisonment.’
ref:
1856, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Attaché: or Sam Slick in England, new revised edition, Stringer & Townsend, Chapter XLVII: The Horse Stealer; or All Trades Have Tricks But Our Own, page 270
type:
quotation
text:
Scrip threatened me at first with an action for slander—he spoke of actions to the wrong man though—action! no, no no. I should have actioned him—ha! ha! [...]
ref:
1844, Robert Mackenzie Daniel, The Grave Digger: A novel by the author of The Scottish Heiress, volume I, T. C. Newby, Chapter IX: How the Grave-differ entertained a lady, pages 189–190
type:
quotation
text:
I have actioned him for Libel, but he won’t plead, and says he will make himself bankrupt & won’t pay a penny.
ref:
1871, Michael Shermer, quoting Alfred Russell Wallace, In Darwin’s shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russell Wallace, Oxford University Press US, published 2002, Chapter 10. Heretic Personality, page 261
type:
quotation
text:
In 1589 the Court went so far as to effect a reconciliation between Michel le Petevin and his wife after she actioned him for ill treatment and adultery with their chambermaid.
ref:
1996, Darryl Mark Ogier, “Discipline: Enforcement”, in Reformation and Society in Guernsey, Boydell & Brewer, Part Two: The Calvinist Regime, page 148
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
To initiate a legal action against someone.
senses_topics:
management
|
3679 | word:
teddy bear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
teddy bear (plural teddy bears)
forms:
form:
teddy bears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Morris Michtom, the owner of a candy store in Brooklyn N.Y., who made the first “Teddy Bear” in the year 1902 in honor of then American President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt when he had heard that he had refused to shoot a bear cub on one of his hunting trips.
senses_examples:
text:
1988, Michael Weikath, "Rise and Fall", Helloween, Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II.
The king of Los Angeles / Bought himself a teddy bear / And the queen became shameless / She did it with a chair
type:
quotation
text:
The origin of Paddington (the bear, not the station) dates to 1956 when author Michael Bond (1926-2017) spotted a lonesome teddy bear on the shelf of a store near the station. It was Christmas Eve, so he bought the solitary bear for his wife.
ref:
2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
I'd like to mt you if you're a bearded ‘Teddy Bear,’ husky build, under 34 & share a career orientation.
ref:
1980 August 9, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
...the sexy "teddy bear" frontman of the '80s rap group Heavy D and the Boyz.
ref:
1999, “Big Men are Sexy Too - Apr 1999”, in Ebony, volume 54, number 6, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
This is not to say that women don't admire the Brad Pitts and George Clooneys of the world, but they're just as likely to be attracted to a big, teddy bear kind of man as the guy gracing the cover of GQ.
ref:
2008, Jean A. Campbell, Taking Sexy Back: The Cure for the Sexual Blahs, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
Some insisted that, because men have generally hairier bodies than women, a super-hairy chest is super-male and therefore very appealing. They added that it not only looks sexy but also feels sexy, like a teddy bear.
ref:
2009, Desmond Morris, The Naked Man: A Study of the Male Body, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
“So I'm sort of a big teddy bear, am I?” “A sexy teddy bear.” he kissed her neck.
ref:
2010, Abigail Reynolds, Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice: A Modern Love Story with a Jane..., page 276
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A plush toy in the shape of a bear.
A lovable, endearing, large, strong, hairy, or sweet man, particularly one who is gentle in spite of a burly or gruff appearance.
senses_topics:
|
3680 | word:
honey-pot ant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
honey-pot ant (plural honey-pot ants)
forms:
form:
honey-pot ants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Honeypot ant
etymology_text:
From honeypot + ant.
From its large abdomen resembling a pot of honey, which contains a sweet substance used for colony survival.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of ant from Australia, known for a class of individuals within the colony which have huge inflated amber-coloured abdomen.
The class of repletes, individuals of the colony which resemble honeypots.
