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5200 | word:
bee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bee (plural bees)
forms:
form:
bees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bee
etymology_text:
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English be, from Latin be (the name of the letter B).
senses_examples:
text:
"The ee-vee-ee-ar-en-oh-ee-ell-blank-bee-ell-oh-ess-ess-oh-em-blank-en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar is especially dee-ee-ell-eye-cee-eye-oh-you-ess." Our friends thanked the spelling bee for his help and then he buzzed off.
ref:
2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.
senses_topics:
|
5201 | word:
bee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bee (plural bees)
forms:
form:
bees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bee
etymology_text:
Probably from Old English bēah (“ring”). Compare bow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of the pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
5202 | word:
vert
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vert (countable and uncountable, plural verts)
forms:
form:
verts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
vert
etymology_text:
From Middle English vert, borrowed from Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Doublet of virid, which was borrowed directly from Latin.
senses_examples:
text:
vert:
text:
“I understand thee,” said the King, “and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.”
ref:
1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
|
5203 | word:
vert
word_type:
adj
expansion:
vert (comparative more vert, superlative most vert)
forms:
form:
more vert
tags:
comparative
form:
most vert
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
vert
etymology_text:
From Middle English vert, borrowed from Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Doublet of virid, which was borrowed directly from Latin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In blazon, of the colour green.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
5204 | word:
vert
word_type:
adj
expansion:
vert
forms:
wikipedia:
vert
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of vertical.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of vertical.
senses_topics:
|
5205 | word:
vert
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vert (plural verts)
forms:
form:
verts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
vert
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of vertical.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition.
A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers.
senses_topics:
|
5206 | word:
vert
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vert (plural verts)
forms:
form:
verts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
vert
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of vertebrate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Vertebrate.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
5207 | word:
vert
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vert (third-person singular simple present verts, present participle verting, simple past and past participle verted)
forms:
form:
verts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
verting
tags:
participle
present
form:
verted
tags:
participle
past
form:
verted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
vert
etymology_text:
From Latin vertere (“to turn, overturn”).
senses_examples:
text:
Theſe are Ani-mad-versions indeed, when a Writer’s words are madly verted, inverted, perverted, againſt his true intent, and their Grammaticall ſenſe.
ref:
1659, Thomas Fuller, “The Eleventh Book, Containing the Reign of K. Charls”, in The Appeal of Iniured Innocence: unto the Religious Learned and Ingenuous Reader. In a Controversie Betwixt the Animadvertor Dr. Peter Heylyn and the Author Thomas Fuller., London: […] W. Godbid, […], part III, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
A lady had ulceration of the interior of the body of the uterus, which was not flexed or verted:[…].
ref:
1879 December 6, J[ames] Matthews Duncan, “On Retention of Mucus”, in The Medical Times and Gazette. A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News., volume II, number 1536, London: […] J. & A. Churchill, […], page 630
type:
quotation
text:
For instance, all of the muscles of the eyes may be relatively weak. The ducting or verting power is not as great as it should be.
ref:
1903 February 7, R. C. Matheny, “Imbalance and Insufficiency of the Eye Muscles”, in George F[rederick] Shrady [Sr.], Thomas L[athrop] Stedman, editors, Medical Record: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 63, number 6 (whole 1683), New York, N.Y.: William Wood and Company, page 210
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To turn.
senses_topics:
|
5208 | word:
vert
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vert (plural verts)
forms:
form:
verts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
vert
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of vertex.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Vertex.
senses_topics:
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
5209 | word:
Melbourne
word_type:
name
expansion:
Melbourne
forms:
wikipedia:
Melbourne
Melbourne (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Named after the 2nd Viscount of Melbourne, Derbyshire, itself deriving from the Old English place name Mileburne (Old English mylen (“mill”) + burne (“stream”)).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Victoria, Australia and former capital of Australia (1901–1927).
A community in the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
A township municipality of Le Val-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
A market town and civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England, located in the East Midlands (OS grid ref SK3825).
A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
A small city, the county seat of Izard County, Arkansas, United States.
An unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California, United States, previously spelt Melburne.
A city in Brevard County, Florida, United States.
A small city in Marshall County, Iowa, United States.
A tiny home rule city in Campbell County, Kentucky, United States.
senses_topics:
|
5210 | word:
Penang
word_type:
name
expansion:
Penang
forms:
wikipedia:
Penang
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Malay pinang, from Pulau Pinang.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in western Malaysia. Capital: George Town.
An island in Penang state.
senses_topics:
|
5211 | word:
bouton
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bouton (plural boutons)
forms:
form:
boutons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French bouton.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bud-like swelling, especially one at the end of an axon
senses_topics:
|
5212 | word:
charcoal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
charcoal (usually uncountable, plural charcoals)
forms:
form:
charcoals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
charcoal
etymology_text:
From Middle English charcole, from charren (“to change, turn”) + cole (“coal”), from Old English cierran (“to change, turn”) + col (“coal”); equivalent to char (Etymology 3 (verb)) + coal.
senses_examples:
text:
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
ref:
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
type:
quotation
text:
He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.
ref:
1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, page 166
type:
quotation
text:
charcoal:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is, heating it in the absence of oxygen.
A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
A drawing made with charcoal.
A very dark gray colour.
senses_topics:
|
5213 | word:
charcoal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
charcoal (comparative more charcoal, superlative most charcoal)
forms:
form:
more charcoal
tags:
comparative
form:
most charcoal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
charcoal
etymology_text:
From Middle English charcole, from charren (“to change, turn”) + cole (“coal”), from Old English cierran (“to change, turn”) + col (“coal”); equivalent to char (Etymology 3 (verb)) + coal.
senses_examples:
text:
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
ref:
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a dark gray colour.
Made of charcoal.
senses_topics:
|
5214 | word:
charcoal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
charcoal (third-person singular simple present charcoals, present participle charcoaling, simple past and past participle charcoaled)
forms:
form:
charcoals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
charcoaling
tags:
participle
present
form:
charcoaled
tags:
participle
past
form:
charcoaled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
charcoal
etymology_text:
From Middle English charcole, from charren (“to change, turn”) + cole (“coal”), from Old English cierran (“to change, turn”) + col (“coal”); equivalent to char (Etymology 3 (verb)) + coal.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To draw with charcoal.
To cook over charcoal.
senses_topics:
|
5215 | word:
Sarawak
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sarawak
forms:
wikipedia:
Sarawak
etymology_text:
From Malay Sarawak.
senses_examples:
text:
In other parts of the Nanyang the Chinese were never prominent in Communist Parties except, later, in Sarawak, where the local Chinese Communist faction attempted with little success to gain control of the Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (S.U.P.P.), a party largely Chinese-supported, which emerged as one of the legal political parties after Sarawak obtained self-government in 1956.
ref:
1972, C. P. FitzGerald, The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People: "Southern Fields and Southern Ocean", London: Barrie & Jenkins, →OCLC, →OL, page 189
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in eastern Malaysia. Capital: Kuching.
A former country in Southeast Asia; the "Kingdom of Sarawak" from 1841 to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's annexation of it in 1946.
senses_topics:
|
5216 | word:
Kelantan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kelantan
forms:
wikipedia:
Kelantan
Kelantan River
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Malay Kelantan.
senses_examples:
text:
Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.
ref:
1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in western Malaysia. Capital: Kota Bharu.
A major river in Kelantan, Malaysia.
senses_topics:
|
5217 | word:
island
word_type:
noun
expansion:
island (plural islands)
forms:
form:
islands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:island
etymology_text:
From earlier iland, from Middle English iland, yland, ylond, from Old English īeġland, from Proto-West Germanic *auwjuland, from Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą (from Proto-Germanic *awjō (“island, waterland, meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂) + *landą (“land”), equivalent to ey + land.
Doublet of Öland. Cognate with Scots island, iland, yland (“island”), West Frisian eilân (“island”), Saterland Frisian Ailound (“island”), Dutch eiland (“island”), Low German Eiland (“island”), German Eiland (“island”), Swedish ö (“island”), Öland (“Sweden's second largest island”), Danish ø (“island”), Norwegian øy (“island”), øyland (“large island”), Icelandic eyland (“island”).
The insertion of ⟨s⟩—a 16th century spelling modification—is due to a change in spelling to the unrelated term isle, which previously lacked s (cf. Middle English ile, yle). The re-addition was mistakenly carried over to include iland as well. Related also to German Aue (“water-meadow”), Latin aqua (“water”). More at ea.
senses_examples:
text:
Sumatra is the second largest island in the East Indies and the fourth largest in the world covering 182,859 square miles.
ref:
2002, Gordon L. Rottman, World War 2 Pacific island guide
type:
quotation
text:
Despite its name, Barry Island is actually a peninsula
type:
example
text:
an island of tranquility
(a calm place surrounded by a noisy environment)
type:
example
text:
an island of colors on a butterfly's wing
type:
example
text:
He was on the ball in a flash, swerving to the left of City’s goalkeeper, Ederson, before shaping his body for a tricky angled finish. He was an island of composure, floating in his 39th goal of the season with a delicate chip into the corner.
ref:
2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London)
type:
quotation
text:
King Leopold, speaking in fluent English during his six minute broadcast, said Belgium stood side by side with Holland "an Island of peace in the interests of all"
ref:
1939 October 27, Deseret News, Roosevelt Reaffirms American Neutrality
type:
quotation
text:
the island in the middle of a roundabout
type:
example
text:
Dunton island, near Birmingham, is one of the most confusingly labelled islands in the U.K.
type:
example
text:
In Coventry, you will often hear people say: “Turn right at the island”.
type:
example
text:
A short, rather studious young woman on noticing him moved from behind an island counter.
ref:
1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 216
type:
quotation
text:
Adverbial subordinate clauses are islands for extraction: "They have a billion dollars of inventory that they don't know where *(it) is".
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; A peninsula; A half-island.
An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
A traffic island.
A roundabout; a traffic circle.
A bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side.
An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.
senses_topics:
government
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
5218 | word:
island
word_type:
verb
expansion:
island (third-person singular simple present islands, present participle islanding, simple past and past participle islanded)
forms:
form:
islands
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
islanding
tags:
participle
present
form:
islanded
tags:
participle
past
form:
islanded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:island
etymology_text:
From earlier iland, from Middle English iland, yland, ylond, from Old English īeġland, from Proto-West Germanic *auwjuland, from Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą (from Proto-Germanic *awjō (“island, waterland, meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂) + *landą (“land”), equivalent to ey + land.
