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3700 | word:
love
word_type:
noun
expansion:
love (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
love
etymology_text:
Now widely believed (due to historical written record) to be from the idea that when one does a thing “for love” it is for no monetary gain, the word “love” thus implying "nothing".
The former assumption that it had originated from French l’œuf (literally “the egg”), due to its shape, has largely been discredited and is no longer widely accepted. However, the apparent similarity of the shape of an egg to a zero has inspired similar analogies, such as the use of duck (reputed to be short for duck's egg) for a zero score at cricket, and goose egg for "zero".
senses_examples:
text:
So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
type:
example
text:
The next day Agassi came back from two sets to love down to beat Courier in five sets.
ref:
2013, Paul McNamee, Game Changer: My Tennis Life
type:
quotation
text:
I fought the white man for less than sixpence. I fought him for love, which is nothing at all.
ref:
1916, H. Rider Haggard, The Ivory Child
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Zero, no score.
Nothing; no recompense.
senses_topics:
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
racquet-sports
sports
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3701 | 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
wikipedia:
love
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of lofe (“to praise, sell”)
senses_topics:
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3702 | word:
hunt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hunt (third-person singular simple present hunts, present participle hunting, simple past and past participle hunted)
forms:
form:
hunts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hunting
tags:
participle
present
form:
hunted
tags:
participle
past
form:
hunted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
hunt
etymology_text:
From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *huntōn (“to hunt, capture”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English hūþ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint.
In some areas read as a collective form of hound by folk etymology.
senses_examples:
text:
State Wildlife Management areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt on public lands.
type:
example
text:
Her uncle will go out and hunt for deer, now that it is open season.
type:
example
text:
2010, Backyard deer hunting: converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound, →ISBN, page 10:
type:
quotation
text:
The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.
type:
example
text:
The police are hunting for evidence.
type:
example
text:
My idea of retirement was to hunt seashells, play golf, and do a lot of walking.
ref:
2004, Prill Boyle, Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late-Blooming Women, page 119
type:
quotation
text:
What kind of woman came to an island and stayed there through a violent storm and then got up the next morning to hunt seashells? She had fine, delicate features with high cheekbones and the greenest eyes he'd ever seen.
ref:
2011, Ann Major, Nobody's Child
type:
quotation
text:
to hunt down a criminal
type:
example
text:
He was hunted from the parish.
type:
example
text:
Did you hunt that pony last week?
type:
example
text:
He hunts the woods, or the country.
type:
example
text:
[…] after which the inertia of the camera causes the motor to hunt with fluctuating speed.
ref:
1995, Bernard Wilkie, Special Effects in Television, page 174
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
To try to find something; search (for).
To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
To shift up and down in order regularly.
To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
3703 | word:
hunt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hunt (plural hunts)
forms:
form:
hunts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hunt
etymology_text:
From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *huntōn (“to hunt, capture”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English hūþ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint.
In some areas read as a collective form of hound by folk etymology.
senses_examples:
text:
Through male bonding, the subculture of the hunt caught up in the mystique of the chase, the hunting party became a military force, and men discovered that they need not stop at defense: they could go out to hunt for other people's wealth.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 134
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of hunting.
A hunting expedition.
An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
A pack of hunting dogs.
senses_topics:
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3704 | word:
chairperson
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chairperson (plural chairpersons or chairpeople)
forms:
form:
chairpersons
tags:
plural
form:
chairpeople
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From chair + person, after chairman and chairwoman.
senses_examples:
text:
She was the chairperson of the board and she presided over the meeting.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.
senses_topics:
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3705 | word:
write
word_type:
verb
expansion:
write (third-person singular simple present writes, present participle writing, simple past wrote or (archaic) writ, past participle written or (archaic) writ or (obsolete) ywriten)
forms:
form:
writes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
writing
tags:
participle
present
form:
wrote
tags:
past
form:
writ
tags:
archaic
past
form:
written
tags:
participle
past
form:
writ
tags:
archaic
participle
past
form:
ywriten
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
write
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English writen, from Old English wrītan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną (“to carve, write”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey- (“to rip, tear”).
Cognate with West Frisian write (“to wear by rubbing, rip, tear”), Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel”), Middle Low German wrîten (“to scratch, draw, write”) (> Low German wrieten, rieten (“to tear, split”)), German reißen (“to tear, rip”), Norwegian rita (“to rough-sketch, carve, write”), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model”), Icelandic rita (“to cut, scratch, write”), German ritzen (“to carve, scratch”), Proto-Slavic *ryti (“to carve, engrave, dig”), Polish ryć (“to engrave, dig”), Czech rýt (“to engrave, dig”). See also rit and rat.
senses_examples:
text:
The pupil wrote his name on the paper.
type:
example
text:
Your son has been writing on the wall.
type:
example
text:
My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald.
type:
example
text:
(UK) Please write to me when you get there.
type:
example
text:
(US) Please write me when you get there.
type:
example
text:
The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus.
type:
example
text:
Ghana's motto, writ large on the gleaming white Independence Arch that overlooks the Atlantic in Accra, is "Freedom and Justice."
ref:
1957 September 30, “Ghana: White Eminence”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-10-19
type:
quotation
text:
The route passes over low-lying land, the only item of note being the Cerebos salt works at Greatham, where one may catch a glimpse of the smart black diesel locomotive emblazoned with the firm's name writ large.
ref:
1959 August, K. Hoole, “The Middlesbrough–Newcastle Route of the N.E.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 359
type:
quotation
text:
Jimmy wrote me that he needs more money.
type:
example
text:
Do you know, one man actually wrote me he thought he could almost shave with the back of the blade, the lather "mellowed" his beard so.
ref:
1916 March 11, “[advertisement] Jim Henry, Optimist”, in Saturday Evening Post
type:
quotation
text:
I write for a living.
type:
example
text:
I said that I did not believe anyone could write any way except the very best he could write without destroying his talent.
ref:
1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, page 151
type:
quotation
text:
The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it.
type:
example
text:
I was very anxious to know my score after I wrote the test.
type:
example
text:
truth written on the heart
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
To send written information to.
To show (information, etc) in written form.
To convey a fact to someone via writing.
To be an author.
To record data mechanically or electronically.
To fill in, to complete using words.
To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
To sell (an option or other derivative).
To paint a religious icon.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
business
finance
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3706 | word:
write
word_type:
noun
expansion:
write (plural writes)
forms:
form:
writes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English writen, from Old English wrītan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną (“to carve, write”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey- (“to rip, tear”).
Cognate with West Frisian write (“to wear by rubbing, rip, tear”), Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel”), Middle Low German wrîten (“to scratch, draw, write”) (> Low German wrieten, rieten (“to tear, split”)), German reißen (“to tear, rip”), Norwegian rita (“to rough-sketch, carve, write”), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model”), Icelandic rita (“to cut, scratch, write”), German ritzen (“to carve, scratch”), Proto-Slavic *ryti (“to carve, engrave, dig”), Polish ryć (“to engrave, dig”), Czech rýt (“to engrave, dig”). See also rit and rat.
senses_examples:
text:
The pen also gives a better write than the ordinary counter pen. The ink stand cannot be stolen, for it is fastened to the counter or desk.
ref:
1938, The Bankers Monthly, volume 55, page 591
type:
quotation
text:
How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?
type:
example
text:
In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes, the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.
ref:
2006, MySQL administrator's guide and language reference, page 393
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or style of writing.
The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
3707 | word:
quarterly
word_type:
adj
expansion:
quarterly (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From quarter + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
quarterly rent payments
type:
example
text:
The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Occurring once every quarter year (three months).
(of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
3708 | word:
quarterly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
quarterly (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From quarter + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
It consisted of the arms of the City of London, Middlesex (three seaxes, or Saxon swords), Buckingham (a swan), and Hertford (a hart), arranged quarterly, on a background of crimson and ermine mantling […].
ref:
1950 June, Michael Robbins, “Heraldry of London Underground Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 380
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Once every quarter year (three months).
In the four, or in two diagonally opposite, quarters of a shield.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
3709 | word:
quarterly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quarterly (plural quarterlies)
forms:
form:
quarterlies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From quarter + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A periodical publication that appears four times per year.
senses_topics:
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3710 | word:
clergy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
clergy (plural clergies)
forms:
form:
clergies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English clergie (attested in the 13th century), from Old French clergié (“learned men”), from Late Latin clēricātus, from Latin clēricus (“one ordained for religious services”), from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikós, “of the clergy”).
senses_examples:
text:
Today we brought together clergy from the Wiccan, Christian, New Age and Islamic traditions for an interfaith dialogue.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Body of persons, such as priests, who are trained and ordained for religious service.
senses_topics:
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3711 | word:
sister-in-law
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sister-in-law (plural sisters-in-law or (colloquial, nonstandard) sister-in-laws)
forms:
form:
sisters-in-law
tags:
plural
form:
sister-in-laws
tags:
colloquial
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English suster-in-lawe; equivalent to sister + -in-law.
senses_examples:
text:
Though they are not twins, my sister-in-law resembles my wife in almost every way.
type:
example
text:
My sister-in-law and my brother both met while they were on vacation in Jamaica.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female relative of one's generation, separated by one degree of marriage:
The sister of one's spouse.
A female relative of one's generation, separated by one degree of marriage:
The wife of one's sibling.
Co-sister-in-law: The wife of one's sibling-in-law.
The wife of the sibling of one's spouse.
Co-sister-in-law: The wife of one's sibling-in-law.
The sister of the spouse of one's sibling.
senses_topics:
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3712 | word:
sill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sill (plural sills)
forms:
form:
sills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sille, selle, sülle, from Old English syll, syl (“sill, threshold, foundation, base, basis”), from Proto-Germanic *sulī (“bar, sill”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).
Cognate with Scots sil, sill (“balk, beam, floor, sill”), Dutch zulle (“sill”), Low German Sull, Sülle (“threshold, ramp, sill”), German Süll, Sülle (“threshold, sill”), Danish syld (“base of a framework building”), Swedish syll (“joist, cross-tie”), Norwegian syll, Icelandic syll, sylla (“sill”). Related also to German Schwelle ( > Danish svelle), Old Norse svill, Latin silva (“wood, forest”), Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē).
senses_examples:
text:
She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill.
type:
example
text:
Minor palingenetic magmas probably were generated at this time and intruded the mantling rocks in the form of small sills and apophyses […].
ref:
1980, Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1119, U.S. Government Printing Office
type:
quotation
text:
The molten rock in the sills may have ignited vast reserves of shallowly buried natural gas, much like a match applied to a gas barbecue.
ref:
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 55:
type:
quotation
text:
the nasal sill
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
senses_topics:
architecture
business
construction
manufacturing
geography
geology
natural-sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
government
military
politics
war |
3713 | word:
sill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sill (plural sills)
forms:
form:
sills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare sile.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A young herring.
senses_topics:
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3714 | word:
sill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sill (plural sills)
forms:
form:
sills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare thill.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The shaft or thill of a carriage.
senses_topics:
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3715 | word:
sill
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sill (comparative more sill, superlative most sill)
forms:
form:
more sill
tags:
comparative
form:
most sill
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Short for silly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Silly.
senses_topics:
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3716 | word:
some
word_type:
pron
expansion:
some
forms:
wikipedia:
some
etymology_text:
From Middle English som, sum, from Old English sum (“some, a certain one”), from Proto-West Germanic *sum, from Proto-Germanic *sumaz (“some, a certain one”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate Scots sum, some (“some”), North Frisian som, sam, säm (“some”), West Frisian sommige, somlike (“some”), dialectal Dutch som, saom (“some”), standard Dutch sommige (“some”), Low German somige (“some”), German dialectal summige (“some”), Danish somme (“some”), Swedish somlig (“some”), Norwegian sum, som (“some”), Icelandic sumur (“some”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌼𐍃 (sums, “one, someone”). More at same.
senses_examples:
text:
Some enjoy spicy food, others prefer it milder.
type:
example
text:
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
ref:
2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Can I have some of them?
type:
example
text:
Please give me some of the cake.
type:
example
text:
Everyone is wrong some of the time.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A certain number, at least two.
An indefinite quantity.
An indefinite amount, a part.
senses_topics:
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3717 | word:
some
word_type:
det
expansion:
some
forms:
wikipedia:
some
etymology_text:
From Middle English som, sum, from Old English sum (“some, a certain one”), from Proto-West Germanic *sum, from Proto-Germanic *sumaz (“some, a certain one”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate Scots sum, some (“some”), North Frisian som, sam, säm (“some”), West Frisian sommige, somlike (“some”), dialectal Dutch som, saom (“some”), standard Dutch sommige (“some”), Low German somige (“some”), German dialectal summige (“some”), Danish somme (“some”), Swedish somlig (“some”), Norwegian sum, som (“some”), Icelandic sumur (“some”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌼𐍃 (sums, “one, someone”). More at same.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: one
text:
Near-synonym: any
text:
Some people like camping.
type:
example
text:
Many people, especially some evangelical Christians, have been less than optimistic about the Potter influence.
ref:
2006, Charles H Lippy, Faith in America [Three Volumes] [3 Volumes]: Changes, Challenges, New Directions, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref:
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
ref:
2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: one
text:
Near-synonym: any
text:
Would you like some grapes?
type:
example
text:
Near-synonym: any
text:
Would you like some water?
type:
example
text:
After some persuasion, he finally agreed.
type:
example
text:
I've just met some guy who said he knew you.
type:
example
text:
The sequence S converges to zero for some initial value v.
type:
example
text:
Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
ref:
2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
He had edited the paper for some years.
type:
example
text:
He stopped working some time ago.
type:
example
text:
She has worked at the company for some thirty years now. (31 and two months, to be exact.)
type:
example
text:
There were only some three or four cars in the lot at the time.
type:
example
text:
What other natural experiments might we have to test climate sensitivity? Another one that happens every year is the change in seasons. Winter predictably follows summer, being some fifteen degrees colder in the Northern Hemisphere and five degrees colder than summer in the Southern Hemisphere. The reason the Southern Hemisphere has a smaller seasonal cycle is because it has much more ocean than land,[…]
ref:
2003, Richard N. Cooper, Richard Layard, What the Future Holds: Insights from Social Science, MIT Press, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
the local police, who, with the investigator, reportedly placed a compass near the two signs that had rattled and found a deviation of some fifteen degrees. Placed next to the Renault in which they had come, the compass showed a deviation of only four degrees, but there was no deviation at all near the sign that had not rattled.
ref:
2023, J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience: Evidence Behind Close Encounters, Project Blue Book, and the Search for Answers, Red Wheel/Weiser, page 142
type:
quotation
text:
She has worked at the company for some five years now! How remarkable!
type:
example
text:
He is some acrobat!
type:
example
text:
That was some speech you gave!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nonzero, unspecified proportion of (a bounded set of countable things): at least two.
A nonzero, unspecified quantity or number of (an unbounded set of countable things).
An unspecified amount of (something uncountable).
A certain, an unspecified or unknown.
A considerable quantity or number of.
Approximately, about (with a number).
Emphasizing a number.
A remarkable.
senses_topics:
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3718 | word:
some
word_type:
adv
expansion:
some (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
some
etymology_text:
From Middle English som, sum, from Old English sum (“some, a certain one”), from Proto-West Germanic *sum, from Proto-Germanic *sumaz (“some, a certain one”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate Scots sum, some (“some”), North Frisian som, sam, säm (“some”), West Frisian sommige, somlike (“some”), dialectal Dutch som, saom (“some”), standard Dutch sommige (“some”), Low German somige (“some”), German dialectal summige (“some”), Danish somme (“some”), Swedish somlig (“some”), Norwegian sum, som (“some”), Icelandic sumur (“some”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌼𐍃 (sums, “one, someone”). More at same.
senses_examples:
text:
I guess he must have weighed some 90 kilos.
type:
example
text:
Some 30,000 spectators witnessed the feat.
type:
example
text:
Some 4,000 acres of land were flooded.
type:
example
text:
They walked some and talked some.
ref:
2014, C. R. Scott, Invisible War: Attack the Covenant
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a measurement: approximately, roughly.
