id stringlengths 1 7 | text stringlengths 154 333k |
|---|---|
3900 | word:
maroon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maroon (countable and uncountable, plural maroons)
forms:
form:
maroons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Maroon (color)
maroon
etymology_text:
From French marron (“chestnut; brown”), from Italian marrone (“chestnut; brown”). Compare Spanish marrón.
senses_examples:
text:
maroon:
text:
Is it a really dark maroon or a lighter maroon or a maroon that leans toward the red side? Or the magenta side? To address this issue, scientists use something called a color space.
ref:
2009, Ben Long, The Nikon D90 Companion: Practical Photography Advice You Can Take Anywhere, O'Reilly Media, Inc., page 176
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rich dark red, somewhat brownish, color.
senses_topics:
|
3901 | word:
maroon
word_type:
adj
expansion:
maroon (comparative more maroon, superlative most maroon)
forms:
form:
more maroon
tags:
comparative
form:
most maroon
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
maroon
etymology_text:
From French marron (“chestnut; brown”), from Italian marrone (“chestnut; brown”). Compare Spanish marrón.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a maroon color
senses_topics:
|
3902 | word:
maroon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maroon (plural maroons)
forms:
form:
maroons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
maroon
maroon (rocket)
etymology_text:
Unknown. Possibly related to the sense “castaway” (etymology 1), or owing to the fact that the color of a fired flare was commonly red (etymology 2).
senses_examples:
text:
On Sunday afternoon a serious firework explosion occurred in Lambeth, whereby three persons were seriously injured. Two lads […] purchased a firework called a “maroon”, which is a bomb consisting of a small ball of string covered with a red composition. It is loaded with gunpowder, and there is also a fuse attached.
ref:
1887 November 5, “Metropolitan Reports”, in The Chemist and Druggist, page 564
type:
quotation
text:
As the evening falls, colored lamps and Chinese lanterns are lighted around the venerable oak which stands in the middle of the fairground and boys climb about among its topmost branches with maroons and Bengal lights.
ref:
1891, Alexander Kielland, “At the Fair”, in William Archer, transl., Tales of Two Countries, New York: Harper, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
Many a seaman’s life may have depended on equine speed and strength. Some of these ‘Lifeboat Horses’ used to recognise the maroon which was fired to summon the Lifeboat crew. Long after its retirement one of the horses which regularly helped to haul the Hoylake Lifeboat heard a maroon fired one day when it was working in the neighbouring fields. It immediately became very excited and made for the boathouse.
ref:
1900, Alan C. Jenkins, Introducing Horses, London: Spring Books
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rocket-propelled firework or skyrocket, often one used as a signal (for example, to summon the crew of a lifeboat or warn of an air raid).
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
3903 | word:
maroon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maroon (plural maroons)
forms:
form:
maroons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
maroon
etymology_text:
table
From an intentional mispronunciation of the word moron used by the cartoon character Bugs Bunny.
senses_examples:
text:
At least, I would not be sleeping that night. Why did I have that espresso? What a maroon!
ref:
2011, S. Watts Taylor, Tarnish, iUniverse, published 2011, page 21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An idiot; a fool.
senses_topics:
|
3904 | word:
unveil
word_type:
verb
expansion:
unveil (third-person singular simple present unveils, present participle unveiling, simple past and past participle unveiled)
forms:
form:
unveils
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
unveiling
tags:
participle
present
form:
unveiled
tags:
participle
past
form:
unveiled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *unveilen (suggested by past participle unveiled, vnueylyd (“unveiled”)). Equivalent to un- + veil.
senses_examples:
text:
The Schools of Jurisprudence of Abu Hanifa, Al-Shafaii and Malik agree that the woman is permitted to unveil her face and hands in the streets in front of the strangers. However, if this display of the face does rouse temptation and charm, the woman has to veil her face as she does the rest of her body.
ref:
1996, Status of women in Islam, Status of women in Islam, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
A sort of curtain, made of- mat, usually hung before them, which the natives were sometimes unwilling to remove ; and when they did consent to unveil them, they seemed to express themselves in a very mysterious manner.
ref:
1836, James Cook, The Three voyages of Captain Cook round the world, page 356
type:
quotation
text:
Since, therefore, the science of natural philosophy is conversant about the works of the Almighty, and its investigations have a direct tendency to illustrate the perfections of his nature, to unveil the plan of his operations, to unfold the laws by which he governs the kingdom of universal nature, and to display the order, symmetry, and proportion, which reign throughout the whole.
ref:
1831, Thomas Dick, The works of Thomas Dick, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
The car company are going to unveil the new sports car model next month.
type:
example
text:
In summer 2020, the trains were unveiled at Wimbledon depot, and given the name Arterio. The operator said this symbolised its role as an artery for connecting the capital and beyond.
ref:
2022 January 12, “Network News: Wait goes on for South Western Railway Arterios to start work”, in RAIL, number 948, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove a veil from; to uncover; to reveal something hidden.
to show, especially for the first time
To remove a veil; to reveal oneself.
senses_topics:
|
3905 | word:
tutu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tutu (plural tutus)
forms:
form:
tutus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Tutu
en:Tutu (clothing)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French tutu, from cucu (“bum, bottom”), playful reduplication of cul (“arse”).
senses_examples:
text:
The ballet dancer representing the swan wore a white tutu.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.
senses_topics:
|
3906 | word:
tutu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tutu (plural tutus)
forms:
form:
tutus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Tutu
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Maori tutu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of certain members of genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand, including Coriaria arborea and Coriaria pottsiana, used by the Maori to make a sweetener, but toxic when not properly prepared.
senses_topics:
|
3907 | word:
tutu
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tutu (third-person singular simple present tutus, present participle tutuing, simple past and past participle tutued)
forms:
form:
tutus
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tutuing
tags:
participle
present
form:
tutued
tags:
participle
past
form:
tutued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:Tutu
etymology_text:
From Maori tutū (“mischievous, disobedient”).
senses_examples:
text:
There were seven dudes here for a week just showing me how to use it and I just wanted them to leave so I could start tutuing with it.
ref:
2016 July 14, “New Plymouth sign maker invests in enormous flatbed printer”, in Stuff
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to fiddle or mess around with something.
senses_topics:
|
3908 | word:
church
word_type:
noun
expansion:
church (countable and uncountable, plural churches)
forms:
form:
churches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Goths
etymology_text:
From Middle English chirche, from Old English ċiriċe (“church”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, an early borrowing of Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón), neuter form of κυριακός (kuriakós, “belonging to the lord”), from κύριος (kúrios, “ruler, lord”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell, spread out, be strong, prevail”).
additional etymological information
For vowel evolution, see bury. Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón) was used of houses of Christian worship since circa 300 CE, especially in the East, though it was less common in this sense than ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “congregation”) or βασιλική (basilikḗ, “royal thing”). An example of the direct Greek-to-Germanic progress of many Christian words, possibly via the Goths; it was probably used by West Germanic people in their pre-Christian period. Cognate with Scots kirk (“church”), West Frisian tsjerke (“church”), Saterland Frisian Säärke (“church”), Dutch kerk (“church”), German Kirche (“church”), Danish kirke (“church”), Swedish kyrka (“church”), Norwegian Bokmål kirke, Norwegian Nynorsk kyrkje (“church”), and Icelandic kirkja (“church”). Also picked up by Slavic, via Old High German chirihha (compare Old Church Slavonic црькꙑ (crĭky), Bulgarian църква (cǎrkva), Russian це́рковь (cérkovʹ)). Romance and Celtic languages use descendants of Latin ecclēsia.
senses_examples:
text:
There is a lovely little church in the valley.
type:
example
text:
This building used to be a church before being converted into a library.
type:
example
text:
He got the message and was in church the next Sunday. We need to stay in church with the fellowship of others in order to keep the fire of faith burning brightly.
ref:
2007, John R. Dodd, Bucky and Friends, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
These worshippers make up the Church of Christ.
type:
example
text:
Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
ref:
Acts 20:28, New International Version
text:
Many young people find their only role models of family life in church.
ref:
2007, Bill Gibson, The Ultimate Church Sound Operator's Handbook, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
He got the message and was in church the next Sunday. We need to stay in church with the fellowship of others in order to keep the fire of faith burning brightly.
ref:
2007, John R. Dodd, Bucky and Friends, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
As they actively get involved in ministry, lay ministry becomes vigorous, and new believers will settle in church with more ease.
ref:
2008, Yil Gyoung Kang, Enhancing understanding the church through preaching on ..., page 61
type:
quotation
text:
she had very many adults in church with whom she could talk about issues in life.
ref:
2009, Christian Smith with Patricia Snell, Souls in Transition, page 194
type:
quotation
text:
Ruthie had left the church disappointed , reluctant to give up the idea that she was chosen by God to become a saint . But within a month she had sinned by lying , masturbating , and coveting Sarah 130 • Beu Marshall.
ref:
2004, Bev Marshall, Right as Rain, Ballantine Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 130
type:
quotation
text:
The Church of England separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534.
type:
example
text:
Pastors complained that they were not allowed enough authority in church, with women exercising too much informal control.
ref:
1997, Paul Harvey, Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities ..., page 119
type:
quotation
text:
Some people are always saying, "Oh, you have too much church." You never get too much church. I go to church every day.
ref:
2000, Lee Roberson, Disturbing Questions...: Solid Answers, page 174
type:
quotation
text:
the learned women will be qualified to lead in church with equal grace and equal insight and equal gifts.
ref:
2003, George Shillington, On a Journey with God: You Come Too, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
Many constitutions enshrine the separation of church and state.
type:
example
text:
But in Muslim countries, Church and State are one indissolubly, and until the very essence of Islam passes away, that unity cannot be relaxed. The law of the land, too, is, in theory, the law of the Church.
ref:
1903, Duncan Black MacDonald, Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Because the pan-Buddhist movement was heavily supported by the Japanese in Inner Mongolia, the Buddhist church, already under attack by Soviet-backed antireligion campaigns in Outer Mongolia, was further damaged […]
ref:
1991, Cyril E. Black et al., The Modernization of Inner Asia, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
The secular absolutist model is based on a strict separation between church and state.
ref:
2001, Ayelet Shachar, Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
She goes to a Wiccan church down the road.
type:
example
text:
Among these, the church must investigate fundemental questions, […]
ref:
2007, Scott A. Merriman, Religion and the Law in America, page 313
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity; Christendom.
A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
A particular denomination of Christianity.
Christian worship held at a church; service.
Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.
Any religious group or place of worship; a temple.
Assembly.
senses_topics:
Christianity
|
3909 | word:
church
word_type:
verb
expansion:
church (third-person singular simple present churches, present participle churching, simple past and past participle churched)
forms:
form:
churches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
churching
tags:
participle
present
form:
churched
tags:
participle
past
form:
churched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Goths
etymology_text:
From Middle English chirche, from Old English ċiriċe (“church”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, an early borrowing of Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón), neuter form of κυριακός (kuriakós, “belonging to the lord”), from κύριος (kúrios, “ruler, lord”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell, spread out, be strong, prevail”).
additional etymological information
For vowel evolution, see bury. Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón) was used of houses of Christian worship since circa 300 CE, especially in the East, though it was less common in this sense than ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “congregation”) or βασιλική (basilikḗ, “royal thing”). An example of the direct Greek-to-Germanic progress of many Christian words, possibly via the Goths; it was probably used by West Germanic people in their pre-Christian period. Cognate with Scots kirk (“church”), West Frisian tsjerke (“church”), Saterland Frisian Säärke (“church”), Dutch kerk (“church”), German Kirche (“church”), Danish kirke (“church”), Swedish kyrka (“church”), Norwegian Bokmål kirke, Norwegian Nynorsk kyrkje (“church”), and Icelandic kirkja (“church”). Also picked up by Slavic, via Old High German chirihha (compare Old Church Slavonic црькꙑ (crĭky), Bulgarian църква (cǎrkva), Russian це́рковь (cérkovʹ)). Romance and Celtic languages use descendants of Latin ecclēsia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple).
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 36
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 36:
Nor did it [the Church] accept that the woman should stay indoors until she had been churched.
Nor did it [the Church] accept that the woman should stay indoors until she had been churched.
To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.
senses_topics:
Christianity
|
3910 | word:
church
word_type:
intj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
Goths
etymology_text:
From Middle English chirche, from Old English ċiriċe (“church”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, an early borrowing of Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón), neuter form of κυριακός (kuriakós, “belonging to the lord”), from κύριος (kúrios, “ruler, lord”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell, spread out, be strong, prevail”).
additional etymological information
For vowel evolution, see bury. Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón) was used of houses of Christian worship since circa 300 CE, especially in the East, though it was less common in this sense than ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “congregation”) or βασιλική (basilikḗ, “royal thing”). An example of the direct Greek-to-Germanic progress of many Christian words, possibly via the Goths; it was probably used by West Germanic people in their pre-Christian period. Cognate with Scots kirk (“church”), West Frisian tsjerke (“church”), Saterland Frisian Säärke (“church”), Dutch kerk (“church”), German Kirche (“church”), Danish kirke (“church”), Swedish kyrka (“church”), Norwegian Bokmål kirke, Norwegian Nynorsk kyrkje (“church”), and Icelandic kirkja (“church”). Also picked up by Slavic, via Old High German chirihha (compare Old Church Slavonic црькꙑ (crĭky), Bulgarian църква (cǎrkva), Russian це́рковь (cérkovʹ)). Romance and Celtic languages use descendants of Latin ecclēsia.
senses_examples:
text:
- These burritos are the best!
text:
- Church!
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expressing strong agreement.
senses_topics:
|
3911 | word:
ebony
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ebony (usually uncountable, plural ebonies)
forms:
form:
ebonies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier heben, hebeny, from Middle English ebenif, hebenyf (influenced by Late Latin hebeninus), from Ecclesiastical Latin ebenius (“of ebony”), from Latin hebenus (“ebon tree”), from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ébenos), from Egyptian hbnj, U13:n-Z4:M3
senses_examples:
text:
“You live up the road past the ebony tree, right?” he asked, looking past me.
ref:
2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
ebony:
text:
Ebony and ivory / Live together in perfect harmony / Side by side on my piano keyboard / Oh lord, why don't we?
ref:
1982, Paul McCartney (lyrics and music), “Ebony and Ivory”, in Tug of War, performed by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros.
