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4100 | word:
both
word_type:
det
expansion:
both
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bothe, boþe, from Old English bā þā (“both the; both those”) and possibly reinforced by Old Norse báðir, from Proto-Germanic *bai. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bee (“both”), West Frisian beide (“both”), Dutch beide (“both”), German beide (“both”), Swedish både, båda, Danish både, Norwegian både, Icelandic báðir. Replaced Middle English bō, from Old English bā, a form of Old English bēġen.
senses_examples:
text:
Both children are such dolls.
type:
example
text:
Which one do you need? ―I need both of them.
type:
example
text:
He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear both, because he is prepared for both.
ref:
1717, Viscount Bolingbroke, Reflexions upon Exile
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Each of the two; one and the other; referring to two individuals or items.
senses_topics:
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4101 | word:
both
word_type:
pron
expansion:
both
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bothe, boþe, from Old English bā þā (“both the; both those”) and possibly reinforced by Old Norse báðir, from Proto-Germanic *bai. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bee (“both”), West Frisian beide (“both”), Dutch beide (“both”), German beide (“both”), Swedish både, båda, Danish både, Norwegian både, Icelandic báðir. Replaced Middle English bō, from Old English bā, a form of Old English bēġen.
senses_examples:
text:
Did you want this one or that one? ―Give me both.
type:
example
text:
They were both here.
type:
example
text:
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref:
2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Each of the two, or of the two kinds.
senses_topics:
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4102 | word:
both
word_type:
conj
expansion:
both
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bothe, boþe, from Old English bā þā (“both the; both those”) and possibly reinforced by Old Norse báðir, from Proto-Germanic *bai. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bee (“both”), West Frisian beide (“both”), Dutch beide (“both”), German beide (“both”), Swedish både, båda, Danish både, Norwegian både, Icelandic báðir. Replaced Middle English bō, from Old English bā, a form of Old English bēġen.
senses_examples:
text:
Both you and I are students.
text:
[…] having much aduantage both in number, valure, and forepreparation […]
ref:
1598, Philip Sidney, The countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, page 211
type:
quotation
text:
[…] as he appreciates its beauty and its rich gifts, as he regards it with venerant love, fed by both his intellectual powers, his contemplation, and his meditation.
ref:
1892, Richard Congreve, Essays Political, Social, and Religious, volume 2, page 615
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Including both of (used with and).
Including all of (used with and).
senses_topics:
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4103 | word:
hammochrysos
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hammochrysos (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin hammochrȳsos, (h)ammochrȳsus, from Ancient Greek ἀμμόχρῡσος (ammókhrūsos), from ἄμμος (ámmos, “sand”) + χρῡσός (khrūsós, “gold”).
senses_examples:
text:
Nearly everything was glass in the frontage of this fairy mart, and its contents glittered like the hammochrysos stone.
ref:
1905, Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters, page 375
type:
quotation
text:
A splendid curtain, silver-sewn,
Spangled like hammochrysos stone
Stood in a crypt that dripped delight,
His ear-drums pulsing with that sound
The sheeted waters in their might
Flung to the crags, to mock their thrall.
ref:
1914, William Rose Benét, The Falconer of God: And Other Poems, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
Hammochrysos resembles sand in appearance, but sand mixed with gold.
ref:
2015, Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated), Delphi Classics, page 73
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A certain stone with spangles of gold color in it, known to Pliny, perhaps golden mica or yellow mica schist.
senses_topics:
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4104 | word:
distinct
word_type:
adj
expansion:
distinct (comparative distincter or more distinct, superlative distinctest or most distinct)
forms:
form:
distincter
tags:
comparative
form:
more distinct
tags:
comparative
form:
distinctest
tags:
superlative
form:
most distinct
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English distincte, from Old French, from Latin distinctus, past participle of distinguere (“to distinguish”); see distinguish.
senses_examples:
text:
Her voice was distinct despite the heavy traffic.
type:
example
text:
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
ref:
2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
Horses are distinct from zebras.
type:
example
text:
“Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant.
ref:
1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!
type:
quotation
text:
Olga's voice is quite distinct because of her accent.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of being perceived very clearly.
Different from one another (with the preferable adposition being "from").
Noticeably different from others; distinctive.
Separate in place; not conjunct or united; with from.
Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified.
Marked; variegated.
senses_topics:
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4105 | word:
distinct
word_type:
verb
expansion:
distinct (third-person singular simple present distincts, present participle distincting, simple past and past participle distincted)
forms:
form:
distincts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
distincting
tags:
participle
present
form:
distincted
tags:
participle
past
form:
distincted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English distincte, from Old French, from Latin distinctus, past participle of distinguere (“to distinguish”); see distinguish.
senses_examples:
text:
Here every means is made use of to do away all distincting between federal and antifederal and I suspect with no very friendly design to the federal cause.
ref:
1788, James McHenry, letter to George Washington, 27 July, in The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections 1788–1790, vol. 2, ed. Gordon DenBoer, University of Wisconsin Press, 1984, page 109
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To distinguish; to make a distinction.
senses_topics:
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4106 | word:
unviolable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unviolable (comparative more unviolable, superlative most unviolable)
forms:
form:
more unviolable
tags:
comparative
form:
most unviolable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + violable.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Inviolable.
senses_topics:
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4107 | word:
Abdera
word_type:
name
expansion:
Abdera
forms:
wikipedia:
Abdera, Thrace
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Ἄβδηρα (Ábdēra).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ancient city in Thrace, in modern Greece
A modern municipality of Xanthi, in the administrative region of Thrace, Greece.
senses_topics:
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4108 | word:
polycrotic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
polycrotic (comparative more polycrotic, superlative most polycrotic)
forms:
form:
more polycrotic
tags:
comparative
form:
most polycrotic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “multiple, many”) + κρότος (krótos, “knocking, rattling”), modeled on dicrotic.
senses_examples:
text:
a polycrotic pulse
text:
a polycrotic pulse curve
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to polycrotism; manifesting polycrotism
senses_topics:
medicine
physiology
sciences |
4109 | word:
unveiler
word_type:
noun
expansion:
unveiler (plural unveilers)
forms:
form:
unveilers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From unveil + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who unveils something.
senses_topics:
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4110 | word:
replica
word_type:
noun
expansion:
replica (plural replicas or (rare) repliche)
forms:
form:
replicas
tags:
plural
form:
repliche
tags:
plural
rare
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian replica, derived from Latin replicare (“to fold or bend back; to reply”). Doublet of reply and replicate.
senses_examples:
text:
The statue on the museum floor is an authentic replica.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: scale model
text:
He collected replicas of old cars.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exact copy.
A copy made at a smaller scale than the original.
senses_topics:
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4111 | word:
Jehovah
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jehovah
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Transliteration of Hebrew יְהֹוָה (yəhōwā), the Masoretic vocalization of the Biblical Hebrew יהוה (variously pronounced).
The Masoretic vocalization is a so-called qere perpetuum, the deliberate insertion of the vowels of another word than the one represented by the consonant text, in this case אֲדֹנָי (“my lord”) ('Adonai').
Continuing earlier Iehoua. In English, the name is first attested in 1530, in Tyndale's Bible: I appeared vnto Abraham Isaac and Iacob an allmightie God: but in my name Iehouah was I not knowne vnto them (Exodus 6:3).
Tyndale used Iehouah instead of Wycliffe's Adonay. The KJV also has Jehovah in this verse specifically, while it uses Lord otherwise. Young's Literal Translation (1898) has Jehovah. The New King James Version (1982) has Lord.
senses_examples:
text:
After Serena Williams’ win at Wimbledon today, she will likely say — as she usually does after a big win — “I want to thank Jehovah God.”[…]
“I have to thank Jehovah God for this,” Serena Williams told the crowd after receiving the trophy at the Australian Open in January, her sixth win there.
ref:
2015 July 11, Kimberly Winston, “Serena Williams’ secret weapon: The surprising faith of the Wimbledon champ”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-07-14, Acts of Faith
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The personal name of God in the Hebrew Scriptures; in Hebrew, יהוה (YHVH)
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion |
4112 | word:
Jehovah
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Jehovah (plural Jehovahs)
forms:
form:
Jehovahs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Transliteration of Hebrew יְהֹוָה (yəhōwā), the Masoretic vocalization of the Biblical Hebrew יהוה (variously pronounced).
The Masoretic vocalization is a so-called qere perpetuum, the deliberate insertion of the vowels of another word than the one represented by the consonant text, in this case אֲדֹנָי (“my lord”) ('Adonai').
Continuing earlier Iehoua. In English, the name is first attested in 1530, in Tyndale's Bible: I appeared vnto Abraham Isaac and Iacob an allmightie God: but in my name Iehouah was I not knowne vnto them (Exodus 6:3).
Tyndale used Iehouah instead of Wycliffe's Adonay. The KJV also has Jehovah in this verse specifically, while it uses Lord otherwise. Young's Literal Translation (1898) has Jehovah. The New King James Version (1982) has Lord.
senses_examples:
text:
I've never had Jehovahs at my door, but the other day two Mormons came to my door.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Jehovah's Witness.
senses_topics:
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4113 | word:
pyramidion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pyramidion (plural pyramidia or pyramidions)
forms:
form:
pyramidia
tags:
plural
form:
pyramidions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin pyramidion, from Latin pyramis. See pyramid.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk or pyramid.
senses_topics:
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4114 | word:
handout
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handout (plural handouts)
forms:
form:
handouts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Deverbal from hand out.
senses_examples:
text:
Therefore, it is often recommended that the framework or outline for a lecture be provided to students on the chalkboard or in a handout so they can more easily follow the logic as the lecture progresses.
ref:
2010, Jeane W. Anastas, “Teaching Courses: Methods and Modalities”, in Teaching in Social Work: An Educators’ Guide to Theory and Practice, New York, N.Y.; Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
You're just looking for a handout like every other—are you employed, Mr. Lebowski?
ref:
1998 January 18, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, The Big Lebowski, spoken by Jeffrey “The Big” Lebowski (David Huddleston), United States: Gramercy Pictures; PolyGram Films International, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-07-04
type:
quotation
text:
A woman, dressed in simple and worn clothes, holding a very young and rather dirty looking baby, was seeking a handout.
ref:
2009, Chloe Schwenke, “Introduction”, in Reclaiming Value in International Development: The Moral Dimensions of Development Policy and Practice in Poor Countries, Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of handing out something.
An act of handing out something.
An act of dealing playing cards; a deal.
A printed sheet such as a leaflet or pamphlet, or a worksheet, that is given out free of charge (usually by hand) for a certain use, for example as an advertisement or for information.
A printed sheet such as a leaflet or pamphlet, or a worksheet, that is given out free of charge (usually by hand) for a certain use, for example as an advertisement or for information.
Synonym of press release (“an official written statement that is sent to the media so that it can be publicized”)
A gift of money or material assistance to the needy or poor.
A gift of money or material assistance to the needy or poor.
Something obtained without effort; a gift, a present.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
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4115 | word:
handout
word_type:
adj
expansion:
handout (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Deverbal from hand out.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a thing: given out free of charge, usually by hand.
Of or pertaining to the giving of handouts (gifts of money or material assistance, printed sheets, etc.).
senses_topics:
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4116 | word:
fall
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fall (third-person singular simple present falls, present participle falling, simple past fell, past participle fallen)
forms:
form:
falls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
falling
tags:
participle
present
form:
fell
tags:
past
form:
fallen
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
fall
etymology_text:
Verb from Middle English fallen, from Old English feallan (“to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”), from Proto-West Germanic *fallan (“to fall”), from Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”).
Cognate with West Frisian falle (“to fall”), Low German fallen (“to fall”), Dutch vallen (“to fall”), German fallen (“to fall”), Danish falde (“to fall”), Norwegian Bokmål falle (“to fall”), Norwegian Nynorsk falla (“to fall”), Icelandic falla (“to fall”), Albanian fal (“forgive, pray, salute, greet”), Lithuanian pùlti (“to attack, rush”).