An individual ant of the type
An individual ant of the replete class
senses_topics:
|
3681 | word:
computer graphics
word_type:
noun
expansion:
computer graphics pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
computer graphics
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The representation and manipulation of pictorial data by a computer.
The various technologies used to create and manipulate such pictorial data.
The images so produced.
A sub-field of computer science which studies methods for digitally synthesizing and manipulating visual content.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
3682 | word:
computer language
word_type:
noun
expansion:
computer language (plural computer languages)
forms:
form:
computer languages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A language that is used internally by computers, including programming languages, machine languages, query languages, markup languages etc.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
3683 | word:
collateral
word_type:
adj
expansion:
collateral (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Recorded since c.1378, from Old French, from Medieval Latin collaterālis, from Latin col- (“together with”) (a form of con-) + the stem of latus (“side”). By surface analysis, col- + lateral.
senses_examples:
text:
collateral damage
type:
example
text:
Although not a direct cause, the border skirmish was certainly a collateral incitement for the war.
type:
example
text:
a collateral descendant
type:
example
text:
Uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces are collateral relatives.
type:
example
text:
The pure blood all descends from five collateral lines called Al-Khamsah (the Cinque).
ref:
1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 5
type:
quotation
text:
collateral pressure
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.
Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
Coming or directed along the side.
Acting in an indirect way.
Having the phloem and xylem adjacent.
senses_topics:
business
finance
business
finance
biology
natural-sciences |
3684 | word:
collateral
word_type:
noun
expansion:
collateral (countable and uncountable, plural collaterals)
forms:
form:
collaterals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Recorded since c.1378, from Old French, from Medieval Latin collaterālis, from Latin col- (“together with”) (a form of con-) + the stem of latus (“side”). By surface analysis, col- + lateral.
senses_examples:
text:
The decline in the quality of eligible collateral is a grave problem. The ECB is now buying corporate bonds that are close to junk, and the haircuts can barely deal with a one-notch credit downgrade. The reputational risk of such actions by a central bank would have been unthinkable in the past.
ref:
2016, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, “Euro 'house of cards' to collapse, warns ECB prophet”, in The Telegraph
type:
quotation
text:
In colonial times, when land was not worth much and banks didn’t exist, most lending was based on human property. In the early 1700s, slaves were the dominant collateral in South Carolina.
ref:
2019 August 14, Matthew Desmond, “In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Besides the arteries blood streams through numerous veins we call collaterals.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.
A collateral (not linear) family member.
A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material).
A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.
A contemporary or rival.
senses_topics:
business
finance
anatomy
medicine
sciences
business
marketing
anatomy
medicine
sciences
|
3685 | word:
recipe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
recipe (plural recipes)
forms:
form:
recipes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
recipe
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French récipé, from Latin recipe, second person singular imperative of Latin recipiō (“receive”). Doublet of recept and receipt.
senses_examples:
text:
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
ref:
2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.
ref:
2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892
type:
quotation
text:
His new approach is definitely a recipe for success.
type:
example
text:
Stepper recipes.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.
Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
By extension, a plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription.
Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.
A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
3686 | word:
civics
word_type:
noun
expansion:
civics (usually uncountable, plural civics)
forms:
form:
civics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin civicus (“having to do with citizens or a town or city”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The study of good citizenship and proper membership in a community.
senses_topics:
|
3687 | word:
lob
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lob (third-person singular simple present lobs, present participle lobbing, simple past and past participle lobbed)
forms:
form:
lobs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lobbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lobbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
lobbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.
senses_examples:
text:
The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.
type:
example
text:
The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.
type:
example
text:
In the months leading up to the election, government representatives took up a cybercrime case against Thanathorn for criticising the government on a Facebook Live video... They also lobbed more legal cases at his party for allegedly spreading false information.
ref:
2019 April 6, Caleb Quinley, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, in Al Jazeera, Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved 2019-04-06
type:
quotation
text:
I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.
ref:
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
Lob the bacon in the pot.
type:
example
text:
Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post.
ref:
2011 January 15, Nabil Hassan, “Wigan 1 - 1 Fulham”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch.
To throw.
