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5100 | word:
predicate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
predicate (third-person singular simple present predicates, present participle predicating, simple past and past participle predicated)
forms:
form:
predicates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
predicating
tags:
participle
present
form:
predicated
tags:
participle
past
form:
predicated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
predicate
etymology_text:
From Latin praedicātus, perfect passive participle of praedicō (“publish, declare, proclaim”), from prae + dicō (“proclaim, dedicate”), related to dīcō (“say, tell”). Doublet of preach.
senses_examples:
text:
The law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated.
ref:
1978, Michel Foucault, The Will to Knowledge, trans. Robert Hurley (Penguin 1998, page 81)
text:
1911, Encyclopedia Britannica, Conceptualism
This quality becomes real as a mental concept when it is predicated of all the objects possessing it (“quod de pluribus natum est praedicari”).
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
To assume or suppose; to infer.
to base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences |
5101 | word:
matka
word_type:
noun
expansion:
matka (countable and uncountable, plural matkas)
forms:
form:
matkas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hindi मटका (maṭkā).
senses_examples:
text:
Alternatively, instead of cooking in a matka, wrap the vegetable mixture (without lettuce leaves) in aluminium foil and bake in a hot oven at 200 degrees Celsius for 1 hour.
ref:
2022, Vijay Karna, The Great Indian Cook Book, page 185
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An earthenware pot.
A kind of coarse silk from the Indian subcontinent, mainly produced from pierced (moth-damaged) cocoons.
senses_topics:
|
5102 | word:
Recife
word_type:
name
expansion:
Recife
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The veranda was shaded by the roof, and from the shade you could see [...] the skyscrapers and the tower blocks of the city of Recife.
ref:
2022, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, there are more things, Abacus (2023), pages 229-230
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Pernambuco, Brazil.
senses_topics:
|
5103 | word:
João Pessoa
word_type:
name
expansion:
João Pessoa
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Paraíba, Brazil
senses_topics:
|
5104 | word:
graffiti
word_type:
noun
expansion:
graffiti (usually uncountable, plural graffiti)
forms:
form:
graffiti
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
graffiti (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian graffiti.
senses_examples:
text:
The underpass is a popular place for graffiti artists.
type:
example
text:
The city council spends thousands of pounds removing graffiti from public buildings.
type:
example
text:
The removal of unsightly graffiti on the sides of railway bridges spanning major roads in the North West is to be handed over to National Highways, to speed up the job.
ref:
2021 October 20, “Network News: NR and NH tackle graffiti vandalism”, in RAIL, number 942, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Drawings or words drawn on a surface in a public place, usually made without authorization.
Informal inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., as opposed to official inscriptions.
senses_topics:
archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences |
5105 | word:
graffiti
word_type:
verb
expansion:
graffiti (third-person singular simple present graffitis, present participle graffitiing, simple past and past participle graffitied)
forms:
form:
graffitis
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
graffitiing
tags:
participle
present
form:
graffitied
tags:
participle
past
form:
graffitied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
graffiti (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian graffiti.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To mark a surface with such images.
senses_topics:
|
5106 | word:
Ontario
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ontario
forms:
wikipedia:
Ontario
etymology_text:
Probably from Wyandot ontari꞉io (literally “great lake”). If so, ultimately from Proto-North Iroquoian *-õtaɹeɁ and Proto-Iroquoian * -õːtaɹiɁ.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Toronto.
A lake, Lake Ontario, between Ontario province and New York State.
A village in the Cayo District, Belize.
A number of places in the United States:
A city in San Bernardino County, California.
A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Knox County, Illinois.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lima Township, LaGrange County, Indiana.
A number of places in the United States:
A community of Ames, Story County, Iowa.
A number of places in the United States:
A town, hamlet, and census-designated place in Wayne County, New York.
A number of places in the United States:
Short for Ontario County, New York.
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Richland County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Malheur County, Oregon.
A number of places in the United States:
A locality in North Bethlehem Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.
A number of places in the United States:
A locality in Charlotte County, Virginia.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
senses_topics:
|
5107 | word:
idiom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
idiom (plural idioms or idiomata)
forms:
form:
idioms
tags:
plural
form:
idiomata
tags:
plural
form:
used uncountably
tags:
sometimes
wikipedia:
idiom (language structure)
etymology_text:
From Middle French idiome, and its source, Late Latin idioma, from Ancient Greek ἰδίωμα (idíōma, “a peculiarity, property, a peculiar phraseology, idiom”), from ἰδιοῦσθαι (idioûsthai, “to make one's own, appropriate to oneself”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private, personal, peculiar, separate”).
senses_examples:
text:
In English, idiom requires the indefinite article in a phrase such as "she's an engineer", whereas in Spanish, idiom forbids it.
type:
example
text:
Some of the usage prescriptions improved clarity and were kept; others that yielded discordant violations of idiom were eventually revised.
type:
example
text:
I have to use the same assignment and call to raw_input in two places. How can I avoid that? I can use the while True/break idiom: […]
ref:
2005, Magnus Lie Hetland, Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
In the idiom of the day, they were sutlers, although today they'd probably be called vendors.
type:
example
text:
Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of "like" has spread through the idiom of the young.
ref:
2010 January 13, Christopher Hitchens, “The Other L-Word”, in Vanity Fair
type:
quotation
text:
She often spoke in idioms, pining for salad days and complaining about pots calling the kettle black.
type:
example
text:
You’re history, we say […]. Surely it is an American idiom. Impossible to imagine a postwar European saying, “You’re history. . . . That’s history,” meaning fuhgeddaboudit, pal.
ref:
2008, Patricia Hampl, “You’re History”, in Patricia Hampl, Elaine Tyler May, editors, Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life, Minnesota Historical Society, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
the idiom of the expressionists
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.
A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.
A programming construct or phraseology that is characteristic of the language.
A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context etc.
An established phrasal expression whose meaning may not be deducible from the literal meanings of its component words.
An artistic style (for example, in art, architecture, or music); an instance of such a style.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
|
5108 | word:
Campo Grande
word_type:
name
expansion:
Campo Grande
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
senses_topics:
|
5109 | word:
Porto Alegre
word_type:
name
expansion:
Porto Alegre
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
senses_topics:
|
5110 | word:
Porto Velho
word_type:
name
expansion:
Porto Velho
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Rondônia, Brazil
senses_topics:
|
5111 | word:
gans
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gans
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of gan
senses_topics:
|
5112 | word:
cold
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cold (comparative colder, superlative coldest)
forms:
form:
colder
tags:
comparative
form:
coldest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cold, from Old English, specifically Anglian cald. The West Saxon form, ċeald (“cold”), survived as early Middle English cheald, cheld, or chald. Both descended from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz, a participle form of *kalaną (“to be cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots cald, cauld (“cold”), Saterland Frisian koold (“cold”), West Frisian kâld (“cold”), Dutch koud (“cold”), Low German kold, koolt, koold (“cold”), German kalt (“cold”), Danish kold (“cold”), Norwegian kald (“cold”), Swedish kall (“cold”).
senses_examples:
text:
A cold wind whistled through the trees.
type:
example
text:
The forecast is that it will be very cold today.
type:
example
text:
She was so cold she was shivering.
type:
example
text:
She shot me a cold glance before turning her back.
type:
example
text:
At the end of a week, she could bear the suspense no longer, and so went humbly to her old home and sought forgiveness. She was not repulsed, but her reception was cold; and this hurt her almost as badly.
ref:
1850, T. S. Arthur, “Happy on a Little”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
Let's look at this tomorrow with a cold head.
type:
example
text:
He's a nice guy, but the cold facts say we should fire him.
type:
example
text:
The cold truth is that states rarely undertake military action unless their national interests are at stake.
type:
example
text:
He was assigned cold calls for the first three months.
type:
example
text:
The one thing considered the brass ring in selling insurance was making a sale on a cold canvass. Cold canvassing was the most dreaded exercise for most insurance salesmen.
ref:
2019, Kelly D. Harrison, Air Force Cop: An Autobiography, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
I knocked him out cold.
type:
example
text:
After one more beer he passed out cold.
type:
example
text:
Practice your music scales until you know them cold.
type:
example
text:
Try both these maneuvers until you have them cold and can do them in the dark without thinking.
type:
example
text:
Rehearse your lines until you have them down cold.
type:
example
text:
Keep that list in front of you, or memorize it cold.
type:
example
text:
With that receipt, we have them cold for fraud.
type:
example
text:
Criminal interrogation. Initially they will dream up explanations faster than you could ever do so, but when they become fatigued, often they will acknowledge that you have them cold.
type:
example
text:
There were more than a few unforgettable moments from Sunday's Game 7 showdown between the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings. Steph Curry came up with an epic performance on a record-setting evening, and he also produced one of the coldest photos of the NBA Playoffs thus far.
ref:
2023 May 1, Paolo Songco, “Warriors star Steph Curry's cold 'night night' pic vs. Kings goes completely viral”, in ClutchPoints, archived from the original on 2023-05-30
type:
quotation
text:
Lowkey she so cold for that
ref:
2023 August 3, @67x4L, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-11-09
type:
quotation
text:
Indians see this fit and think it's the coldest thing ever
ref:
2023 August 6, @SUPERTHYROID, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-11-08
type:
quotation
text:
a cold scent
type:
example
text:
You're cold … getting warmer … hot! You've found it!
type:
example
text:
I can't believe she said that...that was cold!
type:
example
text:
River Song: (upon seeing the still-living Doctor, moments after he made her and two other friends watch what they thought was his death) This is cold. Even by your standards, this is cold.
ref:
2011 April 23, The Impossible Astronaut (Doctor Who), season series 6, episode 1
type:
quotation
text:
"At the risk of sounding cold though, I'm glad he's gone. His abandonment left me in Aunt Fara's custody, and that's honestly the best thing he's ever done for me."
ref:
2015, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain, volume 3, page 237
type:
quotation
text:
"That's right," Jackson said. "The Old Man will be pleased to welcome you." There was eagerness in his reedy voice. "What do you say? We'll take care of you. Feed you, bring you cold plants and animals. For a week maybe?"
ref:
1953, Philip K. Dick, “Planet for Transients”, in Fantastic Universe magazine, number Oct-Nov 1953, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
Therefore, to avoid unnecessary delay in the trouble-shooting procedure, it is good practice to make a resistance check on a "cold" circuit (before applying power), to determine whether resistance values are normal.
ref:
1956, Philco Corporation, Handbook of Test Methods and Practices, page 3–3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a low temperature.
