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4000 | word:
carmine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
carmine
forms:
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.
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senses_glosses:
Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.
senses_topics:
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4001 | word:
babul
word_type:
noun
expansion:
babul (plural babuls)
forms:
form:
babuls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed both from French baboul and from Hindi बबूल (babūl, “babul tree”), probably ultimately from Sanskrit वव्वोल (vavvola, “acacia”).
senses_examples:
text:
In place of Putney's golden gorse / The sickly babul blooms.
ref:
1884, Rudyard Kipling, The Moon of Other Days
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica, formerly Acacia nilotica subsp. indica.
senses_topics:
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4002 | word:
wax
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wax (countable and uncountable, plural waxes)
forms:
form:
waxes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Waxweb
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English wax, from Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wahsą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *woḱ-so-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Woaks (“wax”), West Frisian waaks (“wax”), Dutch was (“wax”), German Wachs (“wax”), Norwegian voks (“wax”); and with Lithuanian vaškas (“wax”), Proto-Slavic *voskъ (“wax”).
senses_examples:
text:
What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?
type:
example
text:
What really started the corn sprouting on Broadway was a lugubrious tune by Louisiana's Jimmie Davis called It Makes No Difference Now. In the late '30s Decca's Recording Chief David Kapp heard this Texas hit and got it on wax.
ref:
1943, Time
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Beeswax.
Earwax.
Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
The phonograph record format for music.
A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
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4003 | word:
wax
word_type:
adj
expansion:
wax (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English wax, from Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wahsą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *woḱ-so-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Woaks (“wax”), West Frisian waaks (“wax”), Dutch was (“wax”), German Wachs (“wax”), Norwegian voks (“wax”); and with Lithuanian vaškas (“wax”), Proto-Slavic *voskъ (“wax”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of wax.
senses_topics:
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4004 | word:
wax
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wax (third-person singular simple present waxes, present participle waxing, simple past and past participle waxed)
forms:
form:
waxes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
waxing
tags:
participle
present
form:
waxed
tags:
participle
past
form:
waxed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English waxen, from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
"I was reassigned over from the 9th when the battalion CO got waxed on the road leading in." Ben kept his dismay to himself. Here was one more officer in the 90th who'd been on the job only hours or days, replacing commanders killed or wounded....
ref:
2005, David L. Robbins, Liberation Road: A Novel of World War II and the Red Ball Express, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
"You telling me you know who really waxed him and your mom?"
"Yeah," she lied.
"Just who pulled the trigger or who ordered it to be pulled?"
ref:
2009, Dean R. Koontz, Ed Gorman, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: City of Night, page 106
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
To defeat utterly.
To kill, especially to murder a person.
To record.
senses_topics:
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4005 | word:
wax
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wax (third-person singular simple present waxes, present participle waxing, simple past waxed or (archaic) wex or (obsolete) wox, past participle waxed or (dialectal, archaic) waxen)
forms:
form:
waxes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
waxing
tags:
participle
present
form:
waxed
tags:
past
form:
wex
tags:
archaic
past
form:
wox
tags:
obsolete
past
form:
waxed
tags:
participle
past
form:
waxen
tags:
archaic
dialectal
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English waxen, from Old English weaxan (“to wax, grow, be fruitful, increase, become powerful, flourish”), from Proto-West Germanic *wahsan, from Proto-Germanic *wahsijaną (“to grow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“to grow, increase”).
Cognate with Scots wax (“to grow”), West Frisian waakse (“to greaten”), Low German wassen, Dutch wassen (“to greaten”), German wachsen (“to greaten”), Danish and Norwegian vokse (“to greaten”), Swedish växa (“to greaten”), Icelandic vaxa (“to greaten”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wahsjan, “to grow”); and with Ancient Greek ἀέξειν (aéxein), Latin auxilium. It is in its turn cognate with augeo. See eke.
senses_examples:
text:
And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties ; and his expectations had waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay, […].
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
to wax poetic ― to become increasingly verbose
type:
example
text:
to wax wode ― to become angry
type:
example
text:
to wax eloquent
type:
example
text:
You behold, Sir, how he waxeth Wroth at your Abode here.
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume 2, London: Millar, →OCLC, page 289
type:
quotation
text:
The stars grew pale and paler still till at last they vanished; the golden moon waxed wan, and her mountain ridges stood out against her sickly face.
ref:
1885, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 5, in King Solomon's Mines
type:
quotation
text:
In the night, or the gloomy chambers of the day, fears and misgivings wax strong, but out in the sunlight there is, for a time, cessation even of the terror of death.
ref:
1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To greaten.
To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
To move from low tide to high tide.
senses_topics:
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4006 | word:
wax
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wax (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English waxen, from Old English weaxan (“to wax, grow, be fruitful, increase, become powerful, flourish”), from Proto-West Germanic *wahsan, from Proto-Germanic *wahsijaną (“to grow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“to grow, increase”).
Cognate with Scots wax (“to grow”), West Frisian waakse (“to greaten”), Low German wassen, Dutch wassen (“to greaten”), German wachsen (“to greaten”), Danish and Norwegian vokse (“to greaten”), Swedish växa (“to greaten”), Icelandic vaxa (“to greaten”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wahsjan, “to grow”); and with Ancient Greek ἀέξειν (aéxein), Latin auxilium. It is in its turn cognate with augeo. See eke.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of growing.
senses_topics:
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4007 | word:
wax
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wax (plural waxes)
forms:
form:
waxes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain; probably from phrases like to wax angry, wax wode, and similar (see Etymology 2, above).
senses_examples:
text:
father Arnall's face looked very black but he was not in a wax: he was laughing.
ref:
1914, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chapter 1
text:
‘That's him to a T,’ she would murmur; or, ‘Just wait till he reads this’; or, ‘Ah, won't that put him in a wax!’
ref:
1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 161
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.
senses_topics:
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4008 | word:
grandfather
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grandfather (plural grandfathers)
forms:
form:
grandfathers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English grandfadre, graundfadir, graunfadir, grauntfader, and other forms, from graunt (“big, large; great, important”) + fā̆der (“male parent, father; remoter male ancestor”), probably modelled after Middle French grandpere, grant pere (“male parent; remoter male ancestor”) (whence French grand-père); the English word is analysable as grand- + father. Superseded earlier eldfather, elderfather.
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
Grandfather, Father, and Son. The Father diſſeiſeth the Grandfather and dies, the Son endows the Mother, the Grandfather dies, the Son may enter upon the Mother; for he hath a new Right deſcended to him from the Grandfather, for the Grandfather might have entred upon the Mother, ſo ſhall his Heir.
ref:
1662, [Edmund] Plowden, “Entry”, in translated by H. B., Plovvdens Quæries: Or, A Moot-book of Choice Cases, Useful for the Young Students of the Common Law: Englished, Methodized, and Enlarged, London: Printed for Ch. Adams, J. Starkey, and Tho[mas] Basset, […], →OCLC, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
One circumſtance […] peculiar to the Germanic empire, is the diſtinction between its mediate and immediate members. In the ſame manner as two objects which we may ſuppose to have relation to each other, are immediately related, when there is no third object intervening, but otherwiſe only mediate. This may be illuſtrated by the example of the connexion between a grandfather and his children, who may be ſaid to be mediately related; while the relation between the parents and children, on the contrary, is immediate; […]
ref:
1790 October, “An Historical Developement of the Political Constitution of the Germanic Empire. By J[ohann] S[tephan] Pütter, Privy Counsellor of Justice, &c. Translated from the German, by Josiah Dornford, of Lincoln’s Inn, L.L.D. Vol. II.”, in The Literary Magazine and British Review, volume V, London: Printed for the proprietors and sold by C[hristopher] Forster […], →OCLC, page 290, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
My grandfather’s clock was too large for the shelf.— / So it stood ninety years on the floor; / It was taller by half than the old man himself, / Though it weighed not a pennyweight more. / It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born, / And was always his treasure and pride; / But it stopp’d short—never to go again— / When the old man died.
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1876, Henry C[lay] Work (lyrics and music), “Grandfather’s Clock. Song and Chorus”, New York, N.Y.: Published by C. M. Cady, […], →OCLC, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
Grandfather was friendly, formal, and strict with the children in his large family, and quite displeased with the lively goings-on of the grandchildren. […] He only joked with me once, when I was four, and never again. Our festive Sunday dinner was crowned by a pudding. Perhaps I looked too greedy—Grandfather threatened to throw the pudding out of the window. It is reported that I answered, "Then I'll jump out of the window and gobble it up all by myself."
ref:
1965 March 25, Richard Willstätter, “My Ancestors”, in Lilli S[chwenk] Hornig, transl., edited by Arthur Stoll, From My Life: The Memoirs of Richard Willstätter: Translated from the German Edition, New York, N.Y., Amsterdam: W. A. Benjamin, →OCLC, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
Both paternal and maternal grandfathers were highly involved in various facets of adolescents' lives, with maternal grandfathers providing more support in general[…]. It was found that, on average, maternal grandfathers were more involved with adolescent grandchildren than paternal grandfathers. Adolescents also felt closer to maternal grandfathers compared to paternal grandfathers. This may be explained by the more regular contact and closer geographical distance between these grandfathers and adolescents.
ref:
2016, Jo-Pei Tan, Ann Buchanan, “Links between Grandfather Involvement and Adolescent Well-being in England and Wales”, in Ann Buchanan, Anna Rotkirch, editors, Grandfathers: Global Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life), London: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, part IV (Impact on Grandfathers), page 233
type:
quotation
text:
Brethren: Here is the pipe which your grandfathers used to smoke with when they met together in councils of peace. And here is some of that good tobacco, prepared for our grandfathers from God:—When you shall taste of it, you shall feel it through all your body; and it will put you in remembrance of the good councils your grandfathers used to hold with the English, your brethren, and that ancient friendship they had together.
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1758 November 25, [Israel Daniel Rupp], “[No. XI.] Post’s Second Journal, 1758. The Second Journal of Christian Frederick Post, on a Message from the Governor of Pennsylvania, to the Indians of the Ohio, in the Latter Part of the Same Year.”, in Early History of Western Pennsylvania, and of the West, […], Pittsburgh, Pa.: Published by A. P. Ingram, […]; Harrisburg, Pa.: Published by W. O. Hickok, published 1848, →OCLC, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
File C is the grandfather because it was used to create file B.
ref:
1983, Computerworld, volume 17, number 50, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
Three generations of file are usually kept, being the grandfather, father and son files.
ref:
2004, Ray Bradley, The Ultimate Computing Glossary for Advanced Level, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
The file from which the father was developed with the transaction files of the appropriate day is the grandfather.
ref:
2007, O. Ray Whittington, Patrick R. Delaney, Wiley CPA Exam Review 2008: Auditing and Attestation, page 556
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A father of someone's parent.
A male forefather.
The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
4009 | word:
grandfather
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grandfather (third-person singular simple present grandfathers, present participle grandfathering, simple past and past participle grandfathered)
forms:
form:
grandfathers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
grandfathering
tags:
participle
present
form:
grandfathered
tags:
participle
past
form:
grandfathered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English grandfadre, graundfadir, graunfadir, grauntfader, and other forms, from graunt (“big, large; great, important”) + fā̆der (“male parent, father; remoter male ancestor”), probably modelled after Middle French grandpere, grant pere (“male parent; remoter male ancestor”) (whence French grand-père); the English word is analysable as grand- + father. Superseded earlier eldfather, elderfather.