To put, place.
To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
To let fall heavily or lazily.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
3688 | word:
lob
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lob (plural lobs)
forms:
form:
lobs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.
senses_examples:
text:
The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.
type:
example
text:
Peter Lovenkrands went close for the Magpies, hitting the bar with a fine lob after he had been played in by the excellent Jose Enrique on the left.
ref:
2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pass or stroke which arches high into the air.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
3689 | word:
lob
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lob (plural lobs)
forms:
form:
lobs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lob (“a lazy lout, bundle of clothing”), from Old English *lobb, *lobbe word for lumpish or unwieldy things, from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ (“that which hangs or dangles”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lep- (“to peel, skin”). Compare Danish lobbes (“bumpkin, clown”), Old English loppe (“spider”) (in the sense of something that hangs or dangles). Possibly influenced or borrowed through Welsh llob (“lump”).
senses_examples:
text:
And, moreover, I had no sooner set my eyes on the keys, than I remembered where there was a lob of money lying in Purcell's safe, that I
ref:
1875, M.L. Kenny, The fortunes of Maurice Cronin, page 126
type:
quotation
text:
THE country lob trudged home very much concerned and thoughtful, you may swear; insomuch that his good woman, seeing him thus look moping, weened that something had been stolen from him at market […]
ref:
1694, Peter Anthony Motteux, The Fourth Book, translation of original by Rabelais, Chapter XLVII
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lump.
A country bumpkin; a yokel.
A clumsy person.
The person who comes last in a race.
A lob-worm.
senses_topics:
|
3690 | word:
lob
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lob (plural lobs)
forms:
form:
lobs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lob (“pollock”), cognate with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German lobbe (“a type of small plump or stocky fish, cod”), Danish lubbe, from Old Norse lubba, ultimately from sense 2 in the sense of "clumsy, heavily or lumpily hanging."
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fish, the European pollock.
senses_topics:
|
3691 | word:
lob
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lob (third-person singular simple present lobs, present participle lobbing, simple past and past participle lobbed)
forms:
form:
lobs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lobbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lobbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
lobbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cob (chip off unwanted pieces of stone).
senses_topics:
business
mining |
3692 | word:
lob
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lob (plural lobs)
forms:
form:
lobs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of long + bob.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long bob haircut.
senses_topics:
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3693 | word:
subject
word_type:
adj
expansion:
subject (comparative more subject, superlative most subject)
forms:
form:
more subject
tags:
comparative
form:
most subject
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
subject
etymology_text:
From Middle English subget, from Old French suget, from Latin subiectus (“lying under or near, adjacent, also subject, exposed”), as a noun, subiectus (“a subject, an inferior”), subiectum (“the subject of a proposition”), past participle of subiciō (“throw, lay, place”), from sub (“under, at the foot of”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”), as a calque of Ancient Greek ὑποκείμενον (hupokeímenon).
senses_examples:
text:
a country subject to extreme heat
type:
example
text:
Menu listings and prices are subject to change.
type:
example
text:
He's subject to sneezing fits.
type:
example
text:
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
ref:
2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
The local board sets local policy, subject to approval from the State Board.
type:
example
text:
, Book I
Esau was never subject to Jacob.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Likely to be affected by or to experience something.
Conditional upon something; used with to.
Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
senses_topics:
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3694 | word:
subject
word_type:
noun
expansion:
subject (plural subjects)
forms:
form:
subjects
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
subject
etymology_text:
From Latin subiectus (“a subject, an inferior”), subiectum (“the subject of a proposition”), past participle of subiciō (“throw, lay, place”), from sub (“under, at the foot of”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”).
senses_examples:
text:
In the sentence ‘The cat ate the mouse’, ‘the cat’ is the subject, ‘the mouse’ being the object.
type:
example
text:
In this passive sentence, the subject (‘the early worm’) is the target of an action: ‘The early worm is caught by the early bird.’
type:
example
text:
The subjects and objects of power.