Causing the air to be cold.
Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
Completely unprepared; without introduction.
Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
Cornered; done for.
Cool, impressive.
Not pungent or acrid.
Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
Not sensitive; not acute.
Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
Not radioactive.
Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
Without electrical power being supplied.
senses_topics:
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
|
5113 | word:
cold
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cold (countable and uncountable, plural colds)
forms:
form:
colds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cold, colde, from Old English cald, ċeald (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldą (“coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Cognates
Compare Saterland Frisian Keelde (“cold”), West Frisian kjeld (“cold”), Dutch koude (“cold”), German Low German Kolle, Koll (“cold”), German Kälte (“cold”), Danish kulde (“cold”), Swedish köld (“cold”), Norwegian kulde (“cold”), Icelandic kuldi (“cold”).
senses_examples:
text:
Come in, out of the cold.
type:
example
text:
The former politician was left out in the cold after his friends deserted him.
type:
example
text:
I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week
type:
example
text:
Who the fuck is this, pagin' me at 5:46 in the morning? / crack of dawn and now I'm yawnin' / wipe the cold out my eye, see who's this pagin' me and why
ref:
1994, Notorious B.I.G., Warning
type:
quotation
text:
But I remember this, moms would lick her finger tips / to wipe the cold out my eye before school with her spit
ref:
1996, Ghostface Killah, All That I Got Is You
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A condition of low temperature.
A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
Rheum; sleepy dust.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences
|
5114 | word:
cold
word_type:
adv
expansion:
cold (comparative more cold, superlative most cold)
forms:
form:
more cold
tags:
comparative
form:
most cold
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English colde, from Old English calde, ċealde (“coldly”), from the adjective (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
The steel was processed cold.
type:
example
text:
The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.
type:
example
text:
Two weeks after it closed, he started rehearsals for Cheer Up, a new play by Mary Roberts Rinehart booked into the Harris Theatre. It was to open cold without any out-of-town tryout under the direction of a young Cecil B. DeMille […]
ref:
2008, Geddeth Smith, Walter Hampden: Dean of the American Theatre, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
Now Little Bo Peep cold lost her sheep / And Rip van Winkle fell the hell asleep
ref:
1986, Run-DMC, Peter Piper.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At a low temperature.
Without preparation.
In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.
senses_topics:
|
5115 | word:
Belo Horizonte
word_type:
name
expansion:
Belo Horizonte
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Belo Horizonte (“Beautiful Horizon”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
senses_topics:
|
5116 | word:
lemon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lemon (plural lemons)
forms:
form:
lemons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Cream Lemon
Lemon
Lemon (color)
Lemon (geometry)
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (“citrus”), from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn) or Persian لیمون (limon), from Persian لیمو (limu), from Sanskrit निम्बू (nimbū, “lime”), ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limaw or Munda. Likely doublet of lime.
The fandom sense is named after the erotic anime series Cream Lemon.
senses_examples:
text:
The juice of Lemmons killeth Warts, but better the water of the ſame juice, diſtilled through a glaſs.
ref:
1680, T. K., The Kitchin-Phyſician; Or, a Guide for Good-Housewives in Maintaining Their Families in Health. […], How to take away Warts off the Face or Hands, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
lemon flesh:
text:
lemon rind:
text:
He didn’t realise until he’d paid for it that the car was a lemon.
type:
example
text:
“[…]the Navy's supposed to give me a ship that goes, and a captain that fights—— That's what all this muck is for, isn't it?”
“Look, it's an old story by now. We're stuck with a lemon. Misfortune of war.[…]”
ref:
1951, Herman Wouk, chapter 20, in The Caine Mutiny, page 243
type:
quotation
text:
A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon! I could get it for half that.
type:
example
text:
I'd really like to know what people think of this and whether I should carry on writing lemons or go and hide under a rock somewhere.
ref:
1997 April 18, Neko, “[Dominion][FanFic][Lemon] A Typical Night at the Station”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
WARNING: This story is a lemon and must be viewed with great care. If you are either under the age of 18, think graphic sex is discussing or you know what my writing is like you should turn away now.
ref:
2000 May 30, Ian Blakeman, “[Eva][FanFic][Lemon] A day at Misatos appartment”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
This won't be a lemon simply because I can't see myself writing anything like that.
ref:
2002 November 10, Goku Girl, “[DBZ][FanFic][Yaoi] Saiya-jin no Suto-ri Ichi (part one)”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: apple
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A yellowish citrus fruit.
A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.
A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
A lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris).
A defective or inadequate item or individual.
Favor.
A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex.
The surface of revolution of a circular arc of angle less than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc’s two endpoints.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
5117 | word:
lemon
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lemon (comparative more lemon, superlative most lemon)
forms:
form:
more lemon
tags:
comparative
form:
most lemon
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Cream Lemon
Lemon
Lemon (color)
Lemon (geometry)
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (“citrus”), from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn) or Persian لیمون (limon), from Persian لیمو (limu), from Sanskrit निम्बू (nimbū, “lime”), ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limaw or Munda. Likely doublet of lime.
The fandom sense is named after the erotic anime series Cream Lemon.
senses_examples:
text:
Obviously Emin is not the first public figure to get lemon over tax increases.
ref:
2009 October 12, Caitlin Moran, “Why I love paying tax”, in The Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Containing or having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons.
Of the pale yellow colour/color of lemons.
Smart; cheeky, vocal.
senses_topics:
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5118 | word:
lemon
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lemon (third-person singular simple present lemons, present participle lemoning, simple past and past participle lemoned)
forms:
form:
lemons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lemoning
tags:
participle
present
form:
lemoned
tags:
participle
past
form:
lemoned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Cream Lemon
Lemon
Lemon (color)
Lemon (geometry)
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (“citrus”), from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn) or Persian لیمون (limon), from Persian لیمو (limu), from Sanskrit निम्बू (nimbū, “lime”), ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limaw or Munda. Likely doublet of lime.
The fandom sense is named after the erotic anime series Cream Lemon.
senses_examples:
text:
You can start the vegetables cooking while you are lemoning the fish.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To flavour with lemon.
senses_topics:
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5119 | word:
Teresina
word_type:
name
expansion:
Teresina
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Piauí, Brazil
senses_topics:
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5120 | word:
grafting
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grafting
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of graft
senses_topics:
|
5121 | word:
grafting
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grafting (plural graftings)
forms:
form:
graftings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
grafting
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act, art, or process of inserting grafts.
The act or method of weaving a cover for a ring, rope end, etc.
The transplanting of a portion of flesh, hair or skin to a denuded surface; autoplasty.
A scarfing or endwise attachment of one timber to another.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
nautical
transport
medicine
sciences
surgery
business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing |
5122 | word:
juxtaposition
word_type:
noun
expansion:
juxtaposition (countable and uncountable, plural juxtapositions)
forms:
form:
juxtapositions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French juxtaposition, from Latin iuxtā (“near”) (from Latin iungō (“to join”)) + French position (“position”) (from Latin pōnō (“to place”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Example: mother father instead of mother and father
text:
Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. a×b collapses to ab.
text:
A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition.
ref:
2007, Lawrence Moss, Hans-Jörg Tiede, “Applications of Modal Logic in Linguistics”, in P. Blackburn et al., editors, Handbook of Modal Logic, Elsevier, page 1054
type:
quotation
text:
It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.
ref:
1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend
type:
quotation
text:
The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.
text:
Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.
text:
There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
An absence of operators in an expression.
The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.
The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.
The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
art
arts
|
5123 | word:
juxtaposition
word_type:
verb
expansion:
juxtaposition (third-person singular simple present juxtapositions, present participle juxtapositioning, simple past and past participle juxtapositioned)
forms:
form:
juxtapositions
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
juxtapositioning
tags:
participle
present
form:
juxtapositioned
tags:
participle
past
form:
juxtapositioned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French juxtaposition, from Latin iuxtā (“near”) (from Latin iungō (“to join”)) + French position (“position”) (from Latin pōnō (“to place”)).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place in juxtaposition.
senses_topics:
|
5124 | word:
regina
word_type:
noun
expansion:
regina (plural reginas)
forms:
form:
reginas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
In this box the regina of the colony, surrounded by her harmonious, cleanly, industrious, skilful subjects, carries on her part of procreation, and finally hatches her numerous progeny, called by Bee-masters the larvæ.[…]The Bees will immediately commence their operations in their new apartment. Thus swarming is effectually prevented; and thus the Queen gains a vast addition to her dominions, and consequently additional space for the population of her momentarily enlarged domicile. There is now no want of store-house room, nor of employment, for our indefatigable labourers. And while the subjects are employed in collecting, and manufacturing (if I may so say) their various materials, the regina is engaged in carrying on the great, first principle of nature—the propagation of her species.
ref:
1832, Thomas Nutt, “Bee-Boxes and Managament of Bees in them”, in Humanity to Honey Bees: or, Practical Directions for the Management of Honey Bees upon an Improved and Humane Plan, […], Wisbech, Cambridgeshire: […] H. and J. Leach, […], pages 34 and 37
type:
quotation
text:
Chiri says: “Pouf, child! That is not because she is grand. The Regina Margherita is grander, and she bows and smiles a dozen ways all at once. It is the heart.” Chiri says that—but if it is only the heart, she herself would make a very grand lady because her heart is of gold; and her smile is better than the regina’s, although some of her teeth are quite gone, and her skin is dark like the castagnola.[…]“[…]But it has the bicyclists attending!” / “That is true. Then it must belong to the Queen Margherita!” / “It is not the regina’s coachman!” / “Parbleu, you are right! Then it may be the foreign prince who is visiting!”
ref:
1910, Olive M. Briggs, The Fir and the Palm, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pages 94 and 287
type:
quotation
text:
He is, in any case, extremist enough to have decided to assassinate the Queen, out of frustration with his ‘token life, token education, token job, token family.’ He impresses Percy with his proposal to restore the ‘Ancient Kingdom of Northumbria’ and persuades him to help with the ‘reginicide.’ But the regina changes her route[…]
ref:
1977, The Spectator, page 28, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
George No. Don’t ring the … / (Ruby rings the bell several times.) / Ruby Thank you. The Regina is rapidly approaching./[…]/ Ruby AND SMILE – A TRIUMPHANT REGINA IS LANDING ON THE LAWN. / George WILL YOU STOP SAYING THAT. We don’t talk about reginas. / Ruby So it’s David. / George Her Majesty is not a … not in the vernacular. It’s official. For coins …
ref:
2006, Vanessa Brooks, Queen’s English, London: Josef Weinberger Plays, pages 63 and 75
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Regina (“queen”)
senses_topics:
|
5125 | word:
expressway
word_type:
noun
expansion:
expressway (plural expressways)
forms:
form:
expressways
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:expressway
etymology_text:
From express + way.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A divided highway, especially one whose intersections and direct access to adjacent properties have been eliminated.
