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4900 | word:
unmask
word_type:
verb
expansion:
unmask (third-person singular simple present unmasks, present participle unmasking, simple past and past participle unmasked)
forms:
form:
unmasks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
unmasking
tags:
participle
present
form:
unmasked
tags:
participle
past
form:
unmasked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + mask.
senses_examples:
text:
But instead of a direct answer to so important a question, Jones began to be very importunate with the lady to unmask; and at length having prevailed, there appeared not Mrs Fitzpatrick, but the Lady Bellaston herself.
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
type:
quotation
text:
[…] to unmask and to assume her 'natural' role (rather than her 'fitting in' role).
ref:
2019, Sarah Cobbe, Simple Autism Strategies for Home and School: Practical Tips, Resources and Poetry, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
Autistic females are trying to adhere to social expectations placed upon them, and masking and blending to fit those expectations, […] How do you unmask when you have spent a [long time masking].
ref:
2019, Barry Carpenter, Francesca Happé, Jo Egerton, Girls and Autism: Educational, Family and Personal Perspectives, Routledge, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
He recalled his horse. This, retiring, unmasked the heavy infantry, which Hannibal called in from either flank and sent with a vigorous élan in close column across the ford against the ill-arrayed barbarians, followed by the cavalry, which had formed again in its rear.
ref:
1893, Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Hannibal: a History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans […], page 156
type:
quotation
text:
In less than an hour the batteries were unmasked. The Confederate works were visible and at 5:08 a.m., Seymour ordered the batteries to commence firing.
ref:
2021, Stephen R. Wise, “To Capture an Island: Amphibious Operations in the Department of the South, 1861–1863”, in Theodore P. Savas, editor, Charleston: Battles and Seacoast Operations, page 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove a mask from someone.
To expose, or reveal the true character of someone.
To remove one's mask.
To cease engaging in masking, to cease disguising one's autism.
To expose something that was concealed or shielded from an enemy.
To enable (an interrupt, etc.) by unsetting or setting the associated bit.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
4901 | word:
bronze
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bronze (countable and uncountable, plural bronzes)
forms:
form:
bronzes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Matthew Prior
bronze
etymology_text:
From French bronze (1511), from Italian bronzo (13th cent.), of uncertain origin; see it for more. First use appears c. 1721 in the writings of Matthew Prior. See cite below.
senses_examples:
text:
How little gives thee joy or pain; A print, a bronze, a flower, a root.
ref:
1720, Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, page 339
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: brass
text:
bronze:
text:
She wanted to win the tournament, but had to settle for the bronze after being beaten in the semi-finals.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
A bronze medal.
Boldness; impudence.
senses_topics:
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4902 | word:
bronze
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bronze (comparative more bronze, superlative most bronze)
forms:
form:
more bronze
tags:
comparative
form:
most bronze
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Matthew Prior
bronze
etymology_text:
From French bronze (1511), from Italian bronzo (13th cent.), of uncertain origin; see it for more. First use appears c. 1721 in the writings of Matthew Prior. See cite below.
senses_examples:
text:
That girl was dynamite. Dark hair with killer blue eyes, bronze skin, and an exquisite full-figured body.
ref:
2016, Kit Moulton, Annabella, page 108
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of bronze metal.
Having a reddish-brown colour.
Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.
senses_topics:
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4903 | word:
bronze
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bronze (third-person singular simple present bronzes, present participle bronzing, simple past and past participle bronzed)
forms:
form:
bronzes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bronzing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bronzed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bronzed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Matthew Prior
bronze
etymology_text:
From French bronze (1511), from Italian bronzo (13th cent.), of uncertain origin; see it for more. First use appears c. 1721 in the writings of Matthew Prior. See cite below.
senses_examples:
text:
My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
type:
example
text:
The sun was so low that its level rays shot through the tunnels of the forest and bronzed its ceiling of woven leaves when Bess returned to the clearing.
ref:
1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy, London: Jonathan Cape, Part IV, p. 137
type:
quotation
text:
North is the bay of Acre, lovely in shape, and, far, far beyond, the cloudy vision of Hermon, its huge landscape now only attainable with a police pass—beautifully solitary except for good-looking young men of the police patrols, all fit and bronzed.
ref:
1961, Freya Stark, chapter 8, in Dust in the Lion's Paw: Autobiography 1939-1946, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.
ref:
2006, Melissa Lassor, “Out of Darkness”, in Watching Time, page 124
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To plate with bronze.
To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
senses_topics:
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4904 | word:
gun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gun (plural guns)
forms:
form:
guns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
gun
etymology_text:
From Middle English gunne, gonne, possibly from Gunnhild, a female given name formerly used as a nickname for engines of war. The name is composed of the Norse elements gunnr and hildr, both meaning "battle".
senses_examples:
text:
Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be.
ref:
2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5
text:
Guns were considered improvements of crossbows and catapults.
type:
example
text:
Looking for wild meat to fill his family's freezer for the winter, the young man quietly raised up his gun at the approaching deer.
type:
example
text:
air-pressure pellet gun
type:
example
text:
zipgun
type:
example
text:
nail gun
type:
example
text:
squirt gun
type:
example
text:
spray gun
type:
example
text:
grease gun
type:
example
text:
a rivet gun
type:
example
text:
screw gun
type:
example
text:
a price-label gun
type:
example
text:
2000, Drew Kampion, surfline.com
by the winter of 1962, the Brewer Surfboards Hawaii gun was the most in-demand big-wave equipment on the North Shore.
text:
The glider gun on the bottom of the NOT circuit emits a continuous stream of gliders, while the data stream source emits a glider only when there is a value of 1 in the stream[…].
ref:
2000, Gary William Flake, The computational beauty of nature
type:
quotation
text:
It would be especially interesting if someone can find an "airplane gun", which generates airplanes at regular intervals.
ref:
2007 February 23, Frank, “Life on the Edge”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Greene's period-416 2c/5 spaceship gun
ref:
2010, Andrew Adamatzky, Game of Life Cellular Automata, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
Some said that the cowboy was the fastest gun in the West.
type:
example
text:
De Niro plays Frank Sheeran, the real-life South Philly truck driver who moonlighted, over the second half of the 20th century, as a hired gun for the mafia.
ref:
2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, “Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 2020-08-21
type:
quotation
text:
The problem is figuring out how to get the electrons from the red gun to hit only the red phosphors, the electrons from the blue gun to hit only the blue phosphors, and so on.
ref:
2012, Brand Fortner, Theodore E. Meyer, Number by Colors, page 202
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.
A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(21-gun salute)
A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
A device or tool that projects a substance.
A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
An electron gun.
The biceps.
Violent blasts of wind.
An expert.
Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
broadcasting
media
television
nautical
transport
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4905 | word:
gun
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gun (third-person singular simple present guns, present participle gunning, simple past and past participle gunned)
forms:
form:
guns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gunning
tags:
participle
present
form:
gunned
tags:
participle
past
form:
gunned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
gun
etymology_text:
From Middle English gunne, gonne, possibly from Gunnhild, a female given name formerly used as a nickname for engines of war. The name is composed of the Norse elements gunnr and hildr, both meaning "battle".
senses_examples:
text:
He gunned the engine.
type:
example
text:
We're all gunning for you.
type:
example
text:
Australian John Landy, one of Bannister’s rivals also gunning to break the four-minute barrier, took more than a second off the Briton’s time in Turku, Finland, a few weeks later.
ref:
2023, George Ramsay, Amy Woodyatt, “‘Like a chairlift up Everest’: Once running’s supreme challenge, has the value of a four-minute mile diminished?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), CNN
type:
quotation
text:
He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.
type:
example
text:
[…] all inmates participated in such conduct, and […] "the inmates gunned only female staff, not the all-male security staff," he said.
ref:
2010, BNA's Employment Discrimination Report
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause to speed up.
To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
(gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).
senses_topics:
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4906 | word:
gun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gun (plural guns)
forms:
form:
guns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
gun
etymology_text:
Related to ganef.
senses_examples:
text:
To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.
ref:
1863, Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.), page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A magsman or street thief.
senses_topics:
|
4907 | word:
gun
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gun
forms:
wikipedia:
gun
etymology_text:
From gunna, from gonna, from going to.
senses_examples:
text:
I'm gun go get my coat from da closet.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nonstandard spelling of going to.
senses_topics:
|
4908 | word:
credendum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
credendum (plural credenda)
forms:
form:
credenda
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin credendum.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: agendum
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something to be believed; an article of faith.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
theology |
4909 | word:
Nagaland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nagaland
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Naga + -land.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in northeastern India. Capital: Kohima.
senses_topics:
|
4910 | word:
pedant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pedant (plural pedants)
forms:
form:
pedants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French pedant, pedante, from Italian pedante (“a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”), associated with Italian pedagogo (“teacher, pedagogue”). Compare French pédant.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
A teacher or schoolmaster.
senses_topics:
|
4911 | word:
pedant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pedant (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French pedant, pedante, from Italian pedante (“a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”), associated with Italian pedagogo (“teacher, pedagogue”). Compare French pédant.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pedantic.
senses_topics:
|
4912 | word:
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
word_type:
name
expansion:
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archipelago and union territory of India, in the Bay of Bengal. Capital: Port Blair
senses_topics:
|
4913 | word:
-able
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-able
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English -able, borrowed from Old French -able, from Latin -ābilis, from -a- or -i- + -bilis (“capable or worthy of being acted upon”), from Proto-Indo-European i-stem form *-dʰli- of *-dʰlom (“instrumental suffix”). Not closely related etymologically, though currently related semantically, to able. Displaced native Old English -endlīc.
senses_examples:
text:
movable: able to be moved
text:
amendable: able to be amended
text:
breakable: liable to broken
text:
blamable: fit to be blamed
text:
salable: fit to be sold
text:
fashionable: relevant to fashion
text:
seasonable: suitable to season
text:
pleasurable: giving pleasure
text:
peaceable: inclined to peace
text:
reportable: subject to be reported
text:
taxable: subject to be taxed
text:
payable: due to be paid
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An adjectival suffix; forms adjectives meaning:
Able to be done; fit to be done.
An adjectival suffix; forms adjectives meaning:
Relevant to or suitable to, in accordance with.
An adjectival suffix; forms adjectives meaning:
Giving, or inclined to.
An adjectival suffix; forms adjectives meaning:
Subject to.
An adjectival suffix; forms adjectives meaning:
Due to be.
senses_topics:
|
4914 | word:
Lakshadweep
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lakshadweep
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Sanskrit लक्षद्वीप (lakṣadvīpa, “hundred thousand islands”), from लक्ष (lakṣa, “hundred thousand”) (compare lakh) + द्वीप (dvīpa, “island”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Indian union territory comprising twelve atolls in the Arabian Sea, having Kavaratti as its capital.
senses_topics:
|
4915 | word:
bucket
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bucket (plural buckets)
forms:
form:
buckets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.
senses_examples:
text:
I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.
type:
example
text:
The crab was cool and very light. But the water was thick with sand, and so, scrambling down, Jacob was about to jump, holding his bucket in front of him, when he saw, stretched entirely rigid, side by side, their faces very red, an enormous man and woman.
ref:
1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob's Room
type:
quotation
text:
The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
type:
example
text:
It rained buckets yesterday.
type:
example
text:
I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.
type:
example
text:
My new suit cost me buckets.
type:
example
text:
We had buckets of fun.
type:
example
text:
The forward drove to the bucket.
type:
example
text:
We can't keep giving up easy buckets.
type:
example
text:
Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos.
ref:
1989, Susan Ludwig, Janice Steinberg, Petite Style, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
The amount held in this container.