type:
example
text:
Her favorite subject is physics.
type:
example
text:
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.[…]But out of sight is out of mind. And that, together with the inherent yuckiness of the subject, means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair.
ref:
2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891
type:
quotation
text:
I am a British subject.
type:
example
text:
Ignat'ev refused to concede these points, but offered other concessions instead: Russia would not demand a consulate in Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh or Chang-chia-k'ou (Kalgan); it would permit Chinese subjects to continue living along the Ussuri river as Chinese subjects; and it would limit to 200 the number of Russian traders in Peking.
ref:
1996, S. C. M. Paine, Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier, M. E. Sharpe, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
[…]the Grand Khan seemed to grasp the "truth" of the religion and might become a convert, thereby gaining for Christianity the souls of all his subjects.
ref:
2020, Alan Mikhail, God's Shadow, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
The earliest known form of subject is the ecclesiastical cantus firmus, or plain song.
ref:
1878, William Smith Rockstro, “Subject”, in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians
type:
quotation
text:
Writers of particular lives[…]are apt to be prejudiced in favour of their subject.
ref:
1748, Conyers Middleton, Life of Cicero
type:
quotation
text:
It is also essential for those who come to the subject 'fresh' to gain the insight that will bridge their knowledge from being a subject of hypnosis to a potential practitioner.
ref:
2010, Ursula James, Clinical Hypnosis Textbook: A Guide for Practical Intervention, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field.
ref:
2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
Making x the subject of x² − 6x + 3y = 0, we have x = 3 ± √(9 − 3y).
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
By faulty generalisation from a clause's subject being coinstantiated with one: an actor or agent; one who takes action. The following example would mean that the subject subjects its subjects to its rule
The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
A particular area of study.
A citizen in a monarchy.
A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
That of which something is stated.
The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
mathematics
sciences |
3695 | word:
subject
word_type:
verb
expansion:
subject (third-person singular simple present subjects, present participle subjecting, simple past and past participle subjected)
forms:
form:
subjects
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
subjecting
tags:
participle
present
form:
subjected
tags:
participle
past
form:
subjected
tags:
past
wikipedia:
subject
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin subiectō, iterative of subiciō (“throw, lay, place”), from sub (“under, at the foot of”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”).
senses_examples:
text:
I came here to buy souvenirs, not to be subjected to a tirade of abuse!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave.
senses_topics:
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3696 | word:
sienna
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sienna (countable and uncountable, plural siennas)
forms:
form:
siennas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sienna
etymology_text:
From Italian terra di Siena (“earth of Siena”), Siena being the most notable Renaissance location of the clay.
senses_examples:
text:
sienna:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A form of clay containing iron and manganese.
A pigment with a reddish-brown colour.
A light reddish-brown colour.
senses_topics:
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3697 | word:
sienna
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sienna (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian terra di Siena (“earth of Siena”), Siena being the most notable Renaissance location of the clay.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
having a reddish-brown colour.
senses_topics:
|
3698 | word:
love
word_type:
noun
expansion:
love (countable and uncountable, plural loves)
forms:
form:
loves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
love
etymology_text:
From Middle English love, luve, from Old English lufu, from Proto-West Germanic *lubu, from Proto-Germanic *lubō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love, care, desire”).
The close of a letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like.
The verb is from Middle English loven, luvien, from Old English lufian (“to love”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubōn (“to love”), derived from the noun.
Eclipsed non-native English amour (“love”), borrowed from French amour (“love”).
