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5000 | 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:
Denominal verb of duck (noun) and ellipsis of rubber duck
senses_examples:
text:
The couple has gotten messages from people they've ducked saying how happy it made them, and even some saying they might also start ducking.
ref:
2020 July 29, Susannah Sudborough, “It may sound quacky, but Jeep ducking is a real thing and it's right here in Taunton”, in Taunton Daily Gazette, Taunton, Massachusetts
type:
quotation
text:
She didn't even notice the duck on her vehicles when she first was ducked in spring.
ref:
2022 September 13, Breana Noble, “'World's largest rubber duck' at Detroit auto show celebrates Jeep 'ducking' movement”, in The Detroit News
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To surreptitiously leave a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking).
senses_topics:
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5001 | word:
mutt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mutt (plural mutts)
forms:
form:
mutts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of muttonhead.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: moggy
text:
Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly / Get these mutts away from me / You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore
ref:
1986, Paul Simon (lyrics and music), “You Can Call Me Al”, in Graceland
type:
quotation
text:
Soon, we will no longer be an outpost of Europe, but a nation of mutts, a nation with hundreds of fluid ethnicities from around the world, intermarrying and intermingling. Americans of European descent are already a minority among 5-year-olds.
ref:
2013 June 28, David Brooks, “A Nation of Mutts”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Mother fuckin' mutt! You, you fucking piece of shit!
ref:
1990, Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas, spoken by Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci)
type:
quotation
text:
“He’s so blatantly stupid. He’s a punk. He’s a dog. He’s a pig. A con. A bullshit artist. A mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” he said, among many other things, in a video.
ref:
2019 November 20, Luke O'Neil, quoting Robert De Niro, “Robert De Niro v Trump: a complete history of a (mainly one-sided) beef”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.
A person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry.
An idiot, a stupid person.
A person from the United States, in reference to sense 2.
senses_topics:
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5002 | word:
mutt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mutt (plural mutts)
forms:
form:
mutts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of matha
senses_topics:
|
5003 | word:
carpe diem
word_type:
proverb
expansion:
carpe diem
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin carpe diem (“enjoy the day”, literally “pluck (or harvest) the day”).
senses_examples:
text:
It is the carpe diem religion; but the carpe diem religion is not the religion of happy people, but of very unhappy people.
ref:
1905, G. K. Chesterton, Heretics, New York: John Lane, →OL
type:
quotation
text:
Indeed, in an extreme carpe diem society, children are raised without being given any sense that they have a transgenerational duty to the as yet unborn— the duty to leave them a better world.
ref:
2007 July 30, Lee Harris, “Can Carpe Diem Societies Survive?”, in The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the West, New York: Basic Books, →LCCN, →OL, page 241
type:
quotation
text:
Just grab those opportunities when you see 'em / Cause every day's a brand new day, you gotta carpe diem
ref:
2011 January 29, “Rollercoaster: The Musical!” (“Carpe Diem” (song)), in Phineas and Ferb, season 2, episode 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Enjoy the present, make the most of today, (common mistranslation) seize the day.
senses_topics:
|
5004 | word:
Jammu and Kashmir
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jammu and Kashmir
forms:
wikipedia:
Jammu and Kashmir
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A princely state which governed the region of Kashmir, the territory of which is now de facto divided between China, India, and Pakistan.
A union territory of India. Capitals: Srinagar and Jammu
An autonomous territory administered by Pakistan. Capital: Muzaffarabad
senses_topics:
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5005 | word:
handicap
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handicap (countable and uncountable, plural handicaps)
forms:
form:
handicaps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hand-in-cap
etymology_text:
From hand-in-cap, in reference to holding the game stakes in a cap.
senses_examples:
text:
Age is often a handicap.
type:
example
text:
The older boy won, even though his opponent had been granted a handicap of five meters.
type:
example
text:
A handicap in chess often involves removal of the queen's rook.
type:
example
text:
Eventually the elephant and camel were depatched by themselves with two laps start of the bicyclist and horse, the motor car being scratch. It was a sensational race owing to the conduct of the field, but on the handicap the elephant won, bicycle second, motor car third.
ref:
1901, “Gleanings”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 1, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
Here some of us fell to handicap, a sport that I never knew before, which was very good.
ref:
1660, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, page 95
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success.
The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.
A race or similar contest in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
An old card game, similar to lanterloo.
Synonym of hand-in-cap (“old English trading game”)
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
card-games
games
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5006 | word:
handicap
word_type:
verb
expansion:
handicap (third-person singular simple present handicaps, present participle handicapping, simple past and past participle handicapped)
forms:
form:
handicaps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
handicapping
tags:
participle
present
form:
handicapped
tags:
participle
past
form:
handicapped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
hand-in-cap
etymology_text:
From hand-in-cap, in reference to holding the game stakes in a cap.
senses_examples:
text:
The candidate was handicapped by her lack of experience.
type:
example
text:
Grandpa Andy would buy the racing form the day ahead of time so he could handicap the race before he even arrived at the track.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To encumber with a handicap in any contest.
To place at disadvantage.
To estimate betting odds.
senses_topics:
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5007 | word:
Saint John's
word_type:
name
expansion:
Saint John's
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Saint John + -'s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
senses_topics:
|
5008 | word:
gibberish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gibberish (usually uncountable, plural gibberishes)
forms:
form:
gibberishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested mid-16th century. Origin obscure. Possibly from *gibber, of onomatopoeic origin imitating to the sound of chatter, possibly from or influenced by jabber, + -ish denoting the name of a language (compare English, Finnish, Spanish, etc.). The verb gibber, first attested circa 1600, is usually regarded as a back-formation from gibberish.
senses_examples:
text:
The Game of Thrones novels were best sellers without fleshed-out Dothraki; the languages in Star Wars, one of the most successful franchises ever, are mostly gibberish, even if Han Solo claims to understand Chewbacca’s bestial warbling.
ref:
2022 December 31, Matteo Wong, “Hollywood’s Love Affair With Fictional Languages”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.
Needlessly obscure or overly technical language.
A language game, comparable to pig Latin, in which one inserts a nonsense syllable before the first vowel in each syllable of a word.
senses_topics:
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5009 | word:
gibberish
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gibberish (comparative more gibberish, superlative most gibberish)
forms:
form:
more gibberish
tags:
comparative
form:
most gibberish
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested mid-16th century. Origin obscure. Possibly from *gibber, of onomatopoeic origin imitating to the sound of chatter, possibly from or influenced by jabber, + -ish denoting the name of a language (compare English, Finnish, Spanish, etc.). The verb gibber, first attested circa 1600, is usually regarded as a back-formation from gibberish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless
senses_topics:
|
5010 | word:
Sikkim
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sikkim
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Sikkimese སུ་ཁྱིམ (su khyim); The most widely accepted theory is that it is a combination of two Limbu words: su, which means "new", and khyim, which means "palace" or "house". The name is believed to be a reference to the palace built by the state's first ruler, Phuntsog Namgyal.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in eastern India. Capital: Gangtok.
A country in Asia that existed until 1975. Official name: Kingdom of Sikkim.
senses_topics:
|
5011 | word:
mongrel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mongrel (plural mongrels)
forms:
form:
mongrels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mongrel, equivalent to mong (“mixture”) + -rel (pejorative diminutive); from Old English ġemang (“mingling”) (whence Modern English among), from Proto-Germanic *mang- (“mix”).
senses_examples:
text:
That dog is a mongrel; who knows what breed it could be!
type:
example
text:
America is an improbable idea. A mongrel nation built of ever-changing disparate parts, it is held together by a notion, the notion that all men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone.
ref:
2001 September 26, Anna Quindlen, “A Quilt of a Country”, in Newsweek
type:
quotation
text:
"Yanto bloody Evans!" Jack stuttered with rage. "Yanto bloody Evans! That... that... bloody mongrel! D'you know who he is? He's the one who knocked me back for a bit of extra timber before the roof fell in on me!"
ref:
2008, Jim Brigginshaw, Over My Dead Body, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
But somebody's got to tell these mums and dads why their kids died, why this mongrel thinks he can wipe them out like a dirty rag.
ref:
2019 October 27, Natalie Wolfe, “Australia's worst serial killer's affairs with sisters-in-laws”, in New Zealand Herald
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone or something of mixed kind or uncertain origin, especially a dog.
A thuggish, obnoxious, or contemptible person; (often preceded by "poor") a pitiable person.
An erect penis; an erection.
senses_topics:
|
5012 | word:
mongrel
word_type:
adj
expansion:
mongrel (comparative more mongrel, superlative most mongrel)
forms:
form:
more mongrel
tags:
comparative
form:
most mongrel
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mongrel, equivalent to mong (“mixture”) + -rel (pejorative diminutive); from Old English ġemang (“mingling”) (whence Modern English among), from Proto-Germanic *mang- (“mix”).
senses_examples:
text:
English spelling is often regarded as confusing and unpredictable due to the mongrel nature of our tongue.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of mixed breed, nature, or origin; of or like a mongrel.
senses_topics:
|
5013 | word:
Fredericton
word_type:
name
expansion:
Fredericton
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Fredericston, from Frederic + -s- + -ton. The city was named after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763 - 1827) by colonial governor Thomas Carleton.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of New Brunswick, Canada.
senses_topics:
|
5014 | word:
fella
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fella (plural fellas)
forms:
form:
fellas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From fellow.
senses_examples:
text:
Am I right, fellas?
type:
example
text:
By the third go-around, the essence of what I wrote was, "And the same to you, fella!" I am glad that our relationship has survived that exchange.
ref:
1997, Donald Meichenbaum, “Discussion”, in Jeffrey K. Zeig, editor, The Evolution of Psychotherapy: The Third Conference, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
This fella song all about the Aboriginal people, coloured people, black people longa Australia. Us people want our land back, we want 'em rights, we want 'em fair deal, all same longa white man. Now this fella longa Canberra, he bin talkin' about a Bran Nue Dae—us people bin waiting for dijwun for 200 years now.
ref:
1990, Jimmy Chi, “Bran Nue Dae”, in Anita Heiss, Peter Minter, editors, Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature, Montreal, Que., Kingston, Ont.: McGill–Queen’s University Press, published 2008, act II, page 137
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of fellow.
Used as a general intensifier; a pfella.
An Internet troll engaged in information warfare against Russia.
senses_topics:
|
5015 | word:
Charlottetown
word_type:
name
expansion:
Charlottetown
forms:
wikipedia:
Queen Charlotte
etymology_text:
The name of the city on Prince Edward Island is a Charlotte + town. The city is named after Queen Charlotte (1744 - 1818).
The town in Labrador was named after the city on Prince Edward Island by local resident Benjamin Powell, who had hoped that the settlement might one day reach a similar importance and size.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city and county seat of Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
A town in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
senses_topics:
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5016 | word:
matadero
word_type:
noun
expansion:
matadero (plural mataderos)
forms:
form:
mataderos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish matadero.
senses_examples:
text:
In connection with one of these markets a matadero has been built, in the form of a detached building.
ref:
1909, Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War ... 1900-1915 (part 2, page 491)
text:
The two sheds originally intended for a matadero have been transformed into quarantine sheds except for a small portion of one which has been left for the slaughter of such crippled animals as are unable to walk to the Manila matadero […]
ref:
1913, The Philippine Agricultural Review, volume 5, page xix
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A slaughterhouse or abattoir.
senses_topics:
|
5017 | word:
seguidilla
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seguidilla (plural seguidillas)
forms:
form:
seguidillas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish seguidilla.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lively Spanish dance in triple time.