A tree that yields such wood.
A deep, dark black colour.
A black key on a piano or other keyboard instrument.
senses_topics:
|
3912 | word:
ebony
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ebony (comparative more ebony, superlative most ebony)
forms:
form:
more ebony
tags:
comparative
form:
most ebony
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier heben, hebeny, from Middle English ebenif, hebenyf (influenced by Late Latin hebeninus), from Ecclesiastical Latin ebenius (“of ebony”), from Latin hebenus (“ebon tree”), from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ébenos), from Egyptian hbnj, U13:n-Z4:M3
senses_examples:
text:
ebony:
text:
Seats are trimmed in a grey and blue moquette and tables are finished with grey Vyanide tops, gilt edging and ebony legs.
ref:
1961 February, “New "Mini-Buffets" from Wolverton”, in Trains Illustrated, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
He called the ebony mistress of the establishment to him, and speaking to her kindly and winningly, as any dutiful husband should, told her to make the change, which she did.
ref:
1864, George Adams Fisher, The Yankee conscript: or, Eighteen months in Dixie
type:
quotation
text:
No attempt was made in her new home to discontinue or even to conceal the presence of an ebony mistress and a thriving family of little mulattoes...
ref:
1931, Catherine MacFarlane Carswell, The life of Robert Burns
type:
quotation
text:
Want to watch my gorgeous ebony friend, Almond Joy, naked and online 24/7? She recently ended a long-term relationship and is now fully enjoying being a 25 year-old single gal in Beverly Hills.
ref:
2004, Alyssa, “Ebony Girls Need Attention”, in alt.sex.escorts (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of ebony wood.
A deep, dark black colour.
Dark-skinned; black; especially in reference to African-Americans.
senses_topics:
|
3913 | word:
handmaiden
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handmaiden (plural handmaidens)
forms:
form:
handmaidens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
The Handmaid's Tale
etymology_text:
* From Middle English hande mayden, handmaiden, hand mayden, hand-mayden, handmayden, hondemaiden, hond maydyn, hoondmaydyn; equivalent to hand + maiden, the first component in the sense of "ready at hand".
* (feminist woman who supports transgender rights): An allusion to Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985), in which "handmaids" are women who serve the male commanders in a patriarchal dystopia.
senses_examples:
text:
The fact that it is not possible to be seen as a supporter of trans people's human rights, as all feminists are or at least should be, unless we fully capitulate and take the metaphorical – and sometimes literal – boot in the face shows how extreme trans activists, enabled by their handmaiden allies, are nothing but a misogynistic men’s rights movement.
ref:
2020 July 22, Julie Bindel, “Trans activists risk falling for misogyny”, in The Spectator
type:
quotation
text:
Solidarity with trans people but not women[,] I note[,] Angela. Especially the boring ones who fought for rights that you now enjoy. Enjoy being a handmaiden.
ref:
2021 November 10, Rebecca Chandler (@RachelWilde13), Twitter
type:
quotation
text:
I have been called a handmaiden, a “pick me” girl, and been accused of vying for male attention.
ref:
2022 February 4, Marie Le Conte, “Feminism has been reduced to the transgender debate”, in The New Statesman
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of handmaid.
A feminist woman who supports transgender rights.
senses_topics:
|
3914 | word:
project
word_type:
noun
expansion:
project (plural projects)
forms:
form:
projects
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth, extend; expel”).
senses_examples:
text:
projects of happiness devised by human reason
ref:
a. 1729, John Rogers, The Greatness of the Gospel Salvation
type:
quotation
text:
Rainbow, […]came forward enthusiastically to put its money into the project in sums which ran all the way from one share at ten dollars to ten shares
ref:
1924, Clarence Budington Kelland, The Steadfast Heart/Chapter 22
type:
quotation
text:
The proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.
type:
example
text:
Experiments when needles and skin connect / No wonder where we live is called the projects
ref:
1996, “Stakes is High”, in Stakes Is High, performed by De La Soul
type:
quotation
text:
Imagine rock up in them projects / Where them niggas pick your pockets
ref:
2012, “Money Trees”, in Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, performed by Kendrick Lamar ft. Jay Rock
type:
quotation
text:
a man given to projects
type:
example
text:
Sakho was seen as no-frills, whereas Maiga was a project who could develop into the next big thing.
ref:
2014 October 27, Gabriele Marcotti, “Ancelotti triumphs, van Gaal's progress, Dortmund disappoint, more”, in ESPN FC
type:
quotation
text:
Elway acknowledged at the time that Lynch was a project who needed some seasoning but he expressed hope that Lynch might be a quick study. He wasn't.
ref:
2018 September 2, Arnie Melendrez Stapleton, “Broncos cut ties with 2016 first-round pick QB Lynch”, in WNYT
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
An urban low-income housing building.
An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
a raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough
A projectile.
A projection.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
3915 | word:
project
word_type:
verb
expansion:
project (third-person singular simple present projects, present participle projecting, simple past and past participle projected)
forms:
form:
projects
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
projecting
tags:
participle
present
form:
projected
tags:
participle
past
form:
projected
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth, extend; expel”).
senses_examples:
text:
The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.
type:
example
text:
It is difficult to gauge the exact point at which women stop trying to fool men and really begin to deceive themselves, but an objective analyst cannot escape the conclusion (1) that partly from a natural device inherent in the species, women deliberately project upon actual or potential suitors an impression of themselves that is not an accurate picture of their total nature, and (2) that few women ever are privileged to see themselves as they really are.
ref:
1946, Dr. Ralph S. Banay, The Milwaukee Journal, Is Modern Woman a Failure
type:
quotation
text:
to project one's voice
type:
example
text:
You would think that topic coulda put me to sleep, but HE can really project when HE wants to.
ref:
2016, Sam Esmail, Courtney Looney, Mr. Robot: Red Wheelbarrow: eps1.91_redwheelbarr0w.txt, Abrams Books, New York City
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To extend beyond a surface.
To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
To make plans for; to forecast.
To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.
To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.
To draw straight lines from a fixed point through every point of any body or figure, and let these fall upon a surface so as to form the points of a new figure.
(of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon(s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location
To cause (one's voice or words) to be heard at a great distance.
To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard at a great distance.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
cartography
geography
natural-sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
|
3916 | word:
habit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
habit (countable and uncountable, plural habits)
forms:
form:
habits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
habit
etymology_text:
From Middle English habit, from Latin habitus (“condition, bearing, state, appearance, dress, attire”), from habeō (“I have, hold, keep”). Replaced Middle English abit, from Old French abit, itself from the same Latin source. Displaced native Old English þēaw.
senses_examples:
text:
It’s become a habit of mine to have a cup of coffee after dinner.
type:
example
text:
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref:
2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
By force of habit, he dressed for work even though it was holiday.
type:
example
text:
kick the habit
type:
example
text:
He has a 10-cigar habit.
type:
example
text:
Another white boy band / They're happy on demand / Everything is planned / Until the singer gets a habit
ref:
2000, “I'm With Stupid”, in WYSIWYG, performed by Chumbawamba
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An action performed on a regular basis.
An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.
An addiction.
senses_topics:
|
3917 | word:
habit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
habit (third-person singular simple present habits, present participle habiting, simple past and past participle habited)
forms:
form:
habits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
habiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
habited
tags:
participle
past
form:
habited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
habit
etymology_text:
From Middle English habiten, from Old French habiter, from Latin habitāre, present active infinitive of habitō (“I dwell, abide, keep”), frequentative of habeō (“I have, hold, keep”); see have.
senses_examples:
text:
Here I began my shopping, was interviewed by dressmakers, and naturally had much to do to habit myself for civilized life again.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 132
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To clothe.
To inhabit.
senses_topics:
|
3918 | word:
habit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
habit (countable and uncountable, plural habits)
forms:
form:
habits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
habit
etymology_text:
From Middle English habiten, from Old French habiter, from Latin habitāre, present active infinitive of habitō (“I dwell, abide, keep”), frequentative of habeō (“I have, hold, keep”); see have.
senses_examples:
text:
It’s interesting how Catholic and Buddhist monks both wear habits.
type:
example
text:
The new riding habits of the team looked smashing!
type:
example
text:
Sidesaddle riding habits were prestigious tailored sportswear appropriate for the equestrian pursuits of the truly wealthy.
ref:
2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
[…]it was always my fate to choose for the worse, so I did here; for having money in my pocket and good clothes upon my back, I would always go on board in the habit of a gentleman; and so I neither had any business in the ship, or learned to do any.
ref:
1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.
A piece of clothing worn for a specific activity; a uniform.
Outward appearance; attire; dress.
Form of growth or general appearance and structure of a variety or species of plant or crystal.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
3919 | word:
candidate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
candidate (plural candidates)
forms:
form:
candidates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin candidātus (“a person who is standing for public office”), from candidus (“dazzling white, shining, clear”) + -ātus (an adjectival suffix), in reference to Roman candidates wearing bleached white togas as a symbol of purity at a public forum. Equivalent to candid + -ate.
senses_examples:
text:
Smith announced he was the party's candidate for the next election.
type:
example
text:
All candidates who miss the deadline or make a spelling mistake in their applications are automatically rejected.
type:
example
text:
Candidates must remain silent for the entirety of the exam.
type:
example
text:
After being presented with various suitors, she decided none of the candidates were the kind of man she was looking for.
type:
example
text:
In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.
ref:
2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is running in an election.
A person who is applying for a job.
A participant in an examination.
Something or somebody that may be suitable.
A gene which may play a role in a given disease.
senses_topics:
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences |
3920 | word:
candidate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
candidate (third-person singular simple present candidates, present participle candidating, simple past and past participle candidated)
forms:
form:
candidates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
candidating
tags:
participle
present
form:
candidated
tags:
participle
past
form:
candidated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin candidātus (“a person who is standing for public office”), from candidus (“dazzling white, shining, clear”) + -ātus (an adjectival suffix), in reference to Roman candidates wearing bleached white togas as a symbol of purity at a public forum. Equivalent to candid + -ate.
senses_examples:
text:
The matter of candidating for a pulpit is not a matter of difference between congregations and Rabbis, but between Rabbis themselves.
ref:
1906, Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, page 196
type:
quotation
text:
Furthermore, the fact that a school principal has only been in a large school six weeks does not prevent his candidating for principal of a larger school with larger salary.
ref:
1917, William Harvey Allen, Universal Training for Citizenship and Public Service, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
The report Shaping the Future also gives a set of learning outcomes for those people candidating for ordained ministry. These were also agreed by the Methodist Conference.
ref:
2014, Susan H. Jones, Listening for God's Call, SCM Press, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
Performance comparison of solar energy conversion candidated for SPS. (From NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston 1977.)
ref:
1982, Brian O'Leary, Space industrialization, CRC
type:
quotation
text:
In this program if a processor becomes idle, then all feasible activities requiring that kind of processor will be candidated for scheduling. If the number of candidates is more than the number of available processors, activities with higher priority ...
ref:
1989, Institution of Electrical Engineers. Electronics Division, European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, 5-8 September 1989, Peter Peregrinus Limited
type:
quotation
text:
Evaluate the maintenance costs of the software system in order to candidate it for evolution AA14. Evaluate the hardware platform used and the possibility of migrating the software system toward more economical platforms ...
ref:
2005, Khaled M. Khan, Yan Zhang, Managing Corporate Information Systems Evolution and Maintenance, IGI Global, page 308
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To stand as a candidate for an office, especially a religious one.
To make or name (something) a candidate (for use, for study as a next project, for investigation as a possible cause of something, etc).
senses_topics:
|
3921 | word:
blue
word_type:
adj
expansion:
blue (comparative bluer or more blue, superlative bluest or most blue)
forms:
form:
bluer
tags:
comparative
form:
more blue
tags:
comparative
form:
bluest
tags:
superlative
form:
most blue
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
blue
etymology_text:
From Middle English blewe, from Anglo-Norman blew (“blue”), from Middle French bleu, from Old French blöe, bleve, blef (“blue”), from Frankish *blāu (“blue”) (perhaps through a Late Latin blāvus, blāvius (“blue”) attested from Isidore of Seville), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlēw- (“yellow, blond, grey”). Cognate with dialectal English blow (“blue”), Scots blue, blew (“blue”), North Frisian bla, blö (“blue”), Saterland Frisian blau (“blue”), Dutch blauw (“blue”), German blau (“blue”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish blå (“blue”), Icelandic blár (“blue”), Latin flāvus (“yellow”), Middle Irish blá (“yellow”). Doublet of blow.
Possibly related also to English blee (“colour”), from Old English blēo (“colour”); but direct derivatives of Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue”) in Old English include: Old English blāw and blēo (“blue”), Old English blǣwen (“bluish, light-blue”), blǣhǣwen (“blue-coloured, bluish, violet or purple colour”, literally “blue-hued”). There seems to be a parallel connection in Germanic between words for blue and colour, dually exemplified by Proto-West Germanic *blīu (“colour, blee”) and *blāu (“blue”); and Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“colour, hue”) and *hēwijaz (“blue, purple”).
The sense "obscene, pornographic" is apparently from the colour; various theories exist as to how it arose, including that it is from the colour of the envelopes used to contain missives of the censors and managers to vaudevillian performers on objectionable material from their acts that needed to be excised.
senses_examples:
text:
the deep blue sea
type:
example
text:
Why is the sky blue?
type:
example
text:
"Will you play some of the 'Garden' now?" she asked. "I think I should like it. I'm just the least bit blue."
ref:
1904, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Transgression of Andrew Vane, Henry Holt and Company, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
But I'm bluer than blue / Sadder than sad.
ref:
1978, Michael Johnson, Bluer Than Blue
type:
quotation
text:
My hands were blue with cold.
type:
example
text:
The divers got them out of the car just in time – they were starting to turn blue.
type:
example
text:
The candle burns blue.
type:
example
text:
I live in a blue constituency. Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections.
type:
example
text:
Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout
type:
example
text:
blue and sour religionists; blue laws
type:
example
text:
His material is too blue for prime-time.
type:
example
text:
The air was blue with oaths.
type:
example
text:
a blue movie
type:
example
text:
My wine I drank and oft got blue / On brandy, gin and whisky too— / Until my reputation gay, / Along with care, was cast away
ref:
1847, Jacob Carter, My Drunken Life, in Fifteen Chapters, from 1825 to 1847, page 76
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a blue hue.