Doublet of Öland. Cognate with Scots island, iland, yland (“island”), West Frisian eilân (“island”), Saterland Frisian Ailound (“island”), Dutch eiland (“island”), Low German Eiland (“island”), German Eiland (“island”), Swedish ö (“island”), Öland (“Sweden's second largest island”), Danish ø (“island”), Norwegian øy (“island”), øyland (“large island”), Icelandic eyland (“island”).
The insertion of ⟨s⟩—a 16th century spelling modification—is due to a change in spelling to the unrelated term isle, which previously lacked s (cf. Middle English ile, yle). The re-addition was mistakenly carried over to include iland as well. Related also to German Aue (“water-meadow”), Latin aqua (“water”). More at ea.
senses_examples:
text:
We paused at little river cities along the way and walked upon their bushy dikes, and heard tales of overflows in flood seasons, when four feet or more of water islanded the houses.
ref:
1933, Harriet Monroe, Poetry, volume 42
type:
quotation
text:
The car soon seemed islanded in water.
ref:
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
God dwells in light! Before the ocean of unmeasured space, was islanded with stars serenely bright, reflecting back the radiance of his face - he dwelt above in heaven’s immortal bliss, thinking into existence that which is.
ref:
1842, T. H. Chivers, “The Song of Seralim: A Celestial Melologue”, in Magnolia; Or Southern Appalachian, volume II, number 1, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
This Apulia is a land of vast pastures and cornfields and olive gardens, islanded with many rich cities, notable if only for the splendour of their churches,[…]
ref:
1915, Edward Hutton, Naples and Southern Italy, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
She knew that the town was islanded with many waters - the Hudson, the Harlem and the East rivers, and the Bay - but the rivers were hard to find in the universal velvetiness.
ref:
1930, Rupert Hughes, Ladies’ Man, page 143
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To surround with water; make into an island.
To set, dot (as if) with islands.
To isolate.
senses_topics:
|
5219 | word:
turnpike
word_type:
noun
expansion:
turnpike (plural turnpikes)
forms:
form:
turnpikes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English turnpyke (“spiked barrier across a road”), originally used to block access to such a road until toll was paid. Equivalent to modern turn + pike (“shaft”).
senses_examples:
text:
1626, Ben Jonson, The Staple of News, Act III, Scene 1, Yale Studies in English Vol. 28, New York: Henry Holt, 1905, p. 58,
I moue vpon my axell, like a turne-pike, / Fit my face to the parties, and become / Straight one of them.
text:
1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., pp. 9-10,
[…] it was rumour’d that an order of the Government was to be issued out, to place Turn-pikes and Barriers on the Road, to prevent Peoples travelling;
text:
[…] Pope Pelagius, then Bishop of Rome […] thereupon assum'd the Power of opening and shutting Heaven's Gates; and he afterwards setting a Price or Toll upon the Entrance, as we do here at passing a Turn-pike […]
ref:
1728, Daniel Defoe, The Political History of the Devil, Part II, ch. 1
type:
quotation
text:
Ramsay stabbed Ruthven accordingly and James lending his assistance they thrust the wounded man down the turnpike by which Ramsay had ascended Voices and steps were now heard advancing upwards and Ramsay knowing the accents called out to sir Thomas Erskine to come up the turnpike stair even to the head Sir Thomas Erskine was accompanied by sir Hugh Harris the king's physician a lame man and unfit for fighting Near the bottom of the turnpike sir Thomas Erskine in his ascent met Ruthven bleeding in the face and neck and called out Fie strike I this is the traitor l on which Alexander Ruthven was run through the body having only breath remaining to say Alas I had no blame of it
ref:
1830, Sir Walter Scott, History of Scotland in two volumes Vol II, A AND W GALIGNANI, pages 463-464
text:
Eleven Pair of Mills ſtand within Four Miles of the Place, which bring a great Trade to it: But the Road is by this means ſo continually torn, that it is one of the worſt Turnpikes about London.
ref:
1769, Daniel Defoe, A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, 7th edition, volume II, page 184
type:
quotation
text:
In the monograph we discuss a number of results concerning turnpike properties in the calculus of variations and optimal control which were obtained by the author in the last ten years.
ref:
2006, Alexander J. Zaslavski, Turnpike Properties in the Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile.
A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid,
A winding stairway.
A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
|
5220 | word:
turnpike
word_type:
verb
expansion:
turnpike (third-person singular simple present turnpikes, present participle turnpiking, simple past and past participle turnpiked)
forms:
form:
turnpikes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
turnpiking
tags:
participle
present
form:
turnpiked
tags:
participle
past
form:
turnpiked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English turnpyke (“spiked barrier across a road”), originally used to block access to such a road until toll was paid. Equivalent to modern turn + pike (“shaft”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road, or into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
senses_topics:
|
5221 | word:
begin
word_type:
verb
expansion:
begin (third-person singular simple present begins, present participle beginning, simple past began, past participle begun)
forms:
form:
begins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
beginning
tags:
participle
present
form:
began
tags:
past
form:
begun
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
begin
etymology_text:
From Middle English beginnen, from Old English beginnan (“to begin”), from Proto-West Germanic *biginnan, from Proto-Germanic *biginnaną (“to begin”), from be- + base verb *ginnaną also found in Old English onginnan.
senses_examples:
text:
I began playing the piano at the age of five.
type:
example
text:
Now that everyone is here, we should begin the presentation.
type:
example
text:
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.
ref:
2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
The program begins at 9 o’clock on the dot.
type:
example
text:
I rushed to get to class on time, but the lesson had already begun.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
To be in the first stage of some situation
To come into existence.
senses_topics:
|
5222 | word:
begin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
begin (plural begins)
forms:
form:
begins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
begin
etymology_text:
From Middle English beginnen, from Old English beginnan (“to begin”), from Proto-West Germanic *biginnan, from Proto-Germanic *biginnaną (“to begin”), from be- + base verb *ginnaną also found in Old English onginnan.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Beginning; start.
senses_topics:
|
5223 | word:
graft
word_type:
noun
expansion:
graft (countable and uncountable, plural grafts)
forms:
form:
grafts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:graft
etymology_text:
From Middle English graffe, from Old French greffe (“stylus”), from Latin graphium (“stylus”), from Ancient Greek γραφείον (grapheíon), from γράφειν (gráphein, “to write”); probably akin to English carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Doublet of graphium. Compare graphic, grammar.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
surgery |
5224 | word:
graft
word_type:
verb
expansion:
graft (third-person singular simple present grafts, present participle grafting, simple past and past participle grafted)
forms:
form:
grafts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
grafting
tags:
participle
present
form:
grafted
tags:
participle
past
form:
grafted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:graft
etymology_text:
From Middle English graffe, from Old French greffe (“stylus”), from Latin graphium (“stylus”), from Ancient Greek γραφείον (grapheíon), from γράφειν (gráphein, “to write”); probably akin to English carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Doublet of graphium. Compare graphic, grammar.
senses_examples:
text:
And graft my love immortal on thy fame!
ref:
1717, Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard.
type:
quotation
text:
Of course, this was a music cruise, a floating rock festival grafted onto a passenger ship, and a quietly thriving corner of the music and cruise industries.
ref:
2012 March 30, Joe Levy, “Rockers at Sea”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
To form a graft polymer
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
surgery
nautical
transport
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
5225 | word:
graft
word_type:
noun
expansion:
graft (plural grafts)
forms:
form:
grafts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:graft
etymology_text:
From Middle Dutch graft (“canal”), from graven (“dig”). The contemporary senses “depth of digging blade” and “narrow spade” may have a separate history, but this is uncertain. Compare Old Norse grǫft (“the action of digging”). Attested from the 17th century.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] in the first operation, we dug through the peat, the hard sand, and gravel, and one spade's graft (about nine inches deep, and seven inches wide) into the quick sand, the whole length of this drain,[…]
ref:
1798 [1792], Memoirs of Science and the Arts, Transactions of the Society instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, page 117
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ditch, a canal.
The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
senses_topics:
|
5226 | word:
graft
word_type:
noun
expansion:
graft (countable and uncountable, plural grafts)
forms:
form:
grafts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:graft
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Some lexicographers suggest an extended use of Etymology 2, above, expanding from “digging” to work more generally, and from there to dishonest work. Others, however, suggest an extension from Etymology 1, shifting from “a shoot or scion” to the notion of corruption through the idea of excrescence.
senses_examples:
text:
If policemen take graft now from the liquor dealers for the privilege of keeping open on Sunday, what is to prevent them, if this bill is passed, from taking graft from the liquor men for the privilege of selling liquor before 1 p.m. on Sunday[…]?
ref:
1910, O.R. Miller, The Reform Bulletin
type:
quotation
text:
We had to put in a lot of hard graft to get the job done.
type:
example
text:
Liz Truss, now the Tory leadership frontrunner, launched an astonishing broadside against British workers, saying they needed “more graft” and suggesting they lacked the “skill and application” of foreign rivals, the Guardian can reveal.
ref:
2022 August 16, Pippa Crerar, quoting Liz Truss, “Leaked audio reveals Liz Truss said British workers needed ‘more graft’”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Corruption in official life.
Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
A criminal’s special branch of practice.
A con job.
A cut of the take (money).
A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
Work; labor requiring effort.
A job or trade.
senses_topics:
government
politics
|
5227 | word:
graft
word_type:
verb
expansion:
graft (third-person singular simple present grafts, present participle grafting, simple past and past participle grafted)
forms:
form:
grafts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
grafting
tags:
participle
present
form:
grafted
tags:
participle
past
form:
grafted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:graft
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Some lexicographers suggest an extended use of Etymology 2, above, expanding from “digging” to work more generally, and from there to dishonest work. Others, however, suggest an extension from Etymology 1, shifting from “a shoot or scion” to the notion of corruption through the idea of excrescence.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To work hard.
To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
senses_topics:
|
5228 | word:
Selangor
word_type:
name
expansion:
Selangor
forms:
wikipedia:
Selangor
Selangor River
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Malay Selangor.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in western Malaysia. Capital: Shah Alam.