The music for this dance.
senses_topics:
|
5018 | word:
Iqaluit
word_type:
name
expansion:
Iqaluit
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Inuktitut ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ (iqaloit, “place of fish”), plural of ᐃᖃᓗᒃ (iqalok, “fish”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Nunavut, Canada.
senses_topics:
|
5019 | word:
millstone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
millstone (plural millstones)
forms:
form:
millstones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Dalgarven Mill – Museum of Ayrshire Country Life and Costume
North Ayrshire
etymology_text:
From Middle English mylneston, milneston, from Old English mylenstān (“millstone”), from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu + *stain; equivalent to mill + stone; cognate with Danish møllesten, Middle Dutch molensteen (modern Dutch molensteen), West Frisian molestien, Norwegian Bokmål møllestein, Old Saxon mulinstēn (Middle Low German mȫlenstēn), Old High German mulinstein, mülstein (Middle High German mülstein, modern German Mühlstein).
senses_examples:
text:
As it is the circular Motion of the Mill-ſtone which brings the Corn out of the Hopper by Jerks, and with a Velocity depending upon that of the Stone, other Grains are always ſucceeding, which raiſe it anew, and the Flower just made being no longer preſs'd is carry'd away into the Boulting Mill by the Circulation of Air that the Mill-ſtone puts into motion, which makes a whirling there.
ref:
1744, J[ohn] T[heophilus] Desaguliers, “Lecture XII. On Engines, especially Hydrostatical and Hydraulick Machines.”, in A Course of Experimental Philosophy, volume II, London: Printed for W. Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's; M. Senex, in Fleet-street; and T[homas] Longman, in Pater-noster-Row, →OCLC, page 429
type:
quotation
text:
The reason why a mill-stone signifies confirmation from the Word in both senses, is, because wheat signifies good, and fine flour the truth thereof, hence by a mill-stone, by which wheat is ground into fine flour, or barley into meal, is signified the production of truth from good, or the production of what is false from evil, thus also the confirmation of truth or what is false from the Word; […]
ref:
1815, Emanuel Swedenborg, “[Book of Revelation,] Chapter XVIII”, in John Clowes, transl., The Apocalypse, or Book of Revelations, Explained According to the Spiritual Sense; in which are Revealed the Arcana which are there Predicted, and have been hitherto Deeply Concealed: Translated into English from a Latin Posthumous Work, of the Honourable Emanuel Swedenborg [by William Hill]; and Revised by the Translator of the Arcana Cœlestia [John Clowes], volume VI, London: Printed and sold for the Society for Printing and Publishing the Works of the Hon. Emanuel Swedenborg, instituted in London in the year 1810; by E. Hodson, 15, Cross Street, Hatton Garden; sold also by T. Goyder, 8, Charles Street, Westminster; and may be had of all booksellers in town and country, →OCLC, page 149, paragraph 1182
type:
quotation
text:
We can tell what Australopithecines ate from the remains of their jaws and teeth. The earliest finds show teeth which are large and round like millstones – acting as grinding and pulverizing machines for fibrous vegetation.
ref:
1998, Colin Spencer, “Aquatic Ape Theory. How Early Did Fish Enter the Diet?”, in Harlan Walker, editor, Fish: Food from the Waters: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1997, Totnes, Devon: Prospect Books, page 307
type:
quotation
text:
In North America the millstone grit, and a grey sandy and slaty rock beneath it, occur three times; and it is exceedingly difficult to distinguish these rocks in hand specimens, without the aid of organized remains. And remains are almost exclusively confined to the grey rocks. Common quarrymen, farmers, and foreign geologists, apply the names, greywracke and millstone, to all these rocks promiscuously; neither having observed their different relative positions.
ref:
1832, Amos Eaton, Geological Text-book, for Aiding the Study of North American Geology: Being a Systematic Arrangement of Facts, Collected by the Author and His Pupils, under the Patronage of the Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer, 2nd edition, Albany, N.Y.: Published by Websters and Skinners, New York, N.Y.: G. and C. and H. Carvill, Troy, N.Y.: William S. Parker, N. Tuttle, printer, →OCLC, pages 92–93
type:
quotation
text:
From the above account it will be seen how closely the Millstone Grit and the Lower Coal Measures are like one another in their lithological character. Each is a group of thick sandstones parted by shales, and in each beds of coal are very generally found on the top of the sandstones. The differences are these. Among the Millstones the sandstones are thicker, fewer, further apart, more constant both in size and character, and as a rule coarse grits or conglomerates.
ref:
1869, A. H. Green, C[lement] le Neve Foster, J. R. Dakyns, “Lower Coal-measures or Ganister-beds”, in The Geology of the Carboniferous Limestone, Yoredale Rocks, and Millstone Grit of North Derbyshire and the Adjoining Parts of Yorkshire. (Sheets 81 N.E., 81 S.E., 72 N.E., and Adjoining Parts of 88 S.E., 82 N.W., 82 S.W., and 71 N.W. of the Map of the Geological Survey.) (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales), London: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office; published by Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
Paying the mortgage every month is a millstone round their necks.
type:
example
text:
[H]owever great and powerful England may be, the strain of such entanglements cannot but tell on her, and one day she may find herself in a predicament in which India may simply hang as a mill-stone round her neck.
ref:
1905, Pherozeshah M[erwanjee] Mehta, “Speech on the Ilbert Bill”, in C[hirravoori] Y[ajneswara] Chintamani, editor, Speeches and Writings of the Honourable Sir Pherozeshah M. Mehta, K.C.I.E., Allahabad: The Indian Press, →OCLC, page 164
type:
quotation
text:
Furthermore, Colonel [Josiah Clement] Wedgwood was dead against special representation being given to landlords or even to universities. "Let India beware," he declared, "of the expansion of communal representation which she will find as a mill-stone hanging about her neck which will grow heavier as time goes on."
ref:
[1920], “Britain and India”, in Josiah C. Wedgwood: The Man and His Work, Madras: S. Ganesan & Co., →OCLC, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
Another millstone around the NDP’s neck was the relative lack of seasoned parliamentarians in the government front bench who were skilled enough at repartee to take on the Tory veterans across the floor.
ref:
1982 December 11, Frances Russell, “Economic performance buoys Pawley’s position”, in The Vancouver Sun (The Weekend Sun), Vancouver, BC, page A6
type:
quotation
text:
That stunning defeat effectively ushered in a three-year deep freeze on any discussion of climate in Congress, an era of paralysis so pervasive that in June 2013, in what many environmentalists hailed as a milestone for action on climate and critics decried as a millstone around the neck of a struggling economy.
ref:
2015, Seamus McGraw, “The Other White Meat”, in Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →DOI, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
AI may be a millstone to countries with a large population, they are a boon to a shrinking one.
ref:
2023 September 23, Leo Lewis, “It takes a village”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large round stone used for grinding grain.
A coarse-grained sandstone used for making such stones; millstone grit.
Ellipsis of millstone round one's neck (referring to Matthew 18:6 in the Bible): a heavy responsibility that is difficult to bear.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences
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5020 | word:
Yellowknife
word_type:
name
expansion:
Yellowknife
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From yellow (“a colour like that of copper”) + knife (“a tool prominently made, used, owned, and traded, by the T'satsąot'ınę”).
From Dogrib T'satsąot'ınę.
Named after the Tsatsaotine (“Copper People”) (the Yellowknives), a local Dene tribe that made copper tools.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital of and only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
senses_topics:
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5021 | word:
Hobart
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hobart
forms:
wikipedia:
Hobart
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Tasmania, Australia, named for a Lord Hobart.
A patronymic English surname transferred from the given name derived from a variant of Hubert.
A city in Indiana
A village in New York
A city, the county seat of Kiowa County, Oklahoma.
A census-designated place in Washington (state)
A village in Wisconsin
senses_topics:
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5022 | word:
nudnik
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nudnik (plural nudniks)
forms:
form:
nudniks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Yiddish נודניק (nudnik) < root of נודיען (nudyen, “to bore”) + ־ניק (-nik, “noun-forming suffix”) (English -nik). Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *nuda < Proto-Indo-European *newti- (“need”) < *new- (“death, to be exhausted”).
Compare Russian ну́дный (núdnyj, “tedious”), Ukrainian нудни́й (nudnýj, “tedious”), Polish nudny (“boring”), Slovak nudný (“boring”), Old Church Slavonic ноудити (nuditi) or нѫдити (nǫditi, “to compel”), Hebrew נוּדְנִיק (“nag”).
senses_examples:
text:
He interrupts people, and he is not interested in anything except what concerns him and his brother. He is a nudnick!
ref:
1992, Richard Preston quoting Samuel Eilenberg, The New Yorker, 2 March, "The Mountains of Pi"
text:
Juliana greeted strangers with a portentous, nudnik, Mona Lisa smile that hung them up between responses, whether to say hello or not.
ref:
1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is very annoying; a pest, a nag, a jerk.
senses_topics:
|
5023 | word:
said and done
word_type:
adj
expansion:
said and done (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
When all is said and done, we'll look back at this and laugh.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Agreed to and accomplished or finished.
senses_topics:
|
5024 | word:
PBB
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PBB (countable and uncountable, plural PBBs)
forms:
form:
PBBs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of polybrominated biphenyl.
Initialism of passenger boarding bridge.; Synonym of jet bridge
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
5025 | word:
PBB
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PBB (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Provider Backbone Bridges.
senses_topics:
|
5026 | word:
wing
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wing (plural wings)
forms:
form:
wings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wing
etymology_text:
From Middle English winge, wenge, from Old Norse vængr ("wing of a flying animal, wing of a building"; compare vængi (“ship's cabin”)), from Proto-Germanic *wēingijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”), thus related to wind. Cognate with Danish vinge (“wing”), Swedish vinge (“wing”), Icelandic vængur (“wing”).
Replaced native Middle English fither (from Old English fiþre, from Proto-Germanic *fiþriją), which merged with Middle English fether (from Old English feþer, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō). More at feather.
senses_examples:
text:
The bird was flapping its wings
type:
example
text:
I took my seat on the plane, overlooking the wing.
type:
example
text:
to take wing
type:
example
text:
the west wing of the hospital
type:
example
text:
the wings of a corkscrew
type:
example
text:
It's a bit annoying but (like sanitary pads with wings) it's worth it if you want to stay extra secure.
ref:
2017, Laura Bates, Girl Up, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
They got bro-bro stuck on the wing, cah I picked up and bullet him
ref:
2021 July 18, “‘Woop’ Freestyle” (0:25 from the start), Trizz (lyrics)
type:
quotation
text:
their ends may rest a little below the orlop-wing gratings
ref:
1864, William M. Brady, The Kedge-anchor
type:
quotation
text:
Smith started the game in the centre of midfield, but moved to the wing after 30 minutes.
type:
example
text:
The Tottenham wing was causing havoc down the right and when he broke past the bemused Sasa Balic once again, Bellamy was millimetres from connecting with his cross as the Liverpool striker hurled himself at the ball.
ref:
2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
ˇ wing, wedge, hǎcek, inverted circumflex (Karel Čapek)
ref:
1985, David Grambs, Literary Companion Dictionary, page 378
type:
quotation
text:
Anyone and everyone with wings - press officers, operations specialists, even General Curtis LeMay, commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe - was put on flight duty and took turns flying double shifts for "Operation Vittles."
ref:
2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
type:
quotation
text:
Tom's a 4 on the enneagram, with a 3 wing.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
Human arm.
Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
Passage by flying; flight.
Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
One of the longer sides of crownworks or hornworks in fortification.
Short for prison wing, a cellblock; or prison or doing time by extension.
Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, the sail of a ship, etc.
A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
A position in several field games on either side of the field.
A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
A háček.
One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
media
publishing
typography
entertainment
lifestyle
theater
|
5027 | word:
wing
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wing (third-person singular simple present wings, present participle winging, simple past and past participle winged or (colloquial) wung)
forms:
form:
wings
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
winging
tags:
participle
present
form:
winged
tags:
participle
past
form:
winged
tags:
past
form:
wung
tags:
colloquial
participle
past
form:
wung
tags:
colloquial
past
wikipedia:
wing
etymology_text:
From Middle English winge, wenge, from Old Norse vængr ("wing of a flying animal, wing of a building"; compare vængi (“ship's cabin”)), from Proto-Germanic *wēingijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”), thus related to wind. Cognate with Danish vinge (“wing”), Swedish vinge (“wing”), Icelandic vængur (“wing”).
