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3800 | word:
tadpole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tadpole (plural tadpoles)
forms:
form:
tadpoles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tadpole
etymology_text:
From Middle English tadpolle, taddepol, equivalent to toad + poll (“head”).
senses_examples:
text:
salamander tadpole
type:
example
text:
Shouldn't you tadpoles be in bed?
ref:
1970, Dorothy Clarke Wilson, Lone Woman, page 174
type:
quotation
text:
Woman's voice: You impudent imp! You tadpole! You shrimp!
ref:
1900 August 4, The Geelong Advertiser, Victoria, page 6, column 7
type:
quotation
text:
“[H]ere's this Tooralooral tadpole of a Mayor shovin' his nose into the business and arrestin' our Puddin' without rhyme or reason.”
ref:
1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 142
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A young toad or frog in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills.
The aquatic larva of any amphibian.
A type of cargo bike that has two wheels in front and one in back.
A child's basic drawing of a human being, having a detailed head but only sticks for the body and limbs.
A small child.
An insignificant person.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
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3801 | word:
angle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
angle (plural angles)
forms:
form:
angles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
angle
etymology_text:
From Middle English angle, angul, angule, borrowed from Middle French angle, from Latin angulus, anglus (“corner, remote area”). Cognate with Old High German ancha (“nape of the neck”), Middle High German anke (“joint of the foot, nape of neck”). Doublet of angulus.
senses_examples:
text:
the angle between lines A and B
type:
example
text:
The angle between lines A and B is π/4 radians, or 45 degrees.
type:
example
text:
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
ref:
2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
an angle of a building
type:
example
text:
The horse took off at an angle.
type:
example
text:
In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”
ref:
2013 January 24, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
For example, if I was trying to repitch an idea to a producer who had already turned it down, I would say something like, "I remember you said you didn't like my idea because there was no women's angle. Well, here's a great one that both of us must have missed during our first conversation."
ref:
2005, Adams Media, Adams Job Interview Almanac, page 299
type:
quotation
text:
His angle is that he gets a percentage, but mostly in trade.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
A corner where two walls intersect.
A change in direction.
A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
The focus of a news story.
Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral
A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
media
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences |
3802 | word:
angle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
angle (third-person singular simple present angles, present participle angling, simple past and past participle angled)
forms:
form:
angles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
angling
tags:
participle
present
form:
angled
tags:
participle
past
form:
angled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
angle
etymology_text:
From Middle English anglen (“to meet at an angle, converge”), from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
The roof is angled at 15 degrees.
type:
example
text:
The five ball angled off the nine ball but failed to reach the pocket.
type:
example
text:
How do you want to angle this when we talk to the client?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place (something) at an angle.
To change direction rapidly.
To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.
senses_topics:
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3803 | word:
angle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
angle (plural angles)
forms:
form:
angles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
angle
etymology_text:
From Middle English angel (“fishhook”), from Old English angel (“hook, fishhook”), from Proto-West Germanic *angul, from Proto-Germanic *angulaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“to make crooked, bend”). Cognate with West Frisian angel (“fishing rod, stinger”), Dutch angel (“fishhook”), German Angel (“fishing pole”), Icelandic öngull (“fishhook”).
senses_examples:
text:
A fisher next his trembling angle bears.
ref:
1717, Alexander Pope, Vertuminus and Pomona
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
senses_topics:
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3804 | word:
angle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
angle (third-person singular simple present angles, present participle angling, simple past and past participle angled)
forms:
form:
angles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
angling
tags:
participle
present
form:
angled
tags:
participle
past
form:
angled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
angle
etymology_text:
From Middle English anglen (“to fish, fish with a hook”, literally “to fish-hook”), perhaps from Old English *anglian, from Proto-West Germanic *anglōn (“to hook”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian ongelje (“to fish, angle”), Dutch hengelen (“to fish, angle”), German Low German angeln (“to fish, angle”), German angeln (“to fish, angle”).
senses_examples:
text:
He must be angling for a pay rise.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
senses_topics:
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3805 | word:
her
word_type:
det
expansion:
her
forms:
wikipedia:
her
etymology_text:
From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (dative and genitive singular of *hijō). Cognate with North Frisian hör, Saterland Frisian hier, hiere (“her”), West Frisian har (“her”), Dutch haar (“her”), German Low German hör (“her”), German ihr (“her”).
senses_examples:
text:
This is her book
text:
Prodigal in everything, summer spreads her blessings with lavish unconcern, and waving her magic wand across the landscape of the world, she bids the sons of men to enter in [...]
ref:
1928, The Journal of the American Dental Association, page 765
type:
quotation
text:
Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt old nose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water.
ref:
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
On top of the circle she wrote her name, Louise, just above where the 12 on a clock would be.
ref:
2001, Betsy Gould Hearne, Wishes, Kisses, and Pigs, Simon and Schuster, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
On 24 April Nelson rejoined his ship, her battle damage repaired […]
ref:
2010, Andrew Lambert, Nelson: Britannia's God of War, Faber & Faber
type:
quotation
text:
Begin by having students choose a short poem to memorize; they will enjoy searching the library for a poem that appeals to them. If a student wishes to memorize her poem and share it aloud with the rest of the class, suggest a buddy system.
ref:
2017, David Yellin, Essentials of Integrating the Language Arts, page 115
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to her (belonging to that female, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc).
Belonging to a person of unspecified gender (to counterbalance the traditional "his" in this sense).
senses_topics:
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3806 | word:
her
word_type:
pron
expansion:
her
forms:
wikipedia:
her
etymology_text:
From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (dative and genitive singular of *hijō). Cognate with North Frisian hör, Saterland Frisian hier, hiere (“her”), West Frisian har (“her”), Dutch haar (“her”), German Low German hör (“her”), German ihr (“her”).
senses_examples:
text:
Give it to her (after preposition)
text:
He wrote her a letter (indirect object)
text:
He treated her for a cold (direct object)
text:
Him and her went for a walk (with a conjunction; deprecated)
text:
"Then what became of her?"
"Her? Which ‘her’? The park is full of ‘hers’."
"The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff."
ref:
February 1896, Ground-swells, by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; page 183
text:
"It's all right," he was shouting. "Come out, Mrs. Beaver. Come out, Sons and Daughters of Adam and Eve. It's all right! It isn't her!" This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia—in our world they usually don't talk at all.
ref:
1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
type:
quotation
text:
Every day I had to watch as him and her went off for long walks together, and each night I had to go to my lonely, cold bed with the thought that they were sharing the same one […]
ref:
2013, James Tully, The Crimes of Charlotte Brontë
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The form of she used after a preposition, as the object of a verb, or (colloquial) as a subject with a conjunction; that woman, that ship, etc.
senses_topics:
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3807 | word:
her
word_type:
noun
expansion:
her (plural hers)
forms:
form:
hers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
her
etymology_text:
From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (dative and genitive singular of *hijō). Cognate with North Frisian hör, Saterland Frisian hier, hiere (“her”), West Frisian har (“her”), Dutch haar (“her”), German Low German hör (“her”), German ihr (“her”).
senses_examples:
text:
I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
text:
[…] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]
ref:
1986, Hélène Cixous, Sorties (translated)
text:
By this time, she had so many questions, but she only hit him up for one answer about those “hims” and “hers.” She asked, “Do both hims and hers reproduce hummers?”
ref:
2004, Charles J. Sullivan, Love and Survival, page 68
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female person or animal.
senses_topics:
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3808 | word:
periodic table
word_type:
noun
expansion:
periodic table (plural periodic tables)
forms:
form:
periodic tables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The table is termed “periodic” because it follows the periodic law – when chemical elements are arranged in order of increasing atomic number, elements with similar properties recur at intervals.
senses_examples:
text:
The atomic weight of krypton would accordingly be 81.62; the mean of former determinations is 81.28. This is in accordance with its position in the periodic table, which lies between bromine, 80, and rubidium, 85.
ref:
1903 March 26, William Ramsay, “[Societies and Academies. London.] An Attempt to Estimate the Relative Amounts of Krypton and of Xenon in Atmospheric Air.”, in Nature: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, volume 67, number 1746, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 16 April 1903, →OCLC, page 573, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Silica and alumina are distinctly the most abundant and characteristic petrogenic constituents, and with them are most frequently associated those elements toward the extreme petrogenic end of the periodic table, especially potassium, sodium, and calcium in the order named; and these elements are associated with each other.
ref:
1924, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Henry Stephens Washington, “Evolution of the Elements”, in The Composition of the Earth’s Crust (United States Geological Survey Professional Paper; 127), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, pages 107–108
type:
quotation
text:
Gallium, the 32nd most abundant element in the earth's crust, is a silver-grey metal, widely distributed in trace amounts in many rocks and ores. Its name, gallium (Lat., gallia, France), honors the discovery of this element by a French chemist in 1875, just four years after [Dmitri] Mendeleev predicted its probable existence from a blank space in his newly described periodic table.
ref:
1977 June, George N. Bowers, “Introduction—The Gallium Melting-point Standard: A New Fixed Point to Assure the Accuracy of Temperature Measurements in the Clinical Laboratory”, in B[illy] W[ilson] Mangum, D[onald] D. Thornton, editors, The Gallium Melting-point Standard (National Bureau of Standards Special Publication; 481), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 709, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The main theme of TRL [Transuranium Research Laboratory] research with transuranium elements has been the exploration of a region of the periodic table that is relatively new and inaccessible to most scientists. […] Our research with the heavy elements has extended our knowledge considerably and tested our ideas concerning how the periodic table is constructed.
ref:
1983 spring, Richard Hahn, “Life at the End of the Periodic Table”, in Carolyn Krause, editor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review, volume 16, number 2, Oak Ridge, Tenn.: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Taking into account the masses and percents of the isotopes, the average weight of a mercury atom is 200.59 amu, the atomic weight that is listed on some periodic tables. This type of average is called a weighted average. On other periodic tables, such as the one in this book, mercury's atomic weight is rounded to the nearest whole number (201 amu).
ref:
2009, Kristi Lew, “Mercury: The Inside Story”, in Mercury (Understanding the Elements of the Periodic Table), New York, N.Y.: The Rosen Publishing Group, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
The atomic masses you see in many periodic tables may vary slightly, so for consistency, we've rounded all atomic mass values to two decimal places before plugging them into equations.
ref:
2015, Peter J. Mikulecky, Christopher Hren, “Understanding the Many Uses of the Mole”, in Chemistry Workbook for Dummies, 2nd edition, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, part II (Making and Remaking Compounds), page 101
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tabular chart of the chemical elements according to their atomic numbers so that elements with similar properties are in the same group (column).
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
3809 | word:
pyrope
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pyrope (countable and uncountable, plural pyropes)
forms:
form:
pyropes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin pyrōpus, from Ancient Greek πυρωπός (purōpós, “fiery-eyed, fire-colored”), from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”); compare French pyrope.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gemstone.
senses_topics:
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
3810 | word:
scalene triangle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
scalene triangle (plural scalene triangles)
forms:
form:
scalene triangles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A triangle having each of its three sides of different lengths.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
3811 | word:
epilepsy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
epilepsy (countable and uncountable, plural epilepsies)
forms:
form:
epilepsies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Since 16th century; borrowed from French épilepsie, from Latin epilēpsia, from Ancient Greek ἐπιληψίᾱ (epilēpsíā), from ἐπιλαμβάνω (epilambánō, “I seize”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”). Displaced native Old English fiellesēocnes (literally “falling sickness”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences |
3812 | word:
sob story
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sob story (plural sob stories)
forms:
form:
sob stories
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"Dis picture is called De Tale o' Two Cities, and it's de French revolution. It's about a feller vot takes anodder feller's place and gits his head cut off; and say, dere's a sob story in it vot's a vunder."
ref:
1922, Upton Sinclair, chapter 14, in They call Me Carpenter
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Martin objected at first to the bastardization of my talent, but I gave him a sob story about needing money for lessons.
ref:
2006, Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child, page 56
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sad story, especially one intended to elicit sympathy.
senses_topics:
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3813 | word:
chainsaw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chainsaw (plural chainsaws)
forms:
form:
chainsaws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chainsaw
etymology_text:
Compound of chain + saw in reference to the chain-cutting mechanism.
senses_examples:
text:
He used a chainsaw to cut through the fallen tree on the roadway.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A power saw that has a power-driven and fast-revolving chain of metal teeth, usually used to cut trees.
senses_topics:
business
forestry |
3814 | word:
chainsaw
word_type:
verb
expansion:
chainsaw (third-person singular simple present chainsaws, present participle chainsawing, simple past chainsawed, past participle chainsawed or chainsawn)
forms:
form:
chainsaws
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
chainsawing
tags:
participle
present
form:
chainsawed
tags:
past
form:
chainsawed
tags:
participle
past
form:
chainsawn
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
chainsaw
etymology_text:
Compound of chain + saw in reference to the chain-cutting mechanism.
senses_examples:
text:
She and Barber once stopped a developer from chainsawing mature trees on Mississauga Rd. by standing in front of them.
ref:
2009 September 9, Mike Funston, “Mississauga pulls green thorn from its paw”, in Toronto Star
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut with a chainsaw.
senses_topics:
business
forestry |
3815 | word:
woman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
woman (plural women)
forms:
form:
women
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English womman, wimman, wifman, from Old English wīfmann (“woman”, literally “female person”), a compound of wīf (“woman, female”, whence English wife) + mann (“person, human being”, whence English man). For details on the pronunciation and spelling history, see the usage notes below.
