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4500 | word:
DE
word_type:
name
expansion:
DE
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senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Delaware, a state of the United States of America.
senses_topics:
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4501 | word:
DE
word_type:
noun
expansion:
DE (countable and uncountable, plural DEs)
forms:
form:
DEs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of desktop environment.
Initialism of diatomaceous earth.
Initialism of destroyer escort, a type of warship of the destroyer subtype, also called a frigate.
Initialism of differential equation.
Initialism of delayed ejaculation.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
government
military
navy
politics
war
|
4502 | word:
UT
word_type:
name
expansion:
UT
forms:
wikipedia:
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senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Utah, a state of the United States of America.
Abbreviation of Uttarakhand, a state of India.
Initialism of University of Texas, Austin TX.
Initialism of Universal Time.
senses_topics:
|
4503 | word:
UT
word_type:
noun
expansion:
UT (plural UTs)
forms:
form:
UTs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
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senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of utility player.
Initialism of union territory.
senses_topics:
fantasy
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
4504 | word:
WV
word_type:
name
expansion:
WV
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
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senses_glosses:
Initialism of West Virginia, a state of the United States of America.
Misspelling of VW.
senses_topics:
|
4505 | word:
KS
word_type:
verb
expansion:
KS (third-person singular simple present KSs, present participle KSing, simple past and past participle KSed)
forms:
form:
KSs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
KSing
tags:
participle
present
form:
KSed
tags:
participle
past
form:
KSed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of kill steal.
senses_topics:
games
gaming |
4506 | word:
KS
word_type:
name
expansion:
KS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Kansas (“US state”).
Abbreviation of South Kalimantan (“a province of Indonesia”).
senses_topics:
|
4507 | word:
KS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
KS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Tom Shaheen has AIDS. He has shortness of breath, very little energy much of the time, and KS lesions that are sometimes embarrassing marks and sometimes weapons.
ref:
1991 May 4, Walta Borawksi, “A Sort of Homecoming”, in Gay Community News, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Kaposi's sarcoma.
Initialism of Keutel syndrome.
Initialism of Kallmann syndrome.
Initialism of Klinefelter syndrome.
Initialism of kill steal.
Initialism of key stage.
Initialism of knowledge sharing.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
games
gaming
education
|
4508 | word:
NJ
word_type:
name
expansion:
NJ
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of New Jersey.
senses_topics:
|
4509 | word:
NJ
word_type:
adj
expansion:
NJ (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of non-Jewish.
senses_topics:
|
4510 | word:
silly
word_type:
adj
expansion:
silly (comparative sillier, superlative silliest)
forms:
form:
sillier
tags:
comparative
form:
silliest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
silly
etymology_text:
From Middle English seely, sēlī, from Old English sǣliġ, ġesǣliġ (“lucky, fortunate”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālīg, from *sāli. Equivalent to seel (“happiness, bliss”) + -y. Doublet of Seelie.
The semantic evolution is “lucky” → “innocent” → “naïve” → “foolish”. Compare the similar evolution of daft (originally meaning “accommodating”), and almost the reverse with nice (originally meaning “ignorant”).
senses_examples:
text:
Well sir, I have a silly walk and I'd like to obtain a Government grant to help me develop it.
ref:
1970, Graham Chapman et al., Monty Python's Flying Circus, I, 183
type:
quotation
text:
He cannot achieve celebrity by covering himself with diamonds... or by giving a silly price for a hack.
ref:
1875 June 26, Saturday Review, 815/2
text:
The sylyman lay and herde,
ref:
a. 1450, Seven Sages, line 1361
roman:
And hys wyf answerd.
text:
The King of Spaine is counted very ſtrong, and the Pope is counted very ſtrong, because they haue a ſtrong hand to perſecute the ſilly ones of leſus Chriſt.
ref:
c. 1600, Robert Rollo[c]k, chapter I, in Lectvres Vpon The Epistle Of Pavl To The Colossians, London: Felix Kyngston, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
... thrie Saturdayes befor Lambas and thrie efter called the six silie Saturdayes.
ref:
1650 in 1885, W. Cramond, Church of Rathven, 21
text:
There is no best in þe word, I wene...
That suffuris halfe so myche tene
ref:
a. 1475, in 1925, Rossell Hope Robbins, Secular Lyrics of the 14th & 15th Centuries, 109
roman:
As doth þe sylly wat.
text:
In the silly lambis skin He crap als far as he micht win.
ref:
a. 1513, William Dunbar, Poems, section 247
type:
quotation
text:
scared silly
text:
Wherfore Christe must soo moche the more instantelye be sought vpon, that he may vouchsafe to defende vs sylly wretches.
ref:
1539, Juan Luis Vives, translated by Richard Morison, Introduction to Wysedome
type:
quotation
text:
There remained fresh Examples of their Barbarism against weak Sea-men, and silly Fisher-men.
ref:
1665, Hugo Grotius, translated by Thomas Manley, De Rebus Belgicis, section 938
type:
quotation
text:
Ane sillie scheill vnder ane erdfast stane
ref:
a. 1500, Aesop, translated by Robert Henryson, Two Mice
type:
quotation
text:
It is naturally very poor, ‘silly’ land.
ref:
1907, Transactions of the Highland & Agricultural Society, 19, 172
type:
quotation
text:
Here we see that a smal sillie Bird knoweth how to match with so great a Beast.
ref:
1567, John Maplet, A Greene Forest
type:
quotation
text:
[Christ] leaueth neither Children nor kinsfolke behind him to vphold his sillie kingdome.
ref:
1587, Philippe de Mornay, translated by Philip Sidney et al., A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, xxxii, 596
type:
quotation
text:
That'll never grow. It's ower silly.
ref:
1946, Scottish National Dictionary, published 1971, Vol. VIII, 234/3
type:
quotation
text:
To doe the thing we can
To please...
This silly sickly man.
ref:
1636, Alexander Montgomerie, The Cherrie & the Slae, line 1512
type:
quotation
text:
Is there ony thing you would particularly fancy, as your health seems but silly?
ref:
1818, Heart of Mid-Lothian, Walter Scott, section V
type:
quotation
text:
The fire raging upon the silly Carcase.
ref:
1556 in 1880, William Henry Turner, Selections from the Records of the City of Oxford... 1509–83, 246
text:
Silly... in the same sense as E. poor is often used, denoting a state which excites compassion.
ref:
1808, John Jamieson, An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
type:
quotation
text:
Dauid had no more but a sylie slynge, and a few stones.
ref:
1570, John Foxe, Actes & Monumentes, Vol. II, 926/1
type:
quotation
text:
The silly herdman all astonnied standes.
ref:
a. 1547, the Earl of Surrey translating Publius Virgilius Maro, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aeneis, Book II
text:
So luvaris lair no leid suld lak,
A lord to lufe a silly lass.
ref:
1568, Alexander Scott, Poems, section 27
type:
quotation
text:
From Hell (of which the silly people of the Country think the top of this hill to be the mouth).
ref:
1687, Jean de Thévenot, translated by Archibald Lovell, The Travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant, i, 2
type:
quotation
text:
Wee sillie soules, take the matter too too heauily.
ref:
1576, Abraham Fleming translating Sulpicius, A Panoplie of Epistles, 24
text:
‘Heaven help this silly fellow,’ murmured the perplexed locksmith.
ref:
1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, iii, 252
type:
quotation
text:
Steve, don't be silly. I mean social intercourse.
ref:
1972, George Lucas et al., American Graffiti, section 8
type:
quotation
text:
The truth is that everyone is sillier than you could possibly imagine they'd be.
ref:
1990, House of Cards, season 1, episode 3
type:
quotation
text:
Fow ȝellow ȝellow wes hir heid bot scho of lufe wes sillie.
ref:
1568, Christis Kirk on Grene
type:
quotation
text:
Davie's no just like other folk... but he's no sae silly as folk tak him for.
ref:
1814, Waverley, Walter Scott, III, xvi, 237
type:
quotation
text:
You say you were knocked silly—was that so?
ref:
1829 January 17, Lancaster Gazette
text:
Drinking myself silly...
ref:
1907, John Millington Synge, Playboy of the Western World, iii, 64
type:
quotation
text:
Well, Judy, now that you've scared me silly, what's so important?
ref:
1942, J. Chodorov et al., Junior Miss, ii, i, 113
type:
quotation
text:
I can kick this stuff any time I like. I tell you what. Get this week over, we'll go to a health farm for ten days. No drugs. No drink. And shag ourselves silly. How about that?
ref:
1990, House of Cards, season 1, episode 2
type:
quotation
text:
Carpenter now placed himself at silly-point for Grundy, who was playing very forward.
ref:
1862 July 4, Notts. Guardian
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.
Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.
Absurdly large.
Blessed
Good; pious.
Blessed
Holy.
Pitiful, inspiring compassion
Innocent; suffering undeservedly, especially as an epithet of lambs and sheep.
Pitiful, inspiring compassion
Helpless, defenseless.
Pitiful, inspiring compassion
Insignificant, worthless, (chiefly Scotland) especially with regard to land quality.
Pitiful, inspiring compassion
Weak, frail; flimsy (use concerning people and animals is now obsolete).
Pitiful, inspiring compassion
Sickly; feeble; infirm.
Pitiful, inspiring compassion, particularly
Simple, plain
Rustic, homely.
Simple, plain
Lowly, of humble station.
Mentally simple, foolish
Rustic, uneducated, unlearned.
Mentally simple, foolish
Thoughtless, lacking judgment.
Mentally simple, foolish
Mentally retarded.
Mentally simple, foolish
Stupefied, senseless; stunned or dazed.
Very close to the batsman, facing the bowler; closer than short.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
4511 | word:
silly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
silly (comparative sillier, superlative silliest)
forms:
form:
sillier
tags:
comparative
form:
silliest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
silly
etymology_text:
From Middle English seely, sēlī, from Old English sǣliġ, ġesǣliġ (“lucky, fortunate”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālīg, from *sāli. Equivalent to seel (“happiness, bliss”) + -y. Doublet of Seelie.
The semantic evolution is “lucky” → “innocent” → “naïve” → “foolish”. Compare the similar evolution of daft (originally meaning “accommodating”), and almost the reverse with nice (originally meaning “ignorant”).
senses_examples:
text:
If you did but see how silly a Man fumbles for an Excuse, when he's a little asham'd of being in Love.
ref:
1731, Colley Cibber, Careless Husband, 7th edition, i, i, 21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sillily: in a silly manner.
senses_topics:
|
4512 | word:
silly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
silly (plural sillies)
forms:
form:
sillies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
silly
etymology_text:
From Middle English seely, sēlī, from Old English sǣliġ, ġesǣliġ (“lucky, fortunate”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālīg, from *sāli. Equivalent to seel (“happiness, bliss”) + -y. Doublet of Seelie.
The semantic evolution is “lucky” → “innocent” → “naïve” → “foolish”. Compare the similar evolution of daft (originally meaning “accommodating”), and almost the reverse with nice (originally meaning “ignorant”).
senses_examples:
text:
While they, poor sillies, bid good night,
O' love an' bogles eerie.
ref:
1807 May, Scots Magazine, 366/1
text:
‘Come on, silly,’ said Nannie.
ref:
1918 September, St. Nicholas, 972/2
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A silly person.
A term of address.
A mistake.
senses_topics:
|
4513 | word:
zak
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zak (countable and uncountable, plural zaks)
forms:
form:
zaks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Afrikaans sak (“bag”). Doublet of sac and sack.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Money.
Sixpence or a small amount of money.
senses_topics:
|
4514 | word:
IA
word_type:
name
expansion:
IA
forms:
wikipedia:
IA
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Provided that they [the Indian Army or IA] do their duty, armed insurrection in India would not be an insoluble problem. If however the IA go the other way, the picture would be very different.
We do not have the military force to hold India against a widespread guerrilla movement or to reconquer India ... It is doubtful if we could keep the Indian troops loyal. Attlee to Chiefs of Staff, TOP, XI, p.68
ref:
2014, Daniel Marston, The Indian Army and the End of the Raj, Cambridge University Press, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Your home in the sky. In the coming weeks, Indian Airlines (IA) may consider changing its slogan to something more down to earth. For the airline itself may be running for shelter when it announces its results for 2001-2 sometime next month.
ref:
2002, Rohit Saran, “Aviation - Indian Airlines”, in India Today, volume 27, Thomson Living Media India Limited, page 50
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Iowa, a state of the United States of America.
Initialism of Indian Army.
Initialism of Indian Airlines.
Initialism of Iraqi Army.
Initialism of Intel Architecture.
Initialism of Ice Age.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
4515 | word:
IA
word_type:
intj
expansion:
IA
forms:
wikipedia:
IA
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
inshallah; God willing
senses_topics:
|
4516 | word:
IA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
IA (countable and uncountable, plural IAs)
forms:
form:
IAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
IA
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of immediate action. (the procedure to determine the cause of a rifle stoppage)
Initialism of Institute of Arts.
Initialism of information assurance.
Initialism of internal affairs. (a department responsible for investigating complaints against police officers)
Initialism of individual augmentee.
Initialism of item-and-arrangement.
Initialism of internal argument.
Initialism of international affairs.
Initialism of industrial action.
Initialism of Impact Assessment.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
government
law-enforcement
government
military
politics
war
human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
government
politics
|
4517 | word:
LA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
LA (plural LAs)
forms:
form:
LAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of left atrium.
Initialism of lead arsenate.
Initialism of local anesthetic.
Initialism of lateral area.
Initialism of local authority.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
|
4518 | word:
LA
word_type:
name
expansion:
LA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Speaking as an LA native, this is the longest earthquake I’ve ever felt!
ref:
2005 May 1, Robert Lamoreaux, Michelle Lamoreaux, Nicole Demerse, Jef Biederman, Richard Clark, “Evil Promotion Much?”, in Totally Spies!: Undercover, season 3, episode 24, spoken by Clover (Andrea Baker), Marathon Media, via Teletoon
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Los Angeles, a city in the United States.
Abbreviation of Louisiana, a state of the United States.
Abbreviation of Ladakh, a state of India.
Abbreviation of Lower Arkansas, also in reference to the state of Louisiana.
Abbreviation of Lampung, a province of Indonesia.
Initialism of Las Anod, a city in Somalia.
Initialism of Linear A.
senses_topics:
|
4519 | word:
bam
word_type:
intj
expansion:
bam
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
text:
The wind knocked the tree over last night. Bam! It nearly scared me to death.
type:
example
text:
We all looked up from the maps, silent, and listened to the hurried footsteps in the entryway. They padded up the red carpet, bam-bam-bam, and across the landing and then up the next flight at a gallop, bam-bam-bam.
ref:
2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep, New York: Random House, published 2008, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 266
type:
quotation
text:
She said she dumped him. Now — bam! — they're back together.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.
Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence.
senses_topics:
|
4520 | word:
bam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bam (plural bams)
forms:
form:
bams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ned; a bampot.
senses_topics:
|
4521 | word:
bam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bam (plural bams)
forms:
form:
bams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Perhaps from bamboozle.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
senses_topics:
|
4522 | word:
bam
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bam (third-person singular simple present bams, present participle bamming, simple past and past participle bammed)
forms:
form:
bams
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bamming
tags:
participle
present
form:
bammed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bammed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Perhaps from bamboozle.
senses_examples:
text:
This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money
ref:
1774, Samuel Foote, The Cozeners
type:
quotation
text:
I’ll break a lamp, bully a constable, bam a justice, or bilk a boxkeeper with any man in the liberties of Westminster.
ref:
1747, David Garrick, Miss in Her Teens: or the Medley of Lovers, Act II, in The Plays of David Garrick: A Complete Collection of the Social Satires, French Adaptations, Pantomimes, Christmas and Musical Plays, Preludes, Interludes, and Burlesques, ed. Harry William Pedicord and Fredrick Louis Bergmann, vol. 1 (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980), 93
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To impose on (someone) by a falsehood; to cheat.
To jeer or make fun of.
senses_topics:
|
4523 | word:
bam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bam (plural bams)
forms:
form:
bams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of bare-arse minimum.
senses_topics:
|
4524 | word:
MI
word_type:
name
expansion:
MI
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Michigan, a state of the United States of America.
senses_topics:
|
4525 | word:
MI
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MI (countable and uncountable, plural MIs)
forms:
form:
MIs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Three months ago, after a minor argument between a small group of students and a tea shop owner, police arrived on the scene, arrested the students, and beat them up in a nearby police station. Apparently, the tea shop was owned by an MI agent.
ref:
2009, Karen Connelly, Burmese Lessons: A Love Story, Toronto: Random House Canada, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
MI excludes words that frequently combine with many words (e.g. the), but can overemphasize low frequency collocation.
ref:
2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 112
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of middle initial.