Replaced native Middle English fither (from Old English fiþre, from Proto-Germanic *fiþriją), which merged with Middle English fether (from Old English feþer, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō). More at feather.
senses_examples:
text:
I lost all my notes I'd made, so was partially winging the meeting.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
To fly.
To add a wing (extra part) to.
To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
To throw.
To furnish with wings.
To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
To traverse by flying.
senses_topics:
|
5028 | word:
lingua franca
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lingua franca (plural lingua francas or lingue franche or linguae francae or (rare) linguas franca)
forms:
form:
lingua francas
tags:
plural
form:
lingue franche
tags:
plural
form:
linguae francae
tags:
plural
form:
linguas franca
tags:
plural
rare
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian lingua franca.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: vernacular
text:
The language used by most angara across the Heleus Cluster is Shelesh, a lingua franca that was commonly used in the early days of angaran spaceflight before fading into obscurity. New connections between angaran settlements, and constant evolution of languages since their separation, means it has now seen a revival.
ref:
2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Angara: Languages Codex entry
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one another, often a basic form of speech with simplified grammar, particularly, one that is not the first language of any of its speakers.
senses_topics:
|
5029 | word:
clause
word_type:
noun
expansion:
clause (plural clauses)
forms:
form:
clauses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
clause
etymology_text:
From Middle English clause, claus, borrowed from Old French clause, from Medieval Latin clausa (Latin diminutive clausula (“close, end; a clause, close of a period”)), from Latin clausus, past participle of claudere (“to shut, close”). See close, its doublet.
senses_examples:
text:
However, Coordination facts seem to undermine this hasty conclusion: thus, consider the following:
(43) [Your sister could go to College], but [would she get a degree?]
The second (italicised) conjunct is a Clause containing an inverted Auxiliary, would. Given our earlier assumptions that inverted Auxiliaries are in C, and that C is a constituent of S-bar, it follows that the italicised Clause in (43) must be an S-bar. But our familiar constraint on Coordination tells us that only constituents belonging to the same Category can be conjoined. Since the second Clause in (43) is clearly an S-bar, then it follows that the first Clause must also be an S-bar — one in which the C(omplementiser) position has been left empty.
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 300
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Waller adds that when the railway was authorised in 1897, one of the clauses of the Act authorising the transfer of the line to the North British Railway provided that that company should work it in perpetuity, and it was this clause that caused the interim interdict to be granted.
ref:
1951 April, “Notes and News: North Fife Line, Scotland”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.
A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is (subordinate) dependent.
A separate part of a contract, a will or another legal document.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
law |
5030 | word:
clause
word_type:
verb
expansion:
clause (third-person singular simple present clauses, present participle clausing, simple past and past participle claused)
forms:
form:
clauses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
clausing
tags:
participle
present
form:
claused
tags:
participle
past
form:
claused
tags:
past
wikipedia:
clause
etymology_text:
From Middle English clause, claus, borrowed from Old French clause, from Medieval Latin clausa (Latin diminutive clausula (“close, end; a clause, close of a period”)), from Latin clausus, past participle of claudere (“to shut, close”). See close, its doublet.
senses_examples:
text:
The question of clausing the bills of lading, so as to avoid "dirtying", which impairs its negotiability, may also be looked into
ref:
1970, Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee, Report of the session, number 11
type:
quotation
text:
Any attempt to clause a Bill of Lading will be strenuously resisted by shippers, and they will obtain clean bills in the usual ways
ref:
1978, Samir Mankabady, The Hamburg rules on the carriage of goods by sea, page 215
type:
quotation
text:
It was held that the bills of lading presented were in this case 'clean' as they contained no reservations by way of endorsement, clausing or otherwise to suggest that the goods were defective
ref:
1990, Alan Mitchelhill, Bills of lading: law and practice
type:
quotation
text:
There is little authority in English law dealing with the liability of a carrier who unnecessarily clauses a bill of lading.
ref:
2004, Martin Dockra with Katherine Reece Thomas, Cases & materials on the carriage of goods by sea, page 104
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To amend (a bill of lading or similar document).
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
shipping
transport |
5031 | word:
kawa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kawa (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of kava
senses_topics:
|
5032 | word:
kawa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kawa (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Maori [Term?].
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Maori customs and protocol.
senses_topics:
|
5033 | word:
Rajasthan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Rajasthan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hindi राजा (rājā, “king”) + स्थान (sthān, “locality”). Compare -stan.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in northwestern India, created in 1949 and replacing the former province of Rajputana. Capital: Jaipur.
Various parts of northwestern India within Rajputana province.
senses_topics:
|
5034 | word:
mine
word_type:
pron
expansion:
mine
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian min, Icelandic mín.
senses_examples:
text:
The house itself is mine, but the land is not.
type:
example
text:
Mine has been a long journey.
type:
example
text:
Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.
type:
example
text:
This house of mine is over 100 years old.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which belongs to me.
Used predicatively.
That which belongs to me.
Used substantively, with an implied noun.
That which belongs to me.
Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
That which belongs to me.
Used otherwise not directly before the possessed noun.
senses_topics:
|
5035 | word:
mine
word_type:
det
expansion:
mine
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian min, Icelandic mín.
senses_examples:
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:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / […]
ref:
1862 February, Julia Ward Howe, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume IX, number LII, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
1930 Winter, Packard Motor Car Company, The Packard Magazine, Volume 9, Number 2, page 6,
Mine host, it seemed, did favors for everybody...
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
My; belonging to me.
Used attributively after the noun it modifies.
My; belonging to me.
Used attributively before a vowel.
senses_topics:
|
5036 | word:
mine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mine (plural mines)
forms:
form:
mine Entrance to a gold mine in Victoria
tags:
canonical
form:
mines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *mēnis (“ore, metal”).
senses_examples:
text:
Meronyms: mine shaft, mineshaft; mine car
text:
This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa.
type:
example
text:
He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black.
type:
example
text:
Most coal and ore comes from open-pit mines nowadays.
type:
example
text:
She's a mine of information about the history of mathematics.
type:
example
text:
To those seeking information about train services on the Continent, Cook's Continental Guide is always a mine of accurate information.
ref:
1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: U.S.S.R.: Train speeds still rising”, in Modern Railways, page 418
type:
quotation
text:
The most famous mine of the American Civil War led to the Battle of the Crater.
type:
example
text:
Holonym: minefield
text:
His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.
type:
example
text:
The warship was destroyed by floating mines.
type:
example
text:
Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; [...].
ref:
1940 May, “Overseas Railways: Icebound Denmark”, in Railway Magazine, page 302
type:
quotation
text:
A change to the blockchain method was contemplated to allow mines to hog less electric power.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
Any source of wealth or resources.
A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
5037 | word:
mine
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mine (third-person singular simple present mines, present participle mining, simple past and past participle mined)
forms:
form:
mines
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mining
tags:
participle
present
form:
mined
tags:
participle
past
form:
mined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *mēnis (“ore, metal”).
senses_examples:
text:
Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.
type:
example
text:
Lead veins have been traced […] but they have not been mined.
ref:
1837, Andrew Ure, Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
type:
quotation
text:
We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.
type:
example
text:
the mining cony
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: mint
text:
Bitcoin supporters say that estimates of its carbon footprint are overstated. And if the computers that mine and help transact bitcoins are attached to an electric grid that uses wind and solar power, they add, mining and using it will become cleaner over time.
ref:
2021 March 9, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Bitcoin's Climate Problem”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
To dig into, for ore or metal.
To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
To tap into.
To pick one's nose.
To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
senses_topics:
business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance |
5038 | word:
mine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mine (plural mines)
forms:
form:
mines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French mine.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of mien
senses_topics:
|
5039 | word:
ant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ant (plural ants)
forms:
form:
ants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ant
etymology_text:
From Middle English ampte, amte, emete, amete, from Old English ǣmete (“ant”), from Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā (literally “biting-thing, cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *ē- (“off, away”) + *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂y- (“to cut”). Cognate with Scots emmot (“ant”), dialectal Dutch emt, empt (“ant”), German Ameise and Emse (“ant”). See also emmet.
senses_examples:
text:
The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […]. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.
ref:
2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.
A Web spider.
senses_topics:
|
5040 | word:
ant
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ant (third-person singular simple present ants, present participle anting, simple past and past participle anted)
forms:
form:
ants
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
anting
tags:
participle
present
form:
anted
tags:
participle
past
form:
anted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ant
etymology_text:
From Middle English ampte, amte, emete, amete, from Old English ǣmete (“ant”), from Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā (literally “biting-thing, cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *ē- (“off, away”) + *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂y- (“to cut”). Cognate with Scots emmot (“ant”), dialectal Dutch emt, empt (“ant”), German Ameise and Emse (“ant”). See also emmet.
senses_examples:
text:
Wild birds tend to ant and sunbathe most frequently during periods of high humidity, particularly right after heavy or prolonged rainfall in summer.
ref:
1974, Eloise Potter and Doris Hauser, “Relationship of anting and sunbathing to molting in wild birds”, in The Auk, volume 91, archived from the original on 2011-06-06, page 538
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology |
5041 | word:
mother
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mother (plural mothers)
forms:
form:
mothers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Mother (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr
Proto-Germanic *mōdēr
Proto-West Germanic *mōder
Old English mōdor
Middle English moder
English mother
From Middle English moder, from Old English mōdor, from Proto-West Germanic *mōder, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Doublet of mata, mater, and matrix.
Some have proposed that the "dregs" sense is from Middle Dutch modder (“filth”), from Proto-Germanic *muþraz (“sediment”), but modder is not known in this meaning. On the other hand, words for "mother" have developed the secondary sense of "dregs" in several Romance and Germanic languages; compare Dutch moer, French mère de vinaigre, German Essigmutter, Italian madre, Medieval Latin māter, and Spanish madre.
senses_examples:
text:
I am visiting my mother today.
type:
example
text:
The lioness was a mother of four cubs.
type:
example
text:
My sister-in-law has just become a mother for the first time.
type:
example
text:
He had something of his mother in him.
type:
example
text:
He had something of his mother in him, but this was because he realized that in the end only her love was unconditional, and in gratitude he had emulated her.
ref:
1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son
type:
quotation
text:
The "Ritual to Celebrate Birthing" begins with a leader welcoming all participants : "Welcome to this celebration for N. She is approaching the time when she will become a mother for the first time (or become a mother again).
ref:
2005, Trudelle Thomas, Spirituality in the Mother Zone: Staying Centered, Finding God, Paulist Press, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother are conveyed to the fetus.
type:
example
text:
The antiabortion iconography in the last decade featured the fetus but never the mother.
ref:
1991, Susan Faludi, The Undeclared War Against American Women
type:
quotation
text:
To clone a boy, it is necessary to have a man as a DNA donor, a woman as an egg donor, and may be another woman as a surrogate mother.
ref:
2006, Multiplicity Yours: Cloning, Stem Cell Research, and Regenerative Medicine
type:
quotation
text:
If the cat to be cloned is female, the nucleus donor cat could also be used as the surrogate mother instead of another cat.
ref:
2023 January 16, Reinhard Renneberg, Biotechnology for Beginners, Academic Press, page 317
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: matriarch
text:
Near-synonym: matrix
text:
The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages.
type:
example
text:
But one in the place of God and not God, is as it were a falsehood; it is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived.
ref:
1844, Thomas Arnold, Fragment on the Church, volume 1, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
How on earth are we supposed to hold our heads high as the ‘mother of parliaments’ when we allow to continue the practice of almost openly buying a seat in parliament?
ref:
2013 October 31, Rowena Mason, quoting David Steel, “Lord Steel criticises culture of spin and tweeting in modern politics”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Near-synonym: Big One
text:
1991, January 17, Saddam Hussein, Broadcast on Baghdad state radio.