Cognate with Scots woman, weman (“woman”), Saterland Frisian Wieuwmoanske (“female person, female human, woman”). Similar constructions can be found in West Frisian frommes (“woman, girl”) (from frou and minske, literally "woman human").
A few alternative spellings (see below) respell the term so as not to contain man.
senses_examples:
text:
But this woman is a nice German woman that fell on the ice and sprained her ankle last winter, and we saw to her well as we could till she got better.
ref:
1887, Helen Campbell, Prisoners of poverty: their trades and their lives, page 120
type:
quotation
text:
Dr. J. H. Vincent, the great lecturer, says that a man's greatness consists in his courage; his inherent nobleness; his noble deeds, great exploits, and benefits to the world; but that behind every great man is a great woman - his mother.
ref:
1888 September 6, Michigan School Moderator, page 402, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
Cause I'm every woman / It's all in me
ref:
1978, Ashford & Simpson (lyrics and music), “I’m Every Woman”, in Chaka, performed by Chaka Khan
type:
quotation
text:
During World War II, many women worked as blacksmiths in the shipbuilding industry and found they liked the challenging, independent work.
ref:
1979, Muriel Lederer, Blue-collar jobs for women, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
But of course Britain since 1979 has had a woman prime minister, while no woman has ever come near to being president of the United States.
ref:
1985, Anthony King, The British Prime Minister, Duke University Press
type:
quotation
text:
There is nothing wrong with Melissa or the way she was raised. She is a sweet, kind, intelligent woman with a generous heart and more love for her child than you and Mother ever showed for either of your children.
ref:
2012, Kate Welsh, Substitute Daddy
type:
quotation
text:
You can't spend months studying the history of the suffrage movement without gaining a new appreciation for the grit and gumption it takes to be a powerful woman leader.
ref:
2020 August 18, Veronica Chambers, The Staff of The New York Times, Finish The Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote, HarperCollins
type:
quotation
text:
I am Woman, hear me roar / In numbers too big to ignore
ref:
1972, Helen Reddy, I Am Woman, first line
type:
quotation
text:
For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children?
ref:
1997, Bob Grant, Let's Be Heard, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.
ref:
2011, Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
Sir, have you ever served with any Bajoran women?
ref:
1993, Michael Piller, “Emissary”, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Chief O'Brien (Colm Meaney)
type:
quotation
text:
To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men.
ref:
2003, Amelia Jones, The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, Psychology Press, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
One of the elves, a woman with long auburn hair, was garbed identically to the two dwarves.
ref:
2007, Clifford B. Bowyer, The Siege of Zoldex, Silver Leaf Books, LLC, page 307
type:
quotation
text:
Clearing a space between the tables, the men tested their prowess against one another with feats of wrestling and archery and bouts with quarterstaves. Two of the elves, a man and a woman, demonstrated their skill with swordplay—[…]
ref:
2008, Christopher Paolini, Brisingr: Or The Seven Promises of Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Bjartskular - Inheritance Book Three, page 549
type:
quotation
text:
At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman.
ref:
2012, Merlin Stone, When God Was A Woman
type:
quotation
text:
There was a pair of burly dwarves – a woman and a man – bearing the markings of the formidable Thane Guards.
ref:
2014, Oisin McGann, Kings of the Realm: Cruel Salvation, Penguin UK
type:
quotation
text:
And then, when he lies with his woman, the man may concurrently be with God, and so get increase of his soul.
ref:
1914, D. H. Lawrence, Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays, chapter 7: "Of Being and Not-Being"
text:
Perhaps my problem is that I am a cat woman. I can't imagine any finicky feline (and they all are that at one time or another) slobbering over anyone, even a beloved owner, the way a dog does.
ref:
2004, Hyveth Williams, Secrets of a Happy Heart: A Fresh Look at the Sermon on the Mount, page 70
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An adult female human.
All female humans collectively; womankind.
A female person, usually an adult; a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).
A female person who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
A female attendant or servant.
senses_topics:
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3816 | word:
woman
word_type:
verb
expansion:
woman (third-person singular simple present womans, present participle womaning or womanning, simple past and past participle womaned or womanned)
forms:
form:
womans
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
womaning
tags:
participle
present
form:
womanning
tags:
participle
present
form:
womaned
tags:
participle
past
form:
womaned
tags:
past
form:
womanned
tags:
participle
past
form:
womanned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English womman, wimman, wifman, from Old English wīfmann (“woman”, literally “female person”), a compound of wīf (“woman, female”, whence English wife) + mann (“person, human being”, whence English man). For details on the pronunciation and spelling history, see the usage notes below.
Cognate with Scots woman, weman (“woman”), Saterland Frisian Wieuwmoanske (“female person, female human, woman”). Similar constructions can be found in West Frisian frommes (“woman, girl”) (from frou and minske, literally "woman human").
A few alternative spellings (see below) respell the term so as not to contain man.
senses_examples:
text:
[…]he should prove, from the testimony of the most experienced seamen, that the vessel was, if not, strictly speaking, sufficiently manned, yet that she was sufficiently manned and womanned. The Gypsey was a vessel of 43 tons burden, and there were on board two able seamen and the Captain’s wife, who was a very good sailor;
ref:
1813, “Yorkshire Assizes. May a woman be deemed a sailor sufficient in manning a vessel? Case of Insurance.—Cook v. Thompson.”, in The Literary Panorama, […], volume XIV, London: […] Cox and Baylis, […] for C[harles] Taylor, […], page 683
type:
quotation
text:
Apparently the Sixty-ninth Street office of Bagby Answers, Inc., was being womaned for the day from other offices.
ref:
1956, Rex Stout, Three Witnesses, The Viking Press, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
Gus Dinsmore, the public beach parking lot attendent, said he guessed that so many cars must be just stopped dead along the road that even those manned (or womaned) by able drivers would be unable to move.
ref:
1990, Stephen King, chapter 28, in The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition, New York, N.Y.: Signet, published 1991 May, page 235
type:
quotation
text:
The information desk is now manned (womaned) by someone whose main job is to help you reserve time slots for the computers or guide you through the arduous process of “logging on.”
ref:
2010, Julia Glass, The Widower's Tale, page 77
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To staff with female labor.
To make effeminate or womanish.
To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
To call (a person) "woman" in a disrespectful fashion.
senses_topics:
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3817 | word:
cyan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cyan (countable and uncountable, plural cyans)
forms:
form:
cyans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos), a shade of blue variously described as similar to cornflower, copper carbonate, and lapis lazuli, Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀷𐀜 (ku-wa-no), possibly from Hittite [script needed] (kuwannan-, “a precious stone; copper; shade of blue”). Compare modern Greek κυανός (kyanós), also used for cyan.
senses_examples:
text:
cyan (additive secondary):
text:
cyan (subtractive primary):
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An additive secondary colour midway between green and blue, evoked by wavelengths between ~490 and ~520 nm.
senses_topics:
|
3818 | word:
cyan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cyan (comparative more cyan, superlative most cyan)
forms:
form:
more cyan
tags:
comparative
form:
most cyan
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos), a shade of blue variously described as similar to cornflower, copper carbonate, and lapis lazuli, Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀷𐀜 (ku-wa-no), possibly from Hittite [script needed] (kuwannan-, “a precious stone; copper; shade of blue”). Compare modern Greek κυανός (kyanós), also used for cyan.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of the colour cyan.
senses_topics:
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3819 | word:
see
word_type:
verb
expansion:
see (third-person singular simple present sees, present participle seeing, simple past saw or (dialectal) seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed, past participle seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed or (dialectal) saw)
forms:
form:
sees
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
seeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
saw
tags:
past
form:
seen
tags:
dialectal
past
form:
seent
tags:
dialectal
past
form:
seed
tags:
dialectal
past
form:
seen
tags:
participle
past
form:
seent
tags:
dialectal
participle
past
form:
seed
tags:
dialectal
participle
past
form:
saw
tags:
dialectal
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
see
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English seen, from Old English sēon (“to see, look, behold, perceive, observe, discern, understand, know”), from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan, from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to see, notice”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian sjen (“to see”), Dutch zien (“to see”), Low German sehn, German sehen (“to see”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål se (“to see”), Norwegian Nynorsk sjå (“to see”), and more distantly with Latin sīgnum (“sign, token”), Albanian shih (“look at, see”) imperative of shoh (“to see”).
senses_examples:
text:
Now I've seen it all!
type:
example
text:
I have been blind since birth and I love to read Braille. When the books arrive in from the library, I can’t wait to see what stories they have sent me.
type:
example
text:
I saw the latest Tarantino flick last week.
type:
example
text:
But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
ref:
1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
type:
quotation
text:
I want to see this house!
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Do you see what I mean?
type:
example
text:
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic[…]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become.[…]But the scandals kept coming[…]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul.
ref:
2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
They're blind to the damage they do, but someday they'll see.
type:
example
text:
The oracle saw the destruction of the city.
type:
example
text:
I can't see me lovin' nobody but you / For all my life / When you're with me, baby the skies'll be blue / For all my life
ref:
1967, Alan Gordon, Garry Bonner (lyrics and music), “Happy Together”, performed by The Turtles
type:
quotation
text:
You see, Johnny, your Dad isn't your real father.
type:
example
text:
You're not welcome here any more, see?
type:
example
text:
It is not just that we see birds as little versions of ourselves. It is also that, at the same time, they stand outside any moral process. They are utterly indifferent. This absolute oblivion on their part, this lack of sharing, is powerful.
ref:
2013 August 23, Mark Cocker, “Wings of Desire”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 11, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in Demandt's and Ferguson's examinations of allohistory) (cf. Rodiek 25–26; Ritter 15–16; Helbig 32).
ref:
2014 October 14, David Malcolm, “The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction”, in Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, editors, The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG., page 173
type:
quotation
text:
to go to see a friend
type:
example
text:
I've been seeing her for two months.
type:
example
text:
"You're... remarrying? I didn't even know you were seeing someone. And she's going to live here?"
ref:
2022 September 9, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Sep 9, 2022
type:
quotation
text:
You should see a doctor about that rash on your arm.
type:
example
text:
I've been seeing a therapist for three years now.
type:
example
text:
The 20th century saw humanity's first space exploration.
type:
example
text:
1999 saw the release of many great films.
type:
example
text:
It seems as if every passing year sees the mainstream embrace a longtime cult-favorite alternative rock band.
ref:
1995 June 3, David Sprague, “Buffalo Tom Reaches Crossroads: EastWest Trio At Make-Or-Break Point”, in Billboard, volume 107, number 22, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
I'll see you hang for this
type:
example
text:
I saw that they didn't make any more trouble.
type:
example
text:
'Don't worry. You won't lose out. I'll see you get your share of the action. If not now, later.'
ref:
2001, Joan Lock, Death in Perspective, London: Robert Hale, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
I saw the old lady safely across the road.
type:
example
text:
You can see yourself out.
type:
example
text:
I'll see your twenty dollars and raise you ten.
type:
example
text:
I'll come over later and see if I can fix your computer.
type:
example
text:
You think I can't beat you in a race, eh? We'll see.
type:
example
text:
Step 4: In the system, check out the laptop to the student (see: "Logging Resources" in the Tutor Manual).
type:
example
text:
For a complete proof of the Poincaré conjecture, see Appendix C.
type:
example
text:
Can I see that lighter for a second? Mine just quit working.
type:
example
text:
The equipment has not seen usage outside of our projects.
type:
example
text:
I saw military service in Vietnam.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
To witness or observe by personal experience.
To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
To form a mental picture of.
To understand.
To form a mental picture of.
To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
To form a mental picture of.
To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
To form a mental picture of.
Used to emphasise a proposition.
To form a mental picture of.
To meet, to visit.
To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
To meet, to visit.
To date frequently.
To meet, to visit.
To visit for a medical appointment.
To be the setting or time of.
Chiefly followed by that: to ensure that something happens, especially by personally witnessing it.
To wait upon; attend, escort.
To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
To reference or to study for further details.