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be, or act as, a grandfather to.
senses_topics:
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4010 | word:
grandfather
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grandfather (third-person singular simple present grandfathers, present participle grandfathering, simple past and past participle grandfathered)
forms:
form:
grandfathers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
grandfathering
tags:
participle
present
form:
grandfathered
tags:
participle
past
form:
grandfathered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From grandfather clause: see grandfather (etymology 1) and clause.
senses_examples:
text:
Had the original work been permitted, it would be grandfathered into any code changes each time they occurred, Arvada officials said. The latest came in 2006.
ref:
2009 June 19, David Migoya, “Arvada homes haunted by past due code violations”, in The Denver Post, Denver, Colo.: Digital First Media, published 6 May 2016 (update), →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-12-03
type:
quotation
text:
Old power plants are sometimes grandfathered from having to meet new clean air requirements.
ref:
2013 October 22, Alan Greenblatt, “The Racial History of the Grandfather Clause”, in NPR, archived from the original on 2019-03-30
type:
quotation
text:
In 1915, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Guinn v. United States that grandfather clauses were unconstitutional. […] The decision had almost no effect, however. The Oklahoma Legislature met in special session to grandfather in the grandfather clause. The new law said those who had been registered in 1914 – whites under the old system – were automatically registered to vote, while African-Americans could only register between April 30 and May 11, 1916, or forever be disenfranchised. That law stayed on the books until a Supreme Court ruling in 1939.
ref:
2013 October 22, Alan Greenblatt, “The Racial History of the Grandfather Clause”, in NPR, archived from the original on 2019-03-30
type:
quotation
text:
With the signing of the Medical Devices Amendment to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic in 1976, the FDA [Food and Drug Administration] gained regulatory authority over [breast] implants, but the existing Cronin-Gerow implants were grandfathered, making them exempt from the new legislation.
ref:
2014, Matthew J. Fullana, Gary E. Wnek, “History of Techniques and Materials Used in Volume Enhancement”, in Charles K. Herman, Berish Strauch, editors, Encyclopedia of Aesthetic Rejuvenation through Volume Enhancement, New York, N.Y.: Thieme Medical Publishers, section 2.5.1 (Silicone Breast Implants), page 12
type:
quotation
text:
The U.S. Army says a Kentucky National Guard soldier with aspirations of joining a U.S. Army special operations unit is grandfathered in under new regulations concerning soldiers with tattoos and asked a federal judge to dismiss his lawsuit. […] The regulations went into effect in March and ban tattoos below the knee or elbow. Soldiers who already have the ink are grandfathered in. Under the new regulations, any soldier with tattoos is barred from seeking a promotion to warrant officer or commissioning as an officer.
ref:
2014 July 14, Associated Press, “Army: Soldier grandfathered in under tattoo policy”, in The Washington Times, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Times, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-07-15
type:
quotation
text:
In practice, most of the regimes reviewed by the FHTP [Forum on Harmful Tax Practices] during its early years and which were abolished were either terminated without grandfathering or included grandfathering within this maximum five-year period.
ref:
2017 November, “Annex B: Guidance on Closing Off of Regimes and Grandfathering for non-IP Regimes”, in Harmful Tax Practices – 2017 Progress Report on Preferential Regimes: Inclusive Framework on BEPS: Action 5 (OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifing Project), Paris: OECD Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, page 27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To retain discontinued laws or rules for (an object, individual or organization previously affected by them).
senses_topics:
law |
4011 | word:
complete
word_type:
verb
expansion:
complete (third-person singular simple present completes, present participle completing, simple past and past participle completed)
forms:
form:
completes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
completing
tags:
participle
present
form:
completed
tags:
participle
past
form:
completed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“I fill up, I complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“I fill, I fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).
senses_examples:
text:
He completed the assignment on time.
type:
example
text:
How far are you willing to reach?
While you're coveting outcomes that you can't achieve
Now you're on a mission, but you won't complete
Shouldn't hold on to me, hold on to me
Try to let go of me, let go of me
ref:
2023, “30 Under 13”, performed by Better Lovers
type:
quotation
text:
The last chapter completes the book nicely.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
To make whole or entire.
To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.
senses_topics:
card-games
poker |
4012 | word:
complete
word_type:
adj
expansion:
complete (comparative more complete or completer, superlative most complete or completest)
forms:
form:
more complete
tags:
comparative
form:
completer
tags:
comparative
form:
most complete
tags:
superlative
form:
completest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“I fill up, I complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“I fill, I fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).
senses_examples:
text:
My life will be complete once I buy this new television.
type:
example
text:
She offered me complete control of the project.
type:
example
text:
After she found the rook, the chess set was complete.
type:
example
text:
[…]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.
ref:
2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur, University of California Press, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
ref:
2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2017-04-27, page 171
type:
quotation
text:
When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.
type:
example
text:
He is a complete bastard!
type:
example
text:
It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.
type:
example
text:
Our vacation was a complete disaster.
type:
example
text:
Gödel's first incompleteness theorem showed that Principia could not be both consistent and complete. According to the theorem, for every sufficiently powerful logical system (such as Principia), there exists a statement G that essentially reads, "The statement G cannot be proved." Such a statement is a sort of Catch-22: if G is provable, then it is false, and the system is therefore inconsistent; and if G is not provable, then it is true, and the system is therefore incomplete.ᵂᴾ
text:
QMA arises naturally in the study of quantum computation, and it also has a complete problem, Local Hamiltonian, which is a generalization of k-SAT.
ref:
2007, Yi-Kai Liu, The Complexity of the Consistency and N-representability Problems for Quantum States, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
BPP behaves differently in some ways from other classes we have seen. For example, we know of no complete languages for BPP.
ref:
2009, Sanjeev Arora, Boaz Barak, Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach, page 137
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
Generic intensifier.
In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
Complete as a topological group with respect to its m-adic topology, where m is its unique maximal idea.
In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
In which all small limits exist.
In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space).
senses_topics:
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
4013 | word:
complete
word_type:
noun
expansion:
complete (plural completes)
forms:
form:
completes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“I fill up, I complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“I fill, I fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).
senses_examples:
text:
“If SSI says we're going to get two completes an hour, the sample will yield two Qualifieds to do the survey with us.”
ref:
1994, industry research published in Quirk's Marketing Research Review, Volume 8, p. 125; Research Services Directory Blue Book, published by the Marketing Research Association, p 552; and Green Book, Volume 32, published by the New York Chapter, American Marketing Association, p. 451
text:
…our market research professionals continue to advise us that providing the level of detail necessary to customize to each typical customer type would require the survey to be too lengthy and it would be difficult to get enough completes.
ref:
2013, Residential Rates OIR webinar published by PG&E, January 31, 2013
text:
2016, "Perceptions of Oral Cancer Screenings Compared to Other Cancer Screenings: A Pilot Study", thesis for Idaho State University by M. Colleen Stephenson.
“Don’t get discouraged if you’re on a job that is difficult to get completes on! Everyone else on the job is most likely struggling, and there will be easier surveys that you will dial on.”
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A completed survey.
senses_topics:
|
4014 | word:
auburn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
auburn (countable and uncountable, plural auburns)
forms:
form:
auburns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Early Modern English auburn (“brown, reddish brown”) from Middle English aubourne, abron, abroune, abrune (“light brown, yellowish brown, blond”), alteration (due to conflation with Middle English brun (“brown”)) of earlier auborne (“yellowish-white, flaxen”) from Old French auborne, alborne (“blond, flaxen, off-white”) from Medieval Latin alburnus (“whitish”), from Latin albus (“white”). More at albino, brown.
senses_examples:
text:
auburn:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dark reddish-brown colour, often used to describe hair colour.
senses_topics:
|
4015 | word:
auburn
word_type:
adj
expansion:
auburn (comparative more auburn, superlative most auburn)
forms:
form:
more auburn
tags:
comparative
form:
most auburn
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Early Modern English auburn (“brown, reddish brown”) from Middle English aubourne, abron, abroune, abrune (“light brown, yellowish brown, blond”), alteration (due to conflation with Middle English brun (“brown”)) of earlier auborne (“yellowish-white, flaxen”) from Old French auborne, alborne (“blond, flaxen, off-white”) from Medieval Latin alburnus (“whitish”), from Latin albus (“white”). More at albino, brown.
senses_examples:
text:
I never thought I'd meet a girl like you / Meet a girl like you / With auburn hair and tawny eyes
ref:
1982, “I Ran (So Far Away)”, performed by A Flock of Seagulls
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a reddish-brown colour.
senses_topics:
|
4016 | word:
pancreas
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pancreas (plural pancreases or pancreata)
forms:
form:
pancreases
tags:
plural
form:
pancreata
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Existing in English since the sixteenth century: from Latin pancreas, from Ancient Greek πάγκρεας (pánkreas), from πᾶν (pân, “all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + κρέας (kréas, “flesh”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gland near the stomach which secretes a fluid into the duodenum to help with food digestion. The fluid contains protease, carbohydrase and lipase, which breaks down larger molecules into smaller pieces. The pancreas also produces the hormones insulin and glucagon which regulate blood sugar. These hormones are released into the cardiovascular system.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
4017 | word:
Qld
word_type:
name
expansion:
Qld
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Queensland.
senses_topics:
|
4018 | word:
NSW
word_type:
name
expansion:
NSW
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of New South Wales, a state of Australia.
senses_topics:
|
4019 | word:
cool
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolest)
forms:
form:
cooler
tags:
comparative
form:
coolest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
cool
etymology_text:
From Middle English cool, from Old English cōl (“cool, cold, tranquil, calm”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōl(ī), from Proto-Germanic *kōlaz, *kōluz (“cool”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian köil (“cool”), West Frisian koel (“cool”), Dutch koel (“cool”), Limburgish kool (“cool”), German Low German köhl (“cool”), German kühl (“cool”). Related to cold.
senses_examples:
text:
I like cool weather the most 'cause it's not too hot to wear a jacket but I won't be too cold in my shorts.
type:
example
text:
Linen has made cool and breathable clothing for millennia.
type:
example
text:
If you have a reddish complexion, you should mainly wear cool colors.
type:
example
text:
Be cool. There's no need to panic.
type:
example
text:
His proposals had a cool reception.
type:
example
text:
Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
ref:
1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “V. Hester at her Needle”, in The Scarlet Letter
type:
quotation
text:
1900, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Transmigration
You remember Bulger, don't you? You lost a cool hundred to him one night here over the cards, eh?
text:
My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million.
ref:
1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
text:
He managed to conduct interviews with the least cool global figure – his father, Prince Charles – and the most cool, Barack Obama, in a way that allowed them both to look as good as they could.
ref:
2017 December 27, “The Guardian view on Prince Harry: the monarchy’s best insurance policy”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.
text:
Is it cool if I sleep here tonight?
type:
example
text:
Now everything's cool, Drac's a part of the band
And my Monster Mash is the hit of the land
For you, the living, this Mash was meant too
When you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you.
ref:
1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers
type:
quotation
text:
I think astronomy is really cool.
type:
example
text:
I'm completely cool with my girlfriend leaving me.
type:
example
text:
We're cool, right?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a mildly low temperature.
Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
Calmly audacious.
Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.
Fashionable; trendy and hip.
All right; acceptable.
Very interesting or exciting.
(followed by with) Able to tolerate; to be fine with.
(of a pair of people) Having good relations.
senses_topics:
|
4020 | word:
cool
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cool (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
cool
etymology_text:
From Middle English cool, from Old English cōl (“cool, cold, tranquil, calm”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōl(ī), from Proto-Germanic *kōlaz, *kōluz (“cool”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian köil (“cool”), West Frisian koel (“cool”), Dutch koel (“cool”), Limburgish kool (“cool”), German Low German köhl (“cool”), German kühl (“cool”). Related to cold.
senses_examples:
text:
in the cool of the morning
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
A calm temperament.
The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
senses_topics:
|
4021 | word:
cool
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cool (third-person singular simple present cools, present participle cooling, simple past and past participle cooled)
forms:
form:
cools
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cooling
tags:
participle
present
form:
cooled
tags:
participle
past
form:
cooled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
cool
etymology_text:
From Middle English colen, from Old English cōlian (“to cool, grow cold, be cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlēn (“to become cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to freeze”).
Cognate with Dutch koelen (“to cool”), German kühlen (“to cool”), Swedish kyla (“to cool, refrigerate”). Also partially from Middle English kelen, from Old English cēlan (“to cool, be cold, become cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlijan, from Proto-Germanic *kōlijaną (“to cool”), altered to resemble the adjective cool. See keel.
senses_examples:
text:
I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.
type:
example
text:
Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.
type:
example
text:
Maybe he would die. That would mean I had murdered him. I smiled, trying the idea on for size. One of the things that always had cheesed me a little was that I had no kills to my credit. I'd been in plenty of rumbles, but somehow, I'd never cooled anyone. Well maybe now I had my first one. I couldn't feel very proud of skulling an old man, but at least I could say that I'd scored. That was a big kick.
ref:
1965, "Sex Jungle" (narrated in Perversion for Profit)
text:
Big-mouth got up as fast as he could, and I was thinking how much heart he had. But I ran toward him like my life depended on it; I wanted to cool him.
ref:
1967, Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
Seen my homeboys coolin' way way out / Told 'em bout my mornin' cold bugged' em out
ref:
1986, “6 in the Mornin'”performed by Ice-T
type:
quotation
text:
"What up, kid?" ¶ "Coolin'."
ref:
2000, Paul Beatty, Tuff: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, published 2001, page 223
type:
quotation
text:
Asbestos? Raa, dat's a dangerous t'ing boy, dat ain't good. You know what though, you guys should min' yourselves walkin' street star, dere's bere nutters about. I know you're in a crew but boy can't you jus' cool' at someone's house?'
ref:
1997, Courttia Newland, The Scholar: A West Side Story, London: Abacus, page 207
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lose heat, to get colder.
To make cooler, less warm.
To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
To kill, murder.