The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun.
text:
Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones.
type:
example
text:
A few minutes later we were all seated comfortably, Uncle Dave and mother, as he called his wife, myself and my husband, in the split-bottomed wooden chairs, on the vine-covered porch. / “Is Bethel a Methodist Church?” I asked. / Uncle Dave looked quizzically at his wife. “Do you hear that, mother?” he said.
ref:
1887 April 2, E. V. Wilson, “Uncle Dave”, in The Current, volume 7, number 172, page 432
type:
quotation
text:
On some days as he got near the house he would call out to his wife: / “Almighty Moses, Martha! who left the sprinkler on the grass?” / On other days he would call to her from quite a little distance off: “Hullo, mother! Got any supper for a hungry man?”
ref:
1922, Stephen Leacock, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, page 152
type:
quotation
text:
(Mr. Hill enters. He crosses to Wife.) / Mr. Hill: Hello, mother. […] How are you? / Mrs. Hill: Nothing wrong, dear, I hope.
ref:
1944, Walter Hackett, For the Duration: A Play for Junior and Senior High Schools, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Near-synonyms: matron, matriarch
text:
Judges 5:7, KJV.
The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
text:
Galatians 4:26, KJV.
Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
text:
pieces of mother ; adding mother to vinegar
type:
example
text:
T.V. dicusseth tumors and mollifieth them, helps inflammations, rising of the mother and the epilepsie being burnt.
ref:
1665, Robert Lovel, Pambotanologia sive Enchiridion botanicum, page 484
type:
quotation
text:
The Root hereof taken with Zedoary and Angelică, or without them, helps the rising of the Mother.
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1666, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physitian Enlarged, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
St Botolph's parish records ascribed three deaths to 'mother', an old name for the uterus.
ref:
1979, Thomas R. Forbes, “The changing face of death in London”, in Charles Webster, editor, Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century, published 1979, page 128
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female parent, sometimes especially a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
A female ancestor.
A source or origin.
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
A term of address for one's wife.
Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
Any person or entity which performs mothering.
Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of a culture of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
Hysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus.
A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
aA person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community; see also: serve cunt
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport
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5042 | word:
mother
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mother (third-person singular simple present mothers, present participle mothering, simple past and past participle mothered)
forms:
form:
mothers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mothering
tags:
participle
present
form:
mothered
tags:
participle
past
form:
mothered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:Mother (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English modren, from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
Q's sister, Debbie, had mothered two kids by the time she was twenty, with neither of the fathers in sight.
ref:
1998, Nina Revoyr, The Necessary Hunger: A Novel, Macmillan, page 101
type:
quotation
text:
Zilpah, Leah's maid, mothered two sons for Jacob, Gad and Asher. Leah became pregnant once more and had two more sons, Issachar, and Zebulun, and a daughter, Dinah, thus Leah had seven children for Jacob.
ref:
2010, Lynette Joseph-Bani, The Biblical Journey of Slavery: From Egypt to the Americas, AuthorHouse, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
She had seen fewer years than any of us, but she was of such superb Evehood and simplicity that she mothered us from the beginning.
ref:
c. 1900, O. Henry, An Adjustment of Nature
type:
quotation
text:
mothered oil, mothered vinegar, mothered wine
type:
example
text:
Iron rusted, paper cracked, cream soured and vinegar mothered.
ref:
1968, Evelyn Berckman, The Heir of Starvelings, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
Your lamp
was always polished, wick
trimmed, waiting; yet the bridegroom
somehow never came. Summer dust
settled in the vineyard. Grapes
were harvested; your parents
crushed and pressed them, but the wine
mothered.
ref:
2013, Richard Dauenhauer, Benchmarks: New and Selected Poems 1963-2013, page 94
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
To develop mother.
senses_topics:
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5043 | word:
mother
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mother (plural mothers)
forms:
form:
mothers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Mother (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Clipping of motherfucker
senses_examples:
text:
Stick a votive candle in it and fire that mother up, right?
ref:
1989 December 19, Slim Randles, “Entrepreneur Hopes Luminaria Delivery Service Catches On”, in The Albuquerque Journal, Albuquerque, New Mexico, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
Who run this mother
ref:
2011, Beyoncé Knowles (lyrics and music), “Run the World (Girls)”, in 4
type:
quotation
text:
November, 1943 If ever, Cortney Anders promised himself, I get out of this mother of a thunderstorm there is a thing I will do if it is the last act of my life.
ref:
1964, Richard L. Newhafer, The last tallyho
type:
quotation
text:
Some hot night there's gonna be one mother of a riot down here. Just wait." He'd been saying the same thing since 1958, five years of crying wolf.
ref:
1980, Chester Anderson, Fox & hare: the story of a Friday night, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Basically, we wind up with a program. One mother of a complex application.
ref:
2004 Nov, Rajnar Vajra, “The Ghost Within”, in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, volume 124, number 11, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Josh, whose fleshy face resembles a rhino's - beady wide-set eyes blinking between a mother of a snout
ref:
2006, Elizabeth Robinson, The true and outstanding adventures of the Hunt sisters
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Motherfucker.
A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)
senses_topics:
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5044 | word:
mother
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mother (plural mothers)
forms:
form:
mothers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Mother (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
table Coined from moth by analogy to mouser.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of moth-er
senses_topics:
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5045 | word:
jargon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jargon (countable and uncountable, plural jargons)
forms:
form:
jargons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English jargoun, jargon, from Old French jargon, a variant of gargon, gargun (“chatter; talk; language”).
senses_examples:
text:
In fact all the competing theories have developed their own specialized jargons and have a tendency to be difficult to penetrate.
ref:
2014, Ian Hodder, Archaeological Theory Today
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
A language characteristic of a particular group.
Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
senses_topics:
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5046 | word:
jargon
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jargon (third-person singular simple present jargons, present participle jargoning, simple past and past participle jargoned)
forms:
form:
jargons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jargoning
tags:
participle
present
form:
jargoned
tags:
participle
past
form:
jargoned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English jargoun, jargon, from Old French jargon, a variant of gargon, gargun (“chatter; talk; language”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
senses_topics:
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5047 | word:
jargon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jargon (countable and uncountable, plural jargons)
forms:
form:
jargons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”)
senses_topics:
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5048 | word:
Whitehorse
word_type:
name
expansion:
Whitehorse
forms:
wikipedia:
White Horse Rapids
en:Whitehorse
etymology_text:
From white + horse.
* In Yukon, from the appearance of the White Horse Rapids, which looked like the manes of white horses.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Yukon, Canada.
An unincorporated community in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States, named after a tavern.
A census-designated place in Dewey County, South Dakota, United States, named after a chieftain.
The City of Whitehorse, a local government area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, named after the White Horse Inn, a former tavern.
senses_topics:
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5049 | word:
chocolate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chocolate (countable and uncountable, plural chocolates)
forms:
form:
chocolates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chocolate
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Classical Nahuatl chocolatlbor.
Spanish chocolatebor.
English chocolate
Via Spanish chocolate from a Nahuatl word, widely given as chocolātl (with the second element being a reflex of Classical Nahuatl ātl (“water”)), although such a word does not appear in Nahuatl until the mid-18th century according to Karttunen. Dakin and Wichmann propose chicolātl as the original form (saying it survives in several modern Nahuatl dialects) and say the chicol- element refers to a special wooden stick used to prepare chocolate. Another theory is that the prefix came from Yucatec Maya chocol (“hot”).
senses_examples:
text:
Chocolate is a very popular treat.
type:
example
text:
He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away.
type:
example
text:
As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.
text:
chocolate:
text:
"I suppose you have some of your sweet chocolates working for you?" Barney nodded.
ref:
1967, James David Horan, The Right Image: A Novel of the Men who Make Candidates, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
I can consume as much of you as I want to without gaining weight. Sexy chocolate is what you are.
ref:
2009, Evangeline Holloway, The Reincarnation of Love, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
“How is my sexy chocolate?” Mark says on the other end.
ref:
2011, Ella Campbell, Torn: The Melissa Williams Story, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
“Yes Lucas, you're some fine sexy chocolate”, she whispered, her long dark hair covering her face and the curves bursting out of her dress.
ref:
2012, Harry Davis, My Name Is Lucas
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.
A black person; (uncountable) blackness.
senses_topics:
|
5050 | word:
chocolate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
chocolate (comparative more chocolate, superlative most chocolate)
forms:
form:
more chocolate
tags:
comparative
form:
most chocolate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
chocolate
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Classical Nahuatl chocolatlbor.
Spanish chocolatebor.
English chocolate
Via Spanish chocolate from a Nahuatl word, widely given as chocolātl (with the second element being a reflex of Classical Nahuatl ātl (“water”)), although such a word does not appear in Nahuatl until the mid-18th century according to Karttunen. Dakin and Wichmann propose chicolātl as the original form (saying it survives in several modern Nahuatl dialects) and say the chicol- element refers to a special wooden stick used to prepare chocolate. Another theory is that the prefix came from Yucatec Maya chocol (“hot”).
senses_examples:
text:
She was a chocolate honey with all the assets necessary to never have to work hard to pay her bills.
ref:
2005, Patrick Goines, Unfinished Business, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
Therefore, African Americans complexion range from fair to mahogony. When a baby is born, it's always a mystery of the hue of the child. Sometimes the child will be as white as the slave owner or as chocolate as a great great grandparent.
ref:
2010, Delores J. Dillard, Papua, New Guinea, 1983, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
If you are as chocolate as an African queen, do you really think you'll look better as a bottle blonde?
ref:
2011, Stephanie Stokes Oliver, Daily Cornbread, page 200
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of or containing chocolate.
Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.
Black (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).
senses_topics:
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5051 | word:
chocolate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
chocolate (third-person singular simple present chocolates, present participle chocolating, simple past and past participle chocolated)
forms:
form:
chocolates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
chocolating
tags:
participle
present
form:
chocolated
tags:
participle
past
form:
chocolated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
chocolate
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Classical Nahuatl chocolatlbor.
Spanish chocolatebor.
English chocolate
Via Spanish chocolate from a Nahuatl word, widely given as chocolātl (with the second element being a reflex of Classical Nahuatl ātl (“water”)), although such a word does not appear in Nahuatl until the mid-18th century according to Karttunen. Dakin and Wichmann propose chicolātl as the original form (saying it survives in several modern Nahuatl dialects) and say the chicol- element refers to a special wooden stick used to prepare chocolate. Another theory is that the prefix came from Yucatec Maya chocol (“hot”).
senses_examples:
text:
Other formulations have been adopted to supply these growth factors; these include heating or "chocolating" the blood agar to release NAD directly from the erythrocytes in the agar medium.
ref:
1992 August 24, R. Rennie, “Laboratory and Clinical Evaluations of Media for the Primary Isolation of Haemophilus Species”, in Journal of Clinical Microbiology, volume 30, number 8, page 1917
type:
quotation
text:
It is a chocolated blood agar but here whole horse blood is used.
ref:
2000, Ochei Et Al, Medical Laboratory Science : Theory And Practice, page 843
type:
quotation
text:
The mixture is incubated at 75°C until chocolating has taken place.
ref:
2003, Mark A. Herbert, Haemophilus influenzae Protocols, page 73
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.