To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
To include as one of something's experiences.
senses_topics:
gambling
games
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3820 | word:
see
word_type:
intj
expansion:
see
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English seen, from Old English sēon (“to see, look, behold, perceive, observe, discern, understand, know”), from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan, from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to see, notice”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian sjen (“to see”), Dutch zien (“to see”), Low German sehn, German sehen (“to see”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål se (“to see”), Norwegian Nynorsk sjå (“to see”), and more distantly with Latin sīgnum (“sign, token”), Albanian shih (“look at, see”) imperative of shoh (“to see”).
senses_examples:
text:
See, in order to win the full prize we would have to come up with a scheme to land a rover on the Moon.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Introducing an explanation
senses_topics:
|
3821 | word:
see
word_type:
noun
expansion:
see (plural sees)
forms:
form:
sees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English se, see, from Old French sie (“seat, throne; town, capital; episcopal see”), from Latin sedes (“seat”), referring to the bishop's throne or chair (compare seat of power) in the cathedral; related to the Latin verb sedere (“to sit”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric
A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
senses_topics:
|
3822 | word:
see
word_type:
noun
expansion:
see (plural sees)
forms:
form:
sees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
see, ar, eye, ee, ess, cries
ref:
1881 April, J. B. Rundell, “The Irregularities of English Spelling: what they Cost and what they are Worth”, in The Spelling Reformer, and Journal of the English Spelling Reform Association, volume I, number 10, London, page 147
type:
quotation
text:
They were still shocked if you said “eff you see kay” out loud, though it didn’t stop any of them from doing it.
ref:
1984, Eva Holmquist, No Certain Time, Libra Publishers, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
eff you see kay why oh you.
ref:
1996, Sycamore Review, volume 8, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
I hear you. But hear me out, all right? Because I mean what I’m about to say. Eff-you-see-kay-why-oh-you. Fuck you.
ref:
2009, Eric Barnes, Shimmer, Denver, Colo.: Unbridled Books, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
Her mother said, “Maybe you can have ‘Muck Donnas’, or we could have fish and chips.” Krissy shook her head, “Nah. We no have fwishenchit. We have Kay Eff See nuggers?”
ref:
2020, Paul Richardson, Taylah’s Got Talent
type:
quotation
text:
Same old answer: the eff-you-see-kay-you-pee.
ref:
2023, Callum McSorley, chapter 15, in Squeaky Clean, Pushkin Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of cee; the name of the Latin-script letter C/c.
senses_topics:
|
3823 | word:
vegetable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vegetable (plural vegetables)
forms:
form:
vegetables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin vegetābilis (“able to live and grow”), derived from vegetāre (“to enliven”). Displaced native Old English wyrt and ofett.
Related to vigil, vigour, vajra, and waker.
senses_examples:
text:
That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.
ref:
1837, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume 23, page 222
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any plant.
A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.
The edible part of such a plant.
A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.
A mine (explosive device).
senses_topics:
|
3824 | word:
vegetable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
vegetable (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin vegetābilis (“able to live and grow”), derived from vegetāre (“to enliven”). Displaced native Old English wyrt and ofett.
Related to vigil, vigour, vajra, and waker.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to plants.
Of or relating to vegetables.
senses_topics:
|
3825 | word:
carsick
word_type:
adj
expansion:
carsick (comparative more carsick, superlative most carsick)
forms:
form:
more carsick
tags:
comparative
form:
most carsick
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From car + sick.
senses_examples:
text:
But this whole world / It makes me carsick / Stop the meter, sir
ref:
2022, Regina Spektor (lyrics and music), “Becoming All Alone”, in Home, Before and After
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dizzy or feeling nauseated due to riding in a vehicle; suffering from motion sickness.
senses_topics:
|
3826 | word:
ultramarine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ultramarine (comparative more ultramarine, superlative most ultramarine)
forms:
form:
more ultramarine
tags:
comparative
form:
most ultramarine
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Medieval Latin ultrāmarīnus, from Latin ultrā (“beyond”) + marīnus (“of or relating to the sea, marine”). Ultrā is derived from uls (“beyond”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“beyond; other”)) + -ter (suffix forming adverbs) + -ā (suffix forming adverbs); while marīnus is from mare (“sea”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“sea; lake; wetland”)) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as ultra- + marine.
Noun sense 1 (“pigment”) refers to the fact that lapis lazuli was obtained from foreign countries and hence “beyond the sea”.
senses_examples:
text:
ultramarine:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Beyond the sea.
Of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour like that of the pigment (noun sense 1).
senses_topics:
|
3827 | word:
ultramarine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ultramarine (countable and uncountable, plural ultramarines)
forms:
form:
ultramarines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Medieval Latin ultrāmarīnus, from Latin ultrā (“beyond”) + marīnus (“of or relating to the sea, marine”). Ultrā is derived from uls (“beyond”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“beyond; other”)) + -ter (suffix forming adverbs) + -ā (suffix forming adverbs); while marīnus is from mare (“sea”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“sea; lake; wetland”)) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as ultra- + marine.
Noun sense 1 (“pigment”) refers to the fact that lapis lazuli was obtained from foreign countries and hence “beyond the sea”.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In full ultramarine blue: a brilliant blue pigment traditionally made from ground-up lapis lazuli, and now usually either extracted from mineral deposits or made synthetically.
A brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour like that of the pigment.
senses_topics:
|
3828 | word:
comet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
comet (plural comets)
forms:
form:
comets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English comete, partly from Old English comēta and partly from Old French comete, both from Latin comētēs, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “longhaired”), short for ἀστὴρ κομήτης ([astēr] komētēs, "longhaired [star])" and referring to the tail of a comet, from κόμη (kómē, “hair”). Compare English faxed star.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail.
A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.
Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
|
3829 | word:
atmosphere
word_type:
noun
expansion:
atmosphere (countable and uncountable, plural atmospheres)
forms:
form:
atmospheres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Atmosphere (disambiguation)
atmosphere
atmosphere (unit)
etymology_text:
From French atmosphère, from New Latin atmosphaera, from Ancient Greek ἀτμός (atmós, “steam”) + σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “sphere”); corresponding to atmo- + -sphere.
senses_examples:
text:
Meronyms: see Thesaurus:atmosphere
text:
Oh, what an atmosphere / I love a party with a happy atmosphere
ref:
1984, Ben Findon, Eddie Tucker, Steve Rodway (lyrics and music), “Atmosphere”, in I Love a Party, performed by Russ Abbot
type:
quotation
text:
Central Casting is in the business of extras, also known as atmosphere or background actors […]
ref:
2006, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 51, number 2, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
"It is estimated conservatively that there are some 50,000 would-be film extras in and around the celluloid capital, persons who would jump at the opportunity to appear as atmosphere in pictures," Scott concluded.
ref:
2013, Kerry Segrave, Extras of Early Hollywood: A History of the Crowd, 1913-1945, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
By the way, I discovered that we were not extras but background, as far as the director was concerned; and for the producer, we were atmosphere.
ref:
2015, William R. Phillippe, The Pastor's Diary
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
The air in a particular place.
The conditions (such as music, illumination etc.) that can influence the mood felt in an environment.
The apparent mood felt in an environment.
A unit of measurement for pressure equal to 101325 Pa (symbol: atm), approximately the atmospheric pressure at sea level.
Extras in a scene who have no spoken lines.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
film
media
television |
3830 | word:
regular
word_type:
adj
expansion:
regular (comparative more regular, superlative most regular)
forms:
form:
more regular
tags:
comparative
form:
most regular
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
regular
etymology_text:
From Middle English reguler, from Anglo-Norman reguler, Middle French reguler, regulier, and their source, Latin rēgulāris (“continuing rules for guidance”), from rēgula (“rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reg- (“move in a straight line”).
senses_examples:
text:
regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy
type:
example
text:
A quarter of a million strong in 1680, the clergy was only half as large in 1789. The unpopular regular clergy were the worst affected.
ref:
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
April may be the cruellest month, but I am planning to render it civilised and to take my antibiotics in a regular manner.
ref:
2011 April 12, A[lison] L[ouise] Kennedy, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
He made regular visits to go see his mother.
type:
example
text:
"Walked" is the past tense of the regular verb "to walk".
type:
example
text:
“I don’t see how you can write and act such splendid things, Jo. You’re a regular Shakespeare!” exclaimed Beth, who firmly believed that her sisters were gifted with wonderful genius in all things.
ref:
1868-69, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 21, in Little Women, part 1
type:
quotation
text:
Maintaining a high-fibre diet keeps you regular.
type:
example
text:
Gulls cawed and wheeled overhead, dropping splatty white cluster bombs on rooftops and pavements. Goodness knows what those gulls eat, but it certainly keeps them regular.
ref:
2015, Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island, page 206
type:
quotation
text:
a regular genius; a regular John Bull
type:
example
text:
Don't worry, boy. We're gonna set you straight. By tomorrow morning, you'll be a regular Burt Reynolds.
ref:
1997 February 16, Ron Hauge, Homer's Phobia (The Simpsons), season 8, episode 15, spoken by Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta)
type:
quotation
text:
a regular flower; a regular sea urchin
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).
Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size
Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity.
Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).
Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of a given language.
Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
Isometric.
Riding with the left foot forward.
Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
Noetherian and such that the minimal number of generators of the maximal ideal is equal to the Krull dimension of the ring.
Such that the local ring at every point is regular.
von Neumann regular: such that every left module (over the given ring) is flat.
senses_topics:
Christianity
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
government
military
politics
war
biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
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3831 | word:
regular
word_type:
adv
expansion:
regular (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
regular
etymology_text:
From Middle English reguler, from Anglo-Norman reguler, Middle French reguler, regulier, and their source, Latin rēgulāris (“continuing rules for guidance”), from rēgula (“rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reg- (“move in a straight line”).
senses_examples:
text:
'And if the knowledge wasn'y well come by, why, you might ha' made up for it by coming to church reg'lar.'
ref:
1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
Though no minister would visit the Skerburnfoot, or, if he went, departed quicker than he came, the girl Ailie attended regular at the catechising at the mains of Sker.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
text:
"Drain her every thousand, regular. Don't do it myself, o' course; just drop her in at the lubritorium."
ref:
1961, Colin Thiele, The Sun on the Stubble, Melbourne: Rigby Limited, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
"All we've got to do is stick 'em in the bedroom and feed 'em regular."
ref:
1988, Mary Steele, Mallyroot's Pub at Misery Ponds, Ringwood: Puffin Books, page 37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Regularly, on a regular basis.
senses_topics:
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3832 | word:
regular
word_type:
noun
expansion:
regular (plural regulars)
forms:
form:
regulars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
regular
etymology_text:
From Middle English reguler, from Anglo-Norman reguler, Middle French reguler, regulier, and their source, Latin rēgulāris (“continuing rules for guidance”), from rēgula (“rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reg- (“move in a straight line”).
senses_examples:
text:
Bartenders usually know their regulars by name.
type:
example
text:
This gentleman was one of the architect's regulars.
type:
example
text:
You separate the marbles by color until you have four groups, but then you notice that some of the marbles are regulars, some are shooters, and some are peewees.
ref:
2011, Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat, Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
A member of an armed forces or police force.
A frequent customer, client or business partner.
A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
Anything that is normal or standard.
A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.
A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls.
A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month.
senses_topics:
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3833 | word:
kingdom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kingdom (plural kingdoms)
forms:
form:
kingdoms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
kingdom (biology)
etymology_text:
From Middle English kingdom, kyngdom, from Old English cyningdōm from Proto-Germanic *kuningadōmaz, equivalent to king + -dom. Cognate with Scots kingdom, West Frisian keuningdom, Dutch koningdom, German Königtum, Danish kongedømme, Swedish kungadöme, and Icelandic konungdómur.
Etymology tree
Old English cyningdōm
Middle English kingdom
English kingdom
senses_examples:
text:
the kingdom of thought
type:
example
text:
the kingdom of the dead
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A realm having a king and/or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign.
A realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant.
A rank in the classification of organisms, below domain and above phylum; a taxon at that rank (e.g. the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom).
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy |
3834 | word:
queen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
queen (plural queens)
forms:
form:
queens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cwēn (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāni, from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s (“woman”).
Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon quān ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Norwegian kvinne (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to and possibly merged with and/or absorbed some senses of English quean, from Middle English quene, from Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin rēgīna (“queen”) (see Modern English regina). Doublet of quean and gyne.
senses_examples:
text:
The divorced king was looking for a new queen.
type:
example
text:
Holonym: royal family
text:
Holonym: royal family
text:
But our mercifull Queene Elizabeth hath not burned the popiſh prieſtes on the alters where they committed idolatrie in ſaying of Maſſe, and worſhipped a piece of breade for the bodie of Chriſte (which ſhee might haue done if ſhee would) and yet you count not her for a godly and mercifull Queene.
ref:
1582, Thomas Lupton, The Christian Against the Jesuite, London, retrieved 2022-01-14, page 50v
type:
quotation
text:
In 1952, at the last accession, there were only eight members of the new entity taking shape in the outline of the British Empire. The Queen was the head of state in seven of them, and she was proclaimed Head of the Commonwealth to accommodate India’s lone status as a republic.
ref:
2017 March 17, Sam Knight, “‘London Bridge Is Down’: The Secret Plan for the Days After the Queen’s Death”, in The Guardian, London, retrieved 2022-01-16
type:
quotation
text:
[…] and yet I will not ſay but amongſt duſt there is Pearle found, and in hard rockes Dyamonds of great value, and ſo amongſt many women there are ſome good, as that gracious and glorious Queene of all woman kinde the Virgin Mary the mother of al bliſſe, what wun her honour, but an humble minde and her paines and loue vnto our Sauiour Chriſt.
ref:
1620, Thomas Tell-Troth [pseudonym of Joseph Swetnam], The Araignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women: Or the Vanitie of Them, Choose You Whether, London, published 1807, retrieved 2022-01-14
type:
quotation
text:
“Always look after that girl, doc. She's a queen!”
ref:
1915, Willa Sibert Cather, The Song of the Lark, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, retrieved 2022-01-17, page 149
type:
quotation
text:
Regardless of what one thinks of that Hollywoodish distortion of her life story, it did stimulate an interest in the late Lady Day, though one might speculate as to whether the effect would have been the same had the film starred someone other than Diana Ross, a reigning queen of pop culture.
ref:
1973 April 24, Phyl Garland, “Sounds”, in Ebony, volume 28, number 6, Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., retrieved 2022-01-16, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
Know you the town is full of folks?
Know you the shows are full of queens?