A large amount of liquid.
A great deal of anything.
A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
an insult term used in Toronto to refer to someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
The basket.
A field goal.
A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
A bucket bag.
The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
The pitcher in certain orchids.
A helmet.
senses_topics:
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
4916 | word:
bucket
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bucket (third-person singular simple present buckets, present participle bucketing, simple past and past participle bucketed)
forms:
form:
buckets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bucketing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bucketed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bucketed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.
senses_examples:
text:
to bucket water
type:
example
text:
It’s really bucketing down out there.
type:
example
text:
The boat is bucketing along.
type:
example
text:
These candidates are then bucketed into a discretized version of the space of all possible lines.
ref:
2002, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Masayuki Numao, Rüdiger Reischuk, Algorithmic Learning Theory: 13th International Conference, page 352
type:
quotation
text:
Thus, sorting each bucket takes O(1) times. The total effort of bucketing, sorting buckets, and concotenating the sorted buckets together is O(n).
ref:
2008, Hari Mohan Pandey, Design Analysis and Algorithm, page 136
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place inside a bucket.
To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
To rain heavily.
To travel very quickly.
To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports |
4917 | word:
Dadra and Nagar Haveli
word_type:
name
expansion:
Dadra and Nagar Haveli
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A former union territory and now a district in the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Capital: Silvassa
senses_topics:
|
4918 | word:
Haryana
word_type:
name
expansion:
Haryana
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Hindi हरियाणा (hariyāṇā).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in northern India. Capital: Chandigarh. Faridabad is its biggest city.
senses_topics:
|
4919 | word:
West Bengal
word_type:
name
expansion:
West Bengal
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in eastern India. Capital: Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).
senses_topics:
|
4920 | word:
benzule
word_type:
noun
expansion:
benzule (plural benzules)
forms:
form:
benzules
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
benzoyl
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
4921 | word:
yellow
word_type:
adj
expansion:
yellow (comparative yellower or more yellow, superlative yellowest or most yellow)
forms:
form:
yellower
tags:
comparative
form:
more yellow
tags:
comparative
form:
yellowest
tags:
superlative
form:
most yellow
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ġeolwe, oblique form of Old English ġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wos, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellow”).
Compare Welsh gwelw (“pale”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Italian giallo (“yellow”) Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Russian жёлтый (žóltyj, “yellow”), Russian зелёный (zeljónyj, “green”). Cognate with German gelb (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”).
The verb is from Old English ġeolwian, from the adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
There's a one-eyed yellow idol / To the north of Kathmandu; / There's a little marble cross below the town; / And a brokenhearted woman / Tends the grave of 'Mad' Carew, / While the yellow god for ever gazes down.
ref:
1911, J. Milton Hayes, The green eye of the little yellow god
type:
quotation
text:
dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ȝelouȝ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liȝt red tokeneþ mene.
ref:
1962 (quoting c. 1398 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, editors, Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242
text:
You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!
ref:
1975, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
type:
quotation
text:
The denizens of the gossipy world of the pink press, purple prose and yellow tabloids are shivering over disputed photographs of Princess Caroline of Monaco.
ref:
2004 October 4, Doreen Carvajal, “Photo edict muffles gossipy press”, in International Herald Tribune, retrieved 2008-07-29
type:
quotation
text:
Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.
ref:
1913, Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu
type:
quotation
text:
The two youths, the brown and the yellow, faced each other at the cross-roads, under a dim street-lamp.
ref:
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 516
type:
quotation
text:
"Eh, Oscar—you hear about your yeller nephew?".
ref:
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
A big full-blood gin cottoned onto me. “Give us a drink, yeller feller.”
ref:
1965, Mudrooroo, Wild Cat Falling, HarperCollins, published 2001, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
Charley threw her over for a yellow gal named Nancy: he never forgave Vashti for the vanishing from his life of a menace that had come to mean more to him than Vashti herself.
ref:
1933 September 9, James Thurber, “My Life and Hard Times—VI. A Sequence of Servants”, in The New Yorker
type:
quotation
text:
yellow constituencies
type:
example
text:
2012 March 2, Andrew Grice, “Yellow rebels take on Clegg over NHS 'betrayal'”, in The Independent:
type:
quotation
text:
the black-yellow coalition
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a yellow hue.
Lacking courage.
Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.
Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
Synonym of high yellow
Related to the Liberal Democrats.
Related to the Free Democratic Party; a political party in Germany.
senses_topics:
journalism
media
publishing
government
politics
government
politics |
4922 | word:
yellow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yellow (plural yellows)
forms:
form:
yellows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
yellow
etymology_text:
From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ġeolwe, oblique form of Old English ġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wos, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellow”).
Compare Welsh gwelw (“pale”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Italian giallo (“yellow”) Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Russian жёлтый (žóltyj, “yellow”), Russian зелёный (zeljónyj, “green”). Cognate with German gelb (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”).
The verb is from Old English ġeolwian, from the adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
yellow:
text:
It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw—not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things.
ref:
1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
type:
quotation
text:
Andrew Surman fired in what proved to be a 37th-minute winner before Forest's Paul Konchesky saw red late on. That second yellow for the loan signing came in stoppage time and did not affect the outcome of a game which Norwich dominated.
ref:
2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The colour of sunflower petals and lemons; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
The mid light in a set of three traffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
A yellow card.
Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow coloured species. Compare sulphur.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
games
pocket-billiards
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
4923 | word:
yellow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
yellow (third-person singular simple present yellows, present participle yellowing, simple past and past participle yellowed)
forms:
form:
yellows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
yellowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
yellowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
yellowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ġeolwe, oblique form of Old English ġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wos, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellow”).
Compare Welsh gwelw (“pale”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Italian giallo (“yellow”) Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Russian жёлтый (žóltyj, “yellow”), Russian зелёный (zeljónyj, “green”). Cognate with German gelb (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”).
The verb is from Old English ġeolwian, from the adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
Then suddenly, with the least warning, the sky yellows and the Chergui blows in from the Sahara, stinging the eyes and choking with its sandy, sticky breath.
ref:
1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
Interviews, clippings, yellowing stories from foreign newspapers, notebooks with old scribblings. Salisbury called it the debris of a reporter always too much on the run to sort out the paper, but there it was, an investigator's dream, […]
ref:
2013, Robert Miraldi, Seymour Hersh, Potomac Books, Inc., page 187
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become yellow or more yellow.
To make (something) yellow or more yellow.
senses_topics:
|
4924 | word:
Tripura
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tripura
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Sanskrit त्रिपुर (tripura), from त्रि (tri, “three”) + पुर (pura, “city”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in northeastern India. Capital: Agartala.
senses_topics:
|
4925 | word:
Bihar
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bihar
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hindi बिहार (bihār), from Sanskrit विहार (vihāra, “temple; monastery”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in eastern India. Capital: Patna.
senses_topics:
|
4926 | word:
Chandigarh
word_type:
name
expansion:
Chandigarh
forms:
wikipedia:
Chandigarh
etymology_text:
From Chandi + Garh. Chandi refers to a Hindu Goddess, the warrior avatar of Goddess Parvati, while Garh means "fort". The name is derived from Chandi Mandir, an ancient temple devoted to this goddess, near the city in Panchkula District.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A union territory in northern India, located between Punjab and Haryana.
The capital city of Chandigarh, India; capital city of Haryana and Punjab, India.
senses_topics:
|
4927 | word:
Arunachal Pradesh
word_type:
name
expansion:
Arunachal Pradesh
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Transliteration of Hindi अरुणाचल प्रदेश (aruṇācal pradeś, literally “Land of the dawn-lit mountains”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in northeastern India. Capital: Itanagar.
senses_topics:
|
4928 | word:
handi-craftsman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handi-craftsman (plural handi-craftsmen)
forms:
form:
handi-craftsmen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of handicraftsman
senses_topics:
|
4929 | word:
Daman and Diu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Daman and Diu
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A former union territory of India. Capital: Daman, now part of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
senses_topics:
|
4930 | word:
sanction
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sanction (countable and uncountable, plural sanctions)
forms:
form:
sanctions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:sanction
etymology_text:
From Middle French sanction, from Latin sanctio.
senses_examples:
text:
The whalers had been operating in the contested waters off the island with sanction from the Japanese government.
type:
example
text:
The United States enacted a new round of sanctions against the apartheid regime of South Africa.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.
A penalty, punishment, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted by several nations, or by an international body.
A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying any of the above.
senses_topics:
|
4931 | word:
sanction
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sanction (third-person singular simple present sanctions, present participle sanctioning, simple past and past participle sanctioned)
forms:
form:
sanctions
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sanctioning
tags:
participle
present
form:
sanctioned
tags:
participle
past
form:
sanctioned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:sanction
etymology_text:
From Middle French sanction, from Latin sanctio.
senses_examples:
text:
Many of the most earnest Protestants were business men, to whom lending money at interest was essential. Consequently first Calvin, and then other Protestant divines, sanctioned interest.
ref:
1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ratify; to make valid.
To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.
To penalize (a state etc.) with sanctions.
senses_topics:
|
4932 | word:
unvisible
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unvisible (comparative more unvisible, superlative most unvisible)
forms:
form:
more unvisible
tags:
comparative
form:
most unvisible
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + visible.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Invisible
senses_topics:
|
4933 | word:
upbuoyance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
upbuoyance (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Me rather, bright guests! with your wings of upbuoyance,
Bear aloft to your homes, to your banquets of joyance
ref:
c. 1799, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Visit of the Gods
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of buoying up; uplifting.
senses_topics:
|
4934 | word:
hallucinator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hallucinator (plural hallucinators)
forms:
form:
hallucinators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hallucinate + -or.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
One who experiences hallucinations.
senses_topics:
|
4935 | word:
hi
word_type:
intj
expansion:
hi
forms:
wikipedia:
hi
etymology_text:
American English. First recorded reference is to speech of a Kansas Indian (1862); originally to attract attention, probably a variant of Middle English hey, hy (circa 1475). Also an exclamation to call attention. See hey.
senses_examples:
text:
Hi, how are you?
type:
example
text:
I just dropped by to say “hi”.
type:
example
text:
Anna: Pete, hi! Hi, we are here! — Pete: Hi, Anna! Hi, Marsha! — Anna: Hi! — Pete: How are you two? — Marsha: I am great!
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
'Come back now!' shouted Sam. 'Hi! Come back!' But Gollum had vanished.
ref:
1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A friendly, informal, casual greeting said upon someone's arrival.
An exclamation to call attention.