To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
5052 | word:
freeway
word_type:
noun
expansion:
freeway (plural freeways)
forms:
form:
freeways
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From free + way.
senses_examples:
text:
Contrary to what one might expect of an essay on freeways, this one is neither a diatribe nor a paean.
ref:
1983, David Brodsly, L. A. Freeway: An Appreciative Essay, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
A 106-kilometer section of this 117-kilometer new freeway (between Hsinchu and Hsichih 汐止) was opened to traffic in 1997, and the entire line will be finished in December 1999.
ref:
1999 June, “Transportation”, in A Brief Introduction to the Republic of China, Government Information Office, →OCLC, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
In the late 1950s and 1960s most large cities started planning freeway systems, acknowledging the incredible growth in car ownership.
ref:
2008, Derek Hayes, Canada: An Illustrated History, page 257
type:
quotation
text:
The Australian freeway story of the late twentieth century, like many planning stories, can be told as one of high technical expectations dashed by political controversy.
ref:
2010, Robert Freestone, Urban Nation: Australia′s Planning Heritage, page 161
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic running in two directions on one separate carriageway each
A toll-free highway.
senses_topics:
|
5053 | word:
Punjab
word_type:
name
expansion:
Punjab
forms:
wikipedia:
Punjab region
Sutlej
etymology_text:
From Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬ / پنجاب (pañjāb), from Classical Persian پَنْجَاب (panjāb, “[Land of] the Five Rivers”), from پَنْج (panj, “five”) and آب (āb, “water”), referring to five rivers of the Punjab region: the Jhelum, the Chenab, the Ravi, the Sutlej and the Beas. The Persian term is a translation of Sanskrit पञ्चनद (pañcanada, “[Land of] the Five Rivers”), from पञ्च (pañca, “five”) and नद (nada, “river”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A geographical region of South Asia, divided (by the Radcliffe Line) between India and Pakistan. Pakistani Punjab includes the (West) Punjab Province and parts of the Islamabad Capital Territory; Indian Punjab includes (East) Punjab State and some other territories.
A state in northern India. Capital: Chandigarh. Largest city: Ludhiana
A province in Pakistan. Capital: Lahore
senses_topics:
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5054 | word:
whom
word_type:
pron
expansion:
whom (singular and plural objective case of who)
forms:
form:
of who
tags:
objective
plural
singular
wikipedia:
whom
etymology_text:
From Middle English whom, wham, from Old English hwām, hwǣm, from Proto-Germanic *hwammai, dative case of *hwaz (“who, what”). Cognate with Scots wham (“whom”), German wem (“whom, to whom”), Danish hvem (“who, whom”), Swedish vem (“who, whom”).
senses_examples:
text:
Whom did you ask?
type:
example
text:
To whom are you referring?
type:
example
text:
With whom were you talking?
type:
example
text:
That is the woman whom I spoke to earlier. (defining)
type:
example
text:
Mr Smith, whom we all know well, will be giving the speech. (non-defining)
type:
example
text:
He's a person with whom I work. (defining)
type:
example
text:
We have ten employees, half of whom are carpenters. (non-defining)
type:
example
text:
“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
ref:
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court
type:
quotation
text:
To whom it may concern, all business of John Smith Ltd. has now been transferred to Floggitt & Runne.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
What person or people; which person or people.
As the object of a verb.
What person or people; which person or people.
As the object of a preposition.
Used to refer to a previously mentioned person or people.
The person(s) whom; whomever.
senses_topics:
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5055 | word:
Newfoundland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Newfoundland
forms:
wikipedia:
Henry VII of England
John Cabot
Newfoundland
etymology_text:
From Middle English new found lande (in a letter, apparently written in 1499, from Henry VII of England to his lord chancellor, Cardinal John Morton, about the North American land explored by Sebastian and John Cabot, a likely location being Newfoundland, or the name later being specifically narrowed down to it), equivalent to newfound + land.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large island off the coast of eastern Canada, which, along with Labrador, has composed the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador since 1949, and the Dominion of Newfoundland, before it.
Former name of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Ellipsis of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Ellipsis of Dominion of Newfoundland. A former country in North America
Ellipsis of Colony of Newfoundland. A former colony of North America, of British North America, British Empire, United Kingdom
senses_topics:
|
5056 | word:
Newfoundland
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Newfoundland (plural Newfoundlands)
forms:
form:
Newfoundlands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Henry VII of England
John Cabot
Newfoundland
etymology_text:
From Middle English new found lande (in a letter, apparently written in 1499, from Henry VII of England to his lord chancellor, Cardinal John Morton, about the North American land explored by Sebastian and John Cabot, a likely location being Newfoundland, or the name later being specifically narrowed down to it), equivalent to newfound + land.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A very large breed of working dog from Newfoundland, with a shaggy, usually black coat, known for its water rescue ability, strength, and gentle disposition.
senses_topics:
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5057 | word:
French
word_type:
name
expansion:
French (countable and uncountable, plural Frenches)
forms:
form:
Frenches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
French
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English Frenche, Frensch, Frensc, Frenshe, Frenk, Franche, from Old English Frenċisċ (“Frankish, French”), from Proto-West Germanic *Frankisk (“Frankish”), equivalent to Frank + -ish (compare Frankish). Cognate with Middle Low German vranksch, frenkisch, vrenkesch, vrenksch (“Frankish, French”), Middle High German vrenkisch, vrensch ("Frankish, Franconian; > German fränkisch (“Frankish, Franconian”)), Danish fransk (“French”), Swedish fransk, fransysk (“French”), Icelandic franska (“French”).
Doublet of Frankish.
In reference to vulgar language, from expressions such as pardon my French in the early 19th century, originally in reference to actual (but often mildly impolite) French expressions by the upper class, subsequently adopted ironically by the lower class for English cursewords under the charitable conceit that the listener would not be familiar with them.
In reference to vermouth, a shortened form of French vermouth, distinguished as usually being drier than Italian vermouth.
senses_examples:
text:
She speaks French.
type:
example
text:
Ne mowe we alle Latin wite...
Ne French...
ref:
c. 1390, Robert Grosseteste, translating Chateau d'Amour as The Castle of Love, ll. 25 ff.
text:
I... wolde also be bolde in such french as is peculiare to the lawys of this realme, to leue it wyth them in wrytynge to.
ref:
1533, Thomas More, The Debellacyon of Salem & Bizance, fol. 96
text:
I could speak but little French.
ref:
1720, Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Thus, complementary to the French of France, the Quebecois (and in a lesser degree the Frenches of Africa, Swiss French, etc.) would constitute languages in their own right.
ref:
1991, Michael Clyne, Pluricentric Languages: Differing Norms in Different Nations, Walter de Gruyter, page 169
type:
quotation
text:
Almost three quarters of the population 65 and older reported speaking French.
ref:
1997, Albert Valdman, French and Creole in Louisiana, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
Although he would spend the rest of his life in France, Picasso never mastered the language, and during those early years he was especially self-conscious about how bad his French was.
ref:
2004, Jack Flam, Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
The Frenches of England remain as working languages in the different registers of various occupational communities and for particular social rituals. Beyond the fifteenth century, French is a much less substantial presence in England, though[…]
ref:
2013, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England, C.1100-c.1500, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, page 361
type:
quotation
text:
My French is a little rusty.
type:
example
text:
[Racine's] language is the language of the times, and that of the purest sort; so that his French is reckoned a standard.
ref:
1742 April 4, R. West, letter to Thomas Gray
text:
I'm taking French next semester.
type:
example
text:
Pardon my French.
type:
example
text:
The enraged headsman spares no 'bad French' in explaining his motives.
ref:
1845, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, Adventure in New Zealand, volume I, page 327
type:
quotation
text:
Cameron: Pardon my French, but you're an asshole!
ref:
1986, John Hughes, Ferris Bueller's Day Off'
text:
The book... is a welcome change from theory-infected academic discourse, pardon my French.
ref:
2005 May 29, New York Times Book Review, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
Dawn French.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language of France, shared by the neighboring countries Belgium, Monaco, and Switzerland and by former French colonies around the world.
The ability of a person to communicate in French.
French language and literature as an object of study.
Vulgar language.
A surname.
senses_topics:
|
5058 | word:
French
word_type:
noun
expansion:
French (countable and uncountable, plural French or Frenches)
forms:
form:
French
tags:
plural
form:
Frenches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
French
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English Frenche, Frensch, Frensc, Frenshe, Frenk, Franche, from Old English Frenċisċ (“Frankish, French”), from Proto-West Germanic *Frankisk (“Frankish”), equivalent to Frank + -ish (compare Frankish). Cognate with Middle Low German vranksch, frenkisch, vrenkesch, vrenksch (“Frankish, French”), Middle High German vrenkisch, vrensch ("Frankish, Franconian; > German fränkisch (“Frankish, Franconian”)), Danish fransk (“French”), Swedish fransk, fransysk (“French”), Icelandic franska (“French”).
Doublet of Frankish.
In reference to vulgar language, from expressions such as pardon my French in the early 19th century, originally in reference to actual (but often mildly impolite) French expressions by the upper class, subsequently adopted ironically by the lower class for English cursewords under the charitable conceit that the listener would not be familiar with them.
In reference to vermouth, a shortened form of French vermouth, distinguished as usually being drier than Italian vermouth.
senses_examples:
text:
The Hundred Years' War was fought between the English and the French.
type:
example
text:
Under the Fourth Republic, more and more French unionized.
type:
example
text:
[…]to breake the necke of the wicked purposes & plots of the French[…]
ref:
1579, Francesco Guicciardini as, translated by Geoffrey Fenton, The Historie of Guicciardin, page 378
type:
quotation
text:
Such is the nature and complexion of the frenches, that they are worth nothing, but at the first push.
ref:
1653, François Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart, Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, volume I, page 214
type:
quotation
text:
On the way, scouts reported that some French were heading toward them across the ice.
ref:
2002, Jeremy Thornton, The French and Indian War, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
French-- to do the French--Cocksucking; and, inversely, to tongue a woman.
ref:
1916, Henry Nathaniel Cary, The Slang of Venery and Its Analogues, volume I, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
You can be whipped or caned... or you can have French for another pound.
ref:
1968, Bill Turner, Sex Trap, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
Always use condoms with Greek (anal intercourse), straight sex (vaginal intercourse, fucking), French (oral sex).
ref:
1986 May 6, Semper Floreat, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
‘French’—still used by prostitutes as a term for oral sex.
ref:
1996 October 13, Observer, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
Tearle replied that gin-and-French and virginian cigarettes would do for him.
ref:
1930, Ethel Mannin, Confessions & Impressions, page 177
type:
quotation
text:
He was drinking double gins with single Frenches in them.
ref:
1967, Michael Francis Gilbert, The Dust & the Heat, page 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The people of France; groups of French people.
Synonym of oral sex, especially fellatio.
Ellipsis of French vermouth, a type of dry vermouth.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
sex
sexuality
|
5059 | word:
French
word_type:
adj
expansion:
French (comparative more French, superlative most French)
forms:
form:
more French
tags:
comparative
form:
most French
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
French
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English Frenche, Frensch, Frensc, Frenshe, Frenk, Franche, from Old English Frenċisċ (“Frankish, French”), from Proto-West Germanic *Frankisk (“Frankish”), equivalent to Frank + -ish (compare Frankish). Cognate with Middle Low German vranksch, frenkisch, vrenkesch, vrenksch (“Frankish, French”), Middle High German vrenkisch, vrensch ("Frankish, Franconian; > German fränkisch (“Frankish, Franconian”)), Danish fransk (“French”), Swedish fransk, fransysk (“French”), Icelandic franska (“French”).
Doublet of Frankish.
In reference to vulgar language, from expressions such as pardon my French in the early 19th century, originally in reference to actual (but often mildly impolite) French expressions by the upper class, subsequently adopted ironically by the lower class for English cursewords under the charitable conceit that the listener would not be familiar with them.
In reference to vermouth, a shortened form of French vermouth, distinguished as usually being drier than Italian vermouth.
senses_examples:
text:
the French border with Italy
type:
example
text:
That must have hurt, especially because you knew the French children weren’t even trying. “Uh, go on, play weez your seellee nambeurs. Zey tell you nosseeng of ze true naytcheur of ze soula. I’ll weepa for you.”
ref:
2015 May 3, “Standardized Testing”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 12, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
French customs
type:
example
text:
French verbs
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: straight
text:
French active ― person who is fellated
type:
example
text:
French girl ― a prostitute who offers fellatio
type:
example
text:
French disease ― a venereal disease
type:
example
text:
French crown ― hair loss from venereal disease
type:
example
text:
French pox ― syphillis
type:
example
text:
French curve ― drafting template having edges of various curvatures
type:
example
text:
French cut ― sliced lengthwise in thin strips
type:
example
text:
French fries ― french cut potato fries
type:
example
text:
French kiss ― kissing with the tongue
type:
example
text:
French manicure ― painting white under the finger nails
type:
example
text:
French window or French door ― double wooden windows or doors crafted with panes of glass
type:
example
text:
French refrigerator ― continuous refrigerator space on top accessed by two doors, with a freezer drawer below
type:
example
text:
French polish ― type of glossy varnish for wood
type:
example
text:
French inhale ― act of expelling cigarette smoke from the mouth and simultaneously inhaling it through the nose
type:
example
text:
French exit or French leave ― hasty exit made without saying farewells to anybody
type:
example
text:
French toast ― Food prepared by dipping bread into egg batter and frying
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to France.