That every mail is full of jokes
Born of the nation's brightest beans?
ref:
1914, Franklin P. Adams, By and Large, Garden City, New York: Doulbleday, Page & Company, retrieved 2022-01-15, page 142
type:
quotation
text:
When I find my queen, we’re having a whole tribe like our grandparents used to swing it back in the day.
ref:
1999, Camika Spencer, When All Hell Breaks Loose, New York: Villard, retrieved 2022-01-15, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
Thare saw I May, of myrthfull monethis quene.
ref:
1508, William Dunbar, “The Goldyn Targe”, in William Dunbar, edited by Priscilla Bawcutt, The Poems of William Dunbar, volume 1, Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, published 1998, page 186
type:
quotation
text:
The foregoing eleven chapters of criticism were but preludes to an assertion: of theology as itself a social science, and the queen of the sciences for the inhabitants of the altera civitas, on pilgrimage through this temporary world.
ref:
2006, John Milbank, Theology and Social Theory, 2nd edition, Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, page 418
type:
quotation
text:
Holonym: chess set
text:
For this cauſe that when he [the pawn] can procede so well in warre, as to arriue at the laſte rancke of hys enemies, he is choſen and made the beſt piece of the playe, to wit, he is the Quene.
ref:
1562, Damiano da Odemira, translated by Iames Rowbothum, The Pleasaunt and Wittie Playe of the Cheasts Renewed, with Instructions Both to Learne It Easely, and to Play It Well, London, page A7v
type:
quotation
text:
And, further, let us ſuppoſe, that your King is at Liberty to attack his Pawns upon one Side of the Board, by reckoning how many moves it will take your King to march and take thoſe two Pawns, and alſo, by adding the Number of Moves, which will be neceſſary for you to make a Queen with one of your Pawns: You will, by this Method, find out the exact number of Moves, before you can make a Queen.
ref:
1761, Edmond Hoyle, An Essay Towards Making the Game of Chess Easily Learned, London, retrieved 2022-01-13, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
Holonyms: deck of cards, pack of cards
text:
There is 5. trumps beside the Queene, yᵉ hindmost yᵘ shalt finde her
ref:
1575, Gammer Gurton’s Nedle
type:
quotation
text:
Just remember that a nine or ten on the flop may trap you against the early raiser if he’s holding a big pair, or if he catches an ace or king or queen — or even a jack — on a later round.
ref:
2003, Lou Krieger, Kathleen Keller Watterson, Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: ConJelCo, pages 84–85
type:
quotation
text:
Imran was good at carrom. Always after the bright red queen, the centre of attention on the board, he tussled to win it first.
ref:
2014, Shahnaz Bashir, The Half Mother: A Novel, Gurgaon, India: Hachette India
type:
quotation
text:
Each time a worker shakes the queen, she grasps the queen with her forelegs and shakes her own body for a second or so, delivering 10 to 20 vigorous shakings of the queen […]
ref:
2010, Thomas D. Seeley, Honeybee Democracy, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
Truss framed with King Posts […] Do. with Kings and Queens.
ref:
1811, Skyring's Builder’s Prices
type:
quotation
text:
[…] all of these men are lasciviously dressed in womanly attire, short sleeves, low-necked dresses and the usual ball-room decorations and ornaments of women, feathered and ribboned head-dresses, garters, frills, flowers, ruffles, etc., and deport themselves as women. Standing or seated on a pedestal, but accessible to all the rest, is the naked queen (a male), whose phallic member, decorated with a ribbon, is subject to the gaze and osculations in turn, of all the members of this lecherous gang of sexual perverts and phallic fornicators.
ref:
1893, C. H. Hughes, “Postscript to Paper on ‘Erotopathia’”, in The Alienist and Neurologist, volume 14, retrieved 2022-02-04, pages 731–732
type:
quotation
text:
[…] operator Charles Zipf described the "feminine" attire found in Gianelli’s room, reported his description of other "queens," and passed on "Salome's" admission of having had sex with men from the U.S.S. Baltimore.
ref:
1919, Lawrence R. Murphy, Perverts by Official Order: The Campaign Against Homosexuals by the United States Navy, New York: Harrington Park Press, published 1988, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
Despite one's opinion of Sylvia I can attest to the purity of her intent and dedication, and, no one will dare deny she is one gutsy queen.
ref:
1974 March 24, Bebe Scarpi, “Intro 2, a Threat to Transvestites?”, in Gay, volume 5, number 112, New York: Four Swords, retrieved 2022-01-13, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
A few outdoor houses for the queens are used.
ref:
1898 August 6, The Ladies’ Field
type:
quotation
text:
When your queen has returned from the stud it is always advisable to keep her shut up until all restlessness has left her.
ref:
1906 September 24, C. S. Sedgwick, “Veterinary Notes”, in Pacific Fancier, volume 4, number 2, Los Angeles, retrieved 2022-01-19, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
The combined quantity of Queens and Manzanillas to be pickled from the 1935 olive crop in the Seville District of Spain is estimated at 32,500 short tons, according to a report received from N. I. Nielsen, Agricultural Attaché at Paris.
ref:
1935 December 30, Foreign Agricultural Service, “Spanish Pickled Olive Production and Supplies”, in Foreign Crops and Markets, volume 31, number 27, Washington: United States Department of Agriculture, retrieved 2022-02-04, page 931
type:
quotation
text:
Prices for the two main types of Spanish style green olives - manzanillas and queens - vary according to the size of the crop of each. In some years queens will be more expensive than manzanillas […]
ref:
1984, United States International Trade Commission, Bottled Green Olives from Spain, Washington, page A-24
type:
quotation
text:
Since exposure plays a major role in the success of a queen, even those performers who do not win a Talent Night can obtain bookings by the bar and establish a reputation.
ref:
2004, Steven J. Hopkins, “‘Let the Drag Race Begin’: The Rewards of Becoming a Queen”, in Journal of Homosexuality, volume 46, numbers 3–4, →DOI, →ISSN, page 144
type:
quotation
text:
"I mean, it's not for everyone. And there's definitely good drag and bad drag. […] But I did learn a lot about myself and what I wanted from my life from some of the queens I used to know."
ref:
2018 December 19, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 1111 - Drag
type:
quotation
text:
Ad Hoc Softwares has bright hand-blocked floral cotton bed linens from India, including flat full/queen sheets, were $85, now $51; standard pillowcases, were $18 each, now $10.80 […]
ref:
1994 March 21, Leonore Fleischer, “Sales & Bargains”, in New York, volume 27, number 12, →ISSN, page 73
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
A female monarch.
A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
An excellent woman.
A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
Referring to one of several items used in tabletop games:
A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
Referring to one of several items used in tabletop games:
A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
Referring to one of several items used in tabletop games:
A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
A type of flatfish, specifically the lemon sole.
A queen apple.
A queen scallop.
Ellipsis of queen post.
A type of large roofing slate.
A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.
An adult female cat capable of breeding.
Ellipsis of queen olive.
Ellipsis of drag queen.
Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
senses_topics:
Christianity
business
construction
manufacturing
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality
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3835 | word:
queen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
queen (third-person singular simple present queens, present participle queening, simple past and past participle queened)
forms:
form:
queens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
queening
tags:
participle
present
form:
queened
tags:
participle
past
form:
queened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cwēn (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāni, from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s (“woman”).
Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon quān ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Norwegian kvinne (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to and possibly merged with and/or absorbed some senses of English quean, from Middle English quene, from Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin rēgīna (“queen”) (see Modern English regina). Doublet of quean and gyne.
senses_examples:
text:
Neither King will be able to stop the opponent's pawns from queening, when the game should be a draw. In such cases, which side queens first, or queens with check, can make a crucial difference. In this case, White promotes his pawn first and is able to put this advantage to good use.
ref:
2003, Yasser Seirawan, Winning Chess Endings, London: Everyman Chess, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
They have all been queened by imported stock, or the best of home-bred mothers.
ref:
1882 November 22, E. L. Briggs, “Development of ‘The Coming Bee’”, in The American Bee Journal, volume 18, number 47, retrieved 2022-01-15, page 743
type:
quotation
text:
The nucleus should not be queened by a queen from any of the parent colonies.
ref:
1957, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (India), The Wealth of India, page 263
type:
quotation
text:
In queening his apiary, he aims to keep about half of the queens of the current season's rearing, and the other of the summer preceding.
ref:
1896, The Progressive Bee-Keeper, page 320
type:
quotation
text:
If such a queen is immediately allowed to run through the entrance of a queenless colony, the queening is usually successful.
ref:
1967, Everett Franklin Phillips, Are Bees Reflex Machines?
type:
quotation
text:
Once you have introduced the queen, the first three steps of the capture have been completed, namely: blocking the tree, providing an alternate home, and queening the colony.
ref:
1980, Robert E. Donovan, Hunting Wild Bees
type:
quotation
text:
Sealed cells with about to emerge queens are used for queening the divisions.
ref:
2007, NPCS Board of Consultants & Engineers, The Complete Book on Beekeeping and Honey Processing, page 389
type:
quotation
text:
The classic posture, in which you lie on your back while the male serves you, may make him feel arrogant and in charge. Try Queening him. Have him lie on his back while you sit on his face (make sure he has an airway through either his mouth or his nose).
ref:
1996, Lorelei, The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl’s Guide to Female Dominance, Scranton, Pennsylvania: Berkana Press, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
She saw his pink tongue flickering on Clare's exposed nympha as she queened him, her love juices shining on his chin and throat[…]
ref:
2012, Yolanda Celbridge, The Castle of Maldona
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act the part of a queen; to behave imperiously; to queen it.
To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
To promote a pawn to a queen.
To be the queen bee of a colony.
To provide with a new queen bee.
To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games
agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality |
3836 | word:
tide
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tide (plural tides)
forms:
form:
tides
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tide
tide (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English tyde, tide, tyd, tid, from Old English tīd (“time”), from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to time.
Cognates:
Cognate with Scots tide, tyde (“moment, time, occasion, period, tide”), North Frisian tid (“time”), West Frisian tiid (“time, while”), Dutch tijd (“time”), Dutch tij, getij (“tide of the sea”), Afrikaans tyd (“time”), Low German Tied, Tiet (“time”), Low German Tide (“tide of the sea”), German Zeit (“time”), Danish tid (“time”), Swedish tid (“time”), Icelandic tíð (“time”), Albanian ditë (“day”), Old Armenian տի (ti, “age”), Northern Kurdish dem (“time”).
senses_examples:
text:
Which, at th'appointed tyde, / Each one did make his Bryde
ref:
1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion
type:
quotation
text:
at the tide / Of Christ his birth
ref:
1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the year MDCXLVIII
type:
quotation
text:
The doctor's no good this tide.
type:
example
text:
Eventide, noontide, morrowtide, nighttide, moon-tide, harvest-tide, wintertide, summertide, springtide, autumn-tide etc.,.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
A stream, current or flood.
Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
A time.
A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).
The period of twelve hours.
Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
Violent confluence
senses_topics:
chronology
hobbies
horology
lifestyle
business
mining
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3837 | word:
tide
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tide (third-person singular simple present tides, present participle tiding, simple past and past participle tided)
forms:
form:
tides
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tiding
tags:
participle
present
form:
tided
tags:
participle
past
form:
tided
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tide (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English tyde, tide, tyd, tid, from Old English tīd (“time”), from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to time.
Cognates:
Cognate with Scots tide, tyde (“moment, time, occasion, period, tide”), North Frisian tid (“time”), West Frisian tiid (“time, while”), Dutch tijd (“time”), Dutch tij, getij (“tide of the sea”), Afrikaans tyd (“time”), Low German Tied, Tiet (“time”), Low German Tide (“tide of the sea”), German Zeit (“time”), Danish tid (“time”), Swedish tid (“time”), Icelandic tíð (“time”), Albanian ditë (“day”), Old Armenian տի (ti, “age”), Northern Kurdish dem (“time”).
senses_examples:
text:
The ocean tided most impressively.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
To pour a tide or flood.
To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
3838 | word:
tide
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tide (third-person singular simple present tides, present participle tiding, simple past and past participle tided)
forms:
form:
tides
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tiding
tags:
participle
present
form:
tided
tags:
participle
past
form:
tided
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tide (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English tiden, tide, from Old English tīdan (“to happen”).
senses_examples:
text:
I wit not what may tide us here
ref:
1779, David Dalrymple, Annals of Scotland, volume II, page 121
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To happen, occur.
senses_topics:
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3839 | word:
experiment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
experiment (plural experiments)
forms:
form:
experiments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
experiment
etymology_text:
From Middle English experiment, from Old French esperiment (French expérience), from Latin experimentum (“experience, attempt, experiment”), from experior (“to experience, to attempt”), itself from ex + *perior, in turn from Proto-Indo-European *per-.
senses_examples:
text:
conduct an experiment
type:
example
text:
carry out some experiments
type:
example
text:
perform a scientific experiment
type:
example
text:
South Korean officials announced last month that an experiment to create artificial rain did not provide the desired results.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.