Initialism of military intelligence.
Initialism of myocardial infarction.
Initialism of mitral insufficiency.
Initialism of mesioincisal.
Initialism of mathematical induction.
Initialism of mechanical index.
Initialism of medical inspection.
Initialism of mutual information.
Initialism of middle infielder.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
cardiology
medicine
sciences
cardiology
medicine
sciences
dentistry
medicine
sciences
mathematics
sciences
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
computing
engineering
information-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
4526 | word:
ruby
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ruby (countable and uncountable, plural rubies)
forms:
form:
rubies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ruby
etymology_text:
From Middle English ruby, rube, from Old French rubi, from Medieval Latin rubīnus.
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:
ruby:
text:
Elgin. Topaz a Saltier and Chief Ruby, on a Canton Pearl a Lyon Rampant Saphyr, which last is their paternal Coat; and the Field Topaz, and Saltier, and Chief Ruby, was the Arms of King Robert the Bruce, they altering the Field from Pearl (as he bore it) to Topaz.
ref:
1720, Francis Nichols, Rudiments of Honour, page 296
type:
quotation
text:
The Field is Ruby, on a Bend Topaz, three Martlets Diamond. [...] Checkie Topaz and Saphire, a Fesse within a Bordure Ruby, by the Name of Clifford.
ref:
1726, John Guillim, The Banner Display'd; Or, an Abridgment of Guillim, page 504
type:
quotation
text:
(1) Pearl, a Cross, Ruby, with the Effigies of our Saviour thereon, Topaz, born in Memory of one of the Family's fighting against the Turks. (2) Topaz, a Chief Indented, Saphire. (3) Ruby, three covered Cups, Topaz [...]
ref:
1754, John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland; Or, a Genealogical History of the ..., page 71
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
A red spinel.
A deep red colour.
The tincture red or gules.
The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.
A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
media
printing
publishing
|
4527 | word:
ruby
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ruby (comparative more ruby, superlative most ruby)
forms:
form:
more ruby
tags:
comparative
form:
most ruby
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
ruby
etymology_text:
From Middle English ruby, rube, from Old French rubi, from Medieval Latin rubīnus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a deep red colour.
senses_topics:
|
4528 | word:
ruby
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ruby (third-person singular simple present rubies, present participle rubying, simple past and past participle rubied)
forms:
form:
rubies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rubying
tags:
participle
present
form:
rubied
tags:
participle
past
form:
rubied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ruby
etymology_text:
From Middle English ruby, rube, from Old French rubi, from Medieval Latin rubīnus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make red; to redden.
senses_topics:
|
4529 | word:
ruby
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ruby (plural rubies)
forms:
form:
rubies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ruby
etymology_text:
From the British 5½-point type size ruby (etymology 1), used for annotations in printed documents.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese characters.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography |
4530 | word:
benzole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
benzole (plural benzoles)
forms:
form:
benzoles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of benzol.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
4531 | word:
comely
word_type:
adj
expansion:
comely (comparative comelier or more comely, superlative comeliest or most comely)
forms:
form:
comelier
tags:
comparative
form:
more comely
tags:
comparative
form:
comeliest
tags:
superlative
form:
most comely
tags:
superlative
form:
or poetic
tags:
literary
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The adjective is derived from Middle English comly, comli, cumly, cumlich (“of a person: beautiful, handsome, etc.; of noble birth, bearing, or character; of behaviour: appropriate, becoming; of an event: convenient; favourable; of a thing: beautiful, wonderful; fitting, proper”), from Old English cymlīċ, cȳmlīċ (“beautiful, comely; splendid; convenient”), from cȳme (“beautiful, comely; splendid; exquisite, fine”) + -līċ (suffix meaning ‘like; relating to’ forming adjectives). Cȳme is derived from Proto-Germanic *kūmiz (“delicate; feeble”), from *kūmalīkaz (“dear; pitiful”), probably related to *kūmaz, *kūmijaz (“pitiful; frail, weak”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewH- (“to call, name; to call on, invoke; to cry, cry out”). The word was influenced by come (verb).
The verb is derived from the adjective.
cognates
* Middle Dutch komelick, komlick
* Middle High German gomelīh, komelīh
senses_examples:
text:
a comely woman
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome; also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome.
Of a person, an action, behaviour, etc.: meeting accepted moral or social norms; appropriate, becoming, proper.
Of a thing: beautiful, elegant, well-composed; also, delicate, fine.
Pleasing to the feelings or senses; agreeable, nice, pleasant.
senses_topics:
|
4532 | word:
comely
word_type:
verb
expansion:
comely (third-person singular simple present comelies, present participle comelying, simple past and past participle comelied)
forms:
form:
comelies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
comelying
tags:
participle
present
form:
comelied
tags:
participle
past
form:
comelied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The adjective is derived from Middle English comly, comli, cumly, cumlich (“of a person: beautiful, handsome, etc.; of noble birth, bearing, or character; of behaviour: appropriate, becoming; of an event: convenient; favourable; of a thing: beautiful, wonderful; fitting, proper”), from Old English cymlīċ, cȳmlīċ (“beautiful, comely; splendid; convenient”), from cȳme (“beautiful, comely; splendid; exquisite, fine”) + -līċ (suffix meaning ‘like; relating to’ forming adjectives). Cȳme is derived from Proto-Germanic *kūmiz (“delicate; feeble”), from *kūmalīkaz (“dear; pitiful”), probably related to *kūmaz, *kūmijaz (“pitiful; frail, weak”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewH- (“to call, name; to call on, invoke; to cry, cry out”). The word was influenced by come (verb).
The verb is derived from the adjective.
cognates
* Middle Dutch komelick, komlick
* Middle High German gomelīh, komelīh
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To embellish or grace (something).
senses_topics:
|
4533 | word:
comely
word_type:
adv
expansion:
comely (comparative more comely, superlative most comely)
forms:
form:
more comely
tags:
comparative
form:
most comely
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English comli, cumly, cumeliche (“beautifully, handsomely; gracefully; splendidly; fittingly, properly; well”), from Old English cȳme (adjective) (see etymology 1) + Middle English -li (suffix forming adverbs).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of comelily (“in a comely manner: in an attractive or pleasing manner; in a manner which meets accepted moral or social norms”)
senses_topics:
|
4534 | word:
NV
word_type:
name
expansion:
NV
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Nevada, a state of the United States of America.
senses_topics:
|
4535 | word:
NV
word_type:
noun
expansion:
NV (plural NVs)
forms:
form:
NVs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of nuclear vessel - nuclear-powered ship
Abbreviation of no vote.
senses_topics:
|
4536 | word:
NV
word_type:
adj
expansion:
NV (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of non-vintage - in reference to wine.
senses_topics:
|
4537 | word:
RI
word_type:
name
expansion:
RI
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Rhode Island, a state of the United States of America.
Abbreviation of Riau, a province of Indonesia.
senses_topics:
|
4538 | word:
RI
word_type:
noun
expansion:
RI (countable and uncountable, plural RIs)
forms:
form:
RIs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of radioisotope.
Initialism of radio interference.
senses_topics:
|
4539 | word:
RI
word_type:
noun
expansion:
RI
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
rex imperator (“king-emperor”) or regina imperatrix (“queen-empress”); the initials by which a British monarch signed documents after his or her name from 1877 until 1947.
senses_topics:
government
monarchy
politics |
4540 | word:
hand
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hand (plural hands)
forms:
form:
hands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hand (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English hond, hand, from Old English hand, from Proto-West Germanic *handu, from Proto-Germanic *handuz.