Depressed, melancholic, sad.
Having a bluish or purplish shade of the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep red red blood cells; cyanotic.
Pale, without redness or glare.
Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
Literary; scholarly; bluestockinged.
Having a color charge of blue.
Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
Drunk.
senses_topics:
government
politics
government
politics
government
politics
astronomy
natural-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
3922 | word:
blue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blue (countable and uncountable, plural blues)
forms:
form:
blues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
blue
etymology_text:
From Middle English blewe, from Anglo-Norman blew (“blue”), from Middle French bleu, from Old French blöe, bleve, blef (“blue”), from Frankish *blāu (“blue”) (perhaps through a Late Latin blāvus, blāvius (“blue”) attested from Isidore of Seville), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlēw- (“yellow, blond, grey”). Cognate with dialectal English blow (“blue”), Scots blue, blew (“blue”), North Frisian bla, blö (“blue”), Saterland Frisian blau (“blue”), Dutch blauw (“blue”), German blau (“blue”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish blå (“blue”), Icelandic blár (“blue”), Latin flāvus (“yellow”), Middle Irish blá (“yellow”). Doublet of blow.
Possibly related also to English blee (“colour”), from Old English blēo (“colour”); but direct derivatives of Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue”) in Old English include: Old English blāw and blēo (“blue”), Old English blǣwen (“bluish, light-blue”), blǣhǣwen (“blue-coloured, bluish, violet or purple colour”, literally “blue-hued”). There seems to be a parallel connection in Germanic between words for blue and colour, dually exemplified by Proto-West Germanic *blīu (“colour, blee”) and *blāu (“blue”); and Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“colour, hue”) and *hēwijaz (“blue, purple”).
The sense "obscene, pornographic" is apparently from the colour; various theories exist as to how it arose, including that it is from the colour of the envelopes used to contain missives of the censors and managers to vaudevillian performers on objectionable material from their acts that needed to be excised.
senses_examples:
text:
blue:
text:
other blue:
text:
I don't like red Smarties. Have you got a blue?
type:
example
text:
Come on, you blues!
text:
He was safe! Terrible call, blue!
text:
He excelled at rowing and received a blue in the sport at Oxford.
text:
He was a blue in rugby at Cambridge.
text:
He dialed Kathy to be sure she was okay and see if the blues arrived. She was crying when she picked up the phone.
“Kathy, honey, I'm here. It'll be okay. Are the police there?”
ref:
2022, Jim Malloy, Die, Mother Goose, Die
type:
quotation
text:
The boys in blue marched to the pipers.
text:
The balloon floated up into the blue.
type:
example
text:
His request for leave came out of the blue.
type:
example
text:
The problem with buffalo as well as most African antelopes as a steady diet is that they have very little marbling or body fat and, after six months out in the blue, one dreams at night of a T-bone steak sizzling in great globules of yellow fat.
ref:
1978, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in the Long Grass
type:
quotation
text:
2000, Thomas C. Barger, Timothy J. Barger, Out in the Blue: Letters from Arabia, 1937 to 1940 : a Young American Geologist Explores the Deserts of Early Saudi Arabia, →ISBN:
type:
quotation
text:
On average, blues and other dilutes have weaker coats and skin problems seem more prevalent in the dilutes.
ref:
2000, Joe Stahlkuppe, American Pit Bull Terrier Handbook, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
Blues are about as vicious a fish as you'll find on the Atlantic seaboard — they will continue to slash through schools of bait even after they have eaten so much that they're constantly regurgitating shredded baitfish.
ref:
2012, Lenny Rudow, Rudow's Guide to Fishing the Mid Atlantic, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
"I had a blue with Dad," said Fay. "He wanted to drive us, I wanted to walk."
ref:
2004, Tim Winton, The Turning (short stories), Picador UK Paperback edition 2006. Short story, 'Small Mercies' (at p.91)
text:
If they had a blue between themselves, they kept it there, it never flowed out onto the streets to innocent people — like a lot of things that have been happenin′ on the streets today.
ref:
2008, Cheryl Jorgensen, The Taint, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
On another occasion, there was a blue between Henry Daniels and Merv Wilson down at the pig sale. I don′t know what it was about, it only lasted a minute or so, but they shook hands when it was over and that was the end of it.
ref:
2009, John Gilfoyle, Remember Cannon Hill, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
I was a bit disappointed. Was that it? No abuse like Lord Byron had endured? Not that I was wishing that upon myself. It was just that a blue between my parents, albeit a raging, foul, bile-spitting hate fest, was not exactly Charles Dickens.
ref:
2011, Julietta Jameson, Me, Myself and Lord Byron, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
It was applied methodically, carefully, resolutely, as in the fashion of a Satin-bird with charcoal, desiccated wood or blue from laundry-bags.
ref:
1948, Alec H. Chisholm, Bird Wonders of Australia, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Lord Lyttelton's Life by Dr Johnson […] which a whole tribe of Blues, with Mrs Montagu at their Head, have Vowed to execrate and revenge […]
ref:
1781, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
He is a true blue.
type:
example
text:
Blues are made via the introduction of molds from the genus Penicillum roqueforti, which are normally added to the milk toward the beginning of the cheesemaking process.
ref:
2012, Culture Magazine, Laurel Miller, Thalassa Skinner, Cheese For Dummies (page 55)
text:
Improvising freely, he entered the stage with a karaoke set and introduced himself as a 'Bohemian street performer', before launching into a series of clubstyle gags and one-liners, promising 'a bit of blue for the Dads'[…]
ref:
2009 February 25, S. Purcell, Popular Shakespeare: Simulation and Subversion on the Modern Stage, Springer, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
Fuzz grinned and nodded at the stage. 'Bit of blue for the lads.' […] The stage was dimly lit, and populated by Nubian slaves and harem girls in artfully draped deshabille.
ref:
2014 February 5, Charlie Flowers, Kill Order, Lulu.com, page 176
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea which is midway between green and cyan in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
A blue dye or pigment.
Blue clothing.
A blue uniform. See blues.
Blue clothing.
A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
Blue clothing.
An umpire, in reference to the typical dark blue color of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
Blue clothing.
Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
Blue clothing.
A person who has received such sporting colours.
Blue clothing.
A member of law enforcement.
Blue clothing.
A bluestocking.
Blue clothing.
The sky, literally or figuratively.
The ocean; deep waters.
The far distance; a remote or distant place.
A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
A bluefish.
An argument or brawl.
A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
A type of firecracker.
One of the three color charges for quarks.
A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
A blue cheese.
Risqué or pornographic material.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
government
politics
|
3923 | word:
blue
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blue (third-person singular simple present blues, present participle blueing or bluing, simple past and past participle blued)
forms:
form:
blues
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
blueing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bluing
tags:
participle
present
form:
blued
tags:
participle
past
form:
blued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
blue
etymology_text:
From Middle English blewe, from Anglo-Norman blew (“blue”), from Middle French bleu, from Old French blöe, bleve, blef (“blue”), from Frankish *blāu (“blue”) (perhaps through a Late Latin blāvus, blāvius (“blue”) attested from Isidore of Seville), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlēw- (“yellow, blond, grey”). Cognate with dialectal English blow (“blue”), Scots blue, blew (“blue”), North Frisian bla, blö (“blue”), Saterland Frisian blau (“blue”), Dutch blauw (“blue”), German blau (“blue”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish blå (“blue”), Icelandic blár (“blue”), Latin flāvus (“yellow”), Middle Irish blá (“yellow”). Doublet of blow.
Possibly related also to English blee (“colour”), from Old English blēo (“colour”); but direct derivatives of Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue”) in Old English include: Old English blāw and blēo (“blue”), Old English blǣwen (“bluish, light-blue”), blǣhǣwen (“blue-coloured, bluish, violet or purple colour”, literally “blue-hued”). There seems to be a parallel connection in Germanic between words for blue and colour, dually exemplified by Proto-West Germanic *blīu (“colour, blee”) and *blāu (“blue”); and Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“colour, hue”) and *hēwijaz (“blue, purple”).
The sense "obscene, pornographic" is apparently from the colour; various theories exist as to how it arose, including that it is from the colour of the envelopes used to contain missives of the censors and managers to vaudevillian performers on objectionable material from their acts that needed to be excised.
senses_examples:
text:
It blows, it snows,
And blues your nose,
My toes are all frost bitten
The weather would
Quite starve the crows,
Or freeze the part you sit on.
ref:
1900 July 8, The Truth, Sydney, page 1, column 6
type:
quotation
text:
Michael: As a member of the Blue Man Group?[…]Tobias: Oh, no, no, I’m not in the group yet. No, I’m afraid I just blue myself.
ref:
2004 November 7, Mitchell Hurwitz and Richard Rosenstock, “The One Where Michael Leaves”, in Arrested Development, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Tobias Fünke (David Cross)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make or become blue; to turn blue.
To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
To fight, brawl, or argue.
senses_topics:
engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
3924 | word:
blue
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blue (third-person singular simple present blues, present participle blueing or bluing, simple past and past participle blued)
forms:
form:
blues
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
blueing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bluing
tags:
participle
present
form:
blued
tags:
participle
past
form:
blued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
blue
etymology_text:
Uncertain; possibly from blew (past tense of blow).
senses_examples:
text:
They was willing to blue the lot and have nothing left when they got home except debts on the never-never.
ref:
1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 311
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
senses_topics:
|
3925 | word:
crimson
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crimson (countable and uncountable, plural crimsons)
forms:
form:
crimsons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
crimson
etymology_text:
PIE word
*kʷŕ̥mis
Late Middle English cremesyn, from obsolete French cramoisin or Old Spanish cremesin, from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz), from Classical Persian کرمست (kirmist), from Middle Persian; see Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš. Cognate with Sanskrit कृमिज (kṛmija). Doublet of kermes; also see carmine.
senses_examples:
text:
crimson:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A deep, slightly bluish red.
senses_topics:
|
3926 | word:
crimson
word_type:
adj
expansion:
crimson (comparative more crimson, superlative most crimson)
forms:
form:
more crimson
tags:
comparative
form:
most crimson
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
crimson
etymology_text:
PIE word
*kʷŕ̥mis
Late Middle English cremesyn, from obsolete French cramoisin or Old Spanish cremesin, from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz), from Classical Persian کرمست (kirmist), from Middle Persian; see Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš. Cognate with Sanskrit कृमिज (kṛmija). Doublet of kermes; also see carmine.
senses_examples:
text:
Her crimson dress inflames grey corridors, or flaring in a sunshaft through high branches makes of the deep green shadows a greenness darker yet, and a darkness greener.
ref:
1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a deep red colour.
Immodest.
senses_topics:
|
3927 | word:
crimson
word_type:
verb
expansion:
crimson (third-person singular simple present crimsons, present participle crimsoning, simple past and past participle crimsoned)
forms:
form:
crimsons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
crimsoning
tags:
participle
present
form:
crimsoned
tags:
participle
past
form:
crimsoned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
crimson
etymology_text:
PIE word
*kʷŕ̥mis
Late Middle English cremesyn, from obsolete French cramoisin or Old Spanish cremesin, from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz), from Classical Persian کرمست (kirmist), from Middle Persian; see Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš. Cognate with Sanskrit कृमिज (kṛmija). Doublet of kermes; also see carmine.
senses_examples:
text:
1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Ring” in The Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, New York and Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Volume 2, p. 662,
Father. Why do you look so gravely at the tower?
Miram. I never saw it yet so all ablaze
With creepers crimsoning to the pinnacles,
text:
[…] that sheetless bed (that nuptial couch of love and grief) with the pale and bloody corpse in its patched and weathered gray crimsoning the bare mattress […]
ref:
1936, William Faulkner, chapter 5, in Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Modern Library, published 1951, page 138
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become crimson or deep red; to blush.
To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
senses_topics:
|
3928 | word:
Chinese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Chinese (not generally comparable, comparative more Chinese, superlative most Chinese)
forms:
form:
more Chinese
tags:
comparative
form:
most Chinese
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Chinese
Chinese Proficiency Test
Chinese Turkestan
etymology_text:
From China + -ese under influence of Portuguese chinês, replacing older Chinish. Doublet of chinois. In its orientalist sense of "generically exotic, backwards, or poorly organized", sometimes a deliberate marketing strategy to increase sales, as with the German Chinese checkers. In its sense related to the orientation of stage lighting's barn doors, a reference to a supposed resemblance to East Asian eyes.
senses_examples:
text:
China has been ruled by the Chinese Communist Party since 1949.
type:
example
text:
In this instance, when the Chairman of the "Accuracy in Media" spoke out strongly against the Chinese Communist system of "pin yin" spelling, he was not criticizing any bias or unreliability of news presentation but specifically the inconvenience and confusion caused by the "pin yin" spelling of Chinese names.
ref:
1980 November 30, “Communist China's 'Pin Yin' system causes confusion among foreigners”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXI, number 47, Taipei, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Important Chinese holidays celebrated around the world include the Chinese New Year ("Spring Festival"), Tomb Sweeping Day, and the Mid-Autumn Festival.
type:
example
text:
In the early 1870’s anti-Chinese agitation in California became organized and focused under the leadership of Denis Kearney, who was, ironically, an immigrant from Ireland. A campaign of organized violence against Chinese communities took form, and the hysteria led to political pressure too violent to be resisted. President Hayes vetoed an act of Congress restricting Chinese immigration, but he did force renegotiation of the Burlingame Treaty under which the government of China agreed to restrict emigration voluntarily.
ref:
1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 72–73
type:
quotation
text:
There are four Chinese tones... five, if you count the neutral one.
type:
example
text:
The construction of a verbal system which is fairly regular and at the same time based on existing languages is a most difficult task, because in no other domain of the grammar do languages retain a greater number of ancient irregularities and differ more fundamentally from one another. Still an attempt will be made here to conciliate the two points of view and to bring about something which resembles the simple Chinese grammar without, however, losing its European character or the power of expressing nuances to which we are accustomed in our own languages.
ref:
1928, Otto Jespersen, An International Language, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
The DPRK (Joseon Minjujui Inmin Konghuaguk 朝鮮民主主義人民共和國) is read in Chinese as Chaoxian minzhu zhuyi renmin gonghe guo, and its capital, Pyeonyang, is pronounced Pingrang 平壤.
ref:
2012, Endymion Wilkinson, “Introduction”, in Chinese History: A New Manual, 3rd revised edition, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
It's all Chinese to me.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: English
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or related to China, particularly now the People's Republic of China.
