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4300 | word:
Russian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Russian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin (11th century) Russiānus, the adjective of Russia, a Latinization of the Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ). Attested in English (both as a noun and as an adjective) from the 16th century. By surface analysis, Russia + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
So that is the official line: you’re shit, we’re shit, everything’s shit, never try for a better world because it doesn’t exist. That is not only bleak, I think it’s also the working title of every Russian novel ever written.
ref:
2017 February 19, “Putin”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 2, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Russia.
Of or pertaining to the Soviet Union.
Of or pertaining to Rus.
Of or pertaining to the Russian language.
senses_topics:
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4301 | word:
Russian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Russian (countable and uncountable, plural Russians)
forms:
form:
Russians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin (11th century) Russiānus, the adjective of Russia, a Latinization of the Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ). Attested in English (both as a noun and as an adjective) from the 16th century. By surface analysis, Russia + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.¹⁹⁶
ref:
2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, in International Law Studies, US Naval War College, volume 91, number 361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, page 393
type:
quotation
text:
Ok, I do think I am starting to get used to it, but you have to admit, if youve been juggling bags and then start juggling Russians, they feel sooo lopsided to juggle at first!
ref:
2011, jamescoutry24, “Beanbags > Russian”, in rec.juggling (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A citizen of Russia.
An ethnic Russian: a member of the East Slavic ethnic group which is native to, and constitutes the majority of the population of, Russia.
A person from the Soviet Union
The Russian language.
A domestic cat breed.
A cat of this breed.
A type of juggling ball with a hard outer shell, filled with salt, sand or another similar substance.
Someone from or around Brandon Estate (also known as Moscow).
A gun (due to some preference for Russian arms with gang members).
A kind of sausage.
senses_topics:
arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
|
4302 | word:
DU
word_type:
noun
expansion:
DU (countable and uncountable, plural DUs)
forms:
form:
DUs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of depleted uranium.
Initialism of Dobson unit.
senses_topics:
|
4303 | word:
DU
word_type:
name
expansion:
DU
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of University of Denver.
senses_topics:
|
4304 | word:
carnation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
carnation (countable and uncountable, plural carnations)
forms:
form:
carnations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
carnation
etymology_text:
From Middle French carnation (“person's color or complexion”).
senses_examples:
text:
carnation:
text:
And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.
ref:
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 6
type:
quotation
text:
carnation:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
originally, Dianthus caryophyllus
A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids
The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
A rosy pink colour
The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh
A scarlet colour.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
|
4305 | word:
carnation
word_type:
adj
expansion:
carnation (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
carnation
etymology_text:
From Middle French carnation (“person's color or complexion”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a rosy pink or red colour.
Of a human flesh color.
senses_topics:
|
4306 | word:
amiga
word_type:
noun
expansion:
amiga (plural amigas)
forms:
form:
amigas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish amiga (“female friend”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female friend.
senses_topics:
|
4307 | word:
QE
word_type:
noun
expansion:
QE (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
2012, The Economist, Jul 14th 2012 issue, Quantitative easing: QE, or not QE?
In times of severe economic distress, however, rates may fall to zero. Cue QE. When the Bank of Japan (BoJ) pioneered QE in 2001, its goal was to buy enough securities to create a desired quantity of reserves (hence, “quantitative easing”). Its actions, it hoped, would raise asset prices and end deflation.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of quantitative easing.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
4308 | word:
QE
word_type:
name
expansion:
QE
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
Alternative form of QEW
senses_topics:
|
4309 | word:
upbraid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upbraid (third-person singular simple present upbraids, present participle upbraiding, simple past and past participle upbraided)
forms:
form:
upbraids
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upbraiding
tags:
participle
present
form:
upbraided
tags:
participle
past
form:
upbraided
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English upbreyden, from Old English upbreġdan, equivalent to up- + braid. Compare English umbraid (“to upbraid”), Icelandic bregða (“to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break off, upbraid”). See up, and braid (transitive).
senses_examples:
text:
Dalio had no qualms about upbraiding a junior employee in front of me and dozens of his colleagues.
ref:
2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To criticize severely.
To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach
To treat with contempt.
To object or urge as a matter of reproach
To utter upbraidings.
To vomit; retch.
senses_topics:
|
4310 | word:
upbraid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
upbraid (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English upbreyden, from Old English upbreġdan, equivalent to up- + braid. Compare English umbraid (“to upbraid”), Icelandic bregða (“to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break off, upbraid”). See up, and braid (transitive).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of reproaching; scorn; disdain.
senses_topics:
|
4311 | word:
AP
word_type:
name
expansion:
AP
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: IB
text:
Joel is AP everything and he's applied to Harvard, so I guess his dad isn't taking any chances.
ref:
2010, Jennifer Egan, “Ask Me if I Care”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad
type:
quotation
text:
• APO/FPO AE ZIPs 094-098 — Space Available Mail, Nov. 26; Parcel Airlift Mail, Dec. 3; Priority Mail, Dec. 10; First Class Mail Letters and Cards, Dec.10 and Express Mail Military Service, Dec. 18.
• APO/FPO AA ZIP 340 — Space Available Mail, Nov. 26; Parcel Airlift Mail, Dec. 3; Priority Mail, Dec. 10; First Class Mail Letters and Cards, Dec. 10 and Express Mail Military Service, Dec. 18.
• APO/FPO AP ZIPs 962-966 — Space Available Mail, Nov. 26; Parcel Airlift Mail, Dec. 3; Priority Mail, Dec. 10; First Class Mail Letters and Cards, Dec. 10 and Express Mail Military Service, Dec. 18.
ref:
2010 October 29, Bill Shrum, “Shipping to soldiers for the holidays”, in Stuttgart (Arkansas) Daily Leader
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Atlantic Pacific - (Global Indicator used for air fare calculations)
Initialism of Advanced Placement.
Initialism of Associated Press.
USPS military code of Armed Forces – Pacific.
A placename:
Abbreviation of Andhra Pradesh.
A placename:
Abbreviation of Amapá. (a state of Brazil)
A placename:
Abbreviation of Arabian Plate.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
education
journalism
media
government
military
politics
war
|
4312 | word:
AP
word_type:
noun
expansion:
AP (countable and uncountable, plural APs)
forms:
form:
APs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: IB
text:
He pointed out that the annual cost of AP prophylaxis is $2100, and that a single hospitalization for pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) costs six times that amount. (AP is generally regarded as an effective preventive for PCP)
ref:
1989 April 22, Chris Bull, “Medicare Planning To Cut Funding For AIDS Drugs”, in Gay Community News, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of access point.
Initialism of action point.
Abbreviation of Auxiliary Provisions (a naval transport).
Initialism of acetylpyrroline.
Initialism of adjective phrase; adverbial phrase. (Note: to disambiguate, one can use the abbreviations AdjP and AdvP instead.)
Abbreviation of all-purpose flour.
Initialism of accounts payable.
Initialism of automatic payment.
Initialism of advantage player.
An Advanced Placement program
Initialism of American plan (“hotel rate type”).
Initialism of authorized participant.
Initialism of affair partner.
Initialism of attachment parenting.
Initialism of aerosolized pentamidine.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
government
military
politics
war
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
food
lifestyle
accounting
business
finance
banking
business
gambling
games
education
|
4313 | word:
AP
word_type:
adj
expansion:
AP (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: PA (“posteroanterior”)
text:
AP radiograph shows an exophytic type of exostosis. [image caption]
ref:
2016, B.J. Manaster, “Osteochondroma”, in B.J. Manaster, editor, Diagnostic Imaging: Musculoskeletal: Non-Traumatic Disease, 2nd edition, Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier, page 250
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of all-purpose.
Initialism of anteroposterior.
Initialism of anti-personnel.
Initialism of armor-piercing.
Initialism of alternately placed.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
|
4314 | word:
MX
word_type:
name
expansion:
MX
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Missile, Experimental (original project name of the LGM-118 Peacekeeper ICBM).
senses_topics:
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry |
4315 | word:
MX
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MX (countable and uncountable, plural MXs)
forms:
form:
MXs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of mail exchanger.
Abbreviation of motocross.
on early British stamps, Maltese Cross cancellation mark.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
motorcycling
hobbies
lifestyle
philately |
4316 | word:
diesel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
diesel (countable and uncountable, plural diesels)
forms:
form:
diesels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German Diesel, named after inventor Rudolf Diesel, who developed a heavy-duty engine in Germany (1892–1897) and perfected it throughout his life.
senses_examples:
text:
1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., referring to Mexico's last new steam locomotives.
Their effective service life was cut short by an almost simultaneous switch to diesels - a circumstance shared with many an engine north of the border.
type:
quotation
text:
Thumbed a diesel down, outside a cafe.
ref:
1980, Kye Fleming and Fred Foster, ""Smoky Mountain Rain"
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fuel derived from petroleum (or other oils) but heavier than gasoline/petrol. Used to power diesel engines which burn this fuel using the heat produced when air is compressed.
A vehicle powered by a diesel engine.
A rider who has an even energy output, without bursts of speed.
Synonym of snakebite and black.
A particular cannabis hybrid.
senses_topics:
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
4317 | word:
diesel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
diesel (third-person singular simple present diesels, present participle dieseling or dieselling, simple past and past participle dieseled or dieselled)
forms:
form:
diesels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dieseling
tags:
participle
present
form:
dieselling
tags:
participle
present
form:
dieseled
tags:
participle
past
form:
dieseled
tags:
past
form:
dieselled
tags:
participle
past
form:
dieselled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German Diesel, named after inventor Rudolf Diesel, who developed a heavy-duty engine in Germany (1892–1897) and perfected it throughout his life.
senses_examples:
text:
The only reason the VW bug has a solenoid is to prevent it from dieseling.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ignite a substance by using the heat generated by compression.
For a spark-ignition internal combustion engine to continue running after the electrical current to the spark plugs has been turned off. This occurs when there's enough heat in the combustion chamber to ignite the air and fuel mixture without a spark, the same way that heat and pressure cause ignition in a diesel engine.
senses_topics:
automotive
transport
vehicles |
4318 | word:
SE
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SE (plural SEs)
forms:
form:
SEs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of southeast.
Initialism of second edition.
Initialism of special edition.
Initialism of standard edition.
Initialism of software engineering.
Initialism of sustainer engine.
Initialism of secondary electron.
Initialism of STM European.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
4319 | word:
SE
word_type:
name
expansion:
SE (usually uncountable, plural SEs)
forms:
form:
SEs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Stack Exchange.
senses_topics:
|
4320 | word:
SE
word_type:
adj
expansion:
SE
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of single ended.
Abbreviation of southeast.
senses_topics:
|
4321 | word:
female
word_type:
adj
expansion:
female (not generally comparable, comparative femaler or more female, superlative femalest or most female)
forms:
form:
femaler
tags:
comparative
form:
more female
tags:
comparative
form:
femalest
tags:
superlative
form:
most female
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
female (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-
Proto-Indo-European *m̥h₁néh₂
Proto-Italic *fēmanā
Latin fēmina
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -la
Latin fēmella
Old French femelebor.
Middle English femele
Middle English female
English female
From Middle English female, an alteration of Middle English femele, from Old French femele, femelle (“female”), from Medieval Latin fēmella (“a female”), from Latin fēmella (“a girl, a young female, a young woman”), diminutive of fēmina (“a woman”). The English spelling and pronunciation were remodelled under the influence of male, which is otherwise not etymologically related. Contrast woman, which is etymologically built on man (as in person).
senses_examples:
text:
female authors, the leading male and female artists, a female bird cooing at a male, intersex female patients, a trans female vlogger
text:
Twice in her thirty-year career she held office in the blacksmiths' guild. Ms. [Fya] upper Bach was no fluke, either: legal and guild records from medieval Germany list other female blacksmiths, coppersmiths, tinsmiths, and pewterers. Some of these redoubtable women gained entry into the guild through "widow's rights"; others, however, made it on sheer mettle and muscle.
ref:
1997, Vicki León, Uppity Women of Medieval Times, Conari Press, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
I turned to [gender-fluid] Alex. "Hey, are you female today? [...] The Skofnung Sword [...] can't be drawn in the presence of women."
ref:
2017, Rick Riordan, Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor, page 271
type:
quotation
text:
stereotypically female pastimes, an insect with typically female coloration
text:
A travelling shot of a harbour view near Sydney's White Bay moves into a domestic interior as a female voice says, 'There was nowhere else to live except alone.'
ref:
1987, Don't Shoot[,] Darling!: Women's Independent Filmmaking in Australia, page 350
type:
quotation
text:
More than that, we cannot find the same dynamics within female career trajectories as in the other two country groups, because the time-structure of female and male careers already shows great similarity within the older generation of elites. In addition, the pattern of the relation between female and male careers remains the same over time.
ref:
2004, Mino Vianello, Gwen Moore, Women and Men in Political and Business Elites: A Comparative Study
type:
quotation
text:
the female chromosome; estrogen, the primary female sex hormone, is produced by both females and males
text:
The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female, but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.
ref:
2012, Naomi McIlwraith, Kiyâm: Poems, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
If you are describing a female noun, you must make the adjective feminine by adding an 'e'. If you describe a male noun, you add an 'er'. For neutral nouns you add an 'es'.
ref:
2012, Sinéad Leleu, Michaela Greck-Ismair, German Pen Pals Made Easy KS3
type:
quotation
text:
In this process, one bacterium designated the male bacterium transfers its DNA into the female bacterium. Bacteria are determined to be male or female by a small piece of DNA, called F-plasmid, or sex factor. Bacteria with this small piece of DNA are labeled as males, and bacteria that do not have this factor are considered females.
ref:
2021 February 26, Gregor Majdic, Soul Mate Biology: Science of attachment and love, Springer Nature, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
A ground-joint union is made in three separate pieces and is used for joining two pipes. It consists of two machined pieces with female pipe threads, which are screwed on the pipes to be united, and a threaded collar which holds the two pieces of the union together.
ref:
1993, Ed Sarviel, Construction Estimating Reference Data, page 284
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare feminine, womanly.)
Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
Feminine; of the feminine grammatical gender.
Lacking the F factor, and able to receive DNA from another bacterium which does have this factor (a male).
Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
4322 | word:
female
word_type:
noun
expansion:
female (plural females)
forms:
form:
females
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
female (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-
Proto-Indo-European *m̥h₁néh₂
Proto-Italic *fēmanā
Latin fēmina
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -la
Latin fēmella
Old French femelebor.
Middle English femele
Middle English female
English female
From Middle English female, an alteration of Middle English femele, from Old French femele, femelle (“female”), from Medieval Latin fēmella (“a female”), from Latin fēmella (“a girl, a young female, a young woman”), diminutive of fēmina (“a woman”). The English spelling and pronunciation were remodelled under the influence of male, which is otherwise not etymologically related. Contrast woman, which is etymologically built on man (as in person).
senses_examples:
text:
It would be years sometimes ere he saw the face of a female, and when he did, that face would not be overangelic.
ref:
1896, John Brown, Twenty-five Years a Parson in the Wild West, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
XY female patients with gonadal dysgenesis are sometimes referred to as “XY sex-reversed” patients or individuals with “XY sex reversal” (Simpson and Martin, 1981). Although widely used, this terminology is somewhat vague as it does not distinguish XY females with gonadal dysgenesis from XY females with androgen resistance.
ref:
2004, Eric Vilain, Edward R.nbsp, B. McCabe, “DAX1 and X-Linked Adrenal Hypoplasia Congenita and XY Sex Reversal”, in Charles J. Epstein, Robert P. Erickson, Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, editors, Inborn Errors of Development: The Molecular Basis of Clinical Disorders of Morphogenesis, New York: Oxford University Press, page 508
type:
quotation
text:
Accumulated data indicate that in all species of sharks, the females grow larger than the males.
ref:
1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
During mating, F+ male bacteria transfer the F factor to the recipient females, transforming them into F+ males.
ref:
2001 August 1, Harrison G. Echols, Operators and Promoters: The Story of Molecular Biology and Its Creators, Univ of California Press, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
These are the most common type, as they join females of the same diameter together. […] For example, you may need an adapter such as a 3-in. pipe thread (a common thread used to join pipes) female to 2 1⁄2 NH male.
ref:
2009, Fire Engineering's Handbook for Firefighter I and II, Fire Engineering Books, page 412
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
A human of the feminine sex.
One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
An animal of the sex that produces eggs.
One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
A bacterium which lacks the F factor, and is able to receive DNA from another bacterium which has that factor.
A female connector, pipe fitting, etc.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
|
4323 | word:
fresh
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fresh (comparative fresher, superlative freshest)
forms:
form:
fresher
tags:
comparative
form:
freshest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Grand Wizzard Theodore
Grandwizard Theodore & the Fantastic Five
fresh
etymology_text:
From Middle English fressh, from Old English fersċ (“fresh, pure, sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *frisk (“fresh”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”).
Cognate with Scots fresch (“fresh”), West Frisian farsk (“fresh”), Dutch vers (“fresh”), Walloon frexh (“fresh”), German frisch (“fresh”), French frais (“fresh”), Norwegian and Danish frisk (“fresh”), fersk, Icelandic ferskur (“fresh”), Lithuanian prėskas (“unflavoured, tasteless, fresh”), Russian пре́сный (présnyj, “sweet, fresh, unleavened, tasteless”). Doublet of fresco and frisk.
Slang sense possibly shortened form of “fresh out the pack”, 1980s routine by Grand Wizzard Theodore.
senses_examples:
text:
He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.
type:
example
text:
I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing.
type:
example
text:
With his recent divorce still fresh in his mind, he was unable to concentrate on his work.
type:
example
text:
After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat.
type:
example
text:
I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm.
type:
example
text:
a glass of fresh milk
type:
example
text:
What a nice fresh breeze.
type:
example
text:
After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.
type:
example
text:
There we made our ſhip faſt with foure ropes, in ſmooth water, and the freſh water ranne downe out of the hill into the ſea, […]
ref:
a. 1628, Sir Francis Drake(?), The World Encompassed, Nicholas Bourne (publisher, 1628), page 49
type:
quotation
text:
When dissolved, it produces water sometimes perfectly fresh, and sometimes saltish; […]
ref:
1820, William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions, Archibald Constable & Co., page 230
type:
quotation
text:
Additional changes that occur when water enters the lungs depend on whether the water is fresh or salt.
ref:
2009, Adele Pillitteri, Maternal and Child Health Nursing, Sixth Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, page 1557
type:
quotation
text:
Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.
ref:
2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
a fresh hand on a ship
type:
example
text:
a fresh pair of sneakers
type:
example
text:
I've been thinking about the way you walk
Baby ooh I like the way you talk
Tell you something I really can't hide
Heaven must have sent you to be by my side
Fresh and lovely fresh like a dream come true
I'll give anything to spend the night with you
ref:
1984, “Fresh”, in Emergency, performed by Kool & the Gang
type:
quotation
text:
Because my devastating beats I know you will like / You see my beat box is fresh, it'll blow your mind
ref:
1988, “Supersonic”, performed by J. J. Fad
type:
quotation
text:
How long did Mr. Crisp stay with you?—He might have stayed two hours; he stayed some time after; he drank ale and got fresh.
ref:
1840, Parliamentary Papers, volume 9, page 43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Newly produced or obtained; recent.
Not dried, frozen, or spoiled.
Still green and not dried.
Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.
Without salt; not saline.
Rested; not tired or fatigued.
In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
Youthful; florid.
Good, fashionable.
Tipsy; drunk.
senses_topics:
|
4324 | word:
fresh
word_type:
adv
expansion:
fresh (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Grand Wizzard Theodore
Grandwizard Theodore & the Fantastic Five
fresh
etymology_text:
From Middle English fressh, from Old English fersċ (“fresh, pure, sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *frisk (“fresh”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”).
Cognate with Scots fresch (“fresh”), West Frisian farsk (“fresh”), Dutch vers (“fresh”), Walloon frexh (“fresh”), German frisch (“fresh”), French frais (“fresh”), Norwegian and Danish frisk (“fresh”), fersk, Icelandic ferskur (“fresh”), Lithuanian prėskas (“unflavoured, tasteless, fresh”), Russian пре́сный (présnyj, “sweet, fresh, unleavened, tasteless”). Doublet of fresco and frisk.
Slang sense possibly shortened form of “fresh out the pack”, 1980s routine by Grand Wizzard Theodore.
senses_examples:
text:
We are fresh out of milk.
type:
example
text:
Hell of a surprise in the seventh season premiere of Game Of Thrones. Arya Stark, fresh off a nigh Cersei-level ambush of the Frey household, comes upon a small campfire surrounded by fresh-faced red cloaks.
ref:
2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
recently; just recently; most recently
senses_topics:
|
4325 | word:
fresh
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fresh (plural freshes)
forms:
form:
freshes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Grand Wizzard Theodore
Grandwizard Theodore & the Fantastic Five
fresh
etymology_text:
From Middle English fressh, from Old English fersċ (“fresh, pure, sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *frisk (“fresh”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”).
Cognate with Scots fresch (“fresh”), West Frisian farsk (“fresh”), Dutch vers (“fresh”), Walloon frexh (“fresh”), German frisch (“fresh”), French frais (“fresh”), Norwegian and Danish frisk (“fresh”), fersk, Icelandic ferskur (“fresh”), Lithuanian prėskas (“unflavoured, tasteless, fresh”), Russian пре́сный (présnyj, “sweet, fresh, unleavened, tasteless”). Doublet of fresco and frisk.
Slang sense possibly shortened form of “fresh out the pack”, 1980s routine by Grand Wizzard Theodore.
senses_examples:
text:
They went on very well with their work until it was nigh done, when there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh, and away went their mill, shot, lock, and barrel.
ref:
1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, Nebraska, published 1987, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
When they cross any great Water, or violent Fresh, or Torrent, they throw Tobacco, Puccoon, Peak, or some other valuable thing, that they happen to have about there, to intreat the Spirit presiding there, to grant them a safe passage. It is call'd a Fresh, when after very great Rains, or (as we suppose) after a great Thaw of the Snow and Ice lying upon the Mountains Page 43 to the North West, the Water descends, in such abundance into the Rivers, that they overflow the Banks which bound their Streams at other times.
ref:
1705, Robert Beverley, Jr., History and Present State of Virginia
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.
A stream or spring of fresh water.
The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.
senses_topics:
|
4326 | word:
fresh
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fresh (third-person singular simple present freshes, present participle freshing, simple past and past participle freshed)
forms:
form:
freshes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
freshing
tags:
participle
present
form:
freshed
tags:
participle
past
form:
freshed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Grand Wizzard Theodore
Grandwizard Theodore & the Fantastic Five
fresh
etymology_text:
From Middle English fressh, from Old English fersċ (“fresh, pure, sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *frisk (“fresh”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”).
Cognate with Scots fresch (“fresh”), West Frisian farsk (“fresh”), Dutch vers (“fresh”), Walloon frexh (“fresh”), German frisch (“fresh”), French frais (“fresh”), Norwegian and Danish frisk (“fresh”), fersk, Icelandic ferskur (“fresh”), Lithuanian prėskas (“unflavoured, tasteless, fresh”), Russian пре́сный (présnyj, “sweet, fresh, unleavened, tasteless”). Doublet of fresco and frisk.
Slang sense possibly shortened form of “fresh out the pack”, 1980s routine by Grand Wizzard Theodore.
senses_examples:
text:
With the exception of about 1800 crans which were "rough packed," all the herrings landed during the winter months were freshed and kippered.
ref:
1921, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, Report - Volume 12
type:
quotation
text:
Aided by government propaganda, herring became an important British war-time food, not pickled, but 'freshed' (packed loosely in ice) and kippered.
ref:
1960, Nigel Nicolson, Lord of the Isles: Lord Leverhulme of the Hebrides, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
Smoked abalone is prepared by smoking the salted and freshed abalone, the smoked meat is packed with vegetable oil.
ref:
1971, Eiichi Tanikawa, Marine Products in Japan: Size, Technology and Research, page 189
type:
quotation
text:
Our first assumption was that freshed sea water areas were favourable for these organisms.
ref:
1974, Bilješke - Volumes 31-76, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Under the present river conditions, headwater discharge of 40,000 cusecs will be necessary during the non-freshed season to neutralise the landward drift of sediments throughout the tidal portion of the river.
ref:
1977, India. Parliament. House of the People, India. Parliament. Lok Sabha, Lok Sabha Debates, page 226
type:
quotation
text:
But as the golden light flowed slowly across the Discworld like the first freshing of the tide over mudflats the eagle circled higher into the dome of heaven, beating the air down with slow and powerful wingbeats.
ref:
1987, Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
The salinity is variated, and locally the lake water is freshed in a step manner.
ref:
1989, Tseng-chʻüan Li, Fa-erh Chiang, Shu Sun, Developments in geoscience, page 325
type:
quotation
text:
Horrible was now my condition, as the wind freshed up more and more.
ref:
1815, William Williams, The Journal of Llewellin Penrose, a Seaman
type:
quotation
text:
I should have observed, that as we rounded the north-east point, the breeze freshed, and the squalls came heavy out of the gullies and deep ravines.
ref:
1834, Frederick Marryat, The naval officer, page 259
type:
quotation
text:
On the afternoon of the 20th, at the period the storm was very severe to the south-west of her, the Barlow experienced calms and variable winds. By noon on the 21st, the wind freshed, with the weather cloudy.
ref:
1850, William Reid, An Attempt to Develop the Law of Storms by Means of Facts
type:
quotation
text:
When the barrel became very rough the gun was taken to the local gunsmith and "freshed."
ref:
1910, Hunter-trader-trapper - Volume 19, Issue 6, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
There is also the oft-heard plaint that "modern steel barrels can't be re-rifled or freshed out."
ref:
1974, George C. Nonte, Home guide to muzzle-loaders, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
Thus the liberties of the nation, civil and religious, were laid freshed by his preaching, and. more and more confirmed in the presbyterian principles: and we likewise resorted for a time at West Calder kirk, to Mr. Patrick Shiels, by whose preaching I was yet more confirmed in the presbyterian way.
ref:
1822, Alexander Reid, Life of ―, a scotish govenanter, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
We need not assume that the famous village was considered the capital of the country spoken of; it is sufficient to know that the priests who freshed up the old Ta-ts'in lore in China, were proud of having been themselves born in the Holy Land; and if we consider the precedent set in the very T'ang-shu, where the whole of India is designated by the name of Buddha's birth place, Magadha, we need not be astonished to see the name of what they must have considered the spiritual capital of the Christian world applied to the country they came from.
ref:
1885, Chinese Recorder - Volume 16, page 419
type:
quotation
text:
The strongest judgment against the Toledot Yeshu was made by Solomon Schechter in 1898, "All the so-called Anti-Christiana collected by medieval [Jewish] fanatics, and freshed up again by modern ignoramuses, belong to the later centuries, when history and biography had already given way to myth and speculation."
ref:
2000, Robert Van Voorst, Craig A. Evans, Bruce Chilton, Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
I freshed meself and followed after him and made choice of me dinner.
ref:
1943, Maggie Jeanne Melody Wadelton, Maggie No Doubt, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
There was no need for them all to be there—most would be resting in their rooms, freshing from the journey—but she was on edge now, all the questions she could not ask running through her head.
ref:
2009, Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt
type:
quotation
text:
We played and adored our boys, we watched a little television until about six, I got a shower and put my clothes back on I got the boys freshed up while Aj was in the shower and he got dressed.
ref:
2012, Mz. K., First Lady: A Hood Tale, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
Q. Did you tell anybody this tale that you heard this man threaten what they were going to do?—A. No, sir; I didn't say nothing to anybody until Monday—Monday or Tuesday, one—then my mind was freshed.
ref:
1884, United States Congressional Serial Set - Volume 2178, page 503
type:
quotation
text:
In the nook of a wood where a pool freshed with dew Glassed, daybreak till evening, blue sky glimpsing through Then a star; or a slip of May-moon silver-white, Thridding softly aloof the quiet of night, Was a thicket of flowers.
ref:
1902, Walter De la Mare, Dorothy Pulis Lathrop, Down-adown-derry: A Book of Fairy Poems
type:
quotation
text:
About a month later, the blaze is freshed by cutting off a thin shaving of bark all round the stem, over half the depth of the old blaze and taking in 2 inches of new bark on the upper edge of the original wound.
ref:
1918, The Indian Forest Records - Volume 6, Parts 1-6, page 316
type:
quotation
text:
A cow was actually tested twice a month on the 5th and 25th of each month. The cow freshed December 15, her milk was good December 18, and she went dry October 30.
ref:
1940, James Frank Kendrick, The cow tester's manual, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Fall Freshed Cows Produce More Milk.
ref:
1946, Co-op News – Volumes 20-21, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
On the day of my visit, Mary greets me at my car with a delighted look on her face. “You're just in time!” she says eagerly. “A cow has just 'freshed'!”
ref:
2009, Suzanne Woods Fisher, Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World, page 56
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pack (fish) loosely on ice.
To flood or dilute an area of salt water with flowing fresh water.
To become stronger.
To rebore the barrel of a rifle or shotgun.
To update.
To freshen up.
To renew.
to give birth to a calf.
senses_topics:
business
commerce
commercial
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
|
4327 | word:
fresh
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fresh (comparative fresher, superlative freshest)
forms:
form:
fresher
tags:
comparative
form:
freshest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
fresh
etymology_text:
1848, US slang, probably from German frech (“impudent, cheeky, insolent”), from Middle High German vrech (“bold, brave, lively”), from Old High German freh (“greedy, eager, avaricious, covetous”), from Proto-West Germanic *frek, from Proto-Germanic *frekaz (“greedy, outrageous, courageous, capable, active”), from Proto-Indo-European *preg- (“to be quick, twitch, sprinkle, splash”).
Cognate with Old English frec (“greedy; eager, bold, daring; dangerous”) and Danish fræk (“naughty”). More at freak.
senses_examples:
text:
No one liked his fresh comments.
type:
example
text:
Hey, don't get fresh with me!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.
Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.
senses_topics:
|
4328 | word:
shit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shit (usually uncountable, plural shits)
forms:
form:
shits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English schit, schyt, from Old English *sċite (“dung”) and sċitte (“diarrhoea”), from Proto-West Germanic *skiti and *skittjā, from Proto-Germanic *skitiz, from Proto-Indo-European *skeyd- (“to split, divide, separate”). Related to Saterland Frisian Skiete, West Frisian skyte, skyt, Dutch schijt, German Low German Schiet, German Scheiße, Danish skidt, Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk skit, Norwegian Bokmål skitt, Icelandic skítur. Compare shite. Doublet of scheisse.
senses_examples:
text:
The practice in most African and some Asian cities is for private lorries to suck up human waste and dump it in rivers. [...] In tackling the shit problem, economics could well be a clincher.
ref:
2011 July 30, “Cholera and the super-loo”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
Throw that shit out!
type:
example
text:
I want your shit out of my garage by tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
Fuck it. I don't feel like doing this shit.
type:
example
text:
JAMES CARTER: You put your own shit in the back; I'm not a skycap.
ref:
1998, Jim Kouf, Ross LaManna, Rush Hour, California: New Line Cinema
type:
quotation
text:
Don't know why I put up with this shit / When you don't put out and Zip City's so far away
ref:
2001, “Zip City”, performed by Mike Cooley
type:
quotation
text:
He’s physical and monosyllabic. He does all sorts of cool shit, and he subtly rediscovers his own heroism without making a big thing out of it. But he’s a supporting character, and he knows it.
ref:
2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
These grapes are the shit!
type:
example
text:
Those inhalers and injections was the shit.
type:
example
text:
When gangsters bump my shit, can they feel my hunger?
ref:
2003, “What Up Gangsta”, in Curtis Jackson, Rob Tewlow (lyrics), Reef Tewlow (music), Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent, New York City: Shady Records
type:
quotation
text:
Everything he says is a load of shit.
type:
example
text:
Enough of this shit!
type:
example
text:
Her son has been a real shit to her.
type:
example
text:
I am a shit and a rotter.
type:
example
text:
We don’t have shit to live on. (We don’t have anything to live on.)
type:
example
text:
John can't sing for shit. (John can't sing at all.)
type:
example
text:
You ain't shit. (You're nothing; you aren't worth anything.)
type:
example
text:
I don't give a shit.
type:
example
text:
I'm in some serious shit.
type:
example
text:
Some shit went down at the nightclub last night.
type:
example
text:
I gave him shit for being three hours late twice in one week.
type:
example
text:
I heard Bobby escaped from the police by jumping off a bridge into the river. Ain't that some shit?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
The act of shitting.
Rubbish; worthless matter.
Stuff, things.
(the shit) The best of its kind.
Nonsense; bullshit.
A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
(in negations) Anything.
The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
A problem or difficult situation.
A strong rebuke.
Any recreational drug (e.g. cannabis, heroin, etc.).
Anything exceptional or remarkable.
senses_topics:
|
4329 | word:
shit
word_type:
adj
expansion:
shit (comparative more shit or shitter, superlative most shit or shittest)
forms:
form:
more shit
tags:
comparative
form:
shitter
tags:
comparative
form:
most shit
tags:
superlative
form:
shittest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English schit, schyt, from Old English *sċite (“dung”) and sċitte (“diarrhoea”), from Proto-West Germanic *skiti and *skittjā, from Proto-Germanic *skitiz, from Proto-Indo-European *skeyd- (“to split, divide, separate”). Related to Saterland Frisian Skiete, West Frisian skyte, skyt, Dutch schijt, German Low German Schiet, German Scheiße, Danish skidt, Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk skit, Norwegian Bokmål skitt, Icelandic skítur. Compare shite. Doublet of scheisse.
senses_examples:
text:
What a shit film that was!
type:
example
text:
That was a shit thing to do to him.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of poor quality; worthless.
Nasty; despicable.
senses_topics:
|
4330 | word:
shit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shit (third-person singular simple present shits, present participle shitting, simple past shat or (rare) shitted or (US) shit, past participle shat or (rare) shitted or (US) shit or shitten)
forms:
form:
shits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shitting
tags:
participle
present
form:
shat
tags:
past
form:
shitted
tags:
past
rare
form:
shit
tags:
US
past
form:
shat
tags:
participle
past
form:
shitted
tags:
participle
past
rare
form:
shit
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
shitten
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English schiten, shiten, from Old English sċītan, from Proto-West Germanic *skītan, from Proto-Germanic *skītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skéydt, from *skeyd-, *skeh₁i-d (“to cut”) (compare *skey-).
Cognate with West Frisian skite, Low German schieten, Dutch schijten, German scheißen, Danish skide. More at shed.
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:shit.
text:
I farted so hard I shat myself.
type:
example
text:
Twelve hundred dollars!? Are you shitting me!?
type:
example
text:
I saw red and smashed a plate and a bowl. […] I swept up the mess. I bawled a lot as I swept […] I also thought, I am about to get my period. It absolutely shits me that this should explain anything.
ref:
1983, Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I, Text Publishing, published 2022, page 70
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To defecate.
To excrete (something) through the anus.
To defecate on; to soil through defecating.
To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.
To annoy.
senses_topics:
|
4331 | word:
shit
word_type:
intj
expansion:
shit
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English schiten, shiten, from Old English sċītan, from Proto-West Germanic *skītan, from Proto-Germanic *skītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skéydt, from *skeyd-, *skeh₁i-d (“to cut”) (compare *skey-).
Cognate with West Frisian skite, Low German schieten, Dutch schijten, German scheißen, Danish skide. More at shed.
senses_examples:
text:
Shit! I think that I forgot to pack my sleeping bag last night!
type:
example
text:
Holy shit!
type:
example
text:
Oh, shit!
type:
example
text:
"Oh, shit. I left my worksheet at home," she said to the language arts teacher, which got her in trouble.
type:
example
text:
All my comrades were laughing and clowning me, but shit, that didn't stop me from talking more shit.
ref:
2017, Darrell Smith, Miracle Baby
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expression of worry, failure, shock, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before using this term.
Used to show displeasure or surprise.
Used for mere emphasis; heck, hey.
senses_topics:
|
4332 | word:
QC
word_type:
name
expansion:
QC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Quebec, a province of Canada.
Abbreviation of Quebec City, capital of the province of Quebec, Canada.
Initialism of Quezon City, city in Metro Manila and former capital of the Philippines.
senses_topics:
|
4333 | word:
QC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
QC (countable and uncountable, plural QCs)
forms:
form:
QCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Queen's Counsel. and postnominal.
Initialism of quality control.
Initialism of quick change: a type of aircraft that can be rapidly switched between passenger and cargo configurations
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
4334 | word:
TL
word_type:
noun
expansion:
TL (plural TLs)
forms:
form:
TLs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Nothing about my natural charms no more, an egg's age since anybody had called me to 1 side and whispered "I got a T. L. for you. Gertie thinks your ears is immense."
ref:
1922, Thomas Lansing Masson, Our American Humorists, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
So autobiographical was The Children's Hour that there are even “TL's” between the children, those “trade lasts” in which people must come up with compliments they have heard about each other, a game which amused Lily […]
ref:
1997, Joan Mellen, Hellman and Hammett, page 71
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of target language.
Abbreviation of translator.
Abbreviation of translation.
Abbreviation of timeline; also tl.
Abbreviation of turntable ladder.
Abbreviation of team leader.
Initialism of trophic level.
Abbreviation of Turkish lira.
Initialism of trade-last.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
biology
ecology
natural-sciences
|
4335 | word:
ZA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ZA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of zinc-aluminium (alloy).
senses_topics:
|
4336 | word:
forlorn
word_type:
adj
expansion:
forlorn (comparative forlorner or more forlorn, superlative forlornest or most forlorn)
forms:
form:
forlorner
tags:
comparative
form:
more forlorn
tags:
comparative
form:
forlornest
tags:
superlative
form:
most forlorn
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English forlorn, forloren, from Old English forloren (past participle of forlēosan (“to lose”)), from Proto-Germanic *fraluzanaz (“lost”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *fraleusaną (“to lose”), equivalent to for- + lorn. Cognate with West Frisian ferlern (“lost”), Saterland Frisian ferlädden (“lost”), Dutch verloren (“lost”), German Low German verloren (“lost”),
German verloren (“lost”), Swedish förlorad (“lost”). See further at lese/leese, lorn.
senses_examples:
text:
For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.
ref:
1578–1579, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale. [...] Dedicated to the Right Honorable the Ladie Compton and Mountegle”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. Whereof the Next Page Maketh Mention, London: Imprinted for VVilliam Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head, published 1591, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
More join us at Colwall and at the lovely station at Great Malvern, although the place is in need of some TLC nowadays. The ornate canopy supports are overdue a repaint, and the closed cafe gives the place a forlorn air.
ref:
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
This is the Maiden all forlorn, That milked the Cow with the crumpled Horn[.]
ref:
1784, The House that Jack Built, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
The condition of the besieged, in the mean time, was forlorn in the extreme; not so much from want of food, though their supplies were scanty, as from excessive toil and exposure.
ref:
1857, William H[ickling] Prescott, “War with France. 1557.”, in History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, new edition, volume I, London: G[eorge] Routledge & Co., Farringdon Street, page 125
type:
quotation
text:
Sweet are familiar songs, tho' Music dips / Her hollow shell in Thought's forlornest wells: / And sweet, tho' sad, the sound of midnight bells, / When the oped casement with the night-rain drips.
ref:
1859, Owen Meredith [pseudonym; Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton], “The Wanderer”, in Poems by Owen Meredith. The Wanderer and Clytemnestra, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, prologue, part I, stanza 1, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
Come, stack arms, Men! Pile on the rails; stir up the campfire bright; no matter if the canteen fails, we'll make a roaring night. Here Shenandoah brawls along, there burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, to swell the Brigade's rousing song, of “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
We see him now — the old slouched hat cocked o’er his eye askew, the shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, so calm, so blunt, so true. The “Blue-Light Elder” knows ’em well; says he, “That’s Banks — he’s fond of shell; Lord save his soul! We’ll give him” — well, that’s “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
Silence! Ground arms! Kneel all! Caps off! Old Blue Light’s going to pray. Strangle the fool that dares to scoff: Attention! 'Tis his way. Appealing from his native sod in forma pauperis to God: “Lay bare thine arm, stretch forth thy rod! Amen!” That’s “Stonewall’s Way.”
He’s in the saddle now. Fall in! Steady, the whole brigade! Hill’s at the ford, cut off — we’ll win his way out, ball and blade! What matter if our shoes are worn? What matter if our feet are torn? “Quick step! We’re with him before the morn!” That’s “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
The sun’s bright lances rout the mists of morning, and by George! Here’s Longstreet struggling in the lists, hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Yankees, whipped before, “Bay’nets and grape!” hear Stonewall roar; “Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby’s score!” in “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
Ah! Maiden, wait and watch and yearn for news of Stonewall’s band! Ah! Widow read with eyes that burn that ring upon thy hand. Ah! Wife, sew on, pray on, hope on! Thy life shall not be all forlorn. The foe had better ne’er been born that gets in “Stonewall’s Way.”
ref:
1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way
text:
Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.
ref:
1921, Ben Travers, A Cuckoo in the Nest, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC; republished Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1925, →OCLC, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
To begin therefore with Traditions, which is your forlorn hope that in the first place we are to set upon: this must I needs tell you before we begin, that you much mistake the matter, if you think that traditions of all sorts promiscuously are struck at by our religion.
ref:
1625, James Ussher, “Of Traditions”, in An Ansvver to a Challenge Made by a Iesuite in Ireland. Wherein the Iudgment of Antiquity in the Points Questioned, is Truly Delivered, and the Noveltie of the Now Romish Doctrine Plainely Discovered by Iames Vssher bishop of Meath. Whereunto is Added a Sermon Preached before His Majesty at Wansted, by the Same Author, London: Printed [by Humphrey Lownes] for the Society of Stationers, →OCLC; republished in C[harles] R[ichard] Elrington, editor, The Whole Works of the Most Rev. James Ussher, D.D. Lord Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of All Ireland, volume III, Dublin: Hodges & Smith; London: Whittaker & Co., [1831], →OCLC, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
Mrs. Blair had lost her husband, who was a cavalry officer, in Cabool, at the memorable Khyber Pass; but as no precise tidings of his death had every been received, she cherished the forlorn hope that he was still living in captivity among the Affghans, and that some day it would be her happiness yet to be reunited with him, even on earth.
ref:
1859, Mowbray Thomson, chapter VII, in The Story of Cawnpore, London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty, →OCLC, pages 119–120
type:
quotation
text:
Now he rushed to the platform edge carrying a full fire bucket, in a forlorn attempt to douse the flames as the now brightly burning wagon rolled past.
ref:
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abandoned, deserted, left behind.
Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.
Unlikely to succeed; hopeless.
senses_topics:
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4337 | word:
forlorn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forlorn (plural forlorns)
forms:
form:
forlorns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English forlorn, forloren, from Old English forloren (past participle of forlēosan (“to lose”)), from Proto-Germanic *fraluzanaz (“lost”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *fraleusaną (“to lose”), equivalent to for- + lorn. Cognate with West Frisian ferlern (“lost”), Saterland Frisian ferlädden (“lost”), Dutch verloren (“lost”), German Low German verloren (“lost”),
German verloren (“lost”), Swedish förlorad (“lost”). See further at lese/leese, lorn.
senses_examples:
text:
The Regiment being drawn up into the former Figure, they may proceed to Firings upon it, firſt let the Forlorns fire five or six times over, being commanded by the eldeſt Captains Lieutenant, who is to be aſſiſted by a couple of able Serjeants; after let him wheel off to the right and left, and bring them down in the Reer of the Pikes. Then let the ſecond Captains Lieutenant being aſſiſted by two Serjeants lead up the reſerves by the out-ſide of the Pikes, at ſuch time when the Forlorns begin to come off, […]
ref:
1659, Richard Elton, “Severall Firings to be Performed upon the Former Figure, and how to be Mannaged by the Severall Officers”, in The Compleat Body of the Art Military: Exactly Compiled, and Gradually Composed for the Foot, in the Best Refined Manner, According to the Practice of the Modern Times. …, 2nd edition, London: Printed by R[obert] and W[illiam] Leybourn, in Monkswel-Street, in Lambes Chappel neer Criplegate, →OCLC, book III, page 152
type:
quotation
text:
[…] I ordered the forlorns to advance and to march, at their open order, towards the upland, and by this time the tide was upon the ground wee ſtood on: The forlorn were no ſooner advanced a few rods, before there was firing on both ſides; […]
ref:
1765, [Thomas] Hutchinson, “[Appendix.] Number XXI. Major Walley’s Journal in the Expedition against Canada in 1692. A Narrative of the Proceedings to Canada, soe far as Concerned the Land Army.”, in The History of the Colony of Massachuset’s Bay, from the First Settlement thereof in 1628, until Its Incorporation with the Colony of Plimouth, Province of Main, &c. by the Charter of King William and Queen Mary, in 1691, 2nd edition, London: Printed for M. Richardson, in Pater-noster Row, →OCLC, page 556
type:
quotation
text:
I was this day in the van, and our forlorn having entered Huntingdon without any great reſiſtance till they came to the bridge, finding it barricaded, they ſent me word; I cauſed the troops to halt, and rode up to the forlorn, to view the countenance of the enemy, and found by the poſture they had put themſelves in, that they reſolved to ſell us the paſſage as dear as they could.
ref:
1782, “a Shropshire gentleman” [i.e., Daniel Defoe], “Memoirs of a Cavalier, &c. Part Second.”, in E. Staveley, editor, The History of the Civil Wars in Germany, from the Year 1630 to 1635: Also Genuine Memoirs of the Wars of England, in the Unhappy Reign of Charles the First; Containing the Whole History of Those Miserable Times; until the King Lost His Head on the Scaffold, in the Memorable Year 1648, Newark, Nottinghamshire: Printed by James Tomlinson, for the publisher, →OCLC, page 339
type:
quotation
text:
The garrison, taken by surprise, had the first intelligence of the assault in the "forlorns plunging into the canal."
ref:
1861, Evert A[ugustus] Duyckinck, “Henry Lee”, in National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans: Including Orators, Statesmen, Naval and Military Heroes, Jurists, Authors, etc., etc., from the Original Full Length Paintings by Alonzo Chappel. With Biographical and Historical Narratives, [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Johnson, Fry & Company, 27 Beekman Street, →OCLC, page 236
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A forlorn hope.
A member of a forlorn hope.
senses_topics:
|
4338 | word:
forlorn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
forlorn
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English forlorn, forloren, from Old English forloren (past participle of forlēosan (“to lose”)), from Proto-Germanic *fraluzanaz (“lost”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *fraleusaną (“to lose”), equivalent to for- + lorn. Cognate with West Frisian ferlern (“lost”), Saterland Frisian ferlädden (“lost”), Dutch verloren (“lost”), German Low German verloren (“lost”),
German verloren (“lost”), Swedish förlorad (“lost”). See further at lese/leese, lorn.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of forlese.
senses_topics:
|
4339 | word:
NA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
NA (countable and uncountable, plural NAs)
forms:
form:
NAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of nerve agent.
Initialism of new adult.
Initialism of nursing assistant or nurse's assistant or nurse-assistant.
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
medicine
sciences |
4340 | word:
NA
word_type:
name
expansion:
NA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Narcotics Anonymous.
Initialism of North America.
senses_topics:
|
4341 | word:
NA
word_type:
adj
expansion:
NA (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Native American (“American Indian”).
Initialism of non-alcoholic.
senses_topics:
|
4342 | word:
GR
word_type:
name
expansion:
GR
forms:
wikipedia:
en:GR
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of George Rex. (on coins, letterboxes, etc.) The royal cypher for George V and his son George VI, kings of Great Britain
Initialism of Gazoo Racing.: A performance brand, automotive label, and, racing division, of Toyota.
senses_topics:
automotive
business
hobbies
lifestyle
marketing
motor-racing
racing
sports
transport
vehicles |
4343 | word:
GR
word_type:
noun
expansion:
GR (countable and uncountable, plural GRs)
forms:
form:
GRs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:GR
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
2001 Nussey, S. S. and Whitehead, S. A. The adrenal gland. In: Bosher, Andrea. Endocrinology: An Integrated Approach. Oxford, UK: BIOS Scientific Publishers; 2001 [cited 18 December 2009]. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=endocrin&part=A442#A468 .
The expression of GR is ubiquitous and it occurs in two forms, GR-α and GR-β.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of glucocorticoid receptor.
Initialism of general relativity.
Initialism of games record.
senses_topics:
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
4344 | word:
VC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
VC (countable and uncountable, plural VCs)
forms:
form:
VCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Victoria Cross.
Post-nominal letters for a person who has been awarded the Victoria Cross.
Initialism of vice-chancellor.
Initialism of venture capitalist.
Initialism of venture capital.
Initialism of voluntary controlled.
Initialism of Victor Charlie, Charlie, Viet Cong.
Prefix code for VIP transport airplane.
Initialism of voice call.
Initialism of voice chat.
senses_topics:
education
education
army
government
military
politics
war
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
4345 | word:
VC
word_type:
verb
expansion:
VC (third-person singular simple present VCs, present participle VCing, simple past and past participle VCed)
forms:
form:
VCs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
VCing
tags:
participle
present
form:
VCed
tags:
participle
past
form:
VCed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of voice call.
senses_topics:
|
4346 | word:
YC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
YC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Combination of prefix C and prefix modifier Y
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
prototype cargoplane (prefix)
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war |
4347 | word:
YC
word_type:
name
expansion:
YC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Combination of prefix C and prefix modifier Y
senses_examples:
text:
The venture capitalist Chris Dixon told me, “They created the greatest business model of all time. For basically no money”— YC gives each company just a hundred and twenty thousand dollars, to cover expenses—“they get seven per cent of a lot of the best startups in Silicon Valley!”
ref:
2016 October 3, Tad Friend, quoting Chris Dixon, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Y Combinator.
senses_topics:
business |
4348 | word:
YT
word_type:
name
expansion:
YT
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Yukon Territory..
Abbreviation of YouTube, a popular video hosting website.
senses_topics:
|
4349 | word:
YT
word_type:
noun
expansion:
YT (plural YTs)
forms:
form:
YTs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of yt (“whitey”)
senses_topics:
|
4350 | word:
GT
word_type:
noun
expansion:
GT (plural GTs)
forms:
form:
GTs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of giant trevally.
Initialism of golden trevally.
Initialism of grand tourer.
Initialism of gain of thyroid.
senses_topics:
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
endocrinology
medicine
sciences |
4351 | word:
z car
word_type:
noun
expansion:
z car (plural z cars)
forms:
form:
z cars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An official limousine, in Australia.
senses_topics:
|
4352 | word:
AZ
word_type:
name
expansion:
AZ
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Risks? Suck it up buttercup. The risk of death by Covid is real and so many others of your age had AZ with limited ill or side-effects.
ref:
2021 July 2, The NT News, Darwin, page 22, column 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Arizona, a state of the United States of America.
Abbreviation of AstraZeneca, a COVID-19 vaccine made by the AstraZeneca company.
senses_topics:
|
4353 | word:
CS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: US
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of computer science.
Initialism of coronary sinus.
Initialism of cocksucker.
Initialism of customer service.
Initialism of controlled substance.
Initialism of child support.
Initialism of caught stealing. (especially as a statistic)
Initialism of circuit-switched.
Initialism of chief superintendent.
Initialism of Coma Scale, often the Glasgow Coma Scale.
Initialism of circumsporozoite.
Initialism of Cabernet Sauvignon.
Initialism of conditioned stimulus.
Initialism of complementary studies.
Initialism of cable ship.
Initialism of Orthochlorobenzalmalononitrile.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
government
law-enforcement
medicine
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
education
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
telecommunications
transport
|
4354 | word:
CS
word_type:
name
expansion:
CS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Counter-Strike: a series of multiplayer first-person shooter video games that began in 1999.
Initialism of Church Slavonic.
Initialism of Confederate States.
Abbreviation of Chiapas.
senses_topics:
computer-games
games
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
4355 | word:
NL
word_type:
noun
expansion:
NL (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
For example, a no liability company must include in its name the words “No Liability” or its abbreviation “NL” as a warning to persons dealing with such a company.
ref:
2012, Paul Latimer, Australian Business Law, published 2012
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: DL
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of no liability.
Initialism of night letter.
senses_topics:
business
law
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telegraphy |
4356 | word:
NL
word_type:
name
expansion:
NL
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Newfoundland and Labrador, a province of Canada.
Abbreviation of Nagaland, a state of India.
Initialism of Neo-Latin.
Initialism of New Latin.
Initialism of National League.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
4357 | word:
person
word_type:
noun
expansion:
person (plural persons or (by suppletion) people)
forms:
form:
persons
tags:
plural
form:
people
tags:
plural
suppletive
wikipedia:
Person (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English persoun, personne et al., from Anglo-Norman parsone, persoun et al. (Old French persone (“human being”), French personne), and its source Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”). In this sense, displaced native man, which came to mean primarily "adult male" in Middle English; see Old English mann. Doublet of parson and persona.
senses_examples:
text:
How different […]is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate, and […]that of a friend!
ref:
1664, Robert South, Of the Love of Christ to his Disciples
type:
quotation
text:
three persons and one God
ref:
1892, Book of Common Prayer, The Litanie
type:
quotation
text:
Jack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats.
type:
example
text:
I was able to speak to a technical support person and get the problem solved.
type:
example
text:
1784, William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., PREFACE
THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Perſons of the firſt diſtinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ſeveral new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and diſtinguiſh it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
text:
Each person is unique, both mentally and physically.
type:
example
text:
At first blush it seemed that what was striking about him rested on the fact that his dress was exotic, his person foreign.
ref:
1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), page 418
text:
Meanwhile, the dazed Sullivan, dressed like a bum with no identification on his person, is arrested and put to work on a brutal Southern chain gang.
ref:
2004, The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.
type:
example
text:
[E]very Person wilfully, openly, lewdly, and obscenely exposing his Person in any Street, Road, or public Highway, or in the View thereof, or in any Place of public Resort, with Intent to insult any Female ... and being subsequently convicted of the Offence for which he or she shall have been so apprehended, shall be deemed a Rogue and Vagabond, within the true Intent and Meaning of this Act ...
ref:
1824, Vagrancy Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4. c. 83, United Kingdom), section 4
text:
True corms, composed of united personae […] usually arise by gemmation, […] yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons.
ref:
1884, Patrick Geddes, “Morphology”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, volume 16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.
An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.
An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
Any sapient or socially intelligent being.
An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing).
An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman).
An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
A worker in a specified function or specialty.
An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom they are speaking. See grammatical person.
A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
senses_topics:
Christianity
law
law
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
biology
natural-sciences |
4358 | word:
person
word_type:
verb
expansion:
person (third-person singular simple present persons, present participle personing or personning, simple past and past participle personed or personned)
forms:
form:
persons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
personing
tags:
participle
present
form:
personning
tags:
participle
present
form:
personed
tags:
participle
past
form:
personed
tags:
past
form:
personned
tags:
participle
past
form:
personned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Person (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English persoun, personne et al., from Anglo-Norman parsone, persoun et al. (Old French persone (“human being”), French personne), and its source Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”). In this sense, displaced native man, which came to mean primarily "adult male" in Middle English; see Old English mann. Doublet of parson and persona.
senses_examples:
text:
“Okay. Soon as Natalie heard, and while she was flailing around trying to turn up a Valium, she decided she had better call Scott Harrison and ask his opinion on what sort of advice, re legal moves, she ought to call back to Iréné, or Rama, or Wilkerson, or whoever’s personning the fort back there.” / “Whoever’s whatening the fort?” / “Please.[…]”
ref:
1981, John Nichols, “Sunday”, in The Nirvana Blues, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 1983 May, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
Thank you to the many who helped the festival succeed (and apologies to anyone omitted): […] Kevin and Mary Jannsen, for tireless work including the initial survey, soliciting raffle donations, selling tickets, personning the raffle booth during the festival, etc.
ref:
1996 fall/winter, Sharon Dezurick, “Glen Park Community Festival a Success”, in Kristin Nash, editor, Glen Park News, San Francisco, Calif.: Glen Park Association, →OCLC, columns 1–2
type:
quotation
text:
And I sat at the counter and watched the cooker cat personning the griddle with one hand and the grill with the other.
ref:
2006 March 22–28, L.E. [Lady Exister] Leone [pseudonym; Dani Leone], “Ah, Sprrr-ing!”, in Tim Redmond, editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume 40, number 25, San Francisco, Calif., →ISSN, page 61, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
We had hit the iceberg, and it was time to person the lifeboats.
ref:
2007, Brian R. Brenner, Don't Throw This Away!: The Civil Engineering Life, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
I was just mulling over the merits of working the fryer at McDonald’s versus personning the complaints desk at Wal-Mart when I took a right onto the dirt road leading to New Millennium Bible Camp.
ref:
2008, Jess Lourey, chapter 21, in August Moon: A Murder-By-Month Mystery, Woodbury, Minn.: Midnight Ink, Llewellyn Publications, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
We went so far as to stop in a hotel on the way out of Speyer — to ask for directions — but the teenaged girl personing the desk there seemed to be such an idiot[…]
ref:
2008, William Guy, Something Sensational, page 337
type:
quotation
text:
In fact, so inebriated were they that they could barely move, and, neither nest nor wheel being personned, the ship was as usual careening wildly across the main.
ref:
2018 September, Paul Bowers, “The Wrasse and the Flatfish”, in The Panda Chronicles: A Mythology, 2nd edition, [Morrisiville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], page 74
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
To man, to supply with staff or crew.
senses_topics:
|
4359 | word:
PA
word_type:
name
expansion:
PA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit? / Heard about Pittsburgh, PA?
ref:
1979 August 3, Talking Heads (lyrics and music), “Life During Wartime”, in Fear of Music
type:
quotation
text:
He believes that the PA is more entrenched inside Gaza than recognised, saying that, despite being ejected from Gaza as a political and security force in 2007, the PA was still delivering many public services including health and schools in Gaza.
ref:
2023 November 27, Patrick Wintour, “Hamas cannot continue to rule Gaza, says EU foreign affairs chief”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Pennsylvania, a state of the United States of America.
Abbreviation of Papua, a province of Indonesia.
Abbreviation of Pará, a state of Brazil.
Initialism of Palestinian Authority.
Initialism of Proto-Algonquian. (sometimes abbreviated PAn to distinguish it from Proto-Algic, but usually just abbreviated PA with Proto-Algic being abbreviated PAc)
Initialism of Proto-Algic. (sometimes abbreviated PAc to distinguish it from Proto-Algonquian)
Initialism of Proto-Athapaskan.
Initialism of Prince Albert (“Saskatchewan city”).
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
4360 | word:
PA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PA (countable and uncountable, plural PAs)
forms:
form:
PAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
“Shuttle sensors detect no communications, heat signatures out of the ordinary, or other signals,” SAM-E said over the shuttle’s PA.
ref:
2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 13, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →OCLC, page 242
type:
quotation
text:
Jen: Douglas has asked me to be his PA.
Moss: Oh. My. God! Well, that is something and a half. His PA? How... Whoa! His PA... Shut up! His PA!
Jen: It means "personal assistant".
Moss: Thank you. Right, OK.
ref:
2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6
text:
Coordinate term: PF
text:
The Giants and Commanders have the same record after 13 games each. However, Washington has control of third place in the NFC East due to a better PF/PA record in comparison to the Giants.
ref:
2022 December 14, “NFL Playoff picture Week 15: Are the New York Giants still in contention for the postseason?”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2022-12-17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of public address.
Initialism of personal assistant.
Initialism of personal appearance. (when a celebrity visits a public event)
Initialism of power amplifier.
Initialism of Prince Albert (“genital piercing”).
Initialism of public accountant.
Initialism of public act.
Initialism of physician assistant.
Initialism of polyamide.
Initialism of pyrrolizidine alkaloid.
Initialism of Peano arithmetic.
Initialism of pulmonary artery.
Initialism of Parental Accompaniment.
Initialism of precision agriculture.
Initialism of points against.
senses_topics:
law
medicine
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
American-football
ball-games
fantasy
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
4361 | word:
PA
word_type:
adj
expansion:
PA (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of posteroanterior.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
4362 | word:
PA
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
PA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
an interest rate of 3% PA
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of per annum.
senses_topics:
|
4363 | word:
AC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
AC (plural ACs)
forms:
form:
ACs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
AC
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Current UK practice, supported by NICE guidance is to complete local pelvic treatment with surgery±pre-operative radiotherapy, before considering systemic adjuvant chemotherapy (AC)
ref:
2018, Gollins S et al., “A prospective phase II study of pre-operative chemotherapy then short-course radiotherapy for high risk rectal cancer: COPERNICUS”, in British Journal of Cancer
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: DC
text:
110 V AC
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of absolute ceiling.
Initialism of access control.
Initialism of account current.
Initialism of anterior chamber.
Initialism of adult contemporary (a radio format).
Initialism of adenylyl cyclase.
Initialism of adjuvant chemotherapy.
Initialism of air conditioning.
Initialism of air corps.
Initialism of aircraftman.
Initialism of alternating current (often used to indicate an alternating potential rather than a current).
Initialism of alternating current (often used to indicate an alternating potential rather than a current).
supply of electric energy via a public electricity grid
Initialism of area code.
Initialism of army corps.
Initialism of athletic club.
Initialism of author's correction.
Initialism of automobile club.
Initialism of Auxiliary Collier (a naval coal transport that travels with the fleet to provide coal for coal-powered warships).
Initialism of axiom of choice.
Initialism of assistant commissioner, a police rank used in London's Metropolitan Police.
Companion of the Order of Australia.
Initialism of aviation cadet.
Initialism of ammonium chloride.
Initialism of autonomous county.
Initialism of armor class.
singular of ACs (“autistics and cousins”).
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
finance
anatomy
medicine
sciences
broadcasting
entertainment
lifestyle
media
music
radio
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
medicine
sciences
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
government
military
politics
war
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
government
law-enforcement
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
geography
natural-sciences
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
4364 | word:
AC
word_type:
adj
expansion:
AC (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
AC
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
AC joint; AC separation
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of acromioclavicular.
Initialism of air conditioned.
Initialism of antichristian.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
lifestyle
religion |
4365 | word:
AC
word_type:
adv
expansion:
AC (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
AC
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of anno Christi (in the year of Christ).
Initialism of ante Christum, (before Christ).
senses_topics:
|
4366 | word:
AC
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
AC
forms:
wikipedia:
AC
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of all clear (as in button on electronic calculator).
Initialism of ante cibum (before meals).
Initialism of as charged, as in: guilty as charged, usually a/c.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
law |
4367 | word:
AC
word_type:
name
expansion:
AC
forms:
wikipedia:
AC
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Aceh, an autonomous province of Indonesia.
Acre, a state of Brazil.
Initialism of America's Cup (competition yacht sailing match racing regatta).
senses_topics:
|
4368 | word:
CL
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CL (countable and uncountable, plural CLs)
forms:
form:
CLs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of light cruiser, a type of warship
Abbreviation of cluster.
Initialism of lift coefficient.
Abbreviation of closer.
Initialism of containment level.
Initialism of computability logic.
senses_topics:
government
military
navy
politics
war
astronomy
natural-sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
4369 | word:
CL
word_type:
name
expansion:
CL
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Catalonia.
senses_topics:
|
4370 | word:
bap
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bap (plural baps)
forms:
form:
baps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Originally Scottish English, of unknown origin.
senses_examples:
text:
burger bap
type:
example
text:
He lost the bap. ― He became angry.
type:
example
text:
Mrs Dudley came bouncing back, hand swinging, big stain on her right bap like she'd been shot or Da had got at her in an alleyway.
ref:
2014, Kelly Creighton, The Bones of It
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A soft bread roll, originally from Scotland.
A woman's breast.
The head.
senses_topics:
|
4371 | word:
bap
word_type:
intj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
text:
Damian rolls Mr. McNutt over and beats the tar out of him with a series of punches, glasses on or not.
ref:
2006, Ashaki Boelter., The Nok, page 55
type:
quotation
roman:
BAP! BAP! SMACK! BAP! BAP! "You and your men are going to get my family killed!" hollers Damian.
text:
Elizabeth continued into the living room and saw Velvet napping on the cool linoleum under the dining room table. She stopped to stroke her silky side and the puppy's tail went bap, bap, bap against the floor in greeting.
ref:
2014, Rose McMills, Mountain Girl
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sound of a light blow or slap.
senses_topics:
|
4372 | word:
bap
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bap (third-person singular simple present baps, present participle bapping, simple past and past participle bapped)
forms:
form:
baps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bapping
tags:
participle
present
form:
bapped
tags:
participle
past
form:
bapped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
text:
“Actually, I like you growling when we're in our bedchamber. It, um . . . makes me think of all the things we do.” “Oh.” He processed that for a moment, then grinned down at her. “I'll take that as permission to growl at you all the more, then!” “Wolfer!” She bapped him again with the back of her fingers.
ref:
2007, Jean Johnson, The Wolf: A Novel of the Sons of Destiny, Penguin
type:
quotation
text:
She lightly bapped him on the head, then continued […]
ref:
2016, Nathan Birr, Shot List - The Douglas Files: Book Four, page 385
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hit lightly.
senses_topics:
|
4373 | word:
bap
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bap (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Korean 밥 (bap).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cooked rice as part of Korean cuisine.
senses_topics:
|
4374 | word:
fortune
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fortune (countable and uncountable, plural fortunes)
forms:
form:
fortunes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fortune
etymology_text:
From Middle English fortune, from Old French fortune, from Latin fortuna (“fate, luck”). The plural form fortunae meant “possessions”, which also gave fortune the meaning of “riches”.
senses_examples:
text:
She read my fortune. Apparently I will have a good love life this week, but I will have a bad week for money.
type:
example
text:
you, who men's fortunes in their faces read
ref:
1647, Abraham Cowley, “My Fate”, in The Mistress
type:
quotation
text:
[…]his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve.
ref:
1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
type:
quotation
text:
fame and fortune
type:
example
text:
Fortune favors the brave.
type:
example
text:
He's amassed a small fortune working in the Middle East.
type:
example
text:
My vast fortune was a result of inheritance and stock market nous.
type:
example
text:
Her fortune is estimated at 3 million dollars.
type:
example
text:
That car must be worth a fortune! How could you afford it?
type:
example
text:
Why spend a small fortune on Puma when you could buy Numa, Tuna or Pigg? And why buy Adidas when you can buy Adidos or Avivas? Nike, when there's Nire or Hike? Calvin Klein, when clearly, Calvim Klain or Cavern Kernel are just as good? But remember, after a good workout, be sure to clean up with some Okay shampoo.
ref:
2015 June 24, “Top 10 Chinese Knockoffs of Foreign Products” (00:02:53 from the start), in China Uncensored, spoken by himself (Chris Chappell), New Tang Dynasty Television, via New Tang Dynasty Television
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Destiny, especially favorable.
A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
Good luck.
One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.
A large amount of money.
senses_topics:
|
4375 | word:
fortune
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fortune (third-person singular simple present fortunes, present participle fortuning, simple past and past participle fortuned)
forms:
form:
fortunes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fortuning
tags:
participle
present
form:
fortuned
tags:
participle
past
form:
fortuned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
fortune
etymology_text:
From Middle English fortune, from Old French fortune, from Latin fortuna (“fate, luck”). The plural form fortunae meant “possessions”, which also gave fortune the meaning of “riches”.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To provide (someone) with a fortune.
To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
To happen, to take place.
senses_topics:
|
4376 | word:
bling bling
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bling bling (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Jamaican slang, a sound suggested by the quality of light reflected by diamonds, adopted by American rappers. Compare words of similar sound and meaning: blink, blinding, blank.
senses_examples:
text:
Gay men often seek out diamonds, and some purchases are “bling bling,” according to Jillian Rebol, the manager of Ultra Diamonds (soon to be Kay Jeweler’s) in Chicago.
ref:
2014 February 14, Samantha Zabell, “The Rise of the Man-gagement Ring”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Shiny jewelry that displays wealth, such as a diamond ring or a stylish gold necklace or bracelet.
senses_topics:
|
4377 | word:
PU
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PU
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Punjab.
senses_topics:
|
4378 | word:
PU
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PU (plural PUs)
forms:
form:
PUs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of processing unit.
Initialism of prosodic unit. (IU for intonation unit is preferred)
Initialism of polyurethane.
Initialism of power unit.
Initialism of penalty unit.
Initialism of pickup. (as in pickup artist)
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
|
4379 | word:
PU
word_type:
intj
expansion:
PU
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
IMO, this stinks. PU.
ref:
1994 February 28, zombie, “Future Images”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20
type:
quotation
text:
1997 February 19, K.A.J., “PU, whats that smell......”, in rec.equestrian (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20:
type:
quotation
text:
1999 April 7, Thomas Mac Donald, “99 Interior Smell - PU”, in rec.autos.makers.mazda.miata (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20:
type:
quotation
text:
THIS NEWSGROUP STINKS
ref:
2000 March 19, thunde...@webtv.net, “PU WHO CUT THE FRIKIN CHEESE?”, in alt.cheese (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20
type:
quotation
roman:
PU
text:
Phew can mean you are exhausted, hot, and other things which leave you overwhelmed. Pew is a bench you sit on in church. PU means that something stinks. I feel no connection between these words. While Phew *may* mean "what a stink", PU can mean *only* "what a stink". By the way, PU has been around at least since was a young kid 60 years ago.
ref:
2000 February 22, Karl Reinhardt, “How to spell???”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20
type:
quotation
text:
PU? As in Stinks? :^)
Sam (Pee Euw) Sands
ref:
2000 October 7, Samuel Sands, “Truck”, in atl.arno (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of P U; expression used when encountering a displeasing smell; exaggerated pronunciation of pew.
senses_topics:
|
4380 | word:
NF
word_type:
name
expansion:
NF
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Newfoundland and Labrador, a Canadian province.
Initialism of National Formulary, a book of public pharmacopeial standards.
senses_topics:
medicine
pharmacology
sciences |
4381 | word:
NF
word_type:
adj
expansion:
NF
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of not frat, denoting things counter to the culture of Greek life, particularly in the Southern United States
senses_topics:
|
4382 | word:
NF
word_type:
noun
expansion:
NF
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Prefix code for NASA research fighter plane designations.
Initialism of necrotizing fasciitis.
Initialism of neurofibromatosis.
Initialism of normalization form.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
medicine
pathology
sciences
medicine
pathology
sciences
|
4383 | word:
travel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
travel (third-person singular simple present travels, present participle travelling or (US) traveling, simple past and past participle travelled or (US) traveled)
forms:
form:
travels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
travelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
traveling
tags:
US
participle
present
form:
travelled
tags:
participle
past
form:
travelled
tags:
past
form:
traveled
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
traveled
tags:
US
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
travel
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Travel (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
PIE word
*tréyes
From Middle English travelen (“to make a laborious journey, travel”) from Middle Scots travailen (“to toil, work, travel”), alteration of Middle English travaillen (“to toil, work”), from Old French travailler (“to trouble, suffer, be worn out”). See the doublet travail.
Largely displaced fare, from Old English faran (“to go [a long distance], to travel”). More at fare.
senses_examples:
text:
John seems to spend as much time travelling as he does in the office.
type:
example
text:
He that feareth oblatration must not travel.
ref:
1661, John Stephens, An Historical Discourse..., Prol.
text:
Then, when Moses had fulfilled the term, and was travelling with his housefolk, he saw in the distance a fire and said unto his housefolk: Bide ye (here). Lo! I see in the distance a fire; peradventure I shall bring you tidings thence, or a brand from the fire that ye may warm yourselves.
ref:
1930, Marmaduke Pickthall, transl., The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, surah 28, verse 29
type:
quotation
text:
Soundwaves can travel through water.
type:
example
text:
The supposedly secret news of Mary's engagement travelled quickly through her group of friends.
type:
example
text:
I’ve travelled the world.
type:
example
text:
Necessity will make men fare hard, and work hard, and travel hard, go bare, and suffer much; yea it will even cut off a leg or arm to save their lives;
ref:
1707, Richard Baxter, The Practical Works of the Late Reverend and Pious Mr. Richard Baxter, page 646
type:
quotation
text:
We labour sore, and travel hard, and much Study is a Weariness to our Flesh; and of making many Books there is no End.
ref:
1719, William Tilly, The Acceptable Sacrifice, page 335
type:
quotation
text:
Man holds in constant service bound The blustering winds and seas; Nor suns disdain to travel hard Their master, man, to please;
ref:
1794, “Resignation”, in A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain.Volume 10, page 144
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.
To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
To travel throughout (a place).
To force to journey.
To labour; to travail.
senses_topics:
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
4384 | word:
travel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
travel (countable and uncountable, plural travels)
forms:
form:
travels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Travel (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English travail, travell, from Old French travail, travaille, travaillie, traval, travalle, traveaul, traveil, traveille, travel. Doublet of travail.
senses_examples:
text:
space travel
type:
example
text:
travel to Spain
type:
example
text:
I’m off on my travels around France again.
type:
example
text:
But overall, I think the railway delivered very well on my travels. I'd give it 9/10 - there are just a few little rough edges that need smoothing off.
ref:
2023 November 29, 'Mystery Shopper', “Does the railway deliver for passengers?”, in RAIL, number 997, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
He released his travels in 1900, two years after returning from Africa.
type:
example
text:
CALUAT, s. This in some old travels is used for Ar. khilwat, 'privacy, a private interview' (C. P. Brown, MS.).
ref:
1903, Henry Yule, Arthur Burnell, Hobson-Jobson
type:
quotation
text:
There was a lot of travel in the handle, because the tool was out of adjustment.
type:
example
text:
My drill press has a travel of only 1.5 inches.
type:
example
text:
Hard Labour is when more vehement Pains and dangerous Symptomes happen to Women in Travel, and continue a longer time.
ref:
1667, John Tanner, The hidden treasures of the art of physick, page 208
type:
quotation
text:
The keys have great travel.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
A series of journeys.
An account of one's travels.
The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
Labour; parturition; travail.
Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.
senses_topics:
|
4385 | word:
overweight
word_type:
adj
expansion:
overweight (comparative more overweight, superlative most overweight)
forms:
form:
more overweight
tags:
comparative
form:
most overweight
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From over- + weight.
senses_examples:
text:
Before her diet, Jane was noticeably overweight, but she shed five kilos in the next two months.
type:
example
text:
All States allow oversized vehicles if a special permit is obtained, although most States will grant overweight permits only for non-divisible loads.
ref:
1988, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Gearing Up for Safety: Motor Carrier Safety in a Competitive Environment, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
He got as far as the first weigh station, where troopers found his truck to be overweight and threatened to pull him off the road.
ref:
1993, Legacy in the Sand: Chemical Command in Operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
The records did not reveal any previous encounters with severe turbulence. The three major alterations/repairs involving the wing were either far outboard of the strut wing station, or were performed on the right wing. Two overweight landings had been recorded since the aircraft was put into service with Evergreen. In both cases, an inspection of the airplane was accomplished in accordance with the Boeing Maintenance Manual.
ref:
1993 October 13, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.17.1 Maintenance Records”, in Aircraft Accident Report: In-Flight Engine Separation, Japan Airlines, Inc., Flight 46E, Boeing 747-121, N473EV, Anchorage, Alaska, March 31, 1993, archived from the original on 2022-06-17, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
Postaccident examination of the vehicle indicated, for example, that the driver had not adequately maintained his logbook and that his vehicle had been overweight for travel in Indiana.
ref:
1999 July 26, National Transportation Safety Board, “Operator Actions”, in Railroad Accident Report: Collision of Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District Train 102 With a Tractor-Trailer, Portage, Indiana, June 18, 1998, archived from the original on 2022-06-17, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
senses_topics:
law
transport
business
finance
investment |
4386 | word:
overweight
word_type:
noun
expansion:
overweight (countable and uncountable, plural overweights)
forms:
form:
overweights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From over- + weight.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] and shall pay not only the amount of the permit fee for overlength, overheight, overwidth or overweight as might be due, but an additional civil penalty of fifty dollars for the first offense, one hundred dollars for the second offense and one hundred fifty dollars for each additional offense; […]
ref:
1976, Acts of the Legislature, volume 1, Louisiana, page 445
type:
quotation
text:
It is clear that a bird would certainly be grounded by overweight if it retained eggs in the body and discharged them in large numbers at one time, like a turtle[.]
ref:
1985, J.D. McDonald, Australian Birds: A Popular Guide to Bird Life, Sydney: Reed Books, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
SCHOOL MEAL ISSUES FOR CHILDREN AT RISK FOR OVERWEIGHT
ref:
2007, Josephine Martin, Charlotte Oakley, Managing child nutrition programs: leadership for excellence, page 462
type:
quotation
text:
The study provides up-to-date facts on the variety of diseases, vascular, metabolic, hepatic, and other, which are responsible for the excess mortality of overweights.
ref:
1951, Louis Israel Dublin, Mortality Among Insured Overweights in Recent Years, Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America, →OCLC, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
Singh found that the normal weight figures were judged more attractive than the underweights‚ who were more attractive than the overweights.
ref:
1998, Adrian Furnham, Melanie Dias, Alastair McClelland, “The role of body weight, waist-to-hip ratio, and breast size in judgments of female attractiveness”, in Sex roles, volume 39, number 3, Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 311–326
type:
quotation
text:
Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.
ref:
2014, Ahmet Celik, Edibe Saricicek, Vahap Saricicek, Elif Sahin, Gokhan Ozdemir, Metin Kilinc, Ayten Oguz, Relation between the new anthropometric obesity parameters and inflammatory markers in healthy adult men, SCIRJ
type:
quotation
text:
Apple common stock is one of our overweights.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An excess of weight.
The condition of being overweight.
An overweight person.
A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.
senses_topics:
law
transport
government
healthcare
business
finance
investment |
4387 | word:
overweight
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overweight (third-person singular simple present overweights, present participle overweighting, simple past and past participle overweighted)
forms:
form:
overweights
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overweighting
tags:
participle
present
form:
overweighted
tags:
participle
past
form:
overweighted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From over- + weight.
senses_examples:
text:
By noon the fat, perspiring, and importantly busy merchant arrives, overweighted with red blood, fat, and responsibility, for a game of manille or dominoes with three or four old cronies.
ref:
1916, F[rank] Berkeley Smith, Babette: A Novel, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 240
type:
quotation
text:
Throughout the country there were: rupture of telecommunications, resulting amongst other things from telegraph wires and posts overweighted by snow or struck down by gales; [...].
ref:
1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 158
type:
quotation
text:
Kinnel explained it, the problem at Select High Income was that it overweighted mortgage bonds and underweighted other types of corporate debt, a strategy that backfired when the mortgage market collapsed.
ref:
2009 January 11, Geraldine Fabrikant, “How Safe Is That Nest Egg, Anyhow?”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.
To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.
senses_topics:
|
4388 | word:
AG
word_type:
noun
expansion:
AG (countable and uncountable, plural AGs)
forms:
form:
AGs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Cross-dressers in full bloom sang and danced beside Doms and AGs, butches and femmes joined arms with gay men and lesbians - all of them their own rainbow of Black, white, Latino, Asian.
ref:
2004, Penny Mickelbury, Darkness Descending, Kings Crossing Publishing, page 130
type:
quotation
text:
But I still cannot pretend that transgender in general does not continue to fail me when it does not fulfill its promise of butch inclusion. It fails all butches, AGs/aggressives, and studs who find themselves facing the same issues of[…]
ref:
2010 January 8, Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, Seal Press
type:
quotation
text:
The opening club scene, in which AGs (aggressives/butches) flirt with femme performers is a compelling rush: you are right there.
ref:
2015 October 22, So Mayer, Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
Our group had the attention of every stud, AG (aggressive girl), femme, and butch in the place. A stud sporting a Mohawk and lip ring approached us. Her eyes were as black as her skin.
ref:
2019, Ben Burgess Jr., Wounded
type:
quotation
text:
Acknowledgements I want to first thank all of the butches, bois, studs, AGs, bulldaggers, punks and trans mens who have been part of my world for the last twenty-something years. Thank you for our collective vulnerability and always[…]
ref:
2019 March 12, Ana-Maurine Lara, Sum of Parts, Lulu.com, page 85
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Attorney General.
Initialism of Auditor General.
Abbreviation of agricultural aviation.
An aggressive (a butch woman, especially a Black butch woman); an aggressive girl.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality |
4389 | word:
begun
word_type:
verb
expansion:
begun
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
... when he should take the sield, that city was persuaded to complete the regiment they had begun to form, under the command of a Colonel whom the King had recommended to them ; which they did raise to the number of a thousand men.
ref:
1807, Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.), The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in the year 1641. 3 vols. [each in 2 pt.]., page 717
text:
When we've been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God's praise,
Than when we first begun.
ref:
1790 (see Amazing Grace)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of begin
simple past of begin
senses_topics:
|
4390 | word:
fascist
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fascist (comparative more fascist, superlative most fascist)
forms:
form:
more fascist
tags:
comparative
form:
most fascist
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Fascism
etymology_text:
1921, from Italian fascista, from fascio (“bundle, bunch”), in use metonymically for "group of men organized for political purposes" since 1895. Ultimately with reference to the fasces or bundles of axes and rods carried before the magistrates of ancient Rome in token of their power of life and death.
senses_examples:
text:
Under demagogues such as Donald Trump in the U.S., Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Recep Erdoğan in Turkey, Narendra Modi in India and Viktor Orbán in Hungary, a moral abyss has emerged in which state violence, widespread repression and a surge of lawlessness against those considered disposable have become the hallmark of an updated fascist politics.
ref:
2020 March 2, Henry A. Giroux, “Auschwitz Survivors Don’t Want Their Past to Be Their Grandchildren’s Future”, in Truthout
type:
quotation
text:
I have a fascist boss.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to fascism.
Supporting the principles of fascism.
Unfairly oppressive or needlessly strict.
senses_topics:
|
4391 | word:
fascist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fascist (plural fascists)
forms:
form:
fascists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Fascism
George Orwell
etymology_text:
1921, from Italian fascista, from fascio (“bundle, bunch”), in use metonymically for "group of men organized for political purposes" since 1895. Ultimately with reference to the fasces or bundles of axes and rods carried before the magistrates of ancient Rome in token of their power of life and death.
senses_examples:
text:
Mussolini was a fascist well known for his repression of criticism and totalitarian government.
type:
example
text:
Fascist? I'm not fascist. You're the fascist!
type:
example
text:
[I]f I can shoot rabbits / Then I can shoot fascists.
ref:
1998, “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next”, in This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, performed by Manic Street Preachers
type:
quotation
text:
Thursday's long-awaited relocation fulfils a key pledge of the socialist government, which said Spain should not continue to glorify a fascist who ruled the country for nearly four decades.
ref:
2019 October 24, “Franco exhumation: Spanish dictator's remains moved”, in BBC News
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A proponent of fascism.
senses_topics:
|
4392 | word:
CM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CM (countable and uncountable, plural CMs)
forms:
form:
CMs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
CM
etymology_text:
Sense "commercial" is a borrowing from Japanese CM (CM, “promotional video”), from English commercial + message.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: PM (“prime minister”)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of chief minister.
A member of the Order of Canada.
Initialism of commercial message.
Initialism of Candidate Master.
Initialism of command module.
Initialism of cryptographic module.
Initialism of configuration management.
Initialism of cruise missile.
Initialism of Cohen-Macaulay.
Initialism of common meter.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games
aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
government
military
politics
war
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
4393 | word:
CM
word_type:
name
expansion:
CM (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
CM
etymology_text:
Sense "commercial" is a borrowing from Japanese CM (CM, “promotional video”), from English commercial + message.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of College of Medicine.
Initialism of Command Module (“Apollo Command Module”).
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
4394 | word:
turquoise
word_type:
noun
expansion:
turquoise (countable and uncountable, plural turquoises)
forms:
form:
turquoises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Nishapur
etymology_text:
From Middle French turquoise, from Old French (pierre) turquoise (“Turkish (stone)”), from turc + -ois. The stone, mined near Nishapur in the Khorasan region of Persia, was originally brought to Europe through Turkey. Doublet of Turkish.
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:
turquoise:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone.
A pale greenish-blue colour, like that of the gemstone.
senses_topics:
|
4395 | word:
turquoise
word_type:
adj
expansion:
turquoise (comparative more turquoise, superlative most turquoise)
forms:
form:
more turquoise
tags:
comparative
form:
most turquoise
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Nishapur
etymology_text:
From Middle French turquoise, from Old French (pierre) turquoise (“Turkish (stone)”), from turc + -ois. The stone, mined near Nishapur in the Khorasan region of Persia, was originally brought to Europe through Turkey. Doublet of Turkish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of turquoise (the gemstone).
Having a pale greenish-blue colour.
senses_topics:
|
4396 | word:
TB
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
TB
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of terabyte.
Abbreviation of tebibyte.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
4397 | word:
TB
word_type:
name
expansion:
TB
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Tampa Bay (a city in Florida).
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
4398 | word:
TB
word_type:
noun
expansion:
TB (countable and uncountable, plural TBs)
forms:
form:
TBs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tuberculosis.
Initialism of total bases.
Abbreviation of throwback.
Initialism of torpedo boat.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war |
4399 | word:
SP
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SP (countable and uncountable, plural SPs)
forms:
form:
SPs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
He was an atheist, a rationalist, a medical student of no great distinction, an SP punter, a singer of bawdy songs, an acknowledged expert in matters erotic.
ref:
1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 157
type:
quotation
text:
It was the last time, too, when […] the races dominated the radio on Saturday afternoons and everyone had the number of an SP bookie.
ref:
1998, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 196
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Starting price.
Selling price
Shore patrol
state police
Slow play
service pack
synonym of or alternative to MP/magic points, especially for games that lack magic or fantasy elements. Common examples of meanings of the abbreviation include but are not limited to: skill point, special point, spirit point, and spell point.
Abbreviation of superintendent.
Initialism of suppressive person.
substance P
Abbreviation of soft point.
State Park
Spur
Short Program
Initialism of sex partner.
senses_topics:
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
government
military
navy
politics
war
government
law-enforcement
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
games
role-playing-games
video-games
government
law-enforcement
Scientology
lifestyle
religion
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
|
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