A river in Selangor, Malaysia.
senses_topics:
|
5229 | word:
Goa
word_type:
name
expansion:
Goa
forms:
wikipedia:
Goa
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Goa, from Konkani गोंय (goiya), from Sanskrit गोमन्त (gomanta).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in western India. Capital: Panaji.
senses_topics:
|
5230 | word:
Goa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Goa (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Goa
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Goa, from Konkani गोंय (goiya), from Sanskrit गोमन्त (gomanta).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A form of trance music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
5231 | word:
Goa
word_type:
name
expansion:
Goa
forms:
wikipedia:
Goa
etymology_text:
From Icelandic góa.
senses_examples:
text:
The month of Thorri was followed by Góa, when the farmer often left to go fishing and his wife had to see to managing the household.
ref:
1998, Terry G. Lacy, Ring of Seasons, University of Michigan Press, published 2000, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
In the last week of Goa, in mid-March, there occurred an example of God's great providence: a large schooner from Dunkirk in France ran aground on one of the Hálsasker skerries off the coast of the eastern part of Suðursveit.
ref:
2012, Julian Meldon D'Arcy, translating Þórbergur Þórðarson, The Stones Speak, in Of Icelandic Nobles and Idiot Savants, Brú 2014, p. 147
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fifth winter month of the traditional Icelandic calendar, running from mid-February to mid-March.
senses_topics:
|
5232 | word:
drawing
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drawing
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English drauinge, drawinge, alteration of earlier drawende, drawand, from Old English dragende, from Proto-Germanic *dragandz (“drawing”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to draw; pull”), equivalent to draw + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of draw
senses_topics:
|
5233 | word:
drawing
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drawing (countable and uncountable, plural drawings)
forms:
form:
drawings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English drauing, drawing, equivalent to draw + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref:
2012 March 24, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2013-02-19, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours between shoots with Chris Nix, digging out dozens of wonderful plans, maps and drawings of projects that I never knew existed, and some that never did exist.
ref:
2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
Proverb: An official is great in his office as a well is rich in drawings of water.
text:
[…] the tea-kettle was presently steaming like an engine, and an extra large "drawing of tea" was steeping on the hearth.
ref:
1853, Alice Cary, Clovernook
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
The act of producing such a picture.
Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.
The process of drawing or pulling something.
An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of a blind draw, notably of lots; especially such a contest in which a winning name or number is selected randomly by removing (or drawing) it from a container, popularly a hat.
A small portion of tea for steeping.
senses_topics:
|
5234 | word:
Assam
word_type:
name
expansion:
Assam
forms:
wikipedia:
Assam
etymology_text:
Of unclear origin, but generally agreed to be related to Ahom. More at Etymology of Assam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in northeastern India. Capital: Dispur.
The former realm it was named after.
senses_topics:
|
5235 | word:
Assam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Assam (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Assam
etymology_text:
Of unclear origin, but generally agreed to be related to Ahom. More at Etymology of Assam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
senses_examples:
text:
He took the cup in both hands and sipped. It was their favourite blend of Assam, dark and heady and strong.
ref:
2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 360
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of Assam tea: tea from or similar to that grown in Assam; any tea made from the broad-leaf Assam variety of tea (C. sinensis var. assamica).
senses_topics:
|
5236 | word:
Delhi
word_type:
name
expansion:
Delhi
forms:
wikipedia:
Delhi (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Corrupted from Hindustani دہلی (dihlī, dêhli) / देहली (dehlī), of uncertain origin. See Delhi § Toponym at Wikipedia. Compare Hindi दिल्ली (dillī).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital New Delhi.
senses_topics:
|
5237 | word:
Delhi
word_type:
name
expansion:
Delhi
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A locale in North America; named for the city in India.
A census-designated place in Merced County, California.
A locale in North America; named for the city in India.
A town in Delaware County, New York.
A locale in North America; named for the city in India.
A village, the county seat of Delaware County, New York, located within the town of the same name.
A locale in North America; named for the city in India.
A community of Ontario.
A locale in North America; named for the city in India.
A town in Louisiana.
A locale in North America; named for the city in India.
A city in Iowa.
A locale in North America; named for the city in India.
A city in Minnesota.
A locale in North America; named for the city in India.
An unincorporated community in Illinois.
A locale in North America; named for the city in India.
An unincorporated community in Colorado.
A locale in North America; named for the city in India.
An unincorporated community in Georgia.
A locale in North America; named for the city in India.
An unincorporated community in Missouri.
A locale in North America; named for the city in India.
An unincorporated community in Texas.
A locale in North America; named for the city in India.
A ghost town in Wisconsin.
A locale in North America; named for the city in India.
A community of Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada.
senses_topics:
|
5238 | word:
Delhi
word_type:
name
expansion:
Delhi
forms:
wikipedia:
Delingha
etymology_text:
From Mongolian Дэлхий (Delxii) / ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠡᠢ (delekei).
senses_examples:
text:
Another two counties, Wulan and Tianjun, as well as the two cities of Golmud and Delhi also suffered the floods. More than 1,000 heads of sheep were washed away.
ref:
2008 July 28, “Floods leave two miners missing, two others trapped in northwest China”, in ReliefWeb, archived from the original on 2021-07-11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of Delingha
senses_topics:
|
5239 | word:
chair
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chair (plural chairs)
forms:
form:
chairs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chair
etymology_text:
From Middle English chayer, chaire, chaiere, chaere, chayre, chayere, from Old French chaiere, chaere, from Latin cathedra (“seat”), from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”). Displaced native stool and settle, which now have more specialised senses. Doublet of cathedra and chaise.
senses_examples:
text:
All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair.
type:
example
text:
Under the rules of order adopted by the board, the chair may neither make nor second motions.
type:
example
text:
The Chair behaves himself like a Busby amongst so many school-boys[…]and takes a little too much on him.
ref:
, Thomas Burton, edited by John Towill Rutt, Diary, London: Henry Colburn, published 1828, page 243
type:
quotation
text:
It can hardly be conceived that the Chair would fail to gain the support of the House.
ref:
1887 September 5, The Times
type:
quotation
text:
He was elected to the chair of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in 1827 at the newly-founded London University, and became prominent in railway controversies in the 'thirties, when he came off second best in a dispute with Daniel Gooch about the effects of speed on the human frame.
ref:
1950 March, Michael Robbins, “Dr. Lardner's "Railway Economy"”, in Railway Magazine, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
She adds: "I'd also like to think that as chair I was friendly but firm. I wanted to encourage people to give evidence, while there are others who need to be coaxed, held to account and asked tough questions."
ref:
2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
My violin teacher used to play first chair with the Boston Pops.
type:
example
text:
The wooden or steel keys used to secure bull-head rails in their chairs are usually driven in the direction of the traffic, so that the effects of rail-creep may be made use of to wedge the keys more firmly, rather than to encourage them to drop out.
ref:
1934 February, “The Why and The Wherefore: Chair-keys”, in Railway Magazine, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
The court will show no mercy; if he gets convicted, it's the chair for him.
type:
example
text:
"It was me. And I'm glad, damned glad, I didn't croak him. With this slick guy after me, it would be me for the chair."
ref:
1920 June 24, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 216, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
'All for a pig of a man who should have gone to the chair.'
ref:
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 251
type:
quotation
text:
Believe it or not, it only looked like I was trying to send you to the chair.
ref:
1949, Isobel Lennart, Holiday Affair, spoken by Carl Davis (Wendell Corey)
type:
quotation
text:
"Scoleri Brothers!" "Friends of yours?" "I tried them for murder! Gave them the chair!"
ref:
1989 June 16, Ivan Reitman, director, Ghostbusters II
type:
quotation
text:
In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg […]
ref:
2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R11
type:
quotation
text:
She always leaves her Chair at the milliner's in the next Street.
ref:
1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii
type:
quotation
text:
Think what an equipage thou haſt in air,
And view with ſcorn two pages and a chair.
ref:
1712, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Beauties of Pope, London: G. Kearsley, published 1783, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
Melinda has the best chair in the salon.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.
Clipping of chairperson.
The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”).
A distinguished professorship at a university.
A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
rail-transport
railways
transport
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
education
|
5240 | word:
chair
word_type:
verb
expansion:
chair (third-person singular simple present chairs, present participle chairing, simple past and past participle chaired)
forms:
form:
chairs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
chairing
tags:
participle
present
form:
chaired
tags:
participle
past
form:
chaired
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English chayer, chaire, chaiere, chaere, chayre, chayere, from Old French chaiere, chaere, from Latin cathedra (“seat”), from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”). Displaced native stool and settle, which now have more specialised senses. Doublet of cathedra and chaise.
senses_examples:
text:
Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
type:
example
text:
Greenwood told RAIL she was disappointed that Parliamentary rules prevented her from chairing the TSC [Transport Select Committee] beyond last December's General Election, [...] She added: "I'm gutted I'm no longer able to chair the committee, I'm not going to lie. But I know it's in good hands and I'm still able to play my part as a member in the work we're doing.
ref:
2020 May 20, “Merriman praised over handling of TSC's 'virtual' transition”, in Rail, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the marketplace.
ref:
1896, A. E. Houseman, “To An Athlete Dying Young,”, in A Shropshire Lad
type:
quotation
text:
The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
senses_topics:
|
5241 | word:
pato
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pato (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish pato (literally “duck”), since it was originally played with a live duck inside a basket instead of a ball.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The national sport of Argentina, a game played on horseback that combines elements of polo and basketball.
senses_topics:
|
5242 | word:
boulevard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boulevard (plural boulevards)
forms:
form:
boulevards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French boulevard, from Middle French boulevard, bollevart, boulevars, bolevers, bollewerc (“rampart”), from Middle High German bolewerc, bolwerc (modern German Bollwerk) or Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”). Doublet of bulwark; more at bole, work.
senses_examples:
text:
We live on Sunset Boulevard.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare.
The landscaping on the sides of a boulevard or other thoroughfare.
A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
The grassy area in the middle of some streets; A refuge island.
senses_topics:
|
5243 | word:
Port Blair
word_type:
name
expansion:
Port Blair
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after British surveyor Archibald Blair.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of the union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.
senses_topics:
|
5244 | word:
vers
word_type:
adj
expansion:
vers (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Willing to take either a penetrative (top) or receptive (bottom) role in anal sex.