Noun from Middle English fal, fall, falle, from Old English feall, ġefeall (“a falling, fall”) and Old English fealle (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *fallą, *fallaz (“a fall, trap”). Cognate with Dutch val, German Fall (“fall”) and German Falle (“trap, snare”), Danish fald, Swedish fall, Icelandic fall.
Sense of "autumn" is attested by the 1660s in England as a shortening of fall of the leaf (1540s), from the falling of leaves during this season. Along with autumn, it mostly replaced the older name harvest as that name began to be associated strictly with the act of harvesting. Compare spring, which began as a shortening of “spring of the leaf”.
senses_examples:
text:
Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground.
type:
example
text:
The rain fell at dawn.
type:
example
text:
Her eyes fell on the table, and she advanced into the room wiping her hands on her apron.
ref:
1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond
type:
quotation
text:
Once or twice a noise fell upon his quick ear, and we halted, he standing revolver in hand in an attitude of defense. Each time, however, we ascertained that we had no occasion for alarm, the noise being made by some animal or bird ...
ref:
1898, William Le Queux, Whoso Findeth a Wife, page 256
type:
quotation
text:
And then a sudden calm fell on us like a cloud of fear. There! on the table, lay the Jewel of Seven Stars, shining and sparkling with lurid light, as though each of the seven points of each of the seven stars gleamed through blood!
ref:
1904, Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars, page 248
type:
quotation
text:
Shortly afterwards a breeze came up from the N […] dark clouds closing in over everything. At 3 in the afternoon the breeze came up from the S with a thick drizzle. Thus night fell, and thus we passed the rest of it.
ref:
1971, Henry Raup Wagner, Spanish Explorations in the Strait of Juan de Fuca
text:
The horse wrangler, a tall, bronzed-face man, waved to the wagon driver. The driver laughed. […] The canvas cover rolled up suddenly and a terrible noise fell over the desert.
ref:
1981, Dan Kirby, Schreiber's Choice, Ace Books
type:
quotation
text:
He fell to the floor and begged for mercy.
type:
example
text:
to fall the voice
type:
example
text:
to fall a tree
type:
example
text:
She has fallen ill.
type:
example
text:
The children fell asleep in the back of the car.
type:
example
text:
When did you first fall in love?
type:
example
text:
fall silent, fall sick, fall pregnant, fall victim to something
type:
example
text:
Shortly afterwards a breeze came up from the N and then it fell calm, […]
ref:
1971, Henry Raup Wagner, Spanish Explorations in the Strait of Juan de Fuca
text:
Rome fell to the Goths in 410 AD.
type:
example
text:
This is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War.
type:
example
text:
The candidate's poll ratings fell abruptly after the banking scandal.
type:
example
text:
The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.
ref:
1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
type:
quotation
text:
Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
ref:
1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Vol.1, pages 284–5
type:
quotation
text:
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
Thanksgiving always falls on a Thursday.
type:
example
text:
Last year, Commencement fell on June 3.
type:
example
text:
(Thus D-day fell on June 6 rather than the planned June 5.)
ref:
1978, Dwight David Eisenhower, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Letters to Mamie, Doubleday Books
type:
quotation
text:
And so it falls to me to make this important decision.
type:
example
text:
The estate fell to his brother.
type:
example
text:
The kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.
type:
example
text:
to fall lambs
type:
example
text:
As for Calves newly fallen, you must leave them with good Litter of fresh Straw until such qime as the Cows have licked and cleansed them,
ref:
1672, The Office of the Good House-wife, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
My intended remarks are on the cords , and wiping dry the newly fallen calf
ref:
1805, John Lawrence, A general treatise on cattle, the ox, the sheep, and the swine, etc, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
another writer, adopting a similar opinion, affirms that it results from the lambs not being docked at a sufficiently early period; for "sometimes the ewe, in the ardour of her maternal affection, chews away the tail from her newly-fallen lamb, and none of these are afterwards affectd by the sturdy;
ref:
1869, William Youatt, Sheep: Their Breeds, Management, and Diseases, page 382
type:
quotation
text:
The newly fallen lambs are a peculiar sight, as they invariably come spotted or black ; but while the head and legs retain their inky black color, the wool grows out white as with the other Down breeds.
ref:
1892, United States. Bureau of Animal Industry, Special Report on the History and Present Condition of the Sheep Industry of the United States, page 422
type:
quotation
text:
to fall into error; to fall into difficulties
type:
example
text:
1879, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology Volume II – Part IV: Ceremonial Institutions
Primitive men […] do not make laws, they fall into customs.
text:
After arguing, they fell to blows.
type:
example
text:
They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul.
ref:
1881, Benjamin Jowett (Thucydides)
text:
An unguarded expression fell from his lips.
type:
example
text:
An Empire-style dress has a high waistline – directly under the bust – from which the dress falls all the way to a hem as low as the floor.
type:
example
text:
We'll fall over to the club tonight.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be moved downwards.
To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
To be moved downwards.
To come down, to drop or descend.
To be moved downwards.
To come as if by dropping down.
To be moved downwards.
To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
To be moved downwards.
To be brought to the ground.
To move downwards.
To let fall; to drop.
To move downwards.
To sink; to depress.
To move downwards.
To fell; to cut down.
To change, often negatively.
To become.
To change, often negatively.
To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
To change, often negatively.
To die, especially in battle or by disease.
To change, often negatively.
To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
To diminish; to lessen or lower.
To bring forth.
To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
To visit; to go to a place.
senses_topics:
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
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4117 | word:
fall
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fall (countable and uncountable, plural falls)
forms:
form:
falls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Fall Classic
Fall of Baghdad
Fall of Constantinople
Fall of Rome
Fall of Saigon
Falls-to-Falls Corridor
fall
the Fall of France
the Fall of the Roman Empire
etymology_text:
Verb from Middle English fallen, from Old English feallan (“to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”), from Proto-West Germanic *fallan (“to fall”), from Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”).
Cognate with West Frisian falle (“to fall”), Low German fallen (“to fall”), Dutch vallen (“to fall”), German fallen (“to fall”), Danish falde (“to fall”), Norwegian Bokmål falle (“to fall”), Norwegian Nynorsk falla (“to fall”), Icelandic falla (“to fall”), Albanian fal (“forgive, pray, salute, greet”), Lithuanian pùlti (“to attack, rush”).
Noun from Middle English fal, fall, falle, from Old English feall, ġefeall (“a falling, fall”) and Old English fealle (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *fallą, *fallaz (“a fall, trap”). Cognate with Dutch val, German Fall (“fall”) and German Falle (“trap, snare”), Danish fald, Swedish fall, Icelandic fall.
Sense of "autumn" is attested by the 1660s in England as a shortening of fall of the leaf (1540s), from the falling of leaves during this season. Along with autumn, it mostly replaced the older name harvest as that name began to be associated strictly with the act of harvesting. Compare spring, which began as a shortening of “spring of the leaf”.
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A friend has pointed out to me the following remark on this word: "In North America the season in which this [the fall of the leaf] takes place, derives its name from that circumstance, and instead of autumn is universally called the fall." [brackets in original]
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1816, John Pickering, A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words Which Have Been Supposed to Be Peculiar to the United States of America
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quotation
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the fall of Rome
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example
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A fall of hair tumbled down one side of her body like a veil.
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2010, Winter Pennington, Witch Wolf
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quotation
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Female patients with localized hair loss on the top of scalp could select a fall or a demiwig to camouflage crown and anterior scalp loss.
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2004, Zoe Diana Draelos, Hair Care: An Illustrated Dermatologic Handbook, page 202
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quotation
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He set up his rival to take the fall.
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example
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[...] with one overhauled fall flying and an iron-bound block capering in the air.
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1919, Joseph Conrad, Typhoon
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quotation
text:
Have the goodness to secure the falls of the mizzen halyards.
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example
text:
Brooks fitted a new fall to his whip.
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1945, Tom Ronan, Strangers on the Ophir, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 113
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quotation
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senses_glosses:
The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.
A loss of greatness or status.
That which falls or cascades.
A crucial event or circumstance.
The action of a batsman being out.
A crucial event or circumstance.
A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
A crucial event or circumstance.
An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
nautical
transport
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4118 | word:
fall
word_type:
intj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
fall
etymology_text:
Perhaps from the north-eastern Scottish pronunciation of whale.
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The cry given when a whale is sighted, or harpooned.
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nautical
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4119 | word:
fall
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fall (plural falls)
forms:
form:
falls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fall
etymology_text:
Perhaps from the north-eastern Scottish pronunciation of whale.
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The chasing of a hunted whale.
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nautical
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4120 | word:
weekly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
weekly (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wekely, weikly (adverb), equivalent to week + -ly. Compare Dutch wekelijks (“weekly”), German wöchentlich (“weekly”), Danish ugentlig (“weekly”), Norwegian ukentlig (“weekly”), Icelandic vikulega (“weekly”), Swedish veckovis (“weekly”).
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She visits her mother weekly.
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example
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Once every week.
Every week.
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4121 | word:
weekly
word_type:
adj
expansion:
weekly (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wekely, weikly (adverb), equivalent to week + -ly. Compare Dutch wekelijks (“weekly”), German wöchentlich (“weekly”), Danish ugentlig (“weekly”), Norwegian ukentlig (“weekly”), Icelandic vikulega (“weekly”), Swedish veckovis (“weekly”).
senses_examples:
text:
He's going for his weekly check-up at the hospital.
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example
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In summer, we cut the grass on a weekly basis.
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example
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Of or relating to a week.
Happening once a week, or every week.
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4122 | word:
weekly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
weekly (plural weeklies)
forms:
form:
weeklies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wekely, weikly (adverb), equivalent to week + -ly. Compare Dutch wekelijks (“weekly”), German wöchentlich (“weekly”), Danish ugentlig (“weekly”), Norwegian ukentlig (“weekly”), Icelandic vikulega (“weekly”), Swedish veckovis (“weekly”).
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senses_glosses:
A publication that is published once a week.
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4123 | word:
semaphore
word_type:
noun
expansion:
semaphore (countable and uncountable, plural semaphores)
forms:
form:
semaphores
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
semaphore
etymology_text:
The noun is borrowed from French sémaphore, from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma, “mark, sign, token”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰyeh₂- (“to notice”)) + French -phore (from Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros, suffix indicating a bearer or carrier), from φέρω (phérō, “to bear, carry”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.
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text:
We must here take the liberty of expostulating with Sir Home [Riggs] Popham and the first Lord of the Admiralty, for having given to the telegraphic machine, invented by that gallant officer, the barbarous name of Semaphore, instead of Sematophore or Semophore—either of them ugly enough.]
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[1820 January, “Art. II.—Thesaurus Græcæ Linguæ ab H. Stephano [Henry Stephens] constructus. Editio nova, auctior et emendatior. Vol. I. Partes I–IV. Londini, in ædibus Valpianis, 1815–1818. [book review]”, in William Gifford, editor, The Quarterly Review, volume XXII, number XLIV, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 342
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The large Silver Medal of the Society was this Session voted to Nic[h]olas Harris Nicolas, Esq. of the Inner Temple, for an Improvement on the Vertical Semaphore, and for his method of adapting a shifting Key to Telegraphic Communications, for the purpose of insuring their Secrecy. A Model of Mr. N's Semaphore has been placed in the Repository of the Society.
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1821, “[Papers in Mechanics.] No. V. Improved Semaphore.”, in Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; […], volume XXXIX, London: Sold by the housekeeper, at the Society’s House, […]; printed by T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, […], →OCLC, page 104
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That the systems of telegraph and semaphore now in use are in a great measure use-less by night, and totally so in a fog, cannot be doubted; and that a mode, both rapid and secret, would could be put into practice at small expense, in fact little more than the first cost, would be of essential utility to the Government of the country adopting it, is equally true.