Experience, practical familiarity with something.
senses_topics:
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3840 | word:
experiment
word_type:
verb
expansion:
experiment (third-person singular simple present experiments, present participle experimenting, simple past and past participle experimented)
forms:
form:
experiments
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
experimenting
tags:
participle
present
form:
experimented
tags:
participle
past
form:
experimented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
experiment
etymology_text:
From Middle English experiment, from Old French esperiment (French expérience), from Latin experimentum (“experience, attempt, experiment”), from experior (“to experience, to attempt”), itself from ex + *perior, in turn from Proto-Indo-European *per-.
senses_examples:
text:
We're going to experiment on rats.
type:
example
text:
As well as demonstrating operating facilities, full-size car body models are used for experimenting with new types of interior finish, systems of lighting, positioning of route diagrams and advertisements, and the best form of windscreens at doorways, and the height and location of handgrips and handrails.
ref:
1951 October, “Models Assist Rolling Stock Design”, in Railway Magazine, page 647
type:
quotation
text:
Bob is a shameless tourist: Coit Tower, Fisherman's Wharf, Twin Peaks, ad infinitum. I think walking the streets with a map in hand looks dumb; experimenting is much more fun.
ref:
1978 August 19, David Brill, “California Here I Come!”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest.
ref:
1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)
text:
Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.
ref:
1481, The Mirrour of the World, William Caxton, 1.5.22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To conduct an experiment.
To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
senses_topics:
|
3841 | word:
computing
word_type:
noun
expansion:
computing (usually uncountable, plural computings)
forms:
form:
computings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Home computing includes children accessing information for educational purposes, parents accessing information for recreational purposes, users working from home, retired people 'silver surfers' that use computers for keeping in touch via e-mail, the Internet and through possible on-line clubs and societies.
ref:
2007, Sharon Yull, BTEC First ICT Practitioners
type:
quotation
text:
This course will cover several major fields of computing.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process or act of calculation.
The use of a computer or computers.
The study of computers and computer programming.
senses_topics:
|
3842 | word:
computing
word_type:
verb
expansion:
computing
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of compute
senses_topics:
|
3843 | word:
Medicaid
word_type:
name
expansion:
Medicaid
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of medical + aid
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
US government system for providing medical assistance to persons unable to afford medical treatments.
senses_topics:
|
3844 | word:
Korea
word_type:
name
expansion:
Korea (countable and uncountable, plural Koreas)
forms:
form:
Koreas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jan Huyghen van Linschoten
Korea
etymology_text:
First attested as Core in the 1598 English translation of the 1596 Itinerario of Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, from the original Dutch Core, itself from Portuguese according to van Linschoten's account. The spelling Corea was more common in Early Modern English, likely through Core + -ia.
Ultimately a sixteenth-century borrowing by Europeans from some variety of Chinese. Compare Mandarin 高麗／高丽 (Gāolí) but especially Hokkien 高麗／高丽 (Ko-lê), which matches the Dutch-Portuguese vowels exactly.
These are Chinese pronunciations of Sino-Korean 고려(高麗) (Goryeo), Korea's official name between 918 and 1394 and still used by Chinese people to refer to the country for centuries thereafter; this itself being a shortening of 高句麗 (“Goguryeo”), an ancient Korean kingdom in the first millennium. Doublet of Goryeo, directly from Korean.
Some Korean authors claim an Arabic intermediary instead, but this is impossible because the actual medieval Arabic word for Korea was a variant of السيلى (al-sīlā, see also Silla). ^([citation needed])
senses_examples:
text:
After the death of the empreſs Papûſha he had been baniſhed into Korea, from whence he was removed to Quey-lin Fû, the capital of Quang-ſi.
ref:
1780, “The Hiſtory of Jenghîz Khan's Succeſſors in Tartary and China”, in The Modern Part of an Univerſal History from the Earlieſt Accounts to the Preſent Time, volume IV, page 297
type:
quotation
text:
Then I told the delegates of the trip which I had taken with my wife, Jane, into Korea on the previous Thanksgiving, and of how I had celebrated my seventy-fourth birthday on the snowy mountains of Korea, eating from a mess kit with the men in uniform.
ref:
1954, Alben W. Barkley, “What Happened at Chicago”, in That Reminds Me, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 246
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nation and peninsula in East Asia. Now divided into two sovereign states, commonly called South Korea and North Korea.
Short for the Republic of Korea (South Korea).
A nation and peninsula in East Asia. Now divided into two sovereign states, commonly called South Korea and North Korea.
Short for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
A nation and peninsula in East Asia. Now divided into two sovereign states, commonly called South Korea and North Korea.
A dependency of Japan (1910–1945).
senses_topics:
|
3845 | word:
ochre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ochre (countable and uncountable, plural ochres)
forms:
form:
ochres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ochre
etymology_text:
From Old French ocre and its source Latin ōchra, from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ωχρός (ochrós)).
senses_examples:
text:
ochre:
text:
‘What does he come here cheeking us for, then?’ cried Master Kidderminster, showing a very irascible temperament. ‘If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors and take it out.’
ref:
1854, Charles Dickens, chapter 6, in Hard Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide
A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour
The stop codon sequence "UAA."
Money, especially gold.
Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
senses_topics:
|
3846 | word:
ochre
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ochre (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
ochre
etymology_text:
From Old French ocre and its source Latin ōchra, from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ωχρός (ochrós)).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a yellow-orange colour.
Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.
senses_topics:
archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences |
3847 | word:
ochre
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ochre (third-person singular simple present ochres, present participle ochring or ochreing, simple past and past participle ochred)
forms:
form:
ochres
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ochring
tags:
participle
present
form:
ochreing
tags:
participle
present
form:
ochred
tags:
participle
past
form:
ochred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ochre
etymology_text:
From Old French ocre and its source Latin ōchra, from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ωχρός (ochrós)).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] his eye was caught by the sight of one child in a group of smaller children playing in the shallows some little distance down—a white child, so white by contrast with the others that at first he thought it must be ochred, which it could not be while playing in the water.
ref:
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter 14, in Capricornia, New York: Appleton, published 1943, page 229
type:
quotation
text:
The sun gloats in the sky, casting a gleam on the pasture where there was so much umbering and ochreing only moments before.
ref:
2009 July 6, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “How the Thunder Sounds”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover or tint with ochre.
senses_topics:
|
3848 | word:
ochre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ochre (countable and uncountable, plural ochres)
forms:
form:
ochres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From an unknown West African language, probably Igbo ọ́kụ̀rụ̀, but compare Akan ŋkrũmã and ŋkrakra (“broth”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of okra.
senses_topics:
|
3849 | word:
alloy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alloy (countable and uncountable, plural alloys)
forms:
form:
alloys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman alai, from Old French aloi, from aloiier, from Latin alligō.
senses_examples:
text:
gold without alloy
type:
example
text:
Many of these coins are preserved at the British Museum, in London, and at the Ashmolean Museum, in Oxford, and are all of pure gold, without alloy, and in a good state of preservation. Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, is also said to have[…]
ref:
1888, Arthur Talbot Vanderbilt, Gold Not Only in Wales, But Also in Great Britain and Ireland: Facts and Figures, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
The sole grievance and alloy thus removed in the prospect of Harriet’s welfare, she was really in danger of becoming too happy for security.
ref:
1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 18
type:
quotation
text:
SETH KITANGE TELEVISION AND RADIO Upheaval at CBS. […] Bill Moyers, a CBS News commentator and special correspondent, expressed his dismay in an interview with Newsweek in which he said, “Television news has never been pure. It has always been an alloy of journalism and show business.”
ref:
1986, 1987 Year Book
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal.
A metal of lesser value, mixed with a metal of greater value.
An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc.
Fusion, marriage, combination.
senses_topics:
|
3850 | word:
alloy
word_type:
verb
expansion:
alloy (third-person singular simple present alloys, present participle alloying, simple past and past participle alloyed)
forms:
form:
alloys
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
alloying
tags:
participle
present
form:
alloyed
tags:
participle
past
form:
alloyed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French aloiier (“assemble, join”), from Latin alligare (“bind to, tie to”), compound of ad (“to”) + ligare (“to bind”).
senses_examples:
text:
to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper
type:
example
text:
to alloy pleasure with misfortunes
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To mix or combine; often used of metals.
To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance.
To impair or debase by mixture.
senses_topics:
|
3851 | word:
azure
word_type:
noun
expansion:
azure (countable and uncountable, plural azures)
forms:
form:
azures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
azure
etymology_text:
From Middle English asure, from Old French azur, derived from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward, “lapis lazuli”), dropping the l as if it were equivalent to the French article l’. The Arabic is from Classical Persian لاجورد (lājward, “lapis lazuli”), from the region of Lajward in Badakhshan.
Compare with Italian azzurro and Spanish azul.
senses_examples:
text:
In robes of azure.
ref:
1815, William Wordsworth, Extracts from An Evening Walk
type:
quotation
text:
For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazulis, the light and dusty, the powder blues, the deeps: royal, sapphire, navy, and marine […]
ref:
2014, William H. Gass, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
azure:
text:
Berington of Chester (on the authority of Harleian manuscript No. 1535) is said to bear a plain shield of azure. Personally I doubt this coat of arms […]
ref:
1904, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopaedia of Armory, London : T.C.; & E.C. Jack, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
In Bb [Glover's Roll], the conventional letter B is used to indicate azure in most items.
ref:
1997, Brault, Early Blazon
type:
quotation
text:
Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy: before 1399: or, a lion rampant azure, differentiated with a label gules (a blue lion rampant on a field of gold, differentiated with a red label signifying the first-born son) […]
ref:
2010, E. Baumgaertner Wm E. Baumgaertner, Wm E. Baumgaertner, Squires, Knights, Barons, Kings: War and Politics in Fifteenth Century England, Trafford Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
azure (heraldry):
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
Any of various widely distributed lycaenid butterflies of the genus Celastrina.
Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Ogyris.
Lapis lazuli.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
|
3852 | word:
azure
word_type:
adj
expansion:
azure (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
azure
etymology_text:
From Middle English asure, from Old French azur, derived from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward, “lapis lazuli”), dropping the l as if it were equivalent to the French article l’. The Arabic is from Classical Persian لاجورد (lājward, “lapis lazuli”), from the region of Lajward in Badakhshan.
Compare with Italian azzurro and Spanish azul.
senses_examples:
text:
When Britain first, at Heaven's command / Arose from out the azure main.
ref:
1740, James Thomson, Rule, Britannia!
type:
quotation
text:
‘I forget your coat of arms.’
‘A human foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.’
ref:
1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sky blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky.
Cloudless.
In blazon, of the colour blue.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
3853 | word:
azure
word_type:
verb
expansion:
azure (third-person singular simple present azures, present participle azuring, simple past and past participle azured)
forms:
form:
azures
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
azuring
tags:
participle
present
form:
azured
tags:
participle
past
form:
azured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
azure
etymology_text:
From Middle English asure, from Old French azur, derived from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward, “lapis lazuli”), dropping the l as if it were equivalent to the French article l’. The Arabic is from Classical Persian لاجورد (lājward, “lapis lazuli”), from the region of Lajward in Badakhshan.
Compare with Italian azzurro and Spanish azul.
senses_examples:
text:
Our readers are aware that much of the sugar sold in many countries goes through an azuring treatment; blue is added to granulated sugar with the view of making it appear whiter than it actually is.
ref:
1907, The Sugar Beet, volume 28, page 271
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To colour blue.
senses_topics:
|
3854 | word:
lama
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lama (plural lamas)
forms:
form:
lamas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A master of Tibetan Buddhism.
senses_topics:
|
3855 | word:
lama
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lama (plural lamas)
forms:
form:
lamas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of llama
senses_topics:
|
3856 | word:
lama
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lama (plural lamas)
forms:
form:
lamas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish lama (“lamé”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Wedding Dress, composed of a most magnificent silver lama, on net, over a rich silver tissue slip, with a superb border of silver lama embroidery at the bottom, forming shells and bouquets; above the border a most elegant falling, tastefully designed, in festoons of rich silver lama, and finished with a very brilliant roleau of lama.
ref:
1816, William Hone, Hone’s authentic account of the Royal Marriage, page 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
lamé (fabric with silver or gold threads woven in)
senses_topics:
|
3857 | word:
bepelt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bepelt (third-person singular simple present bepelts, present participle bepelting, simple past and past participle bepelted)
forms:
form:
bepelts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bepelting
tags:
participle
present
form:
bepelted
tags:
participle
past
form:
bepelted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From be- + pelt.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pelt soundly.
senses_topics:
|
3858 | word:
flatfish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flatfish (countable and uncountable, plural flatfish or flatfishes)
forms:
form:
flatfish
tags:
plural
form:
flatfishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From flat + fish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fish of the order Pleuronectiformes, the adults of which have both eyes on one side and usually swim with the other side down, such as a flounder, a halibut, or a sole.
senses_topics:
|
3859 | word:
after
word_type:
adv
expansion:
after (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
en:after
etymology_text:
From Middle English after, from Old English æfter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar, from Proto-Germanic *after, *aftiri, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epoteros (“further behind, further away”), from *h₂epo (“off, away”).
Cognate with Scots efter (“after”), North Frisian efter (“after, behind”), West Frisian after, achter, efter (“behind; after”), Low German/Dutch achter (“behind”), German after- (“after-”), Swedish/Danish efter (“after”), Norwegian etter (“after”), Icelandic eftir (“after”), aftur (“back, again”).