A road built to freeway standards.
A road built for high speed traffic, but not up to motorway standards or designated a motorway.
senses_topics:
|
5126 | word:
Guaraní
word_type:
name
expansion:
Guaraní
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old Tupi guaraní (“warrior”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
South-American Indian language of the Tupí-Guaraní family; spoken in Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.
senses_topics:
|
5127 | word:
HTTP
word_type:
name
expansion:
HTTP
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (the protocol used most commonly to transfer Web pages and accompanying data over the Internet)
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences |
5128 | word:
Aracaju
word_type:
name
expansion:
Aracaju
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Portuguese Aracaju, from Old Tupi Arákaîu, from ará (“macaw”) + akaîu (“cashew”), thus literally ‘cashew of the macaw(s)’.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Sergipe, Brazil
senses_topics:
|
5129 | word:
TCO
word_type:
noun
expansion:
TCO (plural TCOs)
forms:
form:
TCOs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
TCO
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Total Cost of Ownership. (The sum of costs arising when deploying technology, especially hardware and software)
Initialism of transparent conducting oxide.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
5130 | word:
remember
word_type:
verb
expansion:
remember (third-person singular simple present remembers, present participle remembering, simple past and past participle remembered)
forms:
form:
remembers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
remembering
tags:
participle
present
form:
remembered
tags:
participle
past
form:
remembered
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
remember
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English remembren, from Old French remembrer (“to remember”), from Late Latin rememorari (“to remember again”), from re- + memor (“mindful”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *(s)mer- (“to think about, be mindful, remember”). Cognate with Old English mimorian, mymerian (“to remember, commemorate”), Old English māmorian (“to deliberate, plan out, design”). More at mammer.
etymology note
The success of the Old French word was helped by its proximity in sound and meaning to an existing Germanic word: Old English mimorian, mymerian (“to remember, commemorate”) from Proto-Germanic *mimrōną, *mīmrōną (“to remember, be mindful”), from the same Indo-European source, and is akin to Saterland Frisian mīmerje (“to ponder, reflect”), Middle Low German mimeren (“to ponder, meditate”), Middle Dutch mimeren (“to reflect, think to oneself”) (Dutch mijmeren (“to muse, reflect deeply”)), Old English mimor (“mindful”), Old Norse Mímir, Mim (“Norse god of memory”), Old English māmrian (“to think out, design”). Related to mourn.
Displaced native Middle English ȝemuneȝen (“to remember”), from Old English ġemynegian (“to remember, remind”); Middle English minnen (“to remember, have in mind”), from Old Norse minna (“to remind”); Middle English munden, ȝemunden (“to bear in mind, remember”), from Old English ġemynd (“memory, remembrance”); Middle English ithenchen, ȝethenchen (“to think on, remember”), from Old English ġeþencan; Middle English manien (“to remind, mention, remember”), from Old English manian (“to admonish, remind, mention”).
senses_examples:
text:
In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
ref:
1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page 266
type:
quotation
text:
A man's vision reflects his memories. As I looked out on the nation from the President's Oval Office, my reflections included images burned deep in my mind for over a half a century. I remembered my father's concern for the tenant farmer and for the workers' need for collective bargaining. I remembered my mother's deep faith in the value of education. I remembered the pinched and hopeless look of poverty I saw on the faces of the Mexican-American children I had taught. I remembered the army of jobless and ragged men who rode grimy boxcars across our country during the Depression. These and a hundred other separate recollections of struggle and hope were all part of my heritage. They formed a portion of the background against which I developed the programs I felt America wanted and needed.
ref:
1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
Remember me? I live in your building.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
To heal, we must remember. It's hard sometimes to remember, but that's how we heal. It's important to do that as a nation.
ref:
2021, President Joe Biden, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
Please remember this formula!
type:
example
text:
Remember what I've said.
type:
example
text:
Remember to lock the door when you go out.
type:
example
text:
Please remember me to your brother.
type:
example
text:
She asks to be remembered to you all.
type:
example
text:
But soon, remembering her how brief the whole
Of joy, which its own hours annihilate,
Her set gaze gathered
ref:
1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Secret Parting, lines 5–7
type:
quotation
text:
You don't have to remind him; he remembers very well.
type:
example
text:
My aunt remembered me in her will, leaving me several thousand pounds.
type:
example
text:
Waitresses, mail carriers, and teachers were often remembered on Boxing Day.
ref:
2003, Little Visits 365 Family Devotions: Building Faith for a Lifetime, Concordia Publishing House
type:
quotation
text:
Today we remember and honour those who have served.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
To memorize; to put something into memory.
To keep in mind; to be mindful of.
To not forget (to do something required)
To convey greetings from.
To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively).
To engage in the process of recalling memories.
To give (a person) money as a token of appreciation of past service or friendship.
to commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony
senses_topics:
|
5131 | word:
remember
word_type:
verb
expansion:
remember (third-person singular simple present remembers, present participle remembering, simple past and past participle remembered)
forms:
form:
remembers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
remembering
tags:
participle
present
form:
remembered
tags:
participle
past
form:
remembered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table re- + member
senses_examples:
text:
knit 'this scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, / these broken limbs again into one body' - in other words, how to resurrect the dismembered god, to remember Osiris. Yet the only body made whole in these expert, lowering poems is the body of this death.
ref:
1982, Book Review Digest, volume 78, page 824
type:
quotation
text:
According to these mysteries, the rites of fashioning or remembering Osiris came to be interpreted as remembering Egypt. Egypt was the body of Osiris, dismembered and scattered across the land.
ref:
2008, Jan Assmann, Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
She remembered Osiris by putting his pieces back together and mating with him one last time, conceiving Horus, who eventually avenged his father's death.
ref:
2010, Sandra Ingerman, Medicine for the Earth, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
To dismember is to tear apart; / To re-member is to put back together. / The old must be dismembered / So that which was prior to it / May be remembered. / Therefore, to re-mind is / To dismember and then re-member.
ref:
2012, Roy Melvyn, The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin: Pointers to Non Duality in Five Volumes, Lulu Press, Inc
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of re-member
senses_topics:
|
5132 | word:
Palmas
word_type:
name
expansion:
Palmas
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Tocantins, Brazil
senses_topics:
|
5133 | word:
Florianópolis
word_type:
name
expansion:
Florianópolis
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Florianópolis. The city was named after Floriano Peixoto, the second president of Brazil, with the addition of the -polis suffix from Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city”). Before 1893, the city was known as Desterro, from the Portuguese word desterro, meaning banishment or exile.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Santa Catarina, Brazil
senses_topics:
|
5134 | word:
Perth
word_type:
name
expansion:
Perth
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Scottish Gaelic Peairt, from Pictish *ᚚᚓᚏᚈ (pert) meaning “wood, copse, thicket”, related to Welsh perth and perhaps Proto-Celtic *kʷerxtā (from Proto-Indo-European *pérkʷus (“oak”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland, historically in Perthshire.
The state capital of Western Australia.
The City of Perth, a local government area in Western Australia.
A town, the county seat of Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
A town in Tasmania, Australia.
A river in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, a tributary of the Whataroa.
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware.
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Dick Johnson Township, Clay County, Indiana.
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Sumner County, Kansas.
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Blue Earth County, Minnesota.
A locale in the United States.
A town in Fulton County, New York.
A locale in the United States.
A minor city in Towner County, North Dakota.
A locale in the United States.
A township in Walsh County, North Dakota.
A Scottish earldom.
A surname
senses_topics:
|
5135 | word:
other
word_type:
adj
expansion:
other (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English other, from Old English ōþer (“other, second”), from Proto-West Germanic *ą̄þar, *anþar, from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz (“other, second”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énteros (“other”).
Cognate with Scots uther, ither (“other”), Old Frisian ōther, ("other"; > North Frisian üđer, ööder, ouder), Old Saxon ōthar (“other”), Old High German ander (“other”), Old Norse annarr, ǫðr-, aðr- (“other, second”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌸𐌰𐍂 (anþar, “other”), Old Prussian anters, antars (“other, second”), Lithuanian antroks (“other”, pronoun), Latvian otrs, otrais (“second”), Macedonian втор (vtor, "second"), Albanian ndërroj (“to change, switch, alternate”), Sanskrit अन्तर (ántara, “different”)
French autre, Spanish otro, Portuguese outro, etc., all from Latin alter, are false cognates.
senses_examples:
text:
I get paid every other week.
type:
example
text:
In Matthew's account, the law remains intact, as does virtually everything except that critical belief in Jesus as the Messiah (obviously no small thing), and this is not enough to make Matthew completely other from its Jewish origins.
ref:
2010 April 20, anonymous author, “Letters”, in Christian Century, volume 127, number 8, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
it is inherent, rather, in the revolutionary attempt of the West to externalize the idea of a source of meaning wholly other than what is embodied in human conventions and hierarchies.
ref:
2001 Fall, Ralph C. Hancock, “The Modern Revolution and the Collapse of Moral Analogy: Tocqueville and Guizot.”, in Perspectives on Political Science, volume 30, number 4, page 213
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
See other (determiner) below.
Second.
Alien.
Different.
Left, as opposed to right.
senses_topics:
|
5136 | word:
other
word_type:
noun
expansion:
other (plural others)
forms:
form:
others
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English other, from Old English ōþer (“other, second”), from Proto-West Germanic *ą̄þar, *anþar, from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz (“other, second”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énteros (“other”).
Cognate with Scots uther, ither (“other”), Old Frisian ōther, ("other"; > North Frisian üđer, ööder, ouder), Old Saxon ōthar (“other”), Old High German ander (“other”), Old Norse annarr, ǫðr-, aðr- (“other, second”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌸𐌰𐍂 (anþar, “other”), Old Prussian anters, antars (“other, second”), Lithuanian antroks (“other”, pronoun), Latvian otrs, otrais (“second”), Macedonian втор (vtor, "second"), Albanian ndërroj (“to change, switch, alternate”), Sanskrit अन्तर (ántara, “different”)
French autre, Spanish otro, Portuguese outro, etc., all from Latin alter, are false cognates.
senses_examples:
text:
I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others.
type:
example
text:
One boat is not better than the other.
type:
example
text:
Why not tell one or other of your parents?
type:
example
text:
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
ref:
1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another.