Short for versatile.
senses_topics:
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality
BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality |
5245 | word:
vers
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vers
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of versine or versed sine.
senses_topics:
|
5246 | word:
vers
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vers
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of ver
senses_topics:
|
5247 | word:
acre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acre (plural acres or (UK colloquial) acre)
forms:
form:
acres
tags:
plural
form:
acre
tags:
UK
colloquial
plural
wikipedia:
acre
etymology_text:
From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic *akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”).
Cognate with Scots acre, aker, acker (“acre, field, arable land”), North Frisian ecir (“field, a measure of land”), West Frisian eker (“field”), Dutch akker (“field”), German Acker (“field, acre”), Norwegian åker (“field”) and Swedish åker (“field”), Icelandic akur (“field”), Latin ager (“land, field, acre, countryside”), Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós, “field”), Sanskrit अज्र (ájra, “field, plain”).
senses_examples:
text:
Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
ref:
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
type:
quotation
text:
I like my new house—there’s acres of space!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
A wide expanse.
A large quantity.
A field.
The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yd (≈20 m) by 220 yd (≈200 m).
A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
senses_topics:
|
5248 | word:
ISP
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ISP (plural ISPs)
forms:
form:
ISPs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of interstellar polarization.
Initialism of internet service provider. (a company that provides Internet access for a fee)
Initialism of interface segregation principle. (one of the five SOLID principles of programming.)
Iₛₚ, the specific impulse of a rocket engine
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
|
5249 | word:
male
word_type:
adj
expansion:
male (not generally comparable, comparative maler or more male, superlative malest or most male)
forms:
form:
maler
tags:
comparative
form:
more male
tags:
comparative
form:
malest
tags:
superlative
form:
most male
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
male
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Latin mās
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulus
Latin -culus
Latin masculus
Vulgar Latin masclus
Old French maslebor.
Middle English male
English male
From Middle English male, borrowed from Old French malle, masle (Modern French mâle), from Latin masculus (“masculine, a male”), diminutive of mās (“male, masculine”). Doublet of macho. Displaced native Old English wǣpned (“male”, literally “penised”), derived from the noun wǣpn (“weapon”), which had the secondary sense “penis”.
senses_examples:
text:
male writers
text:
the leading male and female singers
text:
a male bird feeding a seed to a female
text:
in bee colonies, all drones are male
text:
intersex male patients
text:
We got the hang of [caring for a baby], Kate and I, with some quiet, surprising guidance from a gentle male nurse whose touching lack of intrusion was so instinctive as to seem part of the pattern.
ref:
1995, Gill Van Hasselt, Childbirth: Your Choices for Managing Pain, Taylor Pub
type:
quotation
text:
Whereas many other trans male vloggers use the videos to assert a conventionally recognizable masculinity through sculpting and carrying their bodies as well as dressing and talking in masculine-coded ways, Carson explores and plays with ways of expressing femininity within (trans) maleness.
ref:
2016, Tobias Raun, Out Online
type:
quotation
text:
stereotypically male interests, an insect with typically male coloration
text:
A bright light was shone in her eye and then she heard a kind, male voice who she figured must be Dr. Smith. “Yes, let her rest now, but keep an eye on her blood pressure and her pulse. Check her about every 15 or 20 minutes. Call me if any problem occurs.”
ref:
2006, Bonnie Roberts, Bruises on the Heart, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
More than that, we cannot find the same dynamics within female career trajectories as in the other two country groups, because the time-structure of female and male careers already shows great similarity within the older generation of elites. In addition, the pattern of the relation between female and male careers remains the same over time.
ref:
2004, Mino Vianello, Gwen Moore, Women and Men in Political and Business Elites: A Comparative Study
type:
quotation
text:
the male chromosome; like testes, ovaries also produce testosterone and some other male hormones
text:
The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female, but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.
ref:
2012, Naomi McIlwraith, Kiyâm: Poems, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
If you are describing a female noun, you must make the adjective feminine by adding an 'e'. If you describe a male noun, you add an 'er'. For neutral nouns you add an 'es'.
ref:
2012, Sinéad Leleu, Michaela Greck-Ismair, German Pen Pals Made Easy KS3
type:
quotation
text:
Furthermore, male bacteria with fi + R factors, which inhibit the function of F (fi fertility inhibition) (Watanabe et al., 1964a), cannot form specific cell pairs at high frequencies. On the contrary, the formation of[…]
ref:
1967, Symposium on Infectious Multiple Drug Resistance: Genetics, Molecular Nature, and Clinical Implications of R Factors, May 25, 1967, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Male bacteria having the sex factor, also known as the F or "fertility" factor, are termed P if the sex factor exists extrachromosomally. F+ bacteria can only conjugate with F, the female counterparts, which do not possess the F [factor].
ref:
(Can we date this quote?), The genetics problem solver, Research & Education Assoc., page 443
type:
quotation
text:
Male adapter connects female pipe threads to polyethylene cold-water pipe; [...] female flare coupling connects male pipe threads to flared copper or plastic;
ref:
1982, Popular Science, page 119
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)
Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
Having the F factor; able to impart DNA into another bacterium which does not have the F factor (a female).
Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
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5250 | word:
male
word_type:
noun
expansion:
male (plural males)
forms:
form:
males
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
male
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Latin mās
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulus
Latin -culus
Latin masculus
Vulgar Latin masclus
Old French maslebor.
Middle English male
English male
From Middle English male, borrowed from Old French malle, masle (Modern French mâle), from Latin masculus (“masculine, a male”), diminutive of mās (“male, masculine”). Doublet of macho. Displaced native Old English wǣpned (“male”, literally “penised”), derived from the noun wǣpn (“weapon”), which had the secondary sense “penis”.
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:male.
text:
During mating, F+ male bacteria transfer the F factor to the recipient females, transforming them into F+ males. Males also retain a copy of their F factor for themselves (left). When Hfr (or high frequency recombination) males mate[…]
ref:
2001 August 1, Harrison G. Echols, Operators and Promoters: The Story of Molecular Biology and Its Creators, Univ of California Press, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
In this process, one bacterium designated the male bacterium transfers its DNA into the female bacterium. Bacteria are determined to be male or female by a small piece of DNA, called F-plasmid, or sex factor. Bacteria with this small piece of DNA are labeled as males, and bacteria that do not have this factor are considered females. […] Nevertheless, in addition to a small piece of DNA, male bacteria have some unique characteristics. They can make a special protrusion on their surface, called F-pilus. Pilae (plural for pilus) are hair-like structures that cover the[…]
ref:
2021 February 26, Gregor Majdic, Soul Mate Biology: Science of attachment and love, Springer Nature, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
Work another rubber washer over the threads of the male adapter that is now sticking out of the bucket. […] cut out with an X-acto knife, then thread the female fittings to the males.
ref:
1981, Modern Photography
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
A human member of the masculine sex or gender.
One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
An animal of the sex that has testes.
One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
A plant of the masculine sex.
A bacterium which has the F factor.
A male connector, pipe fitting, etc.
senses_topics:
|
5251 | word:
Itanagar
word_type:
name
expansion:
Itanagar
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Assamese ইটানগৰ (itanogor). ইটা (ita, “brick”) + নগৰ (nogor, “city”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city, the state capital of Arunachal Pradesh, India
senses_topics:
|
5252 | word:
Silvassa
word_type:
name
expansion:
Silvassa
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, India.
senses_topics:
|
5253 | word:
copper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
copper (countable and uncountable, plural coppers)
forms:
form:
coppers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English coper, from Old English coper, copor (“copper”), from Late Latin cuprum (“copper”), contraction of Latin aes Cyprium (literally “Cyprian brass”), from Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros, “Cyprus”). Cognate with Dutch koper (“copper”), German Kupfer (“copper”), Icelandic kopar (“copper”).
senses_examples:
text:
copper:
text:
I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers.
ref:
1799, Benjamin Franklin, edited by John Bigelow, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, published 1868, page 255
type:
quotation
text:
Mum would heat the water in a copper in the kitchen and transfer it to the tin bath.
type:
example
text:
I explain that socks can’t be boiled up in the copper with the sheets and towels or they shrink.
type:
example
text:
When the water in the copper boils, the arsenic and tartar, well pounded, is put into it, and kept boiling till the liquor is reduced to about half.
ref:
1797, “Dyeing”, in Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig, editors, Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 6, Part 1 p.207
type:
quotation
text:
'You had better mind you don't get up too early, and you mustn't put any fire under the copper before two o'clock.'
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
He rose to his knees, for he had been sitting in the darkness near the copper.
ref:
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 230
type:
quotation
text:
'Vot game now she play?' he asked himself, as he distinguished his wife near one of the pig-scalding coppers.
ref:
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 254
type:
quotation
text:
The wet laundry's stove had a long vent in the ceiling which helped to release the steam from the coppers in which the clothes and bed linen were boiled.
ref:
2000, Christopher Christie, The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century, page 266
type:
quotation
text:
Coppers are generally good for a year, if the battery is carefully attended […]
ref:
1885, General Rules and Regulations Applicable to All Employes of the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway Company
type:
quotation
text:
Some coppers come already tinned. I didn't buy mine, so they surely were not tinned.
ref:
1890, The Manufacturer and Builder, volume 22, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
Coppers are not consumed, and their life depends largely on the manner in which they are used.
ref:
1907, “Instructions for the Care of Callaud Batteries”, in Journal of the Telegraph, volume XL
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.
The reddish-brown colour / color of copper.
Any of various specialized items that are made of copper, where the use of copper is either traditional or vital to the function of the item.
A copper coin, typically of a small denomination, such as a penny.
Any of various specialized items that are made of copper, where the use of copper is either traditional or vital to the function of the item.
A large pot, often used for heating water or washing clothes over a fire. In Australasia at least, it could also be a fixed installation made of copper, with a fire underneath and its own chimney. Generally made redundant by the advent of the washing machine.
Any of various specialized items that are made of copper, where the use of copper is either traditional or vital to the function of the item.