The Irish usage to indicate recent completion of an activity is a calque of the Irish collocation Táim tar éis... (“I have just...”, literally “I am after...”).
senses_examples:
text:
I left the room, and the dog bounded after.
type:
example
text:
They lived happily ever after.
type:
example
text:
I might come next month, or the month after.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Behind; later in time; following.
senses_topics:
|
3860 | word:
after
word_type:
prep
expansion:
after
forms:
wikipedia:
en:after
etymology_text:
From Middle English after, from Old English æfter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar, from Proto-Germanic *after, *aftiri, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epoteros (“further behind, further away”), from *h₂epo (“off, away”).
Cognate with Scots efter (“after”), North Frisian efter (“after, behind”), West Frisian after, achter, efter (“behind; after”), Low German/Dutch achter (“behind”), German after- (“after-”), Swedish/Danish efter (“after”), Norwegian etter (“after”), Icelandic eftir (“after”), aftur (“back, again”).
The Irish usage to indicate recent completion of an activity is a calque of the Irish collocation Táim tar éis... (“I have just...”, literally “I am after...”).
senses_examples:
text:
After your bad behaviour, you will be punished.
type:
example
text:
I’m not putting you in charge again after the last disaster.
type:
example
text:
After all that has happened, he is still my friend.
type:
example
text:
I can’t believe that, after all our advice against gambling, you walked into that casino!
type:
example
text:
I'm tired of picking up after you. Why can't you clean your own messes?
type:
example
text:
day after day, time after time, mile after mile, beer after beer, smile after smile
type:
example
text:
I was after finishing my dinner when there was a knock on the door. [= I had just finished my dinner when ...]
type:
example
text:
He was after walking on the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday before, all the way from the County Limerick, where his brother, Father John, has a parish; and you may believe, the poor man was tired
ref:
1875, Patrick Kennedy, Evenings in the Duffrey, page 283
type:
quotation
text:
Mother: Let him get away out of this now, himself and his share of songs. Look at the way he has your bib destroyed that I was after washing in the morning!
ref:
1906, Lady Gregory, “A Miracle Play”, in The Shanachie, volume 1
type:
quotation
text:
When I woke up it was black-dark and the music was after stopping. I could taste the bread I was after eating in the dream, as sweet and luscious as any I ever knew
ref:
2004, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
He asked directions to the dairy those milk cans had shown up late at. Corrigan pointed back the way he'd come and explained, “You'd have been after riding past their loading platform because they don't have their sign overlooking where the train would be after stopping.
ref:
2004, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Great Milk Train Robbery
type:
quotation
text:
"Yes. And where were you when the flood broke loose?" / "I would be most of the way to the Old House then. O'Loughlin was after running in wild to tell me he was hearing the Banshee out at The Old House, […]."
ref:
2008, M. P. Shiel, The Black Box, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
We had a few beers after the game.
type:
example
text:
The time is a quarter after eight. (chiefly US)
type:
example
text:
The Cold War began shortly after WWII.
type:
example
text:
After you with the salt and pepper.
type:
example
text:
After early sparring, Spurs started to take control as the interval approached and twice came close to taking the lead. Terry blocked Rafael van der Vaart's header on the line and the same player saw his cross strike the post after Adebayor was unable to apply a touch.
ref:
2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
He will leave a trail of destruction after him.
type:
example
text:
I told her to shut the door after her.
type:
example
text:
He’s after a job; run after him; inquire after her health.
type:
example
text:
We named him after his grandfather.
type:
example
text:
This painting is after Leonardo da Vinci.
type:
example
text:
Work your horse in a calade, after the Italian way; ride him straight, and then you make good use of the calade.
ref:
1735, The Sportsman's Dictionary
type:
quotation
text:
The princess is next in line to the throne after the prince.
type:
example
text:
to look after workmen; to enquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
Subsequently to and as a result of.
Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
Subsequently to and considering.
Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
Subsequently to and in spite of.
Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
Subsequently to the actions of (someone), in order to remedy a situation.
Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
Repeatedly, seemingly in a sequence without end.
Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
Used to indicate recent completion of an activity.
Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
Behind.
In pursuit of, seeking.
In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.
Below, often next below, in importance or rank.
Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to.
According to (an author or text).
According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting.
senses_topics:
|
3861 | word:
after
word_type:
conj
expansion:
after
forms:
wikipedia:
en:after
etymology_text:
From Middle English after, from Old English æfter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar, from Proto-Germanic *after, *aftiri, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epoteros (“further behind, further away”), from *h₂epo (“off, away”).
Cognate with Scots efter (“after”), North Frisian efter (“after, behind”), West Frisian after, achter, efter (“behind; after”), Low German/Dutch achter (“behind”), German after- (“after-”), Swedish/Danish efter (“after”), Norwegian etter (“after”), Icelandic eftir (“after”), aftur (“back, again”).
The Irish usage to indicate recent completion of an activity is a calque of the Irish collocation Táim tar éis... (“I have just...”, literally “I am after...”).
senses_examples:
text:
The show ends after the fat lady sings.
type:
example
text:
After we had decided to call it a day, I went home.
type:
example
text:
1991, Donald "Shadow" Rimgale (character), Robert DeNiro (actor), Backdraft
So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
text:
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
ref:
2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause.
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3862 | word:
after
word_type:
adj
expansion:
after
forms:
wikipedia:
en:after
etymology_text:
From Middle English after, from Old English æfter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar, from Proto-Germanic *after, *aftiri, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epoteros (“further behind, further away”), from *h₂epo (“off, away”).
Cognate with Scots efter (“after”), North Frisian efter (“after, behind”), West Frisian after, achter, efter (“behind; after”), Low German/Dutch achter (“behind”), German after- (“after-”), Swedish/Danish efter (“after”), Norwegian etter (“after”), Icelandic eftir (“after”), aftur (“back, again”).
The Irish usage to indicate recent completion of an activity is a calque of the Irish collocation Táim tar éis... (“I have just...”, literally “I am after...”).
senses_examples:
text:
I did verily believe in my own mind, that I couldn't fight in that way at all; but my after experience convinced me that this was all a notion.
ref:
1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
The amends he had made in after life were lost sight of in the dramatic glare of the original act.
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1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
type:
quotation
text:
The after gun is mounted aft.
type:
example
text:
The after gun is abaft the forward gun.
type:
example
text:
The aircraft provided an after cabin for two radar operators.
type:
example
text:
Caspian led them down a ladder into the after hatch.
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1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent
At or towards the stern of a ship or the rear of an aircraft.
senses_topics:
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3863 | word:
after
word_type:
noun
expansion:
after (plural afters)
forms:
form:
afters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:after
etymology_text:
From Middle English after, from Old English æfter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar, from Proto-Germanic *after, *aftiri, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epoteros (“further behind, further away”), from *h₂epo (“off, away”).
Cognate with Scots efter (“after”), North Frisian efter (“after, behind”), West Frisian after, achter, efter (“behind; after”), Low German/Dutch achter (“behind”), German after- (“after-”), Swedish/Danish efter (“after”), Norwegian etter (“after”), Icelandic eftir (“after”), aftur (“back, again”).
The Irish usage to indicate recent completion of an activity is a calque of the Irish collocation Táim tar éis... (“I have just...”, literally “I am after...”).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: before
text:
In the ‘before’ shots, she’ll look like an ordinary suburban housewife; but we know she acts in community theater musicals sometimes, so the ‘afters’ will give her a glamorous starlet image, starting with a very revealing bathing suit shot.
ref:
1987, Joanna Z. Adams, Makeovers, London: Headline Book Publishing Plc, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
Did any of the before pictures remind you of yourself, and did any of the afters show what you hoped your results might be?
ref:
1998, Alan Gaynor, “How to Choose a Doctor”, in Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Cosmetic Surgery But Couldn’t Afford to Ask: A Complete Look at the Latest Techniques and Why They Are Safer and Less Expensive, by One of Today’s Most Prominent Cosmetic Surgeons, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, part I (The New Aesthetic Surgery), page 66
type:
quotation
text:
So with that in mind, we thought it might be helpful to put some pictures where our mouths are, and include some less-than-flattering photos of our first house after we’d lived there eight whole months. Spoiler alert: We were miiiles away from the “afters” that we shared on pages 6 and 7.
ref:
2012, Sherry Petersik, John Petersik, Young House Love: 243 Ways to Paint, Craft, Update & Show Your Home Some Love, New York, N.Y.: Artisan, page 16, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of before-and-after images: the one that shows the difference after a specified treatment.
senses_topics:
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3864 | word:
hammerman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hammerman (plural hammermen)
forms:
form:
hammermen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hammer + -man.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hammerer; a forgeman.
senses_topics:
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3865 | word:
carsickness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
carsickness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Motion sickness caused by riding in a motor car.
Motion sickness caused by riding in a railway carriage.
senses_topics:
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3866 | word:
orchid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
orchid (plural orchids)
forms:
form:
orchids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
orchid
etymology_text:
From New Latin Orchideae, Orchidaceae, an irregular formation from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “orchid, testicle”) (ostensibly from the shape of the roots). Supplanted Middle English ballokwort (literally “testicle plant”).
senses_examples:
text:
orchid:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A plant of the orchid family (Orchidaceae), bearing unusually-shaped flowers of beautiful colours.
A light bluish-red, violet-red or purple colour.
senses_topics:
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3867 | word:
orchid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
orchid (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
orchid
etymology_text:
From New Latin Orchideae, Orchidaceae, an irregular formation from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “orchid, testicle”) (ostensibly from the shape of the roots). Supplanted Middle English ballokwort (literally “testicle plant”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a light purple colour.
senses_topics:
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3868 | word:
gross domestic product
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gross domestic product (usually uncountable, plural gross domestic products)
forms:
form:
gross domestic products
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A measure of the economic production of a particular territory in financial capital terms over a specific time period.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences |
3869 | word:
fascism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fascism (usually uncountable, plural fascisms)
forms:
form:
fascisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Axis Powers
Benito Mussolini
Fascism
Fascist Italy
World War II
fasci di combattimento
fascist (pejorative)
etymology_text:
From Italian fascismo, from fascio (“fasces, bundle, group”) + -ismo (“-ism”) with direct reference to Benito Mussolini's fasci di combattimento ("fight clubs"), from Latin fasces, bundles of axes and rods carried before the magistrates of the ancient Roman Republic as representative of their power of life and death. Originally with exclusive reference to Fascist Italy which used the fasces as an emblem, later broadened to describe all of the Axis Powers of World War II, and subsequently used as a general term of opprobrium in English and international political discourse.
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰask-
Latin fascis
Italian fascio
Ancient Greek -ίζω (-ízō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
Latin -ismus
Italian -ismo
Italian fascismolbor.
English fascism
senses_examples:
text:
Today "Fascism" like Russian "Bolshevism" does not know what freedom means and cares less about the principles of liberty and the rights of man. It knows only one law and that is the will of Mussolini and his band of "Black Shirts."
ref:
1922 December 24, The American Photo-engraver, volume 15, page 324
type:
quotation
text:
Fascism, at any rate the German version, is a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes... Ownership has never been abolished, there are still capitalists and workers, and—this is the important point, and the real reason why rich men all over the world tend to sympathize with Fascism—generally speaking the same people are capitalists and the same people workers as before the Nazi revolution. But at the same time the State, which is simply the Nazi Party, is in control of everything... The mere efficiency of such a system, the elimination of waste and obstruction, is obvious. In seven years it has built up the most powerful war machine the world has ever seen.
ref:
1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. II
type:
quotation
text:
Despite the three decades that have passed since the end of the second world war, fascism remains a subject of much heated argument. […] It also continues to be a subject of controversy, partly because it collides with so many preconceived ideological notions, partly because generalizations are made difficult by the fact that there was not one fascism but several fascisms.
ref:
1978, Walter Laqueur, Fascism: A Reader's Guide: Analyses, Interpretations, Bibliography
type:
quotation
text:
Fascism became an all-purpose term because one can eliminate from a fascist regime one or more features, and it will still be recognizable as fascist. Take away imperialism from fascism and you still have Franco and Salazar. Take away colonialism and you still have the Balkan fascism of the Ustashes.
ref:
1995 June 22, Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism”, in The New York Review of Books, archived from the original on 2017-01-31
type:
quotation
text:
...even the people who recklessly fling the word ‘Fascist’ in every direction attach at any rate an emotional significance to it. By ‘Fascism’ they mean, roughly speaking, something cruel, unscrupulous, arrogant, obscurantist, anti-liberal and anti-working-class. Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathizers, almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come.
ref:
1944, George Orwell, What Is Fascism?
type:
quotation
text:
For Argentine fascists and nacionalistas, fascism was not a theory but a mold for Catholic thinking. For instance, one of the most significant nacionalista intellectuals, César Pico, argued that fascism was a "reaction against the calamities ascribed to liberal democracy, socialism, and capitalism. It's a reaction that, although instinctive in its origins, is searching for a doctrine that could justify it."
ref:
2009, Federico Finchelstein, Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any right-wing, authoritarian, nationalist ideology characterized by centralized, totalitarian governance, strong regimentation of the economy and society, and repression of criticism or opposition.
Any system of strong autocracy or oligarchy usually to the extent of bending and breaking the law, race-baiting, and/or violence against largely unarmed populations.
Any extreme reliance on or enforcement of rules and regulations.
senses_topics:
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3870 | word:
epigram
word_type:
noun
expansion:
epigram (plural epigrams)
forms:
form:
epigrams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French epigramme, from Latin epigramma, from Ancient Greek ἐπίγραμμα (epígramma, “inscription”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inscription in stone.
