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word: SP word_type: name expansion: SP forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of São Paulo, A state of Brazil. senses_topics:
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word: IL word_type: noun expansion: IL (plural ILs) forms: form: ILs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Intermediate language Individual-level. Abbreviation of interleukin. senses_topics: computing engineering mathematics natural-sciences physical-sciences sciences video-games
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word: IL word_type: name expansion: IL forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of Illinois. (a state of the United States of America) senses_topics:
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word: SK word_type: phrase expansion: SK forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: When either of the two people is ready to end the conversation, this is done by typing at the end of a sentence—“SK OR GA” (stop key or go ahead).] ref: [1974 December, Leo Dicker, “Suggested Procedures for Using Telecommunication Devices”, in Jess M. Smith, editor, The Deaf American, volume 27, number 4, page 9 type: quotation text: GA OR SK "go ahead or stop keying"] ref: [2002, “Calling & Answering”, in Using Your Superprint PRO80 LVD, 1st edition, Ultratec, page 20 type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of stop keying/stop key, indicating a desire to end the conversation. senses_topics:
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word: SK word_type: verb expansion: SK forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of shake. senses_topics: entertainment handbells lifestyle music
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word: SK word_type: noun expansion: SK (plural SKs) forms: form: SKs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of senior kindergarten. senses_topics:
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word: SK word_type: name expansion: SK forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of Saskatchewan., a province of Canada Initialism of South Korea., a country in Asia Abbreviation of Sikkim., a state of India Initialism of Sunkyong., a company from South Korea senses_topics:
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word: OA word_type: prep expansion: OA forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of on or about. senses_topics:
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word: OA word_type: noun expansion: OA forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of open access. Initialism of organizing authority. Initialism of office assistant. Initialism of output area. senses_topics:
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word: OA word_type: adj expansion: OA (comparative more OA, superlative most OA) forms: form: more OA tags: comparative form: most OA tags: superlative wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: He's even more OA than you. He's even more overreactive than you. type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of overacting. senses_topics:
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word: OA word_type: name expansion: OA forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Order of the Arrow senses_topics:
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word: mosquito word_type: noun expansion: mosquito (plural mosquitos or mosquitoes) forms: form: mosquitos tags: plural form: mosquitoes tags: plural wikipedia: mosquito etymology_text: Borrowed from Spanish mosquito (“gnat”), diminutive of mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca (“fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūs- (“fly, stinging fly, gnat”). Cognate with West Flemish meuzie (“mosquito”), dialectal Swedish mausa (“mosquito”), Lithuanian musė (“a fly”) and Sicilian muschitta (“midge”). See also midge. senses_examples: text: We lit a driftwood fire to help keep the mosquitoes away. It was partially successful. ref: 1941 March 12, Charles A. Lindbergh, The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1970, page 461 type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria, dengue and yellow fever. senses_topics:
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word: mosquito word_type: verb expansion: mosquito (third-person singular simple present mosquitos, present participle mosquitoing, simple past and past participle mosquitoed) forms: form: mosquitos tags: present singular third-person form: mosquitoing tags: participle present form: mosquitoed tags: participle past form: mosquitoed tags: past wikipedia: mosquito etymology_text: Borrowed from Spanish mosquito (“gnat”), diminutive of mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca (“fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūs- (“fly, stinging fly, gnat”). Cognate with West Flemish meuzie (“mosquito”), dialectal Swedish mausa (“mosquito”), Lithuanian musė (“a fly”) and Sicilian muschitta (“midge”). See also midge. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course. senses_topics:
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word: squid word_type: noun expansion: squid (plural squids or squid) forms: form: squids tags: plural form: squid tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Unknown. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of squirt. senses_examples: text: Can you lend me five squid? I feel like a bacon sarnie. type: example text: Press the fifty squid button – "Insufficient funds". […] A thousandth of a million squid or two monkeys / Or a whole fifty scores ref: 2004, The Streets (lyrics and music), “It Was Supposed to Be So Easy”, in A Grand Don’t Come for Free type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid. A sailor in the Navy. A quid; one pound sterling. senses_topics: government military politics war
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word: squid word_type: verb expansion: squid (third-person singular simple present squids, present participle squidding, simple past and past participle squidded) forms: form: squids tags: present singular third-person form: squidding tags: participle present form: squidded tags: participle past form: squidded tags: past wikipedia: etymology_text: Unknown. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of squirt. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: To fish with the kind of hook called a squid. To cause squidding (an improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth). senses_topics: fishing hobbies lifestyle hobbies lifestyle parachuting
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word: squid word_type: noun expansion: squid (plural squids) forms: form: squids tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Possibly a blend of stupid + quick; "stupid, quick, under-dressed and imminently dead", a claimed origin, is probably a backronym. senses_examples: text: "In my mind, a street squid is anyone who races on the street. Period."¹ text: "squid: a cocky motorcyclist who darts very aggressively through traffic"² senses_categories: senses_glosses: A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear. senses_topics: hobbies lifestyle motorcycling
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word: hallelujah word_type: intj expansion: hallelujah forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Hebrew הַלְלוּיָהּ (hal'luyáh, “Praise Yah”). senses_examples: text: Hallelujah! It’s finally the weekend! type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: An exclamation used in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God. A general expression of gratitude or adoration. senses_topics:
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word: hallelujah word_type: noun expansion: hallelujah (plural hallelujahs) forms: form: hallelujahs tags: plural wikipedia: Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song) Messiah Messiah_Part_II#44 etymology_text: From Hebrew הַלְלוּיָהּ (hal'luyáh, “Praise Yah”). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A shout of “Hallelujah”. A song of praise to God; a musical composition based on the word "Hallelujah". General praise. senses_topics: entertainment lifestyle music
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word: hallelujah word_type: verb expansion: hallelujah (third-person singular simple present hallelujahs, present participle hallelujahing, simple past and past participle hallelujahed) forms: form: hallelujahs tags: present singular third-person form: hallelujahing tags: participle present form: hallelujahed tags: participle past form: hallelujahed tags: past wikipedia: etymology_text: From Hebrew הַלְלוּיָהּ (hal'luyáh, “Praise Yah”). senses_examples: text: My aunt Gastonia […] she'd seen the Lord more times than they could ever count, and hallelujahed and hallelujahed, said, “While's all this the Gospel word and true, […] ref: 1971, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in Pic type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: To cry "hallelujah" in praise. senses_topics:
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word: CI word_type: noun expansion: CI (countable and uncountable, plural CIs) forms: form: CIs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: Coordinate term: CD senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of civil infraction. Initialism of cochlear implant. Initialism of competitive intelligence. Initialism of contextual inquiry. Initialism of cooperating individual. Initialism of corporate identity (Specific design of a company, to be applied in all public appearances to be clearly distinguishable from its competitors) Initialism of creative industries. Initialism of corner infielder. Initialism of counterintelligence. Initialism of chief inspector, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries. Initialism of confidential informant. Initialism of continuous integration. Initialism of confidence interval. Initialism of comprehensible input. senses_topics: ball-games baseball games hobbies lifestyle sports espionage government military politics war government law-enforcement government law-enforcement computing engineering mathematics natural-sciences physical-sciences sciences software mathematics sciences statistics human-sciences linguistics sciences
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word: IN word_type: name expansion: IN forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of Indiana, a state of the United States of America. senses_topics:
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word: IN word_type: noun expansion: IN (uncountable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of integrase. internegative; a type of film stock, most commonly used regarding 35mm motion picture negative senses_topics: biochemistry biology chemistry microbiology natural-sciences physical-sciences
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word: gnaw word_type: verb expansion: gnaw (third-person singular simple present gnaws, present participle gnawing, simple past gnawed or (dialectal) gnew, past participle gnawed or (archaic) gnawn) forms: form: gnaws tags: present singular third-person form: gnawing tags: participle present form: gnawed tags: past form: gnew tags: dialectal past form: gnawed tags: participle past form: gnawn tags: archaic participle past wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English gnawen, gnaȝen, from Old English gnagan, from Proto-Germanic *gnaganą. Cognate with Dutch knagen, German nagen, Norwegian Bokmål gnage, Norwegian Nynorsk gnaga, Swedish gnaga. Probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʰnēgʰ- (“to gnaw, scratch”). senses_examples: text: The dog gnawed the bone until it broke in two. type: example text: Her comment gnawed at me all day and I couldn't think about anything else. type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: To bite something persistently, especially something tough. To produce excessive anxiety or worry. To corrode; to fret away; to waste. senses_topics:
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word: gnaw word_type: noun expansion: gnaw (plural gnaws) forms: form: gnaws tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English gnawen, gnaȝen, from Old English gnagan, from Proto-Germanic *gnaganą. Cognate with Dutch knagen, German nagen, Norwegian Bokmål gnage, Norwegian Nynorsk gnaga, Swedish gnaga. Probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʰnēgʰ- (“to gnaw, scratch”). senses_examples: text: have a gnaw of a bone type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: the act of gnawing senses_topics:
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word: FL word_type: noun expansion: FL (plural FLs) forms: form: FLs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: ‘Well, what did he recommend? Those effells are a pain in the neck, only for bachelors.’ ref: 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 41 type: quotation text: Used and discarded Fls–French letters–floated in the slime, little opaque vessels carrying human seed into oblivion. ref: 2005, Shilpa Agarwal, Haunting Bombay type: quotation text: You could buy FLs quietly in chemists' shops and often in barber shops. ref: 2012, Ian McCall, Going Going Gone, page 94 type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of foreign language. Abbreviation of flight level. Abbreviation of French letter. senses_topics: aeronautics aerospace aviation business engineering natural-sciences physical-sciences
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word: FL word_type: name expansion: FL forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Florida, a state of the United States of America. Flevoland, a province of the Netherlands. senses_topics:
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word: red word_type: adj expansion: red (comparative redder or more red, superlative reddest or most red) forms: form: redder tags: comparative form: more red tags: comparative form: reddest tags: superlative form: most red tags: superlative wikipedia: red etymology_text: From Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from the root *h₁rewdʰ-. Cognates See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Russian ру́дый (rúdyj) ("red", "redhaired"). Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Finnish rauta, Estonian raud, Serbo-Croatian riđ ("reddish", "red"), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”). senses_examples: text: The girl wore a red skirt. type: example text: The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows. ref: 1954 July 29, J.R.R. Tolkien, “I: A Long-Expected Party”, in The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings; 1) type: quotation text: Her hair had red highlights. type: example text: [T]he sun was shining on a happy crowd. It shone on white hats and red faces. It shone on ice lollies and melted them. ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 23 type: quotation text: I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens. type: example text: "Only Nixon could go to China" was the refrain of conventional wisdom during Richard Nixon’s 1972 official visit to Mao Tse-tung’s regime. Nixon’s anti-communist credentials, however dubious, provided useful camouflage as he opened diplomatic relations with Red China and made breathtaking concessions that an undisguised liberal couldn’t get away with. https://web.archive.org/web/20061114093022/http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1998/vo14no16/vo14no16_dragon.htm text: the red-black grand coalition in Germany type: example text: a red state type: example text: a red Congress type: example text: All my friends are Indians / All my friends are brown and red ref: 1994, Soundgarden, Spoonman type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: Of a red hue. Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger. With a red hue due to embarrassment or sunburn. Having a brown color. Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red: Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red: The U.S. Republican Party. Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation. Of a red color charge. senses_topics: card-games games government politics government politics astronomy natural-sciences natural-sciences physical-sciences physics
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word: red word_type: noun expansion: red (countable and uncountable, plural reds) forms: form: reds tags: plural wikipedia: red etymology_text: From Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from the root *h₁rewdʰ-. Cognates See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Russian ру́дый (rúdyj) ("red", "redhaired"). Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Finnish rauta, Estonian raud, Serbo-Croatian riđ ("reddish", "red"), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”). senses_examples: text: red: text: Red can be seen as hot or angry. type: example text: Coordinate term: pinko text: A bottle of red, a bottle of white / It all depends upon your appetite / I'll meet you any time you want / in our Italian restaurant. ref: 1977 September, Billy Joel (lyrics and music), “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant”, in The Stranger type: quotation text: He produced a wine key from his jacket pocket and effortlessly removed the cork from the bottle of red. ref: 2005, Jeffrey P. Landry, Temptation Mango type: quotation text: 59 sneak in some red Smuggle a bottle of wine, two glasses, and a corkscrew into a long matinee. Red wine is rich in life-extending antioxidants, and the caper will add zest even to a bad movie. ref: 2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135 type: quotation text: American reds and doppelbocks are heavy lagers as well. It really comes down to how the beer was made. Beyond that, brewers are immensely creative and have developed styles of both ale and lager that run a wide range of attributes. ref: 2012 June 5, Howard Stelzer, Beer Cocktails: 50 Superbly Crafted Cocktails that Liven Up Your Lagers and Ales, Harvard Common Press type: quotation text: No other country has a brewing tradition as richly diverse as that of Belgium, with beers ranging from pleasant pale lagers to wild, winelike Flemish reds and lambics. ref: 2016 April 1, Lonely Planet, Helena Smith, Andy Symington, Donna Wheeler, Lonely Planet Belgium & Luxembourg, Lonely Planet type: quotation text: What in the world ever became of sweet Jane? / She lost her sparkle, you know she isn't the same / Livin' on reds, vitamin C, and cocaine ref: 1970, “Truckin'”, in American Beauty, performed by Grateful Dead type: quotation text: The big market, these days, is in Downers. Reds and smack—Seconal and heroin—and a hellbroth of bad domestic grass sprayed with everything from arsenic to horse tranquillizers. ref: 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial, published 2005, page 202 type: quotation text: “Whatchu got, man?” / “Reds, bennies, dexies, yellow jackets, demmies.” / “Yeah, demmies're good shit, man. I pay you. Fuck. I got money. I'm hurting inside. Got beat up. Where my money?” ref: 1998, Jeffery Deaver, The Coffin Dancer, New York, NY: Pocket Books, published 2021, page 285 type: quotation text: Stopping on the red, you're going on the green / Cause tonight will be like nothing you've ever seen / And you're barreling down the boulevard / You're looking for the heart of Saturday night ref: 1974, Tom Waits (lyrics and music), “(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night”, in The Heart of Saturday Night type: quotation text: Houston visited a home in an early pioneer settlement where he was offered a bowl of red. Houston eagerly took his first large spoonful. His eyes watering, he spat out his bite […] ref: 1982, The Rotarian, volume 140, number 1, page 39 type: quotation text: The species Sciaenops ocellatus certainly isn’t lacking for nicknames.[…] Clear water also favors sightcasting. Against the dark background of marsh mud, a red will appear like a pumpkin — big, orange and round. ref: 2013 November, Catch Cormier, “Sightcasting for redfish”, in Louisiana Sportsman type: quotation text: I squeeze some red out over my chips and feel guilty. Nothing is as English as Heinz ketchup in the sauce game, except perhaps HP. ref: 2016, Jon Bounds, Danny Smith, Pier Review: A Road Trip in Search of the Great British Seaside type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: The colour of the setting sun; the colour which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive colour. A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours. Red wine. Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour. A red kangaroo. A redshank. An American Indian. The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug. A red light (a traffic signal) Red lemonade One of the three color charges for quarks. Chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red"). The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales. Tomato ketchup. senses_topics: ball-games games hobbies lifestyle snooker sports biology birdwatching natural-sciences ornithology beverages food lifestyle natural-sciences physical-sciences physics
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word: red word_type: verb expansion: red forms: wikipedia: red etymology_text: From the archaic verb rede. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: simple past and past participle of rede senses_topics:
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word: red word_type: verb expansion: red (third-person singular simple present reds, present participle redding, simple past and past participle redded) forms: form: reds tags: present singular third-person form: redding tags: participle present form: redded tags: participle past form: redded tags: past wikipedia: red etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Alternative spelling of redd senses_topics:
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word: BS word_type: name expansion: BS forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Bridgestone, a tire company. Abbreviation of Bengali Sambat. senses_topics: automotive transport vehicles
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word: BS word_type: noun expansion: BS (countable and uncountable, plural BSs) forms: form: BSs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: Alternative form: B.S. text: Still, he said, “I’m so tired of all this political correctness. It’s such B.S.” ref: 2021 July 17, Jacob Bernstein, “Keith McNally Stirs the Pot”, in The New York Times type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of Bachelor of Science. Abbreviation of Bachelor of Surgery. Abbreviation of blown saves. Abbreviation of balance sheet. Abbreviation of bullshit. Initialism of Bartter syndrome. senses_topics: ball-games baseball games hobbies lifestyle sports accounting business finance
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word: BS word_type: verb expansion: BS (third-person singular simple present BSes, present participle BSing, simple past and past participle BSed) forms: form: BSes tags: present singular third-person form: BSing tags: participle present form: BSed tags: participle past form: BSed tags: past wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: Researchers embarked on a novel study intent on measuring what a Princeton philosophy professor contends is one of the most salient features of our culture — the ability to play the expert without being one. / Or, as the social scientists put it, to BS. ref: 2019 April 26, Christopher Ingraham, “Rich guys are most likely to have no idea what they’re talking about, study suggests”, in The Washington Post type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: Euphemistic form of bullshit. senses_topics:
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word: mulch word_type: noun expansion: mulch (countable and uncountable, plural mulches) forms: form: mulches tags: plural wikipedia: mulch etymology_text: Probably from Middle English melsche, molsh (“soft”), from Old English melsċ, milisċ (“mellow; mild; sweet”, literally “honeyed”), probably from Proto-Germanic *mili (“honey”). Compare Icelandic milska (“a honeyed beverage”). senses_examples: text: An organic mulch is a mulch made of natural substances such as leaves or grass clippings. type: example text: An interim report by investigators from the Rail Accident Investigation Branch found extensive evidence of crushed leaf mulch on the railhead at many sites on the approach to Salisbury Tunnel Junction. ref: 2022 March 9, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Salisbury crash: slippery rails caused by autumn leaves”, in RAIL, number 952, page 12 type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: Any material used to cover the top layer of soil to protect, insulate, or decorate it, or to discourage weeds or retain moisture. senses_topics: agriculture business horticulture lifestyle
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word: mulch word_type: verb expansion: mulch (third-person singular simple present mulches, present participle mulching, simple past and past participle mulched) forms: form: mulches tags: present singular third-person form: mulching tags: participle present form: mulched tags: participle past form: mulched tags: past wikipedia: mulch etymology_text: Probably from Middle English melsche, molsh (“soft”), from Old English melsċ, milisċ (“mellow; mild; sweet”, literally “honeyed”), probably from Proto-Germanic *mili (“honey”). Compare Icelandic milska (“a honeyed beverage”). senses_examples: text: Mulch your vegetable garden to retain moisture and keep weeds down. type: example text: I decided to mulch the grass clippings. type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: To apply mulch. To turn into mulch. senses_topics: agriculture business lifestyle agriculture business lifestyle
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word: zs word_type: noun expansion: zs forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: plural of z senses_topics:
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word: zs word_type: noun expansion: zs pl (plural only) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Alternative form of z's (sleep) senses_topics:
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word: SI word_type: name expansion: SI forms: wikipedia: SI etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of Smithsonian Institution. International System of Units senses_topics:
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word: SI word_type: noun expansion: SI (countable and uncountable, plural SIs) forms: form: SIs tags: plural wikipedia: SI etymology_text: senses_examples: text: The scope of SIs varies greatly, from the technical (e.g. to set or vary the dates on which different provisions of an Act will come into force, to change the levels of fines or penalties for offences or to make consequential and transitional provisions) to the much wider-ranging, such as filling out the broad provisions in Acts. ref: 2016 December 15, Richard Kelly, Statutory Instruments, House of Commons Library Briefing Paper 6509, archived from the original on 2022-01-07, page 1 type: quotation text: India's first transgender SI senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of signal integrity. Initialism of systems integration. Initialism of self-injury. Initialism of suicidal ideation. Initialism of self-insertion. (of the author into fan fiction) Initialism of spark ignition. Initialism of supporting information. Initialism of special intelligence. Initialism of systematic internaliser. Initialism of swarm intelligence. Initialism of synthetic intelligence. Initialism of sales invoice. Initialism of statutory instrument. Initialism of subinspector. (of police, etc) senses_topics: business electrical-engineering electricity electromagnetism electronics energy engineering natural-sciences physical-sciences physics engineering natural-sciences physical-sciences technology lifestyle engineering mechanical mechanical-engineering natural-sciences physical-sciences business finance accounting business finance law
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word: SI word_type: adj expansion: SI (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: SI etymology_text: senses_examples: text: SI joint type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of sacroiliac. senses_topics: anatomy medicine sciences
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word: baon word_type: noun expansion: baon (uncountable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Tagalog baon. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: money, food, or other provisions taken to school, work, or on a journey. lunch money, pocket money senses_topics:
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word: tower word_type: noun expansion: tower (plural towers) forms: form: towers tags: plural wikipedia: tower etymology_text: From Middle English tour, tur, tor, from Old English tūr, tor, torr ("tower; rock"; > English tor) and Old French tour, toer, tor; both from Latin turris (“a tower”), Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) (Hesychius), τύρσις (túrsis). Compare Scots tour, towr, towre (“tower”), West Frisian toer (“tower”), Dutch toren (“tower”), German Turm (“tower”), Danish tårn (“tower”), Swedish torn (“tower”), Icelandic turn (“tower”), Welsh tŵr. Doublet of tor, tourelle, and turret. senses_examples: text: The Sears Tower type: example text: Suppliers compete separately for the towers and service integrator and management contract, which assists the government in the integration and operation of its services. ref: 2013, Great Britain, The Impact of Government's ICT Savings Initiatives, National Audit Office, page 28 type: quotation text: Service towers are significant IT functional areas, such as infrastructure, applications, security, etc., each possibly managed by a different service provider. The service integrator role is crucial for coordinating and integrating these service towers. ref: 2023, Cybellium Ltd, Mastering ISO-IEC 20000-1 (page 108) senses_categories: senses_glosses: A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast. A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc. A water tower. A control tower. Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper. An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide. Short for interlocking tower.. A strong refuge; a defence. A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne. High flight; elevation. The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen. The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness. A group of giraffes Each of a set of information technology concerns within a business, which are treated separately so that they can be handled by different providers. A metal stand used as a pivot to support a punty at a furnace. senses_topics: cartomancy human-sciences mysticism philosophy sciences business arts crafts glassblowing hobbies lifestyle
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word: tower word_type: verb expansion: tower (third-person singular simple present towers, present participle towering, simple past and past participle towered) forms: form: towers tags: present singular third-person form: towering tags: participle present form: towered tags: participle past form: towered tags: past wikipedia: tower etymology_text: From Middle English touren, torren, torrien, from Old English *torrian, from the noun (see above). senses_examples: text: The office block towered into the sky. type: example text: Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. ref: 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847 type: quotation text: When Hope, the eagle that tower’d, could see No cliff beyond him in the sky, His pinions were bent droopingly — And homeward turn’d his soften’d eye. ref: 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems type: quotation text: As we breasted the first summit, the precipitous mass of the Raven's Rock, towering some 250 ft. above the railway, looked grim and forbidding in the failing light, and distant Ben Wyves was shrouded in mist. ref: 1951 January, H. A. Vallance, “Kyle of Lochalsh Revisited”, in Railway Magazine, page 14 type: quotation text: To the left towers the Jungfrau, with the train heading directly towards it. ref: 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752 type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: To be very tall. To be high or lofty; to soar. To soar into. senses_topics:
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word: tower word_type: noun expansion: tower (plural towers) forms: form: towers tags: plural wikipedia: tower etymology_text: From tow + -er. senses_examples: text: But as the tower and towee reached the cross-roads again, another car, negligently driven, came round the corner, hit the Morris, and severed the tow rope, sending the unfortunate car back again into the shop window[…] ref: 1933, Henry Sturmey, H. Walter Staner, The Autocar type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: One who tows. senses_topics:
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word: Tasmania word_type: name expansion: Tasmania forms: wikipedia: Abel Tasman etymology_text: After the Dutch naval explorer Abel Tasman, who visited and documented the island and New Zealand in 1642. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: One of the six federal states of Australia, consisting of one large, eponymous and several much smaller islands, off the eastern part of Australia's south coast, having its capital at Hobart. The colony that became the state of Tasmania at federation in 1901. The large island of Australia comprising the majority of the state of Tasmania's land area and on which most of its inhabitants live. senses_topics:
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word: SL word_type: adj expansion: SL (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: sine loco (without place [of publication]) Initialism of sublingual. Initialism of straight-looking. senses_topics: medicine sciences
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word: SL word_type: noun expansion: SL (countable and uncountable, plural SLs) forms: form: SLs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: Work sleeve, sl raglan marker, work in ribbing as est to cable marker ref: 2010, Julie Turjoman, Brave New Knits, page 49 type: quotation text: Coordinate term: (launch) ML senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of source language. Initialism of sharia law. Initialism of serjeant-at-law. slip Initialism of steam launch. Initialism of sentential logic. senses_topics: human-sciences linguistics sciences translation-studies law business knitting manufacturing textiles maritime nautical transport human-sciences logic mathematics philosophy sciences
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word: SL word_type: name expansion: SL forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of Sendero Luminoso. Abbreviation of Scotland. Initialism of Swan Lake. Initialism of Second Life. senses_topics: government politics government politics
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word: CO word_type: name expansion: CO forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of Colorado. A state of the United States. senses_topics:
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word: CO word_type: noun expansion: CO forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of county. Initialism of commanding officer. Initialism of commissioned officer. Initialism of corrections officer. Initialism of correctional officer. Initialism of conscientious objector. Initialism of common-offset [method]. Abbreviation of cutoff. senses_topics: government military politics war government military politics war government law-enforcement government law-enforcement government military politics war geography geology natural-sciences card-games poker
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word: CO word_type: verb expansion: CO forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of cast on. senses_topics: business knitting manufacturing textiles
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word: Afrikaans word_type: name expansion: Afrikaans forms: wikipedia: Afrikaans etymology_text: From Afrikaans Afrikaans or Dutch Afrikaans. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A Germanic language descending from Dutch; the primary language of the descendants of Dutch and other European settlers, as well as many mixed-race (e.g. Rehoboth Basters) living in South Africa and in Namibia. Also, one of the eleven official languages of South Africa and until 1990 one of three official languages of Namibia. senses_topics:
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word: Afrikaans word_type: noun expansion: Afrikaans (plural Afrikaans) forms: form: Afrikaans tags: plural wikipedia: Afrikaans etymology_text: From Afrikaans Afrikaans or Dutch Afrikaans. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A person from South Africa or Namibia who speaks Afrikaans. (More properly called "Afrikaans people" or Afrikaners.) senses_topics:
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word: Afrikaans word_type: adj expansion: Afrikaans (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: Afrikaans etymology_text: From Afrikaans Afrikaans or Dutch Afrikaans. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Of or pertaining to the Afrikaans language. senses_topics:
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word: ag word_type: noun expansion: ag forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Clipping of agriculture or agricultural. senses_examples: text: He got his degree from the state ag college. type: example text: My class is over on ag campus. type: example text: Even the most ag-centric member of the Agriculture Committee […] ref: 2014, Ferd Hoefner, quoted in Jennifer Steinhauer, “Farm Bill Reflects Shifting American Menu and a Senator’s Persistent Tilling”, NYTimes.com (2014 March 8) text: […] fruits and vegetables, oddly referred to in ag-speak as specialty crops, […] ref: 2014 March 8, Jennifer Steinhauer, “Farm Bill Reflects Shifting American Menu and a Senator’s Persistent Tilling”, NYTimes.com senses_categories: senses_glosses: Clipping of agriculture. senses_topics:
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word: ag word_type: noun expansion: ag (countable and uncountable, plural ags) forms: form: ags tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Clipping of aggregate. senses_examples: text: The mix should include a good selection of large, medium, and small ag. type: example text: If the mix is too fluid, the ags can sink away from the surface. type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: Clipping of aggregate (small rocks mixed into concrete). senses_topics: business construction manufacturing
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word: ag word_type: intj expansion: ag forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Afrikaans ag, from Dutch ach. senses_examples: text: Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling / We wanna see an ou called Sky High Lee ref: 1962, Jeremy Taylor (lyrics and music), “Ag Pleez Deddy” type: quotation text: ‘Ag, fuck it,’ he said. ‘Let bygones be bygones, man.’ ref: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 88 type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: Expressing annoyance, remorse, surprise etc.; oh, ah. senses_topics:
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word: ag word_type: adv expansion: ag forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of again. senses_topics:
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word: ag word_type: noun expansion: ag (plural ags) forms: form: ags tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: new forms of female masculinity are exploding, ranging from butches, dykes, and studs to transmen, FTMs, ags, genderqueers, individuals masculine-of-center, and many more. Transgender men and masculine women can make their own movies[…] ref: 2016 February 26, Laura Horak, Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934, Rutgers University Press, page 224 type: quotation text: I don't know what I'd do without them (smiles) Sometimes, I wonder why studs/ag's/butches/transguys be grilling one another in the club. I mean, in my mind, I'm like Why would you hate someone who look like you, act like you,[…] ref: 2016 June 10, Roberta Uno, Monologues for Actors of Color: Men, Routledge, page 85 type: quotation text: The context around stud enables us to understand its meaning among the W4W advertisers: Seeking lesbian stud, butch, ag, or tomboish women ONLY I'm a single stud (on the soft side) slim body type, tattoos, cute face, and great smile[…] ref: 2017 July 31, Eric Friginal, Studies in Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics, Routledge type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: Alternative letter-case form of AG (“aggressive (butch)”) senses_topics:
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word: small word_type: adj expansion: small (comparative smaller, superlative smallest) forms: form: smaller tags: comparative form: smallest tags: superlative wikipedia: small etymology_text: From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (“small, narrow, slender”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (“small, mean, malicious”). Cognate with Scots smal; sma (“small”); West Frisian smel (“narrow”); Dutch smal (“narrow”); German schmal (“narrow, small”); Danish, Norwegian, Swedish smal (“narrow; thin; slender”); Latin malus (“bad”); Russian ма́лый (mályj, “small”). senses_examples: text: The bullies had succeeded in making him feel small. text: For all the times that you made me feel small / I fell in love, now I feel nothing at all ref: 2015, Justin Bieber, Love Yourself type: quotation text: (of genitals) text: Though over six feet tall, the man was very small and ashamed to undress. type: example text: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. ref: 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70 type: quotation text: A small serving of ice cream. type: example text: A small group. type: example text: Remember when the children were small? type: example text: "I've got catholic tastes. Catholic with a small "c", of course." ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 584 type: quotation text: A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man. ref: 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling type: quotation text: a small space of time type: example text: small science text: I'll have a small coffee, thanks. type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: Not large or big; insignificant; few in number. Humiliated or insignificant. Not large or big; insignificant; few in number. Having a small penis, muscles, or other important body parts, regardless of overall body size. Not large or big; insignificant; few in number. Young, as a child. Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters. Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short. Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”) Slender, gracefully slim. That is small (the manufactured size). senses_topics: communications journalism literature media publishing writing business clothing fashion lifestyle manufacturing textiles
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word: small word_type: adv expansion: small (comparative smaller, superlative smallest) forms: form: smaller tags: comparative form: smallest tags: superlative wikipedia: small etymology_text: From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (“small, narrow, slender”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (“small, mean, malicious”). Cognate with Scots smal; sma (“small”); West Frisian smel (“narrow”); Dutch smal (“narrow”); German schmal (“narrow, small”); Danish, Norwegian, Swedish smal (“narrow; thin; slender”); Latin malus (“bad”); Russian ма́лый (mályj, “small”). senses_examples: text: Don't write very small! type: example text: That's going to go in there. We've got some chives small chopped as well. ref: 2009, Ingrid Hoffman, CBS Early Morning for September 28, 2009 (transcription) senses_categories: senses_glosses: In a small fashion In or into small pieces. To a small extent. In a low tone; softly. senses_topics:
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word: small word_type: noun expansion: small (countable and uncountable, plural smalls) forms: form: smalls tags: plural wikipedia: small etymology_text: From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (“small, narrow, slender”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (“small, mean, malicious”). Cognate with Scots smal; sma (“small”); West Frisian smel (“narrow”); Dutch smal (“narrow”); German schmal (“narrow, small”); Danish, Norwegian, Swedish smal (“narrow; thin; slender”); Latin malus (“bad”); Russian ма́лый (mályj, “small”). senses_examples: text: Two smalls and a large, please. type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured. An item labelled or denoted as being that size. One who fits an item of that size. Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back. senses_topics: business clothing fashion lifestyle manufacturing textiles business clothing fashion lifestyle manufacturing textiles
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word: small word_type: verb expansion: small (third-person singular simple present smalls, present participle smalling, simple past and past participle smalled) forms: form: smalls tags: present singular third-person form: smalling tags: participle present form: smalled tags: participle past form: smalled tags: past wikipedia: small etymology_text: From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (“small, narrow, slender”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (“small, mean, malicious”). Cognate with Scots smal; sma (“small”); West Frisian smel (“narrow”); Dutch smal (“narrow”); German schmal (“narrow, small”); Danish, Norwegian, Swedish smal (“narrow; thin; slender”); Latin malus (“bad”); Russian ма́лый (mályj, “small”). senses_examples: text: And smalled till she was nought at all. ref: 1917, Thomas Hardy, The Clock of the Years type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: To make little or less. To become small; to dwindle. senses_topics:
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word: NY word_type: name expansion: NY forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: New York (New York State), a state of the United States of America. New York (New York City), a city in the United States of America. North Yorkshire, a county in England. senses_topics:
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word: plaza word_type: noun expansion: plaza (plural plazas) forms: form: plazas tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Spanish plaza (“town-square or central place of gathering”), from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), clipping of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, “broad way”). Doublet of piatza, piazza, and place. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A town's public square. An open area used for gathering in a city, often having small trees and sitting benches. A strip mall. A shopping mall. senses_topics:
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word: GA word_type: name expansion: GA forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of General American. Abbreviation of Georgia. Abbreviation of Goa, a state of India. Abbreviation of German agent A, US designation for the nerve gas tabun. senses_topics: human-sciences linguistics phonology sciences chemistry government military natural-sciences organic-chemistry physical-sciences politics war
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word: GA word_type: noun expansion: GA (countable and uncountable, plural GAs) forms: form: GAs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of general availability. Initialism of general aviation. Initialism of good article. Initialism of goal attack. Initialism of genetic algorithm. Initialism of goals against. Initialism of global affairs. senses_topics: computing engineering mathematics natural-sciences physical-sciences sciences software aeronautics aerospace aviation business engineering natural-sciences physical-sciences ball-games games hobbies lifestyle netball sports computing engineering mathematics natural-sciences physical-sciences sciences software hobbies lifestyle sports government politics
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word: GA word_type: phrase expansion: GA forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of go ahead. senses_topics:
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word: AR word_type: adj expansion: AR (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: AR etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of autoregressive. senses_topics: mathematics sciences statistics
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word: AR word_type: noun expansion: AR (countable and uncountable, plural ARs) forms: form: ARs tags: plural wikipedia: AR etymology_text: senses_examples: text: As I was going over the AR book for my status change, I read several other ARs I believed the institution was violating so I decided to ask about them at the meeting. ref: 1984 August 18, Karen J. Cox, “Women In Cages”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 7 type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: an AR-15 personal semi-automatic rifle, M-16 assault rifle, M-4 carbine, derivative or related gun; the Armalite AR family and derivatives. an assault rifle or automatic rifle. Initialism of androgen receptor. Initialism of accounts receivable. area record: best achievement among those by persons from a given continent Abbreviation of American record., national record for the United States. Initialism of armed robbery. Initialism of augmented reality. Initialism of aspect ratio. Initialism of alternate reality. Initialism of atmospheric river. Initialism of artificial respiration. Initialism of acknowledgment of receipt. Initialism of assembly resolution. Initialism of administrative rule or administrative regulation. senses_topics: engineering government military natural-sciences physical-sciences politics tools war weaponry engineering government military natural-sciences physical-sciences politics tools war weaponry biochemistry biology chemistry microbiology natural-sciences physical-sciences accounting business finance hobbies lifestyle sports hobbies lifestyle sports computing engineering mathematics natural-sciences physical-sciences sciences climatology meteorology natural-sciences emergency-medicine medicine sciences hobbies lifestyle philately government law politics
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word: AR word_type: name expansion: AR forms: wikipedia: AR etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Postal abbreviation of Arkansas Abbreviation of Arunachal Pradesh. (a state of India) senses_topics:
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word: sapphire word_type: noun expansion: sapphire (countable and uncountable, plural sapphires) forms: form: sapphires tags: plural wikipedia: sapphire etymology_text: From Middle English saphir, from Old French saphir, from Latin sapphir, sappir, sapphīrus, from Ancient Greek σάπφειρος (sáppheiros, “precious stone, gem”), from a Semitic language (compare Hebrew סַפִּיר (sappī́r)), perhaps ultimately from a non-Semitic source such as Sanskrit शनिप्रिय (śanipriya, “dark-colored stone”, literally “dear to Saturn”). senses_examples: text: Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade. 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: sapphire: text: Elgin. Topaz a Saltier and Chief Ruby, on a Canton Pearl a Lyon Rampant Saphyr, which last is their paternal Coat; […] ref: 1720, Francis Nichols, Rudiments of Honour, page 296 type: quotation text: 3. Saphire, ten Bezants, 4, 3, 2, 1, by the Bisset. ref: 1726, John Guillim, The Banner Display'd; Or, an Abridgment of Guillim, page 504 type: quotation text: (2) Topaz, a Chief Indented, Saphire. ref: 1754, John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland; Or, a Genealogical History of the ..., page 71 type: quotation text: Topaz, on a Cross, Sapphire, a Crosier thrust through a Mitre, Topaz. ref: 1756, Francis Nichols, The Irish Compendium, Or, Rudiments of Honour, Containing the Descent, Marriage, Isssue, Titles, Posts, and Seats, of All the Nobility of Ireland..., page 440 type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: A clear deep blue variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone. A white, yellow, or purple variety of corundum, either clear or translucent. A deep blue colour. Azure, when blazoning by precious stones. Any hummingbird in the genera Hylocharis and Chlorestes, as well as the rufous-throated sapphire, which is now in the genus Amazilia. Any of the butterflies in the southern Asian lycaenid genus Heliophorus or the African lycaenid genus Iolaus. senses_topics: government heraldry hobbies lifestyle monarchy nobility politics