Any of various lycaenid butterflies with copper-coloured upperwings, especially those of the genera Lycaena and Paralucia.
senses_topics:
biology
entomology
natural-sciences |
5254 | word:
copper
word_type:
adj
expansion:
copper (comparative more copper, superlative most copper)
forms:
form:
more copper
tags:
comparative
form:
most copper
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English coper, from Old English coper, copor (“copper”), from Late Latin cuprum (“copper”), contraction of Latin aes Cyprium (literally “Cyprian brass”), from Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros, “Cyprus”). Cognate with Dutch koper (“copper”), German Kupfer (“copper”), Icelandic kopar (“copper”).
senses_examples:
text:
She seemed so alive, with her shining eyes and her copper hair and her jokes and funny stories, but there was always a mystery at the center of her life, the sound of wild sobbing my mother said she heard coming through the floor.
ref:
1999, Maria M. Gillan, Things My Mother Told Me, page 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of copper.
Having the reddish-brown colour/color of copper.
senses_topics:
|
5255 | word:
copper
word_type:
verb
expansion:
copper (third-person singular simple present coppers, present participle coppering, simple past and past participle coppered)
forms:
form:
coppers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
coppering
tags:
participle
present
form:
coppered
tags:
participle
past
form:
coppered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English coper, from Old English coper, copor (“copper”), from Late Latin cuprum (“copper”), contraction of Latin aes Cyprium (literally “Cyprian brass”), from Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros, “Cyprus”). Cognate with Dutch koper (“copper”), German Kupfer (“copper”), Icelandic kopar (“copper”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sheathe or coat with copper.
senses_topics:
|
5256 | word:
copper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
copper (plural coppers)
forms:
form:
coppers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From cop (“to take, capture, seize”) + -er (agent noun suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
One evening as I was lying down in Leicester Square / I was picked up by the coppers and kicked in the balls
ref:
1985, Shane MacGowan (lyrics and music), “The Old Main Drag”, in Rum Sodomy & the Lash, performed by The Pogues
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A police officer.
senses_topics:
government
law-enforcement |
5257 | word:
slug
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slug (plural slugs)
forms:
form:
slugs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Nicoline van der Sijs
Slug (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "slowth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; compare Norn slug (“lazy, slothful, sluggish”), dialectal Norwegian slugg (“a large, heavy body”), sluggje (“heavy, slow person”), Danish slog (“rascal, rogue”); perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr (“lazy person, oaf”), whence Icelandic slókur (“laziness”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”). Doublet of slotch.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] all our Ammunition was spent. Those of us who had Money made Slugs of it; their next Shift was to take the middle Screws out of their Guns, and charge their Pieces with them.
ref:
1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
A mass accelerator propels a solid metal slug using precisely-controlled electromagnetic attraction and repulsion. The slug is designed to squash or shatter on impact, increasing the energy it transfers to the target. If this were not the case, it would simply punch a hole right through, doing minimal damage.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Mass Accelerators Codex entry
type:
quotation
text:
The average slug has a mass of around 0.00002 slugs.
type:
example
text:
This is perhaps best done by considering a unit cell consisting of one bubble and part of the liquid slugs on each side of it…
ref:
1969, Graham B. Wallis, One-Dimensional Two-Phase Flow, McGraw-Hill, section 10.2, pages 282–283
type:
quotation
text:
When these layers are recovered they inevitably result in a slug of sawdust which goes into the digester and tends to plug the screens in a Kamyr digester.
ref:
1973, Pulp & Paper International, volume 15
type:
quotation
text:
Then, just a few nights before August 6, Gilbert testified that a "slug of sand-rock" weighing an estimate of one to two tons fell on his continuous miner as he was taking a cut, approximately fifteen feet from where he was standing.
ref:
1987, United States. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, United States. Board of Mine Operations Appeals, Occupational safety and health decisions
type:
quotation
text:
Tvpically, enough sand is emplaced to create a slug of sand that moves along the shore causing noticeable and somewhat dramatic local changes.
ref:
1998, Orrin H. Pilkey with Katharine L. Dixon, The Corps and the Shore, page 159
type:
quotation
text:
This is also furthered by the creation of a slug of light hydrocarbons near the oil displacement front, extracted by the carbon dioxide from the oil
ref:
1998, N. A. Krylov with A. A. Bokserman and Evgeniĭ Romanovich Stavrovskiĭ, The oil industry of the former Soviet Union, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
Another phenomenon investigated was a slug of water falling through the cloud.
ref:
2005, Sam Mannan with Frank P. Lees, Lee's loss prevention in the process industries, page 16-115
type:
quotation
text:
This method uses a slug of 100 mg/L chlorinated water as a slug that moves along the length of the pipeline. The slug is a percentage of the total length of the pipeline.
ref:
2007, William Lauer with Fred Sanchez, Disinfection of pipelines and storage facilities field guide, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
For example, a slug of iron rust might appear because of the shearing action of a high-demand flow that loosens a previously deposited iron precipitate.
ref:
2010, Nancy E. McTigue, James M. Symons, editors, The water dictionary: a comprehensive reference of water terminology, 2nd edition, American Water Works Association, page 556
type:
quotation
text:
These experiments investigate the ascent of a slug of gas in a vertical liquid-filed tube featuring a flare that abruptly doubles the cross sectional area.
ref:
2010, Robert A. Meyers, Extreme Environmental Events, page 1198
type:
quotation
text:
You had to learn to grab the teat up next to the udder with your thumb and side of your first finger, grab a slug of milk and progressively squeeze it down the teat past your middle finger, ring finger and little finger
ref:
2011, Bill Calfee, The Art of Rimfire Accuracy, page 125
type:
quotation
text:
Slugs are better than just appending the document ID to the URL, as they are readable and understandable by visitors. They are also an important part of a good SEO. So that we can use slugs, every slug has to be unique.
ref:
2016, Fabian Vogelsteller, Isaac Strack, Marcelo Reyna, Meteor: Full-Stack Web Application Development, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all sluggs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.
ref:
1666, Samuel Pepys, Diary entry 17 October 1666
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
A black screen.
A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
A hitchhiking commuter.
The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
A hindrance, an obstruction.
A ship that sails slowly.
A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.
senses_topics:
journalism
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
rail-transport
railways
transport
broadcasting
communications
editing
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
letterpress-typography
media
publishing
typography
|
5258 | word:
slug
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slug (third-person singular simple present slugs, present participle slugging, simple past and past participle slugged)
forms:
form:
slugs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
slugging
tags:
participle
present
form:
slugged
tags:
participle
past
form:
slugged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Nicoline van der Sijs
Slug (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "slowth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; compare Norn slug (“lazy, slothful, sluggish”), dialectal Norwegian slugg (“a large, heavy body”), sluggje (“heavy, slow person”), Danish slog (“rascal, rogue”); perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr (“lazy person, oaf”), whence Icelandic slókur (“laziness”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”). Doublet of slotch.
senses_examples:
text:
"We believe in car-pooling, but let's do it without restricting traffic. ..." Sam Snyder, 51, of Burke, who has been slugging to his job at the US Customs ....
ref:
1998 July 23, “Ramsey Vows to Find New Sites for Commuter `Slug Lines'”, in Washington Post
type:
quotation
text:
no sane person would attempt to commute that far every day. Sure they do. I've often slugged to Fredericksburg and back. The VRE carries hundreds of people per day, and the I-95 HOV lanes carry tens of thousands of people each day.
ref:
2002 December 13, Joshua E. Rodd, “The Perfect Mass Transit”, in dc.urban-planning (Usenet), message-ID <FmpK9.110446$%p6.11081387@twister.neo.rr.com>
type:
quotation
text:
to slug a gun
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
To load with a slug or slugs.
To make sluggish.
senses_topics:
|
5259 | word:
slug
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slug (plural slugs)
forms:
form:
slugs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Slug (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Perhaps somehow from Proto-Germanic *slagiz (“a blow, strike”). If so, then ultimately cognate with German Schlag (“blow, hit”) and Dutch slag (“blow, strike”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hard blow, usually with the fist.
senses_topics:
|
5260 | word:
slug
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slug (third-person singular simple present slugs, present participle slugging, simple past and past participle slugged)
forms:
form:
slugs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
slugging
tags:
participle
present
form:
slugged
tags:
participle
past
form:
slugged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Slug (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Perhaps somehow from Proto-Germanic *slagiz (“a blow, strike”). If so, then ultimately cognate with German Schlag (“blow, hit”) and Dutch slag (“blow, strike”).
senses_examples:
text:
He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.
type:
example
text:
The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness.
type:
example
text:
The man is a mechanical genius. He also has one of the worst conduct records in the army. He likes to slug officers.
ref:
1983, Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell, “Mexican Slayride”, in The A-Team, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Zack (Ron Palillo)
type:
quotation
text:
"Urgh... I know you wanted to have another day at the con, but if I had to listen to her speak anymore, I was going to do something I'd regret. Honestly, you probably should've slugged her." "Believe me. I wanted to."
ref:
2015 August 11, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 713 - I'm Done
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
senses_topics:
|
5261 | word:
Putrajaya
word_type:
name
expansion:
Putrajaya
forms:
wikipedia:
Putrajaya
etymology_text:
From Malay Putrajaya; from Sanskrit पुत्र (putra, “son”) + जय (jayá, “victory”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A federal territory in western Malaysia.
The administrative capital of Malaysia, located in the federal territory of the same name.
The Malaysian government.
senses_topics:
|
5262 | word:
motorway
word_type:
noun
expansion:
motorway (plural motorways)
forms:
form:
motorways
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
motorway
etymology_text:
From motor + way.
senses_examples:
text:
All the R. R.'s of America will have to be furnished with a biking way and a motor way on each side of the rails.
ref:
1895 October, “Real Estate”, in California Banker's Magazine, page 429
type:
quotation
text:
Work of constructing the Texas Motorway, a stone highway which when completed will extend from Fort Worth to Del Rio, Tex., a distance of 500 miles, has been commenced and a section between 18 and 20 miles long running out from Glenrose, the county seat of Somervell County, has been completed.
ref:
1913 September 20, Good Roads, page 137
type:
quotation
text:
It is presumed that in the working out of the program the motor trucks will automatically have the major use of the local low-speed highways paralleling the motorway.
ref:
1925 December, C. L. Norton, “Our Industrial Highways”, in Trade Winds, volume 4, number 10
type:
quotation
text:
In 1959, Ernest Marples became the new Minister of Transport. His business career had been as a road builder and he saw the future in a network of motorways, whereas he believed there was serious overcapacity in the railway network.
ref:
2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
One national agency is responsible for developing and maintaining the national motorway system, which typically is a small fraction of the entire roadway network. (page 8)
ref:
2001 June 24, Jim Brewer, John German, ..., “Geometric Design Practices for European Roads”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Office of International Programs, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Washington
type:
quotation
text:
An alternative transit route that bypasses the metropolis’ traffic-filled streets, the 400-kilometer (248.5-mile) North Marmara Motorway starts on the western side of Istanbul and ends in the eastern Marmara province of Sakarya.
ref:
2021 May 21, “Turkey opens last section of new highway connecting Asia to Europe”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Daily Sabah
type:
quotation
text:
Charging stations for electric vehicles must be placed along the main European motorways at least every 60 kilometres from 2026, the European Parliament decided on Tuesday.
ref:
2023 July 12, “Electric vehicle charging stations to be installed every 60 km on European motorways”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Brussels Times
type:
quotation
text:
In December, track operators replaced the crushed rock with brick, earning the motorway the nickname, Brickyard.
ref:
2018, Paul R. Wonning, A Year of Indiana History Stories, volume 1, Greensburg, Indiana: Mossy Feet Books, page 250
type:
quotation
text:
The 9-degree banking you see in the Speedway’s four turns is believed to be the first intentionally banked motorway in the United States.
ref:
2020 July 13, Jeff Olson, “Race To Develop Automotive, Safety Technology Never Stops at IMS”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Indianapolis Motor Speedway, archived from the original on 2021-12-16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.