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1831 October 8, W. Thomas, “[General Correspondence.] Night Signals.”, in The United Service Journal, and Naval and Military Magazine, part III, number 35, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 392
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When, on long lines of stations, towers or other structures are used, it may be necessary, for greater speed, to sometimes employ semaphores for aerial telegraphy. [...] Semaphores consist of a post with arms. The arms starting with about three feet in length, to be increased one foot for every mile. These arms are made movable by ropes passing over wheels or pulleys, and moved by a crank below.
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1879, Albert J[ames] Myer, “Semaphores”, in A Manual of Signals for the Use of Signal Officers in the Field, […], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, pages 193–194
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quotation
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It is essentially an emergency device, primarily for use on single track railroads, and is intended to place the control of semaphores at the several stations under the control of the dispatcher. By means of this signal the dispatcher may throw a semaphore to "stop position" at any desired point, regardless of the condition of the operator's instrument at that station, that is whether or not the key of his instrument on the dispatcher's wire is open.
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1906 July 19, “The Wright Telegraph Railroad Signal”, in The Iron Age, volume LXXVIII, New York, N.Y.: David Williams Company […], →OCLC, page 139, column 2
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Now, a century later, semaphores and discs are giving place to colour and position lights. What will be the fashion in 2041? Universal continuous cab signalling?
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1941 April, “Centenary of the Semaphore Signal”, in Railway Magazine, page 171
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Travelling by the rural tramway was quite an experience; the small car would bounce about on the bad track like a ship in a rough sea; at some places, there would even be genuine railway semaphore signals controlling the trams.
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1968, F[rits] van der Gragt, Europe's Greatest Tramway Network: Tramways in the Rhein–Ruhr Area of Germany (Uitgaven van de Nederlandsche Vereeniging van Belangstellenden in het Spoor- en Tramwegwezen [Publications by the Dutch Association of People Interested in the Rail- and Tramway System]; 4), Leiden: E[vert] J[an] Brill, →OCLC, page 128
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Innovations in the communications industry often means that existing media become obsolete. There are no semaphores any longer. (Semaphores were used by the French revolutionary armies in the late 1790's to relay information to Paris about their victories in the Savoy.)
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1995, Sten Thore, “Messages, Images, and Robots”, in The Diversity, Complexity, and Evolution of High Tech Capitalism, Boston, Mass., Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 27
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quotation
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He had got used to the clacks towers now. Sometimes it seemed as though every roof sprouted one. Most were the new shutter boxes installed by the Grand Trunk Company, but old-fashioned arm semaphores and even signal flags were still well in evidence.
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2004 September 25, Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (A Discworld Novel; 33), London: Doubleday; republished London: Corgi Books, Transworld Publishers, 2005 (2014 printing), pages 149–150
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Even so, there are only four others in my car after leaving the pretty station at Abergavenny, a haven of old GWR semaphores.
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2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67
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quotation
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Its [the article's] object is to furnish a rule for determining the number of distinct signals which can be made by any semaphore, whatever be the number of arms or indicators, of whatever be the number of positions of each arm. In the Cyclopædia of Rees, the number of signals which the semaphores of the line of communication between Paris and Landau were capable of making, is stated to be 823,543, which is no less than 1,274,608 fewer than the real number, an error not arising from the press, but from the principle of computation.
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1834 October, Charles Blackburn, “XXXV. A Method of Determining the Number of Signals which Can be Made by the Modern Telegraphs.”, in David Brewster, Richard Taylor, Richard Phillips, editors, The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, volume V (Third Series), number 28, London: Printed by Richard Taylor, […], printer to the University of London; sold by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman; [et al.], →OCLC, page 241
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quotation
text:
A system of communication called semaphore uses flags or flashing lights to send messages over distances. [...] Code flags are less common today but are sometimes used by ships that have lost radio contact.
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2006, Erinn Banting, Inventing the Telephone (Breakthrough Inventions), New York, N.Y., Toronto, Ont.: Crabtree Publishing Company, page 5, column 2
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quotation
text:
As always in Lisbon, my heart throbbed semaphores to call Tónio.
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2008, Katherine Vaz, “Lisbon Story”, in Our Lady of the Artichokes: And Other Portuguese-American Stories, Lincoln, Neb., London: University of Nebraska Press, page 115
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quotation
text:
Consider the wagging tail, the most basic semaphore in dog/human communication.
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2008, Gene Weingarten, “Remembering Harry”, in Old Dogs are the Best Dogs, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, page 4
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quotation
text:
Semaphore—a system of communicating over long distances by holding the arms or two flags in certain positions—is not a very efficient mode of communication for us. But for the Panamanian golden frog, semaphore is just the ticket. These frogs live near waterfalls, where the constant din renders vocal communication useless. [...] When they want to get someone else's attention, they flash pale patches of skin on their limbs or the webs between their toes.
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2010, Jonathan Balcombe, “Communicating”, in Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, part II (Coexistence), page 84
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quotation
text:
For a half-hour episode, "The Long Shadow" was unusually complex, a web spun out of deception and equivocation that untangles when [Ronald] Reagan, transmitting his customized semaphores of concern (ridged brow, pursed lips, pained eyes), divulges the truth: [...]
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2014, Bernard F. Dick, “Worlds Elsewhere”, in The President’s Ladies: Jane Wyman and Nancy Davis, Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, page 215
type:
quotation
text:
The thread increments the semaphore to prevent other threads from entering the critical section at the same time.
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example
text:
Several synchronization techniques have been proposed and many of them have been adopted by parallel and distributed operating systems or parallel programming platforms. [...] Semaphores represent another synchronization technique that is mainly used by traditional stand-alone operating systems.
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1996, P. Theodoropoulos, G. Manis, P. Tsanakas, G. Papakonstantinou, “Extending Synchronization PVM Mechanisms”, in Arndt Bode, Jack Dongarra, Thomas Ludwig, Vaidy Sunderam, editors, Parallel Virtual Machine – EuroPVM ’96: Third European PVM Conference, Munich, Germany, October 7–9, 1996: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 1156), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →ISSN, page 315
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quotation
text:
A semaphore makes sure that the different processes don't step on each other's toes when they access the shared memory segment. Before a process can use the segment, it needs to get control of the semaphore. When it's done with the segment, it releases the semaphore for another process to grab.
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2003, David Sklar, Adam Trachtenberg, “Variables”, in Paula Ferguson, editor, PHP Cookbook, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly & Associates, section 5.6 (Sharing Variables across Processes), page 124
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quotation
text:
It is up to the programmer to ensure that if one thread updates multiple dependent memory locations (for example, writing a string, or updating a table) that another thread might read, some protection is put in place to ensure that the two threads don't update and read at the same time. [...] Several techniques are used by programmers to prevent this, including locks, semaphores, and mutexes.
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2012, Timothy Mangan, “L1/L2/L3 Memory Cache”, in Windows System Performance through Caching: 15 Ways Caching Improves System Performance (Inside the OS Series), Canton, Mass.: TMurgent Technologies, page 22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any equipment used for visual signalling by means of flags, lights, or mechanically moving arms, which are used to represent letters of the alphabet, or words.
A visual system for transmitting information using the above equipment; especially, by means of two flags held one in each hand, using an alphabetic and numeric code based on the position of the signaller's arms; flag semaphore.
A bit, token, fragment of code, or some other mechanism which is used to restrict access to a shared function or device to a single process at a time, or to synchronize and coordinate events in different processes.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
4124 | word:
semaphore
word_type:
verb
expansion:
semaphore (third-person singular simple present semaphores, present participle semaphoring, simple past and past participle semaphored)
forms:
form:
semaphores
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
semaphoring
tags:
participle
present
form:
semaphored
tags:
participle
past
form:
semaphored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
semaphore
etymology_text:
The noun is borrowed from French sémaphore, from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma, “mark, sign, token”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰyeh₂- (“to notice”)) + French -phore (from Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros, suffix indicating a bearer or carrier), from φέρω (phérō, “to bear, carry”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
The person intending to Semaphore will make the International Code Signal VOX (I am going to Semaphore to you), and set his Semaphore at the alphabetical sign [...] with the Indicator out, and wait until the person to whom the Semaphore signal is to be made hoists his answering pennant close up. [...] The British method of Semaphoring by flags held in the hand which is shown in plate VIII is exactly the same as the British Movable Semaphore system, which has just been explained, the positions of the apparatus which denote the letters, numbers, and special signs being, it will be seen, identical in each case, and the only difference being in the apparatus employed.
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1907, United States Hydrographic Office, “Distant Signals”, in International Code of Signals, American edition, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, part III, page 539
type:
quotation
text:
Minutes later, unseen by the defenders, he semaphored back across the valley that he was going to make a fresh attempt.
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1990, Peter Hopkirk, “The Climactic Years”, in The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia, London: John Murray; republished Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2001, page 478
type:
quotation
text:
Near the concession stand on the east side of the park, she saw two familiar figures sitting on a bench in the shade of a large oak. Her father hailed her, wildly semaphoring with his hot dog.
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2008, Elizabeth Elwood, “Gilda Died for Love”, in A Black Tie Affair: And Other Mystery Stories, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
He can't hear what they're saying, but Jake is making angry movements with his hands and his taut posture semaphores, even to Daniel, his distinct displeasure.
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2011, Heather Menzies Jones, chapter 25, in NanoMan, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
[Barack] Obama doesn't merely evince blackness; he uses his blackness to signal and court African Americans, semaphoring in a cultural dialect of our creation—crooning Al Green at the Apollo, name-checking Young Jeezy, regularly appearing on the cover of black magazines, weighing the merits of Jay-Z versus Kanye West, being photographed in the White House with a little black boy touching his hair.
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2012 September, Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Fear of a Black President”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-03
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To signal using, or as if using, a semaphore, with the implication that it is done nonverbally.
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4125 | word:
vermilion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vermilion (countable and uncountable, plural vermilions)
forms:
form:
vermilions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English vermelioun, vermyloun, vermylon, vermilun, from Old French vermeillon (“vermilion”), from vermeil, from Latin vermiculus (“little worm”), from vermis (“worm”), ultimately in reference to Kermes vermilio, a type of scale insect used to make a crimson dye.
senses_examples:
text:
Take ſix Ounces of Brimſtone, and melt it in an Iron Ladle, then put two Pound of Quick-ſilver into a ſhammy Leather, or double Linnen Cloth, and ſqueeze it out into the melted Brimſtone, ſtirring them, in the mean Time, with a wooden Spatula till they are well united; and when they are cold, beat the Maſs into a Powder, and ſublime it in a Glaſs-veſſel, with a ſtrong Fire, and it will riſe into that Red Subſtance, which is called artificial Cinnabar or Vermilion.
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1734, “VERMILION”, in The Builder's Dictionary: Or, Architect's Companion, volume II, London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, […] and S. Austen, […]
type:
quotation
text:
vermilion:
text:
vermilion Web:
text:
While this particular difference in the shade of vermilion is very striking in the symmetrical, smooth skins of even and regular make, which I have just compared, I must confess that it probably would not be in rough skins such as some European ornithologists appear still content with.
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1911 February 24, Outram Bangs, “Two New Birds from the Island of Molokai”, in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, volume XXIV, page 29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vivid red synthetic pigment made of mercury sulfide, cinnabar.
A bright orange-red colour.
A type of red dye worn in the parting of the hair by married Hindu women.
The red skin of the lips or its border with the skin of the face.
The kermes or cochineal insect.
The cochineal dye made from this insect.
senses_topics:
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4126 | word:
vermilion
word_type:
adj
expansion:
vermilion (comparative more vermilion, superlative most vermilion)
forms:
form:
more vermilion
tags:
comparative
form:
most vermilion
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English vermelioun, vermyloun, vermylon, vermilun, from Old French vermeillon (“vermilion”), from vermeil, from Latin vermiculus (“little worm”), from vermis (“worm”), ultimately in reference to Kermes vermilio, a type of scale insect used to make a crimson dye.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a brilliant red colour.