Of, from, or related to the people of China, particularly the Han Chinese and their culture whether in China or overseas.
Of, from, or related to a language native to Han Chinese persons, often used generally of Chinese characters or particularly to refer to Standard Mandarin.
As exotic, unusual, backwards, or unorganized as someone or something from China.
Having barn doors with a horizontal orientation.
senses_topics:
|
3929 | word:
Chinese
word_type:
name
expansion:
Chinese
forms:
wikipedia:
Chinese
etymology_text:
From China + -ese under influence of Portuguese chinês, replacing older Chinish. Doublet of chinois. In its orientalist sense of "generically exotic, backwards, or poorly organized", sometimes a deliberate marketing strategy to increase sales, as with the German Chinese checkers. In its sense related to the orientation of stage lighting's barn doors, a reference to a supposed resemblance to East Asian eyes.
senses_examples:
text:
The Chinese have an incredible history.
type:
example
text:
If the Chinese were a people like the Russians, the Germans or the French, we (I address chiefly American and British readers) would observe any marked increase in their industrial activity or in their national aggressiveness with some misgiving, possibly, but […]
ref:
1900, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge, The North American Review, volume 171, page 390
type:
quotation
text:
I have given these points to make it clear that the Chinese are a people of strong emotion; and that this emotion is highest and purest when running in the channels of filial piety and loyalty.
ref:
1934, Chinese Affairs, volume 65, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
After Pearl Harbor, American sympathy for the Chinese grew even stronger, for the Chinese were a people who had long been bravely resisting Japanese aggressors.
ref:
2002, Sino-American Relations, volume 28, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
China is a country with a 5,000 year uninterrupted civilisation, and the Chinese are a people that keep moving forward amid trials and tribulations.
ref:
2019 September 30, Jiang Jiang, “I am proud of my country”, in Times of Malta
type:
quotation
text:
The Chinese are present in all parts of the world.
type:
example
text:
你好 is read “Nǐ hǎo” and means “Hello” in Chinese.
type:
example
text:
Suzhounese and Hakka are lesser-known varieties of Chinese.
type:
example
text:
Hong Kong still uses traditional Chinese.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The citizens of China, particularly citizens of the People's Republic of China.
The Han Chinese, whether in China or overseas.
The Standard Chinese language, written in Chinese characters and spoken and spelled using Standard Mandarin pronunciation.
The branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family including Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Southern Min, and other closely related language varieties and dialects.
The logographic writing system shared by most Sinitic languages.
senses_topics:
|
3930 | word:
Chinese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Chinese (countable and uncountable, plural Chinese or Chineses)
forms:
form:
Chinese
tags:
plural
form:
Chineses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Chinese
etymology_text:
From China + -ese under influence of Portuguese chinês, replacing older Chinish. Doublet of chinois. In its orientalist sense of "generically exotic, backwards, or poorly organized", sometimes a deliberate marketing strategy to increase sales, as with the German Chinese checkers. In its sense related to the orientation of stage lighting's barn doors, a reference to a supposed resemblance to East Asian eyes.
senses_examples:
text:
If the Chineſe had Liberty to ſettle in Formoſa, ſeveral Families would gladly tranſplant themſelves thither ; but in order thereto they muſt obtain Paſsports from the Mandarins of China, who grant them with Difficulty, and not without taking Security.
ref:
1738, J. B. Du Halde, “PROVINCE IV. FO-KYEN.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet, volume I, London, →OCLC, page 88
type:
quotation
roman:
The Mandarins are very careful to examine all that paſs into or out of the Iſland, and ſome of them extort Money under-hand. This extraordinary Precaution is the Effect of good Policy eſpecially as the Tartars are Maſters of China ; for Formoſa is a Place of great Importance, and if a Chineſe ſhould ſeize it, he might raiſe great Troubles in the Empire : ſo that the Emperor keeps a Garriſon there of ten thouſand Men, commanded by a Tſong-ping, or Lieutenant-General, two Fû-tſyang, or Major-General, and ſeveral inferior Officers; who are chang’d duely every three years, or oftner, if there be Occaſion.
text:
But I had the unmitigated pleasure of watching a family of four Chinese struggle to use knives and forks to [eat] their bacon and eggs.
ref:
1999, Lydia Laube, Bound for Vietnam, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
Please don't eat the Chinese. I'm saving it for later.
type:
example
text:
"Do you like to eat Chinese?
ref:
1958, A.G. Yates, The Cold Dark Hours, Sydney: Horwitz, published 1963, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
We're going out tonight for a Chinese.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person/people from China or of Chinese descent.
Ellipsis of Chinese cuisine.
Ellipsis of Chinese meal (“meal consisting of Chinese cuisine”).
senses_topics:
|
3931 | word:
parent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
parent (plural parents)
forms:
form:
parents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
parent
etymology_text:
From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of pariō (“I breed, bring forth”).
senses_examples:
text:
After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle.
type:
example
text:
The NHS is naturally pro-immunisation, reassuring parents that their babies can easily cope with these jabs.
ref:
2005 August 24, Siobhan O'Neill, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.
ref:
2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry.
ref:
1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
type:
quotation
text:
Indolence and unalimentary food are the parents of this disease; but to neither are Indians accustomed.
ref:
1789, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, volume 68, page 341
type:
quotation
text:
The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
ref:
1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5
type:
quotation
text:
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
ref:
2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
A surrogate parent.
A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.
A relative.
The source or origin of something.
An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
A parent company.
The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
3932 | word:
parent
word_type:
verb
expansion:
parent (third-person singular simple present parents, present participle parenting, simple past and past participle parented)
forms:
form:
parents
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
parenting
tags:
participle
present
form:
parented
tags:
participle
past
form:
parented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
parent
etymology_text:
From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of pariō (“I breed, bring forth”).
senses_examples:
text:
However, even with money and caregivers, the child is left without a parent and most likely without a plan for their emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being. A time will come when you will no longer be able to parent your child, period.
ref:
2006, Natalie Bandlow, Parent to Child the Guide: How to Create a Comprehensive And Meaningful Journal to Prepare Your Child for Life, iUniverse, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act as parent, to raise or rear.
To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
3933 | word:
handmaid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handmaid (plural handmaids)
forms:
form:
handmaids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
handmaiden
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English handemayde, hand-maide, handmaide, handmayd, hand mayde, hand-mayde, haundmaid, hondemayde, hondmaide, hond-mayde. By surface analysis, compound of hand + maid, the first component in the sense of "ready at hand".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
A moth of the species Dysauxes ancilla.
senses_topics:
|
3934 | word:
mouse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mouse (plural mice or (computing) mouses)
forms:
form:
mice
tags:
plural
form:
mouses
topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s.
cognates
Germanic cognates include Old Frisian mūs, Old Saxon mūs (German Low German Muus), Dutch muis, Old High German mūs (German Maus), Old Norse mús (Swedish mus, Danish mus, Norwegian mus, Icelandic mús, Faroese mús).
Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Latin mūs, Spanish mur, Armenian մուկ (muk), Old Church Slavonic мꙑшь (myšĭ) (Russian мышь (myšʹ)), Albanian mi, Persian موش (muš),Northern Kurdish mişk,Sanskrit मूष् (mūṣ).
The computing sense was coined by American engineer Bill English in 1965 and first used publicly in a publication titled "Computer-Aided Display Control", in reference to the similarity with the animal.
senses_examples:
text:
move the mouse over the icon
(that is, move the mouse so that the pointer moves over the icon)
type:
example
text:
Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, / Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse
ref:
c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 3, scene 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any small rodent of the genus Mus.
A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.
A quiet or shy person.
(plural mice or, rarely, mouses) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.
A facial hematoma or black eye.
A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straightening out.
A familiar term of endearment.
A match used in firing guns or blasting.
A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).
A small cushion for a woman's hair.
Part of a hind leg of beef, next to the round.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
nautical
transport
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
|
3935 | word:
mouse
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mouse (third-person singular simple present mouses, present participle mousing, simple past and past participle moused)
forms:
form:
mouses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mousing
tags:
participle
present
form:
moused
tags:
participle
past
form:
moused
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s.
cognates
Germanic cognates include Old Frisian mūs, Old Saxon mūs (German Low German Muus), Dutch muis, Old High German mūs (German Maus), Old Norse mús (Swedish mus, Danish mus, Norwegian mus, Icelandic mús, Faroese mús).
Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Latin mūs, Spanish mur, Armenian մուկ (muk), Old Church Slavonic мꙑшь (myšĭ) (Russian мышь (myšʹ)), Albanian mi, Persian موش (muš),Northern Kurdish mişk,Sanskrit मूष् (mūṣ).
The computing sense was coined by American engineer Bill English in 1965 and first used publicly in a publication titled "Computer-Aided Display Control", in reference to the similarity with the animal.
senses_examples:
text:
Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.
type:
example
text:
I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.
ref:
1988, MacUser, volume 4
type:
quotation
text:
Unlike the Flamenco work, the Relation Browser allows users to quickly explore a document space using dynamic queries issued by mousing over facet elements in the interface.
ref:
2009, Daniel Tunkelang, Faceted Search, page 35
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).
To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats.
To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.
To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
3936 | word:
suffix
word_type:
noun
expansion:
suffix (plural suffixes)
forms:
form:
suffixes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin suffīxus (“suffix”), from sub- (“under”) + fīxus (perfect passive participle of fīgere (“to fasten, fix”)), equivalent to sub- + -fix.
senses_examples:
text:
The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".
type:
example
text:
The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
A subscript.
A final segment of a string of characters.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
mathematics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
3937 | word:
suffix
word_type:
verb
expansion:
suffix (third-person singular simple present suffixes, present participle suffixing, simple past and past participle suffixed)
forms:
form:
suffixes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
suffixing
tags:
participle
present
form:
suffixed
tags:
participle
past
form:
suffixed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin suffīxus (“suffix”), from sub- (“under”) + fīxus (perfect passive participle of fīgere (“to fasten, fix”)), equivalent to sub- + -fix.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To append (something) to the end of something else.
senses_topics:
|
3938 | word:
pistil
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pistil (plural pistils)
forms:
form:
pistils
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French pistil. Doublet of pestle and pistillum.
senses_examples:
text:
Some plant species have more than one pistil per flower.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A discrete organ in the center of a flower capable of receiving pollen and producing a fruit, it is divided into an ovary, style and stigma.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
3939 | word:
tortoise
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tortoise (plural tortoises)
forms:
form:
tortoises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tortuse, tortuce, tortuge, from Medieval Latin tortuca, of uncertain origin. May be from Late Latin tartarūcha, from tartarūchus, from Ancient Greek ταρταροῦχος (tartaroûkhos, “holder of Tartaros, Tartarus, the land of the dead in ancient stories”), because it used to be thought that tortoises and turtles came from the underworld and they were commonly paired with such infernal beasts; see Τάρταρος (Tártaros). Or, from Latin tortus (“twisted”). The French-looking Modern English spelling tortoise may be influenced by porpoise. Displaced native Old English byrdling.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly Canada, US) or the order Testudines (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India), whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.
Synonym of cat (sense 10, a wheeled shelter)
senses_topics:
|
3940 | word:
handed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
handed (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hand + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
yet now, if any two be but once handed in the Church, and have tasted in any sort the nuptiall bed, let them finde themselves never so mistak’n in their dispositions through any error, concealment, or misadventure, that through their different tempers, thoughts, and constitutions, they can neither be to one another a remedy against lonelines, nor live in any union or contentment all their dayes, yet they shall, so they be but found suitably weapon’d to the least possibility of sensuall enjoyment, be made, spight of antipathy to fadge together, and combine as they may to their unspeakable wearisomnes and despaire of all sociable delight in the ordinance which God establisht to that very end.
ref:
1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a certain kind or number of hands.
Synonym of chiral.
Having a peculiar or characteristic hand or way of treating others.