To a certain extent, or for a certain period.
senses_topics:
|
3719 | word:
non
word_type:
adv
expansion:
non (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of none.
senses_topics:
|
3720 | word:
non
word_type:
noun
expansion:
non (plural nons)
forms:
form:
nons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A non-Muslim citizen.
senses_topics:
|
3721 | word:
grandmother
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grandmother (plural grandmothers)
forms:
form:
grandmothers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
grandmother
etymology_text:
From Middle English graundmodre, grauntmoder, granmoder; equivalent to grand- + mother. Compare French grand-mère. Superseded earlier eldmother, eldermother.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mother of someone's parent.
A female ancestor or progenitor.
senses_topics:
|
3722 | word:
fuchsia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fuchsia (plural fuchsias)
forms:
form:
fuchsias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).
senses_examples:
text:
Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves
ref:
1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 281)
text:
fuchsia:
text:
web fuchsia (magenta):
text:
She tilted a hand topped with long rectangular nails in furious fuchsia towards her cheeks and fluttered the fingers, fanning.
ref:
2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 258
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
senses_topics:
|
3723 | word:
fuchsia
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fuchsia (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a purplish-red colour.
senses_topics:
|
3724 | word:
finale
word_type:
noun
expansion:
finale (plural finales)
forms:
form:
finales
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian finale (“ending”), from Late Latin fīnālis, from Latin fīnis (“end; boundary, limit”). Doublet of final.
senses_examples:
text:
Andre Santos equalised and the outstanding Theo Walcott put Arsenal ahead for the first time before Juan Mata's spectacular strike set up the finale for an enthralling encounter.
ref:
2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The grand end of something, especially of a show or piece of music.
The chronological conclusion of a series of narrative works.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences |
3725 | word:
caracal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
caracal (plural caracals)
forms:
form:
caracals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French caracal, from Ottoman Turkish قره قولاق (kara kulak, literally “black ear”), a calque of Classical Persian سیاهگوش (siyāh-gōš). Compare modern Turkish karakulak.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of cat native to Southern Africa, West Asia, and parts of Central and South Asia, Caracal caracal.
senses_topics:
|
3726 | word:
again
word_type:
adv
expansion:
again (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
again
etymology_text:
From Middle English agayn, from Old English onġēan (“against, again”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]. Cognate with Old Frisian ajēn (whence North Frisian ijen (“against”)), Old Saxon angegin, Danish igen (“again”), Swedish igen (“again”), and Norwegian Bokmål igjen (“again”). By surface analysis, on- + gain (“against”).
senses_examples:
text:
He tangled in tree-tops again and again / And barely missed hitting a tri-motored plane.
ref:
1931, Robert L. May, Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Montgomery Ward (publisher), draft
text:
Johnny said, “Devil, just come on back if you ever want to try again / I done told you once, you son of a bitch, I’m the best that’s ever been.”
ref:
1979, Charles Edward Daniels et al., “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (song), Million Mile Reflections, Charlie Daniels Band, Epic Records
text:
The last sentence is so shocking, I have to read it again.
ref:
2010 October 30, Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Cirri l-lxxx, 15, about 12mm. long; first two joints short, about twice as broad as long; third about one-third again [=one and one-third times] as long as broad; fourth and fifth the longest, about half again [=one and a half times] as long as broad;[…].
ref:
1908 December 10, Austin H. Clark, “New Genera and Species of Crinoids”, in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, volume XXI, pages 229–230
type:
quotation
text:
What's that called again?
type:
example
text:
Again, I'm not criticizing, I just want to understand.
type:
example
text:
Approach B is better than approach A in many respects, but again, there are difficulties in implementing it.
type:
example
text:
Great, thanks again!
type:
example
text:
Bring us word again.
type:
example
text:
We need to bring the old customs to life again.
type:
example
text:
The South will rise again.
type:
example
text:
Again, it is of great consequence to avoid, etc.
ref:
1835, John Herschel, A Treatise on Astronomy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Another time; once more.
Over and above a factor of one.
Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion.
Tell me again, say again; used in asking a question to which one may have already received an answer that one cannot remember.
Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion.
I ask again, I say again; used in repeating a question or statement.
Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion.
Here too, here also, in this case as well; used in applying a previously made point to a new instance; sometimes preceded by "here".
Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion.
Back in the reverse direction, or to an original starting point.
Back (to a former place or state).
In return, as a reciprocal action; back.
In any other place.
On the other hand.
Moreover; besides; further.
senses_topics:
|
3727 | word:
again
word_type:
prep
expansion:
again
forms:
wikipedia:
again
etymology_text:
From Middle English agayn, from Old English onġēan (“against, again”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]. Cognate with Old Frisian ajēn (whence North Frisian ijen (“against”)), Old Saxon angegin, Danish igen (“again”), Swedish igen (“again”), and Norwegian Bokmål igjen (“again”). By surface analysis, on- + gain (“against”).
senses_examples:
text:
And here begynneth the treson of Kynge Marke that he ordayned agayne Sir Trystram.
ref:
1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X
type:
quotation
text:
Ah'd like to wahrn (warn) thi agaan 'evvin owt to dew wi' that chap.
ref:
1924, J H Wilkinson, Leeds Dialect Glossary and Lore, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
You may think you are all on the same side, agin the government.
ref:
2003, Glasgow Sunday Herald, page 16, column 2
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Against.
senses_topics:
|
3728 | word:
frijoles
word_type:
noun
expansion:
frijoles
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of frijole
senses_topics:
|
3729 | word:
civic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
civic (comparative more civic, superlative most civic)
forms:
form:
more civic
tags:
comparative
form:
most civic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
civic
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin cīvicus (“pertaining to a city or citizens”).
senses_examples:
text:
Thousands of people came to the Civic Center to show off their civic pride.
type:
example
text:
civic duty
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, relating to, or belonging to a city, a citizen, or citizenship; municipal or civil.
Of or relating to the citizen, or of good citizenship and its rights and duties.
senses_topics:
|
3730 | word:
pigment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pigment (plural pigments)
forms:
form:
pigments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pigment
etymology_text:
From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“I paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in Old English (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment.
senses_examples:
text:
Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring.
type:
example
text:
Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any color in plant or animal cells
A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder
Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
|
3731 | word:
pigment
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pigment (third-person singular simple present pigments, present participle pigmenting, simple past and past participle pigmented)
forms:
form:
pigments
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pigmenting
tags:
participle
present
form:
pigmented
tags:
participle
past
form:
pigmented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
pigment
etymology_text:
From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“I paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in Old English (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To add color or pigment to something.
senses_topics:
|
3732 | word:
unveracity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
unveracity (plural unveracities)
forms:
form:
unveracities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + veracity.
senses_examples:
text:
unveracity of heart
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lack of veracity; untruthfulness.
senses_topics:
|
3733 | word:
accident
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accident (countable and uncountable, plural accidents)
forms:
form:
accidents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
accident
etymology_text:
First attested in the late 14th century. From Middle English accident, from Old French accident, from Latin accidēns, present active participle of accidō (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cadō (“fall”). See cadence, case. In the sense “unintended pregnancy”, first attested in 1932.
senses_examples:
text:
to die by an accident such as an act of God
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: act of God
text:
There was a huge accident on I5 involving 15 automobiles.
type:
example
text:
My insurance went up after the second accident in three months.
type:
example
text:
Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
ref:
2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
He also objects to the idea of women arising by an accident of nature, preferring the notion that they came about as a 'result of some strong mental impression', and so 'the sex of the progeny would have been settled by the decision of the progenitor'.
ref:
2008, Celia Deane-Drummond, The Ethics of Nature, page 206
type:
quotation
text:
c.1861-1863, Richard Chevenix Trench, in 1888, Letters and memorials, Volume 1,
Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident, / It is the very place God meant for thee; […]
text:
And so with his writing, which he proudly said was a perfect counterpart of his life. Accident played a major part in both.
ref:
1991 Autumn, Robert M. Adams, “Montaigne”, in American Scholar, volume 60, number 4, page 589
type:
quotation
text:
See also: accident (philosophy)
text:
Beauty is an accident.
type:
example
text:
Lexical gaps are called accidental because their existence is by accident; it is not essential.
type:
example
text:
This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea, which is rather the consequence of its being a very ancient site,[…]
ref:
1883, J. P. Mahaffy, Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander
type:
quotation
text:
14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales,
These cookes how they stamp, and strain, and grind, / And turne substance into accident, / To fulfill all thy likerous talent!
text:
But as to Man, all the Fruits of the Earth, all sorts of Herbs, Plants and Roots, the Fishes of the Sea, and the Birds of the Air do not suffice him, but he must disguise, vary, and sophisticate, change the substance into accident, that by such irritations as these, Nature might be provoked, and as it were necessitated.
ref:
1677, chapter 3, in Heraclitus Christianus: or, the Man of Sorrow, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Nonetheless, those who have no evidence of the impossibility of the transformation of accident into substance believe that it is death itself which will be actually transformed into a ram on the Day of Resurrection and then be slaughtered.
ref:
1989, Iysa A. Bello, The medieval Islamic controversy between philosophy and orthodoxy, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
It would also follow that God ought to be able to transmute genera, converting substance into accident, knowledge into ability, black into white, and sound into smell, just as he can turn the inanimate into animate[…]
ref:
2005, Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Medieval Islamic philosophical writings, page 175
type:
quotation
text:
nor can God effect the transmutation of substances (from accident into substance, or substance into accident, or substance without accident).
ref:
2010, T. M. Rudavsky, Maimonides, page 142
type:
quotation
text:
An adjective, so called because adjectitious, or added to a substantive, denotes some quality or accident of the substantive to which it is joined […]
ref:
a 1799, John Parkhurst, A Hebrew and English lexicon without points, page 25
text:
We weren’t there long when Karin asked about our dog. When we told her Chris was in the car, she insisted we bring him up to the apartment. I rejected her offer and said he might have an accident on the carpet and I didn’t want to worry about it.
ref:
2009, Marcia Stedron, My Roller Coaster Life as an Army Wife, Xlibris Corporation, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
Taylor was our sweet little accident, and we're so glad!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
Any chance event.
Chance; random chance.
Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
An instance of incontinence.
An instance of incontinence.
Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
An unintended pregnancy.
An unintended pregnancy.
A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
senses_topics:
law
transport
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
geography
geology
natural-sciences
geography
geology
natural-sciences
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
3734 | word:
accident
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accident (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
accident
etymology_text:
First attested in the late 14th century. From Middle English accident, from Old French accident, from Latin accidēns, present active participle of accidō (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cadō (“fall”). See cadence, case. In the sense “unintended pregnancy”, first attested in 1932.
senses_examples:
text:
The NTSB report revealed that the accident airplane was a Cessna 172.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident.
senses_topics:
transport |
3735 | word:
for
word_type:
conj
expansion:
for
forms:
wikipedia:
for
etymology_text:
From Middle English for, from Old English for (“for, because of”), from Proto-Germanic *furi (“for”), from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-.
Cognate with West Frisian foar (“for”), Dutch voor (“for”), German für (“for”), Danish for (“for”), Swedish för (“for”), Norwegian for (“for”), Icelandic fyrir (“for”), Latin per (“by, through, for, by means of”) and Romance language successors (e.g. Spanish para (“for”)), Ancient Greek περί (perí, “for, about, toward”), Lithuanian per (“by, through, during”), Sanskrit परि (pári, “over, around”).
senses_examples:
text:
I had to stay with my wicked stepmother, for I had nowhere else to go.
type:
example
text:
[…]Dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skillful and deadly.
ref:
c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 3, scene 4
type:
quotation
text:
[…]nor is there found, in sea or on land, a sweeter or pleasanter of gifts than she; for she is prime in comeliness and seemlihead of face and symmetrical shape of perfect grace; her check is ruddy dight, her brow flower white, her teeth gem-bright, her eyes blackest black and whitest white, her hips of heavy weight, her waist slight and her favour exquisite.
ref:
1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
type:
quotation
text:
"By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."
ref:
1900, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Because.
senses_topics:
|
3736 | word:
for
word_type:
prep
expansion:
for
forms:
wikipedia:
for
etymology_text:
From Middle English for, from Old English for (“for, because of”), from Proto-Germanic *furi (“for”), from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-.
Cognate with West Frisian foar (“for”), Dutch voor (“for”), German für (“for”), Danish for (“for”), Swedish för (“for”), Norwegian for (“for”), Icelandic fyrir (“for”), Latin per (“by, through, for, by means of”) and Romance language successors (e.g. Spanish para (“for”)), Ancient Greek περί (perí, “for, about, toward”), Lithuanian per (“by, through, during”), Sanskrit परि (pári, “over, around”).
senses_examples:
text:
The astronauts headed for the moon.
type:
example
text:
Run for the hills!
type:
example
text:
He was headed for the door when he remembered.
type:
example
text:
I have something for you.
type:
example
text:
Everything I do, I do for you.
type:
example
text:
We're having a birthday party for Janet.
type:
example
text:
The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala.
type:
example
text:
You, telling me the things you're gonna do for me.
ref:
1976, Michael McDonald (lyrics and music), “Takin' It to the Streets”, performed by The Doobie Brothers
type:
quotation
text:
If having to bag the groceries correctly is more than you can handle, then this isn't the job for you.
type:
example
text:
This is a new bell for my bicycle.
type:
example
text:
The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary.
type:
example
text:
These apples here are for eating. The rest are for throwing away.
type:
example
text:
All those for the motion, raise your hands.
type:
example
text:
Who's for ice-cream?
type:
example
text:
I'm for going by train
type:
example
text:
Ten voted for, and three against. (with implied object)
type:
example
text:
He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him.
type:
example
text:
He looks better for having lost weight. (UK usage)
type:
example
text:
She was the worse for drink.
type:
example
text:
I like her for lots of reasons.
type:
example
text:
"A summerly day for you," said my host; "You ought to be here in winter. It is impossible then to get out of the doors for the snow and wind. Ugh! dreadful weather!"
ref:
1867, Frederick Metcalfe, The Oxonian in Iceland, page 202
type:
quotation
text:
I could not see his hands, for the thick gloves he wore, and his face was partially concealed by a red woollen comforter; but his entire appearance and manners tallied with what I had seen of Yorkshire farmerhood.
ref:
1864, George Etell Sargent, The Story of a City Arab, page 313
type:
quotation
text:
This medicine is for your cough.
type:
example
text:
I need to spray my house for termites.
type:
example
text:
I've lived here for three years.
type:
example
text:
They fought for days over a silly pencil.
type:
example
text:
To guide the sun's bright chariot for a day.
ref:
1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
type:
quotation
text:
I can see for miles.
type:
example
text:
It is unreasonable for our boss to withhold our wages.
type:
example
text:
All I want is for you to be happy.
type:
example
text:
I will stand in for him.
type:
example
text:
I speak for the Prime Minister.
type:
example
text:
I used a hay bale for a bed.
type:
example
text:
He's got a turnip for a brain.
type:
example
text:
I got five hundred pounds for that old car!
type:
example
text:
He matched me blow for blow.
type:
example
text:
I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday.
type:
example
text:
He's going for his doctorate.
type:
example
text:
Do you want to go for coffee?
type:
example
text:
People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers.
type:
example
text:
Can you go to the store for some eggs?
type:
example
text:
I'm saving up for a car.
type:
example
text:
Don't wait for an answer.
type:
example
text:
What did he ask you for?
type:
example
text:
Fair for its day.
type:
example
text:
She's spry for an old lady.
type:
example
text:
He's very mature, for a two-year-old.
type:
example
text:
Don't take me for a fool.
type:
example
text:
17th century Abraham Cowley, Of Wit
We take a falling meteor for a star.
text:
Most of our ingenious young men take up some cry'd-up English poet for their model.
ref:
c. 1690, John Dryden, Translations (Preface)
text:
But let her go for an ungrateful woman.
ref:
1712, Ambrose Philips, The Distrest Mother
type:
quotation
text:
They knew him for a stranger.
ref:
1976, Louis L’Amour, chapter 2, in The Rider of Lost Creek, Bantam Dell
type:
quotation
text:
For all his expensive education, he didn't seem very bright.
type:
example
text:
"You must keep your head. There is still hope." "Hope!" "Yes; plentiful hope -- for all this destruction!"
ref:
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
1892 August 6, "The Unbidden Guest", in Charles Dickens, Jr. (editor), All the Year Round, page 133,
Mr. Joseph Blenkinshaw was perhaps not worth quite so much as was reported; but for all that he was a very wealthy man […]
text:
For all his faults, there had been something lofty and great about him - as a judge, as a patron of education, as a builder, as an international figure.
ref:
1968, J. J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII, page 240
type:
quotation
text:
O for the wings of a dove.
type:
example
text:
Ah! for wings to soar …
type:
example
text:
And now for a slap-up meal!
type:
example
text:
Oh! but to breathe the air / By their side under summer skies! To watch the blush on their cheeks, / The light in their liquid eyes. / Oh! but for one short hour, / To whisper a word of love; […]
ref:
1858 March 27, “The Lay of the Brief”, in Punch, Or, The London Charivari, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
Go scuba diving? For one thing, I can't even swim.
type:
example
text:
For another, we don't have any equipment.
type:
example
text:
He is named for his grandfather.
type:
example
text:
He totally screwed up that project. Now he's surely for the sack.
type:
example
text:
In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day
type:
example
text:
At close of play, England were 305 for 3.
type:
example
text:
to account for one's whereabouts to care for a relative to settle for second best to allow for mistakes
type:
example
text:
He took the swing shift for he could get more overtime.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Towards; in the direction of.