Having the color of the vermilion dye.
senses_topics:
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4127 | word:
vermilion
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vermilion (third-person singular simple present vermilions, present participle vermilioning, simple past and past participle vermilioned)
forms:
form:
vermilions
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
vermilioning
tags:
participle
present
form:
vermilioned
tags:
participle
past
form:
vermilioned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English vermelioun, vermyloun, vermylon, vermilun, from Old French vermeillon (“vermilion”), from vermeil, from Latin vermiculus (“little worm”), from vermis (“worm”), ultimately in reference to Kermes vermilio, a type of scale insect used to make a crimson dye.
senses_examples:
text:
Coraly has few of thoſe charms that conſtitute perſonal excellence—her cheek is pallid—her eye no brilliant; but when the latter beams benevolence, or ſparkles with mirth—when the former is ſuffuſed with the captivating bluſh of modeſty, or vermilioned with the glow of the tender paſſion, there are none more pleaſing.
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1774 March, “Coraly: A Portrait”, in The Hibernian Magazine, or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, page 160
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To color or paint vermilion.
senses_topics:
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4128 | word:
duct
word_type:
noun
expansion:
duct (plural ducts)
forms:
form:
ducts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
duct
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun), from dūcō (“to lead, conduct, draw”) + -tus (action noun suffix). Doublet of ductus and douit. Also via Medieval Latin ductus (“a conveyance of water; a channel”), which itself has the first mentioned etymology.
senses_examples:
text:
heating and air-conditioning ducts
type:
example
text:
[…] otherwise to express His care and love to mankind, viz., in giving and consigning to them His written word for a rule and constant director of life, not leaving them to the duct of their own inclinations.
ref:
1650, Henry Hammond, Of the reasonableness of Christian religion
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another
An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors
A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another
A vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile
A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another
A tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air
A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another
A layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal conditions and in which radio or sound waves are confined to a restricted path
Guidance, direction
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
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4129 | word:
duct
word_type:
verb
expansion:
duct (third-person singular simple present ducts, present participle ducting, simple past and past participle ducted)
forms:
form:
ducts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ducting
tags:
participle
present
form:
ducted
tags:
participle
past
form:
ducted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
duct
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun), from dūcō (“to lead, conduct, draw”) + -tus (action noun suffix). Doublet of ductus and douit. Also via Medieval Latin ductus (“a conveyance of water; a channel”), which itself has the first mentioned etymology.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To enclose in a duct
To channel something (such as a gas) or propagate something (such as radio waves) through a duct or series of ducts
senses_topics:
|
4130 | word:
thumb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thumb (plural thumbs)
forms:
form:
thumbs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe, from Old English þūma, from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (“to grow”).
See also West Frisian tomme, Dutch duim, Low German Duum, German Daumen, Danish tomme, Swedish tumme; also
Welsh tyfu (“to grow”), Latin tumēre (“to swell”), Lithuanian tumėti (“to thicken, clot”), Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “burial mound”), Avestan 𐬀𐬨𐬏𐬙 (amūt, “strong”), Sanskrit तुम्र (túmra, “strong, thick”). The parasitic ‐b has existed since the late 13th century.
senses_examples:
text:
a scroll-bar thumb
type:
example
text:
2001, Gary, “Wanna See Porn? Take a Look At These (Free Expandable Thumbs) - CLICK HERE”, in alt.sex.services (Usenet):
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.
The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
A thumbnail picture.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
4131 | word:
thumb
word_type:
verb
expansion:
thumb (third-person singular simple present thumbs, present participle thumbing, simple past and past participle thumbed)
forms:
form:
thumbs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
thumbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
thumbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
thumbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe, from Old English þūma, from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (“to grow”).
See also West Frisian tomme, Dutch duim, Low German Duum, German Daumen, Danish tomme, Swedish tumme; also
Welsh tyfu (“to grow”), Latin tumēre (“to swell”), Lithuanian tumėti (“to thicken, clot”), Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “burial mound”), Avestan 𐬀𐬨𐬏𐬙 (amūt, “strong”), Sanskrit तुम्र (túmra, “strong, thick”). The parasitic ‐b has existed since the late 13th century.
senses_examples:
text:
to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon
type:
example
text:
News agencies reported Lavrov had been sent to hospital for a checkup, only for the Russian foreign ministry to rush out a picture of Lavrov in shorts, sporting an Apple watch and Jean-Michel Basquiat-inspired T-shirt, thumbing his notes for his first address at the summit on Tuesday.
ref:
2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
thumb through
type:
example
text:
I thumbed through the book and decided not to bother reading it all.
type:
example
text:
It is also disconcerting when you suddenly realise that the driver isn't steering, but may be thumbing over his Customs papers with his feet up.
ref:
1948 March and April, “Notes and News: Lines in County Donegal”, in Railway Magazine, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
So I started thumbin' back east, toward my hometown.
type:
example
text:
Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained.
ref:
1969, Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster, Me and Bobby McGee
type:
quotation
text:
Thumbed a diesel down, outside a cafe.
ref:
1980, Kye Fleming, Dennis Morgan, Smoky Mountain Rain
type:
quotation
text:
Fargo palmed out his own revolver, thumbing back the hammer as the barrel came up.
ref:
2009, Jon Sharp, The Trailsman #337: Silver Showdown
type:
quotation
text:
Rainford reached down and found the revolver. Thumbing the cylinder open, he inspected the load.
ref:
2015, Tony Monchinski, Bad Men (I Kill Monsters Book 3)
type:
quotation
text:
Andy opened the revolver, thumbed in a cartridge.
ref:
2015, Don Fitzsimmons, If You Need a Laugh
type:
quotation
text:
To thumb a single-action revolver, hold down the trigger and use the thumb on the same hand to fire the gun by manipulating the hammer.
ref:
2011, Hans-Christian Vortisch, GURPS Tactical Shooting, page 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To touch or cover with the thumb.
To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.
To hitchhike
To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
|
4132 | word:
upbrought
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upbrought
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of upbring
senses_topics:
|
4133 | word:
however
word_type:
adv
expansion:
however (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English however, how-ever, how-evere; equivalent to how + ever. Compare howsoever.
senses_examples:
text:
He told me not to do it. However, I did it anyway. / I did it anyway, however. / I, however, did it anyway.
type:
example
text:
She wanted to go; however, she decided against it.
type:
example
text:
I didn't argue with him; I still think, however, that he is wrong.
type:
example
text:
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
ref:
2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3
type:
quotation
text:
The conference itself went very well. The party afterwards, however, was a disaster.
type:
example
text:
However clear you think you've been, many questions will remain.
type:
example
text:
Elinor, however little concerned in it, joined in their discourse; and Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.
ref:
1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 42
type:
quotation
text:
I don't care; just do it however.
type:
example
text:
Nothing was really planned; things just happened however.
type:
example
text:
I thought it was impossible. However were you able to do it?
type:
example
text:
Our chief end and highest interest is happiness : And this is happiness to be freed from all (if it may) [or] however from the greatest evils.
ref:
c. 1680, John Tillotson
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nevertheless; yet, still; in spite of that.
In contrast.
To whatever degree or extent.
In any way that one likes or chooses; in a haphazard or spontaneous way.
How ever: an emphatic form of how, used to ask in what manner.
In any case, at any rate, at all events.
senses_topics:
manner
|
4134 | word:
however
word_type:
conj
expansion:
however
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English however, how-ever, how-evere; equivalent to how + ever. Compare howsoever.
senses_examples:
text:
Let me know when you've had your interview, however it goes.
type:
example
text:
However we do this, it isn't going to work.
type:
example
text:
But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
ref:
2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
She offered to help however she could.
type:
example
text:
Wear your hair however you want.
type:
example
text:
She wanted to go, however she decided against it. (proscribed)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Regardless of the way in which.
In any way in which.
But, yet, though, although.
senses_topics:
|
4135 | word:
amethyst
word_type:
noun
expansion:
amethyst (plural amethysts)
forms:
form:
amethysts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
amethyst
etymology_text:
From Middle English ametist, from Old French ametiste (French améthyste), from Ancient Greek ἀμέθυστος (améthustos, “not drunk”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + μεθύω (methúō, “I am drunk”), from μέθυ (méthu, “wine”). The Greeks believed that the amethyst prevented intoxication.
senses_examples:
text:
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
ref:
2012 March 24, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2012-06-14, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
amethyst:
text:
The Field is Topaz, a Lion rampant Amethyst [...]
ref:
1726, John Guillim, The Banner Display'd, page 407
type:
quotation
text:
Purple, on the arms of princes Mercury, of peers amethyst, and of commoners purpure, [is represented] by diagonal lines from the sinister chief to the dexter base.
ref:
1834, The Art of Heraldry; Explaining the Origin and Use of Arms and Armorial Bearings, Etc, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
1st & 4th grand Quarter alike viz. Field Pearl, on a bend Sapphire 3 Buckheads, coup'd topaz for Stanley. The 2d Quarter, Field Sapphire with an inverted Chief, amethyst. The 3d, A Checque topaz & Amethyst, this seems prior to Bosworth field, to have belong'd to Sr Robt Goushill whose Dr a Stanley married …
ref:
1906 (printed), The Beetham Repository, 1770 (eds. William Hutton, John Rawlinson Ford), page 115
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transparent purple to violet variety of quartz with traces of manganese, used as a gemstone.
A purple colour.
The tincture purpure, when blazoning by precious stones.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
4136 | word:
amethyst
word_type:
adj
expansion:
amethyst (comparative more amethyst, superlative most amethyst)
forms:
form:
more amethyst
tags:
comparative
form:
most amethyst
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
amethyst
etymology_text:
From Middle English ametist, from Old French ametiste (French améthyste), from Ancient Greek ἀμέθυστος (améthustos, “not drunk”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + μεθύω (methúō, “I am drunk”), from μέθυ (méthu, “wine”). The Greeks believed that the amethyst prevented intoxication.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a colour similar to that of the gemstone
senses_topics:
|
4137 | word:
gossip
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gossip (countable and uncountable, plural gossips)
forms:
form:
gossips
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
gossip
etymology_text:
From Middle English godsybbe, godsib (“a close friend or relation, a confidant; a godparent”), from Old English godsibb (“godparent, sponsor”), equivalent to god + sib. Doublet of godsib. For sense evolution to "gossip, discussing others' personal affairs," compare French commérage.
senses_examples:
text:
Be careful what you say to him: he’s a bit of a gossip.
type:
example
text:
A losing Gamester, who is obliged to drive into the City to dispose of a little South Sea Stock, gives the Hint there. The Gossips at Garraway’s have it in a Moment: At One it is buzz’d on Change, and the circulating Whisper in the Boxes interrupts the Play at Night.
ref:
1752, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s Inn Journal, volume 1, number 11, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
He was an arrant old gossip, too; for ever coming off in his canoe to the ships in the bay, and regaling their crews with choice little morsels of court scandal […]
ref:
1846, Herman Melville, “Sequel Containing the Story of Toby”, in Typee
type:
quotation
text:
Alf could tell you about everybody on both sides of Main Street. He was a vicious male gossip, insatiably curious and vindictive without malice.
ref:
1952, John Steinbeck, chapter 48, in East of Eden, London: Heinemann, page 456
type:
quotation
text:
According to the latest gossip, their relationship is on the rocks.
type:
example
text:
I have a juicy piece of gossip to share with you.
type:
example
text:
The smaller a town the more richly it hums with gossip. There are no private affairs here. Gossip is the air we breathe.
ref:
1980, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 2, in Waiting for the Barbarians, Penguin, published 1982, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
Intense nosiness about everybody had always existed in the area. Gossip washed in, washed out, came, went, moved on to the next target.
ref:
2018, Anna Burns, chapter 1, in Milkman, London: Faber & Faber
type:
quotation
text:
a gossip columnist
type:
example
text:
a gossip blog
type:
example
text:
Should a great Lady, that was invited to be a Gossip, in her place send her Kitchen-Maid, ’twould be ill taken;
ref:
1689, John Selden, Table-Talk, London: Jacob Tonson et al., 1696, “Prayer”, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
When a man stood sponsor for a child at baptism, he became the child's godfather, and gossip to the parents.
ref:
1908, Patrick Weston Joyce, A Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland: Treating of the Government, Military System, and Law; Religion, Learning, and Art; Trades, Industries, and Commerce; Manners, Customs, and Domestic Life, of the Ancient Irish People, page 287
type:
quotation
text:
Gossips accepted responsibility for the child's spiritual and physical well-being, […]
ref:
2010, Susan E. Phillips, Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England, Penn State Press, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
He was old and infirm, he wrote, and Gossip Death was waiting for him on the moor; but before he went to join him he would like to see Susan’s boy again.
ref:
1905, William John Locke, chapter 11, in The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business.
Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
Idle conversation in general.
A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
Communication done using a gossip protocol.
A sponsor; a godfather or godmother; the godparent of one's child or godchild, or the parent of one's godchild.
A familiar acquaintance.
Title used with the name of one's child's godparent or of a friend.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
4138 | word:
gossip
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gossip (third-person singular simple present gossips, present participle gossiping or gossipping, simple past and past participle gossiped or gossipped)
forms:
form:
gossips
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gossiping
tags:
participle
present
form:
gossipping
tags:
participle
present
form:
gossiped
tags:
participle
past
form:
gossiped
tags:
past
form:
gossipped
tags:
participle
past
form:
gossipped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
gossip
etymology_text:
From Middle English godsybbe, godsib (“a close friend or relation, a confidant; a godparent”), from Old English godsibb (“godparent, sponsor”), equivalent to god + sib. Doublet of godsib. For sense evolution to "gossip, discussing others' personal affairs," compare French commérage.
senses_examples:
text:
Godfrey felt guilty at having gossiped to Olive about Lettie’s changes in her will.
ref:
1959, Muriel Spark, chapter 8, in Memento Mori, New York: Time-Life, 1964, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
The Pleasure I used to take in telling my Boy Stories of the Battles, and asking my Girl Questions about the Disposal of her Baby, and the Gossiping of it, is turned into inward Reflection and Melancholy.
ref:
1709, Richard Steele, “No. 95 in The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff”, in The Tatler, London, 1712, page 282
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a manner that spreads the information.
To talk idly.
To stand godfather to; to provide godparents for.
To enjoy oneself during festivities, to make merry.
To communicate using a gossip protocol.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
4139 | word:
Adelaidean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Adelaidean (plural Adelaideans)
forms:
form:
Adelaideans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Adelaide + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Adelaide (Australia).
senses_topics:
|
4140 | word:
Adelaidean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Adelaidean (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Adelaide + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from or relating to Adelaide.
senses_topics:
|
4141 | word:
island state
word_type:
noun
expansion:
island state (plural island states)
forms:
form:
island states
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state consisting of one or more islands
senses_topics:
|
4142 | word:
omelette
word_type:
noun
expansion:
omelette (countable and uncountable, plural omelettes)
forms:
form:
omelettes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
omelette
etymology_text:
From French omelette, from alemette, from alemelle (“knife blade”), probably derived from la lemelle, from Latin lamella (“thin plate”).
senses_examples:
text:
He crossed to the window, which looked on to a herb garden, and seated himself on the chintz-covered window-seat and delicately watched the two, who were engaged in eating omelette and salad at a round table near the fire-place.
ref:
1912, w:Marjorie Bowen [pseudonym; Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long], “The Heretic”, in The Quest of Glory, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. […], part I (The Quest Joyful), pages 69–70
type:
quotation
text:
She had never meant to confide in him — certainly not here, eating omelette and cheese sauce — but that look seemed to demand a confidence.
ref:
1969, J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley, “London End”, in The Image Men, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 288
type:
quotation
text:
She stayed to lunch that day, eating omelette and peas in the kitchen, followed by treacle tart.
ref:
1985, Christine Pullein-Thompson, Wait for Me Phantom horse, London: Award Publications Limited, published 1997, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.
ref:
2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with other foodstuffs, for example cheese or chives.
A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to be executed.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
4143 | word:
omelette
word_type:
verb
expansion:
omelette (third-person singular simple present omelettes, present participle omeletting, simple past and past participle omeletted)
forms:
form:
omelettes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
omeletting
tags:
participle
present
form:
omeletted
tags:
participle
past
form:
omeletted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French omelette, from alemette, from alemelle (“knife blade”), probably derived from la lemelle, from Latin lamella (“thin plate”).
senses_examples:
text:
This recipe may be adapted for scrambled eggs, i.e., instead of omeletting the eggs, simply scramble them.
ref:
2000, Rajnit Rai, Curry, Curry, Curry
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make into an omelette
senses_topics:
|
4144 | word:
NT
word_type:
name
expansion:
NT
forms:
wikipedia:
NT
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: OT
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Northern Territory. (of Australia)
Initialism of Northwest Territories. (of Canada)
Initialism of National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. (of the United Kingdom)
Initialism of New Testament.
Initialism of New Territories. (of Hong Kong)
Ellipsis of Windows NT.
Abbreviation of Nortel.
Abbreviation of East Nusa Tenggara, a province of Indonesia.
senses_topics:
Christianity
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
business
finance
stock-ticker-symbol
|
4145 | word:
NT
word_type:
noun
expansion:
NT (plural NTs)
forms:
form:
NTs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
NT
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
This was brought home to me, an NT, when I asked an autistic E-mail correspondent, who is mordantly expressive on line, what it would be like to meet.
ref:
1997 June 30, Harvey Blume, “Autistics, freed from face-to-face encounters, are communicating in cyberspace.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of neighbor tone.
Initialism of neurotensin.
Initialism of neurotypical.
Abbreviation of nanotube.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
4146 | word:
NT
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
NT
forms:
wikipedia:
NT
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
nice try
senses_topics:
|
4147 | word:
Canberran
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Canberran (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Canberra + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from or relating to Canberra.
Of, from or relating to the Australian Capital Territory.
senses_topics:
|
4148 | word:
Canberran
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Canberran (plural Canberrans)
forms:
form:
Canberrans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Canberra + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Canberra (Australia).
A native or inhabitant of the Australian Capital Territory.
senses_topics:
|
4149 | word:
SQL
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SQL (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Structured Query Language.
Initialism of standard quantum limit.
senses_topics:
computer-languages
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
4150 | word:
indigo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
indigo (countable and uncountable, plural indigos or indigoes)
forms:
form:
indigos
tags:
plural
form:
indigoes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
indigo
etymology_text:
16th century (as indico, modern spelling from the 17th century), Spanish índigo, Portuguese endego (modern índigo), or Dutch (via Portuguese) indigo, all from Latin indicum (“indigo”), from Ancient Greek ἰνδικόν (indikón, “Indian dye”), from Ἰνδία (Indía). Doublet of Indic.
senses_examples:
text:
indigo:
text:
web indigo:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A purplish-blue colour.
An indigo-colored dye obtained from certain plants (indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.
An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo), and Psorothamnus and Dalea (indigo bush).
senses_topics:
|
4151 | word:
indigo
word_type:
adj
expansion:
indigo (comparative more indigo, superlative most indigo)
forms:
form:
more indigo
tags:
comparative
form:
most indigo
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
indigo
etymology_text:
16th century (as indico, modern spelling from the 17th century), Spanish índigo, Portuguese endego (modern índigo), or Dutch (via Portuguese) indigo, all from Latin indicum (“indigo”), from Ancient Greek ἰνδικόν (indikón, “Indian dye”), from Ἰνδία (Indía). Doublet of Indic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
having a deep purplish-blue colour
senses_topics:
|
4152 | word:
Brisbanian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Brisbanian (plural Brisbanians)
forms:
form:
Brisbanians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Brisbane + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Brisbane (Australia).
senses_topics:
|
4153 | word:
Brisbanian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Brisbanian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Brisbane + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from or relating to Brisbane.
senses_topics:
|
4154 | word:
Hobartian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Hobartian (plural Hobartians)
forms:
form:
Hobartians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hobart + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Hobart (Australia).
senses_topics:
|
4155 | word:
Hobartian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Hobartian (comparative more Hobartian, superlative most Hobartian)
forms:
form:
more Hobartian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Hobartian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hobart + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from or relating to Hobart.
senses_topics:
|
4156 | word:
tortilla
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tortilla (plural tortillas)
forms:
form:
tortillas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish tortilla.
senses_examples:
text:
From this dough are shaped small round forms, or a tortilla press can be used to more easily flatten many perfectly round, thin cakes. Tortilla machines, found all over Mexico and the Southwest, can produce hundreds of tortillas per hour.
ref:
2001, Rafaela Castro, Chicano Folklore, Oxford University Press, page 230
type:
quotation
text:
An authentic Spanish tortilla is traditionally made with just eggs, potatoes, onions, salt and pepper, but this version contains sliced red and green peppers for a bit of extra colour and flavour.
ref:
2004, The Student Cookbook, Hachette UK
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flat round bread made out of cornmeal or flour.
Spanish omelette; an omelette containing potatoes and onions.
senses_topics:
cuisine
food
lifestyle |
4157 | word:
Perthian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Perthian (plural Perthians)
forms:
form:
Perthians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Perth + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Perth (Australia).
senses_topics:
|
4158 | word:
Perthian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Perthian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Perth + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from or relating to Perth.
senses_topics:
|
4159 | word:
English
word_type:
adj
expansion:
English (comparative more English, superlative most English)
forms:
form:
more English
tags:
comparative
form:
most English
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Englisch, English, Inglis, from Old English Englisċ (“of the Angles; English”), from Engle (“the Angles”), a Germanic tribe + -isċ; equivalent to Engle + -ish. Compare West Frisian Ingelsk, Scots Inglis (older ynglis), Dutch Engels, Danish engelsk, Old French Englesche (whence French anglais), German englisch, Spanish inglés, all ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow”) (compare Sanskrit अंहु (áṃhu, “narrow”), अंहस् (áṃhas, “anxiety, sin”), Latin angustus (“narrow”), Old Church Slavonic ѫзъкъ (ǫzŭkŭ, “narrow”)).
senses_examples:
text:
During the war of 1914–18 the English working class were in contact with foreigners to an extent that is rarely possible. The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans, except the Germans, whose courage they admired.
ref:
1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I
type:
quotation
text:
Those immigrants Anglicised their names to make them sound more English.
type:
example
text:
Honest, honest, English is just a language of confusions.
ref:
2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
an English ton
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: Chinese
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to England.
English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.
Of or pertaining to the people of England (to Englishmen and Englishwomen).
Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.
Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
film
media
television |
4160 | word:
English
word_type:
noun
expansion:
English (countable and uncountable, plural English or Englishes)
forms:
form:
English
tags:
plural
form:
Englishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Englisch, English, Inglis, from Old English Englisċ (“of the Angles; English”), from Engle (“the Angles”), a Germanic tribe + -isċ; equivalent to Engle + -ish. Compare West Frisian Ingelsk, Scots Inglis (older ynglis), Dutch Engels, Danish engelsk, Old French Englesche (whence French anglais), German englisch, Spanish inglés, all ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow”) (compare Sanskrit अंहु (áṃhu, “narrow”), अंहस् (áṃhas, “anxiety, sin”), Latin angustus (“narrow”), Old Church Slavonic ѫзъкъ (ǫzŭkŭ, “narrow”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Cricket—a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
ref:
1979, Stormont Mancroft, Bees in Some Bonnets, p. 175
text:
The English and the ROTW have a long history of conflict, periodically interrupted for tea.
type:
example
text:
Sorry, my English isn't very good.
type:
example
text:
What's the English for 'à peu près'? It depends: how is it being used?
type:
example
text:
The specs are all correct, but the English in the instructions isn't as clear as it should be.
type:
example
text:
Data: I have completed my analysis of the anomaly. It appears to be a multi-phasic temporal convergence in the space-time continuum.