With hands joined; hand in hand.
senses_topics:
|
3941 | word:
handed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
handed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hand + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of hand
senses_topics:
|
3942 | word:
cousin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cousin (plural cousins)
forms:
form:
cousins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English cosin, cosine, cosyn (“blood relative, kinsman or kinswoman; any relative; nephew or niece; first cousin; grandson or granddaughter; descendant; godchild or godparent, or a relative of a godchild or godparent; (figurative) closely related or similar thing”) [and other forms], and then:
* from Anglo-Norman cosen, cosin [and other forms], Middle French cosin, and Old French cosin (“collateral male relative more distant than one’s brother; form of address used by a monarch to male monarchs or nobles”) [and other forms] (modern French cousin); and
* from Anglo-Norman cosine, Middle French cosine, and Old French cosine (“collateral female relative more distant than one’s sister; form of address used by a monarch to female monarchs or nobles”) [and other forms] (modern French cousine),
from Latin cōnsōbrīnus (“maternal cousin; first cousin; relation”) (possibly through Vulgar Latin *cōsuīnus, from *cōsōbīnus), from con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of several objects) + sobrīnus (“maternal cousin; sister’s son; any nephew”) (from a noun use of Proto-Italic *swezrīnos (“of or belonging to a sister”, adjective) (with the first syllable influenced by Latin soror (“sister”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”), possibly from *swé (“self”) + *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”) (that is, a woman of one’s own blood) or *-sōr (feminine suffix)).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
Although we were cousins, we grew up like sisters.
type:
example
text:
Despite being related by blood and commonly in the same generation, cousins can end up with completely different upbringings, class backgrounds, values, and interests. And yet, they share something rare and invaluable: They know what it’s like to be part of the same particular family.
ref:
2023 December 19, Faith Hill, “The Great Cousin Decline”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
Jerry Rawlings has pissed off not only the Company (the CIA) but its cousin (the Mossad) in the Middle East.
ref:
1994, Joel Bainerman, “The Dark Side of the Israeli–American Relationship”, in Inside the Covert Operations of the CIA & Israel’s Mossad, New York, N.Y.: S.P.I. Books, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Partnering, along with its less irritating cousin "partnership", crops up all over the place, being equally useful to the lazy jargoneer and the lazy policy-maker. It has been said that there is no noun which cannot be verbed; in the same way, there is now nothing, concrete or abstract, which cannot be partnered.
ref:
2003 November 21, Tim Homfray, “What do they mean …”, in Times Educational Supplement, London: TSL Education, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman.
Preceded by an ordinal number, as first, second, third, etc.: a person descended from a common ancestor by the same number of generations as another person.
Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman.
When used without a qualifying word: the child of a person's parent's brother (that is, an uncle) or sister (an aunt); a cousin-german, a first cousin.
A person of an ethnicity or nationality regarded as closely related to someone of another ethnicity or nationality.
Used as a term of address for someone whom one is close to; also, (preceding a first name, sometimes capitalized as Cousin) a title for such a person.
Used by a monarch to address another monarch, or a noble; specifically (British) in commissions and writs by the Crown: used in this way to address a viscount or another peer of higher rank.
Something kindred or related to something else; a relative.
A female sexual partner who is not a person's wife; specifically, a prostitute.
A person who is swindled; a dupe.
A person who womanizes; a seducer, a womanizer.
senses_topics:
|
3943 | word:
cousin
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cousin (third-person singular simple present cousins, present participle cousining, simple past and past participle cousined)
forms:
form:
cousins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cousining
tags:
participle
present
form:
cousined
tags:
participle
past
form:
cousined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English cosin, cosine, cosyn (“blood relative, kinsman or kinswoman; any relative; nephew or niece; first cousin; grandson or granddaughter; descendant; godchild or godparent, or a relative of a godchild or godparent; (figurative) closely related or similar thing”) [and other forms], and then:
* from Anglo-Norman cosen, cosin [and other forms], Middle French cosin, and Old French cosin (“collateral male relative more distant than one’s brother; form of address used by a monarch to male monarchs or nobles”) [and other forms] (modern French cousin); and
* from Anglo-Norman cosine, Middle French cosine, and Old French cosine (“collateral female relative more distant than one’s sister; form of address used by a monarch to female monarchs or nobles”) [and other forms] (modern French cousine),
from Latin cōnsōbrīnus (“maternal cousin; first cousin; relation”) (possibly through Vulgar Latin *cōsuīnus, from *cōsōbīnus), from con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of several objects) + sobrīnus (“maternal cousin; sister’s son; any nephew”) (from a noun use of Proto-Italic *swezrīnos (“of or belonging to a sister”, adjective) (with the first syllable influenced by Latin soror (“sister”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”), possibly from *swé (“self”) + *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”) (that is, a woman of one’s own blood) or *-sōr (feminine suffix)).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
At length she seemed to relent, or changed her tactics, for she looked over his shoulder as he sketched, and Cousined him two or three times as usual.
ref:
1857 September, “A Winter in the South”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XV, number LXXXVIII, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 441–442
type:
quotation
text:
Mrs. M[uddlebrain]. […] Mary, who is this young man? / Mary. That's my cousin, ma'am, just stept in to lend us a helping hand in placing the things. / […] / Shuffle. What the devil did she say about a tall grenadier, and the pantry? Mrs. Shuffle! Mrs. Shuffle! / Mary. Hush! Are you mad? Do you want to tell all the world that we're married, and get me turned away? / Shuffle. No; but the grenadier? / Mary. Came to see the cook; so to prevent all the fat being in the fire, I cousined him, and made him a relation. / Shuffle. Yes; and remember you've cousined me too.
ref:
1833, G. Herbert Rodwell, The Chimney Piece. A Farce, in One Act. […] (Miller’s Modern Acting Drama, […]; no. 5), London: John Miller, […], →OCLC, scene i, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
[T]he old gentleman took me into the house and introduced me to the family, where I was at once cousined by them all.
ref:
1877 May 28, J[acob] Sam[ue]l Vandersloot, quoting Cyrus Sturdivant, “‘To God be All Praise’”, in The True Path; or, The Murphy Movement and Gospel Temperance. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: William Flint, […], published 1877, →OCLC, page 244
type:
quotation
text:
[A] maiden well braced in nerve and muscle, / Far from sensual ease, to be mother of lustiest Britons, / Cousined to Romans in strength and in breadth of masterful Empire.
ref:
1885 July, Scotigena Oxoniensis [pseudonym], “London. I. The Row and Westminster. Epistle to a Friend.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CXXXVIII, number DCCCXXXVII, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], →OCLC, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
O Donald, thou wert the boy, / Steel to the bone, and like thee none! / Cousined wert thou to the great Clan Chattan, / Thou, the nodding cliff's foster son.
ref:
1885 September, “The Old Owl of the Sron”, in [John Stuart] Blackie, transl., edited by Alexander Mackenzie, The Celtic Magazine: […], volume X, number CXIX, Inverness, Inverness-shire: A[lexander] & W. Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 522
type:
quotation
text:
Let me say in the beginning that even if I wanted to avoid Texas I could not, for I am wived in Texas and mother-in-lawed and uncled and aunted and cousined within an inch of my life.
ref:
1962, John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley in Search of America, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, published March 1968, →OCLC, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
In an appendix to The Mechanic Muse, he [Hugh Kenner] finds Victorian symbolist practice serving to release the signifier from centuries of post-Enlightenment confusion about the proper wedding (or at least cousining) of word and thing.
ref:
1999, Garrett Stewart, “Modernism and the Flicker Effect”, in Between Film and Screen: Modernism’s Photo Synthesis, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, page 310
type:
quotation
text:
[P]atients would escape into the town for a bit of a fling or "cousining" as it was called. "Cousining" was a Saranac Lake euphemism that applied to a couple, both of them patients and sometimes already married with a spouse living far away, who spent time together or dated each other.
A noun use.
ref:
2007, Caperton Tissot, quoting Elise Chapin, “Some Offered Healing, Some Found Healing”, in Willem Tissot, editor, History between the Lines: Women’s Lives and Saranac Lake Customs, Jay, N.Y.: Graphics North, pages 110–111
type:
quotation
text:
The UK has fiscal arithmetic cousined with that of Greece, but is dealing with it.
ref:
2012, David Roche, Bob McKee, “The Moral Failure of Democracy”, in Democrisis: Democracy Caused the Debt Crisis. Will It Survive It?, [London]: Independent Strategy, pages 12–13
type:
quotation
text:
You know when you get up in the morning that you have a certain quantity of cousining to go through before the day is over, and you make up your mind to it; read a page of Seneca, add a verse to your litany, and commit yourself to Providence, like a wise man and a Christian.
A noun use.
ref:
1836 July, “A Chapter on Cousins”, in Dublin University Magazine, volume VIII, number XLIII, Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., →OCLC, page 28, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Who then that has a cousin, has aught to say against cousining? We do indeed often her sneeringly the expression of "Dutch cousining" or "Yankee cousining," as if there was something mean in the act of visiting those who are "next of kin." To such as do it, I feel an unconquerable aversion or excessive pity; as they appear censorious or betray a stupidity that cannot feel a consanguine tie beyond their hearth.
A noun use.
ref:
1845 October 20, B. C. True, “Cousining in Autumn”, in Thomas L. Harris, John Tanner, editors, The Gavel: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to Odd Fellowship and General Literature, volume II, number 3, Albany, N.Y.: John Tanner, published November 1845, →OCLC, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
It isn't the thing for a man to be like a stranger to his own flesh and blood. I'm going cousining, Sue, down East, and I'll hunt up my relations.
ref:
1887 June, Herminius Cobb, “[The Household.] Mr. Blossom Visits His Relations.”, in The American Magazine: Supplement, volume I (New Series; volume VI overall), number 2, New York, N.Y.: The American Magazine Company, […]; London: The Christian Million Company, →OCLC, page 245, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
In 1878 they were married in the Mormon Temple in St. George, 300 miles away, and he drove her back home in a hay wagon in eight days. They "cousined" (stopped with relatives) all the way.
ref:
1959 January 5, “An 80th Wedding Anniversary”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Life, volume 46, number 1, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 78
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To address (someone) as "cousin".
To regard (oneself or someone) as a cousin to another person.
To associate with someone or something on a close basis.
To visit a cousin or other relation.
senses_topics:
|
3944 | word:
gold
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gold (countable and uncountable, plural gold or golds)
forms:
form:
gold
tags:
plural
form:
golds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:gold
etymology_text:
From Middle English gold, from Old English gold (“gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“yellow; gleam; to shine”). Related to yellow; see there for more. Germanic cognates include Dutch goud, German Gold, Norwegian gull, Swedish guld, and cognates from other Indo-European languages are Latvian zelts, Russian зо́лото (zóloto), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow, golden”), Sanskrit हिरण्य (hiraṇya).
senses_examples:
text:
You like to hear about gold.
A king filled his prison room
As full as the room could hold
To the top of his reach on the wall
With every known shape of the stuff.
’Twas to buy himself off his doom.
ref:
1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range
type:
quotation
text:
The pirates were searching for gold.
type:
example
text:
gold:
text:
metallic gold:
text:
Daniel hit the gold to win the contest.
type:
example
text:
France has won three golds and five silvers.
type:
example
text:
That food mixer you gave me is absolute gold, mate!
type:
example
text:
Now obviously this meant that I went over my allotted time, but the theatre management didn't mind because I was giving them comedy gold and that's what gets bums on seats.
ref:
2010, Paul Hendy, Who Killed Simon Peters?
type:
quotation
text:
Marge Quincey didn't deserve a husband like his dad. He was pure gold, and she wasn't worth a light beside him.
ref:
2012, Victor Pemberton, Leo's Girl
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.
A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so.
A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.
The bullseye of an archery target.
A gold medal.
Anything or anyone that is very valuable.
A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth) made of gold.
senses_topics:
|
3945 | word:
gold
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
gold
forms:
wikipedia:
Goldilocks
Kolar Gold Fields
en:gold
etymology_text:
From Middle English gold, from Old English gold (“gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“yellow; gleam; to shine”). Related to yellow; see there for more. Germanic cognates include Dutch goud, German Gold, Norwegian gull, Swedish guld, and cognates from other Indo-European languages are Latvian zelts, Russian зо́лото (zóloto), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow, golden”), Sanskrit हिरण्य (hiraṇya).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
☉ (alchemy)
senses_topics:
|
3946 | word:
gold
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gold (not generally comparable, comparative golder, superlative goldest)
forms:
form:
golder
tags:
comparative
form:
goldest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
en:gold
etymology_text:
From Middle English gold, from Old English gold (“gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“yellow; gleam; to shine”). Related to yellow; see there for more. Germanic cognates include Dutch goud, German Gold, Norwegian gull, Swedish guld, and cognates from other Indo-European languages are Latvian zelts, Russian зо́лото (zóloto), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow, golden”), Sanskrit हिरण्य (hiraṇya).
senses_examples:
text:
a gold chain
type:
example
text:
gold sticker
type:
example
text:
gold socks
type:
example
text:
Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
ref:
1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: platinum
text:
The album went gold, then platinum, thanks to a second hit single, "It's A Miracle".
ref:
2000, Billboard, volume 112, number 20, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: green
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of gold.
Having the colour of gold.
Premium, superior.
Of a musical recording: having sold 500,000 copies.
Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is immediately available for to read for free with no embargo period.
senses_topics:
academia
scholarly
sciences |
3947 | word:
gold
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gold (third-person singular simple present golds, present participle golding, simple past and past participle golded)
forms:
form:
golds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
golding
tags:
participle
present
form:
golded
tags:
participle
past
form:
golded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:gold
etymology_text:
From Middle English gold, from Old English gold (“gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“yellow; gleam; to shine”). Related to yellow; see there for more. Germanic cognates include Dutch goud, German Gold, Norwegian gull, Swedish guld, and cognates from other Indo-European languages are Latvian zelts, Russian зо́лото (zóloto), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow, golden”), Sanskrit हिरण्य (hiraṇya).
senses_examples:
text:
I caught sight of something that seemed the nexus of all that glittered, all that golded: like a hallucination in the traffic's rotary heart, a saried creature giddily swirling her own razored rainbow roundabout, mirrored fabric sending light spinning like saberlike amidst the smoking, choking cars.
ref:
2010, Tanuja Desai Hidier, Born Confused
type:
quotation
text:
You are the sun at Noon, that golds the barley, and pulls the bee to the ling on the moor.
ref:
2011, Harry Nicholson, Tom Fleck, page 250
type:
quotation
text:
Worked wonders, knowing a thing like that. Golded up your hair, even, for all your record said indeterminate. Golded up the whole world, really.
ref:
2011, D G Compton, A Usual Lunacy
type:
quotation
text:
But I work still, a dead, unheeding man across the endless interface: wishing I was the sun who golds the lake or the lake, comprehending sun.
ref:
2011, Robert M. Ellis, “Pokhara Lake”, in North Cape: Selected Poems of a Poet Turned Philosopher, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
Hair down to my shoulders; waved and liquid-golded. Eyebrows shaved to a different shape and golded. Handle-bar mustache, waxed to points and golded.
ref:
2021, Edward Elmer Smith, The Imperial Stars
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To appear or cause to appear golden.
senses_topics:
|
3948 | word:
gold
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gold (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
en:gold
etymology_text:
From gold master, a copy of the code certified as being ready for release.
senses_examples:
text:
The Company confirmed that Half-Life 2, developed by Valve Software, has gone gold with a planned retail street date of November 16, 2004.
ref:
2004 November, “Half-Life 2 goes gold”, in HWM, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
He felt bone-tired and twitchy, the way he did in the final stages of putting a video-game project together, almost ready to go gold and turn a new game loose on the public.
ref:
2011, Jordan Gray, Unearthed, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
I had coded guilds into M59 over the weekend, shortly before we were supposed to go gold.
ref:
2011, Jessica Mulligan, Bridgette Patrovsky, quoting Damion Schubert, Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide, page 221
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
3949 | word:
gold
word_type:
adv
expansion:
gold (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
en:gold
etymology_text:
From gold master, a copy of the code certified as being ready for release.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
of or referring to a gold version of something
senses_topics:
|
3950 | word:
lupus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lupus (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin lupus (“wolf”). Doublet of lobo and wolf.
senses_examples:
text:
You like the name quesalupa? That is a little like "case of lupus". I just keep thinking about that.
ref:
2015 January 21, 00:05:15 from the start, in Conan Visits Taco Bell (Conan), Conan O'Brien (actor), Team Coco
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences |
3951 | word:
conch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
conch (plural conches or conchs)
forms:
form:
conches
tags:
plural
form:
conchs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Conch (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Latin concha, from Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē). Doublet of concha.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
The shell of this sea animal.