To relax, hang out.
senses_topics:
|
4022 | word:
equinox
word_type:
noun
expansion:
equinox (plural equinoxes or (rare) equinoctes)
forms:
form:
equinoxes
tags:
plural
form:
equinoctes
tags:
plural
rare
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*nókʷts
From Middle English equinox, equinoxe, equynox (“one of the two periods in the year when the day and night are of equal length, equinox; either the zodiac sign Aries or Libra, in which the sun crosses the celestial equator”), from Old French equinoce, equinoxe (modern French équinoxe), or from its etymon Medieval Latin ēquinoxium, ēquinoctium, from Latin aequinoctium (“equinox”), from aequus (“equal”) + nox (“night”) (ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). The Latin word, ultimately adopted in Middle English and modern English, displaced Old English efnniht (modern English evennight).
The rare alternative plural form equinoctes treats equinox as if it were a Latin word; the plural of Latin nox (“night”) is noctēs.
senses_examples:
text:
The four grand and ſolemn Bardic days are, of ancient uſage, the tvvo equinoxes, and the tvvo ſolſtices; the nevv and full moons are alſo, ſubordinately, ſolemn Bardic days: […]
ref:
1793 September 22, Edward Williams, “Ode on Converting a Sword into a Pruning Hook”, in Poems, Lyric and Pastoral. […], London: […] J[ohn] Nichols; […], published 1794, →OCLC, footnote *, pages 160–161
type:
quotation
text:
21. Report the experiments, if conveniently they may, at both the solstices and equinoctes. / 22. Observe accurately the time of the sun’s rising on the top of the hill and below, and note the difference.
ref:
1848, Charles Richard Weld, chapter V, in A History of the Royal Society, with Memoirs of the Presidents. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
For [Julius] Cæsar says, that on the night of the fourth day after his landing there was a full moon. He had before mentioned that the summer was far spent, and the æquinox not come, hence, the full moon must have been either in July or August.
ref:
1854, John Williams, “Pro-consul. b.c. 55.”, in The Life of Julius Cæsar, London, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] Routledge & Co., […], →OCLC, page 195
type:
quotation
text:
The word equinox is generally taken to refer to the days when, at every point on the earth, day and night are of equal length. But this definition of the equinox is a bit misleading. Since it gets light before the sun rises and remains light after the sun sets, the actual period of darkness at the equinox will be substantially less than twelve hours, the exact amount depending on latitude and how one defines the boundary between twilight and night. […] In practice, one cannot determine the equinox by measuring the length of time between sunrise and sunset.
ref:
2005, Clive [L. N.] Ruggles, “Equinoxes”, in Ancient Astronomy: An Encyclopedia of Cosmologies and Myth, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, page 148
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Midsummer’s Day falls near the beginning of summer meteorologically, but was the midpoint of summer in the traditional calendar. Though Midsummer’s Day celebrations are common in the modern Celtic countries, there is no evidence that the ancient Celts celebrated either the solstices or the equinoctes.
ref:
2006, John T. Koch, “calendar, Celtic”, in Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, volume I, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, §4 (The Seasons), page 332, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The Equinox drove the sand into their faces or round their legs, as they dived among the sheep-haunted hollows.
ref:
1920 September 1, Rudyard Kipling, “The Satisfaction of a Gentleman”, in The London Magazine, London: Hunt and Clarke, […], →OCLC; republished on the website of The Kipling Society, accessed 7 September 2022, archived from the original on 2021-12-22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of two times in the year (one in March and the other in September) when the length of the day and the night are equal, which occurs when the sun is directly overhead at the equator; this marks the beginning of spring in one hemisphere and autumn in the other.
The circumstance of a twenty-four hour time period having the day and night of equal length.
One of the two points in space where the apparent path of the Sun intersects with the equatorial plane of the Earth.
A gale (“very strong wind”) once thought to occur more frequently around the time of an equinox (sense 1), now known to be a misconception; an equinoctial gale.
A celestial equator (“great circle on the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the Earth's equator (the equatorial plane)”); also, the Earth's equator.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences |
4023 | word:
stamina
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stamina (usually uncountable, plural staminas)
forms:
form:
staminas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin stāmina, plural of stāmen.
senses_examples:
text:
He has a lot of stamina. I suppose that's why he can run for a long time.
type:
example
text:
In the first five minutes muscles which he had not been aware that he possessed had started to ache like neglected teeth. His respect for the toughness and durability of artists' models was now solid. How they acquired the stamina to go through this sort of thing all day and then bound off to Bohemian revels at night was more than he could understand.
ref:
1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter V, in Indiscretions of Archie
type:
quotation
text:
Yes, gas, price of energy, food, even interest rates are rising, so that means tough times for households. It's often thought that Europeans or we Western people are used to, let's say, to a life which goes always to better and better and thus that we are very weak to face difficulties. But I would say that Ukrainians gave an excellent example that there is stamina amongst people when difficulties come. And difficulties which we are facing are minor if compared to those Ukrainians are meeting. So, I believe that we European people can take it and have resilience.
ref:
2022 September 25, 4:49 from the start, in 'He's all in': Finland's president predicts Putin's next move, spoken by Sauli Niinistö, CNN, archived from the original on 2022-09-25
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.
The basic elements of a thing; rudimentary structures or qualities.
senses_topics:
|
4024 | word:
stamina
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stamina
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin stāmina, plural of stāmen.
senses_examples:
text:
1790, William Curtis, The Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-Garden Displayed, Volume 3, 2006 Gutenberg eBook edition,
In the specimens we have examined, and which perhaps have been rendered luxuriant by culture, the number of stamina has been from twelve to sixteen; of styles, from six to eight; of flowers on the same stalk, from one to eight.
text:
1832 December 8, Spirit of Discovery, in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Number 579, 2005 Gutenberg eBook edition,
The gay flowers of the hibiscus tiliaceus, as well as the splendid huth or Barringtonia speciosa, covered with its beautiful flowers, the petals of which are white, and the edges of the stamina delicately tinged with pink, give to the trees when in full bloom a magnificent appearance; the hibiscus rosa-chinensis, or kowa of the natives also grows in luxuriance and beauty.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of stamen
senses_topics:
|
4025 | word:
handsaw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handsaw (plural handsaws)
forms:
form:
handsaws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Hand saw
etymology_text:
From Middle English handsawe, handsagh, equivalent to hand + saw. Cognate with West Frisian hânseage (“handsaw”), Dutch handzaag (“handsaw”),
German Handsäge (“handsaw”), Danish håndsav (“handsaw”), Swedish handsåg (“handsaw”), Icelandic handsög (“handsaw”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A saw small enough to be used by one hand.
senses_topics:
|
4026 | word:
handsaw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handsaw (plural handsaws)
forms:
form:
handsaws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Hand saw
etymology_text:
Corruption of heronshaw.
senses_examples:
text:
When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
ref:
c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act II, scene II
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A heron.
senses_topics:
|
4027 | word:
alligator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alligator (plural alligators)
forms:
form:
alligators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Alligator Alley
Alligator Pond
alligator
etymology_text:
]
From early Modern English alligater, alligarta, aligarto, alegarto, alagarto, from Spanish el lagarto (“the lizard”), from Latin lacertus (“lizard”), modern spelling possibly influenced by the unrelated Latin alligator (“one who binds”).
senses_examples:
text:
All you could see of the alligator were two eyes above the water, then suddenly it snatched up and caught the poor bird with strong jaws full of sharp teeth.
text:
Alligators and crocodiles look extremely alike.
The main distinguishing feature is the teeth. In a crocodile the teeth in its upper and lower jaws are in line, but in an alligator, when its mouth is shut, the upper teeth lie outside the lower ones.
ref:
2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, International Wildlife Encyclopedia, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
In 1967, the federal government declared alligators to be an Endangered Species and prohibited gator hunting and the sale of hides. The alligator responded and by the mid-1970s, the reptile numbers soared to an estimated half-million.
ref:
2007, Bernie McGovern, editor, Florida Almanac: 2007-2008, 17th edition, page 243
type:
quotation
text:
They ran to the village screaming at the top of their lungs that an alligator was coming after them. Several of the men in Alimacani retrieved from a storehouse the tool they used to catch alligators.
ref:
2012, Thomas N. Tozer, Pierre's Journey to Florida: Diary of a Young Huguenot in the Sixteenth Century, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
Alligators were very numerous, in fact the harbour was infested by them.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 88
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Either of two species of large amphibious reptile, Alligator mississippiensis or Alligator sinensis, in the genus Alligator within order Crocodilia, which have sharp teeth and very strong jaws and are native to the Americas and China, respectively.
A member of the family Alligatoridae, which includes the caimans.
A dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis)
A crocodile of any species.
Any of various machines with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator.
A form of squeezer for the puddle ball.
Any of various machines with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator.
A rock breaker.
Any of various machines with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator.
A kind of job press.
Any of various vehicles that have relatively long, low noses in front of a cab or other, usually windowed, structure.
senses_topics:
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
mining
media
printing
publishing
|
4028 | word:
alligator
word_type:
verb
expansion:
alligator (third-person singular simple present alligators, present participle alligatoring, simple past and past participle alligatored)
forms:
form:
alligators
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
alligatoring
tags:
participle
present
form:
alligatored
tags:
participle
past
form:
alligatored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
alligator
etymology_text:
]
From early Modern English alligater, alligarta, aligarto, alegarto, alagarto, from Spanish el lagarto (“the lizard”), from Latin lacertus (“lizard”), modern spelling possibly influenced by the unrelated Latin alligator (“one who binds”).
senses_examples:
text:
Alligatoring is a result of the sun making the top surface of the asphalt brittle.
ref:
2003, Carson Dunlop & Associates, Essentials of Home Inspection: Roofing, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
Sealing an area that is alligatoring is a temporary solution that may delay having to replace the asphalt for several years. A more permanent repair would be to replace the alligatored section.
ref:
2004, James E. Piper, Handbook of Facility Assessment, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
Common burn indicators include alligatoring, crazing, the depth of char, lines of demarcation, sagged furniture springs and spalling.
ref:
2009, Kären M. Hess, Christine M. H. Orthmann, Criminal Investigation, page 483
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To crack in a pattern resembling an alligator's skin.
senses_topics:
|
4029 | word:
alligator
word_type:
intj
expansion:
alligator
forms:
wikipedia:
alligator
etymology_text:
]
From early Modern English alligater, alligarta, aligarto, alegarto, alagarto, from Spanish el lagarto (“the lizard”), from Latin lacertus (“lizard”), modern spelling possibly influenced by the unrelated Latin alligator (“one who binds”).
senses_examples:
text:
The same way people will count the seconds between lightning and thunder, I counted the seconds between coughs. One-alligator, two-alligator, three-alligator.
ref:
2013, Chuck Palahniuk, “December 21, 9:33 A.M. CST”, in Doomed
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which the speaker counts out loud, saying the word "alligator" between the numbers so that each number is spoken approximately one second after the last one.
senses_topics:
|
4030 | word:
alligator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alligator (plural alligators)
forms:
form:
alligators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table Borrowed from Latin alligātor.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who binds or ties.
senses_topics:
|
4031 | word:
abdo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abdo (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of abdomen or abdominal.
senses_examples:
text:
CT chest abdo pelvis
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abdomen.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
4032 | word:
abdo
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abdo (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of abdomen or abdominal.
senses_examples:
text:
abdo pain
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abdominal.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
4033 | word:
primrose
word_type:
noun
expansion:
primrose (plural primroses)
forms:
form:
primroses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
primrose
etymology_text:
From Middle English primerose, from Old French primerose, from Medieval Latin prima (“first”) + rosa (“rose”). The reason it was called this might be that some primroses are among the first flowers to bloom in the spring.
senses_examples:
text:
A mile or so further on is the intermediate station of Ryhall, smothered with primroses in the season, and at all times a veritable flower garden.
ref:
1946 September and October, D. J. Rowett, “Stamford L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 283
type:
quotation
text:
primrose:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flowering plant of the genus Primula.
A flowering plant of the genus Primula.
Specifically, the species Primula acaulis (syn. Primula vulgaris), also called common primrose.
A plant of the family Primulaceae.
A plant of the genus Oenothera, better known as an evening primrose.
A flower of a primrose plant.