A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
senses_topics:
|
5263 | word:
Raipur
word_type:
name
expansion:
Raipur
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
A Brahman, resident in a village near Raipur, stated that he had eaten food (rice and milk) out of the hand of the dead Rajah of Bilaspur.
ref:
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 44
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city, the state capital of Chhattisgarh, India.
senses_topics:
|
5264 | word:
Dispur
word_type:
name
expansion:
Dispur
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city, the state capital of Assam, India.
senses_topics:
|
5265 | word:
them
word_type:
pron
expansion:
them (third-person, personal pronoun, objective case of they)
forms:
form:
of they
tags:
objective
wikipedia:
them
etymology_text:
From Middle English þem, from Old Norse þeim.
senses_examples:
text:
She treated them for a cold.
type:
example
text:
She wrote them a letter.
type:
example
text:
Give it to them.
type:
example
text:
If a student has an inappropriate question, whatever you do, do not berate them.
type:
example
text:
Place the casualty on their back with feet and legs raised—this is called the shock position. [emphasis in original] Once the casualty is positioned, cover them to preserve body heat, but do not overheat.
ref:
2006, St. John Ambulance, First on the Scene: Student Reference Guide, Lesson 2, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Someone in the crowd around the lifts called sycophantically, ‘Morning, Yaxley!’ Yaxley ignored them.
ref:
2007, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, London: Bloomsbury, 2008, page 270
type:
quotation
text:
If one of my patients calls, please bring them their dinner.
type:
example
text:
If someone comes and asks for the ticket, just give it to them.
type:
example
text:
Each adolescent girl with ASD has needs specific to her because each of them has variable characteristics and different degrees of sensory and perceptual difficulties.
ref:
2024 July 2, Rukiye Arslan, Derya Yanık, Raziye Pekşen Akça, “Investigation of Menstrual Hygiene and Self-Care Skills of Adolescent Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Mother Views”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI
type:
quotation
text:
I know it seems unfair, but them's the rules.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Those ones.
Used as the direct object of a verb.
Those ones.
Used as the indirect object of a verb.
Those ones.
Used as the object of a preposition.
A single person, previously mentioned, especially if of unknown or non-binary gender.
Used as the direct object of a verb.
A single person, previously mentioned, especially if of unknown or non-binary gender.
Used as the indirect object of a verb.
A single person, previously mentioned, especially if of unknown or non-binary gender.
Used as the object of a preposition.
They or those.
senses_topics:
|
5266 | word:
them
word_type:
det
expansion:
them
forms:
wikipedia:
them
etymology_text:
From Middle English þem, from Old Norse þeim.
senses_examples:
text:
Gimme two of them yellow ones.
type:
example
text:
How would you like a scrummage, Andy, with them Scotchmen that stole your mother's chickens this morning?
ref:
1835, John Pendleton Kennedy, Horse Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency
type:
quotation
text:
The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; / Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul. / An' all them joys o' life I 'eld so sweet / Is up the pole.
ref:
1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of the Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
"[…] Them two wild horses ain't fit to ride, and I been wonderin' how I was goin' to get you out of this place before them Spanish maybe circle back and finish the job."
ref:
2005, Elmer Kelton, Sons of Texas, Tor/Forge, page 111
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Those.
senses_topics:
|
5267 | word:
Panaji
word_type:
name
expansion:
Panaji
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Konkani पणजी (paṇjī).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state capital of Goa, India.
senses_topics:
|
5268 | word:
Canberra
word_type:
name
expansion:
Canberra
forms:
wikipedia:
Canberra
History of Canberra#The name Canberra
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Most commonly said to be from Ngunawal kamberra (“meeting place”). See more theories on Wikipedia.
senses_examples:
text:
A new tax policy was announced by Canberra today.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Australia; located in the Australian Capital Territory.
The Australian federal government.
senses_topics:
|
5269 | word:
sekali
word_type:
adv
expansion:
sekali (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay sekali.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] the instruction all says to deep fry them, so dared not buy - sekali raw dough, how to eat?
ref:
2004, Bug [pseudonym], soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
[…] make sure he’s activated the right ringtone, sekali you, ahem, raise the wrong hopes.
ref:
2004 January 2, Colin Goh, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page L12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
What if, lest (something problematic or unanticipated happens)
senses_topics:
|
5270 | word:
Toronto
word_type:
name
expansion:
Toronto
forms:
wikipedia:
Lake Couchiching
Lake Simcoe
The Globe and Mail
Toronto
Toronto (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Mohawk tkaronto (“where trees stand in water”), originally referring to the strait between Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Ontario, Canada and largest city in Canada.
A lakeside suburb within the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.
An unincorporated area and community of the township of Lot 23, Grenville Parish, Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
A village in County Durham, England.
A former unincorporated community in Woodside Township, now a suburb of Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois.
A ghost town in Helt Township, Vermillion County, Indiana.
A small town in Clinton County, Iowa.
A tiny city in Woodson County, Kansas, named after Toronto, Ontario.
An unincorporated community in Camden County, Missouri, named after Toronto, Ontario.
A city in Jefferson County, Ohio, named after Toronto, Ontario.
A small town in Deuel County, South Dakota, named after Toronto, Ontario.
senses_topics:
|
5271 | word:
thick
word_type:
adj
expansion:
thick (comparative thicker, superlative thickest)
forms:
form:
thicker
tags:
comparative
form:
thickest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thikke, from Old English þicce (“thick, dense”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz (“thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).
Cognates
Cognate with Danish tyk (“thick”), Dutch dik (“thick”), Faroese tjúkkur (“thick”), German dick (“thick”), Icelandic þykkur (“thick”), Norwegian Bokmål tykk (“thick”), Norwegian Nynorsk tjukk (“thick”), Saterland Frisian tjuk (“thick”), Swedish tjock (“thick”). Related to Old Irish tiug (“thick”) and Welsh tew (“thick”).
senses_examples:
text:
I want some planks that are two inches thick.
type:
example
text:
As she twirled around in front of the mirror admiring how the dress showed off her thick booty, she felt like a princess in a children's storybook.
ref:
2007, James T. Knight, Queen of the Hustle
type:
quotation
text:
JJ loved “average hood girls”, Cody loved dark-skinned thick girls and Mooch lusted for yellow-boned skinny woman.
ref:
2009, Kenny Attaway, Nuthouse Love, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side.
type:
example
text:
We walked through thick undergrowth.
type:
example
text:
My mum’s gravy was thick but at least it moved about.
type:
example
text:
The room was thick with reporters.
type:
example
text:
We drove through thick fog.
type:
example
text:
He answered me in his characteristically thick Creole patois.
type:
example
text:
We had difficulty understanding him with his thick accent.
type:
example
text:
He was as thick as two short planks.
type:
example
text:
They were as thick as thieves.
type:
example
text:
Jem is a tall, good-looking fellow, as old as I am, and that's twenty-one last birthday; we came into the office together years ago, and have been very thick ever since
ref:
1859, Thomas Hughes, The Scouring of the White Horse
type:
quotation
text:
Thick darkness.
type:
example
text:
Thick prehistory also is interested in a much broader array of topics than the perennial sociological concern for how individuals relate to the collective and how social continuity and change occur in light of that relationship; thick prehistory addresses the social, biological, and psychological person.
ref:
2006, Christopher Carr, D. Troy Case, “The Gathering of Hopewell”, in Christopher Carr, D. Troy Case, editors, Gathering Hopewell: Society, Ritual, and Ritual Interaction, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
A thick theory, such as libertarianism or socialism, is not appropriate as the basis for a constitution in a pluralistic society in which the people hold differing views about the good (or justice).
ref:
2013, John O. McGinnis, Michael B. Rappaport, Originalism and the Good Constitution, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Nor is his defence of market capitalism likely to persuade all his progressive friends, because no matter how much fairness is achieved through an application of the difference principle, they are reluctant to accept Tomasi’s defence of private property rights or a thick concept of economic freedom.
ref:
2021, Wanjiru Njoya, Economic Freedom and Social Justice: The Classical Ideal of Equality in Contexts of Racial Diversity, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
"Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order," George told my father, "but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the '80s."
ref:
1969, Anita Leslie, Lady Randolph Churchill, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 288
type:
quotation
text:
A word to the thick soul sistas, I want to get with ya
ref:
1991, “Baby Got Back”, in Mack Daddy, performed by Sir Mix-a-Lot
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
Heavy in build; thickset.
Densely crowded or packed.
Having a viscous consistency.
Abounding in number.
Impenetrable to sight.
Prominent, strong.
Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
Prominent, strong.
Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
Stupid.
Friendly or intimate.
Deep, intense, or profound.
Detailed and expansive; substantive.
Troublesome; unreasonable.
Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
senses_topics:
|
5272 | word:
thick
word_type:
adv
expansion:
thick (comparative thicker, superlative thickest)
forms:
form:
thicker
tags:
comparative
form:
thickest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thikke, from Old English þicce (“thick, dense”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz (“thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).
Cognates
Cognate with Danish tyk (“thick”), Dutch dik (“thick”), Faroese tjúkkur (“thick”), German dick (“thick”), Icelandic þykkur (“thick”), Norwegian Bokmål tykk (“thick”), Norwegian Nynorsk tjukk (“thick”), Saterland Frisian tjuk (“thick”), Swedish tjock (“thick”). Related to Old Irish tiug (“thick”) and Welsh tew (“thick”).
senses_examples:
text:
Snow lay thick on the ground.
type:
example
text:
The arrows flew thick and fast around us.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a thick manner.
Frequently or numerously.
senses_topics:
|
5273 | word:
thick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thick (plural thicks)
forms:
form:
thicks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thikke, from Old English þicce (“thick, dense”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz (“thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).
Cognates
Cognate with Danish tyk (“thick”), Dutch dik (“thick”), Faroese tjúkkur (“thick”), German dick (“thick”), Icelandic þykkur (“thick”), Norwegian Bokmål tykk (“thick”), Norwegian Nynorsk tjukk (“thick”), Saterland Frisian tjuk (“thick”), Swedish tjock (“thick”). Related to Old Irish tiug (“thick”) and Welsh tew (“thick”).
senses_examples:
text:
It was mayhem in the thick of battle.
type:
example
text:
If there was doctorates in bollocksology and scratching yourself in bed, the two of you'd be professors by now. Pair of loafing, idle thicks.
ref:
2014, Joseph O'Connor, The Thrill of It All, page 100
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.
A thicket.
A stupid person; a fool.
senses_topics:
|
5274 | word:
thick
word_type:
verb
expansion:
thick (third-person singular simple present thicks, present participle thicking, simple past and past participle thicked)
forms:
form:
thicks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
thicking
tags:
participle
present
form:
thicked
tags:
participle
past
form:
thicked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thikke, from Old English þicce (“thick, dense”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz (“thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).
Cognates
Cognate with Danish tyk (“thick”), Dutch dik (“thick”), Faroese tjúkkur (“thick”), German dick (“thick”), Icelandic þykkur (“thick”), Norwegian Bokmål tykk (“thick”), Norwegian Nynorsk tjukk (“thick”), Saterland Frisian tjuk (“thick”), Swedish tjock (“thick”). Related to Old Irish tiug (“thick”) and Welsh tew (“thick”).
senses_examples:
text:
The nightmare Life-in-death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.
ref:
1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, chapter 3, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, lines 193–194
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To thicken.
senses_topics:
|
5275 | word:
thick
word_type:
det
expansion:
thick
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thikke, from Old English þicce (“thick, dense”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz (“thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).
Cognates
Cognate with Danish tyk (“thick”), Dutch dik (“thick”), Faroese tjúkkur (“thick”), German dick (“thick”), Icelandic þykkur (“thick”), Norwegian Bokmål tykk (“thick”), Norwegian Nynorsk tjukk (“thick”), Saterland Frisian tjuk (“thick”), Swedish tjock (“thick”). Related to Old Irish tiug (“thick”) and Welsh tew (“thick”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of thilk (“that same”)
senses_topics:
|
5276 | word:
loco
word_type:
adv
expansion:
loco (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
5277 | word:
loco
word_type:
adj
expansion:
loco (comparative more loco, superlative most loco)
forms:
form:
more loco
tags:
comparative
form:
most loco
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”).
senses_examples:
text:
It's Cottontail Smith, and he's gone plumb loco!
ref:
1943 April 3, Super-Rabbit, spoken by an unnamed rabbit
type:
quotation
text:
Going loco down in Acapulco / If you stay too long / Yes, you'll be going loco down in Acapulco / The magic down there is so strong
ref:
1988, Phil Collins (lyrics and music), “Loco in Acapulco”, in Indestructible, performed by Four Tops
type:
quotation
text:
Who you trying to get crazy with ése? Don't you know I'm loco?
ref:
1993, “Insane in the Brain”, in Black Sunday, performed by Cypress Hill
type:
quotation
text:
Holla in New York, fo'sho they'll tell you I'm loco
ref:
2003, “In da Club”, in Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent
type:
quotation
text:
You know, I’m a little loco. Kinda crazy, zany guy.
ref:
2003 December 15, The New Yorker, page 56
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Crazy.
Intoxicated by eating locoweed.
senses_topics:
|
5278 | word:
loco
word_type:
noun
expansion:
loco (plural locos or locoes)
forms:
form:
locos
tags:
plural
form:
locoes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.
senses_topics:
|
5279 | word:
loco
word_type:
verb
expansion:
loco (third-person singular simple present locos, present participle locoing, simple past and past participle locoed)
forms:
form:
locos
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
locoing
tags:
participle
present
form:
locoed
tags:
participle
past
form:
locoed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”).
senses_examples:
text:
They say that he is locoed. The insane asylums of California contain many shepherds.
ref:
1904, Charles Dudley Warner, “The Locoed Novelist”, in The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
To render insane.
senses_topics:
|
5280 | word:
loco
word_type:
noun
expansion:
loco (plural locos)
forms:
form:
locos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of locomotive.
senses_examples:
text:
A locomotive is, next to a marine engine, the most sensitive thing man ever made; and No. .007, besides being sensitive, was new. The red paint was hardly dry on his spotless bumper-bar, his headlight shone like a fireman’s helmet, and his cab might have been a hard-wood-finish parlour. They had run him into the round-house after his trial—he had said good-bye to his best friend in the shops, the overhead travelling-crane—the big world was just outside; and the other locos were taking stock of him.
ref:
1898, Rudyard Kipling, chapter .007, in The Day's Work, New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., page 243
type:
quotation
text:
Small boys in 1963 could have traction engines with real steam coming out of the funnel, and Old Western locos had flashing lights, hooters and cow-pushers.
ref:
1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 94
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A locomotive.
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport |
5281 | word:
Gandhinagar
word_type:
name
expansion:
Gandhinagar
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Gujarati ગાંધીનગર (gā̃dhīngar), Hindi गाँधीनगर (gāndhīngar); named in honor of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city, the state capital of Gujarat, India.
senses_topics:
|
5282 | word:
him
word_type:
pron
expansion:
him (personal pronoun, objective case)
forms:
wikipedia:
him
etymology_text:
From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian him (“him”), West Frisian him (“him”), Sylt North Frisian ham, höm (“him”), Dutch hem (“him”), German Low German hum, hüm, em (“him”), German ihm (“him”, dative).
senses_examples:
text:
[…]therfoꝛ Chꝛiſt wold not call him abominable / But the verye abomination it ſilf.
ref:
1529, John Frith, A piſtle to the Chriſten reader […]
type:
quotation
text:
Now him and Bernie are best friends.
type:
example
text:
Released a [statement] warning that him and 25,000 troops were going to stage a coup.
type:
example
text:
Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
He sees his little lot the lot of all;
[...]
But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,
Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
ref:
1765, Oliver Goldsmith, The traveller, or, A prospect of society
type:
quotation
text:
Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.
ref:
2003 June 11, Claire Cozens, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Stop trying that, you're not him bro.
type:
example
text:
Bro thinks he's him.
type:
example
text:
Watched this one live, he randomly got it less than an hour into the stream while derusting for PACE. He's just him.
ref:
2023 October 25, u/baggypantsman, “Super Mario 64 - 0 Star in 6:16 by Suigi”, in Reddit, r/speedrun, archived from the original on 2023-12-23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
With dative effect or as an indirect object.
A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
Following a preposition.
A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
With accusative effect or as a direct object.
As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
Used reflexively: (to) himself.
With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition.
A person of elevated skill at a sport, game, or other activity.
senses_topics:
|
5283 | word:
him
word_type:
noun
expansion:
him (plural hims)
forms:
form:
hims
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
him
etymology_text:
From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian him (“him”), West Frisian him (“him”), Sylt North Frisian ham, höm (“him”), Dutch hem (“him”), German Low German hum, hüm, em (“him”), German ihm (“him”, dative).
senses_examples:
text:
I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
type:
example
text:
[…] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]
ref:
1985, Hélène Cixous, Sorties (translated)
text:
Both hims took a good look at him.
ref:
2004, Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel
type:
quotation
text:
By this time, she had so many questions, but she only hit him up for one answer about those “hims” and “hers.” She asked, “Do both hims and hers reproduce hummers?”
ref:
2004, Charles J. Sullivan, Love and Survival, page 68
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male person or animal.
senses_topics:
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5284 | word:
slang
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slang (countable and uncountable, plural slangs)
forms:
form:
slangs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
slang
etymology_text:
1756, meaning "special vocabulary of tramps or thieves", origin unknown. Possibly derived from a North Germanic source, related to Norwegian Nynorsk slengenamn (“nickname”), slengja kjeften (“to abuse verbally”, literally “to sling one's jaw”), related to Icelandic slengja (“to sling, throw, hurl”), Old Norse slyngva (“to sling”). Not believed to be connected with language or lingo.
senses_examples:
text:
English-speaking Australians have always had a love affair with slang.
ref:
1996, James Lambert, The Macquarie Book of Slang, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page v
type:
quotation
text:
[F]or a detailed analysis see Liberman (2008 157ff) who sees it as one of a number of terms found in pan-European slangs meaning concealment and/or cheating.
ref:
2023, Jonathon Green, Green’s Dictionary of Slang
type:
quotation
text:
Anyway, I have learned many slangs while I am in New York, and one of them, a remarkable slang, is sheister.
ref:
1921, Horace Fish, The Great Way: A Story of the Joyful, the Sorrowful, the Glorious, New York: Mitchell Kennerley
type:
quotation
text:
The internet comes up with so many slangs used by people to survive in the online world. Many of those slangs are in the form of abbreviations, for instance, the word "u" which refers to "you"[.]
ref:
2019, Hendi Pratama, Linguistic Politeness in Online Communication, Semarang: LPPS Unnes
type:
quotation
text:
Such attempts were made even more aggressive by the fact that these local women were known for picking fights easily and using slangs to verbally abuse their neighbours.
ref:
2021, Sadan Jha, Dev Nath Pathak, Amiya Kumar Das, Neighbourhoods in Urban India: In Between Home and the City, page 82
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register.
Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to conceal one's meaning from outsiders; cant.
A particular variety of slang; the slang used by a particular group.
An item of slang; a slang word or expression.
A curse word.
senses_topics:
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5285 | word:
slang
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slang (third-person singular simple present slangs, present participle slanging, simple past and past participle slanged)
forms:
form:
slangs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
slanging
tags:
participle
present
form:
slanged
tags:
participle
past
form:
slanged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
slang
etymology_text:
1756, meaning "special vocabulary of tramps or thieves", origin unknown. Possibly derived from a North Germanic source, related to Norwegian Nynorsk slengenamn (“nickname”), slengja kjeften (“to abuse verbally”, literally “to sling one's jaw”), related to Icelandic slengja (“to sling, throw, hurl”), Old Norse slyngva (“to sling”). Not believed to be connected with language or lingo.
senses_examples:
text:
Also, he had to keep his temper when he was slanged in the theatre porch by a policeman.
ref:
1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Miss Youghal's Sais”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2007, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
Stephen feared that he would yell louder, and was hostile. But they made friends and treated each other, and slanged the proprietor and ragged the pretty girls …
ref:
1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 130]
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To vocally abuse, or shout at.
senses_topics:
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5286 | word:
slang
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slang
forms:
wikipedia:
slang
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Before he slang the all-deciding stone[…]
ref:
1836, Edward Bagnall, Saul and David
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of sling
senses_topics:
|
5287 | word:
slang
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slang (plural slangs)
forms:
form:
slangs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
slang
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
senses_topics:
|
5288 | word:
slang
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slang (plural slangs)
forms:
form:
slangs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
slang
etymology_text:
Compare sling.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
A counterfeit weight or measure.
A travelling show, or one of its performances.
A hawker's license.
A watchchain.
senses_topics:
|
5289 | word:
slang
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slang (third-person singular simple present slangs, present participle slanging, simple past and past participle slanged)
forms:
form:
slangs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
slanging
tags:
participle
present
form:
slanged
tags:
participle
past
form:
slanged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
slang
etymology_text:
The same as sling which is also used in this sense. The vowel exhibits the lowering of /ɪ/ before /ŋ/ distinguishing for African American Vernacular English, as in thang for thing, but the word has spread with this pronunciation outside the accents that exhibit this feature.
senses_examples:
text:
Everyday I wake up gotta get back to the gwop
ref:
2014, “Bail Out”, Cdai (lyrics), performed by RondoNumbaNine ft. Cdai
type:
quotation
roman:
Just another fuckin day in that gangway slangin rocks
text:
Whip, whip in the trap do up kitchen that's food (that's food)
Cookin up grub
Fuck, these niggas cookin up soup (uhhhhh)
Slang the crack or the black
Put the light and dark on the move
Gold and brown and cute
Gyal love me and I love them too (too)
ref:
2016, “Call Me A Spartan”, TG Millian (lyrics), performed by Harlem Spartans (Blanco, Zico, Bis, TG Millian, MizorMac)
type:
quotation
text:
Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumbling
They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody
Hold that properly when I bang that dotty
I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby
ref:
2017, “Next Up?”, Digga D (lyrics), performed by 1011 (Digga D x Sav'O x T.Y)
type:
quotation
text:
Bro is in the kitchen, know he can’t cook
He is whipping shit that we use to slang
This fat prick wanna chat on YouTube
still had to cheat to deny he’s gang
ref:
2019 October 18, “Feed' Em”performed by #SG Jibbzy, 1:17–1:23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sell (something, especially illegal drugs).
senses_topics:
|
5290 | word:
pavement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pavement (usually uncountable, plural pavements)
forms:
form:
pavements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pament, from Anglo-Norman pavement and reinforced by Middle French pavement; both from Latin pavīmentum (“paved surface or floor”), from pavīre (“to beat, to ram, to tread down”). Morphologically pave + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
The antirunway munitions are specifically designed to cause maximum destruction to airfield pavements.
ref:
1991, Airpower Journal 1911, page 45
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground.
A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road.
A paving (paved part) of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway or road surface.
The paved part of an area other than a road or sidewalk, such as a cobblestone plaza, asphalt schoolyard or playground, or parking lot.
The interior flooring of a church sanctuary, between the communion rail and the altar.
senses_topics:
chemistry
computing
engineering
in-technical-contexts
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
architecture |
5291 | word:
Patna
word_type:
name
expansion:
Patna
forms:
wikipedia:
Patna
etymology_text:
From Hindi पटना (paṭnā), also known as पाटलिपुत्र (pāṭliputra) at one time.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital and largest city of Bihar, India.
A district of Bihar, India, containing the city of the same name.
senses_topics:
|
5292 | word:
Taiwanese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Taiwanese (comparative more Taiwanese, superlative most Taiwanese)
forms:
form:
more Taiwanese
tags:
comparative
form:
most Taiwanese
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Taiwanese
etymology_text:
From Taiwan + -ese.
senses_examples:
text:
As Reece Overhalt spoke to the President, the first reports came in of China’s invasion of the Taiwanese island of Peikan, just off the coast of Fujian.
ref:
1997, Humphrey Hawksley, Simon Hoberton, chapter 7, in Dragon Strike: The Millennium War (Fiction), Sidgwick & Jackson, →OCLC, page 338
type:
quotation
text:
At 6.30 am on 23 August 1958, Mao delivered his response to Khrushchev's peace initiative. The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) rained thousands of artillery shells onto the Taiwanese islands of Kinmen and Matsu. The bombardment continued unabated for 44 days, during which time Kinmen sustained hits from over 474,000 artillery shells.
ref:
1998, Robert Storey, “Islands of the Taiwan Straits”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 4th edition, →OCLC, →OL, page 308
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Taiwan.
senses_topics:
|
5293 | word:
Taiwanese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Taiwanese (plural Taiwanese)
forms:
form:
Taiwanese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Taiwanese
etymology_text:
From Taiwan + -ese.
senses_examples:
text:
Congregations consist mainly of Mandarin-speaking refugees from the mainland but Taiwanese are not excluded. Student centers were established at Taipei, Panchiao, and Tainan for Bible study, fellowship, and personal counseling.
ref:
1965, “Lutheranism in Asia”, in Julius Bodensieck, editor, The Encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church, volume I, Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 125, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Taiwan was the touchstone for both sides. We felt that we should not and could not abandon the Taiwanese; we were committed to Taiwan's right to exist as an independent nation.
ref:
1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 570
type:
quotation
text:
We know the “ethnic” distribution between Taiwanese and mainland Chinese households in each district (ch’ü) of Taipei. In 1963, the percent of Taiwanese households varied from only 28.8% in Taan district to 86% in Chiencheng district. In 1991, Taan again had the lowest percent of Taiwanese households (63%) and Tatung the highest (86%).
ref:
1996, Robert M. Marsh, “Solidarity with Extended Kin”, in The Great Transformation: Social Change in Taipei, Taiwan Since the 1960s, M.E. Sharpe, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 149–150
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Taiwan; usually plural.
senses_topics:
|
5294 | word:
Taiwanese
word_type:
name
expansion:
Taiwanese
forms:
wikipedia:
Taiwanese
etymology_text:
From Taiwan + -ese.
senses_examples:
text:
Language. Mandarin is the official language, but many people speak Taiwanese (a variant of a southern Chinese dialect) and Japanese. The younger generation and those engaged in the tourist trade speak some English.
ref:
1975, Lawrence A. Clancy, Sunset Travel Guide to the Orient: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, China, Menlo Park, California: Lane Publishing Co., page 108
type:
quotation
text:
The gay and lesbian movement in Taiwan is composed largely of students and other intellectuals and therefore is largely Mandarin-speaking, middle-class, and young. Koa-a-hi actresses, by contrast, almost always speak Taiwanese as their primary language, are rarely educated beyond elementary school, and can barely make ends meet.
ref:
1999, Teri Silvio, “Reflexivity, Bodily Praxis and Identity in Taiwanese Opera”, in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, volume 5, number 4, Duke University Press, pages 585–604
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The variant of Hokkien spoken in Taiwan, the native language of the Hoklo.
senses_topics:
|
5295 | word:
Malacca
word_type:
name
expansion:
Malacca
forms:
wikipedia:
Malacca
etymology_text:
From Malay Melaka, probably after melaka, a kind of tree that grows in the region.
senses_examples:
text:
The Arabs were not pioneers on this route; even earlier than this period Indian ships had sailed through Malacca to Java and went as far as China.
ref:
2000, K. Sridharan, Sea: Our Saviour, Taylor & Francis, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
Consider these facts : • In just one year, U.S. $ 400 billion in cargo — including 80 percent of the oil transported to Northeast Asia moves through Malacca on 60,000 ships; • Of the 15 largest ports in the world, 12 are in the Asia […]
ref:
2010, Asia Pacific Defense Forum, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Moreover, the per barrel cost of pumping oil through Burma to Yunnan and then refining it and transporting it to market will likely be several times the cost of carrying it through Malacca on a supertanker to Eastern China's large demand centers.
ref:
2012, Gabriel Collins, Andew Erickson, Lyle Goldstein, William Murray, China's Energy Strategy: The Impact on Bejing's Maritime Policies, Naval Institute Press
type:
quotation
text:
[…] when the Portuguese had owned a de facto monopoly on shipping routes across the Indian Ocean, through Malacca to the Indies, and along the Pacific coast […]
ref:
2019, Michael C. Carhart, Leibniz Discovers Asia: Social Networking in the Republic of Letters, JHU Press, page 114
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in western Malaysia.
The capital city of Malacca State, Malaysia.
Short for Strait of Malacca.
senses_topics:
|
5296 | word:
Malacca
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Malacca (plural Malaccas)
forms:
form:
Malaccas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Malacca
etymology_text:
From Malay Melaka, probably after melaka, a kind of tree that grows in the region.
senses_examples:
text:
Walking Canes, from low priced to the richest and most costly description. Novelties in French Cane mountings. A choice collection of Malaccas and other Sticks.
ref:
1853, Carroll & Hutchinson (New York), Things of Beauty Set with Gems of Verse (page 115)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Short for Malacca cane.
senses_topics:
|
5297 | word:
Bhubaneshwar
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bhubaneshwar
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Bhubaneswar.
senses_topics:
|
5298 | word:
Ranchi
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ranchi
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city, the state capital of Jharkhand, India.
senses_topics:
|
5299 | word:
Trivandrum
word_type:
name
expansion:
Trivandrum
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Former name of Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital of Kerala, India.
senses_topics:
|
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