A brief but witty saying.
A short, witty or pithy poem.
senses_topics:
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3871 | word:
upbreathe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upbreathe (third-person singular simple present upbreathes, present participle upbreathing, simple past and past participle upbreathed)
forms:
form:
upbreathes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upbreathing
tags:
participle
present
form:
upbreathed
tags:
participle
past
form:
upbreathed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + breathe.
senses_examples:
text:
To you corruptlesse hunny, and pure dew,
Upbreathes our holy fire
ref:
1606, John Marston, The Wonder of Women
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To breathe up or out; to exhale.
senses_topics:
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3872 | word:
hack
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hack (third-person singular simple present hacks, present participle hacking, simple past and past participle hacked)
forms:
form:
hacks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hacking
tags:
participle
present
form:
hacked
tags:
participle
past
form:
hacked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
New Yorker
etymology_text:
From Middle English hacken, hakken, from Old English *haccian (“to hack”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hoe; hew”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; peg; hook; handle”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian häkje (“to hack”), West Frisian hakje (“to hack”), Dutch hakken (“to chop up; hack”), German hacken (“to chop; hack; hoe”), Danish hakke (“to chop”), Swedish hacka (“to hack; chop”), French hacher (“to chop”).
The computer senses date back to at least 1955 when it initially referred to creative problem solving. By 1963, the negative connotations of “black hat” or malicious hacking had become associated with telephone hacking (cf. phreaking).
senses_examples:
text:
They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.
type:
example
text:
Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?
type:
example
text:
New Yorkers have been fleeing for months. But the fear some residents have of the violent reactions to the protests here is adding a new challenge to those asking themselves whether they can hack the city. Many are deciding not to return.
ref:
2020 June 5, Alyson Krueger, “The Agonizing Question: Is New York City Worth It Anymore?”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.
type:
example
text:
He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.
type:
example
text:
The police said that officers belonging to the Cyber Security and Technology Crime unit searched an office in the Wong Chuk Hang neighborhood on Friday afternoon on the suspicion that computers at the institute had been hacked, leading to a leak of personal information.
ref:
2020 July 10, Tiffany May, Austin Ramzy, “Hong Kong Police Raid Pollster on Eve of Pro-Democracy Camp Primary”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-10
type:
quotation
text:
I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.
type:
example
text:
I read up on dating tips so I can hack my sex life.
type:
example
text:
When I logged into the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked.
type:
example
text:
That player must be hacking, they got so many kills last game.
type:
example
text:
He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal.
type:
example
text:
Jensen gets a 5 minute major penalty for hacking Orsov in the back.
type:
example
text:
There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.
type:
example
text:
He went to the batter's box hacking.
type:
example
text:
Barcelona had been harried and hurried and stretched thin by the midway point in the second half. Tackles flew in. Toes were crushed, shins barked, ankles hacked.
ref:
8 May 2019, Barney Ronay, “Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Centre-back Branislav Ivanovic then took a wild slash at the ball but his captain John Terry saved Chelsea's skin by hacking the ball clear for a corner with Kevin Davies set to strike from just six yards out.
ref:
2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
[…] laterally from and then towards the spine, and continued downwards from the shoulders until the whole back has been hacked.
ref:
1915, Louisa L. Despard, Handbook of Massage for Beginners, page 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
To accomplish a difficult programming task.
To work with something on an intimately technical level.
To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
To swing at a pitched ball.
To kick (a player) on the shins.
To strike in a frantic movement.
To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
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natural-sciences
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sciences
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lifestyle
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sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
soccer
sports
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3873 | word:
hack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hack (countable and uncountable, plural hacks)
forms:
form:
hacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
New Yorker
etymology_text:
From Middle English hacken, hakken, from Old English *haccian (“to hack”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hoe; hew”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; peg; hook; handle”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian häkje (“to hack”), West Frisian hakje (“to hack”), Dutch hakken (“to chop up; hack”), German hacken (“to chop; hack; hoe”), Danish hakke (“to chop”), Swedish hacka (“to hack; chop”), French hacher (“to chop”).
The computer senses date back to at least 1955 when it initially referred to creative problem solving. By 1963, the negative connotations of “black hat” or malicious hacking had become associated with telephone hacking (cf. phreaking).
senses_examples:
text:
Luckily for us J company picked us up in their hack — two snowmobiles with a big inflatable raft strapped between them.
type:
example
text:
Valleysoft released a hack yesterday to fix the "crashes when more than 50 recipients" bug for people who need it right away. The company says its next release will also solve this as well as add new features.
type:
example
text:
Tsang is great but Zhou is such a hack — I wouldn't want him on my project.
type:
example
text:
Terry wrote that module? I didn't know she was a hack too!
type:
example
text:
Flugensoft came out with a neat hack last week that allows your watch to warm up your car if it's below freezing outside.
type:
example
text:
Putting your phone in a sandwich bag when you go to the beach is such a great hack.
type:
example
text:
Woebot was full of tasks and tricks — little mental health hacks — which at first made me roll my eyes. One day Woebot asked me to press an ice cube to my forehead, to feel the sensation as a way of better connecting with my body.
ref:
2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
[…] found out a discarded sex mini-game in the code, and made it available again in the modified PC version of the game that they nicknamed “Hot Coffee.” This hack of the game created a controversy, since the inclusion of sexual content would change its age rating, […]
ref:
2014, Clara Fernández-Vara, Introduction to Game Analysis, page 165
type:
quotation
text:
Zersky is still down after that nasty hack by Lenner.
type:
example
text:
And Melnick goes down with one last hack at an O'Malley fastball.
type:
example
text:
Wales are awarded a free kick after a minor hack by Järvinen on Llewellyn.
type:
example
text:
“Ain't there just fine scrummages then! and the three trees you see there which come out into the play, that's a tremendous place when the ball hangs there, for you get thrown against the trees, and that's worse than any hack.”
ref:
1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days
type:
quotation
text:
Liverpool left-back Robertson had been excellent but was sent off for a reckless hack on Emerson Royal, a decision given after Paul Tierney reviewed the decision on the pitch-side monitor.
ref:
2021 December 19, Alex Bysouth, “Tottenham Hotpsur 2 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
You've been busted, you lost your qualifications as section leader three times, put in hack twice by me, with a history of high speed passes over five air control towers, and one admiral's daughter!
ref:
1986, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun (motion picture), spoken by Stinger (James Tolkan)
type:
quotation
text:
“Lieutenant Cauthen, you've got ten seconds to explain yourself before I put you in hack!”
ref:
2013, David Cauthen, When Destiny Comes to a Fork in the Road, page 426
type:
quotation
text:
Henebry's planes returned to Japan to reload, and early in the morning brought almost 3,000 more troopers to Korea […] Before sunrise next day, all troops in the maneuver had been picked up again and airlifted in “Henebry Hacks” back to Japan.
ref:
1952, Air Reservist, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
[…] so that he had to make the 300-mile journey in a “hack” plane which had spluttering engines, which did not conduce to an easy mind nor to a comfortable journey; […]
ref:
1967, Christian Advocate, volume 47, page 292
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tool for chopping.
A hacking blow.
A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
A try, an attempt.
The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
An improvised device or solution to a problem.
An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
The illegal accessing of a computer network.
A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
A kick on the shins in football of any type.
Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
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ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
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ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
government
military
politics
war |
3874 | word:
hack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hack (plural hacks)
forms:
form:
hacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variations of hatch, heck.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
A food-rack for cattle.
A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
A grating in a mill race.
senses_topics:
falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
|
3875 | word:
hack
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hack (third-person singular simple present hacks, present participle hacking, simple past and past participle hacked)
forms:
form:
hacks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hacking
tags:
participle
present
form:
hacked
tags:
participle
past
form:
hacked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variations of hatch, heck.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
senses_topics:
falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle |
3876 | word:
hack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hack (plural hacks)
forms:
form:
hacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of hackney (“an ordinary horse”), probably from place name Hackney.
senses_examples:
text:
I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.
type:
example
text:
The interurban wasn't running because of the holiday, and the hacks, if there were any, would have been clustered round the Post Tavern at the other end of town.
ref:
1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 227
type:
quotation
text:
1920s, Jimmie Rodgers, Frankie and Johnny
Bring out the rubber-tired buggie/Bring out the rubber-tired hack/I'm takin' my Johnny to the graveyard/But I ain't gonna bring him back
text:
Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack.
type:
example
text:
He's nothing but the typical hack writer.
type:
example
text:
Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, / Who long was a bookseller's hack.
ref:
1767, Oliver Goldsmith, Epitaph on Edward Purdon
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
A hearse.
An untalented writer.
One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
A political agitator.
A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
A procuress.
senses_topics:
authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
government
politics
|
3877 | word:
hack
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hack (third-person singular simple present hacks, present participle hacking, simple past and past participle hacked)
forms:
form:
hacks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hacking
tags:
participle
present
form:
hacked
tags:
participle
past
form:
hacked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of hackney (“an ordinary horse”), probably from place name Hackney.
senses_examples:
text:
Poor madam , now condemn'd to hack
The rest of life with anxious Jack
ref:
1765, Oliver Goldsmith, The Double Transformation
type:
quotation
text:
The word "remarkable" has been so hacked of late.
ref:
1865, John Henry Newman, An Internal Argument for Christianity
type:
quotation
text:
When I was hacking in Brooklyn, I used to run him over to the Court Street restaurants, where he'd sit in Nick and Tony's Pizzeria […]
ref:
2004, Joseph Trigoboff, The Shooting Gallery, page 238
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
To live the life of a drudge or hack.
To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
To drive a hackney cab.
senses_topics:
equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
|
3878 | word:
hack
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hack (third-person singular simple present hacks, present participle hacking, simple past and past participle hacked)
forms:
form:
hacks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hacking
tags:
participle
present
form:
hacked
tags:
participle
past
form:
hacked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unclear. Perhaps imitative; compare hock, hawk. Alternatively, perhaps from hack (“chop; do something difficult”) via the idea of doing something (like breathing) or with difficulty.
senses_examples:
text:
This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cough noisily.
senses_topics:
|
3879 | word:
hack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hack (countable and uncountable, plural hacks)
forms:
form:
hacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unclear. Perhaps imitative; compare hock, hawk. Alternatively, perhaps from hack (“chop; do something difficult”) via the idea of doing something (like breathing) or with difficulty.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dry cough.
A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
senses_topics:
|
3880 | word:
hack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hack (plural hacks)
forms:
form:
hacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hackysack.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
senses_topics:
|
3881 | word:
hack
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hack (third-person singular simple present hacks, present participle hacking, simple past and past participle hacked)
forms:
form:
hacks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hacking
tags:
participle
present
form:
hacked
tags:
participle
past
form:
hacked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hackysack.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To play hackeysack.
senses_topics:
|
3882 | word:
unvalued
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unvalued (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + valued.
senses_examples:
text:
an unvalued estate
type:
example
text:
c. 1601, Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, iii
For he himself is subject to his birth; / He may not, as unvalued persons do, / Carve for himself, for on his choice depends / The safety and health of this whole state, / And therefore must his choice be circumscribed / Unto the voice and yielding of that body / Whereof he is the head.
text:
Mongst which there in a siluer dish did ly / twoo golden apples of vnualewd price: / far passing those which Hercules came by, / or those which Atalanta did entice.
ref:
1595, Edmund Spenser, “Sonnet LXXVII” in Amoretti or Sonnets
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not having been valued or appraised.
Not considered to be of worth; deemed valueless.
Having inestimable value; invaluable.
senses_topics:
|
3883 | word:
men
word_type:
noun
expansion:
men
forms:
wikipedia:
men
etymology_text:
From Middle English men, from Old English menn (“people”), from Proto-Germanic *manniz, nominative plural of Proto-Germanic *mann- (“person”). Cognate with German Männer (“men”), Danish mænd (“men”), Swedish män (“men”). More at man.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of man
senses_topics:
|
3884 | word:
men
word_type:
noun
expansion:
men pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
men
etymology_text:
From Middle English men, from Old English menn (“people”), from Proto-Germanic *manniz, nominative plural of Proto-Germanic *mann- (“person”). Cognate with German Männer (“men”), Danish mænd (“men”), Swedish män (“men”). More at man.
senses_examples:
text:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
ref:
1776, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
type:
quotation
text:
"Muster up the men in the barracks at 0600," the lieutenant said to his sergeant.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
(The) people, humanity, man(kind).
Enlisted personnel (as opposed to commissioned officers).