Of or relating to the people or culture of France.
Of or relating to the French language.
Of or related to oral sex, especially fellatio.
Used to form names or references to venereal diseases.
Used to form names or references to an unconventional or fancy style.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
sexuality
|
5060 | word:
French
word_type:
verb
expansion:
French (third-person singular simple present Frenches, present participle Frenching, simple past and past participle Frenched)
forms:
form:
Frenches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Frenching
tags:
participle
present
form:
Frenched
tags:
participle
past
form:
Frenched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
French
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English Frenche, Frensch, Frensc, Frenshe, Frenk, Franche, from Old English Frenċisċ (“Frankish, French”), from Proto-West Germanic *Frankisk (“Frankish”), equivalent to Frank + -ish (compare Frankish). Cognate with Middle Low German vranksch, frenkisch, vrenkesch, vrenksch (“Frankish, French”), Middle High German vrenkisch, vrensch ("Frankish, Franconian; > German fränkisch (“Frankish, Franconian”)), Danish fransk (“French”), Swedish fransk, fransysk (“French”), Icelandic franska (“French”).
Doublet of Frankish.
In reference to vulgar language, from expressions such as pardon my French in the early 19th century, originally in reference to actual (but often mildly impolite) French expressions by the upper class, subsequently adopted ironically by the lower class for English cursewords under the charitable conceit that the listener would not be familiar with them.
In reference to vermouth, a shortened form of French vermouth, distinguished as usually being drier than Italian vermouth.
senses_examples:
text:
Even before I thought about what I was doing we Frenched and kissed with tongues.
ref:
1995, Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence, page 87
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of french
senses_topics:
|
5061 | word:
matanza
word_type:
noun
expansion:
matanza (plural matanzas)
forms:
form:
matanzas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish matanza (“slaughter”), from matar (“to kill”).
senses_examples:
text:
Captain Hall has given a very excellent description of a matanza, the slaughtering place of a large hacienda, where cattle are killed in numbers with the view of making charqui : the fleshy parts alone are used, all the soft fat being carefully cut off […]
ref:
1826, John Miers, Travels in Chile and La Plata, page 310
type:
quotation
text:
[…] a "tramp bitch," whose puppies had been captured in the neighborhood of the matanza. The beef-packery is guarded at night by a dozen ugly-looking mastiffs, and the tramp dogs generally give the establishment an extensive berth; but […] They used to sit in groups on the slope of a little hill near the matanza, appealing to the charity of the proprietor by yelping in chorus every now and then. There was so much waste stuff around the place that the captain concluded to grant their petition, and, by way of encouragement, sent them a car-load of beef-bones and "rippings," instructing the driver to scatter the scraps between the hill and the bone-pit.
ref:
1882, Felix Leopold Oswald, Zoological Sketches, page 179
type:
quotation
text:
There is a great variety of products of the matanza. Here I describe three of the most widely appreciated ones: the dried ham, whose fat is choice tocino, the sausage called chorizo and the preserved loin and ribs of pork.
ref:
1997, Jessica Kuper, The Anthropologists' Cookbook, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
Before the matanza could open for business (and stay in business), nine different regulating authorities had to sign off, including organic certification, transportation, the state Environment Department, weights and measures licensing, the Livestock Board, the USDA, and even Homeland Security.
ref:
2015, Courtney White, Two Percent Solutions for the Planet, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
The slaughtering period (matanza) lasts usually a month, and is a holiday for the shepherds, […] and fatten themselves and their families for a long time with sheep's heads and livers. The cooked meat, from which the fat has been extracted (carne de chito), lies there in complete mountains after a matanza : it is bought up by the dealers and conveyed to the villages, where the Indians buy it at the market for a mere trifle […]
ref:
1859, Carl Christian Wilhelm Sartorius, Mexico: Landscapes and popular sketches, page 190
type:
quotation
text:
A matanza was another busy time for the Spaniards. This was the butchering or killing of the cattle for their hides.
ref:
1903, Rosa Viola Winterburn, The Spanish in the Southwest, page 189
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the Genoese established a colony at Tabarka on the coast of Tunisia between 1540 and 1742 specializing in coral-fishing, and where Tunisian fishermen have now joined Sicilian fleets in the matanza, the great seasonal slaughter of tuna.
ref:
2011, David Abulafia, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, Oxford University Press, page 641
type:
quotation
text:
[…] but this wasn't a matanza with family and vecinos helping, this was Sonny lying in the dark forest […]
ref:
2015, Rudolfo Anaya, Jemez Spring, Open Road Media
type:
quotation
text:
Tomorrow he would help his grandpa and the neighbors in the matanza. It was early in the morning; Diego was already awake, anticipating the job that his grandpa had given him. Today is the matanza; Grandpa was having his usual […]
ref:
2020, Marvin Guadalupe Romero, Mestizo the Old Man
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A place where animals are slaughtered, for their hides, meat, tallow, etc, particularly in a Latin American context; a slaughterhouse.
A slaughter, as of cattle or pigs (for their hides, meat, etc), of tuna, or of people; the act of butchering or slaughtering.
senses_topics:
|
5062 | word:
hajj
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hajj (countable and uncountable, plural hajjes)
forms:
form:
hajjes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic حَجّ (ḥajj, “pilgrimage”), from حَجَّ (ḥajja, “to go, to repair”).
senses_examples:
text:
The word Hajj is explained by Moslem divines to mean “Kasd,” or aspiration, and to express man’s sentiment that he is but a wayfarer on earth wending towards another and a nobler world.
ref:
1855, Richard Francis Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Appendix I
type:
quotation
text:
The restored cottage, which has been open to tourists since 1891 (Woodrow Wilson came here on a cycling tour in 1899), is the Kaabah of a Lake District haj, a must-see for all pilgrims.
ref:
2000 June, Jamie James, “Wordsworth Slept Here”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
“He passed away due to diabetes while in prison,” the residential committee member said. “He was serving time in Tumshuq Prison for performing the hajj pilgrimage.”
ref:
2023 May 24, Shohret Hoshur, “Uyghur motorcycle repairman’s corpse released by prison in Kashgar prefecture”, in Roseanne Gerin, Malcom Foster, editors, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2024-02-01, RFA Uyghur
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars of Islam.
senses_topics:
Islam
lifestyle
religion |
5063 | word:
soil
word_type:
noun
expansion:
soil (countable and uncountable, plural soils)
forms:
form:
soils
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
soil
etymology_text:
From Middle English soile, soyle, sule (“ground, earth”), partly from Anglo-Norman soyl (“bottom, ground, pavement”), from Latin solium (“seat, chair; throne”), mistaken for Latin solum (“ground, foundation, earth, sole of the foot”); and partly from Old English sol (“mud, mire, wet sand”), from Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mud, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Middle Low German söle (“dirt, mud”), Middle Dutch sol (“dirt, filth”), Middle High German sol, söl (“dirt, mud, mire”), Danish søle (“mud, muck”). Compare French seuil (“level; threshold”) and sol (“soil, earth; ground”). See also sole, soal, solum.
senses_examples:
text:
We bought a bag of soil for the houseplants.
type:
example
text:
Except during the season in town, she spends her year in golfing, either at St Magnus or Pau, for, like all good Americans, she has long since abjured her native soil.
ref:
1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major
type:
quotation
text:
Pro-democracy demonstrations in the Thai capital saw Germany's embassy become the focus Monday as the throngs of protesters gathered in front of the mission asked Berlin to investigate whether King Maha Vajiralongkorn is inappropriately conducting state business on German soil.
ref:
2020 October 27, Apornrath Phoonphongphiphat, Yuda Masayuki, “Thailand protesters query German embassy on absent king”, in Nikkei Asia, Nikkei Inc, retrieved 2020-10-27
type:
quotation
text:
And ſince not only a dead Fathers fame, / But more a Ladies honour muſt be touch’d, / Which nice as Ermines will not bear a Soil ; / Let all retire ; that you alone may hear / What ev’n in whiſpers I won’d tell your ear.
ref:
1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: A Tragedy Acted at the Theatre Royal, London: Jo. Hindmarſh, act V, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
As Deere being ſtrucke flie thorow many ſoiles, / Yet ſtill the ſhaft ſitcks faſt, ſo ;
ref:
1603, John Marston, John Webster, The Malcontent, act III, scene i
type:
quotation
text:
night soil
type:
example
text:
HAving given you an Account of the way of ordering of Meadows, Paſtures and Arable Land, with ſeveral Sorts of Improvement of them ; I ſhall in the next place proceed to give an Account of the ſeveral ways uſed to improve Land by Manure, Dung, and other Sort of Soils.
ref:
1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, “Of Manuring, Dunging, and Soiling of Land”, in The Whole Art of Husbandry; Or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land, 2nd edition, London: J. H. for H. Mortlock, and J. Robinſon, published 1708, page 66
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
Country or territory.
That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
Dung; compost; manure.
senses_topics:
|
5064 | word:
soil
word_type:
verb
expansion:
soil (third-person singular simple present soils, present participle soiling, simple past and past participle soiled)
forms:
form:
soils
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
soiling
tags:
participle
present
form:
soiled
tags:
participle
past
form:
soiled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
soil
etymology_text:
From Middle English soilen, soulen, suylen (“to sully, make dirty”), partly from Old French soillier, souillier (“to soil, make dirty, wallow in mire”), from Old Frankish *saulijan, *sulwijan (“to make dirty, soil”); partly from Old English solian, sylian (“to soil, make dirty”), from Proto-Germanic *sulwōną, *sulwijaną, *saulijaną (“to soil, make dirty”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Old Frisian sulia (“to soil, mire”), Middle Dutch soluwen, seulewen (“to soil, besmirch”), Old High German solōn, bisulen (“to make dirty”), German suhlen (“to soil, make dirty”), Danish søle (“to make dirty, defile”), Swedish söla (“to soil, make dirty”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bisauljan, “to bemire”). Compare sully.
senses_examples:
text:
Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.
type:
example
text:
The child was so scared she soiled herself.
type:
example
text:
For to be kind to the former is traffic ; and in these times men present, just as they soil their ground, not that they love the dirt, but that they expect a crop : and for the latter, the politician well approves of the Indian’s religion, in worshiping the devil, that he may do him no hurt ; how much soever he hates him, and is hated by him.
ref:
1676 April 30, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster Abbey”, in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume I, New York: Hurd and Houghton, published 1866, page 176
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make dirty.
To become dirty or soiled.
To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
To make invalid, to ruin.