The other one; the second of two.
senses_topics:
|
5137 | word:
other
word_type:
det
expansion:
other
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English other, from Old English ōþer (“other, second”), from Proto-West Germanic *ą̄þar, *anþar, from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz (“other, second”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énteros (“other”).
Cognate with Scots uther, ither (“other”), Old Frisian ōther, ("other"; > North Frisian üđer, ööder, ouder), Old Saxon ōthar (“other”), Old High German ander (“other”), Old Norse annarr, ǫðr-, aðr- (“other, second”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌸𐌰𐍂 (anþar, “other”), Old Prussian anters, antars (“other, second”), Lithuanian antroks (“other”, pronoun), Latvian otrs, otrais (“second”), Macedonian втор (vtor, "second"), Albanian ndërroj (“to change, switch, alternate”), Sanskrit अन्तर (ántara, “different”)
French autre, Spanish otro, Portuguese outro, etc., all from Latin alter, are false cognates.
senses_examples:
text:
Other people would do it differently.
type:
example
text:
“By the way,” Jessamy went on, “what’s your other name? You never told me.” “Stubbs,” said Billy, “William Stubbs!”.
ref:
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not the one or ones previously referred to.
senses_topics:
|
5138 | word:
other
word_type:
adv
expansion:
other (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English other, from Old English ōþer (“other, second”), from Proto-West Germanic *ą̄þar, *anþar, from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz (“other, second”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énteros (“other”).
Cognate with Scots uther, ither (“other”), Old Frisian ōther, ("other"; > North Frisian üđer, ööder, ouder), Old Saxon ōthar (“other”), Old High German ander (“other”), Old Norse annarr, ǫðr-, aðr- (“other, second”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌸𐌰𐍂 (anþar, “other”), Old Prussian anters, antars (“other, second”), Lithuanian antroks (“other”, pronoun), Latvian otrs, otrais (“second”), Macedonian втор (vtor, "second"), Albanian ndërroj (“to change, switch, alternate”), Sanskrit अन्तर (ántara, “different”)
French autre, Spanish otro, Portuguese outro, etc., all from Latin alter, are false cognates.
senses_examples:
text:
Weigh also, the pretty escape of the disguised attempt of the party that seemed to be in so great peril, who can believe other, then that it was a made matter, to continue a belief, whom they think they have inchaunted at their wills.
ref:
1655, The Compleat Ambassador or two treatises of the intended marriage of Queen Elizabeth of glorious memory, page 321
type:
quotation
text:
That he knew from Monsieur Meerman, I had been the occasion of giving him any Credit in England of an honest sincere Man, and he would never lose mine upon that occasion by giving the King Cause to believe other of him.
ref:
1740, William Temple, Letters written by Sir William Temple, bart., and other ministers of state, both at home and abroad, page 184
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Otherwise.
senses_topics:
|
5139 | word:
other
word_type:
verb
expansion:
other (third-person singular simple present others, present participle othering, simple past and past participle othered)
forms:
form:
others
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
othering
tags:
participle
present
form:
othered
tags:
participle
past
form:
othered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English other, from Old English ōþer (“other, second”), from Proto-West Germanic *ą̄þar, *anþar, from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz (“other, second”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énteros (“other”).
Cognate with Scots uther, ither (“other”), Old Frisian ōther, ("other"; > North Frisian üđer, ööder, ouder), Old Saxon ōthar (“other”), Old High German ander (“other”), Old Norse annarr, ǫðr-, aðr- (“other, second”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌸𐌰𐍂 (anþar, “other”), Old Prussian anters, antars (“other, second”), Lithuanian antroks (“other”, pronoun), Latvian otrs, otrais (“second”), Macedonian втор (vtor, "second"), Albanian ndërroj (“to change, switch, alternate”), Sanskrit अन्तर (ántara, “different”)
French autre, Spanish otro, Portuguese outro, etc., all from Latin alter, are false cognates.
senses_examples:
text:
"Rican" is code for its homonym, "redskin," through which they othered this non-Mexican ethnic group.
ref:
2005, Kristen A. Myers, Racetalk: racism hiding in plain sight
type:
quotation
text:
That is, whilst Lesfest organisers are othering women who are not born female (thus producing a kind of lesbian-normativity), the Australian WOMAN Network is othering women who have not had surgical sex reassignment (thus producing a kind of "trans-normativity").
ref:
2006, Angela Pattatucci Aragon, Challenging lesbian norms
type:
quotation
text:
[…] and Black males have not taken her seriously politically (gender); and the color of her skin has marginalized her (race and "othered" her when compared with White women, who have also worked to silence her political views.
ref:
2008, John F. Borland, The under-representation of Black females in NCAA Division I women's basketball head coaching positions, University of Connecticut
type:
quotation
text:
Others with admitted addictions are Othered and sadly, forever stigmatized.
ref:
2010, Ronald L. Jackson, I, Encyclopedia of Identity
type:
quotation
text:
In this scenario, the young lady who had spoken had been othered by her peers and her response to my question had been dismissed as invalid despite the fact that she was alright.
ref:
2007, Christopher Emdin, City University of New York. Urban Education, Exploring the contexts of urban science classrooms
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To regard, label, or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
senses_topics:
|
5140 | word:
how
word_type:
adv
expansion:
how (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
how
etymology_text:
From Middle English how, hou, hu, hwu, from Old English hū, from Proto-West Germanic *hwō, from Proto-Germanic *hwō (“through what, how”), from the same root as hwæt (“who, what”). /hw/ > /h/ due to wh-cluster reduction in Old English; compare who, which underwent this change later, and thus is spelt wh (Middle English spelling of /hw/) but pronounced /h/ (it previously had a different vowel, hence avoided the spelling and sound change in Old English). Vowel change per Great Vowel Shift.
Akin to Scots hoo, foo (“how”), Saterland Frisian wo (“how”), West Frisian hoe (“how”), Low German ho, wo, wu (“how”), Dutch hoe (“how”), German wie (“how”), Swedish hur (“how”). See who and compare why.
senses_examples:
text:
How often do you practice?
type:
example
text:
The gauge indicated how hot the oven was.
type:
example
text:
How damaged is her self-esteem?
ref:
2013, Diane Sullivan Everstine, Louis Everstine, Strategic Interventions for People in Crisis, Trauma, and Disaster: Revised Edition, Routledge
type:
quotation
text:
How do you solve this puzzle?
type:
example
text:
How else can we get this finished?
type:
example
text:
She showed him how to do it.
text:
How should I know whether he likes raisins or not? Ask him!
type:
example
text:
How do you sell your brandy? We sell it by the gallon, and not by the bottle.
ref:
1831, Nicolas Wanostrocht, A Grammar of the French Language: With Practical Exercises, page 372
type:
quotation
text:
How does God appear in these religions? Hinduism has a thousand faces for God, some likable, some horrible. You can pick and choose your preferred image. Buddhism does not even have an image of God, but concentrates on man.
ref:
2005, Tim Stafford, Knowing the Face of God, Revised Edition: Deepening Your Personal Relationship with God, Wipf and Stock Publishers, page 191
type:
quotation
text:
How the stock market interprets events has real consequences.
text:
A heap of stamps? Yes. Stamps they were indeed, hundreds of penny Queen's Heads neatly mounted on the original sheets. "Good God!" exclaimed Mr. Erskine as he turned to Mr. Sackville, "how am I to take this, sir?" said he severely. "Where are the real stamps? Were they ever inside, ever in your possession at all? If it is a joke, it is a very poor one."
ref:
1906, Gibbons Stamp Weekly, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
"How art thou called? Thy name make known; Thy father's name and family,—tell me thy father's and thine own."
ref:
1907, Edward Byles Cowell, The Jātaka: Or, Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
Salutation—How does one address the recipient; what titles, greetings, and honorifics are preferred; how does one manage the problem of unknown gender;[…]
ref:
2015, Edmond H. Weiss, The Elements of International English Style: A Guide to Writing Correspondence, Reports, Technical Documents, and Internet Pages for a Global Audience, Routledge, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
How are you?
type:
example
text:
How was your vacation?
type:
example
text:
How's the new apartment? — The new apartment is great!
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
How very interesting!
type:
example
text:
How wonderful it was to receive your invitation.
type:
example
text:
Those were such happy times and not so long ago / How I wondered where they'd gone
ref:
1973, “Yesterday Once More”, in Now & Then, performed by the Carpenters
type:
quotation
text:
How England had to fight for victory against this steely Denmark with an inspired keeper in Kasper Schmeichel, especially after conceding their first goal of the tournament to Mikkel Damsgaard's stunning free-kick after 30 minutes.
ref:
2021 July 7, Phil McNulty, “England 2-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To what degree or extent.
In what manner:
By what means.
In what manner:
With overtones of why, for what reason.
In what manner:
In what form, shape, measure, quantity, etc.
In what manner:
With what meaning or effect.
In what manner:
By what title or what name.
In what manner:
At what price, for what amount (of money).
In what manner
In what state or condition.
Used as a modifier to indicate surprise, delight, or other strong feelings in an exclamation.
senses_topics:
|
5141 | word:
how
word_type:
conj
expansion:
how
forms:
wikipedia:
how
etymology_text:
From Middle English how, hou, hu, hwu, from Old English hū, from Proto-West Germanic *hwō, from Proto-Germanic *hwō (“through what, how”), from the same root as hwæt (“who, what”). /hw/ > /h/ due to wh-cluster reduction in Old English; compare who, which underwent this change later, and thus is spelt wh (Middle English spelling of /hw/) but pronounced /h/ (it previously had a different vowel, hence avoided the spelling and sound change in Old English). Vowel change per Great Vowel Shift.
Akin to Scots hoo, foo (“how”), Saterland Frisian wo (“how”), West Frisian hoe (“how”), Low German ho, wo, wu (“how”), Dutch hoe (“how”), German wie (“how”), Swedish hur (“how”). See who and compare why.
senses_examples:
text:
I remember how I solved this puzzle.
type:
example
text:
People should be free to live how they want.
type:
example
text:
“There’s this real Al Capone fear that they’re going to get our guys, not on marijuana, but on something else,” Mr. Edson said, referring to how Capone was eventually charged with tax evasion rather than criminal activity.
ref:
2010 April 24, Jesse McKinley, “Don’t Call It ‘Pot’ in This Circle; It’s a Profession”, in The New York Times, page A1
type:
quotation
text:
She told me how her father was a doctor.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The manner or way in which.