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
3885 | word:
drink
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drink (third-person singular simple present drinks, present participle drinking, simple past drank or (southern US) drunk or (nonstandard) drinked, past participle drunk or (chiefly archaic) drunken or (dialectal) drank or (all nonstandard, archaic or obsolete) drinked or drinken or dranken)
forms:
form:
drinks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
drinking
tags:
participle
present
form:
drank
tags:
past
form:
drunk
tags:
Southern
US
past
form:
drinked
tags:
nonstandard
past
form:
drunk
tags:
participle
past
form:
drunken
tags:
archaic
participle
past
form:
drank
tags:
dialectal
participle
past
form:
drinked
tags:
error-unknown-tag
nonstandard
obsolete
participle
past
form:
drinken
tags:
error-unknown-tag
nonstandard
obsolete
participle
past
form:
dranken
tags:
error-unknown-tag
nonstandard
obsolete
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English drinken, from Old English drincan (“to drink, swallow up, engulf”), from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw into one's mouth, sip, gulp”), nasalised variant of *dʰreǵ- (“to draw, glide”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian drinke (“to drink”), Low German drinken (“to drink”), Dutch drinken (“to drink”), German trinken (“to drink”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål drikke (“to drink”), Norwegian Nynorsk drikka (“to drink”).
senses_examples:
text:
He drank the water I gave him.
type:
example
text:
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
type:
example
text:
Jack drank the whole bottle by himself.
type:
example
text:
You've been drinking, haven't you?
type:
example
text:
No thanks, I don't drink.
type:
example
text:
Everyone who is drinking is drinking, but not everyone who is drinking is drinking.
type:
example
text:
You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do.
ref:
2007, Matthew Weiner, “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”, in Mad Men, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Roger Sterling
type:
quotation
text:
And some men now live ninety yeeres and past, / Who never dranke tobacco first nor last.
ref:
1630, John Taylor, A Proclomation or approbation from the King of execration, to euery nation, for Tobaccoes propogration
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
To consume alcoholic beverages.
To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
To smoke, as tobacco.
senses_topics:
|
3886 | word:
drink
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drink (countable and uncountable, plural drinks)
forms:
form:
drinks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English drink, drinke (also as drinche, drunch), from Old English drynċ, from Proto-Germanic *drunkiz, *drankiz. Compare Dutch drank.
senses_examples:
text:
I’d like another drink please.
type:
example
text:
My favourite drink is the White Russian.
type:
example
text:
Can I buy you a drink?
type:
example
text:
He was about to take a drink from his root beer.
type:
example
text:
She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
ref:
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court
type:
quotation
text:
The face of work is a drunk man in the same chair, chewing on the same bone for five thousand nights. The face of work is a, coffee cup in hand, frustrated: "You don't get it. They all don't get it. You don't understand, man." Daddy's on the drink again.
ref:
1995, “Daddy's on the Drink” (track 12), in Shame-Based Man, performed by Bruce McCulloch
type:
quotation
text:
[…] she was indeed Amanda in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
ref:
2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
A drink of wine is about 5 ounces
type:
example
text:
And when (SUBJECT) was 55, would you say (he/she) drank more than, less than, or about 2 to 3 drinks a day?
ref:
1963, Vital and Health Statistics: Programs and collection procedures, page 125
type:
quotation
text:
If he doesn't pay off the mafia, he’ll wear cement shoes to the bottom of the drink!
type:
example
text:
When in mid-Channel the speed slowed and I was informed by A.C. Russell that another dinghy had been spotted. This turned out to contain a Canadian fighter pilot who had been in the drink for three days and was in rather a bad way. He said he had seen all the aircraft flying over in the two days before D-Day and since, but no one had sighted him.
ref:
1996, John French+, A Drop in the Ocean: Dramatic Accounts of Aircrew Saved From the Sea, Pen and Sword, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
In seconds, we went from sitting in a boat to threading ice-cold water. I wasn't wearing a life jacket and am not the best paddler, but there I was, in the drink, splashing around.
ref:
2011, Levi Johnston, Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin's Crosshairs, Simon and Schuster, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
If the planes couldn't make it, they would go in the drink, eject their rubber lifeboats, inflate them, climb in, and pray for the Navy to pick them up before the Germans did.
ref:
2012, Jack R. Myers, Shot at and Missed: Recollections of a World War II Bombardier, University of Oklahoma Press, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
Now this is going to bring some huge totals of rainfall with it—200 to 400 millimetres with it—and along with that, these winds—gusts to 275 kilometres an hour near the cyclone [Cyclone Ilsa] core—and that's a real concern. That's very destructive winds and it's going to carry this inertia and the rain with it well inland. And we're likely going to be talking about a cyclone all the way through Friday as it slowly weakens, eventually washing that moisture out into a front going through the south. It means the southeast is getting a drink but W.A.'s northwest really copping it, individual totals significantly higher than what you're seeing here [on the weather map].
ref:
2023 April 13, 07:56 am (UTC+10/AEST), in News Breakfast, season 2023, episode 74, spoken by Nate Byrne, Melbourne, Australia: ABC News
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A beverage.
Drinks in general; something to drink.
A type of beverage (usually mixed).
A (served) alcoholic beverage.
The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
Alcoholic beverages in general.
A standard drink.
Any body of water.
A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.
senses_topics:
|
3887 | word:
colour
word_type:
noun
expansion:
colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours)
forms:
form:
colours
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
senses_topics:
|
3888 | word:
colour
word_type:
adj
expansion:
colour (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
senses_topics:
|
3889 | word:
colour
word_type:
verb
expansion:
colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)
forms:
form:
colours
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
colouring
tags:
participle
present
form:
coloured
tags:
participle
past
form:
coloured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
senses_topics:
|
3890 | word:
marinara
word_type:
adj
expansion:
marinara (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
marinara
etymology_text:
From Italian alla marinara (“sailor style”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Prepared with tomatoes, or in a tomato sauce.
Of pasta: In a seafood sauce. Of pizza: With seafood topping.
senses_topics:
|
3891 | word:
marinara
word_type:
noun
expansion:
marinara (countable and uncountable, plural marinaras)
forms:
form:
marinaras
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
marinara
etymology_text:
From Italian alla marinara (“sailor style”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A marinara sauce.
senses_topics:
|
3892 | word:
update
word_type:
noun
expansion:
update (plural updates)
forms:
form:
updates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + date.
senses_examples:
text:
He gave me an update on the situation in New York.
type:
example
text:
I just made an update to the Wikipedia article on guerillas.
type:
example
text:
I just made an update to my blog about my trip to Rome.
type:
example
text:
Our database receives an update every morning at 3 AM.
type:
example
text:
I have a couple of updates to install on your laptop.
type:
example
text:
You should try the update: it rocks.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An advisement providing more up-to-date information than currently known.
A change in information, a modification of existing or known data.
An additional piece of information. An addition to existing information.
A modification of something to a more recent, up-to-date version; (in software) a minor upgrade.
A version of something which is newer than other versions.
senses_topics:
|
3893 | word:
update
word_type:
verb
expansion:
update (third-person singular simple present updates, present participle updating, simple past and past participle updated)
forms:
form:
updates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
updating
tags:
participle
present
form:
updated
tags:
participle
past
form:
updated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + date.
senses_examples:
text:
I need to update my records to take account of the most recent transaction.
type:
example
text:
Update me on what happened while I was away.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bring (a thing) up to date.
To bring (a person) up to date: to inform (a person) about recent developments.
senses_topics:
|
3894 | word:
gyroscope
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gyroscope (plural gyroscopes)
forms:
form:
gyroscopes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French gyroscope, coined in 1852 by physicist Leon Foucault, equivalent to gyro- + -scope, from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “circle”) and σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”).
senses_examples:
text:
Working with NR, ScotRail and Porterbrook, Perpetuum has fitted sensors with gyroscopes and accelerometers to trains that are already in passenger service.
ref:
2022 March 23, “Network News: Hitachi on-train track monitoring trial expands to Scottish routes”, in RAIL, number 953, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An apparatus composed of a wheel which spins inside of a frame (gimbal) and causes the balancing of the frame in any direction or position. In the form of a gyroscopic stabilizer, used to help keep aircraft and ships steady.
senses_topics:
|
3895 | word:
laugh
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laugh (plural laughs)
forms:
form:
laugh Recorded laughter of a woman
tags:
canonical
form:
laughs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
laugh
etymology_text:
From Middle English laughen, laghen, from (Anglian) Old English hlæhhan, hlehhan, (West Saxon) hliehhan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan, from Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną.
cognates
Germanic: (with j-present) Scots lauch, Icelandic hlæja, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish le; (without) Low German lachen, Dutch lachen, German lachen.
Indo-European: Russian клекота́ть (klekotátʹ), клокота́ть (klokotátʹ), клохта́ть (kloxtátʹ) ‘to cluck, cackle’, Ancient Greek κλώζω (klṓzō), κλώσσω (klṓssō) ‘to cackle, clack’, Welsh cloch ‘bell’, possibly Latin glōcīre ‘to cluck’.
senses_examples:
text:
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
ref:
1803, Oliver Goldsmith, The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account of His Life, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh.
ref:
1869, F. W. Robertson, Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
His deep laughs boomed through the room.
type:
example
text:
“And this rug,” he says, stomping on an old rag carpet. “How much do you suppose that cost?” ¶ It was my first guess, so I said fifty dollars. ¶ “That’s a laugh,” he said. “I paid two thousand for that rug.”
ref:
1921, Ring Lardner, The Big Town: How I and the Mrs. Go to New York to See Life and Get Katie a Husband, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
Life's a piece of shit / When you look at it / Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
ref:
1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
type:
quotation
text:
Your new hat's an absolute laugh, dude.
type:
example
text:
2010, The Times, March 14, 2010, Tamzin Outhwaite, the unlikely musical star
Outhwaite is a good laugh, yes, she knows how to smile: but deep down, she really is strong and stern.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
Something that provokes mirth or scorn.
A fun person.
senses_topics:
|
3896 | word:
laugh
word_type:
verb
expansion:
laugh (third-person singular simple present laughs, present participle laughing, simple past and past participle laughed)
forms:
form:
laughs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
laughing
tags:
participle
present
form:
laughed
tags:
participle
past
form:
laughed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
laugh
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
laugh
etymology_text:
From Middle English laughen, laghen, from (Anglian) Old English hlæhhan, hlehhan, (West Saxon) hliehhan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan, from Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną.
cognates
Germanic: (with j-present) Scots lauch, Icelandic hlæja, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish le; (without) Low German lachen, Dutch lachen, German lachen.
Indo-European: Russian клекота́ть (klekotátʹ), клокота́ть (klokotátʹ), клохта́ть (kloxtátʹ) ‘to cluck, cackle’, Ancient Greek κλώζω (klṓzō), κλώσσω (klṓssō) ‘to cackle, clack’, Welsh cloch ‘bell’, possibly Latin glōcīre ‘to cluck’.
senses_examples:
text:
There were many laughing children running on the school grounds.
type:
example
text:
The roars of laughter which greeted his proclamation were of two qualities; some men laughing because they knew all about cuckoo-clocks, and other men laughing because they had concluded that the eccentric Jake had been victimised by some wise child of civilisation.
ref:
1899, Stephen Crane, Twelve O’Clock
type:
quotation
text:
If life seems jolly rotten / There's something you've forgotten / And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
ref:
1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
type:
quotation
text:
Don't laugh at my new hat, man!
type:
example
text:
On the corner is a banker with a motorcar / The little children laugh at him behind his back
ref:
1967, The Beatles, Penny Lane
type:
quotation
text:
Fairfax addressed her as "my lady," she laughed her musical laugh, and glanced up at a picture of Gerald with eyes full of exultation.
ref:
1866, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 8, in Behind a Mask, or A Woman’s Power
type:
quotation
text:
"You refuse to take me seriously," Lute said, when she had laughed her appreciation. "How can I take that Planchette rigmarole seriously?"
ref:
1906, Jack London, Moon-Face
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
To express by, or utter with, laughter.
senses_topics:
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3897 | word:
maroon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maroon (plural maroons)
forms:
form:
maroons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Maroon (people)
maroon
etymology_text:
From French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”); see that entry for more.
senses_examples:
text:
Further north a Maroon community in the Bahoruco Mountains thrived for eighty-five years, until the French proposed a truce under the terms of which the Maroons would be permitted to form an independent clan.
ref:
1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 193
type:
quotation
text:
Joining others who had escaped before them, they formed communities of Maroons in which many traditional African customs and social mores were preserved.
ref:
2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An escaped black of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person.
A castaway; a person who has been marooned.
senses_topics:
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3898 | word:
maroon
word_type:
adj
expansion:
maroon (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
maroon
etymology_text:
From French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”); see that entry for more.
senses_examples:
text:
In her discussion of Michelle Cliff's Abeng, a novel that historicizes maroon culture and the Jamaican warrior heroine Nanny of the Maroons, Francoise Lionnet examines linguistic “metissage” […]
ref:
2002, Cynthia James, The Maroon Narrative: Caribbean Literature in English Across Boundaries, Ethnicities, and Centuries, Heinemann Educational Books
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Associated with Maroon culture, communities or peoples.
senses_topics:
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3899 | word:
maroon
word_type:
verb
expansion:
maroon (third-person singular simple present maroons, present participle marooning, simple past and past participle marooned)
forms:
form:
maroons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
marooning
tags:
participle
present
form:
marooned
tags:
participle
past
form:
marooned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
maroon
etymology_text:
From French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”); see that entry for more.
senses_examples:
text:
Hard-hit by the Arctic winter, the Waverley route was completely closed from January 6-9, when an avalanche between Whitrope and Riccarton marooned Class A2 4-6-2 No. 60535 Hornet's Beauty.
ref:
1963 April, “Winter on the Waverley”, in Modern Railways, page 281, photo caption
type:
quotation
text:
After the harrowing stories of being marooned at sea and stranded in the frozen wastelands of Alaska and the Poles, one would think that survival on dry land would be easier […]
ref:
2010, Brogan Steele, From the Jaws of Death: Extreme True Adventures of Man vs. Nature, St. Martin's Griffin, page 231
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a desert island.
senses_topics:
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