A light yellow colour.
senses_topics:
|
4034 | word:
primrose
word_type:
adj
expansion:
primrose (comparative more primrose, superlative most primrose)
forms:
form:
more primrose
tags:
comparative
form:
most primrose
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
primrose
etymology_text:
From Middle English primerose, from Old French primerose, from Medieval Latin prima (“first”) + rosa (“rose”). The reason it was called this might be that some primroses are among the first flowers to bloom in the spring.
senses_examples:
text:
Passenger saloons are tastefully furnished with wood veneer and partitions, mottled grey Vyanide walls, pale primrose ceilings and grey floor.
ref:
1961 February, “New "Mini-Buffets" from Wolverton”, in Trains Illustrated, page 79
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a light yellow colour.
senses_topics:
|
4035 | word:
primrose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
primrose (third-person singular simple present primroses, present participle primrosing, simple past and past participle primrosed)
forms:
form:
primroses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
primrosing
tags:
participle
present
form:
primrosed
tags:
participle
past
form:
primrosed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
primrose
etymology_text:
From Middle English primerose, from Old French primerose, from Medieval Latin prima (“first”) + rosa (“rose”). The reason it was called this might be that some primroses are among the first flowers to bloom in the spring.
senses_examples:
text:
We went primrosing on Sunday and returned with a full basket.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pick primroses.
senses_topics:
|
4036 | word:
episode
word_type:
noun
expansion:
episode (plural episodes)
forms:
form:
episodes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
episode
etymology_text:
From French épisode, from New Latin *epīsodium, from Ancient Greek ἐπεισόδιον (epeisódion, “a parenthetic addition, episode”), neuter of ἐπεισόδιος (epeisódios, “following upon the entrance, coming in besides, adventitious”), from ἐπί (epí, “on”) + εἰς (eis, “into”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”).
senses_examples:
text:
It was a most embarrassing episode in my life.
type:
example
text:
The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode, which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.
ref:
1935, Francis Beeding [pseudonym; John Palmer], “10/6”, in The Norwich Victims, →OL
type:
quotation
text:
Three of the great extinctions appear to have occurred during cold episodes and two during hot episodes.
ref:
2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
I can't wait till next week’s episode.
type:
example
text:
We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.
ref:
2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): ‘Marge Gets A Job’ (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The A.V. Club
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An incident, action, or time period standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.
An instalment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.
senses_topics:
|
4037 | word:
case
word_type:
noun
expansion:
case (plural cases)
forms:
form:
cases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cas, from Old French cas (“an event”), from Latin cāsus (“a falling, a fall; accident, event, occurrence; occasion, opportunity; noun case”), perfect passive participle of cadō (“to fall, to drop”).
senses_examples:
text:
For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth.
type:
example
text:
It is not the case that every unfamiliar phrase is an idiom.
type:
example
text:
In case of fire, break glass. [sign on fire extinguisher holder in public space]
type:
example
text:
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref:
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
Mares which are over-fat, hold with much difficulty; whereas those that are but in good case and plump, conceive with the greatest readiness and ease.
ref:
1726, Nathan Bailey, John Worlidge, Dictionarium Rusticum, Urbanicum & Botanicum
type:
quotation
text:
It was one of the detective's easiest cases. Social workers should work on a maximum of forty active cases. The doctor told us of an interesting case he had treated that morning.
type:
example
text:
The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.
ref:
1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings
type:
quotation
text:
The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.
type:
example
text:
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
ref:
2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object. Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.
type:
example
text:
Now, the Subject of either an indicative or a subjunctive Clause is always assigned Nominative case, as we see from:
(16) (a) I know [that they/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
(16) (b) I demand [that they/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
By contrast, the Subject of an infinitive Clause is assigned Objective case, as we see from:
(17) I want [them/*they/*their to leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
And the Subject of a gerund Clause is assigned either Objective or Genitive case: cf.
(18) I don't like the idea of [them/their/*they leaving for Hawaii tomorrow]
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 292
type:
quotation
text:
Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages. Latin is a language that employs case.
type:
example
text:
There were another five cases reported overnight.
type:
example
text:
Place a break statement at the end of every case to prevent case fall-through.
ref:
2004, Rick Miller, C++ for Artists
type:
quotation
text:
Execution does not automatically stop at the next case.
ref:
2011, Stephen Prata, C++ Primer Plus, page 275
type:
quotation
text:
Poor fellow, just as I thought! It's a case with him, anybody can see that. He is thinking about Christine, for a certainty. Lovers always take to stargazing and moonlight dreaming — it's part of their complaint.
ref:
1867, The Young Ladies' Journal, page 467
type:
quotation
text:
I thought it only an amourette when you told me. It was a fire — a conflagration; subdue it. I saw it was a case, and I advised you to try — dissipation.
ref:
1876, The New York Drama, volumes 1-2, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An actual event, situation, or fact.
A given condition or state.
A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession; the set of tasks involved in addressing the situation of a specific person or event.
An instance or event as a topic of study.
A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
A love affair.
senses_topics:
academia
scholarly
sciences
law
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
medicine
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
|
4038 | word:
case
word_type:
verb
expansion:
case (third-person singular simple present cases, present participle casing, simple past and past participle cased)
forms:
form:
cases
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
casing
tags:
participle
present
form:
cased
tags:
participle
past
form:
cased
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cas, from Old French cas (“an event”), from Latin cāsus (“a falling, a fall; accident, event, occurrence; occasion, opportunity; noun case”), perfect passive participle of cadō (“to fall, to drop”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To propose hypothetical cases.
senses_topics:
|
4039 | word:
case
word_type:
noun
expansion:
case (plural cases)
forms:
form:
cases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English case, from Old Northern French casse, (compare Old French chasse (“box, chest, case”)), from Latin capsa (“box, bookcase”), from capiō (“to take, seize, hold”). Doublet of cash, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja, Asturian caxa.
senses_examples:
text:
a case for spectacles; the case of a watch
type:
example
text:
a door case; a window case
type:
example
text:
a single case of Bud Light
type:
example
text:
The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.
ref:
1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 90
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
A box, sheath, or covering generally.
A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
An enclosing frame or casing.
A suitcase.
A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).
The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
Four of a kind.
A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
A counterfeit crown (five-shilling coin).
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
media
publishing
typography
card-games
poker
business
mining
|
4040 | word:
case
word_type:
adj
expansion:
case (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English case, from Old Northern French casse, (compare Old French chasse (“box, chest, case”)), from Latin capsa (“box, bookcase”), from capiō (“to take, seize, hold”). Doublet of cash, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja, Asturian caxa.
senses_examples:
text:
He drew the case eight!
type:
example
text:
If he did have a bigger ace, I still had at least six outs — the case ace, two nines, and three tens. I could also have more outs if he held anything less than A-K.
ref:
2006, David Apostolico, Lessons from the Professional Poker Tour, page 21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The last remaining card of a particular rank.
senses_topics:
card-games
poker |
4041 | word:
case
word_type:
verb
expansion:
case (third-person singular simple present cases, present participle casing, simple past and past participle cased)
forms:
form:
cases
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
casing
tags:
participle
present
form:
cased
tags:
participle
past
form:
cased
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English case, from Old Northern French casse, (compare Old French chasse (“box, chest, case”)), from Latin capsa (“box, bookcase”), from capiō (“to take, seize, hold”). Doublet of cash, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja, Asturian caxa.
senses_examples:
text:
You are in the grounds of Brockholes Abbey, a house into which a great deal of valuable property has just been moved. And your job is to case the joint for a break in.
ref:
1977, Michael Innes, The Gay Phoenix, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
Bonnie worked as a daycare director. She helped case the FBI office by posing as a college student interested in becoming an FBI agent.
ref:
2014, Amy Goodman, From COINTELPRO to Snowden, the FBI Burglars Speak Out After 43 Years of Silence (Part 2), Democracy Now!, January 8, 2014, 0:49 to 0:57
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
senses_topics:
|
4042 | word:
tangerine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tangerine (plural tangerines)
forms:
form:
tangerines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tangier
tangerine
etymology_text:
From French Tanger + -ine, after Tangier, Morocco.
senses_examples:
text:
The sun was beginning to set, and under the tangerine sky, Reese tugged his undershirt over his head.
ref:
2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 343
type:
quotation
text:
tangerine:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An slightly ovoid, orange-coloured citrus fruit with a rough peel and a sour-sweet taste which is larger than a clementine and sometimes classed as a variety of mandarin orange.
A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit.
A tree that produces tangerines.
senses_topics:
|
4043 | word:
tangerine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
tangerine
forms:
wikipedia:
Tangier
tangerine
etymology_text:
From French Tanger + -ine, after Tangier, Morocco.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a deep yellowish-orange colour.
senses_topics:
|
4044 | word:
slate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slate (countable and uncountable, plural slates)
forms:
form:
slates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Slate (disambiguation)
slate
etymology_text:
From Middle English slate, slat, slatte, sclate, sclatte, from Old French esclate, from esclat (French éclat), from Frankish *slaitan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slaitijaną, causative of *slītaną (“to cut up, split”). Doublet of éclat.
senses_examples:
text:
Some of the minor Welsh 2 ft. gauge railways, we hear from Mr. N. F. G. Dalston, are enjoying a miniature boom owing to the demand for slate for the repair of damaged roofs.
ref:
1941 March, “Notes and News: The Demand for Slate”, in Railway Magazine, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
The Penrhyn slate quarry possibly dates back to the sixteenth century, as it appears that in 1580 Sion Tudor asked the Bishop of Bangor for a shipload of slate.
ref:
1945 May and June, Charles E. Lee, “The Penrhyn Railway and its Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
slate:
text:
He wrote all down one side of the slate and all up the other, and then remarked--"As there's no time to finish that, The time has come to have our chat."
ref:
1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
In 1765 only 80 men were employed, and the annual output of slates did not exceed 1,000 tons, and large-scale quarrying was not begun by Lord Penrhyn until 1782.
ref:
1945 May and June, Charles E. Lee, “The Penrhyn Railway and its Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
The necessary works were extensive and included replacing missing and damaged slates and other roof repairs (in order to make the building watertight), pointing and drainpipe replacement, and extensive replacement of rotten floorboarding.
ref:
2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Southeastern Commercial Restoration Award: Appledore”, in RAIL, number 946, pages 56–57
type:
quotation
text:
Put it on my slate – I’ll pay you next week.
type:
example
text:
Ice is one of a slate of young, idealistic candidates for Move Forward who have joined mainstream politics in the hope that this election allows Thailand to break the cycle of military coups […]
ref:
2023 May 8, Jonathan Head, “Thailand election: The young radicals shaking up politics”, in BBC News (World)
type:
quotation
text:
Hearing Steve Ballmer and others talk about the availability of Windows 8 on slates, laptops, netbooks, notebooks, and screens from 7 to 70 inches might lead us to believe that Microsoft is attempting to gain market share solely through […]
ref:
2012, Chris Sells, Brandon Satrom, Don Box, Building Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.
The bluish-grey colour of most slate.
A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools.
A roofing-tile made of slate.
A record of money owed.
A list of affiliated candidates for an election.
An artificial material resembling slate and used for the same purposes.
A thin plate of any material; a flake.
A tablet computer.
A clapperboard.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences
broadcasting
film
media
television |
4045 | word:
slate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
slate (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Slate (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English slate, slat, slatte, sclate, sclatte, from Old French esclate, from esclat (French éclat), from Frankish *slaitan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slaitijaną, causative of *slītaną (“to cut up, split”). Doublet of éclat.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the bluish-grey/gray colour of slate.
senses_topics:
|
4046 | word:
slate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slate (third-person singular simple present slates, present participle slating, simple past and past participle slated)
forms:
form:
slates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
slating
tags:
participle
present
form:
slated
tags:
participle
past
form:
slated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Slate (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English slatten, sclatten, from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
The old church ledgers show that the roof was slated in 1775.
type:
example
text:
The play was slated by the critics.
type:
example
text:
The election was slated for November 2nd.
type:
example
text:
The Cleethorpes to Barton-on-Humber branch had been slated to transfer from Northern into the East Midlands franchise, but this move is still awaiting a DfT decision.
ref:
2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
The next version of our software is slated to be the best release ever.
type:
example
text:
Why You Want to Slate your Shots
ref:
2013, Rick Smith, Kim Miller, Shoot to Sell: Make Money Producing Special Interest Videos
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover with slate.
To criticise harshly.
To schedule.
To anticipate or strongly expect.
To set a dog upon (a person).
To nominate, appoint, or designate.
To record a synchronization mark using a clapperboard.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
film
media
television |
4047 | word:
apod
word_type:
adj
expansion:
apod (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + -pod.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lacking feet; apodal.
Lacking a ventral fin.
senses_topics:
|
4048 | word:
apod
word_type:
noun
expansion:
apod (plural apods)
forms:
form:
apods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + -pod.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An animal without feet.
senses_topics:
|
4049 | word:
ans
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ans
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of an
senses_topics:
|
4050 | word:
ans
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ans
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of answer.
senses_topics:
|
4051 | word:
tract
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tract (plural tracts)
forms:
form:
tracts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tract
etymology_text:
From Middle English tract, tracte, traht (“a treatise, exposition, commentary”), from Old English traht, tract (“a treatise, exposition, commentary, text, passage”); and also from Middle English tract, tracte (“an expanse of space or time”); both from Latin tractus (“a haul, drawing, a drawing out”), the perfect passive participle of trahō. Doublet of trait.
senses_examples:
text:
an unexplored tract of sea
type:
example
text:
Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.
ref:
1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703
type:
quotation
text:
The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.
ref:
1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
type:
quotation
text:
in tract of speech
ref:
1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An area or expanse.