In any way in which; in whatever way; however.
That, the fact that.
senses_topics:
|
5142 | word:
how
word_type:
noun
expansion:
how (plural hows or how's)
forms:
form:
hows
tags:
plural
form:
how's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
how
etymology_text:
From Middle English how, hou, hu, hwu, from Old English hū, from Proto-West Germanic *hwō, from Proto-Germanic *hwō (“through what, how”), from the same root as hwæt (“who, what”). /hw/ > /h/ due to wh-cluster reduction in Old English; compare who, which underwent this change later, and thus is spelt wh (Middle English spelling of /hw/) but pronounced /h/ (it previously had a different vowel, hence avoided the spelling and sound change in Old English). Vowel change per Great Vowel Shift.
Akin to Scots hoo, foo (“how”), Saterland Frisian wo (“how”), West Frisian hoe (“how”), Low German ho, wo, wu (“how”), Dutch hoe (“how”), German wie (“how”), Swedish hur (“how”). See who and compare why.
senses_examples:
text:
I am not interested in the why, but in the how.
type:
example
text:
It is an a posteriori argument, evincing the fact, but not the how.
ref:
1924, Joseph Rickaby, Studies on God and His Creatures, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
A wham-bam caper flick, efficiently directed by Roger Donaldson, that fancifully revisits the mysterious whos and speculative hows of a 1971 London bank heist.
ref:
2008 March 21, The New York Times, “Movie Guide and Film Series”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The means by which something is accomplished.
senses_topics:
|
5143 | word:
how
word_type:
noun
expansion:
how (plural hows)
forms:
form:
hows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
how
etymology_text:
From Middle English howe, hough, hogh, partly from Old English hōh (“promontory”), and partly from Old Norse haugr (“a how, mound”). Compare Old French höe (“hillock, hill”), from the same Germanic source.
senses_examples:
text:
Fianlly, as regards the places in which these rites and mysteries may have been held, certain writers believe them to have been the "Fairy Hills" or "howes" in various parts of Scotland.
ref:
1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page v. 136
type:
quotation
text:
The fairy feast inside the howe (and this barrow is hill-sized) reminds one of nothing so much as a tale in the Icelandic Eyrbyggia saga, written in the mid thirteenth century.
ref:
1985, Jennifer Westwood, Albion, published 1992, page xi. 432
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An artificial barrow or tumulus; in later folklore, associated with fairies.
A small hill in northern England.
senses_topics:
|
5144 | word:
how
word_type:
intj
expansion:
how
forms:
wikipedia:
How (greeting)
how
etymology_text:
From a Siouan language; compare Lakota háu. Alternatively from Wyandot haau.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A greeting, used in representations of Native American speech.
senses_topics:
|
5145 | word:
driveway
word_type:
noun
expansion:
driveway (plural driveways)
forms:
form:
driveways
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
driveway
etymology_text:
From drive + way.
senses_examples:
text:
The design originally called for a 1-lane-wide driveway leading from the street to the parking area.
ref:
1988 April 24, Joseph Truni, “Asphalt Answers”, in Popular Mechanics, page 127
type:
quotation
text:
They drove in the driveway into the parking lot that was totally full.
ref:
2020 October 28, Franco La Monica, Catch 44, Meadville, Pennsylvania: Christian Faith Publishing, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
The river corridor had also been used as a driveway for sheep in the past. Prior to the gold rush era, it is likely that early day trappers traveled the corridor.
ref:
1991, Robin Rose, “Appendix C: Resource Assessment: North Powder National Wild and Scenic River. USDA, Forest Service, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest”, in Environmental Assessment for the North Powder Wild and Scenic River Management Plan, US Department of Agriculture, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
Magdalena became a major cattle town, securing one of the largest stockyard shipping pens in the Southwest beginning in 1885. "The Magdalena Trail" was a cowboy's destination driving and herding cattle and sheep to the stockyards. So prominent was this trail that it was officially claimed as a "driveway for cattle" by the Grazing Homestead Act of 1916. Today in Magdalena the wooden stockyards, worn by weather and time, still stand as a testament to the Old West Cattle Drives.
ref:
2022, Outdoors Southwest, “Journey through New Mexico”, in Outdoors Southwest, retrieved 2023-09-13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A short private road that leads to a house or garage.
A road that enters or circulates through a defined area, such as an institution, compound, land area, etc., for the purpose of private access, maintenance, or security.
Synonym of droveway
senses_topics:
|
5146 | word:
Johor
word_type:
name
expansion:
Johor
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay Johor, from Arabic جَوْهَر (jawhar, “jewel(s)”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in southern Malaysia. Capital: Johor Bahru.
senses_topics:
|
5147 | word:
kind
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kind (plural kinds)
forms:
form:
kinds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:kind
etymology_text:
From Middle English kynde, kunde, cunde, icunde, from Old English cynd, ġecynd (“inherent nature, disposition, kind, gender, generation, race”), from Proto-West Germanic *kundi, from Proto-Germanic *kinþiz, related to Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, kin”) and Old English cennan (“to bear, give birth”). Cognate with Old High German gikunt (“nature, kind”), Icelandic kind (“race, species, kind”). Doublet of gens, genesis, and jati. See also kin.
senses_examples:
text:
What kind of a person are you?
type:
example
text:
This is a strange kind of tobacco.
type:
example
text:
That in virtue of which all of his material parts are of the same kind human being is what makes those parts belong to Hook, but Hook is neither identical with his kind (the essence of human being), nor is Hook merely that which makes him a member of the kind or all his parts human (his soul).
ref:
2022, James Dominic Rooney, Material Objects in Confucian and Aristotelian Metaphysics, page 166
type:
quotation
text:
The opening served as a kind of window.
type:
example
text:
Must yt nedes folowe that theyr fayth was chaunged in kynde, bycause yt was augmented in degrees.
ref:
1533, Thomas More, The second parte of the confutacion of Tyndals answere in whyche is also confuted the chyrche that Tyndale deuyseth
type:
quotation
text:
The generall woorde, is spoken of many, that differ either in kynd, or els in nombre.
ref:
1551, Thomas Wilson, The rule of reason, conteinyng the arte of logique
type:
quotation
text:
'Tis all one..whether our Afflictions be the same with those of others, in Kind, or not Superiour to them in Degree.
ref:
1665, Robert Boyle, Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects. Whereto is premis'd a Discourse about such kind of thoughts
type:
quotation
text:
He also argued powerfully, if less influentially, that animals' and humans' capacities differ largely in degree and not in kind.
ref:
2002, D. DeGrazia, Animal Rights
type:
quotation
text:
My young love said to me, My mother won’t mind
And my father won’t slight you for your lack of kind.
ref:
"She Moved through the Fair" (traditional Irish folk song)
text:
Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, / Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.
ref:
1691, John Dryden, Prologue to King Arthur
type:
quotation
text:
I'll pay in kind for his insult.
type:
example
text:
The kind of any primitive data type is *, corresponding to a nullary constructor.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
Family, lineage.
Manner.
Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
Equivalent means used as response to an action.
Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.
senses_topics:
Christianity
|
5148 | word:
kind
word_type:
adj
expansion:
kind (comparative kinder, superlative kindest)
forms:
form:
kinder
tags:
comparative
form:
kindest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
en:kind
etymology_text:
From Middle English kinde, kunde, kende, from Old English cynde, ġecynde (“innate, natural, native”), from Old English cynd, ġecynd (“nature, kind”).
senses_examples:
text:
a kind man; a kind heart
type:
example
text:
The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.
type:
example
text:
a horse kind in harness
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.
Affectionate.
Favorable.
Mild, gentle, forgiving
Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
senses_topics:
|
5149 | word:
son
word_type:
noun
expansion:
son (plural sons)
forms:
form:
sons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sonn, sone, sun, sune, from Old English sunu (“son”), from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewH- (“to bear; give birth”).
senses_examples:
text:
Before the birth of the man's child, he said: "I want a son, not a daughter."
type:
example
text:
Eli called Samuel his son. Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift.
ref:
1832, Noah Webster, “SON”, in A Dictionary of the English Language Intended to Exhibit the Origin of Words, the Orthography and Definitions: in Two Volumes · Volume 2
type:
quotation
text:
He was a son of the mafia system.
type:
example
text:
I hold it to be true, that the people are the sons of the soil; and we are only their instruments here.
ref:
1850, Oliver P. Badger, convention member from Putnam, Indiana, Report of the Debates and Proceedings of the Convention for the Revision of the Constitution of the State of Indiana, 1850 Volume 1, page 827
type:
quotation
text:
Son, can't you see that she's just a little girl?
ref:
1984, “Working on the Highway”, in Bruce Springsteen (music), Born in the U.S.A.
type:
quotation
text:
Shepard: Stay with me. We're almost through this.
Admiral Anderson: You did good, son. You did good. I'm proud of you.
Shepard: Thank you, sir. Anderson?
ref:
2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel
type:
quotation
text:
Three generations of file are usually kept, being the grandfather, father and son files.
ref:
2004, Ray Bradley, The Ultimate Computing Glossary for Advanced Level, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
After the update, the new file master file is the son. The file from which the father was developed with the transaction files of the appropriate day is the grandfather. The grandfather and son files are stored in different locations.
ref:
2007, O. Ray Whittington, Patrick R. Delaney, Wiley CPA Exam Review 2008: Auditing and Attestation, page 779
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One's male offspring.
A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents.
A male person who has such a close relationship with an older or otherwise more authoritative person that he can be regarded as a son of the other person.
A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by social conflict.
A person regarded as the product of some place.
A familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
An informal address to a friend or person of equal authority.
The current version of a file, derived from the preceding father file.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
5150 | word:
son
word_type:
verb
expansion:
son (third-person singular simple present sons, present participle sonning, simple past and past participle sonned)
forms:
form:
sons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sonning
tags:
participle
present
form:
sonned
tags:
participle
past
form:
sonned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sonen, sunen, from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
I sonned a father who would not be sonned, […]
ref:
1997, Noel Polk, Outside the Southern Myth
type:
quotation
text:
“Don't 'son' me.” “I'm old enough to be your father,” he said with a dismissive wave of his hand.
ref:
2005, Jerry Flesher, Tomorrow I'll Miss You
type:
quotation
text:
“Son—now's not the time, please.” “It's the perfect time—it's the best time fucking time I ever had. There's not gonna be another time, so don't son me, you bastard. […]”
ref:
2014, Stuart A. McKeever, Becoming Joey Fizz
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce (i.e. bear, father, beget) a son.