To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
senses_topics:
|
5065 | word:
soil
word_type:
noun
expansion:
soil (plural soils)
forms:
form:
soils
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
soil
etymology_text:
From Middle English soilen, soulen, suylen (“to sully, make dirty”), partly from Old French soillier, souillier (“to soil, make dirty, wallow in mire”), from Old Frankish *saulijan, *sulwijan (“to make dirty, soil”); partly from Old English solian, sylian (“to soil, make dirty”), from Proto-Germanic *sulwōną, *sulwijaną, *saulijaną (“to soil, make dirty”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Old Frisian sulia (“to soil, mire”), Middle Dutch soluwen, seulewen (“to soil, besmirch”), Old High German solōn, bisulen (“to make dirty”), German suhlen (“to soil, make dirty”), Danish søle (“to make dirty, defile”), Swedish söla (“to soil, make dirty”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bisauljan, “to bemire”). Compare sully.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
A bag containing soiled items.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
5066 | word:
soil
word_type:
noun
expansion:
soil (plural soils)
forms:
form:
soils
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
soil
etymology_text:
From Middle English soyl, from Old French soil, souil (“quagmire, marsh”), from Frankish *sōlja, *saulja (“mire, miry place, wallow”), from Proto-Germanic *saulijō (“mud, puddle, feces”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Old English syle, sylu, sylen (“miry place, wallow”), Old High German sol, gisol (“miry place”), German Suhle (“a wallow, mud pit, muddy pool”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
senses_topics:
|
5067 | word:
soil
word_type:
verb
expansion:
soil (third-person singular simple present soils, present participle soiling, simple past and past participle soiled)
forms:
form:
soils
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
soiling
tags:
participle
present
form:
soiled
tags:
participle
past
form:
soiled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
soil
etymology_text:
From Old French saoler, saouler (“to satiate”).
senses_examples:
text:
to soil a horse
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (due to such food having the effect of purging them) to purge by feeding on green food.
senses_topics:
|
5068 | word:
pico
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pico (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of pico de gallo.
senses_topics:
|
5069 | word:
superhighway
word_type:
noun
expansion:
superhighway (plural superhighways)
forms:
form:
superhighways
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From super- + highway.
senses_examples:
text:
We cannot and should not be rebuilding old "two lane" sections of the air transport system with segments having "eight lane superhighway" capacity without knowing the full economic, safety, and environmental impacts of the entire air traffic superhighway.
ref:
1996, United States Congress House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation, Computer outages at the Federal Aviation Administration's Air Traffic Control Center in Aurora, Illinois
type:
quotation
text:
By 1400, however, Western Europeans had developed their own versions of oceangoing ships, and these transformed the much narrower Atlantic Ocean from a barrier into a superhighway.
ref:
2015, Ian Morris, Stephen Macedo, Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve
type:
quotation
text:
One of them was exploring the possibility of a bicycle superhighway along the River Dodder.
ref:
2018, Mikael Colville-Andersen, Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism
type:
quotation
text:
In the discussion about the pros and cons of the electronic superhighway, people often refer to the Internet.
ref:
1996, V. J. J. M. Bekkers, Bert-Jaap Koops, Sjaak Nouwt, Emerging Electronic Highways:New Challenges for Politics and Law
type:
quotation
text:
How should we reinterpret the universal service obligation for the superhighway? It is clear that price is already a barrier to access to the basic telephone service.
ref:
1996, Richard Collins, Converging Media? Converging Regulation?, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
As both Bell Atlantic and TCI have made clear, their superhighway will give them full control over the programming from its point of origin through its delivery to the home.
ref:
2000, Charles Addo, Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions: A Case Study, page 113
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expressway, especially one designed for high speeds.
A major route that carries most of the traffic going in a given direction by a specified mode of transportation.
The primary mechanism used in the movement of electronic data or information; information superhighway.
senses_topics:
|
5070 | word:
Winnipeg
word_type:
name
expansion:
Winnipeg
forms:
wikipedia:
Winnipeg (disambiguation)
Winnipeg, Manitoba
etymology_text:
* From Ojibwe wiinibig (“dirty waters”), from wiini’ (“to make someone dirty”), wiinad (“it is dirty”), + nibi (“water”), plural nibig (“waters”).
* After the lake, from Cree/Swampy Cree ᐑᓂᐯᐠ (“muddy waters”), describing the river's water entering the lake (CanOD).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Manitoba, Canada.
Short for Lake Winnipeg, a large lake in Manitoba.
Winnipeg River, a river that flows 813 km from Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada into Lake Winnipeg.
An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri, United States, named after the Canadian city.
senses_topics:
|
5071 | word:
mea culpa
word_type:
intj
expansion:
mea culpa
forms:
wikipedia:
Confiteor
mea culpa
etymology_text:
From the Latin phrase meā culpā (“through my fault”), ablative case of mea culpa (“my fault, guilt”), taken from the Confiteor, a traditional penitential prayer in Western Christianity.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
My fault, due to my error; I am to blame.
senses_topics:
|
5072 | word:
mea culpa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mea culpa (plural mea culpas or mea culpae)
forms:
form:
mea culpas
tags:
plural
form:
mea culpae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Confiteor
mea culpa
etymology_text:
From the Latin phrase meā culpā (“through my fault”), ablative case of mea culpa (“my fault, guilt”), taken from the Confiteor, a traditional penitential prayer in Western Christianity.
senses_examples:
text:
For Example, when St. Anthony ſaid his Confiteor, which he did often enough, all the Spectators fell down on their Knees, and gave themſelves ſuch rude Mea Culpa’s as was enough to beat the breath out of their Bodies.
ref:
1692, The Ingenious and Diverting Letters of the Lady ⸺ Travels into Spain: […], 2nd edition, London: […] Samuel Crouch […], page 62
type:
quotation
text:
Basketball had been replaced by breathless commentators cross-talking and speculating, politicians on split screens eagerly interrupting each other to find scapegoats, and most mute (male) state officials, including Hawaii Gov. David Ige, opening their mouths to sputter (paraphrasing here) — golly gee, we don’t know what happened, but we plan to find out — mea culpas.
ref:
2018 January 13, Tad Bartimus, “When There’s Nuke Headed Your Way, ‘Do What You Gotta Do’”, in Civil Beat
type:
quotation
text:
The president refused to offer any sort of mea culpa on Tuesday, even as the Taliban celebrated their “independence” from America with gunfire in the streets of Kabul.
ref:
2021 September 1, Michael D. Shear, Jim Tankersley, “Biden Defends Afghan Pullout and Declares an End to Nation-Building”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
At her trial, lawyers convinced Manning to issue a mea culpa: […]
ref:
2022 October 27, Simon Parkin, “README.txt by Chelsea Manning review – secrets and spies”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instance of mea culpa; an apology.
senses_topics:
|
5073 | word:
mea culpa
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mea culpa (third-person singular simple present mea culpa's, present participle mea culpa'ing, simple past and past participle mea culpa'ed)
forms:
form:
mea culpa's
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mea culpa'ing
tags:
participle
present
form:
mea culpa'ed
tags:
participle
past
form:
mea culpa'ed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Confiteor
mea culpa
etymology_text:
From the Latin phrase meā culpā (“through my fault”), ablative case of mea culpa (“my fault, guilt”), taken from the Confiteor, a traditional penitential prayer in Western Christianity.
senses_examples:
text:
When it was over and he grew tired of not being invited to the good parties on the Vineyard, he mea culpa’ed his way back into the good graces of the liberals who’d abandoned old LBJ years earlier.
ref:
2013 November, Stephen Hunter, The Third Bullet: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel (Bob Lee Swagger; 8), New York, NY: Pocket Books, pages 423–424
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To apologize for something, especially excessively.
senses_topics:
|
5074 | word:
huevos
word_type:
noun
expansion:
huevos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of huevo.
senses_topics:
|
5075 | word:
huevos
word_type:
noun
expansion:
huevos pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I dig into my huevos.
ref:
2007 January 7, Charles Baxter, “Breakfast of Champions”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Fortunately the magneto's power was limited, or the rods would have circled the table until one of the men had proved that he had real huevos, the implication being that the rest of the men were pussies.
ref:
1974, Jerry Kamstra, Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler, page 126
type:
quotation
text:
In this business a man has to have balls, real huevos, Dwayne.”
ref:
2001, Lee Taylor, Bull, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
They also think you've got some pretty big huevos to be as close to him as you are.
ref:
2018, Daniel Lines, Crohn's, and a Life with the Other Big "C" (Kind Of)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Huevos rancheros, a Mexican breakfast dish
Balls; nerve; bravery; brazenness.
senses_topics:
|
5076 | word:
São Luis
word_type:
name
expansion:
São Luis
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
State capital of Maranhão, Brazil, population 998,385 (2006 IBGE)
senses_topics:
|
5077 | word:
Halifax
word_type:
name
expansion:
Halifax
forms:
wikipedia:
George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax
Halifax
etymology_text:
From Old English halh-ġefeaxe (literally “grassy corner”), compounded from halh + ġefeaxe. Folk etymology suggests Old English hāliġfeax (literally “holy hair”), as compounded from hāliġ + feax, from a local legend that the town is said to have received the name from the fact that the hair of a murdered virgin was hung up on a tree in the neighborhood, which became a resort of pilgrims. Compare also Fairfax.
The capital city of Nova Scotia is named after statesman George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1716–1771).
The civil parish is also named after the 2nd Earl of Halifax. Coined by British-Dutch surveyor Samuel Holland.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An industrial town in West Yorkshire, England, 20km south-west of Leeds.
A civil parish of Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
The capital city of Nova Scotia, Canada.
A regional municipality of Nova Scotia, Canada.
A small town, the county seat of Halifax County, North Carolina, United States.
A town, the county seat of Halifax County, Virginia, United States.
An earldom in the Peerage of Great Britain.
senses_topics:
|
5078 | word:
pyre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pyre (plural pyres)
forms:
form:
pyres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”), from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥. Doublet of fire.
senses_examples:
text:
For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare.—Homer Iliad, p. 31
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
Any heap or pile of combustibles.
senses_topics:
|
5079 | word:
Alberta
word_type:
name
expansion:
Alberta
forms:
wikipedia:
Alberta
Alberta (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Albert + -a. The province was named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta.
senses_examples:
text:
Alberta is more like a man's name than any other name that comes from a men's, more than Georgianna which is just like a magnolia blossom or Henrietta which most people change to Etta or Geraldine which nobody ever thinks of coming from a man's Irish name like Gerald. Alberta also sounds sort of Canadian, and everything from Canada is masculine the way everything from Mexico is feminine, even the men. In saying it carelessly or reading it you hardly notice the a in the end.
ref:
1936, George Weller, Clutch and Differential, Ayer, published 1970, page 196
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province in western Canada. Capital: Edmonton.
Former name of Rockwood, California.
A female given name from the Germanic languages, a feminine form of Albert.
senses_topics:
|
5080 | word:
burro
word_type:
noun
expansion:
burro (plural burros)
forms:
form:
burros
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish burro.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small donkey, especially when used as a pack animal or one that is feral and lives in the southwestern United States or northern Mexico.
senses_topics:
|
5081 | word:
Brisbane
word_type:
name
expansion:
Brisbane
forms:
wikipedia:
Brisbane
Brisbane River
Sir Thomas Brisbane
etymology_text:
From Scottish Gaelic bris (“break, smash”) + Old English bān (“bone”), a nickname given to someone who was often involved in fights, resulting in the breaking of bones. The city and river in Australia are named after Sir Thomas Brisbane, 1773–1860; governor of New South Wales (which at the time included the area of modern Queensland) from 1821 to 1825.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large city, the capital city of Queensland, Australia.
The City of Brisbane, a local government area in Queensland, the largest by population in Australia.
The Brisbane River, a river that flows through the city in Queensland.