Expressing wonder or derision.
senses_topics:
|
4936 | word:
hi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hi (plural his)
forms:
form:
his
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
American English. First recorded reference is to speech of a Kansas Indian (1862); originally to attract attention, probably a variant of Middle English hey, hy (circa 1475). Also an exclamation to call attention. See hey.
senses_examples:
text:
I didn't even get a hi.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The word "hi" used as a greeting.
senses_topics:
|
4937 | word:
hi
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hi
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From high.
senses_examples:
text:
Get hi-quality videos here!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Informal spelling of high, often in hyphenated terms.
senses_topics:
|
4938 | word:
hamshackle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hamshackle (third-person singular simple present hamshackles, present participle hamshackling, simple past and past participle hamshackled)
forms:
form:
hamshackles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hamshackling
tags:
participle
present
form:
hamshackled
tags:
participle
past
form:
hamshackled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ham + shackle.
senses_examples:
text:
to hamshackle a horse or cow
text:
Not only are our sources, indicating the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton, limited, but we are also hamshackled by certain time constraints.
ref:
2010, Steven Ortlepp, Introduction to the Interlinear Bible, page 180
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To tie (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the forelegs.
To bind or restrain; to impose restrictions upon.
senses_topics:
|
4939 | word:
Jharkhand
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jharkhand
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hindi झारखंड (jhārkhaṇḍ): elements meaning "forest region" or "bushland".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in eastern India. Capital: Ranchi.
senses_topics:
|
4940 | word:
benzoyl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
benzoyl (plural benzoyls)
forms:
form:
benzoyls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From benzoic + -yl.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A univalent radical formally derived from benzoic acid, C₆H₅CO-, by removal of the hydroxyl group
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
4941 | word:
São Paulo
word_type:
name
expansion:
São Paulo
forms:
wikipedia:
Saint Paul
São Paulo
São Paulo (state)
Tietê River
etymology_text:
From Portuguese, named after Saint Paul. Doublet of Saint Paul. The city was originally named "São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga" meaning "Saint Paul of the fields of Piratininga". "Piratininga" comes from Old Tupi pirá (“fish”) and Old Tupi tininga (“to dry”) meaning "dried fish", after the fish that would be stranded on the shore of the Tietê River after a flood and left to dry out.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state of the Southeast Region, Brazil. Capital: São Paulo.
A municipality, the state capital of São Paulo, Brazil.
senses_topics:
|
4942 | word:
polydipsia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polydipsia (usually uncountable, plural polydipsias)
forms:
form:
polydipsias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From poly- + -dipsia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Excessive and constant thirst caused by disease.
senses_topics:
|
4943 | word:
father
word_type:
noun
expansion:
father (plural fathers)
forms:
form:
fathers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
father (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr?
Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr
Proto-Germanic *fadēr
Proto-West Germanic *fader
Old English fæder
Middle English fader
English father
From Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. Doublet of ayr, faeder, padre, pater, and père. The development of the /ɑː/ vowel (outside of those accents which also have it in rather, lather) is irregular and has not been conclusively explained.
senses_examples:
text:
My father was a strong influence on me.
type:
example
text:
My friend Tony just became a father.
type:
example
text:
Ah, but how beautiful (my baby boy) is! And he is mine, mine for ever. Even if he hates me he will be mine. He cannot help it, he is made out of me; I am his father.
ref:
1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 7
text:
My personal success or failure is insignificant; the rise or fall of the nation is my responsibility and must not be shirked. Upon introspection, I feel I am firmer than ever in confidence that the Communists will be defeated. These are feelings which will comfort Father's soul in Heaven.
ref:
1980 August 1 [1980 May 1], Ching-kuo Chiang, “President Chiang Ching-kuo continues his period of mourning and finds that visits to countryside and people give him renewed strength”, in Taiwan Today, archived from the original on 2020-05-17
type:
quotation
text:
Father, dear father
Will you be proud of me?
I wish I could be
Just like you.
ref:
2010 April 7, “My First Borrowing”, in Cécile Corbel (lyrics), Cécile Corbel and Simon Caby (music), 借りぐらし Kari-gurashi [The Borrowers] (CD), performed by Cécile Corbel, Yamaha Music Communications
type:
quotation
text:
Shepard: The bartender over there?
Liara: The matriarch hired by the asari government to track my movements?
Shepard: She's your father.
Liara: I know.
ref:
2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Apollo Cafe, Presidium Commons, Citadel
type:
quotation
text:
Come, father; you can sit here.
type:
example
text:
My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.
type:
example
text:
The child is father to the man.
type:
example
text:
Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.
type:
example
text:
Soon after the announcement of this year's election results, Mereka said that "the father of all battles had just begun." His dispute with Muite goes back to March last year […]
ref:
1991, The Nairobi Law Monthly
type:
quotation
text:
If UK GDP slows by 1 per cent, there is the mother and father of all recessions. It was exciting, but very bizarre, working in such an environment.
ref:
2002, Financial Management
type:
quotation
text:
“The Father of All Battles”
On March 23, 1991, a band of armed insurgents attacked the town of Bomaru […]
ref:
2012, Zubairu Wai, Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone, Palgrave Macmillan, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
But may the Sun and gentle weather, / When you are both growne ripe together, / Load you with fruit, such as your Father / From you with all the joyes doth gather: / And may you when one branch is dead / Graft ſuch another in it's ſtead,[…]
ref:
1649, Richard Lovelace, Amyntor's Grove, His Chloris, Arigo, and Gratiana. An Elogie., Thomas Harper, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
In proceeding in this fashion, the fathers assembled at Pisa were following the generally accepted canonistic teaching of the day […]
ref:
2003, Francis Oakley, The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church, 1300–1870, pages 37–8
type:
quotation
text:
On the part of the fathers of the synod, over 50 bishops, from every continent, spoke on different ‘group forms’ of the lay apostolate, whereas about 38 fathers made their own interventions in writing to the General Secretary.
ref:
2009, Peter Chidi Okuma, Empowerment of the Catholic Laity in the Nigerian Political Situation […], page 177
type:
quotation
text:
Remember that the fathers of Vatican II had rejected the first draft of the constitution on revelation entirely.
ref:
2014, Ronald D. Witherup, The Word of God at Vatican II: Exploring Dei Verbum, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
Three generations of file are usually kept, being the grandfather, father and son files.
ref:
2004, Ray Bradley, The Ultimate Computing Glossary for Advanced Level, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
The file from which the father was developed with the transaction files of the appropriate day is the grandfather.
ref:
2007, O. Ray Whittington, Patrick R. Delaney, Wiley CPA Exam Review 2008: Auditing and Attestation, page 556
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A (generally human) male who begets a child.
A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
A term of respectful address for a priest.
A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
A pioneering figure in a particular field.
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
Something inanimate that begets.
A member of a church council.
The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
senses_topics:
Christianity
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
4944 | word:
father
word_type:
verb
expansion:
father (third-person singular simple present fathers, present participle fathering, simple past and past participle fathered)
forms:
form:
fathers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fathering
tags:
participle
present
form:
fathered
tags:
participle
past
form:
fathered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
father (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr?
Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr
Proto-Germanic *fadēr
Proto-West Germanic *fader
Old English fæder
Middle English fader
English father
From Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. Doublet of ayr, faeder, padre, pater, and père. The development of the /ɑː/ vowel (outside of those accents which also have it in rather, lather) is irregular and has not been conclusively explained.
senses_examples:
text:
The relations of the sexes were so loose and vague that children could not be fathered on any particular man.
ref:
1906, James George Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, volume 2, page 209
type:
quotation
text:
Kept company with men of wit / Who often fathered what he writ.
ref:
1713, Imitation of Horace, Jonathan Swift, Book I. Ep. VII
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be a father to; to sire.
To give rise to.
To act as a father; to support and nurture.
To provide with a father.
To adopt as one's own.
senses_topics:
|
4945 | word:
Saskatchewan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Saskatchewan
forms:
wikipedia:
Saskatchewan
etymology_text:
From Cree ᑭᓯᐢᑳᒋᐘᓂ ᓰᐱᕀ (kisiskaaciwani siipiy, “swift-flowing river”)/kisiskāciwani-sīpiy.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A river in Canada.
Prairie province in western Canada (named after the river, which flows through it) which has Regina as its capital city.
senses_topics:
|
4946 | word:
moon
word_type:
name
expansion:
moon
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mone, from Old English mōna (“moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô (“moon”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably from *meh₁- (“to measure”).
cognates and doublets
Cognate with Scots mone, mune, muin (“moon”), North Frisian muun (“moon”), West Frisian moanne (“moon”), Dutch maan (“moon”), German Mond (“moon”), Danish måne (“moon”), Norwegian Bokmål måne (“moon”), Norwegian Nynorsk måne (“moon”), Swedish måne (“moon”), Icelandic máni (“moon”), Latin mēnsis (“month”). See also month, a related term within Indo-European.
senses_examples:
text:
"I suppose I may have leave to do that!" Yes, she could do that, he said, but there was no road to that place; it lay east of the sun and west of the moon, and she could never find her way there.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 233
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Moon (“the Earth's only permanent natural satellite”).
senses_topics:
|
4947 | word:
moon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
moon (plural moons)
forms:
form:
moons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mone, from Old English mōna (“moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô (“moon”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably from *meh₁- (“to measure”).
cognates and doublets
Cognate with Scots mone, mune, muin (“moon”), North Frisian muun (“moon”), West Frisian moanne (“moon”), Dutch maan (“moon”), German Mond (“moon”), Danish måne (“moon”), Norwegian Bokmål måne (“moon”), Norwegian Nynorsk måne (“moon”), Swedish måne (“moon”), Icelandic máni (“moon”), Latin mēnsis (“month”). See also month, a related term within Indo-European.
senses_examples:
text:
The stargazer observed the moons of Jupiter for over a year.
type:
example
text:
That's no moon, you idiot... it's a space station!
type:
example
text:
For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith,
Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used
Their dearest action in the tented field…
ref:
1603, William Shakespeare, Othello
type:
quotation
text:
They number their age by Moons or Winters, and say a Woman or a Man is so many Moons old, and so they do with all memorable Actions in life, accounting it to be so many Moons or Winters since such or such a thing happened.
ref:
1737, John Brickell, The natural history of North-Carolina, pages 308–309
type:
quotation
text:
Many moons had waxed and waned when on the afternoon of a lovely summer day a lusty broad-boned knight was riding through the forest of Sherwood.
ref:
1822, Thomas Love Peacock, Maid Marian, page 238
type:
quotation
text:
2002, Russell Allen, "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey.
Through eerie reach of ancient woods / Where lumbering mists arise / I journey for nines moons of the year / To where a land of legend lies
type:
quotation
text:
They stayed with their aunt and uncle for many moons.
type:
example
text:
The wizard costume was decorated with stars and moons.
type:
example
text:
The moons surrounding the city walls were built in the sixteenth century.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any natural satellite of a planet.
A month, particularly a lunar month.
A representation of the moon, usually as a crescent or as a circle with a face; a crescent-shaped shape, symbol, or object.
A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.
The eighteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.
The thirty-second Lenormand card.