A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”)
senses_topics:
architecture
|
3952 | word:
conch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
conch (third-person singular simple present conches, present participle conching, simple past and past participle conched)
forms:
form:
conches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
conching
tags:
participle
present
form:
conched
tags:
participle
past
form:
conched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Conch (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Latin concha, from Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē). Doublet of concha.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.
To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.
senses_topics:
|
3953 | word:
lilac
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lilac (plural lilacs)
forms:
form:
lilacs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Lilac (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From obsolete French lilac (now lilas), from Arabic لِيلَك (līlak).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] O death, I cover you over with roses and early lilies, / But mostly and now the lilac that blooms the first, / Copious I break, I break the sprigs from the bushes, / With loaded arms I come, pouring for you, / For you and the coffins all of you O death.
ref:
1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems
type:
quotation
text:
lilac:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large shrub of the genus Syringa, especially Syringa vulgaris, bearing white, pale-pink, or purple flowers.
A flower of the lilac shrub.
A pale purple color, the color of some lilac flowers.
A cat having a lilac-colored (pale brown) coat.
senses_topics:
|
3954 | word:
lilac
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lilac (comparative more lilac, superlative most lilac)
forms:
form:
more lilac
tags:
comparative
form:
most lilac
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Lilac (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From obsolete French lilac (now lilas), from Arabic لِيلَك (līlak).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a pale purple colour.
Of a cat or its fur: having a pale brown colour, lighter than chocolate.
senses_topics:
|
3955 | word:
martyr
word_type:
noun
expansion:
martyr (plural martyrs)
forms:
form:
martyrs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
martyr
etymology_text:
From Middle English martir, from Old English martyr, itself a borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, “witness”).
senses_examples:
text:
Saint Stephen was the first Christian martyr.
type:
example
text:
Stan is a martyr to arthritis, Chris a martyr to Stan's endless moaning about it.
type:
example
text:
He'd been a martyr to asthma all his life.
ref:
1937, AJ Cronin, The Citadel
type:
quotation
text:
J.Q. Murder wears sandpaper suits
Broken glass in pocket, barbed wire boots
Not because he's mean, but because he's a martyr
He makes Jackie Collins look like Jean-Paul Sartre
ref:
1982, J. G. Thirlwell (lyrics and music), “J.Q. Murder”, in Ache, performed by You've Got Foetus on Your Breath
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom.
One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
One who suffers greatly and/or constantly, even involuntarily.
senses_topics:
|
3956 | word:
martyr
word_type:
verb
expansion:
martyr (third-person singular simple present martyrs, present participle martyring, simple past and past participle martyred)
forms:
form:
martyrs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
martyring
tags:
participle
present
form:
martyred
tags:
participle
past
form:
martyred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
martyr
etymology_text:
From Middle English martir, from Old English martyr, itself a borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, “witness”).
senses_examples:
text:
Some religious and other minorities were martyred until extinction.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
To persecute.
To torment; to torture.
senses_topics:
|
3957 | word:
soap opera
word_type:
noun
expansion:
soap opera (countable and uncountable, plural soap operas)
forms:
form:
soap operas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the soap and detergent commercials originally broadcast during the shows, which were aimed at the audience of women who were doing their cleaning; opera from the melodramatic character of the shows, as the earlier horse opera.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: telenovela
text:
This chapter considers the growing interest in the popular Welsh-language soap opera, Pobol Y Cwm (People of the Valley), and the extent to which discourses of Welshness and definitions of cultural and national identity contribute to the appeal and longevity of the soap.
ref:
2002, Robert C. Allen, To Be Continued...: Soap Operas Around the World, Routledge, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
It also followed the very successful long-running soap opera, Neighbours.
ref:
2014, Frank J. Lechner, John Boli, The Globalization Reader, John Wiley & Sons, page 393
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A radio or television serial, typically broadcast in the afternoon or evening, about the lives of melodramatic characters, which are often filled with strong emotions, highly dramatic situations and suspense.
Such serials in general.
senses_topics:
|
3958 | word:
monthly
word_type:
adj
expansion:
monthly (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From month + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
It's time give the dog its monthly bath.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Occurring every month.
senses_topics:
|
3959 | word:
monthly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
monthly (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From month + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
Rent must be paid monthly.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Every month.
senses_topics:
|
3960 | word:
monthly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
monthly (plural monthlies)
forms:
form:
monthlies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From month + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
Of the 10 monthlies with the worst declines in January, four were Condé Nast magazines: Wired, Architectural Digest, Vogue and Lucky.
ref:
2009 January 5, Stephanie Clifford, “Prominent Magazines Lose Weight, Shedding Nearly Half Their Ads”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Katherine assumed she was having her monthly. She could recall times when her own monthly was so intense that it showed on her face.
ref:
2008, Monica Dixon, Through Closed Eyes, page 230
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A publication that is published once a month.
The menstrual period.
senses_topics:
|
3961 | word:
mind
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mind (countable and uncountable, plural minds)
forms:
form:
minds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Mind (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English minde, münde, ȝemünde, from Old English mynd, ġemynd (“memory”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundi, *gamundi, from Proto-Germanic *mundiz, *gamundiz (“memory, remembrance”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”) (compare also mantis, via Greek), from the root *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Old High German gimunt (“mind, memory”), Danish minde (“memory”), Swedish minne (“memory”), Icelandic minni (“memory, recall, recollection”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (munds, “memory, mind”), Latin mēns (“mind, reason”), Sanskrit मनस् (mánas), Ancient Greek μένος (ménos), Albanian mënd (“mind, reason”). Doublet of mantra. Related to Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”). More at mint.
senses_examples:
text:
Despite advancing age, his mind was still as sharp as ever.
type:
example
text:
There was no doubt in his mind that they would win.
type:
example
text:
My mind just went blank.
type:
example
text:
I can’t keep my mind on what I’m doing.
type:
example
text:
He was one of history’s greatest minds.
type:
example
text:
That's far from the promised land set out in the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail, that the railways would have a guiding mind that would be in control of the industry's finances. Businesses have what is called a profit and loss account, showing both revenue and costs, but the current situation means that the two sides of the system are in different hands - and neither is (as yet) in the hands of a 'guiding mind'.
ref:
2022 November 16, Christian Wolmar, “Can Merriman use his rail knowledge to make a difference?”, in RAIL, number 970, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
He changed his mind after hearing the speech.
type:
example
text:
She had a mind to go to Paris.
type:
example
text:
I have half a mind to do it myself.
type:
example
text:
I am of a mind to listen.
type:
example
text:
Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had no mind in that direction […] So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article […]
ref:
1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
type:
quotation
text:
I, ______ being of sound mind and body, do hereby[…]
type:
example
text:
You are losing your mind.
type:
example
text:
The nature of the mind is a major topic in philosophy.
type:
example
text:
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
ref:
1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
type:
quotation
text:
The mind is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions.
ref:
1854, Samuel Knaggs, Unsoundness of Mind Considered in Relation to the Question of Responsibility for Criminal Acts, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
a month's [or monthly] mind; a year's mind
type:
example
text:
They are the “tars” who give mind to the spreading sail, and their bold courage is the pabulum which will preserve our sea-girt isle in its vernal green to furthest posterity.
ref:
1849, Eliza Cook, Eliza Cook’s Journal,p.119, volume 1
type:
quotation
text:
Then he, having mind of Beelzebub, the god of flies, fled without a halt homewards; but, falling in the coo's loan, broke two ribs and a collar bone, the whilk misfortune was much blessed to his soul.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
text:
If you get a “trolling” comment, delete it, do not respond to it, and move forward immediately without paying any further mind.
ref:
2014, Jolie O'Dell, Blogging for Photographers, page 66
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capability for rational thought.
The ability to be aware of things.
The ability to remember things.
The ability to focus the thoughts.
Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
Judgment, opinion, or view.
Desire, inclination, or intention.
A healthy mental state.
The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
Attention, consideration or thought.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
|
3962 | word:
mind
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mind (third-person singular simple present minds, present participle minding, simple past and past participle minded)
forms:
form:
minds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
minding
tags:
participle
present
form:
minded
tags:
participle
past
form:
minded
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
mind
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
en:Mind (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English minde, münde, ȝemünde, from Old English mynd, ġemynd (“memory”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundi, *gamundi, from Proto-Germanic *mundiz, *gamundiz (“memory, remembrance”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”) (compare also mantis, via Greek), from the root *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Old High German gimunt (“mind, memory”), Danish minde (“memory”), Swedish minne (“memory”), Icelandic minni (“memory, recall, recollection”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (munds, “memory, mind”), Latin mēns (“mind, reason”), Sanskrit मनस् (mánas), Ancient Greek μένος (ménos), Albanian mënd (“mind, reason”). Doublet of mantra. Related to Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”). More at mint.
senses_examples:
text:
Mind to-morrow's early meeting!
ref:
1878, Robert Browning, La Saisiaz, line 70
type:
quotation
text:
The land where I shall mind you not / Is the land where all's forgot.
ref:
1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXVII, lines 25-26
text:
1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth
I desire to mind those persons of what Saint Austin hath said.
text:
I shall only mind him, that the contrary supposition, if it could be proved, is of little use.
ref:
1689, John Locke, “Of True and False Ideas”, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
type:
quotation
text:
It's the worst thing that can ever happen to you in all your life, and you've got to mind it—you've got to mind it. They'll come saying, 'Bear up—trust to time.' No, no; they're wrong. Mind it.
ref:
1907 E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, V [Uniform ed., p. 63]
text:
Mind you don't knock that glass over.
type:
example
text:
You should mind your own business.
type:
example
text:
Upon my coming down, I found all the Children of the Family got about my old Friend, and my Landlady herself, who is a notable prating Gossip, engaged in a Conference with him; being mightily pleased with his stroaking her little Boy upon the Head, and bidding him be a good Child and mind his Book.
ref:
1712, Joseph Addison, Spectator, No. 383 (May 20, 1710
text:
Should you ever have a son, Sansa, beat him frequently so he learns to mind you.
ref:
2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam, published 2011, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
Would you mind my bag for me?
type:
example
text:
Bank Underground Station, London, is built on a curve, leaving a potentially dangerous gap between platform and carriage to trap the unwary. The loudspeaker voice instructs passengers to "Mind the gap": the boundary between train and platform.
ref:
2005, Gillie Bolton, Reflective Practice: Writing And Professional Development, page xv
type:
quotation
text:
I'm not very healthy. I do eat fruit sometimes, mind.
type:
example
text:
I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.
type:
example
text:
Do you mind if I smoke?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
To remember.
To remind; put one's mind on.
To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
To be careful about.
To purpose, intend, plan.
Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
senses_topics:
|
3963 | word:
ivory
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ivory (countable and uncountable, plural ivories)
forms:
form:
ivories
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ivory
etymology_text:
From Middle English yvory, ivorie, from Anglo-Norman ivurie, from Latin eboreus (“in or of ivory”) adjective of ebur (“ivory”) (genitive eboris), from Demotic yb (“ivory, Elephantine”) (compare Coptic ⲓⲏⲃ (iēb, “Elephantine”)), from Egyptian ꜣbw (“elephant, ivory, Elephantine”). Displaced native Old English elpendbān (literally “elephant bone”).
senses_examples:
text:
ivory:
text:
Coordinate term: ebony
text:
to tickle the ivories
type:
example
text:
c. 1846, Alexandre Dumas (translated by William Barrow), The Three Musketeers
The triumphant Englishman did not give himself the trouble even to shake the dice; and, so sure was he of winning, that he threw the ivory on the table without looking.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals.
A creamy white color, the color of ivory.
Something made from or resembling ivory.
The teeth.
The keys of a piano.
A white person.
A die (object bearing numbers, thrown in games of chance).
senses_topics:
|
3964 | word:
ivory
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ivory (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
ivory
etymology_text:
From Middle English yvory, ivorie, from Anglo-Norman ivurie, from Latin eboreus (“in or of ivory”) adjective of ebur (“ivory”) (genitive eboris), from Demotic yb (“ivory, Elephantine”) (compare Coptic ⲓⲏⲃ (iēb, “Elephantine”)), from Egyptian ꜣbw (“elephant, ivory, Elephantine”). Displaced native Old English elpendbān (literally “elephant bone”).
senses_examples:
text:
The walls and ceiling of this drawing-room in Montague Square are painted ivory.
ref:
1938, Interior Decoration To-day, page 132
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of ivory.