To address (someone) as "son".
senses_topics:
|
5151 | word:
son
word_type:
noun
expansion:
son (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish son (literally “tone, sound”).
senses_examples:
text:
When son first emerged in the streets of Havana, in the early twentieth century, it was shut down by the police, as were most forms of African culture. Son groups, conjuntos, caught playing on the street, as was the tradition, had their instruments confiscated.
ref:
2017, Mark Kurlansky, Havana: A Subtropical Delirium, Bloomsbury
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Son cubano, a genre of music and dance blending Spanish and African elements that originated in Cuba during the late 19th century.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
5152 | word:
Belém
word_type:
name
expansion:
Belém
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Pará, Brazil.
senses_topics:
|
5153 | word:
roach
word_type:
noun
expansion:
roach (plural roach)
forms:
form:
roach
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
roach
etymology_text:
From Middle English roche, from Old French roche, from Middle Low German roche, ruche (“ray (fish)”), from Old Saxon *rūh, possibly from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz (“rough”).
Cognate with Old English ruhha ("a ray"; > Middle English rouhe, rohȝe), German Rochen (“ray (fish)”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:
Any fish of species in the genus Rutilus, especially
Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:
Any fish of species in the genus Rutilus, especially:
A common roach (Rutilus rutilus)
Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:
A California roach, of the monotypic genus Hesperoleucus
senses_topics:
|
5154 | word:
roach
word_type:
noun
expansion:
roach (plural roaches)
forms:
form:
roaches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
roach
etymology_text:
Back-formation from cockroach, as if it were a compound.
Marijuana-related meanings by similarity of appearance of the butt, attested since the 1930s.
senses_examples:
text:
In his half hour of free time between brooms it was Willie's custom to smoke his lunch in an alleyway. He'd take just half a roach, only enough to make him feel a new day was starting, no more no less.
ref:
1957, Alfred Maund, The Big Boxcar, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, page 106
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cockroach.
The butt of a marijuana cigarette.
An entire marijuana cigarette, blunt, or joint.
The filter of a rolled cigarette or joint, made from card or paper.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
smoking
lifestyle
smoking
lifestyle
smoking |
5155 | word:
roach
word_type:
noun
expansion:
roach (plural roaches)
forms:
form:
roaches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
roach
etymology_text:
Apparently from extended or figurative use of roach (“Cyprinidae”), above. Compare the adjective roached (“styled so that the mane stands up from the neck”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sail material that forms a concave curve rather than straight leech (aft edge) of a sail to increase the sail area over that of a simple triangular sail.
A haircut or a similar-looking kind of headdress worn by some of the indigenous peoples of North America, often red.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
|
5156 | word:
roach
word_type:
verb
expansion:
roach (third-person singular simple present roaches, present participle roaching, simple past and past participle roached)
forms:
form:
roaches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
roaching
tags:
participle
present
form:
roached
tags:
participle
past
form:
roached
tags:
past
wikipedia:
roach
etymology_text:
Apparently from extended or figurative use of roach (“Cyprinidae”), above. Compare the adjective roached (“styled so that the mane stands up from the neck”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut or shave off the mane of a horse so that the remaining hair stands up on the neck.
To cut a person's hair so that it stands straight up.
senses_topics:
|
5157 | word:
roach
word_type:
noun
expansion:
roach (plural roaches)
forms:
form:
roaches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
roach
etymology_text:
Variant of roche (“rock”). Attested since the seventeenth century.
senses_examples:
text:
After long Working of this Coal, it was found upon the rising Grounds, that there lay another Roach of Coal, at the Depth of 14 Yards under it
ref:
1749, Rog. Mostyn, “Mineralogy”, in Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the End of the Year, volume II, London: Royal Society, →OCLC, page 379
type:
quotation
text:
The roach, both of the top and bottom beds, is always imperceptibly incorporated with the freestone, which is invariable situated beneath it.
ref:
1841, C.H. Smith, “Lithology; or Observations on Stone for Building”, in The Surveyor, Engineer, and Architect, →OCLC, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bed or stratum of some mineral.
Gritty or coarse rock; especially Portland stone or similar limestone.
senses_topics:
business
mining
|
5158 | word:
night
word_type:
noun
expansion:
night (countable and uncountable, plural nights)
forms:
form:
nights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
night
etymology_text:
From Middle English nighte, night, nyght, niȝt, naht, from Old English niht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht (“night”), from Proto-Germanic *nahts (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”).
Cognate with Scots nicht, neicht (“night”), West Frisian nacht (“night”), Dutch nacht (“night”), Low German Nacht (“night”), German Nacht (“night”), Danish nat (“night”), Swedish and Norwegian natt (“night”), Faroese nátt (“night”), Icelandic nótt (“night”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (nahts, “night”), Greek νύχτα (nýchta, “night”), Russian ночь (nočʹ, “night”), Sanskrit नक्ति (nákti, “night”), and Latin nox (“night”), whence English nox, a doublet.
senses_examples:
text:
Most animals are awake at day and sleep at night.
type:
example
text:
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref:
2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
a night on the town
type:
example
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
I stayed my friend's house for three nights.
type:
example
text:
from noon till night
type:
example
text:
The cat disappeared into the night.
type:
example
text:
night:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
A day, or at least a night.
Nightfall.
Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
law
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
5159 | word:
night
word_type:
intj
expansion:
night
forms:
wikipedia:
night
etymology_text:
From Middle English nighte, night, nyght, niȝt, naht, from Old English niht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht (“night”), from Proto-Germanic *nahts (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”).
Cognate with Scots nicht, neicht (“night”), West Frisian nacht (“night”), Dutch nacht (“night”), Low German Nacht (“night”), German Nacht (“night”), Danish nat (“night”), Swedish and Norwegian natt (“night”), Faroese nátt (“night”), Icelandic nótt (“night”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (nahts, “night”), Greek νύχτα (nýchta, “night”), Russian ночь (nočʹ, “night”), Sanskrit नक्ति (nákti, “night”), and Latin nox (“night”), whence English nox, a doublet.
senses_examples:
text:
Night, y'all! Thanks for a great evening!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of good night.
senses_topics:
|
5160 | word:
night
word_type:
verb
expansion:
night (third-person singular simple present nights, present participle nighting, simple past and past participle nighted)
forms:
form:
nights
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nighting
tags:
participle
present
form:
nighted
tags:
participle
past
form:
nighted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
night
etymology_text:
From Middle English nighte, night, nyght, niȝt, naht, from Old English niht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht (“night”), from Proto-Germanic *nahts (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”).
Cognate with Scots nicht, neicht (“night”), West Frisian nacht (“night”), Dutch nacht (“night”), Low German Nacht (“night”), German Nacht (“night”), Danish nat (“night”), Swedish and Norwegian natt (“night”), Faroese nátt (“night”), Icelandic nótt (“night”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (nahts, “night”), Greek νύχτα (nýchta, “night”), Russian ночь (nočʹ, “night”), Sanskrit नक्ति (nákti, “night”), and Latin nox (“night”), whence English nox, a doublet.
senses_examples:
text:
So I took seat and ate somewhat of my vivers, my horse also feeding upon his fodder, and we nighted in that spot and next morning I set out[.]
ref:
1885, Richard F. Burton, Arabian Nights, in 16 volumes, published 2008, page 284
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.
senses_topics:
|
5161 | word:
Kedah
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kedah
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Malay Kedah.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in northwestern Malaysia. Capital: Alor Setar.
senses_topics:
|
5162 | word:
Perlis
word_type:
name
expansion:
Perlis
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay Perlis.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in northwestern Malaysia. Capital: Kangar.
senses_topics:
|
5163 | word:
thoroughfare
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thoroughfare (countable and uncountable, plural thoroughfares)
forms:
form:
thoroughfares
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thurghfare, corresponding to thorough- (“through”) + fare. Compare Old English þurhfaran (“to go through, go over, traverse, pierce, pass through, pass beyond, transcend, penetrate”). Compare also Old English þurhfær (“inner secret place”), German Durchfahrt (“passage through, thoroughfare”).
senses_examples:
text:
“I ask you,” cried Lloyd George in 1909. “Are we to have all the ways of reform, financial and social, blocked simply by a notice board: ‘No thoroughfare. By order of Nathanial Rothschild’?”
ref:
1961, Frederic Morton, The Rothschilds, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
In the scullery Smiley had once more checked his thoroughfare, shoved some deck-chairs aside, and pinned a string to the mangle to guide him because he saw badly in the dark.
ref:
1974, John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
type:
quotation
text:
a dozen houses were quickly blazing, including those of Sir John Fielding and two other justices, and four in Holborn – one of the greatest thoroughfares in London – which were all burning at the same time, and burned until they went out of themselves, for the people cut the engine hose, and would not suffer the firemen to play upon the flames.
ref:
1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
type:
quotation
text:
Local art is now a viable industry, and hundreds of islanders make a living in it. The thoroughfare of Oneroa village is lined with shops and galleries full of their work.
ref:
2011 July 1, Stephen Phelan, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The sign leading to the other carriage reads: No thoroughfare.
type:
example
text:
Mr. Roscoe, on the contrary, has claimed none of the accorded privileges of talent. He has shut himself up in no garden of thought, no elysium of fancy; but has gone forth into the highways and thoroughfares of life; […].
ref:
1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Roscoe
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A passage; a way through.
A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street.
The act of going through; passage; travel, transit.
An unobstructed waterway allowing passage for ships.
senses_topics:
|
5164 | word:
CLI
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CLI (plural CLIs)
forms:
form:
CLIs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of command line interface.
Initialism of command-line interpreter.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
5165 | word:
CLI
word_type:
name
expansion:
CLI
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Common Language Infrastructure (for .NET.)
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
5166 | word:
Negeri Sembilan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Negeri Sembilan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Malay Negeri Sembilan.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in western Malaysia. Capital: Seremban.
senses_topics:
|
5167 | word:
Edmonton
word_type:
name
expansion:
Edmonton
forms:
wikipedia:
Edmonton, Kentucky
Edmonton, London
en:Edmonton
en:Edmonton (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English Adelmetone, from Old English Ēadhelm + tūn (“town”). The Canadian city was named after the area of London.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Alberta, Canada.