In hearts, the action of taking all the point cards in one hand.
senses_topics:
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
card-games
games |
4948 | word:
moon
word_type:
verb
expansion:
moon (third-person singular simple present moons, present participle mooning, simple past and past participle mooned)
forms:
form:
moons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mooning
tags:
participle
present
form:
mooned
tags:
participle
past
form:
mooned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Moon (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English mone, from Old English mōna (“moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô (“moon”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably from *meh₁- (“to measure”).
cognates and doublets
Cognate with Scots mone, mune, muin (“moon”), North Frisian muun (“moon”), West Frisian moanne (“moon”), Dutch maan (“moon”), German Mond (“moon”), Danish måne (“moon”), Norwegian Bokmål måne (“moon”), Norwegian Nynorsk måne (“moon”), Swedish måne (“moon”), Icelandic máni (“moon”), Latin mēnsis (“month”). See also month, a related term within Indo-European.
senses_examples:
text:
The hooligans mooned the riot police.
type:
example
text:
It was ill-advised of Sam to moon the photographer during the shoot.
type:
example
text:
Sarah mooned over Sam's photograph for months.
type:
example
text:
You've been mooning after her forever; why not just ask her out?
type:
example
text:
On some level, the filmmakers behind Monster Trucks must have recognized the ill fit of Till playing a teenager, because they cast Jane Levy, a 27-year-old who can pass for younger but not a decade younger, as Meredith, a nerdy classmate of Tripp’s who moons over him as she insists on making an appointment to tutor him in biology.
ref:
2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
"No, you're right." Udo shook this newest distraction out of her head. She knew it would come creeping back in through the ears in due time, just as she knew the best way to dispel it was to finish the job and link up with the rest of the Site. In any event, there was something in what Brenda had said that didn't make sense... "But why would he be mooning over her, if she's still awake?""Because he's with V—""Veiksaar!" Udo fairly shouted, slapping her forehead. "Oh, shit. This is going to take a lot of getting used to."
ref:
2023 September 24, HarryBlank, “Working Wonders”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-25
type:
quotation
text:
We were only three on board. The poor old skipper mooned in the cabin.
ref:
1898, Joseph Conrad, Youth
type:
quotation
text:
I mooned around. I was mighty sick of the room by then.
ref:
2001, Stephen King, The Death of Jack Hamilton
type:
quotation
text:
It is impractical if a currency moons and plummets often.
type:
example
text:
I've followed several of the most popular crypto pundits on Twitter and discovered they constantly brag about their one big Hail Mary pick that mooned but neglect to mention – or delete – their numerous fumbles.
ref:
2019, Mark Grabowski, Cryptocurrencies: A Primer on Digital Money, Routledge
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.
To gaze at lovingly or in adoration.
(usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.
To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.
To expose to the rays of the Moon.
To adorn with moons or crescents.
To rise in price rapidly or suddenly.
To shoot the moon.
senses_topics:
business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
card-games
games |
4949 | word:
Tamil Nadu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tamil Nadu
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Transliteration of Tamil தமிழ் நாடு (tamiḻ nāṭu, literally “Tamil country”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in southern India. Capital: Chennai.
senses_topics:
|
4950 | word:
Manipur
word_type:
name
expansion:
Manipur
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Bengali মণিপুর (monipur), from Sanskrit मणिपूर (maṇipūra, literally “abundance of jewels”), composed of मणि (maṇi, “jewel”) + पूर (pūra, “abundance”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in northeastern India. Capital: Imphal.
senses_topics:
|
4951 | word:
basin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
basin (plural basins)
forms:
form:
basins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English basyn, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).
senses_examples:
text:
Everybody had washed before going to bed, apparently, and the bowls were ringed with a dark sediment which the hard, alkaline water had not dissolved. Shutting the door on this disorder, he turned back to the kitchen, took Mahailey’s tin basin, doused his face and head in cold water, and began to plaster down his wet hair.
ref:
1923, Willa Cather, One of Ours, Book One, Chapter 1
type:
quotation
text:
They have a good basin of coffee or cocoa for breakfast […]
ref:
1826, George Wood, chapter 7, in The Subaltern Officer: A Narrative, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
1893, Gilbert Parker, “The March of the White Guard,” in Tavistock Tales, New York: Tait Sons & Co., p. 27,
Gaspé Toujours is drinking a basin of tea, and Jeff Hyde is fitfully dozing by the fire.
text:
A steaming basin of coffee or soup revived them greatly, and even having to decide which of these refreshments they would have, and helping themselves to bread, pulled them together a little.
ref:
1915, Sarah Broom Macnaughtan, chapter 7, in A Woman’s Diary of the War, New York: Dutton, published 1916, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
The fountains were plashing musically into marble and alabaster basins.
ref:
1891, Frederic Farrar, chapter 6, in Darkness at Dawn
type:
quotation
text:
There was a stone basin of clear but motionless water, and the heavy reddish-and-yellow arches went round the courtyard with warrior-like fatality, their bases in dark shadow.
ref:
1926, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 2, in The Plumed Serpent
type:
quotation
text:
Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.
ref:
2012 January 24, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-05-23, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.
A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.
senses_topics:
geography
natural-sciences
geography
natural-sciences |
4952 | word:
basin
word_type:
verb
expansion:
basin (third-person singular simple present basins, present participle (US) basining or basinning, simple past and past participle (US) basined or basinned)
forms:
form:
basins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
basining
tags:
US
participle
present
form:
basinning
tags:
participle
present
form:
basined
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
basined
tags:
US
past
form:
basinned
tags:
participle
past
form:
basinned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English basyn, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).
senses_examples:
text:
Then axial subsidence basined the surface of the dome.
ref:
1925 June, Reginald A. Daly, “The Geology of Ascension Island”, in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, volume 60, number 1
type:
quotation
text:
Basining is the process that gives the faces of the dies their radius, or concavity. Depending on the production method, the planchet metal flows either toward or away from the center of the dies. The minting facilities "basined" the dies after they were delivered from the Philadelphia Mint's Engraving Department.
ref:
2003, The Numismatist - Volume 116, Issues 7-12, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
Of course, this is exactly what did happen—the antiquated practice of basining the dies was cast aside for the Lincoln Cent.
ref:
2005, David W. Lange, The Complete Guide to Lincoln Cents, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Scandinavia was basined under the load of the last or so-called Würm ice-cap.
ref:
2013, Johannes Herman Frederik Umbgrove, Symphony of the Earth, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
To what degree this stress field formed in response to eastward movement of the African plate, to northward movement of the African plate relative to Europe, to basinning of the shelf between the eastern Canaries and Africa, or to other causes is as yet unknown.
ref:
1976, Günther Kunkel, Monographiae Biologicae - Volume 30, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
The eastward pinching and thinning were caused by the rapid basining of the plateau over the Pasco-Richland area in south-central Washington.
ref:
1992, John H. Bush, W. Patrick Seward, Geologic field guide to the Columbia River, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
Walls basined at a ca. 45° angle on the southwest side, but on the west and north there was little basining, with the floor sloping gently up to the original ground surface.
ref:
2009, Richard K. Talbot, Lane D. Richens, Shifting Sands: The Archaeology of Sand Hollow, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
Deformation of the rocks involved in anticline formation increased as deformation of the rocks involved in basining decreased, and the less intense structures of the norfold facies developed in both regions.
ref:
2012, E. Hansen, Strain Facies, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
A moan as of distant wind or thunder portended something at hand, the approach of which, basinned as we were among high broken ridges, patchy-scrubbed heights, and penned in by a maze of steep-sided gullies or gorges — we had no chance of observing, until it cam down in hurricane strength.
ref:
1888, Henry Stuart Russell, The Genesis of Queensland
type:
quotation
text:
A row of trees was basined in the latter part of April, and by the latter part of July, a little over three months, there was a remarkable improvement in the appearance of the basined row compared with the check trees.
ref:
1920, Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
Caesar's subjects bathed in Caesar's blood basinned in the purple pool of Calpurnia's dream; my sister slept in an ogre's thought and woke up on the hook of a cannibal finger.
ref:
1957, Quest - Volumes 13-19, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
They took a narrow path through the snow, up the hill which basined the village, and on to a plateau, a stretch of sparsely treed land.
ref:
2007, The Legal Studies Forum - Volume 31, page 1103
type:
quotation
text:
Well back under this natural shelter, basined in the hollowed rock, a blessed pool of fair water lay unwrinkled by even a flutter of breeze.
ref:
2012, Charles King, An Apache Princess: A Tale of the Indian Frontier, page 173
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To create a concavity or depression in.
To serve as or become a basin.
To shelter or enclose in a basin.
senses_topics:
|
4953 | word:
Paraná
word_type:
name
expansion:
Paraná
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish Paraná or Portuguese Paraná, both from Old Tupi paranã (“river”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A river in central and southern South America.
A state of the South Region, Brazil. Capital: Curitiba.
The provincial capital of Entre Ríos, Argentina.
A municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
senses_topics:
|
4954 | word:
Mizoram
word_type:
name
expansion:
Mizoram
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mizo Mizoram, from mizo (“the Mizo people”) + ram (“land; jungle”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in northeastern India. Capital: Aizawl.
senses_topics:
|
4955 | word:
Meghalaya
word_type:
name
expansion:
Meghalaya
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Sanskrit मेघालय (meghālaya, “abode of clouds”), a compound of मेघ (megha, “cloud”) + आलय (ālaya, “abode”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in northeastern India. Capital: Shillong.
senses_topics:
|
4956 | word:
Maharashtra
word_type:
name
expansion:
Maharashtra
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Sanskrit महाराष्ट्र (mahārāṣṭra), derived from महा- (mahā-), combining form of महत् (mahat, “great”) + राष्ट्र (rāṣṭra), a dynasty that once ruled the area. In Sanskrit, the word राष्ट्र (rāṣṭra) means “nation” or “dominion”. Other theories indicate that the word "rāṣṭra" in this context derives from रत्त (ratta) (a corruption of “Rashtrakuta”, a dynasty that once ruled the area), a clan known as राष्ट्रिक (rāṣṭrika) (found in some of King Ashoka’s inscriptions) or रथ (ratha, “chariot”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in western India. Capital: Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay).
senses_topics:
|
4957 | word:
Karnataka
word_type:
name
expansion:
Karnataka
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Though several etymologies have been suggested for the name Karnataka, the generally accepted one is that Karnataka is derived from Kannada ಕರು (karu, “elevated”) and ನಾಡು (nāḍu, “land”). ಕರುನಾಡು (karunāḍu) may also be read as "black region", as a reference to the black soil found in the Bayalu Seeme region of the state.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in southern India. Capital: Bangalore.
senses_topics:
|
4958 | word:
Chhattisgarh
word_type:
name
expansion:
Chhattisgarh
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hindi छत्तीस (chattīs, “thirty-six”) + गढ़ (gaṛh, “fort”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in central India. Capital: Raipur.
senses_topics:
|
4959 | word:
breathe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
breathe (third-person singular simple present breathes, present participle breathing, simple past and past participle breathed)
forms:
form:
breathes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
breathing
tags:
participle
present
form:
breathed
tags:
participle
past
form:
breathed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
breathe
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
breathe
etymology_text:
From Middle English brethen (“to breathe, blow, exhale, odour”), derived from Middle English breth (“breath”). Eclipsed Middle English ethien and orðiæn, from Old English ēþian and orþian (“to breathe”); as well as Middle English anden, onden, from Old Norse anda (“to breathe”). More at breath.
senses_examples:
text:
Fish have gills so they can breathe underwater.
type:
example
text:
While life as we know it depends on oxygen, scientists have speculated that alien life forms might breathe chlorine or methane.
type:
example
text:
I will not allow it, as long as I still breathe.
type:
example
text:
Try not to breathe too much smoke.
type:
example
text:
If you breathe on a mirror, it will fog up.
type:
example
text:
The flowers breathed a heady perfume.
type:
example
text:
Mountain Drakes breathe fire, Ice Drakes breathe ice, Swamp Drakes breathe acid, and Forest Drakes breathe lightning.
ref:
2012, Timothy Groves, The Book Of Creatures, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
The decor positively breathes classical elegance.
type:
example
text:
He breathed the words into her ear, but she understood them all.
type:
example
text:
The wind breathes through the trees.
type:
example
text:
The affirmation before us, then, will be, "All scripture is divinely breathed."
ref:
1850, John Howard Hinton, On the Divine Inspiration of the Scriptures. A lecture, etc, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
[…] that God, who breathed the Scriptures, "cannot lie," […]
ref:
1917, J. C. Ferdinand Pittman, Bible Truths Illustrated: For the Use of Preachers, Teachers, Bible-school, Christian Endeavor, Temperance and Other Christian Workers, page 168
type:
quotation
text:
Paul says that since God breathed the Scriptures, they are therefore useful; he did not put it the other way around (i.e., that they are useful, therefore inspired).
ref:
2010, Jay E. Adams, The Christian Counselor's Manual: The Practice of Nouthetic Counseling, Zondervan
type:
quotation
text:
Garments made of certain new materials breathe well and keep the skin relatively dry during exercise.
type:
example
text:
At higher altitudes you need to breathe your horse more often.
type:
example
text:
―Do you like hiking? ―Are you kidding? I breathe hiking.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
To inhale (a gas) to sustain life.