Resembling or having the colour of ivory.
senses_topics:
|
3965 | word:
sequoia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sequoia (plural sequoias)
forms:
form:
sequoias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From translingual Sequoia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sequoiadendron giganteum, a coniferous evergreen tree formerly in the genus Sequoia, now placed in Sequoiadendron.
Sequoia sempervirens, a coniferous evergreen tree, the only living species of the genus Sequoia.
senses_topics:
|
3966 | word:
retreat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
retreat (plural retreats)
forms:
form:
retreats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English retret, from Old French retrait or retret, from Latin retractus, from retraho. Doublet of retract, retrait, and ritratto.
senses_examples:
text:
The general opted for a swift retreat because he saw his troops were vastly outnumbered.
type:
example
text:
"[…] But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses. […]" "Though all your actions are noble, […] is it fitting that I should accompany you alone into these perplexed retreats? Should we be found together, what would a censorious world think of my conduct?"
ref:
1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
type:
quotation
text:
... he built his son a house of pleasure, on purpose to keep him out of harm's way; and spared neither art nor cost to make it a delicious retreat.
ref:
1692, Roger L'Estrange, “Fable 100: An Old Man and a Lion”, in Fables of Aesop, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
We both need a week retreat after those two stressful years working in the city.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
Withdrawal by a military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
A peaceful, quiet place in which to urinate and defecate: an outhouse; a lavatory.
A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude.
A period of meditation, prayer or study.
A signal for a military withdrawal.
A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
A military ceremony to lower the flag.
The move of a piece from a threatened position.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
board-games
chess
games |
3967 | word:
retreat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
retreat (third-person singular simple present retreats, present participle retreating, simple past and past participle retreated)
forms:
form:
retreats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
retreating
tags:
participle
present
form:
retreated
tags:
participle
past
form:
retreated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English retret, from Old French retrait or retret, from Latin retractus, from retraho. Doublet of retract, retrait, and ritratto.
senses_examples:
text:
The general refused to order his soldiers to retreat, despite being vastly outnumbered.
type:
example
text:
His face was a fair weakness, his chin retreated, and his hair lay in crisp, almost flaxen curls on his low forehead; his eyes were rather large, pale blue, and blankly staring.
ref:
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
a retreating forehead
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To withdraw from a position, go back.
To withdraw from a position, go back.
To withdraw military forces
To shrink back due to generally warmer temperatures. (of a glacier)
To slope back.
senses_topics:
|
3968 | word:
retreat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
retreat (third-person singular simple present retreats, present participle retreating, simple past and past participle retreated)
forms:
form:
retreats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
retreating
tags:
participle
present
form:
retreated
tags:
participle
past
form:
retreated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From re- + treat.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of re-treat
senses_topics:
|
3969 | word:
khaki
word_type:
noun
expansion:
khaki (countable and uncountable, plural khakis or khakies)
forms:
form:
khakis
tags:
plural
form:
khakies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Hindustani خاکی / ख़ाकी (xākī), from Classical Persian خاکی (xākī, “dusty, earthy, earth-colored”).
senses_examples:
text:
When you've shouted "Rule Britannia", when you've sung "God Save The Queen",
When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouth;
Will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourine
For a gentleman in khaki ordered South?
ref:
1899, Rudyard Kipling, The Absent-Minded Beggar
type:
quotation
text:
But being the right shade of khaki or shit-brown is not enough.
ref:
1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
khaki (Pantone):
text:
khaki (HTML):
text:
1921, War work of the Bureau of Standards, no. 46, page 54.
The English Government for a long time has used a type of pigmented dope cover, khaki colored by iron pigments and lampblack, which is called P. C. 10.
text:
2007, Yuji Matsuki, American Fighters Over Europe: Colors & Markings of USAAF Fighters in WWII, page 4, →ISBN.
At the end of World War I, the U.S. Army Air Service painted everything khaki. This khaki was practically the same as British PC10 and can be considered the basis of the later olive drab color.
text:
In these notes we have used the British rather than the US terms for colours: i.e. 'khaki' here means the drab brown - US 'olive drab' - used for woolen uniforms and 'khaki drill' for the pale yellowish tan - US 'khaki' - used for lightweight summer/tropical dress.
ref:
2010, Martin Windrow, French Foreign Legion: Infantry and Cavalry since 1945, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
The very loose seroual trousers were made in both sand-khaki drill, and in winter-weight khaki wool for wear with the M1946 battledress blouse.
ref:
Op. cit., page 56
text:
khaki green:
text:
"Frank, it's a khaki," I whisper, "keep straight on."
ref:
1902, Philip Pienaar, With Steyn And De Wet, Methuen
type:
quotation
text:
War and then victory raised patriotic sentiment inside Britain and brought the Colonial Secretary national popularity. Unionists were quick to milk this with a 'khaki' election in 1900 at which they won a massive landslide.
ref:
1997, Richard N. Kelly, John Cantrell, Modern British Statesmen, 1867-1945, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
1915 Out West magazine
The porter in going through the rear coach, which was almost empty, noticed one of the occupants, a muscular, soldierly man in khakies to be apparently asleep in his seat.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust.
Khaki green, a dull green colour.
A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms.
A soldier wearing a khaki uniform.
A British person (from the colour of the uniform of British troops, originally in the Second Boer War; compare rooinek). (In this sense the plural generally is khakies.)
Khaki clothing or uniform.
senses_topics:
|
3970 | word:
khaki
word_type:
adj
expansion:
khaki (comparative more khaki, superlative most khaki)
forms:
form:
more khaki
tags:
comparative
form:
most khaki
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Hindustani خاکی / ख़ाकी (xākī), from Classical Persian خاکی (xākī, “dusty, earthy, earth-colored”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dust-coloured; of the colour of dust.
senses_topics:
|
3971 | word:
YHVH
word_type:
name
expansion:
YHVH
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of YHWH
senses_topics:
|
3972 | word:
navy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
navy (countable and uncountable, plural navies)
forms:
form:
navies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
navy
etymology_text:
From Middle English nave, navye, from Anglo-Norman, Old French navie, from Latin nāvigia < nāvigium, from Latin nāvigō, nāvis (“boat”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Compare Ancient Greek ναῦς (naûs, “ship”), Persian ناو (nâv, “boat, warship”), Sanskrit नाव (nāva, “ship”), Old English nōwend (“mariner, sailor”).
Displaced native Old English sċiphere (literally “ship army”).
senses_examples:
text:
People who get seasick easily shouldn't join the navy.
type:
example
text:
navy:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel.
A governmental department in charge of a country's maritime military force.
Any fleet of maritime vessels, and especially the entire fleet of any particular nationality, including vessels that are commercial, military, or both.
A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue.
senses_topics:
|
3973 | word:
navy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
navy (comparative more navy, superlative most navy)
forms:
form:
more navy
tags:
comparative
form:
most navy
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
navy
etymology_text:
From Middle English nave, navye, from Anglo-Norman, Old French navie, from Latin nāvigia < nāvigium, from Latin nāvigō, nāvis (“boat”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Compare Ancient Greek ναῦς (naûs, “ship”), Persian ناو (nâv, “boat, warship”), Sanskrit नाव (nāva, “ship”), Old English nōwend (“mariner, sailor”).
Displaced native Old English sċiphere (literally “ship army”).
senses_examples:
text:
The cover is as navy as a bruise.
ref:
2006, Samantha Hunt, The Seas: A Novel, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
The morning shadow on his chin was almost as navy as his heavy-lidded eyes, his cheekbones exquisitely sculptured in his haughty face.
ref:
2006, Carol Marinelli, Taken for His Pleasure, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
[…] there are chess ships and checker ships and those where acey-deucey is almost the only game, the sailors' own improved version of backgammon. Fliers from the seacoast of Iowa, anxious to be as navy as the rest, are usually the first to pick it up.
ref:
1943, Fletcher Pratt, The Navy has wings, page 167
type:
quotation
text:
Lieutenant Lindquist is navy through and through. I know she doesn't want to get out. Now, I know there's no way you can assign her to a navy ship, but there has to be something the navy can give her to keep her in space.
ref:
1993, Robert A. Frezza, McLendon's Syndrome, page 299
type:
quotation
text:
It was not what you would picture as a typical meeting with a naval officer. In fact, it was about as navy as an Abbott and Costello movie.
ref:
1994, Harry Carey, Company of heroes: my life as an actor in the John Ford stock company, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
He was navy through and through; no-nonsense, humorless, and all spit and polish—every hair in its place, every thought gleaned from the manual compiled by brilliant sea dogs of long ago.
ref:
2003, Jedwin Smith, Fatal treasure: greed and death, emeralds and gold, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
Goodwin was navy through and through.
ref:
2003, Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Thomas H Moorer, The Men of the Gambier Bay: The Amazing True Story, page 21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the dark blue colour of navy blue.
Belonging to the navy; typical of the navy.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
3974 | word:
lavender
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lavender (countable and uncountable, plural lavenders)
forms:
form:
lavenders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lavendre, from Anglo-Norman lavendre (French lavande), from Medieval Latin lavendula, possibly from Latin lividus (“bluish”), but influenced by lavō (“wash”) due to use of lavender in washing clothes.
senses_examples:
text:
lavender:
text:
web lavender:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.
A pale bluish purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.
A kind of film stock for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
film
media
television |
3975 | word:
lavender
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lavender (comparative more lavender, superlative most lavender)
forms:
form:
more lavender
tags:
comparative
form:
most lavender
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lavendre, from Anglo-Norman lavendre (French lavande), from Medieval Latin lavendula, possibly from Latin lividus (“bluish”), but influenced by lavō (“wash”) due to use of lavender in washing clothes.
senses_examples:
text:
My sother (significant other) and I have been together almost nineteen years. Exactly half of the usual wedding vows taken traditionally by non-lavender couples — for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, — have been characteristic of our relationship.
ref:
1981 August 22, Nancy Walker, “Still Coming Out, After All These Years”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 6, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a pale purple colour.
Pertaining to LGBT people and rights.
Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism.
senses_topics:
government
politics
government
politics |
3976 | word:
lavender
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lavender (third-person singular simple present lavenders, present participle lavendering, simple past and past participle lavendered)
forms:
form:
lavenders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lavendering
tags:
participle
present
form:
lavendered
tags:
participle
past
form:
lavendered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lavendre, from Anglo-Norman lavendre (French lavande), from Medieval Latin lavendula, possibly from Latin lividus (“bluish”), but influenced by lavō (“wash”) due to use of lavender in washing clothes.
senses_examples:
text:
Short shafts of dying sunlight mingled with the deepening grey, lavendering the horizon, and all nature seemed to hush as though waiting to welcome the night.
ref:
1986, Katherine Gibson Fougera, With Custer's Cavalry, page 47
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To decorate or perfume with lavender.
senses_topics:
|
3977 | word:
abolla
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abolla (plural abollae or abollas)
forms:
form:
abollae
tags:
plural
form:
abollas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin abolla.
senses_examples:
text:
The best abollas were dyed with the Tyrian purple.
ref:
1805, David MacPherson, Annals of Commerce, Manufactures, Fisheries, and Navigation, with Brief Notices of the Arts and Sciences Connected with Them, Volume 1, page 159
type:
quotation
text:
Ceispinus did not heed to whom he gave his Tyrian abolla (cloak used at suppers) when he changed his dress, and resumed his toga. Whoever has got it, we pray thee, restore it to its proper shoulders. It is not Crispinus, but his abolla requires this of thee; for it is not every one to whom a dress dyed with purple is suitable; that colour is excluseively appropriated to luxury. If thou art addicted to theft, and feelest a craving thirst for gain, take a toga, not an abolla; there will be less danger of detection.
ref:
1858, Andrew Amos, Martial and the Moderns, page 285
type:
quotation
text:
The woollen abolla also dated back to republican days and was fastened in the same way.
ref:
1987, David J. Symone, Costume of Ancient Rome, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
"They say she disapproves of the Vestal Virgins," Vulpius added, lowering his voice as a group of young men came down the street, their abollae pulled up to help them keep dry or to conceal their faces.
ref:
2008, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Roman Dusk: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain, page 115
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cloak made of a piece of cloth folded double, worn by Ancient Greeks and Romans draped over one shoulder and fastened with a brooch.
senses_topics:
|
3978 | word:
pyramidal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pyramidal (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From medieval Latin pyramidalis.
senses_examples:
text:
Below is the deep abyss of the Lauterbrunnen valley, and at its head a stately semi-circle of mountains, with the pyramidal Lauterbrunnen Breithorn as the centre-piece.
ref:
1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752
type:
quotation
text:
Among its attractive features were decorative, tile-hung Italianate towers with pyramidal roofs.
ref:
2023 March 22, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Grand buildings on the list... and lost: Greenock Princes Pier”, in RAIL, number 979, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pyramid-shaped.
Pyramid-shaped.
Tetragonal.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
chemistry
crystallography
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
3979 | word:
pyramidal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pyramidal (plural pyramidals)
forms:
form:
pyramidals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From medieval Latin pyramidalis.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the carpal bones.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
3980 | word:
epilogue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
epilogue (plural epilogues)
forms:
form:
epilogues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
epilogue
etymology_text:
From French épilogue, from Latin epilogus, from Ancient Greek ἐπίλογος (epílogos, “a conclusion, peroration of a speech, epilogue of a play”), from ἐπιλέγω (epilégō, “to say in addition”). Eclipsed Middle English lenvoie (“epilogue”) borrowed ultimately from Old French.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play
The performer who gives this speech
A brief oration or script at the end of a literary piece; an afterword
A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to return from a routine.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
3981 | word:
epilogue
word_type:
verb
expansion:
epilogue (third-person singular simple present epilogues, present participle epiloguing, simple past and past participle epilogued)
forms:
form:
epilogues
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
epiloguing
tags:
participle
present
form:
epilogued
tags:
participle
past
form:
epilogued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French épilogue, from Latin epilogus, from Ancient Greek ἐπίλογος (epílogos, “a conclusion, peroration of a speech, epilogue of a play”), from ἐπιλέγω (epilégō, “to say in addition”). Eclipsed Middle English lenvoie (“epilogue”) borrowed ultimately from Old French.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To conclude with an epilogue.
senses_topics:
|
3982 | word:
scalene
word_type:
adj
expansion:
scalene (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Late Latin scalēnus (“of unequal sides”), from Ancient Greek σκᾰληνός (skalēnós, “uneven, unequal”).
senses_examples:
text:
scalene triangle
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having sides all unequal in length.