A series of connected body organs, such as the digestive tract.
A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
Continuity or extension of anything.
Traits; features; lineaments.
The footprint of a wild animal.
Track; trace.
Treatment; exposition.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
|
4052 | word:
tract
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tract (third-person singular simple present tracts, present participle tracting, simple past and past participle tracted)
forms:
form:
tracts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tracting
tags:
participle
present
form:
tracted
tags:
participle
past
form:
tracted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tract
etymology_text:
From Latin tractus, the participle stem of trahere (“to pull, drag”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pursue, follow; to track.
To draw out; to protract.
senses_topics:
|
4053 | word:
Australian Capital Territory
word_type:
name
expansion:
Australian Capital Territory
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A federal territory which is an enclave in southern New South Wales, south-eastern Australia, in which the country's capital, Canberra, is located.
senses_topics:
|
4054 | word:
leather
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leather (countable and uncountable, plural leathers)
forms:
form:
leathers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
leather
etymology_text:
From Middle English lether, from Old English leþer (“leather”), from Proto-West Germanic *leþr, from Proto-Germanic *leþrą (“leather”), borrowing from Proto-Celtic *ɸlitrom, *letros, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥tro-.
Cognate with West Frisian leare (“leather”), Low German Leder (“leather”), Dutch leder, leer (“leather”), German Leder (“leather”), Danish læder (“leather”), Swedish läder (“leather”), Icelandic leður (“leather”).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: pseudoleather
text:
The goalee made a frantic grab as the leather spun clean past him, but he was just a second too late, and Joe had scored for Redcliff.
ref:
1918, M. M. Guy, Joe Doughty, page 157
type:
quotation
text:
Jones showed good leather to snare that liner.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing.
A piece of the above used for polishing.
A cricket ball or football.
clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.
A good defensive play
A punch.
The skin.
Clipping of fruit leather.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
|
4055 | word:
leather
word_type:
adj
expansion:
leather (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
leather
etymology_text:
From Middle English lether, from Old English leþer (“leather”), from Proto-West Germanic *leþr, from Proto-Germanic *leþrą (“leather”), borrowing from Proto-Celtic *ɸlitrom, *letros, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥tro-.
Cognate with West Frisian leare (“leather”), Low German Leder (“leather”), Dutch leder, leer (“leather”), German Leder (“leather”), Danish læder (“leather”), Swedish läder (“leather”), Icelandic leður (“leather”).
senses_examples:
text:
Some research has documented the phenomenon of leather families as a form of intentional, chosen families created by members of sexual and gender minority groups, often in the face of biological family rejection and marginalization in society (Bauer, 2010; Hammack et al., 2019; Murphy & Bjorngaard, 2019; Pitagora, 2016). Leather families are a network of people that acknowledge and practice ongoing supportive relationships “while sharing the commonalities of the leather and kink scene” (Bannon, 2016). […] Very few studies have examined how many people are members of leather or other “chosen” families.
ref:
2021 June 14, Ellora Vilkin, Richard Sprott, “Consensual Non-Monogamy Among Kink-Identified Adults: Characteristics, Relationship Experiences, and Unique Motivations for Polyamory and Open Relationships”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 50, →DOI, pages 1521–1536
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of leather.
Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign of sadomasochistic homosexuality.
Referring to an establishment of familial relations through agreed sexual or romantic deviance.
senses_topics:
|
4056 | word:
leather
word_type:
verb
expansion:
leather (third-person singular simple present leathers, present participle leathering, simple past and past participle leathered)
forms:
form:
leathers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
leathering
tags:
participle
present
form:
leathered
tags:
participle
past
form:
leathered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
leather
etymology_text:
From Middle English lether, from Old English leþer (“leather”), from Proto-West Germanic *leþr, from Proto-Germanic *leþrą (“leather”), borrowing from Proto-Celtic *ɸlitrom, *letros, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥tro-.
Cognate with West Frisian leare (“leather”), Low German Leder (“leather”), Dutch leder, leer (“leather”), German Leder (“leather”), Danish læder (“leather”), Swedish läder (“leather”), Icelandic leður (“leather”).
senses_examples:
text:
He rose and leathered his Colt as his father came to stand beside him.
ref:
2015, Rain Trueax, Lands of Fire
type:
quotation
text:
By the appearance of his deep suntan, which had leathered his skin, and the calluses that covered his hands, Sheriff Anderson figured the man to be one of the area ranchers.
ref:
2003, Bonita Wagner, Satan's Choice, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
Some leather and droop like bat wings, others, as the poet Brenda Hillman writes, are 'hung in hashtags'.
ref:
2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
He leathered the ball all the way down the street.
type:
example
text:
My father was very angry with me— -he took and leathered ( beat) me, because I ran away from my school ; for I did run away from my school ; he took and tied me up on a Sunday morning, leathered me a Friday night, and Saturday night : I was stripped naked when he leathered me on Friday night, and Saturday; my father told me to strip myself, and he leathered me, it was with a whip; but I do not know where he got the whip; he tied me with my arms extended so -- (spreading out her arms to their extremity, as if they were to be nailed upon a cross) -- My legs were tied too -- I was at the bottom of the dresser.
ref:
1806, Andrew Kippis, The New Annual Register
type:
quotation
text:
My father was furious with me and reached for the strap. He brutally leathered me with it before sending me to bed for the night.
ref:
2005, H. Salisbury, Betrayed, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Anyway, bums were always on view in our family, getting leathered with a heavy belt.
ref:
2011, Agnes Owens, Agnes Owens: The Complete Novellas
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover with leather.
To form a leathery surface (on).
To strike forcefully.
To spank or beat with a leather belt or strap.
senses_topics:
|
4057 | word:
sepia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sepia (countable and uncountable, plural sepias)
forms:
form:
sepias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sepia
etymology_text:
From Latin sēpia, from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía, “cuttlefish”), from σήψ (sḗps, “a kind of lizard, also a kind of serpent whose bite was alleged to cause putrefaction”). Compare Italian seppia.
senses_examples:
text:
sepia:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish.
A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour.
A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph.
The cuttlefish.
senses_topics:
|
4058 | word:
sepia
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sepia (comparative more sepia, superlative most sepia)
forms:
form:
more sepia
tags:
comparative
form:
most sepia
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
sepia
etymology_text:
From Latin sēpia, from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía, “cuttlefish”), from σήψ (sḗps, “a kind of lizard, also a kind of serpent whose bite was alleged to cause putrefaction”). Compare Italian seppia.
senses_examples:
text:
Only now did he realise how few colours there had been at the end of the universe. The world had been sepia, drained of colour and light.
ref:
1985, Lance Parkin, The Infinity Doctors, page 209
type:
quotation
text:
Dawn mist rolling off the adjacent North Downs creates a sepia effect over the river with no need for digital enhancement.
ref:
2021 July 14, “Modern Images”, in RAIL, number 935, page 37, photo caption
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a dark reddish-brown colour.
senses_topics:
|
4059 | word:
hand-me-down
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hand-me-down (plural hand-me-downs)
forms:
form:
hand-me-downs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Contains the phrase hand down.
senses_examples:
text:
Well, I'm willing, I'm able, I'm practically much alive / Well, I'm six-feet-tall, I ain't no hand-me-down
ref:
1948, Roy Brown (lyrics and music), “Mighty Mighty Man”
type:
quotation
text:
But these routes have always had hand-me-downs that aren't really designed for the job.
ref:
2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 61
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An item that is passed along for someone else to use.
A piece of clothing or other item which has been outgrown by an older sibling and passed down to a younger one.
senses_topics:
|
4060 | word:
hand-me-down
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hand-me-down (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Contains the phrase hand down.
senses_examples:
text:
And what costume shall the poor girl wear / To all tomorrow's parties? / A hand-me-down dress from who knows where
ref:
1967, Lou Reed (lyrics and music), “All Tomorrow's Parties”, in The Velvet Underground & Nico, performed by The Velvet Underground
type:
quotation
text:
1983, 19th of March, Presidential Radio Address by Ronald Reagan
I don't want America's recovery and security to be sacrificed on an altar of discredited hand-me-down theories. And if you'll help us, they won't be.
text:
The old Pacers have vanished, replaced by a mix of hand-me-down fleets.
ref:
2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 58
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used or second-hand, passed along by its prior user.
senses_topics:
|
4061 | word:
hand-me-down
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hand-me-down (third-person singular simple present hand-me-downs, present participle hand-me-downing, simple past and past participle hand-me-downed)
forms:
form:
hand-me-downs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hand-me-downing
tags:
participle
present
form:
hand-me-downed
tags:
participle
past
form:
hand-me-downed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Contains the phrase hand down.
senses_examples:
text:
“See into life, don’t just look at it” is her [Anne Baxter’s] creditable credo, hand-me-downed from her famous architect grandfather, the late Frank Lloyd Wright.
ref:
1963, Cleveland Amory, Earl Blackwell, editors, Celebrity Register: An Irreverent Compendium of American Quotable Notables, Harper & Row, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
The carpet was a montage of fade and unfade indicating that when new it had been used in another office—probably Mr. Barlowe’s—and then hand-me-downed when the decorators had cut loose.
ref:
1966, Mike Cohen, The Bright Young Man, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
The traditional family was poorly adapted to consumption: its raison d’être was rooted in sharing, hand-me-downing, and cooperative endeavor.
ref:
1990, Jan E. Dizard, Howard Gadlin, The Minimal Family, The University of Massachusetts Press, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
He had scraped together the funds to traipse off to the latest Bonanza camp, to buy speculative stocks, liquor and fine Sacramento meals for his boomer friends and fancy women, while my mother cut pieces of cardboard and canvas into soles to stuff inside our shoes to stop the holes, and hand-me-downed our clothes.
ref:
1998, Oakley M. Hall, Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades: A Mystery Novel, Berkeley, Calif., Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
The first thing Gabe saw as they pulled close was the flashing lights of Ruleton’s two police cruisers parked off to the side of the road—the new one Sheriff Dodd’s, the humble other the battered black-and-white that he’d hand-me-downed to his deputy, Ralph Simpson.
ref:
2006, Tom Bailey, Cotton Song, Shaye Areheart Books, page 283
type:
quotation
text:
He could not change the past but he was determined that he would not follow in the grand family hand-me-downed legacy.
ref:
2012, Lee Beck, From a Dark Place, AuthorHouse, page 442
type:
quotation
text:
Instead I changed into a blue skirt and a white blouse with a scalloped collar, hand-me-downs from Marie Dowd that she had gotten hand-me-downed from cousins in Brooklyn who went to Catholic school.
ref:
2017, Carol Zoref, Barren Island, New Issues Poetry & Prose, page 157
type:
quotation
text:
He wore a white dress shirt that was buttoned uncomfortably tight around his neck, a black tie, and an oversized blazer that had been hand-me-downed from one of his older cousins.
ref:
2018, Ty Marshall, “Love Seldom. Trust Never.”, in Goodfellas, Urban Books, chapter one (The Early Years)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pass along to someone else.
senses_topics:
|
4062 | word:
daughter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
daughter (plural daughters or (archaic) daughtren)
forms:
form:
daughters
tags:
plural
form:
daughtren
tags:
archaic
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English doughter, doghter, from Old English dohtor (“daughter”), from Proto-West Germanic *dohter, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr.
senses_examples:
text:
I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.
type:
example
text:
Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?
ref:
1950 October, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (fiction)
type:
quotation
text:
We have distinguished two types of situations from the point of view of the placement of the obligatory X constituent within the phrase XP: one in which X is a daughter of XP, and one in which X is not a daughter of XP, but a daughter of one of the constituents of XP (in an adjunct configuration).
ref:
2013, Daniela Isac, Charles Reiss, “Chapter 7, Some details of sentence structure”, in I-Language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
Following the conventional pattern, the argument daughter of a node is assigned the index n0 and placed on the left side, and the functor daughter, the index n1, is placed on the right side.
ref:
2017, Yicheng Wu, “Chapter 2, The dynamics of language processing”, in The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics, Taylor & Francis, page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One’s female offspring.
A female descendant.
A daughter language.
A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
A descendant.
A female character of a creator.
A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax
|
4063 | word:
hundred
word_type:
num
expansion:
hundred (plural hundreds)
forms:
form:
hundreds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
hundred
etymology_text:
From Middle English hundred, from Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”). Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German hunnert, hunnerd, German Hundert, Danish hundred.
senses_examples:
text:
hundreds of places, hundreds of thousands of faces
text:
a hundred, one hundred
text:
nineteen hundred, one thousand nine hundred
text:
Okay. You head over to City Hall East. I’ll meet you there. The briefing starts at eleven hundred, sharp.
ref:
2002, Michael Prescott, Next Victim, Signet, page 185
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine.
The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
senses_topics:
|
4064 | word:
hundred
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hundred (plural hundreds)
forms:
form:
hundreds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
hundred
etymology_text:
From Middle English hundred, from Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”). Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German hunnert, hunnerd, German Hundert, Danish hundred.
senses_examples:
text:
He made a hundred in the historic match.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
4065 | word:
brochure
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brochure (plural brochures)
forms:
form:
brochures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1748, from French brochure (“stitched work”), from brocher (“to stitch”), from Old French brochier (“to pierce”), from broche (“awl”), from Vulgar Latin brocca, from Latin broccus (“pointy-toothed”). Cognate to broach.
senses_examples:
text:
Have a look in the Vans brochure for a new vacuum cleaner.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A booklet of printed informational matter, like a pamphlet, often for promotional purposes.
senses_topics:
|
4066 | word:
thin
word_type:
adj
expansion:
thin (comparative thinner, superlative thinnest)
forms:
form:
thinner
tags:
comparative
form:
thinnest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjaną (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Polish cienki, Sanskrit तनु (tanú, “thin”), Persian تنگ (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous.
senses_examples:
text:
thin plate of metal; thin paper; thin board; thin covering
type:
example
text:
thin wire; thin string
type:
example
text:
thin person
type:
example
text:
Water is thinner than honey.
type:
example
text:
The trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
type:
example
text:
a thin, tight-lipped smile
type:
example
text:
a thin disguise
type:
example
text:
In short, we previously found that thin routes benefit from an increase in competition in the Spanish airline market when considering routes that were monopoly routes in 2001.
ref:
2016, Hartmut Wolf, Peter Forsyth, David Gillen, Liberalization in Aviation, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
Like their friends the "draggers," the "hoisters" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]
ref:
1945, Jack Henry, What Price Crime?, page 92
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
Of a route: relatively little used.
Poor; scanty; without money or success.
senses_topics:
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
4067 | word:
thin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thin (plural thins)
forms:
form:
thins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjaną (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Polish cienki, Sanskrit तनु (tanú, “thin”), Persian تنگ (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous.
senses_examples:
text:
chocolate mint thins
text:
potato thins
text:
wheat thins
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
Any food produced or served in thin slices.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
philately
|
4068 | word:
thin
word_type:
verb
expansion:
thin (third-person singular simple present thins, present participle thinning, simple past and past participle thinned)
forms:
form:
thins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
thinning
tags:
participle
present
form:
thinned
tags:
participle
past
form:
thinned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjaną (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Polish cienki, Sanskrit तनु (tanú, “thin”), Persian تنگ (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous.
senses_examples:
text:
The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
type:
example
text:
So floriferous are Asian pears, and the tree so laden with young fruit, that as the tree approaches maturity it is worth considering thinning the fruit (I can't quite bring myself to thin the flowers) so as to neither overburden the tree for this year nor tire it for the next. Thinning early in the season, while the fruit is small, is ideal.
ref:
2015 September 5, Mark Diacono, “In praise of the Asian pear”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), archived from the original on 2015-09-12, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make thin or thinner.
To become thin or thinner.
To dilute.
To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
senses_topics:
|
4069 | word:
thin
word_type:
adv
expansion:
thin (comparative more thin, superlative most thin)
forms:
form:
more thin
tags:
comparative
form:
most thin
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjaną (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Polish cienki, Sanskrit तनु (tanú, “thin”), Persian تنگ (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous.
senses_examples:
text:
seed sown thin
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
senses_topics:
|
4070 | word:
snowplow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
snowplow (plural snowplows)
forms:
form:
snowplows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From snow + plow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A motorized vehicle that is used to push snow off flat surfaces such as roads and parking lots.
A device attached to a vehicle to enable it to be used for removing snow.
A maneuver in which the tips of the skis or skates point inwards and the back ends point outwards.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
skating
skiing
sports |
4071 | word:
snowplow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
snowplow (third-person singular simple present snowplows, present participle snowplowing, simple past and past participle snowplowed)
forms:
form:
snowplows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
snowplowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
snowplowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
snowplowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From snow + plow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To clear (roads, etc) using a snowplow.
To perform a snowplow in skiing.
senses_topics:
|
4072 | word:
Northern Territory
word_type:
name
expansion:
Northern Territory
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A territory covering northern and north-central Australia, whose capital is Darwin.
senses_topics:
|
4073 | word:
Sydney-sider
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Sydney-sider (plural Sydney-siders)
forms:
form:
Sydney-siders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Sydneysider
senses_topics:
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4074 | word:
leaflet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leaflet (plural leaflets)
forms:
form:
leaflets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
leaflet
etymology_text:
From leaf + -let.
senses_examples:
text:
The new leaflets at the end of the branch were a lighter shade of green than the mature leaves.
type:
example
text:
A leaflet had been left under the car's windshield wiper.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the components of a compound leaf.
A small plant leaf.
A small sheet of paper containing information, used for dissemination of said information, often an advertisement.
A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
4075 | word:
leaflet
word_type:
verb
expansion:
leaflet (third-person singular simple present leaflets, present participle leafleting or leafletting, simple past and past participle leafleted or leafletted)
forms:
form:
leaflets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
leafleting
tags:
participle
present
form:
leafletting
tags:
participle
present
form:
leafleted
tags:
participle
past
form:
leafleted
tags:
past
form:
leafletted
tags:
participle
past
form:
leafletted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From leaf + -let.
senses_examples:
text:
A sidewalk preacher gave an impassioned sermon while an assistant leafleted those who stayed to listen.
type:
example
text:
At approximately 9:30 p.m. the demonstrators regrouped in front of the Copley Plaza and leafleted the area until an entourage of limousines entered the hotel.
ref:
1980 August 16, Warren Blumenfeld, “Disabled Group Pickets Sack Titanic Premiere”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Buxton: A survey of 3,000 users of the Monsal Trail has revealed 98% support for the rebuilding of the railway to Matlock. The Manchester & East Midlands Rail Action partnership has been leafleting homes to canvass support for its reopening campaign.
ref:
2023 January 11, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: North West”, in RAIL, number 974, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
During the summer, Peter earned some extra cash by leafleting for a local pizza delivery restaurant.
type:
example
text:
The leafleter who takes reasonable care not to block the sidewalk, who does not become involved in incidents of violence, and whose leaflet is truthful, has the right to leaflet undisturbed.
ref:
2011, Staughton Lynd, Daniel Gross, Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law
type:
quotation
text:
Leafleting in a suit and tie at a Boulogne-Billancourt market, Christophe Versini, a legal expert, parliamentary adviser and local delegate for the National Rally, said: […]
ref:
2024 June 7, Angelique Chrisafis, “‘You can feel a shift’: will the French be lured by Le Pen?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To distribute leaflets to.
To distribute leaflets.
senses_topics:
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4076 | word:
Sydneysider
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Sydneysider (plural Sydneysiders)
forms:
form:
Sydneysiders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Sydney + side + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Sydney, Australia.
senses_topics:
|
4077 | word:
visit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
visit (third-person singular simple present visits, present participle visiting, simple past and past participle visited)
forms:
form:
visits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
visiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
visited
tags:
participle
past
form:
visited
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
visit
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin vīsitō, frequentative of vīsō (“behold, survey”), from videō (“see”). Cognate with Old Saxon wīsōn (“to visit, afflict”), archaic German weisen (“to visit, afflict”). Displaced native Old English sēċan (“to visit”) and sōcn (“a visit”).
senses_examples:
text:
She decided to visit her grandparents for Christmas.
type:
example
text:
Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace.
ref:
1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 68
type:
quotation
text:
There used to be a sharp contest as to where the effigy was to be made, for the people thought that the house from which it was carried forth would not be visited with death that year.
ref:
1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough
type:
quotation
text:
05-032 was right about one thing: there is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to visit utter annihilation on it.
ref:
2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary)
type:
quotation
text:
If this were an Ibsen play, we would be thinking of the sins of one generation being visited upon another, he said.
ref:
2011 December 2, John Mullan, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Each year, millions of people visit the 4,570-meter-high Baishui Glacier in southern China.
ref:
2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
senses_topics:
|
4078 | word:
visit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
visit (plural visits)
forms:
form:
visits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin vīsitō, frequentative of vīsō (“behold, survey”), from videō (“see”). Cognate with Old Saxon wīsōn (“to visit, afflict”), archaic German weisen (“to visit, afflict”). Displaced native Old English sēċan (“to visit”) and sōcn (“a visit”).
senses_examples:
text:
Next time you're in Manchester, give me a visit.
type:
example
text:
We paid a quick visit to James on the way up to Scotland.
type:
example
text:
There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”
ref:
1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A single act of visiting.
A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.
senses_topics:
business
insurance
medicine
sciences |
4079 | word:
black
word_type:
adj
expansion:
black (comparative blacker or more black, superlative blackest or most black)
forms:
form:
blacker
tags:
comparative
form:
more black
tags:
comparative
form:
blackest
tags:
superlative
form:
most black
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English blak, black, blake, from Old English blæc (“black, dark", also "ink”), from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz (“burnt”) (compare Dutch blaken (“to burn”), Low German blak, black (“blackness, black paint, (black) ink”), Old High German blah (“black”)), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleg- (“to burn, shine”) (compare Latin flagrāre (“to burn”), Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”), Sanskrit भर्ग (bharga, “radiance”)). More at bleak.
senses_examples:
text:
Somebody tell me, what can I do / Something is holding me back / Is it because I'm black?
ref:
1969, “Is It Because I'm Black”, performed by Syl Johnson
type:
quotation
text:
I believed that a huge injustice had been perpetrated for hundreds of years on every black man, woman, and child in the United States.
ref:
1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
I am a young, light-skinned black woman, and truer words were never written of the problem we light-skinned blacks have had to live with. The article explains in-depth what it's like.
ref:
1975 May, Terry Hodges, Ebony, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.
ref:
2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
black drinking fountain; black hospital
type:
example
text:
I was dealt two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.
type:
example
text:
black magic
type:
example
text:
[…] what a black day would that be, when the Ordinances of Jesus Christ should as it were be excommunicated, and cast out of the Church of Christ.
ref:
1655, Benjamin Needler, Expository notes, with practical observations; towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Moses called Genesis., London: N. Webb and W. Grantham, page 168
type:
quotation
text:
Nor were there wanting some, who, after the departure of Jenny, insinuated that she was spirited away with a design too black to be mentioned, and who gave frequent hints that a legal inquiry ought to be made into the whole matter, and that some people should be forced to produce the girl.
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
type:
quotation
text:
She had seen so much of the blacker side of human nature that blackness no longer startled her as it should do.
ref:
1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
type:
quotation
text:
He shot her a black look.
type:
example
text:
The lassie had grace given her to refuse, but with a woeful heart, and Heriotside rode off in black discontent, leaving poor Ailie to sigh her love. He came back the next day and the next, but aye he got the same answer.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
text:
We see the impression that the perils of these unknown seas made on Minoan art in a clay seal impression that comes from Knossos. A sea monster, with head and jaws like a dog's, is rising from the waves and attacking a boatman who stands defending himself in his skiff. […] This is the black side of the sense of "the magic and the mystery of the sea" that finds a lighter expression in the octopus and sea-shell designs of the vases, and the flying fish on porcelain and frescoes.
ref:
1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Foodstuffs were rationed and, as in other countries in a similar situation, the black market was flourishing.
ref:
1952, The Contemporary Review, volume 182, page 338
type:
quotation
text:
Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer.
type:
example
text:
The black pieces in this chess set are made of dark blue glass.
type:
example
text:
Compare two Unicode symbols: ☞ (“WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX”); ☛ (“BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX”).
type:
example
text:
After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance.
type:
example
text:
5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects.
type:
example
text:
black operations/black ops; black room; black site
type:
example
text:
Pope Joan, who once occupied the throne of the Vatican, was reputed to be the blackest sorcerer of them all.
ref:
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
But a hel-rúne was one who knew secret black knowledge – and the association of hell with the dead shows that the gloss in O.H.G. 'necromancia' is very close.
ref:
2014, J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 168
type:
quotation
text:
the Black North ― Ulster
type:
example
text:
the Royal Black Institution
type:
example
text:
There is a district, comprehending Donegal, the interior of the county of Derry, and the western side of Tyrone, which is emphatically called by the people "the Black North," an expression not meant, as I conceive, to mark its greater exposure to the westerly winds, but rather its dreary aspect.
ref:
1812, Edward Wakefield, An Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political, volume 2, page 737
type:
quotation
text:
Even in the "black North"—in " Protestant Ulster"—Catholicity is progressing at a rate that must strike terror into its enemies, and impart pride and hope to the professors of the faith of our sainted forefathers.
ref:
1841 March 20, "Intelligence; Catholicity in Ulster" Catholic Herald (Bengal), Vol. 2 No. 1, p. 27
text:
To the southern Nationalist the north was chiefly known as the home of the most rabid religious and political intolerance perhaps in the whole Christian world; it was designated by the comprehensive title of the 'Black North.'
ref:
1886, Thomas Power O'Connor, The Parnell Movement: With a Sketch of Irish Parties from 1843, page 520
type:
quotation
text:
Now April's brother, once also holding a commission in that regiment, was an Ulster Volunteer, her father a staunch, black Protestant, her family tremulously "loyal" to the country whose Parliament was turning them out of its councils.
ref:
1914 May 27, "Review of The North Afire by W. Douglas Newton", The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume 86, page t
text:
He [Sir John Henry Biggart] was personally amused at having once been called "a black bastard".
ref:
1985 April, J. A. Weaver, “John Henry Biggart 1905-1979 - A portrait in respect and affection”, in Ulster Medical Journal, volume 54, number 1, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
He had been playing Gaelic football for Lisnaskea Emmets, his local team in County Fermanagh, against a team from nearby Brookeborough, when someone from the opposing team called him a ‘black cunt’. ‘Black’, in this case, was a reference not to the colour of his skin but to his religion. It is short for ‘Black Protestant’, a long-standing term of sectarian abuse.
ref:
2007 September 6, Fintan O'Toole, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, volume 29, number 17, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
the black knight; black bile
type:
example
text:
black birch; black locust; black rhino
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
Without light.
Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
Bad; evil; ill-omened.
Expressing menace or discontent; threatening; sullen.
Illegitimate, illegal, or disgraced.
Foul; dirty, soiled.
Overcrowded.
Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess, the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
Anarchist; of or pertaining to anarchism.
Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color”).
Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).
Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).
Dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
board-games
chess
games
government
politics
media
publishing
typography
government
politics
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy |
4080 | word:
black
word_type:
noun
expansion:
black (countable and uncountable, plural blacks)
forms:
form:
blacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English blak, black, blake, from Old English blæc (“black, dark", also "ink”), from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz (“burnt”) (compare Dutch blaken (“to burn”), Low German blak, black (“blackness, black paint, (black) ink”), Old High German blah (“black”)), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleg- (“to burn, shine”) (compare Latin flagrāre (“to burn”), Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”), Sanskrit भर्ग (bharga, “radiance”)). More at bleak.
senses_examples:
text:
black:
text:
Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible.
ref:
1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Death”, in Essays
type:
quotation
text:
But presently the negro seized the Hindoo by the throat; the Hindoo just pricked him in the arm with his knife, and the next moment his own head was driven against the side of the cabin with a stunning crack[…]The cabin was now full, and Sharpe was for putting both the blacks in irons.
ref:
1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash
type:
quotation
text:
Prize-winning books continue a trend toward increased representation of blacks, accounting for most of the books with exclusively black characters.
ref:
2004, Anthony Joseph Paul Cortese, Provocateur: Images of Women and Minorities in Advertising, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
black don't crack
type:
example
text:
Pernod and black; snakebite and black; cider and black
type:
example
text:
At this point black makes a disastrous move.
type:
example
text:
defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust
ref:
1619, William Rowley, All's Lost by Lust
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
A black dye or pigment.
A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
Black cloth hung up at funerals.
A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes.)
Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
The black ball.
The edge of home plate.
A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
Short for blackcurrant, especially (chiefly UK) as syrup or crème de cassis used for cocktails.
The person playing with the black set of pieces.
Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
A stain; a spot.
A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
Marijuana.
senses_topics:
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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4081 | word:
black
word_type:
verb
expansion:
black (third-person singular simple present blacks, present participle blacking, simple past and past participle blacked)
forms:
form:
blacks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
blacking
tags:
participle
present
form:
blacked
tags:
participle
past
form:
blacked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English blak, black, blake, from Old English blæc (“black, dark", also "ink”), from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz (“burnt”) (compare Dutch blaken (“to burn”), Low German blak, black (“blackness, black paint, (black) ink”), Old High German blah (“black”)), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleg- (“to burn, shine”) (compare Latin flagrāre (“to burn”), Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”), Sanskrit भर्ग (bharga, “radiance”)). More at bleak.
senses_examples:
text:
"I don't want to fight; but you are a mean, dirty blackguard, or you wouldn't have treated a girl like that," replied Tommy, standing as stiff as a stake before the bully.
"Say that again, and I'll black your eye for you."
ref:
1859, Oliver Optic, Poor and Proud; or, The Fortunes of Katy Redburn, a Story for Young Folks
type:
quotation
text:
Ted, you can black your face, and dye your hair, and squint, and some fine day, sooner or later, somebody'll come along and blab the whole thing.
ref:
1911, Edna Ferber, Buttered Side Down
type:
quotation
text:
I saw red, and instead of a cab I fetched that policeman. Of course father did black his eye.
ref:
1922, John Galsworthy, A Family Man: In Three Acts
type:
quotation
text:
[…] he must catch, curry, and saddle his own horse; he must black his own brogans (for he will not be able to buy boots).
ref:
1853, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
type:
quotation
text:
But in a moment he went to Greenidge's bedside, and said, shyly, in a low voice, "Shall I black your boots for you?"
ref:
1861, George William Curtis, Trumps: A Novel
type:
quotation
text:
Loving you, I could conceive no life sweeter than hers — to be always near you; to black your boots, carry up your coals, scrub your doorstep; always to be working for you, hard and humbly and without thanks.
ref:
1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson
type:
quotation
text:
The plants were blacked by the Transport and General Workers' Union and a consumer boycott was organised; both activities contributed to what the union saw as a victory.
ref:
2003, Alun Howkins, The Death of Rural England, page 175
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make black; to blacken.
To apply blacking to (something).
To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
senses_topics:
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4082 | word:
WWW
word_type:
name
expansion:
WWW
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of World Wide Web.
senses_topics:
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4083 | word:
Sydneyite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Sydneyite (plural Sydneyites)
forms:
form:
Sydneyites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Sydney + -ite.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Sydney, Australia.
A native or inhabitant of Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.
senses_topics:
|
4084 | word:
square
word_type:
noun
expansion:
square (plural squares)
forms:
form:
squares
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English square, sqware, squyre; from Old French esquarre, esquerre, (modern French équerre), from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, from Latin ex- + quadro, from quadrus (compare English quad and quadra). Doublet of squad and squadra.
Displaced fēowerecge (fēower nominative + ecg accusative, as in "four-edged").
senses_examples:
text:
I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field.
ref:
1927, Kazimir Malevich, The Non-Objective World
type:
quotation
text:
You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.
type:
example
text:
a square of glass
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: column inch
text:
There are so many uses for the square, in fact, that a new model will usually come complete with a booklet enumerating its applications.
ref:
a. 2018, Bob Vila, “Carpenter squares”, in Bob Vila, retrieved 2018-01-09
type:
quotation
text:
You're not in Wisconsin, Dave. The big story isn't about a cow wandering into the town square.
ref:
1995 October 10, NewsRadio, season 2, episode 3
type:
quotation
text:
64 is the square of 8.
type:
example
text:
1818, quoted in Christopher Kelly, History of the French Revolution and of the Wars produced by that Memorable Event
The French cavalry, in proof armour, repeatedly charged our squares, their cannon opening chasms; but the British infantry, though greatly diminished, were inflexible and impenetrable to the last.
text:
The sand of the desert is sodden red,—
Red with the wreck of a square that broke;—
The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead,
And the regiment blind with dust and smoke.
ref:
1897, Henry Newbolt, Vitae Lampada
type:
quotation
text:
After disastrous attempts to break the Russian squares, during which, Longworth recounts, ‘the best and the bravest of the warriors fell victim to their own rashness’, the Circassians likewise changed their tactics.
ref:
1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 144
type:
quotation
text:
Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square!
type:
example
text:
Good looks are important, but good looks don't hold if he's a square.
ref:
1949 March 11, “R.S.V.P.”, in Courier, volume xv, number 9, Harvey, IL: Thornton Junior College, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
She said: Wow! What a square! Don't you dig the scene? / Daddy Cool's playing his piano machine!
ref:
1957, Frank Slay, Bob Crewe (lyrics and music), “Daddy Cool”, performed by The Rays
type:
quotation
text:
The sad sack was a sitting on a block of stone
Way over in the corner weepin' all alone.
The warden said, hey, buddy, don't you be no square
If you can't find a partner, use a wooden chair.
ref:
1957, “Jailhouse Rock”, Elvis Presley (music)
type:
quotation
text:
Enter your account number followed by a square.
type:
example
text:
An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square, measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.
type:
example
text:
2006, Macquarie Bank (Australia), press release Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared", 21 June 2006 http://www.macquarie.com.au/au/about_macquarie/media_centre/20060621.htm
Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square
text:
2007, Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania http://www.yourestate.com.au/property_12753.php
The house is very large and open and boasts 39 squares of living space plus over 13 squares of decking area on 3 sides and 17 squares of garage and workshop downstairs.
text:
Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.
type:
example
text:
1594-1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
They of Galatia [were] much more out of square.
text:
She wanna talk about feelings
But I don't believe in love
Just give me your square
ref:
2019 July 24, “No Feelings”, Quezgo (lyrics)Link Up TV, 0:14–0:19
type:
quotation
text:
I don’t really care about them man there
Tell the bad b “just swing your square”
ref:
2021 September 29, “Bars At The Sesh [S3.E7]”, #D15 Trigz (lyrics)Dearfxch TV, 1:05–1:08
type:
quotation
text:
Get on your knees and suck this dick
Get on your knees and slop this quick
Bro knows I could never put trust in a bitch (Never)
Me and Tz like Lilo ’n Stitch
So don’t hesitate to swing me your shit
Yeah, swing your square
ref:
2021 November 18, “I Love to Scam”, Tankz (lyrics), 2:01–2:10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
A cell in a grid.
Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
A square piece, part, or surface.
Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
A true measure, standard, or pattern.
An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends.
The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
A mortarboard.
Ellipsis of square meal.
Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
Cigarette.
A vat used for fermentation.
A well-defined torso.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
media
printing
publishing
mathematics
sciences
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
real-estate
business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
academia
scholarly
sciences
astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
|
4085 | word:
square
word_type:
adj
expansion:
square (comparative squarer, superlative squarest)
forms:
form:
squarer
tags:
comparative
form:
squarest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English square, sqware, squyre; from Old French esquarre, esquerre, (modern French équerre), from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, from Latin ex- + quadro, from quadrus (compare English quad and quadra). Doublet of squad and squadra.
Displaced fēowerecge (fēower nominative + ecg accusative, as in "four-edged").
senses_examples:
text:
The stacks had to be neat and square or the old guy grumbled and insisted on getting it just so.
ref:
2019, Bruce W. Herdman, Ozarks Lite
type:
quotation
text:
The foundation has to be level and the framing has to be square.
type:
example
text:
Take care to make the cut completely square to the edges of the wire to give a good butt join for the ends of the wire.
ref:
2017, Julia Rai, Making Metal Clay Jewellery
type:
quotation
text:
a square corner
type:
example
text:
A floor that measures 4 feet square has an area of 16 square feet.
type:
example
text:
square mile
type:
example
text:
I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair.
type:
example
text:
square dealing
type:
example
text:
Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?
ref:
1828, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman
type:
quotation
text:
I believe you're a good, square man
ref:
1900 [1878], Allan Pinkerton, Criminal Reminiscences and Detective Sketches, New York: G. W. Dillingham, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
I am not very good at analysing things, but I felt that she talked a little uncomfortably and with a suspicion of effort, smiled rather conventionally, and was obviously glad to go. These things seem trifling enough to repeat, but I had throughout the faint feeling that everything was not square.
ref:
1908, Perceval Landon, Thurnley Abbey
type:
quotation
text:
By the confident tone in her voice, you can tell she is square with that.
ref:
2007, Lauren Heaton, Holly Bollinger, Catherine Lee Phillips, Susan Gartner, Women of the Harvest, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
" […] I will never act on it, but if you're satisfied with the way things are then I am, too. […] So, are we square?”
ref:
2009, Ramona Holliday, Winter Murders
type:
quotation
text:
to make or leave the accounts square
type:
example
text:
The teams were square while at even strength. have to play better than even if we want to win games." said Montreal goalie Jose Theodore
ref:
2000 December 16, “Islanders, Devils Make It Tough For Canadian Teams”, in Bryan Times
type:
quotation
text:
But the Jays were square again by the end of the inning, as Myers hit a 2-and-0 pitch into the left-center field seats
ref:
2003 April 9, “Lowe Struggles Again In Sox Setback”, in Record-Journal
type:
quotation
text:
The sides were square to the 14th hole when Goosen took birdie,
ref:
2003 November 24, “Els's mates get better with time”, in The Age, Melbourne, Vic.
type:
quotation
text:
In each of the last three afternoon foursomes, the Americans were square through 15, but could only come in with two halves and a loss.
ref:
2006 September 23, Jim McCabe, “As usual, Americans trailing after first day”, in The Columbus Dispatch
type:
quotation
text:
The sides were square at the end of the half.
type:
example
text:
It was a square town, but that didn't bother me. I knew I didn't have to live a square life.
ref:
1974, Jack Olsen, The Girls on the Campus, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
The square Johns lie more than the in-guys do.
ref:
1990, A. W. Gray, In Defense of Judges
type:
quotation
text:
It may be prison, but at least I'm getting three square meals a day.
type:
example
text:
It is obvious two o'clock will arrive in about five and a half hours from now, and I presume every gentleman in the House would like to get a square breakfast.
ref:
1879, United States. Congress, Congressional Record, Volume 9, page 1594
type:
quotation
text:
If some of you who read this paragraph would quit scheming and get down to honest, square effort this year, your creditors would get their due and your families would be better kept.
ref:
1899 February, “Stray Shots From Solomon”, in Shoe and Leather Journal, volume 12, number 2, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
"Sarah," said her grandmother. "You should eat a good square meal."
ref:
1986, Jan Irving, Robin Currie, Mudluscious, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
I said that because I didn't want any knives involved, and if Wizzie agreed to a square go now, with half the school listening, she couldn't go back on it.
ref:
2012, Cathy MacPhail, Worse Than Boys
type:
quotation
text:
a man of a square frame
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Shaped like a square (the polygon).
Forming a right angle (90°).
Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not racked or leaning.
Forming a right angle (90°).
Forming right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
Forming a right angle (90°).
Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
Honest; straightforward; fair.
Satisfied; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict.
Even; tied
Socially conventional; boring.
In line with the batsman's popping crease.
Solid, decent, substantial.
Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
Of an internal combustion engine design, in which the diameter of the piston is similar, roughly, approximately, equal to its stroke distance.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
automotive
transport
vehicles |
4086 | word:
square
word_type:
adv
expansion:
square (comparative more square, superlative most square)
forms:
form:
more square
tags:
comparative
form:
most square
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English square, sqware, squyre; from Old French esquarre, esquerre, (modern French équerre), from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, from Latin ex- + quadro, from quadrus (compare English quad and quadra). Doublet of squad and squadra.
Displaced fēowerecge (fēower nominative + ecg accusative, as in "four-edged").
senses_examples:
text:
Staash tipped up the rim of his hat and looked me square in the eyes as the cigarette dangled from his lips.
ref:
2012, Allan A. Zarbock, Nobody, page 211
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Directly.
senses_topics:
|
4087 | word:
square
word_type:
verb
expansion:
square (third-person singular simple present squares, present participle squaring, simple past and past participle squared)
forms:
form:
squares
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
squaring
tags:
participle
present
form:
squared
tags:
participle
past
form:
squared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English square, sqware, squyre; from Old French esquarre, esquerre, (modern French équerre), from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, from Latin ex- + quadro, from quadrus (compare English quad and quadra). Doublet of squad and squadra.
Displaced fēowerecge (fēower nominative + ecg accusative, as in "four-edged").
senses_examples:
text:
to square the yards
type:
example
text:
The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.
type:
example
text:
John can square this question up for us.
type:
example
text:
These results just don't square with what we expected.
type:
example
text:
[…] the process theist may not regard the killing of non-human animals for food or other reasons as generally acceptable. Call the process thinker who regards the killing of non-human animals for food as (usually) morally wrong a zoophile. Even if the zoophile regards human beings as more capable of experience and insight than another animals, and as therefore more valuable than other animals, she may regard non-human animals as moral patients. She may well not regard predatory animals as full moral agents; she will then have no reason to see their killing of other animals for food as itself morally wrong, because predators are not themselves subject to moral assessments. But she may still find it difficult to square God's encouragement of predation with an attractive account of divine goodness.
ref:
2006, Gary Chartier, “Non-Human Animals and Process Theodicy”, in Religious Studies, volume 41, number 1, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.
type:
example
text:
to square our actions by the opinions of others
type:
example
text:
square the circle
type:
example
text:
First, former Toffee Mikel Arteta sent Walcott racing clear but instead of shooting he squared towards Ramsey, who was foiled by Tony Hibbert.
ref:
2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
No works shall find acceptance […] that square not truly with the Scripture plan.
ref:
1782, William Cowper, Charity
type:
quotation
text:
to square mason's work
type:
example
text:
Everything on his writing desk was squared off: blotter, paper knife, pen rack.
ref:
2002, William Boyd, Any Human Heart
type:
quotation
text:
the icy Goat, the Crab that square the Scales
ref:
1697, Thomas Creech, The five books of M. Manilius containing a system of the ancient astronomy and astrology, done into English verse
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:
To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:
To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular
To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
To tile (completely fill) with squares.
To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
To form with four sides and four right angles.
To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
To hold a quartile position respecting.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences |
4088 | word:
ACT
word_type:
name
expansion:
ACT
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Australian Capital Territory, a federal territory of Australia.
Initialism of American College Test.
Initialism of Association of Consumers and Taxpayers, a political party of New Zealand
Initialism of Association of Consumers and Taxpayers, a political party of New Zealand
ACT New Zealand, a liberal conservative political party in New Zealand
senses_topics:
government
politics |
4089 | word:
ACT
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ACT (countable and uncountable, plural ACTs)
forms:
form:
ACTs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instance of a certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the American College Test.
Acronym of acceptance and commitment therapy.
senses_topics:
|
4090 | word:
Brisbanite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Brisbanite (plural Brisbanites)
forms:
form:
Brisbanites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Brisbane + -ite.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Brisbane (Australia).
senses_topics:
|
4091 | word:
Darwiner
word_type:
name
expansion:
Darwiner (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Darwin + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Darwin (Australia).
senses_topics:
|
4092 | word:
alim
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alim (plural ulama or ulema or alims)
forms:
form:
ulama
tags:
plural
form:
ulema
tags:
plural
form:
alims
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic عَالِم (ʕālim), active participle of عَلِمَ (ʕalima, “to know”).
senses_examples:
text:
Akram is a working alim, lecturing in mosques and universities and dispensing fatwas on issues like inheritance and divorce.
ref:
2007 February 25, Carla Power, “A Secret History”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An educated scholar of Islamic law; a member of the ulema class
senses_topics:
|
4093 | word:
handfastly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
handfastly (comparative more handfastly, superlative most handfastly)
forms:
form:
more handfastly
tags:
comparative
form:
most handfastly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From handfast + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a handfast manner
senses_topics:
|
4094 | word:
pyramidally
word_type:
adv
expansion:
pyramidally (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From pyramidal + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Like a pyramid; in a pyramidal manner or shape.
senses_topics:
|
4095 | word:
polycrotism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polycrotism
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That state or condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve, or sphygmogram, shows several secondary crests or elevations.
senses_topics:
medicine
physiology
sciences |
4096 | word:
pupa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pupa (plural pupas or pupae or pupæ)
forms:
form:
pupas
tags:
plural
form:
pupae
tags:
plural
form:
pupæ
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from New Latin, from a special use of Latin pūpa. Doublet of pupe.
senses_examples:
text:
The public is the pupae of the purposely purblind […]
ref:
1959 April 21, Walt Kelly, Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Seattle, Wash.: Fantagraphics Books, published 2011, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An insect in the development stage between larva and adult.
senses_topics:
|
4097 | word:
benzoinated
word_type:
adj
expansion:
benzoinated (comparative more benzoinated, superlative most benzoinated)
forms:
form:
more benzoinated
tags:
comparative
form:
most benzoinated
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From benzoin + -ated.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Containing or impregnated with benzoin
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
4098 | word:
animal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
animal (plural animals)
forms:
form:
animals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
animal
etymology_text:
From Middle English animal, from Old French animal, from Latin animal, a nominal use of an adjective from animale, neuter of animālis, from anima (“breath, spirit”). Displaced native Middle English deor, der (“animal”) (from Old English dēor (“animal”)), Middle English reother (“animal, neat”) (from Old English hrīþer, hrȳþer (“neat, ox”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Humans, like other animals, need air to breathe and food to eat.
type:
example
text:
Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
ref:
2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
Birds are as popular as animals in the toy kingdom, especially pigeons, owls and domestic hens.
ref:
1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
I spent my summer studying the animals and birds of the two islands.
type:
example
text:
When he's hungry my toddler opens his mouth like an animal instead of asking us to feed him.
type:
example
text:
My students are animals.
type:
example
text:
Own me, I'll let you play the role
I'll be your animal
ref:
2019, “Bad Guy”, Finneas O'Connell, Billie Eilish O'Connell (lyrics), performed by Billie Eilish
type:
quotation
text:
She speculated that things could deteriorate later: “I think they’re scared of the English, which is fair; we are animals.”
ref:
2024 July 14, Rachel Hall, quoting Jodie White, “‘I’ve never seen owt like it’: England fans in Benidorm in high spirits before Euro final”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
He's a political animal.
type:
example
text:
a whole different animal
type:
example
text:
no such animal
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any eukaryote of the clade Animalia; a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).
Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
A higher animal; an animal related to humans.
A tetrapod; a land-dwelling nonhuman vertebrate.
A higher animal; an animal related to humans.
A warm-blooded animal; a mammal or bird.
A higher animal; an animal related to humans.
A non-human mammal.
A higher animal; an animal related to humans.
A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
A person of a particular type specified by an adjective.
Matter, thing.
senses_topics:
sciences
|
4099 | word:
animal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
animal (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
animal
etymology_text:
From Middle English animal, from Latin animālis, from either anima (“breath, spirit”) or animus. Originally distinct from the noun, it became associated with attributive use of the noun and is now indistinguishable from it.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: vegetal
text:
animal instincts
type:
example
text:
The season has been most unfavourable to animal life; and I, who am merely animal, have suffered much by it.
ref:
1783 June 3, William Cowper, “To the Rev. William Bull”, in Private Correspondence of William Cowper, Esq. with Several of His Most Intimate Friends. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Colburn, […], and Simpkin and Marshall, […], published 1824, page 266
type:
quotation
text:
[…]—according to Sanssure, Abbé Fortis, Bruckenman, Jameson, Dr. Richardson, &c. &c. both animal and vegetal remains have been detected in Basalt and Wacke.
ref:
1809, William Martin, Outlines of an Attempt to Establish a Knowledge of Extraneous Fossils, on Scientific Principles. […], Macclesfield, Cheshire: […] J. Wilson. Sold by the Author, […]; J. White, […], and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], page 141
type:
quotation
text:
The body was covered with soft hair, and though undoubtedly human, it was very animal in its instincts and ways.
ref:
1890, [Lena,] Lady Login, “Lucknow”, in Sir John Login and Duleep Singh, London: W. H. Allen & Co., […], page 78
type:
quotation
text:
The unsatisfactory material at our command, however, renders it difficult to determine why we cannot prove a worship of a living incarnation for every deity who is represented on the monuments in a form either wholly or partially animal. We must wonder why, for example, the sacred hawk or hawks of Horus at Edfu (who never has human form) are scarcely mentioned.
ref:
1918, W[ilhelm] Max Müller, “[Egyptian Mythology] Worship of Animals and Men”, in Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, editors, The Mythology of All Races […], volume XII (Egyptian; Indo-Chinese), Boston, Mass.: Marshall Jones Company, page 167
type:
quotation
text:
I thought: if pain is the thing shared by all living creatures, then I’m no longer human or animal or vegetal; I am unplugged from the tick of metabolism; I am mineral.
ref:
2012, Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis, New York, N.Y.: The Penguin Press, page 216
type:
quotation
text:
In any case, the argument the inhabitants of these parts would have advanced as their strongest one against the so-called chastity belt would, of course, have been that living species, whether animal or vegetative, were made the way they were for an obvious reason.
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2015 August, Joseph M. Luguya, “Part 1: The Demented Scholar”, in Humans: The Untold Story of Adam and Eve and their Descendants, volume one (The Thesis), Silver Spring, Md.: Original Books, page 46
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animal passions
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To explain what activated the flesh, ‘animal spirits’ were posited, superfine fluids which shuttled between the mind and the vitals, conveying messages and motion.
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2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 47
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senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to animals.
Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
Excellent.
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