To live.
To draw something into the lungs.
To expel air from the lungs, exhale.
To exhale or expel (something) in the manner of breath.
To give an impression of, to exude.
To whisper quietly.
To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.
To inspire (scripture).
To exchange gases with the environment.
To rest; to stop and catch one's breath.
To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.
To exercise; to tire by brisk exercise.
To passionately devote much of one's life to (an activity, etc.).
senses_topics:
|
4960 | word:
Madhya Pradesh
word_type:
name
expansion:
Madhya Pradesh
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Transliteration of Hindi मध्य प्रदेश (madhya pradeś, literally “middle province”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in central India. Capital: Bhopal.
senses_topics:
|
4961 | word:
hadj
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hadj (plural hadjes)
forms:
form:
hadjes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of hajj
senses_topics:
|
4962 | word:
emerald
word_type:
noun
expansion:
emerald (countable and uncountable, plural emeralds)
forms:
form:
emeralds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
emerald
etymology_text:
From Middle English emeraude, borrowed from Old French esmeraude, from Vulgar Latin *smaralda, *smaraldus, *smaraudus, variant of Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language. Compare Hebrew בָּרֶקֶת (bareket, “emerald, flashing gem”), Akkadian 𒁀𒊏𒄣 (baraqu, literally “scintillation”), Arabic بَرْق (barq, literally “flashing”), Egyptian bwyrqꜣ (literally “to sparkle”):D58-Z7-Z4:D21-N29-Z1-G1-D6 and loanwords with Semitic etymon such as Sanskrit मरकत (marakata) and Persian زمرد (zomorrod) (whence Turkish zümrüt and Russian изумру́д (izumrúd)).
senses_examples:
text:
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.
ref:
2012 March 24, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2012-06-14, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
emerald:
text:
16. As the first. Crest, on a Mount Emerald, a Falcon rising Topaz.
ref:
1726, John Guillim, The Banner Display'd, page 504
type:
quotation
text:
Crest. On a Wreath, a demi Dragon, Emerald, armed and langued, Roby [...] Supporters. Two Dragons reguardant, Emerald, [...]
ref:
1754, John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland; Or, a Genealogical History of the ..., page 212
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various green gemstones, especially a green transparent form of beryl, highly valued as a precious stone.
Emerald green, a colour.
Vert, when blazoning by precious stones.
Any hummingbird in the genera Chlorostilbon and Elvira; and some in the genus Amazilia
Any of various species of dragonfly of the family Corduliidae.
A size of type between nonpareil and minion, standardized as 6½-point.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
media
printing
publishing |
4963 | word:
emerald
word_type:
adj
expansion:
emerald (comparative more emerald, superlative most emerald)
forms:
form:
more emerald
tags:
comparative
form:
most emerald
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
emerald
etymology_text:
From Middle English emeraude, borrowed from Old French esmeraude, from Vulgar Latin *smaralda, *smaraldus, *smaraudus, variant of Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language. Compare Hebrew בָּרֶקֶת (bareket, “emerald, flashing gem”), Akkadian 𒁀𒊏𒄣 (baraqu, literally “scintillation”), Arabic بَرْق (barq, literally “flashing”), Egyptian bwyrqꜣ (literally “to sparkle”):D58-Z7-Z4:D21-N29-Z1-G1-D6 and loanwords with Semitic etymon such as Sanskrit मरकत (marakata) and Persian زمرد (zomorrod) (whence Turkish zümrüt and Russian изумру́д (izumrúd)).
senses_examples:
text:
The insect-queen of eastern spring, / O'er emerald meadows of Kashmeer / Invites the young pursuer near, / And leads him on from flower to flower / A weary chase and wasted hour.
ref:
1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a rich green colour.
senses_topics:
|
4964 | word:
emerald
word_type:
verb
expansion:
emerald (third-person singular simple present emeralds, present participle emeralding, simple past and past participle emeralded)
forms:
form:
emeralds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
emeralding
tags:
participle
present
form:
emeralded
tags:
participle
past
form:
emeralded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
emerald
etymology_text:
From Middle English emeraude, borrowed from Old French esmeraude, from Vulgar Latin *smaralda, *smaraldus, *smaraudus, variant of Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language. Compare Hebrew בָּרֶקֶת (bareket, “emerald, flashing gem”), Akkadian 𒁀𒊏𒄣 (baraqu, literally “scintillation”), Arabic بَرْق (barq, literally “flashing”), Egyptian bwyrqꜣ (literally “to sparkle”):D58-Z7-Z4:D21-N29-Z1-G1-D6 and loanwords with Semitic etymon such as Sanskrit मरकत (marakata) and Persian زمرد (zomorrod) (whence Turkish zümrüt and Russian изумру́д (izumrúd)).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ornament with, or as if with, emeralds; to make green.
senses_topics:
|
4965 | word:
bran
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bran (countable and uncountable, plural brans)
forms:
form:
brans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bran
etymology_text:
From Middle English bran, branne, bren, from Old French bren, bran (“bran, filth”), from Gaulish brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“rotten, foul”) (compare Welsh braen (“stench”), Irish bréan (“rancid”), Walloon brin (“excrement”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (compare Latin fragrāre (“to smell strongly”), Dutch brak (“hound”)).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
senses_topics:
|
4966 | word:
bran
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bran (plural brans)
forms:
form:
brans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bran
etymology_text:
From Welsh brân or Cornish bran?
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The European carrion crow.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology |
4967 | word:
rat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rat (plural rats)
forms:
form:
rats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rat
etymology_text:
From Middle English ratte, rat, rotte, from Old English rætt, from Proto-West Germanic *ratt, from Proto-Germanic *rattaz, *rattō (compare West Frisian rôt, Dutch rat), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁d- (“to scrape, scratch, gnaw”). However, the rat may have been unknown in Northern Europe in antiquity, and the Proto-Germanic word may have referred to a different animal; see *rattaz for more. Attestation of this family of words begins in the 12th century.
Some of the Germanic cognates show considerable consonant variation, e.g. Middle Low German ratte, radde; Middle High German rate, ratte, ratze. The irregularity may be symptomatic of a late dispersal of the word, although Kroonen accounts for it with a Proto-Germanic stem *raþō nom., *ruttaz gen., showing both ablaut and a Kluge's law alternation, with the variation arising from varying remodellings in the descendants. Kroonen states that this requires a Proto-Indo-European etymon in final *t and is incompatible with the usual derivation from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁d- (“to scrape, scratch, gnaw”).
senses_examples:
text:
Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
ref:
2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
rat bastard
type:
example
text:
What a rat, leaving us stranded here!
type:
example
text:
Ah, so you damn rat, this is a put-up job eh?
ref:
1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XVIII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 185
type:
quotation
text:
Our teenager has become a mall rat.
type:
example
text:
He loved hockey and was a devoted rink rat.
type:
example
text:
Get your rat out.
type:
example
text:
The price of rats began to rise and soon after the marsh froze over, spearing rats began, which was done with a one tine three-eighths inch steel rod, with a wooden handle […]
ref:
1910, L. W. Pierce, “Muskrats are fast disappearing”, in Hunter-trader-trapper, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
Where natural marshes, or natural foods are found, are best places for raising muskrats. Louisiana and other southern states raise millions of rats, but they do not bring as good prices as northern raised ones. Delaware and Maryland have famed marshes. Other states are becoming noted for muskrat raising, also.
ref:
1929, E. J. Dailey, in Hardings Magazine's Question Box, printed in Fur Fish Game, page 73
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
Any of the numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) that resemble true rats in appearance, usually having a pointy snout, a long, bare tail, and body length greater than about 12 cm, or 5 inches.
A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling.
An informant or snitch.
A scab: a worker who acts against trade union policies.
A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
A roll of material used to puff out the hair, which is turned over it.
Vagina.
Short for muskrat.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
|
4968 | word:
rat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rat (third-person singular simple present rats, present participle ratting, simple past and past participle ratted)
forms:
form:
rats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ratting
tags:
participle
present
form:
ratted
tags:
participle
past
form:
ratted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rat
etymology_text:
From Middle English ratte, rat, rotte, from Old English rætt, from Proto-West Germanic *ratt, from Proto-Germanic *rattaz, *rattō (compare West Frisian rôt, Dutch rat), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁d- (“to scrape, scratch, gnaw”). However, the rat may have been unknown in Northern Europe in antiquity, and the Proto-Germanic word may have referred to a different animal; see *rattaz for more. Attestation of this family of words begins in the 12th century.
Some of the Germanic cognates show considerable consonant variation, e.g. Middle Low German ratte, radde; Middle High German rate, ratte, ratze. The irregularity may be symptomatic of a late dispersal of the word, although Kroonen accounts for it with a Proto-Germanic stem *raþō nom., *ruttaz gen., showing both ablaut and a Kluge's law alternation, with the variation arising from varying remodellings in the descendants. Kroonen states that this requires a Proto-Indo-European etymon in final *t and is incompatible with the usual derivation from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁d- (“to scrape, scratch, gnaw”).
senses_examples:
text:
In 1962, the higher a girl's hair was ratted the more available she was, it was simply understood.
ref:
2021, Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco, Grove Press, published 2022, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
He ratted on his coworker.
type:
example
text:
He is going to rat us out!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hunt or kill rats.
To betray a political party, cause or principle; to betray someone, to desert a person or thing.
To work as a scab, going against trade union policies.
To backcomb (hair).
To inform on someone; to betray someone to the police or authorities.
senses_topics:
|
4969 | word:
rat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rat (plural rats)
forms:
form:
rats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rat
etymology_text:
From Middle English ratten, further etymology unknown. Compare Middle High German ratzen (“to scratch; rasp; tear”). Could be related to write. See also rit.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A scratch or a score.