Cognates include Russian любовь (ljubovʹ), Latin libido (“desire, lust”), Polish lubić and Sanskrit लोभ (lobha, “desire, greed”).
senses_examples:
text:
A mother’s love is not easily shaken.
type:
example
text:
My husband’s love is the most important thing in my life.
type:
example
text:
He on his side / Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love / Hung over her enamoured.
ref:
1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost
type:
quotation
text:
2014, S. Hidden, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mystical Perspectives on the Love of God, →ISBN:
type:
quotation
text:
The love of your neighbor as yourself, is expressly given as the definition and test of Charity,—not alms-giving—and this love is … the highest of all the Divine commands[.]
ref:
1864, Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government
text:
Through nonviolent resistance we shall be able to oppose the unjust system and at the same time love the perpetrators of the system. We must work passionately and unrelentingly for full stature as citizens, but may it never be said, my friends, that to gain it we used the inferior methods of falsehood, malice, hate, and violence.
ref:
1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart”, in Strength to Love, New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
I have never been in love as much as I have with you.
type:
example
text:
My love of cricket knows no bounds.
type:
example
text:
For three decades, the average number of miles driven by US motorists increased steadily. Then, in 2007, that steady climb was suddenly halted. [...] What magic caused Americans to temper their longstanding love of the open road?
ref:
2012, Philip Auerswald, The Coming Prosperity
type:
quotation
text:
Open the temple gates unto my love.
ref:
1595, Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion
type:
quotation
text:
I met my love by the gasworks wall.
ref:
1969, The Dubliners, Dirty Old Town
type:
quotation
text:
Hello love, how can I help you?
type:
example
text:
But it wasn't until [Theresa M. Claiborne] went to ROTC training camp at the University of California at Berkeley that she discovered that flying was her first love. "Pilots talk about getting bit by the flying bug," she says. "I thought, This is heaven."
ref:
1997 March, “Faces of Today's Black Woman”, in Ebony, volume 52, number 5, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
The prospect that their cherished Greeks would have countenanced, much less honored, a love between men that expressed itself carnally, however, was not so easily assimilated.
ref:
2013, Ronald Long, Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods, Routledge, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
—What think you, my lord, of... love?
—You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.
ref:
1986, Ben Elton et al., “Bells”, in Blackadder II
type:
quotation
text:
Maybe it was just a summer love, something with no future.
ref:
2014, E. L. Todd, Then Came Absolution
type:
quotation
text:
At busy hearts in vain love's arrows fly; …
ref:
c. 1810, Samuel Johnson (in The Works of Samuel Johnson)
text:
Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love-Hood.
ref:
1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, […]
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A deep caring for the existence of another.
Strong affection.
A profound and caring affection towards someone.
Strong affection.
Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
Strong affection.
A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
Strong affection.
A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
A thing, activity, etc. which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
Sexual activity.
An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
Alternative letter-case form of Love (“personification of love”).
A thin silk material.
A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
senses_topics:
|
3699 | word:
love
word_type:
verb
expansion:
love (third-person singular simple present loves, present participle loving, simple past and past participle loved)
forms:
form:
loves
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
loving
tags:
participle
present
form:
loved
tags:
participle
past
form:
loved
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
love
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
love
etymology_text:
From Middle English love, luve, from Old English lufu, from Proto-West Germanic *lubu, from Proto-Germanic *lubō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love, care, desire”).
The close of a letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like.
The verb is from Middle English loven, luvien, from Old English lufian (“to love”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubōn (“to love”), derived from the noun.
Eclipsed non-native English amour (“love”), borrowed from French amour (“love”).
Cognates include Russian любовь (ljubovʹ), Latin libido (“desire, lust”), Polish lubić and Sanskrit लोभ (lobha, “desire, greed”).
senses_examples:
text:
I love my spouse. I love you! I love that song!
type:
example
text:
Just give me a reason, / just a little bit's enough, / just a second we're not broken, just bent / and we can learn to love again.
ref:
2013 February 26, Pink, Nate Ruess, Just Give Me a Reason
type:
quotation
text:
Mold loves moist, dark places.
type:
example
text:
I love walking barefoot on wet grass; I'd love to join the team; I love what you've done with your hair
type:
example
text:
I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte.
type:
example
text:
She loved my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.
type:
example
text:
I wish I could love her all night long.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
To need, thrive on.
To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
To seek the good or honor of (someone), care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
To derive delight from a fact or situation.
Synonym of heart (verb).
To have sex with (perhaps from make love).
senses_topics:
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