A former town and suburb of Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
A hamlet in St Breock civil parish, Cornwall, England.
An area of London in borough of Enfield, in northern Greater London, England.
A city, the county seat of Metcalfe County, Kentucky, United States.
senses_topics:
|
5168 | word:
Curitiba
word_type:
name
expansion:
Curitiba
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Paraná, Brazil.
senses_topics:
|
5169 | word:
Sabah
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sabah
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay Sabah.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in eastern Malaysia located at the Northern part of the Borneo island with the main city Kota Kinabalu as its capital.
senses_topics:
|
5170 | word:
Terengganu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Terengganu
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay Terengganu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in western Malaysia. Capital: Kuala Terengganu.
senses_topics:
|
5171 | word:
UTC
word_type:
name
expansion:
UTC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A compromise initialism between English CUT (“Coordinated Universal Time”) and French TUC (“Temps Universel Coordonné”), unofficially giving “Universal Time Coordinated” and “Universel Temps Coordonné”.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Coordinated Universal Time, which is the international standard for civil time and the Internet.
senses_topics:
|
5172 | word:
UTC
word_type:
name
expansion:
UTC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Uniform Traffic Code.
senses_topics:
law |
5173 | word:
UTC
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
UTC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of unable to contact.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel |
5174 | word:
Tupinambá
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Tupinambá (plural Tupinambás or Tupinambá)
forms:
form:
Tupinambás
tags:
plural
form:
Tupinambá
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of a particular Tupi ethnic group.
senses_topics:
|
5175 | word:
Tupinambá
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tupinambá
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An extinct South-American Indian language of the Tupí-Guaraní family.
senses_topics:
|
5176 | word:
Brasilia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Brasilia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Brasília
senses_topics:
|
5177 | word:
Boa Vista
word_type:
name
expansion:
Boa Vista
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese boa vista. Doublet of Buena Vista.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Roraima, Brazil
One of the ten islands of Cape Verde
senses_topics:
|
5178 | word:
flower
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flower (countable and uncountable, plural flowers)
forms:
form:
flowers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Modern English
flower
etymology_text:
From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Doublet of flour.
Partly displaced native Old English blostma, whence Modern English blossom.
senses_examples:
text:
You know, Darwin studied their fertilisation, and showed that the whole structure of an ordinary orchid flower was contrived in order that moths might carry the pollen from plant to plant.
ref:
1894, H. G. Wells, The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
type:
quotation
text:
We transplanted the flowers to a larger pot.
type:
example
text:
He always keeps a vase full of flowers in his office.
type:
example
text:
The dogwoods are in flower this week.
type:
example
text:
So was it asserted, that whenever a maiden was destined to die unmarried, as surely would the plant wither away and perish, and if a dughter of the Renseccos lost her honour or had given away her flower to an unworthy lover, then would the flower be blighted overnight.
ref:
1893, Emily Gerard, The Voice of a Flower, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
In some local tradditions a fallen bride was married wearing a crown of straw rather than a garland of flowers, to symbolize her loss of virginity – the wilting of her flower.
ref:
2018, Satu Lidman, Gender, Violence and Attitudes: Lessons from Early Modern Europe
type:
quotation
text:
"Our flesh as one!" he laughed, speaking loudly. "Sweating bodies entwined in carnal passion! As I plunge myself deep into her lady flower, again and again and again— !"
ref:
2019, Shaun Barger, Mage Against the Machine, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
the flower of the chivalry of all Spain
ref:
1808, Robert Southey, Chronicle of the Cid, from the Spanish
type:
quotation
text:
In times of peace, so clean and bright, / And with a new-washed morning face, / He walked Pall Mall, a goodly sight, / The finished flower of all the race.
ref:
1915, Katharine Tynan, The Golden Boy
type:
quotation
text:
She was in the flower of her life.
type:
example
text:
NO lady fair in hall or bower, / In days when knighthood was in flower, / Or high-born dame with jewels set, / Or Tudor or Plantagenet, / E’er wore enwreath’d on form and face / Thy royal robe of richest grace.
ref:
1899, James [Mackintosh] Kennedy, “To Queen Alexandra”, in The Scottish and American Poems of James Kennedy, J[ohn] S[tuart] Ogilvie Publishing Company, […], page 197
type:
quotation
text:
the flowers of sulphur
type:
example
text:
I pointed out to the late Mr. Catherwood, of the firm of Caslon and Catherwood, the inconvenience of both these modes of cutting flowers,
ref:
1841, William Savage, A Dictionary of the Art of Printing
type:
quotation
text:
[…] she whispered leaning over and kissing her forehead; and then added, 'Mummy loves you, precious flower.'
ref:
2015, Sally Chiwuzie, Silent Symphonies
type:
quotation
text:
Take care of yourself out there, Brown, you delicate flower.
ref:
2016, Barbara Ann Wright, Paladins of the Storm Lord
type:
quotation
text:
Come on, you delicate flower, we just need to nap. It will be fine.
ref:
2021, Alica McKenna-Johnson, The Unicorn's Scion
type:
quotation
text:
to give someone his flowers
type:
example
text:
It has been my desire to find a way to express my gratitude to these women for quite some time but I really did not know how to give them their flowers as a method to tell them thanks.
ref:
2010, M. Joyce Dickerson, A Tribute to 101 Incredible Women of Distinction Who Influenced My Life From My House to the White House
type:
quotation
text:
I was able to give Coach Bryant his flowers while he was alive, and I have always been thankful I was able to do that.
ref:
2011, Tommy Hicks, Game of My Life Alabama Crimson Tide, page 149
type:
quotation
text:
Gonzalo managed to fake a smile. When will anyone ever give him his flowers? His hard work kept him and his kingdom this far. Wasn't anyone going to acknowledge the fact?
ref:
2023, Torry Smith, Alpha's Unexpected Luna
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
The stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.
Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
The vulva, especially the labia majora.
The best examples or representatives of a group.
The best state of things; the prime.
Flour.
A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.
A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
Menstrual discharges.
A delicate, fragile, or oversensitive person.
Credit, recognition.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
media
printing
publishing
|
5179 | word:
flower
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flower (third-person singular simple present flowers, present participle flowering, simple past and past participle flowered)
forms:
form:
flowers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
flowering
tags:
participle
present
form:
flowered
tags:
participle
past
form:
flowered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Modern English
flower
etymology_text:
From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Doublet of flour.
Partly displaced native Old English blostma, whence Modern English blossom.
senses_examples:
text:
This plant flowers in June.
type:
example
text:
It only needed watering to take root, to flower and to fructify, and the watering came in due course.
ref:
1940 Mahadev Desai, translator, Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography, Part III (IX) The Story of My Experiments with Truth/Part III/Simple Life, original published 1927-1929
text:
In life after life of this now-expanded circle of women artists, writers and revolutionaries, the same appeared: a flowing of creative insight and vision seemed the follow a sexual flowering.
ref:
2012, Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography, page 43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put forth blooms.
To decorate with pictures of flowers.
To reach a state of full development or achievement.
To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
To come off as flowers by sublimation.
senses_topics:
|
5180 | word:
flower
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flower (plural flowers)
forms:
form:
flowers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
flower
etymology_text:
# table flow + -er
senses_examples:
text:
Leaving the weavers’ village behind you, and crossing the sandy bed of the Vengavati or ‘Swift-flower,’ which, however, contained not a drop of water, you reach the ancient Jain temple.
ref:
1886–1890, J. D. Rees, Narratives of Tours in India, page 340
text:
Rhŏdănus, i, m. The Rhodanus (now Rhone); a river of Gaul [prob. a northern word, meaning “Swift-flower or Swift-passer”].
ref:
1888, John T. White, The Seventh Book of Cæsar’s Gallic War with a Vocabulary, page 224
type:
quotation
text:
sará-yu, f. [swift flower: √sri] N. of a river (in Oudh), in C. gnly. û.
ref:
1893, Arthur A. MacDonnell, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary, page 340
type:
quotation
text:
one that flows with force and speed; the fast flower
ref:
1959, Scottish Studies, volumes 3-4, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
Bonnie partner with Scottish flower (5) [as a clue for CLYDE]
ref:
2019 August 24, Radio Times Crossword
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that flows, such as a river.
senses_topics:
|
5181 | word:
Pahang
word_type:
name
expansion:
Pahang
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay Pahang.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in eastern Malaysia. Capital: Kuantan.
senses_topics:
|
5182 | word:
precise
word_type:
adj
expansion:
precise (comparative more precise or preciser, superlative most precise or precisest)
forms:
form:
more precise
tags:
comparative
form:
preciser
tags:
comparative
form:
most precise
tags:
superlative
form:
precisest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French précis, from Latin praecisus, perfect passive participle of praecīdere, from prae- (“before, in front”) + caedere (“cut; strike”), cognate with English hit. Related to English incise. Doublet of précis.
senses_examples:
text:
A memory is "precise" when the occurrences that would verify it are narrowly circumscribed: for instance, "I met Jones" is precise as compared to "I met a man." A memory is "accurate" when it is both precise and true, i.e. in the above instance, if it was Jones I met.
ref:
1921, Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind
type:
quotation
text:
Individually, some of these definitions fall into the common definitional trap of being overly precise.
ref:
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: accurate
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Both exact and accurate.
Consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other (this does not mean that they cluster near the true, correct, or accurate value).
Adhering too much to rules; prim or punctilious.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
5183 | word:
precise
word_type:
verb
expansion:
precise (third-person singular simple present precises, present participle precising, simple past and past participle precised)
forms:
form:
precises
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
precising
tags:
participle
present
form:
precised
tags:
participle
past
form:
precised
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French précis, from Latin praecisus, perfect passive participle of praecīdere, from prae- (“before, in front”) + caedere (“cut; strike”), cognate with English hit. Related to English incise. Doublet of précis.
senses_examples:
text:
This proposal for a new basic regulation is justified because there is a need to precise the objectives of the CFP.
ref:
2011, Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the Common Fisheries Policy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make or render precise; to specify.
senses_topics:
|
5184 | word:
beg
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beg (third-person singular simple present begs, present participle begging, simple past and past participle begged)
forms:
form:
begs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
begging
tags:
participle
present
form:
begged
tags:
participle
past
form:
begged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English beggen, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English *becgian, *bedcian, syncopated forms of bedecian (“to beg”), itself of obscure origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bedukōn, a frequentative verb derived from Proto-West Germanic *bedu (“plea, petition, prayer”, whence English bead). Alternatively from Proto-West Germanic *bedagō (“petitioner, requester, beggar”), an agent noun from the same surce. Compare North Frisian bēdagi (“to pray”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍅𐌰 (bidagwa, “beggar”). All ultimately from the root of English bid, which see for more. An alternative theory considers the verb a backformation from beggar and derives the latter from Old French begart (“kind of lay brother”).
senses_examples:
text:
He begged on the street corner from passers-by.
type:
example
text:
I beg your pardon. I didn’t mean to cause offence.
type:
example
text:
He begged her to go to the prom with him.
type:
example
text:
The way you keep eating raw meat, you're just begging to get tapeworms.
type:
example
text:
A captivating novel that just begs for a movie adaptation
type:
example
text:
The colors in this cell are as dull as its architects must have been. An endless expanse of drab-green textured walls, contrasting with the gray concrete floor. It begs redecoration.
ref:
1985 April 13, Philip Brasfield, “Echoes Inside of What's Outside”, in Gay Community News, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.
ref:
a. 1612, John Harington, Epigrams
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
To obviously lack or be in need of something.
In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
senses_topics:
law |
5185 | word:
beg
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beg (plural begs)
forms:
form:
begs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English beggen, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English *becgian, *bedcian, syncopated forms of bedecian (“to beg”), itself of obscure origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bedukōn, a frequentative verb derived from Proto-West Germanic *bedu (“plea, petition, prayer”, whence English bead). Alternatively from Proto-West Germanic *bedagō (“petitioner, requester, beggar”), an agent noun from the same surce. Compare North Frisian bēdagi (“to pray”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍅𐌰 (bidagwa, “beggar”). All ultimately from the root of English bid, which see for more. An alternative theory considers the verb a backformation from beggar and derives the latter from Old French begart (“kind of lay brother”).
senses_examples:
text:
“Lord,” I prayed, “it's a long time since I came to You for anything besides a quick beg for help. And it seems every time I come to You I'm asking something bigger, more impossible. But I'm here again. […]
ref:
2008, Cathy Gohlke, William Henry is a Fine Name/I Have Seen Him in the Watchfires Set
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of begging; an imploring request.
senses_topics:
|
5186 | word:
beg
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beg (plural begs)
forms:
form:
begs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Proto-Turkic *bēg.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of bey
senses_topics:
history
human-sciences
sciences |
5187 | word:
beg
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beg
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Knit with MC until work measures 3 inches from beg.
ref:
2005, DRG Dynamic Resource, Big Book of Knit Hats & Scarves for Everyone, House of White Birches, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of beginning.
senses_topics:
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles |
5188 | word:
oral
word_type:
adj
expansion:
oral (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Early 17th century borrowing from Late Latin ōrālis, from ōs (“the mouth”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
oral hygiene
type:
example
text:
oral sex
type:
example
text:
an oral presentation
an oral French exam
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to the mouth.
Done or taken by the mouth.
Relating to the mouth.
Pronounced by the voice resonating in the mouth, as the vowels in English.
Relating to the mouth.
Relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development during which libidinal gratification is derived from intake (as of food), by sucking, and later by biting.
Relating to the mouth.
Of, relating to, or characterized by personality traits of passive dependency and aggressiveness.
Relating to the mouth.
Spoken rather than written.
Relating to the transmission of information or literature by word of mouth.
Spoken rather than written.
Using speech or the lips especially in teaching the deaf.
Spoken rather than written.
Not having reached the stage of literacy.
Spoken rather than written.
senses_topics:
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology
|
5189 | word:
oral
word_type:
noun
expansion:
oral (countable and uncountable, plural orals)
forms:
form:
orals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Early 17th century borrowing from Late Latin ōrālis, from ōs (“the mouth”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
We've got our Spanish oral tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
I gave my boyfriend oral for the first time on his birthday.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class.
A physical examination of the mouth.
Ellipsis of oral sex.
Ellipsis of oral steroid..
senses_topics:
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
5190 | word:
piñata
word_type:
noun
expansion:
piñata (plural piñatas)
forms:
form:
piñatas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mexican Spanish piñata, from piña, from Latin pinea (“pinecone”), because its paper cover (on traditional making) resembles one. Alternatively from Spanish via Italian pignatta (“clay pot”), from a Chinese custom allegedly introduced by Marco Polo.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] Wiesbaden, largely crippled, nevertheless refuses to sink for the moment, and will become something of a steel piñata for passing British capital ships over the next few hours whilst throwing the odd torpedo back in retaliation.
ref:
2020 August 5, Drachinifel, 3:29 from the start, in The Battle of Jutland - Clash of the Titans - Part 2 (Jellicoe vs Scheer), archived from the original on 2022-09-12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A doll or other decorated container that is filled with candy and hit with a hammer or a stick by blindfolded children during birthday parties or other celebrations until the candy falls out.
Something which is repeatedly hit or damaged over a period of time.
senses_topics:
|
5191 | word:
piñata
word_type:
verb
expansion:
piñata (third-person singular simple present piñatas, present participle piñataing, simple past and past participle piñataed)
forms:
form:
piñatas
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
piñataing
tags:
participle
present
form:
piñataed
tags:
participle
past
form:
piñataed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mexican Spanish piñata, from piña, from Latin pinea (“pinecone”), because its paper cover (on traditional making) resembles one. Alternatively from Spanish via Italian pignatta (“clay pot”), from a Chinese custom allegedly introduced by Marco Polo.
senses_examples:
text:
2015 (November 20) "Zombie Broheims", episode 14 of Pig Goat Banana Cricket
Cricket: "Don't pinata me!"
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hit something or someone with sticks after having filled them with candy.
senses_topics:
|
5192 | word:
Vitória
word_type:
name
expansion:
Vitória
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A municipality, the state capital of Espírito Santo, Brazil
senses_topics:
|
5193 | word:
haj
word_type:
noun
expansion:
haj (plural hajes)
forms:
form:
hajes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"The defendant has also piloted planes taking haj pilgrims from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia to Indonesia.
ref:
2009 January 15, “Five Australians jailed for entering Papua province”, in Herald Sun, sourced from AAP
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of hajj
senses_topics:
|
5194 | word:
Adelaide
word_type:
name
expansion:
Adelaide
forms:
wikipedia:
Adelaide (given name)
Adelaide River
Adelaide, South Australia
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French Adélaïde, from Old High German Adalheidis (from adal (“noble”) + -heit (“nature, character”)); doublet of Alice.
senses_examples:
text:
Diana Allers: Breaking now: A city of four million, blasted from orbit. Adelaide, Australia is no more.
Diana Allers: New footage from Earth reveals the Reapers' plans to attack large industrial centers.
Diana Allers: Which cities are next? Find out--inside the Battlespace.
ref:
2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female given name from the Germanic languages
Places named for Queen Adelaide, consort of William IV.
The state capital and largest city in South Australia.
Places named for Queen Adelaide, consort of William IV.
A river in the Northern Territory, Australia, known for its large population of saltwater crocodiles.
Places named for Queen Adelaide, consort of William IV.
A town in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
senses_topics:
|
5195 | word:
Labuan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Labuan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Indonesian Labuan and Malay Labuan.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A district in Banten, Indonesia.
A federal territory off Sabah, Malaysia.
senses_topics:
|
5196 | word:
bee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bee (plural bees or (dialectal) been)
forms:
form:
bees
tags:
plural
form:
been
tags:
dialectal
plural
wikipedia:
bee
etymology_text:
From Middle English bee, from Old English bēo, from Proto-West Germanic *bijā, from Proto-Germanic *bijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey-.
senses_examples:
text:
His face was belymmed as byes had him stounge[…].
ref:
1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte
type:
quotation
text:
Bees pollinate many of the world’s crops—a service estimated to be worth $15 billion a year in America alone.
ref:
2012 March 31, “Subtle poison”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.
senses_topics:
|
5197 | word:
bee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bee (plural bees)
forms:
form:
bees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bee
etymology_text:
Possibly from dialectal bene, been, bean (“help given by neighbours”), from Middle English been, bene (“neighbourly help, prayer, petition, request, extra service given by a tenant to his lord”), from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, petition, favour, compulsory service”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“prayer, request, supplication”). Thus a variant of obsolete ben (“prayer; petition”) and doublet of boon. Cognate with Danish bøn (“prayer”), Dutch ban (“curse”), German Bann (“ban”). More at ban.
senses_examples:
text:
geography bee
type:
example
text:
The cellar […] was dug by a bee in a single day.
ref:
1856, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Recollections of a Lifetime
type:
quotation
text:
There was but little variation in types of buildings in the pioneer period: house, church, store, barn and mill were usually much alike except in size, and a raising bee was the ordinary means of their erection.
ref:
1973, Alan Skeoch, Tony H. Smith, Canadians and their society, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
Particularly resistant, for example, in many parts of northern Europe was the “spinning bee”, a nocturnal gathering of women to exchange gossip, stories, refreshment and – crucially – light and heat, as they spun wool or flax, knitted or sewed.
ref:
2011 September 21, Tim Blanning, “The reinvention of the night”, in Times Literary Supplement
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee.
A community gathering to share labour, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.
senses_topics:
|
5198 | word:
bee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bee (plural bees)
forms:
form:
bees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bee
etymology_text:
From Middle English beeȝ, bie, bei, begh, beiȝe, bege, beah, bye, from Old English bēah, bēag, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz. Doublet of beag, a learned borrowing; and of bagel.
senses_examples:
text:
And kyng Arthur gaf her a ryche bee of gold and soo she departed
ref:
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Caxton, Book 7, Chapter xxxv
type:
quotation
text:
...restoring unto the world much gold richly adorning his Sword, two hundred Rubies, many hundred Imperial Coynes, three hundred golden Bees, the bones and horseshoe of his horse enterred with him...
ref:
1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ring or torque; a bracelet.
senses_topics:
|
5199 | word:
bee
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bee
forms:
wikipedia:
bee
etymology_text:
Variant spellings.
senses_examples:
text:
held that a ‘Nicholaitan is an heretike, like Nicholas, who held that wiues should bee common to all alike.’
ref:
1604, Reverend Cawdrey, Table Aleph
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of be.
past participle of be; been
senses_topics:
|
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