A place in the sea with rapid currents and crags where a ship is likely to be torn apart in stormy weather.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
4970 | word:
rat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rat (third-person singular simple present rats, present participle ratting, simple past and past participle ratted)
forms:
form:
rats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ratting
tags:
participle
present
form:
ratted
tags:
participle
past
form:
ratted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rat
etymology_text:
From Middle English ratten, further etymology unknown. Compare Middle High German ratzen (“to scratch; rasp; tear”). Could be related to write. See also rit.
senses_examples:
text:
He ratted a vertical line on his face with a pocket knife.
type:
example
text:
Ratted to shreds.
type:
example
text:
“But, rat me, sir,” cried Foster in bewilderment, “tis too generous—'pon honour it is. I can't consent to it. No, rat me, I can't.”
ref:
1904, Rafael Sabatini, chapter XXVI, in The Tavern Knight
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To scratch or score.
To tear, rip, rend.
Damn, drat, blast; used in oaths.
senses_topics:
|
4971 | word:
rat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rat (plural rats)
forms:
form:
rats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rat
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
With regards to the testing of his product, the initial blood analysis had come back confirming huge, distinctive nutritional superiority for Stewart's military ration pack. Given that the policy of the British Army is to be fully ready for war at the drop of a hat, he was sitting on the potential of supplying new rats for the entire army […]
ref:
2014, John, Buffoon, page 243
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ration.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
4972 | word:
coral
word_type:
noun
expansion:
coral (countable and uncountable, plural corals)
forms:
form:
corals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Pliny the Elder
etymology_text:
From Old French coral (French corail), from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek κοράλλιον (korállion, “coral”). Probably ultimately of Semitic origin, compare Hebrew גּוֹרָל (goral, “small pebble”), Arabic جَرَل (jaral, “small stone”), originally referring to the red variety found in the Mediterranean. Since ancient times, a common folk etymology, accepted by some earlier scholars, connected the word instead to Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē) (referring to Medusa). Beekes mentions both theories and considers the Semitic one convincing.
senses_examples:
text:
coral:
text:
On the very chair which I used to occupy when I was at work Marian was sitting now, with the child industriously sucking his coral upon her lap.
ref:
1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.
A hard substance made of the skeletons of these organisms.
A somewhat yellowish orange-pink colour; the colour of red coral (Corallium rubrum) of the Mediterranean Sea, commonly used as an ornament or gem.
The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.
A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
senses_topics:
|
4973 | word:
coral
word_type:
adj
expansion:
coral (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Pliny the Elder
etymology_text:
From Old French coral (French corail), from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek κοράλλιον (korállion, “coral”). Probably ultimately of Semitic origin, compare Hebrew גּוֹרָל (goral, “small pebble”), Arabic جَرَل (jaral, “small stone”), originally referring to the red variety found in the Mediterranean. Since ancient times, a common folk etymology, accepted by some earlier scholars, connected the word instead to Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē) (referring to Medusa). Beekes mentions both theories and considers the Semitic one convincing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of coral.
Having the orange-pink colour of coral.
senses_topics:
|
4974 | word:
Kerala
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kerala
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Malayalam കേരളം (kēraḷaṁ) which is of uncertain origin. One popular theory derives the name from Malayalam കേരം (kēraṁ, “coconut tree”) and Malayalam അളം (aḷaṁ, “land”), thus "land of coconuts", which is also the state's nickname. More at Kerala.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in southern India. Capital: Thiruvananthapuram (formerly known as Trivandrum).
senses_topics:
|
4975 | word:
Rio de Janeiro
word_type:
name
expansion:
Rio de Janeiro
forms:
wikipedia:
Guanabara Bay
Rio de Janeiro
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Rio de Janeiro (“River of January”). The city was named after the Guanabara Bay (the word rio, which in modern Portuguese means "river", could also mean other water bodies such as bays in the 16th century) and the date it was discovered by Portuguese founders: January 1, 1502.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state of the Southeast Region, Brazil. Capital: Rio de Janeiro.
A municipality, the state capital of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; former capital of Brazil.
senses_topics:
|
4976 | word:
peace
word_type:
noun
expansion:
peace (usually uncountable, plural peaces)
forms:
form:
peaces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pees, pes, pais, borrowed from Anglo-Norman peis and Old French pais (“peace”), from Latin pāx (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to fasten, stick, place”), related to Latin pacīscor (“agree, stipulate”), Latin pangō (“fasten, fix”); see pact. Displaced native Old English sibb and friþ.
senses_examples:
text:
Naomi boasted in nothing but the God of Israel. And she found peace even in the midst of chaos when she went to Him in prayer.
ref:
2001, Carol Stream, Unshaken
type:
quotation
text:
Our lounge strives to maintain an environment of peace for the comfort of our customers.
type:
example
text:
The safety equipment will give me some peace of mind.
type:
example
text:
1969 March 31, John Lennon, Bagism Press Conference at Sacher Hotel, Vienna
Now, a lot of cynics have said, “Oh, it’s easy to sit in bed for seven days,” but I’d like some of them to try it, and talk for seven days about peace. All we’re saying is give peace a chance.
text:
1993, Mark Berry as "King Harkinian", a character in Animation Magic, Link: The Faces of Evil, Philips Interactive Media (publ.).
My boy, this peace is what all true warriors strive for.
type:
quotation
text:
An uneasy peace descended upon Northern Ireland when the IRA agreed to a ceasefire in August 1994.
ref:
1996, Oliver Lindsay, Once a Grenadier: The Grenadier Guards 1945-1995, page 374
type:
quotation
text:
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
May there be peace in our time.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony; absence of violence.
A state free of oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions.
Death.
Harmony in personal relations.
A state free of war, in particular war between different countries.
senses_topics:
|
4977 | word:
peace
word_type:
intj
expansion:
peace
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pees, pes, pais, borrowed from Anglo-Norman peis and Old French pais (“peace”), from Latin pāx (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to fasten, stick, place”), related to Latin pacīscor (“agree, stipulate”), Latin pangō (“fasten, fix”); see pact. Displaced native Old English sibb and friþ.
senses_examples:
text:
"Peace, my lord, thou utterest treason! Hast forgot the king's command? Remember I am party to thy crime, if I but listen."
ref:
1882, Mark Twain, chapter 6, in The Prince and the Pauper
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Shut up!, silence!; be quiet, be silent.
Peace out; goodbye.
senses_topics:
|
4978 | word:
peace
word_type:
verb
expansion:
peace (third-person singular simple present peaces, present participle peacing, simple past and past participle peaced)
forms:
form:
peaces
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
peacing
tags:
participle
present
form:
peaced
tags:
participle
past
form:
peaced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pees, pes, pais, borrowed from Anglo-Norman peis and Old French pais (“peace”), from Latin pāx (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to fasten, stick, place”), related to Latin pacīscor (“agree, stipulate”), Latin pangō (“fasten, fix”); see pact. Displaced native Old English sibb and friþ.
senses_examples:
text:
Within every hood they have to be peacing with themselves. Then when you're living in peace with yourself, [...]
ref:
1997, Yusuf Jah, Shah'Keyah Jah, Uprising, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
In another northern species, ptarmigan, such a see-saw pattern between warring and peacing has indeed been observed by researchers.
ref:
2006, Wayne Grady, Bringing back the dodo: lessons in natural and unnatural history
type:
quotation
text:
Fuck, man. Yeah, I know. He crashed with this guy, Eddie. Then the cops called me in. That's when he peaced. I swear on my father's grave, I don't know where he went. I swear.
ref:
2012, Jens Lapidus, Easy Money
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make peace; to put at peace; to be at peace.
To peace out.
senses_topics:
|
4979 | word:
Nova Scotia
word_type:
name
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
Nova Scotia
etymology_text:
From Latin, literally “New Scotland”, from nova, feminine of novus (“new”) + Scōtia (“Scotland”).
senses_examples:
text:
Holonyms: Maritimes, Maritime provinces
text:
Meronyms: Nova Scotia peninsula, Cape Breton Island
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Halifax.
A peninsula on the coast of the Atlantic, comprising most of the province of Nova Scotia; Nova Scotia peninsula.
senses_topics:
|
4980 | word:
twit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
twit (third-person singular simple present twits, present participle twitting, simple past and past participle twitted)
forms:
form:
twits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
twitting
tags:
participle
present
form:
twitted
tags:
participle
past
form:
twitted
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
twit
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₂éd
The verb is an aphetic form of atwite (“(obsolete) to blame, reproach”), from Middle English atwiten (“to attribute (something) to someone; to blame (something) on someone; to accuse or charge (someone) with something; to speak ill of; to taunt”), from Old English ætwītan (“to blame, reproach; to censure, upbraid; to taunt”), from æt- (prefix meaning ‘at, near; toward’) + wītan (“to accuse; to blame, reproach”) (from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to punish; to torment; to know; to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”)).
The noun is probably derived from the verb, although it is attested in print earlier.
senses_examples:
text:
(blame):
text:
(ridicule):
text:
The honourable member for Ellesmere, on the opening of this session, got up and twitted them with not being there on the first day.
ref:
1865 September 12, John Williamson, Maurice Fitzgerald, compiler, “Separation. Adjourned Debate.”, in New Zealand. Parliamentary Debates. Third and Fourth Parliaments. […] (House of Representatives), Wellington: G. Didsbury, government printer, published 1887, →OCLC, page 499, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Dear France, thou thy insular neighbour oft twittest / As "Shopkeeper!" Well ma'am, j'y suis, and shall stop; / For a Shopkeeper's one who—of course—keeps the Shop!
ref:
1893 October 14, “‘Masterly Inactivity’”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CV, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 174, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Cramer, a policeman, came this morning and twitted me for having let a murderer hoodwink me.
ref:
1954 May, Rex Stout, “When a Man Murders”, in The American Magazine, volume 157, New York, N.Y.: Colver Publishing House, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 128, columns 1–2; republished in Three Witnesses, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, October 1994, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
Secrecy about B.R. plans for reorganisation and closure of lines and notably some failures to consult with staff representatives concerned with redundancy, are defects with which the railway unions have twitted Dr. Beeching.
ref:
1962 August, “Talking of Trains: Under Their Hats”, in Modern Railways, Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
H[enry] R[ichard] Fox Bourne, secretary of the Aborigines' Protection Society – often twitted for being an 'armchair critic' – wrote in a review of one of [Henry Morton] Stanley's books: 'The Society is not condemning Mr Stanley or his subordinates so much, but the mounting of an expedition with aims and methods which almost necessitated the cruelties and slaughters that were incident to it … It seems better to remain in armchairs and pass resolutions than wantonly to embark on perilous enterprises, which can only be carried out by means that degrade Englishmen.'
ref:
2007 April 5, Bernard Porter, “Did He Puff His Crimes to Please a Bloodthirsty Readership? Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal. Faber, 570 pp., £25, March 2007, 978 0 571 22102 8 [book review]”, in Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor, London Review of Books, volume 29, number 7, London: LRB Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-03, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
However, on the Internet BBS's such as Quartz (now dead), Prism, Monsoon, Sunset, ect, someone pulling that kind of crap is likely to get flamed quite fast and twitted before he/she can breathe.
ref:
1995 December 5, Michelle Jackson, “Debutante/Question about Tori Shirts”, in rec.music.tori-amos (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Not only are some of the notoriously foul-mouthed echoes excluded from the BBS message base, but each message is auto-censored for key words that are, in the opinion of the SysOp (me in this case), offensive to a "G" audience. And no, it isn't 100% effective. And no, there is no "thought purification program" that can filter out some folks obscene ideas that can be expressed w/o written vulgarities. That has to be simply "dealt" with, either by ignoring or twitting the individual that offends habitually.
ref:
2002 August 14, Marc Lewis, “FidoNet”, in alt.bbs (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
[…] [Francis] Coster a Ieſuit againſt Luke Oſiander, vvho obiecting out of Peter Lombard thoſe vvords, (Credit oportet, It muſt be beleeued) that the bleſſed Virgins fleſh vvas conceiued in originall ſinne; and pretending by thoſe vvords, to proue a Catholike beliefe therein, Coſter thus tvvitteth and retorteth againſt him; […]
ref:
1611, Richard Sheldon, Certain General Reasons, Proving the Lawfulnesse of the Oath of Allegiance, […], London: […] Felix Kyngston [and Arnold Hatfield], for William Aspley, →OCLC, page 56
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; also, to ridicule or tease (someone).