Of or pertaining to the scalene muscle.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
3983 | word:
scalene
word_type:
noun
expansion:
scalene (plural scalenes)
forms:
form:
scalenes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Late Latin scalēnus (“of unequal sides”), from Ancient Greek σκᾰληνός (skalēnós, “uneven, unequal”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of scalene muscle..
Ellipsis of scalene triangle..
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
mathematics
sciences
trigonometry |
3984 | word:
moose
word_type:
noun
expansion:
moose (plural moose or (dated, rare) mooses or (nonstandard, jocular) meese)
forms:
form:
moose
tags:
plural
form:
mooses
tags:
dated
plural
rare
form:
meese
tags:
humorous
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Earlier mus, moos, from an Eastern Algonquian language name for the animal, such as Massachusett moos, mws, Narragansett moos or Penobscot mos (cognate to Abenaki moz), from Proto-Algonquian *mo·swa (“it strips”), referring to how a moose strips tree bark when feeding: compare Massachusett moos-u (“he strips, cuts smooth”).
senses_examples:
text:
We saw a moose at the edge of the woods.
type:
example
text:
Europe’s giant beavers lived at the same time as the first moose, Libralces gallicus.
ref:
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 152
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.
Any of the extinct moose-like deer of the genera Cervalces and Libralces.
An ugly person.
senses_topics:
|
3985 | word:
moose
word_type:
noun
expansion:
moose
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese むすめ (“daughter”).
senses_examples:
text:
In military bases in the rear areas it was common for soldiers to have a moose.
ref:
2005, Rupert Nelson, Like the Rings of a Tree, page 279
type:
quotation
text:
Even the lowest ranked serviceman, because of his salary, benefits, and status as an American occupationaire, could afford to “maintain a ‘Moose’ and still take care of his other obligations.”
ref:
2011, Michael Cullen Green, Black Yanks in the Pacific, page 75
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Asian girl taken as a lover.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
3986 | word:
Norwegian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Norwegian (countable and uncountable, plural Norwegians)
forms:
form:
Norwegians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Norwegian
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin Norvegia (from Old Norse Norvegr (“Norway”)) + -an, with v replaced by w due to influence from earlier English Norwayan (“Norwegian”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native of Norway.
A kind of fishing boat on the Great Lakes of North America.
The language of Norway, which has two official forms (written standards): Bokmål and Nynorsk.
senses_topics:
|
3987 | word:
Norwegian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Norwegian (comparative more Norwegian, superlative most Norwegian)
forms:
form:
more Norwegian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Norwegian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Norwegian
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin Norvegia (from Old Norse Norvegr (“Norway”)) + -an, with v replaced by w due to influence from earlier English Norwayan (“Norwegian”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Norway (the country)
Of or pertaining to the Norwegian people
Of or pertaining to the Norwegian language
senses_topics:
|
3988 | word:
mortgage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mortgage (countable and uncountable, plural mortgages)
forms:
form:
mortgages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mortgage
etymology_text:
From Middle English morgage and Middle French mortgage, from Anglo-Norman morgage, from Old French mort gage (“dead pledge”), after a translation of judicial Medieval Latin mortuum wadium, with wadium from Frankish *wadi (“wager, pledge”). Compare gage and also wage. So called because rents and profits from the land were owed to the lender for as long as the gage existed (comparable to interest on a loan today), as opposed to the living gage, in which rents and profits automatically reduced the debt (paying it off over time).
senses_examples:
text:
We're renting a property in the city centre because we can't afford to get a mortgage yet.
type:
example
text:
lands given in mortgage
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A special form of secured loan where the purpose of the loan must be specified to the lender, to purchase assets that must be fixed (not movable) property, such as a house or piece of farm land. The assets are registered as the legal property of the borrower but the lender can seize them and dispose of them if they are not satisfied with the manner in which the repayment of the loan is conducted by the borrower. Once the loan is fully repaid, the lender loses this right of seizure and the assets are then deemed to be unencumbered.
State of being pledged.
senses_topics:
law
|
3989 | word:
mortgage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mortgage (third-person singular simple present mortgages, present participle mortgaging, simple past and past participle mortgaged)
forms:
form:
mortgages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mortgaging
tags:
participle
present
form:
mortgaged
tags:
participle
past
form:
mortgaged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
mortgage
etymology_text:
From Middle English morgage and Middle French mortgage, from Anglo-Norman morgage, from Old French mort gage (“dead pledge”), after a translation of judicial Medieval Latin mortuum wadium, with wadium from Frankish *wadi (“wager, pledge”). Compare gage and also wage. So called because rents and profits from the land were owed to the lender for as long as the gage existed (comparable to interest on a loan today), as opposed to the living gage, in which rents and profits automatically reduced the debt (paying it off over time).
senses_examples:
text:
to mortgage a property, an estate, or a shop
type:
example
text:
We mortgaged our house in order to start a company.
type:
example
text:
She mortgaged her future for the pleasures of the relationship with the sculptor, a relationship she knew would be short.
ref:
1982, Verne Moberg, The Truth and Work of Victoria Benedictsson, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
Like a latter-day Faustus who has mortgaged his soul to the pursuit of his art, Harrison now desperately craves the paternal love from which his learning has estranged him.
ref:
2001, Antony Rowland, Tony Harrison and the Holocaust, page 193
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To borrow against a property, to obtain a loan for another purpose by giving away the right of seizure to the lender over a fixed property such as a house or piece of land; to pledge a property in order to get a loan.
To pledge and make liable; to make subject to obligation; to achieve an immediate result by paying for it in the long term.
senses_topics:
law
|
3990 | word:
worksheet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
worksheet (plural worksheets)
forms:
form:
worksheets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From work + sheet.
senses_examples:
text:
The final outshopping was 55002, which had arrived on October 14 [1980] for a two-month repair, with the usual worksheet taped to its bodyside stating "to be repainted in two-tone green".
ref:
2024 January 10, Howard Johnston, “The demise of the 'Deltics'”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 45
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sheet of paper or computerized document on which problems are worked out or solved and answers recorded.
A sheet of paper listing work done, to be done or in progress.
senses_topics:
|
3991 | word:
worksheet
word_type:
verb
expansion:
worksheet (third-person singular simple present worksheets, present participle worksheeting, simple past and past participle worksheeted)
forms:
form:
worksheets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
worksheeting
tags:
participle
present
form:
worksheeted
tags:
participle
past
form:
worksheeted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From work + sheet.
senses_examples:
text:
Both reading and writing were viewed as a series of discreet and essentially uninteresting skills to be described, worksheeted, and tested. Students' own intentions or ability as speakers, listeners, readers, or writers were never a consideration.
ref:
1987, Charles R. Chew, Reflections by Teachers Who Write, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
Lesson after lesson of worksheeting will quickly leave the children bored and disaffected. The class will also suss out pretty quickly that you're being lazy.
ref:
2004, Sue Cowley, Sue Cowley's A-Z of Teaching, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
Students cannot be textbooked and worksheeted into mastery, proficiency, brilliance, and commitment.
ref:
2006, Keen J. Babbage, Extreme Students: Challenging All Students and Energizing Learning
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To teach or assess by means of worksheets.
senses_topics:
|
3992 | word:
Thai
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Thai (comparative more Thai, superlative most Thai)
forms:
form:
more Thai
tags:
comparative
form:
most Thai
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Thai
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Thai ไทย (tai). Doublet of Tai and Dai.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Thailand.
senses_topics:
|
3993 | word:
Thai
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Thai (countable and uncountable, plural Thai or Thais)
forms:
form:
Thai
tags:
plural
form:
Thais
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Thai
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Thai ไทย (tai). Doublet of Tai and Dai.
senses_examples:
text:
The Bangkok government indicated real concern over the developments in Communist China’s Yunnan province. Thai officials were afraid that Sibsongpanna would be a center where pro-Communist Thai in Southeast Asia would go and where subversive agitation could be directed against outside legitimate governments.
ref:
1958, Russell H. Fifield, The Diplomacy of Southeast Asia: 1945-1958, New York: Harper & Brothers, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 263
type:
quotation
text:
Alternative form: Thaï
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person living in or coming from Thailand.
A domestic cat breed.
The main language spoken in Thailand (closely related to Lao).
Thai cuisine; traditional Thai food.
senses_topics:
|
3994 | word:
teal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
teal (countable and uncountable, plural teals)
forms:
form:
teals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Australian Liberal Party
teal
etymology_text:
From Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded Old English *tǣle, cognate with West Frisian tjilling (“teal”), Middle Dutch teling (“teal”) (modern Dutch taling), Middle Low German telink, from Proto-Germanic *tailijaz, of unknown ultimate origin, with no cognates outside of Germanic. As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923. The Australian political sense derives from the colour teal being intermediate between green (signifying environmentalism) and blue (signifying the conservative Australian Liberal Party).
senses_examples:
text:
teal:
text:
In a bid to defend their inner-city seats, the Liberal Party has moved towards the environmental and progressive left in what can be described as a “teal strategy” that blurs the lines between the Liberals and the Greens.
ref:
2021 September 21, Kurt Wallace, “Navigating the great dividing voter range”, in IPA Today, Institute of Public Affairs
type:
quotation
text:
Concerns of a targeted dirty tricks campaign targeting “teal” independents has prompted the Australian Electoral Commission to bring in its electoral integrity assurance taskforce as pre-polling opens.
ref:
2022 May 9, “AEC mobilises taskforce to investigate corflute damage”, in Sydney Morning Herald, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
Ms Haines is a strong proponent of this, and many of the teal cross benchers support her approach to appointing a whistleblower protection commissioner.
ref:
2022 September 26, “Teals, Greens list watchdog demands”, in The Canberra Times, page 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.
A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan.
A teal independent.
senses_topics:
government
politics |
3995 | word:
teal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
teal (comparative more teal, superlative most teal)
forms:
form:
more teal
tags:
comparative
form:
most teal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Australian Liberal Party
teal
etymology_text:
From Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded Old English *tǣle, cognate with West Frisian tjilling (“teal”), Middle Dutch teling (“teal”) (modern Dutch taling), Middle Low German telink, from Proto-Germanic *tailijaz, of unknown ultimate origin, with no cognates outside of Germanic. As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923. The Australian political sense derives from the colour teal being intermediate between green (signifying environmentalism) and blue (signifying the conservative Australian Liberal Party).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a bluish-green colour.
senses_topics:
|
3996 | word:
hobby
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hobby (plural hobbies)
forms:
form:
hobbies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hobby
etymology_text:
Shortened from hobby-horse, from Middle English hoby, hobyn, hobin (“small horse, pony”), from Old French hobi, *haubi, haubby, hobin ("a nag, hobby"; > Modern French aubin, Italian ubino), of Germanic origin: from Old French hober, ober (“to stir, move”), from Old Dutch hobben (“to toss, move up and down”); or from North Germanic origin related to Danish hoppe (“a mare”), Old Swedish hoppa (“a young mare”), North Frisian hoppe (“horse”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend; a bend, joint”). More at hop, hobble.
The meaning of hobby-horse shifted from "small horse, pony" to "child's toy riding horse" to "favorite pastime or avocation" with the connecting notion being "activity that doesn't go anywhere". Possibly originally from a proper name for a horse, a diminutive of Robert or Robin (compare dobbin).
senses_examples:
text:
I like to collect stamps from different countries as a hobby.
type:
example
text:
take up a hobby
type:
example
text:
give up your hobby
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the Irish Hobby
senses_topics:
equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports |
3997 | word:
hobby
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hobby (plural hobbies)
forms:
form:
hobbies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Hobby (bird)
etymology_text:
From Middle English hoby, hobeye, from Old French hobé, hobei, hobet, from Medieval Latin hopētus, diminutive of harpe.
senses_examples:
text:
He hawked – from nearby Esher, Richard Fox sent a servant with a hobby, which Henry received enthusiastically – and hunted, sending a present of freshly slaughtered deer to Princess Mary.
ref:
2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 323
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of four species of small falcons in the genus Falco, especially Falco subbuteo.
senses_topics:
|
3998 | word:
able-bodiedness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
able-bodiedness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From able-bodied + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being able-bodied.
senses_topics:
|
3999 | word:
carmine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
carmine (countable and uncountable, plural carmines)
forms:
form:
carmines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*kʷŕ̥mis
From French carmin, from irregular Medieval Latin carminium, itself from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz, “crimson, kermes”) from Persian *کرمست (*kermest), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš (“worm”), plus or with influence from Latin minium. Compare crimson and kermes.
senses_examples:
text:
1967, Time, "The Case of the Dubious Dye," 6 January, 1967, https://web.archive.org/web/20130721101257/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,843172,00.html
Cases of cubana salmonellosis in three other states were traced to carmine red, and supplies were called in. […] But authorities have been checking other places for carmine red, knowing that it is a favorite coloring in candy, chewing gum, ice cream, cough syrups and drugs. Manufacturers like to use it because of a legal quirk: being a natural rather than a synthetic product, it does not have to be mentioned on labels.
text:
He wore a great coat in midsummer, being affected with the trembling delirium, and his face was the color of carmine.
ref:
1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter XIV, in Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, published 1910, page 347
type:
quotation
text:
He pictured himself in an adobe house in Mexico, half-reclining on a rug-covered couch, his slender, artistic fingers closed on a cigarette while he listened to guitars strumming melancholy undertones to an age-old dirge of Castile and an olive-skinned, carmine-lipped girl caressed his hair.
ref:
1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 5, in This Side of Paradise
type:
quotation
text:
The velvet I seen was brown, but in Boston they got all colors. Carmine. That means red but when you talk about velvet you got to say 'carmine.'
ref:
1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, New York: Vintage, published 2004, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
carmine:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives.
A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.
senses_topics:
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.