Dr. Crusher: In English, Data.
ref:
1994, Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore, “All Good Things...”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 7, episodes 25-26, Brent Spiner and Gates McFadden (actors)
type:
quotation
text:
Thank you, doctor. Now, please say that again in English.
type:
example
text:
This reflects that in English, students learn a range of text types, such as procedures, editorials, poetry, and not just academic essays.
ref:
2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
I loved reading until 7th grade English.
type:
example
text:
You are putting too much English on the ball.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The people of England, Englishmen and Englishwomen.
The non-Amish, people outside the Amish faith and community.
Facility with the English language, ability to employ English correctly and idiomatically.
A particular instance of the English language, including
The English term or expression for some thing or idea.
A particular instance of the English language, including
The English text or phrasing of some spoken or written communication.
A particular instance of the English language, including
A clear and readily understandable expression of some idea in English.
A particular instance of the English language, including
Synonym of language arts, the class dedicated to improving primary and secondary school students' mastery of English and the material taught in such classes.
A size of type between pica (12 point) and great primer (18 point), standardized as 14-point.
Alternative form of english.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
|
4161 | word:
English
word_type:
name
expansion:
English (countable and uncountable, plural Englishes)
forms:
form:
Englishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
English (surname)
English#Places in the United States
etymology_text:
From Middle English Englisch, English, Inglis, from Old English Englisċ (“of the Angles; English”), from Engle (“the Angles”), a Germanic tribe + -isċ; equivalent to Engle + -ish. Compare West Frisian Ingelsk, Scots Inglis (older ynglis), Dutch Engels, Danish engelsk, Old French Englesche (whence French anglais), German englisch, Spanish inglés, all ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow”) (compare Sanskrit अंहु (áṃhu, “narrow”), अंहस् (áṃhas, “anxiety, sin”), Latin angustus (“narrow”), Old Church Slavonic ѫзъкъ (ǫzŭkŭ, “narrow”)).
senses_examples:
text:
English is spoken here as an unofficial language and lingua franca.
type:
example
text:
How do you say ‘à peu près’ in English?
type:
example
text:
I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English I spoke to my mother, which for lack of a better term might be described as “simple”; the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”; my translation of her Chinese, which could certainly be described as “watered down”; and what I imagined to be her translation of her Chinese if she could speak in perfect English, her internal language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure.
ref:
2003, Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue”, in The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, page 278
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and other parts of the world.
A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English.
English language, literature, composition as a subject of study
An English surname originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain.
A male or female given name
A number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Crawford County, Indiana; named for Indiana statesman William Hayden English.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Kentucky.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Brazoria County, Texas.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Red River County, Texas.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia.
senses_topics:
|
4162 | word:
English
word_type:
verb
expansion:
English (third-person singular simple present Englishes, present participle Englishing, simple past and past participle Englished)
forms:
form:
Englishes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Englishing
tags:
participle
present
form:
Englished
tags:
participle
past
form:
Englished
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Englisch, English, Inglis, from Old English Englisċ (“of the Angles; English”), from Engle (“the Angles”), a Germanic tribe + -isċ; equivalent to Engle + -ish. Compare West Frisian Ingelsk, Scots Inglis (older ynglis), Dutch Engels, Danish engelsk, Old French Englesche (whence French anglais), German englisch, Spanish inglés, all ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow”) (compare Sanskrit अंहु (áṃhu, “narrow”), अंहस् (áṃhas, “anxiety, sin”), Latin angustus (“narrow”), Old Church Slavonic ѫзъкъ (ǫzŭkŭ, “narrow”)).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] severe prohibuit viris suis tum misceri feminas in consuetis suis menstruis, etc. I spare to English this which I have said.
ref:
, page 214 (2001 reprint)
text:
Mamma is an adaptation of a French farce by Mr. Sydney Grundy, made in the time when his chief claim to recognition as a playwright lay in his ingenious aptitude for Englishing the un-Englishable.
ref:
1901, The Speaker, the Liberal Review - Volume 3, page 654
type:
quotation
text:
Here, the poems are Englished by twelve different translators
ref:
2011, Colin Cheney, 'Where Should I Start with Tomas Tranströmer?'
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To translate, adapt or render into English.
senses_topics:
|
4163 | word:
handy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
handy (comparative handier, superlative handiest)
forms:
form:
handier
tags:
comparative
form:
handiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English handy, hondi (attested in personal names), alteration of earlier hendi (“handy, skillful”), from Old English *hendiġ (“skillful”) (attested in listhendiġ (“skilled in art”)), from Proto-West Germanic *handīg, *handag, *handug, from Proto-Germanic *handugaz (“handy, skillful, nimble”), from *handuz (“hand”), equivalent to hand + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian jäntich (“handy”), Middle Low German handich (“skillful, apt”), Middle High German handec, hendec (“manual, hand-held”), Old Norse hǫndugr (“efficient”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐌲𐍃 (handugs, “wise, clever”). Akin to Dutch handig (“handy”), Norwegian hendig (“handy”), Swedish händig (“handy”).
senses_examples:
text:
Some people regard duct tape as a handy fix-all.
type:
example
text:
You wouldn’t have a screwdriver handy, would you?
type:
example
text:
I keep a first-aid kit handy in case of emergency.
type:
example
text:
She's very handy: she made all her own kitchen cupboards.
type:
example
text:
We had a sergeant who was a bit handy with the rougher elements. He dealt with them a little bit differently to what I do.
ref:
1974, William Purcell, British Police in a Changing Society, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
The Sloanes said he had nothing on them, that he threatened them, made up a lot of lies. Tried to attack them, got a bit handy.
ref:
2012, Tania Carver, Choked
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Easy to use, useful.
Nearby, within reach.
Dexterous, skilful. (of a person)
Physically violent; tending to use one's fists.
Of a freight ship: having a small cargo capacity (less than 40,000 DWT); belonging to the handysize class.
senses_topics:
|
4164 | word:
handy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handy (plural handies or handsies)
forms:
form:
handies
tags:
plural
form:
handsies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hand + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
senses_examples:
text:
Clap, clap handies
ref:
1916, Blanche Fisher Wright, The Real Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme Illustration
type:
quotation
roman:
Mammie's wee, wee ain.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The hand.
senses_topics:
|
4165 | word:
handy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handy (plural handies)
forms:
form:
handies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of handgun and hand job followed by -y (“diminutive suffix”)
senses_examples:
text:
Look left and right, when I cross these roads,
I don’t wanna get fright
We got handies and shotties,
which one should you decide?
ref:
2020 July 9, C1 (lyrics and music), “Even Steven”, 1:51–1:57
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A handgun.
A hand job.
senses_topics:
|
4166 | word:
handy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handy (plural handies)
forms:
form:
handies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Disputed; see German Handy: according to some commentators, this meaning is originally from German (a condensed form of Handfunktelefon), whereas others claim there was an early, but now neglected, antetype of it in English (from etymology 1).
senses_examples:
text:
An important field of application for small rechargeable lithium ion batteries is that of the fast growing market of cellular phones or ‘handies’. 277,000,000 handies were sold worldwide in 1999.
ref:
2000, TELESCON 2000: The Third International Telecommunications Energy Special Conference, IEEE, section 9 (Look at the Market), page 127
type:
quotation
text:
“I’m afraid Mister Franklyn is occupied until seven o’clock. He shall call when he breaks. I’ll take a handy to receive calls—”[…]The distance frees him to take phone calls on his handy.
ref:
2003, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Indigo Sound, Susaami Books, pages 79 and 82
type:
quotation
text:
Life was good and quiet until six weeks ago when he received a phone call on his handy from Unbekannt Nummer --Unknown Number.
ref:
2017, Sheldon Charles, From Within the Firebird’s Nest, Valkyrie Spirit Publishing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of mobile phone
senses_topics:
|
4167 | word:
calculator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
calculator (plural calculators)
forms:
form:
calculators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
calculator
etymology_text:
In the sense of a person, from Middle English calkelatour (“mathematician, astrologer”), borrowed from Latin calculātor, equivalent to calculate + -or. The other meanings arose in Modern English.
senses_examples:
text:
First, many real-world investors bear little resemblance to the cool calculators of efficient-market theory: they're all too subject to herd behavior, to bouts of irrational exuberance and unwarranted panic.
ref:
2020, Paul Krugman, Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future, page 145
type:
quotation
text:
You have in the merchant the shrewd calculator of probable contingencies; we shall see that we have in the prophet the absolute proclaimer of necessary and inevitable facts.
ref:
1858, John Cumming, Thy Word is Truth: an apology for Christianity, page 112
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations.
A person who performs mathematical calculation.
A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
A set of mathematical tables.
senses_topics:
|
4168 | word:
finger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
finger (plural fingers)
forms:
form:
fingers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*pénkʷe
From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”), from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós, from *pénkʷe (“five”). Compare West Frisian finger, Low German/German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish finger; also Old Armenian հինգեր-որդ (hinger-ord, “fifth”). More at five.
senses_examples:
text:
Humans have two hands and ten fingers. Each hand has one thumb and four fingers.
type:
example
text:
[M]aking a Cut here big enough to put her Finger in, which ſhe thruſts under the Guts, and with it rakes or tears out the Stone that lies neareſt to it.
ref:
1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion […], London: James Hodges; B. Collins, →OCLC, page 157
type:
quotation
text:
Each finger extended represents one-eighth of a cent. Thus when all four fingers and the thumb are extended, all being spread out from one another, it means five-eighths.
ref:
1916, “The Finger Talk of Chicago's Wheat-Pit”, in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 89, p. 81
type:
quotation
text:
In 1993 [Victor Candia] noticed that the fingers of his left hand were starting to curl up as he played [on his guitar]. It felt to him as if a magnet in his palm were preventing him from opening them. A week later, he could not play at all.
ref:
2014 March 29, “Don’t cramp my style”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8880
type:
quotation
text:
The starfish eats with five fingers.
ref:
1915, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, “The How and Why Library”, in Life, Section VIII
type:
quotation
text:
chocolate fingers; fish fingers; cheese fingers
type:
example
text:
By now, we hope you have said “no” to processed nuggets and fingers. Instead, how about taking some real chicken, tossing it with real eggs, a little tangy mustard, and a crunchy quinoa coating?
ref:
2014, Laurie David, The Family Cooks
type:
quotation
text:
An oven is placed over the finger with Co catalyst (oven temperature will depend on whether a quartz or Pyrex finger is used, see Ref. 24), and a cold finger (usually a copper rod immersed in dry ice–isopropanol slurry) is placed on the other tube.
ref:
1996, Susan Trumbore, Mass Spectrometry of Soils, page 318
type:
quotation
text:
...spires whose ‘silent finger points to Heaven’...
ref:
1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, page 250
type:
quotation
text:
a finger of land; a finger of smoke
text:
The finger of suspicion pointed clearly at the hotel manager.
type:
example
text:
a piece of steel three fingers thick
ref:
1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick
type:
quotation
text:
Gimme three fingers of bourbon.
type:
example
text:
A performer capable of doing justice to rapid or expressive passages, is said to have a good finger
ref:
1786, Thomas Busby, Musical Dictionary
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals
The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals
One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals
One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly
Something similar in shape to the human finger
Finger-shaped pieces of food.
Something similar in shape to the human finger
A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
Something similar in shape to the human finger
Synonym of foxglove (D. purpurea).
Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly
Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
A lobe of the liver.
Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
Clipping of finger pier: a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock.
Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
A leaf in a finger tree data structure.
Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly
Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
Synonym of hand, the part of a clock pointing to the hour, minute, or second.
Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
A policeman or prison guard.
Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).
Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
Synonym of digit: ¹⁄₁₂ the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
A person.
An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
An act of fingering (inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure).
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
cooking
food
lifestyle
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
nautical
transport
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
units-of-measure
units-of-measure
units-of-measure
units-of-measure
fashion
lifestyle
broadcasting
media
radio
|
4169 | word:
finger
word_type:
verb
expansion:
finger (third-person singular simple present fingers, present participle fingering, simple past and past participle fingered)
forms:
form:
fingers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fingering
tags:
participle
present
form:
fingered
tags:
participle
past
form:
fingered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*pénkʷe
From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”), from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós, from *pénkʷe (“five”). Compare West Frisian finger, Low German/German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish finger; also Old Armenian հինգեր-որդ (hinger-ord, “fifth”). More at five.
senses_examples:
text:
This makes it quite difficult to finger specific gene variants, since any one variant contributes only tiny effects.
ref:
2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 6, in The Secret of Our Success […], Princeton: Princeton University Press
type:
quotation
text:
I'm rose-tinting my teenage years, for sure, but Twenge isn't the only generational-change researcher to finger the ubiquitous smartphone for contributing to higher rates of teen depression and anxiety.
ref:
2018 January, “Wild Things”, in North and South
type:
quotation
text:
Alladad Khan, left alone, dandled unhandily his child in unfatherly arms. He wanted to finger his moustache, but could not.
ref:
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
Feeling tender around the face, she fingered herself gingerly. Yes, it was swollen, very sore around the cheekbones, with dried blood on the outsides of her eye sockets, below her nostrils, and below one ear.
ref:
2009, Win Blevins, Dreams Beneath Your Feet, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
She fingered him, spreading the gel and sliding the tip of her finger inside him.
ref:
2007, Madeline Bastinado, A Talent for Surrender, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
She smiled, a look of amazement on her face, as if thinking that maybe this was the cock that she had been fantasizing about just now, as she fingered herself to a massive, body-engulfing orgasm.
ref:
2008, Thomas Wainwright, editor, Erotic Tales, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
There is also a hot-link to "finger" the guys at id to see what they're working on next (John Carmack, John Cash […]
ref:
1996, Marc Saltzman, Sean McFadden, Internet Games Directory, Lycos Press, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
PGP mail welcome (finger me for my key).
ref:
1996, Yves Bellefeuille, “List of useful freeware”, in comp.archives.msdos.d (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To identify or point out; to blame for something.
To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.
To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.
To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
To steal; to purloin.
To execute, as any delicate work.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
sex
sexuality
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
4170 | word:
A.M.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
A.M. (countable and uncountable, plural A.M.s)
forms:
form:
A.M.s
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of anno mundi.
Initialism of Master of Arts.
senses_topics:
|
4171 | word:
A.M.
word_type:
adv
expansion:
A.M. (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of a.m. (“before noon”).
senses_topics:
|
4172 | word:
GO
word_type:
name
expansion:
GO
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Gorontalo, a province of Indonesia.
Abbreviation of Goiás, a state of Brazil.
senses_topics:
|
4173 | word:
GO
word_type:
noun
expansion:
GO (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of graphene oxide.
senses_topics:
|
4174 | word:
merger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
merger (plural mergers)
forms:
form:
mergers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
merger
etymology_text:
From merge + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One that merges.
senses_topics:
|
4175 | word:
merger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
merger (plural mergers)
forms:
form:
mergers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
merger
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman merger (verb used as noun).
senses_examples:
text:
Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half
type:
example
text:
the cot-caught merger
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
An absorption of one or more estate(s) or contract(s) into one other, all being held by the same owner; of several counts of accusation into one judgement, etc.
A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
law
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences |
4176 | word:
sister
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sister (plural sisters or (archaic in most senses) sistren)
forms:
form:
sisters
tags:
plural
form:
sistren
tags:
archaic
plural
raw_tags:
in most senses
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*swésōr
From Middle English sister, suster, from Old English swustor, sweoster, sweostor (“sister, nun”); from Proto-Germanic *swestēr (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”).
Cognate with Scots sister, syster (“sister”), West Frisian sus, suster (“sister”), Dutch zuster (“sister”), German Schwester (“sister”), Norwegian Bokmål søster (“sister”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish syster (“sister”), Icelandic systir (“sister”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍂 (swistar, “sister”), Latin soror (“sister”), Russian сестра́ (sestrá, “sister”), Lithuanian sesuo (“sister”), Albanian vajzë (“girl, maiden”), Sanskrit स्वसृ (svásṛ, “sister”), Persian خواهر (xâhar, “sister”).
In standard English, the form with i is due to contamination with Old Norse systir (“sister”).
The plural sistren is from Middle English sistren, a variant plural of sister, suster (“sister”); compare brethren.
senses_examples:
text:
My sister is always driving me crazy.
type:
example
text:
Michelle left behind her bank job and became a sister at the local convent.
type:
example
text:
Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be her sister.
type:
example
text:
Sisters are doing it for themselves / Standing on their own two feet
ref:
1985, “Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves”, in Who’s Zoomin' Who?, performed by Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin
type:
quotation
text:
The short “naps” of the average Sister do not sway in the wind as that of a blonde.
ref:
2009, Rajen Persaud, Why Black Men Love White Women, Simon and Schuster, page 171
type:
quotation
text:
And now, social media has made it worse. From Facebook to Twitter, I get all kinds of invitations. Recently a sister inboxed me on Facebook and told me that she knew for a fact that I wanted her and she wanted me.
ref:
2014, J. L. King, Full Circle: Loving. Living. Life. After The Down Low
type:
quotation
text:
What’s up, sister?
type:
example
text:
"Listen, sister. I've got a job for you."
ref:
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Thank you, sister. I would like to thank the sister who just spoke.
type:
example
text:
sister publication
type:
example
text:
sister city
type:
example
text:
sister projects
type:
example
text:
sister ships
type:
example
text:
sister facility
type:
example
text:
Within the ABCZ clade, Arecanae are sister of a group that includes all of the other taxa, and the latter fall into two major clades.
ref:
2000, Dennis W. Stevenson, Jerrold I. Davis, John V. Freudenstein, Christopher R. Hardy, Mark P. Simmons, Chelsea D. Specht, “A phylogenetic analysis of the monocotyledons based on morphological and molecular character sets, with comments on the placement of Acorus and Hydatellaceae”, in Karen L[ouise] Wilson, David A. Morrison, editors, Monocots: Systematics and Evolution, Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, page 21, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Karimi (1999) and Cheng et al. (1997), among others, on the other hand, assume that specific objects are base-generated at SpecVP, whereas nonspecific objects are sister of V.
ref:
2006, Linguistics, number 401, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
The bee-eaters are sister to a clade that includes the rollers, ground-rollers, todies, motmots, and kingfishers (Cracraft 2013).
ref:
2016, Bruce M. Beehler, Thane K. Pratt, Birds of New Guinea: Distribution, Taxonomy, and Systematics, Princeton, N.J., Woodstock, Oxon: Princeton University Press, page 220
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through the same biological sex, gender or common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.
A black woman.
A form of address to a woman.
A woman, in certain religious, labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
Something in the same class.
senses_topics:
computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
4177 | word:
sister
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sister (third-person singular simple present sisters, present participle sistering, simple past and past participle sistered)
forms:
form:
sisters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sistering
tags:
participle
present
form:
sistered
tags:
participle
past
form:
sistered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*swésōr
From Middle English sister, suster, from Old English swustor, sweoster, sweostor (“sister, nun”); from Proto-Germanic *swestēr (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”).
Cognate with Scots sister, syster (“sister”), West Frisian sus, suster (“sister”), Dutch zuster (“sister”), German Schwester (“sister”), Norwegian Bokmål søster (“sister”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish syster (“sister”), Icelandic systir (“sister”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍂 (swistar, “sister”), Latin soror (“sister”), Russian сестра́ (sestrá, “sister”), Lithuanian sesuo (“sister”), Albanian vajzë (“girl, maiden”), Sanskrit स्वसृ (svásṛ, “sister”), Persian خواهر (xâhar, “sister”).
In standard English, the form with i is due to contamination with Old Norse systir (“sister”).
The plural sistren is from Middle English sistren, a variant plural of sister, suster (“sister”); compare brethren.
senses_examples:
text:
I’m trying to correct my sagging floor by sistering the joists.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
To be sister to; to resemble closely.
senses_topics:
business
construction
manufacturing
|
4178 | word:
guinea pig
word_type:
noun
expansion:
guinea pig (plural guinea pigs)
forms:
form:
guinea pigs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
guinea pig
etymology_text:
The origin of "guinea" in "guinea pig" is uncertain. One theory is that the animals, which are originally from South America, were brought to Europe by way of Guinea, leading people to think they had originated there. "Guinea" was also frequently used in English to refer generally to any far-off, unknown country, and so the name may simply be a colorful reference to the animal's foreignness. Others believe "guinea" may be an alteration of the word coney (“rabbit”); guinea pigs were referred to as "pig coneys" in Edward Topsell's 1607 treatise on quadrupeds.
senses_examples:
text:
He became a human guinea pig and was paid by the company.
type:
example
text:
[H]e spoke of the unwisdom of volunteering one's services as a guinea pig.
ref:
1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
My dad told me about his days in the Navy: He'd agreed to be a guinea pig in exchange for a shorter enlistment. They kept him awake for a week straight.
ref:
2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
A good seaman he is... none of your guinea-pigs.
ref:
1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, page 183
type:
quotation
text:
I promise you, to me it was no slight penance to be exposed during the whole voyage to the half sneering, satirical looks of the mates and guinea-pigs.
ref:
1779, Macintosh, Travels, quoted in Carey, Old Days, i. 73
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tailless rodent of the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia, with short ears and larger than a hamster; the species Cavia porcellus is often kept as a pet.
A rodent of any of several species within the family Caviidae.
A living experimental subject.
A professional company director, without time or real qualifications for the duties.
A midshipman in the East India service; (by extension) a low-skilled or non-proficient seaman.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
4179 | word:
SA
word_type:
adj
expansion:
SA (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
SA block; SA node
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of sinoatrial / sinoauricular.
Abbreviation of straight-acting.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
|
4180 | word:
SA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SA (countable and uncountable, plural SAs)
forms:
form:
SAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of sexual abuse.
Initialism of sex appeal.
Initialism of special agent.
Initialism of small arms.
Initialism of surface area.
Initialism of simulated annealing.
Initialism of Sustainability Analysis.
Initialism of Scenario Analysis.
senses_topics:
|
4181 | word:
SA
word_type:
name
expansion:
SA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of North Sulawesi, a province of Indonesia.
Initialism of San Antonio.
Initialism of South Africa.
Initialism of South America.
Initialism of Saudi Arabia.
Initialism of South Australia, a state of Australia.
Abbreviation of Sturmabteilung.
Initialism of Stage Accompany.
Initialism of San Andreas.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
4182 | word:
SA
word_type:
verb
expansion:
SA (third-person singular simple present SAs, present participle SAing or SA-ing or SA'ing, simple past and past participle SAed or SA'ed or SA'd)
forms:
form:
SAs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
SAing
tags:
participle
present
form:
SA-ing
tags:
participle
present
form:
SA'ing
tags:
participle
present
form:
SAed
tags:
participle
past
form:
SAed
tags:
past
form:
SA'ed
tags:
participle
past
form:
SA'ed
tags:
past
form:
SA'd
tags:
participle
past
form:
SA'd
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
This time CPS did really investigate a lot more thoroughly, and the CPS worker said that she believes Allison was SA'ed by her dad, but that the role of CPS is to *remove children from abusive homes* and since Allison does not live in the abusive home, the duty falls to me to go thru the family court system to get no-visitation orders in place.
ref:
1995 March 9, Cindi, “no evidence that a crime was committed”, in alt.sexual.abuse.recovery (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Remind me of that night and while I threw away the clothes I was SA'd in,, the clothes I wore to be around him make me feel gross too and
ref:
2017 July 14, @princesse_peche, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-08
type:
quotation
text:
I just saw that! She doesn’t know anything! She’s regurgitating bull for a video to make money! And her subs won’t question it!! They apparently like middle aged woman attacking a little girl who was SA’d! Absolutely vile and disgusting
ref:
2020 September 22, @Carly4243, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-08
type:
quotation
text:
These same type of men will make disgusting “jokes” about SA’ing women they politically disagree with, a big target of theirs will be teenage girls. When said girls tell them to rightfully get lost out come the “jokes” about wanting to SA them or hoping the girls get SA’ed.
ref:
2022 December 31, @acegirleatscake, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-08
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sexually assault (someone).
senses_topics:
|
4183 | word:
guava
word_type:
noun
expansion:
guava (countable and uncountable, plural guavas)
forms:
form:
guavas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
guava
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Taíno *wayababor.