To criticize or disapprove of (something), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner.
To ignore or kill file (a user on a bulletin board system).
Followed by it: to speak or write (something) in a taunting or teasing manner.
To blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner.
To be indiscreet; to gossip.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
4981 | word:
twit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twit (plural twits)
forms:
form:
twits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₂éd
The verb is an aphetic form of atwite (“(obsolete) to blame, reproach”), from Middle English atwiten (“to attribute (something) to someone; to blame (something) on someone; to accuse or charge (someone) with something; to speak ill of; to taunt”), from Old English ætwītan (“to blame, reproach; to censure, upbraid; to taunt”), from æt- (prefix meaning ‘at, near; toward’) + wītan (“to accuse; to blame, reproach”) (from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to punish; to torment; to know; to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”)).
The noun is probably derived from the verb, although it is attested in print earlier.
senses_examples:
text:
What do you mean, since when did I become such a radical fairy! […] Since I started knowing twits like you, you twit!
ref:
1988 (date written), Larry Kramer, Just Say No: A Play about a Farce, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, published 1989, Act II, page 66
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A jibe, reproach, or taunt, especially one made in a good-natured or teasing manner.
An annoying or foolish person.
A person who chatters or gossips inanely; a chatterer, a gossip or gossiper; also, a person who divulges private information about others or is indiscreet; a tattletale.
senses_topics:
|
4982 | word:
twit
word_type:
intj
expansion:
twit
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Imitative of a bird’s call.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to represent the short, high-pitched call of a small bird, or a similar sound made by something else: cheep, tweet.
senses_topics:
|
4983 | word:
twit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twit (plural twits)
forms:
form:
twits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Imitative of a bird’s call.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A short, high-pitched call of a small bird, or a similar sound made by something else; a cheep, a chirp, a tweet.
senses_topics:
|
4984 | word:
twit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twit (plural twits)
forms:
form:
twits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of twitter.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Chiefly in the form in a twit: clipping of twitter (“a state of excitement or nervousness”).
senses_topics:
|
4985 | word:
twit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twit (plural twits)
forms:
form:
twits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of twitter.
senses_examples:
text:
[I]s't a cursed wab o' yarn / That winna work, for knots and twits, / Spun by some thoughtless drabby sluts, / Whase minds on naething else is carried, / But thinking when they will be married; […]
ref:
1819, James Thomson, “Verses Addressed to Mr John Wright, Tailor in Collington, on the Author’s Being Invited to the Wedding of Mr Joseph Thomson, Builder”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, new edition, Leith, Edinburgh: […] William Reid & Co. for the author, →OCLC, page 27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of twitter (“a knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving”).
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving |
4986 | word:
handicraft
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handicraft (countable and uncountable, plural handicrafts)
forms:
form:
handicrafts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
handicraft
etymology_text:
For handcraft, influenced by handiwork; Old English handcræft.
senses_examples:
text:
his men were all baſe handie craftes, as coblers, and curriers, and tinkers, whereof ſome had barres of yron[…]
ref:
1596, Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traueller: or, The Life of Jacke Wilton
type:
quotation
text:
the Handicrafts-Shops begin to open
ref:
1672, John Dryden, The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery
type:
quotation
text:
The M[e]chanicks, and handy-crafts were Induſtrious, Thrifty, and the main ſupporters of the Trade of France.
ref:
1691, Sam Norris, The English Spy; Or, the Intrigues, Pollicies, and Stratagems of the French King with His Secret Contrivances, for Undermining the Princes of Christendom, Discovered
type:
quotation
text:
"Why, thou knowest, father," he said, smiling, "that we handicrafts best love the folks we live by;[…]
ref:
1828 (reprinted 1842), Sir Walter Scott, The Fair Maid of Perth, Schlesinger
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.
An artifact produced by handicraft.
A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman.
senses_topics:
|
4987 | word:
Gujarat
word_type:
name
expansion:
Gujarat
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Gujarati ગુજરાત (gujrāt).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in western India. Capital: Gandhinagar.
senses_topics:
|
4988 | word:
ai
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ai (plural ais or ai)
forms:
form:
ais
tags:
plural
form:
ai
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Originated 1685–95, from Brazilian Portuguese aí, from Old Tupi.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, endemic to forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil.
senses_topics:
|
4989 | word:
ai
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
ai
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Contraction of aight (which itself is a contraction of all right).
senses_examples:
text:
Ai, let's go.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
All right.
senses_topics:
|
4990 | word:
vernacular
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vernacular (plural vernaculars)
forms:
form:
vernaculars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin vernāculus (“domestic, indigenous, of or pertaining to home-born slaves”), from verna (“a native, a home-born slave (one born in his master's house)”).
senses_examples:
text:
The vernacular of the United States is English.
type:
example
text:
Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
type:
example
text:
For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
type:
example
text:
Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language of a people or a national language.
Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
Language unique to a particular group of people.
A language lacking standardization or a written form.
Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.
senses_topics:
architecture |
4991 | word:
vernacular
word_type:
adj
expansion:
vernacular (comparative more vernacular, superlative most vernacular)
forms:
form:
more vernacular
tags:
comparative
form:
most vernacular
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin vernāculus (“domestic, indigenous, of or pertaining to home-born slaves”), from verna (“a native, a home-born slave (one born in his master's house)”).
senses_examples:
text:
There are blacktips, silvertips, bronze whalers, black whalers, spinner sharks, and bignose sharks. These of course are vernacular names, but this is one case where the scientific nomenclature does not clarify the species, since it is now being revised.
ref:
1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
a vernacular disease
type:
example
text:
An English vernacular name for Rosa multiflora is multiflora rose.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature.
Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
Not attempting to use the rules of a taxonomic code, especially, not using scientific Latin.
senses_topics:
architecture
art
arts
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy |
4992 | word:
bruit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bruit (countable and uncountable, plural bruits)
forms:
form:
bruits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English bruit (“commotion, tumult; fame, renown; collective noun for a group of barons”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman brut (“commotion, tumult; noise, sounds; fame, renown; hearsay, rumour; collective noun for a group of barons”) and Old French bruit (“commotion, tumult; noise, sounds; fame, renown; hearsay, rumour”) (modern French bruit (“noise; report, rumour”)), a noun use of the past participle of bruire (“to make a noise; to rattle; to roar; to rustle”), from Late Latin brugere, an alteration of Latin rugīre (“to roar”) (the present active infinitive of rugiō (“to bray; to bellow, roar; to rumble”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewg- (“to belch; to roar”)), possibly influenced by Late Latin bragere (“to bray”). The English word is cognate with Catalan brogir (“to roar”); Old Occitan bruir, brugir (“to roar”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
[R]ememberyng yoʳ accustumable proudent demeanoʳ as well in the atteyning assurid knowledge of the intended purpose of the Scotts, from tyme to tyme, by suche good esp'iell and intelligence that ye have had among the said Scotts, as of the bruits and newes occ'rant amongs them, it is the more mervailed, that if eyther any such attemptats have been made by the said Scotts upon the king's subjects, or that any such bruits be in Scotland of the said duke's thider comyng, that ye have not advertised the king's highnes or me thereof before this tyme; [...]
ref:
a. 1531, John Galt, quoting Thomas Wolsey, “[Appendix. Book III.] No. V. The Copie of My Lord Cardinall’s L’res, Sent to the Lord Dacre of the Northe.”, in The Life and Administration of Cardinal Wolsey, London: […] T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, published 1812, →OCLC, page xxxii
type:
quotation
text:
The bruits of a treaty between the United Provinces and the United States, are as true as moſt of the bruits.
ref:
1780 November 7, John Adams, “Letter XXXVI”, in Correspondence of the Late President Adams. […], number 1, Boston, Mass.: […] Everett and Munroe, […], published 1809, →OCLC, page 266
type:
quotation
text:
And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties ; and his expectations had waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay, [...]
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, London: W[illiam] Collins Sons & Co., →OCLC, →OL
type:
quotation
text:
[S]ome fresh bruit / Startled me all aheap!—and soon I saw / The horridest shape that ever raised my awe,— [...]
ref:
1827, Thomas Hood, “The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies”, in The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems, Philadelphia, Pa.: E[liakim] Littell, […], and J. Grigg, […], →OCLC, stanza XVI, page 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hearsay, rumour; talk; (countable) an instance of this.
A clamour, an outcry; a noise.
senses_topics:
|
4993 | word:
bruit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bruit (third-person singular simple present bruits, present participle bruiting, simple past and past participle bruited)
forms:
form:
bruits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bruiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
bruited
tags:
participle
past
form:
bruited
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
bruit
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English bruit (“commotion, tumult; fame, renown; collective noun for a group of barons”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman brut (“commotion, tumult; noise, sounds; fame, renown; hearsay, rumour; collective noun for a group of barons”) and Old French bruit (“commotion, tumult; noise, sounds; fame, renown; hearsay, rumour”) (modern French bruit (“noise; report, rumour”)), a noun use of the past participle of bruire (“to make a noise; to rattle; to roar; to rustle”), from Late Latin brugere, an alteration of Latin rugīre (“to roar”) (the present active infinitive of rugiō (“to bray; to bellow, roar; to rumble”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewg- (“to belch; to roar”)), possibly influenced by Late Latin bragere (“to bray”). The English word is cognate with Catalan brogir (“to roar”); Old Occitan bruir, brugir (“to roar”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
Generally, Whether there be [...] any that stubbornly refuse to conform themselves to unity and good religion: any that bruiteth abroad rumours of the alteration of the same, or otherwise that disturbeth good orders, and the quietnes of Christs Church and Christian congregation.
ref:
a. 1576, Matthew Parker, John Strype, “[An Appendix to Archbishop Parker’s Life.] Number XI. Articles for the Dioceses, to be Inquired of in the Archbishop’s Metropolitical Visitation.”, in The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, the First Archbishop of Canterbury in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. […], volume III, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1821, →OCLC, paragraph 22, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
There haue bin diuers and variable reportes with some slaunderous and shamefull speeches bruited abroade by many that returned from thence.
ref:
1590, Thomas Hariot [i.e., Thomas Harriot], “To the Adventvrers, Favorers, and VVellvvillers of the Enterprise for the Inhabitting and Planting in Virginia”, in A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, […], Frankfurt am Main: […] Ioannis Wecheli, […], →OCLC; reprinted as Narrative of the First English Plantation of Virginia […], London: Bernard Quaritch, […], 1893, →OCLC, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
Even his amours he bruits forth to the public, to the delight of every pot-boy.