A city in San Mateo County, California, United States.
senses_topics:
|
5082 | word:
Macapá
word_type:
name
expansion:
Macapá
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Amapá, Brazil
senses_topics:
|
5083 | word:
furigana
word_type:
noun
expansion:
furigana (plural furigana)
forms:
form:
furigana
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 振り仮名 (furigana, “annotating kana”, literally “assigned phonetic character”).
senses_examples:
text:
Furigana are indispensable for some names of people and places whose Kanji are not included among the official Kanji list, and whose sounds can be unusual and even idiosyncratic.
ref:
2014, Insup Taylor, M. Martin Taylor, Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese, revised edition, John Benjamins, page 290
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Kana printed next to or above a kanji or other character to indicate the pronunciation.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography |
5084 | word:
Rio Branco
word_type:
name
expansion:
Rio Branco
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Acre, Brazil
senses_topics:
|
5085 | word:
Maceió
word_type:
name
expansion:
Maceió
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Alagoas, Brazil
senses_topics:
|
5086 | word:
Cuiabá
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cuiabá
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Mato Grosso, Brazil
senses_topics:
|
5087 | word:
at
word_type:
prep
expansion:
at
forms:
wikipedia:
AT
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Germanic *at
Old English æt
Middle English at
English at
From Middle English at, from Old English æt (“at, near, by, toward”), from Proto-Germanic *at (“at, near, to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“near, at”). Cognate with Scots at (“at”), North Frisian äät, äit, et, it (“at”), Danish at (“to”), Swedish åt (“for, toward”), Norwegian åt (“to”), Faroese at (“at, to, toward”), Icelandic að (“to, towards”), Gothic 𐌰𐍄 (at, “at”), Latin ad (“to, near”).
senses_examples:
text:
Caesar was at Rome.
type:
example
text:
at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine
type:
example
text:
at Jim’s house
type:
example
text:
Hirtius and Pansa, who were good men and admirers of Cicero, begged him not to desert them, and undertook to put down Antony if Cicero would remain at Rome.
ref:
1919, Plutarch, “The Life of Cicero” in Parallel Lives, 43 (Bernadotte Perrin, trans.)
text:
Today my friend Marsha is at her friend’s house.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
at six o’clock
type:
example
text:
at closing time
type:
example
text:
at night
type:
example
text:
Lafayette was major-general in the American army at the age of 18 […]
ref:
1838, The Family Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
Other global taboos, such as sex and suicide, manifest themselves widely online, with websites offering suicide guides and Hot XXX Action seconds away at the click of a button. The UK government will come under pressure to block access to pornographic websites this year when a committee of MPs publishes its report on protecting children online.
ref:
2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Hi, Anne. Are you busy? — Hi, Anna. Yes. At 10 a.m. I am writing.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Don’t just talk at someone; really listen to what they have to say.
type:
example
text:
He threw the ball at me.
type:
example
text:
He shouted at her.
type:
example
text:
Come on in. I’ll play the guitar at you.
ref:
2023 July 9, Barbie, spoken by Ken (Ryan Gosling)
type:
quotation
text:
3 apples at 2¢ (each)
type:
example
text:
The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations.
type:
example
text:
men at work
type:
example
text:
She is at sixes and sevens with him.
type:
example
text:
They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff.
type:
example
text:
The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces.
type:
example
text:
Sell at 90.
type:
example
text:
Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders.
type:
example
text:
I’m offering it—just to select customers—at cost.
type:
example
text:
to laugh at a joke
type:
example
text:
mad at their comments
type:
example
text:
[…] to be sold at auction for sixty gold francs.
ref:
1995, Richard Klein, Cigarettes are Sublime, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
A few days later, on 1 October, King Hussein opened the Jordanian Parliament by speaking at length about the crisis in Syria,
ref:
2012, Sami Moubayed, Syria and the USA: Washington's Relations with Damascus
type:
quotation
text:
It is growing at the rate of 3% a year.
type:
example
text:
Cruising along at fifty miles per hour.
type:
example
text:
The twins were both bad at chemistry.
type:
example
text:
He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation.
type:
example
text:
She’s good at playing musical instruments, singing and dancing, chess, calligraphy, and painting.
ref:
2015, Sanyan Stories: Favorites from a Ming Dynasty Collection, page 157
type:
quotation
text:
I think ‘Jesus, my back is at me’. Then I get the ball. Off you go for 10 yards and you don’t feel a thing. Then you stop and think: ‘Jesus, it’s at me again’[.]
ref:
1995 Keith Wood, quoted in David Hughes, "Wood odds-on to take one against the head", in The Independent (London) 18 January
text:
He seems to be saying. “Ah, go on, you’re making the other lads feel bad.” But the 4th fella says, “No. Don’t be ‘at’ me. I’m just not in the form right now, I’ll stay where I am, thanks.”
ref:
2014 Marian Keyes "Antarctic Diary - Part 2" personal website (January 2014)
text:
balance as at 20th March 1999
ref:
n.d., quoted in Longmans Business Dictionary
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place.
Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker’s perspective.
In the direction of (often implied to be in a hostile or careless manner).
Denotes a price.
Occupied in (activity).
In a state of.
Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.
Because of.
Indicates a means, method, or manner.
Holding a given speed or rate.
On the subject of; regarding.
Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to
(also as at; before dates) On a particular date.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
5088 | word:
at
word_type:
noun
expansion:
at (plural ats)
forms:
form:
ats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
AT
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Germanic *at
Old English æt
Middle English at
English at
From Middle English at, from Old English æt (“at, near, by, toward”), from Proto-Germanic *at (“at, near, to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“near, at”). Cognate with Scots at (“at”), North Frisian äät, äit, et, it (“at”), Danish at (“to”), Swedish åt (“for, toward”), Norwegian åt (“to”), Faroese at (“at, to, toward”), Icelandic að (“to, towards”), Gothic 𐌰𐍄 (at, “at”), Latin ad (“to, near”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The at sign (@).
senses_topics:
|
5089 | word:
at
word_type:
verb
expansion:
at (third-person singular simple present ats, present participle atting, simple past and past participle atted)
forms:
form:
ats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
atting
tags:
participle
present
form:
atted
tags:
participle
past
form:
atted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
AT
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Germanic *at
Old English æt
Middle English at
English at
From Middle English at, from Old English æt (“at, near, by, toward”), from Proto-Germanic *at (“at, near, to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“near, at”). Cognate with Scots at (“at”), North Frisian äät, äit, et, it (“at”), Danish at (“to”), Swedish åt (“for, toward”), Norwegian åt (“to”), Faroese at (“at, to, toward”), Icelandic að (“to, towards”), Gothic 𐌰𐍄 (at, “at”), Latin ad (“to, near”).
senses_examples:
text:
If you have questions or observations on my discussion questions, feel free to reply to this email, at me on Twitter, or comment on the companion post on AMV.
ref:
2022, William Morris, Motley Vision
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rare form of @; to reply to or talk to someone, either online or face-to-face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name)
senses_topics:
|
5090 | word:
at
word_type:
pron
expansion:
at
forms:
wikipedia:
AT
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Tak us t’ foxes, t’ little foxes at spoils t’ veynes: fer our veynes hev tender grapes.
ref:
1860, Robert Gordon Latham, Song of Solomon, as spoken in Durham [by Thomas Moore], in A hand-book of the English language
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of 'at (relative pronoun; reduced form of “that” and/or “what”)
senses_topics:
|
5091 | word:
at
word_type:
noun
expansion:
at (plural ats or at)
forms:
form:
ats
tags:
plural
form:
at
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
AT
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of att (Laos currency unit)
senses_topics:
|
5092 | word:
Goiânia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Goiânia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Goiás, Brazil.
senses_topics:
|
5093 | word:
torte
word_type:
noun
expansion:
torte (plural tortes or torten)
forms:
form:
tortes
tags:
plural
form:
torten
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Torte. Cognate to tart. Doublet of torta.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rich, dense cake, typically made with many eggs and relatively little flour (as opposed to a sponge cake or gâteau).
senses_topics:
|
5094 | word:
Manaus
word_type:
name
expansion:
Manaus
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
After the Manáo, a native Lokono tribe of the Amazon. Manáo is said to mean mother of the gods.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Amazonas, Brazil.
senses_topics:
|
5095 | word:
juramentado
word_type:
noun
expansion:
juramentado (plural juramentados)
forms:
form:
juramentados
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish juramentado.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Moro swordsman who attacked and killed occupying and invading police and soldiers, expecting to be killed himself.
senses_topics:
|
5096 | word:
Fortaleza
word_type:
name
expansion:
Fortaleza
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Ceará, Brazil.
senses_topics:
|
5097 | word:
huevo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
huevo (plural huevos)
forms:
form:
huevos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish huevo (“egg; testicle”). Doublet of egg, ey, oeuf, and ovum.
senses_examples:
text:
Perro prances merrily down the path, balancing his huevo jauntily on his nose, to the amazement of some watching chickens.
ref:
2002, School Library Journal: SLJ - Volume 48, Issues 5-8, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
Day or night, huevos has long been a personal favorite, but they inevitably put me into a food coma. To lighten the load, I've slimmed down to just one huevo, and instead amped up the ratio of black beans (simmered in a saucepan, not refried, with aromatics and spices).
ref:
2010, Kim O'Donnel, The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook
type:
quotation
text:
you, who can't believe your Ma rose at 4:45 to fry one huevo and a slice of bologna laid on corn tortilla—border benedict— here's your chance to drag home $80 a week, for her electric.
ref:
2015, Luis Alberto Urrea, Tijuana Book of the Dead, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
It is hard to believe Jefe was only as big as a candy bar when he first came out of his huevo.
ref:
2016, Dr. Brady Barr, Jennifer Keats Curtis, After A While Crocodile: Alexa's Diary
type:
quotation
text:
The horse has no huevos. The horse is a mare.
ref:
1988, Charles Bowden, Blue Desert, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
"I'd give my left huevo for any one of them," Leonardo said. "But . . . but how?"
ref:
1995, Jack Curtis, Hide-Out Canyon, page 137
type:
quotation
text:
They were giant wooly monsters with huge curl horns and yellow eyes that saw everything. And below hung big huevos.
ref:
1997, Floyd Martínez, Spirits of the High Mesa, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
But lately his brother had started walking as if he had baseballs packed in his pants instead of huevos the size of a hummingbird's.
ref:
1997, Marc Talbert, A Sunburned Prayer, page i
type:
quotation
text:
Go stand naked in front of a male plastic surgeon. “One breast's lower than the other, we'll have to fix that...” Oh yeah, Doc? Let's see what you got. One huevo's hanging lower than the other.
ref:
2009, Lynn Breedlove, Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Egg.
Testicle.
senses_topics:
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5098 | word:
predicate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
predicate (plural predicates)
forms:
form:
predicates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
predicate
etymology_text:
From Middle French predicat (French prédicat), from post-classical Late Latin praedicātum (“thing said of a subject”), a noun use of the neuter past participle of praedicō (“I proclaim”), as Etymology 2, below.
senses_examples:
text:
In the light of this observation, consider Number Agreement in a sentence like:
(120) They seem to me [_S — to be fools/^✽a fool]
Here, the Predicate Nominal fools agrees with the italicised NP they, in spite of the fact that (as we argued earlier) the two are contained in different Clauses at S-structure. How can this be? Under the NP MOVEMENT analysis of seem structures, sentences like (120) pose no problem; if we suppose that they originates in the — position as the subordinate Clause Subject, then we can say that the Predicate Nominal agrees with the underlying Subject of its Clause. How does they get from its underlying position as subordinate Clause Subject to its superficial position as main Clause Subject? By NP MOVEMENT, of course!
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 8, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 438
type:
quotation
text:
Thus, in (121) (a) persuade is clearly a three-place Predicate — that is, a Predicate which takes three Arguments: the first of these Arguments is the Subject NP John, the second is the Primary Object NP Mary, and the third is the Secondary Object S-bar [that she should resign]. By contrast, believe in (121) (b) is clearly a two-place Predicate (i.e. a Predicate which has two Arguments): its first Argument is the Subject NP John, and its second Argument is the Object S-bar [that Mary was innocent].
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 323
type:
quotation
text:
A propositional variable may be treated as a nullary predicate.
type:
example
text:
A predicate is either valid, satisfiable, or unsatisfiable.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.
An operator or function that returns either true or false.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
5099 | word:
predicate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
predicate (comparative more predicate, superlative most predicate)
forms:
form:
more predicate
tags:
comparative
form:
most predicate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
predicate
etymology_text:
From Middle French predicat (French prédicat), from post-classical Late Latin praedicātum (“thing said of a subject”), a noun use of the neuter past participle of praedicō (“I proclaim”), as Etymology 2, below.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
Predicated, stated.
Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
law |
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