Spanish guayababor.
English guava
Recorded since 1555, from Spanish guayaba, from Taíno *wayaba. Doublet of guayaba, which is now rare or obsolete.
senses_examples:
text:
CREAM CHEESE AND GUAVA JELLY SANDWICH: Spread an equal number of slices of lightly buttered white bread with guava jelly and cream cheese. Put slices together and trim the edges.
ref:
1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
guava:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, Psidium guajava.
Its yellowish tropical fruit, 1¼ to 2 inches, globular or pear-shaped with thin, yellow, green or brown skin, is often made into jams and jellies. The meat can be yellowish to pale green or pink in color, depending on the variety.
A medium reddish-pink colour, like that of guava flesh (also called guava pink).
senses_topics:
|
4184 | word:
benzoin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
benzoin (countable and uncountable, plural benzoins)
forms:
form:
benzoins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
benzoin
etymology_text:
From Middle French benjoin, from Catalan benjuí, from Arabic لُبَان جَاوِيّ (lubān jāwiyy, “Javanese frankincense”). The first word is from Proto-West Semitic *laban- (“white”), the second from جاوة (jāwa, “Java”) (from Javanese ꦗꦮ (jawa)).
The initial lu was probably lost because it was taken as the definite article in Romance. Compare oliban.
senses_examples:
text:
Aromatics were used, too, especially in necromancy, and an old recipe of that sort comprises Musk, Myrrh, Frankincense, Red Storax, Mastick, Olibanum, Saffron, Benzoin and Labdanum.
ref:
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A resinous substance, dry and brittle, obtained from Styrax benzoin, a tree of Sumatra, Java, etc., having a fragrant odor, and slightly aromatic taste. It is used in the preparation of benzoic acid, in medicine, and as a perfume.
An aromatic hydroxy ketone, 2-hydroxy-1,2-di(phenyl)ethanone, synthesized from benzaldehyde; any derivative of this compound.
The spicebush, Lindera benzoin.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
|
4185 | word:
bosque
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bosque (plural bosques)
forms:
form:
bosques
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See bosk.
senses_examples:
text:
On February 16 a reconnaissance in force was pushed to within a mile of the fort and battle offered on the open plain. The challenge was disregarded, and only noticed by the sending out of a few well-mounted men to watch our movements. The forces of the enemy were kept well concealed in the bosque (grove) above the fort and within its walls.
This could be a use of bosque in the etymology 2 sense.
ref:
1862 May 4, Henry H[opkins] Sibley, “No. 8. Reports of Brig. Gen. Henry H. Sibley, C.S. Army, Commanding Army of New Mexico, Including Operations from January – to May 4, 1862.”, in A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Additions and Corrections to Series I—Volume IX, Washington, D.C.: Published under the direction of the Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, by Brig. Gen. Fred C[rayton] Ainsworth, Chief of the Record and Pension Office, War Department, and Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley; Government Printing Office, published 1902, →OCLC, page 507
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rare spelling of bosk.
senses_topics:
|
4186 | word:
bosque
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bosque (plural bosques)
forms:
form:
bosques
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish bosque (“forest”), from Late Latin boscus, from Frankish *busc (compare Middle Dutch busch), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“forest, woods”); perhaps also influenced by bosk. The word is a doublet of bush.
senses_examples:
text:
[page 495] He drove them with great slaughter from the bosque they had then seized, repulsed a determined charge of their Lancers, made with audacity and desperation, and was master of the field. [...] [page 496] The heavy bosques in our front were terminated by a drift of sand extending from the high bluff of the Contadero to the river. Behind this drift the enemy, concealed from my observation, rallied all their forces abandoning wagons on the sand hills, tents, and other supplies, including ammunition, with the desperate resolve to storm our batteries.
ref:
1862 February 23, Benjamin S[tone] Roberts, “Operations in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. February 1 – September 20, 1862. [No. 2. Report of Col. Benjamin S. Roberts, Fifth New Mexico Infantry.]”, in A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Additions and Corrections to Series I—Volume IX, Washington, D.C.: Published under the direction of the Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, by Brig. Gen. Fred C[rayton] Ainsworth, Chief of the Record and Pension Office, War Department, and Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley; Government Printing Office, published 1902, →OCLC, pages 495 and 496
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gallery forest found growing along a river bank or on the flood plain of a watercourse.
senses_topics:
|
4187 | word:
Western Australia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Western Australia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the six states of Australia, occupying the western third of the content, with its capital at Perth.
The British colony that is now the state of Western Australia.
senses_topics:
|
4188 | word:
RJ
word_type:
name
expansion:
RJ
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Rio de Janeiro.
Initialism of Rajasthan.
senses_topics:
|
4189 | word:
RJ
word_type:
noun
expansion:
RJ (countable and uncountable, plural RJs)
forms:
form:
RJs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of regional jet.
Initialism of registered jack.
Initialism of reproductive justice.
Initialism of restorative justice.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
|
4190 | word:
hazel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hazel (usually uncountable, plural hazels)
forms:
form:
hazels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hazel
etymology_text:
From Middle English hasel, from Old English hæsl (“hazel, shrub”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasl, from Proto-Germanic *haslaz (“hazel”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos (“hazel”). Cognate with Dutch hazelaar (“hazel”), German Hasel (“hazel”), Swedish hassel (“hazel”), Latin corulus, corylus (“hazel-tree, hazelwood”), Irish coll (“hazel”).
senses_examples:
text:
The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.
ref:
1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water
type:
quotation
text:
Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.
ref:
1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 273
type:
quotation
text:
hazel:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
The nut of the hazel tree.
The wood of a hazelnut tree.
A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
Freestone.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
4191 | word:
hazel
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hazel (comparative more hazel or (rare) hazeler, superlative most hazel or (rare) hazelest)
forms:
form:
more hazel
tags:
comparative
form:
hazeler
tags:
comparative
rare
form:
most hazel
tags:
superlative
form:
hazelest
tags:
rare
superlative
wikipedia:
hazel
etymology_text:
From Middle English hasel, from Old English hæsl (“hazel, shrub”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasl, from Proto-Germanic *haslaz (“hazel”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos (“hazel”). Cognate with Dutch hazelaar (“hazel”), German Hasel (“hazel”), Swedish hassel (“hazel”), Latin corulus, corylus (“hazel-tree, hazelwood”), Irish coll (“hazel”).
senses_examples:
text:
As she grew up and her hazel eyes became hazeler and her dark hair darker and her white skin whiter, and her form a sigh on every boy’s lips, she concentrated on one dream.
ref:
1956 January 7, James L. Collings, “Syndicates: Oh Marie! Whatta Gal and Whatta Reporter”, in Robert U[tting] Brown, editor, Editor & Publisher, volume 89, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Editor & Publisher Co., Inc., →ISSN, page 40, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The shrewd eyes, more hazel than her son’s but with the same straight brows, were fixed on Clary’s face.
ref:
1986, Robyn Donald, chapter 4, in A Willing Surrender, London: Mills & Boon Limited, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
SAGE: Don’t my eyes look hazeler? (or: periwinkler) / CHLO: (as GARTH) Yes. / SAGE: You said you loved my hazel eyes. (or: periwinkle) Don’t you love them more hazely? (or: periwinkly)
ref:
1996, Adryan Russ, Doug Haverty, “Act Two”, in Inside Out, New York, N.Y.: Samuel French, Inc., page 58
type:
quotation
text:
The drummer’s eyes took the small woman in slowly, starting with her face, down to her feet and then back up into the hazelest eyes she’d ever seen.
ref:
2005, Sharon Smith, chapter 2, in Into the Dark, Nederland, Tex.: Yellow Rose Books, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
What’s that line on “Hazel Eyes”: “I’ve never seen a set of eyes more hazeler”? [Justin Hawkins:] “I’ve never seen a set of eyes more hazelerer.”
ref:
2005 December, Doug Brod, “Burning Sensation”, in Sia Michel, editor, Spin, volume 21, number 12, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, page 73, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Doolittle had the hazelest eyeballs, the winsomest spinal pelt.
ref:
2011, Margaret Fiske, “Sense & Circuitry: Cyberth 1813”, in Peter Archer, Jennifer Lawler, editors, Bad Austen: The Worst Stories Jane Never Wrote, Avon, Mass.: Adams Media, F+W Media, Inc., part 2 (If Jane Could See Us Now), page 96
type:
quotation
text:
His eyes were somewhere indefinite between green and hazel. Sometimes appearing hazeler or greener depending on how the light flickered on them.
ref:
2012 March 8, Francine J. Colangelo, chapter 10, in Marah Hein: The Legend of a Viking Woman, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
And now I should probably say something, but that would involve words, and WHAT EVEN ARE WORDS, and he’s looking at me with the hazelest eyes and the softest, most upturned mouth.
ref:
2017 April 11, Becky Albertalli, chapter 16, in The Upside of Unrequited, New York, N.Y.: Balzer + Bray, HarperCollins Publishers, page 178
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)
senses_topics:
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4192 | word:
Melburnian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Melburnian (plural Melburnians)
forms:
form:
Melburnians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Melbourne Grammar School
diphthong
etymology_text:
From the Latin name for Melbourne, Melburnia, + -ian.
The term can be traced back to 1876, when the case for Melburnian over Melbournian was made in the Melbourne Grammar School publication, the Melburnian. 'The diphthong, ‘ou’ is not a Latin diphthong: hence, we argued this way, Melburnia would be [the] Latin form of name, and from it comes Melburnian.'
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, Australia.
senses_topics:
|
4193 | word:
Melburnian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Melburnian (comparative more Melburnian, superlative most Melburnian)
forms:
form:
more Melburnian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Melburnian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Melbourne Grammar School
diphthong
etymology_text:
From the Latin name for Melbourne, Melburnia, + -ian.
The term can be traced back to 1876, when the case for Melburnian over Melbournian was made in the Melbourne Grammar School publication, the Melburnian. 'The diphthong, ‘ou’ is not a Latin diphthong: hence, we argued this way, Melburnia would be [the] Latin form of name, and from it comes Melburnian.'
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from or relating to Melbourne.
senses_topics:
|
4194 | word:
mosque
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mosque (plural mosques)
forms:
form:
mosques
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French mosquée, from Italian moschea, ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid, literally “place of prostration”). Doublet of masjid.
senses_examples:
text:
There's a mosque near where I live.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid.
senses_topics:
Islam
lifestyle
religion |
4195 | word:
RO
word_type:
noun
expansion:
RO (countable and uncountable, plural ROs)
forms:
form:
ROs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of reverse osmosis.
Initialism of restraining order.
Initialism of receiving office.
senses_topics:
|
4196 | word:
RO
word_type:
name
expansion:
RO
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Rondônia, A state of Brazil.
senses_topics:
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4197 | word:
Queensland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Queensland
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Queen + -s- + -land, equivalent to Queen's Land and named in honour of Queen Victoria.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the six states of Australia. Capital: Brisbane. It occupies the north-eastern part of the continent.
The self-governing colony (1859—1901) of what is now the state of Queensland.
senses_topics:
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4198 | word:
Sydneyan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Sydneyan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Sydney + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from or relating to Sydney, Australia.
senses_topics:
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4199 | word:
Sydneyan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Sydneyan (plural Sydneyans)
forms:
form:
Sydneyans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Sydney + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Sydney, Australia.
senses_topics:
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