ref:
1822 September 1, “Character of an Ex-sheriff”, in The Rambler’s Magazine; or, Fashionable Emporium of Polite Literature, […], volume I, number IX, London: [William] Benbow, […], →OCLC, page 413
type:
quotation
text:
In course of time Ariston died; and Demaratus received the kingdom: but it was fated, as it seems, that these words, when bruited abroad, should strip him of his sovereignty.
ref:
1859, Herodotus, “The Sixth Book of the History of Herodotus, Entitled Erato”, in George Rawlinson, Henry Rawlinson, J[ohn] G[ardner] Wilkinson, transl., The History of Herodotus. […] In Four Volumes, volume III, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, paragraph 64, page 458
type:
quotation
text:
Thou art not ware, but thou art tossed on the tongues of all the city, casting away all shame, thou bruitest abroad thy deeds.
ref:
1914, Ovid, “[The Amores.] Book the Third.”, in Grant Showerman, transl., edited by T[homas] E[thelbert] Page and W[illiam] H[enry] D[enham] Rouse, Heroides and Amores […] (Loeb Classical Library; 41), London: William Heinemann; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, section I, page 445
type:
quotation
text:
TV news shows had been bruiting the Boulder case, too; as a result, the atmosphere in the press section that night was knife-keen.
ref:
1974, Marvin Kaye, chapter 20, in The Grand Ole Opry Murders (A Hilary Quayle Mystery; 2), London: Head of Zeus, published 2014
type:
quotation
text:
Paranoid. Now he knew what it meant, this word that was bandied and bruited so easily, and he sensed the connections being made around him, [...]
ref:
1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1st trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, published 2003, page 421
type:
quotation
text:
[I]t's bruited that the tunnel would cost "10 to 20 million yuan ($2.95 million) more than the current high speed railway for each kilometer." Pony up, taxpayers!
ref:
2010 August 4, Darren Murph, “China’s Maglev Trains to Hit 1,000km/h in Three Years, […]”, in Engadget, archived from the original on 2020-08-10
type:
quotation
text:
Bruiting about this notion of a "monarchical project," the Englishman persuaded himself that [Simón] Bolívar himself aspired to such a model.
ref:
2013, Marie Arana, “Man of Difficulties”, in Bolívar: American Liberator, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, page 388
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc.
senses_topics:
|
4994 | word:
bruit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bruit (plural bruits)
forms:
form:
bruits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French bruit (“noise; report, rumour”), from Old French bruit (“noise; sounds”); see further at etymology 1.
senses_examples:
text:
Gentlemen,—At the close of my last lecture I asserted that the bruit of the heart does not reside in the organ itself, that is to say, is not produced by any mechanism in the interior of the heart, or by a concurrence of circumstances independent of the surrounding organs. I showed you this clearly in the heart of the swan, whose sternum we removed. Upon opening the pericardium and placing the ear close to the heart, or even employing the stethoscope, no bruit or sound of any kind was to be distinguished.
ref:
1835 February 14, F[rançois] Magendie, “Physiology. Lectures on the Physical Conditions of the Tissues of the Body, as Applied to the Explanation of the Vital Phenomena. […] Lecture XVIII.”, in Thomas Wakley, editor, The Lancet, volume I, number 598, London: […] Mills & Co., […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 697, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Besides chlorosis, there are several analogous affections, especially such as proceed from large losses of blood, in which the arterial bruits are generally very distinctly perceptible. In all these cases the existence of the bruits coincides with a more than ordinary fulness of the pulse: when this ceases, the bruits become invariably less and less manifest. [Translated from the Archives Generales de Medecine.]
ref:
1838 October 1, “Researches on the Cause of the Abnormal Auscultatory Sounds in the Large Arteries, &c. By M. Beau.”, in James Johnson, Henry James Johnson, editors, The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine, volume 29 (New Series), number 18, London: S. Highley, […], →OCLC, page 572, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The bruit in the pulmonary artery is always accompanied by the jugular bruit. In cases where the mitral valve is affected, we are sure to meet with two other bruits: one of which is in the pulmonary artery, and the other in the jugular veins. [Summarized from the London Medical Record, 15 June 1879.]
ref:
1879 October, “The Seat of the So-called Anæmic Bruit of the Cardiac Base”, in I[saac] Minis Hays, editor, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, volume LXXVIII (New Series), number CLVI, Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry C[harles] Lea, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 565
type:
quotation
text:
The recognition and designation of a murmur as functional is a frontal challenge, for there is no absolute means of proof. The bruit is located most commonly at the pulmonic area, is of faint intensity, and uniform pitch.
ref:
1953, William Likoff, John H. Davie, “The Normal Heart”, in Franklin C[arl] Massey, editor, Clinical Cardiology, Baltimore, Md.: The Williams & Wilkins Company, →OCLC, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
Check for carotid bruits by listening to each carotid artery with a stethoscope. A bruit is a blowing or rushing sound that is created by the turbulence within the vessel. If a bruit is heard, do not perform this procedure.
ref:
2013, Barbara Aehlert, “Atrial Rhythms”, in ECGs Made Easy, 5th edition, St. Louis, Mo.: Elsevier Mosby, page 117, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An abnormal sound in the body heard on auscultation (for example, through using a stethoscope); a murmur.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
4995 | word:
duck
word_type:
verb
expansion:
duck (third-person singular simple present ducks, present participle ducking, simple past and past participle ducked)
forms:
form:
ducks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ducking
tags:
participle
present
form:
ducked
tags:
participle
past
form:
ducked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ducken, duken, douken (“to duck, plunge under water, submerge”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dip, dive, bend down, stoop, duck”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb- (“deep, hollow”) (whence Proto-Germanic *dūbaną (“to dive”)).
Cognates
Related to Scots dulk (“to duck”), Middle Dutch ducken (“to duck”), Low German ducken (“to duck”), German ducken (“to duck”), Danish dukke, dykke (“to dive”). Related also to Scots dook, douk (“to bathe, drench, soak, baptise”), West Frisian dûke (“to plunge, dive”), Dutch duiken (“to dive, plunge, duck”), Low German duken (“to duck, dive, stoop”), German tauchen (“to dive, plunge, immerse, duck”), Swedish dyka (“to dive, submerge”).
senses_examples:
text:
Duck! There's a branch falling off the tree!
type:
example
text:
As some raw youth in country bred,
To arms by thirst of honour led,
When at a skirmish first he hears
The bullets whistling round his ears,
Will duck his head aside
ref:
c. 1729, Jonathan Swift, To Dr. Delany on the Libels Written Against Him
type:
quotation
text:
Rimmer ducked his body low into his chair, so just his head remained above the table top, and peered past the backs of the examinees in front of him, waiting for the adjudicator to make his move.
ref:
1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
type:
quotation
text:
Victorian women choosing to duck the demands of domestic life to spend their time doing something they enjoyed is hardly a novel idea.
ref:
2018 July 21, Kathryn Hughes, “The strange cult of Emily Brontë and the 'hot mess' of Wuthering Heights”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
But pressed by Labour's Marsha de Cordov in the House of Commons on June 29, on "whether he plans to reduce the total number of ticket offices", Merriman ducked the question but confirmed that the Government wants to close ticket offices.
ref:
2023 July 12, Mel Holley, “Network News: RDG presses ahead with ticket office closure plan”, in RAIL, number 987, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
That was the moment, but Senate Republicans ducked it.
ref:
2024 January 19, Jonathan Freedland, “There is still a way to stop Donald Trump – but time is running out”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
The music is ducked under the voice.
ref:
2007, Alexander U. Case, Sound FX: unlocking the creative potential of recording studio effects, page 183
type:
quotation
text:
I'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute; can you hold my bag?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
To bow.
To evade doing something.
To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
To enter a place for a short moment.
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4996 | word:
duck
word_type:
noun
expansion:
duck (plural ducks)
forms:
form:
ducks
head_nr:
1
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
duck
etymology_text:
From Middle English ducken, duken, douken (“to duck, plunge under water, submerge”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dip, dive, bend down, stoop, duck”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb- (“deep, hollow”) (whence Proto-Germanic *dūbaną (“to dive”)).
Cognates
Related to Scots dulk (“to duck”), Middle Dutch ducken (“to duck”), Low German ducken (“to duck”), German ducken (“to duck”), Danish dukke, dykke (“to dive”). Related also to Scots dook, douk (“to bathe, drench, soak, baptise”), West Frisian dûke (“to plunge, dive”), Dutch duiken (“to dive, plunge, duck”), Low German duken (“to duck, dive, stoop”), German tauchen (“to dive, plunge, immerse, duck”), Swedish dyka (“to dive, submerge”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
senses_topics:
caving
hobbies
lifestyle |
4997 | word:
duck
word_type:
noun
expansion:
duck (countable and uncountable, plural ducks or duck)
forms:
form:
ducks
tags:
plural
form:
duck
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English doke, ducke, dukke, dokke, douke, duke, from Old English duce, dūce (“duck”, literally “dipper, diver, ducker”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dive, bend down”). See verb above.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots duik, duke, dook (“duck”), Danish dukand, dykand (“sea-duck”), Swedish dykfågel (“a diver, diving bird, plungeon”), Middle Dutch duycker (“diver”), Low German düker (“diver”).
For the meaning development compare with Russian ныро́к (nyrók, “pochard”) connected with ныря́ть (nyrjátʹ, “to dive”).
senses_examples:
text:
A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.
type:
example
text:
The Big Duck has influenced the world of architecture; any building that is shaped like its product is called a ‘duck’.
ref:
2007 February 21, Cynthia Blair, “It Happened on Long Island: 1988—Suffolk County Adopts the Big Duck”, in Newsday
type:
quotation
text:
The more passive males are subjected to physical violence. I was subjected to being what they call a punk or a duck, which is someone else's power trip, that's all.
ref:
1986 April 19, Michael Rathbone, “Tell Someone”, in Gay Community News, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
The flesh of a duck used as food.
A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
A playing card with the rank of two.
A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
A cairn used to mark a trail.
One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”)
A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
finance
medicine
sciences
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality |
4998 | word:
duck
word_type:
noun
expansion:
duck (countable and uncountable, plural ducks)
forms:
form:
ducks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Dutch doek, from Middle Dutch doeck, doec (“linen cloth”), from Old Dutch *dōc, from Proto-West Germanic *dōk, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz (“cloth, rag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwōg-, *dwōk-. Cognate with German Tuch (“cloth”), Swedish duk (“cloth, canvas”), Icelandic dúkur (“cloth, fabric”). Doublet of doek.
senses_examples:
text:
He was dressed in a Jaeger vest—a pair of blue duck trousers, fastened round the waist with a plaited leather belt.
ref:
1912, Katherine Mansfield, “The Woman At The Store”, in Selected Short Stories
type:
quotation
text:
A native servant emerged, anonymous in his white ducks and red fez, to say My Player was wanted on the telephone.
ref:
1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 74
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
Trousers made of such material.
senses_topics:
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4999 | word:
duck
word_type:
noun
expansion:
duck (plural ducks)
forms:
form:
ducks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Potteries dialect, Black Country dialect and dialects of the former territory of Mercia (central England). Compare Danish dukke (“doll”), Swedish docka (“baby; doll”), dialectal English doxy (“sweetheart”).
senses_examples:
text:
Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A term of endearment; pet; darling.
Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
senses_topics:
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