See also Dutch and Swedish hand (“hand”), Danish hånd, German Hand, West Frisian hân). Perhaps compare Old Swedish hinna (“to gain”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰-𐌷𐌹𐌽𐌸𐌰𐌽 (fra-hinþan, “to take captive, capture”); and Latvian sīts (“hunting spear”), Ancient Greek κεντέω (kentéō, “prick”), Albanian çandër (“pitchfork, prop”).
senses_examples:
text:
Her hands are really strong.
type:
example
text:
Meronyms: index finger, middle finger, palm, pinky, ring finger, thumb
text:
Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.
ref:
2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time
type:
quotation
text:
The fruits of these kickstarted endeavors began to show in 1915, first in the deployment of a new range of depth charges. These were, mercifully, smaller than Jellicoe's "crushing hand of God" prototype, and, whilst practically just as lethal to submarines, they were significantly less risky to the launching ship, and could also be carried in larger numbers.
ref:
2019 July 24, Drachinifel, 11:06 from the start, in Anti-Sub Warfare in WW1 - From Hammers to Hunter-Killers, archived from the original on 2022-11-24
type:
quotation
text:
Large farms need many farm hands.
type:
example
text:
an old hand at public speaking
type:
example
text:
I was always reckoned a lively hand at a simile.
ref:
1811, William Hazlitt, “A Day by the Fire”, in The Reflector
type:
quotation
text:
At the church sociables he used to hop around among them, chipping and chirping like a dicky-bird picking up seed; and he was a great hand to play the piano, and sing saddish, sweetish songs to them.
ref:
1903, George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
Bob gave Alice a hand to move the furniture.
type:
example
text:
a good hand
type:
example
text:
With an unquenchable enthusiasm for locomotives and their work, at an early age I had commenced to keep engine and traffic-recording notebooks, compiled in a schoolboy's round hand.
ref:
1946 March and April, R. A. H. Weight, “Euston to the North-West”, in Railway Magazine, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
[T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.
ref:
2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28
type:
quotation
text:
Given under my Hand and Seal of the State this 1st Day of January, 2010.
type:
example
text:
They once made Mourning and Fasting for the Death of the English Governor, who had given his Hand to come on such a Day to 'em, and neither came nor sent; believing, when a Man's Word was past, nothing but Death could or should prevent his keeping it: And when they saw he was not dead, they ask'd him what Name they had for a Man who promis'd a Thing he did not do?
ref:
Montague Summers (editor), The Works of Aphra Behn, volume V, page 132
text:
Few would rely upon the word or oath of any man who had been known to break a hand-promise.
ref:
1868, William Carleton, Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, volume 2, page 179
type:
quotation
text:
in safe hands; in good hands; He lost his job when the factory changed hands. With the business back in the founder's hands, there is new hope for the company. With John in charge of the project, it's in good hands.
type:
example
text:
The method, in the hands of an experienced team of physicians and technicians, has become a relatively safe and useful procedure in the study of congenital heart disease and an accurate device for calculating cardiac output.
ref:
1951 March, J. H. Lehmann, A. D. Johnson, W. C. Bridges, J. Michel, D. M. Green, “Cardiac Catheterization—A Diagnostic Aid in Congenital Heart Disease”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 3, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 170
type:
quotation
text:
Just give me a minute - I haven't got any hands right now.
type:
example
text:
Give him a hand.
type:
example
text:
A member of the gay male nuns' collective, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, received one of the biggest hands of the evening when he included in a benediction litany the chant that lesbians and gays be "delivered from both of Dianne's faces."
ref:
1980 December 13, David Lamble, “March Against Violence Emphasizes Coalitions”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Also a big hand for Silver Linings Playbook, an exuberant modern screwball comedy we had, in an unseemly fit of cynicism, deemed "too entertaining" for Academy voters.
ref:
2013 January 11, Tom Shone, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
This fabric has a smooth, soft hand.
type:
example
text:
to buy at first hand (from the producer, or when new); to buy at second hand (when no longer in the producer’s hand, or when not new); It's not a rumor. I heard it at first hand.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.
A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.
An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
The set of cards held by a player.
That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
The set of cards held by a player.
A round of a card game.
That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
A bunch of bananas, a typical retail amount, where individual fruits are fingers.
In linear measurement:
Four inches, a hand's breadth.
In linear measurement:
Three inches.
A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
An agent; a servant, or manual laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty.
A performer more or less skilful.
An instance of helping.
Handwriting; style of penmanship.
A person's autograph or signature.
Promise, word; especially of a betrothal.
Personal possession; ownership.
Management, domain, control.
A hand which is free to assist; especially due to having one's hands full or otherwise fully preoccupied.
Applause.
A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
A whole rhizome of ginger.
The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
Agency in transmission from one person to another.
Rate; price.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
card-games
games
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
|
4541 | word:
hand
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hand (third-person singular simple present hands, present participle handing, simple past and past participle handed)
forms:
form:
hands
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
handing
tags:
participle
present
form:
handed
tags:
participle
past
form:
handed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
hand (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English handen, honden, from the noun (see above); and also from henden (> English hend), from Old English *hendan, ġehendan (“to seize by hand, grasp, hold”), from Proto-West Germanic *handijan, from Proto-Germanic *handijaną (“to take by hand, grasp”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Old Frisian handa, henda (“to grasp, seize”), Middle Low German handen, henden (in derivatives), Dutch handen, henden (“to arrange, dispose, be handy”), Dutch overhandigen (“to hand, hand over”), Middle High German handen (“to cut, hew”), Middle High German henden (“to give hands to; take hold of, seize”), Old Norse henda (“to grasp, seize, take by hand”).
senses_examples:
text:
He handed them the letter. She handed responsibility over to her deputy.
type:
example
text:
It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
ref:
2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
However, Anyon Kay remembers a Mr Walton Ainsworth, of Beech House, Rivington, who owned mills in Bolton, being a regular user before the First World War. He used to drive by horse and trap from his mansion to catch the 0906 train to Bolton each day. Before arriving at the station, local newsagent Tom Dutton would hand Mr Ainsworth his morning paper!
ref:
2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
to hand a lady into a carriage
type:
example
text:
send the people up to hand the sail, and when up, before they goon the yard, I'll clap the rolling tackle on to steady it
ref:
1814, John Hamilton Moore, “Examination of a Young Sea Officer”, in The new practical navigator, nineteenth edition
type:
quotation
text:
In the very long run from the west side of America to Guam, among the Philippine Islands, ships seldom have occasion to hand their sails, so equal and steady is the gale, and yet they make it in about 60 days, which could not be if the wind blew only in the afternoon.
ref:
1834 [1756 November 4], Benjamin Franklin, “Observations in answer to the foregoing.”, in Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, volume II, Philadelphia: McCarty & Davis, →OCLC, page 344, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give, pass or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
To manage.
To seize; to lay hands on.
To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
To furl (a sail).
To cooperate.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
|
4542 | word:
AB
word_type:
name
expansion:
AB
forms:
wikipedia:
AB
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Alberta, a province of Canada.
Initialism of Artium baccalaureus.
Initialism of Aryan Brotherhood, a US white supremacist, neo-Nazi prison gang and crime syndicate.
senses_topics:
|
4543 | word:
AB
word_type:
noun
expansion:
AB (countable and uncountable, plural ABs)
forms:
form:
ABs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
AB
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires— A.B. means an able-bodied seaman […]
ref:
Section 2(1), Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) Ordinance (Cap. 478)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of able seaman; able-bodied seaman.
Initialism of afterburner.
Initialism of aid to the blind.
Initialism of airbase.
Abbreviation of alkylbenzene.
Initialism of antibody.
Initialism of artificial breeding.
Initialism of assembly bill.
A blood type of the ABO system that has both blood antigens and may receive all blood types, and donate to AB.
A blood type of the ABO system that has both blood antigens and may receive all blood types, and donate to AB.
A person with this blood type.
Initialism of adult baby.
A kind of halal snack pack.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
medicine
sciences
government
law
politics
|
4544 | word:
AB
word_type:
adj
expansion:
AB (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
AB
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of airborne.
Initialism of antiballistic.
Initialism of at bat.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
4545 | word:
MN
word_type:
name
expansion:
MN
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Minnesota, a state of the United States of America.
Abbreviation of Manipur, a state of India.
senses_topics:
|
4546 | word:
MN
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MN (plural MNs)
forms:
form:
MNs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of master of/in nursing.
Abbreviation of midnight.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
4547 | word:
girl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
girl (countable and uncountable, plural girls)
forms:
form:
girls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Etymological Dictionary of the German Language
de:Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
en:girl (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English gerle, girle, gyrle (“young person (boy or girl)”), perhaps from Old English *gyrele, from Proto-West Germanic *gurilā, from a zero-grade diminutive of *gaurā (“young child”) + *-ilā. Ultimately of unknown origin. Doublet of gal/gyal and gyaru.
senses_examples:
text:
There isn't any guy going to steal my girl!
ref:
1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Girl from Hollywood
type:
quotation
text:
I took my girl to the cinema to watch your American movies.
ref:
1996, Elizabeth Wong, Kimchee and Chitlins: A Serious Comedy about Getting Along, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
Your girl turned up on our doorstep.
type:
example
text:
She had taught me to snort girl, and almost always when I came to her pad, there would be thin sparkling rows of crystal cocaine on the glass top of the cocktail table.
ref:
1969, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, Cash Money Content, published 2011, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
Elijah nodded congenially to the early evening regulars in the Afro Lounge, headed straight for the telephone hung midway between the mens and womens, his nose smarting from a couple thick lines of recently snorted girl.
ref:
1977, Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle, Holloway House, published 1987, page 175
type:
quotation
text:
After about an hour or two of half-ass sex and snorting girl, Honey was zoned out. […] She flexed her still numb fingers, trying to find a warmth that didn't seem to come. Cocaine always made her numb.
ref:
2005, K'wan, Hoodlum, St. Martin's Press, page 185
type:
quotation
text:
Catch me playing with the plate, yeah I love the sauce
White girl in my nose, I need to clean it off
ref:
2016 July 22, “Bussin” (track 3), in Fenix Flexin (lyrics), Shoreline Mafia (music), Party Pack
type:
quotation
text:
Are you getting a boy cat or a girl cat?
type:
example
text:
Are there “boy” trees and “girl” trees? Yes. A number of species, among them the yew, holly and date-bearing palm, have their male and female flowers on different trees. The male holly, for instance, must be planted fairly close to the female ...
ref:
1950, Pageant
type:
quotation
text:
Of the 100 percent total, 25 will have two girl genes, 50 will have one boy and one girl gene, and 25 will have two boy genes.
ref:
1970 [earlier 1963], Helen V. Wilson, Helen Van Pelt, Helen Van Pelt's African Violets, Dutton Adult
text:
When there are two "girl" genes the plant is a girl dwarf.
ref:
1972, GSN Gesneriad Saintpaulia News: African Violets, Gloxinias, Other Gesneriads and Exotic Plants
type:
quotation
text:
Daly came, delved into the old girl's inner works, and had her working in jig time.
ref:
1917 June 29, Les Enfant, “The Trials of Commuter Jones—a Would-Be Pumber”, in Metal Worker, Pumber, and Steam Fitter, volume 87, number 26, page 874
type:
quotation
text:
The tired old girl was listing heavily in the heavy seas.
ref:
2013, Rose George, Deep Sea and Foreign Going
type:
quotation
text:
I ran to my car and jumped in. "Come on, girl, start for me, baby!"
ref:
2024, William Halford, POR! Prince of Borland, page 58
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A young female human, or sometimes a young female animal.
A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.
A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)
A queen (the playing card).
A term of endearment. (see usage notes)
One's girlfriend.
One's daughter.
A roebuck two years old.
Cocaine, especially in powder form.
A female non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a female pet, especially a dog.
A female (tree, gene, etc).
A machine or vehicle, especially one that the speaker uses often and is fond of.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
|
4548 | word:
girl
word_type:
verb
expansion:
girl (third-person singular simple present girls, present participle girling, simple past and past participle girled)
forms:
form:
girls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
girling
tags:
participle
present
form:
girled
tags:
participle
past
form:
girled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Etymological Dictionary of the German Language
de:Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
en:girl (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English gerle, girle, gyrle (“young person (boy or girl)”), perhaps from Old English *gyrele, from Proto-West Germanic *gurilā, from a zero-grade diminutive of *gaurā (“young child”) + *-ilā. Ultimately of unknown origin. Doublet of gal/gyal and gyaru.
senses_examples:
text:
Quite different is the way in which the tomboy girled the rebel narrative. In recent years, queer theorists have taken a deep interest in the tomboy as a prefigure for the butch dyke.
ref:
2005, Leerom Medovoi, Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity, page 293
type:
quotation
text:
One can argue that the genre “yuppified” the popular romance novel or perhaps “girled” the not especially gender-specific concept of the young urban professional.
ref:
2011, Stephanie Harzewski, Chick Lit and Postfeminism
type:
quotation
text:
Making our way past a one-girl switchboard temporarily girled by two frantic operators, we found the victorious president, Elliott A. Bowles, barely visible behind a heap of telegrams [...]
ref:
1949, The New Yorker
type:
quotation
text:
Her first shock came when the ship on which she and her husband arrived was met by three boats “girled” by “great, splendid creatures, as tall as our millionaires' tallest daughters, and as strong-looking as any of our college-girl athletes,” ...
ref:
1961, The Georgia Review
type:
quotation
text:
She and her Altrurian diplomat husband, arriving there by sea, are greeted by flower-laden boats, each not manned, but girled by six rowers, who pulled as true a stroke as I ever saw.
ref:
1986, Marcus Cunliffe, The Literature of the United States, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books
type:
quotation
text:
To her disappointment, the chatty Carlene DuBois wasn't behind the desk; instead it was manned—or girled—by a frothy little blonde who barely looked old enough to be out of high school.
ref:
2009, Linda Howard, Night Moves: Dream Man/After the Night, Simon and Schuster, page 220
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To feminize or girlify; to gender as a girl or as for girls.
To staff with or as a girl or girls.
senses_topics:
|
4549 | word:
plum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plum (plural plums)
forms:
form:
plums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
plum
etymology_text:
From Middle English plomme, ploume, from Old English plūme, from Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, borrowed from Latin prūnum. Doublet of prune.
senses_examples:
text:
“Bright boy! here’s a plum for you,” and Polly threw a plump raisin into his mouth.
ref:
1870, Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
type:
quotation
text:
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, eating a Christmas pie; he put in his thumb, and he took out a plum, and said, “What a good boy am I!”
ref:
1877, Mother Gooose’s Nursery Rhymes
type:
quotation
text:
The mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay.
type:
example
text:
Such chances as this do not fall to a man's lot twice; but Edmond Werdet relates a story very similar indeed, and where also the "plums" fell into the lap of a London dealer.
ref:
1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
As to Rev. Jerry [Falwell], he, of course, is "not anti-homosexual" but "anti-homosexuality." I guess that's his same bit of down home sophistry that explains that God listens to the prayers of Jews, if they are consciously praying to a Christian God, one of the Rev.'s latest dialectic plums.
ref:
1980 December 13, Ronnie Allen, “Anita's Latest”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
plum:
text:
web plum:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fruit and its tree.
An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
The fruit and its tree.
A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
The fruit and its tree.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
Prunus sect. Prunus
Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
The fruit and its tree.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
Prunus sect. Prunus
Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
The fruit and its tree.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
Prunus sect. Prunus
Prunus spinosa (sloe)
The fruit and its tree.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
Prunus sect. Prunus
Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
The fruit and its tree.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
Prunus americana (American plum)
The fruit and its tree.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
The fruit and its tree.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
The fruit and its tree.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
The fruit and its tree.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
The fruit and its tree.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
The fruit and its tree.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
The fruit and its tree.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
The fruit and its tree.
A dried grape or raisin, as used in a pudding or cake.
Extended senses.
One hundred thousand pounds; (generally) a fortune.
Extended senses.
A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
Extended senses.
A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
Extended senses.
A testicle.
Extended senses.
A fool, an idiot.
senses_topics:
|
4550 | word:
plum
word_type:
adj
expansion:
plum (comparative more plum, superlative most plum)
forms:
form:
more plum
tags:
comparative
form:
most plum
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
plum
etymology_text:
From Middle English plomme, ploume, from Old English plūme, from Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, borrowed from Latin prūnum. Doublet of prune.
senses_examples:
text:
She landed a plum position as an executive for the firm.
type:
example
text:
It is obviously a "plum" job, one distinction being that its motormen are granted an allowance of about 6s. [six shillings] towards the cost of Wagons-Lits food in the crew quarters of the train, [...]. Additionally, by the way, each man is allowed a quarter of a bottle of wine "on the house" per trip!
ref:
1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 146
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a dark bluish-red colour.
Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
senses_topics:
|
4551 | word:
plum
word_type:
adj
expansion:
plum (comparative more plum, superlative most plum)
forms:
form:
more plum
tags:
comparative
form:
most plum
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
plum
etymology_text:
Phonetically based spelling of plumb.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Plumb
senses_topics:
|
4552 | word:
plum
word_type:
adv
expansion:
plum (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
plum
etymology_text:
Phonetically based spelling of plumb.
senses_examples:
text:
You're going to think I'm plum crazy for this, but I want to adopt all seven kittens.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Completely; utterly.
senses_topics:
|
4553 | word:
plum
word_type:
verb
expansion:
plum (third-person singular simple present plums, present participle plumming, simple past and past participle plummed)
forms:
form:
plums
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
plumming
tags:
participle
present
form:
plummed
tags:
participle
past
form:
plummed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
plum
etymology_text:
Phonetically based spelling of plumb.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To plumb.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
4554 | word:
MD
word_type:
name
expansion:
MD
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative forms: Md., Md
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Maryland, a state of the United States of America.
senses_topics:
|
4555 | word:
MD
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MD (plural MDs)
forms:
form:
MDs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Symbol (usually a postnominal) indicating a medical degree; medical physician or medical doctor; doctor(ate) of medicine
Initialism of medical doctor. (medical physician; medical surgeon)
Symbol (usually a postnominal) indicating a medical degree; medical physician or medical doctor; doctor(ate) of medicine
Initialism of doctorate of medicine. (medical degree; originally from New Latin medicinae doctor (doctor medicinae))
Medicinae Doctor: Symbol indicating a higher research doctorate in medicine; Doctor of Medicine
Abbreviation of medical device.
Abbreviation of managing director.
Short for MiniDisc.
Initialism of Marine detachment.
Abbreviation of magnetodynamics.
Abbreviation of macular degeneration.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
government
military
politics
war
medicine
pathology
sciences |
4556 | word:
MD
word_type:
adj
expansion:
MD (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of magnetodynamic.
senses_topics:
|
4557 | word:
mill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mill (plural mills)
forms:
form:
mills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mylne, mille, from Old English mylen, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu (“mill”), from Late Latin molīna, molīnum, molīnus (“mill”), from Latin molō (“grind, mill”, verb), closely allied to Proto-Germanic *muljaną (“to crush, grind”) (see English millstone). Perhaps cognate with Milne (a surname). Doublet of moline and moulin.
senses_examples:
text:
Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill.
type:
example
text:
My grandfather worked in a mill.
type:
example
text:
On Sept. 9 a boiler exploded in Hanke's flouring mill, […]
ref:
1880 January 1, The Locomotive, volume 1, number 1, Hartford, Conn.: The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection And Insurance Company, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
a cider mill; a cane mill
type:
example
text:
a lapidary mill
type:
example
text:
lathes, mills, and drill presses
type:
example
text:
divorce mill; puppy mill
type:
example
text:
The mill lasted four rounds, when giddy little Ettie was declared the victress.
ref:
1902 October 1, The Sydney Sportsman, page 5, column 6
type:
quotation
text:
Next morning they put me on the treadmill along with the others: At first, not knowing how to dance it, I cut all my shin with the steps; they did not flog me then — […] They keep on putting her on the mill for a week, and flog her every time […]
ref:
1837, James Williams, A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
In other words, get a mill in your operating position by hook or crook and use it regularly. At the N.C.R. Radio Schools touch typing is taught at the same time code proficiency is advanced.
ref:
1941, QST, volume 25, numbers 2-6, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
You can read it all right, but the pencil seems to be getting a little sluggish — better make a grab for a "mill."
ref:
1986, Ham Radio Magazine, volume 19, page 66
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.
A machine for grinding and polishing.
A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
A building housing such a plant; the place of business comprising such buildings and their grounds.
An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality.
An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
An engine.
A boxing match, fistfight.
A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
A passage underground through which ore is shot.
A milling cutter.
A prison treadmill.
A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.
A delousing station, cootie mill.
A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
senses_topics:
business
mining
business
mining
government
military
politics
war
|
4558 | word:
mill
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mill (third-person singular simple present mills, present participle milling, simple past and past participle milled)
forms:
form:
mills
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
milling
tags:
participle
present
form:
milled
tags:
participle
past
form:
milled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mylne, mille, from Old English mylen, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu (“mill”), from Late Latin molīna, molīnum, molīnus (“mill”), from Latin molō (“grind, mill”, verb), closely allied to Proto-Germanic *muljaną (“to crush, grind”) (see English millstone). Perhaps cognate with Milne (a surname). Doublet of moline and moulin.
senses_examples:
text:
to mill flour
type:
example
text:
I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops.
type:
example
text:
As guests milled around them, he [Zuckerberg] described his goal of turning every person in the country with an internet connection into a Facebook user.
ref:
2021 July 8, Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang, “Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
to mill cattle
type:
example
text:
Ortheris said nothing for a while. Then he unslung his belt, heavy with the badges of half a dozen regiments that his own had lain with, and handed it over to Mulvaney.
"I'm too little for to mill you, Mulvaney," said he, "an' you've strook me before; but you can take an' cut me in two with this 'ere if you like."
ref:
1888, Rudyard Kipling, The Madness of Private Ortheris
type:
quotation
text:
This maize mills well.
type:
example
text:
Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.
ref:
1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129
type:
quotation
text:
And why not?—You would think little of peaching and hanging him for this Scotch affair.—Rat me, one might have milled the Bank of England, and less noise about it.
ref:
1818, Walter Scott, chapter 6, in The Heart of Midlothian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
To move about in an aimless fashion.
To cause to mill, or circle around.
To swim underwater.
To swim suddenly in a new direction.
To beat; to pound.
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
To undergo hulling.
To take part in a fistfight; to box.
To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
To commit burglary.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
business
mining
|
4559 | word:
mill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mill (plural mills)
forms:
form:
mills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Mill (currency)
etymology_text:
Ultimately from Latin millesimum.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
senses_topics:
|
4560 | word:
mill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mill (plural mill)
forms:
form:
mill
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of mil (“million”)
senses_topics:
|
4561 | word:
mill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mill (plural mills)
forms:
form:
mills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
senses_topics:
|
4562 | word:
mill
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mill (third-person singular simple present mills, present participle milling, simple past and past participle milled)
forms:
form:
mills
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
milling
tags:
participle
present
form:
milled
tags:
participle
past
form:
milled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Magic: The Gathering
etymology_text:
Back-formation from millstone, name of a Magic: The Gathering card with this effect (first printed 1994).
senses_examples:
text:
what happens when a Quest Rogue uses Vanish and Malygos gets milled?
ref:
2018 October 9, Ozzie Mejia, “Hearthstone: 4 decks to watch during the 2018 HCT Fall Championship”, in Shacknews
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
senses_topics:
|
4563 | word:
mill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mill (countable and uncountable, plural mills)
forms:
form:
mills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Magic: The Gathering
etymology_text:
Back-formation from millstone, name of a Magic: The Gathering card with this effect (first printed 1994).
senses_examples:
text:
he’s had some fairly infamous mills in other events. Back in 2017’s Spring Championships, he burned the crucial Archmage Antonidas
ref:
2018 October 14, Jay Castello, “Pro Hearthstone player burns key card with perfect comedic timing”, in Rock Paper Shotgun
type:
quotation
text:
Kingsane Rogue will forever have a negative connotation attached to it because it began as a mill deck, and mill is one of the most tilt-inducing strategies in fantasy card games.
ref:
2018 June 16, Wavelength, “Efficient Off-Meta Decks Spotlight”, in Fade2Karma, archived from the original on 2021-11-28
type:
quotation
text:
Great for mill, control, or even Voltron decks, Mnemonic Betrayal is a fantastic addition regardless of your strategy.
ref:
2018 September 24, Collin MacGregor, “Top 10 Guilds of Ravnica Commander Cards in Magic The Gathering”, in heavy.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Discarding a card from one's deck.
A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
senses_topics:
|
4564 | word:
ME
word_type:
name
expansion:
ME
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: Me
text:
In ME technophobia (or perhaps more accurately, "cyborg-phobia") reaches its zenith with the design of the Reapers' techno-zombies, as they are mutated, abject monstrosities that exist to be fought and killed by the player. Humans who are infected by the Reapers mutate into "Husks," which look like zombies covered with visible blue cybernetic parts.
ref:
2023, Sarah Stang, “Desirable and Undesirable Cyborg Bodies in the Mass Effect Video Game Trilogy”, in Julia A. Empey, Russell J. A. Kilbourn, editors, Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond, Bloomsbury Publishing, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 106
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Maine, a state of the United States of America.
Abbreviation of Middle East.
Initialism of Middle English.
Windows ME (Millennium Edition).
Initialism of Montreal Exchange, a futures and derivatives exchange (formerly also a stock exchange)
Initialism of Mass Effect.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
lifestyle |
4565 | word:
ME
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
M_E
forms:
form:
M_E
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Earth mass: a unit of measurement, equal to the mass of planet Earth, which is 6×10²⁴ kg or 3×10⁻⁶ M_☉.
The mass of the Earth specifically.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
|
4566 | word:
ME
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ME (countable and uncountable, plural MEs)
forms:
form:
MEs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The little M.E.’s man nodded, picked his bag off the deck and went back up the steps to the pier.
ref:
1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of master of engineering.
Initialism of managing editor.
Initialism of medical examiner.
Initialism of myalgic encephalomyelitis.
Initialism of marriage encounter.
Initialism of main engine.
senses_topics:
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
4567 | word:
hamose
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hamose (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin hamus (“hook”), + -ose.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the end hooked or curved.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
4568 | word:
hamous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hamous (comparative more hamous, superlative most hamous)
forms:
form:
more hamous
tags:
comparative
form:
most hamous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin hamus (“hook”), + -ous.
senses_examples:
text:
I am very apt to think, that the tenacity of bodies does not proceed from the hamous, or hooked particles, as the Epicureans and some modern Philosophers have imagin'd […].
ref:
1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section III
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hamose.
senses_topics:
|
4569 | word:
TN
word_type:
name
expansion:
TN
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Tennessee.
Abbreviation of Tamil Nadu.
senses_topics:
|
4570 | word:
TN
word_type:
noun
expansion:
TN (plural TNs)
forms:
form:
TNs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
To get final confusion matrices, we have to sum up TNs and FNs from both layers and take TPs and FPs only from the second layer.
ref:
2020 November 25, Pavlo Tertychnyi, Ivan Slobozhan, Madis Ollikainen, Marlon Dumas, “Scalable and Imbalance-Resistant Machine Learning Models for Anti-money Laundering: A Two-Layered Approach”, in Benjamin Clapham, Jascha-Alexander Koch, editors, Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry: 10th International Workshop, FinanceCom 2020 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing), Springer Nature, →DOI, →OCLC, page 54
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of telephone number.
Abbreviation of translator's note or translation note.
Initialism of twisted nematic (“LCD screen technology”).
Initialism of true negative.
senses_topics:
|
4571 | word:
scarlet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
scarlet (countable and uncountable, plural scarlets)
forms:
form:
scarlets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English scarlet, scarlat, borrowed from Old French escarlate (“a type of cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlatum (“scarlet cloth”), of uncertain origin. This was long thought to derive from Classical Persian سقرلات (saqirlāt, “a warm woollen cloth”), but the Persian word (first attested in the 1290s) is now thought to be from Arabic سِقِلَّات (siqillāt), denoting very expensive, luxury silks dyed scarlet-red using the exceptionally expensive dye, first attested around the ninth century. The most obvious route for the Arabic word siqillāt to have entered the Romance languages would be via the Arabic-speaking Iberian region of al-Andalus, particularly Almería, where kermes was produced extensively; compare especially the dialectal form سِقِرْلَاط (siqirlāṭ). The word then came to be used of woollen cloth dyed with the same dye. The Arabic word may itself be derived from Byzantine Greek σιγιλλᾶτον (sigillâton), from Latin sigillātum (“a type of fabric”, literally “sealed; sealing”) .
senses_examples:
text:
scarlet:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A brilliant red colour tinged with orange.
Cloth of a scarlet color.
senses_topics:
|
4572 | word:
scarlet
word_type:
adj
expansion:
scarlet (comparative more scarlet, superlative most scarlet)
forms:
form:
more scarlet
tags:
comparative
form:
most scarlet
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English scarlet, scarlat, borrowed from Old French escarlate (“a type of cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlatum (“scarlet cloth”), of uncertain origin. This was long thought to derive from Classical Persian سقرلات (saqirlāt, “a warm woollen cloth”), but the Persian word (first attested in the 1290s) is now thought to be from Arabic سِقِلَّات (siqillāt), denoting very expensive, luxury silks dyed scarlet-red using the exceptionally expensive dye, first attested around the ninth century. The most obvious route for the Arabic word siqillāt to have entered the Romance languages would be via the Arabic-speaking Iberian region of al-Andalus, particularly Almería, where kermes was produced extensively; compare especially the dialectal form سِقِرْلَاط (siqirlāṭ). The word then came to be used of woollen cloth dyed with the same dye. The Arabic word may itself be derived from Byzantine Greek σιγιλλᾶτον (sigillâton), from Latin sigillātum (“a type of fabric”, literally “sealed; sealing”) .
senses_examples:
text:
a scarlet woman
type:
example
text:
He signed off our correspondence, “Well thank God for facemasks, cos I’m scarlet”.
ref:
26 October 2021, Aisling Marron, I brought the baby to her first vaccinations. Her look said: why have you betrayed me?, The Irish Times
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a bright red colour.
Sinful or whorish.
Blushing; embarrassed or mortified.
senses_topics:
|
4573 | word:
scarlet
word_type:
verb
expansion:
scarlet (third-person singular simple present scarlets, present participle scarleting, simple past and past participle scarleted)
forms:
form:
scarlets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
scarleting
tags:
participle
present
form:
scarleted
tags:
participle
past
form:
scarleted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English scarlet, scarlat, borrowed from Old French escarlate (“a type of cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlatum (“scarlet cloth”), of uncertain origin. This was long thought to derive from Classical Persian سقرلات (saqirlāt, “a warm woollen cloth”), but the Persian word (first attested in the 1290s) is now thought to be from Arabic سِقِلَّات (siqillāt), denoting very expensive, luxury silks dyed scarlet-red using the exceptionally expensive dye, first attested around the ninth century. The most obvious route for the Arabic word siqillāt to have entered the Romance languages would be via the Arabic-speaking Iberian region of al-Andalus, particularly Almería, where kermes was produced extensively; compare especially the dialectal form سِقِرْلَاط (siqirlāṭ). The word then came to be used of woollen cloth dyed with the same dye. The Arabic word may itself be derived from Byzantine Greek σιγιλλᾶτον (sigillâton), from Latin sigillātum (“a type of fabric”, literally “sealed; sealing”) .
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To dye or tinge (something) with scarlet.
senses_topics:
|
4574 | word:
Piauí
word_type:
name
expansion:
Piauí
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Piauí, from Old Tupi.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state of the Northeast Region, Brazil. Capital: Teresina
senses_topics:
|
4575 | word:
NC
word_type:
name
expansion:
NC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of North Carolina, a state of the United States of America.
senses_topics:
|
4576 | word:
NC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
NC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of nitrocellulose.
Initialism of nolo contendere, no contest, a plea in criminal cases.
Nick's Class, the complexity class of decision problems solvable in polylogarithmic time using a polynomial number of processors.
Initialism of noun class.
prefix code for NASA research cargo plane designations.
Initialism of noise control.
Initialism of noise cancellation.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
law
computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
4577 | word:
NC
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
NC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of no change.
Initialism of no charge.
Initialism of no connection.
senses_topics:
|
4578 | word:
NC
word_type:
adj
expansion:
NC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of normally closed.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
4579 | word:
chain
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chain (plural chains)
forms:
form:
chains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chain
etymology_text:
From Middle English cheyne, chaine, from Old French chaine, chaene (“chain”), from Latin catēna (“chain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to braid, twist; hut, shed”). Doublet of catena.
senses_examples:
text:
He wore a gold chain around the neck.
type:
example
text:
The anchor is connected to the boat with a 100-metre long chain.
type:
example
text:
a chain of mountains
type:
example
text:
a chain of ideas, one leading to the next
type:
example
text:
This led to an unfortunate chain of events.
type:
example
text:
That chain of restaurants is expanding into our town.
type:
example
text:
When examined, the molecular chain included oxygen and hydrogen.
type:
example
text:
"But it's too far—must be a quarter of a mile—and I've a portmanteau to carry." […]
"Garn!" shouted the guard. "Taint ten chain. […]"
ref:
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 177
type:
quotation
text:
We first find an approximation of the chain partition, i.e. a small but not minimum size set of chains which cover all elements of the poset.
ref:
2003, Jeremy P. Spinrad, Efficient Graph Representations, American Mathematical Society, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
the chains of habit
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
A series of interconnected things.
A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
A long measuring tape.
A unit of length, exactly equal to 22 yards, 4 rods or 100 links, and approximately equal to 20.12 metres; the length of a Gunter's surveying chain; the length of a cricket pitch.
A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
A formal sum of cells in a CW complex of a certain dimension k (in which case the formal sums are called k'''-chains); a formal sum of simplices or cubes of a certain dimension in a simplical complex or cubical complex (respectively).
An element of a group (or module) in a chain complex.
A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
A livery collar, a chain of office.
The warp threads of a web.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
geography
natural-sciences
surveying
geography
natural-sciences
surveying
mathematics
order-theory
sciences
set-theory
algebraic-topology
mathematics
sciences
topology
algebraic-topology
mathematics
sciences
topology
nautical
transport
business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving |
4580 | word:
chain
word_type:
verb
expansion:
chain (third-person singular simple present chains, present participle chaining, simple past and past participle chained)
forms:
form:
chains
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
chaining
tags:
participle
present
form:
chained
tags:
participle
past
form:
chained
tags:
past
wikipedia:
chain
etymology_text:
From Middle English cheyne, chaine, from Old French chaine, chaene (“chain”), from Latin catēna (“chain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to braid, twist; hut, shed”). Doublet of catena.
senses_examples:
text:
You should chain your bicycle to the railings to protect it from being stolen.
type:
example
text:
Sometimes I feel like I'm chained to this computer.
type:
example
text:
She's been chained to her principles since she was 18, it's unlikely you can convince her otherwise.
type:
example
text:
I miss when Game Of Thrones was wide open, but even then, the writers were chained to a narrative they didn’t yet know the ending of and feared straying too far from.
ref:
2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
You don’t need to maintain state, or partition execution into different objects that then you can chain together (one executes the other on completion — chained continuations).
ref:
2016 January 15, Mark Papadakis, “Coroutines and Fibers. Why and When”, in Medium
type:
quotation
text:
As the line was surveyed - a sufficient length being first chained by a surveyor, who was followed by axemen - trees had to be felled and a certain width maintained, which was specified in the contract, for drays had to follow, and the trees might have fallen upon the line and broken it down at the very outset.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
How do you get one program to chain another? I want to run DrawWorks2 then !Draw but as soon as you run Drawworks2 it finishes the batch file and doesn't go on to the next instruction! Is there a way without loading one of these automatic loaders?
ref:
1996, Mr D Walsh, “Running two programs from a batch file”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
You can do LOAD "" or CHAIN "" to load or chain the next program if I remember correctly (it's been a loooong time since I've used a tape on an Acorn!)
ref:
1998, Juan Flynn, “BBC software transmitted on TV - how to load?”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Recent versions of AntiSpam no longer use the Config file but have a Settings file instead, so when I updated the Config file to chain SpamStamp it had no effect as it was a redundant file.
ref:
2006, Richard Porter, “SpamStamp double headers”, in comp.sys.acorn.apps (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fasten something with a chain.
To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
To link multiple items together.
To secure someone with fetters.
To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
To obligate.
To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
To be chained to another data item.
To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
To load and automatically run (a program).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
4581 | word:
Maranhão
word_type:
name
expansion:
Maranhão
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Maranhão.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state of the Northeast Region, Brazil. Capital: São Luís
senses_topics:
|
4582 | word:
Amapá
word_type:
name
expansion:
Amapá
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Amapá, of uncertain indigenous origin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Macapá
senses_topics:
|
4583 | word:
MO
word_type:
name
expansion:
MO
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Missouri, a state of the United States of America.
Abbreviation of Philip Morris Companies (now Altria Group).
Initialism of Modern Orthodox.
senses_topics:
business
finance
stock-ticker-symbol
|
4584 | word:
MO
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MO (countable and uncountable, plural MOs)
forms:
form:
MOs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative forms: m.o., M.O.
text:
The Big Man is everywhere. He knows my M.O.!!!!
ref:
1981, James Ellroy, Brown's Requiem, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
This was her apartment, I gathered, and he was living here. That was his MO. He would leech onto some girl and eventually move into her home.
ref:
2022, Ling Ma, “Oranges”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of modus operandi.
Initialism of money order.
Initialism of medical officer.
Initialism of molecular orbital.
senses_topics:
banking
business
government
military
politics
war
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
4585 | word:
MO
word_type:
adj
expansion:
MO (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of mesio-occlusal.
Initialism of magnetooptical.
senses_topics:
dentistry
medicine
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
4586 | word:
Pará
word_type:
name
expansion:
Pará
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Portuguese Pará, from Old Tupi pará (“sea”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Belém
senses_topics:
|
4587 | word:
Rondônia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Rondônia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Rondônia. Named after Cândido Rondon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Porto Velho
senses_topics:
|
4588 | word:
NM
word_type:
name
expansion:
NM
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of New Mexico, a state of the United States of America.
senses_topics:
|
4589 | word:
NM
word_type:
adj
expansion:
NM (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of not meaningful.
senses_topics:
|
4590 | word:
NM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
NM (plural NMs)
forms:
form:
NMs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of nautical mile.
Abbreviation of no-mark.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
4591 | word:
NM
word_type:
verb
expansion:
NM (third-person singular simple present NMs, present participle NMing, simple past and past participle NMed)
forms:
form:
NMs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
NMing
tags:
participle
present
form:
NMed
tags:
participle
past
form:
NMed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of no-mark.
senses_topics:
athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
4592 | word:
MC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MC (countable and uncountable, plural MCs or MC's)
forms:
form:
MCs
tags:
plural
form:
MC's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: M.C.
text:
Three MC's and one DJ / We be getting down with no delay
ref:
1999, “Three MC’s and One DJ”, in Hello Nasty, performed by Beastie Boys
type:
quotation
text:
With MC, knit a row, purl a row.
ref:
2011, Kristi Porter, Knitting Patterns For Dummies, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: MM
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of master of ceremonies.
A rapper.
Initialism of main colour.
Initialism of medical center.
Initialism of matching colour.
Initialism of movie clip.
Initialism of methylene chloride. (dichloromethane)
Initialism of motorcycle club.
Initialism of mail code.
Initialism of main character.
Initialism of military cross.
Initialism of molluscum contagiosum.
Initialism of member of congress.
Initialism of medical college.
Initialism of Mars-crosser.
Initialism of medium coeli, the midheaven or highest point in the sky. Contrasted to Imum Coeli.
Initialism of male circumcision.
Initialism of medical certificate.
Initialism of moving coil, a type of phono cartridge.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
business
manufacturing
textiles
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
medicine
pathology
sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
audio
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
4593 | word:
MC
word_type:
verb
expansion:
MC (third-person singular simple present MCs, present participle MCing, simple past and past participle MCed)
forms:
form:
MCs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
MCing
tags:
participle
present
form:
MCed
tags:
participle
past
form:
MCed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
British rapheads do not usually have a great appreciation for rap acts with a pop edge. And having credits that include a stint MCing for Belgium’s hugely successful pop-dance group Technotronic is something that’s best not mentioned in hip-hop circles.
ref:
2000 August 19, Kwaku et al., “Keepin’ It Real around the World”, in Billboard, volume 112, number 34, →ISSN, page 40
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To emcee, to act as a master of ceremonies.
To rap.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
4594 | word:
MC
word_type:
name
expansion:
MC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Minecraft.
Initialism of Marine Corps.
Abbreviation of Mastercard.
senses_topics:
video-games
government
military
politics
war
|
4595 | word:
MC
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
MC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Merry Christmas.
senses_topics:
|
4596 | word:
safe and sound
word_type:
adj
expansion:
safe and sound (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Conjunction of safe (“not in danger”) and sound (“healthy”). Compare with Old French sauf et sain.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having come to no harm, especially after being exposed to danger.
senses_topics:
|
4597 | word:
pyramidical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pyramidical (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From pyramid + -ical.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
pyramidic
senses_topics:
|
4598 | word:
abassis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abassis
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of abassi
senses_topics:
|
4599 | word:
unvessel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
unvessel (third-person singular simple present unvessels, present participle unvesselling or unvesseling, simple past and past participle unvesselled or unvesseled)
forms:
form:
unvessels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
unvesselling
tags:
participle
present
form:
unvesseling
tags:
participle
present
form:
unvesselled
tags:
participle
past
form:
unvesselled
tags:
past
form:
unvesseled
tags:
participle
past
form:
unvesseled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + vessel.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause to be no longer a vessel; to empty.
senses_topics:
|
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