Directed at; intended to belong to.
In order to help, benefit, gratify, honor etc. (someone or something).
Befitting of someone’s beliefs, needs, wants, skills, or tastes; best suited to.
To be used or treated in a stated way, or with a stated purpose.
Supporting, in favour of.
Because of.
Intended to cure, remove or counteract; in order to cure, remove or counteract.
Over (a period of time).
Throughout or across (a distance in space).
Used to introduce a subject of a to-infinitive clause.
On behalf of.
In the role or capacity of; instead of; in place of.
In exchange for; in correspondence or equivalence with.
In order to obtain or acquire.
By the standards of, usually with the implication that those standards are lower than one might otherwise expect; considering.
To be, or as being.
Despite, in spite of.
Indicating something desired or anticipated.
Introducing the first item(s) in a potential sequence .
In honor of; after.
Due for or facing (a certain outcome or fate).
Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
Used in various more-or-less idiomatic ways to construe individual verbs, indicating various semantic relationships such as target, purpose, result, etc.; see also the entries for individual phrasal verbs, e.g. ask for, look for, stand for, etc.
So (that), in order to
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ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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3737 | word:
for
word_type:
particle
expansion:
for
forms:
wikipedia:
for
etymology_text:
From Middle English for, from Old English for (“for, because of”), from Proto-Germanic *furi (“for”), from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-.
Cognate with West Frisian foar (“for”), Dutch voor (“for”), German für (“for”), Danish for (“for”), Swedish för (“for”), Norwegian for (“for”), Icelandic fyrir (“for”), Latin per (“by, through, for, by means of”) and Romance language successors (e.g. Spanish para (“for”)), Ancient Greek περί (perí, “for, about, toward”), Lithuanian per (“by, through, during”), Sanskrit परि (pári, “over, around”).
senses_examples:
text:
“'Ugh—I'll not be able for get up. Send for M'sieu le Curé—I'll be goin' for die for sure.'
ref:
1896, McClure's magazine, page 270
type:
quotation
text:
[It was a] firs rate place for shoot a woodcocks, I tell you. [...] I say [it] wass no use for spen money. [...] An I say in "So wass I. I see lot of sy-pokes fly up an twist off like screw-cork an spit whistle, but I wass'nt able for get aim on him."
ref:
1898 December 17, “Mr. Owens' Experience”, in Forest and Stream, volume 51, page 485
type:
quotation
text:
"She say that when nigger people step out o' they place and start for rub shoulders with Bacra, trouble just 'round the corner."
ref:
2007, H. Nigel Thomas, Return to Arcadia: A Novel (Tsar Publications)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To, the particle for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
senses_topics:
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3738 | word:
upbear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upbear (third-person singular simple present upbears, present participle upbearing, simple past upbore, past participle upborne or (archaic, poetic) upbore)
forms:
form:
upbears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upbearing
tags:
participle
present
form:
upbore
tags:
past
form:
upborne
tags:
participle
past
form:
upbore
tags:
archaic
participle
past
poetic
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English upberen, equivalent to up- + bear.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hold up; raise aloft; hold or sustain high
senses_topics:
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3739 | word:
backbone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
backbone (countable and uncountable, plural backbones)
forms:
form:
backbones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bakbon, bakebon, bac-bon; equivalent to back + bone. Compare the semantically analogous English ridgebone.
senses_examples:
text:
Before automobiles, railroads were a backbone of commerce.
type:
example
text:
Undoubtedly it can be said that the humble 0-6-0 has been the backbone for general service, or general utility on British railways right from their earliest days, and is likely to remain so.
ref:
1945 November and December, H. C. Casserley, “Random Reflections on British Locomotive Types—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 320
type:
quotation
text:
With little regular employment available in East Kent the backbone of the Kent Coast passenger traffic is therefore the commuters, the not inconsiderable numbers of people who travel each day to their work in Faversham, Sittingbourne, the Medway Towns and most of all, London.
ref:
1959 April, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Southern in Trouble on the Kent Coast”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 212
type:
quotation
text:
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) and other community-based organizations that "provide backbone and leadership" in AIDS services are "reeling under the impact of growing case loads," said Pat Christen, SFAF's new director.
ref:
1989 December 10, John Zeh, “AIDS Groups' Execs Arrested In D.C.”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
He would make a good manager, if he had a little more backbone.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals.
Any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure.
Courage, fortitude, or strength.
senses_topics:
|
3740 | word:
hibernate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hibernate (third-person singular simple present hibernates, present participle hibernating, simple past and past participle hibernated)
forms:
form:
hibernates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hibernating
tags:
participle
present
form:
hibernated
tags:
participle
past
form:
hibernated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin hībernātus, from hībernāre, from hībernus (“winter”).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: estivate
text:
Hedgehogs and bears are two of the many mammals that hibernate in winter.
type:
example
text:
Organisms have developed all sorts of ways of dealing with these variations. They hibernate or estivate or migrate.
ref:
2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company
type:
quotation
text:
Your computer hibernates after it has been idle for the specified amount of time.
ref:
2001, Microsoft Corp, Use Hibernate and Standby to Conserve Batteries
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep.
To live in seclusion.
To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
3741 | word:
pajamas
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pajamas pl (normally plural, singular pajama)
forms:
form:
pajama
tags:
singular
wikipedia:
pajamas
etymology_text:
From Urdu پاجامہ (pājāma) / Hindi पाजामा (pājāmā), from Classical Persian پَاجَامَه (pājāma, “trousers, drawers”), from پَا (pā, “leg”) + جَامَه (jāma, “garment”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers.
Loose-fitting trousers worn by both sexes in various southern Asian countries including India.
senses_topics:
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3742 | word:
Galician
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Galician (comparative more Galician, superlative most Galician)
forms:
form:
more Galician
tags:
comparative
form:
most Galician
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Galician
etymology_text:
From Galicia (“region in northwest Spain”) + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
The subsequent oil slicks that reached the coast resulted in severe ecological and economic consequences for the Galician coast and the Bay of Biscay.
ref:
2009, D. R. Green, Coastal and Marine Geospatial Technologies, page 107
type:
quotation
text:
The "entierro de la sardina," the burial of the sardine, is a Galician custom popular in many villages on Ash Wednesday.
ref:
1999, [1882], Emilia Pardo Bazán, translated by Walter Borenstein, The Tribune of the People, page 253
type:
quotation
text:
This vowel is similar to the Catalan sound in the words Jordi or sola and to the Galician sound in the words ola or po.
ref:
2009, Eva Estebas Vilaplana, Teach yourself English pronunciation, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the region of Galicia in Iberia.
Of or pertaining to the people of Galicia (in Iberia) or their culture.
Of or pertaining to the Galician language.
senses_topics:
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3743 | word:
Galician
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Galician (countable and uncountable, plural Galicians)
forms:
form:
Galicians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Galician
etymology_text:
From Galicia (“region in northwest Spain”) + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
In Argentina, too, there is a community of Welsh-speakers. Similarly some Galicians, Catalans and Basques have retained their mother tongues in ways that had they remained, respectively in the United Kingdom or Spain, might have been more difficult to do.
ref:
2000, Clare Mar-Molinero, The Politics of Language in the Spanish-speaking World, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
The Portuguese claim that a Galician would never be generous, as a Portuguese would. On their side, the Galicians tell the story of the Portuguese who invites some Galicians to dinner and then gives his guests very little to eat.
ref:
2000, Ethnologia Europaea, 30 (2): 52
type:
quotation
text:
Rosalia de Castro became a crucial element in this early nationalist cultural campaign: she spoke Galician as her first language and she was literate, educated, and sympathetic to the group's progressive aims.
ref:
1998, Catherine Davies, Spanish Women's Writing, 1849-1996, page 63
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Galicia, a region of the northwestern Iberian peninsula.
The language of Galicia; a Romance language spoken in the northwestern corner of the Iberian peninsula.
senses_topics:
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3744 | word:
Galician
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Galician (comparative more Galician, superlative most Galician)
forms:
form:
more Galician
tags:
comparative
form:
most Galician
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Galician
etymology_text:
From Galicia (“region in Central Europe (Etymology 2)”) + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
Victor Adler was born in a small Moravian town on the Galician border.
ref:
2006, Shulamit Ṿolḳov, Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation, page 272
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the historical region of Galicia in Central Europe.
senses_topics:
|
3745 | word:
Galician
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Galician (plural Galicians)
forms:
form:
Galicians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Galician
etymology_text:
From Galicia (“region in Central Europe (Etymology 2)”) + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
According to Manuilsky, some Galicians idealized the Austro-Hungarian past for the empire's promotion of national autonomy, yet the Habsburgs had discouraged Eastern Galicia's economic development, whereas the Soviet power would 'turn Lviv into one of the biggest industrial centres of Soviet Ukraine.'
ref:
2004, Serhy Yekelchyk, Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination, page 50
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant of Galicia, a region in Poland and Ukraine.
senses_topics:
|
3746 | word:
handicapper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handicapper (plural handicappers)
forms:
form:
handicappers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From handicap + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
Most handicappers, young and old, face formidable economic obstacles which limittheir ability to satisfy their housing needs.
ref:
1990, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development, Manufactured housing construction and safety standards
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who determines the conditions of a handicap.
A disabled person.
A horse entered in a handicap race.
senses_topics:
|
3747 | word:
baby
word_type:
noun
expansion:
baby (plural babies)
forms:
form:
babies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English baby, babie (“baby”), a diminutive form of babe (“babe, baby”), equivalent to babe + -y/-ie (“endearing and diminutive suffix”). Perhaps ultimately imitative of baby talk (compare babble).
senses_examples:
text:
In that film, I often hid my head in my hands, unable to watch scenes about dead babies and diving into gruesome lavatories.
ref:
2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
When is your baby due?
type:
example
text:
Her baby had always been active, even before he was born, when he would kick her bladder.
type:
example
text:
Karen went to England to have her baby several months before he was born so he would have the medication she needed before the baby was born and she wanted the doctors she was used to when she lived there. It would be cheaper to have the baby in England. Karen named the baby Bill Joseph […] He laughed a lot and loved his bath which he took in a plastic baby tub.
ref:
2013 June 7, Natalie Pierce, Weaving My Way Through Life, Author House, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
Stand up for yourself – don't be such a baby!
type:
example
text:
I only qualified as an architect this summer, so I'm still a baby.
type:
example
text:
Adam is the baby of the family.
type:
example
text:
"You are very dull this morning, Sheriff," said the youngest daughter of the house, who, being the baby and pretty, had grown pettishly privileged in speech.
ref:
1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water
type:
quotation
text:
Too busy thinking about my baby, and I ain't got time for nothing else.
type:
example
text:
Baby, don't cry.
type:
example
text:
Well, since my baby left me,
Well, I found a new place to dwell.
Well, it's down at the end of Lonely Street
At Heartbreak Hotel.
ref:
1956, “Heartbreak Hotel”, Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley (lyrics), performed by Elvis Presley
type:
quotation
text:
Hey baby, what are you doing later?
type:
example
text:
This test program I've designed is my new baby.
type:
example
text:
You need to talk to John about that – it's his baby.
type:
example
text:
Sovnarkom was Lenin's baby, it was where he focused all his energies […].
ref:
1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2015, page 902
type:
quotation
text:
See my new car here? I can't wait to take this baby for a drive.
type:
example
text:
These more general spells and rituals can also be helpful for baby witches, who might want more time to practice before they hop into highly-specific spells.
ref:
2020, Nina Kahn, The Joy of Hex: Modern Spells Without All the Bullsh*t, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
That was even worse than blurting my sexuality like I had when I was what we called a “baby dyke” in college, desperate to find other lesbians for friendship or more.
ref:
2020, Jane Kolven, The Holiday Detour, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
As someone who is still a 'baby trans', these collaborations have taught me so much about what it means to live outside cisnormativity.
ref:
2021, Yve Rees, quoted in Sam Elkin & Yve Rees, "Spilling the T", Bent Street: Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing & Ideas, Volume 5, Issue 1, unnumbered page
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
A very young human, even if not yet born.
Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such as kittens for the babies of cats, puppies for the babies of dogs, and chicks for the babies of birds. See :Category:Baby animals for more.
A person who is immature, infantile or feeble.
A person who is new to or inexperienced in something.
The lastborn of a family; the youngest sibling, irrespective of age.
A person's romantic partner; a term of endearment used to refer to or address one's girlfriend, boyfriend or spouse.
A form of address to a person considered to be attractive.
A concept or creation endeared by its creator.
A pet project or responsibility.
An affectionate term for anything.
A small image of an infant; a doll.