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word: sapphire word_type: adj expansion: sapphire (comparative more sapphire, superlative most sapphire) forms: form: more sapphire tags: comparative form: most sapphire tags: superlative wikipedia: sapphire etymology_text: From Middle English saphir, from Old French saphir, from Latin sapphir, sappir, sapphīrus, from Ancient Greek σάπφειρος (sáppheiros, “precious stone, gem”), from a Semitic language (compare Hebrew סַפִּיר (sappī́r)), perhaps ultimately from a non-Semitic source such as Sanskrit शनिप्रिय (śanipriya, “dark-colored stone”, literally “dear to Saturn”). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: of a deep blue colour. pertaining to a 45th year senses_topics:
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word: warm word_type: adj expansion: warm (comparative warmer, superlative warmest) forms: form: warmer tags: comparative form: warmest tags: superlative wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English warm, werm, from Old English wearm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, with different proposed origins: # Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”), related to Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós), Latin formus, Sanskrit घर्म (gharma). # Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to burn”), related to Hittite [script needed] (warnuzi) and to Old Church Slavonic варити (variti). The dispute is due to differing opinions on how initial Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰ- evolved in Germanic: some think that *gʷʰ would have turned to *b, and that the root *gʷʰer- would instead have given rise to burn etc. Some have also proposed a merger of the two roots. senses_examples: text: The tea is still warm. type: example text: This is a very warm room. type: example text: Warm and still is the summer night. ref: 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Herons of Elmwood type: quotation text: It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too warm, too young. ref: 1985, Robert Ferro, Blue Star type: quotation text: We have a warm friendship. type: example text: a warm piano sound type: example text: a warm debate, with strong words exchanged type: example text: Mrs. and the Miss Cathcarts began to be considered as people of some consequence in the circle in which they moved, while he gradually obtained in the city the name of a warm man. ref: 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 258 type: quotation text: The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way. ref: 1929, The Listener, numbers 41-50, page 552 type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: Of a somewhat high temperature. Friendly and with affection. Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green. Close to a goal or correct answer. Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced. Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness. Ardent, zealous. Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous. Requiring arduous effort. senses_topics:
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word: warm word_type: verb expansion: warm (third-person singular simple present warms, present participle warming, simple past and past participle warmed) forms: form: warms tags: present singular third-person form: warming tags: participle present form: warmed tags: participle past form: warmed tags: past wikipedia: etymology_text: From Old English wierman. senses_examples: text: enough to warm, but not enough to burn ref: 1825, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus type: quotation text: My socks are warming by the fire. type: example text: The earth soon warms on a clear summer day. type: example text: He is warming to the idea. type: example text: Her classmates are gradually warming to her. type: example text: It is with no small degree of irony that I confess that immersing myself in an interdisciplinary project has warmed me to the seductions of disciplinary perspectives. ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page xi type: quotation text: The speaker warms as he proceeds. type: example text: 1717 November 20, Alexander Pope, letter to the Bishop of Rochester there was a collection of all that had been written […] : I warmed my head with them. text: That is just the way God tells me this book is His Word. I read it, and it warms me and gives me light. ref: 1886, Joseph Augustus Seiss, Right Life: Or, Candid Talks On Vital Themes type: quotation text: Not bothering to turn around and not missing a mouthful, Myrtle comforted her with threats of "I'll warm your bottom"; "I'll turn you over to your dad"; "I'll lock you in the truck"; "I'll send for the bogey man" — all of which Darleen ignored […] ref: 1945, The Atlantic, volume 176, page 94 type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: To make or keep warm. To become warm, to heat up. (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly. To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly. To become ardent or animated. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven. To give emotional warmth to a person. To beat or spank. To scold or abuse verbally. To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users. senses_topics: computing engineering mathematics natural-sciences physical-sciences sciences
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word: warm word_type: noun expansion: warm (plural warms) forms: form: warms tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Old English wierman. senses_examples: text: Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave? type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating. senses_topics:
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word: sol word_type: noun expansion: sol (uncountable) forms: wikipedia: Ut queant laxis etymology_text: From Glover's solmization, from Middle English sol (“fifth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian sol in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin solve (“wash away”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la. In a fixed-do system: the musical note G. senses_topics: entertainment lifestyle music entertainment lifestyle music
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word: sol word_type: noun expansion: sol (plural sols) forms: form: sols tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Old French sol (“French coin”) (modern French sou), from Latin solidum, the accusative singular of solidus (“Roman gold coin; (adjective) solid”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”). Doublet of sold, soldo, solid, solidus, sou, and xu. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: An old coin from France and some other countries worth 12 deniers. senses_topics:
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word: sol word_type: noun expansion: sol (plural sols or soles) forms: form: sols tags: plural form: soles tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: PIE word *sóh₂wl̥ From Spanish sol (“sun”), from Latin sōl (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). Doublet of Sol and sol, directly from the Latin. senses_examples: text: The Tobacco of this colony is ſo excellent, that if the commerce thereof was free, it would ſell for one hundred ſols and ſix livres the pound, ſo fine and delicate is its juice and flavour. ref: 1763, [Antoine-Simon] Le Page du Pratz, “Of the Commerce that Is, and May Be, Carried Out in Louisiana. […]”, in [anonymous], transl., The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: […], volume I, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt […], →OCLC, page 336 type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: A former Spanish-American silver coin. In full nuevo sol or new sol: the main currency unit of Peru which replaced the inti in 1991; also, a coin of this value. senses_topics:
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word: sol word_type: noun expansion: sol (plural sols) forms: form: sols tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Latin sōl (“sun”); see further at etymology 3. Doublet of sol from Spanish. senses_examples: text: I need to create calories. And I need enough to last the 1387 sols until Ares 4 arrives. If I don't get rescued by Ares 4, I'm dead anyway. A sol is 39 minutes longer than a day, so it works out to be 1425 days. That's my target: 1425 days of food. ref: 2011, Andy Weir, chapter 3, in The Martian, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, published 2014, page 18 type: quotation text: 88,775 seconds = 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35 seconds / The duration of a synodic day on Mars, a ‘sol’ ref: 2014, Gerard ’t Hooft, Stefan Vandoren, “10⁵ Seconds = 100,000 Seconds = 1.16 days = 27.78 Hours”, in Saskia A. Eisberg-’t Hooft, transl., Time in Powers of Ten: Natural Phenomena and Their Timescales, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., part I, page 25 type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: A solar day on the planet Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds). senses_topics: astronomy natural-sciences
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word: sol word_type: noun expansion: sol (plural sols) forms: form: sols tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Sense 1 (“type of colloid”) is derived from -sol (in words like alcosol and hydrosol), an abbreviation of solution. Sense 2 (“solution to an objection”) is derived directly from solution. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid. A solution to an objection (or "ob"), for example, in controversial divinity. senses_topics: chemistry natural-sciences physical-sciences
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word: WI word_type: name expansion: WI forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of Wisconsin, a state of the United States of America. Initialism of Women's Institute. senses_topics:
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word: WY word_type: name expansion: WY forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of Wyoming, a state of the United States of America. Initialism of West Yorkshire, a metropolitan county in northern England. senses_topics:
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word: NS word_type: name expansion: NS forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of Nova Scotia. Initialism of New Style. (of dates) Initialism of Netscape. Initialism of Noble Sanctuary. Norfolk Southern (Railroad) Initialism of Nederlandse Spoorwegen. (Dutch Railways) Initialism of Negeri Sembilan senses_topics: rail-transport railways transport rail-transport railways transport
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word: NS word_type: noun expansion: NS forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of nervous system. Initialism of nuclear ship, a nuclear-powered ship. Initialism of native speaker. Initialism of neutron star. Initialism of neutral spirit (“alcohol”). Initialism of National School. Initialism of NATO state. Initialism of no show. Initialism of namespace. Initialism of Nintendo Switch. Initialism of National Socialism. Initialism of national service. senses_topics: government politics
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word: NS word_type: adj expansion: NS forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: negative-strand National Socialist senses_topics:
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word: NS word_type: intj expansion: NS forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: nice shot no smoking note script/scriptum senses_topics: video-games
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word: marina word_type: noun expansion: marina (plural marinas) forms: form: marinas tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Latin marinus (“of the sea, marine”), by way of Italian marina and Spanish marina. senses_examples: text: It's a peaceful marina with not too many boats and yachts. type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: A harbour for small boats. senses_topics:
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word: CH word_type: noun expansion: CH (countable and uncountable, plural CHs) forms: form: CHs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Abbreviation senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of companion of honour, a British honour and postnominal abbreviation. Abbreviation of heavy cruiser. Initialism of cargo helicopter. Initialism of continuum hypothesis. Initialism of cluster headache. Initialism of central heating. Initialism of Cretan Hieroglyphic. senses_topics: aeronautics aerospace army aviation business engineering government military natural-sciences physical-sciences politics war mathematics sciences set-theory medicine sciences
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word: CH word_type: name expansion: CH forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Abbreviation senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: the Montreal Canadiens hockey club Abbreviation of Chandigarh (Indian union territory) senses_topics:
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word: TA word_type: name expansion: TA forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of Territorial Army. senses_topics:
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word: TA word_type: noun expansion: TA (countable and uncountable, plural TAs) forms: form: TAs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of transportation authority. Initialism of teaching assistant. Initialism of travel agent. Initialism of target audience. Initialism of traffic advisory (a type of TCAS warning). Initialism of transactional analysis. Initialism of term assurance. senses_topics: aeronautics aerospace aviation business engineering natural-sciences physical-sciences business insurance
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word: TA word_type: verb expansion: TA (third-person singular simple present TAs or TA's, present participle TAing or TA'ing, simple past and past participle TAed or TAd or TA'ed or TA'd) forms: form: TAs tags: present singular third-person form: TA's tags: present singular third-person form: TAing tags: participle present form: TA'ing tags: participle present form: TAed tags: participle past form: TAed tags: past form: TAd tags: participle past form: TAd tags: past form: TA'ed tags: participle past form: TA'ed tags: past form: TA'd tags: participle past form: TA'd tags: past wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: The university offered me a chance to TA this semester. type: example text: I really want to TA Programming 1 some day. type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: To act as a teaching assistant (for a class). senses_topics:
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word: TA word_type: adj expansion: TA (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of toxin-antitoxin. senses_topics: biology microbiology natural-sciences
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word: CT word_type: name expansion: CT forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of Connecticut, a state of the United States of America. Initialism of Central Time. Initialism of Coffin Texts. senses_topics: Egyptology history human-sciences sciences
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word: CT word_type: noun expansion: CT (countable and uncountable, plural CTs) forms: form: CTs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of computed tomography. Initialism of computed tomography. A CT scan. Initialism of cold turkey. Initialism of cocktease. Initialism of camel toe. Abbreviation of combat team. senses_topics: medicine sciences medicine sciences medicine sciences government military politics war
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word: CT word_type: verb expansion: CT (third-person singular simple present CTs, present participle CTing, simple past and past participle CTed) forms: form: CTs tags: present singular third-person form: CTing tags: participle present form: CTed tags: participle past form: CTed tags: past wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: There's a certain something that emanates from a confused patient that this fellow doesn't have. I sure wish I had more 'terps. Well, we're not going to CT him right away. There are two other fellows before him. “Get a plain film of his head, Tim. […]” ref: 2013, Marc Dauphin, Combat Doctor: Life and Death Stories from Kandahar's Military Hospital, Toronto: Dundurn Press, page 197 type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: To perform a CT scan on. senses_topics: medicine sciences
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word: CT word_type: adj expansion: CT (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Initialism of contraterrene. senses_topics: literature media publishing science-fiction
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word: HI word_type: name expansion: HI forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of Hawaii. senses_topics:
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word: HI word_type: noun expansion: HI (uncountable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of high (“high gear or high range”). Initialism of hyperspectral imaging. senses_topics: