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4800 | word:
room
word_type:
adj
expansion:
room (comparative more room, superlative most room)
forms:
form:
more room
tags:
comparative
form:
most room
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English roum, rom, rum, from Old English rūm (“roomy, spacious, ample, extensive, large, open, unencumbered, unoccupied, temporal, long, extended, great, liberal, unrestricted, unfettered, clear, loose, free from conditions, free from occupation, not restrained within due limits, lax, far-reaching, abundant, noble, august”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmaz (“roomy, spacious”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewh₁- (“free space”). Cognate with Scots roum (“spacious, roomy”), Dutch ruim (“roomy, spacious, wide”), Danish rum (“wide, spacious”), German raum (“wide”), Icelandic rúmur (“spacious”).
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senses_glosses:
Wide; spacious; roomy.
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4801 | word:
room
word_type:
adv
expansion:
room (comparative more room, superlative most room)
forms:
form:
more room
tags:
comparative
form:
most room
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English rome, from Old English rūme (“widely, spaciously, roomily, far and wide, so as to extend over a wide space, liberally, extensively, amply, abundantly, in a high degree, without restriction or encumbrance, without the pressure of care, light-heartedly, without obstruction, plainly, clearly, in detail”). Cognate with Dutch ruim (“amply”, adverb).
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senses_glosses:
Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
Off from the wind.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
4802 | word:
room
word_type:
noun
expansion:
room (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”)
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4803 | word:
beginner
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beginner (plural beginners)
forms:
form:
beginners
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English begynner, equivalent to begin + -er. Cognate with West Frisian begjinner (“beginner”), Dutch beginner (“beginner”), Low German begünner (“beginner”), Danish nybegynder (“beginner, novice”, literally “new-beginner”).
senses_examples:
text:
I'm new to learning Finnish: I'm just a beginner.
type:
example
text:
The beginner of the games lit the ceremonial torch.
type:
example
text:
On the stage, the beginners for the first piece had taken their places — the chorus were there, scared but determined, and in the wings waited Harlequin, in the person of Charles Lyall […]
ref:
1949, Walter Macqueen-Pope, Gaiety: Theatre of Enchantment, page 60
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
Someone who sets something in motion.
An actor who is present on stage in the first moments of a play.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
theater |
4804 | word:
banshee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
banshee (plural banshees)
forms:
form:
banshees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
banshee
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Irish bean sí, from Old Irish ben síde (literally “woman of the fairy mound”). The term banshee entered English in 1771.
senses_examples:
text:
Late had he heard, in prophet's dream, / The fatal Ben-Shie's boding scream […].
ref:
1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 3.VII
type:
quotation
text:
Where's this old banshee that runs the place?
ref:
1936, John Thomas McIntyre, Steps Going Down, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female spirit, usually taking the form of a woman whose mournful wailing warns of an impending death.
A noisy or ill-tempered woman.
senses_topics:
arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
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4805 | word:
cadastre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cadastre (plural cadastres)
forms:
form:
cadastres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cadastre
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French cadastre.
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
A public survey of land, originally for the purpose of taxation and to create an official register of land ownership.
A register of such surveys, showing details of ownership and value.
senses_topics:
cartography
geography
natural-sciences
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4806 | word:
Yukon Territory
word_type:
name
expansion:
Yukon Territory
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
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senses_glosses:
Synonym of Yukon
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4807 | word:
very
word_type:
adj
expansion:
very (not generally comparable, comparative verier, superlative veriest)
forms:
form:
verier
tags:
comparative
form:
veriest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
very
etymology_text:
From Middle English verray, from Old French verai (“true”), from Early Medieval Latin vērāgus, from Classical Latin vērāx, derived from vērus, from Proto-Italic *wēros, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros.
Distantly cognate with the Old English wǣr (“true”). Over time displaced the use of a number of Germanic words or prefixes to convey the sense 'very' such as fele, full-, mægen, sore, sin-, swith, (partially) wel.
senses_examples:
text:
The fierce hatred of a very woman.
type:
example
text:
The very blood and bone of our grammar.
type:
example
text:
He tried his very best.
type:
example
text:
We're approaching the very end of the trip.
type:
example
text:
1659, Henry Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotations upon All the Books of the New Testament, London: Richard Davis, 2nd edition, The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, Chapter 3, verse 19, p. 517,
[…] they that think to be wiser then other men, are by so much verier fools then others, and so are discerned to be.
text:
I looked on the consideration of publick service, or publick ornament, to be real and very justice: and I ever held, a scanty and penurious justice to partake of the nature of a wrong.
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1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, London: J. Owen and F. & C. Rivington, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
[…] : he has become a very democrat. He disdains not to be seen in the back-parlour of the petty tradesman, or the cleanly cottage of the intelligent mechanic. He raises his voice in the cause of progress; […]
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1855, Chambers's Journal, page 257
type:
quotation
text:
The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.
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2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times
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quotation
text:
He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met.
type:
example
text:
That's the very tool that I need.
type:
example
text:
The very idea of climbing the ladder made me dizzy.
type:
example
text:
Given the degree of fear and loathing inspired by the very thought of a fat body in America today, it is important to emphasize that all of the medical information in the counterfactual world I have just sketched is itself quite factual.
ref:
2004, Paul Campos, The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health, Penguin
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
True, real, actual.
The same; identical.
With limiting effect: mere.
senses_topics:
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4808 | word:
very
word_type:
adv
expansion:
very (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
very
etymology_text:
From Middle English verray, from Old French verai (“true”), from Early Medieval Latin vērāgus, from Classical Latin vērāx, derived from vērus, from Proto-Italic *wēros, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros.
Distantly cognate with the Old English wǣr (“true”). Over time displaced the use of a number of Germanic words or prefixes to convey the sense 'very' such as fele, full-, mægen, sore, sin-, swith, (partially) wel.
senses_examples:
text:
That dress is very you.
type:
example
text:
Not very many (of them) had been damaged.
type:
example
text:
She's very similar to her mother.
type:
example
text:
‘Is she busy?’ ― ‘Not very.’
type:
example
text:
He was the very best runner there.
type:
example
text:
This is my very own treehouse.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To a great extent or degree.
Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.
Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.
senses_topics:
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4809 | word:
chromosome
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chromosome (plural chromosomes)
forms:
form:
chromosomes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
19th century: from German Chromosom, ultimately from Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour”) + σῶμα (sôma, “body”) (because they are stained under the microscope). Equivalent to chromo- + -some.
senses_examples:
text:
Chromosomes store genetic information.
type:
example
text:
A length of DNA is divided into segments called chromosomes and shorter individual units called genes.
ref:
2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A linear arrangement of condensed DNA and associated proteins (such as chaperone proteins) which contains the genetic material (genome) of an organism.
senses_topics:
biology
cytology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences |
4810 | word:
amber
word_type:
noun
expansion:
amber (countable and uncountable, plural ambers)
forms:
form:
ambers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
amber
etymology_text:
From Middle English ambre, aumbre, from Old French aumbre, ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭𐭡𐭫 (ʾnbl /ambar/, “ambergris”). Compare English lamber, ambergris. Displaced Middle English smulting (from Old English smelting (“amber”)), Old English eolhsand (“amber”), Old English glær (“amber”), and Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade”).
* The nucleotide sequence "UAG" is named "amber" for the first person to isolate the amber mutation, California Institute of Technology graduate student Harris Bernstein, whose last name ("Bernstein") is the German word for the resin "amber".
senses_examples:
text:
Ambre is hote and drye […] Some say that it is the sparme of a whale.
ref:
1526, The Grete Herball
type:
quotation
text:
As for Amber Grice, or Amber Cane, which ist most sweet myngled with other sweete thynges: some say it commeth from the rocks of the Sea. […] Some say it is gotten by a fish called Azelum, which feedeth upon Amber Grece, and dyeth, which is taken by cunnyng fishers and the belly opened, and this precious Amber found in hym.
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1579, The Booke of Simples, fol. 56 (contained in Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence against all Sicknesse, Soarnesse, and Woundes)
text:
The head of this fish is as hard as stone. The inhabitants of the Ocean sea coast affirme that this fish casteth foorth Amber; but whether the said Amber be the sperma or the excrement thereof, they cannot well determine.
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1600, John Pory (translator), A Geographical Historie of Africa (original by Leo Africanus), page 344
text:
Slaves […] with silver Censors […] perfum'd the air with Amber, Aloes wood, and other Scents.
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1717, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter, 18 Apr 1717
text:
The leaves of the foreſt were loaded with manna, pure amber dropped from every bough, honey diſtilled from the rifted rock, and the humming bee, drunk with joy, ſtrayed from flower to flower, forgetful of his burſting cells.
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1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv
type:
quotation
text:
To shew this by example, we reade of Sabina Poppcea, to whom nothing was wanting, but shame and honestie, being extremely beloved of Nero, had the colour of her haire yellow, like Amber, which Nero esteemed much of, […] .
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1637, Monro, his expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment (called Mac-Keys Regiment), republished in 1999 →ISBN, page 102
text:
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […]. (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
ref:
2012 March 24, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2012-06-14, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
amber:
text:
While earlier controllers provided concurrent ambers, present practice is to indicate a minimum intergreen period of 4 s.
ref:
1974, Traffic Planning and Engineering, page 366
type:
quotation
text:
Also flashing ambers are not operational at this type of crossing.
ref:
2000, Traffic Engineering & Control, volume 41, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
>Problem: Red-red signals are too time consuming when traffic density is higher.
I don't find them time consuming at all. I find them identical to ambers.
ref:
2004 January 14, AZGuy, “Turn Signal Research shows amber no more effective then red”, in rec.autos.driving (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor
type:
example
text:
For example, to cross a temperature-sensitive mutation with an amber mutation, amber suppressor cells are infected at the low (permissive) temperature.
ref:
2007, Molecular Genetics of Bacteria, edition 3, page 333
type:
quotation
text:
Double ambers revert at 10⁻⁸-10⁻⁹, and therefore, reversion is negligible. Double-amber mutants are made by crossing single-amber mutants with each other.
ref:
2007, Jonathan C. Kuhn, “Detection of Salmonella by Bacteriophage Felix 01”, in Salmonella: Methods and Protocols, pages 27–28
type:
quotation
text:
[…] in response to the actions I just described, business was given the green light, and now we seem to be on amber.
ref:
1973, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Currency, and Housing, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee..., page 53
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
Formerly thought to be the product of a plant.
A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
A yellow-orange colour.
The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop when safe to do so. See also yellow light.
The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.
senses_topics:
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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4811 | word:
amber
word_type:
adj
expansion:
amber (comparative more amber, superlative most amber)
forms:
form:
more amber
tags:
comparative
form:
most amber
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
amber
etymology_text:
From Middle English ambre, aumbre, from Old French aumbre, ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭𐭡𐭫 (ʾnbl /ambar/, “ambergris”). Compare English lamber, ambergris. Displaced Middle English smulting (from Old English smelting (“amber”)), Old English eolhsand (“amber”), Old English glær (“amber”), and Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade”).
* The nucleotide sequence "UAG" is named "amber" for the first person to isolate the amber mutation, California Institute of Technology graduate student Harris Bernstein, whose last name ("Bernstein") is the German word for the resin "amber".
senses_examples:
text:
They all moved safely through the first green and then the second, but when the third light turned amber Jack's taxi was the last to cross the intersection.
ref:
2006, Jeffrey Archer, False Impression, page 270
type:
quotation
text:
Ahead, a cool breeze swept the pale morning sun across a grassy meadow turned amber by morning's frost.
ref:
2008, Elizabeth Amber, Raine: The Lords of Satyr, page 211
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
senses_topics:
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4812 | word:
amber
word_type:
verb
expansion:
amber (third-person singular simple present ambers, present participle ambering, simple past and past participle ambered)
forms:
form:
ambers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ambering
tags:
participle
present
form:
ambered
tags:
participle
past
form:
ambered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
amber
etymology_text:
From Middle English ambre, aumbre, from Old French aumbre, ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭𐭡𐭫 (ʾnbl /ambar/, “ambergris”). Compare English lamber, ambergris. Displaced Middle English smulting (from Old English smelting (“amber”)), Old English eolhsand (“amber”), Old English glær (“amber”), and Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade”).
* The nucleotide sequence "UAG" is named "amber" for the first person to isolate the amber mutation, California Institute of Technology graduate student Harris Bernstein, whose last name ("Bernstein") is the German word for the resin "amber".
senses_examples:
text:
ambered wine, an ambered room
text:
an ambered fly
text:
For purple mountains majesty; for amber waves of grain.
ref:
1885, America the Beautiful
type:
quotation
text:
Home to the mosaic of coloured-lit windows in the black and white houses, the fake gas lamps ambering the cobbles, sometimes the scent of applewood smoke.
ref:
2007, Phil Rickman, Fabric of Sin: A Merrily Watkins Mystery
type:
quotation
text:
The firelight flickered on her rounded cheeks, ambering the pale skin.
ref:
2008, Jeri Westerson, Veil of Lies: A Medieval Noir
type:
quotation
text:
Westward along Lancaster Avenue, among the stone walls and broad driveways of imposing old houses—their lawns dappled with the shade of ambering maples and dusty, bark-peeled sycamores
ref:
2009, Jack Wennerstrom, Black Coffee, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
[T]hough many of the pirates protested against these energetic activities[,] he was only pleasantly tired when the lowering, ambering sun began to bounce needles of gold glare off the waves ahead;
ref:
2011, Tim Powers, On Stranger Tides
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
To preserve in amber.
To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
To take on the yellow colour of amber.
senses_topics:
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4813 | word:
child
word_type:
noun
expansion:
child (plural children or (dialectal or archaic) childer)
forms:
form:
children
tags:
plural
form:
childer
tags:
archaic
dialectal
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English child, from Old English ċild, from Proto-West Germanic *kilþ, *kelþ, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (“womb; fetus”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵelt- (“womb”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”).
Cognate with Danish kuld (“brood, litter”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Icelandic kelta, kjalta (“lap”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹 (kilþei, “womb”), Sanskrit जर्त (jarta), जर्तु (jártu, “vulva”).
senses_examples:
text:
Go easy on him: he is but a child.
type:
example
text:
And not just the children, teenagers too. Chuck wants a football, Kathleen a tattoo.
ref:
2003 Powerpuff Girls: 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas (narration)
type:
quotation
text:
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.
ref:
2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Regular chores can be appropriate for both children and adolescents, given age-appropriate limits on difficulty level and time on task.
type:
example
text:
My youngest child is forty-three this year.
type:
example
text:
His adult children visit him yearly.
type:
example
text:
The children of Israel.
type:
example
text:
He is a child of his times.
type:
example
text:
For more than forty years, he preached the creed of art and beauty. He was heir to the ancient wisdom of Israel, a child of Germany, a subject of Great Britain, later an American citizen, but in truth a citizen of the world.
ref:
1984, Mary Jane Matz, The Many Lives of Otto Kahn: A Biography, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Plash-Goo was of the children of the giants, whose sire was Uph. And the lineage of Uph had dwindled in bulk for the last five hundred years, till the giants were now no more than fifteen foot high; but Uph ate elephants[…]
ref:
2009, Edward John Moreton Dunsany, Tales of Wonder, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war.
ref:
1991, Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
type:
quotation
text:
The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.
type:
example
text:
The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
ref:
2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
A youth aged 1 to 9 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 10 to 20 years.
One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
The thirteenth Lenormand card.
A figurative offspring
A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
A figurative offspring
Anything derived from or caused by something.
A figurative offspring
A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”)
A subordinate node of a tree.
A female child, a girl.
senses_topics:
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
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4814 | word:
child
word_type:
verb
expansion:
child (third-person singular simple present childs, present participle childing, simple past and past participle childed)
forms:
form:
childs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
childing
tags:
participle
present
form:
childed
tags:
participle
past
form:
childed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English childen, from the noun child.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give birth; to beget or procreate.
senses_topics:
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4815 | word:
bai
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bai (plural bais)
forms:
form:
bais
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Gorillas (and other wildlife) frequent such bais, which are waterlogged and sunny, because of the sodium-rich sedges and asters that grow beneath the open sky.
ref:
2012, David Quammen, Spillover, page 64
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A marshy meadow in sub-Saharan Africa.
senses_topics:
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4816 | word:
bai
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bai (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A people of the Yunnan province of China.
senses_topics:
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4817 | word:
bai
word_type:
intj
expansion:
bai
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Eye dialect spelling of bye.
senses_topics:
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4818 | word:
bai
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bai (plural bais)
forms:
form:
bais
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 霾 (bai). First recorded in English in the 1910s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A yellow mist occurring in spring and fall in China and Japan, caused by yellow dust blown from central China.
senses_topics:
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4819 | word:
polder
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polder (plural polders)
forms:
form:
polders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dutch polder, from Middle Dutch polre, from Old Dutch polra, of uncertain origin.
senses_examples:
text:
The patron saint of the Oude Kerk, Saint Nicolaas, the ‘water saint’, was also very popular, as he protected the sailors and those living on the polders from the dangers of the sea.
ref:
1999, Geert Mak, translated by Philipp Blom, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, Vintage, published 2001, page 43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes.
senses_topics:
geography
natural-sciences |
4820 | word:
polder
word_type:
verb
expansion:
polder (third-person singular simple present polders, present participle poldering, simple past and past participle poldered)
forms:
form:
polders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
poldering
tags:
participle
present
form:
poldered
tags:
participle
past
form:
poldered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dutch polder, from Middle Dutch polre, from Old Dutch polra, of uncertain origin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To reclaim an area of ground from a sea or lake by means of dikes.
senses_topics:
|
4821 | word:
gracias
word_type:
intj
expansion:
gracias
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish gracias (“thank you”).
senses_examples:
text:
Muchos gracias, my friend. —The girls are in the kitchen, Bimbo told Vera.
ref:
1993, Roddy Doyle, The Van, link
type:
quotation
text:
"Gracias, my friend. I owe you a great debt.
ref:
2000, Linda Ladd, Midnight Fire, link
type:
quotation
text:
No, gracias, my friend. This will do fine.
ref:
2010, Tina Rosenberg, Glenapp Castle: A Scottish Intrigue, page 154
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Thank you.
senses_topics:
|
4822 | word:
IMF
word_type:
name
expansion:
IMF
forms:
wikipedia:
en:IMF
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Since 1996 and over six installments, special IMF (The Impossible Missions Force) agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has been spectacularly ‘figuring things right in the face of danger, often without a plan.
ref:
2018, Deborah Cornelious, “‘Mission: Impossible - Fallout’ review: mission successful”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 2022-12-07
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of International Monetary Fund.
Initialism of Impossible Mission Force, a fictional spy organization from the Mission: Impossible franchise.
senses_topics:
fiction
literature
media
publishing |
4823 | word:
who knows
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
who knows?
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
It could be one or the other, or both. Who knows?
text:
Do you think I'll get married before I turn 30? – Who knows, you might never marry.
text:
Who knows? Maybe someday he'll finish writing his book and make lots of money selling it.
type:
example
text:
Since she hasn't studied at all I don't think she'll pass the test, but who knows?
type:
example
text:
Don't touch that – who knows where it's been?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rhetorical question asked to show that the person asking it neither knows the answer nor knows who might.
A rhetorical question asked to express the idea that anything is possible or that anything could happen.
senses_topics:
|
4824 | word:
vis comica
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vis comica (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Originating from an inaccurate interpretation of verses attributed to Julius Caesar: “Lenibus atque utinam scriptis adiuncta foret vis, Comica ut aequato virtus polleret honore Cum Graecis …”. An erroneous interpunction lead to mistaking cōmica as tied to vīs rather than to virtūs.
senses_examples:
text:
Also Steiner tells of someone who claimed that the comic elements comes about when someone has the vis comica, or "power of being comical." Again - the dormitive principle at work.
ref:
2002, Bees by Rudolf Steiner, A Review by Bobby Matherne
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Comic force.
senses_topics:
|
4825 | word:
Northwest Territories
word_type:
name
expansion:
Northwest Territories
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A territory in northern Canada. Capital: Yellowknife.
senses_topics:
|
4826 | word:
Desi
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Desi (comparative more Desi, superlative most Desi)
forms:
form:
more Desi
tags:
comparative
form:
most Desi
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Desi
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Hindustani دیسی (desī) / देसी (desī).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the culture, people, or products of South Asia; South Asian.
senses_topics:
|
4827 | word:
Desi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Desi (plural Desis)
forms:
form:
Desis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Desi
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Hindustani دیسی (desī) / देसी (desī).
senses_examples:
text:
Desis from the United States have an accent; those from Canada, another.
ref:
2011 August, Shagorika Easwar, "Hello ji!" (editor's column), Desi News (Canada), vol. 15, issue 8, p. 8
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of the South Asian diaspora.
senses_topics:
|
4828 | word:
fellahin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fellahin
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of fellah
senses_topics:
|
4829 | word:
payment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
payment (countable and uncountable, plural payments)
forms:
form:
payments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French paiement. Equivalent to pay + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
In a report published on October 31, Transport Focus said that a number of train companies were unable to convince it about their ability to sell a full range of tickets, handle cash payments, and avoid excessive queues at ticket machines.
ref:
2023 November 15, 'Industry Insider', “Outbreak of common sense”, in RAIL, number 996, page 68
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of paying.
An instance of that act; a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services, or the transaction that conveys it.
senses_topics:
|
4830 | word:
benzoline
word_type:
noun
expansion:
benzoline (plural benzolines)
forms:
form:
benzolines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A benzole.
amarine
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
4831 | word:
de lunatico inquirendo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
de lunatico inquirendo
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin dē lūnāticō inquīrendō.
senses_examples:
text:
But, unless the fact is withheld by the reporters out of delicacy, the ladies who have lectured on Bloomerism are not mad—not, at least, in the de lunatico inquirendo sense of the term.
ref:
1851, Blackwood's Lady's Magazine and Gazette of the Fashionable World, or St. James's Court Register and Advertiser, for Town and Country. Of the Belles Lettres, Music, Fine Arts, Drama, Fashions, &c., volume 31, page 185
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A legal document inquiring about the sanity of an individual.
senses_topics:
law |
4832 | word:
British Columbia
word_type:
name
expansion:
British Columbia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Province in western Canada which has Victoria as its capital.
senses_topics:
|
4833 | word:
wisdom tooth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wisdom tooth (plural wisdom teeth)
forms:
form:
wisdom teeth
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From wisdom + tooth, calque of Latin dēns sapientiae, which is itself a calque of Ancient Greek σωφρονιστῆρες (sōphronistêres, “prudent or self-controlled ones (i.e. teeth)”), because they arrive approximately when one has reached the age of prudence or wisdom. Compare also German Weisheitszahn (“wisdom tooth”), Danish visdomstand (“wisdom tooth”), Swedish visdomstand (“wisdom tooth”), Icelandic vísdómstönn (“wisdom tooth”), Dutch verstandskies (“wisdom tooth”, literally “intellect molar”), German Low German Verstandskuus (“wisdom tooth”, literally “wisdom molar”). Chinese 智齒／智齿 (zhìchǐ), Russian зуб мудрости (zub mudrosti), Hebrew שן בינה (shen biná) and Finnish viisaudenhammas also mean “tooth of wisdom”.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the four (one upper and one lower on each side) rearmost molars in humans, which typically develop between ages 18-24.
senses_topics:
dentistry
medicine
sciences |
4834 | word:
cadre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cadre (plural cadres)
forms:
form:
cadres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:cadre
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French cadre, from Italian quadro (“framed painting, square”), from Latin quadrum, from quattuor (“four”). The American pronunciations in /eɪ/ may be due to a mistaken assumption that this word comes from Spanish or Italian, when in fact it is strictly French (the Spanish and Italian equivalents are respectively cuadro and quadro).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] He took away the frame itself, as well as the notice.
ref:
1848, Parliamentary Papers, volume 27, page 283
type:
quotation
roman:
Mr. MacCulloch. I recollect Mr. Dobrée stating that his reason for taking the cadre was, that the notice was pasted, and that he could not unpaste it.
text:
From the original plan, thirty-four cadre battalions, with a total of 116 companies, had actually been formed, a total of about 700 officers and another 600 key enlisted men.
ref:
2002, Barry M. Stentiford, chapter 9, in The American Home Guard: the State Militia in the Twentieth Century, page 202
type:
quotation
text:
After the war, he was a party cadre and worked as a correspondent for the daily newspaper Zeri i Popullit (The People's Voice).
ref:
1986, Robert Elsie, Dictionary of Albanian Literature, page 101
type:
quotation
text:
Finally, the exchange, circulation and education of local cadres constitute another key strategy implemented by the provincial leadership in its efforts to diffuse economic development into the backward inland region.
ref:
1997, Jae Ho Chung, edited by David S.G. Goodman, China's Provinces in Reform: Class, community and political culture, Routledge, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
Party cadres must guard against the temptations of power, money and sex.
ref:
2006, “China airbrushes Chen”, in Financial Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A frame or framework.
The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.
A small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
|
4835 | word:
unvizard
word_type:
verb
expansion:
unvizard (third-person singular simple present unvizards, present participle unvizarding, simple past and past participle unvizarded)
forms:
form:
unvizards
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
unvizarding
tags:
participle
present
form:
unvizarded
tags:
participle
past
form:
unvizarded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + vizard.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of unvisard
senses_topics:
|
4836 | word:
polydactylism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polydactylism (usually uncountable, plural polydactylisms)
forms:
form:
polydactylisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”); compare French polydactylisme.
senses_examples:
text:
Devendra Harne, pictured above, (India; born January 9, 1995) also has 25 in total (12 fingers and 13 toes) as a result of the condition polydactylism.
ref:
2008, Guinness World Records — Human Body — Extreme Bodies — Most Fingers and Toes — Living Person
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The possession of more than the normal number of digits.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
4837 | word:
unvisard
word_type:
verb
expansion:
unvisard (third-person singular simple present unvisards, present participle unvisarding, simple past and past participle unvisarded)
forms:
form:
unvisards
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
unvisarding
tags:
participle
present
form:
unvisarded
tags:
participle
past
form:
unvisarded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + visard.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take the vizard or mask from; to unmask.
senses_topics:
|
4838 | word:
gaffer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gaffer (plural gaffers)
forms:
form:
gaffers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From gaff (“hook”) + -er.
* (cinema): The natural lighting on early film sets was adjusted by opening and closing flaps in the tent cloths, called gaff cloths or gaff flaps.
* (glass):
senses_examples:
text:
The apprentice carries a gather of glass on the blowpipe to the gaffer's bench […]
ref:
2003, Jennifer Bosveld, Glass Works, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
A glassblower.
Someone aboard a boat whose duty is to gaff a (large) fish once the angler has reeled it in.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
film
media
television
|
4839 | word:
gaffer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gaffer (plural gaffers)
forms:
form:
gaffers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Likely a contraction of godfather, but with the vowels influenced by grandfather. Compare French compère, German Gevatter.
senses_examples:
text:
If thou return not, Gammer o'er her pail
Will sing in sorrow, 'neath the brinded cow,
And Gaffer sigh over his nut-brown ale […]
ref:
1845, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides, Book the Fourth, Stanza IX
type:
quotation
text:
And you're here to tell me what's what. Just like your bloody gaffer promised.
ref:
2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 117
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An old man.
The leader of a group or team, such as a boss, foreman, coach, or publican.
A sailor.
The baby in the house.
senses_topics:
|
4840 | word:
minister
word_type:
noun
expansion:
minister (plural ministers)
forms:
form:
ministers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
minister
etymology_text:
From Middle English ministre, from Old French ministre, from Latin minister (“an attendant, servant, assistant, a priest's assistant or other under official”), from minor (“less”) + -ter; see minor. Doublet of Minorite.
senses_examples:
text:
The minister said a prayer on behalf of the entire congregation.
type:
example
text:
He was newly appointed to be Minister of the Interior.
type:
example
text:
Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man.
ref:
1661 (first printed), Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice to the Duke of Buckingham
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.
A person (either a layperson or an ordained clergy member) who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church.
A politician who heads a ministry
In diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
senses_topics:
Christianity
Protestantism
Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
government
|
4841 | word:
minister
word_type:
verb
expansion:
minister (third-person singular simple present ministers, present participle ministering, simple past and past participle ministered)
forms:
form:
ministers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ministering
tags:
participle
present
form:
ministered
tags:
participle
past
form:
ministered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English mynystren, from Middle French ministrer, from Old French menistrer, ministrer and Latin ministrō, from minister.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.
To function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship.
To afford, to give, to supply.
senses_topics:
|
4842 | word:
Victoria
word_type:
name
expansion:
Victoria (countable and uncountable, plural Victorias or Victoriae)
forms:
form:
Victorias
tags:
plural
form:
Victoriae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Victoria
en:Queen Victoria
etymology_text:
* From Latin Victōria, from victōria (“victory”). Doublet of Vitória.
* feminine of Victor; Victor + -ia
* Named in honour of Queen Victoria of Great Britain.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: Victor (male form)
text:
When I had first told him the name we'd chosen for our daughter, Abe had suggested that it was a pretty damn waspy title for the offspring of an Indian princess and a Chicago pollock.- - -
I never would have chosen the name "Victoria" but was secretly delighted by it. Amrita first suggested it one hot day in July and we treated it as a joke. It seemed that one of her earliest memories was of arriving by train at Victoria Station in Bombay. That huge edifice - one of the remnants of the British Raj, which evidently still defines India - had always filled Amrita with a sense of awe. Since that time, the name Victoria had evoked an echo of beauty, elegance and mystery in her.
ref:
1985, Dan Simmons, Song of Kali, pages 4, 17
type:
quotation
text:
Alexander of Russia, the patron saint of the Cobourgs, was dead, so Alexandrina of England, named in honour of him, gave way to Victoria the tutelary deity of his (when living) subservient Cobourgs. Both names are alike foreign and unharmonious to British ears,* although of the two, Alexandrina perhaps the most euphonious. Let us hope, and we have reason to hope, that the Queen will nationalize that of Victoria, and make it the theme of song and history with that of Elizabeth.
George IV., who, whatever his faults, had a true British spirit and sentiments, declared both to be anti-British, and expressed himself in no measured terms at the time about giving the royal infant such unEnglish names.
ref:
1838 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Court and Cabinet Gossip of a New Reign, April 1838, pages 512-513
text:
Royal Marines, officers and men from the British cruisers Swiftsure and Euryalus have landed in the naval dockyard area at Victoria, Hong Kong, and raised the white ensign.
ref:
1945 September 2 [1945 September 1], “BRITISH UNITS TAKE PART OF HONG KONG; But Admiral Is Unable to Find Japanese Commander for the Surrender Ceremony”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-09, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
I eased into the cut-rate canyon by taxiing around Hong Kong -- both the island and the Kowloon peninsula -- to orient myself. The major shopping district is as difficult to grasp initially as its tongue-tripping name, Tsimshatsui. This is in Kowloon, across the harbor from Victoria, Hong Kong's major business section, which also is chocked with shopping opportunities. The Star Ferry tootles between the two cities.
ref:
1988 April 17, Marsha Dubrow, “HONG KONG”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-30
type:
quotation
text:
London Transport lost no time in beginning work on the new Victoria tube line following the Minister of Transport's approval of the project, announced on August 20.
ref:
1962 October, “London gets its Victoria tube”, in Modern Railways, page 256
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike.
A female given name from Latin.
The queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901.
A placename:
One of six states of Australia, situated in the south-eastern part of the continent. Capital: Melbourne.
A placename:
A former colony of Britain in what is now the state of Victoria, Australia.
A placename:
A city, the capital of Seychelles.
A placename:
A place in Canada
A city, the capital of British Columbia.
A placename:
A place in Canada
A rural municipality of Manitoba.
A placename:
A place in Canada
A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
A placename:
A place in Canada
A community and rural municipality of Queens County, Prince Edward Island.
A placename:
A commune and city in Chile.
A placename:
A former department of Chile.
A placename:
The main town of the federal territory of Labuan, Malaysia.
A placename:
The capital city of Gozo, the second-largest island of Malta.
A placename:
The City of Victoria, a settlement in Hong Kong often referred to as its capital.
A placename:
A town in Grenada.
A placename:
A place in the United States
A city, the county seat of Victoria County, Texas.
A placename:
A place in the United States
A town in Lunenburg County, Virginia, named after Queen Victoria.
A placename:
A place in the United States
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Victoria Township.
A placename:
A place in the United Kingdom:
A hamlet in Roche parish, Cornwall (OS grid ref SW9861).
A placename:
A place in the United Kingdom:
A large railway terminus in central London.
A placename:
A place in the United Kingdom:
A hamlet in Dunford parish, Barnsley borough, South Yorkshire, on the West Yorkshire boundary and probably named after the Victoria Inn (OS grid ref SE1705)
A placename:
A place in the United Kingdom:
Ellipsis of Victoria Line. of the London Underground.
A placename:
A place in the United Kingdom:
A community and ward in Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST315880).
A placename:
A place in the United Kingdom:
A suburban area in Cwm community, Blaenau Gwent county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO1706).
A placename:
A locale in the Philippines
A municipality of Laguna.
A placename:
A locale in the Philippines
A municipality of Northern Samar.
A placename:
A locale in the Philippines
A municipality of Tarlac.
A placename:
Ellipsis of Lake Victoria., the largest lake in Africa.
A placename:
12 Victoria An asteroid in Asteroid Belt, Solar System, a main belt asteroid.
A placename:
Ellipsis of Victoria County.
A placename:
A town in the Cabañas department, El Salvador
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
|
4843 | word:
Victoria
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Victoria (plural Victorias)
forms:
form:
Victorias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Victoria
en:Queen Victoria
etymology_text:
* From Latin Victōria, from victōria (“victory”). Doublet of Vitória.
* feminine of Victor; Victor + -ia
* Named in honour of Queen Victoria of Great Britain.
senses_examples:
text:
Pears are practically a failure, and there are no early or late Plums, but Victorias are a heavy crop, of small inferior fruits.
ref:
1916, The Gardeners' Chronicle
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of an American breed of medium-sized white pigs with a slightly dished face and very erect ears.
A Victoria plum.
senses_topics:
|
4844 | word:
cinnamon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cinnamon (countable and uncountable, plural cinnamons)
forms:
form:
cinnamons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cinnamon
etymology_text:
From Middle English synamome, from Old French cinnamone, from Latin cinnamon, cinnamomum, from Ancient Greek κιννάμωμον (kinnámōmon), later κίνναμον (kínnamon), according to Herodotus from Phoenician [Term?], cognate with Hebrew קִנָּמוֹן (qinnāmōn).
senses_examples:
text:
cinnamon:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small evergreen tree native to Sri Lanka and southern India, Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum zeylanicum, belonging to the family Lauraceae.
Several related trees, notably the Indonesian cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanni) and Chinese cinnamon or cassia (Cinnamomum aromaticum or Cinnamomum cassia).
A spice from the dried aromatic bark of the cinnamon tree, either rolled into strips or ground into a powder. The word is commonly used as trade name for spices made of any of the species above.
A spice from the dried aromatic bark of the cinnamon tree, either rolled into strips or ground into a powder. The word is commonly used as trade name for spices made of any of the species above.
true cinnamon, the product made of Cinnamomum verum
A warm yellowish-brown color, the color of cinnamon.
senses_topics:
|
4845 | word:
cinnamon
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cinnamon (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
cinnamon
etymology_text:
From Middle English synamome, from Old French cinnamone, from Latin cinnamon, cinnamomum, from Ancient Greek κιννάμωμον (kinnámōmon), later κίνναμον (kínnamon), according to Herodotus from Phoenician [Term?], cognate with Hebrew קִנָּמוֹן (qinnāmōn).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Containing cinnamon, or having a cinnamon taste.
Of a yellowish-brown color.
senses_topics:
|
4846 | word:
pyrargyrite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pyrargyrite (countable and uncountable, plural pyrargyrites)
forms:
form:
pyrargyrites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + ἄργῠρος (árguros, “silver”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sulfosalt mineral used as a silver ore; it is dark red or black in color with a metallic adamantine luster, a sulfide of antimony and silver, Ag₃SbS₃, and occurs in rhombohedral crystals.
senses_topics:
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
4847 | word:
jump
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jump (third-person singular simple present jumps, present participle jumping, simple past and past participle jumped)
forms:
form:
jumps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jumping
tags:
participle
present
form:
jumped
tags:
participle
past
form:
jumped
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
jump
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
etymology_text:
From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gumpōną ~ *gumbōną (“to hop, skip, jump”), an iterative verb. The OED suggests an imitative origin. Others have connected it to Ancient Greek ἀθεμβούσα (athemboúsa, “uninhibited”), which is unlikely. Related to jumble. In the sense “to propel oneself” it displaced leap partially and spring largely.
Cognates
Cognate with Middle Dutch gumpen (“to jump”), Low German jumpen (“to jump”), Middle High German gumpen, gampen (“to jump, hop”) (dialectal German gampen, Alemannic German gumpe, Walser dialect kumpu), Old Norse goppa (“to jump”) Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”).
senses_examples:
text:
The boy jumped over a fence.
type:
example
text:
Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high.
type:
example
text:
She is going to jump from the diving board.
type:
example
text:
to jump a stream
type:
example
text:
The sudden sharp sound made me jump.
type:
example
text:
Share prices jumped by 10% after the company announced record profits.
type:
example
text:
The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop.
type:
example
text:
I hate it when people jump the queue.
type:
example
text:
The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.
type:
example
text:
Harold: How is Sarah? I don't want to jump her while she's on the rag.
ref:
1983, The Big Chill
type:
quotation
text:
The rider jumped the horse over the fence.
type:
example
text:
[Someone] and Mr. Benfield were at the corner of Elm and Walton Streets when they were approached by Mr. Gray, who asked for help to jump his car. When informed they did not have jumper cables, Mr. Gray asked them to take him to get some.
ref:
2000, United States. Employees' Compensation Appeals Board, Decisions of the Employees' Compensation Appeals Board: Index digest, page 511
type:
quotation
text:
[…] his wife, who was at home with their children, would drive to school to jump his car; both would drive home;[…]
ref:
2015 January 30, Robert M. Morgan, Janet Turner Parish, George Deitz, Handbook on Research in Relationship Marketing, Edward Elgar Publishing, page 250
type:
quotation
text:
It jumps with my humour.
ref:
a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act I, scene ii
type:
quotation
text:
When this section is completed, the code generally jumps back to the Exit Section, and the procedure is closed.
ref:
2008, Garry Robinson, Real World Microsoft Access Database Protection and Security
type:
quotation
text:
“It's all clear,” he whispered. “Have you the chisel and the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!”
Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts.
ref:
1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League
type:
quotation
text:
The administration is jumping back from that message.
type:
example
text:
Think hard before you jump towards a particular solution.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
To attack suddenly and violently.
To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
To cause to jump.
To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
To join by a buttweld.
To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
To bore with a jumper.
To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
To flee; to make one's escape.
To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.
To switch locations on chromosomes.
senses_topics:
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
smithwork
business
mining
quarrying
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
biology
natural-sciences |
4848 | word:
jump
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jump (plural jumps)
forms:
form:
jumps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
hydraulic jump
jump cut
jump discontinuity
jump instruction
etymology_text:
From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gumpōną ~ *gumbōną (“to hop, skip, jump”), an iterative verb. The OED suggests an imitative origin. Others have connected it to Ancient Greek ἀθεμβούσα (athemboúsa, “uninhibited”), which is unlikely. Related to jumble. In the sense “to propel oneself” it displaced leap partially and spring largely.
Cognates
Cognate with Middle Dutch gumpen (“to jump”), Low German jumpen (“to jump”), Middle High German gumpen, gampen (“to jump, hop”) (dialectal German gampen, Alemannic German gumpe, Walser dialect kumpu), Old Norse goppa (“to jump”) Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”).
senses_examples:
text:
The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane.
type:
example
text:
The skier flew off the jump and landed perfectly.
type:
example
text:
There were a couple of jumps from the bridge.
type:
example
text:
She was terrified before the jump, but was thrilled to be skydiving.
type:
example
text:
the knight's jump in chess
type:
example
text:
Press jump to start.
type:
example
text:
Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second.
type:
example
text:
He got a jump on the day because he had laid out everything the night before.
type:
example
text:
Their research department gave them the jump on the competition.
type:
example
text:
My car won't start. Could you give me a jump?
type:
example
text:
Next jump will be at the Chicago Theater, Chicago.
ref:
1950 December 23, Billboard, page 36
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
An effort; an attempt; a venture.
A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
A jumping move in a board game.
A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
An early start or an advantage.
A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
A change of the path of execution to a different location.
Short for jump-start.
Clipping of jump cut.
Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”)
senses_topics:
business
mining
architecture
equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
mathematics
sciences
geography
hydrodynamics
hydrology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
automotive
transport
vehicles
broadcasting
film
media
television
entertainment
lifestyle
theater |
4849 | word:
jump
word_type:
adv
expansion:
jump (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
etymology_text:
From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gumpōną ~ *gumbōną (“to hop, skip, jump”), an iterative verb. The OED suggests an imitative origin. Others have connected it to Ancient Greek ἀθεμβούσα (athemboúsa, “uninhibited”), which is unlikely. Related to jumble. In the sense “to propel oneself” it displaced leap partially and spring largely.
Cognates
Cognate with Middle Dutch gumpen (“to jump”), Low German jumpen (“to jump”), Middle High German gumpen, gampen (“to jump, hop”) (dialectal German gampen, Alemannic German gumpe, Walser dialect kumpu), Old Norse goppa (“to jump”) Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”).
senses_examples:
text:
Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,
With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.
ref:
c. 1599–1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 1, scene 1, lines 64–65
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Exactly; precisely
senses_topics:
|
4850 | word:
jump
word_type:
adj
expansion:
jump (comparative more jump, superlative most jump)
forms:
form:
more jump
tags:
comparative
form:
most jump
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
etymology_text:
From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gumpōną ~ *gumbōną (“to hop, skip, jump”), an iterative verb. The OED suggests an imitative origin. Others have connected it to Ancient Greek ἀθεμβούσα (athemboúsa, “uninhibited”), which is unlikely. Related to jumble. In the sense “to propel oneself” it displaced leap partially and spring largely.
Cognates
Cognate with Middle Dutch gumpen (“to jump”), Low German jumpen (“to jump”), Middle High German gumpen, gampen (“to jump, hop”) (dialectal German gampen, Alemannic German gumpe, Walser dialect kumpu), Old Norse goppa (“to jump”) Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”).
senses_examples:
text:
jump names
ref:
1640, Ben Jonson, An Execration Upon Vulcan
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
senses_topics:
|
4851 | word:
jump
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jump (plural jumps)
forms:
form:
jumps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare French jupe (“a long petticoat, a skirt”) and English jupon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kind of loose jacket for men.
senses_topics:
|
4852 | word:
polydactyly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polydactyly (plural polydactylies)
forms:
form:
polydactylies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek πολυδάκτυλος (poludáktulos) + -y, from πολυ- (polu-, “many”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “fingers, toes”), equivalent to poly- + dactyly or polydactyl + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
2003, Karl-Heinz Grzeschik, 66: Greig Cephalopolysyndactyly Syndrome, Mary Ann McLaughlin (supervising editor), NORD Guide to Rare Disorders, National Organization for Rare Disorders, Wolters Kluwer (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins), page 201,
Postaxial polydactyly is common in the hands and preaxial polydactyly in the feet.
text:
Pranamya Menaria (India; born August 10, 2005) has 25 in total (12 fingers and 13 toes). This is as a result of the condition Polydactyly and Syndactyly.
ref:
2008, “Most Fingers and Toes — Living Person”, in Guinness World Records, Human Body — Extreme Bodies
type:
quotation
text:
2021, Leah W. Burke, 3: Genetics of Associated Syndromes, Donald R. Laub Jr. (editor), Congenital Anomalies of the Upper Extremity, Springer, page 42,
The rare polydactylies, that is, not clearly only postaxial or only preaxial, are the most likely to be associated with an underlying syndrome.
text:
2023, Christianne van Nieuwenhoven, Steven Hovius, 9: Thumb Polydactyly, Giorgio Pajardi (editor), Pediatric Hand Surgery, Springer, page 102,
Polydactyly with a triphalangeal thumb will be described in the chapter on the triphalangeal thumb. […] The incidence of polydactyly depends on the population studied and the definition used. Region, ethnicity and combined numbers of all polydactylies, or only radial or ulnar-sided polydactyly, provide very different incidences in published series.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A congenital condition in which a person or animal has more than the usual number of digits (fingers or toes) on at least one of their hands or feet.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
teratology |
4853 | word:
mariposa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mariposa (plural mariposas)
forms:
form:
mariposas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish mariposa (“butterfly”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mariposa lily (Calochortus spp.).
senses_topics:
|
4854 | word:
del
word_type:
noun
expansion:
del (plural dels)
forms:
form:
dels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From delta, the symbol being an inverted delta.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator.
the symbol ∂, in the context of a partial differential
senses_topics:
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences |
4855 | word:
del
word_type:
noun
expansion:
del (plural dels)
forms:
form:
dels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See deal
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a part, portion
senses_topics:
|
4856 | word:
del
word_type:
noun
expansion:
del
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortening
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of delegate.
Abbreviation of delegation.
senses_topics:
|
4857 | word:
del
word_type:
verb
expansion:
del
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortening
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of delete.
senses_topics:
|
4858 | word:
del
word_type:
verb
expansion:
del
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of Latin delineavit
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
abbreviation of delineavit as seen on published artwork, identifying the original artist. Commonly seen in books and articles on topics in natural history
senses_topics:
|
4859 | word:
Uttaranchal
word_type:
name
expansion:
Uttaranchal
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Transliteration of Hindi उत्तराञ्चल (uttarāñcal).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Former name of Uttarakhand (“state in northern India”) from 2000 to 2007.
senses_topics:
|
4860 | word:
Prince Edward Island
word_type:
name
expansion:
Prince Edward Island
forms:
wikipedia:
George III
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
Queen Victoria
etymology_text:
Named after Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820), the son of King George III and father of Queen Victoria.
senses_examples:
text:
Holonyms: Maritimes, Maritime provinces
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Charlottetown.
An island in eastern Canada, which forms the majority of the eponymous province.
an island in the subantarctic Indian Ocean, part of the Prince Edward Islands, under the care and protection of South African Environmental Management
senses_topics:
|
4861 | word:
Manitoba
word_type:
name
expansion:
Manitoba
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ojibwe ᒪᓂᑐᐸᐦ or Cree ᒪᓂᑐᐘᐳᐤ (manitowapow, “spirit strait”), referring to the Narrows of Lake Manitoba. Compare English manitou, Ojibwe manidoo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province in Western Canada.
senses_topics:
|
4862 | word:
Nunavut
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nunavut
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Inuktitut nunavut (“our land”)/ᓄᓇᕗᑦ (nonafot). Compare Greenlandic nunarput (“our country, Greenland”).
senses_examples:
text:
All of the houses in Nunavut must be built on stilts because the permafrost makes it impossible to sink foundations.
ref:
2018, Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth, And Other Stories (2023), page 60
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A territory in northern Canada which has Iqaluit as its capital.
senses_topics:
|
4863 | word:
Orissa
word_type:
name
expansion:
Orissa
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Former name of Odisha (“state in eastern India”).
senses_topics:
|
4864 | word:
grafter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grafter (plural grafters)
forms:
form:
grafters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From graft + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by engrafting.
An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.
The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.
Someone who works in market stalls.
a hard worker who puts in long hours
senses_topics:
|
4865 | word:
grafter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grafter (plural grafters)
forms:
form:
grafters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From graft + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
If the people are corrupt; if everybody is a grafter, as our pessimistic friends would have us believe, Roosevelt would be unpopular. His popularity is proog that the people, as a whole, are honest.
ref:
1911, The Twentieth Century Magazine, volume 4, page 335
type:
quotation
text:
It is rather confused rhetoric to call a grafter a thief. His crime is not that he filches money from the safe but that he betrays a trust.
ref:
1980, David Mark Chalmers, The Muchrake Years, Krieger Publishing Company, page 152
type:
quotation
text:
2007, Rebecca Menes, "Limiting the Reach of the Grabbing Hand: Graft and growth in American Cities, 1880 to 1930", in Edward L. Glaeser, Claudia Goldin (eds.), Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History, National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report, The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 64.
Rapid city growth rewarded the circumspect grafter with opportunities for what one famous Tammany Hall politician termed “honest graft” […].
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A corrupt person, one who receives graft.
senses_topics:
|
4866 | word:
gaffe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gaffe (plural gaffes)
forms:
form:
gaffes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French gaffe (“blunder”). Doublet of gaff.
senses_examples:
text:
make a gaffe
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public.
senses_topics:
|
4867 | word:
gray
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gray (comparative grayer or more gray, superlative grayest or most gray)
forms:
form:
grayer
tags:
comparative
form:
more gray
tags:
comparative
form:
grayest
tags:
superlative
form:
most gray
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
gray
etymology_text:
From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”).
See also Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár); also Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”).
senses_examples:
text:
the era of gray, boring banality and stagnation
ref:
1980, Daniel C. Gerould, Stanisław I. Witkiewicz, The Beelzebub Sonata: Plays, Essays, Documents
type:
quotation
text:
In a subculture that idealizes youth, being gay and gray does not exactly make one a hot ticket. Older gays and lesbians often relegate themselves to separate and unequal meeting places.
ref:
2004, Betty Berzon, Permanent Partners: Building Gay & Lesbian Relationships That Last, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
the gray dollar ― the purchasing power of the elderly
type:
example
text:
February 8, 1800, Fisher Ames, Eulogy on Washington
Gray experience listened to his counsels with respect, and, at a time when youth is almost privileged to be rash, Virginia committed the safety of her frontier, and ultimately the safety of America, not merely to his valor,—for that would be scarcely praise,—but to his prudence.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a gray hue.
Dreary, gloomy.
Of an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
Gray-haired.
Old.
Relating to older people.
senses_topics:
|
4868 | word:
gray
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gray (third-person singular simple present grays, present participle graying, simple past and past participle grayed)
forms:
form:
grays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
graying
tags:
participle
present
form:
grayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
grayed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
gray
etymology_text:
From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”).
See also Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár); also Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”).
senses_examples:
text:
My hair is beginning to gray.
type:
example
text:
the graying of America
type:
example
text:
It’s not what advocates of retrofitting the suburbs may have had in mind, but it’s a logical outcome of the graying of America, and of suburbia in particular.
ref:
2018 September 18, Amanda Kolson Hurley, “Fake Public Squares Are Coming to the Suburbs”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become gray.
To cause to become gray.
To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
senses_topics:
demographics
demography
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography |
4869 | word:
gray
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gray (plural grays)
forms:
form:
grays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
gray
etymology_text:
From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”).
See also Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár); also Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”).
senses_examples:
text:
grey:
text:
Log-shaped barnacles become embedded in the hide of the gray.
ref:
1971 Mar, National Geographic, page 411
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An achromatic colour between black and white.
An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.
Synonym of grey alien
A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
ufology
|
4870 | word:
gray
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gray (plural grays)
forms:
form:
grays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
gray
etymology_text:
Named after English physicist Louis Harold Gray (1905–1965).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: rad
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy
senses_topics:
|
4871 | word:
salmon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
salmon (countable and uncountable, plural salmon or salmons)
forms:
form:
salmon
tags:
plural
form:
salmons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
salmon
etymology_text:
From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (“salmon”). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations).
The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.
senses_examples:
text:
grilled salmon
type:
example
text:
salmon paté
type:
example
text:
salmon steak
type:
example
text:
salmon:
text:
Got any salmon?
ref:
1992, “Ebeneezer Goode”, performed by The Shamen
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
A meal or dish made from this fish.
A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
senses_topics:
|
4872 | word:
salmon
word_type:
adj
expansion:
salmon (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
salmon
etymology_text:
From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (“salmon”). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations).
The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.
senses_examples:
text:
Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.
ref:
1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 155
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
senses_topics:
|
4873 | word:
salmon
word_type:
verb
expansion:
salmon (third-person singular simple present salmons, present participle salmoning, simple past and past participle salmoned)
forms:
form:
salmons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
salmoning
tags:
participle
present
form:
salmoned
tags:
participle
past
form:
salmoned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
salmon
etymology_text:
From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (“salmon”). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations).
The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.
senses_examples:
text:
2014: "Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR
Some cities discourage salmoning with clever signage, like this in London: "If you can read this you are biking the wrong way."
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.
senses_topics:
|
4874 | word:
dub
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)
forms:
form:
dubs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dubbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
dubbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
dubbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
dub
etymology_text:
From a Late Old English (11th century) word dubban, dubbian (“to knight by striking with a sword”) perhaps borrowed from Old French adober (“equip with arms; adorn”) (also 11th century, Modern French adouber, from Proto-Germanic *dubjaną (“to fit”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“plug, peg, wedge”).
Cognate with Icelandic dubba (dubba til riddara). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word.
senses_examples:
text:
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
ref:
2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne.
ref:
2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
to dub a stick of timber smooth
type:
example
text:
For dressing or dubbing cloths, either wet or dry, otherwise than by green cards and pickards
ref:
1808, Annual Register
type:
quotation
text:
1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
When the skin is thoroughly cleansed, and while yet in its wet and distended state, the process of stuffing, or dubbing (probably a corruption of daubing), is performed. Both sides of the skin, but chiefly the flesh side, are smeared or daubed with a mixture of cod-oil and tallow
text:
if you can dub a Fly of the exact colour of the Natural Fly, Fish at that instant take, it's sufficient
ref:
1689, James Chetham, The Anglers Vade Mecum
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword, the accolade.
To name, to entitle, to call.
To deem.
To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
To dress with an adze.
To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
To dress a fishing fly.
To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
senses_topics:
heading
heading
heading
heading
|
4875 | word:
dub
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)
forms:
form:
dubs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dubbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
dubbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
dubbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
dub
etymology_text:
1505-1515
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
To do something badly.
To execute a shot poorly.
senses_topics:
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
4876 | word:
dub
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dub (plural dubs)
forms:
form:
dubs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dub
etymology_text:
1505-1515
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A blow, thrust, or poke.
A poorly executed shot.
senses_topics:
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
4877 | word:
dub
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dub (plural dubs)
forms:
form:
dubs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dub
etymology_text:
1885-90. Imitative; see also flub, flubdub.
senses_examples:
text:
As I came over the hill, I saw Ernest Plinlimmon and his partner, in whom I recognized a prominent local dub, emerging from the rough on the right. Apparently, the latter had sliced from the tee, and Ernest had been helping him find his ball.
ref:
1936, P. G. Wodehouse, There's Always Golf, London: The Strand Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!
ref:
1969, Robert L. Vann, The Competitor, volumes 2-3, page 135
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An unskillful, awkward person.
senses_topics:
|
4878 | word:
dub
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)
forms:
form:
dubs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dubbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
dubbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
dubbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
dub
etymology_text:
From a shortening of the word double.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To add sound to film or change audio on film.
To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
senses_topics:
|
4879 | word:
dub
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dub (countable and uncountable, plural dubs)
forms:
form:
dubs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dub
etymology_text:
From a shortening of the word double.
senses_examples:
text:
It’s also burnished by intriguing sense of vaguely dub-influenced space. At one point, it breaks down to little more than a stabbing, echoing organ with a vintage reggae flavour.
ref:
2020 April 23, Alexis Petridis, “The Rolling Stones: Living in a Ghost Town review – their best new song in years”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
But I think my bass playing is definitely dub-influenced.
ref:
2019 January 18, Jamie Dickson, “Khruangbin: “We’re not intending to create war with our music… It’s the absence of that aggression that a lot of rock bands have””, in Music Radar
type:
quotation
text:
Dyl’s polyrhythmic grooves on The Subsurface Project fuse dub techno and drum & bass, mixing modular sounds with hints of warm, jittery jungle.
ref:
2020 July 20, Arun Chakal, “The Worked-Up Sound of Drum & Bass in Russia and Eastern Europe”, in Bandcamp Daily
type:
quotation
text:
It reminded me of that classic Full Cycle vibe of jazzy soulful sounds blending with dub bass and fx.
ref:
2020 August 3, Kane, “The Extended Cut: Zero T - Former Self EP [The North Quarter]”, in Magnetic Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
[…] we climbed up the scaffolding and did these gold little dubs and you couldn't see them.
ref:
2001, Nancy Macdonald, The Graffiti Subculture, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
The year 1998 was alive with graffiti and trains pulling up with dubs on their sides.
ref:
2011, Justin Rollins, The Lost Boyz: A Dark Side of Graffiti, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
4880 | word:
dub
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dub (plural dubs)
forms:
form:
dubs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dub
etymology_text:
From Celtic; compare Irish dobhar (“water”), Welsh dŵr (“water”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pool or puddle.
senses_topics:
|
4881 | word:
dub
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dub (plural dubs)
forms:
form:
dubs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dub
etymology_text:
From shortening of double dime (“twenty”).
senses_examples:
text:
When I pull up out front, you see the Benz on dubs.
ref:
2003 January 7, “In da Club” (track 5), in Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.
A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
senses_topics:
|
4882 | word:
dub
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)
forms:
form:
dubs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dubbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
dubbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
dubbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
dub
etymology_text:
From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”).
senses_examples:
text:
Crash the cull—down with him—down with him before he dubs the jigger. Tip him the degan, Fib, fake him through and through; if he pikes we shall all be scragged.
ref:
1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter LXXXIII, in Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman, page 402
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To open or close.
senses_topics:
|
4883 | word:
dub
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dub (plural dubs)
forms:
form:
dubs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dub
etymology_text:
From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…]going upon the dobbin, is a woman dressed like a servant maid, no hat nor cloak on, a bunch of young dubs by her side, which are a bunch of small keys[…]
ref:
1789, George Parker, Life's Painter of Variegated Characters in Public and Private Life, page 162
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lock.
A key, especially a master key; a lock pick.
senses_topics:
|
4884 | word:
dub
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dub (plural dubs)
forms:
form:
dubs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dub
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
World Wide Web or WWW
Pronouncing this "dub dub dub" (with no rub-a) will definitely establish you as an insider.
ref:
1997, Nelson Howell, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Visual InterDev, Que Pub
type:
quotation
text:
I once met a gaggle of Aussies who'd paid thousands of dollars out of their own pockets for airfare and registration to attend an annual Apple convention called the Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC—or, in this crowd, “Dub Dub.”
ref:
2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley, Metropolitan Books, page 119
type:
quotation
text:
I haven't had a dub in a few games.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of double-u.
Clipping of double-u.
A win.
senses_topics:
video-games |
4885 | word:
dub
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dub (plural dubs)
forms:
form:
dubs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dub
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small copper coin once used in India.
senses_topics:
|
4886 | word:
left
word_type:
adj
expansion:
left (comparative more left or lefter, superlative most left or leftmost)
forms:
form:
more left
tags:
comparative
form:
lefter
tags:
comparative
form:
most left
tags:
superlative
form:
leftmost
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Left
etymology_text:
From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, clumsy, foolish”), attested in Old English lyftādl (“palsy, paralysis”), from Proto-Germanic *luft-, from *lubjaną (“to castrate, lop off”) (compare dialectal English lib, West Frisian lobje, Dutch lubben), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lewp-, *(s)lup- (“hanging limply”). Compare Scots left (“left”), North Frisian lefts, leeft, leefts (“left”), West Frisian lofts (“left”), dialectal Dutch loof (“weak, worthless”), Low German lucht (“left”).
senses_examples:
text:
The left side.
type:
example
text:
The following dispatch has been received from Viceroy Alexieff, dated Mukden, March 22:
“Gen. Mitchenkow reports that on March 17 our scouts approached Anju and observed on the left bank of the Ching Chong river, opposite Anju, retrenchments made by the enemy.
ref:
1904 March 23 [1904 March 22], Viceroy Alexieff, quotee, “Waiting for the First Collision in the Yalu Region”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 56, number 215, St. Louis, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.
ref:
1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←
Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's left when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the north bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥲ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the left side of the river.
Left-wing; pertaining to the political left.
senses_topics:
geography
natural-sciences
government
politics |
4887 | word:
left
word_type:
adv
expansion:
left (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Left
etymology_text:
From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, clumsy, foolish”), attested in Old English lyftādl (“palsy, paralysis”), from Proto-Germanic *luft-, from *lubjaną (“to castrate, lop off”) (compare dialectal English lib, West Frisian lobje, Dutch lubben), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lewp-, *(s)lup- (“hanging limply”). Compare Scots left (“left”), North Frisian lefts, leeft, leefts (“left”), West Frisian lofts (“left”), dialectal Dutch loof (“weak, worthless”), Low German lucht (“left”).
senses_examples:
text:
Turn left at the corner. NO! Your other left.
type:
example
text:
The East Coast of the US leans left in elections.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On the left side.
Towards the left side.
Towards the political left.
senses_topics:
|
4888 | word:
left
word_type:
noun
expansion:
left (plural lefts)
forms:
form:
lefts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Left
etymology_text:
From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, clumsy, foolish”), attested in Old English lyftādl (“palsy, paralysis”), from Proto-Germanic *luft-, from *lubjaną (“to castrate, lop off”) (compare dialectal English lib, West Frisian lobje, Dutch lubben), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lewp-, *(s)lup- (“hanging limply”). Compare Scots left (“left”), North Frisian lefts, leeft, leefts (“left”), West Frisian lofts (“left”), dialectal Dutch loof (“weak, worthless”), Low German lucht (“left”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Left left workers behind, thinking they had a winning demographic coalition. It hasn't really worked out for them yet.
type:
example
text:
The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul.
ref:
1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The left side or direction.
The left-wing political parties as a group; citizens holding left-wing views as a group.
The left hand or fist.
A punch delivered with the left fist.
A wave breaking from left to right (viewed from the shore).
senses_topics:
government
politics
boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing |
4889 | word:
left
word_type:
verb
expansion:
left
forms:
wikipedia:
Left
etymology_text:
From Middle English left, variant of laft (“remaining, left”), from Old English lǣfd, ġelǣfd, past participle of lǣfan (“to leave”). More at leave.
senses_examples:
text:
There's not much food left.
type:
example
text:
Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant?
Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin.
Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left!
Dr. Warren: I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of leave (“depart, separate from; (cause or allow to) remain”).
senses_topics:
|
4890 | word:
left
word_type:
verb
expansion:
left
forms:
wikipedia:
Left
etymology_text:
From Middle English levit, ilevet, y-levyd, from Old English ġelȳfd, ġelȳfed, past participle of Old English ġelȳfan, lȳfan (“to allow, permit”), equivalent to leave (“to give leave to, allow, grant, permit”) + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
We were not left go to the beach after school except on a weekend.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of leave (“permit”).
senses_topics:
|
4891 | word:
New Brunswick
word_type:
name
expansion:
New Brunswick
forms:
wikipedia:
New Brunswick
en:George III of the United Kingdom
etymology_text:
From new + Brunswick (“Braunschweig”), after the German duchy, the ancestral home of George III of the United Kingdom (1738–1820).
senses_examples:
text:
Holonyms: Maritimes, Maritime provinces
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Fredericton.
An unincorporated community in Indiana, United States
A city, the county seat of Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
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4892 | word:
Amazonas
word_type:
name
expansion:
Amazonas
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Portuguese Amazonas and Spanish Amazonas, related to English Amazon.
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A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Manaus
A department of Colombia.
A region of Peru.
A state of Venezuela.
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4893 | word:
handful
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handful (plural handfuls or handsful)
forms:
form:
handfuls
tags:
plural
form:
handsful
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English handful, hondful, from Old English handfull (“handful”), from Proto-Germanic *handufullō, *handufulliz (“handful”), from Proto-Germanic *handuz (“hand”) + *fullaz (“full”); equivalent to hand + full (“fullness, plenty”) or hand + -ful. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hondful (“handful”), West Frisian hânfol (“handful”), Dutch handvol (“handful”), German Handvoll (“handful”), Danish håndfuld (“handful”), Swedish handfull (“handful”), Icelandic handfylli (“handful”).
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text:
The names of a number of the most famous North American railroads could be found in the north-east; Pennsylvania, New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, and the Norfolk & Western, to name but a handful.
ref:
1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board?
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2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 52–53
type:
quotation
text:
Those twins are a real handful to look after.
type:
example
text:
The Southern acquired them because the little Class "B4" 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stock more and more of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines.
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1959 February, G. Freeman Allen, “Southampton—Gateway to the Ocean”, in Trains Illustrated, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
Many times dogs are surrendered for reasons such as changes in the family unit, a death in the family, no time to care for a dog, or because that cute little puppy is now a 100 lb untrained handful.
ref:
2008, Dog Fancy, volume 39, number 11, page 76
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The amount that a hand will grasp or contain.
A hand's breadth; four inches.
A small number, usually approximately five.
A group or number of things; a bunch.
Something which can only be managed with difficulty.
A five-year prison sentence.
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4894 | word:
hammerhead
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hammerhead (plural hammerheads)
forms:
form:
hammerheads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hammer + head.
senses_examples:
text:
[The butler] joined us with a telegram for Bobbie on a salver. From her mother, I presumed, calling me some name which she had forgotten to insert in previous communications. Or, of course, possibly expressing once more her conviction that I was a guffin, which, I thought, having had time to ponder over it, would be something in the nature of a bohunkus or a hammerhead.
ref:
1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter V, in Jeeves in the Offing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The portion of a hammer containing the metal striking face (also including the claw or peen if so equipped).
Any of various sharks of the genera Sphyrna or Zygaena having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape.
A fresh-water fish; the hogsucker, Hypentelium nigricans, in the sucker family Catostomidae.
An African fruit bat, the hammer-headed fruit bat, Hypsignathus monstrosus, so called from its large blunt nozzle.
Scopus umbretta (hammerkop).
A stupid person, a dunce.
A turn-around; a parking area constructed in a subdivision for initial access and construction.
A kind of ribozyme; hammerhead ribozyme.
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biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
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4895 | word:
Pondicherry
word_type:
name
expansion:
Pondicherry
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Tamil பாண்டிச்சேரி (pāṇṭiccēri, literally “pandi town”).
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senses_glosses:
Former name of Puducherry, a union territory in southern India.
Former name of Puducherry, the capital of the union territory of Puducherry.
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4896 | word:
Himachal Pradesh
word_type:
name
expansion:
Himachal Pradesh
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Transliteration of Hindi हिमाचल प्रदेश (himācal pradeś).
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senses_glosses:
A state in northern India. Capital: Shimla.
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4897 | word:
fellah
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fellah (plural fellahs or fellahin or fellaheen)
forms:
form:
fellahs
tags:
plural
form:
fellahin
tags:
plural
form:
fellaheen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic فَلَّاح (fallāḥ, “peasant”), from Classical Syriac ܦܠܚܐ (“worker; peasant”). Attested since 1743.
senses_examples:
text:
Religion long kept the two races, Arab and Egyptian, apart, and when eventually the Christian fellaḥ in the neighbourhood of Cairo had become Mohammedan, the Mohammedan Arab had become a townsman with a townsman’s sense of superiority over the country bumpkin.
ref:
1920, Archibald Sayce, “Cairene and Upper Egyptian Folk-Lore” in Folk-Lore 31 p. 176
text:
It has the prophetic vision. Fuit Ilium! The sack of windy Troy. Kingdoms of this world. The masters of the Mediterranean are fellaheen today.
ref:
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
type:
quotation
text:
1929-1930, H P Lovecraft, Fungi from Yuggoth
And at the last from inner Egypt came // The strange dark One to whom the fellahs bowed
text:
Before her, seated half-crouching upon a wicker chair, was a big-breasted sphinx-faced fellah girl, with her skirt drawn up above her waist to expose some choice object of my friend's study.
ref:
1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine
type:
quotation
text:
All of them were crudely caricatured scenes of life among Moslems: a schoolmaster, ruler in hand, presiding over a class of small boys, a fellah ploughing, a drunk being ordered out of a bar.
ref:
1955, Paul Bowles, The Spider's House
type:
quotation
text:
It differed from the Ulema both in a more modernistic interpretation of Islamic dogma and in its social demands, which included the redistribution of land among the fellahs.
ref:
1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 39
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa.
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4898 | word:
fellah
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fellah (plural fellahs)
forms:
form:
fellahs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Representing an eye dialect pronunciation of fellow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of fella
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4899 | word:
Uttar Pradesh
word_type:
name
expansion:
Uttar Pradesh
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Transliteration of Hindi उत्तर प्रदेश (uttar pradeś).
senses_examples:
text:
In the state of Uttar Pradesh, Hindu extremists have battled Muslims for control of the Babri Mosque, leading directly and indirectly to more than two thousand deaths.
ref:
1992, Richard Nixon, “The Southern Hemisphere”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 247
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in northern India. Capital: Lucknow.
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