One who is new to an identity or community.
senses_topics:
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3748 | word:
baby
word_type:
adj
expansion:
baby (comparative babier or babyer or baby-er, superlative babiest or babyest or baby-est)
forms:
form:
babier
tags:
comparative
form:
babyer
tags:
comparative
form:
baby-er
tags:
comparative
form:
babiest
tags:
superlative
form:
babyest
tags:
superlative
form:
baby-est
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English baby, babie (“baby”), a diminutive form of babe (“babe, baby”), equivalent to babe + -y/-ie (“endearing and diminutive suffix”). Perhaps ultimately imitative of baby talk (compare babble).
senses_examples:
text:
Mrs. Paull held out her hand to the babyest of the quartette, as they tiptoed up to the bed. “Lift her up, please, Marie!” she said, motioning to the place enclosed by her arm. When the rosy cheek touched hers upon the pillow, she asked ...
ref:
1894, Marion Harland, The Royal Road, Or, Taking Him at His Word, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
That evening, we grouped about the fire in the parlor, a wide circle that left room for the babyest of the party to disport themselves upon the rug, in the glow of the grate piled with cannel coal.
ref:
1910, Marion Harland, Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life, page 408
type:
quotation
text:
Of when I was a baby editor. Very baby, it was actually a kind of work experience, I was still at university but I knew what I wanted. With a small independent publisher, good reputation, did some marvellous books, […]
ref:
2006, Marion Halligan, The Apricot Colonel, Allen & Unwin
type:
quotation
text:
[…] party for Halloween proper? Just the four of us and some goofy, spooky kids' movies, you know? Some cute pumpkin-shaped cupcakes? I could make my dog a little costume. He could be a baby witch. The babyest Scapegracer.” I blinked.
ref:
2020, Hannah Abigail Clarke, The Scapegracers, Erewhon, page 391
type:
quotation
text:
Spider. Here let us begin at the beginning, at the babyest of books for Edith's nursery.
ref:
1888, Monthly Packet, page 170
type:
quotation
text:
She let it drop out of her sleeve, and it was two Chings — the dearest, littlest, babyest, tiny Chings — little balls of fur! And she ran away, and daddy's father picked them up, and put them in his pockets, and brought them home, […]
ref:
1894, Edith E. Cuthell, Two Little Children and Ching, page 107
type:
quotation
text:
Lemon-juice for ink spots: Not many weeks ago the babyest member of our household - perhaps moved by a hereditary tendency toward ink - slinging - divided the contents of an ink bottle impartially between the tiles of the bath-room floor ...
ref:
1908, Marion Harland, Housekeeper's Guide and Family Physician, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
"There's a babier baby than Mike," she said. "But you will see her to-morrow. Aren't we rich? Come in and see Matilda - you won't find her much changed. It's so absurd to see her with all these children."
ref:
1908, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Crossriggs, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
Now, we all believe in national defense, but we also believe in peacetime activity, and my personal idea about aviation is that it is still in its absolute “babyest” type of infancy, that it is nothing even approaching what it will be even 10 years [from now].
ref:
1936, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs, To Promote the National Defense by Stengthening the Air Reserve, Hearings ..., on H.R. 4348, 12241, Feb 27, April 22, 1936, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
A doll show held the attention of children at Allen as a special feature during the week. Winners were:[…]baby-est doll, Betty McQueary.
ref:
1937 August 7, “Recreation Activities in City Attain New Peak in Past Week”, in The State Journal, eighty-third year, Lansing, Mich., section “Doll Show at Allen”, page 2, column 7
type:
quotation
text:
He’ll [Joseph H. Ball] be our baby senator for the next two years. Senator Rush D. Holt of West Virginia will be his baby rival briefly, but Rush is a lame duck. He’ll be out of the picture at the end of the year and Joe will be the baby-est of them all.
ref:
1940 October 22, Charles P. Stewart, “Washington At A Glance”, in The Evening Independent, volume LXXIV, number 130, Massillon, Oh., page five, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
The victorious individuals were as follows: Doll Contest—[…]“baby-est,” 1st, Mary Grew, 2nd, Susan Shamlian;
ref:
1960 August 4, Herb Smith, “Recreation In Cedar Grove”, in Verona-Cedar Grove Times, volume XII, number 31, Verona, N.J., page 26, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
One of them, Allure Potemkin (and don’t you wish that was your name?), hikes up her slip and does a riotous dance number called Baby Legs. Leona Brausen, whose own dimpled gams — “baby-er than ever” as she says — inspired the role, is back onstage Saturday to dance the dance for the last time.
ref:
2007 August 2, Liz Nicholls, “Gala to mark Teatro’s entry into the quarter-century club”, in Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta., page D3, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Picked when small and immature (as in baby corn, baby potatoes).
Newest (overall, or in some group or state); most inexperienced.
Like or pertaining to a baby, in size or youth; small, young.
senses_topics:
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3749 | word:
baby
word_type:
verb
expansion:
baby (third-person singular simple present babies, present participle babying, simple past and past participle babied)
forms:
form:
babies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
babying
tags:
participle
present
form:
babied
tags:
participle
past
form:
babied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English baby, babie (“baby”), a diminutive form of babe (“babe, baby”), equivalent to babe + -y/-ie (“endearing and diminutive suffix”). Perhaps ultimately imitative of baby talk (compare babble).
senses_examples:
text:
Then the man effected measles and stayed off the job for six weeks, babying himself at home, though he lived just round the corner from my half-built house.
ref:
1944, Emily Carr, “Friction”, in The House of All Sorts
type:
quotation
text:
In the past 27 years, "Mr. Mac," as he is known to his 46,000 teammates, has built and babied his McDonnell Co. from nothing into a $1 billion-a-year corporation.
ref:
1967 March 31, “Mr. Mac and His Team”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
1912, Linda Craig, interviewed by Theresa Forte, "Tree and Twig farm — a treasure chest of heirloom tomatoes," Welland Tribune, 25 May, 2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20171205052150/http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2012/05/23/tree-and-twig-farm--a-treasure-chest-of-heirloom-tomatoes
I have grown them for years and although some years are better than others, I have always had loads of tomatoes by not babying them, going easy on the water, and fertilizing with compost in the planting hole.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant.
To tend (something) with care; to be overly attentive to (something), fuss over.
senses_topics:
|
3750 | word:
taupe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
taupe (countable and uncountable, plural taupes)
forms:
form:
taupes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French taupe, from Latin talpa (“mole”). Doublet of talpa.
senses_examples:
text:
taupe:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dark brownish-grey colour, the colour of moleskin.
senses_topics:
|
3751 | word:
taupe
word_type:
adj
expansion:
taupe (comparative more taupe, superlative most taupe)
forms:
form:
more taupe
tags:
comparative
form:
most taupe
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French taupe, from Latin talpa (“mole”). Doublet of talpa.
senses_examples:
text:
At five o'clock the patch of daylight above the red-lighted exit door turned taupe, as though a gray curtain had been flung across it; […]
ref:
November 1915, Ben Hecht, “Life”, in The Little Review
type:
quotation
text:
In the front room, on an old taupe overstuffed sofa, the head of the house lay in a blanket bathrobe, […]
ref:
February 1952, Wallace Earle Stegner, “Pop Goes the Alley Cat”, in Harper's Magazine
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a dark brownish-grey colour.
senses_topics:
|
3752 | word:
aunt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aunt (plural aunts)
forms:
form:
aunts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English aunte, from Anglo-Norman aunte, from Old French ante, from Latin amita (“father's sister”). Displaced native Middle English modrie (“aunt”) (from Old English mōdriġe (“maternal aunt”); compare Old English faþu, faþe (“paternal aunt”)).
senses_examples:
text:
As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
ref:
1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
The female cousin or cousin-in-law of one’s parent.
A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
Any elderly woman.
A procuress or bawd.
senses_topics:
|
3753 | word:
rue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rue (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English rewe, reowe, from Old English hrēow (“sorrow, regret, penitence, repentance, penance”), from Proto-West Germanic *hreuwu (“pain, sadness, regret, repentance”). Compare German reuen (“to regret, to repent”) and Dutch berouwen (“to regret, to repent”). Also compare with related Russian сокруша́ться (sokrušátʹsja, “to be distressed, to grieve (for, over)”), Russian круши́ть (krušítʹ, “to destroy, to shatter”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sorrow; repentance; regret.
Pity; compassion.
senses_topics:
|
3754 | word:
rue
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rue (third-person singular simple present rues, present participle ruing or rueing, simple past and past participle rued)
forms:
form:
rues
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ruing
tags:
participle
present
form:
rueing
tags:
participle
present
form:
rued
tags:
participle
past
form:
rued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English rewen, ruwen, ruen, reowen, from Old English hrēowan (“to rue; make sorry; grieve”), perhaps influenced by Old Norse hryggja (“to distress, grieve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrewwaną (“to sadden; repent”).
senses_examples:
text:
I rued the day I crossed paths with her.
type:
example
text:
Thy will chose freely what it now so justly rues.
ref:
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 4
type:
quotation
text:
And feminization of the homeland is something to be rued, while the feminized humiliation of the enemy for the sake of the fatherland is cause for commendation and celebration.
ref:
2009, David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race
type:
quotation
text:
As far as they were concerned, he must be ruing the day he ever met Sally.
ref:
2009, Erica James, It's The Little Things
type:
quotation
text:
And was the fact she was no longer losing large chunks of time something to be celebrated or something to be rued?
ref:
2012, Joy Fielding, Still Life
type:
quotation
text:
“If we get in a fight, you'll be ruing your lack of training.”
ref:
2014, Gary Meehan, True Fire
type:
quotation
text:
Bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark
ref:
2017, Lorde (lyrics and music), “Writer in the Dark”
type:
quotation
text:
1842, Nicholas Ridley, The Life of Nicholas Ridley
which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.
To feel compassion or pity.
To feel sorrow or regret.
senses_topics:
|
3755 | word:
rue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rue (plural rues)
forms:
form:
rues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English rue, from Anglo-Norman ruwe, Old French rue, from Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).
senses_examples:
text:
The life of one plant would be affected by another. Rue was definitely hostile to basil, rosemary to hyssop, but coriander, dill and chervil lived on the friendliest of terms[.]
ref:
1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 253
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines.
senses_topics:
|
3756 | word:
brother-in-law
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brother-in-law (plural brothers-in-law or (archaic) brethren-in-law or (colloquial, nonstandard) brother-in-laws)
forms:
form:
brothers-in-law
tags:
plural
form:
brethren-in-law
tags:
archaic
plural
form:
brother-in-laws
tags:
colloquial
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English brother-in-lawe; equivalent to brother + -in-law.
senses_examples:
text:
He was appalled by trench conditions and the prolongation of the war, a disillusionment further encouraged by the Easter rising, in which his brother-in-law, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (qv), was murdered by a deranged Anglo–Irish officer, J. C. Bowen-Colthurst (qv).
ref:
2009, Donal Lowry, “Kettle, Thomas Michael (‘Tom’)”, in Dictionary of Irish Biography, Cambridge University Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male relative of one's generation, separated by one degree of marriage:
The brother of one's spouse.
A male relative of one's generation, separated by one degree of marriage:
The husband of one's sibling.
Co-brother-in-law: A male relative of one's generation, separated by two degrees of marriage:
The husband of the sibling of one's spouse.
Co-brother-in-law: A male relative of one's generation, separated by two degrees of marriage:
The brother of the spouse of one's sibling.
senses_topics:
|
3757 | word:
future
word_type:
noun
expansion:
future (countable and uncountable, plural futures)
forms:
form:
futures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
future
etymology_text:
From Middle English future, futur, from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, irregular future active participle of sum (“I am”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, be”). Cognate with Old English bēo (“I become, I will be, I am”). More at be. Displaced native Old English tōweard and Middle English afterhede (“future”, literally “afterhood”) in the given sense.
senses_examples:
text:
This solitary attitude stems in part from a deep sense of fatalism and futility, a profound social effect of the genophage that caused krogan numbers to dwindle to a relative handful. Not only are they angry that the entire galaxy seems out to get them, the krogan are also generally pessimistic about their race's chances of survival. The surviving krogan see no point to building for the future; there will be no future. The krogan live with an attitude of "kill, pillage, and be selfish, for tomorrow we die."
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Krogan: Culture Codex entry
type:
quotation
text:
There is no future in dwelling on the past.
type:
example
text:
Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
Again, it's unlikely they will return to traffic, but futures have been secured for four that will be heading to heritage railways [...].
ref:
2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 63
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.
The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come.
Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
Alternative form of futures
An object that retrieves the value of a promise.
A minor-league prospect.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
business
finance
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
3758 | word:
future
word_type:
adj
expansion:
future (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
future
etymology_text:
From Middle English future, futur, from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, irregular future active participle of sum (“I am”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, be”). Cognate with Old English bēo (“I become, I will be, I am”). More at be. Displaced native Old English tōweard and Middle English afterhede (“future”, literally “afterhood”) in the given sense.
senses_examples:
text:
Future generations will either laugh or cry at our stupidity.
type:
example
text:
It[The study] also attempts to predict the future progression of AI as it relates to new inventions.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 2019-02-07
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having to do with or occurring in the future.
senses_topics:
|
3759 | word:
boom
word_type:
verb
expansion:
boom (third-person singular simple present booms, present participle booming, simple past and past participle boomed)
forms:
form:
booms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
booming
tags:
participle
present
form:
boomed
tags:
participle
past
form:
boomed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
boom
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic, perhaps borrowed; compare German bummen, Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”). The sense "a period of economic growth" is generally taken to derive from the sense "a rapid expansion", although other origins have also been suggested.
senses_examples:
text:
Thunder boomed in the distance and lightning flashes lit up the horizon.
type:
example
text:
The cannon boomed, recoiled, and spewed a heavy smoke cloud.
type:
example
text:
Beneath the cliff, the sea was booming on the rocks.
type:
example
text:
I can hear the organ slowly booming from the chapel.
type:
example
text:
Did you ever hear a bittern booming?
ref:
1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
type:
quotation
text:
Men in grey robes slowly boom the drums of death.
type:
example
text:
If you pull this off every paper in England and America will be booming you.
ref:
1922, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Problem of Thor Bridge
type:
quotation
text:
She comes booming down before it.
ref:
1841, Benjamin Totten, Naval Text-book and Dictionary […]
type:
quotation
text:
It can get fast enough that it's hard to see what flashed on your screen though, so it would be nice if chess engines had a feature of persistently showing you what move they planned to play before they boomed, even if it took less than a second for them to figure it out.
ref:
2021 January 23, Bram Cohen, “You're doing computer chess game commentary wrong”, in Medium, archived from the original on 2022-12-06
type:
quotation
text:
In its White game Stockfish had various moments of booming during these long thinks, but these long thinks always ended disappointingly in a slightly lower evaluation than it started with.
ref:
2022 April 22, Matthew Sadler, “TCEC Season 22 SuperFinal: Komodo Dragon vs Stockfish”, in TCEC, archived from the original on 2022-12-13
type:
quotation
text:
The population boomed in recent years.
type:
example
text:
Business was booming.
type:
example
text:
“If you look at South Florida right now, this place is booming,” Mr. DeSantis said recently. “Los Angeles isn’t booming. New York City isn’t booming.”
ref:
2021 March 22, Neil Vigdor, Michael Majchrowicz, Azi Paybarah, quoting Ron DeSantis, “Miami Beach, Overwhelmed by Spring Break, Extends Emergency Curfew”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Over this period, as plants boomed, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere dropped by 90 per cent, triggering a period of global cooling.
ref:
2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 145
type:
quotation
text:
to boom railroad or mining shares
type:
example
text:
The train boomed off from the station.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation.
To make (something) boom.
To subject to a sonic boom.
To publicly praise.
To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
To flourish, grow, or progress.
To cause to advance rapidly in price.
To move quickly, often while making a booming sound.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
board-games
chess
computer
computing
engineering
games
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
3760 | word:
boom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boom (plural booms)
forms:
form:
booms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
boom
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic, perhaps borrowed; compare German bummen, Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”). The sense "a period of economic growth" is generally taken to derive from the sense "a rapid expansion", although other origins have also been suggested.
senses_examples:
text:
the boom of the surf
type:
example
text:
You should prepare for the coming boom in the tech industry.
type:
example
text:
Some of the minor Welsh 2 ft. gauge railways, we hear from Mr. N. F. G. Dalston, are enjoying a miniature boom owing to the demand for slate for the repair of damaged roofs.
ref:
1941 March, “Notes and News: The Demand for Slate”, in Railway Magazine, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
Interestingly, the blue monkey's boom and pyow calls are both long-distance signals (Brown, 1989), yet the two calls differ in respect to their susceptibility to habitat-induced degradation.
ref:
1990, Mark A. Berkley, William C. Stebbins, Comparative Perception
type:
quotation
text:
Some chess commentators know to excitedly point out when booms happen but they almost universally are missing out on the next step of explaining what the boom meant.
ref:
2021 January 23, Bram Cohen, “You're doing computer chess game commentary wrong”, in Medium, archived from the original on 2022-12-06
type:
quotation
text:
The evaluation boom and moob continued as Stockfish headed for a queen-rook-knight vs queen-rook-knight position that looked pretty nasty to me!
ref:
2022 April 22, Matthew Sadler, “TCEC Season 22 SuperFinal: Komodo Dragon vs Stockfish”, in TCEC, archived from the original on 2022-12-13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
A rapid expansion or increase.
A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
Ellipsis of sonic boom.
One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
An instance of booming.
senses_topics:
business
economics
sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
board-games
chess
computer
computing
engineering
games
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
3761 | word:
boom
word_type:
intj
expansion:
boom
forms:
wikipedia:
boom
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic, perhaps borrowed; compare German bummen, Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”). The sense "a period of economic growth" is generally taken to derive from the sense "a rapid expansion", although other origins have also been suggested.
senses_examples:
text:
crash boom bang
type:
example
text:
In regards to what happened to Mutsu, well, it went BOOM. To be more prosaic about it, there were a number of theories put forward as to why Mutsu's magazine for its aft superfiring turret exploded, some of them more plausible than others.
ref:
2020 January 12, Drachinifel, 47:06 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 076, archived from the original on 2022-09-26
type:
quotation
text:
Add one cup of hot water, wait a minute, and boom — your cup of ramen is ready.
type:
example
text:
So we went around the corner, looked in the garbage, and, boom, there's about 16 of the tapes he didn't like!
ref:
1993, Vibe, volume 1, number 2
type:
quotation
text:
Hostile race relations and chronic unemployment are ignored in the suburbs of Paris, London and Sydney, and boom! there are riots.
ref:
2013, Peter Westoby, Gerard Dowling, Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
Used to suggest something happening suddenly or unexpectedly; voilà.
The sound of a bass drum beating.
The sound of a cannon firing.
senses_topics:
|
3762 | word:
boom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boom (plural booms)
forms:
form:
booms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
boom
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dutch boom (“tree; pole”). Doublet of beam.
senses_examples:
text:
I went out on the timber boom and made a few casts, but with little success.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 152
type:
quotation
text:
The wooden upright was now standing in the middle of the floor, and the two booms were fitted into its grooved side and hoisted as high as hands could reach. [...] Two by two, one at each end, the students proceeded along the boom, hanging by their hands, monkey-wise. [...] Two by two the students somersaulted upwards on to the high boom, turned to a sitting position sideways, and then slowly stood up on the narrow ledge.
ref:
1948, Josephine Tey, Miss Pym Disposes
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
A microphone supported on such a pole.
A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.
senses_topics:
nautical
sailing
transport
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
3763 | word:
boom
word_type:
verb
expansion:
boom (third-person singular simple present booms, present participle booming, simple past and past participle boomed)
forms:
form:
booms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
booming
tags:
participle
present
form:
boomed
tags:
participle
past
form:
boomed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
boom
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dutch boom (“tree; pole”). Doublet of beam.
senses_examples:
text:
to boom out a sail
type:
example
text:
to boom off a boat
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
To raise or lower with a crane boom.
senses_topics:
|
3764 | word:
remote
word_type:
adj
expansion:
remote (comparative more remote or remoter, superlative most remote or remotest)
forms:
form:
more remote
tags:
comparative
form:
remoter
tags:
comparative
form:
most remote
tags:
superlative
form:
remotest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English remote, from Old French remot, masculine, remote, feminine, from Latin remotus, past participle of removere (“to remove”), from re- + movere (“to move”).
senses_examples:
text:
A remote operator may control the vehicle with a wireless handset.
type:
example
text:
remote workers
type:
example
text:
After his fall from the emperor's favor, the general was posted to a remote outpost.
type:
example
text:
There was only a remote possibility that we would be rescued as we were far outside of the regular shipping lanes.
type:
example
text:
They have a very remote chance of winning.
type:
example
text:
You have a remote resemblance to my grandmother.
type:
example
text:
After her mother's death, my friend grew remote for a time while she dealt with her grief.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At a distance; disconnected.
Distant or otherwise inaccessible.
Slight.
Emotionally detached.
senses_topics:
|
3765 | word:
remote
word_type:
noun
expansion:
remote (plural remotes)
forms:
form:
remotes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English remote, from Old French remot, masculine, remote, feminine, from Latin remotus, past participle of removere (“to remove”), from re- + movere (“to move”).
senses_examples:
text:
I hate it when my uncle comes over to visit; he always sits in the best chair and hogs the remote.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of remote control.
An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
A source control repository hosted on a remote machine, rather than locally.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
3766 | word:
remote
word_type:
verb
expansion:
remote (third-person singular simple present remotes, present participle remoting, simple past and past participle remoted)
forms:
form:
remotes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
remoting
tags:
participle
present
form:
remoted
tags:
participle
past
form:
remoted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English remote, from Old French remot, masculine, remote, feminine, from Latin remotus, past participle of removere (“to remove”), from re- + movere (“to move”).
senses_examples:
text:
These requirements are applicable whether you are remoting into a server or locally executing SharePoint cmdlets.
ref:
2010, Bill English, Microsoft Sharepoint 2010: Administrator's Companion
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To connect to a computer from a remote location.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
3767 | word:
fuck
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fuck (third-person singular simple present fucks, present participle fucking, simple past and past participle fucked)
forms:
form:
fucks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fucking
tags:
participle
present
form:
fucked
tags:
participle
past
form:
fucked
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
fuck
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Flen flyys
Slate.com
University of Minnesota Press
fuck
etymology_text:
From Middle English *fukken, probably of Germanic origin: either from Old English *fuccian or Old Norse *fukka, both from Proto-Germanic *fukkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to strike, punch, stab”). Compare windfucker and its debated etymology.
Possibly attested in a 772 AD charter that mentions a place called Fuccerham, which may mean "ham (“home”) of the fucker" or "hamm (“pasture”) of the fucker"; a John le Fucker in a record from 1278 may just be a variant of Fulcher, like Fucher, Foker, etc. The earliest unambiguous use of the word in a clearly sexual context, in any stage of English, appears to be in court documents from Cheshire, England, which mention a man called "Roger Fuckebythenavele" (possibly tongue-in-cheek, or directly suggestive of a depraved sexual act) on December 8, 1310. It was first listed in a dictionary in 1598. Scots fuk/fuck is attested slightly earlier, probably reinforcing the Northern Germanic/Scandinavian origin theory. From 1500 onward, the word has been in continual use, superseding jape and sard and largely displacing swive.
A range of folk-etymological backronyms, such as "fornication under consent of the king" and "for unlawful carnal knowledge", are all demonstrably false.
Sense 10, from related sense feck.
See windfucker (regional synonym: fuckwind) for more.
senses_examples:
text:
Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.
type:
example
text:
I really enjoyed fucking my girlfriend last night.
type:
example
text:
Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard. I'd fuck me so hard.
ref:
1991, Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs (motion picture), spoken by Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb (Ted Levine)
type:
quotation
text:
She wanted to fuck him more than she had ever wanted to fuck any man in her life.
ref:
2007, Lionel Shriver, The post-birthday world
type:
quotation
text:
They're both New Yorkers coasting on their reputations, they've both had three marriages, neither of them can shut up when in front of a camera, and perhaps most importantly, they both want to fuck Ivanka, which-which is weird for Trump because Ivanka is in his family, and it's weird for Giuliani because she isn't.
ref:
2018 May 6, “Rudy Giuliani”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 5, episode 10, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
We decided to switch things around and have him fuck me tonight.
type:
example
text:
fuck me in the ass, really fuck my ass
type:
example
text:
A skinny, boyish-looking guy getting fucked by a huge muscle man.
type:
example
text:
She shoved them up and together, pushing into me, forcing my foot to fuck her tits harder and harder while gasping as if I was shoving it deep into her body...
ref:
2006, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Glamour Girls: Femme/Femme Erotica
type:
quotation
text:
Her pussy had never taken this much cock in her entire life. […] Xander took the hint and began fucking her mouth with his fingers, moving both hands to the same rhythm while his cock gained even more speed and started moving the couch back a few inches with every push. […]
ref:
2019 September 25, April Lust, Outlaw in Black: A Dark Contemporary Bad Boy Motorcycle Club Romance, E-Book Publishing World Inc.
type:
quotation
text:
I'm afraid they're gonna fuck you on this one.
type:
example
text:
I'll be concerned if someone is about to fuck with that.
type:
example
text:
I got fucked at the used car lot.
type:
example
text:
They fucked us during a checkout.
type:
example
text:
Fuck those jerks, and fuck their stupid rules!
type:
example
text:
Fuck the fuckin' Diaz Brothers, I bury those cockroaches!
ref:
1983 December 9, Scarface, spoken by Tony Montana (Al Pacino)
type:
quotation
text:
If he covered for a single motherfucker who's a kiddy-fucker, / fuck the motherfucker, he's as evil as the rapist.
ref:
2010, “The Pope Song”, Tim Minchin (music)
type:
quotation
text:
I see you driving 'round town with the girl I love / and I'm like, "Fuck you!"
ref:
2010 August 19, “Fuck You”, performed by Cee Lo Green
type:
quotation
text:
The Atlanta was swinging through her own turn to avoid a collision with the van when the searchlight, probably from the destroyer Akatsuki, lit upon her from abaft the port beam. Captain Jenkins reacted as commanders had been trained in peacetime: "Counter-illuminate!" he shouted. His gunnery officer, Lieutenant Commander William R. D. Nickelson, Jr., preferred to respond with other hardware. At once he shouted into his headset mike: "Fuck that! Open fire!"
ref:
2011, James D. Hornfischer, “28: Into the Light”, in Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York: Bantam Books, retrieved 2022-11-21, pages 273–274
type:
quotation
text:
Goodman says he wants him to come in tomorrow and Moses is so afraid he's fucked up his chance again that he says yeah...
ref:
2001, Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days
type:
quotation
text:
She knew something had fucked the plan when she grabbed the headset off the door.
ref:
2004, S. Andrew Swann, Hostile Takeover
type:
quotation
text:
Here we are a mile out to sea and you've fucked the motor.
ref:
2002, Peter Hawes, Royce, Royce, the people's choice
type:
quotation
text:
The symbols, all warnings of impending doom, might well have read: “You have fucked the engine, you arsehole.
ref:
2016, John Peaseland, Astrum Vermis
type:
quotation
text:
They couldn't hear a single note Ted was playing and the sound guy kept yelling at them to stop fucking with the levels so he could make adjustments.
ref:
2006, Kilian Betlach, This Feels Like A Riot Looks
type:
quotation
text:
He fucked the dirty cloth out the window.
type:
example
text:
She fucked her mobile at his head in anger.
type:
example
text:
The sergeant fucked me upside down.
type:
example
text:
Yo dude, did you check out their new album? Shit fucks bro.
type:
example
text:
It's true. For 6 weeks in 1996, Chex Cereal fucked.
ref:
2022, “Snack Video Games”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
To have sexual intercourse with.
To insert one's penis, a dildo, or other object, into a person or a specified orifice or cleft sexually; to penetrate.
To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
To defraud, deface, or otherwise treat badly.
Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
To break, to destroy.
Used in a phrasal verb: fuck with (“to play with, to tinker”).
To throw, to lob something. (angrily)
To scold.
To be very good, to rule, go hard.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
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3768 | word:
fuck
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fuck (plural fucks)
forms:
form:
fucks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Flen flyys
Slate.com
University of Minnesota Press
fuck
etymology_text:
From Middle English *fukken, probably of Germanic origin: either from Old English *fuccian or Old Norse *fukka, both from Proto-Germanic *fukkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to strike, punch, stab”). Compare windfucker and its debated etymology.
Possibly attested in a 772 AD charter that mentions a place called Fuccerham, which may mean "ham (“home”) of the fucker" or "hamm (“pasture”) of the fucker"; a John le Fucker in a record from 1278 may just be a variant of Fulcher, like Fucher, Foker, etc. The earliest unambiguous use of the word in a clearly sexual context, in any stage of English, appears to be in court documents from Cheshire, England, which mention a man called "Roger Fuckebythenavele" (possibly tongue-in-cheek, or directly suggestive of a depraved sexual act) on December 8, 1310. It was first listed in a dictionary in 1598. Scots fuk/fuck is attested slightly earlier, probably reinforcing the Northern Germanic/Scandinavian origin theory. From 1500 onward, the word has been in continual use, superseding jape and sard and largely displacing swive.
A range of folk-etymological backronyms, such as "fornication under consent of the king" and "for unlawful carnal knowledge", are all demonstrably false.
Sense 10, from related sense feck.
See windfucker (regional synonym: fuckwind) for more.
senses_examples:
text:
No, but I've got a film of a couple of crocodiles having a fuck.
ref:
1975, Alexander Buzo, Tom, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
He could count on a good fuck with Lorene later on.
ref:
2001, Thomas Kelly, The Rackets, MysteriousPress.com, published 2012
type:
quotation
text:
Are guys so intimidated by a girl who's totally blunt about the fact that she just wants a good fuck that they can't perform?
ref:
2012, Heather Rutman, The Girl's Guide to Depravity: How to Get Laid Without Getting Screwed, Running Press, published 2012
type:
quotation
text:
Let me ask you something, Rocky, man to man. I think she's the fuck of the century, what do you think?
ref:
1999, Joe Eszterhas, Basic Instinct (motion picture), spoken by Nick Curran (Michael Douglas)
type:
quotation
text:
In his mind, she was probably just another fuck, but in hers it had meant so much more than that.
ref:
2005, Jaid Black, Strictly Taboo, Berkley Sensations, published 2005
type:
quotation
text:
If he's a lousy fuck, I can at least say I had a lousy fuck, and if he's a great fuck, well that's even better...
ref:
2005, Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flip-Out
type:
quotation
text:
“He'd rather have his favorite fuck with him on the greatest adventure of his life than pay money to lie with ugly strangers. […]
ref:
2008, Nicole Galland, Crossed, Harper, published 2008, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
Finally he gets up his courage, crosses over to her and says in her ear, "Hello, Beautiful. Whaddya say to a little fuck?" She measures him coolly with her eyes. "Hello, little fuck."
ref:
1965, Gershon Legman, Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor
type:
quotation
text:
She used to be a secretary but then she realized that she could run a business a hell of a lot better than those stupid fucks could.
ref:
2002, Robert Williams, The Remembrance
type:
quotation
text:
I don't give a fuck.
type:
example
text:
Ryder: You know, it's hard to calculate how few fucks I give about Tann's opinion.
ref:
2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Elaaden
type:
quotation
text:
Of course the cunt full of fuck only excited him the more, and he very soon racked off to her great satisfaction, and was dismissed, leaving the rooms vacant for the two at eleven. As there was not five minutes to spare she ran to No. 3, […]
ref:
1866, The Romance of Lust, quoted in 2023, 12 Masterpieces of Erotic literature […] (Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing)
text:
She would raise her skirts, display her ass, and the libertine, all smiles, would spray his fuck upon it. A fourth required the same preliminaries, but as soon as the strokes of the cane began to rain down upon his back, he would frig himself […]
ref:
Marquis de Sade, 120 Days of Sodom (2013 edition by Simon and Schuster: →ISBN)
text:
She had thought often about what it would be like to let [him] shoot a full load of his fuck into her face. […] She felt the warm fuck filling her mouth, coating her tongue and draining back toward her throat.
ref:
1993, "Farmer's Step-daughter" in alt.sex.stories (Usenet)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of sexual intercourse.
A sexual partner, especially a casual one.
A highly contemptible person.
The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
Semen.
senses_topics:
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3769 | word:
fuck
word_type:
intj
expansion:
fuck
forms:
wikipedia:
Flen flyys
Slate.com
University of Minnesota Press
fuck
etymology_text:
From Middle English *fukken, probably of Germanic origin: either from Old English *fuccian or Old Norse *fukka, both from Proto-Germanic *fukkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to strike, punch, stab”). Compare windfucker and its debated etymology.
Possibly attested in a 772 AD charter that mentions a place called Fuccerham, which may mean "ham (“home”) of the fucker" or "hamm (“pasture”) of the fucker"; a John le Fucker in a record from 1278 may just be a variant of Fulcher, like Fucher, Foker, etc. The earliest unambiguous use of the word in a clearly sexual context, in any stage of English, appears to be in court documents from Cheshire, England, which mention a man called "Roger Fuckebythenavele" (possibly tongue-in-cheek, or directly suggestive of a depraved sexual act) on December 8, 1310. It was first listed in a dictionary in 1598. Scots fuk/fuck is attested slightly earlier, probably reinforcing the Northern Germanic/Scandinavian origin theory. From 1500 onward, the word has been in continual use, superseding jape and sard and largely displacing swive.
A range of folk-etymological backronyms, such as "fornication under consent of the king" and "for unlawful carnal knowledge", are all demonstrably false.
Sense 10, from related sense feck.
See windfucker (regional synonym: fuckwind) for more.
senses_examples:
text:
Oh, fuck! We left the back door unlocked.
type:
example
text:
Fuck! Why do you have to be so difficult all the time?
type:
example
text:
Oh, fuck! I forgot to pay that parking ticket and now they want me to appear in court!
type:
example
text:
Fuck! That movie was good!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A semi-voluntary vocalization in place of a gasp.
Expressing dismay or discontent.
Expressing surprise or enjoyment.
senses_topics:
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3770 | word:
fuck
word_type:
adv
expansion:
fuck (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Flen flyys
Slate.com
University of Minnesota Press
fuck
etymology_text:
From Middle English *fukken, probably of Germanic origin: either from Old English *fuccian or Old Norse *fukka, both from Proto-Germanic *fukkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to strike, punch, stab”). Compare windfucker and its debated etymology.
Possibly attested in a 772 AD charter that mentions a place called Fuccerham, which may mean "ham (“home”) of the fucker" or "hamm (“pasture”) of the fucker"; a John le Fucker in a record from 1278 may just be a variant of Fulcher, like Fucher, Foker, etc. The earliest unambiguous use of the word in a clearly sexual context, in any stage of English, appears to be in court documents from Cheshire, England, which mention a man called "Roger Fuckebythenavele" (possibly tongue-in-cheek, or directly suggestive of a depraved sexual act) on December 8, 1310. It was first listed in a dictionary in 1598. Scots fuk/fuck is attested slightly earlier, probably reinforcing the Northern Germanic/Scandinavian origin theory. From 1500 onward, the word has been in continual use, superseding jape and sard and largely displacing swive.
A range of folk-etymological backronyms, such as "fornication under consent of the king" and "for unlawful carnal knowledge", are all demonstrably false.
Sense 10, from related sense feck.
See windfucker (regional synonym: fuckwind) for more.
senses_examples:
text:
Do you censor your swearing? – Fuck no.
type:
example
text:
Do I want to? Do I fuck!
type:
example
text:
They're your friends, aren't they? – Are they fuck my friends.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used as an intensifier for the words "yes" and "no".
Used after an inverted subject pronoun and auxiliary verb or copula to emphatically negate the verb.
senses_topics:
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3771 | word:
fuck
word_type:
particle
expansion:
fuck
forms:
wikipedia:
Flen flyys
Slate.com
University of Minnesota Press
fuck
etymology_text:
From Middle English *fukken, probably of Germanic origin: either from Old English *fuccian or Old Norse *fukka, both from Proto-Germanic *fukkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to strike, punch, stab”). Compare windfucker and its debated etymology.
Possibly attested in a 772 AD charter that mentions a place called Fuccerham, which may mean "ham (“home”) of the fucker" or "hamm (“pasture”) of the fucker"; a John le Fucker in a record from 1278 may just be a variant of Fulcher, like Fucher, Foker, etc. The earliest unambiguous use of the word in a clearly sexual context, in any stage of English, appears to be in court documents from Cheshire, England, which mention a man called "Roger Fuckebythenavele" (possibly tongue-in-cheek, or directly suggestive of a depraved sexual act) on December 8, 1310. It was first listed in a dictionary in 1598. Scots fuk/fuck is attested slightly earlier, probably reinforcing the Northern Germanic/Scandinavian origin theory. From 1500 onward, the word has been in continual use, superseding jape and sard and largely displacing swive.
A range of folk-etymological backronyms, such as "fornication under consent of the king" and "for unlawful carnal knowledge", are all demonstrably false.
Sense 10, from related sense feck.
See windfucker (regional synonym: fuckwind) for more.
senses_examples:
text:
People complainin' "Monday again"... course it's Monday; fuck you thought came after Sunday? Sunday Jr.?
What the fuck did you think came after Sunday?
type:
example
text:
Of course it's the mailman. Fuck you thought it was?
Who the fuck did you think it was?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used as a shortened form of various common interrogative phrases.
senses_topics:
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3772 | word:
angry
word_type:
adj
expansion:
angry (comparative angrier or more angry, superlative angriest or most angry)
forms:
form:
angrier
tags:
comparative
form:
more angry
tags:
comparative
form:
angriest
tags:
superlative
form:
most angry
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English angry; see anger.
senses_examples:
text:
His face became angry.
type:
example
text:
An angry mob started looting the warehouse.
type:
example
text:
But, statistically-speaking, there is significantly-greater-than-even odds of the American forces coming out victorious - as I said, largely due to, one, the sheer technology advantage of the radar and fire-control systems, and also two, the almighty swarm of Fletchers. Never, ever underestimate the firepower of an almighty swarm of angry Fletchers.
ref:
2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 41:58 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 2022-07-20
type:
quotation
text:
The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
type:
example
text:
Angry clouds raced across the sky.
type:
example
text:
[…]nor dreads he the angry sea[…]
ref:
1756, Christopher Smart, “Ode II”, in The Book of the Epodes, translation of original by Horace
type:
quotation
text:
When she and her sister were away at Williamsburg, Nancy and I were more like founderers on a raft adrift in an angry sea.
ref:
1997, Kelly Joyce Neff, Dear Companion: The Inner Life of Martha Jefferson, page 92
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Displaying or feeling anger.
Inflamed and painful.
Dark and stormy, menacing.
senses_topics:
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3773 | word:
angry
word_type:
verb
expansion:
angry (third-person singular simple present angries, present participle angrying, simple past and past participle angried)
forms:
form:
angries
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
angrying
tags:
participle
present
form:
angried
tags:
participle
past
form:
angried
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English angry; see anger.
senses_examples:
text:
Onely they that repent, and are verie ſorie that they haue angried God with their ſinnes, and yet truſt that they are forgiuẽ them for Chriſtes ſake, and that the reſt of their weakeneſſe and vnperfectnes is couered with his deth & paſſion, who alſo deſire to goe forwarde and growe more and more in holy life & conuerſation.
ref:
1578, The Cathechisme or Manner How to Instruct and Teach Children and Others in the Christian Faith. […], London: […] Henrie Middleton, for Iohn Harison
type:
quotation
text:
The King ſent to the Londoners requeſting to borrowe of them one thouſande pounde, whiche they ſtoutely denyed, and alſo euil entreated, bette and néere hand ſlew a certain Lumbard that woulde haue lent the King the ſayde ſumme, which when the King heard he was maruellouſly angried, and calling togither almoſt all the nobles of the lande, hée opened to them the malitiouſneſſe of the Londoners, and cõplayned of theyr preſumption, the whyche noble men gaue counſell, that their inſolencie ſhoulde with ſpéede be oppreſſed, and theyr pride abated.
ref:
1580, Iohn Stow (collector), The Chronicles of England, from Brute vnto This Present Yeare of Christ 1580., London: […] Ralphe Newberie, […], page 512
type:
quotation
text:
For when the Arabians being offended with Heraclius for denying them their pay, and for his religion had ſeuered themſelues from him, Mahomet ioyned himſelfe to the angried ſouldiers, and ſtirred vp their minds againſt their Emperour, and encouraged them in their defection.
ref:
1609, William Biddulph, The Trauels of Certaine Englishmen into Africa, Asia, Troy, Bythinia, Thracia, and to the Blacke Sea. […], London: […] Th. Haueland, for W. Aspley, […], pages 49–50
type:
quotation
text:
For verily the common ſort (O Socratus my friende,) is ingratefull, full of mockes and ſcornes, vaine, ſoone angried, cruel, enuious, rude, heaped full of troubles and trifles: and whoſeuer doth familiarly acquaint himſelfe with them, & conuerſe amongſt them, doth at the length, become farre more miſerable then they be themſelues.
ref:
1611, Iohn Iackson, The Soule Is Immortall: or, Certaine Discourses Defending the Immortalitie of the Soule; Against the Limmes of Sathan: to Wit, Saduces, Anabaptistes, Atheists, and Such Like of the Hellish Crue of Aduersaries, London: […] W. W. for Robert Boulton […], page 173
type:
quotation
text:
I doe well to be angry. It was a milde ſaying of Auguſtus the Emperour to one of his ſouldiers deſirous to be diſmiſſed his armie, but wanting a iuſt and honeſt excuſe to his friends at his returne home, ſay, ſaith the Emperour, that I have angried thee.
ref:
1625, R[obert] V[ase], Ionah’s Contestation about His Gourd. In a Sermon Deliuered at Pauls Crosse. Septemb. 19. 1624., London: […] I. L. for Robert Bird, […], page 27
type:
quotation
text:
It is the doctrin of the Scripture. that our good works are alwaies ſtained with much vncleanes, with which God may be iuſtly offended and angried: ſo farre are they from purchazing vs his good will, or prouoking his liberalitie towards vs.
ref:
1631, [Richard Smith], A Conference of the Catholike and Protestante Doctrine with the Expresse Words of Holie Scripture. Which Is the Second Parte of the Prudentiall Balance of Religion. VVherein Is Clearely Shewed, That in More than 260. Points of Controuersie, Catholicks Agree with the Holie Scripture, both in Words and Sense: and Protestants Disagree in Both, and Depraue Both the Sayings, Words, and Sense of Scripture. […], […] Doway, […], page 72
type:
quotation
text:
Even thy Creatures, how terrible are they, O Lord! all hearts are afraid of thy tempeſts, and melt at thy ſtormes: O let me in this glaſſe of their terror ſee the dreadfull face of thy angried Majeſtie! at which the depths themſelves doe tremble, and the foundations of the world are diſcovered, even as the blaſt of the breath of thy noſtrils, O Lord! And let me never preſume to exalt my ſelfe againſt thee, but ever tremble before thy face.
ref:
1650 [i.e., 1649], [William Brough], Sacred Principles, Services, and Soliloquies: or, A Manual of Devotions Made up of Three Parts: […], London: […] J. G. for John Clark, […], page 64
type:
quotation
text:
Yet I am both (replyed ſhe) for my joyes at what he hath done, proceeds principally from his angrying me.
ref:
1655, [Madeleine de Scudéry] (indicated as “Monsieur de Scudery”), translated by F. G., The Fifth and Last Volume of Artamenes, or The Grand Cyrus, That Excellent New Romance: Being the Ninth and Tenth Parts, Which Finish the Whole Work, London: […] Humphrey Moseley […] and Thomas Dring […], page 28
type:
quotation
text:
Palanice cannot ſpeak unto Cercinea in behalf of Clorian, without angrying me in the perſon of Alcander, and unleſſe ſhe oblige me to raviſh Amilcar from her; […]
ref:
1658, Honorè D’Urfe, translated by [John Davies], The Third and Last Volume of Astrea a Romance, London: […] Hum: Moseley, Tho. Dring, and H. Herringman, […], page 284
type:
quotation
text:
King Ahab was a good ſervant of the devil, but Ahab had angried God, and God was reſolved he would ſpare him no longer, but cut him off.
ref:
1673, England’s Alarm, and a Warning to London, Being a Wonderful Sermon, Preached in the Year 1673, by an Eminent Minister of Christ College, Cambridge, on the Dreadful Conflagration in the Year 1666. […], published 1795, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
What doth the repeating thoſe verbs import, but angrying bitterly or grievouſly?
ref:
1685, Edward Pococke, A Commentary on the Prophecy of Hosea, Oxford, […], page 708
type:
quotation
text:
But the truth was, thoſe former Committees durſt not attempt ſuch a change of their Affairs, for fear of the charge of ſuch a remove; but eſpecially for fear of angrying the Mogul, whoſe people gained exceedingly by our ſhips riding in their Ports, as well as by our Trade, and were out of fear of Bombay, while it was in ſuch a forlorn neglected condition; […]
ref:
1689, A Supplement, 1689. to a Former Treatise, Concerning the East-India Trade, Printed 1681., page 8
type:
quotation
text:
IT angrying a Country-man to ſee his two Hogs often fighting together, he killed one of them; […]
ref:
1689, Philip Ayres, Mythologia Ethica: or, Three Centuries of Æsopian Fables. In English Prose. Done from Æsop, Phædrus, Camerarius, and All Other Eminent Authors on This Subject. […], London: […] Thomas Howkins, […], page 161
type:
quotation
text:
And this End of God is now made void when ſinners repent not: Men are ſometimes grieved, and ſometimes angried when they are diſappointed in their End; o is God ſaid to be: He complains often of this in the Scriptures, when he is diſappointed in the End of his Corrections; […]
ref:
1690, Casuistical Morning-Exercises. The Fourth Volume. By Several Ministers in and about London, Preached in October, 1689., London: […] James Astwood for John Dunton, […]
type:
quotation
text:
Our temperate Sage, though angried at that spirit of contradiction which he had raised, must, however, have sometimes smiled both on his advocates and his adversaries!
ref:
1814, [Isaac D’Israeli], Quarrels of Authors; or, Some Memoirs of Our Literary History, Including Specimens of Controversy to the Reign of Elizabeth, volume III, London: […] John Murray, […], page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To anger.
senses_topics:
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3774 | word:
crew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crew (plural crews)
forms:
form:
crews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin crescere (“to arise, grow”). Doublet of creature, crescent, croissant, recreation, and recruit.
senses_examples:
text:
If you need help, please contact a member of the crew.
type:
example
text:
He saw now clearly that the sole crew of the vessel was these two dead men, and though he could not see their faces, he saw by their outstretched hands, which were all of ragged flesh, that they had been subjected to some strange exceptional process of decay.
ref:
1905, H. G. Wells, The Empire of the Ants
type:
quotation
text:
There's a change of driver halfway at Crianlarich. Glasgow crews bring the 35-year-old Class 156 north, then wait to take over the next train back south. Crews from Mallaig, Oban and Fort William take their trains from the coast to Crianlarich and swap over. There's a tiny rest room on the platform, with a microwave and a sink, while they wait. Some drivers are signed all the way to the city. Most are not.
ref:
2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, pages 37-38
type:
quotation
text:
The crews competed to cut the most timber.
type:
example
text:
There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!
type:
example
text:
The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night.
type:
example
text:
I’d look out for that whole crew down at Jack’s.
type:
example
text:
1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body
He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,
And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru;
They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew,
But his soul is marching on.
text:
Malignant principles bear fruit in kind and the Revolution did no more than practice what men had been taught by the abandoned crew of philosophers.
ref:
1950, Bernard Nicholas Schilling, Conservative England and the Case Against Voltaire, page 266
type:
quotation
text:
And Jay cuts the records every day of the week / And we are the crew that can never be meek
ref:
1985, “King of Rock”, performed by Run-DMC
type:
quotation
text:
The most popular and critically acclaimed rap and deejay “crews”—Run-D.M.C., Whodini, L.L. Cool J, the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, Public Enemy, Full Force, Salt & Pepa, Afrika Bambaataa, Kurtis Blow, Mantronix, U.T.F.O., et al.—were spawned on that city's streets.
ref:
1988 February 7, Carly Darling, “L.A.—The Second Deffest City of Hip-Hop”, in Los Angeles Times
type:
quotation
text:
We decided we needed another rapper in the crew and spent months looking.
ref:
2003, Jennifer Guglielmo, Salvatore Salerno, Are Italians White?, page 150
type:
quotation
text:
In b-boying culture, a group of b-boys or b-girls who dance and battle together are referred to as a crew.
ref:
2016, Sophy Smith, Hip-Hop Turntablism, Creativity and Collaboration, Routledge, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
[…] mutating into all-star line-ups of emcees spitting hot bars over familiar beats, then to a single crew spitting bars over familiar beats, then eventually to a single crew (or artist) spitting bars over unfamiliar beats.
ref:
2021, Jehnie I. Burns, Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
If a crew feather much under water, it is a good plan to seat them in a row on a bench, and give each man a stick to handle as an oar.
ref:
1888, W.B. Woodgate, Boating, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
One crew died in the accident.
type:
example
text:
There were three actors and six crew on the set.
type:
example
text:
The officers and crew assembled on the deck.
type:
example
text:
There are quarters for three officers and five crew.
type:
example
text:
The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.
ref:
1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record
type:
quotation
text:
Two Andover classmates, Al Wilson and Al Lindley, both went out for crew in our freshman year at Yale.
ref:
1989, Benjamin Spock, Mary Morgan, Spock on Spock, page 71
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of people together
Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
A group of people together
A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
A group of people together
A group of people working together on a task.
A group of people together
The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
A group of people together
A close group of friends.
A group of people together
A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
A group of people together
A group of Rovers.
A group of people together
A hip-hop or b-boying group.
A group of people together
A rowing team manning a single shell.
A person in a crew
A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
A person in a crew
A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
A person in a crew
A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
The sport of competitive rowing.
senses_topics:
art
arts
dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
art
arts
nautical
transport
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports |
3775 | word:
crew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
crew (third-person singular simple present crews, present participle crewing, simple past and past participle crewed)
forms:
form:
crews
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
crewing
tags:
participle
present
form:
crewed
tags:
participle
past
form:
crewed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin crescere (“to arise, grow”). Doublet of creature, crescent, croissant, recreation, and recruit.
senses_examples:
text:
We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.
type:
example
text:
The ship was crewed by fifty sailors.
type:
example
text:
The film was crewed and directed by students.
type:
example
text:
The seafood companies crewed huge trawlers with new fishermen, many of whom were fish-plant workers, since much of the work on board a modern trawler is fish processing.
ref:
1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
Steele crewed the boat with men from his own regiment and volunteers from John Wood's detachment.
ref:
2003, Kirk C. Jenkins, The Battle Rages Higher, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.
type:
example
text:
The two ships will be crewing in the latter half of September.
ref:
1967 January, “Tampa”, in The Pilot, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be a member of a vessel's crew
To be a member of a work or production crew
To supply workers or sailors for a crew
To do the proper work of a sailor
To take on, recruit (new) crew
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport |
3776 | word:
crew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
crew
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
It was still dark when the cock crew.
type:
example
text:
And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before
The Tavern shouted — "Open then the Door!
You know how little while we have to stay,
And, once departed, may return no more."
ref:
1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).
senses_topics:
|
3777 | word:
crew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crew (plural crews)
forms:
form:
crews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably of Brythonic origin.
senses_examples:
text:
Between the shippon and the pig-crew, with the wind blowing over from the vegetable ground.
ref:
2004, Gillian Cross, On the Edge, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
senses_topics:
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3778 | word:
crew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crew (plural crews)
forms:
form:
crews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Manx shearwater.
senses_topics:
|
3779 | word:
bold
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bold (plural bolds)
forms:
form:
bolds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bold (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English bold, from Old English bold, blod, bolt, botl (“house, dwelling-place, mansion, hall, castle, temple”), from Proto-Germanic *budlą, *buþlą (“house, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to grow, wax, swell”) or *bʰuH-.
Cognate with Old Frisian bold (“house”) (whence North Frisian bol, boel, bøl (“house”)), North Frisian bodel, budel (“property, inheritance”), Middle Low German būdel (“property, real estate”). Related to build.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dwelling; habitation; building.
senses_topics:
|
3780 | word:
bold
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bold (comparative bolder or more bold, superlative boldest or most bold)
forms:
form:
bolder
tags:
comparative
form:
more bold
tags:
comparative
form:
boldest
tags:
superlative
form:
most bold
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
bold (disambiguation)
boldness
etymology_text:
From Middle English bold, bolde, bald, beald, from Old English bald, beald (“bold, brave, confident, strong, of good courage, presumptuous, impudent”), from Proto-West Germanic *balþ, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“strong, bold”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-, *bʰlē- (“to bloat, swell, bubble”).
Cognate with Dutch boud (“bold, courageous, fearless”), Middle High German balt (“bold”) (whence German bald (“soon”)), Swedish båld (“bold, dauntless”). Perhaps related to Albanian ballë (“forehead”) and Old Prussian balo (“forehead”). For semantic development compare Italian affrontare (“to face, to deal with”), sfrontato (“bold, daring, insolent”), both from Latin frons (“forehead”).
senses_examples:
text:
Bold deeds win admiration and, sometimes, medals.
type:
example
text:
It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.
ref:
2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 239c
type:
quotation
text:
the painter's bold use of colour and outline
type:
example
text:
Many bold fonts are available on this computer.
type:
example
text:
In HTML, wrapping text in <b> and </b> tags produces bold text.
type:
example
text:
All of her children are terribly bold and never do as they are told.
type:
example
text:
The grounds descend with a bold slope to the water's edge, and rise finely upwards above the mansion, abounding with fine trees, and ornamented by a range of building at a distance, in a corresponding style […]
ref:
1808, William Bernard Cooke, A New Picture of the Isle of Wight, page 144
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Courageous, daring.
Visually striking; conspicuous.
Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
Presumptuous, forward or impudent.
Naughty; insolent; badly-behaved.
Full-bodied.
Pornographic; depicting nudity.
Steep or abrupt.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography
|
3781 | word:
bold
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bold (third-person singular simple present bolds, present participle bolding, simple past and past participle bolded)
forms:
form:
bolds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bolding
tags:
participle
present
form:
bolded
tags:
participle
past
form:
bolded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bold (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English bolden, balden, from Old English baldian, bealdian, from Proto-Germanic *balþōną, related to *balþaz (see above). Cognate with Old High German irbaldōn (“to become bold, dare”).
senses_examples:
text:
Please bold all these subheads.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make (a font or some text) bold.
To make bold or daring.
To become bold or brave.
senses_topics:
|
3782 | word:
russet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
russet (countable and uncountable, plural russets)
forms:
form:
russets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English russet, from Anglo-Norman russet, rossat, roset, and Middle French rosset, rousset (“reddish, reddish-brown; a rough wool cloth”), from Middle French rous, rus (“to rouse”) + -et (“suffix indicating diminution”); compare Late Latin rossetum, russetum, russeta (“rough wool cloth”), Latin russus (“red”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”)), Occitan rosseta (“rough wool cloth”).
senses_examples:
text:
russet:
text:
Rhacĭnus, ni; m. Plin[y] ex ῥάχινον, ob coloris ſimilitudinem. A fiſh of ruſſet colour.
ref:
1664, Francis Gouldman, “Rhacĭnus”, in A Copious Dictionary in Three Parts: I. The English before the Latin … II. The Latin before the English … III. The Proper Names of Persons, Places, and Other Things Necessary to the Understanding of Historians and Poets … The Whole Being a Comprisal of Thomasius and Rider’s Foundations, Holland’s and Holyoak’s Superstructure and Improvements …, London: Printed by John Field, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Many of theſe [turf-bogs] are capable of being converted by induſtry into excellent ground, and, where they occupy not too great a proportion of the land, they compenſate for their ruſſet or ſable hues by the abundance of fuel which they yield.
ref:
1805, James [Bentley] Gordon, chapter I, in A History of Ireland, from the Earliest Accounts to the Accomplishment of the Union with Great Britain in 1801. … In Two Volumes, volume I, Dublin: Printed by John Jones, 90, Bride-Street, →OCLC, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
And I could tell / What form my dreaming was about to take. / Magnified apples appear and disappear, / Stem end and blossom end, / And every fleck of russet showing clear.
ref:
1914, Robert Frost, “After Apple-Picking”, in North of Boston, London: David Nutt, →OCLC, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
Of the various kinds of woollens, the cheapest appear to be those which are known by the names of ‘bluett,’ ‘russet,’ and ‘blanket.’ […] The second appears to have been almost uniformly an inferior article; but the third is the cheapest of all. The first two terms point to the colour of the stuff, blanket being undyed stuff. It seems that sometimes russet is understood to be cloth made from black wool.
ref:
1866, James E[dwin] Thorold Rogers, “On the Price of Textile Fabrics and Clothing”, in A History of Agriculture and Prices in England: From the Year after the Oxford Parliament (1259) to the Commencement of the Continental War (1793): Compiled Entirely from Original and Contemporaneous Records, volumes I (1259–1400), Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 575
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: reinette
text:
Russet is the name of a group of apples with distinctive matt brown skin, often spotted or with a faint red flush, and of a flattened lopsided shape. The flesh is crisp and the apples keep well. The flavour is unusual and pearlike. Russets are used both for eating and for cooking.
ref:
2014, Alan Davidson, “apple”, in Tom Jaine, editor, The Oxford Companion to Food, 3rd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
The cauſe of the curled diſease he attributes to potatoes being of late years produced from ſeed inſtead of roots as formerly. Such will not ſtand good more than two or three years, uſe what method you pleaſe. Laſt ſpring he ſet the old red and white ruſſets, and had not a curled potato amongſt them.
ref:
1817, “Agriculture”, in Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 5th enlarged and improved edition, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed at the Encyclopædia Press, for Archibald Constable and Company; London: Gale and Fenner; York: Thomas Wilson and Sons, →OCLC, page 322, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Potatoes come in so many different shapes, sizes, colors, and types that you need to choose the right potato for the job—dry fluffy russets for baking or gnocchi, waxy reds for potato salads, buttery yellow Sieglinde and blue heirlooms for colorful mashes, French fingerlings to steam for fancy dinners.
ref:
2015, Cinda Chavich, “Potatoes”, in The Waste Not, Want Not Cookbook: Save Food, Save Money, and Save the Planet, Victoria, B.C.: TouchWood Editions, page 129
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A reddish-brown color.
A coarse, reddish-brown, homespun fabric; clothes made with such fabric.
A variety of apple with rough, russet-colored skin.
A variety of potato with rough, dark gray-brown skin.
senses_topics:
|
3783 | word:
russet
word_type:
adj
expansion:
russet (comparative more russet, superlative most russet)
forms:
form:
more russet
tags:
comparative
form:
most russet
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English russet, from Anglo-Norman russet, rossat, roset, and Middle French rosset, rousset (“reddish, reddish-brown; a rough wool cloth”), from Middle French rous, rus (“to rouse”) + -et (“suffix indicating diminution”); compare Late Latin rossetum, russetum, russeta (“rough wool cloth”), Latin russus (“red”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”)), Occitan rosseta (“rough wool cloth”).
senses_examples:
text:
But looke, the Morne in Ruſſet Mantle clad, / Walkes o're the dew of yon high Eaſterne Hill, […]
ref:
c. 1599–1601, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act I, scene i, page 153, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Oh, long may thoſe, bleſt Cherry-Tree, / Whoſe generous hearts incircle thee, / A deſtiny ſo partial ſhare, / As actual bliſs and fancied care! / And long as theſe fair woodbines twine / Around this ruſſet coat of thine, / May I to all thy friends be join'd / In fondeſt union of the mind: […]
ref:
1786 November, [Samuel Jackson] Pratt, “The Cherry-Tree”, in The Scots Magazine, volume XLVIII, Edinburgh: Printed by Murray and Cochrane, →OCLC, page 556, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Arnak shook his heavy russet head, bemused.
ref:
2015, Alison Gardiner, chapter 15, in The Serpent of Eridor, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
[W]hen they him ſpie, / As Wilde-geeſe, that the creeping Fowler eye, / Or ruſſed-pated choughes, many in ſort / (Riſing and cawing at the guns report) / Seuer themſelues, and madly ſweepe the skye: / So at his ſight, away his fellowes flye, […]
ref:
c. 1590–1597, William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act III, scene ii, pages 151, columns 1–2
type:
quotation
text:
[…] I received some bales of leather, that when I sent them to the Currier's to wax them, they having been at the Currier's before, as they came up in the russet state, when I had sent them back to be waxed, he sent me back word they were so badly tanned, and so burnt in the tanning, he could not recommend them, […]
ref:
1813 June, “Duty on Leather: Report from the Select Committee on the Petitions Relating to the Duty on Leather”, in The Literary Panorama, being a Compendium of National Papers and Parliamentary Reports, Illustrative of the History, Statistics, and Commerce of the Empire; a Universal Epitome of Interesting and Amusing Intelligence from All Quarters of the Globe; a Review of Books, and Magazine of Varieties, Forming a Complete Annual Register, volume XIII, London: Printed by Cox and Baylis, Great Queen Street, for C. Taylor, No. 108, Hatton Garden, Holborn, page 720
type:
quotation
text:
Usually the London leather trade exhibits little animation during the latter part of June, but this year a fair general business was transacted at Leadenhall. […] [I]n curried leather, russet butts and middlings, kip butts of bright manufacture, calf skins, light grain, prime Cordovan, and harness appear in considerable request.
ref:
1871 July 22, “Commercial Epitome”, in The Economist, Weekly Commercial Times, Bankers’ Gazette, and Railway Monitor: A Political, Literary, and General Newspaper, volume XXIX, number 1,456, [London]: [Economist Office], →OCLC, page 885, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Many apple varieties are mottled or russet, with a rough, dull skin hiding crisp, flavorful flesh.
ref:
2015, Jennifer A. Jordan, “Remembering Applies”, in Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes & Other Forgotten Foods, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, page 98
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a reddish-brown color.
Gray or ash-colored.
Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain.
The condition of leather when its treatment is complete, but it is not yet colored (stained) and polished.
Having a rough skin that is reddish-brown or greyish; russeted.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
3784 | word:
russet
word_type:
verb
expansion:
russet (third-person singular simple present russets, present participle russeting or russetting, simple past and past participle russeted or russetted)
forms:
form:
russets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
russeting
tags:
participle
present
form:
russetting
tags:
participle
present
form:
russeted
tags:
participle
past
form:
russeted
tags:
past
form:
russetted
tags:
participle
past
form:
russetted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English russet, from Anglo-Norman russet, rossat, roset, and Middle French rosset, rousset (“reddish, reddish-brown; a rough wool cloth”), from Middle French rous, rus (“to rouse”) + -et (“suffix indicating diminution”); compare Late Latin rossetum, russetum, russeta (“rough wool cloth”), Latin russus (“red”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”)), Occitan rosseta (“rough wool cloth”).
senses_examples:
text:
Pear psylla causes damage when nymphs, feeding at high densities on leaves, produce enough honeydew to drip onto the fruit. A black, sooty mold fungus then grows into the honeydew, distorting and russeting the fruit surface, which substantially lowers its commercial value, […]
ref:
1995, T. R. Unruh, P. H. Westigard, K. S. Hagen, “Pear Psylla”, in J. R. Nechols et al., editors, Biological Control in the Western United States: Accomplishments and Benefits of Regional Research Project W-84, 1964–1989 (University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources Publication; 3361), Oakland, Calif.: Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
Cultivars differ greatly in their propensity to russet: the characteristic is heritable but more than one factor seems to be involved[…].
ref:
2003, John E. Jackson, “Flowers and Fruits”, in The Biology of Apples and Pears (Biology of Horticultural Crops), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 323
type:
quotation
text:
I surprised my own amazement in the looking glass / where the resinous radiance of a chandelier / russeted the chaise longue and the chiffonier. / Autumn lay over everything I loved.
ref:
2007, Eric [Linn] Ormsby, “Time’s Covenant”, in Time’s Covenant: Selected Poems, Emeryville, Ont.: Biblioasis, prologue, stanza 3, page 256
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To develop reddish-brown spots; to cause russeting.
senses_topics:
|
3785 | word:
bathroom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bathroom (plural bathrooms)
forms:
form:
bathrooms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-
Proto-Germanic *baþą
Proto-West Germanic *baþ
Old English bæþ
Middle English bath
English bath
Proto-West Germanic *rūm
Old English rūm
Middle English roum
English room
English bathroom
From bath + room. Compare Dutch badkamer (“bathroom”), German Badezimmer (“bathroom”), Swedish badrum (“bathroom”), Faroese baðrúm (“bathroom”).
senses_examples:
text:
I wash in the bathroom.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Most Americans don't know 'WC' and many Brits mock 'bathroom' but almost everyone understands 'toilet' or 'lavatory'.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A room containing a shower and/or bathtub, and (typically but not necessarily) a toilet.
A lavatory (area where one washes or bathes): a room containing a toilet and (typically but not necessarily) a bathtub.
senses_topics:
|
3786 | word:
bathroom
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bathroom (third-person singular simple present bathrooms, present participle bathrooming, simple past and past participle bathroomed)
forms:
form:
bathrooms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bathrooming
tags:
participle
present
form:
bathroomed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bathroomed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-
Proto-Germanic *baþą
Proto-West Germanic *baþ
Old English bæþ
Middle English bath
English bath
Proto-West Germanic *rūm
Old English rūm
Middle English roum
English room
English bathroom
From bath + room. Compare Dutch badkamer (“bathroom”), German Badezimmer (“bathroom”), Swedish badrum (“bathroom”), Faroese baðrúm (“bathroom”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To assist a patient with using the toilet and general personal hygiene.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
3787 | word:
beplaster
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beplaster (third-person singular simple present beplasters, present participle beplastering, simple past and past participle beplastered)
forms:
form:
beplasters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
beplastering
tags:
participle
present
form:
beplastered
tags:
participle
past
form:
beplastered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From be- + plaster.
senses_examples:
text:
Yet with talents like these, and an excellent heart,
The man had his failings, a dupe to his art;
Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread,
And beplaister’d with rouge, his own natural red.
ref:
1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation: A Poem, London: G. Kearsly, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
A starving man, however, little heeds conventional proprieties, especially on a South-Sea Island, and accordingly Toby and I partook of the dish after our own clumsy fashion, beplastering our faces all over with the glutinous compound, and daubing our hands nearly to the wrist.
ref:
1846, Herman Melville, Typee, New York: Wiley & Putnam, Part I, Chapter 10, p. 91
type:
quotation
text:
He pelted straight on in his socks, beplastered with filth out of all semblance to a human being.
ref:
1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 25, in Lord Jim, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, page 273
type:
quotation
text:
Even here, no movement of life is visible, but one who has lived and known towns like these feels for the first time an emotion of warmth and life as he looks at the gaudy, blazing bill-beplastered silence of that front.
ref:
1935, Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Book 1, Chapter 3, p. 32
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub (with something).
senses_topics:
|
3788 | word:
upbind
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upbind (third-person singular simple present upbinds, present participle upbinding, simple past and past participle upbound)
forms:
form:
upbinds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upbinding
tags:
participle
present
form:
upbound
tags:
participle
past
form:
upbound
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + bind.
senses_examples:
text:
All these the daughters of old Nereus were, / Which have the sea in charge to them assign'd, / To rule his tides, and surges to uprear, / To bring forth storms, or fast them to upbind, / And sailors save from wrecks of wrathful wind.
ref:
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, published 1758, Canto XLI, page 149
type:
quotation
text:
But when the night cast up her shade aloft, / And all earth's colors strange in sable dy'd, / He light, and as he could his wounds upbound, / And shook ripe dates down from a palm he found.
ref:
1600, Edward Fairfax, Torquato Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne, or Jerusalem Delivered, Book X Stanza V
type:
quotation
text:
1834, William Sotheby, translator, Homer, Iliad, Book 18, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, volume 2, Nicol, page 223,
The reapers toil'd, the sickles in their hand, / Heap after heap fell thick along the land; / Three labourers grasp them, and in sheaves upbind; / Boys, gathering up their handfuls, went behind, / Proffering their load:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bind up.
senses_topics:
|
3789 | word:
dye
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dye (countable and uncountable, plural dyes)
forms:
form:
dyes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dye
etymology_text:
From Middle English deie, from Old English dēah, dēag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-West Germanic *daugu (“colour, shade”), from *daugan (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”).
Cognates
Cognate with Old High German tougan (“dark, secretive”), tougal (“dark, hidden, covert”), Old English dēagol, dīegle (“dark, hidden, secret”), Old English dohs, dox (“dusky, dark”). See dusk.
The verb is from Middle English deien, from Old English dēagian, from the noun.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
Any hue or color.
senses_topics:
|
3790 | word:
dye
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dye (third-person singular simple present dyes, present participle dyeing, simple past and past participle dyed)
forms:
form:
dyes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dyeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
dyed
tags:
participle
past
form:
dyed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
dye
etymology_text:
From Middle English deie, from Old English dēah, dēag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-West Germanic *daugu (“colour, shade”), from *daugan (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”).
Cognates
Cognate with Old High German tougan (“dark, secretive”), tougal (“dark, hidden, covert”), Old English dēagol, dīegle (“dark, hidden, secret”), Old English dohs, dox (“dusky, dark”). See dusk.
The verb is from Middle English deien, from Old English dēagian, from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
You look different. Have you had your hair dyed?
type:
example
text:
If indeed sharks were inclined to eat people, the world's oceans would be dyed crimson with the blood of millions.
ref:
1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, page 164
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
senses_topics:
|
3791 | word:
dye
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dye (plural dyce)
forms:
form:
dyce
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dye
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
If a dye were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;
ref:
1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic spelling of die (“a cube used in games of chance”).
senses_topics:
|
3792 | word:
handily
word_type:
adv
expansion:
handily (comparative more handily, superlative most handily)
forms:
form:
more handily
tags:
comparative
form:
most handily
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From handy + -ly. Compare Middle English hendily, hendiliche.
senses_examples:
text:
As the mysteries of valetism are not very recondite or difficult to be acquired by an intelligent person, Lockwood, after a little practice, performed his functions handily enough; […]
ref:
1854, Catherine Crowe, Linny Lockwood, page 237
type:
quotation
text:
He won the election handily.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a handy manner; skillfully; conveniently.
Effortlessly; readily.
senses_topics:
|
3793 | word:
guacamole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
guacamole (countable and uncountable, plural guacamoles)
forms:
form:
guacamoles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish guacamole, from Classical Nahuatl āhuacamōlli (from āhuacatl (“avocado”) + mōlli (“sauce; broth”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Typical Mexican food is prepared here according to ancient recipes and served in orthodox sequence, that is, guacamole at the beginning and frijoles at the end.
ref:
1942 April 5, Elizabeth Fagg, “Cafeteria in Mexico”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An avocado-based greenish dip with onions, tomato, and spices, common to Mexican cuisine and often served with tortilla chips.
senses_topics:
|
3794 | word:
quack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quack (plural quacks)
forms:
form:
quacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *quacken, queken (“to croak like a frog; make a noise like a duck, goose, or quail”), from quack, qwacke, quek, queke (“quack”, interjection and noun), also kek, keke, whec-, partly of imitative origin and partly from Middle Dutch quacken (“to croak, quack”), from Old Dutch *kwaken (“to croak, quack”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwakōn, from Proto-Germanic *kwakaną, *kwakōną (“to croak”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kwoakje, kwaakje (“to quack”), Middle Low German quaken (“to quack, croak”), German quaken (“to quack, croak”), Danish kvække (“to croak”), Swedish kväka (“to croak, quackle”), Norwegian kvekke (“to croak”), Icelandic kvaka (“to twitter, chirp, quack”).
senses_examples:
text:
Did you hear that duck make a quack?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sound made by a duck.
senses_topics:
|
3795 | word:
quack
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quack (third-person singular simple present quacks, present participle quacking, simple past and past participle quacked)
forms:
form:
quacks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quacking
tags:
participle
present
form:
quacked
tags:
participle
past
form:
quacked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *quacken, queken (“to croak like a frog; make a noise like a duck, goose, or quail”), from quack, qwacke, quek, queke (“quack”, interjection and noun), also kek, keke, whec-, partly of imitative origin and partly from Middle Dutch quacken (“to croak, quack”), from Old Dutch *kwaken (“to croak, quack”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwakōn, from Proto-Germanic *kwakaną, *kwakōną (“to croak”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kwoakje, kwaakje (“to quack”), Middle Low German quaken (“to quack, croak”), German quaken (“to quack, croak”), Danish kvække (“to croak”), Swedish kväka (“to croak, quackle”), Norwegian kvekke (“to croak”), Icelandic kvaka (“to twitter, chirp, quack”).
senses_examples:
text:
The more breadcrumbs I threw on the ground, the more they quacked.
type:
example
text:
Do you hear the ducks quack?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a noise like a duck.
Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
senses_topics:
|
3796 | word:
quack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quack (plural quacks)
forms:
form:
quacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of quacksalver (see there for more), of Dutch origin; ultimately related to Etymology 1 above.
senses_examples:
text:
That doctor is nothing but a lousy quack!
type:
example
text:
1662, Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to Late Times, Vol. II, by ‘the most Eminent Wits’
Tis hard to say, how much these Arse-wormes do urge us, We now need no Quack but these Jacks for to purge us, …
text:
After ſome Months, the Quack gets privately to Town, [...]
ref:
1720, William Derham, Physico-theology
type:
quotation
text:
Polly (to security guard, referring to Dr. Feingarten): Are you going to let that shyster in there?
Dr. Feingarten: I could sue you, Polly. A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack.
ref:
1981, S.O.B. (film)
text:
"I don't want to get into specifics, but when I was born, my parts were considered... ambiguous. The quack of a doctor that delivered me, had trouble assigning a gender. So at his recommendation - and surgical intervention - I was raised as a boy."
ref:
2017 March 1, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 920 - Quack
type:
quotation
text:
That quack wants me to quit smoking, eat less, and start exercising. The nerve!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fraudulent healer, especially a bombastic peddler in worthless treatments, a doctor who makes false diagnoses for monetary benefit, or an untrained or poorly trained doctor who uses fraudulent credentials to attract patients
Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional.
Any doctor.
senses_topics:
|
3797 | word:
quack
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quack (third-person singular simple present quacks, present participle quacking, simple past and past participle quacked)
forms:
form:
quacks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quacking
tags:
participle
present
form:
quacked
tags:
participle
past
form:
quacked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of quacksalver (see there for more), of Dutch origin; ultimately related to Etymology 1 above.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] it is incredible, and scarce to be imagin’d, how the Posts of Houses, and Corners of Streets were plaster’d over with Doctors Bills, and Papers of ignorant Fellows; quacking and tampering in Physick, and inviting the People to come to them for Remedies;
ref:
1722, Daniel Defoe, “A Journal of the Plague Year”, in et al., London: E. Nutt, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
Seek out for Plants with Signatures
To Quack of Universal Cures
ref:
1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London, Part 3, Canto 1, p. 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine).
To make vain and loud pretensions.
senses_topics:
|
3798 | word:
quack
word_type:
adj
expansion:
quack (comparative more quack or quacker, superlative most quack or quackest)
forms:
form:
more quack
tags:
comparative
form:
quacker
tags:
comparative
form:
most quack
tags:
superlative
form:
quackest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of quacksalver (see there for more), of Dutch origin; ultimately related to Etymology 1 above.
senses_examples:
text:
Don't get your hopes up; that's quack medicine!
type:
example
text:
In precisely the same way does a quack doctor prescribe his infallible nostrum to every patient, without taking into account differences of constitution, or [...]
ref:
1833, James Rennie, “The Word Gardening”, in Alphabet of Scientific Gardening for the Use of Beginners, London: William Orr, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
[R]ecently I examined as many newspapers and magazines as I could lay hands on just to see if I could find in them those old, alluring advertisements, ranging from the quack doctor to the quacker promoter and the quackest oracle of fate. There was nothing doing—everything as clean as a hound's tooth and as wholesome as sunshine.
ref:
1916 August 5, Henry D. Estabrook, “Truth in Advertising [advertisement]”, in The Duluth Herald, volume XXXIV, number 102, Duluth, Minn.: The Herald Company, →OCLC, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Finding, perhaps, that there is no solution either in politics or in any existing religion, he [the common man] may cling to the diagnosis of the last and quackest of his doctors: he may believe that art can save himself and the world.
ref:
1948, The Prospect before Us: Some Thoughts on the Future, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., →OCLC, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
When no certain cure exists, quack remedies tend to proliferate and the history of quackery and secret cures is full of extraordinary forms of treatment for the various arthritic disorders.
ref:
1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763
type:
quotation
text:
They desperately want to believe something will help and for that reason they assist one another in obtaining unproven remedies. Such "helpful" promotion is generally more "quack" than fraudulent in nature.
ref:
1991, Journal of the Association of Food and Drug Officials, volume 55, York, Pa.: The Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
[William] Hogarth might have felt some sympathy for [Sally] Mapp as an 'irregular' expert besting pomposity, but this is topped by his sheer relish for her as the Quackest Quack of all, and female to boot. In Hogarth's print the dark goddess rules over her court of fools, men who have taken over the ancient realm of women's healing, and now profit from the people's ills and credulity.
ref:
1997, Jenny Uglow, “Allegories of Healing”, in William Hogarth: A Life and a World, London: Faber and Faber, page 506
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.
senses_topics:
|
3799 | word:
Yahweh
word_type:
name
expansion:
Yahweh
forms:
wikipedia:
Yahweh (name)
etymology_text:
The usual form of the ancient West Semitic (Hebrew) יהוה used in scholarship.
Used especially in discussions of the religion of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
The spelling Jahweh was used in German since the 1850s. The spelling Yahweh in English (ensuring the pronunciation of the initial consonant as /j/) first appears in the 1860s, e.g. in the Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come edited by John Thomas, founder of the Antipas Christadelphians (vol. X. no. 1, Westchester, NY, January 1860). First appeared in English Bible translations for the Tetragrammaton in the 1902 Emphasized Bible (EBR).
senses_examples:
text:
1913 "No certain evidence for the pre-Mosaic use of the form Yahweh … seems yet to have been brought forward." (H. W. Robinson, Religious Ideas of Old Testament, 3.53)
text:
We are too much men and women; we are yet formed in the image of the Creator, and what can we say of Him with any certainty except that He, whoever He may be—Christ, Yahweh, Allah—He made us, did He not, because even He in His Infinite Perfection could not bear to be alone.
ref:
1998, Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand, New York: Knopf, →OL, page 273
type:
quotation
text:
1985 "At the time when Yahweh God made earth and heaven" (New Jerusalem Bible, Genesis 2:4)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the God of Israel worshipped by the Jahwist prophets in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in antiquity.
In "Sacred Name Bibles", a transliteration of the Tetragrammaton.
senses_topics:
history
human-sciences
sciences
biblical
lifestyle
religion |
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